Assange and WikiLeaks compile data and organize it. That process alone will focus attention on companies and groups that there is more data on. The targets define themselves by their actions. Once enough data has been accumulated on a given target, it can be released together in an organized fashion.
The demographic already has a great deal of preconceptions about how to train a 12yo to program. My kid is only 5. Go back and edit the post to capture a stronger market demo...
NASA wants the same thing that everyone else does: for their program to encounter some phenomenon so remarkable that it captures our attention.
I suppose they could always fake up a few alien spacecraft for us all and just get the wait over with regarding staring at the sky, but that just wouldn't be sporting, would it?
In other news, deer blind owners complain about the boredom of hunting...
They can't hold off supporting it much longer. As more providers distribute phones capable of supporting features like this, they are all brought closer and closer to the line. One of them will cross it first, and then the rest will follow. Tethering will be a ubiquitous feature in another year or two, even in the US.
No, they don't like it. Yes, they will do something about it if/when they perceive it to be abused. No, it won't matter in the long run.
Propagation of this misinformation, specifically, is the reason the GPL is so misunderstood: too many people out there that think GPL is the same thing as public domain and derive a sense of entitlement from it.
Don't piss me off or I will kill you, rez you, and kill you again! O.o
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"Service Oriented Architecture"? Really? There is a buzzword for that now?
If I spent less time writing code and more time reading about the latest trends, I'd stop to realize that I've been developing SOA for years now without ever even realizing it.
Is this that moment when I'm supposed to recognize that I'm actually standing on some type of "cutting edge" because it all just sounds like another remix of disparate systems with a client that says "make it all work together"...
It is feasible that, within our lifetimes, we will see the "genius" contributions coming from AI systems, with the human element only being able to take credit for building and raising it.
Then we will have to revise our measurements again based on how quickly artificial systems are capable of making "genius" contributions, vs how slowly we ourselves are able to.
Considering the speed with which both data and medium deteriorate with age, perhaps it is not surprising that ancient civilizations continuously relied on stone carvings and other physically substantial means to record information.
Being able to create something that will last down through the ages has been one of the classic challenges to mankind.
Even if you were able to come up with a solution for preserving data integrity, there is nothing to prevent purposeful destruction by third parties. Even the library at Alexandria burned.
Unfortunately, the only information that has ever been successfully preserved involves science, and that is because we appear hard-wired to reverse engineer how the world works. It is rather difficult to forget the laws of physics when they are repeatedly proven on a daily basis.
You are a "manager", and you need to understand that you are not a "supervisor", mostly because your staff won't necessarily need supervision.
As a manager, you do not work for the company. You work for your staff. You are only PAID by the company. Your job is to make sure that THEY can do THEIR jobs. You are the liaison between your staff and the company. As such, your responsibility is to discover the needs of your staff and do what is in your power to cater to those needs in an effort to maximize the productivity of your staff.
A programmer with concerns about his pay or his vacation time, etc, is going to be much less productive. As a manager, your job is to manage that problem by finding answers and pursuing solutions to problems that exist outside of the production environment.
Think of yourself more as a "coach" who needs to train a team to be as effective as possible... because that is what you are.
Just like most programmers, you will likely be most effective at your job in ways that are virtually invisible to everyone else; your associates will only be aware of what you do when you don't do very well at it.
Keep that in mind too, and realize that your (in all likelyhood) under-appreciated staff will benefit from being recognized for doing their jobs correctly once in a while.
Just keep in mind: they don't work for you, you work for them. They work for the company. It will keep you in perspective.
Companies could just dump it all 50 miles out at sea like the US Navy does. Instead, they send it where it can be rendered back down to it's base metals for reuse. It isn't as if countries like China are simply burying it all in landfills. FTA sounds like they actively sought out rights to have it dumped on them. They get to re-use whatever raw material can be extracted. If they had more environmentally friendly disposal practices, maybe it wouldn't be so cheap for them to render it all down and they wouldn't be so eager to buy it from us when we're done with it. All I'm saying, though, is that they are not just dumping it out at sea. We can figure out something to do with the waste on land, as long as we stop contributing to problems like the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
...another year out, and we'll all be hearing about how Google got caught selling access to Advertisers for searching your online documents, not just your GMail.
The pictures shown contain various observable patterns (such as areas of darker color, that look like "nodes"). Considering that the data used in the display was based entirely on spam, it is expected that the aforementioned patterns correlate in meaningful ways. All you would need to know is the "key", or formula used to generate the image...
