Are you saying this is a bad thing? I'm glad he's got this one by the balls and hasn't sold out yet. I was worried about by beloved Mozilla (or Konq or what-have-you) before, but some research into it paints a slightly rosier picture.
of a head's up to anyone who hasn't read the headlines on Slashdot, CNet, or google for the last 18 months or so.
I think what's more telling is that it is sitting there in the Economist. Now you just have to wait for it to show up in Business Week as an editorial piece, and then It Must Be True, at least to managerial types of various calibers.
The Economist has this characterization of being for people who have their finger on the pulse of things; who are levelheaded and are already in the know, so it may sort of be preaching to the choir. It's pretty spin free, so that awkward quote from the Microsoft rep "being customer-focused" sort of stands out, and I think that was intentional.
Microsoft doesn't customer-focus unless you're entering a partnership agreement with them. Otherwise your wants and needs are averaged out across the board and shipped in a Service Pack. Meanwhile the article puts that quote agaisnt the backdrop of how open-source is being chosen precisely because it's easy to tailor for what you need.
And you don't have to be a slashdotter to appreciate that irony. It's all right there.
He should get off his soapbox spouting off how the patent is bunk when he can't reasonably expect that Doyle would know about his particular product when it wasn't even targetted at his line of work (he would have been into TEX and HTML)... maybe he can blame the law firm, though.
He doesn't realize they are on the same team. Kinda sad. (Article was good, but a little self-indulgant as well, I think)
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I mean wtf is tghat!!!!
Oh wait, it's the only copy of the article I could find in electronic form. SORRY! I won't ever post a portable document format link again. From now on, it's Word Documents all the way, baby, yeah!
It's a USA Today story from the cover (!) in 1996.
Important points:
Dr. Doyle (Eolas) isn't trying to squash Mozilla or anything like that. What he was hoping to do would be to force Microsoft, Sun, etc. to join an organization where they would standardize their architecture. He declared the current state of things then as a "hodgepodge", and it still is today (EJB vs. NET vs. DCOM vs. SOAP vs. agent archs). He claimed he would provide free licenses to anyone who would cooperate. He also thought maybe he'd get funding from some guy who was afriad of Microsoft or Oracle, and wanted his help to one-up what they had.
That ain't going to happen now.
I'm pretty sure he's cutting his losses and JUST going after the biggest fish in the pond.
You can also read his letter to the readership of DDJ (they had many of the same opinions as Slashdotters I've read so far).
Rather than representing a "blow to interactivity on the Internet," the University of California patent will be used to encourage the acceptance of a standard API for Web-based interactive applications, preventing the development of a VHS/ Beta-style "API war" between Microsoft, Netscape, Sun, and the like. We are not asking browser companies to pay royalties for developing browsers that can run applets. Rather, we are only requiring that they adhere to a standard "Web-API" that will be defined by a consortium of Eolas licensees... [your] comments go on to imply that since I went to graduate school at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and since Mosaic was developed there, that I must have "lucked" into some special knowledge of Web technologies through an alleged "tangential association" with NCSA. This is untrue and misleading. Although I did receive my PhD from UIUC, I had no connection with NCSA at the time. My attendance on campus was from 1984-1989, long before the NCSA folks began work on a Web browser. Furthermore, my degree was from the department of Cell and Structural Biology, for studying the effects of aging on the microvascular system of the heart.
This guy isn't the bad guy. He's just a dude who tweaked up his web browser for medical imageing, and had a bright idea. The University hired Townsend, Townsend and Crew to file the patent, and they couldn't come up with anything at the time. Maybe the weren't Lotus users?;-)
In any case, since this guy wasn't a CS major (Biology), he probably wouldn't have been privy to Lotus. He was an academic Unix guy, and Lotus was big in business circles. I can't blame him, and think Ray Ozzie needs to get off his soapbox.
Lotus is dead man, don't give Microsoft any ammo. Doyle wants Microsoft to start playing nice, and you're undermining that. Great way to see your vision through Ozzie; they (Ozzie and Doyle) both had the same vision and I think he fails to realize how alike their thinking and motives are.
1) Directories are arranged in rings (with files "further" away from the selector closer together and smaller, which coalese to "..." at the extreme opposite end)
2) Opening a directory pushes it's parent to the background and rotates it off to the side. The new folder appears as a new, centered ring on the screen. Parent folders are recursively behind it, and fade to black near the back end (fog).
