Digital projection of digitized analog movie sometimes has problems. I saw a movie about white water rafting that disturbed me. The white water spray was fractal, and kept flickering on the screen. Another problem movie was the DVD version of 2001: A Space Odyssey (seen at MIT, of all places). Some of the model details flickered, especially the craters on the moon.
I suspect an "all the way through" digital processing shot with digital camera, post-processing
digital and projection digital would have fewer of these problems.
Second, proper spatial filtering to reduce jaggies helps.
Third, a director who understands the limitations of digital would film scenes that reduce these problems.
People wil probably want *personal* storage of a thousnd hours of media. Beyond that you start forgeting it or never re-using it. We already have this capicty for books and music. A few terabytes gives a thousand hours of conventional TV. Some day they'll be forms of 3D TV, and that will really consume storage.
% edit previous_book_file > set OLD_DISASTER = "Y2K" > set NEW_DISASTER = "9-11" > from first_line to last_line replace $OLD_DISASTER with $NEW_DISASTER > save to new_book_file % iterate every three years
It is deeper and less concentrated than petroleum
deposits. It will have impact simlar or worse than petroleum extraction. Many so-called of "free energy" sources have turned out to have considerable environmental drawbacks. Geothermal has it corrosive brines, hydropower distorts rivers and river life, fusion has dirty neutrons that turns any nearby metal highly radioactive.
Several years ago a considerable amount of spectrum
was sold by North American and European
governements for huge prices in the tens of
billions of dollars. However, little money
exchanged hands. The bidding "down payment" was small, so many sham companies speculated.
These huge amounts are just coming off the books.
Some of the companies went into backrupcy with these huge debts. The governments also have to write off huge revenues that never materialized.
People trading stocks for profit is a subset of society. No one has been able to predict market futures accurately. Ask Long Term Capital, the hedge firm full of Nobel economists, that almost took out the world economy four years ago.
The problem is that once someone figures out some new profitable information about the market, it works for a while until enough people figure out the same method. Then it becomes useless.
I expect prediction of society as a whole to fail for the same reason.
When people learn what is being predicted, they'll do sometime new and unpredictable.
No way Geeks can fund PACS the size and stability of a MicroSoft, Oracle or Enron. Corporatios will always have more influence. For example, imigrant tech visas are still going up, nearly 400,000 requested last year, despite the tech slowdown.
Another variant of Moore's law (of who I forget stated it) says that a balanced supercomputer is
"bytes == flops", that is it must be able to
process as many bytes of data PER SECOND as it
can do floating point operations. This has often meant that core memory must be about the same number of bytes as there are flops. This device goes a long way in satisfying this requirement.
Early super computers in a generation sometimes skimp on such memory and are only good for problems that dont require much I/O like some physics simulations. Anything that processes data such as satellite imagery or seismic, weather, etc. requires significant memory capacity..
Some people say the telegraph was the InterNet release 0.0.
That was the first time the world had communication at the speed of light.
Sammuel Morse even invented a clever compression protocol- the Morse Code.
The first killer app was the newspaper.
News a couple weeks old wasn't interesting,
but same day news from across the ocean was.
Literally.
The most popular method (Dollys mehod) for integrating alien nuclear material in a host egg cell is to electro-shock it. Other methods use chemicals. The underlying reason for why an electrical or chemical shock works is not yet understood.
Its ironic that Milton Berle died last week,
yet the TV broadcast standard is still the same
as when he started in the late 1940s, with the exception of a color overlay.
When I look at NTT six megapixel or IBMs nine megapixel computer displays and compare them to broadcast TVs quater megapixel resolution,
I am sadly disappointed in TV's lack of progress.
Power-law distributions (more smaller stuff)
suggest there should be lots of earth-size
planets. However the current methods can only
see fast-moving larger-than-Jupiter planets.
The most popular method is measure faint doppler
shifts over months to years. Terrestrial pectroscopic
resolution limits this to about 10x Jupiters.
Space-based methods may be more sensitive.
Another method is to look for eclipses of planets
across the stars. This presumes (a) you are seeing
another solar system edge-on, (b) you are lucky to
catch the.0001% of time the planet is eclipsing,
and (c) you aren't seeing a variable star like
Algol. The US will soon launch a special telescope called Kuiper to watch one splotch of sky for five
years continuously to catch planetary eclipses.
Kuiper is notable for its 350 megapixel camera.
A third method is infra-red, which can see earth-size in newly forming planetary system dust-clouds.
