there is no guarantee of parity between encryption being easy and decription being hard. there is no guarantee of me not being hit by a bus tomorrow. there is no guarantee of an asteroid not hitting the earth tomorrow. etc..
worry. sound the alarm. perhaps develop another scheme for security - like a courier. don't panic. it won't solve any problems
no it means each register can have n states. where n is how many quantum states you can distinguish. so this one bit could store 5000 bits of information simultaniusly. one ion of hardware for 16megs of data - yup.
as i (poorly) understand it a quantum bit can store far more data than a regular bit. if we ever start building gates based on quantum physics we should be able to send many signals through the same gate, at the same time, without interfering with each other. ie. a full adder should be able to execute 1, or 2^16 add operations at the same time. the ultimate in parallel processing.
a full blown pentium, could run linux, windows, be, and bsd simultaniusly with no sharing. each operating system executing on it's own quantum level, with access to the full functionality of the machine.
he means that running windows on a 4000x3000 display is really a pain, everything gets tiny. remember the actual screen size stays around 16" diagonal, you just double or triple the pixel density. since all(almost) icons are represented with bitmaps they don't scale up. sure, *we* can fix that with themes. aparantly the new mac os uses vectors for all that stuff, it wouldn't break a sweat. but windows users are the largest market. it's hard to justify the cost for 30 million(? mac + X)users when they could sell 300 million in all of the windows instalations...
i dunno - that box would be great for mechanical enginering, faster than a 2 year old sgi - cheaper than a low end pc - and durable enough to leap small buildings with a single drop-kick.
i do think the chip makers will start to realize the benefits of interoperability. if i could get a playstationII 'card' and my os could regard it as a gl rendering engine - that would realy be something. fast grapics are a driving force in many fields. i think what we'll probably end up with is the technology - in a flexible package. link the hot new game machine with your 45" display, with your 10Ghz cpu with etc. firewire's getting there. fast ethernet may be good enough for a clean network - usb seems a bit slow though.
so it's only avalible in the 400+ employee size buisness section. no options as to memory, processor, video, or screen size. it's nice, yes but why? is there some bizare arcitecture that dell uses for 600mhz machines? some propriatary memory access they couldn't get to work with anything other than 128M of ram? whats wrong with neomagic video? why only a 4 meg card? i hope they sell a million of them. i also hope they will support lots more hardware - one size fits all is not exactly acceptable to me, or the community at large...
i dunno. i think the old view of price/earnings really should be replaced with price/(earnings + research + marketing) it's *far* from perfect. but i think it's more representative of what a companie is really worth. research counts. witness at&t, ibm, xerox. like it or not, marketing counts. witness pepsi, microsoft, fox.
as i said, it's not perfect. but i do think it would let companies grow in a way that makes a bit more sense than pure p/e. we've neglected the long term benifits for quite some time - this may force the issue on wall street.
this is a great opportunity to get the Full Geek Effect. Implementation Language:
Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers style editing even better - the pillow book - 2 hours of anamation - aname&rendered - interleaved with still shots and straigt film
Design Patterns:
use metaphors for technological triumphs. perhaps mars pathfinder, linux 2.0, AZT and the coctail, etc. watching someone code is really boring. using grapical or action metaphors for the coder(,physicyst, whatever)'s extreme cleverness could be really usefull.
Many external refrences to Monte Python, the Hitchhikers Guide, Pi, etc.
Time based recursion - as seen in resivoir dogs & that backwards sienfeld.
Lots of characters, like in slacker.
implementation notes:
use the hacker techniques throughout the film. consider scrolling the entire kernel source down the left hand side of the screen throughout the move.
use lots of pictures to clarify things - if your talking about nanotech put one of nasa's.mov's of spinnig atomic gears in a corner. if you talk about light, show one of those cool anamations with the vectors changing magnitude in a wave(you'll know it when you see it...)
try not to worry to much about actualy telling a story - just make a geeks dream film - not that it shouldn't have a story, just don't let that get in the way of looking cool. giving the impression of recieving To Much Information is much more important to this movie.
Throw in some shots of space ships blowing up (trust me).
perhaps you should consider portraying the caracters as they'd like to appear. i know more than a few geeks that want the chrome eyeball look.
consider showing the world as it would be - from gibson or stepensons eye - the future that never was sort of a feel, overlayed on the world as it is.
hardware, yeah i would reccomend separating the db from the web servers regardless of weather you host it or not.
if your comfortable, or you think you could get comfortable, with considering all thats involved with keeping a site up, ie backups, security, reliability etc. go for it. with remote hosting you lose control. it gets hard to try out new stuff, because your not the administrator. but you do have someone to yell at when it goes down...
as far as bandwidth goes, it's far easier to go up to a t3 from a t1, as opposed to getting rid of a 15-45K/month phone bill for that fat t3.
