My (3) kids like Virtual Boy. They'll put it away for a few months and then remember it, shove aside the super nintendo, put away nintendo 64, trip over the two gameboys and set it up again for a few days.
I have almost zero depth perception, so I never really saw the attraction.
P2P isn't a revolution, its just another overhyped buzzword, being oversold to zealous people. Money is being dumped into anything that even remotely sounds "peerish". JP Morgan back in the 20's (or earlier?) said something like "once the shoe shine boys and taxicab drivers start talking about stocks, its time to get out"...well, even my 8 year old knows about dot bombs, and P2P is next.
Two examples that make your case. 1) Internet RFCs, keeping (network) commerce and business flowing. The RFCs will undoubtedly go down as one of the most successful collections of standards ever (IMHO of course). Now take ANSI SQL. Implemented haphazardly by various independent self serving organizations. ANSI SQL does not drive interoperability between platforms except at the simplest level.
I've taken (far too) many engineering classes, several of which were "distance learning" classes delivered on video tape, with tests administered by snail mail. I did all the required stuff, asked a few questions by email, and that was it. I would say that this type of format is 50% as effective as traditional classroom format.
Don't get me wrong, I'll browse every online offering from MIT, it will probably be fascinating, and I'll probably learn something. But IMHO this is *not* the way formal education should be delivered.
A few weeks ago there was an episode of The Lone Gunmen that I really enjoyed. They were searching for the magical car engine that ran on water. The Evil Nemesis (tm) was of course from the oil company. During part of the climactic speech, he said that basically "great, a car that runs on water....but you *still* need oil for lubricating, making plastics, making roads Hahahahahaha!(evil laughter)" and I immediately drew the parallel to the software industry.
I'm basically a web developer now, 3 tier, database, middleware, webserver. Any or all of those tools could be free or $$$ depending on which group of developers in my office you talk to (ie. some want MySQL, some want Sybase....Apache vs IIS, etc) but the costs incurred with those choices are incidental to the hardware, the development time, testing, deployment, help desk support, training, documentation, etc. I'll bet if we were 100% LAMPS, it would save us less than 10% (but I'll still try:))
I want to be in that line of people getting this CD first, but only to help the reverse engineering. If (as another/. poster asserts) this CD won't play in a CDROM, then it seems (IANAL) that this would be legal reverse engineering for interoperability.
So, my question is...What are the "best in class" linux CD audio tools that would be a good base for working on this (cdparanoia springs to mind)? What is the ISO designator for the format of CD audio?
Eventually, people (hopefully) will produced "well formed" (X)HTML documents, all tags properly nested, all attributes quoted, all tags opened and closed, etc.
When that is done, the "well formed" page can be read by an XML parser and transformed. This would allow people to develop XSL templates that can "eat" the offending web page and output only the parts you want. I can see someday that a smarter browser/agent will allow me to right click on a component of a web page, understand its context and let me "delete" it from the rendering. This would produce a unique XSL document that would be cached for the next time I visit the ad laden page.
Of course this is based on someone elses well formed input, and that ain't gonna happen anytime soon.
Speaking as someone with exceptionally crappy vision, I don't think this is going to work as well as people think. Vision is not just about the optics, its also the processing. And I once had an interesting related experience.
I have one good eye and one not so good eye, so norally 95% of my vision is with my good eye. Working on my car I got a piece of rust in the good eye and it was subsequently bandaged for a week. The strangest things happened...I really could see fine but the processing of the info was terrible, especially at first...my judgement of position and velocity was way off, and this was NOT due to a lack of depth perception, as I can operate with just my good eye fine.
The most startling occurrence was when I was later brave enough to drive and I was behind a car on the highway. His brake lights came on, in a flash I knew he was stopping but with only my bad eye, not used to processing this kind of info, I couldn't determine how quickly he was decelerating, tapping his brakes or jamming them. I panicked and ripped the bandage off my other eye and instantly I "understood" how everything was moving around me.
New optics would be great, but I guess I really want a CPU upgrade:)
I've always thought that SPC would be useful for scheduling appointments in doctors office. The goal is clearly to predict the duration of each visit in order to schedule appropriately, and this is basically a random process that needs to be monitored.
Good variables might be the error in the start time of the exam (Visit_planned - Visit_actual) as well as the duration (probably track the type of visit with the duration since certain types of visits probably always take longer)
Then produce standard Xbar, R SPC charts and use them to adjust patient scheduling.
A few weeks ago I heard on the news that a local city spent $11M last year replacing worn out high school textbooks and I thought, "boy, wouldn't opensource textbooks be a great idea?"
In particular I thought that elementary or middle school math books might be a perfect candidate. Math concepts don't change wildly, and the structure seems pretty straightforward...concept, examples, problems...
I even started working on an XML DTD to define this.
