They should have been doing this years ago. This is the same thing as taking a massive cluster and shrinking it into a relatively small, optimal, package. IBM finally gets it that massive parallel process is the way of the future. They figured out how much more sence it makes to leverage standard microprocessors.
It's very simple to find out if someone is commiting a crime. You convice a judge with reasonable evidence that someone is up to no good and get a warrent to spy on the person just like with old wire tape. Just they will conceil a video camera in the persons residence, place spyware on his computer, and verifiable catch the person in the act. The cops will just have to follow through rather than arresting someone just on suspicion. The question is if such investigating is worth the salery of the cops to prove a case. Does it benefit the public? No, it only makes the crime more sexy and imfamous and result in more such crimes.
When you vote you should be given a copy of how you voted. It should be electronic and have an identification number. Just purchase and bring a usb memory device with you when you go to vote and you get an electronic receipt which you can verify later when you get home and compare with voting records.
Organizations for voters rights can solicit people to send in copies of your receipts for stitistical validation of an election.
If you can get a stitistically signifigant amount of voting error an election should be invalidated and people should vote again. Florida should have voted again during the last presidential debacle as well as other states given how close the election was the ammount of error was statistically signifigant.
What better place for the paper trail than with the voters?
I think it was primarily for XBOX2. As everyone knows XBOX 2 will not use an intel chip. One generation backward compatability is quite important. Buying Virtual PC gave them the opertortunity to go with a non intel chip and the purchased a company least venders uped the price for a licence once MS was commited.
Secondly it gives them some technology to integrate into windows to gaurantee backward compatability yet allow them to change or remove certain things. They can stop adding support for Win9x and instead just use a virtual session. I wouldn't be surprised if some future version of windows took the technology to it's core such that windows is by default virtual. It would also allow them to support windows on all sorts of other platforms without needing to redesign it's kernel. They might even design a virtual hardware platform specificly expecting emulation and compile windows for it.
I would expect them to play with all these things in lab but who knows if they get released.
They would both make a lot of sence. AT&T in perticular I think would have more to gain. The phone companies are going TCP/IP. So AT&T getting their own distro would make a lot of sence.
I believe the motivation behind SCO is pro GPL'd software. The GPL didn't have any legal presidents. SCO was dying, i.e. edging on bankrupsy and soon to be carved up for sale). Remember SCO was in the linux bussiness and is connected with various interests, and the fact the GPL did not have any tangible legal foundation is a definite issue with corperate customers and investors. I don't think Microsoft is the primary or even signifigant funding behind SCO. I think it's investors building a foundation; look for the major players present and future of Linux companies.
If Microsoft or any other real anti GPL company were in such a lawsuit the case and issues would be much stronger; they would start with the strongest potential problems with the GPL. Instead the SCO legal team seems to be pulling at straws just to get rid of them. I'm telling you they are building a solid legal foundation for the GPL. And quite frankly the Slashdot community should be praising them.
For the record I'm against the GPL; it's socialist. I'll gladly use the software though. But companies such as IBM, Sun, SCO, and other such big names don't care anymore because they finally realized they are not really in the software market. They are in the hardware and support market. Linux implementations are so fragmented and varried that Linux's complexity from such non standardization becomes attractive for service and support contracts.
First of all unless both paries are within the same state it should be clearly untaxable without the explicit concent of congress. It would be interstate commerce. Of course looking at the track record of the supreme court lately...
One thing I don't get the basis for the state of the customer collecting the tax money. Either congress was bought off sometime in the past or the supreme court messed up. It should be clearly the state the bussiness is in. Although if that were I case I think there might be at least some basis for taxation. Taxation from the customers state is clearly for the political/economic reason that bussiness would move to states with lower or no taxation as should be the case. Of course many of those states have higher income and property taxes to compensate so bussinesses would have to balence many factors.
The only compromise I can see is if federal goverernment imposed an interstate sales tax and redistributed said money amoung the states. It would be divied equally, by population, by where the purchasers reside or by taxation rates or a combination of many factors. That way it might not be as much money as the states would otherwide get it would but they would get something and bussinesses would have an easier job of bookkeeping and paying those taxes.
