You recall right. The system was called Mycin. But according to the wikipedia that was not the main reason (although I can imagine the "main reason" was more of a *justification* to downplay the first real reason)
> As mentioned, in tests it outperformed members of the Stanford medical school faculty. Some observers raised ethical and legal issues related to the use of computers in medicine — if a program gives the wrong diagnosis or recommends the wrong therapy, who should be held responsible? However, the greatest problem, and the reason that MYCIN was not used in routine practice, was the state of technologies for system integration, especially at the time it was developed.
No shit. In the last month I had to travel a lot within the EU.
On around 5 of those flights all passengers could *listen* to the interference of a mobile into the cabin communication system. This was while the lady was trying to tell the safety procedures; you could here the signal inteference which was a bit like this. No way I will feel at ease knowing pilots have to consider an additional "variable" while taking me home.
On the other hand. I could live with a cabled LAN to which you can plug your laptop using an rj45 cable.
And most importantly is to include ease of use in the "as good as" metric. Open Source developers usually think that it is enough that a program performs task openX better than program closedY without considering that the interface and intuitivness of the application is what counts for the majority of the people.
I remember I read somewhere that there was a Skype plugin for Pidgin, but you had to sacrifice a chicken on your keyboard during a full moon of April to make it work.
The reason why skype became so popular is because of the two big red and green buttons. That's all you need to talk to someone. All the NAT and proxy traversal capabilities made it very easy to use for all users.
What Ballmer has done is followed in Bill Gates footstep with so-so products sold by extremely hard marketing and very shoddy business practices. If anything Ballmer is just a bleaker version of Bill. The return of Bill Gates would just be about more pressure on OEMs, more underhanded deals and more of using the monopoly again.
Agreed. What we are seeing now (i.e. Microsoft's current state) is the result of following exactly the same strategy that Microsoft has *always* followed (shit, Embrace, Extend Extinguish worked so well for them for so long, they have tried once again with Skype).
Nevertheless, the market and competitors have evolved and adapted in order to be able to challenge Microsoft's tactics. As a consequence, nowadays Microsoft's strategy is not as useful as it was before.
Microsoft "stayed" in the "software products" market for a long time. But Yahoo, Google (and then Facebook) came, providing "software" as a free service (in exchange of advertising) and Microsoft just could not compete with their strategy.
This is the reason why Microsoft is still very succesful in the video-game market. Because in this market Microsoft strategy is still appropriate.
I agree on the importance of the development of this new method. However I cannot help but think that there is no perceptible difference between the hq4x result and their algorithm in Figure 9 (SNES mario picture). Myabe the difference (of these two methods) will be more evident with big screens.
Exactly, and I would add my belief that having two monitors is not only "good" but is closer to the normal way people interact with things.
Imagine you have 4 pieces of paper with documents that you need to work on, compare, swap info., etc. Now imagine having them stacked up and that every time you need to consult one you have to put it at the top of the stack. Nobody does that! what people do is to lay all the papers on their desk so that they have a visual of everything (or most of it).
The problem in using computers is that we have been programmed to work in these little windows (the screen) with everything stacked up there, which is not a "natural" way of working (stacking might be a natural way of storing documents though).
Good suggestion. However, Isn't it a sad state o affairs (for slashdot) when users have to be redirected to a third party web page to get answers about questions related to technical computer stuff?
Appart from what everybody has suggested, I would like to add that a lot of the tools available in Linux (say, awk, sed, cat, and others) for Windows via gnuwin32 (this is not like cygwin but native ported tools). Additionally, it is completely possible to use Python and Perl in Windows.
Excel was far better than Quattro Pro at the time, according to accountants
That'a actually interesting to hear. At that time my father made heavy use of Quattro Pro for DOS and he thought that Excel was actually worse. I do not remember his exacts complaints but I think it was about the lack of Macros and I *think* charts.
