We all know why microsoft has that stipulation in their license... basically to force computer manufactures to put out machines with Windows if they wish to put out machines with Windows at all. So, if they wish to continue trying this, then they will have to be more explicit in what operating system they mean. Probably to the point that they say "Sell only PCs with Windows on them." I don't see this happeneing on Microsoft's part because they're not that stupid.
<random flame> Such a monopoly. I know that justice is supposed to be blind, but I didn't realize that the DoJ was blind, deaf, and dumb all at the same time. </random flame>
Thanks for the recommendation. Franklin has always been one of my heroes (along with Einstein, Jefferson, and my dad). I disremember exactly how many things he did during his lifetime, but this man was amazing, even into his old age he was still doing stuff, not just inventions, but diplomatic things, public services, etc. He also was still womanizing like a frat boy well into his old age. (although the womanizing part is not why I respect him so much):-)
Let's see, you put your information in a public forum such as the web and you expect it not to be indexed? Gee golly willickers and shucks, Mr. Peabody, people sure are stupid.
You want privacy? Don't put a fucking webpage up. Now the distinction between credit card companies and the rest of the ill-begotten like minded ilk is well taken. I didn't do anything other than purchase somethings using that credit card, and yet, they can sell my information to any Tom Dick and Harry that wants to know my underwear purchasing habits?
Fuck them. NYT has ceased to be an informative source of news for a while. And it has never been a source of unbiasednews.
I'd sooner gouge my eyes out with a rusty spoon than have random ads appear while I'm attempting to do work or play games. The fact of the matter is, and I haven't seen anyone comment on this, is just how insecure this would make machines to have them display ads that are presumably downloaded from a central ad server.
I have a copy, but I also have had a copy reserved for me. The copy was useful for seeing if my old hardware (which was really good 3 years ago!) could handle it... it can... at the low settings.:-) IN any case, you're right, I like blizzard's games. I loved warcraft 2, starcraft, and now wc3. They have fun with their games, which I like. So I want to see them get compensated for their good work.:-)
Well, I hope they'll understand that if they're going to destroy networks that some people actually use legitimately, then they're going to be on the receiving end of some vigilante action themselves.
You know, this type of cyclical reasoning is silly. The fact is, at some point, the people put a certain amount of trust in a smaller group in the hopes that they will keep modern society going. Even in a "pure" democracy, you will need people moderating and maintaining the process. People who scoff at the notion that our world leaders need to be trustworthy miss this vital point. Bennet makes a great point that just isn't about Echelon, it's about how society and government have to find balance. The government has been charged with keeping society going to enable higher levels of prosperity and order. This means law enforcement, trade, and yes, spying in order to ensure the safety of the nation. The citizens meanwhile, simply want to go about their daily lives with security and also privacy. That's what this whole thing is about. People that bitch, and there are quite a few on/., about how slow and illogical the process takes are naive about the complexity and difficulty of pulling it off, even if they're right in their hearts. So, I agree with Bennett.
These are essentially the same goals that were set forth decades ago. This is a very hard endeavor, and while noble, I really wish they'd be a bit more realistic. I'm in the academic research world and this particular subject is what I plan to work in for my doctorate. Based on my perliminary background work, the state of the art in MT (Machine Translation) has moved forward significantly, but there is still a LONG way to go. To give an example, very good speech recognition (accuracies of 85% and above) and MT have been realized for limited domains. An example is the CMU plane ticket reservation system. MIT is working with MandarinEnglish translations in a ticket reservation scheme (and having some inside knowledge from both universities, I can say that the systems are impressive, but still a far cry from the wishes of DARPA). The MIT system, while the English speech was definitely computerized, the Chinese was sufficiently good that if I hadn't known that it was being synthesized, I would have had a difficult time guessing except for the fact that some of the translations were a bit off. Not necessarily wrong, but just the particular word choice sounded odd. Continuing, to give an idea of what problems researchers are tackling, Consider just the recognizer part of the system. Imagine the vocabulary set needed to work with the afformentioned domains. It's very limited, moreover, the syntactical structure of the language is also very constrained. And mind you, this is all being done on some high end workstations and servers. And they want to do this on PDAs? Not anytime soon. I'm all for this research because I love languages, but I would say that the type of system that these guys are describing would take at LEAST 15 years to get to and that's if there are some major breakthroughs very soon. So don't get your hopes up.
