Right now there is heavy linkage to the blog. Sure, but what about in the future? When the links get archived and Google stops seeing them? As time progresses the web graph should stablize and the "true" meaning should come to the front.
Of course, I think both effects are great. Why? Well if a term takes on a certain meaning for a local period of time... wouldn't you assume that most searches/links to it are using that definition? And that over time a more stable definition would dominate? I don't see this as a bad thing.
Where Iraq said it caught some spies with satellite phones and some think that this is related to satellite phones some UK reporters had taken from them by the Iraqi government?
In the same way that an architect is not a carpenter, an automotive engineer is not the same as the guy down at the shop putting the airbags and 24's on your Land Rover. They use the same tools but there is that added extra that seperates them.
You can program and know nothing of design patterns, algorithmic complexity, or architecture. You might have the greatest mechanic in the world. But would GM put them in charge of the Corvette design team?
I guess the problem is that everybody is coding now, so they think that there is nothing special to what SE's do. Of course when businesses do this, the project doesn't scale, is unmaintainable, awkward, and crashes randomly. Just because I drive to work or live in a house doesn't mean I could build one better than the guys who do it for a living.
Was in a server room. Just me and about 40 odd servers humming away. Of course it was a bit cool (from all the AC) and I never had a jacket since it was about 90 degrees outside. But nothing could beat that combination of solitude and white noise. A riot could go off for all I cared.
Of course it wasn't that impressive when I was showing off where I worked. "Yeah you see that long workbench? Over there in the corner? That's allll mineee..."
George Romero's Dawn of the Dead, usually considered superior to his Night of the Living Dead... and that is commonly thought of as just a slasher flick.
I think that having more theaters is nice... but they need to sell the movie first... to some audience. The Oscar is nice and all but I doubt there will be too much a correlation between it and increased sales unless it had won for Best Picture.
But the more important problem is the audience. Who is this for? Under 13? Teenagers? Adults? Are they going to show commercials during Saturday mornings between Pokemon and Digimon? Or is this after-school fare?
I still think the biggest problem is that Disney doesn't know what to do with these films. They don't fit into their standard G rating pipeline so the films end up showing on 100 screens and getting attended to by the film heads only. Too bad.
Fine. I thought this was a discussion not a poll... but I'll keep that in mind.
...and there is no such thing as a "post-modern classic".
Touche'. I guess if I would have said that Goethe writing was romantic I would have blown all my credibility. Well I better just delete that submission I had planned to the Atlantic.
Dead Souls is quite good since it is considered a historical document of some sort. Since it parodies the post-feudal structure of Russia at the time it helps illuminate the country in transition. And, although I haven't read it, I hear that it shares many components with Gogol's Inspector General.
Vladamir Nabokov was a great fan of Gogol's and (I if I remember correctly) considered him "the" Russian literary archtype. I know that he said Gogol's Overcoat was the greatest short story every written.
I have a feeling that there is a silent minority of/. who actually reads things other than SF.
My current list: A 100 Years of Japanese Film, Donald Richie Play it as it Lays, Joan Didion Dead Souls, Nikolai Gogol
The first is self-explanatory. The second is a minimalist post-modern classic dealing with late 1960's Hollywood's wasted class (and reference for Bret Easton Ellis' Less than Zero). And the last is a tragio-comedy tale of late Czarist Russia.
Hell, maybe I'm alone. And not to defecate on SF (before this I finished PKD's Our Friends from Frolix 8) but I read for other reasons than obtaining a singular focus on technology. Maybe I'm old-fashioned.
Maybe it's some sort of technophilia but some of the posts on here are just pure vapor. Sure, there have been some great advances in computer vision and pattern recognition... but have some of these posters on here ever done any research in the area? Hell, most face recognition goes back to Fischer's 1936 iris data set and primary component analysis... not quite Wintermute stuff.
Too often vision projects find speedups by sacrificing one or another components. For instance, you can get some great face recognition with PCA... as long as the person's face is immobile. Tilt your head slightly or rotate too much and the system has no clue.
I'll admit, there is some killer work out there. But not of the full-blown "20 years and we will all have robotic man servants" thing. Keep the hype to a minimum.
