robots lack the ability to 'create'. not randomize, but 'create'. as a planet, humans are just begining to see the culmination of efforts to survive. there is starting to emerge an industry were the results are not a hamberger, or a brick, or even an a car. the product is 'ideas' that can be used, or concepts that can be defined. i don't know the name for this next age after the information age, but 'ideas', and 'concepts' will be the product produced. it will take Billions of people to produce these new products. in essence, we need to get juan valdez'es ass out of the coffee fields and into a think tank. at this moment, we Don't have enough people on this planet to tool our selves for the next new age.
"...The more you tighten your grip,..., the more... systems will slip through your fingers..." -- Princess Leia
i see a day coming when the gate-ster bill will not only bend over to pick up a thousand dollar bill; he'll be very, very grateful. mu-hu-hu-hu-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha.
in a master stroke of insperation the department of defense has created a special op unit, code named 'tin ear'. during battle field conditions telemarketers with start pitching sales to any and all enemy combatants. it is believed that having to answer the phone during a pitch battle will cause the enemy to be mementarly confussed about optimal choices. a telemarketer who did not want to be identified said, "once i'v got'em on the line, i'll never let him go!"; strong wrods, but the man was sincere in his conviction.
in a similar new story, president bush has commented on taking certain political foes off the federal no-call-list.
after reading the article i couldn't help but think this gives a new meaning to the uran legend of, "just look a government officals, living proof that there are more horses asseses, than horses.":o)
by fusing human skin cells with rabbit eggs great, bunnies with male patterned baldness.
Congress has been mulling legislation for years that would outlaw certain human cloning experiments ah-ha, it'll be interesting to see what congress legislates, when they discover that they'll live longer using stem cell reasearch. but then again, is having no term limits on congress a good thing?
Richard Doerflinger, of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said he felt certain that the human-rabbit embryos were human enough to deserve protections. to think that all dna reasearch began one morning when 'father mendel', an austrian monk thought,"i think i'll go out back to the garden and take a 'pea'".:o)
its a beautiful idea, sensors everywhere collecting data, the data to be available for the public to analyise and ponder. wonderful idea, really. i know farmers the world over would embrace this concept, even at the most primitive levels of application.
Possible Flame Bait here; how am i, and my family going to get into space faster because of this study? i can't help but wonder if nasa folks are more concerned about things that are 'Not About Space Anymore'.
given the past track record of m$ to NOT effectively clean up their product droppings; i have the following worm creation request:
1. that the worm infect o.s. distros of ALL flavors, quietly.
2. the worm, in stages, upgrades the operating system to an open source solution. WHERE-BY any viruses, worms, and any other treaspassers in the wild are openly discussed, and countered in the usual successful manner.
3. the worm, quietly, goes on to upgrade performance of the o.s., and any other related software products; based on use for that machine.
4. the worm, daily, quietly goes to known security sites to inquire about any new updates on new security holes, and automatically fixes such holes, AND reports any observed existing security abuses on that machine.
5. the worm look at repetative patterns of executed binary code for the purpose of optimizing such code for the still existing hardware of that computer.
HEY! wait a minute, this has all been done by using existing linux distros. please ignore this request.
"where do you want to go to next? ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha" --the fat man, 1938
'Technologies' claims that 85% of Microsoft's entire product line infringes its digital security patents.
lets consider the above statement.
a VERY, VERY, small corporation is standing up and saying, "yes, i'm the one responsible for creating the security that micosoft uses!"
i just keep getting this image of a limping buck deer walking into the middle of a pack of sleeping wolves, and poking the alpha male were the sun don't shine. real hard like, if you understand what i mean. the outcome will be obvious, and noisy.
back in the early 1970's an analysis was done to see how many people it would take if we turned off all the computers for banking. the number was about same number of ALL women in the u.s. at that time. i can only think it was a way of saying to folks that computers were here to stay.
something else, this whole topic just really kills the robin williams joke about dreaming of his first child. the first dream he has is were his child is walking up accepting the nobel prize. the other dream he has is his child saying, "do you want fries with that?".:o)
"http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/facts.html" has some interesting statistics on nuerons. the two items, ( if one ignores the pun ), that got me thinking is:
average human nueron count is about 23*10^9.
