Zero gravity means no mass acceleration. And using that term in any other situation is simply incorrect. It's like calling your computer a hard drive just becouse you can't grasp the technical difernce.
I agree. And I will from now on always use a "Mod me down, but...." expression in the title or beginning of my comments as reverse psychology apparently works on the mods.
Free fall without air resistance != Zero Gravity, stop abusing scientific terms to get media attention. It's exactly like having "the first wedding on mars", that's really just a wedding in the nasa mars simulation robot test lot.
As we have yet to have identified exactly how single neurons work, I doubt that the point where we can begin to reverse engineer the brain will be soon. And when we do I doubt that affecting the brains experiences or information will be done with drugs, as drugs can only target large regions. Maybe by hooking electronics directly onto the nerve system (matrix style)?
It's interesting how human urbanization affects the behavior of animals, creating new niches and possibly new sub species as in this case. Once at a large parking lot I saw small birds jumping up and eating the insects that got stuck on the cars registration signs and windshields. Apparently, they had specialized in this, cleaning out new cars that got parked. In the future, we will probably have a set of animals that are completly dependant of the urban environment and human activities.
Gigabit ethernet is sufficient for DVD quality and 720p. And yes, not uncompressed full HD though. However, there already exists 10 gbit ethernet technology, which would be sufficient. We don't need HDMI becouse everything in it could be driven by Ethernet and a protocol. And I have already explained why your other "points" wheren't problems.
Did you suggest I was sarcastic? I seriously wasn't sarcastic at all. Not now either. And same here, but probably something useful for the.net libary, or they wouldn't have spent time making it.
The fact that microsoft enabled.net support into my firefox simply can't get my upset. I'm just happy that they actually took time to code an addon for their biggest competitor. As long as the addon does something useful, why should I care? Horray, Thanks M$.
1) Write an Article about what you think, and why you are right.
2) Post it on a crappy site with lots of advertising.
3) Slashdot yourself.
4) ???
5) PROFIT!
I agree, it's like the no original research policy on Wikipedia. If your blog post is so damn important that it deserves to be slashdotted, someone else will do it for you. And I think the biggest problem of the criticism in the article was that it was fuzzy and irrelevant. Irrelevant because it was based on features the author himself think wave will have. Features he made up, like "hundreds of people will be able to edit the same wave". Google has never said this. And it's still under development, and reviewing something that hasn't been made yet doesn't make sense.
And you pulled that 16 gigabit/sec number out of your ass. Or maybe your definition of "HD video at high frame rates" is ~325 frames per second?
"unreliable communications over 500 meter" ...and this is a problem how?
"using a shared-channel" ...and this is a problem how?
"with LOTS of overhead"
yeah 1.3% overhead is "HUGE" using IP w/ standard 1.5k MTU (which could probably be raised even larger, especially when the devices are directly connected)
"and very high computational requirements"
no. and compared to what really? if the protocol designers would be idiots and use TCP then yes.
Trade embargo on services is understandable, altrough you'd want any communication services to be availible as shutting them down would only hurt the people. Not their leaders. Everybody should switch to XMPP, that would make it harder to block IM, as XMPP is decentrilized. Everybody should switch to this open and free IM standard now imo!
I'm going to assume that you're not a troll, your argument has so many weeknesses so I don't know where to begin. How about this... Lithium is indeed expensive but electric car engines and their batteries are cheaper than building gas engines due to greatly reduced complexity and mechanics. Peru is not the only source of Lithium. You're also making the assumption that lithium is the only thing good batteries can be made of. Also what are you talking about when you refer to the "dangerous business of discarding the batteries" and "the energy for manufacturing". The car lobby actually hates electric cars, especially GM which they have prooved.
Market regulations are necessary to direct the free market away from catastrophic orientations. The market indeed HAS a self-correcting property that many mistake for magic or some kind of "invisible hand". In reality the market is simply using cold logic to determine what business is affordable and may live on and which is not. Here lays it weakness, because this reaction is never planned, but simply instantaneous. This is basics that are very important to understand if you want to build an economy that is both prosperous AND sustainable. This economy must be a mixture of planned regulations AND free trade. The ratio of these mixtures must be determined by expert economists. Any complete favor of either one or the other is always a naive mistake.