I'm an undergrad/grad student and research assistant. This means that if I'm not browsing the web, or writing a program for a class, then I'm writing a program for my research or writing another paper to be published. About a year and a half ago, I started getting pains in my wrists. Now mind you, I've been hacking for almost 10 years now, so I had the mind that "RSI is for pussies." Well, my advisor had a kinesis keyboard laying around. I don't intend this to be an advertisement for the company (just do a google search), BUT, ever since I got used to the keyboard, the pains have gone away. And I type much faster. I even bought one for home. I wouldn't trade it for anything. I cringe when I have to use a regular keyboard now, (1) because after about an hour or so, I my wrists hurt and (2) the position is just completely unnatural and you don't really realize it until you've been typing at a kinesis for a while. I've tried other "Natural" keyboards before and they don't hold a candle to kinesis. The down side is the low end model costs about $225. But I consider it to be worth the cost. I know it sounds like I'm plugging kinesis, so I'll also say that the way you type also matters, the level of your hands relative to the keyboard. I find that not resting my wrists on the desk helps, I use the arm rests on my chair to prop my elbows up and then I type with my hands above the keyboard with my wrists generally straight. Another good strategy is to take frequent breaks. Five minutes away from the keyboard every hour or so is not a bad thing and it will help you rest those weary hands.
Ofcourse we'll be able to suck up all that space... we need to have it for all the copies of dvds, cds, and bootlegs that we pirated from the MPAA and RIAA.
"After the DVD came out, I had the chance to revisit Episode one. It's strange, that when you strip away all the hype, the product tie-ins, the in your face constant advertising, and just go see the movie on it's own merits, it's not really all that bad."
I never saw it in the theatres, I saw it a year after all the hubub... and I remember thinking then "I wonder why everyone thought this was so bad?" Then I watched it again about 6 months later and I remember thinking, "OMG, this sucks ass! What was I smoking before?"
Unlike cheese, wine, and episodes 4,5,6; 1 does not age well.
More to the point, he is essentially talking about a metric; something that has been debated over and over in the software engineering community. Most have LONG since discarded this trivial metric and there are many other that give a somewhat more accurate idea of "productivity," such as defect density, etc. But that then asks the question, well, what do you mean be "productivity?" If you want just a bunch of code monkies banging away at keyboards, I'm sure we coudl arrange for some monkies to be chained up in the office! Sometimes, programmers don't even write code all day! They spend it doing research to help solve a problem... companies have got to get away from this notion that "volume-of-work = quality-of-work"
I'm not sure if they've done anything really novel. I skimmed through one of the more recent papers, on sentence ordering; but that seem to only operate on the same event There's research like this going one at alot of major universities like CMU and MIT. That said, it does look impressive.
Altavista was the shit before google came along. I don't think I've touched altavista's site in close to 2.5 years. But I guess that might just be me, some people still seem to find av useful.
Not if your database server has its own datastore functionality built in -- and many do. You know how Oracle can work with raw partitions directly? Think 'bout that kind of functionality, just done by MS.
I'd rather not. I barely tolerate vfat only because I dual boot for games.:-)
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We all know why microsoft has that stipulation in their license... basically to force computer manufactures to put out machines with Windows if they wish to put out machines with Windows at all. So, if they wish to continue trying this, then they will have to be more explicit in what operating system they mean. Probably to the point that they say "Sell only PCs with Windows on them." I don't see this happeneing on Microsoft's part because they're not that stupid.
<random flame>
Such a monopoly. I know that justice is supposed to be blind, but I didn't realize that the DoJ was blind, deaf, and dumb all at the same time.
</random flame>
Fire Michael Powell?
