yeah, but we could triangulate relative to a fixed sensor whose location is known or use multiple satelites and get better accuracy or we could use that new european system...there are ways around the government's intentional bad data.
Rather than using a camera to read the table, if the table were built with sensors in each of the guys (to indicate state/current position/speed of current rotation) and a sensor in the ball (or positional sensors around the edges that could read the location of the ball), I believe that the software would win now, without any improvements. (Maybe we could put a GPS device in the ball!)
My guess is that the majority of the work that the computer has to do now is to figure out, from the video feed, where things stand before reacting. If the state were easier to read, the machine's reactions would easily outdo any human, champion or otherwise.
From the link: "The original MusicNet that launched in December 2001 was a dismal failure...The subscriber numbers were so low that MusicNet has never been willing to state them in public."
I'm not sure this will work... For example, there are plenty of universities who license software for discounted or free student use and yet software piracy is rampant on campuses
From the link: "
In addition, pirates need a place to store their 'warez' and often surreptitiously hijack third party servers to use as storage sites.
This problem is especially acute at universities. "
more info on In-Q-Tel
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IT at the CIA
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· Score: 4, Informative
Are you guys familiar with In-Q-Tel? (It's mentioned in the article)
The solution to the shortage of mainframe programmers is obvious if you follow what I've been doing for the past 7 years. More of my work than ever is involved with integrating Java, C, or Visual C++/VB with mainframe applications. Whether through Screen Scraping, MQ Integration (like MQSI), CORBA, CICS, TCP sockets, or other mechanisms, a larger percentage of corporate bread-and-butter applications are living longer on the mainframe and extending their life through integration with web servers or application servers. As the COBOL teams die off, corporations will stop extending the mainframe's functionality on the mainframe itself and will continue to extend the functionality on the other tiers of the applications (on WebSphere,.NET Server or wherever). Almost all of the projects I've done started out as a stupid GUI front-end on Windows or a Web browser for an existing green screen application and then grew to include a lot of business logic and data storage on the non-mainframe tiers.
employment and advancement
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Inside SAIC
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I almost worked for SAIC a few years ago. I was about to accept their job offer, but then I was turned off when discussing advancement opportunities within the company. Apparently, unlike most of geekdom which is ruled by skills, the only real way to advance in SAIC is to hang a bunch of degrees and certifications on your wall. Regardless of your skill level, degrees and certifications are what count towards promotions and advancement.
I don't know about the rest of you, but I've met a ton of people with great credentials who are morons and many non-degreed and non-certified people who are excellent people to work and deal with. IMO, there's no hard and fast rule either way. Degrees don't make you smart and vice versa.
This document was part of an interesting debate over the last year and a half between MS and Novell over whose product was more buggy (measured in terms of number of patches.)
Here's a good analysis of the various BSDs from last september. It gives a great background on the BSDs and it'll help explain why the BSDs should be re-united (or not.)
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I got it from a newsgroup, where it was uncredited. I apologize...
You didn't GPL it?
Linus Not God, Says God
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Linus Not God, Says God
In a shocking announcement cast down from the Heavens today, it was announced that Linus Torvalds was not, in fact, God.
Anthony Macewell was chosen to receive this information, as he worked on his PC:
"It was kinda freaky", Anthony said, "Linux booted, and just when I was expecting it to fsck everything, my computer burst into flames and I was surrounded by a host of angels. I don't remember that ever being a feature of Red Hat."
The angels, their appearance accompanied by a flawless four-part harmony, left Anthony a delicate manuscript, explaining that he should
make sure that it was delivered to the Linux community.
The manuscript reads:
"For the attention of the Linux Community: Linus Torvalds is not God. God is currently very busy in creating various new planets and overseeing the forthcoming apocalypse on Earth. He has not had the time to develop any mortal Operating Systems, and is not likely to do so in
the near future. He will continue only to endorse white robes and comfortable sandals."
The reaction from the Linux community has been varied. The slashdot.org community has reacted by having a circular discussion, with any idea
other than "Linus is God, and Linux is the best thing ever for anything", being slammed down by angry, frothing, Linux advocates. A crusade to burn all the non-Linus believing heretics has been launched, in the form of a new website with a flashy domain name, which will predictably close within two weeks due to a lack of interest.
A spokesperson for Microsoft commented, "Well, we never believed that Linus existed anyway. It takes more than a couple of sightings near burning bushes to convince us, you know. We'll continue to worship Windows as we always have done. Lots of people have faith in Windows, no
matter how much it lets them down, so it must be right."
Here is what one of America's leading sports pundits has been writing:
Elliott Harris, Chicago Sun-Times: "A fan in Massachusetts, upset at Fox's decision to replace auto racing with Red Sox baseball, faces the possibility of a year in jail for sending more than 530,000 e-mails that shut down Fox's Web site in 2001. Hey, who knew a NASCAR fan would know spam was anything other than something to eat?"
You're partially right...but it has everything to do with the trial period...
During the trial period, you have an empty history. Therefore, you get every movie you want (almost) immediately. After you do this and start thinking the service is so awesome in terms of title availability, you continue and, as long as you are trying to use the service to get movies you want (as opposed to being a dormant subscriber who pays but never gets anything), you get screwed because you'll continue to get punished for wanting to take maximum advantage of the money you're spending.
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yeah, but we could triangulate relative to a fixed sensor whose location is known or use multiple satelites and get better accuracy or we could use that new european system...there are ways around the government's intentional bad data.
Rather than using a camera to read the table, if the table were built with sensors in each of the guys (to indicate state/current position/speed of current rotation) and a sensor in the ball (or positional sensors around the edges that could read the location of the ball), I believe that the software would win now, without any improvements. (Maybe we could put a GPS device in the ball!)
