First, The perception of the Google "do no evil" is simply a fantasy. If you hit parts of the market which affect Google, I could imagine them being as nasty as Microsoft.
Excuse me, I'm not familiar with the rules of fantasy discussions.
Google mentioned at some point that they have several search profiles (blogs, forums, static websites, etc.) so I think its safe to assume that if you have a forum software, Google taps into the RSS feed or something. Some blogging software use the Google sitemaps to notice Google of new content.
Google has pulled my site robots.txt file 32 times this month and it is only the 9th - about 4 times a day.
Maybe your "Expires" HTTP header tells it to? Well, for robots.txt it's not that important, but I'm often frustrated how few people know about the expires header and how much traffic they could save.
Making the BIOS settings accessible to more stupid people will not make computer maintenance easier. Anyone too dumb to figure out how to use BIOS as it exists now has no business being there in the first place.
Oh come on! How did you figure out how to use BIOS? You looked at it, played with some settings, learned something.
It doesn't make a difference whether its graphical or not.
TV does not make anybody "dumb" or "smart". For one thing, "dumb" vs. "smart" is a measure of your ability to learn, not to be confused with knowledge which is a measure of how much you know. Unfortunately, most people are too dumb & too ignorant to understand this. The FACT of the matter is TV, just like with printed words or plain audio, gives you what you put into it.
No, it makes people dumb. You can measure that the neurons are underdeveloped, even if you let your kid spend 1 hour a day in front of the TV. This underdevelopment of the neurons has fatal consequences for the later development, as future learning builds on these poorly developed connections.
It does not matter what you play. The lack of interaction with the environment hinders that the brain develops correctly (the brain is not finished when you're born).
Also, when watching TV, the body and its muscles are in a state where it burns less calories than if you were sleeping. Since you don't eat less, guess what health effects that has.
A strong negative correlation was found between the hours of TV a child watches and how it developed:
- employment
- intelligence and qualifications achieved
- health (obesity, heart problems, fitness)
- social status and capability (making friends). And that wasn't a study of 5 people, but a horizontal study in New Zealand of around 1000 people, where they followed them through their childhood.
The more kids watch TV, the less likely is a positive development. These are things you can measure, as hard facts.
Protect your kid from poison until it can decide for its own.
The TV makes people (especially kids) dumb, because it is an impoverishment of the senses: Without touching, smelling and hearing (signal is not timed correctly) the brain development is stunted. The brain always learns, but we offer it shit. Ask a neuroscientist like Manfred Spitzer. The Internet (as a media) is great at distributing information, and helps freedom of speech, protection against regimes&suppression. But don't overlook that information is not produced on the Internet. Anyone who want to contribute something new, will perform a lot of "offline" thought and work first. Progress doesn't come from the thousand monkeys on a typewriter. Don't just take them away, replace them with some better use of your time.
NB: The message above might reflect my opinion right now, but not necessarily tomorrow or next year.
But you'll have to come up with a metric for "innovation", because the number of patents registered is what governments use today... We know sucks, but come up with a better one.
The response from Microsoft is half-hearted at best. They don't even bother to claim that their systems are most secure, look at the post on how it emphasizes only the efforts into building secure systems, not the results. Sisyphos also put a lot of effort into his work.
The blog post also doesn't claim that Macs are less secure than Windows OS: They just reference articles that say Malware is coming to Macs now too.
The referenced study only shows one graph (Malware detection in IE8), so it is weak evidence of a whole picture.
They can play this game until someone finally comes up with a neutral, objective standard for measuring security -- such as impact-weighted bug report counts for example. Both the security industry and Microsoft will have to do better.
You both are wrong: 1. they actually used 4 hives 2. the control group had phone dummies installed. So the "proximity effect" was controlled.
It is unfortunate to see that the paper -- http://www.ias.ac.in/currsci/25may2010/1376.pdf -- does not include a statistical test to evaluate that the results are due to chance, but it seems significant... anyone care to do a ANOVA?
