It is my understanding, from reading copyright law, that Google was acting as an archivist or as a library. Libraries are allowed to copy any work for archival purposes. It is not like they provide downloads of the books, or charge for the service.
Wow, aren't you wearing an ass hat today. Slashdot is the funniest, most informative and unique site I have ever seen. I read Slashdot everyday and always learn something new of real value. I can't even say that for the Wall Street Journal(sllthough I DO pay for that). It is an excellent clearing house for news and technology information. The facebook stories alone are worth the read! They are funny as hell.
Why don't you read the comments at Ars Technica and compare them to the intelligence and humor that peeks through at Slashdot. It is really no comparison. I really don't get some people's anger at Slashdot. Maybe someone should do a study.
-- Slashdot Fanboy
This is why I read Slashdot. I learned about Khan Academy some time ago on Slashdot, and have been using it ever since. (Since then, spreading word to many people.)
I've learned about more things by reading Slashdot than I could ever accurately enumerate. I seriously don't know why people deride the/. community.
The human brain is obviously a combination of a logic system (computer) and a probability system that are able to communicate meaningfully with each other, seamlessly. Our ability to use logic AND guess at probable outcomes is what defines our intelligence. We want computers, and hence AI, to arrive at perfect answers for problems and different situations. Simply not possible. Our greatest mental asset is also our greatest mental liability. The ability to guess and use "intuition" and arrive at answers without consciously thinking through the process spurs great achievements, but it also falls short most of the time. Given the system we have, it is possible to recognize when our intuition is obviously wrong using logic (a recursive algorithm). Guessing from our evolutionary state, this combination would also reduce the amount of energy needed to power such a system. I think my brain uses a bit less energy than a Watson, and is obviously more capable.
Then again, maybe a machine would be capable of perfect answers or solutions, since it would be able to search and access stored experiences and information uninhibited. Recall is a key component of formulating solutions.
>>"Apple wants to own the tablet space. So far... they do"
I work at a college, and I hardly ever see an Apple tablet. Most tablets I've seen are COBYs or some other Android variant. In my area, Apple products are too pricey. My boss's wife has one, and we bought a couple to test (handed out to faculty), but that's the only ones (iPad) I've seen.
I would like to see a portal to connect people who need/can provide support for open systems. My boss has a saying, and I agree, free isn't free. Small stressed IT shops would love to use open systems but we do little more than manage troves of hardware and support providers. Microsoft has awesome documentation and support channels for their server and enterprise products. We need "certified" support connections for open source offerings. We need access to reasonably priced local support contractors.
Craigslist is simply a cross-section or representation of the human element which makes it up. Just like the rest of the world. In other news, the world is a cesspool of crime. Details at 11.
Craigslist holds more positives for society than negatives.
I was inspired by Khan Academy to launch my first ever open source project. It replicates a little math tool Khan used to demonstrate slope-intercept in his videos, it's called eGraph. It also allows people to design, print, or project graphs in a classroom and it has a nice demo featuring the slope-intercept equation. When I saw the equation "animated" while changing the variables it instantly sunk in. During that time I was already building eGraph to design and print custom graph sheets, so I added the slope demo and released it for free. Its also a great little project for someone to learn the "meat" of several important java libraries (including Java2D - printing) and Netbeans (the source comes as a Netbeans project).
http://www.datavirtue.com/egraph.html
Whoa....Walmart is about tariffs not out-sourcing. We need at least 100% tariffs across the board on almost all Chinese manufactured non-durable goods. Durable goods need looked at on an industry-case basis. For example, increasing the cost of a table cloth from 50 cents (coming in) to $1.00 (by way of tariff) would create an opportunity to encourage job creation in the US while not at all inconveniencing anyone except China (ok, and walmart). Sure, Walmart will lobby because it would mean they would have to charge $3.00 instead of $1.50 for a table cloth to retain the same RATE of profit on the product, but who cares(they could easily maintain the same net profit by charging $2.00). I can guarantee a new factory would then open up in the US to compete with the low-quality dangerous products flowing out of China. Walmart would threaten reduction in their workforce but reality would not bear it. And yes, walmart charges at least triple markup (sometimes 5x, and more) on all products (excluding food). Clothing is around double markup to 2.5x. (The tarriffs collected could be used to pay down the national debt.) The levy of tarriffs would cause some job loss at first but would eventually be mitigated.
Out-sourcing, off-shoring, is a whole different issue although it still relates to the usage of over-seas wage-slave labor.
