quote "Please keep in mind that project is more of a vision. Due to the limitations of Windows I'm not able to do everything as I would like to. I know it is still not very usable, but I'll try to make it work as I can. I hope when there's time for it, this theory will have a satisfying implementation."
Aside the fact that in "reality" I am always handling my windows like a stack of paper, and this is far easier that way because that is what I am used to in the real world. Do you work within a sphere with paper all around you ? I tried (albeit not with a sphere but with 3 standing panel) and you always have the problem that you have to turn around to collect data.
Whereas with a big standing pannel or flat surface you can put everything you need and shift the look. Maybe I am too old to change (32;)) but I do not think this bring something "better" than the 2D paradigm.
When yozu are looking at the financial only, yes CDMA is superuior. But if you look at the quality only, then , sorry but my experience with CDMA was very poor... This is kind of a give-take. I guess that all considered both system are equivalent (none superior).
The 1.9Ghz Band is far more worth than the 800 Mhz. This is why some are ready to offer 5 Billion dollard for it as a STARTING point. Read the FA. This is not even the highiest worth but a "floor" bid. Nextel choose to concentrate on the 800Mhz for some reason (which is as the article point out, less usefull and disturb public service).
The public service is the priority, to that I agree. But this is what is suggested as follow up which is downright anti capitalist. No Company has the RIGHT to claim compensation from the governement by getting a HIGHIER value spectrum. At best, they get back their money for the 800 Mhz and THEN the governement auction the 1.9Ghz.
Giving them something which is valued at 5 Billion at least for a paltry sum, is downright anti competiting and nearly a gift of some billion from the taxpayer into the Nextel's account.
Frankly I would not be surprised that nextel has some friends in the FCC and in the governement if this get thru...
Actually working in the civilian aviation I ahd Fluight Engineer swear to me that this is only a problem on OLDER model aircraft, but that the new boing and Airbus do not come with that problem or solved it (how ? Maybe they shield the instrument from the inside too).
Airlines still hold onto the "no cell phone inside" because this is far easier than differenciate old and new aircraft models, and I suppose this is far easier than convince insurance or the other passenger.
Plese note that he has been accused of copyright infrigement. He seems to have reverse engineered and copied/used part of the intern code of the programs. Whether we like it or not DMCA like law forbid it except in a few case (interroperability and maybe for academia). Since he did not publish it for academia, and he did not contact first the company, they can fall on him and he has big probability of being judged guilty.
The law might be broken in that case (as we all know for DMCA like laws) but nonetheless the company has a case...
Lately they were defined as far as I remmember as "moral" person (as opposoed to the physical one). But btter check with a french lawyer since I am too sure.
I always thougth that most of the space treaty are so worded that only governement or governement allowed company can launch anything in space, and that if you really want to launch anything you have got to ask 10000's of autorisation to all kind of agency everywhere.
People only attempt to topple dictator for only one reason. Not because they want democracy or freedom of speech, but because the live they live is more miserable than the propect of fighting their own governement. That is, most people will find themselves ok as long as they are in minimum warmth (coverage), have minimum food, and a minimum of entertainement. Those minimum can be pretty low depending on your standard of life. But freedom of expression ? It does not enter in anybody's minimu standard BUT for a few hard core political activist. Look back at all revolution. they started because an event made a pressure too high on the population. True, most were afterward "overtaken" by the political activist. But they certainly not were the reason the revolution started (or the revolts in case of failed revolution).
This is why I never paid any attention about this "topple dictatore thru democratic free expression" Stuff.
this has to do with the fact that you can calculate all the above and equation up to a certain incertainty. And every incertainty are then cumulative after all iteration of your equation (know as error range are "cumulative". The error themselves could cancel themselves out , but the maximum error possible "raise"). After enough iteration the incertainty is then the same "size" as the result itself....
...Once the population feel feed up enough, and feel that their live become unbelievable burdened, when the point is reached that fighting against the system give better hope than live in silence, then a revolution happen. Successful or not usually the "paradygm" shift and usually afterward a new deal is done. If corporation goes on the way the parent post is saying, sooner or later the corporation will be put down by the citizen. A way or another. Violently if necessary.
I put the in neat stack with folder-pick for quick search. I do not put my paper in a 3d fashion, and it certainly confuse everything this way. Ever searched info to finally notice you had it BEHIND a piece of paper ? Ever worked with 20 books full of reference holding them in various position ? Ever searched info within a series of 3d object ?
