Hear hear. I believe that there should be a better balance between how kids are taught, and how much time they can pursue their own methods of discovery. An issue now though, is that there are so few people actually qualified to teach kids properly, and of those, even fewer have the time and dedication to do so.
As technology improves, and computational speed as well as program complexity grows, the problem may simply solve itself. Perhaps in time, kids will have a personal computerized "teacher" that organizes lesson plans, teaches key concepts, and explains any questions about the world around us. With such a system, everyone can learn to harness their own talents. This, however, is likely to remain a dream for the next few decades at least.
In the meanwhile, the school systems should really be reworked to give kids more time on their own. I would not necessarily agree with complete free reign, but the ability to focus on their own interests would go a long way. And for the sake of all that is not stupid, don't try to live your own life through your kids. We've had generations upon generations of parents doing that, and it hasn't worked. Perhaps everyone should actually try to learn a lesson from this history.
Lastly, it would be really helpful to see some kind of reward system that drives kids to figure out what THEY are good at.
I believe it has something to do with IE list using proprietary technology, that Firefox, Opera, et al. would need to license before actually being able to use said list.
A bit late, but I'll throw my 2 cents in anyway. I'm a computer engineer at a big company, and I tend to work ridiculous hours. My method is really simple, though not applicable to a lot. During the week I essentially live at work. That means if I want to relax, surf the internet, or even play games late at night, I will do so. Considering that even with that, I spend well over my 40 hours at work, no one really complains.
I guess the moral is, get your job done, do it well, and enjoy doing it. If that means taking a few hours to slack off, then do just that, or if you feel you are working too much, then talk to your manager. If you keep working more than you can handle, eventually you will burn out. I would wager that your worth to the company is far greater if that does not happen.
Why do you feel like you have to compete? Unless you went in expecting a profit, which is unlikely given the open nature of the project, you are contributing to the progress of humanity.
Now, give a proper license, your product will likely be used by a few, and maybe even included into the PS3 and other cell based systems, spreading your name far and wide. So, look at this as an advertisement opportunity. If you release your project soon, you could put on your resume that you were among the first OpenCL implementers, and if it's used by other companies, that's just extra selling points. Hell, maybe even get in touch with Sony, and let them know that you have an open source project that they may be able to use.
Hard to say. The linked page says the contest was announced on May 27th, however, the full rules were only released on July 13th. A really dedicated group with a strong vision could have had several months to work on this, but most people are probably just starting up.
For the chunk of change they're talking about though, I'm sure a few people may be willing to put things on hold for a month in order to get something good out. Could also be a great job app if you want to work for Google.
Nice to see Google doing things like this. I got an Android the first day it was available in Canada, and have been doing my best to show it off to all my friends. Hopefully with stuff like this happening on Google's side, I will not need to wait too long until we're all on the same platform, and can actually start using some of the neat tools contests like this are sure to produce.
I believe the 20 user service is the standard edition, which as you said, one would have to be brain dead to use in a sensetive environment. You may also have a point about the premier service, as Google does not give you full access to the infrastructure. However, all the results that I can find related to the question point to the same answer: Hire a HIPAA consultant in order to evaluate your environment, and how Google can fit in there.
Now I may be making some logical leaps, but if Google services were absolutely not HIPAA compliant, would it not be likely that somewhere, someone hired a HIPAA consultant, asked the exact same question, then posted the answer online? Again, this is all based on assumptions and lack of information, but I do not believe a flat out denial is the right answer either. I guess in following with the general theme of the responses, I would suggest hiring someone qualified in the matter.
This is true for your run-of-the-mill gmail account. Gmail is a service Google offers for free, and in return gets to put up some ads. From what I see in the article, the author would be more interested in using the paid ($50/account/year) service, which is obviously free of ads. Now, I am not sure what form the data takes on the Google servers, and what additional security precautions Google takes to ensure it stays private, but that is something that would need to be resolved between the admin and the Google team.
