Apparently you got the memo. The neo-con line is now "we had bad intelligence, blame the CIA," not "there could still be WMDs."
I know that's inflammatory, but there really was no evidence of WMDs at the time we chose to go to war. The UN inspectors were not out to protect Saddam. He (Saddam) was a sadist prick and everyone knows it. Including the UN inspectors. But they had no evidence and, like you trust Bush et al., I trust the UN inspectors. We can debate who had the motivation to cook the books (Bush or the UN) but I'm tired of that song. The point remains that people involved were screaming at Bush "there's no WMDS there." Yet, he went ahead with war anyway.
Sure, even Bill O'Reilly is eating his own words. There are no WMDs. There were none. Not everyone thought there were WMDs. That leaves number 3.
One of the points of 100x100 is that the network drives the appications. The network is a platform. You can't build applications without a platform in place. Once you have the platform in place, the applications will evolve naturally.
Look at the WWW, P2P etc. They may have existed to a limited extent before the Internet. But they didn't take off until the Internet was there. Now look at VoIP, tele-medicine and other 'bleeding-edge' technologies. 100x100 expects these to see the same burst in use and development after a wide-spread network is there to support them.
How about an anatomy lesson over the network? When people talk about the kind of applications that high-speed networks enable, tele-medicine usually pops up. You can't demo surgery but you can demo a virtual, real-time corpse!
Once there is a large enough dataset of pictures (and that really is the key to making more then a travelog), I like the idea of combining something like this with a satalite imaging service so you can feel like you are really zooming in.
USGS DOQs (the kind used on Terraserver & the probably best a civilian will get) are 1m resolution aerial photos. You're not really going to be able to "zoom in" on photos taken from the ground. There probably are satellites with better resolution but you're not likely to see the images made publicly available for a long time.
To me it has the potential to help provide context to the places that you here about on the news or that students are assigned to research.
You can do this today! Go to the library and ask for an "atlas." Also, look in the photography section for whole books of photos of different places.
If you're talking about GeoTIFF, it's not the same thing. GeoTIFF adds real georeferencing metadata to raster data. This just adds coordinates to a photo. I think the point of this is to then present the photos in a geographical context. They hint that it'll be a feature of Longhorn's media-management capabilities.
Cute idea. Still, it's not all that revolutionary. If Apple added a geo-coordinate metadata field and simple mapping capability to iPhoto, they could probably beat MS to the punch well before Longhorn ships. But I don't know why they would.
Like much of the MS research stuff I've seen, it's a neat idea but what's the point? Solution, where's your problem? Might be a nice addition to ophoto.com or something but nobody is screaming for it that I can tell.
There seems little doubt that SCO was targeted - illegally and unacceptably, lest anyone be in any doubt - because it has enraged many people devoted to the Linux operating system.
There's no proof, of course, but it must be one of the theories at the top of any investigator's list.
I'm betting that a 320x240 map would be pretty much useless in the battlefield. Unless it's a map of the tank in which you're sitting, Then it might have enough resolution to geo-locate your ass.
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When I first saw the image on the right it looked like a human brain. It would be creepy if the Internet had a sort of fractal self-similarity to our physiology.
The Open OS X version is not a native Aqua port. It's just their packaging of GIMP for regular, old X11. It's no different than the Fink or DarwinPorts versions.There's absolutely no reason, if you are handy with Linux or Unix, to pay for GIMP.
Does anyone know how this tech works? Won't it be limited by the electronics it's attached to?
Photonics promises to give us an all photon path but I don't think anyone's close to making an entire processor with photonic crystals yet.
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No one took your time in the first place
No one is saying anyone took anyone's time. The site is pointing out a general trend in America. It's not blaming anyone, it's encouraging people to do exactly what you would suggest. They're not whining that employers are slave-drivers, they're pushing a positive message to people -- workers and employers.
I'm not sure why people insist on reading it as "someone has stolen your time sue them to get it back" or "I deserve more for less." There's nothing threatening about this agenda.
If your idea of humor is posting the "nerds don't get no sex!!1!" joke for every even remotely appropriate slashdot story, you might like the comic stylings of Conan o'Brien.
Obviously, this poster is a nerd who can't get laid.
Seti@Home already blows away all other supercomputers on the planet
Where did you get this idea? I'd honestly like to know. It's very misinformed.
There are many problems for which Seti@Home distributed-style computing would be worthless. One of the major selling points of real supercomputers are the interconnects between nodes. Big problems require fast interconnects so that nodes don't have to wait for data from other nodes working on other parts of the same problem. The Internet is way too slow for problems that have massive amounts of data that need to be passed between nodes -- such as modeling earthquakes or the earth's magnetic field.
... we believe that those who own property, whether physical or digital, have the ultimate authority over how their property is used.
First off the law disagress with you even if you state that you have the ultimate authority on how your physical property is used. You cannot, say, run someone over with you car. Hell, you can't make your car's muffler too loud in some areas.
Secondly, there is no such thing as digital property.
There. Is. No. Such. Thing. As. Digital. Property!
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Apparently you got the memo. The neo-con line is now "we had bad intelligence, blame the CIA," not "there could still be WMDs."
