But more importantly, she has a child! Having a child makes you a saint and should protect you from the repercussions of doing anything wrong!
Actually, having a child makes her protection instinct kick in. My wife is the sweetest person. One time we were talking about how the deaf community once advocated that deaf kids should be taken from their parents to be raised by other deaf people. Her response was, "I would KILL THEM WITH MY BARE HANDS." Yipe!
I've often thought that units could be designed to store GPS location information when a person goes "off map" into new roads that the unit doesn't know about. Then when the user syncs their device the information could be uploaded to a server where it is aggregated with other people's info. Once a threshold is reached, the company can convert the raw GPS data into map data, then push out a map update with the next sync.
I know that you're joking, but the sad thing is that it's no joke. Windows 95 would hang after 49.7 days of continuous operation. What really gets me is that the bug was discovered 4 years after the OS was released. (Note the date on the KB article.) Apparently no one, including Microsoft, thought an uptime of less than two months was abnormal.
More analysis is here. BTW, Microsoft says your computer may hang. I suspect rather that it will hang.
I guess the other thing I'm waiting for is an API for programmers. I like to store my passwords and PINs using encryption on my device. (1) Storing them on someone's server using their Safari-based web app won't work, and (2) Hacks people are using to write native apps aren't sanctioned and may stop working in the future. Sigh... C'mon Apple, open it up!
But as soon as you publish a clock starts for how long before a patent can no longer be filed. And in cases where a trade secret is more appropriate than a patent, the school would rather you didn't publish. Ditto for copyrightable stuff like software. But basically you're right... The patent foundation wants scientists to self-disclose (before or after publication) primarily because they need help identifying things what could become cash cows for the school.
Here the students own everything they make as part of coursework. Can you imagine a school asserting that a painting created in art class belongs to the school?
That's the point of view that I have. I'm lucky enough to be at an institution with rather liberal IP rules (William and Mary). Larger institutions have patent foundations, which are fundamentally against the whole point of research since the patent foundation wants/claims ownership of things you discover, and would rather you didn't publish it.
Happily, I haven't had a problem inserting "release code as open source" as a bullet in all my grant proposals. Since the grant proposal is a contract of sorts, I can point to the proposal (that the institution signed off on) if any lawyer starts hassling me about disclosing patentable discoveries.
Note to all you folks in grad school: put everything you can, including printouts of your code, as appendices in your thesis. Your thesis is copyright you, so the institution can't keep your work (in the thesis) as their own.
A friend of mine was doing fMRI research and was kind enough to give me the data she got from my brain. At the time AFNI was the best software for converting the data to movies. The software wasn't exactly easy to use. Since then I think the options have gotten much better. Anyway, here's my brain. I especially like the axe-to-the-head view.
Actually these are *exactly* the sentiments of the deaf community. Most don't see anything wrong with being deaf, and many consider it borderline child abuse to give your kid a cochlear implant.
I can't believe no one has suggested an unRAID server. You get redundancy, storage that can grow by just adding another drive, low power consumption, affordability, and the ability to telnet in. (Plus it runs Linux!) I really like this solution since the data isn't spread out over a bunch of disks in a way that only the RAID controller can understand. Instead it's just a bunch of files on a bunch of disks, with an extra parity drive for reliability.
If a drive goes down, you can just pop a new one in and recover the lost data from the parity drive. If two drives simultaneously fail (unlikely), you lose the data on the drives that failed. Compare that to the nightmare if your RAID controller fails.
Here's my unRAID server, built for $400 plus the drives. I love being able to do backups by just running rsync. Once the author gets sshd built into the system, I can even do automatic incremental snapshot backups using rsync --link-dest.
Assuming that this article doesn't outline an Achilles heel for hurricanes, there really is no way to stop them. From NOAA:
To change a Category 5 hurricane into a Category 2 hurricane you would have to add about a half ton of air for each square meter inside the eye, or a total of a bit more than half a billion (500,000,000) tons for a 20 km radius eye. It's difficult to envision a practical way of moving that much air around.
This is a great start, though I hesitate to support the inherent thinking behind it -- which is, the President has the power to do whatever the fuck he wants until Congress specifically steps in and removes one of these infinitely many powers.
That's a very good point. For a while now my personal emails have had this sig:
"When the president does it that means that it is not illegal."
- Richard Nixon on domestic surveillance, 5/19/1977
"Do I have the legal authority to do this? And the answer is, absolutely."
- George W. Bush on domestic surveillance, 12/19/2005
I think it's pretty clear that Bush subscribes to the philosophy of presidential power that you describe. I believe it was Frontline that reported how Bush, Cheney, etc. felt that the president needed to regain his power from congress.
