An interesting upside to all this might be that, if Google keeps the dialog from youtube content in their searchable database, people may soon be able to search for videos via content.
Right now, I believe keywords need to be done, but the auto-captioning would remove that barrier, perhaps.
This is why Google rocks...and M$'s tarnished SilverDimGlow does not.
Srongly wish Netflix would realign themselves to use a youtube-like setup instead, but I strongly suspect M$ either threw them 'an offer they could not refuse', or this will become yet another mutual lock-in, like Intel_M$.
(Really irritated that I cannot, yet, watch Netflix from my Debian machines.)
If I remember correctly, the Deep Space One experiment was considered successful.
I wonder if it is at all feasible to use another one to land on a high water contect comet or comet-like asteroid, and have it steer the item such that it impacts Mars.
If that was able to provide enough water, next would be the lichen?
I cannot think of any practical short-term value, except to know we can do it.
"Apart from being far cheaper and safer, how is this different from police helicopters they already use and have been using for over twenty years?"
That was my thought as well.
I see having a remote vehicle as a way to save some money. No need for one or two human pilots and passengers on expensive police helicopters, costing millions $US.
Seems to make sense to replace them with remote operator/pilots, and the usual police cameras and such.
If they are smaller, then they might be 'greener' too, in terms of fuel use.
However the genre is sub-defined, science fiction, speculative fiction, or future fiction, people like to wonder about the future.
What is fun, to me, is comparing how people liked to imagine the future, based on their current reality.
There is Jules Verne's "The Time Machine" (published around 1895), and it is amazing how his ideas on future cultures might be. The science of the time machine seemed to be analog electronic, mechanical, Victorian.
There is "2001 A Space Odyssey" (published around 1968), and the idea of us having Moon colonies, artificial intelligence, human inter solar exploration.
In some ways, progress is very slow: We still have the basic automobile to drive in, hasn't changed much since 1900. Passenger jet airplanes have not changed much since the 60's, it seems. Trucks and trains also not much changed in a hundred years.
In some ways, progress has been better than the science fiction author's imaginations, mostly computers, in terms of pervasiveness and penetration to many products (digital tv's, cell phones, netbooks, personal music players).
On a personal note, it seems that written science fiction, at bookstores, is starting to become less and less popular.:(
No worker is truely a slave. You chose to get hired. You can choose to walk away.
I gladly was willing to make less money to have a family, family time, and a life. I switched from dot-com to healthcare IT.
Once I was established at IT at the healthcare company, I switched to a 'coordinator' that works between IT and customers. Kept the same salary. Oh, and now I even telecommute a few days a week, too.
Suprisingly, there are jobs out there that pay well, and do not require 60+ hrs/wk.
Usually when I hear the term used, it refers to implementation of an interpreter of bytecode (java or dot net).
So, then it will just be an intrepeter layer, that removes direct access to hardware APIs?
That would seem to require more clock cycles to run, and some more RAM, and even would mean that the interpreter could be reverse-engineered so it could be ported to other platforms....
"Then it seems we could cut down air traffic considerably. NYC to Atalanta is only about 800 miles, if I could get there by train in four hours, a airplane would offer no time advantage.
If the difference in fuel efficiency is considerable, then maybe the US should consider building something like that?"
That is an interesting question, that I will have to go research.
I need to try to find credible numbers on the relative total-system energy required of hauling people via each method, and for hauling a ton of freight via each method.
I even wonder what the total cost of each system, say over 20yrs, would be.
"The fear is that if you pursue computer science, you will be stuck in a basement, writing code. That is absolutely not the reality."
I was a compuer-sciene major in college. I was a professional J2EE programmer from 1999 to 2005. My experience refutes that quote.
My experience from 1999 to 2005 was that I worked in a cube. Hardly ever worked under 45hrs/wk, and wrote code in a high-pressure environment.
The only time I was not in my cube was a few beginning meetings of a project, gathering requirements, writing use-cases, and such. I worked a lot. I got promoted. Then I started my family, and wanted to change my work/family time ratio. Felt compelled to get out of being at that job, and did so, in 2005.
Switched to IT at a nation-wide health care company. Stress was a bit less, but still 'heads down'. Finally got out of IT in 2008.
"If there really isn't much oil left, then oil will slowly become more and more expensive as the remaining oil becomes harder and harder to extract."
Once the Energy Return On Energy Invested becomes too small a ratio, that is when people truly start to feel the pain of bad things are happening or have already happened. *** "The running average EROI for the finding and production of US domestic oil has dropped from greater than 100 kilojoule returned per kilojoule invested in the 1930s to about 30 to 1 in the 1970s to between 11 and 18 to 1 today. This is a consequence of decreasing energy returns as oil reservoirs are depleted and as energy costs increase as exploration and development are shifted deeper and offshore (Cleveland et al. 1984, Hall et al. 1986, Cleveland 2004)." quoted from http://netenergy.theoildrum.com/node/4678
Some of my favorites: 1. The Pitch - to distract Death from taking a little girl. 2. Santa's sack - the bum giving presents to all....and many more, but those are the two on my mind.
