This is a distraction to get media focus back on Twitter because of the Google search plus announcement. Honestly Twitter shows me the Fail Whale about once a week and their service record is poor for such a large site - so what will they be complaining about next?
Google has been amassing tons of data and is now planning to use that to have personalized search - that is the story. I don't see how they will get around the filter bubble issue. (Never mind personal data protection and other issues.)
As a side I am still trying to wrap my head around Wolfram's blog today about using a TLD.data in relation to the Google announcement.
I think this is something of value the community needs to look at more closely. The OSHW provides licensing models that can help like FOSS. There are also some helpful areas like http://www.ohanda.org/ that provide housing for these kinds of communities - but they don't get a lot of traction. It would be interesting to see if a Sourceforge project page could be used to help communicate and list in the directory or to (more importantly) help promote the idea.
Like others, reading the books brought me into a new world when I was a kid. Unfortunately, though, the original cartoon version of this scared the hell out of me when I was a kid. I wonder if my kids will be scarred from this version?
Interesting thing about that core, on Earth it helps to create stability in our rotation and it also helps to keep our atmosphere in tact - keeping water in so life can continue. Would be interesting to see some kind of drilling or other process to validate the assertion on other planets. Alas our current US government has sought to sink our space program so it will need to wait for another day.
Good question. Are there other issues like HIPAA that need to be considered? What about councilor training? Do they have the correct relationships with local police, fire, hospital?
I hadn't thought about bacteria and the like - that makes for a scary source here. Also it is worth noting that if we only have on good DNA we don't know if that DNA is good or bad compared to others.
Film grain isn't irrelevant and is only one leg of your argument - but missing a big point. There are several blends where the analog copy reproduces a much finer picture than even film reproduced from electron beam cameras and far better than a rasterized reproduction. Looking at electron beam production next to analog camera capture shows very little difference, however, magnifying these images shows that electron reproduction still produces a rasterized image that reduces the quality of the image edge in reproduction. Even an image handled under wavelet technology reproduces poorly in comparison. The inverse is also true, there is a finite level where raster doesn't hold up when reducing images from original size.
One argument I hadn't brought forward was the amount of space required to store and manage the images and the cost of power. Storage on microfilm costs very little in power and management of environment. The media can hold up (numbers calculated through simulation) over 500 years. Film is infinitely more affordable for long term storage.
The point where film falls down is in access. However, if the film is digitized it can be accessed more easily.
Wired Mag had their article about this back in September.
I believe this to be an ethical issue that really needs to be thought through before folks go off tinkering with genes. As the article calls out, do we know what the impact to an ecosystem where a species like this is released? What about natural predation? In a broader sense, what is the real value in cloning something that was selectively removed from the environment? Hell we cannot even keep from releasing invasive species to control other species without completely screwing it up. This process does nothing more than allow a scientist to study an animal that doesn't exist by bringing it into existence.
One thing missing here is that film technology is not irrelevant for preservation and access. (Compare with mass-consumer use it is irrelevant.)
Having worked in a capture/microfilming business for years I learned some simple things about film that are ignored. First that the technology for analog capture produces preservation images that cannot be duplicated using digital equipment. If you really want the look and feel of an original image you cannot beat having an image that can be re-sized almost infinitely through analog capture.
Second film as a preservation technology is durable. Light up a role of preservation film (seriously set it on fire) and if tightly rolled it will only melt the edges. When it cools off you can clean the film and still see the original images. Polyester can warp and melt but good quality film lasts.
Third you can always get back to the original – with some light and a lens you can project it anywhere. Has anyone tried to recover images from aging or destroyed media?
There are chemical hazard down-sides to the whole business and certainly there are specialty tools for capturing images, but film as a whole still has a place in technology.
Ubuntu installed on the boxes, but the sales pages are in ASPX?
I loved my c64 and still have it in my workshop. Drive and tape loader are still in good shape, but haven't checked media in 10 years - probably all bad. The 1702 monitor was awesome and I used the display to hook to simple video editing on an old camcorder for a while.
Not sure I would make a trek to go to this but sounds like it would be kind of fun.
