35 years on drugs and I could write like that too:-)
Actually its more like ADHD. Jaron has so many idea pouring out that the next invades before he can finish with the current one. Some of the ideas are very interesting.
This reminds of the two Shrek movies.
The first one was highly original and funny.
The second one relies more on paradies of obsolete TV shows and movies and wasnt as funny. I could predict its ending. However the computer graphics improved greatly and made me, a grphics person, drool.
Recent NASA probes have been replacing old tape drives with solid-state memory to reduce the electric cost and unrelibiality of motors. The two Mars rovers use flash memory as well as the Saturn Cassini orbitor. Earlier probes like Jupter Galilleo and Voyager used tape drives.
Most of these flash devices are limited to a hundred thousand writes or so. This fine for music or cameras, but not for routine computing. So you'll need add intelligence to the operating system to manage this limitation. And you'll still need unlimited-write memory for highly repeated computation.
Could be new business opportunity for the paranoid to sell
metallic wall coverings or paints which block these wavelengths.
Would have to be non-toxic or one could sued under the lead-paint statutes.
When the PC industry was getting started MicroSoft and Apple used to target IBM as the evil giant. Many people then thought that a lowly PC company would supplant the computer giant.
Ironically IBM still makes decent decisions now and then- its PC, early adopter of Linux and Java, IT services, etc. MicroSoft has replaced IBM as the stodgy giant- still doing some great stuff, but not hitting home runs any more. And Google is in danger of becoming another these too if its not careful.
Thats probably why you arent going to see great technology coming out of Sweden compared to neighboring Finland- birthplace of Linux and Nokia. The Swedes will just just steal theirs rather than create new stuff.
The situation in physics still reminds me of 1900 when most physicists thought physics was "almost complete" after two centuries of elaborating upon Newton. There were a still loose ends however: blackbody radiation formulas blew up with infinities; the speed of light measured isotropic when physics predicted it show change in the direction of motion. Of course these "loose ends" mushroomed into entire new branches of physics.
In 2000 we have the same scenario. Many think physics is "almost unified", most of cosmology and fundamental particles have been charted or predicted. However, nature has a way of throwing curve balls at us. Will another "Einstein" grab many of these loose ends and clean it up for us?
Like a spinning skater extending and contracting arms to change speeds, the earth can change speed if its radius is changing. A large earthquake such 2004 Andaman can change the day a few microseconds if the fault throw has a vertical component. The Topex radar altimeter satellite has measured average sea level rising three centimenters in the past eleven years. This is thought to mostly due to thermal expansion rather than glacial melt or other causes.
Hacking at MIT was dealt a serious blow when the trespassing fine was increased to $500 from a more tolerable $50. Many of the more famous hacks involved placing large objects or decorations on MIT's iconic domes. The main motivation according to MIT's authorities is "safety".
There are both companies and software that kept track and distribute local and state taxes in all US zip codes. These had anticipated taxes long ago, but the feds have kept the internet mostly tax-free so far.
On the Spanish keyboard in my library and in Mexico they are THIRD symbols on the keys. I always forget which control sequence triggers. Its a pain to use email or windows software if either of these symbols is missing.
Wallace came up with the same idea as Darwin a few years later and submitted it for reading before the Royal Society before Darwin wrote up his ideas. So the theory of evolution by natural selection was an idea "waiting to happen" and would eventually be published by somebody.
Darwin's friends intercepted the paper, and told Darwin who nearly had a nervous breakdown. Wallace graciously allowed both papers to be presented before the Society simultaneously. Darwin fleshed his out with reams of observations and experiments and several controversial books.
JPL is "open source" putting all Rover raw images and other data on the web within 72 hours of receiving. The ESA so slowly trickles out its results that I dont even bother looking at them.
The article says that this condition and change is occurring in all phyisical sciences and engineering fields, not just computer science. "Tech is out" since the dot.bomb.
>I don't think he envisioned anonymous collaborative editing.
Tim did envision editable-browsers in his early web design.
He had that people wouldnt have to create web content by going outside the browser.
But he nor the National Center for Supercomputing implement that feature by the time Mosaic popularized the web.
I've said several times in slashdot that the Gates should be considered for a Nobel Peace Prize for the impact of their charity work and example to others.
Many fakes are found months after when other labs try to reproduce the results in a paper. Its less usual to find them during the review of the paper. The scienitific method is to publish, reproduce and improve on others results.
A classic case was immunopsupression of skin grafts. One guy was painting mouse fur to appear like it came from a different result.
People couldnt reproduce what he said he was supposed to be doing.
Google grabs the IP number of the computer the browser is run on and stamps transactions with it. I see this newsgroups and gmail and presume all Google services. In some cases the IP number can qucikly resolve to a particular computer and location. In other cases it points to an ISP and a search would need to ask the ISP (court order) for the computer identity.
I've heard rumors they fully record each each transaction request, but this would require lots of disk. I believe they data mine this information for improving performance and marketing. I dont know if someone at google could ask for a all transaction attached to an IP number.
Intel was going to sell CPUs with accessable unique serial numbers.
I think they were intending to battle stolen/pirated/counterfeited chips and operating systems (U know who). However, the hue and cry was to so great that they had to unimplement this capability.
None of the four in the Wired article appear to using translucent skin techiques discussed at SIGGRAPH the past three years. Human skin has lots of oil, and different amounts in different places. Locks more realistic when you do this right. But is an expensive computation.
There was this documentary about the dot.com frenzy called Startup.com .
It followed the founders of an actual company that was writing software to give local governments web forms to handle citizen business.
It did get a product out, but a rival beat them to it. And the founders didnt make that much money.
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35 years on drugs and I could write like that too :-)
Actually its more like ADHD. Jaron has so many idea pouring out that the next invades before he can finish with the current one. Some of the ideas are very interesting.
