I agree that you can't *unring the bell* - The deal everyone is making about the Google thing is that the record will be kept forever -
I personally think the argument is a bit overblown because as the article states, most providers already do that - the point in bring up the/. story that had to be removed is how long will it take before someone decides to sue Google - or anyone else for that matter - to purge their system of stored messages that might be offensive to some - or prevent them from sending them in the first place?
As the person submitting - and one who made a typo in an earlier submission - both spellings may be used - as in this partial sentence taken from the American Heritage online - okay it's not *the* definitive guide to grammar - "...peoples migrated into the area during the first millenium, displacing the earlier San inhabitants. European colonization began in 1889". I agree - the form you present is much more accepted:~) Point taken -
I believe the 3D application has a use - but not so much in reconfiguring the desktop as in doing searches for pertinent information in a specific field. What would be expecially useful is if preferences could be set for such a search so one could really *fly* through the most usful searches - and then they could be easily changed to new parameters - A recent post on the Landscape of Science would be a good example - it was based on frequent search requests -
If the *map* could be configured to just the researchers area of interest - that might save a huge amount of time - and aid those of us who are more visually oriented. As it is, the GUI idea seems a bit overcooked: As it is presented it is still trying to turn a linear, hierarchical filing system into a 3D one, rather than create new associations.
No it wasn't me that posted to those lists - I just checked - they are using the same address - If you have a more efficient URL that won't necessitate the redirect - please post - or use my e-mail link in the original article - Thanks.
This blog post in Advogato deals with issues across the pond from MS home - but there are some interesting points about how the Open Source License is just as bogged down in terms of how different interfaces cannot *interoperate*
For instance - "In other words, the Wine team are entitled to write to the Samba team to ask them for their "interface" access points, such as the DCE/RPC and LANMAN and SMB file / print sharing interfaces. The Samba team responds by saying "you can get the code from here". The Wine team responds by saying "the license is incompatible, I cannot use that code". The Samba team responds "sorry, we cannot help you there".
Was this done _just_ because it could have been done?
This was application of something that could have just been left alone as a probability. It's one thing to have it on 'paper', it's another to know it will actually work (or not) as predicted.
What's additionally fascinating is that the post-doc researcher called it "the most difficult elliptic curve discrete algorithm problem ever computed" and now plans to take the 10000 USD prize and give $8K to the Open Software Foundation and a grand each to two individuals that helped. Wow.
The reason to have an alternative operating system for the iPod is to add new features! There are so many great things that can be done with the hardware in the iPod, that Apple is only beginning to scratch the surface of (or not even considering at all).
Using the iPod as a recording device (better then those little voice recorders can do)
OGG (and other formats as well) support
iPod-to-iPod music transfers (legally questionable but still a cool concept)
I haven't gotten an iPod but I helped pick one out for my niece who is still a teenager and looking at some pretty top notch schools. My brother is like *I'm getting her a Windows computer for college because Macs blah blah blah*
So my niece is digging the interface with the iPod itself but first my brother's family doesn't have the cables to download music from the iTunes store - and then it turns out they are still on Windows 98 - so that's not going to work anyway - so I buy her a bunch of songs.
The point being the more accessible the iPod becomes - the more features that are unlocked or created - the more these little access points are created that says there is more than just one way of doing things. And proprietary or not, when a new use can even be discerned, soon someone will be building the harware and writing the code necessary to do the job their own way.
And a little addition that is a bit of a digression: as for transfering the legality of transferring songs, it is possible to *create* songs and simply *give* them to a friend or fellow musician, friend, or possible future *buyers* of that music. Way back when, Billy Bragg *advertised* - or was it *entertained* - outside the Meadowlands at a Sprinstein concert by simply walking up and down the queue with a speaker strapped to his body and a mike and guitar plugged in.
Whatever things may live there once derived from an ecosystem that was connected to the rest of the Earth.
While it sounds more inaccessible to today's technology, only a few years ago many rain forests were similarly distinct. Some species of insects and birds have ranges of a single tree or a few hectares.
The same goes with inaccessibility in terms of the depths of the oceans.
The collection of ecosystems, biomes, niches - whatever level it is broken down to - gives barely a hint of the diversity of speciation.
The Prime Directive should be foremost in minds of all. It was agreed that Antarctica would not be a place for economic development; that has been the usual reason the protocols that would degrade an ecosystem have been lowered historically.
Education theory used to look at mathematical and language skills only as indicators of intelligence. Then it was demonstrated that people can process information in a variety of ways - even things like *bodily kinesthetic intelligence* - people who learn with their bodies, like athletes or dancers. It seems the real challenge in terms of what the article is mentioning is having a database collected that someone could choose from. For a company that has a list of parts this seems quite useful. A image recognition system for more *universal* applications would have to overcome the same stubling blocks that people do, such as manipulating the image to different perspectives. Of course a computer should be able to handle that faster and without bias. In the book Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (Betty Edwards), most Americans were unable to recognize a familiar photo of JFK's portrait when simply turned upside down.
