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That's my concern. I'll stick a microSD card in there with a bunch of important data. And then mix it up with a real coin and spend it... Then go crazy later when I need to access the card and can't find it...
Still, it's a good smuggling trick. If someone does a quick search, your coins wouldn't be suspect. A smuggler wouldn't go around telling everyone "Look at me spend my coins like I have nothing to lose", so there's no worry about losing the coin.
If you're never going to be able to decrypt the data, then you might as well cat/dev/random >/dev/sda. Because it's indistinguishable from random chaos
If only I had learned this before I hired a thousand monkeys and purchased a thousand keyboards. Dammit.
I don't know what the answer is. One possible answer in this case to go full-federal and dissolve the states as independent bodies, so at least you'd only have to deal with a single monolithic federal morass instead of that plus forty-eight smaller but in aggregate hugely complex systems, but that comes with its own attendant issues.
May I suggest an alternative solution: faster processing of information with COMPUTERS. Develop an expert system that informs people what data they need to obtain (including different types of data to inhibit cheating), and then spit out the Yes/No answer in less than a day. Prove the system out over a variety of projects, and the problem gets a lot better.
Gather all the past applications and decisions to use as training data.
Tandy Trower, the product manager who finally got Windows 1.0 out the door a quarter century ago, has written a memoir of the experience. (He thought being assigned the much-maligned project was Microsoft's fiendish way of trying to get rid of him.) The story involves such still-significant figures as Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer, Ray Ozzie, and Nathan Myhrvold; Trower left Microsoft only in November of 2009 after 28 years with the company."
It's boggled my mind why Search Indexer in Vista has been killing my computer with no benefit. Stopping it has resulted in instant gratification, but I couldn't fathom what the reason could be for it to work my hard disk so hard.
The Revenge of Tandy Trower! But I can't wait for the next version of Windows so you have the last laugh, Tandy.
No one should teach anything above 3rd grade without a BA/BS in that field. With an education minor. No one should be allowed to teach anything, nothing, with an education degree. No one should be allowed to teach teachers who has not taught in a classroom for 5-10 years. Period. Exclamation point. Another idea: how about some respect? In America, that means, in part money, but how about we laugh at any smug jerk who says "those who can do..."? How about we teach our kids to obey and respect teachers? (Of course, this will require clearing the unrespectable deadwood first.) Also, how about being able to actually fail kids, at least at the high school level?
One of the salient points is that quality learning doesn't start until after high school. In this age of machines, is there any point to keeping kids in school until grade 12?
There isn't any point to failing kids in high school - if the work is too hard, the recourse has always been to create easier and easier work until an automatic pass was given for just showing up. After all, the kids keep coming in the K end and going out the old-enough-to-work end, and you don't want kids to have the I-am-19-and-just-finished-8th-grade hanging around their necks while they go job hunting.
How to get around the problem of being afraid to push kids hard?
Suppose education finishes years earlier? That could solve a lot of things. The idea is to have high school be done with at the tender age of grade 7 and let the kids get into a post secondary education of their choice.
1 - kids get really bored with grade school. It seems to prepare them for nothing real. After grade 7 grade school kind of simulates a higher education anyways but without accreditation, so why not just make it real?
2 - In this age of machines, even a little kid can push a button irresponsibly. It would be better to teach them responsibility with hands on experience. People who are too young to procreate tend to require close supervision, but they can learn readily to be in a chain of events where lives and money are at stake. We may gasp at kids in the JFK tower, but the adults at Toyota or AIG prove that age doesn't necessarily lead to responsibility. I say ingrain responsibility to the young or else the young will not somehow find their way.
3 - Parents are saving for years to help their kids buy a higher education. It would be easier if the higher education portion was transferred into the public education system, to replace what is now called "high school". This would make higher education available to more people. Those who aspire to be high school teachers may find they have to become professors, but that's the way it goes.
