Doesn't this all stem from a desire to maintain the status quo. By preventing others from outshining them, those in power retain power. Be it economic or political, stifling innovation in the competition has always been the award for coming out on top.
I have set my employer up with Deki Wiki, which is a FOSS version of their Enterprise Mindtouch Deki software.
This is built as a fork from the same codebase as mediawiki, wikipedia's software. Also, Mindtouch, or Deki or whatever, offers Enterprise features as an upgrade with hosted solutions and various support levels if they find the cost internally is growing out of control.
Also, as someone mentioned above about the power of just doing it, I was able to set it up on old hardware out of my house in order to showcase the feature set to my boss. By doing so she saw that this was something I understood, and could teach someone to manage as I had taught her how to use the majority of the admin features in an hour or so.
I guess it is called Mindtouch Core v10 now.... and they make it a bit harder to get the unlimited core features, with out the trial period sunset, of course. But, stick with MindTouch Core in the selections and you should be fine, provided you have a little know how and a can do attitude.
I'm going out on a bit of a limb here, so bear with me if you wood...
But seriously, figuring out an algorithm to ID wangs; sounds like those developers are going to be eyebrow deep in junk for a while. That's a job, much like plumbing, that I can appreciate for the value of the product, but can't fathom the drive to devote oneself to.
Corollary question for consideration: Did cheetahs have this problem before the advent of modern poaching/hunting practices brought down their numbers drastically (assuming this was the case)?
Could we be witnessing, through globalization and the blurring of the lines between cultures, a minimization of variance and an increased risk of serious genetic disorders? Could this reduce our survivability as a species in the face of some dire consequence?
Honestly, I'm guessing we'll be able to engineer our way around any such problem, but I would; I'm here.
I said this all once here, but here it is again, just as pertinent:
I had a conversation and a dream about this just last week. No joke. And this time your tin foil hats won't help you.
I think the technology is there for the government to take genetic samples from everyone in the U.S. armed forces, and thereby build a database in which they could match any found genetic material by gene clade, and describe your relationship, and triangulate your placement in the larger family tree, with a reasonable degree of certainty.
More simply put, a hair or skin flake on the ground could tell them who your brother, cousin, second cousin, uncle, all in different branches of your family, are. With that information it wouldn't be hard to find you.
Really, I'd be more surprised to find out definitively that this wasn't already in place.
Anyway, I feel a bit like a nutter saying it, but with enough computing power, we already have algorithms that do almost, if not, all of this.
I had a conversation and a dream about this just last week. No joke. And this time your tin foil hats won't help you.
I think the technology is there for the government to take genetic samples from everyone in the U.S. armed forces, and thereby build a database in which they could match any found genetic material by gene clade, and describe your relationship, and triangulate your placement in the larger family tree, with a reasonable degree of certainty.
More simply put, a hair or skin flake on the ground could tell them who your brother, cousin, second cousin, uncle, all in different branches of your family, are. With that information it wouldn't be hard to find you.
Really, I'd be more surprised to find out definitively that this wasn't already in place.
Anyway, I feel a bit like a nutter saying it, but with enough computing power, we already have algorithms that do almost, if not, all of this.
The United States Military isn't, in my opinion (get out your tin-foil hats), in the habit of developing a brand-new and potentially game-winning technology, and promptly running to the phone to make a press release. Between this and several other more benign, as several medical advances reported on recently, I can't help but wonder what has happened in the international community that would prompt this type of activity. What type of non-public intel would instigate a response of this kind from the U.S. Military, an organization that has previously only let the world know they had radar evading aircraft some twenty years (or some such) after they had been in operation? Could it be that some other potentially less-than-friendly has developed some other or similar "Star Wars" type tech? And, I mean other than those we currently suspect of trying to develop nukes.
And please, don't hesitate to tell me I can go back to my conspiracy theorist secret bunker, as I've got plenty of canned food to last.
Assuming here that the above poster is being funny, I'll clear this up for those this might actually cause some concern.
Morrison & Foerster is a internationally recognized and prestigious law firm established in 1883, that has been going by the nickname MoFo since 1973. More on the linked wikipedia article for those still interested or skeptical.
It has been and still is true that adept social engineering can break any security scheme, due to the vulnerability of the people involved. However, saying that it is pointless is about as valid as saying that the exploration of outer-space is pointless.
