Certainly, but it goes to show a linear setup is not always ideal. I would be curious to compare his approach compare to other randomised tree layouts. In many ways what this does is offer tinkerers an other way of looking at things and the chance to validate what he did and maybe even take it in new directions.
I believe trees for the most part lose their leaves because water freezes in winter and this would make it difficult to keep nutrients flowing to the leaves. Nature has established a balancing act based on the needs of a particular species in a given geographical context. What is being balanced will vary. It is not all about solar input in plants.
For the solar panels it could be a heat issue. I remember reading a few months back that solar panel efficiencies drop when it gets too hot. Here is one article making reference to this:
Nature was first, but he is not patenting it as nature provides (something that can't be said for bug Pharma and DNA). While he is using the same general concept as provided by nature he adapted it to use solar panels and other materials not in nature. There are plenty of things that should be obvious, but for various reasons are overlooked or discounted before they are even shared.
This is part of the reason physical media still has advantages. Also when travelling I can pop into a store and just buy a CD and there are no restrictions on where my credit card is from and I can use cash.
As a bonus the music is not compressed, not watermarked with my name and I able to sell it on if I wish.
See if images.google.com and the camera button (pasting in the link to the low res one) turns anything up. I would try but I am typing from a phone, where google doesn't make that feature available.
They have the technology, but when you consider the readability of patent documents, which make Latin seemingly easy to understand, you suddenly realise how easy it is to miss that someone patented something that sounds like the wheel.
I wouldn't say patents are bad, it's just this whole new class of flimsy patents. Hardware patents make more sense than software patents because they are generally harder to come up with and more expensive too.
Well this is the million monkies. Any computing hardware could be made to run Linux, given enough crazy code monkies, though the Babbage Machine would probably be pushing it;)
Not really. There were probably additions to the instruction set that most software now depends on. Given the lack of a market for the 386 and that almost no developer has one anymore, there is very little reason to target such a system.
Because most current software are developed with different limitations in mind. Doing anything with this sort if hardware these days is almost akin to doing embedded development.
Heck even a smartphone is more capable as equivalent hardware. Actually with that in mind, a better hack would be to be able to run a smartphone as a desktop computer, even with limited software.
If you are playing multi-player online, then I can understand the advantages of 'cheat free' checks. If you are playing in single-player mode, then a cheat is really not going to impact anyone else, unless you are sharing your scores.
Yeah, I want to be free to play a game wherever I am, whether or not there is an internet connection around. I may be in the middle of nowhere, on a ship or a plane and if I can't play my game because it requires an internet connection for something that shouldn't technically need one, then I would be very annoyed.
I now have a dilemma, in that I want to buy the game, but do not want to reward them for the ass-holeish behaviour. That 'fixed' version is looking might tempting right now.
I was thinking about this and while we are likely to see people moving more and more to tablets, I don't think the PC will die out, rather it will be viewed differently. An iPad is great for 'consuming' content, but it is a poor tool for creating content. Sure it can do some content creation, but it isn't really where is excels. A PC on the hand is great for creating and working with content, but for many people it is probably more than they need for the task of viewing content, writing e-mails and surfing the web.
On the other hand, the local bike shop waited for me to get to his shop 45 minutes after he closed so I could get my bike. Now, I pay higher prices for things like cycling clothes buying them from him instead of some online place. I think of it as a "tip" for such good service.
Indeed. Quality service is sometimes worth paying that extra money for. Also, sometimes its money better spent to buy a quality product than cheap out and buy the cheaper one.
I'll admit I don't have much experience in the realm of crypto, but the on the tin it did have labelled "relatively secure" as opposed to "secure". Sure I am may be misreading the label and it may be Apple's way of saying "it is secure, but we won't guarantee it legally"?
Also, if the tech note is marked "archived", what is the current status of DHX in Lion?
Reading the tech note (marked archived) it makes it appear that DHX is an optional install and it is not clear. Also, doesn't MacOS X also provide enterprise grade solutions for authentication? Kerberos is available out of the box if I understand, for example.
