The recent scandal by several historians shows that it becomes increasingly difficult to steal someone else's work and claim it as your own.
The net makes it easy to find and copy other people's work.
At the same time improved search engines make it easier to detect that this has happened.
What this doesn't address is money.
Though it is easier to maintain authorship priority on the net, it doesn't prevent people from making free copies.
Most of life and our civilization burns hydrogen
compounds for energy. This is water or hydrocarbons.
The moon appears to outgassed most of its water and hydrocarbons eons ago. Might be a bit ice in some the perpetually dark polar craters- but not a whole lot. We'd need to import hydrogen from earth or a capture a comet. Comets have lots of water and hydrocarbons.
Asimov has many life-capable planets out there in this Foundation universe (and several other stories). However, none have developed intelligent life. 90% of earths history was like
that. You'd just see deserts and a little bit of scum in the water. Worms and such developed in the last 12% of the earth's age. Fishes and plants in the final 6%.
You look for timing discrepencies when Jupiter
is closest to the earth and furthest from the
earth (about six months apart). The moons will
appear to be slow or fast about fifteen minutes,
or the light time to cross earth's orbital diameter.
At the most people's genomes differ by 0.1% from
each other - much less than that if you are relatives. Therefore you'd record the differences, sort of like several of mpeg algorithms.
Video is the most bulky storage people would
save. How much would people want to save for
re-viewing? First you have the time-shifting
stuff like TiVo/Replay- perhaps a few tens of
hours at most. Then you would be your favorite
movies and TV series. As video-phone improves
you might be saving some hours of friends and
relatives video conversations. With infinite
storage, the constraint becomes need and time to
view all that stuff. And you'll probably be wanting to spend your time looking at new stuff.
So I'd guess most people's real needs would be hundreds to a thousand hours. At 1-2 BG per hour, your talking about a terabyte or two.
I don't include the argument that you'd have trouble
finding old stuff. Computer software is more clever at organizing things - far better than
material storage. A good recent example of this is Apple's "iPhoto" that much more convenient for
organizing thousands of photos than physical albums.
I agree public feedback should be solicited for NASA decisions. But they lack the technical depth and imagination to convince what can be done and be done next. For example, the recently approved Kepler satellite will look for extra-solar planets
by continuously gathering light from the same area of space for five years. It uses a 350 megapixel CCD array. John Q would not imagine this
Amazon provided a new customer interface-
one the catalog companies and Walmarts don't get yet.
OK, everyone has a catalog on line now.
Amazon was the first to do this for books.
Amazon has custom ads, based on a customer's buying and surfing habits.
Amazon distills its sales patterns - what subgroups are buying, best-seller lists.
I do agree that perhaps they should not have gotten so much into the "bricks" and built warehouses, etc.
Computer science roots in Beautiful Mind
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A Beautiful Mind
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· Score: 4, Informative
I'm about half way through the book.
Von Neuman plays a role in the book.
Von Neuman invented the min-max algorithm which
is widely used in artificial intelligence game
playing programs such as chess. Nash's equilibrium
point is supposed to be a powerful generalisation
on min-max, but I don't see it often used in A.I. programs.
Also in the book Von Neuman flips off Nash as being a pompous grad student.
Nash gets the final laugh when he WINS the Nobel prize
and Von Neuman doesn't.
The founders of Artificial Intelligence John McCarthy and Marvin Minsky
were classmates of Nash and have cameos in the book.
Later in his career Nash becomes something of
a computer hacker, but I haven't reached that part of
the book yet.
Both the book and movie are rare lterary depictions of grad school life.
They capture the stresses of science/engineering nerds.
Also things have changed since the 1950s and now,
but not as much as you'd think.
Most OS deletes just delink the disk storage from
the used-list, but don't erase it.
A "strong delete" would write zeros in that storage.
Technically you need to write random patterns
several times in the old storage to truely erase it.
Berkeley profs were working on very small computer
systems that could be used as environmental or
medical sensors (or weapons). They can sense, compute, and communicate.
Slashdot often posts articles about these "new energy" devices. However, their energy has to come from somewhere else, typically a dirty "old energy" source.
The Media Lab was in a mega-expansion mode.
First it is building a second building on the MIT campus.
