In three years, my "console" will consist of my smartphone with an HDMI cable attached to it.
Another smartphone (or constellation of same) will be the controller(s), sensing motion, orientation, compass direction, temperature, sound, and impulses from my nerve endings, all transmitted to the console smartphone via HD Bluetooth, with a data assist via my home Wi-Fi or the local cellular net (which should be 5G or so).
Strap one to each extremety and watch me kick virtual ass in Mortal Kombat 2015 by doing actual martial-arts moves on my living-room carpet.
MS and Sony had better have freaking holograms that hit back if they want to compete with the world that's passing their asses by.
If you think patent law is unsettling, wait until you see Probate law.
Kill everyone who owns something, and it becomes property of their relatives, or their creditors, or the state, based on a table of primacy that would make your average FPU blow chunks.
If you can make one that automatically garbage-collects itself while ensuring that the types inserted are correct and array bounds are extended whenever space warrants, then you might have something. (although I'm pretty sure I did that predictive bounds extension thing in about 1987 so watch your step).
Everyone wants to play in the smartphone market. MS is already touting Windows 8 on ARM. And can't even get a foot into the tablet market, because of the Apple and Android players. If Android can't be easily untethered from licensing issues, it will open a big hole for Ballmer & Co. on every front of the future of personal computing.
News has always been sponsored. The only news that's "free" comes from NPR, which is weaker than piss after a redneck rodeo, even if it's credible. You weren't paying for the news, you were paying for the delivery.
Imagine trying to change all of that for everyone.
First you'd have to spend billions rewriting all the codes.
Then you'd have to spend billions retooling the mills.
Then you'd have to spend billions replicating it so you can continue to repair the old stuff.
Unless there's a way to do it in a small, self-contained community, where the tools, goods, plans, and records are all required to be in metric before the first item of each is produced, it's just not going to happen.
When you think of long distances, you have a sense of it in miles. When you think of shorter distances, you think in terms of feet. The 5280:1 conversion is rarely of importance for natural usage.
The ratio of 10:10:10:etc. is based on how many fingers you have. Why should it matter that the measure of a long distance is related to the measure of a short distance by a power of the number of fingers you have?
When you start thinking about any system of converting measurable quantities to numerical ones, it gets ludicrous at the level of the postulates, and looks reasonable just a couple of theorems later, no matter what the ratios are.
The answer is: work is about 3X as far as the bar, so I'll be stopping by the bar on the way home from work.
The NY Times used to have the highest newspaper circulation in the world.
Online is a hundred times more efficient than newsprint.
That 100K should be closer to 10M, after all they spent on it.
Printing the news is dead. Paying for the news is dead. Expecting people to consider your news site a one-stop shop or social hub is dead.
The NY Times should get with the rest of the world and differentiate its brand based on the quality, depth, and breadth of its reporting. Live and die by the by-line and the click-through from the headline aggregator. Because you're not going to find loyalty or exclusivity any more.
It's not. If you install moonlight from that link, then go back to the Project Tuva website, you get the same brush-off.
Microsoft isn't "supporting" Moonlight. They don't even use the word in their webpages. They just automatically redirect you if you try to install Silverlight on an unsupported platform.
Just downloaded the latest and tried it on the Project Tuva site.
No dice. The site won't serve the content. Claims my system is still unsupported and gives me the same click-through bum's rush that got me to do the latest Moonlight download.
They're working on a theory of Quantum Embargodynamics.
Once it's perfected they'll be able to keep you from doing anything without a license. No matter what kind of matter or energy you are, no matter where you are in the universe.
If you can ignite the fuel at multiple points during the time the piston is receding, you can tune the force transfer throughout the stroke. You're effectively taking the control of the burn rate away from the gasoline and putting it in the engine's hands.
And they pretty well pointed out that if you could use a spark plug at a higher spark energy, you could improve efficiency. The laser gives you that precision even without trying to futz around with the shape of the force curve.