Clinton is often cited as running a balanced budget after the massive spending of the Reagan years BUT he cannot take credit for the decade of prosperity experienced in the US during the 1990s. That was a direct result of tariffs placed on certain imports by the Reagan administration which caused a retention and flow of jobs into the US.
This guy started a few years ago selling his hoome brewed tutors as a bunch of mpgs ona couple CDs now there is a whole line of DVDs. They are awsome. Best $120 I ever spent. http://www.mathtutordvd.com/
There is not enough non-anecdotal evidence to warrant any type of action on our part; aside from cleaning up OUR environment in general. For example we have evidence that plastic and other chemicals (yes plastic is a chemical that leaches into YOUR food) are damaging our bodies yet they are still rolling out of the factory. No one is getting all hopped up about those! In America over 90% of our crops are Genetically Modified (GM Crops) meaning that they make their own pesticides! We still dump thousands of pounds per field of pesticides on top of GM crops that MAKE their OWN pesticides. No one plows anymore, the crops, seeds, are modified to grow without water or hospitable soil.
I have witnessed this with my own eyes thousands of times; I live in farm country.
Each year:
1st: Spray Roundup, yes Round Up (41% Glyphosate), every year on every field before planting and other chemical applications.
2nd: Spray more chemicals, whatever is thought to be needed
3rd: Jam the GM seeds into the ground (No plowing, no discing, nothing)
4th: watch them sprout with no applcation of water and otherwise completely inhospitable chemical laden soil
5th: spray more chemicals as needed (remember this is all done on old equiptment by un-educated people, spills go unreported since they would be in extreme trouble and bakrupt from fines and cleanup fees should the authorities find out. Insteaed it flows into th water )
Its called Chemical Farming. You are eating it everyday and you cannot help it or do anything about it. When you kill a Deer in the country to eat you are eating GM pesticide laden meat.
ALL that "healthy" Soy and Corn that is fed to animals including you are drenched in chmicals you would would not even be able to get around without a haz-mat suit.
Mercury is much bigger problem but it doesn't make anyone any money to deal with it. Just like our discusting agricultural practices.
If you think farmers know what is best or have a choice about this stuff you are living in a dream world. Most "farmers" just rent out the fields they inherited to Crop Production Services Inc. (CPS) the largest "farmer" in the US. When I was a kid I rememnber when the people used to farm, those men are dead now.
Another thing about Round Up, they say it is safe becasue it breaks down and doesn't enter the ground water (where YOU get your water) as Glyphosate. But then you look out to see a state vehical filled with Mexicans (low wage, uneducated) stop by the bridge at the foot of MY hill over MY stream and they spray Glyphosate (Round Up) from a wand while sitting in the truck, right at the guardrail and into the stream! This is happening in thousands of locations every single day. They are spraying so weeds don't grow on the bridge.
Threaded doesn't mean Parallel. But Parallel programs contain threads. Parallel programs do not care where and when a thread is executed. so yes parallel is "hard" when you try to apply it to every problem domain. Some tasks or applications are not parallel candidastes at all. Database server, yes, client front end, no. The server begs for parallel performance the client simply doesn't.
The key is to create simple parallel ready threads that can exist in extremely complex situations. Many times though they will be specific to certain contexts. This requires design from the ground up, trying to change a non-parallel program into one is called re-write.
If an application needs parallel processing then it WILL NEED IT. With servers the problems are almost obviously in need of a parallel system. Some do not realize that the "gate keeper" (Memory Controller, SRI?) is jumbling their code amongst processors in no guaranteed order, so a threaded app that runs great on a single processor can fail (eventually) on multi-core systems. nice Huh? Over the years we've seen the required level of expertise continue to rise as computing became more prevelant; for instance, years ago you had many hobby computing enthusiasts programming business applications in BASIC, this level of knowledge is inadequate for small businesses today. The coming years will see a need for extremely focused talented people to maintain our computing systems. As in scientific research the cadidates will be few and far between.
When Gonzales first started feeling the heat I noticed he kept saying stuff about "protecting our children" over and over and over again. This seems to be a catch-all in Washington. Sure we're developing more nukes, "its for the children".
Whenver I hear something about "the children" comming out of a politician's mouth I scratch them off my list of possibilities when I vote. I can protect my own child and any proportion of nasty perverted drugged up Washington lackeys doing anything with children absolutly disgusts me.
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It is my understanding, from reading copyright law, that Google was acting as an archivist or as a library. Libraries are allowed to copy any work for archival purposes. It is not like they provide downloads of the books, or charge for the service.
