My 2009 MBP can do 1920 but honestly the current 1344x840 is fine. Scary to hear same format is not available anymore.. It may be back-breakingly heavy but it can do anything. (except run 10.7 apps.. once in a while I see one)
Personally I find it curious the army would encourage a y2k error, plus if you read it backwards you can confuse day and year. I use 2013-0527 which is like the Japanese way with only one hyphen, especially on filenames, folders, in todo lists and memo, etc. This has proven the easiest and least ambiguous format for me and I've naturally sustained it for years now. Compare that to people who use something like 130527-xxx for all filenames which is nervewracking. Just type two more digits and a hyphen to make it human readable, and be done with it already! (my two cents). Drawbacks: Not a default in LibreOffice. Not sure about excel. Mac OS X doesn't pick it up as am iCal date automatically (how would one add a format?) No standard way to include day of week. So in a mini calendar (a text schedule of the coming week) I may write MON May 27, etc.
Seriously Google needs to look at how much shaving off the Do no Evil badge will impair their brand. Personally there are three products I use and think are important from Google. 1) Google search - best search I know. 2) Being able to ask a query (Google search) through the browser address bar, hence Chrome. 3) Chrome - best browser I know (Mac)
These are very heavily counterbalanced by the very close to evil if not evil level of disregard for / productization of private information. I also am feeling fatigue from how in your face Google is. If they have a dream of stealing eyeballs from Facebook fatigue well, Google is leading the pack on fatigue - being sold, being networked, etc. If they every happen to make a not-evil service that becomes popular for some group of people, it will be axed in a year. So I have stopped looking to Google for solutions and this has cost them a lot of good will / care about what they do in my book. They constantly cut themselves off at the knees and are becoming more microsoftian each year.
If Google would focus on search and making things useful for people (like for example, contextual help and debugging through a knowledge base and context recognizer running on mac/pc/linux/android) they can do well. But their constant failures in the social and product development realm is a serious distraction. Google needs to reevaluate if they want to be seen as relevant. They don't actually have anything except the ad and phone business that seems worth their billions of cap.
Don't listen to the asshole below and have as many kids as you like. They will likely be sensitive and intelligent, and contribute greatly to the world of the 21st century. It is also allowed to live in another country, there are a lot of them.
HEY! If that guy really is suicidal you are committing a crime, you jerk.
You don't have to egg him on. There are plenty of geeks on this board who have been bullied in school and thought of killing themselves at one point or another in their lives. The ones who didn't follow through on it (almost all of them) did so because they came to their senses and found a reason to continue, before they met some total asshole like YOU.
They could make a bundle consulting for Hollywood space opera movies or pro sound designers maybe. And how about Google... what will the clanging feel like when they bump into and drill into that asteroid? Will it drive the miners or their robots insane??
Don't be silly. Current natural language processing (NLP) technology allows the extraction of significant proper names and subject matter which effectively compresses the data to its salient points. A very simple consumer version exists in the Summarize context menu service in my MacBook Pro.
Without much brains it at least picked the central sentence correctly to get this:
Current natural language processing (NLP) technology allows the extraction of significant proper names and subject matter which effectively compresses the data to its salient points.
I don't get it. Sure if you think of spectrum as gold veins and you are selling mining rights. But it is artificial. The government pays these companies to develop something, then charges them for spectrum. It becomes a billions of dollars business for the government, and for the carriers who only have to pay a bit less than they receive. The point IIRC was to deliver low-cost, high quality applications. That has nothing to do with paying for spectrum and the phone companies have shown they don't put the money they get to use building infrastructure, which is why an upstart like Google can parachute in and deliver high quality fiber connectivity. How about we just scrap the whole thing and start over again?
well they probably would want to keep the data as a corpus of text that can be further analyzed or used to guide further searches. It's just that it can be quite abused... and many people these days would rather have the data deleted immediately rather than improve a service that is less than crucial to one's life, so far.
