actually, it is quite amusing that the quality of the seminar should be given as evidence of tufts omniscence; since 325 clams is a lot of moola, one suspects a bias, in that those attending are inclinded to think positively of the man... ( I forget if this is called a type I or type II statistical error) I have read the books; what makes tufte amusing is that he takes some obvious clunkers, and skewers them; harmless fun, although correcting doltish authors and lazy editors is a sisyphean task. But he is not content with his little amusment; he must go on and dictate what is and what is not good, starting with self evident principles, such as maximize the data to ink ratio, that, are, in fact, not self evident. dont bother replying I am done with this
I actually know all this...who say maximizing data ink ratio is better ? show me some studies... oh..no studies, just tufts opinion (by the way, both the napolean march and the rail time tables he likes, are , if you read the books, and I did the 1st, not really the sort of thing tufte likes. he is like modern architecture: loudmouthed opinion without any real foundation I stand by my post
Why does this tufte guy get so much credit for so little, much of whih is either wrong or opinions on design, which, by definition, are subjective matters. once we stop kow towing to the tuftewrongs, we might get somewhere.
From the limited number of replies that I have read, I conclude that unless you are prepared to shell out in the near deka Kilobuck range, and beocme familiar with backup software, which in my experience truly sucks, there are no good solutions. The paper printout seems the best - at 2200 dpi, you have ~ 1e8 bit per 8 by 11 sheet of paper. If you can get 8 bits per dot with color, then you have ( ithink) ~ 1e8 bytes
Yet again, we learn that millions of windows user are "happy" with 98/me/2000 and don't see a need to spend money to upgrade. How many times do we have to go over this ? Maybe/. can insitute a "topic covered" filter, so you can screen your/. account to not show something that has been discussed n times in the last x days. I am writing this on a 2001 laptop running 2000 SP4, and see no reason to upgrade untill the hardware breaks beyond repair. What MS needs to do is host a "conference" for "education" of corp IT guys, who IMHO seem to be morons; spread enuf FUD and a dictate will come down from HQ, swithc to XP; never mind that the idiot executives have help, and no idea of hte cost and effort and damage,...but that is another old story
altho it may seem strange, patents are very cheap by corp stds - diy for a few Kbucks, and in a well run company, even with the attys, it is 50 Kbuck to file a patent - this is small money for even small companies (think about the cost of hiring 10 programmers, with fringe + office space).
HOwever, if you allow oppositions, then you get into court type appeals, and the cost skyrocktes, so only very large, well heeled companies can afford to do battle. For example, say MS does not like a patent on how to handle wierd fonts. They can afford to fly in experts from all over the world, gets hundreds of hours of video testimony, do studys, etc. How is a small company going to fight that ? not to mention the years of delay, which always work in favor of hte big guy with cashflow.
NOt to say that the patent system isnt full of problems - there are certainly a lot of patents out their that should never have been granted.
HOwever, if you want to do something for the small guy, change the system from date of invention (which requires record keeping to a std to satisfy attorneys) to date of filing, which is obvious. this would really help the small guy
an mp3 player for 6th grade graduation present, and we go thru the sunday paper adds, and look on line and the result...the ipod has games and comes in neat colors, end of story..
I don't think the even heard my comment that having an AA battery, as opposed to a sealed internal proprietary, is a good idea..
i guess it depends on how you define cancer and rare. Given that there are >1e10 somatic, non brain cells, and malignant cancer is ~ 1 in 20 - 30 years, that means you develop, +- a large error factor, one cancer in (1e10)(20) 2e11 cell years. sounds rare to me, but it all depends on your perspective. Regardless, I don't think your response is relevant to my point.
As to the antiangiogenisis stuff, again , it depends on your perspective. there have been a lot of failures in clinical trials, and, I think the genentech mAb is the only success. The latest trials from genentech on thier mAb suggest an additional few months of survival - if it is you or your love d one that is a lot; from a scientific point of view, changing median survival from 15 to 18 months does not sound that impressive (and of course, they are cherry picking the data and the trials, so even what few positive results they have reported are probably over optimistic)
cancer is a rare event, and by the time it is detected, hundreds, if not thousands of cell divisions have occured.
hence, I don't think anyone has the slightest idea what the initial steps on the path from normal to tumorigenic were, since you can't possibly capture this (except in people heterozygous for tumor suppresor genes, like wilms patients)
I don't know what it is called, but my boss has this keyboard with two "leaves" that fold up vertically - so the keys are on two vertical planes, one for each hand, and your hands are held with the palms vertical, facing one another. You can't see the keyboard, so it takes some getting use to.
