It's really not the actors fault if they can't do any script analysis and create a performance. It's the directors job to get a good performance out of an actor. You hire folks who can do it, and you don't keep something until you've got what you want. If they guy 'directing' isn't doing quality control, no one is. It just sounds like there isn't yet consumer demand for quality acting, or the companies would fix this.
Cut the funding, dump the project and reassign the personel to more useful projects like laser based fusion power, or robotics, or composite smart armor development.
Unfortunately, you've got to build them for them to be useless. If this works, long range missiles can become obsolete, not before.
At least in Florida, when you declare Bankruptcy you get to keep your multimillion-$ house. Seems like an interesting trade-off.:)
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When I was at Apple, I had no problem keeping secrets from leaking from Engineering. Every time I disclosed information to a new person on the project http://www.apple.com/airport/, I started the meeting by saying that if you spoke to anyone about this project you would be fired. Remarkably, no problems.
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Having switched from IMAP to only GMail about 8 months ago, my only gripe is the inability to 'Mark As Read' in filters - this is my #1 pet peeve with GMail and it seems like it would be *tirivial* to do - why haven't they done it?
They are probably waiting for you to go to work there and fix it.:)
Alan Kay: The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
In reading the comments, I wonder how many people actually read much of what Sun's proposing. If adopted, this would address many of the concerns people have with existing DRM technologies.
Licensing is based on the User, not the device. France and the EU are asking for this. Apple and Microsoft have some solutions, but they aren't enough, and so far they aren't letting others play, this would.
Fair Use is included. It's mentioned, but a bit sketchy, it appears to be a right that's granted by the mechanism.
Off line use permitted. Better than many of the new DVD schemes that have been proposed.
There are many problems with DRM schemes, and this doesn't solve all of them, but at least it's a step in the right direction, and will probably form the basis for the solutions. Content providers aren't going to provide high quality content if they believe that one bozo can post it to a server somewhere and they'll never sell another. There is a lot of investment to the creation of content, software, music, books, and movies. If there is no expectation of return, people won't invest, it's just that simple. Open source works, because there are people out there willing to pay for services, (or some other model of return) This won't always be the case for other content. I may see 40-50 movies a year, but I think there are only 3-5 a year that a big screen enhances the experience.
There are still a lot of holes to be worked out in DRM, but DReaM appears to be a step in the right direction. To me, the biggest problem of DRM is what happens when a licensor or licensing agency goes out of business, how does a consumer retain, re-establish his/her rights.
Does this mean that Kirk really can go back in time?:)
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For better or for worse, the stock market used to be something that only those that knew how to invest really did anything with. Those with no clue on how to invest usually just avoided it, or invested in safe mutual funds or big companies like GE or IBM. Then millions of average families got involved, went crazy thinking it was the lottery and lost obscene sums of money.
That's just not true. The roaring 20's was full of individual investors going for it, as were the investments in europe regarding asia, india, tulip's before it. The cycle tends to be that professionals take the risks first, then individuals see there's money to be made and jump in, when things turn the professionals help take the individuals to the cleaners. Some people invest because they are smart, and others invest because of the first group.
I would suggest that what's needed is for computers to recognize the learning styles of users and to adapt appropriately to them. First find a way to classify the user into a learning style (based on some model like MTBI, Enneagram, NLP or even Sun sign:). Then adapt the interface to the appropriate style of learning. Tool tips as to why something doesn't work, detailed notes job focused, or tool focused as appropriate.
Also the ability to reconfigure applications to be job specific, rather than tool specific. If all I do is resize images in photoshop, that should be my primary UI rather than all the tools.
The economic model also needs to change so that software is rented based on usage and depth of use - rather than purchased, and 3rd parties can create task focused overlays and get paid for it, as well as providing a new distribution model to the major creators of software.
It's been my experience that people don't wish to invest in their tools. (Time or $'s) They just want to use them. We either need to fix the people (unlikely) or find new models that work.
The only thing I have a problem with is keeping the records for two years - I can't see any good reason for that.
Where were you between Midnight-1AM on October 23?
