From what I understand, it's using 3 LCD displays at 360 Hz to produce a screen that acts like a window.
As the cost of high refresh rate displays decreases, I expect this to go from the early research stages to something fantastically expensive. Sort of like the TV this page is about.
Those of us who are just getting started would love for you to share your work with the world. Package the components up as a library and release them under something like the BSD license. Worse case, nothing happens, but best case is everyone starts using your library and all of a sudden you have a brand.
It's a pretty big bragging right to say that your code is used in millions of apps.
A better example would be an incorrectly configured online store, or better yet people who try to game casinos. Another example you might want to look at how people were getting tons of credit card points buying dollar coins from the US government.
In real life it's hit or miss whether the offenders will have any consequences or not. In many cases it may not be illegal, but there's nothing stopping the other person from blacklisting the offender.
The other big difference is scope. Most of the time the absolute worst that could happen is the vendor(s) going out of business. Supply and demand also holds true. Video games don't have these safety mechanisms. Furthermore they don't have the scale to simply absorb it. In real life, if a group of people game the system then people complain, but the economy doesn't collapse. It even happens all the time.
Of course, this is a video game. So, people complaining can be as bad as the virtual economy collapsing.
The internet is such a huge facilitator of commerce it would be commercial suicide to cut it off completely.
Want to send a picture, better hope the black and white fax from the 10 year old machine is good enough. Want to send a video, you're going to have to air mail it. Hell, just the cost of sending basic paperwork back and forth adds up after a while. The most expensive part will be international calling though. If you need to send an important message you would either have to call the person or next day air mail them. Not exactly easy or fun to do given the time difference.
You'll note that every country that's ever tried the whole shutdown the internet gambit isn't really thinking about commercial international trade.
Tor clients are just that. Clients. They connect to servers that forward encrypted traffic to an outbound proxy server.
There are ways to try and catch Tor users. They could run there own forwarding servers, and look for connections to them from inside the country. They couldn't decrypt the data, but they could at least see who was using the software. They could also monitor traffic going to the database that keeps track of all the servers. Another way would be to run an exit node, and hope that the tor user sends personal identifiable data over an unencrypted connection. All of this is without touching DPI.
There are mitigation option available. Blacklisting IP blocks from the server database is an easy one to implement, but it can quickly turn into a game of whack-a-mole. When a user first runs the Tor software it asks if tor is blocked in your country. If you say yes then it won't connect to the central database. There are other ways to get a list of good servers to connect to. It's more of a hassle, but it's one less attack vector.
So, no they do not have to run DPI to detect at least a portion of Tor users. They also probably don't need to run DPI to see if someone is even trying to use Skype or VoIp. However, most countries want good spying capabilities and that requires at least some DPI. If they can afford it then it is often well worth the cost to just use DPI for everything.
Hmm, maybe the USA isn't a gun toting utopia. Who knew.
Maybe that's because most people feel safe enough in there day to day lives that they don't see the need to carry guns everywhere. Maybe it's because in some states and places it's illegal to have a concealed weapon. Or maybe it's because in states where it's not illegal you have to go through so much paperwork, and deal with laws like this one artificially raising the price of legal gun ownership.
Besides, the USA has decreed that no one may legally carry a gun into places where those massacres are likely to happen.
I've had several courses were all the homework was online. You could not pass the class without a code that came with a new textbook.
Of course you could buy that code separately, but it cost half as much as the textbook itself. This is very similar to game companies using online passes to attempt to get rid of the used market.
One other thing I should mention about all of these online homework systems. They SUCK. I have yet to see a truly good implementation of such a system. I'm not disparaging online homework or anything like that, but it's obvious that whoever designs these things doesn't understand education. Don't even get me started on the lack of partial credit for upper level physics problems. Fortunately, websites like Khan Academy are coming out with tools that are easy to use, and replace the traditional homework system. They're even managing to do it without earning the hate of every college student forced to put up with this crap.
