yeah, I'll buy this... they could automate 1/2 of what we do now.
it's the same automation story we've been hearing since the industrial age started (or before).
how many less jobs are there in the lumber industry now than there were 100 years ago? Farming? Metal workers? Technology, regardless of whether it is deemed 'intelligent' or not changes the face of the workplace.
The flip side of it is that there will be new jobs for humans... how many programmers were there 100 years ago? Just as my great great grandparents couldn't even imagine nor understand the concept of what I do for a living, we probably can't concieve some of the tasks that humans will be doing 50 or 100 years from now...
not sure why this got modded down... Hoover is pretty damned impressive (ouch... pun only noticed after the fact). As is Vegas from a sheer spectacle standpoint. There's really nothing else like it in the world as far as over-the-toppery goes.
Sure Rome has the Colluseum, Paris has the Eiffel Tower, and Egypt has the Pyramids, but we got Vegas. Not too many things more American than that...
hmmm... if I were wanting to create the ultimate computer foosball player, I'd just have the machine rotate all the handles at about 12000 rpm, sliding them back and forth at a 100 cycles per second.
The first time the human opponent catches the ball off the forehead at 1200 fps... FORFIET! The machine wins again.
actually I think this is an example of flawed *reasoning*. Painting all SSO solutions with such a wide brush is misinformed at best, and irresponsible at worst.
That's like saying that the concept of cars is flawed just because the Yugo existed.
yeah, I'm sure the MPAA thinks this is a *fantastic* idea.
Provide easy access to commercial-grade dupe equipment to thousands of teens around the US making minimum wage working in a store full of source material.
1) many (most?) console games don't translate well into arcade-style, pay as you go schemes... and many arcade games don't translate well into console (DDR, F1 Racing - where unique controls and immersion are a real draw)
2) arcades really *are* a dying breed... sure there are a few places that still thrive (think Dave & Buster's if you have one in your area), but it's not for the gaming, its for the social experience. (and I also guess that ski-ball makes more money than the latest incarnation of House of the Dead or whatever.)
3) I don't ever recall Sony having jack to do with arcades, yet the PS1 and PS2 have done quite well for themselves. Yes, there was a lot of software that was in the arcade first, but I'd say most of the PS*s success didn't stem from arcade 'previews'...
once again slashdotters wade in without regard to the facts...
The problems with Westlaw and to a lesser degree Lexis/Nexis are NOT that they are claiming to own the law -- OR the ability to search their damn databases...
1) Many jurisdictions sign contracts for these companies to be the *official* source of caselaw and statutes, and while some of the jurisdictions make adequate provisions for full and open public access, many don't and that leaves folks with minimal resources in very bad positions with regards to access. they don't make it easy to get info when they're not required to.
2) And this is a biggie... While West Pub. isn't claiming copyright on the actual law itself, they do claim copyright to the citation system. i.e. how one refers to a case when you're writing a brief, etc. Many jurisdictions *require* you to cite using a West method. When another service tries to duplicate this, West sues their asses off. So you can't do research someplace else and then be able to properly cite your sources unless you use the West service to get the proper cite. Sure, you can go to the library and find the West dead-tree version and get the cite, but that pretty much kills all the benefit of electronic research don't it??
I don't lay the blame with the publishers... they're just capitalist swine like the rest of us trying to maximize their $$ (albeit in a fairly ruthless fashion if you ask me...), I blame the various govts for supporting these pseudo-monopolies for so long... the legal publishers and the legal policy makers are so deep in bed with each other it is sickening... hmmmm... wonder why there hasn't been more reform before now...
no, the way these things typically work, and I'll admit I don't know the specifics of this particular implementation, is that each file is assigned an identifier (sorta like a URL) which is then included in different machines indicies. When you're looking for a site (e.g. a homepage -- a file), you send a query out into the network and get returned a list of hosts that you can then make a file request(s) from. So it is fully distributed in that way.
agreed that from a *purely technical* standpoint the Internet is P2P... but from a practical standpoint, and from a conceptual standpoint when you're talking about delivery networks, it's few servers (relatively) and many clients that connect to them. It's the few to many model that causes bandwidth clogs. Thanks for the book suggestion anyway;)
I also agree that synch is a big problem to over come, and real-time or near real-time content distribution would not be an optimal use for something like this... but in reality most web content isn't real time, it's mostly static -- and therefore a candidate for this type of delivery.
it's nice that your site has a Big Fat Pipe coming into it, but not everyone with worthwhile content to share has one. this is a method of distributing bandwidth, and ostensibly, making a much more efficient use of our networks, collectively...
