We've been stuck in Eternal September for decades now. About time it's moved on to winter!
Is there really a point to having a 3d avatar? Yes, there is a point to having 3D avatars, if you can interact and share desktop apps and 3D renderings of designs, products, or complex real-time processes at the same time.
So they already had google in Brazil like in the seventies? Nope. They had books. Lose a point for being unable to generalize information sources.
On a more serious note, your example refutes the point you're trying to make. In the story it's clearly the teacher or the curriculum that encourages rote learning. Lose another point for poor reading comprehension. My point is that there is such a mental state: where one can talk about something you've read without deeply understanding it. Apparently you are down one notch further -- you can't even get the surface point of what you read.
Google can encourage mental habits where people can talk about subjects that they do not understand.
This was covered in one of Feynman's semi-autobiographical books, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! There's a bit where he goes to Brazil. There, in the science classes, the professor would call on the students, and a student would stand and deliver the answer right out of the textbook. This bothered Feynman somehow, so one day he's looking out the window at the sun glinting beautifully off the bay, and asks the students to point out an example of polarized light. Reflected light is polarized, but the students were unable to use their memorized knowledge. Feynman's conclusion was that the science professors weren't teaching science, but public speaking and elocution.
Vernor Vinge also covers this in Rainbows End. The protagonist, a revived Pulitzer-Prize winning poet from the old days, notes that the younger folks seemed to have an inability to really synthesize knowledge and understand anything, though they could instantly look anything up through their wearable computers and talk about it.
A single ioFusion card has the concurrent data serving ability of a 1U server cabinet full of media servers. They do this by having 160 channels on a drive controller that also incorporates flash memory. Since each channel is a few orders of magnitude faster than a mechanical hard drive, one card can handle a flurry of concurrent random access requests as fast as 1000 conventional hard drives.
The perfect thing for serving media, where you don't need a few GB per customer, you need the same few GB served out to 1000's or millions of users concurrently. So while $/GB stored stinks, $/GB streamed is fantastic.
Superconductors that are immune to interference from magnets would get us further towards Bussard Ramjets. There are other hurdles, like the mechanical strength of the magnetic coils themselves. (So the magnetic forces don't wreck them.) Even if we couldn't make practical ramjets, magnetic sails would also benefit, which would make deceleration of interstellar craft almost "free."
Biometrics and tamper-resistant ASIC chips would make it difficult for all but the most determined and powerful organizations to get information off of smart phones. This would stymie most of the industrial espionage corporations out there. You'd need to install an exploit that could wait and hide until decrypted information was sitting in memory somewhere. Doing this might take considerable manpower if the system is hardened.
Governments and the largest corporations would still have the wherewithal to do this, however. But the danger isn't any more pronounced than phone taps and document interception were in the 1980's.
...that it was a class action suit for Trolling. So I thought some subset of Slashdot was going to pay a few ten thousandths of a penny to some other subset of Slashdot. (And the intersection of those two subsets would be paying themselves!)
I'd buy a $460 128 gigabyte SSD in a laptop. Not to long ago these options were about $1000. If you do this right (and often it's been done wrong) you get better performance, much longer battery life, and enhanced reliability. With the right software monitoring of repeated writes, you could also know about hard drive failures coming in advance. That's fantastic, in my book. $460 is still a tad high, but I'd bite.
Robotron on the 2-player DDR chassis. One player controls shooting, the other controls motion. Or give two players a D-pad for shooting and let them play co-op.
Languages are a Social/Cultural phenomenon as much as a Technology. A big part of a language's power is how good and complete its libraries are. And these are built by a community of programmers.
Some kind of Secure Hardware Environment is inevitable. A combination of identity (which cost $$$, so is not disposable), network verification in realtime, and proprietary hardware can make this work. You will be able to copy a game, but you won't be able to make it run for very long. The only thing TPM lacks is a way of automatically generating "patches" of a game once a day or more often. The program's author should be able to obfuscate faster than the users can hack. This combined with the attestation facilities of TPM will make copy protection obsolete. It will be replaced by execution protection.
In a way nVidia's message is the same as that of the Cell ship. There will be more and more use of parallelism, with the CPU (Or a particular CPU on symmetric multi-core systems) acting as a kind of foreman for a troop of processors working in parallel.
Not all of the uses for the gobs of cheap parallel processing power are apparent yet. But people will find cool things to use it for, just as they found cool things to use home computers for. In a way, we are now going through a home supercomputing revolution.
Eve Online had big problems with random-access hard-drive use with the local cache. I haven't played in awhile, so I don't know if this is still the case.
