Just remember that Evolution as a genesis for life and for the diversity of species is not only unproven but statistically improbable. If our purpose is to search for the 42 in all of this - I suggest we have a very long way to go.
The attitute that proving Creationism isn't proven proves the answer is Evolution doesn't deserve even to be listed under the heading of hypothetical science.
Evolution should be permitted to compete as a explaination to what we is clearly a disturbingly challenging question. But the term Science as in a discipline of repetative objective truths - doesn't apply. Science as a process of hypothesis and experiment tolerates unproven ideas only under the same heading as cold fusion and perpetual motion.
Do you mean that from your perspective - Civil Rights are natural and inherent - or in the context of English speaking nations (the presumptive context of Slashdot) they are natural.
My reading of the preamble say "endowed by their creator with . . . rights"
And thus I suggest that the means to our collective compromise visa-vi Civil Rights has come through our understanding of the Bible - which like the Constitution (derived in no small part from a sect of protestanism) informes the English speaking cultures disporportionately.
I suggest picking a general industry of interest - deciding on your own what the problem is - coming up with a clean metaphor for attacking the problem - building a prototype.
Google is probably an example of this. HP is certainly. For me - it was in photography and the problem was making ID pictures line up in the image square automatically.
But in the final analysis, the natural course for large businesses is to stop hiring - this means their businesses are dead - and ready to be attacked by start-ups.
The problem is many businesses are still hiring - just they are hiring overseas - there is never a good time to make the point that unfair competition benefits the least fair people and leads to a corrupt culture.
The story as I heard it includes the assertion that the neighboring countries (turkey and one other I believe) were opposed to the idea because of the foreseable influence on their state religions.
Personally - I think there is a good deal about the Bible which is clearly historical. (I belong to the "Jesus save me from your followers" camp of distant believers.) And as I understand it - some story about a flood exists as lore in most cultures.
It would be a great disappointment I think if we were to prove that Noah's ark doesn't exists - as the largest benefit of religions as it applies to this life - are the metaphors and the lessons taken. (I am agnostic on the theory that wars are all religious). I think also that much good has been done in the name of religion - but even that must be seperated from how religion informs our secular thinking today.
Civil rights is based on the presumption (for example) that God created all men - er and women - equal.
A Minor change in the instruction set would likely render the OS dysfunctional - and while that would certainly get attention - it would not propogate very well.
There is a math about viruses which requires them not to kill their hosts, and to do as little damage really as they can bear. Damaging viruses get high priority on fix lists and would get shut down more quickly than less harmful viruses.
I think a CPU change virus would be a rather self-defeating proposition.
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If you owned an APD camera - APS wasn't horrible.
The people who got screwed by APS are the minilabs who had to buy a second machine - when they already owned one - at a huge price - because it was a dual mode machine - it had to print optically from the negatives, and also scann the images and produce the index card - that index card created the need for a digital printing engine ON TOP of the optical engine. I would suggest that at the time - this cature index and print - in line - was the chief technical problem in the fulfillment industry.
APS moved film fulfillment forward in anticipation of a MAJOR migration which never occured.
(The Major migration is and was from 35mm to digital) The side show which is APS was merely an industrial strength excersize in kodak grade meglomania.
In all likelihood you will see 35mm outlast APS as digital eats up the mainstream.
AIK
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Its true - it is clearly used to deceive. And I think the FTA? should create a rule which calls "Digital zoom" what it is - in camera cropping.
But there is a place for it - and preventing companies from marketing digital zoom would have the effect of removing it from the design.
I say let the buyer beware - photo stores offer 30 day trial. So its not like a surprise.
AIK
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I think we have cornered a conundrum.
My point is that APS failed in part because it lacked professional viability. There being no commercial use for the product, the consumer use was stifled.
I wholly agree that pros can handle 35mm cartridges - hell they can handle 110 - 220 rolls most of the time. The problem is in the sybiotic relationship betwen consumers and pros.
Pros prove the viability of the system. Galen Rowel climbs a rock in yosemite and takes this awesome National Geographic cover on a 35mm Camera - behind him are a million ameturs trying to emulate Galen Rowel - while many of those would buy a 35mm camera in spite of its inferiority to medium format - how does the APS model ignite this process of stunning example and eager emulation.
