The two real problem with current electric cars are electricty storage and charging times. Currently a the mass of the battery (both volume and weight) are restrictive to making a good electric car and since todays batteries aren't very good at holding much charge for long, you need a lot of them. This means that you need to frequently charge your batteries, but this takes ages. The ideal solution would be to swap out the batteries and exchange them for charged ones. Now I don't think that average Joe is going to find battery exchange points or fast charging facilities anywhere when doing the tour of their city. Even if you could swap out your batteries, are you going to trust the condition of the replacement ones?
All this is why Honda made the smarter move of going hybrid. Hybrid engines are cleaner and the combustion component is more efficient and cleaner than the average combustion engine, simply because it is easier to optimise an engine with a fixed RPM. It is always easier to evolve than to create a revolution, and technology should be designed taking this into account. Your average engineer might be able to understand some new mind blowing engineering concept, but we aren't all engineers, so we keep to out habits unless their is a good reason to change and any easy way to do it.
I haven't been too impressed with Amazon.com. HMV.com is a little better, but all to often the forign music they do have are usually specials adapted for the North American market. For example I felt like checking out Nena (99 Red Balloons or 99 Luftballons, in German), but the copy I found at HMV had more english music than German. I am of the sentiment that an artist sounds better when they are singing in their native language.
At work I have some Romanian and Tunisian collegues, who brought in their music. When I asked them where the got it, they told be that they either asked a friend who was going over to the country, or downloaded it online, off Kazaa or something of the sorts. It wasn't really the answer I was looking for:(
I definetly feel that any company that starts providing music online legally would be filling a very evident niche, if they provided music that you can't but from your usual retailers.
Since most mirror sites are usually discovered by going through the original site, then maybe if sites were to host a text or xml file at the root of the server listing the mirrors. This file would be in a universal format and could be automatically checked by browsers aware of this service. This would have the added advantage of being cachable by any proxy service.
The sort of information the file would contain would include (5 second analysis):
name of sites being mirrored
list of the mirror, which would URL, geographic location, country name
If the browser sees that the current server's address is not the same as the listed orginal then it knows than it is a mirror. Also, the mirror file would have the ability to list all the sites that are mirrored on the server.
This file could then be be read by a search Engine and then when it shows the site in the search results it could list the associated mirrors. The file would probably be called mirrors.txt or mirrors.xml, depending on the format used.
This is my 5c worth. If you like the idea, then consider it free for the taking:)
Judging by the fact that they have made a CC of the Google look and logo (with the the G crossed-out), I am sure that they are wanting to get Google's attention, and everyone else's while they are at it. They are probably hoping that enough people will make enough noise that Google will encorporate what they feel is a great tool into Google.
Admittedly it is not the best approach, but if it ends up working, well why not?
Considering that Unix was a beast created in the 70s and that its been over 20 years then any patent awarded before 1985 has expired. Beyond that I wonder what patents SCO still has that are still valid?
..provided that C does the heavy lifting. Maybe they could provide OpenGL for Perl.
True, but then again you could say that the C OpenGL looks good, provided the graphics card does the heavy lifting. An API is only as good as the underlying implementation.
There is another article at the LA Times. The service will be making use of a technology known as AAC or Advanced Audio Codec. There is a project at Sourceforge with an implementation.
While we're on the subject of OpenGL, I would like to say that combining Java and OpenGL, as in the OpenGL for Java, you get to see that Java isn't really that slow and that OpenGL provides something that DirectX just won't.
This like any solution is not fool proof. The catch is if you have managed to get hold of both the orginal and the modified copy. A quick MD5 check will reveal that both are different and could lead someone to suspect that something has been done. Now which one is the modified version? You could do this using a statistical method, by finding out which occurrence appears more often on the net. So to achieve the trick correctly you need to make the modification to an executable that does not exist on the net.
Another method to detecting an executable that contains hidden data is to work out whether the executable uses the most unusual method of implementing its assembly.
Of course just like in the film 'A Beutiful Mind', you could just end up seeing encrypted data left right and center, whether or not it is really there.
Market. Share. Is. Not. Necessarily. An. Indication. Of. A. Company's. Success.
Why can't people understand this?
