And see how ~40 year old tech hits the crowds. These moments are usually quite fascinating, but more from a tech-sociological point of view. Same happened with HDR, anisotropic diffusion, face detection, and so on and so forth.
I know that someone has to build those robots, and someone else has to create the control software for those robots, and someone else has to provide the knowledge for those robots, and someone else has to maintain those robots, and if factory robots then someone else has to design the stuff those robots build, and someone else has to oversee and control those robots,..., point is, there'll be always jobs, you just have to find and adapt.
Some might fight me over this, but university really isn't about getting another paper on your wall, and it especially isn't about running exams for people who've learnt something from online sources (even if they are the university's own). Good universities are about getting you in contact with great people, profs, thinkers, getting a glimpse into their views, listening to what they have to say, getting to know their views, eventually working with them and get something plus out of it you'd never get by studying online materials. Also, universities are the first real life social network that matters and can have a great influence on your professional life. If a university makes available courses and materials online, that wouldn't hurt, but it's not a silver bullet.
The airport screeners were found to routinely miss knives and even firearms during the screenings in the last test.
Also, they are very good at holding you up pointlessly, e.g. it happened to me several times that I needed to step back into the machine because they might have seen "something", which of course turned out to be nothing, one time they even "patdown"ed me after a repeated screening, only to see that nothing, after which I heard the guy telling into the radio to re-calibrate the machine. And of course all this didn't make me happier since I didn't have too much time between connections. So in the end this is a good way to turn not so patient people into possible suspects since they might become a bit "agitated" for being held up pointlessly.
Anyway, I generally just go with the flow, since - unfortunately - it's easier to just let them do their thing, scan, patdown, whatever, because otherwise it would cause you even longer delays. Thing is, part of my childhood was part of a since then disappeared communist era, but I still remember a lot of things, especially people's helplessness and defenslessness against authority, including police, and in such situations one has to concentrate on this being different.
Oh my. The last basic I ever used for anything useful was turbo basic (borland). Thankfully I only had to use VB6 for some idiotic stuff during some idiotic university labs, which was enough to tech me to avoid it for anything useful later, and I was never again made to use VB. I think that has to go on my good choices in life list:P
fucked up with Silverlight and hung the devoted developer community that exists out to dry
Well, there were technologies before, and there will be technologies after Silverlight. Are you saying Silverlight devs will be homeless and wandering the streets for the rest of their lives? If so, I couldn't care less about them. Devs are not [should not be] commited to a platform, to a framework, to a technology, to a language, etc. for life. Adapting to changes in tech is a skill in itself, speed of it might make a difference between a good dev, and a not so good one:) Besides, even if Win8 would drop Silverlight and.net (which I don't think), the current status of the tech would still be available for a while, so it's not like you have to drop everything overnight.
when the customer sees the sales people, they always clam up because they're 'sales people' and customers think they are just interested in alleviating them of their money!
Which is totally, entirely true, and shouldn't be a surprise to anyone, least to someone in sales, since as you already know: in the end sales people live and die on commission.
When I come to a decision point before buying, either for myself, or for friends/relatives, or for work, I never go to sales people if I have the choice. I only go to them _after_ the decision has been made, and then only to talk about sales issues - prices, warranties, discounts, and so on.
It's simple: you can't trust a sales person to give you the best advice (from your perspective), especially since they are more interested in the commision. They will always strive towards getting a better deal - from their point of view. It's very seldom a sales person can actually convince you that (s)he has your interest first. This is not prejudice, it's from experience. The best purchases (from those I've been involved in) were all made after consulting myself, other relevantly knowledgable people, colleagues, making the decision, then going to the sales people with a concrete list and only talk about getting better deals on those.
