I'm pretty sure the typical AOL dialup connection is getting 10,000 characters per second on a GOOD day. Granted, the UNIVAC wasn't using a modem, but it also wasn't trying to send the latest borders to go around the same ol' content.
This makes me respect Windows-crashing apps a little more (or less, depending on how you look at it),in that people can crash Windows w/o benefit of the source code! It's really amazing.
Just like in Harry Potter 3, you can make a mischief map showing everyone's location with this, assuming you could get a team of wireless P2P wardrivers. They'd all just beam GPS and license info around on whomever is nearby, and then voila! You could steal City Hall.
When people ask you what genius is, show them the world before this, then show them this. Tools like this are the future of computer science,IMHO. I hope to be the artist that draws the little people/artwork/etc. for everyone's "software", rather than hand-writing programs forever.
If we accept everything as art on the internet, that's fine, because one could view the internet as one large gallery. However, if I experiment with that tool, I can make works that look interesting, while a random number generator will have a harder time. Why? It's because I'm a person, and I have a sense of aesthetics. We all do. There's no reason to level the playing field to the point where everything is at the same technical level. However, I will concede that technical ability has little to do with creating a successful abstract work. However, a lack of technique has to be compensated in some other way (i.e. creative use of materials, genius idea, etc), or else the work will be lost in a sea of similar works. It is for this reason that the farther back we look, the more we tend to only see the "masters" of a genre -- all the other works that were similar to each other were lost or ignored, but the works that had an edge or stood out were protected and preserved. The farther back you go, the more impressive the works become. But people make the decisions to preserve or pitch it. So we are looking back at our collective sense of aesthetics. We see the best works by counterexample -- the ones that weren't that good were lost. Of course, now and then we find a Rembrandt in an attic, but think of it this way: how often are other works found in attics? Quite. Do we care? Not necessarily. We care because Rembrandt was a superstar even while he was alive; his works have a great edge AND great technique. Plus, most WERE preserved in private collections and museums.
Lest anyone think that is good abstract art, come take a look at my site. I computer-generate 3d abstracts. Also, I paint, draw and sculpt, and have been doing so since my youth. Now I have a degree in Fine Art, but still, you should be careful to just patently state that what you are doing is "pretty", because that is a relative term. What does it mean? What is the purpose? To attempt to generate an interesting composition, right? So why not generate it, decide it's interesting, and then show us that one? Why do we all have to sit through 999 bad ones to get to one good one?
I'll believe it when the memory futures market nose-dives. If I go to Micro Center, and regular RAM chip prices are down 20% or more across the board, then nanotube memory is DEFINITELY coming to market like, soon.
No, I'm not using the 80's translation server, I really do talk like this... sorry, I lived in the valley in the 80's (when I was little) and it totally warped my speech.
Why not just use a desk or pants? Seriously, though, my laptop (older IBM) gets hot enough to fry an egg, so I'm considering using it for that. I bet it uses less electricity to generate the heat than my stove, so why not plug it in, turn it upside down and cook with it?
My favorite MacGyver episodes were the ones where he used fingerprinting dust to read the numbers on a keypad. Of course, anyone using the keypad for a password is only going to press the keys involved in the password.
The most dangerous thing to security is people. Why go routing around on a hard drive when you can just ask someone what the password is, and they'll probably tell you anyways?
If people can send messages, there will be advertising. And believe me, a few months of no earnings compared with the ones that DO have commercial use will have them thinking about that vitamuscle or what have you as a sponsored "special friend".
All of these services are just an excuse to gather a huge number of e-mail addresses and connections between people, and then to use that network to market stuff. If there were a service that banned marketing and advertising messages, maybe it would be worth doing. As it is, it almost acts like the "in-crowd", where if you buy what they want, magically you're the most popular. However, so what if people want to meet people online? How is that worse than in an establishment serving alcohol, where everyone's not themselves anyhow?
This isn't really a story, since as the summary states, they still have 6 months. This shouldn't have been run until then! What if something comes up in the mean time?
If you have a Ph. D and you're working at Google, you've got a great job. Ph. D jobs are worth the work for the degree, believe me. However, don't think you'll just be able to glide into getting that degree like you can with a BS... because professors will not just let you out! A Ph.D is designed to figure out which people actually can be creative and think of new stuff, and to keep out the "Ivan make basket" (you need communications skills) or "i learned it in 24 hours, and I think I'm a god now" (how many patents do you have? I thought so) folks.
I always thought that Santorini and its adjacent islands were "Atlantis": it was one big island,but it went pompeii and thus you get a big ring of smaller islands. They have excavated and found ancient stuff, of course, etc. Same with Crete. How far do you think the story of Atlantis travelled geographically?
I want to be able to get 99 cents off of the price if I don't want the song. That's the disturbing thing here... McDonald's is NOT paying 99 cents per song, so why should we have to???
Can't I just use a cooler full of pringles cans hooked up in parallel / serial (damnit Jim, I'm an artist, not an EE) to get some kinda sick signal range? Kinda like in the Simpsons, where Bart connects all the megaphones together?
