Worse, it's subject to the biases of whoever writes the article. I've seen some pretty bad stuff, horribly biased, passed off as a real encyclopedia author. It also sucks that people around here tend to insert Wikipedia links, thus inferring that they're somehow authoritative in any way. They're not.
That may well be true; however, it would be equally naive to
believe that a print encyclopaedia has perfect authority or presents an unbiased view. Ultimately, every human knowledge source
is subject to error and bias, it's just that the
academics commissioned by print media might be
conveying theirs in a more fashion.
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One marketing book I found useful was 'Guerilla Marketing', because it told you how to succeed without a lot of capital.
It included tips on how to stand out from the crowd, e.g. by picking unusual stamps and using handwriting instead of sending serial letters to the CEO that just get dumped in the bin by the secretary.
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Instead of buying the book, I might just market Nuggets, our new search engine for mobile phones, in my.signature line.
The question of organ transplants has been addressed in Christianity.
"Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it. Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets."
-- Isa of Aramea AKA Jesus Christ, as quoted in Mattew 22:37-40 (when asked for the greatest commandment)
From this central doctrine, it follows:
"Transplants are a great step forward in science's service of man, and not a few people today owe their lives to an organ transplant. Increasingly, the technique of transplants has proven to be a valid means of attaining the primary goal of all medicine - the service of human life (...) There is a need to instill in people's hearts, especially in the hearts of the young, a genuine and deep appreciation of the need for brotherly love, a love that can find expression in the decision to become an organ donor."
-- Dr Dr Karol Wojtyla AKA Pope John Paul II, in a speech held at the International Congress on Transplants in Rome
In conclusion, Christians are allowed to donate
organs to rescue other humans in need and for research.
PS: It would be nice if such an interesting and important discussion could be carried out without the used of bad language and discrimination.
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And of course there are loads of Sheffields, Aberdeens and plentitudes of instances of pretty
much any other name on earth (i.e. locations named 'Paris', 'London', 'Berlin') abound.
By law, the author is the copyright holder of their USENET postings, if he or she is known.
Begs the question about do you have to be given
a chance to consent/dissent (either opt-in or opt-out) when the message is used by other, more proprietary systems, especially as (like in Google's case) mesage content is modified: I value properly formatted
messages that display nicely on text terminals,
but Google modified all email addresses to
obfuscate them. Now this is with a good intent,
but without asking me as copyright holder, and
the particular obfuscation they use is very
annoying because it makes the messages look like look like spam.
I'm hoping that Google read./ and take users'
concerns (and copyright) into account.
Using./ is not the best way to implement such
a scheme, since you can't attach the usual 1-pixel
transparent GIF that creates a log entry in your
Apache log when recipients view it; after all, you want to record where your message travels to...
If they indeed intent to open-source some code
under one license or another, they need to do it
before they go public, as I suspect it's impossible
to convince a post-IPO company's board to give
out source code, or any other asset for free.
I've got a command todo(1) in my 'bin' directory (source code below) that appends a time-stamped line to my 'TODO' file. [You can use 'head TODO' or 'tail TODO' to display parts of it in your login script, but I prefer not to...]
Example:
$ todo book flight to Sheffield
appends an entry that looks like this:
2004-06-19 17:08:12 book flight to Sheffield
Source (comments removed):
#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; open(TODO, ">>/home/$ENV{'USER'}/TODO") || die("ERROR: could not open TODO file"); my $timestamp = `date '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'`; chomp $timestamp; print TODO "$timestamp\t@ARGV\n"; close TODO;
The TODO file is often edited with XEmacs (for reordering more than deleting entries, though...).
Let's step back for a minute and consider the following story: a keen athlete just returns home
from a jogging tour, and the first thing he does is bite in a poisoned apple. Would you assume suicide as the a priori most likely cause?
There is a very good reason the United States wants to stay as far from socialism as possible. - in attempting to be nice to Paul, you're exploiting Tom even worse.
Dear kscguru,
Please consider your analysis again: according to
what you state, Tom is exploited
because Paul gets additional benefits, but that's
twisting the situation around, IMHO; rather, Tom comes from a pool of people that was jobless before (this pool is arguably never empty in any system) and now at least has a temporary (2-year!) position, which i hold to be superior, since he
can feed the family, develop his career,
improve his CV etc.
