Actually, while I think that its use here is rather ugly, I will have to defentd the poster. The word disappear has been used this way since the Chilean coup and Argentine junta popularized the practice of 'disappearing' political opponents in the 70's, and it has had increasing popularity in US English. I really think it should be used more sparingly, and that it should be reserved for people being 'disappeared', not mere websites ( though they desrve our respect, don't get me wrong!), but I am not in control of these things.
You can easily say the same thing about the majority of information on evolution. Introduce the scientific method, and then spend days showing the kids artist's impressions of what life could have been like for Homo Erectus, along with reconstructions of whole skeletons based on a few rib bones (but don't bother displaying the actual raw evidence, just throw in some big name like "Leakey" and tell 'em that "the consensus among scientists is...")
Wow. You really don't seem to understand the real science in the science, so here it goes: We know that evolution occurs. We know it because we know the mechanism (DNA) that determines just what creature will arise from a particular configuration of the DNA. And we can manipulate it a little ( not to say this is a good thing, but we can do it). And we can show the RELATEDNESS of animals through their DNA. So we know that they are related, and how, so we know that they evolved from each other. And we don't need cheesy drawings of HOMO ERECTUS. And we don't need 'big names', we just need to pay attention. What we haven't proved is that NATURAL SELECTION is the driving force of evolution. This is the core of Darwinism. We can make some experiments. We can put bacteria on a toxin and see if a toxin-resistant strain develops - which would be evidence of Natural selection at work. We can't rule out a direct intervention by a deity, because we can't replay the exact moment that a species came into being, but we CAN show that evolution occurs under normal circumstances through the mechanism of natural selection. What we need to do, finally, is stop telling God how he has to run his Universe. Let him tell us how he did it. It's written in the DNA.
As someone in the industry ( as many others here are) I anticipate the following problems and opportunities. People are slow to decide and quick to move after a decision is reached, so until a reason comes along to compel a switch most working graphics professionals and most companies will stick with the known. Two things will work to change that over time. Most graphics companies work with integrators ( Consultants who specialize in bundling printers, servers and applications into a package that create workflow efficiencies). Integrators will have the time and incentive to evaluate OSS and build systems and training around it. New graphics professionals, those in school now, or just entering schools, don't have a financial or emotional investment in a software solution, and they will have a reason (cost) to start with OSS packages. As these people enter the workforce they will bring the skills that will help drive adoption. Commercial software won't, on the other hand, just go away, but it will change. It will probably become more specialized, as OSS takes over the routine, but it will increasingly become more open itself. OSS is a superior long-term development model, and coupled with a superior pricing structure it will grow over time. That is inevitable. The speed of change is the only real question. Big companies forming software alliances to support an open source package to lower their TCO would speed things up. Other things, like a 50% drop in the price of Photoshop, or Quark or what have you. could slow it down.
It is a mistake to say this nation has no 'history of education or academic excellence', the US was an early leader in providing Universal education - and the WW2 geniuses included plenty of home grown talent - Richard Feynman, Robert Oppenheimer to name two without bothering to google for more. It is fair to point out that this history of commitment to education has been uneven, and since the early 1960's has been progressively abandoned. New York's public schools used to be very good - now they suck so bad they are almost anti-educational, in some cases. Land grant colleges (now State Universities) are a legacy of this old commitment. In California in the 1970's and before, state residents could attend any state institution that accepted them academically for free. All that is gone, and it is tragic, but we shouldn't forget that we once DID have a commitment to education, and educational excellence. They are what gave us the technological lead we are about to squander. There has been an anti-intellectual strain in American history, but it isn't exactly the same thing.
Yeah, basically the participants ( or virtual drives') will all need to be 'intelligent' to the extent that they track all of the parts, and everything would need to be completely stored twice ( I don't think 'parity' would work well ). That said, it is fundamentally possible to construct this.
I've actually been thinking along the same lines: a bittorrent-like encrypted stream, but not just for back-up. In theory you could construct RAID storage over the internet in this fashion ( where each participant in the storage network is a virtual drive in a RAID array), then use this as permanent disk space for near-line storage. If one "drive" fails the logic would rebuild the data from the disparate parts. This is obviously very complicated, but would actually be a great way to move to internet storage for a completely mobile filesystem. Log on and mount an internet filesystem as a local drive, swap computers, and as long as you can authenticate all your files are there.
