There's one thing that I dont see on the list (Mod python). But I think that even with MP's inclusion, Python lacks the depth and quality of CPAN for web server integration. There is no simply no comparable resouce for usable tested code in Python like Perls CPAN.
client side
Python integrates into gui's better. This something (currently) where perl sucks really (being embedded). Python also runs on windows extremely well. This is somthing Perl via Activestate tries but has yet to pull off. For some everything requires a hammer.
For me it's python on the desktop, perl at the server.
... 3 times more vulnerable than Australians, Americans or Europeans... every minute on average four Indians have heart attacks... 2.5 million people need to undergo heart operations and currently only about 50,000 people are undergoing the operation, only 50,000...
In a country with such a distorted wealth distribution, telemedicine allows outlying areas to access to access western trained cardiac specialists to supply top level care that was not previously possible.
Do not dismiss the expertise of these professionals. The products of top western hospital training in the UK, Australia and US, their expertise tempered by the shere number of operations they perform. The most salient point to consider is....
A government hospital run by the government of India, about 85 to 90 percent of their budgetary allocation goes for salaries. In the Western countries, about 60 to 70 percent of the yearly expense goes for the salaries. In our hospital, it's 20 percent or 22 percent.
what will happen if world population stabilizes and growth switches from exponential to linear growth or steady state...
I'd speculate that possibly diversity and extreme specialisation will result. But don't think steady state. It's a dead idea. Try Chaotic or non linear. (ps: always be skeptical of economists that try to explain something by saying , assuming a steady state something. Behind the assumptions are those untidy chaotic bits that cannot be explained using conventional theories.
Think about rain forests and birds that survive by eating particular foods (plants, insects). Insects that only survive in the leaves of particular trees. etc. You get the idea. Spend any time in the bush and you can see this.
One question that extends from this idea is what happens when distruption occurs in the market? Is this where new business can make a start... and possibly end? think economic bubbles.
this post is spot on. In David Suzuki's latest series, The Sacred Balence, he talked to a scientist Brian Goodman about Ants. Goodman gathered data on the communication between ants that are working and ants not working.
"... Some kind of collective emergent behaviour will be observed as the result of local coupling. In neural organizations, retrieval of associative memory (and maybe consciousness) can be thought of as emergent properties...." (www.sacredbalance.com/web/antsociety.html)
Plotting the results, he found that once the number of connections between ants got to a particular number, the results created a sort of harmonic wave representing systematic organisation occuring. This goes some way to explaining how multitude of ants, each with specialised behaviour and functions know what to do just at the right time.
There's a simulation on this page (java applet) with detailed information (or where to get it) on the maths behind the model.
What they are talking about is HTTP_REFERER [sic] logs. Still gets logged if you POST or GET. If you connect to me, tell me what you want, and who you are, I am capable of logging it. Tough.
Nothing to do with Google or search.
reading the article again your right. Try checking your cookie log and look for the google one. I think the googlewatch site was making a point about *cookies with long expiry dates*.
looking at the cookie on my machine it had an expiry date of 8FEB2038 attatched was the following data ID=36accc993aa66c41:LD=en:NR=100:CR=2:TM=107394243 5:LM=1075939002:S=swKwossf4gh4rD50
Now this is most likely the prefs cookie I set while I was mucking around with some google hacks.
The fact that you record unique cookie ID, plus IP number, plus date and time, makes much of your information "identifiable." Authorities can also do a "sneak and peek" search of a Google user's hard drive when he isn't home, retrieve a Google cookie ID, and then get a keyword search history from you for this ID. [www.google-watch.org]
this is the type of problem I guess I was trying point out. One should not be overtly alarmed - but wary.
browser version, IP address, time of visit, pages viewed, etc.
And?
why your searchs of course. this information is gold - advertising, law enforcement etc
It's obscene to say that someone who gets a four-year degree developing a fairly technical skill deserves to barely gets paid enough to get by and make payments on their university debt.
who said getting a degree or embarking on a course of study has any relationship to monetary gain? Supply and demand - (american) capitalism is at work here (not that I like it).
That's one thing this is NOT about: free trade. Free trade is when an unemployed American computer scientist can go to India to get a job. Guess what? It's impossible for Americans to get work visas in India. Why? Because they are protectionist.
I find this a bit rich coming from a US cit. Currently Australia is trade negotioning with the US. Guess what free trade does not include things like sugar, dairy, beef.
