By definition this is an unsolvable problem, because what it requires is definition of undefinition (if such a term exists). While you can make assumptions on unstructured data and apply Natural Language rules across it you are still left with the possibility that you've interpretted incorrectly. So to create definition in a loose format inherently requires you to assume its meaning, the rate of accuracy can be improved but absolutes are impossible to attain.
Simply put, if you don't understand what someone is talking about, you can make a reasonable guess and then refine it but you are always making assumptions.
To put in it simple terms for George W. Bush
All Muslims are Terrorists All Supporters of Militia (McVeigh) are terrorists
Unstructured data is a great way to make money, and a great way to get 80% of the story, the trouble is the other 20% gets destroyed in the process.
Welcome to 1984, and a Brave New World, the minority will cease to count.
Can't think of a group of people who care less about their customers ?
Here are two Jon
Tobacco and Gun companies, lob in the Defence industry, lawyers etc etc etc.
Maybe the problem is that actually its a fault of education, in the same country that has schools that don't think evolution is an idea you are suprised that technology isn't well taught. Schools censor technology because they are afraid of it, so people don't learn how to use is.
This isn't the result of big corps ignoring people, its a result of an industry that is 30 years old and has exploded in the last 10. How many people knew (or even know) how electric lights work when they came out ? Sure there is a gap between those who know and those who don't, there is that gap in terms of EVERYTHING, and most of the time it comes down to application and education.
And on the first point in the title, mobile phone usage varies across Europe, Finland leading the way. The vast generalisations from Jon apply yet again only to the US.
Tech Corps give users what they want, even if they don't understand it, that is what people want.... always remember...
They don't understand the software, they don't understand the hardware, but they can _see_ the flashing lights.
Here ? maybe where the phrase "fierce nomadic warriors" is used. Or possibly because of the fact that most tribes have the concept ot "warrior" when classifying members.
As for what you fight wars over... FOOD, Hunting Ranges etc etc. Wars don't have to be on a grand scale, 50 people v 50 people can still be a war to the 100 people involved.
Err you are kidding right ? Most Native American tribes would be classified as nomadic warriors. Sure they didn't have guns or heavy artillery but these were not zen buddist style people just looking for enlightenment.
History with Rose tinted glasses, the world where no "primitive" culture ever had a problem with war, murder, rape, incest. All of those problems are a result of the modern world.
And anyway... the Chinese are "White", Phonecians' were "white" ? Native Americans' are probably Russians anyway... damn commies:-)
See Microsoft and modular argument. Linux is modular (not that nice an impl IMO), so are the mainframe architectures. Only have one proc ? Don't install SMP. Don't need domaining, don't use it. Don't need X,Y,Z then don't use them. Having a standard OS platform from which you can build your targetted OS is the approach I was talking about. In the same way as you don't compile the ISA support into Linux if you don't need it.
OSes should be modular, the aim should be to get the best modules available from the best people to create the most flexible platform.
One size does not fit all, just look at the size of the SUSE distro.
Okay so Plan 9 is cool. Useful ? Probably not as it doesn't have any support or applications of note.
Where as Linux is a poorer OS from a next gen perspective but has the applications and support.
OS/390 is old school but has great memory management, io and SMP etc.
The first two are already open source, the third owned by the Big Blue Linux supporter. Wouldn't it be better to have a directed 2 year plan to create a merged platform ? The reality is that Linux right now is in the Bazaar and to get to that end game we need some form of Cathedral project to guide and drive. But picture the end game, a networked OS, with loads of apps, the best SMP, io, memory and domaining support you can get.
This would be the great killer platform for servers, and a kick-ass gaming platform.
Unfortunately it won't happen because the only people who could really run this successfully would be a combination of Bell Labs and Thomas J Watson. Damn that would be kick-ass, but Big Blue don't seem to want to take the lead in Linux, and the linux community probably wouldn't let them anyway.
