This is their good cop move, behind the scene they threaten every political person they can that they are are going to suppress jobs in europe if patents dont become legal. At least they have a good cop move, unlike microsoft.
This assumes that software patents will even survive this decade. Based on rulings in a number of nations, it's highly likely that the EU won't listen to idiotic claims like this.
Ah, but did it have an American sense of humor, a Canadian sense of humour, a British sense of humour, a French sense of geste, or a German sense of gutlich?
A joke in C frequently won't translate into Java. But it will spill the beans.
Data management does not equal knowledge management.
The biology example focuses on the changing interpretations of data, which, assuming that the data was well modelled, is really a problem for the KM application layer, rather than the data management layer.
Remember -- data itself doesn't change, only interpretations do.
It's not so much the changing interpretations of the data as a combinatorial explosion of altering procedures (even for one set as it progresses thru the labs), altering models (we learn things in biochem, realizing that what we thought was just an ATP process is more complex, as other scientists (or ourselves) discover how things work), and the variation in actual recording between different scientists and assistants.
Most DMBS users exist in a world of facts with static states, here we measure phase transitions in milliseconds and conformational changes of protein domains in varying temperatures and conditions. We need the data, not theories about how we should measure it the way you measure the slow non-biochem world.
But thanks for thinking about it. We'll keep coding in Perl and using Terabytes of storage while designing the next generation of computers that run on these processes... ok, that's not my department, but some others here do that.
So that's why MSFT is hiring in China ...
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Inside the Xbox 360
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· Score: 2, Interesting
While art asset costs are rising, programmer time is getting cheaper all the time.
We see the above in the article about the chip internals of the xBox 360... leading one to conclude that MSFT won't fight Disney et al on art costs and copyright/trademark extensions, but will outsource the programming.
Either that or we're just getting more productive at doing our work... um, wait a sec, one of my five programs just finished...
After all, so long as the open source code is released back to the community, it's not like they're criticizing without people being able to change the code or at least inspect it to decide for themselves, is it?
Given the amount of energy that goes into making a piece of high technology, and the loss of metals and petroleum to build something that is vastly more toxic to dispose of than paper and pencil, and how little energy goes into making a pencil and small pad of paper, I think it is the height of idiocy to apply such high technology to something that can be just as easily handled with a pencil and paper.
I use a pen and a hard cover composition notebook. A bit higher tech, a bit more pricey, but still cheaper than $5.
Mind you, you have to refill the ink in the black pens I use, but if you get the Human Brain add-on, this is no prob.
Geesh... slaves to the machine, or what?
Why not just buy a cellphone with all that added in and get it over with if you need it that much? The new ones have them built in, and I'm sure I'll make money from my PalmSource holdings since most use that for the OS and apps.
However, this only applies to non-home computer security. At home users will invariably store passwords for websites and bank accounts and leave their computers unlocked and easily compromised.
Or use unsecured default password WiFi thus making it all a waste of time. 90 percent of all WiFi-capable laptops are insecure.
I give them chocolate, it makes the laptops feel better about themselves... and more mentally secure.
then they'll take it when they chop off your hand and pry out your eye to get thru the security station just like they've already done in Hong Kong.
Seriously, most passwords are fairly easy to guess. Making them too hard defeats the human engram, forcing people to write them down somewhere.
You can get 99 percent of the possible security with only 1 percent of the effort by choosing a system that's not easily hackable and not based on the typical password schemae anyway...
While the XML portion looked interesting, all the other "needed features" were totally useless from my perspective. I'm more concerned with the ability to handle the facts that our biochemical/biological recordings alter as our workflow progresses and we learn new techniques or alter existing techniques. And how we data mine from that changing universe.
So, mostly not very useful from my perspective, and they missed the important things that would actually matter here.
1. Do people always stay in a fixed career? For example, I'm now classified as a teaching professional as a Bioinformatician, but started off as a Military Field Engineer, got a degree/job as a Marketing/Sales person and got degrees/jobs in IT fields before ending up here. I have a son, but my ex who's in Tech has an even mix of sons and daughters.
2. Is it pre-selection or post-selection? For example, perhaps people who have daughters tend to choose career paths more amenable to having daughters (or so they think), whilst people who have sons tend to choose career paths that sons work out best with.
3. Was this whole study dreamt up by the Dean at Harvard? I work in Biochemistry in Structural Genomics and we have an even mix of women and men with doctorates here, but the Harvard Dean says women can't do well in sciences - meanwhile here they run labs, author papers, and are just as productive as men. Statistics can be bent to "prove" anything, but that doesn't mean it's "true".
Slashdot Mirror
We're From Homeland Insecurity!
All Your Torrents Are Belong To Disney!
This is their good cop move, behind the scene they threaten every political person they can that they are are going to suppress jobs in europe if patents dont become legal.
At least they have a good cop move, unlike microsoft.
This assumes that software patents will even survive this decade. Based on rulings in a number of nations, it's highly likely that the EU won't listen to idiotic claims like this.
Information just wants to be free.
and who are those dark sunglass-wearing individuals in grey trenchcoats at my door?
There's nothing worse than a witless worm.
Ah, but did it have an American sense of humor, a Canadian sense of humour, a British sense of humour, a French sense of geste, or a German sense of gutlich?
A joke in C frequently won't translate into Java. But it will spill the beans.
this groundbreaking worm, which spread very rapidly through a small population of systems, and then waxed their hard drives.
