A fascinating article, with strong US economic bias, but nevertheless a good and fair read, until she starts saying about "Intel Inside"...choke.. splutter..
We employ occasionally, and every time we advertise the job on the net (using various sites), we get around 500-800 cv's through. (Our HR team is never larger than 2 part time) In order to deal with this sort of traffic, we always enclose a test as a mandatory component of the job. We author the test ourselves, and make sure that the questions are open-ended enough to show skills in a large set of areas that are useful for the opening. Result: 20 cvs that enclose tests, of which 60% can be discarded on first read. We have an excellent, focussed, motivated and highly skilled team.
Your team should use the opportunity to road show an internal CCM system - not just for IT, but for procedures and operations. You will need to sell the idea. But then the Management will see you as pro-active rather than reactive.
With 10 minutes work on the jpeg, it appears that there is no testing during the processing of the image, but SOLELY during the import operations (convert to ps internal format routine). The import routine can be defeated with a 3degree shear of the original image - then the image can be sheared back in again. But of course this isn't to stop counterfeiters and never was. It is to protect Adobe from new laws of responsibility.
You can obtain total control over the screen colour by using an ICC colour profile for your monitor.
It's pretty cool- unless you're calibrating at D50.
(In which case it will be rather warm, if you don't get the mild humour).
The profiles live here. /Library/ColorSync/Profiles/Displays/
I (Ben) even wrote a freely available ICC profile editor back in 1995. You can find it on this stranger's page.
Amazing. it still works. (on OS 9) - I lost all the source code, so it never got beyond beta, and it will never get to OSX. Although it was released under shareware, there used to be an accompanying note that said it is now freeware, but this guy has an old copy.
GPS, GRACE and Gravity Question
on
Gravity Map of Earth
·
· Score: 2, Insightful
Grace uses GPS for it's findings. GPS receivers use a gravity map to aid in their calculations. Does this mean that Grace can improve it's GPS signals, and iteratively improve upon it's measurements?
The European Patent Office
and the
UK Patent Office
both categorically state that "An invention is not patentable if it is:... a mathematical method... or a computer program.
Can someone please explain just which UK patent numbers apply to LZW or even better, explain how LZW circumvented the exclusion clauses.
I note that Unisys did not mention the European patent numbers in their article.
In the 'good old days' of 1997, Apple authored a list of "ten commandments" as a part of it's compatibility tech note [apple.com]. It is the seventh commandment which is particularly interesting: "VII. Thou shalt think twice about code designed strictly as copy protection." Note, that these are the the commandments that are "determined from extensive testing of our diverse software base."
Of course as soon as you choose to make allies in the music industry, you are going to have to negotiate, but one of the primary issues (mentioned so many times on slashdot that there is no point in providing links) is the question of whether we should have our liberty constrained in order to prevent us from breaking the law.
We would love to say 'No!', but then watch how many of us flaunt copyright law as a standard practice.
But also Apple was right - copyright protection is an unending waste of human resource, computer resource, comms resource, and slashdot posts!
Again and again we find that the music/video/text/etc. copyright and patent laws are incompatible with the Internet as a technology, and the Internet is not going to go away. Sorry, lawmakers, but one day soon you will have to wake up to the revolution that came from a direction you didn't expect, and then we will stop having to put kludges on top of kludges to deal with the cultural soup that we are in.
Creative minds will find a way of being able to provide a direct passage to it's audience. The huge publishing corporates are hanging onto a dying game. Monolithic software corporations are being replaced by interoperability standards.
More or less exactly what I envisioned when I posted the suggestion. It even got an article on slashdot!
Funny that a typical slashdot response is "Man, like, he tied the transistor bases together on the butterfly -fnah- Like that won't work, dude." -- completely right, but possibly missing the point.
I bet that it gave you a lot of ideas about how to improve your writing as well, no?
Put the whole thing online. Ask people to read it, and provide them the ability to post comments, including alternative renderings, page by page! They have to follow the rule of positive criticism (They must provide an argument for why their alternative rendering is 'better').
Then you can have all the editors you want! You could have forty pages of editorial credits! That's pretty high tech, possibly unprecedented! Good reason for additional PR.
