I think Microsoft just got enough text data to run whatever tests they need, and closed shop. Google will probably do the same as soon as they reach the point when more data will stop making a difference for their translation algorithms.
Neither Microsoft nor Google care about scanning books: all they need is raw text data, translated in as many languages as possible, for their automatic translation work. Proof? The quality of Google books scans is appalling , and none of the two actually implemented tools to let user use the books effectively. Google's MyLibrary is a joke useful only for boosting the vanity of books owners by letting them show off how endowed are their two selves stuffed with bound paper.
Luddism was founded on the principle that the way technology was being implemented was costing jobs
were they losing jobs ? Not really.
If companies had been willing to use technology to enhance the productivity of individuals and transfer people from redundant, tedious work into more profitable specialty areas, I doubt Ludd or his followers would have raised a finger.
That's exactly what was happening: companies used technology to transfer people from redundant tedious work into more profitable specialty areas. Except "the people" had the law with them saying that "only certified cloth cutters can do this", and the companied did away with the need for certified cloth cutters by using machines to cut the cloth faster and better, and could employ any bum to operate them, so the "certified" folks had to find some other way to become indispensable. The way they found was to wreck the machines.
ping -n 5000 -l 1000 localhost ping: cannot set preload to value > 3
did those blogs give info about how to patch and recompile your ping tool ?
4Mbps hostile traffic brought down a whole country that used to practically live on the internet ? Do they keep all their web servers on a 586 ?
Estonians use their internet banking all the time and most have not been to a bank in person in the last 10 years ?? How do they give the signature specimen for a new CC when the old one expires ?
While it is irresponsible of the Russian government to allow this type of activity to go on, it is certainly not against their best interests.
well, if the high-tech and web savvy Estonians were not able to block the attacks, or, according to the pdf report, even accurately pinpoint the origin of the attack, how could Putin's government do that, except by cutting Russia off the internet or implementing over night a clone of the Chinese FireWall?
How about some Russians being angry about the whole monument business, and some wise guys taking advantage of that anger to help foster a "nation under siege" and do some nation-building at home ? The government of Russia itself is not innocent of this kind of tactics, proof being the last spate of "patriotic" movies, or the "Brat" series, all of them quite nauseously xenophobic...
If the argument used is: the Russians were responsible because the attacks came from Russia, how about dropping all packets arriving from the network blocks assigned to Russia? Not the ideal situation, but at least it will allow your citizen use their online banking accounts or pay their taxes. Or maybe not all attacks originated from Russia, in which case you don't really know who did it.
How would it be in the interest of the Russian government to appear to the world as a bully? If they wanted to harm any of the Baltic states they could have arranged an "accident" on the pipes that supply them with gas... They did not hesitate to cut the gas supply of Ukraine, with whom they have much closer and friendly ties.
This whole Russia-bashing is quite annoying. First, the cold war ended 18 years ago, and hands were shaken, cheeks were kissed, TV shows with USA and SU children holding hands were aired, promises were made that it's a peace without winners or losers, Russia let everybody go their way without much opposition and I personally saw Moskva 1 TV channel (was able to watch it because I lived just across the SU border at that time) arranging to show hot female teens saying stuff that would be unimaginable in USA or any nice Western European country, namely "For me Russia means those that want to stay".
Second, the cold war did not end because the economy of SU was in collapse or anything like this, the way those political analysts, who in 1989 were predicting the survival of the SU for the next 100 years and inventing terms such as "otomanization", are now clamoring. SU economy was in quite a poor shape, but that was the shape the SU economy was ever since 1917. The collapse began about 1991-1992, when a economy that previously functioned as a single company suddenly was split into a myriad of smaller companies that used to function under central command with their resources directed by the central planning offices and calculated to the milligram, and now did not have the staff, the know-how and the resource buffer to compete against each other. The cold war ended because the Brejnevites and the other leaders of the party wanted to legalize their privileged status, and this happened not only in SU, but in all of the Eastern Europe: just take the Top 500 list of "captains of industry" from any country you like and tabulate it against former "Foreign Trade" officials, local party leaders, diplomats etc. The match would not be perfect, fortunately, but you'll be surprised how many positives you'll find, and how few of the former members of the state apparatus in the Communist governments were left outside. If anybody still imagines that a handful of dissidents that in July 1989 were in prison or home arrest managed to topple the Communist regimes, that person is rather naive, since s/he believes that a state apparatus with complete control over the life of its citizen managed fell to the anger of the righteous.
