More than a decade... I saw a working demonstration of a such a system in 1992 using the fixed locations of public radio masts as triangulation points. In densely populated areas, such as Cambridge, UK, the system could resolve location to within 50cm if I remember correctly.
Killed off by the PC. Their attempt at expanding by building the Acorn Business Machine bombed massively as it was proprietary with little support from software vendors who were preoccupied with writing for the burgeoning PC market. They then had some success with the Archimedes, which was kind of like the Amiga, only not as much fun. Again the success of the PC architecture killed out. But then they won massively with their custom chip design subsiduary, ARM (Acorn Risc Machines) when mobile phones started becoming popular. Almost every mobile phone or PDA has an ARM chip, or licenced ARM technology inside it.
Computer science is a very valid subject, but the problems faced by the software industry have changed since the CS curricula were originally devised. Basic knowledge of algebra, logic and data structures is good to know. But knowing how to get a 20% improvement in execution speed of an algorithm is now less important than knowing how to reduce calls to the System Help desk by 20%. Knowing about project management, the problems of estimating project cost and time, is now possibly the most useful skill to have in the IT industry. Educationally this requires knowledge of statistics, psychology and economics. If logic and discrete maths is what interests you, then I would suggest your place in the IT industry is going to be related to low level device drivers and kernel development. In this case focus on physics, electrical engineering and maths in addition to traditional CS skills. If you want a 'job' in IT then you need to focus on project and risk management, psychology and economics (and possibly statistics )in addition to CS. I'd hazard a guess that for the foreseable future, software development is going to be undertaken in India. The IT jobs in the US/EU will be in the domain of managing that off-shore code development. This involves ensuring the requirements passed to the developers are complete and correct. That the design of the software is complete and correct. And that the returned code is complete, without bugs, and delivered to cost and schedule. No, this isnt traditional Computer Science, but closer to what is understood as Software Engineering. The world and the IT industry has changed. The problems that need to be solved have changed. Either what is understood as Computer Science needs to change, or a new subject, probably Software Engineering, will evolve to satisfy the needs of the wider world. Lamenting the loss of long loved, traditional skills taught as part of the CS curriculum is as useful and relevant as lamenting the loss of the skill necessary to design slide rules.
Jobs are going to highly qualified and motivated staff abroad. Obvious solution - provide incentives for those qualified and motivated staff to come to the US and keep the work here.
Yet the same article bitches about all these qualified and motivated foreigners coming over on H-1b visas and taking all the jobs. So guess what ? Instead of emigrating, working in the US, supporting the US economy and paying US taxes. They stay at home, take the US jobs anyway, dont pay US tax and dont spend their pay in US shops.
The work will go to the best trained who provide the best value for money. Train up the local workforce and drop their pay, or entice those pesky foreigners to the US, or watch those high tech jobs sail eastwards.
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This is the only website I have ever paid a subscription for. Within one week of discovering it, I had reached for my credit card.
As they expand their pay-for services, such as printing and DVD back-up I've no doubt I will be happily paying for those too.
Nicholas Bingham (Vice Chair) For twelve years President-International of Sony Television Entertainment, Sony Pictures' division responsible for world-wide programme sales and distribution, new channel development and management and local programme production, Nick Bingam was also chairman of VIVA TV, the German music TV channel, in which Sony Pictures was a major shareholder. He is currently Chairman of First4Internet, a software company specialising in advanced information security technology for the internet and copy control and DRM solutions for the Music and Movie industries; and Director of the On Demand Group, a company specialising in broadcasting and new media development and management, in particular the establishment of PPV, NVOD and VOD services in the UK, Europe and Japan. Nick gained an MBA at INSEAD, has lived and worked in Spain, France, Italy the US and Japan.
If you want to use external software, please choose one according to set of well defined criteria relating to functionality, security and cost. Don't just choose the one made by your friends current company.
Good for you ! How difficult do you think it will be to hack the 'smart chip' held on the card ? How sensitive do you think the biometric match will be in order to minimise the false negative matches that will hold up the queue in the bank / post office ?
I'm certain that by stealing your driving licence with embedded biometrics I could empty your bank account, since 'he matches the info on the card'. Better a simple human operated system powered by suspicioius old ladies, than a complex technological one operated by fallible machines.
You are obliged to carry it at all times. Not a single person has ever made a fuss about it Then you are white and middle classed. I spent many years living and working in Paris and was appalled to see blacks and arabs routinely pulled over for questioning and production of papers. Being white I was never asked once.
Friends of mine of Cambodian origin were unable to leave their home without ensuring they were carrying their papers, since they were routinely stopped.
