This would be a great project for HW hackers, if they could open source the HW or if it could be retrofitted with an off the shelf MIPS or power PC controller PC. Using this as the platform for an open source robotics project would really advance the state of the art in this field. Grad students could experiment with all sorts of advanced goal seeking and pattern recognition algorithms, and contribute them to the back to the project. In a short time with enough experts contributing, I expect we could have a real GPL AI project up and running.
IBM has published a paper on speeding up the boot process using something like a make to launch things in parallel that are not dependent on each other.
I suggest you reply to them in the following manner via a disposable email account: -- Received your coded message. Operation "Rx Meds" is on track. Further supplies for Tibet liberation front will be delivered via usual contacts when in cases marked "Herbal Viagra" when payment in full received via cook island account.
Long live free Tibet!! Long live Falun Gong!!
--
Rest assured, with all the net monitoring that goes on, their government WILL put him out of business, or at least you will keep him up at night waiting for a knock on the door.
And how do you watch the screen with the phone pressed to your ear?
Some products were not made to be combined. A cell phone iPod combination makes sense, a cell phone TV doesn't. HDTV on your cellphone screen is even sillier. You want a screen at least 5cm square, 10cm for HD.
IMHO it should be my right to copy whatever game I purchased to the hard drive, and play it without having to fumble for the CD every time. If the display unit with 15 games copied to the hard driver were just demonstrating the capabilities of the mod, (and the store had a valid license for each game) then no laws were broken as long as they did not sell the modified X-boxes with preloaded games. (Unless the 15 games were paid for)
From the climate simulation studies I have seen, Canada would be one of the very few places on earth that would actually benefit from global warming. Much of the northern territories would become viable for farming, and the northern passage explorers have dreamed about for centuries between east and west would become a reality, effectively making the Panama canal obsolete if it warmed up enough to permit year round traffic.
On the other hand, Africa gets totally screwed - the sahara expands to cover 80% of the continent, most of it is uninhabitable and some island states like the Maldives get flooded out and cease to exist.
One of the most amazing discoveries from apollo 12 was that when they removed the camera from the surveyor robotic misson that landed a two years earlier, and returned it to earth for analysis , they found human throat bacteria on it, even though it was returned in a sealed, sterile container.
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/expmoon/Apollo12/A12_Exp er iments_III.html
One of the astronauts on the mission later remarked that he considered it the most incredible discovery of the entire Apollo program.
I could see small lightweight mech suits being very useful for:
+ Hostile NBC (Nuclear/Bio/Chem) environments, protect the infantryman inside + Space or underwater combat + Bio-amplification, allowing wearer to leap tall buildings in a single bound, with electronically enhanced vision, sound, strength and (maybe) smell. Imagine a superhero costume that gives you most of the abilities of Wolverine, the Hulk, Invisible Man and Superman. Soldiers could pack massive amounts of gear, wield and fire heavy assault weapons impossible for an unaided infantryman to carry + Adaptive camoflage that automatically adjusts to whatever terrain you are standing in front of. Think of predator's suit. + Built in autodoc to automatically release anti-coagulant over any detected gunshot wound, and coolant/soothing cream over any burn. + Built in adaptive noise cancellation. You are dead silent, even while raining fire on the target. + Voice controlled heads up display, with encrypted communications, GPS, battlefield maps, live video to/from other members of your squad and headquarters.
Where a man was given a godlike wish, and chose eternal life.
Unfortunately, he forgot to ask for eternal youth/health along with it, so he just grew older and more decrepit. But seriously, if quality of life becomes a problem than I could see suicide becoming legalized.
Actually, a good first start would be modifying the human genome so we can regrow and replace our teeth every 10-20 years or so, as many animals do. Otherwise, if life was extended to 200 years, our teeth would be totally worn down. This change alone would make dentists obsolete, and keep the tooth fairy very busy for our whole lives.
You need not ask anymore why somebody would ever want a 500 TFlop graphics card that runs at 4 THz with a petabyte or more of video RAM. Imagine the computational power needed for high FPS first person holographic virtual reality games!
First of all, an absolute cap at 80 hours a week under any conditions would make sense, since you are only fooling yourself if you think you are productive working even longer hours, and allow an 80 hour work week for 1 week maximum, cap it at 60 the rest of the time. If they can't meet their deliverables under these conditions, then it doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that they need more staff, or have an unreasonable delivery schedule.
