I have a feeling that even if any of the people you know had used Bing, you would be the last person they would admit it to, cause you have such strong feelings about search engine usage.
I have tried Bing and was severely disappointed. I was looking for the airline price checker tool that plots when tickets are supposed to be cheapest. This was hyped by MS and the press as being uber cool. Their own search engine couldn't point me to the right link. I had to search Google news to find an article that mentioned it and had a link directly to it. It was helpful but not really anything better then what Sidestep or some of the other ticket sites offer.
Have you really polled all of them on their Bing usage?
Are you still counting these people you polled in the unaware category? If they are still unaware, even after you asked them about Bing, then they have serious mental problems.
When you meet someone for the first time, do you start your conversation with "Have you used Bing?"? I can just hear the whispers as people walk away..."Whose that guy?"..."Oh, he has a Bing obsession."
Do you re-poll, cause someone may have switched since you last asked.
For practical purposes, we don't have to sweep the entire region of space, just the areas in which we want to have a long term presence. It may not be a tunnel, but it is certainly not the surface of a sphere. Since we are tracking the junk in space, it would certainly be easier to target each item then to try to sweep everywhere.
How about garbage collectors with bumpers that use spinning to match speed with garbage that is passing by. Objects made of metal or are valuable could be spun into a higher orbit, perhaps to intercept other garbage collectors that would slow the object down for capture. Objects with no value could be spun into lower, unstable orbits, if we are really clever, the stuff heading down could push the garbage collector higher at the same time or towards its next intercept or both.
The garbage collector itself would not have to match speeds, just plot intercepts and bumper speeds. Since we are tracking a lot of these objects already, it should be possible to figure out in advance a mission for a garbage collector. It would take a lot of missions, but I don't see why this would be impossible.
Also, it would look like a tie fighter and George Lucas will be forced to sponsor it...
I thought the Natal video looked very interesting. The mapping from the people moving to the screen was smooth.
I actually felt sorry for Sony when the guy in their video couldn't hit the ball. I thought it was fitting he finally got it (and really just barely) with a Stop sign. Now that was ironical.
Since childhood, I've always had a weight problem. As an adult, I've figured out that the chief culprit is wheat. If I cut wheat out of my diet, I lose weight. Doesn't matter if I exercise or over eat, as long as I don't eat wheat, my weight drops and quickly. Something in the wheat takes my body out of ketosis and at that point it doesn't matter if I exercise or not, I'm not going to lose weight.
Now, one of my brothers and my Dad (both very over weight) are doing the same thing and they both report the same results. If you exercise and still don't lose weight, try cutting wheat out of you diet. It worked for me and it might work for you.
Here in Texas we passed tort reform. The actual effect of that is that doctors and health practitioners are moving into the state from other states that don't have tort reform. That's the hard facts, not some study from some group.
All of you arguments are based on guesses. Educated guesses to be sure, but guesses none the less.
Having lived under socialized medicine, I can tell you that things will not improve under this plan. I don't have any educated guesses to back that up, just personal experience.
The resulting Connectify differs from the Internet connection sharing that Windows already supports via an "ad hoc" network connection, which lets several Windows computers share a single connection. "For one thing, it shows up as a real wireless access point," Gizis said. "Two, Internet connection sharing has issues. It returns to the default settings every time you shut down a connection. And three, you can join another wireless network and still run the Connectify Hotspot on the same Wi-Fi card."
One application came immediately to mind, Gizis continued. "You're sitting in a coffee shop that charges you for a wireless connection. With Connectify, I can pay for that connection, and still have all my other devices, like my iPhone, connected to the Internet."
I've read plenty of RFCs and I've also bent networking protocols to do things they were never intended to do. If IPv4 doesn't have cruft, then maybe you can explain how IPv6 gets by with fewer fields? They didn't even implement the evil bit, but that's not cruft right, just a cool in joke.