Just a few interesting lines: a culture of voluntary restraint, (most of the world already knows voluntary restraint because of fear; now you want to have restraint because of xenophobia? preference for police states?) citizens refrain from inappropriate revelations, (question is, who decides what's inappropriate) individuals and institutions supplying disapproval of irresponsible discussion, (the eighties have called, they want you back) discourage discussion of unclassified knowledge (this one is a particularly nice one), societal responsibility, (now that's the one they like, a good one because they can swing it both ways) recent anxieties have centered on publications in the life sciences and their potential utility to bioterrorists, (ok, one which I could agree with for a change, for sensitive biochemical research targeting diseases and bioweapon-applicability) the NAS panel endorsed the concept of “voluntary self-governance of the scientific community rather than formal regulation, (of course they do, it brings more benefits to convince them on self-censorship in the long run) Disparate, mundane information can be aggregated in such a way that the ultimate product is highly sensitive., (and of course this is true for all science areas, all aspects of life, all topics and all fields, and it's one of the classical ways of creating new results: bring what's available, build on it and create something better) much dangerous knowledge will continue to be available, (that will remain true, with or without censorship) the pursuit of scientific knowledge does not absolve researchers of their social responsibility. (of course not, but thing is, the meaning of that "social responsibility" in relation with writers, scientists, etc. has been changed by state and government before so handle with care)
I have to say, the writer seems to have genuine warm feelings towards a soviet-china-north-korea-like totalitarian state, with a bit more modern thoughts on achieving the desired level of regulation and control: make the people do it by themselves. Also, fairly large focus is on scientific research and science in general which I don't particularly like.
But, as we still live in a world where a fairly large chunk of articles and results get to light, we get to also read this one, which is good for everyone - it's always good to know how people in such positions think about important issues.
wanted my own working copy of the elusive Windows 1.0
It's not elusive. It's dead (good riddance).
My first Windows I ever came to use was 3, but of course I had to see and try previous versions as well back in the days. May them all rot in peace together.
Exactly what I was thinking when I read the earplugs with a SIM in them lines above. Unless the plug is wired to your brain and you supply it with electricity and the antenna runs through your skull, an earplug as a gsm/3g/etc. connected smart device is fairly out of question for a very long while. Wrist-devices - with acceptable size and weight which is very important issue here - are still far off because of current battery tech (not talking about theretical, but real working produced). Well, they might really believe inthe future and hope that Apple will still be here when such tech becomes available (if ever).
but this is one race to the bottom I'm pleased with.
Bad: Well, I'm not. It disturbingly seems they want to get to the SIM being integrated into the board, so you buy the phone/device with the contract and not the SIM, and you won't be able to change SIMs in a phone/device.
Neutral: Well, they might want to put more SIMs in a device (not just phone), but come on, most of the devices that would accomodate and be useful for such application are large enough to host multiple current size SIMs as well.
Thinking about it, I still don't really want to buy an iPad or an iPhone, so maybe I don't even care:/
Their study, published in the online journal PLoS, suggests that a move towards insect farming could result in a more sustainable — and affordable — form of meat production.
Sustainable? Probably. Affordable? Maybe. Meat production? What? Geez man, replace those study writers with insects, that would be better. Maybe insects don't fart:P but why don't they try to solve the greenhouse gas reduction (different food for the animals, trying to harvest their gases, etc.) instead of trying to totally replace the problem and convert meat eaters into bug eaters. Make them eat insects for a few years, that should be their prize for this study.
Actually they might have a case here, since at Sprint you can find stuff all over about 4G Wireless Broadband Network and 4G Coverage and Speeds and First and Only Wireless 4G which clearly they can't provide, since their speeds seem a bit far from 4G standard specs.
Not just Linux, even this argument is getting really old now.
Then once the smallest problem crops up, people would go "Why did you switch to such a rubbish system? We should have gone Microsoft" - again irrelevant of the change in problem amount.
Unfortunately this is very familiar. Yet, this "rubbish system" question can sometimes be eased by rasing attention to the rubbishness-list of Windows itself. There are several annoyances that people don't even realize since they have grown more and more tolerant towards Windows, given they were never given the option or the opportunity to use anything else. Awareness needs to be raised that blind acceptance is not the way to go anymore. Of course this is a harder task than it sounds, still, I'd really want to see those countless open source "evangelists" (what an idiotic job description) make a freaking better job.
