where the theories and calculations of the brightest brains in the room become indistinguishable from the random brainfarts of two stoners sitting on a smelly couch in a dorm room at 4:20 AM
That's not the intersection of mathematics and cosmology, dude. That's the Internet!
ebay sellers are complaining because ads are taking their customers away? There's a word for those ads: it's *competition*.
You want to keep your customers? Then you've got to compete on convenience, price, or with items not available through regular retail channels. I've seen lots of things on eBay for about the same price as in the store. Maybe this won't be as common now.
If eBay's advertisements are enabling competition and more choices, then it's better for the consumer, which includes me.
There is a scene in Michael Swawick's science fiction book Vacuum Flowers (also at Wikipedia) where the heroine notes that one of her captors, a nun, had an implanted device that artificially heightened her religious/spiritual brain functions. So the heroine says a bunch of stuff designed to drive her captor into a religious ecstatic frenzy, and uses that to make her escape.
What would be cool/dangerous -- if someone could develop this into a ray gun or some kind of emitter. Make it in the form of the Ark of the Covenant, and carry it before our armies!
eventually succeed HFS+ as the default operating system for Mac OS X
It would appear that Appleinsider's writers can't tell the difference between an Operating System and a File System. Bad Science Journalism is about the same thing as Bad Information Technology Journalism. Is one more widespread than the other? If Science Journalism is worse, then I wonder what we do differently with Tech jornalism that we can apply there.
I once worked for a company where the CTO couldn't tell the difference between NNTP and HTTP. (He clicked on a link that brought up Usenet in Outlook Express, and was up in arms about how so many negative comments were "on our website!")
You guys have no sense of humor at all. I am MAKING FUN of the Dept. of Security Theater AND the huge and frivolous ambitions of these model builders. (And a certain amount of engineering cavalierness on their part.)
Yes, but you need to get a reference to your target to within a few feet. There are GPS based "cruise controls" for competition waterskiing now. They can get readings 1000 times a second.
This isn't a model. It's a freaking cruise missile! The builders aren't even sure the wings won't fall off in flight! The thing is going to use THREE man-sized parachutes to recover. Put survey-grade relative GPS and an autopilot on this thing, and you have a real cruise missile. (You can get millimeters accuracy out of GPS by using a base station as a reference and getting a delta. But the DOD wants to know about it before you do it!)
Steve Jobs can't come right out and say this, as it can be seen as tantamount to saying that users are stupid. Security. Not on the cell network, but the iPhone as a new platform. User's can't be trusted to install their own apps!
The big reason that Windows machines are riddled with Trojans, is that every user's process runs with the same permissions as the user, and that current systems do not allow finer-grained control over these permissions. (I removed 18 Trojans from my girlfriend's mom's computer the other day!) Stuff like this is one of the big reasons why the user experience on Windows can SUCK. (And yes, it's terrible that all iPhones have the same root password and that's already been cracked.)
The OLPC folks are addressing this by running apps in a sandbox. There are many others thinking along these lines -- that the security model we've been using is not the right one. The current Access Control List security model was designed to keep individual users on a mainframe from interfering with each other while under the supervision of a benevolent and all-powerful root Super-User. Now, in the 21st century, essentially everyone, their mom, their grandparents, and anyone else who runs Windows as Administrator and installs programs is root.
Think about it. There's something seriously wrong here, folks.
Now that we are entering the era of dual and quad core computers becoming mainstream, there is no reason why we can't have more secure models like capabilities. (Especially on quad core machines, where a micro-kernel can lock itself to one processor to prevent context-switch overhead without undue loss of performance.) In order to ensure security on the iPhone, and thus retain total control of the user experience despite malicious hackers, something like sandboxes with a capability model is needed. (Capabilities without context switch overhead could also be enabled by using a VM platform like Java.)
See Rik Farrow's Google Tech Talk on this subject. It's over an hour, so download it and watch it while working out. It's a *fact* that we've been barking up the wrong tree security-wise.
Well, that's another thing. If they can build on the experience of the iPod and iPhone, then they can take over the world. Also, if you make something the gotta-have device for doctors and executives, you'll make a killing selling the upscale versions, then you can come out with downscale versions with a cheaper case and a plastic screen, but most of the same software and functionality. Cha-CHING!
What's hard to do is to control the whole user experience to the level Apple and Steve Jobs wants to. I think this is why the iPhone didn't support 3rd party apps at first. It's one thing if one of your programs fails on your laptop/desktop. It's another when your're walking around and your phone breaks. With something like a data tablet, there would be more leeway.
I've owned multiple Palm devices, and I now own the iPhone. Palms were nice for keeping info, but ultimately not worth the trouble of lugging and extra device around. If some sort of Apple data tablet succeeds, then it will have to have functions not covered by the iPhone. You will be able to do the iPhone functions with more screen real estate and comfort, but there will be additional functions.