Rumor = Nothing signed. They have to post something to all those inquiring due to the article least it appear on the evening news before anything is signed. MickyD's obvously would not pay the full retail price at that volume. More like 30 to 60 cents depending on the actual number of redemptions. And if people get excited over it the reputations of MidckyD's could be tarnished if the deal doesn't go through. The deal could be spoiled if apple wanted more per song due to MickyD's being over a barrel. Plus they wouldn't want to advertize it so early because people would lose some interest by the time the promotion actually came around.
BTW, if anyone wants a real hamburger try the double cheeseburger at Jody Maroni's if your lucky enough to have one in your area. The owner would be better titled the "Burger King" rather than the "Saussage King".
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They should have designed their own duel licencing model like Mozilla or QT and charged $99 for a commercial licence to the product. They could then have spent most of their money enhansing and organizing the product and leaving quality assurance and bug fixes to the community and get a comercial product they could sell out of it.
This is good for academic study just to see what can be achieved but the industry should be focused on nano engineering and laying the foundations for optronic design. Processors are just too hot and power hungry; it's a dead end. Time to move into the 21st century with optical circircuitry.
I have little doubt that an equivelent optical pentium processor, or any other processor of choice, could be created now for a big chunk of change that would be 10 to 100 times more powerful at least, using at quarter of power though probably requiring the space of cabinet. The equivelent of old solid state computers. (I gaurantee you that at least the NSA and multitary have this already but their development rarely contributes to the commercial sector since they like to keep technology to themselves.) The commercial commutity should have already done this and have started refining the technology to reduce it to the size of a standard cpu case and be ready to release a product within a year. With such a new technology breakthroughs would happen daily yet anything produced would be more powerful while requiring less power.
Industry is behind where they should be because they are wasting time further developting lithography and smaller transistors. Optronics is a slam dunk and far more deserving to have the money thrown at it that is currently being spent pushing the limits of electronics.
First off too many people were contaminated by the first movie. Too much time passed and their beliefs became too entrenched. Each person has their own ideas, theories, and explanations of what happens in prior films to be explained their way in the later films. The Matrix movies are about questions, not answers. You have to think and provide your own answers. It's all about interpretation.
Personally I must say I really enjoy this last movie. I wasn't expecting anything, my mind was open to this movie.
My interpretation. It's a completely different story verses the first or second. As someone else pointed out the first was a movie about discovery. The second was action and exploration. The third was the rebirth of civilization and the matrix.
What is real? It is clearly implied through Neo's new abilities and vision in the "real world" that it isn't real either. Wheather it's another layer to the matrix or something more spiritual; i.e. the real world is a matrix under the control of a higher power is left to each individual to choose what they want to believe. I personally think it's another level of the matrix the AI's are conscious or unconscious of. Planes of reality one can assend. A matrix within a matrix helps me to better accept how being hurt or killed in a simlation can affect the body.
The idea that Neo somehow has hidden transmitters in his body is preposterous. They would have long discovered them while they were rebuilding his body in the first film. They would also have been able to detect them while he was in an aparent coma in the third film; the ship was built as transmitter and reciever as well as sensor packages to detect Calimari. Last Neo's transmitter would get fried in an EMP blast on top of it being especially susceptable a blast with it being a reciever.
I don't understand how others can't understand how it could be possible for agent Smith to download himself into a human brain.
Some people have trouble with it because only people have "souls". What is exactly is intellegence, sentience, and the soul? That's one of the questions in the matrix. The soul is that that quality which allows free will, i.e. choice. Agent smith has a soul. He is bad/evil man because he makes bad/evil choices.
Other people have trouble with it because they can't accept that their personal computer, no matter how powerful, could do what the human brain does, whatever it does. I say the inverted question also applies: Is a human brain powerful enough to run an AI? Are the "programs" exactly compatable with how a human brain works? It doesn't have to be for agent smith to program a simulation of himself in a human mind. The hardware is different so going either way their may be compromises but still be basicly be the same "soul". Smith has newfound abilities to REPROGRAM; why can't he reprogram a human mind into something analogous to himself? In other words it technically doesn't necessarily have to be exactly himself, so long as it acts with the same motivation and makes the same sort of choices. Incidently Smith gained the ability to reprogram from Neo when Neo merged with him in the first film.