Second it is planning up to three branches abroad. These branches are quasi-independent of MIT. They are more like dot.com incubators. They get their funding entirely from industry and foreign governments. They do not have professor slots or degree granting rights. However, MIT profs and tudents may spend some time in the branches.
Many MIT students would PAY to work in the media lab. Their families are already paying $35K to attend MIT. Computer science is the most popular MIT major, choosen by 40% of the unergrads. Computer science labs are the most sought after positions for pleasure or student-aid jobs. And the playful media lab is the most popular of the computer labs.
First, MIT sets the general wage guidelines
for undergraduate work-study.
Its not all that much higher than prevailing minimum wage of the area, which used to have a tight labor market until the tech crash.
Harvard insituted a "living wage" after years of protest for its immigrant janitors of $10.50 an hour.
Since student's families are paying around $35K a year to go to MIT, hey are paying about $20 / hour
(based on MITs own calculation of a 45-hour study week) for the privilege of going to MIT.
To get some back, is another privelege.
Not such animal as "own" release of "Open"BSD.
The two terms are incompatible.
great book, but no conclusion
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Browsing Alone
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· Score: 5, Informative
I've personally noticed this trend- that many
organizations filled with boomers seem to be
getting grayer as the younger generations
dont participate. These include professional
societies, hiking & running clubs, etc.
Then too, boomers boycotted the organizations
of their parents- chambers of commerce, church
socials, etc. This book notes in the last 50
years, each generation has been doing less
compared to the previous. The book suggests
about a dozen causes, but none really clinches
it. Nor do the sum of of clauses explain things.
The trend of less civic participation began long
before the InterNet became popular, so I wouldn't
blame the net.
The mainframe computers throught 1960s had ten or more programmers per computer. 1970s minicomputers require a couple. Then came the personal computer and the mass software industry. There are now 100 million personal computers (home and business) now in the US at least, plus ten billion embedded computers in cars, appliances, traffic lights, etc. Maybe a million programmers now at the most. So we've seen a steady a drop of programmers per computer from 10 to.0001 in the past 40 years, a factor of 100,000 or a bit slower than moores law.
Slashdot Mirror
That is what Metcafe says.
Thats the only way a pronouncement like this makes sense :-)
"What the net giveth the net taketh away"
The recent scandal by several historians shows that it becomes increasingly difficult to steal someone else's work and claim it as your own. The net makes it easy to find and copy other people's work. At the same time improved search engines make it easier to detect that this has happened.
What this doesn't address is money. Though it is easier to maintain authorship priority on the net, it doesn't prevent people from making free copies.
Most of life and our civilization burns hydrogen compounds for energy. This is water or hydrocarbons. The moon appears to outgassed most of its water and hydrocarbons eons ago. Might be a bit ice in some the perpetually dark polar craters- but not a whole lot. We'd need to import hydrogen from earth or a capture a comet. Comets have lots of water and hydrocarbons.
Asimov has many life-capable planets out there in this Foundation universe (and several other stories). However, none have developed intelligent life. 90% of earths history was like
that. You'd just see deserts and a little bit of scum in the water. Worms and such developed in the last 12% of the earth's age. Fishes and plants in the final 6%.
You look for timing discrepencies when Jupiter is closest to the earth and furthest from the earth (about six months apart). The moons will appear to be slow or fast about fifteen minutes, or the light time to cross earth's orbital diameter.
At the most people's genomes differ by 0.1% from each other - much less than that if you are relatives. Therefore you'd record the differences, sort of like several of mpeg algorithms.
Video is the most bulky storage people would save. How much would people want to save for re-viewing? First you have the time-shifting stuff like TiVo/Replay- perhaps a few tens of hours at most. Then you would be your favorite movies and TV series. As video-phone improves you might be saving some hours of friends and relatives video conversations. With infinite storage, the constraint becomes need and time to view all that stuff. And you'll probably be wanting to spend your time looking at new stuff. So I'd guess most people's real needs would be hundreds to a thousand hours. At 1-2 BG per hour, your talking about a terabyte or two.
I don't include the argument that you'd have trouble finding old stuff. Computer software is more clever at organizing things - far better than material storage. A good recent example of this is Apple's "iPhoto" that much more convenient for organizing thousands of photos than physical albums.
