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Ahh, my mistake -- I thought you were assuming these constraints were probably adopted by the developers (as opposed to calculating a comfortable lower bound for disk-space cost.)

The box: the device itself looked like the innards of a fairly conventional PC -- scaled up. It was mounted on a flat board (with no case) and two PSUs, a stack of SATA disks, and some Hauppauge DVB-T cards. It was running Gentoo (clearly visible during bootup) and provided a remote-control UI over X that you could control with one of the Hauppauge IR remotes that come with the tuners.

The UI itself was well constructed; it was fast, responsive, and easy for a non-geek to drive.

I didn't get to see much of the show itself -- I was busy setting up network comms and a/v hookups for the presenters; however, the video should be online fairly soon so I'll be able to see what I missed. :)

Yup:

Photo of Pandora innards
Event Photos
Event Recordings (Audio currently available; video of sessions available once editing and processing (and mirroring!) is complete.)

Cheers,
dwm

Correction -- there were three DVB-T cards, not just one. Thus they could record up to three multiplexes simultaneously.

See http://www.flickr.com/photos/90983090@N00/28147204 /in/photostream/ (Photo is a bit dark, but you can clearly see the three red LEDs on each of the tuner cards.)

Cheers,
dwm

6 muxes at 22mbps (averaged over the 18 & 24 mbps muxes) gives 132mbps or 16.5 mebibytes/sec. 2592000 seconds/mo * 16.5 = ~41Tb

Although the machine itself can't have more than 7Tb. It certainally sits on a desktop. About the same size as 14" TV.

random picture

Done

Hey, how's about this way for desktops?

you fail at spelling flickr

The reason they are doing this is because DVD's sell out pretty quick when it comes to FOX's dumped animation shows. Family Guy DVD's are like the top selling/fastest selling DVD's of all time (or something like that).

People can't get enough of their favorite shows on DVD and I can't wait for this one to be released. Of course, my favorite tag line from Futurama was on the last episode:

See you on some other channel

They definitely need it.../A

whats the name of my dj one more time whats the name of my dj dave trouble thank you for bringin' it back to the cultural relevance it has...d&d is still part of our landscape /'ers aside. and if you don't believe me check out this link courtesy of bb http://www.flickr.com/photos/pumpkin/23610215/in/s et-538104/ any yea i quit gamin' for a long time coz i was gettin' laid...still reflect fondly on one of the best dm's i ever had the pleasure of gaming with...(tony heath if i can out ya...sprngtex83), ofcourse i don't recall it as fondly as bustin' a nut at 70 on i-5 headin' oughta seattle in a civic stickshift with a delicious blond on my lap... :O put that in your gamepipe an' puff it. peace

I made some ethernet jewellery for some geek friends who got married (yes, it happens) recently. I put them in a nice box labelled 'to my favourite twisted pair'.

Hey isn't this better?
That way I can search multiple engines (incl google) w/out having an annoying extension slowing the browser down

Also, the recent flickr activity can be found here.

In the wake of this morning's tragedy in London, someone on Flickr already set up a photo pool. So far, it appears that the photos are generally just screen grabs of the TV news, perhaps those who were there, and those who operate security cameras in the stations could post their photos from before the attacks, and try to identify the perpetrators. A warning - the pictures don't appear graphic as yet, but as the day progresses, I expect that they will get to be so.

(Cross posted at Mindjack and Swerdloff (dot com).

In the wake of this morning's tragedy in London, someone on Flickr already set up a photo pool. So far, it appears that the photos are generally just screen grabs of the TV news, perhaps those who were there, and those who operate security cameras in the stations could post their photos from before the attacks, and try to identify the perpetrators. A warning - the pictures don't appear graphic as yet, but as the day progresses, I expect that they will get to be so.

(Cross posted at Mindjack and Swerdloff (dot com).

London Bomb Blasts / Pool:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/74918957@N00/pool/

Some moblog photos from the time of the event.

http://moblog.co.uk/view.php?id=77571

http://moblog.co.uk/view.php?id=77554

And I'm wondering if germane photos will start showing up on Flickr soon. So far just shots of television screens reporting the news.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/london/

Nothing gruesome in these sources at the time of this post, but of course anything could be added later.

