I think SF is the best place to explore these ideas. I think that the Borg concept was handled better (and earlier) by Swanwyck in "Vacuum Flowers" (which even includes an equivalent to Hugh). In that novel, speed-of-light limits placed serious limits on the collective, allowing us to have human characters to percieve with.
Another image is the "discontinuity" concept, proposed by Vinge ("Marooned in Real Time") and, to a lesser extent, by Brin. As you get augmented engineers designing better augmentation, your RATE of technical advancement reaches a vertical. What you find on the day AFTER that date becomes undefined, as mathematics provides for many discontinuities.
We will become the Borg, but not in a bad way
How can we predict the decisions reached by such a collective. They will use reasoning we cannot imagine, based on data we cannot conceive of. It seems only hopeful dreaming that leads you to predict a peaceful "wildlife preserve" metaphor. I imagine Swanwyck's version (the collective started forcibly connecting people after a very short period (a week?)) to be more likely.
A friend of mine has had a palm for at least a year (a 3?). He has a phone that works with it.
Put the phone on the coffee table, and sit back on the sofa with the palm. The palm talks to the phone by infrared. The phone talks to the rest of the world via whatever cellular protocol Fidonet uses. I've seen him call up MapQuest with it. Took a lot of scrolling.
The phone is cordless "at both ends". It pressed my future shock buttons. That was at least a year ago.
Yahoo is happy to make an entry for and index the homepage of anyone who asks. So is the Open Directory Project. Google, Altavista, Excite, and HotBot
My brother-ion-law's brother paid to have his page indexed. We believe that this was Altavista.ca. We reached that conclusion because this was where we found him. we coudln't find him in yahoo.ca, yahoo.com, altavista.com, or any of the engines metasearched by Jeeves. We also found him in NorthernLight, but the brother was fairly sure this wasn't the one his brother had paid. The page wasn't in Google.
So, are the engines taking bribes to index pages before they would otherwise find them? Or did the brother get ripped off by a consultant that would just submit the page to a free service?
Ignore that news release and look at the one in the original Slashdot story. Heat Pipe.
With a heat pipe, you get something intermediate between active refrigeration and convective cooling. Notice also the words "low-pressure". I bet that if the "pipe" breaks, the water evaporates directly from the wick without any liquid ever dripping out.
I did a quick run-through of the Slashdot comments and didn't see anyone point this out.
A heat pipe is different than pumped-liquid cooling like us mainframers think of when you talk of liquid cooling. I remember discussions of heat pipes from the popular science press during the Alaska Pipeline construction.
In a heat pipe, a wick returns liquid to the heat source, where the liquid is evaporated. The expanding vapour carries the heat to a cooler point where it condenses and releases the heat. The wick then returns it to the hot point. The news release talks specifically about water vapor cooling.
, the stock market is not just paper. It is part ownership in a company. It's part ownership in the entity that pays your bills.
I dissagree. When a new market segment moves into the stock market, what you are seeing is not really an evaluation of the company today, but a PREDICTION of what the company will be worth next year.
Let's calculate the profit per share value, the payback time for buying that share. Profit? What profit.
You are buying a part-ownership in an ongoing loss. The only reason you are doing this is a PREDICTION of what the future will bring. A prediction can change suddenly when new information comes in, which is why these stocks can swing so widely.
I wish I knew more about the 1857 crash that someone has cited...
Note that the web site expresses permission to republish the book on the web.... have reproduced the book on the Web, with Mr Miller's permission... It is important to remember who works belong to when pointing to webbed documents. This permission was buried fairly deeply within the book's forwareds.
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Suddenly "everyone" (90%) is opposed to free speech
No. If we were out to curtail the CoS's right to speech, we would attempt to block theatres from showing this movie. I haven't seen anyone telling us to phone our local cinema to say "I'm not gonna view anything at your cineplex while you're showing BE".
They have the right to "speech". We have the right to critique that speech.
a full RAID-5 array inside a standard 3.5" (or 2.5"!) drive housing You don't want your RAID inside one housing. If one unit fails, you hotswap the dead drive and it reformats/reloads on the fly. If everything is inside a single housing, it ain't RAID, it's ECC
Sure, this works, but only to the extent that people are willing to continue doing it indefinitely. Who's going to maintain the access points to keep flooding Freenet day-in and day-out?
I haven't read alt.religion.scientology for a couple of years now, but at one point, they were using the multi-point flood attempted DDoS in that environment. People who believe in flooding dissent can be persistent over a span of decades. That argument doesn't fly.
(You make other arguments that make a better response to this criticism. I'll let other people address those points.)
Aren't the keys hashed from the actual data in the file? It was my understanding that keys are unique,
My impression from this discussion is that the current key is a simple heirarchical title. That the hash-code version is a future enhancement to the protocol. (As will be the ability to vote against spam.)
Not true for current version, but the plan is that voting will occur post viewing of material
People ignore junk. They only HATE stuff that is relevant to them. Thus, stuff that arouses strong negative opinions will get the most "votes against". If something is bland, people will shrug and ignore it. If something makes an impact on people, a significant proportion of those people will try to make an impact back on it.
