> What's the big deal. If you are doing nothing wrong who cares.
what about tapping information of CEOs of businesses to find out about
mergers etc and buying or selling stocks accordingly? Looking into
business plans of startups.
What about spying on political opponents? Spreading misinformation.
Find out about their plans.
Once tapping information is possible, also the alternation of messages
is possible. This opens the doors on defamation.
What about looking into medical records of people, for example in the
hiring process? A phone tap to the candidate or his doctor could suffice.
I do not play windows games on my virtual machines but applications like google earth run very smooth, essentially with the same speed than in windows. Just make sure to check OpenGL, when using Google earth. In general, with virtual machines, it is important to have enough memory. VMware is the main reason, I throw into my main linux boxes as much memory as I can afford.
If the patent gets enforced, browsers can not display
a plug-in directly but must use external applications. Users have
to go through an additional step, each time a website uses a
plug-in. Many get annoyed. Browsers like Firefox or Konqueror
can no more be distributed in which plug-ins are workable, but
each user with access to the source code can remove the
restriction flag and recompile the application and the plug-in.
Plug-in creators will always distribute the source code of the
plug-in, where the Eola flag can be removed.
It can be of advantage to open an external application instead of
using a plug-in. I personally prefer for example to see Real video
content in the external player, where I can resize the application,
and where things usually work. Also flash content could by
default be shown in an external player.
The patent says: "...execute an embedded program object.
The program object is embedded into a hypermedia document
much like data objects." What is embedded? I could imagine
to display content in an other application in such a way that
the user can not distinguish it from a real plug-in, but where
technically, the application is not "embedded in the document"
but runs in a second window, with dimensions and locations
coordinated by the browser. The user does not notice a difference.
Innovation is one of the least appreciated
quality of teaching. This includes exploring
new approaches, but it also can mean to question
common practice. Having seen so many examples
of math textbooks which are all clones of each other,
and where the lack of innovation is compensated with
outrageous prizes, this is refreshing.
The ultimate test for the new rational approach to
trigonomety is the success in many different classrooms
and with many different teachers.
If it is successful for one teacher, it does not mean
that it will work for others. There are many examples of elegant new
ways to approach things which failed because the teachers
could not adapt or because the elegance only seems
so for a narrow circle of people. An example is nonstandard
analysis.
I personally doubt that you can avoid trigonometric functions,
because they are eventually used, for example when
dealing with differential equations. Still, it is amazing
to see a rare case of somebody thinking about such a basic
mathematical concept in a new way.
yes, turning indexing on works in the sense that mdutil reports that indexing is turned on. And this is consistent with other posts I have seen on the subject.Spotlight seems however not yet really to index NFS mounted drives . Also a does not help.I also do not see a directory.Spotlight-V100 on the NFS mounted directory.
>In Tiger, there is no easy or obvious way to edit meta data >for the documents and other data files you create.
I guess, this would be relatively easy to add in OS X. There are command line utililties like "mdls" to list metadata but I'm also not aware of tools to add or modify metadata. A little bit more transparency would be nice here (also for example how to backup metadata).
Remark beside: I wonder, how metadata will work in Vista when mounting other file systems. This is a sore spot in Tiger: NFS mounted linux or solaris drives seem not yet to be searchable with spotlight (at least I did not manage to do so yet).
I look forward for swimming glasses which do not fog up. They usually do, evenso the packages claim they have a coating which should prevent that. When swimming competitively, we had a low-tech solution: spit on the inside of the goggles would prevent fogging up.
I had a TI59 in high school, to which I had added
a joystick as well as an interface to control my room.
With the joystick, it was possible to play games like moonlanding
where the printer would be the screen. The calculuator
was programmed to turn on and off the
lights in my room.
A screenshot of the two peripherals.
Of course, there was some surgergy
necessary, but the TI59 had survived
all.
> A similar situation emerged in 1998 when consumers were initially hesitant > to adopt a transition from CRT to LCD screens.
I don't think this was the reason for a hesitant transition of LCD, which would work with existing interfaces. It was the price, which was initially too high. For me, the prizes have only come down far enough in 2001.
