I dunno, but it *seems* my local paper has a system that looks like it's working. At least the system is in place for 3-4 years now without a change, and I still like it.
They basically have ~40% of the articles available for free, maybe 20% have a 2-3 sentences summary and the rest is pay walled, maybe 20% have a "short version of 10-20 sentences that is free, and a pay walled version that is longer and most of the time has more pictures.
You can either get a monthly print subscription, which includes all the on-line articles too, or a slightly cheaper online-only subscription. Both of those I would never get, since I don't read them that regularly. But they also offer a "day ticket" to access all their content for 24 hours which cost about the same as a printed paper in the news stand. I get that 1-2 times a month when I find some interesting articles I want to read further.
A few things come together there, I think: It's a good mix of free / paywalled content so it never feels like a "bait and switch" scheme which is a feel that a lot of pay walled sites have. Google only indexes the free stuff, so everybody arriving from Google gets at least the info that was looked for, with sometimes the OPTINON to get additional info. Plus a simple payment process that isn't any hassle.
I have had good experiences with Semantic Mediawiki in two settings:
A) My workplace, where developers and admins manage the data. B) My RPG group, where role players manage the data.
It *totally tanked* in two settings where people saw our developer/admin wiki and "wanted something similar set up" for them to use:
C) in my workplace for the marketing people. D) in my workplace for the procurement people.
The that A) and B) had in common, they *knew beforehand* what data they wanted to store for a server, an application, a sheduled task, a hero, an NPC, etc... so it was pretty simple so setup up about a dozen semantic templates and have them start entering the data. In cases C) and D) the people had no idea what they wanted to put into the system.
Of course there seem to be two kind of "developers".
Type one (you and me it seems) are people who stumble over "Dang, I (or my employee) has a problem that technology and software could solve. Let's solve that problem" situations. For those people (us) the GPL is great. You can pull together a solution that fixes your problem, and makes your company more productive. Basically by "directly making money" with the software you write.
Then there seem to be the "I have this great idea. People should pay me, because I had this great idea" developers. For those the GPL is basically the end of their business model.
Of course the implementation differed. With a symbolic link all the "work" is done by the file system. A program can say "open that" and the OS returns the actual file the link points to.
With the Microsoft shortcut, the opening application itself had to know how to open and handle *.lnk files to find the actual file.
Another drawback is also that those DC transmission is still pretty expensive compared to AC. So it's mainly used when other factors make it cheaper than AC. Like in that case the long transmission distance, including undersea cables where AC has a lot higher losses.
But the cost might actually be brought down a lot with production volume and new technologies. There were not much real technological breakthroughs in transformer technology in the last ~100 years, but they still come up with new semiconductor technology.
Another interesting thing little tidbit I stumbled upon while learning Japanese: "Peking" is written with the Characters North-Capital, "Nanking" is written with the Characters "South-Capital", while "Tokio" is written with the Characters "East-Capital".
... would be "kinda OK" in my book. (if the description is correct)
After all, it was NOT a password "linked to an account", but only a password to "access a document".
If you have documents that you have to give to a few thousand people, then a possible approach would be to just put them on a web server, protected by HTTP authentication. Then when a user wants the document, create a username/passwort, mail that to the user, and then perhaps a month later delete the username/password pair.
Probably works fine for documents that are not "really that secret" but you still don't feel comfortable putting on the open web for any search engine to find.
I wonder how the same dogfight test would play out against the Sukhoi PAK FA, the somewhat comparable new Russian stealth fighter. The F-35 seems to have a maximum g-load of 9g, while the PAK-FA has one of over 9g. The thrust/weight ratio of the PAK FA also is higher, at 1.02 to 1.36 depending on configuration and fuel load, compared to the F-35s of 0.87 to 1.07. (At least as far as the "official/unclassified" specifications seem to go)
... at work recently. Bunch of crap the whole of them.
One basically only works reliably in Firefox, one only in IE, one only in Chrome. And then of course there is the problem that one other needs an option in Chrome set to "on", the other needs that same option set to "off" to work.
