Is that Religion of Singularity-talk for "unable to get papers published in peer reviewed journals"?
Why troll?
Parent got a good point. How accomplished are these scientists? Is what they are proposing at all plausible, do they perform experiments and get them peer reviewed and published in respected journals?
In some countries (Sweden, as far as I know) if you hire someone who has just graduated from university and this is his first workplace, you CAN NOT fire him for 18 months.
That is just completely untrue. If anything, in Sweden you are more likely to be fired when you are hired as a new graduate because companies has to fire the latest employees before the older ones (at least if they have signed a union agreement, and most companies have done just that).
I was responding to the parent. Cases are not always as clear-cut as in this example. Also, in this case I'm not sure exposing all their internal email is proportional to the company's business practices. In fact, it is probably criminal.
And of course you, in your divine wisdom, can always decide exactly the company procedures and business practices that are considered "evil" right? You are never wrong and always right of course. Why have any arguments or attempting to change an organization from within, when you can just screw them over and leak all their internal documents as a torrent. Really classy. Though in this case it appears some random employee forwarded all emails to their gmail account and used a weak password.
That there are earlier patents on related technology? That you want credit for whatever they are doing? It would help if you motivate a post like that.
Personally, I think the effect we see is due to a change of public perception of science and scientists today. People just do not respect
scientists the way they used to. If this is due to news coverage, politicians or bad science I have no idea.
It is unfortunate you were seen as a troll. I think you have a valid point. It's not rocket science to take care of administrating a desktop station, windows or linux.
Also like you I dislike the GP's over-generalized sterotype which transcribes windows "power users" into animals. It's cheap rhetoric that does nothing to lift up the GP's better arguments.
Further, using linux you also get to these arcane tweaks. Maybe not in the core system, but by using for instance your window manager of choice. And they are all different. And the know-how on how to change them to do what you want does change over time.
Author's credentials? And too specialized?
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Great review. What would have made it even better IMO is if the author's credentials in creating mobile multimedia applications for actual clients were highlighted. Lately I have been disappointed by many books being written by authors who appear to never have actually participated in realistic projects in a corporate/open source setting. The book material in those cases tend to be rather shallow -- more like tutorials than books that can teach you something beyond all free (often great) documentation available on the web.
A second thought that struck me is that the book sounds very specialized. I wonder how much content of this book that could go into a regular ME book. For instance, threading in order to not block the phone UI is not exactly rocket science... sounds to me there is a lot of filler material in the book.
I think he confused "leaf" and "root" claims here. The root claims (e.g. claim 1, but I think other claims can be "root" claims later on too) are what really matters if you want to be in the clear from infringement.
"Perceptrons" by Minsky and Papert was correct regarding perceptrons' limited computational expressiveness. Following that they incorrectly conjectured that their negative result would hold for 3 or more perceptron layers, which later turned out not to be true. So cut them some slack, they gave the research community significant useful results, and probably acted with best judgment.
But only because US companies push a lot of money into the political chains to push the broken patent system
of gentech and software upon the rest of the world.
It is a shame what is going on here in Europe, the affected polticians dont even try to hide
on who's paylist they indirectly are. I live in Europe too, and some major EU companies most certainly are big pushers for stronger software patent protection in Europe (yes, they already exist here). For instance, Ericsson has inflicted heavy pressure on Swedish politicians to make Sweden a country that pushes for increased software patent protection in EU. And they did succeed in doing so.
You lose karma because people believe you are wrong.
You really shouldn't lose karma just because you have a different opinion. Karma loss
should ideally be attributed to posts that abuse the forum system---nothing else. Instead, what is often seen here on slashdot
(and other places) is moderation abuse where posts are moderated down just because a moderator disagreed with the post. This
widespread moderation abuse is blatant disrespect for a civilized debate or conversation, and should not be accepted by anyone. We
all suffer because of it.
Re:VB already gets the respect it deserves...
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How do you create a class method in vb.net?
So what? Is that all you could think of that makes an enormous difference to many projects out there? VB.NET looks quite OK to me though I prefer Java or C# if I have a choice. The greatest problem with VB.NET is probably that it is not VB6, and folks used to VB6 may need to update their skill set a little.
My guess is that the prosecutor needs to show you had intent to link to the copyright-infringing material. If they cannot show intent most likely the court would let you go.
Actually an entire field may have a bias. I doubt most work is every reproduced, of course, for different scientific fields and traditions, this may be more or less severe.
Not that I doubt the influence of analysts but I couldn't find a single reference pointing to the NY Times website. Does anyone have any link from NYT about this issue? Or how else are we supposed to know there is a real story here?
And, yeah, I agree with the parent, that article is rather bad. I mean listing a learning curve as a short-coming? If something is going to change (for better or worse) some time investment from the users will be required.
I don't think he is insightful or interesting personally, but I have to say that a lot of people apparently do like his writing. This could be because most tech / programming blogs are so terse to read. Also he did start his "blog" before blogging got big, so he might get first starter's advantage. Also, I don't think his product achievements matters much. Bottom line is that people read it because they think he writes well with interesting topics.
There is something called ISO 9241-9 - Ergonomic requirements for office work with visual display terminals - Part 9: Requirements
for non-keyboard input devices. It covers mouse performance, and a metric called throughput (TP). Its validity is a matter of considerable debate. You can read the following technical report from IBM Research for much more information. There is also a recent article in the Journal of Human-Computer Studies 61:6, 2004 by the same author on the same topic.
