The Universe will eventually be promoted again, to a five-dimensional state, at some point in the future.
I guess that the transition to 5D means that all the matter that we know (atoms, light,...), will be destroyed. But somehow, I imagine the transition to be a really beautiful thing (in my mind it happens with music by Gustav Holst in the background)
I will not pull in a big change if we know there are known bugs.
At no point in time will there be more than 15 critical bugs
I find that differentiation between 'bugs' and 'known bugs' scary (to say the least).
Does he mean that there will be no more than 15 critical bugs (whether known or unknown)? Or, does he mean that all bugs are always known (and that when the 15 errors mark is reached, one simply has to stop writing new code to keep on that mark -since undetected bugs don't exist-?)
In any case, it is very naïve. Naïve and frightening.
Two proverbs say it best: Quis custodiet custodes ipsos? ("Who watches the watchers?") and "Absolute power corrupts absolutely."
Cardinal Richelieu understood the value of surveillance when he famously said, "If one would give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, I would find something in them to have him hanged." Watch someone long enough, and you'll find something to arrest -- or just blackmail -- with. Privacy is important because without it, surveillance information will be abused: to peep, to sell to marketers and to spy on political enemies -- whoever they happen to be at the time.
Privacy protects us from abuses by those in power, even if we're doing nothing wrong at the time of surveillance.
Toshiba and Samsung are already together, at least in manufacturing DVD recorder/players. They have a joint company called TSST: Toshiba Samsung Storage Technology Corporation
The cost of adapting and extending it, for example in writing printer and scanner drivers, and of training, have proved greater than anticipated.
That is the cost of not requiring open standards: German government ability to upgrade their systems now depends on manufacturer cooperation, because that is the only reasonable way to get drivers for their devices.
They are having problems with Linux, and they might have problems with Windows 8, or whatever future migration they want; PostScript is a standard that will always be supported, their current SecretProtocol.dll won't.
I love video games, and view some of them as artistic, but I look at the majority of these games and don't immediately think "this is great art".
I feel the same when I look at the majority of pictures, books, etc... And yet many of they are considered art and are in museums.
The story of 'Deus Ex', the soundtrack of 'Final Fantasy VII', or the cinematics of 'StarCraft: Brood War' are art by themselves and deserve to be in a museum.
Lucid is offering up scaling between GPUs of any kind within a brand (only ATI with ATI, NVIDIA with NVIDIA)
Strange... Is the difference between a 10-years-old NVIDIA card and a current-year NVIDIA card really smaller than the difference between a current ATI card and a current nVidia card?
So, from what you say, you need two things: more money and someone who has RF knowledge.
Money
* Day-job: get one and work on your project on your free time (or wait until you have saved enough money, and work on your project full time)
* Rich guys: Investors, VCs, a patent-buyer.
And about the RF knowledge
* A partner: you both will work for free and you will share the future benefits
* A hired RF guy: you pay him, and you get all the future benefits.
* If you opt by the rich guys, they may help you under their own terms.
But also remember that you already have a very valuable thing: you have been in several startups, so you have experienced that there is a boring part -paying bills, marketing,...- that has to be done, and more important, you also know the people behind that startups, who will be able to help you and provide with you good advice (much better than mine) and contacts.
One problem that i see, is that it can be very easy to game the system.
Let's say that the advertisers pay a fixed monthly payment. If I were an advertiser and my advertisement were run every time that three women are in front of the screen... well, I'd hire three actresses so that they stay in from of the screen: my ad would be shown lots of times, and adds of my competitors would never be shown.
If, on the contrary, the advertisers have to pay for each time his ad is shown, and my competitor's ad is shown when the system detects three men... well, in this case, I'd hire three actors to stay there, to force my rival to pay, pay and pay.
Like the fraudulent clicks in AdSense, but in real life.
Because it is a study that is based on asking a few people the question "I am doing an study for the BPI, are you downloading files illegaly?" and then deciding that some of the answers (an arbitrary number of them) are lies.
And I hope that you never have the experience of a clinic clerk telling you that all your savings and possessions are not worth enough to save your life.
At least you would control the impact point, and would be able to divert the lightning from the most sensitive areas like the engines or the electronics. And you could force it to hit at a more prepared area of the airplane.
One thing I find impresive about the evolution of storage: 20TB was the total hard drive space manufactured in 1995, just 14 years ago. And today some sites are offering 1TB storage for free, and it isn't hard to imagine they have much more than 100.000 users.
Not only you get more and more gigabytes per hard drive every year, the whole world also gets a massive quantity of new storage space.
And yet, we keep on getting 'No space left on device' errors.
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I guess that the transition to 5D means that all the matter that we know (atoms, light, ...), will be destroyed. But somehow, I imagine the transition to be a really beautiful thing (in my mind it happens with music by Gustav Holst in the background)
I thought that philmarcracken's comment was funny.
I have now realized that reality is even funnier, and far more strange.
Use history.replaceState to avoid clogging people's browser history and effectively disabling their back buttons.
In fact, it is a story of idiots who buy their games. Pirates don't have this problems.