So at the moment it seems any more complex "web" application I look at basically needs it's on sandboxed browser to not interfere with all your other web applications, and the whole internet itself. And at that point, HTML is a pretty bad abstraction layer for GUIs compared to some of the desktop GUI frameworks.
The only technical plus side is that you "don't have to install anything on the client", but since we have Remote desktop server with "dumb" terminals anyway that is a moot point for us, we don't need to install anything on the client anyway.
Well, if the "network" is and should not be involved, then why do they ramble on about the "internet of things" in the article. That's what I don't get.
The short form of the article basically is "The IoT won't grow as fast as we would like, unless we do a massive upgrade on a lot of stuff so what we can do things over the network that make absolutely no sense to do over the network anyway".
It's like demanding that the postal service gets upgraded until it is efficient enough so you can sent a letter to your wife lying in bed beside you faster that you can tell her something in person.
"Hexenkunst" can either be translated as "witches art" or "very difficult job", so it essential is similar in meaning to "Hexenwerk" (witchcraft), with a slightly "higher level". Basically the "art" (kunst) of witchery instead of the "craft" (werk) of witchery.
Exactly this. I also did a lot of "crazy shifts" in construction and engineering. Shifting to 25, 26 or even 30 hour cycles for a few months was perfectly doable. In fact, most of the time it turned into a "just sleep a little longer each morning" bliss.
On the other hand the thing that REALLY almost broke me was a crazy situation where for two month we had to supervise a construction project for 24 hours a day, with only two people available, and the customer being very strict about the 11-hours-on-site maximum. So it turned into a 11 hours on / 11 hours off job with a 22 hour cycle, where we had to get up two hours EARLIER every day. That's not something I would like to ever do again.
And I think the main gain of automation is not "something fancy" but a "combination of sensible features"
For example, we had mechanical thermostats and switches to control the air conditioning in our offices, and mechanical thermostats to control the heating. They were replaced with small 2-inch touch screens to control both.
The "control itself" is worse. Instead of turning the thermostat and flipping a switch in under a second you have a screen with some "lag" so adjusting anything. But after you set up your "wished for" temperature you don't really have to use the control any more.
The thing starts heating / cooling up to "wish themperature" when the office ours start, and goes to "night mode" where it doesn't cool or heat as far after noon if nobody has triggered the motion sensor in the office for over an hour. it also goes into "night mode" when the alarm system is engaged. Engaging the alarm system also switches off all lights in the building.
A friend did some "home automation" back in the 1980s in his flat with switches and relays to control the lights and electric shutters . The main feature was a panel to switch all ten lights in the flat on and of beside the main entrance, including a "all lights off" button. and a "Close/Open all shutters" button. That was a sensible feature, but it was very involved since he had to pull wires from all switches and all actuators to a central switching cabinet. The same sensible automation these days could be done simpler and cheaper with a bus system. But STILL without any "smart-devices" in the internet-sense involved.
In my opinion the "what questions are asked" by the interrogator is only a small part of the test setup. I think the main point is "what is the question that is asked of the interrogator"
In that area the question "do you thing your opponent is a computer or a human" is influenced hugely by the interrogators knowledge and perception of what a computer should be able to do and what it should not be able to do. So asking the interrogator "find out if your opponent is a man or woman" might be a good way to have a more "defined" outcome of the test.
Because the moment in which a computer becomes better at impersonating a human of Type A than another human of Type B (man and woman would be one obvious choice, perhaps some other Types could be used also ) is able to do is not influenced so much by "what the interrogator thinks a computer is able to do or not."
The original Turing Test, as published in "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" as "Imitation Game" was not about whether a machine could successfully pretend to be a human.
He proposed a test, where a computer and men both pretended to be women, and the test would be passed if the computer would be more successful in lying about being a woman than the men were.
It feels "less quirky" than Seamonkey, and some of the Extensions that I have used for years ( Like Tree Style Tab) work with PaleMoon while they don't in Seamonkey.