Now, to connect this with this article, a catastrophic orientation would be to continue to only build cars that run on normal gas if there would be a sudden halt in the production or import of oil, which many experts believe will happen. The free market would be unable to plan for this, because this is not what the free market does. The free market would indeed react, but far too late, and the economy would crash, due to being far to oil dependant. It's the government's job to regulate the market to keep this from happening by promoting alternatives that may not be optimal right now, but would have a positive effect on the echonomy in a longer perspective. And in this case, even if all bad rumors about Ethanol was true, introducing it would still result in a loosened up car market, where that an alternatives IS possible. It can make car manufacturers spend more on research and development of new technology because both they and the consumers get more aware that cars can run on many other things than gas. And it could pay off too.
Electric cars is a good example, the battery technology today is enough to power more than half of the American people. Electricity is cheap too; the mileage cost would be the same in worst case. So what prevents electric cars from reaching the market? First of all consumer and industry attitude, which government regulations can help to loosen up as mention earlier. Another thing that prevents new technology is patents. Are patents really worth all the trouble that they create in practice, like companies that uses patents to block concurrent, and companies that only earn money from selling and buying licenses?
Ethanol has its flaws, and has been accused of many things. One thing it was attacked for was the rise in crop prices and even the cause of world starvation. This proved to be wrong when the crop prices started to go down again, but it gives a hint that some people seem to be looking for arguments, with torches and flashlights, against ethanol. Now it is accused for destroying all of our precious car engines. Isn't this expected as only special engines can run on ethanol, but it will likely happen that some people try anyway? Another argument against ethanol is the fact that it can never replace gas. Taking all the crops in the world to produce ethanol would only power about 5% of all cars. True, but this have never been an argument, and where, contrary to popular belief, not the main reason why we should introduce it.
Okay, so you're point was that commercial facial recognition technology has a high failure rate. That would have done without the crappy cops, buses and waiting room analogy. One can simply imagine a cop looking trough the false positives and discarding most of them.
Despite theese drawbacks you mention, false matches aren't a problem as any match can be manually verified by a real human later, correct or not. That integrity-violating techonology can help tracking down known criminals and providing evidence for previous crimes, is very real. CCTV cameras aren't intended to stop crimes from happening, altrough the psycological effect of "maybe im surveilenced" could potentially lead to a reduction in crimes. It would be intresting to observe how the positive effects compare to the other risks, drawbacks and integrity violations.
I, for one, think that this actually will be rather intressting as an experiment. Imagine a city that implemented all of the new and integrity violating security technology. Well now we have a city that does it, and it will be intressting to see if it really leads to an 1984 big brother state, or will actually lead to superiour crime fighting.
But at the same time, I, of course, feel sorry for the inhabitants of Istanbul. If this was to be implemented in my own town, I would fight it becouse it violates the right to not be investigated if you aren't a suspect, which, it automatically makes all citizens.
I know a workplace where they set up a bounce-and-confirmation system, so that mail from non-confirmed e-mail addresses was bounced, asking to reply if this was a real human. When it got the reply, the address was added to a whitelist.
The person working there said to me that he got zero spam after the implementation. Probably becouse almost all spam has a forged from header and/or is not able to receive and reply to incoming mail.
Seriously, what do you know about memory managment, IO optimization etc? You don't have to answer that question though becouse your post really gives it out.
...When i went back to XP i realized just how slow Windows 7 is. It was as if i had put a new processor in my pc...
You're obviously running an old desktop compter (+4 years), otherwhise any speed difference when using the standard features like explorer etc, will hardly be noticable.
..Windows 7 and Vista have terrible file I/O. Its just slow and bloated...
Again more unfounded generic statements...
...I've grown to hate vista because of how poor it is. I cant stand the UI. The automatic folder views suck. Vista never gets it right...
Wow, this is really your entired post summed up. You never bothered to learn/customize the UI in explorer, and for that reason you have a burning hatred inside you against vista.
Vista loves to eat up all of your ram, and then when a program needs lots of ram, your system takes a giant shit because Vista goes into swapping mode to dump its giant "cache" to hd.
One of the things that Vista is actually superiour to XP with is memory managment. If you have problem with disk trashing/swaping, it's not vistas fault. You simply don't have enough RAM, sorry buddy. You can't expect to be able to run your photo and video editing software smoothly with 512mb in Vista. And with the price of RAM today... 2GB is sufficient for ~anything~... I have run Vista several years, loaded with 4 gb, and have never, ever experienced cache hangups. Not even with the latest games minimized, plus that I always leaves 20+ apps running in the task bar.
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Zero gravity means no mass acceleration. And using that term in any other situation is simply incorrect. It's like calling your computer a hard drive just becouse you can't grasp the technical difernce.
I agree. And I will from now on always use a "Mod me down, but...." expression in the title or beginning of my comments as reverse psychology apparently works on the mods.