The case here is bloke followed the law in his country, got on plane to other country, was arrested. The Russian company (people operating in Russian) obeyed Russian Laws. Bloke arrested when entered the US, for breaking US law while in Russia,
Now explain where the difference is. Yahoo.fr obeyed French Law, parent company didn't, Bloke obeyed Russian Law, then went on holiday to US...
If Yahoo aren't constrained by French laws then the obvious result is that US laws don't apply in Russia. Unless of course the judiciary are bigotted hypocrits who feel that their laws should apply to everyone.
Personally I'm betting on the later as I don't have a great deal of faith in the US system being consistent as its record is that it protects US interests rather than rules according to law. You could say "well so they should" but the effect of that is to mean that US courts are biased, and to be contraversial.... racist, as they judge an applicant by their nationality.
So where are the big films and the variation of 20+ years ago, where is the ground breaking Star Wars, the revolutionary 2001, the Hitchcocks, the acting of Bogart and Bacal.
Star Trek 4^100 Star Wars 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Yet another "Action adventure"
This is thanks to crap focus groups that also make sure every car looks the same. Mapping more customers can only help identify that 5% of people actually do like Trainspotting, Shallow Grave, but hate the Beach. Rather than asking a bunch of no marks with nothing better to do than fill in questionaires.
Err this moron does know that Russia has lots of Waterfront properties and that the ones on the Black sea are very nice indeed (do you think that the Big Wigs ate potatoes ?).
Bit off topic but the idea of a bloke who doesn't realise that you should use LAND LOCKED countries for that gag making laws is very scary. Maybe there should be an entry exam for goverment....
In other words its still the same over here. And the reason is simple
THE US HAS TOO MANY LAWYERS
Which means they have an approach of grant and challenge (i.e. in the courts, long and expensive process for everyone involved, normally leads to might is right), rather than the European challenge and grant, which means academics and other interested parties can challenge it before its given. The later gives patents that are rarely over-turned and rarely granted, the former, lots of over-turns of lots of patents.
ITS THE LAWYERS MAKING MONEY HERE
Having Lawyer driven processes is bad... hell even Dan Quayle spotted that one on 8/13/91!
So that means its got a life expectancy of around 12 months everywhere else but the US. Add in time to manufacture and get running and this really is a bizarre agreement. Its like signing an agreement for 56k modems as everyone else moves to DSL.
Its a better phone (if a little big) because of the PDA functions, and the PDA is superb.
And its actually available in the US as the 9290. Nokia are very smooth also can be used as a terminal emulator to plug into a switch or firewall via the RS232 cable it comes with.
And as for the talking thing.... the Nokia has a full and very good speaker phone, so its open on my desk right now. You can do everything while on a call.
Umm two standards from Microsoft with one thing in common.....
Microsoft
Well what a suprise, in some ways this must be a massive boon to the people associated with Symbian as it means Microsoft has a fragmented strategy and is pissing off its partners. Could this be the beasts strategy for this market, lots of deals with lots of people so it doesn't progress anywhere ? Wait till Moore's law allows WindowsXP to run on Mobiles, probably 5 years by my calculations.
Reading the above I thought back to the heady days of 1999 when all of those old companies were going to go bust. Boo would win, Travelocity would crush everyone, Amazon would shutdown Borders, no-one would ever want to buy anything from a normal shop again.
Well call me wierd but I thought it was stupid back then. And I think the idea of not having Record Companies with marketing might and recording studios is also stupid.
The seperation of Art and Science was a creation of the "Arts and Crafts" movement in the Victorian era. Basically the Brits saw the educated French plebs doing better than their uneducated British counterparts and set out to match them. Unfortunately they asked a complete and utter berk called William Morris who argued that arts and science were different and arts should be held above.