A new monitor interface will take longer to adapt to because it requires both new graphics cards and new monitors and new computer projectors.
For me, an important transition was from VGA to DVI. Since my monitors are feeded digitally, I have a much clearer picture. Still, I'm required to use VGA, when using a video projector.
As others have pointed out, the better refresh rate or bandwidth is hardly the reason for proposing a new standard. DRM implementations which promise to close an analog hole, are the driving force. I doubt that encrypting the video signal will do any good for the refresh rate. So, don't expect consumers to fall for it.
I never bought windows per se but all PC's, I had purchased so far, which had windows preinstalled, came bundled with a DVD player. I usually look what is there, before I whipe it off my harddrive.
This would be interesting to find out. My guess is that a
typical desktop machine is used for
surfing the web
email and chat
music, movies, photos
office applications
games
While priority could vary, I think that these are things which need to work well
in order that an operating system can be used by the entire family. OSX does that.
Most people will hardly want to bother with different operating systems.
DVD's on linux laptops has to work in order that people switch. If they are forced to use windows on their laptops, also
the desktop will not change.
While for me, the linux desktop has 'been there' for many years now, there is a big obstacle: DVDs still need a DeCSS library which linux distributions can not provide yet.
DVD on linux is actually one of my main reasons to use linux on the desktop. You have more control about how to play DVDs.
However, I feel that it is absolutely essential that a user can just pop in a DVD and that it will play. And that this works just after a default installation of the operating system.
One of the first programmable computers, I had worked on
was old Olivetti programmable computer similar
to P6060,
or P6040.
It had such discs. The machine looked like a typewriter,
had no screen. The input could be read on a display with 2-3 input lines.
It used a Basic type programming language.
Most importantly: well trained and motivated teachers and also enough teachers. To achieve this, the salaries have to be higher, teachers should have the opportunity for their own development or be involved in education research.
Second: a good infrastructure with relatively modern equipment: for example large blackboards, enough space, a good library, public computers. Safe surroundings, bike paths to school, enough administration to run the school and security. Further, common rooms and maybe even a good cafeteria for teachers and staff.
All this requires that more money is pumped into education. This is the best long term investment into the economy.
The next step would be to have a guitar which allows to record the mechanical forces which apply to the strings, when a guitarist plays it and feed that back into Crazy J. This would allow a preservation of a play in a very compressed way.
I heard once a public lecture of Negroponte from the MIT media lab, where he invited the audience to think about the fact that recording all the forces onto piano keys would allow storage or transmission of music information in an interesting way. The play of an artist could so be preserved efficiently. The compression effort is very expensive and needs a lot of hardware, but the compression rate is enormous. Unlike formats like midi, it contains all the musical interpretation of the artist.
Having stored the play in a mechanical way could have applications. One could try how the "pianist" or "guitarist " would play on an other instrument, one could correct mistakes or analyze, what features make a good pianist or guitarist. Further applications are that one could play musical pieces on real pianos or guitars which humans are physically incapable to play, for example by pure limitation of the number of fingers or speed limits of the fingers.
Google earth is fantastic. It worked very well
for me with vmware workstation 5.0 under linux.
I had to select OpenGL at the startup of liveearth.
When selecting Divx, liveearth will lock up terribly
under vmware and you need to do remove the program and
and reinstall to get rid of the broken cache. Here is
a screenshotfrom the building I work in.
I have a mac mini which also deals with backup. Even when hooking up a few fire wire drives, the thing is still small and quiet. Then rsync the data over regularly with a script like
and call this by cron. This works reliably also with large files like vmware workstations or dvd backups with several gig file size. Having the backup over the network allows having the backup machine in a separate place which limits the risk (for example of theft). I personally also do not rely on a single backup and mirror also the backup (again with rsync). Since you are dealing with video and photos which do not compress well, it would make sense to leave the "z" flag in rsync away.
A direct network attached storage system would be cheaper. But the mac mini can double also for many other things like a music box or dvd player in an other room. With some cheap firewire enclosures and harddrives, the prize is comparable with network attached storage systems from the shelf and the storage can grow arbitrarily by adding new firewire drives.