Third, what happens right now is that Russia is pushed towards a "Weimar" scenario, with native entrepreneurs of violence doi
Well, they have... once or twice a year you hear about raids by ORDA (Rumanian Intellectual Property Rights Office), networking equipment confiscated and hefty fines paid. Quite the same rate as in US, considering that Rumania is only 22 mil.
What is different: real competition in the market. About half of the home connections are managed by small companies with a few thousand to some ten thousand customers, and the rest is split between three big guys with cable connections and three with wireless connections, one of which is the former state telecom company. Competition is so big that you can have at least four or five offers at the same time in the same location: Romtelecom, one EVDO/CDMA network with reasonable bandwidth, two G3 networks I never used but heard good things about quality of service, one of the big cable tv companies (there are two, but they avoid competing with each other) and at least one of small companies.
The small companies usually have bittorent trackers and DC++ hubs. I think they can afford to pay the fines, but cannot afford to lose customers.
records survive from the "Roman Kingdom" ? Oh, man, if you got them, make them public, for Jupiter's sake... they will create a Nobel prise for archeology just for you, to celebrate the event.
The bigger issue would be being able to actually read the data.
... or actually caring worth two centimes about that data; if I care about my data, I will copy it and transpose it to new media: the fact that those clay tablets (baked or not) from Iraq or most of the papiri from Egypt were recovered from ruins or dumping grounds or mummy fillings tells us they did not much care about what was written on them, but cared more about astrology, mining, medicine, ship building, metal working etc., information which was translated, copied and passed on.
The main issue in archiving is not preservation, but deciding what needs to be preserved and allocating resources for that purpose.
But when you need a mobile bunker to assault a fortified enemy position, tanks will be there, doing the job.
How about just going around the "fortified" enemy position and cutting it's supply lines? It has been done a lot during the last world war. Tanks are for squishing infantry or other tanks, not for taking out fortified positions, since fortified positions can use bigger guns than the tank car survive. Once you have an infantryman than can carry more than a few RPG round with him and some protection against air attacks, tanks are obsolete: look up the beginning of the Yom Kippur War.
Some of the early tanks had more than 10 crew on board. You are right, the tendency is it decrease the number of crew, which only proves my point: the ideal situation is to have one man for each armored vehicle, since it takes 20 years to "make" a man, but a lot less to make a tank.
by "secure" I was thinking about the situation when either the satellite relying the orders gets shut down, or the link is jammed, and then it's "free advanced tech" for the other side:-). If some squishy fellow is inside, you can leave out a lot of sensitive, and fragile too, electronics.
Why a suit, instead of an armed, semi-autonomous ROV?
Probably because of the "semi-autonomous" part, which I think is a lot harder to do right (and secure too) than the "weight-lifting" part. Until there will be "semi-semi-autonomous" Rumbas on the market, they work on the "weight-lifting" part.
Heinlein was in the army in his youth. No need to predict "the future of the military": armor has to be heavy to be truly effective, but if it's heavy, it limits the mobility of the soldier. Generals have been drooling for ways to make soldiers able to carry bigger guns and thicker plates for millennia.
Tanks are only a compromise, since you get only one cannon for 4 to 6 crew: crew members are much harder to replace than tanks or cannons, and they would be a lot more effective and less vulnerable if you could spread them instead of having all 4 in the same place.
Bipeds are a lot more efficient for walking, it just requires some extra computing power to keep them balanced: I suppose this is the reason you find bipedal animals, other than the humans, only in places where saving energy is really important, such as dry savannas or deserts.
I guess you have not thought of losses from "transporting" that energy to places that are nor "suitable", and of the costs in manpower and detergents for washing all those mirrors.
On one hand, humans don't have any super-antibiotics in their blood; on the other, talk about "so are humans?" with the people that got the super-bugs that are being trained right now in our hospitals or by hygiene-obsessed housewives.
Now, I am not a biochemist, but it might be that the 'gator antibiotics are a bit smarter than the fungi poo derivatives we use now, and there might not be a way for bacteria to evolve around them without major restructuring of their innards.
Not so much time ago the flu virus was a "superbug". Still, I wonder about this: since the alligators used the same proteins as antibiotics for millions of years, how come no "superbug" resistant to them appeared ?
do the FAQ include this question and answer :
"Q: How long until I'll have to rewrite my application ?