Well - no we aren't all *peers* in all subjects - Yes we are *citizens* or *stakeholders* - sure - but I really can't hold a match to someone in an obscure (to me) branch of fluid dynamics or quantum mechanics, while my own specialities of earth sciences I would find tedious having reviewed by *democracy*.
As Socrates said - in parapharase - if your horse is critically sick - the last thing you want to do is bring it to the Assembly for a democratic vote on its care - You want to bring it to a specialist.
And someone who devotes years of their life studying something to make that knowledge *accessible* is hardly someone in the proverbial ivory tower. There are in fact its antithesis.
Why spend the money when it's cheaper to just ignore them like we do now?
That's true - it's cheap to ignore them, and it's especially convenient to *blame* them.
I would say I have had a disproportionately greater number of enriching conversations and life experiences with the homeless than with those who despise them. Perhaps those homeless I talked to have felt the same with me - but I doubt it. What to offer someone who desires so little in relation to what I have?
Might there be subtle body language changes related to this that could account for the phenomenon of having *a priori* knowledge of what someone was about to say?
There has been a silo house for sale for awhile in the Adirondack Mountains, and in Long Island, there has been talk of converting a silo location into a golf course.
I love the moderators here - This comment gets moderated *off topic* - When I was making a joke out of the fact that everyone bitches about what the government does - and hangs on to the DARPA origins - when in other countries transfer rates are much higher than here - Why not just a start new networks? Too messy? Who cares - If people really started rewiring the country - It would just put an end to this tin hat crap that many people are spouting.
Planets on an inside orbit can not be seen in opposition, so their true size doesn't show in a shot like this. Like Venus and Mercury are always in crescent phases seen from Earth. Venus and Earth about equal in size - I wonder how the Earth would look from there (if you could see through the clouds) - it would be a lot closer too...
Slashdot Mirror
Not wi-fi yet - but can that be far off?
Loss of robot in Iraq from iRobot
The possibilities always exist:
S = Spicy (spice levels can be modified on most recipes, but these are intended to be hot...)
I agree that you can't *unring the bell* - The deal everyone is making about the Google thing is that the record will be kept forever -
/. story that had to be removed is how long will it take before someone decides to sue Google - or anyone else for that matter - to purge their system of stored messages that might be offensive to some - or prevent them from sending them in the first place?
I personally think the argument is a bit overblown because as the article states, most providers already do that - the point in bring up the
Can I take that back?
All but one...
As the person submitting - and one who made a typo in an earlier submission - both spellings may be used - as in this partial sentence taken from the American Heritage online - okay it's not *the* definitive guide to grammar - "...peoples migrated into the area during the first millenium, displacing the earlier San inhabitants. European colonization began in 1889". I agree - the form you present is much more accepted :~) Point taken -
I believe the 3D application has a use - but not so much in reconfiguring the desktop as in doing searches for pertinent information in a specific field. What would be expecially useful is if preferences could be set for such a search so one could really *fly* through the most usful searches - and then they could be easily changed to new parameters - A recent post on the Landscape of Science would be a good example - it was based on frequent search requests -
If the *map* could be configured to just the researchers area of interest - that might save a huge amount of time - and aid those of us who are more visually oriented. As it is, the GUI idea seems a bit overcooked: As it is presented it is still trying to turn a linear, hierarchical filing system into a 3D one, rather than create new associations.
No it wasn't me that posted to those lists - I just checked - they are using the same address - If you have a more efficient URL that won't necessitate the redirect - please post - or use my e-mail link in the original article - Thanks.
This blog post in Advogato deals with issues across the pond from MS home - but there are some interesting points about how the Open Source License is just as bogged down in terms of how different interfaces cannot *interoperate*
For instance - "In other words, the Wine team are entitled to write to the Samba team to ask them for their "interface" access points, such as the DCE/RPC and LANMAN and SMB file / print sharing interfaces. The Samba team responds by saying "you can get the code from here". The Wine team responds by saying "the license is incompatible, I cannot use that code". The Samba team responds "sorry, we cannot help you there".
Just receantly the department I now work at got slashdotted (the meteor impact simulator)
Sorry about that little unexpected bandwidth thing - it just had too many possibilities to let it go by - heh heh
btw: it's being posted on education forums around the world I see now - so you can expect a bit of traffic for a while - eh?
Was this done _just_ because it could have been done?
This was application of something that could have just been left alone as a probability.
It's one thing to have it on 'paper', it's another to know it will actually work (or not) as predicted.
What's additionally fascinating is that the post-doc researcher called it "the most difficult elliptic curve discrete algorithm problem ever computed" and now plans to take the 10000 USD prize and give $8K to the Open Software Foundation and a grand each to two individuals that helped. Wow.
Mod parent up.
The reason to have an alternative operating system for the iPod is to add new features! There are so many great things that can be done with the hardware in the iPod, that Apple is only beginning to scratch the surface of (or not even considering at all).