Good point. Ferrari and Rolls Royce both have small market shares, in comparison to Honda or GM, but I sure know what I would like to buy if I could afford it. Until then I'll just be with the scaled-down model;)
The same goes for the Mac. Sure it does not have the market share of MS, but I would still rather buy a quality product. There are compromises, but there always are in life, not matter what you do. Just make sure that you choose the one that you are happy with and let your neighbor choose the one they are happy with, no matter what you think of their choice.
Looks like once again that we have spent so much trying to protect our computers from the internet, that we forgot that sometimes the problems can come in shrink-wrapped packages.
Since it we have the ability to prevent a program communicating on a certain port, maybe we now need to have software that limits what a user space application can do, without it being granted explicitly by the user. Consider this a feature request for any OS out there.
Because IPv6 numeric addresses use colons as opposed as part separators, the URL syntax has had to be ammended. The following is now a legal URL (the squared bracket isolates the numbered IP addresss, so the port number is not confused with the IP addresss):
http://[66.35.250.150]:80/
Last time I checked this worked with Mozilla but failed will MS Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows.
I have just noticed that the IPv6 web site lists implementations of IPv6 for various platforms. Hopefully this should be useful to those of you wanting to test out IPv6 on your system.
MacOS X and IPv6 and other OSs
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Even if your local network infrastructure does not support IPv6, all installations of MacOSX 10.2 have and IPv6 stack. The following is taken from doing an 'ifconfig' at the command line:
From what I can tell MS-Windows is still a little behind, as can be seen from this page. As for other OSs I am not aware of their support status. If you do know, a reply to this post would be handy to most.
Have you ever tried to read a patent? Trying to read a patent and not go nuts is quite a feat in some cases. They are able to make something as simple as a hair-brush sound as complicated as a jet engine. The poor guys at the patent office probably have an eye on keeping their sanity, so let these thing go through and let someone else deal with the resulting mess.
Saying that you have created unbreakable encryption is like saying your ship is unsinkable. Time is the decider of everything. While something may me unbreakable now, time will come with solutions to prove that the real limitation is current understanding.
Then again security is more about making intrusion incredibly difficult and time consuming than impossible. Anybody who believes in passive security is enough obviosualy doesn't understand security issues well enough.
Rendezvous seems to have a much greater chance of working. First, it is not language centric, as was JINI and secondly it is much easier to understand and implement. JINI tried to do too much and people just gave up trying to understand it.
If these Apple press release are anything to go by, then Rendezvous has already made huge headway:
Although already posted in further down, here is Apple's page on Rendezvous. I want to see this technology work, because simplicity is what most people want. If its simple, then people just use the technology and don't notice its there - this is what future computing must strive to do.
Although you wouldn't want to try install new equipment straight away, I believe a smart way of testing a new system would to be put the in parallel. The idea is that they would get all the same readings as the current computers, they would make calculations about what to do, but they wouldn't control anything. This approach allows the computers to be tested in situation without effecting the situation. Only when the computer have been tested is semi-operational mode would they be able to be put into full operational mode.
I buy American, French and Manga comics and there ares several things that I notice that make a differnce:
American comics tend to be very black and white in their stories, where it good vs evil, hero vs anti-hero. And it is often about the down trodden rising up. On the other hand Japanese Manga and European comics tend be written more like a graphic novel. The stories are more adult, in the sense that they are more cynical, philosphical, etc. They are also deeper and are more grey in their stories, it is not a simple good vs evil.
I have read Manga that appeared childish on the outside, but once you read it you notice that it was designed for adults, as the philosophy and cynicsm would only have been understood by adults. Sure there is also Manga written for kids, but that is not what we are talking about here.
Their format. American comics are sold monthly and are only about 20 pages long. There are Japanese comics, in Japan, that are sold monthly, but they are sold together with other comics in a book the size of a small phone book. In Europe, the comics books are hard back and sold once a year. In Europe, even in Quebec, you can walk into a book store, something equivalent to Barns and Nobles, and find a section dedicated to European style comics and Manga. If you do ever see the American comics (translated), then it tends to be the collected editions, as people don't want to be reading a rag.
Culture makes a big difference, but then again when you see the way American comics are written and sold, then it is its own worst enemy, though not that it effect the usual American comic reader;). The problem is that for once the stereotype about comics here is true and that the stories are unlikely to attract a 'more sophisticated' readership, until the format changes and the sales location changes. European and Japanese comics are written for adults, packaged in a way that is appealing and acceptable to adults and sold in places that is easily accessible, not some back street where you average Joe wouldn't think of going.