These are not technological issues. These are all addressed by our current judge/jury system. The state and federal governments never passed laws about manslaughter or theft. That's the realm of common law. Sure technology will have repercussions in/with all of these issues but there not new issues. Technology will not solve any of them.
1. I believe the English word is liar, this is not a new computing issue. 2. The notion of a Trojan Horse is very old, of course this is a new twist on the old story, yet still something like a 3000 year old trick. 3. Yet another ancients practice, kings used marry off their children to the children of enemy kings to help insure the alliances they forged worked as expected. 4. Yes, advertising is quite new, but is this phenomenon different than junk mail? Or a newspaper boy standing on a corner selling papers in 1900? It's all still advertising. 5. Gambling is illegal. Take appropriate precautions. Various religions were illegal; they went underground. This is one of the oldest issues people contend with. Think 'pagan' 6. See # 5 7. Imposter. There's even a word for it in English. Old issue. 8. Free market competition. Let's see this issue is about as old as the marketplace. 9. Snake oil salesmen? 1800's. Soothsayer? 1500BC I believe. Yet another old issue. 10. Again as old as the marketplace itself. 11. Prime time for religious or political infiltration. The best example I can think of is the rise of fascists in Germany after WW1.
I respect the notion of considering these problems in a more advanced technological sense, but they're very old. These have nothing to do with the future of computing, these are exclusively the future of culture. Should junk mail be regarded any differently than spam? Is a liar something other than a liar online? I feel the only real answer is to consider motives and intent, via the jury system. With the exception of #11, which I consider a failing of my species in general. We all fail to feed the poor, and house the homeless, but I feel we are doing far better now than say around Y1K.
so if the date on IPC::Shareable is more than 1 year over the patent date, it obviously falls into the prior art clause. hopefully nullifying the yahoo patent
--"oh dear" said god, "i hadn't thought of that" and vanished in a puff of logic--
the government has the power to grant patents to "promote science and the usefull arts," so says my copy of the constitution. perhaps linux is not a useful art? i think the best solution would be a percentage of all profits made, from the sale of gpl code, be given to the patent holders.*not* distrobution or support, just the code itself.
i started thinking about practical applications of dynamic instruction switcing. i see 3 real cool applications
1. bytecode compatability. pretty much eliminate the need for a java virtual machine. i know this seems pretty obvious, but consider the effect of typeing main.class at the command line witch dose an instruction switch to java mode. essentaly your applet is running at full processor speed... jit compilers are neat and all, but this would blow that compleatly away in terms of speed.
2. interpreter context switching. consider what happens when perl encounters a regular expression... rather than evaluating a dfa with pointers and such, you load up the proccessor with specialized instructions specificly for evaluating that dfa. upon completion, insturction switch back to standard mode...
3. big instructions. say you need to calculate the volume of a zillion spheres of random radius. well, create an 4/3*pi^3 instruction, and load it. idealy that would be 1 calc per clock tick. imagine what effect this would have on something like quake, a gigantic instruction that returns one pixel value per clock tick... of course generating the truth tables for functions like the pixel per tick is just about impossible, but there are plenty of trasfomations that would be pretty easy to generate, and they only have to be generated once. from then on it's a matter of loading the thing. you could tailor a specific MMX style instruction for your program.
i wonder if they implement a "full" instruction set like the connection machine? ie 2^32 ~= 4 billion instructions, just pick the one you need...
the army didn't invent cars, airplains, or boats. they didn't even invent worlds original invention the good old spear! the army is not creative. give to $60 Billion to NASA. let them put about a thousand people in a real space station. with a technical and scientific population that can do that, stopping some dinky little sub-orbital rocket ought to be a triveal task.
the pentagon is dying for powerful lazers, but it's not gonna happen until somebody outside of the pentagon needs one. we got atomic weapons, because Bhor, Eninstein, Schrodinger et. al. wanted to know how the world really works, not because the governments of the world wanted super bombs.
everything the pentagon ever paid for that works, is not a secret. the Internet, computers, radar, portable radios, hell even guns. the list of open successes goes on and on. on the other hand, we have the great general bradly unmaned tanks, patriot missles, agent orange. that list of top secret failures goes on and on as well...
basicly the pentagon is good at breaking things, not makeing things. stick to destruction and leave the hard stuff to people with a passion for creation.
