Most of the said problems are largely political than technical.
And with the GSM providers acting up and initiating legal proceedings just because there is a cheaper (not necessarily == better) technology is hardly a reason.
In fact, I'd mailed about the same to the Jeffrey Kosseff at the e-mail address given at the end of the article -
Hi,
You mention in the article about Shiels that -
"Entering a murky world In 1998, Shiels quit his patrol sergeant job at the Adelanto Police Department in Southern California and moved back home to Portland to start a full-time career in Web design, a hobby he had been dabbling in for five years."
I'm not questioning your facts, but that would mean that Shiels has been dabbling in Web Design from 1993 - the year Mosaic, the first Web Browser was invented.
Unless Shiels was at a place like UIUC, CMU or MIT [or any other cutting edge academic environment], there was no way he could have gotten into Web Design at that point, because the first commercially available browser was not available until 1994-1995 (Netscape).
And it was not until March 1995, that CERN handed over the control of the web to the WWW Consortium run by MIT and INRIA (France). It was only at this point that the Internet was first avaiable for outside use by non-academics.
Is something amiss? Or maybe there is something else about Shiels' creds that we're unaware of?
Thanks, just thought you should know.
Cheers.
Wondering if I'll receieve a reply. Or SPAM in return!:-D
Having been a Graphics programmer, I associate graphics programming with bright, jazzy and glitterati layouts.
And I think this color-scheme pretty much portrays it, and does a good job of looking radically different within the constraints, from the rest of the site.
I really think it kinda looks different, and cool too!
Most of the work in Gesture based computing is based on assumed syntactic inputs, where the basics aren't the problem.
The concentration is more on the semantics, where to a certain extent the context is assumed, rather than interpreted.
You know, I myself am not a big fan of making computers easier. I'm reminded of this quote by Engelbart -
Here you have a world famous cellist who has spent 30 years of his life learning how to play a complex instrument saying he wants his computer to be "easy to use."
It probably sounds ridiculous, but the target audience of HCI is not cool stuff to play with. Nor is it rich people who can switch on and off with the wave of a hand. Its targeted more at the disabled, the aged and the like - where there isn't much of a choice.
In the process, you also create stuff thats non-intrusive computing. But the point of HCI is not to make computers easier, its to make them application oriented - for everybody.
Have you ever seen Captain Kirk typing on a keyboard? Or Picard using a mouse to give commands? You see, its context aware - voice/cue based computing. Its the next logical step for computers.
Today you don't notice electricity in your house. Its there, you take it for granted. Computers have to be non-intrusive, yet useful. Thats the only way they can get into every walk of life.
For specialized applications, hell, use anything you want. But when it comes to generic computing, you need to blend in.
I don't see how any of the above constitutes laziness.
There's a flaw in your argument. I'm into Context aware and Gesture based computing in HCI, so I think I'm qualified to answer your question.
The point here is the quanta of information. And the kind of information. Right now, we're looking at Gesture based computing that could do take in gestures at an advanced linguistic level.
Rememeber that when you talk about, say, speech recognition, you begin incorporating all previous language skills. Auto-correction features, correlative matching, extrapolation and the like. This lets you talk little and mean much much more.
For example, I could build a system for Physicists that would look at every action with a database that has the perspective corresponding to a Physicist's mindset.
Think gestured computing tomorrow - it includes all the basic rules of language and the like, and could be customized to suit your needs. Just because I gesture does b mean that I'm going backward. What am I gesturing? That should be the question.
It just means that I've reached another level of abstraction that envelopes all other levels.
In a few years, you would probably communicate entire volumes specific to one area through just a few gestures, its just that you're doing something primitive but achieveing a whole lot more.
This is evolution of communication at its highest level. Simple primitives that encompass complex actions and words.
Better in Georgia Tech [slashdot.org] eh?;-) Congratulations!
I'll find that out I guess, but hey thanks;-)
The difference in quality is evident, but unfortunately, the people affected don't bother to say a thing, or even if they do its not heard. And the people who should do something have no economic viability. Its unfortunate, but thats one of the evils of Capitalism I suppose:-) Atleast its better than the other alternatives!
