Bemani = Play-along games, and includes other games such as Drum Mania, Guitar Freaks, and Keyboard Mania. As well, there are other games that you can play along such as "the punching game", and a few others.
I have always looked at these musical games and thought to myself that they would have tremendous potential as a music teaching tool. The only thing that would need to be changed is that as well as the little coloured bars falling to indicate which button, key, pad to press, hit, slam, they could also include actual music notation. Not only would this make it so that what they learn on the machines is applicable to the rest of the world (if they learn to read notes fast, then they can play music faster), but also allows the opportunity for teachers of music to teach students the fundamentals. (So, if anyone from Konami reads this, consider the possibility of putting real music notation in the games):-)
As well, not only is bemani games good for that, but Drum Mania at high real and extreme real levels is a fantastic arm workout, and "the punching game" (Sorry, i don't remember the name of it) is also an amazing reflex workout. There are other ones as well that would be quite effective in getting students to exercise and yet still be entertaining.
Something I remember quite clearly from my days in High School is the fact that the people who loved gym class, and sports and football and.. well the Jocks absolutely dispised the thought of dancing at dances. They would only show up at a dance if they were dragged along by a g/f. But, the guys like me who were computer/video game fans also quite enjoyed techno and most of my friends from HS are really into DDR (as well as me, I own every mix for my PS2), as well as the other Bemani games.
Now, here's the interesting twist. Since gym classes are switching to DDR (and potentially other games) to get their students interested, and the current jocks hate dancing...
Something to think about, I think it's a cute thought.
Quantum encryption uses quite different techniques then this. Since the information contained within the photon can only be used by one party effectively in quantum teleportation, it would be equivalent to Alice handing Bob an exact replica of the codebook, and then burning her copy of the codebook (thereby making Bobs copy the original in a weird twisted QM way).
Well, the problem is that what they do is have both parties with one half of a EPR pair. Then to teleport the photon, the first person interacts the photon with her half of the EPR pair, and then measures the the results (1 of 4 possible results), then she sends this information to Bob. Then bob will have an exact replica of the photon she destroyed when she measured it (you destroy the quantum information after measuring), but Bob can recover an exact replica of the photon.
Now the problem is that she has to measure it and then send the information at the same time that she wanted to send the information. She cannot just send it all before hand since the measurement is based on the interaction between her half of the EPR pair and the photon that she wants to send.
Well, this is an interesting intellectual curiousity, but really has little use.
The problem is that the quantum state has to be communicated to the source for the laser beam to be transported. These communications are done through classical communcation channels, and therefore the fastest you can teleport a laser beam is at the speed of light. Which raises the question of why don't they just send the laser down the pipe to where its supposed to be. As well, with Shannon's information theory put in this would actually be a slower way to communicate information.
Thus, it's very nice to see that they have made some more progress with quantum teleportation, this isn't that revolutionary since the communication speed is still limited by the speed of light.
Considering Java is a language that only requires an interpreter that works with the OS on any machine.
You can run java on any computer, as long as you have an java interpreter on that machine as well. So hypothetically, you've always been able to run java in XP, you just needed the interpreter.(or the processor understands javacode, which is highly unlikely, Probability --> 0)
Just a humourous thought.:-) I personally love java... when used properly.
I would have to say the ENIAC and/or earlier computers had a much higher per byte cost. Thinking about how little memory they had. Hell some of the early computers only had a processor cache.
1- "Hey, here's an interesting thought, guys" 2- "What?" 1- "Let's make everyone who downloads our music get annoyed so they won't bother downloading it anymore, and then they'll be forced to buy the CDs" 2- "Yeah, but won't that also detract them away from downloading our music" 1- "Exactly, now they'll be forced to pay big money for CDs" 2- "Yeah, but why would they buy the CD if they don't know if they like the song?" 1- "Well, because they'll have no choice" 2- "But, aren't there independent artists on P2P, can't they just download their music, and if they like it buy their CDs" 1- "Why would they do that?" 2- "Well, because then they know that they will enjoy the CDs" 1- "Naw, look at the sales, we sell more CDs" 2- "But, isn't that just because we have our CDs on sale in more places?" 1- "Meh... leave me alone, it's a good idea. Trust me." 2- "Okay, at least it'll be cheaper then all these lawsuits."
