Bioblocks as software? Not in there current incarnation. Perhaps you missed this from the article:
"Replication is far from perfect. We've built circuits and seen them mutate in half the cells within five hours," Weiss reports. "The larger the circuit is, the faster it tends to mutate."
That kind of software would make even Windows look good.
How about 2 per second? I came home from a vacation this week to find my mailbox quota maxed out due to 2000 copies of a single e-mail from the same spammer. I figured it was a one-time thing, until I checked the following morning and the same thing happened.
After I deleted them all, I checked every couple of minutes to see them pouring in at nearly two copies per second. Fortunately my ISP was able to block them after I notified them, but who knows how many legitimate mails were bounced while my account was full.
It's bad enough to get spam, but to have a spammer stuck in an infinite loop on your account is really nasty.
That makes no sense. The reason this is significant is because the children are under age 3. That's when the brain is undergoing a significant development phase.
It's long been understood that the brain is much more "plastic" in young children. It's one of the reasons that it's some much easier to learn an addition language as a child than as an adult.
What this study is saying, is that there may be developmental effect when very young children are exposed to a lot of TV.
what's next? DOT-NET compatibility layers for Java?
If you continue reading the press release, you'll see the following:
Future Collaboration for Java and.NET: Sun and Microsoft have agreed that they will work together to improve technical collaboration between their Java and.NET technologies.
It's embrace and extend all over again, it just costs a little more these days. Java just became a subset of.NET.
In this day and age, I don't see how any company with a promising new product doesn't take great pains to hide the thing's existence from Microsoft to keep from getting ripped off.
Actually, if you read Kaplan's book "Startup" (and it's been a few years since I revisited my copy), you'll see that they were very worried. So much so that they signed agreements with Microsoft to allow them to see the technology only if they wouldn't copy the feature of GO in their Windows OS code.
IIRC, Microsoft pulled the extremely sleazy trick of sending the specs to the application division and called Pen Windows an application built on top of the Windows OS.
If you look at the dead corporate bodies that litter the foundation of the MS monopoly, you'll find that the fatal wounds have come from a knife to the back.
Probably not G. himself, but others certainly did.
With the invention of the printing press in 1440 by Johann Gutenburg (Kapr 1996), publishing and distribution written erotic works became much simpler. Adrian Johnswrites of the early printing houses, "Learned scholars andgentlemen alike had to commit their tomes to be printed in themidst of almanacs, pamphlets, and (in the case ofNewton's Principia) pornography."
While I remain very skeptical of the Kensington Runestone, it should be noted that unlike the Bigfoot film and numerous crop circle hoaxers, the claim that the runes are hoaxes was not a first person or an eye-witness account.
It was rather the son of a neighbor of the person who "found" the stone, who claimed that this person had once discussed "fooling people."
It's still potentially damning, but not quite at the same level.
A rather famous example of this happened between Arthur Conan Doyle and Erich Weiss aka Harry Houdini. Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes stories was an ardent spiritualist. Houdini, as a magician, knew the tricks mediums played on the gullible and had Doyle write a message in private which Houdini then reproduced by having a paint-covered ball "write" the message.
Houdini would not explain the trick, and Doyle insisted that Houdini must be using supernatural powers. Despite their disagreements, the two men remained friends for some time.
This site tells about the friendship between Doyle and Houdini.
Actually, if you RTFA, it says they had strong indications that terror suspects, alert to the phones' vulnerability, had largely abandoned them for important communications and instead were using e-mail, Internet phone calls and hand-delivered messages.
True it's harder, but not impossible. You just have to be creative about the security. With Java, you can do very fine grained security, e.g., read access to this directory plus write access to a single file. It's not necessarily easy, but it isn't as horrible as a lot of people seemed to be claiming.
Presumably, with this, you'd have security descriptors like 'you get access to this port but only for so many minutes with a limit of N bytes transmitted'. Give the security descriptors expiration times to prevent them from being forged, etc.
