The leaked cables reveal a diplomatic culture that really seems like something out of high school. Cliques of kids disparaging other cliques, posturing in public while saying something else in private, gossip, embarrassment, resentment, favoritism. They've been quite a eye-opener and I'm sure they'll be the subject of studies for years to come. This sort of stuff should never have been secret, and the world is a better place for what Wikileaks has done.
The problem with the semantic web is taxonomy. Taxonomy is inherently based on a point of view, which is incompatible with the wild individualism of the Internet. A good example is the Usenet newsgroup name space, which engendered countless destructive wars between news admins and users in the 1990s, all over what to name a newsgroup and how it fit in to the hierarchy imagined by the news admins.
Of course the news admins almost always won, since they held the power. But on the open Web, nobody has the power to enforce a strict taxonomic classification of web sites and their associated semantic content. The only places that provide the centralized authority necessary to enforce that kind of organization are the walled gardens like Facebook, so I doubt that Tim will ever see his dream realized.
I believe this sentence is a reference to the Java TCK conformance test suites. Java is supposed to be open source, but you can't claim to have a conforming Java implementation unless you pass the various TCKs. But the TCKs themselves are not open source and you have to pay for a license to use it on your Java implementation. This has always been Sun's (and now Oracle's) big stick.
to me is that fact that graphene allows physicists to observe relativistic effects using particles that are moving at only 1000/km sec as opposed to the high energies required to accelerate particles to the 300,000km/sec speed of light in a vacuum. From TFA: "Now any laboratory equipped with carbon, electricity and wires can do it. "
It's amazing to think that physicists working in small teams with relatively inexpensive equipment might possibly produce observations and data rivaling that produced by something like the LHC. OTOH, it sort of reminds me of the whole cold fusion fiasco.
1. Is Comcast going to give me unlimited IPv6 addresses? How will that work through my router? Do I now need to announce every device to Comcast?
You get a subnet, and your router routes the whole subnet. Just like with IPv4, coincidentally.
Do you really believe that Comcast is going to give just anybody a whole subnet? To them that's an extra service, they're going to charge more for it. If there's a way for Comcast to charge for every single device in a household, they're going to do it. What's to stop them? Now, if only there was a way to make it look like you're only using a single IP address...
I can corroborate this from the client perspective -- I have never seen an embedded HTML5 video actually run in Firefox 3.5 or 3.6 on either Windows, Linux or OSX no matter how many websites I've tried. When Mozilla first announced support for the html5 video tag I was surprised that none of the videos they presented as examples worked either. WTF?
Ran across this interesting old movie theatre PSA at the Internet Archive:
http://www.archive.org/details/WeirdAntiCableTvPsa
So if CATV was originally invented for regular broadcasts, I wonder when it started to morph into a competitor?
Used to do that with Emacs in the '90s
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I would just do a M-x make-frame-on-display and give it a remote X11 Display string. An Emacs frame would appear on the remote display and my partner and I could edit the same code simultaneously, save it to my local host, compile, test, etc. If we typed at the same time then the keystrokes got intermixed, but all that took was some coordinating over a headset. This was all over a corporate LAN and security wasn't a concern of course, but it seems like it should be doable over the open internet with the appropriate ssh tunneling.
I think I would actually be more uncomfortable with a government that knew so much about my economic activity that it knew exactly how much I owe it. The tax return system in the US is voluntary for a reason and relies on some modicum of honesty to work. Perhaps that's its main problem, but the alternative seems much more draconian.
Humans are only able to perceive fine detail directly along the gaze vector: peripheral vision is mostly restricted to general shapes, colors, and motion. So a rendering system, like a FPS game, that tracked the gaze vector could determine where in the 3D scene a user's gaze was directed, and render the geometry and textures enclosed by the cone centered around that vector to a very fine degree of precision while leaving the rest of the scene very coarse. The user would perceive that high degree of detail everywhere as the eye scans the display frame by frame while the system is actually rendering many fewer polygons and pixels.
China's brutal suppression of dissent wasn't enough to make Google unwilling to operate a censored search service there. But apparently an attack on their own infrastructure and security is.
That's pretty understandable behavior for a profit-making corporation, but the prevailing conclusion here that Google is being some sort of corporate hero is misplaced.
I read a newspaper or magazine once and then recycle it, so I see a future incarnation of the Kindle (larger, flexible) as ideal for a periodical delivery mechanism.