I agree public feedback should be solicited for NASA decisions. But they lack the technical depth and imagination to convince what can be done and be done next. For example, the recently approved Kepler satellite will look for extra-solar planets by continuously gathering light from the same area of space for five years. It uses a 350 megapixel CCD array. John Q would not imagine this
Amazon provided a new customer interface- one the catalog companies and Walmarts don't get yet. OK, everyone has a catalog on line now. Amazon was the first to do this for books. Amazon has custom ads, based on a customer's buying and surfing habits. Amazon distills its sales patterns - what subgroups are buying, best-seller lists.
I do agree that perhaps they should not have gotten so much into the "bricks" and built warehouses, etc.
I'm about half way through the book.
Von Neuman plays a role in the book.
Von Neuman invented the min-max algorithm which
is widely used in artificial intelligence game
playing programs such as chess. Nash's equilibrium
point is supposed to be a powerful generalisation
on min-max, but I don't see it often used in A.I. programs.
Also in the book Von Neuman flips off Nash as being a pompous grad student.
Nash gets the final laugh when he WINS the Nobel prize
and Von Neuman doesn't.
The founders of Artificial Intelligence John McCarthy and Marvin Minsky
were classmates of Nash and have cameos in the book.
Later in his career Nash becomes something of
a computer hacker, but I haven't reached that part of
the book yet.
Both the book and movie are rare lterary depictions of grad school life.
They capture the stresses of science/engineering nerds.
Also things have changed since the 1950s and now,
but not as much as you'd think.
oxymoron: (def) A two word phrase in which the meaning of the first word contraditions the meaning of the second word.
Most OS deletes just delink the disk storage from the used-list, but don't erase it. A "strong delete" would write zeros in that storage. Technically you need to write random patterns several times in the old storage to truely erase it.
Berkeley profs were working on very small computer systems that could be used as environmental or medical sensors (or weapons). They can sense, compute, and communicate.
This fits this criterion!
Slashdot often posts articles about these "new energy" devices. However, their energy has to come from somewhere else, typically a dirty "old energy" source.
The Media Lab was in a mega-expansion mode. First it is building a second building on the MIT campus. Second it is planning up to three branches abroad. These branches are quasi-independent of MIT. They are more like dot.com incubators. They get their funding entirely from industry and foreign governments. They do not have professor slots or degree granting rights. However, MIT profs and tudents may spend some time in the branches.
Many MIT students would PAY to work in the media lab. Their families are already paying $35K to attend MIT. Computer science is the most popular MIT major, choosen by 40% of the unergrads. Computer science labs are the most sought after positions for pleasure or student-aid jobs. And the playful media lab is the most popular of the computer labs.
First, MIT sets the general wage guidelines for undergraduate work-study. Its not all that much higher than prevailing minimum wage of the area, which used to have a tight labor market until the tech crash. Harvard insituted a "living wage" after years of protest for its immigrant janitors of $10.50 an hour.
Since student's families are paying around $35K a year to go to MIT, hey are paying about $20 / hour (based on MITs own calculation of a 45-hour study week) for the privilege of going to MIT. To get some back, is another privelege.
(1) NY Times - best paper in the world; $0.25 / day.
(2) Google - gets me there quickly; also usenet portal; $0.25 / day
Woz has done many creative things in life and will continue to do more.
(former member of the Palo Alto Homebrew Computer Club)
Greedy vulture capitalists distracted the contruction of internet commerce in the late 1990s. Finally a few companies are getting it to work properly.
Not such animal as "own" release of "Open"BSD.
The two terms are incompatible.
I've personally noticed this trend- that many
organizations filled with boomers seem to be
getting grayer as the younger generations
dont participate. These include professional
societies, hiking & running clubs, etc.
Then too, boomers boycotted the organizations
of their parents- chambers of commerce, church
socials, etc. This book notes in the last 50
years, each generation has been doing less
compared to the previous. The book suggests
about a dozen causes, but none really clinches
it. Nor do the sum of of clauses explain things.
The trend of less civic participation began long
before the InterNet became popular, so I wouldn't
blame the net.
The mainframe computers throught 1960s had ten or more programmers per computer. 1970s minicomputers require a couple. Then came the personal computer and the mass software industry. There are now 100 million personal computers (home and business) now in the US at least, plus ten billion embedded computers in cars, appliances, traffic lights, etc. Maybe a million programmers now at the most. So we've seen a steady a drop of programmers per computer from 10 to .0001 in the past 40 years, a factor of 100,000 or a bit slower than moores law.