My point was that the military is one of a few organizations that could define their own network standard to actually improve performance for everyone that uses it. As opposed to IPv6 which actually does the opposite. Many bases are still on dial up and units deployed to the field are never going to have broadband. It should be possible to define a header that does both the IP and TCP headers in 128 bits.
If they go with IPv6, they will only ever be able to use it to connect fat cat generals to gay pron faster.
The military may be looking for a smaller packet size then IPv6 can offer. Think IPv4 with all of the cruft taken out. They might be able to get away with an even smaller address size then IPv4 since they have a finite number of things they want to connect. Ports seem to be a waste of bits, since you only ever use a few of those at a time. Shaving 10 bits off of the address and 10 bits off of the port would allow them to add security, prioritization, etc.
Some of these military data streams will be unreliable and every bit helps.
I would think that this kind of discovery could close the gap for some of the physics problems we are trying to solve. Could the headline have read 'Missing matter discovered around Saturn'? Supposedly we are missing 75% of the matter in the universe or some percentage.
Ice in space? I wonder what we could do with that. Maybe Mars isn't so boring after all.
That would explain all the immigrants in the US that can't speak or learn English. They must have been kicked out of their own countries for not being bilingual. It's okay though, cause we provide them with translators (who must be imported from some other country).
I'm not familiar with the US law that says the NSA can't spy on communications between Pakistan and the UK. Please cite the applicable law if you are going to declare the wiretaps illegal. Perhaps there is a UK law that applies. I tried typing 'or a Pakistani law' at the end of the last sentence but started laughing before hitting the 'r' key. The Pakistanis apparently had no trouble using the NSA.
The NSA charter is to examine enemy communications. This has nothing to do with domestic wiretapping and you should not be shocked by this story. Move along, nothing to see here.
It costs that much because of the Anti-Nuke crowds hysteria requiring accounting and maintenance practices which would make the gordian knot look like a half-winchester. This is similar to the logic that it costs less to give a mass murderer life then death. Ask the Chinese if it costs more to keep someone in a cage or execute them behind the courthouse.
Throw in enough adjudication and bureaucratic nonsense and just about any activity can be rendered economically unsound.
The argument is like saying "Hitler sent men to the moon". If it weren't for the V1 and V2 rocket programs, the US and the USSR would not have experienced the explosive growth in their space capabilities after WWII.
A Hitler reference without violating Godwin, Yee Ha!
It assumes making a decision, i.e. weighing pros and cons and your emotions and information, is somehow magically free of both determinism and random control. They may have influence, but ultimately there's some mysterious spiritual thing beyond determinism and randomness that's doing the deciding in a manner that doesn't involve either.
Where does this nonsense come from? If you did something and feel later that there is some mysterious spiritual thing that decided what that something was, seek help before the mysterious spiritual thing has you jumping off a roof. I think using the word 'free' to describe something is a disservice to everyone who follows. Like FOSS, the free in free will is a distraction that will never go away. Is it controversial to say that someone has 'will power'? Why is it a controversy for intelligent animals to have 'free will'?
Quantum implies heavily that, for example, there is no particle out there with an actual, measurable position
Really? From Wikipedia In quantum mechanics, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle states that certain pairs of physical properties, like position and momentum, cannot both be known to arbitrary precision. I guess if the particles were really 'out there' then we couldn't actually measure their position from in here. If they came in here then we might have a chance.
But if Quantum Mechanics itself was, say, a computer simulation, then the whole hidden-variables problem disappears as an issue.
QM is a theory describing the Universe. If QM itself was, say, a computer simulation, then the Universe is a computer simulation, running on God's box (elite gaming rig, of course). Unless the computer running the simulation is a simulation itself. Eventually you'd have to have a real computer in the really real reality, possibly sitting on a stack of turtles.
"Until you have spent hours picking apart the claims, the specification, and the file wrapper, you don't know how broad the claims are or whether you could implement them, or what "basic idea" they cover."