Anyone with any knowledge in that field knows that the best way to find out if a system is secure and difficult to break is to release the source code, algorithms, etc. to the general public and let them have at it.
The worst form of security is one that depends on the hope that the opposition can't access your code. For good security, you must assume that the opposition can always access your code, be it through OS, in which case everyone can access your code, or just through Reverse Engineering. While you can hope that R.E. is difficult for them, you can know that if no one else on the planet can break your system, there isn't much of a chance your opponent will either.
I watch the previews for this movie, and I thought either Robin Williams just wasn't going to cut it for this movie, or it was going to be the most disturbing character I have ever seen. Apparently, it was the former.
He's just too much a nice, wacky guy to come across as a killer I guess.
(All IMHO, considering IHNSTM (I have not seen the Movie))
Everyone uses the new technology model to handle radio waves.
If one person follows the old pattern, he can seriously degrade if not destroy an entire band capacity by throwing what the new model considers garbage into the stream.
How would you like to have thousands of programmers working for you for free, producing a product you can distribute afterwards?
If any bugs exist in the product you sell, you can always blame it on the programmers. Plus, you can still bundle software with your distributions without worrying about anti-trust laws.
Basically, a quick way out of all of your troubles with really very little loss for you. (Other then the complete monopoly, but who needs a monopoly when people work for free?)
But, I was thinking since this guy is getting in trouble because he wasn't anonymous enough. Perhaps we should all start using Publius to publish content which should be freely available online, and then we don't need to worry about lawsuits as much.
As long as people can do a few select things, there will never be a way to stop copying. Just makes it a bit more difficult.
If someone can go down to the electronics store and purchase bare-bones electronic parts, someone can create a device that will be able to record and digitize any output that leaves and or enters my computer. This applies to _everything_. Then they just easily distribute it to the non-techies over the internet from some country that doesn't firewall or monitor all of its citizens traffic, if necessary using one of the very anonymous protocols that exist. (I would include a link, but I can't remember the name for the life of me.)
It's a complete waste of time to try to implement copyright protection as long as someone is able to get wire, electronic parts, and has a will to do so.
Therefore, they should give up now, and try to develop a new business model. Otherwise they'll just waste their time and money, and get real frustrated in the process.
The question that arises from all of this is the famouse philosophical question:
What really is intelligent life?
I know many people who would argue that while there may not be any life as intelligent as us. There may be life more intelligent, or less intelligent then us in the galaxy.
Remember, intelligence is a human defined concept about humans. Therefore, it's not hard to believe we are the only "intelligent" beings in the galaxy. (Just IMHO)
Well, actually it might lead to just more costs for us. As spammers will take up our bandwidth as well as their own. Therefore, each message we receive will cost us more money.
Thus, I could easily see that a per bandwidth charge will lead to anti-spam legislation, or better blocking by ISPs.
I know that I hate the fact that I am going to probably end up paying more for my highspeed connection, but I can see the reasons for charging extra for bandwidth users. A lot of current services we use charge base on usage, why shouldn't the internet? It might lead to a better underlying architecture and better speeds eventually for everyone.
The big question to ask is whether this extra money they earn is going to be put into improving the system that they currently have, and thus over time improve service for all of their customers.
Another thing I forgot is that with the hydrogen produced by the process and the CO2 in the atmosphere, a fuel can be generated to handle flying back to Earth.
Thus, the entire mission costs drop dramatically.
Wow, This brings a mission to within 10 years if NASA or another agency is smart.
Well, the thing is that we don't need Nitrogen in the air to survive. The only reason Nitrogen is used in the space program is because pure oxygen in the air is an incredible hazard (as shown in the Apollo I catastrophy.)
Even then, the amount of neutral gas like Nitrogen needed to prevent oxidation disasters is far less then the amount of oxygen needed to survive.