Anonymize means to make anonymous. Not the vocal pattern. Simply the user id is not tied to it after 6 months.
A corpus (large body of annotated text and/or voice) is a necessary part of natural language recognition, which is a type of artificial intelligence, but usually you tell me people that is what will happen to the data.
The 6 month window during which you ID is tied to your voice record, is likely very useful for AI such as being able to understand a given person's accent better, or perhaps providing context (they know your email and surfing habits) to understand your query better (perhaps if you are travelling, you want to know about a train schedule, etc.).
However it also means law enforcement could: easily read all the searches a user has done; force collection with ID beyond 6 months; automatically scan siri requests to fish for suspicious activity; or even tick the checkbox that turns your phone into a 24x7 eavesdropping device based on those automated scans, which of course are becoming more intelligent thanks to having all this corpus data and economic activity (cashflow) attached to this business of making AI smarter for mobile devices.
But what about those guys who deliver pizza by drone? Sounds useful. Just.. there's no air traffic control. And can be used by bad guys, like most things.
I was surprised the other day when helping another friend prepare for a test on English speaking proficiency (for foreigners to join the U.S. government). One of the applicable tests is Versant, which does this. It is a verbal test. You call a phone number, enter your ID and then do tasks including: read sentences, give one or two word answers, create sentences by reordering and linking three phrases, retell a story with as many as possible of the characters, actions and situation; and finally give your opinion about a concept (like, "Do you think children should be able to decide when and how much to study?"). The system grades you not on individual questions but gives you a general score in areas like vocabulary, pronunciation, and fluency. The problem is it is very rapid-fire so you can't really pass it unless you are close to a native. The grades can be viewed on the web in a few minutes. On one practice test I typed what he should say live during the test, which gave him an idea of how much work he has cut out for himself to achieve a passing score. http://www.versant.jp/e_about.html
I was wondering about whether computing resources could be donated and you get a tax break. Found this related thread. http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dev/forum_thread.php?id=7201 Key is as others have mentioned that your resources are most likely using minimum power when idle and increasing use will increase electrical fees, air conditioning fees, and might I suppose also wear them out sooner if it uses disk space. Also imagined you might have enough scale to sell elastic computing services but there is a competitive market for that too.
The post just lifts the first four paragraphs of TFA and randomly adds in misspellings of its subject. Personally I feel uncomfortable with the lack of even a slight attempt to summarize, unless you count deleting carriage returns.
Make a third-party, augmented reality platform for driving, platform independent so it drives competition to quickly improve. Will improve safety, driver wakefulness, driver awareness of environment, and so on. Also may provide an open platform on which to develop smart systems (like following other cars or warning about road conditions in the next mile that other cars have seen) that work on any brand of car. Components:
- Imaging sensors such as infrared, microwave or something else distributed mostly in front of the car, some behind, a little on the sides. Use something that cuts through mist, snow, rain, smog so you can see the sides of the road in freezing mist or see a deer in the road far away at night. Also some low light sensors might be good to pick up where the taillights of cars in front of you are.
- Displays: Google Glass might be perfect. HUD might be useful or something else. I like the idea of being able to take glasses off but an HUD that always will tell any driver what is standing in the road waiting for you to hit it at night would be a very good idea.
- Processing hardware: competition among 3rd party manufacturers. Best if not tied to a certain model car, though BMW or Mercedes can certainly add more expensive sensors, etc.
- Processing software framework: Open platform
- Processing algorithms and engine: Similar competition, though if Google can't win this they better send their guys back to Carnegie Mellon I am willing to bet the insurance companies will love you to death and then get that stupid law deleted, all you need to do is disable messaging and go into a drive mode as someone else mentioned when you are in motion. Though reading text aloud or letting you send voice messages via voice controlled functionality sounds like it would be not as bad as talking to someone in the car who is with you.