Something that acted like a 21st century Newton and also acted as a graphics tablet would rock. Such a device would also be a kick-ass eBook reader. Doctors would love the thing. (My ex, when she was in med school, had a Sony made PalmOS device pretty much to just to carry around pharmacological reference material. Practically everyone in med school had a PDA for that purpose.)
The tech in the iPhone has a lot of potential if you put it in something the size of a day planner.
If they took the technology in the iPhone and put it into a form factor that was more like a Day Planner than a Phone, then you would have a Truly Awesome companion device. Make it cover most of the functions of the iPhone, except for the phone part, and have it sync with the phone over Bluetooth. Give it WiFi and the ability to use a stylus -- but only in a pinch for lots of data entry or sketching. You'd want to build on the multi-touch goodness. Heck, with multi-touch my iPhone is already a better eBook for PDFs than my Sony Reader, and it's not even hacked! (I just put them on my personal website and view them in Safari. I put them in their own tab, and they stay there for a couple of hours without my having to download them again. Multi-touch rocks for reading stuff.)
There are situations where you wouldn't want your phone *and* a planner, but there are plenty of situations at work where you would find both very useful, but it would be cumbersome to drag a full-blown laptop along. In a larger form factor, the apps already on the iPhone would really rock. The iPhone would still be vital because of its form factor. You could still enter contact data and look at your agenda in a pinch. But for heavy-duty work, the additional screen real estate would be a big win.
Yeah. Let's be clear on what is happening exactly. A software update would obviously affect Hacks, since the executables would be overwritten and placed in the un-hacked state. But it would probably not brick the phone.
An Unlock involves changing information on phones that would not be overwritten by a software update. This is more likely to be capable of bricking a phone since there is information involved that would persist across a software update.
Seen that before, well I've heard of something like this before.
As an undergrad, a fellow student told me about a certain kind of old heavy duty line-printer for mainframe batch processing. It had a hammer for every single character position and a curculating belt with the entire printable character set repeated. A hammer would fire whenever a character coincided with the hammer in the right position. This would let the printer complete a line very quickly. Some bright guy in the shop made up a text file that would cause all of the hammers to fire. BLAM. The hammers all dislocated themselves.
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Nice story. Here's some people doing this in real life.
http://www.inhabitat.com/2007/04/13/lot-ek-shipping-container-house/
There's also the double-decker tour-bus/command center from Buckaroo Banzai.
A Soft Apple Goo? Bye bye Miss American Pie.
Sounds like a new episode of My Name is Earl.
...if Dr. Robert Bussard has any say in the matter.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1996321846673788606
That's not the intersection of mathematics and cosmology, dude. That's the Internet!
ebay sellers are complaining because ads are taking their customers away? There's a word for those ads: it's *competition*.
You want to keep your customers? Then you've got to compete on convenience, price, or with items not available through regular retail channels. I've seen lots of things on eBay for about the same price as in the store. Maybe this won't be as common now.
If eBay's advertisements are enabling competition and more choices, then it's better for the consumer, which includes me.
Does this mean they've Jumped the Shark? Are they doomed now?
There is a scene in Michael Swawick's science fiction book Vacuum Flowers (also at Wikipedia) where the heroine notes that one of her captors, a nun, had an implanted device that artificially heightened her religious/spiritual brain functions. So the heroine says a bunch of stuff designed to drive her captor into a religious ecstatic frenzy, and uses that to make her escape.
What would be cool/dangerous -- if someone could develop this into a ray gun or some kind of emitter. Make it in the form of the Ark of the Covenant, and carry it before our armies!
Either way, it's there in print, wrong.
It would appear that Appleinsider's writers can't tell the difference between an Operating System and a File System. Bad Science Journalism is about the same thing as Bad Information Technology Journalism. Is one more widespread than the other? If Science Journalism is worse, then I wonder what we do differently with Tech jornalism that we can apply there.
I once worked for a company where the CTO couldn't tell the difference between NNTP and HTTP. (He clicked on a link that brought up Usenet in Outlook Express, and was up in arms about how so many negative comments were "on our website!")
...until we have 14 year olds piloting mecha to save the world. (Okay, the Eva aren't mecha exactly, but that's one of my favorite series.)
You guys have no sense of humor at all. I am MAKING FUN of the Dept. of Security Theater AND the huge and frivolous ambitions of these model builders. (And a certain amount of engineering cavalierness on their part.)
Many bad guitarists don't realize that off rhythm is as bad as out of tune. It's actually worse.
Yes, but you need to get a reference to your target to within a few feet. There are GPS based "cruise controls" for competition waterskiing now. They can get readings 1000 times a second.
This isn't a model. It's a freaking cruise missile! The builders aren't even sure the wings won't fall off in flight! The thing is going to use THREE man-sized parachutes to recover. Put survey-grade relative GPS and an autopilot on this thing, and you have a real cruise missile. (You can get millimeters accuracy out of GPS by using a base station as a reference and getting a delta. But the DOD wants to know about it before you do it!)
I was talking about APPS.
