I was wondering how long before we start hearing rumours about OEMs developing their own OSes to make up for the underwhelming underpeformance of vista.
PC retailers large and small depend fractionally on the sucess of the OSes that will run on them. Especially in light of the competition offered by to Apple which is stealing sales off Dell, HP etc.
If Microsoft's blundering starts hurting the bottom line of these big companies, they will take matters into their own hands
OMG! this is proof the dinosaurs were wiped out with the mammoths in Noah's flood!
Which is the creationists interpretation of what this actually is: another dating method getting it's accuracy window re-adjusted. That is, one of the 35-40 dating methods I can think of that are in common use today.
Given the research the article has pointed out, this kind of revelation actually makes dating more accurate. It's the nature of science that people don't understand, getting it wrong is a good thing.
Or did they skip 'I' in the alphabetical naming of Ubuntu releases:
Edgy Eft
Feisty Fawn
Gutsy Gibbon
Hardy Heron
I.... I...?
Jaundiced Jackeroo or whatever it is..
Intrepid Iguana?
Inconsolable Iriomote?
Come on slashdotters: Between us we should be able to list a few hundred thousand examples of prior art, give or take an order of magnitude...
I'll start:... um well.. 90% non-Microsoft text editors since the 70s....
'or one of many many possible ways to defeat wga crap
Set oShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell") Set oSHApp = CreateObject("Shell.Application")
Do Until oShell.AppActivate ("Display Properties")
Set oSHApp = CreateObject("Shell.Application") 'apply bitmap with a delta of the transparent watermark
sWallPaper = "filepath\filename"
oShell.RegWrite "HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop \Wallpaper", sWallPaper
wscript.sleep 5000 'lets do this at 5 sec intervals
Loop
The problem with the logical solution bringing in external air in great quantity is humidity and the climate in your area.
The best solution to this I've seen is system that only kicks in to dehumidify external air, for example on a rainy day humidity surpassing 90% is not good for equipment.
It's also the only time I've ever been cold in a server room at 12 C, outside was 5 C!
Other than changing dust filters, on going costs were 1/5th of recirculating air con. Since a hot summer day is seldom above 25-30 C nor below about 10 C in winter in my area this was acceptable solution.
Bringing in freezing air or very hot dry external air would require turning back on a heat pump air con system.
You obviously missed holloway's post above,but you describe is almost exactly the brilliant idea that has become a GPL tool: here's linkage: http://www.ollydbg.de/Paperbak/index.html#1
Requires a good printer, and a TWAIN scanner with somewhat higher dpi than what you printed your data at. The nominal limit is 2-3mb per page.
The question to ask there though is how long does a inkjet printed page last?
I have boxes of b&w and some color inkjet pages from 1993 that are perfectly readable, so this is a interesting data storage method if you were printing with high-grade toner on archival paper!
I once wondered about using film/photographic paper to do something like this. High quality and even archival photographic paper could be used. A digital camera would be used to scan back in data. 'Printing' the data would be difficult, perhaps using a digital projector, custom lenses and shutter.
The printed dots + scanner + software method has a drawback, 3mb is the nominal limit with common printer/scanner hardware, although a stack of 300 pages would get you 1x CD-R of data easily.
I can imagine upwards of 10-20mb being encoded on a sheet of photographic paper.
So to summarise, printing a compressed digital image on a photographic media then scanning back into a digital system....
Could this get more Rube Goldberg-esque?
So the full technical specification has been posted online to our enemies? They want to hand this kind of technology to the terrorists?
They want to make nukes, tehy could use the colliding hadrons like the exploding fission atom used in a atom bomb!
Or worse find the fundamental secrets of the universe first!
I'm waiting for webcomic artists to pen a rebuttal strip to this drivel. Something deliciously satirical and damning.
*searches again* Come on, there must be someone out there going to do a mocking comic of this. Perhaps in the second frame Richard Stallman could appear out of a cloud of 1s and 0s with a tight organic hemp superhero suit and give the girl a pep talk about her freedom in the digital world while smashing her iMac into bits and wiping the hard drive platters with ionizing radiation from his nostrils...... ?
An excellent observation.
Putting this another way, they oberved the release of oxygen from the viking samples. I'm surprised this hasn't been mentioned already, I guess the Viking days are not too fresh in anyone's memory.
So perchlorate isn't necessarily a bad thing for life on mars.. not microbial life but astronauts, could literally obtain oxygen from the soil.