The lawyers cite statistics showing that just 2.6 percent of Microsoft's approximately 22,000 employees, and just 1.6 percent of its 5,155 managers, are black...
the very first thing that popped into my head was...what are the actual race demographics in the Redmond area? I mean, if the pool of employable minorities in the local area is 1%, then Microsoft should be lauded, not sued!
I'm definitely spoiled rotten by the state of commodity PC hardware. I take it very much for granted that I have a vast choice of motherboards and processors to choose from.
I'm also PPC-clueless. Can you talk briefly about the current state of PPC hardware? (availability, capability, price, future roadmap)
Doesn't this just *scream* that we should be helping Project Gutenberg somehow? I've browsed some of the Gutenberg texts and I know they are intentionally formatted for the lowest common denominator (ie. plain ASCII).
I see 4 programs at freshmeat for Gutenberg front ends. Are any of these widely adopted? This seems like an ideal candidate for XML. A DTD to define structure and XSL for presentation...hmmmmm
Oh for crying out glayvin...."we" use everything that you do. Everything...NT, 2000, 98, 95, DOS, Linux, solaris, Irix, AIX, HP-UX and thats all within sight of my office!
What makes you think we're any different than a very large corporation? We are not one giant monolithic organization. We have well run firewalled networks...we have isolated networks...we have public webservers and database servers. Some I don't doubt will be defaced, others I have confidence that they are basically impenetrable.
We have smart users that can setup their own systems, and we have some of the stupidest users you've ever seen (I got 3 trouble calls from one person for the same printer in 10 minutes... out of paper, offline, and then he printed to a printer 10 feet away and couldn't find the printout)
I've done my share of "screen scraping"...that new buzzword where I grab the html and apply various forms of on the fly text processing in an attempt to grab the meat of whatever content is being presented.
Remember, remote content is not under your control. It will change (often) and is very very likely to not have a nice structure, and is even more likely to contain mismatched tags and other errors.
OK, its in its infancy, but IMHO if/when XHTML is widely adopted, a special query language or tool will largely be irrelevant because most of what is alleged in that brief article could be done in the magical wonderful world of XML.
The ballot in Palm Beach was reviewed and approved by both the Democratic and Republican parties well in advance of the election. Barring out and out fraud, should we redo the whole county/state because of a particularly high density of stupid people?
I work for $Government_Lab and, yes we do spend a lot of money on closed source stuff. We have been pretty much mandated to use MS for most of the general and administrative processing. The driving force behind that is interoperability. Fully 80% (and I'm being conservative) of our staff scientists and engineers, while very smart at their particular line of work, are *not* consummate geeks who are able to build/install a new kernel on a whim. We need a reasonable baseline of OS/applications in order to exchange the documents that allow us to get our jobs done. This consist primarily of Word documents and Power Point presentations.
Now, that being said, wherever possible we do get involved in Open Source computing whenever its realistic to do so from an overall perspective. Bruce Perens even came to our site to lecture on the topic (and it was great! Thanks Bruce!!) We recently migrated an important database application from HP/UX to NT, and we seriously considered hosting it on linux. In fact, our tests showed that the db (Sybase) was clearly faster on linux than NT, yet we chose NT. Why? Simple...there are about 25 people in our group capable of learning how to administer an NT box in a reasonable amount of time, there are about 4 or 5 available who have a reasonable background in *nix. It was purely a business tradeoff. As another example, we have many people looking into Beowulf clusters running linux, because that is the appropriate tool for the job.
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My (3) kids like Virtual Boy. They'll put it away for a few months and then remember it, shove aside the super nintendo, put away nintendo 64, trip over the two gameboys and set it up again for a few days.
I have almost zero depth perception, so I never really saw the attraction.
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P2P isn't a revolution, its just another overhyped buzzword, being oversold to zealous people. Money is being dumped into anything that even remotely sounds "peerish". JP Morgan back in the 20's (or earlier?) said something like "once the shoe shine boys and taxicab drivers start talking about stocks, its time to get out"...well, even my 8 year old knows about dot bombs, and P2P is next.
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....but ain't it sad that I am more interested in the Lamborghini than the hot blondes? [ Caution - mid life crisis approaching! ]
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Two examples that make your case. 1) Internet RFCs, keeping (network) commerce and business flowing. The RFCs will undoubtedly go down as one of the most successful collections of standards ever (IMHO of course). Now take ANSI SQL. Implemented haphazardly by various independent self serving organizations. ANSI SQL does not drive interoperability between platforms except at the simplest level.
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Anyone have any cool ideas for an educational game? 3D Zoombeanies? A FPS Algebra tutorial?
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Don't get me wrong, I'll browse every online offering from MIT, it will probably be fascinating, and I'll probably learn something. But IMHO this is *not* the way formal education should be delivered.
