Maybe they just decided they can't make money on this? Despite their recent problems, it looks like Mt.Gox is back online...they claim to handle over 80% of BC trade...
Interesting that just the other day we were discussing here about "exploitation" of social media sites etc. to drive traffic to "tech" sites after the Boston bombs. Here we have links to BBC, CNN & even Youtube? I assume like many/;ers I already get my "mainstream" news from the BBC etc. Do we need this?
Don't judge a book by its cover. Here in Europe we've got plenty of women in all roles that look good in tight dresses, and most of them, including in HR, are also pretty good at their jobs. In HR, they're frequently better than men, (something to do with superior organisational and communication skills, I understand).
In my job, I've frequently had to deal with HR people for hiring. The main reason I've seen that stop them from recruiting good talent is the totally crap job/person descriptions they get from managers. The absolutely best results I ever got was when working with a stunningly-attractive lady who also had the brains to match. She asked me clear, precise questions about the requirements, which we formalised using standard tools her department had created, and within a few days her team had started to present pre-screened candidates, all of whom were a good fit for the job. This was my introduction to competency-based management, which works well.
At the same time, others in the organisation were complaining about their inability to recruit. Maybe if they'd stopped staring at her bust, and worked as professionals instead, they'd have got better results?
I'm not a MS-basher, (typing this on my Win7 PC running MS Office; works very well, and needs to, because all my corporate customers send me...MS Office docs...and no, sorry, whilst I have LibreOffice installed, and think it's great, there's plenty of documents I receive that it just won't work/display as the author intended. Idem for Pages etc. on my iDevices).
Anyway, MS have tons of cash, and presumably plenty of talented people, but they seem to be playing 'catch-up' all the time; perhaps they are influenced by their "closed/NIH" mentality. (Reminds me of when I was working with IBM in the 1980s & 90s- they reacted to the 'opening' of the PC architecture they created by trying to 're-close' it with the PS/2; yeah, that worked well).
Once the genie is out of the bottle, then the game has changed, and you need to change with it. It's no longer good enough to try and 'punish' other platforms by denying them MS Office. (For this is the real reason for Office non-availability on Android etc., make no mistake. "Don't want to buy our Windows OS? Well f*ck you buddy, you're obviously not looking for 'enterprise-level' software, and good luck with LibreOffice running your weird XL macros and PPTs!")
Sure, PCs will always have a role, especially for heavy content creation, but where the heck is MS Office for iOS, Linux (Yeah,yeah, WINE, I know, but that's missing the point) and Android? You can bet your ass that if MS Office was run as a separate company, they would not be taking *years* to get their products out on these platforms where penetration is high and growing.
In the meantime, I'm sure Google and others will soon get their act together and we'll (finally!) have seemless document creation & modification across platforms. I can't wait, and I'm sure I'm not alone. This would knock a far bigger nail into MS's coffin than the supposed 'failure' of Windows 8. (Oh yeah, while you're at it G-men, can we have a 100%-compatible substitue for Outllook, please?)
But I hope he's researched the idea rather more thoroughly than the summary suggests. It's a bit late to consult the/. 'experts' when you're already on the launchpad. Probably more a slashvert than anything else, then.
Hard to see the added value over existing sources of information...especially since giving an non-AC, unvarnished review via LinkedIn of how you screwed-up your latest sf.com, SAP, whatever implementation is hardly going to endear you to your bosess, peers, support team, vendor/support provider etc.
Maybe they'll twin this with a job-seeking service?
No; your SSID & MAC are broadcast, so you hardly claim it's private data. This was supposed to be the only data they collected. The idea was that - together with its GPS location, (that they supplied and recorded) - you would then be able to know approximately where you were just from the SSID & MAC. The problem was, they "accidently" collected a shitload of additional data, (from 'open' networks).
Well, it's not very erudite, but flamebait? A little harsh, mods. OP was not advocating 'testing' it on a NK target, for example.
(S)he's got a point; why should the USA, (I'm not from there), change its plans? Pandering to NK has never worked. Ever.
