So, we're too complex for a fairly "new" field. I doubt "God" engineered us in a few decades.
Don't knock on AI until you understand it. Everything in the world can be simulated with an algorithm; it's just a matter of how many millions, billions, or trillions of lines of code it takes.
Although lesbian comedian Kate Clinton concedes that some people could use Gaydar for all the wrong reasons, she prefers to see the fun side.
"I would insist on the vibrating function," she says.
How the hell would you use a pager to:
a) store several MB files
b) play those media files
c) transfer these said files
I'm not bashing you and this isn't a personal attack, but I think when you use "pager" it's just a bit deceptive (unless you mean "pager ~= electronic handheld device ~= PC);-)
Oh the filters I'd need to setup to make this "beneficial" auto-P2P work on handhelds!
The music I like tends to be of the classic_rock/alternative/modern_rock variety. However, not all of the groups in those categories have songs that I like.
So how much time would one have to spend in order to automatically download the songs they *want* to listen to rather than the songs that are simply within a 1/4 mile or their present location?
Would this filter system be something that the algorithm can slowly learn (thus no work for me), or would I have to create 200 different rules about the music I like?
Storage on PDAs is less than massive and they're not the easiest devices to upgrade.
Yeah, I don't understand this newfangled moderation paradigm of punishing those who make a text mirror via commenting in case a server crashes. In the last few days it takes more than two hands to count the number of times servers have died out, some just seconds after being posted.
Perhaps all negative moderations should be deemed "Unfair" in M2, as someone has suggested.
The answer to your question is "no one". My college mail server caps attachments at around two megabytes or so that last time I checked.
I'd venture to guess that the primary means of file transfer for movies and music these days among general (l)users is through instant messaging software like AOL Instant Messenger.
In fact, they now have a standard feature that allows you to 'directly connect' to a friend and drag & drop media files into the chat window, simultaneously sending it to them.
Instant messaging will not be going away ever^H^H^H^H for a very long time.
Text of the article in case server dies...
on
The Napsterization of TV
·
· Score: 1, Informative
The television industry is running scared
By Hiawatha Bray, Globe Staff, 2/4/2002
Like some universal solvent, digital technology seems to dissolve practically everything it touches.
The music recording moguls learned it the hard way, as consumers swapped favorite tunes on Napster and burned pirate CD recordings. Now it's the TV industry's turn, as the digitizers apply their corrosive talents to copying videos.
You can smell the aroma of panic wafting from the federal courtroom in Los Angeles where some major TV producers filed suit against SonicblueInc. The California company makes Replay TV, a digital video recorder with features that may delight consumers but terrify broadcasters. For instance, the latest version of Replay TV can let the viewer skip over TV commercials without a glance. Moreover, the device allows users to send copies of favorite shows over the Internet.
Scary stuff for any company looking to protect its intellectual property. But even if you think the broadcasters have a point, it's hard to see how their lawsuit will put a stop to this sort of thing. Especially when you consider that millions of personal computers are capable of similar feats.
In essence, Replay TV is a modified personal computer that uses a custom-designed processor to digitize and compress video data and sling it onto a hard drive. Several years ago, when the first such machines were being designed, standard PC processors lacked the muscle to do this work reasonably well. Besides, who'd want to clutter up a PC hard drive with a bunch of old TV shows?
But that was before Pentium 4s and Athlon XPs, monster chips with clock speeds above one gigahertz. The hard drives got bigger as well; you can buy 100 gigabytes for around $300. Then there are the CD burners that are now standard equipment on home PCs. A high-speed burner can copy 800 megabytes of data in just a few minutes.
In short, any late-model PC can double as a Replay TV. All that's needed is a way to pump the TV signal into the computer and the software to digitize and compress it. You can now add both these accessories to a computer for less than $100.
TV tuner cards for computers have been available for at least a decade and generally sell for about $50. The cards connect to a home TV cable or broadcast antenna, and let the user watch TV in an on-screen window, while running other computer tasks in the background.
The last piece of the mosaic fell into place last year, when Houston-based SnapStream Media unveiled its Personal Video Station software for recording TV shows on the PC. SnapStream PVS lets the user punch in time and channel information, then order the computer to copy the show. It's even simpler if the computer is connected to the Internet. The user goes to a Web site that displays local TV listings. Click on the videotape icon next to each show, and the PVS software is set to record the program in Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Media format.
