I personally don't care of the layout of the document much. But a lot of grad students I know *do* care. Tweaking Latex documents to look exactly as you want is hard for anyone used to WYSIWYG.
Well I've certainly had my fair share of fighting with Latex's figure insertion algorithm. One feature I love in MS Word is the integrated spelling and grammar. For a non-native English speaker it does catch a lot of errors. I also like the collaboration features in MS Word where you can see other authors' comments and reject/accept edits. Judging from the grad students in my dept who struggle with changing the visual appearance of e.g. the heading font in the bibliography it is not all that clearcut when to use Latex or MS Word as you make it seem.
Figuring out what people on the net says about your products is the "new" thing apparantly. IBM has their own engine for the task too. Kind of makes you wonder how much power the net community will in fact have in day-to-day decision making in the corp head quarters' marketing strategy depts.
How about if you are high up in the food chain you perceive the "crime" as something completely insignificant in comparison to the high-impact decisions you are paid to make. Something like people don't care if they steal a pen from the office, if you're high up, not returning a laptop kinda falls into the same category.
You are probably right that games will end up being written in an easier language than C++ and with critical and difficult-to-write components such as AI and Graphics as seprate components.
However, it seems hard to separate AI and for instance physics. For an AI to be smart it has to know how the physics component work or no? I mean is game development going to end up like BizTalk hehe (components "brokering" over XML basically).:)
Also, for games to have an "edge" creativity in all diverse areas have been needed. If components are open-sourced it would be cool cause then the devs are free to let an expert in the team in and hack the render engine to do whatever they want to introduce to impress the audience. But if we end up with several closed-down or hard-to-change components that might impact the creativity in games. Basically it would be all script-programming.
What are you talking about? Running ruby serverside or clientside or both? I havn't heard Ruby being very fast to begin with. Your statement makes no sense whatsoever unless you were trying to be sarcastic.
Spam is one thing, but once you got access to the machine, getting logins and passwords for online stock and bank account services via a keylogger is completely different. I wonder how much stuff is silently running on users machines right now...
It would be interesting to along with each application and its security flaw(s) see how many users they have. Some of these seem to be rather poor shareware that is probably as bad on a desktop as on a PDA.
Still, an informative article, I've never really considered security at all on a PDA. Since they are nowadays wifi connected and used as password managers and for company email, obviously the concern should be greater.
It sounds like you got a truly horrible treatment. An intersting question is whether the adword business model works at all given that fraudulent clicks can be generated for two opposite purposes and there does not seem to be a fair system to separate them: 1. Increasing website revenue, 2. Kill competitor - very efficient since there are few other advertising alternatives out there for small publishers.
That's the most insightful comment in this whole sad thread I've seen so far. If you don't know how the interface works and behaves what are you complaining about? And come on, complaining that they increase the row and column limits? It's riddiculous!
Try netbeans 5, they have Mantisse, a GUI builder that handles layout managers in a straight-forward way. I didn't really believe the hype about it first, but a friend of mine very new to Swing managed to build a non-trivial UI that scales very well upon resize using nothing but it.
Sure enough, a bug has to be REALLY annoying for any non-involved developer to start figuring out how to do changes in the OO source tree. So the big question is: how do you attract developers that are interested in fixing bugs? High-lighting programmers that fixes a lot of bugs maybe? A bug-squish hall-of-fame?:)
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As long as IE doesn't understand application/xhtml+xml I see no reason to switch.
I think it is 20 years from first file, or 17 years after it being granted, whichever is the longest. However the time taken from a patent is filed to it is granted can easily exceed more than 2 yrs, so I would say its probably close to 17 years after issuance still.
Problem is Google Scholar is far from perfect, and a couple of less than great researchers can frequently re-cite each others work in their "club" publishing in their own obscure conference. They would get a bumped up rank easily.
Also some work is not cited often but is still of very high intersest or significance. High prestige journals (or certain conferences as they are the high prestige way of publishing in my field) are a way of recognizing this.
That said, I hate not being able to get access to a paper online. I also hope someone scans in all papers before 1987 (like ACM has done) so we can get access to those to.
Isn't Mathematica owned by Wolfram Research? I kind of think Sun would rather roll their own stuff... Besides Fortran is THE number crunching language with lots and lots of legacy code, and lots of people know it. Mathematica takes a while to get used to with their weird notation.
Mathematica is quite cool though, had to use it for a course and have to say it was nice to mix mathematical expressions with code.
Even if we manage to send data in an understandable format, how do alies actaully go about and *understand* it. In communication studies they talk about common ground, two parts of a communiaction must share a basic notion of the primtive concepts. However an alien race might have completely different concepts to begin with. How do they see that they receive a message with our intent? There are patterns in everything, but you need some basic things to hold onto to seperate noise patterns from what you really want to see.
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There is no such notion of "always" and "never" in this context.
I personally don't care of the layout of the document much. But a lot of grad students I know *do* care. Tweaking Latex documents to look exactly as you want is hard for anyone used to WYSIWYG.