I myself played with it a bit (I was a kid at that time), and remember making (that is, copying from some magazine) a Biorythm "program" that showed charts and everything.
IIRC what killed Quattro Pro was the transition to Windows, because QPro for windows was actually pretty bad.
That's what they taught you in the USA, I guess as a matter to "differentiate" yourselves to the dirty people from the south. In other countries in the American continent it is an accepted fact that America is just one continent ( El continente Americano).
Hello, I am American too. See, I was born in the American continent; no, in my country we do not differentiate between "north american" and "south american" as being two different continents.
When someone says "American", normal people that have at least two brain cells to rub together don't think "Canadian", "Mexican", "Brazilian", "Peruvian", "Haitian", or whatever country that happen to exist here on the American continents. They think "citizen of the U.S."
Nope, we call you Gringos, some people call them douches...
I hope he doesn't do that in real life in front of strangers.
The funny thing is, all citizens from the USA I have met usually respond with the name of their state when asked "where are you from". So while other people say "I am from France", "I am from Germany, "I am from the UK"... stupid Gringos say "I am from Chicago" or "I am from Ohio". That's why next time I meet a Gringo and he pulls that one up, I will tell him "I am from Champoton" to show him how stupid it sounds.
FWIW I made some tests the other day and discovered that Adblock Plus used between 50 and 70MB of Firefox Memory. You can try, loading Fx with AdblockPlus and noting the memory, then disable the extension and check the memory again. ABP is quite a memory hog. (This is with EasyList subscription, without any list the memory usage is low)
Care to elaborate as the standard friendliness? I am using the last version of Opera and it just passed the Acid3 test with 100/100. What other standards are there that Opera fails?
Funny, I just uninstalled Google Chrome and installed Opera because Chrome's memory usage was horrible. Each tab wastes around 10 MB minimum... I also have Firefox 4 installed (my wife uses it) and I use Opera which is quite light and fast.
I agree with this. Look at the amount of frameworks to do Agent Based Modelling and Simulation and you will see there are at least 5 that are the same thing (Repast, Mason, NetLogo, StarLogo, Swarm) and a lot more that are very similar.
There, I said it. There are in fact news worthy for slashdot readers within all this mess:
1. That Dropbox uses a transfer mechanism which is pretty much "security through obscurity".
2. (Most important) that you can potentially get any file by only having their hashes. I think this is a huge security problem waiting to be exploited. What prevents someone to "brute force" a JSON file to download scan and download any available files? I am sure with a bit more of thinking, that would be interesting.
Too bad it was nobody else than Mr. Malda who posted this... it really shows that he is more interested in posting sensationalist crap, instead of real and interesting NEWS FOR NERDS and STUFF THAT MATTERS.
Quick someone, make a slashdot clone (I'll try again hackernews).
I actually agree with everything you said, except the very end. I am a big believer in government "control" being a bad thing, however I also see the point of government as a way to invest in projects that people and corporations are unwilling to do. In fact, I think that is the most justifiable expense of the government: researching the state of the art and beyond.
F*** yeah! Just look what the USA achieved with that... they went to the moon! Unfortunately (IMO) in their race to privatize everything, the USA has stopped doing research unless it yields results in the next 2 to 5 years. Nevertheless, in theory the best research places are still in the USA according to a lot of international people (MIT, CMU, Stanford, etc).
Slashdot Mirror
In Korea videogames are only for old people.
Solution:
1. Buy eBook in a restricted format
2. Download "free" format from here
3. Profit
eBooks is a technology and can be used to improve the status quo. But of course it also can be missused to restrict consumer's freedom
I find it quite similar to the Dreamcast controller.
You recall right. The system was called Mycin. But according to the wikipedia that was not the main reason (although I can imagine the "main reason" was more of a *justification* to downplay the first real reason)
> As mentioned, in tests it outperformed members of the Stanford medical school faculty. Some observers raised ethical and legal issues related to the use of computers in medicine — if a program gives the wrong diagnosis or recommends the wrong therapy, who should be held responsible? However, the greatest problem, and the reason that MYCIN was not used in routine practice, was the state of technologies for system integration, especially at the time it was developed.
