If marriage is so economically advantageous, the same stunt would also work with a man and a woman who were just friends but agreed to pretend to marry in order to reap the benefits.
So why don't you get one of your female friends and...oh, wait, I see your problem now...
ARRRRGGGHHH!!!! I don't even use Windows and Bill's shitty software still fucks me over...my inbox is filling up with viruses sent from other people, AND the virus is forging headers with my email address.
The penalty for being a script kiddie really should be amputation of both hands.
Although I keep my fingers crossed that McBride ends up begging for change in the subway, it makes me a little nervous that companies with large patent portfolios possess the latent threat of suing into the stone age anyone who bothers them. What happens when a company we like decides to sue IBM? We'll probably see the same outcome.
Correction: begging for change on a Baghdad street corner.
"We people over here," all 300 million of us identical burger-chomping, oil-guzzling, right-wing Christians, really appreciate it when you highly diverse and free-thinking Europeans take the time to open our eyes to our homogeneity and provincialism.
You Europeans all overgeneralize. Oh, wait....
Lots of good suggestions above, so rather than add to them I'll throw in my 2 cents on layout: I used to teach high school computer science, and I ended up rethinking the traditional computer lab layout (i.e. parallel rows of tables with computers lined up facing the front of the room). The problems with this layout are:
1) It's hard to move around so collaboration is limited.
2) Screens are too distracting when the instructor is trying to demonstrate something.
Instead, I put the computers around the periphery of the room, then put a table in the middle with one more computer, a keyboard and mouse on an extra long cord, and an LCD projector. When students were at their own computers it was easier for me to wander around the room, and they also would move around quite a bit to help each other or just show off their programs. When it was time to demonsrate something I would say "Table!" and they'd all spin around and roll their chairs to the center table (even though it was crowded). Often I would want a student to demonstrate his/her work, and the single keyboard/mouse would get passed around.
Best of luck with your project,
--David
Actually, I have to take issue with that. The only reason you could "insert a Shakespearean sonnet" is that Willy already wrote one for you. Similarly, if the goal was to evolve poetry generators you could just insert a good one of those...if somebody smarter than you had already written one.
Certainly a GA that evolved poetry generation algorithm would be much more sophisticated than this primitive model, and would more closely approximate the genotype/phenotype split of DNA based life, but that doesn't it make it "more evolutionary." Are you claiming that DNA itself didn't appear through evolution?
Fortunately Safari kept a snapshot of the report page. If you're interested, here's what it looked like just before the slashdotting: (By the way, does anyone know if Tomcat will recover on its own, or do I have to pay a visit to the server and restart things?)
Generations (Avg)4.502
Total Number of Poems6969
Top Ranked Poems#2496 where ghost sleuth with lingo of the long with helicopt bodies where eyes tore devilish covered
#4951 your victims come
#1486 when sometime the life loved to be throne revoking of shield in blood
#4722 secretiveness her to sins even send it and woe to
#4808 though eyes closed helmets stood not
#2216 gone to signify when terribly untidily of whom suffered him the come befool in kissing onside he mere fluidic of her fleetest yet
#861 of either to forgo conclusions seen reordered hosts my to tend of me his footprints but infest lost people lies
#3054 when sometime the life loved to be throne revoking of shield in blood
#4257 went here bisecting splendid lists blood of quieting tressed prince held by posers blood slumber secretion drink in scene
#4578 into the the lightning divide which bolstering through stricter lies
1) Why did Slashdot reject me when I submitted this myself a couple of days ago?
2) The poor little Pentium 600 hosting this has already succumbed. Alas. (I can still ftp in, but Tomcat doesn't seem to like the load.) Donations for a real computer...like a Mac G5...will be graciously accepted.
--David
Doesn't this guy take potty breaks? Every time someone posts a Mac story he's STILL sitting there waiting for that 17 meg file to transfer. This has been going on for months. Somebody please give him a zip drive.
Well, you're both right. I look at dozens and dozens of IT organizations (VC) and although managers are extremely cost conscious, they also have a deeply rooted suspicion of anything that claims to automate their jobs. It's not intentional, it's just psychology: people want to believe their hard-learned skills are valuable, and will find themselves picking holes in the cheaper, automated solution in order to justify not only their job but their value. It often takes a CFO to say, "Ok, we'll do without those 5 features that you want to custom code...buy the cheap shrink-wrapped stuff."
So neither of you are a "fool" or an "idiot", but the truth is somewhere in between your extreme views.
I stopped wearing a seatbelt as soon as I got a car with an airbag.
And now that I have a car with EIGHT (count 'em) airbags and ABS brakes I drive like Mario Andretti. Only without all the cologne.