A: About two years. Then the next version of PHP will get out, and in another year, or two if you're really lucky, there will be no support for the version you used, and due to backward incompatibilities, you'll be left with a ton of work that you cannot host anywhere but on your own datacenter. Oh, and watch the.x.x releases: we do love to break backward compatibility"
Nicotinic acid is still sold in pharmacies (sometimes called vitamin PP - Pellagra Preventive).
Strychnine too is sold in pharmacies, injectable I think.
Curara (also spelled curare) was used for stomach problems, as long as one did not have an ulcer and it did not get into the blood stream directly.
All plants are at least a bit toxic, that's why most of them have to be cooked, or have the outer skin removed, or can be eaten only when they are very young, or only when ripe etc.
I am tired of being told that "this is bad for your health" and 'that is good for your health"... I want my coffee black, my steak medium-rare and the omelet with cheese and lots of bacon. The miserabilists/calorie counters can go and attempt to manage somebody's else life.
breakup of Yugoslavia
- http://www.springerlink.com/content/j339272hr6267766/... that's pay per view, or you find it in a "good library"
- if you have access to the mythical "good library", you might attempt to check out this: Tim Judah, 'German Spies Accused of Arming Bosnian Muslims', in Daily Telegraph from 20 April 1997; it's not available on the net... take it with as many grains of salt you think it's safe.
Name of "Gehlen" and the phrase "starting the cold war" ring a bell when on the same page ?
It looks like the US are not alone in all those conflicts you quoted, but are the only country with enough balls to take responsibility. As for USA going in Iraq "for the oil", if that's true, it's Europe's oil supply that the troops belonging to USA and the other "willing" countries are protecting.
Other examples of an European country starting some trouble and USA going in to clean up the mess ? How about the Vietnam War ? Or the WWII ? WWI, anybody ?
Edgar Rice Burroughs (the one who wrote the Tarzan and Martian Princess pulp "masterpieces") wrote also a novel (The Lost Continent (1916)) about USA not getting into WWI, but instead cutting all communication with Europe. After a few decades, a ship crosses the interdiction line during a storm, sinks near the coast of England, and the crew discovers that the war ended with the last Briton killing the last German and later succumbing to his wounds, leaving the Europe a desert populated only by animals escaped from zoos. How about such option ? Is it acceptable to you ?
The perpetual "holier than thou" attitude is getting tiresome. Ever wondered why the Eastern European "Untermenschen" stick with either US or Russia ?
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I think Microsoft just got enough text data to run whatever tests they need, and closed shop. Google will probably do the same as soon as they reach the point when more data will stop making a difference for their translation algorithms.
Neither Microsoft nor Google care about scanning books: all they need is raw text data, translated in as many languages as possible, for their automatic translation work. Proof? The quality of Google books scans is appalling , and none of the two actually implemented tools to let user use the books effectively. Google's MyLibrary is a joke useful only for boosting the vanity of books owners by letting them show off how endowed are their two selves stuffed with bound paper.
were they losing jobs ? Not really.
That's exactly what was happening: companies used technology to transfer people from redundant tedious work into more profitable specialty areas. Except "the people" had the law with them saying that "only certified cloth cutters can do this", and the companied did away with the need for certified cloth cutters by using machines to cut the cloth faster and better, and could employ any bum to operate them, so the "certified" folks had to find some other way to become indispensable. The way they found was to wreck the machines.
hmmm...
ping -n 5000 -l 1000 localhost
ping: cannot set preload to value > 3
did those blogs give info about how to patch and recompile your ping tool ?
4Mbps hostile traffic brought down a whole country that used to practically live on the internet ? Do they keep all their web servers on a 586 ?
Estonians use their internet banking all the time and most have not been to a bank in person in the last 10 years ?? How do they give the signature specimen for a new CC when the old one expires ?
well, if the high-tech and web savvy Estonians were not able to block the attacks, or, according to the pdf report, even accurately pinpoint the origin of the attack, how could Putin's government do that, except by cutting Russia off the internet or implementing over night a clone of the Chinese FireWall?
How about some Russians being angry about the whole monument business, and some wise guys taking advantage of that anger to help foster a "nation under siege" and do some nation-building at home ? The government of Russia itself is not innocent of this kind of tactics, proof being the last spate of "patriotic" movies, or the "Brat" series, all of them quite nauseously xenophobic ...
If the argument used is: the Russians were responsible because the attacks came from Russia, how about dropping all packets arriving from the network blocks assigned to Russia? Not the ideal situation, but at least it will allow your citizen use their online banking accounts or pay their taxes. Or maybe not all attacks originated from Russia, in which case you don't really know who did it.
