Computers and the internet do not have to make a child more intelligent. The situation is much larger than seen at first glance.
What it does do is change the quantity, quality, and content of the education. Quantity because they see more from around the world. Quality because of the diversity, although the quality of that diversity can be argued. And of course, the actual content is greatly expanded.
Now this is interesting because it tends to cut across the social agendas of the powers that be. Obvious examples include China, Iran, France, and the US. Different powers have different agendas, and tend to push their agendas by various means.
All want to maintain control of their bit of the monopoly on the public mind, and none have found a completely effective form of mind control. There is a whole other aspect to this as far as how the opponents of mind control are portrayed. It is a stretch, but some could argue you could see this in the debate of MS vs Linux and GPL. After All, MS has a large mindshare in the market.
Anything which pushes freedom of thought, of observation, of knowledge will tend to unsettle the folks who want to sell you on their product for their profit.
The ultimate irony is when people push freedom of thought, etc. get pursue and punished by fud as proponents of mind and culture crimes in the first place. Have you committed a thought crime today?
Looks like the old effort had to do with Electro- Magnetic cables, phone lines, etc when it was during the Regan era.
But the modern effort has to do with fiber.
Aside with sheer volume of data, they also have this issue:
Dust or seawater in the submerged chamber could ruin an exposed fiber. Making a surreptitious tap of a live cable would also require circumventing the electrical charge--usually around 10,000 volts--which is used to power the devices that keep the speeding light beams strong.
Maybe things have changed, but according to the special it was maybe halfway there when something went wrong:
It was the highest priority and the biggest budget item in the intelligence budget in the late Reagan administration. They spent about a billion dollars on it, and then it all went away, because of one guy, Pelton.
NARRATOR: Ronald Pelton was analyst working for the National Security Agency who was convicted of spying for the KGB. The on-line tap was one of the operations he compromised.
So this looks like old news, and it might not even be accurate.
Physicists sound like they are starting to become mystics, rather than say there was a cause. They sometimes fall into linguistic traps of their own making.
For example, by definiton, the universe is all that there is, and so how could there be anything else? The problem there is the definition, since maybe all that we see and extrapolate is NOT all there is.
It would be a scary universe where it is populated by explosions that we experience as the big bang, but where the "big bang"is a mundane routine event, and is as common as stars and galaxies are here.
what I was looking at was that as more people get access to space, that tensions drop down because of things like verification. You can look and see what the other guy is doing. That being said, certain political institutions small or large, that are hung up on territory issues or have control issues would make anyone nervous.
I see the opportunity for the globalization of space to slowly deflate these things, although alot has to be sorted out. This may take a while.
The big question for some folks, is if this device is RIAA friendly or not.
Given the presence of thing like the new MS system that lets business autolock you out of different files, you got to wonder if RIAA got their claws into the hardware maker.
although I do note:
Input/output interfaces -- the device provides analog and optical audio output ports, an analog input port, a video output port, three USB ports, and one Ethernet port. The USB ports cab be used to connect a modem, MP3 player, and other supported peripherals (additional storage units, keyboard, etc.). The Ethernet port connects the Hi-Muse to either a PC or a local network. The video output port provides optional connection to a TV, resulting in the display of album covers, pictures of the artist, or access to the artist's website. . . available (or planned) add-ons for the Hi-Muse include a CD writer module (secured audio format
Well, it seems like there shound be some options to mess around with it there. But the front door may be locked.
It is nice to see that Space programs are falling away from being the province of one or two countries. While I would be nervous to some degree about an Iraqi space program (due to the politics of the region), in general I support the idea of more governments and businesses going into space.
I think that having some sort of active frontier is valuable for the huminity in general, as it is something that we have had for most of our existance as a species on this planet.
Not that I have some brilliant idea in mind, of course, but in addition to the dozens of productivity-oriented app projects that are out to mimick what everyone in the Windows world already has on their computers, there are forward-looking projects like video editing (ie, Broadcast2000) that are aiming for markets that haven't been
commoditized already.
