1905 was the most productive year for any physicist since Isaac Newton's golden year of 1666. In 1905 not only did Einstein publish on Special Relativity, but also on Brownian Motion (thus finally providing irrefutable evidence of atoms) and laying grounding for the field of statistical mechanics, and the photoelectric effect (claiming the idea of the photon) and laying much of the foundation of quantum mechanics.
High definition audio was crippled by the format wars between DVD-Audio and SACD. In the meantime MP3 became popular - people like the convenience of portable music in their iPods etc. If you are an audiophile it is a severe disappointment because the quality in these portable formats is severely compromised by the compression.
The whole audio format situation is screwed beyond belief with no format really doing the job of providing both top quality and reasonable flexibility of use.
And don't give me that crap about how grad school is free for techies. What, did you think I never thought about getting my Master's degree? Try a minimum of 30,000 additional dollars tacked onto my loans at a STATE SCHOOL for the M.S. ALONE (more if I go private). Very few people actually get scholarships, and competition for TA positions is steep.
You are full of it. I've had affiliations with several graduate engineering programs - as a student, industrial liason, adjunct faculty, etc. In some high end schools every student in good standing in the graduate program had a full fellowship. In others it was a more mixed bag of working on research contracts, TA's etc., but the fact was that there was always a way to find the money unless the school just wasn't interested in having you as a student.
And as far as reducing employment opportunities, that is poppycock. The jobs you don't get considered for if you have a PhD are often dead end pigeonholed slots anyway. And the jobs that you are considered for are the gems with real challenge and opportunity to make a difference.
Let me begin by saying that my understanding of "the problem" is that Americans have lost interest in spending tens of thousands of dollars (possibly over a hundred thousand) to continue with their already expensive education, particularly when it is perfectly clear they're never, ever going to make that investment back in the workplace (if, that is, they get a job at all).
I think your premise misses the mark. In the US the earning power gap between those with a college degree and those without is large and widening. Not to mention quality of life issues independent from economics. And as far as graduate education goes most engineering disciplines offer students scholarships, grants and other assistance making the students out of pocket cost negligable.
The real issue is opportunities. In the US opportunities for graduate degree holders in other fields are much better than in the engineering disciplines. It takes hard work and talent to get a graduate degree in any engineering discipline. Why would a student of this quality choose this path when their quality of life will be much better with an MD or JD?
The real problem is this - top students will not be attracted to graduate study in engineering until the rewards are there. And American industry will make those rewards available when they can get cheaper talent overseas.
I'd say that any government whose economy comes to rely heavily on a resource has a responsibility to its citizens to make sure that that resource is safe.
Let's be realistic about risks here. Suppose the US decided to remove the.uk domain from the root zone file. How long would it take to fix? 2 hours? Less if you have a backup plan in place. All that would be needed is for ISPs to add another DNS server to their resolve lists. Since most ISP DNS servers cache things for a while I doubt if anyone would even notice unless they read a news story.
In this case, the change is, technically speaking, extremely small (in fact, it's mostly political), so there's slim to none chance of bringing the net to its knees.
The political issue is really what matters. The growth of the internet as we have it was due to political reasons - i.e. little or no meddling by governments. ARPA wasn't the only organization build a network - but it was ARPAnet that became the standard because of the way it was administered. Now we have a push to change the political model that has been succesful in growing the internet to where it is. That to me signals a significant potential change. The UNhas talked about provisions to tax domain names, levy fees on email, etc. This sort of stuff would have killed the early internet. As we say, the power to tax is the power to destroy.
My personal opinion is that this should be handled using IPV6. Grandfather the existing netblocks and generic TLDs, and then allocate the rest to the nations of the world to do with as they want. France can have.fromage and.vin if they want, etc. I'd much rather have diversity than some central authority including the US government anyway.
Name one example of the US government protecting free speach on the internet.
There have actually been MANY court decisions in the US striking down attempts to limit free speech on the Internet. Example:
The Supreme Court today ruled unanimously that the Communications Decency Act violates the First Amendment. Writing for the court, Justice John Paul Stevens held that "the CDA places an unacceptably heavy burden on protected speech" and found that all provisions of the CDA are unconsitutional as they apply to "indecent" or "patently offensive" speech. In a separate concurrence, Chief Justice William Rhenquist and Justice Sandra Day O'Connor agreed that the provisions of the CDA are all unconstitutional except in their narrow application to "communications between an adult and one or more minors."
Many of the UN nations are becoming heavily reliant on the Internet.
That does not give them any property rights any more than driving your car on a road means you own the road.
I'm sure my university would dispute that their section of the Internet is the US's system.
