Ha! REST and ACL. I knew I forgot some important acronyms there.;-)
Joking aside, having a stable schema is important, but not letting the "ecosystem" decide what's best on its own is damaging because it leads to over-engineering (or "enterprising") by a minority which most often does not know what's best for the majority. It also leads to numerous unusable bureaucratic documents which take the wind out of anyone who's trying to do anything useful. I'm talking from personal experience here.
Know the saying "premature optimization is the root of all evil"? Well, premature standardization is a special case of that.
The concept of linking huge amount of publicly accessible data is obviously worthwhile. The problem with the Linked Data movement is the current implementation. It is a total mess.
The insistent attempts to pre-standardize open data have created a horrible bureaucratic monster.
RDF, RDFS, RDFa, N3, RIF, SWRL, OWL, SPARQL, FOAF, SIOC, and a few others I forgot on top of XML. Every time you encounter a field with so many acronyms you know something horribly wrong is being developed. The consultants and enterprise "experts" will have a field day with this.
Same thing with Instant Messaging. If they want Wave to replace IM in the future it must be compatible with the common IM networks today, or at the very least XMPP.
There won't be any meaningful development in speech recognition (or machine translation) until context is taken seriously.
Context is an inseparable part of speech.
Right now the problem being solved is audio->text. This is the wrong problem, and why the results are so lame. The real problem is audio+context->text+new context. This takes some pretty intelligent computing and not the same old probabilistic approaches.
In the newer models they fixed the lack of wirelessness and made some other small modifications to improve it. The Acer Revo is simply great for users who confine their use to internet/office/media playing, which is practically everyone.
Do you really think the ribbon was anything to do with usability? As far as I can see, it was about having a patentable UI element that OO.o and its ilk couldn't copy.
Before you propagate another conspiracy theory, watch this.
I really hope they've got encryption on by default in this technology or we'll have this whole security fiasco that we had and still are having with the open WiFi all over again.
Bruce Schneier's secure handshake is so strong, you won't be able to exchange keys with anyone else for days. Bruce Schneier knows the state of schroedinger's cat. Bruce Schneier writes his books and essays by generating random alphanumeric text of an appropriate length and then decrypting it. When Bruce Schneier observes a quantum particle, it remains in the same state until he has finished observing it. Though a superhero, Bruce Schneier disdanes the use of a mask or secret identity as 'security through obscurity'.
I ran into Bruce Schneier at an airport once. While we were waiting for a plane, I asked him if he would show me a "cool computer trick". He popped the RAM out of my laptop and quickly tasted the edge with the gold leads. He then told me that at 11:23pm the previous night I had visited ideepthroat.com with Firefox. Damn he's good.
It was always my contention that in war, it's not the more proficient side that wins but the more incompetent side that loses.
I want to believe anyone who served in a military for long enough knows this.
After all the billions of dollars spent on TSA, great delays and annoyances to customers, fictitious work of thousands of employees, and the unfathomed damage to the airline industry, the one time when an actual terrorist tries to smuggle explosives on board and all this charade fails spectacularly.
The response? Add more of the same ineffective measures.
Thank goodness for the incompetence of the terrorist.
Given that we can measure the location of nearby space objects with fairly good accuracy and the laws of physics at that magnitude are not fuzzy as in smaller scales, what are the unknowns that make such an impact a 1 in X possibility and not a certain Hit/Miss?
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Ha! REST and ACL. I knew I forgot some important acronyms there. ;-)
Joking aside, having a stable schema is important, but not letting the "ecosystem" decide what's best on its own is damaging because it leads to over-engineering (or "enterprising") by a minority which most often does not know what's best for the majority. It also leads to numerous unusable bureaucratic documents which take the wind out of anyone who's trying to do anything useful. I'm talking from personal experience here.
Know the saying "premature optimization is the root of all evil"? Well, premature standardization is a special case of that.
The concept of linking huge amount of publicly accessible data is obviously worthwhile. The problem with the Linked Data movement is the current implementation. It is a total mess. The insistent attempts to pre-standardize open data have created a horrible bureaucratic monster. RDF, RDFS, RDFa, N3, RIF, SWRL, OWL, SPARQL, FOAF, SIOC, and a few others I forgot on top of XML. Every time you encounter a field with so many acronyms you know something horribly wrong is being developed. The consultants and enterprise "experts" will have a field day with this.
Block porn in the most sexually abusive country in the world. What could possibly go wrong?
The only thing this operation managed to properly pump is the term "top kill".
Same thing with Instant Messaging. If they want Wave to replace IM in the future it must be compatible with the common IM networks today, or at the very least XMPP.
Watch the South Park episode mentioned above: http://www.southparkstudios.com/episodes/267112
There won't be any meaningful development in speech recognition (or machine translation) until context is taken seriously. Context is an inseparable part of speech.
Right now the problem being solved is audio->text. This is the wrong problem, and why the results are so lame. The real problem is audio+context->text+new context. This takes some pretty intelligent computing and not the same old probabilistic approaches.
http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_x820-1556.php
Smartphones are still too thick and heavy. The next generation of phones should be thinner than 1cm and lighter than 100 grams.
In the newer models they fixed the lack of wirelessness and made some other small modifications to improve it. The Acer Revo is simply great for users who confine their use to internet/office/media playing, which is practically everyone.
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Are-We-There-Yet-Rich-Hickey
If you're interested in a quick introduction (19 minutes) to the neurobiology of religion, check this out: Part 1 Part 2.
The amount of superlatives they used this time in the keynote was phenomenal.
Before you propagate another conspiracy theory, watch this.
So why didn't you wait till next week to publish a verified fact?
I really hope they've got encryption on by default in this technology or we'll have this whole security fiasco that we had and still are having with the open WiFi all over again.
No, but you can read more in Ariely's book: Predictably Irrational
You are viewing this matter rationally. It's not. See The Cost of Social Norms (3.5 minutes).
Even if this asteroid is not going to hit Earth, I think it's time to test drive some solutions to an inevitable problem with terrifying consequences.
As a bonus, we might actually advance science and technology!
Bruce Schneier's secure handshake is so strong, you won't be able to exchange keys with anyone else for days.
Bruce Schneier knows the state of schroedinger's cat.
Bruce Schneier writes his books and essays by generating random alphanumeric text of an appropriate length and then decrypting it.
When Bruce Schneier observes a quantum particle, it remains in the same state until he has finished observing it.
Though a superhero, Bruce Schneier disdanes the use of a mask or secret identity as 'security through obscurity'.
I ran into Bruce Schneier at an airport once. While we were waiting for a plane, I asked him if he would show me a "cool computer trick". He popped the RAM out of my laptop and quickly tasted the edge with the gold leads. He then told me that at 11:23pm the previous night I had visited ideepthroat.com with Firefox. Damn he's good.
Jobs is far from being man of the decade, but if this poll is evidence of anything, it's that Jobs is a marketing guru.
It was always my contention that in war, it's not the more proficient side that wins but the more incompetent side that loses. I want to believe anyone who served in a military for long enough knows this.
After all the billions of dollars spent on TSA, great delays and annoyances to customers, fictitious work of thousands of employees, and the unfathomed damage to the airline industry, the one time when an actual terrorist tries to smuggle explosives on board and all this charade fails spectacularly.
The response? Add more of the same ineffective measures.
Thank goodness for the incompetence of the terrorist.
Given that we can measure the location of nearby space objects with fairly good accuracy and the laws of physics at that magnitude are not fuzzy as in smaller scales, what are the unknowns that make such an impact a 1 in X possibility and not a certain Hit/Miss?