"The beauty of software is that we are always making breakthroughs. We will have more in the next 10 years than we have had on the last 30,"
Interesting quote from Mr. Gates. He wrote a back cover comment on Ray Kurzweil's new book "The Singularity is Near". This quote is a clear referance to Kurzweil's law of accelerating returns. I think Bill has been hanging out with Ray a lot lately.
Ha, I like it. Googleen. How about Google Vision. Free glasses with targeted ads shot directly into your retinas based on gps tracking and their new image decifering software that can see what you're seeing and automatically sense the best ads to post based on statistical inferances about your environment.
The problem with this is that the structure of the Internet is difficult to navigate and difficult to index a system that is constantly changing.
Can you be more specific? I personally don't find the web difficult to navigate and I read various technical documents, etc on the web. In fact, I wish more people would post things on the web so I wouldn't have to open other docs (word,pdf,etc). I agree that it's hard to index with changing information, but that's the nature of the beast. The data in this database should be changing as well.
From my perspective as a bioscientist, the ability to be able to search journal articles not just for text, but also for image data or graph data would be absolutely huge.
Is there a reason these journal articles could not be published on the web? If they were can't you get the same functionality you described by doing a google search? Google already indexes images, pdfs, xls, etc. Why does it need to be uploaded to Google's database? You can already think of the web as a big database in a way right?
Ars believes that the company is gearing up to take on eBay and Craiglist
Ok, what else is google going to take over? People think they're going to take on Microsoft,Ebay,Craigslist,ISPs,..... The list goes on and on. I'd like to see Google take on the Oil companies next! Maybe they can offer free Gasoline.
Uhhhh, so is everything in the Federal government public domain? The seal is like a signature. Just because our tax dollars go to the government doesn't mean that it's public. For instance, not all the emails that the supreme court nominees sent back and forth are public domain which is a good thing so that the lawyers working for the Federal Goverment can not be afraid to express their opinion without thinking of the political consequences.
He acknowledged that Estonia's system was the most secure to date but said no system was "good enough for a politically binding election."
Oh, and this is really less secure than the punch card ballots that are still used all over the place. I think we need to put this in perspective. Could this be hacked? Yes. But, it seems to me that it will be much safer/accurate than our current system.
I understand your point, but from what I've seen this has not been the case. The coverage of most of the topics I have knowledge of are very accurate. I believe this happens because in general most people who edit the section on Relativity REALLY know a lot about it. On top of that, they are moderated by a lot of other people who REALLY know a lot about it. People who don't have a clue about relativity, on average, will not even bother editing the page on relativity. On average most mistakes will be viewed by many people who know the correct info. When you're talking about a well understood phenomenon, like relativity this effect is even more strong. So, is every word in Wikipedia correct? No. Is every word in a traditional encyclopedia correct? No. Is Wikipedia accurate in most cases? Yes. This is the point and this is why Wikipedia is useful.
Ok, you got me. Let me rephrase....
What other, hard back, 200 lb, $2000, encyclopedia chronicles the history of slashdot?
I suppose there are other web-based encyclopedia out there that have generated a similar effect to the phenomenon that Wikipedia has created. But the point of my comment was that you will never get the diversity of topics by hiring a group of "experts" to write an encyclopedia that you will get by opening it up to the general public.
In big cities in the US you have a number of options for affordable broadband access. For example in San Jose (where I live) I have the choice of SBC DSL ($14.99/mo) or Comcast Cable broadband for ($29.99/mo). I use comcast and It's like lightnening. I'm sure Paris (and other big cities in France and the other countries mentioned) have similar options available. I'm also sure that there are some rural areas in those countries that don't have these kind of options available just like we have in the US. So, I'm not sure this article is comparing apples to apples by saying France has fast internet and we don't have internet available _everywhere_. Also, I'd like to know if any of the countries listed have government subsidies on these "hyper-fast" connections. If that's the case, that has to be factored in to the equation. Just because your government pays the bill doesn't mean it's not coming out of your pocket!;)
Actually, maybe the reason we're _not_ rebooting too often is because this technology has not existed. No one will wait 5 minutes for a computer to startup, but this might make it more reasonable to do so. With the current energy crisis, I like this idea.
