[...]it seems a gross oversight for the FAA to guarantee that such a critical system will crash after only one missed maintenance task[...]
Now I'm thrilled. So now it seems rebooting regularly just to avoid death of that Windows has "evolved" from a ridiculous flaw to a technician's maintenance task:)
That's really worth a smile, at least where I come from:)
And right, critical radio outage at the Federal Aviation Administration caused by some Windows version ? Naaah, can't happen in a Windows world, everybody would bet on human error in such a case, right ?:P
With Amazon's new search engine recently arising, it deifnitely appears to be a critical time for search engines.
I mean the so-called new Amazon search engine is using Google's results (which nobody denied, it even was stated countless times in writings about A9). Hell, however hard I try to convince myself, I can only think of it as an extension or improvement of Google searches, but that as the most.
So why's the hype ? Never mind, that's just a poetic question, no need for an answer.
... this being one's personal photos for god's sake. It's like you found someone private journal and published it page by page in a magazine or something.
With more then 200 photos ranging along a year's time one could easily gather some clues which could lead to 1. the owner, 2. someone who knows the owner.
Instead of doing some research and making someone happy for finding the lost pictures, this guy places them widely available.
I wouldn't sue the guy for doing this. I would kick his ass flat.
So Intel used something "similar" to a dual core [...] I'm sure the "real" dual core processors will show up soon
Well in case you mean like two zebras are "similar" to one two-headed zebra which is the "real" thing, than you are absolutely right:P
In case you would understand the difference between dual processor systems and a dual-core cpu architecture, you wouldn't say things like you did (no matter what Intel has or has not shown).
For my electrical engineering degree my thesis was about VoIP/SIP. After finishing the stuff I had a plan for a SIP-based gpl app incorporating audio/text/video communication for 2 and more (conference) users which would've included music streaming and file sharing between the peers.
While I still have the plans, I never started on it, and I most certainly will never have the time for it now, so I'm very happy and pleased to see such apps popping up.
SIP was and still is a personal favourite of mine for many possible applications, being a very versatile and easy to handle protocol.
As about naming buildings of people who donated the money for it: it's a deal you know, they give something they expect something in return. And maybe they'll give some more in the future:)
I personally wouldn't care what Gates' name is given to if his money is spent in other people's interest/comfort/whatever.
As to: You can see the same thing with anti-American sentiment in other countries - people will be very quick to badmouth the US, but start giving out free plane tickets and you'll get mobbed.
You know, also statements like this is what some people just call "so american".
And just for the record, it wouldn't hurt any of such people (i.e. like you) to get a bit down on the ground and realize that Uncle Sam isn't as much magnetic and seductive as guys like you very much like to think (and as it may have used to be). Well, I don't know about 3rd world countries though...
I work in IT, know many scientists and researchers in my area and some beyond, and very few of them would be willing to live in the U.S. (myself included - although I have to tell here that I have more relatives living in the U.S. for decades now so I wouldn't just go out in the wild).
Now about work, that's different. If I would be offered a job for a few years in the U.S., I would take it.
I or anyone out of my friends has never participated on this particular event (when we had the age that is:) ) But some of us went to several programming contests during last years of elementary and along high school years. Our formal coding and algorithm skills were close to none during elementary, and a lot better and mor, during high school.
I have to tell you that some of the guys we met there, and particularly one of my best friends, sometimes performed quite some miracles on those events (in time, in quality, in performance).
Today (more than 10 years away from our last contests) I have to tell you almost each of my friends who were there have become highly qualified sw professionals.
I, for one, turned more towards engineering, but I still feel the many benefits those times have left for me in particular. Not the contests themselves, but the time we spent in those circles.
There were many times when I pushed formal algorithmical and programming knowledge aside in the favour of a "hacked" solution picked up someplace.
Well, and the parties connected to those contests also brings back good memories:D
This chip that recognizes voice patterns fast... It seems like reinventing the wheel. Why, because analogical algorithms implemented on cnn (meaning cellular neural networks) chips, on real hardware, could do that (as they can do even much more - as I know some researchers who work on real projects in the field).
When somebody would ask me about this (why would they:P ) I'd say invest in something that could be more beneficial in the long term, which in this case would be cnn research.