I think most of us would agree that you have exactly expressed the legitimate and valuable use of cookies. But like all things, there are less legit uses. It is really that lack of confidence that leads me to clean out the cookies, though I do so selectively. The original story headline is about Marketers, not webmasters. I have trust in webmasters. I have no trust in Marketers. I think we would be foolish TO trust marketers, advertisers, etc. They usually work exactly against my interests, and they see information about me as one more product to sell. If I had confidence that cookies were being used within a regime that could not be tied to me as a person I would never delete them. As usual, it is the lack of transparency and lack of trust that fuels behavior. I guess that stems from the portion of the population that sees all relationships as monetarized.
My daddy always told me if you're gonna work for low wages, then hold out for long hours. On a more sober note, I can barely count the times I have recommended someone for a position within my company because of the effort and seriousness they brought to their position ( usually a low level staffer here, not a manager). The position would be a real reward for this person, conferring skills that would make them better able to get on a career trajectory. Only twice was I taken up on these suggestions. Always the refrain is as you indicate - he/she's too valuable where they are. Which means they can't replace him for what they 'under'-pay him. These are people who work through lunch - even when you demand they stop! who put in hours they don't get paid for. They actually crave the recognition that they never actually receive, because the Company makes the mistake of thinking that they can continue to take with no give back. Eventually all of the people I recommended for advancement who were too valuable have left. I wish them well.
Women, or young adult females between 12 and 25, are quite often the strongest characters in Anime, I wouldn't hinge any arguements about the "battle of the sexes" on Appleseed. Read Or Die, I think, supports your thesis much better:) Your overarching point about males being told to 'accept, revere and worship...', well, its sort of a one sided perspective. Guys make equally lame comments about women. See the rest of the/. comments on this topic if you don't believe me. The fact is their are thin percentages of difference. I am male, and a pacifist. My mother is, I believe, female, but she hasn't met a US military intervention that she hasn't liked. Individual cases are never to be generalized from aggregate data. On average some % of women are more/less likely than some % of men to engage in a specific behavior, but these things are seldom outside of 55/45 splits. Now, throwing a baseball, there is a topic for some good old sexist fun!
GPS can and does yield more accurate readings than the 20 meters in some situations. The accuracy problem is caused by the US military screwing with the clocks. Which is one reason why some countries don't want the USG to own DNS, but that debate does not belong here, it belongs somewhere else on/., whereas you just want super accurate GPS readings, so.... You need one known earth reference ( Here in the US there are lots of known survey markers, but where you are going they may be harder to find). Next you need two GPS receivers and two 2-way radios. One GPS receiver will occupy the known geo-reference point for the entire data collection period. The other receiver moves through the survey area and data is recorded at exactly the same time on the two receivers, one at a known point one at the survey point. You can now mathematically eliminate your error ( and get your survey accuracy down to around 1 cm if you need to) by using the known geo reference point as a filter. There are very expensive software packages that can automate this for you. The best place to look for help would be in university geography departments that have photogrammetry course work. You could also contact photogrammetric mapping companies directly, but they may not be interested in pro bono assistance.
Agreed. Anything over a page and I print it out and read the hard copy. This upside of the switch is the students will possibly get improved research skills, and a variety of voices on issues under study. The downside is likely to be increased ADD, poor eyesight and a variety of voice on issues under study.
As a New Yorker, I remember the outpouring of sympathy when we were the victims of an attack. I am somewhat surprized by the lack of such expression here. Whatever your political views ( I happen to be an anti-war pacifist with great sympathy for Afghanis, Iraqis, and even Guantanameros) I think we ought reflect on the lives literally shattered by this act of war - and all acts of war.
I came looking for your post, because I knew that I would find it. Of course we have a right to engage in the life of our nation. Of course we have a right to the use of our airwaves, of course we have a right to be a part of our community. If the government is mismanaging our resources ( and I am not claiming that they are, merely raising the issue that they might be) by privatizing a public space to the detriment of a sizeable swath of the nation, then we have problem. When this becomes exclusion from the necessary information that allows participation in the life of the nation we really, really have a problem. 33 million people is almost the same sized demographic as African-American (36 million est. in 2002). We can argue about whether that right is being properly used if they watch American Idol, but to deny that citizens have a right to the use of their own airwaves and a right to the basic information that affects them (which is delivered on television) is foolish. When the internet becomes the primary mode of communication we will need to see access to the internet as a right, as well. Don't be so chintsy with the rights you extend your fellow citizens, after all, we all should have the right to exist in a world WITHOUT phones, internets, televisions, etc but we can't live in that world because it has been stolen away. The governments regulations are about to strip access to information from 10% of the population. This ought to concern you.
