Can someone explain how the 8 months old "withdrawal" is only seen now and required hacking the computer. Isn't the point of the blockchain you can trace (except through mixers or specific ZKP systems) transactions precisely because every node holds an exact and full copy of the ledger of transactions? The only thing hacking the computer could provide is private keys to actually transfer value out of those wallets but the balance should have been public.
There are many different areas of IP, not to be confused: patents, trademarks, industrial design, geographical indications, copyright... with different issues and problems.
IMHO there are areas of IP that make sense: protecting brands, otherwise known as trademarks, so that "company identity theft" is more difficult.
Patents were initially created not only to protect the inventors by giving them a limited monopoly time but also to
1. encourage publication of inventions so secret inventions would not die with their owners, in effect creating a global corpus of invention descriptions.
2. to help distribute the collective invention effort instead of having everyone try to replicate a given useful invention, in effect encouraging innovation. this is why patents are published before they are accepted.
The problem i see with the monopoly given is that too many patents are obvious and in effect lock-down effects stifle innovation instead of stimulating it. In a perfect world, the length of protection should be connected to a measure of obviousness and to the speed of the industry. It takes longer to apply an invention in the field of trains than in the field of software.
Sounds hard but a panel could grant patents a variable length, which would also help filter through the massive number of frivolous patents that chokes the patent offices.
i remember using smartscene, by multigen, a 3D version of this 2D interface (head monted display, powergloves...) for a prototype of a game creation tool at electronic arts, 10 years ago...
you could grab space between thumb and middle finger, objects between thumb and index. all rotation, zooming, moving object,... were done similarly but in 3D.
still, well done demo. excellent presentation skills !
Interesting point of view, however, I shoot with a digital camera, in JPEG most of the time. Since I started 3 years ago with a Canon D30 and since end of 2002 with a 1Ds I have accumulated almost 200GB. All photos are archived on CDs as they are shot but having them all online is fantastic...
Since all images are archived and I only need to have them rapidly accessible, this slow but huge HD is exactly what I need, even if unreliable. At worst if it dies before I save it all on DVDs, I'll have to reread a few hundred CDs.../p
In connection to this article, Soros also funds media oriented projects.
Trying to follow the links can be tedious, but the structure is interesting (snippets cut and pasted from the various websites).
George Soros funds a network of foundations.
Among them,
Media Development Loan Fund (MDLF) assists independent news organizations working in difficult economic and political climates. Of which Center for Advanced Media-Prague (C@MP) has been bringing new-media concepts and solutions to independent news organizations worldwide since 1998
Camp is developing and diffusing cost-effective, open-source solutions to independent media through its CAMPWARE initiative. Which brings us to another open source ongoing development project:
CAMPSITE,
an automated web-publishing environment for news media.
Especially late at night or early in the morning, the sound of a computer can be very irritating to me.
On my 2 PCs (one linux and one windows), I have tried many approaches:
lower the voltage on K6-2 200 fan from 12V to 5V, with temp monitoring. In 2+ years no problems.
use external firewire/USB enclosure for loud peripherals so I can unplug them (plextor CDR, older hard drives)
but I just bought an G4 Cube last week (with ATI fanless video card).
The silence makes this machine livable. I am going back to school (photography) and needed a computer I could use in a small appartment where it would have to live in my room. I also have all my CDs in MP3 because I do not want to lug them around and wanted to watch DVDs on it. No matter what I do, unless you play the music VERY loud, my PCs make too much noise. The Mac is not perfectly silent, but even when there is sound around, you can hear yourself think.
I also use a Vaio picturebook C1-XS and contrary to some posts on how quiet laptops are, it is very loud especially when the fan comes starts to be happy. It also has a disturbing whine which may come from the toshiba 30GB HD I installed in it. Sadly I did not have a choice as the 9.5mm in those densities are quite rare. IBM has one now I would have bought. The moral is that you only hear the loudest component...
I would prefer a desktop that uses technology designed for laptops with convection cooling, even if it was a tad slower. There are lots of progress to be made in how processors are cooled. Why not use the computer case as a radiator ? On another aspect, I would really appreciate a computer system with an external power supply (like the Cube) also capable of powering all the stupid little periperals that each require an annoying wall wart (imagine some larger cable like a power bus (including a few lines at different voltages) with different interchangeable plugs along the way that can power all sorts of devices: camera, USB hub, KVM switch, modem, hub,...).
And in the "Less is better" vein, if getting rid of sound is number one and wall warts number two, then cables are number 3 (I use airport or IEEE 802.11 cards)...
My apologies for getting mystical on you... As in meditation, in the quest of perfect computing happiness, or computing Nirvana, the less, the better...
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Can someone explain how the 8 months old "withdrawal" is only seen now and required hacking the computer.
