I had this game called "Tas Times in Tone Town" where you'd chase this lizard guy via a text interface.
You would start in a house where you had to type:
throw switch enter hoop
in order to enter the game
Anyone else remember this game? It was pretty cool for it's time (Apple II), and extremely hard to play well (I could never get anywhere really interesting, when I did, I couldn't get there again).
If a generic face were available as a "loaner", could we go in, have our faces removed, and get them "serviced" to be younger. then after a few weeks/months/years of work, could it be put back on with 15 years taken off?
Disturbingly enough I find the options here to be limitless.
Stippling is not exact. At no point did "cave dwellers" specificy that there had to be a point at "x,y,z".
This is an advantage to doctors and medical professionals in that they don't care if an image is perfect, but they would benefit greatly from an improper image that more clearly represents information in real time.
Dots are simpler in 3d, especially for this, because everything is purely ratios and percentages, rather than exact formulas for edges of lines.
As stated in a previous post, the goal for this is the PROPERTIES, not the graphical capabilities. Have you ever seen a sonagram? Those images are extremely cryptic, but with a trained eye, they are extremely useful because they depict the truth in not an exact way, but a recognizable way.
We're human, we can use our brain to interpret this stuff.
I think the issue at hand is a more global issue faced when writing applications.
Software is expected to behave 100%. How many of the developers here have had some strange bug, that may only appear in 1 out of every million users (not instances, otherwise it would happen in less than a second in most all modern processors). Then we are asked to fix it.
This solution is great, throttle the computer, lose that 2% of all connections being instantaneous, but then it won't be perfect.
I think we have to more realistically analyze the needs of modern software, and accept that it can "fail" to an acceptable degree if we want some superior functionality.
The human brain is great, but it fails (quite too much for myself). IBM is annoucing building a computer that could simulate the human brain, but it won't reap the rewards of our brains, until it's willing to give in to the issues that we face, uncertain failure.
With our "uncertain failure", look how great we are at calculating PI to the 100th digit (well, normal individuals anyway). Our brains certainly couldn't calculate nuclear simulations with the "uncertain failure"
We will probably have to split "computer science" into the "uncertain failure, superb flexibility" and the "perfect, 99.999% of the time" categories.
This sounds great for the "uncertain failure" group.
I live in Boston and have been using Peapod (Stop and Shop) ever since homeruns.com shut down.
Any word on the future of peapod? It seems to be doing a good business.
As far as having groceries delivered, it's a very nice thing to have, and I personally don't mind the $4 or $5 extra that it is looking like will be charged to deliver groceries (especially on my monthly order of $200).
I have to agree that all the variables on earth should be more conducive to life forming, but I have no scientific evidence.
Without complexity, any single life form would just propogate until it consumed everything, then would die off (kind of like a virus in the human population, if our whole population was the same genetically, we would be wiped out, as well as the virus, fairy rapidly).
What about energy? Doesn't life require energy? Wouldn't the 900 degree temperatures of venus provide more energy to life forms to use?
From all the Discovery Channel shows, there's tons of life in the ocean floor where heat escapes from below into the water. An amazing amount, even though the temperature is extremely high (relatively for us).
Alternately, how long has there been visible life on earth? Out of earth's ~15 billion year lifetime, there is estimated to be only about 3 billion years of life, most of which I would believe to be basic bacteria, exactly what we're finding on these other planets.
I haven't heard that name for years. A while ago I read Stephen Baxter's book "The Ring" and absolutely loved it. Good to hear there's another good one.
Why does life require circumstances like our planet to start?
We aren't looking for life on other planets, we're looking for life that we understand. Realistically life should occur just about anywhere given enough time (perhaps for actual voids in space, not necessarily what we think of them as, since "black matter" could be negate a "void" in certain areas of space).
I think "life" is merely a self propogating chemical reaction. Evolutionarily wise it makes sense that "chaos" would force mutations. We can easily assume the propogation under all circumstances won't necessarily be the same.
This means that organization of chemicals so that a reaction produces other reactions of the same type would likely be found anywhere that chemicals and or energies can react (remember, we're not just looking for life like our own).
More interestingly it would be interesting to try to create reactions that re-create themselves, and allow them to evolve.
Then again, I don't think we'd get approval for any experiments that wouldn't yield results for possibly billions of years . . . imagine the electric bill.
-Sean
Would be interseting . . .
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Imagine a distributed network of Wi-Fi honeypots taking in unique ID's, and distributing a "do not provide access" list to it's corporate subscribers.
I went to college, and paid for it as I went (expensive too). Working usually 30-35 hours a week and having an intense class load wasn't too difficult, but I had to make some concessions.
Not that I suggest it, but I was able to carefully lower my attendance in some classes as long as I understood the material.
During most weeks this wasn't a big problem (5 classes and work) becuase I got classes down to 2 days a week. Some weeks when you have all those projects due would really be taxing though.
I ended up doing the tradtional CS, starting a project the day it's due. Fortunately I was good enough that my outside class work was good enough to counter some of my lacking attendance.