4 - Again it's the age of machines. The K-12 system just instills sedentariness into kids, forcing them to be drones in a classroom doing work that is one Google away. It teaches them that life is a charade, instead of preparing them or inspiring them. This why there is one economic bubble after another. People are taught from youth to chase money instead of dreams, so hordes follow the latest get-rich trend until they slide the slippery slope. At the end there are disparities in wealth distribution owing to too many people who learned to be drones and never taught how to get a start doing something new in the age of machines. A post secondary education environment would give kids a better opportunity to really experience the complexities behind the interface.
Wrong. Microsoft isn't just in a race against Google. It's in a race against pretty much everyone.
Take for instance its SQL Server, one of its traditional cash cows. Several years ago, my company was paying Microsoft $11,000 for a license of SQL Server 2000 (Standard Edition). A couple years later, we were paying a very small fraction of that cost for the SQL Server 2005 (Workgroup edition) without any noticeable loss of prior functionality (and no significant loss of the very nice tools/wizards that came with it).
The economics is simple enough. Prices drop while feature sets rise, and purchasers feel they don't have to spend as much to achieve the status quo.
What software vendors need is pressure on the consumers to pay for much more.
Microsoft's glory days won't return in a hurry though unless maneating aliens are observed to be heading our way and we have to build the infrastructure to fend them off snap snap.
Safety related functionality should have a redundant overriding mechanism that isn't subject to the vagaries of software failure. For example, if the engine computer suddenly wants to run an explode subroutine, the fuel valve should limit the outcome to chitty chitty bang bang.
Then you don't have to check every line of code, you just have to check the overrides.
The idea that "if something is economically sound, it need not the support of politicians" is factually incorrect. Opium was freely traded with the Chinese who fought and lost two wars to prevent it
Warming planet will mean more snow. So we should be talking about cocaine!
I have a tablet PC and have to say a stylus SUCKS! I use Windows 7 and ever since they improved the UI so that I can tap and twist my way through everywhere the pen has not left its socket.
A long time ago when I was in engineering university and the tablet idea first came (1990) out the administrative assistant to the dean of engineering said, "now that's a dumb idea." I was shocked and asked would you not want to write? She said, "no..." She said her husband is a professor in British history. Whenever he goes to the UK he has to copy books by hand (no pictures allowed, and no running the photo copier.) And when he has to write for three days solid his hands are completely cramped. Yet if he were to type there would be no such problem
For one thing, it sounds very much like the force of your argument against a tablet actually supports it more. The prof needs a tool that involves the actual process of writing, and lo the tablet PC is just such a device that happens to have a fully-blown computer. The manuscripts being copied are being preserved in a reduced light environment, yet a powerful device for transcribing them to digital form is at hand.
I use a tablet PC - much can be done to improve it - but once I got the hang of it, using a pen to move the cursor around beats moving the cursor with a mouse or finger pad. You learn to tap or just hover the tip of the pen and drag. Getting a cursor to move anywhere accurately and 10 times faster than a mouse without carpal tunnel syndrome can't be all bad. Working on a desk, I have an external keyboard instead of just relying on writing recognition for text entry, but working as a passenger in a vehicle, it's a lot easier to tilt a flattened tablet away from glare and the writing recognition is completely unfazed by the bizarre scrawling that road bumps cause. The accuracy is almost flawless. It helps to write a lot, and I do. Even though I use a keyboard for nitpicky text entry to textboxes, I cursively write long notes because it helps me think. Also, it helps me write well on the computer, so well that it looks almost like real-pen-and-paper writing.
The tablet of today requires you to use the stylus that comes with the computer. I can use an ordinary pen on one of the big HP touchscreens to move the cursor, but the computer can't track the fine movements of pen for writing. The tablet HP touchscreen of course is usable with its bundled stylus for writing.
However, my prediction is the tablet of the near future will allow ordinary pens to be used so you don't have to carry and lose the special stylus. A bit more processing horsepower, and people will love this type of computer.
A useful, and frightening device. If the neighbors have one in their backyard, I don't want to be in mine. NIMBY , or let me have one on my cell phone.
Want protection? Back up your hard drive. This used to be easy when an image of the boot partition only took a couple hundred megs. But now? The image is huge, and goes out of date because everyone has to update update update.
Web browsing should be trapped in a virtual machine. So much has been done with virtual servers, but people ought to get into the hassle of virtual clients.