Well I don't know. It does not seems that the market for a killer video app is similar in size to that of a word processor. It is more of a niche application. I type email, and docs everyday. I view video maybe several times a month, and and have had the desire to edit a movie maybe once or twice.
So I wonder if there is a market for this stuff.
The next real killer app I see way down the road would be a true AI intelligent assistant, a man or girl friday thing. Answers the phone, handles the spam, takes care of the routine items I delegate to it. Of course, there would be a fantasy element that alot of folks would find enticing. But I digress...
What this means to me is that, in order for Linux to succeed on the desktop, there has to be the equivalent and appropriate amount of effort put into an Office slash productivity suite. Think of all of the man hours put into Linux. Now imagine an equivalent amount of time put into a linux productivity suite. (regardless of if it is KDE Office, Star Office, or whatever.)
This is what is really needed. Unfortunately, the open source community has been diversified and splintered about this. And so this equivalent amount of effort, enough to match the results of something like a MS, has not taken place. This is observable even in projects that have a large amount of community support, such as Mozilla. The raw number of people has been one half or one third it could have been to really get it out in a "timely" manner, resulting in Netscape 6 being beta-ware in fact if not in name.
I happen to think that Linux can make it to the desktop, but that the core applications need to get there too. Otherwise it remains a developers tool set.
The amount of effort that has gone into the OS has to go into the productivity suite.
Well part of this is the sheer growth of the web, even if one percent of one percent of all sites were whacked, this would certainly increase to an alarming degree with the expansion of the web.
The other aspect to this is that the scripty kiddies out there take it as a badge of honor to get a defaced site listed in a mirror. To a certain degree, while we want to document the carnage, maintaining a mirror becomes a reward system for the script kiddies. It acts like fertilizer, which is not exactly what we want in the first place. So it might be a good thing to stop rewarding the skript kiddies with the public acknowledgement of their vandalism.
I'm trying to figure out the political implications of this. Not so much vs macromedia, but imagining various countires getting into the act.
for example the bit about Yahoo and the nazi memorabilia vs France last year. What if they said the the material would only be available via certain IP numbers, and French ISPs could be require to block those numbers?
Insert those groups that small vocal groups love to hate. Stir well.
I can see "Community Standards" declaring certain political believes as obscene or something. As a way to stomp on something uncomfortable, like a kids school satire site.
It is could to remeber that the Supreme Court often passes judgement not on the basis of c"common Sense" but on the basis of legal principles, no matter how arbitrary or "tort"ured the reasoning. As seen in the news report:
A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction because the law violated free-speech rights, saying site operators had no effective way of screening out minors and ruling that the law probably was fatally flawed.
The appeals court upheld the injunction. It specifically objected to the law's reliance on
``contemporary community standards'' and said Web site operators would be unable to determine
the geographic location of site visitors using a worldwide computer network.
To comply with the law, operators would have to severely censor their Web sites or would have to adopt age or credit card verification systems to shield minors from material deemed harmful ``by the most puritan of communities in any state,'' the appeals court said.
So there is a reasonable that that the decision could go the way many here would support.
It's time to spin the big lottery wheel of justice. Where is it going to land this time?
according to the article, Liquid Nitrogen is about 10 cents a liter.
this looks like the first run for power transmission over superconducting lines. So even if this is break even otherwise, there is a bonus in the practical experience you would gain just in maintaining the thing. Little stupid things like "apply rubber hammer here" stuff.
Some CEOs think Paradise for Business is when they have the customer locked into their product, with now way out. Not that we know of anyone like this.
But there is definitely an elitist viewpoint out there, and inside club for some of these types. I was speaking the other day to may MIS manager, and he recalled dealing with an Upper Level Manager (TM) whose attitude was that if you didn't come from the right kind of school, then you were scum and disposable.
Whether you know it or not, for some people, there is a caste system, in their own minds, and it is good because they are on top. And if you aren't part of it, well too bad. You were not born lucky.
This leads us to the viewpoint of "We can do what we want"; it is just that there is less of a social veneer to the whole thing, so that they are being less hidden about it. It is more in the open, because they feel that there is nothing to stop them. Most of the public have been tamed and domesticated. The wild (but educated) Human is a rare breed indeed these days.