Refusing to display pornographic material is not an affront to free speech. Pictures of naked people engaging in sex acts is not an idea.
Wow, aren't you wearing an ass hat today. Slashdot is the funniest, most informative and unique site I have ever seen. I read Slashdot everyday and always learn something new of real value. I can't even say that for the Wall Street Journal(sllthough I DO pay for that). It is an excellent clearing house for news and technology information. The facebook stories alone are worth the read! They are funny as hell. Why don't you read the comments at Ars Technica and compare them to the intelligence and humor that peeks through at Slashdot. It is really no comparison. I really don't get some people's anger at Slashdot. Maybe someone should do a study. -- Slashdot Fanboy
This is why I read Slashdot. I learned about Khan Academy some time ago on Slashdot, and have been using it ever since. (Since then, spreading word to many people.) I've learned about more things by reading Slashdot than I could ever accurately enumerate. I seriously don't know why people deride the /. community.
Reminds me of a Monday.
Windows 7 IS Vista.1
The human brain is obviously a combination of a logic system (computer) and a probability system that are able to communicate meaningfully with each other, seamlessly. Our ability to use logic AND guess at probable outcomes is what defines our intelligence. We want computers, and hence AI, to arrive at perfect answers for problems and different situations. Simply not possible. Our greatest mental asset is also our greatest mental liability. The ability to guess and use "intuition" and arrive at answers without consciously thinking through the process spurs great achievements, but it also falls short most of the time. Given the system we have, it is possible to recognize when our intuition is obviously wrong using logic (a recursive algorithm). Guessing from our evolutionary state, this combination would also reduce the amount of energy needed to power such a system. I think my brain uses a bit less energy than a Watson, and is obviously more capable. Then again, maybe a machine would be capable of perfect answers or solutions, since it would be able to search and access stored experiences and information uninhibited. Recall is a key component of formulating solutions.
>>"Apple wants to own the tablet space. So far... they do" I work at a college, and I hardly ever see an Apple tablet. Most tablets I've seen are COBYs or some other Android variant. In my area, Apple products are too pricey. My boss's wife has one, and we bought a couple to test (handed out to faculty), but that's the only ones (iPad) I've seen.
I would like to see a portal to connect people who need/can provide support for open systems. My boss has a saying, and I agree, free isn't free. Small stressed IT shops would love to use open systems but we do little more than manage troves of hardware and support providers. Microsoft has awesome documentation and support channels for their server and enterprise products. We need "certified" support connections for open source offerings. We need access to reasonably priced local support contractors.
Craigslist is simply a cross-section or representation of the human element which makes it up. Just like the rest of the world. In other news, the world is a cesspool of crime. Details at 11. Craigslist holds more positives for society than negatives.
I was inspired by Khan Academy to launch my first ever open source project. It replicates a little math tool Khan used to demonstrate slope-intercept in his videos, it's called eGraph. It also allows people to design, print, or project graphs in a classroom and it has a nice demo featuring the slope-intercept equation. When I saw the equation "animated" while changing the variables it instantly sunk in. During that time I was already building eGraph to design and print custom graph sheets, so I added the slope demo and released it for free. Its also a great little project for someone to learn the "meat" of several important java libraries (including Java2D - printing) and Netbeans (the source comes as a Netbeans project). http://www.datavirtue.com/egraph.html
Whoa....Walmart is about tariffs not out-sourcing. We need at least 100% tariffs across the board on almost all Chinese manufactured non-durable goods. Durable goods need looked at on an industry-case basis. For example, increasing the cost of a table cloth from 50 cents (coming in) to $1.00 (by way of tariff) would create an opportunity to encourage job creation in the US while not at all inconveniencing anyone except China (ok, and walmart). Sure, Walmart will lobby because it would mean they would have to charge $3.00 instead of $1.50 for a table cloth to retain the same RATE of profit on the product, but who cares(they could easily maintain the same net profit by charging $2.00). I can guarantee a new factory would then open up in the US to compete with the low-quality dangerous products flowing out of China. Walmart would threaten reduction in their workforce but reality would not bear it. And yes, walmart charges at least triple markup (sometimes 5x, and more) on all products (excluding food). Clothing is around double markup to 2.5x. (The tarriffs collected could be used to pay down the national debt.) The levy of tarriffs would cause some job loss at first but would eventually be mitigated. Out-sourcing, off-shoring, is a whole different issue although it still relates to the usage of over-seas wage-slave labor. Clinton is often cited as running a balanced budget after the massive spending of the Reagan years BUT he cannot take credit for the decade of prosperity experienced in the US during the 1990s. That was a direct result of tariffs placed on certain imports by the Reagan administration which caused a retention and flow of jobs into the US.
