We have a shop of forty seats, we run 6 xserves as well as an Xraid. All of our needs are met with these machines which span from first generation to third generation servers. All run 10.3 and we've never had any problem. Nope I take that back, we had one drive failure, but it was a mirrored drive, so not so many worries.
I am not sure what your real disqualification is though? Its a BSD unix, running a series of open source services on it?
Just like everything else with Apple lately, fantastic hardware and software and a moderate price. Works for us.
Slashdotters are linking it to internet freedom because of the rampant anti communist feelings around.
Well I am not sure that that is accurate. I doubt seriously that there is an anti-communist movement, rather a dislike for China's approach to it's citizens. There is nothing in the methodology of Communism that states that no one can have civil liberties or freedoms. Yet China's form of Communism (which has played very differently on many levels from the USSR's version of Communism) seem's particularly borne on maintaining an ignorant and subservient populace. There is nothing in the theoretical tenants of Communism that state it's citizens should not be informed and should only be allowed information deemed appropriate by the Homeland Government, yet that is what China is doing. So I think it's a repulsion to China's behavior towards it's citizens rather than it's form of Government.
Most forms of Government seem to be a ruse by those that are holding the reigns anyway. The USA is marching in lockstep toward all that they fought and died against for the last 100 years. It's citizens don't seem to care or notice. Maybe people yearn to be oppressed, so that they have something to complain about. Something to fight about. Maybe those with power know that and give it to their masses.
As for the anonymity of surfing in an internet cafe as opposed to home, there isn't any, since the government could just required all net cafe to keep a log of their patrons. China have universal ID cards so that won't be hard.
Actually, the point of the article was that this was an unlicensed Internet Cafe. Which also as the article states, many are. The reason for this is that people can surf at these unregulated/unlicensed Cafe's without reprisal. So if this was a legal establishment, yes the government would probably require them to hand over all logs on a reoccurring basis. But this wasn't the case, so you are arguing an unrelated point.
Just think about what would happen if this was in the US. Kids die in illegal net cafe/pub/dance party warehouse because there aren't any fire exits. Wouldn't you think the parents will all be in an outrage to close all these unsafe places down?
Let's see, let's first assume there is an article like this in the World press:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-paci fi c/newsid_2027000/2027120.stm (for lazy clickers, title is "China loses grip on internet" and has choice quotes like:
"Today patriotism in China means loving the Party and loving Socialism," said one contributor. "You can destroy China's environment, but you can't criticise the Party."
"For the first time ever the internet is allowing people from every corner of China to engage with each other in conversation and debate. And it is changing China in other ways too.")
Ok, but now we'll adjust this so that it's in the US and it's a Pub/Dance party? OK so apparently all that dancing is making those US. Kids wake up to the international thought pool which...nope I can't even try here. You can't compare them. The point is, you can look around and say there is nothing going on or you can look around and draw lines between events. Sometimes these things add up peculiarly. This is one of those times. Read this series of articles and draw your own conclusions:
China's net generation http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world /asia-pacifi c/newsid_1455000/1455943.stm
Chinese webmaster tried for subversion http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world /asia-pacifi c/newsid_1496000/1496107.stm
China net use soars http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/n ewsid_1 814000/1814281.stm
China moves to block internet portals http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business /newsid_2 029000/2029152.stm
China cracks down on cybercafes http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world /asia-pacifi c/newsid_1668000/1668335.stm
China loses grip on internet http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/a sia-pacifi c/newsid_2027000/2027120.stm
And then finally the one that this article is about:
Beijing cyber cafes closed down http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia- pacifi c/newsid_2048000/2048467.stm
I suppose everyones sociological math is different, but mine adds up to something more than "The Government is just protecting it's citizens from Cafes that can't follow OSHA codes."
There's my.02c Spend it on something good.
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Actually we are seeing humanoid robots now.
http://www.honda-p3.com/
These are pretty unnerving when you see the videos of them in action. What they are missing is any real intelligence, which is taken care of here:
http://www.ai.mit.edu/research/projects/projects .s html
And here:
http://www.ai.sri.com/
And about five dozen other busy places. What we need to make this stuff happen is miniaturization and then incorporation of all of these separate elements.
We apparently even have artificial muscles to hang on our titanium robot skeletons:
Now if we have these pieces today, you don't think in another 23 years, say that again to yourself, 23 years, that we won't be able to figure out how to put all these puzzle pieces together to create a robot that gets the big picture?
I think that is a pretty dead on estimate.
As far as why factory workers for humanoid robots, because as you pointed out, some factory conditions are conducive to a series of robotic arms, but some factory jobs require a bit more dexterity than that. Some dangerous factory jobs would be much better suited for a team of humanoid robots than people. It's all about the flexibility you get from an autonomous humanoid critter than being locked down to a series of arms.
And yes you could make an argument that the human form isn't necessarily the best design for maximum flexibility, but actually this planet disagrees. We are doing what we doing today because it IS currently the best shape, so it would be in our best interest to try to imitate what we know works before we try to do the impossible.
Maybe they have been improving it diligently for the past 6 years and are about to make the Above referenced article actually seem topical.
And maybe it will do what thousands of other brilliant research projects have done at universities. Age ungracefully, alone, and silent to be a once promising shooting star and now a faded meteorite.
Actually what you are sad about is that Apple is apparently forging new road. That new road this time is a completely new hardware paradigm. That 5gb Hard Drive they crammed in there is not the run of the mill Maxtor crap you can get at staples for a dollar. This is a hard drive smaller than the ones in the smallest portables to date. This is state of the art, not status quo packed into a big shiny box.
