Use what works best where is works. In the case of the electronics, it is the UI that can highlight errors, give extra info, even different languages, and gaurantee an error-free ballot. No network is required in this manner, and thus is not subject to massive electronic fraud.
Printers can print said ballot in hard copies (preferable while still in the voting booth) that are legible in both machine and human readable forms. This allows both the voter and the ballot counters to double check a result, while not eliminating the convience of machine tallying (with manual spot checking or manual recounts) and without loosing a paper trail.
This is one of the stronger reasons there is growing corporate support for Jabber:
* All messages go through the server, so they are easy to log.
* Servers can be set up internally, helping security.
* Clients available for all desktop OSes. Good clients available for Linux & Windows. A few mobile clients already out there.
* Gateways available for all other major IM services means clients don't need to change services. The major caveat is that not all features are in place for most carriers. In fact you can only really count on one-on-one ASCII text messaging last I checked. That is still pretty magor though!!
* Support options available through Jabber.com
All of these are reasons why my bets are on Jabber to gain acceptance over SIMPLE when in comes to IM. That said, SIMPLE may win a niche in minimal bandwidth specialty applications.
Diagnosed >1 year ago. In retrospect, I've had it all my life, but being a primarily inattentive (not a hyperactive) I never stood out. Instead, I got by in school via a good brain: tests and one-on-one discussions were engaging, and made up for a complete lack of homework.
So I get by, but I feel like shit 'cause I know I didn't do as good as I could. Graduation comes and goes. I continue my job at a University research lab, but scared to death about going back to grad school and failing.
Which led to the counseling, which led to the diagnosis....
Now I've some meds, which hardly work. Read as many books as I can keep interested, but haven't successfully implemented any real changes.
So I'm looking for other ways to improve my job/life. Which leads me to my real question:
Has anyone found pair programming (part of extreme programming) a useful tool to maintian focus on the job?
For those curious why this books uses Oz as it's language of choice, it is one of the few, if not the only language, to support the many popular paradigms of programming:
* procedural, like C & BASIC
* object-oriented, like Ada & Java
* functional, like Scheme & Haskel
* declarative, like Prolog
It that way, this book is a good way to keep your mind open to different approaches to doing things.
Java, JavaScript, gcc & Linux, and Web tutorials galour!! All for free!!
Not to mention UnrealScript and the Mod' community!!
Back in high school (early nineties) I was a dry sponge. Living in Redmond, WA helped a lot 'cause I could get Visual C/C++ from friends and their parents (still prefered Turbo C++ when I had it though). But even having a guy come in to our computer club every other week wasn't enough to help me learn what I wanted.
I considered myself lucky back then, and I can only imagine there were thousands of others without the means I had back in the day.
I'm not saying nothing existed, but it required a lot of motivation and dedication to jump from BASIC (GW-, Quick', or even C64) to another language/project. Today the slope is more gradual with more excitement along the way to keep people involved. It is a perfect time for eager minds to get involved!!
Umm... No. I read about this too. I haven't been able to dig up the old article and I don't remember if it is part of Apple's 1.4 (which was released well after Sun's 1.4, and thus not there), or continuing under Apple development. It isn't in Sun's releases, and maybe not in any other public release (I haven't noticed improvements on my PowerBook).
By gosh, Subcarrier, I think you just invented capitalism. Congratulations.
Of course the developer can say no to a contract. Even if they misjudged their own motivations and signed into a contract they later decided wasn't "fun" (to use your terminology) enough, they can always skip break the contract and skip the money.
This actually brings up a point of why such a system might be really useful (whether as a new website, or integrated into an existing system). Existing systems, like SourceForge, allow people to comment on one's develper skills. But for the benefit of the hiring party's trust in the develop, and therefore the developer's professionalism and potential value (read paycheck), it would nice develop a public forum for evaluating the work of hired developers.
