I've run in to a few journal articles in Adobe PDF format that don't support copy/paste. (no, these aren't just in.tiff format, they're protected) Elcomsoft has a nice work-around called APDFPR, but I think Dimitri got in a little trouble for writing it.:-)
# "67-1-41. (1) The State Tax Commission is hereby created a wholesale distributor and # seller of alcoholic beverages, not including malt liquors, within the State of Mississippi. # It is granted the sole right to import and sell such intoxicating liquors at wholesale within # the state, and no person who is granted the right to sell, distribute or receive such # liquors at retail shall purchase any such intoxicating liquors from any source other than # the commission except as authorized in subsections (4) and (9), provided that retailers # and consumers may purchase native wines directly from the producer."
"The data is from 1999 and 2000, but it is nicely systematic. At least back in 2000, Linux was much faster than Microsoft, averaging 11 days vs. 16 days"
I hate to discount your favorite study, or your presentation of it, but I have a few issues:
1. The data is from 1999 2. Linux data is from Red Hat only 3. You neglected to mention Sun 4. Only three operating systems were included 5. Evaluation criteria were not explicitly stated 6. Raw data are not available
Now I like Linux as much as the next guy, but partial citation of a rather shaky study does little to enhance your stature as a Chief Scientist. I know my profs would ding me for such a moral lapse.
Yeah, eBooks suck. I read exactly one eBook I bought from Amazon when I had an iPaq handheld. It wasn't worth the trouble.
eJournals, OTOH, are likely the most important thing to happen to research since email. The simple fact that one can read an academic journal article in one window, then pull up the original text of a citation in another, changes everything.
As an undergrad 93-97, I spent some serious hours in the library waiting in line, photocopying, and fucking around with microfiche machines. I hated it and did as little as possible.
As a grad student today, I spend some serious hours with my wifi laptop, using Proquest from UMI, formerly known as University Microfilm, to get the content fast.
And Proquest sucks, in comparison to other services - it's just low-quality images of journal articles. When I use the ACM Portal, or Emerald, JStore, or any number of other services I get press-ready PDF files. I get citations I can copy and paste straight into my bibliography. It completely changes the experience.
And the great thing is, there's no lack of a market. eJournals are not going anywhere. It's cheaper for a University to pay for subscriptions to eJournal servicesthan it is to keep paper copies or maintain microfilm hardware.
eJournals are definitely where it's at, and I see most nonfiction and reference going that way in the near future. Pleasure reading - eBooks? Maybe next year, maybe never.
The primary reason we don't see this isn't actually the channel allocation and spectral efficiency issues you mention; it's a much more simple problem. While most new cell phones have standby times on the order of up to a week, the actual talk time (by which they usually mean when data is being transmitted) is usually only a few hours.
Ok, I'll bite. Then why isn't this happening with fixed wireless? LocustWorld is the only semi-commercial multi-hop fixed wireless system I've heard of, and I've yet to find any information on anyone who's deployed it.
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At least I can get the name of some field experts, so now I'd have to cross-check them against citation indexes.
Whee, fun. I thought slashdot was supposed to minimize the effort needed to learn and play about new, cool, things, instead of copying speculation in blogs and telling me "trust me, its out there".
Let me know when you find some! I'm researching sensor webs for agricultural use at the moment, and both the IT Journals and the Ag Journals seem to be ignoring the idea.
what is the purpose of having registration on the NYT site anyway?? here is the text...
It certainly helps the Times to track which users are interested in which articles. Since I registered for their site in 1996 I've only seen the technology coverage get better. Never had any spam from them either.
Stolen from the Executive Summary of the report, I give you the top 30:
Korea (Rep.) Hong Kong, China Canada Taiwan, China Denmark Iceland Belgium Sweden Netherla nds Japan United States Austria Switzerland Singapore Finland Malta Germany Macao, China St. Kitts and Nevis Estonia Slovenia Spain Portugal France United Kingdom Israel Norway Italy Australia New Zealand
Channel 4 (BBC) is planning a "14 Alone" reality series where pre-teens are left alone with a camera crew in a house with no adults for a weekend.
Come on... You can't fool me that this is NOT feeding a paedophile societal urge!!
