Nice. However I can't remember this quote. It was a movie where the people on crashing airplanes were taken to the future since they would have died. Millennium or something like that. You remember?
Please check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-intellectual.
Being Anti-intellectual is not about whether it is cool to be smart. It is whether or not being an authority in the field allows me to have credibility. For instance if am a political science PH.D. with a minor in economics and I talk about foreign policy and the effect on the economy you would be anti-intellectual if you said: "my opinion is just as important and I am right," assuming you aren't a political science PH.D. with a minor in economics as well.
Essentially intellectualism is allowing people who are experts in an area to have authority in statement about that which they are an authority over. So consequently a lot of people (who have no authority) nowadays say things like 'I think we should stop trading with China', and the point is that the government should not listen to them (if it is being intellectual).
The best example of anti-intellectualism in the government I can think of is global warming. They just don't care and take any crackpot who will agree with them as fact. But I disgress....
This has been said a million times, the problem with speech reocgnition is not the speed or bandwidth of the processors. It is a fundemental misunderstanding of what the brain detects and how that is used to make a robust system.
I have a problem with this, you see the virus targets unpatched systems that are security risks. Where I live the building has a couple of morons with completely unpatched systems and the network in my building is shotty at best. Now that their computers are knocked off the network I have my interenet connection back I couldn't be more thrilled, so do I congradulate them or scorn them. I mean they were probably in the same position as me and got tired of their stupid neighbors. Now making major systems come down is bad, however patch your systems when the patches come out. Seesh.
I understand that there are fundamental differences between DRM and plain encryption, but the point is that uncrackable systems are possible.
Sorry your wrong, they are probably unhackable, and i mean in probabilistic sense. I could sit here and generate a X bit long number that perfectly matches their encryption number, in one try (with probability zero almost surely, which is not the same as probability zero). Anything secure could probably not be broken for a while but they could thus not secure. End of rant says: nothing is secure especially polynomials, just wait until quantum computing.
I have to admitt when i saw this it sounded weird to me. The problem is this book is all mental. It is a series of letters from a minion of satan to his nephew. There really isn't a screenplay here. The book is a story of the human condition how christians face struggles. In addition it is way too christian for modern movie making. A major studio (unfortunately) would never gamble on a movie so heavy-handedly christian. I mean making a movie of the screwtape letter is like making a movie of mere christianity or the great divorce. These books were never ment to be stories. They are books that help and inspire christians. I am glad to see that these movies are made however if they are not true to the C.S. Lewis vision I will not see them. Bastardizing good books has no place in my heart. I also wonder how they will do some of the books, I hope they do the first and last books, I thought they were great books. The horse and his boy i didn't like too much so i hope they skip it. I remember reading the first and last books and thinking what great movies they would make. But that is just my opinion.
Common misconception is the there is water on the moon. If you want water goto Mars. There may be water trapped in rocks but the cost to get it out would be prohibitally expensive. The moon would be neat but it is not practical right now. The problem is whatever we send to the moon or to a space station in any orbit is that all the materials needed (fuel, water, food, etc) must be sent there at high expense. Mars on the other had has the advantage of being able to provide raw materials for fuel and water. This means the weight needed to be sent is so small compared to a moon mission. You want a real opinion on why going to the moon has nothing to do with exploration (esp. Mars) read "A Case for Mars". Excellent. The end point is that a mission to mars is much less costly than a space station or a moon base. ARgue with me if you want, but its the truth, we should focus our efforts on Mars. All the space station would be is a huge publicity stunt for whichever party suggests it.
I know it isn't funny but stuff like this that makes it into a thesis gets read like 3 times, once by your advisor, once by the person who proofreads it, and the first time you submit it to a conference. That is the life of a grad student.
FYI: I know a couple of people in this research group here at UIUC. Smart cookies. Way to go guys.
Doesn't anyone else worry about the state of hardware. Current processors are getting smaller dies yet they are getting huge. The power dissapation allows me to heat my apartment with my computers. We don't need this type of stuff from the processor, you want to run one or another OS just run it. I admit as an Electrical Engineer that the idea is neat and I like to read the technical stuff on it. But I would rather see a complete redsign of the x86 (or a new 'better' instruction set) processor. One that is truely redsigned not a 386 core on steriods for 10 years. I mean there is no reason for the current desktop to look the way it does. A redesign at the processor level will work wonders. Intel and AMD need to let innovation drive them not the market, now I know they need to sell processors but if one of them had a processor that dissapated half the power I would buy that. Plus with a new design with the new 'theory' coming out of research you could probably get lots of life out of something like that. Maybe even more megahertz which allows for the 'New 10000000000000000 instruction per a second processors'
"I am thinking of the immortal words of Socrates when he said, 'I drank what?'"