The real question is if Whistler will support more than 26 partitions on a single disk.
While apparently yes, why would you need more than 1 partition per MS OS? And why wouldn't you need more than the latest and greatest MS OS on your system. (recalling a certain comment about 604K)
Why I can see the benefit and logic to expanding and changing out the partition system. Anything with MS finger prints makes me glad I am getting better with *nix boxes. not prejudiced, of course, just my opinion based on the past track record. Of course you could put any partition system you want on a box, or make one up. The question is what would run on it.
It would be cool if the *nixen could read all partition systems, instead of locking one out of one system vs another. Of course it is just easier if you have a 64 bit OS to deal with a 64bit file system, instead of having to be completely backwards compatible. Less work.
Since Titan is larger than the moon but maybe half the diameter of Earth, the surface gravity should be about 1/4 to 1/3 that of earth (a wild guess). With an atmosphere, it is probably just a matter of temperature if anyone is home. The other thing is that, being farther out in the solar system, it probably doesn't get the protection we do of larger planets to suck in asteroids that might otherwise hit us. They probably get hit more often.
Although there might be enough resources otherwise for a mining operation. It could be relatively easy to pull oxegen from the atmosphere, etc if someone wanted to put a base there.
I figure that we'll be out there in maybe 300 - 400 years. This based on the idea that it took maybe 500 years to get the New world under total control, and so I project another time period of similar size (500 to 1000 years) to expand out across the Solar System
Actually, the initial proposed usage is "innocent enough" But it would be interesting to see what it shows.
Obviously most users of the device would not say that they watch the pron channel, for example. Just a social thing. But this is Australia, where that sort of thing is popular despite the government getting all weirded out about it (such as with internet pron)
The 3d aspect is in a common size screen in a depth of several inches. It is not in substantial depth and it is not a cube. It is also not wrap around. It is likely bett for Sales presentations than games
A far better rig would be wrap around high rez goggles with a fast enough refresh rate that it doesn't fry your eyeballs. Or else the classic three panel wrap around monitor that gets mentioned here every once in a while.
It sounds cool until you try to figure out just how you would use it.
FPS would suck, but the stragegy games, such as a galactic empire, etc, would like be okay
since Palm laid of 250 people at the end of march, it is not surprising that they would continue to have problems.
Part of the the problem is the same one that has been the plague of the next market. Some of it simply running out of cash for silly business plans, but some of it is irrational pessimism, in large part due to the FUD from politicians. These folks certainly deserve a portion of the blame for the business climate.
It has gone so far that you have stories like this one that I first spotted at the Register, commonly titled "Death of the Web Inevitable". This is shear bullocks, as the real story is the possible look of the WWW, version 2.0, named in the story as the "X Internet" - but the FUD Masters got to put their spin on it.
The market has evaporated because there are not so many people out there looking for the best toys to get the job done, when the problem was not so much the toys, but getting the job done.
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What it does do is change the quantity, quality, and content of the education. Quantity because they see more from around the world. Quality because of the diversity, although the quality of that diversity can be argued. And of course, the actual content is greatly expanded.
Now this is interesting because it tends to cut across the social agendas of the powers that be. Obvious examples include China, Iran, France, and the US. Different powers have different agendas, and tend to push their agendas by various means.
All want to maintain control of their bit of the monopoly on the public mind, and none have found a completely effective form of mind control. There is a whole other aspect to this as far as how the opponents of mind control are portrayed. It is a stretch, but some could argue you could see this in the debate of MS vs Linux and GPL. After All, MS has a large mindshare in the market.
Anything which pushes freedom of thought, of observation, of knowledge will tend to unsettle the folks who want to sell you on their product for their profit.
The ultimate irony is when people push freedom of thought, etc. get pursue and punished by fud as proponents of mind and culture crimes in the first place. Have you committed a thought crime today?
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But the modern effort has to do with fiber.
Aside with sheer volume of data, they also have this issue:
Dust or seawater in the submerged chamber could ruin an exposed fiber. Making a surreptitious tap of a live cable would also require circumventing the electrical charge--usually around 10,000 volts--which is used to power the devices that keep the speeding light beams strong.