With this system, the Police will be able to answer the question for you. Automagic enforcement of restraining orders also becomes easier, if you enter a zone where you don't belong, the police can send someone to remind you. Stalking and casing can be easily shown. Of course there are simple solutions to defeat this system for these applications, that most/.ers will understand, but it does increase the cost. The civil liberation in me hates this, but that doesn't mean that it doesn't have some merit for protecting society. It will also make it easier to provide/verify an alibi.
England (and to a more limited extend the USA) has been a Police State at various times in it's history. Using technology may actually be a more sane approach than the incredibly excessive domestic intelligence system of Shakespeare's time. With proper safeguards (Absolutely needed) it can provide a much fairer system. The trouble is how to prevent the abuse we have seen when the authorities have all the power.
With Oracle's purchase of Innodb, (a key component of MySQL). I find that they are in a sense getting a range of products at the low end.
I'm surprised that there hasn't been any speculation on how these two events (InnoDB & a free 10g) will play to help Oracle recapture revenue.
Most of my bids seem to get ignored, I've had only one pay over two years. Quite a few that I gave them so much information on how I'd do the job, they ended up being able to do it themselves, and didn't pay.
It's very frustrating!
It would really be nice if they stopped attacking in all directions and actually fixed something. Ok, they've got some really great technologies, such as Search and advertising. Orkut was a good idea, just not well implemented and a bit dated now. Scholar.google.com also a good idea but with out decent content, it might as well not exist.
Google needs focus. I'd really rather they stayed best at everything they choose to do, rather than attack in all directions.
From what little the article said, it looks like just another 3rd tier professor claiming to solve a major problem, but not really understanding all the issues involved.
As others have pointed out, this doesn't solve the issue of AP's being on different networks. But that's not an issue on many campus's. (Educational & Industrial)
It also doesn't address the increased power needs that such an algorithm would create, nor the performance problems that might be created as well.
On the whole, either the articles are flawed or the research is.
'caus we know how much more effective fences & robots are against Nuclear weapons.:)
Some of the fences have rocks stuck into gaps, so that if the fence is bumped they will be dislodged and show possible intrusion. But there are no electric fences, nor electronic sensors and surveillance cameras. The ministry will discuss with defense-related research and operational commanders how to develop the new programs and will earmark budget funds for the programs in 2006.
While I wouldn't be surprised if this was the case for systems with pre-installed Wxx products on them, I would suspect that Dell and others would still sell machines w/o this restriction. It just wouldn't be able to participate in a DRM environment.
I can't remember a time where I haven't been asked to tweak things a bit for a better showing in a review, performance test, or bake off. As an engineer, I like things objective, and let the chips fall where they lie. But in business good results can be life or death for the company. Ethics are a very complex subject. Especially when it involves your livelihood.
This is out of hand. Newton is 10 year old hardware that has an adamant user base that consistantly reaches over backwards to keep alive. Yet this hardware device is one that Jobs is staunchly against and has consistantly given the middle finger to.
That is just untrue. Steve has said that he could have saved Newton, but that he didn't have the management talent to do it. I believe that was just part of the story. The Newton group was working on StrongArm based products before things were killed. The StrongArm was a part of DEC that was acquired by Intel (When they picked up the Alpha technology & Engineers), at that point in time, Intel wasn't really sure what they wanted to do with it. It would have been insane for Apple to spend time rebuilding a business when they didn't know if it's major supplier was going to keep manufacturing. I was the last person hired into the Newton team.
I've always tried to deal with personality issues when I hire.
I've also had significant success when using pair programming. It's a great way to make sure process is followed, it improves quality, and it spreads knowledge around.
What about all those business propositions I get from Nigeria. Do I have to keep those too?
You should probably delete them, so that when they turn out to be true, you can't be sued for corporate malfeasance for not having responded appropriatly.:)
It's just time to bite the bullet, and rewrite all that code. I'm sure that Detroit, the Gov., and all others concerned don't mind relying on India, China, and Russia for their core applications. After all, they supported laying off local software developers.:)
You'll never work in this town again!... Unless, of course we need you.
I think your missing the point. At a sporting event, the arena is likely to have WiFi setup, at least for press. News makers spend a lot of money making sure that the press is covered for communications. WiFi may just become a part of that package. Convention centers are certianly starting to oblige.