No shit. In the last month I had to travel a lot within the EU.
On around 5 of those flights all passengers could *listen* to the interference of a mobile into the cabin communication system. This was while the lady was trying to tell the safety procedures; you could here the signal inteference which was a bit like this. No way I will feel at ease knowing pilots have to consider an additional "variable" while taking me home.
On the other hand. I could live with a cabled LAN to which you can plug your laptop using an rj45 cable.
And most importantly is to include ease of use in the "as good as" metric. Open Source developers usually think that it is enough that a program performs task openX better than program closedY without considering that the interface and intuitivness of the application is what counts for the majority of the people.
I remember I read somewhere that there was a Skype plugin for Pidgin, but you had to sacrifice a chicken on your keyboard during a full moon of April to make it work.
The reason why skype became so popular is because of the two big red and green buttons. That's all you need to talk to someone. All the NAT and proxy traversal capabilities made it very easy to use for all users.
What Ballmer has done is followed in Bill Gates footstep with so-so products sold by extremely hard marketing and very shoddy business practices. If anything Ballmer is just a bleaker version of Bill. The return of Bill Gates would just be about more pressure on OEMs, more underhanded deals and more of using the monopoly again.
Agreed. What we are seeing now (i.e. Microsoft's current state) is the result of following exactly the same strategy that Microsoft has *always* followed (shit, Embrace, Extend Extinguish worked so well for them for so long, they have tried once again with Skype).
Nevertheless, the market and competitors have evolved and adapted in order to be able to challenge Microsoft's tactics. As a consequence, nowadays Microsoft's strategy is not as useful as it was before.
Microsoft "stayed" in the "software products" market for a long time. But Yahoo, Google (and then Facebook) came, providing "software" as a free service (in exchange of advertising) and Microsoft just could not compete with their strategy.
This is the reason why Microsoft is still very succesful in the video-game market. Because in this market Microsoft strategy is still appropriate.
Well... this is not so different to the Sklyarov arrest.
I agree on the importance of the development of this new method. However I cannot help but think that there is no perceptible difference between the hq4x result and their algorithm in Figure 9 (SNES mario picture). Myabe the difference (of these two methods) will be more evident with big screens.
Funny that the actual "browser" based miner is a Java Applet. Yeah, one of those things that always fails to load and is slow as hell.
Wake me up when there is a JavaScript or at *least* a Flash-based miner.
I just want to say this
*Sigh*, unfortunately this has been true for Slashdot comments since the very early days :(
Exactly, and I would add my belief that having two monitors is not only "good" but is closer to the normal way people interact with things.
Imagine you have 4 pieces of paper with documents that you need to work on, compare, swap info., etc. Now imagine having them stacked up and that every time you need to consult one you have to put it at the top of the stack. Nobody does that! what people do is to lay all the papers on their desk so that they have a visual of everything (or most of it).
The problem in using computers is that we have been programmed to work in these little windows (the screen) with everything stacked up there, which is not a "natural" way of working (stacking might be a natural way of storing documents though).
Good suggestion. However, Isn't it a sad state o affairs (for slashdot) when users have to be redirected to a third party web page to get answers about questions related to technical computer stuff?
Appart from what everybody has suggested, I would like to add that a lot of the tools available in Linux (say, awk, sed, cat, and others) for Windows via gnuwin32 (this is not like cygwin but native ported tools). Additionally, it is completely possible to use Python and Perl in Windows.
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Excel was far better than Quattro Pro at the time, according to accountants
That'a actually interesting to hear. At that time my father made heavy use of Quattro Pro for DOS and he thought that Excel was actually worse. I do not remember his exacts complaints but I think it was about the lack of Macros and I *think* charts.
