Google's Zeitgeist page lists stats on the percentage of hits by OS and browser - In August of 2001, just under 1.2 % of Google Queries were from Linux boxes. This is approximately 5 times higher than the 0.2x% reported in some places, and probably more accurate in terms of web usage. Google Zeitgeist August 2001
Yes, most ideas good interface ideas could be considered common sense. . . But common sense is rarely either. Some people are gifted and intuitive when it comes to the web. But the average person designs a website that is somewhere between awful and horrific. The unwashed masses definitely need Nielsen's distilled results of thousands of experiments, focus groups, and observations. And even some of the pros could benefit from things like user needs analysis, user testing, and periodic reviews.
Help me understand why anyone cares enough about poisonous algae to send a satellite into space.
I live a few miles from the ocean. The last red tide we had was fairly severe. People would drive to the beach communities and start coughing and hacking as soon as they got out of their cars. A few friends went surfing before anyone knew it was a red tide, and had severe symptoms, including bleeding eyes and sinuses.
With a birds eye view, it is possible not only to get early warning of these events, but to figure out what causes them - are they linked to temperature, sediment loads, particular nutrients, or what?? Anyone like seafood?? Knowing more about the where and when of algae will improve the safety and quality of fish in your local market.
amazing what a well placed hyphen can do the pronounciation and overtones.
Kartist ??
Mundie Actually Makes Sense ...
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To the people selling shrink-wrapped software. They have made money that way, and want to continue. Mundie's comments make much less sense to the end-users of software...does the customer want to pay more or less for a given commodity like a text processor, image editor, or database?
The Seed Savers Exchange is one group that is devoted to the exchange of non-patented seed by hobbyists. They have a mission of preserving biodiversity in fruits and vegetables and helping members trade resources. Last years catalog had 11,000 varieties of non-patented seed for swap. The Flower and Herb Exchange is a related group for flower and herb seed (they share web resources with seedsavers.org). There is a membership fee to cover administrative costs - its free as in freedom, not free as in beer.
You fools! You let a glib story by Microsoft-NBC determine your perspective towards NASA's development of remote sensing drones, all because the testing phase involves the agriculture of coffee (which someone aparently finds trivial).
As punishment, you will spend this afternoon reading about NASA's efforts to develop and deploy useful technologies for Earth observation. Fire up your search engine, and feed it terms like "mission to planet Earth" and "Destination:Earth" to find out how NASA is doing neat stuff that is of real value.
The "advances of modern man" haven't derailed evolution. Most bacteria are evolving rapidly to overcome antibiotics, and we are lucky to be one step ahead of them. The fact that smallpox has been eliminated might be an evolutionary victory of humans over the virus enemy, except that smallpox isn't really extinct- freeze dried virus still exists, and somebody might dig up a frozen caveman and reignite the battle.
Hurricane Andrew taught Miami a lesson about adapting to the environment - it is still necessary. Yes, we humans can wipe out plants and animals and otherwise make a fine mess when we get distracted by our many strange ideas, but we never left nature or evolution.
Yeah, the half-life of some the waste is 20,000 years. So all that Plutonium being generated will decay to a somewhat safe level, in, um 300,000 to half a million years. The government will keep an eye on things til then.
BTW, we could easily supply enough electricity for the entire nation using wind. It wouldn't power our cars, but neither does nuclear electricity. Better turbine technology and mass production have dropped the wholesale production cost of wind electricity to around 3-4 cents a kwh. The 'wind belt' (where average speeds are highest) runs from the Dakotas south to Texas - convienently aligned with the center of the US population. It might give the farmers in that part of the country something to do when they have pumped the Ogallala aquifer dry and find they cant grow wheat or corn there without irrigation!
PV shirts only curious,
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But low priced, durable, decently efficient photovoltaic fabric could change the world.
The basic TIGER files that are used for street mapping are free from the census bureau. Unfortunately, they are not as up to date or as detailed as those from the value-added companies that invest in improving the maps, and then sell them. Originally, the TIGER maps were created in a top-down manner by the Feds, and updated every ten years for the census. We are moving towards a bottom-up compilation process, where all construction projects would be submitted to county government in a CAD/GIS format, and the change would then percolate up and quickly be released to the public. So Free(tm) personal road map software is possible, and will be more competitive with the proprietary products. It will still be monster sized, especially if images are included, but look for new and improved soon.
As far as I can tell, this database is mostly abstracts and citations. The real articles that the abstracts point to are still in books or periodicals owned by large publishing houses. It is a very useful source, but it hasn't freed up computer science. You still need to pay for most of the articles unless you have access to a research library.