How would it be in the interest of the Russian government to appear to the world as a bully? If they wanted to harm any of the Baltic states they could have arranged an "accident" on the pipes that supply them with gas ... They did not hesitate to cut the gas supply of Ukraine, with whom they have much closer and friendly ties.
This whole Russia-bashing is quite annoying. First, the cold war ended 18 years ago, and hands were shaken, cheeks were kissed, TV shows with USA and SU children holding hands were aired, promises were made that it's a peace without winners or losers, Russia let everybody go their way without much opposition and I personally saw Moskva 1 TV channel (was able to watch it because I lived just across the SU border at that time) arranging to show hot female teens saying stuff that would be unimaginable in USA or any nice Western European country, namely "For me Russia means those that want to stay".
Second, the cold war did not end because the economy of SU was in collapse or anything like this, the way those political analysts, who in 1989 were predicting the survival of the SU for the next 100 years and inventing terms such as "otomanization", are now clamoring. SU economy was in quite a poor shape, but that was the shape the SU economy was ever since 1917. The collapse began about 1991-1992, when a economy that previously functioned as a single company suddenly was split into a myriad of smaller companies that used to function under central command with their resources directed by the central planning offices and calculated to the milligram, and now did not have the staff, the know-how and the resource buffer to compete against each other. The cold war ended because the Brejnevites and the other leaders of the party wanted to legalize their privileged status, and this happened not only in SU, but in all of the Eastern Europe: just take the Top 500 list of "captains of industry" from any country you like and tabulate it against former "Foreign Trade" officials, local party leaders, diplomats etc. The match would not be perfect, fortunately, but you'll be surprised how many positives you'll find, and how few of the former members of the state apparatus in the Communist governments were left outside. If anybody still imagines that a handful of dissidents that in July 1989 were in prison or home arrest managed to topple the Communist regimes, that person is rather naive, since s/he believes that a state apparatus with complete control over the life of its citizen managed fell to the anger of the righteous.
Third, what happens right now is that Russia is pushed towards a "Weimar" scenario, with native entrepreneurs of violence doi
Well, they have ... once or twice a year you hear about raids by ORDA (Rumanian Intellectual Property Rights Office), networking equipment confiscated and hefty fines paid. Quite the same rate as in US, considering that Rumania is only 22 mil.
What is different: real competition in the market. About half of the home connections are managed by small companies with a few thousand to some ten thousand customers, and the rest is split between three big guys with cable connections and three with wireless connections, one of which is the former state telecom company. Competition is so big that you can have at least four or five offers at the same time in the same location: Romtelecom, one EVDO/CDMA network with reasonable bandwidth, two G3 networks I never used but heard good things about quality of service, one of the big cable tv companies (there are two, but they avoid competing with each other) and at least one of small companies.
The small companies usually have bittorent trackers and DC++ hubs. I think they can afford to pay the fines, but cannot afford to lose customers.
records survive from the "Roman Kingdom" ? Oh, man, if you got them, make them public, for Jupiter's sake ... they will create a Nobel prise for archeology just for you, to celebrate the event.
The bigger issue would be being able to actually read the data.
The main issue in archiving is not preservation, but deciding what needs to be preserved and allocating resources for that purpose.
or how to make a knife sharpener out of it
How about just going around the "fortified" enemy position and cutting it's supply lines? It has been done a lot during the last world war. Tanks are for squishing infantry or other tanks, not for taking out fortified positions, since fortified positions can use bigger guns than the tank car survive. Once you have an infantryman than can carry more than a few RPG round with him and some protection against air attacks, tanks are obsolete: look up the beginning of the Yom Kippur War.
Some of the early tanks had more than 10 crew on board. You are right, the tendency is it decrease the number of crew, which only proves my point: the ideal situation is to have one man for each armored vehicle, since it takes 20 years to "make" a man, but a lot less to make a tank.
Correct ... where I live the concept denoted by "army" includes "navy", "aviation", "infantry", "armored ..." etc.
by "secure" I was thinking about the situation when either the satellite relying the orders gets shut down, or the link is jammed, and then it's "free advanced tech" for the other side :-). If some squishy fellow is inside, you can leave out a lot of sensitive, and fragile too, electronics.
Probably because of the "semi-autonomous" part, which I think is a lot harder to do right (and secure too) than the "weight-lifting" part. Until there will be "semi-semi-autonomous" Rumbas on the market, they work on the "weight-lifting" part.
