Is the law they are crafting that they will call the "RetroActive Pirating Extended Digital Unity" Act. (The RAPEU Act) that will allow copyright holders to get logs of all users who have downloaded music without DRM and force them to pay a media shifting licensing fee of 10 dollars (so that they can have the right to convert the music to CD, MP3 Player etc..) per song.
Actually the NSA did a warrentless search, and has as of yet to ask for a FISA warrant, as they were unable to find a link between the Clinton Administration and Al Quaeda before the Bush administration ended.
I think they should at least think of calling the satellite a "Death Star" and it can be contracted out to corporate entities to help... disinfect certain areas of their domain with high power beams of energy.
I have not found this to be true. It sounds good in theory, but a view cannot be optimized in some cases and depending on the architecture can also have conversion problems that simply do not exist otherwise.
If you are working at the problem strictly from the point of view of an application, oftentimes your perspective is correct, but if your looking at raw performance issues, and outright bugs, sometimes views can have a significance performance issue. Also, views often only grab subsets of data, and when you are doing heavy data manipulation you may end up joining the view against a table that is in the view itself causing slow downs.
The interesting thing about singularity is that from its raw definition as outlined in the old vernor vinge book (cant remember its name) all that is needed is for people to advance so quickly that those from a generation before can understand.
Now this was changed a bit to add in two caveats, the AI that can build a better AI (machine build greater machine) or humans augmented to extreme points (brain uploading, or something slightly less).
There are several sci fi books that cover this kind of thing.
In some sense we have already had a singularity when personal computers started advancing so quickly.
People are left behind constantly as we move on, people get information so quickly and so densely now compared to even 10 years ago that we are finding it difficult to cope.
Now we aren't even trying to increase density, but ease of use to access that info. At some point you wont even need a computer, info will simply flash into your brain.
As you keep on moving forward from there, were exactly do you get to? Somewhere we can't even easily foresee. So it all depends on what we want to do for ourselves.
I dont think saying "singularity" is near is going to cover it. We won't know when we reach it, but someone from 20 years ago might, for us it will be an upgrade to our mind input cell phone. Each step to get there will seem logical and small, and an improvement on something you have already seen, and there will never be a realization that we have crossed over.
Some books portray the event were this jump is made as peaceful, others portray it as violent.
1. Action Quake 2 - This mod inspired the game mechanics of Counterstrike, counterstrike used to be a community based mod, and was heavily influenced by action quake2 which put real life "feal" to dieing. IE you could die in a few hits and had to hide etc... TF would have been first except that action quake 2 spawned counterstrike.
2. Team Fortress
The mother of mods to prove that total conversion mods could take a mass amount of players from the core game. As mentioned earlier CTF was important, but TeamFortress actually changed how the game was played.
Note: I only have 2. These mods were good, they were the main mods that totally gripped the community at the time.
There is some good USB based DRM solutions, that when implemented correctly would be pretty difficult to get the stuff off of. Something like the Wibu Key and its codemeter product.
The problem is that is how the book is marketed, but it is not about that at all.
Knowledge has destroyed the world several times, knowledge created by the avout and released into the public.
The avout are kept separate so that any knowledge that they create can be filtered, and they are not allowed to practically apply any knowledge that they have.
Every time the saecular world destroys the avout (called Sacks) it is because the avout invented something that lead to near destruction of the people, or fear of that destruction. Such as something cute called "Everything Killers" which essentially would be like nuclear anthrax. IE little bundles of this could be spread, each little bundle able to kill anything (or everything) biological within some very broad radius (say a football field) but the little bundles are about the size of a pin.
Since these "everything" killers were used at one point, everyone has been relatively afraid of those able to generate the knowledge for such things. At least that is some of what I got out of the books. The avout are left around because their society is stable and the outside world periodically destroys itself, and during times of rebuilding its nice to have a group with knowledge around, otherwise i get the feeling from the book that the avout would have been destroyed outright several times.
Actually Anathem has an ending. 3 of them actually!
I know, i know, totally unexpected, but it actually has a real ending.
Of course the FIRST 300 pages of the book are hard to get through but then the story takes off (literally lol) and comes to an interesting conclusion and makes you really think about long term projects.
It just does not seem to me that with high megapixel high refresh rate cameras out there, that we cannot do something as simple as spin the camera around and take pictures every 1/XX of a second and then with software manipulate it.
or hell, wrap some CCD's into the system and get all angles at once and use the software that way etc...
