summarized briefly for those with short attention spans, just because two variables are highly correlated does not mean that one causes the other. as others have pointed out, there are other variables in the scenario you describe, for example operator competence, application design, layered software etc.
December, 1998: "I've said it before in public, and I'll stick my neck out again," says Raymond, "Microsoft will no longer be a factor in that market in 18 months."
Flash seems to be gaining momentum [macromedia.com] as the application development platform of choice for the web and new devices like this rumored iPod. Yet it is a closed platform that Macromedia can control at will. Is history going to repeat itself with the critical apps and content of the web era locked into one platform?
Flash seems to be gaining momentum as the application development platform of choice for the web and new devices like this rumored iPod. Yet it is a closed platform that Macromedia can control at will. Is history going to repeat itself with the critical apps and content of the web era locked into one platform?
The first lesson in scriptwriting school is that most movies follow a three-act structure. What will the three acts be in the Doom movie?
Act I: Shooting anything that moves
ACt II: Sweepin up the giblets
Act III: Shooting anything that moves
Your second paragraph is taken completely out of context. Jones is, and says so, happy about seeing more documents become unsealed: "Naturally, I am of two minds. One, I hope she wins and some things at least get unsealed, because I'm crazy wild to read everything"
Huh? Talk about taking things out of context! You omitted the very next sentence in her posting, which was: "I don't think the public has a 'right' to know everything. Just because you get sued by some litigious company or individual, it doesn't mean you now belong to the public, hook, line and sinker."
...a journalistic enterprise, with interviews, research, and reporting of events as they unfold...
...we strive to present solid facts in rebuttal...
...it's an archive of every significant element in the history of the SCO v. IBM, SCO v. Novell, SCO v. AutoZone, SCO v. DaimlerChrysler and Red Hat v. SCO lawsuits, including transcripts of the legal documents filed in plain text, so they can be searched by keyword and so that the blind can have easy access to the information...
Unsealing the court records supports all of these objectives, so why the resistance? Nowhere is there a caveat that some information should remain sealed for "a reason that seems good". Groklaw claims to be all about "applying open-source principles to research", but it now appears to take a different view when the facts don't support its obvious agenda.
Groklaw accused Maureen O'Gara of lying about the court proceedings a while back, so I guess now we'll find out what really happened.
"PJ" definitely doesn't seem happy about this, sniffing: "I am glad she spells that out for the judge, so he realizes that he has a chance to destroy an entire segment of the IT industry should he choose to go along with the plot."
What's the matter? I thought groklaw was all about serving up the facts, and nothing but the facts?
And what happens when people start misusing the metadata like the current meta tags?
The Semantic Web just provides a method for expressing metadata. Maintaining the integrity of those expressions involves a different set of problems. Some of the solutions include trust metrics like Slashdot's own distributed moderation (PDF) or Advogato.
Basically, it takes a text, then runs it through a parser, which looks up meanings in a lexicon, then reduces whatever translation it comes up with to a text-meaning representation (TMR), by pushing the concepts from the lexicon through an ontology / onomasticon / world-knowledge library.
OK. How does it do with this sentence: "Time flies like an arrow?"
semantic web allows people to publish their own ontologies, and the best tools should be those that learn to extract interesting info from various sources.
That's right. More to the point, the system supports many ontologies, and allows the best ontologies to rise to the top.
everyone is going to have to include the metadata necessary to integrate their data into the Semantic Web. How's that going to work? Who's going to make it work?
It's already happening...check out sites like flickr (photo blogging) and del.icio.us (collaborative bookmarks).
Web pundits like Clay Shirky live in the present. Their entire relevance is based on the way the web looks today. They have no interest in anything being any different than exactly the way it is now.
For a more forward-looking view of this issue, see this essay on the real potential of the Semantic web.
Google identifies relationships between data using only on the links between pages containing the data.
The Semantic web represents relationships between data based on metadata (i.e. data about data). This is a far more powerful way to describe the meaning of data.
works for me.
Maybe, but that doesn't mean its the best way to accomplish what you are trying to do.
All three patents have priority to United States patent application Ser. No. 07/088,622 entitled Data Integration by Object Management by Dana Khoyi et al., filed Aug. 21, 1987.
Interesting...that means the 17 years of exclusivity granted by the patent are almost up, right? In that case, Kodak doesn't have much more time to grab what they can.
It's in Microsoft's interest for Sun to survive because it weakens the monopoly case against it (the same way Intel keeps AMD alive). The more healthy Sun is, the more MS can point to them as a viable competitor in the server market. Indeed, this is a little reminiscient of Microsoft's investment in Apple a few years ago, which preserved that company as a nominal competitor in the desktop market. This might be called "managed competition".
There are no Computer Science Graduates going into the Computer Software business because with Open Source there is no more money in the Computer Software Business. There is money in the Computer Service Business, though. So maybe Computer Science graduates should go into the Computer Service Business, right?
Well, it turns out that the Computer Service Business is more profitable in outsourcing countries, so there is no more money in the Computer Service Business, either. Now there isn't any money in either the Computer Software Business OR the Computer Service Business...ooops!
Maybe Computer Science Graduate graduate isn't such a good idea after all.
So, why is it the Japanese are investing in truly useful projects like trumpet-playing robots, while the US is still tripping over itself trying to develop cars that drive themselves across the desert?