As far as uning people as batteries, that's the toughest to explain. My latest theory is that the new form of fusion proposed in the first movie produces chemically stored energy. A human brain unlike other species burns a lot of calories to do what it does; more than half the calories a human needs to consume is burned in the brain. Humanbeings beings would have been the largest population of any animal stock available to convert chemical energy. An inactive brain produces less energy so hence the reason for the matrix to keep minds occupied. But why can't they burn/convert the chemical energy another way? Somehow it has to be more efficient for a biological body to do it than burning. Internal combustion engines and such need servicing. Maybe machines have concluded that maintaining human body crops which heal and self replica
This is wonderful news. Hardware compatability is Microsoft's edge. With driver compatability layers others operatings systems will break Microsoft's influence on hardware developers and even give an edge to Free OS's as they will be able to wrap drivers from abandoned platforms as well. Performance will NOT be impared that much until wrapers are available for video drivers. A user first wants it to work, then he wants it to perform better. One step at a time. With an emulation layer on linux, OS driver developers will be able to work from their prefered OS to analyze what the drivers are doing. It's easier to spy on hardware from Linux and other open operating systems. The technique will be ported to Freebsd and then to OSX. I would expect analysis tools to be co developed along with wrapper layers eventually. We will finally have a practical way to find out how hardware works and be able to document it. Wrappers are a tool, not the end goal.
It would work. I have concieved of such a system for years. It's rather obvious. But the problem with tripoli is that it's trying to achieve too much.
Encryption is a seperate issue and should be addressed sepereatly. Signed messages in no way have to be encrypted. Besided various powers that be against encryption would assert they influence against it becoming standard as much as possible.
A signed message infrastructe is the heart of the spam solution and it needs to be made plain and simple.
But where Tripoli erred in overcomplicating it with encryption it should have rather enphasised development of sponsorship signatue key lists and public key list databases and software that to some extent automatically manages it all. This would allow more control power than individually authorizing each email sender. (I don't know about you but I get annoyed authorizing all the damned cookies all over the web.)
Hydrogen may be the most abundent element in the galaxy but what makes it so wonderful as a fuel for vehicles makes it rare on earth. Earth has an oxygen atmosphere and so hydrogen readily combines with it here on earth which is why the earth has so much water.
For the the massive quantities needed to power transportation vehicles for centuries it would have to be produced from water using an origional source of energy. Hydrogen is more akin to a battery than a chemical fuel. And if you don't use fossil fuels to make hydrogen then the most likely source is atomic energy. And for some odd reason environmental groups consider atomic energy more abhorent than fossil fuels.
But you see Bush's pupet masters finally got a clue. Hydrogen is an energy storage medium. So they can use whatever means they wish to produce it in whatever country they find more restrictive of protestors than themselves. More than likely this would mean atomic energy. You see atomic energy is way more profitable than petrolium as a fuel source plus they can leverage their production sources and infrastructure to segway into the hydrogen(atomic) economy.
The cowardly answer. Just pass the buck; it's someone elses problem.
The issue is phylosophical. Since when is a phylosophy the exclusive domain of lawyers? Of only interest to lawyers? You respond like there is some difinitive library somewhere, exclusive to lawyer Bob, with the answer. Just ask Bob, he'll know.
Why can't people discuss the phylosophy of creation and origionality and the substance of though? That's the issue of the post.
Time to face the fact that grandpa's hacked text email protocol does not cut it anymore. Time for a modern binary based protocol designed to optimize the handling of binary encoded messages.
Messages need to be encrypted by default. We need public and anonymous digital signatures to automatically seperate and filter email. Everything needs to be trashed unless it's properly authenticated. Much of which should be performed at the mail server level with features such as receipts that can verify that a message was at least recieved by a user or trashed outright as unauthenticated.
Authentication codes must accompany all email addresses. Authentication codes which can be revoked. That email gets through should be viewed as an intimate privilage. Spam will then and only then be eliminated. And web sites that extort email addresses will become a thing of the past.
It will change once you get your first break. If you think your have trouble. Think of the people trying to get into the field without one nowadays. The only people that have it easy are the ones concurently in college in there junior year and looking for work. Willing to take a lower paycheck and yet they are paying homage to the degree gods. Sort of in the middle between both is where you want to get your first CS job.
