Even chimps are better than humans in certain memory tests. Does it mean chimps will be better rocket scientists? Maybe Win8 is made for chimps?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJAH4ZJBiN8
They selected some hypothetical factors and run factor analysis or something related. Some factors came on the top. And now they publish a report... WOW!
SSD industry is also not very far from monopoly and moving in that direction. Check who is manufacturing and supplying the flash memory to most SSD producers. Hint: http://www.isuppli.com/Abstract/P13699_20110621100254.pdf Note that economies of scale are possible only for very large volumes, so anything below 5% is probably losing money.
The question is not only about children, green... etc. Korea is one of the main producers of LCD and related technologies. The company Saaamsooong;-) is practicaly governing the country and they need reliable buyers of their tech to ramp up the volumes. Check who will be the main supplier of the tech and who will profit most from government money.
I live 20 km from Brussels - THE Center of EU. The Internet market is a practical monopol - cable TV Telenet (and related companies) offers 30Mbps and Belgacom (and related companies) offer ADSL. ADSL usually runs below 6Mbps. The prices are high - because of the monopol. Technically the situation here is like in Korea 10 years ago.
Thinking "Korean engineers"? This must be a novel concept. Korean engineers are well known for their lack of creativity. There is absolutely nothing novel in the idea of battery powered buses. Regenerative braking is well known and has been used for decades. The only missing part is the good battery. And this is probably the weak point of these buses. Trolley buses are the way to go in places like Seoul, but local mafia (read Samsung, LG,...) want the government to buy their batteries, so they arranged the deal with the "freindly" city-hall...
Sure there are bugs in the code. Any code has bugs. ANY car has bugs. I have the feeling that somebody is making a black PR campaign to create panic to humble Toyota. Same was with swine flu - somebody wanted a panic to sell more medicines. There was also SARS several years before that.
How many people died or were injured because of the claimed Toyota software bugs? Give me a number.
You do not have to register it. The law can say that SW copyright will hold only if the binaries come with source or some way to get the source, much the same like GPL requires the source to be offered.
I had such ideas long time ago - for software and for art. Limited terms may work quite well for patents too.
So the article is misleading. But can we extract some use of it?
I am not working in this area, but this is what I understand: We have CO2. We want to convert it to H2-C-H2 groups and bigger molecules + O. This requires energy, sure. Maybe in form of high temperature... So we need heat.
Here is my suggestion: there are large amounts of unused heat in power plants - both conventional and nuclear. This is why you see all these tubes and white smoke near them. Power plants transform chemical (nuclear) energy to thermal and then to electrical. It is a natural (physics) property of transformation heat -> electricity that it has low efficiency. Look at your thermodynamics books why. So not all thermal energy is converted into electricity in the power plants. Large parts of it (50%) are radiated in the air or used for heating of houses near the power plants IF there are living areas near the power plant. But in many cases there are no such consumers near by. Here is where the new process may be used - put such devices in the existing power plants and use as much as possible of this now unused thermal energy.
The result: power plants will produce same amount of electrical energy, but also O2 and hydro-carbonic substances, which may be used as fuel. And will use CO2 for this. If this is done efficiently, this can be a very big contribution to CO2 emission reduction in the power plants.
I am not so sure if this is true in general. For example Germany makes big progress to open positions in engineering and computer science. Things are a bit unclear, but it appears that a MSc in comp.sci. would give you a possibility to get a work visa and work legally. But I seriously doubt you can effectively work and be hired without German language in most of Germany.
There is nothing, nothing, nothing innovative in SSD. The innovation may exist in Flash memory manufacturers and even this is very much in doubt. The situation currently is that huge companies like Samsung, Intel, Toshiba,... make enormous investments for new flash factories. They will be the beneficiaries of SSD, not some small innovative company. Seagate may be a monster in HDD business, but it is nothing compared to Samsung in more general terms. So I wish Seagate good luck in defending their business. Because the next company they will have to target will be Samsung and this will not be a walk in the park.
According to the law valid in the world and ratified also by Russia, the patent holds for 20 years. We are 2007 now. Communist block folded 1989. Anything created before that is not covered by patent. AK47 main ideas are from 1947. Go figure... If the author wants his money, refer him to the fact that he is using electricity produced using some designs by Tesla, Edison and others more than 100 years ago. Nobody pays for these designs now.
This is very easy to overcome. Other countries can name their AK47 anything else and there will be no trademark violation. In fact they are doing this for quite some time.
