If the only way to run the software is..., and the software is mission-critical, then you've got no choice.
Jeez, that sounds like my parents and their embracement of M$ products with our family business and in our home.
I once tried to argue that Linux could be used for all the tasks that we perform, (smtp/pop3 email, BBS functionality, web hosting, Internet access w/ RADIUS) but they just looked at me and said,
"Microsoft only tries to make things better. You can't say that about a rogue OS without an owner."
(paraphrasing, but they did use all of those words at one point or another in that context. First sentence is a direct quote, though.)
I think we are the ones with intellectual property...the key of the past month or so(or has it been going on longer?) is that they take the intellectual stuffs from us and charge us for using them.
Not good business practice, I must say.
Every politician can be convinced of something. It takes a lot of big petitions, though.
Big businesses throw money at senators, who propose and pass restrictive laws. Then they throw money at lawyers who get the courts to interperate the laws the way the businesses want them to.
On the whole, however, we seriously need to stop chatting and start organizing with a specific goal. Not a 'Open Source Good, Closed Source Bad' type of goal...I can't see we're getting anywhere with that, other than convincing some large-capital companies to give away some of there work. (I'd like to see a big company take part in developing the Linux kernel, or some other such large project.
Special interest groups like the NRA are what make politics happen. Anyone getting my drift?
OK...I've read through everything here at filter-2, so I'm not doing this blind...
Personally, I'd slap an A/D or D/A converter on everything I can find around the house:
Conductivity across the mirror high? Must be taking a shower.
Smoke particles in the oven? Shut the thing off and sound an alert.
Squeaking sounds in the living room? Someone's using that old couch again. Is it between 5 and 9PM? Turn on the lights...they're not sleeping yet.
Someone opened the front door and left it? Turn off the heater in the entryway.
Drop in water pressure? Maybe there's a leak. Keep an eye out for a localized humidity increase somewhere.
Basically, the more neurons(And thus quanta of processing) you put in the NN, the more arbitrary information it can handle.
If you give it a base set of stats(however complex it may be) and give it control over relevant tools in the house, than it can teach itself what works towards reaching that set of stats. All it has to do is experiment, and see the results.
For example, would I want a house as intelligent as a puppy or a parrot?
Ok...so you're saying I should housetrain a house? Would the house be capable of peeing on my bed?
Puh-lease don't give it control of the fire sprinklers.
On the other hand, I've had a pet parrot and a dog at the same time. It's not funny when the parrot makes the sound that the dog normally makes(signaling to you it, the dog, wants to go outside to pee.) When the parrot became skilled at the noise, I found myself getting up several times a night.
Is it just me, or wouldn't it be extremely difficult to weld something with both metal and plastic fibers to another piece of metal? Don't you run the risk of ruining the plastic?
Or were the 'threads' more like metallic strips running through the carpet?
His point is that insulators/increase/ buildup of static electricity, which is backed up by your example.
As for the RF-sheilded building, could it be used for tests regarding RF device safety? Have the control group live in the sheilded building, the test group live in an identical-yet-not-shielding building...
>Yes, it allows for public contributions and
>improvements, but it also allows for public
>analysis, scrutiny, and discovery of bugs.
I understood that to be the whole point...
Besides...If someone finds a bug and doesn't tell anyone about it, (hoping to use the bug for himself) someone else will probably find the bug, and it'll be gone within a kernel release or two.
Better yet, send it to every political and corporate email address you can get you hands on.
I'm not entirely sure that all of those large corporations are against non-royalty use of the patents. Certainly, at least the CEOs of those corporations are human. It's still certainly worth the effort.
I'd suspect that even a microscopically thin (which the carbon tube/wire/rope/cable may or may not be) would have some sort of air friction with the many layers of atmosphere it would pass throught.
While I'm no expert, aren't there different layers of wind direction(layers separated by altitude) in the atmosphere, such as there is in much of the aquasphere?
While it would take some design time, a missile in space wouldn't be that difficult. Attitude control can be done with flywheels...Not everything has to be done with gassious thrusters.
I don't really...A lot of radio telescopes could be put to 'better' use by performing other duties. Using a lot of manpower and resources to keep contact with a single probe would seem wasteful to me.
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The problem is, a lot of people don't have their own set of ethics and morals...They just swallow whatever marketing departments throw out.
Kinda like my parents and their 'Microsoft only tries to make things better' spiel.
If the only way to run the software is ..., and the software is mission-critical, then you've got no choice.
Jeez, that sounds like my parents and their embracement of M$ products with our family business and in our home.
I once tried to argue that Linux could be used for all the tasks that we perform, (smtp/pop3 email, BBS functionality, web hosting, Internet access w/ RADIUS) but they just looked at me and said,
"Microsoft only tries to make things better. You can't say that about a rogue OS without an owner."
(paraphrasing, but they did use all of those words at one point or another in that context. First sentence is a direct quote, though.)