A little quote. Stalin once said of international diplomacy
"Push the tip of the bayonet in. If you hit mush, push the bayonet through to the hilt. If you hit steel, withdraw the bayonet."
Time to show a little steel, methinks. Of course we don't want to provoke yet another senseless war, but showing that we're ready to respond in a very robust way to aggression is required IMHO. When I say "we", I mean all the democratic powers.
BTW, that would also send a useful message to China, who would doubtless piss and moan, but ultimately accept it.
A comment on your post, if you have the stats ability & tools, it's fun & quick to check the raw data. Certainly cheaper and faster than trying to reproduce the experimental data. I've found a few problems with the data, and/or in the analysis in my time; most are due to simple ignorance, (not all 'real scientists' *gasp* are stats experts), or falling into the trap of 'finding what you are looking for'. Granted peer review is supposed to catch this, but I wonder how many go back to the basic data and redo the stats analysis?
Writing a tutorial from nothing is hard. You can do this to get some good ideas:
1. Download a free evaluation copy of 'Minitab'. (I'm not connected with Minitab, but I've used it a lot, and it's great 'basic' stats analysis software) 2. Install, and then open help 3. Consult 'tutorials' section:) Obviously, don't just rip off their stuff; not cool
As a suggested flow, I've found that, as a start, you can introduce basic stats, then demonstrate how the software works. Using the same data-set for the first few, (say ten), lessons is better. Minitab tutorials keep changing the data, which confuses students. You'll only need 5 columns or so, and remember to include some discrete variables to enable stratification of your continuous variables. Use a real-world example, such as household expenses for different families, whatever.
For tutorial flow, what works for me as a 'basic' intro to a stats package:
1. What is data? What are statistics? 2. Types of data, how they look as raw data, (in the database) and then once we start to analyse them with stats and graphs (to start, just 'common' stuff like continuous variables, normal & lognormal, and discrete, binomial & poisson). 3. Basic stats & graphical analysis for single variables. Normality tests. Include time series plots as well as histograms / dotplots / boxplots. 4. Multivariate analysis; x/y charts, matrix plots, interaction plots. 5. Hypo tests (for both cont & disc variables) 6. Regression, (simple, then multiple if you're feeling brave) 7. Control charts (for both cont & disc variables)
If you work out how to do this in 'R', by actually using it, your tutorial will pretty much write itself, (keep saving your screens - Irfanview is a great, free, tool I use for this. Install, open, hit 'C' for manual or automatic screen save options.)
Argos, for example, recommends Norton Mobile Security as an add-on for its mis-labelled Windows 8 machine, despite that product only working on Android and iOS
Well, some would say that being unable to install Norton is probably a good thing...
However a quick check (http://us.norton.com/norton-mobile-security) reveals that 'Mobile Security' for 'Android & iOS' rather unsurprisingly does not work on *any* version of Windows. Well, no shit.
Now, one could perhaps forgive the people at Argos making this kind of dumb mistake, but the Slashdot Eds? Perhaps a car analogy next time, guys...
C'mon guys, I was expecting at least a cool mashup with google maps showing the best zones, (far enough away from pesticide spraying but close enough to civilisation, beer, hospitals etc.) No. Maybe a Pi-powered robot to collect and cook the the things? Nope. Plans to 3d print-out your very own collection weaponry? Negative.
What is this, the new Slashdot, news for survivalists?
Last time I was in the States, I was stopped by a lady cop. She was very petite, feminine, and polite.
Ah, and she kept her well-manicured hand on her gun all the time she was talking to me.
OK, maybe she would have had more difficulty dragging me out of a crushed automobile than a hefty dude, but I think that for traffic enforcement she was more than capable of doing her job.
Agree, but perhaps they should think things through rather better than their previous attempts, instead of sticking to the "let's push as far as we can, and then see where we get slapped down" approach.
OK, number plates, and individual houses, were blurred out in Google Street View *after* people complained, personal information (illegally) collected via Wifi snooping was (allegedly) destroyed *after* people complained, and hefty fines levied. Same kind of furore with Google+, Picasa 'identifying' people's faces etc.