It's a real shame that congress' only recourse is impeachment. (I've yet to understand what censure really does to an already unpopular president.) It's also a shame that congresscritters view themselves as Republican first, congresspeople second, then representatives third. This makes them adverse to opposing presidents of their own party.
I sit on the graduate admissions committee for William and Mary Computer Science. Year after year I see lots of applications from abroad with 780-800 GRE quantitative scores. As far as domestic students go, we get excited if we see someone with a 700. I asked one of our Greek faculty why we never see a Chinese or Easter European student with a 700, and she said that they would be ashamed and embarrassed to get such a low grade on what is basically high school math to them.
The sad fact is that here in the US we take very little math in school compared to, say, Greek students. Surely there are other factors such as the large number of Chinese students, Americans going into industry instead of grad school, etc. But when one of our recent admittees told me he did poorly on the GRE math because they were asking him to do things like exponents without a calculator, I have to wonder...
Sigh... After I showed the Z-machine to my wife, she started worrying that some day scientists would create a black hole that would destroy the earth. I was hoping for an "oh yeah, wait till you hear about Tesla" discussion...
BTW, physicists were worried at one point that the first atomic explosion would burn up all the oxygen in the earth's atmosphere...;)
However, the resulting drag force was larger than he'd predicted, and after his experiments introduced a full extra day in 1892 (February 31, 1892 - google it), he was forced to stop his experiments.
Sorry, I did google it and can't find any reference to this experiment. Would you mind helping me out?
A NASA engineer told me about how some debugging code was inadvertently left in after production. Later they had in-flight problems that they couldn't fix. Finally an engineer remembered the "mighty mouse" code that would cause a reboot, and they invoked it remotely and everything was fixed.
I guess I'm a little disturbed that they had to reboot the space station... LINK.
Because the picture goes to crap as soon as you turn on the microwave, and because you'll have to rip all your DVDs to work around macrovision protection. (The transmitter looks like a VCR to macrovision, so your picture will "pulse" dark.)
I always thought aerogel was some pretty cool stuff. If you insulated your house with it, you would only need one candle to keep the entire house warm.:)
What I'm thinking about is using Amazon's S3 service along with JungleDisk to get a cheap online, reliable, unlimited virtual drive for Time Machine to store its backups on. I just hope that Time Machine is smart enough to queue up its transactions when the network storage is not available. I also wonder what the performance will be like.
Things are moving fast in this space. I'd love to see a general online storage solution with WebDAV support, something like Gallery2 or Flickr built-in, permissions management so I can share different files with different people, and low monthly cost.
From what I recall in physics class electrons travel at 2/3 c. So at best this means that memories and chips can be 50% further apart, or that clocks can go 50% faster. Or is there more to this?
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Actually, having a child makes her protection instinct kick in. My wife is the sweetest person. One time we were talking about how the deaf community once advocated that deaf kids should be taken from their parents to be raised by other deaf people. Her response was, "I would KILL THEM WITH MY BARE HANDS." Yipe!
I've often thought that units could be designed to store GPS location information when a person goes "off map" into new roads that the unit doesn't know about. Then when the user syncs their device the information could be uploaded to a server where it is aggregated with other people's info. Once a threshold is reached, the company can convert the raw GPS data into map data, then push out a map update with the next sync.
I know that you're joking, but the sad thing is that it's no joke. Windows 95 would hang after 49.7 days of continuous operation. What really gets me is that the bug was discovered 4 years after the OS was released. (Note the date on the KB article.) Apparently no one, including Microsoft, thought an uptime of less than two months was abnormal.
More analysis is here. BTW, Microsoft says your computer may hang. I suspect rather that it will hang.
They disabled appointment entry for the calendar widget. That's really too bad, since I was hoping that this device could be the convergence of my Palm T|X and my iPod. Does anyone know if they crippled any other features of the iPhone? I would have bought one if it truly was an iPhone minus the phone. (I refuse to give AT&T $1500 on top of the not-even-subsidized cost of the iPhone.)
I guess the other thing I'm waiting for is an API for programmers. I like to store my passwords and PINs using encryption on my device. (1) Storing them on someone's server using their Safari-based web app won't work, and (2) Hacks people are using to write native apps aren't sanctioned and may stop working in the future. Sigh... C'mon Apple, open it up!
But as soon as you publish a clock starts for how long before a patent can no longer be filed. And in cases where a trade secret is more appropriate than a patent, the school would rather you didn't publish. Ditto for copyrightable stuff like software. But basically you're right... The patent foundation wants scientists to self-disclose (before or after publication) primarily because they need help identifying things what could become cash cows for the school.
Here the students own everything they make as part of coursework. Can you imagine a school asserting that a painting created in art class belongs to the school?
That's the point of view that I have. I'm lucky enough to be at an institution with rather liberal IP rules (William and Mary). Larger institutions have patent foundations, which are fundamentally against the whole point of research since the patent foundation wants/claims ownership of things you discover, and would rather you didn't publish it.
