"Do you know you have more nerve endings in your stomach than in your head? Look it up. Now somebody's gonna say, "I did look that up and it's wrong." Well mister, that's cause you looked it up in a book. Next time, try looking it up in your gut. I did. And my gut tells me that's how our nervous system works."
I'm not sure what is "real world" about spinning a UML box around another UML box in a giant (presumably) canvas-based javascript app.
For me, "real-world" means: is gmail fast enough? is opening a new tab fast? is image rendering fast enough? is html video fast enough? is the occasional embellished html5 animation fast enough? is typing into the address bar fast enough?
I'm sure their diagramming app is cool and everything, but I don't think I've ever seen anyone use anything like it, so I'm not sure what is "real world" about using it for a benchmark.
They even said that they altered the test in the middle to fix IE's performance problem. Come on.
I don't know anyone who has an iOS device that complains about lack of Flash. I know dozens upon dozens of people with iOS devices, some for years now.
It seems like most of the bitching about Flash comes from Flash developers who won't or can't port to Cocoa Touch or HTML 5. Which is fine by me, they are complaining about a vendor making a somewhat arbitrary technical decision that impacts their careers. I'd be pissed too if a large portion of my market was obviated practically overnight.
I believe it allows someone to pop a blu-ray disk into a ps3 (or any other standard player) and dump the output to a digital-perfect file. This was not possible previously. It's not something I would do, or could do with my time constraints, but I would expect many more huge torrents to emerge because of this.
I know little of this market and less about this game, but will those 130k players stick around in perpetuity? It's not as if a game subscription is like having electricity. Is it possible that there are informed forecasts that predict that there will be vastly fewer subscribers in short amount of time?
Just curious -- could a similar technique be used to derive the private key of a bank's ssl cert? If not, what's the difference. If so, why hasn't that been done to date? TIA.
Maybe they believe this because that is there daily experience.
I don't think it has to do with daily experience, at least not to the degree that you describe.
In nearly every sense of the word, I firmly believe that the earth revolves around the sun (or, at the least, that it's the most useful model, for the most purposes). Outside of physics exams, and maybe thinking about special effects in Star Wars, I have never had to consider exactly what this fact means. I don't have a daily experience with the earth revolving around the sun, but that's still the way I think about it. I don't think this has anything to do with blind faith in science, or with me completely understanding all the math and physics behind the heliocentric model. I accept it as fact because I was taught it, and I was taught other facts that support this viewpoint, and I've done quite well operating this way for my entire life so far.
However, if you ever came over to my place to help me in my small backyard garden, and you asked, "where will the sun be in the evening in the Fall?", I will gladly point to the place in the sky that the sun will "be". I don't really believe at all that the sun "will be there", but it's the best way to answer the question. Could you imagine trying to decide the location in which to plant a tomato expressed within a heliocentric model?!
Still, I want my kids to intuit a heliocentric model of the solar system, even though they will probably never have a "daily" experience that matches it. I don't think that this is any form of inappropriate indoctrination. There are contexts where each answer is appropriate, but for anyone who has reached sixth grade in the US in the last 50 years, the default answer should be the heliocentric answer. That's just my opinion.
By the way, in 9th grade science (physics? earth science? I forget...), in a school that is far from the best, we re-created the feather-and-lead experiment. Did you seriously not do the same? It doesn't take a great deal of equipment.
Yeah, I'm not talking about merely substituting that single word, I'm more curious about which one is actually conveyed in the question and therefore answered.
I've always been curious about how these polls that show that n% of the population believe geocentrism to be fact are conducted, but not curious enough to actually read up on them.
Do they ask, "do you think the sun revolves around the earth or vice versa?" -- implying a quick, pragmatic exposition of the subjects understanding of the matter.
Or, do they ask, "do you believe that the sun revolves around the earth?" -- implying that the subject has considered both choices and has come to some conclusion for himself?
I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing if someone has a day-to-day mental model that states that the sun "comes up in the morning" and "goes down at night". I do think it's a problem if ~1/5 of all Americans have spent some amount of time reasoning about both models and have some belief that geocentrism is fact.
Nearly every early elementary school classroom I've been in has some form of the typical solar system diagram (with the sun at the center), I'd be really surprised if ~1/5 of all students coming out of that experience would veto that model and "believe" that the Earth is at the center of the universe. I hope I'm not wrong...