1. The last time I checked, 14-year-olds were teenagers, not pre-teens.
2. Pedophiles are those interested in pre-pubescent children. Go look at DSM-IV, or even a decent dictionary.
3. This show is for the UK, which tends not to be quite so conflicted about sex as the US.
4. The show idea should be viewed in context of the season:
"In what is being pegged as its "Adult at 14" season, the network is adding to its reputation for controversy by examining whether the age of consent should be lowered by two years. Looking at the realities of teenage life against a backdrop of an increasingly sexualized world, the season will include "Age of Consent," a documentary exploring the changing sexual climate in Britain, while "Porn to be Young" reveals young people's attitudes toward pornography.
In "14 Alone," a group of 10 14-year-old boys and girls spends five days and nights in a house with no adults except a film crew, and drama documentary "My Turkish Waiter" centers on a teenager who runs away with a 25-year-old Turkish waiter."
5. My god I'm so glad I don't live in the US anymore.
Considering that a 2nd phone line costs about $25/month, there's no reason NOT to subscribe. It costs a bit more than half of what dial-up cost me, It's about 25 times as fast, I can buy a $40 router and network it, and it's always on. What's not to love?
Can you say "anti-competitive" or "loss-leader"?
Verizon is an evil company utilizing corrupt practices and operating in some very unhealthy markets. Sure you may benefit, but it's at the expense of all the CLECs and ISPs who Verizon bent over and fucked hard.
Try a Lexis search on Verizon and DSL, and see how many court cases you come up with, or have a look at some lawsuits from 2001.
Right now, how does it work? I use my battery, and it gets low. Then I plug my laptop in and after a short time, the battery is "magically" refilled, and it didn't cost my any money (my electric bill, but that's a few cents max). I can recharge my laptop ANYWHERE I can find an outlet, which is just about anywhere.
Yeah, but your lithium-ion battery lasts what, 18 months? Two years? And how long does it retain full capacity? Six months? I'll gladly ditch my batteries for fuel cells if they'll last the life of the device. My 1998 Thinkpad 770 is on its fourth Li-ion battery, and they haven't been cheap.
I think MIT has a project called Haystack designed just for this
I hope to see this progress. I'd spend $100 in the blink of an eye for a decent home-use information management tool. (Having used industrial-strength [and priced] document management in the past...) At the moment though, Haystack looks a little bit scary. Requirements from the download page:
*Pentium III 700mhz-based computer or better (Pentium 4 2ghz strongly recommended) *512 megabytes of RAM (768 megabytes strongly recommended) *Windows 2000, Windows XP, or Linux (Linux build requires GTK+ 2.0 libraries) *At least 1 gigabyte of disk space (or more, as your repository grows) *Java 2 Development Kit (JDK) 1.4
If I had a test box with these specs, yes, I'd try it.
I do this in my neighborhood (albeit not on that scale...)
Just another excuse for yet another MIT story I suppose...
Is the network truly "ad-hoc" - i.e. can you drop a new node in and have it function as part of the mesh without any configuration? How are you routing traffic? Shortest path, or does geography/signal strength have anything to do with it?
I knew I should have waited two more years before getting engaged!
Gemesis diamonds were actually available 18 months ago when I was in the market. Unfortunately they were only selling colored stones. I wanted a clear stone and insisted that it either be synthetic or have origin information, and ended up paying a small fortune for a.6 carat stone. I am happy with what I bought (as is my wife!), and it is truly amazing, near flawless, colorless, etc., but if I had had the option, I'd have not bought a natural stone. (I think the platinum setting was expensive enough!)
several people who thing that MIT's direction in AI has gone seriously awry
What does this have to do with AI?
The research reported on is primarily about fluid dynamics. Robostrider is a catchy thing they've created to bring attention to the important findings. In fact, seeing as the strider is powered by a rubber band, not only does it not have anything to do with AI, it has nothing to do with robotics either.
This doesn't mean it's not wicked cool.
For more cool (without downloading a video), check out david hu's beautiful strider pics.
Looked into finding a cool CPU yesterday because I'm doing some web-research on buying a silent and cool running system for my extremly demanding and sister. She will use it for music and school (medicine). Haven't decided on the components yet but this is what i found:
I am a big fan of DIY PCs, but really nothing can beat the new Mini-ITX all-in-one boards. Absolutely everything you listed is integrated. No fans to be seen. (heard!) And in a tiny, beautiful package.
At some point in the near future I'll be picking up a few dozen of the EPIA-10000 motherboards that the hush pc is based on for a little project.