Let me summarize:
1. There can not be a valid patent on something designed and mass-produced in 1947. The EPO and any other patent will be invalidated by any court. In fact, the EPO patent is an indication that something is seriously wrong in EPO and they need urgent reforms. The patent examiners and theirs superiors have to be investigated for some strange income.
2. Trademarks can be easilly overcome just by change in the name. This is demonstrated easily by many producers in China, who make theirs products 100% legal by changing one letter.
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Also the number of people who are able to contribute significantly to such project is very limited. This is on the border of several areas - pure abstract mathematics, computer science and engineering. How many qualified LISP programmers you can find nearby? How many of them are also good at abstract algebra? Very few such people exist in the world, partially because mathematicians tend to hate computer tools in their abstract work. That's why most of the CAS systems were created by physicists in response to their practical needs.
Apart from Maxima, which is free software, if somebody wants to contribute, please have a look also at Axiom CAS http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/axiom, which IMHO gives a very nice and strict approach. Another C++ based project is GiNaC http://www.ginac.de/
The sad truth is that new technologies always cost the jobs of some people. For example this was the case when the industrial revolution began - the machines made disappear quite a few nice jobs. So the mere fact that there are "two working people with families who no longer have jobs" does not imply that the so called "pirates" are bad. New technologies make some jobs disappear, but create other jobs. Adapt.
100% of Internet banking in S. Korea is using IE and Windows specific ActiveX. If you live in S. Korea and use Iternet banking, you have to pay Microsoft Tax, because you have to use Microsoft Windows. In fact, with respect to Linux penetration, the country is in the Stone Age. S. Korea, Japan and China speak a lot about creating theis own Linux distro. I am reading this for 2-3 years. This is rediculous, because no result was shown. Obviously they are using this card to extort lower prices from MS, but they have no serious intention to promote Linux in the Government. And the future house should be mainly with green garden, clean air, no traffic congestion. Electronics is not that important.
I agree. He has to make a schedule, which can show some verifiable results in 1-2 years and 30-40 mln. USD. 200 mln. in 5 years is not a practical plan. Some proof of concept has to be done in months, not years. If he asks for funding from business, he has to start thinking in terms of practical schedules, which means small steps, where you can control the result at each step. He is not the first one to ask for venture investment. He has to play by the rules.
I used Skype until recently in a very big corporation in Asia. It was an interesting experience. We have resident security program on each PC. Nobody knows exactly what this program is doing, I guess this program is killing Skype process on startup of skype. But this was true only for recent versions of skype. Old versions were running well, for example 1.2.0.48. I guess they did not detect older skype binaries. But recently older version also has problems. It starts, but it never connects. So I guess our company introduced some smarter firewall. So I don't use skype anymore. But the funny thing is that SIP and googletalk pass though the firewall, no problem. I know that it is possible to sniff on them. This is not a problem for me. I just want to be able to contact and be contacted by my familly in Europe from time to time and SIP (X-lite) works well for me.
Are there any free open source implementations of SEED? I think a change to SSL should be discussed. I am also in Korea (I work here). In 10 minutes I will extend my SEED key online, which expires soon. I will not go to my bank (which is 50 meters from me). The same method can be used to change all the keys to SSL. No need to visit the bank office.
My personal opinion is, that the existing e-banking system in Korea is substandard. ActiveX requires admin on XP to install and most banks install 2-3 other activeX. This has to stop. Somebody has to educate these guys how to do e-banking.
They don't need SCO code for any UNIX emulation. 1. They can take (F,N,O)BSD code and get a perfect UNIX(ish) layer. 2. If they want to pay somebody, they can go to http://www.windriver.com/products/bsd_os/index.htm l and I guess they will get actually better support for what they probably want to do
Just tell me what is the benefit of SCO code from the MS point. I'll tel you - they know SCO was going to do something and now they are covering their traces with smoke.
Recently there were several articles in/. about Linux not supporting "big iron" features. Probably it is true. But in this case why doesn't IBM support also HURD?
HURD has some fetures, which are perfect for "big iron" and are unpleasant for smaller machine. Why not help to make HURD 100% Linux compatible and use it on big iron, clustering,.....? T
his would be a real BIG thing for IBM and will prove they support open source. For now it is simply "riding the wave" and lot of words.
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Even chimps are better than humans in certain memory tests. Does it mean chimps will be better rocket scientists? Maybe Win8 is made for chimps? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJAH4ZJBiN8
They selected some hypothetical factors and run factor analysis or something related. Some factors came on the top. And now they publish a report...
WOW!
