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I'll bet the 10 megawatt model could be hooked up to an electric motor and transmission.
[sarcasm] Yes, Humvee's just aren't big enough anymore. We need something with macho tracked-crawler treads and extra space for more amenities (such as a piano lounge).
There is no possibility to use a quantum computer to make simultaneous dictionary attack (guessing the key by trying all possible keys at the same time), because, contrary to what most people think, you can do only one usable computation at the same time on a quantum computer.
Disclaimer: I don't know a bra from a ket, but...
If you had a quantum computer, could you break any public-key cryptosystem by doing:
Encrypt a chosen plaintext P1 and get a cypertext X1
Take an unknown cyphertext X2, and replace X1 with a superposition of X1 and X2
Step backwards through the encryption, to get a superposition of P1 and P2 (the unknown plaintext)
Use the known value of P1 to get P2 from the superposition
(Or is the above stupid and wrong, and I'd need an actual course in quantum physics to even understand why?)
Plus, while we sipped beers and waited for Spiderman II to begin, instead of the usual barrage of ads they were showing episodes of a hilariously bad Japanese Spiderman knock-off. (I had no idea Spiderman owned a rocket-car or a giant battle-robot!)
Better yet, a giant inflatable blow-up Statue of Liberty. If terrorists puncture or deflate it, we just grab another one out of the basement and plug in the compressor.
No, not/that/ kind of inflatable woman, you pervs! Like the things they have on the roof of car dealerships; so the fans inside would make her dance back and forth and wave her arms in the air.
Oh, and the crown part should be one of those castle things for kids to jump around in (so visitors would need to remove their shoes and put them in the lockers).
No chance of that. Saskatchewan in October is going to be frozen solid, with lot of snow on the ground. I for one, have never heard of a wild fire in Canada during winter.
Uh oh: it's named "Wildfire"
and they're gonna launch it in the dead of winter.
I hope it doesn't bust down its stall and get lost in a blizzard...
I thought the paper wanted to make money back for the distribution and printing of the paper by the costs that you had to pay. The costs of online distribution have to be far less than that of physical
Probably not enough to make a difference: I bet the main cost is salary and expenses for the reporters. You need a lot of them (since each one can only do so many stories/week) ; plus you have to pay for their cellphones and cab fare (or even worse, airfare and hotel rooms) while they're out working on the stories.
Isn't the whole idea of the Internet for information to be free?
In the case of the New York Times, they have to pay for salary and benefits, phone bills, plane tickets, etc. etc. etc. so their reporters can gather the information and put it in publishable form. If they do not have some source of income (whether it be advertising, subscriptions, or the elusive 'micropayments'), they cannot continue publishing.
Wait a minute... You want 10 bucks a month to get you unlimited lossless material? Ofcourse you would, I would buy a Corvetter for $100, but it is so rediculously low that it won't happen
The RIAA currently brings in about $12 billion/year in revenues. If 40% of U.S. consumers signed up for an all-you-can download music service at $10/month, the RIAA would generate the same revenue, and would no longer incur the cost of manufacturing or distributing physical CDs. They could probably increase revenues by 50% or more by offering a $20/month premium service with various value-added services (see below).
What keeps you from download 80 gig 1 month and never buying any more music for 3 years?
To quote an old MTV commercial, "Too much is never enough".
a) Updates. If you're 12, you have to subscribe so you can get all this month's new songs by [lame band name]. Otherwise you WON'T BE COOL like your friends and you might DIE! Who wants, like, old music from last year. Besides, your parents are paying the $10/month.
b) Value added services. Even if you're old enough that you could potentially be satisfied with a stash of back-catalog songs from your youth, they can probably get not just $10, but $25/month out of you, by adding premium features like:
personalized playlists and algorithms
"always add any new songs from this week's Top 10 HipHop chart"
"add all songs from Yes albums prior to 'Tormato'."
"delete 'Hey Ya' and 'Roses', I'm tired of them."
"put these songs on my 'Road-trip' list; these on my 'At work' list; these on my 'Jogging' list. etc.
and so on...
similar music search ("given my playlist, find me more songs I'll like")
name-that-tune search (find that song that goes "[da-dun-da-dun-da-dun] Cross-town traffic, doo doo doo...")
lyrics
videos
Vanity Publishing
Vanity Publishing could potentially become the faster/better/cheaper mechanism for the RIAA to obtain new content. Imagine a hundred 'Open Mike' channels (sorted by genre) where anybody can upload their stuff, paying a slight fee for the privilege (both to fatten the RIAA's wallet, and to keep spam and truly worthless songs out of the slushpile).
With such a mechanism, wannabe artists can get their original songs published; or even covers, remixes and other derivative works (fan videos, etc.) that once upon a time would have just gotten them sued instead of famous (i.e. Negativland). All Open Mike submissions will be rated via a Slashcode-like mechanism; the best ones will be copied over to the main 'Signed Artist' channels and the artists will start getting royalties.
