Huh. Maybe. My understanding was that when he said this, he felt that quantum mechanics was wrong, and due to be disproven. Maybe not. I don't have a good source for this.
I've got a letter from Einstein.
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My grandpa wrote Einstein a while back. Grandpa was leading a Great Books discussion on something of Einsteins, and he asked for a clarification of one of the problems in the book. Einstein wrote back. It's in English, which means he either dictated it, or someone translated it for him, since he didn't write in English.
Either way, we're pretty sure he was wrong... hehe. Makes me happy every time I think about it.
Jiminy Cricket. Thanks for reminding me about all that crap on Nash. Makes me want to up and off myself. "But, who's to say we're not the ones that are crazy, and he's the one that's sane? Really? Who can say?"
Oh, that's so deep I could crap twice and die.
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It's also important to rememer that his quote, "God does not play dice," was famous, fun, and mostly wrong. That was his opinion on the study of quantum mechanics, which has its limitations, but is widely accepted and has predicted experimental outcomes.
Einstein made a few interesting mistakes. That was one of them. Another was mucking up the theory of relativity when one of its implications was too incredible. Don't get me wrong. He was huge, and that is measured by the fact that he admitted his mistakes.
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The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves...
I resent this remark. I did at least five incredibly stupid things just yesterday. All of them were readily apparent to the most casual observer.
That's what Aimster did/Madster does. Kindof. The whole point was that in order to view the files you downloaded, you had to violate your license agreement. Dunno about circumventing encryption.
They seem to be failing due to obscurity since the name change, rather than legal problems. I'm sure that their legal safety would only last so long as they remain obscure.
You've nailed one of the many reasons that they dropped the charges against Dmitri.
Elcomsoft does business in the US. They can be tried in US courts as long as they would like to continue doing business here. The only charge against Dmitri that would have flown is due to his presentation here in the US. The DMCA makes it illegal to tell other people how to circumvent encryption on copyright material. He did that. Of course that is a much clearer free speech issue, so I think they got a little scared.
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I liked it a lot. I think it's totally worth watching, for fans of complex movies from all genres. It has a number of shortcomings, and you might not decide that it's a great movie, but it's worth seeing just to watch where they fail.
There are a number of aspects that are absolutely fantastic. The exposition is very very well done. Stanislaw Lem fans, Soderberg fans, and hell, even Clooney fans will be happy with the exposition, even though it's the slowest part of the movie. That's my biggest confusion w/ this review - the slow parts were the best parts of the movie. I almost wished they just skipped the plot. Clooney 'n' the scientists' acting were so excellent that I wish they just played with character all movie long.
The whole movie deviates from the novel in big ways. In the beginning, Lem fans will accept those changes, because they were good decisions. The end, unfortunately, is full of bad decisions.
The end of the movie was very disappointing for me. I'm not the kind of person that feels a movie needs some Usual Suspects style reversal in order to be interesting or witty. If it's well orchestrated, and the movie is lightweight in the first place, then it can be nice. Here, it felt cheap. I wanted a hard answer. They didn't deliver. Still, scenes like Clooney sitting in the library leaving a message to coordinate a meeting... that made it all worth while.
You seem to misunderstand the complaint about Event Horizon. It wasn't that it passively failed as a movie. Sure, a million crappy movies passively fail.
Even Horizon was well executed. It was activelypainful to watch, and offered absolutely nothing to the viewer. Sure, that's right, if for some reason these people choose not to understand what they are seeing, they might be lead to chase phantoms around a boat. I care deeply about movies. I want them to add to *something*. That something can be painful, but if it's just a formula for jerking around the audience, I get offended.
I don't know if that turned out as a cohesive argument. There is one, I'm sure.
After a certain point, this isn't feasible. Right now, all that SEQ can do is show you the locations of monsters that are out of your line of sight.
Calculating whether or not a monster is in your line of sight requires a bunch of logic. You need to know about the terrain, obstacles, locations. And the calculations are different for every person, etc. Iduno. Seems prohibitive to me.
Well, Avie Tevinian probably doesn't agree with your "OS people up at Carnegie Mellon", and he's running the show over at Apple. He also wrote some pertinent versions of Mach, up at Carnegie Mellon.
When it comes to questions like this, if you can get the best people, using their prefered tools is often a good idea. If Apple could have hired all the architects of the freebsd Kernel, then sure, maybe you'd be right.
Also, I don't know what the hell you mean that you've "heard nothing but bad things about" Mach. It's a well known and well inspected peice of code. It might have problems, but saying "bad things" doesn't mean anything. What are the problems? Message passing is slow? This is true. Whatever. It's an architectural choice. Some of those architectural choices are exactly what makes Mach good for Apple - Multiple OS hosting.