This pales in comparison to the ioFusion drive. The videos show tests being run where they are doing 8 operations at the same time, at blazing speeds, copying multiple DVDs in 5 seconds, and simulating swapping a blizzard of 4kb blocks as fast as RAM. Instead of 2 channels, their cards use 160 channels at the same time. This gives a single card the parallel random access bandwidth of a 1000 disk drive SAN.
There are some great devices for solar water heating produced in Britain. If you treated this as a water preheat, you could use this with a Stirling engine and have your own solar-thermal unit with solar energy storage.
The big problem there is getting your hands on a Stirling engine.
"Line forms spontaneously at NYC Apple Store" It sounds like a headline on The Onion! I guess we've been at the point where The Onion sounds like real life for some time now.
I remember seeing something from IBM research some years ago on this. But a Google Search on "proactive virus protection" turns up a reference from 2001 and another from 2004 soon after.
This may result in an influx of Spanish-Speakers to Japan. There are already significant communities of Spanish speaking laborers in Japan. Spain and a number of Latin-American countries have good educational systems, but fewer economic opportunities. (Cuba is one example.) Also, the visual arts and comics are tremendously popular in Spain, and Japan is the world's epicenter of comics.
I'm working on the cure for the MMO. It is simply this -- make everything emergent. A big problem with MMOs are that they end up fighting evolutionary forces and market forces. Instead, co-opt them!
I'm working on a space game where everything is playable by the users, or designable by the users, scriptable by the users, or it evolves on it's own in the background using genetic algorithms. There is no dev-generated "content." There is "mining" and "farming" but this will be done by people who choose to do so, and they will be using official APIs provided them in the game. If they want not to do so, then they are welcome to use other scripting mechanisms as well. "Mining" and "farming" will just be a part of RTS-style resource management play.
There will be no spawn-camping, and no gate-camping. The only kind of time-consuming play will be exploration, which will be interesting, as there will be 400 billion star systems procedurally generated using cryptographically secure PRNGs running only on the servers.
Externalities are a fact of life -- we will co-opt them. Market forces are a fact of life -- we will make them part of the game. Emergence is not only a fact of life, but a source of everything truly fascinating in MMOs. Our game will be based on this.
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Find some way to mount the satellite dish next door and use a point-to-point WiFi link. WiFi range can be greatly increased with a homebrew tin can antenna or Cantenna.
You might even offer to split broadband costs with whoever hosts the dish. If you have a yard, then put it in a shed out back.
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.qwaq.com/
Google can encourage mental habits where people can talk about subjects that they do not understand.
This was covered in one of Feynman's semi-autobiographical books, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! There's a bit where he goes to Brazil. There, in the science classes, the professor would call on the students, and a student would stand and deliver the answer right out of the textbook. This bothered Feynman somehow, so one day he's looking out the window at the sun glinting beautifully off the bay, and asks the students to point out an example of polarized light. Reflected light is polarized, but the students were unable to use their memorized knowledge. Feynman's conclusion was that the science professors weren't teaching science, but public speaking and elocution.
Vernor Vinge also covers this in Rainbows End. The protagonist, a revived Pulitzer-Prize winning poet from the old days, notes that the younger folks seemed to have an inability to really synthesize knowledge and understand anything, though they could instantly look anything up through their wearable computers and talk about it.
What part of "almost" do you not understand? Compared to lugging along the reaction mass and fuel to brake by firing rockets, a magsail is fantastic!
A single ioFusion card has the concurrent data serving ability of a 1U server cabinet full of media servers. They do this by having 160 channels on a drive controller that also incorporates flash memory. Since each channel is a few orders of magnitude faster than a mechanical hard drive, one card can handle a flurry of concurrent random access requests as fast as 1000 conventional hard drives.
The perfect thing for serving media, where you don't need a few GB per customer, you need the same few GB served out to 1000's or millions of users concurrently. So while $/GB stored stinks, $/GB streamed is fantastic.
Superconductors that are immune to interference from magnets would get us further towards Bussard Ramjets. There are other hurdles, like the mechanical strength of the magnetic coils themselves. (So the magnetic forces don't wreck them.) Even if we couldn't make practical ramjets, magnetic sails would also benefit, which would make deceleration of interstellar craft almost "free."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bussard_ramjet
Biometrics and tamper-resistant ASIC chips would make it difficult for all but the most determined and powerful organizations to get information off of smart phones. This would stymie most of the industrial espionage corporations out there. You'd need to install an exploit that could wait and hide until decrypted information was sitting in memory somewhere. Doing this might take considerable manpower if the system is hardened.
Governments and the largest corporations would still have the wherewithal to do this, however. But the danger isn't any more pronounced than phone taps and document interception were in the 1980's.