The physiological rationale for this wierd keyboard is that your palms must be vertical; otherwise, the two bones in your forearm are twisted, and this twisting, which occurs with any flat or flatish keyboard, is what leads to problems. On the otherhand, in this thread, many power users say they are happy with the flatish kinesis keyboard, so who know.
there search engine sucks - (a) no booleans for even the simplest things; (b) I have started using verizon online yellow pages for a lot searches; (c) if/. was not, for some wierd reason, hynoptized by goole, u cd fill in your own point hear
as to how generous they are with your own time, and stuff like that, its easy to look good bicycling downhill, that is, when you are one of the very few companies taht the market is blessing with monopoly rents, it is easy to be generous, after all, att ran the greatest science lab in the world when they had the money.
Does anyone know of a program where the HS students are given some hardware, some real responsiblity like the school web site or sports programming, and are allowed as part of senior computer or media work to choose their own software ?
this would be a good way to start (a) getting oss into the school systems and (b) give the kids some good training
One reason for a decline in radio may be the monumental stupidty of hte radio industry in not making online radio easy to get (don't both, afficionados of program x, which u think does make it easy)
It's like the movie industry opposing videos - total lack of intelligence
I only got half way thru this verbose whining piece of bullshit. maybe, somewheres in the ton of fancy words (looking for Mr Good bar: if anything spills it is milk the engl prof tells them) there is actually a valid complaint. If anyone actually managed to get thru the article can u summarize it in two paragraphs for us more literate intelligent folks
I recently bought a computer for my wife; she needed a low end machine for email, web, etc. So I go down to the strip mall zone, check out compUSA/best buy/circuit city, and best buy has the widest selection at low cost. So, I see that AMD machines are ~~ 100 bucks cheaper then intel machines, for roughly similar systems.
So, I just look at AMD machines, and pick the cheapest with the minimum feature set (DVD burner/graphics card) and whip out the ole piece of plastic
The point is, I bought solely on price, and amd was cheaper. It's only a 600 dollar computer - it doesnt work so well, I'll buy a new one in a few years, no biggie. Anyway, the performance of this 600 dollar box (no monitor) is so way over what I need, the "performance" of the cpu is, i guess, pretty much irrelavnent.
What really drove the decision was the extras on the box - dvd burner vs cdrw, mem card slots, etc. the processor decision was really not that important
I went down to best buy and bought on price alone. The first thing i noticed was amd less then intel, so i restricted my attention to amd boxes..and just bought the cheapest, which in that store that day was a compaq.
Perhpas the usb/firewire story is appropriate: EVERY rev I ever read said firewire was better, but usb was cheaper...
As this perspicasious poster notes, you have to violate each provision of the claim. To give an example,claim one provides for
" a mapping between a first web site and a second web site"
so, if you had a mapping between a first web site and a second web site and a third web site , and users interacted with the first and third, you would not violate the patent (i think - computer patents are not an area of expertise for me)
from this u shd learn 2 things patents are legal documents, and have to be read very carefully, and not all patents are valuable; if there is some simple way around the claim, then the patent is worthless
Diamond has the highest thermal conductivity of any known substance, and isotopically pure diamond is better then "ordinary" diamond.
So, the best possible heatsink would be an isotopically pure single crystal diamond - and, it is chemically robust, non toxic, and , in a pinch, can be traded for a new video card to run quake..
PS: for the chemically dis-informed, isotopically pure diamond, even if it could be obtained in more then microgram amounts, would be astronomically exspensive
I fully agree - if students were actually exposed to ID, it would do more damage to religous fundamentalism then an army of scientists talking evolution
SOX is a perfect example of congress making something worse..if they had merely appropriateed an extra 50 million to prosecute ceos,it would have done everything sox was soupposed to do, without all the garbage
SOX is really amazing - Problem: big accounting frims are colluding with companies to put out false info
Solution: add huge numbers of onerous rules that are to be checked by....accounting companies !!!