If you absolutely need to be contacted in an emergency, why aren't you using a pager? They have much better penetration into buildings anyway, and they really vibrate quite well. As for socializing over food at a restaurant, that's fine and well as long as the public nature of the space is respected. The trouble with one-sided cell phone conversations is that the user is imposing his or her personal space onto the public.
Seems the spammers are hiring boat loads of people to train their CAPTCHA-breaking software. Google and the like could do the same and hire call centers to screen applications for an email account. You want a gmail account, call a 1-800 number that connects you to some vast call center in India.
I'm reminded of Java 3D as well. Unlike Java 2D, the classes to support a 3D plug-in never made it into the base JRE. It was basically impossible to convince users to download the 3D extensions at any sort of large scale, so mass deployment of Java 3D applets became impractical. The JRE itself had deployment problems as well, which led to the failure of Java applets to catch on in general.
The helmet also comes in handy if you make a mistake exiting the aircraft and your head comes into rapid contact with some part of the exterior of the aircraft... or if you happen to have a head-on collision with another skydiver while doing relative work during freefall.
I think that's part of the reason I was never a fan of Seinfeld or other comedians with this style of "observational comedy". The humor is often based on ignorance, and if you're not ignorant of the subject of the joke, you just get angry at the ignorance.
It seems to me that, given the soaring cost of health care, the industry needs to be released from the artificial scarcity of qualified professionals driven by gate-keeping organizations such as the AMA. For most routine medical care we don't need people who have gone through the excruciating and expensive process of four years
of medical school followed by the hazing of residency.
Of course surgeons, medical researchers, oncologists and other highly specialized professionals will need the full training that all doctors get now -- but how often does the general public need their services, and how many people with that amount of training do we we really need to provide quality health care for everybody?
It's already happening in some respects. I get almost all my routine medical care from PAs (physicians' assistants) and nurses and very rarely actually see an MD. The process should be expanded IMO.
I can't understand why elections take place on a day when most people have to go to work. Sure, the polls are open before and after the conventional work day, but the fact of the matter is, most ordinary people have a hard time finding that extra time to go and vote and still be able to get in their 4 hours of TV viewing.
Imagine instead that everybody gets that Tuesday off and only needs to present their ballot receipt to their employer to verify that they actually voted. We would have a lot more people able to help out with the voting process, and tons more people coming to the polls just to get out of work. People may actually spend an hour or two of their new free time looking at the issues behind the candidates.
We honor our veterans and our workers with paid national holidays -- why can't we do the patriotic thing and honor our voters and ordinary citizens as well?
* Google's monopoly will hurt businesses wanting to buy web ads.
* Microsoft's monopoly will hurt individuals who use desktop products.
Let's see, the MS monopoly hurts consumers, while the Goog monopoly hurts business. I'm betting that the concerns of business will override consumers' interests and we'll see a lot more action against Big G than we ever saw with MS.
Um, you can do that in Linux with a simple hard link instead of a symbolic link. You could do that in Unix with hard links before symbolic links were even invented and before there was such as thing as Linux, MacOS, OS/2, or MS-Windows.
No, the poster is talking about the desktop GUI, not command lines. Indeed, in the Linux and Windows OSes I've used, desktop links and shortcuts get broken if you rename the target file.
The OS/2 Workplace Shell was an object-oriented desktop GUI and was the most valuable and innovative component of OS/2 for consumers. Today's desktops are a lot prettier but nowhere near the fuctionality and ease of use of the WPS. IMO Team OS/2 should be focussed on trying to re-implement or clone the Workplace Shell instead of offering bounties to port apps to OS/2 proper.
And, BTW, DVD was supposed to have superseded CD by now.
Hasn't it already? The only time I ever get a CD is when Amazon doesn't have the music I want as an MP3 download, and that's pretty rare. I can't even remember the last time I burned a CD as opposed to a DVD.
Why attach a keyboard, mouse, and display if you can just attach it to your existing network? The device has an ethernet port and USB. It would make a cool little server for streaming, hosting a small web site, or any of a bunch of utility tasks. I was actually thinking it would be good upgrade from my Linksys NSLU2.
You guys realize that the system being demoed here, the NVIDIA Quadro Plex 2100 D4 Visual Computing System, with 4 next-generation Quadro GPUs, starts at $10,750, right?
http://www.nvidia.com/object/io_1218520087945.html
The Fahrenheit scale was specifically designed to be useful for describing climatic temperatures, 0 being about the coldest and 100 about the hottest temperatures experienced in the temperate climate zones on planet Earth. It makes a hell of a lot more sense for that purpose than Celsius. It gets a lot colder than 0 Celsius in most parts of the world, and never gets as hot as 100, so the useful range for describing today's current weather is rather restricted in Celsius.