I don't see how changing from one thing into another is "chameleon-like behavior". I have never heard of a chameleon turning into a skink, or anything else for that matter
Try combining a chameleon with a hammer or a microwave. Then you will understand the experiments analogy.
It's amazing that BP can drill for oil with no provable solution to a catastrophic failure. It's like operating on a patient and going 'Trust me, I'm a doctor'.
<devilsadvocate rant> You think medicine was not in that phase? Also, no one cares about the environment except for hippies and Greenpeace freaks, right? When its your body, the issue is close and the price instantaneous. When an ecosystem dies, a couple of species go extinct, the earth heats up and oceans rise, we don't have to pay the price in the next 10 years. By then the media will focus on something else and the companies (if they still exist) will have great excuses. It's not just BP...
Do you know what the price is? Do you know 2010 is the year of biodiversity?
You can not expect a interested reader(listener to repeat the science in a precise language. And you want people to repeat scientific findings and distribute them. So you must fall back on simplifications, models, analogies.
Imprecision is bound to happen. But it is not harmful if the model understood is a better approximation of reality than the previously accepted model. After all, science is the iterative approximating modeling of the world.
If I take a OSI license with feature set A and a OSI license with feature set B, and make a linear combination of the two, why shouldn't I get a OSI license. (feature set != paragraphs)
A Harvard study found that people who pirate music also buy more music. I imagine people who pirate movies also go to the cinema more often.
The logic here is that they'll pirate just to get more, but they don't reduce their expenses because of pirating. The industry is complaining about virtual sales that could have been made, but that is a unsupported claim.
Disclaimer: I work for ASTRON operating the 14 25m dish 3km WSRT, 7000 antenna 44 station 3000km LOFAR and the 3 station EMBRACE SKA demonstrator project. Although I'm not an astronomer.;-) I just visited a friend of mine at the University of Canterbury in ChristChurch, working with the MOA, astrophysics is a small world in NZ, good luck getting involved in SKA!
I will contact you guys soon with some software system questions re EMBRACE... if you could leave your email address in a comment on my blog that'd be great. I'm researching scheduling systems (and probably simulators as well) for the SKA. Cheers
1. The passing of the South Africa's Astronomy Geographic Advantage Act in 2007 declares almost the whole of the Northern Cape province (an area about 1.5 times that of the UK) into an astronomy advantage area. Amongst other things it means that light pollution will be limited and that the whole area will eventually be turned into a radio quiet zone.
The Australian desert is an empty, extremely radio quiet right now, and has also been declared as a no-building zone. In comparison, the million cell towers make South Africa is extremely noisy.
2. Much of the technology used in South Africa's pilot program (MeerKAT) will be directly useable in SKA. By comparison, the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder project has much less tech that will be useable in SKA without major redesign and modification.
I'd be interested in hearing more about that. Why is the one more directly reuseable?
3. Price. From the start keeping the price down was a very high priority goal for the SA bid. E.g. they developed a new process to manufacture the dishes that is much cheaper than conventional methods. Now, after the credit crunch where many scientific budgets are getting cut, this strategy is paying off.
Disclaimer 1: I am a South African and therefore far from neutral Disclaimer 2: The last time I read extensively on this is more than six months ago, so if there were significant developments recently then I might not be aware of them
Interesting.
4. Baselines: The NZ-AUS baseline is going to be extremely long.
There is also a "5. Politics & political stability", which is a bit more complex and probably has some FUD.
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First, The perception of the Google "do no evil" is simply a fantasy. If you hit parts of the market which affect Google, I could imagine them being as nasty as Microsoft.
Excuse me, I'm not familiar with the rules of fantasy discussions.
Google mentioned at some point that they have several search profiles (blogs, forums, static websites, etc.) so I think its safe to assume that if you have a forum software, Google taps into the RSS feed or something. Some blogging software use the Google sitemaps to notice Google of new content.