3) If you pushd, the ring changes color, becomes more transparent, and locks into place. Then you can navigate away from it, and still see it. Perahps the camera angle changes to give you a better view of all pushd'd dirs. Popd brings that old ring into focus.
4) files that are linked from multiple directories are "locked", that is if both directories are visible (because of stack traversal, or a "sticky" navigation mode), they rearrange their positions until the file itself is superimposed in the Z direction. If you rotate a directory and get another file like that, the other rings rotate to accomodate it. In a directory where files are linked to from multiple places (think/etc/X11 and/usr/X11R6/etc), both rings would rotate in opposite directions.:-)
5) Use a gamepad to navigate. Like Seiken Densetsu 2. (SoM).
6) Have attribute navigation modes, where the Z-index lockups are not inode linkages from the directories that contain them, but some other relationship, like document files sharing the same author or UserID. The motion of the rings in the background would provide visual feedback of how "important" that attribute is with respect to other collection of files. Perhaps all the matching entries "glow", and the background rings all try to center the concentration of matching entries along the Z axis.
The point is, a hub-and-spoke connection model needs to be exploited to provide visual information a user using a 2-d browser can't pick up otherwise. By having multiple layers that fade into the background, using background hilighting and motion to provide relationship information with objects being examined in the current directory is clearly an untackled angle.
I would personally love to see a file browser that worked like that. First things first: getting ext2 exteneded attributes supported by common Linux distros out of the box Otherwise that sort of browser is practically useless.
If you don't have a warrant, you can't search or seize. I think that attaching a GPS device is equivalent to an undeclared search. Specifically, they are searching for your whereabouts at any time they desire (again, unannounced). At least in a physical tail situation you can confront the investigators.
Also, it encourages entering it into evidence, which is only circumstantial.
The prosecutors contended this was no more intrusive than having an officer tail a suspect, for which no warrant is needed.
But they assume that just because you pay taxes to drive a car, they can go up to it and modify it without your knowledge as part of a criminal investigation? That is irresponsible, and it breaks (some amendment, sleepy, can't remember). ^_^;;;
For the most part, gzip IS, in fact, the alpha and omega. gzip is king on byte-oriented data (it doesn't matter what size the words are, it's a nth-order entropy encoder, so they all turn into pseudo-symbols).
The types of data that can be specialized are much fewer than you propose. For example, bzip: better suited for text as text has a lot of localized second order trends. However it is computationally intensive and may not do well on a server appliance over multiple connections. PNG is better on (many) raster images since it exploits 2-dimensional relationships recursively. But it requires the source image to be uncompressed first. JPEGs might already be compressed, and that would make them larger. But recompressing JPEGs (which is the big step these proxies take) is someone of a hack since we didn't really ask for it, and it may look like shit in the end.
And forget video or audio. There's nothing you can do about it (in realtime anyway...).
If and when SVG and other XML-based content formats become prevelant components of websites, then gzip/bzip on the fly will become very useful in making sites small, fast but content-rich.
PDF and flash are already compressed heavily, so they don't need it. Java programs come in.jar files (pkzip)
And mozilla has browse-ahead built in.
So I don't really buy any of this. If I still had dialup, I'd rather them just be upfront, let me control MY upstream cache settings/content, and forget all the fancy software, because most of it is redundant. That part about the cache is the key thing, because that's what you're really paying for, and they should let you control how it's used.
You know, wavelengths on the order of meters. Like a small fraction of the size of a joist, or A-frame.
If a standing wave that could be induced on something like that matches the resonance mode of a cavity of air (attic, exterior room), you could get powerful propogation effects.
would be foolish enough to claim that this test explains uncontrolled tests in other conditions (i.e. claimed haunted houses).
The next step would be to visit such sites and perform tests to determine the presence and source of such LFA (low frequency acoustics), if it exists.
It would further be of interest to correlate more classical ghost activity evidence detection: EMF, infrared (heat) output, and LFA to see if these are caused by the same things, or not related at all.
You'll note the scientist in the article didn't leap to conclusions, the author did. They only said it could support the infrasound hypothesis for hauntings, validating that even unsophisticated setups can induce unexplained emotions. People who claimed infrasound could cause haunted houses were basing that on any specific evidence (I don't think), other than perhaps weapons research.
