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Based on the images released thus far, I've come to the conclusion that a team of well-trained monkeys working exclusively in MS-Paint are close to modeling the stock market. In unrelated news, the head scientists at the LHC are planning their lavish retirement on Grand Cayman. More at 5.
I never suggested we ignore the symptoms. Rather, I would like to suggest that placing 1500, 300 ton ships on the ocean to continually spray water into the air would likely cause MANY more problems than it could potentially alleviate.
Uh huh... try convincing the public to dedicate such government funding to a scheme that would place 1500, 300-ton boats on open waters. You're now talking about higher frequency of ocean collisions; increased wreckage after damaging storms (and thereby increased maintenance costs all around); the energy expenditure (and CO2 release) required to produce such ships in the first place; and so many other counterproductive scenarios. Copper is being stolen from facilities across the U.S. as prices rise even today - what's to stop someone from going out to salvage an unmanned ship in international waters if it is constructed of materials desired? Our Coast Guard can't even track many drug-runners in the Caribbean, and you want to place 1500 ships on the ocean and cross your fingers that no one touches them? There are many other, more direct paths to solving this global problem, than the construction of a huge fleet of water-spraying ships that *may* increase sunlight reflectivity by a significant amount while likely instigating numerous practical issues in its implementation.
A bad doctor treats symptoms without addressing the underlying ailment. With China and India (1/3 of the world's population), and other parts of the world booming, the release of greenhouse gasses is only going to accelerate. If we took this money and invested it into researching and implementing green alternatives to our current fossil-fuel infrastructure instead, more progress would be made in the long run.
I'm really glad that the court decided to overturn the injunction. We need to get information like this out in the open, so we can solve these problems quickly and in an open-source manner. Simply denying that a problem such as this exists does not solve the problem... it delays a fix, and makes it even MORE likely that such exploitation will happen in the first place.
How could you make a TV show or a Movie about a simulation game that is supposed to be limitless ?
A movie with creatures made from the game ?
Yeah... I think the clips of anthropomorphic genetalia on YouTube are opening a whole new market right now... who wouldn't pay to see that stuff in hi-def, with Spielberg special effects?
Hmm... I expect some readers to ignore the article and take the summary for granted, but did you even read the summary in total? "Repeated randomizing and ordering of the material combined with an appropriate heat exchanger could provide a wide range of heating and cooling temperatures." They will easily be able to get to normal refridgeration temperatures. Whether they can do this more efficiently than current technologies is another question entirely. It would have a great environmental impact if they could, as I assume this would also affect AC units and other temp-control devices in controlled environments within buildings.
At least when one of these students eventually loses self-restraint, they will be more well-educated than some 13-year-old that randomly Googled for "hacker tools", downloaded and ran the first file they found!
however, I will admit that storage of such data (where you have been, and when) is another question entirely. If you're just scanning for immediate law-breakers, I have no qualm with that.
What's scary, is that the general populace is able to get behind the wheel that controls hundreds or thousands of pounds of metal, and move it at a considerable speed around people, animals, and the like. Police supervision is not nearly as scary as this reality. If you're driving on any public road, anything visible is in the public domain, and the pavement under your tires is put there courtesy of the government and the collective taxes, so this is the furthest thing from scary for me. You should really expect to have your license plate scanned as soon as you hit pavement that isn't privately owned.
... cynical politicians all over the U.S., secretly planning to bring a comet to Earth to quickly solve our global warming crisis. Hey, it'd be easier than lessening our dependence on foreign oil, right?
"Stanford, Princeton, Carnegie Mellon, and Berkeley"... only Princeton is a member of the Ivy League. Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, UPenn, and Yale are the others. I can speak from experience in the Dartmouth CS program, that while you have an excellent networking opportunity and grant money is fairly available as a result of the school's renown, more tech-minded schools have superior programs for instruction in CS. Maybe the other Ivys are different though...
Let me be the first to say that I'm rather reassured by their stance: "Skype does not comment on media speculation. Skype has no further comment at this time." Phew! Because outright denial would be risky...