So I argue that the system creates a large set
of new (if admittedly temporary) job opportunities. Who is exploited by _additional_ jobs being being created?
Also, bear in mind that the temporary position is for two years, I dare say this longer
than some people stay on their non-temporary jobs!
I believe any country should take care
of its inhabitants and value families, even more so if the country is as resourceful as the U.S.
and Europe(an countries).
You are arguing against the benefit systems I
outlined, but I would like to ask you, if you
had the choice, which one would you personally prefer if you had a child forthcoming, a system
where you have to cope without additional support
(cf. original poster, who is even recommended to quit is old job by some commentators!) or a system where they give you a 2-year leave
while your old job is guaranteed?
>If asking Paul Parenthood to keep up his
>productivity is "discriminating against him because
>he has kids", then so is asking Sam Singleton to
>pick up Paul's slack when he says he can't.
The solution to this dilemma could be to give Paul
a two-year (paid) leave, during which he is replaced by an employee with a limited-time contract, and giving a guarantee to Paul that when he's over this very important period he can have his old job back.
No employer would perhaps subscribe to such a system
voluntarily, however it can be implemented as a
law, as is the case in Germany and other European countries, for instance.
And of course it does not matter whether it's
Paul Parenthood, or Paula (his wife), or whether
they both want to share the leave and do 50 %
each.
The other question is can you stay 2 years without any coding...?;-)
This patent is a waste of their money: since
double-clicks were in use long ago, it is void ("existence of prior art").
Next, they patent "a system and apparatus
to indicate malfunction of a computational device
using white glyphs showing artistic hexadecimal displays on marine blue background"... (blue screen)
In hardware, it's like putting legos together.
Software tries to do that too, but everybody and their brother tries to make a better lego, and so you end up with millions of incompatible partial solutions that are very difficult to build up into a complete solution.
Yes, that's because Legos and computers are both hardware. Software, on the other hand, is just 'too soft' for humans to resist the temptation to constantly change it...;-)
In software, an interface (API) is often seen as a contract; in hardware, that interface contract is actually embodied in the physical device, so people are forced harder to think before since any design
will stay around for a long time.
This problem has been gradually on the increase
with operatings being loaded from HDD rather than
stored in ROM and with across-network
installations and deployments as opposed to delivering media manufactured in bulk.
The gained flexibility is as much a curse as a blessing.
I urge all European citizens to contact their European Parlament representatives, either directly
or via their local MPs, to effect a last-minute
change and to question them about the diversion
between announced and actual decisions.
I would further like to encourage German readers
to write an email or fax to
the federal minister of Justice to complain about her decision and to support journalists in decoding the network of what seems (on first sight) filthy lobbyism and inconsistent behaviour. Written
letters and faxes are expected to have more impact due to their tangible nature.
If you don't spend EUR 1 on a stamp now, you might have to spend EUR 10000 on lawyers later, or get fined for using an algorithm that somebody happens to have patented without you knowing.
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When questioned about their beliefs, the scholars I mentioned describe ideas and concepts that are distinctly unorothodox.
There are different uses of words like fundamentalist/orthodox: the literal sense of "sticking to the very fundaments and core concepts" are nowadays almost overridden by very negative connotations e.g. extremist, "not allowed to have fun"... [anybody expect the Spanish Inquisition;-) ?].
But a priori, whether a fundamentalist, i.e. somebody who takes the fundaments on which something is
built or based very seriously, is a good thing or not
depends on what that fundament actually is.
And that varies a lot across doctrines. For example,
in Christianity, the fundament is the principle
of love of God and your neighbour as embodied in the (first two of the) ten commandments. This is the core of Christian orthodoxy (and yes, I'm just re-stating official teaching here); so in that sense a fundamentalist can be something
of high moral value in accordance even with other
belief systems.
If, on the other hand you consider orthodox to mean what the average person on the street thinks, then it is not too surprising that there's a lot of divergence compared to experts you mention, since the average (wo)man in the street might not (have time to) read as much about religion to clarify their minds in times of time-tables, reality TV, beeping pagers, and./.
By most surveys, more than 90% of professional scientists don't believe in a personal god.
Except for the best ones. Like Stanford's Donald Knuth, for example.
