Our house runs a wireless lan in a city type area. If RIAA went after us, we could just say that we have no idea who shared those files. It could easily be our neighbors who jumped on the network. That will always be plausible doubt.
SPOILER warning in case you didn't see it yet STOP. OK, At first I thought neo somehow transferred his abilities outside of the matrix. But that makes no sense, he's a guy not a GOD. I think they now have a matrix within a matrix. The first matrix is for the 99.9% of people who choose to accept the original programming. But that matrix exists within another layer of the matrix where the 0.1% of people who don't accept the first programming 'escape' to. But in reality this is where they then accept the programming of the second higher level matrix (twisted huh). Basically the machine's programming is so sophisticated that they can accurately predict and control every single choice EVERY human within both matrixes will do, morphious and all the rest. The problem is that it is not perfect and at some point the whole thing becomes unstable. At that point there is a single person who reaches the point where they make an unpredictable choice. The choice Neo makes towards the end. I think that means that every now and then the whole thing becomes unstable and they have to 'clear' the second matrix, i.e. destroy Zion, and start if over. This happens when the one makes the choice Neo did this time around. (I don't believe this is only the 6th iteration of Zion)
It puts a whole bunch of things together. 1 - It means the whole human battery thing is just made up, which makes sense 2 - It means the machines have a much higher level of control that we thought in the first movie. So much in fact that they can accurately create a prophecy. That's what really bothered me about the first movie, how could something within the matrix make predictions about the future, they didn't control events outside of the matrix. The one could just get sick and die outside of the matrix. Not so in this new world. 3 - It explains why the earth's sky is still covered, prevents humans from seeing the starts and learning the correct year. 4 - It explains why agent smith could take over a person outside of the original matrix.
This system would work for the machines unless the anomaly person, i.e. Neo, was also an anomaly person in the second matrix as well. I'm guessing the odds of this are very very low and its the first time that has happened. Which means the machines could have been in control for billions of years.... Overall a very good twist.
"Matt Cutts, a key Google engineer, used to work for the National Security Agency."
Glad to see that slashdot readers pratice all the freedom and rights of man that they constantly yell about.
I agree, anyone how has worked for the NSA should be barred for life from working anywhere. And they definetly shouldn't have the right to work in peace without their name splatted on boards like slashdot. (this is sarcasim in case you couldn't tell)
For just a second, just one second there I thought this was talking about the Firefly TV show and somehow it was being brought back. sigh time to wander about aimlessly again.....
Too all of you people saying its louder than the PS2. Stop being misleading. Yes, it's a little louder than the PS2. BUT the PS2 doesn't make that much noise to begin with. My XBox is quieter than Tivo which is the dominate noise making box in the room. (An even that isn't too bad)
Here are some companies out there which do something like this with plastic. The idea is to build, by printing, 2D images of plastic on top of each other to build a 3D object.
The very cool thing is that you can build movable solid objects within other solid objects. We got a (not very useful) but neat adjustable wrench. The screw part of it which is used to open and close the wrench (sorry I don't know tool terms) was actually built inside of the other pieces. When looking at it you realize that if you started with individual pieces, you could never have gotten the screw part inside.
What science is this based on?
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Also, the ozone depleted stratosphere is losing its ability to absorb sunlight causing it to cool and contract pulling the tropopause upward
Um, the tempurature of the air above another layer of air does not contract or pull air below it up or down. The stratosphere's weight would be the same causing the same amount of force to be exerted on the tropopause. The tropopause's height is only effected by 1) its own temperature and 2) the compression force of whats above it.
Already with 90nm processes, the height of the trans' gate is ~1.2nm. That's about 5-10 silicon atoms. The net result is you have to continuously lower the operating voltage to reduce current leakage. 90nm processes operate at ~1.0-1.5V.
A drawn 20nm process will have an even shorter gate height. What would we be down to then? ~1-4 silicon atoms? This would force the operating voltatge to be lowered even more, possibly approaching Vt. (I forget exactly but around ~0.7V)
I'm not saying that we'll never have a 20nm process, we will. But there is going to be quite a bit more involved than figuring out how to mask the waffer. i.e. double gates, etc.
250,000 hits/day / 24hours / 3600 secs per hour = 2.89 hits per second. Is this really that impressive. I've heard about other web servers handling thousands of pages per second.
First off, before I get flamed, I want so say that I have had a TiVo for a few years now and love the thing as a child.
But the main problem with it is I can't play Divx4 movies on TiVo. I have a server upstairs with a whole bunch of movies as divx4 *.avi files. My Tivo is on the network but still can't play them.
However if I put a box behind the TV with MS media stuff, then I could play them. Hmmmm.... Maybe its time to make another purchase.
As it stands now, it seems to me that this approach is the same thing as putting all files in one large flat directory and then viewing the files based on the extention. i.e. *.avi *.mp3 ect. Seems to me that you can do this with a hierarchical file system and the way we do things today gives you more control in how to store items. For example putting multiple word docs in different folders based on use.
Can someone answer me this? Is is legal to sell used CDs which someone owns legally and RIAA already made its money off of? I thought it was. If so then why do used CD stores have to pay additional charges on used CDs? Seems to me they are double dipping on the same CD.
