Yes, just like I do when I bring my car in to the service centre. Just like I do when I call in a plumber. Just like I do when I call in a roofer. They just can't believe I would use those features and not be able to take care of them myself. In another decade or so I'll be able to do it all on my own. Then I won't need anyone else. Which will be good because I'll be so stinkin' busy how would I have the time?
"Hi there. Welcome to Open Source. If you need help... WELL YOU SHOULDN'T BE HERE THEN, SHOULD YOU !!!"
It should be de facto that if you lose a lawsuit, you must cover the cost of the defending party's legal fees. You'd see a lot less of this "suing for profit".
Editors: Enough legal coverage! It will be a very extended suit. Just tell us the result in however many years that takes.
Maybe it's a lack of concern. That fifth of the nation isn't necessarily of voting age. It is, like most of the republic, politically unaware and uninformed. Also, as with most of the republic, it only acts on what actually affects it in a very tangible way i.e. cops show up at the door. As well, it's only a _fifth_ of the population. Check out the stats on what percentage of people own a gun (ref NRA). Finally, the rich are what get things moving these days (corporations, etc.) The cost of a CD for one good song doesn't even register as a concern for them (unless they're in the business of making money from it).
Summary, the poor prols using file sharing aren't fussed by the current state of affairs. Set up an organization and I'll wager less than a fifth of that fifth of the population would join (check out the stats of how many actually voted last election).
... make sure your DNA is everywhere. Overload the system. Mail your dust to strangers. Travel lots. Touch everything in sight. Every time a test is done, you show up. Eventually they'll filter you out and voila! Invisibility through visibility.
... as a manager I often roam around the office, dim the lights and have the employees repeat my mantra "Work you idle bastards! Work!!" Admittedly, sometimes it doesn't seem to increase productivity a stitch. So I'll vary my routine by storming off to the local bar where I do breathing excercises and repeat my other mantra, "Barkeep! Another gin!", until I attain oneness with the Universe. So, yeah, there's a place for yoga in the workplace.
Re:good for some, bad for others
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Psychotic Lab Mice
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...they may be less essential for researchers trying to understand the functions of specific genes known to be involved in processes other than neural ones...
However, that assumes the researchers understand all the variables involved. For example, reports keep coming out about the link between stress and depressed immune response. Thus studying a disease on stressed mice would actually skew your results. Gene function may be susceptible to environmental triggers of which stress and madness might be factors. The fact is, we don't know and can't know without very rigorous control over both the experimental procedure and the test subjects. So the cost benefits of housing mice on the cheap may well be mitigated by completely invalid experimental data. And that is no cost saving at all.
The target cans have the holes in nice little circles. I would have expected more deformation of the can that would preclude such a tight (and pretty uniform) grouping especially if the projectiles aren't travelling as fast as a bullet. Consider too: such a catchy idea with no patents, posted on the web. I mean, this ain't no potato gun! Governments and industry would be wildly interested in this.
I think it's an elegant fishing expedition for a job with someone who's interested, say someone with government research money. Free software movement not withstanding, this is far too attractive an idea to be posted for free.
... so KaZaa will beget someone else who will fill their place. They are a finger in a bucket of water; no finger, no hole, no worries. There will always be a free source. Back to your lives citizens.
IBM (Incan Business Machines) have ...
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Incas Used Binary?
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... the patents on binary! So that means that SCO has been using... whoa! I can hear the lawyers salivating from here.
... at the America's Cup yacht racing (http://americascup.yahoo.com/) where cutting edge technology is always on display (http://www.cawthron.org.nz/Assets/cawlec98.PDF). Goodbye spectra (http://www.spectrafiber.com/), hello "carbonanoline" or whatever.
Acting on the crime pattern ...
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Crime Prediction
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... will cause the pattern to change. Then the trick will be to predict how the pattern will change when you act on your present information. Then you start acting to change the pattern to best match your resources... and then a politician with a "cause" lobbies for action to increase the amount of crime he/she wants to be seen fighting... and everyone makes lots of money... and that's a good thing.
a) IBM, Oracle, SAP have in their employ _literally_ thousands of tech oriented employees incl. coders (They're tech/software giants for ----sakes!);
b) IBM, Oracle, SAP have budgets comparable to many small nations let alone a large city;
c) IBM, Oracle, SAP answer to a bottom line, with their _own_ money i.e. _not_ a taxpayer's;
d) IBM, Oracle, SAP as businesses are necessarily oriented towards a certain amount of risk and are organized to manage it; and
e) Neither IBM, Oracle, or SAP run their business on OSS.
