"We had the story about unix.org losing their battle so this is a Good Thing."
Isn't it great that we have the editors at Slashdot to break things down to simple terms? All I need to do to make up my mind is look and see if it is a "Good Thing" or a "Bad Thing."
It's not the "cool" factor -- really, it isn't. You wear a wearable computer on the subway to work, and you deserve to be beaten down.
It's not the portability factor -- palmtops can provide a reasonable amount of punch too.
There are some niche uses -- say you're a mechanic -- it would be handy to have schematics right at your fingertips, er, eyeballs.
But more often than not, a wearable computer is really a wearable invitation for a well deserved ass kicking.
Admittedly, the article focuses on the use of wearable computers by astronauts and such, but as for use by the common man on a daily basis outside niche markets, its not going to happen.
You'd need to build something like i binary tree, where, say, a ball bearing or golf ball or whatnot starts a the top of a a board, and can either go left or right. You build as many stages as you need depending on the size of the random number, then number the possible results at the bottom.
The problem is that you'd need to be fairly precise, or you won't get true random numbers. This is the core problem.
Counting, say, the number of raindrops that fall in a certain time frame, or number of cars that go by your house with the bass turned up may be random, but the distribution won't be even. Either you're going to get a lot of rain, or no rain, and very seldomly somewhere in between -- and if you're like me, many many cars, but very few blissful, quiet nights.
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You are absolutely correct. If I post a reply without reading the article, I shouldn't cry if I get flamed. But to post an article without even reading it? Now thats insane.
A OLED working as a light is a different animal than an OLED working as a solar cell, so, you can't have your cake and recharge it too.
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Don't you *know* it. Who in their right mind uses the "Comic" font? Call me close minded, but I can't take any site serious that uses that ugly-ass font.
Gladys and Agnes / Radioactive Isaac / Love, Honor, and Obey SYNOPSIS: Two sisters turn the ship upside down when the widowed one tries to get her old maid sibling married off; Isaac falls apart when his advances to a gorgeous gal fail because his new tooth filling receives strange transmissions; a husband and wife... STARS: Gavin Macleod, Bernie Kopell, Fred Grandy, Ted Lange, Lauren Tewes, Jill Whelan GUEST STARS: Audra Lindley, Bernard Fox, Berlinda tolbert, Jerry Stiller, Anne Meara, Marion Ross
If I'm not mistaken, those ear piece - only headsets for cell phones and others work in the same way but reverse, taking vibrations from the jaw that are transmitted to the skull.
I suspect that you won't see so much as cell phones being implanted in your teeth, but rather, adapters for cellphones which would then transmit the signal on another frequency to the receiver in your tooth. It sounds like the model they've developed would work without a battery, using only the rf power, but I don't know for sure -- but if thats the case, then you solve a lot of your problems, such as supplying power to it. Then that brings up the issue of security -- if its passive, then you can't exactly encrypt / decrypt your signal very well.
Consider first that you can only utilize about 38% of the bandwidth over Ethernet before collisions start dragging things down. Then consider that it is not just one person who is on that ethernet, but a multitude of people. While one person may not be able to fill up the entire pipe. And do we really want to do that?
How many moves can a grand master think ahead? 5? 10? 20?
How many moves can a computer think ahead?
People fall into this....trap of thinking that if you can think, or rather, project, farther ahead than a grand master, you can beat them.
This is an incorrect assumption.
The problem lies in *how* positions are analyzed. Every beginer's chess book tells you that a pawn is worth one point, and a queen is worth nine and a rook is work five. But these values change depending on the unique circumstances of any given game, and until a computer is adept enough to discern those little changes, a computer that thinks a three hundred moves ahead is little better off than one that thinks ten.
So, in summation, I guess what I'm trying to say is, throwing more horsepower at the problem doesn't nescessarily help the situation.
In Kenya, there are several private companies that are selling solar panels to do the same sort of thing, except without all that nasty stationary bike stuff. Just pop the solar cell on the roof of your hut and you're in business. Turns out its not that terribly expensive, even by African standards. Currently you have some options if you're in a rural area in Kenya, and by some, I mean two, that being, taking your car battery to a charging station, or making payments on a solar panel. Its not a tough choice.
