question for you: Do you feel that viewing/watching pr0n is an unfaithful act to a significant other? what about going to strip clubs? what about thinking about someone else during lovemaking with your significant other?
Now when I get the blue screen o death and decide to chuck the box out a 10 story window, the hardrive might still work
Not really. I realize this is a lame-duck attempt at humor, but Maxtor's HD wouldn't survive such abuse. A more practical use for a reliable drive like this would be with machines that have to be moved around a lot. If they could bring down the size a bit, this would be great for laptops.
I have seen (in the field) instances where people actually look for the stereotypical geek/hacker/nerdy/kid for a technical job. They start to expect that this stereotype offers the most knowledge in technology these days. I have seen people that don't trust IT guys in suits, and would rather work with a kid wearing a "I read your email" t-shirt. On more than one engagement I have worked on over the years, I purposely dressed down (jeans, sneaks, t-shirt) to make the person who hired me feel more comfortable.
I'm pretty impressed by how Ron handled this situation. I could understand someone in his position getting a little perturbed when a 'story' like this is leaked to the media. Instead, he put in the time and the effort to teach Leo the falicies of his algorithm. I got the feeling when reading the email conversations that Ron *truly* wants to challenge people to get out there and try to crack RSA...
"Over the next few years, with additional help from other Sandia groups, Heller and Adkins expect to add to the mini-robots either infrared or radio wireless two-way communication capability"
This aspect of robotics interests me the most. Once robots start communicating with each other, researchers will be able to assign one "master" task to a group of robots, then let them figure out the execution (has this been done in labs yet?). Exciting and scary at the same time: where's Neo when you need him?
Hey...its the only thing I could think of besides saying "Can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of these things?"
Actually, a Beowulf cluster of these would suck. Think about it: a gymnasium full of 70 pound machines struggling through a bubble sort.... imagine how many monkeys and typewriters you could fit instead.
actually, its not as easy as you think (thus timothy's question about copying between virtual machines). you would have to rely on a much more covert means of communication that a simple copy and paste. see this post.
good point. I also wonder how resilient these microscopic fans could be. A computer has to be expected to withstand a few jolts/kicks/bumps and still function normally. A new technology such as this may bring about dramatic case redesign (yeah modders!)
"Yet ribbon microphones remain popular today "because their unique transparent sound quality was better than carbon and early condenser microphones," says audio engineer Bob Speiden, whose own ribbon microphones, developed in the 1980s, are still manufactured by Royer Labs. "
I dunno...doesn't seem dead to me. What qualifies as a dead technology to these folks? This is still being used and produced today.
Notice that Cogent states on their website: ". This congfiguration enables Cogent to offer each customer a fully dedicated, non-oversubscribed 100 Mbps connection that is not shared with anyone else. "
They do not guarentee this bandwidth anywhere I can see. I am running into a problem with my current ISP related to this: bandwidth sucks, and they keep telling me there's nothing they can do...nothing was contractually guarenteed. So needless to say, I'm searching for a new ISP...
Seems like they are trying to bundle too much together in one device, so much that this thing would be realistic to use. Case in point: I use my mp3 player at the gym....its great because its tiny and can hold a substantial amount of music. I don't want to carry around a phone/pda/camera/mp3/coffee maker to the gym with me. Its small inconveniences like this that will kill the market for devices such as these.
from the securedelivery website:
The encryption of these messages is normally done with public-key encryption.
What is a normal condition?
What is the encryption algorithm?
Does anyone else see a problem here? One of the more widely used email services using shoddy encryption?
I don't think that I could remember my favorite five websites if they were numerically addressable. I understand the point that trying to memorize a bunch of web addresses can be difficult, but it seems like making them from phone numbers is taking a step backwards.
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yeah, i know! happy, happy, joy, joy.
This would be a great technology for condoms.
question for you: Do you feel that viewing/watching pr0n is an unfaithful act to a significant other? what about going to strip clubs? what about thinking about someone else during lovemaking with your significant other?
where do you draw the line?
