Sure we can digitally process it, but in the next decade the digital reprocessing will evolve, probably along the lines of the neural network, so that it can make better distinctions between fine lines and scratches. If they have to make some money on the technology, let them enhance products like Media Cleaner and improve digital video for a while. Remember Ted Turner's colorized classics? It was a big thing that never really went anywhere, because in the end it just didn't look right. Don't rush it, not with the classics. Human beings spent hours on every frame of those films. It was a labor of love. Digitally detracting from that level of commitment just because they can is a poor excuse abusing and disrespecting the art.
While it's not pretty, and requires some paint now and again, steel siding could solve a lot of 'Interference' problems. Back in the late 70's my Apple ][ would cause TV reception problems for the woman downstairs. I finally set it on a metal file cabinet and grounded it. She could no longer tell when I had the computer on. If I walk down my alley with my hp 4705 I get a new wireless network every few steps. One guy can't pick up his own wireless in his bedroom because the next house down's signal is so much stronger. In the long run we need to better understand the role of wireless in our society, not from a technical standpoint, but from a human one. How can we improve our circumstances while not degrading the situation of others?
When computers arrived on the scene, everyone noticed them for their potential, just as they had for radio and television, and just as they did for the internet.
It's not that the potential isn't there for any of the technologies, but humanity has a governor, just like the Briggs & Stratton on my old go kart. It's called the 'Lowest Common Denominator.' One individual can reason in a unique manner that can advance the frontiers of human understanding, while a mob is well known for its inability to reason except in the most primative manner. The more connected we become, the more LCD we are tied to. The technology is inevitably bent to the will of the masses, regardless of the vision of the few.
Properly used, a search engine has the potential to function as an intelligence amplifier, but that way requires hard work and a singular vision which reaches outside the common vision. It's so much easier to just kick back and go with the flow. But each of the things that really changed the world were brought about through the individual thoughts of one person, who eventually shared it with a small group. For lack of a better term, an outsider, separate from the common environment; but somehow capable of seeing something that no one else was able to see and to carry through and realize.
So, for the vast majority of those out there who unconsciously embrace mediocrity, being dumber is just another wave of the cool. While those of us who seek truth on a Friday night, discuss the realization of the possible. They're just a tool. They can help the smart get smarter, and the dumb to get dumber. Depending on what you were after in the first place. It is all a matter of choice.
Let's see, if it were made of Swiss cheese and landed on Switzerland it may result in an open faced toasted swiss sandwich. However this situation could be prevented if we deliver massive quantities of ham, milk and eggs to the area before and erected a gigantic dam made of flaky pastry. Emperor George Herbert Dubah Bush the III may respond to their request for aid bay saying...
I work in an environment where standards are important. However there are many opportunities where standards are outright ignored. Usually what happens is that someone (or a small group) develops an idea in advance of the standards, we've all been there. But as the 'standardization' process works its way up from local to national committees two things happen. First in the formalization process the standard becomes 'over generalized' so that the gods of intellectual pork may be appeased (each in their own mind). Second, the vendor that 'scooped up' the startup that got spun off has 'meshed' the clarity of the original idea with their 'corporate image.' By the time all that happens you need another approach in order to get where you wanted to go, and the whole process starts over again.
I'm not saying that standards are bad, but they are usually way out of synch with reality by the time they are adopted, and that they are usually watered down to appease the players rather than focused to achieve the goal.
And if the universe is really steady state after all, then the big bang and the spacetime distortions which it caused are really just a local event. Our horizon is limited by the amount of expansion the shock of our big bang caused, like the reflections on the back side of a ripple headed away from us...
Anyone have a grid with links? I'd like to see what's available by platform/OS vs language. Lately all I've been doing is LZMP, but some of these new devices have me wondering if there are any Open Source tools that can run on platforms like Windows Mobile. (Sigh) Maybe I should try and finish porting python to my smartphone first...