Altogether, you have to plan ahead of time, pick an appropriate schedule (I always had 2 classes that I knew I wouldn't need instruction in), and work hard.
I've done the software development pre-requisite weeks on end at more than 100hours a week.
I find the solutions that come out of over working are more "so I can go home" rather than what they should be, "this'd work really well".
From my past experiences I've learned that sometimes if something isn't showing signs of improvement, that I should just go home, get a good dinner, good nice sleep, wake up the next morning and then try again. This has almost always yielded a result the next day in an hour.
One of the most important things to keep in mind, it's only a job. Do you really want your life to be your job? If so, then vary your job activities. Continuously butting your head against the same problem can just make your head go numb.
Product placement in television could prove to be like the movies currently are (*cough* apple *cough).
That along with advertisements on the bottoms of screens during television shows.
If they get creative enough they'll find a way to survive. You can't tell me there's no money in putting on a show without commercials. At absolutely worst it will just be much less free television and more pay for what you watch.
About 3 years ago there was a few month period when MSN worked with AIM users. That interoperability was QUICKLY changed (almost on the scale of every day or two) and MSN replied by updating their software. So it's not difficult, it's a matter of AOL allowing it.
As far as adhering to a standard, it's not difficult to release a dll of some type (and a small doc) with each "standards change" prototyping previous methods over newer ones (how much can an "IM Chat" architecture really change?).
It's unfortunate that AOL solely wants all of it's clients to be using AOL software. Interestingly enough, why does Gaim work then? Last I checked AOL has a working (or in permanent beta phase) linux client, how come GAim can function without being shut down?
I guess they're only going against MS . . . (I know there's some other AIM compatible clients, just forget the names)
I'm not familiar at all with the field, so here's a dumb question:
If they are going to use electron spins to keep track of information, how are we to encapsulate the electrons, with other electrons? Didn't the article say that they affect all other electrons in the area?
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Personally I envision a time when all computers will have built in monitors...
I had this game called "Tas Times in Tone Town" where you'd chase this lizard guy via a text interface.
You would start in a house where you had to type:
throw switch
enter hoop
in order to enter the game
Anyone else remember this game? It was pretty cool for it's time (Apple II), and extremely hard to play well (I could never get anywhere really interesting, when I did, I couldn't get there again).
If a generic face were available as a "loaner", could we go in, have our faces removed, and get them "serviced" to be younger. then after a few weeks/months/years of work, could it be put back on with 15 years taken off?
Disturbingly enough I find the options here to be limitless.
This would go great in conjunction with growing human organs and tissue from human DNA.
Imagine having a backup of your own face, just in case you get into a facially disfiguring accident. Instantly, you have your "old" face back.
Stippling is not exact. At no point did "cave dwellers" specificy that there had to be a point at "x,y,z".
This is an advantage to doctors and medical professionals in that they don't care if an image is perfect, but they would benefit greatly from an improper image that more clearly represents information in real time.
Dots are simpler in 3d, especially for this, because everything is purely ratios and percentages, rather than exact formulas for edges of lines.
As stated in a previous post, the goal for this is the PROPERTIES, not the graphical capabilities. Have you ever seen a sonagram? Those images are extremely cryptic, but with a trained eye, they are extremely useful because they depict the truth in not an exact way, but a recognizable way.
We're human, we can use our brain to interpret this stuff.
If it were the same time, different place, then wouldn't there only be a difference in distance, not the .72 seconds between entrance and exit?
I think the issue at hand is a more global issue faced when writing applications.
Software is expected to behave 100%. How many of the developers here have had some strange bug, that may only appear in 1 out of every million users (not instances, otherwise it would happen in less than a second in most all modern processors). Then we are asked to fix it.
This solution is great, throttle the computer, lose that 2% of all connections being instantaneous, but then it won't be perfect.
I think we have to more realistically analyze the needs of modern software, and accept that it can "fail" to an acceptable degree if we want some superior functionality.
The human brain is great, but it fails (quite too much for myself). IBM is annoucing building a computer that could simulate the human brain, but it won't reap the rewards of our brains, until it's willing to give in to the issues that we face, uncertain failure.
With our "uncertain failure", look how great we are at calculating PI to the 100th digit (well, normal individuals anyway). Our brains certainly couldn't calculate nuclear simulations with the "uncertain failure"
We will probably have to split "computer science" into the "uncertain failure, superb flexibility" and the "perfect, 99.999% of the time" categories.
This sounds great for the "uncertain failure" group.
I live in Boston and have been using Peapod (Stop and Shop) ever since homeruns.com shut down.
Any word on the future of peapod? It seems to be doing a good business.
As far as having groceries delivered, it's a very nice thing to have, and I personally don't mind the $4 or $5 extra that it is looking like will be charged to deliver groceries (especially on my monthly order of $200).
Built in Water Cooling!
Do we heat it up to move faster and prevent freezing??
Could we build a water computer on top of a standard computer, and leverage the heat dissipation from one to aid the other??