It's like the bayesian filter for mail classification in SpamBayes or Mozilla. In fact, that's probably where Criteria's programmers got their inspiration.
If you read the article, you'll discover they had to feed it four hundred or so "good" papers (training set), and they describe it's validity because graders notice that (paraphrased) "well written papers [on the topic] contain certain key words or ideas, and avoid certain expressions [examples]", which the system picks up on. Since it agrees with grader scores +95% of the time, I think those simple indicators are actually pretty useful.
Keep in mind, it can give a perfect score to unreadable garbage, which isn't even grammatically correct. (This is mentioned in the article)
Nice 5 insightful, though. But next time, read the article.
In fact, I'm ashamed no one mentioned that this is just like spam filter technology yet. Come on slashdot, is your technical insight on a weekend trip or what?
The average you could expect on a standard scantron MC test is a 25 (F). Even with a 50 point curve... are you saying kids are getting 50 point curves at your university? That statistic sounds a little fucked up.
Also, I notice that as class size really starts to ramp up (lots of sections, 90+ each section), you actually get LESS tests, or they're taken online.
There's basically a saddle-point in the class quality curve you need to avoid.
I can't stand that bullshit. The book is ALREADY being promoted by the slashdot article. This bozo knows he's being a shit because he posted AC. Doesn't mention it's a partnership link. I'd click on it maybe if he was man enough to admit he just wanted some referral cash.
Is there ANYONE on slashdot who wouldn't imagine that the book MIGHT be for sale on amazon if they cared to look?!?
If you're going to post, and I'm going to read it, why not make it a comment on the BOOK REVIEW? Who gives two shits how you pick it up. He's just milking visibility.
But if they're going to do screwy things, then so am I.
I can imagine an accountant, at some time, had figured trading of digital media could probably be modeled/accounted for in one of their old variable expenses they dropped when the industry switched practices. I know a few, and it's common sense.
Slashdot Mirror
not HIS standard.
ANY STANDARD
Are you saying this is a bad thing?
I'm glad he's got this one by the balls and hasn't sold out yet. I was worried about by beloved Mozilla (or Konq or what-have-you) before, but some research into it paints a slightly rosier picture.
of a head's up to anyone who hasn't read the headlines on Slashdot, CNet, or google for the last 18 months or so.
I think what's more telling is that it is sitting there in the Economist. Now you just have to wait for it to show up in Business Week as an editorial piece, and then It Must Be True, at least to managerial types of various calibers.
The Economist has this characterization of being for people who have their finger on the pulse of things; who are levelheaded and are already in the know, so it may sort of be preaching to the choir. It's pretty spin free, so that awkward quote from the Microsoft rep "being customer-focused" sort of stands out, and I think that was intentional.
Microsoft doesn't customer-focus unless you're entering a partnership agreement with them. Otherwise your wants and needs are averaged out across the board and shipped in a Service Pack. Meanwhile the article puts that quote agaisnt the backdrop of how open-source is being chosen precisely because it's easy to tailor for what you need.
And you don't have to be a slashdotter to appreciate that irony. It's all right there.
He should get off his soapbox spouting off how the patent is bunk when he can't reasonably expect that Doyle would know about his particular product when it wasn't even targetted at his line of work (he would have been into TEX and HTML)... maybe he can blame the law firm, though.
He doesn't realize they are on the same team. Kinda sad.
(Article was good, but a little self-indulgant as well, I think)
On my computer I see crazy shit:
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I mean wtf is tghat!!!!
Oh wait, it's the only copy of the article I could find in electronic form. SORRY! I won't ever post a portable document format link again. From now on, it's Word Documents all the way, baby, yeah!
Link to Townsend, Townsend and Crew website. These are also the guys who went up against Microsoft in the class action lawsuit in California.
Maybe it's the law firm who wants to tackle Microsoft more than Doyle. Food for thought?
^_^
Read this!
It's a USA Today story from the cover (!) in 1996.
Important points:
Dr. Doyle (Eolas) isn't trying to squash Mozilla or anything like that. What he was hoping to do would be to force Microsoft, Sun, etc. to join an organization where they would standardize their architecture. He declared the current state of things then as a "hodgepodge", and it still is today (EJB vs. NET vs. DCOM vs. SOAP vs. agent archs). He claimed he would provide free licenses to anyone who would cooperate. He also thought maybe he'd get funding from some guy who was afriad of Microsoft or Oracle, and wanted his help to one-up what they had.