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I'm basically a web developer now, 3 tier, database, middleware, webserver. Any or all of those tools could be free or $$$ depending on which group of developers in my office you talk to (ie. some want MySQL, some want Sybase....Apache vs IIS, etc) but the costs incurred with those choices are incidental to the hardware, the development time, testing, deployment, help desk support, training, documentation, etc. I'll bet if we were 100% LAMPS, it would save us less than 10% (but I'll still try :))
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So, my question is...What are the "best in class" linux CD audio tools that would be a good base for working on this (cdparanoia springs to mind)? What is the ISO designator for the format of CD audio?
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When that is done, the "well formed" page can be read by an XML parser and transformed. This would allow people to develop XSL templates that can "eat" the offending web page and output only the parts you want. I can see someday that a smarter browser/agent will allow me to right click on a component of a web page, understand its context and let me "delete" it from the rendering. This would produce a unique XSL document that would be cached for the next time I visit the ad laden page.
Of course this is based on someone elses well formed input, and that ain't gonna happen anytime soon.
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I have one good eye and one not so good eye, so norally 95% of my vision is with my good eye. Working on my car I got a piece of rust in the good eye and it was subsequently bandaged for a week. The strangest things happened...I really could see fine but the processing of the info was terrible, especially at first...my judgement of position and velocity was way off, and this was NOT due to a lack of depth perception, as I can operate with just my good eye fine.
The most startling occurrence was when I was later brave enough to drive and I was behind a car on the highway. His brake lights came on, in a flash I knew he was stopping but with only my bad eye, not used to processing this kind of info, I couldn't determine how quickly he was decelerating, tapping his brakes or jamming them. I panicked and ripped the bandage off my other eye and instantly I "understood" how everything was moving around me.
New optics would be great, but I guess I really want a CPU upgrade :)
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Good variables might be the error in the start time of the exam (Visit_planned - Visit_actual) as well as the duration (probably track the type of visit with the duration since certain types of visits probably always take longer)
Then produce standard Xbar, R SPC charts and use them to adjust patient scheduling.
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SPC isn't just for machine shops :)
I don't know which actually was developed first, but I used webcrawler long before I used altavista.
In particular I thought that elementary or middle school math books might be a perfect candidate. Math concepts don't change wildly, and the structure seems pretty straightforward...concept, examples, problems... I even started working on an XML DTD to define this.
Anyone else think this might be useful?
The lawyers cite statistics showing that just 2.6 percent of Microsoft's approximately 22,000 employees, and just 1.6 percent of its 5,155 managers, are black...
the very first thing that popped into my head was...what are the actual race demographics in the Redmond area? I mean, if the pool of employable minorities in the local area is 1%, then Microsoft should be lauded, not sued!
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I'm also PPC-clueless. Can you talk briefly about the current state of PPC hardware? (availability, capability, price, future roadmap)
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You may be thinking of the high school girl that won the $100k Intel Science Talent Search. Read about it here.
I see 4 programs at freshmeat for Gutenberg front ends. Are any of these widely adopted? This seems like an ideal candidate for XML. A DTD to define structure and XSL for presentation...hmmmmm
What makes you think we're any different than a very large corporation? We are not one giant monolithic organization. We have well run firewalled networks...we have isolated networks...we have public webservers and database servers. Some I don't doubt will be defaced, others I have confidence that they are basically impenetrable.
We have smart users that can setup their own systems, and we have some of the stupidest users you've ever seen (I got 3 trouble calls from one person for the same printer in 10 minutes... out of paper, offline, and then he printed to a printer 10 feet away and couldn't find the printout)
Remember, remote content is not under your control. It will change (often) and is very very likely to not have a nice structure, and is even more likely to contain mismatched tags and other errors.
OK, its in its infancy, but IMHO if/when XHTML is widely adopted, a special query language or tool will largely be irrelevant because most of what is alleged in that brief article could be done in the magical wonderful world of XML.
The ballot in Palm Beach was reviewed and approved by both the Democratic and Republican parties well in advance of the election. Barring out and out fraud, should we redo the whole county/state because of a particularly high density of stupid people?
Now, that being said, wherever possible we do get involved in Open Source computing whenever its realistic to do so from an overall perspective. Bruce Perens even came to our site to lecture on the topic (and it was great! Thanks Bruce!!) We recently migrated an important database application from HP/UX to NT, and we seriously considered hosting it on linux. In fact, our tests showed that the db (Sybase) was clearly faster on linux than NT, yet we chose NT. Why? Simple...there are about 25 people in our group capable of learning how to administer an NT box in a reasonable amount of time, there are about 4 or 5 available who have a reasonable background in *nix. It was purely a business tradeoff. As another example, we have many people looking into Beowulf clusters running linux, because that is the appropriate tool for the job.
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