I recall watching a TV program on the Autobahn (SP?), and there was mention that explicit emotional expression such as flipping someone off, or honking too long can lead to a traffic violation. So would these cars with emotions be illegal?
I, as well, went to UC Riverside, and studied under Hyde in two courses. CS-013, lower division course, but still tough, because it covered many many aspects of ASM which helped me understand in basic terms what the direct consequences of typing code can lead to.
Very great teacher, and I'm glad I had him at UCR. Btw, Art of Assembly is a great book!
both of these fellows were also around at Bletchley Park, and definitely had a lot to contribute to the foundation of modern computing. VonNeuman with his architecture description of a computing machine, as well as Shannon's work on grammars, regular expressions, etc.
In addition, let's keep in mind, there aren't many outside nodes, if at all, that can access this particular network. Also, the access to these nodes just to type in the password is like crazy. In fact, to get to one of the silos requires about 2 hours of unlocking PROPERLY. That is, if you were gonna use the blunt force method just to get into the silo, you'd be there for quite some time. Also remember there is some physical key work involved just to ignite the ICBM.
As with any mission critical systems, there is redundancy in every aspect of the ICBM system from the authentication to the verification of the target being neutralized. So what if there was a password set to 0000000? There still has to be a number of other things set by others in numerous locations in order to do this. One reason was so that the president could not launch a missile on a bad hair day or a mad general (or group, in fact) could not launch in order to lead a coup.
in addition, the passwords for the different sub-systems would vary as well as require a number of actual physical keys in order to get the nuclear war machine into motion.
If you really think it only takes one password to launch an american military nuke (even if we were in the 60s), you're totally mislead.
Well, thank you for being a total cynic, probably either A) from a country that was stupid enough to follow the US blindly up until about 15 years ago, or B) a person from the other side of the Iron curtain with a lot of tension that is still being released.
"your government"! haha. What country are you from?
Don't compare these guys to Valenti. Before you go on with your adolescent bitching and whining about Valenti, realize that he was one of the "special advisors" that helped establish policy during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations.
Policy is not the same as just being smart, but it requires a sense of wisdom and understanding of how the world as a whole works. You may think this is utter bs, but think about this...we're still alive after those policies have been established.
She was called 3Jane because in Neuromancer, if memory serves right, her father would from time to time, come out of cryo and want to relive the murder of his daughter, 2 clones which he killed before 3Jane.
Totally agreeing on this. Such a stupid story post.
Perhaps the topic would have been better if the question asked was to the order of "Is buying from the US really worth it with the low dollar value in mind?"
Not! If anything, the govt. had very high standards on this competition.
Take the development of the stealth fighter, aka the F11A. For the preliminary round of competition, all the competing firms had a simpler start: make a model of a plane that could withstand wind tunnel and radar tests. It was way lower in scale, and was only the shell reflecting the shape of the plane. Not to mention these guys had about 6months to a year to develop just this.
With this precedent in mind, this competition was asking *way* too much for within the alloted time. Perhaps they could have used model cars or golf carts over a smaller distance of terrain. Or perhaps just one terrain as a preliminary test.
I wish I could tell you. What I can tell you is that one of the local channels out here in the Los Angeles, California area plays international programming sorta like the International Channel. If you live out in the LA area, it's channel 56 KDOC, and they were on Sunday nights.
I saw another good documentary in the series about Nissan/Datsun's early development of the Z-series back in the 60s/70s. Again, they interviewed the engineers and designeers behind the project. Great stuff!
If anyone knows the name of the series, please let me know!
I see a lot of people saying how digital photography was supposedly "totally obvious" in the 1980s. Totally wrong.
I was watching this Japanese documentary (thank goodness it was subtitled!) about canon's development of the digital camera. Some things to keep in mind of the time:
- the processing power to display the image on a computer was so great, it wasn't perceivable to make such an affordable device. Did anyone have 32 bit graphics on their PC in 1983?
- even if the device could be made it would weigh a lot!
According to these canon engineers that developed the digital photo camera, digital photogaphy wasn't perceived as a reality in the early 80s. In fact, the only real r&d (way more r than d) was being put into digital video cams, and that was considered bleeding edge, since a lot of the effort was being put into having a more portable tape-recording video camera.
When Canon finally made a successful prototype, they took it out to a park in Tokyo, where they took a picture of a young lady with a dog. The device was the size of large pizza box! This box weight a lot and took up a lot of power. Sure, it was a prototype, but this was the result of almost 6 years of development.
What we may see as obvious from our 21st century standpoint definitely wasn't so in the early 80s.
This is more William Gibson rather than Matrix.
