They have a *Certificate* duh.... they must be good at what they do... they took an online test and passed. Who are you to say they aren't doing a good job, it's not like someone's life depends on it... and anyways, they need to go mountain biking on saturday, so whatever.
Where I live the cameras for one section of road (at least) are contracted to an out of state vendor. I got a notice in the mail with my picture... but it did not have a court date or other necessary information and i looked up the issue online. I found out that it was not a legal notice and that there could be no action taken unless I acknowledged that I had received the notice.... so I just ignored it and haven't heard anything since.
Something to do with the fact that they couldn't take the infringement to a judge unless I had acknowledged that the person in the photo was me.
I know TFA is about the imaging technique using a simulator... but now that they can analyze the problem... why not see it as a happy accident and attempt to harness the energy that is causing the problems?
Maybe in addition to finding a way to stop the pressure waves they should also be looking for a way to enhance them and direct them... preferably in a way that creates additional propulsion or possibly a standing wave of some sort.... would be really cool if this led to a method of hovering... the military would love that, rockets that could station keep in mid-air waiting for the right time to strike.
For the rest of us, speeder bikes here we come, w00t
If they can't make a reasonably secure interface to their banking system, they shouldn't offer it.
If the banks offered a Money-Pit interface where they just dropped your money into a pit somewhere and sent you the GPS location and did not supply a security guard to watch over the money until you arrived to pick it up... would it then be your fault if the money was stolen?
The banks certainly would not offer such a service as they know it would not be your fault. Otherwise there would also not be any security guards at the bank branch offices themselves...
Protecting the money you entrust to them is the sole reason for their existence. How can they state that protecting it is not their problem?
If they can't offer a secure internet banking service to their customers then they should not be offering a service at all.
If a secure service means that it is inconvenient for their customers to use then THAT is the customers' problem... but the security of the transaction and interface to the data... THAT is the banks' problem.
What I'm thinking of is that I like to find my project files all in a project folder... which in my case is a Smart Search on my Mac, using keywords and other meta data, ie: a project number
How am I supposed to do this when the latest up to date is sitting on a remote server(s) somewhere and uses a format I can't get to.
Sure if ALL my files were stored there I could do the search on the server.... but Google doesn't have Photoshop, CSSEdit, Illustrator, Flash, Omni-Outliner, etc. and why should I take the extra steps to sync all my files to some Google storage area, then tag them all there so that a remote search would pull up all the files?
So again the question is more utilitarian than esoteric in nature... how do I perform batch operations? How do i search? How do I script it?
Seems like moving to Docs would cut out a lot of standard file level utility that has been available for a long time... maybe 'cloud computing' should only be for the apps themselves and not the files/data.
I would much prefer that I could store my data locally and open it in the Docs application, then save it locally when I'm done. At which point you have to wonder what the great benefit is over a desktop app that has webservices?
Should the private citizens assume that the 4rth amendment does not apply to our military?
In which case our Domestic Judiciary should be allowed full and complete access to all Military records and be allowed to utilize Domestic law enforcement officers to search and seize any and all evidence of inappropriate and/or illegal activities by the Military... INCLUDING the COMMANDER in CHIEF...
Seems like a valid counterpoint to me. Assuming that the President is no longer covered by the 4rth Amendment... nor the DOD, NSA, etc.etc.
Someone in a high Domestic position within the gov should be testing this alternate supposition. I suspect a reversal on interpretation would happen very quickly and the administration would be caught out in it's logic.
Does anyone know what format Docs will be saving the data in? It's being saved locally... what's the format?
Can I share it by emailing it or do I have to share it via Google? Can I re-process it into a PDF? Can I run it through a batch script? Is it a format that I can search through locally and what meta-data does it expose to the host OS for use in filtering, organization, etc.
Actually sometimes it does. In high school there was a girl who ran up to me tried to steal my pepsi and when I wouldn't give it to her she slapped me.
I found out weeks later that she was actually trying to tell me she liked me???? in high school... I thought that kind of thing was left behind in grade school... who knew?
So yes, sometimes a girl slapping you really does mean she wants your bod.
A truly free market would not have the same type of contract laws, regional and international commerce laws, patent laws, etc. ad infinum which keep smaller companies from prospering by using other's ideas mixed with their own to out-compete the larger companies.
You can't have a *free* market when you have protectionist laws on the books... either for or against competition. If you're going to regulate one aspect, you have to regulate them all.... or find a balance, which is what the US economy and government try to do (though with a lot of in-fighting and politics getting in the way).
