The original story said it took between 4 and 10 min at full power to kill all the spores in the sponge. What kind of life can survive 10 min in a full sized microwave! Incredible!
As soon as I saw the comment about Appletalk I laughed. Tell ya what, you can use Appletalk to diss current Mac systems and I'll use IPX to dump on windows....
One Scientist said it well (can't remember his name)
"Don't confuse climate with weather, climate is the background in which weather operates. Local weather phenomenon is VERY hard to correlate directly to global climate.
I completely agree, but this applies to any alternative part to the Republicans and Democrats.
It's simply impossible to form an another party and get elected in any significant numbers due to the fact that the Republican and Democratic parties are surprisingly bi-partisan when it comes to making any concessions that would allow another party to have a chance.
The best bet is to have libertarians join one party or the other and gain power through changing/influencing party platforms.
Oh I don't know about the Attorneys. They've managed a rather spectacular jujitsu delaying tactic that will probably be used in law schools for years as instruction on how to "delay until the glaciers melt".
Just because the whole case was evil does not mean you can't appreciate the work they've done. It's impressive...most impressive!
If Jobs has to change the name of the iphone, Expect Steve J to tell his engineering team to come up with the simplest, coolest home router/wireless base station ever made just to sink Linksys's home router market.
They have the smarts to do it, and with consumers current frustrations with home configuration they could cost CISCO more money.
--Conversation on the phone between Steve J and CISCO"
"You know....we've been working on a wireless router for some time. I was thinking of just selling the damn thing to you guys cause it's not a market we want...."
Your second sentence is correct. There is no confirmed indication you WILL have to subscribe. There is no evidence either way. Everybody is assuming that you will have to buy a contract because the price said so.
I have no idea why you were listed so low on the points (Troll when I checked). Any TRUE nerd who understands JUST how hard it is to create what they've done should turn in their nerd card!:) If I could give ya Karma I would, but since I posted...I can't.
There is SERIOUS research being done by universities in SL. I'm not impressed by much on the net anymore but SL really blew me away once I started digging into HOW the world works.
It's been often said that Linden Lab employees don't use SL that much, that makes COMPLETE sense. They are realy just a bunch of hardware sysadmin nerds. SL is for creative types. A sysadmin's idea of "Art" is a cool perl script. They probably enjoy their time more by working on the code than actually playing it.
If things work out the way I hope and SL really takes off it's gunna be facinating to see it work.
BTW...any way you can tell me who you are so I can come watch you play? My brother is a kick ass keyboard player (and organ player) and I've been trying to get him to do some stuff in SL.
I find it interesting that DESPITE the fact that the majority of posts from "People who know" that Second life is a steaming pile of crap that it continues to grow.
The fact of the matter is SL is VERY interesting due to the way in which it's built. It's flexible and the people who run it are BIG proponents of open sourcing everything they can. When you ask them about the number of users they tend to be honest about what they think is real and what are just scripts running. The BS is usually from Trolls.
As for the quality of the graphics.
1. All the content is USER CREATED. Go someplace in SL where people know how to use Blender or Maya and it looks great. Go someplace made by somebody who just learned how to sculpt prims yesterday and it sucks.
2. There is a GREAT live music community growing in SL. The quality is pretty good since you can get up to 768Kb/s of bandwidth to stream your live event.
3. Guess what? The graphics are as good as the clients can handle considering that their primary objective at this point is a flexible world that allows users to create what they want and be scalable.
The majority of people who "crap" on SL (that I've talked to) expect something like WoW. WoW is a TOTALLY different monster. Scripted world, Blizzard created objects...and a much lower age group demographic.
If you want WoW...go play WoW. But don't expect SL to be LIKE WoW.
NSF (The National Science Foundation) recently put out a proposal to address the problematic issue of software design (all aspects) because it's recognized that lack of thought in this area 30 years ago is what led us to where we are.
And like most scientific discoveries, I'll be 30 years older by the time it gets deployed.
What we need is a web site with the Medicine Science news stories (like this one) that was in 1988 and then give us an update on how close they are to deployment, or if it turned out to be a dud.
I find it funny how people STILL don't get how bittorrent works. More people in the pool is ALWAYS better. A larger swarm is what you want. Private trackers don't get it. They think that by LIMITING the people joining a swarm to "select" members that they increase the bandwidth to those members.
