puff, puff, give. Man, you're fucking up the rotation.
Also, how do we know that we see the same colors, man. I mean, what if what I say is green looks like yellow to you but you were just taught that your yellow was really green.
Hey, I went and played w/ this feature of word. Here is the summary of the article. hmmm... maybe if we set up an auto summary more people would RTFS?
Anyway, here it is: Now, computers can play along
Computers can't do nearly that well at paraphrasing. Now, using several methods, including statistical techniques borrowed from gene analysis, two researchers have created a program that can automatically generate paraphrases of English sentences. The program gathers text from online news services on specific subjects, learns the characteristic patterns of sentences in these groupings and then uses those patterns to create new sentences that give equivalent information in different words. Then the computer sought clusters of sentences that had similar words or phrases. Testing for statistical evidence that expressions were paraphrases, the system compiled templates or patterns that formed the backbones of equivalent sentences. Barzilay said the system did well at paraphrasing short articles but bogged down as the articles grew longer and the text more idiosyncratic. When the researchers tested their paraphrasing rules by using articles on violence in the Middle East published after they had developed their system, the program was able to paraphrase 61 percent of the sentences in articles with 10 or fewer sentences. Fernando Pereira, chairman of the computer and information science department at the University of Pennsylvania, said the authors were wise to focus on news articles. This type of information seeds a database of paraphrases that can then be used to generate new sentences. The paraphrasing program might one day be useful in machine translation, said Kevin Knight, a senior research scientist at the Information Sciences Institute of the University of Southern California. Pereira said that the paraphrasing work had given him pause.
You will be the one paying for their greed. (and me and everybody else at the bank) You don't think the 320k is coming out of the ceo's pay check, do you? it is sent right back to in in fees.
The point isn't that Gore "created" the internet. That was a huge spin story. What he was trying to say was that he pushed legislation that helped teh internet become what it was. In the mid 80's (far before most public and virtually any politicians had any concept) he pushed such concepts as a "Data highway" ('86) and wrote for a national data network in '88. (89?) This is exactly the same as when politicians say they "lowered crime" or whatever. They weren't really out there cuffing the bad guys, they were fighting to get money put into their cause. One of Gore's causes evolved into the internet. Not entirely due to him of course but still, he backed the right horse and it took off.
Even Vinton Cerf (created IP, IIRC) went on record w/ "I'd like to clear up one little item - about the Vice President (Gore)... He really does deserve some credit for his early recognition of the importance of the Internet and the technology that makes it work. He was certainly among the first if not the first in Congress to realize how powerful the information revolution would be and both as Senator and Vice President he has been enormously helpful in supporting legislation and programs to help further develop the Internet - for example the Next Generation Internet program."
I agree w/ the sentiment that MS has gotten alot better in recent years. But they still do ship half baked products now and again. Of the products i have worked w/ in the last year I would mention MOM and Application Center. MOM was basically the exact exe they bought from whoever that was w/ new logos. The stored procedures it used were terrible and fell over w/i weeks. App Center was (is) very much a first version. even after 2 service packs it is unstable and obnoxious. (though SP2 did address a good chunk of the problems).
Of course, "they ship out the door early" can be said of basically anybody. Hell, it is an open source mantra, "release early, release often".
As far as their security teams.... I would bet, given all the hype we have seen recently about MS security initiatives, that they have dedicated a sizable chunk of resources to security teams.
They flat out asked us "Ok, tell us, what do you think, we value your opinions and we want to know." MS has never done this before.
Do you think that is what they are really doing though? My first thought was along the lines of yours. If they are asking maybe they will actually listen. But I don't really see them listening to most of items that I see being brought up (here at least) 1. Security. Everybody wants tehm to be more secure but it isn't like they are putting the bugs in on purpose. They may be sending the products out the door before they are ready but that isn't going to change, market pressures being what they are. They have made some strides but it is the most popular and hammered on OS. Add that to their old mantra of making everything work together (as long as it is MS branded) and they are always going to have some security issues.
2. Open standards. We all want to see NTFS and the office formats documented and released. Never gonna happen. MS Office Rul3z the business world. They have considerable disincentive to make everybody else be able to use their doc formats. They have gotten where they are through "embrace and extend" and I don't see that changing.