Just like with any NDA, post-employment non-competition agreement, or other employment terms, if you don't like the way they treat you BEFORE they hire you, you should tell them that, and look elsewhere.
The problem is that they hired the guy and then made the request.
If he gets dismissed for bad credit, then he could sue them for inappropriate dismisal, though IANAL, so what would I know?
Someone suggested that if the company is asking the employee for his credit history, then the company should also show him theirs.
Slashdot Mirror
The two real problem with current electric cars are electricty storage and charging times. Currently a the mass of the battery (both volume and weight) are restrictive to making a good electric car and since todays batteries aren't very good at holding much charge for long, you need a lot of them. This means that you need to frequently charge your batteries, but this takes ages. The ideal solution would be to swap out the batteries and exchange them for charged ones. Now I don't think that average Joe is going to find battery exchange points or fast charging facilities anywhere when doing the tour of their city. Even if you could swap out your batteries, are you going to trust the condition of the replacement ones?
All this is why Honda made the smarter move of going hybrid. Hybrid engines are cleaner and the combustion component is more efficient and cleaner than the average combustion engine, simply because it is easier to optimise an engine with a fixed RPM. It is always easier to evolve than to create a revolution, and technology should be designed taking this into account. Your average engineer might be able to understand some new mind blowing engineering concept, but we aren't all engineers, so we keep to out habits unless their is a good reason to change and any easy way to do it.
I haven't been too impressed with Amazon.com. HMV.com is a little better, but all to often the forign music they do have are usually specials adapted for the North American market. For example I felt like checking out Nena (99 Red Balloons or 99 Luftballons, in German), but the copy I found at HMV had more english music than German. I am of the sentiment that an artist sounds better when they are singing in their native language.
:(
At work I have some Romanian and Tunisian collegues, who brought in their music. When I asked them where the got it, they told be that they either asked a friend who was going over to the country, or downloaded it online, off Kazaa or something of the sorts. It wasn't really the answer I was looking for
I definetly feel that any company that starts providing music online legally would be filling a very evident niche, if they provided music that you can't but from your usual retailers.
Remember anything compiled for JDK 1.3 will run with JDK 1.4. So even it doesn't have a 'JDK 1.4 compatible release' for MacOS X, it should be.
The sort of information the file would contain would include (5 second analysis):
If the browser sees that the current server's address is not the same as the listed orginal then it knows than it is a mirror. Also, the mirror file would have the ability to list all the sites that are mirrored on the server.
This file could then be be read by a search Engine and then when it shows the site in the search results it could list the associated mirrors. The file would probably be called mirrors.txt or mirrors.xml, depending on the format used.
This is my 5c worth. If you like the idea, then consider it free for the taking
Judging by the fact that they have made a CC of the Google look and logo (with the the G crossed-out), I am sure that they are wanting to get Google's attention, and everyone else's while they are at it. They are probably hoping that enough people will make enough noise that Google will encorporate what they feel is a great tool into Google.
Admittedly it is not the best approach, but if it ends up working, well why not?
Considering that Unix was a beast created in the 70s and that its been over 20 years then any patent awarded before 1985 has expired. Beyond that I wonder what patents SCO still has that are still valid?
..provided that C does the heavy lifting. Maybe they could provide OpenGL for Perl.
True, but then again you could say that the C OpenGL looks good, provided the graphics card does the heavy lifting. An API is only as good as the underlying implementation.
There is another article at the LA Times. The service will be making use of a technology known as AAC or Advanced Audio Codec. There is a project at Sourceforge with an implementation.
While we're on the subject of OpenGL, I would like to say that combining Java and OpenGL, as in the OpenGL for Java, you get to see that Java isn't really that slow and that OpenGL provides something that DirectX just won't.
This like any solution is not fool proof. The catch is if you have managed to get hold of both the orginal and the modified copy. A quick MD5 check will reveal that both are different and could lead someone to suspect that something has been done. Now which one is the modified version? You could do this using a statistical method, by finding out which occurrence appears more often on the net. So to achieve the trick correctly you need to make the modification to an executable that does not exist on the net.
