Once again the real winners will be the lawyers - particularly any legal firm called "The Lawyers" who can also now apparently sue Google themselves for misuse of trademark.
I don't know about you guys but I'm going back to paper...
I guess that having all your data acquired by a single acquistion element may yield some precision advantages. One of the problems with arrays of elements is that each element will have very slightly different purity levels which can have a subtle effect on the signal acquired. Obviously not much of a issue for visible light photography but in situations where signal levels are very low for instance in gamma ray detection, this may yield benefits.
Yes I agree. An interesting read but I found his reasoning a little confused. He appeared to be arguing in favour of 'true' agility (little 'a' for agile and all that). However, he then went on to demand things like 'you can't have deadlines'. I thought the point of an agile system was to be able to work within a variety of constraints which may be outside of your control. A deadline is something you, and your development model, may have to deal with.
As others pointed out on his blog, Google is a company which currently has the luxury of defining it's own business environment something which most other companies are unable to do.
One of the most success wide area automated image analysis systems in use in the UK is for traffic congestion charging in London. Isn't it funny that the technology can be made to work when there is an obvious revenue stream?
You could be right. Many of the older, large media companies are still struggling to update their business models to meet the changes in technology. The old model of 'owning' a copy of the entity (music, film, whatever) and this then infering certain viewing/listening rights is so much more difficult to uphold now compared to 20 or even 10 years ago. I still think the only viable solution, for music at least, will be in making the money from the live performance and seeing the recordings almost as loss leaders. One thing people wouldn't tolerate is going to fake live peformance (unless its the Australian Pink Floyd show or something.) I think we are even starting to see this happen with some dramatic price increase for major stars.
My approach to email is based on two 'facts'.
1. Computers are better at searching than me.
2. Computer storage (on the scale of email at least) is cheap.
Thus I keep everything (except obvious junk and spam) in one big folder called 'Archive'. My Inbox is virtually empty except for stuff that I haven't read yet. If I need older stuff then I run a search on my Archive - I use google desktop (I expect people have heard of them).
This way I don't waste time trying to think of which folder an email should go into. Why waste the time organising email that I will almost certainly never re-read - I estimated that I only reread less than 5% of the mail even once. If only I could have all that time back I spent deciding in which of the 98 folders an email belonged. I don't think I ever had single email that didn't belong in at least 3!
When 'Archive' gets too big I archive it:) In outlook this essentially means moving it into a personal folder (my company has a 100MB limit on server based inboxes). I have a series of dated folders for each of my archive points. This is perfectly adequate as, generally, the value of emails diminishes over time; archived emails are slightly less accessible but I am even less likely to need them so the effort level on average remains low.
When I go through my new mail anything that needs more than 2 minutes thought goes temporarily into 'Action'. Everything else is read and dumped into 'Archive'. When I'm ready I'll go through the stuff in 'Actions' and do what is needed then dump the mail into 'Archive'.
The real joy of this is that my inbox is just that, an inbox and not a cluttered mess - I bet at home you at least pick up the mail from the floor and put it on your kitchen table. I would really urge people to try this as I found the experience very liberating. It would take me two days to clear my inbox after a 2 week holiday, last time I did it in 15 minutes; inbox empty. (ok I had plenty of to do in actions but my inbox was ready to work as an inbox again and I had a sense of the work outstanding)
Some of the biggest gains for open source applications are still to be had, particularly in areas with strong relations with IT but historically less technical backgrounds such as in libraries (both public and coporate). The mother of a friend of mine witnessed some very 'wolly' thinking when at a meeting to plan the next generation of IT infrastructure for a large part of Londons public library system. She was representing the libraries in one borough of London (despite having next to no computing experience). On the subject of which office package they should purchase my friend had already primed his mother with a suggestion of Open Office. However, the technical advisor (who represented a company which resold Microsoft products) told the committee that such 'toy' free software may be OK for smaller endeavours but wasn't appropriate for a professional and highly important environment as theirs. They all agreed, the matter was dropped and several thousand MS Office license purchased. Now whatever the truth of their needs and the total cost of ownership etc I'm still a little concerned with the sidedness of that debate. Bascially MS Office was bought out of habit and convenience. My friend informs me that, having spent time working in the library with his mother, he thinks there is actually little argument to deploy anything more than a good electronic typewriter.
How do OSS representatives get to the table in situations like this? I guess the answer must be through ensuring that anyone at that table could represent OSS.
I've been a PlusNet user for several years now and have nothing but praise for them. Reliable service, competitive pricing and excellent support. However, I've always used Yahoo for my email...
