It wasn't as you said: "Steve Jobs, at the MacWorld tradeshow, boasted: 'the new iMac [with] Intel processor is two to three times faster than the iMac G5.'
But instead: "Steve Jobs, at the MacWorld tradeshow, boasted: 'the new iMac Intel processor is two to three times faster than the iMac G5 [processor].'
Nine of Burst's ten US patents were originally assigned to Explore Technology and Instant Video Technologies. The patents were applied for in 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1997 and 2001. So, the date of Burst's founding is irrelevant to the patents they own.
They patented things like compressing video before sending it to save bandwidth and other non-obvious concepts that only a patent attorney can parse. They mostly seem to say that if video can be streamed someday, we want to own a piece of the action because we think video streaming will happen.
Patents make sense to protect intellectual property that is not obvious, but this stuff is silly. Any 'skilled practitioner' will try to send video down a wire or thru the air efficiently.
'Life's Grace - Musings on the Essence of Social Change' is a book published in 1994 by a friend of mine, Fran Peavey. In it she writes about being diagnosed HIV-positive and then retested and found HIV-negative. There was a documentary on TV about her and a number of others with similar stories.
Betsy Rose wrote the song, 'Oh Hell, I guess you're well' about Fran for her recovery celebration.
Remember the 'Clueless mac user' is everyone. Hardly anyone other than the developer will know exactly what an installer is really going to do when you give it the admin password. Even the developer may not know the full scope of the actions of their installer. Thats whats sometimes known as an installer bug.
You can trust what you might have heard, but you really don't know what's been done until after the install and you poke around. An installer can do most anything and you, the clueless user, have no clue as to what the installer will do with those permissions.
Installers are not open. You can't preview the pending actions of an installer. They don't provide a clue to the user. That's why we are all clueless users.
Bad reviews about the DRM and Rootkit for these CDs at Amazon and other retailers are swamping any good reviews. Hopefully the artists and their management are beginning to take notice. Posting a review there can only add to the heat Sony feels.
I programmed one of these machines in 1962 in Wayne, Mi. There is one at the Computer History Museum.
I was a Junior in High School and my dad had a friend who was using one to do concrete stress calculations. I hand assembled the code to the machine's drum storage. My first bit of professional programming, but more like crosswords or Sudoku.
One simple improvement would be to simply change the mod point scale from integer to floating point. Lots more control for users and backwords compatibility with integers.
And floating point still restricts moderators to rational ratings. No irrational floating point mod points allowed.
Seriously, though, will we be able to actually pinpoint a time and say 'this is when the Singularity occurred'?
From the article:
"The Singularity is a term coined by futurists to describe that point in time when technological progress has so transformed society that predictions made in the present day, already a hit-and-miss affair, are likely to be very, very wide of the mark. Much of Mr. Kurzweil's book consists of a closely argued analysis suggesting that the Singularity is, well, near: poised to appear in a mere three or four decades."
Attempts to think long term, Ray Kurzweil began, keep making the mistake of imagining that the pace of the future is like the pace of the past. Pondering the next ten years, we usually begin by studying the last ten years. He recommends studying the last twenty year for clues about the rate and degree of change coming in the next ten years, because history self-accelerates. That's Kurzweil's Law of accelerating returns: "technology and evolutionary processes progress in an exponential fashion." Thus, since the rate of progress doubles every ten years or so, we will see changes in the next 90 years equivalent to the last 10,000 years, and in the next 100 years changes equivalent to the last 20,000 years. It is always the later doublings where the ferocious action is. The many skeptics about the Human Genome project being done in 15 years thought they were being proved right at year 10. They were astounded when the project came in on schedule. "People look at short sections of an exponential growth curve and imagine they are straight lines," said Kurzweil.
Noticing that his audience was astute as well as large (650 in the Herbst), the speaker gave a dense, fast-moving talk. He said that as an inventor and entrepreneur he found that "you have to invent for when you finish a project, not when you start--- you need to figure out what enabling factors will be in place when your product comes to market." That was what started him studying trends in technology. In rapid succession he showed on the screen graphs of technological advance in microprocessors per chip (Moore's Law), microprocessor clock speed, cheapness of transistors, cheapness of dynamic random access memory, amount and cheapness of digital storage, bandwidth, processor performance in MIPS, total bits shipped, supercomputer power, Internet hosts and data traffic, and then on into biotech with cheapness of genome sequencing per base pair, growth in Genbank, and further on into nanotech with smallness of working mechanical devices, and nanotech science citations and patents.
They ALL show exponential growth rates, with no slowing in overall progress, since new paradigms always arise to keep up the pace, as transistors replaced vacuum tubes in computers, and 3D molecular computing and nanotubes will replace transistors. "Everything to do with information technology is doubling every 12 to 15 months, and information technology is encompassing everything."
I was impressed that the growth curves ignore apparent shocks. The 1990s dot-com boom and subsequent bust seemed like a big event, but it doesn't even show up as a blip on Kurzweil's exponential growth curve of e-commerce revenues in the US. At dinner with Long Now sponsors after the talk, he proposed that the stringent American regulations on stem cell research will not slow the pace of breakthroughs in that field, because there are so many political (overseas, for example) and technological workarounds. The fate of individual projects is always unknowable, but the aggregate behavior over time of massive and complex arrays of activity is knowable in surprising detail.
