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Comment Re:Theyre kids of the new generation - deal with i (Score 1) 366

by jonsharpie (#22094812) Attached to: The Impatience of the Google Generation
As one from this younger generation I would stand to argue that the impatience is driven by the sheer exponential overload of information that we are bombarded with. This additionally, with the rate at which research and advancements that take place necessitate the need for faster methods of searching, retrieval and categorization. Granted the signal to noise ratio is lower on the internet but google provides the ability to more effectivly discover relivant information.

This isn't to say there is an issue with the lack of persistence and patience in a task. I live in a small town south of Omaha, NE and when I'm not at work I'm training horses with my wife. The contrast from the daily IT work to training a horse is immense. Training takes patience, understanding and consistency measured in months and not hours and days as with most IT tasks.
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A particularly astute individual has put two and two together to gain a major new insight into the cause of one of mankind's most pressing crises. Remarking that last month was the hottest March since the beginning of last century, the resident of Hot Springs, Arkansas, was quick to pinpoint the cause in a letter published by the Arkansas Democrat Gazette.
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Worrying About Employment Contracts? 98

Posted by Cliff from the read-before-you-sign dept.
An anonymous reader wonders: "I was preparing to accept a software developer job at a California company and was put off by the contract which claimed ownership of any ideas I create (on my own time or at the company) during my stay at the company and required me to inform them of any ideas (related to the company or not) during my employment and for a year afterwards. I've found references to a couple of instances where this became a legal problem for the developer. Is this something to worry about?"

Feed Spectacular 'Night-shining' Clouds Could Be A Harbinger Of Climate Change (sciencedaily.com)

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Scientists are to study spectacular 'night-shining' clouds thought by some to a harbinger of global environmental change. The spectacular clouds, known as noctilucent clouds, will be probed by NASA's Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere mission, or AIM, to determine why they form and how they change. First spotted in Earth's atmosphere in 1885, the clouds have been increasing in frequency in recent decades and may be related to increases in carbon dioxide and methane emissions tied to human activity on Earth.
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Google Pushes Open Source OCR 212

Posted by Zonk from the google-has-taken-all-knowledge-to-be-its-provice dept.
SocialWorm writes "Google has just announced work on OCRopus, which it says it hopes will 'advance the state of the art in optical character recognition and related technologies.' OCRopus will be available under the Apache 2.0 License. Obviously, there may be search and image search implications from OCRopus. 'The goal of the project is to advance the state of the art in optical character recognition and related technologies, and to deliver a high quality OCR system suitable for document conversions, electronic libraries, vision impaired users, historical document analysis, and general desktop use. In addition, we are structuring the system in such a way that it will be easy to reuse by other researchers in the field.'"

Designer Mice Made to Order 382

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the time-to-start-a-mouse-farm dept.
blackbearnh writes "CNN is reporting about the world of designer mice. No, not the kind you click, the kind that scamper around and eat cheese. An effort is underway to produce mice with each of the 20-25,000 individual mouse genes "knocked out", which could lead to novel new treatments for humans. It turns out that after fully sequencing the mouse genome, the little fellas are almost identical to humans. From the article: 'A mouse with arthritis runs close to $200; two pairs of epileptic mice can cost 10 times that. You want three blind mice? That'll run you about $250. And for your own custom mouse, with the genetic modification of your choosing, expect to pay as much as $100,000.'"

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