One of the big applications of UWB is in wireless USB. Intel is a (well, the) big USB developer/backer. It makes sense they'd want this. It could be UWB AV connects take the long route into the market: first they're available as addons, then they're built into Intel's next line of laptop chipsets. Then device makers will release wireless usb widgets, then TV makers will think about UWB interlinks.
They want to make Ask Jeeves all over again in the url bar?
Don't search keywords do this better, and in a more controlled way? I set up a google maps search keyword of "map", then I know what happens when I type "map address". Similarly with other keyword constructs. Keywords let me build on the browser's functionality in predictable ways. Ask Jeeves? Remains to be seen.
(Although I am given to understand it is the FBI's premiere tool to search for terrorists.)
I agree. There's no reason you can't have feedback in a finite state machine.
But the harder problem I think is properly displaying these emotions to the player, especially with subtle distinction. I've only seen one recent game (Mass Effect) that could occasionally use some small facial tics to give away emotional information. Changing dialogue would be very rewarding to the player, but difficult for the developer.
I agree. I find that students who have become dependent on the calculator to draw graphs are missing a valuable skill. Throw a problem at them with parameters and they can't graph a thing. It isn't generally fatal: students can learn to graph just fine, but I don't want to spend time in a college course teaching graphing. (That said, I almost always go through a graphing algorithm during examples so that students can pick it up).
But there's room for computers in doing scientific computing. In my experience, the students really dread that topic, though. The trouble is that most have received NO computer science education in highschool. It's a major oversight of the american highschool curriculum. I don't care if they're learning BASIC. They need to understand boolean logic, branches, and iteration.
I think a lot of this is snakeoil. If it isn't immediately clear what advantage the computer will bring to the lesson, don't use the computer. There are cases when it is clear that the computer brings a lot of positives, but it isn't all cases by a longshot.
Computers can eat up class time with distractions and technical problems. And digital work lacks tangibility. Students respond better to paper homework with actual scores than to digital assignments with scores appearing on some webpage.
I know that these problems may be solvable in the future, but they aren't solved now.
"I may need features you don't, and rather than having to hunt for them online and download a virus posing as a function... "
Man, if only there was some way of handing out files from a central trusted repository and doing some sort of hashing to see that they're what they should be. We could call that system "apt".
But for the most part, most people agree that they'd like the system pre-loaded with software, hence the base distribution for most distros comes with goodies like Open Office.
Spreadsheets generally annoy me because many programming concepts I'm used to are watered down. I find most of the formula stuff to be a pain. Maybe somewhere out there is some sort of "spreadsheet for smart people" where I can use say python expressions to manipulate a big table of data.
As for spreadsheets leading to bad decisions -- it's really the fault of bad models. Just because you can extrapolate into the future doesn't mean that prediction is worth a darn. The phrase "if this trend continues" usually makes my ass twitch. Shouldn't you first do some check to see if that extrapolation means something?
Beyond the style of model, the trouble in finance is the feedback nature. If a big impressive model is developed to price an asset and all of the big boys buy in and use the model, then the model DOES describe the assets price. Because everyone is making decisions based on the model.
That's all great until reality intervenes. Then you have a bubble.
That sort of model feedback has always made finance seem "iffy" to me.
I think bilateral symmetry could be shown to have advantages out-of-water. In the ocean, movement in three dimensions is common, and radially-symmetric designs are reasonable. But on land, movement is confined (mostly) to a plane, so the extra symmetry doesn't help an organism very much. There'd be a lot of wasted tentacles.
US News has a strong incentive to jiggle the arbitrary weights each year. That way the rankings change and everyone needs to buy a new copy of the magazine. They're out there 'making' news.
I've heard that the single biggest predictor of a college's ranking in the US News rankings is the endowment size. In other words, if you knew the size of the endowments of all colleges and ranked them in money order, you'll get a high fraction of the ranking consistent with US News.
No no no, no one needs to zap hulu commercials. I mean it'd be nice, but not $199 nice. Current hulu advertising breaks are quite short an bearable.
What tivo COULD do is provide a couch-based way of using hulu, with an alternate UI that's remote control friendly. Make it work for youtube, and it'd be a good back-up plan at parties, where guests could show "teh internet funnah" to others around on the TV with minimal fuss.
But xbox 360 and that other netflix movie watcher box are going in this direction too. Market is going to be crowded. That's good for me!
"Predatory Mortgage Lending Campaign --
CRC Predatory mortgage lending is a subset of the subprime mortgage industry. Subprime mortgages are loans that have high interest rates and fees that are made..."
