It would be nice to know how they are going to solve the problem
of coincidents. Any large dataset will have false positives due to
the massive amount of possible cross-correlations is such data.
The problem of information extraction is a hard one, especially
if the different datasets are going to be used together.
The Data
Mining and Domestic Security: Connecting the Dots to Make Sense
of Data by K. A. Taipale is a good review of this from the
law perspective.
The question of a "bubble" is as relevant for open source as for science.
Is there a bubble in science? Both open source and science are based on
openness and peer review. It there is a bubble, long term it does not matter.
Who would be willing to commit their resources to running applications
on this system, which has no guarantee of existing after a couple
of years?
Selling computer platforms to customers, or providing a comprehensive
ASP-style solution are more straightforward business models.
And can Sun guarantee that data and applications will be secure
on their grid system?
Quote: "Rasmussen and his colleagues had to begin
with the most basic of questions: what is the least something must do to
qualify as being alive?" - A question to die for!
The camera makers like Canon don't sell rights to make compatible lenses. So if you buy a non-Canon lens for your SLR, you are in effect buying a pirated product. And camera makes change their systems all the time to make them incompatible with lenses by third parties.
Apple could follow suit - but by licensing Apple allows third-party innovation. Good for Apple, good for iPod accessories, good for iPod users.
Perhaps Google wants to be the phone and phonebook of
the web?
This seems to be a big a hurdle for technology today
(how easy it is for your grandma to start using VoIP?),
but in the future this may be the way to go.
Perhaps Apple should follow suit to make Mac OS X behave similar to Windows? Or better still: a year without security patches. We can do better than Microsoft!
To prepare for the Fall, there is
a story
of rebel coding in Finland. What happened to make Mr. Torvalds seek refugee status in India? And what version of the YQ terminal do you want in your head?
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It would be nice to know how they are going to solve the problem of coincidents. Any large dataset will have false positives due to the massive amount of possible cross-correlations is such data. The problem of information extraction is a hard one, especially if the different datasets are going to be used together. The Data Mining and Domestic Security: Connecting the Dots to Make Sense of Data by K. A. Taipale is a good review of this from the law perspective.
The question of a "bubble" is as relevant for open source as for science. Is there a bubble in science? Both open source and science are based on openness and peer review. It there is a bubble, long term it does not matter.
Who would be willing to commit their resources to running applications on this system, which has no guarantee of existing after a couple of years? Selling computer platforms to customers, or providing a comprehensive ASP-style solution are more straightforward business models. And can Sun guarantee that data and applications will be secure on their grid system?
Quote: "Rasmussen and his colleagues had to begin with the most basic of questions: what is the least something must do to qualify as being alive?" - A question to die for!
The camera makers like Canon don't sell rights to make compatible
lenses. So if you buy a non-Canon lens for your SLR, you are in effect
buying a pirated product. And camera makes change their systems
all the time to make them incompatible with lenses by third parties.
Apple could follow suit - but by licensing Apple allows third-party
innovation. Good for Apple, good for iPod accessories, good for
iPod users.
Perhaps Google wants to be the phone and phonebook of the web? This seems to be a big a hurdle for technology today (how easy it is for your grandma to start using VoIP?), but in the future this may be the way to go.
The asteroid which caused the "dinosaur extinction" 65 million years ago was only 10 km (6 miles) wide.
Perhaps Apple should follow suit to make Mac OS X behave similar to Windows? Or better still: a year without security patches. We can do better than Microsoft!
The demo was fine, but does the user actually get a reasonable payoff for the added complication of navigating in a 3D world.
To prepare for the Fall, there is a story of rebel coding in Finland. What happened to make Mr. Torvalds seek refugee status in India? And what version of the YQ terminal do you want in your head?
I just had to write a poem titled iSwitch to iMac.