Well, they could just restrict it to 3 non-MS apps. IE, MSN, Media player, and Word would all work. That way after the anti-virus / firewall and a piece of crapware from the OEM the customer still has a slot left for a game or something. I'm sure they'll find a loophole from the antitrust suits.
Past climates are not easy to model - I think it's something about the CFL and the speed of sound making it very difficult to model the weather on a yearly (let alone decade plus) timespan.
Perhaps climate funding goes to the groups with the best models. If this is the case, they would see their code base as a competitive advantage, and there is not way all of them will release their (generally publicly funded) code voluntarily. Even if they wanted to, their administrators might hold them back.
Also, there is no guarantee that code matches the spec (i.e. the published model). Errors, undocumented features, dark hacks and "corrections" can mean that the code can do anything. Maybe the code is embarrassing. Maybe secret bits of the theory are being held back. Who knows?
In an ideal world, the IPCC (which is not short of resources) would publish the software models it uses for its reports. In an ideal world, Newton would have published his calculus, and not just the results that he used it to find.
Well, if the climate models could re-create the last 1000 years, that would be a pretty good validation. I doubt they can though.
I'm not a skeptic, current climate models are not bad. The iterations of IPCC predictions have seemed to close in on their old "most likely" scenarios - which tends to validate that they are not just making stuff up.
I would just have a lot more faith in the models if they were open source. Correct me if I'm wrong (I'm not sure - some of them may be available), but apparently it's more important that researchers keep their competitive advantages away from other researchers than to allow people to replicate their results.
London get's the benefit of warm ocean currents, or it did before those currents weakened. If the UK turns into Minnesota, it wouldn't be able to support it's population.
Actually, nobody knows what the impact of copyright and patents is. There were plenty of creative works before copyright, but the cost of replication has gone down. The reason IP has not changed is that people are afraid to change it, not any rational reason.
But why the hell do I want files and folders? I want a bunch of photos that I've taken, I want my documents (and I don't want to manage back-ups - version systems are better), I want my music, and I want my movie and 'art' collection. I also want programs. Folders have some use in my office, but a URL system would be better.
I also want to be able to install software (or write it), which requires some anarchic file operations, but I don't give a toss about "organizing" my personal documents into folders. Not if I can search and sort.
Well, they do say that some leaders are good in small companies, some are big in large companies, and very few (Gates, Jobs) are good in both start-ups and big companies. Woz is clearly good in start=ups, so why shouldn't he do what he is best at?
Yep, Australia is turning into a nanny state. I wonder how they will deal with MMORPGs though? Can't the publishers dynamically update quests and monsters? I can think of all sorts of ways this could be used to work around the ratings systems.
Consider yourself lucky you don't work with economists - climate science is positively heterodox in comparison. Seriously, it's borderline heresy to suggest that money is important, markets are inefficient, or that debt actually matters.
Or on the industrial end, a lot of research-orientated companies (and even government research agencies) run cadetships. If they don't run cadetships you can cold call project managers, or contact any researchers who have a web presence.
Really? I thought that the company existed to serve the CEO and his hand-picked board of directors. Not the workers, and heaven forbid they look after share-holders (unless the CEO is a founder). That's why CEO pay rises are at the highest level since the Great Depression.
Heck, a CEO doesn't need to outperform their competitors. A company that performs dismally compared to their competitors will still rise or fall (in share price) based on wide-ranging market forces, not whether or not the company was well managed. Any effort the CEO makes will only marginally effect their bonus - so they are better looking defensible than trying to improve profits.
Regan and HW spent like drunken sailors, leaving a mess for the next President to pay off. Clinton cut spending, payed off debts, and set things up for tax cuts. Bush spent like a drunken sailor, and gave tax cuts, leaving a mess for the next guy. Damn those nasty big-government tax-and-spend Democrats.
Look, they do some sort of Hidden Markov Model estimations to find the most likely chord progression to fit the vocals. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_Markov_model It's an impressive piece of work, but it WON'T WORK IF THE SINGER CAN'T SING WORTH A DAMN. And sadly, folks, most singers (in the consumer market) can only jingle if they have a backing track to start with.
Trust Microsoft to invent the chicken before the egg. Or was it the other way round? Meh.
Let's face it, the only reason they have these crackdowns is that it makes the politicians look tough, without actually hurting a large number of voters. Violence and exploitation of children is a huge problem, but the internet porn factor is only a small part. Removing kids from violent or neglectful environments is expensive and controversial. Busting a few perverts for looking at naked kids is cheap and easy. The police themselves are probably doing a good job (given the resources they are allocated), but they should be working on other things.
If you don't have authority over people, you can just lock the children down. That's annoying when people have work to do, but IT won't let anything happen.
My favorite point in the article was "Attempt to apply the same security rigor to all IT assets, regardless of their risk profiles."
The IT in my shop refuses to let devs install programs (any programs) because the whole network is a production system. It can take weeks to get an SDK installed, because some IT admin has to get around to installing it. Could the devs get a dev network? Nah, it's easier to keep them working with access to the production network - which needs to be locked down because it is mission critical... bastards.
Slashdot Mirror
Read the summary? You must be new here.
Well, they could just restrict it to 3 non-MS apps. IE, MSN, Media player, and Word would all work. That way after the anti-virus / firewall and a piece of crapware from the OEM the customer still has a slot left for a game or something. I'm sure they'll find a loophole from the antitrust suits.
While I'll be enjoying Snow Leopard, or Jaunty ;).
Past climates are not easy to model - I think it's something about the CFL and the speed of sound making it very difficult to model the weather on a yearly (let alone decade plus) timespan.