No "IT dudes" worth anything will be "running around fixing" things. If they had done their job properly in the first place, they wouldn't have to fix anything at all.
I don't know what world you're living in, but it isn't the one I'm posting from. You can be a brilliant IT guy who does his job incredibly well, but if a corporation's policies (i.e. waiting until a patch has been regression tested with bespoke applications) have you running around fixing things, it's the CIO that's not "worth anything" and not the "IT dudes".
And, of course, in the case where you're paid $74k/year (as the parent post mentioned), You Do What You're Told, or you quickly lose said salary.
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With current routing topologies you take down all the tier ones and your not getting out of the USA and will have trouble getting much farther than that. Contract wise the tier ones have been applying a lot of presure on the tier 2 guys not to advertise interconnects and often have good reasons not to.
Silly question: Will IPv6 make the Internet more stable? Will it allow the tier 2 providers to trade routes more easily?
send an email to your PHB that says things like "fire hazard" "risk to operations" "danger to employees and $$$$ equiment" "violation of code" and/or "insurance risk". That should get you the authorization you need to do whatever needs to be done - which, as others have pointed out, is HIRE A PROFESSIONAL.
I wouldn't trust this to an email. Emails tend to get lost, and also tend not to be available once one has been terminated for not doing something stupid. I'd suggest $2.30 USD and a nice certified letter. Or if too lazy to visit the post office, spend $5.00 and send one online.
Is it me or is Cringely a bloomin idiot? He starts off talking about outsourcing then Apple, then back to India. He states that using more Macs in the office would decrease TCO without giving any numbers or any statements to back up that opinion. And it isn't even his opinion! He got the idea from a reader, no less!
Agreed. I think he must have been smoking something when he wrote this week's column. While I'm not a regular Cringely reader, I do know he can be a pretty intelligent and creative guy. This week, however, was a load of crap.
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These aren't the same G4 chips you're used to in Powerbooks, they're IBM manufactured "PPC 750GX". Yes, that's a G3 with AltiVec.
You wouldn't mind disclosing your source for this tidbit, would you?
Does it still support copy/paste?
.tiff format, they're protected) Elcomsoft has a nice work-around called APDFPR, but I think Dimitri got in a little trouble for writing it. :-)
How about printscreen?
I've run in to a few journal articles in Adobe PDF format that don't support copy/paste. (no, these aren't just in
Here's a fix:
# "67-1-41. (1) The State Tax Commission is hereby created a wholesale distributor and
# seller of alcoholic beverages, not including malt liquors, within the State of Mississippi.
# It is granted the sole right to import and sell such intoxicating liquors at wholesale within
# the state, and no person who is granted the right to sell, distribute or receive such
# liquors at retail shall purchase any such intoxicating liquors from any source other than
# the commission except as authorized in subsections (4) and (9), provided that retailers
# and consumers may purchase native wines directly from the producer."
Retention_State_Indicator Retention Time
000 Forever
001 1 week
010 2 days
011 1 day
100 12 hours
101 6 hours
110 3 hours
111 90 minutes
How short-sighted is this? Would another couple of bits really hurt that much?
"The data is from 1999 and 2000, but it is nicely systematic. At least back in 2000, Linux was much faster than Microsoft, averaging 11 days vs. 16 days"
I hate to discount your favorite study, or your presentation of it, but I have a few issues:
1. The data is from 1999
2. Linux data is from Red Hat only
3. You neglected to mention Sun
4. Only three operating systems were included
5. Evaluation criteria were not explicitly stated
6. Raw data are not available
Now I like Linux as much as the next guy, but partial citation of a rather shaky study does little to enhance your stature as a Chief Scientist. I know my profs would ding me for such a moral lapse.
Yeah, eBooks suck. I read exactly one eBook I bought from Amazon when I had an iPaq handheld. It wasn't worth the trouble.
eJournals, OTOH, are likely the most important thing to happen to research since email. The simple fact that one can read an academic journal article in one window, then pull up the original text of a citation in another, changes everything.
As an undergrad 93-97, I spent some serious hours in the library waiting in line, photocopying, and fucking around with microfiche machines. I hated it and did as little as possible.
As a grad student today, I spend some serious hours with my wifi laptop, using Proquest from UMI, formerly known as University Microfilm, to get the content fast.
