Um, 'oops'. What can I say? You're exactly right. Maybe some day the moon will be a member of a binary planetary system, but it still has a lot of moving away to do...
I know I heard it somewhere though. Must've been someone with a broken calculator or someone else with blind faith in what they see and hear.
I don't know what the astronomical distinction is between an asteroid and a planet, but I know what defines a moon.
A moon is a natural object that orbits a planet, where the center of mass of the planet-moon system lies within the planet. the irony is that although 'the Moon' is the archetypical moon, it doesn't fit this definition, as both the Moon and Earth rotate around a point in space between the two and outside the Earth. In truth, the Moon-Earth system is a binary planetary system, as is Charon and Pluto. All other 'moons' in the solar system are true moons by this definition.
Kevin Fox
The bigger question: web site or website?
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Back at CKS Partners, we had a battle waging for years as to whether the company should standardize on 'web site' or 'website'. Seriously, it was worse than 'gif vs gif'.
What do you think?
Oh, and email, definitely. After all, people use voicemail more often than voice-mail, and just because electronicmail is more ungainly than electronic-mail doesn't mean we should keep the hyphen when it's reduced.
It seems that the holodeck will end up being more important (and more possible) than the transporter. If you had a room that could generate 'real' spaces, then two people in linnked rooms wouldn't be any different than if one person transported to the other.
The difference is there's a steady, contiguous progression from videoconferencing to a holodeck, but a transporter requires whole fields of science we have no idea how to tackle.
I wonder how long it'll be before everyone has a holodeck in their house and they just never leave...
(BTW, Roddenberry hardly invented the holodeck. Check out The Veldt, written by Ray Bradbury in 1951.)
It seems to me that Open Source has finally taken off because the tools to contribute to the movement are readily available. there are free compilers and you don' thave to have any special hardware to lend a hand to projects. Because of this, hobbyists can join a greater culture and make a contribution.
I don't see this happening with nanotech for a while. Not only are there very few pieces of machinery that can be used to construct things on a nano scale, but they're already booked with other projects.
Sure some of these projects could be distributed under open source, but there's a fundamental difference between releasing something under GPL and having a culture that can actually make use of it. Otherwise, it's not much different than public-betaware only an elite can use...
The creators claim it's faster than other methods because an exterior shell can be formed in ice, then filled with water, which then freezes. Wouldn't the freezing water expand and crack the exterior?
Very cool stuff though. How long 'till I can order an ice klein bottle?
Really? We can witness the power of this Fully Operational AT-AT?
Who would have thought that the first affordable blaster would come from Lego! Now mindstorms ust need an X-10 interface and I can set a cadre of these to guard my house...
Now that DVD-Audio is finally hammered out (dear god why did it take so long???) they come out with this, thinking that somehow it could catch on as a mainstream standard.
Kind of reminds me of DCC back in '92. It's a format built around half-backward compatability (you need new equipment, but at least it can read your old media too), touting enhancements over the media it seeks to replace, while admitting that only audiophiles will be able to hear the difference, and that media will cost more.
Really, truly? I think nowadays the primary motivation behind any new audio media format is to inhibit rampant replication. do you have a Super-CD burner? Will they sell one?
the article describes the tech as if the advancements in sampling were directly tied to the 'advancements' in media. There's no reason this data format couldn't be stored on a DVD, except that DVD-RAM players are becoming too readily available for Sony Music's liking.
As another Cognitive Scientist, I agree that the results do seem contrary to what we know about amnesia.
I'd need to read the actual study though, because the article doesn't specify whether the patients had anterograde or retrograde amnesia. A patient with anterograde amnesia who, by definition, is unable to remember post-tramatic events or form new memories, does improve at skill tasks almost as fast as an unaffected person.
Someone with retrograde amnesia shouldn't show any difference in being able to learn Tetris, as long as they hadn't played before the trauma.
Keep in mind this product is designed for the Japanese market. Their aesthetic values often don't coincide with European or North American aesthetics (for example, authentic 70's office furniture is all the rage over there now).
Sure we can call it ugly and whatnot, but I wouldn't be so quick to judge that they're going in a wrong direction, given the traget market...
One link away is this page, detailing illegal ways OEMs may be pirating windows. An excerpt for your pleasure:
Hard Disk Loading The second form of piracy affecting the system builder is generally referred to as "hard disk loading". Under this practice a system builder will illegally pre-load a copy of the software onto the computer prior to sale. In this case the system builder makes a deliberate decision to load illegal software onto the computers he sells, usually as an incentive for the end user to purchase from him. In most cases, he doesn't even bother supplying any media, license agreement, a manual or documentation. Hard disk loading is particularly prevalent in less developed markets where there is no end user expectation of such "extras", or indeed a full understanding of software being a separate concept to hardware."