Perhaps climate funding goes to the groups with the best models. If this is the case, they would see their code base as a competitive advantage, and there is not way all of them will release their (generally publicly funded) code voluntarily. Even if they wanted to, their administrators might hold them back.
Also, there is no guarantee that code matches the spec (i.e. the published model). Errors, undocumented features, dark hacks and "corrections" can mean that the code can do anything. Maybe the code is embarrassing. Maybe secret bits of the theory are being held back. Who knows?
In an ideal world, the IPCC (which is not short of resources) would publish the software models it uses for its reports. In an ideal world, Newton would have published his calculus, and not just the results that he used it to find.
Well, if the climate models could re-create the last 1000 years, that would be a pretty good validation. I doubt they can though.
I'm not a skeptic, current climate models are not bad. The iterations of IPCC predictions have seemed to close in on their old "most likely" scenarios - which tends to validate that they are not just making stuff up.
I would just have a lot more faith in the models if they were open source. Correct me if I'm wrong (I'm not sure - some of them may be available), but apparently it's more important that researchers keep their competitive advantages away from other researchers than to allow people to replicate their results.
Accuracy might not matter for some steps in an implicit, iterative numerical scheme.
London get's the benefit of warm ocean currents, or it did before those currents weakened. If the UK turns into Minnesota, it wouldn't be able to support it's population.
Actually, nobody knows what the impact of copyright and patents is. There were plenty of creative works before copyright, but the cost of replication has gone down. The reason IP has not changed is that people are afraid to change it, not any rational reason.
But why the hell do I want files and folders? I want a bunch of photos that I've taken, I want my documents (and I don't want to manage back-ups - version systems are better), I want my music, and I want my movie and 'art' collection. I also want programs. Folders have some use in my office, but a URL system would be better.
I also want to be able to install software (or write it), which requires some anarchic file operations, but I don't give a toss about "organizing" my personal documents into folders. Not if I can search and sort.
Probably like pig liver. Has anyone in the FDA, um, tested it?
Well, they do say that some leaders are good in small companies, some are big in large companies, and very few (Gates, Jobs) are good in both start-ups and big companies. Woz is clearly good in start=ups, so why shouldn't he do what he is best at?
Let's just take it back one step. Oslo buses to run on people!
Yep, Australia is turning into a nanny state. I wonder how they will deal with MMORPGs though? Can't the publishers dynamically update quests and monsters? I can think of all sorts of ways this could be used to work around the ratings systems.
Why shouldn't they use imported technologies however they see fit? It's not like they are stealing anything.
To run the computers, or to run the companies? Because it is pretty obvious where the real skill shortage was. Are CEO positions H-1B eligible?
Consider yourself lucky you don't work with economists - climate science is positively heterodox in comparison. Seriously, it's borderline heresy to suggest that money is important, markets are inefficient, or that debt actually matters.
Or on the industrial end, a lot of research-orientated companies (and even government research agencies) run cadetships. If they don't run cadetships you can cold call project managers, or contact any researchers who have a web presence.
UNIX - why reboot more often than you have sex?
Really? I thought that the company existed to serve the CEO and his hand-picked board of directors. Not the workers, and heaven forbid they look after share-holders (unless the CEO is a founder). That's why CEO pay rises are at the highest level since the Great Depression.
Heck, a CEO doesn't need to outperform their competitors. A company that performs dismally compared to their competitors will still rise or fall (in share price) based on wide-ranging market forces, not whether or not the company was well managed. Any effort the CEO makes will only marginally effect their bonus - so they are better looking defensible than trying to improve profits.
Regan and HW spent like drunken sailors, leaving a mess for the next President to pay off. Clinton cut spending, payed off debts, and set things up for tax cuts. Bush spent like a drunken sailor, and gave tax cuts, leaving a mess for the next guy. Damn those nasty big-government tax-and-spend Democrats.
Look, they do some sort of Hidden Markov Model estimations to find the most likely chord progression to fit the vocals. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_Markov_model It's an impressive piece of work, but it WON'T WORK IF THE SINGER CAN'T SING WORTH A DAMN. And sadly, folks, most singers (in the consumer market) can only jingle if they have a backing track to start with.
Trust Microsoft to invent the chicken before the egg. Or was it the other way round? Meh.
Let's face it, the only reason they have these crackdowns is that it makes the politicians look tough, without actually hurting a large number of voters. Violence and exploitation of children is a huge problem, but the internet porn factor is only a small part. Removing kids from violent or neglectful environments is expensive and controversial. Busting a few perverts for looking at naked kids is cheap and easy. The police themselves are probably doing a good job (given the resources they are allocated), but they should be working on other things.
Any drive can fail, that's why you do backups. Maybe put them in RAID-0 and pray the batteries don't all go :). At least rebuilding would be quick.
The summary also forgot to mention msn, or live.com search, or whatever Microsoft is currently pimping.
If you don't have authority over people, you can just lock the children down. That's annoying when people have work to do, but IT won't let anything happen.
My favorite point in the article was "Attempt to apply the same security rigor to all IT assets, regardless of their risk profiles."
The IT in my shop refuses to let devs install programs (any programs) because the whole network is a production system. It can take weeks to get an SDK installed, because some IT admin has to get around to installing it. Could the devs get a dev network? Nah, it's easier to keep them working with access to the production network - which needs to be locked down because it is mission critical ... bastards.
Why not just use email lists? Except that emails get bloated, and so you can't view a days email on one page. Still, it's only a marginal improvement.