in the original trek, Scotty was trying to get an alien-inhabiting-a-human-body totally sh*tfaced. After emptying several bottles of liquor, he picks up another one. The alien asks, 'What's this one?' Scotty looks at it and says 'it's... it's... it's GREEN....'
And I b'lieve they redid that gag with 'Data' in the next gen show.
Anybody hear Doohan sing?
Here's to ya, Scotty....
IF this could be done to even a modest level of success in predicting the movement of markets, that would spell the end of Wall St.... their proprietary advantage would become negligible.
As it is now, their proprietary advantage is negligible, but they have good marketing budgets....
Unfortunately, the whole thing sounds like "famous mathematician out of touch with reality".
"Anyone who makes a prediction for a technical breakthrough by twenty years will be automatically suspect and barred from publication in professional journals and receipt of public funding"
You'd think we woulda learned from the AI and fusion power people.....
The armor isn't the capacitor, the capacitor is separate, being charged by the electrical system, and delivering energy when the separated armor layers are bridged.
Yeah, you'd think so, that it's just the continuation of a downward spiral. But I saw on the tube the other day, protesters gathering round IBM during some shareholder's meeting, protesting outsourcing. One shareholder they interviewed, apparently retired and in good financial shape, chuckled nervously about the protest, shrugged, and said words to the effect of, 'Well, I'm happy with the way things are going...'
I guess the human thing is to think it's all right as long as your own nest egg is OK. But when the poop lands in your own front yard, bring out the shotguns.
When the boards of directors discover that Indian MBA's are as good as any this guy's ass is grass. They'll sell the fancy building, rent a PO box in a prestigious town, bump profits to an all-time high. Outsource everything except ownership of the brand. Investors happy.
Re:nanotech center = no big deal really
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Nanotech or Nano-Not?
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The truth is, while many new academic centers are going up because the research funding is there, little or no real nanotech is being done. The grant-writers know what to go after. Noble speeches are given at groundbreaking. But the core of the federally funded "nanotechnology" movement is allergic to the concepts put forth first by Richard Feynman, and developed by Drexler and others since. The movement is owned and the vision scripted by chemists beholden to their own particular culture and party line. It's financial opportunism pure and simple. It's fine that scientists will get some funding to do some work, but unfortunate that the most ambitious long-range research will be cut out of this process.
CNN article says nothing new or of value
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Nanotech or Nano-Not?
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The CNN article is pure filler. What I get out of it is 'don't go to CNN for science news'.
"Nanotech turns some long-held principles of physics upside down" uh huh.
OK dude... remove the financial incentive for artists and watch the artists disappear. Are a tiny minority of artists overcompensated? Yes. Are the other 99.999% scratching a living in dry earth?
Note: many musicans do not play live much or at all. Having said all that, yours is probably the popular prevailing voice and it will be interesting to see what happens in years to come.
No, Windows isn't a drug, but it's a fact that people tend to stick with/prefer/seek out what they're accustomed to. Learning new software, user interface, etc is a pain for anybody, so why bother.
M$'s practice of 'paying fines' with software vouchers is ingenious and culturally insidious. Also, it's irresponsible/ignorant on the part of gov't to accept it. M$ just exploits the fact that bureaucrats are dumb.
Apple losing money!
iTunes = flop!
iPod = loser!
Apple pays off all debt!
poor Apple!
stupid Apple!
people wait in lines for 6 hours for SF Apple Store opening!
Stupid People!
(sit in closet, close door, repeat above until it becomes true)
My mother in law bought a green imac when they came out. She doesn't have much time to use it as she's very active socially, does housework etc. It had OS9 when she got it. She had trouble with learning it, learning to use the mouse, the few programs she was interested in. I eventually convinced her to dump AOL - too much extra baggage to deal with. Then someone else in the family had her upgrade to OSX. She had to learn almost everything from scratch again. She's thinking very seriously about getting rid of the iMac. A very frustrating experience... I feel embarassed that the so-called hi tech industry couldn't deliver something better. Too bad those little email appliances didn't catch on.... did they?
Prey is really more a story about a guy coping with a crazed wife. The nano part is silly. I've been following nanotech for about 20 years, didn't think the ideas in Prey were either daring or plausible.
Is there a chance that the problem could've been caused by electrostatic discharge?
Rover bounces on rubber airbags on sand, bags fold up, Rover rolls off, Rover touches rock - zap!??
Will accuracy be good enough to pinpoint the phone as being in a dumpster (which is usually steel anyway and won't permit a signal to get out)?
