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- Are androids 'better' robots?
- The latest issue of Connection Science is dedicated to Android science. This special issue was co-edited by Karl MacDorman, in the Human-Computer Interaction program of the School of Informatics, Indiana University, and Hiroshi Ishiguro, director of the Intelligent Robotics Lab at Osaka University. As youll find out in "I, Robot;...
- Tags: Robots, android, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Karl MacDorman, special issue, Connection Science, robot
- Blog posts 2006-12-27
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- There is no pony plan for health care
- There is no pony plan for health careUntil the greedy Pharmaceutical Companies are reeled in...There is no hope for fixing health care in the US.It MUST start with the banning of Pharmaceutical Advertising on TV. The billions paid for those ad's are paid by patients needing the meds IF...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care, surcharge, pony plan, insurance
- Discussion threads 2008-10-01
- If McCain skips debate, there's always Google In Quotes
- John McCain just called for postponement of Friday's debate until the financial crisis is solved, as the Boston Globe reports. If that happens, there's always Google In Quotes, a Labs project offering up news quotes from the candidates, not only for the U.S. presidential race but also for contests in...
- Tags: Google Inc., Health Care, John McCain, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-24
- Wingnuts scare easy
- Wingnuts scare easyTotal Horse Pucky! nt.This idiot got it backwards.Protection of social groups is a liberal agenda.But it's in Science Magazine!And Karl Rove uses it.Of course.Everyone knows that anarchists are VERY conservative.Groups, not institutionsProtecting others, bringing others inside your protection, is different from protecting existing social structures from outside attack.Interesting...
- Tags: Wingnut
- Discussion threads 2008-09-19
- Should political postings stay or go? A survey.
- Should political postings stay or go? A survey.Please Speak FreelyAdmittedly, the subject matter was off-topic but adding the occasional non-relevant opinion is a very human thing to do, certainly not to be chastised, regardless of idealogical objection.Kevin, G-Portal UKhttp://cms.da.gpRE: Should political postings stay or go? A survey.Mitch you have at...
- Tags: Blogging, political posting, blogger, survey
- Discussion threads 2008-09-05
- Georgia turns to Google's Blogger amid Russia onslaught
- Georgia turns to Google's Blogger amid Russia onslaughtwhat a bsis it really journalism when just copy and paste somebody else's BS?RE: Georgia turns to Google's Blogger amid Russia onslaughtRussia is doing an amasing job in protecting the people in he break away regions.RE: Georgia turns to Google's Blogger amid Russia...
- Tags: Government, Recruitment & Selection, Blogger, Georgian, extremist, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-11
- Blink! Scientists move closer to invisibility cloak
- Blink! Scientists move closer to invisibility cloakRE: Blink! Scientists move closer to invisibility cloakAhh.. to bad. McCain's secret weapon has been revealed! They were planning to have Karl Rove get a blanket of this and throw it on ObamaWonder if the news is new!I thought I read about this atleast...
- Tags: invisibility cloak
- Discussion threads 2008-08-10
- Email preservation standards extremely lax, GAO finds
- It just keeps looking like the Bush Administration is intentionally keeping shoddy records to avoid public accountability. After all of the missing White House and RNC emails, including a dearth of messages sent by and to Karl Rove, the Government Accountability Office reports that federal agencies and officials consistently fail...
- Tags: Agency, General Accounting Office, Standards, House, E-mail, Advertising & Promotion, Online Communications, Marketing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-07-10
- Got science?
- Got science?Great article!I'd love to believe that a political regime change (that we'll hopefully see in November) can bring us some progress in this area. Hopefully not more business as usual if the Dems can be believed. We'll see.Chris DawsonLeading Nuclear Research is now done in...India.Remember when the...
- Tags: Nuclear Research, ozone, Thomas Jefferson
- Discussion threads 2008-05-30
- On being detained in Cairo
- I've brought up Twitter before. Twitter is a micro-blogging service. You use it to "tweet" messages of no more than 140 characters. Your friends, colleagues and the general public can follow your Twitter stream and keep up with such urgent intelligence as, "Feeling bored," or "Currently surrounded by idiots." Or,...