They're alive, and not doing too badly. I was actually planning on switching soon, as they were advertising 16Mbps service for way cheaper than Rogers. Of course if they're pulling crap like this, I'd rather stay with the evil I know and have learned to tolerate.
It does not help that Bell has a strangle hold on half of the Canadian internet infrastructure. Combine with Rogers, and trash likes this becomes common place with next to no recourse.
I would not be overly worried about id going closed source. While ZeniMax/Bethesda is not really known for opening up their source code, they do expose nearly all of the material through their editors. I would guess that they are not all that strongly averse to the idea of openness, it is likely more to do with demand not being high enough. That they haven't come down on projects like OpenMW may be telling too.
Each system has its own set of quirks and capabilities. Few will argue if I say that the PS3 has more horsepower under the hood; if you were to create a game that took full advantage of that, it would not likely run all that well on a 360, forcing you to rewrite a good bit of the game. Conversely, the 360 has an significantly different programming environment, which you could take advantage of to do some amazing stuff. So, in a similar vein, porting from native 360 to PS3 would take a very significant time investment.
Beyond that, I would wager that quite a few people really do own both a 360 and a PS3, especially now that they are starting to come down in price. If that is true, they would not lose all that much money. Even if it is not, I imagine Sony would really love to get some exclusives out to move more units, so I wouldn't be too surprised if they offered a good incentive here or there.
I remember seeing some articles where senior Sony execs essentially said the PS3 was made to be complex, so that is not really a good comparison. Microsoft has been pretty good about making DirectX easy to use. I imagine this release will continue with the trend.
You ignore another, more far reaching benefit to bionic eyes. There is a lot of information in the world that we, as humans, simply cannot access at this time, such as the most obvious examples of IR/UV light. When the technology is in its infancy we may not get as much of a return on the investment as we would for other developments, however, as it progresses it could open up entirely new realms of senses.
Wouldn't it be nice to see the sun set in a full spectrum, or have a monitor built into your eye, or maybe even have 360 degree field of vision by adding a few more cameras? On the other hand, a 100 MPG car would certainly beat what I'm driving right now, but in the end the monopolies that rule the industry would still raise prices to keep up their profit margins, and we would still be drilling for oil, albeit a bit slower.
I had a feeling I should not have added that statement if I actually wanted to make any sort of a point. I understand your situation completely because I am in an *identical* situation; in fact I could have just as easily written your original post, and meant *every* word of it.
This has nothing to do with being lazy, or being a troll. Instead it is everything to do with the way your brain is wired, what you consider useful, and how far you are willing to change in order to adapt to unnecessary changes. The point is that there are plenty of people out there that would have seen no issues in your situation, and probably more that would have given up in a tenth of the time.
I have friends for whom "finances, email, games, watching movies / listening to music, and wireless networking JUST WORK" in Linux. Conversely I don't even bother to try, because I know that I will not put forward the effort to get used to it, and it will be a horrible waste of my time. My main argument is that to assert that the effort is going to waste is very much overkill. Certainly there are areas that can be, and don't get me wrong, must be improved. However, there is no need to flat out dismiss Linux on the desktop as wasted effort. There is progress, and it will continue. Someday it might even get to the point where a user like you or I could switch freely between a Linux and Windows desktop.
You do have a point on duplicated effort though, but I would venture to say that this is a driving factor in the growth of Linux. The fact that there might be ten guys that each say, "You know what, I can do it better," drives the growth of the platform the same way an engineer's paycheck might drive the growth of Windows. It's not a direct correlation, but it helps provide that critical push.
How much of your experience was an issue with Linux, and how much was it the switch in environment? To put it another way, if you went home and had to use a Windows system set up by someone else for their own use, would it fail just as miserably?
There is a certain amount of effort necessary until you are used to your operating environment. There is the obvious effort of getting everything looking like you want it, including look-and-feel, positioning, and other first hand factors. Then there is the time spent getting used to the nuances of the system. Perhaps you are used to the Windows control panel, or you prefer the options on the Windows context menu. Then there is the fact that certain features are simply not available, or require a completely different scope of work; far easier to set up wow than to install winex, wow, then get it all working and patched up.
