This sounds a whole lot like the way the engines work in the anime Kidou Senkan Nadesico. There's even a helpful animation played to explain it all to the crew and passengers.
I would have much prefered if they had deployed and used this technology not against their own citizenry but instead for far better purposes, like in The Spiders (background and first chapters: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spiders_(comic)). The future is much cooler when being used for good, not stupid.
If you want the literal answer to this question, they're part of Alcatel-Lucent now, after being part of Lucent Technologies since AT&T spun them off in the 90s.
They have one location in Holmdel, NJ, with the Horn Antenna in the back lot!
(Not that anyone is going to read this, so late after the article posting, on a deep comment thread, no less, but...)
The great thing is that because Lisp is so regular in its syntax and has macros available, it can be extended to include an object system, aspect oriented programming, and even language-support for the Actor model like in Erlang (for example, Termite).
I wonder if anyone has called Lisp "the oldest language of the future" yet... Then again, smarter minds than mine have already expressed their love for its power. Search: paul graham blub
I second this recommendation of Practical Common Lisp. I even bought it in hardback! The table of contents for the O'Reilly book seems a little... lacking. Effective functional programming like this really requires a different mindset from , and the table of contents makes me start to wonder if there will be enough background provided or if it will just go into libraries and frameworks as fast as possible.
Don't forget that after you are done with Practical Common Lisp, you can move on to ANSI Common Lisp by Paul Graham, or the older On Lisp (out of print but available in PDF). Even after just one book, you'll start to think differently about your code, and realize that there are functional features in other languages like Ruby and Python.
Since you played the "free market" card, mentioning unions specifically, I would like to add "corporate welfare" to the list and note that union membership is at historically low levels, consisting of only 12.5% of wage and salaried workers nationwide, with only 5 states breaking 20% in 2005, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics numbers.
Just wanted to add a little balance / bias to your argument. The dilemma is certainly real, but the problem isn't always the fault of the workers that management is choosing to offshore their laborforce.
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With all this talk of metaprogramming, I'm really surprised no one has mentioned Common Lisp.
Then again, this is a post about a new version of a C++ library which seems to have devolved into a language gang war...
Aside from the radio station, there will be other projects, such as the NOC NOC (none of our concern network operations center, a coat check for servers), and the Attendee Metadata project, which seeks to use 2.4GHz OpenBeacon tags to track all the attendees. http://www.thelasthope.org/projects.php#rfid They need some volunteers for this project, actually, so if you have some microcontroller skills, drop them a line at projects at hope.net
This looks like it will be a great conference, I'm looking forward to attending.
Can someone point me to news of this redirect 'hack'? These holes seem to be something completely outside of the server-security arena and more in the realm of 'the English language'.
"Another reader notes that the Obama campaign is also searching for a security expert to plug the holes that allowed a hacker to redirect Obama's site (Linux/Apache hosted by GoDaddy) to Hillary Clinton's (Windows/IIS hosted by Rackspace)."
I am convinced that this is actually referring to the redirection of Hope.net (run by the 2600 folks in support of the upcoming HOPE conference) and the various shenanigans they pulled off on April 1st. You can listen to the "Off The Hook" radio show for April 2nd. http://www.2600.com/offthehook/2008/0408.html
Incidentally, going from Physics to Bacon is also 3 clicks, passing through 1968 and Lisa Loeb in the process.
I remember when searching for certain terms on the Internet could bring you from one article to another and suddenly you'd gone from Seaquest DSV to magnetic monopoles to a South African shaman who talks with UFO aliens and suggests curing diseases with sonic frequencies. Now you can do all that solely through Wikipedia.
While the results are interesting (I won't spoil it by posting the answers, although I'm sure someone else has already cut to the chase and done it), the way they arrived at their results is more interesting. I'm sure this could be extended to some pretty maps of what links where, or deep/shallow topics in different fields. I had tried to find the number of links between Kevin Bacon and Nuclear Physics, but it didn't like my input. Instead, I discovered that it takes 3 clicks to go from Bacon to Physics, passing through Columbia University and BDSM on the way.