I have also seen stuff by universities where they have the ability to take pictures at multiple depth and I know we probably have high speed digital cameras to couple these too.
So couple them, multi depth spinny camera that takes pictures at certain secotors once every 1/30th of a second and save them, and then use software to sort out the image afterward.
Call it the Panopticam as you say.
Could mount the things on your car, say on the inside. and if a crash occurs you could have complete 360 degree view of the accident, no need to have the camera pointing in a certain direction.
would be great for forensics, traffic lights etc...
I could have sworn years ago that there were people making headway in having cameras that were domed cameras that, with software, would allow people to pan and view within half of a sphere of view.
Whatever happened to these things?
Why are we not able to produce these now? Why not simply have a spinning CCD?
I could never understand why we would not have something like this at a grocer then later simply use software to pan and zoom and see everything.
This is an alarmist Republican blog entry from somewhere. The language used points out that if this had been put forth by a Republican during a Republican administration it would be "OK"
The same people who are ok with being spied on by the government, as long as its their party.
Where I work they thought we were having issues, and found that many people were streaming the competition. When they found that out they asked everyone to go watch it on television in our big meeting room.
Wal Mart sells a keyboard mouse combo with the tag on the front that says "2.4 ghz wireless" it is from like micro innovation's or some off brand. Works perfectly, slimline, and very cheap. I tried like 10 other keyboards and this one works the best of them and was by far the cheapest!
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Is the law they are crafting that they will call the "RetroActive Pirating Extended Digital Unity" Act. (The RAPEU Act) that will allow copyright holders to get logs of all users who have downloaded music without DRM and force them to pay a media shifting licensing fee of 10 dollars (so that they can have the right to convert the music to CD, MP3 Player etc..) per song.
Actually the NSA did a warrentless search, and has as of yet to ask for a FISA warrant, as they were unable to find a link between the Clinton Administration and Al Quaeda before the Bush administration ended.
I think they should at least think of calling the satellite a "Death Star" and it can be contracted out to corporate entities to help... disinfect certain areas of their domain with high power beams of energy.
I have not found this to be true. It sounds good in theory, but a view cannot be optimized in some cases and depending on the architecture can also have conversion problems that simply do not exist otherwise.
If you are working at the problem strictly from the point of view of an application, oftentimes your perspective is correct, but if your looking at raw performance issues, and outright bugs, sometimes views can have a significance performance issue. Also, views often only grab subsets of data, and when you are doing heavy data manipulation you may end up joining the view against a table that is in the view itself causing slow downs.
The interesting thing about singularity is that from its raw definition as outlined in the old vernor vinge book (cant remember its name) all that is needed is for people to advance so quickly that those from a generation before can understand.
Now this was changed a bit to add in two caveats, the AI that can build a better AI (machine build greater machine) or humans augmented to extreme points (brain uploading, or something slightly less).
There are several sci fi books that cover this kind of thing.
In some sense we have already had a singularity when personal computers started advancing so quickly.
People are left behind constantly as we move on, people get information so quickly and so densely now compared to even 10 years ago that we are finding it difficult to cope.
Now we aren't even trying to increase density, but ease of use to access that info. At some point you wont even need a computer, info will simply flash into your brain.
As you keep on moving forward from there, were exactly do you get to? Somewhere we can't even easily foresee. So it all depends on what we want to do for ourselves.
I dont think saying "singularity" is near is going to cover it. We won't know when we reach it, but someone from 20 years ago might, for us it will be an upgrade to our mind input cell phone. Each step to get there will seem logical and small, and an improvement on something you have already seen, and there will never be a realization that we have crossed over.
Some books portray the event were this jump is made as peaceful, others portray it as violent.
It is going to be a mix of both.
I am going to build a vault near one.
John Henry and the Sarah Connor Chronicles on Fox.
Skynet, not just the science fiction future anymore.
Here is my list, by significance of impact.
1. Action Quake 2 - This mod inspired the game mechanics of Counterstrike, counterstrike used to be a community based mod, and was heavily influenced by action quake2 which put real life "feal" to dieing. IE you could die in a few hits and had to hide etc... TF would have been first except that action quake 2 spawned counterstrike.
2. Team Fortress
The mother of mods to prove that total conversion mods could take a mass amount of players from the core game. As mentioned earlier CTF was important, but TeamFortress actually changed how the game was played.
Note: I only have 2. These mods were good, they were the main mods that totally gripped the community at the time.
I was discussing this specific piece of hardware. I would be very confident in it having programmed the product for a short time.