I do agree with your point on the digital divide, but there isn't much that we can do now, can we?
PS:- Why HCI? Your earlier sig and your webpage seems to be filled more with AI than HCI.
Actually its got both Graphics and AI, figured that HCI involves both:-)
Three reasons why HCI -
1] More realworld application scope than arcane theoretical CS stuff in AI (yeah, I've done all that too, but wouldn't want that as a career option) 2] Its multi-disciplinary - involves AI, Graphics, Design, Psychology and Engineering - so more fun;-) 3] Better prospects in the industry, and equally good prospects for a Ph.D too.
More than that, these places have some neato projects and cool research with funky gizmos, so I just thought it would be more fun to work with;-)
Slashdot Mirror
Its Sanskrit
The only open port available for exploit?
Its weird.
I really wish you wouldn't use that word, public consumption in this context.
To quote D. Adams, very deep. Reader's Digest has a column for people like you
Found these mirrors -
t ml
;-)
http://www.geocities.com/the_great_hacker/waste.h
(original mirror courtesy http://www.dhorrocks2003.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk)
If you ask me, I'd say put it up on KaZaa too
Oops! My other post was a reply to the parent's parent (Penguuu), not to the parent (Otterley).
:-)
Sorry!
Hmmm, you're quite wrong there.
The differences would be:
ALTQ does not recognize if my sessions are on arbitary ports
This is for the application layer (which is why its called layer 7 packet filter), while ALTQ is for Layer 3.
And more than that, ALTQ controls only outgoing traffic.
:-)
I have not seen it mentioned anywhere that hints that L-7 Filter does the same. Since it is at L7, I guess it would be both incoming and outgoing.
(I could be wrong, I've not tried it, atleast not yet
Well said! I wish I had mod points to mod you up, but right now the best thing I can do is add you as a friend.
I agree.
Most of the said problems are largely political than technical.
And with the GSM providers acting up and initiating legal proceedings just because there is a cheaper (not necessarily == better) technology is hardly a reason.
Give it time.
My mistake, but in this context I was referring to the WWW as we know of today.
For a random guy to work on web design.
Just my thoughts!!!
:-D
In fact, I'd mailed about the same to the Jeffrey Kosseff at the e-mail address given at the end of the article -
Hi,
You mention in the article about Shiels that -
"Entering a murky world In 1998, Shiels quit his patrol sergeant job at the Adelanto Police Department in Southern California and moved back home to Portland to start a full-time career in Web design, a hobby he had been dabbling in for five years."
I'm not questioning your facts, but that would mean that Shiels has been dabbling in Web Design from 1993 - the year Mosaic, the first Web Browser was invented.
Unless Shiels was at a place like UIUC, CMU or MIT [or any other cutting edge academic environment], there was no way he could have gotten into Web Design at that point, because the first commercially available browser was not available until 1994-1995 (Netscape).
And it was not until March 1995, that CERN handed over the control of the web to the WWW Consortium run by MIT and INRIA (France). It was only at this point that the Internet was first avaiable for outside use by non-academics.
Is something amiss? Or maybe there is something else about Shiels' creds that we're unaware of?
Thanks, just thought you should know.
Cheers.
Wondering if I'll receieve a reply. Or SPAM in return!
You mean something like this?
Actually not.
Having been a Graphics programmer, I associate graphics programming with bright, jazzy and glitterati layouts.
And I think this color-scheme pretty much portrays it, and does a good job of looking radically different within the constraints, from the rest of the site.
I really think it kinda looks different, and cool too!
But oh well, thats my 0.02.
It pains me to note that you've put people in the same category as dogs and farm animals
I'd also add Emacs to the list - all said and done, it *is* a neat piece of work.
I dunno... impressionist programing? It would only look like code from far away.
Ohh that would mean PERL!!!
err...
Clippy!!!
hello...? hellooo?
Most of the work in Gesture based computing is based on assumed syntactic inputs, where the basics aren't the problem.
