You're missing the point. The Senate was not meant to be a House of Lords - it was created in order to give small states an equal standing with larger states, while at the same time allowing larger states to have more representation in the House. Moreover, ensuring that the legislative branch is elected rather than appointed is an important check on the executive branch, since the executive branch chooses the justices of the Supreme Court (the judicial branch). Since the Senate must approve the choice of justices that the executive branch makes, it's important that the Senate is not chosen by the executive branch as well.
I used to type with two fingers, and averaged about 75 WPM with 90% accuracy. Granted, I do type faster now that I use all five fingers (the links up there gave me 108 WPM at 95% accuracy), but I didn't have a problem typing with only two fingers. The keyboard makes a difference, though - like you, I have a hard time typing on ergonomic keyboards. Laptop keyboards are odd, too. Some I can type faster on, and some I can barely break 50 WPM on.
Natural language can be very difficult for machines to parse properly, though it would obviously be very easy for humans to understand. I agree, though: If a good enough (and fast enough) natural language parser existed, we could build the semantic web using the content of the existing web.
XML is still slated to achieve the semantic web - it's just XML + RDF + another language on top (looks like OWL right now, but it's been changing for a very long time). Unfortunately, it has become a nightmare to annotate a page for use on the semantic web in this fashion. I know: I've tried.
In any case, search engines would still have to exist, though they would probably exist as a chain of agents each sending queries to other agents.
I find it interesting that the article compared semantic web logic to highschool logic; the semantic web uses first-order logic, which is typically the sort of logic you'd learn in a college-level AI class. The logic isn't the difficult part, though - it's the syntax that's difficult to add, as I said above.
Prions would make a poor choice for biological warfare because they only seem to spread via ingestion or direct contamination (such as via surgical supplies). You can't "drop" a prion on a population; you'd have to inject it into something and hope that people or other animals eat it.
He seems to have composed very little, if any, music. It looks like he just came up with lyrics for most (probably all) of the albums on that site. Not to demean lyric writers (some songs are really augmented by great lyrics), but that just doesn't measure up to actual composition in my eyes.
Writing XHTML is nothing compared to writing a semantic web annotated page. Not only do you have to worry about how the content will look, but you have to worry about how other sorts of agents will interpret it. Everything is done in an extended form of RDF (which itself is pretty much an extension of XML). The proposed languages have changed over time, from the (rather easy) SHOE meta-tag language, to the (more difficult) DAML, and finally to the current language, OWL, which is an absolute nightmare to write, especially in the full version, where there is nothing that says a page can be reasoned in finite time.
The W3C is pretty dead set on transitioning to the Semantic Web over the next few decades. XHTML is just one step on that path.
The University of Toronto is a big name in the field of AI, particularly logical reasoning and cognitive robotics. They've put out a lot of papers and software, and are responsible for the Golog language. Considering that these technologies may very well end up in the semantic web, among other future widespread technologies, it might be a bad idea to ignore what's going on over there. Corporate adoption dictates what the current trend is, but educational adoption predicts what the trend will be in the next decade or two.
There were at least two systems set up that did this beforehand: IP2Geo and Net2Geo. I did all sorts of research on this because I'm very close to releasing an application that looks up geographic information based upon IP.
If you're already out of college, you probably missed an opportunity to get professional experience. Most professors will give you a job without even requiring a resume, because they've already judged your performance and knowledge of a technology for a semester. It does take some luck, but if you get a job with a professor, you probably won't need any past experience, but you'll come out with some.
Internships are good too, because the companies usually require applicants to take certain courses, rather than assuming proficiency based upon experience.
Once you're out of college, you kind of have to rely on your networking skills and your degree to make up for your lack of professional experience.
That probably counts all of the cancelled screen names that they never bothered removing as well as the active ones. I have a couple of screen names from way back that I can't use with AIM because AOL never got rid of them.
They probably count AIM, CompuServe, and perhaps Netscape screen names as well, and then there is the point that the other posters made: People typically have more than one screen name.
