I'm sure everyone here has read about the quantum computers that are still in the pre-infancy stages at places like IBM and Los Alamos. Because of their peculiar nature, the quantum computers can factor numbers as easily as they can multiply them, rendering public-key encryption schemes useless. Of course, these systems are still very primitive, the latest ones at around 5 to 7 qubits. Still, it is inevitable that this technology will grow to the point where it could be capable of cracking 128-bit encryption or whatever we are using when the rapidly advancing quantum technology starts to catch up with traditional computers. Quantum computers do offer the possibility of quantum encryption, but due to the inevitable extreme expense of quantum computers at the early stages of development, it is quite likely that intelligence organizations or large corporations will have the ability to crack our codes several years before we gain the ability to protect ourselves from this threat. When this happens, what will we do to protect our privacy against powerful forces that can compromise it at will?
That page gives no specifics on the patents they refer to. Hopefully, it's implementation specific, and if not, there's plenty of very well documented prior art (not to mention prior patents). Don't take seriously any patent claim with the word "Super" as a standalone modifier. Maybe as a prefix in scientific context, but this is just BS for the sake of PR.
...that part of the reason that Einstein was so brilliant in matters of physics is that he had a genetic defect that caused one part of his brain to never grow. The effect of this is that the area immediately adjacent to this section, which is the section of the brain responsible for spatial perception, was approximately 15% larger than in most human brains. This improved ability to process spatial relations allowed Einstein to think in 4 dimensions probably with nearly the same ease that we traditionally think in 3. (His great practice with the topic surely helped as well.)
Unfortunately, I can't remember any of the sources I got this from, so it could just all be rumor. Anyone have any ideas?
I think the writer was misreading some stats. Accoring to the article, the laptop from which I am posting should have an approximate power of about one Teraflops. Don't I wish.
Due to the extremely international nature of the Olympics, it is functionally impossible to take any action against the IOC outside of their own procedures. International law doesn't deal with things like this. I also doubt there are many countries in the world where any action could be taken in the courts. Ultimately you'd have to take it to the Australian courts, in all likelyhood, but that wouldn't settle the issue for future games in other countries.
Hence we get.edu.com.net.org and the like to ourselves. For good or for ill, Americans will not "settle" for the.us domain.
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...but not cheaply. Think lithotripters. With any luck, this research could make a splash with that technology as well. I'm sure my friend who just had to shell out a lot of money for lithotripter treatment would have liked for his bill to be smaller.
Even if this doesn't help the lithotripter or ultrasound or other medical technologies, it would be nice to get some good sound at night without waking my roommate and without wearing headphones!
I know some people who live out in the boonies who would love satellite broadband. This means they're stuck with MSN, though, since AOL is still one-directional, just like the stuff that flopped a few years back. Look at my locality. Cable only goes one-way here. Hence, DSL outnumbers it by something like 40:1 as of a few months ago. AOL will lose this round to MSN if they don't get some up-to-date tech.
A lot of people have touted IRIX as being so vastly superior in performance to Linux under these circumstances. It's good to see that Linux has caught up quite a bit. Granted, I'm sure that Irix still has a bit of an edge, since it's well customized for the task, but the race is close enough that Linux is more cost-effective. I've always been a bit leery myself of the concept of one operating system powering everything from PDAs to render farms, but I'm thrilled to see a Free Software product that can scale in both directions so phenomenally.
I'm putting up a mirror, I'll let you know when it's up. For every mole they whack, we can put up ten mirrors. Hmmmm... maybe I'll put up ten mirrors. Link them all to each other, raise their ranks for google. Like I said, I'll let you all know when it's up. There ought to be more stories about this soon anyway.
I read somewhere about a plan for using FireWire technology to replace some parts of the internal PCI bus to get rid of the internal bottleneck. Personally, I think that PCI should some day (soon) go the way of ISA. (On a side note, I wish that ISA really would go away. It's time is through.) I really see the need for a faster internal bus. Maybe firewire is the way to go, or maybe not. Something needs to be done, though. As for the outside, I really like USB, because of its utility. The idea that I can use the printer that came with my friend's iMac on my HP laptop is very refreshing. Maybe with USB at higher speeds, we'd have something on the outside that could take advantage of that speed boost, aside from just internal stuff like those gigabit ethernet cards that most of us don't have the hardware to really take advantage of.