Now when I get the blue screen o death and decide to chuck the box out a 10 story window, the hardrive might still work
Not really. I realize this is a lame-duck attempt at humor, but Maxtor's HD wouldn't survive such abuse. A more practical use for a reliable drive like this would be with machines that have to be moved around a lot. If they could bring down the size a bit, this would be great for laptops.
or at least Clay Johnson thinks so.
http://www.slashdotsucks.org/
I have seen (in the field) instances where people actually look for the stereotypical geek/hacker/nerdy/kid for a technical job. They start to expect that this stereotype offers the most knowledge in technology these days. I have seen people that don't trust IT guys in suits, and would rather work with a kid wearing a "I read your email" t-shirt. On more than one engagement I have worked on over the years, I purposely dressed down (jeans, sneaks, t-shirt) to make the person who hired me feel more comfortable.
If we had an obfuscated post contest --> you would be in the top ten ;-)
How long till Katz starts writing a Greek Tragedy about this?
I'm pretty impressed by how Ron handled this situation. I could understand someone in his position getting a little perturbed when a 'story' like this is leaked to the media. Instead, he put in the time and the effort to teach Leo the falicies of his algorithm. I got the feeling when reading the email conversations that Ron *truly* wants to challenge people to get out there and try to crack RSA...
"Over the next few years, with additional help from other Sandia groups, Heller and Adkins expect to add to the mini-robots either infrared or radio wireless two-way communication capability"
This aspect of robotics interests me the most. Once robots start communicating with each other, researchers will be able to assign one "master" task to a group of robots, then let them figure out the execution (has this been done in labs yet?). Exciting and scary at the same time: where's Neo when you need him?
Hey...its the only thing I could think of besides saying "Can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of these things?"
Actually, a Beowulf cluster of these would suck. Think about it: a gymnasium full of 70 pound machines struggling through a bubble sort.... imagine how many monkeys and typewriters you could fit instead.
actually, its not as easy as you think (thus timothy's question about copying between virtual machines). you would have to rely on a much more covert means of communication that a simple copy and paste. see this post.
Plastic IC's? Holographic storage?
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speculation for nerds. speculation that matters.
good point. I also wonder how resilient these microscopic fans could be. A computer has to be expected to withstand a few jolts/kicks/bumps and still function normally. A new technology such as this may bring about dramatic case redesign (yeah modders!)
Didn't you just describe everything2?
The link in the post erroneously points to CES International, a company that provides B2B ORM solutions. The correct CES URL.
"Yet ribbon microphones remain popular today "because their unique transparent sound quality was better than carbon and early condenser microphones," says audio engineer Bob Speiden, whose own ribbon microphones, developed in the 1980s, are still manufactured by Royer Labs. "
I dunno...doesn't seem dead to me. What qualifies as a dead technology to these folks? This is still being used and produced today.
the technology is called CMOS9S not CMOS 99
This is allow chip performance to be increased
:-]
Going to 0.13 circuitry get smaller
these guys must have went to the same grammer school
except for the part that it runs commercials while you browse
its still free to use.... commercials or no commercials.
Notice that Cogent states on their website: ". This congfiguration enables Cogent to offer each customer a fully dedicated, non-oversubscribed 100 Mbps connection that is not shared with anyone else. "
They do not guarentee this bandwidth anywhere I can see. I am running into a problem with my current ISP related to this: bandwidth sucks, and they keep telling me there's nothing they can do...nothing was contractually guarenteed. So needless to say, I'm searching for a new ISP...
depends. how expensive is this all-in-one smart phone? and yes, i would rather pay more for separate components, so i have the choice of what I want.
silly views are called opinions.
Seems like they are trying to bundle too much together in one device, so much that this thing would be realistic to use. Case in point: I use my mp3 player at the gym....its great because its tiny and can hold a substantial amount of music. I don't want to carry around a phone/pda/camera/mp3/coffee maker to the gym with me. Its small inconveniences like this that will kill the market for devices such as these.
from the securedelivery website: The encryption of these messages is normally done with public-key encryption.
What is a normal condition?
What is the encryption algorithm?
Does anyone else see a problem here? One of the more widely used email services using shoddy encryption?
I don't think that I could remember my favorite five websites if they were numerically addressable. I understand the point that trying to memorize a bunch of web addresses can be difficult, but it seems like making them from phone numbers is taking a step backwards.