Isn't Microsoft's primary objective to eliminate any understanding that software is a separate concept than hardware? Here they make it sound like preloading an OS is a bad thing, but if you take out the word "illegal" from the above quote, their statements are arguments against preloading Windows at all, pirated or not!
2) Square developed a few new algorithms to help with animation. Namely one for hair blowing in the wind (sort of interesting) and the way cloth folds and bends as a "actor" moves (very interesting).
Knowing today's IP climate, they've patented the algorithms...
Which violation are you referring to? My misspelling of contend as 'content', not capitalizing 'a' at the beginning of a sentence, or "similar tasks as those" versus "similar tasks to those"?
If he doesn't answer my email because of a grammatical error, that's fine with me. By sending the email I have one more piece of legal defense if they should try to stop me.
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 17:02:11 -0700 (PDT)
From: Kevin Fox
To: jrosini@kenyon.com
Subject: Cuecat violations
Dear Mr. Rosini,
As the owner of a Cuecat scanner and someone who knows a fair amount about
intellectual property law, I would like to know Kenyon & Kenyon's position
regarding what you term infringing use of Cuecat scanners.
Which intellectual property laws specifically do you content that users
are infringing upon? are users infringing on trade secrecy, patent,
trademark, or copyright violations?
Speaking as someone who is planning on performing similar tasks as those
you found infringing when enacted by 'flyingbuttmonkeys.com' I would like
to know cuecat's specific legal position on this matter.
Thank you for your attention in this matter. I eagerly await your reply.
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I know, I know... It's coming, but school's first priority. Sign the mailing list and I'll let you know when it's done.
Kevin Fox
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I'm looking for a handful of people who have done this before, and are as geographically diverse as possible, to help me out with a small adjunct to Project Cameo.
If you're interested, please drop me a line at cameo@slash.fury.com.
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Um, 'oops'. What can I say? You're exactly right. Maybe some day the moon will be a member of a binary planetary system, but it still has a lot of moving away to do...
I know I heard it somewhere though. Must've been someone with a broken calculator or someone else with blind faith in what they see and hear.
You may now mod me down.
Kevin Fox
I don't know what the astronomical distinction is between an asteroid and a planet, but I know what defines a moon.
A moon is a natural object that orbits a planet, where the center of mass of the planet-moon system lies within the planet. the irony is that although 'the Moon' is the archetypical moon, it doesn't fit this definition, as both the Moon and Earth rotate around a point in space between the two and outside the Earth. In truth, the Moon-Earth system is a binary planetary system, as is Charon and Pluto. All other 'moons' in the solar system are true moons by this definition.
Kevin Fox
Back at CKS Partners, we had a battle waging for years as to whether the company should standardize on 'web site' or 'website'. Seriously, it was worse than 'gif vs gif'.
What do you think?
Oh, and email, definitely. After all, people use voicemail more often than voice-mail, and just because electronicmail is more ungainly than electronic-mail doesn't mean we should keep the hyphen when it's reduced.
Kevin Fox
It seems that the holodeck will end up being more important (and more possible) than the transporter. If you had a room that could generate 'real' spaces, then two people in linnked rooms wouldn't be any different than if one person transported to the other.
The difference is there's a steady, contiguous progression from videoconferencing to a holodeck, but a transporter requires whole fields of science we have no idea how to tackle.
I wonder how long it'll be before everyone has a holodeck in their house and they just never leave...
(BTW, Roddenberry hardly invented the holodeck. Check out The Veldt, written by Ray Bradbury in 1951.)
Kevin Fox
It seems to me that Open Source has finally taken off because the tools to contribute to the movement are readily available. there are free compilers and you don' thave to have any special hardware to lend a hand to projects. Because of this, hobbyists can join a greater culture and make a contribution.
I don't see this happening with nanotech for a while. Not only are there very few pieces of machinery that can be used to construct things on a nano scale, but they're already booked with other projects.
Sure some of these projects could be distributed under open source, but there's a fundamental difference between releasing something under GPL and having a culture that can actually make use of it. Otherwise, it's not much different than public-betaware only an elite can use...
Kevin Fox
COPPA limits companies' ability to gather information on children under 13 without parental consent. Get the consent of a parent, and anything goes.
Sorry 'bout earlier. I misread your post.
Kevin Fox
An ISP is a compnay
Yes... It is... But a piece of software that tracks where your child goes and reports it to their parent is not an ISP.
Kevin Fox
"Also what happened to the law that prohibits collecting information on children under the age of 13.
That law applies to companies, not parents.
Kevin Fox
Where can I get a filter that will prevent my kids from browsing political sites?
Kevin Fox
The creators claim it's faster than other methods because an exterior shell can be formed in ice, then filled with water, which then freezes. Wouldn't the freezing water expand and crack the exterior?
Very cool stuff though. How long 'till I can order an ice klein bottle?
Kevin Fox
Really? We can witness the power of this Fully Operational AT-AT?