We had big dreams for the internet back in the 80s and 90s, we haven't really won the war for freedom of information if almost a quarter of the worlds 'internet' users are behind a highly censored firewall. I'd go with the above implications here that it's hard to say china's net users are really net users considering the narrow pipe with which they can talk to the rest of the real internets.
A friend of mine in china was speculating the internet at the media village costs so much because they have to pay for the truely deep inspection of traffic and special equipment has been set up to monitor and capture data. Just speculation of course, but believable.
If you have 32mb of text in one file, shouldn't you have broken that up into parts by the time it reaches that size? I'm having difficulty imagining code that in some way hadn't required breaking up into more than one file...
Not everything that said 'overlords' request has a solution. I would suggest one goes back to the overlords and tells them their request is not practicable? (... or is that kind of questioning thy master thing juat not done?)
In the future if/when we do have colonies off world, floating cities in atmospheres will be a low priorty, they may happen still though.
We may need to mine HE-3 and hydrocarbons from the atmospheres of the gas giants. By that time robots would be able to do the task (if they haven't already thoroughly taken over and biological humans are marginalised), why go to all the effort of a habitat?
IMHO the future is with orbiting habitats for permanent settlement, as there are many advantages to not being at the bottom of a gravity well. It makes it easy to mine asteroids and comets for everything you need. It's clear that 'free' roaming habitats will be rather advantaged and resource-rich in a future interplanetary economy compared to their gravity well bound counterparts who would come to depend on goods manufactured in space.
>It takes a lot of preparation for them to reach this point and file proceedings, consider:
>
> * exec hears about it, if it were Microsoft chairs would be thrown...and this is apple... I'm sure Steve Jobs did more than pace up and down with a worried expression... he's known for his tantrums^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H
Suddenly all life would be so much more precious to you.
You'd take much better care of yourself, you'd plan for the future in a way that our present cognitive understanding of 'long term'.
You'd take better care of your family, your descendants. It would give new meaning to extended family.
We'd take the environment more seriously.
You would treat matters such as war, human rights and mankind's progress much differently, you'd have historical perspective in your own firsthand memory.
What is the average age of a politician these days? 55? 60? They have a couple of decades to live on average and are already in cognitive decline, yet we entrust them to make the right decisions for our future. No wonder the planning in our civilization favors short term gains over long term sustainability. Imagine how the world would be run by people who are mentally sharp, and have accumulated centuries of wisdom.
If we can halt the process of aging this may also stave off dementia and keep our minds optimal indefinitely. Provided you continue to learn you will become very wise in extreme old age (we don't approach the limits of our mental capacity in our short lives, rejuvenating treatments may reset our brains to a childlike ability to learn and process long term). Imagine the impact on science and arts, our greatest minds living indefinitely.
There would be no compelling requirement to have children beyond replacing yourself, and on societal need to replenish the workforce removed by retiring individuals. Therefore I think population would eventually decline, or at least not blow out as some suggest.
We can still be killed by disease, accidents, homicide and natural disasters. These would become the main way people die.
Interstellar travel will be easily possible... with technology available soon.. or even now.
If enough smart people live for hundreds of years we may finally be able to solve so many problems, our civilisation might become *actually* sustainable.
With all that said, super longevity may have unusual effects on human psychology, it may mean we crawl into a hole and do nothing for irrational fear of accidental death, it may change society in ways we couldn't guess. We may also become bored of living, euthanasia may become one of the leading ways we die.
Imagine millions, billions, living this way.
This wasn't a question really, but if de Grey wants to comment on what this all means in the big (the REALLY big) picture it would interesting.
Your right, such a project would produce unacceptable levels of vacuum emissions into earths atmosphere. But this could be a good thing!:
Production of Vacuum tubes and Cathode Ray Tubes in the 20th century used up all the easily available vacuum on earth (mined from the air which contained precious little vacuum! - bringing it down from space is not cost-effective!) humanity had to make do with the transistor and now we have to change to LCD screens since CRTs are no longer profitable to manufacture. But this could change things!
Slashdot Mirror
Not to mention a great oppurtunity to wire your house for networking just how you want it..
I was wondering how long before we start hearing rumours about OEMs developing their own OSes to make up for the underwhelming underpeformance of vista.
PC retailers large and small depend fractionally on the sucess of the OSes that will run on them. Especially in light of the competition offered by to Apple which is stealing sales off Dell, HP etc.