Would you prefer that the DOD build a recycling plant a few blocks down from the local high-school and do the work at the storage location of the warheads? I would think not....I would rather see them transported to a recycling facility that is experienced and out of the population dense areas of the USA. pleasant dreams
You know what, no one cared. Why, because we knew the numbers. We where getting a larger dose of radiation from the old CRT TVs they had than from the plant. Also, the high school managed to outbid Dell for supplying computers to them.
How long until they try to change file sizes to go along with this scheme? While this trick might make the HDDs seem larger it won't let them store more files. Can you imagine tech support having to deal with someone who can't understand why their 1 TB HDD says it's full when they've only used approximately %90 of it.
rant: At my college you aren't allowed on the network if you run windows and don't install Cisco crapware.
This crapware checks for an antivirus, and if you don't have one the school will install one for you.
Guess what they install McAfee 8.5 as their licensed AV software.
McAfee has horrendous trouble updating its definitions, especially when it's used in conjunction with Cisco crapware. Its actual usefulness is a joke, and has anyone ever tried to whitelist a program with it.
It's worth noting that in EVE even if you have tons of cash, if you don't have the skills or experience playing the game you can still be killed by players who have both. Then you've just lost that expensive ship of yours.
The GPS system works off of triangulation. It uses the satellites positions, and the time it takes for a signal to get to the receiver.
If you happen to have anything in the area that would reflect or distort the signal you run the risk of the timing data being off.
Bad timing data=bad triangulation=bad GPS location.
Slashdot Mirror
See this: http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/07/12/2225233/mit-develops-holographic-glasses-free-3d-tv
They're working on fixing that very issue.
From what I understand, it's using 3 LCD displays at 360 Hz to produce a screen that acts like a window.
As the cost of high refresh rate displays decreases, I expect this to go from the early research stages to something fantastically expensive. Sort of like the TV this page is about.
Those of us who are just getting started would love for you to share your work with the world. Package the components up as a library and release them under something like the BSD license. Worse case, nothing happens, but best case is everyone starts using your library and all of a sudden you have a brand.
It's a pretty big bragging right to say that your code is used in millions of apps.
Wish I had mod points right now.
Someone show that AC some love, for he/she speaks gospel.
A better example would be an incorrectly configured online store, or better yet people who try to game casinos. Another example you might want to look at how people were getting tons of credit card points buying dollar coins from the US government.
In real life it's hit or miss whether the offenders will have any consequences or not. In many cases it may not be illegal, but there's nothing stopping the other person from blacklisting the offender.
The other big difference is scope. Most of the time the absolute worst that could happen is the vendor(s) going out of business. Supply and demand also holds true.
Video games don't have these safety mechanisms. Furthermore they don't have the scale to simply absorb it. In real life, if a group of people game the system then people complain, but the economy doesn't collapse. It even happens all the time.
Of course, this is a video game. So, people complaining can be as bad as the virtual economy collapsing.
Three words.
Mars Semi Direct. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WppRQQld10&feature=list_other&playnext=1&list=SP48ECECA63832ACC7
This is the first step to creating a return vehicle that can fuel itself from some stored Hydrogen and the CO2 in the Martian atmosphere.
Also, the ISS " produces – and dumps – enough methane waste gas each year to fill the Morpheus fuel tanks." http://www.nasa.gov/centers/johnson/exploration/morpheus/morpheus_test_stennis.html
I doubt China could do this.
The internet is such a huge facilitator of commerce it would be commercial suicide to cut it off completely.
Want to send a picture, better hope the black and white fax from the 10 year old machine is good enough. Want to send a video, you're going to have to air mail it. Hell, just the cost of sending basic paperwork back and forth adds up after a while. The most expensive part will be international calling though. If you need to send an important message you would either have to call the person or next day air mail them. Not exactly easy or fun to do given the time difference.
You'll note that every country that's ever tried the whole shutdown the internet gambit isn't really thinking about commercial international trade.
It's not that easy.
https://www.torproject.org/about/overview.html.en
Tor clients are just that. Clients. They connect to servers that forward encrypted traffic to an outbound proxy server.