Bet you won't do it, because your too precious about making money!
Hey, how about you give this novel to the internet, see what the response is, get famous for authoring the first(?) non-hypertext opensource novel!
Once you are famous, then you can get rich, if you get a good agent!
In the 'good old days' of 1997, Apple authored a list of "ten commandments" as a part of it's compatibility tech note. It is the seventh commandment which is particularly interesting: "VII. Thou shalt think twice about code designed strictly as copy protection." Note, that these are the the commandments that are "determined from extensive testing of our diverse software base."
Of course as soon as you choose to make allies in the music industry, you are going to have to negotiate, but one of the primary issues (mentioned so many times on slashdot that there is no point in providing links) is the question of whether we should have our liberty constrained in order to prevent us from breaking the law.
We would love to say 'No!', but then watch how many of us flaunt copyright law as a standard practice.
But also Apple was right - copyright protection is an unending waste of human resource, computer resource, comms resource, and slashdot posts!
Again and again we find that the music/video/text/etc. copyright and patent laws are incompatible with the Internet as a technology, and the Internet is not going to go away. Sorry, lawmakers, but one day soon you will have to wake up to the revolution that came from a direction you didn't expect, and then we will stop having to put kludges on top of kludges to deal with the cultural soup that we are in.
Creative minds will find a way of being able to provide a direct passage to it's audience. The huge publishing corporates are hanging onto a dying game. Monolithic software corporations are being replaced by interoperability standards.
It's pretty easy to come up with an arbitrary list of cool science websites, considering there are in excess of 3,083,324,652 pages on the web nowadays.
But in my opinion, cutting science news sites have to have the edge, and there are times when science on slashdot is not as fast as the news on eureka alert or for that matter, the science and tech areas of the bbc news site. Of course, Nature has had a leading role for scientists in the news area for years. But I guess that there are as many favourite groups of science sites as there are readers of science sites! (Can such a conjecture be proved, though?)
The BBC recently also authored an article about a scientific study, that 'proves' the non-existence of ghosts. The issue over rebirth/reincarnation will remain open for a while, regardless of our individual or societal 'scientific' views because, simply put, the realms of life after death fall outside empirical science. 1) It cannot be proved or disproved, and 2) It isn't redundant, so Ockham's razor cannot be applied. 3) Lack of evidence is not proof of non-existence. It is easy to see from a hard science view that the disbelief of rebirth/reincarnation is as superstitious as the belief in it. Of course, the final remark "Doubt everything. Find your own light." is a demonstration of the supreme levels of profundity that Buddha taught. This is also an appropriate quote for those Buddhists who believe that their own school/sect/club' has some sort of monopoly on Buddhist truth.
Readings from sutra point to a basic assertion that in essence, truth belongs to logic, logic belongs to language, language is limited (e.g. explaining the taste of salt cannot convey the experience), and that's all there is to it. Buddhism is 'post-structuralist' - and it's ideas are 'post-wittgenstein'
A difficulty that some Buddhists find with an article like the one authored by the BBC here is that it makes assumptions about what it is to be a Buddhist.
Goronguer fails to mention that the SGI is an exclusivist sect of Buddhism, in that it repudiates all other Buddhist movements. This sort of sectarianism is non-buddhist by nature, and is damaging to mental development. Secondly, groups like SGI engage in another, non-Buddhist behaviour- that of socio-political evangelism, (which of course follows as a necessary activity for any organisation that believes it has a monopoly on truth).
Regardless, It is a good idea to follow Buddha's own advice- Don't trust authority for authorities sake, but work things out for yourself. Buddhism promotes discriminating awareness, so it encourages the individual to break the mould and 'think different'. Personal experience (as a practicing Buddhist of 30 years) suggests that meditation based upon removing what are known as 'self-grasping' and 'self-cherishing' (which actually includes any form of self-based attention, including self-hatred) does decrease unhappiness, and increase happiness.
Moreover, the promotion of acceptance of full responsibility for the world plays an important part in the construction of one's identity as a Buddhist, in that our ambitions become purposed for the benefit of all, rather than merely for the benefit of self, the family, the state, or humankind.