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actually, it is quite amusing that the quality of the seminar should be given as evidence of tufts omniscence; since 325 clams is a lot of moola, one suspects a bias, in that those attending are inclinded to think positively of the man... ( I forget if this is called a type I or type II statistical error)
I have read the books; what makes tufte amusing is that he takes some obvious clunkers, and skewers them; harmless fun, although correcting doltish authors and lazy editors is a sisyphean task. But he is not content with his little amusment; he must go on and dictate what is and what is not good, starting with self evident principles, such as maximize the data to ink ratio, that, are, in fact, not self evident.
dont bother replying I am done with this
Oh, I see, he has no data, but because he is an almight professor at yale, we kowtow to him.
SHOW ME THE DATA: without data, it is just tufts opionion
since you tufto-philiacs started this, i think the onus is on you to putup or shut up
I actually know all this...who say maximizing data ink ratio is better ? show me some studies...
oh..no studies, just tufts opinion
(by the way, both the napolean march and the rail time tables he likes, are , if you read the books, and I did the 1st, not really the sort of thing tufte likes.
he is like modern architecture: loudmouthed opinion without any real foundation
I stand by my post
Today, starwars lego.... And people wonder why the Asians do all the high tech
Why does this tufte guy get so much credit for so little, much of whih is either wrong or opinions on design, which, by definition, are subjective matters.
once we stop kow towing to the tuftewrongs, we might get somewhere.
did curie die from radiation poising (many early workers did)
did cook spread invasive plants and animals around the world, destroying native habitats
From the limited number of replies that I have read, I conclude that unless you are prepared to shell out in the near deka Kilobuck range, and beocme familiar with backup software, which in my experience truly sucks, there are no good solutions.
The paper printout seems the best - at 2200 dpi, you have ~ 1e8 bit per 8 by 11 sheet of paper. If you can get 8 bits per dot with color, then you have ( ithink) ~ 1e8 bytes
Yet again, we learn that millions of windows user are "happy" with 98/me/2000 and don't see a need to spend money to upgrade. /. can insitute a "topic covered" filter, so you can screen your /. account to not show something that has been discussed n times in the last x days.
How many times do we have to go over this ? Maybe
I am writing this on a 2001 laptop running 2000 SP4, and see no reason to upgrade untill the hardware breaks beyond repair.
What MS needs to do is host a "conference" for "education" of corp IT guys, who IMHO seem to be morons; spread enuf FUD and a dictate will come down from HQ, swithc to XP; never mind that the idiot executives have help, and no idea of hte cost and effort and damage,...but that is another old story
altho it may seem strange, patents are very cheap by corp stds - diy for a few Kbucks, and in a well run company, even with the attys, it is 50 Kbuck to file a patent - this is small money for even small companies (think about the cost of hiring 10 programmers, with fringe + office space).
HOwever, if you allow oppositions, then you get into court type appeals, and the cost skyrocktes, so only very large, well heeled companies can afford to do battle. For example, say MS does not like a patent on how to handle wierd fonts. They can afford to fly in experts from all over the world, gets hundreds of hours of video testimony, do studys, etc. How is a small company going to fight that ? not to mention the years of delay, which always work in favor of hte big guy with cashflow.
NOt to say that the patent system isnt full of problems - there are certainly a lot of patents out their that should never have been granted.
HOwever, if you want to do something for the small guy, change the system from date of invention (which requires record keeping to a std to satisfy attorneys) to date of filing, which is obvious. this would really help the small guy
an mp3 player for 6th grade graduation present, and we go thru the sunday paper adds, and look on line and the result...the ipod has games and comes in neat colors, end of story.. I don't think the even heard my comment that having an AA battery, as opposed to a sealed internal proprietary, is a good idea..
i guess it depends on how you define cancer and rare. Given that there are >1e10 somatic, non brain cells, and malignant cancer is ~ 1 in 20 - 30 years, that means you develop, +- a large error factor, one cancer in (1e10)(20) 2e11 cell years.
sounds rare to me, but it all depends on your perspective.
Regardless, I don't think your response is relevant to my point.
As to the antiangiogenisis stuff, again , it depends on your perspective. there have been a lot of failures in clinical trials, and, I think the genentech mAb is the only success. The latest trials from genentech on thier mAb suggest an additional few months of survival - if it is you or your love d one that is a lot; from a scientific point of view, changing median survival from 15 to 18 months does not sound that impressive (and of course, they are cherry picking the data and the trials, so even what few positive results they have reported are probably over optimistic)
cancer is a rare event, and by the time it is detected, hundreds, if not thousands of cell divisions have occured. hence, I don't think anyone has the slightest idea what the initial steps on the path from normal to tumorigenic were, since you can't possibly capture this (except in people heterozygous for tumor suppresor genes, like wilms patients)
I don't know what it is called, but my boss has this keyboard with two "leaves" that fold up vertically - so the keys are on two vertical planes, one for each hand, and your hands are held with the palms vertical, facing one another. You can't see the keyboard, so it takes some getting use to.