A long time ago, there was a big market for perifrials in games: joysticks, etc. I think at that point a substantial portion of the gaming market were playing flight sims. Latching on to that were more arcade-style games that benefited from joysticks: Wing Commander, X-Wing, etc.
Since then, there's be a decrease in the number of peripherals. If the game doesn't play well with mouse and keyboard, it usually isn't played. Even on consoles, it's rough to convince people to play games with something other than the standard controller.
Now nvidia wants us to but special nerd glasses and special nerd monitors for a 3D effect (windows Vista only). I'm not sure it'll fly.
Also, reading that interview, Andrew FEAR sounds like a toolburger. Yeah, 3D could be fOMG amazing one eleventy exclamation point, but I'd rather have a better game.
I think the hardest part of this problem to look at is the idea of national identification. National banking and credit institutions need a way to identify individuals. They've chosen the not-so-private SSN as the number of choice. It works in the sense that it is largely unique per person, but is fantastically easy to fake.
Better identification would almost certainly translate into more government involvement. There's always been a healthy opposition to a national ID card, but just such a thing could stop identity "theft". The price would be stoopidly easy government monitoring of your movements. I'm envisioning a card that does some cryptography allowing you to cryptographically sign agreements for credit, etc. If fraud charges show up, you could show that the signature on the change is incorrect. Of course, such a card could be stolen, but its loss would be obvious and it could be dealt with. SSNs can simply be copied.
Yes, the old fire in the theater line... That's from the Holmes ruling in the Schenck case. Schenck was posting fliers bashing the draft for WWI and got swept up and jailed by the police. Holmes wrote for the Supreme Court majority that such speech was equivalent to shouting fire in a theater and Schenck (continued) his time in jail.
Remember kids: every time someone uses this line to define the limits on free speech, they are hearkening back to rulings that undercut the very purpose of the 1st amendment.
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One of the big applications of UWB is in wireless USB. Intel is a (well, the) big USB developer/backer. It makes sense they'd want this. It could be UWB AV connects take the long route into the market: first they're available as addons, then they're built into Intel's next line of laptop chipsets. Then device makers will release wireless usb widgets, then TV makers will think about UWB interlinks.
They want to make Ask Jeeves all over again in the url bar?
Don't search keywords do this better, and in a more controlled way? I set up a google maps search keyword of "map", then I know what happens when I type "map address". Similarly with other keyword constructs. Keywords let me build on the browser's functionality in predictable ways. Ask Jeeves? Remains to be seen.
(Although I am given to understand it is the FBI's premiere tool to search for terrorists.)
This will really put Shelbyville on the map!
I agree. There's no reason you can't have feedback in a finite state machine.
But the harder problem I think is properly displaying these emotions to the player, especially with subtle distinction. I've only seen one recent game (Mass Effect) that could occasionally use some small facial tics to give away emotional information. Changing dialogue would be very rewarding to the player, but difficult for the developer.
when he learns someone his cloning his file manager.
I'm interested to hear from MC users the advantages of MC over say konqueror with frames and fish to do remote file management.
I agree. I find that students who have become dependent on the calculator to draw graphs are missing a valuable skill. Throw a problem at them with parameters and they can't graph a thing. It isn't generally fatal: students can learn to graph just fine, but I don't want to spend time in a college course teaching graphing. (That said, I almost always go through a graphing algorithm during examples so that students can pick it up).
But there's room for computers in doing scientific computing. In my experience, the students really dread that topic, though. The trouble is that most have received NO computer science education in highschool. It's a major oversight of the american highschool curriculum. I don't care if they're learning BASIC. They need to understand boolean logic, branches, and iteration.
I think a lot of this is snakeoil. If it isn't immediately clear what advantage the computer will bring to the lesson, don't use the computer. There are cases when it is clear that the computer brings a lot of positives, but it isn't all cases by a longshot.
Computers can eat up class time with distractions and technical problems. And digital work lacks tangibility. Students respond better to paper homework with actual scores than to digital assignments with scores appearing on some webpage.
I know that these problems may be solvable in the future, but they aren't solved now.
"I may need features you don't, and rather than having to hunt for them online and download a virus posing as a function... "
Man, if only there was some way of handing out files from a central trusted repository and doing some sort of hashing to see that they're what they should be. We could call that system "apt".
Also, for linux, I could get Puppy linux, or even just the
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/MinimalCD
But for the most part, most people agree that they'd like the system pre-loaded with software, hence the base distribution for most distros comes with goodies like Open Office.
http://download.wikimedia.org/enwiki/
If you think you'll need it, get a recent static copy. Most things you will look up won't change much over a few months.
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1149.html
With the size of microSD these days, you might be able to send really big packets too...