Compare this to the buyer/seller ratings in ebay. Like ebay, you would have to have a record of entering the contract to ensure only the hiring and development parties can comment on each other.
Quick reaction to the MS vs. comment:
Don't judge the research by the commercial products. On the commercial product front, you are very correct, but MS has one of the best group of UI researchers doing work in help agents, speech recognition/synthesis, and explorations in alternative interfaces. Few people see much because of the marketoids and bean counters the dominate the company.
Am I not the only thinking about the bountiful hacking possibilities of a DSP controlled radio transciever card? Of course that assumes the card APIs are reverse enginnered (or pigs fly and the specs are published).
"...some of the Internet applications are configured via a Mac or PC application, and then installed through the synchronization process"
This is flat out wrong. I've never synched my Treo (lack of Handspring support for OS X, and a messed up PalmDesktop 4 install), yet I've happily surfed the web and checked my email when I've had a spare moment.
Regarding the battery life, I'm not on the phone that much, so I've managed to go 48 hours without a charge, without a problem. Even so, it does charge amazingly quickly (1 hour).
While he is correct about the headset/jog dial placement, I've never consciously noticed it until now. The angled jack rotates so easily, I've always nudged it out of the way without a thought. I'm more concerned with who the JogDial is calling while in my paocket. And I should mention I use both the jog dial and the headset a lot.
That said, I use the headset mostly because the flip-up speaker so directional, it is difficult to use. You have to align your phone to you ear just so in order to hear the other party.
Also, the headset has a really cool feature I love: an answer/hang-up button on the cord. You never have to find your phone or pull it out of your pocket in order to take incoming calls if you use the headset. Unfortunately, this makes finding replacement headsets impossible; you better like the design of this one. While I have read complaints from other people on the headset, mine has worked great; I have gotten compliments on its clarity multiple times.
Also, I'm not sure where he gets his prices for data dialup. Cingular includes the option if you signup for SMS messaging, at a cost of 4-10 dollars a month. I haven't seen any bandwidth quotas in that, but that doesn't mean they don't exist. This pricing plan is new for Cingular, and I was initially hesitant to use it until this was clarified.
And lastly, I wanted to mention that Handspring has really done a great job with the usability of their Phone/SMS/Addressbook integration. Comparing with my co-workers who also have Palm based phones (unfortunately I don't know models), Handspring wins hands down. Additionally, those programs have the best menu keyboard shortcuts (Expense, Memo, etc. seem limited to clipboard accelerators), but I will now look into PowerJog for button cycling.
My overall opinion: I love it. It is expensive, but it's won me over. In part, I'll admit because it such a good solution over no Palm, which was my stance prior to this because of the # of devices issue. Also, my previous cell was nearly as big (Nextel i1000), so size hasn't been a problem.
The solution seems obvious to me: get a Business line. It comes down to paying for the service you expect, and the cost difference in my experience is reasonable for basic DSL. It the same concept as getting a business phone line put into your house.
As a coding environment goes, JBuilder is the best I've found. It supports all the editing features you'd like in a good editor (color highlighting, identifier completion, window splitting, key remapping, window splitting, browse to identifier definition,...). The project management features take a little while to get use to for most people, but their solid once you figure them out. It also integrates with version control with the enterprise version. But if that is too expensive, there is always the Professional and Personal editions for 500$~ish and Free respectively.
And as an extra bonus, the IDE is open to expansion through little plug-ins (I think) called OpenTools.
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Don't police the virii writers. Police the commercially developed software companies to implement good testing policies and react quickly when problems are found.
And in my opinion, it is not the government that should be doing this, but insurance companies. If companies started purchasing insurance in computer and data safety, then it would be the role of the insurance company to evaluate systems, software, and maintance routines, providing bottom-line discounts to more secure systems. This would make consumers more aware of their potenital holes and choose better software. Thus, the market pressure should encourage companies to take responsibility for the security problems in their products in order to meet insurance standards.