Google is intent on knowing everything, or at least be linked to every bit of knowledge. If Mohammad doesn't put the mountain online, Google will wire up the mountain. Kapeesh?
I gotta enter the pin so that I can use my gun to defend myself.
Ergo, entering the pin before leaving home will become second nature. Like, um, loading it.
The concept does have merits. A design for the paranoid: a 1 digit pin in a 3x4 keypad or a 10 digit strip will not cost that much time - about the same time as it takes to undo the safety - while if said mugger takes the gun it will be less lethal.
While this is not an entirely foolproof system, it does offer an added level of confidence, and that can be scary. You might actually encounter more people with concealed guns if they think the odds have tipped in their favor.
If it can move and place particles with 100% accuracy
Too bad the placed particles won't stay placed. If there is any kind of electric force between the placed atoms or the surrounding atoms, things will start moving. So you can't just build a cell or even a protein molecule atom by atom, like a building. If you want to build large objects on the atomic scale, you may have to handle bunches of wiggly molecules.
Nevertheless, building light-based computers and quantum computers never looked so easy. So let's have some on the shelves by Xmas 2012.
Has the option of going backwards not been tried yet? Or is it stuck on the infinite loop of options - let's try this, nope doesn't work, how about going backwards? Nope. Let's try that. Uh uh. Did we try going backwards? Try it now.
Somehow nature has avoided evolving animals to have wheels. Maybe the next rover should have legs?
The fun part is that the (UK) cops can demand a decryption key for that, and lock me up when I inevitably fail to provide one
So tell them you were not the encrypter/encoder. You downloaded it. It's the same as people circumventing other hacks, such as the hacks at preventing file sharing - band together with a group of anonymous people. Download each others encrypted data. Obfuscate who the encrypter is, and your own encrypted data can hide.
If this isn't good enough, write a Star Trek story about Klingons. Include plenty of Klingon conversation. Key: kkjkjGHIUgibilh is Blimey! in Klingon. So is jGHLiubhjbiu78HVji67.
You can actually get medical equipment very cheaply, provided you declare that you will not use it for human use. What else you could use a heart monitor for is beyond me, but when they can strip liability from the price tag, the price goes down. Considerably down. Think 1/10th of the "all warranties included" price tag
So the doctors knowing all this are effecting what? Complaining, and making suppliers lower prices? Forcing Nintendo to slap on a non-medical label?
Do doctors try to get away by substituting with ordinary household appliances in the clinic? It all comes down to the interface. If Nintendo can be expected not to rethink their parts given the low price they're charging, then why not? Save money, and all that.
The doctors actually dismantled the mechanism. I suppose that's par for the course. Dr. MacGyver out in the sticks should know how to make do with all that is at hand.
Herald a great new age for medicine. As devices mature, the competitive environment forces them to become more multifunctional, and hence more adaptable to new purposes. Farewell to the days when a computer merely doubles as a doorstop. Third world medicine advances all the more due to the evolution of gadgets.
I have this weird feeling that had they gone with American services for building these websites at 10x the cost of using IdeaScale, the Slashdot summary would have read about the absurdly high spending that the Department of Labor is wasting our tax dollars
Forget not the question of where the jobs are with so much stimulus spending. It would not do to simply waste the money on protectionist schemes that merely purchase at inflated wages. Perhaps the stimulus should pay domestic people with their high education to figure out how everyone can cut back to 10% of their former wage, and that would still be greater than the $4400 per annum of an ostensibly intelligent programmer.
An economy with most of its people living at subsistence incomes would be untenable of course. The wage gap and the so-called jobless recovery, which conspiracy theorists should note as the rise of the machines, is a sign of how a few people who own machinery of production can gain wealth at a much greater pace.
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That's my concern. I'll stick a microSD card in there with a bunch of important data. And then mix it up with a real coin and spend it... Then go crazy later when I need to access the card and can't find it...
Still, it's a good smuggling trick. If someone does a quick search, your coins wouldn't be suspect. A smuggler wouldn't go around telling everyone "Look at me spend my coins like I have nothing to lose", so there's no worry about losing the coin.