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The leaked cables reveal a diplomatic culture that really seems like something out of high school. Cliques of kids disparaging other cliques, posturing in public while saying something else in private, gossip, embarrassment, resentment, favoritism. They've been quite a eye-opener and I'm sure they'll be the subject of studies for years to come. This sort of stuff should never have been secret, and the world is a better place for what Wikileaks has done.
The problem with the semantic web is taxonomy. Taxonomy is inherently based on a point of view, which is incompatible with the wild individualism of the Internet. A good example is the Usenet newsgroup name space, which engendered countless destructive wars between news admins and users in the 1990s, all over what to name a newsgroup and how it fit in to the hierarchy imagined by the news admins.
Of course the news admins almost always won, since they held the power. But on the open Web, nobody has the power to enforce a strict taxonomic classification of web sites and their associated semantic content. The only places that provide the centralized authority necessary to enforce that kind of organization are the walled gardens like Facebook, so I doubt that Tim will ever see his dream realized.
I believe this sentence is a reference to the Java TCK conformance test suites. Java is supposed to be open source, but you can't claim to have a conforming Java implementation unless you pass the various TCKs. But the TCKs themselves are not open source and you have to pay for a license to use it on your Java implementation. This has always been Sun's (and now Oracle's) big stick.
It's amazing to think that physicists working in small teams with relatively inexpensive equipment might possibly produce observations and data rivaling that produced by something like the LHC. OTOH, it sort of reminds me of the whole cold fusion fiasco.
1. Is Comcast going to give me unlimited IPv6 addresses? How will that work through my router? Do I now need to announce every device to Comcast?
You get a subnet, and your router routes the whole subnet. Just like with IPv4, coincidentally.
Do you really believe that Comcast is going to give just anybody a whole subnet? To them that's an extra service, they're going to charge more for it. If there's a way for Comcast to charge for every single device in a household, they're going to do it. What's to stop them? Now, if only there was a way to make it look like you're only using a single IP address...
I can corroborate this from the client perspective -- I have never seen an embedded HTML5 video actually run in Firefox 3.5 or 3.6 on either Windows, Linux or OSX no matter how many websites I've tried. When Mozilla first announced support for the html5 video tag I was surprised that none of the videos they presented as examples worked either. WTF?
Ran across this interesting old movie theatre PSA at the Internet Archive: http://www.archive.org/details/WeirdAntiCableTvPsa So if CATV was originally invented for regular broadcasts, I wonder when it started to morph into a competitor?
I would just do a M-x make-frame-on-display and give it a remote X11 Display string. An Emacs frame would appear on the remote display and my partner and I could edit the same code simultaneously, save it to my local host, compile, test, etc. If we typed at the same time then the keystrokes got intermixed, but all that took was some coordinating over a headset. This was all over a corporate LAN and security wasn't a concern of course, but it seems like it should be doable over the open internet with the appropriate ssh tunneling.
I think I would actually be more uncomfortable with a government that knew so much about my economic activity that it knew exactly how much I owe it. The tax return system in the US is voluntary for a reason and relies on some modicum of honesty to work. Perhaps that's its main problem, but the alternative seems much more draconian.
Readability often works well for condensing slide shows like this to a single page: http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/
Humans are only able to perceive fine detail directly along the gaze vector: peripheral vision is mostly restricted to general shapes, colors, and motion. So a rendering system, like a FPS game, that tracked the gaze vector could determine where in the 3D scene a user's gaze was directed, and render the geometry and textures enclosed by the cone centered around that vector to a very fine degree of precision while leaving the rest of the scene very coarse. The user would perceive that high degree of detail everywhere as the eye scans the display frame by frame while the system is actually rendering many fewer polygons and pixels.
China's brutal suppression of dissent wasn't enough to make Google unwilling to operate a censored search service there. But apparently an attack on their own infrastructure and security is.
That's pretty understandable behavior for a profit-making corporation, but the prevailing conclusion here that Google is being some sort of corporate hero is misplaced.
I read a newspaper or magazine once and then recycle it, so I see a future incarnation of the Kindle (larger, flexible) as ideal for a periodical delivery mechanism.
If you absolutely need to be contacted in an emergency, why aren't you using a pager? They have much better penetration into buildings anyway, and they really vibrate quite well. As for socializing over food at a restaurant, that's fine and well as long as the public nature of the space is respected. The trouble with one-sided cell phone conversations is that the user is imposing his or her personal space onto the public.