I don't think I need to explain that any further to this crowd.
Tell Them to call it "Software X CIS". The CIS will stand for Confidence Inspiring String and we can all have a laugh down the road after the marketing people bite.
Also, to borrow from the post above, and my own experiences as a child, engineering challenges are great! I was just thinking over something using cardboard tubes and various disposables to have the kids create a viaduct for marbles. Rank the submissions based on structural integrity under increasing throughput. The viaduct that handles the most marbles at a time, over the longest distance wins, or something similar. (Maybe even as simple, (Max Marbles) x (Feet(in decimal)) = Score) (as an added plus, I think four grade math is still times tables (it was at one time), though decimal notation might throw them).
I apologize if this is mentioned below, but I have to get some work done today, though maybe not a ton.
Why not try out using the collaboration features of Google Notebooks? It seems like a no-brainer to me. There is the issue of administrative control, I guess. With parents in America how they are today, they might expect better filtering of content then what this might offer, so it might not be an option.
I agree that those classes that allow a certain degree of involvement in their very material do retain interest and develop a much more mature, meaningful discourse (based on my experience, anyway). And, I always respected those teachers more that put together our class materials, either out of photocopied articles, internet links, and various diverse sources. Of course, I was also in college, and working to cover the cost of my books, so my respect wasn't un-self-motivated, either; these are high school students.
Also, this isn't to take away from the wiki-book idea. The result from that would be more lasting, and meaningful going forward, but maybe a month on notebooks would familiarize some kids with online collaboration. As if kids today aren't going to serve us (again) on this very topic in the next few years.
Good luck! Innovative teaching is itself inspiring to young people.
Also, a brief look into the history of mathematics will reveal a decimal system in use in India around 2100BC, the development of theories of a solar-centric solar system, and pi around 500 AD, and tangible proof of the development of zero and negative numbers around 650-ish AD (the 7th century, and yes, this is a huge accomplishment nit-wit). Additonally, the term sine is derived from an Indian word, as trigonometry originated there, though you likely never made it through algebra.
The contributions made by the people of the Indian subcontinent are far from trivial. Sounds like someone also needs a history lesson.
For a simple machine that would allow me to do some basic development work at a local coffee shop this thing could work out nicely.
I like my desktops, and have stayed there so far, but something like this could almost convince me to try my hands at a mobile work/hobby environment. Hell, the lack of wireless would not only make it more secure, but less of a distraction than my laptop usually proves to be.
Whether or not I get one, there is plenty of reason to believe this machine is a good thing, much as the $100 PC Projects that have been touted by several groups as the next great humanitarian effort and have been reported here on here on Slashdot.
Where did physics come from? Where did time come from? Where did the hour come from? Why are there 60 seconds in a minute?
The fact of the matter is you have no idea what you are talking about. I mean this without any disrespect, honestly. Your prattle is what will bring the 'Big W' down on things like AI projects when he is done hounding fetal stem-cells, and Parkinson's patients.
Please check you facts and doubt yourself. I do constantly. There is a huge internet and plenty (no really) that isn't even on there in any form.
Look around, lose a little, and fall down. It really is good for you.
The process is geared to produce things that are: a) Hardier and better equipped at survival, b) better equiped to reproduce themselves in the environment.
This applies to the basic chemical components and the proteins and the organisms and the etc. The more stable and reproductive a system is the more of them there are likely to be for a longer period of time. The End.
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Doesn't this all stem from a desire to maintain the status quo. By preventing others from outshining them, those in power retain power. Be it economic or political, stifling innovation in the competition has always been the award for coming out on top.
I have set my employer up with Deki Wiki, which is a FOSS version of their Enterprise Mindtouch Deki software.
This is built as a fork from the same codebase as mediawiki, wikipedia's software. Also, Mindtouch, or Deki or whatever, offers Enterprise features as an upgrade with hosted solutions and various support levels if they find the cost internally is growing out of control.
Also, as someone mentioned above about the power of just doing it, I was able to set it up on old hardware out of my house in order to showcase the feature set to my boss. By doing so she saw that this was something I understood, and could teach someone to manage as I had taught her how to use the majority of the admin features in an hour or so.
