The anonymous coward above is correct - a Kalman filter will help smooth out some errors.
That said, I'd invest in a fancy pants GPS or two. Or a black box sort of solution. If you do need Kalman filtering - I suggest downloading a library to handle the mess.
They won't give up tilting at this windmill I guess. It's frustrating to watch a company make such a wrongheaded move. Yet it's also a move that will likely garner little bad press and few lost sales. And if they find any hint of success, everyone will do it. But what do you do?
It'll be interesting to see if this gets covered by mainstream press much.
Meanwhile, this topic has been absolutely battered here on Slashdot.
Dead reckoning like this produces bad results. Unless you have a laser gyro or something crazy. Any loss in angle measurement is going to compound fast (unless you take angles in some constant way, like via gps - in which case why are you dead reckoning). What sort of project are you doing? I'd make sure you don't have some other way of finding position.
You're right, they shouldn't be marketing this as a secure product.
But the product is fine for most of us. For example:
- It's a good way to play Quake with your brother. And if your neighbour is savvy, he can watch.
- It's a good way to send music to a future power aware stereo.
I think there's plenty of people who should stay on their tushes and who could find good use for a technology like this.
Yes, you will need a database engine behind your custom accounting solution. And it's not really that hard.
You do need to make sure that you have a programmer that understands enough accounting to do what you need to do. Accounting terms can sound scary, but usually are fairly simple from a programming perspective.
A decent programmer won't have any trouble making reports. Unless they're out of their element in accounting.
I guess BioInformatics counts as a Journal and is probably more heavy than what you're looking for.
But I don't think you're going to find what you're looking for. Intermediate publications like Dr. Dobbs exist in CS because there's such a huge market of "practical" computer programmers. And the articles in BioInformatics aren't exactly incomprehensible.
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I'd think clearly, like you do, if I was a little smarter. I make up for it by saying lots.
The focus on Free Software is fine. Bashing MS is fine. Plenty to bash.
But why not put it somewhere other than the front page article? Why not make the front page article concise, and let the rants come from others in the comments? Everyone can take their secret glee at the pains of MS, but when it's pointed out on the front page, it makes you sound insecure about your operating system's virtues. It's mudslinging.
After all, Linux isn't better because MS sucks, it's better because it's better.
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It is true we don't have infinite power. But I really don't think harvesting solar energy on the moon is our next reasonable alternative.
I believe there still exists areas here on Earth not covered by solar panels.
If anything, this story seems to be sort of alternative energy satire - ie "You can have the status quo, or we can put a giant microwave power plant on the moon. And ill tempered sea bass."
Our company uses a program we wrote for document management. It handles authentication, keeping track of documents attached to files, and shells out to Word/other programs to create and edit documents.
Downloading/saving files is done via HTTP (users can work via the same system at home).
That said, our company likes making our own wheels. In the end we find it's less work (especially on a simple project like this).
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This idea of emergence seems different than the one I always imagine.
I think of emergence in terms of complex behavior resulting from simple rules (eg. the many kinds of human thought resulting from the interactions of a pile of simple neurons).
I think of emergence in terms of "the whole is greater than its parts" rather than "there's order in chaos".
I don't know what agenda I'm trying to push. I work in a MS shop and my programming resume is very MS focused. I have a lot to lose if Linux catches on very far. I don't even have it installed on my home machine right now. I don't think you are stupid or that you're trying to tell fibbies.
What I'm saying is that Slashdot used to be nothing but nerds - the clear Linux focus meant that only a certain kind of people came around. Now it seems everyone comes around - and there's little focus. And as more of the general populous comes in, some of the old nerds (who said things that interested me) leave.
I think it's great that Slashdot is more balanced in its coverage of MS now. But its bad that I have to read through a lot more things I don't find interesting. Moderation has become very predictable - moderators waste their points on safe targets like obvious trolls and "long comments with lots of links that sound intelligent". Sometimes I think they're just trying to get by without being meta'ed down.
I'm not saying that non-Linux nerds are stupid. I'm just saying that the crowd that Slashdot used to attract said things that were more interesting to me.
Actually, Slashdot has way more Windows apologizers than it used to. And this is a bad thing.
It used to be that the heavy Linux focus kept away a lot of idiots. Now everyone feels like it's supposed to be some grand open forum. It used to be a much larger percentage of users just accepted the Linux perspective (I won't call it bias) and moved on.
As to this article, I think it may seem a little on the angry side. But I'm sort of angry here too. MS needs to get its act together (although I'm sure they're scrambling for patches now).
The problem is not some crazy design decision (integrating IE isn't necessarily that bad of an idea), the problem is that MS has too many programmers pointed too many different directions.
It can be a hard job to keep things secure when you're working with a lot of disparate technology (and your boss is mostly concerned with how it looks). I have a fair amount of respect for MS programmers - perhaps they need some better management.
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I can never see the pictures, except sometimes when there's glass in front.
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What the hell isn't running? Possibly a trashed library? What the hell is that?
How about: You have a computer, it didn't do what you want. Possibly there is some problem inside the case. OK, fix it!
Lots of things could end up in Osama's hands. Let's ban hands altogether.
Where's the guy who makes the joke about other people asking about Beowulf clusters of supernova's?
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It's just giving the atoms "special hugs".
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The anonymous coward above is correct - a Kalman filter will help smooth out some errors.
That said, I'd invest in a fancy pants GPS or two. Or a black box sort of solution. If you do need Kalman filtering - I suggest downloading a library to handle the mess.
They won't give up tilting at this windmill I guess. It's frustrating to watch a company make such a wrongheaded move. Yet it's also a move that will likely garner little bad press and few lost sales. And if they find any hint of success, everyone will do it. But what do you do?
