New ceo is from Microsoft. When I heard that, I sold my shares. No future. I bought an iPhone: brilliant engineering, highly intuitive. Nokias phones are ugly and hard to use. They have no future.
Even though the modern University defines its disciplines by market demand - which can be a slave to fashion.
The issue is whether there are any genuine "big questions" left in Computer Science. Much of the early part of CS dealt with the scarcity of computing - how to make use of the limited resources of memory, computation. We don't need this anymore - there is an abundance of computing.
I guess I've been fascinated by the dramatic gap between human capabilities of thinking, and the capabilities of computers. Can we ever make computers that even remotely approximate the capabilities of human brains? I don't think we are much closer to answering that question than we were 30 years ago.
But in this particular question we have learned that it is of very little commercial value to answer this question. So CS research may remain a discipline with big questions, but with funding comparable to (for example) archeology. But CS skills continue to be in demand, even if CS research is a bit past it.
When I was young, I was blessed with teachers who told me things plainly. So: if you are interested in CS, or computers in general, and you turn aside from this path because people tell you it's not commercial, then you are going the wrong way. Follow your interests - tell your parents and your peers to go take a long walk and leave you alone.
Fortunately it seems that only students in the Western world suffer from these delusions. Which will just accelerate the movement of the center of IT to China and India.
Sure, the weather is great.
My take on it is that during the Great Depression people headed West. Those with the greatest energy, the greatest optimism and the most desperation made it across the desert all the way to Silicon Valley. They are the essential ingredient that actually helped create those Universities.
So first, you need a great depression, then add sunlight.
As a user of Yahoo's mail beta, which seems to be based on Ajax, I was enthusiastic.
But! such are the delays inherent in the current incarnation of the Web, that this approach is much hyped and absolutely doomed to failure.
Contrast Google Earth with Ajax stuff.
It is absolutely almost impossible to use. I gave up on it.
Memo: the Internet is "best effort", which means that delays are unpredictable. You cannot put this in a GUI loop.
You need to look at the footage from the last attempts that showed how easily they become stranded on top of fence-posts. You wouldn't think it was possible to destroy a heavy vehicle like that, but a human will back off when hearing the gearbox squeal - not a computer.
The vision stuff is an absolute nightmare - any sensor is better than vision.
It sure is a serious challenge. I expect maybe 30 miles this time?
Definitely worth a read:
http://www.lomborg.com/
for a solid statistical analysis of environment trends. Also I don't think the mathematical analysis underlying the classic global warming curve stands up to analysis.
Just because a whole lot of people believe something doesn't mean it is true.
Sorry, but how to make the video. Run it over your course three hundred thousand times, and save the one time it works. Send to DARPA.
I'm still upset that non-American entries are not allowed:-(
Do a plot of the Sun share price versus IBM (eg. finance.yahoo.com).
The facts are that their share price is doing not so bad. They have lots of cash (usoft chipping in), so if they don't commit hari kari why shouldn't they be able to make something of their position?
[Disclaimer: I bought a sun with a serial number less than 100, and once described them as " the IBM of the 90's" when IBM was in terminal decline. (Yes,/that/ old). I (almost exclusively) program in Java bc every time I look at something else it looks clumsy. ]
Hey, its all about the competition for mindspace.
The implication here is that their principal competitor is in the evil business. I guess all those court judgements may not be just a speed hump after all:-)Maybe having lots of cash to pay fines will not always save you.
This is a great initiative. It promotes the idea that we should look at the real value in education. The real value is in the people students get to work with (eg. the authors), and the personal experiences they go through on the way to graduate.
Why should publishers make profits in this process when they don't add value?
How did sun get its start? By delivering "open standard" BSD unix boxes that undercut all the proprietary unix boxes. True. I once had a sun box with a serial number less than 100, one of those they built in a garage.
How are they dying? You guessed it.
There has to be some sort of karma effect here:-)
(the phrase "tyranny of distance" is the title of an early history of Australia)
The myth is that it is easy to communicate over a great distance. The reality is that it is very, very difficult. I would rate an email connection at 10% of the value of face to face.
Get closer to your customers, understand their business, make yourself to their success.
Google an advocate of open source? I don't think so. Can't see any google source anywhere...
The approach here is that at a certain point the sale value of code approaches zero. OS code sale price? Zero. Search code price? Non-zero.
If MS can add value they will survive, if not then they won't.