I think there are enough reasonable uses for copyright longer than 3 years. A three year copyright only promotes the rapidly changing 'pop medias', but not the media in more esoteric domains such as research papers and such (where it may take longer than three years to produce a new work). And those are the people we need to support the most.
On idea I've thought about it a copyright renewal fee, particularly one that grows expotentially with each renewal. It is those kind of changes that would make Disney et al rethink the cost of renewing all of their older media, which I doubt would get a return on the investment of renewal. Such money might go the the library of congress's digitation efforts or the like.
Levin thinks he knows how to find the answer. All known life on Earth prefers so-called right-handed sugars and left-handed amino acids. So researchers should repeat variations of his 1976 labeled release experiment, using those sugars and amino acids in one test. And in another, they should use their mirror images -- left-handed sugars and right-handed amino acids.
Yes, all know life is based on left-handed amino acids, but nothing precludes right handed amino acids. The currently theory on right versus left it just chance dominance of a community (well, as much of a "community" as you can have out of stray amino acids in primodial soup) that grew from one side of a crystal instead of another. And later, since the two can't exchange amino acids, symbiotic co-habitation was basicly out of the question, and it was inevitable one group would dominate over the other.
Considering the anecdote about the site was from 1940-41, and it refered to a rusty object, the odds are strongly against it being a WWII relic. EArhart disappeared in 1937, so the few extra years might be a enough for an airplane to rusty beyond recognition, especially if it was caught in the surf as they suggest.
Okay, well put. For those interested, here is The Right to Privacy by Justice Brandei from 1890.
All I can say is, I disagree. IMO, privacy is a luxury and not a right, something that has to be a active investment by someone. I believe the existing laws against tresspassing (for protection of 'privacy' in one's home) and against libel (for protection of truthfulness of acquired media) are enough. But I guess I have to convince the Supreme Court of that.
Not only would you have the aspect of "can't always have what you want", but you'd leave room for etenral hope. The boy is praying forever. How beautiful, yet sad, is that?
Anyway, after reading some comments here, I'm now thinking of the future beings as future robots (2000 years hense), and I am much a bit happier with the ending. I hope the producers meant it that way, and just made Horrible choice in visuals. It would make sense, in being foreshadowed by Joe. But it still doesn't add to the basic theme.
This is absurd -- not being able to reboot his software, or at least reinstall it, is really contrived.
Just because the mother couldn't doesn't mean it wasn't possible. I'm sure Cybertronics would have had piles of tests a tweeks ready and waiting for David, had he ever showed up.
Despite what critics and IMDB commenters say, I'm absolutely against the notion that the beings at the end are aliens. They may be shaped like the "Close Encounters" creatures, but please! "Artificial Intelligence" is the name of the friggin' movie.
Before reading the comments here, I never thought the thought. They just scream 'greys' in form. But I agree that the ending makes more sense when you think of them as future robots. So if that was the intent, then it was just a horrible mistake in visuals. I mean Really Really Horrible.
No, I would suggest leave it when David later returns to the sea floor. When the camera pulls back and the narrator kicks in again. That's when you should leave. The rest is a ridiuculous attempt at a happy ending with no regard for the theme of the rest of the movie.
Sorry, Spielberg, but not everything ends happily.
You better check you Bill of Right again, Jhon, because no where in there will you find a right to privacy.
Personally, I don't have problems with systems like this, as long as they don't enter private property without owners consent (I could see store inviting them onto their property).
I'm not sure where I read it, but the one idea I liked to counter the potential for abuses was to require cameras whereever the images for these camera could be viewed, and broadcast them to the public, as in a web camera. After all, they should all be public servants.
I believe as we find less and less privacy, thanks to technology, we will gradually become less concerned about the stupid things cameras catch us doing. Those stupid things will become incredibly mundane to the people behind the cameras on watching the others do the same things.
And imagine if all this eventually made a few people responsible for their actions, how horrible is that.
