I'm sure I could back up my entire life to one of these things
I heard that the information flux you receive trough your sensory devices (eyes, ears, etc.) is 20Gb/s. This value is purely anecdotal but it does sound right. For the sake of the argument, let's pretend that the value is correct.
Let's assume that you live 100years=3 153 600 000s =~ 3Gs. This means that experience being you can be stored to 60Pb. Of cause we need to know your genetic make-up but that is peanuts compared to 60Pb. 60Pb is 75 100TB tapes. This means that if you can compress your sensory data to 1/75=1.4% from the original size, you can, in fact, store your whole life to one of these tapes.
The compression rate is, in my humble opinion, reachable. First of all, people spend most of their life sleeping. Second of all people ignore most of the data they receive. And third, the perception of the world is far from chaotic and therefore compressible.
So yes, you are correct: These tapes are capable to store entire human life, if we come up with a mean to record it.
On an offtopic note, when is Slashdot going to allow hebrew in comments?
En tiedä mitään sallimisesta, mutta ei sitä ainakaan soisi käytettävän. Englanti on lingua franca eli sitä ymmäretään niin Israelissa kuin Suomessakin.
My fafourite is from D.G. Leahy's book Foundation: Matter the Body Itself: Total presence breaks on the univocal predication of the exterior absolute the absolute existent (of that of which it is not possible to univocally predicate an outside, while the equivocal predication of the outside of the absolute exterior is possible of that of which the reality so predicated is not the reality, viz., of the dark/of the self, the identity of which is not outside the absolute identity of the outside, which is to say that the equivocal predication of identity is possible of the self-identity which is not identity, while identity is univocally predicated of the limit to the darkness, of the limit of the reality of the self). This is the real exteriority of the absolute outside: the reality of the absolutely unconditioned absolute outside univocally predicated of the dark: the light univocally predicated of the darkness: the shining of the light univocally predicated of the limit of the darkness: actuality univocally predicated of the other of self-identity: existence univocally predicated of the absolutely unconditioned other of the self. The precision of the shining of the light breaking the dark is the other-identity of the light. The precision of the absolutely minimum transcendence of the dark is the light itself/the absolutely unconditioned exteriority of existence for the first time/the absolutely facial identity of existence/the proportion of the new creation sans depth/the light itself ex nihilo: the dark itself univocally identified, i.e., not self-identity identity itself equivocally, not the dark itself equivocally, in "self-alienation," not "self-identity, itself in self-alienation" "released" in and by "otherness," and "actual other," "itself," not the abysmal inversion of the light, the reality of the darkness equivocally, absolute identity equivocally predicated of the self/selfhood equivocally predicated of the dark (the reality of this darkness the other-self-covering of identity which is the identification person-self).
were called "terrorists" because they went after civilian targets. Is it just me, or is the "American" English language expanding the word to apply to all enemies of the state?
And excluding the state. Terrorism is a method of communication that relies on spreading terror as a mean. This definition of terrorism is not suitable as it would mean that USA is a terrorist organization. Therefore it must be redefined.
The real problem here is that people tend to imagine that terrorism is inherently evil. They don't see that certain acts of terrorism might be acceptable. Like "shock and awe" campaign, which message was pretty clear to Iraqi soldiers: "stop fighting and go home". In fact, Osama also had a message to American people, but somehow it never reached them.
I'm an outsider to your election, but I think you should ask: Who are you going to appoint to your cabinet? If you hasn't made decisions could you please reveal your short list.
Ok, I know this is nitpicking but I have to say this: The plural of "virus" is "viruses" not "virii". If you don't believe me, check your Oxford English Dictionary. Also, you can find more information from this webpage that has an analysis of those ignorant minds who use a words like "virii": Those confused souls who write *virii are tacitly positing the existence of the non-word *virius, and declining it as though it were like filius. It's true that l/r are both linguals that sometimes get interchanged, and that f/v are just a change in voicing, but that's just reaching. *Virii is still completely silly, so don't do that; otherwise, everyone will know you're just a blathering script kiddie.
