...which I guess goes back to the point made earlier about dental health not being seen as a major health issue. Still, my point really was meant to apply to all healthcare.
10baseT has a feature that's important here - the connectors have retention latches, and don't fall out. USB does not latch, which is a showstopper in an industrial or vehicle environment.
Hot glue is always a good solution to that sort of thing. Holds better than those little tabs on the RJ connectors too. (Please excuse me if this is painfully obvious; it seems insightful/informative to me because it's early in the morning.)
If you saw any of the zune V1 adverts, I think you'll agree they were just plain weird - Apple's promotion of (ahem) a *music* player was to show people enjoying their music. Microsoft's approach should be a case-study in how not to market stuff
Does this really surprise you that much though? I mean . . . Microsoft's not really that well known for their great advertising, but Apple definitely is. Did anyone else see those "The Wow starts now!" banners all over Clark and Lake station here in Chicago? That made my morning commute seriously more depressing than otherwise....
A quick glance at Wikipedia indicates that the LP was invented around 1954. I've only about a dozen or so 78s among about 5,000 or so LPs, and they're all the bakelite kind, early 40s or so. Good ones are hard to come by, but totally worthwhile because most of the ones I've found are classical recordings. Try listening to Toccata and Fugue in D on a 78rpm record through really good headphones and tell me that isn't heavenly!
No I get it. I just wish I had something I could suggest to you other than chill the fsck out and maybe smoke some pot and that'll clear right up. Or, you know, maybe figure out why music is getting louder and do something about it. I've always seen the audiophile population of slashdot as a pretty active group here, but I don't know if this is the right venue for you to vent your frustration about the changing values of music production. It's driven by the majority of consumers, and you and I are not the majority. So while I can sympathize with both sides of the issue, I just think you're overreacting over there.
ResidntGeek is totally right. I listen to my music through superb headphones or earbuds, depending on where I am, and from various media (78rpm vinyl, LPs, EPs, CDs, MP3s, lossless), but really it's the music itself that moves me. Production quality is very important to me, yes, but it takes a back seat to the actual quality of the music and the skill of its players. When you're listening to music, are you really so stuck up that you look at it like a science rather than an experience of someone else's art? Though to a certain extent I'm the same way about my sound, I still pity you if that's how you feel about music.
pfffft! fsck lossless. I'll stick with my 78s thankyouverymuch!
Seriously though. I feel ya on the high dynamic range thing, but the cold hard fact of the matter is that I'm not the one who's expecting anyone else here to give a toss. I listen to the music that counts on 78rpm vinyl, lossless digital, or even reel-to-reel if you catch me in a weird enough mood (I'm young, yes, but I own the better part of 5K records). For 95% of my library it just doesn't matter that much to me and I'd rather take a truck-full of CDs in my pocket than hear 100% of the sound when I'm on the train anyway.
Just need to find the seed and algorithm for the randomness... unless they've got particle emissions from a nuclear isotope driving it. The other option is to just randomize terrorism strategies and hope for the best. They have enough people and money, if I'm to believe the powers that be, that they could just flood whatever target they wanted. Not such a great strategy if you're looking to retain your troops though.
Also, what if the security breach you find is not covered by any of the randomized routines?
I can positively say that health care is NOT recession proof.
It could be if we get that whole national healthcare system going here in the States like it is everywhere else in the developed world (and in Cuba).... You'd get a steady paycheque and no child would suffer a cavity without adequate treatment.
Lemme just step in right here. I don't think he's being a dickhead for the sake of being a dickhead. You're talking about two systems that purportedly do the same thing, but one of them is ridiculously flexible where the other one will only work on certain hardware, one is free whereas the other costs money, one is maintained by a vigilant community that fixes bugs quickly most of the time and the other one is maintained by an entrenched monopoly with no reason to improve itself. Also, in my own experience IIS has a number of other limitations, most notably for me being that it's a royal pain in the ass to get any non-MS scripting languages to run on it. At my old job the IT department was very capable, and with my linux server downstairs everything was pretty easy; with the IIS server it would take days to get a simple module added on to the install of perl.