I think we are the ones with intellectual property...the key of the past month or so(or has it been going on longer?) is that they take the intellectual stuffs from us and charge us for using them.
Not good business practice, I must say.
Every politician can be convinced of something. It takes a lot of big petitions, though.
Big businesses throw money at senators, who propose and pass restrictive laws. Then they throw money at lawyers who get the courts to interperate the laws the way the businesses want them to.
On the whole, however, we seriously need to stop chatting and start organizing with a specific goal. Not a 'Open Source Good, Closed Source Bad' type of goal...I can't see we're getting anywhere with that, other than convincing some large-capital companies to give away some of there work. (I'd like to see a big company take part in developing the Linux kernel, or some other such large project.
Special interest groups like the NRA are what make politics happen. Anyone getting my drift?
...but that's silly and hard to control.
I'm pretty sure that's what people thought when licensing of software first started being practiced....and yes licensing software is hard to control.While I'm essentially too young to remember Nintendo's jerk-like attitude, I will mention what I think of shows like Dateline and 20/20...
They're sensationalistic crap.
Again, I'm no expert, but just the smug look on one of the anchors of Datline was enough to make me think twice about taking the show seriously.
I don't know what Oprah is like; I never saw it. She may or may not be just as sensationalistic as all the others.
I don't know if M$ makes any assumptions about its audience's intelligence, but those other practices sound kind of familiar....
Why did the other guy that posted this link earlier only get modded up to two? (comment #38)
As a reporter for my school's newspaper, I've done a couple of articles on our FIRST team. Here's a mind dump of everything I can think of:
OK...I've read through everything here at filter-2, so I'm not doing this blind...
Personally, I'd slap an A/D or D/A converter on everything I can find around the house:
Basically, the more neurons(And thus quanta of processing) you put in the NN, the more arbitrary information it can handle.
If you give it a base set of stats(however complex it may be) and give it control over relevant tools in the house, than it can teach itself what works towards reaching that set of stats. All it has to do is experiment, and see the results.
I think...
For example, would I want a house as intelligent as a puppy or a parrot?
Ok...so you're saying I should housetrain a house? Would the house be capable of peeing on my bed?
Puh-lease don't give it control of the fire sprinklers.
On the other hand, I've had a pet parrot and a dog at the same time. It's not funny when the parrot makes the sound that the dog normally makes(signaling to you it, the dog, wants to go outside to pee.) When the parrot became skilled at the noise, I found myself getting up several times a night.
Is it just me, or wouldn't it be extremely difficult to weld something with both metal and plastic fibers to another piece of metal? Don't you run the risk of ruining the plastic?
Or were the 'threads' more like metallic strips running through the carpet?
His point is that insulators /increase/ buildup of static electricity, which is backed up by your example.
As for the RF-sheilded building, could it be used for tests regarding RF device safety? Have the control group live in the sheilded building, the test group live in an identical-yet-not-shielding building...
Part of plate tectonics is that one plate can slide under another plate and be melted..
What would happen to a pyramid in that predicament, and how long would it be till that happened?
And everyone can guess what'll happen if a picture is taken of a real oasis...
>Yes, it allows for public contributions and
>improvements, but it also allows for public
>analysis, scrutiny, and discovery of bugs.
I understood that to be the whole point...
Besides...If someone finds a bug and doesn't tell anyone about it, (hoping to use the bug for himself) someone else will probably find the bug, and it'll be gone within a kernel release or two.
Mike
As far as I know, gravity hasn't actually been discovered...Only its theoretical effects have been observed.
So far, gravity hasn't really been discovered...indeed, a basic understanding of what causes it hasn't been solidified yet.
Better yet, send it to every political and corporate email address you can get you hands on.
I'm not entirely sure that all of those large corporations are against non-royalty use of the patents. Certainly, at least the CEOs of those corporations are human. It's still certainly worth the effort.
I'd suspect that even a microscopically thin (which the carbon tube/wire/rope/cable may or may not be) would have some sort of air friction with the many layers of atmosphere it would pass throught.
While I'm no expert, aren't there different layers of wind direction(layers separated by altitude) in the atmosphere, such as there is in much of the aquasphere?
Isn't that the stuff from Larry Niven's Ringworld?
That stuff would seem to me to be like a long, flexible nanotube loop.
srry 'bout that last link...I can't find anything more direct.
While it would take some design time, a missile in space wouldn't be that difficult. Attitude control can be done with flywheels...Not everything has to be done with gassious thrusters.
Sounds like a secondary plot for the movie. Could it graduate into a multipart movie series?
:)
Who's 'dammit'?
Be careful about overheating.
'stacked file systems' um..don't you mean mounted file systems or, maybe, groups of symlinks?
I don't really...A lot of radio telescopes could be put to 'better' use by performing other duties. Using a lot of manpower and resources to keep contact with a single probe would seem wasteful to me.
Of course, I don't have any numbers...
Wait a second...I didn't realize that 'flex-time' was equivalent to additional days off, a.k.a. a separate reservoir (sp) of vacation.