Don't get me wrong, I really appreciate when hearing about these kinds of money investments, because they will serve a very good purpose. Hell, I am one of those guys who are dreaming about real voice controlled computers since my first contact with Star Trek:D And of course my computer would have a female voice (I'd even know who to sample:D )
Maybe it wouldn't matter. Maybe I wouldn't need spmassassin, or anything else. Because I would only accept mail coming from trusted users. If someone wanted to get in contact with me, I'd require him/her to use GPG and I wouldn't make this process automatic. I would check each signature by hand. The only automatism would be devnulling all unsigned mail, and those too, whom I don't know (ar enot in my ring).
Most probably some would argue this would take a long process. Yes it might, but only once, at the first time. Depending on the length of one's address list.
No matter if they killed your dog first, if you kill theirs back in revenge you'll just as culpable as they are.
On the other hand, I can understand the difficult situation of small companies defending theirselves (we've also had to deal with similar situations lately).
I just don't accept this course of action. It just doesn't make him any different. Acting like this just proves his ignorance and inability to come up with a suitable defense (has not to be perfect, just enough to generate some reasonable income).
Such a good thought that I was thinking and spreading this idea for a time. But I had to realize I can't succeed. Why ? Because while our IT friends use GPG, nobody else does it willingly. They all say it would make their life more difficult. Most of them out there don't even know what signing is, let alone GPG. My answer to that is as always: right, complaining is easier:P
The problem all around spam is most of the users are just users. Don't understand, don't care, don't want to care. They just spread other people's viruses, spam, etc. without knowing or if knowing don't believeing they do much trouble by using crappy buggy and vulnerable sw.
If I could afford the luxury to devnull all e-mails I receive that are not signed, I would never ever get spam, that's for sure. The problem is one can't easily talk others into GPG.
They would much more easily turn into over-patented Microsoft solutions however crappy or overpatented they would be.
No surprise here. Seeing hoow privacy issues are sought to be handled in the US and how more and more of US (mal)practices come over to us (i.e. Europe) every day, there's nothing to be surprised at.
What we need to do is hold our ground and not let these things happen. Same holds for software patents and the like.
Freedom also means you are free to stand up and defend your rights. What we don't defend today may be lost tomorrow. And yes, that's too late. It's always easier [revent than to abolish later.
From experience, most help comes from stringing together incomprehensible usenet posts and articles found on google
That's sad, and very if I may add.
When I started on linux (slack, then redhat at that time, it took me a few years to land and stick to debian) so when started most of help came from friends who begun earlier and they gave me lots of help and guidence which convinced me even further that linux didn't just come with a style that I loved from the first day, but also with a bunch'a helping fellas and a great community.
And this (fortunately) followed me since then. At times when I had to discover stuff by myself were challenging, but I always enjoyed every bit of it from making hardware work to scripting exotics and on.
I guess not all you out there were so lucky:) (I don't know if this smiley is appropriate at this point though).
But linux wasn't started to be a lame-proof clicking gui for solitaire playing illiterates. That's a fact. Since then very very very many people got computers and many of them think they are gurus, which they aren't, but at least they complain all the way about things they find hard to be accustomed to.
Like command line interfaces. Which in linux is a gift from god. Hell it _is_ linux. What "they" wish to click upon all the time are just a covering cloth, which many of out there like too, but know that it wasn't what made linux strong (using past tense because nowadays that is changing to a very good direction). It can bring more users (as it does), but hopefully they will seee the great benefits also which lay behind the eyecandy and which is the real and main advantage of linux and co.
There's one thing I always tell and I feel I can't repeat it enough times: don't like it, don't use it, choose something else, because you can (!) which is a very good thing.
Yeah, its way harder. At least high quality image interpolation is. Theres been decades of research into it and dozens of different methods have been the topic of phd papers. Lots of high end math and very complex algorithms.
Okie, I know, been in image processing research for a time. Didn't want to be unneccessarily techie here.
What I ment by the "rocket science" thing was that placing a chip that zooms with a however special algorithm shouldn't deserve the hype in '04. That's all, but then again, it could be just me.
I don't know, it's probably just me, but I don't think adding a "feature" like this to a tv set should be a cause for worldwide hype in a normal world.
I mean zooming an image is no rocket science (and in this case is probably no good either). Recognizing public demand for such a function in the case of tv's and adding it could be good for businness. But hyping such a function this much... it's just a nobrainer.
But then again, the hype around these new functions and revolutionary enhancements:P are (I hope) probably not targeted to people who understand the techniques laying behind.
One thing to add from the image procssing guy's side: for normal pal-resolution tv sets a certain amount of everyday zooming wouldn't show that much zooming error as e.g. a plasma screen would. Just try grabbing a lowres low-bitrate video (lets say quarter pal res + ~500kbit mpeg4) and play it full screen on a 50cm tv set (many artifacts are smoothed out) and some 100cm digital (where they all remain visible).
