The reporting requirements in H2020 funded projects are way less. Even with late FP7 projects, our POs already told us that deliverables >120pages were somewhat frowned upon as they also realized that no one reads them anyway.
Seriously: who or what interest does the state imagine it is "protecting" with this license? It isn't there for practical purposes, it's there for the purposes of intimidation and control.
The license is required to make sure dancers receive proper training and are pleasing to the eye! Imagine walking into a strip bar only to see some naked guy wobbling around his man breasts.
That's like what? Two consulting firms for a year? This is peanuts and gives you an indication of the scope they are aiming for. Let alone that the sheer fact that this is news ought to tell you something about the BND in Germany. Somewhen last year, the SCHUFA and the Hasso-Plattner institute tried to get funding to derive your credit score from your social network activity, the public outcry was deafening. Similarly, this will go nowhere or be so limited in scope as to be useless. We'll just rely on the five-eyes consortium to clue us in in the case of an emergency.
That's funny, you see I have Windows 7 in VM here on my MacBook Pro and can't stop cussing about text navigation on windows. On a Mac every text entry behaves the same: arrow keys move the cursor one character, option + arrow key moves one word, cmd + arrow key moves to the start and end of a line. It's pretty much hard-coded into my muscle memory by now and I can rely upon every text-entry behaving this way. Same with text selection via mouse: click once & keep pressed places cursor and selects characters, double click & keep pressed selects word under mouse and whole words after that, triple click for paragraphs.
It's not so much the actual interface combo but consistency that drives me mad on Windows, e.g. triple clicking in Visual Studio deselects the text-selection rather than to select the whole paragraph or line and it's different with every other application - you just cannot rely upon it!
It would be perfectly reasonable to send the SRGS grammar along with the voice data. It would even help Google with speech recognition as the search graph (assuming HMMs here), would be way smaller as opposed to those employing a full-blown dictionary grammar. Not accepting a grammar and only returning an N-Best list makes it pretty much unusable for anything non-trivial. What happened to all those concepts developed as part of EMMA/VoiceXML? It seems like the Web Speech API ignores everything that came before and went for the most naive approach.
I don't know whether this has been mentioned before, but the big problem with Google's approach is that it won't allow me to define a formal grammar as the "set of things the user might reasonably say". Dictionary recognition, as is employed here and on the Android phones, has the big disadvantage that I would need some kind of natural language understanding on the (already error-prone result) for anything but dictating text.
It is in essence a projection of voice to an N-Best list of recognition results. No if I could specify a grammar (e.g. per SRGS), I could have semantic annotation per SSML and use voice to actually control an application.
I too can't get myself to follow practices such as test-first, but I found a method that is not as ambitious, yet guarantees robust code and only few errors. Whenever I write a method, I think about what I am assuming at runtime and codify these assumptions as pre- and post-conditions at the beginning and the end of a method. These assumptions can be quite complete and I learned that I implicitly make them when writing code anyway, all I do is to write them out as assert statements. Then I devise a set of component tests that trigger different call-flows, hoping to cover a wide variety of states.
It really provides a great sense of certainty and I learned that I can skip a lot of error handling in the method by just asserting a fact. When I am confident that a function does what it is supposed to do, I recompile without debugging and the preprocessor will drop the asserts. I have made good experiences with this approach and certainty that a method does what I think it does far outweighs the additional overhead of writing the post- and pre-conditions and provides the means to keep your internal model and the actual model of the code aligned.
I didn't see it mentioned, so I'd like to make you aware of Vincenty's algorithm to calculate the geodesic distance of two geo-referenced points. It also takes the ellipsoid shape of the earth into account. It's from 1975, very compact and converges blazingly fast. I can't say if it is used in current geo-information systems, but you'd need to be better than Vincenty to improve upon the state of the art.
There is something called the "Teleabsatzgesetz" in germany (literally: law for things sold via remote medium) passed somewhen around 2002: 312 BGB ff. IANAL.
It applies to contracts you agreed to via phone, internet or on your doorstep. It grants the buyer a 14 day period to cancel the contract without providing any reason for doing so. The exception are custom made objects, explicitly crafted to the buyers specification.
If the buyer is not explicitly made aware of that fact, the 14 days may even be extended. Just return the item, ideally per "Einschreiben mit Rueckschein" (confirmed delivery) and be done with it. There have been many cases before the courts and it is not in dispute whether it is your right to do so.
I have to second this. After upgrading to a more recent version of parallels, the application would be unresponsive and spew messages about threads and timers into the logs as fast as possible, becoming plain unusable in a matter of seconds. I'd try yet a newer version, but you have to upgrade through the parallels application, which is.. not working anymore.
VMWare Fusion offers a 40EUR discount when purchasing with proof of purchase of a competing product, guess they'll get my euros next..
I would not start with writing a game from scratch, many games such as Neverwinter Nights or Tremulous or what-have-you feature a scripting environment and sometimes even an IDE. Starting to write small modules gets you nearly instant reward as you can see the results in the game and teaches the basic concepts of control flow and APIs.