And with the "Firefox 3 Theme for Firefox 4+ Reloaded" I finally feel at home again on the Internet.
Absolutely brilliant. Firefox as it used to be. Configurable like it was in the good old days, with that Australis interface ripped out. (And even returned to a sane version numbering scheme lately).
TreeStyle Tab works for vertical tabs (in contrast to SeaMonkey, where it doesnt), and with "Firefox 3 Theme for Firefox 4++ Reloaded" it works, looks and behaves exactly as the Firefox did in its best days. I finally feel "at home" again on the Internet without being irked by unexpected UI surprises all the time.
Of course, never in History, not even in WW1 and 2 has any spy agency tried do collect ALL information that was there. Like every letter sent, every phone call made, every conversation made in public, etc... like spy organisations these days seem to try.
Former East Germany came closest in the last century I guess. Then again, they probably had 20% of the population working at least part-time as undercover agents to spy on the rest.
So this is basically another fine example, where - The possible American employee loses the chance to get a job. - The possible foreign employee loses the chance to get fair pay. - The foreign country loses it's investment in education. - The US loses it's investment in education - The US loses through higher cost for social security.
The only group that makes big bucks with the screwed up situation are the lawyers again.
Don't forget: The original clones were made by the Kamino, on their planet, using their facilities and knowledge as the galaxies cloning specialists to create a "secret army"
The usual canon explanation I always heard in various books etc.. was that supplying new clones simply became too expensive and cumbersome, especially with the Kamino not WANTING to supply new clones to the empire and probably sabotaging the process at every possibility. Add to that the fact that "secrecy" is no longer an issue, that you can set recruiting stations on every planet you like, and there is not much sense to continue using clones.
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I just wait for someone to start selling "your new, own personal cloud to put in your home!!" devices.
I dunno, but it *seems* my local paper has a system that looks like it's working. At least the system is in place for 3-4 years now without a change, and I still like it.
They basically have ~40% of the articles available for free, maybe 20% have a 2-3 sentences summary and the rest is pay walled, maybe 20% have a "short version of 10-20 sentences that is free, and a pay walled version that is longer and most of the time has more pictures.
You can either get a monthly print subscription, which includes all the on-line articles too, or a slightly cheaper online-only subscription. Both of those I would never get, since I don't read them that regularly. But they also offer a "day ticket" to access all their content for 24 hours which cost about the same as a printed paper in the news stand. I get that 1-2 times a month when I find some interesting articles I want to read further.
A few things come together there, I think: It's a good mix of free / paywalled content so it never feels like a "bait and switch" scheme which is a feel that a lot of pay walled sites have. Google only indexes the free stuff, so everybody arriving from Google gets at least the info that was looked for, with sometimes the OPTINON to get additional info. Plus a simple payment process that isn't any hassle.
I have had good experiences with Semantic Mediawiki in two settings:
A) My workplace, where developers and admins manage the data.
B) My RPG group, where role players manage the data.
It *totally tanked* in two settings where people saw our developer/admin wiki and "wanted something similar set up" for them to use:
C) in my workplace for the marketing people.
D) in my workplace for the procurement people.
The that A) and B) had in common, they *knew beforehand* what data they wanted to store for a server, an application, a sheduled task, a hero, an NPC, etc... so it was pretty simple so setup up about a dozen semantic templates and have them start entering the data. In cases C) and D) the people had no idea what they wanted to put into the system.
And another example on how "DNA evidence" sometimes isn't:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Of course there seem to be two kind of "developers".
Type one (you and me it seems) are people who stumble over "Dang, I (or my employee) has a problem that technology and software could solve. Let's solve that problem" situations. For those people (us) the GPL is great. You can pull together a solution that fixes your problem, and makes your company more productive. Basically by "directly making money" with the software you write.
Then there seem to be the "I have this great idea. People should pay me, because I had this great idea" developers. For those the GPL is basically the end of their business model.
Well, to be fair, the decent animated kittycat is probably only 20k, but there are 80k DRM headers involved, too.
Here is "my" coding font:
http://www.fixedsysexcelsior.c...
