This opinion piece is quite the hodgepodge of thoughts. The author brings in Sir Francis Bacon (division of knowledge), then spins off into Jonathan Swift's criticism of indexing knowledge. Apparently, indexes make us "lazy as thinkers." Running through the same discourse is the idea that Google provides an easy way to include advertising which pollutes the internet. And since Google is so omnipresent, it poses a danger. Then, he brings up the idea that since Google is an "advertising company" it cannot be trusted with the knowledge of humanity.
Finally, we come to the (logical?) conclusion that we need an index that is akin to the "public library" so humanity can control "the shared heritage of humanity."
Lazy thinking indeed.
If this is TL;DR, here's the slashdot version:
1. Quote prominent philosophers loosely related to subject matter
2. Make bold claims about high profile company/person
3. Make even bolder claim about "shared heritage of humanity"
...
Profit! from page views.
Yep, you hit it right on the head: FTFA
"T-Mobile network services was temporarily degraded recently when an independent application developer released an Android-based instant messaging application that was designed to refresh its network connection with substantial frequency,..." Lots of comments chiming in on overselling bandwidth, but as you've noted, this has nothing to do with bandwidth. Its an infrastructure problem, and one that is slightly out of their control. They noted with this one app alone, network utilization increased 1200% per device. Its a signaling issue they didn't anticipate.
I'm curious, in cities with a population between 5000 and 15000, what type of companies needs this IT work? I'm not threadcrapping, I'm really curious. I could only think of hospitals, but I'd assume they were regional facilities with dedicated staff.
I don't know anyone who has complained about this. My HP has two stickers, nVidia and Intel. My old E6400 had Intel and Vista Compatible. My current machine, M11x, doesn't have any.
And I've never had someone lament to me "Man, I wish my laptop didn't have stickers. They suck!" I guess it depends on the survey question.
U.S. Attorney Zane David Memeger says investigators have found no evidence of criminal intent...
So, when the speed limit changes from a 55 to a 35 MPH zone in 100 feet and I didn't see the sign, does that mean I don't get a ticket because I didn't intend to commit a crime?
I could see this as an alternative to Bing Bird's Eye photos. Yes, there are privacy issues. virtualglobetrotting.com has tracked down high profile homes and viewing them in Bing Bird's Eye is surreal.
This says only four AQ Div 1A teams weren't profitable: Duke, Syracuse, Wake Forest and Connecticut. And 1/3 of the non-AQ weren't in profitable (1/3 broke even and 1/3 eked out a profit).
I can't find any data on non Div IAA (i.e. Holy Cross) but I'd assume due to a distinct lack of exposure they are *huge* sinkholes.
Most any college team I know of (SEC ones in my experience) MAKE the universities money by the barrel full.
The top 25 revenue earners in all of CFB (Texas, Ohio State, Michigan, Auburn, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Notre Dame etc) pay their universities back in profit from merchandising rights, selling tickets, TV rights etc etc. However, the rest of CFB, (around 90 in Div IA) are a sinkhole. And that doesn't include Div IAA. Its an arms race and the haves have it, and the have nots are drowning.
We NEED to be focusing more on vocational training.
+1. If I had mod points I'd give them to you. Yes, I went to college and I'm working on a PhD, but that's a choice because I like the challenge. It seems like its become a prerequisite to life to go to college. What for? If I want to work on diesel engines why wouldn't I apprentice at a repair shop? Or go to a vocational school to learn everything I can about it? Its ridiculous that we emphasize college/university so much.
Not just defense of football, but defense of athletics. Yes, you can rail on college football/basketball, but here's the thing: most scholarship athletes are amazing students. And I'm not talking non-revenue sports, I'm talking about football and basketball. Most of the scholar-athletes I've met know they're not jumping to the NFL/NBA and are exceptionally grateful to be at whatever academic institution they're enrolled in. And, even though they have practices, work-outs, chalk talk, etc. they still do well academically. Could you imagine having a minimum 40 hours of other stuff to do as a scholar-athlete and then doing your school work?
Myron Rolle chose a Rhodes Scholar over the NFL. He's earning an MA in Medical Anthro. Zane Beadles of Utah was named an Academic All-American with a 3.535 in Mechanical Engineering.
If the authors want to talk about everyone being a Liberal Arts major (i.e. a well rounded human being) shouldn't that also include athletics?