And it only means that because the masses want it to. It's not about knowledge or what you learn. It's about being initiated into an elite group; achieving rank. The majority that get degrees are not going to admit that it doesn't really mean all that much. The majority actually need a formal education. They are the majority and the majority promotes it's own.
Do you need the degree? Hell yes. But technically it doesn't matter. You can learn any subject from books and practicing the theory. Learning in class with a formal instructor rather than learning from someone with more experience on the job ammounts to the same thing. But it's not about the information.
Sure you learn a few thing you didn't know if you later get a degree. But you would similarly learn new stuff reapeating any coursework.
It's about paying your dues. And anyone that spent time paying their dues expects everyone that follows to also pay them.
Since you have to get a degree do not necessarily choose a field you already know inside and out. Since you have to go through a subject formally; choose a related field so that you actually learn something a lot more rather than a little more.
The key is what your measuring. Bits and bytes are engineering units. The prefixes, kilo, mega, giga, ect.. refer to the exponent to the base 2: 10, 20, 30, etc. Only advertizers and executives which likely don't use computers themselves much are interested in using base 10. Binary computer will always have use units that are base 2. Should MP3 players have an advertized capasity of 67108864 bytes? Or would it be 67.1 megabytes? An extimite when you could be precise? 64 megabytes makes more sence.
If they really want to redefine it then they should invent a new base unit that would use base ten. How about kilochar? MegaBee? Gigatwits?
Seems to me the time is right to portless protocols. In other words the port is an extention of the ip. Most likely chosen at random.
And since they will then resort to filtering protocols it will require the protocol to have an a tunneling encryption module. There are algorythms for setting up two party encryption with a third party evesdroper. Fortunetly it wouldn't require strong encryption. Too impractical to break simple encryption on lots of users but probably best to use a plug in tunnel encryption module so that the internal protocal wouldn't be dependent.
I would have thought that NASA and the US government would have designed space deflectors by now. Thrusting robots that deflect debris into the atmosphere or collect it depending on the circumstances.
It's shocking that the space industry is so affected by simple debris. It's a wonder one of the middle eastern countries have not tried to build orbital rockets whose only purpose is to blow up when they get there. They have lots of money and their engineers are not incompetent. One properly armed missle could create a whole cascade effect. It's would totally devistate our economy and take out spy and targeting satelites all at once. There might be secret lasers or particle cannons in space that might be able to hit rockets but they could always say they are launching a satelite. Scary how vulnerable we are.
And it's not unreasonable that an arm could contain processor chips. In fact for a "terminator" designed to take a lot of punishment it would make quite a bit of sence if his processors were spread throughout his body. The power supply though might have to be in his torso (with a main processor) which is why an arm would not necessarily act autonimously when not ripped off.
I am more surprised that in T2 they did not talk about a power supply. It would have been smashed but be more prone to analysis than a microprossor. A power supply with enought juice to allow Annold to knock things around like a bulldozer. Now that is revolutionary.
Plus in all likelyhood the company would not have kept all of it's data in one place. Nor would it inform it's employee's of other copies of data.
But then again in the origional timeline (where there was no Connor, son of a man from the future) the design must have come from a person that did not reverse engineer the technology. I don't recall anyone talking about the tech being something based on an advanced concept so I still think that guy is alive.
If you take all the posibilities to an extreme an origional timeline could have had a renegade AI from two hundred years in the future sending a drone into the past to propagate AI tech sooner so that humanity was unprepared.
I someone that likes to rearrage furnature little by little over the years. Is it practical to run it to all four walls? Is the result a bit hole in the wall with wires comming out or is the conduit coverd by an big access plate with plugs?
How hard is it to wire through conduit? Would it meat that you have to gut the current wiring first? Would the whole thing take a full day, three days, a week of time to complete?
And isn't it a bad idea to have say 10 datawires running this close to each other?
I have been having ideals about cumtom building USB data output test equipment. From simple meters to an ociliscope where they are controlled from usb and output is solely over usb. I think a unit could be relatively small and use a small palm computer or a notebook computer for a display.
Sure they probably already exist, at an ungodly sum, or will exist by the time I get around to doing it but it should prove to be an interesting learning experience.