With more than one AGP bus, those motherboards that are so cheap with a built in AGP Video Card, can now actually allow for AGP upgrade.
I have to agree that all the variables on earth should be more conducive to life forming, but I have no scientific evidence.
Without complexity, any single life form would just propogate until it consumed everything, then would die off (kind of like a virus in the human population, if our whole population was the same genetically, we would be wiped out, as well as the virus, fairy rapidly).
What about energy? Doesn't life require energy? Wouldn't the 900 degree temperatures of venus provide more energy to life forms to use?
From all the Discovery Channel shows, there's tons of life in the ocean floor where heat escapes from below into the water. An amazing amount, even though the temperature is extremely high (relatively for us).
Alternately, how long has there been visible life on earth? Out of earth's ~15 billion year lifetime, there is estimated to be only about 3 billion years of life, most of which I would believe to be basic bacteria, exactly what we're finding on these other planets.
I haven't heard that name for years. A while ago I read Stephen Baxter's book "The Ring" and absolutely loved it. Good to hear there's another good one.
Thanks!
Why does life require circumstances like our planet to start?
We aren't looking for life on other planets, we're looking for life that we understand. Realistically life should occur just about anywhere given enough time (perhaps for actual voids in space, not necessarily what we think of them as, since "black matter" could be negate a "void" in certain areas of space).
I think "life" is merely a self propogating chemical reaction. Evolutionarily wise it makes sense that "chaos" would force mutations. We can easily assume the propogation under all circumstances won't necessarily be the same.
This means that organization of chemicals so that a reaction produces other reactions of the same type would likely be found anywhere that chemicals and or energies can react (remember, we're not just looking for life like our own).
More interestingly it would be interesting to try to create reactions that re-create themselves, and allow them to evolve.
Then again, I don't think we'd get approval for any experiments that wouldn't yield results for possibly billions of years . . . imagine the electric bill.
-Sean
Imagine a distributed network of Wi-Fi honeypots taking in unique ID's, and distributing a "do not provide access" list to it's corporate subscribers.
Things could get sticky.
Does anyone know of a smaller news site we can all bookmark for the next major news event? That way we can all access it instead of cnn.com.
I went to college, and paid for it as I went (expensive too). Working usually 30-35 hours a week and having an intense class load wasn't too difficult, but I had to make some concessions.
Not that I suggest it, but I was able to carefully lower my attendance in some classes as long as I understood the material.
During most weeks this wasn't a big problem (5 classes and work) becuase I got classes down to 2 days a week. Some weeks when you have all those projects due would really be taxing though.
I ended up doing the tradtional CS, starting a project the day it's due. Fortunately I was good enough that my outside class work was good enough to counter some of my lacking attendance.
Altogether, you have to plan ahead of time, pick an appropriate schedule (I always had 2 classes that I knew I wouldn't need instruction in), and work hard.
Good luck...
I've done the software development pre-requisite weeks on end at more than 100hours a week.
I find the solutions that come out of over working are more "so I can go home" rather than what they should be, "this'd work really well".
From my past experiences I've learned that sometimes if something isn't showing signs of improvement, that I should just go home, get a good dinner, good nice sleep, wake up the next morning and then try again. This has almost always yielded a result the next day in an hour.
One of the most important things to keep in mind, it's only a job. Do you really want your life to be your job? If so, then vary your job activities. Continuously butting your head against the same problem can just make your head go numb.
-Sean
Product placement in television could prove to be like the movies currently are (*cough* apple *cough).
That along with advertisements on the bottoms of screens during television shows.
If they get creative enough they'll find a way to survive. You can't tell me there's no money in putting on a show without commercials. At absolutely worst it will just be much less free television and more pay for what you watch.
We can easily do this:
x is Prime in question
P is set of all primes
if ( x elemOf P ) Then
output X
end if
Duh.
About 3 years ago there was a few month period when MSN worked with AIM users. That interoperability was QUICKLY changed (almost on the scale of every day or two) and MSN replied by updating their software. So it's not difficult, it's a matter of AOL allowing it.
As far as adhering to a standard, it's not difficult to release a dll of some type (and a small doc) with each "standards change" prototyping previous methods over newer ones (how much can an "IM Chat" architecture really change?).
It's unfortunate that AOL solely wants all of it's clients to be using AOL software. Interestingly enough, why does Gaim work then? Last I checked AOL has a working (or in permanent beta phase) linux client, how come GAim can function without being shut down?
I guess they're only going against MS . . . (I know there's some other AIM compatible clients, just forget the names)
good argument
Where'd ya get that? First, we need to handle our own system :)
Google Bill for May: $144
And that's for a VERY small business (http://www.sawatech.com).
I'm sure they're not doing too bad, that new adwords service was a good idea.
This isn't a question is it, how about:
How is the new adwords program going?
Solved.
Electrons don't have a nucleus :)
I'm not familiar at all with the field, so here's a dumb question:
If they are going to use electron spins to keep track of information, how are we to encapsulate the electrons, with other electrons? Didn't the article say that they affect all other electrons in the area?