Do political situations, like the border skirmishes near Kashmir, ever get discussed
a bird flu pandemic is currently something to watch.
A third of Europe's population died over four years due to the Black Death. But was it really spread by rats and fleas? Could it have been caused by a virus? (On the trail of the black death, ABC Science.)
This is a real problem for countries with *compromised* infrastructure - health services, sanatation etc. I would not want to be in a country like India if a pandemic strikes.
as master po would say...
yes grasshopper, but he is learning. imagine when he explores *efficeincy*. Be not concerned about the golden egg. He is discovering how to be the goose
If you don't have the right qualifications, don't apply for the job.
smart and get things done
it was frustrating because I clearly knew what I wanted to be doing but it wasn't available to me at the time. It was always: if you want to do computers you need to go to MIT then you go work at a corporation as an engineer and follow "the path." But I dropped out of college, and started my own company. My brother followed a more conventional path. He got a degree and became a stock broker and that's what my mother expected that you're supposed to do. And he's doing OK for himself, but there's nothing like a few Ferarris to rub your parents face in." John Carmack
for those not treading a worn path, what matters (in software anyway) is the quality of the code, delivered on time meeting the design critera. JOS has consistantly made the point (the right one) that he's looking for the top 5%.
try here (text description), here (text) and question/answer 1 (also text) on a *retro* '99, slashdot. I remember seeing a picture of carmack long ago (probably quake 2 - that I couldn't find) with a dual monitor LCD setup in a darkened windowless room, back when they where pretty rare. One screen with an editor, the other with a debugger or renderer. The thing I remember most was the ugly pink/red screen - though I reckon this is chosen due to low contrast (easier on the eyes). Nothing there but code.
who socialsoftwareweb reports - "... Right now it is 'invitation only...' Google employees, and friends of Google employees make up the 'orkut' membership..."
privacy register reported - "... Google has attempted to play down the relationship with Orkut, although each page is branded "in affiliation with Google." The Privacy Policy notes "We may share information that you submit and any non-personally identifiable information we collect with Google, Inc. and agents of orkut in accordance to the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy," according an FAQ on the site..."
I trawled thru google. looks like they are not crawling through orkut yet.
compare the above images with this pathfinder image taken in '97.
spirit image 1:
context
flat, slightly undulating landscape. scattered large rocks. undulations appear to be lighter coloured/different texture.
12 o'clock
flat, slighly undulating granular surface punctuated with small to medium sized rocks scattered evenly. Between the larger rocks smaller fragments appear just beneath the surface causing convex bulging of the surface material. No craters. larger surface features (mountains?) in the distance.
12 o'clock
flat, slighly undulating granular surface punctuated with small to medium sized rocks scattered evenly. Between the larger rocks smaller fragments appear just beneath the surface causing convex bulging of the surface material.
2 o'clock
rocks appear shattered with sharp edges. larger rocks exposed appear untouched by weathering. material on ground has gentle undulations. In some instances the material covers the rocks.
3 o'clock
slight rises in ground material appear from 2 to 7 - facing in the same direction.
5 o'clock
jpl image on rover visible. rocks to immediate left and above appear to be pock marked. In these pock marks appear to be grains of martian surface.
8 o'clock
collections of rocks above and partially hidden in surface. rocks partially hidden show outlines below the surface. compared to 5 there are much less of the larger rocks. looking right to the 6 position just above the largest pock marked rock notice the collection of very small rocks just beneath the surface.
11 o'clock
trio of larger rocks at 12,6 and 9. inside these rocks are smaller rocks. shadows appear from the 5 position. Inside the trio of rocks appear a great many collection of smaller rocks bounded by the other 3. close inspection of the rocks reveal small mounds surrounding them at a short distance.
opportunity image 2:
context: appears to have landed in a low depression. You can see the a hill on the horizon. The image is taken with the sun at high angle. It is just possible to see what appears to be drag marks against the flat surface. Another image shows the wind swept regular surface devoid of visible small rocks.
12 o'clock
we have what looks like undisturbed/slightly ground with smooth texture. resembles wind blow sand. No inidcation of rock deposits on surface. From this image it is difficult to tell what is original surface. However if we look at this image we see that the surface surrounding image is a fine textured regular surface where the only irregular surface is possibly where spirit has come into context.