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Use what works best where is works. In the case of the electronics, it is the UI that can highlight errors, give extra info, even different languages, and gaurantee an error-free ballot. No network is required in this manner, and thus is not subject to massive electronic fraud.
Printers can print said ballot in hard copies (preferable while still in the voting booth) that are legible in both machine and human readable forms. This allows both the voter and the ballot counters to double check a result, while not eliminating the convience of machine tallying (with manual spot checking or manual recounts) and without loosing a paper trail.
Anm
This is one of the stronger reasons there is growing corporate support for Jabber:
* All messages go through the server, so they are easy to log.
* Servers can be set up internally, helping security.
* Clients available for all desktop OSes. Good clients available for Linux & Windows. A few mobile clients already out there.
* Gateways available for all other major IM services means clients don't need to change services. The major caveat is that not all features are in place for most carriers. In fact you can only really count on one-on-one ASCII text messaging last I checked. That is still pretty magor though!!
* Support options available through Jabber.com
All of these are reasons why my bets are on Jabber to gain acceptance over SIMPLE when in comes to IM. That said, SIMPLE may win a niche in minimal bandwidth specialty applications.
Anm
Diagnosed >1 year ago. In retrospect, I've had it all my life, but being a primarily inattentive (not a hyperactive) I never stood out. Instead, I got by in school via a good brain: tests and one-on-one discussions were engaging, and made up for a complete lack of homework.
So I get by, but I feel like shit 'cause I know I didn't do as good as I could. Graduation comes and goes. I continue my job at a University research lab, but scared to death about going back to grad school and failing.
Which led to the counseling, which led to the diagnosis....
Now I've some meds, which hardly work. Read as many books as I can keep interested, but haven't successfully implemented any real changes.
So I'm looking for other ways to improve my job/life. Which leads me to my real question:
Has anyone found pair programming (part of extreme programming) a useful tool to maintian focus on the job?
Anm
For those curious why this books uses Oz as it's language of choice, it is one of the few, if not the only language, to support the many popular paradigms of programming:
* procedural, like C & BASIC
* object-oriented, like Ada & Java
* functional, like Scheme & Haskel
* declarative, like Prolog
It that way, this book is a good way to keep your mind open to different approaches to doing things.
Anm
Java, JavaScript, gcc & Linux, and Web tutorials galour!! All for free!!
Not to mention UnrealScript and the Mod' community!!
Back in high school (early nineties) I was a dry sponge. Living in Redmond, WA helped a lot 'cause I could get Visual C/C++ from friends and their parents (still prefered Turbo C++ when I had it though). But even having a guy come in to our computer club every other week wasn't enough to help me learn what I wanted.
I considered myself lucky back then, and I can only imagine there were thousands of others without the means I had back in the day.
I'm not saying nothing existed, but it required a lot of motivation and dedication to jump from BASIC (GW-, Quick', or even C64) to another language/project. Today the slope is more gradual with more excitement along the way to keep people involved. It is a perfect time for eager minds to get involved!!
Anm
Umm... No. I read about this too. I haven't been able to dig up the old article and I don't remember if it is part of Apple's 1.4 (which was released well after Sun's 1.4, and thus not there), or continuing under Apple development. It isn't in Sun's releases, and maybe not in any other public release (I haven't noticed improvements on my PowerBook).
Anm
So... DDOS attacks are bad, but slashdot is without blame. Hmmm.....
By gosh, Subcarrier, I think you just invented capitalism. Congratulations.
Of course the developer can say no to a contract. Even if they misjudged their own motivations and signed into a contract they later decided wasn't "fun" (to use your terminology) enough, they can always skip break the contract and skip the money.
This actually brings up a point of why such a system might be really useful (whether as a new website, or integrated into an existing system). Existing systems, like SourceForge, allow people to comment on one's develper skills. But for the benefit of the hiring party's trust in the develop, and therefore the developer's professionalism and potential value (read paycheck), it would nice develop a public forum for evaluating the work of hired developers.