Google has pulled my site robots.txt file 32 times this month and it is only the 9th - about 4 times a day.
Maybe your "Expires" HTTP header tells it to? Well, for robots.txt it's not that important, but I'm often frustrated how few people know about the expires header and how much traffic they could save.
Who needs ghost when you have dd, gzip and netcat ...
Making the BIOS settings accessible to more stupid people will not make computer maintenance easier. Anyone too dumb to figure out how to use BIOS as it exists now has no business being there in the first place.
Oh come on! How did you figure out how to use BIOS? You looked at it, played with some settings, learned something.
It doesn't make a difference whether its graphical or not.
TV does not make anybody "dumb" or "smart". For one thing, "dumb" vs. "smart" is a measure of your ability to learn, not to be confused with knowledge which is a measure of how much you know. Unfortunately, most people are too dumb & too ignorant to understand this. The FACT of the matter is TV, just like with printed words or plain audio, gives you what you put into it.
No, it makes people dumb. You can measure that the neurons are underdeveloped, even if you let your kid spend 1 hour a day in front of the TV. This underdevelopment of the neurons has fatal consequences for the later development, as future learning builds on these poorly developed connections.
It does not matter what you play. The lack of interaction with the environment hinders that the brain develops correctly (the brain is not finished when you're born).
Also, when watching TV, the body and its muscles are in a state where it burns less calories than if you were sleeping. Since you don't eat less, guess what health effects that has.
A strong negative correlation was found between the hours of TV a child watches and how it developed:
- employment
- intelligence and qualifications achieved
- health (obesity, heart problems, fitness)
- social status and capability (making friends).
And that wasn't a study of 5 people, but a horizontal study in New Zealand of around 1000 people, where they followed them through their childhood.
The more kids watch TV, the less likely is a positive development. These are things you can measure, as hard facts.
Protect your kid from poison until it can decide for its own.
The TV makes people (especially kids) dumb, because it is an impoverishment of the senses: Without touching, smelling and hearing (signal is not timed correctly) the brain development is stunted. The brain always learns, but we offer it shit. Ask a neuroscientist like Manfred Spitzer.
The Internet (as a media) is great at distributing information, and helps freedom of speech, protection against regimes&suppression.
But don't overlook that information is not produced on the Internet. Anyone who want to contribute something new, will perform a lot of "offline" thought and work first. Progress doesn't come from the thousand monkeys on a typewriter.
Don't just take them away, replace them with some better use of your time.
NB: The message above might reflect my opinion right now, but not necessarily tomorrow or next year.
Please do that.
But you'll have to come up with a metric for "innovation", because the number of patents registered is what governments use today ... We know sucks, but come up with a better one.
The response from Microsoft is half-hearted at best. They don't even bother to claim that their systems are most secure, look at the post on how it emphasizes only the efforts into building secure systems, not the results. Sisyphos also put a lot of effort into his work.
The blog post also doesn't claim that Macs are less secure than Windows OS: They just reference articles that say Malware is coming to Macs now too.
The referenced study only shows one graph (Malware detection in IE8), so it is weak evidence of a whole picture.
They can play this game until someone finally comes up with a neutral, objective standard for measuring security -- such as impact-weighted bug report counts for example. Both the security industry and Microsoft will have to do better.
You both are wrong:
1. they actually used 4 hives
2. the control group had phone dummies installed. So the "proximity effect" was controlled.
It is unfortunate to see that the paper -- http://www.ias.ac.in/currsci/25may2010/1376.pdf -- does not include a statistical test to evaluate that the results are due to chance, but it seems significant ... anyone care to do a ANOVA?
Exactly, maybe one queen had poor leadership.
How do video games differ from a combination of chess and table tennis?
and replace it with ... ?
I don't see how changing from one thing into another is "chameleon-like behavior". I have never heard of a chameleon turning into a skink, or anything else for that matter
Try combining a chameleon with a hammer or a microwave. Then you will understand the experiments analogy.