If Microsoft's blundering starts hurting the bottom line of these big companies, they will take matters into their own hands
OMG! this is proof the dinosaurs were wiped out with the mammoths in Noah's flood! Which is the creationists interpretation of what this actually is: another dating method getting it's accuracy window re-adjusted. That is, one of the 35-40 dating methods I can think of that are in common use today. Given the research the article has pointed out, this kind of revelation actually makes dating more accurate. It's the nature of science that people don't understand, getting it wrong is a good thing.
If it's not Theory, Hypothesis not even Conjecture... then your left with Fiction
Or did they skip 'I' in the alphabetical naming of Ubuntu releases: Edgy Eft Feisty Fawn Gutsy Gibbon Hardy Heron I.... I...? Jaundiced Jackeroo or whatever it is.. Intrepid Iguana? Inconsolable Iriomote?
You meant: You it takes an amateur cryptographer to decipher most EULAs
... with the battery out, until I need it. I also keep a roll of aluminum foil with me in case I need to make a hat.
Come on slashdotters: Between us we should be able to list a few hundred thousand examples of prior art, give or take an order of magnitude... I'll start: ... um well.. 90% non-Microsoft text editors since the 70s....
'or one of many many possible ways to defeat wga crap
Set oShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell") Set oSHApp = CreateObject("Shell.Application")
Do Until oShell.AppActivate ("Display Properties")
Set oSHApp = CreateObject("Shell.Application") 'apply bitmap with a delta of the transparent watermark
sWallPaper = "filepath\filename"
oShell.RegWrite "HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop
\Wallpaper", sWallPaper
wscript.sleep 5000 'lets do this at 5 sec intervals
Loop
The problem with the logical solution bringing in external air in great quantity is humidity and the climate in your area. The best solution to this I've seen is system that only kicks in to dehumidify external air, for example on a rainy day humidity surpassing 90% is not good for equipment. It's also the only time I've ever been cold in a server room at 12 C, outside was 5 C! Other than changing dust filters, on going costs were 1/5th of recirculating air con. Since a hot summer day is seldom above 25-30 C nor below about 10 C in winter in my area this was acceptable solution. Bringing in freezing air or very hot dry external air would require turning back on a heat pump air con system.
...wouldn't need LN2 then for overclocking
You obviously missed holloway's post above,but you describe is almost exactly the brilliant idea that has become a GPL tool: here's linkage: http://www.ollydbg.de/Paperbak/index.html#1
Requires a good printer, and a TWAIN scanner with somewhat higher dpi than what you printed your data at. The nominal limit is 2-3mb per page.
The question to ask there though is how long does a inkjet printed page last?
I have boxes of b&w and some color inkjet pages from 1993 that are perfectly readable, so this is a interesting data storage method if you were printing with high-grade toner on archival paper!
I once wondered about using film/photographic paper to do something like this. High quality and even archival photographic paper could be used. A digital camera would be used to scan back in data. 'Printing' the data would be difficult, perhaps using a digital projector, custom lenses and shutter.
The printed dots + scanner + software method has a drawback, 3mb is the nominal limit with common printer/scanner hardware, although a stack of 300 pages would get you 1x CD-R of data easily. I can imagine upwards of 10-20mb being encoded on a sheet of photographic paper.
So to summarise, printing a compressed digital image on a photographic media then scanning back into a digital system.... Could this get more Rube Goldberg-esque?
So the full technical specification has been posted online to our enemies? They want to hand this kind of technology to the terrorists? They want to make nukes, tehy could use the colliding hadrons like the exploding fission atom used in a atom bomb! Or worse find the fundamental secrets of the universe first!
I'm waiting for webcomic artists to pen a rebuttal strip to this drivel. Something deliciously satirical and damning.
... ?
*searches again* Come on, there must be someone out there going to do a mocking comic of this. Perhaps in the second frame Richard Stallman could appear out of a cloud of 1s and 0s with a tight organic hemp superhero suit and give the girl a pep talk about her freedom in the digital world while smashing her iMac into bits and wiping the hard drive platters with ionizing radiation from his nostrils...
An excellent observation. Putting this another way, they oberved the release of oxygen from the viking samples. I'm surprised this hasn't been mentioned already, I guess the Viking days are not too fresh in anyone's memory. So perchlorate isn't necessarily a bad thing for life on mars.. not microbial life but astronauts, could literally obtain oxygen from the soil.
