The post was meant to agree with other poster about how this has mostly to do with people not even embracing but not even touching this with a 10 foot pole rather than corporations not implementing it. They would do so in a heartbeat if it was something people wanted.
I think the name 'Passport' was to foreign and people got scared that they will be shipped somewhere where they don't spink Engrish so noone applied.
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This is really nice. I'm glad to see someone thinking out there. The zoom in animation on the company website gives really good idea of the potential to this thing.
I do agree though with a comment about looking silly while doing that but then again, we did get used to people apparently talking to themselves so why not this too?
I wouldn't be surprised if the clerks at ComputerSuperStores were actually telling these consumers that in fact HP is looking out for the quality of their prints because it expires the cartridges.
I could see how they could turn this around and still screw the Joe Consumer.
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In New York almost all traffic lights and pedestrian crosswalk likghts have been converted to be led based.
I think they're going to be pissed when this technology proves cheaper...
Interesting indeed but the drama in the article felt somehow artificial. No doubt it was a big event, probably stressful but dramatic?
It gives me the feeling of a bad movie that portrays some ingenious computer code that will destroy the human race and just for kicks in has the 3d model of the univers, 3d clock running down and really cool animation to go with it.
I say, just write the article, matter of factly and don't give me that James Bond crap (I like Bond but you know what I mean). It's good for entertainment but no good for this.
The article just talks about *counterfeit* copies.
RTFA first.
I think it's good they turn to something they can actually enforce. It's much easier to walk into Bob's Illegal CDs and bust the poor Bob than some dynamically assigned IP of a poor script kiddy.
This only shows how cool paper is. (It's probably much cooler in its original state as trees but still pretty cool).
Someone might say that languages die as well but as you know from the Rosetta stone, it is possible to decipher even the most archaic writing with some luck and perserverence. Digitally written media, because of the huge amount of data that can be crammed and the 1 and 0 as the only two letters are much more difficult to read.
Wonder if there ever be software that would be able to look at piece of 1s and 0s and interpret them into what they mean...
I get about 30 per day. And that's with trying to be really careful about to whom I give my address, but over the 5 years I had this work address, things accumulate. I have to say that the amount of spam have not been rising linearly. It's the last year or two that this has risen to such level.
One of the worst things is posting on mailing lists and then having your address on archives and all the mirrors of these archives. I stopped subscribing to some mailing lists because it was just too obvious of an exposure.
If you're going to post it, don't try to justify the fact that you think it might be bad to post it by saying that you shouldn't be posting it.
If you weren't going to post you wouldn't post it. Writing that you're kicking yourself is useless. Who cares. If you didn't want to contribute to the problem you wouldn't post it.
The way you make it sound is as if you posted it before and now you're kicking yourself for doing it where actually you still haven't yet posted it and you already wrote that you're kicking youreself for posting it. What sense does that make?
Out of the Palm based PDAs Sony has the best screen. Someone said here that geeks don't care about what it looks like as long as it can do it. Well I'm not buying this. What it looks like is VERY important. I wanted to by a new PDA but they still insist on 160x160 resolution with sucky colors. Why should I switch from my 2 year old handspring? More effort should be put into the displays everywhere. And not only what they look like but also how they perform battery-wise.
Interesting that you should sarcastically mention the old and tired 640K limit as being enough while only 4 lines later saying that your secretary's PC would probably never need upgrading.
But back on topic. Can you imagine two of these in dual head setup? OMG...
Screen real estate is very, very important but I have to agree that 1600x1200 on 21' screen is the end of what's practical to work with comfortably. I think that the future lies in affordable LCDs with multi video output cards. What woudln't I give to have 3 21' LCDs...
It would be most interesting to find at what price level would the cooperation break down. What if defecting brought $1000, mutual cooperation $100 and mutual defection $25?
Changing the reward structure will completely alter the game. It will also show another dimension to the problem. When the stakes are low it maybe that the pleasure derived from cooperating is taking over but what about when it's more? What about when it's life and death?
I wonder...
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Director of MIT AI lab Rodney Brooks gave a nice interview in which he mentions using a compiler to produce DNA that is then inserted in E. coli. Check this quote and read the article:
"At the wackier, far-out end, Tom Knight now has a compiler in which you give a simple program to the system, and it compiles the program into a DNA strip. He then inserts that DNA string into the genome of E. coli, and it grows into a whole bunch of E. coli. When the RNA transcription mechanism encounters that piece of DNA it does a digital computation inside the living cell, connecting them to sensors and actuators. The sensors that he's used so far are sensing various lactone molecules."
I'm not a physicist by any stretch of the imagination so take my ramblings with a grain of salt.
It seems to me that there is a danger in relying too much on simulations. The particle physics has not been fully understood. Simulating how atoms are interacting is great but does the simulation take into account that atoms are made up of other things? There are other forces at work there (I heard:). How accurate can this be? Or is it because any forces within the atoms have no effect on the end result of the breaking of the cube?
Taking this further, can the simulation show something that isn't expected? In other words can the simulation show an effect such that it was not conceivable? I think not. It can only slow down and reveal a known process right? Otherwise it would theoretically be possible to build an atom level model of the world and speed it up to see what happens. So there is the problem of the computers being unable to come up with anything new.