Seriously, whenever a story this comes along, who is the guy that seems to be hell bent on screwing the little guy? Powell.
</flame>
Thanks for the recommendation. Franklin has always been one of my heroes (along with Einstein, Jefferson, and my dad). I disremember exactly how many things he did during his lifetime, but this man was amazing, even into his old age he was still doing stuff, not just inventions, but diplomatic things, public services, etc. He also was still womanizing like a frat boy well into his old age. (although the womanizing part is not why I respect him so much) :-)
Let's see, you put your information in a public forum such as the web and you expect it not to be indexed? Gee golly willickers and shucks, Mr. Peabody, people sure are stupid.
You want privacy? Don't put a fucking webpage up. Now the distinction between credit card companies and the rest of the ill-begotten like minded ilk is well taken. I didn't do anything other than purchase somethings using that credit card, and yet, they can sell my information to any Tom Dick and Harry that wants to know my underwear purchasing habits?
Fuck them. NYT has ceased to be an informative source of news for a while. And it has never been a source of unbiasednews.
Could someone please use the cluebat on the BSA?
So this is the company we're supposed to trust to make the internet more secure with Palladium?
I'd sooner gouge my eyes out with a rusty spoon than have random ads appear while I'm attempting to do work or play games. The fact of the matter is, and I haven't seen anyone comment on this, is just how insecure this would make machines to have them display ads that are presumably downloaded from a central ad server.
That's probably alot better than the roofmounted sun-dial and array of lightsensors that I have.
I have a copy, but I also have had a copy reserved for me. The copy was useful for seeing if my old hardware (which was really good 3 years ago!) could handle it... it can... at the low settings. :-) IN any case, you're right, I like blizzard's games. I loved warcraft 2, starcraft, and now wc3. They have fun with their games, which I like. So I want to see them get compensated for their good work. :-)
Well, I hope they'll understand that if they're going to destroy networks that some people actually use legitimately, then they're going to be on the receiving end of some vigilante action themselves.
You know, this type of cyclical reasoning is silly. The fact is, at some point, the people put a certain amount of trust in a smaller group in the hopes that they will keep modern society going. Even in a "pure" democracy, you will need people moderating and maintaining the process. People who scoff at the notion that our world leaders need to be trustworthy miss this vital point. Bennet makes a great point that just isn't about Echelon, it's about how society and government have to find balance. The government has been charged with keeping society going to enable higher levels of prosperity and order. This means law enforcement, trade, and yes, spying in order to ensure the safety of the nation. The citizens meanwhile, simply want to go about their daily lives with security and also privacy. That's what this whole thing is about. People that bitch, and there are quite a few on /., about how slow and illogical the process takes are naive about the complexity and difficulty of pulling it off, even if they're right in their hearts. So, I agree with Bennett.
These are essentially the same goals that were set forth decades ago. This is a very hard endeavor, and while noble, I really wish they'd be a bit more realistic. I'm in the academic research world and this particular subject is what I plan to work in for my doctorate. Based on my perliminary background work, the state of the art in MT (Machine Translation) has moved forward significantly, but there is still a LONG way to go. To give an example, very good speech recognition (accuracies of 85% and above) and MT have been realized for limited domains. An example is the CMU plane ticket reservation system. MIT is working with MandarinEnglish translations in a ticket reservation scheme (and having some inside knowledge from both universities, I can say that the systems are impressive, but still a far cry from the wishes of DARPA). The MIT system, while the English speech was definitely computerized, the Chinese was sufficiently good that if I hadn't known that it was being synthesized, I would have had a difficult time guessing except for the fact that some of the translations were a bit off. Not necessarily wrong, but just the particular word choice sounded odd. Continuing, to give an idea of what problems researchers are tackling, Consider just the recognizer part of the system. Imagine the vocabulary set needed to work with the afformentioned domains. It's very limited, moreover, the syntactical structure of the language is also very constrained. And mind you, this is all being done on some high end workstations and servers. And they want to do this on PDAs? Not anytime soon. I'm all for this research because I love languages, but I would say that the type of system that these guys are describing would take at LEAST 15 years to get to and that's if there are some major breakthroughs very soon. So don't get your hopes up.
