I've been thinking about the neural network UI idea myself quite a bit lately, of course there are some serious issues with that.. depending on how much adaptability you put into the system, one person couldn't use another person's comptuer + when you did want to know how to do something specific, you couldn't look it up in the doc because it doesn't apply to your UI anymore. There would need to be some method of snapping back to defaults easily. It is also not clear what the variables would be in this system. Also, training is not easy.. if the OS does something that the user does not like, or does not expect, how does the user communicate what he really wanted? Its a good thought, but I don't see a practical implementation. Not with today's AI/UI possibilites anyway.
thats not true. Despite the fact that he is not getting paid per hour, if you assume that his time spent managing the company is of even marginal value to the company, then his time is better spent walking faster to get to that meeting.
Consider a long line of 100 dollar bills. A million of them. Assume it takes Bill 1 second to pick each one up.
1 million seconds = almost 1 month of awake time.
1 million * 100 = 1/10 billion.
So, if you assume that Bill's vision and management of the company for one month is able to make a difference of more than 1/10th of a billion dollars, then his time would be spent better focusing on the company rather than picking up 100 dollar bills.
What you point out there is the insignificance of 1 second.
Of course if he was going to approach his life that way, he'd probly go crazy.
I think you got the clockwise/anticlockwise backwards as many have pointed out.
But more importantly, the statement: It takes students an entire semester to get comfortable modeling in 3d and thinking in a three-dimensional space. Some don't even get it after the semester is up.
is ridiculous. We live in a 3D world, and our minds and phyche are wired for three dimensions both through life experience and also some through evolution.
what? yes originally, at least in the sense that google never used yahoo's search code. yes there was a time when yahoo was not yet google because google did not exist, what does that prove?
>First there are resource allocation problems. The OS has to provide a sandbox with strict limits on >all resources: memory, filesystem, and networking, as well as CPU time. It's fine with me if the >"background compute demon" takes 25% of my processor but I don't want to take more than 10% of my >memory.
Wrap it up in a screen saver to only run on idle, and display some simple stats. Also, sending and recieving of data should be done intermitently during the idle times that way when the computer comes back, its instant.
>Then there's the security issue.
This is a knee-jerk reaction; There is NO security issue, sorry. Everytime you pop open an Applet or a Flash ad, your computer is performing other people's computation, and it has the capability of sending back information to their server; what is keeping that flash AD from f-ing you over? Simple, it can't save or access anything localy.
>But I see another problem which is even harder to solve: the tragedy of the commons. Consider a ? >university campus, and suppose that anyone on campus can submit jobs to the Campus Grid. You come >in the next morning and see that there are 10000 jobs in your grid queue, and 9800 of them are >encoding random people's MP3's.
How is this hard to solve? As has been said below, you need a login system with credits. This can be just like BitTorrent, in otherwords I can contribute to the system while I'm sleeping, and get back those credits when I am no longer idle. Or perhaps I can earn a small amount of money. Whats the going price on a cycle these days?
Which actually brings me to a more intersting point. Instead of ads, another option would be to write a small flash app that would accept instruction bytecode from the server and execute and run it (in the ad) in the browser of the viewer of the computer; the ad of course can be invisible, so instead of viewing the ad you are supporting the company by providing perhaps 2% of your CPU time through that client. This is possible. ActionScript running numerical analysis, who would have thunk it? But it is Turing Complete after all =]
This seems like such a great, yet obvious idea, so great and obvious that there must be an implementaion out there.. if not I'm going to tack this on as another one of my projects to implement such a system here on UT Austin..
a more seamless connection between local and network data does need to be implemented however. The request/recieve cycle for every single page is ridiuclous; some solution needs to take place which shifts more processing to the client side. The OS or browser is not enough, the data on the web needs to presented in a more parallel fashion, thats going to be the revolution in my opinion.
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what if everyone wore these, and all the data was streamed to a central server; it would be great for solving crime, and there wouldn't even be any piracy issues at all...