Isn't the point of the blockchain you can trace (except through mixers or specific ZKP systems) transactions precisely because every node holds an exact and full copy of the ledger of transactions?
The only thing hacking the computer could provide is private keys to actually transfer value out of those wallets but the balance should have been public.
There are many different areas of IP, not to be confused: patents, trademarks, industrial design, geographical indications, copyright... with different issues and problems.
IMHO there are areas of IP that make sense: protecting brands, otherwise known as trademarks, so that "company identity theft" is more difficult.
Patents were initially created not only to protect the inventors by giving them a limited monopoly time but also to
1. encourage publication of inventions so secret inventions would not die with their owners, in effect creating a global corpus of invention descriptions.
2. to help distribute the collective invention effort instead of having everyone try to replicate a given useful invention, in effect encouraging innovation. this is why patents are published before they are accepted.
The problem i see with the monopoly given is that too many patents are obvious and in effect lock-down effects stifle innovation instead of stimulating it. In a perfect world, the length of protection should be connected to a measure of obviousness and to the speed of the industry. It takes longer to apply an invention in the field of trains than in the field of software.
Sounds hard but a panel could grant patents a variable length, which would also help filter through the massive number of frivolous patents that chokes the patent offices.
so far, i cannot feel the force.
i remember using smartscene, by multigen, a 3D version of this 2D interface (head monted display, powergloves...) for a prototype of a game creation tool at electronic arts, 10 years ago...
... were done similarly but in 3D.
you could grab space between thumb and middle finger, objects between thumb and index. all rotation, zooming, moving object,
still, well done demo. excellent presentation skills !
Interesting point of view, however, I shoot with a digital camera, in JPEG most of the time. Since I started 3 years ago with a Canon D30 and since end of 2002 with a 1Ds I have accumulated almost 200GB. All photos are archived on CDs as they are shot but having them all online is fantastic...
/p
Since all images are archived and I only need to have them rapidly accessible, this slow but huge HD is exactly what I need, even if unreliable. At worst if it dies before I save it all on DVDs, I'll have to reread a few hundred CDs...
Trying to follow the links can be tedious, but the structure is interesting (snippets cut and pasted from the various websites).
George Soros funds a network of foundations. Among them, Media Development Loan Fund (MDLF) assists independent news organizations working in difficult economic and political climates. Of which Center for Advanced Media-Prague (C@MP) has been bringing new-media concepts and solutions to independent news organizations worldwide since 1998
Camp is developing and diffusing cost-effective, open-source solutions to independent media through its CAMPWARE initiative. Which brings us to another open source ongoing development project: CAMPSITE, an automated web-publishing environment for news media.
quiet power supplies from PC Power & Cooling
no fan on the processor, only a very large heatsink on a PIII 300
fluid dynamic bearing hard drives from Fujitsu MPG3xxxAH-E series
IBM's latest GXP hard drive: very quiet
sleep the hard drive when it is not in use
lower the voltage on K6-2 200 fan from 12V to 5V, with temp monitoring. In 2+ years no problems.
use external firewire/USB enclosure for loud peripherals so I can unplug them (plextor CDR, older hard drives)
but I just bought an G4 Cube last week (with ATI fanless video card).
The silence makes this machine livable. I am going back to school (photography) and needed a computer I could use in a small appartment where it would have to live in my room. I also have all my CDs in MP3 because I do not want to lug them around and wanted to watch DVDs on it. No matter what I do, unless you play the music VERY loud, my PCs make too much noise. The Mac is not perfectly silent, but even when there is sound around, you can hear yourself think.
I also use a Vaio picturebook C1-XS and contrary to some posts on how quiet laptops are, it is very loud especially when the fan comes starts to be happy. It also has a disturbing whine which may come from the toshiba 30GB HD I installed in it. Sadly I did not have a choice as the 9.5mm in those densities are quite rare. IBM has one now I would have bought. The moral is that you only hear the loudest component...
I would prefer a desktop that uses technology designed for laptops with convection cooling, even if it was a tad slower. There are lots of progress to be made in how processors are cooled. Why not use the computer case as a radiator ? On another aspect, I would really appreciate a computer system with an external power supply (like the Cube) also capable of powering all the stupid little periperals that each require an annoying wall wart (imagine some larger cable like a power bus (including a few lines at different voltages) with different interchangeable plugs along the way that can power all sorts of devices: camera, USB hub, KVM switch, modem, hub, ...).
And in the "Less is better" vein, if getting rid of sound is number one and wall warts number two, then cables are number 3 (I use airport or IEEE 802.11 cards)...
My apologies for getting mystical on you... As in meditation, in the quest of perfect computing happiness, or computing Nirvana, the less, the better...
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