OS X wouldn't even begin to fit on this laptop, and without having free source, not only could they not slim it down, they couldn't use it is part of the learning environment it is meant to provide. He knew the requirements, he knew OS X was useless, so his offer was nothing but grandstanding.
I wouldn't call it grandstanding. Even if he knew that his offer would not be accepted, it's still a nice gesture. What more can Jobs do? I think that the solution used was a good one, Linux is the way to go in this space.
So why exactly is the government getting their knickers in a twist over Zfone? After all, the program is just intended to compile a database of call information, not actually listen to the content of the conversations. Doing that, as the administration has repeatedly told us, would require a court order.
You answered your own question. Even if you obtain a court order, you would not be able to listen in on a Zfone call since the encryption is done using the peer to peer model.
Categorization Patents would be categorized into different "departments". Hmmm, could a Bayesian filter come up with a short list of recommendations? These could be attached to the article as options for "High-Karma" users to select (or offer something better). As soon as some threshhold (say 10 votes) is reached, the article is moved from the NEW department to the selected department.
Now that there's tagging, I think that's a supperior method of categorization.
I've recently thought of an idea for how to deal with patents. Something similar to Slashdot should be used. Imagine if there was a website running slashdot software would allow everyone to comment on the validity of patents before making a determination to grant or deny the patent. If that had been around at the time the hyperlink patent came up for review, you can count on a large number of posts saying that's just silly. The public has many informed people on all subjects. It's just a matter of letting the best opinions be heard. This is exactly what Slashdot's moderation system does.
Or would their problems be fixed with a fresh install of Windows, a good firewall, and the abolition of Internet Explorer?
Yes, you hit the nail on the head. Windows, Linux, BSD, etc are becoming obsolete as the platform. The platform is the browser. For me this means Firefox but there does seem to be somewhat of a convergence on standards (i.e. Safari works similarly to Firefox, etc. This trend should continue). Ajax enables browsers to do just about anything that can be done with the traditional client server model.
In Ray Kurzweil's 1999 book: The age of spiritual machines, he predicted that this would happen. He also correctly predicted that it would be caused by Terrorist acts. Although he was referring to things like the bombing in Oklahoma City by Timothy McVeigh it's interesting that he was pretty much totally right about this. When I first read it, I thought, this will never happen, but it is happening.
Is Google responsible for the legality of every piece of data that they index? Clearly, the answer to this has to be no. Otherwise, Google would have to shut down because they wouldn't be able to do a thorough legal review of everything in their database. While I do think they have some responsibility (like deleting direct links to illegal software when someone points the issue out), we have to be careful how we word this to avoid making search engines liable for the legality of all content. I think the solution is that if notified that something is illegal, there should be a process by which that piece of data is removed from the index. Seach engines shouldn't be required to determine the validity of the claims either. This would also be a big burden because many claims could turn out to be bogus.
you can see what kind of server it could be. Slap that on the new Sun 1Us with the new Niagra T1's CPU, the one that'll have four, six or eight cores each, and go to town.
Correction, all Niagara chips come with 8 cores. Each core can very quickly switch between 4 threads. This makes it seem like 32 threads are running at the same time. Yeah, the box it's sold with costs about $7000. This is however the fastest single processor box (when being used as an application server or webserver) available and is a bargain at that price on a price/performance basis.
These indusrtries haven't exactly had stellar performance lately. The truth is that the Union is an obsolete idea that's time has come and gone. The last thing we want to do to the tech industry is unionize. We want the tech industry to be even more independant actually. Ideally, we'd have more independant contractors which is the polar extreme of Unions. The advantages to this are both for the Tech workers and the companies. Both have more flexibility in the end.
How about another analogy: I buy a truck from a car salesman (as an individual). Then I use said truck as part of my contracting business, which turns out to be profitable. Then the car salesman comes back and tells me I owe him more for the truck, as additional fees apply when I make a profit with the truck he sold me. Nothing stating this is in the original sales agreement.
Not exactly. The problem with your analogy is that the car sale already closed in your example. It would be wrong for the car company to come back and ask for more money after the transaction is complete. However, if up front, you made an agreement that the car salesman would get a share of your profit in exchange for use of the car, that would be perfectly ok.
I understand your concerns about this stuff. I don't really like either, but in one sense, I hope the telcoms try to rip off Google and other companies. Because, you know what will happen if they do? Google will roll out their nationwide wifi plans faster. The solution to these problems is always to go around them. The telcos will not be able to compete with wifi. I believe that in the next 5 years, most broadband connections will shift to wifi. It only makes sense actually. Once this happens, there will really be unlimited cometition. What's to stop me from putting a reciever up in my appartment complex and charging my neighbors to share my internet access? This is the model of the future and it's going to drive the prices DOWN. So relax.