This sounds awfully familiar. It's an interface issue, not a functionality issue. I don't have a problem with trademarking an interface (trademark infringement has to be nearly exact to mean anything in court) but an interface paradigm is another matter entirely. They should sue MS and AOL while they're at it. Plenty of other folks using tabs, too many to name. Of course, Amazon took the one-click patent against their biggest competitor, ignoring all else. It would seem to me like this is very selective targeting for Adobe.
Tom's hardware really doesn't like this chip as a power desktop chip, which is what most people look for in any GHz chip these days. It has an absolutley atrocious FPU and no L2 cache. On the other hand, it's designed to run without a fan which could make it an awesome laptop chip, assuming they put in Crusoe/AMD style power saving features. As bad as that FPU is, at a GHz it would be more than made up for by sheer speed in most business applications, as laptops tend to be used for.
Thanks, nice description of the situation. I checked with a relative who's more knowledgable of such things, and it seems Los Alamos was working with an amino acid, probably proline, given it's unique structure. (It contains a 90 degree angle) Given this, we could grow quantum computers with DNA as well.
...a year ago, and it was being done at Los Alamos, and I think it was also a quantum computer, as well. Sadly, I remember precious few details. Does anyone know what I'm talking about, or have I been paying too much attention to the little voices?
I know that AIM for windows has, or at least had, a buffer overflow that AOL was using to verify that people weren't using an MS or Tribal Voice client. I don't trust AOL's IM. I'm not logging in root to do ANYTHING with their software. At least with WordPerfect, they tell you NOT to log in root. I'll stick with the hack, thank you.
I am forced occupationally to use IE quite a bit, but I always use Netscape at home. Given that it's a family computer, and my little sister started crying when she saw saw the login prompt, thinking she had broken something, I had to take Linux off of it. Windows is horribly unstable on this machine and terrible at allocating memory. IE crashes like a 3-wheeled car. Netscape does fine, except for a few particular pages, and one piece of junk e-mail I have. When IE crashes, it takes the whole system with it. I only use IE for the two sites that netscape can't view without crashing. When I do that, I keep netscape open, so I have something resembling a file manager open to re-start explorer when it crashes. I kid you not. This is routine for me now. I would re-install the system to wipe out the crap that my sister installed that's clogging it up, but my parents have forbidden that along with Linux. Anyway, when netscape crashes, it frees up 30-90 MB of physical RAM that was not free before it started. I don't know how or why, but it's very reliable. In fact, every time I start up StarCraft, if I've been running winamp long enough (memory leaks) I'll open up netscape, open that one e-mail it can't handle, wait 10 seconds, ctrl-alt-del and kill it. It gives me all the RAM I need. Is it a bug? Yes, but certainly the lesser of the two evils.
The "BigMaq would be a trademark violation" argument is inherently flawed because "Cube" is a noun that factually describes what the product is. To say that "Cube" is a trademark infringement of "Qube" is like saying that IBM should own the trademark on computer, or something crazy like that. If they called it "Little Gray Cube" and someone had a trademark on "Gray Cube" there might be an argument that the name was confusingly similar, but you can't own a single noun like that. They call it the G4 Cube, or the Power Mac Cube. If someone else has something similar to that, Apple would be suing them, not the other way around.
Heaven help us if IBM tried to enforce a trademark on beige boxes.
Actually, most animals would probably have great difficulty with 0g sex, because they don't have any grasping capability, and rely on gravity to provide a stable base so that friction can keep them in the right position. Humans are gifted with the power to grasp, and therefore copulate in space. Of course, dolphins do it swimming, which is a buoyant condition. Maybe they were also intended to travel the universe. Douglas Adams, call your office.
