Make every user send $1 to verify that they are real. Not a big deal for real users, but for spammers, it could get expensive. I know that there are techniques that could be useful for automatically identification of potential spammers; accounts could be checked by hand and offenders canceled.
..and he says that's what the Marines are. But really, the DoD does fund a lot of machine learning; however, the current state of the art only allows machine to solve specific problems. You need a traning metric, etc. and that's not trivial.
In the article he says that he has a family plan where he gets a second "family plan" phone for $10/month, certainly not as expensive as a second plan.
Even though it isn't the core of the article, the Cell+Cell+IPDrum+Skype idea is more about circumvention than savings. Dividing it up: (1) Adobe is powerful. (2) The way phone companies work not only is changing but must change. Now, I thought both of those things were obvious.
I've heard (from a Russian professor) that there is a hotdog stand in the center of the Pentagon and that during the Cold War, the Russians had it targeted because they thought it was the entrance to where the Yankees held all the secret meetings, far underground.
That's why I listen to Garrison Keillor on Saturday nights. As for the Onion, I did get kind of turned off when they started charging for their archive, but they already had in-your-face-annoying adverts by that time. This futurist one is kind of entertaining, though.
IBM actually started out as a government contractor called the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company about 100 years ago, give or take; they took care of the US Census, and their big thing is whole solutions. Microsoft started out as a marketing scheme for QuickBasic. They don't sell full blown solutions, they sell more general software platforms. Sometimes they dabble in consumer hardware, but a platform provider is very different than a solution provider, and I think IBM will be around in it's current state long after this whole OS fiasco settles down.
I've always found it kind of offensive when people say, "Oh, Computer Science: can you fix my computer?" No, I don't fix computers. I (personally) write tools for software analysis and machine learning. A lot of the people in my department work on graphics or networks or security. We aren't sysadmins.
Really, as a master of computer science, a good place to go is into R&D at national labs. They're almost always hiring. (Or Google.)
Unfortunately, we don't get to do fine adjustments on the wiring. Bigger is better if you are having random environmental influences affect the networks because there is more wiggle room. Take out one section of a small, nicely wired network, and you're sucking applesauce through an IV. Blow a railway tie through your massive, loosely wired forebrain, and you just lose your personality.
..if there is a strong interface, you don't learn much about the underlying implementation. But hardware isn't always like that: we get thin interfaces that do tell us about the design descisions the company made.
I think what Councilor Hart means (correct me if I'm wrong) is that they don't take just any parts and shove them in a box. They do quality control, old school; think SUN. They do integration and make sure it works before they ship it. That's a lot different than getting a PC and installing software and hoping the vendor followed the interface specs. Sometimes they don't. Apple makes the specs, they make sure the drivers drive.
First, Linux From Scratch has been around a long time. Back when I first started using GNU/Linux, I had RedHat installed because I recognized the name. I soon decided that I wanted something that I knew worked because the programs were compiled together, the way they were meant to be. Enter LFS. But if you've ever set up a system (especially a slow system) from scratch, it is kind of painful. My laptop was an LFS system because nothing else worked right with the hardware. But Gentoo is really not a bad solution: you get the flexibility, but all the hard, painful work is done. No more looking for hundreds of package updates, no more hand checking dependencies. LFS is a good deal for systems that are tied to very specific applications, and I learned quite a bit about the layout of the system, so I encourage everyone to take a look at LFS. But for oft used systems, it's more of a hassle than it's worth.
My Linux box is. It's running on 200 days of uptime, and that's only because I moved. As for oxygen, they have it. They're just not generating it. Really, they don't need to: it gets shipped up there regularly.
First, your links are messed up. That's what preview is for. Second, the statement is misleading. Yes, Microsoft.com has less traffic than Google.com. BUT it's only in the number 3 spot, as per Alexa: Yahoo is #1 and MSN is #2. Those sites are at about 300,000 and 280,000 million hits, but Google is down around 200,000.