Once you have a system that allows voting on article content, you get the situation where the Starr Report gets 15% of readers pressing the "that's garbage" button. On the next article, say commentary on the Spice Girls breakup, everyone shrugs and punches "next!".
If you have voting, most voting will be voting against stuff with real impact. Large-network-TV primetime is driven by votes-against. You see where that ended up. What is to prevent system that is driven by votes-against from turning into TV sitcoms?
Wasn't there a shoot'em'up in a small Alberta town (Taber?) a few years back? Taber was less than a year ago.
And maybe in Quebec?Hmm. I hadn't realized that Mark Lepine was a full decade ago. If that's the one you were thinking of, it was a college-level event.
One thing neither of them talk about. VM/370 allows shared code between "machines". If a chunk of code can be ROMable, then you can load a single read-only copy of the kernel, or EMACS, and everyone who uses it gets the same copy, exectuing out of the same chunk of RAM. I don't know if this is at all relevant in Linux. Is the executable code typically kept (widely) separate from the data?
your comment is too cranky and whiny too be worthy of a more intelligent response
differences of opinion is why we have more than one moderator. The next time you see a whiny post when you have moderator points to apply, you can make a difference to him.
Microsoft has a tradition of getting people dependent on their product, then locking the door on alternatives. Like when they told Compaq that they would lose all rights to install Windows if Netscape was showing on the desktop. Like when they told IBM that they couldn't install Win95 unless they dumped Lotus Smartsuite.
Microsoft doesn't like people having options. A dependency on windows gives them power to remove options later. People are right to fear that the option to not-buy Windows with VM-ware might disappear later.
On the other hand, the Canadians trekking across the arctic ocean on foot rejoiced at the chance to discard the phones with their heavy batteries. (Well, several month's worth is heavy)
There's always a bright side.
Anyhow, whatever happenned to short wave? How small can a transmitter be made that can communicate over an extended distance? So long as you can "unwind this spool, connect it here, press the mike and talk", that's enough for pioneer types. Heyerdahl had radio on Kon Tiki, didn't he? There were no satellites for him, much less satellite cellular.
I can no longer deep-link into mapquest.com. I used to be able to send people an email with a link to a map of what I was talking about. The mapquest page I would send them too was the whole page (including ads) but would bypass the initial two or four pages of intro before you get to the maps. And it would contain the CORRECT map.
) since the guy is measuring weight, then only a dork would accept the claim and start funding an anti-grav program. Why not fund a maglev program instead? It's a much more likely explanation of what's happening
But it is still important to allow people to examine the claims without scorn. A new maglev program is possibly valuable. A superconductor excludes magnetic field lines. A spinning SC assembly probably interacts with more of the earth's field than a still one. A small effect (one post quoted 2%) could plausibly come from interacting with the earth's field.
2% ain't a hovercraft engine, but (if true) it is still interesting. Even if the guy got the theory wrong.
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I think SF is the best place to explore these ideas. I think that the Borg concept was handled better (and earlier) by Swanwyck in "Vacuum Flowers" (which even includes an equivalent to Hugh). In that novel, speed-of-light limits placed serious limits on the collective, allowing us to have human characters to percieve with.
Another image is the "discontinuity" concept, proposed by Vinge ("Marooned in Real Time") and, to a lesser extent, by Brin. As you get augmented engineers designing better augmentation, your RATE of technical advancement reaches a vertical. What you find on the day AFTER that date becomes undefined, as mathematics provides for many discontinuities.
We will become the Borg, but not in a bad way
How can we predict the decisions reached by such a collective. They will use reasoning we cannot imagine, based on data we cannot conceive of. It seems only hopeful dreaming that leads you to predict a peaceful "wildlife preserve" metaphor. I imagine Swanwyck's version (the collective started forcibly connecting people after a very short period (a week?)) to be more likely.
Put the phone on the coffee table, and sit back on the sofa with the palm. The palm talks to the phone by infrared. The phone talks to the rest of the world via whatever cellular protocol Fidonet uses. I've seen him call up MapQuest with it. Took a lot of scrolling.
The phone is cordless "at both ends". It pressed my future shock buttons. That was at least a year ago.
I have commented on technical flaws, and offered advice for future changes. All of my emails to Jeeves have been answered.
My brother-ion-law's brother paid to have his page indexed. We believe that this was Altavista.ca. We reached that conclusion because this was where we found him. we coudln't find him in yahoo.ca, yahoo.com, altavista.com, or any of the engines metasearched by Jeeves. We also found him in NorthernLight, but the brother was fairly sure this wasn't the one his brother had paid. The page wasn't in Google.
So, are the engines taking bribes to index pages before they would otherwise find them? Or did the brother get ripped off by a consultant that would just submit the page to a free service?
SmartFilter tells me that the answer is "blocked due to SEX". Jeeves and his evil twin? Together?
Did we slashdot them with volume, or were the pages withdrawn for some reason?
or is the link bad as posted?