2 o'clock
depression of surface that could be drag marks. area shows both smooth surface as described at 12 and scratch marks that expose small darker objects which could be deeper marks in the disturbed surface or small regular sized objects. Note scratch mark in top left region crossing the previously created marks suggesting it has been made after the other marks.
woow there partner. I'm not sure how the ms link got there - maybe posted the message check the email headers. Windriver is a pretty slick company. To leave the debug code in the live system was a master stroke. Firstly because the system was still fast enough (RT os), secondly they had the forsight to include it because even though they are good they realise there code is *imperfect*.
But a few days into the mission, not long after Pathfinder started gathering meteorological data, the spacecraft began experiencing total system resets, each resulting in losses of data.
Pathfinder in it's 1997 landing (04JUL1997) suffered a series of unexplained system failures. David Wilner CTO of WindRiver Systems, the creators of WxWorks the realtime embedded system kernel talked to IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium at a later date explaining how they solved software bugs in the system.
leaving the "debugging" facilities in the system saved the day
this article explains how they solved the problem - by including the debug code with the os. I remember reading about this on/. some time ago. A detailed account can be read here by Glenn Reeves (JPL Mars Flight SE).
Windriver systems is supplying the OS for the current mission. Lets see how long it takes them to work this one out:)
Earth is mapped, near real time, to about 1 foot with military satellites.
qualify this. how many sqr feet does the earth contain? - for how long? - what time frame? - what is the size of the area to be measured? what spectrum(s) are being used?
it is more likely this occurs on very selected target area for a selected period of time within a specified range of the spectrum - but not the entire earth.
successful innovations had some, or all, of the following features: they were moderately new to the market, based on tried and tested technology, saved money, met customers' needs and supported existing practices. By contrast, the products that failed were based on cutting-edge or untested technology, followed a "me-too" approach, or were created with no clearly defined solution in mind.
"... unique ID for each page stored as ansi c, 4 bytes on Linux system (~4yo) gives theoretical limit of 4.2 billion pages...."
discusses the move to 5 bytes and suggests how this move may be the cause of weird search results on google searchs this year - of course the other reason my be google foiling search cue jumpers.
power points and the progression up the IBM ladder
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sounds like a story I read on IBM and powerpoints. Went along the lines of person X in PM would have a better chance than person Y of promotion by producing a *gee whiz* talk, along with accompanied powerpoint... then on the basis of the talk, etc being promoted leaving their mess behind.
Slashdot Mirror
There's one thing that I dont see on the list (Mod python). But I think that even with MP's inclusion, Python lacks the depth and quality of CPAN for web server integration. There is no simply no comparable resouce for usable tested code in Python like Perls CPAN.
client sidePython integrates into gui's better. This something (currently) where perl sucks really (being embedded). Python also runs on windows extremely well. This is somthing Perl via Activestate tries but has yet to pull off. For some everything requires a hammer. For me it's python on the desktop, perl at the server.
It's probably not well known that people of Indian origin have a predisposition to heart problems. Last year on ABC's, Foreign correspondent, Domonique Schwartz did a story on Dr. Devi Prasad Shetty, Cardiologist/Heart surgeon, of Narayana Hrudayalaya Hospital in Bangalore.
In a country with such a distorted wealth distribution, telemedicine allows outlying areas to access to access western trained cardiac specialists to supply top level care that was not previously possible.
Do not dismiss the expertise of these professionals. The products of top western hospital training in the UK, Australia and US, their expertise tempered by the shere number of operations they perform. The most salient point to consider is ....
- A government hospital run by the government of India, about 85 to 90 percent of their budgetary allocation goes for salaries. In the Western countries, about 60 to 70 percent of the yearly expense goes for the salaries. In our hospital, it's 20 percent or 22 percent.
[Foreign Correspondent, ABC, India a big Heart, aired: 18/02/2003]I'd speculate that possibly diversity and extreme specialisation will result. But don't think steady state. It's a dead idea. Try Chaotic or non linear. (ps: always be skeptical of economists that try to explain something by saying , assuming a steady state something . Behind the assumptions are those untidy chaotic bits that cannot be explained using conventional theories.
Think about rain forests and birds that survive by eating particular foods (plants, insects). Insects that only survive in the leaves of particular trees. etc. You get the idea. Spend any time in the bush and you can see this.
One question that extends from this idea is what happens when distruption occurs in the market? Is this where new business can make a start ... and possibly end? think economic bubbles.
btw I also posted info on how *insects organise chaos* just this week pretty much along the same lines.
this post is spot on. In David Suzuki's latest series, The Sacred Balence , he talked to a scientist Brian Goodman about Ants. Goodman gathered data on the communication between ants that are working and ants not working.
