...and it's probably being used by a bunch of French, Danish, Chinese and Portuguese. That seems to make up most of our maths department academics these days. Sometimes I'm the only English person at coffee breaktime. Luckily everyone in the world speaks really good English these days.
Not that this is a bad thing, nor is it a one-way thing (one of my English colleagues is off to a job in Chicago next week), but it illustrates that so much academic work at the top level is multi-national.
I was at a meeting last year about discussing the successor to HECTor...
The european equivalent of WAAS appears to be called 'EGNOS'. Yeah, my GPS doesn't have it. I bought it very shortly after the US switched off the SA thing and I whooped when I realised I'd get 10m resolution!
Ah maybe I wasn't clear. When I said it put me under the river I didn't mean Z-height, just that it had shifted me far enough off the path I was on to think I was in the middle of a 50-metre wide river...
Anyhow, if you look at multiple GPS traces on OSM, they look accurate to the metre, whereas my track was all over the place. Is it likely that vehicular GPS units snap their coords to their inbuilt road network? I think OSM are happy that this doesn't constitute a 'derived work' of some copyright maps, but IANAL...
I think one room was where they strapped a black box to your head and either zapped you with RF or Placebo, and the other room had a bed and an EEG for the sleep testing.
It's pretty skinny on quantitative analysis. There's some numbers, and a mention of some preliminary results from a logistic regression. Quite why they've not got some final results from the logistic regression (it doesn't take long, it's not like there's masses of data) is interesting...
I just went for a bike ride and strapped my GPS to the handlebars and set it tracking. When I got back home I cycled round my block a couple of times to get a good track, knowing that the streets aren't in OSM at the moment. I dumped the track to my PC using EasyGPS and added it to OSM using the Java JOSM client, and hit upload.
Then I looked at how the rest of my bike ride jived with the existing data. For half my ride I should have been under 20 foot of water in the local river, and for the rest of it it looked like I was bunny-hopping across a major road every few hundred metres.
My GPS is a Garmin GPS12 I bought about 8 years ago. Has GPS technology improved so much since then? It was mostly reading an EPE (estimated position error) of 5 to 10 metres.
Either people have 1-metre accurate GPS units now or everyone on OSM is tracing google maps!
Of course in a slashdot article about user-generated maps its possible that links to myminicity are relevant. I'd never heard of it (nor had I ever seen a link to it from slashdot comments) until you posted this.
I suspect an academic could currently be writing a similar article about virtual geographies - such as exist on Second Life or My Mini City
"These users have been with the company for a while, and they rarely (if ever!) delete their email from their PST files. The files continue to grow in size - let's use an average of 1 GB as the size of the PST file. Now consider that when each user launches Outlook, they make a request for two (or three) files, each of them being about 1 GB in size. Then consider what happens when 200 users all launch Outlook around the same time when they get to work. 200 x 3 x 1 = 600 GB of data being requested at the same time. "
I have one word for Microsoft on that: "Maildir"
I wouldn't want my mail client to load a 1GB file from a local disk, let alone a network one.
MS also don't recommend you put your Outlook Personal Folders on a server (or 'network drive') either, which in this case could be an "Enterprise" server...
We bought a 1TB NAS (can't remember the model) that 'supported' NFS. We had it connected to our server via ethernet, and mounted it using NFS. Ooh look, I copied a file. Ooh goody, I copied it back. Now let's copy half a terabyte of our backups onto the NAS...
Wakey wakey. Hello? Anyone in there? Oh dear it seems to have stopped after 200 megs. Try again. Pretty much the same...
We upgraded the NAS box to the latest OS, we asked the supplier who was no help. I even hacked root on the box in order to see the log files to find out what was going on. But my conclusion was that the system was built down to a price that wasn't capable of supporting some real NFS thrashing, and that they hadn't tested it. We sent it back.
These are probably fine for simple home use, but don't hammer them...
I remember using Arc/Info Version 4 in about 1990 and its routing software let you specify a 'turn impedance' at every node (junction), so that going from arc id 2 to arc id 4 would add a weight of 2.5, and going from arc id 2 to arc id 6 would add a weight of 5.6, or whatever. Each arc also has a weight for the length of time it takes to go along it, and then you just did your usual solve for minimum weight. We did this for ambulance travel times.