What you end up with is an uninspiring product.
The only niche for APS was the elph - the smallest consumer film camera.
Small ccd shakers can counteract instability in the platform - this has to count for something.
Under the law of diminising returns, we may be able to create a better lens - but at what cost? could that money be better spent for an image stabilization system, and if so - dollar for dollar - does the IS camera (minolta, panasonic) have better images in the real world.
AIK
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Those issues were resolved with better cameras. The Stylus for example had idiot proof loading as well.
And quality did matter. If APS film was BETTER than 35 mm it would have been a rage with pros and journalists and wedding professionals.
One challenge of photography is the sheer number of opportunities. You cute kid is smiling having fun spraying the dog with the hose. This is no time to argue about which is better. This is the time to get as many pictures on disk as possible.
It may be you don't want to wait for the hi-res size - anyway the movement pretty much renders hi res extraneous. Your best images may be the faster low res images, and at this rate - cropping digitally is not an entirely bad way to extend the lens.
But in the theoritical nonscalable testbench sense - your right - only in the real world - you're wrong.
AIK
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The APS format is a failure of legendary porportions. Ask anyone who bought a $250,000 APS minilab from Kodak.
The hottest selling point and click was the Olypus Stylus - a 35mm Camera.
I'm not sure of the Pychogeek twist, but Users certainly impart a great deal of their human deseases unto their computer keypad - and loyalty - if it means using your own keyboard, and leaving somelses alone is a good deal safer than it may appear at first light.
CDC research suggests the most bacterial laden areas in your office is not the bathroom - but the mouse and keyboard.
Maybe we should have Male / Female computer terminals so that opposite sexes are not exposed to each others germs?
It's not like they are saying - This is our IP - you have to license it to use it.
They are Saying - we may or may not have some IP which may or may not be included in the car you drive, the air you breathe, and weed you smoke.
We have no intention of intentifying the IP - but we have huge plans on suing everything that moves and see how many suckers we can shake out of the sucker tree.
The MO seems to be a play on the empirical fact that settling is often cheaper than fighting and winning.
This is predictable.
The slogan - we do not negotiate with terrorists - means sure it ALWAYS easiest to negotiate - but these things build on themselves.
The end game of capitulation means leveraging the benefits of capitulation.
The modern challenge for our military is not war mongering - we rule at making war - but peace keeping - that is respecting people and serving a population while being vulnerable to rogue dissendents.
This raises the need to identify the location of a stray bullet in real time.
Imagine a self organized network of wearable computers with pretty basic microwave doppler shift detectors.
Even a single bullet fired would create a doppler shifted frequency in a reflected microwave signal, and the network could compare notes and triangulate the trajectory - even calculating a return fire path and indicate if not photograph or return at least rubber bullets on the perpetrator.
It may just be me - but I think the market for pda is much less about a portable device for complicated desktop applications (like Excell) and much more for the transportation and enjoyment of streaming media.
Photographers use a kind of ipod called a digital wallet or some such to download their image files, this is much the same as an ipod, but with a cf reader - which means it is as much like a pda as an ipod - or in short we have three popular devices which are all one component shy of the other.
As for HDD - you know the ipod can run a long time and still use the hd - because it loads a whole somg in memory and then shuts down the disk. I predict that these small portable HDD will begin to be rated for start-up time, and effeciency will include the degree to which they recycle the braking power.
I realized that I'd like to be able to broacast my TV signal to my laptop so I can use my laptop as a wireless TV (with cable connections for the "erm it's called TV" crowd)
But let's make a couple of basic assumptions, and then we'll realize why progress means improving on the default of walking.
Assume people do not want to live in a cubicle the size of a bread truck. Now assume that people need to interact with a population which affords them the benefits of scale - restaurants, opera, decent employeement etc - all these things require a large number of people. You can improve both side of the density conundrum simultaneously only by improving transportation. The more you improve it - the more you get the benefits of both crowded places and breathing room. Cars arguably do very little to improve the problem after a certain density is reached because the size of the cars would push people apart - rather than bring them together.
The Segway has a place at a certain level of density in which it can bring people together.
But like everything else, in overly dense situations, it can push people away. The real issue is density vs speed * mass. Speed * mass is the impact force available. Density is the liklyhood of collision.
