While I know you were making a joke youre point was actually insightful. Namely the browser speed wars is something of a game of leapfrog. Any browser that is reasonably fast is a good browsers. But what matters is that the browser maker keeps the browser among the best at all time.
That is to say if every 3 years browser X gets a big update and becomes the fastest for a few months and then gets severely eclipsed for 2 years. it's not the best browser.
Speaking of Karma hell, a good example of this is Thunderbird email which occasionally shines but then goes and wnaders in the woods for years at a time
THis may turn out to be a classic economics case of the tragedy of the commons.
let's say that if I use P4P that the total path length (i.e. measured in router hops, or cable value, not distance) traversed by my data is less thereby not utilizing as much network resources. However suppose that by voluntarily restricting myself to nearby peers that my download time increases by a factor of 50% (just to make something up). Personally it costs me no more if I use P2P while everyone else is volunteering to use p4p. I'll get my downloads 50% faster and the heck with everyone else.
Of course if everyone did that then, more network resources are consumed than neccessary, the costs of my ISP rise and my downloads are slower.
But as an individual, if everyone else is obeying p4p I have an incentive to selfishly use p2p.
Thus the corporate pay-networks that can actively manage peering altruism and force users to obey to resptrict themsleves to local peers over remote peers can pull this off. They can prevent defections and get better netowrk utilization and possibly even better average performance to boot.
Whereas on voluntary networks p2p may be harder to enforce locality. It would have to be a new bit-torrent protocol in which peers would shun or share less often any nodes with long ping times.
the real turing test is being able to Phish in a chat room. One you can automate that you're golden. and it's pretty unarguable it passed a turing test. Slashdot had a article a while back about robo-chats doing just that but they relied on pretending to be non-native english speakers.
I wonder if it's easier to do this in Japanese than English. From what I've read Japanese is easier to text message in because the object and direct object are usually inferred and there are no cases or articles. A single sentence can be one character and just a verb. Thus by constraining the nuance into discrete choices rather than sparsely populated product space of self-consistent cases, predicates and adjectives, perhaps japanese would be easier to generate turing worthy text.
Or maybe the reverse is true. But I'd bet one was a lot easier than the other.
Oh, well. At least they tried. I'm sure some of these sounded content free to you. They did to me too. But this is also partly because you have a deaf ear to military issues. Since I've done some contracts for the military I could read some of the answers with more nuance.
one of the most accurate answers he gave was on the retention issue. One of the reason I love working with military folks is they tend to be so energized by their work because it makes a difference. Working on actuator controls is cool but Working on actuator controls that are connected to neurally driven prosthetics or if they fail will kill a pilot is a whole different level of excitement.
Army reaserch folks also tend not to worry so much about money and grants because the army mostly takes care of their salaries and offers them opportunities that matter. It's sort of like academia but with all the crappy parts taken out, all the drivel research filtered out by the simple question of will it help a warfighter, and then other people committed to transitioning any superior products you create to practice.
His answer about retention was thus spot on. People join the military for a constellation if irrelevant reasons, and some find a powerful incentive to stay when they see that merit and loylaty are rewarded. What we hear on the outside of course are all the isolated cases where merit and loyalty were not rewarded because those are the reasons those folks left.
Open source voting (see for example Open voting consortium) could use some devoted polishing and completion. Given the design principles are well worked out so that show stopping pitfalls will be avoided, it's due for some proper craftsmanship.
A person working on this could have worldwide lasting impact.
another project might be a YAML C++ library and the equivalent of XSLT for YAML.
Limited Edition Digital Music is an oxymoron unless there is DRE or watermarking. Is "individually" signed and number copies a euphemism for Wathermarking, and "we're watching you"?
Thanks. I tried to install fox die in Firefox 2 and nothing happened. The instructions on the mozilla site seem a bit cryptic. It asks you yo edit a file in a path that does not exist on my computer. that is it asks me to edit
xxxxxxx.default/chrome/...
I don't have anything at that point with a suffix defaults. I do have myname and defaults.eds there and thesedo have the chrome files. But when I edit the files as requested and restart nothing actually changes. In my add-on themes foxdie is the selected theme.
got a clue for me?