And Proquest sucks, in comparison to other services - it's just low-quality images of journal articles. When I use the ACM Portal, or Emerald, JStore, or any number of other services I get press-ready PDF files. I get citations I can copy and paste straight into my bibliography. It completely changes the experience.
And the great thing is, there's no lack of a market. eJournals are not going anywhere. It's cheaper for a University to pay for subscriptions to eJournal servicesthan it is to keep paper copies or maintain microfilm hardware.
eJournals are definitely where it's at, and I see most nonfiction and reference going that way in the near future. Pleasure reading - eBooks? Maybe next year, maybe never.
Have a look at the original release from the US National Science Foundation. With some nice pictures. :-)
The primary reason we don't see this isn't actually the channel allocation and spectral efficiency issues you mention; it's a much more simple problem. While most new cell phones have standby times on the order of up to a week, the actual talk time (by which they usually mean when data is being transmitted) is usually only a few hours.
Ok, I'll bite. Then why isn't this happening with fixed wireless? LocustWorld is the only semi-commercial multi-hop fixed wireless system I've heard of, and I've yet to find any information on anyone who's deployed it.
At least I can get the name of some field experts, so now I'd have to cross-check them against citation indexes.
Whee, fun. I thought slashdot was supposed to minimize the effort needed to learn and play about new, cool, things, instead of copying speculation in blogs and telling me "trust me, its out there".
Let me know when you find some! I'm researching sensor webs for agricultural use at the moment, and both the IT Journals and the Ag Journals seem to be ignoring the idea.
what is the purpose of having registration on the NYT site anyway?? here is the text...
It certainly helps the Times to track which users are interested in which articles. Since I registered for their site in 1996 I've only seen the technology coverage get better. Never had any spam from them either.
"We'll see what it means for the U.S. to have it's global bandwidth be owned by, well, someone else."
Southern Cross is the biggest pipe in the South Pacific. It's not exactly US owned.
Telecom Corp. of New Zealand Ltd. 50.0%
Optus 40.0%
WorldCom, Inc. 10.0%
Stolen from the Executive Summary of the report, I give you the top 30:
a nds
Malta
Korea (Rep.)
Hong Kong, China
Canada
Taiwan, China
Denmark
Iceland
Belgium
Sweden
Netherl
Japan
United States
Austria
Switzerland
Singapore
Finland
Germany
Macao, China
St. Kitts and Nevis
Estonia
Slovenia
Spain
Portugal
France
United Kingdom
Israel
Norway
Italy
Australia
New Zealand
"The Dead always got it - they made far more money touring than by selling records."
Maybe what they "got" was that jamming in front of a great crowd was far better than making a lot of money...
Come on... You can't fool me that this is NOT feeding a paedophile societal urge!!
1. The last time I checked, 14-year-olds were teenagers, not pre-teens.
2. Pedophiles are those interested in pre-pubescent children. Go look at DSM-IV, or even a decent dictionary.
3. This show is for the UK, which tends not to be quite so conflicted about sex as the US.
4. The show idea should be viewed in context of the season:
5. My god I'm so glad I don't live in the US anymore.
I pay $29 per month for DSL from Verizon.
Considering that a 2nd phone line costs about $25/month, there's no reason NOT to subscribe. It costs a bit more than half of what dial-up cost me, It's about 25 times as fast, I can buy a $40 router and network it, and it's always on. What's not to love?
Can you say "anti-competitive" or "loss-leader"?
Verizon is an evil company utilizing corrupt practices and operating in some very unhealthy markets. Sure you may benefit, but it's at the expense of all the CLECs and ISPs who Verizon bent over and fucked hard.
Try a Lexis search on Verizon and DSL, and see how many court cases you come up with, or have a look at some lawsuits from 2001.
Right now, how does it work? I use my battery, and it gets low. Then I plug my laptop in and after a short time, the battery is "magically" refilled, and it didn't cost my any money (my electric bill, but that's a few cents max). I can recharge my laptop ANYWHERE I can find an outlet, which is just about anywhere.
Yeah, but your lithium-ion battery lasts what, 18 months? Two years? And how long does it retain full capacity? Six months? I'll gladly ditch my batteries for fuel cells if they'll last the life of the device. My 1998 Thinkpad 770 is on its fourth Li-ion battery, and they haven't been cheap.
