"All eight members up for re-election to the Pennsylvania school board that had been sued for introducing the teaching of intelligent design as an alternative to evolution in biology class were swept out of office yesterday by a slate of challengers who campaigned against the intelligent design policy. "
Bad Patterning? I've heard of Amazon making really stupid pattern matching stuff, like someone buying a 1 book about the Army for some Uncle or co worker and forever having milary type books presented to them.
Some Patterning? But my guess is there are patterns. If they can detect when your searching for something within a domain expertise versus when you are not, that alone would help.
Meta Patterns! There is a Meta level to this. They can match your patterns to those of others, as in collaborative filtering. You could also think of it as Jungian meta Archtype search patternings. (e.g., here is an other computer geek searching about Gospel of Thomas.)
My guess is most of peoples searchs contain information in the since of Shannon's Law (the signal is greater than the noise; they contain information). If they contain information their is some change their is a pattern that can be detected either within case of all the searches of the person searching, or meta within the case of all searches, or some intersection of both those cases.
Apple got the Interface right and the did the (pick one: Right, Wrong) thing with DRM; but got the music companies into play... and its' popular..
What would be nice is a portable media player that worked with TIVO, REPLAY (et al), and that had enough enabling software that companies could build lots of COTS type applications with it.
It's a good bet, if the bet wins, well that depends on the "community" and on the marke place..
> Seems to me that they could run a couple of power wires alongside the > fiber. It can't be that hard.
That would be an approach.
Understand your building an entire POWER system from Scratch. Not just a few lines.. All the transformers, step up and step down, and it has to be completely isolated from the regulated power grid, so you need your own generation of power, your own maintainance guys, your own everything.. and for every mile and inch of your fiber runs..
> . Apparently the cellular providers can't be bothered with fancy new > technology like batteries, generators and UPSes.
All POTS equipment (old style) run on DC power and from batteries and the entire cooper system gets' its power "INBAND" meaning the power travels along the phone line along with the call(S), so it's easy to keep them up and running.
Newer tech like fiber has to get power out of band so that means it's hooked to the power grid and if you need to have power back up, you need seperate generators or batteries or what have you at every location. That's a lot of extra stuff.. but hey that's how modern stuff works...
Beyond anything else that gives them an advantage, Google using their OWN TECH (OS, etc.) to power their search engine probably has an order of magnitude CHEAPER CPU cycles that any else.
MS, more than anyone else, has the tech (OS, programmers, etc.) to compete with the likes of Rob Pike, et. al.,. BUT will they and how well would they do?
MS, more than anyone else, has the dollars to use (CPU-wise) expensive algorithms and be able to foot the bill.
It's the cost of labor, bandwidth and CPU cycles to search the net and index it (and put it all into context) vs. the return in terms of ad dollars and EGO (and brand value).
MS has the staff to write a non-efficient algorithm and the dollars to run trillions of cycles of CPUS clusters and end up w/ a better search product; A question is beyond EGO, is there any profit in it for them?
I mean they already highJACK failed searches to MSN Search. They don't even do that well. If that search was really good, everyone would welcome the HighJACK not just think, "why is my computer being so brain dead!" (That's what I think anyway!).
I am for, however, right sizing methods and methodology based on the needs, size and requirements of a particular enterprise or agency, etc.
A small few person firm that brings in an outside Nix consultant should at least have a phyiscal log book of changes, patch levels and the such and documentation of all programs running (e.g, name of program, vers., run time variables), and external (cdrom, floppy, etc.) copies of all critical configuration and setup files.
Really Large to Large companies need to have enough documentation to build the thing step by step and HR proceedures for evaluation the worker, and so forth..
"But follow some good practices" certainly means to document things. We are talking here about IT professionals.. not some kid who thinks he an IT manager because he works with computers.
But follow some good practices.. like test before going live and so forth.. but when you send out the email to staff you can just say, "we are updating our blah balh balh server.." no need to tell them your throwing out MS and bringing in the Nix..
#0 This is a major advance that we are at the point of being able to do this type of experiment; the more we learn about our bodies the better our lives will be.
#1 I think the rights of the living out weight the rights of the unborn.
#2 Let's be honest, EVERY medical advance for the last 500 or 1000 years was SEEN AS moral "issue" for those deeply religous including most Christians. I think they are all ethnically bankrupt for accepting ANY modern medical treatment. True Christians should take the point of view of the Christian Scientist movement and leave ANY healing in GODS hands; to do anything LESS than that, is not to accept both GOD and Jesus.
