I think the idea is "Why C++?" - you can write all of the numerical crunching routines in Fortran and continue to use Python to wrap them all together. In fact, you probably didn't have to rewrite any of the Fortran code into C++ at all.
You already seem to use Python, so the question is why is there a C++ middle layer?
The name of the algorithm is called 'affine reconstruction' and is a fairly well studied algorithm in computer vision. It is great that Disney and co. are releasing software to semi-automate the data input and reconstruction.
What he's saying is that in 5 years, you don't know the type of programming that will be in the most demand. Web development can be seen as the current state of the software evolution, which is very dependent on which field of interest.
If D-WAVE and whoever else is making adibiatic quantum machines which need to be programmed a specific way to solve their non-polynomial reduced problems, then you can bet that there will be a neccesary segment of academic and commercial programmers that start to program using that methodolgy (which will defintely be different than any type of progamming seen to date).
Yeah, I'm wondering how all of this boils down to how much Bell Labs (or Lucent or IBM or whoever owns the Unix copyrights) is going to start suing for using stdio.h, stdlib.h and string.h!
Those header files are the same as the Java API; and if this is a copyright issue then the authors of those works can still claim it (Life+70 years!).
Did it get hacked into before or after you added the two step auth?
Also, are you using Google Account Reports? It now tells you exactly where and how you've logged into your Google Accounts; I think the SMS that you get are actually from this, not the two-step auth.
I feel much safer with the application one-time passwords and two-step hardware keycodes than any other service.
Does your Linode Server have two step auth to access email? And can you do that on your phone?
The article is speculating. What you start to hear is that they were storing their password answers as plain text, Sony has never said that their passwords were stored as plain text. Meaning, that the answers they would use to recuperate their forgotten passwords (e.g. "What is your mother's maiden name?") were what was compromised.
Now, combined with the rest of the personal information, I think that the password answers to their security questions may lead to more identity theft than actual passwords.
That's actually the reason that the US government will most likely never go to a physical denomination higher than the $100 bill.
If I understand correctly, all large electronic transactions (>$10k) are auto-monitored by the banks, and tracked by the government. It is a lot harder to pay someone $50 million dollars if you do it in cash due to the size of the physical dollar bills than if you do it as an electronic payment. Given that the government wants to monitor criminal activity, super large drug cartel type money movement is a lot harder with smallish $100 bills.
$3000 being prohibitive? Try to stuff $30mil into your wallet!
That makes sense. Common sense is that they bought a site license from an anti-virus vendor.
So how much is that Norton/Symatec/?? license for those 30,000 computers? Is that part of the Windows TCO, the mandatory virus protection and lcoal system firewall?
An answer from most people running windows is that linux systems should also have anti-virus measures in place, but in my limited experience (only ~100 machines), that was never needed since rarely was root access given out to users.
"If your computer is not able to run the standard Desktop installation CD, you can use an Alternate installation CD instead. The Alternate CD also allows more advanced installation options which are not available with the Desktop CD. "
How do you break this down? Are they just pinging twitter.com and waiting for timeouts on html returned?
I ask, because lots of twitter is their distribution via their APIs. How many of those other moblog sites have http GETs to non-html documents? Check for yourself: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/
I wonder how many statuses were updated from facebook.com or pulled there from a twitter API poll. It would be nice if a site like facebook could post their timeouts on their user status polls they do from their site. That might give people more of an idea of the complete twitter uptime.
I think he is more thinking about competition, not about how big a company is.
Why do people use your "highly regulated complex industry" software over someone else's? Because it has more features? My bet is that you don't have any true competitors. Now seriously ask yourself why you don't have any competitors.
One of the reasons that you might not have any competitors, is because of the checks that are put in place by the regulations. Companies that could compete with you on a per-capability basis will not compete because the cost of the regulation "checks", which is the whole point of the essay.
This is the first that I've heard of this technology. Can anyone post how this is different than XMPP (http://xmpp.org)? XMPP is the updated name of the Jabber protocol.