The underlying assumption of your post is that work makes you unhealthy. This is not correct. There are countless studies that show the opposite is true. Many retired people die very shortly after they quit their job. Most people find purpose in their life through their job.
Last time I checked there were 4.5 million Java developers. I assume most of these people are paid to do this. At least some of them are (more than 1 million). You could argue that since Sun developed Java, it's responsible for creating these jobs. Since McNeally has been the CEO of Sun since the begining he gets credit. This doesn't even get into all of the people that are doing work relating to the sparc processor, Solaris system admins, the people working on Java Enterprise System, or the 30,000+ people currently working for Sun.
For a while, I've though that what tv needs is to have something like google that listens for the words that are said (via transcript or voice recognition) and posts a link to relevant ads. For instance if your watching a news report and the reporter discusses housing starts, there could be a link to a local real estate agent and so on.
If you want true security and no effort on the part of the operator (like remembering passwords), just do retinal scans from the camera on the laptop. That way, you can log in with a system that we know can uniquely identify people. Not like in the article which is just theory. We can also do this with no effort. Just have the laptop scan your eyes when you look into the monitor (using the apple telescreen monitors). It's very easy.
How do you program without using discrete math(Or an algorithm for that matter)? It's very hard to program without conditional statements.
Well, you don't need to know the theory to write conditional statements. It's clearly a good thing to understand discrete math and that's why they teach it. But Discrete math is not a pre-req to intro to C programming, or Java, or Data Structures. I think if you take a C programming, Java programming and Data Structures class, you can do some useful stuff actually. Obviously, a person that takes these three classes will not be as well rounded as someone who understands discrete math and has taken an algorithems class and various other classes that come after the intro to algorithems class, but they can do many jobs and will have no problem finding work.
As for undergrad CS, I'd say it's mostly programming and theory, with some application specific stuff thrown in (databases, artificial intelligence, robotics, games, graphics).
As a person with a Bachelors in Computer Engineering, I can tell you that the first year of my major or the Computer Science major (which has the exact same classes the first year), is mostly about Math (Calculus), Science (either Chemistry or Physics or both), Electives (e.g. Humanities/Social Sci) and Intro to programming classes. You might have to take a discrete (sp?) math class first year also. These are largely designed to be weeder classes to get rid of those that can't cut it as an engineer and for the most part have nothing to do with what you will do after graudation as a programmer. They are however very useful as weeder classes. So, I agree with the GP. The first year is more about Math and Science than hardcore programming. You don't get into games, robotics, graphics, ai, or databases until year three or four. Of course when I say that I'm not talking about using a database in an application or even creating simple games like tic tac toe or concentration, these could be done in the intro programming classes, but the theory behind db, ai, and graphics are certainly not covered until year three or four.
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Already, activists and real estate developers have stalled projects across Pennsylvania, West Virginia and New York. In Western Maryland, a proposal to build wind turbines alongside a coal mine, on a heavily logged mountaintop next to a transmission line, has just been nixed by state officials who called it too environmentally damaging.
Whenever you see this kind of post, remember that there are people out there that are disguised as environmentalists that are really just anticapitalists. These people don't want us to invent new technologies that conserve energy. They know that energy is what fuels capitalism and by doing what they can to cut off the energy supply, they are effectively shutting down the system that they oppose.
You mean when I do a google search I'm not forced to look at advertisements?
Nope, what I mean is that this device doesn't allow you to look at the content until you've suffered through the ad according to what I read. In Google, first of all the ads are highly targeted (if i search for cars, I might see an ad for the latest models) so a lot of the time, they are what I'm looking for anyways. Even if I don't like the ads, I can skip down to the content very easily. This is not the case with Phillips' invention.
Anything Phillips implements will be cracked within a few days. But I don't see what the big fuss is, if you don't like something about a product, don't buy it. I do this every day. Much awhine about nothing.
Who's whining? I'm just saying that it's a stupid idea. I don't think they should be stopped from patenting something this silly, but i just think they will have a hard time selling any product that uses this idea.
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Yeah, they better be careful, or PETM (People for the ethical treatment of Monera) might get involved.
OS X wouldn't even begin to fit on this laptop, and without having free source, not only could they not slim it down, they couldn't use it is part of the learning environment it is meant to provide. He knew the requirements, he knew OS X was useless, so his offer was nothing but grandstanding.
