By "geographic information" do you simply mean the ("lncstr" part of the) host name? Or is there some standard means to define geographic information with nodes? If not, there should be and this would be a pretty good solution for most use.
sorry, simple typo... I'm an American and since my country has decided not to make the switch to metric yet, I often mix, match, and confuse units expecially when I shouldn't:-D
"Timezones are not that easily derived from position"
Time zones may not _always_ be easily derived from position, such as when you are need the border. But, if I'm using an access point in NYC vs an access point in seatle, I'm pretty sure I'm in Eastern or Pacific respectively.
"And your favorite OS may not support timezone changes without restarting the system..."
What OSes would that include?
Not useful for typical GPS uses, but...
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Forget GPS, Hello WPS
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20-40 ft? This is totally useless for street navigation, surveying, etc.
What this is useful for is grander scale positioning without the need for a GPS device built into a portable device.
For example, timezones are far larger than 20-40ft. Laptops could be configured to automatically adjust the timezone setting to match the closest access points, no GPS device needed. A weather monitor utility could always automatically show the local weather. A star map could be configured to show the local sky. I'm sure many people can think of others.
1. You go to someone else's machine, they have a different set of aliases
If you plan on doing some heavy command line work on someone elses computer, bring your profile file. It's a tiny text file that could easily be kept in a public place.
2. Re-install, have to realias it.
No, you don't. Your aliases are maintained seperately. See Bash and.bashrc
There autocompletetion as well as an abreviation usage system. If you still don't like the verbose names, alias them.
It's that simple.
Short, cryptic names hinder usablity by greatly increasing the learning curve. "get-process" is far more intuitive than "ps", as "where" or "filter" is far more intuitive than "grep". If you find yourself typing "get-process" a million times, learn to type faster or alias it to something shorter.
All of these little "tools", Microsoft is providing. Take a look at the samples for MSH and you will that the commands are heavily inspired by Unix.
This tools are "commandlets." Being able to pipe.Net objects into mini applications with the full.NET framework available for use will be increadably useful.
I can see MSH being a HUGE improvment over Bash. For example:
MSH> get-process
(IMAGINE A PROCESS LIST HERE, OR SEE THE LINK... damn/. junk filter)
Want to filter that by virtual memory consuption?
MSH> get-process | where { $_.virtualmemorysize -gt 150000000}
(IMAGINE A PROCESS LIST HERE, OR SEE THE LINK... damn/. junk filter)
In Unix, you have to parse string output and all sorts of bullshit in order to access a data field of some conceptual object, but with MSH I will be able to simply access it directly in a type-safe way. That is a huge improvement.
See more here: http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/2004/11/02.html
lie, lie, lie....... the full moon is rising over dark water and the fools below are picking up sticks and the man in the gallows lies permanently waiting for the doctors to come back and tend to him, the flat earth society is meeting here today, singing happy little lies and the bright ship humana is sent far away with grave determination.... and no destination, lie, lie, lie yeah, nothing feels better than a spray of clean water and the whistling wind on a calm summer night, but you'd better believe that down in their quarters the men are holding in for their dear lives, the flat earth society is somewhere far away, with their candlesticks and compasses and the bright ship humana is well on its way with grave determination..... and no destination, lie, lie, lie, ad infinitum
Has anyone stopped to think that this may be as simple as the fact that Microsoft's (and any software company for that matter) primary resource is smart people. Microsoft saw he made something that indicates he is talented, and they want talented people. Additionally, he happens to possess knowledge in a particular field that many at Microsoft do not.
If you ask me, this isn't "evil" nor is it some consipracy to destroy open source software. This is just smart (and easy!) recruiting.
Most of those posts above make the assumption that the bots will act solely on the odds of the cards. This is an unfair assumption.
Internally, odds are the only thing the bot can play. Fuzzy logic is how the bots would be implemented. But you'd need to assume the bots would maintain a history of each player's moves in particular situations, try to analyze patterns, identify loose/tight players, etc. etc.
I've heard tales of bots that play online casinos that maintain databases of all the other player accounts with stats on how they play. If PokerHottie6969 often goes all in regardless of her cards when she is near busting, you better believe that a good bot should recognize and take advantage of that.
"I would like to ask him to fire the idiot that added such a function."