Cities would do better to restrict vehicles by Speed * Mass in certain places than to identify classes of vehicles by their drive system (electric powered).
- I think the Segway has an important place - or rather I think that low-impact electric vehicles have an important place.
Its hard to imagine mass transit solving the last mile effectively, and the segway (small electric etc . . . ) Is most certainly a better solution that hydrocarbon convertors.
I salute Dean Kamens creative idea - and let's not forget or pretend that the segway is anything other than the logical extension of the electric wheelchair - perfect for restoring balance and erection (v jokes go here) to the handicapped - which you realize is Dean K stock in trade.
Whether or not a medical device has broader application is a question of secondary importance. Some cities may find that they enhance the transportation mix, while others - already established as pedestrain friendly may feel the segway is a step backwards. I think the name suggest that it can be a means of broadening the availability of mass transit during the period of development.
As the Army - I would scale Systrace up a notch by
1. creating a ghosted install in which every binary other than the orginal veryfied binaries are run in systrace by mandate (This is where running Linux to host a virtual and (systraced) windows has a place and
2. create a central repository to reduce the redundancies in verifying system call profiles.
Such that any system connected would raise a request to the central monitoring agency before being run and/or included in the whitelist.
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Just remember that Evolution as a genesis for life and for the diversity of species is not only unproven but statistically improbable. If our purpose is to search for the 42 in all of this - I suggest we have a very long way to go.
The attitute that proving Creationism isn't proven proves the answer is Evolution doesn't deserve even to be listed under the heading of hypothetical science.
Evolution should be permitted to compete as a explaination to what we is clearly a disturbingly challenging question. But the term Science as in a discipline of repetative objective truths - doesn't apply. Science as a process of hypothesis and experiment tolerates unproven ideas only under the same heading as cold fusion and perpetual motion.
AIK
Just for clarity -
Do you mean that from your perspective - Civil Rights are natural and inherent - or in the context of English speaking nations (the presumptive context of Slashdot) they are natural.
My reading of the preamble say "endowed by their creator with . . . rights"
And thus I suggest that the means to our collective compromise visa-vi Civil Rights has come through our understanding of the Bible - which like the Constitution (derived in no small part from a sect of protestanism) informes the English speaking cultures disporportionately.
AIK
I suggest picking a general industry of interest - deciding on your own what the problem is - coming up with a clean metaphor for attacking the problem - building a prototype.
Google is probably an example of this. HP is certainly. For me - it was in photography and the problem was making ID pictures line up in the image square automatically.
But in the final analysis, the natural course for large businesses is to stop hiring - this means their businesses are dead - and ready to be attacked by start-ups.
The problem is many businesses are still hiring - just they are hiring overseas - there is never a good time to make the point that unfair competition benefits the least fair people and leads to a corrupt culture.
AIK
The story as I heard it includes the assertion that the neighboring countries (turkey and one other I believe) were opposed to the idea because of the foreseable influence on their state religions.
Personally - I think there is a good deal about the Bible which is clearly historical. (I belong to the "Jesus save me from your followers" camp of distant believers.) And as I understand it - some story about a flood exists as lore in most cultures.
It would be a great disappointment I think if we were to prove that Noah's ark doesn't exists - as the largest benefit of religions as it applies to this life - are the metaphors and the lessons taken. (I am agnostic on the theory that wars are all religious). I think also that much good has been done in the name of religion - but even that must be seperated from how religion informs our secular thinking today.
Civil rights is based on the presumption (for example) that God created all men - er and women - equal.
AIK
I wouldn't bet on that.
A Minor change in the instruction set would likely render the OS dysfunctional - and while that would certainly get attention - it would not propogate very well.
There is a math about viruses which requires them not to kill their hosts, and to do as little damage really as they can bear. Damaging viruses get high priority on fix lists and would get shut down more quickly than less harmful viruses.
I think a CPU change virus would be a rather self-defeating proposition.
If you owned an APD camera - APS wasn't horrible.
The people who got screwed by APS are the minilabs who had to buy a second machine - when they already owned one - at a huge price - because it was a dual mode machine - it had to print optically from the negatives, and also scann the images and produce the index card - that index card created the need for a digital printing engine ON TOP of the optical engine. I would suggest that at the time - this cature index and print - in line - was the chief technical problem in the fulfillment industry.
