You can customize AltaVista to include the items you want, including "Last Modified" (see the Customize Settings link).
By the way, there's a neat feature in Internet Explorer for Windows to let you specify different search engines from the address box. See http://kahirsch.20m.com
Centralization is a trend that's been going on for more than a century, so it's not exactly new. And, in the past, while there were certainly many more players in a market, the limits of transportation and communication meant that they did not compete that much with each other.
In most markets, there's probably more competition than before. Try cars. Forty years ago, I had a choice of effectively four corporations. Today, despite numerous mergers, there are about a dozen manufacturers who have wide distribution in the U.S.
With TV, we had 3 commercial networks, plus PBS. Now, despite all the mergers, there are at least 6 separate networks (plus PBS). A lot of newspapers have merged, too, but if you look at newstands today, there are actually more newspapers available than before.
If you have a full-time sysadmin, or several full-time sysadmins, you can make most operating systems secure.
If you don't, it's a good idea to have something that takes a lot less work to secure, such as OpenBSD. So what big corporations choose is not really relevant to the single, self-administering user.
A Detail Oriented, Security Concious, Responsible SysAdmin is 90% of the equation.
I have better things to do with my time than to keep up with security bulletins for features I don't use and to figure out how to shut down or patch them.
Gene testing and mapping are proceeding far ahead of humanity's ability to prepare for it or consider it. As testing becomes increasingly common, individual humans are already overwhelmed by social, moral and philosophical questions. Researchers at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston have recounted how a woman who'd had ovarian cancer was tested for recently-isolated breast cancer-related gene mutations, mostly for the sake of her two adult daughters. But when she told them she tested positively for the cancer gene, her daughters were so upset they stopped speaking to her.
And your point is what? Should we have forbidden everyone the information because some might find it disturbing?
The Times reported earlier last week too that a young man in Washington State called his genetics counselor with a guilty conscience: several months earlier, he told her, he'd made a sperm donation. And while he knew he had an inheritable syndrome that causes heart trouble and, often, early death, he hadn't mentioned that to the sperm bank. Troubled, the counselor called the sperm bank and found that there had, indeed, been successful pregnancies with the man's sperm. She offered to counsel those families but doesn't know whether the sperm bank even passed along the information.
And your point is, again, what? People with genetic defects donate sperm now, without knowledge. The more knowledge there is, the more this can be avoided. Eventually the recipients will be able to test, too.
Other complex issues are already arising from genetic research -- parents seeking "perfect baby" are being given the option of avoiding the conception of children with certain illnesses. On the surface, this is a significant escalation for humanity in the war against disease, yet there has been little public discussion of the moral and ethical considerations. Nobody has voted on whether he or she wants to live in a world with only healthy, cheerful, smart and attractive inhabitants.
Gee, nobody has voted on whether to force parents to have defective children. Why the next thing you know, people will be allowed to pick whom they marry and how many children they want! The nerve!
There is also a Damon Knight story called "I See You" that was nominated for a Hugo in 1977. I've often thought that neither Asimov nor Knight really explored the ramifications fully.
Almost all crime would disappear. Would people embrace the lack of privacy or try to get the machines controlled. Of course dictators would try to control it and it would be a powerful tool for them, but they try to hide their own actions and lie about them, so as long as people are watching from free countries, it would seem to eventually lead to freedom everywhere (I think).
Would it hurt research for companies to know their competitors could spy on them? Of course, it would also make it easy for them to prove their competitors spied on them?
Would people become more puritanical, would life become like it is in a small town (only more so)? Or would people learn to accept the petty perversions and infidelities that we now hide?
Unlike time travel stories, there's at least no logical contradictions to viewing the past.
1st. The anger involved wasn't immediate and transient. It's something that has been carefully built for years before use.
2nd. The crime is more likely to be repeated because a Nazi honestly thinks he is on a holy crusade to protect his own kind from an alien invader of sorts.
Sorry, I don't get it. Only about 1 in 1000 violent crimes in America count as "hate crimes", including about 1 in 1000 murders. Where is the evidence that a hate crime is more likely to be repeated? Many non-"hate crimes" are the results of years of vendettas, too.
However what happens when 200 black churches ( in theory this doesn't exist. In practices American blacks and whites attend different temples. especially in the south ) are burned to the ground in one year ? It's considered an organized hate crime and someone caught for one is treated almost as a serial arsonist or a conspirator on the others. This stuff can't generally be proven but you can sometimes prove that the color of the congregation was the motive
and don't get me started on the Sphinx. The infamous "broken nose" was shot off with mortar fire by French or Italian troops because a broad flat nose on such a huge and ancient monument implies something they were not willing to consider. In theory this is an act of vandalism on par with painting a mustache on Mona Lisa ( never happened ). The racial implications add a lot to the crime however. The perpetrators wanted to claim the Sphinx and by extension the Pyramids as being the creation of Europeans or failing that space aliens. Nobody can claim a great engineer as inferior or less than human so destroy the evidence of that engineering and you can get by.
Some of you young whippersnappers may be too young to remember this, but way back in the Eighties (the 1980s, last century) Microsoft did not have a monopoly on desktop operating systems.
Now, because of Microsoft's success, software developers can reach a huge majority of users by writing for a single target. All of you whiners who complain "X doesn't work under Linux. There are no drivers for X. I can't run X" Well, yeah, that's the way it used to be for everybody.
There are HUGE advantages to having so many users under one operating system, especially for programmers!
Think about that before you call for "Baby Bills".
Does anybody know how you control the access between the different OSes running on VM and the networking hardware? Can you configure, say, 100 ethernet cards or T1 connections to handle 41,000 IP addresses?
