Some of your examples prove your point, others don't. Lets be serious autoCAD is a CAD program. Duh. I'm pretty sure someone looking for a cad program would be able to figure that out. WinAmp makes a little bit of sense. I'm not disagreeing with you necessarily, but rather indicating that some of your examples don't prove your point. Secondly, a significant amount of your examples are online entities not software. There is definitely some differences between (free) software on an add/remove programs link and advertised websites for companies and online stores.
You are only deceiving yourself if you think the RIAA doesn't know about PG or aren't actively changing their IP ranges.
On a different topic, would the RIAA be successful in a suit against someone with an open wireless internet connection if they had not shared the files themselves? We should all leave our wireless open and happen to use the neighbors when downloading.
That being said, it seems apparent safety is the most important thing for people these days (no liquids on airlines, no-fly list, etc)...
Lego Mindstorms - MIT Media Lab Artificial Skin - Ioannis Yannas SM '59 Fax Machine - Shintaro Asano SM '61 Inertial guidance system - Charles Stark Draper '26 Doppler radar - Bernard Gordon '48 Voice recognition technology - Ray Kurzweil '70 Rockman amplifier - Tom Scholz '69 Bose stereo - Professor Amar Bose '51 Spreadsheets - Daniel Bricklin '73...to name a few.
To quote wikipedia:
In electronics, magnetic core memory, radar, single electron transistors, and inertial guidance controls were invented or substantially developed by MIT researchers. Harold Eugene Edgerton was a pioneer in high speed photography. Claude E. Shannon developed much of modern information theory and discovered the application of Boolean logic to digital circuit design theory. The GNU project and free software movement originated at MIT
In the domain of computer science, MIT faculty and researchers made fundamental contributions to cybernetics, artificial intelligence, computer languages, machine learning, robotics, and public-key cryptography. Richard Stallman founded the GNU Project while at the AI lab (now CSAIL). Professors Hal Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman wrote the popular Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs textbook and co-founded the Free Software Foundation with Stallman. Tim Berners-Lee established the W3C at MIT in 1994. David D. Clark made fundamental contributions in developing the Internet. Popular technologies like X Window System, Kerberos, Zephyr, and Hesiod were created for Project Athena in the 1980s. MIT was one of the original collaborators in the development of the Multics operating system, a highly secure predecessor of UNIX.
MIT physicists have been instrumental in describing subatomic and quantum phenomena like elementary particles, electroweak force, Bose-Einstein condensates, superconductivity, fractional quantum Hall effect, and asymptotic freedom as well as cosmological phenomena like cosmic inflation.
MIT chemists have discovered number syntheses like metathesis, stereoselective oxidation reactions, synthetic self-replicating molecules, and CFC-ozone reactions. Penicillin and Vitamin A were also first synthesized at MIT.
MIT biologists have been recognized for their discoveries and advances in RNA, protein synthesis, apoptosis, gene splicing and introns, antibody diversity, reverse transcriptase, oncogenes, phage resistance, and neurophysiology. MIT researchers discovered the genetic bases for Lou Gehrig's disease and Huntington's disease. Eric Lander was one of the principal leaders of the Human Genome Project.
Uh.....I'd say the above are some pretty important inventions and scientific breakthroughs.
I don't think its quite accurate to say that the muscles "heal" themselves. Its more that they don't get worse once damaged. Some function/efficiency will likely be lost and as damage accumulates they can still fail.
I have some friends working at MIT on actuated knees and fingers and some of the current major roadblocks to further progress have a lot to do with limitations with artificial muscle technology. This research seems promising, as it seems to prevent a short circuit of sorts.
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Some of your examples prove your point, others don't. Lets be serious autoCAD is a CAD program. Duh. I'm pretty sure someone looking for a cad program would be able to figure that out. WinAmp makes a little bit of sense. I'm not disagreeing with you necessarily, but rather indicating that some of your examples don't prove your point. Secondly, a significant amount of your examples are online entities not software. There is definitely some differences between (free) software on an add/remove programs link and advertised websites for companies and online stores.
You are only deceiving yourself if you think the RIAA doesn't know about PG or aren't actively changing their IP ranges. On a different topic, would the RIAA be successful in a suit against someone with an open wireless internet connection if they had not shared the files themselves? We should all leave our wireless open and happen to use the neighbors when downloading. That being said, it seems apparent safety is the most important thing for people these days (no liquids on airlines, no-fly list, etc)...
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...to name a few.
Lego Mindstorms - MIT Media Lab
Artificial Skin - Ioannis Yannas SM '59
Fax Machine - Shintaro Asano SM '61
Inertial guidance system - Charles Stark Draper '26
Doppler radar - Bernard Gordon '48
Voice recognition technology - Ray Kurzweil '70
Rockman amplifier - Tom Scholz '69
Bose stereo - Professor Amar Bose '51
Spreadsheets - Daniel Bricklin '73
To quote wikipedia:
In electronics, magnetic core memory, radar, single electron transistors, and inertial guidance controls were invented or substantially developed by MIT researchers. Harold Eugene Edgerton was a pioneer in high speed photography. Claude E. Shannon developed much of modern information theory and discovered the application of Boolean logic to digital circuit design theory.
The GNU project and free software movement originated at MIT
In the domain of computer science, MIT faculty and researchers made fundamental contributions to cybernetics, artificial intelligence, computer languages, machine learning, robotics, and public-key cryptography. Richard Stallman founded the GNU Project while at the AI lab (now CSAIL). Professors Hal Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman wrote the popular Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs textbook and co-founded the Free Software Foundation with Stallman. Tim Berners-Lee established the W3C at MIT in 1994. David D. Clark made fundamental contributions in developing the Internet. Popular technologies like X Window System, Kerberos, Zephyr, and Hesiod were created for Project Athena in the 1980s. MIT was one of the original collaborators in the development of the Multics operating system, a highly secure predecessor of UNIX.
MIT physicists have been instrumental in describing subatomic and quantum phenomena like elementary particles, electroweak force, Bose-Einstein condensates, superconductivity, fractional quantum Hall effect, and asymptotic freedom as well as cosmological phenomena like cosmic inflation.
MIT chemists have discovered number syntheses like metathesis, stereoselective oxidation reactions, synthetic self-replicating molecules, and CFC-ozone reactions. Penicillin and Vitamin A were also first synthesized at MIT.
MIT biologists have been recognized for their discoveries and advances in RNA, protein synthesis, apoptosis, gene splicing and introns, antibody diversity, reverse transcriptase, oncogenes, phage resistance, and neurophysiology. MIT researchers discovered the genetic bases for Lou Gehrig's disease and Huntington's disease. Eric Lander was one of the principal leaders of the Human Genome Project.
Uh.....I'd say the above are some pretty important inventions and scientific breakthroughs.
I don't think its quite accurate to say that the muscles "heal" themselves. Its more that they don't get worse once damaged. Some function/efficiency will likely be lost and as damage accumulates they can still fail. I have some friends working at MIT on actuated knees and fingers and some of the current major roadblocks to further progress have a lot to do with limitations with artificial muscle technology. This research seems promising, as it seems to prevent a short circuit of sorts.