Honestly I think I made the wrong impression here with what I said about students. What I intended to say is that students want what the instructors are teaching _and_ what will benefit them in their jobs/professions. Often times instructors make students buy needless garbage, or extra material that doesn't aid in the teaching process. Students _can_ contribute to the conversation and a smart instructor will help them express these contributions. I hadn't thought about students adding to the body of knowledge, but that would be another good reason to have these solutions in hand.
This is a business model that is evolving away from the traditional print media. As soon as authors, publishers and printers/conversion vendors get it through their heads that content needs to be modular and easily accessible they more likely they are to win in this media format. Teachers/Profs want to be able to add/subtract at will and let students access the content. Students just want what they need, at a reasonable price. Institutions are being pressured to be green and keep costs low on these formats. It is nice in this model that the content isn't rented and is owned - the bad news is that the medium will likely change and the owner won't be able to migrate to the next big thing platform - that is the thing we should be thinking about now to make sure we don't get stuck locked to a specific technology. The answer is that electronic text MUST evolve in this fashion.
Ha,this is making my day. So PETA is bitching about a silly game that has a guy wearing a costume and then they create a game where the guy dies too...This is just silliness.
It would be fantastic if all of that time (100M hrs?!?!) was recaptured into some meaningful or valuable effort. Even if it was a stupid game maybe having that effort stored into stirring pots of rice for hungry children in the 3rd world would be a good use of time.
I it is cool but won't be the same unless you have to wave the picture to get it to dry so you can have a keepsake of your fat drunk uncle falling face first into the mashed potatoes at thanksgiving dinner
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This is a distraction to get media focus back on Twitter because of the Google search plus announcement. Honestly Twitter shows me the Fail Whale about once a week and their service record is poor for such a large site - so what will they be complaining about next?
Google has been amassing tons of data and is now planning to use that to have personalized search - that is the story. I don't see how they will get around the filter bubble issue. (Never mind personal data protection and other issues.)
As a side I am still trying to wrap my head around Wolfram's blog today about using a TLD .data in relation to the Google announcement.
Bad day for the internet?
I am surprised it didn't hit Twitfail
I have been waiting for MS to install this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvsboPUjrGc feature to scare the viruses away.
See story from http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/01/05/1736245/windows-8-to-include-built-in-reset-refresh. We should double fear this one - not only will someone download crap, now they can reset their box with a push button.
Wonder if this is a part of an lead-in on the research.
Looks like WYU is sitting on a ton of patents around spider silk technologies.
Nicer pictures of this article can be found at http://inhabitat.com/genetically-modified-silkworms-spin-super-strong-spider-silk-for-bandages-and-bulletproof-vests/
Probably a general fear like most GM issues today.
I think this is something of value the community needs to look at more closely. The OSHW provides licensing models that can help like FOSS. There are also some helpful areas like http://www.ohanda.org/ that provide housing for these kinds of communities - but they don't get a lot of traction. It would be interesting to see if a Sourceforge project page could be used to help communicate and list in the directory or to (more importantly) help promote the idea.
The good news is that this the first part will release before the apocalypse! Unless the didn't account for very large values of 2.
Like others, reading the books brought me into a new world when I was a kid. Unfortunately, though, the original cartoon version of this scared the hell out of me when I was a kid. I wonder if my kids will be scarred from this version?
Interesting thing about that core, on Earth it helps to create stability in our rotation and it also helps to keep our atmosphere in tact - keeping water in so life can continue. Would be interesting to see some kind of drilling or other process to validate the assertion on other planets. Alas our current US government has sought to sink our space program so it will need to wait for another day.
Good question. Are there other issues like HIPAA that need to be considered? What about councilor training? Do they have the correct relationships with local police, fire, hospital?
There was a better video coverage from Channel 7 too.
Typical political response from Bachmann (http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1111/69492.html)
Seems to be a $9.99 yr fee.
I can see the Fly By Night Degree Programs swooping down on this and getting more stooges to sign up as software programmers.
You too can make thousands of dollars more per year .
It is misinformation like this that drives me crazy about this business.
I hadn't thought about bacteria and the like - that makes for a scary source here. Also it is worth noting that if we only have on good DNA we don't know if that DNA is good or bad compared to others.