This is know a "technical difficulties"
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just be be precise, this was done inthe Artic ocean.
NOVA had a show (Submarines, Secrets, and Spies) on it back in Jabuary 1999. See the transcript here
Maybe things have changed, but according to the special it was maybe halfway there when something went wrong:
It was the highest priority and the biggest budget item in the intelligence budget in the late Reagan administration. They spent about a billion dollars on it, and then it all went away, because of one guy, Pelton.
NARRATOR: Ronald Pelton was analyst working for the National Security Agency who was convicted of spying for the KGB. The on-line tap was one of the operations he compromised.
So this looks like old news, and it might not even be accurate.
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;-)
And tie up more band width.
Although I acknowledge that this is the opposite of what is intended by the system.
maybe they ought to have a few distros on the system so we can help them test it out.
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For example, by definiton, the universe is all that there is, and so how could there be anything else? The problem there is the definition, since maybe all that we see and extrapolate is NOT all there is.
It would be a scary universe where it is populated by explosions that we experience as the big bang, but where the "big bang"is a mundane routine event, and is as common as stars and galaxies are here.
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what I was looking at was that as more people get access to space, that tensions drop down because of things like verification. You can look and see what the other guy is doing. That being said, certain political institutions small or large, that are hung up on territory issues or have control issues would make anyone nervous.
I see the opportunity for the globalization of space to slowly deflate these things, although alot has to be sorted out. This may take a while.
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Given the presence of thing like the new MS system that lets business autolock you out of different files, you got to wonder if RIAA got their claws into the hardware maker.
although I do note:
Input/output interfaces -- the device provides analog and optical audio output ports, an analog input port, a video output port, three USB ports, and one Ethernet port. The USB ports cab be used to connect a modem, MP3 player, and other supported peripherals (additional storage units, keyboard, etc.). The Ethernet port connects the Hi-Muse to either a PC or a local network. The video output port provides optional connection to a TV, resulting in the display of album covers, pictures of the artist, or access to the artist's website. . . available (or planned) add-ons for the Hi-Muse include a CD writer module (secured audio format
Well, it seems like there shound be some options to mess around with it there. But the front door may be locked.
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I think that having some sort of active frontier is valuable for the huminity in general, as it is something that we have had for most of our existance as a species on this planet.
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This is not a good sign.
I'm doomed
;-)
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Although I wonder if this could play into the hands of Microsoft in their arguement against the GPL?
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Well I don't know. It does not seems that the market for a killer video app is similar in size to that of a word processor. It is more of a niche application. I type email, and docs everyday. I view video maybe several times a month, and and have had the desire to edit a movie maybe once or twice.
So I wonder if there is a market for this stuff.
The next real killer app I see way down the road would be a true AI intelligent assistant, a man or girl friday thing. Answers the phone, handles the spam, takes care of the routine items I delegate to it. Of course, there would be a fantasy element that alot of folks would find enticing. But I digress...
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This is what is really needed. Unfortunately, the open source community has been diversified and splintered about this. And so this equivalent amount of effort, enough to match the results of something like a MS, has not taken place. This is observable even in projects that have a large amount of community support, such as Mozilla. The raw number of people has been one half or one third it could have been to really get it out in a "timely" manner, resulting in Netscape 6 being beta-ware in fact if not in name.
I happen to think that Linux can make it to the desktop, but that the core applications need to get there too. Otherwise it remains a developers tool set.
The amount of effort that has gone into the OS has to go into the productivity suite.
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The other aspect to this is that the scripty kiddies out there take it as a badge of honor to get a defaced site listed in a mirror. To a certain degree, while we want to document the carnage, maintaining a mirror becomes a reward system for the script kiddies. It acts like fertilizer, which is not exactly what we want in the first place. So it might be a good thing to stop rewarding the skript kiddies with the public acknowledgement of their vandalism.
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That's 15 usian dollars and hour. Pricey for checking quicky email. but I'm sure some sales geek will bill it to the company.
The unit accepts credit cards or cash
Time for the company credit card.