This is like the Domain Name Land Grab
on
Browser Cookie Patent
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· Score: 4, Interesting
Everyone is just trying to get a dollar and a cent out of a tech industry they still think is hemmoraging cash. But here the implications are even worse. The worst thing about a domain name grab is that it points to a hack portal like xupiter.com and that in two years (with the anti-tech economic downturn) they'd probably drop the domain name.
By having a patent though... well, it can be bad news all around. I wonder, why didn't W3 try and pick up all these patents? Or are they out of their element here?
Like the finale of Married with Children
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Farscape Finale Tonight
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· Score: 3, Interesting
Anyone remember the end of Married... with Children and how you could tell that it was obviously not intended to be the show's conclusion but (like Farscape) a season-ender? And as far as I can remember it was for similar reasons: the show was popular but not the "direction" the channel (Fox in this case) wanted to go. Forget the fact that Married... with Children and The Simpsons helped put Fox on the map. But then Aaron Spelling came along and Fox decided to try and become like the other Big Three.
Sad when a media outlet is doing good product but thinks that by De-flavoring their shows will help them become a Mainstream channel. I mean, isn't that why people don't watch the big channels? That they are all derivative and generic?
If any of this does any good (outside of warning Windows admins). People who have used computers for twenty years still have no idea how these exploits and bugs work. They think that Kevin Mitnick can hack a computer with a telephone (ala Scanners) but don't think twice about double-clicking an email from "1337user@aol.com".
I sometimes think that education has been a problem, as all of these reports usually come with a verbose "what this does, what it doesn't, what you should do." So then I go on to think that it must be some sort of lethargy on the part of Joe End User. So then I think that a serious entrance learning curve would do the trick (i.e. stick every one on some old terminals).
But I think a threshold has been crossed. People now need to use computers. Colleges and businesses are going paperless, demanding a higher level of computer savvy... but all the while ignoring basic user compotence. Computer use is either "so simple a monkey could do it" or "impossible for anyone but geeks to understand". It's as if most users are satisfied to never understand how their "magic box" works.
This wouldn't bother me too much if it didn't seem that this same disease has seemingly infected a significant minority of admins out there (considering how ridiculously some of these viruses spread). Of course many of these seem to be (in my experience) non-CS academic types who "need" Unix workstations but are uninterested in protecting them.
Is that it was made for 300 million dollars as a part of some Homeland Security/NSF grant. Tom Ridge: "We need to arm and armor our children. Otherwise the terrorists have won!"
Mac OS and Windows: Using ATI video drivers will lead to random crashes on many sites. Mac OS ATI driver versions affected: All (?) Windows ATI driver versions affected: 5.13.1.6118 (Mac OS) Workaround: set your screen to 'Thousands of colors' rather than 'Millions'. (Windows) Possible Workaround: Revert to an older driver (6094?)-- Untested (Bug 101055)
This is probably one of the worst bugs, has been around for several iterations of the app and there seems to be no headway! And considering it related to all ATI video cards it isn't like it's some uncommon HW combination. Frustrating since I love the rest of the Moz product...
Yes with our patented technique you can increase your I.Q. by at least 40 points!?! I myself didn't believe it when I first heard of this technique! But it works!!! (ad nauseum)...
Maybe they can somehow bootleg this into those Nigerian money scams.
For those of you looking for the 5 second MS Word XP autosummary.
[snip] MozillaQuest Magazine: What sort of impact do you believe this sort of lawsuit filed by SCO-Caldera has on the Linux kernel, GNU/Linux, UNIX, and the Linux and free-software communities?
Linus Torvalds: None, really. The people I work with couldn't care less. [/snip]
Between science and pseudo-science is that real science has a bad habit of telling people what they don't want to hear. Pseudo-science has no conscience. And since most people only want good news... well I don't think this is easily resolved.
Personally this sounds like a swell idea. Right now I'm offering a once in a lifetime chance to pay 30 dollars and help write my Doctoral Dissertation! Of course you will get no credit but the experience itself and returns to the CS community will be priceless...
The country or set of countries (EU, Australia?) willing to accept this large pool of highly skilled and highly intelligent workers will hugely benefit.
Ok but that is not what the article is saying. What it is saying is that US workers are highly skilled, thus being picked up by foreign R&D firms. And to solve this is to pick up foreign workers.
Huh? Why go to foreign shores when the article explicitly states that the domestic product is just as good?
And I am NOT talking about American citizens versus Foreign citizens. I'm talking about students in the US versus foreign students. This author seems to be implying that we should pick up Indian students from Calcutta instead of Indian students who go to UT-Austin. Why? Who knows since he only seems to be shooting from the hip.