The concentration is more on the semantics, where to a certain extent the context is assumed, rather than interpreted.
You know, I myself am not a big fan of making computers easier. I'm reminded of this quote by Engelbart -
Here you have a world famous cellist who has spent 30 years of his life learning how to play a complex instrument saying he wants his computer to be "easy to use."
It probably sounds ridiculous, but the target audience of HCI is not cool stuff to play with. Nor is it rich people who can switch on and off with the wave of a hand. Its targeted more at the disabled, the aged and the like - where there isn't much of a choice.
In the process, you also create stuff thats non-intrusive computing. But the point of HCI is not to make computers easier, its to make them application oriented - for everybody.
Have you ever seen Captain Kirk typing on a keyboard? Or Picard using a mouse to give commands? You see, its context aware - voice/cue based computing. Its the next logical step for computers.
Today you don't notice electricity in your house. Its there, you take it for granted. Computers have to be non-intrusive, yet useful. Thats the only way they can get into every walk of life.
For specialized applications, hell, use anything you want. But when it comes to generic computing, you need to blend in.
I don't see how any of the above constitutes laziness.
Oh wel, my 0.02.
Oops! It should have been,
:-)
Just because I gesture does NOT mean that I'm going backward.
Hmmm, not quite.
There's a flaw in your argument. I'm into Context aware and Gesture based computing in HCI, so I think I'm qualified to answer your question.
The point here is the quanta of information. And the kind of information. Right now, we're looking at Gesture based computing that could do take in gestures at an advanced linguistic level.
Rememeber that when you talk about, say, speech recognition, you begin incorporating all previous language skills. Auto-correction features, correlative matching, extrapolation and the like. This lets you talk little and mean much much more.
For example, I could build a system for Physicists that would look at every action with a database that has the perspective corresponding to a Physicist's mindset.
Think gestured computing tomorrow - it includes all the basic rules of language and the like, and could be customized to suit your needs. Just because I gesture does b mean that I'm going backward. What am I gesturing? That should be the question.
It just means that I've reached another level of abstraction that envelopes all other levels.
In a few years, you would probably communicate entire volumes specific to one area through just a few gestures, its just that you're doing something primitive but achieveing a whole lot more.
This is evolution of communication at its highest level. Simple primitives that encompass complex actions and words.
Better in Georgia Tech [slashdot.org] eh? ;-) Congratulations!
;-)
:-) Atleast its better than the other alternatives!
:-)
;-)
;-)
I'll find that out I guess, but hey thanks
The difference in quality is evident, but unfortunately, the people affected don't bother to say a thing, or even if they do its not heard. And the people who should do something have no economic viability. Its unfortunate, but thats one of the evils of Capitalism I suppose
I do agree with your point on the digital divide, but there isn't much that we can do now, can we?
PS:- Why HCI? Your earlier sig and your webpage seems to be filled more with AI than HCI.
Actually its got both Graphics and AI, figured that HCI involves both
Three reasons why HCI -
1] More realworld application scope than arcane theoretical CS stuff in AI (yeah, I've done all that too, but wouldn't want that as a career option)
2] Its multi-disciplinary - involves AI, Graphics, Design, Psychology and Engineering - so more fun
3] Better prospects in the industry, and equally good prospects for a Ph.D too.
More than that, these places have some neato projects and cool research with funky gizmos, so I just thought it would be more fun to work with
Heyy! Madras isn't that bad either.
:-p
Where I live, I've just had have an odd outage or two a couple of times a month - not exceeding 10 mins each.
But yeah, the weather kinda sucks here, not to mention the traffic and the people
Do I see 3G applications with a vibrate() call mandatory every couple minutes?
;-)
And I thought there was just *one* of them G thingys that needed vibration.
And now its gonna be mandatory?! Every 2 mins?
ahem
It wouldn't be too tough to implement :-)
;-)
:-p
A combination of NN based recognition coupled with Eigen vectors for a standardised dimension (for the pic) might just be able to do it
Its not rocketscience you know, just pr0n
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