That ain't going to happen now.
I'm pretty sure he's cutting his losses and JUST going after the biggest fish in the pond.
You can also read his letter to the readership of DDJ (they had many of the same opinions as Slashdotters I've read so far).
Scroll down to the letters section. You may need to sign up for access. Alternatively, I will include a quote without permission.
This guy isn't the bad guy. He's just a dude who tweaked up his web browser for medical imageing, and had a bright idea. The University hired Townsend, Townsend and Crew to file the patent, and they couldn't come up with anything at the time. Maybe the weren't Lotus users?
In any case, since this guy wasn't a CS major (Biology), he probably wouldn't have been privy to Lotus. He was an academic Unix guy, and Lotus was big in business circles. I can't blame him, and think Ray Ozzie needs to get off his soapbox.
Lotus is dead man, don't give Microsoft any ammo. Doyle wants Microsoft to start playing nice, and you're undermining that. Great way to see your vision through Ozzie; they (Ozzie and Doyle) both had the same vision and I think he fails to realize how alike their thinking and motives are.
Microsofts' are less pure.
Is a combined technique.
/etc/X11 and /usr/X11R6/etc), both rings would rotate in opposite directions. :-)
1) Directories are arranged in rings (with files "further" away from the selector closer together and smaller, which coalese to "..." at the extreme opposite end)
2) Opening a directory pushes it's parent to the background and rotates it off to the side. The new folder appears as a new, centered ring on the screen. Parent folders are recursively behind it, and fade to black near the back end (fog).
3) If you pushd, the ring changes color, becomes more transparent, and locks into place. Then you can navigate away from it, and still see it. Perahps the camera angle changes to give you a better view of all pushd'd dirs. Popd brings that old ring into focus.
4) files that are linked from multiple directories are "locked", that is if both directories are visible (because of stack traversal, or a "sticky" navigation mode), they rearrange their positions until the file itself is superimposed in the Z direction. If you rotate a directory and get another file like that, the other rings rotate to accomodate it. In a directory where files are linked to from multiple places (think
5) Use a gamepad to navigate. Like Seiken Densetsu 2. (SoM).
6) Have attribute navigation modes, where the Z-index lockups are not inode linkages from the directories that contain them, but some other relationship, like document files sharing the same author or UserID. The motion of the rings in the background would provide visual feedback of how "important" that attribute is with respect to other collection of files. Perhaps all the matching entries "glow", and the background rings all try to center the concentration of matching entries along the Z axis.
The point is, a hub-and-spoke connection model needs to be exploited to provide visual information a user using a 2-d browser can't pick up otherwise. By having multiple layers that fade into the background, using background hilighting and motion to provide relationship information with objects being examined in the current directory is clearly an untackled angle.
I would personally love to see a file browser that worked like that. First things first: getting ext2 exteneded attributes supported by common Linux distros out of the box Otherwise that sort of browser is practically useless.
If you don't have a warrant, you can't search or seize. I think that attaching a GPS device is equivalent to an undeclared search. Specifically, they are searching for your whereabouts at any time they desire (again, unannounced). At least in a physical tail situation you can confront the investigators.
Also, it encourages entering it into evidence, which is only circumstantial.
Where do you think the energy comes from that lets you use hydrogen for fuel cells?
Oh wait, that's right, COAL FIRED POWER PLANTS.
You are like the Dave Attel of Canada except you stay in one city.
The prosecutors contended this was no more intrusive than having an officer tail a suspect, for which no warrant is needed.
But they assume that just because you pay taxes to drive a car, they can go up to it and modify it without your knowledge as part of a criminal investigation? That is irresponsible, and it breaks (some amendment, sleepy, can't remember). ^_^;;;
tried to get a gov. clearance. Background check reveals I have the same one as an older lady who currently in Fl. ::shrugs::
:-)
I just hope she doesn't try to enroll at my University.
will have "updates" available I'm sure.
:-P
Ads in the installer, I'll abide that. But the webbrowser?
that being said, I don't run Mandrake anymore. Maybe with version 10, who knows.
For the most part, gzip IS, in fact, the alpha and omega. gzip is king on byte-oriented data (it doesn't matter what size the words are, it's a nth-order entropy encoder, so they all turn into pseudo-symbols).