Now imagine a headline in 10 years:
"120 Million biometric data stolen"
It seems that the technical challenges to keep data secure has
sunkinalready.
This credit card data breach could support these concerns.
Highwire from Stanford looks good but it suffers from the same problem all library search tools have. You misspell a keyword or an author and you get back: "Your search criteria matched zero articles."A database search, where nothing is returned is frustrating. Google has solved this problem.
It has been said before: the review by Thomsom Gale compairs its own product to Google Scholar and can therefore not be taken seriously.
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On a future desktop interface, computers will display such technical articles without the 90 percent of advertisement on each page and without a wikipedian linking orgie.
I do not play windows games on my virtual machines but
applications like google earth run very smooth, essentially
with the same speed than in windows. Just make sure to
check OpenGL, when using Google earth.
In general, with virtual machines, it is important to have
enough memory. VMware is the main reason, I throw into my
main linux boxes as much memory as I can afford.
Well, we know how well wireless cameras work
The ultimate test for the new rational approach to trigonomety is the success in many different classrooms and with many different teachers. If it is successful for one teacher, it does not mean that it will work for others. There are many examples of elegant new ways to approach things which failed because the teachers could not adapt or because the elegance only seems so for a narrow circle of people. An example is nonstandard analysis.
I personally doubt that you can avoid trigonometric functions, because they are eventually used, for example when dealing with differential equations. Still, it is amazing to see a rare case of somebody thinking about such a basic mathematical concept in a new way.
yes, turning indexing on works in the sense that .Spotlight-V100 on the NFS mounted directory.
mdutil reports that indexing is turned on. And this
is consistent with other posts I have seen on the subject.Spotlight seems however not yet really to index NFS mounted drives . Also a does not help.I also do not see a directory
thanks. yes, that works and is easy enough.
From the article:
>In Tiger, there is no easy or obvious way to edit meta data
>for the documents and other data files you create.
I guess, this would be relatively easy to add in OS X. There are
command line utililties like "mdls" to list metadata but I'm also
not aware of tools to add or modify metadata. A little bit more
transparency would be nice here (also for example how to backup
metadata).
Remark beside: I wonder, how metadata will work in Vista when mounting
other file systems. This is a sore spot in Tiger:
NFS mounted linux or solaris drives seem not yet to be searchable with spotlight
(at least I did not manage to do so yet).
I look forward for swimming glasses which do
not fog up. They usually do, evenso the packages
claim they have a coating which should prevent that. When swimming competitively, we had a low-tech solution: spit on the inside of the goggles would prevent fogging up.
I had a TI59 in high school, to which I had added a joystick as well as an interface to control my room. With the joystick, it was possible to play games like moonlanding where the printer would be the screen. The calculuator was programmed to turn on and off the lights in my room. A screenshot of the two peripherals. Of course, there was some surgergy necessary, but the TI59 had survived all.
From the article:
> A similar situation emerged in 1998 when consumers were initially hesitant
> to adopt a transition from CRT to LCD screens.
I don't think this was the reason for a hesitant transition of LCD,
which would work with existing interfaces. It was the price, which was
initially too high. For me, the prizes have only come down far enough
in 2001.
A new monitor interface will take longer to adapt to because it requires
both new graphics cards and new monitors and new computer projectors.
For me, an important transition was from VGA to DVI. Since my monitors
are feeded digitally, I have a much clearer picture. Still, I'm required
to use VGA, when using a video projector.
As others have pointed out, the better refresh rate or bandwidth is hardly the
reason for proposing a new standard. DRM implementations which promise to close
an analog hole, are the driving force. I doubt that encrypting the video signal
will do any good for the refresh rate. So, don't expect consumers to fall for it.
I never bought windows per se but all PC's, I had purchased
so far, which had windows preinstalled, came bundled with
a DVD player. I usually look what is there, before I
whipe it off my harddrive.