Here's the truth behind the rumors:
http://experts.about.com/q/2210/3098002.htm
It's not: Illegitimis non carborundum (not really latin)
It is: Noli arrogantium iniurias pati
1) It may be cost effective to the meter manufacturer to supply cables and software free of charge, but do they supply a computer? Do they send a tech to install & configure the software and hardware? It's a token response, to show that they have made the effort, but it is clearly not a workable soultion. (Think CYA)
2) If it improves the quality of the patient's life by improving the quality of healthcare then it's priceless. Any B.S. about profitability at the cost of quality of life is simply the companies method of saying "We care more about our a** than we do about yours." In which they might as well just admit what they're doing (We're only in it for the money!) and buy their way big time into the tobacco companies, which is where they belong in the first place.
My first program was written in Fortran IV (WATFOR) on an IBM 360. Punch cards, paper tape, the whole she-bang; all at the tender age of twelve.
Over the years I've used and taught on over a dozen languages, what I've seen that seems to matter most is the visual component.
I'd suggest starting them out with Notepad or GEdit, a web browser, a quick explanation of a search engine, and a couple of 'seed' links to html and javascript sites.
You would be surprised how non-trival it is just to write pong in javascript. The visual animation of the layer with the image, getting the first horizontal/vertical movement, programming for paddles, english, collision detection, scoring and storing those scores involve just about every skill necessary to understand the basics of programming. And that extensibile knowledge as opposed to 'hello world' examples, IMHO is priceless. Plan to work from a model of the desired behavior back to the code, not from the code to the behavior. Syntax, style, etc. can come later.
The problem is that you still have to address the appropriate agency, learn the location of the forms and manage to fill them out, then discover the actual location of the desk where you can hand them to some clerk who would really rather ponder how you got through the preliminaries, and how to improve them so neither you nor anyone else will ever achieve the feat again; only to have your request misplaced, mishandled, misdirected until the day when your friend drags you off to the put explaining that the end of the world is here!
What is really hurting the meters IMHO is feature creep. What I'd be interested in is the equivalent of the open-source radio. That is to day: put the mechanics on a pcmcia card, compact CF appliance, or even a modified SDIO card. Then wrap it in a really simple meter that just gives you a one shot readout. All too often, the data goes into a 'proprietary trap-door' in that the patent can get it into the meter (a major accomplishment for many) but the clinic cannot access the data because that can't afford the plethora of cables/cradles/ports and or software products to access the data and do something useful with it. Maybe it's time to have the meters all have a standards compliant infra-red connection based on HL7. Then the devices can be plugged into handhelds, laptops, or even smart phones for the convenience of the patients and still be accessible to the health care providers.
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Sure we can digitally process it, but in the next decade the digital reprocessing will evolve, probably along the lines of the neural network, so that it can make better distinctions between fine lines and scratches. If they have to make some money on the technology, let them enhance products like Media Cleaner and improve digital video for a while. Remember Ted Turner's colorized classics? It was a big thing that never really went anywhere, because in the end it just didn't look right. Don't rush it, not with the classics. Human beings spent hours on every frame of those films. It was a labor of love. Digitally detracting from that level of commitment just because they can is a poor excuse abusing and disrespecting the art.
While it's not pretty, and requires some paint now and again, steel siding could solve a lot of 'Interference' problems. Back in the late 70's my Apple ][ would cause TV reception problems for the woman downstairs. I finally set it on a metal file cabinet and grounded it. She could no longer tell when I had the computer on. If I walk down my alley with my hp 4705 I get a new wireless network every few steps. One guy can't pick up his own wireless in his bedroom because the next house down's signal is so much stronger. In the long run we need to better understand the role of wireless in our society, not from a technical standpoint, but from a human one. How can we improve our circumstances while not degrading the situation of others?
At least we can be thankful that it's coming out the chimney ...
Don't believe anything you hear, and only half of what you say."
It's not that the potential isn't there for any of the technologies, but humanity has a governor, just like the Briggs & Stratton on my old go kart. It's called the 'Lowest Common Denominator.' One individual can reason in a unique manner that can advance the frontiers of human understanding, while a mob is well known for its inability to reason except in the most primative manner. The more connected we become, the more LCD we are tied to. The technology is inevitably bent to the will of the masses, regardless of the vision of the few.
Properly used, a search engine has the potential to function as an intelligence amplifier, but that way requires hard work and a singular vision which reaches outside the common vision. It's so much easier to just kick back and go with the flow. But each of the things that really changed the world were brought about through the individual thoughts of one person, who eventually shared it with a small group. For lack of a better term, an outsider, separate from the common environment; but somehow capable of seeing something that no one else was able to see and to carry through and realize.
