He sounds like those phonies who stack their bookshelves just to have a library they'll never even start reading. If art is what he cares about, then form factor is irrelevant. He brings up an interesting point though: digital property has no collection value, due to ease of reproduction. Does anyone know of a way to make digital property collectible?
I do personally think that. However (and this is also an answer to a post below), nuclear weapons cost a lot of money to buy and maintain, so individuals will rarely be able to own them. However, small communities could band together and stockpile such ammo. The way to prevent mentally unstable people from taking your life is to have a community lock, where only a majority could unlock the weapon and use. Say each person gets a key and only if more that 51% of keys are inserted will the weapon detonate. And of course guns will ensure freedom within each such nuclear club.
Which brings us back to nuclear arsenal. Having the ability to blow up every army, FBI, CIA and what have you buildings in the X mile radius will make local if not federal authorities think twice about infringing on your freedom. Now I am not a militia nut, nor do I subscribe to their intolerant views, but when it comes to arming yourself to achieve personal freedom, I sure agree with them.
Chill out. Now I am not a big fan of ESR myself, but I certainly agree with him on the guns issue. I personally believe all weapons including nuclear arsenal should be allowed. The principle on which America was founded is that the combined military power of the people should be overwhelming compared with the entire power of the state, including army police and other institutions. Read federalist papers, man. As for NADA, it's a bit harsh. I would say that it's a pity speeches and interviews for ESR took place of coding. But he did code at one time and his stuff (fetchmail) did and does run on Linux, so once again NADA is a bit harsh.
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Guve the above post a +5 rating. Noone should go for this bait.
Well then there'll be smell, taste and full-body sensory input. For smell and taste you may need the ability to do real-time molecular simulations, then produce arbitrary chemicals faster than a human can percieve. I personally am fascinated with the idea that given enough memory and system speed, one could digitize every atom in a human body. Then, a molecular simulation of such a set of atoms will render a full living human being inside a computer. That'd be the most straightforward pathway to true AI.
I was about to say the same thing, but you beat me to it. Also, some journals allow online access if you subscribe. Either way, it is very convinient and much easier to search and catalog. I honestly thought all fields of research did this.
But I am against a web site for publishing non-peer-reviewed articles. That's what your private web-sites are for.
1. Everything there is to know about Gnome:) Seriously, I think the manual shouldn't be longer than 1000 pages (I presume it'd be in postscript), else it'd be too bulky and overwhelming to be useful. So fit as much as you can in that length. 2. ANSI C specs level of detail and comprehensiveness.
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I was under impression that Carmack's work is essentially open sourced (after a time delay). The actual maps may be proprietary, but the code is released after a while. Could someone give a more precise picture on this.
If you are going to say things like Hydrogen 4, then I suggest you refrain from discussion, because you sound like an excitable layman. Besides that, it is very hard to contain gamma rays. These things penetrate most matter, including relevant quantities of palladium and water. Furthermore, the article was weird in that it denounced "old school" high energy and nuclear physicists, while refering to Teller as a major authority. Lastly, let's not forget that a lot of resentment in scientific community was generated at the outset, when the two brash researchers announced to the world their observations, without waiting for peer review. When people talk about bad science, this is one of the major examples of that, irrespective of whether or not the observations were correct. I am sure a lot of people wanted to prove them wrong just to show that this is not the way you do science.
As far as public forum goes, there were essentially two comments made in all the threads: 1. Yippee and 2. Buy TNT2 to show that Linux brings money. Bruce has posted the third relevant comment, namely: let's nudge other hw makers to release either OS drivers or specs. A relevant thought can hardly be inappropriate, especially since many companies' employees (although not the ones that matter, namely the suits) do read/. Also, personally, BP's mistakes whatever they may have been, have not yet hurt me, while his efforts were somewhat beneficial. That doesn't mean I agree with the OSS definition or like the "join then quit" approach to community leadership, but I do not understand your condescending tone, or your criticisms.
There'll be no battle. RIAA already accepts MP3, they just want it copy protected (i.e. they want to remotely control your music assets, REGARDLESS of format). Thus expect AOL to build RIAA approved switches and triggers into their MP3 clients. If you have no pirated MP3s, do not exchange music with friends and do not rip CDs for personal use then you shouldn't care. I take that back, you will almost certainly have your privacy violated by AOL if you use their software, with or without RIAA involvement. In short, if you love you DIVX player, you'll love the new AOL offering.