Hmmm, but to run a Wi-Fi hot spot, you don't need a lot of hardware. In particular you don't need the kind of hardware Sun makes. You need wireless routers.
Currently a Sun Ray is about $500. That includes a VERY nice 19" flat panel. This is not particularily over priced given that flat panel monitors can cost $500 alone. I'd imagine that they could make models even cheaper and if you're talking about selling kazillions of them, they could do it much cheaper by mass producing them. Also, as I mentioned in 5-10 years, you could do this cheaper due to the systematic decrease in hardware cost per transistor. It's not so much of a question of if, it's a question of when and with what hardware.
the start to great things for Sun. Right now, all they've announced is some small things like buying each other's stuff and including the Google Toolbar with JRE downloads. But if you think about it, who has Google announced a partnership (other than the AOL deal last week which was mainly a defensive move against MS)? So you really have to take this partnership seriously. Now, with Google Wi-Fi rolling out, what's the next thing for Google to offer? Well, what about Sun-Ray's? It might not be possible to offer a Sun-Ray that connects over Google Wi-Fi for free right now, but in 5 - 10 years it will be (Moore's law makes hardware about 30% cheaper every year). I believe Google will wait until the hardware is cheap enough to be funded by advertising and give it away. The question is which hardware will they use. Clearly with this partnership announcement, Sun's Sun-Ray platform has taken the lead.
I probably never would use this. I was just pointing out the government's purpose for doing this. If you or anyone else chooses to use it, then that's great. I'm usually somewhat skeptical of the goverment using my tax dollars to do things that I can buy fairly cheaply. I can get sbc yahoo dsl for $14.99 a month. I would imagine that the government cannot provide internet access this efficiently. So, even though it may seem free, it's not. Just my $0.02.
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Hey, at least vi is better than ed. If you haven't tried it, type 'ed at your terminal and you'll see what I mean.
"Internet service is only a small part of it. The same wireless system is used for surveillance, for intelligent traffic system, for intelligent transportation, for telemedicine and for distance education,"
Uhhh, I don't know about this. I don't like the idea of the feds using my internet traffic for "surveillance".
You can come up with stats that say each OS is better. Solaris supports the big iron better typically, so I'm not surprised that Linux can outperform it on a 50 mHz processor. From what I've seen Solaris handles Java threads much better, so if you're using Tomcat or another java application server Solaris could be better. Also, if you're using a 8 processor system, Solaris will typically be your best options.
The cuts reflect a change in emphasis away from robotic technology and toward human exploration of space.
Uhhh, let me get this straight they're demphasizing robotics and emphasizing humans by laying off 300 humans?!?! Next thing you know you'll hear that they're increasing their IT budget.
Even for consigners, why do we want this waste of time class? This will only raise the price of buying things online for consumers. I can't understand why we'd want to have this. Ebay's solutions to the problem (customer feedback, power sellers, etc) are far superior internet age solutions than this 1900's solution that the government is proposing. I seriously hope this is rejected strongly.
I think this is one of the dumbest ideas I've ever heard. The whole point of Ebay is to make it simple for people to buy/sell online. By adding in government regulation that requires people to take an auction class, we're totally going against that. When I buy on eBay, I can look at other customer's comments about the seller and I can chose to shop with only power sellers if I want added security. It seems to me that Ebay has already solved this one and that a class on auctions is completely unnecessary. Sellers are not auctioneers, they are sellers. If you attend an auction in real life as a seller you don't need to take a class. Why should you have to if you're going online to participate in an auction?
