Most people dont realize that the needle itself doesnt sting much. Its the medicine. Some medicines when they come into contact with the flesh inside, sting like crazy. Others dont.
"Take India, for example. While they may have pop singers and the like who are enormously popular domestically, the global market for such music doesn't even begin to approach that of America's."
This reeks of blissful ignorance. Lets get some facts straight. Repeat after me: India's population is slightly higher than North America and Europe put together.
Consequence ? Even if they sell one CD outside india, the "global" sales can far outstrip any artist in US. You think Britney is popular ? How about Madonna ? Ever heard of Rahman ? Quoted from the article: "In terms of sales, Rahman is already bigger than the biggest. His music has already sold over 200 million cassettes. That's more than Madonna and Britney Spears put together."
... And thats just one artist. Obviously Rahman is more motivated than Britney and Madonna to protect his IP. And taken solely in terms of music sales, Rahman's "IP" is as valuable as Madonna's and Britney's put together. The reason that India lags behind in generating Tech IP is that it is nowhere near the US in terms of industrialization. But please, lets not talk about Movie or Music IP.
By the way, "Googly" is a cricket term. Some leg spinners (who usually turn the ball from the leg side of the batsman to the bat side of the batsman) can turn the ball in the opposite direction (from the bat to the leg) using their usual action. Usually it leaves the batsmen confused. So to "bowl a googly" is used in the sense of "play a trump card" or "leave the opposition confused".
....Spammers would be caught, jailed and made to share their cell with people who have enlarged their penis, taken viagra and are looking for a new relationship:^).
How about some duct tape job of roomba and a lawn mower ? You get obstacle avoidance and area coverage for free. You can even come up with interesting names like "Rower" or "Moomba":^)
The greatest breakthroughs in science were made once the ancient Greek philosophic method was turned on its head and transformed into the scientific method we use today.
Not necessarily. The greatest engineering breakthroughs maybe. But not the greatest intellectual breakthroughs.
Look at computer science for example. People never thought about the existance of a "general purpose computing machine" till Bertrand russell came by. Russell, a great philosopher posed this question (which can be simplified as):- "If I can represent formulae using abstract symbols and data using abstract symbols - can formulae work on formulae which work on data ?" - Presto ! there came an idea - there can be a formula (computer) which takes a formula (program) and apply it to a symbol (data). This was the motivation behind Church's lambda calculus and Turing's Turing machine. Once they came up with turing machines, it was just a question of time before someone built them. So you see my friend, Knowing that a thing exists requires a bit of philosophy. Actually finding it is simply an engineering effort.
Sounds kinda like "Unix bootleg Linux". I am not trolling here - just setting the record straight. Ximian's website lists Ximian Desktop, Ximian Evolution, Ximian Connector, Ximian Red Carpet Enterprise as the products offered by the company. Ximian offers a polished custimization of the Gnome desktop, with its own version of openoffice, (probably one of the better efforts for Linux-on-desktop), An automated software delivery / update (redcarpet), an exchange client (connector) *and* an outlook like PIM software - Evolution. Based on the planned enhancements to Evolution, some would argue that Evolution not "just another outlook clone". Calling Ximian an "outlook clone" is a bit of a stretch.
....The announcement might be describing vaporware but 3W / 25 Gflops isnt too amazing to definitely indicate vaporware. ARM VFP9-S co-processor is about 0.4 Gflops for about 0.8 watt (about 1.5 gflops for 3 watt). Keep in mind that it was introduced in 2001. 4 years and 15 fold improvement seems possible.....
The is a legendary story attributed to Guy Lewis Steele - the inventor of scheme.
Magic Switch Story
Some years ago, I was snooping around in the cabinets that housed the MIT AI Lab's PDP-10, and noticed a little switch glued to the frame of one cabinet. It was obviously a homebrew job, added by one of the lab's hardware hackers (no-one knows who).
You don't touch an unknown switch on a computer without knowing what it does, because you might crash the computer. The switch was labelled in a most unhelpful way. It had two positions, and scrawled in pencil on the metal switch body were the words "magic" and "more magic". The switch was in the "more magic" position.
I called another hacker over to look at it. He had never seen the switch before either. Closer examination revealed that the switch had only one wire running to it! The other end of the wire did disappear into the maze of wires inside the computer, but it's a basic fact of electricity that a switch can't do anything unless there are two wires connected to it. This switch had a wire connected on one side and no wire on its other side.