- surfing the web
- email and chat
- music, movies, photos
- office applications
- games
While priority could vary, I think that these are things which need to work well in order that an operating system can be used by the entire family. OSX does that. Most people will hardly want to bother with different operating systems. DVD's on linux laptops has to work in order that people switch. If they are forced to use windows on their laptops, also the desktop will not change.While for me, the linux desktop has 'been there' for many years now,
there is a big obstacle: DVDs still need a DeCSS library which
linux distributions can not provide yet.
DVD on linux is actually one of my main reasons to use
linux on the desktop. You have more control about how to play DVDs.
However, I feel that it is absolutely essential that a user can just pop
in a DVD and that it will play. And that this works just after a default
installation of the operating system.
a standalone Perl script, I use daily is demoronizer.
One of the first programmable computers, I had worked on was old Olivetti programmable computer similar to P6060, or P6040. It had such discs. The machine looked like a typewriter, had no screen. The input could be read on a display with 2-3 input lines. It used a Basic type programming language.
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Most importantly: well trained and motivated teachers and also enough
teachers. To achieve this, the salaries have to be higher, teachers
should have the opportunity for their own development or be involved in
education research.
Second: a good infrastructure with relatively modern equipment: for
example large blackboards, enough space, a good library, public computers.
Safe surroundings, bike paths to school, enough administration to run
the school and security. Further, common rooms and maybe even a good
cafeteria for teachers and staff.
All this requires that more money is pumped into education. This is the
best long term investment into the economy.
The next step would be to have a guitar which allows to record the
mechanical forces which apply to the strings, when a guitarist plays it
and feed that back into Crazy J. This would allow a preservation of a
play in a very compressed way.
I heard once a public lecture of Negroponte from the MIT media lab,
where he invited the audience to think about the fact that recording
all the forces onto piano keys would allow storage or transmission of
music information in an interesting way. The play of an artist could so
be preserved efficiently. The compression effort is very expensive and
needs a lot of hardware, but the compression rate is enormous. Unlike
formats like midi, it contains all the musical interpretation
of the artist.
Having stored the play in a mechanical way could have applications. One
could try how the "pianist" or "guitarist " would play on an other
instrument, one could correct mistakes or analyze, what features make
a good pianist or guitarist. Further applications are that one could
play musical pieces on real pianos or guitars which humans are
physically incapable to play, for example by pure limitation of the
number of fingers or speed limits of the fingers.
Google earth is fantastic. It worked very well for me with vmware workstation 5.0 under linux. I had to select OpenGL at the startup of liveearth. When selecting Divx, liveearth will lock up terribly under vmware and you need to do remove the program and and reinstall to get rid of the broken cache. Here is a screenshotfrom the building I work in.
I have a mac mini which also deals with backup. Even when hooking up
/home/user/dvds macmini:/Volumes/external/video
a few fire wire drives, the thing is still small and quiet. Then rsync
the data over regularly with a script like
#!/bin/sh
rsync -avzuP -e ssh --delete
and call this by cron. This works reliably also with large files like
vmware workstations or dvd backups with several gig file size. Having the backup
over the network allows having the backup machine in a separate place
which limits the risk (for example of theft). I personally also do not rely on
a single backup and mirror also the backup (again with rsync). Since you are
dealing with video and photos which do not compress well, it would make sense
to leave the "z" flag in rsync away.
A direct network attached storage system would be cheaper. But the mac mini
can double also for many other things like a music box or dvd player in an
other room. With some cheap firewire enclosures and harddrives, the prize is
comparable with network attached storage systems from the shelf and the storage
can grow arbitrarily by adding new firewire drives.
Now imagine a headline in 10 years: "120 Million biometric data stolen" It seems that the technical challenges to keep data secure has sunk in already. This credit card data breach could support these concerns.
Highwire from Stanford looks good but it suffers from the same problem all library search tools have. You misspell a keyword or an author and you get back: "Your search criteria matched zero articles."A database search, where nothing is returned is frustrating. Google has solved this problem.
It has been said before: the review by Thomsom Gale compairs its own product to Google Scholar and can therefore not be taken seriously.
The place looks close enough to Roswell.
Is there a secret meaning to Blue Origin?