PC manufacturers typically have less expensive products because they buy what is common (parts-wise) and make a sucky product. Apple chose to buy the best, in order to make the best.
So now instead of the 500 dollars you were going to spend on two (one for each ear maybe) you will have to settle for one. Oh that's right, you can only buy two of them or nothing, I guess Johnny get none...So sad.
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We have a shop of forty seats, we run 6 xserves as well as an Xraid. All of our needs are met with these machines which span from first generation to third generation servers. All run 10.3 and we've never had any problem. Nope I take that back, we had one drive failure, but it was a mirrored drive, so not so many worries.
I am not sure what your real disqualification is though? Its a BSD unix, running a series of open source services on it?
Just like everything else with Apple lately, fantastic hardware and software and a moderate price. Works for us.
Well I am not sure that that is accurate. I doubt seriously that there is an anti-communist movement, rather a dislike for China's approach to it's citizens. There is nothing in the methodology of Communism that states that no one can have civil liberties or freedoms. Yet China's form of Communism (which has played very differently on many levels from the USSR's version of Communism) seem's particularly borne on maintaining an ignorant and subservient populace. There is nothing in the theoretical tenants of Communism that state it's citizens should not be informed and should only be allowed information deemed appropriate by the Homeland Government, yet that is what China is doing. So I think it's a repulsion to China's behavior towards it's citizens rather than it's form of Government.
Most forms of Government seem to be a ruse by those that are holding the reigns anyway. The USA is marching in lockstep toward all that they fought and died against for the last 100 years. It's citizens don't seem to care or notice. Maybe people yearn to be oppressed, so that they have something to complain about. Something to fight about. Maybe those with power know that and give it to their masses.
Actually, the point of the article was that this was an unlicensed Internet Cafe. Which also as the article states, many are. The reason for this is that people can surf at these unregulated/unlicensed Cafe's without reprisal. So if this was a legal establishment, yes the government would probably require them to hand over all logs on a reoccurring basis. But this wasn't the case, so you are arguing an unrelated point.
Let's see, let's first assume there is an article like this in the World press:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pac
(for lazy clickers, title is "China loses grip on internet" and has choice quotes like:
"Today patriotism in China means loving the Party and loving Socialism," said one contributor. "You can destroy China's environment, but you can't criticise the Party."
"For the first time ever the internet is allowing people from every corner of China to engage with each other in conversation and debate. And it is changing China in other ways too.")
Ok, but now we'll adjust this so that it's in the US and it's a Pub/Dance party? OK so apparently all that dancing is making those US. Kids wake up to the international thought pool which...nope I can't even try here. You can't compare them. The point is, you can look around and say there is nothing going on or you can look around and draw lines between events. Sometimes these things add up peculiarly. This is one of those times. Read this series of articles and draw your own conclusions:
China's net generation
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/worl
Chinese webmaster tried for subversion
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/worl
China net use soars
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/
China moves to block internet portals
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/busines
China cracks down on cybercafes
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/worl
China loses grip on internet
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/
And then finally the one that this article is about:
Beijing cyber cafes closed down
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia
I suppose everyones sociological math is different, but mine adds up to something more than "The Government is just protecting it's citizens from Cafes that can't follow OSHA codes."
There's my
Actually we are seeing humanoid robots now.
s .s html
2 .a sp
http://www.honda-p3.com/
These are pretty unnerving when you see the videos of them in action. What they are missing is any real intelligence, which is taken care of here:
http://www.ai.mit.edu/research/projects/project
And here:
http://www.ai.sri.com/
And about five dozen other busy places. What we need to make this stuff happen is miniaturization and then incorporation of all of these separate elements.
We apparently even have artificial muscles to hang on our titanium robot skeletons:
http://www.techreview.com/articles/cameron02150
Now if we have these pieces today, you don't think in another 23 years, say that again to yourself, 23 years, that we won't be able to figure out how to put all these puzzle pieces together to create a robot that gets the big picture?
I think that is a pretty dead on estimate.
As far as why factory workers for humanoid robots, because as you pointed out, some factory conditions are conducive to a series of robotic arms, but some factory jobs require a bit more dexterity than that. Some dangerous factory jobs would be much better suited for a team of humanoid robots than people. It's all about the flexibility you get from an autonomous humanoid critter than being locked down to a series of arms.
And yes you could make an argument that the human form isn't necessarily the best design for maximum flexibility, but actually this planet disagrees. We are doing what we doing today because it IS currently the best shape, so it would be in our best interest to try to imitate what we know works before we try to do the impossible.
Hey it worked for Microsoft! Ha.
Way ahead at languishing.
Last checked in at april 1996.
Maybe they have been improving it diligently for the past 6 years and are about to make the Above referenced article actually seem topical.
And maybe it will do what thousands of other brilliant research projects have done at universities. Age ungracefully, alone, and silent to be a once promising shooting star and now a faded meteorite.
Actually what you are sad about is that Apple is apparently forging new road. That new road this time is a completely new hardware paradigm. That 5gb Hard Drive they crammed in there is not the run of the mill Maxtor crap you can get at staples for a dollar. This is a hard drive smaller than the ones in the smallest portables to date. This is state of the art, not status quo packed into a big shiny box.
PC manufacturers typically have less expensive products because they buy what is common (parts-wise) and make a sucky product. Apple chose to buy the best, in order to make the best.
So now instead of the 500 dollars you were going to spend on two (one for each ear maybe) you will have to settle for one. Oh that's right, you can only buy two of them or nothing, I guess Johnny get none...So sad.