Spreadsheets generally annoy me because many programming concepts I'm used to are watered down. I find most of the formula stuff to be a pain. Maybe somewhere out there is some sort of "spreadsheet for smart people" where I can use say python expressions to manipulate a big table of data.
As for spreadsheets leading to bad decisions -- it's really the fault of bad models. Just because you can extrapolate into the future doesn't mean that prediction is worth a darn. The phrase "if this trend continues" usually makes my ass twitch. Shouldn't you first do some check to see if that extrapolation means something?
"Do Twitter Phishing Scams Herald the End of Microblogs?"
*Crosses fingers*
A man can dream...
Beyond the style of model, the trouble in finance is the feedback nature. If a big impressive model is developed to price an asset and all of the big boys buy in and use the model, then the model DOES describe the assets price. Because everyone is making decisions based on the model.
That's all great until reality intervenes. Then you have a bubble.
That sort of model feedback has always made finance seem "iffy" to me.
I have several candidates in mind for those ...capable... of piloting a balloon through a poisonous atmosphere into a poison sea.
I think bilateral symmetry could be shown to have advantages out-of-water. In the ocean, movement in three dimensions is common, and radially-symmetric designs are reasonable. But on land, movement is confined (mostly) to a plane, so the extra symmetry doesn't help an organism very much. There'd be a lot of wasted tentacles.
Like an octopus bar on $1 tequila night.
If you take it, I'll buy bakedbeansand.spam ...
ICANN has all the moneys?
The TEMPEST attack is nothing compared to the TEMPEST 2000 attack. Pew pew pew!
US News has a strong incentive to jiggle the arbitrary weights each year. That way the rankings change and everyone needs to buy a new copy of the magazine. They're out there 'making' news.
I've heard that the single biggest predictor of a college's ranking in the US News rankings is the endowment size. In other words, if you knew the size of the endowments of all colleges and ranked them in money order, you'll get a high fraction of the ranking consistent with US News.
No no no, no one needs to zap hulu commercials. I mean it'd be nice, but not $199 nice. Current hulu advertising breaks are quite short an bearable.
What tivo COULD do is provide a couch-based way of using hulu, with an alternate UI that's remote control friendly. Make it work for youtube, and it'd be a good back-up plan at parties, where guests could show "teh internet funnah" to others around on the TV with minimal fuss.
But xbox 360 and that other netflix movie watcher box are going in this direction too. Market is going to be crowded. That's good for me!
...you get results like:
"Predatory Mortgage Lending Campaign -- ..."
CRC Predatory mortgage lending is a subset of the subprime mortgage industry.
Subprime mortgages are loans that have high interest rates and fees that are made
Too bad no one paid attention.
A long time ago, there was a big market for perifrials in games: joysticks, etc. I think at that point a substantial portion of the gaming market were playing flight sims. Latching on to that were more arcade-style games that benefited from joysticks: Wing Commander, X-Wing, etc.
Since then, there's be a decrease in the number of peripherals. If the game doesn't play well with mouse and keyboard, it usually isn't played. Even on consoles, it's rough to convince people to play games with something other than the standard controller.
Now nvidia wants us to but special nerd glasses and special nerd monitors for a 3D effect (windows Vista only). I'm not sure it'll fly.
Also, reading that interview, Andrew FEAR sounds like a toolburger. Yeah, 3D could be fOMG amazing one eleventy exclamation point, but I'd rather have a better game.
I think the hardest part of this problem to look at is the idea of national identification. National banking and credit institutions need a way to identify individuals. They've chosen the not-so-private SSN as the number of choice. It works in the sense that it is largely unique per person, but is fantastically easy to fake.
Better identification would almost certainly translate into more government involvement. There's always been a healthy opposition to a national ID card, but just such a thing could stop identity "theft". The price would be stoopidly easy government monitoring of your movements. I'm envisioning a card that does some cryptography allowing you to cryptographically sign agreements for credit, etc. If fraud charges show up, you could show that the signature on the change is incorrect. Of course, such a card could be stolen, but its loss would be obvious and it could be dealt with. SSNs can simply be copied.
Yes, the old fire in the theater line... That's from the Holmes ruling in the Schenck case. Schenck was posting fliers bashing the draft for WWI and got swept up and jailed by the police. Holmes wrote for the Supreme Court majority that such speech was equivalent to shouting fire in a theater and Schenck (continued) his time in jail.
Remember kids: every time someone uses this line to define the limits on free speech, they are hearkening back to rulings that undercut the very purpose of the 1st amendment.
See Schneier's blog. No word on MD5, which is extremely common.