The next big thing I think would be a "smart" translator that can do pattern recognition and "learn" as it gets more of the language. IIRC This is how the star trek translators work.
Kind of the difference between pattern checking, and anomaly detection in virus scanners.
It's sad that some rich companies in Asia are going to get away with making their own DVD players for the sole purpose of cheating the DVD patent holders while some poor European kid who writes DeCSS so that he can play his legally purchased DVDs on Linux gets crucified to the fullest extent of the law.
How many times has sendmail been the root of problems in the past 3-4 years?
Perhaps it's just my epxerience, but a PE2550 with 2gb of ram (current setup) is pegging it's memory with a mere 80 users. And it's only being used for calendaring...
One thing to consider with Exchange though is the gigantic bloat the thing is, and how much hardware is required to run the thing in comparison to *nix mail servers.
Example: 100 person little tiny company:
Exchange:
Win2k server + MS Exchange ($5k? for proper licensing) Dell Poweredge 2550 2x1.8ghz 4gb ram ($10k)
This should support you to probably around 250 people.
Anti-virus software can run on the server side here as well (Norton has a version for unicies), and if you accidentally delete a mailbox (why did you do that again?) you can restore from tape much easier than with Exchange (yes, I've had to do both).
And god knows you don't have to take the bsd machine down for an hour each week to patch it.
And you can actually go through and run proper scripting on mail with the unix solution (spam catchers, conditional distribution lists, proper server side OoO replies).
And the unix solution will give you proper logging of messages and mailboxes.
And the unix solution will require far less attention by the IT admin(s) that will likely be woefully understaffed to begin with.
And the unix solution will be faster, cleaner, more reliable, more scalable, more compatable to clients, while still being about a third cheaper.
Not to mention of course that Exchange machines are a security liability, and should never ever ever be deployed into a hostile environment (ie: the internet, where mail comes from; or any company, where there's (statistically) someone with less-than-good intentions trying to get payroll info and the such.)
First off. I am not a woman. Secondly, I am gainfully employed in the IT industry. Thirdly, there is a problem given that something akin to 5% of IT workers are female in a field that only relies on intelligence.
Ah sorry. I was using my own definition of life as opposed to the medical definition.
Mostly because people value life so diligently I consider their definitions of life to be the medical definition of human conciousness which imo is more amazing than the medical definition of life.
Actually I find that people in business want the job done their way, and will blatantly reject nearly everything new, invovative, or even vaguely weird.
I represent no women, and look to make no trouble.
I am just curious as to their opinions in the matter, as imo it is a serious problem that will hinder (american at least) IT and computing for years to come.
Actually, it's usually a lack of oxygen to the brain that kills people, usually precipitated by heart failure caused by the gaping wound in their chest from the bullet, fired by a gun, controlled by a man.
Says nobody, that's merely my impression of the story.
We know that's not true? I think the story and the character would be much more interesting if he could not be defeated, and simply did not as he knew the pull from the dark side may be too great.
Though perhaps I have Yoda and Gandolf (whom Yoda was patterned after iirc) confused.
Well I'd love a good story, but as Lucas is incapable of making any decent story, I'd rather not have one, and just have pretty fights.
As for Yoda:
Mace Windu is supposed to be the great fighter. Yoda is supposed to be the wiser, more thoughtful jedi. IMO Yoda is more like the emperor. "We don't need no steenking lightsabers." Just some subtle power. Maybe a wave of the hand, and people die. He doesn't fight because he does not need to. Nobody fucks with him because they know he knows bad foo.
I generally liked AOTC as well. I will like it even better when I can sit at home and MST3K it. I also thought that the bad parts of AOTC (any love scene, any one liner by mcgregor, any scene with 3cpo talking) were an order of magnitude worse than TPM.
There were also many scenes that were blatant sell-out type scenes that the purist in me sees as a blatant travisty to the universe (yoda, r2 flying, the jedi sacraficing themselves uselessly).
btw: Spiderman is decently mediocre; Maguire is perfect casting, the newspaper owner is hilarious and perfectly done, but the movie has no set pace, and Dunst just doesn't do it for me.