But I still don't like the hype around it. It's like when MS said DB-based file system is coming in '06 and that will be so great and cool and all. When we first heard them we just looked at each other and wondered: with all their research facilities behind their backs, how come in some cases they all lurk so behind ? Another example would be using neural networks for learning and adapting applications. Anybody moving around in scientific research can come around many dozens of applications and research fields using them every year. Still, most of everyday people don't have a clue what that is and they all get easily caught into the hype tides.
Well, scientific research and company policies are not so close to each other as one would guess:D
When can we see a trusted computing environment? (gui down) When will we see fully improved network/remote access?
When will we see some innovation instead of eye candy? Why does something have to be invented on OSX or Windows instead of pioneered on linux?
When someone writes - without smileyes or indication of joking of course - things like these above, I cannot in my life understand how in hell or heaven can it be moderated to Interesting.
Oh yeah, right, interesting in the way it shows linux&*nix ingorance.
Quoting from one of Daniel Stone's on debian-x list in may this year:
Changing stuff like this around (mainly, all the package renames, as well as a mass patch rediff) within Debian is actually really quite difficult, and very, very unlikely to be allowed to happen before sarge's release.
I'll leave it you to draw consequences. All I know is that news was spread Sarge will come around september this year (on debianplanet on aug.2), but then again: Debian releases when it is time. (from debian.org)
Anyways, since I'm a long-ago Debian man, I also hope X.org will come to us soon.
I was waiting for such a statement from the Debian project (it being my favouritve flavour for many years now and following what's happening) since the Apache statement.
This is the correct way to go (and this is not just the opensource guy in me speaking, but also the IT subconcious).
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[...]it seems a gross oversight for the FAA to guarantee that such a critical system will crash after only one missed maintenance task[...]
:)
:)
:P
Now I'm thrilled. So now it seems rebooting regularly just to avoid death of that Windows has "evolved" from a ridiculous flaw to a technician's maintenance task
That's really worth a smile, at least where I come from
And right, critical radio outage at the Federal Aviation Administration caused by some Windows version ? Naaah, can't happen in a Windows world, everybody would bet on human error in such a case, right ?
With Amazon's new search engine recently arising, it deifnitely appears to be a critical time for search engines.
I mean the so-called new Amazon search engine is using Google's results (which nobody denied, it even was stated countless times in writings about A9). Hell, however hard I try to convince myself, I can only think of it as an extension or improvement of Google searches, but that as the most.
So why's the hype ? Never mind, that's just a poetic question, no need for an answer.
... this being one's personal photos for god's sake. It's like you found someone private journal and published it page by page in a magazine or something.
With more then 200 photos ranging along a year's time one could easily gather some clues which could lead to 1. the owner, 2. someone who knows the owner.
Instead of doing some research and making someone happy for finding the lost pictures, this guy places them widely available.
I wouldn't sue the guy for doing this. I would kick his ass flat.
So Intel used something "similar" to a dual core [...] I'm sure the "real" dual core processors will show up soon
:P
Well in case you mean like two zebras are "similar" to one two-headed zebra which is the "real" thing, than you are absolutely right
In case you would understand the difference between dual processor systems and a dual-core cpu architecture, you wouldn't say things like you did (no matter what Intel has or has not shown).
For my electrical engineering degree my thesis was about VoIP/SIP. After finishing the stuff I had a plan for a SIP-based gpl app incorporating audio/text/video communication for 2 and more (conference) users which would've included music streaming and file sharing between the peers.
While I still have the plans, I never started on it, and I most certainly will never have the time for it now, so I'm very happy and pleased to see such apps popping up.
SIP was and still is a personal favourite of mine for many possible applications, being a very versatile and easy to handle protocol.
As about naming buildings of people who donated the money for it: it's a deal you know, they give something they expect something in return. And maybe they'll give some more in the future :)
I personally wouldn't care what Gates' name is given to if his money is spent in other people's interest/comfort/whatever.
As to:
You can see the same thing with anti-American sentiment in other countries - people will be very quick to badmouth the US, but start giving out free plane tickets and you'll get mobbed.
You know, also statements like this is what some people just call "so american".
And just for the record, it wouldn't hurt any of such people (i.e. like you) to get a bit down on the ground and realize that Uncle Sam isn't as much magnetic and seductive as guys like you very much like to think (and as it may have used to be). Well, I don't know about 3rd world countries though...
