>"My friend sells porcelain filters, so I know a little bit about these things."
Good for your friend the salesman, and I am glad you know a little.
>"I would say the Biosandfilter cannot filter out virus as the device in TFA. Filter of pores down to 1 micron is quite slow. To get rid of the virus, you need 20 times smaller. Someone can design a filter with pores that blocks the virus. But it will drip very slowly. Not very practical."
Unfortune the United Nations Heath Care for Refugee's disagree with your assessment. Please see http://postconflict.unep.ch/liberia/displacement/documents/UNHCR_Water_Manual_Refugee_Situations.pdf . They seem to think otherwise. The costs, distribution of material in a crises, and uses the use of common material must have biased their view point. Also, boiling water seems to kill viruses (of 1 micro) quite nicely and is cheap.
Also, Biosandfilters (or their equivalent) are the basis of public water works for 200 years in the western world. So I can see your concern over being practical.
1st. Nice marketing gimmick, but the same technology can be used with common everyday objects like Sand and Gravity. (Add a little charcoal from you fire and your really High-Tech.)
2nd. Does anyone study history anymore, because: John Gibbs did this in 1804 when he built the means of water treatment and sold it to the public in Paisley Scotland.
Why is the Parent Post Modded to a -1. He States an uncut opinion that strikes at some of the truth of the matter. I find it at least "Interesting", that he provided some context based in history to support his position.
FTA... "ADVISE is not expected to be restarted," Knocke said. DHS' Science and Technology directorate "determined that new commercial products now offer similar functionality while costing significantly less to maintain than ADVISE." Earlier, DHS said testing would resume once appropriate privacy analyses and public notices were completed. "ADVISE was one of the broadest of 12 data-mining projects in the agency."...
One down, only 11 more projects to test with live data.
The White House was not amused Thursday by the antics of an Australian comedy group that breached President Bush's security in Sydney.
Bush spokeswoman Dana Perino had few details on the incident, but Australian press reported that 11 members of the troupe "The Chaser's War on Everything" had been charged with entering a restricted area....
Maybe Slashdot should start modding up peoples comments and granting Karma in stead of hammering them for honnest comments and forcing them to post as Anonymous Coward.
Another patch, late as usual, that doesn't address the underlining architectural issues, and that should have been fix in the initial release. Oh, by the way, we get to play more of the "Which Build" you got game with service support.
After 25 years of this: "Let me off this Merry-Go-Round"
Unless they remove the bloatware and redesign the architecture to kill the continual directory update process, I think my old Pentium 800mhz with XP and 500mb of ram will still beat my Emachine 2800mhz with Vista and 1 gig of ram in a boot up to a Character Log on to EverQuest Plain of Knowledge by a good 45 seconds as usual.
The Microsoft should be embarrassed by Vista's performance. Everyone who see this at home laughs...
"Why should I be on the hot seat in front of a bunch of blazing cameras, answering questions from interviewers who are trying to lead me down a dark path toward fanning the flames of controversy?"
Because at some point we hope you have a conscious, for the benefit of everyone.
At the time it was expected for A Grand Master to intentionally lose the first round of play just so he could determine the "Unknown Players Style of Play". IBM did a lot of research on Garry Kasparov his tendencies, patterns, and style of play. So this makes "The 3 Card Monty" easy money for IBM. Garry Kasparov adjusts his style of play to the first version of Deep Blue, the Tech's come in switch the starting code (a.k.a. starting pram tweak), and now Garry Kasparov is play a new version/updated versions of software. He loses this round too. Two out of three the Match is over. Rinse and Repeat for Match 3.
Let the Techs step out of the room and take their tweaks with them, and let Garry Kasparov play Deep Blue 100 times in a row. Different Results would be assured, and I am not sure we would be sing IBM's Deep Blues praise to this day.
Garry Kasparov was beat with "A Combination Brute Force and Slide of Hand" neither of these are beneficial to AI Research. IBM touted this as a Great Triumph of Machine over Man, well not quite. Great PR Stun binging in millions of advertising dollars for over 10 years, but didn't mean anything for AI Research and the "Last 10 Years" prove it.
Sorry, Brute Force in not the sole answer to AI (If we just had an infinite amount of monkeys, we can produce Hamlet Argument.) Get over it...
If I remember correctly, IBM offered him a large sum of money too. I am sure it had an effect on him accepting the offer in the first place. As for being a whiner, every Grandmaster Chess Player is bound to have a few idiosyncrasies.