I wish that Kurtz (wasn't this the name of the guy that "helped" Lucas with ep 4,5?) would make his own versions of ep 1-3. They were supposed to be much much darker and much more interesting.
Though I hope that the "new generation" goes for the Tolkien movies rather than X-men/Spiderman/the Hulk
I've always thought Ender's game was supposed to end after the 'victory'. Lunacy or suicide ties everything up, and everyone is happy. "The good of the many(us)..." and all that. It's like the publisher came down from on high and forced Card to write a happy ending. I hope the movie ends where the book should've.
From what I understand of Japan, the proliferation of broadband isn't so much due to a good environment for broadband, as much the horrifically crappy environment for dialup. (because local calls aren't free iirc)
No, it is not, but there will not be a competitor for a few years. How long do you think it'll take to lay a few million feet of cable/wire, even if a mythical company existed that could afford it? Or to send up enough satellites or towers to do wireless?
By then it is too late. The bells will have all the customers, or countries with more foresight (Canada?) will have passed the US by.
It is not the end of the world, but it's likely the end of US leading the way.
Duh. But seriously, the courts broke up the bells for a reason, and it wasn't so they could be all bought out into a monopoly again. Forcing 3rd parties to lease their networks will kill the 3rd parties.
Competition will be destroyed. This could easily lead to a situation within a year that leaves SBC/Verizon as the only dsl carriers, and only 2-3 overpriced cable carriers for the nation.
Perhaps my views are biased then, since my only exposure to college radio have been San Jose State, and Clarkson U's radio programming, both of which are quite diverse.
Local radio still exists in colleges mostly. College radio plays tons of great unknown stuff, usually local. It's kinda of a mixed bag though, as different djs have VASTLY different tastes, but better than hearing the same song 20x a day
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Indeed though I doubt things will get much better (ie, translating slang without an update) without such systems.
The next big thing I think would be a "smart" translator that can do pattern recognition and "learn" as it gets more of the language. IIRC This is how the star trek translators work.
Kind of the difference between pattern checking, and anomaly detection in virus scanners.
I was trying to be generous, as most shops that use Exchange will also be sending massive office attachments which chew up ram, and storage.
perhaps the message would be better s/around/atleast/
Emphasis mine.
How many times has sendmail been the root of problems in the past 3-4 years?
Perhaps it's just my epxerience, but a PE2550 with 2gb of ram (current setup) is pegging it's memory with a mere 80 users. And it's only being used for calendaring...
Like I said, perhaps it's just my experience...
One thing to consider with Exchange though is the gigantic bloat the thing is, and how much hardware is required to run the thing in comparison to *nix mail servers.
Example: 100 person little tiny company:
Exchange:
Win2k server + MS Exchange ($5k? for proper licensing)
Dell Poweredge 2550 2x1.8ghz 4gb ram ($10k)
This should support you to (*maybe*) 150 people.
Unix (assuming i386 hardware)
*BSD + sendmail/qmail (free)
Dell Poweredge 2550 2x1.8ghz 4gb ram ($10k)
This should support you to probably around 250 people.
Anti-virus software can run on the server side here as well (Norton has a version for unicies), and if you accidentally delete a mailbox (why did you do that again?) you can restore from tape much easier than with Exchange (yes, I've had to do both).
And god knows you don't have to take the bsd machine down for an hour each week to patch it.
And you can actually go through and run proper scripting on mail with the unix solution (spam catchers, conditional distribution lists, proper server side OoO replies).
And the unix solution will give you proper logging of messages and mailboxes.
And the unix solution will require far less attention by the IT admin(s) that will likely be woefully understaffed to begin with.
And the unix solution will be faster, cleaner, more reliable, more scalable, more compatable to clients, while still being about a third cheaper.
Not to mention of course that Exchange machines are a security liability, and should never ever ever be deployed into a hostile environment (ie: the internet, where mail comes from; or any company, where there's (statistically) someone with less-than-good intentions trying to get payroll info and the such.)
First off. I am not a woman.
Secondly, I am gainfully employed in the IT industry.
Thirdly, there is a problem given that something akin to 5% of IT workers are female in a field that only relies on intelligence.
Ah sorry. I was using my own definition of life as opposed to the medical definition.