If we're really taking on which training and backgrond would be better, then I say a tech training atop a military training might work, but a military training atop a tech training would be much better in such situations. I do not believe the colonels' lines have any real merit in this case. At the least, it's very hard to believe.
They gazed across the Potomac River and saw the lights in the capital city still blazing. They lit their cigars and watched the fireworks shoot across the sky.
Tiger repellent rocks? Anyway, on another note, no offence, but stating that a group has some success (well I'm not talking about the capital city lights) doesn't prove that a "techie" task force wouldn't be better. Sorry, it just doesn't.
Almost always - no, that's not a scientific deduction, it's just coming from skewed subjective personal experience - the ones who most complain about problems with article peer review systems are those who have the most problems publishing decent articles at decent places. Also, nepotism? Ever heard of [single/double] blind reviews? I guess this must be one of those slow news days.
I know FP7 projects. The EU is definitely interested in the outcome. They cost many millions of euros. It's not just an exercise.
Geez, of course they are interested in the outcome. They spend money gathered from member states for research areas, and they of course try to spent that money in areas that fall in their interests. Security and defense related projects are naturally among those areas. And since yes, they cost large sums of money, naturally they will be interested in the findinds of such projects, and include these results in future decision making processes. There are also a lot of projects that are not public (only for contributing partner countries), and why should they be? But most of them are, as it is with the case of INDECT. It's only natural that member states would benefit from their own funded research results. But also, many times these are "just an exercise" since most of such projects don't develop actual systems, but designs, recommendations, proven or disproven by accompanied research results. This is the main purpose of research projects, to investigate certain areas and deliver the results for the funding authorities and - if public - for the people. There's nothing new here, just an idiotic headline. Move along.
The way I see it, there are four main problems with holograms.
You seem focused on finding defficiencies, yet you fail to see a very unique advantage: resolution and density. I can't think of any other tqchnique that would be able to come close in resolution. E.g. holographic microccopy. And the technology didn't go away, just check topics on holographic data storage
Good luck with that. Well, maybe they will be able to identify social[web]ly hyperactive teenagers. Lots of people I know don't have facebook accounts. True, also lots of them have some kind of public photo collection, but without proper annotations it's not easy to correlate a face to an identity. As a rule, in 99.9% of times I never publically share photos with me on them, and in I try to not publically share photos with people I know on them.
I have to say, I never really liked the idea of giving carpool access to single-occupied cars (hybrid, electric, or else). The sooner this expires, the better. Regarding the Prius, I don't drive much, but even I have on several occasions happened to arrive behind seemingly very unhurried Prius's in the carpool (i.e. 5x range with nobody in front). Give them tax credits, rebates, whatever, I don't care, but leave automatic carpool access out of the game. High-occupancy vehicle doesn't mean a car with a single driver and a dozen batteries.
Landmark Digital Services owns the patents that cover the algorithm used as the basis for your recently posted "Creating Shazam In Java".
If they do own patents for the Fourier transform, well, I can't continue that sentence, since they don't.
Actually what the guy does is pretty basic stuff, for anyone ever having dealt with time-frequency transformation needs, in any signal processing stuff, be that audio, image, video, or whatever generic signal progcessing needs. I could list dozens of algorithms that are based on the basic ideas the guy has used.
Doing content based indexing and recognition tasks based on frequency domain properties is also a used up idea, far from being original, novel or even surprising at this point.
These guys are just insane. I'd say let them sue, and eat up their own crap.
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And see how ~40 year old tech hits the crowds. These moments are usually quite fascinating, but more from a tech-sociological point of view. Same happened with HDR, anisotropic diffusion, face detection, and so on and so forth.
I know that someone has to build those robots, and someone else has to create the control software for those robots, and someone else has to provide the knowledge for those robots, and someone else has to maintain those robots, and if factory robots then someone else has to design the stuff those robots build, and someone else has to oversee and control those robots, ..., point is, there'll be always jobs, you just have to find and adapt.