Off-topic, but this is as good a place as any: There was a project hosted on some academic server a few years ago that linked song lyrics together. Clicking on the lyric 'creep' in the lyrics of the Radiohead song of the same title would bring up links to the TLC and Stone Temple Pilots songs of the same title, as well as any other song that used that word in their lyrics. Two songs that shared certain words would be linked by at most 2 clicks. I'm sure it has been buried in Google-cruft in the years since someone figured out that lyrics pages could be slurped up and turned into banner ad farms, but I had been thinking about how this could be re-implemented using a Wiki that would turn every word into a link and then link to a 'what links here' page. Does anyone know where this original project is or what happened to it? Any hints on re-implementing the behavior with a wiki?
While I don't program every single day at my job, I have helped out with some Java servlets stuff using Hibernate and Spring. I've also picked up some Ruby on Rails for another project that the company had going. (Once the contractors leave, someone has to make sure it gets updated!) The trick is to never stop learning, and keeping an open mind to different languages. While I do wish I were better at Common Lisp, there's still time for that, and it was intriguing enough when it was taught in my Programming Languages course. Understanding algorithms and data structures will probably give you the biggest advantage in conquering whatever language you have to work with and bending it to your will. If the foundations are strong, you can easily get by (or even master) a new language when it comes up.
However, I'm also living in New Jersey, the state of a million suburbs. New York and Philadelphia are just far enough over the border to cause massive congestion and high property values (and taxes, and cost of living). My advice: while San Francisco may be rife with software companies and others who need development expertise, you might do much better looking outside the money-guzzling city.
I feel a little bit like I just gave you old-man advice.
Dr. Michio Kaku also has a radio show called Explorations that primarily features interviews with other scientists. Most of the stations that air it have audio archives of the program, too, so you can check it out if you like.
On one hand, this means that copyright won't be transferred as part of an estate, but also screws things up if the artist dies prematurely from, say, drug overdose. If the artist owns the copyrights, not a company, then these situations could be problematic. Would the copyrights be subject to transfer as part of a person's will? They would be dead, so would there be any rights left to transfer?
If these two Dreamcast games make their way to Xbox Live (or maybe even as a physical purchase), is there any hope for Shenmue 1 to appear on another platform? I was kinda hoping for some Wii Dreamcast downloads, but I don't even know if it is technically possible to make an emulator that would work out OK instead of having to do a rewrite of the games.
I suppose it would help if I actually owned either of these systems. I never got very far in Shenmue, and my Dreamcast went kaput about a year ago. Ikaruga was great for parties.
The first thought was "Different good or different bad?" and then I realized I had meant to say Shadow Chronicles instead of Sentinels... It's kinda funny what a slip like that can mean. Now that my intent is different, is your comment perhaps even more relevant?
What I am perhaps most worried about is that they will try to cram the three chapters/ages of what we know as Robotech in the US into one movie. This would be a mistake, I feel. However, I would also hope they would take enough time for some character development. Roy Fokker plays a huge role in the first chapter, even if he is... otherwise indisposed. Will I care, at that point in the film, that he is making an exit? Will the characters of Claudia and Rick, believably?
One thing that they absolutely need: an orchestra. One thing they can do without in a movie, but which was crucial to the series: a narrator.
I almost want to say the first arc could be made into a trilogy by itself. The discovery, development, training, the first fold, being lost, death, first contact(s), spies, micronization, destruction, reconstruction, more destruction, etc are going to be hard to squeeze into a single movie, even if it turns into "Dances with Bretai" and is 3 hours long. The main problem I had with The Sentinels was that we were introduced to a whole new alien race, find out they are bad, and see them defeated in the span of 90 minutes. While I'm sure part of it is latent Comic Book Guy "It was better when I was 8 years old" feelings, I'm pretty sure they would have taken 5 episodes of introduction and explanation for me to care that anything happened to them.
For some reason, when thinking about the Mospedia chapter, I keep thinking of the danger room from X-Men III. Mostly, the scrapyards.
"Properly implemented" is the key phrase here. In fact, there are already facilities for sending text messages to cabbies regarding policies (such as allowing group fares) or traffic conditions, but they are almost never used.