So, for the vast majority of those out there who unconsciously embrace mediocrity, being dumber is just another wave of the cool. While those of us who seek truth on a Friday night, discuss the realization of the possible. They're just a tool. They can help the smart get smarter, and the dumb to get dumber. Depending on what you were after in the first place. It is all a matter of choice.
And taken over key positions in government and industry, which would explain why we are being lead be dinosaurs!
Let Them Eat Quiche!
April 13, 2029 looks like it will be a Friday making it Friday the 13th. Guess it will be ok not to pay your taxes until Monday the 16th, if ever!
I'm not saying that standards are bad, but they are usually way out of synch with reality by the time they are adopted, and that they are usually watered down to appease the players rather than focused to achieve the goal.
Nothing hidden there, the ideal spoksmodel for open source. ;^)
Across the Universe - The Beatles
WarGaming: The act of hacking end user game consoles during Networked Multi-User Gaming.
As long as it does not morph into Foxtrot's MomVo!
LZMP: Linux Zope MySQL Python
Anyone have a grid with links? I'd like to see what's available by platform/OS vs language. Lately all I've been doing is LZMP, but some of these new devices have me wondering if there are any Open Source tools that can run on platforms like Windows Mobile. (Sigh) Maybe I should try and finish porting python to my smartphone first ...
http://www.cs.caltech.edu/cbsss/pdf/SniderG/Nano ArchI.ppt
No Space in 'NoArchI'
http://www.cs.caltech.edu/cbsss/pdf/SniderG/NanoAr chI.ppt
Here's the truth behind the rumors: http://experts.about.com/q/2210/3098002.htm It's not: Illegitimis non carborundum (not really latin) It is: Noli arrogantium iniurias pati
Vote with your wallett and we won't even need a 'mod' chip!
2) If it improves the quality of the patient's life by improving the quality of healthcare then it's priceless. Any B.S. about profitability at the cost of quality of life is simply the companies method of saying "We care more about our a** than we do about yours." In which they might as well just admit what they're doing (We're only in it for the money!) and buy their way big time into the tobacco companies, which is where they belong in the first place.
Over the years I've used and taught on over a dozen languages, what I've seen that seems to matter most is the visual component.
I'd suggest starting them out with Notepad or GEdit, a web browser, a quick explanation of a search engine, and a couple of 'seed' links to html and javascript sites.
You would be surprised how non-trival it is just to write pong in javascript. The visual animation of the layer with the image, getting the first horizontal/vertical movement, programming for paddles, english, collision detection, scoring and storing those scores involve just about every skill necessary to understand the basics of programming. And that extensibile knowledge as opposed to 'hello world' examples, IMHO is priceless. Plan to work from a model of the desired behavior back to the code, not from the code to the behavior. Syntax, style, etc. can come later.
So the only real change is that the hydrogen has been replaced with methane? Oh the humanity!
The problem is that you still have to address the appropriate agency, learn the location of the forms and manage to fill them out, then discover the actual location of the desk where you can hand them to some clerk who would really rather ponder how you got through the preliminaries, and how to improve them so neither you nor anyone else will ever achieve the feat again; only to have your request misplaced, mishandled, misdirected until the day when your friend drags you off to the put explaining that the end of the world is here!
What is really hurting the meters IMHO is feature creep. What I'd be interested in is the equivalent of the open-source radio. That is to day: put the mechanics on a pcmcia card, compact CF appliance, or even a modified SDIO card. Then wrap it in a really simple meter that just gives you a one shot readout. All too often, the data goes into a 'proprietary trap-door' in that the patent can get it into the meter (a major accomplishment for many) but the clinic cannot access the data because that can't afford the plethora of cables/cradles/ports and or software products to access the data and do something useful with it. Maybe it's time to have the meters all have a standards compliant infra-red connection based on HL7. Then the devices can be plugged into handhelds, laptops, or even smart phones for the convenience of the patients and still be accessible to the health care providers.
Vioxx is a temporary circumstance ... while pr0n is a permeant condition. It's like the difference between "Out for lunch" and "Out to Lunch."