Free fall without air resistance != Zero Gravity, stop abusing scientific terms to get media attention. It's exactly like having "the first wedding on mars", that's really just a wedding in the nasa mars simulation robot test lot.
As we have yet to have identified exactly how single neurons work, I doubt that the point where we can begin to reverse engineer the brain will be soon. And when we do I doubt that affecting the brains experiences or information will be done with drugs, as drugs can only target large regions. Maybe by hooking electronics directly onto the nerve system (matrix style)?
Ah.. I read "less invasive" as "non invasive".
Non invasive brain interfaces is nothing new. Here's a video of a HL2 mod where you're using your mind to pick up objects and throw them at other players. The question is if the mind reading is accurate enough to actually control a mouse pointer efficiently or reliably start macros (voice recognition style).
It's interesting how human urbanization affects the behavior of animals, creating new niches and possibly new sub species as in this case. Once at a large parking lot I saw small birds jumping up and eating the insects that got stuck on the cars registration signs and windshields. Apparently, they had specialized in this, cleaning out new cars that got parked. In the future, we will probably have a set of animals that are completly dependant of the urban environment and human activities.
I think the UK Police got this idea while watching CSI.
Gigabit ethernet is sufficient for DVD quality and 720p. And yes, not uncompressed full HD though. However, there already exists 10 gbit ethernet technology, which would be sufficient. We don't need HDMI becouse everything in it could be driven by Ethernet and a protocol. And I have already explained why your other "points" wheren't problems.
The plugin enables .net click once support, which is not the same thing as installing software without concent. Could be useful...
It's already broken. Microsofts software gets twice as slow every 9 months.
Did you suggest I was sarcastic? I seriously wasn't sarcastic at all. Not now either. And same here, but probably something useful for the .net libary, or they wouldn't have spent time making it.
If you look at the link I so thoughtfully provided you can actually see that 60 fps 1080p is actually 3 gbps.
8 bits per color (or 24 bit of colors) is actually more than your eye can percept. I have no idea why this would look terrible.
Apparently, you're the one that doesn't "have the most basic knowledge of the topic at hand" to use your words.
The fact that microsoft enabled .net support into my firefox simply can't get my upset. I'm just happy that they actually took time to code an addon for their biggest competitor. As long as the addon does something useful, why should I care? Horray, Thanks M$.
1) Write an Article about what you think, and why you are right.
2) Post it on a crappy site with lots of advertising.
3) Slashdot yourself.
4) ???
5) PROFIT!
I agree, it's like the no original research policy on Wikipedia. If your blog post is so damn important that it deserves to be slashdotted, someone else will do it for you. And I think the biggest problem of the criticism in the article was that it was fuzzy and irrelevant. Irrelevant because it was based on features the author himself think wave will have. Features he made up, like "hundreds of people will be able to edit the same wave". Google has never said this. And it's still under development, and reviewing something that hasn't been made yet doesn't make sense.
And you pulled that 16 gigabit/sec number out of your ass. Or maybe your definition of "HD video at high frame rates" is ~325 frames per second?
"unreliable communications over 500 meter"
...and this is a problem how?
"using a shared-channel"
...and this is a problem how?
"with LOTS of overhead"
yeah 1.3% overhead is "HUGE" using IP w/ standard 1.5k MTU (which could probably be raised even larger, especially when the devices are directly connected)
"and very high computational requirements"
no. and compared to what really? if the protocol designers would be idiots and use TCP then yes.
Trade embargo on services is understandable, altrough you'd want any communication services to be availible as shutting them down would only hurt the people. Not their leaders. Everybody should switch to XMPP, that would make it harder to block IM, as XMPP is decentrilized. Everybody should switch to this open and free IM standard now imo!
I'm going to assume that you're not a troll, your argument has so many weeknesses so I don't know where to begin. How about this... Lithium is indeed expensive but electric car engines and their batteries are cheaper than building gas engines due to greatly reduced complexity and mechanics. Peru is not the only source of Lithium. You're also making the assumption that lithium is the only thing good batteries can be made of. Also what are you talking about when you refer to the "dangerous business of discarding the batteries" and "the energy for manufacturing". The car lobby actually hates electric cars, especially GM which they have prooved.
Market regulations are necessary to direct the free market away from catastrophic orientations. The market indeed HAS a self-correcting property that many mistake for magic or some kind of "invisible hand". In reality the market is simply using cold logic to determine what business is affordable and may live on and which is not. Here lays it weakness, because this reaction is never planned, but simply instantaneous. This is basics that are very important to understand if you want to build an economy that is both prosperous AND sustainable. This economy must be a mixture of planned regulations AND free trade. The ratio of these mixtures must be determined by expert economists. Any complete favor of either one or the other is always a naive mistake.
