ah yes. recently the register ran an ad for something which had a digital clock style readout counting down from some time to zero. Since it ticked over every fraction of a second the only way you could read the article was to scroll it off screen. I thought it was pretty ironic that a) the ad forced the reader to ignore it; and b) the ad forced me to stop reading the register until they got rid of it. Doesn't sound like such a sensible thing to do to me.
I don't think the sony Cameras they were using can do 60 or 90 fps except in interlaced mode. Although having said that, what you say makes perfect sense.
Actually it's about 890 Mb/s for 5 cameras at 1080*1920*24bit at 30fps. However to my untrained eye, this sounds like a bit of a waste of time because this level of detail isn't needed. Neither are 5 cameras. It's a bit like them sending the models of the actors' heads to some laser scanning company and boasting that the scan is accurate to 25 microns: completely pointless when the cast itself is significantly less accurate.
Which "business model that is the open source concept"? ML make money out of investment banking, not from writing software. The fact that they are contributing their fixes probably has more to do with an enlightened mangler who realised that their developers were submitting their patches anyway, so they ought to have an official policy on the matter. This is just good sense, so that ML don't release things that the various groups mentioned in the article would rather stay closed. It in no way represents a business model, and does not directly generate a cent of revenue for the firm.
311 kB/s download speed, 154kB/s upload. Suspect that I might take some flack from the network admins tomorrow for shunting 3Gig or so accross their network overnight, but what the hell.
The web page is even called webtts.watson.ibm.com. Obviously the quality of TTS has not improved much since 1996.
Assuming this isn't a troll, then you might notice that IBM operates the massive Thomas J Watson research lab. Perhaps the URL has something to do with that? Second, you might want to have a losten if you think TTS hasn't moved in 8 years.
They have bought lots of companies and hired away experts from other companies and universities.
This reminded me of an amusing sideline in the history of speech Reco. Cambridge University Engineering department (CUED) originally built an engine called HTK. This was then sold to a company called Entropic. Entropic were then bought by Microsoft, who have licensed HTK back to CUED, who distribute it for free. This leads to the ammusing situation in which the license for a piece of Microsoft code contains the following snippet:
We strongly encourage contributions to the HTK source code base. These will in general be additional tools or library modules which will not fall under this HTK License Agreement.
I thought that the IBM one was better. The acoustic stuff seemed to be about the same, but the intonation on the IBM one was a lot nicer for the two samples I tried.
Incidentally, they don't seem to have improved a great deal from the concatenative TTS systems IBM had 4 years ago. There was one model of the UK marketing woman for ViaVoice, and for some sentences the TTS was almost indistinguishable from the real thing. The only problem with these systems is that the memory footprint is massive, so they take a bit to initialise and are only really useful on a telephony server.
But 1000base-X and above are switched systems so that only one machine is in the collision domain. This is so that the backoff times are reasonable despite fairly long cable runs. In other words gigabit ethernet is not a multiple access system on shared media. Ethernet hasn't scaled - the problem it solves has been supplanted.
quite. it never ceases to amaze me that the handset manufacturers have spent so much time on the fancy features. Why the hell do you need a 16 bit screen on a telephone? All I want is:
sensible, comfy buttons. unlike the ones on the hideous Nokia 7210.
lots of space for contact details
lots of space for text messages
a few MB of onboard RAM and a USB cable that let's me plug it into a computer and store or retrieve files from it.
The simple ability to synch names and addresses with common PIMs
Bluetooth
Things I don't need or want are:
a really shit camera
MMS messages. Don't they realise that the reason that sms has been so successful is because it's *cheap* and easy.
polyphonic ringtones
screen savers on a fucking telephone!
cases that are designed to look "funky", "urban", "modern", or any other shit that makes it less ergonomical in the name of fashion.
A fucking FM radio. It's a phone for god's sake! If I wanted a radio, I'd buy a radio.
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Well there will of course be competition for the OS it is running. Not really. When you buy an iPod from apple you get a hardware device and the installed software. You can't buy a device with no software for a discount.
Calling aftersale modifications competition is like saying that because I could put an aftermarket exhaust on my car that there's competition in the mini exhaust market. There isn't.