Prof. Matlof is an excellent professor. I know from experience. He has a handle on the essense of what it means to be a Computer Scientist. (If only more students could deep copy that.)
Shouldn't those sites be using the NoCache directive and shouldn't Google be honoring it? I wonder which side is at fault.
At any rate, fears about information leakage are kind of silly because of the volume of traffic that Google services. The accelerator allows them to see link patterns, but no one could store, let alone process, an entire day's worth of data after the fact. The same is true for Google Mail: no person ever sees your email; an algorithm does, and tailors simple, pertinent advertising in exchange for an otherwise free service.
The accelerator can only make the search engine better for everyone. Anyone that uses it is giving back, contributing to the synergistic knowledge of Google.
I think they're probably just trying to use a better ranking system, namely the one where users actually click on things. It's one thing to know which pages link to which, but if you know which links are actually used you can better optimize a search engine. I talked to Rob Pike about this after a talk he gave for my graduate group and this is what he seemed to indicate. (Not that he said anything explicitly.) The goal of Google, of course, is to make the world's information readily accessable; "don't be evil" are just guide lines. This is the same sort of FUD that popped up when they started Gmail.
Other interesting species: whiptail lizards are all female and repoduce by virgin birth. However, they engage in "sexual rituals." Lizards take turn pretending to be the "male" and stimulate the "female" to induce egg laying.
..that had a 2 part final. One part was paper, the other was an essay. The professor walked out on stage for the essay, put a chair down, and said, "Prove this chair doesn't exist." One person wrote two words, got up, and walked away. This person passed, but all subsequent tests have a disclaimer that the answer no longer sufices: "What chair?"
Or at least that's how I heard the story, from a person that claimed to have been in the class afterwards..
You're just jealious because you didn't write a book, which, on every page, says "I did this, I'm so smart." Also, you don't look like George Costanza.
But seriously, you're right that Wolfram's book read more like a reference than anything really innovative. It's not a new kind of science either: because it's not even a new kind of mathematics. His pictures are just more complex (and glossy) than everyone else's. Still, the book is useful as a primer for the neophyte.
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Make every user send $1 to verify that they are real. Not a big deal for real users, but for spammers, it could get expensive. I know that there are techniques that could be useful for automatically identification of potential spammers; accounts could be checked by hand and offenders canceled.
Every laptop I've ever had has a CMOS battery in it. I've even pulled a couple of them out when the BIOS froze. (Don't tell Compaq!)
..and he says that's what the Marines are. But really, the DoD does fund a lot of machine learning; however, the current state of the art only allows machine to solve specific problems. You need a traning metric, etc. and that's not trivial.
In the article he says that he has a family plan where he gets a second "family plan" phone for $10/month, certainly not as expensive as a second plan.
Even though it isn't the core of the article, the Cell+Cell+IPDrum+Skype idea is more about circumvention than savings. Dividing it up: (1) Adobe is powerful. (2) The way phone companies work not only is changing but must change. Now, I thought both of those things were obvious.
I've heard (from a Russian professor) that there is a hotdog stand in the center of the Pentagon and that during the Cold War, the Russians had it targeted because they thought it was the entrance to where the Yankees held all the secret meetings, far underground.
That's why I listen to Garrison Keillor on Saturday nights. As for the Onion, I did get kind of turned off when they started charging for their archive, but they already had in-your-face-annoying adverts by that time. This futurist one is kind of entertaining, though.
IBM actually started out as a government contractor called the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company about 100 years ago, give or take; they took care of the US Census, and their big thing is whole solutions. Microsoft started out as a marketing scheme for QuickBasic. They don't sell full blown solutions, they sell more general software platforms. Sometimes they dabble in consumer hardware, but a platform provider is very different than a solution provider, and I think IBM will be around in it's current state long after this whole OS fiasco settles down.
Really, as a master of computer science, a good place to go is into R&D at national labs. They're almost always hiring. (Or Google.)