I can't beleive how dense these outsourcing people are. You employ 100 people to develop software to ship thousands of jobs overseas. How does that help us? </i> What about the thousands of people that got jobs? I know this is crazy, but they are also PEOPLE, with wives and children and the whole lot. I can't believe how dense we Americans are.
<i> I really dont understand how companies can layoff people, send their jobs overseas, and expect their profits to rise. They layoff people, their customers... WHO will buy their products? with no one having enough money to buy them. </i>
they are not restriciting their customer base by laying off a 100 employees, this is possibly the most ridiculous argument I have ever heard.
<i>There is only ONE reason for outsourcing.</i> There is only ONE reason for everything a company does, which is to try to make more money.
The trick here is not to bitch about the fact that companies are going overseas, but rather not give them a reason to.
I think you were being funny, but since its modded intersting; there aren't enough people close enough to you.. even if 5% of the people around you knew about the service/had internet access, it would still make only about a dozen locations worth driving to. Not to mention not everyone is logged on most of the time/at home.
Slashdot Mirror
but the trick is that we are in Iraq for Israel.
amen. ;)
I've been thinking about the neural network UI idea myself quite a bit lately, of course there are some serious issues with that.. depending on how much adaptability you put into the system, one person couldn't use another person's comptuer + when you did want to know how to do something specific, you couldn't look it up in the doc because it doesn't apply to your UI anymore. There would need to be some method of snapping back to defaults easily.
It is also not clear what the variables would be in this system. Also, training is not easy.. if the OS does something that the user does not like, or does not expect, how does the user communicate what he really wanted?
Its a good thought, but I don't see a practical implementation. Not with today's AI/UI possibilites anyway.
I wonder what sort of shared trademark deal is going on there actually..
at what time during what day was the story posted?
Is this going to lead to benchmarking people?
no, more likely creating people instead.
no, it would have equal surface area to the strip before it was twised.. unless you were joking.
thats not true. Despite the fact that he is not getting paid per hour, if you assume that his time spent managing the company is of even marginal value to the company, then his time is better spent walking faster to get to that meeting.
Consider a long line of 100 dollar bills. A million of them.
Assume it takes Bill 1 second to pick each one up.
1 million seconds = almost 1 month of awake time.
1 million * 100 = 1/10 billion.
So, if you assume that Bill's vision and management of the company for one month is able to make a difference of more than 1/10th of a billion dollars, then his time would be spent better focusing on the company rather than picking up 100 dollar bills.
What you point out there is the insignificance of 1 second.
Of course if he was going to approach his life that way, he'd probly go crazy.
I think you got the clockwise/anticlockwise backwards as many have pointed out.
But more importantly, the statement:
It takes students an entire semester to get comfortable modeling in 3d and thinking in a three-dimensional space. Some don't even get it after the semester is up.
is ridiculous. We live in a 3D world, and our minds and phyche are wired for three dimensions both through life experience and also some through evolution.
unfortunately the dragging bars don't work in opera..
what? yes originally, at least in the sense that google never used yahoo's search code. yes there was a time when yahoo was not yet google because google did not exist, what does that prove?
HA! ok there goes my idea.. =P
>First there are resource allocation problems. The OS has to provide a sandbox with strict limits on
>all resources: memory, filesystem, and networking, as well as CPU time. It's fine with me if the
>"background compute demon" takes 25% of my processor but I don't want to take more than 10% of my
>memory.
Wrap it up in a screen saver to only run on idle, and display some simple stats. Also, sending and recieving of data should be done intermitently during the idle times that way when the computer comes back, its instant.
>Then there's the security issue.
This is a knee-jerk reaction; There is NO security issue, sorry. Everytime you pop open an Applet or a Flash ad, your computer is performing other people's computation, and it has the capability of sending back information to their server; what is keeping that flash AD from f-ing you over? Simple, it can't save or access anything localy.
>But I see another problem which is even harder to solve: the tragedy of the commons. Consider a ?