If - and I think this is more likely - they ignore or even help the project, the iPod will become immensely popular. iPod is already immensely popular. The amount of extra sales generated to people like you who are impressed by the "hackability", and who wouldn't otherwise have bought one, would number in the hundreds. This is not a reason not to stomp on the developers. Having said that, stomping on developers costs money and I can't see any reason that they might justify that expenditure.
first few years you kid yourself that you're just there for the training. Then you'll be off somewhere else.
By then you've got company car, and rented house with great bunch of other IBMers and you're having a great time. Through devious institutions like the Hursley clubhouse you now have a bunch of IBM friends.
so you hang around for a few more years -you write a list of things that yould make you leave - marketeers take over and rename MQseries, CICS isn't making billions any more etc.
By the time MQseries is renamed to Websphere MQ Thingy (or something) you have a house with the girlfriend, and the woman has already decided on local schools. If you've become bored with the techie job then you have yourself shifted sideways into one of the less demanding roles.
That's it: there is no way you can leave when all your mates are IBMers, you live nearby, you haven't done any proper work for 4 years, kids at local school and (here's the kicker) there's no way you are going to work anywhere without flexitime, and an onsite pub with bar billiards.
So to answer the question, If you work at IBM you have a career at IBM.
Yeah, I wondered about this a while ago. The Department for Homeland security is a federal agency charged with ensuring national security, right? So what the hell does the NSA do? Aren't they a bit pissed off that there's this new kid on the block treading on their toes?
Perhaps I'm missing something here, but even if that's not what the NSA do, there must have been some kind of group looking after domestic security before 9/11?
Which is why many firms attempt to segregate their market, and hence charge the reservation price of each group. For example, as a student, I am in a market sector that is clearly going to be poorer than some others. However I am also in a very wel defined group, so many firms offer a student discount thereby capturing some extra revenue whilst avoiding having to charge a reduced rate to everyone.
Bottom line is that economics is mostly about coining fancy names for phenomena that are common sense and easy to understand. BTW, that's not to degrade its worth - having a common language for any area of discussion is clearly important.
Not to mention the fact that Americans INVENTED THE COMPUTER, which started the entire industry for which Europeons are patting themselves on the back for excelling at.
Did they really? Which Americans do you think invented the computer?
now for the important bit: It doesn't matter whether IBM is a US company, but neither does it matter that MQSeries (and CICS etc) were all made in Hampshire by Brits. Saying that Europeans made some good stuff is not anti-american. It's just pointing out that Eurpoe has a lot to be proud of too.
Finally, to clear up a common misconception: Most Euopeans are not anti-American. They are anti-America, and specifically anti-the current US administration and its great big environmental and military fuck-you to the rest of the world.
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ah yes. recently the register ran an ad for something which had a digital clock style readout counting down from some time to zero. Since it ticked over every fraction of a second the only way you could read the article was to scroll it off screen. I thought it was pretty ironic that a) the ad forced the reader to ignore it; and b) the ad forced me to stop reading the register until they got rid of it.
Doesn't sound like such a sensible thing to do to me.
how about the banana car of death,or a Gold cart
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I don't think the sony Cameras they were using can do 60 or 90 fps except in interlaced mode. Although having said that, what you say makes perfect sense.
Actually it's about 890 Mb/s for 5 cameras at 1080*1920*24bit at 30fps. However to my untrained eye, this sounds like a bit of a waste of time because this level of detail isn't needed. Neither are 5 cameras. It's a bit like them sending the models of the actors' heads to some laser scanning company and boasting that the scan is accurate to 25 microns: completely pointless when the cast itself is significantly less accurate.
Which "business model that is the open source concept"? ML make money out of investment banking, not from writing software. The fact that they are contributing their fixes probably has more to do with an enlightened mangler who realised that their developers were submitting their patches anyway, so they ought to have an official policy on the matter. This is just good sense, so that ML don't release things that the various groups mentioned in the article would rather stay closed. It in no way represents a business model, and does not directly generate a cent of revenue for the firm.