Nice to see Fedex have dragged themselves into the 90s.
Can I buy one with neither and how well does Ubuntu run on it?
We just bought a Sony laptop with Vista and poor techie had to spend ages upgrading it to XP... Yes, I do mean upgrading... Seems Sony don't do XP graphics drivers for this model, you have to use Win 2k ones with a modified.inf file or something...
Notice how they refer to it as 'radiation', because radiation is clearly a *bad thing*. It killed all those people in Hiroshima didn't it? Nasty.
Well, never mind that 1W of radiation coming out of your phone or Wifi router. There's maybe 100W coming out of your light bulbs (or less if you have Al Gore-compliant lightbulbs). And what's more, that radiation doesn't pass straight through you, a lot of it is intercepted by the body! I think we need a campaign to stop radiation in the 400nm to 700nm wavelength range from infecting our children! Ban it now! That, and Dihydrogen Monoxide...
Bad Science has lots of info on this and other science quackery.
Right now the US emergency services are being slashdotted by slashdotters calling 911 to see if their phones go into this mode! Go on, call 911 now and you'll hear that all the operators are busy, and would you hold while they play you some Vivaldi...
...whichever part of the corporate email system that decides to stick hard line-breaks in. At 80 columns. Our staff send emails with long URLs, people complain they can't get to the page, the link gets reposted as a tinyurl...
If the tinyurl people put a timelimit on the short link it wouldn't be so bad, since people would know it was purely temporary and so wouldn't use them in permanent situations...
Need a perl script that 'de-tiny's your web pages - goes through the HTML files, looks for tinyurls, queries to find the real target, and edits the page.... Ah, except nobody's web page is a bunch of static HTML anymore.... But you get the idea!
Wrong. Its not true that the students would give up their right to vote for some amount, its just that they _said_ they would. Given that you cannot give up your right to vote for any amount, the question is meaningless. Voting is secret for a reason - someone could pay you $1,000,000 to vote Demublican but then you go and flip the lever for the Replicrats in the booth.
Easier just to wait until after the election and pay the money to the winning party...
Yes, 1985 Series III Land Rover, packed with toggle switches! Of course last night in the cold I couldn't find the toggle switch for the interior light. No, its not activated when you open the door! If that happened, how else could you sneak into your Landy in the dark so that the enemy don't spot you!? Anyway, found that switch, then had to find the heater and the fan toggle switch... Yeah, I've not had it long enough to have done much driving on the dark or the cold...
Then there's a mysterious toggle switch on the dash that seems to do nothing. Landies are so customised that you often find odd switches that do nothing. Maybe this one used to activate the old extra front lights. Or maybe I pulled a wire out when I fixed the speedometer. Umm. Anyway, modern cars probably have touch-screens on the steering wheel for all this. Give me a toggle switch!
Angioplasty is where they stick things in your veins in order to sort them out.
A colleague of mine had a heart problem with a thin wall between two of the chambers causing oxygenated and de-oxygenated blood to mix. These things aren't uncommon and many people live with it without problem. However this guy is a scuba diver, and these heart problems can be dangerous. His doctor said 'stop diving'.
He called for a second opinion, and discovered that they can stick a cylindrical probe up your femoral artery, navigate it into your heart and expand it flat onto the heart wall, then the heart muscle will grow around it, sealing the hole. So he went through with the procedure, purely so he could carry on scuba diving, which he now does pretty much every weekend, and from seeing his photographs I can understand why (and I wish I lived somewhere I could go diving every weekend in clear water without a dry suit).
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Yes, I remember people in the meeting kept calling it 'Son Of' but had to be corrected! Oh how we laughed at political correctness gone mad!
But is the machine room it lives in called Hector's House? Its instant nostalgia for any Brit kid in his or her late 30s/early 40s I reckon.
...and it's probably being used by a bunch of French, Danish, Chinese and Portuguese. That seems to make up most of our maths department academics these days. Sometimes I'm the only English person at coffee breaktime. Luckily everyone in the world speaks really good English these days.
