"There's more regulations that cover a shipment of oranges coming into California than there is a shipment of human knees that are going from a body parts broker in one state to Las Vegas," said Dr. Todd Olson, director of anatomical donations at Albert Einstein Medical School of New York.
you can't compare knees in Vegas to oranges in California.
well you would only have to simulate the part of the universe that was relevant to us, that means anything closer to us than x light years, where x is the number of years you want your simulation to run. anyway i think that most modern physicists agree that you would not be able to emulate the world completely because you would not be able to take a complete snapshot of the world as it is(not because the task would be to enormus but because you would only have 50% chance of reading the state of each individual photon in the universe without altering it). There is a lot of reading on the net about simulated worlds mostly anything you read about quantum mecanics touches on the subject http://www.i-sis.org.uk/QuantumComputing.php is as good a place as any to start.
From the article. Jens and the other patients wear special
sunglasses fitted with a miniature TV camera. A microcomputer and stimulator are carried on the waist on a belt or in a bag. The equipment attaches by cable to a tiny fire hydrant-like device implanted in the skull that connects to two electrodes on the surface of the part of the brain that controls sight.
someone needs to be slaped for not reading the article.
and someone needs to be slaped for moding the post above post insightfull.
most kids today are happy to pay a lot of money to become a living billbord, its an effect that companies such as nike has achived from years of branding lifestyle.
I too agree that going with a Citrix/windows solution is a big mistake.
A year back I was in a computer class with about 100 other students, the setup was sun clients connecting to one of 2 SPARC server running Citrix, the idear beeing that you could login on to one of the two sun machines (at random through load distribution) and then start up borland c++ builder through Citrix, I dont know how much this solution costed but it took like 3 sec before everyone in the class had a nice windows 2000 desktop in front of them.
The next houre or so was spend hunting down the genius that had just discovered the wonders of net send, and after that someone else thought it funny to play eith regedit and made all executeble files open in notepad well the bright side of all this was that half had over 1 houre of uptime before someone took down server nr. 2
Yeah a lot of this could have been avoided by a sysadmin with half a brain but still windows is not a multiuser system (and will work terrible when used as such) that's what unix is for, if it is in anyway possible go with a unix solution I say do it this is precisely the sort of thing unix was designed for.
well put your money were your mouth is by buying a Code-free DVD player and only buying Region 0 DVDs (ohh i forgot your proberly not in a free country were such devices of havoc are availble).
Re:People just keep forgetting... (Score:2) by rocur on Sunday February 24, @04:05PM (#3061865) (User #183707 Info) It's nice to believe that, but in this case it just won't be possible. A recordable signal, analog or digital, won't ever exist where you can get at it. The monitor will take the encrypted signal (via DVI) and convert it into appropriate CRT deflection information for the monitor drivers either via a single chip or a potted module. I suppose if you are willing to risk frying your $3000 HDTV monitor and are REALLY good at desoldering surface mount chips, it might be possible to put in a mod (assuming someone actually makes a mod that you can afford).
Recipe for 1 HDTV able to record encrypted video feed:
1. single chip or a potted module in a circut with connector for input and output. 1. "obsolete" HDTV.
It will not take long before someone in a country not coveret by the DMCA will ri the decryption module and export copies of the decryption module in a external device to the US. (I cant see how that would be ilegal since your alowed to record brodcast signals but then again the MPAA could just buy a new law)
Who said Bill Gates doesent hang out on/. ?
seriusly though dont you think you are the wrong place if you are going to devote your time to linux bashing?
I said the answer was the model, not the actual program, I know that DirectConnect has som problems and is insecure in all aspects (try to see how many possible misuses you can find by looking at the protocol specs, stuff like impersonating someone else in the chat, or disconnecting people you don't like would be easy.)
But the fact remains that besides the errors, its the only filesharing programs out there were people actualy try to shares as much as they can, to get into the best hubs.
I think the best answer to the freeloader problem is the you-get-what-you-pay-for model used by the filesharing program DirectConnect
That works by the client connecting to a so called hub, were the hub administrator can set restrictions like share at least 15 gb and have at least 5 upload slots open, that way the freeloaders will only be able to connect to hubs with no restrictions were they can have fun with all the other freeloaders.
now all we need is a decent linux client.
Id go for the Bionic Eyes Space eyes just for the name
on a sidenote Im going to kill myself if I see another bladerunner-I-made-made-your-eyes reference/joke geez enuff is enuff.
Would you prefer that we racially profile everyone? I know I would, since all the perps are young Middle Eastern males, but that will never happen because there are too many PC wackos in this country who think that searching people who fit the profile is the moral equivalent of lynching people on a hot Summer night in Mississippi.
what about taking blod and semen samples from all white males between the age of 30 and 50 because allmost all serial killers fit that description?
Someone made a very good point about racial profiling by pointing out that England did this to the irish people and thereby changed the public opinion in Ireland about the IRA from being terrorists to being fredom fighters.
I dont think the point was that people from english speaking countrys are stupid but that some people may understand a movie better without the subs, I think that is something most scandinaviens can relate to.
any native english speaker would be able to pick this mistake up with out having to check it by the way...
Well if you look at the original post it stated that he/she is from sweden so i doubt that his/her native language is english.
Well in Denmark you can get region free dvd players everywere including major brands like Panasonic, pioneer and even sony.
I went with the 200$ microvision/region code free Nintanus 9901.
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"There's more regulations that cover a shipment of oranges coming into California than there is a shipment of human knees that are going from a body parts broker in one state to Las Vegas," said Dr. Todd Olson, director of anatomical donations at Albert Einstein Medical School of New York.
you can't compare knees in Vegas to oranges in California.
I wholeheartedly disagree.