Banning their IP or username will probably be seen as an act of aggression, and if they are really intent on trolling your forums, they will find a means to do it. Really, the best way to deal with a person like this is to just ignore them... they won't find any entertainment if there's no reciprocation. Move their post off into a dusty corner of the forums if you can (make it the last to show up in searches, for example) and forget about it. There's one in every crowd =(
While I understand the theory behind Knol, it's going to take Google an *awful* long time to catch up to Wikipedia in terms of volume, if at all. While Wiki may have its fair share of "useless crap", it makes the publication process many orders of magnitude faster than Knol can probably ever hope of achieving.
Thoughts? Can Knol catch up with Wiki in at least "useful volume"?
so...
He states that it was an approximately $36,000 initial investment (http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2308684,00.asp). Also, approximately $332 in monthly utility fee savings (http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2326045,00.asp). That's just over 9 years before he breaks even, assuming no significant maintenance costs or other "surprises". Not bad... personally I can't wait until this technology improves a bit further and prices drop so the initial investment is a feasible option for the average family!
... I would have thought my penchant for snagging all the free AOL disks I see and using them as frisbees, coasters, and arranging them in strange geometric designs on my wall (ad-side hidden) would have drained all of their resources by now.
So sad.
I agree with this sentiment. Set up an opt-in program that allows gamers to share their information with game companies. If a player is truly invested in the game, they will share their data to support further improvements in the game. The players that are most invested are the ones for whom you want to tailor your games, no? Sounds like a win-win to me.
Never trade freedom for security, nor security for freedom.
You can increase both with a little thought and creativity.
Now we just need to get those thoughtful, creative people elected.
THAT is the challenge.
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Based on the images released thus far, I've come to the conclusion that a team of well-trained monkeys working exclusively in MS-Paint are close to modeling the stock market. In unrelated news, the head scientists at the LHC are planning their lavish retirement on Grand Cayman. More at 5.
yeah... the whole time I was reading the article, I was thinking 'this isn't an environmentalist's dream... it's a boatbuilder's dream'
I never suggested we ignore the symptoms. Rather, I would like to suggest that placing 1500, 300 ton ships on the ocean to continually spray water into the air would likely cause MANY more problems than it could potentially alleviate.
Uh huh... try convincing the public to dedicate such government funding to a scheme that would place 1500, 300-ton boats on open waters. You're now talking about higher frequency of ocean collisions; increased wreckage after damaging storms (and thereby increased maintenance costs all around); the energy expenditure (and CO2 release) required to produce such ships in the first place; and so many other counterproductive scenarios. Copper is being stolen from facilities across the U.S. as prices rise even today - what's to stop someone from going out to salvage an unmanned ship in international waters if it is constructed of materials desired? Our Coast Guard can't even track many drug-runners in the Caribbean, and you want to place 1500 ships on the ocean and cross your fingers that no one touches them? There are many other, more direct paths to solving this global problem, than the construction of a huge fleet of water-spraying ships that *may* increase sunlight reflectivity by a significant amount while likely instigating numerous practical issues in its implementation.
A bad doctor treats symptoms without addressing the underlying ailment. With China and India (1/3 of the world's population), and other parts of the world booming, the release of greenhouse gasses is only going to accelerate. If we took this money and invested it into researching and implementing green alternatives to our current fossil-fuel infrastructure instead, more progress would be made in the long run.
I'm really glad that the court decided to overturn the injunction. We need to get information like this out in the open, so we can solve these problems quickly and in an open-source manner. Simply denying that a problem such as this exists does not solve the problem... it delays a fix, and makes it even MORE likely that such exploitation will happen in the first place.
How could you make a TV show or a Movie about a simulation game that is supposed to be limitless ?
A movie with creatures made from the game ?
Yeah... I think the clips of anthropomorphic genetalia on YouTube are opening a whole new market right now... who wouldn't pay to see that stuff in hi-def, with Spielberg special effects?