I am sure the IBM Techs who were tweaking the Deep Blue's between match activities were very good. Unfortunately, from the publicity the match drew, various levels of peer review started to take place and they got caught (a.k.a. "The 3 Card Monty"). This why no serious research along "The Deep Blue v.s. Garry Kasparov Match" school of thought has produced any serious results. If anything it directed AI research in the wrong directions.
I watch this event very closely at the time, and to me it didn't mean a thing. Here is why:
1. A Grandmaster Chess Player learns from his mistakes. If he played the IBM's Deep Blue 100 times in a row he would be beating it consistently at the end because of his ability to learn. 2. In between the 3 matches, IBM's Tech support when in and changed the macro/starting prams on the program's behavior and tailored them to Garry Kasparov and made associated adjustment. 3. IBM had a lot to gain by pulling this PR stunt 4. Garry Kasparov may be A Grandmaster Chess Player, but knew nothing about the IBM playing the "3 Card Monty" on him.
(ding my Karma down, i saw the whole event and bitched then)
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>"My friend sells porcelain filters, so I know a little bit about these things."
Good for your friend the salesman, and I am glad you know a little.
>"I would say the Biosandfilter cannot filter out virus as the device in TFA. Filter of pores down to 1 micron is quite slow. To get rid of the virus, you need 20 times smaller. Someone can design a filter with pores that blocks the virus. But it will drip very slowly. Not very practical."
Unfortune the United Nations Heath Care for Refugee's disagree with your assessment. Please see http://postconflict.unep.ch/liberia/displacement/documents/UNHCR_Water_Manual_Refugee_Situations.pdf . They seem to think otherwise. The costs, distribution of material in a crises, and uses the use of common material must have biased their view point. Also, boiling water seems to kill viruses (of 1 micro) quite nicely and is cheap.
Also, Biosandfilters (or their equivalent) are the basis of public water works for 200 years in the western world. So I can see your concern over being practical.
I thought the law as for everyone, not just lawyers. Opps, my mistake!!!
1st. Nice marketing gimmick, but the same technology can be used with common everyday objects like Sand and Gravity. (Add a little charcoal from you fire and your really High-Tech.)
2nd. Does anyone study history anymore, because: John Gibbs did this in 1804 when he built the means of water treatment and sold it to the public in Paisley Scotland.
3rd. try a do it yourself job at http://www.biosandfilter.org/ or get a more field expedient version at http://www.therangerdigest.com/Tips___Tricks/Filter_and_Purifying_Water/body_filter_and_purifying_water.htm
Why is the Parent Post Modded to a -1. He States an uncut opinion that strikes at some of the truth of the matter. I find it at least "Interesting", that he provided some context based in history to support his position.
FTA ... "ADVISE is not expected to be restarted," Knocke said. DHS' Science and Technology directorate "determined that new commercial products now offer similar functionality while costing significantly less to maintain than ADVISE." ...
Earlier, DHS said testing would resume once appropriate privacy analyses and public notices were completed. "ADVISE was one of the broadest of 12 data-mining projects in the agency."
One down, only 11 more projects to test with live data.
Whitehouse Response
...
u m-on-comedy-groups-security-breach-2007-09-06.html
The White House was not amused Thursday by the antics of an Australian comedy group that breached President Bush's security in Sydney.
Bush spokeswoman Dana Perino had few details on the incident, but Australian press reported that 11 members of the troupe "The Chaser's War on Everything" had been charged with entering a restricted area.
See the rest of the article at:
http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/white-house-m
Wonder where he got the idea?
You got to love any comedian who is willing to get arrested for comedy's sake.
Bring on the Fools...
My old granny use to say "If it's good for the goose, then it's good for the gander".
Maybe Slashdot should start modding up peoples comments and granting Karma in stead of hammering them for honnest comments and forcing them to post as Anonymous Coward.
Another patch, late as usual, that doesn't address the underlining architectural issues, and that should have been fix in the initial release. Oh, by the way, we get to play more of the "Which Build" you got game with service support.
After 25 years of this: "Let me off this Merry-Go-Round"
(I am not sure how to be more clear)
Unless they remove the bloatware and redesign the architecture to kill the continual directory update process, I think my old Pentium 800mhz with XP and 500mb of ram will still beat my Emachine 2800mhz with Vista and 1 gig of ram in a boot up to a Character Log on to EverQuest Plain of Knowledge by a good 45 seconds as usual.
