You could try sorting into "interesting" and "uninteresting" based on previously labeled webpages. Those two categories would be entirely user specific and any dataset would become invalid over time as user interest shifts, but still, these are two "good" bins. For newsfeeds you could set a subject (for example: "Presidential elections") and sort into "About presidential elections" and "Not about presidential elections". You just make an initial suggestion (a few articles maybe) and judge the first few articles the bayesian news sorter sends your way (by saying: "this is a good article, this is a bad article") and you're set for the next few days. And then there's clustering techniques (as suggested by another poster) that might work as well. You could even use bayesian techniques to determine the quality of a found cluster based on user judgement of previously found clusters.
Having atoms do the work Billionaires are doing now... manipulating billionaires at the molecular level...
This newfangled nanotech thing is even better than I thought! to bad it won't solve the problem between our big interfaces and Billionaires but I guess that's just the next step...
Rule 1) SCO Group GmbH (German branch of SCO) has agreed not to allege any more that Linux contains SCO's unlawfully acquired intellectual property. Rule 2) The settlement also forbids SCO from claiming that if end users are running Linux they might be liable for breaches of SCO's intellectual property. Rule 3) Also they cannot say that Linux is an unauthorized derivative of Unix. Rule 4) Finally SCO Group GmbH is prohibited to threaten to sue Linux users unless they bought SCO Linux or Caldera Linux.
Fact 1: SCO Group GmbH get's fined EUR 10,000 if they break Rules 1 through 4. Fact 2: Darl mcwhatever is CEO of SCO. Theorem 1: SCO Group GmbH is a branch of SCO group and falls directly under SCO group. extrapolation 1: If Theorem 1 holds then Darl mcwhatever is part of SCO Group GmbH. Conclusion: If extrapolation 1 holds then SCO Group GmbH gets fined EUR 10.000 everytime Darl mcwhatever says or does anything covered by rules 1 through 4.
Does this mean that every SCO press release now costs them an additional EUR 10.000? What about the sco.com website? is that a repeat offense every time someone presses refresh?
This is just preparation for a press release later this week about how Duke Nukem Forever will be delayed a bit more because it has become clear that an auto-dynamic-difficulty systems is essential for a game of that type.
On ADD itself: I think this stuff might work a bit for some games, but generally it would suck. How much sense of accomplishment would you get from completing a game that you knew just tuned itself down to your level? Of course the general public won't know about this so they'll think they are becoming elite gamers because they finish every game in record time and as such the marketing aspect of ADD might just work. What might be next? ADD-d muliplayer FPS's where the damage you do per shot is inversely proportional to your frag-count? I'd love to see an ADD implementation of pac-man though, the challenge would be to play so badly that the ghosts run away from you when you approach:-)
readability has nothing to do with case sensitivity. Code is kept readable by programmers that use sane variable names and, the occasional uppercase letter.
In a case sensitive environment this:
MySteadFastObject.doSomeReallyBizarreParsing()
Would produce an error because you actually meant to type this:
MySteadfastObject.doSomeReallyBizarreParsing()
But your head got in the way and parsed "fast" as a separate word that should have it's own uppercase letter. The only proper reason for case sensitivity is portability. MySteadfastObject and MySteadFastObject look the same to humans and a case insensitive compiler but in a binary file they are not the same. And if you'd open a file containing both on a system that uses some other character map than ASCI you'd be in real trouble if you wanted to get the code to compile (or even read it for that matter).
there is 6-pin firewire and 4-pin (mini) firewire. This one has 4-pin which is sort of rectangular with a dent in the middle of one long side) and I think mac's have 6-pin (which is sort of rectangular with one arrow-ish short side)
The specs are still all right, I guess..for the size... but when they announced it almost two years ago it had specs I'd die for, right now it's just a too low spec too small expensive laptop, or a too high spec, too short battery life, too heavy pda. If it had the size of an average contemporary PDA with these specs it'd be ultra, or with the performance of a P4 2.5GHz with a 120 GB HD and 1024 MB of RAM (a contemporary PC) then it'd be ultra too. Right now it's just a bit smaller, a bit lower performance, a bit more expensive... just a different compromise. Windows XP and Office XP on this hardware? Nothing ultra about that.
They're still speaking in terms of: "it will be available in QX of 200Y" though, so maybe they're just waiting for the year ipaq's have these specs and HP is willing to produce them OEM style so they can slap their by then hype-laden brand-name on...
