In that period, we produce more data-- largely because Google and others record it.
Whether we should call a 100-fold increase in the amount of data we store about the moons of Saturn, "information," is another debate.
It is, however, "not the same thing" as the information produced, say, pre-2000.
Schmidt knows this.
At the same time, we have more information in the sense that more of the world's libraries and publications are more easily accessible to each of this.
This would seem to be in the end a good thing.
We also have more information in the sense that there are more scholars and others, writing.
This is not clearly good, as "publish or perish" may produce more noise than signal.
Finally, we have more, more good and more complex information-- the "information overload" talked about by Vannevar Bush.
This is a good thing-- we know a lot more-- but it's hard to keep up with. (In the middle of a war, which of ten reports on bubonic plague was Bush better off reading?)
All that said, the original article has little-to-nothing to do with this, or Eric Schmidt; anyone who has studied media in Third-Reich Germany, has a hint that this is not a new issue.
Useless example. Mechanical Turk has essentially no market because it doesn't work. Almost no one is making money; it's just clueless employers listing ridiculous tasks, such as the hotel database, because they don't know how to accomplish them otherwise (in a reasonable fashion). There are a few legitimate tasks that may "make a market," such as translation/transcription-- otherwise, the vast majority seem fraudulent (go sign up for this website at $15/mo and we'll pay you $8/mo-- you never get paid the $8-- the website won't let you cancel; stuffing webforms and recommendation sites; etc).
In short, MT has tended to be a cesspool, because it's poorly conceived and largely unmonitored and unmanaged.
Actually no. Most US States (and the feds) for instance, define what an 'employee' is and required compensation terms, and forbid treating employees as contractors.
Entities in the US trying to task-out "jobs" that employees typically perform, via MT, may have significant liabilities.
And that's not even dealing with the fact that 10-50% of MT tasks may be fraudulent.
Do not insult PINE! Convert to Elm, but do not insult PINE.
(Seriously, I sent a combo plain-text / html email to a list all of three years ago, and got an email to the list from someone using PINE, that the html mime section made it unreadable for him... because his 15-year-old version of PINE on a machine at SFSU didn't know MIME.
Of course, that was the SFLAN list or something like it...)
Oh good grief. If you haven't taken a TV, a radio, a car, and a computer or 100 apart and put it back together again... you haven't lived.
Knife forging? Sounds fun.
The OP article is silly, but let's not overestimate the intelligence of a generation that can't figure out how to get the faucet to produce hot water without help (-- actual example from yesterday).
It has recently been brought to our attention that the television has been used to distribute various information still considered classified by the US government.
As a result, all members of the armed forces are hereby unformed that viewing the tele is strictly forbidden.
VERY easily. In fact, I'm tired of Taco not approving my posts. From here on out, I'm posting k1dd13 p0rn with his alias and cc:ing the Feds. Just you wait. Just you wait. I'll show you now, Taco! HAHAHAHHAHAHHA!
Belgium is a political entity which may not exist in six months, a fact that has something to do with all of these questions.
The situation is thus quite more complex, as the cultural and linguistic lines are not quite so easily found-- and because Dutch is a historical imposition and the people whom the Dutch colonized were, after all, speaking their own languages before people showed up and put swords to their throats.
Equally, the "French speaking majority" (itself a colonized group) was long dominant, and therefore resented by the Dutch-Vlaams-etc speaking portion, (which is roughly why, in the recent elections, a leftish party looking for linguistic and cultural independence from the French-speakers dominated Flanders).
While a Dutch person would almost certainly be able to read the article, I certainly know plenty of people in their 30s and 40s in Belgium, who didn't pay attention or do well in school, who would have difficulties. Which is sort of my point in writing this. (Rinse wash repeat for Switzerland or parts of German...)
And so on. I'm throwing out a mish-mash, but it's a complex situation. If you are Belgian, apologies for what will sound like something of a kintergaarden lesson, but I do get annoyed by seeing rather superficial discussions of the situation in English.
Actually, no. It's not that simple. American English and British English is a terrible, terribly deceptive comparison. A working class person who grew up in Gent 60 years ago, cannot necessarily understand someone from Antwerp-- and that's just Flemish/Flaams.
For that matter, at least 20-30 years ago, a Genterner might have some serious difficulties with what was spoken in the surrounding villages. (Hint: hij, zij, jij are not entirely Genterner).
