I think this was one of the main points of Richard Stallman when he wrote the GPL. That copyrights and closed licensing prevent innovation. I know that the problem with hardware is quite different but I think the same rationale applies.
Well yes, it is that heinous. It would simply be illegal under current terms to run it this way. It would be interesting, however, to develop such a rogue project and see if Sun is really OSS friendly or if they would be ready to send cease and desist letters to such a project. Linus suggests that Sun's apparent friendliness toward linux and OSS is only a pose, let's figure !
The hassle is not into distributing it, but in making it ! Hopefully, we are not that far from voice recognition softwares that would caption videos automatically
Most SF authors are very aware of the problems exposed by Charles Stross. That is why each one use a magic wand in his universe to explain how interstellar travel can become usable. The catalog of such magic wands is called FTL : Faster Than Light. Here is our free sample:
Hyperspace is the most common of them : they imagine a dimension in which it would be able to take a "shortcut" : without the need to travel faster than light, there could be a very short path to distant systems using more dimensions than our usual 3 dimensions
Wormholes, or warpgates : in the same idea as hyperspace, there could be some singularities in our space that would communicate between them using a smaller dimension. Through such gates you could take shortcuts, effectively traveling very long distance in the visible space.
It Just Works : Einstein was wrong, or some conditions make his theory wrong. Maybe if we go far enough from a gravity well, known limitation don't apply.
The goal is to get a measure as precise as possible of the international prototype and transform it into a definition that can have an arbitrary precision or at least a precision superseeding today's limitations like "a kilogram is the mass of X atoms of silicon".
I am looking forward to it. Cyber warfare and electro-magnetic dominance means that communication and remote controlling can be disrupted on a battlefield. Logically that would mean that we will see more drones with AI capabilities, able to take decisions even when cut from the HQ. That should bring a lot of army money into the AI field.
Of course this also brings many SF scenarios closer to reality as well.
A lot of units can be defined using physical properties : a second is 9,192,631,770 periods of a precise physical reaction (transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium-133 atom according to the wikipedia), a meter is the distance travelled by light in a 1/299,792,458 of a second and so one, Volts, Joules, etc... are defined this way. Mass, however, was not yet related to physics constants. So there is a "yardstick" for kilograms. A platinium cylinder was made a century ago, the closest we could get to what was considered a kilogram at this time and it was proclaimed "the exact measurement of a kilogram is the mass of this particular object". It is stored somewhere in Paris. I am sure that modern scientists will manage to conceive an experiment with a great precision to transform the kilogram unit into the abstraction it is supposed to be.
And here again we hit this known wall : the law language is full of ambiguity. From a technical point of view, considering a RAM as a recording is a nonsense for me, but yes, the information is available at the time. But one could argue this is a recording while another could say it is a verbal information.
I consider it normal that the law says what should be logged by a process for this process to be legal but I consider that using interpretation of old laws talking about (paper) recordings and agreements to apply them in the realm of electronic data and network transaction is soothsaying at best.
French cops have a new tactic in protests : when they label someone "troublemaker" they ask him to delete his camera's memory. Wifi could be a way to get around that.
lapsus exist in the real world, you have to control your mind for these not to happen. I think the same is really easy to do once you can have a feedback to know what exactly is "heard". Right now it seems frightening because you don't know how it works, but once you have tried it and created a communication model in your brain, I think you will be fully able to retain "thought-saying" "jackass" while still thinking it
* You are never anonymous
* Leeching is always doable and bear less legal risks
* Geeks don't pay to go to overcrowded concerts
Three against current digital stores:
* Illegal, pirate and free competitors are STILL more convenient than paid offer.
* I have the CD, therefore, I should get the mp3, aac, whatever.
* We get films for free on the TV after a few years, and popular tunes are available freely on the radio, why can't YOU get paid by the ads ? Well, I know why, but people perceive value this way.
In fact, the USA always rejected the CO2 per capita metric and preferred to watch the CO2 per dollar metric, which is a kind of wrapped logic if you ask me.
Ultimately, everyone's in favor of doing something to help our environment, but there's nearly always something they care more about, and very few people vote on the basis of a politician's stand on the environment. Ever been in Germany recently. There, ecology is a selling argument for many products. Expensive cars that emit less, ecological trademarks, this means money there. And a candidate saying "I will push toward Kyoto 2.0" definitely gets votes.
Well, US government is right-wing, some visible medias are really right-wing (TV named after a furry animal) so I would bet that most of the non-left issues are pretty visible right now.
Of course, it takes a left-wing liberal to bring subjects that doesn't interest or disturbs right-wingers.
We are in 2007, I don't care about mass medias anymore. Granted, most people still use newspapers and TV as their main information source but this is changing. Now, an information is either available or not. There are no "censorship by lack of visibility". Some website have more influence than others but this is not at the same scale than national TV broadcasting stations.
More plausible is that this is a projection : they know a rough estimate of the population at Jan 1st 2007 and they know the birth rate, death rate, the rate of urbanization, the differences in fertility and life expectancy in cities and countryside and they get a non-round number, not precise but that bears some information nonetheless.
Well, there is a whole set of game you can play with no worries. Gamers these days agree to be early adopters, but personally I see no shame in buying 2+ years old game and enjoy them. Granted they don't have the same graphics quality than more recent game, but there is more to it, isn't there ?
