1) You have to complete the race within a certain time. (72 hours is quite reasonable for across the United States.) 2) Least fuel used wins, rounded to an arbitrary unit. (cc) 3) If two teams tie for fuel consumption, then the team that completed the trip first wins.
This motivates the teams to complete the trip in exactly 71 hours, 59 minutes, and we still get a bit of strategic jockeying at the end for "first."
I agree. I wish they would release a dvd of four new episodes instead of a movie. The old series was as close to perfect as a show gets, IMHO. Lots of great animation went straight to video in Japan. (OVA = Original Video Animation) This was a way that new, innovative, and quirky shows could get produced even when no network execs had the courage or foresight to touch them. It's time we had more of that in North America! The technology is certainly there on the production side, with good software and commoditized hardware like scanners and digital cameras to support independent production. Someone should do a combination of Machinima + live action greenscreen.
If you want to see what amateurs can do with greenscreen, take a look at Star Wreck. Amazing what you can do with attention to detail, home made costumes and greenscreens, and a render-farm of 3 PCs in your living room. Oh, and it helps to have a hot girlfriend and goofy actor friends to play parts!
Are you implying that the *format* has the security holes? It's not the format that has the holes. It's the *operating system code* that implements it that has the holes. (Specifically the part of the kernel that handles filesystems.) In other words, it's a relatively small amount of code that the vendor is highly motivated to fix (especially in light of the recent publicity about archive formats.
This has no bearing on the usefulness of anti-virus per se. ANYTHING that opens that format might be vulnerable. It's not likely to stay vulnerable. And new security holes are unlikely to be introduced. (There's just not that much burning reason to tweak dmg format as far as I know.) So positing this as a reason to now use anti-virus in particular is a bit arbitrary. Shouldn't you just not use anything involving dmg format? Shouldn't you just never open any files ever?
It's called a Disk Image. If you have it mounted, then you can scan it with any anti-virus program. There's no reason not to use anti-virus on Macs. ClamAV is free and works quite well.
The economic models are different, which is why many of these guys aren't getting government subsidies. Private individuals think that the market is there. Also, the technology will enable other markets. Additionally, other markets just weren't the same in the early days of the Concorde. Now, there are a lot more people with a compelling reason to deliver something overnight to/from China to the US. Many think this market can be huge. Also, a craft like the EADS can be a fully reusable first stage for a mostly reusable TSTO orbital delivery system.
Many Americans don't care about their government's interventionist policies, until the resentment turns into violence, and then their only response is more violence. Many Americans don't care that their public primary educational system is a joke among modern industrialized nations, until the ignorance gives rise to crime and violence, and then their only response is more violence. (More police, harsher sentences.)
It would be easier if all of us were like that. But many of us do care. And many of us know that violence is not a good answer. Violence is only an answer like a tourniquet is a treatment -- it is a desperate measure and the situation is probably already a tragedy if you have to use it.
Directional ambiguity in silhouette was one of the supposed qualities of the F-117 Nighthawk. Electric vehicles also have very low acoustic emissions. Maybe this was the stealth vehicle of its day? [/silliness]
People are already working on this one. We've only identified 7 kinds of damage our metabolism causes which are the basis of aging. We're at the point where we can think about tackling all of them.
We could do it all with Solar, combined with currently available storage technologies. Heck we could even do it all with geothermal if we wanted to bad enough. (Yes, deep drilling tech has reached the point where we could access dry hot rocks just about anywhere we want to, and pump water into them, extracting steam to turn turbines.) If we use a variety of techniques, there's no reason we could cut fossil fuel use down to nothing, with tech we already have.
Isn't there a bit in Frank Miller's Elektra Assasin, where Elektra uses a Samurai Sword to kill a nigh-indestructible cyborg, essentially by slicing through his central core, which contains a nuclear reactor?
Multicore machines could solve a big problem with microkernel architectures -- high context switch costs. If you lock down the microkernel to one of 8 cores -- let it monopolize the core -- then there is no context switch cost! You could then use a microkernel to implement Capability security architectures, which can provide mathematically provable security!