Bottom line unless your work is purely intellectual without reality hold, those of us which works with paper knows something since long ago: A stack of paper is better to handle info (stack of window) than any other 3d representation.
Quote " Myth: CAPPS II will track where and when I travel and will store that information.
Fact: For U.S. persons, information will only be kept for a short period after completion of the travel itinerary, and then it will be permanently destroyed. The prescreening process will be conducted anew each time you fly. "
TSA myth and fact
Does this means that non US citizen will be "screwed" over and their info kept forever ?
It seems that all their myth and fact only apply to US citizen and the other will be S.O.L...
Again why should I care about a *ANY* girl (pretty or not) which get her idea from the media, and is completly close-minded to recognize that *I* am different than how the media portray me ? Why should I care about about any girl which judge on the outside apparence and media portraying and do not bother revisionning it when she meets me ? Is such girl even worth bothering, if she can't make her own opinion different than what the media sprout ?
This certainly remind of the black pest which he, was not engineered by men, and at time killed between 33 and 50% of the populations depending on the source, 1/3 being toward the realistic estimate average, 50%,90% being for some unlucky palce which were "emptied" :
black pest resource population loss
I think that in matter of research I am giving credit [sic] to the human mind we can do at least as good, if not better than black plague , by augmenting the incubation time and reducing the healing possibility (make it attack lymphocit like AIDS ! but spread with lung !).
Let us take the same loss as basis.
THIS MEANS THAT EVERY THIRD PERSON YOU KNOW WOULD DIE.
I still agreee that the benefits might overweight the hypothetical danger, but those danger are not that hypotetycal seeing that much $$$ were given by both west and east block into biological research. Do not make those danger less than they are.
Because all country, be it allied , friendly or not, will see it as the US grabbing on power the net and imposing its own policy on the world. This would be seen as quite innaceptable by all country (Even if it is on a technical side. The same reason that the US see as innaceptable the UN/International stuff in any form, which it sees breaking over their sovereignity and refuse to even discuss without getting "special treatment"). The result would be either to create a fully UN governed body for internet which would be quickly frozen either by the US or by other country depending on the direction, or to explode every network in a big balkanisation. *AND* poison even further more international relationship.
Around here the main cause of death (1000+ people per year) on road is 1) speed over limit 2) alcohol. All you cited above is a very minor cause. So please give us a statistic with official becauses I think USA driving habits aren't that far from ours (Europe).
... i certainly concur I *DO NOT* want the real world coming in programmation. Density of probability the algorithm goes OK.... Boolean which can be both false and true. Integer taking a spectrum of value. The horror, the horror...
let us put it that way, if you have camera every corner, and with face recognition (and amit for a second it has a good enough sucess rate), how can you then be "gainst" your governement , make an alternate party, make civil protest, or manifest, strike, and do whatever else can be construed as public disturbance ? That is right you cannot anymore.
And thus even those which have a lawful life but disliked for some reason by the govt can be monitored and the info used against themselves. Do you repsect law but have a mistress or are you homosexual ? well bad luck now camera can see that, and with face recognition signal to an operator he found the position of one of the person on its list, operator which then promptly make anotation of your activity on a memo.
Is this scenario far eteched ? Well with the price of a CCTV , and the price of computer now, I think the only true obstacle to this scenario is that face recognition isn't that good. But it might be in the future. And as the past leaner, if a govt official can abuse its position , it will. So the above scenario is LIKELY. In such view having nothing to hide [by that I mean being lawful] isn't a protection anymore.
...are debugged and optimised since 40 years. Yeah they are old but they do the work, as quick you can do it in your C, and my compiler are debugged, optimised, and the program are also debugged and optimised. 40 years long. Talk to me again in 20-30 years when your C program are as optimised and proved bug free and I might consider dumping the language. And this is also true for multi processor machine.
A final point : what matters is the hardware and technology it used on, behind the "language". language does not matter. I can freaking do it in BASIC, C, Fortran or cobol as long as the compiler do the fastest optimised code possible for the CPU. Language like fortran are after all abstract to make programmer communicate easier with machine thanwith direct language machine (hexa) or assembler. Higher language add wrapper of "easieness" of use, but there is *nothing* you can do in java/c you cannot do in other language.
It is a translation device to make it easier for Man to use it. What matters is what generated by the compiler.