I work in IT, know many scientists and researchers in my area and some beyond, and very few of them would be willing to live in the U.S. (myself included - although I have to tell here that I have more relatives living in the U.S. for decades now so I wouldn't just go out in the wild).
Now about work, that's different. If I would be offered a job for a few years in the U.S., I would take it.
I or anyone out of my friends has never participated on this particular event (when we had the age that is :) ) But some of us went to several programming contests during last years of elementary and along high school years. Our formal coding and algorithm skills were close to none during elementary, and a lot better and mor, during high school.
:D
I have to tell you that some of the guys we met there, and particularly one of my best friends, sometimes performed quite some miracles on those events (in time, in quality, in performance).
Today (more than 10 years away from our last contests) I have to tell you almost each of my friends who were there have become highly qualified sw professionals.
I, for one, turned more towards engineering, but I still feel the many benefits those times have left for me in particular. Not the contests themselves, but the time we spent in those circles.
There were many times when I pushed formal algorithmical and programming knowledge aside in the favour of a "hacked" solution picked up someplace.
Well, and the parties connected to those contests also brings back good memories
So you want to know what they thought ?
... Taking it again later.
:P
They sat down and:
A: - What could these guys do that would hurt us ?
B: - You mean besides taking $900mil ?
Well, they just probably thought what they always do: if they can hurt, buy'em pay'em or punch'em.
This chip that recognizes voice patterns fast... It seems like reinventing the wheel. Why, because analogical algorithms implemented on cnn (meaning cellular neural networks) chips, on real hardware, could do that (as they can do even much more - as I know some researchers who work on real projects in the field).
:P ) I'd say invest in something that could be more beneficial in the long term, which in this case would be cnn research.
:D And of course my computer would have a female voice (I'd even know who to sample :D )
When somebody would ask me about this (why would they
Don't get me wrong, I really appreciate when hearing about these kinds of money investments, because they will serve a very good purpose. Hell, I am one of those guys who are dreaming about real voice controlled computers since my first contact with Star Trek
[..]When spamassassin gave a possitive score[...]
Maybe it wouldn't matter. Maybe I wouldn't need spmassassin, or anything else. Because I would only accept mail coming from trusted users. If someone wanted to get in contact with me, I'd require him/her to use GPG and I wouldn't make this process automatic. I would check each signature by hand. The only automatism would be devnulling all unsigned mail, and those too, whom I don't know (ar enot in my ring).
Most probably some would argue this would take a long process. Yes it might, but only once, at the first time. Depending on the length of one's address list.
No matter if they killed your dog first, if you kill theirs back in revenge you'll just as culpable as they are.
On the other hand, I can understand the difficult situation of small companies defending theirselves (we've also had to deal with similar situations lately).
I just don't accept this course of action. It just doesn't make him any different. Acting like this just proves his ignorance and inability to come up with a suitable defense (has not to be perfect, just enough to generate some reasonable income).
Such a good thought that I was thinking and spreading this idea for a time. But I had to realize I can't succeed. Why ? Because while our IT friends use GPG, nobody else does it willingly. They all say it would make their life more difficult. Most of them out there don't even know what signing is, let alone GPG. My answer to that is as always: right, complaining is easier :P
The problem all around spam is most of the users are just users. Don't understand, don't care, don't want to care. They just spread other people's viruses, spam, etc. without knowing or if knowing don't believeing they do much trouble by using crappy buggy and vulnerable sw.
If I could afford the luxury to devnull all e-mails I receive that are not signed, I would never ever get spam, that's for sure. The problem is one can't easily talk others into GPG.
They would much more easily turn into over-patented Microsoft solutions however crappy or overpatented they would be.
Well, great Arthur C. Clarke told us they will come.
:P
We just didn't know they were interested in our space junk
No surprise here. Seeing hoow privacy issues are sought to be handled in the US and how more and more of US (mal)practices come over to us (i.e. Europe) every day, there's nothing to be surprised at.
What we need to do is hold our ground and not let these things happen. Same holds for software patents and the like.
Freedom also means you are free to stand up and defend your rights. What we don't defend today may be lost tomorrow. And yes, that's too late. It's always easier [revent than to abolish later.
From experience, most help comes from stringing together incomprehensible usenet posts and articles found on google
:) (I don't know if this smiley is appropriate at this point though).
:)
That's sad, and very if I may add.
When I started on linux (slack, then redhat at that time, it took me a few years to land and stick to debian) so when started most of help came from friends who begun earlier and they gave me lots of help and guidence which convinced me even further that linux didn't just come with a style that I loved from the first day, but also with a bunch'a helping fellas and a great community.
