When marketing data becomes a Biography
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The Eroded Self
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It's not uncommon for little tidbits to collect about you as you live your life. Some information is useless, some of it is priceless to the right person. The cost of collecting and maintaining these little tidbits have continued to fall (have you priced hard drives lately?).
As the tools required to keep this data become cheaper, and the laws to prevent it's proliforation are not put in place, these tidbits grow into a complete biography.
Look at the example below and ask yourself: where would you draw the line?
John Smith resides at 123 Elm street. and he has 48% equity in his house. and is married with 2 kids. and he wears 34/32 size pants. (usually dockers from WalMart). and he likes renting movies from blockbuster. and his youngest just got out of a drug rehab. and he likes those little bite sized carrots. and his favorite search phrase is "married and flirting" and his wife spends $150 a month at victorias secret. and she likes bottled water. and spends $45 a month on duracell bateries. and her favorite search phrase is "hot wax" and his oldest daughter is on the honor roll and she had an abortion last summer. etc..etc..
So where would you draw the line? Do have any way of knowing if a lists such as this exists? If so, what are your rights?
I would put forth that collecting such extensive and detailed information amounts to writing a biography about me and my life. Like a snapshot, this biography should be the copyright of the individual. ___
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Imagine that. Invoking copyright law to protect the content what violates copyright law. ___
I'm no biologist, but I would think part of the solution lies in having multiple, simultanious inputs. A dog, to use your example, can prolly smell the fire hydrant, and hear his masters voice, and feel his masters steps in order to tell the differance.
Vision alone may be difficult, but I can't imagine a reason why you would want to create a vision only solution with so many examples in nature of a "multi-sensored aproach".
In industry, for example, vision is used quite extensivly to do quality control and gather SPC numbers on the fly. These vision systems are employed using fixtures to hold the part steady (hands) and proximity sensors (feel) to tell when the part is infront of the camera, thus telling the camera when to "look". Without these compliments, vision alone would be almost useless.
As in nature, the answer lies in a, dare I say it, a Beowulf cluster of sensors teaming up to compliment each other in order to find a solution. ___
Re:Always take Woopie . .
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Solving Chess?
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Re:"Though, as someone pointed out upstream, there's no reason to keep every game in memory."
Then where would you put it? In another hydrogen atom? If you have a section of the tree the program is not currently working on, it can be off-loaded, but can never be discarded. ___
Re:how large is the chess tree?
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Solving Chess?
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As another poster stated"According to the Oxford Companion to Chess by David Hooper & Kenneth Whyld, the number of legal board positions is about 2 * 10E43."
A tree of just 50 moves would have 10^120 nodes. ___
o/~ can't get there from here o/~
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Solving Chess?
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Re:"Now just give us a good reason why you should have to keep the whole tree in memory at once."
Because it's all about the tree. Like a hiker leaving his mark on a tree to find his way back, If you delete the tree from state as you drill down, you'll find you're answer, but won't have the path to return.
Even if you move parts of the tree off to disk or other media, you still need it in state. How big? 100. 35 ^ 100. I believe that what the original poster was trying to say is that solving chess "doesn't scale well". ___
Take the best player in the world and . .
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Solving Chess?
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Yes you can, and you should. I do it every day. His bussword-bingo sugestion is costing the company to much money and it's your responobility to help him see that. You're right in one respect, he won't be the one to write the detailed spec, but his staff is. Even if they are higher up.
After a while, you'll earn the repect of the people who you work for and you won't be a jr jr developer for long. ___
When I get a clueless request, I ask the person making the request to address my concerns in detailed documentation. Upon entering into a search for answers, the person making the clueless request will soon realize his error, and seek an alternative.
This puts the research burdon on the person making the request. It also (hopefully) allows him to learn a few things during his quest to document his brain-dead demands thus lowering the likehood that we, as a company, have to waist time on a similar problem in the future. ___
In a design meeting a few days before the coding begins, a dedicated team of programers burn the midnight oil to hammer out the design spec for the next new new thing.