So, okay, they take a picture of your number plate. Then what? It means that GLA (London Authority) now has access to the numberplate database currently kept private by the DVLA (only the Police and Military have access to that at the moment). So it is an invasion of privacy- the more people who have access to the information, the more the chance of leaks. This sort of problem is the same with ID cards. It's not the card, but the database required to maintain them which is the problem. However, London has a major roads crisis. Loads of people commute to work. The underground is overcrowded and badly run, the buses are a terrible service, life expectancy for cyclists is low. Walking is a good option if you don't have to travel far, and don't mind breathing really bad air. Maybe it is time to look at decentralised office networks. The technology has been around a while...
The convention is about war, not riots. It is recognised that riot control agents serve a use for police forces for that purpose alone.
IMHO, I would prefer to slip up on slime (a solely topical agent) than to be subject to tear gas (a topical AND systemic agent), or for that matter the 'bad smell' stuff that is being brewed, or sound that makes you s**t yourself.
Blish (and many others) have the ansible, and use it.. One of his novels has an early version of it.
But LeGuin also has an ansible (and her inventor is Shevek - a good geek if there ever was one).
But which author (maybe others) actually invented the ansible?
Given that one -could- teleport animate matter (e.g. Spock) using some technology derived from quantum entangling, surely it is imperative that the matter to be teleported be kept at near-zero kelvin, otherwise you are talking about a load of mush at the other end. I love the idea of telling nearly every particle to "Keep still while we transport you!"
I seem to remember hearing that the WTC towers were constructed with large amounts of asbestos. (Apparently the PA was able to circumvent environment restrictions for this project). There has certainly been some engineering work done- "ASB abate" on the towers over the last few years.
Does anyone have the details? Is there a severe asbestos risk in the area? Is the smoke and dust highly carcinogenic?
Slashdot Mirror
A fascinating article, with strong US economic bias, but nevertheless a good and fair read, until she starts saying about "Intel Inside" ...choke.. splutter..
We employ occasionally, and every time we advertise the job on the net (using various sites), we get around 500-800 cv's through. (Our HR team is never larger than 2 part time)
In order to deal with this sort of traffic, we always enclose a test as a mandatory component of the job. We author the test ourselves, and make sure that the questions are open-ended enough to show skills in a large set of areas that are useful for the opening.
Result: 20 cvs that enclose tests, of which 60% can be discarded on first read.
We have an excellent, focussed, motivated and highly skilled team.
Your team should use the opportunity to road show an internal CCM system - not just for IT, but for procedures and operations. You will need to sell the idea. But then the Management will see you as pro-active rather than reactive.
It's worth a shot.
With 10 minutes work on the jpeg, it appears that there is no testing during the processing of the image, but SOLELY during the import operations (convert to ps internal format routine).
The import routine can be defeated with a 3degree shear of the original image - then the image can be sheared back in again.
But of course this isn't to stop counterfeiters and never was. It is to protect Adobe from new laws of responsibility.
Is it me, or is there a seasonal variation on the signal/noise ratio of accepted articles on slashdot?
http://ntstream2.ddns.ehv.campus.philips.com/efi/8 6090/electro_wetting/philips.wmv
Still have a little way to go!
You can obtain total control over the screen colour by using an ICC colour profile for your monitor.
/Library/ColorSync/Profiles/Displays/
It's pretty cool- unless you're calibrating at D50. (In which case it will be rather warm, if you don't get the mild humour).
The profiles live here.
I (Ben) even wrote a freely available ICC profile editor back in 1995. You can find it on this stranger's page.
Amazing. it still works. (on OS 9) - I lost all the source code, so it never got beyond beta, and it will never get to OSX. Although it was released under shareware, there used to be an accompanying note that said it is now freeware, but this guy has an old copy.
Grace uses GPS for it's findings.
GPS receivers use a gravity map to aid in their calculations.
Does this mean that Grace can improve it's GPS signals, and iteratively improve upon it's measurements?
The European Patent Office and the UK Patent Office both categorically state that "An invention is not patentable if it is: ... a mathematical method ... or a computer program.
Can someone please explain just which UK patent numbers apply to LZW or even better, explain how LZW circumvented the exclusion clauses. I note that Unisys did not mention the European patent numbers in their article.
