I have three Canon printers - one i860 and two i865. I think they are great printers and have always used Canon ink as it is not that expensive. However, I would love to know what results people have had putting cheaper ink into it.
April 1 - The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency at the Pentagon - which has long underwritten open-ended "blue sky" research by the nation's best computer scientists - is sharply cutting such spending at universities, researchers say, in favor of financing more classified work and narrowly defined projects that promise a more immediate payoff.
Hundreds of research projects supported by the agency, known as Darpa, have paid off handsomely in recent decades, leading not only to new weapons, but to commercial technologies from the personal computer to the Internet. The agency has devoted hundreds of millions of dollars to basic software research, too, including work that led to such recent advances as the Web search technologies that Google and others have introduced.
The shift away from basic research is alarming many leading computer scientists and electrical engineers, who warn that there will be long-term consequences for the nation's economy. They are accusing the Pentagon of reining in an agency that has played a crucial role in fostering America's lead in computer and communications technologies.
"I'm worried and depressed," said David Patterson, a computer scientist at the University of California, Berkeley who is president of the Association of Computing Machinery, an industry and academic trade group. "I think there will be great technologies that won't be there down the road when we need them."
University researchers, usually reluctant to speak out, have started quietly challenging the agency's new approach. They assert that Darpa has shifted a lot more work in recent years to military contractors, adopted a focus on short-term projects while cutting support for basic research, classified formerly open projects as secret and placed new restrictions on sharing information.
This week, in responding to a query from the staff of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Darpa officials acknowledged for the first time a shift in focus. They revealed that within a relatively steady budget for computer science research that rose slightly from $546 million in 2001 to $583 million last year, the portion going to university researchers has fallen from $214 million to $123 million.
The agency cited a number of reasons for the decline: increased reliance on corporate research; a need for more classified projects since 9/11; Congress's decision to end controversial projects like Total Information Awareness because of privacy fears; and the shift of some basic research to advanced weapons systems development.
In Silicon Valley, executives are also starting to worry about the consequences of Darpa's stinting on basic research in computer science.
"This has been a phenomenal system for harnessing intellectual horsepower for the country," said David L. Tennenhouse, a former Darpa official who is now director of research for Intel. "We should be careful how we tinker with it."
University scientists assert that the changes go even further than what Darpa has disclosed. As financing has dipped, the remaining research grants come with yet more restrictions, they say, often tightly linked to specific "deliverables" that discourage exploration and serendipitous discoveries.
Many grants also limit the use of graduate students to those who hold American citizenship, a rule that hits hard in computer science, where many researchers are foreign.
The shift at Darpa has been noted not just by those researchers directly involved in computing technologies, but by those in other fields supported by the agency.
"I can see they are after deliverables, but the unfortunate thing is that basic research gets squeezed out in the process," said Wolfgang Porod, director of the Center for Nano Sc
In the UK if the shop asks for your signiture rather than using chip and pin then the store will be liable to any fraud that takes place. This makes gives them a good incentive to ensure that chip and pin is used. It will take a while but the last 10% will change over soon enough.
If I had some mod points I would give you some for that. Interesting points made and your maths is fine.
However, I doubt you will find too many people who have driven directly into a concrete wall at 70mph and have survived... Your sums + link do suggest though that these sort of crashes are survivable and improved "safety cages, seat belts and air bags" may well allow it in the future.
As I said in the parent to your post, the occupants would not have come out alive. One of the problems with the Smart car is that its crumple zones are small so the decelaration is great compared to larger cars. However, in many accidents it will bounce off and roll which though not ideal will shed energy rapidly.
On channel 5 in the UK recently they showed Smart cars being driven into various other large cars. It came off very well. To do a final test they drove a Smart into a concrete barrier at 70mph to see what would happen. The car come off fine. Both doors would open and one would even shut again.
Unfortunately, anybody in the car at the time would be dead due to internal injuries. No amount of safety cages, seat belts and air bags will stop your guts from going splat internally when decelerating from 70mph to 0 in about 1 meter.
Spam has become the first great plague of the 21st century. Over 60% of all e-mails are spam, costing U.S. corporations more than $10 billion annually, on top of the productivity lost from scanning through e-mail and deleting spam. Along with this, an estimated 5% of spam campaigns are a pure and outright scam, with the remaining majority pitching products that are dubious at best. It used to be parents had to worry about their kids surfing and finding pornographic websites, now we have to worry more about our kids opening an e-mail client and finding a pornographic spam message. Spam must be stopped before it cripples the infrastructure of the internet and drives users away from one of the greatest forms of communication, E-mail.