Paris has a disadvantage compared to Chicago...history. Paris was a city when Chicago was a marsh full of wild onions.
And all the 1300 years before that too.
Chicago got its name 1800. Paris got a capital city in 508.
The flash thingy is really neat: There is a demo of this free library.
It's amazing that BP can drill for oil with no provable solution to a catastrophic failure. It's like operating on a patient and going 'Trust me, I'm a doctor'.
<devilsadvocate rant> ...
You think medicine was not in that phase?
Also, no one cares about the environment except for hippies and Greenpeace freaks, right?
When its your body, the issue is close and the price instantaneous.
When an ecosystem dies, a couple of species go extinct, the earth heats up and oceans rise, we don't have to pay the price in the next 10 years. By then the media will focus on something else and the companies (if they still exist) will have great excuses. It's not just BP
Do you know what the price is? Do you know 2010 is the year of biodiversity?
There is no such thing as 100% perfect software with HCI. Nor is there completed software.
How about: Science is a continuous process of discovering facts and approximating models to fit facts.
You can not expect a interested reader(listener to repeat the science in a precise language. And you want people to repeat scientific findings and distribute them. So you must fall back on simplifications, models, analogies.
Imprecision is bound to happen. But it is not harmful if the model understood is a better approximation of reality than the previously accepted model. After all, science is the iterative approximating modeling of the world.
If I take a OSI license with feature set A and a OSI license with feature set B, and make a linear combination of the two, why shouldn't I get a OSI license. (feature set != paragraphs)
A Harvard study found that people who pirate music also buy more music. I imagine people who pirate movies also go to the cinema more often.
The logic here is that they'll pirate just to get more, but they don't reduce their expenses because of pirating. The industry is complaining about virtual sales that could have been made, but that is a unsupported claim.
It is not compatible with GPLv2. It is very clearly compatible with GPLv3 (at least the problem section pointed in the article).
It is also not done yet. The current license isn't the final call from Google. They are currently looking at license compatibility.
http://www.crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?17:mss:1019:dphgapeaeaahenjiboco
Disclaimer: I work for ASTRON operating the 14 25m dish 3km WSRT, 7000 antenna 44 station 3000km LOFAR and the 3 station EMBRACE SKA demonstrator project. Although I'm not an astronomer. ;-)
I just visited a friend of mine at the University of Canterbury in ChristChurch, working with the MOA, astrophysics is a small world in NZ, good luck getting involved in SKA!
I will contact you guys soon with some software system questions re EMBRACE ... if you could leave your email address in a comment on my blog that'd be great. I'm researching scheduling systems (and probably simulators as well) for the SKA. Cheers
1. The passing of the South Africa's Astronomy Geographic Advantage Act in 2007 declares almost the whole of the Northern Cape province (an area about 1.5 times that of the UK) into an astronomy advantage area. Amongst other things it means that light pollution will be limited and that the whole area will eventually be turned into a radio quiet zone.
The Australian desert is an empty, extremely radio quiet right now, and has also been declared as a no-building zone. In comparison, the million cell towers make South Africa is extremely noisy.
2. Much of the technology used in South Africa's pilot program (MeerKAT) will be directly useable in SKA. By comparison, the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder project has much less tech that will be useable in SKA without major redesign and modification.
I'd be interested in hearing more about that. Why is the one more directly reuseable?
3. Price. From the start keeping the price down was a very high priority goal for the SA bid. E.g. they developed a new process to manufacture the dishes that is much cheaper than conventional methods. Now, after the credit crunch where many scientific budgets are getting cut, this strategy is paying off.
Disclaimer 1: I am a South African and therefore far from neutral
Disclaimer 2: The last time I read extensively on this is more than six months ago, so if there were significant developments recently then I might not be aware of them
Interesting.
4. Baselines: The NZ-AUS baseline is going to be extremely long.
There is also a "5. Politics & political stability", which is a bit more complex and probably has some FUD.
Cheers