If you choose not to make a fuss about such a situation that is your choice. I for one refuse to submit to such a situation.
And if you believe that identity theft can be prevented by simply presenting an ID card, then I hope for all our sakes that you are neither a policeman or banker.
Statistical analysis of word (token) frequency works great in a closed domain set, such as the Enron corpus. But once you scale up to the ISP level it falls down horribly. Why ? The size of the token database increases massively to the point where it becomes un maintainable. Every spelling mistake, word variant, not to mention foreign language, gets included. Eventually you are unable to separate the wood from the trees. Let alone make statistically significant assertions about a single message. And lets not mention the fact that all the work on detecting deception in correspondance hase been done on English language text. Those pesky al-Qaeda types tend to speak Arabic. So before you can even begin to detect dodgy emails written by al-Qaeda, you need to construct a written arabic parser. Then you need access to a large corpus of Arabic emails (if you have one I'd be very interested too). Then you need to research the lexical rules that tend to signify deceptive arabic. Its an interesting problem, but not even trained and experienced intelligence operatives are able to routinely detect deceptive correspondance, so coding that algorithm is quite tricky.
You don't see historical value here ? How has the 2nd century view of Christ changed from the modern interpretation ? Your example suggests that only 150 years after his death Christ was viewed as a super-human avenging spirit. 2000 years later we view him as a meek and mild self-sacrificing man. Yet the text of the gospels remains them same. If you fail to see any interest here, I suspect you are more interested in reiterating the rhetoric of your teachers rather than studying early Christianity and interpreting the scriptures in the context of the epoch in which they were written and the church founded.
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Whether you pay $1 000 000 or $20 000 for a patent or write it yourself, it wont make any difference. If you are succesful people will contest it.
So get something on paper, submit as a patent, then get out there and try and sell the software/idea or whatever. If its good someone will buy the rights from you leaving you to make money from your consultancy services as the great guru who thought of it.
Hiding it under the bed in case someone steals it, will ensure the idea is safe but you will never make any money.
Get out there and give it a go.
Dont assume that the 'open source programmers' are not going to be closely associated with the hardware manufacturers.
You could view this as a way for the implementors to share code between them so the public gets a higher quality product. More in-house programmers from potentially competing companies pool together to write better code with public peer-review system. Plus programmers can move freely in the industry domain, since they dont have to spend months getting up to speed with code they have never seen before.
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More than a decade... I saw a working demonstration of a such a system in 1992 using the fixed locations of public radio masts as triangulation points. In densely populated areas, such as Cambridge, UK, the system could resolve location to within 50cm if I remember correctly.
This is not a new idea.
Killed off by the PC. Their attempt at expanding by building the Acorn Business Machine bombed massively as it was proprietary with little support from software vendors who were preoccupied with writing for the burgeoning PC market.
They then had some success with the Archimedes, which was kind of like the Amiga, only not as much fun. Again the success of the PC architecture killed out.
But then they won massively with their custom chip design subsiduary, ARM (Acorn Risc Machines) when mobile phones started becoming popular. Almost every mobile phone or PDA has an ARM chip, or licenced ARM technology inside it.
Computer science is a very valid subject, but the problems faced by the software industry have changed since the CS curricula were originally devised. Basic knowledge of algebra, logic and data structures is good to know. But knowing how to get a 20% improvement in execution speed of an algorithm is now less important than knowing how to reduce calls to the System Help desk by 20%.
Knowing about project management, the problems of estimating project cost and time, is now possibly the most useful skill to have in the IT industry. Educationally this requires knowledge of statistics, psychology and economics.
If logic and discrete maths is what interests you, then I would suggest your place in the IT industry is going to be related to low level device drivers and kernel development. In this case focus on physics, electrical engineering and maths in addition to traditional CS skills.
If you want a 'job' in IT then you need to focus on project and risk management, psychology and economics (and possibly statistics )in addition to CS.
I'd hazard a guess that for the foreseable future, software development is going to be undertaken in India. The IT jobs in the US/EU will be in the domain of managing that off-shore code development. This involves ensuring the requirements passed to the developers are complete and correct. That the design of the software is complete and correct. And that the returned code is complete, without bugs, and delivered to cost and schedule.
No, this isnt traditional Computer Science, but closer to what is understood as Software Engineering. The world and the IT industry has changed. The problems that need to be solved have changed. Either what is understood as Computer Science needs to change, or a new subject, probably Software Engineering, will evolve to satisfy the needs of the wider world. Lamenting the loss of long loved, traditional skills taught as part of the CS curriculum is as useful and relevant as lamenting the loss of the skill necessary to design slide rules.