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That's deflation, and it happened during the last US depression in the 30s. There has not been a depressed economy since then (possibly excepting New Zealand and Finland.)
Japan was depressed economy just a few years ago. Here is a brief of Japan's economy from the economist:
Japan's economic slump began with a stockmarket crash in 1989; persistent deflation then lowered wages and discouraged investment. For years the Bank of Japan took a passive approach before aggressively boosting the money supply to keep the yen weak in February 2003. That, combined with cost-cutting by Japanese exporters, has led to a rise in business profits and in the stockmarket. The government now believes it can halt deflation by 2006 (the OECD disagrees). Some companies have been able to clean up their debt, banks are looking healthier, and there are even signs that consumer spending, low during the slump, might rise again.
In the long run, however, Japan needs reforms: an ageing population will shrink productivity, raise health-care costs and further burden the costly public pension system (though some economists have argued that Japan's public debt--161% of GDP in 2003--is not as crippling as it looks). Junichiro Koizumi, the prime minister, promised painful economic reforms in 2001, but his efforts have been half-hearted. Reformed and galvanised, Japan's unproductive service industries could take up the slack of future economic slowdowns and lessen the burden on export-led manufacturing.
A: He is a character created by P.G. Wodehouse. Mr. Jeeves work as a gentleman's gentleman for a slacker, Bretie Wooster. Jeeves is one heck of a problem solver. In fact Winston 'The Wolf' Wolfe is a cry baby school boy compared to Jeeves who has an answer to any question you might imagine. Hence, the name for a search engine.
In fact, Gaim is the most active projecy on the sourceforge. The list is (from the sourceforges main page): 1 Gaim 2 eGroupWare: Enterprise CollaborationAccepting Donations 3 Azureus - BitTorrent ClientAccepting Donations 4 FCKeditorAccepting Donations 5 phpMyAdminAccepting Donations 6 Compiere ERP + CRM Business Solution 7 OpenWFEAccepting Donations 8 SugarCRM Accepting Donations 9 WinMergeAccepting Donations 10 POPFile - Automatic Email ClassificationAccepting Donations
How long can we ignore this crazy bastard, Kim Jong-il I mean?
He will stop acting like a lunatic (building nuclear weapons) immediately when you start ignoring him.
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to note why North Korea is trying to build nuclear bomb. They are afraid of America. Bush announced that Iran, Iraq and N. Korea are axis of evil and invaded Iraq. Iran and North Korea immediately started building better weapons.
Also, why are you so afraid about others having nuclear weapons? It's you, Americans, who has a track record of using them.
One thing that fascinates me is that there is really no hero and no villains in the movie. I'm sure that most people argue that Harrison Ford's character is the hero.
Harrison Fords character is the protagonist and there is nothing heroic about him.
In fact, from the storytelling point of view the hero and the antagonist (the villain) are the same character: Roy Batty (played by Rutger Hauer). I think it's clear that Roy's actions are directly opposite from the actions of Rick Deckard. This makes Roy the antagonist. The latter part of the film Rick is confused about him being a replicant. He has to face this new situation. It's the Roy who teaches him about living a life of self-aware replicant and acts as an example for Rick. This makes him the hero.
Excellent story!
I think that you mean that Blade Runner doesn't contain The Good and The Evil. If you, as I, don't like it, quit watching the crap that Hollywood puts out. Be warned especially about that dig head Jerry Bruckheimer who pooped over the tale of King Arthur recently.
I've been wondering where does the "shm"-thing come from. The first time I heard it was on Mallrats. I quote:
Rene: What are you doing? You promised me breakfast. Brodie: Breakfast, shmreakfast. Look at the score, for Christ's sake. It's only the second period and I'm up 12 to 2. Breakfasts come and go, Rene, but Hartford, "the Whale", they only beat Vancouver once, maybe twice in a lifetime.