Do you understand that the internet is fundamentally p2p?
uh... no, it isn't. The Internet is fundamentally client/server.
the benefit of this is precisely NOT what you said. it's not the same as having a web server on your 56K line, that's why it's useful. If you've got useful content, once someone downloads it once, they make it available too. The more useful it is, the more it gets downloaded from you, and the other guy (and they tell two friends and they tell two friends, and so on and so on...).
After a while its distributed all over the place, so the next user can download the file(s) in 30 discrete pieces from 30 different places in 1/30th the time and at 1/30th the bandwitdth on an individual connection to the network (from the content provider's perspective).
Also, many P2P networks tend to align themselves around super-nodes, high bandwidth machines, that are capable of serving a lot more content, so the 56K lines of the world aren't slagged...
Mr. President, about, uh, 35 minutes ago, General Jack Ripper, the commanding general of, uh, Burpelson Air Force Base, issued an order to the 34 B-52's of his Wing, which were airborne at the time as part of a special exercise we were holding called Operation War Driver. Now, it appears that the order called for the planes to, uh, attack their targets inside Russia. The, uh, planes are fully armed with nuclear weapons with an average load of, um, 40 megatons each. Now, the central display of Russia will indicate the position of the planes. The triangles are their primary targets; the squares are their secondary targets. The aircraft will begin penetrating Russian radar cover within, uh, 25 minutes.
It, uh, appears that the whole misunderstanding was caused by a Wi-Fi access point in a Starbucks in Schenectady sir that confused General Ripper's signal corps.
I just finished reading a book called _Starfish_ by Peter Watts, and for those interested, it's about a group of cybernetically modified folks who live at these depths tending to generating equipment that harvests energy from the thermal vents. (OK, it's more exciting than I make it out, but that's why I read instead of write, right?)
I'm now reading the sequel _Maelstrom_. I recommend both these books (tho I'm not quite through with the 2d yet).
In any event, the science in these books is very interesting and accurate AFAIK. A bit cyberpunk, a bit Jules Verne, all in all worth the read, IMHO.
I'd certainly be willing to try out such a service, however I'd want to use it on my PocketPC with my WiFi card.
I'd be curious to see how much valuable real estate is taken up with something like this. True mobile access is still very expensive, and I'd be happy to look at a few banners for free access, if it didn't take too much space away from what I was trying to look at...
My completely uneducated guess is that the object will appear a lot like those "magic eyes" pictures that were all the rage a few years ago...
i.e. when you move from side to side (or up/down) the object will shift at a slightly different rate than the background, and your senses will detect something. you may not be able to tell what it is, but something will feel "off". I'm sure at greater distances the effect will be less, and therefore the technique will be more useful.
Reminds me of Predator, and the way that it shimmered when it moved. My guess is that they used the same thought when they made that movie.
Ford has announced that it will cease production of the Model-T after the 2003 production run. The company cited difficulty in finding craftsmen skilled in sheet metal beating as the primary cause.
Similarly, the Sperry Rand Corporation has ceased all work on new UNIVAC models. Sales had dropped off in recent decades to the point where the financial viability of the line was no longer profitable. It was also noted that the availability of vacuum tubes played into the decision.
Finally, The Mayo Clinic has declared that it will no longer offer leeching as a method of treatment for bad blood humours. "We've found that Mr. Moogle's Magic Tonic works just as effectively without the unsightly hickies," noted Chief of Staff Wilhelm Norton.
sorry, but this post smacks of some training company fishing for free market research. Drop in the/. post, wait a few hours, and then glean a few good quotes (change the wording a bit to protect the guilty), nuggets of wisdom, and get into the heads of "the geeks".
They can then turn to *your* managment, and say, "Look at this! This is what you're folks are saying..."
*sigh*... oh well, isn't the first time or the last time/.'ers will be used and abused like this.
Slashdot Mirror
Bill and Gene
shouldn't you be cooking?
btw: any chance you're going on a book tour again anytime in the near future? I missed you when you were in Houston.
oh, and glad you got your pan back.
yeah, I'll buy this... they could automate 1/2 of what we do now.
it's the same automation story we've been hearing since the industrial age started (or before).
how many less jobs are there in the lumber industry now than there were 100 years ago? Farming? Metal workers? Technology, regardless of whether it is deemed 'intelligent' or not changes the face of the workplace.