I can implement it, except now I can be sued for implementing it. I'm a good programmer and generally a nice guy, am I supposed to pour over every patent to figure out what I can or cannot write? It's madness. I expect the lawyers to be for this, because it makes them money. But why anyone else would is beyond me or maybe just below me.
I never said I didn't like it, I just said it is frustrating. I can't go into all of the reasons why it frustrated me, but not without spoiling it for others. One major problem is that none of the characters are at all sympathetic, with one minor (pun intended) exception.
Anywhile, if they do make a sequel that fills in the gaps in an intelligent way, I'll revise my opinion. But for now, I give the movie a rating of 'Meh' with a large dose of 'Huh, What'.
They are, without looking at the patent, using relative position in a text file to determine how to manipulate the text.
That basic idea should not be patentable. It is beyond obvious that that is doable in many languages and I could have something working in a few hours that encompasses that idea. If they want to copyright an implementation of that idea, more power to them. A patent means they have the legal right to prevent me from implementing something like that, which is BS.
The problem with the movie is that the whole premise is flawed. The humans don't act like humans. They have no knowledge of the aliens and don't even seem interested. They shove ET into a ghetto and there are no scholars, philosophers, doctors, scientists or even media trying to gain access to them? No one on the whole globe cares at all, except for an evil haliburton type company. Really? Sitting in the audience I couldn't help but think that someone involved in this glossy, shiny turd would have pointed out that their core audience is going to be made up of people who would be on the first plane to Johannesburg to see an alien.
And that is not a spoiler, that is just the trailers. It felt like it just missed some key plot points. A sequel has the potential to be much better, especially if it explains why the aliens are so ineffectual, another serious gripe.
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I have a feeling that even if any of the people you know had used Bing, you would be the last person they would admit it to, cause you have such strong feelings about search engine usage.
I have tried Bing and was severely disappointed. I was looking for the airline price checker tool that plots when tickets are supposed to be cheapest. This was hyped by MS and the press as being uber cool. Their own search engine couldn't point me to the right link. I had to search Google news to find an article that mentioned it and had a link directly to it. It was helpful but not really anything better then what Sidestep or some of the other ticket sites offer.
Lets assume that you actually know some people.
Have you really polled all of them on their Bing usage?
Are you still counting these people you polled in the unaware category? If they are still unaware, even after you asked them about Bing, then they have serious mental problems.
When you meet someone for the first time, do you start your conversation with "Have you used Bing?"? I can just hear the whispers as people walk away ..."Whose that guy?"..."Oh, he has a Bing obsession."
Do you re-poll, cause someone may have switched since you last asked.
For practical purposes, we don't have to sweep the entire region of space, just the areas in which we want to have a long term presence. It may not be a tunnel, but it is certainly not the surface of a sphere. Since we are tracking the junk in space, it would certainly be easier to target each item then to try to sweep everywhere.
How about garbage collectors with bumpers that use spinning to match speed with garbage that is passing by. Objects made of metal or are valuable could be spun into a higher orbit, perhaps to intercept other garbage collectors that would slow the object down for capture. Objects with no value could be spun into lower, unstable orbits, if we are really clever, the stuff heading down could push the garbage collector higher at the same time or towards its next intercept or both.
The garbage collector itself would not have to match speeds, just plot intercepts and bumper speeds. Since we are tracking a lot of these objects already, it should be possible to figure out in advance a mission for a garbage collector. It would take a lot of missions, but I don't see why this would be impossible.
Also, it would look like a tie fighter and George Lucas will be forced to sponsor it...
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Now where's my nobel prize?
I thought the Natal video looked very interesting. The mapping from the people moving to the screen was smooth.
I actually felt sorry for Sony when the guy in their video couldn't hit the ball. I thought it was fitting he finally got it (and really just barely) with a Stop sign. Now that was ironical.
Since childhood, I've always had a weight problem. As an adult, I've figured out that the chief culprit is wheat. If I cut wheat out of my diet, I lose weight. Doesn't matter if I exercise or over eat, as long as I don't eat wheat, my weight drops and quickly. Something in the wheat takes my body out of ketosis and at that point it doesn't matter if I exercise or not, I'm not going to lose weight.