I always spell them wrong, some stupid company owns the rights to those sites and asks me to set my webpage to www.micorsoft.com. I won't even set it to microsoft.com what makes them think I want to have my homepage be a bad spelled of it?
There is one big difference though, the keyboard has deterministic errors, i.e. me typing too fast to hit the right keys somehting I can completely control (it is in the controlable subspace and with an observer the errors can goto zero (I know bad joke)). Whereas dragon has problems if you move the microphone a bit turn your head a bit, have a fan running in the background, have a cold, etc etc etc. I know of plenty of people who have used it and you are the first person I have heard of who actually uses it beyond the 'wow' stage. I'm glad t works for you but the point was there is no 'good' linux software because there is no good software anyway.
One case of it working is a fluke, one more case of it working is microsoft publishable, 3000 more cases of it working is linux.
I will comment just briefly that speech recognition doesn't work from a purely technical and pratical standpoint. I am working at my university on a different path for speech recognition that isn't related to the software currently on the market. Give it about 5 years and there will be a major change in the way computers recognize speech. In conclusion the reason you don't have 'good' software on linux is because linux people are too smart to fall for the old 'dragon recognizes your speech'.
I think you miss the problem if they destory each other we will have a new threat:
All the politicans who now have lost a lot of campaign money due to no more RIAA and SCO.
Next on Slashdot:
Lawmakers tax every keystroke on a computer because they don't get enough campaign contributions to live a life most Americans only dream about.
"Fear is the mind-killer"
I also use computers all day long for research. My point is that some people don't learn it and yes the education systme is partially to blame, but you cannot disolve all blame from the individual. I am saying as a society this is what is happening.
It wasn't ment as flamebait it was stating a point if we continue like we are we will follow the same track as the dune universe (in reference to the jihad).
Doesn't anyone see what is going to happen. Those who have read dune (which is a lot of people on slashdot i would bet) would know this exact same thing happened in the dune universe. Eventually humanity got tired of having computers take over everything and they destroyed all the computers. This same thing will eventually happen if we do not stop the complete integration of computers into our daily lives. It is my opinion that young kids should not be allowed to use a computer (or calculator) for many years up till about high school and then sparingly. The inability to do math in our heads will be the beginning of our downfall. I have an unbelievable amount of friends who are willing to turn over all tasks to a computer. I find this very sad.
"Fear is the mind-killer..."
I seem to remember a book I read where in the beginning the governments collected samples of DNA and found the most efficient people to do different jobs and then continued cloning them until the end of time.
At least I know I won't be the one they clone unless they need lazy graduate students in the future.
I disagree with that even though I know a lot of peopel who do it. For instance if I want to find out the basic informaiton about you (phone number, address, last name, first name, SSN even (possible though not likely), etc.) I could search a couple of sites, do a little digging.
I am not saying throw your bank and credit card statements in the trash, quite the opposite, burn them after you shred them. Shredding envelopes? Shredding junk mail? Now that is just insane. People that do shouldn't be on the internet. You know someone can track you on the internet even faster than they could find your address. And no one tries to stop that even proxies and firewalls have their workarounds.
DTV needs to expand their production of smartcards to keep up with demand. They get money and recorders from the people the sue and then use the money to settle with the people who sue them back, they keep the readers. Sounds like a new business model to me.
"We need more of X"
"Ok sue people with X for much money."
"Profit"
I find stories like this disheartening, here why:
As a society we have a responsibility to improve ourselves. The problem (one of them) with modern society is that we believe nothing has a cost. Obviously this is not true. We have a responsibility to fund 'purely science' research, this includes space travel. If we do not then the only driving force is money which is not or more to the point should not be the point of research. (It might lead to it someday though.) When we do away with things like space exploration we lose a part of ourselves, and society, that will never be replaced. The hole will grow until there is nothing left but a shell that kinda resembles a once great civilization.