Navigate your Inbox via spamtree: email from existing contacts collects in bright shiney flowers, while spam becomes part of ugly growing flowers that can be "cut" and sent to the Trash folder.
Keeping your Inbox clean would be analogous in a direct way with tending a garden.
Pick your own metaphor and run with it, the concept could be taken a few places...
...won't win the popularity content. If this was a functionality contest, http://www.xaraya.com/ would be in the running. However, since Xaraya was developed with an eye for technical sophistication, not fool-proofing, I doubt it will have the visiblity to challenge the other major players.
For now, we'll all have to settle for just finding out which CMS has the most name recognition.
At the rate technology is growing, it shouldn't be too long before we can upload our music preferences (based on location, time of day, mood, time of year, etc) into an AI DJ that spontaneously creates new music that, regardless of quality, is capable of competing with the status quo. Maybe even generate lyrics on-the-fly too, with semantically gauranteed meaning (or lack thereof).
This will, of course, work out perfectly as we begin the inevitable migration off this ball of dirt. No contact with a colony with it's own rock stars, music industry, and business parasites? AI DJ covers two out of three and LET'S YOU KEEP THE LYRICS FOR FREE!
Honestly, if the music industry had the first clue, they would have taken those MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN ANNUAL REVENUE and invested it in... well, exactly the same type of sites, I'd be able to find (and BUY) the song that I can't remember the name of that I heard at the club.
If they want my friggin money that bad, have Apple just make their database searchable by lyrics.
I don't want to own a copy of the lyrics. I don't want to redistribute the lyrics. I don't want to defecate on the lyrics and roll around on them.
I just want to find the song I want and ACQUIRE IT.
All but THROWING at them the money that they keep trying to steal from me. HERE IT IS!
So, stop trying to make me pay you for the privilege of paying you, and let me listen to my damned music!
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Nothing about 40 virgins, but a floating glass palace over your old home isn't so shabby...
"... facilitate the use of rats in other search tasks such as homeland security..."
Isn't that the TSA, as-is?
...all those golfers at NASA and they couldn't avoid a sand trap? C'mon, seriously?
I was sorta hoping this was about a new Vuzix competitor...
FTA: "there may be significant benefit to the very performance of medical ritual"
For hundreds of years, "doctors" have been using magick to cast "spells" and some of them are just now waking up to the realization...
Kinda makes snake oil salesmen look honest by comparison.
Assange and WikiLeaks compile data and organize it. That process alone will focus attention on companies and groups that there is more data on. The targets define themselves by their actions. Once enough data has been accumulated on a given target, it can be released together in an organized fashion.
My Verizon Droid sees boards.4chan.com w/o any issue...
The demographic already has a great deal of preconceptions about how to train a 12yo to program. My kid is only 5. Go back and edit the post to capture a stronger market demo...
NASA wants the same thing that everyone else does: for their program to encounter some phenomenon so remarkable that it captures our attention.
I suppose they could always fake up a few alien spacecraft for us all and just get the wait over with regarding staring at the sky, but that just wouldn't be sporting, would it?
In other news, deer blind owners complain about the boredom of hunting...
Something to experience worth talking about and like-minded people to talk about it with.
Oh, and cute girls... but, really, where don't we look for those, hmmm?
They can't hold off supporting it much longer. As more providers distribute phones capable of supporting features like this, they are all brought closer and closer to the line. One of them will cross it first, and then the rest will follow. Tethering will be a ubiquitous feature in another year or two, even in the US.
No, they don't like it. Yes, they will do something about it if/when they perceive it to be abused. No, it won't matter in the long run.
Propagation of this misinformation, specifically, is the reason the GPL is so misunderstood: too many people out there that think GPL is the same thing as public domain and derive a sense of entitlement from it.
General Public License != Public Domain
Don't piss me off or I will kill you, rez you, and kill you again! O.o
"Service Oriented Architecture"? Really? There is a buzzword for that now?
If I spent less time writing code and more time reading about the latest trends, I'd stop to realize that I've been developing SOA for years now without ever even realizing it.
Is this that moment when I'm supposed to recognize that I'm actually standing on some type of "cutting edge" because it all just sounds like another remix of disparate systems with a client that says "make it all work together"...
As opposed to the hacking they will likely get as a response to trying to hide the information? Throw down the glove, why don'tcha?
It is feasible that, within our lifetimes, we will see the "genius" contributions coming from AI systems, with the human element only being able to take credit for building and raising it.
Then we will have to revise our measurements again based on how quickly artificial systems are capable of making "genius" contributions, vs how slowly we ourselves are able to.