A *free* market would allow for all sorts of cheating, stealing and lying... whatever it takes to make it to the top. Anything less and it's just *freedom* within a regulated system and in which case, everyone has to play by the same rules so there's really no difference as long as those rules are applied evenly to all participants.
OTOH if a company does well by gaming the rules system, what do you do? DO you change the rules to make things *more fair* or do you accept the fact that someone will always be able to do so and encourage others to compete on the same level (by gaming the system)?
I have to say that for web browsing, webkit + Safari/Konqueror is looking like the browser of choice. No fancy plugins, no toolbars that waste resources.... just a fast rendering engine and a web browser that does web browsing. It's got the best features (tabs, nice bookmark manager, rss reader builtin, developer tools - console, network monitor, resource viewer, dom/html/css inspector) and is quickly adding support for CSS3, HTML5 and of course has passed ACID 3.
David Hyatt has a clear vision of what web kit should do and the Safari team and Konq team seem to know where to put their efforts as well (ie, not in lame bells and whistles unrelated to web browsing)
Safari on Windows got a bad rap recently due to a decision to push it out via iTunes so there is that still.... and yet I think that is probably not a real downside to the software itself, more of a mark against Apple's marketing team for making a bad decision about how to improve their install base for Safari.
Licking wounds helps them heal for the first few licks.... then it aggravates the wound which will then never heal. Add to the fact that the same vet probably supplied a topical antibiotic that is 100 times more effective for whatever infection the dog has, which the dog would promptly lick off and you have a good case for a funnel collar.
If our natural immune system (or our dogs') were the best cure for all disease/infection, we wouldn't have discovered more potent treatments.
Licking is the best immediate action as it will clean the wound, deposit some anti-bacterial enzymes and overall prevent some otherwise nasty infections. Over a longer term healing period though you should take the advice of your health consultant.
That's why I put free inside asterisks like so: *free*
Obviously it's not free. What it could be however is significantly discounted due to economies of scale. If all the municipalities bought it in bulk and engaged in a uniform plan with uniform hardware to provide a standard level of access to everyone... well it could be a lot cheaper than your monthly bill... say paying $50 per year in taxes instead of $50/month.
With wireless/radio based connections this works... it's a general solution for a general problem. You can still pay for a dedicated line to your house AND still take advantage of the wireless connection when NOT at your house. Other people who don't need a dedicated line for low latency connections, etc. can just use the wireless public connection for essential communications. It's a win/win scenario.
As an Apple product user... I use their products because they work. Not because they're shiny (though that's a bonus). I use them because they aren't LCD (lowest common denominator) don't stick to never ending backwards compatibility, ie: they make progressive products, that still just work.
I don't always agree with the choices they make for their software but 99.9% of the time those choices still work AND they do listen to customer feedback (added the list view back to dock menus).
There are no features or functionality missing from my Mac... in fact it's got way more functionality that a Windows machine (for me at least)... A good Command Line, full on server capabilities... I can run a webserver, mailserver, cron jobs, compile lots of Open Source software with my own configs, etc. I can get as deep as I want with the OS and still I get access to lots of very professional commercial software as well.
There's nothing not to love. OS X is both an Appliance platform and a General Computing platform. Windows is neither. Linux is great but still not there for me (though I use it for servers cause it's much cheaper... and I don't need a fancy GUI for servers... and I can develop web apps on my Mac and they will just work on Linux.
So for some of us Mac fans, it's not about shiny... it's about features and functionality.
There was a perfect opportunity to provide wireless access for everyone... the Fed just auctioned off the very spectrum needed to make it a reality. What happened?
Did anyone consider this? I know Google had mentioned it and it was a meme floating around that they might buy up the spectrum and offer *free* wifi everywhere, supported by ads of course... if the States or a collective of cities had gotten together and purchased the bandwidth, it really could have been free.
Maybe I'm missing something? Was it not a great opportunity from a technical POV? or did all our local governments just drop the ball?
Flash needs a server side script to do file uploads.
You can do the same with javascript and say PHP for example using an AJAX method, with an oncomplete type event triggered in javascript from the ajax response.
Here is a Jquery plugin demo that supports this (displaying an alert with file info in the demo but you can do more with it):
In general biological systems don't *heal* - they isolate, scar over, then grow new tissue under the scar tissue and eventually slough off the old scar tissue as a standard process along with any *old* tissue.
So what the artificial muscle needs is a means to add new *tissue* and a means to evacuate dead *tissue*
I can see a method similar to what insects use for their carapace as a viable way to do this... but that's a whole new challenge.