>university campus, and suppose that anyone on campus can submit jobs to the Campus Grid. You come
>in the next morning and see that there are 10000 jobs in your grid queue, and 9800 of them are
>encoding random people's MP3's.
How is this hard to solve? As has been said below, you need a login system with credits. This can be just like BitTorrent, in otherwords I can contribute to the system while I'm sleeping, and get back those credits when I am no longer idle. Or perhaps I can earn a small amount of money. Whats the going price on a cycle these days?
Which actually brings me to a more intersting point. Instead of ads, another option would be to write a small flash app that would accept instruction bytecode from the server and execute and run it (in the ad) in the browser of the viewer of the computer; the ad of course can be invisible, so instead of viewing the ad you are supporting the company by providing perhaps 2% of your CPU time through that client. This is possible. ActionScript running numerical analysis, who would have thunk it? But it is Turing Complete after all =]
This seems like such a great, yet obvious idea, so great and obvious that there must be an implementaion out there.. if not I'm going to tack this on as another one of my projects to implement such a system here on UT Austin..
-Ashot
a more seamless connection between local and network data does need to be implemented however. The request/recieve cycle for every single page is ridiuclous; some solution needs to take place which shifts more processing to the client side. The OS or browser is not enough, the data on the web needs to presented in a more parallel fashion, thats going to be the revolution in my opinion.
am I allowed to simply left-click, or is that against the rules?
thats silly; they don't have to ship it pre-assembled. and it doesn't have to be 14, it can be 100.
I thought I had set them myself, but perhaps I made that up in my head.
thats kind of creepy; I use the exact same keys for forward track and lower volume..
What types of personal information do we collect and how do we use it?
Account information. When you register with Google, we will request some personal information, including your first and last name, a user name (which will be used for your email address) and password to create your account. Your password will be maintained on our system in an encrypted form. Just in case you forget your password, we also may ask you to choose a secret question and answer and provide a secondary email address where we can contact you to re-access your Google account. If you already have a Google account, we may ask you for some additional information to enable an email account.
Email contents and usage. The contents of your Gmail account also are stored and maintained on Google servers in order to provide the service. Google's computers process the information in your email for various purposes, including formatting and displaying the information to you, delivering targeted related information (such as advertisements and related links), preventing unsolicited bulk email (spam), backing up your email, and other purposes relating to offering you Gmail. Residual copies of email may remain on our systems, even after you have deleted them from your mailbox or after the termination of your account. Google employees do not access the content of any mailboxes unless you specifically request them to do so (for example, if you are having technical difficulties accessing your account) or if required by law, to maintain our system, or to protect Google or the public.
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Google will never sell, rent or share your personal information, including your Gmail address or email content, with any third parties for marketing purposes without your express permission.
what if everyone wore these, and all the data was streamed to a central server; it would be great for solving crime, and there wouldn't even be any piracy issues at all...
reminds me of Minority Report.
I can't beleive how dense these outsourcing people are. You employ 100 people to develop software to ship thousands of jobs overseas. How does that help us?
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What about the thousands of people that got jobs? I know this is crazy, but they are also PEOPLE, with wives and children and the whole lot. I can't believe how dense we Americans are.
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I really dont understand how companies can layoff people, send their jobs overseas, and expect their profits to rise. They layoff people, their customers... WHO will buy their products? with no one having enough money to buy them.
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they are not restriciting their customer base by laying off a 100 employees, this is possibly the most ridiculous argument I have ever heard.
<i>There is only ONE reason for outsourcing.</i>
There is only ONE reason for everything a company does, which is to try to make more money.
The trick here is not to bitch about the fact that companies are going overseas, but rather not give them a reason to.
anyone else see the cyclops computer headline?
is thinkgeek really slashdotted? is that possible?
props
I think you were being funny, but since its modded intersting; there aren't enough people close enough to you.. even if 5% of the people around you knew about the service/had internet access, it would still make only about a dozen locations worth driving to. Not to mention not everyone is logged on most of the time/at home.