I could have gotten the first post, but I'll write a long-winded and hopefully helpful response instead of the one liner I'd need to keep it that way... and probably end up with a post that never gets read:)
I'm an INTJ (Myers-Briggs tested) and a junior in college (Major - Computer Science, Minor - Mathematics). I'm currently working as a math tutor and a software developer for the AQUAINT project, which is an ARDA-funded question and answer system. I'm also working with ontologies and the semantic web a lot as a side project until I'm able to devote more time to AQUAINT. I seem to share a lot of traits with you, so I'll try to give any advice I think particularly relevant to myself. Here's what I've thought of from my own transition:
I do very well with the responsibility I'm expected to carry in college. I resent people who continue to treat me like a child, but fortunately, there aren't too many left. Even the crowd that traditionally likes to make fun of my sort accepts me in a college environment.
My GPA has shot up drastically since highschool. I was barely maintaining a 3.0 in highschool; now I have a 3.96 (and only because of one anal professor). This could be, in part, because my highschool GPA was an underestimate, therefore I ended up in an easier college than I should have.
If you catch a professor's attention and you are proficient at what you do, you may very well end up with a job. Unless you have some objection, you should probably take it, since it usually leads to something bigger and may very well start your career off with an advantage.
I've found that it pays to specialize a bit in college, but not so much as to lose other potentially valuable skills. In particular, I tried some new things, and found out I was a great composer of music. I guess the lesson here is to try new things, but concentrate on what you're good at.
To summarize, college is a time of ideals and opportunities. Make sure not to get bogged down in the rest of the reality of college, because the next 4 years will literally determine the course of a good part of your life. Make sure to get the most you can out of them.
As for what I would have done differently, I suppose I should have looked into residential life. I saw the dorms and immediately said "I am not living there", but I may have very well missed out on a good deal of what "college" is.
I would have taken a lighter course load had I known what I was getting into. I don't have much free time left after 18 credits of class and two part-time jobs on the side. I'd also have taken my friends' advice sooner and "loosened up" a bit more. I'm a very uptight person by nature, but there isn't really a reason for it; everyone seems a lot less judgemental in college.
Best of luck, and feel free to contact me if you want to share experiences or anything.
Are you sure it's dell's fault that you can't get the drivers, rather than the graphics card manufacturer's fault? I've had all sorts of problems getting a driver for my Radeon IGP in Windows, as ATI and HP kept bouncing me back and forth, each saying the other would provide me with the drivers, and that's nothing compared with all the hoops I had to jump through to get a driver that supports DRI in Linux. Even when I did find a driver, it was an unofficial one.
In this case, it isn't the immune system fighting - it's the anti-HIV virus doing the fighting. Although I'm not a doctor, I imagine this could be effective even for those with full blown AIDS, perhaps even moreso because the immune system cannot fight the anti-HIV virus.
Any language that allows includes to be passed both variables and URLs is not good in my book. I've seen many a cross site scripting exploit used against PHP scripts (most of them in free message board systems), and most of the time it results in the attacker executing arbitrary commands as whatever user PHP is running as. Yes, the script itself can verify that its information is correct, or at least exclude the malicious information, but that burden shouldn't rest on the scripter every time he wants to include something, IMO.
There are still software drivers such as TotalRecorder which are able to record outgoing audio as an input stream. I'm not sure of this, but I imagine that that sort of thing doesn't suffer the loss of quality that trying to recapture the sound after it's been outputted does.
One of the best things you can do in college is to impress your Comp. Sci. professors, IMO. Not only do many of them have business connections, but working with a professor on a research paper or project looks great on a resume. Some of them will pay you to work on these projects as well, and usually at substantially higher pay rates than you'd find elsewhere on campus.
I don't want to get into a political debate, particularly not with a parent post that may be considered a troll, but using your evidence:
"President Clinton (1998): 'One way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the
capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver them. That is our bottom line.'"
"In 2002, Al Gore said, 'We know that
he has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country.'"
