Not quite yet - we are just starting the labeling process now. Instead of just having yellow stars, we'll have a whole rainbow of colors to aid the sorting process.
Since I've got into some of the newer PDAs with high-res screens (I've got an iPAQ and a couple Clies), I've found reading them to be just as easy as a physical book - and in difficult lighting conditions, even easier. The convenience of having several novels for travel without having to pack (I'm a quick reader) is fantastic. Mostly I use the Microsoft Reader; I can annotate, high-light, add comments, etc. quite easily. The electronic format is also handy for searches. So, for me, newer technology has solved the "ease of use" issues I had in the past.
But the format wars are making it difficult. Mostly I get my eBooks from www.fictionwise.com. They have their books in as many formats as the individual publishers will allow, which helps - but a lot of the newer stuff is in the secure, proprietary formats; so I can either get a Palm format or a PocketPC format but not both. This is a pain, but not deal-breaker for me. More painful is wondering if I'll be able to read them again 10 years from now.
But anyway, even with those concerns, I've become addicted to the "ease of use" of current eBooks and readers and I can't go back! A more standard format would encourage me to spend more on eBooks.
Is it possible to have a clean organized grown-up home, without throwing everything away?"
Leave out "grown-up" and then it's probably possible. For me, part of being a geek is retaining a child-like interest in the world: still playing with toys, still using imagination. No matter how old I get, there will always be a drawer full of yo-yos at my house!
Chinook is called the World Champion of Checkers, though usually they say Man-Machine world champion.
In our time, we are accustomed to forklifts and cars "out-performing" us and so we take no special notice. We are now on the verge of machines beating us at our own game so to speak. Probably they will have a first and only machine as the chess world champion, then it will be been there, done that and the people who like to play people will continue on as before and the programmers who like to out program other programmers will continue on as before.
Martin said many of the critics he's talked to across the country are surprised at how the quality of writing has slipped for many returning shows on all networks.
I cut off the cable and sold my tv almost 3 years ago. After seeing Babylon 5 it became very clear to me that pretty much everything else sucked by comparison.
There was a debate among the Democratic presidential candidates the other night, some were very critical of the president. Many of these candidates are or have been elected officials. Do you mean to say that they should not voice their opinions because they might undermine negotiations, worsen a crisis, etc.? Are they bad Americans, not patriotic??
When people stop expressing their opinions, stop doing what they can for what they believe in and instead say and do nothing then we no longer live in a democracy.
However, having said that - I acknowledge that as a former President, Carter's voice will tend to be louder and I agree that he should (and I believe that he does) use his "great power" with great responsibility (as should we all).
Wow, if hand-held text-message devices are so incredibly powerful, just think what a hand-held voice-message device could be capable of! Quick - get me a patent application form!
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I mean, it would be nice to not have spam an all - but I've been having great success with POPFile so 100+ spams a day don't bug me anymore. And there are other programs and services that give other people similar relief. I like the idea of having a "wilderness" sort of Internet - it promotes innovation and new ideas (I use Baysean filtering for a lot more than just Spam now). We are losing this wilderness everyday - RIAA, Homeland Security, etc. Let's not kill off our electronic diversity!
The nature of most Baysean filters (POPFile being the one I'm most familiar with) will tend to develop it's own black-list over time. A real black-list would help cut down on the processor and bandwidth that spam wastes - but in my experience black-lists are much harder to maintain than my POPFile corpuses (corpi?).
I get the same thing when closing a web project. A non-web project seems to work fine. It has never seemed to do any harm, so I stopped worrying about it.
When you are 40, and all you do every day is come in to work, grind away for the corporation, go home too exhausted to play with legos or anything else is when you really have to step back and take a long hard look at your life.
I disagree with the slant of this article - to make a smurf-programming language just for kids. If anything, programming today is far more accessible than it was on my old Kaypro. Give kids the opportunity to experiment and teach them how to learn - the rest will take care of itself.
Try talking first. You said: You like your job, it provides great satisfaction.
That is worth making an effort to preserve. If there is a manager or boss you can talk to openly about your issues then try that first. If there is no such person, then I would question it being a good place to work. Certainly a walk-out would have no other effect than to land you among the unemployed.
Forget _Neuromancer_, IMHO _The Secret Agent_ by Joseph Conrad is the first cyber-punk novel. Written early in the 1900's I believe. Excellent read! (Here is a little about it: The Secret Agent.) It's got conspiracy, terrorism, p0rn - what else do you need?
The problem is that we have no vigourous leadership, no vision of where we ought to go or what we ought to do. Apollo succeeded not only because of cold-war pressures, but because there was a goal and a deadline.
We need a national or world leader to step in and challenge us to achieve the impossible.
Right after Graham's article I started in on my own implementation- with similar results: it very quickly starts catching spam and no false positives so far (that I've noticed anyway). I'm using VB and an access database- right now it seems snappy enough but I have worries it'll bog down when the DB gets too big. But it's working good enough for me as-is. Code and binaries are at joeemail.sourceforge.net.
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You may want to take a look at the MIT paper referenced in the blurb: here.
It seems to be a pretty compelling argument that a CAPPS-like system would actually do more harm than good, nevermind the privacy issues.
Open and free discussion of the issues is what makes a democracy work!
Not quite yet - we are just starting the labeling process now. Instead of just having yellow stars, we'll have a whole rainbow of colors to aid the sorting process.
Since I've got into some of the newer PDAs with high-res screens (I've got an iPAQ and a couple Clies), I've found reading them to be just as easy as a physical book - and in difficult lighting conditions, even easier. The convenience of having several novels for travel without having to pack (I'm a quick reader) is fantastic. Mostly I use the Microsoft Reader; I can annotate, high-light, add comments, etc. quite easily. The electronic format is also handy for searches. So, for me, newer technology has solved the "ease of use" issues I had in the past.