In the old days, if you went to a channel that had no broadcast signal, you would see gray black and white snow from you TV set.
Modern TVs, even before going all digital, have a internal circuit that just shows a 'blanking' signal when no broadcast signal is detected: a color, usually blue or black.
I am happy people can design solar cells that convert light to electricity at higher efficiencies.
But for me, I am interested that the price per watt of power goes down. So I would hope some folks are focusing price efficiencies. When I read solarbuzz, the price has basically been stuck around US$4/watt for years.
If we disregard that terrestrial nuclear fuel is a finite resource, like petrol based fuel, there is also the risk/reward.
Already had "Three Mile Island" and "Chernobyl".
Lets see for solar: hm, perhaps some eyestrain from getting reflected sunlight in the eye? Lets see for wind: being struck by a fan blade if one self-destructs?
And actually, I am quite the advocate of nuclear power: Fusion power. Big 'ol billions of years reliable nuclear fusion power plant running 100% output safely, and we orbit it constantly. Free for the harvesting, once we create enough solar panels, wind turbines, and such to capture its output.
I think the argument on financial costs is a fair one, but society also once decided that removing lead from gasoline was worth the higher cost, as well as putting catalytic converters on cars. Maybe not the greatest analogy, but seems to fit.
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I am all for it, if it means it will get Netflix off of SilverDimPhotons, and onto something that is supported in Linux.
An interesting upside to all this might be that, if Google keeps the dialog from youtube content in their searchable database, people may soon be able to search for videos via content.
Right now, I believe keywords need to be done, but the auto-captioning would remove that barrier, perhaps.
"Here's looking at you, kid."
This is why Google rocks ...and M$'s tarnished SilverDimGlow does not.
Srongly wish Netflix would realign themselves to use a youtube-like setup instead, but I strongly suspect M$ either threw them 'an offer they could not refuse', or this will become yet another mutual lock-in, like Intel_M$.
(Really irritated that I cannot, yet, watch Netflix from my Debian machines.)
I jumped out of being a professional programmer, once I found out that it was taking too many hours away from family time.
When I started as a programmer, was newly married, no kids, didn't mind long hours, and giving the job priority over home time.
Started a family, then once I realized I wasn't getting to spend time with my little ones: career change.
No regrets, but I do miss the self-image of being a professional computer geek :)
Great! So now where is the Linux ARM version, hm?
If I remember correctly, the Deep Space One experiment was considered successful.
I wonder if it is at all feasible to use another one to land on a high water contect comet or comet-like asteroid, and have it steer the item such that it impacts Mars.
If that was able to provide enough water, next would be the lichen?
I cannot think of any practical short-term value, except to know we can do it.
...so I will be happy to load Debian on any ARM netbook.
http://www.debian.org/ports/arm/
For me the challenge is that there are not any mainstream manufacturers that have one available yet here in the US for me to try.
I plan on using it as a fun web surfing and email system. Maybe open office,evince for the ocassional attachment. ...Hopefully soon?
Internet and TV - I am screwed too.
I fit this profile uncomfortably close, although my ratio of 'net to TV is about 90/10
Try posting to freshmeat?
http://freshmeat.net/about
"Apart from being far cheaper and safer, how is this different from police helicopters they already use and have been using for over twenty years?"
That was my thought as well.
I see having a remote vehicle as a way to save some money. No need for one or two human pilots and passengers on expensive police helicopters, costing millions $US.
Seems to make sense to replace them with remote operator/pilots, and the usual police cameras and such.
If they are smaller, then they might be 'greener' too, in terms of fuel use.
Oops, my bad. I went to the trouble to look up the publish date, but didn't double-check the author!
Apologies to Wells and Verne.
However the genre is sub-defined, science fiction, speculative fiction, or future fiction, people like to wonder about the future.
What is fun, to me, is comparing how people liked to imagine the future, based on their current reality.
There is Jules Verne's "The Time Machine" (published around 1895), and it is amazing how his ideas on future cultures might be.
The science of the time machine seemed to be analog electronic, mechanical, Victorian.
There is "2001 A Space Odyssey" (published around 1968), and the idea of us having Moon colonies, artificial intelligence, human inter solar exploration.
In some ways, progress is very slow: We still have the basic automobile to drive in, hasn't changed much since 1900. Passenger jet airplanes have not changed much since the 60's, it seems. Trucks and trains also not much changed in a hundred years.
In some ways, progress has been better than the science fiction author's imaginations, mostly computers, in terms of pervasiveness and penetration to many products (digital tv's, cell phones, netbooks, personal music players).
On a personal note, it seems that written science fiction, at bookstores, is starting to become less and less popular. :(
"It's not just Rockstar. They're all the same."
I agree.
No worker is truely a slave. You chose to get hired. You can choose to walk away.