Or would it just indicate as being somewhere on the block that the restaurant that owns the dumpster is?
I can't believe timekeepers add 1 leap second EVERY year.... just every so often to correct for accumulated discrepancy between calendar time and orbit. Likewise, we don't have Feb 29th every year, but in enough years to make the orbit agree with the calendar over long periods of time. Of course, after many thousands of years even the Gregorian system will have enough error in it to necessitate some other corrections... way down the road... just think of the Y10K problems they'll have....
One test of movie risk taking is how it polarizes opinion. Some say Hulk was good, some say it was awful (I liked it a lot).
Matrix I was great eye candy but the scifi schlock philosophical babble was highschool cliche crap, so I passed on II & III.
Daredevil was poop on a stick.
Xmen II was so-so, good beginning, but after the first 45 minutes I just didn't care about whether any characters snuffed it or not.
LOTR??? What a joke. Saw the first one on DVD. 90% of the muttery dialog was overwhelmed by the music. Was the sound engineer dead? Couldn't hear a word.
Just my $.02, lost in the pile.....
Microsoft is rumored to be offering some kind of an Itunes clone next year. But to sell OTHER PEOPLE music storefronts - that's one way to make some money... at least in the short run.
While this is certainly a great thing, for some reason iTunes is having a lot of difficulty getting completely independent musicians (musicians without a label). I sell cd's on CDbaby.com, a big site for indie music, and while Apple and CDbaby have been negotiating since this summer, and with no disagreements on rates, this process is pretty much stuck. I have no idea why this is taking so long... or maybe this is fast for the music biz and I need to be more patient.
haven't read the article but...
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What's Always Next?
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So it's just 'all right' not only to publicly publish the details of a problem but also the means to exploit it?
Okay, if the problem has been known for a year then obviously Compaq just sat on it.
But publishing a way to crash someone's system to me seems unethical at best, malicious at worst.
This just turns Compaq's customers into sitting ducks.
I'll admit I'm a little new to this subject. Looking over the comments it seems overwhelmingly against HP. Correct me on this, but didn't snosoft publish information on the vulnerability plus code to exploit it without letting HP know first, and give them a chance to correct it?
If somebody figured out how to break into your house and published on the internet and you found out the hard way, wouldn't you be pissed?
If I don't have the facts right, please set me straight!
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in the original trek, Scotty was trying to get an alien-inhabiting-a-human-body totally sh*tfaced. After emptying several bottles of liquor, he picks up another one. The alien asks, 'What's this one?' Scotty looks at it and says 'it's ... it's... it's GREEN....'
And I b'lieve they redid that gag with 'Data' in the next gen show.
Anybody hear Doohan sing?
Here's to ya, Scotty....
IF this could be done to even a modest level of success in predicting the movement of markets, that would spell the end of Wall St.... their proprietary advantage would become negligible.
As it is now, their proprietary advantage is negligible, but they have good marketing budgets....
Unfortunately, the whole thing sounds like "famous mathematician out of touch with reality".
"Anyone who makes a prediction for a technical breakthrough by twenty years will be automatically suspect and barred from publication in professional journals and receipt of public funding" You'd think we woulda learned from the AI and fusion power people.....
George Bush has chip on shoulder
The armor isn't the capacitor, the capacitor is separate, being charged by the electrical system, and delivering energy when the separated armor layers are bridged.
Yeah, you'd think so, that it's just the continuation of a downward spiral. But I saw on the tube the other day, protesters gathering round IBM during some shareholder's meeting, protesting outsourcing. One shareholder they interviewed, apparently retired and in good financial shape, chuckled nervously about the protest, shrugged, and said words to the effect of, 'Well, I'm happy with the way things are going...'
I guess the human thing is to think it's all right as long as your own nest egg is OK. But when the poop lands in your own front yard, bring out the shotguns.
When the boards of directors discover that Indian MBA's are as good as any this guy's ass is grass. They'll sell the fancy building, rent a PO box in a prestigious town, bump profits to an all-time high. Outsource everything except ownership of the brand. Investors happy.
The truth is, while many new academic centers are going up because the research funding is there, little or no real nanotech is being done. The grant-writers know what to go after. Noble speeches are given at groundbreaking. But the core of the federally funded "nanotechnology" movement is allergic to the concepts put forth first by Richard Feynman, and developed by Drexler and others since. The movement is owned and the vision scripted by chemists beholden to their own particular culture and party line. It's financial opportunism pure and simple. It's fine that scientists will get some funding to do some work, but unfortunate that the most ambitious long-range research will be cut out of this process.