(compounds like ATP) + O2 = Energy + (waste byproducts)
There is no N2 in that equation.
Just hoping to clarify a few things. Yes we will need to bring something or produce some other gas so the air isn't as combustible as pure oxygen, but the only thing we really need to breathe is oxygen.
This is absolutely amazing news. I am quite excited about the prospects for future exploration of hte inner space system.
One concern though would be that perhaps we should consider Martian environmental concerns as well before launching a mission and/or a colony there. I would hate to see the natural beauty of Mars (which exists in my opinion) destroyed by mindless exploration.
I think it's great that we are going to be able to go now, but we should avoid making the errors we have made in the past.
Having ice on mars solves two major problems with shipping human beings to mars, and even creating a settlement there.
First, now we only need to ship enough water to keep them alive for the trip there, thus saving an incredible amount of energy.
Second, which is not so obvious. We only need to send enough oxygen for the trip there. Why? Well, ice is water, water is H2O
2 parts Hydrogen, 1 part Oxygen.
You can chemically seperate the oxygen from the hydrogen using electricity, which is easily generated by either solar collectors and/or a nuclear powerplant. Thus, they can not only drink, but breathe when they get to Mars.
This is an absolutely amazing finding (if it is true), since now it will become considerably cheaper to send people to Mars. Also, it might even become more feasible to leave them there with a colony then to send them back.
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Bemani = Play-along games, and includes other games such as Drum Mania, Guitar Freaks, and Keyboard Mania. As well, there are other games that you can play along such as "the punching game", and a few others.
:-)
I have always looked at these musical games and thought to myself that they would have tremendous potential as a music teaching tool. The only thing that would need to be changed is that as well as the little coloured bars falling to indicate which button, key, pad to press, hit, slam, they could also include actual music notation. Not only would this make it so that what they learn on the machines is applicable to the rest of the world (if they learn to read notes fast, then they can play music faster), but also allows the opportunity for teachers of music to teach students the fundamentals. (So, if anyone from Konami reads this, consider the possibility of putting real music notation in the games)
As well, not only is bemani games good for that, but Drum Mania at high real and extreme real levels is a fantastic arm workout, and "the punching game" (Sorry, i don't remember the name of it) is also an amazing reflex workout. There are other ones as well that would be quite effective in getting students to exercise and yet still be entertaining.
Just some thoughts on Bemani games.
Something I remember quite clearly from my days in High School is the fact that the people who loved gym class, and sports and football and.. well the Jocks absolutely dispised the thought of dancing at dances. They would only show up at a dance if they were dragged along by a g/f. But, the guys like me who were computer/video game fans also quite enjoyed techno and most of my friends from HS are really into DDR (as well as me, I own every mix for my PS2), as well as the other Bemani games.
Now, here's the interesting twist. Since gym classes are switching to DDR (and potentially other games) to get their students interested, and the current jocks hate dancing...
Something to think about, I think it's a cute thought.
Quantum encryption uses quite different techniques then this. Since the information contained within the photon can only be used by one party effectively in quantum teleportation, it would be equivalent to Alice handing Bob an exact replica of the codebook, and then burning her copy of the codebook (thereby making Bobs copy the original in a weird twisted QM way).
Well, the problem is that what they do is have both parties with one half of a EPR pair. Then to teleport the photon, the first person interacts the photon with her half of the EPR pair, and then measures the the results (1 of 4 possible results), then she sends this information to Bob. Then bob will have an exact replica of the photon she destroyed when she measured it (you destroy the quantum information after measuring), but Bob can recover an exact replica of the photon.
Now the problem is that she has to measure it and then send the information at the same time that she wanted to send the information. She cannot just send it all before hand since the measurement is based on the interaction between her half of the EPR pair and the photon that she wants to send.
In answer to your question,
he is a brilliant self aggrandizer.
Well, this is an interesting intellectual curiousity, but really has little use.