I myself played with it a bit (I was a kid at that time), and remember making (that is, copying from some magazine) a Biorythm "program" that showed charts and everything.
IIRC what killed Quattro Pro was the transition to Windows, because QPro for windows was actually pretty bad.
That's what they taught you in the USA, I guess as a matter to "differentiate" yourselves to the dirty people from the south. In other countries in the American continent it is an accepted fact that America is just one continent ( El continente Americano).
Hello, I am American too. See, I was born in the American continent; no, in my country we do not differentiate between "north american" and "south american" as being two different continents.
When someone says "American", normal people that have at least two brain cells to rub together don't think "Canadian", "Mexican", "Brazilian", "Peruvian", "Haitian", or whatever country that happen to exist here on the American continents. They think "citizen of the U.S."
Nope, we call you Gringos, some people call them douches...
I hope he doesn't do that in real life in front of strangers.
The funny thing is, all citizens from the USA I have met usually respond with the name of their state when asked "where are you from". So while other people say "I am from France", "I am from Germany, "I am from the UK"... stupid Gringos say "I am from Chicago" or "I am from Ohio". That's why next time I meet a Gringo and he pulls that one up, I will tell him "I am from Champoton" to show him how stupid it sounds.
FWIW I made some tests the other day and discovered that Adblock Plus used between 50 and 70MB of Firefox Memory. You can try, loading Fx with AdblockPlus and noting the memory, then disable the extension and check the memory again. ABP is quite a memory hog. (This is with EasyList subscription, without any list the memory usage is low)
Care to elaborate as the standard friendliness? I am using the last version of Opera and it just passed the Acid3 test with 100/100. What other standards are there that Opera fails?
Meanwhile, Google Chrome has a
Funny, I just uninstalled Google Chrome and installed Opera because Chrome's memory usage was horrible. Each tab wastes around 10 MB minimum... I also have Firefox 4 installed (my wife uses it) and I use Opera which is quite light and fast.
I agree with this. Look at the amount of frameworks to do Agent Based Modelling and Simulation and you will see there are at least 5 that are the same thing (Repast, Mason, NetLogo, StarLogo, Swarm) and a lot more that are very similar.
fuck moderation points
Oh man... this is so sweet. To imagine that I was here at slashdot about 6 years ago helping to uncloak Sony's Rootkit fiasco.
These idiots do not learn... to all you people and government. THIS is what happens when you let companies get off only with a slap on the wrist.
These Sony idiots should be hit with massive lawsuits, and by massive I mean requiring them to pay millions of dollars.
I know the USA government won't do it... however I hope Europe will do them right.
FUCKING SLASHDOT EDITORS STOP POSTING SENSATIONALIST BULLSHIT.
There, I said it. There are in fact news worthy for slashdot readers within all this mess:
1. That Dropbox uses a transfer mechanism which is pretty much "security through obscurity".
2. (Most important) that you can potentially get any file by only having their hashes. I think this is a huge security problem waiting to be exploited. What prevents someone to "brute force" a JSON file to download scan and download any available files? I am sure with a bit more of thinking, that would be interesting.
Too bad it was nobody else than Mr. Malda who posted this... it really shows that he is more interested in posting sensationalist crap, instead of real and interesting NEWS FOR NERDS and STUFF THAT MATTERS.
Quick someone, make a slashdot clone (I'll try again hackernews).
I actually agree with everything you said, except the very end. I am a big believer in government "control" being a bad thing, however I also see the point of government as a way to invest in projects that people and corporations are unwilling to do. In fact, I think that is the most justifiable expense of the government: researching the state of the art and beyond.
F*** yeah! Just look what the USA achieved with that... they went to the moon! Unfortunately (IMO) in their race to privatize everything, the USA has stopped doing research unless it yields results in the next 2 to 5 years. Nevertheless, in theory the best research places are still in the USA according to a lot of international people (MIT, CMU, Stanford, etc).