Happily, I haven't had a problem inserting "release code as open source" as a bullet in all my grant proposals. Since the grant proposal is a contract of sorts, I can point to the proposal (that the institution signed off on) if any lawyer starts hassling me about disclosing patentable discoveries.
Note to all you folks in grad school: put everything you can, including printouts of your code, as appendices in your thesis. Your thesis is copyright you, so the institution can't keep your work (in the thesis) as their own.
So maybe finally YouTube won't look like crap. Fullscreen is a joke.
Kudos to you! Never let reason get in the way of a good joke.
Actually these are *exactly* the sentiments of the deaf community. Most don't see anything wrong with being deaf, and many consider it borderline child abuse to give your kid a cochlear implant.
I can't believe no one has suggested an unRAID server. You get redundancy, storage that can grow by just adding another drive, low power consumption, affordability, and the ability to telnet in. (Plus it runs Linux!) I really like this solution since the data isn't spread out over a bunch of disks in a way that only the RAID controller can understand. Instead it's just a bunch of files on a bunch of disks, with an extra parity drive for reliability.
If a drive goes down, you can just pop a new one in and recover the lost data from the parity drive. If two drives simultaneously fail (unlikely), you lose the data on the drives that failed. Compare that to the nightmare if your RAID controller fails.
Here's my unRAID server, built for $400 plus the drives. I love being able to do backups by just running rsync. Once the author gets sshd built into the system, I can even do automatic incremental snapshot backups using rsync --link-dest.
Assuming that this article doesn't outline an Achilles heel for hurricanes, there really is no way to stop them. From NOAA:
That's a very good point. For a while now my personal emails have had this sig:
"When the president does it that means that it is not illegal."
- Richard Nixon on domestic surveillance, 5/19/1977
"Do I have the legal authority to do this? And the answer is, absolutely."
- George W. Bush on domestic surveillance, 12/19/2005
I think it's pretty clear that Bush subscribes to the philosophy of presidential power that you describe. I believe it was Frontline that reported how Bush, Cheney, etc. felt that the president needed to regain his power from congress.
It's a real shame that congress' only recourse is impeachment. (I've yet to understand what censure really does to an already unpopular president.) It's also a shame that congresscritters view themselves as Republican first, congresspeople second, then representatives third. This makes them adverse to opposing presidents of their own party.
I sit on the graduate admissions committee for William and Mary Computer Science. Year after year I see lots of applications from abroad with 780-800 GRE quantitative scores. As far as domestic students go, we get excited if we see someone with a 700. I asked one of our Greek faculty why we never see a Chinese or Easter European student with a 700, and she said that they would be ashamed and embarrassed to get such a low grade on what is basically high school math to them.
The sad fact is that here in the US we take very little math in school compared to, say, Greek students. Surely there are other factors such as the large number of Chinese students, Americans going into industry instead of grad school, etc. But when one of our recent admittees told me he did poorly on the GRE math because they were asking him to do things like exponents without a calculator, I have to wonder...
Sigh... After I showed the Z-machine to my wife, she started worrying that some day scientists would create a black hole that would destroy the earth. I was hoping for an "oh yeah, wait till you hear about Tesla" discussion...
BTW, physicists were worried at one point that the first atomic explosion would burn up all the oxygen in the earth's atmosphere... ;)
A NASA engineer told me about how some debugging code was inadvertently left in after production. Later they had in-flight problems that they couldn't fix. Finally an engineer remembered the "mighty mouse" code that would cause a reboot, and they invoked it remotely and everything was fixed.
I guess I'm a little disturbed that they had to reboot the space station... LINK.
Go easy on Microsoft. Way back in 2000 they didn't know how to properly count dates.
</sarcasm>
Because the picture goes to crap as soon as you turn on the microwave, and because you'll have to rip all your DVDs to work around macrovision protection. (The transmitter looks like a VCR to macrovision, so your picture will "pulse" dark.)
What I'm thinking about is using Amazon's S3 service along with JungleDisk to get a cheap online, reliable, unlimited virtual drive for Time Machine to store its backups on. I just hope that Time Machine is smart enough to queue up its transactions when the network storage is not available. I also wonder what the performance will be like.
Things are moving fast in this space. I'd love to see a general online storage solution with WebDAV support, something like Gallery2 or Flickr built-in, permissions management so I can share different files with different people, and low monthly cost.
This is a big deal, since it's where one would go to get threading of conversations and Maildir support.
Everyone seems to be missing the point that if our elected reps are getting the code now, the bad guys have probably had it for much longer.
From what I recall in physics class electrons travel at 2/3 c. So at best this means that memories and chips can be 50% further apart, or that clocks can go 50% faster. Or is there more to this?