The second problem is that the computers in the end depend on a binary decision: 0 or 1. Can atoms on their lowest level be reduced to components of 0 or 1? Or are they infinitely reducable?
Anyway, going back to the article I think it's great. I can wait for the new SuperGlue (concrete in less than a second!)
More danger to people when they're entering/leaving the car if this gets really popular because the thieves will stop trusting the free standing car. I can imagine the thieves resorting to using a gun to get the person out of the way and then steal the car.
Also I suppose the thieves can just observer the car for a while. If no one uses it for 2 or 3 days then it's a given that's a bait. The cops might have to have people using the car in some realistic way.
would you mention Bill Gates in this context? This is getting ridicoulus. I almost finished reading the post and almost ignored it then the reference hit me and all I could say was WTF? Does it incrase the post's chance to be accepted if you bash Bill Gates?
Geez...
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Why would I possibly want one? This is one of those too cool to be useful for mortals kinda things...
But wait! What if someone used it to write real time HDTV format to the disk on this? Maybe they should come up with super duper Tivo box? That would be cool...
This is ridicoulus. I'm listening to that guy and he's just talking about his cuff for ten minutes now...
*GAAAA*
This would make sense if maybe more people actually got together and prepared a script that would be worth listening to rather than a guy who constantly talks about his cuff and some town he isn't even sure of whether it's on this planet...
I could see how that would make sense if some fans got few heads together to produce a track for their favorite movie. Like a track for Star Wars movie where they would talk about all the cameos and other interesting stuff.
This article does not explain this. Is it because they didn't want people playing xbox on the floor? Is it only because technically Sony shouldn't allow it?
Furthermore it appears that Sony simply didn't want to make the consoles for display only and didn't want to compromise so they decided to leave.
A second or an hour is arbitrary as mentioned and has no natural counterpart.
A year is a natural occurence that is composed of the arbitrary seconds and hours. Since the natural year is not constant and our arbitrary seconds are, the local time has to be adjusted to agree with the natural movement of earth around sun.
Question is: is it possible to build a clock that will have a perfectly variable second? I think the answer is no because we can't predict what the change in the physical interplays of the planets will do.
Is that correct?
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Get a sense of humor dear mod.
The post was meant to agree with other poster about how this has mostly to do with people not even embracing but not even touching this with a 10 foot pole rather than corporations not implementing it. They would do so in a heartbeat if it was something people wanted.
I think the name 'Passport' was to foreign and people got scared that they will be shipped somewhere where they don't spink Engrish so noone applied. d.
This is really nice. I'm glad to see someone thinking out there. The zoom in animation on the company website gives really good idea of the potential to this thing.
I do agree though with a comment about looking silly while doing that but then again, we did get used to people apparently talking to themselves so why not this too?
I wouldn't be surprised if the clerks at ComputerSuperStores were actually telling these consumers that in fact HP is looking out for the quality of their prints because it expires the cartridges.
I could see how they could turn this around and still screw the Joe Consumer.
In New York almost all traffic lights and pedestrian crosswalk likghts have been converted to be led based.
I think they're going to be pissed when this technology proves cheaper...
Interesting indeed but the drama in the article felt somehow artificial. No doubt it was a big event, probably stressful but dramatic?
It gives me the feeling of a bad movie that portrays some ingenious computer code that will destroy the human race and just for kicks in has the 3d model of the univers, 3d clock running down and really cool animation to go with it.
I say, just write the article, matter of factly and don't give me that James Bond crap (I like Bond but you know what I mean). It's good for entertainment but no good for this.
The article just talks about *counterfeit* copies.
RTFA first.
I think it's good they turn to something they can actually enforce. It's much easier to walk into Bob's Illegal CDs and bust the poor Bob than some dynamically assigned IP of a poor script kiddy.
[sarcastick grin]Go RIAA[/sarcastic grin]
This only shows how cool paper is. (It's probably much cooler in its original state as trees but still pretty cool).
Someone might say that languages die as well but as you know from the Rosetta stone, it is possible to decipher even the most archaic writing with some luck and perserverence. Digitally written media, because of the huge amount of data that can be crammed and the 1 and 0 as the only two letters are much more difficult to read.
Wonder if there ever be software that would be able to look at piece of 1s and 0s and interpret them into what they mean...
Yeah people, just open few of those webcam shots and show them what we're made of.
BTW it's Jolt based on this picture
I must say... super duper...
I get about 30 per day. And that's with trying to be really careful about to whom I give my address, but over the 5 years I had this work address, things accumulate. I have to say that the amount of spam have not been rising linearly. It's the last year or two that this has risen to such level.
One of the worst things is posting on mailing lists and then having your address on archives and all the mirrors of these archives. I stopped subscribing to some mailing lists because it was just too obvious of an exposure.
I agree.
If you're going to post it, don't try to justify the fact that you think it might be bad to post it by saying that you shouldn't be posting it.
If you weren't going to post you wouldn't post it. Writing that you're kicking yourself is useless. Who cares. If you didn't want to contribute to the problem you wouldn't post it.