12, 13 and 14 hour days are logged to make damn sure the spec is rock solid and ready to take over the world. Then it happened. The kind of comment that sounds like fingernails down the chalk board. The new VP (and CEOs son) stands up in the back of the room ans says:
Re:"Back to network effects: we all know why MS Windows and Office have become the de-facto standard systems on 90+% of the worlds PCs. English will become the world language for exactly the same reason." Because americans will use monopolistic and preditory practices to suck the life out of all compeeting languages?
Re:Anyone who might defend Microsoft is some misguided fool, and/. is a forum for the truth?
Yes, the truth as in VB is not the most scalable solution to many programing problems and the one operating system it runs on is not the most reliable. ___
I would agree that it is faster. I was just pointing the double meaning of the phrase general protection fault as both a windows error message (or a feature if your name is BillG) and the general falure to protect the public good. ___
Please let me remind you that microsoft spends millions each quarter to remind you just how wonderfull their little combo boxes are.
Millions and millions pumped a PR machine that has yet to be rivaled in this moden age. As a result of this overwhelming influence, there is little doubt you're a VB fan (how could you possibly know better?).
Our little (/.) is the only forum in a sea of MS bullsh*t where programers can dare to speak the truth.
Ya see those covers? the flip cover that goes on a Palm 3? There's a company that makes a cover for a Palm3 with a record/playback built right into the cover! Press record...talk..it listens. One less thing to carry.
I don't remember who made it, but They had them retailed at OfficeMax. ___
Well, this is sure to cost me mucho karma, but here it goes.
I'm sure there may be many parents that don't want their kids exposed to a liberal agenda untill they're old enough to make their own decisions. A political affiliation is a decision to be made by an educated and informed adult, not by little skulls full of mush.
OK, there, I said it. Now bring on the bleeding wallet liberal whining. ___
After reading the article, I was curious to see if many AOLers are biased toward any particular party, and I found this at www.opensecrets.org
ANDREESSEN, MARC
LOS GATOS, CA 95032 AOL 08/30/1999 $1,000 Kerrey, Bob ___
Re:3,300,000 pounds of thrust (Each!)
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Hubble Turns 10
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1) Take a brick.
2) Weigh the brick to make sure it ways one pound at sea level.
3) Make a pile of bricks 3,300,000 big.
4) Twice.
5) Throw both piles of bricks into orbit.
6) Acuratly.
These 2 candle sticks provide over 70% of the lift required to get the shuttle to jump off the pad.
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As the tools required to keep this data become cheaper, and the laws to prevent it's proliforation are not put in place, these tidbits grow into a complete biography.
Look at the example below and ask yourself: where would you draw the line?
John Smith resides at 123 Elm street.
and he has 48% equity in his house.
and is married with 2 kids.
and he wears 34/32 size pants.
(usually dockers from WalMart).
and he likes renting movies from blockbuster.
and his youngest just got out of a drug rehab.
and he likes those little bite sized carrots.
and his favorite search phrase is "married and flirting"
and his wife spends $150 a month at victorias secret.
and she likes bottled water.
and spends $45 a month on duracell bateries.
and her favorite search phrase is "hot wax"
and his oldest daughter is on the honor roll and she had an abortion last summer.
etc..etc..
So where would you draw the line? Do have any way of knowing if a lists such as this exists? If so, what are your rights?
I would put forth that collecting such extensive and detailed information amounts to writing a biography about me and my life. Like a snapshot, this biography should be the copyright of the individual.
___
" This web page is protected by copyright law. Unauthorized reproduction or distribution of this page, or any portion of it, may result in severe civil and criminal penalties, and will be prosecuted to the maximum extent possible under the law. Any files you have downloaded here are only for your own purposes. Any uploads prohibited. Our team does not bear the responsibility for your surfing this page."
Imagine that. Invoking copyright law to protect the content what violates copyright law.