The physiological rationale for this wierd keyboard is that your palms must be vertical; otherwise, the two bones in your forearm are twisted, and this twisting, which occurs with any flat or flatish keyboard, is what leads to problems.
On the otherhand, in this thread, many power users say they are happy with the flatish kinesis keyboard, so who know.
there search engine sucks - (a) no booleans for even the simplest things; (b) I have started using verizon online yellow pages for a lot searches; (c) if /. was not, for some wierd reason, hynoptized by goole, u cd fill in your own point hear
as to how generous they are with your own time, and stuff like that, its easy to look good bicycling downhill, that is, when you are one of the very few companies taht the market is blessing with monopoly rents, it is easy to be generous, after all, att ran the greatest science lab in the world when they had the money.
the only field where you can get a nobel for being wrong
Does anyone know of a program where the HS students are given some hardware, some real responsiblity like the school web site or sports programming, and are allowed as part of senior computer or media work to choose their own software ? this would be a good way to start (a) getting oss into the school systems and (b) give the kids some good training
One reason for a decline in radio may be the monumental stupidty of hte radio industry in not making online radio easy to get (don't both, afficionados of program x, which u think does make it easy) It's like the movie industry opposing videos - total lack of intelligence
I only got half way thru this verbose whining piece of bullshit.
maybe, somewheres in the ton of fancy words (looking for Mr Good bar: if anything spills it is milk the engl prof tells them) there is actually a valid complaint.
If anyone actually managed to get thru the article can u summarize it in two paragraphs for us more literate intelligent folks
I recently bought a computer for my wife; she needed a low end machine for email, web, etc. So I go down to the strip mall zone, check out compUSA/best buy/circuit city, and best buy has the widest selection at low cost.
So, I see that AMD machines are ~~ 100 bucks cheaper then intel machines, for roughly similar systems.
So, I just look at AMD machines, and pick the cheapest with the minimum feature set (DVD burner/graphics card) and whip out the ole piece of plastic
The point is, I bought solely on price, and amd was cheaper. It's only a 600 dollar computer - it doesnt work so well, I'll buy a new one in a few years, no biggie. Anyway, the performance of this 600 dollar box (no monitor) is so way over what I need, the "performance" of the cpu is, i guess, pretty much irrelavnent.
What really drove the decision was the extras on the box - dvd burner vs cdrw, mem card slots, etc. the processor decision was really not that important
I went down to best buy and bought on price alone. The first thing i noticed was amd less then intel, so i restricted my attention to amd boxes..and just bought the cheapest, which in that store that day was a compaq.
Perhpas the usb/firewire story is appropriate: EVERY rev I ever read said firewire was better, but usb was cheaper...
As this perspicasious poster notes, you have to violate each provision of the claim. To give an example,claim one provides for
" a mapping between a first web site and a second web site"
so, if you had a mapping between a first web site and a second web site and a third web site , and users interacted with the first and third, you would not violate the patent (i think - computer patents are not an area of expertise for me)
from this u shd learn 2 things
patents are legal documents, and have to be read very carefully,
and not all patents are valuable; if there is some simple way around the claim, then the patent is worthless
Diamond has the highest thermal conductivity of any known substance, and isotopically pure diamond is better then "ordinary" diamond.
So, the best possible heatsink would be an isotopically pure single crystal diamond - and, it is chemically robust, non toxic, and , in a pinch, can be traded for a new video card to run quake..
PS: for the chemically dis-informed, isotopically pure diamond, even if it could be obtained in more then microgram amounts, would be astronomically exspensive
I fully agree - if students were actually exposed to ID, it would do more damage to religous fundamentalism then an army of scientists talking evolution
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/NormalNumber.html has a good description
SOX is a perfect example of congress making something worse..if they had merely appropriateed an extra 50 million to prosecute ceos,it would have done everything sox was soupposed to do, without all the garbage SOX is really amazing - Problem: big accounting frims are colluding with companies to put out false info Solution: add huge numbers of onerous rules that are to be checked by....accounting companies !!!