Right... notary is about authentication.. user is the person who claims himself to be [done using a picture id, say]. It would be really useful to have this process done online so that it can avoid a trip to a notary public office (and pay the $10 or so fee). The problem is not easy to solve.. but a central agency (a e-notary service) could potentially use a remote system like webcam or voice to verify you. It needs to be robust that someone can't easily impersonate. [likely use a live-person on the other end and may be use your biometrics like iris-scan to confirm it's you]
I see still for some financial transactions.. while 99% of work can be finished online (read: without leaving your home), a last bit still needs a notary.. if this task can be done online, it will be nice as you can instantly finish up some financial transactions (e.g you do an asset transfer to another person online with your finanical institute)
Typing fast may not be the concern; programmers need to spend more time thinking than producing typed output. Using all fingers helps reduce the risk of muscle damage compared to using only two or three fingers (like carpal tunnel syndrome). Also keeping head straight looking at the screen rather than looking down and up can reduce stress on the neck muscles. I would say the benefit to our physical health outweighs more than any other efficiency in support of touch typing.
same here.. suddenly I too see in inbox in the last week or so (surprisingly today I don't, may be gmail already took care of the problem). Mine were mostly about transferring zillions of dollars to my bank account. In fact I did a google news search a few days back for this spam issue..didn't get any good hits. Good to see the problem getting more visibility (and probably resolved already).
I'm not a mathematician but have read quite a bit about RH; I feel it is one of those truths that we can not prove or disprove. It could be one of the examples for Godel's incompleteness theorems. It is humbling to know there are limitations to logic and that not all truth can be proved. I would see it as "fortunate" if this proof is invalid.
Exactly.. all you need is a scheduler which can exploit multiple CPUs/core and have a bunch of processes in runnable state. You don't really need a single program to be multi-threaded to use a multi-core CPU.
For example, a simple shell pipeline 'p1 | p2 | p3 | p4 ' can get a theoretical speed-up of 4 on a quad-core machine when none of p1..p4 is multi-threaded.
Whether it's due to advertising or not, such behavior by a significant portion of the humanity is good for all us. That's what triggers consumption and the good economic cycle. Of course in any group behavior, there are always "cheaters" (not derogatory..but from an evolutionary biology sense) and they gain more than the average. My feeling is people who don't participate in this rat race, gain more overall.
I agree with you. In my case, I had a brief stop at TCL. I had a useful app which I moved to Python since I no longer want to make changes to it's TCL version. For those PERL scripts, I don't even care if they disappeared. In fact, I loved TCL lot more than Perl. Of course, when I first met Perl from the world of sh/C, it felt like heaven.
BTW does any of those complaining about Python, give one reason other than indendation, as a problem? (Oh come on, don't say some arbitrarily complain about slowness)
Recently I was studying about the next move.. no didn't find enough reasons to move/try Ruby.
Has anyone tried to search for articles on C language using search keyword as 'C'? Isn't it a lot easier to find stuff for Python? The point is a weird spelling in a name or word helps a lot in computer searches (say in Google). That's yet another point in favor to retain existing traditional complex spellings.
Sorry I doubt you can do much, without internet. Atleast for most people that would be true. If I know my internet is down, I'm fairly sure I won't even power on my PC.
In short, I don't see the need for a PC without an internet connection.
Yeah, disk may be faster today. But networks don't have any moving parts. Nothing mechanical. So data can reach from server's RAM to your PC's RAM at the speed of light. This 1.5/4Mbps is a current temporary limitation. Imagine a few years/decades from now; you don't want to have something so slow as a mechanical moving part in your system.
I do agree. In fact after putting sufficient RAM, you will see the real bottleneck in these days is the server. A lay person's typical computing work is done in some remote server (google, flickr, slashdot...) not on his/her machine.
At the end of 90's we can blame it on the internet connection. Today at broadbast speed (even 1.2 Mbps is big enough), the real bottle neck is how fast cnn.com or flickr.com is willing to serve me.
So I do agree with the original article.. come on..people can't keep quoting that 640kb stuff.. show me a great application in the last 5 years..which really wanted the big CPU/memory capability the big companies want us to buy.
Yes, only 3 sets; but you can be creative with tags. Once you put in lots of relevant tags, you don't need that many sets. You can view/search based on your tags
Hope in future most of the camera's directly generate IP streams (say UDP/TCP) once you tell them the collectors target address/port information. Till then these kind of analog to digital conversion needed.