Anybody who has read Bram's writings understand that the protocol is WRITTEN so that nobody trusts anybody. That's the whole REASON the system works. In a talk at Stanford Bram said over and over and over (and I was cheering) that every suggestion coming from people in academia and otherwise are usually about people trying to be "clever" and add some sort of information that the clients are supposed to "trust" to improve the pool.
There are only 3 things you trust as a client until verifying
1. IP address and ports 2. Data as verified by checksums 3. How much good data YOU have received from any particular client.
Your client can choke clients that are hogs and if they hog enough, then enough clients will choke them and their download speed will go down the toilet.
It works.
Adding ratios, having the tracker send out unverifiable data about how much clients "report" they have, etc will NOT work.
I've always thought that unobtrusive advertising that is pertinent to what I need is not a bad thing. Eudora and Opera both used it and as long as it's not IN YOUR FACE I don't mind.
Google's proves my point. Their ad system works.
It's when companies get greedy and stupid (like spam) that causes people to get mad
The only issue is that some may see it as a slippery slope, first google type ads, then pop-unders, then Gifs, etc.
They Rated Amazon Unbox as high, but OBVIOUSLY they had not tried to uninstall the software. As they would of found out, Amazon's idea of "uninstall" is different from what most people think as they leave services installed and RUNNING on your system.
If microsoft wanted to force people on to Vista it would be easy.
All they have to do is end support and security patches for XP. Biz would cry, consumers would curse...but everybody would upgrade because they HAVE TO.
If you are a monopoly then use it to your advantage damn it!
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The original story said it took between 4 and 10 min at full power to kill all the spores in the sponge. What kind of life can survive 10 min in a full sized microwave! Incredible!
All I have to say is COOL!
By Google building these things out in the sticks I might actually be able to work someplace cool but not have to pay crazy cost of living $$$$.
Now if I could only get up the confidence to endure the google "hazing" interview process.
As soon as I saw the comment about Appletalk I laughed. Tell ya what, you can use Appletalk to diss current Mac systems and I'll use IPX to dump on windows....
You think skype uses bandwidth, wait till users using this get on your corporate network and get selected as "super nodes".....
One Scientist said it well (can't remember his name)
"Don't confuse climate with weather, climate is the background in which weather operates. Local weather phenomenon is VERY hard to correlate directly to global climate.
I completely agree, but this applies to any alternative part to the Republicans and Democrats.
It's simply impossible to form an another party and get elected in any significant numbers due to the fact that the Republican and Democratic parties are surprisingly bi-partisan when it comes to making any concessions that would allow another party to have a chance.
The best bet is to have libertarians join one party or the other and gain power through changing/influencing party platforms.
Oh I don't know about the Attorneys. They've managed a rather spectacular jujitsu delaying tactic that will probably be used in law schools for years as instruction on how to "delay until the glaciers melt".
Just because the whole case was evil does not mean you can't appreciate the work they've done. It's impressive...most impressive!
If Jobs has to change the name of the iphone, Expect Steve J to tell his engineering team to come up with the simplest, coolest home router/wireless base station ever made just to sink Linksys's home router market.
They have the smarts to do it, and with consumers current frustrations with home configuration they could cost CISCO more money.
--Conversation on the phone between Steve J and CISCO"
"You know....we've been working on a wireless router for some time. I was thinking of just selling the damn thing to you guys cause it's not a market we want...."
Your second sentence is correct. There is no confirmed indication you WILL have to subscribe. There is no evidence either way. Everybody is assuming that you will have to buy a contract because the price said so.
1) It would not matter WHAT carrier they chose. People would dump on them because there are large groups which hate EVERY cell carrier in the U.S.
2) I've seen NO confirmation that you HAVE to buy a contract.
3) Anti Apple Trolls will take a large steaming dump on it no matter what it is.
It wouldn't matter which carrier they picked.
No matter what there would be a large group of people saying that "X carrier sucks! So therefor iphone sucks!"
Or....Apple told CISCO to stick it...we'll see you in court and drag it out for 5 years.
Who says you have to subscribe and use the phone function? How long do you think before it has skype running on it?
I only wish I could work for Linden Labs......I work at a gov agency
I have no idea why you were listed so low on the points (Troll when I checked). Any TRUE nerd who understands JUST how hard it is to create what they've done should turn in their nerd card! :) If I could give ya Karma I would, but since I posted...I can't.