Well I've certainly had my fair share of fighting with Latex's figure insertion algorithm. One feature I love in MS Word is the integrated spelling and grammar. For a non-native English speaker it does catch a lot of errors. I also like the collaboration features in MS Word where you can see other authors' comments and reject/accept edits. Judging from the grad students in my dept who struggle with changing the visual appearance of e.g. the heading font in the bibliography it is not all that clearcut when to use Latex or MS Word as you make it seem.
The procecutor needs to prove you had the intent of downloading the picture, no?
Figuring out what people on the net says about your products is the "new" thing apparantly. IBM has their own engine for the task too. Kind of makes you wonder how much power the net community will in fact have in day-to-day decision making in the corp head quarters' marketing strategy depts.
How about if you are high up in the food chain you perceive the "crime" as something completely insignificant in comparison to the high-impact decisions you are paid to make. Something like people don't care if they steal a pen from the office, if you're high up, not returning a laptop kinda falls into the same category.
You are probably right that games will end up being written in an easier language than C++ and with critical and difficult-to-write components such as AI and Graphics as seprate components.
However, it seems hard to separate AI and for instance physics. For an AI to be smart it has to know how the physics component work or no? I mean is game development going to end up like BizTalk hehe (components "brokering" over XML basically). :)
Also, for games to have an "edge" creativity in all diverse areas have been needed. If components are open-sourced it would be cool cause then the devs are free to let an expert in the team in and hack the render engine to do whatever they want to introduce to impress the audience. But if we end up with several closed-down or hard-to-change components that might impact the creativity in games. Basically it would be all script-programming.
What are you talking about? Running ruby serverside or clientside or both? I havn't heard Ruby being very fast to begin with. Your statement makes no sense whatsoever unless you were trying to be sarcastic.
Spam is one thing, but once you got access to the machine, getting logins and passwords for online stock and bank account services via a keylogger is completely different. I wonder how much stuff is silently running on users machines right now...
It would be interesting to along with each application and its security flaw(s) see how many users they have. Some of these seem to be rather poor shareware that is probably as bad on a desktop as on a PDA.
Still, an informative article, I've never really considered security at all on a PDA. Since they are nowadays wifi connected and used as password managers and for company email, obviously the concern should be greater.
No no no,
It's "shared source" not "open source"
It sounds like you got a truly horrible treatment. An intersting question is whether the adword business model works at all given that fraudulent clicks can be generated for two opposite purposes and there does not seem to be a fair system to separate them: 1. Increasing website revenue, 2. Kill competitor - very efficient since there are few other advertising alternatives out there for small publishers.
That's the most insightful comment in this whole sad thread I've seen so far. If you don't know how the interface works and behaves what are you complaining about? And come on, complaining that they increase the row and column limits? It's riddiculous!
In Swedish Computer Science is "datalogi", and the term "informatik" is somewhat loosely translated into "media and information science".
Try netbeans 5, they have Mantisse, a GUI builder that handles layout managers in a straight-forward way. I didn't really believe the hype about it first, but a friend of mine very new to Swing managed to build a non-trivial UI that scales very well upon resize using nothing but it.
If I had mod points you'd get one.
Sure enough, a bug has to be REALLY annoying for any non-involved developer to start figuring out how to do changes in the OO source tree. So the big question is: how do you attract developers that are interested in fixing bugs? High-lighting programmers that fixes a lot of bugs maybe? A bug-squish hall-of-fame? :)
As long as IE doesn't understand application/xhtml+xml I see no reason to switch.
Read more about it here: Sending XHTML as text/html Considered Harmful.
Hey Hisham. Yeah San Jose public transit system sucks. I stopped taking the IBM shuttle to Almaden and rented a car. ;)
I think it is 20 years from first file, or 17 years after it being granted, whichever is the longest. However the time taken from a patent is filed to it is granted can easily exceed more than 2 yrs, so I would say its probably close to 17 years after issuance still.
Problem is Google Scholar is far from perfect, and a couple of less than great researchers can frequently re-cite each others work in their "club" publishing in their own obscure conference. They would get a bumped up rank easily.
Also some work is not cited often but is still of very high intersest or significance. High prestige journals (or certain conferences as they are the high prestige way of publishing in my field) are a way of recognizing this.
That said, I hate not being able to get access to a paper online. I also hope someone scans in all papers before 1987 (like ACM has done) so we can get access to those to.
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A number only contains information about one thing: its value. Chaos must be a feature of the context the number is used.
Isn't Mathematica owned by Wolfram Research? I kind of think Sun would rather roll their own stuff... Besides Fortran is THE number crunching language with lots and lots of legacy code, and lots of people know it. Mathematica takes a while to get used to with their weird notation. Mathematica is quite cool though, had to use it for a course and have to say it was nice to mix mathematical expressions with code.
Plese, prior art only has to do with the claims in the patent, not the general context of the patent.
Even if we manage to send data in an understandable format, how do alies actaully go about and *understand* it. In communication studies they talk about common ground, two parts of a communiaction must share a basic notion of the primtive concepts. However an alien race might have completely different concepts to begin with. How do they see that they receive a message with our intent? There are patterns in everything, but you need some basic things to hold onto to seperate noise patterns from what you really want to see.