...with the exceptions of those to my ISP to figure out why my proxy was messed up, have gone through servers in Vienna, Virginia, or somewhere within a 20 mile radius of it. I've tried this with several ISPs, and it happens even when connecting to my friend 3 blocks away. Of course, I live in Virginia. Still, I remember our idiot governor once bragging about how 90% of all the world's internet traffic goes through Virginia. As dumb as he may be on policy, I think he's got that statistic right. It's only a two-hour drive to the grand hub of the internet, and we have some really crazy people around here. Think, foreigners, do you want YOUR connections dependent on systems within a stone's throw of the lunatics inside the D.C. beltway?
The name "world wide web" applies to how the content is linked, not the configuration of the land lines. We have an "all roads lead to Rome" situation, and our cross-paths are few and far between.
And if you look carefully, you can see some typos and colloquial errors that you would not expect a native english speaker to make, not to mention german punctuation habits. Still, it's a lot better than babelfish, so I admire the effort. That english is better than I could do the other way around.
I checked the WHOIS database and it would seem that he still has ownership. Hopefully he can get an injunction against the transfer. Regardless of who the domain registrars listen to usually, if they're based in the U.S., they'll listen to a U.S. court. If not, they'll be in much more trouble than the WIPO could ever give them.
I hope he wins this. Just because we need reform doesn't mean we need yet another martyr.
There are many, many sites that have legitimate claim to a domain with "Olympic" in the name. The exceptions are those that use "Olympic" or one of its derivations to leech off the IOC's reputation, and I think Olympicsex might qualify there. Still, there is a very good argument that the term is so widely used, and since the term was originated thousands of years ago, that it may rightly be public domain.
Regardless of whether or not these points are valid, this kind of thing MUST be handled on a case-by-case basis. That's how the American legal system works.
I know HTML and Javascript and all the server-side stuff I would need to do a website like that, but that doesn't mean it would be a good idea. You want your engineers doing their engineering. It's usually worth the extra money to pay someone who specializes in web design. You also generally get some kind of quality assurances when you outsource. If those quality assurances aren't met, you ask for a refund, if you don't get it, you sue.
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I'm sure everyone here has read about the quantum computers that are still in the pre-infancy stages at places like IBM and Los Alamos. Because of their peculiar nature, the quantum computers can factor numbers as easily as they can multiply them, rendering public-key encryption schemes useless. Of course, these systems are still very primitive, the latest ones at around 5 to 7 qubits. Still, it is inevitable that this technology will grow to the point where it could be capable of cracking 128-bit encryption or whatever we are using when the rapidly advancing quantum technology starts to catch up with traditional computers. Quantum computers do offer the possibility of quantum encryption, but due to the inevitable extreme expense of quantum computers at the early stages of development, it is quite likely that intelligence organizations or large corporations will have the ability to crack our codes several years before we gain the ability to protect ourselves from this threat. When this happens, what will we do to protect our privacy against powerful forces that can compromise it at will?
That page gives no specifics on the patents they refer to. Hopefully, it's implementation specific, and if not, there's plenty of very well documented prior art (not to mention prior patents). Don't take seriously any patent claim with the word "Super" as a standalone modifier. Maybe as a prefix in scientific context, but this is just BS for the sake of PR.
...that part of the reason that Einstein was so brilliant in matters of physics is that he had a genetic defect that caused one part of his brain to never grow. The effect of this is that the area immediately adjacent to this section, which is the section of the brain responsible for spatial perception, was approximately 15% larger than in most human brains. This improved ability to process spatial relations allowed Einstein to think in 4 dimensions probably with nearly the same ease that we traditionally think in 3. (His great practice with the topic surely helped as well.)
Unfortunately, I can't remember any of the sources I got this from, so it could just all be rumor. Anyone have any ideas?
I think the writer was misreading some stats. Accoring to the article, the laptop from which I am posting should have an approximate power of about one Teraflops. Don't I wish.
Due to the extremely international nature of the Olympics, it is functionally impossible to take any action against the IOC outside of their own procedures. International law doesn't deal with things like this. I also doubt there are many countries in the world where any action could be taken in the courts. Ultimately you'd have to take it to the Australian courts, in all likelyhood, but that wouldn't settle the issue for future games in other countries.