That, of course, is pretty damn hilarious quote. Now the question: Has anyone seen any prior case to this one?
If you said "transmuting lead into gold? That sounds kind of retarded!" The alchemist would say "oh you silly little man you don't have the same mathematical talents I do, now just go away!"
I now laugh at all high and mighty alchemists who belittled doubters.
It goes another way too, you know. Based on your statement I image you telling Einstein "Compressing uranium to release ernoumous amounts of energy? That sounds like kind of retarded!", and Einstein responding: "Oh you silly little man. You don't have the same mathematical talents I do, now just go away!"
So maybe you should quit laughing, and be happy that some people have funny ideas and faith in them. Just let's the time decide which idea will prevail and which will not without having malicious pleasure about the outcome.
People regard their privacy highly and are reluctant to provide their personal information to websites. Website which need personal details from its users have to convince a new user that it won't misuse the data that it has. This is usually made with a statement, known as Privacy Policy.
Privacy Policies have problems. First, they are usually written in a legal language incomprehensible to a lay person. Second, people have no way of knowing that website in fact follows the policy it has.
One way of assuring people might be machine readable privacy policies. P3P (Platform for Privacy Preferences) is W3C framework for such privacy protocol. It allows user to store his personal data to a P3P agent, which will then follow the user given rules to share private information.
This agent should be implemented to firefox and it could use a machine learning to automate further the interactions with websites. The agent could for example learn, that if website's privacy policy promises to use user's e-mail address only for initial consistency check and to send a forgetten password if user explicitly asks for it, the agent can give it to the website without prompting the user.
Of course, this won't solve the problem of malicious websites which don't follow their privacy policies, but is a step into right direction where privacy policies are certified and their enforcing is auditted.
Let me tell you, I like my Adam Smith. Even before this movie I was determined to vote against Bush.
If you like Adam Smith, then Mr. Bush is not your candidate. First, he is a protectionist with his steel tariffs and farming subsidies. Second, he has a strong connection to business and it was Mr. Smith who urged suspicious attention to any proposed new law or regulation that comes from businessmen, because they have "generally an interest to deceive and even to oppress the public".
I also miss having an equivelant to the Excel solver utility, which can optimize hundreds of variables at once to minimize/maximize a result.
Whoa! You can't be serious. If you have to optimize something with hundreds of variables, you should look into real programs to do the task. To be frank, results from excel solver are shit. Optimization is a large field of applied mathematics and can't be reduced to MS Excel click-through feature. See for example this and this.
It was a British company with the unusual distinction of ruling an entire country. It saw its birth 31. December 1600. It ruled the India over 200 years. It was dissolved 1856 by the Crown, which took over the control of the India. I think that the size and the power of the East Indian Company puts Microsoft in shame.
History has not ended. Microsoft will die eventually. If you don't belive me, just think of the East Indian Company and its fate.
If this gets ported to other OSes, it hopefully makes it easier (even marginally) to port windows software to other OSes. Maybe Linux software get similar installation procedure that Windows have. This would make easier for people to change from Windows to Linux.
Anyone amazed at how many quotes this guy has stored up in his head?
Well, he's a british gentleman. They usually know their Wilde quotes.
Which brings me to this: I think he's misquoting that one ("Someone who knows the price of everything knows the value of nothing"). I think that Wilde was warning not to think everything in monetary terms. It's a pity that such a great man is a jackass namedropper.
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I'm sure I could back up my entire life to one of these things
I heard that the information flux you receive trough your sensory devices (eyes, ears, etc.) is 20Gb/s. This value is purely anecdotal but it does sound right. For the sake of the argument, let's pretend that the value is correct.
Let's assume that you live 100years=3 153 600 000s =~ 3Gs. This means that experience being you can be stored to 60Pb. Of cause we need to know your genetic make-up but that is peanuts compared to 60Pb. 60Pb is 75 100TB tapes. This means that if you can compress your sensory data to 1/75=1.4% from the original size, you can, in fact, store your whole life to one of these tapes.