Compare this to the buyer/seller ratings in ebay. Like ebay, you would have to have a record of entering the contract to ensure only the hiring and development parties can comment on each other.
Anm
Quick reaction to the MS vs. comment:
Don't judge the research by the commercial products. On the commercial product front, you are very correct, but MS has one of the best group of UI researchers doing work in help agents, speech recognition/synthesis, and explorations in alternative interfaces. Few people see much because of the marketoids and bean counters the dominate the company.
Anm
Am I not the only thinking about the bountiful hacking possibilities of a DSP controlled radio transciever card? Of course that assumes the card APIs are reverse enginnered (or pigs fly and the specs are published).
Anm
This is flat out wrong. I've never synched my Treo (lack of Handspring support for OS X, and a messed up PalmDesktop 4 install), yet I've happily surfed the web and checked my email when I've had a spare moment.
Regarding the battery life, I'm not on the phone that much, so I've managed to go 48 hours without a charge, without a problem. Even so, it does charge amazingly quickly (1 hour).
While he is correct about the headset/jog dial placement, I've never consciously noticed it until now. The angled jack rotates so easily, I've always nudged it out of the way without a thought. I'm more concerned with who the JogDial is calling while in my paocket. And I should mention I use both the jog dial and the headset a lot.
That said, I use the headset mostly because the flip-up speaker so directional, it is difficult to use. You have to align your phone to you ear just so in order to hear the other party.
Also, the headset has a really cool feature I love: an answer/hang-up button on the cord. You never have to find your phone or pull it out of your pocket in order to take incoming calls if you use the headset. Unfortunately, this makes finding replacement headsets impossible; you better like the design of this one. While I have read complaints from other people on the headset, mine has worked great; I have gotten compliments on its clarity multiple times.
Also, I'm not sure where he gets his prices for data dialup. Cingular includes the option if you signup for SMS messaging, at a cost of 4-10 dollars a month. I haven't seen any bandwidth quotas in that, but that doesn't mean they don't exist. This pricing plan is new for Cingular, and I was initially hesitant to use it until this was clarified.
And lastly, I wanted to mention that Handspring has really done a great job with the usability of their Phone/SMS/Addressbook integration. Comparing with my co-workers who also have Palm based phones (unfortunately I don't know models), Handspring wins hands down. Additionally, those programs have the best menu keyboard shortcuts (Expense, Memo, etc. seem limited to clipboard accelerators), but I will now look into PowerJog for button cycling.
My overall opinion: I love it. It is expensive, but it's won me over. In part, I'll admit because it such a good solution over no Palm, which was my stance prior to this because of the # of devices issue. Also, my previous cell was nearly as big (Nextel i1000), so size hasn't been a problem.
The solution seems obvious to me: get a Business line. It comes down to paying for the service you expect, and the cost difference in my experience is reasonable for basic DSL. It the same concept as getting a business phone line put into your house.
Anm
As a coding environment goes, JBuilder is the best I've found. It supports all the editing features you'd like in a good editor (color highlighting, identifier completion, window splitting, key remapping, window splitting, browse to identifier definition, ...). The project management features take a little while to get use to for most people, but their solid once you figure them out. It also integrates with version control with the enterprise version. But if that is too expensive, there is always the Professional and Personal editions for 500$~ish and Free respectively.
And as an extra bonus, the IDE is open to expansion through little plug-ins (I think) called OpenTools.
Anm
Don't police the virii writers. Police the commercially developed software companies to implement good testing policies and react quickly when problems are found.
And in my opinion, it is not the government that should be doing this, but insurance companies. If companies started purchasing insurance in computer and data safety, then it would be the role of the insurance company to evaluate systems, software, and maintance routines, providing bottom-line discounts to more secure systems. This would make consumers more aware of their potenital holes and choose better software. Thus, the market pressure should encourage companies to take responsibility for the security problems in their products in order to meet insurance standards.
