all of which are packed with enterprisey features. But you may have to learn some stats. Once you get past what you can do with the pre-packaged stats methods, then head for R, or write a RapidMiner plugin in python.
at which time various rights and entitlements of the common people were expressed. This move to prosecute p2p software writers is clearly an attack at the basic rights that were enshrined in law at that time. Kdawson is clearly a philosopher and post-renaissance man.
I remember way back when my student friends started playing the original Essex MUD. Some of them would hog two or more terminals in the computer centre in order to play multiple characters. At around 17:45 they would start keyboard mashing just to get a login on the Essex system (MUD was only available after 18:00, and there was a player limit). They would have to have certain terminals since they had more programmable function keys, and they would program the function keys for swift escapes or rapid fighting moves. These guys would then play until the small hours.
Today it's World of Warcrack. Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose.
Note that 5 and 6 are only less of a threat if compiled with a compiler for which you have the source code. But hold on, how do you compile your compiler? You better do it by hand:
Seven hundred?!?! Microsoft had a web page where you could put in your client requirements and they would tell you how many Win 2003 TS machines you would need to support these clients. I don't think we ever got it down to fewer than 10 users per server - how did you manage 700?
Currently we have four servers for about forty seats in our labs. They don't get much usage, and people don't seem to notice they're sharing a machine with the other 10 people on that row of the lab.
I'd give thin clients to everyone, but then someone in an office of their own will tell us they really need Skype, and they really need a web camera... I suppose these things could be connected to a thin client and forwarded over USB, but it's not something we've tried...
The other show-stopper is where users need admin rights for particular software. It does still seem to happen, mostly with big important pieces of software like our finance system or student records management. It may just be it needs to write to the C: drive so we could bodge it with access rights, but we don't want to screw up the installation so the user gets admin rights. Now, could we do that on a shared Windows 2003 TS box? I don't think so. With VM tech we could give them a VM of their own to play with though...
VM tech has also helped us deploy Linux and Windows to our labs. Previously we had say four servers running Linux and four running Windows, and if the lab session needed Windows then there were four Linux servers sitting idle, and the users crammed onto the four Windows servers. With VMs, we stick a Windows and a Linux VM on each server, then the users are more spread onto the eight servers. Win.
They don't seem to have a problem with Google putting 'Click here to import into EndNote' on Google Scholar links. Either they've got an agreement with Google or they know how much it would cost to put EndNote Ads on every Google Scholar page. I'm thinking they've paid Google something. Anyone know?
I've had Zotero isntalled for a while but I'd not got round to using it, so with all this kerfuffle on slashdot I thought I'd have a play.
So I went to google scholar and googled myself, as you do.
So I check out a few things, and use the button on the URL bar to add them to Zotero. Neat, no more fiddling with curly brackets and at-signs in my.bib files, EVAR!
And then I notice the 'Import into EndNote' links on my papers in Google Scholar. I click, thinking I'll get to save an EndNote format reference so I can reverse-engineer it and get sued, and guess what... IT IMPORTS IT INTO ZOTERO!! There's an option in Zotero to use it for RIS/Refer files, so maybe that's what the.enw file is. Anyway, I'm not sure if I set that up or if it was the default.
Now, I can well imagine the EndNote guys not being happy with that! Although I doubt there's anything they can do about it... Muahahaha.
"If you use more than your fair use policy amount, we won't charge you any more, but we may restrict how you can use your plan, depending on how often you go over your amount and by how much"
Is anyone on/. going to sign up to something so vague?
If you are refereeing a paper for a scientific journal, and the article just says 'then we crunched the numbers and the answer was 42', then the referee should reject the paper until they cite their computational methods. Otherwise the research isn't reproducible and then it's not science.
Single Transferrable Vote is what you want. Although it'll take some explaining to some of the populace. So offer alternatives.
At the voting stations, have two lines, a fast track and a slow track.
