Isn't there a Marine Corps base right near Disneyland in California? I thought that was why they were singing the song, they're given some leave and spent it there when they were newbies.
What's the theory behind the discovery? Is it that humans have more brainpower than they need and that while you read, one half of your brain is bored, while the reading/comprehending part is extremely active? Does listening to music make the parts of your brain that are not doing anything active having more fun, and the mood elevates learning?
Or is it that music helps memory?
Any links to papers?
People are not trying to wipe out humanity; they are trying to wipe out people from other tribes.
Yes, people have been trying to do that, and have sometimes succeeded at it too, for a very long time, and they have done it with some very simple methods. These tribes have not needed nanotech to commit genocide.
I totally agree with you on the pool of pirahnas analogy. Why would someone research nanotech just to plague us with tiny machines? It's non-sensical. If they really want to destroy us, they'll use the simplest means that they can employ.
I wish he had a simple quicksort where he could show massively improved performance by having trinary numbers. Maybe he could write the program with normal binary numbers, and find a fudge factor to slow down normal commands, but speed up (to simulate trinary improvements) those commands that trinary could really improve.
A theoretical benchmark would be interesting.
Was his file folder insertion example meant to make us think of ways we could use trinary lookups on an actual filesystem?
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Why don't we make it so that we use the six degrees of separation that we think exists?
I am willing to share music with any of my friends, even not listen to it while they're listening to it. Why don't we share something like PGP-keys between us and our close ( 20 people) friends, sign each others keys and agree to share?
Then if someone wants music, check your friends lists, and if they don't have it available, ask them to ask for what you're looking for from their friends. The latency might be a day or so. And the chain spreads outwards. If someone eventually connects to someone inside of RIAA, about 6 steps out, the person who shared with them, someone they presumably _knew_ worked for RIAA, that's the only person that's really guilty of anything.
I think you're the first to suggest something intelligent: ask the telcos to have standby, portable base stations ready to go nearby major metropolitan centers, just for cell phone traffic, in the event of major emergencies.
I still think that it's a bad design that you have to reboot the whole server after patching only one service. You don't think it's strange that you can't shut down the service, apply the patch and restart just the patched service?
I know what you mean; sometimes you have to see these problems as opportunities though. Like, let's say you know Apache is better - why not go make a consulting company, use Apache in house, and stop worrying? Your competition is out there, using IIS, getting clobbered, while you rake in the dough. Who cares what the other guy's doing?
A car with four legs is as useful as an elephant would be. Kind of useful, if the terrain is covered with blown-down leg-heigh snags that wheels would have a hard time going over. Plus elephants can walk down extremely steep hillsides, angles so steep that humans would be terrified to try them.
Anyway, a four-legged car, if it was sure-footed enough, would be like a super-mule! And pretty useful, in certain situations.
Kind of like the two-legged "legbarrow" (not sure what else to call it) that the Berkeley robotics group was making. It's powered by a chainsaw engine, and didn't look like it possessed good foot-placement abilities, but it might be useful as one end of a walking stretcher for moving wounded people... the back end is a normal person, guiding it around. Kind of cool.
Wrong, think what you're saying through. If you have the bad luck of looking like a known medium-serious criminal, like a bank robber, you will be ****CONSTANTLY**** harrassed by yet another cop who didn't get the word. You will be walking through downtown Eugene, OR, then get kicked to the ground, face in the pavement, and cuffed, it will take a day to sort out that you're not the bad guy.
This will happen to you four times a month.
Tough luck! Stay at home and order out!
That's so on the money:) I'm using Proxomitron and filtering all the ads - works great, no ads.
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Oh what I really wanted to add:
The hardest thing to fight is people's assumption that because they do things one at a time, by hand (but on a computer), that there's no way someone could script all the "thinking" they're doing and take care of the exceptions. Well.. they're mostly wrong!
But sometimes scripts fail for funny reasons, like running out of disk space, which means their temp files don't work... but whatever. Other scripts are looking into the disk space problem...