Jon's article is wrong for many reasons, but the above is true. What Jon totally and utterly neglects is the fact that in most European countries except the UK there isn't this seperation. Engineers and Scientists are revered in France and Germany and when you say "I've got an Engineering Degree" people are impressed as they know its hard, if you say "I've got a degree in Marketing" they know you are a fool.
So Jon missed out the historical background (nice one) and presented an English speaking only view.
So much for the searching and inclusive nature of the internet.
D'Vinci ring a bell ? Michealangelo. For godsake the TERM Renaisance man was used, and is used, to describe someone who is able to work in BOTH fields. The idea of a multi-skilled individual who can approach the world from a new perspective. In the last 200 years the architect engineers who built the great buildings of the world were both as well. Was I.K. Brunel just an technology person or a man who created buildings, bridges etc that inspired ?
To say that this is new is to ignore centuries of history. And going even further back to the ancient Greek philosophers who pondered on matters of philiosophy, science, biology and art.
The phrase Total and Utter anal gazing muppetry comes to mind.
If this article was a post it would have a -2 mod count.
In order to get the laser printer working from their ethernet computer network (both of which they invented) they had to connect from one building to another. The "easiest" way was to use two lasers from the roof of the building. They had to bring it down as in the fog it was kind of distracting to neighbours and aircraft.
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By definition this is an unsolvable problem, because what it requires is definition of undefinition (if such a term exists). While you can make assumptions on unstructured data and apply Natural Language rules across it you are still left with the possibility that you've interpretted incorrectly. So to create definition in a loose format inherently requires you to assume its meaning, the rate of accuracy can be improved but absolutes are impossible to attain.
Simply put, if you don't understand what someone is talking about, you can make a reasonable guess and then refine it but you are always making assumptions.
To put in it simple terms for George W. Bush
All Muslims are Terrorists
All Supporters of Militia (McVeigh) are terrorists
Unstructured data is a great way to make money, and a great way to get 80% of the story, the trouble is the other 20% gets destroyed in the process.
Welcome to 1984, and a Brave New World, the minority will cease to count.
Take a load of not so bright people ask them to evaluate themselves
Take a load of brigh people ask them to evaluate themselves.
The average rating for the not so bright will be from above average to excellent
The average rating for the bright people will be from average to above average
Put them together in a room to talk about the ratings...
Not so bright group don't change their opinions, bright group now average Excellent.
A common study on perception on reality that most psyhc students have looked at.
Can't think of a group of people who care less about their customers ?
Here are two Jon
Tobacco and Gun companies, lob in the Defence industry, lawyers etc etc etc.
Maybe the problem is that actually its a fault of education, in the same country that has schools that don't think evolution is an idea you are suprised that technology isn't well taught. Schools censor technology because they are afraid of it, so people don't learn how to use is.
This isn't the result of big corps ignoring people, its a result of an industry that is 30 years old and has exploded in the last 10. How many people knew (or even know) how electric lights work when they came out ? Sure there is a gap between those who know and those who don't, there is that gap in terms of EVERYTHING, and most of the time it comes down to application and education.
And on the first point in the title, mobile phone usage varies across Europe, Finland leading the way. The vast generalisations from Jon apply yet again only to the US.
Tech Corps give users what they want, even if they don't understand it, that is what people want.... always remember...
They don't understand the software, they don't understand the hardware, but they can _see_ the flashing lights.
Here ? maybe where the phrase "fierce nomadic warriors" is used. Or possibly because of the fact that most tribes have the concept ot "warrior" when classifying members.
As for what you fight wars over... FOOD, Hunting Ranges etc etc. Wars don't have to be on a grand scale, 50 people v 50 people can still be a war to the 100 people involved.
Err you are kidding right ? Most Native American tribes would be classified as nomadic warriors. Sure they didn't have guns or heavy artillery but these were not zen buddist style people just looking for enlightenment.
History with Rose tinted glasses, the world where no "primitive" culture ever had a problem with war, murder, rape, incest. All of those problems are a result of the modern world.