Google Maps focused on the area described in the news reports:

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=london,+uk&ll=51.514 618,-0.120592&spn=0.035216,0.083822&hl=en

http://flickr.com/photos/qwghlm/24230239/

Quite disturbing...

will Longhorn support transparent screens?

http://www.flickr.com/groups/transparentscreens/po ol/

Why bother with a translucent GUI when you can have transparent ones today?

There's also GeoBloggers, which puts flickr photos on the Google map.

Er, make that: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrbill/sets/489821/

you mean like this? http://photos16.flickr.com/21267381_c4a0a21416.jpg ?v=0

I am no fan of trivial patents, particularly things like one-click shopping, but I am confident that the work the patent descibes is non-trivially inventive.

Personally, I would be pretty interested in prior art. I sure tried to find it then, because I just wanted to generate really good recommendations -- I did not set out to reinvent the wheel.

--Pat / zippy@cs.brandeis.edu / blog / pics

Specifically, CBR assumes a symbolic rich representation of prior cases, and a pre-built distance function for measuring the similarity of the current situation to prior cases.

Most of the AI in CBR is in 1) choosing the right representation, and 2) coming up with the right similarity metric.

In the technique that Linden et al have patented, they make no assumption about a representationally rich framework for describing events -- in other words, they didn't have to spend months coming up with the right representation of the data. Also, and more importantly, they probably did not pre-build a similarity metric to match against prior cases. Instead, they applied statistical techniques to come up with the right similarity metric.

There are likely other differences -- I don't think CBR circa 1999 was applied to commercial transaction data in order to generate sales recommendations. B

The nearest I know of is that both CBR and Memory Based Reasoning likely were tried by other companies to do credit card fraud detection, which itself is a transactional problem involving large amounts of data. Still, that's pretty far from "I see you're buying a Sony plasma TV, would you also like to buy a Denon DVD player?"

--Pat / zippy@cs.brandeis.edu / blog / pics

--Pat / zippy@cs.brandeis.edu / blog / pics

At the time the patent was filed, it was extremely uncommon for systems to make automatic recommendations based solely on the behavior of users. When I did my work at Alexa Internet (which was acquired by Amazon) in the late 90s, I had to solve a number of issues which had not been dealt with, both from an engineering perspective and from a quality of results perspective -- few companies, and no academic researchers that I am aware of -- had both the amount of data and the technical talent required to process it in order to test and refine recommendation systems based on transactional information.

My work in this area became Amazon's "customers who shopped for X also shopped for Y feature." Greg Linden, the first name on this patent, is now doing interesting recommendation work with his site Findory.

--Pat / zippy@cs.brandeis.edu / blog / pics.

Pictures from the 2005 event.
Information and pictures from the 2004 event.

Record-breaking?! I rode the maglev train from Shanghai http://www.shairport.com/en/airline02_d.jsp to the airport. It accelerates for an awe-inspiring 3 minutes, to 432 km/h http://flickr.com/photos/25577117@N00/21992900/ then after about 1 minute it decelerates for the final 3 minutes. Less than 8 minutes for what is nearly an hour drive in traffic (30 km).

Of course there are no tunnels, it's brand new maglev track, etc, so not comparable to trains on traditional track. Still, an unbeatable experience.

Apparently it's only $3.99!

The power station where 2/502 INF (101st Airborne) set up camp, and where this picture was taken.

This picture was taken looking east from this point.

The street where, on 07 DEC 03, his HMMWV was hit by a radio-detonated IED and he was killed.

The hotel where the generals and commanders set up shop, and from behind which his body was airlifted to Kuwait.

What do I find in Iraq? I find that I wish I could have been there when my brother died to hold his hand. Insted, we spend as much time as we can with the members of his company, who WERE there with him. We talk to his captain, his LT, and his best friends--including the soldier who pulled my brother's body out of the HMMWV and covered him up, then stood over him with my brother's M240B and kept the attackers from taking his body until reinforcements arrived.

The power station where 2/502 INF (101st Airborne) set up camp, and where this picture was taken.

This picture was taken looking east from this point.

The street where, on 07 DEC 03, his HMMWV was hit by a radio-detonated IED and he was killed.

The hotel where the generals and commanders set up shop, and from behind which his body was airlifted to Kuwait.

