After checking certain things out for myself, I have just decided to go insane and start gibbering and looking for a shopping cart to fill with garbage sacks and dead puppies....
No researcher today would argue that faces are stored as 3D images. The eyes of the observee ARE NOT a major part of face recognition. If this was the case, everyone would know that Bruce Wayne is Batman. Try to identifying faces with only the eyes shown. You'll see that this is an incredibly difficult task.
Fact is, there are several researchers investitgating that right now. to store images or some other type of information holographically does not nessesarily mean "3D". What it does mean is that the WHOLE image is stored, Facial shape, nose shape, mouth width, eyes (color, iris detail), and body shape. Case in point, freind of mine's wife, works in a bank, recognized the man who held her up as a man she went to high school with, and she was a year behind him in school. She knew who he was, and he was wearing a full ski mask, and all she really got a good look at as his eyes. But he had gained around 40 lbs, and had his nose broken sometime in the past. The fact is, holographically stored information is not just 3D, it is the whole image itself. You would recognize your mother in a large crowd, but you wouldn't nessesarily recognize a long lost chum in the same circumstances.
The concept of holographic memory is not a new one, but it is being more thoroughly investigated as there are other things that can trigger memory, scents, light conditions, spoken words, sounds. Ask any combat veteran. Nobody really knows what can cause an event to be retained in memory, Some people can remember things from being a toddler long into old age. But those same folks cannot remember their aldolescence or childhood. Alzheimers patients often forget everything but their childhood or some other period in their lives, and many of those memories are never remembered untill the desease starts doing serious damage to their brains.
Thats because your mind stores such information holographically. You have two eyes set 1-3/4 inches or so apart. That gives you 3D image that is stored in your visual cortex AS a 3D image. The eyes of the observee are a major aspect of facial recognition. 2D cameras dont record the subtleties of eye color and iris detail.
You dont recognize people that you have never seen before. If you were to see a photograph in 2D of some random individual, then try to find that person in a flowing crowd under varying light conditions and facial expressions, you probably wouldn't be able to recognize that individual. It takes several months to teach a person to do this. Even expert law enforcement personnell cannot do this without a certain ingrained talent for recognizing faces.
These systems will never work untill they can figure out a way to store such information as faces and other physical attributes holographically. 2D photography won't ever do it accurately enough to make the system functional.
Hey man, I can cure that problem for you, go to the Start menu, pop up the little RUN box, and when you get that type in RMDIR C:\WINDOWS That'll solve your problem. You'll never get a virus again.
Dunno how I would configure that. Seems like flow control wouldn't even be an issue. I have other questions though. Wouldn't you go through a lot of paper? And how wouold you get the links to work once you have the page printed out?
Because I HAVE one, schmuck. And I want the open source. I wanna play with it. The Ximian question was due to the fact that I have the 24 bit Indy graphics.
Whats with the moderators today, they drunk or something? my original post was hardly offtopic.
Retards, I guess thats what you get when you allow MCSE's to moderate.
I tried for several hours to get jigdo to work. My problem is I am using a (cringe) XP shitbox to do the download. Its the only machine I have with a CDRW on it (don't hit me) so I dunno what I'm doing wrong. I would REALLY love to find the files in a tarball or Gzip, seems that it would be a faster download. But I am still sort of new to this.
Twit, SGI wants thousands of dollars to license most of the Irix 6.2 I already have. Fact is, my brother suggested I get Debian as an experiment. I can't afford to spend the nearly $700 to get the Irix 6.5, and I sure as hell dont want to waste my time surfing Ebay for it, and STILL have to pay SGI an exorbitant amount of money to use the tools I want.
I have been trying for several days to download the ISO's on the MIPS version of Debian. My main irritaton with this is the fact that the FTP keeps timing out. I have an SGI Indy IP22 r4400 and am curious about what else I can do with this. What will run on it?? What kind of device drivers are available and will it run a cool desktop like Ximian? Any help here without obfuscation would be of a great service to me.
Let's start with CA. Deregulation, I think not! A system that puts a price ceiling in place is not deregulation.