In the fast track, you get a ballot paper with the usual STV instructions - place a 1 next to your first choice candidate, a 2 in your second choice candidate, and so on until you have no more preferences between the remaining candidates.
In the slow track, a computer screen. It says "Which of these do you want to win?" and a list of candidates. The voter selects one.
Then it says "If that guy doesn't win, which of these would you like to win?" followed by a list of the remaining candidates and a further option "They're all as bad as each other".
"You do NOT need F/OSS for that. You don't NEED the best of breed to drive a car. You can do just fine in getting from Point A to Point B in a beat to shit old Honda."
Yeah, but to push an analogy your beat-to-shit old Honda only runs on Gatesoline. And only one person supplies Gatesoline. Whereas my beat-to-shit Ford only runs on Fordol. Imagine a world where every brand of car used its own brand of compatible fuel, because the manufacturers sold the cars cheap and made profit on the fuel. And you couldn't just go to any filling station and expect to find your brand. Eventually everyone would just buy the car with the most filling stations. You buy a minority car and you run the risk of running out of your brand with nowhere to fill up in sight.
That's pretty much the world of proprietary, closed source and closed standards software. Isn't it much nicer that I can pull up to any filling station and expect them to have the right fuel for my car?
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How long before google starts telling me I can't read my gmail messages :)
Have you looked at data mining solutions? Someone mentioned Pentaho already, but there's also:
Rapid Miner
Orange Data Miner
all of which are packed with enterprisey features. But you may have to learn some stats. Once you get past what you can do with the pre-packaged stats methods, then head for R, or write a RapidMiner plugin in python.
I use a 35mm film canister for the SD cards I use for photography.
Can we not now flood the collector site with endless bogus twitter auths? I imagine it's probably already slashdotted anyway...
Does it use the ESE Open Standard Coffee Pods though?
http://www.1stincoffee.com/illy-pods.htm
Can we now blitz the collecting server with millions of bogus account records? Enough to make it not worthwhile trying them to find the good ones?
I thought the mice were experimenting on us?
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Can you ramp this up to produce a solar-powered crematorium?
CM != Customer Management. Next time find out what the article is about before posting.
kdawson is clearly referring to The Age of Enlightenment:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Enlightenment
at which time various rights and entitlements of the common people were expressed. This move to prosecute p2p software writers is clearly an attack at the basic rights that were enshrined in law at that time. Kdawson is clearly a philosopher and post-renaissance man.
Or he fucked up.
Yeah. Did you read The Guardian article (actually The Observer)? It's dated June 22nd. Of 2003. Two Thousand And THREE.
I fixed your typo:
"From what they've said so far, Windows Azure is just Microsoft hosing your applications on their distributed network."
Beatles fans might find Alan Pollack's notes on every Beatles song ever very interesting. Try his comments on Hard Days Night
"the elimination of projects including Wikipedia, CNN's iReport, and much of the blogosphere"
how come this hasn't been tagged with "and nothing of value was lost"....
I remember way back when my student friends started playing the original Essex MUD. Some of them would hog two or more terminals in the computer centre in order to play multiple characters. At around 17:45 they would start keyboard mashing just to get a login on the Essex system (MUD was only available after 18:00, and there was a player limit). They would have to have certain terminals since they had more programmable function keys, and they would program the function keys for swift escapes or rapid fighting moves. These guys would then play until the small hours.
Today it's World of Warcrack. Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose.
Note that 5 and 6 are only less of a threat if compiled with a compiler for which you have the source code. But hold on, how do you compile your compiler? You better do it by hand:
http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/puramu/ken-thompson-and-the-selfreferencing-c-compiler-16142
Seven hundred?!?! Microsoft had a web page where you could put in your client requirements and they would tell you how many Win 2003 TS machines you would need to support these clients. I don't think we ever got it down to fewer than 10 users per server - how did you manage 700?
Currently we have four servers for about forty seats in our labs. They don't get much usage, and people don't seem to notice they're sharing a machine with the other 10 people on that row of the lab.