I obviously have no clue about this subject. Thus I was wondering: what's wrong with an entire computer in an ice case? You wouldn't need to worry about MB format (AT/ATX), just dip in water and let freeze. You'd then only have to keep the outside of an ice cube below freezing, which your setup already presumably allows for.
I think of zero of energy as the energy of a DC photon, i.e. a photon with zero frequency (obviously a limiting case).
BTW, what did you mean by holding an object quantumly rigid. If that means holding it in a given position in space then it also means not knowing its energy, because its momentum would be undefined.
Negative energy is the same as positive energy except in a world where time is imaginary. In quantum mechanics you often consider such a world as an analytical continuation of the real world. However imaginary time implies (in Minkowski metric) a possibility of negative interval, in other words in such a world two points can be "closer" than the same. This whole "warp drive" business, IMHO, gives new meaning to losing touch with reality.
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You get what you pay for. This crap has negligible resolution, and I don't think it's worth even $10. I don't have a problem with people tinkering. I do have a problem when they start spouting scientific terms which have nothing to do with their stuff. I also do not understand people who like the end result of this particular tinkering project. Lastly, one can build an order of magnitude better system for about the same price. 'Course it won't involve Legos, so some babies out there won't be happy.
This is a crappy scanner, not a modeler. As am STM researcher, I am annoyed at the use of "Scanning Tunneling" combination on their web page. No tunneling is involved here. These people are grossly ignorant. Besides, there is already technology to transfer real shape into computers. High-end studios routinely do this for special effects.
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So does anyone know the MSRP on those?
He sounds like those phonies who stack their bookshelves just to
have a library they'll never even start reading. If art is what he cares
about, then form factor is irrelevant.
He brings up an interesting point though: digital property has no
collection value, due to ease of reproduction. Does anyone know of
a way to make digital property collectible?
>>No one deserves the torture of having to :)
>>work on an iMac
Well, there is one Steve who sure deserves it.
I do personally think that.
However (and this is also an answer to
a post below), nuclear weapons cost a lot
of money to buy and maintain, so individuals
will rarely be able to own them. However,
small communities could band together and
stockpile such ammo. The way to prevent
mentally unstable people from taking your
life is to have a community lock, where
only a majority could unlock the weapon and use.
Say each person gets a key and only if more
that 51% of keys are inserted will the weapon
detonate. And of course guns will ensure
freedom within each such nuclear club.
Which brings us back to nuclear arsenal. Having the ability to blow
up every army, FBI, CIA and what have you buildings in the X mile
radius will make local if not federal authorities think twice about
infringing on your freedom. Now I am not a militia nut, nor do I
subscribe to their intolerant views, but when it comes to arming
yourself to achieve personal freedom, I sure agree with them.
Chill out. Now I am not a big fan of ESR myself, but I certainly agree
with him on the guns issue. I personally believe all weapons including
nuclear arsenal should be allowed. The principle on which America was
founded is that the combined military power of the people should be
overwhelming compared with the entire power of the state, including
army police and other institutions. Read federalist papers, man.
As for NADA, it's a bit harsh. I would say that it's a pity speeches
and interviews for ESR took place of coding. But he did code at one time
and his stuff (fetchmail) did and does run on Linux, so once again
NADA is a bit harsh.
Guve the above post a +5 rating. Noone should go for this bait.
There is source.
Well then there'll be smell, taste and full-body sensory input.
For smell and taste you may need the ability to do real-time
molecular simulations, then produce arbitrary chemicals faster
than a human can percieve.
I personally am fascinated with the idea that given enough
memory and system speed, one could digitize every atom in
a human body. Then, a molecular simulation of such a set of
atoms will render a full living human being inside a computer.
That'd be the most straightforward pathway to true AI.
I was about to say the same thing, but you beat me to it.
Also, some journals allow online access if you subscribe.
Either way, it is very convinient and much easier to search
and catalog. I honestly thought all fields of research did this.
But I am against a web site for publishing non-peer-reviewed
articles. That's what your private web-sites are for.