What do I find in Iraq? I find that I wish I could have been there when my brother died to hold his hand. Insted, we spend as much time as we can with the members of his company, who WERE there with him. We talk to his captain, his LT, and his best friends--including the soldier who pulled my brother's body out of the HMMWV and covered him up, then stood over him with my brother's M240B and kept the attackers from taking his body until reinforcements arrived.

That'd work really well for the pictures, but what about the videos?

Flip books!

--Pat / zippy@cs.brandeis.edu / pics / blog

To catch the show, go outside after sunset today and find a spot with a clear view of the western horizon,...

man that sounds like alot of effort. How about if I just bookmark the 'planet' tag over at Flickr?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/planet/

I thought this should have been modded informative too.... then I followed the link.

Just a bunch of uninformative praise for MS, a link to a non-working video, and a link that points to a site for screenshots, but as it turns out the screenshots are just ones that were grabbed from flickr that you can see here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/ie7/

No idea, but Bush has learned practising the Chinese sign for it.

I pay the extra charge to use the stand-alone self-serve photo kiosks which stand right beside the cheaper 1-hour kiosks at Wal-Mart. The cheaper kiosk is handled by the minimum-wage goons behind the desk and is subject to review as mentioned by TFA; the instant kiosk, while more expensive, delivers perfect photos (I suspect it's using a dye-sub printer under there, I'm sure one of you know for sure) without any of your photos being peer-reviewed. I printed out a large number of my photos from my trip to Japan in April which a few could easily be construed as professional or maybe semi-professional. Being an introverted geek, I'll pay extra any day if it means not having to speak to someone, anyway.

I guess you still haven't heard of the new Google Personal Search Agent (currently in closed beta).

This is why I love the Seattle area. Nobody around here seems to think the 30 year-old chick with unnatural hair colors is anything too wierd - which is exactly how I want it to be.

There's also the fact that I work somewhere which is very much the opposite of stuffy most of the time. (Yeah, I won't mention it here, else I might get called evil.)

Use a natrual hair color if you want to die your hair.

Hehe, depends on the place.

In the last 6 months, I've had many hair colors. I started with black and purple, added burgundy at the roots, went blue and green,
and currently have blue and pink. I've never had any problems at work, and actually have had multiple compliments. I've also found that it makes me more memorable - which is good when I'm doing good work.

Some places are still just fine with such things.

I'm going to add a couple upper ear piercings, along with a couple tattoos. Not a single thing that I haven't already seen others do there. Heck, my old manager has visible tattoos and piercings.

Use a natrual hair color if you want to die your hair.

Hehe, depends on the place.

In the last 6 months, I've had many hair colors. I started with black and purple, added burgundy at the roots, went blue and green,
and currently have blue and pink. I've never had any problems at work, and actually have had multiple compliments. I've also found that it makes me more memorable - which is good when I'm doing good work.

Some places are still just fine with such things.

I'm going to add a couple upper ear piercings, along with a couple tattoos. Not a single thing that I haven't already seen others do there. Heck, my old manager has visible tattoos and piercings.

Use a natrual hair color if you want to die your hair.

Hehe, depends on the place.

In the last 6 months, I've had many hair colors. I started with black and purple, added burgundy at the roots, went blue and green,
and currently have blue and pink. I've never had any problems at work, and actually have had multiple compliments. I've also found that it makes me more memorable - which is good when I'm doing good work.

Some places are still just fine with such things.

I'm going to add a couple upper ear piercings, along with a couple tattoos. Not a single thing that I haven't already seen others do there. Heck, my old manager has visible tattoos and piercings.

Use a natrual hair color if you want to die your hair.

Hehe, depends on the place.

In the last 6 months, I've had many hair colors. I started with black and purple, added burgundy at the roots, went blue and green,
and currently have blue and pink. I've never had any problems at work, and actually have had multiple compliments. I've also found that it makes me more memorable - which is good when I'm doing good work.

Some places are still just fine with such things.

I'm going to add a couple upper ear piercings, along with a couple tattoos. Not a single thing that I haven't already seen others do there. Heck, my old manager has visible tattoos and piercings.

Remember this guy?

Clippy! http://photos15.flickr.com/18832781_3459cdb8be.jpg ?v=0

R.