Those are the main two I am seeing and have heard people talking about. Maybe we will get some small things in there, people making suggestions for their favorite eye candy piece but the nuts and bolts aren't going to change.
Do i think we should do the survey? Ehh, i am up in the air about that. It does seem like we would be giving them free market research but at least maybe we could get tab browsing or something built in.
the original version huh? of a joke. How quaint. Here is another original? (heard mid 80's)
A guy is driving his new maserati down the PCH way too fast. He loses control and rolls down a steep hill. A passerby rushes down to him where the man is lying in a pool of blood murmuring, "my maserati... ooh, my maserati...."
"My god, man", the passerby exclaims, "screw the car, you just plunged 100 feet off the road, rolled over 5 times and were thrown from the car before it exploded, you should be glad you are alive!!!"
But the man just keeps moaning, "My maserati, ooohh... my maserati"
"Get ahold of your self, Look at you, you should be dead, the car is a burning wreck, you are a wreck. You leg is broken, why, your left are has beeen torn off. You...."
"My Left arm!?!??", exclaims the man! "Ooohh, my rolex... my rolex".
I would assume there would be a way to "feed" the machine. You would still be bound by the amount of matter you could feed it. One interesting thing that this brings up is that there would have to be theft prevention measures taken at parks and forests. Otherwise everybody would strip the park of all matter that isn't to heavy to move..
Besides space the thing that is going to cost is material. You will still need to put in a mass of material to be rearranged into your ferrari. that becomes the true currency. In the aforementioned Diamond Age, iirc, there was a matter "tap" in the house and it was metered like your electricity, you could use as much matter as you could afford to make anything you wanted to make.
Basically, this is one small happening against the general tide. India seems to be against elocution classes but there are plenty of other countries w/ no problem at all. Take the philippines for example. The medium of instruction is in english. And the elocution classes are quite popular there.
I have a friend in the philippines now who told me of a guy he met there. This guy as a bar trick would speak in a different american accent every couple of minutes. Southern, boston, brooklyn, etc. My buddy grew up in Queens and testified that his Brooklyn accent was spot on. This guy is probably on the higher end of the skillset but the call center he worked for paid for his training. The deal was that they would speak to whomever called in a similar accent. They even had scripted "i am from Prattsburgh!" responses (close to the caller but not close enough to be quized).
Point being is that the jobs won't move back to the states but the skillset will improve to the point where we can't tell the operator is overseas.
When my wife made me clean up my bins b/c they were so nasty this is what we did. I seperated everything into functional groups (networking cables and hardware, audio cables, etc, misc. gadgets, etc..) We went to staples or similar and got shallow see through bins. The bins are only about 6 inches deep. I also got a bunch of cable ties and neatly tied all the wires. that was the biggest help. Now we have an overhead area in the hall closet where I have my 4 bins stacked. For most common things like patch cables I can usually just reach in and grab a cable. For bigger projects I can get the bin down. Keep a package of ties in each bin to remind you to retie cables.
An act of civil disobediance is lost when you post as AC. civil disobediance would say that here I am, I am doing this b/c I think it is right. Not sneaking around hoping they don't notice you.
They couldn't filter out on IP. Many companies and plenty of ISPs use NAT and/or proxying. This means that you can have a sometimes large cloud of users all coming in on one IP.
Some ISPs, (like AOL, but I am sure nobody on/. uses them B), have multiple proxies and you may be sent out a different IP from one request to the next.
nope. i am home now and looking at it. belkin omniview pro 8-port (F1D108-OSD)
I have lcd now so I can't do 1600x1200 anymore but I don't never had any problems when I used my old sony monitor.
