There is one solution to this (that could be used dozens od other ways, too) that many people won't like: Universal IDs.
You scare the sh*t out of me. The day that this happens I will permanently disconnect from any network and transfer software & media to my PC through real storage media (CDRW, etc) that I borough from other people. Even though I have nothing to hide, I like my privacy too much.
Maybe it is time to include some text clustering algorithms into the/. engine.
The medline database, for example, contains millions of abstracts from scientific articles that have been clustered using this relatively simple method. It works very well. In this way editors would be able to find related posts. The 3 most similar posts could be interesting for us readers as well.
* Stock x86 PC running Debian GNU/Linux with RTAI real-time system.
* Shadow's own GPL'd robot code will be shipped, permitting initial setup and evaluations. PC will have CAN interface provided.
I have had an Ericsson T39m mobile phone, that can talk to the PC (software included) through cables, infrared and bluetooth for over a year. I do this Apple trick all the time. What is all the fuzz about?
Unless this isn't 'biology' the human genome project has already succeeded in beating out a private commercial project with the human genome map.
This is not true for a number of reasons:
The completed human sequence was available from a company called Celera, months before the public 'open-source' version was. You had to pay for it.
The public and private version were published back-to-back (at the same time in the same journals). Celera had to put a lot of effort to get it published, because the 'public' guys wanted to keep them out (clear case of academic ego & envy - nothing to do with the good of humanity).
The quality (and therefore usability) of the public version is still below that of the private version. The high quality public version is expected to be announced in May 2003.
Without the private version to stress the academic guys, they would probably still be debating about which method to use for sequencing (trust me, I know most of them). The threat from a private club, made them do it (by copying the methods, Celera used.)
I'm not saying that private companies should own data and methods. All I'm saying is that sometimes some good old competition, can help to accomplish research goals.
The company in this case, should get the credit they deserve for the innovative methods and their application to this enormous problem to get the first completed, high quality human genome version in such a short period of time.
What if walkers visiting a computer, left information about what they were searching for, and which way they went. And once found, walk back exactly the same route, to say where it was found (or not found anymore).
This way there would be a distributed dynamic map of content, and the chance that rare things are found increases with the number of nodes that had to be visited to find it.
Since he had so many scoring rules. I'm sure he could have gotten to the same or even better results with a dynamic programming algorithm in less time and lines of code.
If it was really a genetic algorithm he would have measured the real-life performance of all the layouts himself (that's what the real goal is), and use this information to select the ones that go to the next round.
Now, it is just an optimization problem treated in a silly heuristic way.
Yes. And even the price of this Toshiba player is compatible with the ipod ($599). I prefer to wait until there is more (and even better) products to choose from. I am not going to buy any MP3 player until the price comes down to $299 (max), with a 30-40 Gb hard disk and firewire/USB2, a weight of 60 g, a 20 hour battery live, song exchangement with other user through infra-red/BlueTooth, PDA functionality, a built-in mobile phone, GPS positioning and a route-planner.
Did I mention it must be able to make a very good expresso?
Their exit strategy is probably to sell the company to a bigger competitor or a big iron vendor, like Sun or HP, in a couple of years. These don't only buy companies for profits, but also for technology expertise (people) and customer base.
I'm sure we'll see an enhanced version of Snort for a proprietary *nix OS some day. He'll be rich and have all the time of the world to play games and drink beer with Zealots.
Question is: is gnome2 a user-friendly desktop environment, or a power user environment? I think Gnome2 is becoming much more intuitive to use, and is doing what it is suppose to do: make it easier to switch from an alternative OS. Adding more options, does not make something better, just more painful for a normal user. I believe the programmer should make all the tough decisions, by fixing them in the code.
If you want ultimate tweakability, I can suggest to use the command line.
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There is one solution to this (that could be used dozens od other ways, too) that many people won't like: Universal IDs.
You scare the sh*t out of me.
The day that this happens I will permanently disconnect from any network and transfer software & media to my PC through real storage media (CDRW, etc) that I borough from other people. Even though I have nothing to hide, I like my privacy too much.
Resistance is futile
For example, Sun and Cisco sponsor academia. As long as they don't buy the government and judges, it's OK (they don't, don't they?)
Maybe it is time to include some text clustering algorithms into the /. engine.
The medline database, for example, contains millions of abstracts from scientific articles that have been clustered using this relatively simple method. It works very well. In this way editors would be able to find related posts. The 3 most similar posts could be interesting for us readers as well.
From the company site
* Stock x86 PC running Debian GNU/Linux with RTAI real-time system.
* Shadow's own GPL'd robot code will be shipped, permitting initial setup and evaluations. PC will have CAN interface provided.