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"The beauty of software is that we are always making breakthroughs. We will have more in the next 10 years than we have had on the last 30,"
Interesting quote from Mr. Gates. He wrote a back cover comment on Ray Kurzweil's new book "The Singularity is Near". This quote is a clear referance to Kurzweil's law of accelerating returns. I think Bill has been hanging out with Ray a lot lately.
http://fr.sys-con.com/read/145401.htm
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Ha, I like it. Googleen. How about Google Vision. Free glasses with targeted ads shot directly into your retinas based on gps tracking and their new image decifering software that can see what you're seeing and automatically sense the best ads to post based on statistical inferances about your environment.
The problem with this is that the structure of the Internet is difficult to navigate and difficult to index a system that is constantly changing.
Can you be more specific? I personally don't find the web difficult to navigate and I read various technical documents, etc on the web. In fact, I wish more people would post things on the web so I wouldn't have to open other docs (word,pdf,etc). I agree that it's hard to index with changing information, but that's the nature of the beast. The data in this database should be changing as well.
From my perspective as a bioscientist, the ability to be able to search journal articles not just for text, but also for image data or graph data would be absolutely huge.
Is there a reason these journal articles could not be published on the web? If they were can't you get the same functionality you described by doing a google search? Google already indexes images, pdfs, xls, etc. Why does it need to be uploaded to Google's database? You can already think of the web as a big database in a way right?
Ars believes that the company is gearing up to take on eBay and Craiglist
Ok, what else is google going to take over? People think they're going to take on Microsoft,Ebay,Craigslist,ISPs,..... The list goes on and on. I'd like to see Google take on the Oil companies next! Maybe they can offer free Gasoline.
Uhhhh, so is everything in the Federal government public domain? The seal is like a signature. Just because our tax dollars go to the government doesn't mean that it's public. For instance, not all the emails that the supreme court nominees sent back and forth are public domain which is a good thing so that the lawyers working for the Federal Goverment can not be afraid to express their opinion without thinking of the political consequences.
stopping the Onion from using the presidential seal should have no objection to anyone using their digital signature without permission.
He acknowledged that Estonia's system was the most secure to date but said no system was "good enough for a politically binding election."
Oh, and this is really less secure than the punch card ballots that are still used all over the place. I think we need to put this in perspective. Could this be hacked? Yes. But, it seems to me that it will be much safer/accurate than our current system.
I understand your point, but from what I've seen this has not been the case. The coverage of most of the topics I have knowledge of are very accurate. I believe this happens because in general most people who edit the section on Relativity REALLY know a lot about it. On top of that, they are moderated by a lot of other people who REALLY know a lot about it. People who don't have a clue about relativity, on average, will not even bother editing the page on relativity. On average most mistakes will be viewed by many people who know the correct info. When you're talking about a well understood phenomenon, like relativity this effect is even more strong. So, is every word in Wikipedia correct? No. Is every word in a traditional encyclopedia correct? No. Is Wikipedia accurate in most cases? Yes. This is the point and this is why Wikipedia is useful.
Ok, you got me. Let me rephrase.... What other, hard back, 200 lb, $2000, encyclopedia chronicles the history of slashdot? I suppose there are other web-based encyclopedia out there that have generated a similar effect to the phenomenon that Wikipedia has created. But the point of my comment was that you will never get the diversity of topics by hiring a group of "experts" to write an encyclopedia that you will get by opening it up to the general public.
What other encyclopedia chronicles the history of slashdot?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot_history
In big cities in the US you have a number of options for affordable broadband access. For example in San Jose (where I live) I have the choice of SBC DSL ($14.99/mo) or Comcast Cable broadband for ($29.99/mo). I use comcast and It's like lightnening. I'm sure Paris (and other big cities in France and the other countries mentioned) have similar options available. I'm also sure that there are some rural areas in those countries that don't have these kind of options available just like we have in the US. So, I'm not sure this article is comparing apples to apples by saying France has fast internet and we don't have internet available _everywhere_. Also, I'd like to know if any of the countries listed have government subsidies on these "hyper-fast" connections. If that's the case, that has to be factored in to the equation. Just because your government pays the bill doesn't mean it's not coming out of your pocket! ;)
Actually, maybe the reason we're _not_ rebooting too often is because this technology has not existed. No one will wait 5 minutes for a computer to startup, but this might make it more reasonable to do so. With the current energy crisis, I like this idea.