Can Laws Defeat Spam? No. This has to be one of the greatest misconceptions of users. The internet is just that, an "INTERnational NETwork" that cannot be governed by one country's laws. Spammers can exist anywhere on the internet, meaning they can sling their wares from anywhere in the world, making the laws of one country completely irrelevant. Also, the decentralized, self-organizing design of the internet makes it nearly impossible to regulate by external means. It would be easier to regulate the weather than to regulate the internet.
Spam as a Living Organism
Up until recently, most researchers in the fight against spam have failed to classify it as an artificial living organism, hindering the development of effective tools and techniques to kill it. While this classification may sound strange, consider the following:
Spam evolves and adapts based off the rules of natural selection
Through the fight against spam, spam has demonstrated an uncanny ability to adapt to the conditions of its environment, namely the internet. When one barrier against a strain of spam is put up, another, resistant strain appears. This is similar to how bacteria builds immunity against antibiotics, the strains that are not immune will die, while the ones that are immune take over and become the dominant, drug resistant strain. This leads to the belief that spam will not die until the barriers of its environment evolve faster than it does.
Spam lives within an eco-system, and we're its food
The internet is a complex chain of systems that all rely on each for the other's survival. Without an internet protocol, a web browser couldn't exist. Without web servers, the web wouldn't exist. Without... (you get the picture). This chain of systems can be likened to an eco-system, with spam existing at a parasitic level of species within this system. It consumes resources (bandwidth, servers, time) in its attempt to reach its primary host: us. Once spam reaches its target, its sole purpose is to solicit its "food" from us, primarily money. If it is effective, that strain of spam lives and continues to propagate, otherwise it will die. Can the internet eco-system be modified so spam can't feed?
Spam has genetic traits and markers
Just like any organism, spam contains certain traits that uniquely identify it. This can be a combination of words, information inside the header of the e-mail, the format of the message (HTML, plain text, rtf), the message encoding (base64), does it contain image links, the number of links, does it contain hidden text, so on and so forth. Up until recently, spam filters have primarily focused on just one of these traits, the wording of the e-mail. Spam, being an organism, evolved so this marker was hidden within its code, making it difficult at best to filter. It did this by including random, non-spam words in hidden areas of the e-mail, by modifying words like Viagra with V1@gr@, sending spam as image links, and by encoding the message in a format that filters could not read. The good news is this "gene" is still present, and can be unlocked by identifying the defensive genes wi
I would guess I get the flashing display (indicating a power failure) on my alarm clock about once a year. I also do not have a UPS system for my computer nor do I know of anyone that does. Our power system is not perfect but it is certainly a lot better than what you guys get over the pond.
I was in the back office of my local night club the other day and noticed a large amount of money pinned to the wall. This confused me for a while until I worked out it looked a little odd. It turned out that over 300 quid in fake ten and twenty pound notes had been accepted in the bars there recently.
The fakes were easy to spot. The paper wasn't right, the printing was poor and it didn't have any of the security features that UK notes have (a lot lot more than US monopoly money). However, they were good enough to repeatedly work in a crowded bar even when the staff had be warned many times.
Piracy is obviously a problem but I wonder how much an issue is due to legal sales from one region to another.
I regularly buy region 1 DVDs and have them shipped to the UK. I don't believe I am doing anything legally wrong and certainly don't believe it is morally wrong. This gives me a DVD months earlier than I can normally get it locally and its often cheaper as well even taking postage into acount.
Strange how this trade wasn't mentioned in the article at all....
On my Athlon 1700+ it takes about 0.5 secs per message at most. I get 200+ spams a day and it sorts through them wonderfully. I have not yet had a false positive though I have set the filters to err on the side of caution.
If you pull a standard 3x3x3 cube to pieces and put it back together then you have a 50/50 chance that is solveable. (The unsolvable versions can be taken to the state where one piece is wrong.)
If you solve middles and pair edges of a 4x4x4 (to make a 3x3x3) then I believe you have a 50/50 chance if it being wrong. Unfortunately, in my experiance, its more like 10:1 or worse....
Slashdot Mirror
I have three Canon printers - one i860 and two i865. I think they are great printers and have always used Canon ink as it is not that expensive. However, I would love to know what results people have had putting cheaper ink into it.
Comments please.
This is the first attempt to get out since it got stuck. Maybe I should have pointed this out in the article...
When will slashdot contributors learn to preview before posting.
Doh!
Correct dupe link
Another Dupe from a few days back.
Same article and all...
When will slashdot editors use the search button?
Better Photo: X
(it did crash after all!)