I find that differentiation between 'bugs' and 'known bugs' scary (to say the least).
Does he mean that there will be no more than 15 critical bugs (whether known or unknown)? Or, does he mean that all bugs are always known (and that when the 15 errors mark is reached, one simply has to stop writing new code to keep on that mark -since undetected bugs don't exist-?)
In any case, it is very naïve. Naïve and frightening.
Two proverbs say it best: Quis custodiet custodes ipsos? ("Who watches the watchers?") and "Absolute power corrupts absolutely."
Cardinal Richelieu understood the value of surveillance when he famously said, "If one would give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, I would find something in them to have him hanged." Watch someone long enough, and you'll find something to arrest -- or just blackmail -- with. Privacy is important because without it, surveillance information will be abused: to peep, to sell to marketers and to spy on political enemies -- whoever they happen to be at the time.
Privacy protects us from abuses by those in power, even if we're doing nothing wrong at the time of surveillance.
- Schneier: The value of privacy
(http://www.tsstorage.com/tsst/corp_e/indexe.html)
The GPS spoofer could also be used for lawful purposes, like providing GPS signal in tunnels and similar places.
But i think that this is not what you were expecting.
Well, criminals are already using Facebook to determine which houses are empty and worth robbing, and even which people can be kidnapped [link]...
So a Crimebook would be only fair.
They are simply very good at implementing the open standard "ISO-1984: Newspeak terminology".
The cost of adapting and extending it, for example in writing printer and scanner drivers, and of training, have proved greater than anticipated.
That is the cost of not requiring open standards: German government ability to upgrade their systems now depends on manufacturer cooperation, because that is the only reasonable way to get drivers for their devices.
They are having problems with Linux, and they might have problems with Windows 8, or whatever future migration they want; PostScript is a standard that will always be supported, their current SecretProtocol.dll won't.
Just call him JTT Rolkien and, for safety, add that he had a small penis
I love video games, and view some of them as artistic, but I look at the majority of these games and don't immediately think "this is great art".
I feel the same when I look at the majority of pictures, books, etc... And yet many of they are considered art and are in museums.
The story of 'Deus Ex', the soundtrack of 'Final Fantasy VII', or the cinematics of 'StarCraft: Brood War' are art by themselves and deserve to be in a museum.
Lucid is offering up scaling between GPUs of any kind within a brand (only ATI with ATI, NVIDIA with NVIDIA)
Strange... Is the difference between a 10-years-old NVIDIA card and a current-year NVIDIA card really smaller than the difference between a current ATI card and a current nVidia card?
It is not the coldest spot, it is simply the coldest *known* spot.
"I'm going to have the mandatory attention of every employee and ..."
Wrong. You are going to have the mandatory presence of every employee, but their attention is something you will have to earn.
So, from what you say, you need two things: more money and someone who has RF knowledge.
Money
* Day-job: get one and work on your project on your free time (or wait until you have saved enough money, and work on your project full time)
* Rich guys: Investors, VCs, a patent-buyer.
And about the RF knowledge
* A partner: you both will work for free and you will share the future benefits
* A hired RF guy: you pay him, and you get all the future benefits.
* If you opt by the rich guys, they may help you under their own terms.
But also remember that you already have a very valuable thing: you have been in several startups, so you have experienced that there is a boring part -paying bills, marketing,...- that has to be done, and more important, you also know the people behind that startups, who will be able to help you and provide with you good advice (much better than mine) and contacts.
In fact, forget this comment and call them.
One problem that i see, is that it can be very easy to game the system.
Let's say that the advertisers pay a fixed monthly payment. If I were an advertiser and my advertisement were run every time that three women are in front of the screen... well, I'd hire three actresses so that they stay in from of the screen: my ad would be shown lots of times, and adds of my competitors would never be shown.
If, on the contrary, the advertisers have to pay for each time his ad is shown, and my competitor's ad is shown when the system detects three men... well, in this case, I'd hire three actors to stay there, to force my rival to pay, pay and pay.
Like the fraudulent clicks in AdSense, but in real life.
I was thinking the same thing, but then I remembered the time that Asus put software cracks, serial numbers and confidential documents in their recovery CD.
So yes, it can happen accidentally. Nevertheless, the question still stands: was it an accident?
Because it is a study that is based on asking a few people the question "I am doing an study for the BPI, are you downloading files illegaly?" and then deciding that some of the answers (an arbitrary number of them) are lies.
And I hope that you never have the experience of a clinic clerk telling you that all your savings and possessions are not worth enough to save your life.
MS-DOS: zero remote holes in the default install.
At least you would control the impact point, and would be able to divert the lightning from the most sensitive areas like the engines or the electronics. And you could force it to hit at a more prepared area of the airplane.
One thing I find impresive about the evolution of storage: 20TB was the total hard drive space manufactured in 1995, just 14 years ago. And today some sites are offering 1TB storage for free, and it isn't hard to imagine they have much more than 100.000 users.
Not only you get more and more gigabytes per hard drive every year, the whole world also gets a massive quantity of new storage space.
And yet, we keep on getting 'No space left on device' errors.