These would be too young and unstable to have evolved intelligent life on their own, but could be colony sites.
My prediction, made in/. and elsewhere is that the first real A.I. (as opposed to just use of A.I. software techniques) will come from some part of the entertainment industry- a robo-toy, game avatar, love-bot, or film character. People just love to play (a hard-core mammalian habit) and will stop at no lengths to invent more creative diversions for ourselves. The other potential drivers of the first A.I.- academic research, military, and business- just dont have the same the same deep intensity as "play".
The early adopters of the web were the intellengsia, and they make good use of it.
Now in the the USA that it has reached a majority of 50%, you are now including the people who barely make use of it. You've pretty much gotten more than all of the truely literate people in the country already.
Financial firms were the primary customer of NeXT Computer (absorbed into Apple, or the other way around). Having been the first commercial object-oriented GUI, it allowed quick development of interfaces for financial software. NeXT would have failed long before, even with Steve's millions.
I'm looking forward to the director's cut of the merged three movies in 2004.
I suspect adding parts from the cutting room floor and revising the three movie scene order will make a smash movie.
I'll probably need a lot of Hobbiton weed and Bree beer to watch to it all!
Since phones are primarily an audio device,
wouldn't voice recignition be more feasible?
I haven't heard much about voice metrics being
used to verify identity, though sound interfaces
are easier to install than video.
Black holes required two physical concepts: (1) velocity & acceleration are tied to mass (Galileo & Newton), and (2) the speed of light is finite. Both these concepts were worked out in the 1600s. Soon after someone did spectulate about bodies massive enough to trap light. Doesn't require Einstein relativism.
Either ISPs or a government tax should charge one cent per email. The average user who probably sends less than a dollar's worth per day would hardly notice the charge. The spammer would be paralyzed.
Perhaps the Chinese will find economic ways of sending people into space instead of NASA bloat-ware which costs a half-billion per shuttle launch ($100 million per person). It would take 500 people a year paying what Tito and the N'SYNC guy are paying to fund NASA's bloated program.
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Digital projection of digitized analog movie sometimes has problems. I saw a movie about white water rafting that disturbed me. The white water spray was fractal, and kept flickering on the screen. Another problem movie was the DVD version of 2001: A Space Odyssey (seen at MIT, of all places). Some of the model details flickered, especially the craters on the moon.
I suspect an "all the way through" digital processing shot with digital camera, post-processing digital and projection digital would have fewer of these problems. Second, proper spatial filtering to reduce jaggies helps. Third, a director who understands the limitations of digital would film scenes that reduce these problems.
I look forward to seeing Lucas's results.
People wil probably want *personal* storage of a thousnd hours of media. Beyond that you start forgeting it or never re-using it. We already have this capicty for books and music. A few terabytes gives a thousand hours of conventional TV. Some day they'll be forms of 3D TV, and that will really consume storage.
% edit previous_book_file
> set OLD_DISASTER = "Y2K"
> set NEW_DISASTER = "9-11"
> from first_line to last_line replace $OLD_DISASTER with $NEW_DISASTER
> save to new_book_file
% iterate every three years
It is deeper and less concentrated than petroleum deposits. It will have impact simlar or worse than petroleum extraction. Many so-called of "free energy" sources have turned out to have considerable environmental drawbacks. Geothermal has it corrosive brines, hydropower distorts rivers and river life, fusion has dirty neutrons that turns any nearby metal highly radioactive.
Several years ago a considerable amount of spectrum was sold by North American and European governements for huge prices in the tens of billions of dollars. However, little money exchanged hands. The bidding "down payment" was small, so many sham companies speculated. These huge amounts are just coming off the books. Some of the companies went into backrupcy with these huge debts. The governments also have to write off huge revenues that never materialized.
The outer parts of older Alexandria are underwater too. Perhaps there is faster subsidence in some seashores.
People trading stocks for profit is a subset of society. No one has been able to predict market futures accurately. Ask Long Term Capital, the hedge firm full of Nobel economists, that almost took out the world economy four years ago.
The problem is that once someone figures out some new profitable information about the market, it works for a while until enough people figure out the same method. Then it becomes useless.
I expect prediction of society as a whole to fail for the same reason. When people learn what is being predicted, they'll do sometime new and unpredictable.
No way Geeks can fund PACS the size and stability of a MicroSoft, Oracle or Enron. Corporatios will always have more influence. For example, imigrant tech visas are still going up, nearly 400,000 requested last year, despite the tech slowdown.