I guess it is called Mindtouch Core v10 now.... and they make it a bit harder to get the unlimited core features, with out the trial period sunset, of course. But, stick with MindTouch Core in the selections and you should be fine, provided you have a little know how and a can do attitude.
www.mindtouch.com/downloads
Good luck! And NO, I do not work for them. I like the free version of their software and found it an easy sell to the suits.
That isn't really important or correct. Dongle also more-or-less means 'small adapter'.
Speak for yourself, buddy!!!
I'm going out on a bit of a limb here, so bear with me if you wood...
But seriously, figuring out an algorithm to ID wangs; sounds like those developers are going to be eyebrow deep in junk for a while. That's a job, much like plumbing, that I can appreciate for the value of the product, but can't fathom the drive to devote oneself to.
Good point.
Corollary question for consideration: Did cheetahs have this problem before the advent of modern poaching/hunting practices brought down their numbers drastically (assuming this was the case)?
Could we be witnessing, through globalization and the blurring of the lines between cultures, a minimization of variance and an increased risk of serious genetic disorders? Could this reduce our survivability as a species in the face of some dire consequence?
Honestly, I'm guessing we'll be able to engineer our way around any such problem, but I would; I'm here.
I said this all once here, but here it is again, just as pertinent:
I had a conversation and a dream about this just last week. No joke. And this time your tin foil hats won't help you.
I think the technology is there for the government to take genetic samples from everyone in the U.S. armed forces, and thereby build a database in which they could match any found genetic material by gene clade, and describe your relationship, and triangulate your placement in the larger family tree, with a reasonable degree of certainty.
More simply put, a hair or skin flake on the ground could tell them who your brother, cousin, second cousin, uncle, all in different branches of your family, are. With that information it wouldn't be hard to find you.
Really, I'd be more surprised to find out definitively that this wasn't already in place.
Anyway, I feel a bit like a nutter saying it, but with enough computing power, we already have algorithms that do almost, if not, all of this.
Ahh crud, that's what I get for only using analog search before posting.
Never trust the eyes. Sorry for the dupe.
The bandwidth on Ethernet-over-powerline is total garbage.
Has anyone considered metal conduit? Rats can't eat steel.
I had a conversation and a dream about this just last week. No joke. And this time your tin foil hats won't help you.
I think the technology is there for the government to take genetic samples from everyone in the U.S. armed forces, and thereby build a database in which they could match any found genetic material by gene clade, and describe your relationship, and triangulate your placement in the larger family tree, with a reasonable degree of certainty.
More simply put, a hair or skin flake on the ground could tell them who your brother, cousin, second cousin, uncle, all in different branches of your family, are. With that information it wouldn't be hard to find you.
Really, I'd be more surprised to find out definitively that this wasn't already in place.
Anyway, I feel a bit like a nutter saying it, but with enough computing power, we already have algorithms that do almost, if not, all of this.
No seriously, though.
The United States Military isn't, in my opinion (get out your tin-foil hats), in the habit of developing a brand-new and potentially game-winning technology, and promptly running to the phone to make a press release. Between this and several other more benign, as several medical advances reported on recently, I can't help but wonder what has happened in the international community that would prompt this type of activity. What type of non-public intel would instigate a response of this kind from the U.S. Military, an organization that has previously only let the world know they had radar evading aircraft some twenty years (or some such) after they had been in operation? Could it be that some other potentially less-than-friendly has developed some other or similar "Star Wars" type tech? And, I mean other than those we currently suspect of trying to develop nukes.
And please, don't hesitate to tell me I can go back to my conspiracy theorist secret bunker, as I've got plenty of canned food to last.
thanks for playing.
I think this might be a new definition for the word "moded".
Assuming here that the above poster is being funny, I'll clear this up for those this might actually cause some concern.
Morrison & Foerster is a internationally recognized and prestigious law firm established in 1883, that has been going by the nickname MoFo since 1973. More on the linked wikipedia article for those still interested or skeptical.
It has been and still is true that adept social engineering can break any security scheme, due to the vulnerability of the people involved. However, saying that it is pointless is about as valid as saying that the exploration of outer-space is pointless.
I don't think I need to explain that any further to this crowd.
Exactly.