And anyway... the Chinese are "White", Phonecians' were "white" ? Native Americans' are probably Russians anyway... damn commies
Java has become a ubiquitous development language on devices as diverse as mainframes and mobile phones. Inferno on the other hand has bugger all.
Like me saying "I believe that Fluffy dinosaurs rule the world" it says more about the gullibility of the believer than the statement.
See Microsoft and modular argument. Linux is modular (not that nice an impl IMO), so are the mainframe architectures. Only have one proc ? Don't install SMP. Don't need domaining, don't use it. Don't need X,Y,Z then don't use them. Having a standard OS platform from which you can build your targetted OS is the approach I was talking about. In the same way as you don't compile the ISA support into Linux if you don't need it.
OSes should be modular, the aim should be to get the best modules available from the best people to create the most flexible platform.
One size does not fit all, just look at the size of the SUSE distro.
Okay so Plan 9 is cool. Useful ? Probably not as it doesn't have any support or applications of note.
Where as Linux is a poorer OS from a next gen perspective but has the applications and support.
OS/390 is old school but has great memory management, io and SMP etc.
The first two are already open source, the third owned by the Big Blue Linux supporter. Wouldn't it be better to have a directed 2 year plan to create a merged platform ? The reality is that Linux right now is in the Bazaar and to get to that end game we need some form of Cathedral project to guide and drive. But picture the end game, a networked OS, with loads of apps, the best SMP, io, memory and domaining support you can get.
This would be the great killer platform for servers, and a kick-ass gaming platform.
Unfortunately it won't happen because the only people who could really run this successfully would be a combination of Bell Labs and Thomas J Watson. Damn that would be kick-ass, but Big Blue don't seem to want to take the lead in Linux, and the linux community probably wouldn't let them anyway.
Embedded XP, WinCE are modular, WindowsXP is... according to Microsoft a whole new platform that was a massive development undertaking.
And you are saying that as part of the WindowsXP development they couldn't do on a server what they can do on a PDA ?
The case here is bloke followed the law in his country, got on plane to other country, was arrested. The Russian company (people operating in Russian) obeyed Russian Laws. Bloke arrested when entered the US, for breaking US law while in Russia,
Now explain where the difference is. Yahoo.fr obeyed French Law, parent company didn't, Bloke obeyed Russian Law, then went on holiday to US...
Yahoo.fr is a subsiduary of Yahoo, therefore Yahoo has a physical presence (servers and employees) within France.
So where is the difference ?
If Yahoo aren't constrained by French laws then the obvious result is that US laws don't apply in Russia. Unless of course the judiciary are bigotted hypocrits who feel that their laws should apply to everyone.
Personally I'm betting on the later as I don't have a great deal of faith in the US system being consistent as its record is that it protects US interests rather than rules according to law. You could say "well so they should" but the effect of that is to mean that US courts are biased, and to be contraversial.... racist, as they judge an applicant by their nationality.
Don't know US Navy Smart Ships "crash" Feel like sitting still in open water ? Every one fucks up, some people manage to do it on an unlimted budget.
So where are the big films and the variation of 20+ years ago, where is the ground breaking Star Wars, the revolutionary 2001, the Hitchcocks, the acting of Bogart and Bacal.
Star Trek 4^100
Star Wars 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Yet another "Action adventure"
This is thanks to crap focus groups that also make sure every car looks the same. Mapping more customers can only help identify that 5% of people actually do like Trainspotting, Shallow Grave, but hate the Beach. Rather than asking a bunch of no marks with nothing better to do than fill in questionaires.
Err this moron does know that Russia has lots of Waterfront properties and that the ones on the Black sea are very nice indeed (do you think that the Big Wigs ate potatoes ?).
Bit off topic but the idea of a bloke who doesn't realise that you should use LAND LOCKED countries for that gag making laws is very scary. Maybe there should be an entry exam for goverment....