I think MIT has a project called Haystack designed just for this
I hope to see this progress. I'd spend $100 in the blink of an eye for a decent home-use information management tool. (Having used industrial-strength [and priced] document management in the past...) At the moment though, Haystack looks a little bit scary.
Requirements from the download page:
*Pentium III 700mhz-based computer or better (Pentium 4 2ghz strongly recommended)
*512 megabytes of RAM (768 megabytes strongly recommended)
*Windows 2000, Windows XP, or Linux (Linux build requires GTK+ 2.0 libraries)
*At least 1 gigabyte of disk space (or more, as your repository grows)
*Java 2 Development Kit (JDK) 1.4
If I had a test box with these specs, yes, I'd try it.
I do this in my neighborhood (albeit not on that scale...)
Just another excuse for yet another MIT story I suppose...
Is the network truly "ad-hoc" - i.e. can you drop a new node in and have it function as part of the mesh without any configuration? How are you routing traffic? Shortest path, or does geography/signal strength have anything to do with it?
I knew I should have waited two more years before getting engaged!
.6 carat stone. I am happy with what I bought (as is my wife!), and it is truly amazing, near flawless, colorless, etc., but if I had had the option, I'd have not bought a natural stone. (I think the platinum setting was expensive enough!)
Gemesis diamonds were actually available 18 months ago when I was in the market. Unfortunately they were only selling colored stones. I wanted a clear stone and insisted that it either be synthetic or have origin information, and ended up paying a small fortune for a
several people who thing that MIT's direction in AI has gone seriously awry
What does this have to do with AI?
The research reported on is primarily about fluid dynamics. Robostrider is a catchy thing they've created to bring attention to the important findings. In fact, seeing as the strider is powered by a rubber band, not only does it not have anything to do with AI, it has nothing to do with robotics either.
This doesn't mean it's not wicked cool.
For more cool (without downloading a video), check out david hu's beautiful strider pics.
Looked into finding a cool CPU yesterday because I'm doing some web-research on buying a silent and cool running system for my extremly demanding and sister. She will use it for music and school (medicine). Haven't decided on the components yet but this is what i found:
I am a big fan of DIY PCs, but really nothing can beat the new Mini-ITX all-in-one boards. Absolutely everything you listed is integrated. No fans to be seen. (heard!) And in a tiny, beautiful package.
At some point in the near future I'll be picking up a few dozen of the EPIA-10000 motherboards that the hush pc is based on for a little project.
No "IT dudes" worth anything will be "running around fixing" things. If they had done their job properly in the first place, they wouldn't have to fix anything at all.
I don't know what world you're living in, but it isn't the one I'm posting from. You can be a brilliant IT guy who does his job incredibly well, but if a corporation's policies (i.e. waiting until a patch has been regression tested with bespoke applications) have you running around fixing things, it's the CIO that's not "worth anything" and not the "IT dudes".
And, of course, in the case where you're paid $74k/year (as the parent post mentioned), You Do What You're Told, or you quickly lose said salary.
With current routing topologies you take down all the tier ones and your not getting out of the USA and will have trouble getting much farther than that. Contract wise the tier ones have been applying a lot of presure on the tier 2 guys not to advertise interconnects and often have good reasons not to.
Silly question: Will IPv6 make the Internet more stable? Will it allow the tier 2 providers to trade routes more easily?
send an email to your PHB that says things like "fire hazard" "risk to operations" "danger to employees and $$$$ equiment" "violation of code" and/or "insurance risk". That should get you the authorization you need to do whatever needs to be done - which, as others have pointed out, is HIRE A PROFESSIONAL.
I wouldn't trust this to an email. Emails tend to get lost, and also tend not to be available once one has been terminated for not doing something stupid. I'd suggest $2.30 USD and a nice certified letter. Or if too lazy to visit the post office, spend $5.00 and send one online.
Is it me or is Cringely a bloomin idiot? He starts off talking about outsourcing then Apple, then back to India. He states that using more Macs in the office would decrease TCO without giving any numbers or any statements to back up that opinion. And it isn't even his opinion! He got the idea from a reader, no less!
Agreed. I think he must have been smoking something when he wrote this week's column. While I'm not a regular Cringely reader, I do know he can be a pretty intelligent and creative guy. This week, however, was a load of crap.
(and I'm a huge Apple fan and longtime user!)