Ignorant troll, I'll feed you. If you are in space you want to get the materials from space, i.e. somewhere with a gravity well that is not as bad as Earth. Maybe the moon is good. Asteroids will be useful due to Zero-G which may allow much lower cost exploitation, and many are nearer outer destinations. Plus we will spend more time on mapping asteroids that come near Earth which is a good side benefit spaceguard-wise. There exist ideas for exploitation of space resources that once started can be self-fulfilling and allow Man's leap into space. Yes, it started with Science Fiction. With Capitals. Or didn't you know satellites as communication relays is an idea first promoted by a Science Fiction writer? (Many of whom have scientific or technological backgrounds of their own) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke
I know nothing about Guatemala except that my best friend in college lived there and he introduced me to masa which is delicious. Wouldn't surprise me if Guatemalan food is a really healthy alternative to ordinary Western cuisine, I wonder if they grow that non-sweet corn in the U.S.? (google guatemala masa). See below some of this may not be useful since it seems you are not so much in the boondocks.
I have a friend who did this in Cambodia. I remember he got Apple to donate computers (this is one reason why not using open source hardware may have a good point, it counts as CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) for a manufacturer to do so). It was for an orphanage he created, and the idea was to educate the next generation of leaders. Also he started a newspaper, probably also had Macs I forget.This was over a decade ago. Point being, they had to hire two armed guards so things wouldn't be stolen and I believe one guard was killed. FYI.
Getting locals who will carry it on, and talking to (global) missionary group as other posters mentioned are good ideas. I believe Hope Worldwide was a group he worked with for this charity.
Using open source may be cheaper and may help jump start an industry even if you had a university (need to connect them to the Net possibly) and local people who are enthusiastic.
You may be able to get the World Bank to help you, I know they did a dollar matching program for building rural schools (villageleap) of which hundreds were built.
Power and telecommunications may be a big issue. I'm sorry I don't have data for you but you know it is not first world. Maybe there are no phones and power? I remember one original idea was to have a networked school be a hub for the community, don't know how it worked in the end but I do know one thing they did was have a wifi equipped motorbike travel among rural schools and pick up messages. Useful for medical care.. Also the geography etc. makes you wonder about can you get a line of site to an access point, can you get wind power, etc. Of course the top priority for a community might not be computer education. Maybe power to cleanse drinking water, or communications to notify a doctor they need to get a helicopter somewhere. Getting X-rays sent to a specialist hospital was one thing we did but you don't need that.
On the other hand if it is the Labor de Falla that is 17 nautical miles from Santiago, then it is just a suburb not in the boondocks over the horizon from wifi. Possibly you could even get support from some place like Microsoft or IBM, if you say you are going to start training locals in computer science from a young age. Apparently Google discovered a mother load of such talent in Viet Nam just the other day (on/. today). Maybe that is your goal.
Anyway, figure out what your goal is, and don't spend all your time on the technical side. The key to making these kind of projects happen is getting the parts together, putting your own time in to monitoring it daily with someone on the ground, and being extremely tenacious and single-minded about getting this goal achieved. But you need to listen to people there and if there is no enthusiasm or problems maybe you need to ask what they want. There probably are a lot of smart people within 1 hour of your Guatemala location and not clear that they even need you. So I would focus on fund raising, enabling it, setting a mission and making sure it happens.
Just my 0.02, I clearly know nothing about the area. Best to be sure you accept there may be things you also don't know about it, and try to set smaller achievable goals for yourself. Maybe you can get a manufacturer to get you new equipment for free, that would be best. Imagine you are the student there. As for linux, yeah it would be nice but depending on the age group if they need to get a job in the city will it really help them? If you can make a success maybe you can then scale it up and make that part of your timeline for phase II.
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My 2009 MBP can do 1920 but honestly the current 1344x840 is fine.
Scary to hear same format is not available anymore.. It may be back-breakingly heavy but it can do anything.
(except run 10.7 apps.. once in a while I see one)
Personally I find it curious the army would encourage a y2k error, plus if you read it backwards you can confuse day and year.