This is a lie, Those price ceilings were put in place AFTER The the energy giants running the White House started to raise prices to the point that the average 3 bedroom house couldn't afford, and large buisiness consumers (heavy manufacturing etc)couldn't keep up with. My Fathers house electric bill went from $180 or so a month to almost $800 in the space of only a couple of months. This was not due to anything BUT deregulation, and the fact that the big Energy traders that now run the White House were deliberatly withholding supply to force the price up, and then charging for NON-EXISTANT, PHONEY energy transactions at almost 4000% of average market price, costs that the State had to absorb.
A recent reluctance to add any "real" generating power. I'm not talking a co-gen here, a co-gen there. I'm talking power plants that generate around 1000Mw. In the past years, CA's added somewhere near 300Mw total. - An increase in load.
This is a lie, the gas turbine power generation plants existed. They sat deliberatly idled, while G Davis went virtually on his knees BEGGING to the White House to force those plants to be started. Enron and Dynegy who owned the plants flat REFUSED to turn them on. The Bush administration backed them up and told Davis and the State of California to go fuck themselves. Those plants you describe being built in past years were built when the State owned and controlled the supply structure.
When the Energy system is deregulated (sold off) to private concerns, the only people that concern them are the stockholders, who could give a damn about any aspect of the buisiness except profit. When the system exists and is owned by the public, through the state, these problems never existed, and the State was solely responsible for maintenence and upkeep of that system. And prices stay low, this has been proven througout history. California and Nevada boomed in the 1960's and early 70's, partly because the States had PUBLIC energy systems that were reliable and inexpensive for the general public to use. they were maintained and built with public money, with highly skilled workers that had to be trained and certified by the state to work in the power industry. Now, with deregulation, you literally have kids right out of high school doing those jobs for one-third the pay that the workers did while under State control. The State conomy boomed while this system was in place. Deregulation has cost the State hundreds of billions of dollars in lost revenues and tens of thousands of jobs. Jobs that are now, moving to Texas after being offered nearly free electricity from a publicly supported system that is operated under contracts to Dynegy and Halliburton. The more you Republicans keep lying about this, the more people are going to say "wait a minuite" because the one thing the GOP forgot, is people are not stupid, and the more you GOP sociopaths keep insulting peoples intelligence the more those folks are going to want something else that what you are offering, or forcing down peoples throats.
Nearly any information, used incorrectly, maliciously, or by evil people can be devestating. Making information secret in the interest of "security" is a bad move. This is why many people advocate full disclosure, and why most security experts think that "security through obscurity" is a bad idea. Security should come because systems are strong, not because those systems are "secret".
When Westinghouse took over the Hanford WA Nuclear facilities in the mid 70's, there were HUGE problems that are as yet UNSOLVED because of "secrecy". There are scores of gigantic thin shell steel tanks full of god knows what, that are known to be full of extremely radioactive fluids and metals, and nobody knows where the hell they are. They were buried back in the 40's, 50's and 60's, and are known to be leaking. And because of this the problem will never be solved untill we get a Chernobyl like event and by then of course, it will be too late. "Secrecy" in the name of some imaginary threat is more dangerous than the threat itself.
The Government refuses to harden systems such as the national power grids and Freeways, bridges and Refineries/Chemical plants etc because its CHEAPER. Better to let things be, keep the vulnerabilities secret and hope for nothing to happen then actually fix the problems. This is universal to almost everything sensitive and dangerous our government and other governments do. 9/11/01 proved this, because the threat of an airliner being used as a weapon was KNOWN, but was kept out of the public eye for reasons of "national security". Any fanatic with really deep concentration on acts of violence and destruction can think of ways to get around secrecy on the part of an enemy. Everything is a weapon, everything. And as long as there are "secrets", there will be vulneralbilities.
Not so by a lightyear. Grayout Davis's socialist-state energy regulations prevented utilities from bringing needed peaking power onto the grid for economic reasons - they couldn't pay the outside energy suppliers. Environmental regulations, NIMBYism, and utility cost cutting policies in general are mostly to blame for power shortages and "old equipment syndrome." It's a no-brainer. Higher demand - less supply. You can't take excess capacity offline for maintenance if you have no excess capacity.