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go talk to bill joy.
the future is scary.
there is no guarantee of parity between encryption being easy and decription being hard. there is no guarantee of me not being hit by a bus tomorrow.
there is no guarantee of an asteroid not hitting the earth tomorrow. etc..
worry. sound the alarm. perhaps develop another scheme for security - like a courier. don't panic. it won't solve any problems
no it means each register can have n states.
where n is how many quantum states you can distinguish. so this one bit could store 5000 bits of information simultaniusly. one ion of hardware for 16megs of data - yup.
as i (poorly) understand it a quantum bit can store far more data than a regular bit. if we ever start building gates based on quantum physics we should be able to send many signals through the same gate, at the same time, without interfering with each other. ie. a full adder should be able to execute 1, or 2^16 add operations at the same time. the ultimate in parallel processing.
a full blown pentium, could run linux, windows, be, and bsd simultaniusly with no sharing. each operating system executing on it's own quantum level, with access to the full functionality of the machine.
a looong way of, but very very cool.
#!/usr/bin/perl /usr/doc`)):`pingflood www.fbi.gov`;
print ($ENV{SANE})?(($clarity)?('wtf? do i crititsize your coding style?':`rm -rf
lighten up. you don't have to read it.
he dosn't mean 'driver' like device driver...
he means that running windows on a 4000x3000 display is really a pain, everything gets tiny. remember the actual screen size stays around 16" diagonal, you just double or triple the pixel density. since all(almost) icons are represented with bitmaps they don't scale up. sure, *we* can fix that with themes. aparantly the new mac os uses vectors for all that stuff, it wouldn't break a sweat. but windows users are the largest market. it's hard to justify the cost for 30 million(? mac + X)users when they could sell 300 million in all of the windows instalations...
no.
3.0 will be called "Random" but, only after a major code merge with the Hurd
Do you do CAD work or something?
i dunno - that box would be great for mechanical enginering, faster than a 2 year old sgi - cheaper than a low end pc - and durable enough to leap small buildings with a single drop-kick.
i do think the chip makers will start to realize the benefits of interoperability. if i could get a playstationII 'card' and my os could regard it as a gl rendering engine - that would realy be something.
fast grapics are a driving force in many fields. i think what we'll probably end up with is the technology - in a flexible package. link the hot new game machine with your 45" display, with your 10Ghz cpu with etc. firewire's getting there. fast ethernet may be good enough for a clean network - usb seems a bit slow though.
so it's only avalible in the 400+ employee size buisness section. no options as to memory, processor, video, or screen size. it's nice, yes but why? is there some bizare arcitecture that dell uses for 600mhz machines? some propriatary memory access they couldn't get to work with anything other than 128M of ram? whats wrong with neomagic video? why only a 4 meg card?
i hope they sell a million of them. i also hope they will support lots more hardware - one size fits all is not exactly acceptable to me, or the community at large...
i dunno. i think the old view of price/earnings really should be replaced with price/(earnings + research + marketing) it's *far* from perfect. but i think it's more representative of what a companie is really worth. research counts. witness at&t, ibm, xerox. like it or not, marketing counts. witness pepsi, microsoft, fox.
as i said, it's not perfect. but i do think it would let companies grow in a way that makes a bit more sense than pure p/e. we've neglected the long term benifits for quite some time - this may force the issue on wall street.
Implementation Language:
Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers style editing even better - the pillow book - 2 hours of anamation - aname&rendered - interleaved with still shots and straigt film
Design Patterns:
use metaphors for technological triumphs. perhaps mars pathfinder, linux 2.0, AZT and the coctail, etc. watching someone code is really boring. using grapical or action metaphors for the coder(,physicyst, whatever)'s extreme cleverness could be really usefull.
Many external refrences to Monte Python, the Hitchhikers Guide, Pi, etc.
Time based recursion - as seen in resivoir dogs & that backwards sienfeld.
Lots of characters, like in slacker.
implementation notes:
use the hacker techniques throughout the film. consider scrolling the entire kernel source down the left hand side of the screen throughout the move.
use lots of pictures to clarify things - if your talking about nanotech put one of nasa's .mov's of spinnig atomic gears in a corner. if you talk about light, show one of those cool anamations with the vectors changing magnitude in a wave(you'll know it when you see it...)
try not to worry to much about actualy telling a story - just make a geeks dream film - not that it shouldn't have a story, just don't let that get in the way of looking cool. giving the impression of recieving To Much Information is much more important to this movie.
Throw in some shots of space ships blowing up (trust me).
perhaps you should consider portraying the caracters as they'd like to appear. i know more than a few geeks that want the chrome eyeball look.
consider showing the world as it would be - from gibson or stepensons eye - the future that never was sort of a feel, overlayed on the world as it is.
i'd pay to see it.
hardware, yeah i would reccomend separating the db from the web servers regardless of weather you host it or not.
if your comfortable, or you think you could get comfortable, with considering all thats involved with keeping a site up, ie backups, security, reliability etc. go for it. with remote hosting you lose control. it gets hard to try out new stuff, because your not the administrator. but you do have someone to yell at when it goes down...
as far as bandwidth goes, it's far easier to go up to a t3 from a t1, as opposed to getting rid of a 15-45K/month phone bill for that fat t3.