The flip side of it is that there will be new jobs for humans... how many programmers were there 100 years ago? Just as my great great grandparents couldn't even imagine nor understand the concept of what I do for a living, we probably can't concieve some of the tasks that humans will be doing 50 or 100 years from now...
not sure why this got modded down... Hoover is pretty damned impressive (ouch... pun only noticed after the fact). As is Vegas from a sheer spectacle standpoint. There's really nothing else like it in the world as far as over-the-toppery goes.
Sure Rome has the Colluseum, Paris has the Eiffel Tower, and Egypt has the Pyramids, but we got Vegas. Not too many things more American than that...
I lost a ton of weight when I went through my divorce. didn't even feel like eating...
oh sure, I didn't get a divorce with the express purpose of losing weight, it was just a nice side-effect.
I'm now remarried. Armed with this knowledge, as my weight creeps back up, I feel the nuptual bonds weakening...
hmmm... if I were wanting to create the ultimate computer foosball player, I'd just have the machine rotate all the handles at about 12000 rpm, sliding them back and forth at a 100 cycles per second.
The first time the human opponent catches the ball off the forehead at 1200 fps... FORFIET! The machine wins again.
but that's just me...
as evidenced by the fact that you are reading Slashdot instead of studying.
actually I think this is an example of flawed *reasoning*. Painting all SSO solutions with such a wide brush is misinformed at best, and irresponsible at worst.
That's like saying that the concept of cars is flawed just because the Yugo existed.
yeah, I'm sure the MPAA thinks this is a *fantastic* idea.
Provide easy access to commercial-grade dupe equipment to thousands of teens around the US making minimum wage working in a store full of source material.
Hmmmm... I wonder why they haven't done this yet?
during prime screwing off from work time?
I do believe this story has elicited the largest collective SlashYawn of all time...
don't know that they are missing the point.
.02c
1) many (most?) console games don't translate well into arcade-style, pay as you go schemes... and many arcade games don't translate well into console (DDR, F1 Racing - where unique controls and immersion are a real draw)
2) arcades really *are* a dying breed... sure there are a few places that still thrive (think Dave & Buster's if you have one in your area), but it's not for the gaming, its for the social experience. (and I also guess that ski-ball makes more money than the latest incarnation of House of the Dead or whatever.)
3) I don't ever recall Sony having jack to do with arcades, yet the PS1 and PS2 have done quite well for themselves. Yes, there was a lot of software that was in the arcade first, but I'd say most of the PS*s success didn't stem from arcade 'previews'...
my
Apparently he's preparing himself for a career in professional athletics...
once again slashdotters wade in without regard to the facts...
.02c
The problems with Westlaw and to a lesser degree Lexis/Nexis are NOT that they are claiming to own the law -- OR the ability to search their damn databases...
1) Many jurisdictions sign contracts for these companies to be the *official* source of caselaw and statutes, and while some of the jurisdictions make adequate provisions for full and open public access, many don't and that leaves folks with minimal resources in very bad positions with regards to access. they don't make it easy to get info when they're not required to.
2) And this is a biggie... While West Pub. isn't claiming copyright on the actual law itself, they do claim copyright to the citation system. i.e. how one refers to a case when you're writing a brief, etc. Many jurisdictions *require* you to cite using a West method. When another service tries to duplicate this, West sues their asses off. So you can't do research someplace else and then be able to properly cite your sources unless you use the West service to get the proper cite. Sure, you can go to the library and find the West dead-tree version and get the cite, but that pretty much kills all the benefit of electronic research don't it??
I don't lay the blame with the publishers... they're just capitalist swine like the rest of us trying to maximize their $$ (albeit in a fairly ruthless fashion if you ask me...), I blame the various govts for supporting these pseudo-monopolies for so long... the legal publishers and the legal policy makers are so deep in bed with each other it is sickening... hmmmm... wonder why there hasn't been more reform before now...
my
hmmmm..... small *and* wireless.
"Honey have you seen the server?"
"Did you check in the sofa?"
no, the way these things typically work, and I'll admit I don't know the specifics of this particular implementation, is that each file is assigned an identifier (sorta like a URL) which is then included in different machines indicies. When you're looking for a site (e.g. a homepage -- a file), you send a query out into the network and get returned a list of hosts that you can then make a file request(s) from. So it is fully distributed in that way.
agreed that from a *purely technical* standpoint the Internet is P2P... but from a practical standpoint, and from a conceptual standpoint when you're talking about delivery networks, it's few servers (relatively) and many clients that connect to them. It's the few to many model that causes bandwidth clogs. Thanks for the book suggestion anyway ;)
I also agree that synch is a big problem to over come, and real-time or near real-time content distribution would not be an optimal use for something like this... but in reality most web content isn't real time, it's mostly static -- and therefore a candidate for this type of delivery.
it's nice that your site has a Big Fat Pipe coming into it, but not everyone with worthwhile content to share has one. this is a method of distributing bandwidth, and ostensibly, making a much more efficient use of our networks, collectively...