One of the problems that the cab drivers have is that this decision is completely unilateral, imposted by the Taxi and Limousine Commission, and it doesn't just include credit card and GPS capabilities, but instead of the 12 minute loop of audio advertisements, now the passengers will have to be subjected to video advertisements. The kicker: the driver can't turn it off, and the systems are designed to be difficult for the rider to turn off (and will turn back on after a delay in some cases). Other issues are whether the current system of being paid at the end of every shift will be affected by the introduction of widespread credit card systems, where the money may not have cleared by the time the end of the shift comes around.
I assume this is the same "Atoms for Peace" program that Eisenhower started? I remember hearing something about it just recently when someone was talking about nuclear proliferation on the radio, and how things were different during the Atoms for Peace program. Putting on plays in schools was certainly one way to get the word out. (I just kinda wish more people would mention pebble bed reactors when talking about useful nuclear energy.)
In any case, I'm still holding out for the promises of the Massive-yet-Tiny engine, which I would consider a really new innovation in the internal combustion engine field. I won't believe their efficiency numbers, though, until I see it tested out.
I don't think I'll be happy with efficiency improvements until I get my flying car.
Instead of trying to block YouTube for providing a very low barrier to entry, maybe someone should set up a site like http://expertvoter.org/ to show just how easy it is for a candidate to put out a message and have it be considered on equal footing as others.
If it is so easy, then shouldn't everyone be able to take part?
After the story ran, Ars was contacted by a Vonage spokesperson that claimed that the agreement with VoIP, Inc. has "nothing to do with the patent situation." She described the deal as another termination deal similar to those Vonage has signed with other carriers, reiterating that the agreement was unrelated to the Verizon agreement.
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This sounds a whole lot like the way the engines work in the anime Kidou Senkan Nadesico. There's even a helpful animation played to explain it all to the crew and passengers.
I would have much prefered if they had deployed and used this technology not against their own citizenry but instead for far better purposes, like in The Spiders (background and first chapters: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spiders_(comic)). The future is much cooler when being used for good, not stupid.
If you want the literal answer to this question, they're part of Alcatel-Lucent now, after being part of Lucent Technologies since AT&T spun them off in the 90s.
They have one location in Holmdel, NJ, with the Horn Antenna in the back lot!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holmdel_Horn_Antenna
(Not that anyone is going to read this, so late after the article posting, on a deep comment thread, no less, but...)
The great thing is that because Lisp is so regular in its syntax and has macros available, it can be extended to include an object system, aspect oriented programming, and even language-support for the Actor model like in Erlang (for example, Termite).
I wonder if anyone has called Lisp "the oldest language of the future" yet... Then again, smarter minds than mine have already expressed their love for its power. Search: paul graham blub
I second this recommendation of Practical Common Lisp. I even bought it in hardback! The table of contents for the O'Reilly book seems a little... lacking. Effective functional programming like this really requires a different mindset from , and the table of contents makes me start to wonder if there will be enough background provided or if it will just go into libraries and frameworks as fast as possible.
Don't forget that after you are done with Practical Common Lisp, you can move on to ANSI Common Lisp by Paul Graham, or the older On Lisp (out of print but available in PDF). Even after just one book, you'll start to think differently about your code, and realize that there are functional features in other languages like Ruby and Python.
As they say, mod parent up!
I'm just glad they eventually were able to count higher than II.
Since you played the "free market" card, mentioning unions specifically, I would like to add "corporate welfare" to the list and note that union membership is at historically low levels, consisting of only 12.5% of wage and salaried workers nationwide, with only 5 states breaking 20% in 2005, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics numbers.
Just wanted to add a little balance / bias to your argument. The dilemma is certainly real, but the problem isn't always the fault of the workers that management is choosing to offshore their laborforce.
With all this talk of metaprogramming, I'm really surprised no one has mentioned Common Lisp.
Then again, this is a post about a new version of a C++ library which seems to have devolved into a language gang war...
Aside from the radio station, there will be other projects, such as the NOC NOC (none of our concern network operations center, a coat check for servers), and the Attendee Metadata project, which seeks to use 2.4GHz OpenBeacon tags to track all the attendees. http://www.thelasthope.org/projects.php#rfid They need some volunteers for this project, actually, so if you have some microcontroller skills, drop them a line at projects at hope.net
This looks like it will be a great conference, I'm looking forward to attending.