Yes, I know Facebook and others are doing, or attempting similar things, but that does not make it 'right'. I'm also no Luddite; I love tech advancement, and the exciting things it makes possible, (like being able to confirm the exact address via streetview, plug exact co-ordinates into my smartphone and just knowing I'll be on time, in the right place, even if it's raining, or foggy, and visibility is shot to hell). Yup; I love all the stuff Google gives me for 'free', and realise they have to pay for it somehow.
Just think that as one of the richest, smartest, highest-profile and above-all the self-proclaimed "do no evil" company, they could be leading the discussion on this rather more obviously. That's also part of innovation...
You are absolutely correct. Some might point out that pretty much all post WW2 rocketry, (both in the West and Soviet bloc) was based on German work, and indeed workers, but as you say, these technically-excellent scientists and engineers had extensive pre-nazi academic experience, and for the most part did not buy into their bullshit philosophy.
Whether or not they were morally right to work for such an appalling regime, including accepting the use of slave labour, is of course another question.
North Korea is like the baby chihuahua barking at you from across the street, behind a 6 ft chain link fence, and tied to a tree. It would be funny if it weren't so pathetic.
With a big red button next to its paws, which it might randomly step on...
Slashdot Mirror
Guy 1: "Is it illegal to shag your cousin in France?"
Guy 2: "Only if she's ugly."
Interestingly different attitudes to cousin love...some places it's encouraged, others, illegal incest.
10% of marriages worldwide, apparantly...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cousin_marriage
Maybe they just decided they can't make money on this?
Despite their recent problems, it looks like Mt.Gox is back online...they claim to handle over 80% of BC trade...
Interesting that just the other day we were discussing here about "exploitation" of social media sites etc. to drive traffic to "tech" sites after the Boston bombs. /;ers I already get my "mainstream" news from the BBC etc. Do we need this?
Here we have links to BBC, CNN & even Youtube?
I assume like many
Great technical feat though that would be, it does not make it a good idea.
Don't judge a book by its cover.
Here in Europe we've got plenty of women in all roles that look good in tight dresses, and most of them, including in HR, are also pretty good at their jobs. In HR, they're frequently better than men, (something to do with superior organisational and communication skills, I understand).
In my job, I've frequently had to deal with HR people for hiring. The main reason I've seen that stop them from recruiting good talent is the totally crap job/person descriptions they get from managers. The absolutely best results I ever got was when working with a stunningly-attractive lady who also had the brains to match. She asked me clear, precise questions about the requirements, which we formalised using standard tools her department had created, and within a few days her team had started to present pre-screened candidates, all of whom were a good fit for the job. This was my introduction to competency-based management, which works well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competency-based_management
At the same time, others in the organisation were complaining about their inability to recruit. Maybe if they'd stopped staring at her bust, and worked as professionals instead, they'd have got better results?
I'm not a MS-basher, (typing this on my Win7 PC running MS Office; works very well, and needs to, because all my corporate customers send me...MS Office docs...and no, sorry, whilst I have LibreOffice installed, and think it's great, there's plenty of documents I receive that it just won't work/display as the author intended. Idem for Pages etc. on my iDevices).
Anyway, MS have tons of cash, and presumably plenty of talented people, but they seem to be playing 'catch-up' all the time; perhaps they are influenced by their "closed/NIH" mentality. (Reminds me of when I was working with IBM in the 1980s & 90s- they reacted to the 'opening' of the PC architecture they created by trying to 're-close' it with the PS/2; yeah, that worked well).
Once the genie is out of the bottle, then the game has changed, and you need to change with it. It's no longer good enough to try and 'punish' other platforms by denying them MS Office. (For this is the real reason for Office non-availability on Android etc., make no mistake. "Don't want to buy our Windows OS? Well f*ck you buddy, you're obviously not looking for 'enterprise-level' software, and good luck with LibreOffice running your weird XL macros and PPTs!")
Sure, PCs will always have a role, especially for heavy content creation, but where the heck is MS Office for iOS, Linux (Yeah,yeah, WINE, I know, but that's missing the point) and Android? You can bet your ass that if MS Office was run as a separate company, they would not be taking *years* to get their products out on these platforms where penetration is high and growing.