D'oh: math mistake! 8 colors/block isn't 256 values.
Sorry, my bad.
So lets just say 4 colors/block, and while we're at it,
single-sided storage format would be easier anyway.
So: a baseplate holds 256 bytes and a 4KB LEGO-ROM is
a meter on a side; the cage holds 256KB; each floor
of the datacenter holds 256MB, and the building only
holds 4GB. A sixteen-by-sixteen block of downtown
will be needed for the 1 TB LEGO-ROM.
Or, if you want really durable read-only storage (i.e. lasting a few hundred years without maintenance),
you could use the little 1x1 LEGO blocks as bits.
You could pack a single byte into two 1x1 blocks, using void plus seven colors (red/green/blue/white/black/grey/yellow);
and also use double-sided format, so a 1KB LEGO-ROM would fit neatly on two 32x32 green baseplates glued
back-to-back. (about 26 cm on a side)
A 16KB LEGO-ROM would then be roughly 1 meter on a side. If these were stacked on roll-out shelves, say 3cm apart,
you could fit 1MB of LEGO storage in a 1m x 1m x 2m cage.
A typical office building should easily have space on a floor
for 1024 such cages, or 1 GB of LEGO storage; and the building itself would act as a 16 gigabyte LEGO-ROM.
Therefore, a mere eight-by-eight city block area could store a full 1 terabyte of LEGO-ROM, with no worrying about DVD rot or head crashes (although access speeds would leave something to be desired).
The real difference is that WC or IKEA visits have a purpose, while visiting a coordinate in West Bumfuck, Indiana yields..well..not a whole hell of a lot. *camera click* Yay.
It shows that, despite all the sprawl and overpopulation of the 20th century, most of the Earth is still not paved over with freeways, slums, or hamburger stands. Which is nice to know.
So, you wanna experiment with advanced homebrew human-computer interfaces; but you don't want to risk dangerous and painful do-it-yourself brain surgery in an nonsterile garage or basement lab.
No doubt in 20 years, each roll of toilet paper will already have a pre-assigned IP address at the factory, and a little microchip inside the cardboard core, so it can track itself through the supply chain and the grocery store and your bathroom cabinets; so that when it finally sees it's been installed on the holder, it can start displaying targetted ads on the digital-ink layer of the exposed outer sheets.
Sorry -- post seems to have submitted itself before I wrote anything (bug in new slashcode?). Anyway:
Governments could trivially discredit such a channel, by having a few Winston Smyths constantly generate fake (and easily disproven) leaked documents. Articles found on P2P nets would soon have about as much credibility as random articles posted to "alt.kooks.tinfoil".
It's not like IE is a profit-center for Microsoft anyway; they make all their money from Office and the O/S itself. What's to stop them from scrapping IE6, and replacing it with a Firefox derivative labelled "IE7" ?
(no doubt accompanied with lots of unconvincing spin
about how they're cool now with open-sizzource, 'yo)
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[sarcasm] Yes, Humvee's just aren't big enough anymore. We need something with macho tracked-crawler treads and extra space for more amenities (such as a piano lounge).
Disclaimer: I don't know a bra from a ket, but...
If you had a quantum computer, could you break any public-key cryptosystem by doing:
(Or is the above stupid and wrong, and I'd need an actual course in quantum physics to even understand why?)
Bad is when big corporation infringe me, take me copyrighted-things.
Good is when me infringe big corporation, take him copyrighted-things.
Maybe they mean shear as in "to cut, slash, sever, rip apart..."
Yes, at the very least JDK 1.1.8 is available (looking at what's on our ancient HPUX 10.20 box).
Not the latest+greatest, but adequate for simple XSLT/XML stuff.
Plus, while we sipped beers and waited for Spiderman II to begin, instead of the usual barrage of ads they were showing episodes of a hilariously bad Japanese Spiderman knock-off. (I had no idea Spiderman owned a rocket-car or a giant battle-robot!)
Yeah, they ought to spell it 0wnz0rship; since this is a cute countermeme to "TCO"
if you make sure the audience gets the joke right away.
Better yet, a giant inflatable blow-up Statue of Liberty.
/that/ kind of inflatable woman, you pervs!
If terrorists puncture or deflate it, we just grab another
one out of the basement and plug in the compressor.
No, not
Like the things they have on the roof of car dealerships;
so the fans inside would make her dance back and forth
and wave her arms in the air.
Oh, and the crown part should be one of those castle things
for kids to jump around in (so visitors would need to remove
their shoes and put them in the lockers).
Uh oh: it's named "Wildfire" and they're gonna launch it in the dead of winter.
I hope it doesn't bust down its stall and get lost in a blizzard...