The problem is that the quantum state has to be communicated to the source for the laser beam to be transported. These communications are done through classical communcation channels, and therefore the fastest you can teleport a laser beam is at the speed of light. Which raises the question of why don't they just send the laser down the pipe to where its supposed to be. As well, with Shannon's information theory put in this would actually be a slower way to communicate information.
Thus, it's very nice to see that they have made some more progress with quantum teleportation, this isn't that revolutionary since the communication speed is still limited by the speed of light.
Considering Java is a language that only requires an interpreter that works with the OS on any machine.
:-) I personally love java... when used properly.
You can run java on any computer, as long as you have an java interpreter on that machine as well. So hypothetically, you've always been able to run java in XP, you just needed the interpreter.(or the processor understands javacode, which is highly unlikely, Probability --> 0)
Just a humourous thought.
Personally, I am more interested in this little gem that IBM is working on. I think it has considerably more potential:
e se arch.nsf/pages/storage297.html#one
http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/wwwr_thinkr
That page also has info on other projects IBM has been doing on HD research.
I would have to say the ENIAC and/or earlier computers had a much higher per byte cost. Thinking about how little memory they had. Hell some of the early computers only had a processor cache.
I can just envision the execs....
1- "Hey, here's an interesting thought, guys"
2- "What?"
1- "Let's make everyone who downloads our music get annoyed so they won't bother downloading it anymore, and then they'll be forced to buy the CDs"
2- "Yeah, but won't that also detract them away from downloading our music"
1- "Exactly, now they'll be forced to pay big money for CDs"
2- "Yeah, but why would they buy the CD if they don't know if they like the song?"
1- "Well, because they'll have no choice"
2- "But, aren't there independent artists on P2P, can't they just download their music, and if they like it buy their CDs"
1- "Why would they do that?"
2- "Well, because then they know that they will enjoy the CDs"
1- "Naw, look at the sales, we sell more CDs"
2- "But, isn't that just because we have our CDs on sale in more places?"
1- "Meh... leave me alone, it's a good idea. Trust me."
2- "Okay, at least it'll be cheaper then all these lawsuits."
++
Strange minds these Music people have.
(Just my thoughts... nothing more)
Oh.. damn... I just thought it was really repetitive dance music. :-) Oh well..
I can tell you one group of people this report failed to interview.
Security Experts, specifically encryption mathematicians
Anyone with any knowledge in that field knows that the best way to find out if a system is secure and difficult to break is to release the source code, algorithms, etc. to the general public and let them have at it.
The worst form of security is one that depends on the hope that the opposition can't access your code. For good security, you must assume that the opposition can always access your code, be it through OS, in which case everyone can access your code, or just through Reverse Engineering. While you can hope that R.E. is difficult for them, you can know that if no one else on the planet can break your system, there isn't much of a chance your opponent will either.
Just my thoughts.
What a surprise! :->
I watch the previews for this movie, and I thought either Robin Williams just wasn't going to cut it for this movie, or it was going to be the most disturbing character I have ever seen. Apparently, it was the former.
He's just too much a nice, wacky guy to come across as a killer I guess.
(All IMHO, considering IHNSTM (I have not seen the Movie))
Everyone uses the new technology model to handle radio waves.
If one person follows the old pattern, he can seriously degrade if not destroy an entire band capacity by throwing what the new model considers garbage into the stream.
Error-correction works only so far.
Why not just ask them in their own language.
How would you like to have thousands of programmers working for you for free, producing a product you can distribute afterwards?
If any bugs exist in the product you sell, you can always blame it on the programmers. Plus, you can still bundle software with your distributions without worrying about anti-trust laws.
Basically, a quick way out of all of your troubles with really very little loss for you. (Other then the complete monopoly, but who needs a monopoly when people work for free?)
Sound good Bill?
I hope this isn't taken as off-topic.
But, I was thinking since this guy is getting in trouble because he wasn't anonymous enough. Perhaps we should all start using Publius to publish content which should be freely available online, and then we don't need to worry about lawsuits as much.
http://cs1.cs.nyu.edu/waldman/publius.html
Just my thoughts.
As long as people can do a few select things, there will never be a way to stop copying. Just makes it a bit more difficult.