Not that this is a bad thing, nor is it a one-way thing (one of my English colleagues is off to a job in Chicago next week), but it illustrates that so much academic work at the top level is multi-national.
I was at a meeting last year about discussing the successor to HECTor...
The european equivalent of WAAS appears to be called 'EGNOS'. Yeah, my GPS doesn't have it. I bought it very shortly after the US switched off the SA thing and I whooped when I realised I'd get 10m resolution!
Ah maybe I wasn't clear. When I said it put me under the river I didn't mean Z-height, just that it had shifted me far enough off the path I was on to think I was in the middle of a 50-metre wide river...
Anyhow, if you look at multiple GPS traces on OSM, they look accurate to the metre, whereas my track was all over the place. Is it likely that vehicular GPS units snap their coords to their inbuilt road network? I think OSM are happy that this doesn't constitute a 'derived work' of some copyright maps, but IANAL...
I think one room was where they strapped a black box to your head and either zapped you with RF or Placebo, and the other room had a bed and an EEG for the sleep testing.
It's pretty skinny on quantitative analysis. There's some numbers, and a mention of some preliminary results from a logistic regression. Quite why they've not got some final results from the logistic regression (it doesn't take long, it's not like there's masses of data) is interesting...
I just went for a bike ride and strapped my GPS to the handlebars and set it tracking. When I got back home I cycled round my block a couple of times to get a good track, knowing that the streets aren't in OSM at the moment. I dumped the track to my PC using EasyGPS and added it to OSM using the Java JOSM client, and hit upload.
Then I looked at how the rest of my bike ride jived with the existing data. For half my ride I should have been under 20 foot of water in the local river, and for the rest of it it looked like I was bunny-hopping across a major road every few hundred metres.
My GPS is a Garmin GPS12 I bought about 8 years ago. Has GPS technology improved so much since then? It was mostly reading an EPE (estimated position error) of 5 to 10 metres.
Either people have 1-metre accurate GPS units now or everyone on OSM is tracing google maps!
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Of course in a slashdot article about user-generated maps its possible that links to myminicity are relevant. I'd never heard of it (nor had I ever seen a link to it from slashdot comments) until you posted this.
I suspect an academic could currently be writing a similar article about virtual geographies - such as exist on Second Life or My Mini City
From that, they talk about a scenario:
"These users have been with the company for a while, and they rarely (if ever!) delete their email from their PST files. The files continue to grow in size - let's use an average of 1 GB as the size of the PST file. Now consider that when each user launches Outlook, they make a request for two (or three) files, each of them being about 1 GB in size. Then consider what happens when 200 users all launch Outlook around the same time when they get to work. 200 x 3 x 1 = 600 GB of data being requested at the same time. "
I have one word for Microsoft on that: "Maildir"
I wouldn't want my mail client to load a 1GB file from a local disk, let alone a network one.
MS also don't recommend you put your Outlook Personal Folders on a server (or 'network drive') either, which in this case could be an "Enterprise" server...
Yes really: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/297019
"Supporting" is a wonderfully vague word.
We bought a 1TB NAS (can't remember the model) that 'supported' NFS. We had it connected to our server via ethernet, and mounted it using NFS. Ooh look, I copied a file. Ooh goody, I copied it back. Now let's copy half a terabyte of our backups onto the NAS...
Wakey wakey. Hello? Anyone in there? Oh dear it seems to have stopped after 200 megs. Try again. Pretty much the same...
We upgraded the NAS box to the latest OS, we asked the supplier who was no help. I even hacked root on the box in order to see the log files to find out what was going on. But my conclusion was that the system was built down to a price that wasn't capable of supporting some real NFS thrashing, and that they hadn't tested it. We sent it back.
These are probably fine for simple home use, but don't hammer them...
So, did you make this pie chart?
http://humor.beecy.net/geeks/web-design/web-design.gif
I remember using Arc/Info Version 4 in about 1990 and its routing software let you specify a 'turn impedance' at every node (junction), so that going from arc id 2 to arc id 4 would add a weight of 2.5, and going from arc id 2 to arc id 6 would add a weight of 5.6, or whatever. Each arc also has a weight for the length of time it takes to go along it, and then you just did your usual solve for minimum weight. We did this for ambulance travel times.
