kerberos exists for every system on the planet, as does USB. that way it could be a slowly implemented standard. if web sites or OSs started allowing either traditional passwords or these stronger "keys", people could upgrade slowly, or even stick with passwords if they're not paranoid.
and i know it would still be just a sequence of bits, but it could be, say, 1MB long instead of 4kB. plus, once it's in kerberos' domain, ain't nobody can touch it (as I understand it).
I should mention, though, that I would probably not use a system like this...just because I don't want to have to reach into my pocket each time I need to authenticate...
I'd be interested to see what peer-reviewed, repeatable research there exists on actual gender differences.
But the point is that you cannot do good research on a topic like this. Every woman (and every man and every whathaveyou) alive today grew up in the modern world, affected by social pressure just like you and me. There is no way to conduct an experiment that even addresses the issue of whether women tend to get worse grades in math because of genetic or social circumstance.
In the mean time, I think it's important to just assume that everybody's equally likely to be good at anything until the individual proves otherwise. Assigning a trait to all women with no means to prove it only guarantees that women will tend to have that trait. (self-fulfilling...what, now?)
This isn't about Political Correctness, it's about what you can and cannot tell through emperical study.
The trick would be to design the binary format such that it could be translated at arbitrary points in the file on the fly. This way it would be easy to extend text editors (vixml) to read and edit the files as if it were just text (ie quickly and transparently), but have the file size stay skimpy. It's important, though, that the structure, or any individual node, be accessible and modifiable without translating the entire tree to ascii. This is why gzip et. al. would not work.
I bet it wouldn't be too much trouble. you can install a number of linux flavors on apple, if you want to go that route. also, i bet it won't be long before somebody comes out with a cheap tivo designed to run on this thing with a remote and all...
You're right. Content is more than just a technological challenge. As you said, "it still takes Talent, Money and Training (or 2 of the 3:)".
But you can think of P2P broadcasting as a way of eliminating, or at least minimizing, the "money" requirement. It has the potential to lower (though probably not destroy) the barriers to entry into the media.
Your point about blogs is a good one. 90% of them are really not worth reading, and most of the rest are just barely interesting. But the.01% that are really extraordinary only came about because there is almost no barrier to entry. "Everybody and his brother" can get a blog. Those truly extraordinary bloggers would probably never have been heard if it weren't for that fact.
So my point is that while talent and training still take money (as demonstrated with the usually horrible graphics in open-source games), any way to ease the difficulty of producing and distributing media will allow that many more unforeseen and creative bits of content get through. Even if only a few quality streams come out of this technology, it will be a few more than we have right now.
from the article:
I said Apple wouldn't introduce a G6 in 2004 (right) and wouldn't sell as many G5s as it would like, either (right again).
really? this guy must be looking at a different Apple than I am. I follow Apple pretty closely, and there's nothing resembling a post-G5 chip. What is he talking about?
The issue is that Apple will not license their DRM to play on anything other than apple computers and apple ipods. Therefore, if you want to be legal, you have to use apple's hardware to play itunes-purchased music.
Windows Media DRM scheme, while more oppressive in most ways, is licensed to several different portable players (i believe).
This, to me, has been the most obnoxious part of apple's DRM since the beginning. Overall, it's pretty lenient, but it does lock the music buyer into apple's hardware from a legal, not to mention practical, standpoint. People aren't going to buy a Zen player, then burn all their music to CD, then rip it all into MP3 at a loss of quality.
Whether the issue is lawsuit-worthy, on the other hand, is arguable. I, for one, don't think so. I think it's obnoxious on the part of apple -- just as so much of what microsoft does is obnoxious -- but probably not illegal.
Anybody have a non-.asx video of the keynote?
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does anybody know where there's a non-windowsmedia video of the keynote. windows media player for mac has yet to be able to effectively play a live stream for me.
You're probably right that from the user's point of view, this won't make a lick of difference. The only thing I can think of is that folks may manage to hack the system and start using VLC for playback, or something...