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I think this was one of the main points of Richard Stallman when he wrote the GPL. That copyrights and closed licensing prevent innovation. I know that the problem with hardware is quite different but I think the same rationale applies.
Well yes, it is that heinous. It would simply be illegal under current terms to run it this way. It would be interesting, however, to develop such a rogue project and see if Sun is really OSS friendly or if they would be ready to send cease and desist letters to such a project. Linus suggests that Sun's apparent friendliness toward linux and OSS is only a pose, let's figure !
The hassle is not into distributing it, but in making it ! Hopefully, we are not that far from voice recognition softwares that would caption videos automatically
Hyperspace is the most common of them : they imagine a dimension in which it would be able to take a "shortcut" : without the need to travel faster than light, there could be a very short path to distant systems using more dimensions than our usual 3 dimensions
Wormholes, or warpgates : in the same idea as hyperspace, there could be some singularities in our space that would communicate between them using a smaller dimension. Through such gates you could take shortcuts, effectively traveling very long distance in the visible space.
It Just Works : Einstein was wrong, or some conditions make his theory wrong. Maybe if we go far enough from a gravity well, known limitation don't apply.
How is an altitude of 330 miles within earth's atmosphere ?
The goal is to get a measure as precise as possible of the international prototype and transform it into a definition that can have an arbitrary precision or at least a precision superseeding today's limitations like "a kilogram is the mass of X atoms of silicon".
I am looking forward to it. Cyber warfare and electro-magnetic dominance means that communication and remote controlling can be disrupted on a battlefield. Logically that would mean that we will see more drones with AI capabilities, able to take decisions even when cut from the HQ. That should bring a lot of army money into the AI field.
Of course this also brings many SF scenarios closer to reality as well.
A lot of units can be defined using physical properties : a second is 9,192,631,770 periods of a precise physical reaction (transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium-133 atom according to the wikipedia), a meter is the distance travelled by light in a 1/299,792,458 of a second and so one, Volts, Joules, etc... are defined this way. Mass, however, was not yet related to physics constants. So there is a "yardstick" for kilograms. A platinium cylinder was made a century ago, the closest we could get to what was considered a kilogram at this time and it was proclaimed "the exact measurement of a kilogram is the mass of this particular object". It is stored somewhere in Paris. I am sure that modern scientists will manage to conceive an experiment with a great precision to transform the kilogram unit into the abstraction it is supposed to be.
And here again we hit this known wall : the law language is full of ambiguity. From a technical point of view, considering a RAM as a recording is a nonsense for me, but yes, the information is available at the time. But one could argue this is a recording while another could say it is a verbal information.
I consider it normal that the law says what should be logged by a process for this process to be legal but I consider that using interpretation of old laws talking about (paper) recordings and agreements to apply them in the realm of electronic data and network transaction is soothsaying at best.
French cops have a new tactic in protests : when they label someone "troublemaker" they ask him to delete his camera's memory. Wifi could be a way to get around that.
Does it give cancer ?
lapsus exist in the real world, you have to control your mind for these not to happen. I think the same is really easy to do once you can have a feedback to know what exactly is "heard". Right now it seems frightening because you don't know how it works, but once you have tried it and created a communication model in your brain, I think you will be fully able to retain "thought-saying" "jackass" while still thinking it
Three against P2P :
:
* You are never anonymous
* Leeching is always doable and bear less legal risks
* Geeks don't pay to go to overcrowded concerts
Three against current digital stores
* Illegal, pirate and free competitors are STILL more convenient than paid offer.
* I have the CD, therefore, I should get the mp3, aac, whatever.
* We get films for free on the TV after a few years, and popular tunes are available freely on the radio, why can't YOU get paid by the ads ? Well, I know why, but people perceive value this way.
"Sir, Our thinktank says that the most devastating potential terrorist threat is an attack on our Space Elevator"
"Our what ?"
In fact, the USA always rejected the CO2 per capita metric and preferred to watch the CO2 per dollar metric, which is a kind of wrapped logic if you ask me.
Well, US government is right-wing, some visible medias are really right-wing (TV named after a furry animal) so I would bet that most of the non-left issues are pretty visible right now.
Of course, it takes a left-wing liberal to bring subjects that doesn't interest or disturbs right-wingers.
Yeah, Chinese factories or partners of Intel or Motorola.
But I agree, "Western world" is not synonymous of "industrialized world" anymore.
We are in 2007, I don't care about mass medias anymore. Granted, most people still use newspapers and TV as their main information source but this is changing. Now, an information is either available or not. There are no "censorship by lack of visibility". Some website have more influence than others but this is not at the same scale than national TV broadcasting stations.
I think here the conditions are the same as the typical quantum crypto test : the goal is to secure a line, not a connection
More plausible is that this is a projection : they know a rough estimate of the population at Jan 1st 2007 and they know the birth rate, death rate, the rate of urbanization, the differences in fertility and life expectancy in cities and countryside and they get a non-round number, not precise but that bears some information nonetheless.
Well, there is a whole set of game you can play with no worries. Gamers these days agree to be early adopters, but personally I see no shame in buying 2+ years old game and enjoy them. Granted they don't have the same graphics quality than more recent game, but there is more to it, isn't there ?
In US IT world, this is April 1st everyday...
This has not to be sodium. It could be, with a small decrease in efficiency, only water.
The main difference is that most people would enjoy seeing all ads censored and no pages unindexed.