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for example the bit about Yahoo and the nazi memorabilia vs France last year. What if they said the the material would only be available via certain IP numbers, and French ISPs could be require to block those numbers?
Insert those groups that small vocal groups love to hate. Stir well.
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http://www.apple.com/hotnews/
But the press release is here: http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2001/may/21display .html
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Here's you can of worms folks
enjoy!
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A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction because the law violated free-speech rights, saying site operators had no effective way of screening out minors and ruling that the law probably was fatally flawed.
The appeals court upheld the injunction. It specifically objected to the law's reliance on ``contemporary community standards'' and said Web site operators would be unable to determine the geographic location of site visitors using a worldwide computer network.
To comply with the law, operators would have to severely censor their Web sites or would have to adopt age or credit card verification systems to shield minors from material deemed harmful ``by the most puritan of communities in any state,'' the appeals court said.
So there is a reasonable that that the decision could go the way many here would support.
It's time to spin the big lottery wheel of justice. Where is it going to land this time?
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this looks like the first run for power transmission over superconducting lines. So even if this is break even otherwise, there is a bonus in the practical experience you would gain just in maintaining the thing. Little stupid things like "apply rubber hammer here" stuff.
so it is worth while just for that
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But there is definitely an elitist viewpoint out there, and inside club for some of these types. I was speaking the other day to may MIS manager, and he recalled dealing with an Upper Level Manager (TM) whose attitude was that if you didn't come from the right kind of school, then you were scum and disposable.
Whether you know it or not, for some people, there is a caste system, in their own minds, and it is good because they are on top. And if you aren't part of it, well too bad. You were not born lucky.
This leads us to the viewpoint of "We can do what we want"; it is just that there is less of a social veneer to the whole thing, so that they are being less hidden about it. It is more in the open, because they feel that there is nothing to stop them. Most of the public have been tamed and domesticated. The wild (but educated) Human is a rare breed indeed these days.
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While apparently yes, why would you need more than 1 partition per MS OS? And why wouldn't you need more than the latest and greatest MS OS on your system. (recalling a certain comment about 604K)
Why I can see the benefit and logic to expanding and changing out the partition system. Anything with MS finger prints makes me glad I am getting better with *nix boxes. not prejudiced, of course, just my opinion based on the past track record. Of course you could put any partition system you want on a box, or make one up. The question is what would run on it.
It would be cool if the *nixen could read all partition systems, instead of locking one out of one system vs another. Of course it is just easier if you have a 64 bit OS to deal with a 64bit file system, instead of having to be completely backwards compatible. Less work.
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Although there might be enough resources otherwise for a mining operation. It could be relatively easy to pull oxegen from the atmosphere, etc if someone wanted to put a base there.
I figure that we'll be out there in maybe 300 - 400 years. This based on the idea that it took maybe 500 years to get the New world under total control, and so I project another time period of similar size (500 to 1000 years) to expand out across the Solar System
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Actually, the initial proposed usage is "innocent enough" But it would be interesting to see what it shows.
Obviously most users of the device would not say that they watch the pron channel, for example. Just a social thing. But this is Australia, where that sort of thing is popular despite the government getting all weirded out about it (such as with internet pron)
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A far better rig would be wrap around high rez goggles with a fast enough refresh rate that it doesn't fry your eyeballs. Or else the classic three panel wrap around monitor that gets mentioned here every once in a while.
It sounds cool until you try to figure out just how you would use it.
FPS would suck, but the stragegy games, such as a galactic empire, etc, would like be okay
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Part of the the problem is the same one that has been the plague of the next market. Some of it simply running out of cash for silly business plans, but some of it is irrational pessimism, in large part due to the FUD from politicians. These folks certainly deserve a portion of the blame for the business climate.
It has gone so far that you have stories like this one that I first spotted at the Register, commonly titled "Death of the Web Inevitable". This is shear bullocks, as the real story is the possible look of the WWW, version 2.0, named in the story as the "X Internet" - but the FUD Masters got to put their spin on it.
The market has evaporated because there are not so many people out there looking for the best toys to get the job done, when the problem was not so much the toys, but getting the job done.
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