True but...average criminals aren't likely to threaten bodily harm or kidnap and restrain you to get access to your biometric data. People who are willing to do so are not likely to be thwarted by any measure of authentication and would likely just turn to a brute force attack on whatever needed the authentication to begin with.
The 3 points of contact rule still is the best. We just haven't come up with the right combination for a remote authentication process. It works fine in person. You are asked for your photo ID (something you have, physical token), asked for your SSN (a passcode that you know) and are physically there (biometric data for comparison with photo ID, which gets compared with the passcode assigned to that ID)...
There likely is no good way to duplicate this for remote authentication.. what most are trying to do is to duplicate for authentication without an observer as any biometric data can be forged remotely given enough time... but having to be at the physical location and forge it would be somewhat more difficult even if there is no dedicated observer (an observer who is actually scanning you rather than a general observer looking for suspicious activity).
Finally there is a method to give depth perception to AI and robots without a million lines of code needing to be written for mediocre results. They will know where things are in relation to each other and themselves via real time lightfield info.... and once they map it out internally, won't even need to look at things to know where they are... just triangulate based on last known location and what ever is in their field of vision.
Moreover... imagine the interface options now. Suddenly we have Minority Report interfaces just over the horizon. As in you can have a camera/sensor that can tell if you've just 'touched' something in thin air (even if there is no image floating there to touch, though that would help us to know what we're trying to interface with).
We'll have touch screens you don't even have to touch... the camera will just map up the location of your finger tip and your eyes with the depth map and account for perspective... or go with eyetracking software, except now you won't need to be sitting at just the right distance... the depth mapping will account for that and compensate.
Of course both of these is assuming that this sensor goes 4D/video capture capable... which I expect it will.
What I really want though is a pair of glasses/goggles which will process whatever I'm viewing and let me do selective deletion of objects (or selective addition of virtual objects).... match it up with some memory of prior views and the result will be seamless... 3D modeling in real time views...
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They have a *Certificate* duh.... they must be good at what they do... they took an online test and passed. Who are you to say they aren't doing a good job, it's not like someone's life depends on it... and anyways, they need to go mountain biking on saturday, so whatever.
Where I live the cameras for one section of road (at least) are contracted to an out of state vendor. I got a notice in the mail with my picture... but it did not have a court date or other necessary information and i looked up the issue online. I found out that it was not a legal notice and that there could be no action taken unless I acknowledged that I had received the notice.... so I just ignored it and haven't heard anything since.
Something to do with the fact that they couldn't take the infringement to a judge unless I had acknowledged that the person in the photo was me.
The interesting thing is that they feel it is capable of being primary storage...so we're talking Terabytes...
Could be interesting.
Cause a new PC would be so expensive?
You should have stopped here:"It will be a few years before this is practical"
I know TFA is about the imaging technique using a simulator... but now that they can analyze the problem... why not see it as a happy accident and attempt to harness the energy that is causing the problems?
Maybe in addition to finding a way to stop the pressure waves they should also be looking for a way to enhance them and direct them... preferably in a way that creates additional propulsion or possibly a standing wave of some sort.... would be really cool if this led to a method of hovering... the military would love that, rockets that could station keep in mid-air waiting for the right time to strike.
For the rest of us, speeder bikes here we come, w00t
Actually it has everything to do with society... you are not on an island all alone.
It's why we have laws against drinking and driving...
A person who has become sleep deprived due to overuse of a stimulant can be just as dangerous while driving a vehicle.
If they can't make a reasonably secure interface to their banking system, they shouldn't offer it.
If the banks offered a Money-Pit interface where they just dropped your money into a pit somewhere and sent you the GPS location and did not supply a security guard to watch over the money until you arrived to pick it up... would it then be your fault if the money was stolen?
The banks certainly would not offer such a service as they know it would not be your fault. Otherwise there would also not be any security guards at the bank branch offices themselves...
Protecting the money you entrust to them is the sole reason for their existence. How can they state that protecting it is not their problem?
If they can't offer a secure internet banking service to their customers then they should not be offering a service at all.
If a secure service means that it is inconvenient for their customers to use then THAT is the customers' problem... but the security of the transaction and interface to the data... THAT is the banks' problem.
What I'm thinking of is that I like to find my project files all in a project folder... which in my case is a Smart Search on my Mac, using keywords and other meta data, ie: a project number
How am I supposed to do this when the latest up to date is sitting on a remote server(s) somewhere and uses a format I can't get to.
Sure if ALL my files were stored there I could do the search on the server.... but Google doesn't have Photoshop, CSSEdit, Illustrator, Flash, Omni-Outliner, etc. and why should I take the extra steps to sync all my files to some Google storage area, then tag them all there so that a remote search would pull up all the files?