Incidentally what level of math expertice are they assuming? I have taken up through differential calculus and still hardly know a damn thing contained.
The math is mostly explained in volume one. There is also a very good book "Concrete Mathematics" by Graham, and Patashnik, and Knuth that goes into much more detail.
Here's the Amazon link for reference (buy it wherever you want).
The part on hypergeometic series has been mostly obsoleted by later work. See the book A=B (Amazon or FREE download).
I've already read that "gem" and am otherwise aware of Kohn's research. I am also aware that there is a lot of counter evidence, for example:
Cameron, J. & Pierce, W. D. (1994). Reinforcement, reward, and intrinsic motivation: A meta-analysis. Review of Educational Research, 64(3), 363-423).
Also see Eisenberger and Cameron's assessment of the myth of the detrimental effects of rewards on learning published in the November, 1996 American Psychologist.
There were also a few large-scale experiments in developing alternative incentive systems (Soviet Union, China, North Korea, etc.). I'm not impressed with their results.
If I had any choice in the matter, every thing I write would be free and open source, my mortgage would magically pay itself and the world would be free of hunger and poverty. However since reality requires me to get a job I chose to get a job that interested me. For the last 5 years I've been working as a 3D programmer in the games industry, now would Bob suggest that SCI (my previous employer) should open source Carmageddon2 just because an employee (me) who is an open source advocate played a small role in it's development.
Yes, that's the point. People do prefer to get paid for work. Even Linus, it turns out. He didn't have to choose to work for Transmeta, after all. Money makes the world go 'round.
There is zero chance that this will replace the SAT in general.
First, it is incredibly expensive. Look at the time and number of judges required.
Second, it is much more subjective and will consequently have a lower test-retest reliability.
Third, given the limited range of scores (and lower reliability) it is very doubtful it could ever approach the predictive validity of the SAT.
What's even weirder is that there's no evidence that minorities would do relatively better on this test than on the SAT, so the whole project is suspect.
Some businesses, Nortel e. g., now limit contractors to 11 months. As far as I know they haven't hired more permanent employees to make up for this, they just shuffle temps around with other companies.
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By the way, there's a neat feature in Internet Explorer for Windows to let you specify different search engines from the address box. See http://kahirsch.20m.com
In most markets, there's probably more competition than before. Try cars. Forty years ago, I had a choice of effectively four corporations. Today, despite numerous mergers, there are about a dozen manufacturers who have wide distribution in the U.S.
With TV, we had 3 commercial networks, plus PBS. Now, despite all the mergers, there are at least 6 separate networks (plus PBS). A lot of newspapers have merged, too, but if you look at newstands today, there are actually more newspapers available than before.
If you don't, it's a good idea to have something that takes a lot less work to secure, such as OpenBSD. So what big corporations choose is not really relevant to the single, self-administering user.
That's why I use OpenBSD.
Replying to my own post, I've found a web page with a list of stories on this theme.
Almost all crime would disappear. Would people embrace the lack of privacy or try to get the machines controlled. Of course dictators would try to control it and it would be a powerful tool for them, but they try to hide their own actions and lie about them, so as long as people are watching from free countries, it would seem to eventually lead to freedom everywhere (I think).
Would it hurt research for companies to know their competitors could spy on them? Of course, it would also make it easy for them to prove their competitors spied on them?
Would people become more puritanical, would life become like it is in a small town (only more so)? Or would people learn to accept the petty perversions and infidelities that we now hide?
Unlike time travel stories, there's at least no logical contradictions to viewing the past.
Well, COBOL was hardly the last. Ada was designed by committees and, of course, most languages end up being redesigned (standardized) by committees.
How could this be if the reason they're popular is because of MS's monopoly power?
See this American Scientist article: Rising Scores on Intelligence Tests
Now, because of Microsoft's success, software developers can reach a huge majority of users by writing for a single target. All of you whiners who complain "X doesn't work under Linux. There are no drivers for X. I can't run X" Well, yeah, that's the way it used to be for everybody.
There are HUGE advantages to having so many users under one operating system, especially for programmers!
Think about that before you call for "Baby Bills".
Does anybody know how you control the access between the different OSes running on VM and the networking hardware? Can you configure, say, 100 ethernet cards or T1 connections to handle 41,000 IP addresses?
Here's the Amazon link for reference (buy it wherever you want).
The part on hypergeometic series has been mostly obsoleted by later work. See the book A=B (Amazon or FREE download).
Cameron, J. & Pierce, W. D. (1994). Reinforcement, reward, and intrinsic motivation: A meta-analysis. Review of Educational Research, 64(3), 363-423).
Also see Eisenberger and Cameron's assessment of the myth of the detrimental effects of rewards on learning published in the November, 1996 American Psychologist.
There were also a few large-scale experiments in developing alternative incentive systems (Soviet Union, China, North Korea, etc.). I'm not impressed with their results.
And I guess Linus decided he liked a salary, too.
Yes, that's the point. People do prefer to get paid for work. Even Linus, it turns out. He didn't have to choose to work for Transmeta, after all. Money makes the world go 'round.
First, it is incredibly expensive. Look at the time and number of judges required.
Second, it is much more subjective and will consequently have a lower test-retest reliability.
Third, given the limited range of scores (and lower reliability) it is very doubtful it could ever approach the predictive validity of the SAT.
What's even weirder is that there's no evidence that minorities would do relatively better on this test than on the SAT, so the whole project is suspect.
Some businesses, Nortel e. g., now limit contractors to 11 months. As far as I know they haven't hired more permanent employees to make up for this, they just shuffle temps around with other companies.
Salon also published a skeptical article on Grossman back in May, when Littleton was in the news.