If someone can go down to the electronics store and purchase bare-bones electronic parts, someone can create a device that will be able to record and digitize any output that leaves and or enters my computer. This applies to _everything_. Then they just easily distribute it to the non-techies over the internet from some country that doesn't firewall or monitor all of its citizens traffic, if necessary using one of the very anonymous protocols that exist. (I would include a link, but I can't remember the name for the life of me.)
It's a complete waste of time to try to implement copyright protection as long as someone is able to get wire, electronic parts, and has a will to do so.
Therefore, they should give up now, and try to develop a new business model. Otherwise they'll just waste their time and money, and get real frustrated in the process.
(This is IMHO, not meant to offend anyone.)
The question that arises from all of this is the famouse philosophical question:
What really is intelligent life?
I know many people who would argue that while there may not be any life as intelligent as us. There may be life more intelligent, or less intelligent then us in the galaxy.
Remember, intelligence is a human defined concept about humans. Therefore, it's not hard to believe we are the only "intelligent" beings in the galaxy.
(Just IMHO)
Well, actually it might lead to just more costs for us. As spammers will take up our bandwidth as well as their own. Therefore, each message we receive will cost us more money.
Thus, I could easily see that a per bandwidth charge will lead to anti-spam legislation, or better blocking by ISPs.
(IMHO, as always)
I know that I hate the fact that I am going to probably end up paying more for my highspeed connection, but I can see the reasons for charging extra for bandwidth users. A lot of current services we use charge base on usage, why shouldn't the internet? It might lead to a better underlying architecture and better speeds eventually for everyone.
The big question to ask is whether this extra money they earn is going to be put into improving the system that they currently have, and thus over time improve service for all of their customers.
(This is all IMHO, meaning no offense to anyone)
Another thing I forgot is that with the hydrogen produced by the process and the CO2 in the atmosphere, a fuel can be generated to handle flying back to Earth.
Thus, the entire mission costs drop dramatically.
Wow, This brings a mission to within 10 years if NASA or another agency is smart.
Well, the thing is that we don't need Nitrogen in the air to survive. The only reason Nitrogen is used in the space program is because pure oxygen in the air is an incredible hazard (as shown in the Apollo I catastrophy.)
Even then, the amount of neutral gas like Nitrogen needed to prevent oxidation disasters is far less then the amount of oxygen needed to survive.
(compounds like ATP) + O2 = Energy + (waste byproducts)
There is no N2 in that equation.
Just hoping to clarify a few things. Yes we will need to bring something or produce some other gas so the air isn't as combustible as pure oxygen, but the only thing we really need to breathe is oxygen.
Some helpful webpages:
ATP AND BIOLOGICAL ENERGY
The Apollo 1 Tragedy
so true.
:-)
I am more just worried about some major accident happening that no one expected, or some other long term disaster that no one expected.
I am not saying we shouldn't go, but just that we should be conscientious about it.
This is absolutely amazing news. I am quite excited about the prospects for future exploration of hte inner space system.
One concern though would be that perhaps we should consider Martian environmental concerns as well before launching a mission and/or a colony there. I would hate to see the natural beauty of Mars (which exists in my opinion) destroyed by mindless exploration.
I think it's great that we are going to be able to go now, but we should avoid making the errors we have made in the past.
(IMHO, as always)
Having ice on mars solves two major problems with shipping human beings to mars, and even creating a settlement there.
First, now we only need to ship enough water to keep them alive for the trip there, thus saving an incredible amount of energy.
Second, which is not so obvious. We only need to send enough oxygen for the trip there. Why? Well, ice is water, water is H2O
2 parts Hydrogen, 1 part Oxygen.
You can chemically seperate the oxygen from the hydrogen using electricity, which is easily generated by either solar collectors and/or a nuclear powerplant. Thus, they can not only drink, but breathe when they get to Mars.
This is an absolutely amazing finding (if it is true), since now it will become considerably cheaper to send people to Mars. Also, it might even become more feasible to leave them there with a colony then to send them back.