But from HP's angle, I can't believe they're only doing this now. If Linux is good for anything, it's for optimized, customized systems. With Linux, HP can build in exactly the functionality they need -- nothing more. Plus it's free.
I'm always a bit skeptical of the "up to n year in prison" statements. In most cases, that's the maximum sentence the judge can give. In cases such as this, in which the intent was probably not in line with the motivation (however misguided) behind the law, I would expect a much more lenient punishment. Maybe a plea bargon with a fine and a promise to not own any more green lasers?
Of course, I'm not a lawyer, so I don't actually know what I'm talking about. I've just been through the "well, we could charge you with X, but if you cooperate we'll let you off with X/30" routine enough myself, that I tend to be skeptical of the threats made by police/government.
It's likely that IE would get overcounted, at least by a little bit.
with firefox and with safari, it's not uncommon to spoof the user agent to show up as IE (to get around sites that check your user agent and won't let you in if you're not on their browser list).
I don't know how much this could account for, but at least a little.
Well, for one thing because the locally maintained system was never intended to be in Joe Sixpacks lounge, maintained by Joe Sixpack.
Whatever the intentions, I think it's been demonstrated that Joe Sixpack (and Jane Winecooler) can maintain their own system, and at least have the option to do more than "reading email, surfing the web, viewing pornography [and] playing computer games".
I was always under the impression that computers progressed from the network-based mainframe idea to the locally maintained system. Why should we want to go back? I understand that there is a lot to be gained from a certain amount of network integration, but let's not forget why we moved away from terminals in the first place...
Although Microsoft may have successfully killed OOo's format-acceptance in the US by "opening" their office file formats. With the new xml-based word doc's, microsoft may have defined the new standard for text formats in the US. At least it's better than that gobbledy-binary mess they had before..
I don't know much about the underlying technology, but I've been in a few systems that use kerberos, and it seems to do the job of authentication nicely without any yucky credit card/personal info messyness. Could kerberos be implemented on the web somehow, or is it only good for intranets?
Though this is a great idea, and it may well happen in some form or another, I can't imaging that Apple would put a G4 in it. Apple's too committed to a 64-bit architecture across the board to have one little 32-bit straggler keeping thier OS behind. If this happens (and I hope it does), I think it would be a low-powered G5 or some sort of new cheep 64-bit chip from Motorolla. But what do I know...
I few years ago I was reading the skymall catalogue on a cross-country flight when I came accross a similar product. Somebody had invented a little wheeled robot to get rid of slugs in your back yard. It somehow sniffed out the slugs, picked them up with a robotic arm, and dumped them in a canister on its back. It then fermented the slugs into alcohol, which it used to generate electricity to power itself.
Sure this new tech doesn't rely on an alcohol intermediary to turn bio into electricity, but that also means you don't get to drink the excess slug rum.
you should maybe check out your breasy.com...
i'm using safari (yes, i know) and all it did was keep reloading itself without ever loading content. (about once a second).
maybe this has something to do with the higher non-ie turnout on your site?
I gotta agree. But i'd also like to say that R is capable of a lot more than statistics (there's pretty good algabraic and analytical tools in there, as well).
What I think would be particularly good about R for a high-school student trying to learn math is that it's hard to have the program solve your problems for you without you understanding the principles at work. For instance, function maximization in R makes a lot more sense once you understand the computational calculus going on in the wrapper functions that do the actual calculation for you. I think that R could be a great tool (with, granted, a relatively shallow learning curve) to allow a student to concentrate on the concepts and theories of math without getting bogged down in the actual calculation.
But that may just be because I'm very familiar with R and have learned how to use it myself. Give it a look, anyway.
These documents are old and handwritten. Why waste the processing power decyphering results for each search when you can decypher the text once with a similar algorithm and search an index built that way? It's not like the information is ever going to change. (unless we do rewrite history)
Context, context, context!