The CNN article is pure filler. What I get out of it is 'don't go to CNN for science news'. "Nanotech turns some long-held principles of physics upside down" uh huh.
OK dude... remove the financial incentive for artists and watch the artists disappear. Are a tiny minority of artists overcompensated? Yes. Are the other 99.999% scratching a living in dry earth?
Note: many musicans do not play live much or at all.
Having said all that, yours is probably the popular prevailing voice and it will be interesting to see what happens in years to come.
Microwave popcorn??? We got that already! ... ohhh.... ... nevermind.....
No, Windows isn't a drug, but it's a fact that people tend to stick with/prefer/seek out what they're accustomed to. Learning new software, user interface, etc is a pain for anybody, so why bother. M$'s practice of 'paying fines' with software vouchers is ingenious and culturally insidious. Also, it's irresponsible/ignorant on the part of gov't to accept it. M$ just exploits the fact that bureaucrats are dumb.
Apple losing money! iTunes = flop! iPod = loser! Apple pays off all debt! poor Apple! stupid Apple! people wait in lines for 6 hours for SF Apple Store opening! Stupid People! (sit in closet, close door, repeat above until it becomes true)
My mother in law bought a green imac when they came out. She doesn't have much time to use it as she's very active socially, does housework etc. It had OS9 when she got it. She had trouble with learning it, learning to use the mouse, the few programs she was interested in. I eventually convinced her to dump AOL - too much extra baggage to deal with. Then someone else in the family had her upgrade to OSX. She had to learn almost everything from scratch again. She's thinking very seriously about getting rid of the iMac. A very frustrating experience... I feel embarassed that the so-called hi tech industry couldn't deliver something better. Too bad those little email appliances didn't catch on.... did they?
Prey is really more a story about a guy coping with a crazed wife. The nano part is silly. I've been following nanotech for about 20 years, didn't think the ideas in Prey were either daring or plausible.
Is there a chance that the problem could've been caused by electrostatic discharge? Rover bounces on rubber airbags on sand, bags fold up, Rover rolls off, Rover touches rock - zap!??
Will accuracy be good enough to pinpoint the phone as being in a dumpster (which is usually steel anyway and won't permit a signal to get out)? Or would it just indicate as being somewhere on the block that the restaurant that owns the dumpster is?
I can't believe timekeepers add 1 leap second EVERY year.... just every so often to correct for accumulated discrepancy between calendar time and orbit. Likewise, we don't have Feb 29th every year, but in enough years to make the orbit agree with the calendar over long periods of time. Of course, after many thousands of years even the Gregorian system will have enough error in it to necessitate some other corrections... way down the road... just think of the Y10K problems they'll have....
One test of movie risk taking is how it polarizes opinion. Some say Hulk was good, some say it was awful (I liked it a lot). Matrix I was great eye candy but the scifi schlock philosophical babble was highschool cliche crap, so I passed on II & III. Daredevil was poop on a stick. Xmen II was so-so, good beginning, but after the first 45 minutes I just didn't care about whether any characters snuffed it or not. LOTR??? What a joke. Saw the first one on DVD. 90% of the muttery dialog was overwhelmed by the music. Was the sound engineer dead? Couldn't hear a word. Just my $.02, lost in the pile.....
Microsoft is rumored to be offering some kind of an Itunes clone next year. But to sell OTHER PEOPLE music storefronts - that's one way to make some money... at least in the short run.
While this is certainly a great thing, for some reason iTunes is having a lot of difficulty getting completely independent musicians (musicians without a label). I sell cd's on CDbaby.com, a big site for indie music, and while Apple and CDbaby have been negotiating since this summer, and with no disagreements on rates, this process is pretty much stuck. I have no idea why this is taking so long... or maybe this is fast for the music biz and I need to be more patient.
Where's the fusion power, android robots, "real" AI? C'mon dudes, it's 2003 already!
So it's just 'all right' not only to publicly publish the details of a problem but also the means to exploit it? Okay, if the problem has been known for a year then obviously Compaq just sat on it. But publishing a way to crash someone's system to me seems unethical at best, malicious at worst. This just turns Compaq's customers into sitting ducks.
I'll admit I'm a little new to this subject. Looking over the comments it seems overwhelmingly against HP. Correct me on this, but didn't snosoft publish information on the vulnerability plus code to exploit it without letting HP know first, and give them a chance to correct it? If somebody figured out how to break into your house and published on the internet and you found out the hard way, wouldn't you be pissed? If I don't have the facts right, please set me straight!