Or take the case of Reverend Thomas Bayes, the
parish priest who discovered Bayes' theorem, on which modern machine learning/data mining relies so heavily,
including spam filters named after him.
I was tempted to believe the 'A' stood for Arcadia (Greek: ''), if only it weren't preceeded by a V...
But the glyph V is also often used for the letters U or W (if doubled, VV), or for the digit 5 in (mostly Latin) inscriptions, so solving the puzzle it is best treated as a character class. It might be in Greek since Arcadia is mentioned, but the tombstone's ironic and ambiguous inscription (either "I, death, am in Arcadia, too" or "I, too used to dwell in Arcadia") suggests Latin.
So we may consider V = [VWU5] as a working assumption.
Since Arcadia is where the 'goddess' Artemis
was said to live, we may assume the 'D' of
D and M is a lady named Diana (the Latin name for Artemis),
which supports further the hypothesis that it
is all Latin.
If this is so, we may extend out working assumption to A = [D].
Now could anyone please post a complete family tree
of Nicholas Poussin as well as the Anson family (and others who lived at Shugborough House around the time the stone was set up? Guests, staff, etc). We would need to find all possible candidates for D and M, then define some constraints to prune the search space (e.g. solution might be a couple,
i.e. sex(D) != sex(M), female(D) => male(M) or a group of either 3 or five (again, 'V') friends).
Here's an interesting picture collection to support the cryptoanalytic hunt.
As for the 'holy grail', you can easily participate in the Sunday mass tomorrow (between breakfast and reading./), sharing the Eucharist in rememberance of Jesus with much less hassle.
Of course geo-spatial data is VERY useful for all sorts of purposes. Just like with a steak knife: you can do wonderful and fun things with it and cause a lot of nasty wounds and red stains on the living-room carpet as well...
But seriously, the (US) governments totally gets
the mind-set of these people wrong. They don't
download multi-gigabyte maps from the net before they attack, they simply and effectively
pick so-called postcard targets, because they seek to attract media
attention and these targets stand for what they resent.
Most terrorists are surprisingly low-tech, but that's actually why they can be difficult to track down: if you never use Web browsers, phones and credit cards you leave few traces.
If you read the recent intelligence 'success story' where they tracked some people because they used a Swiss pre-paid mobile phone SIM-card from somewhere in Pakistan, apparently swapping mobile phones and not SIM-cards instead of the other way round, this gives you an idea of what to expect.
If for a patent it can be shown that prior
art has existed at the time when the patent
application was filed, then to the best of
my knowledge the patent is invalid (at least in Europe). The prior art check is performed by the patent office, but a "no prior art found" verdict is not binding, so if it is later discovered prior art had existed at the initial application date, the patent can be re-examined.
In Germany publication before patent application
also destroys the eligibility to file a patent.
they shoulda waited until MS announced a reward for it first!
Hardly likely to have happened, since according to the Yahoo! Germany newswire, Microsoft gave the
vital hint to the German police that led to the arrest.
Which makes you wonder whether they scanned their
Apache..erm..IIS server logfiles to see who was
reading about certain security alerts.
In 1995, I discussed CD rot with a university librarian, who complained to me about his library's data loss caused by CDs exhibiting oxidation of
the aluminium layer. He mentioned the discs concerned were barely 15 years old.
If you think about it, paper is relatively high tech in comparison: read/write, random access to pages, zero energy consumption, and it last at least 750 years (if it carries the little infinity symbol -- see International Standard ISO/IEC 9706 (1994) Information and Documentation-Paper for Documents-Requirements for Permanence).
I wonder who else you believe might be as influential as him.
The first person that comes to my mind is Tim O'Reilly, albeit Tim's orientation is more directly towards the engineer audience.
Slashdot Mirror
That may well be true; however, it would be equally naive to believe that a print encyclopaedia has perfect authority or presents an unbiased view. Ultimately, every human knowledge source is subject to error and bias, it's just that the academics commissioned by print media might be conveying theirs in a more fashion.
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It included tips on how to stand out from the crowd, e.g. by picking unusual stamps and using handwriting instead of sending serial letters to the CEO that just get dumped in the bin by the secretary.
-- .signature line.