And this is essentially why a lot of people are not ready to give up on fortran especially in academic circle.
The disparity of cost between the country. To hire and give research work for a Western researcher is 6 to 10 times as much more expansive than the western counterpart. other cost are far higher too in wetsern world : the "brick and mortar" cost for example. For their 2600$ India is probably getting much more than ~1/18 of the research done by US (36k$) and that also because of the sheer number of India population. Most of my indian colleague at decision place also understand that Research and Developpement are where to Invest as this bring the $$$ of the future.
Finally your "highly cited"scientific. You never heard of the network effect , did you not ? I am pretty sure that those number only reflect the difficulty of Indian researcher to publish their work in US publication. I do wonder what would be the result of mostly highly cited person if you took Indian only publication or India buisness research & amount of patent in patenting office. If even India recognize IP even...
OK let us look at the fact. First he gave hundred of Million , not Billion. Still lezt us look what it is in %. Then let us look what the top giver from the "modest" less rich people give in %. See what i mean ? Second I may be wrong on that side , and BG may be a true philanthrope, but I have the strange feeling that there are tax opportunities there too. My take on that ? BG might be a philanthrope, but do not over throw praise at him. he might give 5% of its total worth and not feel a difference whereas IMO the true philanthrope out there give from 5% upward of their worth and are totally unrocognized because their worth is only a few thousands...
Like many other such outlet they have a definite buisness oriented stance. And see this on the buisness side : a law comes in and shut down the possibility to advertising other buisness, and cut down a whole market making it illegal (and thus cut the tap on a money making industry). Forbes CANNOT have another stance than regret it and insinuate the law is overreaching or have a slightly buisness biased slantes. This is not BSA-weekly journal, folks ! If for some reason flyer and other snail mail advertising were to be forbidden (like for example nature protection or whatever X reason) then Forbes would have the same stance. Forbes also probably support "legitimate" spammer^H^H^H^H Email Advertising. Or Outsourcing. Or the end of the minimum wages. Or definitly an anti-union stance. Whatever. We are speaking about a biased buisness voice here.
Slashdot Mirror
quote "Please keep in mind that project is more of a vision. Due to the limitations of Windows I'm not able to do everything as I would like to. I know it is still not very usable, but I'll try to make it work as I can. I hope when there's time for it, this theory will have a satisfying implementation."
;)) but I do not think this bring something "better" than the 2D paradigm.
Aside the fact that in "reality" I am always handling my windows like a stack of paper, and this is far easier that way because that is what I am used to in the real world. Do you work within a sphere with paper all around you ? I tried (albeit not with a sphere but with 3 standing panel) and you always have the problem that you have to turn around to collect data.
Whereas with a big standing pannel or flat surface you can put everything you need and shift the look. Maybe I am too old to change (32
When yozu are looking at the financial only, yes CDMA is superuior. But if you look at the quality only, then , sorry but my experience with CDMA was very poor... This is kind of a give-take. I guess that all considered both system are equivalent (none superior).
The 1.9Ghz Band is far more worth than the 800 Mhz. This is why some are ready to offer 5 Billion dollard for it as a STARTING point. Read the FA. This is not even the highiest worth but a "floor" bid. Nextel choose to concentrate on the 800Mhz for some reason (which is as the article point out, less usefull and disturb public service).
The public service is the priority, to that I agree. But this is what is suggested as follow up which is downright anti capitalist. No Company has the RIGHT to claim compensation from the governement by getting a HIGHIER value spectrum. At best, they get back their money for the 800 Mhz and THEN the governement auction the 1.9Ghz.
Giving them something which is valued at 5 Billion at least for a paltry sum, is downright anti competiting and nearly a gift of some billion from the taxpayer into the Nextel's account.
Frankly I would not be surprised that nextel has some friends in the FCC and in the governement if this get thru...
If your 9 year old is watching movie that NEED to be censored, well I kind of question your parental aptitudes...
Actually working in the civilian aviation I ahd Fluight Engineer swear to me that this is only a problem on OLDER model aircraft, but that the new boing and Airbus do not come with that problem or solved it (how ? Maybe they shield the instrument from the inside too).
Airlines still hold onto the "no cell phone inside" because this is far easier than differenciate old and new aircraft models, and I suppose this is far easier than convince insurance or the other passenger.
That is why I said DMCA like law. You are spot on.