That's the font that was there when I first started GW-Basic back in the days, that's the font I have kept. ;-)
Of course the implementation differed. With a symbolic link all the "work" is done by the file system. A program can say "open that" and the OS returns the actual file the link points to.
With the Microsoft shortcut, the opening application itself had to know how to open and handle *.lnk files to find the actual file.
Another drawback is also that those DC transmission is still pretty expensive compared to AC. So it's mainly used when other factors make it cheaper than AC. Like in that case the long transmission distance, including undersea cables where AC has a lot higher losses.
But the cost might actually be brought down a lot with production volume and new technologies. There were not much real technological breakthroughs in transformer technology in the last ~100 years, but they still come up with new semiconductor technology.
Well, here you have 350 kV / 700 MW thyristor converter. It's easy to find, because it's pretty big. ;-)
http://new.abb.com/systems/hvd...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Another interesting thing little tidbit I stumbled upon while learning Japanese: "Peking" is written with the Characters North-Capital, "Nanking" is written with the Characters "South-Capital", while "Tokio" is written with the Characters "East-Capital".
... would be "kinda OK" in my book. (if the description is correct)
After all, it was NOT a password "linked to an account", but only a password to "access a document".
If you have documents that you have to give to a few thousand people, then a possible approach would be to just put them on a web server, protected by HTTP authentication. Then when a user wants the document, create a username/passwort, mail that to the user, and then perhaps a month later delete the username/password pair.
Probably works fine for documents that are not "really that secret" but you still don't feel comfortable putting on the open web for any search engine to find.
Especially the one belonging to Vladimir Putin.
I wonder how the same dogfight test would play out against the Sukhoi PAK FA, the somewhat comparable new Russian stealth fighter. The F-35 seems to have a maximum g-load of 9g, while the PAK-FA has one of over 9g. The thrust/weight ratio of the PAK FA also is higher, at 1.02 to 1.36 depending on configuration and fuel load, compared to the F-35s of 0.87 to 1.07. (At least as far as the "official/unclassified" specifications seem to go)
... at work recently. Bunch of crap the whole of them.
One basically only works reliably in Firefox, one only in IE, one only in Chrome. And then of course there is the problem that one other needs an option in Chrome set to "on", the other needs that same option set to "off" to work.
So at the moment it seems any more complex "web" application I look at basically needs it's on sandboxed browser to not interfere with all your other web applications, and the whole internet itself. And at that point, HTML is a pretty bad abstraction layer for GUIs compared to some of the desktop GUI frameworks.
The only technical plus side is that you "don't have to install anything on the client", but since we have Remote desktop server with "dumb" terminals anyway that is a moot point for us, we don't need to install anything on the client anyway.
Well, if the "network" is and should not be involved, then why do they ramble on about the "internet of things" in the article. That's what I don't get.
The short form of the article basically is "The IoT won't grow as fast as we would like, unless we do a massive upgrade on a lot of stuff so what we can do things over the network that make absolutely no sense to do over the network anyway".
It's like demanding that the postal service gets upgraded until it is efficient enough so you can sent a letter to your wife lying in bed beside you faster that you can tell her something in person.
Of course that word exist.
"Hexenkunst" can either be translated as "witches art" or "very difficult job", so it essential is similar in meaning to "Hexenwerk" (witchcraft), with a slightly "higher level". Basically the "art" (kunst) of witchery instead of the "craft" (werk) of witchery.
Exactly this. I also did a lot of "crazy shifts" in construction and engineering. Shifting to 25, 26 or even 30 hour cycles for a few months was perfectly doable. In fact, most of the time it turned into a "just sleep a little longer each morning" bliss.
On the other hand the thing that REALLY almost broke me was a crazy situation where for two month we had to supervise a construction project for 24 hours a day, with only two people available, and the customer being very strict about the 11-hours-on-site maximum. So it turned into a 11 hours on / 11 hours off job with a 22 hour cycle, where we had to get up two hours EARLIER every day. That's not something I would like to ever do again.
