Resolution, not area. All the screen area is 3d, but, let's say, even pixels are for the right eye, odd pixels for the left. Said that, another possibility is to have one refresh cycle for the left and one for the right... so, same resolution but half refresh.
"A brief history of the future", J.Naughton, is a very good book on the origins of the Internet, with some even funny detail. Worth to be read (more than T.Berners-Lee book...)
In Italy, we have had recently a heated debate on something similar. Most of programmers, software analysts, and so on come from the Master course in Computer Science (sort of), which is inside the Faculty of Sciences and not Engineering (where a course in Computer Engineering is instead available). Some 'computer scientists' (let's call them this way) tried in the last years to have a State licensure for their (our) own job, but it wasn't possible and as substitution it is possible now to access the Computer Engineering licensure exam (which exists already). However, engineers are not glad for that, and at present it is unlikely for a computer scientist to be able to obtain the license (not only matter of knowledge...). Engineers say that computer scientists are not engineers, so they cannot access the Computer engineering license. Computer scientists say that computer engineers do not know sufficiently computers to have 'computer...' in their licensure (I agree on the latter, but I'm biased). However, civil engineers may obtain the computer license too, so the latter might be true (and is a reason to have a different license). Bye
I would like to point out that not only traditional publishers are challenged, but even the peer review process is under consideration, as there is no great evidence on its usefulness (BMJ 1999;318:44-45).However, it's still difficult to find something to substitute it...
Furthermore, Brown's attempts are not so new. PubMedCentral has been created for putting scientific papers (of traditional publishers) on the web for free, but it also includes a number of autonomous publications, which are free for readers; unfortunately, they are not free for authors, as administrative expenses (which exist for web-based journals too) are covered by a submission fee. Anyway, every research project includes publication costs, so this is a way for using them.
From the political opposition to the government, the major criticisms regard the fact that both Sicily and Calabria are still lacking waterpipes and clean water at home and other "commodities", which perhaps could be easily provided with the enormous amount of money needed for building the bridge... Let's say, another great promise, which will be discussed on the media and give still more and more visibility to Berlusconi, although perhaps it is not likely to be fulfilled.
It's strange to discover that a network born from military efforts is actually badly managed by its originators. This adds to the fact that the initial dream of having a network connected through multiple routes in case of attacks has been never fulfilled, or at least it is no more possible. Apart from those addresses, after the recent WTC attacks the Italian research network has been cut out from US networks because the backbone connection was passing under the towers. Some day was needed to find a backup connection, and we are still on backup at a lower bandwidth than usual.
You're true on all line. However, there is now some more possibility that the student might answer to such kind of behaviour. If a student (which is really much different that a learning person, at such level) is so good to be able to procure patent-level discoveries, he/she might also prove that his/her advisor is not doing his/her interest by not giving recommendation letters. Yes, I'm optimist...
The student' win is important, as it states the autonomy of the student in respect to his/her teacher/head. It is usual that head's names are added to scientific papers just because they are supervising the work of PhD students, even when supervision is just formal without real support to the student. The student, in such approach, is something like a slave, whose work is owned by the supervisor. The article says also that "...student researchers will now be able to sue their supervising PhDs for any actions that are not in the best interests of the student researcher", which gives supervision a more strong and formally bounded meaning, possibly increasing the quality of supervision itself and thus the benefits for the students.
... sometimes do the same, i.e., a motorized filter wheel placed in front of the CCD. No realtime acquisition, but very good for static/very slow subjects (i.e., microscope and telescope images). This because single CCDs are more precise/sensitive than 3CCD cameras.
With this technique you may also select other primary colours (i.e., CMY), and filter strange colour combinations.