That's quite a logical leap in four years. It's possible that Iraq developed the aforementioned weapons in four years, but based on what the troops found in the country, such a program would be in its infancy at best.
Seriously, though, that wouldn't be cost-efficient. What's the point of including enough storage on every card to hold a kernel when you can still only use that card at an ATM? IMO, a credit card is more like a USB key than anything else: It's just a means of authentication used in accessing the ATM system.
Does anyone else see a parallel between SCO's allegations and the McCarthy hearings? If we can learn one thing from the trials, it's that the government is the last entity you want to accuse when you don't have firm ground to stand on.
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You're missing the point. The Senate was not meant to be a House of Lords - it was created in order to give small states an equal standing with larger states, while at the same time allowing larger states to have more representation in the House. Moreover, ensuring that the legislative branch is elected rather than appointed is an important check on the executive branch, since the executive branch chooses the justices of the Supreme Court (the judicial branch). Since the Senate must approve the choice of justices that the executive branch makes, it's important that the Senate is not chosen by the executive branch as well.
I used to type with two fingers, and averaged about 75 WPM with 90% accuracy. Granted, I do type faster now that I use all five fingers (the links up there gave me 108 WPM at 95% accuracy), but I didn't have a problem typing with only two fingers. The keyboard makes a difference, though - like you, I have a hard time typing on ergonomic keyboards. Laptop keyboards are odd, too. Some I can type faster on, and some I can barely break 50 WPM on.
Natural language can be very difficult for machines to parse properly, though it would obviously be very easy for humans to understand. I agree, though: If a good enough (and fast enough) natural language parser existed, we could build the semantic web using the content of the existing web.
XML is still slated to achieve the semantic web - it's just XML + RDF + another language on top (looks like OWL right now, but it's been changing for a very long time). Unfortunately, it has become a nightmare to annotate a page for use on the semantic web in this fashion. I know: I've tried.
In any case, search engines would still have to exist, though they would probably exist as a chain of agents each sending queries to other agents.
I find it interesting that the article compared semantic web logic to highschool logic; the semantic web uses first-order logic, which is typically the sort of logic you'd learn in a college-level AI class. The logic isn't the difficult part, though - it's the syntax that's difficult to add, as I said above.
Prions would make a poor choice for biological warfare because they only seem to spread via ingestion or direct contamination (such as via surgical supplies). You can't "drop" a prion on a population; you'd have to inject it into something and hope that people or other animals eat it.
He seems to have composed very little, if any, music. It looks like he just came up with lyrics for most (probably all) of the albums on that site. Not to demean lyric writers (some songs are really augmented by great lyrics), but that just doesn't measure up to actual composition in my eyes.
Writing XHTML is nothing compared to writing a semantic web annotated page. Not only do you have to worry about how the content will look, but you have to worry about how other sorts of agents will interpret it. Everything is done in an extended form of RDF (which itself is pretty much an extension of XML). The proposed languages have changed over time, from the (rather easy) SHOE meta-tag language, to the (more difficult) DAML, and finally to the current language, OWL, which is an absolute nightmare to write, especially in the full version, where there is nothing that says a page can be reasoned in finite time.
The W3C is pretty dead set on transitioning to the Semantic Web over the next few decades. XHTML is just one step on that path.
The University of Toronto is a big name in the field of AI, particularly logical reasoning and cognitive robotics. They've put out a lot of papers and software, and are responsible for the Golog language. Considering that these technologies may very well end up in the semantic web, among other future widespread technologies, it might be a bad idea to ignore what's going on over there. Corporate adoption dictates what the current trend is, but educational adoption predicts what the trend will be in the next decade or two.
That's an awfully bad company name to associate with antennas, considering some people are nervous about them to begin with.
There were at least two systems set up that did this beforehand: IP2Geo and Net2Geo. I did all sorts of research on this because I'm very close to releasing an application that looks up geographic information based upon IP.