Is this the one with Will Smith, and is Will Smith computer generated? If so, that's a great achievement! I hope that the sound is better than the national weather service's Mac plus (i'm assuming) that reads those weather alerts on channel 26.
1. turn on apple II series box. 2. Press Ctrl+break (? it's been a looong time since I used one). 3. You're done. It takes under 2 seconds. Show me a "new" machine (see: desktop,server or notebook from the last 5 years) that actually boots that fast, please! (not just turns on the monitor)
If you're doing a studio project with 4 instruments including a nice drum set, and it's a live band, you can expect to have at least 16 tracks, meaning 16x5 minutes of audio, or 80 minutes for one take. Assume 4 takes, and that's 320 minutes of record time, or about 2800 megs, for one song. I would anticipate needing to have 8-10 songs on the drive, and then burn the rest off to DAT's for mastering some other time, so that figures to around 20 gb free. That's my experience from being in real (see: records artists you've heard of) production studios more than a few times.
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I love how shaders have taken a very hard step and made it into a much easier step. I can tell you about the days before shaders, and doing something like fur was just unthinkable. Now, thanks to Pixar, et al. you can practically make a whole character from a shader, and not ever have to make anything but spheres with cylinders sticking out of them. I am actually anxious to see what happens when any shader can be a real-time shader!
You still have to pay sun some bucks to get a Sunfire 15k, I don't care how free it is. There will never be a day when a sunfire 15k will show up on my doorstep for free. NEVER. Perhaps I can access the *computing power* of the machine for free, given that I already have a software subscription. But again, I am paying for the hardware by paying for the software. Either way, someone gets paid. If a SF15k came free with some software, everyone would just get the software, then use the machine for other stuff.
They mean average users of WiFi were once a more elite group than they are currently. I'm sure there are many reasons: cheaper hardware, seemingly easier to setup, tons of advertising and hardware support on common platforms. Any idiot can "kind-of" make it work,but that last 10% really counts when it's enabling the firewall, etc.
This is the second "successful" handheld device I have seen cancelled recently -- I develop for handhelds, and we can't get the ones we've been getting (Thera) anymore. It should be no surprise that some shakedown of the myriad of devices out there would come to pass, but it does surprise me to see a company as large as Sony stop making anything.
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I'm pretty sure the typical AOL dialup connection is getting 10,000 characters per second on a GOOD day. Granted, the UNIVAC wasn't using a modem, but it also wasn't trying to send the latest borders to go around the same ol' content.
This makes me respect Windows-crashing apps a little more (or less, depending on how you look at it),in that people can crash Windows w/o benefit of the source code! It's really amazing.
He found that by using those pringles mini cans, he could get similar reception to that of a regular-sized pringles can.
He expects to get a 10x power boost from metal chewing gum wrappers, and 50x from a microwaved AOL CD!
Just like in Harry Potter 3, you can make a mischief map showing everyone's location with this, assuming you could get a team of wireless P2P wardrivers. They'd all just beam GPS and license info around on whomever is nearby, and then voila! You could steal City Hall.
When people ask you what genius is, show them the world before this, then show them this. Tools like this are the future of computer science,IMHO. I hope to be the artist that draws the little people/artwork/etc. for everyone's "software", rather than hand-writing programs forever.
To make an analogy, someone has to know how to add in case the power on all the calculators goes out.
If we accept everything as art on the internet, that's fine, because one could view the internet as one large gallery. However, if I experiment with that tool, I can make works that look interesting, while a random number generator will have a harder time. Why?
It's because I'm a person, and I have a sense of aesthetics. We all do. There's no reason to level the playing field to the point where everything is at the same technical level. However, I will concede that technical ability has little to do with creating a successful abstract work. However, a lack of technique has to be compensated in some other way (i.e. creative use of materials, genius idea, etc), or else the work will be lost in a sea of similar works. It is for this reason that the farther back we look, the more we tend to only see the "masters" of a genre -- all the other works that were similar to each other were lost or ignored, but the works that had an edge or stood out were protected and preserved. The farther back you go, the more impressive the works become. But people make the decisions to preserve or pitch it. So we are looking back at our collective sense of aesthetics. We see the best works by counterexample -- the ones that weren't that good were lost. Of course, now and then we find a Rembrandt in an attic, but think of it this way: how often are other works found in attics? Quite. Do we care? Not necessarily. We care because Rembrandt was a superstar even while he was alive; his works have a great edge AND great technique. Plus, most WERE preserved in private collections and museums.
Lest anyone think that is good abstract art, come take a look at my site. I computer-generate 3d abstracts. Also, I paint, draw and sculpt, and have been doing so since my youth. Now I have a degree in Fine Art, but still, you should be careful to just patently state that what you are doing is "pretty", because that is a relative term. What does it mean? What is the purpose? To attempt to generate an interesting composition, right? So why not generate it, decide it's interesting, and then show us that one? Why do we all have to sit through 999 bad ones to get to one good one?