Another method to detecting an executable that contains hidden data is to work out whether the executable uses the most unusual method of implementing its assembly.
Of course just like in the film 'A Beutiful Mind', you could just end up seeing encrypted data left right and center, whether or not it is really there.
The M-W webster has an entry for xerox, and make clear the context.
Market. Share. Is. Not. Necessarily. An. Indication. Of. A. Company's. Success.
;)
Why can't people understand this?
Good point. Ferrari and Rolls Royce both have small market shares, in comparison to Honda or GM, but I sure know what I would like to buy if I could afford it. Until then I'll just be with the scaled-down model
The same goes for the Mac. Sure it does not have the market share of MS, but I would still rather buy a quality product. There are compromises, but there always are in life, not matter what you do. Just make sure that you choose the one that you are happy with and let your neighbor choose the one they are happy with, no matter what you think of their choice.
Here is a page on the history of Google: http://www.googlerank.com/ranking/google-history.h tml
Looks like once again that we have spent so much trying to protect our computers from the internet, that we forgot that sometimes the problems can come in shrink-wrapped packages.
Since it we have the ability to prevent a program communicating on a certain port, maybe we now need to have software that limits what a user space application can do, without it being granted explicitly by the user. Consider this a feature request for any OS out there.
I have just noticed that the IPv6 web site lists implementations of IPv6 for various platforms. Hopefully this should be useful to those of you wanting to test out IPv6 on your system.
Even if your local network infrastructure does not support IPv6, all installations of MacOSX 10.2 have and IPv6 stack. The following is taken from doing an 'ifconfig' at the command line:
T ICAST> mtu 1500
en0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MUL
inet6 fe80::230:65ff:fed6:b164%en0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
inet 192.168.1.100 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
ether 00:30:64:d6:b2:64
media: autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>) status: active
From what I can tell MS-Windows is still a little behind, as can be seen from this page. As for other OSs I am not aware of their support status. If you do know, a reply to this post would be handy to most.
Have you ever tried to read a patent? Trying to read a patent and not go nuts is quite a feat in some cases. They are able to make something as simple as a hair-brush sound as complicated as a jet engine. The poor guys at the patent office probably have an eye on keeping their sanity, so let these thing go through and let someone else deal with the resulting mess.
Saying that you have created unbreakable encryption is like saying your ship is unsinkable. Time is the decider of everything. While something may me unbreakable now, time will come with solutions to prove that the real limitation is current understanding.
Then again security is more about making intrusion incredibly difficult and time consuming than impossible. Anybody who believes in passive security is enough obviosualy doesn't understand security issues well enough.
If these Apple press release are anything to go by, then Rendezvous has already made huge headway:
-
TiVo, Brother & Aspyr Announce Rendezvous Networked Products
- Developers Rapidly Adopt Apple's Rendezvous Networking Technology
- Epson, HP & Lexmark Support Apple's Rendezvous Technology
Although already posted in further down, here is Apple's page on Rendezvous. I want to see this technology work, because simplicity is what most people want. If its simple, then people just use the technology and don't notice its there - this is what future computing must strive to do.Although you wouldn't want to try install new equipment straight away, I believe a smart way of testing a new system would to be put the in parallel. The idea is that they would get all the same readings as the current computers, they would make calculations about what to do, but they wouldn't control anything. This approach allows the computers to be tested in situation without effecting the situation. Only when the computer have been tested is semi-operational mode would they be able to be put into full operational mode.
When a duplicate story appears, why do countless morons repeatedly post and re-post to point this out? What do you want, a medal for spotting this?
;) They feel if /. editor can do it, then so can the posters.
Because they don't want to be left out of the fun
I have read Manga that appeared childish on the outside, but once you read it you notice that it was designed for adults, as the philosophy and cynicsm would only have been understood by adults. Sure there is also Manga written for kids, but that is not what we are talking about here.
Just like with any NDA, post-employment non-competition agreement, or other employment terms, if you don't like the way they treat you BEFORE they hire you, you should tell them that, and look elsewhere.
The problem is that they hired the guy and then made the request.
If he gets dismissed for bad credit, then he could sue them for inappropriate dismisal, though IANAL, so what would I know?
Someone suggested that if the company is asking the employee for his credit history, then the company should also show him theirs.