Like the traditional VCR, SnapStream PVS can be confusing to set up and use. But it works. Video quality varies by how much you compress the signal. A half hour of VHS-quality video takes up about 270 megabytes. If your hard drive can stand it, you can make higher-quality copies.
The SnapStream software costs a mere $50 and can be downloaded from the company's Web site, www.snapstream.com. Since most PCs don't have TV tuner cards, SnapStream also peddles a hardware and software bundle in retail stores for $90.
Adding TiVo-like capabilities to a PC allows for a variety of paradigm-busting applications. Say you've got multiple computers in your home, all networked together. The SnapStream software contains a built-in network server, so you can watch a recorded program on any PC in the house. Suppose you own a palm-top computer that runs Microsoft's Pocket PC operating system. You can download a SnapStream video and watch it during the morning commute.
There's just one thing missing - a way to connect the computer to your living room. SnapStream plans to offer just such a device, equipped with WiFi-based wireless networking. In effect, the PC will broadcast programs to the TV.
There's nothing to stop you sharing SnapStream videos over the Internet. Nothing but bandwidth, that is. Most high-speed home Internet services allow rapid downloads, but relatively slow uploads. It'd take all day to send an episode of ''Babylon 5'' at today's speeds. So there's little chance that TV shows will be Napsterized - for now.
But you can certainly burn favorite shows onto CDs and swap them around. Besides, the broadband lines serving universities and businesses are high speed in both directions, and video swappers seem to be using them. Already you can find a great deal of pirated video material online.
If SnapStream gets installed on millions of PCs, there'll be plenty more. And the TV moguls will find themselves knee deep in the digital acid bath.
Species rescue program faces extinction
"You can't create biodiversity. But it's something you can lose"... Professor Alan Trounson in the Gene Bank. Photo: Simon Schluter
By Tom Noble
A program that saves the genetic material of threatened animal species faces a bleak future because of a lack of money.
The Gene Bank at the Monash Institute of Reproduction and Development has material from thousands of animals in storage, mostly native species facing extinction.
But work on storing new specimens and developing cloning techniques that could mean the survival of some species has been slowed because of no direct funding and little interest from corporate or private sponsors.
"I think it does say a little about our priorities, which I think is sad," said Alan Trounson, IVF pioneer and deputy director of the research institute that is a world leader in IVF and stem cell work.
"I don't know how many boardrooms we've been in, how many people we've seen... we always get a good hearing, but not the support financially."
A key project has been on the northern hairy-nosed wombat, which once roamed across large areas of Victoria, Queensland and NSW. It is now Australia's most endangered mammal with fewer than 100 remaining, confined to a small area of the Epping Forest National Park in central Queensland.
The wombat's only hope of survival may lie in a silver barrel at the Gene Bank, where cell lines from more than 40 of the wombats (grown from little bits of flesh when the animals were given ear-tags) sit cryogenically frozen, ready to be cloned when the technology becomes available.
Set up in 1996 with a Federal Government grant and corporate sponsorship, the Gene Bank - dubbed a Noah's Ark of endangered animals - began by storing sperm and eggs taken from endangered animals that had died, often in zoos. The advent of cloning meant any part of the animal would do, as long as cell lines could be grown.
The cells of thousands of animals - mostly natives, but other endangered species such as the African black rhino - from dozens of species are now stored.
A modest amount of money has allowed the Gene Bank to survive, diverted from other institute programs. "It's been put into neutral for the time being," said Professor Trounson.
Requests from NSW authorities to store native fish taken during a clean-out of rivers, as well as an oyster species threatened by pollution and disease, cannot be met.
The Gene Bank, the only one of its type in Australia, has lost its technician and the laboratories used for the program face being taken over by a well-funded program on cattle breeding.
"You can't create biodiversity. But it's something you can lose," says Professor Trounson. "Every animal we lose that doesn't have a common close relative is a big problem. It's something you can never get back."
Since European settlement, at least 19 animal, 20 bird and three amphibian species have become extinct in Australia. Hundreds of species are now regarded as threatened.