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Last time I waxed my hard drive was back in the day when 300 baud was FAST. You know, when you hand-cranked the rheostats
What is this, a time-warp worm?
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Data management does not equal knowledge management.
... ok, that's not my department, but some others here do that.
The biology example focuses on the changing interpretations of data, which, assuming that the data was well modelled, is really a problem for the KM application layer, rather than the data management layer.
Remember -- data itself doesn't change, only interpretations do.
It's not so much the changing interpretations of the data as a combinatorial explosion of altering procedures (even for one set as it progresses thru the labs), altering models (we learn things in biochem, realizing that what we thought was just an ATP process is more complex, as other scientists (or ourselves) discover how things work), and the variation in actual recording between different scientists and assistants.
Most DMBS users exist in a world of facts with static states, here we measure phase transitions in milliseconds and conformational changes of protein domains in varying temperatures and conditions. We need the data, not theories about how we should measure it the way you measure the slow non-biochem world.
But thanks for thinking about it. We'll keep coding in Perl and using Terabytes of storage while designing the next generation of computers that run on these processes
While art asset costs are rising, programmer time is getting cheaper all the time.
... leading one to conclude that MSFT won't fight Disney et al on art costs and copyright/trademark extensions, but will outsource the programming.
... um, wait a sec, one of my five programs just finished ...
We see the above in the article about the chip internals of the xBox 360
Either that or we're just getting more productive at doing our work
After all, so long as the open source code is released back to the community, it's not like they're criticizing without people being able to change the code or at least inspect it to decide for themselves, is it?
There Is No Leader. Take The Red Hat Pill.
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I take a computer with Windows on it and use it to anchor my boat while fishing.
Does that count?
Nothing, so long as they're added, not replacing.
Given the amount of energy that goes into making a piece of high technology, and the loss of metals and petroleum to build something that is vastly more toxic to dispose of than paper and pencil, and how little energy goes into making a pencil and small pad of paper, I think it is the height of idiocy to apply such high technology to something that can be just as easily handled with a pencil and paper.
I use a pen and a hard cover composition notebook. A bit higher tech, a bit more pricey, but still cheaper than $5.
It's blue, it's got lines, and it's portable.
... slaves to the machine, or what?
Mind you, you have to refill the ink in the black pens I use, but if you get the Human Brain add-on, this is no prob.
Geesh
Why not just buy a cellphone with all that added in and get it over with if you need it that much? The new ones have them built in, and I'm sure I'll make money from my PalmSource holdings since most use that for the OS and apps.
However, this only applies to non-home computer security. At home users will invariably store passwords for websites and bank accounts and leave their computers unlocked and easily compromised.
... and more mentally secure.
Or use unsecured default password WiFi thus making it all a waste of time. 90 percent of all WiFi-capable laptops are insecure.
I give them chocolate, it makes the laptops feel better about themselves
then they'll take it when they chop off your hand and pry out your eye to get thru the security station just like they've already done in Hong Kong.
...
Seriously, most passwords are fairly easy to guess. Making them too hard defeats the human engram, forcing people to write them down somewhere.
You can get 99 percent of the possible security with only 1 percent of the effort by choosing a system that's not easily hackable and not based on the typical password schemae anyway
Dang, why did that MSFT guy have to spill the beans!
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It's 1337 44xx0A
While the XML portion looked interesting, all the other "needed features" were totally useless from my perspective. I'm more concerned with the ability to handle the facts that our biochemical/biological recordings alter as our workflow progresses and we learn new techniques or alter existing techniques. And how we data mine from that changing universe.
So, mostly not very useful from my perspective, and they missed the important things that would actually matter here.
Let's just hope they [MSFT] don't get all miffy about it, eh?
The cuts come as the organisation re-structures. It will establish a European office and expand into Asia.
This is bizspeak for what the rest of humanity calls outsourcing.
Pretty words to hide real actions.
I don't think they'd go along with that idea, sadly.
After all, problems will be found without any problem and fixed in a timely manner.
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Um, why does my bank statement have a check for $6,587.21 to LEET Enterprises on it?
1. Do people always stay in a fixed career? For example, I'm now classified as a teaching professional as a Bioinformatician, but started off as a Military Field Engineer, got a degree/job as a Marketing/Sales person and got degrees/jobs in IT fields before ending up here. I have a son, but my ex who's in Tech has an even mix of sons and daughters.
2. Is it pre-selection or post-selection? For example, perhaps people who have daughters tend to choose career paths more amenable to having daughters (or so they think), whilst people who have sons tend to choose career paths that sons work out best with.
3. Was this whole study dreamt up by the Dean at Harvard? I work in Biochemistry in Structural Genomics and we have an even mix of women and men with doctorates here, but the Harvard Dean says women can't do well in sciences - meanwhile here they run labs, author papers, and are just as productive as men. Statistics can be bent to "prove" anything, but that doesn't mean it's "true".
As the builders of the space elevator located just off the coast in Cuba light up the night sky with giant billboards facing Florida ....
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Oh, c'mon, don't tell me you didn't see that one coming
what does that popup box that says "All your base are belong to us" mean?
That you should upgrade your OS to something else.
And why is it still stuck on IE5, especially if MSFT plans to "upgrade" MSFT Office?
I have a dream!
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And operational wheels