Slashdot Mirror
...and settlers get the land.
when you get some time to read a book, you might want to catch up on the concept that correlation does not imply causation.
summarized briefly for those with short attention spans, just because two variables are highly correlated does not mean that one causes the other. as others have pointed out, there are other variables in the scenario you describe, for example operator competence, application design, layered software etc.
December, 1998:
"I've said it before in public, and I'll stick my neck out again," says Raymond, "Microsoft will no longer be a factor in that market in 18 months."
Flash seems to be gaining momentum [macromedia.com] as the application development platform of choice for the web and new devices like this rumored iPod. Yet it is a closed platform that Macromedia can control at will. Is history going to repeat itself with the critical apps and content of the web era locked into one platform?
Flash seems to be gaining momentum as the application development platform of choice for the web and new devices like this rumored iPod. Yet it is a closed platform that Macromedia can control at will. Is history going to repeat itself with the critical apps and content of the web era locked into one platform?
The first lesson in scriptwriting school is that most movies follow a three-act structure. What will the three acts be in the Doom movie?
Act I: Shooting anything that moves
ACt II: Sweepin up the giblets
Act III: Shooting anything that moves
Huh? Talk about taking things out of context! You omitted the very next sentence in her posting, which was: "I don't think the public has a 'right' to know everything. Just because you get sued by some litigious company or individual, it doesn't mean you now belong to the public, hook, line and sinker."
Groklaw's mission statement contains the following elements:
Unsealing the court records supports all of these objectives, so why the resistance? Nowhere is there a caveat that some information should remain sealed for "a reason that seems good". Groklaw claims to be all about "applying open-source principles to research", but it now appears to take a different view when the facts don't support its obvious agenda.
Groklaw accused Maureen O'Gara of lying about the court proceedings a while back, so I guess now we'll find out what really happened.
"PJ" definitely doesn't seem happy about this, sniffing: "I am glad she spells that out for the judge, so he realizes that he has a chance to destroy an entire segment of the IT industry should he choose to go along with the plot."
What's the matter? I thought groklaw was all about serving up the facts, and nothing but the facts?
Oh no, that's what journalists do...
...yeah right
And what happens when people start misusing the metadata like the current meta tags?
The Semantic Web just provides a method for expressing metadata. Maintaining the integrity of those expressions involves a different set of problems. Some of the solutions include trust metrics like Slashdot's own distributed moderation (PDF) or Advogato.
It is already being talked about/
Basically, it takes a text, then runs it through a parser, which looks up meanings in a lexicon, then reduces whatever translation it comes up with to a text-meaning representation (TMR), by pushing the concepts from the lexicon through an ontology / onomasticon / world-knowledge library.
OK. How does it do with this sentence: "Time flies like an arrow?"
semantic web allows people to publish their own ontologies, and the best tools should be those that learn to extract interesting info from various sources.
That's right. More to the point, the system supports many ontologies, and allows the best ontologies to rise to the top.
everyone is going to have to include the metadata necessary to integrate their data into the Semantic Web. How's that going to work? Who's going to make it work?
It's already happening...check out sites like flickr (photo blogging) and del.icio.us (collaborative bookmarks).
Web pundits like Clay Shirky live in the present. Their entire relevance is based on the way the web looks today. They have no interest in anything being any different than exactly the way it is now.
For a more forward-looking view of this issue, see this essay on the real potential of the Semantic web.
The rest of us call this... GOOGLE.
Google identifies relationships between data using only on the links between pages containing the data.
The Semantic web represents relationships between data based on metadata (i.e. data about data). This is a far more powerful way to describe the meaning of data.
works for me.
Maybe, but that doesn't mean its the best way to accomplish what you are trying to do.
Can anyone cite a real life example where Solaris was used in place of linux on a new project for a valid reason?
Here's one.
The reasons? Linux couldn't handle emergencies, and wasn't always available.
All three patents have priority to United States patent application Ser. No. 07/088,622 entitled Data Integration by Object Management by Dana Khoyi et al., filed Aug. 21, 1987.
Interesting...that means the 17 years of exclusivity granted by the patent are almost up, right? In that case, Kodak doesn't have much more time to grab what they can.
It's in Microsoft's interest for Sun to survive because it weakens the monopoly case against it (the same way Intel keeps AMD alive). The more healthy Sun is, the more MS can point to them as a viable competitor in the server market. Indeed, this is a little reminiscient of Microsoft's investment in Apple a few years ago, which preserved that company as a nominal competitor in the desktop market. This might be called "managed competition".
There are no Computer Science Graduates going into the Computer Software business because with Open Source there is no more money in the Computer Software Business. There is money in the Computer Service Business, though. So maybe Computer Science graduates should go into the Computer Service Business, right?
Well, it turns out that the Computer Service Business is more profitable in outsourcing countries, so there is no more money in the Computer Service Business, either. Now there isn't any money in either the Computer Software Business OR the Computer Service Business...ooops!
Maybe Computer Science Graduate graduate isn't such a good idea after all.
Thanks, Open Source!
So, why is it the Japanese are investing in truly useful projects like trumpet-playing robots, while the US is still tripping over itself trying to develop cars that drive themselves across the desert?
Now, can someone please remind me what the availability of DivX source code is?
Someone must have been thirsty!
Kind of like JINI?
Plus zones get their "own" virtual os, so you can reboot them.
Sure about that? All the zones share the same copy of Solaris, so how can you reboot one without rebooting all the others?