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Nice. However I can't remember this quote. It was a movie where the people on crashing airplanes were taken to the future since they would have died. Millennium or something like that. You remember?
Please check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-intellectual. Being Anti-intellectual is not about whether it is cool to be smart. It is whether or not being an authority in the field allows me to have credibility. For instance if am a political science PH.D. with a minor in economics and I talk about foreign policy and the effect on the economy you would be anti-intellectual if you said: "my opinion is just as important and I am right," assuming you aren't a political science PH.D. with a minor in economics as well. Essentially intellectualism is allowing people who are experts in an area to have authority in statement about that which they are an authority over. So consequently a lot of people (who have no authority) nowadays say things like 'I think we should stop trading with China', and the point is that the government should not listen to them (if it is being intellectual). The best example of anti-intellectualism in the government I can think of is global warming. They just don't care and take any crackpot who will agree with them as fact. But I disgress....
This has been said a million times, the problem with speech reocgnition is not the speed or bandwidth of the processors. It is a fundemental misunderstanding of what the brain detects and how that is used to make a robust system.
I have a problem with this, you see the virus targets unpatched systems that are security risks. Where I live the building has a couple of morons with completely unpatched systems and the network in my building is shotty at best. Now that their computers are knocked off the network I have my interenet connection back I couldn't be more thrilled, so do I congradulate them or scorn them. I mean they were probably in the same position as me and got tired of their stupid neighbors. Now making major systems come down is bad, however patch your systems when the patches come out. Seesh.
I understand that there are fundamental differences between DRM and plain encryption, but the point is that uncrackable systems are possible.
Sorry your wrong, they are probably unhackable, and i mean in probabilistic sense. I could sit here and generate a X bit long number that perfectly matches their encryption number, in one try (with probability zero almost surely, which is not the same as probability zero). Anything secure could probably not be broken for a while but they could thus not secure. End of rant says: nothing is secure especially polynomials, just wait until quantum computing.
When I read this I thought someone found snoopy.
I have to admitt when i saw this it sounded weird to me. The problem is this book is all mental. It is a series of letters from a minion of satan to his nephew. There really isn't a screenplay here. The book is a story of the human condition how christians face struggles. In addition it is way too christian for modern movie making. A major studio (unfortunately) would never gamble on a movie so heavy-handedly christian. I mean making a movie of the screwtape letter is like making a movie of mere christianity or the great divorce. These books were never ment to be stories. They are books that help and inspire christians. I am glad to see that these movies are made however if they are not true to the C.S. Lewis vision I will not see them. Bastardizing good books has no place in my heart. I also wonder how they will do some of the books, I hope they do the first and last books, I thought they were great books. The horse and his boy i didn't like too much so i hope they skip it. I remember reading the first and last books and thinking what great movies they would make. But that is just my opinion.
Common misconception is the there is water on the moon. If you want water goto Mars. There may be water trapped in rocks but the cost to get it out would be prohibitally expensive. The moon would be neat but it is not practical right now. The problem is whatever we send to the moon or to a space station in any orbit is that all the materials needed (fuel, water, food, etc) must be sent there at high expense. Mars on the other had has the advantage of being able to provide raw materials for fuel and water. This means the weight needed to be sent is so small compared to a moon mission. You want a real opinion on why going to the moon has nothing to do with exploration (esp. Mars) read "A Case for Mars". Excellent. The end point is that a mission to mars is much less costly than a space station or a moon base. ARgue with me if you want, but its the truth, we should focus our efforts on Mars. All the space station would be is a huge publicity stunt for whichever party suggests it.
I know it isn't funny but stuff like this that makes it into a thesis gets read like 3 times, once by your advisor, once by the person who proofreads it, and the first time you submit it to a conference. That is the life of a grad student.
FYI: I know a couple of people in this research group here at UIUC. Smart cookies. Way to go guys.