SSD industry is also not very far from monopoly and moving in that direction. Check who is manufacturing and supplying the flash memory to most SSD producers. Hint: http://www.isuppli.com/Abstract/P13699_20110621100254.pdf Note that economies of scale are possible only for very large volumes, so anything below 5% is probably losing money.
HDD industry was consolidated. The competition was reduced. There are now basically two producers - WD and Seagate.
The question is not only about children, green... etc. Korea is one of the main producers of LCD and related technologies. The company Saaamsooong ;-) is practicaly governing the country and they need reliable buyers of their tech to ramp up the volumes. Check who will be the main supplier of the tech and who will profit most from government money.
US: bankrupt ...
UK: bankrupt
France: close to bankrupt, just not so well known
Belgium: bankrupt country without a government goes to war
Growing economies don't participate in this stupid war.
Germany - No, Brasil - No, India - No, China - No...
I live 20 km from Brussels - THE Center of EU. The Internet market is a practical monopol - cable TV Telenet (and related companies) offers 30Mbps and Belgacom (and related companies) offer ADSL. ADSL usually runs below 6Mbps. The prices are high - because of the monopol. Technically the situation here is like in Korea 10 years ago.
Thinking "Korean engineers"? This must be a novel concept. Korean engineers are well known for their lack of creativity. There is absolutely nothing novel in the idea of battery powered buses. Regenerative braking is well known and has been used for decades. The only missing part is the good battery. And this is probably the weak point of these buses. Trolley buses are the way to go in places like Seoul, but local mafia (read Samsung, LG, ...) want the government to buy their batteries, so they arranged the deal with the "freindly" city-hall...
Sure there are bugs in the code. Any code has bugs. ANY car has bugs. I have the feeling that somebody is making a black PR campaign to create panic to humble Toyota.
Same was with swine flu - somebody wanted a panic to sell more medicines. There was also SARS several years before that.
How many people died or were injured because of the claimed Toyota software bugs? Give me a number.
You do not have to register it. The law can say that SW copyright will hold only if the binaries come with source or some way to get the source, much the same like GPL requires the source to be offered.
I had such ideas long time ago - for software and for art. Limited terms may work quite well for patents too.
So the article is misleading. But can we extract some use of it?
I am not working in this area, but this is what I understand: We have CO2. We want to convert it to H2-C-H2 groups and bigger molecules + O. This requires energy, sure. Maybe in form of high temperature... So we need heat.
Here is my suggestion: there are large amounts of unused heat in power plants - both conventional and nuclear. This is why you see all these tubes and white smoke near them. Power plants transform chemical (nuclear) energy to thermal and then to electrical. It is a natural (physics) property of transformation heat -> electricity that it has low efficiency. Look at your thermodynamics books why. So not all thermal energy is converted into electricity in the power plants. Large parts of it (50%) are radiated in the air or used for heating of houses near the power plants IF there are living areas near the power plant. But in many cases there are no such consumers near by. Here is where the new process may be used - put such devices in the existing power plants and use as much as possible of this now unused thermal energy.
The result: power plants will produce same amount of electrical energy, but also O2 and hydro-carbonic substances, which may be used as fuel. And will use CO2 for this. If this is done efficiently, this can be a very big contribution to CO2 emission reduction in the power plants.
Just my thoughts ...
I am not so sure if this is true in general. For example Germany makes big progress to open positions in engineering and computer science. Things are a bit unclear, but it appears that a MSc in comp.sci. would give you a possibility to get a work visa and work legally. But I seriously doubt you can effectively work and be hired without German language in most of Germany.
There is nothing, nothing, nothing innovative in SSD. The innovation may exist in Flash memory manufacturers and even this is very much in doubt. The situation currently is that huge companies like Samsung, Intel, Toshiba,... make enormous investments for new flash factories. They will be the beneficiaries of SSD, not some small innovative company. Seagate may be a monster in HDD business, but it is nothing compared to Samsung in more general terms.
So I wish Seagate good luck in defending their business. Because the next company they will have to target will be Samsung and this will not be a walk in the park.
According to the law valid in the world and ratified also by Russia, the patent holds for 20 years. We are 2007 now. Communist block folded 1989. Anything created before that is not covered by patent. AK47 main ideas are from 1947. Go figure...
If the author wants his money, refer him to the fact that he is using electricity produced using some designs by Tesla, Edison and others more than 100 years ago. Nobody pays for these designs now.
This is very easy to overcome. Other countries can name their AK47 anything else and there will be no trademark violation. In fact they are doing this for quite some time.
