It's probably being tagged 'uk' because the story link is from the BBC, and people are very very lazy.
Unfortunately the misconception is wide spread, particularly in mainland europe, which to be honest does baffle and infuriate me.
If it's any consolation at the start of a story on the mainpage the tags are mostly noise, check back at 100+ comments and hopefully things have sorted themselves out... - seriously can see tags get more sensible as time drags on. Mostly.
Seeing lots of comments about LCD screens - i'm thinking of upgrading from my old 17" to something around 21-24" LCD widescreen.
Am a gamer (not completely hardcore though) - so response time would be good. Am aware of the refresh issues with LCD's. Also do some photography stuff so good colour reproduction would be handy (after calibrated etc), but viewing angle not so important.
Any ideas? Looked around for reviews and found a few conflicting reports - suggestions much appreciated! Budget is low to mid (in dollars guessing $180-$250).
Also as clarification for the 'yet' - which do you trust more, the engineers at MS/google/yahoo to keep the system secure - or your mum's laptop in which she has written down all of your personal details in an addressbook and other notes. Digital information means anyone you know can be creating/copying details about you, its not only your own boxes security you need to worry about.
Yeah, that whole interweb thing has been a spectacular flop...
Sarcasm aside, I know what you're saying, and I agree there will always be a place for localized computing, but 'cloud computing' is a network by another name, it's been around since forever, and it's going nowhere fast.
It may lose the moniker 'cloud computing' but the concept is definitely here to stay.
Services where I can get remote backup and instant recall to any of my files, for only $30 a year? Pipe dream but will be here soon, and will be very attractive to anyone with home PC's which have had data loss.
Also aside from the MS OS, not sure what you mean by dubious security. Yes they all collect a metric ass-ton of user data for profile generation, but as far as we know this data has never been released (especially after the unfortunate AOL fiasco). So they know everything about you if you use their services, but I don't think this data has been compromised maliciously yet.
No direct evidence at all - but just looking at the different queries.
For instance, first query I tried was "2.1 speakers" - the columns were: name, manufacturer, description, system components and speaker type (i.e. active, passive).
Next was "normal distribution" - so not a product type search at all, and I got back: name, description, matrix-valued, degenerate, continuous. Now in fairness most of those columns were not populated, but its interesting that they were generated as they are mostly relevant to the overall query.
Also deffo dont want to be the other kind of 'that guy' - ie rabid fanboy. I'd imagine there's a large part of query classification going on to help in how to parse candidate pages. I.e. if it looks like a product search we need columns 'price', 'manufacturer' etc - if its another type we need different columns.
But yeah keyword frequency would be a major component for sure, but would guess its only one part of many being used.
Have you tried different queries? I think the selection of the column names is actually a very difficult task and it seems to do a decent job of extracting from different pages relevant pieces of information for each column.
If the column 'types' were known a priori then this wouldn't be that neat, however if its classifying on the fly what columns are to be used then that's pretty cool. Looks like a really nice large scale application of 'wrapper induction'.
How the columns are determined is the impressive and novel bit tbh.
It's one thing to be entering the gaming market, and music integration is great. But there's already great games out there like audiosurf which are great fun and do stuff like that.
Apple entering is goodish news as long as they dont start throwing those patents around and screwing the games market for everyone. It would be so crap if indie developers get crushed in the process.
n.b. also amused by the infinite loop of the article linking to a slashdot story...
Unfortunately the difference this time is human to human transmission, which was very limited with the previous examples. The larger question is how much of a mutation has occurred and therefore how potentially dangerous it is.
Also need to determine how far it has actually spread to get an indication of actually how dangerous it may or may not be - i.e. there's around 8 deaths out of 1004 cases, but if it turns out there's another 1000 unreported cases with no fatalities then it may not be that bad.
Got this installed on a 701 (upped to 1GB ram) - its a fantastic improvement. What that netbook was meant to be in the first place. The only other major change was installing Opera - FF was just a bit too slow on the 701 unfortunately - although the javascript fubar's (eg gmail) are a major pita.