Instead of buying the book, I might just market Nuggets , our new search engine for mobile phones, in my
"Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it. Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets." -- Isa of Aramea AKA Jesus Christ, as quoted in Mattew 22:37-40 (when asked for the greatest commandment)
From this central doctrine, it follows:
"Transplants are a great step forward in science's service of man, and not a few people today owe their lives to an organ transplant. Increasingly, the technique of transplants has proven to be a valid means of attaining the primary goal of all medicine - the service of human life (...) There is a need to instill in people's hearts, especially in the hearts of the young, a genuine and deep appreciation of the need for brotherly love, a love that can find expression in the decision to become an organ donor."
-- Dr Dr Karol Wojtyla AKA Pope John Paul II, in a speech held at the International Congress on Transplants in Rome
In conclusion, Christians are allowed to donate organs to rescue other humans in need and for research.
PS: It would be nice if such an interesting and important discussion could be carried out without the used of bad language and discrimination.
I'm hoping that Google read ./ and take users'
concerns (and copyright) into account.
I've been reading c't (in German) for more than a decade now; and it's still the best magazine.
Using ./ is not the best way to implement such
a scheme, since you can't attach the usual 1-pixel
transparent GIF that creates a log entry in your
Apache log when recipients view it; after all, you want to record where your message travels to...
If they indeed intent to open-source some code under one license or another, they need to do it before they go public, as I suspect it's impossible to convince a post-IPO company's board to give out source code, or any other asset for free.
Example:
appends an entry that looks like this:Source (comments removed):The TODO file is often edited with XEmacs (for reordering more than deleting entries, though...)....of course the better CPU lost the market, as usual.
Me neither.
On another note, King's College, Cambridge maintains AMT's papers, some being available online.
Dear kscguru,
Please consider your analysis again: according to what you state, Tom is exploited because Paul gets additional benefits, but that's twisting the situation around, IMHO; rather, Tom comes from a pool of people that was jobless before (this pool is arguably never empty in any system) and now at least has a temporary (2-year!) position, which i hold to be superior, since he can feed the family, develop his career, improve his CV etc.
So I argue that the system creates a large set of new (if admittedly temporary) job opportunities. Who is exploited by _additional_ jobs being being created?
Also, bear in mind that the temporary position is for two years, I dare say this longer than some people stay on their non-temporary jobs!
I believe any country should take care of its inhabitants and value families, even more so if the country is as resourceful as the U.S. and Europe(an countries).
You are arguing against the benefit systems I outlined, but I would like to ask you, if you had the choice, which one would you personally prefer if you had a child forthcoming, a system where you have to cope without additional support (cf. original poster, who is even recommended to quit is old job by some commentators!) or a system where they give you a 2-year leave while your old job is guaranteed?
>productivity is "discriminating against him because
>he has kids", then so is asking Sam Singleton to
>pick up Paul's slack when he says he can't.
The solution to this dilemma could be to give Paul a two-year (paid) leave, during which he is replaced by an employee with a limited-time contract, and giving a guarantee to Paul that when he's over this very important period he can have his old job back.
No employer would perhaps subscribe to such a system voluntarily, however it can be implemented as a law, as is the case in Germany and other European countries, for instance.
And of course it does not matter whether it's Paul Parenthood, or Paula (his wife), or whether they both want to share the leave and do 50 % each.
The other question is can you stay 2 years without any coding...? ;-)
Next, they patent "a system and apparatus to indicate malfunction of a computational device using white glyphs showing artistic hexadecimal displays on marine blue background"... (blue screen)
Yes, that's because Legos and computers are both hardware. Software, on the other hand, is just 'too soft' for humans to resist the temptation to constantly change it... ;-)
In software, an interface (API) is often seen as a contract; in hardware, that interface contract is actually embodied in the physical device, so people are forced harder to think before since any design will stay around for a long time.
This problem has been gradually on the increase with operatings being loaded from HDD rather than stored in ROM and with across-network installations and deployments as opposed to delivering media manufactured in bulk. The gained flexibility is as much a curse as a blessing.
I would further like to encourage German readers to write an email or fax to the federal minister of Justice to complain about her decision and to support journalists in decoding the network of what seems (on first sight) filthy lobbyism and inconsistent behaviour. Written letters and faxes are expected to have more impact due to their tangible nature.