Using the iPod as a recording device (better then those little voice recorders can do)
OGG (and other formats as well) support
iPod-to-iPod music transfers (legally questionable but still a cool concept)
I haven't gotten an iPod but I helped pick one out for my niece who is still a teenager and looking at some pretty top notch schools. My brother is like *I'm getting her a Windows computer for college because Macs blah blah blah*
So my niece is digging the interface with the iPod itself but first my brother's family doesn't have the cables to download music from the iTunes store - and then it turns out they are still on Windows 98 - so that's not going to work anyway - so I buy her a bunch of songs.
The point being the more accessible the iPod becomes - the more features that are unlocked or created - the more these little access points are created that says there is more than just one way of doing things. And proprietary or not, when a new use can even be discerned, soon someone will be building the harware and writing the code necessary to do the job their own way.
And a little addition that is a bit of a digression: as for transfering the legality of transferring songs, it is possible to *create* songs and simply *give* them to a friend or fellow musician, friend, or possible future *buyers* of that music.
Way back when, Billy Bragg *advertised* - or was it *entertained* - outside the Meadowlands at a Sprinstein concert by simply walking up and down the queue with a speaker strapped to his body and a mike and guitar plugged in.
From the article:
Tax officials say many of the databases they use have been available to them for years -- but it has never been so easy to integrate and analyze them.
A single tin hat has never really been able to suffice...
I keep a closet full - paid for with cash - made under the table.
Whatever things may live there once derived from an ecosystem that was connected to the rest of the Earth.
While it sounds more inaccessible to today's technology, only a few years ago many rain forests were similarly distinct. Some species of insects and birds have ranges of a single tree or a few hectares.
The same goes with inaccessibility in terms of the depths of the oceans.
The collection of ecosystems, biomes, niches - whatever level it is broken down to - gives barely a hint of the diversity of speciation.
The Prime Directive should be foremost in minds of all. It was agreed that Antarctica would not be a place for economic development; that has been the usual reason the protocols that would degrade an ecosystem have been lowered historically.
It's kept liquid by salt - *sea monkeys* would be more like it.
Education theory used to look at mathematical and language skills only as indicators of intelligence. Then it was demonstrated that people can process information in a variety of ways - even things like *bodily kinesthetic intelligence* - people who learn with their bodies, like athletes or dancers.
It seems the real challenge in terms of what the article is mentioning is having a database collected that someone could choose from. For a company that has a list of parts this seems quite useful.
A image recognition system for more *universal* applications would have to overcome the same stubling blocks that people do, such as manipulating the image to different perspectives.
Of course a computer should be able to handle that faster and without bias.
In the book Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (Betty Edwards), most Americans were unable to recognize a familiar photo of JFK's portrait when simply turned upside down.
Well - no we aren't all *peers* in all subjects -
Yes we are *citizens* or *stakeholders* - sure -
but I really can't hold a match to someone in an obscure (to me) branch of fluid dynamics or quantum mechanics, while my own specialities of earth sciences I would find tedious having reviewed by *democracy*.
As Socrates said - in parapharase - if your horse is critically sick - the last thing you want to do is bring it to the Assembly for a democratic vote on its care - You want to bring it to a specialist.
And someone who devotes years of their life studying something to make that knowledge *accessible* is hardly someone in the proverbial ivory tower.
There are in fact its antithesis.
Why spend the money when it's cheaper to just ignore them like we do now?
That's true - it's cheap to ignore them, and it's especially convenient to *blame* them.
I would say I have had a disproportionately greater number of enriching conversations and life experiences with the homeless than with those who despise them.
Perhaps those homeless I talked to have felt the same with me - but I doubt it. What to offer someone who desires so little in relation to what I have?
It's still the same idea -
The homeless get a *reboot*
In which the commander utters the words *we've gone to plaid* is worth sacrificing a few space vessels for.
Might there be subtle body language changes related to this that could account for the phenomenon of having *a priori* knowledge of what someone was about to say?
There has been a silo house for sale for awhile in the Adirondack Mountains, and in Long Island, there has been talk of converting a silo location into a golf course.
I love the moderators here - This comment gets moderated *off topic* - When I was making a joke out of the fact that everyone bitches about what the government does - and hangs on to the DARPA origins - when in other countries transfer rates are much higher than here - Why not just a start new networks? Too messy? Who cares - If people really started rewiring the country - It would just put an end to this tin hat crap that many people are spouting.
The cable guy left some pieces last time I moved.
Anyone got anymore?
We can rebuild it, we make it run faster, be stronger...
The six *million* dollar network...
Planets on an inside orbit can not be seen in opposition, so their true size doesn't show in a shot like this. Like Venus and Mercury are always in crescent phases seen from Earth. Venus and Earth about equal in size - I wonder how the Earth would look from there (if you could see through the clouds) - it would be a lot closer too...