- Tags: Twitter, James Karl Buck, Telecom & Utilities, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Ed Gottsman
- Blog posts 2008-05-07
- MSDN Webcast: geekSpeak: The Mole Visualizer for WPF With Karl Shifflet (Level 200)
- The presenter of this webcast gives a tour of a community project he has been working on - the Mole Visualizer for Microsoft Visual Studio. The presenter shows how this visualizer can save developers tons of time when creating projects.
- Tags: Microsoft Developer Network, Webcast, Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation, Microsoft Corp.
- Webcasts 2008-04-23
- Twitter: Blocked in Dubai over inconsistent values; Where's the next ban?
- The discussion about a UC Berkeley student that Twittered his arrest in Egypt and got help from the U.S. Embassy, the media and friends makes me wonder how long it will take to ban Twitter in the Arab world and elsewhere. Sound crazy? Perhaps not. Twitter is already banned in...
- Tags: Twitter, Cellular Phones, Telecom & Utilities, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-16
- Innovative model brings fiber to rural Vermont
- Innovative model brings fiber to rural VermontDownside to living in the BooniesPeople who choose to live out in the middle of nowhere should expect limited utility services. It is expensive for Telcos and Cable Companies and other utilities to provide the infrastructure for their services to a smattering of...
- Tags: Network technology, Broadband Internet, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, fiber, Innovative model, broadband
- Discussion threads 2008-04-14
- Speech and Debate Timekeeper (zip)
- Speech and Debate Timekeeper is an open source, multi-platform timer for speech and debate competitions. It has speech order and time limits preprogrammed for Policy, Lincoln-Douglas, Parliamentary, Public Forum, World Schools, Karl Popper, and miscellaneous debate formats as well as individual events. This timer gives visual and/or vocal time signals...
- Tags: Speech, Open Source
- Software downloads 2008-02-13
- Free Mercedes Screensaver (exe)
- Sit back and enjoy all these professional images displaying one of the most desired cars in the world. In remote 1883 Karl Benz founded a company and till nowadays it remains one of the most famous and expensive world brands, symbol of German auto industry. As you surely know, the...
- Tags: 3D
- Software downloads 2008-01-14
- Lanier's attack on open source religion
- Jaron Lanier's broadside against "open source religion" in Discover Magazine was well-timed. The turn of the year, and the evident turning of an era, offers a great time to see the success, and possible excesses, of the open source ideal with fresh eyes. Lanier...
- Tags: Innovation, Library, Attack, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-12-31
- Microsoft outlines what's coming in Windows Mobile 7, 8
- Microsoft outlines what's coming in Windows Mobile 7, 8Considering that coolness and ease of use...... are completely subjective measures, if the phone doesn't do what I need, it is neither cool nor useful. Lacking push mail connection to Exchange is a deal-breaker. Editing Office documents on an iPhone?...
- Tags: Operating systems, Handhelds, Mary Jo, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Apple iPhone, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., phone
- Discussion threads 2007-12-17
- Panel urges FCC to cap rural phone subsidies
- Panel urges FCC to cap rural phone subsidiesLet's end it altogether.Are we going to be paying this tax like the phone bill tax that paid for the Spanish-American War 100 years after the war ended?Terry ThomasAtlantaRE: Panel urges FCC to cap rural phone subsidiesIt should have been ended a long...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Network technology, Right Now IT, phone, rural area, rural phone subsidy, phone subsidy, cable, FCC
- Discussion threads 2007-11-22
- I guess they read my blog in Nigeria
- I guess they read my blog in NigeriaA conspiricy after all ..The buyer now speaks up. And it now appears that the OEM/System Integrator that they are paying to assemble and distribute the laptops took it upon themselves to reconfigure those laptops with Windows on the basis of "thats...
- Tags: Operating systems, Business ethics, blog, Now IT, TSC, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows XP, Karl Marx, Mandriva, Linux
- Discussion threads 2007-11-09
- Update: Clueless Dish Network rep did not follow disaster policy on $300 receiver demand to fire victim
- Earlier today, we reported that Dish Network demanded $300 from a couple for a receiver in a home that burned down in the Southern California wildfires. Additional info has come to my attention, via an email I just received from AT&T spokesman Brad...
- Tags: Network, Dish Network, AT&T Corp., Info, Karl, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-10-26
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