I would imagine SUN would be delighted if IBM got their clock cleaned by SCO, not thats its going to happen. I think SUN have to present a considered approach to clients who will be concerned that a very big company is being sued for a very large amount of money over a matter of technology they may wish to deploy. Also the future holds some very bitter pills for SUN to swallow with x86 chip adoption in thier own hardware and Solaris being overtaken by Linux so I would imagine there are a few die hards in the organisation quite happy to drag their feet under the guise of strategic rethink.
Thats strange, I can only recall that standard supersymmetry work with strings in 10 space dimensions, particularly on Yang-Calbai manifolds. Was there another spatial dimension distortion while I was washing my hair ?
The all-important cantilevers are placed in light contact with a sample and moved across its surface, detecting any change in surface topography. Cantilever calibration is a fundamental issue in the use of the instrument.
is the actual quote. Dont know where you got internet from.
Unquestionably animal movement is more sophisticated than any currently available mechanical movement or propulsion systems. Its debatable though how useful mimicing this sort of movement is in real world vehicles would be.
Take aircraft for example. They are faster but less agile than birds. In transport terms though we really only want them to fly in straight lines from A to B so agility is not an overwhelming consideration in their construction. If we want them to be more efficient we make them lighter and more aerodynamic.
Undoubtably there are niche requirements that will
benefit from this sort of research but I doubt the ability to product ships that move like fish (my god think of the sea sickness from the motion of the waves AND the ship itself) will revolutionize transport.
Looks like it should be pretty easy to DOS someone's receivers or at least confuse the crap out them with conflicting light sources. I suppose you could also point a laser at them and fry it totally.
Sounds like a cool technology clean, high performant, low infrastructure, does not slice limbs off or create two headed babies. This should make it a very attractive sell to commerce and to the public
I would have some security concerns though since it makes it a lot easier for those of malicious intent to intercept the signal as its basically being broadcast in the open. The technology would seem to lend itself naturally to strong encryption though.
Its not a question of trying to emulate the previous achievenments of NASA. The European attempt in particular is a test bed for new technology eg the ion thrusters. 4 decades is a very very long time in technology years. Its now time to test the new stuff before deploying it on serious missions.
Can some explain why a patent is required for this. Since it will only ever exist as an image on a computer screen it seems more like art to me and would seem more appropriate under copywrite laws. The IANAL disclaimer applies big time here.
From the article I got the impression that they are going to merge their SUN ONE stack with Solaris and bundle the whole package as the 'OS'. This idea has been touted previously and greeted with some scepticism as a feeble attempt by SUN to 'win' application server market share from the big boys and drawn comparrison to the usual Redmond type ploys.
Mad Hatter would seem to reinforce this as an attempt to retain workstation market share rather than an attempt to compete directly with MS on the average desktop by delivering the whole sun development package at a stroke. Its a risky strategy though. Existing manufactures like Dell and HP will murder them on hardware pricing and with a bunch of Linus distros to choose from what makes the Sun one a compelling sell ?
Theres no way thats the fastest computer in the world. I dont see any photos of it running Quake. Afaid to show the world their FPS on a real benchmark are they ?
Pop stars learn to live with pirates
The sooner we can get some of our 'pop stars' off shore onto pirate ships the better. May I reccomend the vicinity around Bermuda as a suitable anchorage.
If we find life next door to us then given the vastness of the universe the probability of life, perhaps even sentient life increases (ignoring the fact that its likely we contaminated mars or vise versa). It would be a huge shot in the arm for continuing space explortion.
Chopra said the ballistic electrons lead to clearer binary signals -- at least in part. However, "we don't fully understand how the signal is enhanced to such very large degrees," he said. "The existing theories don't yet explain it. There are some things here no one quite understands. That means there's a lot of science to be discovered yet."
Look like the Continuum are winding the IBM engineers up this week.
I dont agree with these reasons. Why should peple have to rewrite their security implementations just because SUN came up with a new, unnecessry markup. One of the beauties of XML is so many different language bindings exist. If the various aspects of my security use XML to communicate then I can write them in just about any language I please.
Secondly what do people feel about having a system like this in the public domain? I am not an advocate of security through obscurity but with this system the bad guys will have a very good understanding of how the whole system works. Should an implemenatation be exposed then multiple systems become vunerable.
What exactly is the need for this 'new' language. I get the impression that really this system just defines some interfaces and uses XML to allow various aspects of the implementation to communicate. Not exactly rocket science and certainly not worthy of a new language IMHO. What exactly does it do that XML and some well defined schemas cant?
Its some what strange that given the recent 'commitment' from SUN to clean up the J2EE API's they want to foist this on us as I assume the enterprise is where it will see most usage.Is this sone sort of bastard child from the slightly less than successful Liberty project?
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Its all part of a cunning plot by cigarette man to put all the p0rn on the net someplace we cant get it.
I would imagine SUN would be delighted if IBM got their clock cleaned by SCO, not thats its going to happen. I think SUN have to present a considered approach to clients who will be concerned that a very big company is being sued for a very large amount of money over a matter of technology they may wish to deploy. Also the future holds some very bitter pills for SUN to swallow with x86 chip adoption in thier own hardware and Solaris being overtaken by Linux so I would imagine there are a few die hards in the organisation quite happy to drag their feet under the guise of strategic rethink.
