Throttling large transfers to increase the performance of interactive stuff, is a perfectly sane (and fair) way to do it.
Perhaps in an earlier paradigm, but there's really a small distinction today between "interactive stuff" and "large transfers". If by the latter you mean file sharing, a lot of the former (e.g. voip, video, etc.) is also using the same p2p technology. In fact, since a lot of p2p traffic, be it interactive or downloading stuff, is encrypted anyway, it's going to be very hard to tell which is legitimately 'interactive' and which is just a large.avi download, i.e. which packets to shape.
It's one reason why these "Vuze" people might have a legitimate case against comcast -- it hurts their "business", whatever that might be.
touche, and hence my hope that they SOMEHOW manage to bypass the BS -- there can never be *enough* well-translated research-based products in the market, even if its hoping for too much.
I have a really hard time reading phonetical renditions of words, as compared to typos
perhaps it has something to do with people pronouncing words differently, so a "phonetic" spelling for one person might not be a phonetic spelling for someone else. It's like trying to read with an accent. Just a conjecture, IANAL (not a linguist).
Don't write off MS on this one just yet. There are some very talented people at MS Research who have been working on some really cool algorithms for photo manipulation: Phototours, Groupshot, Photosynth. If they manage to string it all together in a decent UI, it might be MS's best and most successful effort at something cool and useful.
From my experience with the Netflix Prize, and ML/stat.learning techniques in general, that last 1.57% is going to be the hardest. There is a diminishing returns effect going on here, i.e. the effort required for each successive 1% increase gets progressively larger.
hu kars so lng as u cn reed it?
Seriously, I've been seeing typing like this appear in blogs recently.
Time for an Internet meme (source unconfirmed):
Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteres are at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a tatol mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe.
The patent was for taking a single request, breaking it up into subrequests, then distributing the subrequests amongst multiple servers and then gluing the results back together.
How is this different from any parallel divide-and-conquer algorithm?
then I realised the author has probably never had any real mobile OS design experience.
You don't need mobile OS design experience to figure out that a phone has a terrible user interface. While I agree that his comment on a two-button unlock sequence is uncalled for (why have a lock function that unlocks with a single, accidental keypress?), but other than that I think all his gripes are perfectly justified because they deal with the end-user experience.
If anyone was interested in Ben Worthen's moronic grasp of open-source, its pasted below. E-mail your tirades to biztech@wsj.com, of which Ben Worthen is the lead writer, and ask him about how he got his job in the first place.
Information-technology departments will ban employees from connecting phones that run Google's operating system to their computers or the corporate network. The reason is that Google's operating system is open, meaning anyone can write software for it. That includes bad guys, who will doubtlessly develop viruses and other malicious code for these phones, which unsuspecting Google phones owners will download. Employees could spread the malicious code to the rest of the company when they synch their phones to their computers or use it to check email.
The way to combat this is to develop anti-virus and anti-malware software for phones and to develop security procedures similar to those that have evolved for PCs over the last several years. But that's going to take time and money - neither of which the average IT department has. So until then, expect Google phones to be persona non grata at companies.
Anyway, the new mathematical format of the argument was (slightly reworked from what I posted on Amazon):
Ahh...the Internet. Bringing you in touch with people who think that because they throw an 'N' into their blather, it becomes a 'mathematical' argument. Or that you can quantify things like the "health effect of smoking 1 cigarette on someone less than 18" and plop it into a faux equation. A note to the reviewer: if you're going to pay someone $1.45 to point out the logical flaws in your flawed argument (I would, but someone has already posted a rebuttal), then expect what you pay for.
It's weird to me that no-one seems to have realised yet that you could mass-murder much more people, and in a much easier fashion, just coordinating directly in an airport, in the checkin queues.
And you're not even posting as ac? You, sir, either have a solid steel pair, are not a resident of the united states or like the brisk cuban weather along with a little masochism in the morning.
There have been attempts to do that in multiple fields, including Marketing "Science". However, if you're going to bet on a system that can predict box office sales, I'd put my money on a computer science approach. Here's an interesting paper from 2006: Predicting movie sales from blogger sentiment.
Actually. Maybe that would be a good business idea. Buy a PAYG phone and swap SIMS with someone at random. Maybe make it so you mail them on every few months. For the truly paranoid...
Don't normally agree with AC trolls, but this is truly the dumbest thing I've heard in a while. Perhaps you're not aware that the only thing that makes a SIM interesting to phone companies is the number its attached to? Swapping SIMs == swapping phone numbers. If you're paranoid enough to randomly get a new phone number every few months, perhaps you shouldn't own a phone?
3 words: Quad core Xeon. We run a reasonably big single-CPU quad core server and although its got dual CPU sockets, the thing doubles as a reasonably good space heater.
[5 STARS]It's well accepted in the scientific community that the coolest theory is usually the correct one. Evolution for example is quite lame, with its long slow processes and lack of nifty illustrations. Evolution is also hampered by its insistence on verifiable well tested data. What's more boring then sitting in a darkened lab looking through a microscope. It is the definition of geeky.
