hi jon, i'm one of the authors of the paper. just thought i'd answer your question about the refresh rate. we used laptop screens that ran at 60 Hz, but the demo works even if you keep the dots motionless and lift up the screen and rock it back and forth. (you can try this yourself if you download the video.) the demo also works on a CRT at 120 Hz. so yes, it the refresh rate was considered and controlled for, and it doesn't seem to matter much. the motion in the youtube and vimeo videos are a bit jerky because they were converted to 30 fps.
Mod this up!!!
Hey Moderators, we have an actual author of one of the discussed stories replying to a direct question in a thread. I think this merits some "+1 Informative" points.
Unemployment among mathematicians is very, very low.
But that's because there are very few people who class themselves as mathematicians.
Most of them are doing something else for a living.
Including flipping burgers, etc...
Now, if the study was done based on what your degree was in, or on what you believe you are qualified to do but aren't necessarily doing...
Most, but certainly not all, jobs that are labeled as "Mathematician" require a Ph.D. So, that might be biasing the results quite a bit.
Most of the folks I know who only have an undergraduate degree in Mathematics and are working in industry are... lets see... oh yeah, they are Actuaries, and hmm... Software Engineers.
My primary concern is that most of the components for the U.S. "smart grid" are going to be manufactured overseas in countries which we (the U.S.) might have a conflict with in the next several decades. This will give potential adversaries ample opportunities to install backdoors and logic bombs in the components to bring down critical infrastructure in the event of a conflict. Without better control over the supply chain, I fail to see how the "smart grid" could ever be secure.
Even the lowly residential meter needs to be secured since the generator controllers will be relying on information from those meters (I can imagine a scenario where several million residential meters simultaneous switch on or off causing havoc with the transmission network). Certainly the large industrial systems, generating facilities, and power routing stations should have high levels of security. That level of security isn't possible when you're purchasing all of your components overseas.
After years of speculation, the a study has revealed that scientists are, in fact, human. The poor wages, long hours, and relative obscurity that most scientists dwell in has apparently caused widespread errors, making them almost pathetically human and just like every other working schmuck out there...
I'll add another cause to the list. The "publish or perish" mentality encourages researchers to rush work to print often before they are sure of it themselves. The annual review and tenure process at most mid-level research universities rewards a long list of marginal publications much more than a single good publication.
Personally, I feel that many researchers publish far too many papers with each one being an epsilon improvement on the previous. I would rather they wait and produce one good well-written paper rather than a string of ten sequential papers. In fact, I find that the sequential approach yields nearly unreadable papers after the second or third one because they assume everything that is in the previous papers. Of course, I was guilty of that myself because if you wait to produce a single good paper, then you'll lose your job or get denied tenure or promotion. So, I'm just complaining without being able to offer a good solution.
I'm afraid that IP addresses are a very real part of working on networks today, and making them relatively easy to remember is pretty important. Mixing numbers and letters together in hexadecimal (a numbering system humans don't use) was something cobbled together by some tit who had no idea about the practicalities of maintaining a network.
The base in which you choose to represent the number is not really relevant. The computer is storing it all in binary anyway. You can write your applications to accept them in decimal if you wish, and let the computer convert them to binary. The reason that the standard is hexadecimal is because it is much quicker to convert from hex to binary in your head than from decimal to binary.
The binary representation allows you to see the network topology (and hence the routing rules) much more quickly. There's a reason that 255 shows up so often in IPv4 address, it's 0xff which is eight ones in binary, and when used as a mask it selects all the bits in the octet. Similarly, something like 248 is 0xf8 which is 11111000 in binary, which makes it much easier to see how the subnet routing is set up.
The philosophy of using hex is that hex is what networking experts would prefer to work in. So, give them hex addresses, and let the standard users just use DHCP-like services and never worry about IP addresses.
Actually, I don't have a problem with Wikileaks. They are very clear about what they stand for, and there is a very great need in the world for an organization such as Wikileaks. My issue is with Pfc Manning.
But, I certainly agree with the rest of your post. Far too many people are just using a substitute for the "-1, I disagree" mod (which is missing for a reason). Some sort of meta-modding would be nice.
These mods are comical. Talk about censorship! If you say something negative about Wikileaks or Pfc Manning, the hordes will mod you down with "off topic" and "over rated". Clearly some people are using mod points to censor opinions that they don't agree with.
