Some of the writers at New Scientist went so far as to build their own version of the robot and the technology blog has some video of it in action. .. Linux?
I blows me away how Sony missed out on the opportunity to use the MD format for data storage. It could have been the perfect 3 1/2 floppy drive replacement. How aggravating that they wasted the chance!
500GB is a LOT of data. Great for backups, perhaps for storing raw video footage and so on, but hard to justify for distributing data or for sneakernet uses.
A minidisc equivalent would be what, 100GB or so? That is a very viable proposition. Credit card sized discs would be quite popular too. Solid state equivalence is a long way off.
I suspect a combination of an asymmetric force, desperation, and hopeless living conditions will always produce people who are willing to sacrifice themselves to destroy their oppressors. Suicide rates usually fall during wartime. (eg: European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience, 2005.)
Contradictory fact - women also become suicide bombers.
The number of female suicide bombers is so small as to be a data anomaly.
Suicide missions aren't always suicide missions. How many are proven to be suicides? When a parked car explodes, it's frequently called a suicide bomb, despite no evidence to that effect, or evidence to the contrary (eg: CCTV footage of the person walking away from the car minutes before it explodes, or footage suggesting that the people who exploded were unaware that this was going to happen to them, for whatever reason). I know of cases in Iraq where people doing deliveries to crowded markets have rather been innocent victims, not knowing that the sealed packages (eg: supposedly containing computer monitors) contained remotely controlled explosives.
Suicidality is low amongst married men with children and no financial pressures. These people are socially connected. Having a family is protective, statistically, yet so frequently it is these people who turn out to be suicide bombers.
My point is, we should doubt any claim of a suicide bombing unless the evidence is unequivocal. It's too easy to call it suicide when it is known that evidence is scarce.
Chips in mass production have two mayor cost components: design and die-size. Now I don't know how much IP overhead there will be, but rest assured that the variable costs (related to die-size) will be extremely low. Especially since some of these cardridges tend to already contain electronics.
Still, I can't see how companies will uniformly embrace this (unless forced to - do you see that happening anytime soon?). This is not likely to impact on current technologies, I reckon, but actually it might on new methods of printing which may be protected by patent for a time. Say Kodak had a new way of making ink not bleed once printed.. say an inkjet-based method that was superior to laser. They might claim to protect consumers by forcing them to use kodak cartriges and thereby justify this DRM.
That's absurd enough when applied to simple copyright infringement, but there's absolutely nothing illegal about after market ink. In fact, these sort of shenanigans should be illegal themselves. Let the printer manufacturers compete fairly.
I doubt it will really work. The technique itself will be patented and will come at a cost to printer manufacturers to implement, whereas it will make the printers particularly unattractive to anyone on a budget.
Everybody, even my grandma, knows that the real cost is in the consumables. People can easily make the calculation, eg: "let me see, I spend $30 more for printer Y but I get to refill, which costs me $15 less each time. Hmmm, what a tricky decision - not!"
I just RTFA, and like most research, the thing is a bit artificial. Ok, I'm not a security expert, nor a statistician, but the thing reads like a drug company pamphlet. The nature of vulnerabilities, their implications on end users, are not taken into account. They weren't in the previous research either.
And just like a new drug that comes onto the market (not talking about XP, though I've just come to like it - pity it's on its way out), Vista has the benefit of 'beginner's luck' because
It's closed source - there is a lag between release and analysis.
It's difficult to analyze the inner workings at this point in time, but this will inevitably change.
Its userbase is only just beginning to become sizable, with vista-specific software coming on the market gradually -.
As more programmes are released, the way they interact with the OS will become clearer and hence more vulnerabilities will surface.
At least that's how I see it. The best way to judge the security of an operating system is by anecdotes of security breaches, what they cost to companies and and how easy it was to recover from them.
When you hear about teenagers having keyloggers in thousands of Windows XP boxes, then it quickly becomes apparent what kind of security XP offers. It's great for games, for file sharing, for shit that doesn't matter. It's not great for storing your accounting records, tax returns and doing online banking. Similarly, using Vista for the same thing is a bit foolish. Not advisable to trust your life savings to an OS during its honeymoon period.
No - it's sending the message "look we're a little bit naughty because we pick locks" as a distraction instead of sending the message that there are evil out of control bastards torturing people to death. The entire organisation is guilty by association and it is up to those that run it to fix those portions that would face war crimes tribunals in other situations.
There are some crucial pieces of information missing from the released documents which the CIA are active in suppressing, including $*UFEF&*@#_**NO CARRIER**
No, that was the biology lab preparers.