Plotting the results, he found that once the number of connections between ants got to a particular number, the results created a sort of harmonic wave representing systematic organisation occuring. This goes some way to explaining how multitude of ants, each with specialised behaviour and functions know what to do just at the right time.
There's a simulation on this page (java applet) with detailed information (or where to get it) on the maths behind the model.
reading the article again your right. Try checking your cookie log and look for the google one. I think the googlewatch site was making a point about *cookies with long expiry dates*.
looking at the cookie on my machine it had an expiry date of 8FEB2038 attatched was the following data ID=36accc993aa66c41:LD=en:NR=100:CR=2:TM=107394243 5:LM=1075939002:S=swKwossf4gh4rD50
Now this is most likely the prefs cookie I set while I was mucking around with some google hacks.
this is the type of problem I guess I was trying point out. One should not be overtly alarmed - but wary.
browser version, IP address, time of visit, pages viewed, etc. And?why your searchs of course. this information is gold - advertising, law enforcement etc
MBTI is ISTP
search == tracked id
google privacy policy deficiencies
damn useful tool. but you leave breadcrumb trails all over the internet anyway.
who said getting a degree or embarking on a course of study has any relationship to monetary gain? Supply and demand - (american) capitalism is at work here (not that I like it).
I find this a bit rich coming from a US cit. Currently Australia is trade negotioning with the US. Guess what free trade does not include things like sugar, dairy, beef.
a bird flu pandemic is currently something to watch.
This is a real problem for countries with *compromised* infrastructure - health services, sanatation etc. I would not want to be in a country like India if a pandemic strikes.
as master po would say ...
yes grasshopper, but he is learning. imagine when he explores *efficeincy*. Be not concerned about the golden egg. He is discovering how to be the goose
smart and get things done
it was frustrating because I clearly knew what I wanted to be doing but it wasn't available to me at the time. It was always: if you want to do computers you need to go to MIT then you go work at a corporation as an engineer and follow "the path." But I dropped out of college, and started my own company. My brother followed a more conventional path. He got a degree and became a stock broker and that's what my mother expected that you're supposed to do. And he's doing OK for himself, but there's nothing like a few Ferarris to rub your parents face in." John Carmack
for those not treading a worn path, what matters (in software anyway) is the quality of the code, delivered on time meeting the design critera. JOS has consistantly made the point (the right one) that he's looking for the top 5%.
cynical mebut guess what ... this isn't a rant about hiring. This is a gorilla marketing campaign .... We're goin' up to slashdot to put the word to the net .
doh! yeah like since cavemen. I meant to say "dual screen LCD's". I write like a doofus sometimes. thanks for the reminder
try here (text description), here (text) and question/answer 1 (also text) on a *retro* '99, slashdot. I remember seeing a picture of carmack long ago (probably quake 2 - that I couldn't find) with a dual monitor LCD setup in a darkened windowless room, back when they where pretty rare. One screen with an editor, the other with a debugger or renderer. The thing I remember most was the ugly pink/red screen - though I reckon this is chosen due to low contrast (easier on the eyes). Nothing there but code.
who ..."
socialsoftwareweb reports - "... Right now it is 'invitation only...' Google employees, and friends of Google employees make up the 'orkut' membership
privacy ..."
register reported - "... Google has attempted to play down the relationship with Orkut, although each page is branded "in affiliation with Google." The Privacy Policy notes "We may share information that you submit and any non-personally identifiable information we collect with Google, Inc. and agents of orkut in accordance to the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy," according an FAQ on the site
I trawled thru google. looks like they are not crawling through orkut yet.
anybody notice the differences between spirit rover 1 landing site and opportunity rover 2 landing site? (high res) anyone care to comment on what the raw images may show? described clockwise from 12 o'clock.
compare the above images with this pathfinder image taken in '97.
spirit image 1:
context
flat, slightly undulating landscape. scattered large rocks. undulations appear to be lighter coloured/different texture.
12 o'clock
flat, slighly undulating granular surface punctuated with small to medium sized rocks scattered evenly. Between the larger rocks smaller fragments appear just beneath the surface causing convex bulging of the surface material. No craters. larger surface features (mountains?) in the distance.
12 o'clock
flat, slighly undulating granular surface punctuated with small to medium sized rocks scattered evenly. Between the larger rocks smaller fragments appear just beneath the surface causing convex bulging of the surface material.