You may be better off switching countries.
In the 'good old days' of 1997, Apple authored a list of "ten commandments" as a part of it's compatibility tech note [apple.com]. It is the seventh commandment which is particularly interesting: "VII. Thou shalt think twice about code designed strictly as copy protection." Note, that these are the the commandments that are "determined from extensive testing of our diverse software base."
Of course as soon as you choose to make allies in the music industry, you are going to have to negotiate, but one of the primary issues (mentioned so many times on slashdot that there is no point in providing links) is the question of whether we should have our liberty constrained in order to prevent us from breaking the law.
We would love to say 'No!', but then watch how many of us flaunt copyright law as a standard practice.
But also Apple was right - copyright protection is an unending waste of human resource, computer resource, comms resource, and slashdot posts!
Again and again we find that the music/video/text/etc. copyright and patent laws are incompatible with the Internet as a technology, and the Internet is not going to go away. Sorry, lawmakers, but one day soon you will have to wake up to the revolution that came from a direction you didn't expect, and then we will stop having to put kludges on top of kludges to deal with the cultural soup that we are in.
Creative minds will find a way of being able to provide a direct passage to it's audience. The huge publishing corporates are hanging onto a dying game. Monolithic software corporations are being replaced by interoperability standards.
Apple, Listen! Remember! Think different!
Ah - so it finds people in the locale who use MS Windows? Don't know who wants to know that ;-)
Pretty cool! One for localroger!
More or less exactly what I envisioned when I posted the suggestion. It even got an article on slashdot!
Funny that a typical slashdot response is "Man, like, he tied the transistor bases together on the butterfly -fnah- Like that won't work, dude." -- completely right, but possibly missing the point.
I bet that it gave you a lot of ideas about how to improve your writing as well, no?
Put the whole thing online.
Ask people to read it, and provide them the ability to post comments, including alternative renderings, page by page! They have to follow the rule of positive criticism (They must provide an argument for why their alternative rendering is 'better').
Then you can have all the editors you want! You could have forty pages of editorial credits! That's pretty high tech, possibly unprecedented! Good reason for additional PR.
Bet you won't do it, because your too precious about making money!
Hey, how about you give this novel to the internet, see what the response is, get famous for authoring the first(?) non-hypertext opensource novel!
Once you are famous, then you can get rich, if you get a good agent!
In the 'good old days' of 1997, Apple authored a list of "ten commandments" as a part of it's compatibility tech note. It is the seventh commandment which is particularly interesting: "VII. Thou shalt think twice about code designed strictly as copy protection." Note, that these are the the commandments that are "determined from extensive testing of our diverse software base."
Of course as soon as you choose to make allies in the music industry, you are going to have to negotiate, but one of the primary issues (mentioned so many times on slashdot that there is no point in providing links) is the question of whether we should have our liberty constrained in order to prevent us from breaking the law.
We would love to say 'No!', but then watch how many of us flaunt copyright law as a standard practice.
But also Apple was right - copyright protection is an unending waste of human resource, computer resource, comms resource, and slashdot posts!
Again and again we find that the music/video/text/etc. copyright and patent laws are incompatible with the Internet as a technology, and the Internet is not going to go away. Sorry, lawmakers, but one day soon you will have to wake up to the revolution that came from a direction you didn't expect, and then we will stop having to put kludges on top of kludges to deal with the cultural soup that we are in.
Creative minds will find a way of being able to provide a direct passage to it's audience. The huge publishing corporates are hanging onto a dying game. Monolithic software corporations are being replaced by interoperability standards.
Apple, Listen! Remember! Think different!
It's pretty easy to come up with an arbitrary list of cool science websites, considering there are in excess of 3,083,324,652 pages on the web nowadays.
But in my opinion, cutting science news sites have to have the edge, and there are times when science on slashdot is not as fast as the news on eureka alert or for that matter, the science and tech areas of the bbc news site. Of course, Nature has had a leading role for scientists in the news area for years.
But I guess that there are as many favourite groups of science sites as there are readers of science sites! (Can such a conjecture be proved, though?)