The author obviously has no comprehension of what he's talking about. This isn't about teaching computers how to feel, its about teaching computers how to *recognize* how people feel. Then he, or she, makes that jump from the one to the other by way of the HAL segue.
A computer that can recognize emotions, by any other name, is still a computer.
Ok, so Code Red clogged up a few computers, but didn't do anything really nasty to the victims. Most of the viruses have been pretty well behaved as far as reformatting drives and so forth.
HOWEVER, this doesn't mean that just because the virus writers of last year are nice enough not to kill your computer, that the virus writers of tomorrow won't. If you can write a virus, you can certainly write a bit of code to fubar someone's computer.
With that said, I'm reminded of my teenage years with an old 8088. I thought it would be so cool to write a virus -- not that I would have done anything destructive, mind you -- but never really had the resources to write one (knowledge, time, etc). In college, you have the ability to write such things, but by this time, most of us are mature enough *not* to, or at least not to bithcslap someone's computer.
Today its a different story. With viruses written in VB/VBscript and so forth, any 12 year old can modify them, even a little bit, and unleash a new (or rather, modified) virus.
The big problem with writing destructive viruses is that, once you kill your host computer, you can't keep infecting other computers. This is obvious. So, seeing that the goal of viruses is to spread as far as possible, killing your host is not very appealing. Unless you're a rage filled 15 year old who can't get a date for the prom...
So, I guess to sum it up, viruses are available that are easy to modify by teenagers with a minimum amount of knowledge, and minimum amount of restraint.
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"We had the story about unix.org losing their battle so this is a Good Thing."
Isn't it great that we have the editors at Slashdot to break things down to simple terms? All I need to do to make up my mind is look and see if it is a "Good Thing" or a "Bad Thing."
It's not the "cool" factor -- really, it isn't. You wear a wearable computer on the subway to work, and you deserve to be beaten down.
It's not the portability factor -- palmtops can provide a reasonable amount of punch too.
There are some niche uses -- say you're a mechanic -- it would be handy to have schematics right at your fingertips, er, eyeballs.
But more often than not, a wearable computer is really a wearable invitation for a well deserved ass kicking.
Admittedly, the article focuses on the use of wearable computers by astronauts and such, but as for use by the common man on a daily basis outside niche markets, its not going to happen.
You'd need to build something like i binary tree, where, say, a ball bearing or golf ball or whatnot starts a the top of a a board, and can either go left or right. You build as many stages as you need depending on the size of the random number, then number the possible results at the bottom.
The problem is that you'd need to be fairly precise, or you won't get true random numbers. This is the core problem.
Counting, say, the number of raindrops that fall in a certain time frame, or number of cars that go by your house with the bass turned up may be random, but the distribution won't be even. Either you're going to get a lot of rain, or no rain, and very seldomly somewhere in between -- and if you're like me, many many cars, but very few blissful, quiet nights.
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where author = 'Knuth';
You are absolutely correct. If I post a reply without reading the article, I shouldn't cry if I get flamed. But to post an article without even reading it? Now thats insane.
"According to Stewart Hough, vice president of Business Development, the polymer materials need to be formulated differently than for displays"
In the event of an emergency, your screen will not act as a flotation device.
A OLED working as a light is a different animal than an OLED working as a solar cell, so, you can't have your cake and recharge it too.
Don't you *know* it. Who in their right mind uses the "Comic" font? Call me close minded, but I can't take any site serious that uses that ugly-ass font.
What a bround greaking idea.
Expert systems are *so* 1980s.
They control the horizontal and the vertical!
a beowulf cluster of those?
Gladys and Agnes / Radioactive Isaac / Love, Honor, and Obey
SYNOPSIS: Two sisters turn the ship upside down when the widowed one tries to get her old maid sibling married off; Isaac falls apart when his advances to a gorgeous gal fail because his new tooth filling receives strange transmissions; a husband and wife...