Not my original idea, but I don't have a source.
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Would someone please mod this guy's misinformation down. At least until he decides to read the freakin' article. sheesh.
Anm
I think there are enough reasonable uses for copyright longer than 3 years. A three year copyright only promotes the rapidly changing 'pop medias', but not the media in more esoteric domains such as research papers and such (where it may take longer than three years to produce a new work). And those are the people we need to support the most.
On idea I've thought about it a copyright renewal fee, particularly one that grows expotentially with each renewal. It is those kind of changes that would make Disney et al rethink the cost of renewing all of their older media, which I doubt would get a return on the investment of renewal. Such money might go the the library of congress's digitation efforts or the like.
Anm
Yes, all know life is based on left-handed amino acids, but nothing precludes right handed amino acids. The currently theory on right versus left it just chance dominance of a community (well, as much of a "community" as you can have out of stray amino acids in primodial soup) that grew from one side of a crystal instead of another. And later, since the two can't exchange amino acids, symbiotic co-habitation was basicly out of the question, and it was inevitable one group would dominate over the other.
I think slashdot needs a new moderation rating:
* Plagarism (-1)
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Karma whoring: Here's the URL: http://www.symbol.com/products/mobile_computers/mo bile_ce_ppt2700.html
Considering the anecdote about the site was from 1940-41, and it refered to a rusty object, the odds are strongly against it being a WWII relic. EArhart disappeared in 1937, so the few extra years might be a enough for an airplane to rusty beyond recognition, especially if it was caught in the surf as they suggest.
Anm
Okay, well put. For those interested, here is The Right to Privacy by Justice Brandei from 1890.
All I can say is, I disagree. IMO, privacy is a luxury and not a right, something that has to be a active investment by someone. I believe the existing laws against tresspassing (for protection of 'privacy' in one's home) and against libel (for protection of truthfulness of acquired media) are enough. But I guess I have to convince the Supreme Court of that.
Anm
SPOILAGE
Not only would you have the aspect of "can't always have what you want", but you'd leave room for etenral hope. The boy is praying forever. How beautiful, yet sad, is that?
Anyway, after reading some comments here, I'm now thinking of the future beings as future robots (2000 years hense), and I am much a bit happier with the ending. I hope the producers meant it that way, and just made Horrible choice in visuals. It would make sense, in being foreshadowed by Joe. But it still doesn't add to the basic theme.
Anm
Just because the mother couldn't doesn't mean it wasn't possible. I'm sure Cybertronics would have had piles of tests a tweeks ready and waiting for David, had he ever showed up.
Before reading the comments here, I never thought the thought. They just scream 'greys' in form. But I agree that the ending makes more sense when you think of them as future robots. So if that was the intent, then it was just a horrible mistake in visuals. I mean Really Really Horrible.
Anm
No, I would suggest leave it when David later returns to the sea floor. When the camera pulls back and the narrator kicks in again. That's when you should leave. The rest is a ridiuculous attempt at a happy ending with no regard for the theme of the rest of the movie.
Sorry, Spielberg, but not everything ends happily.
Anm
You better check you Bill of Right again, Jhon, because no where in there will you find a right to privacy.
Personally, I don't have problems with systems like this, as long as they don't enter private property without owners consent (I could see store inviting them onto their property).
I'm not sure where I read it, but the one idea I liked to counter the potential for abuses was to require cameras whereever the images for these camera could be viewed, and broadcast them to the public, as in a web camera. After all, they should all be public servants.
I believe as we find less and less privacy, thanks to technology, we will gradually become less concerned about the stupid things cameras catch us doing. Those stupid things will become incredibly mundane to the people behind the cameras on watching the others do the same things.
And imagine if all this eventually made a few people responsible for their actions, how horrible is that.
Anm