Some might fight me over this, but university really isn't about getting another paper on your wall, and it especially isn't about running exams for people who've learnt something from online sources (even if they are the university's own). Good universities are about getting you in contact with great people, profs, thinkers, getting a glimpse into their views, listening to what they have to say, getting to know their views, eventually working with them and get something plus out of it you'd never get by studying online materials. Also, universities are the first real life social network that matters and can have a great influence on your professional life. If a university makes available courses and materials online, that wouldn't hurt, but it's not a silver bullet.
The article states that there will probably be a 70/30 revenue split with the developer as in Win Phone7.
Well, let's include a "donate here to unlock the app" link into the app with the regular price of $0.01.
Anyway, since this goes for only Metro apps, they can keep their 30% off any of the 2000 weather apps and news tickers.
..we can influence their predictions by coordinated postings of a large number of targeted "mood" tweets
and here goes your tweet-based prediction out of the window
The airport screeners were found to routinely miss knives and even firearms during the screenings in the last test.
Also, they are very good at holding you up pointlessly, e.g. it happened to me several times that I needed to step back into the machine because they might have seen "something", which of course turned out to be nothing, one time they even "patdown"ed me after a repeated screening, only to see that nothing, after which I heard the guy telling into the radio to re-calibrate the machine. And of course all this didn't make me happier since I didn't have too much time between connections. So in the end this is a good way to turn not so patient people into possible suspects since they might become a bit "agitated" for being held up pointlessly.
Anyway, I generally just go with the flow, since - unfortunately - it's easier to just let them do their thing, scan, patdown, whatever, because otherwise it would cause you even longer delays. Thing is, part of my childhood was part of a since then disappeared communist era, but I still remember a lot of things, especially people's helplessness and defenslessness against authority, including police, and in such situations one has to concentrate on this being different.
Congratulations on avoiding VB.
:P
Oh my. The last basic I ever used for anything useful was turbo basic (borland). Thankfully I only had to use VB6 for some idiotic stuff during some idiotic university labs, which was enough to tech me to avoid it for anything useful later, and I was never again made to use VB. I think that has to go on my good choices in life list
fucked up with Silverlight and hung the devoted developer community that exists out to dry
:) Besides, even if Win8 would drop Silverlight and .net (which I don't think), the current status of the tech would still be available for a while, so it's not like you have to drop everything overnight.
Well, there were technologies before, and there will be technologies after Silverlight. Are you saying Silverlight devs will be homeless and wandering the streets for the rest of their lives? If so, I couldn't care less about them. Devs are not [should not be] commited to a platform, to a framework, to a technology, to a language, etc. for life. Adapting to changes in tech is a skill in itself, speed of it might make a difference between a good dev, and a not so good one
when the customer sees the sales people, they always clam up because they're 'sales people' and customers think they are just interested in alleviating them of their money!
Which is totally, entirely true, and shouldn't be a surprise to anyone, least to someone in sales, since as you already know:
in the end sales people live and die on commission.
When I come to a decision point before buying, either for myself, or for friends/relatives, or for work, I never go to sales people if I have the choice. I only go to them _after_ the decision has been made, and then only to talk about sales issues - prices, warranties, discounts, and so on.
It's simple: you can't trust a sales person to give you the best advice (from your perspective), especially since they are more interested in the commision. They will always strive towards getting a better deal - from their point of view. It's very seldom a sales person can actually convince you that (s)he has your interest first. This is not prejudice, it's from experience. The best purchases (from those I've been involved in) were all made after consulting myself, other relevantly knowledgable people, colleagues, making the decision, then going to the sales people with a concrete list and only talk about getting better deals on those.
