Historians of the future will have to develop tools to deal with with this. They might pop that 21st century CD-rom into a "digital archaeology" grade optical scanner which might read the the CD-ROM using the resolution of an electron microscope, then they'll have to decode it using some software package written to deal with historical data formats. The same with magnetic media, they'll have SQUID-like devices to sample the magnetic media at higher sensitivites than current equipment does.
If current archaeologists figured out how to decipher the ancient languages, I'm sure that in the future they'll have digital specialists who will figure how to recover all todays data.
"Fail[ing] faster to succeed sooner" only works if you bound your search space to a size that you can afford to explore. You also have to be correct that the solution exists within those bounds.
Edison knew that light bulb filaments would work, but was looking for specific characteristics to enhance its economic viability. i.e. brightness, duration, vibration resistance, etc.
Intuitively, Edision bounded his search space in a way that was financially possible for him to explore and where success was reasonably forseeable.
You could say the dot-com's were doing this too, but it was being done on an industry wide scale more than a company scale.
I think successful (and lucky) dot-com companies were able to bound thier search scope, explore it with the finances they had aquired, and were lucky enough to actually find a workable solution.
Amazon is remarkably close to finding a workable solution for their niche, they just need to try 100 more filaments to get the characteristics it needs. ie. ways of attracting customers, ways of shipping products for the least price, etc.
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My physics professor always told me, "Never look into laser with remaining eye"
I wonder if the appropriate legal process would be to go ahead and install Magic lantern, but not turn it on until a court order is issued?
I'm training to be a professional!
For all of you complaining about getting power to the traces ;)
Ahh, but can you modify your organization's copy of XP so the same tweaks don't have to be repeated over and over again as you reinstall?
I didn't think so...
Historians of the future will have to develop tools to deal with with this. They might pop that 21st century CD-rom into a "digital archaeology" grade optical scanner which might read the the CD-ROM using the resolution of an electron microscope, then they'll have to decode it using some software package written to deal with historical data formats. The same with magnetic media, they'll have SQUID-like devices to sample the magnetic media at higher sensitivites than current equipment does.
If current archaeologists figured out how to decipher the ancient languages, I'm sure that in the future they'll have digital specialists who will figure how to recover all todays data.
Is it just me or is the name of the company Abiomed suspiciously close to Aibo... aaahhh! Its a Sony plot to change us all into bionic worker robots!
Sorry, SGI already has a computer in a toaster-like shell. The O2.
"Fail[ing] faster to succeed sooner" only works if you bound your search space to a size that you can afford to explore. You also have to be correct that the solution exists within those bounds.
Edison knew that light bulb filaments would work, but was looking for specific characteristics to enhance its economic viability. i.e. brightness, duration, vibration resistance, etc.
Intuitively, Edision bounded his search space in a way that was financially possible for him to explore and where success was reasonably forseeable.
You could say the dot-com's were doing this too, but it was being done on an industry wide scale more than a company scale.
I think successful (and lucky) dot-com companies were able to bound thier search scope, explore it with the finances they had aquired, and were lucky enough to actually find a workable solution.
Amazon is remarkably close to finding a workable solution for their niche, they just need to try 100 more filaments to get the characteristics it needs. ie. ways of attracting customers, ways of shipping products for the least price, etc.