The compression rate is, in my humble opinion, reachable. First of all, people spend most of their life sleeping. Second of all people ignore most of the data they receive. And third, the perception of the world is far from chaotic and therefore compressible.
So yes, you are correct: These tapes are capable to store entire human life, if we come up with a mean to record it.
On an offtopic note, when is Slashdot going to allow hebrew in comments?
En tiedä mitään sallimisesta, mutta ei sitä ainakaan soisi käytettävän. Englanti on lingua franca eli sitä ymmäretään niin Israelissa kuin Suomessakin.
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My fafourite is from D.G. Leahy's book Foundation: Matter the Body Itself:
Total presence breaks on the univocal predication of the exterior absolute the absolute existent (of that of which it is not possible to univocally predicate an outside, while the equivocal predication of the outside of the absolute exterior is possible of that of which the reality so predicated is not the reality, viz., of the dark/of the self, the identity of which is not outside the absolute identity of the outside, which is to say that the equivocal predication of identity is possible of the self-identity which is not identity, while identity is univocally predicated of the limit to the darkness, of the limit of the reality of the self). This is the real exteriority of the absolute outside: the reality of the absolutely unconditioned absolute outside univocally predicated of the dark: the light univocally predicated of the darkness: the shining of the light univocally predicated of the limit of the darkness: actuality univocally predicated of the other of self-identity: existence univocally predicated of the absolutely unconditioned other of the self. The precision of the shining of the light breaking the dark is the other-identity of the light. The precision of the absolutely minimum transcendence of the dark is the light itself/the absolutely unconditioned exteriority of existence for the first time/the absolutely facial identity of existence/the proportion of the new creation sans depth/the light itself ex nihilo: the dark itself univocally identified, i.e., not self-identity identity itself equivocally, not the dark itself equivocally, in "self-alienation," not "self-identity, itself in self-alienation" "released" in and by "otherness," and "actual other," "itself," not the abysmal inversion of the light, the reality of the darkness equivocally, absolute identity equivocally predicated of the self/selfhood equivocally predicated of the dark (the reality of this darkness the other-self-covering of identity which is the identification person-self).
Ahh... Funny commersials.
This dutch one is a legend: Want to learn english?.
were called "terrorists" because they went after civilian targets. Is it just me, or is the "American" English language expanding the word to apply to all enemies of the state?
And excluding the state. Terrorism is a method of communication that relies on spreading terror as a mean. This definition of terrorism is not suitable as it would mean that USA is a terrorist organization. Therefore it must be redefined.
The real problem here is that people tend to imagine that terrorism is inherently evil. They don't see that certain acts of terrorism might be acceptable. Like "shock and awe" campaign, which message was pretty clear to Iraqi soldiers: "stop fighting and go home". In fact, Osama also had a message to American people, but somehow it never reached them.
I'm an outsider to your election, but I think you should ask:
Who are you going to appoint to your cabinet? If you hasn't made decisions could you please reveal your short list.
Ok, I know this is nitpicking but I have to say this: The plural of "virus" is "viruses" not "virii". If you don't believe me, check your Oxford English Dictionary.
Also, you can find more information from this webpage that has an analysis of those ignorant minds who use a words like "virii": Those confused souls who write *virii are tacitly positing the existence of the non-word *virius, and declining it as though it were like filius. It's true that l/r are both linguals that sometimes get interchanged, and that f/v are just a change in voicing, but that's just reaching. *Virii is still completely silly, so don't do that; otherwise, everyone will know you're just a blathering script kiddie.
That's deflation, and it happened during the last US depression in the 30s. There has not been a depressed economy since then (possibly excepting New Zealand and Finland.)
Japan was depressed economy just a few years ago. Here is a brief of Japan's economy from the economist:
Japan's economic slump began with a stockmarket crash in 1989; persistent deflation then lowered wages and discouraged investment. For years the Bank of Japan took a passive approach before aggressively boosting the money supply to keep the yen weak in February 2003. That, combined with cost-cutting by Japanese exporters, has led to a rise in business profits and in the stockmarket. The government now believes it can halt deflation by 2006 (the OECD disagrees). Some companies have been able to clean up their debt, banks are looking healthier, and there are even signs that consumer spending, low during the slump, might rise again.