"The community don't seem to care really deeply about biodiversity because they are not facing it every day. But it's a big concern among naturalists, conservationists and scientists. There's a decimation of these species."
The Perl Mongers have announced
that they are starting a new
magazine called The Perl Review
(not to be confused with the
literary journal Pearl, or pearls,
the precious white stones found
deep in the ocean, or Minnie Pearl
(Eddie Vedder's grandmother), or
the color pearl, or the alternative
rock group Pearl Jam, or Pearl the
drum company, or...).
--
% light.exe | decipherResults
Red light has a large resolution
Blue light has a very small resolution
-Therefore blue light methods allow more compact data storage on an optical disc-
%
I apologize for this post...too much caffeine in me...
You might not believe me but I honestly cannot get to that site. Everything else on the Net appears to load fine. This is quite an odd problem. Perhaps they don't like Bucknell people and have blocked our IP block;-)
The site is very detailed, with lots of cool screenshots including this one of the completed machine, and this one showing the machine is still working.
But do they have pics of their server up in smoke after a mid-Sunday Slashdotting?
Slashdot Mirror
So, we're too complex for a fairly "new" field. I doubt "God" engineered us in a few decades.
Don't knock on AI until you understand it. Everything in the world can be simulated with an algorithm; it's just a matter of how many millions, billions, or trillions of lines of code it takes.
Worse, my friend. X = 24th letter, so Palm's is almost 5 times weaker! (a joke at those who don't realize the X stands for the Roman numeral "10" ;-))
From the article:
Although lesbian comedian Kate Clinton concedes that some people could use Gaydar for all the wrong reasons, she prefers to see the fun side.
"I would insist on the vibrating function," she says.
oh dear...
How the hell would you use a pager to:
;-)
a) store several MB files
b) play those media files
c) transfer these said files
I'm not bashing you and this isn't a personal attack, but I think when you use "pager" it's just a bit deceptive (unless you mean "pager ~= electronic handheld device ~= PC)
Oh the filters I'd need to setup to make this "beneficial" auto-P2P work on handhelds!
The music I like tends to be of the classic_rock/alternative/modern_rock variety. However, not all of the groups in those categories have songs that I like.
So how much time would one have to spend in order to automatically download the songs they *want* to listen to rather than the songs that are simply within a 1/4 mile or their present location?
Would this filter system be something that the algorithm can slowly learn (thus no work for me), or would I have to create 200 different rules about the music I like?
Storage on PDAs is less than massive and they're not the easiest devices to upgrade.
I won't disagree, but which is stronger as a "desktop OS"?
That's where Linux shines compared to the *BSDs. Sure, use it on your headless servers, but for a b0x at home, most simply prefer Linux.
You don't give up, do you?
Impressive.
Yeah, I don't understand this newfangled moderation paradigm of punishing those who make a text mirror via commenting in case a server crashes. In the last few days it takes more than two hands to count the number of times servers have died out, some just seconds after being posted.
Perhaps all negative moderations should be deemed "Unfair" in M2, as someone has suggested.
Congrats on your first "+1, Informative" moderation in a long time ;-)
- Eric
The answer to your question is "no one". My college mail server caps attachments at around two megabytes or so that last time I checked.
I'd venture to guess that the primary means of file transfer for movies and music these days among general (l)users is through instant messaging software like AOL Instant Messenger.
In fact, they now have a standard feature that allows you to 'directly connect' to a friend and drag & drop media files into the chat window, simultaneously sending it to them.
Instant messaging will not be going away ever^H^H^H^H for a very long time.
The television industry is running scared
By Hiawatha Bray, Globe Staff, 2/4/2002
Like some universal solvent, digital technology seems to dissolve practically everything it touches.
The music recording moguls learned it the hard way, as consumers swapped favorite tunes on Napster and burned pirate CD recordings. Now it's the TV industry's turn, as the digitizers apply their corrosive talents to copying videos.
You can smell the aroma of panic wafting from the federal courtroom in Los Angeles where some major TV producers filed suit against SonicblueInc. The California company makes Replay TV, a digital video recorder with features that may delight consumers but terrify broadcasters. For instance, the latest version of Replay TV can let the viewer skip over TV commercials without a glance. Moreover, the device allows users to send copies of favorite shows over the Internet.