There are plenty of arguments that Flaams is a separate language, and, for that matter, that the definition of 'language' is inseparable from politics.
I use Tab Mix Plus in combination with TabGroups Manager. Typically I am running with 3000+ active tabs in 50ish group tabs, 6 windows (all I can keep track of in my head)-- but only 6 or 7 of those group tabs open and taking memory/processor-- TabGroups Manager suspends the rest.
TabGroups Manager is a "hidden gem." In comparison, Tab Candy seems simply purposeless to me!
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Don't use sof many caps. It's like yelling. Don't use so many caps. It's like yelling. Don't use so maffrny caps. It's like yelling. Don't use so many caps. It's like yelfling.
Man, I love jerks who mark any contrarian opinion a troll. The reality here is that the US, like many modern regimes, exercises much more careful means of social control than throwing dissenters into gulags. But I guess I'm supposed to sugar coat my point and lick the OP's *** when replying, if I don't want to be modded down.
Yep. Obama has a horrendous record of keeping all the things you write about secret, which is why you're here writing about them, and not rotting in a gulag somewhere.
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It's already been said, but it bears saying again. Directories and symlinks.... oh my!
As presented, Eric would be being a bit obtuse.
In that period, we produce more data-- largely because Google and others record it.
Whether we should call a 100-fold increase in the amount of data we store about the moons of Saturn, "information," is another debate.
It is, however, "not the same thing" as the information produced, say, pre-2000.
Schmidt knows this.
At the same time, we have more information in the sense that more of the world's libraries and publications are more easily accessible to each of this.
This would seem to be in the end a good thing.
We also have more information in the sense that there are more scholars and others, writing.
This is not clearly good, as "publish or perish" may produce more noise than signal.
Finally, we have more, more good and more complex information-- the "information overload" talked about by Vannevar Bush.
This is a good thing-- we know a lot more-- but it's hard to keep up with. (In the middle of a war, which of ten reports on bubonic plague was Bush better off reading?)
All that said, the original article has little-to-nothing to do with this, or Eric Schmidt; anyone who has studied media in Third-Reich Germany, has a hint that this is not a new issue.
I say we find the police chief, and post 24-hour geotagged photos of him online... :)
Useless example. Mechanical Turk has essentially no market because it doesn't work. Almost no one is making money; it's just clueless employers listing ridiculous tasks, such as the hotel database, because they don't know how to accomplish them otherwise (in a reasonable fashion). There are a few legitimate tasks that may "make a market," such as translation/transcription-- otherwise, the vast majority seem fraudulent (go sign up for this website at $15/mo and we'll pay you $8/mo-- you never get paid the $8-- the website won't let you cancel; stuffing webforms and recommendation sites; etc).
In short, MT has tended to be a cesspool, because it's poorly conceived and largely unmonitored and unmanaged.
Actually no. Most US States (and the feds) for instance, define what an 'employee' is and required compensation terms, and forbid treating employees as contractors.
Entities in the US trying to task-out "jobs" that employees typically perform, via MT, may have significant liabilities.
And that's not even dealing with the fact that 10-50% of MT tasks may be fraudulent.
Do not insult PINE! Convert to Elm, but do not insult PINE.
(Seriously, I sent a combo plain-text / html email to a list all of three years ago, and got an email to the list from someone using PINE, that the html mime section made it unreadable for him... because his 15-year-old version of PINE on a machine at SFSU didn't know MIME.
Of course, that was the SFLAN list or something like it...)
Oh good grief. If you haven't taken a TV, a radio, a car, and a computer or 100 apart and put it back together again... you haven't lived.
Knife forging? Sounds fun.
The OP article is silly, but let's not overestimate the intelligence of a generation that can't figure out how to get the faucet to produce hot water without help (-- actual example from yesterday).
Dear Service member,
It has recently been brought to our attention that the television has been used to distribute various information still considered classified by the US government.
As a result, all members of the armed forces are hereby unformed that viewing the tele is strictly forbidden.
Violators of this policy will be flogged.
By the Order Of,
General Karmahoer
100GB is $30/yr.
Any of a number of solutions allow access as folders (Gladinet). ssh proxy via port 80 on an external machine, and you're done.
