"It could be useful for the UK's Ministry of Defence, which has admitted to having lost track of nearly 600 laptops."
Excuse me? If you've lost 600 laptops, I don't care how elegant your encryption solution is -- you've got other issues. Technology is not the panacea to cure cruddy management.
please excuse my lame typo. government. a large object (read: k-6 400 case) fell on my hand last night and i am typing with one hand. (save the obvious pr0n jokes.....)
If Microsoft were to allow the governemnt employees involved, witn NDA's, to see the source for said MS products...would microsoft qualify as "open source?"
The government isn't mandating FREE software...but open source software....and theoretically, this is due to wanting to see the 'flaws and limitations' first hand.....
1)
the usefulness of one particular language that you happen to dislike? That's a bit hypocritical.
Not when you consider that: a) the language was invented as an exercise in programming, b) its entire purpose was to stroke the ego of the professor who wrote it, c) said professor _required_ its useage in his intro programming class to the detriment of his students. IMHO, "language family x" sucks and "language x sucks" are a world apart.
I was referring to the spam filtering software.
I realize spam is an evil that must be fought at the source -- while I _do_ wish for the eventual removal of ALL spam, in assessing a SPAM FILTERING software package, the critical element is the false positives. I'd rather have a software package that has 50% filtering and 0 false positives then 100% filtering and 1 false positive.
I _never_ want to miss an actual email directed at me.
1) Lisp...ever since i ran into scheme, I have _loved_ the concept of lisp based languages. A nice Hoo-ha to anyone who says there are no practical applications of lisp based languages. (except haskell...which personally, i think sucks! if one of our own professors hadn't invented it, it would be dead by now)
2) _0_ false positives. I'm perfectly happy to settle with "some small number of spams getting through" given there are NO false positives. Early on in the article he states that he realizes this is a critical problem, and from the start keeps no false positives as a goal.
It is far better to have no false positives then to have 100% no-spam rate
with that in mind...
3) the statistical word analysis is really interesting..."describe" is innocent. unfortunately....what happens when a few smart spammers get their hands on this analysis
*sigh*
Have you tried following the link *IN THE ARTICLE*?
If Not:
http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.gsp?cat=395 1&dept=3944&product_id=1870914&path=0%3A3944%3A395 1%3A41937%3A86796%3A96356
*sigh*
its a direct link FROM the article.
You know, i often get sick of seeing this.
199/299 is not the FULL price. There's no freaking monitor included in this system.
OK YES -- Its still 199/299 for a box, which for most of us is all we regularly upgrade, but for joe public, A MONITOR IS NECESSARY.
"You can browse the web, etc etc/snip/ for $299"
-- no you cant! you need a monitor.
Jesus....what people will write just to get onto/.
How is Microsoft planning on competing with all the legacy hardware out there? Say the first Palladium equipped boxen emerge.....a large portion of america (the napsterites) upon learning what it means for their (illegal) mp3's....aren't going to want said boxen. There becomes a huge market for the remaining non-DRM enabled hardware......so what does MS do?
(Wait for the government to MANDATE drm in a similar fashion to whats happening with HDTV??)
Humanists are not only adopting new technologies but are also actively collaborating with technical experts in fields like image processing, document encoding, and information science.
The whole point of the article is the stress of cross-disciplinary useage of technology. The motto is "do the work, and don't be so obsessed about getting credit for it."
The principle underlying these guidelines is that when institutions seek work with digital media and faculty members express interest in it, the institution must give full regard to this work when faculty members are hired or considered for reappointment, tenure, and promotion.
This gives some "rigor" to any "proof" of theoretical underpinnings of projects -- you don't need ML or TWELF (www.twelf.org) to provide the level of mathematical rigor previously needed to publish. That nifty speech-recognition software that you wrote for the linguistics department is now worth a whole lot more to you.
We can probably expect a whole new outpouring in professor/grad student productivity.....i mean heck, I'm probably going to use this in the coming two years to justify some of *my* work. (Dual ms/bs....so my senior project has to be a doozie)
-b
I think its a more the issue that the oss side has the ABILITY to fix it themselves -- and that the ms side is at the whimsey of redmond to release a patch =)
I'm currently writing this from Mozilla on a Windows XP system. At home, I have an imac, a little box running linux and a few (legal) xp machines. Your post was exceedingly caustic -- i think you have blindly followed microsoft in this case. It isn't a geek war -- the oss side will release a patch far sooner, and that is the entire point. M$ is notoriously awful about patching anything....and they sneak lovely eula additions in.