The rover is driving backwards so there is more to see in the front view than there is in the back view
I hope they get it out...
because I can't
April 1 - The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency at the Pentagon - which has long underwritten open-ended "blue sky" research by the nation's best computer scientists - is sharply cutting such spending at universities, researchers say, in favor of financing more classified work and narrowly defined projects that promise a more immediate payoff.
Hundreds of research projects supported by the agency, known as Darpa, have paid off handsomely in recent decades, leading not only to new weapons, but to commercial technologies from the personal computer to the Internet. The agency has devoted hundreds of millions of dollars to basic software research, too, including work that led to such recent advances as the Web search technologies that Google and others have introduced.
The shift away from basic research is alarming many leading computer scientists and electrical engineers, who warn that there will be long-term consequences for the nation's economy. They are accusing the Pentagon of reining in an agency that has played a crucial role in fostering America's lead in computer and communications technologies.
"I'm worried and depressed," said David Patterson, a computer scientist at the University of California, Berkeley who is president of the Association of Computing Machinery, an industry and academic trade group. "I think there will be great technologies that won't be there down the road when we need them."
University researchers, usually reluctant to speak out, have started quietly challenging the agency's new approach. They assert that Darpa has shifted a lot more work in recent years to military contractors, adopted a focus on short-term projects while cutting support for basic research, classified formerly open projects as secret and placed new restrictions on sharing information.
This week, in responding to a query from the staff of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Darpa officials acknowledged for the first time a shift in focus. They revealed that within a relatively steady budget for computer science research that rose slightly from $546 million in 2001 to $583 million last year, the portion going to university researchers has fallen from $214 million to $123 million.
The agency cited a number of reasons for the decline: increased reliance on corporate research; a need for more classified projects since 9/11; Congress's decision to end controversial projects like Total Information Awareness because of privacy fears; and the shift of some basic research to advanced weapons systems development.
In Silicon Valley, executives are also starting to worry about the consequences of Darpa's stinting on basic research in computer science.
"This has been a phenomenal system for harnessing intellectual horsepower for the country," said David L. Tennenhouse, a former Darpa official who is now director of research for Intel. "We should be careful how we tinker with it."
University scientists assert that the changes go even further than what Darpa has disclosed. As financing has dipped, the remaining research grants come with yet more restrictions, they say, often tightly linked to specific "deliverables" that discourage exploration and serendipitous discoveries.
Many grants also limit the use of graduate students to those who hold American citizenship, a rule that hits hard in computer science, where many researchers are foreign.
The shift at Darpa has been noted not just by those researchers directly involved in computing technologies, but by those in other fields supported by the agency.
"I can see they are after deliverables, but the unfortunate thing is that basic research gets squeezed out in the process," said Wolfgang Porod, director of the Center for Nano Sc
In the UK if the shop asks for your signiture rather than using chip and pin then the store will be liable to any fraud that takes place. This makes gives them a good incentive to ensure that chip and pin is used. It will take a while but the last 10% will change over soon enough.
Anybody got links for mirrors of the other pages?
No the problems with Slashdot only appear to apply to anonymous cowards. If you login everything reappears.
(that is unless it just started working when I logged back in....)
If I had some mod points I would give you some for that. Interesting points made and your maths is fine.
However, I doubt you will find too many people who have driven directly into a concrete wall at 70mph and have survived... Your sums + link do suggest though that these sort of crashes are survivable and improved "safety cages, seat belts and air bags" may well allow it in the future.
what happened to the passengers?
As I said in the parent to your post, the occupants would not have come out alive. One of the problems with the Smart car is that its crumple zones are small so the decelaration is great compared to larger cars. However, in many accidents it will bounce off and roll which though not ideal will shed energy rapidly.
On channel 5 in the UK recently they showed Smart cars being driven into various other large cars. It came off very well. To do a final test they drove a Smart into a concrete barrier at 70mph to see what would happen. The car come off fine. Both doors would open and one would even shut again.
Unfortunately, anybody in the car at the time would be dead due to internal injuries. No amount of safety cages, seat belts and air bags will stop your guts from going splat internally when decelerating from 70mph to 0 in about 1 meter.
Bit of an old story this.
Spam has become the first great plague of the 21st century. Over 60% of all e-mails are spam, costing U.S. corporations more than $10 billion annually, on top of the productivity lost from scanning through e-mail and deleting spam. Along with this, an estimated 5% of spam campaigns are a pure and outright scam, with the remaining majority pitching products that are dubious at best. It used to be parents had to worry about their kids surfing and finding pornographic websites, now we have to worry more about our kids opening an e-mail client and finding a pornographic spam message. Spam must be stopped before it cripples the infrastructure of the internet and drives users away from one of the greatest forms of communication, E-mail.