You all realize that this whole thing will blow up into some media thing. I bet in the end he'll write a book titled Spam Wars or some crap like that and make even more money than he did spamming....
Didn't slashdot JUST post a few articles whining about how the cable companies have a hold on the broadband market and there isn't enough competition? Come on.
I lived in Seattle for the past two years but moved a little while ago. They had a plan for a real subway system from UW, to downtown, through west seattle and south to the airport.
This would have helped with traffic. The monorail extention they are doing won't help nearly as much and will look like shite. Oh well.
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I was getting worried. It had been almost a whole 24 hours without an SCO update. If it reached a full day I don't know what I would have done.
Our house runs a wireless lan in a city type area. If RIAA went after us, we could just say that we have no idea who shared those files. It could easily be our neighbors who jumped on the network. That will always be plausible doubt.
It puts a whole bunch of things together. 1 - It means the whole human battery thing is just made up, which makes sense 2 - It means the machines have a much higher level of control that we thought in the first movie. So much in fact that they can accurately create a prophecy. That's what really bothered me about the first movie, how could something within the matrix make predictions about the future, they didn't control events outside of the matrix. The one could just get sick and die outside of the matrix. Not so in this new world. 3 - It explains why the earth's sky is still covered, prevents humans from seeing the starts and learning the correct year. 4 - It explains why agent smith could take over a person outside of the original matrix.
This system would work for the machines unless the anomaly person, i.e. Neo, was also an anomaly person in the second matrix as well. I'm guessing the odds of this are very very low and its the first time that has happened. Which means the machines could have been in control for billions of years.... Overall a very good twist.
Were slashdot subscribers not presented with this spam? Or were they forced to read this advertisement as well?
unilaterally is going to go down as the most misused word of 2003.
uh, isn't the most commonly used WSJ line: "past performance is no garrentee of future performance"
Glad to see that slashdot readers pratice all the freedom and rights of man that they constantly yell about.
I agree, anyone how has worked for the NSA should be barred for life from working anywhere. And they definetly shouldn't have the right to work in peace without their name splatted on boards like slashdot. (this is sarcasim in case you couldn't tell)
For just a second, just one second there I thought this was talking about the Firefly TV show and somehow it was being brought back. sigh time to wander about aimlessly again.....
Too all of you people saying its louder than the PS2. Stop being misleading. Yes, it's a little louder than the PS2. BUT the PS2 doesn't make that much noise to begin with. My XBox is quieter than Tivo which is the dominate noise making box in the room. (An even that isn't too bad)
The very cool thing is that you can build movable solid objects within other solid objects. We got a (not very useful) but neat adjustable wrench. The screw part of it which is used to open and close the wrench (sorry I don't know tool terms) was actually built inside of the other pieces. When looking at it you realize that if you started with individual pieces, you could never have gotten the screw part inside.
Um, the tempurature of the air above another layer of air does not contract or pull air below it up or down. The stratosphere's weight would be the same causing the same amount of force to be exerted on the tropopause. The tropopause's height is only effected by 1) its own temperature and 2) the compression force of whats above it.
A drawn 20nm process will have an even shorter gate height. What would we be down to then? ~1-4 silicon atoms? This would force the operating voltatge to be lowered even more, possibly approaching Vt. (I forget exactly but around ~0.7V)
I'm not saying that we'll never have a 20nm process, we will. But there is going to be quite a bit more involved than figuring out how to mask the waffer. i.e. double gates, etc.
I wasn't aware that C++ or Java automatically handled a disk's file structure. Cool
250,000 hits/day / 24hours / 3600 secs per hour = 2.89 hits per second. Is this really that impressive. I've heard about other web servers handling thousands of pages per second.
But the main problem with it is I can't play Divx4 movies on TiVo. I have a server upstairs with a whole bunch of movies as divx4 *.avi files. My Tivo is on the network but still can't play them.
However if I put a box behind the TV with MS media stuff, then I could play them. Hmmmm.... Maybe its time to make another purchase.
As it stands now, it seems to me that this approach is the same thing as putting all files in one large flat directory and then viewing the files based on the extention. i.e. *.avi *.mp3 ect. Seems to me that you can do this with a hierarchical file system and the way we do things today gives you more control in how to store items. For example putting multiple word docs in different folders based on use.
Since he used pretty little graphics in the article.
Can someone answer me this? Is is legal to sell used CDs which someone owns legally and RIAA already made its money off of? I thought it was. If so then why do used CD stores have to pay additional charges on used CDs? Seems to me they are double dipping on the same CD.
You all realize that this whole thing will blow up into some media thing. I bet in the end he'll write a book titled Spam Wars or some crap like that and make even more money than he did spamming....
Didn't slashdot JUST post a few articles whining about how the cable companies have a hold on the broadband market and there isn't enough competition? Come on.
Thank you, someone had to say that. If they get this up and running I'll probably be one of their first accounts.
These hippies believe the entire world needs to conform to their view point and anything and everthing else is wrong. How open minded....
its not violating the dmca, but it is stealing content. the journal hasn't don't anything bad to you guys......
This would have helped with traffic. The monorail extention they are doing won't help nearly as much and will look like shite. Oh well.
Its a US company selling to the US gov. Where's your reference for the pounds? and why would such a transaction be done something other than dollar's