There's nothing wrong with saying "1,500,000 engineers". However, that number isn't really relevant when you're talking about the 150,000 engineers that are meant by 1.5 lakh. other than that you're free to say "1,500,000 engineers" as often as you like. shout it out loud if you want, maybe you'll wake your co-workers out of their day-dream and they'll start counting for full engineers again:-)
I was just about to make this comment. My company uses 15" Elo touchs screens for all our industrial applications. The 15" models are great for office/light industrial use.
Build a giant "Laser" on the moon and call it the "Death Star" *cough*ripoff*cough* (don't forget to mimic the quotes while telling your good for nothing son about it)
Yup, there would have to be a direct optical link. The ethernet could go through any ethernet though (internet for example). Of course you can get quite long optical cables without a repeater. So for example a few companies in a financial district could use this to safely link their systems. And linking two offices some 100 km apart isn't impossible either. Yes, it's ridiculously expensive, but the people that need this kind of security usually have money to burn anyway.
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don't you mean:
With a little help from Moore's Law, I thought most personal computers would have been replaced by something like oqo's "ultra-personal" computer. It was supposed to be like a PDA, but it would have ran(sp?) regular Windows XP (and so presumably could have supported Linux). And once our input/output devices like keyboards and monitors would have supported something like Rendezvous/Bluetooth, we could have just docked our oqo brick with our workstation or taken it with us.
people will only get so used to clicking "OK" to various "do you want to run this?" prompts that less than cluefull people will install thousands of trojans, 0900 dialers, new search/start pages and whatever per surfing day. This is IMO the worst thing that could have come out of this case ever except maybe MS buying Eolas and using the patent against other browsers...
You have this in/around a lot of city centres here in the Netherlands. Shops, businesses and residents of a restricted area get a drive-in permit (for delivery) (and maybe one parking space) all public transport is allowed in (buses and cabs) and everybody else can park on the edge. Vehicles that are allowed in get a pass that unblocks the roads into and out of the system. solid metal blocks block the roads and can sink down when needed, controlled from some control centre that you can call and by some automatic card system that I don't really know.
When the traffic get's more troublesome it's probably worth the trouble:)
The main reason these things are used (in europe) is space. My dad is an expert on various car park solutions, mainly to let people "store" (park) their car somewhere at the edge of a city to use public transport to get to the centre (so called transferia). And he traveled around the world looking at how other cities/nations did this. He found that in europe solutions focus on using as little space as possible for as much cars as possible, which naturally led to this system. In the states however, the usual solution to this problem was taking a huge slab of land, covering it with some concrete or asphalt, throw a bus/subway/train station in the middle and call it a transferium. The US will get these things when empty land becomes as rare and expensive as it is now in most areas of europe. Which may never happen because malls (easily accessible by car) fulfill much of the functions for americans that city centres fulfill for europeans, so The US has fewer areas where lots of people need to go that are nearly impossible to get to by car. Maybe when people get fed-up with walking hundreds of metres across a huge car-park to the nearest mall entrance?
To me, this sounds more like someone needs to be a bit less lazy (namely your friend) and someone needs to learn to say "no" to support questions. Someone who is not dumb at all can find these things out by themselves. The fact that she called you means that that was the easy solution (one phonecall to a friendly helpfull person vs 30 mins searching through menu's and helpfiles.) She hasn't learned a thing from your support though, so next time she needs a feature turned off she'll call you again, and again, and again..... People need to understand that using computers is not an easy thing to do even though marketing people and a slick GUI make it look easy, and that learning to use them takes time and energy. You and I (and most slashdotters) didn't get at the level of computer literacy we're at just because we are super geniuses and have a "knack" for it. We all spend hours every day learning these things ourselves and keeping our knowledge up to date. I understand that learning Word takes time. It is not, however, particularly hard. In my opinion (and I don't mean to offend) your friend needs to learn to distinguish between hard-as-in-difficult tasks and hard-as-in-I-don't-feel-like-doing-them-and-I-can- ask-my-computer-geek-friend tasks. And that's why I only help people when they're looking for the help function.
Rereading TFA and actually tracking the last names shows that (relatives of) the victimes are suing. Not the parents of the kids, as is sort of implied by the write-up. So this turns out to be a classic case of "victims following the money" (kids = no money, parents of badly raised kids = no money, big company = katchingngng). It saddens me to see that people still try to express the loss of their loved ones in a monetary amount (i.e. "I will feel compensated for the loss of my father if you give me $30,000,000.00" or "I lose my father you lose your money") but this has happened before and I'm not particularly surprised or outraged by it anymore.