The Lisa wasn't cheap unless you were comparing to some mainframe. We had one at Bell Labs when I was there. Did some graphics on it, which was easier than trying to do graphics with TROFF/PICS...
but it was also always breaking needing service and it didn't get a lot of use..
> OpenDocument compatibility is coming to Office anyway
This is really probably MS's point anyway... they will not support but wouldn't stop the great state of Mass from paying some company a yearly fee to provide that support for them...
Of course they could choose open standards and open software but my guess is they will not.
And they at least had to spend extra time on customer support, with probably fairly high per hour rates, to explain things to those customers, as well as costs for training the staff to handle this situation.
Their network would have had x% extra usage which probably had their network resource staff asking for more hardware and other resources...
They may have had to buy additional equipment to handle the unexpected volume of messages, etc...
Patent violations to date would require commerical use, although there maybe something under DCMA. This "ruling" would seem to stop you from refilling a Cart. and then RESELLING THEM at retail.. Not sure how it would be if you came to my office and refilled my old ones.. charging me only for the ink and labor.
FUD.. if you don't have FUD it can't work.. I mean if MS can put VOIP into a document and if YOURS can't.. i mean really.. tassk tassk just not a hard core programming team..
They should take an older Platform like Win2000 and make it open source, taking market share away from Linux/BSD'nix. They should be selling ONLY service; not because RMS says so, because that's really all they are doing.. WHen you pay XXX $$ to MS, you get 90 days support, bug fixes, etc. (and lots of bad software).
If they were OPEN Source, you'd pay the same (at least their major customers' would) and the software would much better.
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was trying to say, do any super computers run ANY bit of software from MS?
and how many any software from Microsoft (OS, Apps, program lang, etc?)
FYI, from today's NY Times,
"All eight members up for re-election to the Pennsylvania school board that had been sued for introducing the teaching of intelligent design as an alternative to evolution in biology class were swept out of office yesterday by a slate of challengers who campaigned against the intelligent design policy. "
The issue here is that they redefine science. Truly a sad day.
Bad Patterning?
I've heard of Amazon making really stupid pattern matching stuff, like someone buying a 1 book about the Army for some Uncle or co worker and forever having milary type books presented to them.
Some Patterning?
But my guess is there are patterns. If they can detect when your searching for something within a domain expertise versus when you are not, that alone would help.
Meta Patterns!
There is a Meta level to this. They can match your patterns to those of others, as in collaborative filtering. You could also think of it as Jungian meta Archtype search patternings. (e.g., here is an other computer geek searching about Gospel of Thomas.)
My guess is most of peoples searchs contain information in the since of Shannon's Law (the signal is greater than the noise; they contain information). If they contain information their is some change their is a pattern that can be detected either within case of all the searches of the person searching, or meta within the case of all searches, or some intersection of both those cases.
Not that I don't believe you but can you prove that 1/2 your searches don't involve a pattern?
Apple got the Interface right and the did the (pick one: Right, Wrong) thing with DRM; but got the music companies into play... and its' popular..
What would be nice is a portable media player that worked with TIVO, REPLAY (et al), and that had enough enabling software that companies could build lots of COTS type applications with it.
It's a good bet, if the bet wins, well that depends on the "community" and on the marke place..
> Seems to me that they could run a couple of power wires alongside the
> fiber. It can't be that hard.
That would be an approach.
Understand your building an entire POWER system from Scratch. Not just a few lines.. All the transformers, step up and step down, and it has to be completely isolated from the regulated power grid, so you need your own generation of power, your own maintainance guys, your own everything.. and for every mile and inch of your fiber runs..
> . Apparently the cellular providers can't be bothered with fancy new
> technology like batteries, generators and UPSes.
All POTS equipment (old style) run on DC power and from batteries and the entire cooper system gets' its power "INBAND" meaning the power travels along the phone line along with the call(S), so it's easy to keep them up and running.
Newer tech like fiber has to get power out of band so that means it's hooked to the power grid and if you need to have power back up, you need seperate generators or batteries or what have you at every location. That's a lot of extra stuff.. but hey that's how modern stuff works...
Beyond anything else that gives them an advantage, Google using their OWN TECH (OS, etc.) to power their search engine probably has an order of magnitude CHEAPER CPU cycles that any else.