This is like the Medline medicine database (11 million abstracts) except the citation analysis is more advanced for the CS database. Also, I think that medical abstracts are more useful as they usually feature the results from a testable hypothesis that describes an existing biochemical or physical mechanism. Much computer research involves the development and exploration of logical systems - this can't be boiled down to a paragraph. Proof of concept is a valid way of doing research, but five or six sentences is not enough to thoroughly describe the ideas that were proved. (see example from researchindex.com below):
Abstract: Models of Qualitative Spatial Reasoning (QSR), built according to the \make only as many distinctions as necessary" belief, partition the universe of values into a finite number of regions; elements lying in a same region are qualitatively equal, i.e., indistinguishable. The purpose of this work is not to tackle the foundational arguments of QSR, in which I strongly believe; rather, I believe as well that some application domains need a representational model based on a partition of the universe of values as ne-grained as possible: that is to say, a quantitative model. I investigate such a model, which is a constraint-based model of ternary relations on triples of 2D points; a relation of...
The main BSD companies are older and well established - Most of the Linux companies are relatively young, and didn't even plan on turning a profit in the first couple of years. Obviously, some of them may not make it, but saying that all Linux companies are doomed is painting with a pretty broad brush.
Initially, Curl Corporation will only require payment for Curl content that is deployed for commercial use. Non-commercial users will be able to deploy Curl content at no charge. INITIALLY free, like "try this free sample and get hooked. If you want more later, we can talk money then." Maybe they'll only charge non-commercial users half the $1000 per month minimum. No thanks, Bubba!!
The original idea was to have a free university with a one year residential program in computer science, and to offer as much as possible online for people who couldn't participate full time. There was a vision of growth from the CS core into a more full-fledged university, although this was an open ended goal.
I have been downloading the mpegs of the Ars Digita University lectures and soaking up a little of the knowledge. Seems like a very focused, intense program in CS - too bad it may not make it.
Ever try to send money to a relative overseas? Cashing a certified check from a US bank costs $20 to $50 dollars in many European countries, and takes 2-3 weeks for snail mail and waiting for the check to clear. Paypal, e-gold, and other payment systems can be good; maybe not perfect yet but these things are a good idea getting better.
It doesn't even have to have a purity stamp on it - you can buy nuggets, jewelry, etc. If the stamp is from a reputable mint or mining company, or if it is a coin, it is usually possible to sell the gold without doing an assay. Assays cost money.
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Google's Zeitgeist page lists stats on the percentage of hits by OS and browser - In August of 2001, just under 1.2 % of Google Queries were from Linux boxes. This is approximately 5 times higher than the 0.2x% reported in some places, and probably more accurate in terms of web usage. Google Zeitgeist August 2001
Yes, most ideas good interface ideas could be considered common sense. . . But common sense is rarely either. Some people are gifted and intuitive when it comes to the web. But the average person designs a website that is somewhere between awful and horrific. The unwashed masses definitely need Nielsen's distilled results of thousands of experiments, focus groups, and observations. And even some of the pros could benefit from things like user needs analysis, user testing, and periodic reviews.
Help me understand why anyone cares enough about poisonous algae to send a satellite into space.
I live a few miles from the ocean. The last red tide we had was fairly severe. People would drive to the beach communities and start coughing and hacking as soon as they got out of their cars. A few friends went surfing before anyone knew it was a red tide, and had severe symptoms, including bleeding eyes and sinuses.
With a birds eye view, it is possible not only to get early warning of these events, but to figure out what causes them - are they linked to temperature, sediment loads, particular nutrients, or what?? Anyone like seafood?? Knowing more about the where and when of algae will improve the safety and quality of fish in your local market.
Heres an article on Clear Channel Communications at Salon Magazine.
against Microsoft on behalf of the families of the deceased, for damages caused by missapropriation of the identities of their loved ones.
After all, it sounds suspiciously like Crayola brand Crayons.
amazing what a well placed hyphen can do the pronounciation and overtones.
Kartist ??
To the people selling shrink-wrapped software. They have made money that way, and want to continue. Mundie's comments make much less sense to the end-users of software...does the customer want to pay more or less for a given commodity like a text processor, image editor, or database?
The Seed Savers Exchange is one group that is devoted to the exchange of non-patented seed by hobbyists. They have a mission of preserving biodiversity in fruits and vegetables and helping members trade resources. Last years catalog had 11,000 varieties of non-patented seed for swap. The Flower and Herb Exchange is a related group for flower and herb seed (they share web resources with seedsavers.org). There is a membership fee to cover administrative costs - its free as in freedom, not free as in beer.
You fools! You let a glib story by Microsoft-NBC determine your perspective towards NASA's development of remote sensing drones, all because the testing phase involves the agriculture of coffee (which someone aparently finds trivial). As punishment, you will spend this afternoon reading about NASA's efforts to develop and deploy useful technologies for Earth observation. Fire up your search engine, and feed it terms like "mission to planet Earth" and "Destination:Earth" to find out how NASA is doing neat stuff that is of real value.