Never had any random advertising stuff. Don't see how the kvm could affect that. between my linksys firewall and googlebar 2.0 I don't get much advertising beyond the standard banner ads.
hmmm.... i'll bite. just grabbing some quick prices from pricewatch i would say: 65$ - M811LU Socket A DDR MB with Duron 1.1Ghz (1100Mhz) 200FSB CPU & Fan (don't know anyting about the board but it has video/sound/lan built in) 63$ - 512MB PC2100 (figure 512mb should be plenty for our file server but more wouldn't be amiss) 18$ - Mid Tower ATX Dual Front USB (USB 2.0) opt., 8bay, Case only (mainly for the 8 bays) 28$ - 600Watt EXTREMO power supply Dual Fan Aluminum Super Silent (600 should be plenty) 12$ - 4 X 80mm Sleeve Bearing FAN FOR CASE W/4PIN CONNECTOR (not sure if i can even fit 4 but the more air circ the better. ) 18$ - LanReady - 32bit PCI 1000/100/10Base-TX Gigabit Fast 1000Mbs Ethernet NE2000 Adapter (gigE is a must.) 4$ - KB 107-Key Standard PS2 Keyboard 2$ - Generic ps/2 mouse white 7$ - 1.44 Floppy Drive 3.5inch NEW beige w/faceplate 16$ - Cyberdrive - 56X Internal IDE CD-ROM Drive 35$ - Image Western Digital - 20.0GB EIDE 2MB 5400rpm Ultra-ATA/100.
Ok, So there is our base system. That comes in at $268. (this wouldn't be a bad system for the 'rents)
Now we do our storage. Everybody seems to be on there knees for 3Ware so we are looking at either 4 or 8 drive solution For the 4 drive: 245$ - 3Ware escalade 7506-4LP, 4 channel udma raid adapter For drives we are looking at 732$ - 4 X MAXTOR 250GB EIDE UDMA-133 HD 5400 RPM on the higher but reasonable end and 324$ - 4 X IBM/Hitachi 120.0GB EIDE 5400Rpm 2MB,8.9ms for a cheaper option
So that gives you about 750gb w/ raid 5 (500gb w/ one spare) on the high end, 240gb (160gb w/ one spare) on teh low end.
if we go w/ the 8 drive setup 373$ - 3Ware escalade 7506-8, 8 channel udma raid adapter For the drives we are looking at: 1464$ - 8 X MAXTOR 250GB EIDE UDMA-133 HD 5400 RPM on the higher end and 648$ - 8 X IBM/Hitachi 120.0GB EIDE 5400Rpm 2MB,8.9m for a cheaper option
this gives us 1750gb (1500 w/ 1 spare) or 560gb (480gb w/ 1 spare).
So our final numbers: 4 drive machine: 1245$ gives us 750gb 837$ gives us 240gb 8 drive machine: 2105$ gives us 1750gb 1289$ gives us 560gb
The prices all come from pricewatch.com and should include shipping. some massaging may be necessary depending on your location and vendor choices. The raid sizes come from RaidCalc (http://www.ibeast.com/content/tools/RaidCalc/Raid Calc.asp)
I didn't include a monitor on these but you can get a compaq 15in for 64 bux if you need it.
Use your favorite free OS w/ samba/mac share or your stolen copy of windows and you have a nice weekend project.
Quothe the parent... This isn't AOL (doing such and such)....
Yeah, THIS isn't. THIS happens to be a good thing. Can you be sure that everytime the decide to adjust a setting in your computer it will be a good thing. They do this without asking permission or, indeed, even telling you they have done it.
I don't believe the author is telling you to remove your firewall. The author is saying that it shouldn't be relied upon. There is a significant difference.
The idea here is defence in depth. This should be blocked at your border firewall/router. Each machines personal fireall would block it and then you would patch the machine not to be vulnerable. Of course all uncessary service would also be shut off.
No matter how much I want to do that, I never seem to get around to locking everything down that much.
i think chesterfield is a type of couch. i think of on old english style leather couch. This seems similar to some parts of america calling soft drinks, cokes. as in: A: Get me a coke. B: sure, what kind A: how about mountain dew
sounds like you are talking about the 90/10 rule of early unix philosophy. 10% of the coding effort will get you 90% of the functionality. It's that last 10% that make it really usable and robost that takes all the time. The design philosophy was to do the 90% and move on. Its in the history, man.
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puff, puff, give. Man, you're fucking up the rotation.
Also, how do we know that we see the same colors, man. I mean, what if what I say is green looks like yellow to you but you were just taught that your yellow was really green.
mmmm... college.
Hey, I went and played w/ this feature of word. Here is the summary of the article. hmmm... maybe if we set up an auto summary more people would RTFS?
