(reaches into the dark recesses of my memory banks)
That would be Rob Brooks, who from, say, 1985 onwards, started playing around with a behavioural approach to robotics, using a subsumption architecture in which more urgent behaviours (like avoiding collissions) could subsume control of the robot from higher order functions... and none of the behaviours communicated, or did heavy AI stuff like try to represent their environment. Leads of papers, many with great titles, here. Great days.
Sadly the cruddyness of ICANN is not very high on the political agenda of most countries, owing in part to the cluelessness (and other competing claims to their attention) of politicians.
And for the US, though the situation might look to us, to a USE politician it does at least look like they've annexed the whole shebang: will DoC willingly concede control to something as hateful to (most) US politicians as the UN?
And, finally, that ICANN appears to be playing big coropration / monopoly games is not necessarily anything like anathema - so long as it is an American monopoly.
Sure it needs reforming; its more than amazing that things have got this bad this quickly. But I'm not holding my breath:-(
In another place, Timothy whinges "It's a sad state of things when you've got to prove that something is good in order that it not be presumed harmful".
Meanwhile, the Asus see-through driver is BAD.
Go figure.
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No, as another poster has already said, they are one and the same person. He merely uses a different name for a different genre.
In UK, this is a case law type thing; IANAL, but from memory the test is that the person being communicated to could reasonably expect that the person speaking for the company represented the company's view. A chance conversation on a place robably fails that test.
I guess another main concern as well, is where is this going to end? What has happened in the Internet industry to cause such a decline in not only sales, but in jobs as well?
There's nothing happening in the ISP industry that has not happened 1,000 times before: its the normal ecology of business. New sector opens up; barriers to entry are low; multiple entrepreneurs pitch in; boom of some size, followed by end of boom, culling of unfit companies, and major scale vertical and horizontal mergers. Think: tulips, East India trading; motor industry; yo-yos, hula-hoops, skateboards.
Is Peer Review funded by the likes of Elsevier? I have the (perhaps mistaken) understanding that peer reviewers for most journals do the work for the academic kudos, not for financial reward. The costs associated with journals would appear to me to be editorial and administrative - the latter being something that the net could do much better than paper distribution.
My jaundiced (and possibly innaccurate) view is that, but for the armlock of the incumbent players, it should be possible to replicate the workflow of journals on a web-based, subscription free basis; that what real costs exist in the system could be funded by the (already tax-payer funded) academic establishments; and that we might get to the stage where publicly funded research results are made available at no cost to the public.
On this score, kudos to MIT for deciding to release their courseware for free.
A better considered view of the UD scheme is found in theregister, which, presumably, is edited by adults. The linked article considers whether the UD scheme is or is not a rip-off. it concludes:
In any case, the research is expected to knock years off the process of finding cancer fighting drugs. And isn't an expensive cure better than no cure at all?
I can only think the questioner meant to ask about how the Internet would help in case of war. Asking how/. would help seems a tiny wee bit parochial. Still:
How would Slashdot function during a war or comparable crisis?
About as well or badly as it does now, factored by as well as it is able to given whatever conditions are imposed on it and on the internet by the said war.
Would it help people distribute critical information?
Very doubtful that anyone would chose/. above other websiate and/or internet facilities.
Would it help people keep in touch with their friends and enemies?
Same answer. I'm not about to communicate with my sister via/. - I'll write her an email. Duh.
Would it help to prevent a war?
No. Good grief.
So far it seems no person in extreme need has submitted to Slashdot, but if they do, how would we respond?
We only know that no such submission has been published. Possibly this is because the/. crew do not want/. turned into a FAQ for newbies and the lame. How would we respond? Heterogeneously, as normal.
By the way, could I take this opportunity to troll by saying your president *really* *really* sucks over the Kyoto thing.
Also, Sealand is not recognised by the British Government as independant, and quite rightly too
The reason that Sealand is not recognised as independent is mainly because it lies within British territorial waters. once upon a time, it was outside; but european legislation changes (Sadly, I forget the date) extended the definition of territorial waters to 12 miles offshore. Sealand's proponents seems to have developed a blind spot for that unfortunate fact.
You do not say whether you are in fact employed in the UK, and if so what sort of employment contract you have.
If you are an employee (rather than a contractor) and you have been employed for more than 12 months, then you could consider the current position to be one of constructive dismissal, and persue an Industrial Tribunal action aganst them.