Your understanding of the combustion is apparently limited to the limitations of the current system. You need to think outside that box. I'd think you already could, considering that race engines are not much like ordinary car engines, and there are many designs of engines, and many ways of getting them to spark, and many kinds of fuel.
I wonder if this wouldn't make rotary engines cheaper. The plugs on the Mazdas are (or at least used to be) a nightmare.
Wonder why he made the mold instead of just measuring the piston and head; probably didn't have the right laser measuring tool.
You're right, you want force. And you want the force to follow a certain curve as the piston recedes from just-past-TDC. With the laser igniting wavefronts in multiple points of the cylinder at varying times, you can probably make the force curve look almost any way you want. Couple that with custom cylinder shaping and you might reach whatever theoretical maximum efficiency there is for internal-combustion engines.
Their reason for wanting the laser is totally sound. Learning-curve pricing on mass-manufactured goods will make their cost sound (a solid-state laser is basically an LED; they cost next to nothing to build in quantity, and the only interesting expense is the chemistry of the semiconductor). The only unsound part is how are they going to keep it clean. They're going to lose efficiency and simplicity if they have to install a separate laser just to zap gunk off the sparking laser between the exhaust and intake cycles.
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Yes. All my shirts are black turtlenecks. Duh.
I will probably have a smartphone for each color of shirt.
And, in the future, just so you know, your choice of breakfast cereal, sleeping hours, and mate will be constrained by your wireless carrier.
Such is the curve on which corporate power is trajecting these days.
In three years, my "console" will consist of my smartphone with an HDMI cable attached to it.
Another smartphone (or constellation of same) will be the controller(s), sensing motion, orientation, compass direction, temperature, sound, and impulses from my nerve endings, all transmitted to the console smartphone via HD Bluetooth, with a data assist via my home Wi-Fi or the local cellular net (which should be 5G or so).
Strap one to each extremety and watch me kick virtual ass in Mortal Kombat 2015 by doing actual martial-arts moves on my living-room carpet.
MS and Sony had better have freaking holograms that hit back if they want to compete with the world that's passing their asses by.
If you think patent law is unsettling, wait until you see Probate law.
Kill everyone who owns something, and it becomes property of their relatives, or their creditors, or the state, based on a table of primacy that would make your average FPU blow chunks.
If you can make one that automatically garbage-collects itself while ensuring that the types inserted are correct and array bounds are extended whenever space warrants, then you might have something. (although I'm pretty sure I did that predictive bounds extension thing in about 1987 so watch your step).
yeah, but Bedrock doesn't own the business-model patent for that
so all your royalty are belong to Rambus
It's not a patent for doing that, it's a patent for a way of doing that.
I wouldn't be surprised if there's already a patch for it.
Everyone wants to play in the smartphone market. MS is already touting Windows 8 on ARM. And can't even get a foot into the tablet market, because of the Apple and Android players. If Android can't be easily untethered from licensing issues, it will open a big hole for Ballmer & Co. on every front of the future of personal computing.
News has always been sponsored. The only news that's "free" comes from NPR, which is weaker than piss after a redneck rodeo, even if it's credible. You weren't paying for the news, you were paying for the delivery.
Imagine trying to change all of that for everyone.
First you'd have to spend billions rewriting all the codes.
Then you'd have to spend billions retooling the mills.
Then you'd have to spend billions replicating it so you can continue to repair the old stuff.
Unless there's a way to do it in a small, self-contained community, where the tools, goods, plans, and records are all required to be in metric before the first item of each is produced, it's just not going to happen.
And we'd actually been using it for decades before that. I've seen images of civil-war supply documents labelled in metric units.
That's not as big a deal as you think.
When you think of long distances, you have a sense of it in miles. When you think of shorter distances, you think in terms of feet. The 5280:1 conversion is rarely of importance for natural usage.
The ratio of 10:10:10:etc. is based on how many fingers you have. Why should it matter that the measure of a long distance is related to the measure of a short distance by a power of the number of fingers you have?
When you start thinking about any system of converting measurable quantities to numerical ones, it gets ludicrous at the level of the postulates, and looks reasonable just a couple of theorems later, no matter what the ratios are.