Let me summarize:
1. There can not be a valid patent on something designed and mass-produced in 1947. The EPO and any other patent will be invalidated by any court. In fact, the EPO patent is an indication that something is seriously wrong in EPO and they need urgent reforms. The patent examiners and theirs superiors have to be investigated for some strange income.
2. Trademarks can be easilly overcome just by change in the name. This is demonstrated easily by many producers in China, who make theirs products 100% legal by changing one letter.
Also the number of people who are able to contribute significantly to such project is very limited. This is on the border of several areas - pure abstract mathematics, computer science and engineering. How many qualified LISP programmers you can find nearby? How many of them are also good at abstract algebra? Very few such people exist in the world, partially because mathematicians tend to hate computer tools in their abstract work. That's why most of the CAS systems were created by physicists in response to their practical needs.
Apart from Maxima, which is free software, if somebody wants to contribute, please have a look also at Axiom CAS http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/axiom, which IMHO gives a very nice and strict approach.
Another C++ based project is GiNaC http://www.ginac.de/
The sad truth is that new technologies always cost the jobs of some people. For example this was the case when the industrial revolution began - the machines made disappear quite a few nice jobs.
So the mere fact that there are "two working people with families who no longer have jobs" does not imply that the so called "pirates" are bad. New technologies make some jobs disappear, but create other jobs. Adapt.
100% of Internet banking in S. Korea is using IE and Windows specific ActiveX. If you live in S. Korea and use Iternet banking, you have to pay Microsoft Tax, because you have to use Microsoft Windows. In fact, with respect to Linux penetration, the country is in the Stone Age. S. Korea, Japan and China speak a lot about creating theis own Linux distro. I am reading this for 2-3 years. This is rediculous, because no result was shown. Obviously they are using this card to extort lower prices from MS, but they have no serious intention to promote Linux in the Government.
And the future house should be mainly with green garden, clean air, no traffic congestion. Electronics is not that important.
I agree. He has to make a schedule, which can show some verifiable results in 1-2 years and 30-40 mln. USD.
200 mln. in 5 years is not a practical plan. Some proof of concept has to be done in months, not years.
If he asks for funding from business, he has to start thinking in terms of practical schedules, which means small steps, where you can control the result at each step. He is not the first one to ask for venture investment. He has to play by the rules.
I used Skype until recently in a very big corporation in Asia. It was an interesting experience.
We have resident security program on each PC. Nobody knows exactly what this program is doing, I guess this program is killing Skype process on startup of skype. But this was true only for recent versions of skype. Old versions were running well, for example 1.2.0.48. I guess they did not detect older skype binaries. But recently older version also has problems. It starts, but it never connects. So I guess our company introduced some smarter firewall. So I don't use skype anymore. But the funny thing is that SIP and googletalk pass though the firewall, no problem. I know that it is possible to sniff on them. This is not a problem for me. I just want to be able to contact and be contacted by my familly in Europe from time to time and SIP (X-lite) works well for me.
Are there any free open source implementations of SEED? I think a change to SSL should be discussed. I am also in Korea (I work here). In 10 minutes I will extend my SEED key online, which expires soon. I will not go to my bank (which is 50 meters from me). The same method can be used to change all the keys to SSL. No need to visit the bank office.
My personal opinion is, that the existing e-banking system in Korea is substandard. ActiveX requires admin on XP to install and most banks install 2-3 other activeX. This has to stop. Somebody has to educate these guys how to do e-banking.
Shhht! Don't give them new ideas, or expect the new games with ads in the middle. :(
This kind of comparisons are stupid in general. The quality of the algorithm used can not be measured in this way. And so many things depend on it.
They don't need SCO code for any UNIX emulation.m l and I guess they will get actually better support for what they probably want to do
1. They can take (F,N,O)BSD code and get a perfect UNIX(ish) layer.
2. If they want to pay somebody, they can go to http://www.windriver.com/products/bsd_os/index.ht
Just tell me what is the benefit of SCO code from the MS point. I'll tel you - they know SCO was going to do something and now they are covering their traces with smoke.
Recently there were several articles in /. about Linux not supporting "big iron" features. Probably it is true. But in this case why doesn't IBM support also HURD?
HURD has some fetures, which are perfect for "big iron" and are unpleasant for smaller machine. Why not help to make HURD 100% Linux compatible and use it on big iron, clustering,.....? T
his would be a real BIG thing for IBM and will prove they support open source. For now it is simply "riding the wave" and lot of words.