Been reading the pdf the past days, and altough it seems as if there was many sensible voices over at microsoft, they had to much of a momentum forward, making it hard to change directions midcourse. it's really a pain reading those letters knowing what vista ended up at. I'm just hoping to find a reference like "this is ME all over again" somewhere in those letters, would have been so nice to hear that from the horses mouth:)
When you take thoe inferrence and combine them with the slashdot article last week about how the head honcho on vista was trying to get it out the door so he could move over to Amazon in time to collect his signing bonus then it all sort of makes sense. Inadvertently Amazon did cause vista to become a speeding train and heedless of the warnings being raised internally.
My favorite part of the e-mails was where they show how they massively screwed HP and ignored Walmart. I suspect they will wind up paying for this one way or another in vendor credibility.
This retreat took at least one OEM, Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HP), by complete surprise, as this late-January 2006 e-mail showed:
In our August 7x7 with HP you both [Jim Allchin, Co-President Platforms & Services at the time, and Senior VP Will Poole] committed to HP that we would not move off the WDDM requirement and HP made significant product road map changes to support graphics for the full Vista experience. Ramano [John Romano, Senior VP of HP's Consumer PC Group] specifically told Jim that HP will invest in graphics if MS would give him 100% assurance that we would not budge for Intel. This goes beyond desktop for HP as their mobile guys moved off 915 early for the same reasons. it doesn't just work
The problem with the "Capable" program is that the customer who buys a "Capable" machine and Vista retail does not know that "Vista Capable" != everything just works. The bar for getting such a sticker was/is too low or the marketing around the sticker was/is not specific enough as to what it actually means; Vista installs, runs but there is no actual submissions of systems going through any sort of "Vista Capable" experience validation (as opposed to what happens in the actual DFW [Designed for Windows] Logo program). Microsoft's current predicament might be best summarized by this e-mail describing a February 2006 meeting:
Wal-Mart was very vocal today regarding the Windows Vista Capable messaging. They are extremely disappointed in the fact that standards were lowered and feel like customer confusion will ensue.... They also went so far as to say they wish Windows Home Basic was not even in the SKU lineup.... Please give this some consideration; it would be a lot less costly to do the right thing for the customer now than to spend dollars on the back end trying to fix the problem.
You may recall the Taiwanese router vendor that put backdoors in their routers (no one every explained why that I recall). And then there's all the picture frames and thumb drives that inject viruses.
If someone is producing un-lic gear why not pick up a few more bucks on offer to add compromises.
Why not go cheap on the capacitors or the solder? not like it will hurt your brand rep.
because as he plainly said, they wanted the old apps using web kit not to suddenly run slower. As those apps are updated to set the public defaults then they can remove the behaviour from WebKit. that's what he said.
The Slashdot summary is accusing Apple of reserving the tasty bits for safari, but the article shows that it's webkit not safari that knows the shorcuts. Anyone is free to use webkit. it's apples optimized interface for applications. If Firefox chooses not to use it well I can understand why but they need to accept that their interface may not be as optimized.
Indeed what apple is doing does not seem that out of whack. They have an interface that is optimized for stability not speed. That's the proper way to do it. and they figure out how one can tweak it for speed. Do you make that the defaults or do you put those in a container like webkit where one can manage the tradeoffs better? duh...
Google and many other universities already have program in recruiting people to do things computers can't do well. One of those that google already uses is image tagging. Show images and ask people to write down words of what's in them. So they could simply do this with two or three images they recently obtained good label sets for. They could even throw in a fourth not-yet known labeled image and use the sign-up process to gather new image labels.
There's all sorts of hard problems like this. Another single player game is to show an image with a lot of things in it. Then give a word describing one aspect of the image and ask them to click on the part of the image that conveys that meaning.
The if you have many concurrent sign-ups there lots of two player games both symmetric and assymetric. a short chat session in the vein of the game "password" in which one person makes a series statements about an object ("it is liquid", it is white, it is tasty, you find it in the refrigerator of many homes", it comes from cows....) and the other person has to reply with "milk". Then both players are validated.
The last is a very useful AI product by the way especially if the first player is forced to use a controlled grammar where he just fills in some of the nouns or verbs but does not construct the sentence forms. This gathers a set of true assertions about an object that allow computers to learn semantics and meaning.
You are comparing the Lenovo to the wrong machine. For tour usage pattern, you discount thickness and weight, but like more screen, built-in ports and a DVD. Why not get a macbook pro? But in that fight the Lenovo really takes a dive.
Damning with faint praise. While he is appearing even handed he says the bottom line.