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New ceo is from Microsoft. When I heard that, I sold my shares. No future. I bought an iPhone: brilliant engineering, highly intuitive. Nokias phones are ugly and hard to use. They have no future.
Absolutely. Carbon neutral by 2025 as an added bonus.
Even though the modern University defines its disciplines by market demand - which can be a slave to fashion. The issue is whether there are any genuine "big questions" left in Computer Science. Much of the early part of CS dealt with the scarcity of computing - how to make use of the limited resources of memory, computation. We don't need this anymore - there is an abundance of computing. I guess I've been fascinated by the dramatic gap between human capabilities of thinking, and the capabilities of computers. Can we ever make computers that even remotely approximate the capabilities of human brains? I don't think we are much closer to answering that question than we were 30 years ago. But in this particular question we have learned that it is of very little commercial value to answer this question. So CS research may remain a discipline with big questions, but with funding comparable to (for example) archeology. But CS skills continue to be in demand, even if CS research is a bit past it. When I was young, I was blessed with teachers who told me things plainly. So: if you are interested in CS, or computers in general, and you turn aside from this path because people tell you it's not commercial, then you are going the wrong way. Follow your interests - tell your parents and your peers to go take a long walk and leave you alone. Fortunately it seems that only students in the Western world suffer from these delusions. Which will just accelerate the movement of the center of IT to China and India.
Sure, the weather is great. My take on it is that during the Great Depression people headed West. Those with the greatest energy, the greatest optimism and the most desperation made it across the desert all the way to Silicon Valley. They are the essential ingredient that actually helped create those Universities. So first, you need a great depression, then add sunlight.
As a user of Yahoo's mail beta, which seems to be based on Ajax, I was enthusiastic. But! such are the delays inherent in the current incarnation of the Web, that this approach is much hyped and absolutely doomed to failure. Contrast Google Earth with Ajax stuff. It is absolutely almost impossible to use. I gave up on it. Memo: the Internet is "best effort", which means that delays are unpredictable. You cannot put this in a GUI loop.
You need to look at the footage from the last attempts that showed how easily they become stranded on top of fence-posts. You wouldn't think it was possible to destroy a heavy vehicle like that, but a human will back off when hearing the gearbox squeal - not a computer. The vision stuff is an absolute nightmare - any sensor is better than vision. It sure is a serious challenge. I expect maybe 30 miles this time?
Hey, you saw it here first: http://www.aset.org.au/confs/iims/1992/jennings.ht ml
note date :-) sorry, couldn't resist...
Definitely worth a read: http://www.lomborg.com/ for a solid statistical analysis of environment trends. Also I don't think the mathematical analysis underlying the classic global warming curve stands up to analysis. Just because a whole lot of people believe something doesn't mean it is true.
Sorry, but how to make the video. Run it over your course three hundred thousand times, and save the one time it works. Send to DARPA. I'm still upset that non-American entries are not allowed :-(
Do a plot of the Sun share price versus IBM (eg. finance.yahoo.com). The facts are that their share price is doing not so bad. They have lots of cash (usoft chipping in), so if they don't commit hari kari why shouldn't they be able to make something of their position? [Disclaimer: I bought a sun with a serial number less than 100, and once described them as " the IBM of the 90's" when IBM was in terminal decline. (Yes, /that/ old). I (almost exclusively) program in Java bc every time I look at something else it looks clumsy. ]
Hey, its all about the competition for mindspace. The implication here is that their principal competitor is in the evil business. I guess all those court judgements may not be just a speed hump after all :-)Maybe having lots of cash to pay fines will not always save you.
This is a great initiative. It promotes the idea that we should look at the real value in education. The real value is in the people students get to work with (eg. the authors), and the personal experiences they go through on the way to graduate. Why should publishers make profits in this process when they don't add value?
How did sun get its start? By delivering "open standard" BSD unix boxes that undercut all the proprietary unix boxes. True. I once had a sun box with a serial number less than 100, one of those they built in a garage. How are they dying? You guessed it. There has to be some sort of karma effect here :-)
(the phrase "tyranny of distance" is the title of an early history of Australia) The myth is that it is easy to communicate over a great distance. The reality is that it is very, very difficult. I would rate an email connection at 10% of the value of face to face. Get closer to your customers, understand their business, make yourself to their success.
Google an advocate of open source? I don't think so. Can't see any google source anywhere... The approach here is that at a certain point the sale value of code approaches zero. OS code sale price? Zero. Search code price? Non-zero. If MS can add value they will survive, if not then they won't.