No governing body I know has those resources (not even USofA). Nor could they afford them without significant expense. Governance isn't business... welcome to the real world.
We had an ice storm a few years back. It trashed the power/phone/cable systems. Things were down for quite a while in most places. But even if you lost the balloons, it looks like you could be up and running again in no time. Also seems like a good technology for developing nations with rugged topology, rivers, etc. Nice idea if you can get the costs down. Does Engineers Without Borders (http://www.ewb-isf.org/) know about it?
Helloooo. This is just a "Buy Deutschland" kind of thing. So they buy SUSE and SUSE support and use an OSS office product. Call me skeptical but if it doesn't work out:
a) MS won't cut them any slack when they want to return to the fold so they'll be worse off than before; AND
b) the anti-OSS publicity will relegate future OSS to... well where it is now but with even less hope of being mainstream.
Gotta love this forum though. All this pro-OSS sentiment and happiness about this decision could be heart-warming. But whenever there's a post about how OSS doesn't live up to commercial standards, the poster gets flamed with comments about how OSS is written as expression _not_ to satisfy the "public". So a municipality contemplating a similar decision will have to go with a smaller commercial product (which may not necessarily be around in the long term) or it will have to put up with a hodge-podge of substandard OSS apps worked on, in some cases, by people who don't care about the non-geek user.
Really, OSS is fine in academia but for the administrative needs of a governing body !?
A ballsy move by Munich's politicos... is there an election due soon?
... because who cares about the measure of progress? Is there a deadline we're working towards? Has there ever been a more interesting time for those of us with a curious nature? Enjoy the ride.
BTW, scan the posts here. The definition of "AI" is as varied and elusive as that of "life". So how do we measure progress?
Oh and Minsky is kind of a real nasty dude when it comes to criticizing people. Don't forget he killed neural network funding for a decade with his book and personal vendetta on Rosenblatt. I guess he just likes AI done _his_ way.
The mouth is a strange place ...
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... I remember interviewing a gent who was developing saliva testing techniques for the same purpose. His contention was that the digestive system affects and is affected by all the other systems in the body. The advantage is that it is also in contact with the external environment. As such it is a bellwether of interaction with the external environment (chemicals in air show up in saliva) and internal environment (breath, blood). A Google on "diagnosis using saliva" turns up some interesting stuff.
I'm not sure that sampling the breath is easier than sampling saliva but this site has a nice intro (http://www.bae.ncsu.edu/bae/research/blanchard/ww w/465/textbook/otherprojects/senses_97/olfaction.h tml) with a competitors technique here: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=6588
Only in a lab. In the real world _no_ antenna at microwave frequencies generates a perfectly parallel wavefront. They all spread so you're square law is modified by a constant... but it's still there.
Besides wondering what marketing genius came up with that name, just what kind of efficiency can you get with this principle. The losses are at:
a) conversion from AC to DC b) conversion for transmission c) losses due to Tx antenna efficiency d) losses during transmission incl. energy lost toasting birds and folk getting in the way of the Tx beam e) losses due to Rx antenna efficiency f) losses during rectification to DC g) losses during conversion to work (here light), more if you go to storage (battery) and back again.
Those add up pretty darn quick. Plus power received varies as an inverse square law of the distance from the transmitting site. Not very efficient. Seems like strictly a niche application.
... why are these industries out there? They feed our thirst for power (electrical that is) and things.
I have changed houses 4 times in the last 7 years. You can't sell a home without an airconditioner. Increasingly homes come with a pool or an outdoor jacuzzi/spa. Two car garage is virtually mandatory. Surprise, surprise we had two power crises here in Ontario this past year. One was last summer and one was this winter. Nuclear power is a no-no. Hydro-electric likewise. Wind power hit a major NIMBY even in the rural areas. So coal-fired it is.
So our houses consume more electricity with every convenience added. Our vehicle ownings are on the increase. Our little luxuries we buy aplenty thus driving industry to increase capacity to supply us. Kyoto won't change that.
Frankly, we have to change or accept. I for one have decided to accept. What used to be luxuries are now necessities. I will take a little pollution in exchange for the pampered and safe ride my van gives me. Will I pay for it with my life? Maybe, but know what? We're living longer than we ever have in the history of the human race. I'm not worried.
Slashdot Mirror
... take-off and landing were human assisted. Now get coding and see if you can make it take-off and land on it's own.
