Is this perhaps a Pascal's Wager in reverse kind of thing? If the cost to send out a near infinite quantity of spam is near zero, then the companies arent losing anything TANGIBLE by doing it. (user opinion is not tangible) All it takes is one person that wants a titanium watch or a penis enlargement to make it worth sending out 5 million emails. Lots of spammers dont use their own bandwidth, use open relay mail servers, and pay NOTHING.
What are your perceptions of the Cyc project by Cycorp and Doug Lenat. Do you feel that hard coded common sense is needed for useful Artificial Intelligence or not?
Has it occured to you that the southern hemisphere consists almost entirely of southern africa, south america, australia, indonesia and a couple islands? It's not saying all that much to have the fastest computer, Were probabally talking about a population half that of the USA, and most of it is the "developing world."
Ok, while I think its obvious that movie makers and gamers have WAY different needs, the technology is approaching a point where a single programmable GPU will be capable of handling what software and big number crunching provide now. The big question is, when desktop video processing gets to the point where it can do movies in real time, where will the movie production tools be? They move almost as fast as gaming cards.
I read salon because they pick up on some interesting news items, and find some cool stuff, but 90% of their content is whiny women bitching about pop culture or political economic retrospectives. That or fad bashing (FOUR stories up right now about martha stewart) Its a shame that they couldnt diversify their audience, the 20 something liberals are getting jobs and becoming 30 something conservatives.
Sprint and Cingular are actually putting GPS recievers IN the phones, while verizon and others are doing the triangulation thing. The triangulation is really only useful in remote areas. Multipath and timing errors severly limit its usefulness. GPS on the other hand only works outside.
the truth of the matter is that you have EXACTLY as much privacy as you want. The popular science article made a lot of assumptions. If you're that paranoid,
1) Dont use ATMS 2) work where there isn't tight security 3) dont write personal email or send IMs from work 4) keep your files where they belong 5) go to a doctor that does not share medical information 6) dont use a discount card 7)Dont let them scan your license 8)Dont use an I-pass or a GPS. 9)For god sakes dont use a cell phone.
People selling your information are not people that you cant live without. (the medical community being a notable exception) You dont have to move to Montana or become a recluse to maintain your privacy. We sometimes assume that these things are needed to maintain a life, but they are not. A combination of lifestyle and policy can keep you out of the system.
I do an analysis every once in a while of the costs associated with building and buying pcs. What I have found consistantly is that cost savings when building a computer come in three forms. 1) Re-using old hardware 2) buying older, cheaper, or used components and 3) Re-using / Stealing software / OS.
The point is that if you want a fast new computer, and you arent interested in doing continual upgrades, you are better off calling Dell or someone. The cost savings of a beige box can be VERY significant if you plan to continually upgrade instead of buying new every 3 or so years. (national average) Re-using old components is where you will do the best. Cases, Monitors, Cables, Speakers, and drives are expensive and dont change all that much.
Your search results are undeniably the best available commercially on the web, but what thinking has been given to graphical information visualization? Some new search engines are trying out presenting results topologically. While these may not be very useful, there may be potential. What has google done technologically in this area if anything? Are there any plans to explore this avenue?
While I think we all understand that you wont make major service announcements here, but what role do you think Location Based Services, (GPS) Telematics, and Wireless technology will play in Google's future? What major technological hurdles do you forsee? What privacy issues need to be resolved technologically vs politically?
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Is this perhaps a Pascal's Wager in reverse kind of thing? If the cost to send out a near infinite quantity of spam is near zero, then the companies arent losing anything TANGIBLE by doing it. (user opinion is not tangible) All it takes is one person that wants a titanium watch or a penis enlargement to make it worth sending out 5 million emails. Lots of spammers dont use their own bandwidth, use open relay mail servers, and pay NOTHING.
What are your perceptions of the Cyc project by Cycorp and Doug Lenat. Do you feel that hard coded common sense is needed for useful Artificial Intelligence or not?
Has it occured to you that the southern hemisphere consists almost entirely of southern africa, south america, australia, indonesia and a couple islands? It's not saying all that much to have the fastest computer, Were probabally talking about a population half that of the USA, and most of it is the "developing world."
Ok, while I think its obvious that movie makers and gamers have WAY different needs, the technology is approaching a point where a single programmable GPU will be capable of handling what software and big number crunching provide now. The big question is, when desktop video processing gets to the point where it can do movies in real time, where will the movie production tools be? They move almost as fast as gaming cards.
I read salon because they pick up on some interesting news items, and find some cool stuff, but 90% of their content is whiny women bitching about pop culture or political economic retrospectives. That or fad bashing (FOUR stories up right now about martha stewart) Its a shame that they couldnt diversify their audience, the 20 something liberals are getting jobs and becoming 30 something conservatives.
Sprint and Cingular are actually putting GPS recievers IN the phones, while verizon and others are doing the triangulation thing. The triangulation is really only useful in remote areas. Multipath and timing errors severly limit its usefulness. GPS on the other hand only works outside.
the truth of the matter is that you have EXACTLY as much privacy as you want. The popular science article made a lot of assumptions. If you're that paranoid,
1) Dont use ATMS
2) work where there isn't tight security
3) dont write personal email or send IMs from work
4) keep your files where they belong
5) go to a doctor that does not share medical information
6) dont use a discount card
7)Dont let them scan your license
8)Dont use an I-pass or a GPS.
9)For god sakes dont use a cell phone.
People selling your information are not people that you cant live without. (the medical community being a notable exception) You dont have to move to Montana or become a recluse to maintain your privacy. We sometimes assume that these things are needed to maintain a life, but they are not. A combination of lifestyle and policy can keep you out of the system.
I do an analysis every once in a while of the costs associated with building and buying pcs. What I have found consistantly is that cost savings when building a computer come in three forms.
1) Re-using old hardware
2) buying older, cheaper, or used components and
3) Re-using / Stealing software / OS.
The point is that if you want a fast new computer, and you arent interested in doing continual upgrades, you are better off calling Dell or someone. The cost savings of a beige box can be VERY significant if you plan to continually upgrade instead of buying new every 3 or so years. (national average) Re-using old components is where you will do the best. Cases, Monitors, Cables, Speakers, and drives are expensive and dont change all that much.
Your search results are undeniably the best available commercially on the web, but what thinking has been given to graphical information visualization? Some new search engines are trying out presenting results topologically. While these may not be very useful, there may be potential. What has google done technologically in this area if anything? Are there any plans to explore this avenue?
While I think we all understand that you wont make major service announcements here, but what role do you think Location Based Services, (GPS) Telematics, and Wireless technology will play in Google's future? What major technological hurdles do you forsee? What privacy issues need to be resolved technologically vs politically?