Someone, either the author, or a source, is totally confused about what light is.
When I read the topic, it occured to me that they might have been talking about using quantum encryption (photon spin direction? what?) with cell phones. Then I realized it wasn't the year 2025.
Anyway. This will be interesting when someone who graduated high school writes an article about it.
And to be fair, cell phones aren't 100% stable... dropped calls are sometimes the software's fault, it's not always obvious that this is the case because it's easy to assume it's due to radio interference or cell tower issues.
Amen. There are plenty of cell phones out there with really crappy software. An open cell platform and a linux-quality OS would make me wet my pants with joy. The problem, imho, is that cell phone companies treat your cell phone as if it's their property. Drives me nuts.
I'm sorry if I was unclear. I'm really only talking about denial of service. The aspect of communist China that we would need to duplicate would be stuff like port or site blocking.
I understand and agree with your political position. We are still different from the particular brand of authoritarian state that would invalidate my point.
The problem of centralized control is different from the problem of centralized points of failure.
Sure, if the government decides to break the infrastructure, it only has to make that choice once. That is the problem of centralized control.
They are perfectly capable of putting connex between every police station in the nation, though, and providing incredibly decentralized points of failure. In fact, that's what they've done. There was some federal bill for emergency communications centers, so now many new police buildings take federal money. The feds pay for the whole building in exchange for using the basement as a communications center.
The question is, are you more worried about a backhoe taking out an essential backbone, or are you more worried about our government turning into communist China. I'd say the backhoe is more likely, just because it already happened.
Of course, the reason you're opposed to this isn't because the government can't do it properly. It's because you think the government would spend too much money doing it. And of course, you're right. Don't mean to bait, but when you start acting like you have some other set of reasons... you sound like a liar.
So close, but yet so far. Give us this plus this. That is, a portable chordal handset with braille output. Then connect it to either a blackberry like device, or one of those AIM cellphones.
Can you imagine? I walk to work every day with my phone logged into AIM. I chat with people while I walk. I try not to step in potholes. The convenience of chatting and holding the cellphone at my side while waiting for the vibrating alert set me to thinking...
Iduno. Y'all want a portable SSH client that you don't have to look at in order to use? Without the requirement for a screen, I don't care how big the device is. It goes in my backpack. The input/output is all tactile.
I wonder how hard it is for sighted folks to learn braille. I wonder how hard it would be to mount braille-like output on a small handheld device. Dunno if that's possible, really.
I don't know the first thing about the different mesh networking plans, but this'd be an excellent sort of problem to solve:
If certain users have bandwidth that they'd be happy to share, and a WAP, someone needs to make a configuration utility that allows them to easily share their internet-bound bandwidth with the network.
The part that's really different from a wifi bridge is that this needs to be ad-hoc. So that internet access providers can enter and exit the network without fubaring connectivity. Between folks like the pakketto keiretsu author and regular ad hoc networking folks, I'm sure it could work.
A lot of the stuff that kids liked about tintin was just the Hardy Boys + James Bond story line. Which really wasn't so special.
The innovative thing about tintin was the art. An uncommon thing about tintin was the feel. If Speilberg just copies the plot of one of the comics, it'll be worthless trash. That won't bother me too much, even though I read plenty of them when I was a kid.
However, if he uses some new digital process technique to reference the subtly different solid colors of the comic, and he lets it stay innocent, that'd be excellent.
I hate Speilberg more than anyone I know. But he doesn't always make action movies, and sometimes he can do good things with the look of a movie. Compare AI to Minority Report to Private Ryan. Actually, the unifying characteristic of those three movies is the contrast and dark blacks. That would kindof kill any attempt to copy the look of Herge's art.
Whatever. Tintin was one of my first experiences being disappointed by the fact that a storyteller was using formula. I felt ripped off. I'm more upset that those sons of bitches are destroying The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Sure, it's not a classic, but it could make an excellent fucking movie. 'Scuse me.
I don't think he means perl-style regexps. I think he just means that the schema should incorporate the formalism of regexps so that you can prove how large and how limited your language is.
Not that I know the first thing about this whole topic. Maybe you understood perfectly what he meant.
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Huh. Maybe. My understanding was that when he said this, he felt that quantum mechanics was wrong, and due to be disproven. Maybe not. I don't have a good source for this.
My grandpa wrote Einstein a while back. Grandpa was leading a Great Books discussion on something of Einsteins, and he asked for a clarification of one of the problems in the book. Einstein wrote back. It's in English, which means he either dictated it, or someone translated it for him, since he didn't write in English.