In the long run, however, Japan needs reforms: an ageing population will shrink productivity, raise health-care costs and further burden the costly public pension system (though some economists have argued that Japan's public debt--161% of GDP in 2003--is not as crippling as it looks). Junichiro Koizumi, the prime minister, promised painful economic reforms in 2001, but his efforts have been half-hearted. Reformed and galvanised, Japan's unproductive service industries could take up the slack of future economic slowdowns and lessen the burden on export-led manufacturing.
A: He is a character created by P.G. Wodehouse. Mr. Jeeves work as a gentleman's gentleman for a slacker, Bretie Wooster. Jeeves is one heck of a problem solver. In fact Winston 'The Wolf' Wolfe is a cry baby school boy compared to Jeeves who has an answer to any question you might imagine. Hence, the name for a search engine.
The stories are also dramatized by the ITV with Hugh Laurie as Wooster and Stephen Fry as Jeeves.
Personally, I liked TV dramatizations very much and recommend them to everyone.
In fact, Gaim is the most active projecy on the sourceforge. The list is (from the sourceforges main page):
1 Gaim
2 eGroupWare: Enterprise CollaborationAccepting Donations
3 Azureus - BitTorrent ClientAccepting Donations
4 FCKeditorAccepting Donations
5 phpMyAdminAccepting Donations
6 Compiere ERP + CRM Business Solution
7 OpenWFEAccepting Donations
8 SugarCRM Accepting Donations
9 WinMergeAccepting Donations
10 POPFile - Automatic Email ClassificationAccepting Donations
Maybe being slashdoted increased its activity...
How long can we ignore this crazy bastard, Kim Jong-il I mean?
He will stop acting like a lunatic (building nuclear weapons) immediately when you start ignoring him.
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to note why North Korea is trying to build nuclear bomb. They are afraid of America. Bush announced that Iran, Iraq and N. Korea are axis of evil and invaded Iraq. Iran and North Korea immediately started building better weapons.
Also, why are you so afraid about others having nuclear weapons? It's you, Americans, who has a track record of using them.
You'd think kids smart enough to do something like this would be smart enough to get caught before their 18th birthdays.
I know you are joking, but it doesn't matter when he was cought. The only thing matters is when the crime was committed.
One thing that fascinates me is that there is really no hero and no villains in the movie. I'm sure that most people argue that Harrison Ford's character is the hero.
Harrison Fords character is the protagonist and there is nothing heroic about him.
In fact, from the storytelling point of view the hero and the antagonist (the villain) are the same character: Roy Batty (played by Rutger Hauer). I think it's clear that Roy's actions are directly opposite from the actions of Rick Deckard. This makes Roy the antagonist. The latter part of the film Rick is confused about him being a replicant. He has to face this new situation. It's the Roy who teaches him about living a life of self-aware replicant and acts as an example for Rick. This makes him the hero.
Excellent story!
I think that you mean that Blade Runner doesn't contain The Good and The Evil. If you, as I, don't like it, quit watching the crap that Hollywood puts out. Be warned especially about that dig head Jerry Bruckheimer who pooped over the tale of King Arthur recently.
Spyware Schmyware. I use Firefox on OS X.
I've been wondering where does the "shm"-thing come from. The first time I heard it was on Mallrats. I quote:
Rene: What are you doing? You promised me breakfast.
Brodie: Breakfast, shmreakfast. Look at the score, for Christ's sake. It's only the second period and I'm up 12 to 2. Breakfasts come and go, Rene, but Hartford, "the Whale", they only beat Vancouver once, maybe twice in a lifetime.
That, of course, is pretty damn hilarious quote. Now the question: Has anyone seen any prior case to this one?