Are you really that Stupid, or are you just another Republican shirker? I bet you are the latter.
FACT: The power plants existed, ENRON and other electricity brokers flat out refused to allow those plants in California to be started, even when the rolling blackouts became a daily event throughout the Bay Area and Southern CA. Even when The Governor of California went to ask the White House to intervene, Bush/Cheney backed ENRON, even though all the evidence pointed to the fact that the supply was being heavily manipulated. This was PROVEN when ENRON finally collapsed under the weight of its own debt. FACT: ENRON manipulated the market, with falsified transfers of power out of the State, then back into the state, and totally falsifying their records, DELIBERATLY to reflect transactions, then charging the State for all the transactions involved at a cost approximatly 4000 times the original contract cost. This cost the State nearly 40 BILLION dollars, and the odd thing, thats almost exactly the same amount of money California is in the hole for, and the GOP is using as a lame excuse for a recall. Pete Wilson, a former GOP Governor is heading the campaign to put Arnold in the Governors office in Sacremento. He is also the man who pushed for the State Electricity utilities to be "deregulated", (that means sold off to the highest bidder) The only single person that should take the blame is Wison, not Davis. Davis was not even in public office when the Utility was sold to ENRON.Get your facts right man, or just quit lying about things.
When I was seven years old, we glued water rockets (the old kind from the 70's) on to our tonka Trucks. We had a water rocket powered dump truck that was kinda cool, but the fastest one was the Corgicar porche that had a water rocket tied to the roof with hose clamps. I wish I had pictures of these, we did this back in the early 70's.
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As a long time reader of your work,(I first read Ringworld in the 6th grade) I would love to see your known space series brought to the Big Screen. Would you be involved in such a project? I would also like to see Lucifers Hammer as a movie, and the only way do do it right is to involve the authors in the project to make sure the original story is kept intact.
My Brother was experimenting with this a few years ago, he tried changing the processor and he monkeyed around with getting linux to run, but then he got a job and put it aside. I dont know what happened with that but this could be something interesting if they can make it work.
Remember a company called Digital Integrity? they folded a few years ago for lack of funding due to the dot-com bailout in 2000. they had a good, legitimate product and an excellent crew to make it work. they made a search engine that searched and compared whole blocks of text, originally written by a professor at Berkeley to look for plaigerism in students termpapers. The software ran on unix and linux and was written in C++. I wonder what happened to the software? Sounds like it would be a good application for this sort of thing. The Boilerplate letters I get in my spam folder every day are pathetically written, and rarely actually reflect the opinions of the illiterate morons that use them.
Seems to me that the "law enforcement" community would embrace this new tool as a way to check up on citizens. These machines have huge potential in domestic military and political survelliance applications. I'm sure Mr. Poindexter is just drooling all over himself at the possibilities. Damn, your system is slow this morning...
Why would AOL (Assholes On Line) be trying to stop an organization that would increase their potential customer base? Free of charge no less? I may be being rather dense about this, it would seem to me that getting more customers would be a good thing for them, even if their service is crap, and their billing practices are just barely on the right side of extortion and bank fraud.
You have no privacy rights pertaining to private companies and individuals in The Constitution.
What are ya, retarded? Or maybe just another uneducated yankee with a truckfull of Amfo?
Read the constitution asshole. Article 4, of the Bill of Rights specifically.
Heres the URL:
http://www.house.gov/Constitution/Amend.html
I hope this is a lesson learned for the young man in question. Falsification and manipulation of pure data is an extremely difficult blot to overcome on ones career. Once it has been proven that the individual has manufactured results, that individual will be questioned and any future publication summarily dismissed for the rest of his life. Even if the future results are valid. There is a very old saying, "Young, dumb, and full o' come".....
I'm suprised at the good revues I am seeing. I am surprised that Di$ney didn't seem to butcher this one like they have with so many other fine stories to make them "more family freindly." Disney is a joke, and everything they deal with is usually some form of sugar coated B$. It is too bad Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli couldn't find a better company to release their work in the US. I have refused to give Di$ney any of my money for years, and I hope that this movie is a worthy exception.