I know that's inflammatory, but there really was no evidence of WMDs at the time we chose to go to war. The UN inspectors were not out to protect Saddam. He (Saddam) was a sadist prick and everyone knows it. Including the UN inspectors. But they had no evidence and, like you trust Bush et al., I trust the UN inspectors. We can debate who had the motivation to cook the books (Bush or the UN) but I'm tired of that song. The point remains that people involved were screaming at Bush "there's no WMDS there." Yet, he went ahead with war anyway.
Sure, even Bill O'Reilly is eating his own words. There are no WMDs. There were none. Not everyone thought there were WMDs. That leaves number 3.
Option+click pastes in X11 on OS X.
One of the points of 100x100 is that the network drives the appications. The network is a platform. You can't build applications without a platform in place. Once you have the platform in place, the applications will evolve naturally.
Look at the WWW, P2P etc. They may have existed to a limited extent before the Internet. But they didn't take off until the Internet was there. Now look at VoIP, tele-medicine and other 'bleeding-edge' technologies. 100x100 expects these to see the same burst in use and development after a wide-spread network is there to support them.
How about an anatomy lesson over the network? When people talk about the kind of applications that high-speed networks enable, tele-medicine usually pops up. You can't demo surgery but you can demo a virtual, real-time corpse!
The Visible Human Browser
You might try looking for universities that operate a GigaPoP like the one at Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (associated with CMU and Pitt). One CMU undergrad did an internship there (see the image and caption titled "Undergrad Excellence") and was hired after graduation.
You'll find other GigaPoPs listed on the Internet2 site.
USGS DOQs (the kind used on Terraserver & the probably best a civilian will get) are 1m resolution aerial photos. You're not really going to be able to "zoom in" on photos taken from the ground. There probably are satellites with better resolution but you're not likely to see the images made publicly available for a long time.
You can do this today! Go to the library and ask for an "atlas." Also, look in the photography section for whole books of photos of different places.
Yes, I suppose it is at that.
If you're talking about GeoTIFF, it's not the same thing. GeoTIFF adds real georeferencing metadata to raster data. This just adds coordinates to a photo. I think the point of this is to then present the photos in a geographical context. They hint that it'll be a feature of Longhorn's media-management capabilities.
Cute idea. Still, it's not all that revolutionary. If Apple added a geo-coordinate metadata field and simple mapping capability to iPhoto, they could probably beat MS to the punch well before Longhorn ships. But I don't know why they would.
Like much of the MS research stuff I've seen, it's a neat idea but what's the point? Solution, where's your problem? Might be a nice addition to ophoto.com or something but nobody is screaming for it that I can tell.
It's a game we can all play...
Extra points for identifying the fallacy.
You don't harvest extremophiles for these substances. You model the substance and find a synthetic analog
.Scruples?
Maps?
I'm betting that a 320x240 map would be pretty much useless in the battlefield. Unless it's a map of the tank in which you're sitting, Then it might have enough resolution to geo-locate your ass.
chique
Chigoe \Chig"oe\, Chigre \Chig"re\, n. [Cf. F. chigue, perh. fr. Catalan chic small, Sp. chico; or of Peruvian origin.] (Zo["o]l.) A species of flea (Pulex penetrans), common in the West Indies and South America, which often attacks the feet or any exposed part of the human body, and burrowing beneath the skin produces great irritation. When the female is allowed to remain and breed, troublesome sores result, which are sometimes dangerous. See Jigger. [Written also chegre,chegoe, chique, chigger, jigger.]
... or did you mean "chic."
Lemon Curry?
When I first saw the image on the right it looked like a human brain. It would be creepy if the Internet had a sort of fractal self-similarity to our physiology.
Diebold 2000, 2002 and 2004 election cycles:
http://www.opensecrets.org/indivs/search.asp?NumOHINT: One won't feel like an ass getting money from Diebold.
Will the the Fedora installer upgrade RedHat installations or do you have to start from scratch?
The Open OS X version is not a native Aqua port. It's just their packaging of GIMP for regular, old X11. It's no different than the Fink or DarwinPorts versions.There's absolutely no reason, if you are handy with Linux or Unix, to pay for GIMP.
Does anyone know how this tech works? Won't it be limited by the electronics it's attached to?
Photonics promises to give us an all photon path but I don't think anyone's close to making an entire processor with photonic crystals yet.
No one is saying anyone took anyone's time. The site is pointing out a general trend in America. It's not blaming anyone, it's encouraging people to do exactly what you would suggest. They're not whining that employers are slave-drivers, they're pushing a positive message to people -- workers and employers.
I'm not sure why people insist on reading it as "someone has stolen your time sue them to get it back" or "I deserve more for less." There's nothing threatening about this agenda.
No they're waiting for SCO to win their lawsuit so, UNIX license in hand, they can release Longhorn with a Linux kernel.
Pffffffffffffffft
Where did you get this idea? I'd honestly like to know. It's very misinformed.
There are many problems for which Seti@Home distributed-style computing would be worthless. One of the major selling points of real supercomputers are the interconnects between nodes. Big problems require fast interconnects so that nodes don't have to wait for data from other nodes working on other parts of the same problem. The Internet is way too slow for problems that have massive amounts of data that need to be passed between nodes -- such as modeling earthquakes or the earth's magnetic field.
Wha-wha-wha-wha-what?
uhmmm... we're "un-advanced" compared to what?
The record execs have smoked it all.