My definition of a hero is somebody who makes a substantial contribution to society, (which may include saving lives) at great personal sacrifice or risk. This includes the people who prevented the fourth airliner from reaching its target on 9/11, scientists that devote many years of their lives to achieve a scientific breakthrough, and volunteers who work on projects for the betterment of all mankind - be it community service (i.e. a doctor who works in clinic for little or no pay, or a lawyer who takes an important case pro-bono.) Open source programming falls under a similar category. Another would be a leader who inherits a dictatorship, and risks his own political future by establishing democratic freedoms.
You are correct about the zero. I was taught in thermodynamics that Mr. Fahrenheit set zero to be the coldest temperature he could reach with the technology of the day, ice mixed with salt water. 100 was (no kidding) the temperature he measured from the back end of a horse.
No, they are just being hypocritical like SCO, because they don't have the resources to write their own apps from scratch and figure it is easier to simply steal from your enemies.
From reading the article, I think Green Hills have decided Linux APPs are not so bad, or at least something they feel they need. I don't think they have changed their position on Linux itself.
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I wonder if it is possible to automatically spider for suspicious sites with images and logos from financial institutions that don't belong there? They could be shut down almost before the scam gets started.
It sounds like this software is dangerous enough to be considered a potential terrorist cyber-weapon, given how effectively it was able to totally knock out a huge chunk of government infrastructure for a very long time.
Who was it who said computers allow you to make mistakes far faster than you could ever do it manually?
There are a few cool scenes in Titanic - watching the robot sift through the wreakage, the computer simulation of the sinking, and the shots of the engine room. and boilers. CG scenes of the ship hitting the iceberg, breaking up and sinking was interesting too.
I find victorian era technology facinating - it would have been awesome to see and hear the ship's four story high reciprocating steam engine with their immense pistons chugging away at top speed.
At the risk of being modded offtopic, a set of Titanic deck plans are available on-line at: http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/deckplans/
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1. Receive message from your boss insisting you carry out some risky or unwise instructions.
2. * Disaster *
3. Boss disavows his earlier orders. Guess who is the fall guy?
This would be a great project for HW hackers, if they could open source the HW or if it could be retrofitted with an off the shelf MIPS or power PC controller PC. Using this as the platform for an open source robotics project would really advance the state of the art in this field. Grad students could experiment with all sorts of advanced goal seeking and pattern recognition algorithms, and contribute them to the back to the project. In a short time with enough experts contributing, I expect we could have a real GPL AI project up and running.
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/librar y/l-boot.html?ca=dgr-lnxw82-obg-BootFast
IBM has published a paper on speeding up the boot process using something like a make to launch things in parallel that are not dependent on each other.
There is always the CFL, http://www.cfl.ca/ as well as US college football.
I always liked Canadian football rules better anyway.
I suggest you reply to them in the following manner via a disposable email account:
--
Received your coded message. Operation "Rx Meds" is on track. Further supplies for Tibet liberation front will be delivered via usual contacts when in cases marked "Herbal Viagra" when payment in full received via cook island account.
Long live free Tibet!!
Long live Falun Gong!!
--
Rest assured, with all the net monitoring that goes on, their government WILL put him out of business, or at least you will keep him up at night waiting for a knock on the door.
And how do you watch the screen with the phone pressed to your ear?
Some products were not made to be combined. A cell phone iPod combination makes sense, a cell phone TV doesn't. HDTV on your cellphone screen is even sillier. You want a screen at least 5cm square, 10cm for HD.
Formula1@Home download anybody?
IMHO it should be my right to copy whatever game I purchased to the hard drive, and play it without having to fumble for the CD every time. If the display unit with 15 games copied to the hard driver were just demonstrating the capabilities of the mod, (and the store had a valid license for each game) then no laws were broken as long as they did not sell the modified X-boxes with preloaded games. (Unless the 15 games were paid for)
From the climate simulation studies I have seen, Canada would be one of the very few places on earth that would actually benefit from global warming. Much of the northern territories would become viable for farming, and the northern passage explorers have dreamed about for centuries between east and west would become a reality, effectively making the Panama canal obsolete if it warmed up enough to permit year round traffic.
On the other hand, Africa gets totally screwed - the sahara expands to cover 80% of the continent, most of it is uninhabitable and some island states like the Maldives get flooded out and cease to exist.
How about:
What company's employees only work 4 months of the year?
But remember, the US went to the moon at a time when the Vietnam war was in full swing.
Whatever other failings GWB may have, funding space exploration is one priority he did get right.