Scary stuff for any company looking to protect its intellectual property. But even if you think the broadcasters have a point, it's hard to see how their lawsuit will put a stop to this sort of thing. Especially when you consider that millions of personal computers are capable of similar feats.
In essence, Replay TV is a modified personal computer that uses a custom-designed processor to digitize and compress video data and sling it onto a hard drive. Several years ago, when the first such machines were being designed, standard PC processors lacked the muscle to do this work reasonably well. Besides, who'd want to clutter up a PC hard drive with a bunch of old TV shows?
But that was before Pentium 4s and Athlon XPs, monster chips with clock speeds above one gigahertz. The hard drives got bigger as well; you can buy 100 gigabytes for around $300. Then there are the CD burners that are now standard equipment on home PCs. A high-speed burner can copy 800 megabytes of data in just a few minutes.
In short, any late-model PC can double as a Replay TV. All that's needed is a way to pump the TV signal into the computer and the software to digitize and compress it. You can now add both these accessories to a computer for less than $100.
TV tuner cards for computers have been available for at least a decade and generally sell for about $50. The cards connect to a home TV cable or broadcast antenna, and let the user watch TV in an on-screen window, while running other computer tasks in the background.
The last piece of the mosaic fell into place last year, when Houston-based SnapStream Media unveiled its Personal Video Station software for recording TV shows on the PC. SnapStream PVS lets the user punch in time and channel information, then order the computer to copy the show. It's even simpler if the computer is connected to the Internet. The user goes to a Web site that displays local TV listings. Click on the videotape icon next to each show, and the PVS software is set to record the program in Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Media format.
Like the traditional VCR, SnapStream PVS can be confusing to set up and use. But it works. Video quality varies by how much you compress the signal. A half hour of VHS-quality video takes up about 270 megabytes. If your hard drive can stand it, you can make higher-quality copies.
The SnapStream software costs a mere $50 and can be downloaded from the company's Web site, www.snapstream.com. Since most PCs don't have TV tuner cards, SnapStream also peddles a hardware and software bundle in retail stores for $90.
Adding TiVo-like capabilities to a PC allows for a variety of paradigm-busting applications. Say you've got multiple computers in your home, all networked together. The SnapStream software contains a built-in network server, so you can watch a recorded program on any PC in the house. Suppose you own a palm-top computer that runs Microsoft's Pocket PC operating system. You can download a SnapStream video and watch it during the morning commute.
There's just one thing missing - a way to connect the computer to your living room. SnapStream plans to offer just such a device, equipped with WiFi-based wireless networking. In effect, the PC will broadcast programs to the TV.
There's nothing to stop you sharing SnapStream videos over the Internet. Nothing but bandwidth, that is. Most high-speed home Internet services allow rapid downloads, but relatively slow uploads. It'd take all day to send an episode of ''Babylon 5'' at today's speeds. So there's little chance that TV shows will be Napsterized - for now.
But you can certainly burn favorite shows onto CDs and swap them around. Besides, the broadband lines serving universities and businesses are high speed in both directions, and video swappers seem to be using them. Already you can find a great deal of pirated video material online.
If SnapStream gets installed on millions of PCs, there'll be plenty more. And the TV moguls will find themselves knee deep in the digital acid bath.
Species rescue program faces extinction ... Professor Alan Trounson in the Gene Bank. Photo: Simon Schluter
... we always get a good hearing, but not the support financially."
"You can't create biodiversity. But it's something you can lose"
By Tom Noble
A program that saves the genetic material of threatened animal species faces a bleak future because of a lack of money.
The Gene Bank at the Monash Institute of Reproduction and Development has material from thousands of animals in storage, mostly native species facing extinction.
But work on storing new specimens and developing cloning techniques that could mean the survival of some species has been slowed because of no direct funding and little interest from corporate or private sponsors.
"I think it does say a little about our priorities, which I think is sad," said Alan Trounson, IVF pioneer and deputy director of the research institute that is a world leader in IVF and stem cell work.
