Look at 4:43. It is a perfect example of how I would design intentional bias.
Its a freeze frame with the apple logo and the text slowly imposed. "New, Useful, not obvious to one skilled in the field.".
The text frames the apple logo making part of the natural scan of the eyes. The word "one" hangs above the logo.
The Apple logo is the brightest item in image and placed at rule-of-thirds-intersection. No other image detail competes with the logo i.e. no human eyes, no coffee logo, no bag logo, no logo in the t-shirt, no logos in the background etc. Its form is clear despite the filter blurring out other features of the image.
Before and after the freeze-frame, the logo is shown and the direction of the inventor's gaze is always towards the apple logo.
There were wide-spread issues on their recent releases. You can only auto-update if you are rock-solid.
Link? I certainly never noticed any issues
Read the chrome product support forums or comment rolls on release announcements - its pretty depressing. Countless posts referring to the same set issues crashes, scrolling bugs, inability to pick items from select boxes, flash crashes, modal dialog faults etc.
They already implemented it. It's been used in ChromeOS for a while.
I see. I wouldn't be surprised if this is the root of the problem. They have conflated a web-browser with an OS. No good will come from it except an unfocussed bloated browser and an anaemic OS.
From previous releases its clearly the Chrome team is being mismanaged and has lost its way.
They really cannot get the basics right. A web browser is basically text in windows that can be styled by the page author. Lets see you they are doing:
i) They don't fix the appalling font rendering issues on Windows promptly and as a priority. Most of Google's own web fonts are unusable in production because of this.
ii) They don't follow standard most-recently-used order when ctrl-tab between tabs and they don't see the problem and close any bug report as won't fix. How can Chrome be the platform for office tools and applications when you can't flick between applications?
iii) They start adding animations to html elements you can't restyle with CSS e.g. the zoom ease-in they added to select elements in a recent Chrome. What possible justification was there for that? If you need to use more than a couple select elements on a form the animation effect of using each one is terrible.
iv) They add forced behind the scenes updates (ok) but they then push poorly tested unstable releases. There were wide-spread issues on their recent releases. You can only auto-update if you are rock-solid.
v) They fork from the web-kit project, a once high-point in cross company collaboration for the betterment of the web. Now... beginning of the end.
vi) And now they are going to spend their time re-implementing a cross-platform widget toolkit. How about fixing the fucking font rendering first?
I don't know how the team is being led but it can't be right. Google, time to take an axe to your chrome team...
I'm pretty sure we are going to see techniques which will mean you can't even "not be present" for the adverts e.g. a click-through quiz question about the colour of the actors jumper in the advert before your broadcast would continue.
I have visited Beijing but also some remote Northern Chinese cities as well as Mongolia.
The haze in sky is significantly made from dust blowing in from the Gobi. The sky is hazy even in remote non-industrial areas. The truth is that Beijing is being swallowed by the desert.
Personally I consider the air better than Tokyo, Bangkok or London but this judgement may be more about sewers and transport fumes than harmful chemicals from industry.
The lower prevalence of SUVs in the UK has very little to do with safety and considerably more to do with expense, practicality and appearance.
Cost - Cars and petrol have always been more expensive in the UK than the US and mpg has been of interest to most motorists for years just based on its cost and not environmental issues.
Practicality - Add to this that the majority of British city center's have back streets and parking spaces that you would struggle to put a Rover-Mini through so the notion of an SUV is laughable.
Appearance - People don't like to be laughed at. Its impractical, ostentatious and the middle-class mum dropping kids off at the private school in the Range-Rover is a common source of parody.
Quite right : Revs, Elite, Thrust were not just good but true classics.
I also loved Exile, The Last Ninja, Starport, Commandos, Football Director and many more. All polished and great fun games. Those written by Peter Scott tended to be of the quality of the emerging 16-bit world. I tended to play them from the Play it again Sam series of compilations that were affordable and cherry picked the best games.
The article lists known points of debate or unfinished business from this year. Its the equivalent of a persistence weather forecast i.e. tomorrow will be the same as today.
Might as well have stuck 'a year in review' as the title instead.
Its certainly valuable and applies to both working practices and design. It won't always happen however - here are some random notes from my experience.
If managing:
i) Timing : If a team is under a lot of pressure then expect resentment on both sides if an idea filled newcomer is introduced. The existing team will appear entrenched and the newcomer disruptive. ii) Skills and Personality : Many people will be defensive about their work, some will be quite aggressive if not approached in the appropriate way. Even if open however, its a tough balance between being encouraging yet ensuring the newcomer is taking on-board enough of the current way of working to become effective quickly.