If you dig a little further, you will learn that the iPad came first in Apple's R&D pipeline. They had to wait for some reason, and so they made the iPhone in the interim. If you've used the iOS SDK, it becomes pretty clear that it is not something that Apple just shoved out the door in 12 or 18 months or whatever it was. It's obvious that it had already had years of effort put into it. Perhaps the SDK was indeed intended only for iPad, and they rushed it out for iPhone due to popular demand, or perhaps it was a parallel effort. But it's not something Apple just cobbled together and shoved out the door and later updated to work with iPad. iOS was built for a tablet device from the beginning, IMO.
Also, with the advanced operating systems today, such as iOS and Android, it doesn't matter what their original release device or the intended device was. They are both equally flexible enough to be adjusted to and support multiple different resolutions, architectures, and other hardware.
The wildcard here is device and OS compatibility, which Apple obviously had thought through pretty well. While Android seems to just march forward ignoring it, creating a challenge for app developers. I don't have an Android device, but it is my understanding that it needs to be a phone to use their app marketplace, e.g. I'm not an Android dev, either, but from the sidelines, it looks like they just keep making things tougher for devs as time goes on. Not as bad as Rim or others, but not nearly as nice as iOS. My money is on the fact that the next revision of iPad will work with 99.999% of the apps out there. I'm not sure you could say the same for an Android tablet. Correct me if I'm wrong...
Would knowing, say, that the majority of interior shots (probably my home) are on one particular city block vs another really be worth that much more to an advertiser?
Yes. They can correlate it with property records and figure out who you are, what bank you have your mortgage with, how much you paid for your house, when you bought it, your likely income level, if you are married (more than one name on the mortgage) and that's just from the primary property records search in some states. Start cross-referencing it with other databases and my guess is that you'll have no secrets at all.
How does having gps data in some photos impact this? All that data is already aggregated and used for less-than-wholesome purposes. Companies like google and flickr already know your identity (or can easily deduce it), so what more info does some exif data leak to advertisers? If I'm a backhanded ad firm, and I get Facebook to sell me the fact that facebookuser02 likely lives at 123 main. Who cares? Aren't there far easier ways to ascertain that?
Note, this is a separate question from "what does this data leak to jewel thiefs or stalkers". I agree that sites should strip this data by default, but I fail to see why sites having tacit access to that data makes anything worse for the user.
After selling it to their advertising partners, of course...
Seems kinda pointless. I already get pretty damned accurate location-specific ads, presumably by just looking at my ip. When I connect to my employer's VPN, I get ads for things in the region that that data center is in...
Would knowing, say, that the majority of interior shots (probably my home) are on one particular city block vs another really be worth that much more to an advertiser?
Call me crazy, but is Star Wars even culturally relevant anymore? It feels like Disco at this point.
It is very much so, at least around here. Talk to virtually any 5-10 year old boy, and he will be very familiar with Star Wars. My own children went though a period of being fans, so I witnessed first-hand that it is still very appealing to young minds. It is such an elementary human story, put on in a very engaging production. I suspect that it will culturally relevant for generations.
Google Wave got plenty of coverage. It didn't take off because it was bad.
I think you are confusing Wave-the-technology with Wave-the-site, a la wave.google.com, pretty much the only existing implementation of Wave. The site has it's problems, but they are not fundamental to Wave. Wave is a protocol. It's like complaining that smtp sucks because sendmail configuration is a PITA.
Slashdot could benefit by using Wave in these ways:
1) In-place ajaxy updates to comments (not necessarily char-by-char, that would be a UI choice for the site owners...)
2) Better notifications (admittedly not a strong part of Wave, but it's gotten better and there is no fundamental reason why it should suck.)
3) Unicode support so people could easily add, eg, the Euro symbol to their comments.
4) A sane and transparent markup/formatting idiom.
5) Federation/aggregation with other forums.
6) Probably better spam/bot detection, although I'm not sure about this.
All this comes "for free" if a public forum backed it's discussions with Waves. Rely on the messaging experts (google) to provide the messaging software, and rely on site owners (slashdot) to provide the content.
You don't need to change the UI or the look-and-feel of the site, it would all be wired up in the backend.
And since the protocol is OSS, all the data is still stored and owned by the appropriate party.
I always thought that their webapp was just a demo of how the protocol works and what it could do. I for one was looking forward to forums such as slashdot changing their backend to Wave. There are so many great communities that have terrible software that could benefit from a robust backend that has all the cool features that Wave has.
It's not clear if the backend aspect of Wave is dead or not, but it kinda seems that way. And that's too bad. I guess the protocol is technically OSS, but it seems unlikely that an installable instance of it will ever come to be.
Part of the reason there is so much negative buzz about AT&T is that their network *does* suck in NYC and SF, and people from these areas make up a disproportional amount of the blogosphere and media.