But the format wars are making it difficult. Mostly I get my eBooks from www.fictionwise.com. They have their books in as many formats as the individual publishers will allow, which helps - but a lot of the newer stuff is in the secure, proprietary formats; so I can either get a Palm format or a PocketPC format but not both. This is a pain, but not deal-breaker for me. More painful is wondering if I'll be able to read them again 10 years from now.
But anyway, even with those concerns, I've become addicted to the "ease of use" of current eBooks and readers and I can't go back! A more standard format would encourage me to spend more on eBooks.
Using the Black-Scholes formula is not doing serious math. Coming up with the formula is the serious part.
The thing that I found when I studied math is that what I really learned was how to think and to solve problems, not just plug and chug.
If you are a plug and chuger, your job will go to the lowest bidder. If you are a problems solver you will get to choose the bid you accept.
Is it possible to have a clean organized grown-up home, without throwing everything away?"
Leave out "grown-up" and then it's probably possible. For me, part of being a geek is retaining a child-like interest in the world: still playing with toys, still using imagination. No matter how old I get, there will always be a drawer full of yo-yos at my house!
Chinook is called the World Champion of Checkers, though usually they say Man-Machine world champion.
In our time, we are accustomed to forklifts and cars "out-performing" us and so we take no special notice. We are now on the verge of machines beating us at our own game so to speak. Probably they will have a first and only machine as the chess world champion, then it will be been there, done that and the people who like to play people will continue on as before and the programmers who like to out program other programmers will continue on as before.
Who controls the past, controls the future.
Who controls the present, controls the past.
Except he thought it was a blueprint, not a warning...
They said it themselves:
Martin said many of the critics he's talked to across the country are surprised at how the quality of writing has slipped for many returning shows on all networks.
I cut off the cable and sold my tv almost 3 years ago. After seeing Babylon 5 it became very clear to me that pretty much everything else sucked by comparison.
There was a debate among the Democratic presidential candidates the other night, some were very critical of the president. Many of these candidates are or have been elected officials. Do you mean to say that they should not voice their opinions because they might undermine negotiations, worsen a crisis, etc.? Are they bad Americans, not patriotic??
When people stop expressing their opinions, stop doing what they can for what they believe in and instead say and do nothing then we no longer live in a democracy.
However, having said that - I acknowledge that as a former President, Carter's voice will tend to be louder and I agree that he should (and I believe that he does) use his "great power" with great responsibility (as should we all).
"Customary" does not mean "law". No citizen of any country should be urged to STFU and "keep his opinions to himself."
to protect us from the Ravenous Bugblatter Beasts of Traal anymore! Hooray for Technology!!
Don't forget that time is a filter: we've forgotten the crappy games of yore.
Wow, if hand-held text-message devices are so incredibly powerful, just think what a hand-held voice-message device could be capable of! Quick - get me a patent application form!
I mean, it would be nice to not have spam an all - but I've been having great success with POPFile so 100+ spams a day don't bug me anymore. And there are other programs and services that give other people similar relief. I like the idea of having a "wilderness" sort of Internet - it promotes innovation and new ideas (I use Baysean filtering for a lot more than just Spam now). We are losing this wilderness everyday - RIAA, Homeland Security, etc. Let's not kill off our electronic diversity!
The nature of most Baysean filters (POPFile being the one I'm most familiar with) will tend to develop it's own black-list over time. A real black-list would help cut down on the processor and bandwidth that spam wastes - but in my experience black-lists are much harder to maintain than my POPFile corpuses (corpi?).
I get the same thing when closing a web project. A non-web project seems to work fine. It has never seemed to do any harm, so I stopped worrying about it.
When you are 40, and all you do every day is come in to work, grind away for the corporation, go home too exhausted to play with legos or anything else is when you really have to step back and take a long hard look at your life.
I disagree with the slant of this article - to make a smurf-programming language just for kids. If anything, programming today is far more accessible than it was on my old Kaypro. Give kids the opportunity to experiment and teach them how to learn - the rest will take care of itself.
Try talking first. You said:
You like your job, it provides great satisfaction.
That is worth making an effort to preserve. If there is a manager or boss you can talk to openly about your issues then try that first. If there is no such person, then I would question it being a good place to work. Certainly a walk-out would have no other effect than to land you among the unemployed.
Forget _Neuromancer_, IMHO _The Secret Agent_ by Joseph Conrad is the first cyber-punk novel. Written early in the 1900's I believe. Excellent read! (Here is a little about it: The Secret Agent.) It's got conspiracy, terrorism, p0rn - what else do you need?
From the article:
Walker's goal right now is getting the federal government to spend $40 million to build prototype to see if the idea works.
How is "success" going to be determined? Like the rock that keeps the tigers away?
The problem is that we have no vigourous leadership, no vision of where we ought to go or what we ought to do. Apollo succeeded not only because of cold-war pressures, but because there was a goal and a deadline.
We need a national or world leader to step in and challenge us to achieve the impossible.
Seems like it would be better to flash other users with the appropriate warnings/status:
Alert: Female, 105lbs approaching extreme gullibility...
Warning: Male, 320lbs getting surly...
want to be called "sons of the south", but it ain't gonna' happen...
to [attempt to] quote a Simpson's episode...
Right after Graham's article I started in on my own implementation- with similar results: it very quickly starts catching spam and no false positives so far (that I've noticed anyway). I'm using VB and an access database- right now it seems snappy enough but I have worries it'll bog down when the DB gets too big. But it's working good enough for me as-is. Code and binaries are at joeemail.sourceforge.net.