Nice to see Fedex have dragged themselves into the 90s.
welcome our new water-walking robotic overlords... with some surface-tension reducing soap :) Muahahahahahah!
You don't mean the Russian spacecraft of that name then...
Can I buy one with neither and how well does Ubuntu run on it?
.inf file or something...
We just bought a Sony laptop with Vista and poor techie had to spend ages upgrading it to XP... Yes, I do mean upgrading... Seems Sony don't do XP graphics drivers for this model, you have to use Win 2k ones with a modified
Notice how they refer to it as 'radiation', because radiation is clearly a *bad thing*. It killed all those people in Hiroshima didn't it? Nasty.
Well, never mind that 1W of radiation coming out of your phone or Wifi router. There's maybe 100W coming out of your light bulbs (or less if you have Al Gore-compliant lightbulbs). And what's more, that radiation doesn't pass straight through you, a lot of it is intercepted by the body! I think we need a campaign to stop radiation in the 400nm to 700nm wavelength range from infecting our children! Ban it now! That, and Dihydrogen Monoxide...
Bad Science has lots of info on this and other science quackery.
Right now the US emergency services are being slashdotted by slashdotters calling 911 to see if their phones go into this mode! Go on, call 911 now and you'll hear that all the operators are busy, and would you hold while they play you some Vivaldi...
Ah, friction physics jokes:
Q. Which is the slipperiest cat?
A. The one with the lowest 'mew'.
I can has Molecular Gastronomical Cheezburgr?
Of course it's fast. Until you load up all the plugins you had on Firefox 2...
...whichever part of the corporate email system that decides to stick hard line-breaks in. At 80 columns. Our staff send emails with long URLs, people complain they can't get to the page, the link gets reposted as a tinyurl...
If the tinyurl people put a timelimit on the short link it wouldn't be so bad, since people would know it was purely temporary and so wouldn't use them in permanent situations...
Need a perl script that 'de-tiny's your web pages - goes through the HTML files, looks for tinyurls, queries to find the real target, and edits the page.... Ah, except nobody's web page is a bunch of static HTML anymore.... But you get the idea!
Wrong. Its not true that the students would give up their right to vote for some amount, its just that they _said_ they would. Given that you cannot give up your right to vote for any amount, the question is meaningless. Voting is secret for a reason - someone could pay you $1,000,000 to vote Demublican but then you go and flip the lever for the Replicrats in the booth.
Easier just to wait until after the election and pay the money to the winning party...
Yes, 1985 Series III Land Rover, packed with toggle switches! Of course last night in the cold I couldn't find the toggle switch for the interior light. No, its not activated when you open the door! If that happened, how else could you sneak into your Landy in the dark so that the enemy don't spot you!? Anyway, found that switch, then had to find the heater and the fan toggle switch... Yeah, I've not had it long enough to have done much driving on the dark or the cold...
Then there's a mysterious toggle switch on the dash that seems to do nothing. Landies are so customised that you often find odd switches that do nothing. Maybe this one used to activate the old extra front lights. Or maybe I pulled a wire out when I fixed the speedometer. Umm. Anyway, modern cars probably have touch-screens on the steering wheel for all this. Give me a toggle switch!
Just passing time until the site recovers...
Angioplasty is where they stick things in your veins in order to sort them out.
A colleague of mine had a heart problem with a thin wall between two of the chambers causing oxygenated and de-oxygenated blood to mix. These things aren't uncommon and many people live with it without problem. However this guy is a scuba diver, and these heart problems can be dangerous. His doctor said 'stop diving'.
He called for a second opinion, and discovered that they can stick a cylindrical probe up your femoral artery, navigate it into your heart and expand it flat onto the heart wall, then the heart muscle will grow around it, sealing the hole. So he went through with the procedure, purely so he could carry on scuba diving, which he now does pretty much every weekend, and from seeing his photographs I can understand why (and I wish I lived somewhere I could go diving every weekend in clear water without a dry suit).
I think the allegation against Reiser is a bit more than a spot of rogue plumbing...
[I'm only writing this so that you can see that at least ONE person laughed at the reference!]