it seems like there should be something that a resonably motivated and technologically competent group of people could do to push, even if only a little, for further program for mars? i'm thinking something like open source mars mission design. if you take what the Society for Mars is doing with its initial mission specs and open it up to the public. first start with small steps. design hardware and software using something like open source, open design philosophy, you'd have specialists all over the world looking it over, contributing and bug fixing, writing simulators and contributing ideas. here needs to be some money behind this, perhaps from corporate sponsors. and some thing more organized than an internet opensource project. but it doesn't have to be a corporate entity, or a government agency.
Greame Devine of id software posted his opinions on last nights X-Files episode. check it out at blue's finger
but just in case, here is the text:
Name: Graeme Devine
Email: zaphod@idsoftware.com
X-Files. I like X-Files. I didn't like the episode last night -- in fact it was awful. Mr. Gibson, if you want to come down to id and hang out and see how a real developer makes games you are most welcome. Heck, you can even help out on id's next game thereby staying here long enough to get our culture.
>> Therefore, it is at least 13 billion years old.
Wrong. There is nothing to say that the object still exists right now. We wont know that for sure another 13 billion years. Since we have no way to reference the original object right now, all we have of it is some light from 13 billion years ago. The light is old, but it shows a very young quasar.
'speed of light sucks' -- john carmack on inherent network latency, some old wired article.
Does fucking MPAA help the cause?
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As much as this scheme might confuse the MPAA it might also hinder dissemination of information on how to decrypt DVDs. I would think that the goal of OpenDVD and all this DeCSS advocacy would be to promote freedom of information and spread the knowledge to as many people as possible. Obfuscation is counter productive to that goal. MPAA is secondary and in 20 years it wont matter which clueless agency we're fighting with, as long as we know what we're fighting about.
There are many better ways to help DeCSS advocacy. Check out OpenDVD.org . Take a look at this image and a copy of the dvd source code will be saved in your chace inside of a png image.
There is also stuff like Freenet which claims to provide "an information publication system similar to the World Wide Web..[where] it will be virtually impossible to forcibly remove a piece of information". I guess this means something like a distributed information network, where information will be mirrored and spread around the nodes without central control.
But the most important thing you can do, and only a few can i suppose, is to understand what the code does and how it does it. Without understanding it becomes a meaningless banner. So does anybody have any info on how to learn about the inner workings of DVD decryption?
I'm itching to get my hand on this Trillian chick. The compiler technology it the most interesting of all imho. Allow me to draw a long and shaky parallel to Crusoe. Transmeta does runtime code morphing cuz they need to be compatible with the standard. Intel is the standard and while they don't need to do run-time code morphing into another instruction set, the IA-64 sounds like it uses the silicon-to-software theory Transmeta has been yelling about. Here the software optimization is done in the compiler instead in runtime code-morphing layer. The compiler sets up the binary code to be ready to do parallel branch execution, instead of the chip doing speculation as in the current pentium hacks. Data storage speculation and some other tricks are supposedly facilitated by the compiler. So it seems to me like a lot of silicon could be saved by smart compilers, and thats what IA-64 could accomplish.
Of course, if delivered as promised, the Transmeta solution is way cooler, and more practical. Otherwise we'd have to wait till somebody gets apache to recompile on this beast.
personal to Intel: i'd love to be the first one to help.. umm... debug.. your 'open source' software. really i would. all you need to do is send me one of them chips, its open source after all right?
Tech. developments that make Windows Media obsolete (these probably need to be open standards)
The trouble here is that tech. developments come from hardcore reaserch into signal analysis. OSS imho (please give counterexamples!) most often suceeds in making widely understood technology stable and full of features.
Even if we have the Norwegians on our side, MS is pushing its money into research to stay ahead. If you check our Microsoft Research, specifically the internet media section (http://research.microsoft.com/research/china/imed ia/) you'll see what they're up to.
MP3 codecs rely as far as i know on Fourier analysis and, while encoding hard to do well, there are a few open source MPG decoder implementation.
The next version of the MPEG codecs, much like the new JPG2000, is going to be relying on wavelet technology. MPEG-4 uses things like 'shape-adaptive wavelet transforms and scalable shape coding'. Now this stuff is outside the realm of comprehension of a self net-taught hacker like myself (for now! i got me some books to read!), and i suspect it will be a while before this latest research gets implemented in OSS.