But yeah for the 701 deffo recommend - assuming it will fly along on a 901.
Hahahahahahahahahaha..... ahh that's the funniest thing i've read today.
Wait, you're being serious? This is the apple updater that runs in the background, dumped me out of Trackmania when I was on a hotlap and asked me if I wanted to update iTunes and install Safari even though I had neither ran iTunes or installed Safari? Btw I absolutely HATE that about the apple updater, already had one machine get a copy of safari due to 'click ok' numbness.
A fundamental problem with this remains the use of language. The term "global warming" should be dead, as it provides on the surface legitimacy to comments such as local changes (re dyson's comments to sports writer).
The term is "climate change" - the climate is changing in a far accelerated fashion than any previous observations, which in itself is creating a feedback cycle which is only increasing the rate of change. This change unabated will greatly alter the environment as we now know it.
Anytime you see the term "global warming" you are pretty much 95% certain that the article will be by someone who is trying to cast doubt on accelerated climate change - this term needs to stop being used ASAP.
Anyone else really get tired of the friggin tags for a lot of these stories? CorrelationIsNotCausation (this meme here really needs to go, saying it dosn't make you sound smart when it makes no sense or is bleedingly obvious) , and BecauseItWillGetGamed? GTFO. How the hell do you as a scientist game the entire specter of academic publishing to get yourself voted as a nobel prize winner, without you know, maybe actually doing some good science (and having it further recognized by being cited heavily by peers)? The tags are next to useless unless they are good as flamebait (yes am aware of the irony)
Yeah, those good for nothing programmers cramming in features all over the place and not ad-hearing to time honored development practices like waterfall!
And requirement changes? WTF are those? Using waterfall you specify your requirements at the beginning, and these are then set in stone, IN STONE! Nothing will ever change in 6 -12 months.
It's not like they're working 60-80 hour weeks, been forced to implement features, having new requirements added and not being listened to! That would be like marketing driving engineering! Insanity!
As an aside - why is he dragging OO into this? Pretty sure you can use waterfall with OO - you even get pretty diagrams
Not sure of your jurisdiction, but Ryanair (Irish low-fares carrier) is currently suing two companies that use 'scrapping'/crawling for travel aggregation comparison services.
Details in the wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_scraping
- see section on 'Legality'.
Could be something to keep an eye on. The load balancing part however sounds dodgy as.
I havn't RTFA's in a long time here, but wow, that second article is such a reminder in !RTFA = less desire to punch monitor.
Wtf seriously, guy seems to be motivated only if people are buying the product as a measure of usefulness?? I dunno, maybe having 20 million people using some software you built might also be an indication of that?;)
Ron Paul seems to be the Howard Dean of 2008. Just without the 'yeeeeaaaaaahhhhhh'. That is fanatical supporter base, very technically literate, operating at grass-roots level for want of mainstream coverage.
This is neither an endorsement or recrimination, as i'm not an American, so don't really want to care/take too much interest until the final candidates are known. Even then it'll be akin to following a local sporting team (tm), an entertaining spectator sport:)
Pfft! I mean yeah google can do it, but who want's to be included in google's index!;)
Fair enough - I havn't rtf(google link), but I wonder if it is able to capture any of the layout/style information? I.e. when ranking a webpage more than just the content-text is used (eg what's in the title, bolded etc).
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One MAJOR problem - Flash content cannot be indexed by a search engine (AFAIK), AJAX sites (well any site that contains parseable text) can. That being said, if you don't care about being indexed (at least by content), then I guess it isn't an issue;).
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It's probably being tagged 'uk' because the story link is from the BBC, and people are very very lazy.
Unfortunately the misconception is wide spread, particularly in mainland europe, which to be honest does baffle and infuriate me.
If it's any consolation at the start of a story on the mainpage the tags are mostly noise, check back at 100+ comments and hopefully things have sorted themselves out... - seriously can see tags get more sensible as time drags on. Mostly.