I'd say that when it comes to java, HP has done much more to
destroy it than all Redmond inhabitants together. This could change
though.
1. Everything there is to know about Gnome :) Seriously, I think
the manual shouldn't be longer than 1000 pages (I presume it'd be
in postscript), else it'd be too bulky and overwhelming to be useful.
So fit as much as you can in that length.
2. ANSI C specs level of detail and comprehensiveness.
I was under impression that Carmack's work
is essentially open sourced (after a time delay).
The actual maps may be proprietary, but the
code is released after a while.
Could someone give a more precise picture on this.
If you are going to say things like Hydrogen 4,
then I suggest you refrain from discussion,
because you sound like an excitable layman.
Besides that, it is very hard to contain gamma
rays. These things penetrate most matter,
including relevant quantities of palladium
and water.
Furthermore, the article was weird in that
it denounced "old school" high energy and nuclear
physicists, while refering to Teller as a major
authority.
Lastly, let's not forget that a lot of
resentment in scientific community was
generated at the outset, when the two brash
researchers announced to the world their
observations, without waiting for peer
review. When people talk about bad science,
this is one of the major examples of that,
irrespective of whether or not the observations
were correct. I am sure a lot of people wanted
to prove them wrong just to show that this is
not the way you do science.
I wouldn't be surprised if a student to
do this would be expelled.
If you build in GPS, your stamp could be tracked in real time.
Satellites will do fine as receivers.
As far as public forum goes, there were /.
essentially two comments made in all the
threads: 1. Yippee and 2. Buy TNT2 to show
that Linux brings money. Bruce has posted
the third relevant comment, namely: let's
nudge other hw makers to release either
OS drivers or specs. A relevant thought can
hardly be inappropriate, especially since
many companies' employees (although not the
ones that matter, namely the suits) do read
Also, personally, BP's mistakes whatever they
may have been, have not yet hurt me, while his
efforts were somewhat beneficial. That doesn't
mean I agree with the OSS definition or like
the "join then quit" approach to community
leadership, but I do not understand your
condescending tone, or your criticisms.
There'll be no battle. RIAA already accepts MP3, they just want it
copy protected (i.e. they want to remotely control your music
assets, REGARDLESS of format). Thus expect AOL to build RIAA
approved switches and triggers into their MP3 clients. If you
have no pirated MP3s, do not exchange music with friends and
do not rip CDs for personal use then you shouldn't care. I take that
back, you will almost certainly have your privacy violated by AOL
if you use their software, with or without RIAA involvement.
In short, if you love you DIVX player, you'll love the new AOL offering.
I obviously have no clue about this
subject. Thus I was wondering: what's
wrong with an entire computer in an
ice case? You wouldn't need to worry
about MB format (AT/ATX), just dip in water
and let freeze. You'd then only have to keep
the outside of an ice cube below freezing,
which your setup already presumably allows for.
I think of zero of energy as the energy of a DC photon, i.e.
a photon with zero frequency (obviously a limiting case).
BTW, what did you mean by holding an object quantumly rigid.
If that means holding it in a given position in space then it also
means not knowing its energy, because its momentum would be
undefined.
Negative energy is the same as positive energy except in a world
where time is imaginary. In quantum mechanics you often consider
such a world as an analytical continuation of the real world. However
imaginary time implies (in Minkowski metric) a possibility of negative
interval, in other words in such a world two points can be "closer" than
the same. This whole "warp drive" business, IMHO, gives new meaning
to losing touch with reality.
Quantum cryptography I presume.
You get what you pay for. This crap has
negligible resolution, and I don't think
it's worth even $10. I don't have a problem
with people tinkering. I do have a problem
when they start spouting scientific terms
which have nothing to do with their stuff.
I also do not understand people who like
the end result of this particular tinkering
project.
Lastly, one can build an order of magnitude
better system for about the same price.
'Course it won't involve Legos, so some
babies out there won't be happy.
This is a crappy scanner, not a modeler.
As am STM researcher, I am annoyed at the
use of "Scanning Tunneling" combination
on their web page. No tunneling is involved here.
These people are grossly ignorant.
Besides, there is already technology to transfer
real shape into computers. High-end studios
routinely do this for special effects.
Dear Larry Ellison,
Get yourself a solid state HD and be happy.