One of the most amazing discoveries from apollo 12 was that when they removed the camera from the surveyor robotic misson that landed a two years earlier, and returned it to earth for analysis , they found human throat bacteria on it, even though it was returned in a sealed, sterile container.
p er iments_III.html
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/expmoon/Apollo12/A12_Ex
One of the astronauts on the mission later remarked that he considered it the most incredible discovery of the entire Apollo program.
I could see small lightweight mech suits being very useful for:
+ Hostile NBC (Nuclear/Bio/Chem) environments, protect the infantryman inside
+ Space or underwater combat
+ Bio-amplification, allowing wearer to leap tall buildings in a single bound, with electronically enhanced vision, sound, strength and (maybe) smell. Imagine a superhero costume that gives you most of the abilities of Wolverine, the Hulk, Invisible Man and Superman. Soldiers could pack massive amounts of gear, wield and fire heavy assault weapons impossible for an unaided infantryman to carry
+ Adaptive camoflage that automatically adjusts to whatever terrain you are standing in front of. Think of predator's suit.
+ Built in autodoc to automatically release anti-coagulant over any detected gunshot wound, and coolant/soothing cream over any burn.
+ Built in adaptive noise cancellation. You are dead silent, even while raining fire on the target.
+ Voice controlled heads up display, with encrypted communications, GPS, battlefield maps, live video to/from other members of your squad and headquarters.
Where a man was given a godlike wish, and chose eternal life.
Unfortunately, he forgot to ask for eternal youth/health along with it, so he just grew older and more decrepit. But seriously, if quality of life becomes a problem than I could see suicide becoming legalized.
Actually, a good first start would be modifying the human genome so we can regrow and replace our teeth every 10-20 years or so, as many animals do. Otherwise, if life was extended to 200 years, our teeth would be totally worn down. This change alone would make dentists obsolete, and keep the tooth fairy very busy for our whole lives.
You need not ask anymore why somebody would ever want a 500 TFlop graphics card that runs at 4 THz with a petabyte or more of video RAM. Imagine the computational power needed for high FPS first person holographic virtual reality games!
First of all, an absolute cap at 80 hours a week under any conditions would make sense, since you are only fooling yourself if you think you are productive working even longer hours, and allow an 80 hour work week for 1 week maximum, cap it at 60 the rest of the time. If they can't meet their deliverables under these conditions, then it doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that they need more staff, or have an unreasonable delivery schedule.
> leaking confidential information from SCO that "Jews did World Trade Center."
How the heck did this nonsense slip in? It wasn't in the original article!
My definition of a hero is somebody who makes a substantial contribution to society, (which may include saving lives) at great personal sacrifice or risk. This includes the people who prevented the fourth airliner from reaching its target on 9/11, scientists that devote many years of their lives to achieve a scientific breakthrough, and volunteers who work on projects for the betterment of all mankind - be it community service (i.e. a doctor who works in clinic for little or no pay, or a lawyer who takes an important case pro-bono.) Open source programming falls under a similar category. Another would be a leader who inherits a dictatorship, and risks his own political future by establishing democratic freedoms.
You are correct about the zero. I was taught in thermodynamics that Mr. Fahrenheit set zero to be the coldest temperature he could reach with the technology of the day, ice mixed with salt water. 100 was (no kidding) the temperature he measured from the back end of a horse.
No, they are just being hypocritical like SCO, because they don't have the resources to write their own apps from scratch and figure it is easier to simply steal from your enemies.
From reading the article, I think Green Hills have decided Linux APPs are not so bad, or at least something they feel they need. I don't think they have changed their position on Linux itself.
Hmm, Imagine a beowulf cluster of....
3rd world supercomputer?
I wonder if it is possible to automatically spider for suspicious sites with images and logos from financial institutions that don't belong there? They could be shut down almost before the scam gets started.
It sounds like this software is dangerous enough to be considered a potential terrorist cyber-weapon, given how effectively it was able to totally knock out a huge chunk of government infrastructure for a very long time.
Who was it who said computers allow you to make mistakes far faster than you could ever do it manually?
There are a few cool scenes in Titanic - watching the robot sift through the wreakage, the computer simulation of the sinking, and the shots of the engine room. and boilers. CG scenes of the ship hitting the iceberg, breaking up and sinking was interesting too.
I find victorian era technology facinating - it would have been awesome to see and hear the ship's four story high reciprocating steam engine with their immense pistons chugging away at top speed.
At the risk of being modded offtopic, a set of Titanic deck plans are available on-line at: http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/deckplans/