Really, if you're the one who's making buying decisions, why is it that management higher than you makes the buying decisions? All of your reasons you've described are all problems that can happen on an IIS server just as easily as an Apache server. By your rationale why is it not that they would fire you if your IIS system failed? Is it because they know that IIS sucks and they're willing to give it a larger tolerance? Well that's just stupid....
And seriously. It's not hubris. It's that Apache really has proven itself to be a superiour software. More people around the world are using it than anything else, IIS included, because it works and people trust it, and they don't trust IIS. I think either you're just weak or scared or incompetent, or you're not really in the position you claim to be, making your buying decisions.
One more thing: this is slashdot, and you picked a fight with someone whose UID is nearly a thousand times smaller than yours... you were just asking to get burned....
I feel like I've gotta be among the youngest people here who owns and uses more than one slide rule (that's right; I'm 24). Mine were all garage sale acquisitions. I do know that it's kind of pointless to have a slide rule for addition. The whole point of the logarithmic scale is that addition = multiplication. My philosophy was always that a slide rule for addition would basically be useless because it'd be just as easy to perform the addition in your head. It'd be just a linear scale though if that's how you wanted to roll I guess. Addition with only three significant figures though? Yecch!
I am not exaggerating when I say that automatic translation from extremely dissimilar languages requires strong AI.
I never said you were! Everybody seems to be misinterpreting my optimism—which I think is well-placed since artificial intelligence was my specialization and a significant part of what I did in college. I never said that it would be easy in today's terms, but those terms keep changing rapidly and our computation power is moving at a faster than exponential rate. I don't really think that, given that, I can reasonably agree that we won't have this kind of context-sensitive AI in the next few years.
On the other hand, you really don't need to skip your medication to imagine an automated translator for complete documents from Japanese to English. The lack of context from sentence to sentence could be resolved the same way that humans resolve it, and it wouldn't require your AI to see what the humans are seeing or anything like that.
I dunno. The more I look at the world and the way it's changing the more optimistic I get about things like this.
What the grandparent post is saying is that you might not have a full sentence, nor might a full sentence even provide sufficient information to perform the translation accurately. If Japanese and English were so easy to translate back and forth, don't you think that humans would have an easier time of it?
The method of analyzing bilingual pages is great for languages that have a similar structure to one another, like italian and spanish. In fact, this is part of how I learned spanish, by reading a bilingual copy of Don Quixote in high school. Slightly botching a translation from Spanish to English or vice versa might so much as raise an eyebrow briefly, but translating between Japanese and English requires an intimate knowledge of both languages. I do think that it will be possible with natural language processing systems in the near future (think less than a decade) but, no question, we're not that close right now. These guys saying that the technology won't be here within their lifetime have to be ancient or just forgetting how rapidly the pace at which technology accelerates has been increasing of late. How long ago was it that this here "Internet" only had a few hundred nodes?
Someone gave an existing phenomenon a name? New names for things are good for marketing. I should know; I'm in marketing, to the extent that my soul can take the abuse.
So what is "Web 2.0" if not Ajax etc.? Is it a phase, a trend?
A lot of the hallmarks of Web 2.0 that people list off are really just inevitable consequences of the maturing of the internet. These are things like AJAX and social networking. I don't think those really count as new things since, as you pointed out, they've been around for a while. I see Web 2.0 as being more things like Google Earth, where it is the spontaneous collaboration of anonymous individuals that produces more and more layers of metadata to the existing information of our world. While sites like MySpace are social, they don't really leverage the social network as a means of computation. Humans, and in particular large groups of humans, are very good at categorizing and arranging information in ways that make sense to them as a collective. That's the kind of thing that can really happen with Web 2.0, and it's not a consequence of technology, it's not AJAX, it's not social networking per sé; it's merely an inevitable result of more people getting online.
So, yeah, I think a lot of what's going on here is hype, but people are trying—and failing—to describe a phenomenon they're seeing that intuitively really is something different than what was going on before.