Who would have thought that the first affordable blaster would come from Lego! Now mindstorms ust need an X-10 interface and I can set a cadre of these to guard my house...
Kevin Fox
Nice to know we now have an extraterrestrial Napster node!
Kevin Fox
Now that DVD-Audio is finally hammered out (dear god why did it take so long???) they come out with this, thinking that somehow it could catch on as a mainstream standard.
Kind of reminds me of DCC back in '92. It's a format built around half-backward compatability (you need new equipment, but at least it can read your old media too), touting enhancements over the media it seeks to replace, while admitting that only audiophiles will be able to hear the difference, and that media will cost more.
Really, truly? I think nowadays the primary motivation behind any new audio media format is to inhibit rampant replication. do you have a Super-CD burner? Will they sell one?
the article describes the tech as if the advancements in sampling were directly tied to the 'advancements' in media. There's no reason this data format couldn't be stored on a DVD, except that DVD-RAM players are becoming too readily available for Sony Music's liking.
Kevin Fox
Cool, now we just need to get a Ricochet adapter and buy one for Jenni.
Kevin Fox
As another Cognitive Scientist, I agree that the results do seem contrary to what we know about amnesia.
I'd need to read the actual study though, because the article doesn't specify whether the patients had anterograde or retrograde amnesia. A patient with anterograde amnesia who, by definition, is unable to remember post-tramatic events or form new memories, does improve at skill tasks almost as fast as an unaffected person.
Someone with retrograde amnesia shouldn't show any difference in being able to learn Tetris, as long as they hadn't played before the trauma.
Kevin Fox
Keep in mind this product is designed for the Japanese market. Their aesthetic values often don't coincide with European or North American aesthetics (for example, authentic 70's office furniture is all the rage over there now).
Sure we can call it ugly and whatnot, but I wouldn't be so quick to judge that they're going in a wrong direction, given the traget market...
Kevin Fox
One link away is this page, detailing illegal ways OEMs may be pirating windows. An excerpt for your pleasure:
Hard Disk Loading
The second form of piracy affecting the system builder is generally referred to as "hard disk loading". Under this practice a system builder will illegally pre-load a copy of the software onto the computer prior to sale. In this case the system builder makes a deliberate decision to load illegal software onto the computers he sells, usually as an incentive for the end user to purchase from him. In most cases, he doesn't even bother supplying any media, license agreement, a manual or documentation. Hard disk loading is particularly prevalent in less developed markets where there is no end user expectation of such "extras", or indeed a full understanding of software being a separate concept to hardware."
Isn't Microsoft's primary objective to eliminate any understanding that software is a separate concept than hardware? Here they make it sound like preloading an OS is a bad thing, but if you take out the word "illegal" from the above quote, their statements are arguments against preloading Windows at all, pirated or not!
F....U....D!
Kevin Fox
2) Square developed a few new algorithms to help with animation. Namely one for hair blowing in the wind (sort of interesting) and the way cloth folds and bends as a "actor" moves (very interesting).
Knowing today's IP climate, they've patented the algorithms...
Kevin Fox
Which violation are you referring to? My misspelling of contend as 'content', not capitalizing 'a' at the beginning of a sentence, or "similar tasks as those" versus "similar tasks to those"?
If he doesn't answer my email because of a grammatical error, that's fine with me. By sending the email I have one more piece of legal defense if they should try to stop me.
Kevin Fox
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Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 17:02:11 -0700 (PDT)
From: Kevin Fox
To: jrosini@kenyon.com
Subject: Cuecat violations
Dear Mr. Rosini,
As the owner of a Cuecat scanner and someone who knows a fair amount about
intellectual property law, I would like to know Kenyon & Kenyon's position
regarding what you term infringing use of Cuecat scanners.
Which intellectual property laws specifically do you content that users
are infringing upon? are users infringing on trade secrecy, patent,
trademark, or copyright violations?
Speaking as someone who is planning on performing similar tasks as those
you found infringing when enacted by 'flyingbuttmonkeys.com' I would like
to know cuecat's specific legal position on this matter.
Thank you for your attention in this matter. I eagerly await your reply.
Sincerely,
Kevin Fox
Fury.com
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If I get a reply, I'll post it here.
Kevin Fox
Maybe they're cancelling it because the name isn't as memorable as "Itanium" or "Xeon"
Kevin Fox
Cool.
Kevin Fox
I know, I know... It's coming, but school's first priority. Sign the mailing list and I'll let you know when it's done.
Kevin Fox
I'm looking for a handful of people who have done this before, and are as geographically diverse as possible, to help me out with a small adjunct to Project Cameo.
If you're interested, please drop me a line at cameo@slash.fury.com.
Thanks!
Kevin Fox
As I mentioned yesterday, there's an updated Daily Cal article here.
Kevin Fox