I wouldn't call it grandstanding. Even if he knew that his offer would not be accepted, it's still a nice gesture. What more can Jobs do? I think that the solution used was a good one, Linux is the way to go in this space.
Couldn't this be considered somehow as animal cruelty?
So why exactly is the government getting their knickers in a twist over Zfone? After all, the program is just intended to compile a database of call information, not actually listen to the content of the conversations. Doing that, as the administration has repeatedly told us, would require a court order.
You answered your own question. Even if you obtain a court order, you would not be able to listen in on a Zfone call since the encryption is done using the peer to peer model.
Categorization Patents would be categorized into different "departments". Hmmm, could a Bayesian filter come up with a short list of recommendations? These could be attached to the article as options for "High-Karma" users to select (or offer something better). As soon as some threshhold (say 10 votes) is reached, the article is moved from the NEW department to the selected department.
Now that there's tagging, I think that's a supperior method of categorization.
Good idea! Have you patented it yet?!?! ;)
I've recently thought of an idea for how to deal with patents. Something similar to Slashdot should be used. Imagine if there was a website running slashdot software would allow everyone to comment on the validity of patents before making a determination to grant or deny the patent. If that had been around at the time the hyperlink patent came up for review, you can count on a large number of posts saying that's just silly. The public has many informed people on all subjects. It's just a matter of letting the best opinions be heard. This is exactly what Slashdot's moderation system does.
Or would their problems be fixed with a fresh install of Windows, a good firewall, and the abolition of Internet Explorer?
Yes, you hit the nail on the head. Windows, Linux, BSD, etc are becoming obsolete as the platform. The platform is the browser. For me this means Firefox but there does seem to be somewhat of a convergence on standards (i.e. Safari works similarly to Firefox, etc. This trend should continue). Ajax enables browsers to do just about anything that can be done with the traditional client server model.
In Ray Kurzweil's 1999 book: The age of spiritual machines, he predicted that this would happen. He also correctly predicted that it would be caused by Terrorist acts. Although he was referring to things like the bombing in Oklahoma City by Timothy McVeigh it's interesting that he was pretty much totally right about this. When I first read it, I thought, this will never happen, but it is happening.
Is Google responsible for the legality of every piece of data that they index? Clearly, the answer to this has to be no. Otherwise, Google would have to shut down because they wouldn't be able to do a thorough legal review of everything in their database. While I do think they have some responsibility (like deleting direct links to illegal software when someone points the issue out), we have to be careful how we word this to avoid making search engines liable for the legality of all content. I think the solution is that if notified that something is illegal, there should be a process by which that piece of data is removed from the index. Seach engines shouldn't be required to determine the validity of the claims either. This would also be a big burden because many claims could turn out to be bogus.
you can see what kind of server it could be. Slap that on the new Sun 1Us with the new Niagra T1's CPU, the one that'll have four, six or eight cores each, and go to town.
Correction, all Niagara chips come with 8 cores. Each core can very quickly switch between 4 threads. This makes it seem like 32 threads are running at the same time. Yeah, the box it's sold with costs about $7000. This is however the fastest single processor box (when being used as an application server or webserver) available and is a bargain at that price on a price/performance basis.
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These indusrtries haven't exactly had stellar performance lately. The truth is that the Union is an obsolete idea that's time has come and gone. The last thing we want to do to the tech industry is unionize. We want the tech industry to be even more independant actually. Ideally, we'd have more independant contractors which is the polar extreme of Unions. The advantages to this are both for the Tech workers and the companies. Both have more flexibility in the end.
How about another analogy: I buy a truck from a car salesman (as an individual). Then I use said truck as part of my contracting business, which turns out to be profitable. Then the car salesman comes back and tells me I owe him more for the truck, as additional fees apply when I make a profit with the truck he sold me. Nothing stating this is in the original sales agreement.
Not exactly. The problem with your analogy is that the car sale already closed in your example. It would be wrong for the car company to come back and ask for more money after the transaction is complete. However, if up front, you made an agreement that the car salesman would get a share of your profit in exchange for use of the car, that would be perfectly ok.
I understand your concerns about this stuff. I don't really like either, but in one sense, I hope the telcoms try to rip off Google and other companies. Because, you know what will happen if they do? Google will roll out their nationwide wifi plans faster. The solution to these problems is always to go around them. The telcos will not be able to compete with wifi. I believe that in the next 5 years, most broadband connections will shift to wifi. It only makes sense actually. Once this happens, there will really be unlimited cometition. What's to stop me from putting a reciever up in my appartment complex and charging my neighbors to share my internet access? This is the model of the future and it's going to drive the prices DOWN. So relax.