APS moved film fulfillment forward in anticipation of a MAJOR migration which never occured.
(The Major migration is and was from 35mm to digital) The side show which is APS was merely an industrial strength excersize in kodak grade meglomania.
In all likelihood you will see 35mm outlast APS as digital eats up the mainstream.
AIK
Its true - it is clearly used to deceive. And I think the FTA? should create a rule which calls "Digital zoom" what it is - in camera cropping.
But there is a place for it - and preventing companies from marketing digital zoom would have the effect of removing it from the design.
I say let the buyer beware - photo stores offer 30 day trial. So its not like a surprise.
AIK
I think we have cornered a conundrum.
My point is that APS failed in part because it lacked professional viability. There being no commercial use for the product, the consumer use was stifled.
I wholly agree that pros can handle 35mm cartridges - hell they can handle 110 - 220 rolls most of the time. The problem is in the sybiotic relationship betwen consumers and pros.
Pros prove the viability of the system. Galen Rowel climbs a rock in yosemite and takes this awesome National Geographic cover on a 35mm Camera - behind him are a million ameturs trying to emulate Galen Rowel - while many of those would buy a 35mm camera in spite of its inferiority to medium format - how does the APS model ignite this process of stunning example and eager emulation.
What you end up with is an uninspiring product.
The only niche for APS was the elph - the smallest consumer film camera.
AIK
Lets not miss the importance of stability.
Small ccd shakers can counteract instability in the platform - this has to count for something.
Under the law of diminising returns, we may be able to create a better lens - but at what cost?
could that money be better spent for an image stabilization system, and if so - dollar for dollar - does the IS camera (minolta, panasonic)
have better images in the real world.
AIK
Those issues were resolved with better cameras. The Stylus for example had idiot proof loading as well.
And quality did matter. If APS film was BETTER than 35 mm it would have been a rage with pros and journalists and wedding professionals.
AIK
There are valid reasons for digital zoom.
One challenge of photography is the sheer number of opportunities. You cute kid is smiling having fun spraying the dog with the hose. This is no time to argue about which is better. This is the time to get as many pictures on disk as possible.
It may be you don't want to wait for the hi-res size - anyway the movement pretty much renders hi res extraneous. Your best images may be the faster low res images, and at this rate - cropping digitally is not an entirely bad way to extend the lens.
But in the theoritical nonscalable testbench sense - your right - only in the real world - you're wrong.
AIK
AIK
The APS format is a failure of legendary porportions. Ask anyone who bought a $250,000 APS minilab from Kodak.
The hottest selling point and click was the Olypus Stylus - a 35mm Camera.
AIK
I'm not sure of the Pychogeek twist, but Users certainly impart a great deal of their human deseases unto their computer keypad - and loyalty - if it means using your own keyboard, and leaving somelses alone is a good deal safer than it may appear at first light.
CDC research suggests the most bacterial laden areas in your office is not the bathroom - but the mouse and keyboard.
Maybe we should have Male / Female computer terminals so that opposite sexes are not exposed to each others germs?
Say I just invested twenty years at Google figuring out search engines.
Now figure I am selling my options.
Now add that more people will buy them at a higher price if they are impressed with the number of computers.
I think there is a big temptation for Google to expose whatever it has to expose if it means getting the option value up.
After they cash out their options - google can compete, not compete or whatever - it will be the publics problem.
AIK
It's not like they are saying - This is our IP - you have to license it to use it.
They are Saying - we may or may not have some IP which may or may not be included in the car you drive, the air you breathe, and weed you smoke.
We have no intention of intentifying the IP - but we have huge plans on suing everything that moves and see how many suckers we can shake out of the sucker tree.
The MO seems to be a play on the empirical fact that settling is often cheaper than fighting and winning.
This is predictable.
The slogan - we do not negotiate with terrorists - means sure it ALWAYS easiest to negotiate - but these things build on themselves.
The end game of capitulation means leveraging the benefits of capitulation.
AIK
Except JPeg2000 of course - Its a great format - and I think it was royalty cleared by the JPEG group
The modern challenge for our military is not war mongering - we rule at making war - but peace keeping - that is respecting people and serving a population while being vulnerable to rogue dissendents.