The only thing is that it would require a secure channel through the system.
There is some good USB based DRM solutions, that when implemented correctly would be pretty difficult to get the stuff off of. Something like the Wibu Key and its codemeter product.
http://wibu.com/start.php?lang=en
It actually keeps all keys on the key itself, and they cannot be lifted (though they can be set).
Fun technology but I doubt that this specific product goes that far as the Wibu key is expensive.
Have you read the book?
The problem is that is how the book is marketed, but it is not about that at all.
Knowledge has destroyed the world several times, knowledge created by the avout and released into the public.
The avout are kept separate so that any knowledge that they create can be filtered, and they are not allowed to practically apply any knowledge that they have.
Every time the saecular world destroys the avout (called Sacks) it is because the avout invented something that lead to near destruction of the people, or fear of that destruction. Such as something cute called "Everything Killers" which essentially would be like nuclear anthrax. IE little bundles of this could be spread, each little bundle able to kill anything (or everything) biological within some very broad radius (say a football field) but the little bundles are about the size of a pin.
Since these "everything" killers were used at one point, everyone has been relatively afraid of those able to generate the knowledge for such things. At least that is some of what I got out of the books. The avout are left around because their society is stable and the outside world periodically destroys itself, and during times of rebuilding its nice to have a group with knowledge around, otherwise i get the feeling from the book that the avout would have been destroyed outright several times.
That's not how the system works. There is a very specific chain of delegation downward in the political party.
Yes, but McCain probably won't last for 8 years. He is SUPER old.
What happens if McCain goes Senile in 2 years because of old age ailments.
McCains VP is running for President too in this case.
Actually they will just mark it down in their survey and determine that the entry was a result of pre-praxic era influences.
(obscure but appropriate!)
yes but are the ITA bad, i can never really get this. It seems to be a break between Theorists and practical usage of theory.
Other than some of the things the millenarians do, the ITA are just as important of a group as the people in the concents in the book.
Or is it the idea that the ITA don't make new things?
It would be much cooler to be an ITA than an Avout.
But then I think about it, I am a programmer, so I guess that explains things.
Actually Anathem has an ending. 3 of them actually!
I know, i know, totally unexpected, but it actually has a real ending.
Of course the FIRST 300 pages of the book are hard to get through but then the story takes off (literally lol) and comes to an interesting conclusion and makes you really think about long term projects.
In the book Extramuros means outside of the cloister. Or "concent" as the book describes it.
haha yes.
It just does not seem to me that with high megapixel high refresh rate cameras out there, that we cannot do something as simple as spin the camera around and take pictures every 1/XX of a second and then with software manipulate it.
or hell, wrap some CCD's into the system and get all angles at once and use the software that way etc...
I have also seen stuff by universities where they have the ability to take pictures at multiple depth and I know we probably have high speed digital cameras to couple these too.
So couple them, multi depth spinny camera that takes pictures at certain secotors once every 1/30th of a second and save them, and then use software to sort out the image afterward.
Call it the Panopticam as you say.
Could mount the things on your car, say on the inside. and if a crash occurs you could have complete 360 degree view of the accident, no need to have the camera pointing in a certain direction.
would be great for forensics, traffic lights etc...
http://www.google.com/search?q=panopticon&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
Google is a friend.
I could have sworn years ago that there were people making headway in having cameras that were domed cameras that, with software, would allow people to pan and view within half of a sphere of view.
Whatever happened to these things?
Why are we not able to produce these now? Why not simply have a spinning CCD?
I could never understand why we would not have something like this at a grocer then later simply use software to pan and zoom and see everything.
Could call it a panopticon camera.
This is an alarmist Republican blog entry from somewhere. The language used points out that if this had been put forth by a Republican during a Republican administration it would be "OK"
The same people who are ok with being spied on by the government, as long as its their party.
How did we get a right wing propaganda entry onto Slashdot?
Did Slashdot get bought by Rupert Murdoch and no one noticed?
Actually if you play Call of Duty 4, that kind of hud would be very cool to have as it is non invasive.
Only problem is the idea of relying on it when one should not.
Where I work they thought we were having issues, and found that many people were streaming the competition. When they found that out they asked everyone to go watch it on television in our big meeting room.
Pretty fun.
Wal Mart sells a keyboard mouse combo with the tag on the front that says "2.4 ghz wireless" it is from like micro innovation's or some off brand. Works perfectly, slimline, and very cheap. I tried like 10 other keyboards and this one works the best of them and was by far the cheapest!