What were those parents thinking letting their 14 and 16 year old kids play a game that has an 18+ rating? (at least in the UK from the article) Or (if they're liberal parents) what were they thinking letting their kids play that game unattended? Do parents and kids live in the same house? Do they talk at all? Was there any contact since birth? Have those boys parents already been sued by the (families of the) victims for negligence? Is this some form of preemptive blame shifting?
My apologies for the rant but this is just so far out there I almost feel I've been transferred to another galaxy in my sleep. If the game had no rating or a 14+ rating in the US it would be a slightly mittigating circumstance in my view but even then the parents had better start by finding where they themselves went wrong before the let the lawsuits fly.
Like a donkey that starved to death between between two haystacks...
If all open source spokespeople / gurus speak up like this, pretty soon the board of SCO will feel like that donkey, unable to start suing for whatever reason because they are unable to choose where to start. How much capital do they have? How long will it take for them to bleed dry?
I thought financial people were supposed to be more socially able than technological people. Don't your managers understand the concept of "talking to people abouth things they should and should not do during work hours?" I now it's not generally accepted in most larger companies, but I always question bad and lazy management decisions like this one. Management is usually paid generously enough to compensate for the occasional difficult talk with a bothersome employee. Besides, talking has a lot less negative (or even positive, depending on the person doing the talking) effect on the work atmosphere and might alleviate a general feeling of "us against the managers" in employees.
Well it seems difficult for a human... I guess it would involve heavy surgery to change your shape significantly and you'd have to get someone to cover your innards with lots of rules, tables and a few drawings by famous fantasy artists. And even then, if you were to become my PHB you'd be dog-eared in a month and coming apart at the back within the year.
And that's not even considering the question that will determine your fate as a PHB: "Which edition will I be?"
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You could try sorting into "interesting" and "uninteresting" based on previously labeled webpages. Those two categories would be entirely user specific and any dataset would become invalid over time as user interest shifts, but still, these are two "good" bins.
For newsfeeds you could set a subject (for example: "Presidential elections") and sort into "About presidential elections" and "Not about presidential elections". You just make an initial suggestion (a few articles maybe) and judge the first few articles the bayesian news sorter sends your way (by saying: "this is a good article, this is a bad article") and you're set for the next few days.
And then there's clustering techniques (as suggested by another poster) that might work as well. You could even use bayesian techniques to determine the quality of a found cluster based on user judgement of previously found clusters.
Friends of me use it for their common room music/streaming mp3 setup:
http://tunez.sourceforge.net/
Having atoms do the work Billionaires are doing now... manipulating billionaires at the molecular level...
This newfangled nanotech thing is even better than I thought! to bad it won't solve the problem between our big interfaces and Billionaires but I guess that's just the next step...
Rule 1) SCO Group GmbH (German branch of SCO) has agreed not to allege any more that Linux contains SCO's unlawfully acquired intellectual property.
Rule 2) The settlement also forbids SCO from claiming that if end users are running Linux they might be liable for breaches of SCO's intellectual property.
Rule 3) Also they cannot say that Linux is an unauthorized derivative of Unix.
Rule 4) Finally SCO Group GmbH is prohibited to threaten to sue Linux users unless they bought SCO Linux or Caldera Linux.
Fact 1: SCO Group GmbH get's fined EUR 10,000 if they break Rules 1 through 4.
Fact 2: Darl mcwhatever is CEO of SCO.
Theorem 1: SCO Group GmbH is a branch of SCO group and falls directly under SCO group.
extrapolation 1: If Theorem 1 holds then Darl mcwhatever is part of SCO Group GmbH.
Conclusion: If extrapolation 1 holds then SCO Group GmbH gets fined EUR 10.000 everytime Darl mcwhatever says or does anything covered by rules 1 through 4.
Does this mean that every SCO press release now costs them an additional EUR 10.000?
What about the sco.com website? is that a repeat offense every time someone presses refresh?
When the last lightminute is no problem but the last mile is?
This is just preparation for a press release later this week about how Duke Nukem Forever will be delayed a bit more because it has become clear that an auto-dynamic-difficulty systems is essential for a game of that type.