Yes, just like I do when I bring my car in to the service centre. Just like I do when I call in a plumber. Just like I do when I call in a roofer. They just can't believe I would use those features and not be able to take care of them myself. In another decade or so I'll be able to do it all on my own. Then I won't need anyone else. Which will be good because I'll be so stinkin' busy how would I have the time?
... WELL YOU SHOULDN'T BE HERE THEN, SHOULD YOU !!!"
"Hi there. Welcome to Open Source. If you need help
... oh, wait ... it really is Elvish. I thought the guy was slurring. Never mind.
It should be de facto that if you lose a lawsuit, you must cover the cost of the defending party's legal fees. You'd see a lot less of this "suing for profit".
Editors: Enough legal coverage! It will be a very extended suit. Just tell us the result in however many years that takes.
Why isn't that anger translating politically?
Maybe it's a lack of concern. That fifth of the nation isn't necessarily of voting age. It is, like most of the republic, politically unaware and uninformed. Also, as with most of the republic, it only acts on what actually affects it in a very tangible way i.e. cops show up at the door. As well, it's only a _fifth_ of the population. Check out the stats on what percentage of people own a gun (ref NRA). Finally, the rich are what get things moving these days (corporations, etc.) The cost of a CD for one good song doesn't even register as a concern for them (unless they're in the business of making money from it).
Summary, the poor prols using file sharing aren't fussed by the current state of affairs. Set up an organization and I'll wager less than a fifth of that fifth of the population would join (check out the stats of how many actually voted last election).
... make sure your DNA is everywhere. Overload the system. Mail your dust to strangers. Travel lots. Touch everything in sight. Every time a test is done, you show up. Eventually they'll filter you out and voila! Invisibility through visibility.
... as a manager I often roam around the office, dim the lights and have the employees repeat my mantra "Work you idle bastards! Work!!" Admittedly, sometimes it doesn't seem to increase productivity a stitch. So I'll vary my routine by storming off to the local bar where I do breathing excercises and repeat my other mantra, "Barkeep! Another gin!", until I attain oneness with the Universe. So, yeah, there's a place for yoga in the workplace.
...they may be less essential for researchers trying to understand the functions of specific genes known to be involved in processes other than neural ones ...
However, that assumes the researchers understand all the variables involved. For example, reports keep coming out about the link between stress and depressed immune response. Thus studying a disease on stressed mice would actually skew your results. Gene function may be susceptible to environmental triggers of which stress and madness might be factors. The fact is, we don't know and can't know without very rigorous control over both the experimental procedure and the test subjects. So the cost benefits of housing mice on the cheap may well be mitigated by completely invalid experimental data. And that is no cost saving at all.
The target cans have the holes in nice little circles. I would have expected more deformation of the can that would preclude such a tight (and pretty uniform) grouping especially if the projectiles aren't travelling as fast as a bullet. Consider too: such a catchy idea with no patents, posted on the web. I mean, this ain't no potato gun! Governments and industry would be wildly interested in this.
I think it's an elegant fishing expedition for a job with someone who's interested, say someone with government research money. Free software movement not withstanding, this is far too attractive an idea to be posted for free.
Enough navel gazing. There are a lot of valid points in the forum here. Send them to the author at:
http://stevenberlinjohnson.com/
And remember, be mature and be polite.
For a not so newbie, but not technically savvy, will any functionality be lost? The latter tends to have more of an impact on my day-to-day.
How about:
"Linux is a movement by some of the people and for some of the people."
Linux is not for everyone; neither by intent nor by design nor by implementation.
... so KaZaa will beget someone else who will fill their place. They are a finger in a bucket of water; no finger, no hole, no worries. There will always be a free source. Back to your lives citizens.
... the patents on binary! So that means that SCO has been using ... whoa! I can hear the lawyers salivating from here.
... at the America's Cup yacht racing (http://americascup.yahoo.com/) where cutting edge technology is always on display (http://www.cawthron.org.nz/Assets/cawlec98.PDF). Goodbye spectra (http://www.spectrafiber.com/), hello "carbonanoline" or whatever.
... will cause the pattern to change. Then the trick will be to predict how the pattern will change when you act on your present information. Then you start acting to change the pattern to best match your resources ... and then a politician with a "cause" lobbies for action to increase the amount of crime he/she wants to be seen fighting ... and everyone makes lots of money ... and that's a good thing.
a) IBM, Oracle, SAP have in their employ _literally_ thousands of tech oriented employees incl. coders (They're tech/software giants for ----sakes!);
... welcome to the real world.
b) IBM, Oracle, SAP have budgets comparable to many small nations let alone a large city;
c) IBM, Oracle, SAP answer to a bottom line, with their _own_ money i.e. _not_ a taxpayer's;
d) IBM, Oracle, SAP as businesses are necessarily oriented towards a certain amount of risk and are organized to manage it; and
e) Neither IBM, Oracle, or SAP run their business on OSS.