I want one, I want one, I want one.
I have a new open source project I am considering releasing sooner rather than later
Unless you are planning to release Real player's streaming video codecs (see here), I wouldn't worry too much about too many patches and forking.
And drink lot's of beer. It really helps.
I have had an Ericsson T39m mobile phone, that can talk to the PC (software included) through cables, infrared and bluetooth for over a year. I do this Apple trick all the time. What is all the fuzz about?
I would take three cups of coffee a day, if only I could remember what coffee is...
Unless this isn't 'biology' the human genome project has already succeeded in beating out a private commercial project with the human genome map.
This is not true for a number of reasons:
- The completed human sequence was available from a company called Celera, months before the public 'open-source' version was. You had to pay for it.
- The public and private version were published back-to-back (at the same time in the same journals). Celera had to put a lot of effort to get it published, because the 'public' guys wanted to keep them out (clear case of academic ego & envy - nothing to do with the good of humanity).
- The quality (and therefore usability) of the public version is still below that of the private version. The high quality public version is expected to be announced in May 2003.
- Without the private version to stress the academic guys, they would probably still be debating about which method to use for sequencing (trust me, I know most of them). The threat from a private club, made them do it (by copying the methods, Celera used.)
I'm not saying that private companies should own data and methods. All I'm saying is that sometimes some good old competition, can help to accomplish research goals.The company in this case, should get the credit they deserve for the innovative methods and their application to this enormous problem to get the first completed, high quality human genome version in such a short period of time.
Mc Donalds recently replaced the chicken burger by an artificial silicon-based meat substitute.
What if walkers visiting a computer, left information about what they were searching for, and which way they went. And once found, walk back exactly the same route, to say where it was found (or not found anymore).
This way there would be a distributed dynamic map of content, and the chance that rare things are found increases with the number of nodes that had to be visited to find it.
Since he had so many scoring rules. I'm sure he could have gotten to the same or even better results with a dynamic programming algorithm in less time and lines of code.
If it was really a genetic algorithm he would have measured the real-life performance of all the layouts himself (that's what the real goal is), and use this information to select the ones that go to the next round.
Now, it is just an optimization problem treated in a silly heuristic way.
It is a pity that I can not think of any way to fight spam using bogus spam mails in the way it could work with bogus MP3 files.
Yes. And even the price of this Toshiba player is compatible with the ipod ($599). I prefer to wait until there is more (and even better) products to choose from. I am not going to buy any MP3 player until the price comes down to $299 (max), with a 30-40 Gb hard disk and firewire/USB2, a weight of 60 g, a 20 hour battery live, song exchangement with other user through infra-red/BlueTooth, PDA functionality, a built-in mobile phone, GPS positioning and a route-planner.
Did I mention it must be able to make a very good expresso?
Does the term crystalline valley apply?
Here is what I use, to make replying to these MP3 stories more efficient.
./repost_Ogg_Vorbis_commen t.sh
#!/usr/bin/tcsh
while (1)
do
text =`lynx -source 'http://www.slashdot.org/'`
SEARCH = `awk '{if (index($0,"MP3")) {print "BINGO"}}'`
if (${SEARCH}==BINGO)
endif
done
Now if only, I could link my dual Athlon to the aquarium housing my tropical fish collection...
Their exit strategy is probably to sell the company to a bigger competitor or a big iron vendor, like Sun or HP, in a couple of years. These don't only buy companies for profits, but also for technology expertise (people) and customer base.
I'm sure we'll see an enhanced version of Snort for a proprietary *nix OS some day.
He'll be rich and have all the time of the world to play games and drink beer with Zealots.
Question is: is gnome2 a user-friendly desktop environment, or a power user environment? I think Gnome2 is becoming much more intuitive to use, and is doing what it is suppose to do: make it easier to switch from an alternative OS. Adding more options, does not make something better, just more painful for a normal user. I believe the programmer should make all the tough decisions, by fixing them in the code.
If you want ultimate tweakability, I can suggest to use the command line.
And yes, while you're at it, could you point a webcam at it? This way, we all know when it's accesible again.
That's more than Bill Gates could personally finance.
If you hurry up you can still see how they solve this at dilbert's office.
Yes stick to that. This chalk thingy just gives me the feeling that somehow, we went 30.000 years back in technical evolution.
Or maybe that's what cavemen wanted to say; if they painted an antilope on a wall it was to say their was a high-speed wireless internet connection.
I can confirm this. Ever since my (old) father bought a PC with a CDRW, he stopped buying Jim Reeves records, and other old crap. He just copies it.
I consider myself a techie, I have never bought or copied any music from mr. Mobey. Don't think I ever will.