Smaller disk (with zero advantages on speed or battery) shorter battery life thicker and heavier. slower CPU 80% higher price. Screen is awkward for airline seats. No lit keyboard
What does it offer in return to make up? You get to lug a DVD player, you get one higher resolution screen mode, and you get optional GPS support. Whooptee doo.
The Air has dongles for Ethernet and you can bring along a USB powered DVD if you really need constantly while it on travel. You mean you really are not bringing along a should bag you could slip a DVD player into? Good then you don't need that DVD with you all the time, like say in the conference room where being a pound lighter, and having a lit KB and much longer battery will make all the difference.
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While I know you were making a joke youre point was actually insightful. Namely the browser speed wars is something of a game of leapfrog. Any browser that is reasonably fast is a good browsers. But what matters is that the browser maker keeps the browser among the best at all time.
That is to say if every 3 years browser X gets a big update and becomes the fastest for a few months and then gets severely eclipsed for 2 years. it's not the best browser.
Speaking of Karma hell, a good example of this is Thunderbird email which occasionally shines but then goes and wnaders in the woods for years at a time
or visa versa
2P or not 2P that is the question.
THis may turn out to be a classic economics case of the tragedy of the commons.
let's say that if I use P4P that the total path length (i.e. measured in router hops, or cable value, not distance) traversed by my data is less thereby not utilizing as much network resources. However suppose that by voluntarily restricting myself to nearby peers that my download time increases by a factor of 50% (just to make something up). Personally it costs me no more if I use P2P while everyone else is volunteering to use p4p. I'll get my downloads 50% faster and the heck with everyone else.
Of course if everyone did that then, more network resources are consumed than neccessary, the costs of my ISP rise and my downloads are slower.
But as an individual, if everyone else is obeying p4p I have an incentive to selfishly use p2p.
Thus the corporate pay-networks that can actively manage peering altruism and force users to obey to resptrict themsleves to local peers over remote peers can pull this off. They can prevent defections and get better netowrk utilization and possibly even better average performance to boot.
Whereas on voluntary networks p2p may be harder to enforce locality. It would have to be a new bit-torrent protocol in which peers would shun or share less often any nodes with long ping times.
is that product space all valid in combinations or sparse?
the real turing test is being able to Phish in a chat room. One you can automate that you're golden. and it's pretty unarguable it passed a turing test. Slashdot had a article a while back about robo-chats doing just that but they relied on pretending to be non-native english speakers.
I wonder if it's easier to do this in Japanese than English. From what I've read Japanese is easier to text message in because the object and direct object are usually inferred and there are no cases or articles. A single sentence can be one character and just a verb. Thus by constraining the nuance into discrete choices rather than sparsely populated product space of self-consistent cases, predicates and adjectives, perhaps japanese would be easier to generate turing worthy text.
Or maybe the reverse is true. But I'd bet one was a lot easier than the other.
Oh, well. At least they tried. I'm sure some of these sounded content free to you. They did to me too. But this is also partly because you have a deaf ear to military issues. Since I've done some contracts for the military I could read some of the answers with more nuance.
one of the most accurate answers he gave was on the retention issue. One of the reason I love working with military folks is they tend to be so energized by their work because it makes a difference. Working on actuator controls is cool but Working on actuator
controls that are connected to neurally driven prosthetics or if they fail will kill a pilot is a whole different level of excitement.
Army reaserch folks also tend not to worry so much about money and grants because the army mostly takes care of their salaries and offers them opportunities that matter. It's sort of like academia but with all the crappy parts taken out, all the drivel research filtered out by the simple question of will it help a warfighter, and then other people committed to transitioning any superior products you create to practice.
His answer about retention was thus spot on. People join the military for a constellation if irrelevant reasons, and some find a powerful incentive to stay when they see that merit and loylaty are rewarded. What we hear on the outside of course are all the isolated cases where merit and loyalty were not rewarded because those are the reasons those folks left.
Hey thanks for the wrapper class. That will be handy. What yaml needs is a speed up and an XSLT.
Open source voting (see for example Open voting consortium) could use some devoted polishing and completion. Given the design principles are well worked out so that show stopping pitfalls will be avoided, it's due for some proper craftsmanship.
A person working on this could have worldwide lasting impact.
another project might be a YAML C++ library and the equivalent of XSLT for YAML.
Those tunnels could carry far more bits per second in blue ray dvds than e-mail. And with just an few hours latency.