Lifecode is none of those things. Pivar begins with a cool theory, that our bodies are formed by mechanical process not genetic information, and then creates data to support it. Ask yourself what shows more intelligence finding data in the real world (easy) or actually creating it yourself (hard).
He also includes amazing comics of how a perfect cone is molded into a skull. Now, scientists might argue that we see none of this when we actually look at developing embryos. That's not the point. They are making the critical error of putting data before theory. Pivar is smart enough to realize the absurdity of that.
If you want well tested established theories look elsewhere. If you want a theory that is cool and makes you feel good look here. This book is must for all Creationists, home schoolers, and those few brave folks who can reject plain evidence in favor of amazing fancy.
so are they bleeping the kid-unfriendly words out like the old days, or have the artists started recording alternate "clean" versions of their songs? I think it was Nickelback that recorded an alternate single with "fucked up" replaced by "messed up" (could be wrong). Not that I care much for Nickelback anyway.
Actually the distortion used by Slayer, etc. is incredibly nuanced from an audio point of view. If you start dropping the higher harmonics, the distortion gets progressively more "dull" sounding and eventually just ends up sounding like you're clipping your speakers. Marshall amps have been legendary partly because their brand of distortion is highly distinctive. CDs allow you to retain some of the higher harmonics dropped by an audio cassette, so IMO the difference between Slayer on CD and tape is more immediately obvious than the difference between a classical track on CD and tape.
Isn't the whole point to kill off 90% of internet radio?
True, but this might just weaken their case a little bit. The whole premise of the RIAA has been that Net Radio hurts the artists. If you can show, with some accounting integrity and verifiability, that an alternative scheme would allow for both higher royalties *and* the existence of net radio, then a reasonable judge (or congress hopefully) would be less willing to summarily grant the ridiculous new royalty rates. In other words, it forces the RIAA to stop banking on the "it hurts royalties" argument and bring up the less obviously-in-the-right issue of DRM (which I also think is a flawed argument, btw).
Of course, on Earth, you could hold your breath for several minutes without passing out. But that's not going to help in a vacuum. In fact, attempting to hold your breath is a sure way to a quick death.
at least one of them. Why does/. insist on posting articles with tripe like this (particularly amusing snippets in bold):
Imagine that in 2-5 years time Facebook has become the No. 1 destination on the web. Facebook as a Web OS is the leader in online storage, online applications, email, blogging and of course social networking. How people interact with Facebook has changed; Facebook OS has absorbed Facebook F8, all previous Facebook applications work under Facebook OS, but they work more like Windows does today; Facebook has become your desktop and not just an internet site. The Facebook Paint application substitutes Photoshop, Facebook Email is a superior offering to Outlook, Facebook Office (Facebook having acquired either Thinkfree or Zoho) provides the market leading word processing and spreadsheet platform.
'a Web operating system that can do everything an OS can do':
can it:
(1) boot your computer (without requiring local media and thus becoming more of a "real" OS)
(2) run photoshop / gimp / doom 3 / (insert resource-heavy app here)
(3) run without any loss of functionality when you're sitting in the middle of nowhere without a wifi hotspot
Sure, the answers may all be yes...but not without a lot of hacking at the reasons why.
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Perhaps in an earlier paradigm, but there's really a small distinction today between "interactive stuff" and "large transfers". If by the latter you mean file sharing, a lot of the former (e.g. voip, video, etc.) is also using the same p2p technology. In fact, since a lot of p2p traffic, be it interactive or downloading stuff, is encrypted anyway, it's going to be very hard to tell which is legitimately 'interactive' and which is just a large .avi download, i.e. which packets to shape.
It's one reason why these "Vuze" people might have a legitimate case against comcast -- it hurts their "business", whatever that might be.
touche, and hence my hope that they SOMEHOW manage to bypass the BS -- there can never be *enough* well-translated research-based products in the market, even if its hoping for too much.
perhaps it has something to do with people pronouncing words differently, so a "phonetic" spelling for one person might not be a phonetic spelling for someone else. It's like trying to read with an accent. Just a conjecture, IANAL (not a linguist).
Don't write off MS on this one just yet. There are some very talented people at MS Research who have been working on some really cool algorithms for photo manipulation: Phototours, Groupshot, Photosynth. If they manage to string it all together in a decent UI, it might be MS's best and most successful effort at something cool and useful.
From my experience with the Netflix Prize, and ML/stat.learning techniques in general, that last 1.57% is going to be the hardest. There is a diminishing returns effect going on here, i.e. the effort required for each successive 1% increase gets progressively larger.
Time for an Internet meme (source unconfirmed):
Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteres are at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a tatol mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe.
How is this different from any parallel divide-and-conquer algorithm?
You don't need mobile OS design experience to figure out that a phone has a terrible user interface. While I agree that his comment on a two-button unlock sequence is uncalled for (why have a lock function that unlocks with a single, accidental keypress?), but other than that I think all his gripes are perfectly justified because they deal with the end-user experience.