And I think the main gain of automation is not "something fancy" but a "combination of sensible features"
For example, we had mechanical thermostats and switches to control the air conditioning in our offices, and mechanical thermostats to control the heating. They were replaced with small 2-inch touch screens to control both.
The "control itself" is worse. Instead of turning the thermostat and flipping a switch in under a second you have a screen with some "lag" so adjusting anything. But after you set up your "wished for" temperature you don't really have to use the control any more.
The thing starts heating / cooling up to "wish themperature" when the office ours start, and goes to "night mode" where it doesn't cool or heat as far after noon if nobody has triggered the motion sensor in the office for over an hour. it also goes into "night mode" when the alarm system is engaged. Engaging the alarm system also switches off all lights in the building.
A friend did some "home automation" back in the 1980s in his flat with switches and relays to control the lights and electric shutters . The main feature was a panel to switch all ten lights in the flat on and of beside the main entrance, including a "all lights off" button. and a "Close/Open all shutters" button. That was a sensible feature, but it was very involved since he had to pull wires from all switches and all actuators to a central switching cabinet. The same sensible automation these days could be done simpler and cheaper with a bus system. But STILL without any "smart-devices" in the internet-sense involved.
In my opinion the "what questions are asked" by the interrogator is only a small part of the test setup. I think the main point is "what is the question that is asked of the interrogator"
In that area the question "do you thing your opponent is a computer or a human" is influenced hugely by the interrogators knowledge and perception of what a computer should be able to do and what it should not be able to do. So asking the interrogator "find out if your opponent is a man or woman" might be a good way to have a more "defined" outcome of the test.
Because the moment in which a computer becomes better at impersonating a human of Type A than another human of Type B (man and woman would be one obvious choice, perhaps some other Types could be used also ) is able to do is not influenced so much by "what the interrogator thinks a computer is able to do or not."
The original Turing Test, as published in "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" as "Imitation Game" was not about whether a machine could successfully pretend to be a human.
He proposed a test, where a computer and men both pretended to be women, and the test would be passed if the computer would be more successful in lying about being a woman than the men were.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...
http://www.palemoon.org/
It feels "less quirky" than Seamonkey, and some of the Extensions that I have used for years ( Like Tree Style Tab) work with PaleMoon while they don't in Seamonkey.
And with the "Firefox 3 Theme for Firefox 4+ Reloaded" I finally feel at home again on the Internet.
I just defected to Pale Moon two month ago.
Absolutely brilliant. Firefox as it used to be. Configurable like it was in the good old days, with that Australis interface ripped out. (And even returned to a sane version numbering scheme lately).
TreeStyle Tab works for vertical tabs (in contrast to SeaMonkey, where it doesnt), and with "Firefox 3 Theme for Firefox 4++ Reloaded" it works, looks and behaves exactly as the Firefox did in its best days. I finally feel "at home" again on the Internet without being irked by unexpected UI surprises all the time.
Of course, never in History, not even in WW1 and 2 has any spy agency tried do collect ALL information that was there. Like every letter sent, every phone call made, every conversation made in public, etc... like spy organisations these days seem to try.
Former East Germany came closest in the last century I guess. Then again, they probably had 20% of the population working at least part-time as undercover agents to spy on the rest.
So this is basically another fine example, where
- The possible American employee loses the chance to get a job.
- The possible foreign employee loses the chance to get fair pay.
- The foreign country loses it's investment in education.
- The US loses it's investment in education
- The US loses through higher cost for social security.
The only group that makes big bucks with the screwed up situation are the lawyers again.
Don't forget: The original clones were made by the Kamino, on their planet, using their facilities and knowledge as the galaxies cloning specialists to create a "secret army"
The usual canon explanation I always heard in various books etc.. was that supplying new clones simply became too expensive and cumbersome, especially with the Kamino not WANTING to supply new clones to the empire and probably sabotaging the process at every possibility. Add to that the fact that "secrecy" is no longer an issue, that you can set recruiting stations on every planet you like, and there is not much sense to continue using clones.