311 kB/s download speed, 154kB/s upload. Suspect that I might take some flack from the network admins tomorrow for shunting 3Gig or so accross their network overnight, but what the hell.
Assuming this isn't a troll, then you might notice that IBM operates the massive Thomas J Watson research lab. Perhaps the URL has something to do with that? Second, you might want to have a losten if you think TTS hasn't moved in 8 years.
This reminded me of an amusing sideline in the history of speech Reco. Cambridge University Engineering department (CUED) originally built an engine called HTK. This was then sold to a company called Entropic. Entropic were then bought by Microsoft, who have licensed HTK back to CUED, who distribute it for free. This leads to the ammusing situation in which the license for a piece of Microsoft code contains the following snippet:
I thought that the IBM one was better. The acoustic stuff seemed to be about the same, but the intonation on the IBM one was a lot nicer for the two samples I tried.
Incidentally, they don't seem to have improved a great deal from the concatenative TTS systems IBM had 4 years ago. There was one model of the UK marketing woman for ViaVoice, and for some sentences the TTS was almost indistinguishable from the real thing. The only problem with these systems is that the memory footprint is massive, so they take a bit to initialise and are only really useful on a telephony server.
Th farm down the road from me (Bore Place, Kent, UK) has been doing this since 1984. Big deal.
On this theme, how about the Kalashnikov AK-47? 50 years old and still the basis of weapons used all over the world.
But 1000base-X and above are switched systems so that only one machine is in the collision domain. This is so that the backoff times are reasonable despite fairly long cable runs. In other words gigabit ethernet is not a multiple access system on shared media. Ethernet hasn't scaled - the problem it solves has been supplanted.
Things I don't need or want are:
Nokia: sort it out!
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Well there will of course be competition for the OS it is running.
Not really. When you buy an iPod from apple you get a hardware device and the installed software. You can't buy a device with no software for a discount.
Calling aftersale modifications competition is like saying that because I could put an aftermarket exhaust on my car that there's competition in the mini exhaust market. There isn't.
If - and I think this is more likely - they ignore or even help the project, the iPod will become immensely popular.
iPod is already immensely popular. The amount of extra sales generated to people like you who are impressed by the "hackability", and who wouldn't otherwise have bought one, would number in the hundreds. This is not a reason not to stomp on the developers. Having said that, stomping on developers costs money and I can't see any reason that they might justify that expenditure.
There's a great big lab near Winchester (Hursley Park), and a big admin place in Portsmouth (north harbour). I used to work at Hursley a while back.
So to answer the question, If you work at IBM you have a career at IBM.
So if they have the capability to make the ship automatic, why not do it with a wired network? Why are they using wirelessin a METAL ship?
Yeah, I wondered about this a while ago. The Department for Homeland security is a federal agency charged with ensuring national security, right? So what the hell does the NSA do? Aren't they a bit pissed off that there's this new kid on the block treading on their toes?
Perhaps I'm missing something here, but even if that's not what the NSA do, there must have been some kind of group looking after domestic security before 9/11?
THAT'S why you can't understand Noel... he hasn't released his DTD.
nah. It's 'cos he's a scabby manc.
Which is why many firms attempt to segregate their market, and hence charge the reservation price of each group. For example, as a student, I am in a market sector that is clearly going to be poorer than some others. However I am also in a very wel defined group, so many firms offer a student discount thereby capturing some extra revenue whilst avoiding having to charge a reduced rate to everyone.
Bottom line is that economics is mostly about coining fancy names for phenomena that are common sense and easy to understand. BTW, that's not to degrade its worth - having a common language for any area of discussion is clearly important.
Did they really? Which Americans do you think invented the computer?
now for the important bit: It doesn't matter whether IBM is a US company, but neither does it matter that MQSeries (and CICS etc) were all made in Hampshire by Brits. Saying that Europeans made some good stuff is not anti-american. It's just pointing out that Eurpoe has a lot to be proud of too.
Finally, to clear up a common misconception: Most Euopeans are not anti-American. They are anti-America, and specifically anti-the current US administration and its great big environmental and military fuck-you to the rest of the world.
George, is that you?