Ok..so anything that isn't in a pretty, professional package...is considered a possible bomb?
I don't think that's the issue. No matter what level of paranoia works for you as your personal preference, you have to admit that it'd be better for them just to be sure. It wasn't a good idea for her not to respond to questions about it, for one thing. Whether you yourself agree with it or not, the cold hard fact of the matter is that airport security and airport employees here in the US of A are a little edgy. Many of them carry guns (remember those troops in airports with assault rifles after 9/11? those guys looked harsh!). I think it's ridiculous that things have gotten this way but this is the way they are right now; it's best not to poke the bear. Know what I'm sayin'?
I think someone wearing a bomb, wanting to get in as far as possible, would NOT be wearing the mechanism on the outside of their clothing, advertising it for a guard to see....
I'm glad you had the good sense to preface that with "I think" because it's not fact. There are many more people milling about those extra long lines at airports (even in the security line; how ironic would THAT be!) than there are in an actual airplane. What if a terrorist's goal were to be to blow him/her self up in the ticketing area? You can speculate all you want and that's what/. is good for, but you don't know and neither do security guards. Again, it's best not to poke the bear.
if it doesn't look like a hand fabbed piece of electronic equipment, they probably aren't gonna get stopped at gunpoint for wearing a bomb.
Don't be so sure....
Much like the Boston stunt with the Aqua force whatever team signs....this is horrible overreaction.
The Aqua Teen Hunger Force incident in Boston was hilarious... I think the reason why the authorities couldn't just admit that they were wrong was because it caused such a stir and because it sucked up so many police resources. I'm personally of the opinion that Boston was a HUGE overreaction and that they should've just been like "My bad..." but that was then, this is now. While I do agree with you that in this particular case the police should be able to admit that they made a mistake, so should she. Leave your tech art clothes in your checked luggage, 'cause everybody knows bombs are never ever allowed into the cargo hold of a plane (*rolls eyes*).
am I the ONLY one that did not become overly paranoid about terrorists coming to blow me up?
I promise you you're not. The terror threat level, the slow-ass airport security, the craziness, the fact that any time I buy a one-way ticket somewhere I get searched, the fact that I spent a year on a watchlist when a clearly defective machine detected trace levels of TNT on my hippie sandals, is all crazy to me, and I'm sick of it. But that doesn't mean that I think it's a good time to wear my futuristic sex robot halloween costume to the airport. Thank you and goodnight!
Were you thinking of non-parallel skewed lines? These would be lines which are not parallel because the perpendicular distance between them is variant over their length, but which are not coplanar, and I believe must be members of parallel planes, so necessarily do not intersect.
Two lines can't really be colinear without being the same line. Not in euclidean geometry anyway (and actually, now that I think of it, not in more exotic geometrical systems either).
If two lines describe the same set of points, though, and you're calling them two separate lines, they would necessarily also be parallel even as they intersect one another throughout their entire length. Consider a definition of "parallel" meaning the perpendicular distance between the two lines is constant throughout their length.
I really hope I don't get modded (-1, Pedantic) for this one....
As for false positives, it isn't likely to be a problem. The stuff shows who the likely people are not who the person is. If you have a legitimate reason for the chemicals on you, you get to go. If you don't, then they look to see why you have it.
Funny story... once I got put on a watch list for having trace amounts of TNT on one of my sandals. We're talking old worn-in dirty hippie leather sandals here . . . with trace amounts of TNT on them. Someone at some point probably thought the same exact thing about the little machine that sniffs around your stuff at the airport, but what happened to me is that I had absolutely no clue whatsoever how the TNT got on my sandals, much less a legitimate reason for it.
I don't think anyone's pissed off about any technology that can effectively screen out potential terrorists. I think a lot of us are just really tired of being immediately suspected of committing a crime the second we walk into that security checkpoint at the airport. And for those of us who have gone a step further and been singled out for something asinine, then spent twelve months on a make-it-hard-for-this-person-to-fly list, I think we're probably even more pissed off. I can't know for sure though; it's not like these lists are public.