Considering the speed with which both data and medium deteriorate with age, perhaps it is not surprising that ancient civilizations continuously relied on stone carvings and other physically substantial means to record information.
Being able to create something that will last down through the ages has been one of the classic challenges to mankind.
Even if you were able to come up with a solution for preserving data integrity, there is nothing to prevent purposeful destruction by third parties. Even the library at Alexandria burned.
Unfortunately, the only information that has ever been successfully preserved involves science, and that is because we appear hard-wired to reverse engineer how the world works. It is rather difficult to forget the laws of physics when they are repeatedly proven on a daily basis.
You are a "manager", and you need to understand that you are not a "supervisor", mostly because your staff won't necessarily need supervision.
As a manager, you do not work for the company. You work for your staff. You are only PAID by the company. Your job is to make sure that THEY can do THEIR jobs. You are the liaison between your staff and the company. As such, your responsibility is to discover the needs of your staff and do what is in your power to cater to those needs in an effort to maximize the productivity of your staff.
A programmer with concerns about his pay or his vacation time, etc, is going to be much less productive. As a manager, your job is to manage that problem by finding answers and pursuing solutions to problems that exist outside of the production environment.
Think of yourself more as a "coach" who needs to train a team to be as effective as possible... because that is what you are.
Just like most programmers, you will likely be most effective at your job in ways that are virtually invisible to everyone else; your associates will only be aware of what you do when you don't do very well at it.
Keep that in mind too, and realize that your (in all likelyhood) under-appreciated staff will benefit from being recognized for doing their jobs correctly once in a while.
Just keep in mind: they don't work for you, you work for them. They work for the company. It will keep you in perspective.
Companies could just dump it all 50 miles out at sea like the US Navy does. Instead, they send it where it can be rendered back down to it's base metals for reuse. It isn't as if countries like China are simply burying it all in landfills. FTA sounds like they actively sought out rights to have it dumped on them. They get to re-use whatever raw material can be extracted. If they had more environmentally friendly disposal practices, maybe it wouldn't be so cheap for them to render it all down and they wouldn't be so eager to buy it from us when we're done with it. All I'm saying, though, is that they are not just dumping it out at sea. We can figure out something to do with the waste on land, as long as we stop contributing to problems like the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
Regional sales vs global sales. The other three locals don't get as much int'l biz, apparently.
...another year out, and we'll all be hearing about how Google got caught selling access to Advertisers for searching your online documents, not just your GMail.
Sell me the platform, not the service.
The pictures shown contain various observable patterns (such as areas of darker color, that look like "nodes"). Considering that the data used in the display was based entirely on spam, it is expected that the aforementioned patterns correlate in meaningful ways. All you would need to know is the "key", or formula used to generate the image...
Navigate your Inbox via spamtree: email from existing contacts collects in bright shiney flowers, while spam becomes part of ugly growing flowers that can be "cut" and sent to the Trash folder.
Keeping your Inbox clean would be analogous in a direct way with tending a garden.
Pick your own metaphor and run with it, the concept could be taken a few places...
...won't win the popularity content. If this was a functionality contest, http://www.xaraya.com/ would be in the running. However, since Xaraya was developed with an eye for technical sophistication, not fool-proofing, I doubt it will have the visiblity to challenge the other major players.
For now, we'll all have to settle for just finding out which CMS has the most name recognition.
Is that what those are? Excellent! I was afraid it was VD!
At the rate technology is growing, it shouldn't be too long before we can upload our music preferences (based on location, time of day, mood, time of year, etc) into an AI DJ that spontaneously creates new music that, regardless of quality, is capable of competing with the status quo. Maybe even generate lyrics on-the-fly too, with semantically gauranteed meaning (or lack thereof).
This will, of course, work out perfectly as we begin the inevitable migration off this ball of dirt. No contact with a colony with it's own rock stars, music industry, and business parasites? AI DJ covers two out of three and LET'S YOU KEEP THE LYRICS FOR FREE!
Honestly, if the music industry had the first clue, they would have taken those MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN ANNUAL REVENUE and invested it in... well, exactly the same type of sites, I'd be able to find (and BUY) the song that I can't remember the name of that I heard at the club.
If they want my friggin money that bad, have Apple just make their database searchable by lyrics.
I don't want to own a copy of the lyrics. I don't want to redistribute the lyrics. I don't want to defecate on the lyrics and roll around on them.
I just want to find the song I want and ACQUIRE IT.
All but THROWING at them the money that they keep trying to steal from me. HERE IT IS!
So, stop trying to make me pay you for the privilege of paying you, and let me listen to my damned music!