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The poster is either really young or got into geekish stuff after he saw the Matrix screensaver.
In the Matrix, the singals only control movement in a virtual environment. As for moving objects within the physical world, this is much more in the alley of William Gibson. I'd suggest reading Burning Chrome as a start. These short stories, most which were written long ago in the late 70s (yes late 70s) to be published in Omni magazine (remember that?). In addition to tapping into cyberspace with a headjack, a person could hook up to a jet and pilot it with no hands (Turner in Count Zero).
If you also check out Gibson's Cyberpunk trilogy from the 80s, you'll see the reasoning behind the mind/machine link - the military began with hooking up monkeys to vitural cockpits to see if human pilots would be able to fly jets with no hands and ideally, romotely.
I realize this may be considered by many as off-topic, but please hear me out before marking me so.
I'm going to have to lean toward the neo-facist comment. I've been a student of history for some time now, and am starting to notice the many parallels between the events in the United States and that of Weimar Republic Germany in the mid-to-late 1920s. This can be illustrated by the increasing political stagnation while society is "moving forward" at a fast rate.
Economically speaking, I think we Americans may be venting our anger at the wrong people, but if this continues, it will eventually lead to a sort of new age isolationism in America. Another thing to note is that American government makes a big change when the isolationist period ends. True, with globalization, it will be more difficult for this to occur, but you could look at france as a modern day example of this new age isolationalism.
Another example: I won't get too off topic, but for a decent chunk of time, Berlin was known in the 20s as a Mecca for homosexuals due to the lack of enforcement of any sort of anti-gay laws. Look at San Francisco right now with this whole gay marraige issue.
This sort of behavior that we Americans are starting to display now with the lack of action/reaction within our government can prove as an ideal source for a dictatorship.
While, I myself feel that a dictatorship isn't a totally bad thing (Castro), we should definitely examine this matter and realize what is occuring.
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If it's a song swapper, they will learn what P2P DOESN'T run on the Mac.
Uhm, no. There are many gnutella clients out there for the Mac and quite a few BT clients as well.
For you e-donkey, kazaa, soulseek fans out there, there is mlmac, which supports those protocols and bundle them all in one nice package.
I recall watching a TV program on the Autobahn (SP?), and there was mention that explicit emotional expression such as flipping someone off, or honking too long can lead to a traffic violation. So would these cars with emotions be illegal?
..anti-american threats. So of course he means no harm.
Damn
Totally agreeing with Mr. Jones on this.
I, as well, went to UC Riverside, and studied under Hyde in two courses. CS-013, lower division course, but still tough, because it covered many many aspects of ASM which helped me understand in basic terms what the direct consequences of typing code can lead to.
Very great teacher, and I'm glad I had him at UCR. Btw, Art of Assembly is a great book!
both of these fellows were also around at Bletchley Park, and definitely had a lot to contribute to the foundation of modern computing. VonNeuman with his architecture description of a computing machine, as well as Shannon's work on grammars, regular expressions, etc.
Agreed.
In addition, let's keep in mind, there aren't many outside nodes, if at all, that can access this particular network. Also, the access to these nodes just to type in the password is like crazy. In fact, to get to one of the silos requires about 2 hours of unlocking PROPERLY. That is, if you were gonna use the blunt force method just to get into the silo, you'd be there for quite some time. Also remember there is some physical key work involved just to ignite the ICBM.
As with any mission critical systems, there is redundancy in every aspect of the ICBM system from the authentication to the verification of the target being neutralized. So what if there was a password set to 0000000? There still has to be a number of other things set by others in numerous locations in order to do this. One reason was so that the president could not launch a missile on a bad hair day or a mad general (or group, in fact) could not launch in order to lead a coup.
in addition, the passwords for the different sub-systems would vary as well as require a number of actual physical keys in order to get the nuclear war machine into motion.
If you really think it only takes one password to launch an american military nuke (even if we were in the 60s), you're totally mislead.
He was a Catholic monk who is considered the "godfather of genetics".
If you're gonna be ranting against american defense policy, at least get the terminology right!
Well, thank you for being a total cynic, probably either A) from a country that was stupid enough to follow the US blindly up until about 15 years ago, or B) a person from the other side of the Iron curtain with a lot of tension that is still being released.
"your government"! haha. What country are you from?
Don't compare these guys to Valenti. Before you go on with your adolescent bitching and whining about Valenti, realize that he was one of the "special advisors" that helped establish policy during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations.
Policy is not the same as just being smart, but it requires a sense of wisdom and understanding of how the world as a whole works. You may think this is utter bs, but think about this...we're still alive after those policies have been established.
I mean, are there any news articles that can collerberate what this guy is posting or is this a tall tale?