Can someone point me to news of this redirect 'hack'? These holes seem to be something completely outside of the server-security arena and more in the realm of 'the English language'.
"Another reader notes that the Obama campaign is also searching for a security expert to plug the holes that allowed a hacker to redirect Obama's site (Linux/Apache hosted by GoDaddy) to Hillary Clinton's (Windows/IIS hosted by Rackspace)."
I am convinced that this is actually referring to the redirection of Hope.net (run by the 2600 folks in support of the upcoming HOPE conference) and the various shenanigans they pulled off on April 1st. You can listen to the "Off The Hook" radio show for April 2nd. http://www.2600.com/offthehook/2008/0408.html
References:
http://www.theamericanmind.com/2008/04/02/hopenet-goes-to-hacker-convention-site/
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13554_3-9910026-33.html
2 is quite evil. Only 2 clicks needed for both of these:
Sex -> Rape -> Violence
Violence -> Video game -> Sex
Draw your own conclusions...
Incidentally, going from Physics to Bacon is also 3 clicks, passing through 1968 and Lisa Loeb in the process.
I remember when searching for certain terms on the Internet could bring you from one article to another and suddenly you'd gone from Seaquest DSV to magnetic monopoles to a South African shaman who talks with UFO aliens and suggests curing diseases with sonic frequencies. Now you can do all that solely through Wikipedia.
Obligatory XKCD: http://xkcd.com/214/
While the results are interesting (I won't spoil it by posting the answers, although I'm sure someone else has already cut to the chase and done it), the way they arrived at their results is more interesting. I'm sure this could be extended to some pretty maps of what links where, or deep/shallow topics in different fields. I had tried to find the number of links between Kevin Bacon and Nuclear Physics, but it didn't like my input. Instead, I discovered that it takes 3 clicks to go from Bacon to Physics, passing through Columbia University and BDSM on the way.
Off-topic, but this is as good a place as any: There was a project hosted on some academic server a few years ago that linked song lyrics together. Clicking on the lyric 'creep' in the lyrics of the Radiohead song of the same title would bring up links to the TLC and Stone Temple Pilots songs of the same title, as well as any other song that used that word in their lyrics. Two songs that shared certain words would be linked by at most 2 clicks. I'm sure it has been buried in Google-cruft in the years since someone figured out that lyrics pages could be slurped up and turned into banner ad farms, but I had been thinking about how this could be re-implemented using a Wiki that would turn every word into a link and then link to a 'what links here' page. Does anyone know where this original project is or what happened to it? Any hints on re-implementing the behavior with a wiki?
While I don't program every single day at my job, I have helped out with some Java servlets stuff using Hibernate and Spring. I've also picked up some Ruby on Rails for another project that the company had going. (Once the contractors leave, someone has to make sure it gets updated!) The trick is to never stop learning, and keeping an open mind to different languages. While I do wish I were better at Common Lisp, there's still time for that, and it was intriguing enough when it was taught in my Programming Languages course. Understanding algorithms and data structures will probably give you the biggest advantage in conquering whatever language you have to work with and bending it to your will. If the foundations are strong, you can easily get by (or even master) a new language when it comes up.
However, I'm also living in New Jersey, the state of a million suburbs. New York and Philadelphia are just far enough over the border to cause massive congestion and high property values (and taxes, and cost of living). My advice: while San Francisco may be rife with software companies and others who need development expertise, you might do much better looking outside the money-guzzling city.
I feel a little bit like I just gave you old-man advice.
Dr. Michio Kaku also has a radio show called Explorations that primarily features interviews with other scientists. Most of the stations that air it have audio archives of the program, too, so you can check it out if you like.
http://www.mkaku.org/radio/
Apparently, he also has a myspace page: http://www.myspace.com/mkaku
If he knows assembly, then wouldn't that make him an assemblyman instead of a congressman?
On one hand, this means that copyright won't be transferred as part of an estate, but also screws things up if the artist dies prematurely from, say, drug overdose. If the artist owns the copyrights, not a company, then these situations could be problematic. Would the copyrights be subject to transfer as part of a person's will? They would be dead, so would there be any rights left to transfer?