Whenever I'm outside of these areas, AT&T is totally fine. But it's pretty well-known that trying to place a call on Friday afternoon in either NYC of SF is an exercise in futility.
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When I sent Google a bill, their first reaction was exactly what it should be: They would pay the market rate. They rang up to get my banking details for fund transfer, and that should have been the end of the matter.
Then they wrote to me saying that they wouldn't pay. They even denied publishing the images, which was clearly untrue. [snip]
I'm not an expert in the matters you address, but it seems like you are disingenuously presenting Google's side of the story. You imply that Google was ready to pay you for services rendered but then abruptly changed their mind to screw you out of some money. It seems far more likely that your bill landed on some underling's desk, they put it into their payment system which asked for details they didn't have, so they asked you. Then, during an audit or the approval process of the payment, someone with more context rejected the payment because they don't pay a licence for fair use. Whether or not it's fair use is obviously not for me to say, but I find it hard to believe that Google is just capriciously screwing people out of money owed.
I find it profoundly unsatisfying that you have to ask this question.
You are probably just put off by the title of this post. "Help Me Get My Math Back" is a presumptuous start to be sure, but his actual question is fine.
And his actual question is not what you addressed at all. He's just asking if you know of any place that has the information he needs in a format that is convenient to him. Your response is just a depressing and pointless toil at windmills.
What you say is certainly true. But let's say that you have an entry-level slr with a junky $50 lens, and then you suddenly have $500 to spend on your setup. Do you buy a fancier camera or a fancier lens?
Of course, if money is no object, more of everything will certainly improve things. But practically speaking, the vast majority of folks in the real world would be better off paying more attention to their glass rather than to their silicon.
A nice lens on a relatively limited camera will take amazing photos. A crappy lens on the best camera will not.
Christ, I know everyone has their own personal style and everything, but this is just pernicious.
Every is entitled to their own personal style, but context is also very important.
If you are writing a math-heavy algorithm in c, comments are crucial, both at the API level and within the implementation.
On the other hand, if you are writing a webapp in c#, an organizational mandate to "document every public method and public class" can be a huge waste of time if not harmful.
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"Do you know you have more nerve endings in your stomach than in your head? Look it up. Now somebody's gonna say, "I did look that up and it's wrong." Well mister, that's cause you looked it up in a book. Next time, try looking it up in your gut. I did. And my gut tells me that's how our nervous system works."
I'm not sure what is "real world" about spinning a UML box around another UML box in a giant (presumably) canvas-based javascript app.
For me, "real-world" means: is gmail fast enough? is opening a new tab fast? is image rendering fast enough? is html video fast enough? is the occasional embellished html5 animation fast enough? is typing into the address bar fast enough?
I'm sure their diagramming app is cool and everything, but I don't think I've ever seen anyone use anything like it, so I'm not sure what is "real world" about using it for a benchmark.
They even said that they altered the test in the middle to fix IE's performance problem. Come on.
If Flash matters to you, don't buy the iPad
I don't know anyone who has an iOS device that complains about lack of Flash. I know dozens upon dozens of people with iOS devices, some for years now.
It seems like most of the bitching about Flash comes from Flash developers who won't or can't port to Cocoa Touch or HTML 5. Which is fine by me, they are complaining about a vendor making a somewhat arbitrary technical decision that impacts their careers. I'd be pissed too if a large portion of my market was obviated practically overnight.
I believe it allows someone to pop a blu-ray disk into a ps3 (or any other standard player) and dump the output to a digital-perfect file. This was not possible previously. It's not something I would do, or could do with my time constraints, but I would expect many more huge torrents to emerge because of this.
I know little of this market and less about this game, but will those 130k players stick around in perpetuity? It's not as if a game subscription is like having electricity. Is it possible that there are informed forecasts that predict that there will be vastly fewer subscribers in short amount of time?
Just curious -- could a similar technique be used to derive the private key of a bank's ssl cert? If not, what's the difference. If so, why hasn't that been done to date? TIA.
Maybe they believe this because that is there daily experience.
I don't think it has to do with daily experience, at least not to the degree that you describe.
In nearly every sense of the word, I firmly believe that the earth revolves around the sun (or, at the least, that it's the most useful model, for the most purposes). Outside of physics exams, and maybe thinking about special effects in Star Wars, I have never had to consider exactly what this fact means. I don't have a daily experience with the earth revolving around the sun, but that's still the way I think about it. I don't think this has anything to do with blind faith in science, or with me completely understanding all the math and physics behind the heliocentric model. I accept it as fact because I was taught it, and I was taught other facts that support this viewpoint, and I've done quite well operating this way for my entire life so far.