If you're never going to be able to decrypt the data, then you might as well cat /dev/random > /dev/sda. Because it's indistinguishable from random chaos
If only I had learned this before I hired a thousand monkeys and purchased a thousand keyboards. Dammit.
I don't know what the answer is. One possible answer in this case to go full-federal and dissolve the states as independent bodies, so at least you'd only have to deal with a single monolithic federal morass instead of that plus forty-eight smaller but in aggregate hugely complex systems, but that comes with its own attendant issues.
May I suggest an alternative solution: faster processing of information with COMPUTERS. Develop an expert system that informs people what data they need to obtain (including different types of data to inhibit cheating), and then spit out the Yes/No answer in less than a day. Prove the system out over a variety of projects, and the problem gets a lot better.
Gather all the past applications and decisions to use as training data.
Tandy Trower, the product manager who finally got Windows 1.0 out the door a quarter century ago, has written a memoir of the experience. (He thought being assigned the much-maligned project was Microsoft's fiendish way of trying to get rid of him.) The story involves such still-significant figures as Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer, Ray Ozzie, and Nathan Myhrvold; Trower left Microsoft only in November of 2009 after 28 years with the company."
It's boggled my mind why Search Indexer in Vista has been killing my computer with no benefit. Stopping it has resulted in instant gratification, but I couldn't fathom what the reason could be for it to work my hard disk so hard.
The Revenge of Tandy Trower! But I can't wait for the next version of Windows so you have the last laugh, Tandy.
No one should teach anything above 3rd grade without a BA/BS in that field. With an education minor. No one should be allowed to teach anything, nothing, with an education degree. No one should be allowed to teach teachers who has not taught in a classroom for 5-10 years. Period. Exclamation point. Another idea: how about some respect? In America, that means, in part money, but how about we laugh at any smug jerk who says "those who can do..."? How about we teach our kids to obey and respect teachers? (Of course, this will require clearing the unrespectable deadwood first.) Also, how about being able to actually fail kids, at least at the high school level?
One of the salient points is that quality learning doesn't start until after high school. In this age of machines, is there any point to keeping kids in school until grade 12?
There isn't any point to failing kids in high school - if the work is too hard, the recourse has always been to create easier and easier work until an automatic pass was given for just showing up. After all, the kids keep coming in the K end and going out the old-enough-to-work end, and you don't want kids to have the I-am-19-and-just-finished-8th-grade hanging around their necks while they go job hunting.
How to get around the problem of being afraid to push kids hard?
Suppose education finishes years earlier? That could solve a lot of things. The idea is to have high school be done with at the tender age of grade 7 and let the kids get into a post secondary education of their choice.
1 - kids get really bored with grade school. It seems to prepare them for nothing real. After grade 7 grade school kind of simulates a higher education anyways but without accreditation, so why not just make it real?
2 - In this age of machines, even a little kid can push a button irresponsibly. It would be better to teach them responsibility with hands on experience. People who are too young to procreate tend to require close supervision, but they can learn readily to be in a chain of events where lives and money are at stake. We may gasp at kids in the JFK tower, but the adults at Toyota or AIG prove that age doesn't necessarily lead to responsibility. I say ingrain responsibility to the young or else the young will not somehow find their way.
3 - Parents are saving for years to help their kids buy a higher education. It would be easier if the higher education portion was transferred into the public education system, to replace what is now called "high school". This would make higher education available to more people. Those who aspire to be high school teachers may find they have to become professors, but that's the way it goes.
4 - Again it's the age of machines. The K-12 system just instills sedentariness into kids, forcing them to be drones in a classroom doing work that is one Google away. It teaches them that life is a charade, instead of preparing them or inspiring them. This why there is one economic bubble after another. People are taught from youth to chase money instead of dreams, so hordes follow the latest get-rich trend until they slide the slippery slope. At the end there are disparities in wealth distribution owing to too many people who learned to be drones and never taught how to get a start doing something new in the age of machines. A post secondary education environment would give kids a better opportunity to really experience the complexities behind the interface.
Wrong. Microsoft isn't just in a race against Google. It's in a race against pretty much everyone.