In the meantime, I'm sure Google and others will soon get their act together and we'll (finally!) have seemless document creation & modification across platforms.
I can't wait, and I'm sure I'm not alone. This would knock a far bigger nail into MS's coffin than the supposed 'failure' of Windows 8.
(Oh yeah, while you're at it G-men, can we have a 100%-compatible substitue for Outllook, please?)
But I hope he's researched the idea rather more thoroughly than the summary suggests. /. 'experts' when you're already on the launchpad.
It's a bit late to consult the
Probably more a slashvert than anything else, then.
Hard to see the added value over existing sources of information...especially since giving an non-AC, unvarnished review via LinkedIn of how you screwed-up your latest sf.com, SAP, whatever implementation is hardly going to endear you to your bosess, peers, support team, vendor/support provider etc.
Maybe they'll twin this with a job-seeking service?
No; your SSID & MAC are broadcast, so you hardly claim it's private data. This was supposed to be the only data they collected.
The idea was that - together with its GPS location, (that they supplied and recorded) - you would then be able to know approximately where you were just from the SSID & MAC.
The problem was, they "accidently" collected a shitload of additional data, (from 'open' networks).
http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/14/google-admits-to-accidentally-collecting-personal-data-with-street-view-cars/
Well, it's not very erudite, but flamebait? A little harsh, mods.
OP was not advocating 'testing' it on a NK target, for example.
(S)he's got a point; why should the USA, (I'm not from there), change its plans?
Pandering to NK has never worked. Ever.
A little quote. Stalin once said of international diplomacy
"Push the tip of the bayonet in. If you hit mush, push the bayonet through to the hilt. If you hit steel, withdraw the bayonet."
Time to show a little steel, methinks. Of course we don't want to provoke yet another senseless war, but showing that we're ready to respond in a very robust way to aggression is required IMHO. When I say "we", I mean all the democratic powers.
BTW, that would also send a useful message to China, who would doubtless piss and moan, but ultimately accept it.
Sir/Madam, if I had mod points, you'd get 'em all
Great video, thanks for link.
A comment on your post, if you have the stats ability & tools, it's fun & quick to check the raw data.
Certainly cheaper and faster than trying to reproduce the experimental data.
I've found a few problems with the data, and/or in the analysis in my time; most are due to simple ignorance, (not all 'real scientists' *gasp* are stats experts), or falling into the trap of 'finding what you are looking for'.
Granted peer review is supposed to catch this, but I wonder how many go back to the basic data and redo the stats analysis?
Hard to know where to start, especially as you give no information on your target audience...Do they know stats already?
Also, if your target audience is used to GUIs rather than CL, then...
http://answers.oreilly.com/topic/954-introducing-the-r-graphical-user-interface/
Alternative, you use Web front-end here, (disclaimer, I've not tried it)
http://www.squirelove.net/r-node/doku.php
Writing a tutorial from nothing is hard. You can do this to get some good ideas:
1. Download a free evaluation copy of 'Minitab'. :) Obviously, don't just rip off their stuff; not cool
(I'm not connected with Minitab, but I've used it a lot, and it's great 'basic' stats analysis software)
2. Install, and then open help
3. Consult 'tutorials' section
As a suggested flow, I've found that, as a start, you can introduce basic stats, then demonstrate how the software works.
Using the same data-set for the first few, (say ten), lessons is better. Minitab tutorials keep changing the data, which confuses students.
You'll only need 5 columns or so, and remember to include some discrete variables to enable stratification of your continuous variables.
Use a real-world example, such as household expenses for different families, whatever.
For tutorial flow, what works for me as a 'basic' intro to a stats package:
1. What is data? What are statistics?
2. Types of data, how they look as raw data, (in the database) and then once we start to analyse them with stats and graphs (to start, just 'common' stuff like continuous variables, normal & lognormal, and discrete, binomial & poisson).