That's actually why I started putting a space between mine. Like : D. Works okay and IM clients don't screw it up too bad. Of course now I just have Adium with smilies that I designed myself and I likes them.
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...which I guess goes back to the point made earlier about dental health not being seen as a major health issue. Still, my point really was meant to apply to all healthcare.
No! He should use a blackbeard system! Arr!
Hot glue is always a good solution to that sort of thing. Holds better than those little tabs on the RJ connectors too. (Please excuse me if this is painfully obvious; it seems insightful/informative to me because it's early in the morning.)
Was it really necessary to tag this both "nerdgasm" and "blastoff"???
Does this really surprise you that much though? I mean . . . Microsoft's not really that well known for their great advertising, but Apple definitely is. Did anyone else see those "The Wow starts now!" banners all over Clark and Lake station here in Chicago? That made my morning commute seriously more depressing than otherwise....
A quick glance at Wikipedia indicates that the LP was invented around 1954. I've only about a dozen or so 78s among about 5,000 or so LPs, and they're all the bakelite kind, early 40s or so. Good ones are hard to come by, but totally worthwhile because most of the ones I've found are classical recordings. Try listening to Toccata and Fugue in D on a 78rpm record through really good headphones and tell me that isn't heavenly!
No I get it. I just wish I had something I could suggest to you other than chill the fsck out and maybe smoke some pot and that'll clear right up. Or, you know, maybe figure out why music is getting louder and do something about it. I've always seen the audiophile population of slashdot as a pretty active group here, but I don't know if this is the right venue for you to vent your frustration about the changing values of music production. It's driven by the majority of consumers, and you and I are not the majority. So while I can sympathize with both sides of the issue, I just think you're overreacting over there.
ResidntGeek is totally right. I listen to my music through superb headphones or earbuds, depending on where I am, and from various media (78rpm vinyl, LPs, EPs, CDs, MP3s, lossless), but really it's the music itself that moves me. Production quality is very important to me, yes, but it takes a back seat to the actual quality of the music and the skill of its players. When you're listening to music, are you really so stuck up that you look at it like a science rather than an experience of someone else's art? Though to a certain extent I'm the same way about my sound, I still pity you if that's how you feel about music.
pfffft! fsck lossless. I'll stick with my 78s thankyouverymuch!
Seriously though. I feel ya on the high dynamic range thing, but the cold hard fact of the matter is that I'm not the one who's expecting anyone else here to give a toss. I listen to the music that counts on 78rpm vinyl, lossless digital, or even reel-to-reel if you catch me in a weird enough mood (I'm young, yes, but I own the better part of 5K records). For 95% of my library it just doesn't matter that much to me and I'd rather take a truck-full of CDs in my pocket than hear 100% of the sound when I'm on the train anyway.
Just need to find the seed and algorithm for the randomness... unless they've got particle emissions from a nuclear isotope driving it. The other option is to just randomize terrorism strategies and hope for the best. They have enough people and money, if I'm to believe the powers that be, that they could just flood whatever target they wanted. Not such a great strategy if you're looking to retain your troops though.
Also, what if the security breach you find is not covered by any of the randomized routines?
It could be if we get that whole national healthcare system going here in the States like it is everywhere else in the developed world (and in Cuba).... You'd get a steady paycheque and no child would suffer a cavity without adequate treatment.
Lemme just step in right here. I don't think he's being a dickhead for the sake of being a dickhead. You're talking about two systems that purportedly do the same thing, but one of them is ridiculously flexible where the other one will only work on certain hardware, one is free whereas the other costs money, one is maintained by a vigilant community that fixes bugs quickly most of the time and the other one is maintained by an entrenched monopoly with no reason to improve itself. Also, in my own experience IIS has a number of other limitations, most notably for me being that it's a royal pain in the ass to get any non-MS scripting languages to run on it. At my old job the IT department was very capable, and with my linux server downstairs everything was pretty easy; with the IIS server it would take days to get a simple module added on to the install of perl.
