Just for the record - I have no problem with the people living in the US, just the way your government works, especially doing such a great job at preventing the american population of actually finding out what's actually going on.
It's a well known fact that many industries in the US are dependant on military spendings for survival. It's a way of subsidising economical growth that's always been favored by republican governments.
Scientists, as a subset of the american workforce are subject to the same realities that govern the american economy.
If the government decided to spend all that money (hundreds of billions each year) towards more noble causes such as renewable energy or solving humanity's problems, that dilemma wouldn't exist. Of course that's impossible due to the forces that be. Look at who actualy puts people in office and who owns the media (mass influence) and you'll see that it's the same people who get the money.
- Lots of talk on Paul Graham's Bayesian approach and the derivative works that some people have been doing. - Speakers were for the most part very inciteful, interesting, and funny (!) - Some talk on the business side of things (Barry Shein) - Some talk about exisiting "solutions". Our solution is the best (pretty boring. and nothing really interesting there).
Some stuff to remember and/or worth mentionning: - When designing a spam blocker, use differrent corpuses of mail for developing, tweaking and testing. That will reflect better the real-world situation. (the only interesting thing the Microsoft guy said) - The business of spam is more complex than it seems. It's about multi-layer marketing schemes and the spam itself is the product, not necessairly the Viagra or the penis enlarger - Spammers are intelligent and getting clever to evade spam blocking software (one notable example of a mail written in monospace font, using HTML, and formattedd to write vertically, instead of left-to-right. The scanning software sees nothing recognisable!) - The non-free e-mail subject did come up. - You can always trace to the source. Maybe the sender is forged, but you can always go up the smtp relay chain. there will be a point where someone has an open relay (or it's the source itself) - The MIT's infinite corridor is actually finite. - Spam-control is really at its infancy, probably like anti-virus software was like in the mid 80s. - Spam conference study have no need of penis enlargement, study says.
I'd be really interested in finding out how the dual monitor configuration works out.
Do both screens need to have the same resolutions/refresh rates? What about Quartz acceleration, is it on both displays simultaneously, or just one at the time? Do the popups show up in the middle of one screen or split between the displays like on the Matrox/PC...
(Just ask Bill Gates: as he said cogently last July, "Why are my document files stored one way, my contacts another way and my e-mail and instant-messaging buddy list still another, and why aren't they related to my calendar or to one another, and easy to search en masse?")
Answer this, Bill: On Mac OS X, there's an address book who'se data is to be used by all applications. Why does Microsoft Entourage (Outlook-like bundled with Office) does not use the system's Address book and implements it's own. Why isn't Entourage not able validate en e-mail address against the system's address book?
I don't know, but I won't buy that piece of crap. I'll use the built-in mailer.
My local photo shop which is also the best one in the city can print from any digital source. They have the technilogy to do it. You can also have photos printed from the web. Upload your images and have them mailed to you.
In fact, they've switched to digital in the lab. If you develop a 35mm roll, thye will scan it and print from the scanned images using their digital enlarger. The result, using a good 3.1 megapixel camera is indiscernible from traditionnal pictures for sizes up to 8x10.
Have a great 3 day week-end for the other fols up there. And the store is LLLozeau in Montreal, QC.
Yes 8 bits are enough for the finished product. But when you do color corrections in Photoshop, you can end out stretching 5 or 6 bits that become 8.
It's like amplifying a sound that was sampled in 16 bits. If it only took 12 bits because it was very quiet, and you raise it's level, you end up with a 12 sound that's resampled in 16 bits...
I've been photographing with film for a few years now, and recently converted to digital. I had a Canon AE1 before and now own a Canon G1.
The truth of the matter is, ultimately, the quality of a photograph is barely reliant on the camera, rather on the photographer him/herself.
Unless of course you're working with an extremely bad camera, but the technology that's out there today is very much capable of producing kick-ass prints on 8x10 paper.
I have a few shots that I find quite satisfying. Click
here.
I'm pretty sure there's a way to detect "malicous voting patterns" pretty easily using basic statistical analysis. Just examine voting patern variations over time and look for suspicious variations.
I'm pretty sure a branch of statistics is already solving similar problems
Couldn't they use a statistical analysis to verify if voting is "honest". I bet you could pretty easily detect normal voting behaviour as well as biased voting behaviour.
I'm pretty sure there's a branch of statistics that examines such problems.
Just put the computer in a garbage bag and throw it in the snow. Cheaper than any cooling setup. Need extra long cables though, and you may need to relocate while the show plow passes.
Another alternative is using a shop-vac, which can be switched in blower mode. You can put the device in the garage, and using a few dozen feet of plastic tubing, you can route that cool air right to your CPU. Lots of cubic feet of fresh air per minute. A bit noisy, but, listen to this folks, it doubles as a vacuum cleaner! How cool (no pun intended) is this?
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Just for the record - I have no problem with the people living in the US, just the way your government works, especially doing such a great job at preventing the american population of actually finding out what's actually going on.
Good luck with that debt!
The military solves one of humanity's problems: non-Americans
That's ironic because america is one of humanity's biggest problem.
As for social programs, are you talking about all those people in jail? 'Cause if you are, that doesn't count.
It's a well known fact that many industries in the US are dependant on military spendings for survival. It's a way of subsidising economical growth that's always been favored by republican governments.
Scientists, as a subset of the american workforce are subject to the same realities that govern the american economy.
If the government decided to spend all that money (hundreds of billions each year) towards more noble causes such as renewable energy or solving humanity's problems, that dilemma wouldn't exist. Of course that's impossible due to the forces that be. Look at who actualy puts people in office and who owns the media (mass influence) and you'll see that it's the same people who get the money.