Well, I just finished watching the BBC http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8817177531080616947&q=fusion&ei=Vk2DSOvOL4GeqgLZtYygCg documentation linked above and at 46:00 they clearly state that they had bubbles, but no neutrons above background radiation "at the exact moment of time the flashes appeared" - which might be another hint at the quality, but stating that they left us without results is not true. They even have a whiteboard to step through it for dramatic effect.
One of my professors called this the "truck factor" - the number of people to be struck dead without the project being discontinued. Higher numbers are better..
I am no native english speaker, but here is my attempt at an translation:
Firefox user realized, that while using the ebay search function of the browser, ebay wasnt contacted directly, but a website in switzerland.
Instead of opening the ebay search-site at:
http://search.ebay.de/search/search.dll
firefox redirects the requests to the address on the server www.webtip.ch.
Affected is the german edition of the browser, the win32 as well as the linux version. In the meantime emotions boiled up due to the assumed espionage.
The domain belongs to the metaspinner ltd. After being questioned by heise online, Christoph Berndt CEO of Metaspinner explained, that the redirection is based on a partner contract between mozilla and ebay and is tested at the moment. The earnings of the deal, of which Berndt knew no details, are supposed to be given to the Mozilla Foundation.
Metaspinner Ltd is just providing the server for the Mozilla Foundation. Berndt emphasized, that his corporation is not logging requests or ip-addresses.
In the meantime Axel Hecht from the Mozilla Foundation as well as Abdulkadir Topal, who maintains the german version of firefox spoke up.
The Foundation needs money, to pay for example the hired developers. And: "Mozilla.org or mozilla-europe receive no information conceirning the data, the user enters in the search-bar (This can be checked by anyone due to open-source)".
Who prefers to communicate with ebay directly, can just replace the following line in the ebay search plugin ebay.src:
I make images of my laptops harddisk the same way except that I use netcat to store the image on another box, so I wont need a second (larger) harddisk in the some box:
Slashdot Mirror
The reporting requirements in H2020 funded projects are way less. Even with late FP7 projects, our POs already told us that deliverables >120pages were somewhat frowned upon as they also realized that no one reads them anyway.
Seriously: who or what interest does the state imagine it is "protecting" with this license? It isn't there for practical purposes, it's there for the purposes of intimidation and control.
The license is required to make sure dancers receive proper training and are pleasing to the eye! Imagine walking into a strip bar only to see some naked guy wobbling around his man breasts.
Yes I did, and I posted a correction like 10s later - sorry about that.
If only I could read numbers ..
That's like what? Two consulting firms for a year? This is peanuts and gives you an indication of the scope they are aiming for. Let alone that the sheer fact that this is news ought to tell you something about the BND in Germany. Somewhen last year, the SCHUFA and the Hasso-Plattner institute tried to get funding to derive your credit score from your social network activity, the public outcry was deafening. Similarly, this will go nowhere or be so limited in scope as to be useless. We'll just rely on the five-eyes consortium to clue us in in the case of an emergency.
Germany introduced minimum wage of 8.5EUR like two weeks ago. There are some exemptions for minors and elderly though.
That's funny, you see I have Windows 7 in VM here on my MacBook Pro and can't stop cussing about text navigation on windows. On a Mac every text entry behaves the same: arrow keys move the cursor one character, option + arrow key moves one word, cmd + arrow key moves to the start and end of a line. It's pretty much hard-coded into my muscle memory by now and I can rely upon every text-entry behaving this way. Same with text selection via mouse: click once & keep pressed places cursor and selects characters, double click & keep pressed selects word under mouse and whole words after that, triple click for paragraphs.
It's not so much the actual interface combo but consistency that drives me mad on Windows, e.g. triple clicking in Visual Studio deselects the text-selection rather than to select the whole paragraph or line and it's different with every other application - you just cannot rely upon it!
Guess he was just unlucky then.
If there are, they are breaking the law. The cheapest drink available in a restaurant has to be non-alcoholic: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apfelsaft-Paragraph
Meant to say SISR, not SSML.
It would be perfectly reasonable to send the SRGS grammar along with the voice data. It would even help Google with speech recognition as the search graph (assuming HMMs here), would be way smaller as opposed to those employing a full-blown dictionary grammar. Not accepting a grammar and only returning an N-Best list makes it pretty much unusable for anything non-trivial. What happened to all those concepts developed as part of EMMA/VoiceXML? It seems like the Web Speech API ignores everything that came before and went for the most naive approach.
I don't know whether this has been mentioned before, but the big problem with Google's approach is that it won't allow me to define a formal grammar as the "set of things the user might reasonably say". Dictionary recognition, as is employed here and on the Android phones, has the big disadvantage that I would need some kind of natural language understanding on the (already error-prone result) for anything but dictating text.
It is in essence a projection of voice to an N-Best list of recognition results. No if I could specify a grammar (e.g. per SRGS), I could have semantic annotation per SSML and use voice to actually control an application.