Not to mention Exhibit C
well you would only have to simulate the part of the universe that was relevant to us, that means anything closer to us than x light years,
where x is the number of years you want your simulation to run.
anyway i think that most modern physicists agree that you would not be able to emulate the world completely because you would not be able to take a complete snapshot of the world as it is(not because the task would be to enormus but because you would only have 50% chance of reading the state of each individual photon in the universe without altering it).
There is a lot of reading on the net about simulated worlds mostly anything you read about quantum mecanics touches on the subject http://www.i-sis.org.uk/QuantumComputing.php is as good a place as any to start.
They can have my mp3 player when they pry it from my cold dead fingers.
well there's a list of ftp mirrors heredont know about the www site though.
your jusst mad cuz youur sober.
From the article.
Jens and the other patients wear special sunglasses fitted with a miniature TV camera. A microcomputer and stimulator are carried on the waist on a belt or in a bag. The equipment attaches by cable to a tiny fire hydrant-like device implanted in the skull that connects to two electrodes on the surface of the part of the brain that controls sight.
someone needs to be slaped for not reading the article.
and someone needs to be slaped for moding the post above post insightfull.
most kids today are happy to pay a lot of money to become a living billbord, its an effect that companies such as nike has achived from years of branding lifestyle.
i think the solar cells of today would be much more efficent, now imagne what paint solar cells would do to the energy crisis.
I too agree that going with a Citrix/windows solution is a big mistake.
A year back I was in a computer class with about 100 other students, the setup was sun clients connecting to one of 2 SPARC server running Citrix, the idear beeing that you could login on to one of the two sun machines (at random through load distribution) and then start up borland c++ builder through Citrix, I dont know how much this solution costed but it took like 3 sec before everyone in the class had a nice windows 2000 desktop in front of them.
The next houre or so was spend hunting down the genius that had just discovered the wonders of net send, and after that someone else thought it funny to play eith regedit and made all executeble files open in notepad well the bright side of all this was that half had over 1 houre of uptime before someone took down server nr. 2 Yeah a lot of this could have been avoided by a sysadmin with half a brain but still windows is not a multiuser system (and will work terrible when used as such) that's what unix is for, if it is in anyway possible go with a unix solution I say do it this is precisely the sort of thing unix was designed for.
It would be nice if people could at least read the article before posting clearly poster of parrent did not.
well put your money were your mouth is by buying a Code-free DVD player and only buying Region 0 DVDs (ohh i forgot your proberly not in a free country were such devices of havoc are availble).
Re:People just keep forgetting... (Score:2)
by rocur on Sunday February 24, @04:05PM (#3061865)
(User #183707 Info)
It's nice to believe that, but in this case it just won't be possible. A recordable signal, analog or digital, won't ever exist where you can get at it. The monitor will take the encrypted signal (via DVI) and convert it into appropriate CRT deflection information for the monitor drivers either via a single chip or a potted module. I suppose if you are willing to risk frying your $3000 HDTV monitor and are REALLY good at desoldering surface mount chips, it might be possible to put in a mod (assuming someone actually makes a mod that you can afford).
Recipe for 1 HDTV able to record encrypted video feed:
1. single chip or a potted module in a circut with connector for input and output.
1. "obsolete" HDTV.
It will not take long before someone in a country not coveret by the DMCA will ri the decryption module and export copies of the decryption module in a external device to the US. (I cant see how that would be ilegal since your alowed to record brodcast signals but then again the MPAA could just buy a new law)
Correct me if im wrong.
Who said Bill Gates doesent hang out on /. ?
seriusly though dont you think you are the wrong place if you are going to devote your time to linux bashing?
I said the answer was the model, not the actual program, I know that DirectConnect has som problems and is insecure in all aspects (try to see how many possible misuses you can find by looking at the protocol specs, stuff like impersonating someone else in the chat, or disconnecting people you don't like would be easy.) But the fact remains that besides the errors, its the only filesharing programs out there were people actualy try to shares as much as they can, to get into the best hubs.
That works by the client connecting to a so called hub, were the hub administrator can set restrictions like share at least 15 gb and have at least 5 upload slots open, that way the freeloaders will only be able to connect to hubs with no restrictions were they can have fun with all the other freeloaders. now all we need is a decent linux client.
Just 4 and ½ hours earlier on /. "Science: The End Not As Near As We Thought"
Id go for the Bionic Eyes Space eyes just for the name
on a sidenote Im going to kill myself if I see another bladerunner-I-made-made-your-eyes reference/joke geez enuff is enuff.
That would make a good slashdot pole.
Do you run NMAP as root?
a. Yes.
b. No.7
c. CowBoyNeal.
Would you prefer that we racially profile everyone? I know I would, since all the perps are young Middle Eastern males, but that will never happen because there are too many PC wackos in this country who think that searching people who fit the profile is the moral equivalent of lynching people on a hot Summer night in Mississippi.
what about taking blod and semen samples from all white males between the age of 30 and 50 because allmost all serial killers fit that description?
Someone made a very good point about racial profiling by pointing out that England did this to the irish people and thereby changed the public opinion in Ireland about the IRA from being terrorists to being fredom fighters.
Well dont blame the people, its easy to get the sheep to go from 4 legs good 2 legs bad to 4 legs good 2 legs better, its their nature.
I dont think the point was that people from english speaking countrys are stupid but that some people may understand a movie better without the subs, I think that is something most scandinaviens can relate to.
any native english speaker would be able to pick this mistake up with out having to check it by the way...
Well if you look at the original post it stated that he/she is from sweden so i doubt that his/her native language is english.
Well in Denmark you can get region free dvd players everywere including major brands like Panasonic, pioneer and even sony.
I went with the 200$ microvision/region code free Nintanus 9901.