For one thing, cellular providers could add data packages for low cost, or as parts of service bundles. If they did this, then there are many who would just pay an extra $20 so they could drop the $45 a month for the cable broadband.
Sprint doesn't have transfer caps, as far as I can tell. I have service with them through Millenicom. DSL is smoother, as you said.
You know, there is a rather large untapped consumer market for certain varieties of tactile feedback devices. If cards are played right, there is a lot of money to be made from sex-play haptics over the Internet. Road warriors who want to keep the fires lit with their wives at home. Also the young nerd virgin contingent. How about a Facebook app? (A Sitonmyfacebook app?) Cafes which are also just good internet cafes, with clean, comfortable and well-appointed private rooms with high-end haptic sex toys would make money. (You buy your own attachments, and someone has to clean up after you.) They'd have to be high-end. We're talking about haptic versions of the Sybian here. (Bragging -- yes, I own a Sybian. And yes, I use it on my girlfriend. And no, she *cannot* bear the highest setting. 40% is about as high as she can stand.)
Right now Apple is proving the market for such a device, and then products like OpenMoko will come in and claim it, using the iPhone as R&D to prove concept but without encumbering themselves as Apple is doing. Is OpenMoko/Android going to eat the iPhone's lunch? It's all about the ECOSYSTEM. If Apple's ecosystem is open enough, then it will eat OpenMoko/Android's lunch. If Apple's ecosystem is too closed, then OpenMoko/Android is going to prevail. No one can beat market forces, though you can subvert them to your ends like Microsoft (Windows) and Apple (iPod/iTunes) has. If someone's stranglehold on the platform is too big a price to pay, you will enable the competitors.
Many large cities in the US had a Pneumatic Telegraph at one time. Basically one of those pneumatic tube package delivery systems, but spanning the whole city. This was back in the 1800's. The more things change, the more things stay the same.
I have come up with the idea of using CLASSPATH set by the command line independently. (We do that so that we can use Weblogic's JVM client incorporated with our Smalltalk client with the JVM running as a thread under our process, and talk to it using the Java Native interface through C.) However, lots of installs still set PATH and CLASSPATH for you! (Oracle 9!)
And as far as incompatible versions of Python and Perl go -- those should be treated as complete breaks. (And are by smart developers.) By promulgating the idea of backwards compatibility Java is also making it harder for their platform to evolve. (Like WIndows.)
Java Version Hell happens because different VMs and libraries can collide within the OS substrate. Having CLASSPATH as an environment variable encourages this. I am not sure what else contributes to this, but I have had more trouble (as a USER, not a programmer) with the installation of one JRE trashing a different Java application than anything else. Perl utilities I use aren't bothered by this. Nothing in Python I've used is. Why is this?
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Make the criteria like this:
1) You have to complete the race within a certain time. (72 hours is quite reasonable for across the United States.)
2) Least fuel used wins, rounded to an arbitrary unit. (cc)
3) If two teams tie for fuel consumption, then the team that completed the trip first wins.
This motivates the teams to complete the trip in exactly 71 hours, 59 minutes, and we still get a bit of strategic jockeying at the end for "first."
Here's a better pic
http://bp0.blogger.com/_5CLZC5IiEQw/Ra0X-t7_P1I/AAAAAAAAAKk/Ifc40dkudSQ/s1600-h/tiinaseisoo.jpg
If you want to see what amateurs can do with greenscreen, take a look at Star Wreck. Amazing what you can do with attention to detail, home made costumes and greenscreens, and a render-farm of 3 PCs in your living room. Oh, and it helps to have a hot girlfriend and goofy actor friends to play parts!
Are you implying that the *format* has the security holes? It's not the format that has the holes. It's the *operating system code* that implements it that has the holes. (Specifically the part of the kernel that handles filesystems.) In other words, it's a relatively small amount of code that the vendor is highly motivated to fix (especially in light of the recent publicity about archive formats.
This has no bearing on the usefulness of anti-virus per se. ANYTHING that opens that format might be vulnerable. It's not likely to stay vulnerable. And new security holes are unlikely to be introduced. (There's just not that much burning reason to tweak dmg format as far as I know.) So positing this as a reason to now use anti-virus in particular is a bit arbitrary. Shouldn't you just not use anything involving dmg format? Shouldn't you just never open any files ever?
