If it spreads, it will destroy the US dollar as the international reserve currency, cause a huge amount of inflation in the US and destroy the US as the world superpower.
Course, Nokia is a phone company and that's how they market it.
The N900 is a Linux box, which fits in your pocket, and which can talk to GSM, UMTS, WiFi, Bluetooth, FM transmitter and receiver, infrared transmitter, GPS.. Has an accelerometer, touchscreen, 5MP camera, audio (obviously), and TV out.
Lets put it this way. The N900 is a general purpose mobile computing module with battery backup that can do everything, talk to everything, uses open standards and is easy to use.
You can write bog standard shell/python/java/c/ASM/whatever software for it and distribute them as Debian packages.
Anything you can think of to do with a computer, you can do with the blessing of Nokia and you can do it mobile with full knowledge of location and movement. That is the difference between open and closed.
Walk past an e-paper advert board. It scans your ID, looks up your preferences and buying history and throws up a 20 foot high shot of a naked guy and directions to the local rubber fetish store.
Basically no. In order for collaborative filtering to work you need a large population, and a large sample of information from the individual, more is better. i.e. hundreds of pieces of information discriminating X from Y. With email, web sites etc it works because the individual visits or receives many emails.
e.g. Restaurants on the other hand? How many do you visit? The result is that the system only has a small sample size and therefore gives crap generic recommendations (Hey there's a great McDonalds/Starbucks round the corner) from the masses. You would have to visit and rate tens of restaurants to even start giving good results in places you don't know. The same is true for other categories.
However. I admire your fresh faced innocence and energy. Go ahead and build it.
And hence have lower accident rates per passenger mile than those who solely drive cars. It's a feature of continually being a victim of attempted murder.
That was a perfectly clear road, reasonably well lit, with good road conditions. Did the drivers even see what was ahead? No, they didn't even attempt to slow down. They simply, weren't paying attention to the road, and lack of attention is the primary cause of accidents, not excessive speed.
1. Police and ambulances kill people too. I've seen a couple of occasions where an emergency vehicle driver clearly "on a mission" has caused further accidents. 2. You put them where they are necessary, not everywhere. The average speed can be kept reasonable if they are set far enough apart.
Cameras only catch speeding, and actually encourage reckless driving.
UK police accident stats: TRL323 for example
excessive speed (includes over the limit *and* too great for the conditions; rain/fog etc): Generously, somewhere round 15% of accidents in the UK definitely, probably or even possibly include excessive speed as a component. The largest component by far is inattention ~25%, then comes failure to judge ~20% other road users and looking but not seeing ~20%, all of which are simply reckless driving.
Install speed bumps (you can even buy them on ebay) rather than cameras. Cheap to install and maintain and they do cause people to slow down, but more importantly, they make drivers pay attention to the road or they destroy the vehicle suspension. They also don't require police enforcement or law courts to be effective. If you set them far enough apart, drivers will be able to make reasonable progress, but will be physically incapable of exceeding the limit and will have to pay attention.
It's called traffic calming and it (road design) has a much larger effect on accident rates than cameras.
So that when the app falls over at 3am, they can pinpoint the line of code and committer in the repository. Imagine they have a list of people who caused them to receive phone calls at 3am, and they are sorting the list by number of calls. Imagine they have admin access to the human resources databases and know where all the developers live. Imagine you've seen "Guns & Ammo" magazines and pirated copies of "Rampage" lying around in their offices.
Even assuming it's cheaper than oil, unfortunately Jevons Paradox pretty much ensures that any reduction in cost will simply result in an increase in usage. It is predicated on efficiency gains, but is effectively cost reduction.
They don't half talk a load of bollocks on their web page, but their 12 year old is better than many distilleries 18year malts. It won't rip your throat out or make you want to boak. It will however give you a blinding headache the following day if you drink one too many, but they all do that.
The technologies may be cool. The potential may be amazing. But you know what? They have to make it for the average person. And that means the lowest common denominator.
You think you're going to be able to find that little local restaurant among all the shit that people think is wonderful when the masses arrive in droves on those systems? No. What you're going to see is Mcdonalds, Starbucks, TGI Fridays etc etc because they are the ones paying to be on the first lines your screen when you search for nearby restaurants or coffee.
So, if you're using Ovi Maps find places features on your phone just now and finding all these cool places, enjoy it while you can. Give it a year or two and there will be a hundred million other punters insisting that the starbucks on the corner make the best coffee in town.
What makes some of us jaded is not the technology. It's people.
Potentially 100 million squared for *direct* connections. Now add message/signal routing, with N intermediate hops along the network and message weight modification at each point. That's quite complex.
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That was it really.
They keep threatening to wipe an entire country off the map.
I thought they were effectively copying the USA foreign policies and going for "regime change".
e.g.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12790.htm
That's what they did.
If it spreads, it will destroy the US dollar as the international reserve currency, cause a huge amount of inflation in the US and destroy the US as the world superpower.
At $74 a barrel
You see, they're not selling oil in dollars, and *that* is the problem.
Course, Nokia is a phone company and that's how they market it.
The N900 is a Linux box, which fits in your pocket, and which can talk to GSM, UMTS, WiFi, Bluetooth, FM transmitter and receiver, infrared transmitter, GPS.. Has an accelerometer, touchscreen, 5MP camera, audio (obviously), and TV out.