"What I guess I'm getting at, is that folders or directories are convenient for organizational purposes. Another thing, is with no folders, how do you share a folder? Do I have to add metadata to each file saying who, when and why I want that document shared over the network?"

You will label and tag instead of file in a folder. If you give a file only one label, it will seem exactly like using folders to the user. A folder is simply a directory which is simply a file full of pointers to other files which can be anywhere in your storage system. This is simply an easier (than aliases or links) way of assigning multiple pointers to those files, so they will appear to be in multiple folders.

I imagine that it will technically be very similar to what we already have, only the metaphor will be different in that users must be able to deal with the idea that an object maybe associated with more than one grouping.

Examples of labeling and tagging already exist. Just check out del.icio.us, gmail.com, or http://www.flickr.com/. http://www.flickr.com/ is probably the best example since you can imagine photos as being real pieces of paper being place in more than one grouping.

"What I guess I'm getting at, is that folders or directories are convenient for organizational purposes. Another thing, is with no folders, how do you share a folder? Do I have to add metadata to each file saying who, when and why I want that document shared over the network?"

You will label and tag instead of file in a folder. If you give a file only one label, it will seem exactly like using folders to the user. A folder is simply a directory which is simply a file full of pointers to other files which can be anywhere in your storage system. This is simply an easier (than aliases or links) way of assigning multiple pointers to those files, so they will appear to be in multiple folders.

I imagine that it will technically be very similar to what we already have, only the metaphor will be different in that users must be able to deal with the idea that an object maybe associated with more than one grouping.

Examples of labeling and tagging already exist. Just check out del.icio.us, gmail.com, or http://www.flickr.com/. http://www.flickr.com/ is probably the best example since you can imagine photos as being real pieces of paper being place in more than one grouping.

I went on a business trip just this past April, and among some of my wanderings, I visited Akihabara with my boss. I have some photos posted on flickr of a couple of the anime shops, the streets, and a street performer (who was heckled by a drunk old guy, much to everyone's amusement.) The streets of Akihabara are packed with merchants hawking their wares, and the small shops have so many people entering/leaving their places that they simply leave the doors open. One shop we stuck our head in had enough electronic components stocked to make a 1970's era Radio Shack weep. The prices in the shops, in my opinion, were not all that fantastic. In general they were all on par with what can be found in the States. I'll never forget turning a corner and staring in awe at the sea of pedestrian shoppers (both the boss and I, simple country people that we were, observed that we were about to become caucasion flotsam and decided to turn back towards the train terminal end of Akihabara.)

Dvorak's on to something when he said people who prefer aesthetics could now buy a Mac to run Windows on it (though the reverse will most likely not be true, i.e. you can't run OS X on non-Mac hardware) - left unsaid is, of course, that some people will buyh these machines to run Linux instead.

Targeting a Mac will be easier, sure - some developers will probably buy a Mac and dual-boot (or virtualize) Windows or Linux on it, so there will be more Mac developers.

Thing is, most free software types won't consider OS X free enough - I'm switching back to Linux, personally; and a lot of OSS running on OS X share code with their Linux/Unix/X11 counterparts. Adium uses Gaim as its engine. Dashboard is based on WebCore, which is forked from KHTML - porting it back to KDE would not be too hard, and guess what, there is a GTK port. If efforts like gDesklets flounder, we can possibly port Dashboard wholesale to Linux.

Firefox and Thunderbird runs better on Linux (seriously. Try them on both platforms), and if Dvorak thinks OpenOffice is not user-friendly, he has not tried running it on a Mac yet. Oh, John, OO.o looks much better on Linux than on Windows too - if you're running the 1.1.x series, the Windows version does not have all the UI improvements that GNOME and KDE developers from Novell, Red Hat and others throw into it.

Lots of fun things are happening in the OSS world, especially on the desktop front - Sun and Novell are doing usability testing, Gtk# is making waves, in fact, F-Spot is the best photo-library tool I've seen, certainly looks faster than iPhoto and has cool things like Flickr integration built-in. Don't count us out yet.

Brian Pipa has posted method and sample photo at his blog.

Looking at this picture gave me some idears... So, how about putting all this data in a new game?
Behold! I present to you... (drum roll)

Grand Theft Auto : New York!

Humor note : Try our new live edition ;)