STARS: Gavin Macleod, Bernie Kopell, Fred Grandy, Ted Lange, Lauren Tewes, Jill Whelan
GUEST STARS: Audra Lindley, Bernard Fox, Berlinda tolbert, Jerry Stiller, Anne Meara, Marion Ross
If I'm not mistaken, those ear piece - only headsets for cell phones and others work in the same way but reverse, taking vibrations from the jaw that are transmitted to the skull.
I suspect that you won't see so much as cell phones being implanted in your teeth, but rather, adapters for cellphones which would then transmit the signal on another frequency to the receiver in your tooth. It sounds like the model they've developed would work without a battery, using only the rf power, but I don't know for sure -- but if thats the case, then you solve a lot of your problems, such as supplying power to it. Then that brings up the issue of security -- if its passive, then you can't exactly encrypt / decrypt your signal very well.
What part of "Advanced Server Linux" don't you understand? Oh, I suppose the "Server" part.
but I'm no rat.
Great. Dump Microsoft but patronize Wal-Mart. Which is worse?
Thats silly.
Consider first that you can only utilize about 38% of the bandwidth over Ethernet before collisions start dragging things down. Then consider that it is not just one person who is on that ethernet, but a multitude of people. While one person may not be able to fill up the entire pipe. And do we really want to do that?
How many moves can a grand master think ahead? 5? 10? 20?
How many moves can a computer think ahead?
People fall into this....trap of thinking that if you can think, or rather, project, farther ahead than a grand master, you can beat them.
This is an incorrect assumption.
The problem lies in *how* positions are analyzed. Every beginer's chess book tells you that a pawn is worth one point, and a queen is worth nine and a rook is work five. But these values change depending on the unique circumstances of any given game, and until a computer is adept enough to discern those little changes, a computer that thinks a three hundred moves ahead is little better off than one that thinks ten.
So, in summation, I guess what I'm trying to say is, throwing more horsepower at the problem doesn't nescessarily help the situation.
better than fsck I suppose.
Like shockabsorbers for nanocars.
Retractable ball-point nanopens.
And perhaps the best, what rolls down nanostairs, alone or in pairs, the nanoslinky.
No. Shit. Negro.
I mean, come on. "The Lion King" was release what, seven years ago? Too bad The "Lion King II: Samba's Pride" went straight to video.
In Kenya, there are several private companies that are selling solar panels to do the same sort of thing, except without all that nasty stationary bike stuff. Just pop the solar cell on the roof of your hut and you're in business. Turns out its not that terribly expensive, even by African standards. Currently you have some options if you're in a rural area in Kenya, and by some, I mean two, that being, taking your car battery to a charging station, or making payments on a solar panel. Its not a tough choice.
The author obviously has no comprehension of what he's talking about. This isn't about teaching computers how to feel, its about teaching computers how to *recognize* how people feel. Then he, or she, makes that jump from the one to the other by way of the HAL segue.
A computer that can recognize emotions, by any other name, is still a computer.
Ok, so Code Red clogged up a few computers, but didn't do anything really nasty to the victims. Most of the viruses have been pretty well behaved as far as reformatting drives and so forth.
HOWEVER, this doesn't mean that just because the virus writers of last year are nice enough not to kill your computer, that the virus writers of tomorrow won't. If you can write a virus, you can certainly write a bit of code to fubar someone's computer.
With that said, I'm reminded of my teenage years with an old 8088. I thought it would be so cool to write a virus -- not that I would have done anything destructive, mind you -- but never really had the resources to write one (knowledge, time, etc). In college, you have the ability to write such things, but by this time, most of us are mature enough *not* to, or at least not to bithcslap someone's computer.
Today its a different story. With viruses written in VB/VBscript and so forth, any 12 year old can modify them, even a little bit, and unleash a new (or rather, modified) virus.
The big problem with writing destructive viruses is that, once you kill your host computer, you can't keep infecting other computers. This is obvious. So, seeing that the goal of viruses is to spread as far as possible, killing your host is not very appealing. Unless you're a rage filled 15 year old who can't get a date for the prom...
So, I guess to sum it up, viruses are available that are easy to modify by teenagers with a minimum amount of knowledge, and minimum amount of restraint.