As far as I can tell, the only reason everyone here is so excited about it is that they're convinced that Google, with its Super Google Power, will be first to market.
If Microsoft (which, believe it or not, still has a few developers left, plus an existing code base to work from) steps up with first with a closed-source, subscription-based office suite with remotely stored files -- we'll see how enthusiastic the AJAX groupies are then.
Well, the problem is that the gap between "what you can do at home" and "what's useful" has opened up tremenduously.
Sure, that's precisely what I meant by "The gap between individual components and consumer-level devices is so huge..." When I was eight, I built a crystal radio (with parts from Radio Shack!) that, frankly, wasn't much worse than the AM radio on my alarm clock today. And I understood pretty much how it worked.
Kids today can't make their own Tivo from a pile of parts. What they can make it from is an old PC, a Linux CD and MythTV, which is what "tinkering" means nowadays.
As likable as angry, sarcastic snobbery is, I think you're off base on this one. Nowadays, "tinkering" is something you do at (or inside) your computer. The gap between individual components and consumer-level devices is so huge that kids today are about as likely to solder capacitors as you and I were to make them ourselves out of clay and carcinogens.
There isn't enough time in the day for Linux and soldering...
I had been taught that the greater kinetic energy on the black side caused the rotation. I decided to break with local tradition and do some research before calling you an idiot and a Microsoft spy -- apparently we're both wrong.
For the purposes of having the same scientifically ignorant yapping about patents and creationism, this is a good a pretext as anything else, I suppose.
But, yeah -- GCG and other have been making software with this functionality since the early 1980's, and probably before that. I'm astonished that Drew Endy didn't simply burst out laughing when New Scientist asked him about it.
More accurately -- "the company about to get sued by Google". In fact, Zonk may have just given Google's lawyers Exhibit A on proving "confusingly similar".
Beyond the fact that the news here isn't the 0.3%, it's the fact that a significant effect in the opposite direction was expected...
Every time a study is linked here, somebody starts spouting off about a sample of N people can't be significant or how some small effect size can't be significant. That's not how statistical significance works.
For the youngsters here, I'd strongly recommend taking time out from your CS classes to take an introductory stat class....
Yeah, even by the standards of the Obligatory Stupid Question, this one is pretty stupid. Whatever happened to good old "Could this be the first step towards widespread Linux adoption on the desktop?"
People like Jack are like the Sanhedrin of old jewish faith, and like the upper caste in Hindu/Indian cultures: they don't like to even get near what they consider "undesireables".
I'll let the Christians worry about your spouting off about Christianity; might I suggest that you at least spare us your ignorance of Judaism? I'm not even sure what you're confusing the Sanhedrin with -- Nazirim? Cohanim?
Novell does this survey about "datacenter" usage, in which the "datacenter" needs a replacement not for SAP or Peoplesoft, but for iTunes and World of Warcraft. And their solution is to toss out a bunch of "replacements" with no regard for their functionality.
No offense, but the Linux community already has thousands of 14-year-olds cranking out helpful information like this -- it hardly seems like Novell needs to join in.
I said "current". He has a doctorate, obviously, and someone else points out that he was a prominent working physicist for a while, although he's not now.
At any rate, however up to date he is with physics, he clearly doesn't know a damn thing about what's cutting edge in biology and he doesn't even mention any other science.
OK, can anyone point to a single line in that interview that suggests this guy knows anything that qualifies him to hold forth on "the future of science"? He seems to have a strong layman's familiarity with current work in physics, a high school student's background in any other science and a lot of pompous namedropping about the novels he's read.
As I understand your links, this is really old news, dating back 114 years (or 130 or something -- I'm confused about the timeline). I don't know if the two year cycle is as clear-cut as you're saying it is, given the relatively small number of Saturn years observed, spotty astronomical coverage (I'd guess) in the 19th century and the fact that we're now seeing them 16 Earth years apart. Maybe they're yearly, but by chance severe storms have popped up every other year during the last six years?
I'd say LOTR is fantastic storytelling. As language, unless you're an uber-hypergeek who actually enjoys the Elvish songs, it's mostly embarassing. (How many times can he use the word "fey"?)
I could see Snow Crash making a wonderful fast-paced action movie, if it were done with care.
I agree, but the Stephenson fans (myself included) would still be disappointed.
It's so cinematic that I didn't just desperately want a movie to be made from it, I was always shocked they didn't make one.
Nope, a Neal Stephenson movie wouldn't work for the same (real) reason The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy didn't work. The joy of those books is in the expository language. Even the best adaptation would still disappoint the hardcore fans.
Imagine turning the Cap'n Crunch seen in Cryptonomicon into a movie -- Randy Waterhouse eats a bowl of cereal in a Manila hotel room. Woohoo!
Whatever the merits of AMD's existing anti-trust complaints, there is no freaking way this isn't an anti-trust violation. It's completely artificial and a clear loss to consumers. Seems odd that Intel would voluntarily give out ammunition like this.
No, the market in question was "the consumer operating system market".
But, hey, you can belittle anything if you simplify it to one sentence, I guess.
Yup, and here's that one sentence from the ruling:
DOJ proposed and the District Court Judge agreed that the relevant antitrust market was the market for operating systems for personal computers that are based on an Intel-compatible Central Processing Unit ("CPU").
Makes no sense to me, but then Judge Jackson made a similar decision to define x86-based PC's as a distinct market which was monopolized by Microsoft, which also made no sense to me.
It's no better than chance. It is better than Chance.
I would imagine that the difference from chance was statistically insignificant, even if it was marginally positive.
In any case, the real objection is extrapolating these numbers from a contrived data set to real world emails, with much more context, and also more than two possible interpretations.
There are tens of thousands of American servicemen in Japan. Their crime rate is typical of that of men their age.