If there's one thing I've learned in all of my schooling (and there is a lot), it is that how the information is portrayed is just as important as the information itself. Think about hearing vs. reading a speech, or reading a document printed on a dot-matrix instead of a laser printer. Yes it matters. Does it matter enough to use the many more resources necessary in this case? That's another issue...
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kerberos exists for every system on the planet, as does USB. that way it could be a slowly implemented standard. if web sites or OSs started allowing either traditional passwords or these stronger "keys", people could upgrade slowly, or even stick with passwords if they're not paranoid.
and i know it would still be just a sequence of bits, but it could be, say, 1MB long instead of 4kB. plus, once it's in kerberos' domain, ain't nobody can touch it (as I understand it).
I should mention, though, that I would probably not use a system like this...just because I don't want to have to reach into my pocket each time I need to authenticate...
Did you notice in those photos from your linked article that the font in the Apple ads is identical to the one they still use today? wow.
But the point is that you cannot do good research on a topic like this. Every woman (and every man and every whathaveyou) alive today grew up in the modern world, affected by social pressure just like you and me. There is no way to conduct an experiment that even addresses the issue of whether women tend to get worse grades in math because of genetic or social circumstance.
In the mean time, I think it's important to just assume that everybody's equally likely to be good at anything until the individual proves otherwise. Assigning a trait to all women with no means to prove it only guarantees that women will tend to have that trait. (self-fulfilling...what, now?)
This isn't about Political Correctness, it's about what you can and cannot tell through emperical study.
The trick would be to design the binary format such that it could be translated at arbitrary points in the file on the fly. This way it would be easy to extend text editors (vixml) to read and edit the files as if it were just text (ie quickly and transparently), but have the file size stay skimpy. It's important, though, that the structure, or any individual node, be accessible and modifiable without translating the entire tree to ascii. This is why gzip et. al. would not work.
I bet it wouldn't be too much trouble. you can install a number of linux flavors on apple, if you want to go that route. also, i bet it won't be long before somebody comes out with a cheap tivo designed to run on this thing with a remote and all...
But you can think of P2P broadcasting as a way of eliminating, or at least minimizing, the "money" requirement. It has the potential to lower (though probably not destroy) the barriers to entry into the media.
Your point about blogs is a good one. 90% of them are really not worth reading, and most of the rest are just barely interesting. But the .01% that are really extraordinary only came about because there is almost no barrier to entry. "Everybody and his brother" can get a blog. Those truly extraordinary bloggers would probably never have been heard if it weren't for that fact.
So my point is that while talent and training still take money (as demonstrated with the usually horrible graphics in open-source games), any way to ease the difficulty of producing and distributing media will allow that many more unforeseen and creative bits of content get through. Even if only a few quality streams come out of this technology, it will be a few more than we have right now.
from the article: I said Apple wouldn't introduce a G6 in 2004 (right) and wouldn't sell as many G5s as it would like, either (right again). really? this guy must be looking at a different Apple than I am. I follow Apple pretty closely, and there's nothing resembling a post-G5 chip. What is he talking about?
Right. don't know where that came from . Maybe I was trying to say "...other than apple software and apple ipods." I'll assume that's what I meant.
Anyway, the point still holds about the obnoxiousness of the policy.
Windows Media DRM scheme, while more oppressive in most ways, is licensed to several different portable players (i believe).
This, to me, has been the most obnoxious part of apple's DRM since the beginning. Overall, it's pretty lenient, but it does lock the music buyer into apple's hardware from a legal, not to mention practical, standpoint. People aren't going to buy a Zen player, then burn all their music to CD, then rip it all into MP3 at a loss of quality.
Whether the issue is lawsuit-worthy, on the other hand, is arguable. I, for one, don't think so. I think it's obnoxious on the part of apple -- just as so much of what microsoft does is obnoxious -- but probably not illegal.
does anybody know where there's a non-windowsmedia video of the keynote. windows media player for mac has yet to be able to effectively play a live stream for me.