Trade secret law is state law's contribution to intellectual property restrictions, along with federal law governing copyright, patents and trademarks. It is perhaps the most abused area of intellectual property law, but also the least commented on. Its lax standards for establishing a "secret" and the ease by which former employers can obtain injunctions result in scores of lawsuits every year against employees who leave to join a competitor or start a new business. Such lawsuits restrict employees' right to seek the job of their choice. And all too frequently, trade secret law operates to restrict innovation by preventing the dissemination of information that is already in the public domain, trivial, or obvious to anyone knowledgeable in the field.
The point being, "public domain" is what in your head! The human brain is capable of holding HUGE amount of information. When an organization can copyright the things in your mind, and not allow you to use the information you have gathered for yourself to continue to function in a profession, THEN YOU ARE A SLAVE. If a man can (and I have seen several examples of this) hear a song on the radio for the first time, and then go sit at a piano or guitar or violin, and play that song almost flawlessly, he should not expect to hear from the attorney representing the music label that published that song. Same with books or newspapers, a person could theoretically, memorize an article and then recite that article verbatim without fear of legal retribution. What one has inside their head, is there own, exclusively. No human can own another human as property!
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After checking certain things out for myself, I have just decided to go insane and start gibbering and looking for a shopping cart to fill with garbage sacks and dead puppies....
Fact is, there are several researchers investitgating that right now. to store images or some other type of information holographically does not nessesarily mean "3D". What it does mean is that the WHOLE image is stored, Facial shape, nose shape, mouth width, eyes (color, iris detail), and body shape. Case in point, freind of mine's wife, works in a bank, recognized the man who held her up as a man she went to high school with, and she was a year behind him in school. She knew who he was, and he was wearing a full ski mask, and all she really got a good look at as his eyes. But he had gained around 40 lbs, and had his nose broken sometime in the past. The fact is, holographically stored information is not just 3D, it is the whole image itself. You would recognize your mother in a large crowd, but you wouldn't nessesarily recognize a long lost chum in the same circumstances.
The concept of holographic memory is not a new one, but it is being more thoroughly investigated as there are other things that can trigger memory, scents, light conditions, spoken words, sounds. Ask any combat veteran. Nobody really knows what can cause an event to be retained in memory, Some people can remember things from being a toddler long into old age. But those same folks cannot remember their aldolescence or childhood. Alzheimers patients often forget everything but their childhood or some other period in their lives, and many of those memories are never remembered untill the desease starts doing serious damage to their brains.
Thats because your mind stores such information holographically. You have two eyes set 1-3/4 inches or so apart. That gives you 3D image that is stored in your visual cortex AS a 3D image. The eyes of the observee are a major aspect of facial recognition. 2D cameras dont record the subtleties of eye color and iris detail.
You dont recognize people that you have never seen before. If you were to see a photograph in 2D of some random individual, then try to find that person in a flowing crowd under varying light conditions and facial expressions, you probably wouldn't be able to recognize that individual. It takes several months to teach a person to do this. Even expert law enforcement personnell cannot do this without a certain ingrained talent for recognizing faces.
These systems will never work untill they can figure out a way to store such information as faces and other physical attributes holographically. 2D photography won't ever do it accurately enough to make the system functional.
Hey man, I can cure that problem for you, go to the Start menu, pop up the little RUN box, and when you get that type in RMDIR C:\WINDOWS
That'll solve your problem. You'll never get a virus again.
Dunno how I would configure that. Seems like flow control wouldn't even be an issue. I have other questions though. Wouldn't you go through a lot of paper? And how wouold you get the links to work once you have the page printed out?
Because I HAVE one, schmuck. And I want the open source. I wanna play with it. The Ximian question was due to the fact that I have the 24 bit Indy graphics.
Whats with the moderators today, they drunk or something? my original post was hardly offtopic.
Retards, I guess thats what you get when you allow MCSE's to moderate.
