Is there no gossip among mathematicians whether this proof is worth careful review? I can't see any comments from anyone who is versed in this subject.
I have got to say that if this is really happening I am reasonably sure that the victim would have a case for unreasonable failure to settle, for which a Utah jury awarded more than $200 million a couple of years ago in a case that involved more damage. Some lawyers will make serious money on these cases.
It works fine if you don't put binary stuff in it. Microsoft got on the committee, put all kinds of useless extensions into the standard, that are unnecessary to communication. If you use them they make the document more compute intensive to process. You don't have to use them, however.
Who ultimately cares about speed? In five years apparently we will all have desktops with 16 cores, practically unlimited disk storage, etc. etc. and we will see this kind of discussion as irrelevant.
Is this algorithm of interest to biologists who are working on how information is stored in brains? It seems likely to me that this could be interesting for that type of research.
I noted yesterday that Open Office Org 2 is going to use the Oasis file format rather than the current format. I found further that Microsoft is a contributor to the Oasis format.
This format reminds me of what has happened to XML now that entities like Microsoft are contributing. While you can still make your way through the tangled details of the specifications, and arguably it is worth the trouble to support unicode, a big part of the difficulty, for some people at least (me) is that it is hardly worth the trouble. And when Microsoft programs generate XML, the goal of plain language is completely obscured.
I was trying to explain to my partner about how vcards are generated. I reviewed the documents on the website (imc.org/pdi). The vcard standards are difficult to understand. Finally I just made one up in a text editor and gave it to him to look at. He was amazed at how simple it was.
One danger of letting Microsoft into the conversation is that they will complicate everything to the point that no one can understand it without their programming environments, maybe even with their programming environments.
I think it is worth repeating that this tax would apply to all hard disks as well as Ipods if the hard disks are capable of being installed in a machine that can run an MP3 decoder.
So a $30 thumb drive with 256 mb would cost $1.08, but a 200 gig hard drive would run an additional $860 in tax.
I can load 128 mb on my thumb drive. I got it for Christmas and have no idea how much it cost, but because my kids gave it to me, it must have been reasonable.
I have installed Open Office.org from it and routinely haul things around bigger than 12 mb.
If you really want to continue using floppies, you could get a usb floppy drive. They only cost about 50 bucks and seem to work all right.
I concur with the idea of translating speech into phonemes, but perhaps it might be easier to do a neural network of some kind.
There was a time when it was thought that Naturally Speaking would run much better on a special purpose unit that had an especially good graphics card, installed in a separate enclosure with isolation from all the RF noise created by the high frequency activities on a regular PC motherboard.
I haven't tested it recently, so I don't know if the additional processing power available from 2+ GHz processors and fast buses are any better than the old 500 mhz machine I used to run it on. My old machine could never get much better than a 20 on the built-in signal to noise checker that comes with the software.
Another problem I had then was that the learning algorithm software seemed to get loaded up with too much information after about a page and the accuracy of the transcription would fall off. This is another thing that I would like to check one of these days. I was worried that if you didn't reboot the package frequently it would fail because its data collection efforts would become overloaded with data.
Interestingly enough almost none of the comments on this thread are modded high enough to be visible at the setting I am running.
Can't Microsoft just run Virtual PC over Darwin/BSD on the Cell? This might actually be why MS bought Virtual PC. I am assuming that Darwin would be relatively easy to port because of the Power PC connection of the Cell, and in turn Virtual PC would enable you to continue to run the Windows apps that are compatible with Virtual PC, which is a fair number of them.
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Is there no gossip among mathematicians whether this proof is worth careful review? I can't see any comments from anyone who is versed in this subject.
This is the first I realized I could get away with something. I am a chimera (my thumbs look different)
I have got to say that if this is really happening I am reasonably sure that the victim would have a case for unreasonable failure to settle, for which a Utah jury awarded more than $200 million a couple of years ago in a case that involved more damage. Some lawyers will make serious money on these cases.
It works fine if you don't put binary stuff in it. Microsoft got on the committee, put all kinds of useless extensions into the standard, that are unnecessary to communication. If you use them they make the document more compute intensive to process. You don't have to use them, however. Who ultimately cares about speed? In five years apparently we will all have desktops with 16 cores, practically unlimited disk storage, etc. etc. and we will see this kind of discussion as irrelevant.
Is this algorithm of interest to biologists who are working on how information is stored in brains? It seems likely to me that this could be interesting for that type of research.
I presume the DC Circuit has nationwide jurisdiction in this type of ruling?
This format reminds me of what has happened to XML now that entities like Microsoft are contributing. While you can still make your way through the tangled details of the specifications, and arguably it is worth the trouble to support unicode, a big part of the difficulty, for some people at least (me) is that it is hardly worth the trouble. And when Microsoft programs generate XML, the goal of plain language is completely obscured.
I was trying to explain to my partner about how vcards are generated. I reviewed the documents on the website (imc.org/pdi). The vcard standards are difficult to understand. Finally I just made one up in a text editor and gave it to him to look at. He was amazed at how simple it was.
One danger of letting Microsoft into the conversation is that they will complicate everything to the point that no one can understand it without their programming environments, maybe even with their programming environments.
I think it is worth repeating that this tax would apply to all hard disks as well as Ipods if the hard disks are capable of being installed in a machine that can run an MP3 decoder. So a $30 thumb drive with 256 mb would cost $1.08, but a 200 gig hard drive would run an additional $860 in tax.
I can load 128 mb on my thumb drive. I got it for Christmas and have no idea how much it cost, but because my kids gave it to me, it must have been reasonable. I have installed Open Office.org from it and routinely haul things around bigger than 12 mb. If you really want to continue using floppies, you could get a usb floppy drive. They only cost about 50 bucks and seem to work all right.
"graphics" was a brain cramp--I meant sound card
I concur with the idea of translating speech into phonemes, but perhaps it might be easier to do a neural network of some kind.
There was a time when it was thought that Naturally Speaking would run much better on a special purpose unit that had an especially good graphics card, installed in a separate enclosure with isolation from all the RF noise created by the high frequency activities on a regular PC motherboard.
I haven't tested it recently, so I don't know if the additional processing power available from 2+ GHz processors and fast buses are any better than the old 500 mhz machine I used to run it on. My old machine could never get much better than a 20 on the built-in signal to noise checker that comes with the software.
Another problem I had then was that the learning algorithm software seemed to get loaded up with too much information after about a page and the accuracy of the transcription would fall off. This is another thing that I would like to check one of these days. I was worried that if you didn't reboot the package frequently it would fail because its data collection efforts would become overloaded with data.
Interestingly enough almost none of the comments on this thread are modded high enough to be visible at the setting I am running.
Can't Microsoft just run Virtual PC over Darwin/BSD on the Cell? This might actually be why MS bought Virtual PC. I am assuming that Darwin would be relatively easy to port because of the Power PC connection of the Cell, and in turn Virtual PC would enable you to continue to run the Windows apps that are compatible with Virtual PC, which is a fair number of them.