I've been following Polaris #3 instead of Polaris #1.
This reminds of the two Shrek movies. The first one was highly original and funny. The second one relies more on paradies of obsolete TV shows and movies and wasnt as funny. I could predict its ending. However the computer graphics improved greatly and made me, a grphics person, drool.
Recent NASA probes have been replacing old tape drives with solid-state memory to reduce the electric cost and unrelibiality of motors. The two Mars rovers use flash memory as well as the Saturn Cassini orbitor. Earlier probes like Jupter Galilleo and Voyager used tape drives.
Most of these flash devices are limited to a hundred thousand writes or so. This fine for music or cameras, but not for routine computing. So you'll need add intelligence to the operating system to manage this limitation. And you'll still need unlimited-write memory for highly repeated computation.
Could be new business opportunity for the paranoid to sell metallic wall coverings or paints which block these wavelengths. Would have to be non-toxic or one could sued under the lead-paint statutes.
When the PC industry was getting started MicroSoft and Apple used to target IBM as the evil giant. Many people then thought that a lowly PC company would supplant the computer giant.
Ironically IBM still makes decent decisions now and then- its PC, early adopter of Linux and Java, IT services, etc. MicroSoft has replaced IBM as the stodgy giant- still doing some great stuff, but not hitting home runs any more. And Google is in danger of becoming another these too if its not careful.
Thats probably why you arent going to see great technology coming out of Sweden compared to neighboring Finland- birthplace of Linux and Nokia. The Swedes will just just steal theirs rather than create new stuff.
The situation in physics still reminds me of 1900 when most physicists thought physics was "almost complete" after two centuries of elaborating upon Newton. There were a still loose ends however: blackbody radiation formulas blew up with infinities; the speed of light measured isotropic when physics predicted it show change in the direction of motion. Of course these "loose ends" mushroomed into entire new branches of physics.
In 2000 we have the same scenario. Many think physics is "almost unified", most of cosmology and fundamental particles have been charted or predicted. However, nature has a way of throwing curve balls at us. Will another "Einstein" grab many of these loose ends and clean it up for us?
Like a spinning skater extending and contracting arms to change speeds, the earth can change speed if its radius is changing. A large earthquake such 2004 Andaman can change the day a few microseconds if the fault throw has a vertical component. The Topex radar altimeter satellite has measured average sea level rising three centimenters in the past eleven years. This is thought to mostly due to thermal expansion rather than glacial melt or other causes.
Hacking at MIT was dealt a serious blow when the trespassing fine was increased to $500 from a more tolerable $50. Many of the more famous hacks involved placing large objects or decorations on MIT's iconic domes. The main motivation according to MIT's authorities is "safety".
I've always heard that chip design since they went sub-micron in the early 1990s wasone of the first, great examples of nano-technology.
There are both companies and software that kept track and distribute local and state taxes in all US zip codes. These had anticipated taxes long ago, but the feds have kept the internet mostly tax-free so far.
On the Spanish keyboard in my library and in Mexico they are THIRD symbols on the keys. I always forget which control sequence triggers. Its a pain to use email or windows software if either of these symbols is missing.
Wallace came up with the same idea as Darwin a few years later and submitted it for reading before the Royal Society before Darwin wrote up his ideas. So the theory of evolution by natural selection was an idea "waiting to happen" and would eventually be published by somebody.
Darwin's friends intercepted the paper, and told Darwin who nearly had a nervous breakdown. Wallace graciously allowed both papers to be presented before the Society simultaneously. Darwin fleshed his out with reams of observations and experiments and several controversial books.
JPL is "open source" putting all Rover raw images and other data on the web within 72 hours of receiving. The ESA so slowly trickles out its results that I dont even bother looking at them.
The article says that this condition and change is occurring in all phyisical sciences and engineering fields, not just computer science. "Tech is out" since the dot.bomb.
Perhaps he heard the War of the Worlds invasion countdown like the Jeff Goldbloom character in Indpendence Day :-)
>I don't think he envisioned anonymous collaborative editing.
Tim did envision editable-browsers in his early web design. He had that people wouldnt have to create web content by going outside the browser. But he nor the National Center for Supercomputing implement that feature by the time Mosaic popularized the web.
I've said several times in slashdot that the Gates should be considered for a Nobel Peace Prize for the impact of their charity work and example to others.
Many fakes are found months after when other labs try to reproduce the results in a paper. Its less usual to find them during the review of the paper. The scienitific method is to publish, reproduce and improve on others results.
A classic case was immunopsupression of skin grafts. One guy was painting mouse fur to appear like it came from a different result. People couldnt reproduce what he said he was supposed to be doing.
Google grabs the IP number of the computer the browser is run on and stamps transactions with it. I see this newsgroups and gmail and presume all Google services. In some cases the IP number can qucikly resolve to a particular computer and location. In other cases it points to an ISP and a search would need to ask the ISP (court order) for the computer identity.
I've heard rumors they fully record each each transaction request, but this would require lots of disk. I believe they data mine this information for improving performance and marketing. I dont know if someone at google could ask for a all transaction attached to an IP number.
Intel was going to sell CPUs with accessable unique serial numbers. I think they were intending to battle stolen/pirated/counterfeited chips and operating systems (U know who). However, the hue and cry was to so great that they had to unimplement this capability.
None of the four in the Wired article appear to using translucent skin techiques discussed at SIGGRAPH the past three years. Human skin has lots of oil, and different amounts in different places. Locks more realistic when you do this right. But is an expensive computation.
There was this documentary about the dot.com frenzy called Startup.com . It followed the founders of an actual company that was writing software to give local governments web forms to handle citizen business. It did get a product out, but a rival beat them to it. And the founders didnt make that much money.