My 0.02 CAN$
I build a cool rover with parts from my IOMega Zip drive, but it started making this wierd clicking sound...
JPZ3
In a nutshell,
- Lots of talk on Paul Graham's Bayesian approach and the derivative works that some people have been doing.
- Speakers were for the most part very inciteful, interesting, and funny (!)
- Some talk on the business side of things (Barry Shein)
- Some talk about exisiting "solutions". Our solution is the best (pretty boring. and nothing really interesting there).
Some stuff to remember and/or worth mentionning:
- When designing a spam blocker, use differrent corpuses of mail for developing, tweaking and testing. That will reflect better the real-world situation. (the only interesting thing the Microsoft guy said)
- The business of spam is more complex than it seems. It's about multi-layer marketing schemes and the spam itself is the product, not necessairly the Viagra or the penis enlarger
- Spammers are intelligent and getting clever to evade spam blocking software (one notable example of a mail written in monospace font, using HTML, and formattedd to write vertically, instead of left-to-right. The scanning software sees nothing recognisable!)
- The non-free e-mail subject did come up.
- You can always trace to the source. Maybe the sender is forged, but you can always go up the smtp relay chain. there will be a point where someone has an open relay (or it's the source itself)
- The MIT's infinite corridor is actually finite.
- Spam-control is really at its infancy, probably like anti-virus software was like in the mid 80s.
- Spam conference study have no need of penis enlargement, study says.
JP.
Please moderate this to that it can be seen.
Flash that card all you want, It won't add an ADC plug on it...
That's the price to pay.
I'd be really interested in finding out how the dual monitor configuration works out.
Do both screens need to have the same resolutions/refresh rates? What about Quartz acceleration, is it on both displays simultaneously, or just one at the time? Do the popups show up in the middle of one screen or split between the displays like on the Matrox/PC...
Gimme your rants and raves about that card.
(Just ask Bill Gates: as he said cogently last July, "Why are my document files stored one way, my contacts another way and my e-mail and instant-messaging buddy list still another, and why aren't they related to my calendar or to one another, and easy to search en masse?")
Answer this, Bill: On Mac OS X, there's an address book who'se data is to be used by all applications. Why does Microsoft Entourage (Outlook-like bundled with Office) does not use the system's Address book and implements it's own. Why isn't Entourage not able validate en e-mail address against the system's address book?
I don't know, but I won't buy that piece of crap. I'll use the built-in mailer.
Is there a worldwide shortage in sand? The stuff cannot by found anymore so we need a replacement...
My local photo shop which is also the best one in the city can print from any digital source. They have the technilogy to do it. You can also have photos printed from the web. Upload your images and have them mailed to you.
In fact, they've switched to digital in the lab. If you develop a 35mm roll, thye will scan it and print from the scanned images using their digital enlarger. The result, using a good 3.1 megapixel camera is indiscernible from traditionnal pictures for sizes up to 8x10.
Have a great 3 day week-end for the other fols up there. And the store is LLLozeau in Montreal, QC.
JP
That's the whole point of software/hardware interacting with the real world. If you want precision, write a video game.
JP
You bet it is, I wouldn't be surprised if Hitler takes this to the courts!
JP
Maybe if you pressured Bush to stay in the Kyoto protocol, we could eliminate the problem at the source.
Fact: The USA produces the most CO2 per populi on the planet.
JP
Meme slashdot n'est pas a l'abri de Celine Dion. N'y a t'il plus de lieux sacrés?
JP.
A beowulf cluster of blue screens?
J
That's because the word "assets" is not funny.
J.
Yes 8 bits are enough for the finished product. But when you do color corrections in Photoshop, you can end out stretching 5 or 6 bits that become 8.
It's like amplifying a sound that was sampled in 16 bits. If it only took 12 bits because it was very quiet, and you raise it's level, you end up with a 12 sound that's resampled in 16 bits...
JP
I've been photographing with film for a few years now, and recently converted to digital. I had a Canon AE1 before and now own a Canon G1. The truth of the matter is, ultimately, the quality of a photograph is barely reliant on the camera, rather on the photographer him/herself.
Unless of course you're working with an extremely bad camera, but the technology that's out there today is very much capable of producing kick-ass prints on 8x10 paper.
I have a few shots that I find quite satisfying. Click here.
JP.
I'm pretty sure there's a way to detect "malicous voting patterns" pretty easily using basic statistical analysis. Just examine voting patern variations over time and look for suspicious variations.
I'm pretty sure a branch of statistics is already solving similar problems
JP
Couldn't they use a statistical analysis to verify if voting is "honest". I bet you could pretty easily detect normal voting behaviour as well as biased voting behaviour.
I'm pretty sure there's a branch of statistics that examines such problems.
JPM
when you live in Quebec?
Just put the computer in a garbage bag and throw it in the snow. Cheaper than any cooling setup. Need extra long cables though, and you may need to relocate while the show plow passes.
Another alternative is using a shop-vac, which can be switched in blower mode. You can put the device in the garage, and using a few dozen feet of plastic tubing, you can route that cool air right to your CPU. Lots of cubic feet of fresh air per minute. A bit noisy, but, listen to this folks, it doubles as a vacuum cleaner! How cool (no pun intended) is this?
Think different!
J.
"And didn't each and every one of the hijackers present valid ID?"
Yup, but the airport security couldn't make out the names because the cards only support 7 bit ASCII chars.
How about setting up a bed & breakfast in the ISS?
"But the brochure said that the window offered a view *towards* the earth!"
JP
In economies where poeple dont trust the currencies, they invest in tangible goods like gold and silver.
In a cashless society, any illegal activity would certainly use some sort of untracable good such as gold
JP
this -> http://jp.dnsalias.net:8080 using 2 different parts.
JP