The Microsoft should be embarrassed by Vista's performance. Everyone who see this at home laughs...
"Why should I be on the hot seat in front of a bunch of blazing cameras, answering questions from interviewers who are trying to lead me down a dark path toward fanning the flames of controversy?"
Because at some point we hope you have a conscious, for the benefit of everyone.
funny,i ran it thru a spell and grammer checker....
I didn't see that documentary. But it would not surprise me that a GM was sitting behind the scenes. It smelled fishy from the start.
At the time it was expected for A Grand Master to intentionally lose the first round of play just so he could determine the "Unknown Players Style of Play". IBM did a lot of research on Garry Kasparov his tendencies, patterns, and style of play. So this makes "The 3 Card Monty" easy money for IBM. Garry Kasparov adjusts his style of play to the first version of Deep Blue, the Tech's come in switch the starting code (a.k.a. starting pram tweak), and now Garry Kasparov is play a new version/updated versions of software. He loses this round too. Two out of three the Match is over. Rinse and Repeat for Match 3.
Let the Techs step out of the room and take their tweaks with them, and let Garry Kasparov play Deep Blue 100 times in a row. Different Results would be assured, and I am not sure we would be sing IBM's Deep Blues praise to this day.
Garry Kasparov was beat with "A Combination Brute Force and Slide of Hand" neither of these are beneficial to AI Research. IBM touted this as a Great Triumph of Machine over Man, well not quite. Great PR Stun binging in millions of advertising dollars for over 10 years, but didn't mean anything for AI Research and the "Last 10 Years" prove it.
Sorry, Brute Force in not the sole answer to AI (If we just had an infinite amount of monkeys, we can produce Hamlet Argument.) Get over it...
If I remember correctly, IBM offered him a large sum of money too. I am sure it had an effect on him accepting the offer in the first place. As for being a whiner, every Grandmaster Chess Player is bound to have a few idiosyncrasies.
I am sure the IBM Techs who were tweaking the Deep Blue's between match activities were very good. Unfortunately, from the publicity the match drew, various levels of peer review started to take place and they got caught (a.k.a. "The 3 Card Monty"). This why no serious research along "The Deep Blue v.s. Garry Kasparov Match" school of thought has produced any serious results. If anything it directed AI research in the wrong directions.
I watch this event very closely at the time, and to me it didn't mean a thing. Here is why:
1. A Grandmaster Chess Player learns from his mistakes. If he played the IBM's Deep Blue 100 times in a row he would be beating it consistently at the end because of his ability to learn.
2. In between the 3 matches, IBM's Tech support when in and changed the macro/starting prams on the program's behavior and tailored them to Garry Kasparov and made associated adjustment.
3. IBM had a lot to gain by pulling this PR stunt
4. Garry Kasparov may be A Grandmaster Chess Player, but knew nothing about the IBM playing the "3 Card Monty" on him.
(ding my Karma down, i saw the whole event and bitched then)
I errorred and caught the error but /. wouldn't let me reply 2 times to the same post.
I humbly APOLOGIZE.
FYI.... Ummm, I looked at his history and I didn't see a single Troll or Flamebait, just 1 Off Topic. (Sorry , had to check.)
I have been using both for years and don't really have any major problems, each has their stong suites. (But no real complaints.)
(ding down my Karma again, i think i just told the truth)
"Microsoft, though, claims that the device was malfunctioning when the FCC tested it."
Yea, if they were running vista that would expalin a lot.
(ding down my Karma again, i think its funny.)
let see:
$25,000 / (10,000 developers * 24 hours in the day) = $.104166 per hour.
OK, 10 cents per hour isn't that slave labor rates?
(Ok ding my Karma down again, because i can add)
lets see get 10,000 developers to write us a piece of voice recognition, make it a prize and pay them 25k then reengineer it and sell it for HOW MUCH?
Feel the Luv, as Microsoft challenge the open source community on patents.
(OMG, I said Microsoft was not GOD of Software that's a Karma hit)
Hey wait a second. If I contribute free patches, fixes, analysis, testing, or what ever and you are going to sell it, where is my compensation?
Now, I have no incentive to support your open source code at any level.
Thank you very much, F**K OFF.
(ding my Karma down again, cuz i know what i dont like)