3. Basic stats & graphical analysis for single variables. Normality tests. Include time series plots as well as histograms / dotplots / boxplots.
4. Multivariate analysis; x/y charts, matrix plots, interaction plots.
5. Hypo tests (for both cont & disc variables)
6. Regression, (simple, then multiple if you're feeling brave)
7. Control charts (for both cont & disc variables)
If you work out how to do this in 'R', by actually using it, your tutorial will pretty much write itself, (keep saving your screens - Irfanview is a great, free, tool I use for this. Install, open, hit 'C' for manual or automatic screen save options.)
Argos, for example, recommends Norton Mobile Security as an add-on for its mis-labelled Windows 8 machine, despite that product only working on Android and iOS
Well, some would say that being unable to install Norton is probably a good thing...
However a quick check (http://us.norton.com/norton-mobile-security) reveals that 'Mobile Security' for 'Android & iOS' rather unsurprisingly does not work on *any* version of Windows. Well, no shit.
Now, one could perhaps forgive the people at Argos making this kind of dumb mistake, but the Slashdot Eds?
Perhaps a car analogy next time, guys...
C'mon guys, I was expecting at least a cool mashup with google maps showing the best zones, (far enough away from pesticide spraying but close enough to civilisation, beer, hospitals etc.)
No.
Maybe a Pi-powered robot to collect and cook the the things?
Nope.
Plans to 3d print-out your very own collection weaponry?
Negative.
What is this, the new Slashdot, news for survivalists?
Last time I was in the States, I was stopped by a lady cop.
She was very petite, feminine, and polite.
Ah, and she kept her well-manicured hand on her gun all the time she was talking to me.
OK, maybe she would have had more difficulty dragging me out of a crushed automobile than a hefty dude, but I think that for traffic enforcement she was more than capable of doing her job.
Yeah, but you don't get to use the huge bathrooms to join the mile-high clib. Olé!
Well, certainly not a M$ fanboy or shill, it would seem :)
Agree, but perhaps they should think things through rather better than their previous attempts, instead of sticking to the "let's push as far as we can, and then see where we get slapped down" approach.
OK, number plates, and individual houses, were blurred out in Google Street View *after* people complained, personal information (illegally) collected via Wifi snooping was (allegedly) destroyed *after* people complained, and hefty fines levied. Same kind of furore with Google+, Picasa 'identifying' people's faces etc.
Yes, I know Facebook and others are doing, or attempting similar things, but that does not make it 'right'.
I'm also no Luddite; I love tech advancement, and the exciting things it makes possible, (like being able to confirm the exact address via streetview, plug exact co-ordinates into my smartphone and just knowing I'll be on time, in the right place, even if it's raining, or foggy, and visibility is shot to hell).
Yup; I love all the stuff Google gives me for 'free', and realise they have to pay for it somehow.
Just think that as one of the richest, smartest, highest-profile and above-all the self-proclaimed "do no evil" company, they could be leading the discussion on this rather more obviously. That's also part of innovation...
Well said Sir; sorry no mod points...
Genuinely lolled. Thanks for a slice of humour in a otherwise rather grim thread.
Actually, might be an idea; ship out that plus plenty of beer and hookers.
You are absolutely correct. Some might point out that pretty much all post WW2 rocketry, (both in the West and Soviet bloc) was based on German work, and indeed workers, but as you say, these technically-excellent scientists and engineers had extensive pre-nazi academic experience, and for the most part did not buy into their bullshit philosophy.
Whether or not they were morally right to work for such an appalling regime, including accepting the use of slave labour, is of course another question.
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Legal/Infringement_Notices/3_June_2011
So, that's it then...
North Korea is like the baby chihuahua barking at you from across the street, behind a 6 ft chain link fence, and tied to a tree. It would be funny if it weren't so pathetic.
With a big red button next to its paws, which it might randomly step on...
It would be funny if it weren't so pathetic.
It would be funny if it was not scary.
"With a wingspan of 63 cm and weighing in at 175 grams..."
Would it not just be blown all over the place?
Informative post could be more informative:
https://ssd.eff.org/tech/im
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-the-Record_Messaging