So they sell almost as much music as walmart and they only pull in 2 billion?
Limited Edition Digital Music is an oxymoron unless there is DRE or watermarking. Is "individually" signed and number copies a euphemism for Wathermarking, and "we're watching you"?
Thanks. I tried to install fox die in Firefox 2 and nothing happened. The instructions on the mozilla site seem a bit cryptic. It asks you yo edit a file in a path that does not exist on my computer. that is it asks me to edit xxxxxxx.default/chrome/... I don't have anything at that point with a suffix defaults. I do have myname and defaults.eds there and thesedo have the chrome files. But when I edit the files as requested and restart nothing actually changes. In my add-on themes foxdie is the selected theme. got a clue for me?
What theme do you recommend as the most "mac-like" and minimalist in screen real estate? and what do you mean copy and paste the icon resource.
When you take thoe inferrence and combine them with the slashdot article last week about how the head honcho on vista was trying to get it out the door so he could move over to Amazon in time to collect his signing bonus then it all sort of makes sense. Inadvertently Amazon did cause vista to become a speeding train and heedless of the warnings being raised internally.
Here's the link to be router backdoor story
You may recall the Taiwanese router vendor that put backdoors in their routers (no one every explained why that I recall). And then there's all the picture frames and thumb drives that inject viruses.
If someone is producing un-lic gear why not pick up a few more bucks on offer to add compromises.
Why not go cheap on the capacitors or the solder? not like it will hurt your brand rep.
Not saying it happens but why not?
because as he plainly said, they wanted the old apps using web kit not to suddenly run slower. As those apps are updated to set the public defaults then they can remove the behaviour from WebKit. that's what he said.
The Slashdot summary is accusing Apple of reserving the tasty bits for safari, but the article shows that it's webkit not safari that knows the shorcuts. Anyone is free to use webkit. it's apples optimized interface for applications. If Firefox chooses not to use it well I can understand why but they need to accept that their interface may not be as optimized.
Indeed what apple is doing does not seem that out of whack. They have an interface that is optimized for stability not speed. That's the proper way to do it. and they figure out how one can tweak it for speed. Do you make that the defaults or do you put those in a container like webkit where one can manage the tradeoffs better? duh...
Google and many other universities already have program in recruiting people to do things computers can't do well. One of those that google already uses is image tagging. Show images and ask people to write down words of what's in them. So they could simply do this with two or three images they recently obtained good label sets for. They could even throw in a fourth not-yet known labeled image and use the sign-up process to gather new image labels.
There's all sorts of hard problems like this. Another single player game is to show an image with a lot of things in it. Then give a word describing one aspect of the image and ask them to click on the part of the image that conveys that meaning.
The if you have many concurrent sign-ups there lots of two player games both symmetric and assymetric. a short chat session in the vein of the game "password" in which one person makes a series statements about an object ("it is liquid", it is white, it is tasty, you find it in the refrigerator of many homes", it comes from cows....) and the other person has to reply with "milk". Then both players are validated.
The last is a very useful AI product by the way especially if the first player is forced to use a controlled grammar where he just fills in some of the nouns or verbs but does not construct the sentence forms. This gathers a set of true assertions about an object that allow computers to learn semantics and meaning.
YAML needs a c++ implementation and could use something like XML style sheets to make it the complete replacement for XML.
there was a time in the 50's and 60's when everything new had the suffix O-rama. Now it's Obama.
Won't that not mean Jiffy-Tube. Compression of course would be a way to lube the jiffy tube.
You are comparing the Lenovo to the wrong machine. For tour usage pattern, you discount thickness and weight, but like more screen, built-in ports and a DVD. Why not get a macbook pro? But in that fight the Lenovo really takes a dive.
Damning with faint praise. While he is appearing even handed he says the bottom line.
Smaller disk (with zero advantages on speed or battery)
shorter battery life
thicker and heavier.
slower CPU
80% higher price.
Screen is awkward for airline seats.
No lit keyboard
What does it offer in return to make up? You get to lug a DVD player, you get one higher resolution screen mode, and you get optional GPS support. Whooptee doo.
The Air has dongles for Ethernet and you can bring along a USB powered DVD if you really need constantly while it on travel. You mean you really are not bringing along a should bag you could slip a DVD player into? Good then you don't need that DVD with you all the time, like say in the conference room where being a pound lighter, and having a lit KB and much longer battery will make all the difference.