Film grain isn't irrelevant and is only one leg of your argument - but missing a big point. There are several blends where the analog copy reproduces a much finer picture than even film reproduced from electron beam cameras and far better than a rasterized reproduction. Looking at electron beam production next to analog camera capture shows very little difference, however, magnifying these images shows that electron reproduction still produces a rasterized image that reduces the quality of the image edge in reproduction. Even an image handled under wavelet technology reproduces poorly in comparison. The inverse is also true, there is a finite level where raster doesn't hold up when reducing images from original size.
One argument I hadn't brought forward was the amount of space required to store and manage the images and the cost of power. Storage on microfilm costs very little in power and management of environment. The media can hold up (numbers calculated through simulation) over 500 years. Film is infinitely more affordable for long term storage.
The point where film falls down is in access. However, if the film is digitized it can be accessed more easily.
Wired Mag had their article about this back in September.
I believe this to be an ethical issue that really needs to be thought through before folks go off tinkering with genes. As the article calls out, do we know what the impact to an ecosystem where a species like this is released? What about natural predation? In a broader sense, what is the real value in cloning something that was selectively removed from the environment? Hell we cannot even keep from releasing invasive species to control other species without completely screwing it up. This process does nothing more than allow a scientist to study an animal that doesn't exist by bringing it into existence.
One thing missing here is that film technology is not irrelevant for preservation and access. (Compare with mass-consumer use it is irrelevant.)
Having worked in a capture/microfilming business for years I learned some simple things about film that are ignored. First that the technology for analog capture produces preservation images that cannot be duplicated using digital equipment. If you really want the look and feel of an original image you cannot beat having an image that can be re-sized almost infinitely through analog capture.
Second film as a preservation technology is durable. Light up a role of preservation film (seriously set it on fire) and if tightly rolled it will only melt the edges. When it cools off you can clean the film and still see the original images. Polyester can warp and melt but good quality film lasts.
Third you can always get back to the original – with some light and a lens you can project it anywhere. Has anyone tried to recover images from aging or destroyed media?
There are chemical hazard down-sides to the whole business and certainly there are specialty tools for capturing images, but film as a whole still has a place in technology.
Ubuntu installed on the boxes, but the sales pages are in ASPX? I loved my c64 and still have it in my workshop. Drive and tape loader are still in good shape, but haven't checked media in 10 years - probably all bad. The 1702 monitor was awesome and I used the display to hook to simple video editing on an old camcorder for a while. Not sure I would make a trek to go to this but sounds like it would be kind of fun.
Honestly I think I made the wrong impression here with what I said about students. What I intended to say is that students want what the instructors are teaching _and_ what will benefit them in their jobs/professions. Often times instructors make students buy needless garbage, or extra material that doesn't aid in the teaching process. Students _can_ contribute to the conversation and a smart instructor will help them express these contributions. I hadn't thought about students adding to the body of knowledge, but that would be another good reason to have these solutions in hand.
This is a business model that is evolving away from the traditional print media. As soon as authors, publishers and printers/conversion vendors get it through their heads that content needs to be modular and easily accessible they more likely they are to win in this media format. Teachers/Profs want to be able to add/subtract at will and let students access the content. Students just want what they need, at a reasonable price. Institutions are being pressured to be green and keep costs low on these formats. It is nice in this model that the content isn't rented and is owned - the bad news is that the medium will likely change and the owner won't be able to migrate to the next big thing platform - that is the thing we should be thinking about now to make sure we don't get stuck locked to a specific technology. The answer is that electronic text MUST evolve in this fashion.
Ha,this is making my day. So PETA is bitching about a silly game that has a guy wearing a costume and then they create a game where the guy dies too...This is just silliness.
It would be fantastic if all of that time (100M hrs?!?!) was recaptured into some meaningful or valuable effort. Even if it was a stupid game maybe having that effort stored into stirring pots of rice for hungry children in the 3rd world would be a good use of time.
I it is cool but won't be the same unless you have to wave the picture to get it to dry so you can have a keepsake of your fat drunk uncle falling face first into the mashed potatoes at thanksgiving dinner
I am pretty sure any HR department worth its salt will shut this down...can you imagine the lawsuits from flight attendant unions?