Unfortunately, we don't get to do fine adjustments on the wiring. Bigger is better if you are having random environmental influences affect the networks because there is more wiggle room. Take out one section of a small, nicely wired network, and you're sucking applesauce through an IV. Blow a railway tie through your massive, loosely wired forebrain, and you just lose your personality.
I just got my Master of Science in Computer Science; and am thinking it might not be a bad idea to walk right back into that Ivory Tower.
..if there is a strong interface, you don't learn much about the underlying implementation. But hardware isn't always like that: we get thin interfaces that do tell us about the design descisions the company made.
I think what Councilor Hart means (correct me if I'm wrong) is that they don't take just any parts and shove them in a box. They do quality control, old school; think SUN. They do integration and make sure it works before they ship it. That's a lot different than getting a PC and installing software and hoping the vendor followed the interface specs. Sometimes they don't. Apple makes the specs, they make sure the drivers drive.
Really, the pain is what tells me I've been at the computer too long.
First, Linux From Scratch has been around a long time. Back when I first started using GNU/Linux, I had RedHat installed because I recognized the name. I soon decided that I wanted something that I knew worked because the programs were compiled together, the way they were meant to be. Enter LFS. But if you've ever set up a system (especially a slow system) from scratch, it is kind of painful. My laptop was an LFS system because nothing else worked right with the hardware. But Gentoo is really not a bad solution: you get the flexibility, but all the hard, painful work is done. No more looking for hundreds of package updates, no more hand checking dependencies. LFS is a good deal for systems that are tied to very specific applications, and I learned quite a bit about the layout of the system, so I encourage everyone to take a look at LFS. But for oft used systems, it's more of a hassle than it's worth.
..before it finds the machine planet, and begins the long journey home.
My Linux box is. It's running on 200 days of uptime, and that's only because I moved. As for oxygen, they have it. They're just not generating it. Really, they don't need to: it gets shipped up there regularly.
Interestingly, a new survey done by www.windowsupdate.com shows that 99% of the hits come from Internet Explorer.
First, your links are messed up. That's what preview is for. Second, the statement is misleading. Yes, Microsoft.com has less traffic than Google.com. BUT it's only in the number 3 spot, as per Alexa: Yahoo is #1 and MSN is #2. Those sites are at about 300,000 and 280,000 million hits, but Google is down around 200,000.
Prof. Matlof is an excellent professor. I know from experience. He has a handle on the essense of what it means to be a Computer Scientist. (If only more students could deep copy that.)
Shouldn't those sites be using the NoCache directive and shouldn't Google be honoring it? I wonder which side is at fault. At any rate, fears about information leakage are kind of silly because of the volume of traffic that Google services. The accelerator allows them to see link patterns, but no one could store, let alone process, an entire day's worth of data after the fact. The same is true for Google Mail: no person ever sees your email; an algorithm does, and tailors simple, pertinent advertising in exchange for an otherwise free service. The accelerator can only make the search engine better for everyone. Anyone that uses it is giving back, contributing to the synergistic knowledge of Google.
I think they're probably just trying to use a better ranking system, namely the one where users actually click on things. It's one thing to know which pages link to which, but if you know which links are actually used you can better optimize a search engine. I talked to Rob Pike about this after a talk he gave for my graduate group and this is what he seemed to indicate. (Not that he said anything explicitly.) The goal of Google, of course, is to make the world's information readily accessable; "don't be evil" are just guide lines. This is the same sort of FUD that popped up when they started Gmail.
Other interesting species: whiptail lizards are all female and repoduce by virgin birth. However, they engage in "sexual rituals." Lizards take turn pretending to be the "male" and stimulate the "female" to induce egg laying.
Or at least that's how I heard the story, from a person that claimed to have been in the class afterwards..
But seriously, you're right that Wolfram's book read more like a reference than anything really innovative. It's not a new kind of science either: because it's not even a new kind of mathematics. His pictures are just more complex (and glossy) than everyone else's. Still, the book is useful as a primer for the neophyte.