Steve Jobs can't come right out and say this, as it can be seen as tantamount to saying that users are stupid. Security. Not on the cell network, but the iPhone as a new platform. User's can't be trusted to install their own apps!
The big reason that Windows machines are riddled with Trojans, is that every user's process runs with the same permissions as the user, and that current systems do not allow finer-grained control over these permissions. (I removed 18 Trojans from my girlfriend's mom's computer the other day!) Stuff like this is one of the big reasons why the user experience on Windows can SUCK. (And yes, it's terrible that all iPhones have the same root password and that's already been cracked.)
The OLPC folks are addressing this by running apps in a sandbox. There are many others thinking along these lines -- that the security model we've been using is not the right one. The current Access Control List security model was designed to keep individual users on a mainframe from interfering with each other while under the supervision of a benevolent and all-powerful root Super-User. Now, in the 21st century, essentially everyone, their mom, their grandparents, and anyone else who runs Windows as Administrator and installs programs is root.
Think about it. There's something seriously wrong here, folks.
Now that we are entering the era of dual and quad core computers becoming mainstream, there is no reason why we can't have more secure models like capabilities. (Especially on quad core machines, where a micro-kernel can lock itself to one processor to prevent context-switch overhead without undue loss of performance.) In order to ensure security on the iPhone, and thus retain total control of the user experience despite malicious hackers, something like sandboxes with a capability model is needed. (Capabilities without context switch overhead could also be enabled by using a VM platform like Java.)
See Rik Farrow's Google Tech Talk on this subject. It's over an hour, so download it and watch it while working out. It's a *fact* that we've been barking up the wrong tree security-wise.
Well, that's another thing. If they can build on the experience of the iPod and iPhone, then they can take over the world. Also, if you make something the gotta-have device for doctors and executives, you'll make a killing selling the upscale versions, then you can come out with downscale versions with a cheaper case and a plastic screen, but most of the same software and functionality. Cha-CHING!
Something like a Newton, but with Multi-Touch would ROCK. You could just keep the stylus in the holster until you actually needed to draw something.
What's hard to do is to control the whole user experience to the level Apple and Steve Jobs wants to. I think this is why the iPhone didn't support 3rd party apps at first. It's one thing if one of your programs fails on your laptop/desktop. It's another when your're walking around and your phone breaks. With something like a data tablet, there would be more leeway.
I've owned multiple Palm devices, and I now own the iPhone. Palms were nice for keeping info, but ultimately not worth the trouble of lugging and extra device around. If some sort of Apple data tablet succeeds, then it will have to have functions not covered by the iPhone. You will be able to do the iPhone functions with more screen real estate and comfort, but there will be additional functions.
Something that acted like a 21st century Newton and also acted as a graphics tablet would rock. Such a device would also be a kick-ass eBook reader. Doctors would love the thing. (My ex, when she was in med school, had a Sony made PalmOS device pretty much to just to carry around pharmacological reference material. Practically everyone in med school had a PDA for that purpose.)
The tech in the iPhone has a lot of potential if you put it in something the size of a day planner.
If they took the technology in the iPhone and put it into a form factor that was more like a Day Planner than a Phone, then you would have a Truly Awesome companion device. Make it cover most of the functions of the iPhone, except for the phone part, and have it sync with the phone over Bluetooth. Give it WiFi and the ability to use a stylus -- but only in a pinch for lots of data entry or sketching. You'd want to build on the multi-touch goodness. Heck, with multi-touch my iPhone is already a better eBook for PDFs than my Sony Reader, and it's not even hacked! (I just put them on my personal website and view them in Safari. I put them in their own tab, and they stay there for a couple of hours without my having to download them again. Multi-touch rocks for reading stuff.)
There are situations where you wouldn't want your phone *and* a planner, but there are plenty of situations at work where you would find both very useful, but it would be cumbersome to drag a full-blown laptop along. In a larger form factor, the apps already on the iPhone would really rock. The iPhone would still be vital because of its form factor. You could still enter contact data and look at your agenda in a pinch. But for heavy-duty work, the additional screen real estate would be a big win.
Yeah. Let's be clear on what is happening exactly. A software update would obviously affect Hacks, since the executables would be overwritten and placed in the un-hacked state. But it would probably not brick the phone.
An Unlock involves changing information on phones that would not be overwritten by a software update. This is more likely to be capable of bricking a phone since there is information involved that would persist across a software update.
Another misleading sensationalist headline?
The money won't go to China, and it's likely to be compatible with whatever distro you were using with your T-20. All it needs is a new battery.
Seen that before, well I've heard of something like this before.
As an undergrad, a fellow student told me about a certain kind of old heavy duty line-printer for mainframe batch processing. It had a hammer for every single character position and a curculating belt with the entire printable character set repeated. A hammer would fire whenever a character coincided with the hammer in the right position. This would let the printer complete a line very quickly. Some bright guy in the shop made up a text file that would cause all of the hammers to fire. BLAM. The hammers all dislocated themselves.
Self Destructing Printer hack.