I could also imagine setting up a base station in a car attached to a cell phone. Once the photographer gets close to the car, the camera starts sending, leaving the photographer's hands free for what ever is next.
By the way, the blurb at Nikon says that they support WEP and many other forms of security.
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It's really not the actors fault if they can't do any script analysis and create a performance. It's the directors job to get a good performance out of an actor. You hire folks who can do it, and you don't keep something until you've got what you want. If they guy 'directing' isn't doing quality control, no one is. It just sounds like there isn't yet consumer demand for quality acting, or the companies would fix this.
Cut the funding, dump the project and reassign the personel to more useful projects like laser based fusion power, or robotics, or composite smart armor development.
Unfortunately, you've got to build them for them to be useless. If this works, long range missiles can become obsolete, not before.
At least in Florida, when you declare Bankruptcy you get to keep your multimillion-$ house. Seems like an interesting trade-off. :)
When I was at Apple, I had no problem keeping secrets from leaking from Engineering. Every time I disclosed information to a new person on the project http://www.apple.com/airport/, I started the meeting by saying that if you spoke to anyone about this project you would be fired. Remarkably, no problems.
Having switched from IMAP to only GMail about 8 months ago, my only gripe is the inability to 'Mark As Read' in filters - this is my #1 pet peeve with GMail and it seems like it would be *tirivial* to do - why haven't they done it?
:)
They are probably waiting for you to go to work there and fix it.
Alan Kay: The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
In reading the comments, I wonder how many people actually read much of what Sun's proposing. If adopted, this would address many of the concerns people have with existing DRM technologies.
Licensing is based on the User, not the device. France and the EU are asking for this. Apple and Microsoft have some solutions, but they aren't enough, and so far they aren't letting others play, this would.
Fair Use is included. It's mentioned, but a bit sketchy, it appears to be a right that's granted by the mechanism.
Off line use permitted. Better than many of the new DVD schemes that have been proposed.
There are many problems with DRM schemes, and this doesn't solve all of them, but at least it's a step in the right direction, and will probably form the basis for the solutions. Content providers aren't going to provide high quality content if they believe that one bozo can post it to a server somewhere and they'll never sell another. There is a lot of investment to the creation of content, software, music, books, and movies. If there is no expectation of return, people won't invest, it's just that simple. Open source works, because there are people out there willing to pay for services, (or some other model of return) This won't always be the case for other content. I may see 40-50 movies a year, but I think there are only 3-5 a year that a big screen enhances the experience.
There are still a lot of holes to be worked out in DRM, but DReaM appears to be a step in the right direction. To me, the biggest problem of DRM is what happens when a licensor or licensing agency goes out of business, how does a consumer retain, re-establish his/her rights.
Does this mean that Kirk really can go back in time? :)
That's just not true. The roaring 20's was full of individual investors going for it, as were the investments in europe regarding asia, india, tulip's before it. The cycle tends to be that professionals take the risks first, then individuals see there's money to be made and jump in, when things turn the professionals help take the individuals to the cleaners. Some people invest because they are smart, and others invest because of the first group.
I would suggest that what's needed is for computers to recognize the learning styles of users and to adapt appropriately to them. First find a way to classify the user into a learning style (based on some model like MTBI, Enneagram, NLP or even Sun sign :). Then adapt the interface to the appropriate style of learning. Tool tips as to why something doesn't work, detailed notes job focused, or tool focused as appropriate.
Also the ability to reconfigure applications to be job specific, rather than tool specific. If all I do is resize images in photoshop, that should be my primary UI rather than all the tools.
The economic model also needs to change so that software is rented based on usage and depth of use - rather than purchased, and 3rd parties can create task focused overlays and get paid for it, as well as providing a new distribution model to the major creators of software.
It's been my experience that people don't wish to invest in their tools. (Time or $'s) They just want to use them. We either need to fix the people (unlikely) or find new models that work.
The only thing I have a problem with is keeping the records for two years - I can't see any good reason for that.
/.ers will understand, but it does increase the cost. The civil liberation in me hates this, but that doesn't mean that it doesn't have some merit for protecting society. It will also make it easier to provide/verify an alibi.
Where were you between Midnight-1AM on October 23?