So again the question is more utilitarian than esoteric in nature... how do I perform batch operations? How do i search? How do I script it?
Seems like moving to Docs would cut out a lot of standard file level utility that has been available for a long time... maybe 'cloud computing' should only be for the apps themselves and not the files/data.
I would much prefer that I could store my data locally and open it in the Docs application, then save it locally when I'm done. At which point you have to wonder what the great benefit is over a desktop app that has webservices?
Should the private citizens assume that the 4rth amendment does not apply to our military?
In which case our Domestic Judiciary should be allowed full and complete access to all Military records and be allowed to utilize Domestic law enforcement officers to search and seize any and all evidence of inappropriate and/or illegal activities by the Military... INCLUDING the COMMANDER in CHIEF...
Seems like a valid counterpoint to me. Assuming that the President is no longer covered by the 4rth Amendment... nor the DOD, NSA, etc.etc.
Someone in a high Domestic position within the gov should be testing this alternate supposition. I suspect a reversal on interpretation would happen very quickly and the administration would be caught out in it's logic.
Yeah... I didn't ask what formats you COULD save it to, ie: export... I asked what format is it stored in natively...
Why would I want to use something that forced me to export it whenever I want to have it show up in local filesystem searches?
Does anyone know what format Docs will be saving the data in? It's being saved locally... what's the format?
Can I share it by emailing it or do I have to share it via Google?
Can I re-process it into a PDF?
Can I run it through a batch script?
Is it a format that I can search through locally and what meta-data does it expose to the host OS for use in filtering, organization, etc.
If anyone is actually interested in using an online service for photoshop like work.... anyone?
There is a service out there called Splashup: linky link which offers a lot more that Adobe's offering...
Actually sometimes it does. In high school there was a girl who ran up to me tried to steal my pepsi and when I wouldn't give it to her she slapped me.
I found out weeks later that she was actually trying to tell me she liked me???? in high school... I thought that kind of thing was left behind in grade school... who knew?
So yes, sometimes a girl slapping you really does mean she wants your bod.
A truly free market would not have the same type of contract laws, regional and international commerce laws, patent laws, etc. ad infinum which keep smaller companies from prospering by using other's ideas mixed with their own to out-compete the larger companies.
You can't have a *free* market when you have protectionist laws on the books... either for or against competition. If you're going to regulate one aspect, you have to regulate them all.... or find a balance, which is what the US economy and government try to do (though with a lot of in-fighting and politics getting in the way).
A *free* market would allow for all sorts of cheating, stealing and lying... whatever it takes to make it to the top. Anything less and it's just *freedom* within a regulated system and in which case, everyone has to play by the same rules so there's really no difference as long as those rules are applied evenly to all participants.
OTOH if a company does well by gaming the rules system, what do you do? DO you change the rules to make things *more fair* or do you accept the fact that someone will always be able to do so and encourage others to compete on the same level (by gaming the system)?
China or a Chinese company (Baidu?) should offer to buy out Yahoo. That would certainly make for some interesting headlines...
I have to say that for web browsing, webkit + Safari/Konqueror is looking like the browser of choice. No fancy plugins, no toolbars that waste resources.... just a fast rendering engine and a web browser that does web browsing. It's got the best features (tabs, nice bookmark manager, rss reader builtin, developer tools - console, network monitor, resource viewer, dom/html/css inspector) and is quickly adding support for CSS3, HTML5 and of course has passed ACID 3.
David Hyatt has a clear vision of what web kit should do and the Safari team and Konq team seem to know where to put their efforts as well (ie, not in lame bells and whistles unrelated to web browsing)
Safari on Windows got a bad rap recently due to a decision to push it out via iTunes so there is that still.... and yet I think that is probably not a real downside to the software itself, more of a mark against Apple's marketing team for making a bad decision about how to improve their install base for Safari.
Licking wounds helps them heal for the first few licks.... then it aggravates the wound which will then never heal. Add to the fact that the same vet probably supplied a topical antibiotic that is 100 times more effective for whatever infection the dog has, which the dog would promptly lick off and you have a good case for a funnel collar.
If our natural immune system (or our dogs') were the best cure for all disease/infection, we wouldn't have discovered more potent treatments.
Licking is the best immediate action as it will clean the wound, deposit some anti-bacterial enzymes and overall prevent some otherwise nasty infections. Over a longer term healing period though you should take the advice of your health consultant.