But it's so much fun to speculate! What amazes me is that an entire Nation has one pipe in and out of the country. Most companies get nervous about a single point of failure like that, but I guess when the resources aren't there you live with a precarious situation.
The adminstration was also very strong on technological intel ( satellites and other gathering technologies that paid dividends over the long haul), to the point that hawks accused them of denigrating and wasting human sources.
Actually, though the free rider problem is implicated, the analysis is wrong. Free content will end when someone finds a way to make people pay for the information. (And i mean MAKE not allow). This will happen regardless of whether or not ads are blocked. Currently, there is no compelling reason to pay for informaton on the web. And remember, slashdot didn't start out with ads all over the place. And slashdot would most likely have carried on without ads if they had to, but would have subtle changes. Which we wouldn't know about. Once there is a compelling reason to pay for content, and a mechanism to enforce it, free content will end. More likely, however Ad blocking will change the way ads and advertising work on the web - which could be a good thing. But it probably won't be, because advertising tends to skew and sort of corrupt information over time.
First, you missed the main point. That attacks against BitTorrent are coordinated through a Microsoft employee who is paraded as a "renowned" security expert on scant credentials. In short, the press ( even the Register) is being coopted.
You also miss the point that this is coming from someone in the "popular press", which means it will likely circulate wider than tech circles.
NO. CD and floppy READERS will exist, but the media life is not rated at 60 years+. High quality CD and tape are around 30 years rated life , and failures at 10 years are common enough for older media. It isn't merely the reader that is important. With analog media a defect is local, a pit, some discoloration, etc. With digital media a few bad sectors can render the entire disk useless, and one bad byte can make an image unrecoverable.
4) we need to vote in a government that actually knows how to use a computer
And the Tories can? Besides most of the staff are non-politicals, changing governments won't change that.
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Actually, while I think that its use here is rather ugly, I will have to defentd the poster. The word disappear has been used this way since the Chilean coup and Argentine junta popularized the practice of 'disappearing' political opponents in the 70's, and it has had increasing popularity in US English. I really think it should be used more sparingly, and that it should be reserved for people being 'disappeared', not mere websites ( though they desrve our respect, don't get me wrong!), but I am not in control of these things.
You can easily say the same thing about the majority of information on evolution. Introduce the scientific method, and then spend days showing the kids artist's impressions of what life could have been like for Homo Erectus, along with reconstructions of whole skeletons based on a few rib bones (but don't bother displaying the actual raw evidence, just throw in some big name like "Leakey" and tell 'em that "the consensus among scientists is ...")
Wow. You really don't seem to understand the real science in the science, so here it goes: We know that evolution occurs. We know it because we know the mechanism (DNA) that determines just what creature will arise from a particular configuration of the DNA. And we can manipulate it a little ( not to say this is a good thing, but we can do it). And we can show the RELATEDNESS of animals through their DNA. So we know that they are related, and how, so we know that they evolved from each other. And we don't need cheesy drawings of HOMO ERECTUS. And we don't need 'big names', we just need to pay attention. What we haven't proved is that NATURAL SELECTION is the driving force of evolution. This is the core of Darwinism. We can make some experiments. We can put bacteria on a toxin and see if a toxin-resistant strain develops - which would be evidence of Natural selection at work. We can't rule out a direct intervention by a deity, because we can't replay the exact moment that a species came into being, but we CAN show that evolution occurs under normal circumstances through the mechanism of natural selection. What we need to do, finally, is stop telling God how he has to run his Universe. Let him tell us how he did it. It's written in the DNA.
As someone in the industry ( as many others here are) I anticipate the following problems and opportunities. People are slow to decide and quick to move after a decision is reached, so until a reason comes along to compel a switch most working graphics professionals and most companies will stick with the known. Two things will work to change that over time. Most graphics companies work with integrators ( Consultants who specialize in bundling printers, servers and applications into a package that create workflow efficiencies). Integrators will have the time and incentive to evaluate OSS and build systems and training around it. New graphics professionals, those in school now, or just entering schools, don't have a financial or emotional investment in a software solution, and they will have a reason (cost) to start with OSS packages. As these people enter the workforce they will bring the skills that will help drive adoption. Commercial software won't, on the other hand, just go away, but it will change. It will probably become more specialized, as OSS takes over the routine, but it will increasingly become more open itself. OSS is a superior long-term development model, and coupled with a superior pricing structure it will grow over time. That is inevitable. The speed of change is the only real question. Big companies forming software alliances to support an open source package to lower their TCO would speed things up. Other things, like a 50% drop in the price of Photoshop, or Quark or what have you. could slow it down.