The US doesn't have anything to do with what goes on in your University's network.
The US govt originally only made a small network (ARPAnet).
Somebody had to do it right. Other countries made networks too - but they did not grow like ARPANet for various reasons. If you tamper with something that works you take a big risk on breaking it.
does that mean some poor farm family in the rural area's of China will suddenly be able to get a computer and inet access
The UN has been floating proposals for quite a while to levy fees on email, domain names, bandwitch etc. to help pay for universal access. They would have to have root zone control to do this.
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spend millions on lawyers in court, and possibly be found guilty anyway by a jury that has to weigh enormously complex law vs a big Evil Corporation.
The real punishment of the company occurs in the stock market which hates any tint of scandal whatsoever.
He is much less interested in correctly prosecuting the law than in generating PR for himself.
All politicians are trying to generate publicity for themselves. The question is how do they do it; are they doing something that affects things in a positve manner.
The problem I have with Spitzer as governer is how does what he is doing as AG translate to that stage?
Haven't we sort of hit an upper useful limit of capacity?
this comment reminds me of Bill Gates wondering why anyone would need more than 640K of RAM.
We are seeing technology demos of Hires TVs with 10x the pixel count of 1080p right now. HDTV is just an intermediate step. Maybe that is the point of diminishing returns, but coupled with a IMAX projector for your living room, maybe not.
I visited Lacegem, unfortunately they list the Infocom collections as being out of stock. There are resellers on Amazon that list the Infocom titles, however at collector's prices.
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Let me know what kind of DRM is being used on commercial disks recorded using this encoding and I'll be able to judge.
1905 was the most productive year for any physicist since Isaac Newton's golden year of 1666. In 1905 not only did Einstein publish on Special Relativity, but also on Brownian Motion (thus finally providing irrefutable evidence of atoms) and laying grounding for the field of statistical mechanics, and the photoelectric effect (claiming the idea of the photon) and laying much of the foundation of quantum mechanics.
I put an order in last night to buy AMD stock. Damn Damn Damn. Thankfully it was a limit order, but I bet it won't be filled.
Give me a break. ROTJ had EWOKS!!! No way this lame substitute for Wookies should get props.
High definition audio was crippled by the format wars between DVD-Audio and SACD. In the meantime MP3 became popular - people like the convenience of portable music in their iPods etc. If you are an audiophile it is a severe disappointment because the quality in these portable formats is severely compromised by the compression.
The whole audio format situation is screwed beyond belief with no format really doing the job of providing both top quality and reasonable flexibility of use.
Now all we have to do is wait for some Google employee to play a Sony CD on this and these will become spam relays.
Perfect.
Sounds like Buffalo NY. Close to the Niagara hydro plants and surely cold enough.
And don't give me that crap about how grad school is free for techies. What, did you think I never thought about getting my Master's degree? Try a minimum of 30,000 additional dollars tacked onto my loans at a STATE SCHOOL for the M.S. ALONE (more if I go private). Very few people actually get scholarships, and competition for TA positions is steep.
You are full of it. I've had affiliations with several graduate engineering programs - as a student, industrial liason, adjunct faculty, etc. In some high end schools every student in good standing in the graduate program had a full fellowship. In others it was a more mixed bag of working on research contracts, TA's etc., but the fact was that there was always a way to find the money unless the school just wasn't interested in having you as a student.
And as far as reducing employment opportunities, that is poppycock. The jobs you don't get considered for if you have a PhD are often dead end pigeonholed slots anyway. And the jobs that you are considered for are the gems with real challenge and opportunity to make a difference.
RTFA yourself. Claiming something is prior art can be done by any jackass. Actually having prior art is something else again.
Unless they have prior art this is much sound and fury signifying nothing.
Let me begin by saying that my understanding of "the problem" is that Americans have lost interest in spending tens of thousands of dollars (possibly over a hundred thousand) to continue with their already expensive education, particularly when it is perfectly clear they're never, ever going to make that investment back in the workplace (if, that is, they get a job at all).
I think your premise misses the mark. In the US the earning power gap between those with a college degree and those without is large and widening. Not to mention quality of life issues independent from economics. And as far as graduate education goes most engineering disciplines offer students scholarships, grants and other assistance making the students out of pocket cost negligable.
The real issue is opportunities. In the US opportunities for graduate degree holders in other fields are much better than in the engineering disciplines. It takes hard work and talent to get a graduate degree in any engineering discipline. Why would a student of this quality choose this path when their quality of life will be much better with an MD or JD?
The real problem is this - top students will not be attracted to graduate study in engineering until the rewards are there. And American industry will make those rewards available when they can get cheaper talent overseas.