First comment?.. I just wrote something above to get in a first comment;)
I doubt the system works as claims from the cost perspective. They say they *pump* up the 40 degree water to cool the refrigerant vapor. What pump? Where do you get the energy to do that? If they can go all the way down to complete the cycle (not just using a gradient of 80 to 73; but 80 to 43) it is a different matter; I guess that will meet with its own problems.
quote from the link.. In order to complete the cycle, cold water (40 degrees F) is pumped up from the lower depths of the ocean. The cold water is used to condense the propylene vapor back into its liquid state and then it is pumped into the boiler to complete the cycle.
Mersenne prime finding is not the same as verifying a universal truth like 2*a = a+a. It is *NOT* yet proven that the number of Mersenne primes is infinite. So it is not a guarantee that you run a huge collection of machines and you always find the next bigger mersenne prime. The fact that we do indeed find them, makes it more convincing that the conjecture (that the number of mersenne primes is in fact infinite) is true.
>Education has almost nothing to do with ability. If someone is >being a "yes-man" inspite of knowing better, then that is sad.. >maybe they don't get what education is all about.
I agree with the original comment of why someone is being a "yes man". Because it is the best for him to do; he doesn't give a damn about the company or the industry or anything else. It is best for him and him alone to be a "yes man" to continue to make money which he feels is of higher priority to him. So I can agree with your "sad" part; but not that they aren't behaving smart.
I agree with your reasoning of why they have this store identification HITs -- about GPS enabled SUV mounted digicams taking thousands of pictures. When I gave it a try, in 36 HITs, I found one which I qualified as a correct image - the rest 35 had 'none of the above' as answer. We can see the reason - blind taking of images from a moving vehicle is not the most efficient way of solving the problem.
Why not ask users to upload the images of say a given street in a given ZIP as a task? There are so many willing to use their digicam to capture an accurate image and upload to amazon. I see the benefit of computers getting help from humans; but using this for this kind of image recognition is pretty lame.
Is there any way to "lock/unlock" certain regions of the image using a key? think about charging users to see "whats below those black rectangles";)
The requirement is something like a "diff" on an image file - tagged along with the image; you need special privilege to decrypt the diff and apply on the original image.
Does there exist any tool to do this? of course the applications can extend outside of the porn industry whenever some parts of an image needs special privilege to see
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Right... notary is about authentication .. user is the person who claims himself to be [done using a picture id, say].
It would be really useful to have this process done online so that it can avoid a trip to a notary public office (and pay the $10 or so fee).
The problem is not easy to solve.. but a central agency (a e-notary service) could potentially use a remote system like webcam or voice to verify you. It needs to be robust that someone can't easily impersonate. [likely use a live-person on the other end and may be use your biometrics like iris-scan to confirm it's you]
I see still for some financial transactions.. while 99% of work can be finished online (read: without leaving your home), a last bit still needs a notary.. if this task can be done online, it will be nice as you can instantly finish up some financial transactions (e.g you do an asset transfer to another person online with your finanical institute)
Typing fast may not be the concern; programmers need to spend more time thinking than producing typed output. Using all fingers helps reduce the risk of muscle damage compared to using only two or three fingers (like carpal tunnel syndrome). Also keeping head straight looking at the screen rather than looking down and up can reduce stress on the neck muscles. I would say the benefit to our physical health outweighs more than any other efficiency in support of touch typing.
same here.. suddenly I too see in inbox in the last week or so (surprisingly today I don't, may be gmail already took care of the problem). Mine were mostly about transferring zillions of dollars to my bank account. In fact I did a google news search a few days back for this spam issue..didn't get any good hits. Good to see the problem getting more visibility (and probably resolved already).
I'm not a mathematician but have read quite a bit about RH; I feel it is one of those truths that we can not prove or disprove. It could be one of the examples for Godel's incompleteness theorems. It is humbling to know there are limitations to logic and that not all truth can be proved. I would see it as "fortunate" if this proof is invalid.
Exactly.. all you need is a scheduler which can exploit multiple CPUs/core and have a bunch of processes in runnable state. You don't really need a single program to be multi-threaded to use a multi-core CPU.
For example, a simple shell pipeline 'p1 | p2 | p3 | p4 ' can get a theoretical speed-up of 4 on a quad-core machine when none of p1..p4 is multi-threaded.
Karthik
Whether it's due to advertising or not, such behavior by a significant portion of the humanity is good for all us. That's what triggers consumption and the good economic cycle. Of course in any group behavior, there are always "cheaters" (not derogatory..but from an evolutionary biology sense) and they gain more than the average. My feeling is people who don't participate in this rat race, gain more overall.