It was clear that this switch was someone's idea of a silly joke. Convinced by our reasoning that the switch was inoperative, we flipped it. The computer instantly crashed.
Imagine our utter astonishment. We wrote it off as coincidence, but nevertheless restored the switch to the "more magic" position before reviving the computer.
A year later, I told this story to yet another hacker, David Moon as I recall. He clearly doubted my sanity, or suspected me of a supernatural belief in the power of this switch, or perhaps thought I was fooling him with a bogus saga. To prove it to him, I showed him the very switch, still glued to the cabinet frame with only one wire connected to it, still in the "more magic" position. We scrutinized the switch and its lone connection, and found that the other end of the wire, though connected to the computer wiring, was connected to a ground pin. That clearly made the switch doubly useless: not only was it electrically nonoperative, but it was connected to a place that couldn't affect anything anyway. So we flipped the switch.
The computer promptly crashed.
This time we ran for Richard Greenblatt, a long-time MIT hacker, who was close at hand. He had never noticed the switch before, either. He inspected it, concluded it was useless, got some diagonal cutters and diked it out. We then revived the computer and it has run fine ever since.
We still don't know how the switch crashed the machine. There is a theory that some circuit near the ground pin was marginal, and flipping the switch changed the electrical capacitance enough to upset the circuit as millionth-of-a-second pulses went through it. But we'll never know for sure; all we can really say is that the switch was magic.
I still have that switch in my basement. Maybe I'm silly, but I usually keep it set on "more magic".
I thought I could pitch in with a few handy facts. Indian railways is one of the largest railways in the world. The Centre for Railway Information Systems has implemented the online reservation system through which half a million people book tickets everyday - the reservation system is one of the largest distributed databases in world and runs openVMS. Consider the scale of operations-
Indian Railways has over 62,000 route kms of track.
Indian Railways employs about 1.6 million people.
Carries over 11 million passengers & one million tonnes of freight everyday. (about 4.83 billion passengers and 492 million tons of freight per year)
It runs about 13,000 trains daily and has 6,984 railway stations.
The longest journey on Indian Railways is from Jammu Tawi to Kanyakumari, a distance of about 3,751 kms covered by Himsagar Express in about 66 hours.
...a bunch of scientists made a realistic virtual world which could be powered by humans hooked on to devices that could produce electricity from the human body. And in other news....agents are looking for a couple of anarchists called morpheus and neo.
Probably searching for Gardening tips would return a boatload of sites with gardening tips rather than just searching for "flowers" ?
How about apple fruit instead of just "apple" ? The first site that is returned seem to talk everything about growing apples, pests affecting apples and fertilizers for apples
May be the fact that several books dont have their contents online may affect google's results ? I mean google cant step into a book store and sift through books. How about adding "-inurl:pdf" to get rid of all pdf's from showing up ? or how about adding "inurl:book" to list only books ? Maybe "site:amazon.com" can help search all of amazon for the book ?
I see google not as a "mind reader" but an amazingly efficient butler. Describe what you want and you most often than not get top quality results for what you wanted. Telling "%%&#%(&(*##@" to google wont give you top 10 anger management therapists in US. Use emacs doctor for that:P.
I am reminded of Feynman's related quote. A grad student complained that theoretical physics didnt have much application - for which Feynman is said to have replied "Theoretical physics is like sex. It has a few practical applications - but thats not why we do it"
....Why RIM (research in motion's) device is being terminated could be because RIM lost a patent lawsuit against NTP. NTP is a patent holding company which claims to hold patents to "sending text data through wireless" or some such sort. NTP was awarded $23 million in damages and has sued again tripling the damages.
Is this fair ? you ask. Let me remind you about fivolous lawsuits initiated by RIM against palm and handspring because RIM claimed to hold a patent which covers attaching a keyboard to a mobile device !!. Handspring and palm decided to settle out of court, paid RIM a wad of money and "licenced" the "technology". Evidently what goes around comes around.:(.
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what does your robot do, sam
it collects data about the surrounding environment, then discards it and drives into walls
-Dracken
Most people dont realize that the needle itself doesnt sting much. Its the medicine. Some medicines when they come into contact with the flesh inside, sting like crazy. Others dont.
-Dracken
...Canada will become warm and I can move there. GWB is doing atleast one good thing.