They hardly contribute to the creation of new energy sources. There has been a documentary on WiSo, here is the gist of it (german sorry): http://www.dailygreen.de/2011/11/03/wiso-okostrom-anbieter-fordern-kaum-die-energiewende-in-deutschland-28318.html
I too can't get myself to follow practices such as test-first, but I found a method that is not as ambitious, yet guarantees robust code and only few errors. Whenever I write a method, I think about what I am assuming at runtime and codify these assumptions as pre- and post-conditions at the beginning and the end of a method. These assumptions can be quite complete and I learned that I implicitly make them when writing code anyway, all I do is to write them out as assert statements. Then I devise a set of component tests that trigger different call-flows, hoping to cover a wide variety of states.
It really provides a great sense of certainty and I learned that I can skip a lot of error handling in the method by just asserting a fact. When I am confident that a function does what it is supposed to do, I recompile without debugging and the preprocessor will drop the asserts. I have made good experiences with this approach and certainty that a method does what I think it does far outweighs the additional overhead of writing the post- and pre-conditions and provides the means to keep your internal model and the actual model of the code aligned.
I didn't see it mentioned, so I'd like to make you aware of Vincenty's algorithm to calculate the geodesic distance of two geo-referenced points. It also takes the ellipsoid shape of the earth into account. It's from 1975, very compact and converges blazingly fast. I can't say if it is used in current geo-information systems, but you'd need to be better than Vincenty to improve upon the state of the art.
As to suitable conferences: Have a look at the publication list of an existing geo-information research institute and try the conferences where they publish.
There is something called the "Teleabsatzgesetz" in germany (literally: law for things sold via remote medium) passed somewhen around 2002: 312 BGB ff. IANAL. It applies to contracts you agreed to via phone, internet or on your doorstep. It grants the buyer a 14 day period to cancel the contract without providing any reason for doing so. The exception are custom made objects, explicitly crafted to the buyers specification. If the buyer is not explicitly made aware of that fact, the 14 days may even be extended. Just return the item, ideally per "Einschreiben mit Rueckschein" (confirmed delivery) and be done with it. There have been many cases before the courts and it is not in dispute whether it is your right to do so.
I have to second this. After upgrading to a more recent version of parallels, the application would be unresponsive and spew messages about threads and timers into the logs as fast as possible, becoming plain unusable in a matter of seconds. I'd try yet a newer version, but you have to upgrade through the parallels application, which is .. not working anymore.
VMWare Fusion offers a 40EUR discount when purchasing with proof of purchase of a competing product, guess they'll get my euros next ..
I would not start with writing a game from scratch, many games such as Neverwinter Nights or Tremulous or what-have-you feature a scripting environment and sometimes even an IDE. Starting to write small modules gets you nearly instant reward as you can see the results in the game and teaches the basic concepts of control flow and APIs.
Well, I just finished watching the BBC http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8817177531080616947&q=fusion&ei=Vk2DSOvOL4GeqgLZtYygCg documentation linked above and at 46:00 they clearly state that they had bubbles, but no neutrons above background radiation "at the exact moment of time the flashes appeared" - which might be another hint at the quality, but stating that they left us without results is not true. They even have a whiteboard to step through it for dramatic effect.
One of my professors called this the "truck factor" - the number of people to be struck dead without the project being discontinued. Higher numbers are better ..
> I just carry mine under my hat. And take it off to open my car? You wish!
I am no native english speaker, but here is my attempt at an translation:
k er_qry_de.pl"
Firefox user realized, that while using the ebay search function of the browser, ebay wasnt contacted directly, but a website in switzerland. Instead of opening the ebay search-site at: http://search.ebay.de/search/search.dll firefox redirects the requests to the address on the server www.webtip.ch.
Affected is the german edition of the browser, the win32 as well as the linux version. In the meantime emotions boiled up due to the assumed espionage.
The domain belongs to the metaspinner ltd. After being questioned by heise online, Christoph Berndt CEO of Metaspinner explained, that the redirection is based on a partner contract between mozilla and ebay and is tested at the moment. The earnings of the deal, of which Berndt knew no details, are supposed to be given to the Mozilla Foundation. Metaspinner Ltd is just providing the server for the Mozilla Foundation. Berndt emphasized, that his corporation is not logging requests or ip-addresses.
In the meantime Axel Hecht from the Mozilla Foundation as well as Abdulkadir Topal, who maintains the german version of firefox spoke up. The Foundation needs money, to pay for example the hired developers. And: "Mozilla.org or mozilla-europe receive no information conceirning the data, the user enters in the search-bar (This can be checked by anyone due to open-source)".
Who prefers to communicate with ebay directly, can just replace the following line in the ebay search plugin ebay.src:
action="http://www.webtip.ch/cgi-bin/mozilla/trac
with
action="http://search.ebay.de/search/search.dll"
and restart firefox. The search-plugin is contained in the directory searchplugins of the Firefox programm directory.
Sure, within the countries who joined the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen_treaty
to get a new passwd if I cant think of one and store it in a gpg encrypted file on a (rather) secure location until I can remember it