If you're already out of college, you probably missed an opportunity to get professional experience. Most professors will give you a job without even requiring a resume, because they've already judged your performance and knowledge of a technology for a semester. It does take some luck, but if you get a job with a professor, you probably won't need any past experience, but you'll come out with some.
Internships are good too, because the companies usually require applicants to take certain courses, rather than assuming proficiency based upon experience.
Once you're out of college, you kind of have to rely on your networking skills and your degree to make up for your lack of professional experience.
That probably counts all of the cancelled screen names that they never bothered removing as well as the active ones. I have a couple of screen names from way back that I can't use with AIM because AOL never got rid of them. They probably count AIM, CompuServe, and perhaps Netscape screen names as well, and then there is the point that the other posters made: People typically have more than one screen name.
http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.asp ?CID=N00007068&cycle=2004
I'm an INTJ (Myers-Briggs tested) and a junior in college (Major - Computer Science, Minor - Mathematics). I'm currently working as a math tutor and a software developer for the AQUAINT project, which is an ARDA-funded question and answer system. I'm also working with ontologies and the semantic web a lot as a side project until I'm able to devote more time to AQUAINT. I seem to share a lot of traits with you, so I'll try to give any advice I think particularly relevant to myself. Here's what I've thought of from my own transition:
As for what I would have done differently, I suppose I should have looked into residential life. I saw the dorms and immediately said "I am not living there", but I may have very well missed out on a good deal of what "college" is.
I would have taken a lighter course load had I known what I was getting into. I don't have much free time left after 18 credits of class and two part-time jobs on the side. I'd also have taken my friends' advice sooner and "loosened up" a bit more. I'm a very uptight person by nature, but there isn't really a reason for it; everyone seems a lot less judgemental in college.
Best of luck, and feel free to contact me if you want to share experiences or anything.
It's been tried before. Remember Nachi/Welchia? That only added to the congestion that the MyDoom worm caused.
Are you sure it's dell's fault that you can't get the drivers, rather than the graphics card manufacturer's fault? I've had all sorts of problems getting a driver for my Radeon IGP in Windows, as ATI and HP kept bouncing me back and forth, each saying the other would provide me with the drivers, and that's nothing compared with all the hoops I had to jump through to get a driver that supports DRI in Linux. Even when I did find a driver, it was an unofficial one.
In this case, it isn't the immune system fighting - it's the anti-HIV virus doing the fighting. Although I'm not a doctor, I imagine this could be effective even for those with full blown AIDS, perhaps even moreso because the immune system cannot fight the anti-HIV virus.
Any language that allows includes to be passed both variables and URLs is not good in my book. I've seen many a cross site scripting exploit used against PHP scripts (most of them in free message board systems), and most of the time it results in the attacker executing arbitrary commands as whatever user PHP is running as. Yes, the script itself can verify that its information is correct, or at least exclude the malicious information, but that burden shouldn't rest on the scripter every time he wants to include something, IMO.
There are still software drivers such as TotalRecorder which are able to record outgoing audio as an input stream. I'm not sure of this, but I imagine that that sort of thing doesn't suffer the loss of quality that trying to recapture the sound after it's been outputted does.
One of the best things you can do in college is to impress your Comp. Sci. professors, IMO. Not only do many of them have business connections, but working with a professor on a research paper or project looks great on a resume. Some of them will pay you to work on these projects as well, and usually at substantially higher pay rates than you'd find elsewhere on campus.
That's quite a logical leap in four years. It's possible that Iraq developed the aforementioned weapons in four years, but based on what the troops found in the country, such a program would be in its infancy at best.
Gives a new meaning to the term "microkernel".
Seriously, though, that wouldn't be cost-efficient. What's the point of including enough storage on every card to hold a kernel when you can still only use that card at an ATM? IMO, a credit card is more like a USB key than anything else: It's just a means of authentication used in accessing the ATM system.
Does anyone else see a parallel between SCO's allegations and the McCarthy hearings? If we can learn one thing from the trials, it's that the government is the last entity you want to accuse when you don't have firm ground to stand on.