It'll be interesting to see if this gets covered by mainstream press much.
Meanwhile, this topic has been absolutely battered here on Slashdot.
Dead reckoning like this produces bad results. Unless you have a laser gyro or something crazy. Any loss in angle measurement is going to compound fast (unless you take angles in some constant way, like via gps - in which case why are you dead reckoning). What sort of project are you doing? I'd make sure you don't have some other way of finding position.
You're right, they shouldn't be marketing this as a secure product.
But the product is fine for most of us. For example:
- It's a good way to play Quake with your brother. And if your neighbour is savvy, he can watch.
- It's a good way to send music to a future power aware stereo.
I think there's plenty of people who should stay on their tushes and who could find good use for a technology like this.
It's just you.
I think the big use for this is in convergence products. IE, I should be able to plug in my amp to this and be able to play songs off my computer.
Right now I have to run a cord. And it's annoying.
Yes, you will need a database engine behind your custom accounting solution. And it's not really that hard.
You do need to make sure that you have a programmer that understands enough accounting to do what you need to do. Accounting terms can sound scary, but usually are fairly simple from a programming perspective.
A decent programmer won't have any trouble making reports. Unless they're out of their element in accounting.
We wrote our own web based accounting system. It works fine. And it wasn't that hard. Really. And it has _exactly_ the features we need.
Programming is fun and easy. Maybe it isn't the solution for you - but too many people dismiss it without really trying.
So many oversights that they need a whole committee to manage them.
I wonder if they're trying to eliminate them or just manage them?
It's sort of the same problem that the "Intermediate Nuclear Physics" magazines have. Who's their subscribers?
As such, you either get Journals, Textbooks, or Fluff.
Admitting this is news is admitting that MS has web services people should care about.
Personally, I'm much more concerned about Oracle's national ID cards. As was demonstrated at BlackHat, Oracle is not "unbreakable".
I guess BioInformatics counts as a Journal and is probably more heavy than what you're looking for.
But I don't think you're going to find what you're looking for. Intermediate publications like Dr. Dobbs exist in CS because there's such a huge market of "practical" computer programmers. And the articles in BioInformatics aren't exactly incomprehensible.
I'd think clearly, like you do, if I was a little smarter. I make up for it by saying lots.
Have you tried BioInformatics magazine? If so, why didn't you tell us?
If you didn't find this, which means you didn't try google, then why are you asking Slashdot?
The focus on Free Software is fine. Bashing MS is fine. Plenty to bash.
But why not put it somewhere other than the front page article? Why not make the front page article concise, and let the rants come from others in the comments? Everyone can take their secret glee at the pains of MS, but when it's pointed out on the front page, it makes you sound insecure about your operating system's virtues. It's mudslinging.
After all, Linux isn't better because MS sucks, it's better because it's better.
It is true we don't have infinite power. But I really don't think harvesting solar energy on the moon is our next reasonable alternative.
I believe there still exists areas here on Earth not covered by solar panels.
If anything, this story seems to be sort of alternative energy satire - ie "You can have the status quo, or we can put a giant microwave power plant on the moon. And ill tempered sea bass."
Our company uses a program we wrote for document management. It handles authentication, keeping track of documents attached to files, and shells out to Word/other programs to create and edit documents.
Downloading/saving files is done via HTTP (users can work via the same system at home).
That said, our company likes making our own wheels. In the end we find it's less work (especially on a simple project like this).
This idea of emergence seems different than the one I always imagine.
I think of emergence in terms of complex behavior resulting from simple rules (eg. the many kinds of human thought resulting from the interactions of a pile of simple neurons).
I think of emergence in terms of "the whole is greater than its parts" rather than "there's order in chaos".
I don't know what agenda I'm trying to push. I work in a MS shop and my programming resume is very MS focused. I have a lot to lose if Linux catches on very far. I don't even have it installed on my home machine right now. I don't think you are stupid or that you're trying to tell fibbies.
What I'm saying is that Slashdot used to be nothing but nerds - the clear Linux focus meant that only a certain kind of people came around. Now it seems everyone comes around - and there's little focus. And as more of the general populous comes in, some of the old nerds (who said things that interested me) leave.
I think it's great that Slashdot is more balanced in its coverage of MS now. But its bad that I have to read through a lot more things I don't find interesting. Moderation has become very predictable - moderators waste their points on safe targets like obvious trolls and "long comments with lots of links that sound intelligent". Sometimes I think they're just trying to get by without being meta'ed down.
I'm not saying that non-Linux nerds are stupid. I'm just saying that the crowd that Slashdot used to attract said things that were more interesting to me.
There's a fairly easy exploit (for IE since 4 I think) that allows a malicious web page to read arbitrary files off a users hard disk.
No patch available as far as I know. It's also a lot easier to exploit than this one (heck, I even was able to do it).
I'll put details up if anyone's interested...
Actually, Slashdot has way more Windows apologizers than it used to. And this is a bad thing.
It used to be that the heavy Linux focus kept away a lot of idiots. Now everyone feels like it's supposed to be some grand open forum. It used to be a much larger percentage of users just accepted the Linux perspective (I won't call it bias) and moved on.
As to this article, I think it may seem a little on the angry side. But I'm sort of angry here too. MS needs to get its act together (although I'm sure they're scrambling for patches now).
The problem is not some crazy design decision (integrating IE isn't necessarily that bad of an idea), the problem is that MS has too many programmers pointed too many different directions.
It can be a hard job to keep things secure when you're working with a lot of disparate technology (and your boss is mostly concerned with how it looks). I have a fair amount of respect for MS programmers - perhaps they need some better management.