I use 2013-0527 which is like the Japanese way with only one hyphen, especially on filenames, folders, in todo lists and memo, etc.
This has proven the easiest and least ambiguous format for me and I've naturally sustained it for years now.
Compare that to people who use something like 130527-xxx for all filenames which is nervewracking. Just type two more digits and a hyphen to make it human readable, and be done with it already! (my two cents).
Drawbacks:
Not a default in LibreOffice. Not sure about excel.
Mac OS X doesn't pick it up as am iCal date automatically (how would one add a format?)
No standard way to include day of week. So in a mini calendar (a text schedule of the coming week) I may write MON May 27, etc.
p.s. not NY state
Seriously Google needs to look at how much shaving off the Do no Evil badge will impair their brand.
Personally there are three products I use and think are important from Google.
1) Google search - best search I know.
2) Being able to ask a query (Google search) through the browser address bar, hence Chrome.
3) Chrome - best browser I know (Mac)
These are very heavily counterbalanced by the very close to evil if not evil level of disregard for / productization of private information.
I also am feeling fatigue from how in your face Google is. If they have a dream of stealing eyeballs from Facebook fatigue well, Google is leading the pack on fatigue - being sold, being networked, etc. If they every happen to make a not-evil service that becomes popular for some group of people, it will be axed in a year. So I have stopped looking to Google for solutions and this has cost them a lot of good will / care about what they do in my book. They constantly cut themselves off at the knees and are becoming more microsoftian each year.
If Google would focus on search and making things useful for people (like for example, contextual help and debugging through a knowledge base and context recognizer running on mac/pc/linux/android) they can do well. But their constant failures in the social and product development realm is a serious distraction. Google needs to reevaluate if they want to be seen as relevant. They don't actually have anything except the ad and phone business that seems worth their billions of cap.
Don't listen to the asshole below and have as many kids as you like. They will likely be sensitive and intelligent, and contribute greatly to the world of the 21st century. It is also allowed to live in another country, there are a lot of them.
HEY! If that guy really is suicidal you are committing a crime, you jerk.
You don't have to egg him on. There are plenty of geeks on this board who have been bullied in school and thought of killing themselves at one point or another in their lives. The ones who didn't follow through on it (almost all of them) did so because they came to their senses and found a reason to continue, before they met some total asshole like YOU.
(You may fuck off and die now)
But: The Internet.
They could make a bundle consulting for Hollywood space opera movies or pro sound designers maybe.
And how about Google... what will the clanging feel like when they bump into and drill into that asteroid? Will it drive the miners or their robots insane??
Don't be silly. Current natural language processing (NLP) technology allows the extraction of significant proper names and subject matter which effectively compresses the data to its salient points. A very simple consumer version exists in the Summarize context menu service in my MacBook Pro.
Without much brains it at least picked the central sentence correctly to get this:
Current natural language processing (NLP) technology allows the extraction of significant proper names and subject matter which effectively compresses the data to its salient points.
See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_summarization
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_language_processing#Major_tasks_in_NLP
All we need is a form with a couple of checkboxes.
1. Are you Evil? [ ] Yes [ ] No
Then we just need a few people to define Evil
for several contexts, add a followup question for kicks,
and we're done.
I don't get it. Sure if you think of spectrum as gold veins and you are selling mining rights.
But it is artificial. The government pays these companies to develop something, then charges them for spectrum.
It becomes a billions of dollars business for the government, and for the carriers who only have to pay a bit less than they receive.
The point IIRC was to deliver low-cost, high quality applications. That has nothing to do with paying for spectrum and the phone companies have shown they don't put the money they get to use building infrastructure, which is why an upstart like Google can parachute in and deliver high quality fiber connectivity.
How about we just scrap the whole thing and start over again?
But he is right. I too have had excellent experience with Linode.
In addition they are honest.
well they probably would want to keep the data as a corpus of text that can be further analyzed or used to guide further searches. It's just that it can be quite abused... and many people these days would rather have the data deleted immediately rather than improve a service that is less than crucial to one's life, so far.