Really, if you're the one who's making buying decisions, why is it that management higher than you makes the buying decisions? All of your reasons you've described are all problems that can happen on an IIS server just as easily as an Apache server. By your rationale why is it not that they would fire you if your IIS system failed? Is it because they know that IIS sucks and they're willing to give it a larger tolerance? Well that's just stupid....
And seriously. It's not hubris. It's that Apache really has proven itself to be a superiour software. More people around the world are using it than anything else, IIS included, because it works and people trust it, and they don't trust IIS. I think either you're just weak or scared or incompetent, or you're not really in the position you claim to be, making your buying decisions.
One more thing: this is slashdot, and you picked a fight with someone whose UID is nearly a thousand times smaller than yours... you were just asking to get burned....
I feel like I've gotta be among the youngest people here who owns and uses more than one slide rule (that's right; I'm 24). Mine were all garage sale acquisitions. I do know that it's kind of pointless to have a slide rule for addition. The whole point of the logarithmic scale is that addition = multiplication. My philosophy was always that a slide rule for addition would basically be useless because it'd be just as easy to perform the addition in your head. It'd be just a linear scale though if that's how you wanted to roll I guess. Addition with only three significant figures though? Yecch!
I never said you were! Everybody seems to be misinterpreting my optimism—which I think is well-placed since artificial intelligence was my specialization and a significant part of what I did in college. I never said that it would be easy in today's terms, but those terms keep changing rapidly and our computation power is moving at a faster than exponential rate. I don't really think that, given that, I can reasonably agree that we won't have this kind of context-sensitive AI in the next few years.
On the other hand, you really don't need to skip your medication to imagine an automated translator for complete documents from Japanese to English. The lack of context from sentence to sentence could be resolved the same way that humans resolve it, and it wouldn't require your AI to see what the humans are seeing or anything like that.
I dunno. The more I look at the world and the way it's changing the more optimistic I get about things like this.
What the grandparent post is saying is that you might not have a full sentence, nor might a full sentence even provide sufficient information to perform the translation accurately. If Japanese and English were so easy to translate back and forth, don't you think that humans would have an easier time of it?
The method of analyzing bilingual pages is great for languages that have a similar structure to one another, like italian and spanish. In fact, this is part of how I learned spanish, by reading a bilingual copy of Don Quixote in high school. Slightly botching a translation from Spanish to English or vice versa might so much as raise an eyebrow briefly, but translating between Japanese and English requires an intimate knowledge of both languages. I do think that it will be possible with natural language processing systems in the near future (think less than a decade) but, no question, we're not that close right now. These guys saying that the technology won't be here within their lifetime have to be ancient or just forgetting how rapidly the pace at which technology accelerates has been increasing of late. How long ago was it that this here "Internet" only had a few hundred nodes?
I thought that sleep was where Ralph is a Viking....
Someone gave an existing phenomenon a name? New names for things are good for marketing. I should know; I'm in marketing, to the extent that my soul can take the abuse.
So what is "Web 2.0" if not Ajax etc.? Is it a phase, a trend?A lot of the hallmarks of Web 2.0 that people list off are really just inevitable consequences of the maturing of the internet. These are things like AJAX and social networking. I don't think those really count as new things since, as you pointed out, they've been around for a while. I see Web 2.0 as being more things like Google Earth, where it is the spontaneous collaboration of anonymous individuals that produces more and more layers of metadata to the existing information of our world. While sites like MySpace are social, they don't really leverage the social network as a means of computation. Humans, and in particular large groups of humans, are very good at categorizing and arranging information in ways that make sense to them as a collective. That's the kind of thing that can really happen with Web 2.0, and it's not a consequence of technology, it's not AJAX, it's not social networking per sé; it's merely an inevitable result of more people getting online.
So, yeah, I think a lot of what's going on here is hype, but people are trying—and failing—to describe a phenomenon they're seeing that intuitively really is something different than what was going on before.
Ok I'm nominating you for the Most Pedantic category of the Slashies!