And this sort of circular logic is what makes this article a particularly bad one.
Slashdot Mirror
Right now there is heavy linkage to the blog. Sure, but what about in the future? When the links get archived and Google stops seeing them? As time progresses the web graph should stablize and the "true" meaning should come to the front.
Of course, I think both effects are great. Why? Well if a term takes on a certain meaning for a local period of time... wouldn't you assume that most searches/links to it are using that definition? And that over time a more stable definition would dominate? I don't see this as a bad thing.
Where Iraq said it caught some spies with satellite phones and some think that this is related to satellite phones some UK reporters had taken from them by the Iraqi government?
In the same way that an architect is not a carpenter, an automotive engineer is not the same as the guy down at the shop putting the airbags and 24's on your Land Rover. They use the same tools but there is that added extra that seperates them.
You can program and know nothing of design patterns, algorithmic complexity, or architecture. You might have the greatest mechanic in the world. But would GM put them in charge of the Corvette design team?
I guess the problem is that everybody is coding now, so they think that there is nothing special to what SE's do. Of course when businesses do this, the project doesn't scale, is unmaintainable, awkward, and crashes randomly. Just because I drive to work or live in a house doesn't mean I could build one better than the guys who do it for a living.
Was in a server room. Just me and about 40 odd servers humming away. Of course it was a bit cool (from all the AC) and I never had a jacket since it was about 90 degrees outside. But nothing could beat that combination of solitude and white noise. A riot could go off for all I cared.
Of course it wasn't that impressive when I was showing off where I worked. "Yeah you see that long workbench? Over there in the corner? That's allll mineee..."
George Romero's Dawn of the Dead, usually considered superior to his Night of the Living Dead... and that is commonly thought of as just a slasher flick.
And... Godfather 3... that's right. I said it!
I think that having more theaters is nice... but they need to sell the movie first... to some audience. The Oscar is nice and all but I doubt there will be too much a correlation between it and increased sales unless it had won for Best Picture.
But the more important problem is the audience. Who is this for? Under 13? Teenagers? Adults? Are they going to show commercials during Saturday mornings between Pokemon and Digimon? Or is this after-school fare?
I still think the biggest problem is that Disney doesn't know what to do with these films. They don't fit into their standard G rating pipeline so the films end up showing on 100 screens and getting attended to by the film heads only. Too bad.
Dead Souls is quite good since it is considered a historical document of some sort. Since it parodies the post-feudal structure of Russia at the time it helps illuminate the country in transition. And, although I haven't read it, I hear that it shares many components with Gogol's Inspector General.
Vladamir Nabokov was a great fan of Gogol's and (I if I remember correctly) considered him "the" Russian literary archtype. I know that he said Gogol's Overcoat was the greatest short story every written.
I have a feeling that there is a silent minority of /. who actually reads things other than SF.
My current list:
A 100 Years of Japanese Film, Donald Richie
Play it as it Lays, Joan Didion
Dead Souls, Nikolai Gogol
The first is self-explanatory. The second is a minimalist post-modern classic dealing with late 1960's Hollywood's wasted class (and reference for Bret Easton Ellis' Less than Zero). And the last is a tragio-comedy tale of late Czarist Russia.
Hell, maybe I'm alone. And not to defecate on SF (before this I finished PKD's Our Friends from Frolix 8) but I read for other reasons than obtaining a singular focus on technology. Maybe I'm old-fashioned.
Maybe it's some sort of technophilia but some of the posts on here are just pure vapor. Sure, there have been some great advances in computer vision and pattern recognition... but have some of these posters on here ever done any research in the area? Hell, most face recognition goes back to Fischer's 1936 iris data set and primary component analysis... not quite Wintermute stuff.
Too often vision projects find speedups by sacrificing one or another components. For instance, you can get some great face recognition with PCA... as long as the person's face is immobile. Tilt your head slightly or rotate too much and the system has no clue.
I'll admit, there is some killer work out there. But not of the full-blown "20 years and we will all have robotic man servants" thing. Keep the hype to a minimum.
Everyone is just trying to get a dollar and a cent out of a tech industry they still think is hemmoraging cash. But here the implications are even worse. The worst thing about a domain name grab is that it points to a hack portal like xupiter.com and that in two years (with the anti-tech economic downturn) they'd probably drop the domain name.