Kurzweil expects this century to provide dramatic events early and often. "With the coming of gene therapy, before we see designer babies we'll see designer baby-boomers." By 2010 he expects computers to disappear into our clothing, bodies, and built environment. The World Wide Web will be a World Wide Mesh, where all the linked devices are also servers, so massive supercomputing can be ubiquitous. Images will be project right onto retinas, helping lead toward true immersion virtual reality. Search engines won't wait to be asked to offer information. By 2030 he presumes that nanobots will occupy and enhance our nervous systems. The brain will have been reverse engineered so that we will understand the real structure of intelligence. A thousand dollars of machine computation will exceed human brain capacity by a thousand times. Shortly after t
What are the historical antecedents of WolframTones?
Ideas of "generative music" or "algorithmic composition" go back a long way. Mozart, for example, was said to have a scheme for composing minuets based on throwing dice. In the early 20th century, composers like Schoenberg considered formal matrix-like methods, and especially in connection with early synthesizers there was interest in deriving music from electronic and other physical processes. In the late 20th century, many experiments were done using 1/f noise, fractals, L systems, and even cellular automata. Most often, explicit randomness was taken as the foundation, and extensive layers of post processing were done. The publication of A New Kind of Science led to a new approach, and much purer ways to derive music from the computational universe--culminating in WolframTones.
Everyone here seems to love the OO eye candy, but it runs like a dog.
I'd love to use it but the performance really sucks. Just create a spreadsheet with a few thousand data points and make a chart. Its like watching grass grow.
And why does the Mac's eye candy get slammed here when it really delivers on performance and usability?
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It wasn't as you said:
"Steve Jobs, at the MacWorld tradeshow, boasted: 'the new iMac [with] Intel processor is two to three times faster than the iMac G5.'
But instead:
"Steve Jobs, at the MacWorld tradeshow, boasted: 'the new iMac Intel processor is two to three times faster than the iMac G5 [processor].'
Nine of Burst's ten US patents were originally assigned to Explore Technology and Instant Video Technologies. The patents were applied for in 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1997 and 2001. So, the date of Burst's founding is irrelevant to the patents they own.
They patented things like compressing video before sending it to save bandwidth and other non-obvious concepts that only a patent attorney can parse. They mostly seem to say that if video can be streamed someday, we want to own a piece of the action because we think video streaming will happen.
Patents make sense to protect intellectual property that is not obvious, but this stuff is silly. Any 'skilled practitioner' will try to send video down a wire or thru the air efficiently.
They are getting bigger and bigger and bigger...
not giving them two months notice!
a) does Aperture support layers?
a) does Photoshop support stacks?
There is something so satisfying about getting the 'master beta' release.
'Life's Grace - Musings on the Essence of Social Change' is a book published in 1994 by a friend of mine, Fran Peavey. In it she writes about being diagnosed HIV-positive and then retested and found HIV-negative. There was a documentary on TV about her and a number of others with similar stories.
Betsy Rose wrote the song, 'Oh Hell, I guess you're well' about Fran for her recovery celebration.
Remember the 'Clueless mac user' is everyone. Hardly anyone other than the developer will know exactly what an installer is really going to do when you give it the admin password. Even the developer may not know the full scope of the actions of their installer. Thats whats sometimes known as an installer bug.
You can trust what you might have heard, but you really don't know what's been done until after the install and you poke around. An installer can do most anything and you, the clueless user, have no clue as to what the installer will do with those permissions.
Installers are not open. You can't preview the pending actions of an installer. They don't provide a clue to the user. That's why we are all clueless users.
Wait a minute. I saw a car pass me ywsterday in San Leandro, CA with the licence plate 'joesix', so I know he does exist...
Bad reviews about the DRM and Rootkit for these CDs at Amazon and other retailers are swamping any good reviews. Hopefully the artists and their management are beginning to take notice. Posting a review there can only add to the heat Sony feels.
since 1984
I programmed one of these machines in 1962 in Wayne, Mi. There is one at the Computer History Museum.
I was a Junior in High School and my dad had a friend who was using one to do concrete stress calculations. I hand assembled the code to the machine's drum storage. My first bit of professional programming, but more like crosswords or Sudoku.
One simple improvement would be to simply change the mod point scale from integer to floating point. Lots more control for users and backwords compatibility with integers.
And floating point still restricts moderators to rational ratings. No irrational floating point mod points allowed.
Seriously, though, will we be able to actually pinpoint a time and say 'this is when the Singularity occurred'?
From the article:
"The Singularity is a term coined by futurists to describe that point in time when technological progress has so transformed society that predictions made in the present day, already a hit-and-miss affair, are likely to be very, very wide of the mark. Much of Mr. Kurzweil's book consists of a closely argued analysis suggesting that the Singularity is, well, near: poised to appear in a mere three or four decades."