The "advances of modern man" haven't derailed evolution. Most bacteria are evolving rapidly to overcome antibiotics, and we are lucky to be one step ahead of them. The fact that smallpox has been eliminated might be an evolutionary victory of humans over the virus enemy, except that smallpox isn't really extinct- freeze dried virus still exists, and somebody might dig up a frozen caveman and reignite the battle.
Hurricane Andrew taught Miami a lesson about adapting to the environment - it is still necessary. Yes, we humans can wipe out plants and animals and otherwise make a fine mess when we get distracted by our many strange ideas, but we never left nature or evolution.
Yeah, the half-life of some the waste is 20,000 years. So all that Plutonium being generated will decay to a somewhat safe level, in, um 300,000 to half a million years. The government will keep an eye on things til then.
BTW, we could easily supply enough electricity for the entire nation using wind. It wouldn't power our cars, but neither does nuclear electricity. Better turbine technology and mass production have dropped the wholesale production cost of wind electricity to around 3-4 cents a kwh. The 'wind belt' (where average speeds are highest) runs from the Dakotas south to Texas - convienently aligned with the center of the US population. It might give the farmers in that part of the country something to do when they have pumped the Ogallala aquifer dry and find they cant grow wheat or corn there without irrigation!
But low priced, durable, decently efficient photovoltaic fabric could change the world.
The basic TIGER files that are used for street mapping are free from the census bureau. Unfortunately, they are not as up to date or as detailed as those from the value-added companies that invest in improving the maps, and then sell them. Originally, the TIGER maps were created in a top-down manner by the Feds, and updated every ten years for the census. We are moving towards a bottom-up compilation process, where all construction projects would be submitted to county government in a CAD/GIS format, and the change would then percolate up and quickly be released to the public. So Free(tm) personal road map software is possible, and will be more competitive with the proprietary products. It will still be monster sized, especially if images are included, but look for new and improved soon.
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As far as I can tell, this database is mostly abstracts and citations. The real articles that the abstracts point to are still in books or periodicals owned by large publishing houses. It is a very useful source, but it hasn't freed up computer science. You still need to pay for most of the articles unless you have access to a research library.
This is like the Medline medicine database (11 million abstracts) except the citation analysis is more advanced for the CS database. Also, I think that medical abstracts are more useful as they usually feature the results from a testable hypothesis that describes an existing biochemical or physical mechanism. Much computer research involves the development and exploration of logical systems - this can't be boiled down to a paragraph. Proof of concept is a valid way of doing research, but five or six sentences is not enough to thoroughly describe the ideas that were proved. (see example from researchindex.com below):
Abstract: Models of Qualitative Spatial Reasoning (QSR), built according to the \make only as many distinctions as necessary" belief, partition the universe of values into a finite number of regions; elements lying in a same region are qualitatively equal, i.e., indistinguishable. The purpose of this work is not to tackle the foundational arguments of QSR, in which I strongly believe; rather, I believe as well that some application domains need a representational model based on a partition of the universe of values as ne-grained as possible: that is to say, a quantitative model. I investigate such a model, which is a constraint-based model of ternary relations on triples of 2D points; a relation of...
100,000 pairs of eyes connected to one head and it kills freedom wherever it is seen.
The main BSD companies are older and well established - Most of the Linux companies are relatively young, and didn't even plan on turning a profit in the first couple of years. Obviously, some of them may not make it, but saying that all Linux companies are doomed is painting with a pretty broad brush.
Initially, Curl Corporation will only require payment for Curl content that is deployed for commercial use. Non-commercial users will be able to deploy Curl content at no charge. INITIALLY free, like "try this free sample and get hooked. If you want more later, we can talk money then." Maybe they'll only charge non-commercial users half the $1000 per month minimum. No thanks, Bubba!!
Sure, they use some of the same algorithms. But they are nnnnot thhe saym.
that webcams exist solely for the purpose of transmitting innapropriate images. Is there any coffee in the pot?
The original idea was to have a free university with a one year residential program in computer science, and to offer as much as possible online for people who couldn't participate full time. There was a vision of growth from the CS core into a more full-fledged university, although this was an open ended goal.
I have been downloading the mpegs of the Ars Digita University lectures and soaking up a little of the knowledge. Seems like a very focused, intense program in CS - too bad it may not make it.
Ever try to send money to a relative overseas? Cashing a certified check from a US bank costs $20 to $50 dollars in many European countries, and takes 2-3 weeks for snail mail and waiting for the check to clear. Paypal, e-gold, and other payment systems can be good; maybe not perfect yet but these things are a good idea getting better.
It doesn't even have to have a purity stamp on it - you can buy nuggets, jewelry, etc. If the stamp is from a reputable mint or mining company, or if it is a coin, it is usually possible to sell the gold without doing an assay. Assays cost money.