By having a patent though... well, it can be bad news all around. I wonder, why didn't W3 try and pick up all these patents? Or are they out of their element here?
"Lies, Damn Lies, and Microsoft Adverts"
Anyone remember the end of Married... with Children and how you could tell that it was obviously not intended to be the show's conclusion but (like Farscape) a season-ender? And as far as I can remember it was for similar reasons: the show was popular but not the "direction" the channel (Fox in this case) wanted to go. Forget the fact that Married... with Children and The Simpsons helped put Fox on the map. But then Aaron Spelling came along and Fox decided to try and become like the other Big Three.
Sad when a media outlet is doing good product but thinks that by De-flavoring their shows will help them become a Mainstream channel. I mean, isn't that why people don't watch the big channels? That they are all derivative and generic?
Dam'nit! Well I guess I'll never be an editor at a popular online community ;)
If any of this does any good (outside of warning Windows admins). People who have used computers for twenty years still have no idea how these exploits and bugs work. They think that Kevin Mitnick can hack a computer with a telephone (ala Scanners) but don't think twice about double-clicking an email from "1337user@aol.com".
I sometimes think that education has been a problem, as all of these reports usually come with a verbose "what this does, what it doesn't, what you should do." So then I go on to think that it must be some sort of lethargy on the part of Joe End User. So then I think that a serious entrance learning curve would do the trick (i.e. stick every one on some old terminals).
But I think a threshold has been crossed. People now need to use computers. Colleges and businesses are going paperless, demanding a higher level of computer savvy... but all the while ignoring basic user compotence. Computer use is either "so simple a monkey could do it" or "impossible for anyone but geeks to understand". It's as if most users are satisfied to never understand how their "magic box" works.
This wouldn't bother me too much if it didn't seem that this same disease has seemingly infected a significant minority of admins out there (considering how ridiculously some of these viruses spread). Of course many of these seem to be (in my experience) non-CS academic types who "need" Unix workstations but are uninterested in protecting them.
How about, for the entire GNU/Month charge outlandish subscription-based prices for all GNU/software retroactive for the last 20 years!!!
...is this thing on?
Hello?
Is that it was made for 300 million dollars as a part of some Homeland Security/NSF grant. Tom Ridge: "We need to arm and armor our children. Otherwise the terrorists have won!"
At last, an opportunity to see my hometown Detroit Tigers more than once a year!"
Isn't that more like a form of punishment?
To:someguy@somewhere.com
Subject: Brain Enlargement!?!
Yes with our patented technique you can increase your I.Q. by at least 40 points!?! I myself didn't believe it when I first heard of this technique! But it works!!! (ad nauseum)...
Maybe they can somehow bootleg this into those Nigerian money scams.
For those of you looking for the 5 second MS Word XP autosummary.
[snip]
MozillaQuest Magazine: What sort of impact do you believe this sort of lawsuit filed by SCO-Caldera has on the Linux kernel, GNU/Linux, UNIX, and the Linux and free-software communities?
Linus Torvalds: None, really. The people I work with couldn't care less.
[/snip]
Five Reasons to blow you life savings.
Between science and pseudo-science is that real science has a bad habit of telling people what they don't want to hear. Pseudo-science has no conscience. And since most people only want good news... well I don't think this is easily resolved.
I guess FortKnox was right when he said you get to pay for the privilege of doing the /. editors jobs for them.
Personally this sounds like a swell idea. Right now I'm offering a once in a lifetime chance to pay 30 dollars and help write my Doctoral Dissertation! Of course you will get no credit but the experience itself and returns to the CS community will be priceless...
The country or set of countries (EU, Australia?) willing to accept this large pool of highly skilled and highly intelligent workers will hugely benefit.
Ok but that is not what the article is saying. What it is saying is that US workers are highly skilled, thus being picked up by foreign R&D firms. And to solve this is to pick up foreign workers.
Huh? Why go to foreign shores when the article explicitly states that the domestic product is just as good?
And I am NOT talking about American citizens versus Foreign citizens. I'm talking about students in the US versus foreign students. This author seems to be implying that we should pick up Indian students from Calcutta instead of Indian students who go to UT-Austin. Why? Who knows since he only seems to be shooting from the hip.
And this sort of circular logic is what makes this article a particularly bad one.