Seeing lots of comments about LCD screens - i'm thinking of upgrading from my old 17" to something around 21-24" LCD widescreen.
Am a gamer (not completely hardcore though) - so response time would be good. Am aware of the refresh issues with LCD's. Also do some photography stuff so good colour reproduction would be handy (after calibrated etc), but viewing angle not so important.
Any ideas? Looked around for reviews and found a few conflicting reports - suggestions much appreciated! Budget is low to mid (in dollars guessing $180-$250).
Two so far on short list are either:
Viewsonic VX2260WM 22"
Asus 24" VW246H
So what's your point? The banner says 'news for nerds' - this is interesting stuff.
You know the modern web browser was invented 16 years ago - should we link to mosaic every time a story on FF/IE/Chrome/Safari/Opera comes up?
Also as clarification for the 'yet' - which do you trust more, the engineers at MS/google/yahoo to keep the system secure - or your mum's laptop in which she has written down all of your personal details in an addressbook and other notes. Digital information means anyone you know can be creating/copying details about you, its not only your own boxes security you need to worry about.
Yeah, that whole interweb thing has been a spectacular flop... Sarcasm aside, I know what you're saying, and I agree there will always be a place for localized computing, but 'cloud computing' is a network by another name, it's been around since forever, and it's going nowhere fast. It may lose the moniker 'cloud computing' but the concept is definitely here to stay. Services where I can get remote backup and instant recall to any of my files, for only $30 a year? Pipe dream but will be here soon, and will be very attractive to anyone with home PC's which have had data loss. Also aside from the MS OS, not sure what you mean by dubious security. Yes they all collect a metric ass-ton of user data for profile generation, but as far as we know this data has never been released (especially after the unfortunate AOL fiasco). So they know everything about you if you use their services, but I don't think this data has been compromised maliciously yet.
Wow, you two have very similar usernames, thought I was reply again to the first guy, my mistake... so assuming not the same person?
No, am not masochistic and my natural morphology ability sucks ;) You?
No direct evidence at all - but just looking at the different queries.
For instance, first query I tried was "2.1 speakers" - the columns were: name, manufacturer, description, system components and speaker type (i.e. active, passive).
Next was "normal distribution" - so not a product type search at all, and I got back: name, description, matrix-valued, degenerate, continuous. Now in fairness most of those columns were not populated, but its interesting that they were generated as they are mostly relevant to the overall query.
Also deffo dont want to be the other kind of 'that guy' - ie rabid fanboy. I'd imagine there's a large part of query classification going on to help in how to parse candidate pages. I.e. if it looks like a product search we need columns 'price', 'manufacturer' etc - if its another type we need different columns.
But yeah keyword frequency would be a major component for sure, but would guess its only one part of many being used.
Have you tried different queries? I think the selection of the column names is actually a very difficult task and it seems to do a decent job of extracting from different pages relevant pieces of information for each column.
If the column 'types' were known a priori then this wouldn't be that neat, however if its classifying on the fly what columns are to be used then that's pretty cool. Looks like a really nice large scale application of 'wrapper induction'.
How the columns are determined is the impressive and novel bit tbh.
It's one thing to be entering the gaming market, and music integration is great. But there's already great games out there like audiosurf which are great fun and do stuff like that.
Apple entering is goodish news as long as they dont start throwing those patents around and screwing the games market for everyone. It would be so crap if indie developers get crushed in the process.
n.b. also amused by the infinite loop of the article linking to a slashdot story...
Unfortunately the difference this time is human to human transmission, which was very limited with the previous examples. The larger question is how much of a mutation has occurred and therefore how potentially dangerous it is.
Also need to determine how far it has actually spread to get an indication of actually how dangerous it may or may not be - i.e. there's around 8 deaths out of 1004 cases, but if it turns out there's another 1000 unreported cases with no fatalities then it may not be that bad.
