More than create buzz as this paper shows, the great benefit of piracy is the countervailing pricing power it imposes. Piracy helps in a better price discovery for "legal" content.
https://news.iu.edu/stories/20...
Quite obviously a PR/marketing stunt pandering to the obsessive fear of "germs", than any substantial improvement in the general quality of onboard health.
It's no secret that the air in most long haul flights is unhealthy, with cabin humidity under 10% most of which being other passengers' body fluids. If Boeing and the airline industry really cared about the well being of its passengers it would modify the ratio of fresh to recirculated air than make a big song about adding UV lamps in the toilets.
The United States and the European Union have agreed to a transatlantic data-sharing arrangement to protect U.S. companies' overseas activities and European citizens' privacy
Significant are the omissions to protect the privacy of US citizens and EU companies!
First, for someone who has been playing chess competitively for the last twenty years, none of the results of the analysis is a revelation. Like so many "data" posts that seem to be in vogue, this one states quite the obvious viz the game of chess has evolved and has improved in quality. Hence opening colour matters, games are longer and many end in draws. DUH!
As a secondary point, the OP makes a big show of the "steady increase" increase in length of game from the 1970s. On closer inspection, what is implied is that the average game has gone from 37 moves to 42 moves. For a chess player, that increase is hardly significant and can be attributed more as a result of prevailing opening theory and chess playing style than reflective of anything else.
A clear case of data-blindness.
Automated cars will be a big source of revenue for google. The cars will be in constant communication with google's datacenters to provide mapping data - not just GPS street coordinates, but detailed imagery and geometry from lidar captured previously by the Street View cars - plus road conditions gleaned in real time from tens of thousands of cars (down to the level of street light timing a few intersections ahead on your path). Google may or may not produce any cars themselves, but all the automakers will license their data streams. How many other companies have gathered street-level lidar and imagery on practically every street in the world and have the datacenters to process and serve it globally in real-time?
I agree with you that automated cars are likely to be a source of revenue but there a huge slip between the cup and the lip, and the fact is that while these are good bets the surety that they will be profitable and financially sustainable is definitely not guaranteed!
It looks like she might have overlooked the glaringly obvious fact that the entire reason why Google X and her job position exist is because of "mind numbing" technologies that serve as ad serving platforms that get in revenue for Google.
Ask her to get driverless cars, balloons and a headpiece to start generating income!
It's ironic that the annual Lake Baikal Marathon (http://www.baikalexpress.de/eismarathon/index_eng.htm) is rarely patronized by the local indigenous Buryat people.
It's clear from the story, that UCP1 and UCP3 would give them an unfair advantage!
There is absolutely nothing in the NYTimes story that points to any new development that justifies the headline. Google Apps has been chipping away at the incumbent MS Office for a few years now and, at best, could be building momentum.
Like many "stories" released during the Christmas season, this most likely was one of those weak story ideas that had once been shelved and has come to the rescue of some lurking journalist.
For all its transparency, I've yet to see a working list of security breach attempts made on Google servers. I bet there are many, and it would be useful to know just the source and method if nothing more.
For those who are interested to know more, here is their quite detailed website http://uidai.gov.in/
More than anything else, it conveys the logistical and bureaucratical complexity of executing a project of this dimension across a country like India.
Nothing new, I say.
I've often seen traffic laws being trumped by nothing less than a generous show of cleavage, which always seemed to defy at least one of the physics laws, namely gravity.
The ability to directly measure electron density is quite an old technique. STMs and AFMs have been doing this since the very beginning..
I agree with the researcher's quote in the article that it's good to develop a complementary technique(FEEM) abd at best that's its contribution. I'd be happy to hear what else it contributes.
though I don't quite agree with his or the editors spelling!;) "it's always good to have complimentary approaches,"
It seems to me that your problem is not one of technical vs non technical forms of communication, it's more basic: with how to effectively communicate.
When you say that you have no problem communicating with technical folk, what you're actually saying is that you are very comfortable talking to people who are in the same professional area as you are, those who share the same technical lexicon. To these people you do not have to make an extra effort to communicate - your profession provides you with the tools (journals, newsgroups, magazines) and vocabulary to do so.
If you needed to explain to a 'technical' guy from a different profession - say economics or electrical engineering I bet you'd have the same problem.
Well there are books written about it but basics are simple: to communicate to anyone you need to be in the other person's shoes, understand her frames of reference, her obejctives and drives and make sure you can talk at *that* level. As an exercise, pick an arbitrary person (your neighbour, a cousin etc) and try to explain to him what you do in five minutes.:)
Of course, not everyone has the skill and in fact most highly creative professionals don't. Which is why hiring people with complementary strengths is such a good strategy
To be able to get an interview i'd check on general competence. there's no substitute for prior experience, reference checks.
To get the job, you need to look for alignments on the softer stuff - vision, attitude, personality and motivation levels. There's no quick and dirty way to assess all that. That's why it's an interview, not a questionaire..
The article is talking about web history information not just search history information.
Web history information can only be sought if the user has a toolbar installed and has given his/her consent.
The web history feature is completely consistent with what Google has been striving for - i.e. to provide smart services operating at large scales, in exchange with the role of the 'indexer' of all internet experiences.
And you forget - that this feature us purely voluntary, and by default is set to off.