Jobs are going to highly qualified and motivated staff abroad. Obvious solution - provide incentives for those qualified and motivated staff to come to the US and keep the work here.
Yet the same article bitches about all these qualified and motivated foreigners coming over on H-1b visas and taking all the jobs. So guess what ? Instead of emigrating, working in the US, supporting the US economy and paying US taxes. They stay at home, take the US jobs anyway, dont pay US tax and dont spend their pay in US shops.
The work will go to the best trained who provide the best value for money. Train up the local workforce and drop their pay, or entice those pesky foreigners to the US, or watch those high tech jobs sail eastwards.
This is the only website I have ever paid a subscription for. Within one week of discovering it, I had reached for my credit card.
As they expand their pay-for services, such as printing and DVD back-up I've no doubt I will be happily paying for those too.
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If you want to use external software, please choose one according to set of well defined criteria relating to functionality, security and cost. Don't just choose the one made by your friends current company.
Good for you ! How difficult do you think it will be to hack the 'smart chip' held on the card ? How sensitive do you think the biometric match will be in order to minimise the false negative matches that will hold up the queue in the bank / post office ?
I'm certain that by stealing your driving licence with embedded biometrics I could empty your bank account, since 'he matches the info on the card'. Better a simple human operated system powered by suspicioius old ladies, than a complex technological one operated by fallible machines.
Then you are white and middle classed. I spent many years living and working in Paris and was appalled to see blacks and arabs routinely pulled over for questioning and production of papers. Being white I was never asked once.
Friends of mine of Cambodian origin were unable to leave their home without ensuring they were carrying their papers, since they were routinely stopped.
If you choose not to make a fuss about such a situation that is your choice. I for one refuse to submit to such a situation.
And if you believe that identity theft can be prevented by simply presenting an ID card, then I hope for all our sakes that you are neither a policeman or banker.
Statistical analysis of word (token) frequency works great in a closed domain set, such as the Enron corpus. But once you scale up to the ISP level it falls down horribly.
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Why ? The size of the token database increases massively to the point where it becomes un maintainable. Every spelling mistake, word variant, not to mention foreign language, gets included. Eventually you are unable to separate the wood from the trees. Let alone make statistically significant assertions about a single message.
And lets not mention the fact that all the work on detecting deception in correspondance hase been done on English language text. Those pesky al-Qaeda types tend to speak Arabic. So before you can even begin to detect dodgy emails written by al-Qaeda, you need to construct a written arabic parser. Then you need access to a large corpus of Arabic emails (if you have one I'd be very interested too). Then you need to research the lexical rules that tend to signify deceptive arabic.
Its an interesting problem, but not even trained and experienced intelligence operatives are able to routinely detect deceptive correspondance, so coding that algorithm is quite tricky.
This is a good place to start
http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/HICSS.
You don't see historical value here ? How has the 2nd century view of Christ changed from the modern interpretation ?
Your example suggests that only 150 years after his death Christ was viewed as a super-human avenging spirit. 2000 years later we view him as a meek and mild self-sacrificing man. Yet the text of the gospels remains them same.
If you fail to see any interest here, I suspect you are more interested in reiterating the rhetoric of your teachers rather than studying early Christianity and interpreting the scriptures in the context of the epoch in which they were written and the church founded.
Anyone have the full disposition ? What IP addresses are the BPI asking to divulge the identity of ?
Not that I'm worried or anything.
I'm not sure if it "links business processes together", but it does get quite sticky if you dont clear it up prompty when it spills.
This is local software for local people, there is nothing for you here.
If you're in the UK, you might be interested in Oxdigital's broadband uncapped upload and download. Not all ISP's are the same, just shop around a bit www.oxdigital.com
Whether you pay $1 000 000 or $20 000 for a patent or write it yourself, it wont make any difference. If you are succesful people will contest it.
So get something on paper, submit as a patent, then get out there and try and sell the software/idea or whatever. If its good someone will buy the rights from you leaving you to make money from your consultancy services as the great guru who thought of it.
Hiding it under the bed in case someone steals it, will ensure the idea is safe but you will never make any money.
Get out there and give it a go.
Dont assume that the 'open source programmers' are not going to be closely associated with the hardware manufacturers.
You could view this as a way for the implementors to share code between them so the public gets a higher quality product. More in-house programmers from potentially competing companies pool together to write better code with public peer-review system. Plus programmers can move freely in the industry domain, since they dont have to spend months getting up to speed with code they have never seen before.
"It potentially could remain airborne until its parts wear out, NASA said. "
So it can stay airborn until it falls out of the sky. Brilliant, please dont fly one above me.