2 o'clock
rocks appear shattered with sharp edges. larger rocks exposed appear untouched by weathering. material on ground has gentle undulations. In some instances the material covers the rocks.
3 o'clock
slight rises in ground material appear from 2 to 7 - facing in the same direction.
5 o'clock
jpl image on rover visible. rocks to immediate left and above appear to be pock marked. In these pock marks appear to be grains of martian surface.
8 o'clock
collections of rocks above and partially hidden in surface. rocks partially hidden show outlines below the surface. compared to 5 there are much less of the larger rocks. looking right to the 6 position just above the largest pock marked rock notice the collection of very small rocks just beneath the surface.
11 o'clock
trio of larger rocks at 12,6 and 9. inside these rocks are smaller rocks. shadows appear from the 5 position. Inside the trio of rocks appear a great many collection of smaller rocks bounded by the other 3. close inspection of the rocks reveal small mounds surrounding them at a short distance.
opportunity image 2:
context:
appears to have landed in a low depression. You can see the a hill on the horizon. The image is taken with the sun at high angle. It is just possible to see what appears to be drag marks against the flat surface. Another image shows the wind swept regular surface devoid of visible small rocks.
12 o'clock
we have what looks like undisturbed/slightly ground with smooth texture. resembles wind blow sand. No inidcation of rock deposits on surface. From this image it is difficult to tell what is original surface. However if we look at this image we see that the surface surrounding image is a fine textured regular surface where the only irregular surface is possibly where spirit has come into context.
2 o'clock
depression of surface that could be drag marks. area shows both smooth surface as described at 12 and scratch marks that expose small darker objects which could be deeper marks in the disturbed surface or small regular sized objects.
Note scratch mark in top left region crossing the previously created marks suggesting it has been made after the other marks.
woow there partner. I'm not sure how the ms link got there - maybe posted the message check the email headers. Windriver is a pretty slick company. To leave the debug code in the live system was a master stroke. Firstly because the system was still fast enough (RT os), secondly they had the forsight to include it because even though they are good they realise there code is *imperfect*.
Pathfinder in it's 1997 landing (04JUL1997) suffered a series of unexplained system failures. David Wilner CTO of WindRiver Systems, the creators of WxWorks the realtime embedded system kernel talked to IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium at a later date explaining how they solved software bugs in the system.
this article explains how they solved the problem - by including the debug code with the os. I remember reading about this on /. some time ago. A detailed account can be read here by Glenn Reeves (JPL Mars Flight SE).
Windriver systems is supplying the OS for the current mission. Lets see how long it takes them to work this one out :)
links:l r itative_Account.html
www.kohala.com/start/papers.others/pathfinder.htm
research.microsoft.com/~mbj/Mars_Pathfinder/Autho
qualify this. how many sqr feet does the earth contain? - for how long? - what time frame? - what is the size of the area to be measured? what spectrum(s) are being used?
are you telling me that 500 square Megameters of data times 3.28 (1 meter approx 3.28 feet) of data is collected *realtime*?
it is more likely this occurs on very selected target area for a selected period of time within a specified range of the spectrum - but not the entire earth.
guess it answers this question (Does Perl Have a Future?) posed by Brian d foy.
perl has some neat text processing capabilities (munging), regex, unicode and CPAN. I wonder if you can gain access to CPAN from your phone?
utilising your own system is a start. on the desktop there's nat *Ximian* friedmans Dashboard
correct but only one piece of the puzzle ...
successful innovations had some, or all, of the following features: they were moderately new to the market, based on tried and tested technology, saved money, met customers' needs and supported existing practices. By contrast, the products that failed were based on cutting-edge or untested technology, followed a "me-too" approach, or were created with no clearly defined solution in mind.
Economist, Expect the unexpected talking about Why Innovation Fails , Carl Franklin
google broken? (www.google-watch.org)
"... unique ID for each page stored as ansi c, 4 bytes on Linux system (~4yo) gives theoretical limit of 4.2 billion pages. ..."
discusses the move to 5 bytes and suggests how this move may be the cause of weird search results on google searchs this year - of course the other reason my be google foiling search cue jumpers.
sounds like a story I read on IBM and powerpoints. Went along the lines of person X in PM would have a better chance than person Y of promotion by producing a *gee whiz* talk, along with accompanied powerpoint ... then on the basis of the talk, etc being promoted leaving their mess behind.
thought I did mention it's a territory ... good point about *housing Canberra*.
lot of people will have read this story as if it represented the Australian federal government
a very good point. I'm glad you pointed that out.