Hence we get .edu .com .net .org and the like to ourselves. For good or for ill, Americans will not "settle" for the .us domain.
...but not cheaply. Think lithotripters. With any luck, this research could make a splash with that technology as well. I'm sure my friend who just had to shell out a lot of money for lithotripter treatment would have liked for his bill to be smaller.
Even if this doesn't help the lithotripter or ultrasound or other medical technologies, it would be nice to get some good sound at night without waking my roommate and without wearing headphones!
I know some people who live out in the boonies who would love satellite broadband. This means they're stuck with MSN, though, since AOL is still one-directional, just like the stuff that flopped a few years back. Look at my locality. Cable only goes one-way here. Hence, DSL outnumbers it by something like 40:1 as of a few months ago. AOL will lose this round to MSN if they don't get some up-to-date tech.
A lot of people have touted IRIX as being so vastly superior in performance to Linux under these circumstances. It's good to see that Linux has caught up quite a bit. Granted, I'm sure that Irix still has a bit of an edge, since it's well customized for the task, but the race is close enough that Linux is more cost-effective. I've always been a bit leery myself of the concept of one operating system powering everything from PDAs to render farms, but I'm thrilled to see a Free Software product that can scale in both directions so phenomenally.
Congress will fix this.
In the year 2030.
I'm putting up a mirror, I'll let you know when it's up. For every mole they whack, we can put up ten mirrors. Hmmmm... maybe I'll put up ten mirrors. Link them all to each other, raise their ranks for google. Like I said, I'll let you all know when it's up. There ought to be more stories about this soon anyway.
I read somewhere about a plan for using FireWire technology to replace some parts of the internal PCI bus to get rid of the internal bottleneck. Personally, I think that PCI should some day (soon) go the way of ISA. (On a side note, I wish that ISA really would go away. It's time is through.) I really see the need for a faster internal bus. Maybe firewire is the way to go, or maybe not. Something needs to be done, though. As for the outside, I really like USB, because of its utility. The idea that I can use the printer that came with my friend's iMac on my HP laptop is very refreshing. Maybe with USB at higher speeds, we'd have something on the outside that could take advantage of that speed boost, aside from just internal stuff like those gigabit ethernet cards that most of us don't have the hardware to really take advantage of.
This sounds awfully familiar. It's an interface issue, not a functionality issue. I don't have a problem with trademarking an interface (trademark infringement has to be nearly exact to mean anything in court) but an interface paradigm is another matter entirely. They should sue MS and AOL while they're at it. Plenty of other folks using tabs, too many to name. Of course, Amazon took the one-click patent against their biggest competitor, ignoring all else. It would seem to me like this is very selective targeting for Adobe.
Tom's hardware really doesn't like this chip as a power desktop chip, which is what most people look for in any GHz chip these days. It has an absolutley atrocious FPU and no L2 cache. On the other hand, it's designed to run without a fan which could make it an awesome laptop chip, assuming they put in Crusoe/AMD style power saving features. As bad as that FPU is, at a GHz it would be more than made up for by sheer speed in most business applications, as laptops tend to be used for.
Thanks, nice description of the situation. I checked with a relative who's more knowledgable of such things, and it seems Los Alamos was working with an amino acid, probably proline, given it's unique structure. (It contains a 90 degree angle) Given this, we could grow quantum computers with DNA as well.
...a year ago, and it was being done at Los Alamos, and I think it was also a quantum computer, as well. Sadly, I remember precious few details. Does anyone know what I'm talking about, or have I been paying too much attention to the little voices?
I know that AIM for windows has, or at least had, a buffer overflow that AOL was using to verify that people weren't using an MS or Tribal Voice client. I don't trust AOL's IM. I'm not logging in root to do ANYTHING with their software. At least with WordPerfect, they tell you NOT to log in root. I'll stick with the hack, thank you.