Spell check is NOT an excuse to forego proof reading. If you don't like the automatic corrections, turn it off.
I understand this post was intended to be funny, but in this particular case, the auto correct would't even be needed had you added cliccare to your dictionary from the start (as you should have if you were using it just like any other word in the dictionary). It's really simple. Right click -> Add to dictionary.
"but I assumed that since I paid for MS Office, it must be better"
So, I should then assume you're an idiot? Crappy consumers like you are why companies can get away with charging outrageous prices. Price != Quality.
"It has been over a year since I installed MS Office, but I know it had to be restarted"
I installed MS Office 2003 YESTERDAY on a friends computer. It did not require a restart. You may have had an older version installed or some other application using a resource that the installer needed to replace.
"Opening time in seconds - First run 31.1" I am assuming first run refers to the first INSTANCE not the first time the application is ever opened...
WHAT?!?! This is Word 2003? Running on a 2.2 GHz machine with 512 ram? You've got to be kidding me. Did you measure this with a sundial? With my AMD64 Mobile throttled to 40% (800mhz) with a gig of ram, I can start Word 2003 in less than a second.
Also, second instances of Word (I don't know about Writer) open and immediately close again. The second instance simply sends a message to the first instance to open another document window or whatever.
"Word takes up more memory total, but Writer uses more in the main process. It is not a big difference."
What the hell is msworks.exe? I don't have it running right now and Word, PowerPoint, and Excel are all open.
I'm really sick of these horrible comparisons that are performed by armatures. He states he hates Microsoft, goes on and on about how OO.o is better, but states he will continue to use Office. If you are going to perform a scientific experiment, please make it scientific. Leave opinion out of it. Show us exact procedures so we can attempt to reproduce your results. etc etc.
Does someone have an article describing proper construction of benchmarks or a guide to proper scientific analysis? We need some sort of rubric before we keep posting this horrible articles.
I really don't think that MS is being evil here. Microsoft patents everything and anything because if they don't, they can get screwed (see recent articles about them being sued over patents).
Sure MS uses them offensively also, but if you take a look at their patent portfolio and cross refrence it with whom they have sued, I'm sure you will find they don't abuse it too much.
It would save MS _a lot_ of money and the rest of the world could be saved a lot of greif if they didn't have to worry so much about a broken patent system.
All joking aside, this is a good change. I manually made this change to my machine because once inside "My Documents", I have to type three extra characters to be able to open the sub directory I want.
I've had teachers on both sides of the fence: Ones who give PILES AND PILES of work and those who give little to no work at all.
In a math class in HS where I had to do dozens of problems a night, I found I would frequently just skip nights of homework because it took so long and it didn't make much sense to just do a part of it because you generally don't receive the credit.
In the classes with little to no work at all, I would actually do the work when it was given out because it took little time and counted for a lot. As a result, I did at least one HW problem of every type, so when the test came around I wasn't completely surprised by a question I had never seen before.
The absolute best teachers understand this, but also understand not everyone figures out how to a do a class of problem on their first attempt. I had a physics teacher like this. He would give very little homework, generally a problem or two each night. The next day he would collect the homework (essential to ensuring students do it) and return it the following day. You received one of 4 grades: F - you just didn't hand it in. Incomplete - basically an F, Incorrect, Correct. If you got it wrong, he gave you a new problem of the same type to be added to the next nights homework. When the exam came, you would loose 1 point for every outstanding (unsubmitted or incorrect) homework you had. The result was, most students did every single homework AND performed quite well on exams (including the state exam).
Injected ads in the translation? Licensing the technology to corperate instant messaging and email services? Embeding the technology into voice recognition phone systems? Pay translation services?
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Aw, I'm a dumb ass. I remembered incorrectly. The source is server side :-(
but you can clearly get the joke from the a file name in the page source...
You, my friend, must be a member of the World Rock Paper Scissors Society.
http://www.worldrps.com/
You've got to try the "Online trainer." Read all about it's sophistication before playing.
Best of all IT'S OPEN SOURCE!
An increadable piece of AI technology completely written in Javascript. Check out the page source when you are done playing.
Wow, Windows box has been able to do this since as long as I can remember without issue.
Excellent point.