I know that every project that I get on, I try to dissuade the use of JMS (Java Message Service) and use XMPP instead. Is this more of a competitor to the JMS spec, since it "reliable"? (whatever that means)
The GPS chip made the case go from aluminum to plastic, which was a major detriment. Too many case fractures! The 1st Gen iPhone is so much more structurally sound.
The whole point of a wiki is that it doesn't have to be organized. It doesn't have a table of contents, it has a page list -- which are not organized in any sort of temporal or incremental way, but rather alphabetically.
You don't read a wiki start to finish like most PHB's think documentation should be read. Instead, try to make him understand that relevant links (internal link count metric) and search indexing (search count metrics) are what make a wiki organized.
Which is the whole point. You go from an organized list of things describing X and Y in word documents, to a wiki describing X with subpoints X{a,b} and Y with clarifications to Y{c,f,g,h}, etc. Some people don't care about Y{f}, but some people actually do. And since everything describing Y should be in the same wiki, then all of the users can go to their respective pages.
Its more of a culture change than anything. [Now, talking about wiki uptake... that should be something interesting.]
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Look into NationBuilder - they are exactly what you are looking for. http://nationbuilder.com/
Don't pay for web development of a one-off app.
I think the idea is "Why C++?" - you can write all of the numerical crunching routines in Fortran and continue to use Python to wrap them all together. In fact, you probably didn't have to rewrite any of the Fortran code into C++ at all.
You already seem to use Python, so the question is why is there a C++ middle layer?
The name of the algorithm is called 'affine reconstruction' and is a fairly well studied algorithm in computer vision. It is great that Disney and co. are releasing software to semi-automate the data input and reconstruction.
What he's saying is that in 5 years, you don't know the type of programming that will be in the most demand. Web development can be seen as the current state of the software evolution, which is very dependent on which field of interest.
If D-WAVE and whoever else is making adibiatic quantum machines which need to be programmed a specific way to solve their non-polynomial reduced problems, then you can bet that there will be a neccesary segment of academic and commercial programmers that start to program using that methodolgy (which will defintely be different than any type of progamming seen to date).
At least their customers would side with dtv if their bill dropped 5-10 bucks.
They are paying ~$1.10 per subscriber to Viacom, and they want to increase it to a little above $2.
Yeah, I'm wondering how all of this boils down to how much Bell Labs (or Lucent or IBM or whoever owns the Unix copyrights) is going to start suing for using stdio.h, stdlib.h and string.h!
Those header files are the same as the Java API; and if this is a copyright issue then the authors of those works can still claim it (Life+70 years!).
Did it get hacked into before or after you added the two step auth?
Also, are you using Google Account Reports? It now tells you exactly where and how you've logged into your Google Accounts; I think the SMS that you get are actually from this, not the two-step auth.
I feel much safer with the application one-time passwords and two-step hardware keycodes than any other service.
Does your Linode Server have two step auth to access email? And can you do that on your phone?
I believe that Instagram is 100% hosted on AWS EC2 instances and S3. We'll see if they move to Facebook's data centers.
The $1B valuation of that company would not have been possible without using Amazon as their provider. Amazon is definitely doing something right.
Its not a chatterbot. Its CALO. http://www.ksl.stanford.edu/projects/calo/
they are going to use the digg model: revamp the site and lose all their subscribers.
The article is speculating. What you start to hear is that they were storing their password answers as plain text, Sony has never said that their passwords were stored as plain text. Meaning, that the answers they would use to recuperate their forgotten passwords (e.g. "What is your mother's maiden name?") were what was compromised.
Now, combined with the rest of the personal information, I think that the password answers to their security questions may lead to more identity theft than actual passwords.
The A people hire A people, B people hire C people originally came from Steve Jobs, right? The rest of your post is very depressing, and very true.
the internet is the blue e on my desktop!
err i meant the orange smudge around the blue dot on my gnome panel! ;)
That's actually the reason that the US government will most likely never go to a physical denomination higher than the $100 bill.