Quietly assinate Bill Gates
Pop over to the nearest face transplanting clinic
Shock the world when Bill Gates announces MS are giving up software development and releasing the source to the public
Yeah but now that Buffy has quit the vampires will take over. Oh wait you live in SunnyVale ...
Thats strange, I can only recall that standard supersymmetry work with strings in 10 space dimensions, particularly on Yang-Calbai manifolds. Was there another spatial dimension distortion while I was washing my hair ?
The all-important cantilevers are placed in light contact with a sample and moved across its surface, detecting any change in surface topography. Cantilever calibration is a fundamental issue in the use of the instrument.
is the actual quote. Dont know where you got internet from.
But if an Australian overturns something does that not mean its actually the right way up ?
Unquestionably animal movement is more sophisticated than any currently available mechanical movement or propulsion systems. Its debatable though how useful mimicing this sort of movement is in real world vehicles would be.
Take aircraft for example. They are faster but less agile than birds. In transport terms though we really only want them to fly in straight lines from A to B so agility is not an overwhelming consideration in their construction. If we want them to be more efficient we make them lighter and more aerodynamic.
Undoubtably there are niche requirements that will benefit from this sort of research but I doubt the ability to product ships that move like fish (my god think of the sea sickness from the motion of the waves AND the ship itself) will revolutionize transport.
Unlike other simulated fish, the iQuarium's scaly denizens will be driven by the same forces that manipulate birds and fish in nature,
I reckon they should throw in a few great whites if they want people walking down the corridor to have an experience
In other news the board of McDonalds collectively wet themselves with excitement at the though of the enormous expansion in drive thru's
When I took a look at the pictures of the previous years, I got really excited.
You obviously dont get out much
Looks like it should be pretty easy to DOS someone's receivers or at least confuse the crap out them with conflicting light sources. I suppose you could also point a laser at them and fry it totally.
Sounds like a cool technology clean, high performant, low infrastructure, does not slice limbs off or create two headed babies. This should make it a very attractive sell to commerce and to the public
I would have some security concerns though since it makes it a lot easier for those of malicious intent to intercept the signal as its basically being broadcast in the open. The technology would seem to lend itself naturally to strong encryption though.
I think they could be onto something big here.
Its not a question of trying to emulate the previous achievenments of NASA. The European attempt in particular is a test bed for new technology eg the ion thrusters. 4 decades is a very very long time in technology years. Its now time to test the new stuff before deploying it on serious missions.
and obviously I meant to say copyright. Damn this lack of sleep.
Can some explain why a patent is required for this. Since it will only ever exist as an image on a computer screen it seems more like art to me and would seem more appropriate under copywrite laws. The IANAL disclaimer applies big time here.
I suppose it gives a new meaning to building pages on the fly...
Whats brought on this sudden massive increase in cheese demand for the Chinese that they feel the need to mine the moon?
From the article I got the impression that they are going to merge their SUN ONE stack with Solaris and bundle the whole package as the 'OS'. This idea has been touted previously and greeted with some scepticism as a feeble attempt by SUN to 'win' application server market share from the big boys and drawn comparrison to the usual Redmond type ploys.
Mad Hatter would seem to reinforce this as an attempt to retain workstation market share rather than an attempt to compete directly with MS on the average desktop by delivering the whole sun development package at a stroke. Its a risky strategy though. Existing manufactures like Dell and HP will murder them on hardware pricing and with a bunch of Linus distros to choose from what makes the Sun one a compelling sell ?
Theres no way thats the fastest computer in the world. I dont see any photos of it running Quake. Afaid to show the world their FPS on a real benchmark are they ?
Pop stars learn to live with pirates
The sooner we can get some of our 'pop stars' off shore onto pirate ships the better. May I reccomend the vicinity around Bermuda as a suitable anchorage.
If we find life next door to us then given the vastness of the universe the probability of life, perhaps even sentient life increases (ignoring the fact that its likely we contaminated mars or vise versa). It would be a huge shot in the arm for continuing space explortion.
Chopra said the ballistic electrons lead to clearer binary signals -- at least in part. However, "we don't fully understand how the signal is enhanced to such very large degrees," he said. "The existing theories don't yet explain it. There are some things here no one quite understands. That means there's a lot of science to be discovered yet."
Look like the Continuum are winding the IBM engineers up this week.
I dont agree with these reasons. Why should peple have to rewrite their security implementations just because SUN came up with a new, unnecessry markup. One of the beauties of XML is so many different language bindings exist. If the various aspects of my security use XML to communicate then I can write them in just about any language I please.
Secondly what do people feel about having a system like this in the public domain? I am not an advocate of security through obscurity but with this system the bad guys will have a very good understanding of how the whole system works. Should an implemenatation be exposed then multiple systems become vunerable.
What exactly is the need for this 'new' language. I get the impression that really this system just defines some interfaces and uses XML to allow various aspects of the implementation to communicate. Not exactly rocket science and certainly not worthy of a new language IMHO. What exactly does it do that XML and some well defined schemas cant?
Its some what strange that given the recent 'commitment' from SUN to clean up the J2EE API's they want to foist this on us as I assume the enterprise is where it will see most usage.Is this sone sort of bastard child from the slightly less than successful Liberty project?