The BBC recently also authored an article about a scientific study, that 'proves' the non-existence of ghosts.
The issue over rebirth/reincarnation will remain open for a while, regardless of our individual or societal 'scientific' views because, simply put, the realms of life after death fall outside empirical science.
1) It cannot be proved or disproved, and
2) It isn't redundant, so Ockham's razor cannot be applied.
3) Lack of evidence is not proof of non-existence.
It is easy to see from a hard science view that the disbelief of rebirth/reincarnation is as superstitious as the belief in it.
Of course, the final remark "Doubt everything. Find your own light." is a demonstration of the supreme levels of profundity that Buddha taught. This is also an appropriate quote for those Buddhists who believe that their own school/sect/club' has some sort of monopoly on Buddhist truth.
Readings from sutra point to a basic assertion that in essence, truth belongs to logic, logic belongs to language, language is limited (e.g. explaining the taste of salt cannot convey the experience), and that's all there is to it. Buddhism is 'post-structuralist' - and it's ideas are 'post-wittgenstein'
A difficulty that some Buddhists find with an article like the one authored by the BBC here is that it makes assumptions about what it is to be a Buddhist.
Goronguer fails to mention that the SGI is an exclusivist sect of Buddhism, in that it repudiates all other Buddhist movements. This sort of sectarianism is non-buddhist by nature, and is damaging to mental development.
Secondly, groups like SGI engage in another, non-Buddhist behaviour- that of socio-political evangelism, (which of course follows as a necessary activity for any organisation that believes it has a monopoly on truth).
Regardless, It is a good idea to follow Buddha's own advice- Don't trust authority for authorities sake, but work things out for yourself. Buddhism promotes discriminating awareness, so it encourages the individual to break the mould and 'think different'. Personal experience (as a practicing Buddhist of 30 years) suggests that meditation based upon removing what are known as 'self-grasping' and 'self-cherishing' (which actually includes any form of self-based attention, including self-hatred) does decrease unhappiness, and increase happiness.
Moreover, the promotion of acceptance of full responsibility for the world plays an important part in the construction of one's identity as a Buddhist, in that our ambitions become purposed for the benefit of all, rather than merely for the benefit of self, the family, the state, or humankind.
So, okay, they take a picture of your number plate. Then what? It means that GLA (London Authority) now has access to the numberplate database currently kept private by the DVLA (only the Police and Military have access to that at the moment). So it is an invasion of privacy- the more people who have access to the information, the more the chance of leaks. This sort of problem is the same with ID cards. It's not the card, but the database required to maintain them which is the problem.
However, London has a major roads crisis. Loads of people commute to work. The underground is overcrowded and badly run, the buses are a terrible service, life expectancy for cyclists is low. Walking is a good option if you don't have to travel far, and don't mind breathing really bad air.
Maybe it is time to look at decentralised office networks. The technology has been around a while...
The convention is about war, not riots.
It is recognised that riot control agents serve a use for police forces for that purpose alone.
IMHO, I would prefer to slip up on slime (a solely topical agent) than to be subject to tear gas (a topical AND systemic agent), or for that matter the 'bad smell' stuff that is being brewed, or sound that makes you s**t yourself.
I bet it washes clean out!
Blish (and many others) have the ansible, and use it.. One of his novels has an early version of it.
But LeGuin also has an ansible (and her inventor is Shevek - a good geek if there ever was one).
But which author (maybe others) actually invented the ansible?
Nice to hear from you PZ.
n CX XWnJPSJSIDEQLryACfBk+1V/edllzC84A =uBHG
So how does a government restrict access to a back door?
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Given that one -could- teleport animate matter (e.g. Spock) using some technology derived from quantum entangling, surely it is imperative that the matter to be teleported be kept at near-zero kelvin, otherwise you are talking about a load of mush at the other end. I love the idea of telling nearly every particle to "Keep still while we transport you!"
I seem to remember hearing that the WTC towers were constructed with large amounts of asbestos. (Apparently the PA was able to circumvent environment restrictions for this project).
There has certainly been some engineering work done- "ASB abate" on the towers over the last few years.
Does anyone have the details? Is there a severe asbestos risk in the area? Is the smoke and dust highly carcinogenic?