Out of curiosity, what are the portability problems with the code you gave? That the shift may behave differently on different CPU:s? (I am thinking of Endianess).
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Is that Religion of Singularity-talk for "unable to get papers published in peer reviewed journals"?
Why troll? Parent got a good point. How accomplished are these scientists? Is what they are proposing at all plausible, do they perform experiments and get them peer reviewed and published in respected journals?
That is just completely untrue. If anything, in Sweden you are more likely to be fired when you are hired as a new graduate because companies has to fire the latest employees before the older ones (at least if they have signed a union agreement, and most companies have done just that).
And yes I am Swedish.
And except for these individuals most who succeed went to college... so what's your point?
GP video is the stupid Rick Rolled video.
I was responding to the parent. Cases are not always as clear-cut as in this example. Also, in this case I'm not sure exposing all their internal email is proportional to the company's business practices. In fact, it is probably criminal.
And of course you, in your divine wisdom, can always decide exactly the company procedures and business practices that are considered "evil" right? You are never wrong and always right of course. Why have any arguments or attempting to change an organization from within, when you can just screw them over and leak all their internal documents as a torrent. Really classy. Though in this case it appears some random employee forwarded all emails to their gmail account and used a weak password.
Seriously, what was the point with your post?
That there are earlier patents on related technology? That you want credit for whatever they are doing? It would help if you motivate a post like that.
There gmail has gone down for sure. Although only in the order of minutes as far as I've experienced.
No they are not. They are socialists.
25% of the Swedish population do not believe in Evolution either.
Source: Svenska Dagbladet (one of the largest news papers in Sweden)
Personally, I think the effect we see is due to a change of public perception of science and scientists today. People just do not respect scientists the way they used to. If this is due to news coverage, politicians or bad science I have no idea.
It is unfortunate you were seen as a troll. I think you have a valid point. It's not rocket science to take care of administrating a desktop station, windows or linux.
Also like you I dislike the GP's over-generalized sterotype which transcribes windows "power users" into animals. It's cheap rhetoric that does nothing to lift up the GP's better arguments.
Further, using linux you also get to these arcane tweaks. Maybe not in the core system, but by using for instance your window manager of choice. And they are all different. And the know-how on how to change them to do what you want does change over time.
Great review. What would have made it even better IMO is if the author's credentials in creating mobile multimedia applications for actual clients were highlighted. Lately I have been disappointed by many books being written by authors who appear to never have actually participated in realistic projects in a corporate/open source setting. The book material in those cases tend to be rather shallow -- more like tutorials than books that can teach you something beyond all free (often great) documentation available on the web.
A second thought that struck me is that the book sounds very specialized. I wonder how much content of this book that could go into a regular ME book. For instance, threading in order to not block the phone UI is not exactly rocket science... sounds to me there is a lot of filler material in the book.
I think he confused "leaf" and "root" claims here. The root claims (e.g. claim 1, but I think other claims can be "root" claims later on too) are what really matters if you want to be in the clear from infringement.
"Perceptrons" by Minsky and Papert was correct regarding perceptrons' limited computational expressiveness. Following that they incorrectly conjectured that their negative result would hold for 3 or more perceptron layers, which later turned out not to be true. So cut them some slack, they gave the research community significant useful results, and probably acted with best judgment.
You really shouldn't lose karma just because you have a different opinion. Karma loss should ideally be attributed to posts that abuse the forum system---nothing else. Instead, what is often seen here on slashdot (and other places) is moderation abuse where posts are moderated down just because a moderator disagreed with the post. This widespread moderation abuse is blatant disrespect for a civilized debate or conversation, and should not be accepted by anyone. We all suffer because of it.
So what? Is that all you could think of that makes an enormous difference to many projects out there? VB.NET looks quite OK to me though I prefer Java or C# if I have a choice. The greatest problem with VB.NET is probably that it is not VB6, and folks used to VB6 may need to update their skill set a little.
My guess is that the prosecutor needs to show you had intent to link to the copyright-infringing material. If they cannot show intent most likely the court would let you go.
Actually an entire field may have a bias. I doubt most work is every reproduced, of course, for different scientific fields and traditions, this may be more or less severe.
No bias in scientific publications... right. Have you published scientific papers yourself, and if so, in what field? I am just curious.
Not that I doubt the influence of analysts but I couldn't find a single reference pointing to the NY Times website. Does anyone have any link from NYT about this issue? Or how else are we supposed to know there is a real story here?
That's CRN not CERN.
There is an enormous difference.
Here is a direct link to the article the parent is talking about.
And, yeah, I agree with the parent, that article is rather bad. I mean listing a learning curve as a short-coming? If something is going to change (for better or worse) some time investment from the users will be required.
I don't think he is insightful or interesting personally, but I have to say that a lot of people apparently do like his writing. This could be because most tech / programming blogs are so terse to read. Also he did start his "blog" before blogging got big, so he might get first starter's advantage. Also, I don't think his product achievements matters much. Bottom line is that people read it because they think he writes well with interesting topics.
There is something called ISO 9241-9 - Ergonomic requirements for office work with visual display terminals - Part 9: Requirements for non-keyboard input devices. It covers mouse performance, and a metric called throughput (TP). Its validity is a matter of considerable debate. You can read the following technical report from IBM Research for much more information. There is also a recent article in the Journal of Human-Computer Studies 61:6, 2004 by the same author on the same topic.
Out of curiosity, what are the portability problems with the code you gave? That the shift may behave differently on different CPU:s? (I am thinking of Endianess).