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More than create buzz as this paper shows, the great benefit of piracy is the countervailing pricing power it imposes. Piracy helps in a better price discovery for "legal" content. https://news.iu.edu/stories/20...
I would categorise the creation of the first gaming noob as a significant milestone in artificial intelligence
*ducks*
Quite obviously a PR/marketing stunt pandering to the obsessive fear of "germs", than any substantial improvement in the general quality of onboard health.
It's no secret that the air in most long haul flights is unhealthy, with cabin humidity under 10% most of which being other passengers' body fluids. If Boeing and the airline industry really cared about the well being of its passengers it would modify the ratio of fresh to recirculated air than make a big song about adding UV lamps in the toilets.
For a country with high population density as well as area, I'd say India was asking for it...
Significant are the omissions to protect the privacy of US citizens and EU companies!
Now just imagine a Beowulf cluster of these gravitational lenses...
First, for someone who has been playing chess competitively for the last twenty years, none of the results of the analysis is a revelation. Like so many "data" posts that seem to be in vogue, this one states quite the obvious viz the game of chess has evolved and has improved in quality. Hence opening colour matters, games are longer and many end in draws. DUH! As a secondary point, the OP makes a big show of the "steady increase" increase in length of game from the 1970s. On closer inspection, what is implied is that the average game has gone from 37 moves to 42 moves. For a chess player, that increase is hardly significant and can be attributed more as a result of prevailing opening theory and chess playing style than reflective of anything else. A clear case of data-blindness.
Will it be possible to import this map into Starcraft? A DLC, even?
Automated cars will be a big source of revenue for google. The cars will be in constant communication with google's datacenters to provide mapping data - not just GPS street coordinates, but detailed imagery and geometry from lidar captured previously by the Street View cars - plus road conditions gleaned in real time from tens of thousands of cars (down to the level of street light timing a few intersections ahead on your path). Google may or may not produce any cars themselves, but all the automakers will license their data streams. How many other companies have gathered street-level lidar and imagery on practically every street in the world and have the datacenters to process and serve it globally in real-time?
I agree with you that automated cars are likely to be a source of revenue but there a huge slip between the cup and the lip, and the fact is that while these are good bets the surety that they will be profitable and financially sustainable is definitely not guaranteed!
It looks like she might have overlooked the glaringly obvious fact that the entire reason why Google X and her job position exist is because of "mind numbing" technologies that serve as ad serving platforms that get in revenue for Google. Ask her to get driverless cars, balloons and a headpiece to start generating income!
It's clear from the story, that UCP1 and UCP3 would give them an unfair advantage!
There is absolutely nothing in the NYTimes story that points to any new development that justifies the headline. Google Apps has been chipping away at the incumbent MS Office for a few years now and, at best, could be building momentum. Like many "stories" released during the Christmas season, this most likely was one of those weak story ideas that had once been shelved and has come to the rescue of some lurking journalist.
For all its transparency, I've yet to see a working list of security breach attempts made on Google servers. I bet there are many, and it would be useful to know just the source and method if nothing more.
For those who are interested to know more, here is their quite detailed website http://uidai.gov.in/ More than anything else, it conveys the logistical and bureaucratical complexity of executing a project of this dimension across a country like India.
Nothing new, I say. I've often seen traffic laws being trumped by nothing less than a generous show of cleavage, which always seemed to defy at least one of the physics laws, namely gravity.
The ability to directly measure electron density is quite an old technique. STMs and AFMs have been doing this since the very beginning.. I agree with the researcher's quote in the article that it's good to develop a complementary technique(FEEM) abd at best that's its contribution. I'd be happy to hear what else it contributes. though I don't quite agree with his or the editors spelling! ;) "it's always good to have complimentary approaches,"
Pluck an epic game from the past, slap on a 'feature' = cheap marketing and product development = low-risk/decent return game product.
So now you're telling me it wasn't Alzheimer's that wiped out Reagan's memory?
One of the best books to offer the basics of the 'science' of cooking is Harold Mcgee's On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen. http://www.amazon.com/Food-Cooking-Science-Lore-Ki tchen/dp/0684800012/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/105-1551306-21 10061?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1186389795&sr=8-1
When you say that you have no problem communicating with technical folk, what you're actually saying is that you are very comfortable talking to people who are in the same professional area as you are, those who share the same technical lexicon. To these people you do not have to make an extra effort to communicate - your profession provides you with the tools (journals, newsgroups, magazines) and vocabulary to do so.
If you needed to explain to a 'technical' guy from a different profession - say economics or electrical engineering I bet you'd have the same problem.
Well there are books written about it but basics are simple: to communicate to anyone you need to be in the other person's shoes, understand her frames of reference, her obejctives and drives and make sure you can talk at *that* level. As an exercise, pick an arbitrary person (your neighbour, a cousin etc) and try to explain to him what you do in five minutes. :)
Of course, not everyone has the skill and in fact most highly creative professionals don't. Which is why hiring people with complementary strengths is such a good strategy
To get the job, you need to look for alignments on the softer stuff - vision, attitude, personality and motivation levels. There's no quick and dirty way to assess all that. That's why it's an interview, not a questionaire..
The article is talking about web history information not just search history information. Web history information can only be sought if the user has a toolbar installed and has given his/her consent.
And you forget - that this feature us purely voluntary, and by default is set to off.
I'm just surprised how these guys get funded at all. Anyone will tell you that this practice is unsustainable, not to mention unethical.