She was called 3Jane because in Neuromancer, if memory serves right, her father would from time to time, come out of cryo and want to relive the murder of his daughter, 2 clones which he killed before 3Jane.
Totally agreeing on this. Such a stupid story post.
Perhaps the topic would have been better if the question asked was to the order of "Is buying from the US really worth it with the low dollar value in mind?"
Totally true. Usually I see people here posting rants about Indian labor or pros for how this will benefit all of us. An original post!
Not! If anything, the govt. had very high standards on this competition.
Take the development of the stealth fighter, aka the F11A. For the preliminary round of competition, all the competing firms had a simpler start: make a model of a plane that could withstand wind tunnel and radar tests. It was way lower in scale, and was only the shell reflecting the shape of the plane. Not to mention these guys had about 6months to a year to develop just this.
With this precedent in mind, this competition was asking *way* too much for within the alloted time. Perhaps they could have used model cars or golf carts over a smaller distance of terrain. Or perhaps just one terrain as a preliminary test.
baby steps...
I wish I could tell you. What I can tell you is that one of the local channels out here in the Los Angeles, California area plays international programming sorta like the International Channel. If you live out in the LA area, it's channel 56 KDOC, and they were on Sunday nights.
I saw another good documentary in the series about Nissan/Datsun's early development of the Z-series back in the 60s/70s. Again, they interviewed the engineers and designeers behind the project. Great stuff!
If anyone knows the name of the series, please let me know!
I'm just curious, because I just remembered that earlier probes such as the ones you mention made great use of digital photography.
Was it actually NASA that implemented the digital photography, or was it contracted out to a company, like say...Kodak?
I see a lot of people saying how digital photography was supposedly "totally obvious" in the 1980s. Totally wrong.
I was watching this Japanese documentary (thank goodness it was subtitled!) about canon's development of the digital camera. Some things to keep in mind of the time:
- the processing power to display the image on a computer was so great, it wasn't perceivable to make such an affordable device. Did anyone have 32 bit graphics on their PC in 1983?
- even if the device could be made it would weigh a lot!
According to these canon engineers that developed the digital photo camera, digital photogaphy wasn't perceived as a reality in the early 80s. In fact, the only real r&d (way more r than d) was being put into digital video cams, and that was considered bleeding edge, since a lot of the effort was being put into having a more portable tape-recording video camera.
When Canon finally made a successful prototype, they took it out to a park in Tokyo, where they took a picture of a young lady with a dog. The device was the size of large pizza box! This box weight a lot and took up a lot of power. Sure, it was a prototype, but this was the result of almost 6 years of development.
What we may see as obvious from our 21st century standpoint definitely wasn't so in the early 80s.
The poster is either really young or got into geekish stuff after he saw the Matrix screensaver.
In the Matrix, the singals only control movement in a virtual environment. As for moving objects within the physical world, this is much more in the alley of William Gibson. I'd suggest reading Burning Chrome as a start. These short stories, most which were written long ago in the late 70s (yes late 70s) to be published in Omni magazine (remember that?). In addition to tapping into cyberspace with a headjack, a person could hook up to a jet and pilot it with no hands (Turner in Count Zero).
If you also check out Gibson's Cyberpunk trilogy from the 80s, you'll see the reasoning behind the mind/machine link - the military began with hooking up monkeys to vitural cockpits to see if human pilots would be able to fly jets with no hands and ideally, romotely.
I'm here!
What a crock of shit!
I wonder if Apple actually replied to one of those "Get out of Debt!" spams.
I realize this may be considered by many as off-topic, but please hear me out before marking me so.
I'm going to have to lean toward the neo-facist comment. I've been a student of history for some time now, and am starting to notice the many parallels between the events in the United States and that of Weimar Republic Germany in the mid-to-late 1920s. This can be illustrated by the increasing political stagnation while society is "moving forward" at a fast rate.
Economically speaking, I think we Americans may be venting our anger at the wrong people, but if this continues, it will eventually lead to a sort of new age isolationism in America. Another thing to note is that American government makes a big change when the isolationist period ends. True, with globalization, it will be more difficult for this to occur, but you could look at france as a modern day example of this new age isolationalism.
Another example: I won't get too off topic, but for a decent chunk of time, Berlin was known in the 20s as a Mecca for homosexuals due to the lack of enforcement of any sort of anti-gay laws. Look at San Francisco right now with this whole gay marraige issue.
This sort of behavior that we Americans are starting to display now with the lack of action/reaction within our government can prove as an ideal source for a dictatorship.
While, I myself feel that a dictatorship isn't a totally bad thing (Castro), we should definitely examine this matter and realize what is occuring.