Either way, we're pretty sure he was wrong... hehe. Makes me happy every time I think about it.
Jiminy Cricket. Thanks for reminding me about all that crap on Nash. Makes me want to up and off myself. "But, who's to say we're not the ones that are crazy, and he's the one that's sane? Really? Who can say?"
Oh, that's so deep I could crap twice and die.
It's also important to rememer that his quote, "God does not play dice," was famous, fun, and mostly wrong. That was his opinion on the study of quantum mechanics, which has its limitations, but is widely accepted and has predicted experimental outcomes.
Einstein made a few interesting mistakes. That was one of them. Another was mucking up the theory of relativity when one of its implications was too incredible. Don't get me wrong. He was huge, and that is measured by the fact that he admitted his mistakes.
The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves...
I resent this remark. I did at least five incredibly stupid things just yesterday. All of them were readily apparent to the most casual observer.
That's what Aimster did/Madster does. Kindof. The whole point was that in order to view the files you downloaded, you had to violate your license agreement. Dunno about circumventing encryption.
They seem to be failing due to obscurity since the name change, rather than legal problems. I'm sure that their legal safety would only last so long as they remain obscure.
You've nailed one of the many reasons that they dropped the charges against Dmitri.
Elcomsoft does business in the US. They can be tried in US courts as long as they would like to continue doing business here. The only charge against Dmitri that would have flown is due to his presentation here in the US. The DMCA makes it illegal to tell other people how to circumvent encryption on copyright material. He did that. Of course that is a much clearer free speech issue, so I think they got a little scared.
You learn something new every day...
I liked it a lot. I think it's totally worth watching, for fans of complex movies from all genres. It has a number of shortcomings, and you might not decide that it's a great movie, but it's worth seeing just to watch where they fail.
There are a number of aspects that are absolutely fantastic. The exposition is very very well done. Stanislaw Lem fans, Soderberg fans, and hell, even Clooney fans will be happy with the exposition, even though it's the slowest part of the movie. That's my biggest confusion w/ this review - the slow parts were the best parts of the movie. I almost wished they just skipped the plot. Clooney 'n' the scientists' acting were so excellent that I wish they just played with character all movie long.
The whole movie deviates from the novel in big ways. In the beginning, Lem fans will accept those changes, because they were good decisions. The end, unfortunately, is full of bad decisions.
The end of the movie was very disappointing for me. I'm not the kind of person that feels a movie needs some Usual Suspects style reversal in order to be interesting or witty. If it's well orchestrated, and the movie is lightweight in the first place, then it can be nice. Here, it felt cheap. I wanted a hard answer. They didn't deliver. Still, scenes like Clooney sitting in the library leaving a message to coordinate a meeting... that made it all worth while.
You seem to misunderstand the complaint about Event Horizon. It wasn't that it passively failed as a movie. Sure, a million crappy movies passively fail.
Even Horizon was well executed. It was activelypainful to watch, and offered absolutely nothing to the viewer. Sure, that's right, if for some reason these people choose not to understand what they are seeing, they might be lead to chase phantoms around a boat. I care deeply about movies. I want them to add to *something*. That something can be painful, but if it's just a formula for jerking around the audience, I get offended.
I don't know if that turned out as a cohesive argument. There is one, I'm sure.
After a certain point, this isn't feasible. Right now, all that SEQ can do is show you the locations of monsters that are out of your line of sight.
Calculating whether or not a monster is in your line of sight requires a bunch of logic. You need to know about the terrain, obstacles, locations. And the calculations are different for every person, etc. Iduno. Seems prohibitive to me.
That's why his comment was funny. Hello Kitty vibrators are well known.
Well, Avie Tevinian probably doesn't agree with your "OS people up at Carnegie Mellon", and he's running the show over at Apple. He also wrote some pertinent versions of Mach, up at Carnegie Mellon.
When it comes to questions like this, if you can get the best people, using their prefered tools is often a good idea. If Apple could have hired all the architects of the freebsd Kernel, then sure, maybe you'd be right.
Also, I don't know what the hell you mean that you've "heard nothing but bad things about" Mach. It's a well known and well inspected peice of code. It might have problems, but saying "bad things" doesn't mean anything. What are the problems? Message passing is slow? This is true. Whatever. It's an architectural choice. Some of those architectural choices are exactly what makes Mach good for Apple - Multiple OS hosting.
Someone, either the author, or a source, is totally confused about what light is.
When I read the topic, it occured to me that they might have been talking about using quantum encryption (photon spin direction? what?) with cell phones. Then I realized it wasn't the year 2025.