Anyway, here it is:
Now, computers can play along
Computers can't do nearly that well at paraphrasing. Now, using several methods, including statistical techniques borrowed from gene analysis, two researchers have created a program that can automatically generate paraphrases of English sentences.
The program gathers text from online news services on specific subjects, learns the characteristic patterns of sentences in these groupings and then uses those patterns to create new sentences that give equivalent information in different words.
Then the computer sought clusters of sentences that had similar words or phrases.
Testing for statistical evidence that expressions were paraphrases, the system compiled templates or patterns that formed the backbones of equivalent sentences. Barzilay said the system did well at paraphrasing short articles but bogged down as the articles grew longer and the text more idiosyncratic. When the researchers tested their paraphrasing rules by using articles on violence in the Middle East published after they had developed their system, the program was able to paraphrase 61 percent of the sentences in articles with 10 or fewer sentences. Fernando Pereira, chairman of the computer and information science department at the University of Pennsylvania, said the authors were wise to focus on news articles. This type of information seeds a database of paraphrases that can then be used to generate new sentences. The paraphrasing program might one day be useful in machine translation, said Kevin Knight, a senior research scientist at the Information Sciences Institute of the University of Southern California. Pereira said that the paraphrasing work had given him pause.
You will be the one paying for their greed. (and me and everybody else at the bank) You don't think the 320k is coming out of the ceo's pay check, do you? it is sent right back to in in fees.
The point isn't that Gore "created" the internet. That was a huge spin story. What he was trying to say was that he pushed legislation that helped teh internet become what it was. In the mid 80's (far before most public and virtually any politicians had any concept) he pushed such concepts as a "Data highway" ('86) and wrote for a national data network in '88. (89?) This is exactly the same as when politicians say they "lowered crime" or whatever. They weren't really out there cuffing the bad guys, they were fighting to get money put into their cause. One of Gore's causes evolved into the internet. Not entirely due to him of course but still, he backed the right horse and it took off.
... He really does deserve some credit for his early recognition of the importance of the Internet and the technology that makes it work. He was certainly among the first if not the first in Congress to realize how powerful the information revolution would be and both as Senator and Vice President he has been enormously helpful in supporting legislation and programs to help further develop the Internet - for example the Next Generation Internet program."
Even Vinton Cerf (created IP, IIRC) went on record w/ "I'd like to clear up one little item - about the Vice President (Gore)
I agree w/ the sentiment that MS has gotten alot better in recent years. But they still do ship half baked products now and again. Of the products i have worked w/ in the last year I would mention MOM and Application Center. MOM was basically the exact exe they bought from whoever that was w/ new logos. The stored procedures it used were terrible and fell over w/i weeks. App Center was (is) very much a first version. even after 2 service packs it is unstable and obnoxious. (though SP2 did address a good chunk of the problems).
Of course, "they ship out the door early" can be said of basically anybody. Hell, it is an open source mantra, "release early, release often".
As far as their security teams.... I would bet, given all the hype we have seen recently about MS security initiatives, that they have dedicated a sizable chunk of resources to security teams.
a good portion of the rest of their products are sold at a loss.
Correct me if I am wrong but didn't you just describe the classically illegal part of a monopoly?
They flat out asked us "Ok, tell us, what do you think, we value your opinions and we want to know." MS has never done this before.
Do you think that is what they are really doing though? My first thought was along the lines of yours. If they are asking maybe they will actually listen. But I don't really see them listening to most of items that I see being brought up (here at least)
1. Security. Everybody wants tehm to be more secure but it isn't like they are putting the bugs in on purpose. They may be sending the products out the door before they are ready but that isn't going to change, market pressures being what they are. They have made some strides but it is the most popular and hammered on OS. Add that to their old mantra of making everything work together (as long as it is MS branded) and they are always going to have some security issues.
2. Open standards. We all want to see NTFS and the office formats documented and released. Never gonna happen. MS Office Rul3z the business world. They have considerable disincentive to make everybody else be able to use their doc formats. They have gotten where they are through "embrace and extend" and I don't see that changing.
Those are the main two I am seeing and have heard people talking about. Maybe we will get some small things in there, people making suggestions for their favorite eye candy piece but the nuts and bolts aren't going to change.