Bradley Manning, the disgruntled private who was demoted from the rank of Sergeant prior to leaking this information, should be given the harshest penalty possible (excessive prison sentence) for the sole purpose of discouraging this type of behavior in the future. An honest whistle-blower who reveals true wrongdoing will lose their job when found out, but they won't be prosecuted for releasing the information. However, deciding to release all classified information you can get your hands on is not whistle-blowing. It is nothing short of displaying a reckless disregard for any consequences.
I agree completely, and I hope your post gets modded up to make this discussion more visible. What Pfc Manning did was not whistle-blowing; it was a vindictive response to his own demotion. He took it upon himself to endanger numerous people just to satisfy his own ego, and he probably didn't think through the full ramifications of his actions.
I wonder if there is some subtle psychological reasoning behind painting the NASA X-34 white and the military X-37B a shining Darth Vader helmet black....
At first I thought, "oh, to make it harder to see with a telescope," but then I RTFA and noticed that amateur astronomers have been tracking the thing in orbit, so I guess the paint job is just to make it look cool. Really, though, if I were in charge of a super secret space plane, I'd want it to look cool, too.
Individuals and interactions over processes and tools Working software over comprehensive documentation Customer collaboration over contract negotiation Responding to change over following a plan
That would be Level 1 of the CMMI model. That's arguable the model where most development actually occurs. My guess is that the GP is in an industry like medical devices, aerospace, or defense where the contracts require all the documentation and "process management" of Level 5.
As others have mentioned in the comments, Objective-C was one of Apple's poorer decisions
I suppose you have a significantly better (simpler and more flexible) compiled OO language suitable for system-level programming up your sleeve, when you talk like that.
I like the D programming language. It's relatively new, but its well designed and multi-paradigm. It's suitable for system-level programming, but still supports higher-lever programming methods such as OO and functional programming.
I personally like the idea of scheduled releases which have been somewhat reasonably tested. Giving developers a mechanism to deal with the cutting edge versions of each package is nice, but I'd rather not have those in the releases on my servers.
There isn't a single decent sailing proposal out there that even comes close to matching what a diesel engine can do, and I have looked (I work in the industry). So while it may seem like a good idea on paper, it is in reality a totally terrible idea.
There are plenty of ways to reduce emissions already underway in the shipbuilding industry; the US Navy and European Navies generally lead the way. There is a hybrid engine out for smaller combatants; there is diesel electric propulsion, there's more emissions friendly engines already on the market... It's an iterative process but the work is already being done. But that's the only real way to do it; going back to sail is a pipe dream.
Doesn't the US Navy already have a nearly emissions free propulsion system that it uses on most of its aircraft carriers and ballistic missile submarines? Seems to me like the most environmentally friendly option for powering these giant cargo ships would be nuclear.
Galois (look him up!!) is long dead, but he was quite possibly the greatest genius ever to walk the planet. Too bad he was killed in a sword fight when he was 20. As a teenager, he solved a centuries-old math problem and created a fundamental branch of advanced mathematics.
... What's the matter? Can't compare apples to apples?
You're new here, right? We compare Apples to Apples all the time! Just look at the threads comparing iOS with OS X. Don't get me started about the PPC vs. Intel fights we had years ago...
TFA is wrong, you can see it pretty clearly by reading the 2010 KSR guidlines.
First off, they are administrative rules, and have no force of law and are not enforceable in any way.
Second, they mearly state that the KSR SCOTUS ruling does not replace the old methods of determining obviousness, it simply gives the PTO new lines of reasoning to use when rejecting a patent.
Third, it reminds patent officers that rejections must be based on the law, and that for whatever line of reasoning they follow (specifically talking about the seven rules in the 2007 guidelines here), "appropriate factual findings are required in order to apply the enumerated rationales properly."
I don't know where swpat.org got the idea that this eliminated any of the 2007 rationals, but it isn't in there at all. If anything this makes it easier for patent officers to reject a patent for obvious, because it makes it clear that the new standards (2007 guidelines) don't replace the old standards, they apply in addition to the old obviousness standards (pre-2007 guidelines).
Really, if they bothered to read it the wouldn't be making asses of themselves.
Please mod parent up. (I don't have mod points or I'd do it myself.)