Probably not enough to make a difference: I bet the main cost is salary and expenses for the reporters. You need a lot of them (since each one can only do so many stories/week) ; plus you have to pay for their cellphones and cab fare (or even worse, airfare and hotel rooms) while they're out working on the stories.
In the case of the New York Times, they have to pay for salary and benefits, phone bills, plane tickets, etc. etc. etc. so their reporters can gather the information and put it in publishable form. If they do not have some source of income (whether it be advertising, subscriptions, or the elusive 'micropayments'), they cannot continue publishing.
Wait a minute... You want 10 bucks a month to get you unlimited lossless material? Ofcourse you would, I would buy a Corvetter for $100, but it is so rediculously low that it won't happen
The RIAA currently brings in about $12 billion/year in revenues. If 40% of U.S. consumers signed up for an all-you-can download music service at $10/month, the RIAA would generate the same revenue, and would no longer incur the cost of manufacturing or distributing physical CDs. They could probably increase revenues by 50% or more by offering a $20/month premium service with various value-added services (see below).
What keeps you from download 80 gig 1 month and never buying any more music for 3 years?
To quote an old MTV commercial, "Too much is never enough".
a) Updates. If you're 12, you have to subscribe so you can get all this month's new songs by [lame band name]. Otherwise you WON'T BE COOL like your friends and you might DIE! Who wants, like, old music from last year. Besides, your parents are paying the $10/month.
b) Value added services. Even if you're old enough that you could potentially be satisfied with a stash of back-catalog songs from your youth, they can probably get not just $10, but $25/month out of you, by adding premium features like:
Vanity Publishing could potentially become the faster/better/cheaper mechanism for the RIAA to obtain new content. Imagine a hundred 'Open Mike' channels (sorted by genre) where anybody can upload their stuff, paying a slight fee for the privilege (both to fatten the RIAA's wallet, and to keep spam and truly worthless songs out of the slushpile).
With such a mechanism, wannabe artists can get their original songs published; or even covers, remixes and other derivative works (fan videos, etc.) that once upon a time would have just gotten them sued instead of famous (i.e. Negativland). All Open Mike submissions will be rated via a Slashcode-like mechanism; the best ones will be copied over to the main 'Signed Artist' channels and the artists will start getting royalties.
D'oh: math mistake! 8 colors/block isn't 256 values. Sorry, my bad.
So lets just say 4 colors/block, and while we're at it, single-sided storage format would be easier anyway. So: a baseplate holds 256 bytes and a 4KB LEGO-ROM is a meter on a side; the cage holds 256KB; each floor of the datacenter holds 256MB, and the building only holds 4GB. A sixteen-by-sixteen block of downtown will be needed for the 1 TB LEGO-ROM.
Or, if you want really durable read-only storage (i.e. lasting a few hundred years without maintenance), you could use the little 1x1 LEGO blocks as bits.
Therefore, a mere eight-by-eight city block area could store a full 1 terabyte of LEGO-ROM, with no worrying about DVD rot or head crashes (although access speeds would leave something to be desired).
It shows that, despite all the sprawl and overpopulation of the 20th century, most of the Earth is still not paved over with freeways, slums, or hamburger stands. Which is nice to know.
That's ok, by the end of the decade there'll probably be a Starbucks at every degree confluence, so both projects can neatly overlap.
You bastards!
So, you wanna experiment with advanced homebrew human-computer interfaces; but you don't want to risk dangerous and painful do-it-yourself brain surgery in an nonsterile garage or basement lab.
What about: subvocal speech input a and wireless earpiece ?
Great, now the places that ban USB keys as a 'security risk'
will also ban beef jerky.
No doubt in 20 years, each roll of toilet paper will
already have a pre-assigned IP address at the factory,
and a little microchip inside the cardboard core, so
it can track itself through the supply chain and the
grocery store and your bathroom cabinets; so that when
it finally sees it's been installed on the holder, it
can start displaying targetted ads on the digital-ink
layer of the exposed outer sheets.
Sorry -- post seems to have submitted itself before I
wrote anything (bug in new slashcode?). Anyway:
Governments could trivially discredit such a channel,
by having a few Winston Smyths constantly generate fake
(and easily disproven) leaked documents. Articles found
on P2P nets would soon have about as much credibility as
random articles posted to "alt.kooks.tinfoil".
Not true (as other posters have already pointed out):
c s/ human_water_lifters.pdf
there are some nice, low-tech designs shown at
http://www.itdg.org/html/technical_enquiries/do
It's not like IE is a profit-center for Microsoft anyway;
they make all their money from Office and the O/S itself.
What's to stop them from scrapping IE6, and replacing it
with a Firefox derivative labelled "IE7" ?
(no doubt accompanied with lots of unconvincing spin
about how they're cool now with open-sizzource, 'yo)