IMHO, one of the weakest parts about microsoft software.....(their initial buggy nature aside)
"timely fashion"
Ok, microsoft troll (as evident by your previous posts) my poiny being, , THE CHANCE OF GETTING A PATCH FROM M$ in a _TIMLY FASHION_ is slim to nil. (Or perhaps the world's first negative probability)
This is one of the largest flaws with m$ software -- full dependance on redmond for patches -- at their speed.
*sigh*
After having taken yale's cs 201 and taught it twice...i have developed an intense love-hate relationship with scheme -- suffice it to say, it does _NOT_ solve the problem in the orig. post.
Whatever idiot modded me as "off topic" doesn't know ANYTHING about complexity and p/np.
3-sat doesnt exist. its 3-cnf-sat
3- conj. normal form - satis. problem.
Cost of Optimum Online: ~$50.00/month Cost of Downloading MP3/Ogg Vorbis/WMA(ack) From proposed Site: ~$0.25
Not Having to Wait for someone's queue to free up on the Fast Track Network, and actually being able to use the 400k/sec or so I can reliably get downstream: Priceless
Midly offtopic/funny....
EAST FISHKILL, NY? Anyway.
First we got all this buzz about IBM buying PWC. Now, this about.1 micron chips. Upstate NY isn't exactly the center of the electronic world, but the goal was to do something _new_ & slightly daring. (and hey, they are selling/sold the plant in which IBM was born) They're taking a chance with the automated wafer production. (IANA Quality Control Specialist) -- But wonder about the types of problems they may run into. If they pull this off, they could make a nice comeback. Only question is...how strong is the demand for these chips *right now*, instead of "when the economy recovers" ?
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"It could be useful for the UK's Ministry of Defence, which has admitted to having lost track of nearly 600 laptops." Excuse me? If you've lost 600 laptops, I don't care how elegant your encryption solution is -- you've got other issues. Technology is not the panacea to cure cruddy management.
Whomever modded me as a troll, YOU try wading through Paul Hudak's courses. /growl/
please excuse my lame typo. government. a large object (read: k-6 400 case) fell on my hand last night and i am typing with one hand. (save the obvious pr0n jokes.....)
If Microsoft were to allow the governemnt employees involved, witn NDA's, to see the source for said MS products...would microsoft qualify as "open source?" The government isn't mandating FREE software...but open source software....and theoretically, this is due to wanting to see the 'flaws and limitations' first hand.....
1) the usefulness of one particular language that you happen to dislike? That's a bit hypocritical. Not when you consider that: a) the language was invented as an exercise in programming, b) its entire purpose was to stroke the ego of the professor who wrote it, c) said professor _required_ its useage in his intro programming class to the detriment of his students. IMHO, "language family x" sucks and "language x sucks" are a world apart.
I was referring to the spam filtering software. I realize spam is an evil that must be fought at the source -- while I _do_ wish for the eventual removal of ALL spam, in assessing a SPAM FILTERING software package, the critical element is the false positives. I'd rather have a software package that has 50% filtering and 0 false positives then 100% filtering and 1 false positive. I _never_ want to miss an actual email directed at me.
1) Lisp...ever since i ran into scheme, I have _loved_ the concept of lisp based languages. A nice Hoo-ha to anyone who says there are no practical applications of lisp based languages. (except haskell...which personally, i think sucks! if one of our own professors hadn't invented it, it would be dead by now) 2) _0_ false positives. I'm perfectly happy to settle with "some small number of spams getting through" given there are NO false positives. Early on in the article he states that he realizes this is a critical problem, and from the start keeps no false positives as a goal. It is far better to have no false positives then to have 100% no-spam rate with that in mind... 3) the statistical word analysis is really interesting..."describe" is innocent. unfortunately....what happens when a few smart spammers get their hands on this analysis *sigh*
Have you tried following the link *IN THE ARTICLE*? If Not: http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.gsp?cat=395 1&dept=3944&product_id=1870914&path=0%3A3944%3A395 1%3A41937%3A86796%3A96356
*sigh*
its a direct link FROM the article.