I do not know how the situation is going in corporate networks, but if I look at the first 20 italian web sites per number of users (source: OneTone, September 2001 -very reasonable), I have the following systems (using Netcraft's survey data):
iol.it Apache/1.3.12 (Unix) on Linux
www.virgilio.it Apache/1.3.12 (Unix) on Solaris
msn.it Microsoft-IIS/5.0 on Windows 2000
supereva.it Apache/1.3.12 (Unix) on Linux
tiscali.it Apache/1.3.20 (Unix) on Linux
yahoo.com unknown on FreeBSD
microsoft.com Microsoft-IIS/5.0 on Windows 2000
msn.com Microsoft-IIS/5.0 on Windows 2000
yahoo.it unknown on FreeBSD
www.clarence.com Apache/1.3.12 (Unix) on Linux
kataweb.it Apache/1.3.20 (Unix) on Solaris
inwind.it Apache/1.3.14 (Unix) on Linux
passport.com Microsoft-IIS/5.0 on Windows 2000
jumpy.it Squid/2.3.STABLE4 on Solaris
www.tripod.it Apache/1.3.20 (Unix) on Linux
xoom.it Apache/1.2.5 on FreeBSD
gsmbox.com Apache/1.3.17 (Unix) on Linux
lycos.it Apache/1.3.20 (Unix) on Linux
tuttogratis.it Apache/1.3.14 (Unix) (Red-Hat/Linux) on Linux.
altavista.it Resin/1.2.1 on Linux
So, 50% linux, Win2000 just on Microsoft sites, three Solaris, three with FreeBSD.
Not bad. At least on the web side...
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There has been a long discussion on Macintouch about Macintosh "vintage" apps, often now released as freeware, that are still running on recent systems (even too fast, sometimes). Sw includes word processors, slide presenters, etc.
A couple of old mac emulators running on new macs are also suggested for running outdated apps.
At the end of the discussion there is a list of links; furthermore, there is at least one games site (http://homepage.mac.com/giantmike/old.html) (tenths-hundreds of kylobites per game...).
A friend of mine used a PB100 until some month ago, when the hard disk started to fail. But even with such a slow processor, and few memory, it remained "usable" because she didn' make too much software upgrades (e.g., still using Word 4/5).
In fact, old software was less resource-hog, and thus you can have a good apparent performance even with clearly surpassed hardware. This is true mainly for Macintosh, as the operating system was nice and usable even more than ten years ago (no comparison with Win less than 95).
I had a couple of another extremely interesting Powerbooks: Duo 230 and 270c then upgraded to 2300. Very small, less than 2kg, really portable, I miss them even writing from my PB G3/500. Now only Sony is making a Vaio of such size (although the new iBook is sufficiently small).
The way I see it, their job is to keep track of inventory, stock what sells, and don't stock what doesn't. They do not need to know my [name|address|phone|mother's maiden name|last 6 months' purchases] in order to do that.
Tracking unique consumer' patterns of consumption gives more information than aggregate data. They may know how long lasts a butter stick, if there is some need of changing format, together with which other product it is bought, etc. However, also for this there is no need of knowing personal data, as it is sufficient to have a unique ID. And bogus names still allow for such task (so, if somebody is against such behaviour, it should avoid also bogus names).
By asking names and data, there might be a further level of aggregation/sharing/selling, because the owner of many cards might be characterized more thoroughly by, let's say, a third party having data from different chains. Such third party may suggest each supermarket the fields where they are weak, by knowing consumer patterns of their clients that are also other's clients.
There even could be something good for consumers, in such evaluations; but it is not clear, because they do not inform.
In Italy -by law- you can opt-out at any time by any data bank, and also ask for how data are used. However, people is not really using such possibilities (you should send a written, assured letter to the databank responsible, etc).
However, there is some criticism about peer review.
For what regards the medical field, you can find a useful review at the British Medical Journal, Evidence on peer review - scientific quality control or smokescreen?, by Sandra Goldbeck-Wood. It is a comment on a randomized trial about peer review appeared on the same journal issue (interesting though), and it points out, among other things, that appreciable bias and parochialism have been found in the peer review system (with appropriate citations). I suspect it is not a problem for medicine only.
A particular bias, which is crucial in medicine and partially due to reviewers, is the "positive outcome bias": negative results are less likely to be published (Callaham ML, Wears RL, Weber EJ, Barton C, Young G. Positive-outcome bias and other limitations in the outcome of research abstracts submitted to a scientific meeting. JAMA 1998; 280:254-257), although they are important for the follow-up of a new treatment (which may produce also negative results, after an initial acceptance).
In the medical field there is at least one great attempt of freeing the access to scientific literature: PubMedCentral, from the US government, aimed at hosting papers from traditional scientific journals. However, not so many publishers accepted such proposal. One important publisher offering free access to its journals is instead BMJ (as you can see from the above citation), available on the Web with a full range of services, including fast responses. The latter are a good way for transforming a paper on the web to a catalyst of discussion, as people may answer through the web avoiding the long times needed for a paper response.