I think we all know that the real question here is, in a straight, clean fight, who wins, Airwolf or Bluethunder?. Now I know what your thinking? What chance does stright to video star Jan-Michael Vincent have against HAL chess playing, shark killing, SeaQuest DSV commanding Roy Scheider? Well to you I say, don't forget that Airwolf co-pilot was none other than Poseidon surviving, Gattaca acting, SpongeBob SquarePants Mermaid Man (I shit you not) Ernest Borgnine. Yeah people. Not so easy now is it?
Know what I'd like to see in multi-player on line games? More automated characters. Seriously! But ones written by ordinary users to interface with the online world. Perhaps running as a screen saver on their machine - BOINC anyone? What a great place to develop AI algorithms. Bit of computer vision, map building and path planning to navigate around. Some basic interaction problems to solve. If the API for these things was better published I could almost imagine having a go myself!
But wasn't the end-to-end model SUN's approach as well? There must be more too it than just building the OS and hardware in harmony. SUN even dabbled in funky designs remember the JavaStation?
Typically of the kind of problem that arises when you rely on automated spell checking. This guy actually wanted to call them 'contortionists' not 'extortionists'. All very innocent you see.
I reckon right now even, some Government 'boffin' out there is working on a way to modify the molecular bonding of water to adjust its' light refraction properties and thus produce images from the sea itself. My money would be on it being the same guy who worked on the Spitfire, decoding the Enigma codes and the nose design for Concorde. Still going strong thanks to regular pipe tobacco.
"...selling advertising space that would show up on satellite photos"
then Google could get kick-backs to ensure that your 'flightpath' across Google Earth took in a few pieces of advertising along the way! Excellent stuff, I knew there would be money in this oil stuff somewhere.
On the otherhand you could see this working in favour of the geek. After all only someone with sufficient geek knowledge could rig the voting in their favour. Unlike the current paper systems which any f**kwit can abuse.
Slashdot Mirror
Once again the real winners will be the lawyers - particularly any legal firm called "The Lawyers" who can also now apparently sue Google themselves for misuse of trademark.
I don't know about you guys but I'm going back to paper...
No, no, no. It's not what you know. It isn't even who you know. It is in fact what you know about who you know that really matters. :)
I guess that having all your data acquired by a single acquistion element may yield some precision advantages. One of the problems with arrays of elements is that each element will have very slightly different purity levels which can have a subtle effect on the signal acquired. Obviously not much of a issue for visible light photography but in situations where signal levels are very low for instance in gamma ray detection, this may yield benefits.
Anyone else seen widsets. Kind of like Yahoo widgets/Konfabulator/Dashboard for your mobile. Works great on my E61, but mainly when using a WiFi link.
A good example of Bad Science. Why, who better to perform an interesting medical study than a couple of Economists!
Yes I agree. An interesting read but I found his reasoning a little confused. He appeared to be arguing in favour of 'true' agility (little 'a' for agile and all that). However, he then went on to demand things like 'you can't have deadlines'. I thought the point of an agile system was to be able to work within a variety of constraints which may be outside of your control. A deadline is something you, and your development model, may have to deal with.
As others pointed out on his blog, Google is a company which currently has the luxury of defining it's own business environment something which most other companies are unable to do.
Bad posture != Extreme sport
One of the most success wide area automated image analysis systems in use in the UK is for traffic congestion charging in London. Isn't it funny that the technology can be made to work when there is an obvious revenue stream?
You could be right. Many of the older, large media companies are still struggling to update their business models to meet the changes in technology. The old model of 'owning' a copy of the entity (music, film, whatever) and this then infering certain viewing/listening rights is so much more difficult to uphold now compared to 20 or even 10 years ago. I still think the only viable solution, for music at least, will be in making the money from the live performance and seeing the recordings almost as loss leaders. One thing people wouldn't tolerate is going to fake live peformance (unless its the Australian Pink Floyd show or something.) I think we are even starting to see this happen with some dramatic price increase for major stars.
If the customer is happy, it's a solution.
See what happens when f**k with Marina?
My approach to email is based on two 'facts'.
:) In outlook this essentially means moving it into a personal folder (my company has a 100MB limit on server based inboxes). I have a series of dated folders for each of my archive points. This is perfectly adequate as, generally, the value of emails diminishes over time; archived emails are slightly less accessible but I am even less likely to need them so the effort level on average remains low.
1. Computers are better at searching than me.
2. Computer storage (on the scale of email at least) is cheap.
Thus I keep everything (except obvious junk and spam) in one big folder called 'Archive'. My Inbox is virtually empty except for stuff that I haven't read yet. If I need older stuff then I run a search on my Archive - I use google desktop (I expect people have heard of them).
This way I don't waste time trying to think of which folder an email should go into. Why waste the time organising email that I will almost certainly never re-read - I estimated that I only reread less than 5% of the mail even once. If only I could have all that time back I spent deciding in which of the 98 folders an email belonged. I don't think I ever had single email that didn't belong in at least 3!