In other words its still the same over here. And the reason is simple
THE US HAS TOO MANY LAWYERS
Which means they have an approach of grant and challenge (i.e. in the courts, long and expensive process for everyone involved, normally leads to might is right), rather than the European challenge and grant, which means academics and other interested parties can challenge it before its given. The later gives patents that are rarely over-turned and rarely granted, the former, lots of over-turns of lots of patents.
ITS THE LAWYERS MAKING MONEY HERE
Having Lawyer driven processes is bad... hell even Dan Quayle spotted that one on 8/13/91!
So that means its got a life expectancy of around 12 months everywhere else but the US. Add in time to manufacture and get running and this really is a bizarre agreement. Its like signing an agreement for 56k modems as everyone else moves to DSL.
Its a better phone (if a little big) because of the PDA functions, and the PDA is superb.
And its actually available in the US as the 9290. Nokia are very smooth also can be used as a terminal emulator to plug into a switch or firewall via the RS232 cable it comes with.
And as for the talking thing.... the Nokia has a full and very good speaker phone, so its open on my desk right now. You can do everything while on a call.
Umm two standards from Microsoft with one thing in common.....
Microsoft
Well what a suprise, in some ways this must be a massive boon to the people associated with Symbian as it means Microsoft has a fragmented strategy and is pissing off its partners. Could this be the beasts strategy for this market, lots of deals with lots of people so it doesn't progress anywhere ? Wait till Moore's law allows WindowsXP to run on Mobiles, probably 5 years by my calculations.
Its okay for them to follow Chinese Laws and filter, but not okay for them to follow French laws.
Interesting hypocrisy isn't it ?
Steve
http://www.oism.org/pproject/s33p403.htm
IS INDEXED BY STATE. Isn't this a big enough hint ? So the UN, EU, Japan and every other nation on planet earth says that Global Warming Exists.
But the worlds largest polluter says that it doesn't.
Hint: Slobodan Milosevic says he is innocent too.....
Reading the above I thought back to the heady days of 1999 when all of those old companies were going to go bust. Boo would win, Travelocity would crush everyone, Amazon would shutdown Borders, no-one would ever want to buy anything from a normal shop again.
Well call me wierd but I thought it was stupid back then. And I think the idea of not having Record Companies with marketing might and recording studios is also stupid.
The seperation of Art and Science was a creation of the "Arts and Crafts" movement in the Victorian era. Basically the Brits saw the educated French plebs doing better than their uneducated British counterparts and set out to match them. Unfortunately they asked a complete and utter berk called William Morris who argued that arts and science were different and arts should be held above.
Jon's article is wrong for many reasons, but the above is true. What Jon totally and utterly neglects is the fact that in most European countries except the UK there isn't this seperation. Engineers and Scientists are revered in France and Germany and when you say "I've got an Engineering Degree" people are impressed as they know its hard, if you say "I've got a degree in Marketing" they know you are a fool.
So Jon missed out the historical background (nice one) and presented an English speaking only view.
So much for the searching and inclusive nature of the internet.
Technology and art have been seperate eh Jon ?
D'Vinci ring a bell ? Michealangelo. For godsake the TERM Renaisance man was used, and is used, to describe someone who is able to work in BOTH fields. The idea of a multi-skilled individual who can approach the world from a new perspective. In the last 200 years the architect engineers who built the great buildings of the world were both as well. Was I.K. Brunel just an technology person or a man who created buildings, bridges etc that inspired ?
To say that this is new is to ignore centuries of history. And going even further back to the ancient Greek philosophers who pondered on matters of philiosophy, science, biology and art.
The phrase Total and Utter anal gazing muppetry comes to mind.
If this article was a post it would have a -2 mod count.
In order to get the laser printer working from their ethernet computer network (both of which they invented) they had to connect from one building to another. The "easiest" way was to use two lasers from the roof of the building. They had to bring it down as in the fog it was kind of distracting to neighbours and aircraft.