Historical note.
I would like to remember people that VNC has a pretty long story: it was created at the Olivetti Research Laboratory, that become Olivetti&Oracle Research Lab, and then was bought in 1999 by AT&T (including VNC).
I wish to point out that a smart ranking technique based on hyperlinks, similar to that used by Google, but more complex, has been proposed years ago by the IBM's "Clever" Project.
The article cites also Google, with the differences in respect to Clever.
In particular, while Google limits hyperlink ranking to links pointing _to_ a page, Clever identifies two scores, "authority" and "hub" : "...a respected authority is a page that is referred to by many good hubs; a useful hub is a location that points to many valuable authorities".
Values are calculated in an iterative way, depending also on the query.
It's an interesting field of research, and Google demonstrates that it is also fruitful.
Apart from the basic features of the scientific process, press releases help in "remember" a particular scientist and/or Institute in the mind of people deciding about research grants. Unfortunately, part of the scientist's task now is filling grant forms before deadline, and then writing project reports, which are often screened by administrative people that's not reading scientific journals, but may recall a discovery seen on TV. (I speak mainly for EU research fundings, but I know how some US colleague work just before grant's deadlines...).
I'm not saying that scientists are cheating: it's just a survival technique, evolved for the current scientific world as it is.
I suspect part of the software quality problems are given by the idea that programmers are like artists. Engineering is 95% "simply applying rules", 5% is creative, when the engineer has to find out how to do something new. 95% of software is "simply applying rules": but often programmers do not like rules. Or perhaps, due to the young age of Computer Science, we still lack believable rules.
In the medical field, a change is ongoing regarding the approach to patient care, by means of the so-called "Evidence-Based Medicine". Following this paradigm, decisions should be brought following the most up-to-date scientific evidence about diseases, and not basing just on feelings and intuition, as some doctors do, thinking at Medicine as an art. There is a lot to discuss about how scientific evidence can be stated and so on (it's not the right place, here), but something similar could be needed also in programming, and it could be reached if programming practices aimed at real reuse of software components (tested and "certified" to work), at easy debugging and readability are introduced into work.
However, the time constraint still remains (all efforts towards readability and reuse cost time), and is perhaps the most influencing factor for quality, in a short-termed programming strategy.
Slashdot Mirror
As far as I know, you can also stream NB3s.
It seems that Eolas just wants money from MS and from money-making companies...s p.
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1304252,00.a
Some attempt to describe previous work, related to Lotus Notes, is available at http://www.ozzie.net/blog/stories/2003/09/12/savin gTheBrowser.html (sorry Ozzie if you'll be slashdotted...)
VDM
Resolution, not area. All the screen area is 3d, but, let's say, even pixels are for the right eye, odd pixels for the left. Said that, another possibility is to have one refresh cycle for the left and one for the right... so, same resolution but half refresh.
Bye.
"pippo" (Disney's Goofy, in Italian). I know, it's off-topic.
No more... "You do not have access to "Posts Removed by Moderators"
this may enforce the impression that it is an internal mistake.
VDM
"A brief history of the future", J.Naughton, is a very good book on the origins of the Internet, with some even funny detail. Worth to be read (more than T.Berners-Lee book...)
Will the price of spare parts remain the same if they are used (eventually in large quantities) for building iBoxes?
The free market has some laws.
Bye!
In Italy, we have had recently a heated debate on something similar. ...).
Most of programmers, software analysts, and so on come from the Master course in Computer Science (sort of), which is inside the Faculty of Sciences and not Engineering (where a course in Computer Engineering is instead available). Some 'computer scientists' (let's call them this way) tried in the last years to have a State licensure for their (our) own job, but it wasn't possible and as substitution it is possible now to access the Computer Engineering licensure exam (which exists already). However, engineers are not glad for that, and at present it is unlikely for a computer scientist to be able to obtain the license (not only matter of knowledge
Engineers say that computer scientists are not engineers, so they cannot access the Computer engineering license. Computer scientists say that computer engineers do not know sufficiently computers to have 'computer...' in their licensure (I agree on the latter, but I'm biased). However, civil engineers may obtain the computer license too, so the latter might be true (and is a reason to have a different license).