It's called a Disk Image. If you have it mounted, then you can scan it with any anti-virus program. There's no reason not to use anti-virus on Macs. ClamAV is free and works quite well.
The economic models are different, which is why many of these guys aren't getting government subsidies. Private individuals think that the market is there. Also, the technology will enable other markets. Additionally, other markets just weren't the same in the early days of the Concorde. Now, there are a lot more people with a compelling reason to deliver something overnight to/from China to the US. Many think this market can be huge. Also, a craft like the EADS can be a fully reusable first stage for a mostly reusable TSTO orbital delivery system.
It's not a disorder until someone's been on Jerry Springer and gotten into a fight over it!
Many Americans don't care about their government's interventionist policies, until the resentment turns into violence, and then their only response is more violence. Many Americans don't care that their public primary educational system is a joke among modern industrialized nations, until the ignorance gives rise to crime and violence, and then their only response is more violence. (More police, harsher sentences.)
It would be easier if all of us were like that. But many of us do care. And many of us know that violence is not a good answer. Violence is only an answer like a tourniquet is a treatment -- it is a desperate measure and the situation is probably already a tragedy if you have to use it.
Directional ambiguity in silhouette was one of the supposed qualities of the F-117 Nighthawk. Electric vehicles also have very low acoustic emissions. Maybe this was the stealth vehicle of its day?
[/silliness]
Check out:
http://www.mfoundation.org/index.php?pagename=research
He's also given some TED talks:
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/39
And a Google Tech Talk:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8554766938711591377
We could do it all with Solar, combined with currently available storage technologies. Heck we could even do it all with geothermal if we wanted to bad enough. (Yes, deep drilling tech has reached the point where we could access dry hot rocks just about anywhere we want to, and pump water into them, extracting steam to turn turbines.) If we use a variety of techniques, there's no reason we could cut fossil fuel use down to nothing, with tech we already have.
How about a room full of 5 year olds?
Isn't there a bit in Frank Miller's Elektra Assasin, where Elektra uses a Samurai Sword to kill a nigh-indestructible cyborg, essentially by slicing through his central core, which contains a nuclear reactor?
Multicore machines could solve a big problem with microkernel architectures -- high context switch costs. If you lock down the microkernel to one of 8 cores -- let it monopolize the core -- then there is no context switch cost! You could then use a microkernel to implement Capability security architectures, which can provide mathematically provable security!
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1762847950860111011
Do most end-users care if they have J2ME? I think for most, it goes as far as "can I get [Tetris clone]?"
For one thing, cellular providers could add data packages for low cost, or as parts of service bundles. If they did this, then there are many who would just pay an extra $20 so they could drop the $45 a month for the cable broadband.
Sprint doesn't have transfer caps, as far as I can tell. I have service with them through Millenicom. DSL is smoother, as you said.
Does it have a Secret Lab?
Here's your phone, grandpa!
http://www.jitterbug.com/
Wrong. Apps that are distributed for free are free.
Many large cities in the US had a Pneumatic Telegraph at one time. Basically one of those pneumatic tube package delivery systems, but spanning the whole city. This was back in the 1800's. The more things change, the more things stay the same.
The prototype Evangelion were tethered, but they did a whole lot!
I have come up with the idea of using CLASSPATH set by the command line independently. (We do that so that we can use Weblogic's JVM client incorporated with our Smalltalk client with the JVM running as a thread under our process, and talk to it using the Java Native interface through C.) However, lots of installs still set PATH and CLASSPATH for you! (Oracle 9!)
And as far as incompatible versions of Python and Perl go -- those should be treated as complete breaks. (And are by smart developers.) By promulgating the idea of backwards compatibility Java is also making it harder for their platform to evolve. (Like WIndows.)
Java Version Hell happens because different VMs and libraries can collide within the OS substrate. Having CLASSPATH as an environment variable encourages this. I am not sure what else contributes to this, but I have had more trouble (as a USER, not a programmer) with the installation of one JRE trashing a different Java application than anything else. Perl utilities I use aren't bothered by this. Nothing in Python I've used is. Why is this?