Hmmm, but to run a Wi-Fi hot spot, you don't need a lot of hardware. In particular you don't need the kind of hardware Sun makes. You need wireless routers.
Currently a Sun Ray is about $500. That includes a VERY nice 19" flat panel. This is not particularily over priced given that flat panel monitors can cost $500 alone. I'd imagine that they could make models even cheaper and if you're talking about selling kazillions of them, they could do it much cheaper by mass producing them. Also, as I mentioned in 5-10 years, you could do this cheaper due to the systematic decrease in hardware cost per transistor. It's not so much of a question of if, it's a question of when and with what hardware.
the start to great things for Sun. Right now, all they've announced is some small things like buying each other's stuff and including the Google Toolbar with JRE downloads. But if you think about it, who has Google announced a partnership (other than the AOL deal last week which was mainly a defensive move against MS)? So you really have to take this partnership seriously. Now, with Google Wi-Fi rolling out, what's the next thing for Google to offer? Well, what about Sun-Ray's? It might not be possible to offer a Sun-Ray that connects over Google Wi-Fi for free right now, but in 5 - 10 years it will be (Moore's law makes hardware about 30% cheaper every year). I believe Google will wait until the hardware is cheap enough to be funded by advertising and give it away. The question is which hardware will they use. Clearly with this partnership announcement, Sun's Sun-Ray platform has taken the lead.
I probably never would use this. I was just pointing out the government's purpose for doing this. If you or anyone else chooses to use it, then that's great. I'm usually somewhat skeptical of the goverment using my tax dollars to do things that I can buy fairly cheaply. I can get sbc yahoo dsl for $14.99 a month. I would imagine that the government cannot provide internet access this efficiently. So, even though it may seem free, it's not. Just my $0.02.
Hey, at least vi is better than ed. If you haven't tried it, type 'ed at your terminal and you'll see what I mean.
"Internet service is only a small part of it. The same wireless system is used for surveillance, for intelligent traffic system, for intelligent transportation, for telemedicine and for distance education," Uhhh, I don't know about this. I don't like the idea of the feds using my internet traffic for "surveillance".
You can come up with stats that say each OS is better. Solaris supports the big iron better typically, so I'm not surprised that Linux can outperform it on a 50 mHz processor. From what I've seen Solaris handles Java threads much better, so if you're using Tomcat or another java application server Solaris could be better. Also, if you're using a 8 processor system, Solaris will typically be your best options.
The cuts reflect a change in emphasis away from robotic technology and toward human exploration of space.
Uhhh, let me get this straight they're demphasizing robotics and emphasizing humans by laying off 300 humans?!?! Next thing you know you'll hear that they're increasing their IT budget.
Even for consigners, why do we want this waste of time class? This will only raise the price of buying things online for consumers. I can't understand why we'd want to have this. Ebay's solutions to the problem (customer feedback, power sellers, etc) are far superior internet age solutions than this 1900's solution that the government is proposing. I seriously hope this is rejected strongly.
I think this is one of the dumbest ideas I've ever heard. The whole point of Ebay is to make it simple for people to buy/sell online. By adding in government regulation that requires people to take an auction class, we're totally going against that. When I buy on eBay, I can look at other customer's comments about the seller and I can chose to shop with only power sellers if I want added security. It seems to me that Ebay has already solved this one and that a class on auctions is completely unnecessary. Sellers are not auctioneers, they are sellers. If you attend an auction in real life as a seller you don't need to take a class. Why should you have to if you're going online to participate in an auction?
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