I'll believe it when the memory futures market nose-dives. If I go to Micro Center, and regular RAM chip prices are down 20% or more across the board, then nanotube memory is DEFINITELY coming to market like, soon.
No, I'm not using the 80's translation server, I really do talk like this... sorry, I lived in the valley in the 80's (when I was little) and it totally warped my speech.
Why not just use a desk or pants? Seriously, though, my laptop (older IBM) gets hot enough to fry an egg, so I'm considering using it for that. I bet it uses less electricity to generate the heat than my stove, so why not plug it in, turn it upside down and cook with it?
My favorite MacGyver episodes were the ones where he used fingerprinting dust to read the numbers on a keypad. Of course, anyone using the keypad for a password is only going to press the keys involved in the password.
The most dangerous thing to security is people. Why go routing around on a hard drive when you can just ask someone what the password is, and they'll probably tell you anyways?
If people can send messages, there will be advertising. And believe me, a few months of no earnings compared with the ones that DO have commercial use will have them thinking about that vitamuscle or what have you as a sponsored "special friend".
All of these services are just an excuse to gather a huge number of e-mail addresses and connections between people, and then to use that network to market stuff. If there were a service that banned marketing and advertising messages, maybe it would be worth doing. As it is, it almost acts like the "in-crowd", where if you buy what they want, magically you're the most popular. However, so what if people want to meet people online? How is that worse than in an establishment serving alcohol, where everyone's not themselves anyhow?
This isn't really a story, since as the summary states, they still have 6 months. This shouldn't have been run until then! What if something comes up in the mean time?
If you have a Ph. D and you're working at Google, you've got a great job. Ph. D jobs are worth the work for the degree, believe me. However, don't think you'll just be able to glide into getting that degree like you can with a BS... because professors will not just let you out! A Ph.D is designed to figure out which people actually can be creative and think of new stuff, and to keep out the "Ivan make basket" (you need communications skills) or "i learned it in 24 hours, and I think I'm a god now" (how many patents do you have? I thought so) folks.
I always thought that Santorini and its adjacent islands were "Atlantis": it was one big island,but it went pompeii and thus you get a big ring of smaller islands. They have excavated and found ancient stuff, of course, etc. Same with Crete. How far do you think the story of Atlantis travelled geographically?
I want to be able to get 99 cents off of the price if I don't want the song. That's the disturbing thing here... McDonald's is NOT paying 99 cents per song, so why should we have to???
Can't I just use a cooler full of pringles cans hooked up in parallel / serial (damnit Jim, I'm an artist, not an EE) to get some kinda sick signal range? Kinda like in the Simpsons, where Bart connects all the megaphones together?
Is this the one with Will Smith, and is Will Smith computer generated? If so, that's a great achievement! I hope that the sound is better than the national weather service's Mac plus (i'm assuming) that reads those weather alerts on channel 26.
1. turn on apple II series box.
2. Press Ctrl+break (? it's been a looong time since I used one).
3. You're done.
It takes under 2 seconds. Show me a "new" machine (see: desktop,server or notebook from the last 5 years) that actually boots that fast, please! (not just turns on the monitor)
If you're doing a studio project with 4 instruments including a nice drum set, and it's a live band, you can expect to have at least 16 tracks, meaning 16x5 minutes of audio, or 80 minutes for one take. Assume 4 takes, and that's 320 minutes of record time, or about 2800 megs, for one song. I would anticipate needing to have 8-10 songs on the drive, and then burn the rest off to DAT's for mastering some other time, so that figures to around 20 gb free. That's my experience from being in real (see: records artists you've heard of) production studios more than a few times.
I love how shaders have taken a very hard step and made it into a much easier step. I can tell you about the days before shaders, and doing something like fur was just unthinkable. Now, thanks to Pixar, et al. you can practically make a whole character from a shader, and not ever have to make anything but spheres with cylinders sticking out of them. I am actually anxious to see what happens when any shader can be a real-time shader!
You still have to pay sun some bucks to get a Sunfire 15k, I don't care how free it is. There will never be a day when a sunfire 15k will show up on my doorstep for free. NEVER. Perhaps I can access the *computing power* of the machine for free, given that I already have a software subscription. But again, I am paying for the hardware by paying for the software. Either way, someone gets paid. If a SF15k came free with some software, everyone would just get the software, then use the machine for other stuff.
They mean average users of WiFi were once a more elite group than they are currently. I'm sure there are many reasons: cheaper hardware, seemingly easier to setup, tons of advertising and hardware support on common platforms. Any idiot can "kind-of" make it work,but that last 10% really counts when it's enabling the firewall, etc.
This is the second "successful" handheld device I have seen cancelled recently -- I develop for handhelds, and we can't get the ones we've been getting (Thera) anymore. It should be no surprise that some shakedown of the myriad of devices out there would come to pass, but it does surprise me to see a company as large as Sony stop making anything.