It is a mistake to say this nation has no 'history of education or academic excellence', the US was an early leader in providing Universal education - and the WW2 geniuses included plenty of home grown talent - Richard Feynman, Robert Oppenheimer to name two without bothering to google for more. It is fair to point out that this history of commitment to education has been uneven, and since the early 1960's has been progressively abandoned. New York's public schools used to be very good - now they suck so bad they are almost anti-educational, in some cases. Land grant colleges (now State Universities) are a legacy of this old commitment. In California in the 1970's and before, state residents could attend any state institution that accepted them academically for free. All that is gone, and it is tragic, but we shouldn't forget that we once DID have a commitment to education, and educational excellence. They are what gave us the technological lead we are about to squander. There has been an anti-intellectual strain in American history, but it isn't exactly the same thing.
Yeah, basically the participants ( or virtual drives') will all need to be 'intelligent' to the extent that they track all of the parts, and everything would need to be completely stored twice ( I don't think 'parity' would work well ). That said, it is fundamentally possible to construct this.
I've actually been thinking along the same lines: a bittorrent-like encrypted stream, but not just for back-up. In theory you could construct RAID storage over the internet in this fashion ( where each participant in the storage network is a virtual drive in a RAID array), then use this as permanent disk space for near-line storage. If one "drive" fails the logic would rebuild the data from the disparate parts. This is obviously very complicated, but would actually be a great way to move to internet storage for a completely mobile filesystem. Log on and mount an internet filesystem as a local drive, swap computers, and as long as you can authenticate all your files are there.
Stop saying: postponed launch of Longhorn, and start saying: postponed launch date of Vista
I think most of us would agree that you have exactly expressed the legitimate and valuable use of cookies. But like all things, there are less legit uses. It is really that lack of confidence that leads me to clean out the cookies, though I do so selectively. The original story headline is about Marketers, not webmasters. I have trust in webmasters. I have no trust in Marketers. I think we would be foolish TO trust marketers, advertisers, etc. They usually work exactly against my interests, and they see information about me as one more product to sell. If I had confidence that cookies were being used within a regime that could not be tied to me as a person I would never delete them. As usual, it is the lack of transparency and lack of trust that fuels behavior. I guess that stems from the portion of the population that sees all relationships as monetarized.
My daddy always told me if you're gonna work for low wages, then hold out for long hours. On a more sober note, I can barely count the times I have recommended someone for a position within my company because of the effort and seriousness they brought to their position ( usually a low level staffer here, not a manager). The position would be a real reward for this person, conferring skills that would make them better able to get on a career trajectory. Only twice was I taken up on these suggestions. Always the refrain is as you indicate - he/she's too valuable where they are. Which means they can't replace him for what they 'under'-pay him. These are people who work through lunch - even when you demand they stop! who put in hours they don't get paid for. They actually crave the recognition that they never actually receive, because the Company makes the mistake of thinking that they can continue to take with no give back. Eventually all of the people I recommended for advancement who were too valuable have left. I wish them well.
Women, or young adult females between 12 and 25, are quite often the strongest characters in Anime, I wouldn't hinge any arguements about the "battle of the sexes" on Appleseed. Read Or Die, I think, supports your thesis much better :) Your overarching point about males being told to 'accept, revere and worship...', well, its sort of a one sided perspective. Guys make equally lame comments about women. See the rest of the /. comments on this topic if you don't believe me. The fact is their are thin percentages of difference. I am male, and a pacifist. My mother is, I believe, female, but she hasn't met a US military intervention that she hasn't liked. Individual cases are never to be generalized from aggregate data. On average some % of women are more/less likely than some % of men to engage in a specific behavior, but these things are seldom outside of 55/45 splits. Now, throwing a baseball, there is a topic for some good old sexist fun!