If an incumbent:
i) Enact some easy suggestions immediately : Shows they are being listened to even if they only offer marginal technical improvement. ii) Avoid historical defences : If a feature or practice has a bloody history then don't continue it by passing it on. It will sound defensive to explain it and the newcomer will become inhibited. One exception is if its a live political issue but even then I have found the opinion of untainted newcomers useful in resolving conflicts. iii) Dramatic changes : These are when you most likely going to react badly but also offer the greatest potential. If it sounds like a terrible idea, be aware that your pride may be clouding your judgement. I use a mixture of explaining the reasoning for the current way of working and talking through the alternative. Important to avoid a conclusion and agree to pursue it at a later date.
If the newcomer:
i) Be charitable : If X seems terribly misguided to you then ask appropriate questions. Be aware that some questions will appear as a thinly veiled "X is terribly misguided" despite your efforts ii) Watch your ego : you may see simple obvious improvements everywhere - don't assume this is because you are smarter than the incumbents iii) Gauge your new team : take into account the reaction your suggestions will have. Don't try an prove anything with the quantity and quality of your suggestions. Identify when people will be at their most receptive.
Hmm, I know where the MS lawyers found them too. They stole the following:
"Jamie Cansdale released a free addin to Visual Studio back in 2004 to help developers build unit tests. His only problem was, he enabled his addin for all versions of VS - including the Express addition which isn't supposed to support addins. After over a year of trying to talk with Microsoft and understand how and why he was in violation of their license agreement, during which they would never explain specifically which clause in the license was being violated, they sent the lawyers after him and pulled his MVP status. To top it all off, Jamie is actually a Java developer by day, his addin was originally developed just as a hobby project. A full account is available on his blog, including all email correspondence he had with Microsoft and the now 3 letters received from Microsoft lawyers. The lead product manager for Visual Studio Express has responded to Jamie's posts."
Its pretty much how I would have designed a CRM - lightweight and very simple to use - generally a pleasure to use. Open-source php and an option of database vendors (mysql mssql etc). I'm no php coder but I still integrate some reporting and make some minor tweeks - it doesn't make enough sense to me for major changes though.
http://www.mantisbt.org/
My only BIG want is for out-of-the-box integration with source control.
I expect you would be free to choose your own interpretation of the CA for your proof. The obvious example is a repeating pattern but I would be interested if some interpretations could be considered as adding a rule to system.
After many hours of tough trekking through the jungle during which he had fallen, hurt himself and obtained a frighteningly bad mood, I believe he said that "Lemurs can go fuck themselves".
I can think of a reason why they have the invite system... they have just mapped the social networks of the net's most avid and active users.
Who might you ask does the spooler identify? The friendless.
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What we need to learn about is reason, science and logic; the very things that are NOT intuitive.
Interesting point but what was to imagine the implications of riding a light beam at light-speed? It is not intuitive in the sense of obvious but that it involves intuition in the sense of searing insight would be fair to argue. It isn't arrived at by crunching axioms and filtering data. Consider the whole mathematical intuitionists after all.
How about intuition as in mentally performing non-classical computations i.e. the sort of thing that Penrose fallaciously argues for as the mechanism for how we can 'see' the truth of Godel sentences involving unconscious quantum effects?
By stricter do you mean narrower and incomplete? Do you think that taking something overly terse and compressed and explaining it simply with examples and analogies etc is a greater intellectual acheivement?
Intelligence can be seen as the ability to take a sample of some space and generalize it to predict things
It would be myopic to see it as such. The ability to communicate an idea is a closer description of what it is to be intelligent as captured by the Turing test which rightly leaves the problem domain beyond this undefined. I know many intelligent people who are incontinently verbose and cannot summarise in a techie/scientific mode but can communicate a feeling or a subtle insight by complex layered descriptions. Compression and prediction might be an optional string of intelligence but by no means the whole instrument.
RTFA my friend from the Jouneys in Non-classical computation section:
To emphasize the critical importance of the underlying physical laws on computation, it has been shown that the deep unsolved conundrum of whether P = NP is in fact answerable, in the affirmative, if the laws of quantum mechanics are non-linear. The fact that the precise form of the laws of physics can have an impact on what is classically thought to be a purely mathematical question is considerable food for thought.
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Look at 4:43. It is a perfect example of how I would design intentional bias.
Its a freeze frame with the apple logo and the text slowly imposed. "New, Useful, not obvious to one skilled in the field.".
The text frames the apple logo making part of the natural scan of the eyes. The word "one" hangs above the logo.
The Apple logo is the brightest item in image and placed at rule-of-thirds-intersection. No other image detail competes with the logo i.e. no human eyes, no coffee logo, no bag logo, no logo in the t-shirt, no logos in the background etc. Its form is clear despite the filter blurring out other features of the image.
Before and after the freeze-frame, the logo is shown and the direction of the inventor's gaze is always towards the apple logo.