Also, I got news for you: electrical problems have been a bitch to deal with for literally decades. Yeah, Lucas is called "The Prince of Darkness" for a reason. =D Not that Lucas, the other Lucas.
Ahhh, the iPhone is like the crazy ex-girlfriend. Have you plotted the iPhone against the "Vicki Mendoza Diagonal" to see whether its craziness is offset by its hotness and whether you should continue to use it?
The argument that they need to do things that "really, really":-) require access to the bare metal, doesn't hold anymore, because the applications they are building will anyway need to be able to run in a virtualized environment.
There are cases where this is a necessity though. For instance, my work is with CUDA/OpenCL and that requires access to "the bare metal" so to speak. Or anyone who works with an FPGA. Or Cell. Or driver development. And even though virtualization is pretty good, it isn't perfect either and can have its own issues (I've had my fair share). But, for good portion of programming (I'm thinking web development, GUIs, etc), virtualization is an excellent solution.
I didn't read the paper (which I can't find in a peer reviewed journal either, but I'm not a sociologist). But from the article:
"Gambetta and Hertog propose that a lack of appropriate jobs in their home countries may have radicalized some engineers in Arab countries....But the promises of modernization and development were often stymied by repression and corruption, and many young engineers in the 1980s were left jobless and frustrated."
Its economics, not 'style of thinking', that the authors propose as the problem. If you slogged through 4 years of undergrad plus 2-7 years graduate work only to discover that the jobs you were promised weren't there, wouldn't that leave you disillusioned and susceptible to someone whispering in your ear "Hey, you know whose fault this is?" The authors even point out a Middle Eastern country where engineers were not disproportionately represented in the radical movement: Saudi Arabia, "where engineers had little trouble finding work in an ever-expanding economy."
I haven't actually done this, but if I had to pick my passwords all over again, I would use a foreign keyboard (my choice would be some type of hangul keyboard), and just pick words that make sense in the foreign language. For instance, if you need an alphanumeric password, you could do something "11tlqdlf" where t = "siot", l = "ee", q = "bieup", d = "digeut" and f = "rieul". Its "11eleven" in Korean.
Or if its one of those bank question/response things, you could do something like "What did the truck say to the bread?" Your response would be "Qkd Qkd" or "bbang bbang".
Or, "What did the bus driver say to the egg?" "rp fks" = "ge-ran" or "get on".
From the article: SF, at its best, is an exploration of the human condition under circumstances that we can conceive of existing, but which don't currently exist
This is Charles Stross' definition of science fiction (and explains a lot of his writing). And he doesn't hate just Star Trek, he hates Babylon 5 and didn't watch BSG. If this is Charles Stross' starting point, then its perfectly reasonable for him to hate ST/B5/BSG.
The creators of TNG/B5/BSG simply had a different world view from Charles Stross. They wanted to use their shows as a reflection of our current world. TNG was so touchy feely (and upon recent viewing, fairly preachy), its a reflection of the politically correct atmosphere from which it was wrought. Nothing like an classically trained Shakespearean actor to bring a moral voice to the world. Likewise BSG is a reflection of its times with flawed characters making morally ambiguous decisions. Or, more concrete examples of a science fiction as a mirror would be a religious nut for a president or Battlestar Pegasus as a reflection of military zealotry.
Sticking with IBM for Cell would have made very little sense. The Cell processor is very similar to how NVidia's CUDA presents the graphics card to you: limited cache (shared memory), lots of very simple hardware threads, almost no branch predication, etc. So, both CUDA and Cell would crank out great numbers on things like a particle simulator, MPM, image processing, and the like, but are not equipped to do some useful things like running a scheduler, or a word processor. Basically anything that's very difficult to multi-thread would be very hard/impossible to adapt to a Cell like architecture.
And some of the applications that are would be useful in Cell most likely work in CUDA. So, instead of having to have a regular processor + Cell + CUDA, why not just have a regular processor + CUDA?
Slashdot Mirror
This opinion piece is quite the hodgepodge of thoughts. The author brings in Sir Francis Bacon (division of knowledge), then spins off into Jonathan Swift's criticism of indexing knowledge. Apparently, indexes make us "lazy as thinkers." Running through the same discourse is the idea that Google provides an easy way to include advertising which pollutes the internet. And since Google is so omnipresent, it poses a danger. Then, he brings up the idea that since Google is an "advertising company" it cannot be trusted with the knowledge of humanity.
