This article is inducing some serious cognitive dissonance for me. I find this article seriously disturbing.
Taking the taxman's position in this article, one could impose the VAT on cellular telephone providers as they are doing the same thing, exhanging money for a specially encoded form of electromagnetic radiation. That's right - the only difference between visible light and radio waves is the frequency. You can not hold visible light in your hand just as you can not hold any EM waves.
And FM radio gives their radiation away for free...must be communists or something
from TFA: "The documentation is so much deeper than that for the OpenDocument format -- it represents much more functionality, many more options and a deeper, richer customer experience," Yates said.
Ignoring all of the rest of the incredible FUD in this article, isn't this a very telling quote? It's only one word, but isn't that an interesting demonstration of their worldview?
I also like the name of "Open XML" - it's like North Korea calling itself the "Democratic People's Republic of Korea."
I think you nailed my initial response to every video game list I've ever seen: Why is the NES Legend of Zelda "not on here" or "ranked so low"? This is crap. Why are these all newer games, have people forgotten the greatness of NES? These people are obviously idiots (i.e. uninformed youth), but that's alright. Hey, where's my copy of "Ikari Warriors"/"SNES Legend of Zelda"/etc.?
Are the problems in the forums centered around any specific location? I've had no problems with my Vonage service recently, but now I want to go home and see if it works.
Is your ability to receive calls on your cell phone a right or a privilege? Where is it guaranteed that you will be able to use items such as a cellphone in certain places? Is your ability to receive a phone call more important than another person's expectation to watch a movie or concert performance without overwhelming distraction from another person? I'd say that in some situations not being able to receive calls falls under the category of "your problem", not that of the building owner and especially not the guy who actually applied the paint to the walls.
(Just asking, hoping to start meaningful conversation, not a flamewar)
Nice combo - funny yet insightful. I agree.
from TFA: "...inform all of Blizzard's system administrators that they are not to discipline any players for mentioning or discussing sexual orientation or gender identity in a non-insulting fashion."
Wouldn't this itself cause further problems? The system of disallowing all talk that revolves around certain topics is much easier than having the sysadmins selectively deciding who get to talk about what.
Who talks about being gay or not in an online game anyway? I thought that was what chat rooms were for...
Only now I find out I was really a budding scientist... Or a budding theologian - it just depends on whether you can write an equation to describe the imaginary friend.
Practically any school is going to deal with the NSF, DARPA, or numerous other government agencies at one time or another. But it's not the school that goes out and seeks funding for research projects, it's the professors and research groups at the school. A research grant is hardly the same thing as a public school.
And NSF grants don't go to the school at all, they go to the principal investigator and stay with the PI wherever they may go. A few years ago a professor in my graduate research group left for another university and took his NSF funding & equipment with him, shafting 2 professors and about 8 students in the process.
Exactly. The question should be more about hte specs and the situation, not whether or not it's going to be popular years later.
One major quesiton that should be considered when figuring this out (along with the parent's questions): are Zigbee's data rates sufficient for your use? Do you need a self-organizing mesh network, or are you just going to have a device talk to a computer?
This question sounds like its coming from someone from business development, not engineering.
That's a very good rule that I use often. The one exception I always have is when writing assembly. In my microprocessors class I had to comment almost every line just to remember what I was doing by the time I got to the end of the program. And I've never done assembly since.
And what exactly do they mean by "take liberties with the original." That is probably code for "when we got done with this bitch it will be damn near unrecognizable."
This does raise another question: why does music cost that much to produce? I own records recorded and printed for less than $5k that sound infinitely better than the $100k+ albums of pop bands.
Of course, movies (which you talked about) do cost more and that does make sense because there is a lot more involved in their production. But production costs can still go down. Robert Rodriguez made the Spy Kids movies for less than $100k each - he did the CG, sound editing, set construction, and a lot more himself. It's become a blated process, rife with excess and waste (much like some MS software...).
NLP is a very interesting area, but I don't know if it deserves its own major yet. I would advise majoring in comp sci, with a concentration in Machine Learning/Data Mining through your technical electives.
That's the first thing I thought when reading this question. This seems way too concentrated for a bachelor's degree. I'd say either doing computer science or computer engineering would be the way to go, followed by grad school. Find the right school with the right research group and/or professor and make that your thesis research. I'm not too familiar with the topic of NLP, but if there aren't any good books written on the topic go for your PhD and turn your dissertation into a book on the subject (a couple people from my graduate research group did that).
My main advice though is this: don't get too specialized for your BS. If you have lofty goals for research (as I'm assuming you do), go to grad school (as I said above). If you don't have much experience with programming or engineering, make your major CS or computer engineering. With computer engineering you'll get the programming background along with a solid understanding of engineering principles, and you'll more than likely be able to take advanced CS classes like AI or something. Oh, and some sort of linguisitcs would seem (to me) to be necessary, as the parent stated (somewhat).
notes: I admit that the parent obviously know way more than me on this subject. I'm just adding my own $0.02. I'm biased towards the engineering (I do have an MS in EE). The best programmers I've ever met were not CS students, they were physicists and engineers (I'm not a great programmer, I barely know C++).