A disgraceful infommercial.
font rendering issues on Windows
I will point out that it appears work is in progress
It has been "in progress" for so long that stationary might be a better term.
They start adding animations to html elements you can't restyle with CSS
Got a link to more information? I'm not sure what you're referring to.
http://stackoverflow.com/quest...
There were wide-spread issues on their recent releases. You can only auto-update if you are rock-solid.
Link? I certainly never noticed any issues
Read the chrome product support forums or comment rolls on release announcements - its pretty depressing. Countless posts referring to the same set issues crashes, scrolling bugs, inability to pick items from select boxes, flash crashes, modal dialog faults etc.
http://frankcode.wordpress.com...
They already implemented it. It's been used in ChromeOS for a while.
I see. I wouldn't be surprised if this is the root of the problem. They have conflated a web-browser with an OS. No good will come from it except an unfocussed bloated browser and an anaemic OS.
From previous releases its clearly the Chrome team is being mismanaged and has lost its way.
They really cannot get the basics right. A web browser is basically text in windows that can be styled by the page author. Lets see you they are doing:
i) They don't fix the appalling font rendering issues on Windows promptly and as a priority. Most of Google's own web fonts are unusable in production because of this.
ii) They don't follow standard most-recently-used order when ctrl-tab between tabs and they don't see the problem and close any bug report as won't fix. How can Chrome be the platform for office tools and applications when you can't flick between applications?
iii) They start adding animations to html elements you can't restyle with CSS e.g. the zoom ease-in they added to select elements in a recent Chrome. What possible justification was there for that? If you need to use more than a couple select elements on a form the animation effect of using each one is terrible.
iv) They add forced behind the scenes updates (ok) but they then push poorly tested unstable releases. There were wide-spread issues on their recent releases. You can only auto-update if you are rock-solid.
v) They fork from the web-kit project, a once high-point in cross company collaboration for the betterment of the web. Now... beginning of the end.
vi) And now they are going to spend their time re-implementing a cross-platform widget toolkit. How about fixing the fucking font rendering first?
I don't know how the team is being led but it can't be right. Google, time to take an axe to your chrome team...
I'm pretty sure we are going to see techniques which will mean you can't even "not be present" for the adverts e.g. a click-through quiz question about the colour of the actors jumper in the advert before your broadcast would continue.
I have visited Beijing but also some remote Northern Chinese cities as well as Mongolia.
The haze in sky is significantly made from dust blowing in from the Gobi. The sky is hazy even in remote non-industrial areas. The truth is that Beijing is being swallowed by the desert.
Personally I consider the air better than Tokyo, Bangkok or London but this judgement may be more about sewers and transport fumes than harmful chemicals from industry.
Snowcrash too.
To quote wiki:
"Asherah is portrayed as a deadly biological and verbal virus that was stopped in Ancient Sumer by the God Enki."
Yup, collaboration must be a killer feature for a one-man shop.
The lower prevalence of SUVs in the UK has very little to do with safety and considerably more to do with expense, practicality and appearance.
Cost - Cars and petrol have always been more expensive in the UK than the US and mpg has been of interest to most motorists for years just based on its cost and not environmental issues.
Practicality - Add to this that the majority of British city center's have back streets and parking spaces that you would struggle to put a Rover-Mini through so the notion of an SUV is laughable.
Appearance - People don't like to be laughed at. Its impractical, ostentatious and the middle-class mum dropping kids off at the private school in the Range-Rover is a common source of parody.
... that makes me not see the filthy side of this name? Sounds like a cute version of chum - which is charming.
Quite right : Revs, Elite, Thrust were not just good but true classics.
I also loved Exile, The Last Ninja, Starport, Commandos, Football Director and many more. All polished and great fun games. Those written by Peter Scott tended to be of the quality of the emerging 16-bit world. I tended to play them from the Play it again Sam series of compilations that were affordable and cherry picked the best games.
Interview with Peter Scott : http://www.beebgames.com/psinterv.php/
I don't get half the fun out of Bioshock, Crysis etc. that I used to get out of those games but I realise its an age thing.
today it is a mornolith :(
Criminals cover tracks so it won't be terribly illuminating. The parent is likely be an invitation generator site.
In what way are these predictions?
The article lists known points of debate or unfinished business from this year. Its the equivalent of a persistence weather forecast i.e. tomorrow will be the same as today.
Might as well have stuck 'a year in review' as the title instead.
Its certainly valuable and applies to both working practices and design. It won't always happen however - here are some random notes from my experience.
If managing:
i) Timing : If a team is under a lot of pressure then expect resentment on both sides if an idea filled newcomer is introduced. The existing team will appear entrenched and the newcomer disruptive.
ii) Skills and Personality : Many people will be defensive about their work, some will be quite aggressive if not approached in the appropriate way. Even if open however, its a tough balance between being encouraging yet ensuring the newcomer is taking on-board enough of the current way of working to become effective quickly.
