The energy for creating one of these tiny 'puters like SheevaPlug or OpenRD would be only a fraction of the energy needed for making a 'Standard Computer'. Still, thanks for the documented post!
The case you mention dealt with Google showing news from commercial Belgian news sites without the originally displayed ads. Such parsing is commonly ignored for personal purposes, but on Google's scale it's a bit odd, no? I'd like to grab EPG (program guide) data for my mythtv backend, from a commercial website ofcourse cos these data annually cost about 10k EU, so the sites having paid for and hosting the EPG try all they can to avoid such parsing. The same goes with album art from discogs, grabbing DVD covers from IMDB,...
And, wasn't it the CIA who extracted individuals from wherever they please?
http://www.google.com/search?q=CIA+extract+learjet
Why go through the hassle of ordering through court when one can unilaterally deceide to extract suspects from other sovereign countries? Maybe Belgium should just send a Learjet and extract the Yahoo responsables, and question them in some marginal country in exchange for a batch of P90 machineguns.
I don't understand why the technobabble was added: polarization and color information layers [are] no real reason to describe them as "5-dimensional" other than to sound physics-y.
They're 5 dimensions because they're 5 bits stored in the same nanorod. From what I understand 3 parts of the nanorod react to the 3 respective wavelengths they're using. That, and the 2 used states of polarisation (coaxial and transversal), would give indeed 5 bits per nanorod - in database terms 5-dimensional, but not acutally in "5-dimensional space" indeed.
So they are not different physical dimensions at all...
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The energy for creating one of these tiny 'puters like SheevaPlug or OpenRD would be only a fraction of the energy needed for making a 'Standard Computer'.
Still, thanks for the documented post!
Well, Google *does* have quite some offices in Belgium:
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/07/15/2220249 "Google's Chiller-Less Data Center"
The case you mention dealt with Google showing news from commercial Belgian news sites without the originally displayed ads. Such parsing is commonly ignored for personal purposes, but on Google's scale it's a bit odd, no? I'd like to grab EPG (program guide) data for my mythtv backend, from a commercial website ofcourse cos these data annually cost about 10k EU, so the sites having paid for and hosting the EPG try all they can to avoid such parsing. The same goes with album art from discogs, grabbing DVD covers from IMDB, ...
And, wasn't it the CIA who extracted individuals from wherever they please? http://www.google.com/search?q=CIA+extract+learjet Why go through the hassle of ordering through court when one can unilaterally deceide to extract suspects from other sovereign countries? Maybe Belgium should just send a Learjet and extract the Yahoo responsables, and question them in some marginal country in exchange for a batch of P90 machineguns.
I don't understand why the technobabble was added: polarization and color information layers [are] no real reason to describe them as "5-dimensional" other than to sound physics-y.
They're 5 dimensions because they're 5 bits stored in the same nanorod. From what I understand 3 parts of the nanorod react to the 3 respective wavelengths they're using. That, and the 2 used states of polarisation (coaxial and transversal), would give indeed 5 bits per nanorod - in database terms 5-dimensional, but not acutally in "5-dimensional space" indeed. So they are not different physical dimensions at all...