The Microsoft guys deal with shit, and are in over their heads.
Maybe they deal with "salt air and whale flatulence" arising from obese crapware programmers eating pickled herrings and salted sprats at OEM laboratories.
With other more cost-effective media like the internet, why would non-profits CARE about radio?
Things change and, whilst the Internet provides a plethora of information and news, at the end of the day, people are busy. They commute to and from work and many of them will simply tune into the radio. Workplaces everywhere have the radio on. Radio is hands-free, eyes-free.
The Internet doesn't have a captive audience, but in many respects, radio still does.
Distributed how? I do take your point, and I don't personally think it was a trollish remark, but I would have thought that since most/all of these phones are able to access apple.com, such a contingency would have been thought of during the design process. I might just be naive.
I could be wrong, but I was under the distinct impression that the iPhone would do POP3/IMAP4, just like pretty much every other phone released in the past 12-24 months.
All it takes is a patch and the phones will work with this or other standard.
All it takes is for sales to drop and the iPhone will dance to a different iTune. Same goes for any other company's model, if they are serious about business.
And that's only 'cause the term 'Microsoft' is only half true. It might be micro, but it's thorny and prickly. Beware or you'll surely end up with not just one virus, but probably 6 or more.
As an ex-Telstra worker, I can attest to the fact that copper just doesn't work in the bush. It degrades so quickly that they can barely replace it at the rate it's installed.
As an ex-Telstra customer, I can attest that the reason it is degrading at the rate it is being installed is because it takes Telstra so long to install it!
...to move Australia to 99% penetration within two years. If they accomplish this goal they will be the most-wired nation (South Korea currently occupies the top spot with 90%)
I say that 99% penetration will do wonders for Howard's hopes for an increased birth rate, and will also satisfy many social liberals on the other side. We'll probably become the most screwed nation on earth, beating Niger at 48.91 per 1000 head of population per annum.
Yes, viri/virii is incorrect (for now), but when the vast majority of us don't RTFA (or can't, due to the/. effect), you can hardly expect people to figure it out all on their own;)
If we speak of groups of virus types (that is, a species), there are different forms used depending on whether we're speaking of a family, genus, etc. (if you read the full wikipaedia article, and if you studied it in uni):
Order: virales
Family: viridae
Subfamily: virinae
Genus & Species: virus
Now the individual virus is a virion, which probably has its own possible plurals, to make matters worse.
But viruses is the correct plural for English speakers, by convention, but I remember the virulogist (or virologist) speaking of viruses as viridae, since we usually distinguish them by their family, eg: herpes, pox, and so on.
$ is clearly not an underdog, and I work with a guy who is quite a fanboy....
Fanboy, zealot, fanatic, fundamentalist, bigot.. other stuff. All the same in essence.
It's all just people who believe beyond reason in something. I know.. boring but true. When people know only a bit of what there is to know about something, or therabouts, they get really idealistic and passionate about it. It's human nature. Then, after time, if they get to know enough, they become cynical, or at best, just plain realistic.
Fanboys are the result of feelings of ignorance and insecurity. The more a person feels the pressures of both, the more he tries to convince others of what he thinks.
Slashdot Mirror
I dunno.. maybe it means it'll run Linux.
500GB is a LOT of data. Great for backups, perhaps for storing raw video footage and so on, but hard to justify for distributing data or for sneakernet uses.
A minidisc equivalent would be what, 100GB or so? That is a very viable proposition. Credit card sized discs would be quite popular too. Solid state equivalence is a long way off.
The number of female suicide bombers is so small as to be a data anomaly.
Suicide missions aren't always suicide missions. How many are proven to be suicides? When a parked car explodes, it's frequently called a suicide bomb, despite no evidence to that effect, or evidence to the contrary (eg: CCTV footage of the person walking away from the car minutes before it explodes, or footage suggesting that the people who exploded were unaware that this was going to happen to them, for whatever reason). I know of cases in Iraq where people doing deliveries to crowded markets have rather been innocent victims, not knowing that the sealed packages (eg: supposedly containing computer monitors) contained remotely controlled explosives.
Suicidality is low amongst married men with children and no financial pressures. These people are socially connected. Having a family is protective, statistically, yet so frequently it is these people who turn out to be suicide bombers.
My point is, we should doubt any claim of a suicide bombing unless the evidence is unequivocal. It's too easy to call it suicide when it is known that evidence is scarce.
Already is a story (10 rubber ducks, Eric Carle), which was based on a true story.