If you don't spend EUR 1 on a stamp now, you might have to spend EUR 10000 on lawyers later, or get fined for using an algorithm that somebody happens to have patented without you knowing.
[E-mail me if you can't find your rep contact details but would like to do something about it.]
Ideas should be free.
No, I'm sure he would be proud.
Actually the word was never trademarked, and Google is a bit different from Googol/Googolplex.
There are different uses of words like fundamentalist/orthodox: the literal sense of "sticking to the very fundaments and core concepts" are nowadays almost overridden by very negative connotations e.g. extremist, "not allowed to have fun"... [anybody expect the Spanish Inquisition ;-) ?].
But a priori, whether a fundamentalist, i.e. somebody who takes the fundaments on which something is built or based very seriously, is a good thing or not depends on what that fundament actually is. And that varies a lot across doctrines. For example, in Christianity, the fundament is the principle of love of God and your neighbour as embodied in the (first two of the) ten commandments. This is the core of Christian orthodoxy (and yes, I'm just re-stating official teaching here); so in that sense a fundamentalist can be something of high moral value in accordance even with other belief systems.
If, on the other hand you consider orthodox to mean what the average person on the street thinks, then it is not too surprising that there's a lot of divergence compared to experts you mention, since the average (wo)man in the street might not (have time to) read as much about religion to clarify their minds in times of time-tables, reality TV, beeping pagers, and ./.
Except for the best ones. Like Stanford's Donald Knuth , for example.
Or take the case of Reverend Thomas Bayes, the parish priest who discovered Bayes' theorem, on which modern machine learning/data mining relies so heavily, including spam filters named after him.
But the glyph V is also often used for the letters U or W (if doubled, VV), or for the digit 5 in (mostly Latin) inscriptions, so solving the puzzle it is best treated as a character class. It might be in Greek since Arcadia is mentioned, but the tombstone's ironic and ambiguous inscription (either "I, death, am in Arcadia, too" or "I, too used to dwell in Arcadia") suggests Latin.
So we may consider V = [VWU5] as a working assumption.
Since Arcadia is where the 'goddess' Artemis was said to live, we may assume the 'D' of D and M is a lady named Diana (the Latin name for Artemis), which supports further the hypothesis that it is all Latin.
If this is so, we may extend out working assumption to A = [D].
Now could anyone please post a complete family tree of Nicholas Poussin as well as the Anson family (and others who lived at Shugborough House around the time the stone was set up? Guests, staff, etc). We would need to find all possible candidates for D and M, then define some constraints to prune the search space (e.g. solution might be a couple, i.e. sex(D) != sex(M), female(D) => male(M) or a group of either 3 or five (again, 'V') friends).
Here's an interesting picture collection to support the cryptoanalytic hunt.
As for the 'holy grail', you can easily participate in the Sunday mass tomorrow (between breakfast and reading ./), sharing the Eucharist in rememberance of Jesus with much less hassle.
But seriously, the (US) governments totally gets the mind-set of these people wrong. They don't download multi-gigabyte maps from the net before they attack, they simply and effectively pick so-called postcard targets, because they seek to attract media attention and these targets stand for what they resent.
Most terrorists are surprisingly low-tech, but that's actually why they can be difficult to track down: if you never use Web browsers, phones and credit cards you leave few traces.
If you read the recent intelligence 'success story' where they tracked some people because they used a Swiss pre-paid mobile phone SIM-card from somewhere in Pakistan, apparently swapping mobile phones and not SIM-cards instead of the other way round, this gives you an idea of what to expect.
In Germany publication before patent application also destroys the eligibility to file a patent.
Hardly likely to have happened, since according to the Yahoo! Germany newswire, Microsoft gave the vital hint to the German police that led to the arrest. Which makes you wonder whether they scanned their Apache..erm..IIS server logfiles to see who was reading about certain security alerts.
If you think about it, paper is relatively high tech in comparison: read/write, random access to pages, zero energy consumption, and it last at least 750 years (if it carries the little infinity symbol -- see International Standard ISO/IEC 9706 (1994) Information and Documentation-Paper for Documents-Requirements for Permanence).
I wonder who else you believe might be as influential as him.
The first person that comes to my mind is Tim O'Reilly, albeit Tim's orientation is more directly towards the engineer audience.