Morons trusting the legendary untrustworthiness of Babelfish for official work spark minor diplomatic row.
There.
Ahh...the Internet. Bringing you in touch with people who think that because they throw an 'N' into their blather, it becomes a 'mathematical' argument. Or that you can quantify things like the "health effect of smoking 1 cigarette on someone less than 18" and plop it into a faux equation. A note to the reviewer: if you're going to pay someone $1.45 to point out the logical flaws in your flawed argument (I would, but someone has already posted a rebuttal), then expect what you pay for.
And you're not even posting as ac? You, sir, either have a solid steel pair, are not a resident of the united states or like the brisk cuban weather along with a little masochism in the morning.
Um...no. Brownback is from Kansas, and the fictional urban legend is about Alabama
There's a $1 million prize for proving or disproving P = NP from the Clay Mathematics institute if you're still interested.
There have been attempts to do that in multiple fields, including Marketing "Science". However, if you're going to bet on a system that can predict box office sales, I'd put my money on a computer science approach. Here's an interesting paper from 2006: Predicting movie sales from blogger sentiment.
Don't normally agree with AC trolls, but this is truly the dumbest thing I've heard in a while. Perhaps you're not aware that the only thing that makes a SIM interesting to phone companies is the number its attached to? Swapping SIMs == swapping phone numbers. If you're paranoid enough to randomly get a new phone number every few months, perhaps you shouldn't own a phone?
3 words: Quad core Xeon. We run a reasonably big single-CPU quad core server and although its got dual CPU sockets, the thing doubles as a reasonably good space heater.
Who in America wishes they had a 4th Amendment in practice?
[5 STARS] It's well accepted in the scientific community that the coolest theory is usually the correct one. Evolution for example is quite lame, with its long slow processes and lack of nifty illustrations. Evolution is also hampered by its insistence on verifiable well tested data. What's more boring then sitting in a darkened lab looking through a microscope. It is the definition of geeky. Lifecode is none of those things. Pivar begins with a cool theory, that our bodies are formed by mechanical process not genetic information, and then creates data to support it. Ask yourself what shows more intelligence finding data in the real world (easy) or actually creating it yourself (hard). He also includes amazing comics of how a perfect cone is molded into a skull. Now, scientists might argue that we see none of this when we actually look at developing embryos. That's not the point. They are making the critical error of putting data before theory. Pivar is smart enough to realize the absurdity of that. If you want well tested established theories look elsewhere. If you want a theory that is cool and makes you feel good look here. This book is must for all Creationists, home schoolers, and those few brave folks who can reject plain evidence in favor of amazing fancy.
so are they bleeping the kid-unfriendly words out like the old days, or have the artists started recording alternate "clean" versions of their songs? I think it was Nickelback that recorded an alternate single with "fucked up" replaced by "messed up" (could be wrong). Not that I care much for Nickelback anyway.
Actually the distortion used by Slayer, etc. is incredibly nuanced from an audio point of view. If you start dropping the higher harmonics, the distortion gets progressively more "dull" sounding and eventually just ends up sounding like you're clipping your speakers. Marshall amps have been legendary partly because their brand of distortion is highly distinctive. CDs allow you to retain some of the higher harmonics dropped by an audio cassette, so IMO the difference between Slayer on CD and tape is more immediately obvious than the difference between a classical track on CD and tape.
True, but this might just weaken their case a little bit. The whole premise of the RIAA has been that Net Radio hurts the artists. If you can show, with some accounting integrity and verifiability, that an alternative scheme would allow for both higher royalties *and* the existence of net radio, then a reasonable judge (or congress hopefully) would be less willing to summarily grant the ridiculous new royalty rates. In other words, it forces the RIAA to stop banking on the "it hurts royalties" argument and bring up the less obviously-in-the-right issue of DRM (which I also think is a flawed argument, btw).
Of course, on Earth, you could hold your breath for several minutes without passing out. But that's not going to help in a vacuum. In fact, attempting to hold your breath is a sure way to a quick death.
Imagine that in 2-5 years time Facebook has become the No. 1 destination on the web. Facebook as a Web OS is the leader in online storage, online applications, email, blogging and of course social networking. How people interact with Facebook has changed; Facebook OS has absorbed Facebook F8, all previous Facebook applications work under Facebook OS, but they work more like Windows does today; Facebook has become your desktop and not just an internet site. The Facebook Paint application substitutes Photoshop, Facebook Email is a superior offering to Outlook, Facebook Office (Facebook having acquired either Thinkfree or Zoho) provides the market leading word processing and spreadsheet platform.
can it:
(1) boot your computer (without requiring local media and thus becoming more of a "real" OS)
(2) run photoshop / gimp / doom 3 / (insert resource-heavy app here)
(3) run without any loss of functionality when you're sitting in the middle of nowhere without a wifi hotspot
Sure, the answers may all be yes...but not without a lot of hacking at the reasons why.