"Take India, for example. While they may have pop singers and the like who are enormously popular domestically, the global market for such music doesn't even begin to approach that of America's."
... And thats just one artist. Obviously Rahman is more motivated than Britney and Madonna to protect his IP. And taken solely in terms of music sales, Rahman's "IP" is as valuable as Madonna's and Britney's put together. The reason that India lags behind in generating Tech IP is that it is nowhere near the US in terms of industrialization. But please, lets not talk about Movie or Music IP.
This reeks of blissful ignorance. Lets get some facts straight. Repeat after me: India's population is slightly higher than North America and Europe put together.
Consequence ? Even if they sell one CD outside india, the "global" sales can far outstrip any artist in US. You think Britney is popular ? How about Madonna ? Ever heard of Rahman ? Quoted from the article: "In terms of sales, Rahman is already bigger than the biggest. His music has already sold over 200 million cassettes. That's more than Madonna and Britney Spears put together."
By the way, "Googly" is a cricket term. Some leg spinners (who usually turn the ball from the leg side of the batsman to the bat side of the batsman) can turn the ball in the opposite direction (from the bat to the leg) using their usual action. Usually it leaves the batsmen confused. So to "bowl a googly" is used in the sense of "play a trump card" or "leave the opposition confused".
-Dracken
....Spammers would be caught, jailed and made to share their cell with people who have enlarged their penis, taken viagra and are looking for a new relationship :^).
-Dracken
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How about some duct tape job of roomba and a lawn mower ? You get obstacle avoidance and area coverage for free. You can even come up with interesting names like "Rower" or "Moomba" :^)
The greatest breakthroughs in science were made once the ancient Greek philosophic method was turned on its head and transformed into the scientific method we use today.
Not necessarily. The greatest engineering breakthroughs maybe. But not the greatest intellectual breakthroughs.
Look at computer science for example. People never thought about the existance of a "general purpose computing machine" till Bertrand russell came by. Russell, a great philosopher posed this question (which can be simplified as):- "If I can represent formulae using abstract symbols and data using abstract symbols - can formulae work on formulae which work on data ?" - Presto ! there came an idea - there can be a formula (computer) which takes a formula (program) and apply it to a symbol (data). This was the motivation behind Church's lambda calculus and Turing's Turing machine. Once they came up with turing machines, it was just a question of time before someone built them. So you see my friend, Knowing that a thing exists requires a bit of philosophy. Actually finding it is simply an engineering effort.
Kyocera phones have had flashlights for quite some time now. They seem to be quite popular in india.
Why are mathematicians the best of the lot ?
Coz they do it smoothly and continuously or discretely in groups and in fields
Sounds kinda like "Unix bootleg Linux". I am not trolling here - just setting the record straight. Ximian's website lists Ximian Desktop, Ximian Evolution, Ximian Connector, Ximian Red Carpet Enterprise as the products offered by the company. Ximian offers a polished custimization of the Gnome desktop, with its own version of openoffice, (probably one of the better efforts for Linux-on-desktop), An automated software delivery / update (redcarpet), an exchange client (connector) *and* an outlook like PIM software - Evolution. Based on the planned enhancements to Evolution, some would argue that Evolution not "just another outlook clone". Calling Ximian an "outlook clone" is a bit of a stretch.
....The announcement might be describing vaporware but 3W / 25 Gflops isnt too amazing to definitely indicate vaporware. ARM VFP9-S co-processor is about 0.4 Gflops for about 0.8 watt (about 1.5 gflops for 3 watt). Keep in mind that it was introduced in 2001. 4 years and 15 fold improvement seems possible.....
2*b || !(2*b) is actually a tautology :P
:P
ducks
The is a legendary story attributed to Guy Lewis Steele - the inventor of scheme.
Magic Switch Story
Some years ago, I was snooping around in the cabinets that housed the MIT AI Lab's PDP-10, and noticed a little switch glued to the frame of one cabinet. It was obviously a homebrew job, added by one of the lab's hardware hackers (no-one knows who).
You don't touch an unknown switch on a computer without knowing what it does, because you might crash the computer. The switch was labelled in a most unhelpful way. It had two positions, and scrawled in pencil on the metal switch body were the words "magic" and "more magic". The switch was in the "more magic" position.