If these two Dreamcast games make their way to Xbox Live (or maybe even as a physical purchase), is there any hope for Shenmue 1 to appear on another platform? I was kinda hoping for some Wii Dreamcast downloads, but I don't even know if it is technically possible to make an emulator that would work out OK instead of having to do a rewrite of the games.
I suppose it would help if I actually owned either of these systems. I never got very far in Shenmue, and my Dreamcast went kaput about a year ago. Ikaruga was great for parties.
The first thought was "Different good or different bad?" and then I realized I had meant to say Shadow Chronicles instead of Sentinels... It's kinda funny what a slip like that can mean. Now that my intent is different, is your comment perhaps even more relevant?
Still, different good or different bad?
I could see him doing the producer role, but unless we have some serious makeup and suspension of disbelief, I don't think he'll fly as Dana Sterling.
:-)
Oh, you said 3 movies for each chapter... nevermind.
What I am perhaps most worried about is that they will try to cram the three chapters/ages of what we know as Robotech in the US into one movie. This would be a mistake, I feel. However, I would also hope they would take enough time for some character development. Roy Fokker plays a huge role in the first chapter, even if he is... otherwise indisposed. Will I care, at that point in the film, that he is making an exit? Will the characters of Claudia and Rick, believably?
One thing that they absolutely need: an orchestra.
One thing they can do without in a movie, but which was crucial to the series: a narrator.
I almost want to say the first arc could be made into a trilogy by itself. The discovery, development, training, the first fold, being lost, death, first contact(s), spies, micronization, destruction, reconstruction, more destruction, etc are going to be hard to squeeze into a single movie, even if it turns into "Dances with Bretai" and is 3 hours long. The main problem I had with The Sentinels was that we were introduced to a whole new alien race, find out they are bad, and see them defeated in the span of 90 minutes. While I'm sure part of it is latent Comic Book Guy "It was better when I was 8 years old" feelings, I'm pretty sure they would have taken 5 episodes of introduction and explanation for me to care that anything happened to them.
For some reason, when thinking about the Mospedia chapter, I keep thinking of the danger room from X-Men III. Mostly, the scrapyards.
"Properly implemented" is the key phrase here. In fact, there are already facilities for sending text messages to cabbies regarding policies (such as allowing group fares) or traffic conditions, but they are almost never used.
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One of the problems that the cab drivers have is that this decision is completely unilateral, imposted by the Taxi and Limousine Commission, and it doesn't just include credit card and GPS capabilities, but instead of the 12 minute loop of audio advertisements, now the passengers will have to be subjected to video advertisements. The kicker: the driver can't turn it off, and the systems are designed to be difficult for the rider to turn off (and will turn back on after a delay in some cases). Other issues are whether the current system of being paid at the end of every shift will be affected by the introduction of widespread credit card systems, where the money may not have cleared by the time the end of the shift comes around.
For a good discussion of the issue from the point of view of some NYC taxi drivers, if you have 3 hours to spare, two programs on WBAI yesterday (Saturday) can be downloaded from http://archive.wbai.org/ for the next 89 days:
Al Lewis Lives Saturday, August 25, 2007 12:00 pm http://archive.wbai.org/files/mp3/070825_120001al
Radio Free Eireann Saturday, August 25, 2007 1:30 pm http://archive.wbai.org/files/mp3/070825_133001rf
I assume this is the same "Atoms for Peace" program that Eisenhower started? I remember hearing something about it just recently when someone was talking about nuclear proliferation on the radio, and how things were different during the Atoms for Peace program. Putting on plays in schools was certainly one way to get the word out. (I just kinda wish more people would mention pebble bed reactors when talking about useful nuclear energy.)
In any case, I'm still holding out for the promises of the Massive-yet-Tiny engine, which I would consider a really new innovation in the internal combustion engine field. I won't believe their efficiency numbers, though, until I see it tested out.
I don't think I'll be happy with efficiency improvements until I get my flying car.
Instead of trying to block YouTube for providing a very low barrier to entry, maybe someone should set up a site like http://expertvoter.org/ to show just how easy it is for a candidate to put out a message and have it be considered on equal footing as others.
If it is so easy, then shouldn't everyone be able to take part?
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070402-von