Do you understand that the internet is fundamentally p2p?
uh... no, it isn't. The Internet is fundamentally client/server.
the benefit of this is precisely NOT what you said. it's not the same as having a web server on your 56K line, that's why it's useful. If you've got useful content, once someone downloads it once, they make it available too. The more useful it is, the more it gets downloaded from you, and the other guy (and they tell two friends and they tell two friends, and so on and so on...).
After a while its distributed all over the place, so the next user can download the file(s) in 30 discrete pieces from 30 different places in 1/30th the time and at 1/30th the bandwitdth on an individual connection to the network (from the content provider's perspective).
Also, many P2P networks tend to align themselves around super-nodes, high bandwidth machines, that are capable of serving a lot more content, so the 56K lines of the world aren't slagged...
see? that's the benefit. not so bad after all...
From the MythTV website:
What it does:
*Basic 'live-tv' functionality. Pause/Fast Forward/Rewind "live" TV.
*[lots of other really cool stuff]
hmmm... that IS a cool feature...Fast Forward live TV.
I'd think the box would pay for itself in a matter of days, I'll just watch CNBC and keep my Ameritrade account open and ready to go.
Mr. President, about, uh, 35 minutes ago, General Jack Ripper, the commanding general of, uh, Burpelson Air Force Base, issued an order to the 34 B-52's of his Wing, which were airborne at the time as part of a special exercise we were holding called Operation War Driver. Now, it appears that the order called for the planes to, uh, attack their targets inside Russia. The, uh, planes are fully armed with nuclear weapons with an average load of, um, 40 megatons each. Now, the central display of Russia will indicate the position of the planes. The triangles are their primary targets; the squares are their secondary targets. The aircraft will begin penetrating Russian radar cover within, uh, 25 minutes.
It, uh, appears that the whole misunderstanding was caused by a Wi-Fi access point in a Starbucks in Schenectady sir that confused General Ripper's signal corps.
I just finished reading a book called _Starfish_ by Peter Watts, and for those interested, it's about a group of cybernetically modified folks who live at these depths tending to generating equipment that harvests energy from the thermal vents. (OK, it's more exciting than I make it out, but that's why I read instead of write, right?)
I'm now reading the sequel _Maelstrom_. I recommend both these books (tho I'm not quite through with the 2d yet).
In any event, the science in these books is very interesting and accurate AFAIK. A bit cyberpunk, a bit Jules Verne, all in all worth the read, IMHO.
I'd certainly be willing to try out such a service, however I'd want to use it on my PocketPC with my WiFi card.
I'd be curious to see how much valuable real estate is taken up with something like this. True mobile access is still very expensive, and I'd be happy to look at a few banners for free access, if it didn't take too much space away from what I was trying to look at...
That's *exactly* how I came to be the Dread Pirate Roberts...
Argh!
My completely uneducated guess is that the object will appear a lot like those "magic eyes" pictures that were all the rage a few years ago...
i.e. when you move from side to side (or up/down) the object will shift at a slightly different rate than the background, and your senses will detect something. you may not be able to tell what it is, but something will feel "off". I'm sure at greater distances the effect will be less, and therefore the technique will be more useful.
Reminds me of Predator, and the way that it shimmered when it moved. My guess is that they used the same thought when they made that movie.
Very cool.
Ford has announced that it will cease production of the Model-T after the 2003 production run. The company cited difficulty in finding craftsmen skilled in sheet metal beating as the primary cause.
Similarly, the Sperry Rand Corporation has ceased all work on new UNIVAC models. Sales had dropped off in recent decades to the point where the financial viability of the line was no longer profitable. It was also noted that the availability of vacuum tubes played into the decision.
Finally, The Mayo Clinic has declared that it will no longer offer leeching as a method of treatment for bad blood humours. "We've found that Mr. Moogle's Magic Tonic works just as effectively without the unsightly hickies," noted Chief of Staff Wilhelm Norton.
Back to you Hemos...
sorry, but this post smacks of some training company fishing for free market research. Drop in the /. post, wait a few hours, and then glean a few good quotes (change the wording a bit to protect the guilty), nuggets of wisdom, and get into the heads of "the geeks".
/.'ers will be used and abused like this.
They can then turn to *your* managment, and say, "Look at this! This is what you're folks are saying..."
*sigh*... oh well, isn't the first time or the last time