Hmm... I expect some readers to ignore the article and take the summary for granted, but did you even read the summary in total? "Repeated randomizing and ordering of the material combined with an appropriate heat exchanger could provide a wide range of heating and cooling temperatures." They will easily be able to get to normal refridgeration temperatures. Whether they can do this more efficiently than current technologies is another question entirely. It would have a great environmental impact if they could, as I assume this would also affect AC units and other temp-control devices in controlled environments within buildings.
... a moving vehicle - going in and out of range.
... do as the Chinese government does. We wouldn't want to see REALITY on TV, would we? It's so... passé (and often incongruous with how Big Brother / Our Corporate Overlords want us to think).
At least when one of these students eventually loses self-restraint, they will be more well-educated than some 13-year-old that randomly Googled for "hacker tools", downloaded and ran the first file they found!
however, I will admit that storage of such data (where you have been, and when) is another question entirely. If you're just scanning for immediate law-breakers, I have no qualm with that.
What's scary, is that the general populace is able to get behind the wheel that controls hundreds or thousands of pounds of metal, and move it at a considerable speed around people, animals, and the like. Police supervision is not nearly as scary as this reality. If you're driving on any public road, anything visible is in the public domain, and the pavement under your tires is put there courtesy of the government and the collective taxes, so this is the furthest thing from scary for me. You should really expect to have your license plate scanned as soon as you hit pavement that isn't privately owned.
... cynical politicians all over the U.S., secretly planning to bring a comet to Earth to quickly solve our global warming crisis. Hey, it'd be easier than lessening our dependence on foreign oil, right?
haha... I was going to ask the same thing, but you beat me to it! For posterity's sake, however, I must point out that it's *Sudikoff.
"Stanford, Princeton, Carnegie Mellon, and Berkeley"... only Princeton is a member of the Ivy League. Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, UPenn, and Yale are the others. I can speak from experience in the Dartmouth CS program, that while you have an excellent networking opportunity and grant money is fairly available as a result of the school's renown, more tech-minded schools have superior programs for instruction in CS. Maybe the other Ivys are different though...
... same results? Given their vast historical success in their endeavors (/sarcasm)... I'd bet on it.
Let me be the first to say that I'm rather reassured by their stance: "Skype does not comment on media speculation. Skype has no further comment at this time." Phew! Because outright denial would be risky...
... this isn't a cave at all, but a well-crafted hoax by some cauliflower farmers!
Banning their IP or username will probably be seen as an act of aggression, and if they are really intent on trolling your forums, they will find a means to do it. Really, the best way to deal with a person like this is to just ignore them... they won't find any entertainment if there's no reciprocation. Move their post off into a dusty corner of the forums if you can (make it the last to show up in searches, for example) and forget about it. There's one in every crowd =(
While I understand the theory behind Knol, it's going to take Google an *awful* long time to catch up to Wikipedia in terms of volume, if at all. While Wiki may have its fair share of "useless crap", it makes the publication process many orders of magnitude faster than Knol can probably ever hope of achieving. Thoughts? Can Knol catch up with Wiki in at least "useful volume"?
so... He states that it was an approximately $36,000 initial investment (http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2308684,00.asp). Also, approximately $332 in monthly utility fee savings (http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2326045,00.asp). That's just over 9 years before he breaks even, assuming no significant maintenance costs or other "surprises". Not bad... personally I can't wait until this technology improves a bit further and prices drop so the initial investment is a feasible option for the average family!
... I would have thought my penchant for snagging all the free AOL disks I see and using them as frisbees, coasters, and arranging them in strange geometric designs on my wall (ad-side hidden) would have drained all of their resources by now. So sad.
I agree with this sentiment. Set up an opt-in program that allows gamers to share their information with game companies. If a player is truly invested in the game, they will share their data to support further improvements in the game. The players that are most invested are the ones for whom you want to tailor your games, no? Sounds like a win-win to me.
Never trade freedom for security, nor security for freedom. You can increase both with a little thought and creativity. Now we just need to get those thoughtful, creative people elected. THAT is the challenge.