I gladly was willing to make less money to have a family, family time, and a life. I switched from dot-com to healthcare IT.
Once I was established at IT at the healthcare company, I switched to a 'coordinator' that works between IT and customers. Kept the same salary. Oh, and now I even telecommute a few days a week, too.
Suprisingly, there are jobs out there that pay well, and do not require 60+ hrs/wk.
I do notice, with my own family, that my kids like to play many games on my wife's phone.
It would be interesting to find an accurate market share study of the popular games on phones, number of games installed, and which APIs were used.
Usually when I hear the term used, it refers to implementation of an interpreter of bytecode (java or dot net).
So, then it will just be an intrepeter layer, that removes direct access to hardware APIs?
That would seem to require more clock cycles to run, and some more RAM, and even would mean that the interpreter could be reverse-engineered so it could be ported to other platforms....
http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf62.html
Seems there are zero commercial thorium-only reactors in the United States.
So, now I am wondering if the idea sounds great on paper, but is unable to be made a commercial reality.
Seem that if it was so easy to do, someone would have done it by now, as generating electricity for a utility seems a win-win in terms of profit.
"Then it seems we could cut down air traffic considerably. NYC to Atalanta is only about 800 miles, if I could get there by train in four hours, a airplane would offer no time advantage.
If the difference in fuel efficiency is considerable, then maybe the US should consider building something like that?"
That is an interesting question, that I will have to go research.
I need to try to find credible numbers on the relative total-system energy required of hauling people via each method, and for hauling a ton of freight via each method.
I even wonder what the total cost of each system, say over 20yrs, would be.
(Share if you have already found such answers.)
"The fear is that if you pursue computer science, you will be stuck in a basement, writing code. That is absolutely not the reality."
I was a compuer-sciene major in college. I was a professional J2EE programmer from 1999 to 2005. My experience refutes that quote.
My experience from 1999 to 2005 was that I worked in a cube. Hardly ever worked under 45hrs/wk, and wrote code in a high-pressure environment.
The only time I was not in my cube was a few beginning meetings of a project, gathering requirements, writing use-cases, and such. I worked a lot. I got promoted. Then I started my family, and wanted to change my work/family time ratio. Felt compelled to get out of being at that job, and did so, in 2005.
Switched to IT at a nation-wide health care company. Stress was a bit less, but still 'heads down'. Finally got out of IT in 2008.
"If there really isn't much oil left, then oil will slowly become more and more expensive as the remaining oil becomes harder and harder to extract."
Once the Energy Return On Energy Invested becomes too small a ratio, that is when people truly start to feel the pain of bad things are happening or have already happened.
***
"The running average EROI for the finding and production of US domestic oil has dropped from greater than 100 kilojoule returned per kilojoule invested in the 1930s to about 30 to 1 in the 1970s to between 11 and 18 to 1 today. This is a consequence of decreasing energy returns as oil reservoirs are depleted and as energy costs increase as exploration and development are shifted deeper and offshore (Cleveland et al. 1984, Hall et al. 1986, Cleveland 2004)." quoted from http://netenergy.theoildrum.com/node/4678
...would be my #3 favorite.
Especially nice was how a final scene shows the engine cowling with all the claw damage, so the viewer gets to know it wasn't hallucination.
Some of my favorites: ...and many more, but those are the two on my mind.
1. The Pitch - to distract Death from taking a little girl.
2. Santa's sack - the bum giving presents to all.
50yrs! Wow.... I feel old :)
The one paralled in nature, I think, is that the whole offense/defense is an evolving dynamic system. There will never be a 'done.'
New attacks will be found/invented each time a new defense is found for existing threats.
For me, it is 'so far, so good!' in using Debian stable, and an unpriviledged user, sudo'ing as needed.
In the old days, if you went to a channel that had no broadcast signal, you would see gray black and white snow from you TV set.
Modern TVs, even before going all digital, have a internal circuit that just shows a 'blanking' signal when no broadcast signal is detected: a color, usually blue or black.
I am happy people can design solar cells that convert light to electricity at higher efficiencies.
But for me, I am interested that the price per watt of power goes down. So I would hope some folks are focusing price efficiencies. When I read solarbuzz, the price has basically been stuck around US$4/watt for years.
If we disregard that terrestrial nuclear fuel is a finite resource, like petrol based fuel, there is also the risk/reward.
Already had "Three Mile Island" and "Chernobyl".
Lets see for solar: hm, perhaps some eyestrain from getting reflected sunlight in the eye?
Lets see for wind: being struck by a fan blade if one self-destructs?
And actually, I am quite the advocate of nuclear power: Fusion power. Big 'ol billions of years reliable nuclear fusion power plant running 100% output safely, and we orbit it constantly. Free for the harvesting, once we create enough solar panels, wind turbines, and such to capture its output.
I think the argument on financial costs is a fair one, but society also once decided that removing lead from gasoline was worth the higher cost, as well as putting catalytic converters on cars. Maybe not the greatest analogy, but seems to fit.