"I don't know how many boardrooms we've been in, how many people we've seen
A key project has been on the northern hairy-nosed wombat, which once roamed across large areas of Victoria, Queensland and NSW. It is now Australia's most endangered mammal with fewer than 100 remaining, confined to a small area of the Epping Forest National Park in central Queensland.
The wombat's only hope of survival may lie in a silver barrel at the Gene Bank, where cell lines from more than 40 of the wombats (grown from little bits of flesh when the animals were given ear-tags) sit cryogenically frozen, ready to be cloned when the technology becomes available.
Set up in 1996 with a Federal Government grant and corporate sponsorship, the Gene Bank - dubbed a Noah's Ark of endangered animals - began by storing sperm and eggs taken from endangered animals that had died, often in zoos. The advent of cloning meant any part of the animal would do, as long as cell lines could be grown.
The cells of thousands of animals - mostly natives, but other endangered species such as the African black rhino - from dozens of species are now stored.
A modest amount of money has allowed the Gene Bank to survive, diverted from other institute programs. "It's been put into neutral for the time being," said Professor Trounson.
Requests from NSW authorities to store native fish taken during a clean-out of rivers, as well as an oyster species threatened by pollution and disease, cannot be met.
The Gene Bank, the only one of its type in Australia, has lost its technician and the laboratories used for the program face being taken over by a well-funded program on cattle breeding.
"You can't create biodiversity. But it's something you can lose," says Professor Trounson. "Every animal we lose that doesn't have a common close relative is a big problem. It's something you can never get back."
Since European settlement, at least 19 animal, 20 bird and three amphibian species have become extinct in Australia. Hundreds of species are now regarded as threatened.
"The community don't seem to care really deeply about biodiversity because they are not facing it every day. But it's a big concern among naturalists, conservationists and scientists. There's a decimation of these species."
SecurityFocus Says Windows More Secure Than Linux
In related news, we've just sent flying swines down to Hell. Initial reports from Satan's lair indicate a cold front moving through.
inteligent writing is hard to find in general, and so this is very welcome news.
Yuo kan shore say that agian!
The Perl Mongers have announced
that they are starting a new
magazine called The Perl Review
(not to be confused with the
literary journal Pearl, or pearls,
the precious white stones found
deep in the ocean, or Minnie Pearl
(Eddie Vedder's grandmother), or
the color pearl, or the alternative
rock group Pearl Jam, or Pearl the
drum company, or...).
Hmmm, I've never heard of this, but based on my physics knowledge, I'd assume:
from 'light.cc'
--
light redLight, blueLight;
redLight.setWavelength(700nm);
blueLight.setWavelength(400nm);
redLight.getResolution();
blueLight.getResolution();
--
% light.exe | decipherResults
Red light has a large resolution
Blue light has a very small resolution
-Therefore blue light methods allow more compact data storage on an optical disc-
%
I apologize for this post...too much caffeine in me...
You might not believe me but I honestly cannot get to that site. Everything else on the Net appears to load fine. This is quite an odd problem. Perhaps they don't like Bucknell people and have blocked our IP block ;-)
My own intelligent mind feels that open source intelligence isn't very intelligent.
I hate you people!
This is the second time today that a new story has been Slashdotted almost simultaneously as it was posted to the main page.
You people need to venture out into the real world once in awhile.
;-)
That's because you drink Diet Dr. Pepper ;)
"Slashdot: News for Nerds. Stuff that matters"? Hey I love slashdot, but let's face it. It's "Slashdot: We like Linux. Not much else."
I'll let you in on a secret. Our slogan's actually "Slashdot: We like Linux, Despair calendars, geek t-shirts, Eclipse workstation lights, binary clocks, penguin ties, LOTR, Star Wars, caffeine, Lian-Li aluminum cases, portable mp3 players, laser pointers, optical mice, LCD screens, NERF toys, anime, and pr0n."
There's got to be a market for mass-produced decent looking PC cases.
There is
The site is very detailed, with lots of cool screenshots including this one of the completed machine, and this one showing the machine is still working.
But do they have pics of their server up in smoke after a mid-Sunday Slashdotting?
On that basis, I echo the original query about how it can be economical to use RAM...
Google's like the "Neuman" (Seinfeld) of cyberspace. "When you control the web, you control the world!"
They probably just trade higher search status for sticks of RAM.
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