No problem for the mailing list now... that he has been slashdotted!
We had big dreams for the internet back in the 80s and 90s, we haven't really won the war for freedom of information if almost a quarter of the worlds 'internet' users are behind a highly censored firewall. I'd go with the above implications here that it's hard to say china's net users are really net users considering the narrow pipe with which they can talk to the rest of the real internets. A friend of mine in china was speculating the internet at the media village costs so much because they have to pay for the truely deep inspection of traffic and special equipment has been set up to monitor and capture data. Just speculation of course, but believable.
If you have 32mb of text in one file, shouldn't you have broken that up into parts by the time it reaches that size? I'm having difficulty imagining code that in some way hadn't required breaking up into more than one file... Not everything that said 'overlords' request has a solution. I would suggest one goes back to the overlords and tells them their request is not practicable? (... or is that kind of questioning thy master thing juat not done?)
Are you implying they'll vanish in a puff of cognitive dissonance?
..."
Nope your wrong...
1. moonwalker say alien are real 2. but moonwalker is stooge who never went to teh moon
No problem:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doublethink
"Doublethink is the act of simultaneously accepting two mutually contradictory beliefs.
In the future if/when we do have colonies off world, floating cities in atmospheres will be a low priorty, they may happen still though. We may need to mine HE-3 and hydrocarbons from the atmospheres of the gas giants. By that time robots would be able to do the task (if they haven't already thoroughly taken over and biological humans are marginalised), why go to all the effort of a habitat? IMHO the future is with orbiting habitats for permanent settlement, as there are many advantages to not being at the bottom of a gravity well. It makes it easy to mine asteroids and comets for everything you need. It's clear that 'free' roaming habitats will be rather advantaged and resource-rich in a future interplanetary economy compared to their gravity well bound counterparts who would come to depend on goods manufactured in space.
>It takes a lot of preparation for them to reach this point and file proceedings, consider: > > * exec hears about it, if it were Microsoft chairs would be thrown ...and this is apple... I'm sure Steve Jobs did more than pace up and down with a worried expression... he's known for his tantrums^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H
Your values would change.
.. or even now.
Suddenly all life would be so much more precious to you.
You'd take much better care of yourself, you'd plan for the future in a way that our present cognitive understanding of 'long term'.
You'd take better care of your family, your descendants. It would give new meaning to extended family.
We'd take the environment more seriously.
You would treat matters such as war, human rights and mankind's progress much differently, you'd have historical perspective in your own firsthand memory.
What is the average age of a politician these days? 55? 60? They have a couple of decades to live on average and are already in cognitive decline, yet we entrust them to make the right decisions for our future. No wonder the planning in our civilization favors short term gains over long term sustainability. Imagine how the world would be run by people who are mentally sharp, and have accumulated centuries of wisdom.
If we can halt the process of aging this may also stave off dementia and keep our minds optimal indefinitely. Provided you continue to learn you will become very wise in extreme old age (we don't approach the limits of our mental capacity in our short lives, rejuvenating treatments may reset our brains to a childlike ability to learn and process long term). Imagine the impact on science and arts, our greatest minds living indefinitely.
There would be no compelling requirement to have children beyond replacing yourself, and on societal need to replenish the workforce removed by retiring individuals. Therefore I think population would eventually decline, or at least not blow out as some suggest.
We can still be killed by disease, accidents, homicide and natural disasters. These would become the main way people die.
Interstellar travel will be easily possible... with technology available soon
If enough smart people live for hundreds of years we may finally be able to solve so many problems, our civilisation might become *actually* sustainable.
With all that said, super longevity may have unusual effects on human psychology, it may mean we crawl into a hole and do nothing for irrational fear of accidental death, it may change society in ways we couldn't guess. We may also become bored of living, euthanasia may become one of the leading ways we die.
Imagine millions, billions, living this way.
This wasn't a question really, but if de Grey wants to comment on what this all means in the big (the REALLY big) picture it would interesting.
Your right, such a project would produce unacceptable levels of vacuum emissions into earths atmosphere. But this could be a good thing!: Production of Vacuum tubes and Cathode Ray Tubes in the 20th century used up all the easily available vacuum on earth (mined from the air which contained precious little vacuum! - bringing it down from space is not cost-effective!) humanity had to make do with the transistor and now we have to change to LCD screens since CRTs are no longer profitable to manufacture. But this could change things!