If you said "transmuting lead into gold? That sounds kind of retarded!" The alchemist would say "oh you silly little man you don't have the same mathematical talents I do, now just go away!"
I now laugh at all high and mighty alchemists who belittled doubters.
It goes another way too, you know. Based on your statement I image you telling Einstein "Compressing uranium to release ernoumous amounts of energy? That sounds like kind of retarded!", and Einstein responding: "Oh you silly little man. You don't have the same mathematical talents I do, now just go away!"
So maybe you should quit laughing, and be happy that some people have funny ideas and faith in them. Just let's the time decide which idea will prevail and which will not without having malicious pleasure about the outcome.
Out of curiosity:
I sometimes see the judges called "honorable" and sometimes "right honorable". When does a "honorable" judge become a "right honorable"?
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Jari
People regard their privacy highly and are reluctant to provide their personal information to websites. Website which need personal details from its users have to convince a new user that it won't misuse the data that it has. This is usually made with a statement, known as Privacy Policy.
Privacy Policies have problems. First, they are usually written in a legal language incomprehensible to a lay person. Second, people have no way of knowing that website in fact follows the policy it has.
One way of assuring people might be machine readable privacy policies. P3P (Platform for Privacy Preferences) is W3C framework for such privacy protocol. It allows user to store his personal data to a P3P agent, which will then follow the user given rules to share private information.
This agent should be implemented to firefox and it could use a machine learning to automate further the interactions with websites. The agent could for example learn, that if website's privacy policy promises to use user's e-mail address only for initial consistency check and to send a forgetten password if user explicitly asks for it, the agent can give it to the website without prompting the user.
Of course, this won't solve the problem of malicious websites which don't follow their privacy policies, but is a step into right direction where privacy policies are certified and their enforcing is auditted.
Let me tell you, I like my Adam Smith. Even before this movie I was determined to vote against Bush.
If you like Adam Smith, then Mr. Bush is not your candidate. First, he is a protectionist with his steel tariffs and farming subsidies. Second, he has a strong connection to business and it was Mr. Smith who urged suspicious attention to any proposed new law or regulation that comes from businessmen, because they have "generally an interest to deceive and even to oppress the public".
Well, they don't pay taxes and have some $60bn lying in the bank account. And that *is not* good for a country's economy!
I also miss having an equivelant to the Excel solver utility, which can optimize hundreds of variables at once to minimize/maximize a result.
Whoa! You can't be serious. If you have to optimize something with hundreds of variables, you should look into real programs to do the task. To be frank, results from excel solver are shit. Optimization is a large field of applied mathematics and can't be reduced to MS Excel click-through feature. See for example this and this.
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Jari
What is this? Imperial units for one dimension and SI units for another.
price is about $1,092 USD
That sigh in front of your number means dollars and the "D" at the end of the acronym means... dollars.
And if the prise is about $1092 does it mean that is's somewhere between $1091,50 and $1092,49?
Let me remind you all of East Indian Company:
It was a British company with the unusual distinction of ruling an entire country. It saw its birth 31. December 1600. It ruled the India over 200 years. It was dissolved 1856 by the Crown, which took over the control of the India. I think that the size and the power of the East Indian Company puts Microsoft in shame.
History has not ended. Microsoft will die eventually. If you don't belive me, just think of the East Indian Company and its fate.
Ah, this is a great news.
If this gets ported to other OSes, it hopefully makes it easier (even marginally) to port windows software to other OSes. Maybe Linux software get similar installation procedure that Windows have. This would make easier for people to change from Windows to Linux.
Most of the human mass is extracellural: blood plsma, connective tissues, bone matrix and so on.
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Jari
Well, he's a british gentleman. They usually know their Wilde quotes.
Which brings me to this: I think he's misquoting that one ("Someone who knows the price of everything knows the value of nothing"). I think that Wilde was warning not to think everything in monetary terms. It's a pity that such a great man is a jackass namedropper.
-- Jari Mustonen