For stringed instruments the individual strings are not seperated on typical electric guitars. Each string needs it's own seperate output to be turely digital. Otherwise it's little more than an instrument with a built in microphone.
A true digital guitar does not necessarily need to be tunned other than for feel unless it's acustic. Nice to be able to shift keys without changing pre tuned instruments.
Seperate pickups also make it much easier to mix instruments that usually do not sound good together as you can dynamically control the phase of the frequencies for the instruments. This applies to all stringed instruments.
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They should have been doing this years ago. This is the same thing as taking a massive cluster and shrinking it into a relatively small, optimal, package. IBM finally gets it that massive parallel process is the way of the future. They figured out how much more sence it makes to leverage standard microprocessors.
It's very simple to find out if someone is commiting a crime. You convice a judge with reasonable evidence that someone is up to no good and get a warrent to spy on the person just like with old wire tape. Just they will conceil a video camera in the persons residence, place spyware on his computer, and verifiable catch the person in the act. The cops will just have to follow through rather than arresting someone just on suspicion. The question is if such investigating is worth the salery of the cops to prove a case. Does it benefit the public? No, it only makes the crime more sexy and imfamous and result in more such crimes.
When you vote you should be given a copy of how you voted. It should be electronic and have an identification number. Just purchase and bring a usb memory device with you when you go to vote and you get an electronic receipt which you can verify later when you get home and compare with voting records.
Organizations for voters rights can solicit people to send in copies of your receipts for stitistical validation of an election.
If you can get a stitistically signifigant amount of voting error an election should be invalidated and people should vote again. Florida should have voted again during the last presidential debacle as well as other states given how close the election was the ammount of error was statistically signifigant.
What better place for the paper trail than with the voters?
I think it was primarily for XBOX2. As everyone knows XBOX 2 will not use an intel chip. One generation backward compatability is quite important. Buying Virtual PC gave them the opertortunity to go with a non intel chip and the purchased a company least venders uped the price for a licence once MS was commited.
Secondly it gives them some technology to integrate into windows to gaurantee backward compatability yet allow them to change or remove certain things. They can stop adding support for Win9x and instead just use a virtual session. I wouldn't be surprised if some future version of windows took the technology to it's core such that windows is by default virtual. It would also allow them to support windows on all sorts of other platforms without needing to redesign it's kernel. They might even design a virtual hardware platform specificly expecting emulation and compile windows for it.
I would expect them to play with all these things in lab but who knows if they get released.
They would both make a lot of sence. AT&T in perticular I think would have more to gain. The phone companies are going TCP/IP. So AT&T getting their own distro would make a lot of sence.
I believe the motivation behind SCO is pro GPL'd software. The GPL didn't have any legal presidents. SCO was dying, i.e. edging on bankrupsy and soon to be carved up for sale). Remember SCO was in the linux bussiness and is connected with various interests, and the fact the GPL did not have any tangible legal foundation is a definite issue with corperate customers and investors. I don't think Microsoft is the primary or even signifigant funding behind SCO. I think it's investors building a foundation; look for the major players present and future of Linux companies.
If Microsoft or any other real anti GPL company were in such a lawsuit the case and issues would be much stronger; they would start with the strongest potential problems with the GPL. Instead the SCO legal team seems to be pulling at straws just to get rid of them. I'm telling you they are building a solid legal foundation for the GPL. And quite frankly the Slashdot community should be praising them.
For the record I'm against the GPL; it's socialist. I'll gladly use the software though. But companies such as IBM, Sun, SCO, and other such big names don't care anymore because they finally realized they are not really in the software market. They are in the hardware and support market. Linux implementations are so fragmented and varried that Linux's complexity from such non standardization becomes attractive for service and support contracts.
First of all unless both paries are within the same state it should be clearly untaxable without the explicit concent of congress. It would be interstate commerce. Of course looking at the track record of the supreme court lately...
One thing I don't get the basis for the state of the customer collecting the tax money. Either congress was bought off sometime in the past or the supreme court messed up. It should be clearly the state the bussiness is in. Although if that were I case I think there might be at least some basis for taxation. Taxation from the customers state is clearly for the political/economic reason that bussiness would move to states with lower or no taxation as should be the case. Of course many of those states have higher income and property taxes to compensate so bussinesses would have to balence many factors.