GPS can and does yield more accurate readings than the 20 meters in some situations. The accuracy problem is caused by the US military screwing with the clocks. Which is one reason why some countries don't want the USG to own DNS, but that debate does not belong here, it belongs somewhere else on /., whereas you just want super accurate GPS readings, so.... You need one known earth reference ( Here in the US there are lots of known survey markers, but where you are going they may be harder to find). Next you need two GPS receivers and two 2-way radios. One GPS receiver will occupy the known geo-reference point for the entire data collection period. The other receiver moves through the survey area and data is recorded at exactly the same time on the two receivers, one at a known point one at the survey point. You can now mathematically eliminate your error ( and get your survey accuracy down to around 1 cm if you need to) by using the known geo reference point as a filter. There are very expensive software packages that can automate this for you. The best place to look for help would be in university geography departments that have photogrammetry course work. You could also contact photogrammetric mapping companies directly, but they may not be interested in pro bono assistance.
It was an upside and a downside. Depends on the voice.
Agreed. Anything over a page and I print it out and read the hard copy. This upside of the switch is the students will possibly get improved research skills, and a variety of voices on issues under study. The downside is likely to be increased ADD, poor eyesight and a variety of voice on issues under study.
As a New Yorker, I remember the outpouring of sympathy when we were the victims of an attack. I am somewhat surprized by the lack of such expression here. Whatever your political views ( I happen to be an anti-war pacifist with great sympathy for Afghanis, Iraqis, and even Guantanameros) I think we ought reflect on the lives literally shattered by this act of war - and all acts of war.
I came looking for your post, because I knew that I would find it. Of course we have a right to engage in the life of our nation. Of course we have a right to the use of our airwaves, of course we have a right to be a part of our community. If the government is mismanaging our resources ( and I am not claiming that they are, merely raising the issue that they might be) by privatizing a public space to the detriment of a sizeable swath of the nation, then we have problem. When this becomes exclusion from the necessary information that allows participation in the life of the nation we really, really have a problem. 33 million people is almost the same sized demographic as African-American (36 million est. in 2002). We can argue about whether that right is being properly used if they watch American Idol, but to deny that citizens have a right to the use of their own airwaves and a right to the basic information that affects them (which is delivered on television) is foolish. When the internet becomes the primary mode of communication we will need to see access to the internet as a right, as well. Don't be so chintsy with the rights you extend your fellow citizens, after all, we all should have the right to exist in a world WITHOUT phones, internets, televisions, etc but we can't live in that world because it has been stolen away. The governments regulations are about to strip access to information from 10% of the population. This ought to concern you.
But it's so much fun to speculate! What amazes me is that an entire Nation has one pipe in and out of the country. Most companies get nervous about a single point of failure like that, but I guess when the resources aren't there you live with a precarious situation.
The adminstration was also very strong on technological intel ( satellites and other gathering technologies that paid dividends over the long haul), to the point that hawks accused them of denigrating and wasting human sources.
2 guitars a bass and drums.
that's called innovation.
Actually, though the free rider problem is implicated, the analysis is wrong. Free content will end when someone finds a way to make people pay for the information. (And i mean MAKE not allow). This will happen regardless of whether or not ads are blocked. Currently, there is no compelling reason to pay for informaton on the web. And remember, slashdot didn't start out with ads all over the place. And slashdot would most likely have carried on without ads if they had to, but would have subtle changes. Which we wouldn't know about. Once there is a compelling reason to pay for content, and a mechanism to enforce it, free content will end. More likely, however Ad blocking will change the way ads and advertising work on the web - which could be a good thing. But it probably won't be, because advertising tends to skew and sort of corrupt information over time.
First, you missed the main point. That attacks against BitTorrent are coordinated through a Microsoft employee who is paraded as a "renowned" security expert on scant credentials. In short, the press ( even the Register) is being coopted.
You also miss the point that this is coming from someone in the "popular press", which means it will likely circulate wider than tech circles.
Along with the new command line tool. the new search paradigm, the new filesystem and Sherlock!
you can write a command that tastes cheese? Cool!
NO. CD and floppy READERS will exist, but the media life is not rated at 60 years+. High quality CD and tape are around 30 years rated life , and failures at 10 years are common enough for older media. It isn't merely the reader that is important. With analog media a defect is local, a pit, some discoloration, etc. With digital media a few bad sectors can render the entire disk useless, and one bad byte can make an image unrecoverable.
4) we need to vote in a government that actually knows how to use a computer
And the Tories can? Besides most of the staff are non-politicals, changing governments won't change that.