...that it was a class action suit for Trolling. So I thought some subset of Slashdot was going to pay a few ten thousandths of a penny to some other subset of Slashdot. (And the intersection of those two subsets would be paying themselves!)
I'd buy a $460 128 gigabyte SSD in a laptop. Not to long ago these options were about $1000. If you do this right (and often it's been done wrong) you get better performance, much longer battery life, and enhanced reliability. With the right software monitoring of repeated writes, you could also know about hard drive failures coming in advance. That's fantastic, in my book. $460 is still a tad high, but I'd bite.
Robotron on the 2-player DDR chassis. One player controls shooting, the other controls motion. Or give two players a D-pad for shooting and let them play co-op.
Languages are a Social/Cultural phenomenon as much as a Technology. A big part of a language's power is how good and complete its libraries are. And these are built by a community of programmers.
Some kind of Secure Hardware Environment is inevitable. A combination of identity (which cost $$$, so is not disposable), network verification in realtime, and proprietary hardware can make this work. You will be able to copy a game, but you won't be able to make it run for very long. The only thing TPM lacks is a way of automatically generating "patches" of a game once a day or more often. The program's author should be able to obfuscate faster than the users can hack. This combined with the attestation facilities of TPM will make copy protection obsolete. It will be replaced by execution protection.
In a way nVidia's message is the same as that of the Cell ship. There will be more and more use of parallelism, with the CPU (Or a particular CPU on symmetric multi-core systems) acting as a kind of foreman for a troop of processors working in parallel.
Not all of the uses for the gobs of cheap parallel processing power are apparent yet. But people will find cool things to use it for, just as they found cool things to use home computers for. In a way, we are now going through a home supercomputing revolution.
Eve Online had big problems with random-access hard-drive use with the local cache. I haven't played in awhile, so I don't know if this is still the case.
This pales in comparison to the ioFusion drive. The videos show tests being run where they are doing 8 operations at the same time, at blazing speeds, copying multiple DVDs in 5 seconds, and simulating swapping a blizzard of 4kb blocks as fast as RAM. Instead of 2 channels, their cards use 160 channels at the same time. This gives a single card the parallel random access bandwidth of a 1000 disk drive SAN.
http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/34065/135/
At $30 per gigabyte, it would be great to have a 10-gig for OS and your current favorite MMO game.
There are some great devices for solar water heating produced in Britain. If you treated this as a water preheat, you could use this with a Stirling engine and have your own solar-thermal unit with solar energy storage.
The big problem there is getting your hands on a Stirling engine.
Parent deserves to be modded up Informative!
"Line forms spontaneously at NYC Apple Store" It sounds like a headline on The Onion! I guess we've been at the point where The Onion sounds like real life for some time now.
I remember seeing something from IBM research some years ago on this. But a Google Search on "proactive virus protection" turns up a reference from 2001 and another from 2004 soon after.
Turn it upside down and use it as a prop in your fan tribute YouTube video inspired by Total Recall!
This may result in an influx of Spanish-Speakers to Japan. There are already significant communities of Spanish speaking laborers in Japan. Spain and a number of Latin-American countries have good educational systems, but fewer economic opportunities. (Cuba is one example.) Also, the visual arts and comics are tremendously popular in Spain, and Japan is the world's epicenter of comics.
"Do not stare into laser with remaining eye."
I'm working on the cure for the MMO. It is simply this -- make everything emergent. A big problem with MMOs are that they end up fighting evolutionary forces and market forces. Instead, co-opt them!
I'm working on a space game where everything is playable by the users, or designable by the users, scriptable by the users, or it evolves on it's own in the background using genetic algorithms. There is no dev-generated "content." There is "mining" and "farming" but this will be done by people who choose to do so, and they will be using official APIs provided them in the game. If they want not to do so, then they are welcome to use other scripting mechanisms as well. "Mining" and "farming" will just be a part of RTS-style resource management play.
There will be no spawn-camping, and no gate-camping. The only kind of time-consuming play will be exploration, which will be interesting, as there will be 400 billion star systems procedurally generated using cryptographically secure PRNGs running only on the servers.
Externalities are a fact of life -- we will co-opt them. Market forces are a fact of life -- we will make them part of the game. Emergence is not only a fact of life, but a source of everything truly fascinating in MMOs. Our game will be based on this.
To eliminate the super-long commute?
Find some way to mount the satellite dish next door and use a point-to-point WiFi link. WiFi range can be greatly increased with a homebrew tin can antenna or Cantenna.
You might even offer to split broadband costs with whoever hosts the dish. If you have a yard, then put it in a shed out back.