I suspect that what you need first & foremost is a good employment lawyer, not an intellectual property lawyer. You need to determine first whether the IP contract does in fact form part of your contract of employment. Then second you need to determine whether it does in fact protect your work at home. And third, that there is not some other term of the IP contract or another section of your contract of employment which acts against the IP contract (e.g. covering noncompetitive actions on your part, &c).
As normal, unless you want to fight, then yes, you probably are screwed.
Meanwhile, if you do nothing else, document, document, document everything you can - including writing a narritive of the whole thing, against the possibility that they come after you assuming you do release your code.
I am not a physicist, but it seems pretty obvious to me that landing a craft on an asteroid could have a serious impact on its orbit. How do US scientists and NASA employees know that they have not inadvertantly set this asteroid on a collision course with another inhabited planet somewhere else in our galaxy ? Or even worse Earth itself ?
Let's see. Mass of EROS = 7.2 million billion kilograms. Mass of NEAR = 805 kg (includes propellant). Propulsion capabilities of NEAR = 100-lb thruster. Speed of impact = 4 mph (1.9 meters per second).
So. A 4mph collision between a big thing, and a thing with a mass of 0.00000000001118% or less of the big thing. Total effect: somewhat slight.
Risk assessment: "We might get some asshole debating whether the impact might throw EROS off course... other than that, seems safe enough"
Its always possible to fake things if you keep it within a single government department. but these things always fall apart if you have to involve multiple departments.
On this basis, I should like to point readers to prrof positive of the moon landing: the US Customs Form which the Apollo 11 astronauts had to complete on their arrival back on earth.
Am I the only reader who does not understand what "mutually non-exclusive" means? Is it the same as "not mutually exclusive". Or a redundant sentence? Or what?
or perhaps an internet, since (some strange quirk of english) the indefinite article used before a noun starting with a vowel is, by convention, an. Sorry. I appear to be in a pedantic mood this evening.
Umm, since you asked, I think you might be an "or what". Several grounds for my suspicion:
It is not clear to me that yelling at the teacher or principal is an appropriate thing to do in any but the most extreme circumstance. Quiet reasoned argument would seem to be a better lesson for your impressionable child.
It is not clear to me whether your complaint was that it was inappropriate to send the CD home with the child; or to have the school promote a corporately owned network; or - and I suspect this was the brunt of your complaint - that the said network was available only via dial-up modem, not DSL.
"it is a internet". Umm, no it is not. It is neither the internet nor an internet. It is decidedly not a internet. 3/10, could do better.
Umm yes, I think this was what jamie might have been alluding to. The person suspended was Mike Cameron, the school was Greenbriar High School in Evans, Georgia.
"I know it sounds bad - ' child suspended for wearing Pepsi Shirt on Coke Day' said principal Gloria Hamilton. "It really would have been acceptable...if it had just been in-house, but we had the regional president [of coke] here and people flew in from Atlanta to do us the honour of being resource speakers. These students knew we had guests." - quote from No Logo, Naomi Klien, page 95.
According to Naomi Klien, in her most excellent tome "No Logo, (page 94) a company by the name of ZapMe! does much the same thing:
"...the in-school computer network ZapMe! doesn't merely seel advertising space to its sponsors: it also monitors students' paths as they surf the Net and provides this valuable market research, broken down by the students' sex, age and zip code, to its advertisers."
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(reaches into the dark recesses of my memory banks) That would be Rob Brooks, who from, say, 1985 onwards, started playing around with a behavioural approach to robotics, using a subsumption architecture in which more urgent behaviours (like avoiding collissions) could subsume control of the robot from higher order functions ... and none of the behaviours communicated, or did heavy AI stuff like try to represent their environment. Leads of papers, many with great titles, here. Great days.
exactly how difficult is e=1/2 mv^2 these days?
And for the US, though the situation might look to us, to a USE politician it does at least look like they've annexed the whole shebang: will DoC willingly concede control to something as hateful to (most) US politicians as the UN?
And, finally, that ICANN appears to be playing big coropration / monopoly games is not necessarily anything like anathema - so long as it is an American monopoly.
Sure it needs reforming; its more than amazing that things have got this bad this quickly. But I'm not holding my breath :-(
Henson was arrested at gunpoint today, according to The Register
As featured a year ago on /., and in Wired, ooh, long since.
More simply put, is your poster at all sure about the direction of the migration?
Meanwhile, the Asus see-through driver is BAD.
Go figure.
No, as another poster has already said, they are one and the same person. He merely uses a different name for a different genre.