I am forced occupationally to use IE quite a bit, but I always use Netscape at home. Given that it's a family computer, and my little sister started crying when she saw saw the login prompt, thinking she had broken something, I had to take Linux off of it. Windows is horribly unstable on this machine and terrible at allocating memory. IE crashes like a 3-wheeled car. Netscape does fine, except for a few particular pages, and one piece of junk e-mail I have. When IE crashes, it takes the whole system with it. I only use IE for the two sites that netscape can't view without crashing. When I do that, I keep netscape open, so I have something resembling a file manager open to re-start explorer when it crashes. I kid you not. This is routine for me now. I would re-install the system to wipe out the crap that my sister installed that's clogging it up, but my parents have forbidden that along with Linux. Anyway, when netscape crashes, it frees up 30-90 MB of physical RAM that was not free before it started. I don't know how or why, but it's very reliable. In fact, every time I start up StarCraft, if I've been running winamp long enough (memory leaks) I'll open up netscape, open that one e-mail it can't handle, wait 10 seconds, ctrl-alt-del and kill it. It gives me all the RAM I need. Is it a bug? Yes, but certainly the lesser of the two evils.
TRADEMARK, not PATENT
The "BigMaq would be a trademark violation" argument is inherently flawed because "Cube" is a noun that factually describes what the product is. To say that "Cube" is a trademark infringement of "Qube" is like saying that IBM should own the trademark on computer, or something crazy like that. If they called it "Little Gray Cube" and someone had a trademark on "Gray Cube" there might be an argument that the name was confusingly similar, but you can't own a single noun like that. They call it the G4 Cube, or the Power Mac Cube. If someone else has something similar to that, Apple would be suing them, not the other way around.
Heaven help us if IBM tried to enforce a trademark on beige boxes.
Actually, most animals would probably have great difficulty with 0g sex, because they don't have any grasping capability, and rely on gravity to provide a stable base so that friction can keep them in the right position. Humans are gifted with the power to grasp, and therefore copulate in space. Of course, dolphins do it swimming, which is a buoyant condition. Maybe they were also intended to travel the universe. Douglas Adams, call your office.
...with the exceptions of those to my ISP to figure out why my proxy was messed up, have gone through servers in Vienna, Virginia, or somewhere within a 20 mile radius of it. I've tried this with several ISPs, and it happens even when connecting to my friend 3 blocks away. Of course, I live in Virginia. Still, I remember our idiot governor once bragging about how 90% of all the world's internet traffic goes through Virginia. As dumb as he may be on policy, I think he's got that statistic right. It's only a two-hour drive to the grand hub of the internet, and we have some really crazy people around here. Think, foreigners, do you want YOUR connections dependent on systems within a stone's throw of the lunatics inside the D.C. beltway?
The name "world wide web" applies to how the content is linked, not the configuration of the land lines. We have an "all roads lead to Rome" situation, and our cross-paths are few and far between.
And if you look carefully, you can see some typos and colloquial errors that you would not expect a native english speaker to make, not to mention german punctuation habits. Still, it's a lot better than babelfish, so I admire the effort. That english is better than I could do the other way around.
I checked the WHOIS database and it would seem that he still has ownership. Hopefully he can get an injunction against the transfer. Regardless of who the domain registrars listen to usually, if they're based in the U.S., they'll listen to a U.S. court. If not, they'll be in much more trouble than the WIPO could ever give them.
I hope he wins this. Just because we need reform doesn't mean we need yet another martyr.
Please? At least when I'm driving down the highway and the guy in front of me is swerving because he's pissed at the person on the other end?
There are many, many sites that have legitimate claim to a domain with "Olympic" in the name. The exceptions are those that use "Olympic" or one of its derivations to leech off the IOC's reputation, and I think Olympicsex might qualify there. Still, there is a very good argument that the term is so widely used, and since the term was originated thousands of years ago, that it may rightly be public domain.
Regardless of whether or not these points are valid, this kind of thing MUST be handled on a case-by-case basis. That's how the American legal system works.
I know HTML and Javascript and all the server-side stuff I would need to do a website like that, but that doesn't mean it would be a good idea. You want your engineers doing their engineering. It's usually worth the extra money to pay someone who specializes in web design. You also generally get some kind of quality assurances when you outsource. If those quality assurances aren't met, you ask for a refund, if you don't get it, you sue.