There are ways to try and catch Tor users. They could run there own forwarding servers, and look for connections to them from inside the country. They couldn't decrypt the data, but they could at least see who was using the software. They could also monitor traffic going to the database that keeps track of all the servers. Another way would be to run an exit node, and hope that the tor user sends personal identifiable data over an unencrypted connection. All of this is without touching DPI.
There are mitigation option available. Blacklisting IP blocks from the server database is an easy one to implement, but it can quickly turn into a game of whack-a-mole. When a user first runs the Tor software it asks if tor is blocked in your country. If you say yes then it won't connect to the central database. There are other ways to get a list of good servers to connect to. It's more of a hassle, but it's one less attack vector.
So, no they do not have to run DPI to detect at least a portion of Tor users. They also probably don't need to run DPI to see if someone is even trying to use Skype or VoIp. However, most countries want good spying capabilities and that requires at least some DPI. If they can afford it then it is often well worth the cost to just use DPI for everything.
Hmm, maybe the USA isn't a gun toting utopia. Who knew.
Maybe that's because most people feel safe enough in there day to day lives that they don't see the need to carry guns everywhere. Maybe it's because in some states and places it's illegal to have a concealed weapon. Or maybe it's because in states where it's not illegal you have to go through so much paperwork, and deal with laws like this one artificially raising the price of legal gun ownership.
Besides, the USA has decreed that no one may legally carry a gun into places where those massacres are likely to happen.
I'm right there with you.
I've had several courses were all the homework was online. You could not pass the class without a code that came with a new textbook.
Of course you could buy that code separately, but it cost half as much as the textbook itself. This is very similar to game companies using online passes to attempt to get rid of the used market.
One other thing I should mention about all of these online homework systems. They SUCK. I have yet to see a truly good implementation of such a system. I'm not disparaging online homework or anything like that, but it's obvious that whoever designs these things doesn't understand education. Don't even get me started on the lack of partial credit for upper level physics problems. Fortunately, websites like Khan Academy are coming out with tools that are easy to use, and replace the traditional homework system. They're even managing to do it without earning the hate of every college student forced to put up with this crap.
Would you prefer that the DOD build a recycling plant a few blocks down from the local high-school and do the work at the storage location of the warheads? I would think not....I would rather see them transported to a recycling facility that is experienced and out of the population dense areas of the USA.
pleasant dreams
I represent that remark.
NFS was a mile and a half from my high school.
You know what, no one cared. Why, because we knew the numbers. We where getting a larger dose of radiation from the old CRT TVs they had than from the plant. Also, the high school managed to outbid Dell for supplying computers to them.
How long until they try to change file sizes to go along with this scheme?
While this trick might make the HDDs seem larger it won't let them store more files.
Can you imagine tech support having to deal with someone who can't understand why their 1 TB HDD says it's full when they've only used approximately %90 of it.
rant:
At my college you aren't allowed on the network if you run windows and don't install Cisco crapware.
This crapware checks for an antivirus, and if you don't have one the school will install one for you.
Guess what they install McAfee 8.5 as their licensed AV software.
McAfee has horrendous trouble updating its definitions, especially when it's used in conjunction with Cisco crapware. Its actual usefulness is a joke, and has anyone ever tried to whitelist a program with it.
It's worth noting that in EVE even if you have tons of cash, if you don't have the skills or experience playing the game you can still be killed by players who have both. Then you've just lost that expensive ship of yours.
Windows even has options to do that for some of the Network stuff.
Course, I'm a fan of having one simple control panel or file to configure things like:
The GPS system works off of triangulation. It uses the satellites positions, and the time it takes for a signal to get to the receiver. If you happen to have anything in the area that would reflect or distort the signal you run the risk of the timing data being off. Bad timing data=bad triangulation=bad GPS location.
I agree. It's too bad that micro-kernel based OS's never seem to have gone mainstream.
It's called Adblock.
I personally don't feel like using a web browser that gives me every feature under the sun, and no way to turn them off.