The only compromise I can see is if federal goverernment imposed an interstate sales tax and redistributed said money amoung the states. It would be divied equally, by population, by where the purchasers reside or by taxation rates or a combination of many factors. That way it might not be as much money as the states would otherwide get it would but they would get something and bussinesses would have an easier job of bookkeeping and paying those taxes.
Rumor = Nothing signed. They have to post something to all those inquiring due to the article least it appear on the evening news before anything is signed. MickyD's obvously would not pay the full retail price at that volume. More like 30 to 60 cents depending on the actual number of redemptions. And if people get excited over it the reputations of MidckyD's could be tarnished if the deal doesn't go through. The deal could be spoiled if apple wanted more per song due to MickyD's being over a barrel. Plus they wouldn't want to advertize it so early because people would lose some interest by the time the promotion actually came around.
BTW, if anyone wants a real hamburger try the double cheeseburger at Jody Maroni's if your lucky enough to have one in your area. The owner would be better titled the "Burger King" rather than the "Saussage King".
They should have designed their own duel licencing model like Mozilla or QT and charged $99 for a commercial licence to the product. They could then have spent most of their money enhansing and organizing the product and leaving quality assurance and bug fixes to the community and get a comercial product they could sell out of it.
This is good for academic study just to see what can be achieved but the industry should be focused on nano engineering and laying the foundations for optronic design. Processors are just too hot and power hungry; it's a dead end. Time to move into the 21st century with optical circircuitry.
I have little doubt that an equivelent optical pentium processor, or any other processor of choice, could be created now for a big chunk of change that would be 10 to 100 times more powerful at least, using at quarter of power though probably requiring the space of cabinet. The equivelent of old solid state computers. (I gaurantee you that at least the NSA and multitary have this already but their development rarely contributes to the commercial sector since they like to keep technology to themselves.) The commercial commutity should have already done this and have started refining the technology to reduce it to the size of a standard cpu case and be ready to release a product within a year. With such a new technology breakthroughs would happen daily yet anything produced would be more powerful while requiring less power.
Industry is behind where they should be because they are wasting time further developting lithography and smaller transistors. Optronics is a slam dunk and far more deserving to have the money thrown at it that is currently being spent pushing the limits of electronics.
First off too many people were contaminated by the first movie. Too much time passed and their beliefs became too entrenched. Each person has their own ideas, theories, and explanations of what happens in prior films to be explained their way in the later films. The Matrix movies are about questions, not answers. You have to think and provide your own answers. It's all about interpretation.
Personally I must say I really enjoy this last movie. I wasn't expecting anything, my mind was open to this movie.
My interpretation. It's a completely different story verses the first or second. As someone else pointed out the first was a movie about discovery. The second was action and exploration. The third was the rebirth of civilization and the matrix.
What is real? It is clearly implied through Neo's new abilities and vision in the "real world" that it isn't real either. Wheather it's another layer to the matrix or something more spiritual; i.e. the real world is a matrix under the control of a higher power is left to each individual to choose what they want to believe. I personally think it's another level of the matrix the AI's are conscious or unconscious of. Planes of reality one can assend. A matrix within a matrix helps me to better accept how being hurt or killed in a simlation can affect the body.
The idea that Neo somehow has hidden transmitters in his body is preposterous. They would have long discovered them while they were rebuilding his body in the first film. They would also have been able to detect them while he was in an aparent coma in the third film; the ship was built as transmitter and reciever as well as sensor packages to detect Calimari. Last Neo's transmitter would get fried in an EMP blast on top of it being especially susceptable a blast with it being a reciever.
I don't understand how others can't understand how it could be possible for agent Smith to download himself into a human brain.
Some people have trouble with it because only people have "souls". What is exactly is intellegence, sentience, and the soul? That's one of the questions in the matrix. The soul is that that quality which allows free will, i.e. choice. Agent smith has a soul. He is bad/evil man because he makes bad/evil choices.