The answer is: work is about 3X as far as the bar, so I'll be stopping by the bar on the way home from work.
The NY Times used to have the highest newspaper circulation in the world.
Online is a hundred times more efficient than newsprint.
That 100K should be closer to 10M, after all they spent on it.
Printing the news is dead. Paying for the news is dead. Expecting people to consider your news site a one-stop shop or social hub is dead.
The NY Times should get with the rest of the world and differentiate its brand based on the quality, depth, and breadth of its reporting. Live and die by the by-line and the click-through from the headline aggregator. Because you're not going to find loyalty or exclusivity any more.
What do you mean?
I've had a cloud in my desktop machine for years.
The path to it is "/"
Change.Org says that for the past several days the Chinese have been DDoSing it over a petition they are posting to gather support for Ai WeiWei.
http://blog.change.org/2011/04/chinese-hackers-attack-change-org-platform-in-reaction-to-ai-weiwei-campaign/
But if you go to the Change.Org site to sign the petition, you get a message saying that something is wrong with their servers, which are at Amazon.
http://www.change.org/petitions/call-for-the-release-of-ai-weiwei
http://status.aws.amazon.com/
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9216064/Amazon_gets_black_eye_from_cloud_outage
Could Amazon's outage be the result of Chinese hackers?
No, it's different from content you could see if you clicked on it.
That would make it twice as efficient.
Conversely, this is going to make the pencil pretty useless.
I mean, is the pencil writing on the paper, or is the paper writing on the pencil? And how could you tell?
In order to comment on the content, you have to see the content.
I'm guessing we're finding out how many /. users use /. on Windows boxes this time of day.
Flash runs on (almost) everything, and is being ported to run on everything (that's more than trivially worth porting to).
Silverlight is being deliberately hoarded for use only by Windows and Macintosh machines.
It's not. If you install moonlight from that link, then go back to the Project Tuva website, you get the same brush-off.
Microsoft isn't "supporting" Moonlight. They don't even use the word in their webpages. They just automatically redirect you if you try to install Silverlight on an unsupported platform.
Just downloaded the latest and tried it on the Project Tuva site.
No dice. The site won't serve the content. Claims my system is still unsupported and gives me the same click-through bum's rush that got me to do the latest Moonlight download.
It's part of an experiment.
They're working on a theory of Quantum Embargodynamics.
Once it's perfected they'll be able to keep you from doing anything without a license. No matter what kind of matter or energy you are, no matter where you are in the universe.
If you can ignite the fuel at multiple points during the time the piston is receding, you can tune the force transfer throughout the stroke. You're effectively taking the control of the burn rate away from the gasoline and putting it in the engine's hands.
And they pretty well pointed out that if you could use a spark plug at a higher spark energy, you could improve efficiency. The laser gives you that precision even without trying to futz around with the shape of the force curve.
Your understanding of the combustion is apparently limited to the limitations of the current system. You need to think outside that box. I'd think you already could, considering that race engines are not much like ordinary car engines, and there are many designs of engines, and many ways of getting them to spark, and many kinds of fuel.
I wonder if this wouldn't make rotary engines cheaper. The plugs on the Mazdas are (or at least used to be) a nightmare.
Wonder why he made the mold instead of just measuring the piston and head; probably didn't have the right laser measuring tool.
You're right, you want force. And you want the force to follow a certain curve as the piston recedes from just-past-TDC. With the laser igniting wavefronts in multiple points of the cylinder at varying times, you can probably make the force curve look almost any way you want. Couple that with custom cylinder shaping and you might reach whatever theoretical maximum efficiency there is for internal-combustion engines.
Their reason for wanting the laser is totally sound. Learning-curve pricing on mass-manufactured goods will make their cost sound (a solid-state laser is basically an LED; they cost next to nothing to build in quantity, and the only interesting expense is the chemistry of the semiconductor). The only unsound part is how are they going to keep it clean. They're going to lose efficiency and simplicity if they have to install a separate laser just to zap gunk off the sparking laser between the exhaust and intake cycles.