Plese note that he has been accused of copyright infrigement. He seems to have reverse engineered and copied/used part of the intern code of the programs. Whether we like it or not DMCA like law forbid it except in a few case (interroperability and maybe for academia). Since he did not publish it for academia, and he did not contact first the company, they can fall on him and he has big probability of being judged guilty.
The law might be broken in that case (as we all know for DMCA like laws) but nonetheless the company has a case...
Lately they were defined as far as I remmember as "moral" person (as opposoed to the physical one). But btter check with a french lawyer since I am too sure.
I always thougth that most of the space treaty are so worded that only governement or governement allowed company can launch anything in space, and that if you really want to launch anything you have got to ask 10000's of autorisation to all kind of agency everywhere.
People only attempt to topple dictator for only one reason. Not because they want democracy or freedom of speech, but because the live they live is more miserable than the propect of fighting their own governement. That is, most people will find themselves ok as long as they are in minimum warmth (coverage), have minimum food, and a minimum of entertainement. Those minimum can be pretty low depending on your standard of life. But freedom of expression ? It does not enter in anybody's minimu standard BUT for a few hard core political activist. Look back at all revolution. they started because an event made a pressure too high on the population. True, most were afterward "overtaken" by the political activist. But they certainly not were the reason the revolution started (or the revolts in case of failed revolution).
This is why I never paid any attention about this "topple dictatore thru democratic free expression" Stuff.
this has to do with the fact that you can calculate all the above and equation up to a certain incertainty. And every incertainty are then cumulative after all iteration of your equation (know as error range are "cumulative". The error themselves could cancel themselves out , but the maximum error possible "raise"). After enough iteration the incertainty is then the same "size" as the result itself....
...Once the population feel feed up enough, and feel that their live become unbelievable burdened, when the point is reached that fighting against the system give better hope than live in silence, then a revolution happen. Successful or not usually the "paradygm" shift and usually afterward a new deal is done. If corporation goes on the way the parent post is saying, sooner or later the corporation will be put down by the citizen. A way or another. Violently if necessary.
I put the in neat stack with folder-pick for quick search. I do not put my paper in a 3d fashion, and it certainly confuse everything this way. Ever searched info to finally notice you had it BEHIND a piece of paper ? Ever worked with 20 books full of reference holding them in various position ? Ever searched info within a series of 3d object ?
Bottom line unless your work is purely intellectual without reality hold, those of us which works with paper knows something since long ago: A stack of paper is better to handle info (stack of window) than any other 3d representation.
Quote " Myth: CAPPS II will track where and when I travel and will store that information.
Fact: For U.S. persons, information will only be kept for a short period after completion of the travel itinerary, and then it will be permanently destroyed. The prescreening process will be conducted anew each time you fly. " TSA myth and fact
Does this means that non US citizen will be "screwed" over and their info kept forever ? It seems that all their myth and fact only apply to US citizen and the other will be S.O.L...
Again why should I care about a *ANY* girl (pretty or not) which get her idea from the media, and is completly close-minded to recognize that *I* am different than how the media portray me ? Why should I care about about any girl which judge on the outside apparence and media portraying and do not bother revisionning it when she meets me ? Is such girl even worth bothering, if she can't make her own opinion different than what the media sprout ?
This certainly remind of the black pest which he, was not engineered by men, and at time killed between 33 and 50% of the populations depending on the source, 1/3 being toward the realistic estimate average, 50%,90% being for some unlucky palce which were "emptied" : black pest resource population loss
I think that in matter of research I am giving credit [sic] to the human mind we can do at least as good, if not better than black plague , by augmenting the incubation time and reducing the healing possibility (make it attack lymphocit like AIDS ! but spread with lung !). Let us take the same loss as basis.
THIS MEANS THAT EVERY THIRD PERSON YOU KNOW WOULD DIE.
I still agreee that the benefits might overweight the hypothetical danger, but those danger are not that hypotetycal seeing that much $$$ were given by both west and east block into biological research. Do not make those danger less than they are.
Because all country, be it allied , friendly or not, will see it as the US grabbing on power the net and imposing its own policy on the world. This would be seen as quite innaceptable by all country (Even if it is on a technical side. The same reason that the US see as innaceptable the UN/International stuff in any form, which it sees breaking over their sovereignity and refuse to even discuss without getting "special treatment"). The result would be either to create a fully UN governed body for internet which would be quickly frozen either by the US or by other country depending on the direction, or to explode every network in a big balkanisation. *AND* poison even further more international relationship.