Take for instance its SQL Server, one of its traditional cash cows. Several years ago, my company was paying Microsoft $11,000 for a license of SQL Server 2000 (Standard Edition). A couple years later, we were paying a very small fraction of that cost for the SQL Server 2005 (Workgroup edition) without any noticeable loss of prior functionality (and no significant loss of the very nice tools/wizards that came with it).
The economics is simple enough. Prices drop while feature sets rise, and purchasers feel they don't have to spend as much to achieve the status quo.
What software vendors need is pressure on the consumers to pay for much more.
Microsoft's glory days won't return in a hurry though unless maneating aliens are observed to be heading our way and we have to build the infrastructure to fend them off snap snap.
This would provide thrust to alter its orbit,
Sounds good. Could the altered course be somewhat random though?
Safety related functionality should have a redundant overriding mechanism that isn't subject to the vagaries of software failure. For example, if the engine computer suddenly wants to run an explode subroutine, the fuel valve should limit the outcome to chitty chitty bang bang.
Then you don't have to check every line of code, you just have to check the overrides.
The idea that "if something is economically sound, it need not the support of politicians" is factually incorrect. Opium was freely traded with the Chinese who fought and lost two wars to prevent it
Warming planet will mean more snow. So we should be talking about cocaine!
That's no Death Star.
I have a tablet PC and have to say a stylus SUCKS! I use Windows 7 and ever since they improved the UI so that I can tap and twist my way through everywhere the pen has not left its socket.
A long time ago when I was in engineering university and the tablet idea first came (1990) out the administrative assistant to the dean of engineering said, "now that's a dumb idea." I was shocked and asked would you not want to write? She said, "no..." She said her husband is a professor in British history. Whenever he goes to the UK he has to copy books by hand (no pictures allowed, and no running the photo copier.) And when he has to write for three days solid his hands are completely cramped. Yet if he were to type there would be no such problem
For one thing, it sounds very much like the force of your argument against a tablet actually supports it more. The prof needs a tool that involves the actual process of writing, and lo the tablet PC is just such a device that happens to have a fully-blown computer. The manuscripts being copied are being preserved in a reduced light environment, yet a powerful device for transcribing them to digital form is at hand.
I use a tablet PC - much can be done to improve it - but once I got the hang of it, using a pen to move the cursor around beats moving the cursor with a mouse or finger pad. You learn to tap or just hover the tip of the pen and drag. Getting a cursor to move anywhere accurately and 10 times faster than a mouse without carpal tunnel syndrome can't be all bad. Working on a desk, I have an external keyboard instead of just relying on writing recognition for text entry, but working as a passenger in a vehicle, it's a lot easier to tilt a flattened tablet away from glare and the writing recognition is completely unfazed by the bizarre scrawling that road bumps cause. The accuracy is almost flawless. It helps to write a lot, and I do. Even though I use a keyboard for nitpicky text entry to textboxes, I cursively write long notes because it helps me think. Also, it helps me write well on the computer, so well that it looks almost like real-pen-and-paper writing.
The tablet of today requires you to use the stylus that comes with the computer. I can use an ordinary pen on one of the big HP touchscreens to move the cursor, but the computer can't track the fine movements of pen for writing. The tablet HP touchscreen of course is usable with its bundled stylus for writing.
However, my prediction is the tablet of the near future will allow ordinary pens to be used so you don't have to carry and lose the special stylus. A bit more processing horsepower, and people will love this type of computer.
The more common wording is "Too big to fail", which can be used to mean "Too big to whatever". Too big for anything is not a good thing these days.
With one of these who needs Armageddon?
A useful, and frightening device. If the neighbors have one in their backyard, I don't want to be in mine. NIMBY , or let me have one on my cell phone.
Why update?
If it ain't broke, it ain't.
Want protection? Back up your hard drive. This used to be easy when an image of the boot partition only took a couple hundred megs. But now? The image is huge, and goes out of date because everyone has to update update update.
Web browsing should be trapped in a virtual machine. So much has been done with virtual servers, but people ought to get into the hassle of virtual clients.
Google is intent on knowing everything, or at least be linked to every bit of knowledge. If Mohammad doesn't put the mountain online, Google will wire up the mountain. Kapeesh?