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Nod, at my work when I was an operator they wanted someone to constantly check on the status of a job in a VMS system. I obliged by writing expect scripts that would get in, saving the logs to a file, and when it got to the right spot to really check the status (a particular screen), then I would stop logging and log out. Then I would play the log into a virtual curses 25x80 screen and cut out the right rows and columns to figure out the status.
Checking the machine four times a night became easy. I think it helped them to focus on their work, knowing that things were taken care of.
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So does this mean that there's no way out for Microsoft? That because of Linux, they are going to lose money on this hardware?
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For example, in Seattle they watch the roads for traffic volume (seems reasonable). And they let the local news stations get a feed (also seems reasonable).
But once you have a live feed, whats to stop you from adding zoom lenses and looking into every car? And adding more cameras until you can handle the volume of faces?
and giving a feed to the FBI...
Why do they need live video to watch roads? Can't they track traffic volume with a laser and a reflector, like the doors on a Seven-eleven?
Won't they just add more video to side streets, eventually on every street? At first just to look for people driving the wrong way up one-way streets, and later to catch parking lot cheaters, and later to catch meter-breakers, and meter-cheaters, and slowly spread it and spread it, until they lose track of the rules where they _do_ put in cameras and eventually just have them ___everywhere___
God that sounds awful. Do we really want to live like that??
I thought the lead glass was for optical clarity, like lead crystal, it's easy to see through and brilliant-looking. X-rays? Is there really that much energy in a CRT?
WT News: WWW Worm Attacks White House
NYT News: Worm Misses White House
WT Ed: Dumb Worms And Smart Defenses
NYT Ed: Web Worm Raises Questions About China
Truthfully, I dont know if newpapers are going to print a lot of anti-hacker anti-open source pro-Microsoft jingoism, or just have a Y2K-style bellylaugh at the elite haxors. They'll definitely mention that Microsoft made a patch available, then they'll suggest something boneheaded like having the patches auto-apply.
Absinthe is made from wormwood right? Is it hallucinogenic? Or harmless like Kahlua, the coffee liquer? I thought absinthe was poisonously bad, like drinking mercury - it's not?
I agree - I think mankind harnessed the horse before we invented the wheel. Proteins are out there, they work at the scale we're interested in, and they are "the horse" in the environment of the very small. Later when we understand better how things work, we can make creations that do even more amazing and useful things than proteins. But one step at a time...
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Volkswagons are already done this way. They're all the same underneath. It's a good idea.
"The network _is_ the storage" (tm)
Isn't there a Marine Corps base right near Disneyland in California? I thought that was why they were singing the song, they're given some leave and spent it there when they were newbies.
What's the theory behind the discovery? Is it that humans have more brainpower than they need and that while you read, one half of your brain is bored, while the reading/comprehending part is extremely active? Does listening to music make the parts of your brain that are not doing anything active having more fun, and the mood elevates learning?
Or is it that music helps memory?
Any links to papers?
--Tom Y
People are not trying to wipe out humanity; they are trying to wipe out people from other tribes.
Yes, people have been trying to do that, and have sometimes succeeded at it too, for a very long time, and they have done it with some very simple methods. These tribes have not needed nanotech to commit genocide.
I totally agree with you on the pool of pirahnas analogy. Why would someone research nanotech just to plague us with tiny machines? It's non-sensical. If they really want to destroy us, they'll use the simplest means that they can employ.
I wish he had a simple quicksort where he could show massively improved performance by having trinary numbers. Maybe he could write the program with normal binary numbers, and find a fudge factor to slow down normal commands, but speed up (to simulate trinary improvements) those commands that trinary could really improve.
A theoretical benchmark would be interesting.
Was his file folder insertion example meant to make us think of ways we could use trinary lookups on an actual filesystem?
Why don't we make it so that we use the six degrees of separation that we think exists?
I am willing to share music with any of my friends, even not listen to it while they're listening to it. Why don't we share something like PGP-keys between us and our close ( 20 people) friends, sign each others keys and agree to share?
Then if someone wants music, check your friends lists, and if they don't have it available, ask them to ask for what you're looking for from their friends. The latency might be a day or so. And the chain spreads outwards. If someone eventually connects to someone inside of RIAA, about 6 steps out, the person who shared with them, someone they presumably _knew_ worked for RIAA, that's the only person that's really guilty of anything.