I think this is the most important and relevant post on this topic yet. What we are seeing here is the beginning of the end of the RIAA as middlemen. There have already been questions along the lines of "how much does the artist get?" and "why does brand new stuff cost the same as old stuff?". What this technology will eventually do is bring the artists closer to their audience, a process which will invariably marginalize the labels.
And that is a Good Thing.
Think about it...someone (not me) should write a new P2P file sharing system with really basic encryption (i.e., shift all characters one to the right) and then sue the RIAA into the stone age when they "crack" the encryption in order to go after pirates.
This includes ALL PCs, i.e. including the ones bought in bulk by corporations. Which are irrelevant from the music business P.O.V.
Last fall I asked my local computer store how Macs were selling. The manager said, "Usually it's 80/20 PCs to Macs, but this year it's been closer to 50/50." I shit you not.
In the debate over how much spam really costs, one factor that almost never gets discussed is the impact on behavior and openness. How many of us refrain from using our real email addresses in public forums or in correspondence with companies because of a fear of receiving more spam? There may not be a direct economic cost, but it makes the Internet less useful to all of us. Spammers have essentially driven all of us to have unlisted phone numbers on the Internet, which reduces the usefulness of the medium.
Off with their heads, I say.
I kept looking for the phrase, "According to top Chinese and Russian scientists..."
C'mon, this article is a mix of fairly obvious trends and a lot of squirrely language. I'm no Microsoft fan, but this is just tripe. For example, he starts of by saying that Microsoft license upgrades are going to get the lions share of 2003's very small IT budget increases. What he ignores is that even though the budgets aren't changing, where the dollars are being allocated is. For example, a number of large enterprises are kicking sun out of their data centers in favor of Linux. Backup & recovery outsourcing is up. And India outsourcing is WAY up, which drives sales in things like VoIP and collaboration tools.
Well, it's not worth spending half my morning picking this guy apart, nor did I get past the first couple of pages, but it seems to me to be just poorly researched frothing.
It's one thing to charge for support that requires expensive human intervention; it's another to intentional obscure basic product info to generate revenue.
Maine has started a program giving iBooks to 7th graders. Their goal is to eventually loan one to EVERY middle school student in the state. I did a quick google search and here's the first article I found.
Agreed; I was using "mystery commands" in the author's sense, i.e. that you're not in the application you think you are (because all the windows have closed and only the menu bar remains) so that you don't get the behavior you expect from a key combination.
Well, you wrote my comment for me, but I'll add that the author tries to deflect this sentiment at the end by implying that anyone who disagrees with his preferences has obviously just bought into the dominant paradigm. ("But I *like* QWERTY...").
I suppose the proper reponse to him is, "If you're under 25 years old you obviously haven't had enough time to really think about this problem."
And some specific criticisms:
- Lots of modern software does, in fact, automatically save your documents. But by doing at least one manual save you get to pick a name and a location so you can find it again without needing Autonomy built into your computer. And while I like that the computer saves its own copy for safety, I specifically do NOT want it overriding the master copy without permission.
- On Mac OS X the file picker does in fact look exactly like the file manager, with a few extra buttons around it.
- I read his criticism of the "Quit" function several times and still don't understand his gripe. Yes, our computers can multi-thread so we can run multiple applications, but they have limited memory so we can't run EVERYTHING at once. And I for one would rather control which ones are running rather than wondering what my computer chose to quit. Also, Windows doesn't behave as he describes...close the last window and the application quits. Finally, there aren't any "mystery" menu commands unless you don't actually look at the menu bar when you use hot keys. I will admit that the "invisible application" phenomenon can be confusing to new Mac users, but I disagree with MPT's prescribed solutions. The current state is less "cruft" than it is the lack of a perfect alternative.
Overall grade for mpt's "cruft" essay: C+.
I've heard other accusations that this "think tank" is really just a paid voice for M$ but in other forums contributors had trouble coming up with proof.
This may not be proof, but here's one paragraph from the paper that settles the point pretty clearly for me:
"Netscape was an aggressive firm. It endeavored to make its web browser the proprietary
standard for web access, hoping that it would inevitably become more important than the PC
operating system. Netscape began distributing its browser free to users. This strategy all but
eliminated interest in Mosaic and NCSA led standards. Because Netscape was also able to do
this without paying licensing fees to NCSA, it was able to undercut other commercial browser
companies that had to meet NCSA license fee requirements. Not only did Netscape crush
competition with its free browser model, but it also infuriated members of the open source
community by aggressively introducing proprietary standards to the public Internet, something
they felt no one should own. Conveniently, Netscape turned its enemies to Microsoft and their
new browser, Internet Explorer."