BTW With the description "The DHX (Diffie-Hellman Exchange) UAM provides a relatively secure way to transport cleartext passwords..." (emphasis mine), I am not sure you would want to use this for anything serious.
I tried finding out and it turns out the intergalactic freedom of information act excludes beings that are not part of the council. Then again maybe it was something along the lines that they were out to lunch? My intergalactic translator was marked "as seen on TV", so I should be careful about it's use for diplomatic purposes.
Stop being naive. The civilian research projects will all have been cut, the USA will have single A credit rating and the super rich will be paying no taxes.;)
Hopefully it won't get that bad, but more and more it looks like it will be Russia and China getting us to Mars. The European Union may be able to make it, but it isn't really fairing much better than the USA. As for other countries, well they either don't have the budget for manned space flight or the incentive.
I want to see human space flight getting us to Mars, or even to the moon, but spacecraft need to evolve a fair bit before it becomes feasible.
Patents were meant to be a solution to avoid secrets and guild like behaviour, in exchange for a certain protection for the inventions. The problem is that patents are no longer limited to inventions and are used far beyond the original scope.
I certainly would like the intangible patents to be denied, since for the most part cost very little in terms of invention effort and time. For this reason any loss incurred is likely very small.
Certainly, but I imagine is when it absorbs and when it releases. Heavy stone and ceramic seems to be the best here. If you look at old buildings you will see the benefit since they absorb the heat when hot and release the environment is cooler.
I haven't read the article yet, so I would be curious to see how complicated and how much better it is over existing materials.
BTW one thing I have been looking at is paint with ceramic beads. The problem I have with it at the moment is cost and availability in Canada.
You make a good point there. I have already worked for a company where it was simpler to out-source a solution than do it internally because of the structure of the 'silos'. I imagine it would be worse in the government.
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Certainly, but it goes to show a linear setup is not always ideal. I would be curious to compare his approach compare to other randomised tree layouts. In many ways what this does is offer tinkerers an other way of looking at things and the chance to validate what he did and maybe even take it in new directions.
I believe trees for the most part lose their leaves because water freezes in winter and this would make it difficult to keep nutrients flowing to the leaves. Nature has established a balancing act based on the needs of a particular species in a given geographical context. What is being balanced will vary. It is not all about solar input in plants.
For the solar panels it could be a heat issue. I remember reading a few months back that solar panel efficiencies drop when it gets too hot. Here is one article making reference to this:
http://www.reuk.co.uk/Effect-of-Temperature-on-Solar-Panels.htm
Nature was first, but he is not patenting it as nature provides (something that can't be said for bug Pharma and DNA). While he is using the same general concept as provided by nature he adapted it to use solar panels and other materials not in nature. There are plenty of things that should be obvious, but for various reasons are overlooked or discounted before they are even shared.
Again, at least he wasn't patenting nature.
This is part of the reason physical media still has advantages. Also when travelling I can pop into a store and just buy a CD and there are no restrictions on where my credit card is from and I can use cash.
As a bonus the music is not compressed, not watermarked with my name and I able to sell it on if I wish.
Brought peace?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSELOCMmw4A
See if images.google.com and the camera button (pasting in the link to the low res one) turns anything up. I would try but I am typing from a phone, where google doesn't make that feature available.
They have the technology, but when you consider the readability of patent documents, which make Latin seemingly easy to understand, you suddenly realise how easy it is to miss that someone patented something that sounds like the wheel.
I wouldn't say patents are bad, it's just this whole new class of flimsy patents. Hardware patents make more sense than software patents because they are generally harder to come up with and more expensive too.
That is nothing. Back in the day we were using punch cards.
Well this is the million monkies. Any computing hardware could be made to run Linux, given enough crazy code monkies, though the Babbage Machine would probably be pushing it ;)
no they require a minimum of a 486, for example the last debian that works on a 386 is potato (2.2)
Was this an Aperture Industries potato?
Not really. There were probably additions to the instruction set that most software now depends on. Given the lack of a market for the 386 and that almost no developer has one anymore, there is very little reason to target such a system.