I'm an undergrad/grad student and research assistant. This means that if I'm not browsing the web, or writing a program for a class, then I'm writing a program for my research or writing another paper to be published. About a year and a half ago, I started getting pains in my wrists. Now mind you, I've been hacking for almost 10 years now, so I had the mind that "RSI is for pussies." Well, my advisor had a kinesis keyboard laying around. I don't intend this to be an advertisement for the company (just do a google search), BUT, ever since I got used to the keyboard, the pains have gone away. And I type much faster. I even bought one for home. I wouldn't trade it for anything. I cringe when I have to use a regular keyboard now, (1) because after about an hour or so, I my wrists hurt and (2) the position is just completely unnatural and you don't really realize it until you've been typing at a kinesis for a while. I've tried other "Natural" keyboards before and they don't hold a candle to kinesis. The down side is the low end model costs about $225. But I consider it to be worth the cost. I know it sounds like I'm plugging kinesis, so I'll also say that the way you type also matters, the level of your hands relative to the keyboard. I find that not resting my wrists on the desk helps, I use the arm rests on my chair to prop my elbows up and then I type with my hands above the keyboard with my wrists generally straight. Another good strategy is to take frequent breaks. Five minutes away from the keyboard every hour or so is not a bad thing and it will help you rest those weary hands.
Ofcourse we'll be able to suck up all that space... we need to have it for all the copies of dvds, cds, and bootlegs that we pirated from the MPAA and RIAA.
:-)
Oh For Fuck's Sake.
What about hex-editors then?
What about sed? I'll be you could come up with a nifty program to twiddle some bits in the same manner.
And for those lawyers, I've got a couple of bits they can twiddle; my balls.
I hope Tom wins.
"After the DVD came out, I had the chance to revisit Episode one. It's strange, that when you strip away all the hype, the product tie-ins, the in your face constant advertising, and just go see the movie on it's own merits, it's not really all that bad."
I never saw it in the theatres, I saw it a year after all the hubub... and I remember thinking then "I wonder why everyone thought this was so bad?" Then I watched it again about 6 months later and I remember thinking, "OMG, this sucks ass! What was I smoking before?"
Unlike cheese, wine, and episodes 4,5,6; 1 does not age well.
Isn't this just Godel's theorem? That in any axiomatic schema, there will be certain propositions that can not be proven within it.
Look Your Honor, the guy was a complete asshole... If I didn't kill him, them someone else would have!
More to the point, he is essentially talking about a metric; something that has been debated over and over in the software engineering community. Most have LONG since discarded this trivial metric and there are many other that give a somewhat more accurate idea of "productivity," such as defect density, etc. But that then asks the question, well, what do you mean be "productivity?" If you want just a bunch of code monkies banging away at keyboards, I'm sure we coudl arrange for some monkies to be chained up in the office! Sometimes, programmers don't even write code all day! They spend it doing research to help solve a problem... companies have got to get away from this notion that "volume-of-work = quality-of-work"
(It has a notion of semantic classes, and some other stuff.)
This, I have not seen before, but seems to be the next logical step in automagically classifying documents.
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I'm not sure if they've done anything really novel. I skimmed through one of the more recent papers, on sentence ordering; but that seem to only operate on the same event There's research like this going one at alot of major universities like CMU and MIT. That said, it does look impressive.
Nothing a few drugs couldn't fix. :-)
Hey, now I can say something good about my roommate!
And even if he doesn't look good, smell good, or think well, then at least you can make him SOUND good by attaching the bug to his skull!
Altavista was the shit before google came along. I don't think I've touched altavista's site in close to 2.5 years. But I guess that might just be me, some people still seem to find av useful.
Not if your database server has its own datastore functionality built in -- and many do. You know how Oracle can work with raw partitions directly? Think 'bout that kind of functionality, just done by MS.
:-)
I'd rather not. I barely tolerate vfat only because I dual boot for games.