Bye
I would like to point out that not only traditional publishers are challenged, but even the peer review process is under consideration, as there is no great evidence on its usefulness (BMJ 1999;318:44-45).However, it's still difficult to find something to substitute it...
Furthermore, Brown's attempts are not so new. PubMedCentral has been created for putting scientific papers (of traditional publishers) on the web for free, but it also includes a number of autonomous publications, which are free for readers; unfortunately, they are not free for authors, as administrative expenses (which exist for web-based journals too) are covered by a submission fee. Anyway, every research project includes publication costs, so this is a way for using them.
Enzo
From the political opposition to the government, the major criticisms regard the fact that both Sicily and Calabria are still lacking waterpipes and clean water at home and other "commodities", which perhaps could be easily provided with the enormous amount of money needed for building the bridge...
Let's say, another great promise, which will be discussed on the media and give still more and more visibility to Berlusconi, although perhaps it is not likely to be fulfilled.
Bye,
Enzo
It's strange to discover that a network born from military efforts is actually badly managed by its originators. This adds to the fact that the initial dream of having a network connected through multiple routes in case of attacks has been never fulfilled, or at least it is no more possible. Apart from those addresses, after the recent WTC attacks the Italian research network has been cut out from US networks because the backbone connection was passing under the towers. Some day was needed to find a backup connection, and we are still on backup at a lower bandwidth than usual.
Perhaps no overclocking and Linux, but -vice versa- there exists a 4004 software emulator for Linux (e.g., i4004em).
You're true on all line. However, there is now some more possibility that the student might answer to such kind of behaviour. If a student (which is really much different that a learning person, at such level) is so good to be able to procure patent-level discoveries, he/she might also prove that his/her advisor is not doing his/her interest by not giving recommendation letters. Yes, I'm optimist...
The student' win is important, as it states the autonomy of the student in respect to his/her teacher/head. It is usual that head's names are added to scientific papers just because they are supervising the work of PhD students, even when supervision is just formal without real support to the student. The student, in such approach, is something like a slave, whose work is owned by the supervisor. The article says also that "...student researchers will now be able to sue their supervising PhDs for any actions that are not in the best interests of the student researcher", which gives supervision a more strong and formally bounded meaning, possibly increasing the quality of supervision itself and thus the benefits for the students.
... sometimes do the same, i.e., a motorized filter wheel placed in front of the CCD. No realtime acquisition, but very good for static/very slow subjects (i.e., microscope and telescope images). This because single CCDs are more precise/sensitive than 3CCD cameras.
With this technique you may also select other primary colours (i.e., CMY), and filter strange colour combinations.
You may find some picture of such weels for example at http://www.ghg.net/cshaw/filter.htm (applied to telescope observation).
So, 50% linux, Win2000 just on Microsoft sites, three Solaris, three with FreeBSD.
Not bad. At least on the web side...
There has been a long discussion on Macintouch about Macintosh "vintage" apps, often now released as freeware, that are still running on recent systems (even too fast, sometimes). Sw includes word processors, slide presenters, etc.
A couple of old mac emulators running on new macs are also suggested for running outdated apps.
At the end of the discussion there is a list of links; furthermore, there is at least one games site (http://homepage.mac.com/giantmike/old.html) (tenths-hundreds of kylobites per game...).
A friend of mine used a PB100 until some month ago, when the hard disk started to fail. But even with such a slow processor, and few memory, it remained "usable" because she didn' make too much software upgrades (e.g., still using Word 4/5).
In fact, old software was less resource-hog, and thus you can have a good apparent performance even with clearly surpassed hardware. This is true mainly for Macintosh, as the operating system was nice and usable even more than ten years ago (no comparison with Win less than 95).
I had a couple of another extremely interesting Powerbooks: Duo 230 and 270c then upgraded to 2300. Very small, less than 2kg, really portable, I miss them even writing from my PB G3/500. Now only Sony is making a Vaio of such size (although the new iBook is sufficiently small).
My 0.02 euro...
Tracking unique consumer' patterns of consumption gives more information than aggregate data. They may know how long lasts a butter stick, if there is some need of changing format, together with which other product it is bought, etc. However, also for this there is no need of knowing personal data, as it is sufficient to have a unique ID. And bogus names still allow for such task (so, if somebody is against such behaviour, it should avoid also bogus names).