If an incumbent:
i) Enact some easy suggestions immediately : Shows they are being listened to even if they only offer marginal technical improvement.
ii) Avoid historical defences : If a feature or practice has a bloody history then don't continue it by passing it on. It will sound defensive to explain it and the newcomer will become inhibited. One exception is if its a live political issue but even then I have found the opinion of untainted newcomers useful in resolving conflicts.
iii) Dramatic changes : These are when you most likely going to react badly but also offer the greatest potential. If it sounds like a terrible idea, be aware that your pride may be clouding your judgement. I use a mixture of explaining the reasoning for the current way of working and talking through the alternative. Important to avoid a conclusion and agree to pursue it at a later date.
If the newcomer:
i) Be charitable : If X seems terribly misguided to you then ask appropriate questions. Be aware that some questions will appear as a thinly veiled "X is terribly misguided" despite your efforts
ii) Watch your ego : you may see simple obvious improvements everywhere - don't assume this is because you are smarter than the incumbents
iii) Gauge your new team : take into account the reaction your suggestions will have. Don't try an prove anything with the quantity and quality of your suggestions. Identify when people will be at their most receptive.
int i = 0;
hah you will all be theives from just reading this post!
Or maybe there is something more to a copyright issue than just any code snippet.
Hmm.
Hmm, I know where the MS lawyers found them too. They stole the following: "Jamie Cansdale released a free addin to Visual Studio back in 2004 to help developers build unit tests. His only problem was, he enabled his addin for all versions of VS - including the Express addition which isn't supposed to support addins. After over a year of trying to talk with Microsoft and understand how and why he was in violation of their license agreement, during which they would never explain specifically which clause in the license was being violated, they sent the lawyers after him and pulled his MVP status. To top it all off, Jamie is actually a Java developer by day, his addin was originally developed just as a hobby project. A full account is available on his blog, including all email correspondence he had with Microsoft and the now 3 letters received from Microsoft lawyers. The lead product manager for Visual Studio Express has responded to Jamie's posts."
Its pretty much how I would have designed a CRM - lightweight and very simple to use - generally a pleasure to use. Open-source php and an option of database vendors (mysql mssql etc). I'm no php coder but I still integrate some reporting and make some minor tweeks - it doesn't make enough sense to me for major changes though. http://www.mantisbt.org/ My only BIG want is for out-of-the-box integration with source control.
Good thing he didn't win a nobel, a) its mathematics b) it was proved by Matthew Cook!
I expect you would be free to choose your own interpretation of the CA for your proof. The obvious example is a repeating pattern but I would be interested if some interpretations could be considered as adding a rule to system.
After many hours of tough trekking through the jungle during which he had fallen, hurt himself and obtained a frighteningly bad mood, I believe he said that "Lemurs can go fuck themselves".
I can think of a reason why they have the invite system... they have just mapped the social networks of the net's most avid and active users.
Who might you ask does the spooler identify? The friendless.
What we need to learn about is reason, science and logic; the very things that are NOT intuitive.
Interesting point but what was to imagine the implications of riding a light beam at light-speed? It is not intuitive in the sense of obvious but that it involves intuition in the sense of searing insight would be fair to argue. It isn't arrived at by crunching axioms and filtering data. Consider the whole mathematical intuitionists after all.
How about intuition as in mentally performing non-classical computations i.e. the sort of thing that Penrose fallaciously argues for as the mechanism for how we can 'see' the truth of Godel sentences involving unconscious quantum effects?
Someone with the sorely lacking proce capability of Mr. LaRue
You what? Can someone explain that for me? Ta.
Compression is a stricter test for AI than Turing
By stricter do you mean narrower and incomplete? Do you think that taking something overly terse and compressed and explaining it simply with examples and analogies etc is a greater intellectual acheivement?
Intelligence can be seen as the ability to take a sample of some space and generalize it to predict things
It would be myopic to see it as such. The ability to communicate an idea is a closer description of what it is to be intelligent as captured by the Turing test which rightly leaves the problem domain beyond this undefined. I know many intelligent people who are incontinently verbose and cannot summarise in a techie/scientific mode but can communicate a feeling or a subtle insight by complex layered descriptions. Compression and prediction might be an optional string of intelligence but by no means the whole instrument.
RTFA my friend from the Jouneys in Non-classical computation section:
To emphasize the critical importance of the underlying physical laws on computation, it has been shown that the deep unsolved conundrum of whether P = NP is in fact answerable, in the affirmative, if the laws of quantum mechanics are non-linear. The fact that the precise form of the laws of physics can have an impact on what is classically thought to be a purely mathematical question is considerable food for thought.