This raises the need to identify the location of a stray bullet in real time.
Imagine a self organized network of wearable computers with pretty basic microwave doppler shift detectors.
Even a single bullet fired would create a doppler shifted frequency in a reflected microwave signal, and the network could compare notes and triangulate the trajectory - even calculating a return fire path and indicate if not photograph or return at least rubber bullets on the perpetrator.
That would be awesome defensive gear.
AIK
It may just be me - but I think the market for pda is much less about a portable device for complicated desktop applications (like Excell) and much more for the transportation and enjoyment of streaming media.
Photographers use a kind of ipod called a digital wallet or some such to download their image files, this is much the same as an ipod, but with a cf reader - which means it is as much like a pda as an ipod - or in short we have three popular devices which are all one component shy of the other.
As for HDD - you know the ipod can run a long time and still use the hd - because it loads a whole somg in memory and then shuts down the disk. I predict that these small portable HDD will begin to be rated for start-up time, and effeciency will include the degree to which they recycle the braking power.
AIK
Why is it a PDA is a small computer without a Harddrive, and an Ipod is a small harddrive without a computer?
Why don't we see a PDA with capacity for 5000 songs, image, movies, audio recordings, or database files?
I realized that I'd like to be able to broacast my TV signal to my laptop so I can use my laptop as a wireless TV (with cable connections for the "erm it's called TV" crowd)
AIK
The Segway presents the features of an electric scooter with the illusion of a skateboard.
It does like like the thing would be a safe companion on the road - but in reality, it packs a whallop.
Dean would have done better to put in three wheels and focus on the anti-collision circuit rather than the super-sexy balancing drive system.
aik
But it certainly does beg for consideration of a new format.
I would recommend the new format embrace the features of Camera RAW modes so as to avoid a common publishing format but a proprietary storage format.
A Digital camera, like film captures higher highs and lower lows than paper can print and thus in publication, a great deal of data is "discarded".
A smart format would account for the possibility of extra data while at the same time including a presentation optimized perspective.
AIK
It's always easiest to say Just Walk.
But let's make a couple of basic assumptions, and then we'll realize why progress means improving on the default of walking.
Assume people do not want to live in a cubicle the size of a bread truck. Now assume that people need to interact with a population which affords them the benefits of scale - restaurants, opera, decent employeement etc - all these things require a large number of people. You can improve both side of the density conundrum simultaneously only by improving transportation. The more you improve it - the more you get the benefits of both crowded places and breathing room. Cars arguably do very little to improve the problem after a certain density is reached because the size of the cars would push people apart - rather than bring them together.
The Segway has a place at a certain level of density in which it can bring people together.
But like everything else, in overly dense situations, it can push people away. The real issue is density vs speed * mass. Speed * mass is the impact force available. Density is the liklyhood of collision.
Cities would do better to restrict vehicles by Speed * Mass in certain places than to identify classes of vehicles by their drive system (electric powered).
AIK
Mod this guy - er bottle brush up.
- I think the Segway has an important place - or rather I think that low-impact electric vehicles have an important place.
Its hard to imagine mass transit solving the last mile effectively, and the segway (small electric etc . . . ) Is most certainly a better solution that hydrocarbon convertors.
I salute Dean Kamens creative idea - and let's not forget or pretend that the segway is anything other than the logical extension of the electric wheelchair - perfect for restoring balance and erection (v jokes go here) to the handicapped - which you realize is Dean K stock in trade.
Whether or not a medical device has broader application is a question of secondary importance. Some cities may find that they enhance the transportation mix, while others - already established as pedestrain friendly may feel the segway is a step backwards. I think the name suggest that it can be a means of broadening the availability of mass transit during the period of development.
AIK
Quite Right!
Didn't know it existed.
As the Army - I would scale Systrace up a notch by
1. creating a ghosted install in which every binary other than the orginal veryfied binaries are run in systrace by mandate (This is where running Linux to host a virtual and (systraced) windows has a place and
2. create a central repository to reduce the redundancies in verifying system call profiles.
Such that any system connected would raise a request to the central monitoring agency before being run and/or included in the whitelist.
AIK