By asking names and data, there might be a further level of aggregation/sharing/selling, because the owner of many cards might be characterized more thoroughly by, let's say, a third party having data from different chains. Such third party may suggest each supermarket the fields where they are weak, by knowing consumer patterns of their clients that are also other's clients.
There even could be something good for consumers, in such evaluations; but it is not clear, because they do not inform.
In Italy -by law- you can opt-out at any time by any data bank, and also ask for how data are used. However, people is not really using such possibilities (you should send a written, assured letter to the databank responsible, etc).
My 0.02 euro...
For what regards the medical field, you can find a useful review at the British Medical Journal, Evidence on peer review - scientific quality control or smokescreen?, by Sandra Goldbeck-Wood. It is a comment on a randomized trial about peer review appeared on the same journal issue (interesting though), and it points out, among other things, that appreciable bias and parochialism have been found in the peer review system (with appropriate citations). I suspect it is not a problem for medicine only.
A particular bias, which is crucial in medicine and partially due to reviewers, is the "positive outcome bias": negative results are less likely to be published (Callaham ML, Wears RL, Weber EJ, Barton C, Young G. Positive-outcome bias and other limitations in the outcome of research abstracts submitted to a scientific meeting. JAMA 1998; 280:254-257), although they are important for the follow-up of a new treatment (which may produce also negative results, after an initial acceptance).
In the medical field there is at least one great attempt of freeing the access to scientific literature: PubMedCentral, from the US government, aimed at hosting papers from traditional scientific journals. However, not so many publishers accepted such proposal. One important publisher offering free access to its journals is instead BMJ (as you can see from the above citation), available on the Web with a full range of services, including fast responses. The latter are a good way for transforming a paper on the web to a catalyst of discussion, as people may answer through the web avoiding the long times needed for a paper response.
"Informative", I hope...
Historical note.
I would like to remember people that VNC has a pretty long story: it was created at the Olivetti Research Laboratory, that become Olivetti&Oracle Research Lab, and then was bought in 1999 by AT&T (including VNC).
I wish to point out that a smart ranking technique based on hyperlinks, similar to that used by Google, but more complex, has been proposed years ago by the IBM's "Clever" Project.
You can find a description on Hypersearching the Web, Scientific American 6/99.
The article cites also Google, with the differences in respect to Clever.
In particular, while Google limits hyperlink ranking to links pointing _to_ a page, Clever identifies two scores, "authority" and "hub" : "...a respected authority is a page that is referred to by many good hubs; a useful hub is a location that points to many valuable authorities".
Values are calculated in an iterative way, depending also on the query.
It's an interesting field of research, and Google demonstrates that it is also fruitful.
Apart from the basic features of the scientific process, press releases help in "remember" a particular scientist and/or Institute in the mind of people deciding about research grants. Unfortunately, part of the scientist's task now is filling grant forms before deadline, and then writing project reports, which are often screened by administrative people that's not reading scientific journals, but may recall a discovery seen on TV. (I speak mainly for EU research fundings, but I know how some US colleague work just before grant's deadlines...).
I'm not saying that scientists are cheating: it's just a survival technique, evolved for the current scientific world as it is.
I suspect part of the software quality problems are given by the idea that programmers are like artists. Engineering is 95% "simply applying rules", 5% is creative, when the engineer has to find out how to do something new. 95% of software is "simply applying rules": but often programmers do not like rules. Or perhaps, due to the young age of Computer Science, we still lack believable rules.
In the medical field, a change is ongoing regarding the approach to patient care, by means of the so-called "Evidence-Based Medicine". Following this paradigm, decisions should be brought following the most up-to-date scientific evidence about diseases, and not basing just on feelings and intuition, as some doctors do, thinking at Medicine as an art. There is a lot to discuss about how scientific evidence can be stated and so on (it's not the right place, here), but something similar could be needed also in programming, and it could be reached if programming practices aimed at real reuse of software components (tested and "certified" to work), at easy debugging and readability are introduced into work.
However, the time constraint still remains (all efforts towards readability and reuse cost time), and is perhaps the most influencing factor for quality, in a short-termed programming strategy.