No governing body I know has those resources (not even USofA). Nor could they afford them without significant expense. Governance isn't business
We had an ice storm a few years back. It trashed the power/phone/cable systems. Things were down for quite a while in most places. But even if you lost the balloons, it looks like you could be up and running again in no time. Also seems like a good technology for developing nations with rugged topology, rivers, etc. Nice idea if you can get the costs down. Does Engineers Without Borders (http://www.ewb-isf.org/) know about it?
Helloooo. This is just a "Buy Deutschland" kind of thing. So they buy SUSE and SUSE support and use an OSS office product. Call me skeptical but if it doesn't work out:
... well where it is now but with even less hope of being mainstream.
... is there an election due soon?
a) MS won't cut them any slack when they want to return to the fold so they'll be worse off than before; AND
b) the anti-OSS publicity will relegate future OSS to
Gotta love this forum though. All this pro-OSS sentiment and happiness about this decision could be heart-warming. But whenever there's a post about how OSS doesn't live up to commercial standards, the poster gets flamed with comments about how OSS is written as expression _not_ to satisfy the "public". So a municipality contemplating a similar decision will have to go with a smaller commercial product (which may not necessarily be around in the long term) or it will have to put up with a hodge-podge of substandard OSS apps worked on, in some cases, by people who don't care about the non-geek user.
Really, OSS is fine in academia but for the administrative needs of a governing body !?
A ballsy move by Munich's politicos
... because who cares about the measure of progress? Is there a deadline we're working towards? Has there ever been a more interesting time for those of us with a curious nature? Enjoy the ride.
BTW, scan the posts here. The definition of "AI" is as varied and elusive as that of "life". So how do we measure progress?
Oh and Minsky is kind of a real nasty dude when it comes to criticizing people. Don't forget he killed neural network funding for a decade with his book and personal vendetta on Rosenblatt. I guess he just likes AI done _his_ way.
... I remember interviewing a gent who was developing saliva testing techniques for the same purpose. His contention was that the digestive system affects and is affected by all the other systems in the body. The advantage is that it is also in contact with the external environment. As such it is a bellwether of interaction with the external environment (chemicals in air show up in saliva) and internal environment (breath, blood). A Google on "diagnosis using saliva" turns up some interesting stuff.
w w/465/textbook/otherprojects/senses_97/olfaction.h tml)
I'm not sure that sampling the breath is easier than sampling saliva but this site has a nice intro (http://www.bae.ncsu.edu/bae/research/blanchard/w
with a competitors technique here:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=6588
Only in a lab. In the real world _no_ antenna at microwave frequencies generates a perfectly parallel wavefront. They all spread so you're square law is modified by a constant ... but it's still there.
Besides wondering what marketing genius came up with that name, just what kind of efficiency can you get with this principle. The losses are at:
a) conversion from AC to DC
b) conversion for transmission
c) losses due to Tx antenna efficiency
d) losses during transmission incl. energy lost toasting birds and folk getting in the way of the Tx beam
e) losses due to Rx antenna efficiency
f) losses during rectification to DC
g) losses during conversion to work (here light), more if you go to storage (battery) and back again.
Those add up pretty darn quick. Plus power received varies as an inverse square law of the distance from the transmitting site. Not very efficient. Seems like strictly a niche application.
... why are these industries out there? They feed our thirst for power (electrical that is) and things.
I have changed houses 4 times in the last 7 years. You can't sell a home without an airconditioner. Increasingly homes come with a pool or an outdoor jacuzzi/spa. Two car garage is virtually mandatory. Surprise, surprise we had two power crises here in Ontario this past year. One was last summer and one was this winter. Nuclear power is a no-no. Hydro-electric likewise. Wind power hit a major NIMBY even in the rural areas. So coal-fired it is.
So our houses consume more electricity with every convenience added. Our vehicle ownings are on the increase. Our little luxuries we buy aplenty thus driving industry to increase capacity to supply us. Kyoto won't change that.
Frankly, we have to change or accept. I for one have decided to accept. What used to be luxuries are now necessities. I will take a little pollution in exchange for the pampered and safe ride my van gives me. Will I pay for it with my life? Maybe, but know what? We're living longer than we ever have in the history of the human race. I'm not worried.
... it doesn't matter in the long run as long as you enjoy what you do and do what you enjoy.