Lets put it this way. The N900 is a general purpose mobile computing module with battery backup that can do everything, talk to everything, uses open standards and is easy to use.
You can write bog standard shell/python/java/c/ASM/whatever software for it and distribute them as Debian packages.
Anything you can think of to do with a computer, you can do with the blessing of Nokia and you can do it mobile with full knowledge of location and movement. That is the difference between open and closed.
No offense or anything, but it's a no brainer.
Walk past an e-paper advert board. It scans your ID, looks up your preferences and buying history and throws up a 20 foot high shot of a naked guy and directions to the local rubber fetish store.
http://www.no2id.net/getInvolved/shop
And start lobbying your representatives.
they should call that effect something . Maybe something to do with networks of people .
TADA.
Welcome to the 1970s.
Whiner by name, whiner by nature.
When Ford released his first vehicle, he had ad writers tell people what it was for,
WTF? Everyone knew what a car was. They had been around for 100 years before Ford. What Ford did was successful mass production.
Maybe Android in the US.
The rest of the world on the other hand makes up 95% of the population.
I refuse to live somewhere with speed bumps
I'm sure everyone would miss you terribly when you left.
It's free, so consume it till it's all gone.
Basically no. In order for collaborative filtering to work you need a large population, and a large sample of information from the individual, more is better. i.e. hundreds of pieces of information discriminating X from Y. With email, web sites etc it works because the individual visits or receives many emails.
e.g. Restaurants on the other hand? How many do you visit? The result is that the system only has a small sample size and therefore gives crap generic recommendations (Hey there's a great McDonalds/Starbucks round the corner) from the masses. You would have to visit and rate tens of restaurants to even start giving good results in places you don't know. The same is true for other categories.
However. I admire your fresh faced innocence and energy. Go ahead and build it.
And hence have lower accident rates per passenger mile than those who solely drive cars. It's a feature of continually being a victim of attempted murder.
They are about driver attention.
That was a perfectly clear road, reasonably well lit, with good road conditions. Did the drivers even see what was ahead? No, they didn't even attempt to slow down. They simply, weren't paying attention to the road, and lack of attention is the primary cause of accidents, not excessive speed.
1. Police and ambulances kill people too. I've seen a couple of occasions where an emergency vehicle driver clearly "on a mission" has caused further accidents.
2. You put them where they are necessary, not everywhere. The average speed can be kept reasonable if they are set far enough apart.
Cameras only catch speeding, and actually encourage reckless driving.
UK police accident stats: TRL323 for example
excessive speed (includes over the limit *and* too great for the conditions; rain/fog etc): Generously, somewhere round 15% of accidents in the UK definitely, probably or even possibly include excessive speed as a component. The largest component by far is inattention ~25%, then comes failure to judge ~20% other road users and looking but not seeing ~20%, all of which are simply reckless driving.
Install speed bumps (you can even buy them on ebay) rather than cameras. Cheap to install and maintain and they do cause people to slow down, but more importantly, they make drivers pay attention to the road or they destroy the vehicle suspension. They also don't require police enforcement or law courts to be effective. If you set them far enough apart, drivers will be able to make reasonable progress, but will be physically incapable of exceeding the limit and will have to pay attention.
It's called traffic calming and it (road design) has a much larger effect on accident rates than cameras.
zombies represent the unthinking masses . Our society is already based on their behaviour . However in reality they are called consumers .
benefits in the afterlife ? there is a bunch right there. Cablesare small potatoes in comparison.
So that when the app falls over at 3am, they can pinpoint the line of code and committer in the repository.
Imagine they have a list of people who caused them to receive phone calls at 3am, and they are sorting the list by number of calls. Imagine they have admin access to the human resources databases and know where all the developers live.
Imagine you've seen "Guns & Ammo" magazines and pirated copies of "Rampage" lying around in their offices.
Or... sharks with lasers.
Even assuming it's cheaper than oil, unfortunately Jevons Paradox pretty much ensures that any reduction in cost will simply result in an increase in usage. It is predicated on efficiency gains, but is effectively cost reduction.
There are a lot more cars consuming more fuel than the whisky industry will be able to service.
i.e. this is an irrelevant but amusing story.
btw. Try this one:
http://www.oldpulteney.com/whisky.php
They don't half talk a load of bollocks on their web page, but their 12 year old is better than many distilleries 18year malts. It won't rip your throat out or make you want to boak. It will however give you a blinding headache the following day if you drink one too many, but they all do that.
You.
i.e. People.
The technologies may be cool. The potential may be amazing. But you know what? They have to make it for the average person. And that means the lowest common denominator.
You think you're going to be able to find that little local restaurant among all the shit that people think is wonderful when the masses arrive in droves on those systems? No. What you're going to see is Mcdonalds, Starbucks, TGI Fridays etc etc because they are the ones paying to be on the first lines your screen when you search for nearby restaurants or coffee.
So, if you're using Ovi Maps find places features on your phone just now and finding all these cool places, enjoy it while you can. Give it a year or two and there will be a hundred million other punters insisting that the starbucks on the corner make the best coffee in town.
What makes some of us jaded is not the technology. It's people.
Potentially 100 million squared for *direct* connections. Now add message/signal routing, with N intermediate hops along the network and message weight modification at each point. That's quite complex.