[SALT] Escape velocity (Ray Kurzweil talk 9/23/05)
Attempts to think long term, Ray Kurzweil began, keep making the mistake of imagining that the pace of the future is like the pace of the past. Pondering the next ten years, we usually begin by studying the last ten years. He recommends studying the last twenty year for clues about the rate and degree of change coming in the next ten years, because history self-accelerates. That's Kurzweil's Law of accelerating returns: "technology and evolutionary processes progress in an exponential fashion."
Thus, since the rate of progress doubles every ten years or so, we will see changes in the next 90 years equivalent to the last 10,000 years, and in the next 100 years changes equivalent to the last 20,000 years. It is always the later doublings where the ferocious action is. The many skeptics about the Human Genome project being done in 15 years thought they were being proved right at year 10. They were astounded when the project came in on schedule. "People look at short sections of an exponential growth curve and imagine they are straight lines," said Kurzweil.
Noticing that his audience was astute as well as large (650 in the Herbst), the speaker gave a dense, fast-moving talk. He said that as an inventor and entrepreneur he found that "you have to invent for when you finish a project, not when you start--- you need to figure out what enabling factors will be in place when your product comes to market." That was what started him studying trends in technology. In rapid succession he showed on the screen graphs of technological advance in microprocessors per chip (Moore's Law), microprocessor clock speed, cheapness of transistors, cheapness of dynamic random access memory, amount and cheapness of digital storage, bandwidth, processor performance in MIPS, total bits shipped, supercomputer power, Internet hosts and data traffic, and then on into biotech with cheapness of genome sequencing per base pair, growth in Genbank, and further on into nanotech with smallness of working mechanical devices, and nanotech science citations and patents.
They ALL show exponential growth rates, with no slowing in overall progress, since new paradigms always arise to keep up the pace, as transistors replaced vacuum tubes in computers, and 3D molecular computing and nanotubes will replace transistors. "Everything to do with information technology is doubling every 12 to 15 months, and information technology is encompassing everything."
I was impressed that the growth curves ignore apparent shocks. The 1990s dot-com boom and subsequent bust seemed like a big event, but it doesn't even show up as a blip on Kurzweil's exponential growth curve of e-commerce revenues in the US. At dinner with Long Now sponsors after the talk, he proposed that the stringent American regulations on stem cell research will not slow the pace of breakthroughs in that field, because there are so many political (overseas, for example) and technological workarounds. The fate of individual projects is always unknowable, but the aggregate behavior over time of massive and complex arrays of activity is knowable in surprising detail.
Kurzweil expects this century to provide dramatic events early and often. "With the coming of gene therapy, before we see designer babies we'll see designer baby-boomers." By 2010 he expects computers to disappear into our clothing, bodies, and built environment. The World Wide Web will be a World Wide Mesh, where all the linked devices are also servers, so massive supercomputing can be ubiquitous. Images will be project right onto retinas, helping lead toward true immersion virtual reality. Search engines won't wait to be asked to offer information. By 2030 he presumes that nanobots will occupy and enhance our nervous systems. The brain will have been reverse engineered so that we will understand the real structure of intelligence. A thousand dollars of machine computation will exceed human brain capacity by a thousand times. Shortly after t
The decoding of a file's bits from the bits on a CD would be the hard problem.
If they could read the files, they probably have a system that can read the file format.
http://tones.wolfram.com/about/faqs/howitworks.htm l
What are the historical antecedents of WolframTones?
Ideas of "generative music" or "algorithmic composition" go back a long way. Mozart, for example, was said to have a scheme for composing minuets based on throwing dice. In the early 20th century, composers like Schoenberg considered formal matrix-like methods, and especially in connection with early synthesizers there was interest in deriving music from electronic and other physical processes. In the late 20th century, many experiments were done using 1/f noise, fractals, L systems, and even cellular automata. Most often, explicit randomness was taken as the foundation, and extensive layers of post processing were done. The publication of A New Kind of Science led to a new approach, and much purer ways to derive music from the computational universe--culminating in WolframTones.
I played with one today and the surprise was how thin it is.
The screen and scroll wheel are as small as one would ever want. Any smaller and they would be unusable.
And, it is reasonably likely that this paper could be one of those in the 50% that are wrong.
Everyone here seems to love the OO eye candy, but it runs like a dog.
I'd love to use it but the performance really sucks. Just create a spreadsheet with a few thousand data points and make a chart. Its like watching grass grow.
And why does the Mac's eye candy get slammed here when it really delivers on performance and usability?
Microsoft has been found to be a monopoly abuser.
If it is too hard to test for comparibility with multiple browsers the least they could do would be to choose one NOT from Microsoft.
Pick anything but Internet Explorer.
Don't encourage the beast.
or else you won't be able to run Vista on those boxes...
The RIAA on Saturn be suing NASA for all it's worth. Spaceships should be leaving soon to collect or vaporize us all.
This should put an end to the eternal debate over which is more efficient, one button or more...
I simply need to make calls, remember a few numbers and turn off the ringer occasionally.
I don't need email or games or photos or movies, but I would like one of those Swiss phones with a small pair of scissors and a toothpick.