These are not technological issues. These are all addressed by our current judge/jury system. The state and federal governments never passed laws about manslaughter or theft. That's the realm of common law. Sure technology will have repercussions in/with all of these issues but there not new issues. Technology will not solve any of them.
1. I believe the English word is liar, this is not a new computing issue.
2. The notion of a Trojan Horse is very old, of course this is a new twist on the old story, yet still something like a 3000 year old trick.
3. Yet another ancients practice, kings used marry off their children to the children of enemy kings to help insure the alliances they forged worked as expected.
4. Yes, advertising is quite new, but is this phenomenon different than junk mail? Or a newspaper boy standing on a corner selling papers in 1900? It's all still advertising.
5. Gambling is illegal. Take appropriate precautions. Various religions were illegal; they went underground. This is one of the oldest issues people contend with. Think 'pagan'
6. See # 5
7. Imposter. There's even a word for it in English. Old issue.
8. Free market competition. Let's see this issue is about as old as the marketplace.
9. Snake oil salesmen? 1800's. Soothsayer? 1500BC I believe. Yet another old issue.
10. Again as old as the marketplace itself.
11. Prime time for religious or political infiltration. The best example I can think of is the rise of fascists in Germany after WW1.
I respect the notion of considering these problems in a more advanced technological sense, but they're very old. These have nothing to do with the future of computing, these are exclusively the future of culture. Should junk mail be regarded any differently than spam? Is a liar something other than a liar online?
I feel the only real answer is to consider motives and intent, via the jury system. With the exception of #11, which I consider a failing of my species in general. We all fail to feed the poor, and house the homeless, but I feel we are doing far better now than say around Y1K.
so if the date on IPC::Shareable is more than 1 year over the patent date, it obviously falls into the prior art clause. hopefully nullifying the yahoo patent
--"oh dear" said god, "i hadn't thought of that" and vanished in a puff of logic--
the government has the power to grant patents to "promote science and the usefull arts," so says my copy of the constitution.
perhaps linux is not a useful art?
i think the best solution would be a percentage of all profits made, from the sale of gpl code, be given to the patent holders.*not* distrobution or support, just the code itself.
$0.00 * 90% looks OK on my screen...
have fun with those fat margins!
i started thinking about practical applications of dynamic instruction switcing. i see 3 real cool applications
1. bytecode compatability. pretty much eliminate the need for a java virtual machine. i know this seems pretty obvious, but consider the effect of typeing main.class at the command line witch dose an instruction switch to java mode. essentaly your applet is running at full processor speed... jit compilers are neat and all, but this would blow that compleatly away in terms of speed.
2. interpreter context switching. consider what happens when perl encounters a regular expression... rather than evaluating a dfa with pointers and such, you load up the proccessor with specialized instructions specificly for evaluating that dfa. upon completion, insturction switch back to standard mode...
3. big instructions. say you need to calculate the volume of a zillion spheres of random radius.
well, create an 4/3*pi^3 instruction, and load it. idealy that would be 1 calc per clock tick. imagine what effect this would have on something like quake, a gigantic instruction that returns one pixel value per clock tick... of course generating the truth tables for functions like the pixel per tick is just about impossible, but there are plenty of trasfomations that would be pretty easy to generate, and they only have to be generated once. from then on it's a matter of loading the thing. you could tailor a specific MMX style instruction for your program.
i wonder if they implement a "full" instruction set like the connection machine? ie 2^32 ~= 4 billion instructions, just pick the one you need...
if thats what it is, it sure seems cool...
the army didn't invent cars, airplains, or boats. they didn't even invent worlds original invention the good old spear! the army is not creative. give to $60 Billion to NASA. let them put about a thousand people in a real space station. with a technical and scientific population that can do that, stopping some dinky little sub-orbital rocket ought to be a triveal task.
the pentagon is dying for powerful lazers, but it's not gonna happen until somebody outside of the pentagon needs one. we got atomic weapons, because Bhor, Eninstein, Schrodinger et. al. wanted to know how the world really works, not because the governments of the world wanted super bombs.
everything the pentagon ever paid for that works, is not a secret. the Internet, computers, radar, portable radios, hell even guns. the list of open successes goes on and on. on the other hand, we have the great general bradly unmaned tanks, patriot missles, agent orange. that list of top secret failures goes on and on as well...
basicly the pentagon is good at breaking things, not makeing things. stick to destruction and leave the hard stuff to people with a passion for creation.
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