I disagree, though, with your assertion that Linux failed miserably. In fact I would venture as far as to say that you failed to adapt to the point where everything just worked. Nearly everything you mentioned can be done with Linux, some things arguably easier and better. Server management for instance is far simpler on Linux once you know what you are doing (I have been a professional Windows and Linux server admin during my life, so I do have a point of reference). However, forcing yourself to use an environment because of ideology is not the best plan, so just stick with what you're used to. There will always be Linux and Windows defenders harping on the virtues of their OS of choice, these people can be safely ignored in order to make your own decisions.
As a postscript, I am actually in a similar situation to you. My job is primarily software development, in addition to lots of other tech tasks, so I use Linux quite a bit. At home though, my Linux exposure is limited to cygwin and portable Ubuntu sitting on my XP install.
What are these relevant results? Should they run all the ideas though page-rank and search, "Best world saving idea?" Perhaps their indexer has a special feature for calculating world saving potential that they've been holding out on.
Not every problem can be solved by data analysis. Sure, you could probably eliminate 90% of entries reasonably quickly, but that still leaves 15k potentially good ideas that need to be looked through. Of course I imagine that some of the better ones would be a bit more than a page of text. Take an hour to read and grade each of these, and since there's $10 million at stake, you can bet they would want to go through some of these good ideas very closely, and you get enough work to keep 10 people busy for a good six months.
While I have no idea what caused the problem you're seeing, your best bet is to sent a report with your failing conditions directly to ATI/AMD and hope for the best. This may just as easily be a driver problem, as a problem with the chipset, or even just dirt in the PCIe port. Hell, maybe you just got really unlucky and managed to get a bad board.
If you're feeling extra adventurous, try creating a new partition and put on a fresh install of XP.
This working on the assumption that other nations choose to respect US intellectual property. Should the US stagnate in its innovation, it will likely become more viable to turn to other nations for technology. At that point it will just simply be a matter of ignoring US grandstanding, (and various sanctions that may be imposed.) Once there is a new leader in this area, you just move the various foundations to a new nation.
Obviously I hope this will not happen, but it never hurts to consider the possibility.
In my opinion the ad does what any ad sets out to do. It catches your attention with the rather simplistic style, which in unusual in this day and age. Once you are watching it, you are treated to a few key concepts. Finally, you see the topic of the ad. I find myself disagreeing with your statement that it tells anything about Linux being pretentious, but that can be argued back an forth for the next year.
It is true that if you were not at least somewhat familiar with Linux, the ad would not be particularly useful. However, the target audience for this would have some idea about what is going on. Perhaps next time they get to their annual/biannual/weekly Windows reinstall time, a memory this ad will surface, and lead to a search for "How to install Linux" instead of "How to pirate Windows."
The question really does fall to, "What is the target audience?" Until that is answered, any analysis is nothing more than opinion.
I'm not seeing it. Wouldn't most of the these 18-34, tech-saavy geeks be using predictive text anyway? I would certainly rather type in two known words: sci fi (8 keystrokes on my phone), than one brand new word: syfy (14 keystrokes). That's of course completely ignoring the SF argument you brought up.
This was only true for 10-15 years. The Russians have had SAM systems capable of intercepting Mach 4 targets since early to mid 80s. The current generation of SAMs from Russia can pull Mach 14, which would be more than enough to knock down pretty much everything that's not classified beyond all belief.
I find that the cost is one of the things that brings me to like the ETR as much as I do. My place of work is right on an exit from the 407, and the drive requires me to travel by 401 or 407. Since the 407 costs as much as it does, it is always relatively free, so I can always have a peaceful ride, without the headaches of the constant jams of alternate routes.
During rush hour however, even the toll highway gets a fair bit of traffic, so clearly they are priced right around where they want to be, given the demand in the area.
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Hear hear. I believe that there should be a better balance between how kids are taught, and how much time they can pursue their own methods of discovery. An issue now though, is that there are so few people actually qualified to teach kids properly, and of those, even fewer have the time and dedication to do so.