Heinlein was in the army in his youth. No need to predict "the future of the military": armor has to be heavy to be truly effective, but if it's heavy, it limits the mobility of the soldier. Generals have been drooling for ways to make soldiers able to carry bigger guns and thicker plates for millennia.
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Tanks are only a compromise, since you get only one cannon for 4 to 6 crew: crew members are much harder to replace than tanks or cannons, and they would be a lot more effective and less vulnerable if you could spread them instead of having all 4 in the same place.
During WWI, before armored vehicles became used, old style armor was tried, but it was too heavy: one example here (not in English, but the pictures don't need translation) http://historiasconhistoria.blogia.com/2008/021401-luchas-medievales-en-el-siglo-xx.php
so, humans are a "colossally stupid idea" too ?
Bipeds are a lot more efficient for walking, it just requires some extra computing power to keep them balanced: I suppose this is the reason you find bipedal animals, other than the humans, only in places where saving energy is really important, such as dry savannas or deserts.
meant "peak water"
They tried, but thought of the "water peak" and gave up ... much better to discourage consumption by high prices.
I guess you have not thought of losses from "transporting" that energy to places that are nor "suitable", and of the costs in manpower and detergents for washing all those mirrors.
On one hand, humans don't have any super-antibiotics in their blood; on the other, talk about "so are humans?" with the people that got the super-bugs that are being trained right now in our hospitals or by hygiene-obsessed housewives.
Now, I am not a biochemist, but it might be that the 'gator antibiotics are a bit smarter than the fungi poo derivatives we use now, and there might not be a way for bacteria to evolve around them without major restructuring of their innards.
alligators still alive ?
Not so much time ago the flu virus was a "superbug". Still, I wonder about this: since the alligators used the same proteins as antibiotics for millions of years, how come no "superbug" resistant to them appeared ?
do the FAQ include this question and answer : "Q: How long until I'll have to rewrite my application ? A: About two years. Then the next version of PHP will get out, and in another year, or two if you're really lucky, there will be no support for the version you used, and due to backward incompatibilities, you'll be left with a ton of work that you cannot host anywhere but on your own datacenter. Oh, and watch the .x.x releases: we do love to break backward compatibility"
Nicotinic acid is still sold in pharmacies (sometimes called vitamin PP - Pellagra Preventive).
Strychnine too is sold in pharmacies, injectable I think.
Curara (also spelled curare) was used for stomach problems, as long as one did not have an ulcer and it did not get into the blood stream directly.
All plants are at least a bit toxic, that's why most of them have to be cooked, or have the outer skin removed, or can be eaten only when they are very young, or only when ripe etc.
I am tired of being told that "this is bad for your health" and 'that is good for your health" ... I want my coffee black, my steak medium-rare and the omelet with cheese and lots of bacon. The miserabilists/calorie counters can go and attempt to manage somebody's else life.
use a very large cup ?
and lettuce is a bit toxic ... eating only lettuce would probably kill you before you die of hunger
how about this, then:
... that's pay per view, or you find it in a "good library" ... take it with as many grains of salt you think it's safe.
Iraq
- http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,542840,00.html
- http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,542881,00.html
- http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,542888,00.html
breakup of Yugoslavia
- http://www.springerlink.com/content/j339272hr6267766/
- if you have access to the mythical "good library", you might attempt to check out this: Tim Judah, 'German Spies Accused of Arming Bosnian Muslims', in Daily Telegraph from 20 April 1997; it's not available on the net
Name of "Gehlen" and the phrase "starting the cold war" ring a bell when on the same page ?
It looks like the US are not alone in all those conflicts you quoted, but are the only country with enough balls to take responsibility. As for USA going in Iraq "for the oil", if that's true, it's Europe's oil supply that the troops belonging to USA and the other "willing" countries are protecting.
Other examples of an European country starting some trouble and USA going in to clean up the mess ? How about the Vietnam War ? Or the WWII ? WWI, anybody ?
Edgar Rice Burroughs (the one who wrote the Tarzan and Martian Princess pulp "masterpieces") wrote also a novel (The Lost Continent (1916)) about USA not getting into WWI, but instead cutting all communication with Europe. After a few decades, a ship crosses the interdiction line during a storm, sinks near the coast of England, and the crew discovers that the war ended with the last Briton killing the last German and later succumbing to his wounds, leaving the Europe a desert populated only by animals escaped from zoos. How about such option ? Is it acceptable to you ?
The perpetual "holier than thou" attitude is getting tiresome. Ever wondered why the Eastern European "Untermenschen" stick with either US or Russia ?