Because the amount of damages doesn't matter when you don't have any money. The damage award might be $1.5M or $54K but in either case it's still more than she will ever pay because she doesn't have any money with which to pay.
When you're so poor that you've got nothing to lose, then you might as well keep fighting until you win (or die trying).
Agreed, E-voting is the classic solution in search of a problem.
Unless you have a disability, in which case it is the classic "solution to a problem".
Where I went to vote, anyone who wished had the option of bringing an assistant. I recall doing this for my grandmother when her health was failing. She couldn't see well enough to read the ballot much less fill in a circle. So, I would read the ballot to her, and she would tell me what to mark.
I'm all for throwing money at math and CS (it keeps me employed), but I still think that E-voting is unnecessary. Just use paper. With paper, the ballots can be recounted in front of a group of representative for each side whenever there is a dispute. It's simple and crystal clear to the vast majority of voters. The only disadvantage is that it's slow, but so what? Voting is important, we can afford to slow down a little and do it carefully.
If you believe the process is inherently illegitimate, then you can't vote in good conscience. All you are doing is taking the red pill by voting.
You made the choice they wanted you to make and bought into the system which has been corrupted badly (probably irredeemably) over the last 40 years.
Candidates who are not bought and paid for are made to look like idiots by corporate controlled media (radio, tv, print and even web).
No. When you don't vote you just remove yourself from the process, but you don't remove your responsibility for the outcome. In a democracy, the citizens are responsible for the government they have. No system of government has ever been perfect, nor will any such perfect system ever exist. By voting we have the opportunity to work to better our system.
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hi jon, i'm one of the authors of the paper. just thought i'd answer your question about the refresh rate. we used laptop screens that ran at 60 Hz, but the demo works even if you keep the dots motionless and lift up the screen and rock it back and forth. (you can try this yourself if you download the video.) the demo also works on a CRT at 120 Hz. so yes, it the refresh rate was considered and controlled for, and it doesn't seem to matter much. the motion in the youtube and vimeo videos are a bit jerky because they were converted to 30 fps.
Mod this up!!!
Hey Moderators, we have an actual author of one of the discussed stories replying to a direct question in a thread. I think this merits some "+1 Informative" points.
Unemployment among mathematicians is very, very low.
But that's because there are very few people who class themselves as mathematicians.
Most of them are doing something else for a living.
Including flipping burgers, etc...
Now, if the study was done based on what your degree was in, or on what you believe you are qualified to do but aren't necessarily doing...
Most, but certainly not all, jobs that are labeled as "Mathematician" require a Ph.D. So, that might be biasing the results quite a bit.
Most of the folks I know who only have an undergraduate degree in Mathematics and are working in industry are... lets see... oh yeah, they are Actuaries, and hmm... Software Engineers.
My primary concern is that most of the components for the U.S. "smart grid" are going to be manufactured overseas in countries which we (the U.S.) might have a conflict with in the next several decades. This will give potential adversaries ample opportunities to install backdoors and logic bombs in the components to bring down critical infrastructure in the event of a conflict. Without better control over the supply chain, I fail to see how the "smart grid" could ever be secure.
Even the lowly residential meter needs to be secured since the generator controllers will be relying on information from those meters (I can imagine a scenario where several million residential meters simultaneous switch on or off causing havoc with the transmission network). Certainly the large industrial systems, generating facilities, and power routing stations should have high levels of security. That level of security isn't possible when you're purchasing all of your components overseas.
Non-Affected Software...
Windows Server 2008 R2 for Itanium-based Systems
Good thing for that guy!
After years of speculation, the a study has revealed that scientists are, in fact, human. The poor wages, long hours, and relative obscurity that most scientists dwell in has apparently caused widespread errors, making them almost pathetically human and just like every other working schmuck out there...
I'll add another cause to the list. The "publish or perish" mentality encourages researchers to rush work to print often before they are sure of it themselves. The annual review and tenure process at most mid-level research universities rewards a long list of marginal publications much more than a single good publication.
Personally, I feel that many researchers publish far too many papers with each one being an epsilon improvement on the previous. I would rather they wait and produce one good well-written paper rather than a string of ten sequential papers. In fact, I find that the sequential approach yields nearly unreadable papers after the second or third one because they assume everything that is in the previous papers. Of course, I was guilty of that myself because if you wait to produce a single good paper, then you'll lose your job or get denied tenure or promotion. So, I'm just complaining without being able to offer a good solution.