Poor, poor Microsoft...
Slashdot Mirror
If marriage is so economically advantageous, the same stunt would also work with a man and a woman who were just friends but agreed to pretend to marry in order to reap the benefits. So why don't you get one of your female friends and...oh, wait, I see your problem now...
ARRRRGGGHHH!!!! I don't even use Windows and Bill's shitty software still fucks me over...my inbox is filling up with viruses sent from other people, AND the virus is forging headers with my email address. The penalty for being a script kiddie really should be amputation of both hands.
Although I keep my fingers crossed that McBride ends up begging for change in the subway, it makes me a little nervous that companies with large patent portfolios possess the latent threat of suing into the stone age anyone who bothers them. What happens when a company we like decides to sue IBM? We'll probably see the same outcome. Correction: begging for change on a Baghdad street corner.
"We people over here," all 300 million of us identical burger-chomping, oil-guzzling, right-wing Christians, really appreciate it when you highly diverse and free-thinking Europeans take the time to open our eyes to our homogeneity and provincialism. You Europeans all overgeneralize. Oh, wait....
Lots of good suggestions above, so rather than add to them I'll throw in my 2 cents on layout: I used to teach high school computer science, and I ended up rethinking the traditional computer lab layout (i.e. parallel rows of tables with computers lined up facing the front of the room). The problems with this layout are: 1) It's hard to move around so collaboration is limited. 2) Screens are too distracting when the instructor is trying to demonstrate something. Instead, I put the computers around the periphery of the room, then put a table in the middle with one more computer, a keyboard and mouse on an extra long cord, and an LCD projector. When students were at their own computers it was easier for me to wander around the room, and they also would move around quite a bit to help each other or just show off their programs. When it was time to demonsrate something I would say "Table!" and they'd all spin around and roll their chairs to the center table (even though it was crowded). Often I would want a student to demonstrate his/her work, and the single keyboard/mouse would get passed around. Best of luck with your project, --David
It's not working because I've been Slashdotted. Argh.
--David
Certainly a GA that evolved poetry generation algorithm would be much more sophisticated than this primitive model, and would more closely approximate the genotype/phenotype split of DNA based life, but that doesn't it make it "more evolutionary." Are you claiming that DNA itself didn't appear through evolution?
--David
--David
Darwinian Poetry
Code as Art:Poetry:Darwinian Poetry
Generations (Avg)4.502 Total Number of Poems6969 Top Ranked Poems#2496 where ghost sleuth with lingo
of the long with helicopt bodies
where eyes tore devilish covered
#4951 your victims come
#1486 when sometime the life loved
to be throne revoking of shield in blood
#4722 secretiveness her to sins even
send it and woe to
#4808 though eyes closed
helmets stood not
#2216 gone to signify when terribly
untidily of whom suffered him
the come befool in kissing onside he mere
fluidic of her fleetest yet
#861 of either to forgo conclusions
seen reordered hosts my to
tend of me his footprints
but infest lost people lies
#3054 when sometime the life loved
to be throne revoking of shield in blood
#4257 went here bisecting splendid lists
blood of quieting tressed
prince held by posers blood
slumber secretion drink in scene
#4578 into the the lightning divide which
bolstering through stricter
lies
Total Hits76146
1) Why did Slashdot reject me when I submitted this myself a couple of days ago? 2) The poor little Pentium 600 hosting this has already succumbed. Alas. (I can still ftp in, but Tomcat doesn't seem to like the load.) Donations for a real computer...like a Mac G5...will be graciously accepted. --David
If you're a genetic algorithms fan, and want to participate, take a look at Darwinian Poetry.
Doesn't this guy take potty breaks? Every time someone posts a Mac story he's STILL sitting there waiting for that 17 meg file to transfer. This has been going on for months. Somebody please give him a zip drive.
Well, you're both right. I look at dozens and dozens of IT organizations (VC) and although managers are extremely cost conscious, they also have a deeply rooted suspicion of anything that claims to automate their jobs. It's not intentional, it's just psychology: people want to believe their hard-learned skills are valuable, and will find themselves picking holes in the cheaper, automated solution in order to justify not only their job but their value. It often takes a CFO to say, "Ok, we'll do without those 5 features that you want to custom code...buy the cheap shrink-wrapped stuff." So neither of you are a "fool" or an "idiot", but the truth is somewhere in between your extreme views.
I stopped wearing a seatbelt as soon as I got a car with an airbag. And now that I have a car with EIGHT (count 'em) airbags and ABS brakes I drive like Mario Andretti. Only without all the cologne.
Yeah, dat's right! 'Cause in America our courts always find truth and justice, regardless of how rich or how poor...oh, wait a second...