As far as Christianity is concerned, where in the Bible does it say life only exists / was created on earth?
Nowhere, of course, though that hasn't stopped the church from teaching similar things. In fact, Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake in 1600CE for heresy, teaching among other things, that the universe was infinite and that other beings might exist on other worlds.
Saying an algorithm is x% accurate is not sufficient, because there are two kinds of errors: false acceptance of spam, and false rejection of non-spam. Personally, I'd settle for 90% false acceptance if I knew the false reject rate was 100% rather than have a program that was 99% at both.
No contradictions if you recall the iAPX 432 timeline. The project started in '75, when Intel's only available processors where 8-bit. However, the 432 wasn't available until 1981, six years later.
Certainly in '75, Intel wasn't thinking to design a CPU for a language who's specifications were just beginning to be written. However, the 432 was designed to be highly secure and provide multiprocessor support, both things that appeared to be a good fit with Ada. The marketing types at Intel were probably jumping on the Ada bandwagon when they finally had silicon, but if you read Intel's own docs, the relationship (or hype) is there.
And yes, Ada has been a market failure. It is used in military applications because the government has dictated its use. In the vast majority of commercial markets, where there is a choice of development languages, it is hardly ever used. That isn't to say, it doesn't have some clever and/or valuable features, it's just failed to gain commercial acceptance.
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I rather like Microsoft's newfound interest in what they call "transparancy."
Since this is Microsoft we're talking about, shouldn't the more appropriate word be glasnost ?
Canon makes a waterproof case for it's S-series of digital cameras. These are good enough for snorkeling so I'm sure they'd be fine for Zion.
I've only been there once, but it was my favorite place in all of Utah.
Bioblocks as software? Not in there current incarnation. Perhaps you missed this from the article:
"Replication is far from perfect. We've built circuits and seen them mutate in half the cells within five hours," Weiss reports. "The larger the circuit is, the faster it tends to mutate."
That kind of software would make even Windows look good.
Note that NYC is behind San Francisco, which has banned them already.
Indeed, the MPIO player, which they rated quite highly has an iTunes plug-in.
I'm happy with mine, the control is a bit twitchy but the size is perfect and it's great to have FM so I can listen to NPR.
How about 2 per second? I came home from a vacation this week to find my mailbox quota maxed out due to 2000 copies of a single e-mail from the same spammer. I figured it was a one-time thing, until I checked the following morning and the same thing happened.
After I deleted them all, I checked every couple of minutes to see them pouring in at nearly two copies per second. Fortunately my ISP was able to block them after I notified them, but who knows how many legitimate mails were bounced while my account was full.
It's bad enough to get spam, but to have a spammer stuck in an infinite loop on your account is really nasty.
I'd like to see this study done on Adults.
That makes no sense. The reason this is significant is because the children are under age 3. That's when the brain is undergoing a significant development phase.
It's long been understood that the brain is much more "plastic" in young children. It's one of the reasons that it's some much easier to learn an addition language as a child than as an adult.
What this study is saying, is that there may be developmental effect when very young children are exposed to a lot of TV.
what's next? DOT-NET compatibility layers for Java?
.NET: Sun and Microsoft have agreed that they will work together to improve technical collaboration between their Java and .NET technologies.
.NET.
If you continue reading the press release, you'll see the following:
Future Collaboration for Java and
It's embrace and extend all over again, it just costs a little more these days. Java just became a subset of
In this day and age, I don't see how any company with a promising new product doesn't take great pains to hide the thing's existence from Microsoft to keep from getting ripped off.
Actually, if you read Kaplan's book "Startup" (and it's been a few years since I revisited my copy), you'll see that they were very worried. So much so that they signed agreements with Microsoft to allow them to see the technology only if they wouldn't copy the feature of GO in their Windows OS code.
IIRC, Microsoft pulled the extremely sleazy trick of sending the specs to the application division and called Pen Windows an application built on top of the Windows OS.
If you look at the dead corporate bodies that litter the foundation of the MS monopoly, you'll find that the fatal wounds have come from a knife to the back.