However, if you ever came over to my place to help me in my small backyard garden, and you asked, "where will the sun be in the evening in the Fall?", I will gladly point to the place in the sky that the sun will "be". I don't really believe at all that the sun "will be there", but it's the best way to answer the question. Could you imagine trying to decide the location in which to plant a tomato expressed within a heliocentric model?!
Still, I want my kids to intuit a heliocentric model of the solar system, even though they will probably never have a "daily" experience that matches it. I don't think that this is any form of inappropriate indoctrination. There are contexts where each answer is appropriate, but for anyone who has reached sixth grade in the US in the last 50 years, the default answer should be the heliocentric answer. That's just my opinion.
By the way, in 9th grade science (physics? earth science? I forget...), in a school that is far from the best, we re-created the feather-and-lead experiment. Did you seriously not do the same? It doesn't take a great deal of equipment.
Yeah, I'm not talking about merely substituting that single word, I'm more curious about which one is actually conveyed in the question and therefore answered.
I've always been curious about how these polls that show that n% of the population believe geocentrism to be fact are conducted, but not curious enough to actually read up on them.
Do they ask, "do you think the sun revolves around the earth or vice versa?" -- implying a quick, pragmatic exposition of the subjects understanding of the matter.
Or, do they ask, "do you believe that the sun revolves around the earth?" -- implying that the subject has considered both choices and has come to some conclusion for himself?
I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing if someone has a day-to-day mental model that states that the sun "comes up in the morning" and "goes down at night". I do think it's a problem if ~1/5 of all Americans have spent some amount of time reasoning about both models and have some belief that geocentrism is fact.
Nearly every early elementary school classroom I've been in has some form of the typical solar system diagram (with the sun at the center), I'd be really surprised if ~1/5 of all students coming out of that experience would veto that model and "believe" that the Earth is at the center of the universe. I hope I'm not wrong...
iOS on the other hand, was inteded for a tablet style device.
No, it was iPhone OS before it was iOS.
If you dig a little further, you will learn that the iPad came first in Apple's R&D pipeline. They had to wait for some reason, and so they made the iPhone in the interim. If you've used the iOS SDK, it becomes pretty clear that it is not something that Apple just shoved out the door in 12 or 18 months or whatever it was. It's obvious that it had already had years of effort put into it. Perhaps the SDK was indeed intended only for iPad, and they rushed it out for iPhone due to popular demand, or perhaps it was a parallel effort. But it's not something Apple just cobbled together and shoved out the door and later updated to work with iPad. iOS was built for a tablet device from the beginning, IMO.
Also, with the advanced operating systems today, such as iOS and Android, it doesn't matter what their original release device or the intended device was. They are both equally flexible enough to be adjusted to and support multiple different resolutions, architectures, and other hardware.
The wildcard here is device and OS compatibility, which Apple obviously had thought through pretty well. While Android seems to just march forward ignoring it, creating a challenge for app developers. I don't have an Android device, but it is my understanding that it needs to be a phone to use their app marketplace, e.g. I'm not an Android dev, either, but from the sidelines, it looks like they just keep making things tougher for devs as time goes on. Not as bad as Rim or others, but not nearly as nice as iOS. My money is on the fact that the next revision of iPad will work with 99.999% of the apps out there. I'm not sure you could say the same for an Android tablet. Correct me if I'm wrong...
What a shitty post.
What is the purpose of the secondary engine that is ejected a couple seconds after lift off? TIA.
Would knowing, say, that the majority of interior shots (probably my home) are on one particular city block vs another really be worth that much more to an advertiser?
Yes. They can correlate it with property records and figure out who you are, what bank you have your mortgage with, how much you paid for your house, when you bought it, your likely income level, if you are married (more than one name on the mortgage) and that's just from the primary property records search in some states. Start cross-referencing it with other databases and my guess is that you'll have no secrets at all.
How does having gps data in some photos impact this? All that data is already aggregated and used for less-than-wholesome purposes. Companies like google and flickr already know your identity (or can easily deduce it), so what more info does some exif data leak to advertisers? If I'm a backhanded ad firm, and I get Facebook to sell me the fact that facebookuser02 likely lives at 123 main. Who cares? Aren't there far easier ways to ascertain that?
Note, this is a separate question from "what does this data leak to jewel thiefs or stalkers". I agree that sites should strip this data by default, but I fail to see why sites having tacit access to that data makes anything worse for the user.
After selling it to their advertising partners, of course...