By "geographic information" do you simply mean the ("lncstr" part of the) host name? Or is there some standard means to define geographic information with nodes? If not, there should be and this would be a pretty good solution for most use.
sorry, simple typo... I'm an American and since my country has decided not to make the switch to metric yet, I often mix, match, and confuse units expecially when I shouldn't :-D
"Timezones are not that easily derived from position"
Time zones may not _always_ be easily derived from position, such as when you are need the border. But, if I'm using an access point in NYC vs an access point in seatle, I'm pretty sure I'm in Eastern or Pacific respectively.
"And your favorite OS may not support timezone changes without restarting the system..."
What OSes would that include?
20-40 ft? This is totally useless for street navigation, surveying, etc.
What this is useful for is grander scale positioning without the need for a GPS device built into a portable device.
For example, timezones are far larger than 20-40ft. Laptops could be configured to automatically adjust the timezone setting to match the closest access points, no GPS device needed. A weather monitor utility could always automatically show the local weather. A star map could be configured to show the local sky. I'm sure many people can think of others.
1. You go to someone else's machine, they have a different set of aliases
.bashrc
If you plan on doing some heavy command line work on someone elses computer, bring your profile file. It's a tiny text file that could easily be kept in a public place.
2. Re-install, have to realias it.
No, you don't. Your aliases are maintained seperately. See Bash and
There autocompletetion as well as an abreviation usage system. If you still don't like the verbose names, alias them.
It's that simple.
Short, cryptic names hinder usablity by greatly increasing the learning curve. "get-process" is far more intuitive than "ps", as "where" or "filter" is far more intuitive than "grep". If you find yourself typing "get-process" a million times, learn to type faster or alias it to something shorter.
All of these little "tools", Microsoft is providing. Take a look at the samples for MSH and you will that the commands are heavily inspired by Unix.
.Net objects into mini applications with the full .NET framework available for use will be increadably useful.
/. junk filter)
/. junk filter)
This tools are "commandlets." Being able to pipe
I can see MSH being a HUGE improvment over Bash. For example:
MSH> get-process
(IMAGINE A PROCESS LIST HERE, OR SEE THE LINK... damn
Want to filter that by virtual memory consuption?
MSH> get-process | where { $_.virtualmemorysize -gt 150000000}
(IMAGINE A PROCESS LIST HERE, OR SEE THE LINK... damn
In Unix, you have to parse string output and all sorts of bullshit in order to access a data field of some conceptual object, but with MSH I will be able to simply access it directly in a type-safe way. That is a huge improvement.
See more here: http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/2004/11/02.html
lie, lie, lie.......
the full moon is rising over dark water
and the fools below are picking up sticks
and the man in the gallows lies permanently
waiting for the doctors to come back and tend to him,
the flat earth society is meeting here today,
singing happy little lies
and the bright ship humana is sent far away
with grave determination....
and no destination, lie, lie, lie
yeah, nothing feels better than a spray of clean water
and the whistling wind on a calm summer night,
but you'd better believe that down in their quarters
the men are holding in for their dear lives,
the flat earth society is somewhere far away,
with their candlesticks and compasses
and the bright ship humana is well on its way
with grave determination.....
and no destination, lie, lie, lie, ad infinitum
^^ Bad Religion - Flat Earth Society ^^
Has anyone stopped to think that this may be as simple as the fact that Microsoft's (and any software company for that matter) primary resource is smart people. Microsoft saw he made something that indicates he is talented, and they want talented people. Additionally, he happens to possess knowledge in a particular field that many at Microsoft do not.
If you ask me, this isn't "evil" nor is it some consipracy to destroy open source software. This is just smart (and easy!) recruiting.
Most of those posts above make the assumption that the bots will act solely on the odds of the cards. This is an unfair assumption.
Internally, odds are the only thing the bot can play. Fuzzy logic is how the bots would be implemented. But you'd need to assume the bots would maintain a history of each player's moves in particular situations, try to analyze patterns, identify loose/tight players, etc. etc.
I've heard tales of bots that play online casinos that maintain databases of all the other player accounts with stats on how they play. If PokerHottie6969 often goes all in regardless of her cards when she is near busting, you better believe that a good bot should recognize and take advantage of that.
d'oh
would't = wouldn't
I forgot to proof read as well as run spell check...