Anyway. This will be interesting when someone who graduated high school writes an article about it.
And to be fair, cell phones aren't 100% stable... dropped calls are sometimes the software's fault, it's not always obvious that this is the case because it's easy to assume it's due to radio interference or cell tower issues.
Amen. There are plenty of cell phones out there with really crappy software. An open cell platform and a linux-quality OS would make me wet my pants with joy. The problem, imho, is that cell phone companies treat your cell phone as if it's their property. Drives me nuts.
I'm sorry if I was unclear. I'm really only talking about denial of service. The aspect of communist China that we would need to duplicate would be stuff like port or site blocking.
I understand and agree with your political position. We are still different from the particular brand of authoritarian state that would invalidate my point.
The problem of centralized control is different from the problem of centralized points of failure.
Sure, if the government decides to break the infrastructure, it only has to make that choice once. That is the problem of centralized control.
They are perfectly capable of putting connex between every police station in the nation, though, and providing incredibly decentralized points of failure. In fact, that's what they've done. There was some federal bill for emergency communications centers, so now many new police buildings take federal money. The feds pay for the whole building in exchange for using the basement as a communications center.
The question is, are you more worried about a backhoe taking out an essential backbone, or are you more worried about our government turning into communist China. I'd say the backhoe is more likely, just because it already happened.
Of course, the reason you're opposed to this isn't because the government can't do it properly. It's because you think the government would spend too much money doing it. And of course, you're right. Don't mean to bait, but when you start acting like you have some other set of reasons... you sound like a liar.
It seems like the Tivo folks could pay Google to come up with a better algorithm for this sort of problem.
So close, but yet so far. Give us this plus this. That is, a portable chordal handset with braille output. Then connect it to either a blackberry like device, or one of those AIM cellphones.
Can you imagine? I walk to work every day with my phone logged into AIM. I chat with people while I walk. I try not to step in potholes. The convenience of chatting and holding the cellphone at my side while waiting for the vibrating alert set me to thinking...
Iduno. Y'all want a portable SSH client that you don't have to look at in order to use? Without the requirement for a screen, I don't care how big the device is. It goes in my backpack. The input/output is all tactile.
I wonder how hard it is for sighted folks to learn braille. I wonder how hard it would be to mount braille-like output on a small handheld device. Dunno if that's possible, really.
Mesh networking/NAT.
I don't know the first thing about the different mesh networking plans, but this'd be an excellent sort of problem to solve:
If certain users have bandwidth that they'd be happy to share, and a WAP, someone needs to make a configuration utility that allows them to easily share their internet-bound bandwidth with the network.
The part that's really different from a wifi bridge is that this needs to be ad-hoc. So that internet access providers can enter and exit the network without fubaring connectivity. Between folks like the pakketto keiretsu author and regular ad hoc networking folks, I'm sure it could work.
You know, I said something inflamatory here once, and some AC responded saying, "You're dumb. And what kind of idiot quotes himself, anyway."
That made me feel smart for days. Ok, minutes at least.
Um. Yeah. That's exactly what I mean. Look at the colors in AI compared to... iduno, 40 Days and 40 Nights.
Unless you're making a comment about race, in which case you might have a great point. And it'd be really apropos, given that we're discussing Tintin.
I'm glad someone understands.
A lot of the stuff that kids liked about tintin was just the Hardy Boys + James Bond story line. Which really wasn't so special.
The innovative thing about tintin was the art. An uncommon thing about tintin was the feel. If Speilberg just copies the plot of one of the comics, it'll be worthless trash. That won't bother me too much, even though I read plenty of them when I was a kid.
However, if he uses some new digital process technique to reference the subtly different solid colors of the comic, and he lets it stay innocent, that'd be excellent.
I hate Speilberg more than anyone I know. But he doesn't always make action movies, and sometimes he can do good things with the look of a movie. Compare AI to Minority Report to Private Ryan. Actually, the unifying characteristic of those three movies is the contrast and dark blacks. That would kindof kill any attempt to copy the look of Herge's art.
Whatever. Tintin was one of my first experiences being disappointed by the fact that a storyteller was using formula. I felt ripped off. I'm more upset that those sons of bitches are destroying The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Sure, it's not a classic, but it could make an excellent fucking movie. 'Scuse me.
Mac OS X. A lot of metadata in OS X is kept in XML. Aren't .plist files all XML?
I don't think he means perl-style regexps. I think he just means that the schema should incorporate the formalism of regexps so that you can prove how large and how limited your language is.
Not that I know the first thing about this whole topic. Maybe you understood perfectly what he meant.