As technology improves, and computational speed as well as program complexity grows, the problem may simply solve itself. Perhaps in time, kids will have a personal computerized "teacher" that organizes lesson plans, teaches key concepts, and explains any questions about the world around us. With such a system, everyone can learn to harness their own talents. This, however, is likely to remain a dream for the next few decades at least.
In the meanwhile, the school systems should really be reworked to give kids more time on their own. I would not necessarily agree with complete free reign, but the ability to focus on their own interests would go a long way. And for the sake of all that is not stupid, don't try to live your own life through your kids. We've had generations upon generations of parents doing that, and it hasn't worked. Perhaps everyone should actually try to learn a lesson from this history.
Lastly, it would be really helpful to see some kind of reward system that drives kids to figure out what THEY are good at.
I believe it has something to do with IE list using proprietary technology, that Firefox, Opera, et al. would need to license before actually being able to use said list.
A bit late, but I'll throw my 2 cents in anyway. I'm a computer engineer at a big company, and I tend to work ridiculous hours. My method is really simple, though not applicable to a lot. During the week I essentially live at work. That means if I want to relax, surf the internet, or even play games late at night, I will do so. Considering that even with that, I spend well over my 40 hours at work, no one really complains.
I guess the moral is, get your job done, do it well, and enjoy doing it. If that means taking a few hours to slack off, then do just that, or if you feel you are working too much, then talk to your manager. If you keep working more than you can handle, eventually you will burn out. I would wager that your worth to the company is far greater if that does not happen.
Why do you feel like you have to compete? Unless you went in expecting a profit, which is unlikely given the open nature of the project, you are contributing to the progress of humanity.
Now, give a proper license, your product will likely be used by a few, and maybe even included into the PS3 and other cell based systems, spreading your name far and wide. So, look at this as an advertisement opportunity. If you release your project soon, you could put on your resume that you were among the first OpenCL implementers, and if it's used by other companies, that's just extra selling points. Hell, maybe even get in touch with Sony, and let them know that you have an open source project that they may be able to use.
Hard to say. The linked page says the contest was announced on May 27th, however, the full rules were only released on July 13th. A really dedicated group with a strong vision could have had several months to work on this, but most people are probably just starting up.
For the chunk of change they're talking about though, I'm sure a few people may be willing to put things on hold for a month in order to get something good out. Could also be a great job app if you want to work for Google.
Nice to see Google doing things like this. I got an Android the first day it was available in Canada, and have been doing my best to show it off to all my friends. Hopefully with stuff like this happening on Google's side, I will not need to wait too long until we're all on the same platform, and can actually start using some of the neat tools contests like this are sure to produce.
I believe the 20 user service is the standard edition, which as you said, one would have to be brain dead to use in a sensetive environment. You may also have a point about the premier service, as Google does not give you full access to the infrastructure. However, all the results that I can find related to the question point to the same answer: Hire a HIPAA consultant in order to evaluate your environment, and how Google can fit in there.
Now I may be making some logical leaps, but if Google services were absolutely not HIPAA compliant, would it not be likely that somewhere, someone hired a HIPAA consultant, asked the exact same question, then posted the answer online? Again, this is all based on assumptions and lack of information, but I do not believe a flat out denial is the right answer either. I guess in following with the general theme of the responses, I would suggest hiring someone qualified in the matter.
This is true for your run-of-the-mill gmail account. Gmail is a service Google offers for free, and in return gets to put up some ads. From what I see in the article, the author would be more interested in using the paid ($50/account/year) service, which is obviously free of ads. Now, I am not sure what form the data takes on the Google servers, and what additional security precautions Google takes to ensure it stays private, but that is something that would need to be resolved between the admin and the Google team.
They're alive, and not doing too badly. I was actually planning on switching soon, as they were advertising 16Mbps service for way cheaper than Rogers. Of course if they're pulling crap like this, I'd rather stay with the evil I know and have learned to tolerate.