.jar files (pkzip)
The types of data that can be specialized are much fewer than you propose.
For example, bzip: better suited for text as text has a lot of localized second order trends. However it is computationally intensive and may not do well on a server appliance over multiple connections.
PNG is better on (many) raster images since it exploits 2-dimensional relationships recursively. But it requires the source image to be uncompressed first. JPEGs might already be compressed, and that would make them larger. But recompressing JPEGs (which is the big step these proxies take) is someone of a hack since we didn't really ask for it, and it may look like shit in the end.
And forget video or audio. There's nothing you can do about it (in realtime anyway...).
If and when SVG and other XML-based content formats become prevelant components of websites, then gzip/bzip on the fly will become very useful in making sites small, fast but content-rich.
PDF and flash are already compressed heavily, so they don't need it. Java programs come in
And mozilla has browse-ahead built in.
So I don't really buy any of this. If I still had dialup, I'd rather them just be upfront, let me control MY upstream cache settings/content, and forget all the fancy software, because most of it is redundant. That part about the cache is the key thing, because that's what you're really paying for, and they should let you control how it's used.
deployed local proxy servers to "block ads" and use custom rules tuned for their employees' focus. And the logs are mysteriously hard to come by. :-)
Extra-Low Frequency.
You know, wavelengths on the order of meters. Like a small fraction of the size of a joist, or A-frame.
If a standing wave that could be induced on something like that matches the resonance mode of a cavity of air (attic, exterior room), you could get powerful propogation effects.
Elves, on the other hand, are squishy.
ELF resonance.
Architects have to combat this all the time.
would be foolish enough to claim that this test explains uncontrolled tests in other conditions (i.e. claimed haunted houses).
The next step would be to visit such sites and perform tests to determine the presence and source of such LFA (low frequency acoustics), if it exists.
It would further be of interest to correlate more classical ghost activity evidence detection: EMF, infrared (heat) output, and LFA to see if these are caused by the same things, or not related at all.
You'll note the scientist in the article didn't leap to conclusions, the author did. They only said it could support the infrasound hypothesis for hauntings, validating that even unsophisticated setups can induce unexplained emotions. People who claimed infrasound could cause haunted houses were basing that on any specific evidence (I don't think), other than perhaps weapons research.
kerberos, or Microsoft Passport, or the Mac keychain, or Mozilla's password manager, or PGP?
It's like the bayesian filter for mail classification in SpamBayes or Mozilla. In fact, that's probably where Criteria's programmers got their inspiration.
If you read the article, you'll discover they had to feed it four hundred or so "good" papers (training set), and they describe it's validity because graders notice that (paraphrased) "well written papers [on the topic] contain certain key words or ideas, and avoid certain expressions [examples]", which the system picks up on. Since it agrees with grader scores +95% of the time, I think those simple indicators are actually pretty useful.
Keep in mind, it can give a perfect score to unreadable garbage, which isn't even grammatically correct. (This is mentioned in the article)
Nice 5 insightful, though. But next time, read the article.
In fact, I'm ashamed no one mentioned that this is just like spam filter technology yet. Come on slashdot, is your technical insight on a weekend trip or what?
The average you could expect on a standard scantron MC test is a 25 (F). Even with a 50 point curve... are you saying kids are getting 50 point curves at your university? That statistic sounds a little fucked up.
Also, I notice that as class size really starts to ramp up (lots of sections, 90+ each section), you actually get LESS tests, or they're taken online.
There's basically a saddle-point in the class quality curve you need to avoid.
-said the teekid.
I can't stand that bullshit. The book is ALREADY being promoted by the slashdot article. This bozo knows he's being a shit because he posted AC. Doesn't mention it's a partnership link. I'd click on it maybe if he was man enough to admit he just wanted some referral cash.
Is there ANYONE on slashdot who wouldn't imagine that the book MIGHT be for sale on amazon if they cared to look?!?
If you're going to post, and I'm going to read it, why not make it a comment on the BOOK REVIEW? Who gives two shits how you pick it up. He's just milking visibility.
and the CMS made the formally dynamic page static to save the server.
You lazy cunt! Get off your ass and get a job; stop leeching off others.
But if they're going to do screwy things, then so am I.
I can imagine an accountant, at some time, had figured trading of digital media could probably be modeled/accounted for in one of their old variable expenses they dropped when the industry switched practices. I know a few, and it's common sense.