:-)
On ADD itself:
I think this stuff might work a bit for some games, but generally it would suck. How much sense of accomplishment would you get from completing a game that you knew just tuned itself down to your level? Of course the general public won't know about this so they'll think they are becoming elite gamers because they finish every game in record time and as such the marketing aspect of ADD might just work.
What might be next? ADD-d muliplayer FPS's where the damage you do per shot is inversely proportional to your frag-count?
I'd love to see an ADD implementation of pac-man though, the challenge would be to play so badly that the ghosts run away from you when you approach
readability has nothing to do with case sensitivity. Code is kept readable by programmers that use sane variable names and, the occasional uppercase letter.
In a case sensitive environment this:
MySteadFastObject.doSomeReallyBizarreParsing()
Would produce an error because you actually meant to type this:
MySteadfastObject.doSomeReallyBizarreParsing()
But your head got in the way and parsed "fast" as a separate word that should have it's own uppercase letter. The only proper reason for case sensitivity is portability. MySteadfastObject and MySteadFastObject look the same to humans and a case insensitive compiler but in a binary file they are not the same. And if you'd open a file containing both on a system that uses some other character map than ASCI you'd be in real trouble if you wanted to get the code to compile (or even read it for that matter).
there is 6-pin firewire and 4-pin (mini) firewire. This one has 4-pin which is sort of rectangular with a dent in the middle of one long side) and I think mac's have 6-pin (which is sort of rectangular with one arrow-ish short side)
The specs are still all right, I guess..for the size... but when they announced it almost two years ago it had specs I'd die for, right now it's just a too low spec too small expensive laptop, or a too high spec, too short battery life, too heavy pda.
If it had the size of an average contemporary PDA with these specs it'd be ultra, or with the performance of a P4 2.5GHz with a 120 GB HD and 1024 MB of RAM (a contemporary PC) then it'd be ultra too. Right now it's just a bit smaller, a bit lower performance, a bit more expensive... just a different compromise. Windows XP and Office XP on this hardware? Nothing ultra about that.
They're still speaking in terms of: "it will be available in QX of 200Y" though, so maybe they're just waiting for the year ipaq's have these specs and HP is willing to produce them OEM style so they can slap their by then hype-laden brand-name on...
There's nothing wrong with saying "1,500,000 engineers". However, that number isn't really relevant when you're talking about the 150,000 engineers that are meant by 1.5 lakh. :-)
other than that you're free to say "1,500,000 engineers" as often as you like.
shout it out loud if you want, maybe you'll wake your co-workers out of their day-dream and they'll start counting for full engineers again
I play quake3 on the num-lock light of my newfangled IBM XT 4.77 MHz computer
I was just about to make this comment.
My company uses 15" Elo touchs screens for all our industrial applications. The 15" models are great for office/light industrial use.
Build a giant "Laser" on the moon and call it the "Death Star"
*cough*ripoff*cough*
(don't forget to mimic the quotes while telling your good for nothing son about it)
Yup, there would have to be a direct optical link. The ethernet could go through any ethernet though (internet for example).
Of course you can get quite long optical cables without a repeater. So for example a few companies in a financial district could use this to safely link their systems. And linking two offices some 100 km apart isn't impossible either. Yes, it's ridiculously expensive, but the people that need this kind of security usually have money to burn anyway.
don't you mean:
With a little help from Moore's Law, I thought most personal computers would have been replaced by something like oqo's "ultra-personal" computer. It was supposed to be like a PDA, but it would have ran(sp?) regular Windows XP (and so presumably could have supported Linux). And once our input/output devices like keyboards and monitors would have supported something like Rendezvous/Bluetooth, we could have just docked our oqo brick with our workstation or taken it with us.
people will only get so used to clicking "OK" to various "do you want to run this?" prompts that less than cluefull people will install thousands of trojans, 0900 dialers, new search/start pages and whatever per surfing day.
This is IMO the worst thing that could have come out of this case ever except maybe MS buying Eolas and using the patent against other browsers...
You have this in/around a lot of city centres here in the Netherlands.
:)
Shops, businesses and residents of a restricted area get a drive-in permit (for delivery) (and maybe one parking space) all public transport is allowed in (buses and cabs) and everybody else can park on the edge. Vehicles that are allowed in get a pass that unblocks the roads into and out of the system.
solid metal blocks block the roads and can sink down when needed, controlled from some control centre that you can call and by some automatic card system that I don't really know.
When the traffic get's more troublesome it's probably worth the trouble
The main reason these things are used (in europe) is space.