I tried for several hours to get jigdo to work. My problem is I am using a (cringe) XP shitbox to do the download. Its the only machine I have with a CDRW on it (don't hit me) so I dunno what I'm doing wrong. I would REALLY love to find the files in a tarball or Gzip, seems that it would be a faster download. But I am still sort of new to this.
Twit, SGI wants thousands of dollars to license most of the Irix 6.2 I already have. Fact is, my brother suggested I get Debian as an experiment. I can't afford to spend the nearly $700 to get the Irix 6.5, and I sure as hell dont want to waste my time surfing Ebay for it, and STILL have to pay SGI an exorbitant amount of money to use the tools I want.
I have been trying for several days to download the ISO's on the MIPS version of Debian. My main irritaton with this is the fact that the FTP keeps timing out. I have an SGI Indy IP22 r4400 and am curious about what else I can do with this. What will run on it?? What kind of device drivers are available and will it run a cool desktop like Ximian? Any help here without obfuscation would be of a great service to me.
This is a lie, Those price ceilings were put in place AFTER The the energy giants running the White House started to raise prices to the point that the average 3 bedroom house couldn't afford, and large buisiness consumers (heavy manufacturing etc)couldn't keep up with. My Fathers house electric bill went from $180 or so a month to almost $800 in the space of only a couple of months. This was not due to anything BUT deregulation, and the fact that the big Energy traders that now run the White House were deliberatly withholding supply to force the price up, and then charging for NON-EXISTANT, PHONEY energy transactions at almost 4000% of average market price, costs that the State had to absorb.
This is a lie, the gas turbine power generation plants existed. They sat deliberatly idled, while G Davis went virtually on his knees BEGGING to the White House to force those plants to be started. Enron and Dynegy who owned the plants flat REFUSED to turn them on. The Bush administration backed them up and told Davis and the State of California to go fuck themselves. Those plants you describe being built in past years were built when the State owned and controlled the supply structure.
When the Energy system is deregulated (sold off) to private concerns, the only people that concern them are the stockholders, who could give a damn about any aspect of the buisiness except profit. When the system exists and is owned by the public, through the state, these problems never existed, and the State was solely responsible for maintenence and upkeep of that system. And prices stay low, this has been proven througout history. California and Nevada boomed in the 1960's and early 70's, partly because the States had PUBLIC energy systems that were reliable and inexpensive for the general public to use. they were maintained and built with public money, with highly skilled workers that had to be trained and certified by the state to work in the power industry. Now, with deregulation, you literally have kids right out of high school doing those jobs for one-third the pay that the workers did while under State control. The State conomy boomed while this system was in place. Deregulation has cost the State hundreds of billions of dollars in lost revenues and tens of thousands of jobs. Jobs that are now, moving to Texas after being offered nearly free electricity from a publicly supported system that is operated under contracts to Dynegy and Halliburton. The more you Republicans keep lying about this, the more people are going to say "wait a minuite" because the one thing the GOP forgot, is people are not stupid, and the more you GOP sociopaths keep insulting peoples intelligence the more those folks are going to want something else that what you are offering, or forcing down peoples throats.
When Westinghouse took over the Hanford WA Nuclear facilities in the mid 70's, there were HUGE problems that are as yet UNSOLVED because of "secrecy". There are scores of gigantic thin shell steel tanks full of god knows what, that are known to be full of extremely radioactive fluids and metals, and nobody knows where the hell they are. They were buried back in the 40's, 50's and 60's, and are known to be leaking. And because of this the problem will never be solved untill we get a Chernobyl like event and by then of course, it will be too late. "Secrecy" in the name of some imaginary threat is more dangerous than the threat itself.
The Government refuses to harden systems such as the national power grids and Freeways, bridges and Refineries/Chemical plants etc because its CHEAPER. Better to let things be, keep the vulnerabilities secret and hope for nothing to happen then actually fix the problems. This is universal to almost everything sensitive and dangerous our government and other governments do. 9/11/01 proved this, because the threat of an airliner being used as a weapon was KNOWN, but was kept out of the public eye for reasons of "national security". Any fanatic with really deep concentration on acts of violence and destruction can think of ways to get around secrecy on the part of an enemy. Everything is a weapon, everything. And as long as there are "secrets", there will be vulneralbilities.