Tell Them to call it "Software X CIS". The CIS will stand for Confidence Inspiring String and we can all have a laugh down the road after the marketing people bite.
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Meh - they'll come crawling back when they want babies.
The speed with which things can go from bad to worse never stops to amaze me.
Thanks.
I was thinking this exactly.
Also, to borrow from the post above, and my own experiences as a child, engineering challenges are great! I was just thinking over something using cardboard tubes and various disposables to have the kids create a viaduct for marbles. Rank the submissions based on structural integrity under increasing throughput. The viaduct that handles the most marbles at a time, over the longest distance wins, or something similar. (Maybe even as simple, (Max Marbles) x (Feet(in decimal)) = Score) (as an added plus, I think four grade math is still times tables (it was at one time), though decimal notation might throw them).
Good Luck and Have Fun!
I apologize if this is mentioned below, but I have to get some work done today, though maybe not a ton.
Why not try out using the collaboration features of Google Notebooks? It seems like a no-brainer to me. There is the issue of administrative control, I guess. With parents in America how they are today, they might expect better filtering of content then what this might offer, so it might not be an option.
I agree that those classes that allow a certain degree of involvement in their very material do retain interest and develop a much more mature, meaningful discourse (based on my experience, anyway). And, I always respected those teachers more that put together our class materials, either out of photocopied articles, internet links, and various diverse sources. Of course, I was also in college, and working to cover the cost of my books, so my respect wasn't un-self-motivated, either; these are high school students.
Also, this isn't to take away from the wiki-book idea. The result from that would be more lasting, and meaningful going forward, but maybe a month on notebooks would familiarize some kids with online collaboration. As if kids today aren't going to serve us (again) on this very topic in the next few years.
Good luck! Innovative teaching is itself inspiring to young people.
Im not sure I agree, but Ive been wrong before.
Entertainment...
The same concept applies to people.
What this says to me is that we were too busy with our eyes glued to our cellphones to notice that the sea and the earth were....
Hold on, my RSS feed says there's a new article up... I'll get back to you shortly.
This great practically self-taught Indian mathematician might have said differently.
Also, a brief look into the history of mathematics will reveal a decimal system in use in India around 2100BC, the development of theories of a solar-centric solar system, and pi around 500 AD, and tangible proof of the development of zero and negative numbers around 650-ish AD (the 7th century, and yes, this is a huge accomplishment nit-wit). Additonally, the term sine is derived from an Indian word, as trigonometry originated there, though you likely never made it through algebra.
The contributions made by the people of the Indian subcontinent are far from trivial. Sounds like someone also needs a history lesson.
Nobody will ever need more than one case of air.
For a simple machine that would allow me to do some basic development work at a local coffee shop this thing could work out nicely.
I like my desktops, and have stayed there so far, but something like this could almost convince me to try my hands at a mobile work/hobby environment. Hell, the lack of wireless would not only make it more secure, but less of a distraction than my laptop usually proves to be.
Whether or not I get one, there is plenty of reason to believe this machine is a good thing, much as the $100 PC Projects that have been touted by several groups as the next great humanitarian effort and have been reported here on here on Slashdot.
Where did mathematics originate from?
Where did physics come from? Where did time come from? Where did the hour come from? Why are there 60 seconds in a minute?
The fact of the matter is you have no idea what you are talking about. I mean this without any disrespect, honestly. Your prattle is what will bring the 'Big W' down on things like AI projects when he is done hounding fetal stem-cells, and Parkinson's patients.
Please check you facts and doubt yourself. I do constantly. There is a huge internet and plenty (no really) that isn't even on there in any form.
Look around, lose a little, and fall down. It really is good for you.
It was Natural selection the whole time.
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e =utf-8&oe=utf-8&q=clay+synthesis+of+RNA
The process is geared to produce things that are: a) Hardier and better equipped at survival, b) better equiped to reproduce themselves in the environment.
This applies to the basic chemical components and the proteins and the organisms and the etc. The more stable and reproductive a system is the more of them there are likely to be for a longer period of time. The End.
Read about RNA, it's ability to reproduce in small strands and the abiotic clay-catalyzed synthesis of RNA. Here is one link of the thousands available online: http://www.astrobiology.com/asc2002/abstract.html
And here are that other thousand (actually 21,600) I was mentioning: http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=mozclient&i