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Living Room / Mining the Web for Feelings, Not Facts
« on: September 15, 2009, 06:23 PM »
As search engines begin to incorporate more and more opinion data into their results, the distinction between fact and opinion may start blurring to the point where, as David Byrne once put it, “facts all come with points of view.”
  http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/24/technology/internet/24emotion.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1

Via http://www.bookforum.com/blog/4452

I found this interesting, how sentiment can be incorporated into search results for companies, products or ideas, they use an example and I quote "Using Newssift, a search for Wal-Mart reveals that recent sentiment about the company is running positive by a ratio of slightly better than two to one. When that search is refined with the suggested term “Labor Force and Unions,” however, the ratio of positive to negative sentiments drops closer to one to one."

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DcUpdater / DcUpdater failing to check
« on: March 28, 2009, 04:40 PM »
Ive been using DcUpdater for, ohh years now, and its always looked and closed if nothing new is available, just lately though it is telling me that its failing to retrieve info from web and then sits around waiting for me to do something with it.  Some of the ones it doesn't find I can ask it to check manually and it does this ok,

here is the latest log


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Living Room / DRM and spore
« on: September 20, 2008, 02:19 AM »
An interesting article at opendemocracy blog  http://www.opendemocracy.net/blog/evgeny-morozov/2008/09/19/spore-digital-rights-and-the-future-of-gaming on the DRM issue and gaming particularly spore.

Spore - "the most hotly anticipatedcomputer game of the year" according to CNN - has quickly become the mostcontroversial game of the year and, quite likely, of the whole decade.

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Living Room / Jeddai Knight training!
« on: September 11, 2008, 08:25 PM »
The wonderful things they will teach at universities, i hear surfing is available in some places but i had not heard of this before

Bring your own light sabre: Uni launches Jedi course

By Europe correspondent Emma Alberici

Posted 1 hour 14 minutes ago
Participants dressed as Jedi Knight characters perform with their light sabres

The force is strong: The university says Star Wars can shed light on political and social issues (Reuters: Issei Kato, file photo)

The UK's first Jedi course teaching personal development through a Star Wars syllabus will open to students at Queen's University in Belfast from November.

According to its publicity material, the course, Feel the Force: How to Train in the Jedi Way, teaches the real-life psychological techniques behind Jedi mind tricks.

It also claims to examine the wider issues behind the Star Wars universe, like balance, destiny, dualism, fatherhood and fascism.

The university says it hopes to attract young Star Wars fans and introduce them to education through open learning.

No prior qualifications are required and the blurb informs students that light sabres are not provided.



So there you go, all you aspiring Darth Vaders

From http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/09/12/2362719.htm

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Find And Run Robot / FARR not launching stuff
« on: June 13, 2008, 02:40 PM »
my laptop has decided FARR shouldn't work.  I have updated FARR to most recent version, tried going back to last stable release and so on, but FARR sems to only want to launch superflexible fiile synch lol. Everything else i try and launch either has no effect at all or launches the quickdoclaunch and nothing else.

Any suggestions as to why this may be happening?

Edit   It works fine on my desk computer, its just the laptop thats got its knickers in a twist

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