I don't think that's the issue. No matter what level of paranoia works for you as your personal preference, you have to admit that it'd be better for them just to be sure. It wasn't a good idea for her not to respond to questions about it, for one thing. Whether you yourself agree with it or not, the cold hard fact of the matter is that airport security and airport employees here in the US of A are a little edgy. Many of them carry guns (remember those troops in airports with assault rifles after 9/11? those guys looked harsh!). I think it's ridiculous that things have gotten this way but this is the way they are right now; it's best not to poke the bear. Know what I'm sayin'?
I think someone wearing a bomb, wanting to get in as far as possible, would NOT be wearing the mechanism on the outside of their clothing, advertising it for a guard to see....I'm glad you had the good sense to preface that with "I think" because it's not fact. There are many more people milling about those extra long lines at airports (even in the security line; how ironic would THAT be!) than there are in an actual airplane. What if a terrorist's goal were to be to blow him/her self up in the ticketing area? You can speculate all you want and that's what /. is good for, but you don't know and neither do security guards. Again, it's best not to poke the bear.
if it doesn't look like a hand fabbed piece of electronic equipment, they probably aren't gonna get stopped at gunpoint for wearing a bomb.Don't be so sure....
Much like the Boston stunt with the Aqua force whatever team signs....this is horrible overreaction.The Aqua Teen Hunger Force incident in Boston was hilarious... I think the reason why the authorities couldn't just admit that they were wrong was because it caused such a stir and because it sucked up so many police resources. I'm personally of the opinion that Boston was a HUGE overreaction and that they should've just been like "My bad..." but that was then, this is now. While I do agree with you that in this particular case the police should be able to admit that they made a mistake, so should she. Leave your tech art clothes in your checked luggage, 'cause everybody knows bombs are never ever allowed into the cargo hold of a plane (*rolls eyes*).
am I the ONLY one that did not become overly paranoid about terrorists coming to blow me up?I promise you you're not. The terror threat level, the slow-ass airport security, the craziness, the fact that any time I buy a one-way ticket somewhere I get searched, the fact that I spent a year on a watchlist when a clearly defective machine detected trace levels of TNT on my hippie sandals, is all crazy to me, and I'm sick of it. But that doesn't mean that I think it's a good time to wear my futuristic sex robot halloween costume to the airport. Thank you and goodnight!
Were you thinking of non-parallel skewed lines? These would be lines which are not parallel because the perpendicular distance between them is variant over their length, but which are not coplanar, and I believe must be members of parallel planes, so necessarily do not intersect.
Two lines can't really be colinear without being the same line. Not in euclidean geometry anyway (and actually, now that I think of it, not in more exotic geometrical systems either).
If two lines describe the same set of points, though, and you're calling them two separate lines, they would necessarily also be parallel even as they intersect one another throughout their entire length. Consider a definition of "parallel" meaning the perpendicular distance between the two lines is constant throughout their length.
I really hope I don't get modded (-1, Pedantic) for this one....
No. BadAnalogyGuy is just living up to his name.
Funny story... once I got put on a watch list for having trace amounts of TNT on one of my sandals. We're talking old worn-in dirty hippie leather sandals here . . . with trace amounts of TNT on them. Someone at some point probably thought the same exact thing about the little machine that sniffs around your stuff at the airport, but what happened to me is that I had absolutely no clue whatsoever how the TNT got on my sandals, much less a legitimate reason for it.
I don't think anyone's pissed off about any technology that can effectively screen out potential terrorists. I think a lot of us are just really tired of being immediately suspected of committing a crime the second we walk into that security checkpoint at the airport. And for those of us who have gone a step further and been singled out for something asinine, then spent twelve months on a make-it-hard-for-this-person-to-fly list, I think we're probably even more pissed off. I can't know for sure though; it's not like these lists are public.
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That's actually why I started putting a space between mine. Like : D. Works okay and IM clients don't screw it up too bad. Of course now I just have Adium with smilies that I designed myself and I likes them.
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There. Fixed that for ya ;-D