Another variant of Moore's law (of who I forget stated it) says that a balanced supercomputer is "bytes == flops", that is it must be able to process as many bytes of data PER SECOND as it can do floating point operations. This has often meant that core memory must be about the same number of bytes as there are flops. This device goes a long way in satisfying this requirement.
Early super computers in a generation sometimes skimp on such memory and are only good for problems that dont require much I/O like some physics simulations. Anything that processes data such as satellite imagery or seismic, weather, etc. requires significant memory capacity..
Some people say the telegraph was the InterNet release 0.0. That was the first time the world had communication at the speed of light. Sammuel Morse even invented a clever compression protocol- the Morse Code. The first killer app was the newspaper. News a couple weeks old wasn't interesting, but same day news from across the ocean was.
Literally.
The most popular method (Dollys mehod) for integrating alien nuclear material in a host egg cell is to electro-shock it. Other methods use chemicals. The underlying reason for why an electrical or chemical shock works is not yet understood.
Its ironic that Milton Berle died last week, yet the TV broadcast standard is still the same as when he started in the late 1940s, with the exception of a color overlay. When I look at NTT six megapixel or IBMs nine megapixel computer displays and compare them to broadcast TVs quater megapixel resolution, I am sadly disappointed in TV's lack of progress.
If the governement taxed email at one cent a message, it would hardly dent legitimate users. However, that would be fatal to spam/scammers.
I see signatures from Russia, Singapore, etc. These are the newcomers. The smarter guys are still from abroad, but remail.
Power-law distributions (more smaller stuff) suggest there should be lots of earth-size planets. However the current methods can only see fast-moving larger-than-Jupiter planets. The most popular method is measure faint doppler shifts over months to years. Terrestrial pectroscopic resolution limits this to about 10x Jupiters. Space-based methods may be more sensitive.
.0001% of time the planet is eclipsing,
and (c) you aren't seeing a variable star like
Algol. The US will soon launch a special telescope called Kuiper to watch one splotch of sky for five
years continuously to catch planetary eclipses.
Kuiper is notable for its 350 megapixel camera.
Another method is to look for eclipses of planets across the stars. This presumes (a) you are seeing another solar system edge-on, (b) you are lucky to catch the
A third method is infra-red, which can see earth-size in newly forming planetary system dust-clouds. These would be too young and unstable to have evolved intelligent life on their own, but could be colony sites.
My prediction, made in /. and elsewhere is that the first real A.I. (as opposed to just use of A.I. software techniques) will come from some part of the entertainment industry- a robo-toy, game avatar, love-bot, or film character. People just love to play (a hard-core mammalian habit) and will stop at no lengths to invent more creative diversions for ourselves. The other potential drivers of the first A.I.- academic research, military, and business- just dont have the same the same deep intensity as "play".
The early adopters of the web were the intellengsia, and they make good use of it. Now in the the USA that it has reached a majority of 50%, you are now including the people who barely make use of it. You've pretty much gotten more than all of the truely literate people in the country already.
Ever see a cost-efficient government service? They'd lose money charging $100 a month.
Financial firms were the primary customer of NeXT Computer (absorbed into Apple, or the other way around). Having been the first commercial object-oriented GUI, it allowed quick development of interfaces for financial software. NeXT would have failed long before, even with Steve's millions.
I'm looking forward to the director's cut of the merged three movies in 2004. I suspect adding parts from the cutting room floor and revising the three movie scene order will make a smash movie. I'll probably need a lot of Hobbiton weed and Bree beer to watch to it all!
Though a Brit invented the World Wide Web in Switzerland, it seems that Yankees only really understand how to commercialize it!
Since phones are primarily an audio device, wouldn't voice recignition be more feasible? I haven't heard much about voice metrics being used to verify identity, though sound interfaces are easier to install than video.
Black holes required two physical concepts: (1) velocity & acceleration are tied to mass (Galileo & Newton), and (2) the speed of light is finite. Both these concepts were worked out in the 1600s. Soon after someone did spectulate about bodies massive enough to trap light. Doesn't require Einstein relativism.
Either ISPs or a government tax should charge one cent per email. The average user who probably sends less than a dollar's worth per day would hardly notice the charge. The spammer would be paralyzed.
Perhaps the Chinese will find economic ways of sending people into space instead of NASA bloat-ware which costs a half-billion per shuttle launch ($100 million per person). It would take 500 people a year paying what Tito and the N'SYNC guy are paying to fund NASA's bloated program.