There is SERIOUS research being done by universities in SL. I'm not impressed by much on the net anymore but SL really blew me away once I started digging into HOW the world works.
It's been often said that Linden Lab employees don't use SL that much, that makes COMPLETE sense. They are realy just a bunch of hardware sysadmin nerds. SL is for creative types. A sysadmin's idea of "Art" is a cool perl script. They probably enjoy their time more by working on the code than actually playing it.
If things work out the way I hope and SL really takes off it's gunna be facinating to see it work.
BTW...any way you can tell me who you are so I can come watch you play? My brother is a kick ass keyboard player (and organ player) and I've been trying to get him to do some stuff in SL.
I find it interesting that DESPITE the fact that the majority of posts from "People who know" that Second life is a steaming pile of crap that it continues to grow.
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Go watch the video at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-51827597
The fact of the matter is SL is VERY interesting due to the way in which it's built. It's flexible and the people who run it are BIG proponents of open sourcing everything they can. When you ask them about the number of users they tend to be honest about what they think is real and what are just scripts running. The BS is usually from Trolls.
As for the quality of the graphics.
1. All the content is USER CREATED. Go someplace in SL where people know how to use Blender or Maya and it looks great. Go someplace made by somebody who just learned how to sculpt prims yesterday and it sucks.
2. There is a GREAT live music community growing in SL. The quality is pretty good since you can get up to 768Kb/s of bandwidth to stream your live event.
3. Guess what? The graphics are as good as the clients can handle considering that their primary objective at this point is a flexible world that allows users to create what they want and be scalable.
The majority of people who "crap" on SL (that I've talked to) expect something like WoW. WoW is a TOTALLY different monster. Scripted world, Blizzard created objects...and a much lower age group demographic.
If you want WoW...go play WoW. But don't expect SL to be LIKE WoW.
NSF (The National Science Foundation) recently put out a proposal to address the problematic issue of software design (all aspects) because it's recognized that lack of thought in this area 30 years ago is what led us to where we are.
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http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=1
Hopefully it will bring in fresh ideas.
And like most scientific discoveries, I'll be 30 years older by the time it gets deployed.
What we need is a web site with the Medicine Science news stories (like this one) that was in 1988 and then give us an update on how close they are to deployment, or if it turned out to be a dud.
It's like scientifically searching for EVIL(TM).
Over a couple of Beers at the pub an interesting discussion, but NOT something one should really engage in.
I find it funny how people STILL don't get how bittorrent works. More people in the pool is ALWAYS better. A larger swarm is what you want. Private trackers don't get it. They think that by LIMITING the people joining a swarm to "select" members that they increase the bandwidth to those members.
Anybody who has read Bram's writings understand that the protocol is WRITTEN so that nobody trusts anybody. That's the whole REASON the system works. In a talk at Stanford Bram said over and over and over (and I was cheering) that every suggestion coming from people in academia and otherwise are usually about people trying to be "clever" and add some sort of information that the clients are supposed to "trust" to improve the pool.
There are only 3 things you trust as a client until verifying
1. IP address and ports
2. Data as verified by checksums
3. How much good data YOU have received from any particular client.
Your client can choke clients that are hogs and if they hog enough, then enough clients will choke them and their download speed will go down the toilet.
It works.
Adding ratios, having the tracker send out unverifiable data about how much clients "report" they have, etc will NOT work.
I've always thought that unobtrusive advertising that is pertinent to what I need is not a bad thing. Eudora and Opera both used it and as long as it's not IN YOUR FACE I don't mind.
Google's proves my point. Their ad system works.
It's when companies get greedy and stupid (like spam) that causes people to get mad
The only issue is that some may see it as a slippery slope, first google type ads, then pop-unders, then Gifs, etc.
NO
They Rated Amazon Unbox as high, but OBVIOUSLY they had not tried to uninstall the software. As they would of found out, Amazon's idea of "uninstall" is different from what most people think as they leave services installed and RUNNING on your system.
Require Science Fiction reading in HS...lots of it.
If microsoft wanted to force people on to Vista it would be easy.
All they have to do is end support and security patches for XP. Biz would cry, consumers would curse...but everybody would upgrade because they HAVE TO.
If you are a monopoly then use it to your advantage damn it!