I gotta enter the pin so that I can use my gun to defend myself.
Ergo, entering the pin before leaving home will become second nature. Like, um, loading it.
The concept does have merits. A design for the paranoid: a 1 digit pin in a 3x4 keypad or a 10 digit strip will not cost that much time - about the same time as it takes to undo the safety - while if said mugger takes the gun it will be less lethal.
While this is not an entirely foolproof system, it does offer an added level of confidence, and that can be scary. You might actually encounter more people with concealed guns if they think the odds have tipped in their favor.
And Obi Bama explained eloquently, "That's no moon."
I honestly would pay a few dollars a month to have full stores that were JUST a concise listing of pertinent info with no ads or fluff.
How are you going to write that into the contract?
If it can move and place particles with 100% accuracy
Too bad the placed particles won't stay placed. If there is any kind of electric force between the placed atoms or the surrounding atoms, things will start moving. So you can't just build a cell or even a protein molecule atom by atom, like a building. If you want to build large objects on the atomic scale, you may have to handle bunches of wiggly molecules.
Nevertheless, building light-based computers and quantum computers never looked so easy. So let's have some on the shelves by Xmas 2012.
remaining options, such as driving backwards
Get stuck, go back.
Has the option of going backwards not been tried yet? Or is it stuck on the infinite loop of options - let's try this, nope doesn't work, how about going backwards? Nope. Let's try that. Uh uh. Did we try going backwards? Try it now.
Somehow nature has avoided evolving animals to have wheels. Maybe the next rover should have legs?
The fun part is that the (UK) cops can demand a decryption key for that, and lock me up when I inevitably fail to provide one
So tell them you were not the encrypter/encoder. You downloaded it. It's the same as people circumventing other hacks, such as the hacks at preventing file sharing - band together with a group of anonymous people. Download each others encrypted data. Obfuscate who the encrypter is, and your own encrypted data can hide.
If this isn't good enough, write a Star Trek story about Klingons. Include plenty of Klingon conversation. Key: kkjkjGHIUgibilh is Blimey! in Klingon. So is jGHLiubhjbiu78HVji67.
You can actually get medical equipment very cheaply, provided you declare that you will not use it for human use. What else you could use a heart monitor for is beyond me, but when they can strip liability from the price tag, the price goes down. Considerably down. Think 1/10th of the "all warranties included" price tag
So the doctors knowing all this are effecting what? Complaining, and making suppliers lower prices? Forcing Nintendo to slap on a non-medical label?
Do doctors try to get away by substituting with ordinary household appliances in the clinic? It all comes down to the interface. If Nintendo can be expected not to rethink their parts given the low price they're charging, then why not? Save money, and all that.
The doctors actually dismantled the mechanism. I suppose that's par for the course. Dr. MacGyver out in the sticks should know how to make do with all that is at hand.
Herald a great new age for medicine. As devices mature, the competitive environment forces them to become more multifunctional, and hence more adaptable to new purposes. Farewell to the days when a computer merely doubles as a doorstop. Third world medicine advances all the more due to the evolution of gadgets.
I have this weird feeling that had they gone with American services for building these websites at 10x the cost of using IdeaScale, the Slashdot summary would have read about the absurdly high spending that the Department of Labor is wasting our tax dollars
Forget not the question of where the jobs are with so much stimulus spending. It would not do to simply waste the money on protectionist schemes that merely purchase at inflated wages. Perhaps the stimulus should pay domestic people with their high education to figure out how everyone can cut back to 10% of their former wage, and that would still be greater than the $4400 per annum of an ostensibly intelligent programmer.
An economy with most of its people living at subsistence incomes would be untenable of course. The wage gap and the so-called jobless recovery, which conspiracy theorists should note as the rise of the machines, is a sign of how a few people who own machinery of production can gain wealth at a much greater pace.
but what I need in a laptop is long battery life
Maybe it's about time laptops were made to run on AA or AAA batteries so you can always buy or carry extra batteries if you have no way to charge.
- Glasses
- 3D Displays
Next: stack them together and wear them as glasses