Doesn't anyone else worry about the state of hardware. Current processors are getting smaller dies yet they are getting huge. The power dissapation allows me to heat my apartment with my computers. We don't need this type of stuff from the processor, you want to run one or another OS just run it. I admit as an Electrical Engineer that the idea is neat and I like to read the technical stuff on it. But I would rather see a complete redsign of the x86 (or a new 'better' instruction set) processor. One that is truely redsigned not a 386 core on steriods for 10 years. I mean there is no reason for the current desktop to look the way it does. A redesign at the processor level will work wonders. Intel and AMD need to let innovation drive them not the market, now I know they need to sell processors but if one of them had a processor that dissapated half the power I would buy that. Plus with a new design with the new 'theory' coming out of research you could probably get lots of life out of something like that. Maybe even more megahertz which allows for the 'New 10000000000000000 instruction per a second processors' "I am thinking of the immortal words of Socrates when he said, 'I drank what?'"
I always spell them wrong, some stupid company owns the rights to those sites and asks me to set my webpage to www.micorsoft.com. I won't even set it to microsoft.com what makes them think I want to have my homepage be a bad spelled of it?
There is one big difference though, the keyboard has deterministic errors, i.e. me typing too fast to hit the right keys somehting I can completely control (it is in the controlable subspace and with an observer the errors can goto zero (I know bad joke)). Whereas dragon has problems if you move the microphone a bit turn your head a bit, have a fan running in the background, have a cold, etc etc etc. I know of plenty of people who have used it and you are the first person I have heard of who actually uses it beyond the 'wow' stage. I'm glad t works for you but the point was there is no 'good' linux software because there is no good software anyway. One case of it working is a fluke, one more case of it working is microsoft publishable, 3000 more cases of it working is linux.
I will comment just briefly that speech recognition doesn't work from a purely technical and pratical standpoint. I am working at my university on a different path for speech recognition that isn't related to the software currently on the market. Give it about 5 years and there will be a major change in the way computers recognize speech. In conclusion the reason you don't have 'good' software on linux is because linux people are too smart to fall for the old 'dragon recognizes your speech'.
I think you miss the problem if they destory each other we will have a new threat: All the politicans who now have lost a lot of campaign money due to no more RIAA and SCO. Next on Slashdot: Lawmakers tax every keystroke on a computer because they don't get enough campaign contributions to live a life most Americans only dream about. "Fear is the mind-killer"
I also use computers all day long for research. My point is that some people don't learn it and yes the education systme is partially to blame, but you cannot disolve all blame from the individual. I am saying as a society this is what is happening. It wasn't ment as flamebait it was stating a point if we continue like we are we will follow the same track as the dune universe (in reference to the jihad).
Doesn't anyone see what is going to happen. Those who have read dune (which is a lot of people on slashdot i would bet) would know this exact same thing happened in the dune universe. Eventually humanity got tired of having computers take over everything and they destroyed all the computers. This same thing will eventually happen if we do not stop the complete integration of computers into our daily lives. It is my opinion that young kids should not be allowed to use a computer (or calculator) for many years up till about high school and then sparingly. The inability to do math in our heads will be the beginning of our downfall. I have an unbelievable amount of friends who are willing to turn over all tasks to a computer. I find this very sad. "Fear is the mind-killer..."
I seem to remember a book I read where in the beginning the governments collected samples of DNA and found the most efficient people to do different jobs and then continued cloning them until the end of time. At least I know I won't be the one they clone unless they need lazy graduate students in the future.
I disagree with that even though I know a lot of peopel who do it. For instance if I want to find out the basic informaiton about you (phone number, address, last name, first name, SSN even (possible though not likely), etc.) I could search a couple of sites, do a little digging. I am not saying throw your bank and credit card statements in the trash, quite the opposite, burn them after you shred them. Shredding envelopes? Shredding junk mail? Now that is just insane. People that do shouldn't be on the internet. You know someone can track you on the internet even faster than they could find your address. And no one tries to stop that even proxies and firewalls have their workarounds.
DTV needs to expand their production of smartcards to keep up with demand. They get money and recorders from the people the sue and then use the money to settle with the people who sue them back, they keep the readers. Sounds like a new business model to me. "We need more of X" "Ok sue people with X for much money." "Profit"
I find stories like this disheartening, here why: As a society we have a responsibility to improve ourselves. The problem (one of them) with modern society is that we believe nothing has a cost. Obviously this is not true. We have a responsibility to fund 'purely science' research, this includes space travel. If we do not then the only driving force is money which is not or more to the point should not be the point of research. (It might lead to it someday though.) When we do away with things like space exploration we lose a part of ourselves, and society, that will never be replaced. The hole will grow until there is nothing left but a shell that kinda resembles a once great civilization.