If I understand correctly, all large electronic transactions (>$10k) are auto-monitored by the banks, and tracked by the government. It is a lot harder to pay someone $50 million dollars if you do it in cash due to the size of the physical dollar bills than if you do it as an electronic payment. Given that the government wants to monitor criminal activity, super large drug cartel type money movement is a lot harder with smallish $100 bills.
$3000 being prohibitive? Try to stuff $30mil into your wallet!
even better, use a FOSS middleware product for all your libraries, then just sell them a configured instance of that middleware!
So how did myself and tons of others upgrade to 3GS models in an apple store?
I left with my 3GS fully activated and able to make calls (with no data synced) and my 2G iphone with no service. No SIM card was changed.
Your phone number can be activated to a different SIM card... in the Apple Store.
Soooo....
is just outright wrong.
That makes sense. Common sense is that they bought a site license from an anti-virus vendor.
So how much is that Norton/Symatec/?? license for those 30,000 computers? Is that part of the Windows TCO, the mandatory virus protection and lcoal system firewall?
An answer from most people running windows is that linux systems should also have anti-virus measures in place, but in my limited experience (only ~100 machines), that was never needed since rarely was root access given out to users.
if you have driver problems with the desktop LiveCD... you should use the alternate install CD, it's what it is used for.
From https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation
"If your computer is not able to run the standard Desktop installation CD, you can use an Alternate installation CD instead. The Alternate CD also allows more advanced installation options which are not available with the Desktop CD. "
Chicago is doing that for their buses: http://www.ctabustracker.com/bustime/home.jsp
even with mobile applications (where you need the information the most).
God that made no sense. s/html/packets
"Are they just pinging twitter.com and waiting for packets over its default port returned?"
How do you break this down? Are they just pinging twitter.com and waiting for timeouts on html returned?
I ask, because lots of twitter is their distribution via their APIs. How many of those other moblog sites have http GETs to non-html documents? Check for yourself: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/
I wonder how many statuses were updated from facebook.com or pulled there from a twitter API poll. It would be nice if a site like facebook could post their timeouts on their user status polls they do from their site. That might give people more of an idea of the complete twitter uptime.
I think he is more thinking about competition, not about how big a company is.
Why do people use your "highly regulated complex industry" software over someone else's? Because it has more features? My bet is that you don't have any true competitors. Now seriously ask yourself why you don't have any competitors.
One of the reasons that you might not have any competitors, is because of the checks that are put in place by the regulations. Companies that could compete with you on a per-capability basis will not compete because the cost of the regulation "checks", which is the whole point of the essay.
This is the first that I've heard of this technology. Can anyone post how this is different than XMPP (http://xmpp.org)? XMPP is the updated name of the Jabber protocol.
I know that every project that I get on, I try to dissuade the use of JMS (Java Message Service) and use XMPP instead. Is this more of a competitor to the JMS spec, since it "reliable"? (whatever that means)
The GPS chip made the case go from aluminum to plastic, which was a major detriment. Too many case fractures! The 1st Gen iPhone is so much more structurally sound.
The whole point of a wiki is that it doesn't have to be organized. It doesn't have a table of contents, it has a page list -- which are not organized in any sort of temporal or incremental way, but rather alphabetically.
You don't read a wiki start to finish like most PHB's think documentation should be read. Instead, try to make him understand that relevant links (internal link count metric) and search indexing (search count metrics) are what make a wiki organized.
Which is the whole point. You go from an organized list of things describing X and Y in word documents, to a wiki describing X with subpoints X{a,b} and Y with clarifications to Y{c,f,g,h}, etc. Some people don't care about Y{f}, but some people actually do. And since everything describing Y should be in the same wiki, then all of the users can go to their respective pages.
Its more of a culture change than anything. [Now, talking about wiki uptake... that should be something interesting.]