I agree with you. In my case, I had a brief stop at TCL. I had a useful app which I moved to Python since I no longer want to make changes to it's TCL version. For those PERL scripts, I don't even care if they disappeared. In fact, I loved TCL lot more than Perl. Of course, when I first met Perl from the world of sh/C, it felt like heaven.
BTW does any of those complaining about Python, give one reason other than indendation, as a problem? (Oh come on, don't say some arbitrarily complain about slowness)
Recently I was studying about the next move.. no didn't find enough reasons to move/try Ruby.
Karthik
Has anyone tried to search for articles on C language using search keyword as 'C'?
Isn't it a lot easier to find stuff for Python? The point is a weird spelling in a name or word helps a lot in computer searches (say in Google). That's yet another point in favor to retain existing traditional complex spellings.
Sorry I doubt you can do much, without internet. Atleast for most people that would be true. If I know my internet is down, I'm fairly sure I won't even power on my PC.
In short, I don't see the need for a PC without an internet connection.
Yeah, disk may be faster today. But networks don't have any moving parts. Nothing mechanical. So data can reach from server's RAM to your PC's RAM at the speed of light. This 1.5/4Mbps is a current temporary limitation. Imagine a few years/decades from now; you don't want to have something so slow as a mechanical moving part in your system.
I do agree. In fact after putting sufficient RAM, you will see the real bottleneck in these days is the server. A lay person's typical computing work is done in some remote server (google, flickr, slashdot...) not on his/her machine.
At the end of 90's we can blame it on the internet connection. Today at broadbast speed (even 1.2 Mbps is big enough), the real bottle neck is how fast cnn.com or flickr.com is willing to serve me.
So I do agree with the original article.. come on..people can't keep quoting that 640kb stuff.. show me a great application in the last 5 years..which really wanted the big CPU/memory capability the big companies want us to buy.
Karthik
Yes, only 3 sets; but you can be creative with tags.
Once you put in lots of relevant tags, you don't need that many sets.
You can view/search based on your tags
Karthik
Hope in future most of the camera's directly generate IP streams
;)
(say UDP/TCP) once you tell them the collectors target address/port information. Till then these kind of analog to digital conversion needed.
First comment?.. I just wrote something above to get in a first comment
I doubt the system works as claims from the cost perspective.
They say they *pump* up the 40 degree water to cool the refrigerant vapor.
What pump? Where do you get the energy to do that? If they can go all the
way down to complete the cycle (not just using a gradient of 80 to 73; but 80 to 43) it is a different matter; I guess that will meet with its own problems.
quote from the link..
In order to complete the cycle, cold water (40 degrees F) is pumped up from the lower depths of the ocean. The cold water is used to condense the propylene vapor back into its liquid state and then it is pumped into the boiler to complete the cycle.
Mersenne prime finding is not the same as verifying a universal truth like 2*a = a+a. It is *NOT* yet proven that the number of Mersenne primes is infinite. So it is not a guarantee that you run a huge collection of machines and you always find the next bigger mersenne prime. The fact that we do indeed find them, makes it more convincing that the conjecture (that the number of mersenne primes is in fact infinite) is true.
>Education has almost nothing to do with ability. If someone is >being a "yes-man" inspite of knowing better, then that is sad.. >maybe they don't get what education is all about.
I agree with the original comment of why someone is being a "yes man". Because it is the best for him to do; he doesn't give a damn about the company or the industry or anything else. It is best for him and him alone to be a "yes man" to continue to make money which he feels is of higher priority to him. So I can agree with your "sad" part; but not that they aren't behaving smart.
I agree with your reasoning of why they have this store identification HITs -- about GPS enabled SUV mounted digicams taking thousands of pictures. When I gave it a try, in 36 HITs, I found one which I qualified as a correct image - the rest 35 had 'none of the above' as answer. We can see the reason - blind taking of images from a moving vehicle is not the most efficient way of solving the problem.
Why not ask users to upload the images of say a given street in a given ZIP as a task? There are so many willing to use their digicam to capture an accurate image and upload to amazon. I see the benefit of computers getting help from humans; but using this for this kind of image recognition is pretty lame.
Karthik
Is there any way to "lock/unlock" certain regions of the image using a key? ;)
think about charging users to see "whats below those black rectangles"
The requirement is something like a "diff" on an image file - tagged along with the image; you need special privilege to decrypt the diff and apply on the original image.
Does there exist any tool to do this? of course the applications can extend outside of the porn industry whenever some parts of an image needs special privilege to see