Do i think we should do the survey? Ehh, i am up in the air about that. It does seem like we would be giving them free market research but at least maybe we could get tab browsing or something built in.
I heard this as "things I wish i knew before I went to college"
Biology is chemistry
chemistry is physics
physcis is math
and math is philosophy.
ej
Here is the original:
the original version huh? of a joke. How quaint. Here is another original? (heard mid 80's)
A guy is driving his new maserati down the PCH way too fast. He loses control and rolls down a steep hill. A passerby rushes down to him where the man is lying in a pool of blood murmuring, "my maserati... ooh, my maserati...."
"My god, man", the passerby exclaims, "screw the car, you just plunged 100 feet off the road, rolled over 5 times and were thrown from the car before it exploded, you should be glad you are alive!!!"
But the man just keeps moaning, "My maserati, ooohh... my maserati"
"Get ahold of your self, Look at you, you should be dead, the car is a burning wreck, you are a wreck. You leg is broken, why, your left are has beeen torn off. You...."
"My Left arm!?!??", exclaims the man! "Ooohh, my rolex... my rolex".
I would assume there would be a way to "feed" the machine. You would still be bound by the amount of matter you could feed it. One interesting thing that this brings up is that there would have to be theft prevention measures taken at parks and forests. Otherwise everybody would strip the park of all matter that isn't to heavy to move..
Besides space the thing that is going to cost is material. You will still need to put in a mass of material to be rearranged into your ferrari. that becomes the true currency. In the aforementioned Diamond Age, iirc, there was a matter "tap" in the house and it was metered like your electricity, you could use as much matter as you could afford to make anything you wanted to make.
Basically, this is one small happening against the general tide. India seems to be against elocution classes but there are plenty of other countries w/ no problem at all. Take the philippines for example. The medium of instruction is in english. And the elocution classes are quite popular there.
I have a friend in the philippines now who told me of a guy he met there. This guy as a bar trick would speak in a different american accent every couple of minutes. Southern, boston, brooklyn, etc. My buddy grew up in Queens and testified that his Brooklyn accent was spot on. This guy is probably on the higher end of the skillset but the call center he worked for paid for his training. The deal was that they would speak to whomever called in a similar accent. They even had scripted "i am from Prattsburgh!" responses (close to the caller but not close enough to be quized).
Point being is that the jobs won't move back to the states but the skillset will improve to the point where we can't tell the operator is overseas.
When my wife made me clean up my bins b/c they were so nasty this is what we did.
.02$
I seperated everything into functional groups (networking cables and hardware, audio cables, etc, misc. gadgets, etc..) We went to staples or similar and got shallow see through bins. The bins are only about 6 inches deep. I also got a bunch of cable ties and neatly tied all the wires. that was the biggest help. Now we have an overhead area in the hall closet where I have my 4 bins stacked. For most common things like patch cables I can usually just reach in and grab a cable. For bigger projects I can get the bin down. Keep a package of ties in each bin to remind you to retie cables.
+
An act of civil disobediance is lost when you post as AC. civil disobediance would say that here I am, I am doing this b/c I think it is right. Not sneaking around hoping they don't notice you.
They couldn't filter out on IP. Many companies and plenty of ISPs use NAT and/or proxying. This means that you can have a sometimes large cloud of users all coming in on one IP.
/. uses them B), have multiple proxies and you may be sent out a different IP from one request to the next.
Some ISPs, (like AOL, but I am sure nobody on
ej
nope. i am home now and looking at it. belkin omniview pro 8-port (F1D108-OSD)
I have lcd now so I can't do 1600x1200 anymore but I don't never had any problems when I used my old sony monitor.
Never had any random advertising stuff. Don't see how the kvm could affect that. between my linksys firewall and googlebar 2.0 I don't get much advertising beyond the standard banner ads.
ej
hmmm.... i'll bite. just grabbing some quick prices from pricewatch i would say:
d Calc.asp)
65$ - M811LU Socket A DDR MB with Duron 1.1Ghz (1100Mhz) 200FSB CPU & Fan (don't know anyting about the board but it has video/sound/lan built in)
63$ - 512MB PC2100 (figure 512mb should be plenty for our file server but more wouldn't be amiss)
18$ - Mid Tower ATX Dual Front USB (USB 2.0) opt., 8bay, Case only (mainly for the 8 bays)
28$ - 600Watt EXTREMO power supply Dual Fan Aluminum Super Silent (600 should be plenty)
12$ - 4 X 80mm Sleeve Bearing FAN FOR CASE W/4PIN CONNECTOR (not sure if i can even fit 4 but the more air circ the better. )
18$ - LanReady - 32bit PCI 1000/100/10Base-TX Gigabit Fast 1000Mbs Ethernet NE2000 Adapter (gigE is a must.)