How about making it a condition that they can't purposely slow down the guide menu just so you see the ads for longer? K thx
I'd also like a condition that says they have to increase their network architecture to support their advertised broadband speeds.
Please do not bother us with your petty problems and See Figure 1...
I couldn't help but notice that the last line of the linked article was, "Love VMS or leave it, but don't complain."
I guess we all got tired of being told to see Figure 1 and just left VMS... I haven't logged into a VMS machine in over 15 years.
I'm afraid that IP addresses are a very real part of working on networks today, and making them relatively easy to remember is pretty important. Mixing numbers and letters together in hexadecimal (a numbering system humans don't use) was something cobbled together by some tit who had no idea about the practicalities of maintaining a network.
The base in which you choose to represent the number is not really relevant. The computer is storing it all in binary anyway. You can write your applications to accept them in decimal if you wish, and let the computer convert them to binary. The reason that the standard is hexadecimal is because it is much quicker to convert from hex to binary in your head than from decimal to binary.
The binary representation allows you to see the network topology (and hence the routing rules) much more quickly. There's a reason that 255 shows up so often in IPv4 address, it's 0xff which is eight ones in binary, and when used as a mask it selects all the bits in the octet. Similarly, something like 248 is 0xf8 which is 11111000 in binary, which makes it much easier to see how the subnet routing is set up.
The philosophy of using hex is that hex is what networking experts would prefer to work in. So, give them hex addresses, and let the standard users just use DHCP-like services and never worry about IP addresses.
Well, I disagree with your view on Wikileaks...
Actually, I don't have a problem with Wikileaks. They are very clear about what they stand for, and there is a very great need in the world for an organization such as Wikileaks. My issue is with Pfc Manning.
But, I certainly agree with the rest of your post. Far too many people are just using a substitute for the "-1, I disagree" mod (which is missing for a reason). Some sort of meta-modding would be nice.
These mods are comical. Talk about censorship! If you say something negative about Wikileaks or Pfc Manning, the hordes will mod you down with "off topic" and "over rated". Clearly some people are using mod points to censor opinions that they don't agree with.
Bradley Manning, the disgruntled private who was demoted from the rank of Sergeant prior to leaking this information, should be given the harshest penalty possible (excessive prison sentence) for the sole purpose of discouraging this type of behavior in the future. An honest whistle-blower who reveals true wrongdoing will lose their job when found out, but they won't be prosecuted for releasing the information. However, deciding to release all classified information you can get your hands on is not whistle-blowing. It is nothing short of displaying a reckless disregard for any consequences.
I agree completely, and I hope your post gets modded up to make this discussion more visible. What Pfc Manning did was not whistle-blowing; it was a vindictive response to his own demotion. He took it upon himself to endanger numerous people just to satisfy his own ego, and he probably didn't think through the full ramifications of his actions.
You mean it's been in the air for seven months?
Yep. I think that's part of what makes it so freakin' cool.
I wonder if there is some subtle psychological reasoning behind painting the NASA X-34 white and the military X-37B a shining Darth Vader helmet black....
At first I thought, "oh, to make it harder to see with a telescope," but then I RTFA and noticed that amateur astronomers have been tracking the thing in orbit, so I guess the paint job is just to make it look cool. Really, though, if I were in charge of a super secret space plane, I'd want it to look cool, too.
Are you fucking kidding?
Asking that of BadAnalogyGuy is like asking a car if it meant to be on asphalt.
Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Responding to change over following a plan
That would be Level 1 of the CMMI model. That's arguable the model where most development actually occurs. My guess is that the GP is in an industry like medical devices, aerospace, or defense where the contracts require all the documentation and "process management" of Level 5.
As others have mentioned in the comments, Objective-C was one of Apple's poorer decisions
I suppose you have a significantly better (simpler and more flexible) compiled OO language suitable for system-level programming up your sleeve, when you talk like that.
I like the D programming language. It's relatively new, but its well designed and multi-paradigm. It's suitable for system-level programming, but still supports higher-lever programming methods such as OO and functional programming.
I personally like the idea of scheduled releases which have been somewhat reasonably tested. Giving developers a mechanism to deal with the cutting edge versions of each package is nice, but I'd rather not have those in the releases on my servers.