MS, more than anyone else, has the tech (OS, programmers, etc.) to compete with the likes of Rob Pike, et. al.,. BUT will they and how well would they do?
MS, more than anyone else, has the dollars to use (CPU-wise) expensive algorithms and be able to foot the bill.
It's the cost of labor, bandwidth and CPU cycles to search the net and index it (and put it all into context) vs. the return in terms of ad dollars and EGO (and brand value).
MS has the staff to write a non-efficient algorithm and the dollars to run trillions of cycles of CPUS clusters and end up w/ a better search product; A question is beyond EGO, is there any profit in it for them?
I mean they already highJACK failed searches to MSN Search. They don't even do that well. If that search was really good, everyone would welcome the HighJACK not just think, "why is my computer being so brain dead!" (That's what I think anyway!).
No Apologies needed, I think we are in agreement.
I am for, however, right sizing methods and methodology based on the needs, size and requirements of a particular enterprise or agency, etc.
A small few person firm that brings in an outside Nix consultant should at least have a phyiscal log book of changes, patch levels and the such and documentation of all programs running (e.g, name of program, vers., run time variables), and external (cdrom, floppy, etc.) copies of all critical configuration and setup files.
Really Large to Large companies need to have enough documentation to build the thing step by step and HR proceedures for evaluation the worker, and so forth..
OrangeSpyderMan is your reply directed at me?
"But follow some good practices" certainly means to document things. We are talking here about IT professionals.. not some kid who thinks he an IT manager because he works with computers.
But follow some good practices.. like test before going live and so forth.. but when you send out the email to staff you can just say, "we are updating our blah balh balh server.." no need to tell them your throwing out MS and bringing in the Nix..
#0 This is a major advance that we are at the point of being able to do this type of experiment; the more we learn about our bodies the better our lives will be.
#1 I think the rights of the living out weight the rights of the unborn.
#2 Let's be honest, EVERY medical advance for the last 500 or 1000 years was SEEN AS moral "issue" for those deeply religous including most Christians. I think they are all ethnically bankrupt for accepting ANY modern medical treatment. True Christians should take the point of view of the Christian Scientist movement and leave ANY healing in GODS hands; to do anything LESS than that, is not to accept both GOD and Jesus.
The Lisa wasn't cheap unless you were comparing to some mainframe. We had one at Bell Labs when I was there. Did some graphics on it, which was easier than trying to do graphics with TROFF/PICS...
but it was also always breaking needing service and it didn't get a lot of use..
Don't forget my fav.. Hard Drinkin' Lincoln
Sounds like they just re-built a lot of the userland /desktop stuff
Automated test (whoooo!! that's so cutting edge)
And enforced some min. methodology
In the early days of Wordprocess TOP!! word process MIMIC'd TYPEWRITERS. The first mass DTP program, MIMIC'd a PASTE UP TABLE.
None of those are around. It's a hard, long term BET but in the end if the new UI is better, it will always out last the old and familar.
> Electrolyzing water is short sighted at best
At least it can be done AT NIGHT when rates are at least lower...
> OpenDocument compatibility is coming to Office anyway
This is really probably MS's point anyway... they will not support but wouldn't stop the great state of Mass from paying some company a yearly fee to provide that support for them...
Of course they could choose open standards and open software but my guess is they will not.
And they at least had to spend extra time on customer support, with probably fairly high per hour rates, to explain things to those customers, as well as costs for training the staff to handle this situation.
Their network would have had x% extra usage which probably had their network resource staff asking for more hardware and other resources...
They may have had to buy additional equipment to handle the unexpected volume of messages, etc...
Patent violations to date would require commerical use, although there maybe something under DCMA. This "ruling" would seem to stop you from refilling a Cart. and then RESELLING THEM at retail.. Not sure how it would be if you came to my office and refilled my old ones.. charging me only for the ink and labor.
FUD.. if you don't have FUD it can't work.. I mean if MS can put VOIP into a document and if YOURS can't.. i mean really.. tassk tassk just not a hard core programming team..
this post sounds like some poorly written PR.
They should take an older Platform like Win2000 and make it open source, taking market share away from Linux/BSD'nix. They should be selling ONLY service; not because RMS says so, because that's really all they are doing.. WHen you pay XXX $$ to MS, you get 90 days support, bug fixes, etc. (and lots of bad software).
If they were OPEN Source, you'd pay the same (at least their major customers' would) and the software would much better.