The headline says "Top Federal IT Job", but won't that be the new CTO position? Kundra's (reportedly) being named as Office of Management and Budget administrator for e-government and information technology, not Chief Technology Officer.
Considering it's approximately the one-year anniversary of my page about geocoding photos, I think this capability is pretty much oldnews. A more interesting question is, why hasn't Google added maps to Picasa Web Photos?
1. At this moment (17:45 EST Thursday Feb 22 2007) in Canada, PureTracks.com still gives the "so sorry, you're on a Mac, go away" notice page
2. If you go to PureTracks in Canada on a PC, there is MP3 music you can buy
3. But you might as well buy most of it from Nettwerk Music, which works on a Mac and has most of the big names you may be looking for, and which has been selling MP3s for years
Almost all the required testing is about machine performance and durability. Very little of the testing has anything to do with hardware or software security.
You can attach onewordonly IPTC keywords to photos in Picasa, just use CTRL-K. The IPTC keywords are standard metadata attached to the photo, other software can read them - Flickr will read IPTC keywords in uploaded photos and turn them into tags.
Isn't computer science supposed to teach us to distill our thinking down to clear, unambiguous statements that can be executed by profoundly dumb computers?
anything dot-oh does not compute
take some technology that most people barely understand in the first place, and condense it down to Something x.0?
Plus which, there isn't even consensus on what Something x.0 is.
Web 3.0 is maybe the semantic web.
No, it's artificial intelligence.
No, it's a web of human intelligence, performing mechanical turk tasks.
No, it's (insert definition of choice here).
Language should make things CLEARER, not obscure things even more.
All of this point-oh stuff is Bullsh-t 1.0
I blogged about the New York Times' unfortunate contribution to this confusion: just say no to Web 3.0
While Canada has hand-counted paper ballots for federal and provincial elections, some Canadian municipal elections use various types of electronic voting machines, and some even provide Internet voting. I hope this trend of creeping automation is stopped before it spreads more widely in Canada.
Um, I kind of think submitting your own product to Slashdot is a bit tacky.
There are lots of other alternatives, and the Sony GPS-CS1 that sits in a little corner of my backpack is a heck of a lot more convenient than what looks like quite a bulky chunk of equipment sitting on top of a camera.
I did a quick overview of the main features (with screencaps) at Flickr's built-in geocoding - your photos on Yahoo Maps. In addition to geotags, it will take EXIF geocoded photos, but only if you set a preference and only for new photos uploaded after the pref is set.
I'm pretty sure I saw in the interviews on ST: The Motion Picture that one of Paramount's ideas for a followup to The Original Series was Kirk and Spock as cadets at the Academy, but Roddenberry hated the idea. Also wasn't Star Trek VI supposed to be an Academy movie? Is there no one at Paramount or in charge of Trek with new ideas? Oh wait, nevermind. That's been obvious for years.
Scenario: you own a bunch of legally purchased music files. You want to give them to someone before you die.
Result: somewhere between difficult and impossible. The current systems literally have no provision for ownership of a file to pass from one account to another.
I don't want to give people access to my accounts after I pass away, I want to pass on the legally purchased files that I accumulated. Isn't it a major problem that this currently isn't supported by DRM systems?
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I disliked the conclusion so much that I had to reimagine it in a different context, with a different ending, in order to accept it.
http://manifestomultilinko.blogspot.com/2009/03/bsg-finale-answer-to-question-we-didnt.html
The headline says "Top Federal IT Job", but won't that be the new CTO position? Kundra's (reportedly) being named as Office of Management and Budget administrator for e-government and information technology, not Chief Technology Officer.
This will sound snarky, but seriously:
tap water
See http://www.google.com/experimental/a840e102.html
http://www.google.ca/search?q=40+usd+in+cad
Google says 39.2559814 Canadian dollars
Considering it's approximately the one-year anniversary of my page about geocoding photos, I think this capability is pretty much oldnews. A more interesting question is, why hasn't Google added maps to Picasa Web Photos?
http://www.werkshop.com/. I just wrote about this today: DRM and legal music in Canada
No.
Longer answer: Internet voting is a spectacularly bad technology and process choice for a reliable, trusted election.
Almost all the required testing is about machine performance and durability. Very little of the testing has anything to do with hardware or software security.
Nice venture-capital-boosting announcement there, but CopyScape has already been doing this for years, albeit for text only.
http://www.cnn.com/exchange/
http://www.cbc.ca/news/photosubmit/
"cell phone" is the usage in the US and Canada, but I think in the UK it's usually called just a "mobile" and in Germany, I think the term is "handy".
You can attach onewordonly IPTC keywords to photos in Picasa, just use CTRL-K.
The IPTC keywords are standard metadata attached to the photo, other software can read them - Flickr will read IPTC keywords in uploaded photos and turn them into tags.
Isn't computer science supposed to teach us to distill our thinking down to clear, unambiguous statements that can be executed by profoundly dumb computers?
anything dot-oh does not compute
take some technology that most people barely understand in the first place, and condense it down to Something x.0? Plus which, there isn't even consensus on what Something x.0 is.
Web 3.0 is maybe the semantic web. No, it's artificial intelligence. No, it's a web of human intelligence, performing mechanical turk tasks. No, it's (insert definition of choice here).
Language should make things CLEARER, not obscure things even more.
All of this point-oh stuff is Bullsh-t 1.0
I blogged about the New York Times' unfortunate contribution to this confusion: just say no to Web 3.0
For more info, see the Wikipedia entry Electronic voting in Canada
I'd be happy to document any experiences with the Ontario November 13 municipal elections in my blog, Paper Vote Canada.
The Internet is a series of bubbles.
I have reviewed the Sony GPS-CS1, and I also have an extensive webpage on geocoding photos using GPS or manually.
Ah, precious Google points, the currency of the future.
Until then, it's like Amazon Mechanical Turk, except you work for free.
On a completely unrelated note, this would be a handy service for spammers to get their CAPTCHAs solved for free.
I did a quick overview of the main features (with screencaps) at Flickr's built-in geocoding - your photos on Yahoo Maps. In addition to geotags, it will take EXIF geocoded photos, but only if you set a preference and only for new photos uploaded after the pref is set.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: SEO is bullshit.
You want good rank and good hits? Write good content.
err, perhaps a link to the actual Nanotech Institute website would be helpful? http://nint-innt.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/home/index_e.html
I'm pretty sure I saw in the interviews on ST: The Motion Picture that one of Paramount's ideas for a followup to The Original Series was Kirk and Spock as cadets at the Academy, but Roddenberry hated the idea. Also wasn't Star Trek VI supposed to be an Academy movie? Is there no one at Paramount or in charge of Trek with new ideas? Oh wait, nevermind. That's been obvious for years.
Does this mean they have been given Letters of Marque?
Let the privateering begin!
Result: somewhere between difficult and impossible. The current systems literally have no provision for ownership of a file to pass from one account to another.
See e.g. impractical.
I don't want to give people access to my accounts after I pass away, I want to pass on the legally purchased files that I accumulated. Isn't it a major problem that this currently isn't supported by DRM systems?