Can Laws Defeat Spam? No. This has to be one of the greatest misconceptions of users. The internet is just that, an "INTERnational NETwork" that cannot be governed by one country's laws. Spammers can exist anywhere on the internet, meaning they can sling their wares from anywhere in the world, making the laws of one country completely irrelevant. Also, the decentralized, self-organizing design of the internet makes it nearly impossible to regulate by external means. It would be easier to regulate the weather than to regulate the internet.
Spam as a Living Organism
Up until recently, most researchers in the fight against spam have failed to classify it as an artificial living organism, hindering the development of effective tools and techniques to kill it. While this classification may sound strange, consider the following:
Through the fight against spam, spam has demonstrated an uncanny ability to adapt to the conditions of its environment, namely the internet. When one barrier against a strain of spam is put up, another, resistant strain appears. This is similar to how bacteria builds immunity against antibiotics, the strains that are not immune will die, while the ones that are immune take over and become the dominant, drug resistant strain. This leads to the belief that spam will not die until the barriers of its environment evolve faster than it does.
The internet is a complex chain of systems that all rely on each for the other's survival. Without an internet protocol, a web browser couldn't exist. Without web servers, the web wouldn't exist. Without ... (you get the picture). This chain of systems can be likened to an eco-system, with spam existing at a parasitic level of species within this system. It consumes resources (bandwidth, servers, time) in its attempt to reach its primary host: us. Once spam reaches its target, its sole purpose is to solicit its "food" from us, primarily money. If it is effective, that strain of spam lives and continues to propagate, otherwise it will die. Can the internet eco-system be modified so spam can't feed?
Just like any organism, spam contains certain traits that uniquely identify it. This can be a combination of words, information inside the header of the e-mail, the format of the message (HTML, plain text, rtf), the message encoding (base64), does it contain image links, the number of links, does it contain hidden text, so on and so forth. Up until recently, spam filters have primarily focused on just one of these traits, the wording of the e-mail. Spam, being an organism, evolved so this marker was hidden within its code, making it difficult at best to filter. It did this by including random, non-spam words in hidden areas of the e-mail, by modifying words like Viagra with V1@gr@, sending spam as image links, and by encoding the message in a format that filters could not read. The good news is this "gene" is still present, and can be unlocked by identifying the defensive genes wi
Oh I do hope so. He needs as much stick as possible at the moment. To my knowledge he still hasn't admitted he is at fault.
For those outside the UK, you may want to take a look at the front page of todays Mirror
Previous story is here
Not difficult to find from July 2002.
I would guess I get the flashing display (indicating a power failure) on my alarm clock about once a year. I also do not have a UPS system for my computer nor do I know of anyone that does. Our power system is not perfect but it is certainly a lot better than what you guys get over the pond.
I was in the back office of my local night club the other day and noticed a large amount of money pinned to the wall. This confused me for a while until I worked out it looked a little odd. It turned out that over 300 quid in fake ten and twenty pound notes had been accepted in the bars there recently.
The fakes were easy to spot. The paper wasn't right, the printing was poor and it didn't have any of the security features that UK notes have (a lot lot more than US monopoly money). However, they were good enough to repeatedly work in a crowded bar even when the staff had be warned many times.
Piracy is obviously a problem but I wonder how much an issue is due to legal sales from one region to another.
I regularly buy region 1 DVDs and have them shipped to the UK. I don't believe I am doing anything legally wrong and certainly don't believe it is morally wrong. This gives me a DVD months earlier than I can normally get it locally and its often cheaper as well even taking postage into acount.
Strange how this trade wasn't mentioned in the article at all....
Google accepts the sum but only gives 9 sig figs in the answer. Oh well.
Mores law is coming to an end...
Jan 2003 Dec 2002 Oct 1999
Oh no its not...
Feb 2003 Sept 2002
On my Athlon 1700+ it takes about 0.5 secs per message at most. I get 200+ spams a day and it sorts through them wonderfully. I have not yet had a false positive though I have set the filters to err on the side of caution.
Its a great product.
Nah, its not that easy....
If you pull a standard 3x3x3 cube to pieces and put it back together then you have a 50/50 chance that is solveable. (The unsolvable versions can be taken to the state where one piece is wrong.)
If you solve middles and pair edges of a 4x4x4 (to make a 3x3x3) then I believe you have a 50/50 chance if it being wrong. Unfortunately, in my experiance, its more like 10:1 or worse....