Anonymize means to make anonymous. Not the vocal pattern. Simply the user id is not tied to it after 6 months.
A corpus (large body of annotated text and/or voice) is a necessary part of natural language recognition, which is a type of artificial intelligence, but usually you tell me people that is what will happen to the data.
The 6 month window during which you ID is tied to your voice record, is likely very useful for AI such as being able to understand a given person's accent better, or perhaps providing context (they know your email and surfing habits) to understand your query better (perhaps if you are travelling, you want to know about a train schedule, etc.).
However it also means law enforcement could: easily read all the searches a user has done; force collection with ID beyond 6 months; automatically scan siri requests to fish for suspicious activity; or even tick the checkbox that turns your phone into a 24x7 eavesdropping device based on those automated scans, which of course are becoming more intelligent thanks to having all this corpus data and economic activity (cashflow) attached to this business of making AI smarter for mobile devices.
Ads that report your pulse rate to google, the function being bloatware baked into the OS you cannot be sure to get rid of.
But what about those guys who deliver pizza by drone? Sounds useful. Just.. there's no air traffic control. And can be used by bad guys, like most things.
I believe the next step is, ...And then you win.
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I was surprised the other day when helping another friend prepare for a test on English speaking proficiency (for foreigners to join the U.S. government). One of the applicable tests is Versant, which does this. It is a verbal test. You call a phone number, enter your ID and then do tasks including: read sentences, give one or two word answers, create sentences by reordering and linking three phrases, retell a story with as many as possible of the characters, actions and situation; and finally give your opinion about a concept (like, "Do you think children should be able to decide when and how much to study?"). The system grades you not on individual questions but gives you a general score in areas like vocabulary, pronunciation, and fluency. The problem is it is very rapid-fire so you can't really pass it unless you are close to a native. The grades can be viewed on the web in a few minutes.
On one practice test I typed what he should say live during the test, which gave him an idea of how much work he has cut out for himself to achieve a passing score.
http://www.versant.jp/e_about.html
I was wondering about whether computing resources could be donated and you get a tax break. Found this related thread.
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dev/forum_thread.php?id=7201
Key is as others have mentioned that your resources are most likely using minimum power when idle and increasing use will increase electrical fees, air conditioning fees, and might I suppose also wear them out sooner if it uses disk space.
Also imagined you might have enough scale to sell elastic computing services but there is a competitive market for that too.
The post just lifts the first four paragraphs of TFA and randomly adds in misspellings of its subject.
Personally I feel uncomfortable with the lack of even a slight attempt to summarize, unless you count deleting carriage returns.
Make a third-party, augmented reality platform for driving, platform independent so it drives competition to quickly improve.
Will improve safety, driver wakefulness, driver awareness of environment, and so on. Also may provide an open platform on which to develop smart systems (like following other cars or warning about road conditions in the next mile that other cars have seen) that work on any brand of car.
Components:
- Imaging sensors such as infrared, microwave or something else distributed mostly in front of the car, some behind, a little on the sides. Use something that cuts through mist, snow, rain, smog so you can see the sides of the road in freezing mist or see a deer in the road far away at night. Also some low light sensors might be good to pick up where the taillights of cars in front of you are.
- Displays: Google Glass might be perfect. HUD might be useful or something else. I like the idea of being able to take glasses off but an HUD that always will tell any driver what is standing in the road waiting for you to hit it at night would be a very good idea.
- Processing hardware: competition among 3rd party manufacturers. Best if not tied to a certain model car, though BMW or Mercedes can certainly add more expensive sensors, etc.
- Processing software framework: Open platform
- Processing algorithms and engine: Similar competition, though if Google can't win this they better send their guys back to Carnegie Mellon
I am willing to bet the insurance companies will love you to death and then get that stupid law deleted, all you need to do is disable messaging and go into a drive mode as someone else mentioned when you are in motion. Though reading text aloud or letting you send voice messages via voice controlled functionality sounds like it would be not as bad as talking to someone in the car who is with you.