...then send threat letter to somebody to raise again awarness of your company.
Around here the main cause of death (1000+ people per year) on road is 1) speed over limit 2) alcohol. All you cited above is a very minor cause. So please give us a statistic with official becauses I think USA driving habits aren't that far from ours (Europe).
... i certainly concur I *DO NOT* want the real world coming in programmation. Density of probability the algorithm goes OK.... Boolean which can be both false and true. Integer taking a spectrum of value. The horror, the horror...
let us put it that way, if you have camera every corner, and with face recognition (and amit for a second it has a good enough sucess rate), how can you then be "gainst" your governement , make an alternate party, make civil protest, or manifest, strike, and do whatever else can be construed as public disturbance ? That is right you cannot anymore.
And thus even those which have a lawful life but disliked for some reason by the govt can be monitored and the info used against themselves. Do you repsect law but have a mistress or are you homosexual ? well bad luck now camera can see that, and with face recognition signal to an operator he found the position of one of the person on its list, operator which then promptly make anotation of your activity on a memo.
Is this scenario far eteched ? Well with the price of a CCTV , and the price of computer now, I think the only true obstacle to this scenario is that face recognition isn't that good. But it might be in the future. And as the past leaner, if a govt official can abuse its position , it will. So the above scenario is LIKELY. In such view having nothing to hide [by that I mean being lawful] isn't a protection anymore.
...are debugged and optimised since 40 years. Yeah they are old but they do the work, as quick you can do it in your C, and my compiler are debugged, optimised, and the program are also debugged and optimised. 40 years long. Talk to me again in 20-30 years when your C program are as optimised and proved bug free and I might consider dumping the language. And this is also true for multi processor machine.
A final point : what matters is the hardware and technology it used on, behind the "language". language does not matter. I can freaking do it in BASIC, C, Fortran or cobol as long as the compiler do the fastest optimised code possible for the CPU. Language like fortran are after all abstract to make programmer communicate easier with machine thanwith direct language machine (hexa) or assembler. Higher language add wrapper of "easieness" of use, but there is *nothing* you can do in java/c you cannot do in other language. It is a translation device to make it easier for Man to use it. What matters is what generated by the compiler.
And this is essentially why a lot of people are not ready to give up on fortran especially in academic circle.
The disparity of cost between the country. To hire and give research work for a Western researcher is 6 to 10 times as much more expansive than the western counterpart. other cost are far higher too in wetsern world : the "brick and mortar" cost for example. For their 2600$ India is probably getting much more than ~1/18 of the research done by US (36k$) and that also because of the sheer number of India population. Most of my indian colleague at decision place also understand that Research and Developpement are where to Invest as this bring the $$$ of the future.
Finally your "highly cited"scientific. You never heard of the network effect , did you not ? I am pretty sure that those number only reflect the difficulty of Indian researcher to publish their work in US publication. I do wonder what would be the result of mostly highly cited person if you took Indian only publication or India buisness research & amount of patent in patenting office. If even India recognize IP even...
OK let us look at the fact. First he gave hundred of Million , not Billion. Still lezt us look what it is in %. Then let us look what the top giver from the "modest" less rich people give in %. See what i mean ? Second I may be wrong on that side , and BG may be a true philanthrope, but I have the strange feeling that there are tax opportunities there too. My take on that ? BG might be a philanthrope, but do not over throw praise at him. he might give 5% of its total worth and not feel a difference whereas IMO the true philanthrope out there give from 5% upward of their worth and are totally unrocognized because their worth is only a few thousands...
Like many other such outlet they have a definite buisness oriented stance. And see this on the buisness side : a law comes in and shut down the possibility to advertising other buisness, and cut down a whole market making it illegal (and thus cut the tap on a money making industry). Forbes CANNOT have another stance than regret it and insinuate the law is overreaching or have a slightly buisness biased slantes. This is not BSA-weekly journal, folks ! If for some reason flyer and other snail mail advertising were to be forbidden (like for example nature protection or whatever X reason) then Forbes would have the same stance. Forbes also probably support "legitimate" spammer^H^H^H^H Email Advertising. Or Outsourcing. Or the end of the minimum wages. Or definitly an anti-union stance. Whatever. We are speaking about a biased buisness voice here.