Sony, however, probably will get a blast of shit in the US as a result.
Considering the Category 5 Shitstorm that is going on, it is unlikely to be noticed.
Sony is more like 10 figures.
Just one question: what would happen when two or more countries wanted the same domain?
And who should control the generic TLDs?
Current generic TLDs would be grandfathered to the US. Any national naming authority could set up new TLDs mapping to their own IPV6 allocation.
Disputes on who owns a new TLD would be settled by lottery.
I'd say that any government whose economy comes to rely heavily on a resource has a responsibility to its citizens to make sure that that resource is safe.
.uk domain from the root zone file. How long would it take to fix? 2 hours? Less if you have a backup plan in place. All that would be needed is for ISPs to add another DNS server to their resolve lists. Since most ISP DNS servers cache things for a while I doubt if anyone would even notice unless they read a news story.
.fromage and .vin if they want, etc. I'd much rather have diversity than some central authority including the US government anyway.
Let's be realistic about risks here. Suppose the US decided to remove the
In this case, the change is, technically speaking, extremely small (in fact, it's mostly political), so there's slim to none chance of bringing the net to its knees.
The political issue is really what matters. The growth of the internet as we have it was due to political reasons - i.e. little or no meddling by governments. ARPA wasn't the only organization build a network - but it was ARPAnet that became the standard because of the way it was administered. Now we have a push to change the political model that has been succesful in growing the internet to where it is. That to me signals a significant potential change. The UNhas talked about provisions to tax domain names, levy fees on email, etc. This sort of stuff would have killed the early internet. As we say, the power to tax is the power to destroy.
My personal opinion is that this should be handled using IPV6. Grandfather the existing netblocks and generic TLDs, and then allocate the rest to the nations of the world to do with as they want. France can have
http://www.rajeevnet.com/hacks_hints/os_clone/os_c loning.html
Name one example of the US government protecting free speach on the internet.
There have actually been MANY court decisions in the US striking down attempts to limit free speech on the Internet. Example:
The Supreme Court today ruled unanimously that the Communications Decency Act violates the First Amendment. Writing for the court, Justice John Paul Stevens held that "the CDA places an unacceptably heavy burden on protected speech" and found that all provisions of the CDA are unconsitutional as they apply to "indecent" or "patently offensive" speech. In a separate concurrence, Chief Justice William Rhenquist and Justice Sandra Day O'Connor agreed that the provisions of the CDA are all unconstitutional except in their narrow application to "communications between an adult and one or more minors."
Refutations of the standard refutations:
Many of the UN nations are becoming heavily reliant on the Internet.
That does not give them any property rights any more than driving your car on a road means you own the road.
I'm sure my university would dispute that their section of the Internet is the US's system.
The US doesn't have anything to do with what goes on in your University's network.
The US govt originally only made a small network (ARPAnet).
Somebody had to do it right. Other countries made networks too - but they did not grow like ARPANet for various reasons. If you tamper with something that works you take a big risk on breaking it.
does that mean some poor farm family in the rural area's of China will suddenly be able to get a computer and inet access
The UN has been floating proposals for quite a while to levy fees on email, domain names, bandwitch etc. to help pay for universal access. They would have to have root zone control to do this.
spend millions on lawyers in court, and possibly be found guilty anyway by a jury that has to weigh enormously complex law vs a big Evil Corporation.
The real punishment of the company occurs in the stock market which hates any tint of scandal whatsoever.
He is much less interested in correctly prosecuting the law than in generating PR for himself.
All politicians are trying to generate publicity for themselves. The question is how do they do it; are they doing something that affects things in a positve manner.
The problem I have with Spitzer as governer is how does what he is doing as AG translate to that stage?
even claiming it to be as powerful and easier to use than Linux.
I find Linux ease of use to be perfectly acceptable, and since they are not claiming better performance, I don't see an advantage.
"Paging Eliot Spitzer, Paging Eliot Spitzer, Mr. Spitzer white courtesy phone..."
To me the biggest surprise in this saga is that he hasn't been all over this.
Sad but true. I heard one of my sons' friends say that he doesn't play a particular game because it requires too much reading.
That's when I knew my son needed a better mix of activities.
Haven't we sort of hit an upper useful limit of capacity?
this comment reminds me of Bill Gates wondering why anyone would need more than 640K of RAM.
We are seeing technology demos of Hires TVs with 10x the pixel count of 1080p right now. HDTV is just an intermediate step. Maybe that is the point of diminishing returns, but coupled with a IMAX projector for your living room,
maybe not.
I visited Lacegem, unfortunately they list the Infocom collections as being out of stock. There are resellers on Amazon that list the Infocom titles, however at collector's prices.