With a heat pipe, you get something intermediate between active refrigeration and convective cooling. Notice also the words "low-pressure". I bet that if the "pipe" breaks, the water evaporates directly from the wick without any liquid ever dripping out.
A heat pipe is different than pumped-liquid cooling like us mainframers think of when you talk of liquid cooling. I remember discussions of heat pipes from the popular science press during the Alaska Pipeline construction.
In a heat pipe, a wick returns liquid to the heat source, where the liquid is evaporated. The expanding vapour carries the heat to a cooler point where it condenses and releases the heat. The wick then returns it to the hot point. The news release talks specifically about water vapor cooling.
I dissagree. When a new market segment moves into the stock market, what you are seeing is not really an evaluation of the company today, but a PREDICTION of what the company will be worth next year.
Let's calculate the profit per share value, the payback time for buying that share. Profit? What profit.
You are buying a part-ownership in an ongoing loss. The only reason you are doing this is a PREDICTION of what the future will bring. A prediction can change suddenly when new information comes in, which is why these stocks can swing so widely.
I wish I knew more about the 1857 crash that someone has cited...
Note that the web site expresses permission to republish the book on the web. ... have reproduced the book on the Web, with Mr Miller's permission... It is important to remember who works belong to when pointing to webbed documents. This permission was buried fairly deeply within the book's forwareds.
No. If we were out to curtail the CoS's right to speech, we would attempt to block theatres from showing this movie. I haven't seen anyone telling us to phone our local cinema to say "I'm not gonna view anything at your cineplex while you're showing BE".
They have the right to "speech". We have the right to critique that speech.
I find something disturbing about libertarians who require registration and party cards...
a full RAID-5 array inside a standard 3.5" (or 2.5"!) drive housing You don't want your RAID inside one housing. If one unit fails, you hotswap the dead drive and it reformats/reloads on the fly. If everything is inside a single housing, it ain't RAID, it's ECC
I haven't read alt.religion.scientology for a couple of years now, but at one point, they were using the multi-point flood attempted DDoS in that environment. People who believe in flooding dissent can be persistent over a span of decades. That argument doesn't fly.
(You make other arguments that make a better response to this criticism. I'll let other people address those points.)
Aren't the keys hashed from the actual data in the file? It was my understanding that keys are unique,
My impression from this discussion is that the current key is a simple heirarchical title. That the hash-code version is a future enhancement to the protocol. (As will be the ability to vote against spam.)
People ignore junk. They only HATE stuff that is relevant to them. Thus, stuff that arouses strong negative opinions will get the most "votes against". If something is bland, people will shrug and ignore it. If something makes an impact on people, a significant proportion of those people will try to make an impact back on it.
Once you have a system that allows voting on article content, you get the situation where the Starr Report gets 15% of readers pressing the "that's garbage" button. On the next article, say commentary on the Spice Girls breakup, everyone shrugs and punches "next!".
If you have voting, most voting will be voting against stuff with real impact. Large-network-TV primetime is driven by votes-against. You see where that ended up. What is to prevent system that is driven by votes-against from turning into TV sitcoms?
Last time around, Dole placed himself obviously in big Tobacco's pocket.
Is there any reason why the right HAS to be owned by business?
And maybe in Quebec?Hmm. I hadn't realized that Mark Lepine was a full decade ago. If that's the one you were thinking of, it was a college-level event.
As I read the article, that was indeed the point. The sponsors of the contest wanted media attention on how HARD it was to break their technique.
Last month's story had much more details.
One thing neither of them talk about. VM/370 allows shared code between "machines". If a chunk of code can be ROMable, then you can load a single read-only copy of the kernel, or EMACS, and everyone who uses it gets the same copy, exectuing out of the same chunk of RAM. I don't know if this is at all relevant in Linux. Is the executable code typically kept (widely) separate from the data?
differences of opinion is why we have more than one moderator. The next time you see a whiny post when you have moderator points to apply, you can make a difference to him.
In the meantime YOU are being cranky and whiny,
Microsoft has a tradition of getting people dependent on their product, then locking the door on alternatives. Like when they told Compaq that they would lose all rights to install Windows if Netscape was showing on the desktop. Like when they told IBM that they couldn't install Win95 unless they dumped Lotus Smartsuite.
Microsoft doesn't like people having options. A dependency on windows gives them power to remove options later. People are right to fear that the option to not-buy Windows with VM-ware might disappear later.
I use www.tvgrid.com. I love ti!
There's always a bright side.
Anyhow, whatever happenned to short wave? How small can a transmitter be made that can communicate over an extended distance? So long as you can "unwind this spool, connect it here, press the mike and talk", that's enough for pioneer types. Heyerdahl had radio on Kon Tiki, didn't he? There were no satellites for him, much less satellite cellular.
Now I can no longer do that.
But it is still important to allow people to examine the claims without scorn. A new maglev program is possibly valuable. A superconductor excludes magnetic field lines. A spinning SC assembly probably interacts with more of the earth's field than a still one. A small effect (one post quoted 2%) could plausibly come from interacting with the earth's field.
2% ain't a hovercraft engine, but (if true) it is still interesting. Even if the guy got the theory wrong.