My dad is an expert on various car park solutions, mainly to let people "store" (park) their car somewhere at the edge of a city to use public transport to get to the centre (so called transferia). And he traveled around the world looking at how other cities/nations did this. He found that in europe solutions focus on using as little space as possible for as much cars as possible, which naturally led to this system. In the states however, the usual solution to this problem was taking a huge slab of land, covering it with some concrete or asphalt, throw a bus/subway/train station in the middle and call it a transferium. The US will get these things when empty land becomes as rare and expensive as it is now in most areas of europe.
Which may never happen because malls (easily accessible by car) fulfill much of the functions for americans that city centres fulfill for europeans, so The US has fewer areas where lots of people need to go that are nearly impossible to get to by car. Maybe when people get fed-up with walking hundreds of metres across a huge car-park to the nearest mall entrance?
To me, this sounds more like someone needs to be a bit less lazy (namely your friend) and someone needs to learn to say "no" to support questions. Someone who is not dumb at all can find these things out by themselves. The fact that she called you means that that was the easy solution (one phonecall to a friendly helpfull person vs 30 mins searching through menu's and helpfiles.) She hasn't learned a thing from your support though, so next time she needs a feature turned off she'll call you again, and again, and again.....- ask-my-computer-geek-friend tasks. And that's why I only help people when they're looking for the help function.
People need to understand that using computers is not an easy thing to do even though marketing people and a slick GUI make it look easy, and that learning to use them takes time and energy. You and I (and most slashdotters) didn't get at the level of computer literacy we're at just because we are super geniuses and have a "knack" for it. We all spend hours every day learning these things ourselves and keeping our knowledge up to date.
I understand that learning Word takes time. It is not, however, particularly hard. In my opinion (and I don't mean to offend) your friend needs to learn to distinguish between hard-as-in-difficult tasks and hard-as-in-I-don't-feel-like-doing-them-and-I-can
Rereading TFA and actually tracking the last names shows that (relatives of) the victimes are suing. Not the parents of the kids, as is sort of implied by the write-up.
So this turns out to be a classic case of "victims following the money" (kids = no money, parents of badly raised kids = no money, big company = katchingngng). It saddens me to see that people still try to express the loss of their loved ones in a monetary amount (i.e. "I will feel compensated for the loss of my father if you give me $30,000,000.00" or "I lose my father you lose your money") but this has happened before and I'm not particularly surprised or outraged by it anymore.
What were those parents thinking letting their 14 and 16 year old kids play a game that has an 18+ rating? (at least in the UK from the article) Or (if they're liberal parents) what were they thinking letting their kids play that game unattended? Do parents and kids live in the same house? Do they talk at all? Was there any contact since birth?
Have those boys parents already been sued by the (families of the) victims for negligence? Is this some form of preemptive blame shifting?
My apologies for the rant but this is just so far out there I almost feel I've been transferred to another galaxy in my sleep.
If the game had no rating or a 14+ rating in the US it would be a slightly mittigating circumstance in my view but even then the parents had better start by finding where they themselves went wrong before the let the lawsuits fly.
Like a donkey that starved to death between between two haystacks...
If all open source spokespeople / gurus speak up like this, pretty soon the board of SCO will feel like that donkey, unable to start suing for whatever reason because they are unable to choose where to start. How much capital do they have? How long will it take for them to bleed dry?
All together now on three....
I wonder how many "linux-cluster-supercomputers" are out there which would easyly make it into the top 500, but noone has ever heard of....
Well... probably more than one, definitely no more than 500.
I thought financial people were supposed to be more socially able than technological people. Don't your managers understand the concept of "talking to people abouth things they should and should not do during work hours?"
I now it's not generally accepted in most larger companies, but I always question bad and lazy management decisions like this one. Management is usually paid generously enough to compensate for the occasional difficult talk with a bothersome employee. Besides, talking has a lot less negative (or even positive, depending on the person doing the talking) effect on the work atmosphere and might alleviate a general feeling of "us against the managers" in employees.
Well it seems difficult for a human... I guess it would involve heavy surgery to change your shape significantly and you'd have to get someone to cover your innards with lots of rules, tables and a few drawings by famous fantasy artists. And even then, if you were to become my PHB you'd be dog-eared in a month and coming apart at the back within the year.
And that's not even considering the question that will determine your fate as a PHB:
"Which edition will I be?"