Just a few interesting lines:
a culture of voluntary restraint, (most of the world already knows voluntary restraint because of fear; now you want to have restraint because of xenophobia? preference for police states?)
citizens refrain from inappropriate revelations, (question is, who decides what's inappropriate)
individuals and institutions supplying disapproval of irresponsible discussion, (the eighties have called, they want you back)
discourage discussion of unclassified knowledge (this one is a particularly nice one),
societal responsibility, (now that's the one they like, a good one because they can swing it both ways)
recent anxieties have centered on publications in the life sciences and their potential utility to bioterrorists, (ok, one which I could agree with for a change, for sensitive biochemical research targeting diseases and bioweapon-applicability)
the NAS panel endorsed the concept of “voluntary self-governance of the scientific community rather than formal regulation, (of course they do, it brings more benefits to convince them on self-censorship in the long run)
Disparate, mundane information can be aggregated in such a way that the ultimate product is highly sensitive., (and of course this is true for all science areas, all aspects of life, all topics and all fields, and it's one of the classical ways of creating new results: bring what's available, build on it and create something better)
much dangerous knowledge will continue to be available, (that will remain true, with or without censorship)
the pursuit of scientific knowledge does not absolve researchers of their social responsibility. (of course not, but thing is, the meaning of that "social responsibility" in relation with writers, scientists, etc. has been changed by state and government before so handle with care)
I have to say, the writer seems to have genuine warm feelings towards a soviet-china-north-korea-like totalitarian state, with a bit more modern thoughts on achieving the desired level of regulation and control: make the people do it by themselves. Also, fairly large focus is on scientific research and science in general which I don't particularly like.
But, as we still live in a world where a fairly large chunk of articles and results get to light, we get to also read this one, which is good for everyone - it's always good to know how people in such positions think about important issues.
wanted my own working copy of the elusive Windows 1.0
It's not elusive. It's dead (good riddance).
My first Windows I ever came to use was 3, but of course I had to see and try previous versions as well back in the days. May them all rot in peace together.
Exactly what I was thinking when I read the earplugs with a SIM in them lines above. Unless the plug is wired to your brain and you supply it with electricity and the antenna runs through your skull, an earplug as a gsm/3g/etc. connected smart device is fairly out of question for a very long while. Wrist-devices - with acceptable size and weight which is very important issue here - are still far off because of current battery tech (not talking about theretical, but real working produced). Well, they might really believe inthe future and hope that Apple will still be here when such tech becomes available (if ever).
but this is one race to the bottom I'm pleased with.
:/
Bad: Well, I'm not. It disturbingly seems they want to get to the SIM being integrated into the board, so you buy the phone/device with the contract and not the SIM, and you won't be able to change SIMs in a phone/device.
Neutral: Well, they might want to put more SIMs in a device (not just phone), but come on, most of the devices that would accomodate and be useful for such application are large enough to host multiple current size SIMs as well.
Thinking about it, I still don't really want to buy an iPad or an iPhone, so maybe I don't even care
Their study, published in the online journal PLoS, suggests that a move towards insect farming could result in a more sustainable — and affordable — form of meat production.
:P but why don't they try to solve the greenhouse gas reduction (different food for the animals, trying to harvest their gases, etc.) instead of trying to totally replace the problem and convert meat eaters into bug eaters. Make them eat insects for a few years, that should be their prize for this study.
Sustainable? Probably. Affordable? Maybe. Meat production? What? Geez man, replace those study writers with insects, that would be better. Maybe insects don't fart
Actually they might have a case here, since at Sprint you can find stuff all over about 4G Wireless Broadband Network and 4G Coverage and Speeds and First and Only Wireless 4G which clearly they can't provide, since their speeds seem a bit far from 4G standard specs.
this 'new-fangled' leenux
Not just Linux, even this argument is getting really old now.
Then once the smallest problem crops up, people would go "Why did you switch to such a rubbish system? We should have gone Microsoft" - again irrelevant of the change in problem amount.
Unfortunately this is very familiar. Yet, this "rubbish system" question can sometimes be eased by rasing attention to the rubbishness-list of Windows itself. There are several annoyances that people don't even realize since they have grown more and more tolerant towards Windows, given they were never given the option or the opportunity to use anything else. Awareness needs to be raised that blind acceptance is not the way to go anymore. Of course this is a harder task than it sounds, still, I'd really want to see those countless open source "evangelists" (what an idiotic job description) make a freaking better job.