Finally, we come to the (logical?) conclusion that we need an index that is akin to the "public library" so humanity can control "the shared heritage of humanity."
Lazy thinking indeed.
If this is TL;DR, here's the slashdot version:
1. Quote prominent philosophers loosely related to subject matter
2. Make bold claims about high profile company/person
3. Make even bolder claim about "shared heritage of humanity"
...
Profit! from page views.
Yep, you hit it right on the head: FTFA
"T-Mobile network services was temporarily degraded recently when an independent application developer released an Android-based instant messaging application that was designed to refresh its network connection with substantial frequency,..."
Lots of comments chiming in on overselling bandwidth, but as you've noted, this has nothing to do with bandwidth. Its an infrastructure problem, and one that is slightly out of their control. They noted with this one app alone, network utilization increased 1200% per device. Its a signaling issue they didn't anticipate.
I'm curious, in cities with a population between 5000 and 15000, what type of companies needs this IT work? I'm not threadcrapping, I'm really curious. I could only think of hospitals, but I'd assume they were regional facilities with dedicated staff.
I don't know anyone who has complained about this. My HP has two stickers, nVidia and Intel. My old E6400 had Intel and Vista Compatible. My current machine, M11x, doesn't have any.
And I've never had someone lament to me "Man, I wish my laptop didn't have stickers. They suck!" I guess it depends on the survey question.
U.S. Attorney Zane David Memeger says investigators have found no evidence of criminal intent...
So, when the speed limit changes from a 55 to a 35 MPH zone in 100 feet and I didn't see the sign, does that mean I don't get a ticket because I didn't intend to commit a crime?
My condolences for your loss and my gratitude for your service.
I could see this as an alternative to Bing Bird's Eye photos. Yes, there are privacy issues. virtualglobetrotting.com has tracked down high profile homes and viewing them in Bing Bird's Eye is surreal.
american university athletic industrial complex
Thanks, that was awesome, but I fixed it for you. =D
Really?
http://money.cnn.com/2009/12/31/news/companies/college_football_money/index.htm
This says only four AQ Div 1A teams weren't profitable: Duke, Syracuse, Wake Forest and Connecticut. And 1/3 of the non-AQ weren't in profitable (1/3 broke even and 1/3 eked out a profit).
I can't find any data on non Div IAA (i.e. Holy Cross) but I'd assume due to a distinct lack of exposure they are *huge* sinkholes.
Athletics departments pay for their scholarships, so that scholarship money goes back to the university as tuition.
Nevermind, I ran the numbers, almost all AQ schools are profitable (which is probably what you were talking about).
Most any college team I know of (SEC ones in my experience) MAKE the universities money by the barrel full.
The top 25 revenue earners in all of CFB (Texas, Ohio State, Michigan, Auburn, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Notre Dame etc) pay their universities back in profit from merchandising rights, selling tickets, TV rights etc etc. However, the rest of CFB, (around 90 in Div IA) are a sinkhole. And that doesn't include Div IAA. Its an arms race and the haves have it, and the have nots are drowning.
We NEED to be focusing more on vocational training.
+1. If I had mod points I'd give them to you. Yes, I went to college and I'm working on a PhD, but that's a choice because I like the challenge. It seems like its become a prerequisite to life to go to college. What for? If I want to work on diesel engines why wouldn't I apprentice at a repair shop? Or go to a vocational school to learn everything I can about it? Its ridiculous that we emphasize college/university so much.
Not just defense of football, but defense of athletics. Yes, you can rail on college football/basketball, but here's the thing: most scholarship athletes are amazing students. And I'm not talking non-revenue sports, I'm talking about football and basketball. Most of the scholar-athletes I've met know they're not jumping to the NFL/NBA and are exceptionally grateful to be at whatever academic institution they're enrolled in. And, even though they have practices, work-outs, chalk talk, etc. they still do well academically. Could you imagine having a minimum 40 hours of other stuff to do as a scholar-athlete and then doing your school work?
Myron Rolle chose a Rhodes Scholar over the NFL. He's earning an MA in Medical Anthro. Zane Beadles of Utah was named an Academic All-American with a 3.535 in Mechanical Engineering.