Other people have trouble with it because they can't accept that their personal computer, no matter how powerful, could do what the human brain does, whatever it does. I say the inverted question also applies: Is a human brain powerful enough to run an AI? Are the "programs" exactly compatable with how a human brain works? It doesn't have to be for agent smith to program a simulation of himself in a human mind. The hardware is different so going either way their may be compromises but still be basicly be the same "soul". Smith has newfound abilities to REPROGRAM; why can't he reprogram a human mind into something analogous to himself? In other words it technically doesn't necessarily have to be exactly himself, so long as it acts with the same motivation and makes the same sort of choices. Incidently Smith gained the ability to reprogram from Neo when Neo merged with him in the first film.
As far as uning people as batteries, that's the toughest to explain. My latest theory is that the new form of fusion proposed in the first movie produces chemically stored energy. A human brain unlike other species burns a lot of calories to do what it does; more than half the calories a human needs to consume is burned in the brain. Humanbeings beings would have been the largest population of any animal stock available to convert chemical energy. An inactive brain produces less energy so hence the reason for the matrix to keep minds occupied. But why can't they burn/convert the chemical energy another way? Somehow it has to be more efficient for a biological body to do it than burning. Internal combustion engines and such need servicing. Maybe machines have concluded that maintaining human body crops which heal and self replica
This is wonderful news. Hardware compatability is Microsoft's edge. With driver compatability layers others operatings systems will break Microsoft's influence on hardware developers and even give an edge to Free OS's as they will be able to wrap drivers from abandoned platforms as well. Performance will NOT be impared that much until wrapers are available for video drivers. A user first wants it to work, then he wants it to perform better. One step at a time. With an emulation layer on linux, OS driver developers will be able to work from their prefered OS to analyze what the drivers are doing. It's easier to spy on hardware from Linux and other open operating systems. The technique will be ported to Freebsd and then to OSX. I would expect analysis tools to be co developed along with wrapper layers eventually. We will finally have a practical way to find out how hardware works and be able to document it. Wrappers are a tool, not the end goal.
It would work. I have concieved of such a system for years. It's rather obvious. But the problem with tripoli is that it's trying to achieve too much.
Encryption is a seperate issue and should be addressed sepereatly. Signed messages in no way have to be encrypted. Besided various powers that be against encryption would assert they influence against it becoming standard as much as possible.
A signed message infrastructe is the heart of the spam solution and it needs to be made plain and simple.
But where Tripoli erred in overcomplicating it with encryption it should have rather enphasised development of sponsorship signatue key lists and public key list databases and software that to some extent automatically manages it all. This would allow more control power than individually authorizing each email sender. (I don't know about you but I get annoyed authorizing all the damned cookies all over the web.)
Hydrogen may be the most abundent element in the galaxy but what makes it so wonderful as a fuel for vehicles makes it rare on earth. Earth has an oxygen atmosphere and so hydrogen readily combines with it here on earth which is why the earth has so much water.
For the the massive quantities needed to power transportation vehicles for centuries it would have to be produced from water using an origional source of energy. Hydrogen is more akin to a battery than a chemical fuel. And if you don't use fossil fuels to make hydrogen then the most likely source is atomic energy. And for some odd reason environmental groups consider atomic energy more abhorent than fossil fuels.
But you see Bush's pupet masters finally got a clue. Hydrogen is an energy storage medium. So they can use whatever means they wish to produce it in whatever country they find more restrictive of protestors than themselves. More than likely this would mean atomic energy. You see atomic energy is way more profitable than petrolium as a fuel source plus they can leverage their production sources and infrastructure to segway into the hydrogen(atomic) economy.
The cowardly answer. Just pass the buck; it's someone elses problem.
The issue is phylosophical. Since when is a phylosophy the exclusive domain of lawyers? Of only interest to lawyers? You respond like there is some difinitive library somewhere, exclusive to lawyer Bob, with the answer. Just ask Bob, he'll know.
Why can't people discuss the phylosophy of creation and origionality and the substance of though? That's the issue of the post.
Time to face the fact that grandpa's hacked text email protocol does not cut it anymore. Time for a modern binary based protocol designed to optimize the handling of binary encoded messages.
Messages need to be encrypted by default. We need public and anonymous digital signatures to automatically seperate and filter email. Everything needs to be trashed unless it's properly authenticated. Much of which should be performed at the mail server level with features such as receipts that can verify that a message was at least recieved by a user or trashed outright as unauthenticated.