Now, one of my brothers and my Dad (both very over weight) are doing the same thing and they both report the same results. If you exercise and still don't lose weight, try cutting wheat out of you diet. It worked for me and it might work for you.
Here in Texas we passed tort reform. The actual effect of that is that doctors and health practitioners are moving into the state from other states that don't have tort reform. That's the hard facts, not some study from some group.
All of you arguments are based on guesses. Educated guesses to be sure, but guesses none the less.
Having lived under socialized medicine, I can tell you that things will not improve under this plan. I don't have any educated guesses to back that up, just personal experience.
The resulting Connectify differs from the Internet connection sharing that Windows already supports via an "ad hoc" network connection, which lets several Windows computers share a single connection. "For one thing, it shows up as a real wireless access point," Gizis said. "Two, Internet connection sharing has issues. It returns to the default settings every time you shut down a connection. And three, you can join another wireless network and still run the Connectify Hotspot on the same Wi-Fi card."
One application came immediately to mind, Gizis continued. "You're sitting in a coffee shop that charges you for a wireless connection. With Connectify, I can pay for that connection, and still have all my other devices, like my iPhone, connected to the Internet."
I'd like to add that reducing air travel also reduces carbon in the atmosphere, potentially saving everyone on the planet and future generations.
Think of the children, people.
I've read plenty of RFCs and I've also bent networking protocols to do things they were never intended to do. If IPv4 doesn't have cruft, then maybe you can explain how IPv6 gets by with fewer fields? They didn't even implement the evil bit, but that's not cruft right, just a cool in joke.
My point was that the military is one of a few organizations that could define their own network standard to actually improve performance for everyone that uses it. As opposed to IPv6 which actually does the opposite. Many bases are still on dial up and units deployed to the field are never going to have broadband. It should be possible to define a header that does both the IP and TCP headers in 128 bits.
If they go with IPv6, they will only ever be able to use it to connect fat cat generals to gay pron faster.
The military may be looking for a smaller packet size then IPv6 can offer. Think IPv4 with all of the cruft taken out. They might be able to get away with an even smaller address size then IPv4 since they have a finite number of things they want to connect. Ports seem to be a waste of bits, since you only ever use a few of those at a time. Shaving 10 bits off of the address and 10 bits off of the port would allow them to add security, prioritization, etc.
Some of these military data streams will be unreliable and every bit helps.
Now that the funny is out of the way...
I would think that this kind of discovery could close the gap for some of the physics problems we are trying to solve. Could the headline have read 'Missing matter discovered around Saturn'? Supposedly we are missing 75% of the matter in the universe or some percentage.
Ice in space? I wonder what we could do with that. Maybe Mars isn't so boring after all.
You and the rest of the countries you mention have higher rates of suicide and lower rates of births. Congratulations, you deserve them!
MS didn't make the cut because they don't support Linux. Yeah, that's a deal killer for a MS shop.
That would explain all the immigrants in the US that can't speak or learn English. They must have been kicked out of their own countries for not being bilingual. It's okay though, cause we provide them with translators (who must be imported from some other country).
I'm not familiar with the US law that says the NSA can't spy on communications between Pakistan and the UK. Please cite the applicable law if you are going to declare the wiretaps illegal. Perhaps there is a UK law that applies. I tried typing 'or a Pakistani law' at the end of the last sentence but started laughing before hitting the 'r' key. The Pakistanis apparently had no trouble using the NSA.
The NSA charter is to examine enemy communications. This has nothing to do with domestic wiretapping and you should not be shocked by this story. Move along, nothing to see here.
It costs that much because of the Anti-Nuke crowds hysteria requiring accounting and maintenance practices which would make the gordian knot look like a half-winchester. This is similar to the logic that it costs less to give a mass murderer life then death. Ask the Chinese if it costs more to keep someone in a cage or execute them behind the courthouse.