If the authors want to talk about everyone being a Liberal Arts major (i.e. a well rounded human being) shouldn't that also include athletics?
What's the difference?
Also, I got news for you: electrical problems have been a bitch to deal with for literally decades.
Yeah, Lucas is called "The Prince of Darkness" for a reason. =D Not that Lucas, the other Lucas.
I think he's talking about the method (giant ass rocket with tiny capsule at the top) not the execution (Apollo 11-17).
Ahhh, the iPhone is like the crazy ex-girlfriend. Have you plotted the iPhone against the "Vicki Mendoza Diagonal" to see whether its craziness is offset by its hotness and whether you should continue to use it?
I think I speak for everyone when I say no, no I haven't.
The argument that they need to do things that "really, really" :-) require access to the bare metal, doesn't hold anymore, because the applications they are building will anyway need to be able to run in a virtualized environment.
There are cases where this is a necessity though. For instance, my work is with CUDA/OpenCL and that requires access to "the bare metal" so to speak. Or anyone who works with an FPGA. Or Cell. Or driver development. And even though virtualization is pretty good, it isn't perfect either and can have its own issues (I've had my fair share). But, for good portion of programming (I'm thinking web development, GUIs, etc), virtualization is an excellent solution.
I didn't read the paper (which I can't find in a peer reviewed journal either, but I'm not a sociologist). But from the article:
"Gambetta and Hertog propose that a lack of appropriate jobs in their home countries may have radicalized some engineers in Arab countries....But the promises of modernization and development were often stymied by repression and corruption, and many young engineers in the 1980s were left jobless and frustrated."
Its economics, not 'style of thinking', that the authors propose as the problem. If you slogged through 4 years of undergrad plus 2-7 years graduate work only to discover that the jobs you were promised weren't there, wouldn't that leave you disillusioned and susceptible to someone whispering in your ear "Hey, you know whose fault this is?" The authors even point out a Middle Eastern country where engineers were not disproportionately represented in the radical movement: Saudi Arabia, "where engineers had little trouble finding work in an ever-expanding economy."
I haven't actually done this, but if I had to pick my passwords all over again, I would use a foreign keyboard (my choice would be some type of hangul keyboard), and just pick words that make sense in the foreign language. For instance, if you need an alphanumeric password, you could do something "11tlqdlf" where t = "siot", l = "ee", q = "bieup", d = "digeut" and f = "rieul". Its "11eleven" in Korean.
Or if its one of those bank question/response things, you could do something like "What did the truck say to the bread?" Your response would be "Qkd Qkd" or "bbang bbang".
Or, "What did the bus driver say to the egg?" "rp fks" = "ge-ran" or "get on".
From the article:
SF, at its best, is an exploration of the human condition under circumstances that we can conceive of existing, but which don't currently exist
This is Charles Stross' definition of science fiction (and explains a lot of his writing). And he doesn't hate just Star Trek, he hates Babylon 5 and didn't watch BSG. If this is Charles Stross' starting point, then its perfectly reasonable for him to hate ST/B5/BSG.
The creators of TNG/B5/BSG simply had a different world view from Charles Stross. They wanted to use their shows as a reflection of our current world. TNG was so touchy feely (and upon recent viewing, fairly preachy), its a reflection of the politically correct atmosphere from which it was wrought. Nothing like an classically trained Shakespearean actor to bring a moral voice to the world. Likewise BSG is a reflection of its times with flawed characters making morally ambiguous decisions. Or, more concrete examples of a science fiction as a mirror would be a religious nut for a president or Battlestar Pegasus as a reflection of military zealotry.
Sticking with IBM for Cell would have made very little sense. The Cell processor is very similar to how NVidia's CUDA presents the graphics card to you: limited cache (shared memory), lots of very simple hardware threads, almost no branch predication, etc. So, both CUDA and Cell would crank out great numbers on things like a particle simulator, MPM, image processing, and the like, but are not equipped to do some useful things like running a scheduler, or a word processor. Basically anything that's very difficult to multi-thread would be very hard/impossible to adapt to a Cell like architecture.
And some of the applications that are would be useful in Cell most likely work in CUDA. So, instead of having to have a regular processor + Cell + CUDA, why not just have a regular processor + CUDA?
Yep, in Scotland. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/7635404.stm Of course, this link was in the article.