Still, I can't see how companies will uniformly embrace this (unless forced to - do you see that happening anytime soon?). This is not likely to impact on current technologies, I reckon, but actually it might on new methods of printing which may be protected by patent for a time. Say Kodak had a new way of making ink not bleed once printed .. say an inkjet-based method that was superior to laser. They might claim to protect consumers by forcing them to use kodak cartriges and thereby justify this DRM.
I doubt it will really work. The technique itself will be patented and will come at a cost to printer manufacturers to implement, whereas it will make the printers particularly unattractive to anyone on a budget.
Everybody, even my grandma, knows that the real cost is in the consumables. People can easily make the calculation, eg: "let me see, I spend $30 more for printer Y but I get to refill, which costs me $15 less each time. Hmmm, what a tricky decision - not!"
I had to laugh, but funnily enough, as soon as I posted, the site loaded and I got to read the article, heh heh.
I just RTFA, and like most research, the thing is a bit artificial. Ok, I'm not a security expert, nor a statistician, but the thing reads like a drug company pamphlet. The nature of vulnerabilities, their implications on end users, are not taken into account. They weren't in the previous research either.
And just like a new drug that comes onto the market (not talking about XP, though I've just come to like it - pity it's on its way out), Vista has the benefit of 'beginner's luck' because
At least that's how I see it. The best way to judge the security of an operating system is by anecdotes of security breaches, what they cost to companies and and how easy it was to recover from them.
When you hear about teenagers having keyloggers in thousands of Windows XP boxes, then it quickly becomes apparent what kind of security XP offers. It's great for games, for file sharing, for shit that doesn't matter. It's not great for storing your accounting records, tax returns and doing online banking. Similarly, using Vista for the same thing is a bit foolish. Not advisable to trust your life savings to an OS during its honeymoon period.
The site's slashdotted already. Was it running vista?
There are some crucial pieces of information missing from the released documents which the CIA are active in suppressing, including $*UFEF&*@#_**NO CARRIER**
Maybe they deal with "salt air and whale flatulence" arising from obese crapware programmers eating pickled herrings and salted sprats at OEM laboratories.
I can think of 7 points of entry (nostrils, ears, mouth..). How are they going to make another 3?
Things change and, whilst the Internet provides a plethora of information and news, at the end of the day, people are busy. They commute to and from work and many of them will simply tune into the radio. Workplaces everywhere have the radio on. Radio is hands-free, eyes-free.
The Internet doesn't have a captive audience, but in many respects, radio still does.
All it takes is a patch and the phones will work with this or other standard.
All it takes is for sales to drop and the iPhone will dance to a different iTune. Same goes for any other company's model, if they are serious about business.
And that's only 'cause the term 'Microsoft' is only half true. It might be micro, but it's thorny and prickly. Beware or you'll surely end up with not just one virus, but probably 6 or more.
Well first the figure goes up, and then it goes down.
I heard the news reporter tell us that we will be getting 25 MEGABYTES of bandwidth. And I bet we have to pay 40 cents per megabyte too.
Sounds like a right royal rip off to me.
As an ex-Telstra customer, I can attest that the reason it is degrading at the rate it is being installed is because it takes Telstra so long to install it!
...to move Australia to 99% penetration within two years. If they accomplish this goal they will be the most-wired nation (South Korea currently occupies the top spot with 90%)I say that 99% penetration will do wonders for Howard's hopes for an increased birth rate, and will also satisfy many social liberals on the other side. We'll probably become the most screwed nation on earth, beating Niger at 48.91 per 1000 head of population per annum.
If we speak of groups of virus types (that is, a species), there are different forms used depending on whether we're speaking of a family, genus, etc. (if you read the full wikipaedia article, and if you studied it in uni):
Now the individual virus is a virion, which probably has its own possible plurals, to make matters worse.
But viruses is the correct plural for English speakers, by convention, but I remember the virulogist (or virologist) speaking of viruses as viridae, since we usually distinguish them by their family, eg: herpes, pox, and so on.
Fanboy, zealot, fanatic, fundamentalist, bigot.. other stuff. All the same in essence.
It's all just people who believe beyond reason in something. I know.. boring but true. When people know only a bit of what there is to know about something, or therabouts, they get really idealistic and passionate about it. It's human nature. Then, after time, if they get to know enough, they become cynical, or at best, just plain realistic.
Fanboys are the result of feelings of ignorance and insecurity. The more a person feels the pressures of both, the more he tries to convince others of what he thinks.
You can easily turn around and call them a copyright DENIER.