Ignorant troll, I'll feed you. If you are in space you want to get the materials from space, i.e. somewhere with a gravity well that is not as bad as Earth. Maybe the moon is good. Asteroids will be useful due to Zero-G which may allow much lower cost exploitation, and many are nearer outer destinations. Plus we will spend more time on mapping asteroids that come near Earth which is a good side benefit spaceguard-wise. There exist ideas for exploitation of space resources that once started can be self-fulfilling and allow Man's leap into space. Yes, it started with Science Fiction. With Capitals. Or didn't you know satellites as communication relays is an idea first promoted by a Science Fiction writer? (Many of whom have scientific or technological backgrounds of their own)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke
I know nothing about Guatemala except that my best friend in college lived there and he introduced me to masa which is delicious. Wouldn't surprise me if Guatemalan food is a really healthy alternative to ordinary Western cuisine, I wonder if they grow that non-sweet corn in the U.S.? (google guatemala masa). See below some of this may not be useful since it seems you are not so much in the boondocks.
I have a friend who did this in Cambodia. I remember he got Apple to donate computers (this is one reason why not using open source hardware may have a good point, it counts as CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) for a manufacturer to do so). It was for an orphanage he created, and the idea was to educate the next generation of leaders. Also he started a newspaper, probably also had Macs I forget.This was over a decade ago. Point being, they had to hire two armed guards so things wouldn't be stolen and I believe one guard was killed. FYI.
Getting locals who will carry it on, and talking to (global) missionary group as other posters mentioned are good ideas. I believe Hope Worldwide was a group he worked with for this charity.
Using open source may be cheaper and may help jump start an industry even if you had a university (need to connect them to the Net possibly) and local people who are enthusiastic.
You may be able to get the World Bank to help you, I know they did a dollar matching program for building rural schools (villageleap) of which hundreds were built.
Power and telecommunications may be a big issue. I'm sorry I don't have data for you but you know it is not first world. Maybe there are no phones and power? I remember one original idea was to have a networked school be a hub for the community, don't know how it worked in the end but I do know one thing they did was have a wifi equipped motorbike travel among rural schools and pick up messages. Useful for medical care.. Also the geography etc. makes you wonder about can you get a line of site to an access point, can you get wind power, etc. Of course the top priority for a community might not be computer education. Maybe power to cleanse drinking water, or communications to notify a doctor they need to get a helicopter somewhere. Getting X-rays sent to a specialist hospital was one thing we did but you don't need that.
On the other hand if it is the Labor de Falla that is 17 nautical miles from Santiago, then it is just a suburb not in the boondocks over the horizon from wifi. Possibly you could even get support from some place like Microsoft or IBM, if you say you are going to start training locals in computer science from a young age. Apparently Google discovered a mother load of such talent in Viet Nam just the other day (on /. today). Maybe that is your goal.
Anyway, figure out what your goal is, and don't spend all your time on the technical side. The key to making these kind of projects happen is getting the parts together, putting your own time in to monitoring it daily with someone on the ground, and being extremely tenacious and single-minded about getting this goal achieved. But you need to listen to people there and if there is no enthusiasm or problems maybe you need to ask what they want. There probably are a lot of smart people within 1 hour of your Guatemala location and not clear that they even need you. So I would focus on fund raising, enabling it, setting a mission and making sure it happens.
Just my 0.02, I clearly know nothing about the area. Best to be sure you accept there may be things you also don't know about it, and try to set smaller achievable goals for yourself. Maybe you can get a manufacturer to get you new equipment for free, that would be best. Imagine you are the student there. As for linux, yeah it would be nice but depending on the age group if they need to get a job in the city will it really help them? If you can make a success maybe you can then scale it up and make that part of your timeline for phase II.
China AIrlines Flight 140. Software fighting humans. Software wins.