I think the American servicemen in Okinawa actually have a crime rate similar to the overall population there, which is pretty creditable given that they're skewed to high-crime age groups. And as someone else pointed out, the idiot is confusing Japan with a single incident years ago in South Korea where a girl was accidentally run over.
Not that I'm endorsing the population density - suicide link but these statistics are mostly showing the weakness of relying on mean averages.
Japan has several mountain ranges and a large, frozen, almost entirely rural island, and a second entirely rural one. Comparing it to the much more homogenous Belgium by dividing population by total area completely distorts how the median Japanese lives.
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As far as I can tell, the only reason everyone here is so excited about it is that they're convinced that Google, with its Super Google Power, will be first to market.
If Microsoft (which, believe it or not, still has a few developers left, plus an existing code base to work from) steps up with first with a closed-source, subscription-based office suite with remotely stored files -- we'll see how enthusiastic the AJAX groupies are then.
Prediction: It'll turn out that they've gotten less funny. (Except Cleese.)
Sure, that's precisely what I meant by "The gap between individual components and consumer-level devices is so huge..." When I was eight, I built a crystal radio (with parts from Radio Shack!) that, frankly, wasn't much worse than the AM radio on my alarm clock today. And I understood pretty much how it worked.
Kids today can't make their own Tivo from a pile of parts. What they can make it from is an old PC, a Linux CD and MythTV, which is what "tinkering" means nowadays.
There isn't enough time in the day for Linux and soldering...
I had been taught that the greater kinetic energy on the black side caused the rotation. I decided to break with local tradition and do some research before calling you an idiot and a Microsoft spy -- apparently we're both wrong.
But, yeah -- GCG and other have been making software with this functionality since the early 1980's, and probably before that. I'm astonished that Drew Endy didn't simply burst out laughing when New Scientist asked him about it.
More accurately -- "the company about to get sued by Google". In fact, Zonk may have just given Google's lawyers Exhibit A on proving "confusingly similar".
Every time a study is linked here, somebody starts spouting off about a sample of N people can't be significant or how some small effect size can't be significant. That's not how statistical significance works.
For the youngsters here, I'd strongly recommend taking time out from your CS classes to take an introductory stat class....
Yeah, even by the standards of the Obligatory Stupid Question, this one is pretty stupid. Whatever happened to good old "Could this be the first step towards widespread Linux adoption on the desktop?"
I'll let the Christians worry about your spouting off about Christianity; might I suggest that you at least spare us your ignorance of Judaism? I'm not even sure what you're confusing the Sanhedrin with -- Nazirim? Cohanim?
No offense, but the Linux community already has thousands of 14-year-olds cranking out helpful information like this -- it hardly seems like Novell needs to join in.
At any rate, however up to date he is with physics, he clearly doesn't know a damn thing about what's cutting edge in biology and he doesn't even mention any other science.
OK, can anyone point to a single line in that interview that suggests this guy knows anything that qualifies him to hold forth on "the future of science"? He seems to have a strong layman's familiarity with current work in physics, a high school student's background in any other science and a lot of pompous namedropping about the novels he's read.
As I understand your links, this is really old news, dating back 114 years (or 130 or something -- I'm confused about the timeline). I don't know if the two year cycle is as clear-cut as you're saying it is, given the relatively small number of Saturn years observed, spotty astronomical coverage (I'd guess) in the 19th century and the fact that we're now seeing them 16 Earth years apart. Maybe they're yearly, but by chance severe storms have popped up every other year during the last six years?
I'd say LOTR is fantastic storytelling. As language, unless you're an uber-hypergeek who actually enjoys the Elvish songs, it's mostly embarassing. (How many times can he use the word "fey"?)
I could see Snow Crash making a wonderful fast-paced action movie, if it were done with care.
I agree, but the Stephenson fans (myself included) would still be disappointed.
(OMTFG, did I just spell "scene" as "seen"? I fully deserve whatever ridicule I'm about to receive from some overspecialized troll...)
It's so cinematic that I didn't just desperately want a movie to be made from it, I was always shocked they didn't make one.
Nope, a Neal Stephenson movie wouldn't work for the same (real) reason The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy didn't work. The joy of those books is in the expository language. Even the best adaptation would still disappoint the hardcore fans.
Imagine turning the Cap'n Crunch seen in Cryptonomicon into a movie -- Randy Waterhouse eats a bowl of cereal in a Manila hotel room. Woohoo!
It's a trick to avoid complaints from Richard Stallman -- this way he won't know what to denounce first, and he'll simply emit smoke.
You can get Doom on your iPod today...
Whatever the merits of AMD's existing anti-trust complaints, there is no freaking way this isn't an anti-trust violation. It's completely artificial and a clear loss to consumers. Seems odd that Intel would voluntarily give out ammunition like this.
But, hey, you can belittle anything if you simplify it to one sentence, I guess.
Yup, and here's that one sentence from the ruling:
Makes no sense to me, but then Judge Jackson made a similar decision to define x86-based PC's as a distinct market which was monopolized by Microsoft, which also made no sense to me.
I would imagine that the difference from chance was statistically insignificant, even if it was marginally positive.
In any case, the real objection is extrapolating these numbers from a contrived data set to real world emails, with much more context, and also more than two possible interpretations.
I think the American servicemen in Okinawa actually have a crime rate similar to the overall population there, which is pretty creditable given that they're skewed to high-crime age groups. And as someone else pointed out, the idiot is confusing Japan with a single incident years ago in South Korea where a girl was accidentally run over.
Japan has several mountain ranges and a large, frozen, almost entirely rural island, and a second entirely rural one. Comparing it to the much more homogenous Belgium by dividing population by total area completely distorts how the median Japanese lives.