That's why I put free inside asterisks like so: *free*
Obviously it's not free. What it could be however is significantly discounted due to economies of scale. If all the municipalities bought it in bulk and engaged in a uniform plan with uniform hardware to provide a standard level of access to everyone... well it could be a lot cheaper than your monthly bill... say paying $50 per year in taxes instead of $50/month.
With wireless/radio based connections this works... it's a general solution for a general problem. You can still pay for a dedicated line to your house AND still take advantage of the wireless connection when NOT at your house. Other people who don't need a dedicated line for low latency connections, etc. can just use the wireless public connection for essential communications. It's a win/win scenario.
As an Apple product user... I use their products because they work. Not because they're shiny (though that's a bonus). I use them because they aren't LCD (lowest common denominator) don't stick to never ending backwards compatibility, ie: they make progressive products, that still just work.
I don't always agree with the choices they make for their software but 99.9% of the time those choices still work AND they do listen to customer feedback (added the list view back to dock menus).
There are no features or functionality missing from my Mac... in fact it's got way more functionality that a Windows machine (for me at least)... A good Command Line, full on server capabilities... I can run a webserver, mailserver, cron jobs, compile lots of Open Source software with my own configs, etc. I can get as deep as I want with the OS and still I get access to lots of very professional commercial software as well.
There's nothing not to love. OS X is both an Appliance platform and a General Computing platform. Windows is neither. Linux is great but still not there for me (though I use it for servers cause it's much cheaper... and I don't need a fancy GUI for servers... and I can develop web apps on my Mac and they will just work on Linux.
So for some of us Mac fans, it's not about shiny... it's about features and functionality.
There was a perfect opportunity to provide wireless access for everyone... the Fed just auctioned off the very spectrum needed to make it a reality. What happened?
Did anyone consider this? I know Google had mentioned it and it was a meme floating around that they might buy up the spectrum and offer *free* wifi everywhere, supported by ads of course... if the States or a collective of cities had gotten together and purchased the bandwidth, it really could have been free.
Maybe I'm missing something? Was it not a great opportunity from a technical POV? or did all our local governments just drop the ball?
This one has a progress bar to show you status of the upload
Flash needs a server side script to do file uploads.
You can do the same with javascript and say PHP for example using an AJAX method, with an oncomplete type event triggered in javascript from the ajax response.
Here is a Jquery plugin demo that supports this (displaying an alert with file info in the demo but you can do more with it):
Ajax File Upload with JQuery
In general biological systems don't *heal* - they isolate, scar over, then grow new tissue under the scar tissue and eventually slough off the old scar tissue as a standard process along with any *old* tissue.
So what the artificial muscle needs is a means to add new *tissue* and a means to evacuate dead *tissue*
I can see a method similar to what insects use for their carapace as a viable way to do this... but that's a whole new challenge.
True but...average criminals aren't likely to threaten bodily harm or kidnap and restrain you to get access to your biometric data. People who are willing to do so are not likely to be thwarted by any measure of authentication and would likely just turn to a brute force attack on whatever needed the authentication to begin with.
The 3 points of contact rule still is the best. We just haven't come up with the right combination for a remote authentication process. It works fine in person. You are asked for your photo ID (something you have, physical token), asked for your SSN (a passcode that you know) and are physically there (biometric data for comparison with photo ID, which gets compared with the passcode assigned to that ID)...
There likely is no good way to duplicate this for remote authentication.. what most are trying to do is to duplicate for authentication without an observer as any biometric data can be forged remotely given enough time... but having to be at the physical location and forge it would be somewhat more difficult even if there is no dedicated observer (an observer who is actually scanning you rather than a general observer looking for suspicious activity).
Finally there is a method to give depth perception to AI and robots without a million lines of code needing to be written for mediocre results. They will know where things are in relation to each other and themselves via real time lightfield info.... and once they map it out internally, won't even need to look at things to know where they are... just triangulate based on last known location and what ever is in their field of vision.
Moreover... imagine the interface options now. Suddenly we have Minority Report interfaces just over the horizon. As in you can have a camera/sensor that can tell if you've just 'touched' something in thin air (even if there is no image floating there to touch, though that would help us to know what we're trying to interface with).
We'll have touch screens you don't even have to touch... the camera will just map up the location of your finger tip and your eyes with the depth map and account for perspective... or go with eyetracking software, except now you won't need to be sitting at just the right distance... the depth mapping will account for that and compensate.
Of course both of these is assuming that this sensor goes 4D/video capture capable... which I expect it will.
What I really want though is a pair of glasses/goggles which will process whatever I'm viewing and let me do selective deletion of objects (or selective addition of virtual objects).... match it up with some memory of prior views and the result will be seamless... 3D modeling in real time views...
oh there are so many options.