"I would like to ask him to fire the idiot that added such a function."
Spell check is NOT an excuse to forego proof reading. If you don't like the automatic corrections, turn it off.
I understand this post was intended to be funny, but in this particular case, the auto correct would't even be needed had you added cliccare to your dictionary from the start (as you should have if you were using it just like any other word in the dictionary). It's really simple. Right click -> Add to dictionary.
"but I assumed that since I paid for MS Office, it must be better"
So, I should then assume you're an idiot? Crappy consumers like you are why companies can get away with charging outrageous prices. Price != Quality.
"It has been over a year since I installed MS Office, but I know it had to be restarted"
I installed MS Office 2003 YESTERDAY on a friends computer. It did not require a restart. You may have had an older version installed or some other application using a resource that the installer needed to replace.
"Opening time in seconds - First run 31.1"
I am assuming first run refers to the first INSTANCE not the first time the application is ever opened...
WHAT?!?! This is Word 2003? Running on a 2.2 GHz machine with 512 ram? You've got to be kidding me. Did you measure this with a sundial? With my AMD64 Mobile throttled to 40% (800mhz) with a gig of ram, I can start Word 2003 in less than a second.
Also, second instances of Word (I don't know about Writer) open and immediately close again. The second instance simply sends a message to the first instance to open another document window or whatever.
"Word takes up more memory total, but Writer uses more in the main process. It is not a big difference."
What the hell is msworks.exe? I don't have it running right now and Word, PowerPoint, and Excel are all open.
I'm really sick of these horrible comparisons that are performed by armatures. He states he hates Microsoft, goes on and on about how OO.o is better, but states he will continue to use Office. If you are going to perform a scientific experiment, please make it scientific. Leave opinion out of it. Show us exact procedures so we can attempt to reproduce your results. etc etc.
Does someone have an article describing proper construction of benchmarks or a guide to proper scientific analysis? We need some sort of rubric before we keep posting this horrible articles.
That case is fantastic!
In Soviet Russia, Dvorak and Cringely Wiskey. Tango. Foxtrot. YOU!
LOL
/. thinks its Insightful :-P
Well put. I don't know if that is more insightful or funny...
Well, clearly the
I really don't think that MS is being evil here. Microsoft patents everything and anything because if they don't, they can get screwed (see recent articles about them being sued over patents).
Sure MS uses them offensively also, but if you take a look at their patent portfolio and cross refrence it with whom they have sued, I'm sure you will find they don't abuse it too much.
It would save MS _a lot_ of money and the rest of the world could be saved a lot of greif if they didn't have to worry so much about a broken patent system.
I believe you ment:
Yea, but verbing nouns weirdifies the language.
Now why would you want to go and waste a perfectly good nuke on a pile of Gungans?
Instead, send Jarjar back there with a megaphone... instant mass suicide.
All joking aside, this is a good change.
I manually made this change to my machine because once inside "My Documents", I have to type three extra characters to be able to open the sub directory I want.
I've had teachers on both sides of the fence: Ones who give PILES AND PILES of work and those who give little to no work at all.
In a math class in HS where I had to do dozens of problems a night, I found I would frequently just skip nights of homework because it took so long and it didn't make much sense to just do a part of it because you generally don't receive the credit.
In the classes with little to no work at all, I would actually do the work when it was given out because it took little time and counted for a lot. As a result, I did at least one HW problem of every type, so when the test came around I wasn't completely surprised by a question I had never seen before.
The absolute best teachers understand this, but also understand not everyone figures out how to a do a class of problem on their first attempt. I had a physics teacher like this. He would give very little homework, generally a problem or two each night. The next day he would collect the homework (essential to ensuring students do it) and return it the following day. You received one of 4 grades: F - you just didn't hand it in. Incomplete - basically an F, Incorrect, Correct. If you got it wrong, he gave you a new problem of the same type to be added to the next nights homework. When the exam came, you would loose 1 point for every outstanding (unsubmitted or incorrect) homework you had. The result was, most students did every single homework AND performed quite well on exams (including the state exam).
What is the business model on this one?
Injected ads in the translation?
Licensing the technology to corperate instant messaging and email services?
Embeding the technology into voice recognition phone systems?
Pay translation services?