Gee, I thought it was the Department of Justice that was into re-decorating.
...to shut down a city would be to flush a bunch of antibiotics down the toilet.
Probably not G. himself, but others certainly did.
With the invention of the printing press in 1440 by Johann Gutenburg (Kapr 1996), publishing and distribution written erotic works became much simpler. Adrian Johnswrites of the early printing houses, "Learned scholars andgentlemen alike had to commit their tomes to be printed in themidst of almanacs, pamphlets, and (in the case ofNewton's Principia) pornography."
While I remain very skeptical of the Kensington Runestone, it should be noted that unlike the Bigfoot film and numerous crop circle hoaxers, the claim that the runes are hoaxes was not a first person or an eye-witness account.
It was rather the son of a neighbor of the person who "found" the stone, who claimed that this person had once discussed "fooling people."
It's still potentially damning, but not quite at the same level.
A rather famous example of this happened between Arthur Conan Doyle and Erich Weiss aka Harry Houdini. Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes stories was an ardent spiritualist. Houdini, as a magician, knew the tricks mediums played on the gullible and had Doyle write a message in private which Houdini then reproduced by having a paint-covered ball "write" the message.
Houdini would not explain the trick, and Doyle insisted that Houdini must be using supernatural powers. Despite their disagreements, the two men remained friends for some time.
This site tells about the friendship between Doyle and Houdini.
Here I am, with the brain the size of human, trapped in the body of a rodent.
I'm sure it would be quite depressing.
(Apologies to DNA.)
Anyone else reminded of The Prisoner? (Rover is pic in upper right corner.)
Actually, if you RTFA, it says they had strong indications that terror suspects, alert to the phones' vulnerability, had largely abandoned them for important communications and instead were using e-mail, Internet phone calls and hand-delivered messages.
True it's harder, but not impossible. You just have to be creative about the security. With Java, you can do very fine grained security, e.g., read access to this directory plus write access to a single file. It's not necessarily easy, but it isn't as horrible as a lot of people seemed to be claiming.
Presumably, with this, you'd have security descriptors like 'you get access to this port but only for so many minutes with a limit of N bytes transmitted'. Give the security descriptors expiration times to prevent them from being forged, etc.
As far as Christianity is concerned, where in the Bible does it say life only exists / was created on earth?
Nowhere, of course, though that hasn't stopped the church from teaching similar things. In fact, Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake in 1600CE for heresy, teaching among other things, that the universe was infinite and that other beings might exist on other worlds.
Hey, I want football games to start with them plugging in a lava lamp attached to a laptop.
Exactly. For all the hand-wringing about security, you'd think people had never heard of Java applets, which, suprise, send code over the network.
The applet/sandbox has proven far more secure than scripting languages and even applications like the browsers themselves.
A nice photo from the Cassini mission.
So how is this different than the current situation where Microsoft calls their version of Java C#?
Saying an algorithm is x% accurate is not sufficient, because there are two kinds of errors: false acceptance of spam, and false rejection of non-spam. Personally, I'd settle for 90% false acceptance if I knew the false reject rate was 100% rather than have a program that was 99% at both.
No contradictions if you recall the iAPX 432 timeline. The project started in '75, when Intel's only available processors where 8-bit. However, the 432 wasn't available until 1981, six years later.
Certainly in '75, Intel wasn't thinking to design a CPU for a language who's specifications were just beginning to be written. However, the 432 was designed to be highly secure and provide multiprocessor support, both things that appeared to be a good fit with Ada. The marketing types at Intel were probably jumping on the Ada bandwagon when they finally had silicon, but if you read Intel's own docs, the relationship (or hype) is there.
And yes, Ada has been a market failure. It is used in military applications because the government has dictated its use. In the vast majority of commercial markets, where there is a choice of development languages, it is hardly ever used. That isn't to say, it doesn't have some clever and/or valuable features, it's just failed to gain commercial acceptance.