Traffic sensors and cameras cost money and need to be installed & maintained. The Findlaw article states that this will apparently save money when compared to traditional means.
No, I'm sorry, they can't implement it in any form without infringing my patents. You see, I have a patent on the subtraction operation. Everybody who subtracts two numbers without a license from me is in danger of prosecution (thieves, stealing my valuable IP). And don't try that "I'll just add a negative number" because it won't hold up in court (and hasn't).
You'll be hearing from my lawyer soon concerning your willful, unlawful proliferation of the subtraction operation on a public message board without licensing it first.
http://www.pierceive.com/ has a damn good filterset for Firefox adblock. I've hardly had a problem using it, and it is much easier to grab the new one than constantly adding sites to your own list (especially when you're too lazy to export it to another pc).
I'm not trying to start an argument, but from TFA: "The developer also expressed disappointment over the lack of community participation in developing the software, despite its open-source license. 'Virtually nobody has ever contributed anything to improve the scanning engine over the last six years,' he wrote, noting that there had been minor exceptions."
1. They get no more free code, since people can't hack on it and improve it for themselves. It appears that this has been the case for the last 6 years. Maybe the switch away from the GPL would cause people who only improve it for themselves to say "Hey, I'll participate if you let me back in!" If the people who actually do play with the source code keep the modifications to themselves, then the company might see little to no change in a year because they apparently weren't benefiting much from being open source anyway.
They don't even have "Kolchak the Night Stalker"? "Xena" rates higher than the original "The Outer Limits" (among numerous others)? They don't even include the new "Battlestar Galactica"?
Sometimes people in business think that "not making as much money as I think I should" == "I'm losing money/business is shrinking". The RIAA spins the same sob story but they're still making more money every year!
The one thing that pops into my mind with every "UMD format is gaining ground" article is this: how is selling more UMDs a measure of format acceptance when you can only use those UMDs in a PSP? Isn't this just a measure of how people are using their PSPs? Put out DVD player appliances (or make DVD players that can also play UMDs) and then see how the general public reacts - then you will see if the format is accepted.
It depends on the standard; some are harder to eavesdrop on than others. Any fool with a 30kHz (even 10kHz will work) bandwidth FM demodulator and the proper tuner can get an analog cellphone signal with no problem (AMPS == Ancient Mobile Phone Service, and truly should be abandoned). This is effortless for a graduate student in digital communications. GSM presents a problem for eavesdroppers because all of the time slots are aligned at the base station - if the eavesdropper is not sitting at the base station the time slots could be horribly skewed & overlap or lag. CDMA presents even greater problems because time slots are not the issue but actually figuring out the spreading code, chip rate, etc. is a huge problem. But if this was done cooperatively with a service provider, I'd say that the chances are slight, especially after reading the first line of TFA: Using anonymous cellphone data provided by the leading cellphone operator in Austria, A1/Mobilkom. Do you think the data given to the students is the actual recorded calls? I'd expect it to be time of arrival and any available spatial data. So for now, let's leave the conspiracy theories to
Another aspect: cell phone companies design their systems based on call density & concentration - this could have been real news a decade ago. It's standard practice now. I can draw the cell phone usage in a city if you answer a few questions: where are the rush hour routes? where is the business district? what are the peak rush hour times? You can get a much better picture by actually analyzing a lot of data but the fundamental result will be the same!
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This article is inducing some serious cognitive dissonance for me. I find this article seriously disturbing.
Taking the taxman's position in this article, one could impose the VAT on cellular telephone providers as they are doing the same thing, exhanging money for a specially encoded form of electromagnetic radiation. That's right - the only difference between visible light and radio waves is the frequency. You can not hold visible light in your hand just as you can not hold any EM waves.
And FM radio gives their radiation away for free...must be communists or something
from TFA: "The documentation is so much deeper than that for the OpenDocument format -- it represents much more functionality, many more options and a deeper, richer customer experience," Yates said.
Ignoring all of the rest of the incredible FUD in this article, isn't this a very telling quote? It's only one word, but isn't that an interesting demonstration of their worldview?
I also like the name of "Open XML" - it's like North Korea calling itself the "Democratic People's Republic of Korea."
I think you nailed my initial response to every video game list I've ever seen:
Why is the NES Legend of Zelda "not on here" or "ranked so low"? This is crap.
Why are these all newer games, have people forgotten the greatness of NES?
These people are obviously idiots (i.e. uninformed youth), but that's alright.
Hey, where's my copy of "Ikari Warriors"/"SNES Legend of Zelda"/etc.?
Are the problems in the forums centered around any specific location? I've had no problems with my Vonage service recently, but now I want to go home and see if it works.
(Just asking, hoping to start meaningful conversation, not a flamewar)
Nice combo - funny yet insightful. I agree. from TFA: "...inform all of Blizzard's system administrators that they are not to discipline any players for mentioning or discussing sexual orientation or gender identity in a non-insulting fashion." Wouldn't this itself cause further problems? The system of disallowing all talk that revolves around certain topics is much easier than having the sysadmins selectively deciding who get to talk about what. Who talks about being gay or not in an online game anyway? I thought that was what chat rooms were for...