The way you make it sound is as if you posted it before and now you're kicking yourself for doing it where actually you still haven't yet posted it and you already wrote that you're kicking youreself for posting it. What sense does that make?
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How is this a troll my dear moderator?
There were three other near first posts with the same comment and they're funny?
I'm funny. Me, me, me...
Perhaps the fact that it's free helps? BTW FP!!!
Out of the Palm based PDAs Sony has the best screen. Someone said here that geeks don't care about what it looks like as long as it can do it. Well I'm not buying this. What it looks like is VERY important. I wanted to by a new PDA but they still insist on 160x160 resolution with sucky colors. Why should I switch from my 2 year old handspring? More effort should be put into the displays everywhere. And not only what they look like but also how they perform battery-wise.
Interesting that you should sarcastically mention the old and tired 640K limit as being enough while only 4 lines later saying that your secretary's PC would probably never need upgrading.
But back on topic. Can you imagine two of these in dual head setup? OMG...
Screen real estate is very, very important but I have to agree that 1600x1200 on 21' screen is the end of what's practical to work with comfortably. I think that the future lies in affordable LCDs with multi video output cards. What woudln't I give to have 3 21' LCDs...
It would be most interesting to find at what price level would the cooperation break down. What if defecting brought $1000, mutual cooperation $100 and mutual defection $25?
Changing the reward structure will completely alter the game. It will also show another dimension to the problem. When the stakes are low it maybe that the pleasure derived from cooperating is taking over but what about when it's more? What about when it's life and death?
I wonder...
Director of MIT AI lab Rodney Brooks gave a nice interview in which he mentions using a compiler to produce DNA that is then inserted in E. coli. Check this quote and read the article:
"At the wackier, far-out end, Tom Knight now has a compiler in which you give a simple program to the system, and it compiles the program into a DNA strip. He then inserts that DNA string into the genome of E. coli, and it grows into a whole bunch of E. coli. When the RNA transcription mechanism encounters that piece of DNA it does a digital computation inside the living cell, connecting them to sensors and actuators. The sensors that he's used so far are sensing various lactone molecules."
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I'm not a physicist by any stretch of the imagination so take my ramblings with a grain of salt.
:). How accurate can this be? Or is it because any forces within the atoms have no effect on the end result of the breaking of the cube?
It seems to me that there is a danger in relying too much on simulations. The particle physics has not been fully understood. Simulating how atoms are interacting is great but does the simulation take into account that atoms are made up of other things? There are other forces at work there (I heard
Taking this further, can the simulation show something that isn't expected? In other words can the simulation show an effect such that it was not conceivable? I think not. It can only slow down and reveal a known process right? Otherwise it would theoretically be possible to build an atom level model of the world and speed it up to see what happens. So there is the problem of the computers being unable to come up with anything new.
The second problem is that the computers in the end depend on a binary decision: 0 or 1. Can atoms on their lowest level be reduced to components of 0 or 1? Or are they infinitely reducable?
Anyway, going back to the article I think it's great. I can wait for the new SuperGlue (concrete in less than a second!)
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More danger to people when they're entering/leaving the car if this gets really popular because the thieves will stop trusting the free standing car. I can imagine the thieves resorting to using a gun to get the person out of the way and then steal the car.
Also I suppose the thieves can just observer the car for a while. If no one uses it for 2 or 3 days then it's a given that's a bait. The cops might have to have people using the car in some realistic way.
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would you mention Bill Gates in this context? This is getting ridicoulus. I almost finished reading the post and almost ignored it then the reference hit me and all I could say was WTF? Does it incrase the post's chance to be accepted if you bash Bill Gates? Geez... d.
Why would I possibly want one? This is one of those too cool to be useful for mortals kinda things...
But wait! What if someone used it to write real time HDTV format to the disk on this? Maybe they should come up with super duper Tivo box? That would be cool...
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Not true. Handspring's springboard accepts an 802.11 b card from Xircom. It's pricey ($299) but it's available.
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http://www.handspring.com/products/Product.jhtml?
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This is ridicoulus. I'm listening to that guy and he's just talking about his cuff for ten minutes now...
*GAAAA*
This would make sense if maybe more people actually got together and prepared a script that would be worth listening to rather than a guy who constantly talks about his cuff and some town he isn't even sure of whether it's on this planet...
I could see how that would make sense if some fans got few heads together to produce a track for their favorite movie. Like a track for Star Wars movie where they would talk about all the cameos and other interesting stuff.
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This article does not explain this. Is it because they didn't want people playing xbox on the floor? Is it only because technically Sony shouldn't allow it?
Furthermore it appears that Sony simply didn't want to make the consoles for display only and didn't want to compromise so they decided to leave.
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A second or an hour is arbitrary as mentioned and has no natural counterpart.
A year is a natural occurence that is composed of the arbitrary seconds and hours. Since the natural year is not constant and our arbitrary seconds are, the local time has to be adjusted to agree with the natural movement of earth around sun.
Question is: is it possible to build a clock that will have a perfectly variable second? I think the answer is no because we can't predict what the change in the physical interplays of the planets will do. Is that correct?