It does not help that Bell has a strangle hold on half of the Canadian internet infrastructure. Combine with Rogers, and trash likes this becomes common place with next to no recourse.
I would not be overly worried about id going closed source. While ZeniMax/Bethesda is not really known for opening up their source code, they do expose nearly all of the material through their editors. I would guess that they are not all that strongly averse to the idea of openness, it is likely more to do with demand not being high enough. That they haven't come down on projects like OpenMW may be telling too.
Each system has its own set of quirks and capabilities. Few will argue if I say that the PS3 has more horsepower under the hood; if you were to create a game that took full advantage of that, it would not likely run all that well on a 360, forcing you to rewrite a good bit of the game. Conversely, the 360 has an significantly different programming environment, which you could take advantage of to do some amazing stuff. So, in a similar vein, porting from native 360 to PS3 would take a very significant time investment.
Beyond that, I would wager that quite a few people really do own both a 360 and a PS3, especially now that they are starting to come down in price. If that is true, they would not lose all that much money. Even if it is not, I imagine Sony would really love to get some exclusives out to move more units, so I wouldn't be too surprised if they offered a good incentive here or there.
I remember seeing some articles where senior Sony execs essentially said the PS3 was made to be complex, so that is not really a good comparison. Microsoft has been pretty good about making DirectX easy to use. I imagine this release will continue with the trend.
You ignore another, more far reaching benefit to bionic eyes. There is a lot of information in the world that we, as humans, simply cannot access at this time, such as the most obvious examples of IR/UV light. When the technology is in its infancy we may not get as much of a return on the investment as we would for other developments, however, as it progresses it could open up entirely new realms of senses.
Wouldn't it be nice to see the sun set in a full spectrum, or have a monitor built into your eye, or maybe even have 360 degree field of vision by adding a few more cameras? On the other hand, a 100 MPG car would certainly beat what I'm driving right now, but in the end the monopolies that rule the industry would still raise prices to keep up their profit margins, and we would still be drilling for oil, albeit a bit slower.
While they did include 3.5b4, the results require a bit of browsing on your part. You can find them on the Peacekeeper Statistics Page.
Would have to be a rather interesting company. Certainly not one I have ever worked with.
I had a feeling I should not have added that statement if I actually wanted to make any sort of a point. I understand your situation completely because I am in an *identical* situation; in fact I could have just as easily written your original post, and meant *every* word of it.
This has nothing to do with being lazy, or being a troll. Instead it is everything to do with the way your brain is wired, what you consider useful, and how far you are willing to change in order to adapt to unnecessary changes. The point is that there are plenty of people out there that would have seen no issues in your situation, and probably more that would have given up in a tenth of the time.
I have friends for whom "finances, email, games, watching movies / listening to music, and wireless networking JUST WORK" in Linux. Conversely I don't even bother to try, because I know that I will not put forward the effort to get used to it, and it will be a horrible waste of my time. My main argument is that to assert that the effort is going to waste is very much overkill. Certainly there are areas that can be, and don't get me wrong, must be improved. However, there is no need to flat out dismiss Linux on the desktop as wasted effort. There is progress, and it will continue. Someday it might even get to the point where a user like you or I could switch freely between a Linux and Windows desktop.
You do have a point on duplicated effort though, but I would venture to say that this is a driving factor in the growth of Linux. The fact that there might be ten guys that each say, "You know what, I can do it better," drives the growth of the platform the same way an engineer's paycheck might drive the growth of Windows. It's not a direct correlation, but it helps provide that critical push.
How much of your experience was an issue with Linux, and how much was it the switch in environment? To put it another way, if you went home and had to use a Windows system set up by someone else for their own use, would it fail just as miserably?
There is a certain amount of effort necessary until you are used to your operating environment. There is the obvious effort of getting everything looking like you want it, including look-and-feel, positioning, and other first hand factors. Then there is the time spent getting used to the nuances of the system. Perhaps you are used to the Windows control panel, or you prefer the options on the Windows context menu. Then there is the fact that certain features are simply not available, or require a completely different scope of work; far easier to set up wow than to install winex, wow, then get it all working and patched up.