average synapse count per nueron is 1*10^3 to 1*10^4, i think the latter would be more the norm than the exception.
i figure that a nueron would have a 35 bit unique id.
because i would favor the 10k synapses per nueron statistic. this would require at least 35*10k bits per nueron for header handling.
but the above statistics are just the 'header' data. synapses act as 'filters' to the nuerons they're connected to. given the 400 to 700 nm wave length of light for the eye as a 'sensitivity' approximation, then a 16 bit word could easily hold the filter number per synapse-nueron-connection; i fugure it would be about 16*10k bits for filtering of input firings.
so the bit length per nueron would be just under 51*10k bits total.
given the above, that would be a hard drive that would have to hold at least 11.73*10^15 bits of data.
i don't think i'll be seeing a drive that size tommarrow on pricewatch.com, but maybe in 5 years? uhmmmmmmmmmm.
the following points are not rants, but they're not trivial either. and sometimes it helps to hear, "hey king, you've left the castle without your clothes on?!":
1. management:
1a. the sr-71, (black bird), can go in 'excess' of mach 3, (actual top air speed is classified).
1b. it would be very hard to ignore the black bird hanging in the smithsonian. i believe it's enough said about re-usable test platforms available to nasa's phb's.
2. engineering:
2a. consider the 'experiment'. 10 seconds of test data and then 'puff!', I question the logic of that. as an engineer, I find it VERY expensive to rebuild EVERYTIME I need to test.
2b. with the prototype effectively destroyed, you have to re-build all over again. kind'a pricey, don't ya think?
3. responsibility:
3a. is orbital going to pay for the damages of its defective product? I don't think so.
3b. I'd be surprised. actually, I wish they would! I'd have more respect for orbital's the business ventures.
3c. or, because we know '3b' ain't gonna happen; 'memo to orbitals staff, build products that work, or orbital will find NEW staff that can.'
4. this forum:
4a. this is not a forum of aviation science for aviators, but of people that read about, and think about 'stuff that matters'. and nasa's 'projects' matter.
4b. there IS a collective questioning as to the results of nasa's decisions.
5. what's it going to take to get our collective butts into space?
5a. its more dangerous to drive my car then to fly.
5b. history has shown that the one's who hold others back, are the one's most incapable to push forward.
5c. its amazing to me, but the biggest barrier to getting into space is not gravity, but nasa its self.
p.s.
memo to nasa:
1. you canceled the space plane because the gas tank was defective?! what is up with that! you kill a project because a component is defective?!
2. get our collective butts into space, don't you think we would like to share in the glory of what makes liquids solid, and spider web formations? come on, we want-a play too!:o)
3. i'm reminded of what my father told me about spending his money for things i thought were important. i'm just starting to understand what he was driving at.
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one has to wonder why every time ms changes things because:
1. nothing has been added.
2. others are hurt by the change.
3. why is it that there is an implied threat when using m$?
What do the people do?
in a word? "Think".
robots lack the ability to 'create'. not randomize, but 'create'. as a planet, humans are just begining to see the culmination of efforts to survive. there is starting to emerge an industry were the results are not a hamberger, or a brick, or even an a car. the product is 'ideas' that can be used, or concepts that can be defined. i don't know the name for this next age after the information age, but 'ideas', and 'concepts' will be the product produced. it will take Billions of people to produce these new products. in essence, we need to get juan valdez'es ass out of the coffee fields and into a think tank. at this moment, we Don't have enough people on this planet to tool our selves for the next new age.
d. pick any two.
1. the 'open-source/public-domain' genie out of bottle.
2. 'copyright/patent/trademark' cork lost.