But from HP's angle, I can't believe they're only doing this now. If Linux is good for anything, it's for optimized, customized systems. With Linux, HP can build in exactly the functionality they need -- nothing more. Plus it's free.
Of course, I'm not a lawyer, so I don't actually know what I'm talking about. I've just been through the "well, we could charge you with X, but if you cooperate we'll let you off with X/30" routine enough myself, that I tend to be skeptical of the threats made by police/government.
I don't know how much this could account for, but at least a little.
Whatever the intentions, I think it's been demonstrated that Joe Sixpack (and Jane Winecooler) can maintain their own system, and at least have the option to do more than "reading email, surfing the web, viewing pornography [and] playing computer games".
at first i was skeptical, but after seeing the picture, i just really want to see one in real life..feasible or not.
I was always under the impression that computers progressed from the network-based mainframe idea to the locally maintained system. Why should we want to go back? I understand that there is a lot to be gained from a certain amount of network integration, but let's not forget why we moved away from terminals in the first place...
Although Microsoft may have successfully killed OOo's format-acceptance in the US by "opening" their office file formats. With the new xml-based word doc's, microsoft may have defined the new standard for text formats in the US. At least it's better than that gobbledy-binary mess they had before..
I don't know much about the underlying technology, but I've been in a few systems that use kerberos, and it seems to do the job of authentication nicely without any yucky credit card/personal info messyness.
Could kerberos be implemented on the web somehow, or is it only good for intranets?
"The Iraqi information minister, 2003: 'The Americans will never set foot in Baghdad.'"
- small-poor-megalomaniacal-underdog" analogy. More fitting:
This one strays from your "huge-wealthy-megalomaniacal-power-underestimates
Bush in 2003: "It's just Iraq.. we don't need troops, armor, congressional approval or funding! We're all-powerful! Let's just invade already!"
Though this is a great idea, and it may well happen in some form or another, I can't imaging that Apple would put a G4 in it. Apple's too committed to a 64-bit architecture across the board to have one little 32-bit straggler keeping thier OS behind.
If this happens (and I hope it does), I think it would be a low-powered G5 or some sort of new cheep 64-bit chip from Motorolla.
But what do I know...
I few years ago I was reading the skymall catalogue on a cross-country flight when I came accross a similar product. Somebody had invented a little wheeled robot to get rid of slugs in your back yard. It somehow sniffed out the slugs, picked them up with a robotic arm, and dumped them in a canister on its back. It then fermented the slugs into alcohol, which it used to generate electricity to power itself. Sure this new tech doesn't rely on an alcohol intermediary to turn bio into electricity, but that also means you don't get to drink the excess slug rum.
you should maybe check out your breasy.com... i'm using safari (yes, i know) and all it did was keep reloading itself without ever loading content. (about once a second). maybe this has something to do with the higher non-ie turnout on your site?
I gotta agree. But i'd also like to say that R is capable of a lot more than statistics (there's pretty good algabraic and analytical tools in there, as well).
What I think would be particularly good about R for a high-school student trying to learn math is that it's hard to have the program solve your problems for you without you understanding the principles at work. For instance, function maximization in R makes a lot more sense once you understand the computational calculus going on in the wrapper functions that do the actual calculation for you. I think that R could be a great tool (with, granted, a relatively shallow learning curve) to allow a student to concentrate on the concepts and theories of math without getting bogged down in the actual calculation.
But that may just be because I'm very familiar with R and have learned how to use it myself. Give it a look, anyway.
These documents are old and handwritten. Why waste the processing power decyphering results for each search when you can decypher the text once with a similar algorithm and search an index built that way? It's not like the information is ever going to change. (unless we do rewrite history) Context, context, context! If there's one thing I've learned in all of my schooling (and there is a lot), it is that how the information is portrayed is just as important as the information itself. Think about hearing vs. reading a speech, or reading a document printed on a dot-matrix instead of a laser printer. Yes it matters. Does it matter enough to use the many more resources necessary in this case? That's another issue...