There isn't a single decent sailing proposal out there that even comes close to matching what a diesel engine can do, and I have looked (I work in the industry). So while it may seem like a good idea on paper, it is in reality a totally terrible idea.
There are plenty of ways to reduce emissions already underway in the shipbuilding industry; the US Navy and European Navies generally lead the way. There is a hybrid engine out for smaller combatants; there is diesel electric propulsion, there's more emissions friendly engines already on the market... It's an iterative process but the work is already being done. But that's the only real way to do it; going back to sail is a pipe dream.
Doesn't the US Navy already have a nearly emissions free propulsion system that it uses on most of its aircraft carriers and ballistic missile submarines? Seems to me like the most environmentally friendly option for powering these giant cargo ships would be nuclear.
Galois (look him up!!) is long dead, but he was quite possibly the greatest genius ever to walk the planet. Too bad he was killed in a sword fight when he was 20. As a teenager, he solved a centuries-old math problem and created a fundamental branch of advanced mathematics.
Honestly, I mis-read your statement to mean that there was a way to bypass the lock.
I agree with your statement, but have no way of correcting the original post...
Apology offered
Honestly, I mis-read your statement to mean that there was a way to bypass the lock.
I agree with your statement, but have no way of correcting the original post...
Apology offered
Wow! A sighting of the amazingly rare acknowledgment of error and an apology in an internet forum!!
HogGeek, you are a good person.
... What's the matter? Can't compare apples to apples?
You're new here, right? We compare Apples to Apples all the time! Just look at the threads comparing iOS with OS X. Don't get me started about the PPC vs. Intel fights we had years ago...
TFA is wrong, you can see it pretty clearly by reading the 2010 KSR guidlines.
First off, they are administrative rules, and have no force of law and are not enforceable in any way.
Second, they mearly state that the KSR SCOTUS ruling does not replace the old methods of determining obviousness, it simply gives the PTO new lines of reasoning to use when rejecting a patent.
Third, it reminds patent officers that rejections must be based on the law, and that for whatever line of reasoning they follow (specifically talking about the seven rules in the 2007 guidelines here), "appropriate factual findings are required in order to apply the enumerated rationales properly."
I don't know where swpat.org got the idea that this eliminated any of the 2007 rationals, but it isn't in there at all. If anything this makes it easier for patent officers to reject a patent for obvious, because it makes it clear that the new standards (2007 guidelines) don't replace the old standards, they apply in addition to the old obviousness standards (pre-2007 guidelines).
Really, if they bothered to read it the wouldn't be making asses of themselves.
Please mod parent up. (I don't have mod points or I'd do it myself.)
But why have there been so many trials?
Because the amount of damages doesn't matter when you don't have any money. The damage award might be $1.5M or $54K but in either case it's still more than she will ever pay because she doesn't have any money with which to pay.
When you're so poor that you've got nothing to lose, then you might as well keep fighting until you win (or die trying).
Agreed, E-voting is the classic solution in search of a problem.
Unless you have a disability, in which case it is the classic "solution to a problem".
Where I went to vote, anyone who wished had the option of bringing an assistant. I recall doing this for my grandmother when her health was failing. She couldn't see well enough to read the ballot much less fill in a circle. So, I would read the ballot to her, and she would tell me what to mark.
I'm all for throwing money at math and CS (it keeps me employed), but I still think that E-voting is unnecessary. Just use paper. With paper, the ballots can be recounted in front of a group of representative for each side whenever there is a dispute. It's simple and crystal clear to the vast majority of voters. The only disadvantage is that it's slow, but so what? Voting is important, we can afford to slow down a little and do it carefully.
When you vote, you legitimize the process.
If you believe the process is inherently illegitimate, then you can't vote in good conscience. All you are doing is taking the red pill by voting.
You made the choice they wanted you to make and bought into the system which has been corrupted badly (probably irredeemably) over the last 40 years.
Candidates who are not bought and paid for are made to look like idiots by corporate controlled media (radio, tv, print and even web).
No. When you don't vote you just remove yourself from the process, but you don't remove your responsibility for the outcome. In a democracy, the citizens are responsible for the government they have. No system of government has ever been perfect, nor will any such perfect system ever exist. By voting we have the opportunity to work to better our system.