Thanks, just my 2 cents.
--Tom Y
I think you're the first to suggest something intelligent: ask the telcos to have standby, portable base stations ready to go nearby major metropolitan centers, just for cell phone traffic, in the event of major emergencies.
I still think that it's a bad design that you have to reboot the whole server after patching only one service. You don't think it's strange that you can't shut down the service, apply the patch and restart just the patched service?
I know what you mean; sometimes you have to see these problems as opportunities though. Like, let's say you know Apache is better - why not go make a consulting company, use Apache in house, and stop worrying? Your competition is out there, using IIS, getting clobbered, while you rake in the dough. Who cares what the other guy's doing?
Anyway, a four-legged car, if it was sure-footed enough, would be like a super-mule! And pretty useful, in certain situations.
Kind of like the two-legged "legbarrow" (not sure what else to call it) that the Berkeley robotics group was making. It's powered by a chainsaw engine, and didn't look like it possessed good foot-placement abilities, but it might be useful as one end of a walking stretcher for moving wounded people... the back end is a normal person, guiding it around. Kind of cool.
--Tom Y
Wrong, think what you're saying through. If you have the bad luck of looking like a known medium-serious criminal, like a bank robber, you will be ****CONSTANTLY**** harrassed by yet another cop who didn't get the word. You will be walking through downtown Eugene, OR, then get kicked to the ground, face in the pavement, and cuffed, it will take a day to sort out that you're not the bad guy.
This will happen to you four times a month.
Tough luck! Stay at home and order out!
That's so on the money :) I'm using Proxomitron and filtering all the ads - works great, no ads.
The hardest thing to fight is people's assumption that because they do things one at a time, by hand (but on a computer), that there's no way someone could script all the "thinking" they're doing and take care of the exceptions. Well.. they're mostly wrong!
But sometimes scripts fail for funny reasons, like running out of disk space, which means their temp files don't work... but whatever. Other scripts are looking into the disk space problem...
Checking the machine four times a night became easy. I think it helped them to focus on their work, knowing that things were taken care of.
So does this mean that there's no way out for Microsoft? That because of Linux, they are going to lose money on this hardware?
Your kung fu is no good, Anonymous Coward.
Hahahah!!
For example, in Seattle they watch the roads for traffic volume (seems reasonable). And they let the local news stations get a feed (also seems reasonable).
But once you have a live feed, whats to stop you from adding zoom lenses and looking into every car? And adding more cameras until you can handle the volume of faces?
and giving a feed to the FBI...
Why do they need live video to watch roads? Can't they track traffic volume with a laser and a reflector, like the doors on a Seven-eleven?
Won't they just add more video to side streets, eventually on every street? At first just to look for people driving the wrong way up one-way streets, and later to catch parking lot cheaters, and later to catch meter-breakers, and meter-cheaters, and slowly spread it and spread it, until they lose track of the rules where they _do_ put in cameras and eventually just have them ___everywhere___
God that sounds awful. Do we really want to live like that??
--Tom Y
That's really cool; do you know where the source can be found? I've looked around on google, hoping to find it, but I've had no luck.
I thought the lead glass was for optical clarity, like lead crystal, it's easy to see through and brilliant-looking. X-rays? Is there really that much energy in a CRT?
NYT News: Worm Misses White House
WT Ed: Dumb Worms And Smart Defenses
NYT Ed: Web Worm Raises Questions About China
Truthfully, I dont know if newpapers are going to print a lot of anti-hacker anti-open source pro-Microsoft jingoism, or just have a Y2K-style bellylaugh at the elite haxors. They'll definitely mention that Microsoft made a patch available, then they'll suggest something boneheaded like having the patches auto-apply.
Absinthe is made from wormwood right? Is it hallucinogenic? Or harmless like Kahlua, the coffee liquer? I thought absinthe was poisonously bad, like drinking mercury - it's not?
I agree - I think mankind harnessed the horse before we invented the wheel. Proteins are out there, they work at the scale we're interested in, and they are "the horse" in the environment of the very small. Later when we understand better how things work, we can make creations that do even more amazing and useful things than proteins. But one step at a time...