In UK, this is a case law type thing; IANAL, but from memory the test is that the person being communicated to could reasonably expect that the person speaking for the company represented the company's view. A chance conversation on a place robably fails that test.
There's nothing happening in the ISP industry that has not happened 1,000 times before: its the normal ecology of business. New sector opens up; barriers to entry are low; multiple entrepreneurs pitch in; boom of some size, followed by end of boom, culling of unfit companies, and major scale vertical and horizontal mergers. Think: tulips, East India trading; motor industry; yo-yos, hula-hoops, skateboards.
My jaundiced (and possibly innaccurate) view is that, but for the armlock of the incumbent players, it should be possible to replicate the workflow of journals on a web-based, subscription free basis; that what real costs exist in the system could be funded by the (already tax-payer funded) academic establishments; and that we might get to the stage where publicly funded research results are made available at no cost to the public.
On this score, kudos to MIT for deciding to release their courseware for free.
In any case, the research is expected to knock years off the process of finding cancer fighting drugs. And isn't an expensive cure better than no cure at all?
How would Slashdot function during a war or comparable crisis?
About as well or badly as it does now, factored by as well as it is able to given whatever conditions are imposed on it and on the internet by the said war.
Would it help people distribute critical information?
Very doubtful that anyone would chose /. above other websiate and/or internet facilities.
Would it help people keep in touch with their friends and enemies?
Same answer. I'm not about to communicate with my sister via /. - I'll write her an email. Duh.
Would it help to prevent a war?
No. Good grief.
So far it seems no person in extreme need has submitted to Slashdot, but if they do, how would we respond?
We only know that no such submission has been published. Possibly this is because the /. crew do not want /. turned into a FAQ for newbies and the lame. How would we respond? Heterogeneously, as normal.
By the way, could I take this opportunity to troll by saying your president *really* *really* sucks over the Kyoto thing.
to amount to freedom of speech. What was your point?
The reason that Sealand is not recognised as independent is mainly because it lies within British territorial waters. once upon a time, it was outside; but european legislation changes (Sadly, I forget the date) extended the definition of territorial waters to 12 miles offshore. Sealand's proponents seems to have developed a blind spot for that unfortunate fact.
If you are an employee (rather than a contractor) and you have been employed for more than 12 months, then you could consider the current position to be one of constructive dismissal, and persue an Industrial Tribunal action aganst them.
I suspect that what you need first & foremost is a good employment lawyer, not an intellectual property lawyer. You need to determine first whether the IP contract does in fact form part of your contract of employment. Then second you need to determine whether it does in fact protect your work at home. And third, that there is not some other term of the IP contract or another section of your contract of employment which acts against the IP contract (e.g. covering noncompetitive actions on your part, &c).
As normal, unless you want to fight, then yes, you probably are screwed.
Meanwhile, if you do nothing else, document, document, document everything you can - including writing a narritive of the whole thing, against the possibility that they come after you assuming you do release your code.
Let's see. Mass of EROS = 7.2 million billion kilograms. Mass of NEAR = 805 kg (includes propellant). Propulsion capabilities of NEAR = 100-lb thruster. Speed of impact = 4 mph (1.9 meters per second).
So. A 4mph collision between a big thing, and a thing with a mass of 0.00000000001118% or less of the big thing. Total effect: somewhat slight.
Risk assessment: "We might get some asshole debating whether the impact might throw EROS off course ... other than that, seems safe enough"
On this basis, I should like to point readers to prrof positive of the moon landing: the US Customs Form which the Apollo 11 astronauts had to complete on their arrival back on earth.
Hack away girls and boys?
Aaah, CmrTaco; Bless! Growing up...
Am I the only reader who does not understand what "mutually non-exclusive" means? Is it the same as "not mutually exclusive". Or a redundant sentence? Or what?
or perhaps an internet, since (some strange quirk of english) the indefinite article used before a noun starting with a vowel is, by convention, an. Sorry. I appear to be in a pedantic mood this evening.
"I know it sounds bad - ' child suspended for wearing Pepsi Shirt on Coke Day' said principal Gloria Hamilton. "It really would have been acceptable...if it had just been in-house, but we had the regional president [of coke] here and people flew in from Atlanta to do us the honour of being resource speakers. These students knew we had guests." - quote from No Logo, Naomi Klien, page 95.
"...the in-school computer network ZapMe! doesn't merely seel advertising space to its sponsors: it also monitors students' paths as they surf the Net and provides this valuable market research, broken down by the students' sex, age and zip code, to its advertisers."