"the understanding we've achieved has barely filtered into the popular press, and has remained all but absent even from books dealing with 'complexity' (such as Stephen Wolfram's erroneously-titled A New Kind of Science)"
There seem to be a lot of comments claiming you will need lots of batteries. I've found while travelling that two sets of rechargable batteries (whatever was in my camera and one fully charged spare) was always more than enough. I'm assuming the village you'll be in has electricity -- that's usually the first available utility in Chinese villages. You might consider picking up some kind of voltage regulator from a bigger city before you get there. They aren't that great, but they're better than nothing for electronics.
Software
I've used GRASS, while trying to construct a map of the touristy "ancient city" here in Xianggelila, Yunnan, China. It does reasonably well and, though it tends to crash a lot with large sets of data, it's ok for doing transformations on your data. The time consuming part (which I haven't done for my map yet as you can tell) is to take a bunch of points of interest and convert them into vectors for the left and right side of each road. That's a process that needs to be done manually and probably will involve a lot of fudging. I haven't found anything exactly suitable yet, so I might eventually end up using some vector drawing program to do that.
Accuracy
If you get a consumer grade GPS, it's not going to be that accurate. Probably around 10m. It's good enough to do larger scale maps, but if you're trying to map out a small village, you should probably take your readings all in the same day. That way, at least the points will be pretty accurate with respect to each other, even if they're all 10m east of where they should be. If you take readings on separate days, the changes in the atmosphere will give you different errors each day.
I live in China. Google news was blocked for about 4 or 5 days, but it's been accessable again for the past week or so. I noticed that the news of Russia granting a visa to the Dalai Lama was out around the same time that the block was in place.
Perhaps I misunderstand but, if the idea you mention fits the USPTO's definition of novel, a patent may have many of the features you seek.
From
uspto.gov:
A patent for an invention is the grant of a property right to the inventor, issued by the Patent and Trademark Office. The term of a new patent is 20 years from the date on which the application for the patent was filed in the United States or, in special cases, from the date an earlier related application was filed, subject to the payment of maintenance fees. US patent grants are effective only within the US, US territories, and US possessions.
You would probably want to get a patent lawyer, but that will probably cost much less money than your quote for the prototype.
Re:NITROGEN WARNING is similar to TCP/IP warning
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How are you gentlemen!!
> over 70% of the air you breathe is now NITROGEN.
What you say!
Yes, 78% is more than 70%.
I believe that you may have been looking for the word "asphyxiate" instead of the word "DROWN."
Whenever the thought of doing something like this has crossed my mind, the worry about synthesizing toxic chemicals always comes flooding into my head soon after. If you have a programmer error on a webpage, nobody can see your webpage. If you have a programmer error in this hardware, it might end up killing people. Perhaps I am just too paranoid, but this seems like a problem for any general enough implementation of this idea.
Said hippies would probably get a lot more traction by opening sockets and not sending any requests. Somehow I doubt that this is possible in javascript's normal security sandbox.
The TCP sockets available on a machine would probably run out far before the machine had problems serving normal web browser hits.
It would certainly allow those "with slow connections" to have more of an effect.
7:23 And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.
Many people asked me about my comment last issue about Windows NT needing over 300 security changes to make it secure. I queried the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.ms-windows.nt.admin.security asking if it was folklore or truth, and got several answers. The consensus seemed to be that the number was somewhere between 50 and 3000, and 300 wasn't an unreasonable estimate. A good checklist is available here: http://people.hp.se/stnor/ And see also: http://www.trustedsystems.com/NSAGuide.htm
Slashdot Mirror
Isn't any encrypted communication without some form of identification susceptible to man in the middle attacks?
"the understanding we've achieved has barely filtered into the popular press, and has remained all but absent even from books dealing with 'complexity' (such as Stephen Wolfram's erroneously-titled A New Kind of Science)"
China Daily grabs a lot of wire news. This article is from AFP. For example, it's also here:
i ninternetlanguage_070621120604
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070621/tc_afp/brita
http://wtanaka.com/node/62
It was especially annoying when the ad insertion code didn't quite work right and caused web pages to break.
Zimbra's UI is sluggish on a slow computer. Yahoo Mail won't make that mistake.
There seem to be a lot of comments claiming you will need lots of batteries. I've found while travelling that two sets of rechargable batteries (whatever was in my camera and one fully charged spare) was always more than enough. I'm assuming the village you'll be in has electricity -- that's usually the first available utility in Chinese villages. You might consider picking up some kind of voltage regulator from a bigger city before you get there. They aren't that great, but they're better than nothing for electronics.
Software
I've used GRASS, while trying to construct a map of the touristy "ancient city" here in Xianggelila, Yunnan, China. It does reasonably well and, though it tends to crash a lot with large sets of data, it's ok for doing transformations on your data. The time consuming part (which I haven't done for my map yet as you can tell) is to take a bunch of points of interest and convert them into vectors for the left and right side of each road. That's a process that needs to be done manually and probably will involve a lot of fudging. I haven't found anything exactly suitable yet, so I might eventually end up using some vector drawing program to do that.
Accuracy
If you get a consumer grade GPS, it's not going to be that accurate. Probably around 10m. It's good enough to do larger scale maps, but if you're trying to map out a small village, you should probably take your readings all in the same day. That way, at least the points will be pretty accurate with respect to each other, even if they're all 10m east of where they should be. If you take readings on separate days, the changes in the atmosphere will give you different errors each day.
I live in China. Google news was blocked for about 4 or 5 days, but it's been accessable again for the past week or so. I noticed that the news of Russia granting a visa to the Dalai Lama was out around the same time that the block was in place.
You might want to check out gale. While it does not use PGP, it does support strong encryption of messages sent using it.
Perhaps I misunderstand but, if the idea you mention fits the USPTO's definition of novel, a patent may have many of the features you seek. From uspto.gov: A patent for an invention is the grant of a property right to the inventor, issued by the Patent and Trademark Office. The term of a new patent is 20 years from the date on which the application for the patent was filed in the United States or, in special cases, from the date an earlier related application was filed, subject to the payment of maintenance fees. US patent grants are effective only within the US, US territories, and US possessions. You would probably want to get a patent lawyer, but that will probably cost much less money than your quote for the prototype.
How are you gentlemen!!
> over 70% of the air you breathe is now NITROGEN.
What you say!
Yes, 78% is more than 70%.
I believe that you may have been looking for the word "asphyxiate" instead of the word "DROWN."
all your fast rusting are belong to us.
http://praya.sourceforge.net
Whenever the thought of doing something like this has crossed my mind, the worry about synthesizing toxic chemicals always comes flooding into my head soon after. If you have a programmer error on a webpage, nobody can see your webpage. If you have a programmer error in this hardware, it might end up killing people. Perhaps I am just too paranoid, but this seems like a problem for any general enough implementation of this idea.
http://praya.netpedia.net/
Said hippies would probably get a lot more traction by opening sockets and not sending any requests. Somehow I doubt that this is possible in javascript's normal security sandbox.
The TCP sockets available on a machine would probably run out far before the machine had problems serving normal web browser hits.
It would certainly allow those "with slow connections" to have more of an effect.
Kings 1
7:23 And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.
Many people asked me about my comment last issue about Windows NT needing over 300 security changes to make it secure. I queried the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.ms-windows.nt.admin.security asking if it was folklore or truth, and got several answers. The consensus seemed to be that the number was somewhere between 50 and 3000, and 300 wasn't an unreasonable estimate. A good checklist is available here: http://people.hp.se/stnor/ And see also: http://www.trustedsystems.com/NSAGuide.htm