The underlying assumption of your post is that work makes you unhealthy. This is not correct. There are countless studies that show the opposite is true. Many retired people die very shortly after they quit their job. Most people find purpose in their life through their job.
It changes my opinion of the Nintendo marketing department considerably. Did they even bother to research this?
The Nintendo marketing guys who came up with this are geniuses. I've never heard more about a new game console release than this one.
Last time I checked there were 4.5 million Java developers. I assume most of these people are paid to do this. At least some of them are (more than 1 million). You could argue that since Sun developed Java, it's responsible for creating these jobs. Since McNeally has been the CEO of Sun since the begining he gets credit. This doesn't even get into all of the people that are doing work relating to the sparc processor, Solaris system admins, the people working on Java Enterprise System, or the 30,000+ people currently working for Sun.
For a while, I've though that what tv needs is to have something like google that listens for the words that are said (via transcript or voice recognition) and posts a link to relevant ads. For instance if your watching a news report and the reporter discusses housing starts, there could be a link to a local real estate agent and so on.
(The company also offers a lower-capacity version designed for homes, which costs $10,000.)
Just what I need a $10,000 device that saves me $5 - $10 a month.
Or WIkI? or WIsconsIn? Or WIssIssippi?
If you want true security and no effort on the part of the operator (like remembering passwords), just do retinal scans from the camera on the laptop. That way, you can log in with a system that we know can uniquely identify people. Not like in the article which is just theory. We can also do this with no effort. Just have the laptop scan your eyes when you look into the monitor (using the apple telescreen monitors). It's very easy.
How do you program without using discrete math(Or an algorithm for that matter)? It's very hard to program without conditional statements.
Well, you don't need to know the theory to write conditional statements. It's clearly a good thing to understand discrete math and that's why they teach it. But Discrete math is not a pre-req to intro to C programming, or Java, or Data Structures. I think if you take a C programming, Java programming and Data Structures class, you can do some useful stuff actually. Obviously, a person that takes these three classes will not be as well rounded as someone who understands discrete math and has taken an algorithems class and various other classes that come after the intro to algorithems class, but they can do many jobs and will have no problem finding work.
As for undergrad CS, I'd say it's mostly programming and theory, with some application specific stuff thrown in (databases, artificial intelligence, robotics, games, graphics).
As a person with a Bachelors in Computer Engineering, I can tell you that the first year of my major or the Computer Science major (which has the exact same classes the first year), is mostly about Math (Calculus), Science (either Chemistry or Physics or both), Electives (e.g. Humanities/Social Sci) and Intro to programming classes. You might have to take a discrete (sp?) math class first year also. These are largely designed to be weeder classes to get rid of those that can't cut it as an engineer and for the most part have nothing to do with what you will do after graudation as a programmer. They are however very useful as weeder classes. So, I agree with the GP. The first year is more about Math and Science than hardcore programming. You don't get into games, robotics, graphics, ai, or databases until year three or four. Of course when I say that I'm not talking about using a database in an application or even creating simple games like tic tac toe or concentration, these could be done in the intro programming classes, but the theory behind db, ai, and graphics are certainly not covered until year three or four.
Already, activists and real estate developers have stalled projects across Pennsylvania, West Virginia and New York. In Western Maryland, a proposal to build wind turbines alongside a coal mine, on a heavily logged mountaintop next to a transmission line, has just been nixed by state officials who called it too environmentally damaging.
Whenever you see this kind of post, remember that there are people out there that are disguised as environmentalists that are really just anticapitalists. These people don't want us to invent new technologies that conserve energy. They know that energy is what fuels capitalism and by doing what they can to cut off the energy supply, they are effectively shutting down the system that they oppose.
It's a rich guy who isn't trying that hard to get richer.
Think again, CEOs don't make money in salary. They make money if their company's stock goes up.
You mean when I do a google search I'm not forced to look at advertisements?
Nope, what I mean is that this device doesn't allow you to look at the content until you've suffered through the ad according to what I read. In Google, first of all the ads are highly targeted (if i search for cars, I might see an ad for the latest models) so a lot of the time, they are what I'm looking for anyways. Even if I don't like the ads, I can skip down to the content very easily. This is not the case with Phillips' invention.
Anything Phillips implements will be cracked within a few days. But I don't see what the big fuss is, if you don't like something about a product, don't buy it. I do this every day. Much awhine about nothing.
Who's whining? I'm just saying that it's a stupid idea. I don't think they should be stopped from patenting something this silly, but i just think they will have a hard time selling any product that uses this idea.