Are you really that Stupid, or are you just another Republican shirker? I bet you are the latter.
FACT: The power plants existed, ENRON and other electricity brokers flat out refused to allow those plants in California to be started, even when the rolling blackouts became a daily event throughout the Bay Area and Southern CA. Even when The Governor of California went to ask the White House to intervene, Bush/Cheney backed ENRON, even though all the evidence pointed to the fact that the supply was being heavily manipulated. This was PROVEN when ENRON finally collapsed under the weight of its own debt.
FACT: ENRON manipulated the market, with falsified transfers of power out of the State, then back into the state, and totally falsifying their records, DELIBERATLY to reflect transactions, then charging the State for all the transactions involved at a cost approximatly 4000 times the original contract cost. This cost the State nearly 40 BILLION dollars, and the odd thing, thats almost exactly the same amount of money California is in the hole for, and the GOP is using as a lame excuse for a recall. Pete Wilson, a former GOP Governor is heading the campaign to put Arnold in the Governors office in Sacremento. He is also the man who pushed for the State Electricity utilities to be "deregulated", (that means sold off to the highest bidder) The only single person that should take the blame is Wison, not Davis. Davis was not even in public office when the Utility was sold to ENRON.Get your facts right man, or just quit lying about things.
When I was seven years old, we glued water rockets (the old kind from the 70's) on to our tonka Trucks. We had a water rocket powered dump truck that was kinda cool, but the fastest one was the Corgicar porche that had a water rocket tied to the roof with hose clamps. I wish I had pictures of these, we did this back in the early 70's.
As a long time reader of your work,(I first read Ringworld in the 6th grade) I would love to see your known space series brought to the Big Screen. Would you be involved in such a project? I would also like to see Lucifers Hammer as a movie, and the only way do do it right is to involve the authors in the project to make sure the original story is kept intact.
My Brother was experimenting with this a few years ago, he tried changing the processor and he monkeyed around with getting linux to run, but then he got a job and put it aside. I dont know what happened with that but this could be something interesting if they can make it work.
Remember a company called Digital Integrity? they folded a few years ago for lack of funding due to the dot-com bailout in 2000. they had a good, legitimate product and an excellent crew to make it work. they made a search engine that searched and compared whole blocks of text, originally written by a professor at Berkeley to look for plaigerism in students termpapers. The software ran on unix and linux and was written in C++. I wonder what happened to the software? Sounds like it would be a good application for this sort of thing. The Boilerplate letters I get in my spam folder every day are pathetically written, and rarely actually reflect the opinions of the illiterate morons that use them.
FP? no way...
Seems to me that the "law enforcement" community
would embrace this new tool as a way to check up on citizens. These machines have huge potential in domestic military and political survelliance applications. I'm sure Mr. Poindexter is just drooling all over himself at the possibilities.
Damn, your system is slow this morning...
Why would AOL (Assholes On Line) be trying to stop an organization that would increase their potential customer base? Free of charge no less? I may be being rather dense about this, it would seem to me that getting more customers would be a good thing for them, even if their service is crap, and their billing practices are just barely on the right side of extortion and bank fraud.
Every time I have purchased on of their products, It hoses my system. Twice is once too many. Never again.
I hope this is a lesson learned for the young man in question. Falsification and manipulation of pure data is an extremely difficult blot to overcome on ones career. Once it has been proven that the individual has manufactured results, that individual will be questioned and any future publication summarily dismissed for the rest of his life. Even if the future results are valid. There is a very old saying, "Young, dumb, and full o' come".....
I'm suprised at the good revues I am seeing. I am surprised that Di$ney didn't seem to butcher this one like they have with so many other fine stories to make them "more family freindly." Disney is a joke, and everything they deal with is usually some form of sugar coated B$. It is too bad Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli couldn't find a better company to release their work in the US. I have refused to give Di$ney any of my money for years, and I hope that this movie is a worthy exception.