Because most current software are developed with different limitations in mind. Doing anything with this sort if hardware these days is almost akin to doing embedded development.
Heck even a smartphone is more capable as equivalent hardware. Actually with that in mind, a better hack would be to be able to run a smartphone as a desktop computer, even with limited software.
And it is using some sort of antiquated language known as Perl ;)
Side note: I used to be a Perl fan and have since moved over to Python and PHP.
If you are playing multi-player online, then I can understand the advantages of 'cheat free' checks. If you are playing in single-player mode, then a cheat is really not going to impact anyone else, unless you are sharing your scores.
Yeah, I want to be free to play a game wherever I am, whether or not there is an internet connection around. I may be in the middle of nowhere, on a ship or a plane and if I can't play my game because it requires an internet connection for something that shouldn't technically need one, then I would be very annoyed.
I now have a dilemma, in that I want to buy the game, but do not want to reward them for the ass-holeish behaviour. That 'fixed' version is looking might tempting right now.
I was thinking about this and while we are likely to see people moving more and more to tablets, I don't think the PC will die out, rather it will be viewed differently. An iPad is great for 'consuming' content, but it is a poor tool for creating content. Sure it can do some content creation, but it isn't really where is excels. A PC on the hand is great for creating and working with content, but for many people it is probably more than they need for the task of viewing content, writing e-mails and surfing the web.
On the other hand, the local bike shop waited for me to get to his shop 45 minutes after he closed so I could get my bike. Now, I pay higher prices for things like cycling clothes buying them from him instead of some online place. I think of it as a "tip" for such good service.
Indeed. Quality service is sometimes worth paying that extra money for. Also, sometimes its money better spent to buy a quality product than cheap out and buy the cheaper one.
I'll admit I don't have much experience in the realm of crypto, but the on the tin it did have labelled "relatively secure" as opposed to "secure". Sure I am may be misreading the label and it may be Apple's way of saying "it is secure, but we won't guarantee it legally"?
Also, if the tech note is marked "archived", what is the current status of DHX in Lion?
Reading the tech note (marked archived) it makes it appear that DHX is an optional install and it is not clear. Also, doesn't MacOS X also provide enterprise grade solutions for authentication? Kerberos is available out of the box if I understand, for example.
BTW With the description "The DHX (Diffie-Hellman Exchange) UAM provides a relatively secure way to transport cleartext passwords..." (emphasis mine),
I am not sure you would want to use this for anything serious.
I tried finding out and it turns out the intergalactic freedom of information act excludes beings that are not part of the council. Then again maybe it was something along the lines that they were out to lunch? My intergalactic translator was marked "as seen on TV", so I should be careful about it's use for diplomatic purposes.
Stop being naive. The civilian research projects will all have been cut, the USA will have single A credit rating and the super rich will be paying no taxes. ;)
Hopefully it won't get that bad, but more and more it looks like it will be Russia and China getting us to Mars. The European Union may be able to make it, but it isn't really fairing much better than the USA. As for other countries, well they either don't have the budget for manned space flight or the incentive.
I want to see human space flight getting us to Mars, or even to the moon, but spacecraft need to evolve a fair bit before it becomes feasible.
Patents were meant to be a solution to avoid secrets and guild like behaviour, in exchange for a certain protection for the inventions. The problem is that patents are no longer limited to inventions and are used far beyond the original scope.
I certainly would like the intangible patents to be denied, since for the most part cost very little in terms of invention effort and time. For this reason any loss incurred is likely very small.
Certainly, but I imagine is when it absorbs and when it releases. Heavy stone and ceramic seems to be the best here. If you look at old buildings you will see the benefit since they absorb the heat when hot and release the environment is cooler.
I haven't read the article yet, so I would be curious to see how complicated and how much better it is over existing materials.
BTW one thing I have been looking at is paint with ceramic beads. The problem I have with it at the moment is cost and availability in Canada.
You make a good point there. I have already worked for a company where it was simpler to out-source a solution than do it internally because of the structure of the 'silos'. I imagine it would be worse in the government.