Only now I find out I was really a budding scientist...
Or a budding theologian - it just depends on whether you can write an equation to describe the imaginary friend.
Agreed. Nintendo is also probably going to have another portable out within 5 years as well. How will the PSP be seen then?
Practically any school is going to deal with the NSF, DARPA, or numerous other government agencies at one time or another. But it's not the school that goes out and seeks funding for research projects, it's the professors and research groups at the school. A research grant is hardly the same thing as a public school.
And NSF grants don't go to the school at all, they go to the principal investigator and stay with the PI wherever they may go. A few years ago a professor in my graduate research group left for another university and took his NSF funding & equipment with him, shafting 2 professors and about 8 students in the process.
The Naval Reserves, it's not just a job - it's a really easy job! (from The Simpsons)
True. As long as the parents will sue, the universities are going to have to worry.
Exactly. The question should be more about hte specs and the situation, not whether or not it's going to be popular years later.
One major quesiton that should be considered when figuring this out (along with the parent's questions): are Zigbee's data rates sufficient for your use? Do you need a self-organizing mesh network, or are you just going to have a device talk to a computer?
This question sounds like its coming from someone from business development, not engineering.
That's a very good rule that I use often. The one exception I always have is when writing assembly. In my microprocessors class I had to comment almost every line just to remember what I was doing by the time I got to the end of the program. And I've never done assembly since.
What's the difference between an introverted and an extroverted engineer?
The extrovert will look at your shoes when he talks to you.
And what exactly do they mean by "take liberties with the original." That is probably code for "when we got done with this bitch it will be damn near unrecognizable."
Of course, movies (which you talked about) do cost more and that does make sense because there is a lot more involved in their production. But production costs can still go down. Robert Rodriguez made the Spy Kids movies for less than $100k each - he did the CG, sound editing, set construction, and a lot more himself. It's become a blated process, rife with excess and waste (much like some MS software...).
That's the first thing I thought when reading this question. This seems way too concentrated for a bachelor's degree. I'd say either doing computer science or computer engineering would be the way to go, followed by grad school. Find the right school with the right research group and/or professor and make that your thesis research. I'm not too familiar with the topic of NLP, but if there aren't any good books written on the topic go for your PhD and turn your dissertation into a book on the subject (a couple people from my graduate research group did that).
My main advice though is this: don't get too specialized for your BS. If you have lofty goals for research (as I'm assuming you do), go to grad school (as I said above). If you don't have much experience with programming or engineering, make your major CS or computer engineering. With computer engineering you'll get the programming background along with a solid understanding of engineering principles, and you'll more than likely be able to take advanced CS classes like AI or something. Oh, and some sort of linguisitcs would seem (to me) to be necessary, as the parent stated (somewhat).
notes: I admit that the parent obviously know way more than me on this subject. I'm just adding my own $0.02. I'm biased towards the engineering (I do have an MS in EE). The best programmers I've ever met were not CS students, they were physicists and engineers (I'm not a great programmer, I barely know C++).
Traffic sensors and cameras cost money and need to be installed & maintained. The Findlaw article states that this will apparently save money when compared to traditional means.
No, I'm sorry, they can't implement it in any form without infringing my patents. You see, I have a patent on the subtraction operation. Everybody who subtracts two numbers without a license from me is in danger of prosecution (thieves, stealing my valuable IP). And don't try that "I'll just add a negative number" because it won't hold up in court (and hasn't).
You'll be hearing from my lawyer soon concerning your willful, unlawful proliferation of the subtraction operation on a public message board without licensing it first.
http://www.pierceive.com/ has a damn good filterset for Firefox adblock. I've hardly had a problem using it, and it is much easier to grab the new one than constantly adding sites to your own list (especially when you're too lazy to export it to another pc).
1. They get no more free code, since people can't hack on it and improve it for themselves. It appears that this has been the case for the last 6 years. Maybe the switch away from the GPL would cause people who only improve it for themselves to say "Hey, I'll participate if you let me back in!" If the people who actually do play with the source code keep the modifications to themselves, then the company might see little to no change in a year because they apparently weren't benefiting much from being open source anyway.
They don't even have "Kolchak the Night Stalker"? "Xena" rates higher than the original "The Outer Limits" (among numerous others)? They don't even include the new "Battlestar Galactica"?
The one thing that pops into my mind with every "UMD format is gaining ground" article is this: how is selling more UMDs a measure of format acceptance when you can only use those UMDs in a PSP? Isn't this just a measure of how people are using their PSPs? Put out DVD player appliances (or make DVD players that can also play UMDs) and then see how the general public reacts - then you will see if the format is accepted.
Another aspect: cell phone companies design their systems based on call density & concentration - this could have been real news a decade ago. It's standard practice now. I can draw the cell phone usage in a city if you answer a few questions: where are the rush hour routes? where is the business district? what are the peak rush hour times? You can get a much better picture by actually analyzing a lot of data but the fundamental result will be the same!
You probably also know this, but middle-clicking on the tab label also closes it.