This guy started a few years ago selling his hoome brewed tutors as a bunch of mpgs ona couple CDs now there is a whole line of DVDs. They are awsome. Best $120 I ever spent. http://www.mathtutordvd.com/
There is not enough non-anecdotal evidence to warrant any type of action on our part; aside from cleaning up OUR environment in general. For example we have evidence that plastic and other chemicals (yes plastic is a chemical that leaches into YOUR food) are damaging our bodies yet they are still rolling out of the factory. No one is getting all hopped up about those! In America over 90% of our crops are Genetically Modified (GM Crops) meaning that they make their own pesticides! We still dump thousands of pounds per field of pesticides on top of GM crops that MAKE their OWN pesticides. No one plows anymore, the crops, seeds, are modified to grow without water or hospitable soil.
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I have witnessed this with my own eyes thousands of times; I live in farm country.
Each year:
1st: Spray Roundup, yes Round Up (41% Glyphosate), every year on every field before planting and other chemical applications.
2nd: Spray more chemicals, whatever is thought to be needed
3rd: Jam the GM seeds into the ground (No plowing, no discing, nothing)
4th: watch them sprout with no applcation of water and otherwise completely inhospitable chemical laden soil
5th: spray more chemicals as needed (remember this is all done on old equiptment by un-educated people, spills go unreported since they would be in extreme trouble and bakrupt from fines and cleanup fees should the authorities find out. Insteaed it flows into th water )
Its called Chemical Farming. You are eating it everyday and you cannot help it or do anything about it. When you kill a Deer in the country to eat you are eating GM pesticide laden meat.
ALL that "healthy" Soy and Corn that is fed to animals including you are drenched in chmicals you would would not even be able to get around without a haz-mat suit.
Mercury is much bigger problem but it doesn't make anyone any money to deal with it. Just like our discusting agricultural practices.
If you think farmers know what is best or have a choice about this stuff you are living in a dream world. Most "farmers" just rent out the fields they inherited to Crop Production Services Inc. (CPS) the largest "farmer" in the US. When I was a kid I rememnber when the people used to farm, those men are dead now.
Another thing about Round Up, they say it is safe becasue it breaks down and doesn't enter the ground water (where YOU get your water) as Glyphosate. But then you look out to see a state vehical filled with Mexicans (low wage, uneducated) stop by the bridge at the foot of MY hill over MY stream and they spray Glyphosate (Round Up) from a wand while sitting in the truck, right at the guardrail and into the stream! This is happening in thousands of locations every single day. They are spraying so weeds don't grow on the bridge.
This is just the tip of the iceberg.
A few things for consideration:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/04/0704
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sun/
Google Video: The Great Global Warming Swindle
Google Video: Scam of the Great Global Warming Swindle
Threaded doesn't mean Parallel. But Parallel programs contain threads. Parallel programs do not care where and when a thread is executed. so yes parallel is "hard" when you try to apply it to every problem domain. Some tasks or applications are not parallel candidastes at all. Database server, yes, client front end, no. The server begs for parallel performance the client simply doesn't.
The key is to create simple parallel ready threads that can exist in extremely complex situations. Many times though they will be specific to certain contexts. This requires design from the ground up, trying to change a non-parallel program into one is called re-write.
If an application needs parallel processing then it WILL NEED IT. With servers the problems are almost obviously in need of a parallel system. Some do not realize that the "gate keeper" (Memory Controller, SRI?) is jumbling their code amongst processors in no guaranteed order, so a threaded app that runs great on a single processor can fail (eventually) on multi-core systems. nice Huh? Over the years we've seen the required level of expertise continue to rise as computing became more prevelant; for instance, years ago you had many hobby computing enthusiasts programming business applications in BASIC, this level of knowledge is inadequate for small businesses today. The coming years will see a need for extremely focused talented people to maintain our computing systems. As in scientific research the cadidates will be few and far between.
Sean
When Gonzales first started feeling the heat I noticed he kept saying stuff about "protecting our children" over and over and over again. This seems to be a catch-all in Washington. Sure we're developing more nukes, "its for the children". Whenver I hear something about "the children" comming out of a politician's mouth I scratch them off my list of possibilities when I vote. I can protect my own child and any proportion of nasty perverted drugged up Washington lackeys doing anything with children absolutly disgusts me.