My guess is that the majority of the work that the computer has to do now is to figure out, from the video feed, where things stand before reacting. If the state were easier to read, the machine's reactions would easily outdo any human, champion or otherwise.
Did they already try this and fail miserably?
It was called MusicNet.
From the link: "The original MusicNet that launched in December 2001 was a dismal failure...The subscriber numbers were so low that MusicNet has never been willing to state them in public."
Since no one else linked to it: AirTraf's web site
Also, This link goes to Elixar, the AirTraf project team's new company.
a more recent article
what a surpise: "...students majoring in a science, like computer science and engineering, were more likely to pirate software than other students."
I'm not sure this will work... For example, there are plenty of universities who license software for discounted or free student use and yet software piracy is rampant on campuses
From the link: " In addition, pirates need a place to store their 'warez' and often surreptitiously hijack third party servers to use as storage sites. This problem is especially acute at universities. "
Are you guys familiar with In-Q-Tel? (It's mentioned in the article)
Here's an article.
and another...
and another...
and another...
If anyone is interested in publicly communicating with Tero Sarkkinen, he has been known to monitor this forum. (He's also posted there...)
The solution to the shortage of mainframe programmers is obvious if you follow what I've been doing for the past 7 years. More of my work than ever is involved with integrating Java, C, or Visual C++/VB with mainframe applications. Whether through Screen Scraping, MQ Integration (like MQSI), CORBA, CICS, TCP sockets, or other mechanisms, a larger percentage of corporate bread-and-butter applications are living longer on the mainframe and extending their life through integration with web servers or application servers. As the COBOL teams die off, corporations will stop extending the mainframe's functionality on the mainframe itself and will continue to extend the functionality on the other tiers of the applications (on WebSphere, .NET Server or wherever). Almost all of the projects I've done started out as a stupid GUI front-end on Windows or a Web browser for an existing green screen application and then grew to include a lot of business logic and data storage on the non-mainframe tiers.
So, does anyone have a top ten list of their favorite anime movies?
I don't.... But here's one I found.
Wil Mccarthy's web site
Tons of interesting info...
I almost worked for SAIC a few years ago. I was about to accept their job offer, but then I was turned off when discussing advancement opportunities within the company. Apparently, unlike most of geekdom which is ruled by skills, the only real way to advance in SAIC is to hang a bunch of degrees and certifications on your wall. Regardless of your skill level, degrees and certifications are what count towards promotions and advancement.
I don't know about the rest of you, but I've met a ton of people with great credentials who are morons and many non-degreed and non-certified people who are excellent people to work and deal with. IMO, there's no hard and fast rule either way. Degrees don't make you smart and vice versa.
Will Cmdr Taco be going for the title of Miss Gnomedex?
This document was part of an interesting debate over the last year and a half between MS and Novell over whose product was more buggy (measured in terms of number of patches.)
(Google cache version in html.)
war driving lessons
Here's the slashdot discussion of the afore-mentioned article.
Here's a good analysis of the various BSDs from last september. It gives a great background on the BSDs and it'll help explain why the BSDs should be re-united (or not.)
I got it from a newsgroup, where it was uncredited. I apologize...
You didn't GPL it?
Linus Not God, Says God
In a shocking announcement cast down from the Heavens today, it was announced that Linus Torvalds was not, in fact, God.
Anthony Macewell was chosen to receive this information, as he worked on his PC:
"It was kinda freaky", Anthony said, "Linux booted, and just when I was expecting it to fsck everything, my computer burst into flames and I was surrounded by a host of angels. I don't remember that ever being a feature of Red Hat."
The angels, their appearance accompanied by a flawless four-part harmony, left Anthony a delicate manuscript, explaining that he should make sure that it was delivered to the Linux community.
The manuscript reads:
"For the attention of the Linux Community: Linus Torvalds is not God. God is currently very busy in creating various new planets and overseeing the forthcoming apocalypse on Earth. He has not had the time to develop any mortal Operating Systems, and is not likely to do so in the near future. He will continue only to endorse white robes and comfortable sandals."
The reaction from the Linux community has been varied. The slashdot.org community has reacted by having a circular discussion, with any idea other than "Linus is God, and Linux is the best thing ever for anything", being slammed down by angry, frothing, Linux advocates. A crusade to burn all the non-Linus believing heretics has been launched, in the form of a new website with a flashy domain name, which will predictably close within two weeks due to a lack of interest.
A spokesperson for Microsoft commented, "Well, we never believed that Linus existed anyway. It takes more than a couple of sightings near burning bushes to convince us, you know. We'll continue to worship Windows as we always have done. Lots of people have faith in Windows, no matter how much it lets them down, so it must be right."
eBay is also being targetted by the same complaints and investigation.
Here is what one of America's leading sports pundits has been writing:
Elliott Harris, Chicago Sun-Times: "A fan in Massachusetts, upset at Fox's decision to replace auto racing with Red Sox baseball, faces the possibility of a year in jail for sending more than 530,000 e-mails that shut down Fox's Web site in 2001. Hey, who knew a NASCAR fan would know spam was anything other than something to eat?"
...except for the fact that I can't do Math....
that should be 2021
First it was the O-Ring in 1985
Then it was the T-Seal in 2003
Logically, the next problem will be with the Y-Tube in 2011.
Science and Logic Prevail!
You're partially right...but it has everything to do with the trial period...
During the trial period, you have an empty history. Therefore, you get every movie you want (almost) immediately. After you do this and start thinking the service is so awesome in terms of title availability, you continue and, as long as you are trying to use the service to get movies you want (as opposed to being a dormant subscriber who pays but never gets anything), you get screwed because you'll continue to get punished for wanting to take maximum advantage of the money you're spending.
classic bait and switch:
Get every movie you want during your trial period and first few months and then get screwed over for the rest of the lifetime of your account...