3. oh well, sucks to be you.
it goes something like this:
..., the more ... systems will slip through your fingers..." -- Princess Leia
"...The more you tighten your grip,
i see a day coming when the gate-ster bill will not only bend over to pick up a thousand dollar bill; he'll be very, very grateful. mu-hu-hu-hu-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha.
i thought it was C4 clearance, and that took years to get.
in a master stroke of insperation the department of defense has created a special op unit, code named 'tin ear'. during battle field conditions telemarketers with start pitching sales to any and all enemy combatants. it is believed that having to answer the phone during a pitch battle will cause the enemy to be mementarly confussed about optimal choices. a telemarketer who did not want to be identified said, "once i'v got'em on the line, i'll never let him go!"; strong wrods, but the man was sincere in his conviction.
in a similar new story, president bush has commented on taking certain political foes off the federal no-call-list.
If it weren't for security
'security' is kind of important, don't ya think?
what about 2 pixel images? :o)
next time, step out of the way of the wheeles. :o)
after reading the article i couldn't help but think this gives a new meaning to the uran legend of, "just look a government officals, living proof that there are more horses asseses, than horses." :o)
:o)
by fusing human skin cells with rabbit eggs
great, bunnies with male patterned baldness.
Congress has been mulling legislation for years that would outlaw certain human cloning experiments
ah-ha, it'll be interesting to see what congress legislates, when they discover that they'll live longer using stem cell reasearch. but then again, is having no term limits on congress a good thing?
Richard Doerflinger, of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said he felt certain that the human-rabbit embryos were human enough to deserve protections.
to think that all dna reasearch began one morning when 'father mendel', an austrian monk thought,"i think i'll go out back to the garden and take a 'pea'".
ignore the fact that any hacker can bypass the login security with the aid of a bootable floppy.
ignore the fact that any password in windows can be found out in under a minute.
ignore the fact that by downloading a user plug-in with wierd sniffing capabilities for your system, and the ability to tell anyone who cares.
as i recall, the main entry of choice into windows is its tcp/ip interface using any variant of 'look-out', 'internet-exploder', and 'x-delta'.
i'm reminded of the urbin legend, "before the greek gods make you fall, they first give you the gift of 'pride'".
damn, good luck m$, you made some very interesting enemies.
this looks like an act for all the right reasons, done wrong on a group of people for all the wrong reasons look right. :o)
its a beautiful idea, sensors everywhere collecting data, the data to be available for the public to analyise and ponder. wonderful idea, really. i know farmers the world over would embrace this concept, even at the most primitive levels of application.
Possible Flame Bait here; how am i, and my family going to get into space faster because of this study? i can't help but wonder if nasa folks are more concerned about things that are 'Not About Space Anymore'.
feature-completeness
security? ya, right...
cost to operate? i believe the debian logo says something like "i've better things to do than fix systems", i just do'nt hear that from the m$ camp...
BUT! i truly would love to see a table of m$ products compared to similar linux products.
does terrorist food cause gas? :o)
given the past track record of m$ to NOT effectively clean up their product droppings; i have the following worm creation request:
1. that the worm infect o.s. distros of ALL flavors, quietly.
2. the worm, in stages, upgrades the operating system to an open source solution. WHERE-BY any viruses, worms, and any other treaspassers in the wild are openly discussed, and countered in the usual successful manner.
3. the worm, quietly, goes on to upgrade performance of the o.s., and any other related software products; based on use for that machine.
4. the worm, daily, quietly goes to known security sites to inquire about any new updates on new security holes, and automatically fixes such holes, AND reports any observed existing security abuses on that machine.
5. the worm look at repetative patterns of executed binary code for the purpose of optimizing such code for the still existing hardware of that computer.
HEY! wait a minute, this has all been done by using existing linux distros. please ignore this request.
"where do you want to go to next? ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha" --the fat man, 1938
consider the following senario:
you're part of group of passengers that successfully over powered a group of terrorists that killed the flight crew in a jumbo, flying heavy.
congratulations.
with the aircraft fully on manual, terrorists would do that, you are now in the left seat.
again, congratulations.
you do not have access to any manuals, or notes; the terrorists handled that for you. and there are only screaming voices behind you.
you will need to:
1. turn on the radio
2. you must now communicate to anyone who might be listening. try saying the following phrase, "mayday, mayday, flight crew down, help us, PLEASE".
3. if #1 is not completed in a timely mannor, (15 minutes), you must communicate to the approaching fighter jets that you're a 'friendly'.
4. you have 3 minutes to complete #3.