Got this installed on a 701 (upped to 1GB ram) - its a fantastic improvement. What that netbook was meant to be in the first place. The only other major change was installing Opera - FF was just a bit too slow on the 701 unfortunately - although the javascript fubar's (eg gmail) are a major pita.
But yeah for the 701 deffo recommend - assuming it will fly along on a 901.
Damn - wrong mod - post to undo :( - meant insightful
Hahahahahahahahahaha..... ahh that's the funniest thing i've read today.
Wait, you're being serious? This is the apple updater that runs in the background, dumped me out of Trackmania when I was on a hotlap and asked me if I wanted to update iTunes and install Safari even though I had neither ran iTunes or installed Safari? Btw I absolutely HATE that about the apple updater, already had one machine get a copy of safari due to 'click ok' numbness.
Maybe it's better on mac, on XP its a nightmare.
A fundamental problem with this remains the use of language. The term "global warming" should be dead, as it provides on the surface legitimacy to comments such as local changes (re dyson's comments to sports writer).
The term is "climate change" - the climate is changing in a far accelerated fashion than any previous observations, which in itself is creating a feedback cycle which is only increasing the rate of change. This change unabated will greatly alter the environment as we now know it.
Anytime you see the term "global warming" you are pretty much 95% certain that the article will be by someone who is trying to cast doubt on accelerated climate change - this term needs to stop being used ASAP.
WTF? Chrome was a day 1 target... time for some serious meta-moderation...
Anyone else really get tired of the friggin tags for a lot of these stories? CorrelationIsNotCausation (this meme here really needs to go, saying it dosn't make you sound smart when it makes no sense or is bleedingly obvious) , and BecauseItWillGetGamed? GTFO. How the hell do you as a scientist game the entire specter of academic publishing to get yourself voted as a nobel prize winner, without you know, maybe actually doing some good science (and having it further recognized by being cited heavily by peers)? The tags are next to useless unless they are good as flamebait (yes am aware of the irony)
Yeah, those good for nothing programmers cramming in features all over the place and not ad-hearing to time honored development practices like waterfall!
And requirement changes? WTF are those? Using waterfall you specify your requirements at the beginning, and these are then set in stone, IN STONE! Nothing will ever change in 6 -12 months.
It's not like they're working 60-80 hour weeks, been forced to implement features, having new requirements added and not being listened to! That would be like marketing driving engineering! Insanity!
As an aside - why is he dragging OO into this? Pretty sure you can use waterfall with OO - you even get pretty diagrams
Not sure of your jurisdiction, but Ryanair (Irish low-fares carrier) is currently suing two companies that use 'scrapping'/crawling for travel aggregation comparison services. Details in the wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_scraping - see section on 'Legality'. Could be something to keep an eye on. The load balancing part however sounds dodgy as.
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I havn't RTFA's in a long time here, but wow, that second article is such a reminder in !RTFA = less desire to punch monitor. Wtf seriously, guy seems to be motivated only if people are buying the product as a measure of usefulness?? I dunno, maybe having 20 million people using some software you built might also be an indication of that? ;)
Ron Paul seems to be the Howard Dean of 2008. Just without the 'yeeeeaaaaaahhhhhh'. That is fanatical supporter base, very technically literate, operating at grass-roots level for want of mainstream coverage. This is neither an endorsement or recrimination, as i'm not an American, so don't really want to care/take too much interest until the final candidates are known. Even then it'll be akin to following a local sporting team (tm), an entertaining spectator sport :)
Thanks, my keyboard needed that coffee shower ;)
Pfft! I mean yeah google can do it, but who want's to be included in google's index! ;)
Fair enough - I havn't rtf(google link), but I wonder if it is able to capture any of the layout/style information? I.e. when ranking a webpage more than just the content-text is used (eg what's in the title, bolded etc).
One MAJOR problem - Flash content cannot be indexed by a search engine (AFAIK), AJAX sites (well any site that contains parseable text) can. That being said, if you don't care about being indexed (at least by content), then I guess it isn't an issue ;).