VERY easily. In fact, I'm tired of Taco not approving my posts. From here on out, I'm posting k1dd13 p0rn with his alias and cc:ing the Feds. Just you wait. Just you wait. I'll show you now, Taco! HAHAHAHHAHAHHA!
Wait. Wait. Wait-- see below. If your UID was not higher than mine, I'd think we'd shared a house!
In the middle of San Francisco, we left our doors open. We figured either we or the neighbors would notice and do something.
But some people need to substitute technology. Whatever.
That's the million-dollar question tonight, here in Solaris-land tonight, ladies and gentlemen.
Coming up next-- Yet-Another-Patent-disputed, filed by... tune in at 10 O'Clock to find out who!
Bent u Flaaams?
Belgium is a political entity which may not exist in six months, a fact that has something to do with all of these questions.
The situation is thus quite more complex, as the cultural and linguistic lines are not quite so easily found-- and because Dutch is a historical imposition and the people whom the Dutch colonized were, after all, speaking their own languages before people showed up and put swords to their throats.
Equally, the "French speaking majority" (itself a colonized group) was long dominant, and therefore resented by the Dutch-Vlaams-etc speaking portion, (which is roughly why, in the recent elections, a leftish party looking for linguistic and cultural independence from the French-speakers dominated Flanders).
While a Dutch person would almost certainly be able to read the article, I certainly know plenty of people in their 30s and 40s in Belgium, who didn't pay attention or do well in school, who would have difficulties. Which is sort of my point in writing this. (Rinse wash repeat for Switzerland or parts of German...)
And so on. I'm throwing out a mish-mash, but it's a complex situation. If you are Belgian, apologies for what will sound like something of a kintergaarden lesson, but I do get annoyed by seeing rather superficial discussions of the situation in English.
Actually, no. It's not that simple. American English and British English is a terrible, terribly deceptive comparison. A working class person who grew up in Gent 60 years ago, cannot necessarily understand someone from Antwerp-- and that's just Flemish/Flaams.
For that matter, at least 20-30 years ago, a Genterner might have some serious difficulties with what was spoken in the surrounding villages. (Hint: hij, zij, jij are not entirely Genterner).
There are plenty of arguments that Flaams is a separate language, and, for that matter, that the definition of 'language' is inseparable from politics.
I use Tab Mix Plus in combination with TabGroups Manager. Typically I am running with 3000+ active tabs in 50ish group tabs, 6 windows (all I can keep track of in my head)-- but only 6 or 7 of those group tabs open and taking memory/processor-- TabGroups Manager suspends the rest.
TabGroups Manager is a "hidden gem." In comparison, Tab Candy seems simply purposeless to me!
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Don't use so many caps. Itg's like yelkling.
Don't use so makny caps. Irert's like yelling.
Don'tr use so many caps. It's lire yelling.
Your comment violated the "postercomment" compression filter. Try less whitespace and/or less repetition.
Don't use rso many caps. Itgrr's like yeleling.
Don't use so many caps. It's like yerrelling.
Don't use sor many caps. It's like yelling.
Don't use so many caps. It's like yelling.
Don't use so many caps. It's liker yelling.
Don'tr use so many caps. It's like yelling.
Don't use so many caps. It's like yelling.
Don't use sof many caps. It's like yelling.
Don't use so many caps. It's like yelling.
Don't use so maffrny caps. It's like yelling.
Don't use so many caps. It's like yelfling.
Because, of course, Albany, 27 miles from the Eastern border, and a good 300+ miles from the western border, is in the EXACT CENTER.
By your logic, the capitol should be in Ithaca.
'Daddy, can we roll the Lander into the cave? Read fast?'
'But Will-- Dr. Robinson is standing in the entrance!'
Man, I love jerks who mark any contrarian opinion a troll. The reality here is that the US, like many modern regimes, exercises much more careful means of social control than throwing dissenters into gulags. But I guess I'm supposed to sugar coat my point and lick the OP's *** when replying, if I don't want to be modded down.
Hmm. Oddly, this sort of demonstrates my point.
Yep. Obama has a horrendous record of keeping all the things you write about secret, which is why you're here writing about them, and not rotting in a gulag somewhere.
This is nothing. My startup technology detects crimes BEFORE they unfold.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrBKEodw2wE&feature=related
What's in a name?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFmJsTKWEBI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuUE7oKIkVI
Flock that!