I'd give thin clients to everyone, but then someone in an office of their own will tell us they really need Skype, and they really need a web camera... I suppose these things could be connected to a thin client and forwarded over USB, but it's not something we've tried...
The other show-stopper is where users need admin rights for particular software. It does still seem to happen, mostly with big important pieces of software like our finance system or student records management. It may just be it needs to write to the C: drive so we could bodge it with access rights, but we don't want to screw up the installation so the user gets admin rights. Now, could we do that on a shared Windows 2003 TS box? I don't think so. With VM tech we could give them a VM of their own to play with though...
VM tech has also helped us deploy Linux and Windows to our labs. Previously we had say four servers running Linux and four running Windows, and if the lab session needed Windows then there were four Linux servers sitting idle, and the users crammed onto the four Windows servers. With VMs, we stick a Windows and a Linux VM on each server, then the users are more spread onto the eight servers. Win.
They can hire 10 people with 6 months Android experience instead...
They don't seem to have a problem with Google putting 'Click here to import into EndNote' on Google Scholar links. Either they've got an agreement with Google or they know how much it would cost to put EndNote Ads on every Google Scholar page. I'm thinking they've paid Google something. Anyone know?
I've had Zotero isntalled for a while but I'd not got round to using it, so with all this kerfuffle on slashdot I thought I'd have a play.
So I went to google scholar and googled myself, as you do.
So I check out a few things, and use the button on the URL bar to add them to Zotero. Neat, no more fiddling with curly brackets and at-signs in my .bib files, EVAR!
And then I notice the 'Import into EndNote' links on my papers in Google Scholar. I click, thinking I'll get to save an EndNote format reference so I can reverse-engineer it and get sued, and guess what... IT IMPORTS IT INTO ZOTERO!! There's an option in Zotero to use it for RIS/Refer files, so maybe that's what the .enw file is. Anyway, I'm not sure if I set that up or if it was the default.
Now, I can well imagine the EndNote guys not being happy with that! Although I doubt there's anything they can do about it... Muahahaha.
Hey! Our banks are f**king up as much as your banks! Besides, after the next set of elections you might have Obama and we'll have David Cameron...
"If you use more than your fair use policy amount, we won't charge you any more, but we may restrict how you can use your plan, depending on how often you go over your amount and by how much"
Is anyone on /. going to sign up to something so vague?
If you are refereeing a paper for a scientific journal, and the article just says 'then we crunched the numbers and the answer was 42', then the referee should reject the paper until they cite their computational methods. Otherwise the research isn't reproducible and then it's not science.
Single Transferrable Vote is what you want. Although it'll take some explaining to some of the populace. So offer alternatives.
At the voting stations, have two lines, a fast track and a slow track.
In the fast track, you get a ballot paper with the usual STV instructions - place a 1 next to your first choice candidate, a 2 in your second choice candidate, and so on until you have no more preferences between the remaining candidates.
In the slow track, a computer screen. It says "Which of these do you want to win?" and a list of candidates. The voter selects one.
Then it says "If that guy doesn't win, which of these would you like to win?" followed by a list of the remaining candidates and a further option "They're all as bad as each other".
"You do NOT need F/OSS for that. You don't NEED the best of breed to drive a car. You can do just fine in getting from Point A to Point B in a beat to shit old Honda."
Yeah, but to push an analogy your beat-to-shit old Honda only runs on Gatesoline. And only one person supplies Gatesoline. Whereas my beat-to-shit Ford only runs on Fordol. Imagine a world where every brand of car used its own brand of compatible fuel, because the manufacturers sold the cars cheap and made profit on the fuel. And you couldn't just go to any filling station and expect to find your brand. Eventually everyone would just buy the car with the most filling stations. You buy a minority car and you run the risk of running out of your brand with nowhere to fill up in sight.
That's pretty much the world of proprietary, closed source and closed standards software. Isn't it much nicer that I can pull up to any filling station and expect them to have the right fuel for my car?