Which brings another interesting question: how is the opensource community going to lead in scientific research? Perhaps some notion of open knowledge community, where the knowledge is published, documented and organized for most efficient absorbtion into the neural tissue of the crowds of OSS coders that make this all possible.
meanwhile i'll be getting friendly with Dr.Daubechies and her orthogonal bases.
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it seems like there should be something that a resonably motivated and technologically competent group of people could do to push, even if only a little, for further program for mars? i'm thinking something like open source mars mission design. if you take what the Society for Mars is doing with its initial mission specs and open it up to the public. first start with small steps. design hardware and software using something like open source, open design philosophy, you'd have specialists all over the world looking it over, contributing and bug fixing, writing simulators and contributing ideas. here needs to be some money behind this, perhaps from corporate sponsors. and some thing more organized than an internet opensource project. but it doesn't have to be a corporate entity, or a government agency.
Greame Devine of id software posted his opinions on last nights X-Files episode. check it out at blue's finger
but just in case, here is the text:
flip - out
>> Therefore, it is at least 13 billion years old.
Wrong. There is nothing to say that the object still exists right now. We wont know that for sure another 13 billion years. Since we have no way to reference the original object right now, all we have of it is some light from 13 billion years ago. The light is old, but it shows a very young quasar.
'speed of light sucks'
-- john carmack on inherent network latency, some old wired article.
As much as this scheme might confuse the MPAA it might also hinder dissemination of information on how to decrypt DVDs. I would think that the goal of OpenDVD and all this DeCSS advocacy would be to promote freedom of information and spread the knowledge to as many people as possible. Obfuscation is counter productive to that goal. MPAA is secondary and in 20 years it wont matter which clueless agency we're fighting with, as long as we know what we're fighting about.
There are many better ways to help DeCSS advocacy. Check out OpenDVD.org . Take a look at this image and a copy of the dvd source code will be saved in your chace inside of a png image.
There is also stuff like Freenet which claims to provide "an information publication system similar to the World Wide Web..[where] it will be virtually impossible to forcibly remove a piece of information". I guess this means something like a distributed information network, where information will be mirrored and spread around the nodes without central control.
But the most important thing you can do, and only a few can i suppose, is to understand what the code does and how it does it. Without understanding it becomes a meaningless banner. So does anybody have any info on how to learn about the inner workings of DVD decryption?
I'm itching to get my hand on this Trillian chick.
The compiler technology it the most interesting of all imho. Allow me to draw a long and shaky parallel to Crusoe. Transmeta does runtime code morphing cuz they need to be compatible with the standard. Intel is the standard and while they don't need to do run-time code morphing into another instruction set, the IA-64 sounds like it uses the silicon-to-software theory Transmeta has been yelling about. Here the software optimization is done in the compiler instead in runtime code-morphing layer. The compiler sets up the binary code to be ready to do parallel branch execution, instead of the chip doing speculation as in the current pentium hacks. Data storage speculation and some other tricks are supposedly facilitated by the compiler. So it seems to me like a lot of silicon could be saved by smart compilers, and thats what IA-64 could accomplish.
Of course, if delivered as promised, the Transmeta solution is way cooler, and more practical. Otherwise we'd have to wait till somebody gets apache to recompile on this beast.
personal to Intel: i'd love to be the first one to help.. umm... debug.. your 'open source' software. really i would. all you need to do is send me one of them chips, its open source after all right?
flip - out.
The trouble here is that tech. developments come from hardcore reaserch into signal analysis. OSS imho (please give counterexamples!) most often suceeds in making widely understood technology stable and full of features.
Even if we have the Norwegians on our side, MS is pushing its money into research to stay ahead. If you check our Microsoft Research, specifically the internet media section (http://research.microsoft.com/research/china/imed ia/) you'll see what they're up to.
MP3 codecs rely as far as i know on Fourier analysis and, while encoding hard to do well, there are a few open source MPG decoder implementation.
The next version of the MPEG codecs, much like the new JPG2000, is going to be relying on wavelet technology. MPEG-4 uses things like 'shape-adaptive wavelet transforms and scalable shape coding'. Now this stuff is outside the realm of comprehension of a self net-taught hacker like myself (for now! i got me some books to read!), and i suspect it will be a while before this latest research gets implemented in OSS.
Which brings another interesting question: how is the opensource community going to lead in scientific research? Perhaps some notion of open knowledge community, where the knowledge is published, documented and organized for most efficient absorbtion into the neural tissue of the crowds of OSS coders that make this all possible.
meanwhile i'll be getting friendly with Dr.Daubechies and her orthogonal bases.
flip -out.