When 'Archive' gets too big I archive it
When I go through my new mail anything that needs more than 2 minutes thought goes temporarily into 'Action'. Everything else is read and dumped into 'Archive'. When I'm ready I'll go through the stuff in 'Actions' and do what is needed then dump the mail into 'Archive'.
The real joy of this is that my inbox is just that, an inbox and not a cluttered mess - I bet at home you at least pick up the mail from the floor and put it on your kitchen table. I would really urge people to try this as I found the experience very liberating. It would take me two days to clear my inbox after a 2 week holiday, last time I did it in 15 minutes; inbox empty. (ok I had plenty of to do in actions but my inbox was ready to work as an inbox again and I had a sense of the work outstanding)
Most of this I got from reading the classic "Getting things done" book by Dave Allen. I'm not 100% sold on GTD but bits really do work for me.
Some of the biggest gains for open source applications are still to be had, particularly in areas with strong relations with IT but historically less technical backgrounds such as in libraries (both public and coporate). The mother of a friend of mine witnessed some very 'wolly' thinking when at a meeting to plan the next generation of IT infrastructure for a large part of Londons public library system. She was representing the libraries in one borough of London (despite having next to no computing experience). On the subject of which office package they should purchase my friend had already primed his mother with a suggestion of Open Office. However, the technical advisor (who represented a company which resold Microsoft products) told the committee that such 'toy' free software may be OK for smaller endeavours but wasn't appropriate for a professional and highly important environment as theirs. They all agreed, the matter was dropped and several thousand MS Office license purchased. Now whatever the truth of their needs and the total cost of ownership etc I'm still a little concerned with the sidedness of that debate. Bascially MS Office was bought out of habit and convenience. My friend informs me that, having spent time working in the library with his mother, he thinks there is actually little argument to deploy anything more than a good electronic typewriter.
How do OSS representatives get to the table in situations like this? I guess the answer must be through ensuring that anyone at that table could represent OSS.
I've been a PlusNet user for several years now and have nothing but praise for them. Reliable service, competitive pricing and excellent support. However, I've always used Yahoo for my email...
Is it the same 50% who are wrong, that are lying? Where does your post fit? And, for that matter, mine?
I think we all know that the real question here is, in a straight, clean fight, who wins, Airwolf or Bluethunder?. Now I know what your thinking? What chance does stright to video star Jan-Michael Vincent have against HAL chess playing, shark killing, SeaQuest DSV commanding Roy Scheider? Well to you I say, don't forget that Airwolf co-pilot was none other than Poseidon surviving, Gattaca acting, SpongeBob SquarePants Mermaid Man (I shit you not) Ernest Borgnine. Yeah people. Not so easy now is it?
Know what I'd like to see in multi-player on line games? More automated characters. Seriously! But ones written by ordinary users to interface with the online world. Perhaps running as a screen saver on their machine - BOINC anyone? What a great place to develop AI algorithms. Bit of computer vision, map building and path planning to navigate around. Some basic interaction problems to solve. If the API for these things was better published I could almost imagine having a go myself!
But wasn't the end-to-end model SUN's approach as well? There must be more too it than just building the OS and hardware in harmony. SUN even dabbled in funky designs remember the JavaStation?
Typically of the kind of problem that arises when you rely on automated spell checking. This guy actually wanted to call them 'contortionists' not 'extortionists'. All very innocent you see.
I reckon right now even, some Government 'boffin' out there is working on a way to modify the molecular bonding of water to adjust its' light refraction properties and thus produce images from the sea itself. My money would be on it being the same guy who worked on the Spitfire, decoding the Enigma codes and the nose design for Concorde. Still going strong thanks to regular pipe tobacco.
Mark my words....
if (strcmp(product.ID, "MICROSOFT"))
exec("DeleteTheBastard.bat");
...A slightly higher majority would not be bothered if the NSA collected personal calls that they made...
Just so long as they spoke dirty and pretended to be a girl
"Hi my name is Agent Sexbitch and I'm not wearing my regulation black suit. I'm a naughty agent...."
Kinda lost interest once I read...
"...the 16th and 17th floors are home to offices of senior management..."
"...selling advertising space that would show up on satellite photos"
then Google could get kick-backs to ensure that your 'flightpath' across Google Earth took in a few pieces of advertising along the way! Excellent stuff, I knew there would be money in this oil stuff somewhere.
On the otherhand you could see this working in favour of the geek. After all only someone with sufficient geek knowledge could rig the voting in their favour. Unlike the current paper systems which any f**kwit can abuse.
Maybe the geek will inherit the earth after all