"sidewinder" means never having to say, "you're sorry" --t.clancy
'Technologies' claims that 85% of Microsoft's entire product line infringes its digital security patents.
lets consider the above statement.
a VERY, VERY, small corporation is standing up and saying, "yes, i'm the one responsible for creating the security that micosoft uses!"
i just keep getting this image of a limping buck deer walking into the middle of a pack of sleeping wolves, and poking the alpha male were the sun don't shine. real hard like, if you understand what i mean. the outcome will be obvious, and noisy.
back in the early 1970's an analysis was done to see how many people it would take if we turned off all the computers for banking. the number was about same number of ALL women in the u.s. at that time. i can only think it was a way of saying to folks that computers were here to stay.
:o)
something else, this whole topic just really kills the robin williams joke about dreaming of his first child. the first dream he has is were his child is walking up accepting the nobel prize. the other dream he has is his child saying, "do you want fries with that?".
"http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/facts.html" has some interesting statistics on nuerons. the two items, ( if one ignores the pun ), that got me thinking is:
average human nueron count is about 23*10^9.
average synapse count per nueron is 1*10^3 to 1*10^4, i think the latter would be more the norm than the exception.
i figure that a nueron would have a 35 bit unique id.
because i would favor the 10k synapses per nueron statistic. this would require at least 35*10k bits per nueron for header handling.
but the above statistics are just the 'header' data. synapses act as 'filters' to the nuerons they're connected to. given the 400 to 700 nm wave length of light for the eye as a 'sensitivity' approximation, then a 16 bit word could easily hold the filter number per synapse-nueron-connection; i fugure it would be about 16*10k bits for filtering of input firings.
so the bit length per nueron would be just under 51*10k bits total.
given the above, that would be a hard drive that would have to hold at least 11.73*10^15 bits of data.
i don't think i'll be seeing a drive that size tommarrow on pricewatch.com, but maybe in 5 years? uhmmmmmmmmmm.
the human brain holds about 1Tbit of data. just a thought...
nearline crap
:o)
i think the the term is 'offline' crap...
a floppy, or cd would be offline, but a hard drive would be 'online'.
There may be, as the philosopher says, no spoon, although this begs the question of why there is the idea of soup.
how about soup in a cup? --cambels soup co.
the following points are not rants, but they're not trivial either. and sometimes it helps to hear, "hey king, you've left the castle without your clothes on?!":
:o)
1. management:
1a. the sr-71, (black bird), can go in 'excess' of mach 3, (actual top air speed is classified).
1b. it would be very hard to ignore the black bird hanging in the smithsonian. i believe it's enough said about re-usable test platforms available to nasa's phb's.
2. engineering:
2a. consider the 'experiment'. 10 seconds of test data and then 'puff!', I question the logic of that. as an engineer, I find it VERY expensive to rebuild EVERYTIME I need to test.
2b. with the prototype effectively destroyed, you have to re-build all over again. kind'a pricey, don't ya think?
3. responsibility:
3a. is orbital going to pay for the damages of its defective product? I don't think so.
3b. I'd be surprised. actually, I wish they would! I'd have more respect for orbital's the business ventures.
3c. or, because we know '3b' ain't gonna happen; 'memo to orbitals staff, build products that work, or orbital will find NEW staff that can.'
4. this forum:
4a. this is not a forum of aviation science for aviators, but of people that read about, and think about 'stuff that matters'. and nasa's 'projects' matter.
4b. there IS a collective questioning as to the results of nasa's decisions.
5. what's it going to take to get our collective butts into space?
5a. its more dangerous to drive my car then to fly.
5b. history has shown that the one's who hold others back, are the one's most incapable to push forward.
5c. its amazing to me, but the biggest barrier to getting into space is not gravity, but nasa its self.
p.s.
memo to nasa:
1. you canceled the space plane because the gas tank was defective?! what is up with that! you kill a project because a component is defective?!
2. get our collective butts into space, don't you think we would like to share in the glory of what makes liquids solid, and spider web formations? come on, we want-a play too!
3. i'm reminded of what my father told me about spending his money for things i thought were important. i'm just starting to understand what he was driving at.