"A techie wouldn't have a clue," he said.
If we're really taking on which training and backgrond would be better, then I say a tech training atop a military training might work, but a military training atop a tech training would be much better in such situations. I do not believe the colonels' lines have any real merit in this case. At the least, it's very hard to believe.
They gazed across the Potomac River and saw the lights in the capital city still blazing. They lit their cigars and watched the fireworks shoot across the sky.
Tiger repellent rocks? Anyway, on another note, no offence, but stating that a group has some success (well I'm not talking about the capital city lights) doesn't prove that a "techie" task force wouldn't be better. Sorry, it just doesn't.
Almost always - no, that's not a scientific deduction, it's just coming from skewed subjective personal experience - the ones who most complain about problems with article peer review systems are those who have the most problems publishing decent articles at decent places. Also, nepotism? Ever heard of [single/double] blind reviews? I guess this must be one of those slow news days.
I know FP7 projects. The EU is definitely interested in the outcome. They cost many millions of euros. It's not just an exercise.
Geez, of course they are interested in the outcome. They spend money gathered from member states for research areas, and they of course try to spent that money in areas that fall in their interests. Security and defense related projects are naturally among those areas. And since yes, they cost large sums of money, naturally they will be interested in the findinds of such projects, and include these results in future decision making processes. There are also a lot of projects that are not public (only for contributing partner countries), and why should they be? But most of them are, as it is with the case of INDECT. It's only natural that member states would benefit from their own funded research results. But also, many times these are "just an exercise" since most of such projects don't develop actual systems, but designs, recommendations, proven or disproven by accompanied research results. This is the main purpose of research projects, to investigate certain areas and deliver the results for the funding authorities and - if public - for the people. There's nothing new here, just an idiotic headline. Move along.
INDECT seem to be an EU FP7 funded project. All the deliverables [including the quoted "secret" documents] can be reached at: http://www.indect-project.eu/public-deliverables
The way I see it, there are four main problems with holograms.
You seem focused on finding defficiencies, yet you fail to see a very unique advantage: resolution and density. I can't think of any other tqchnique that would be able to come close in resolution. E.g. holographic microccopy. And the technology didn't go away, just check topics on holographic data storage
It's the same reason why my lawyer always tells me to never speak to the cops,
The best advice you can get. Also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8z7NC5sgik
You've got Facebook photos!
Good luck with that. Well, maybe they will be able to identify social[web]ly hyperactive teenagers. Lots of people I know don't have facebook accounts. True, also lots of them have some kind of public photo collection, but without proper annotations it's not easy to correlate a face to an identity. As a rule, in 99.9% of times I never publically share photos with me on them, and in I try to not publically share photos with people I know on them.
Privacy matters.
I have to say, I never really liked the idea of giving carpool access to single-occupied cars (hybrid, electric, or else). The sooner this expires, the better. Regarding the Prius, I don't drive much, but even I have on several occasions happened to arrive behind seemingly very unhurried Prius's in the carpool (i.e. 5x range with nobody in front). Give them tax credits, rebates, whatever, I don't care, but leave automatic carpool access out of the game. High-occupancy vehicle doesn't mean a car with a single driver and a dozen batteries.
Landmark Digital Services owns the patents that cover the algorithm used as the basis for your recently posted "Creating Shazam In Java".
If they do own patents for the Fourier transform, well, I can't continue that sentence, since they don't.
Actually what the guy does is pretty basic stuff, for anyone ever having dealt with time-frequency transformation needs, in any signal processing stuff, be that audio, image, video, or whatever generic signal progcessing needs. I could list dozens of algorithms that are based on the basic ideas the guy has used.
Doing content based indexing and recognition tasks based on frequency domain properties is also a used up idea, far from being original, novel or even surprising at this point.
These guys are just insane. I'd say let them sue, and eat up their own crap.