Throw in enough adjudication and bureaucratic nonsense and just about any activity can be rendered economically unsound.
The argument is like saying "Hitler sent men to the moon". If it weren't for the V1 and V2 rocket programs, the US and the USSR would not have experienced the explosive growth in their space capabilities after WWII.
A Hitler reference without violating Godwin, Yee Ha!
The USA is not the world. If patents are so stifling, why aren't great new drugs and technology coming from places that have no patent protections?
Do patents/copyright/trade-marks really prevent you from innovating? And your proof for this is ...?
It assumes making a decision, i.e. weighing pros and cons and your emotions and information, is somehow magically free of both determinism and random control. They may have influence, but ultimately there's some mysterious spiritual thing beyond determinism and randomness that's doing the deciding in a manner that doesn't involve either.
Where does this nonsense come from? If you did something and feel later that there is some mysterious spiritual thing that decided what that something was, seek help before the mysterious spiritual thing has you jumping off a roof. I think using the word 'free' to describe something is a disservice to everyone who follows. Like FOSS, the free in free will is a distraction that will never go away. Is it controversial to say that someone has 'will power'? Why is it a controversy for intelligent animals to have 'free will'?
Quantum implies heavily that, for example, there is no particle out there with an actual, measurable position
Really? From Wikipedia In quantum mechanics, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle states that certain pairs of physical properties, like position and momentum, cannot both be known to arbitrary precision. I guess if the particles were really 'out there' then we couldn't actually measure their position from in here. If they came in here then we might have a chance.
But if Quantum Mechanics itself was, say, a computer simulation, then the whole hidden-variables problem disappears as an issue.
QM is a theory describing the Universe. If QM itself was, say, a computer simulation, then the Universe is a computer simulation, running on God's box (elite gaming rig, of course). Unless the computer running the simulation is a simulation itself. Eventually you'd have to have a real computer in the really real reality, possibly sitting on a stack of turtles.
"Until you have spent hours picking apart the claims, the specification, and the file wrapper, you don't know how broad the claims are or whether you could implement them, or what "basic idea" they cover."
I can implement it, except now I can be sued for implementing it. I'm a good programmer and generally a nice guy, am I supposed to pour over every patent to figure out what I can or cannot write? It's madness. I expect the lawyers to be for this, because it makes them money. But why anyone else would is beyond me or maybe just below me.
That was exactly my point. I would like to add the following...
There have only been 3 lines of original code ever written. Everything since is derivative.
It doesn't matter though. Once the lawyers get involved it's a done deal, they're going to get their piece of the pie.
I never said I didn't like it, I just said it is frustrating. I can't go into all of the reasons why it frustrated me, but not without spoiling it for others. One major problem is that none of the characters are at all sympathetic, with one minor (pun intended) exception.
Anywhile, if they do make a sequel that fills in the gaps in an intelligent way, I'll revise my opinion. But for now, I give the movie a rating of 'Meh' with a large dose of 'Huh, What'.
They are, without looking at the patent, using relative position in a text file to determine how to manipulate the text.
That basic idea should not be patentable. It is beyond obvious that that is doable in many languages and I could have something working in a few hours that encompasses that idea. If they want to copyright an implementation of that idea, more power to them. A patent means they have the legal right to prevent me from implementing something like that, which is BS.
The problem with the movie is that the whole premise is flawed. The humans don't act like humans. They have no knowledge of the aliens and don't even seem interested. They shove ET into a ghetto and there are no scholars, philosophers, doctors, scientists or even media trying to gain access to them? No one on the whole globe cares at all, except for an evil haliburton type company. Really? Sitting in the audience I couldn't help but think that someone involved in this glossy, shiny turd would have pointed out that their core audience is going to be made up of people who would be on the first plane to Johannesburg to see an alien.
And that is not a spoiler, that is just the trailers. It felt like it just missed some key plot points. A sequel has the potential to be much better, especially if it explains why the aliens are so ineffectual, another serious gripe.