Seems kinda pointless. I already get pretty damned accurate location-specific ads, presumably by just looking at my ip. When I connect to my employer's VPN, I get ads for things in the region that that data center is in...
Would knowing, say, that the majority of interior shots (probably my home) are on one particular city block vs another really be worth that much more to an advertiser?
Call me crazy, but is Star Wars even culturally relevant anymore? It feels like Disco at this point.
It is very much so, at least around here. Talk to virtually any 5-10 year old boy, and he will be very familiar with Star Wars. My own children went though a period of being fans, so I witnessed first-hand that it is still very appealing to young minds. It is such an elementary human story, put on in a very engaging production. I suspect that it will culturally relevant for generations.
Google Wave got plenty of coverage. It didn't take off because it was bad.
I think you are confusing Wave-the-technology with Wave-the-site, a la wave.google.com, pretty much the only existing implementation of Wave. The site has it's problems, but they are not fundamental to Wave. Wave is a protocol. It's like complaining that smtp sucks because sendmail configuration is a PITA.
Slashdot could benefit by using Wave in these ways:
1) In-place ajaxy updates to comments (not necessarily char-by-char, that would be a UI choice for the site owners...)
2) Better notifications (admittedly not a strong part of Wave, but it's gotten better and there is no fundamental reason why it should suck.)
3) Unicode support so people could easily add, eg, the Euro symbol to their comments.
4) A sane and transparent markup/formatting idiom.
5) Federation/aggregation with other forums.
6) Probably better spam/bot detection, although I'm not sure about this.
All this comes "for free" if a public forum backed it's discussions with Waves. Rely on the messaging experts (google) to provide the messaging software, and rely on site owners (slashdot) to provide the content.
You don't need to change the UI or the look-and-feel of the site, it would all be wired up in the backend.
And since the protocol is OSS, all the data is still stored and owned by the appropriate party.
At least, that's the way I saw it before today...
I always thought that their webapp was just a demo of how the protocol works and what it could do. I for one was looking forward to forums such as slashdot changing their backend to Wave. There are so many great communities that have terrible software that could benefit from a robust backend that has all the cool features that Wave has.
It's not clear if the backend aspect of Wave is dead or not, but it kinda seems that way. And that's too bad. I guess the protocol is technically OSS, but it seems unlikely that an installable instance of it will ever come to be.
Part of the reason there is so much negative buzz about AT&T is that their network *does* suck in NYC and SF, and people from these areas make up a disproportional amount of the blogosphere and media.
Whenever I'm outside of these areas, AT&T is totally fine. But it's pretty well-known that trying to place a call on Friday afternoon in either NYC of SF is an exercise in futility.
See also: "We can hear you..."
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When I sent Google a bill, their first reaction was exactly what it should be: They would pay the market rate. They rang up to get my banking details for fund transfer, and that should have been the end of the matter.
Then they wrote to me saying that they wouldn't pay. They even denied publishing the images, which was clearly untrue. [snip]
I'm not an expert in the matters you address, but it seems like you are disingenuously presenting Google's side of the story. You imply that Google was ready to pay you for services rendered but then abruptly changed their mind to screw you out of some money. It seems far more likely that your bill landed on some underling's desk, they put it into their payment system which asked for details they didn't have, so they asked you. Then, during an audit or the approval process of the payment, someone with more context rejected the payment because they don't pay a licence for fair use. Whether or not it's fair use is obviously not for me to say, but I find it hard to believe that Google is just capriciously screwing people out of money owed.
I find it profoundly unsatisfying that you have to ask this question.
You are probably just put off by the title of this post. "Help Me Get My Math Back" is a presumptuous start to be sure, but his actual question is fine.
And his actual question is not what you addressed at all. He's just asking if you know of any place that has the information he needs in a format that is convenient to him. Your response is just a depressing and pointless toil at windmills.
What you say is certainly true. But let's say that you have an entry-level slr with a junky $50 lens, and then you suddenly have $500 to spend on your setup. Do you buy a fancier camera or a fancier lens?
Of course, if money is no object, more of everything will certainly improve things. But practically speaking, the vast majority of folks in the real world would be better off paying more attention to their glass rather than to their silicon.
A nice lens on a relatively limited camera will take amazing photos. A crappy lens on the best camera will not.
Christ, I know everyone has their own personal style and everything, but this is just pernicious.
Every is entitled to their own personal style, but context is also very important.
If you are writing a math-heavy algorithm in c, comments are crucial, both at the API level and within the implementation.
On the other hand, if you are writing a webapp in c#, an organizational mandate to "document every public method and public class" can be a huge waste of time if not harmful.