And this (fortunately) followed me since then. At times when I had to discover stuff by myself were challenging, but I always enjoyed every bit of it from making hardware work to scripting exotics and on.
I guess not all you out there were so lucky
But linux wasn't started to be a lame-proof clicking gui for solitaire playing illiterates. That's a fact. Since then very very very many people got computers and many of them think they are gurus, which they aren't, but at least they complain all the way about things they find hard to be accustomed to.
Like command line interfaces. Which in linux is a gift from god. Hell it _is_ linux. What "they" wish to click upon all the time are just a covering cloth, which many of out there like too, but know that it wasn't what made linux strong (using past tense because nowadays that is changing to a very good direction). It can bring more users (as it does), but hopefully they will seee the great benefits also which lay behind the eyecandy and which is the real and main advantage of linux and co.
There's one thing I always tell and I feel I can't repeat it enough times: don't like it, don't use it, choose something else, because you can (!) which is a very good thing.
That's all folks, keep linux
Yeah, its way harder. At least high quality image interpolation is. Theres been decades of research into it and dozens of different methods have been the topic of phd papers. Lots of high end math and very complex algorithms.
Okie, I know, been in image processing research for a time. Didn't want to be unneccessarily techie here.
What I ment by the "rocket science" thing was that placing a chip that zooms with a however special algorithm shouldn't deserve the hype in '04. That's all, but then again, it could be just me.
Yes you could, if hardware implementations were available. And it indeed would be useful, IMHO. I would certainly buy such a tv set :)
I don't know, it's probably just me, but I don't think adding a "feature" like this to a tv set should be a cause for worldwide hype in a normal world.
:P are (I hope) probably not targeted to people who understand the techniques laying behind.
:D
I mean zooming an image is no rocket science (and in this case is probably no good either). Recognizing public demand for such a function in the case of tv's and adding it could be good for businness. But hyping such a function this much... it's just a nobrainer.
But then again, the hype around these new functions and revolutionary enhancements
One thing to add from the image procssing guy's side: for normal pal-resolution tv sets a certain amount of everyday zooming wouldn't show that much zooming error as e.g. a plasma screen would. Just try grabbing a lowres low-bitrate video (lets say quarter pal res + ~500kbit mpeg4) and play it full screen on a 50cm tv set (many artifacts are smoothed out) and some 100cm digital (where they all remain visible).
But I still don't like the hype around it. It's like when MS said DB-based file system is coming in '06 and that will be so great and cool and all. When we first heard them we just looked at each other and wondered: with all their research facilities behind their backs, how come in some cases they all lurk so behind ? Another example would be using neural networks for learning and adapting applications. Anybody moving around in scientific research can come around many dozens of applications and research fields using them every year. Still, most of everyday people don't have a clue what that is and they all get easily caught into the hype tides.
Well, scientific research and company policies are not so close to each other as one would guess
Great, no I'm flamebait.
Great indeed.
I'm right anyways.
When can we see a trusted computing environment? (gui down) When will we see fully improved network/remote access? When will we see some innovation instead of eye candy? Why does something have to be invented on OSX or Windows instead of pioneered on linux?
When someone writes - without smileyes or indication of joking of course - things like these above, I cannot in my life understand how in hell or heaven can it be moderated to Interesting.
Oh yeah, right, interesting in the way it shows linux&*nix ingorance.
Nothing to see here.
More about being able to print directly the contents of an opengl-rendered scene window. I mean without using like GL2PS or alike.
Quoting from one of Daniel Stone's on debian-x list in may this year:
Changing stuff like this around (mainly, all the package renames, as well as a mass patch rediff) within Debian is actually really quite difficult, and very, very unlikely to be allowed to happen before sarge's release.
I'll leave it you to draw consequences. All I know is that news was spread Sarge will come around september this year (on debianplanet on aug.2), but then again: Debian releases when it is time. (from debian.org)
Anyways, since I'm a long-ago Debian man, I also hope X.org will come to us soon.
TCP is just one of the protocols running under IP
Well, you surely ment over.
I was waiting for such a statement from the Debian project (it being my favouritve flavour for many years now and following what's happening) since the Apache statement.
This is the correct way to go (and this is not just the opensource guy in me speaking, but also the IT subconcious).
Go Debian.
It's not about inserting a card into a pc being hard. It's mainly about and for people with laptops and no desktop machines around, and it's good.
... much :(
Unfortunately usb tuner support under linux is not