Now, to connect this with this article, a catastrophic orientation would be to continue to only build cars that run on normal gas if there would be a sudden halt in the production or import of oil, which many experts believe will happen. The free market would be unable to plan for this, because this is not what the free market does. The free market would indeed react, but far too late, and the economy would crash, due to being far to oil dependant. It's the government's job to regulate the market to keep this from happening by promoting alternatives that may not be optimal right now, but would have a positive effect on the echonomy in a longer perspective. And in this case, even if all bad rumors about Ethanol was true, introducing it would still result in a loosened up car market, where that an alternatives IS possible. It can make car manufacturers spend more on research and development of new technology because both they and the consumers get more aware that cars can run on many other things than gas. And it could pay off too.
Electric cars is a good example, the battery technology today is enough to power more than half of the American people. Electricity is cheap too; the mileage cost would be the same in worst case. So what prevents electric cars from reaching the market? First of all consumer and industry attitude, which government regulations can help to loosen up as mention earlier. Another thing that prevents new technology is patents. Are patents really worth all the trouble that they create in practice, like companies that uses patents to block concurrent, and companies that only earn money from selling and buying licenses?
Ethanol has its flaws, and has been accused of many things. One thing it was attacked for was the rise in crop prices and even the cause of world starvation. This proved to be wrong when the crop prices started to go down again, but it gives a hint that some people seem to be looking for arguments, with torches and flashlights, against ethanol. Now it is accused for destroying all of our precious car engines. Isn't this expected as only special engines can run on ethanol, but it will likely happen that some people try anyway? Another argument against ethanol is the fact that it can never replace gas. Taking all the crops in the world to produce ethanol would only power about 5% of all cars. True, but this have never been an argument, and where, contrary to popular belief, not the main reason why we should introduce it.
My 5 cent.
Okay, so you're point was that commercial facial recognition technology has a high failure rate. That would have done without the crappy cops, buses and waiting room analogy. One can simply imagine a cop looking trough the false positives and discarding most of them.
Despite theese drawbacks you mention, false matches aren't a problem as any match can be manually verified by a real human later, correct or not. That integrity-violating techonology can help tracking down known criminals and providing evidence for previous crimes, is very real. CCTV cameras aren't intended to stop crimes from happening, altrough the psycological effect of "maybe im surveilenced" could potentially lead to a reduction in crimes. It would be intresting to observe how the positive effects compare to the other risks, drawbacks and integrity violations.
I, for one, think that this actually will be rather intressting as an experiment. Imagine a city that implemented all of the new and integrity violating security technology. Well now we have a city that does it, and it will be intressting to see if it really leads to an 1984 big brother state, or will actually lead to superiour crime fighting. But at the same time, I, of course, feel sorry for the inhabitants of Istanbul. If this was to be implemented in my own town, I would fight it becouse it violates the right to not be investigated if you aren't a suspect, which, it automatically makes all citizens.
I know a workplace where they set up a bounce-and-confirmation system, so that mail from non-confirmed e-mail addresses was bounced, asking to reply if this was a real human. When it got the reply, the address was added to a whitelist. The person working there said to me that he got zero spam after the implementation. Probably becouse almost all spam has a forged from header and/or is not able to receive and reply to incoming mail.
...When i went back to XP i realized just how slow Windows 7 is. It was as if i had put a new processor in my pc...
You're obviously running an old desktop compter (+4 years), otherwhise any speed difference when using the standard features like explorer etc, will hardly be noticable.
..Windows 7 and Vista have terrible file I/O. Its just slow and bloated...
Again more unfounded generic statements...
...I've grown to hate vista because of how poor it is. I cant stand the UI. The automatic folder views suck. Vista never gets it right...
Wow, this is really your entired post summed up. You never bothered to learn/customize the UI in explorer, and for that reason you have a burning hatred inside you against vista.
Vista loves to eat up all of your ram, and then when a program needs lots of ram, your system takes a giant shit because Vista goes into swapping mode to dump its giant "cache" to hd.
One of the things that Vista is actually superiour to XP with is memory managment. If you have problem with disk trashing/swaping, it's not vistas fault. You simply don't have enough RAM, sorry buddy. You can't expect to be able to run your photo and video editing software smoothly with 512mb in Vista. And with the price of RAM today... 2GB is sufficient for ~anything~... I have run Vista several years, loaded with 4 gb, and have never, ever experienced cache hangups. Not even with the latest games minimized, plus that I always leaves 20+ apps running in the task bar.
(Summarized) Blah blah XP is better.