With this system, the Police will be able to answer the question for you. Automagic enforcement of restraining orders also becomes easier, if you enter a zone where you don't belong, the police can send someone to remind you. Stalking and casing can be easily shown. Of course there are simple solutions to defeat this system for these applications, that most
England (and to a more limited extend the USA) has been a Police State at various times in it's history. Using technology may actually be a more sane approach than the incredibly excessive domestic intelligence system of Shakespeare's time. With proper safeguards (Absolutely needed) it can provide a much fairer system. The trouble is how to prevent the abuse we have seen when the authorities have all the power.
The U.S. will evacuate you if England has an anti-Amreician revolution. :) Or some other major crisis. If you don't like it, give up your citizenship.
With Oracle's purchase of Innodb, (a key component of MySQL). I find that they are in a sense getting a range of products at the low end. I'm surprised that there hasn't been any speculation on how these two events (InnoDB & a free 10g) will play to help Oracle recapture revenue.
Most of my bids seem to get ignored, I've had only one pay over two years. Quite a few that I gave them so much information on how I'd do the job, they ended up being able to do it themselves, and didn't pay. It's very frustrating!
It would really be nice if they stopped attacking in all directions and actually fixed something. Ok, they've got some really great technologies, such as Search and advertising. Orkut was a good idea, just not well implemented and a bit dated now. Scholar.google.com also a good idea but with out decent content, it might as well not exist.
Google needs focus. I'd really rather they stayed best at everything they choose to do, rather than attack in all directions.
And the Government of the United States of America has a HELL of a lot more lawyers than any corporation.
It has also proved that it doesn't really know how to use the well. (ie. US vs. Microsoft)
From what little the article said, it looks like just another 3rd tier professor claiming to solve a major problem, but not really understanding all the issues involved.
As others have pointed out, this doesn't solve the issue of AP's being on different networks. But that's not an issue on many campus's. (Educational & Industrial)
It also doesn't address the increased power needs that such an algorithm would create, nor the performance problems that might be created as well.
On the whole, either the articles are flawed or the research is.
'caus we know how much more effective fences & robots are against Nuclear weapons. :)
Some of the fences have rocks stuck into gaps, so that if the fence is bumped they will be dislodged and show possible intrusion. But there are no electric fences, nor electronic sensors and surveillance cameras. The ministry will discuss with defense-related research and operational commanders how to develop the new programs and will earmark budget funds for the programs in 2006.
While I wouldn't be surprised if this was the case for systems with pre-installed Wxx products on them, I would suspect that Dell and others would still sell machines w/o this restriction. It just wouldn't be able to participate in a DRM environment.
I can't remember a time where I haven't been asked to tweak things a bit for a better showing in a review, performance test, or bake off. As an engineer, I like things objective, and let the chips fall where they lie. But in business good results can be life or death for the company. Ethics are a very complex subject. Especially when it involves your livelihood.
This is out of hand. Newton is 10 year old hardware that has an adamant user base that consistantly reaches over backwards to keep alive. Yet this hardware device is one that Jobs is staunchly against and has consistantly given the middle finger to.
That is just untrue. Steve has said that he could have saved Newton, but that he didn't have the management talent to do it. I believe that was just part of the story. The Newton group was working on StrongArm based products before things were killed. The StrongArm was a part of DEC that was acquired by Intel (When they picked up the Alpha technology & Engineers), at that point in time, Intel wasn't really sure what they wanted to do with it. It would have been insane for Apple to spend time rebuilding a business when they didn't know if it's major supplier was going to keep manufacturing. I was the last person hired into the Newton team.
I've always tried to deal with personality issues when I hire.
I've also had significant success when using pair programming. It's a great way to make sure process is followed, it improves quality, and it spreads knowledge around.
You should probably delete them, so that when they turn out to be true, you can't be sued for corporate malfeasance for not having responded appropriatly. :)
One of my clients will give you a CD and the copyrights.
You'll never work in this town again! ... Unless, of course we need you.
I could also imagine setting up a base station in a car attached to a cell phone. Once the photographer gets close to the car, the camera starts sending, leaving the photographer's hands free for what ever is next.
By the way, the blurb at Nikon says that they support WEP and many other forms of security.