I think this is the most important and relevant post on this topic yet. What we are seeing here is the beginning of the end of the RIAA as middlemen. There have already been questions along the lines of "how much does the artist get?" and "why does brand new stuff cost the same as old stuff?". What this technology will eventually do is bring the artists closer to their audience, a process which will invariably marginalize the labels. And that is a Good Thing.
Think about it...someone (not me) should write a new P2P file sharing system with really basic encryption (i.e., shift all characters one to the right) and then sue the RIAA into the stone age when they "crack" the encryption in order to go after pirates.
Uh, I seriously doubt he used Kazaa. Probably LimeWire.
Last fall I asked my local computer store how Macs were selling. The manager said, "Usually it's 80/20 PCs to Macs, but this year it's been closer to 50/50." I shit you not.
In the debate over how much spam really costs, one factor that almost never gets discussed is the impact on behavior and openness. How many of us refrain from using our real email addresses in public forums or in correspondence with companies because of a fear of receiving more spam? There may not be a direct economic cost, but it makes the Internet less useful to all of us. Spammers have essentially driven all of us to have unlisted phone numbers on the Internet, which reduces the usefulness of the medium. Off with their heads, I say.
I kept looking for the phrase, "According to top Chinese and Russian scientists..." C'mon, this article is a mix of fairly obvious trends and a lot of squirrely language. I'm no Microsoft fan, but this is just tripe. For example, he starts of by saying that Microsoft license upgrades are going to get the lions share of 2003's very small IT budget increases. What he ignores is that even though the budgets aren't changing, where the dollars are being allocated is. For example, a number of large enterprises are kicking sun out of their data centers in favor of Linux. Backup & recovery outsourcing is up. And India outsourcing is WAY up, which drives sales in things like VoIP and collaboration tools. Well, it's not worth spending half my morning picking this guy apart, nor did I get past the first couple of pages, but it seems to me to be just poorly researched frothing.
It's one thing to charge for support that requires expensive human intervention; it's another to intentional obscure basic product info to generate revenue.
Gong!
Maine has started a program giving iBooks to 7th graders. Their goal is to eventually loan one to EVERY middle school student in the state. I did a quick google search and here's the first article I found.
Agreed; I was using "mystery commands" in the author's sense, i.e. that you're not in the application you think you are (because all the windows have closed and only the menu bar remains) so that you don't get the behavior you expect from a key combination.
Well, you wrote my comment for me, but I'll add that the author tries to deflect this sentiment at the end by implying that anyone who disagrees with his preferences has obviously just bought into the dominant paradigm. ("But I *like* QWERTY..."). I suppose the proper reponse to him is, "If you're under 25 years old you obviously haven't had enough time to really think about this problem." And some specific criticisms: - Lots of modern software does, in fact, automatically save your documents. But by doing at least one manual save you get to pick a name and a location so you can find it again without needing Autonomy built into your computer. And while I like that the computer saves its own copy for safety, I specifically do NOT want it overriding the master copy without permission. - On Mac OS X the file picker does in fact look exactly like the file manager, with a few extra buttons around it. - I read his criticism of the "Quit" function several times and still don't understand his gripe. Yes, our computers can multi-thread so we can run multiple applications, but they have limited memory so we can't run EVERYTHING at once. And I for one would rather control which ones are running rather than wondering what my computer chose to quit. Also, Windows doesn't behave as he describes...close the last window and the application quits. Finally, there aren't any "mystery" menu commands unless you don't actually look at the menu bar when you use hot keys. I will admit that the "invisible application" phenomenon can be confusing to new Mac users, but I disagree with MPT's prescribed solutions. The current state is less "cruft" than it is the lack of a perfect alternative. Overall grade for mpt's "cruft" essay: C+.
I've heard other accusations that this "think tank" is really just a paid voice for M$ but in other forums contributors had trouble coming up with proof. This may not be proof, but here's one paragraph from the paper that settles the point pretty clearly for me: "Netscape was an aggressive firm. It endeavored to make its web browser the proprietary standard for web access, hoping that it would inevitably become more important than the PC operating system. Netscape began distributing its browser free to users. This strategy all but eliminated interest in Mosaic and NCSA led standards. Because Netscape was also able to do this without paying licensing fees to NCSA, it was able to undercut other commercial browser companies that had to meet NCSA license fee requirements. Not only did Netscape crush competition with its free browser model, but it also infuriated members of the open source community by aggressively introducing proprietary standards to the public Internet, something they felt no one should own. Conveniently, Netscape turned its enemies to Microsoft and their new browser, Internet Explorer." Poor, poor Microsoft...