You know, i often get sick of seeing this. 199/299 is not the FULL price. There's no freaking monitor included in this system. OK YES -- Its still 199/299 for a box, which for most of us is all we regularly upgrade, but for joe public, A MONITOR IS NECESSARY. "You can browse the web, etc etc /snip/ for $299"
-- no you cant! you need a monitor.
Jesus....what people will write just to get onto /.
How is Microsoft planning on competing with all the legacy hardware out there? Say the first Palladium equipped boxen emerge.....a large portion of america (the napsterites) upon learning what it means for their (illegal) mp3's....aren't going to want said boxen. There becomes a huge market for the remaining non-DRM enabled hardware......so what does MS do? (Wait for the government to MANDATE drm in a similar fashion to whats happening with HDTV??)
Humanists are not only adopting new technologies but are also actively collaborating with technical experts in fields like image processing, document encoding, and information science. The whole point of the article is the stress of cross-disciplinary useage of technology. The motto is "do the work, and don't be so obsessed about getting credit for it." The principle underlying these guidelines is that when institutions seek work with digital media and faculty members express interest in it, the institution must give full regard to this work when faculty members are hired or considered for reappointment, tenure, and promotion. This gives some "rigor" to any "proof" of theoretical underpinnings of projects -- you don't need ML or TWELF (www.twelf.org) to provide the level of mathematical rigor previously needed to publish. That nifty speech-recognition software that you wrote for the linguistics department is now worth a whole lot more to you. We can probably expect a whole new outpouring in professor/grad student productivity.....i mean heck, I'm probably going to use this in the coming two years to justify some of *my* work. (Dual ms/bs....so my senior project has to be a doozie) -b
I think its a more the issue that the oss side has the ABILITY to fix it themselves -- and that the ms side is at the whimsey of redmond to release a patch =)
I'm currently writing this from Mozilla on a Windows XP system. At home, I have an imac, a little box running linux and a few (legal) xp machines. Your post was exceedingly caustic -- i think you have blindly followed microsoft in this case. It isn't a geek war -- the oss side will release a patch far sooner, and that is the entire point. M$ is notoriously awful about patching anything....and they sneak lovely eula additions in. IMHO, one of the weakest parts about microsoft software.....(their initial buggy nature aside)
Point In Case -- Read above 95 minutes and we have a fix for the Konquerer side
Microsoft? Still waiting.
-nuff said.
"timely fashion" Ok, microsoft troll (as evident by your previous posts) my poiny being, , THE CHANCE OF GETTING A PATCH FROM M$ in a _TIMLY FASHION_ is slim to nil. (Or perhaps the world's first negative probability) This is one of the largest flaws with m$ software -- full dependance on redmond for patches -- at their speed. *sigh*
Before the M$ vs Everyone war starts...how about we have a fair and simple timing contest.....where does this get fixed first? ;)
Dijkstra's Algorithm. Umm, hello? Someone took NO cs.
*sniff* semaphore obituary humor... *tear*
After having taken yale's cs 201 and taught it twice...i have developed an intense love-hate relationship with scheme -- suffice it to say, it does _NOT_ solve the problem in the orig. post.
Whatever idiot modded me as "off topic" doesn't know ANYTHING about complexity and p/np. 3-sat doesnt exist. its 3-cnf-sat 3- conj. normal form - satis. problem.
3-sat isnt it 3-cnf-sat? or is cnf typically dropped?
Cost of Optimum Online: ~$50.00/month Cost of Downloading MP3/Ogg Vorbis/WMA(ack) From proposed Site: ~$0.25 Not Having to Wait for someone's queue to free up on the Fast Track Network, and actually being able to use the 400k/sec or so I can reliably get downstream: Priceless
Midly offtopic/funny.... EAST FISHKILL, NY? Anyway. First we got all this buzz about IBM buying PWC. Now, this about .1 micron chips. Upstate NY isn't exactly the center of the electronic world, but the goal was to do something _new_ & slightly daring. (and hey, they are selling/sold the plant in which IBM was born) They're taking a chance with the automated wafer production. (IANA Quality Control Specialist) -- But wonder about the types of problems they may run into. If they pull this off, they could make a nice comeback. Only question is...how strong is the demand for these chips *right now*, instead of "when the economy recovers" ?
gnat = nat e?
The "Ivy League" is a hundred + year old football league.
No school will _EVER_ be asked to join the ivy league.
Get over yourselves.