Seems the spammers are hiring boat loads of people to train their CAPTCHA-breaking software. Google and the like could do the same and hire call centers to screen applications for an email account. You want a gmail account, call a 1-800 number that connects you to some vast call center in India.
I'm reminded of Java 3D as well. Unlike Java 2D, the classes to support a 3D plug-in never made it into the base JRE. It was basically impossible to convince users to download the 3D extensions at any sort of large scale, so mass deployment of Java 3D applets became impractical. The JRE itself had deployment problems as well, which led to the failure of Java applets to catch on in general.
The helmet also comes in handy if you make a mistake exiting the aircraft and your head comes into rapid contact with some part of the exterior of the aircraft... or if you happen to have a head-on collision with another skydiver while doing relative work during freefall.
I think that's part of the reason I was never a fan of Seinfeld or other comedians with this style of "observational comedy". The humor is often based on ignorance, and if you're not ignorant of the subject of the joke, you just get angry at the ignorance.
It seems to me that, given the soaring cost of health care, the industry needs to be released from the artificial scarcity of qualified professionals driven by gate-keeping organizations such as the AMA. For most routine medical care we don't need people who have gone through the excruciating and expensive process of four years of medical school followed by the hazing of residency.
Of course surgeons, medical researchers, oncologists and other highly specialized professionals will need the full training that all doctors get now -- but how often does the general public need their services, and how many people with that amount of training do we we really need to provide quality health care for everybody?
It's already happening in some respects. I get almost all my routine medical care from PAs (physicians' assistants) and nurses and very rarely actually see an MD. The process should be expanded IMO.
I can't understand why elections take place on a day when most people have to go to work. Sure, the polls are open before and after the conventional work day, but the fact of the matter is, most ordinary people have a hard time finding that extra time to go and vote and still be able to get in their 4 hours of TV viewing.
Imagine instead that everybody gets that Tuesday off and only needs to present their ballot receipt to their employer to verify that they actually voted. We would have a lot more people able to help out with the voting process, and tons more people coming to the polls just to get out of work. People may actually spend an hour or two of their new free time looking at the issues behind the candidates.
We honor our veterans and our workers with paid national holidays -- why can't we do the patriotic thing and honor our voters and ordinary citizens as well?
* Google's monopoly will hurt businesses wanting to buy web ads. * Microsoft's monopoly will hurt individuals who use desktop products.
Let's see, the MS monopoly hurts consumers, while the Goog monopoly hurts business. I'm betting that the concerns of business will override consumers' interests and we'll see a lot more action against Big G than we ever saw with MS.
Um, you can do that in Linux with a simple hard link instead of a symbolic link. You could do that in Unix with hard links before symbolic links were even invented and before there was such as thing as Linux, MacOS, OS/2, or MS-Windows.
No, the poster is talking about the desktop GUI, not command lines. Indeed, in the Linux and Windows OSes I've used, desktop links and shortcuts get broken if you rename the target file.
The OS/2 Workplace Shell was an object-oriented desktop GUI and was the most valuable and innovative component of OS/2 for consumers. Today's desktops are a lot prettier but nowhere near the fuctionality and ease of use of the WPS. IMO Team OS/2 should be focussed on trying to re-implement or clone the Workplace Shell instead of offering bounties to port apps to OS/2 proper.
And, BTW, DVD was supposed to have superseded CD by now.
Hasn't it already? The only time I ever get a CD is when Amazon doesn't have the music I want as an MP3 download, and that's pretty rare. I can't even remember the last time I burned a CD as opposed to a DVD.
Why attach a keyboard, mouse, and display if you can just attach it to your existing network? The device has an ethernet port and USB. It would make a cool little server for streaming, hosting a small web site, or any of a bunch of utility tasks. I was actually thinking it would be good upgrade from my Linksys NSLU2.
You guys realize that the system being demoed here, the NVIDIA Quadro Plex 2100 D4 Visual Computing System, with 4 next-generation Quadro GPUs, starts at $10,750, right? http://www.nvidia.com/object/io_1218520087945.html
The Fahrenheit scale was specifically designed to be useful for describing climatic temperatures, 0 being about the coldest and 100 about the hottest temperatures experienced in the temperate climate zones on planet Earth. It makes a hell of a lot more sense for that purpose than Celsius. It gets a lot colder than 0 Celsius in most parts of the world, and never gets as hot as 100, so the useful range for describing today's current weather is rather restricted in Celsius.