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Vision alone may be difficult, but I can't imagine a reason why you would want to create a vision only solution with so many examples in nature of a "multi-sensored aproach".
In industry, for example, vision is used quite extensivly to do quality control and gather SPC numbers on the fly. These vision systems are employed using fixtures to hold the part steady (hands) and proximity sensors (feel) to tell when the part is infront of the camera, thus telling the camera when to "look". Without these compliments, vision alone would be almost useless.
As in nature, the answer lies in a, dare I say it, a Beowulf cluster of sensors teaming up to compliment each other in order to find a solution.
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Then where would you put it? In another hydrogen atom? If you have a section of the tree the program is not currently working on, it can be off-loaded, but can never be discarded.
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A tree of just 50 moves would have 10^120 nodes.
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Because it's all about the tree. Like a hiker leaving his mark on a tree to find his way back, If you delete the tree from state as you drill down, you'll find you're answer, but won't have the path to return.
Even if you move parts of the tree off to disk or other media, you still need it in state. How big? 100. 35 ^ 100. I believe that what the original poster was trying to say is that solving chess "doesn't scale well".
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In 1997 Gary Kasparoff took on a computer built by IBM (called deep blue) and lost. Details on how the system works can be found here:http://www.research.ibm. com/deepblue/learn/html/index.html
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After a while, you'll earn the repect of the people who you work for and you won't be a jr jr developer for long.
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This puts the research burdon on the person making the request. It also (hopefully) allows him to learn a few things during his quest to document his brain-dead demands thus lowering the likehood that we, as a company, have to waist time on a similar problem in the future.
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12, 13 and 14 hour days are logged to make damn sure the spec is rock solid and ready to take over the world. Then it happened. The kind of comment that sounds like fingernails down the chalk board. The new VP (and CEOs son) stands up in the back of the room ans says:
" Hey! let's partner with Microsoft"
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2)Every router pushes it.
These little packets are the true common language on the internet.
Everything else is just fluff.
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In this light, shouldn't vb be more acuratly compared to DHTML or XML or XUL or DOM for being "interface tools"?
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Yes, the truth as in VB is not the most scalable solution to many programing problems and the one operating system it runs on is not the most reliable.
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I would agree that it is faster. I was just pointing the double meaning of the phrase general protection fault as both a windows error message (or a feature if your name is BillG) and the general falure to protect the public good.
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I'm from the government and here to help . .
I read it on the internet, so it must be true..
vb is ok
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Millions and millions pumped a PR machine that has yet to be rivaled in this moden age. As a result of this overwhelming influence, there is little doubt you're a VB fan (how could you possibly know better?).
Our little (/.) is the only forum in a sea of MS bullsh*t where programers can dare to speak the truth.
Please allow us that one little thing.
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So, in short, this form of mobile justice really is a general protection fault.
:)
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Ya see those covers? the flip cover that goes on a Palm 3? There's a company that makes a cover for a Palm3 with a record/playback built right into the cover! Press record...talk..it listens. One less thing to carry.
I don't remember who made it, but They had them retailed at OfficeMax.
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I'm sure there may be many parents that don't want their kids exposed to a liberal agenda untill they're old enough to make their own decisions. A political affiliation is a decision to be made by an educated and informed adult, not by little skulls full of mush.
OK, there, I said it. Now bring on the bleeding wallet liberal whining.
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ANDREESSEN, MARC
LOS GATOS, CA 95032 AOL 08/30/1999 $1,000 Kerrey, Bob
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2) Weigh the brick to make sure it ways one pound at sea level.
3) Make a pile of bricks 3,300,000 big.
4) Twice.
5) Throw both piles of bricks into orbit.
6) Acuratly.
These 2 candle sticks provide over 70% of the lift required to get the shuttle to jump off the pad.
I haven't kept up with recent developments on jet engine design, but I can assure you that there is no way to get this kind of thrust/weight ratio in any other reusable device. http://spaceflig ht.nasa.gov/shuttle/reference/shutref/srb/srb.html has more info.
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