I disagree, though, with your assertion that Linux failed miserably. In fact I would venture as far as to say that you failed to adapt to the point where everything just worked. Nearly everything you mentioned can be done with Linux, some things arguably easier and better. Server management for instance is far simpler on Linux once you know what you are doing (I have been a professional Windows and Linux server admin during my life, so I do have a point of reference). However, forcing yourself to use an environment because of ideology is not the best plan, so just stick with what you're used to. There will always be Linux and Windows defenders harping on the virtues of their OS of choice, these people can be safely ignored in order to make your own decisions.
As a postscript, I am actually in a similar situation to you. My job is primarily software development, in addition to lots of other tech tasks, so I use Linux quite a bit. At home though, my Linux exposure is limited to cygwin and portable Ubuntu sitting on my XP install.
What are these relevant results? Should they run all the ideas though page-rank and search, "Best world saving idea?" Perhaps their indexer has a special feature for calculating world saving potential that they've been holding out on.
Not every problem can be solved by data analysis. Sure, you could probably eliminate 90% of entries reasonably quickly, but that still leaves 15k potentially good ideas that need to be looked through. Of course I imagine that some of the better ones would be a bit more than a page of text. Take an hour to read and grade each of these, and since there's $10 million at stake, you can bet they would want to go through some of these good ideas very closely, and you get enough work to keep 10 people busy for a good six months.
While I have no idea what caused the problem you're seeing, your best bet is to sent a report with your failing conditions directly to ATI/AMD and hope for the best. This may just as easily be a driver problem, as a problem with the chipset, or even just dirt in the PCIe port. Hell, maybe you just got really unlucky and managed to get a bad board.
If you're feeling extra adventurous, try creating a new partition and put on a fresh install of XP.
This working on the assumption that other nations choose to respect US intellectual property. Should the US stagnate in its innovation, it will likely become more viable to turn to other nations for technology. At that point it will just simply be a matter of ignoring US grandstanding, (and various sanctions that may be imposed.) Once there is a new leader in this area, you just move the various foundations to a new nation.
Obviously I hope this will not happen, but it never hurts to consider the possibility.
In my opinion the ad does what any ad sets out to do. It catches your attention with the rather simplistic style, which in unusual in this day and age. Once you are watching it, you are treated to a few key concepts. Finally, you see the topic of the ad. I find myself disagreeing with your statement that it tells anything about Linux being pretentious, but that can be argued back an forth for the next year.
It is true that if you were not at least somewhat familiar with Linux, the ad would not be particularly useful. However, the target audience for this would have some idea about what is going on. Perhaps next time they get to their annual/biannual/weekly Windows reinstall time, a memory this ad will surface, and lead to a search for "How to install Linux" instead of "How to pirate Windows."
The question really does fall to, "What is the target audience?" Until that is answered, any analysis is nothing more than opinion.
I'm not seeing it. Wouldn't most of the these 18-34, tech-saavy geeks be using predictive text anyway? I would certainly rather type in two known words: sci fi (8 keystrokes on my phone), than one brand new word: syfy (14 keystrokes). That's of course completely ignoring the SF argument you brought up.
The usual sources for this sort of info are not a mystery - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SA-21 and http://www.google.ca/search?q=SA-21
Range is up to 400km.
This was only true for 10-15 years. The Russians have had SAM systems capable of intercepting Mach 4 targets since early to mid 80s. The current generation of SAMs from Russia can pull Mach 14, which would be more than enough to knock down pretty much everything that's not classified beyond all belief.
I find that the cost is one of the things that brings me to like the ETR as much as I do. My place of work is right on an exit from the 407, and the drive requires me to travel by 401 or 407. Since the 407 costs as much as it does, it is always relatively free, so I can always have a peaceful ride, without the headaches of the constant jams of alternate routes.
During rush hour however, even the toll highway gets a fair bit of traffic, so clearly they are priced right around where they want to be, given the demand in the area.