I called another hacker over to look at it. He had never seen the switch before either. Closer examination revealed that the switch had only one wire running to it! The other end of the wire did disappear into the maze of wires inside the computer, but it's a basic fact of electricity that a switch can't do anything unless there are two wires connected to it. This switch had a wire connected on one side and no wire on its other side.
It was clear that this switch was someone's idea of a silly joke. Convinced by our reasoning that the switch was inoperative, we flipped it. The computer instantly crashed.
Imagine our utter astonishment. We wrote it off as coincidence, but nevertheless restored the switch to the "more magic" position before reviving the computer.
A year later, I told this story to yet another hacker, David Moon as I recall. He clearly doubted my sanity, or suspected me of a supernatural belief in the power of this switch, or perhaps thought I was fooling him with a bogus saga. To prove it to him, I showed him the very switch, still glued to the cabinet frame with only one wire connected to it, still in the "more magic" position. We scrutinized the switch and its lone connection, and found that the other end of the wire, though connected to the computer wiring, was connected to a ground pin. That clearly made the switch doubly useless: not only was it electrically nonoperative, but it was connected to a place that couldn't affect anything anyway. So we flipped the switch.
The computer promptly crashed.
This time we ran for Richard Greenblatt, a long-time MIT hacker, who was close at hand. He had never noticed the switch before, either. He inspected it, concluded it was useless, got some diagonal cutters and diked it out. We then revived the computer and it has run fine ever since.
We still don't know how the switch crashed the machine. There is a theory that some circuit near the ground pin was marginal, and flipping the switch changed the electrical capacitance enough to upset the circuit as millionth-of-a-second pulses went through it. But we'll never know for sure; all we can really say is that the switch was magic.
I still have that switch in my basement. Maybe I'm silly, but I usually keep it set on "more magic".
GLS
Indian Railways has over 62,000 route kms of track.
Indian Railways employs about 1.6 million people.
Carries over 11 million passengers & one million tonnes of freight everyday. (about 4.83 billion passengers and 492 million tons of freight per year)
It runs about 13,000 trains daily and has 6,984 railway stations.
The longest journey on Indian Railways is from Jammu Tawi to Kanyakumari, a distance of about 3,751 kms covered by Himsagar Express in about 66 hours.
...a bunch of scientists made a realistic virtual world which could be powered by humans hooked on to devices that could produce electricity from the human body. And in other news....agents are looking for a couple of anarchists called morpheus and neo.
:P
ducks
I agree with the earlier post.
Probably searching for Gardening tips would return a boatload of sites with gardening tips rather than just searching for "flowers" ?
How about apple fruit instead of just "apple" ? The first site that is returned seem to talk everything about growing apples, pests affecting apples and fertilizers for apples
May be the fact that several books dont have their contents online may affect google's results ? I mean google cant step into a book store and sift through books. How about adding "-inurl:pdf" to get rid of all pdf's from showing up ? or how about adding "inurl:book" to list only books ? Maybe "site:amazon.com" can help search all of amazon for the book ?
I see google not as a "mind reader" but an amazingly efficient butler. Describe what you want and you most often than not get top quality results for what you wanted. Telling "%%&#%(&(*##@" to google wont give you top 10 anger management therapists in US. Use emacs doctor for that
Oh - I just mail my adda buddies and we blog our experiences. Oh wait - lemme check my mail :P
I am reminded of Feynman's related quote. A grad student complained that theoretical physics didnt have much application - for which Feynman is said to have replied "Theoretical physics is like sex. It has a few practical applications - but thats not why we do it"
Yep and ofcourse everybody knows that mathematicians do it smoothly and continuously or discretely in groups and in fields. Interesting lifestyle :P
....Why RIM (research in motion's) device is being terminated could be because RIM lost a patent lawsuit against NTP. NTP is a patent holding company which claims to hold patents to "sending text data through wireless" or some such sort. NTP was awarded $23 million in damages and has sued again tripling the damages.
:(.
Is this fair ? you ask. Let me remind you about fivolous lawsuits initiated by RIM against palm and handspring because RIM claimed to hold a patent which covers attaching a keyboard to a mobile device !!. Handspring and palm decided to settle out of court, paid RIM a wad of money and "licenced" the "technology". Evidently what goes around comes around.
A worse math joke - Why did the mathematician name is dog cauchy ?
:P
Because he left his residue at every pole
Ducks
In related story, SCO declared "If linus is really innocent, we dare him to publish the source of the linux kernel!"