4$ - KB 107-Key Standard PS2 Keyboard
2$ - Generic ps/2 mouse white
7$ - 1.44 Floppy Drive 3.5inch NEW beige w/faceplate
16$ - Cyberdrive - 56X Internal IDE CD-ROM Drive
35$ - Image Western Digital - 20.0GB EIDE 2MB 5400rpm Ultra-ATA/100.
Ok, So there is our base system. That comes in at $268. (this wouldn't be a bad system for the 'rents)
Now we do our storage.
Everybody seems to be on there knees for 3Ware so we are looking at either 4 or 8 drive solution
For the 4 drive:
245$ - 3Ware escalade 7506-4LP, 4 channel udma raid adapter
For drives we are looking at
732$ - 4 X MAXTOR 250GB EIDE UDMA-133 HD 5400 RPM on the higher but reasonable end
and
324$ - 4 X IBM/Hitachi 120.0GB EIDE 5400Rpm 2MB,8.9ms for a cheaper option
So that gives you about 750gb w/ raid 5 (500gb w/ one spare) on the high end, 240gb (160gb w/ one spare) on teh low end.
if we go w/ the 8 drive setup
373$ - 3Ware escalade 7506-8, 8 channel udma raid adapter
For the drives we are looking at:
1464$ - 8 X MAXTOR 250GB EIDE UDMA-133 HD 5400 RPM on the higher end
and
648$ - 8 X IBM/Hitachi 120.0GB EIDE 5400Rpm 2MB,8.9m for a cheaper option
this gives us 1750gb (1500 w/ 1 spare) or 560gb (480gb w/ 1 spare).
So our final numbers:
4 drive machine:
1245$ gives us 750gb
837$ gives us 240gb
8 drive machine:
2105$ gives us 1750gb
1289$ gives us 560gb
The prices all come from pricewatch.com and should include shipping. some massaging may be necessary depending on your location and vendor choices. The raid sizes come from RaidCalc (http://www.ibeast.com/content/tools/RaidCalc/Rai
I didn't include a monitor on these but you can get a compaq 15in for 64 bux if you need it.
Use your favorite free OS w/ samba/mac share or your stolen copy of windows and you have a nice weekend project.
mmmm... toys
back to work
I used a belkin omni somthing 8 port had no problems at that res.
ej
As opposed to right now when it is one security fuckup away from free physical books for everybody.
Quothe the parent... ....
This isn't AOL (doing such and such)
Yeah, THIS isn't. THIS happens to be a good thing. Can you be sure that everytime the decide to adjust a setting in your computer it will be a good thing. They do this without asking permission or, indeed, even telling you they have done it.
Ack... that is just scary.
Don't have easy access to a perl machine anymore. Can somebody post an example?
don't forget the free basic dns/web/email forwarding.
gandi is exactly what I look for, cheap, reliable, easily manageable.
Of course, reliability is relatively easy considering they aren't really hosting much....
ej
I don't believe the author is telling you to remove your firewall. The author is saying that it shouldn't be relied upon. There is a significant difference.
The idea here is defence in depth. This should be blocked at your border firewall/router. Each machines personal fireall would block it and then you would patch the machine not to be vulnerable. Of course all uncessary service would also be shut off.
No matter how much I want to do that, I never seem to get around to locking everything down that much.
i think chesterfield is a type of couch. i think of on old english style leather couch. This seems similar to some parts of america calling soft drinks, cokes. as in:
A: Get me a coke.
B: sure, what kind
A: how about mountain dew
sounds like you are talking about the 90/10 rule of early unix philosophy. 10% of the coding effort will get you 90% of the functionality. It's that last 10% that make it really usable and robost that takes all the time. The design philosophy was to do the 90% and move on. Its in the history, man.