Authentication codes must accompany all email addresses. Authentication codes which can be revoked. That email gets through should be viewed as an intimate privilage. Spam will then and only then be eliminated. And web sites that extort email addresses will become a thing of the past.
It will change once you get your first break. If you think your have trouble. Think of the people trying to get into the field without one nowadays. The only people that have it easy are the ones concurently in college in there junior year and looking for work. Willing to take a lower paycheck and yet they are paying homage to the degree gods. Sort of in the middle between both is where you want to get your first CS job.
Do you need the degree? Hell yes. But technically it doesn't matter. You can learn any subject from books and practicing the theory. Learning in class with a formal instructor rather than learning from someone with more experience on the job ammounts to the same thing. But it's not about the information.
Sure you learn a few thing you didn't know if you later get a degree. But you would similarly learn new stuff reapeating any coursework.
It's about paying your dues. And anyone that spent time paying their dues expects everyone that follows to also pay them.
Since you have to get a degree do not necessarily choose a field you already know inside and out. Since you have to go through a subject formally; choose a related field so that you actually learn something a lot more rather than a little more.
If they really want to redefine it then they should invent a new base unit that would use base ten. How about kilochar? MegaBee? Gigatwits?
Seems to me the time is right to portless protocols. In other words the port is an extention of the ip. Most likely chosen at random.
And since they will then resort to filtering protocols it will require the protocol to have an a tunneling encryption module. There are algorythms for setting up two party encryption with a third party evesdroper. Fortunetly it wouldn't require strong encryption. Too impractical to break simple encryption on lots of users but probably best to use a plug in tunnel encryption module so that the internal protocal wouldn't be dependent.
Sensoring does not work.
It's shocking that the space industry is so affected by simple debris. It's a wonder one of the middle eastern countries have not tried to build orbital rockets whose only purpose is to blow up when they get there. They have lots of money and their engineers are not incompetent. One properly armed missle could create a whole cascade effect. It's would totally devistate our economy and take out spy and targeting satelites all at once. There might be secret lasers or particle cannons in space that might be able to hit rockets but they could always say they are launching a satelite. Scary how vulnerable we are.
And it's not unreasonable that an arm could contain processor chips. In fact for a "terminator" designed to take a lot of punishment it would make quite a bit of sence if his processors were spread throughout his body. The power supply though might have to be in his torso (with a main processor) which is why an arm would not necessarily act autonimously when not ripped off.
I am more surprised that in T2 they did not talk about a power supply. It would have been smashed but be more prone to analysis than a microprossor. A power supply with enought juice to allow Annold to knock things around like a bulldozer. Now that is revolutionary.
Plus in all likelyhood the company would not have kept all of it's data in one place. Nor would it inform it's employee's of other copies of data.
But then again in the origional timeline (where there was no Connor, son of a man from the future) the design must have come from a person that did not reverse engineer the technology. I don't recall anyone talking about the tech being something based on an advanced concept so I still think that guy is alive.
If you take all the posibilities to an extreme an origional timeline could have had a renegade AI from two hundred years in the future sending a drone into the past to propagate AI tech sooner so that humanity was unprepared.
I someone that likes to rearrage furnature little by little over the years. Is it practical to run it to all four walls? Is the result a bit hole in the wall with wires comming out or is the conduit coverd by an big access plate with plugs?
How hard is it to wire through conduit? Would it meat that you have to gut the current wiring first? Would the whole thing take a full day, three days, a week of time to complete?
And isn't it a bad idea to have say 10 datawires running this close to each other?
I have been having ideals about cumtom building USB data output test equipment. From simple meters to an ociliscope where they are controlled from usb and output is solely over usb. I think a unit could be relatively small and use a small palm computer or a notebook computer for a display.
Sure they probably already exist, at an ungodly sum, or will exist by the time I get around to doing it but it should prove to be an interesting learning experience.
For stringed instruments the individual strings are not seperated on typical electric guitars. Each string needs it's own seperate output to be turely digital. Otherwise it's little more than an instrument with a built in microphone.
A true digital guitar does not necessarily need to be tunned other than for feel unless it's acustic. Nice to be able to shift keys without changing pre tuned instruments.
Seperate pickups also make it much easier to mix instruments that usually do not sound good together as you can dynamically control the phase of the frequencies for the instruments. This applies to all stringed instruments.