Mostly because people value life so diligently I consider their definitions of life to be the medical definition of human conciousness which imo is more amazing than the medical definition of life.
Actually I find that people in business want the job done their way, and will blatantly reject nearly everything new, invovative, or even vaguely weird.
I represent no women, and look to make no trouble.
I am just curious as to their opinions in the matter, as imo it is a serious problem that will hinder (american at least) IT and computing for years to come.
Actually, it's usually a lack of oxygen to the brain that kills people, usually precipitated by heart failure caused by the gaping wound in their chest from the bullet, fired by a gun, controlled by a man.
If you want to get pedantic about it of course.
Says nobody, that's merely my impression of the story.
We know that's not true? I think the story and the character would be much more interesting if he could not be defeated, and simply did not as he knew the pull from the dark side may be too great.
Though perhaps I have Yoda and Gandolf (whom Yoda was patterned after iirc) confused.
For the women in the group:
What are your opinions regarding the shrinking number of women in the industry? (actually I believe the numbers are rising again in schools)
Well I'd love a good story, but as Lucas is incapable of making any decent story, I'd rather not have one, and just have pretty fights.
As for Yoda:
Mace Windu is supposed to be the great fighter. Yoda is supposed to be the wiser, more thoughtful jedi. IMO Yoda is more like the emperor. "We don't need no steenking lightsabers." Just some subtle power. Maybe a wave of the hand, and people die. He doesn't fight because he does not need to. Nobody fucks with him because they know he knows bad foo.
I generally liked AOTC as well. I will like it even better when I can sit at home and MST3K it. I also thought that the bad parts of AOTC (any love scene, any one liner by mcgregor, any scene with 3cpo talking) were an order of magnitude worse than TPM.
There were also many scenes that were blatant sell-out type scenes that the purist in me sees as a blatant travisty to the universe (yoda, r2 flying, the jedi sacraficing themselves uselessly).
btw: Spiderman is decently mediocre; Maguire is perfect casting, the newspaper owner is hilarious and perfectly done, but the movie has no set pace, and Dunst just doesn't do it for me.
I wish that Kurtz (wasn't this the name of the guy that "helped" Lucas with ep 4,5?) would make his own versions of ep 1-3. They were supposed to be much much darker and much more interesting.
Though I hope that the "new generation" goes for the Tolkien movies rather than X-men/Spiderman/the Hulk
I've always thought Ender's game was supposed to end after the 'victory'. Lunacy or suicide ties everything up, and everyone is happy. "The good of the many(us)..." and all that. It's like the publisher came down from on high and forced Card to write a happy ending. I hope the movie ends where the book should've.
From what I understand of Japan, the proliferation of broadband isn't so much due to a good environment for broadband, as much the horrifically crappy environment for dialup. (because local calls aren't free iirc)
Do you think cable will stay at $45/month if they don't need to compete with non-bell dsl?
Do you think that's really 2048/384 on a cable or satellite?
Don't think that if you don't have dsl you're safe from the repercussions of this ruling (if it stands)
No, it is not, but there will not be a competitor for a few years. How long do you think it'll take to lay a few million feet of cable/wire, even if a mythical company existed that could afford it? Or to send up enough satellites or towers to do wireless?
By then it is too late. The bells will have all the customers, or countries with more foresight (Canada?) will have passed the US by.
It is not the end of the world, but it's likely the end of US leading the way.
Duh. But seriously, the courts broke up the bells for a reason, and it wasn't so they could be all bought out into a monopoly again. Forcing 3rd parties to lease their networks will kill the 3rd parties.
Competition will be destroyed. This could easily lead to a situation within a year that leaves SBC/Verizon as the only dsl carriers, and only 2-3 overpriced cable carriers for the nation.
Aww, come on, it wasn't so bad when you're sloshed. And statistics say you were sloshed, and often =]
Perhaps my views are biased then, since my only exposure to college radio have been San Jose State, and Clarkson U's radio programming, both of which are quite diverse.
Local radio still exists in colleges mostly. College radio plays tons of great unknown stuff, usually local. It's kinda of a mixed bag though, as different djs have VASTLY different tastes, but better than hearing the same song 20x a day
I'm not sure that Cool toilets would look good on the Sharp Zaurus =]