Because the speakers are small, they do not do bass frequencies
They can if they act as a phased array...
bounced sound sounds bad, and not all rooms have walls suitable for bouncing sound
My Bose Acoustimass sounds pretty darn good bouncing sound around this living room - that's how it's supposed to work.
This technology will fail
Probably, but more due to the inevitable cost of having 254 computer controlled speakers than any aesthetic or technical reason. If it didn't cost $40K, I'd want one.
When myself or my 8 year old cousin (who teaches his Mom how to use the computer) are in a senate office or a courtroom as judge, the media companies won't fair so well.
The trouble is, it's not likely to be you or your 8yr old cousin in the Senate or the judges office - it's likely to be the same sort of venal bastards as are there now. Unless you radicalise your peers who are going into the law or politics, and impress on them the need to protect fair use, to take a balanced view of IP rights, etc. etc., they'll blithely take the **AA dollar and sing their tune. Remember, there are very few Jeffersons and Lincolns around these days, and if they were, they'd be unlikely to put up with all the shit involved in getting into office.
Still, at least you haven't got idiots of Tony Blair's calibre in charge - Dubya's at least got the excuse of moderate intellect to justify his actions...
Surely Dr Ogawa, the winner of the other Japan prize awarded this year, is just as worthy of mention.
It is his work that allows real-time monitoring of brain function using MRI - allowing researchers to map the brain according to function much more easily than ever before.
Personally, although I think fractals are 'cool', medical imaging is IMNSHO much more valuable and interesting - big up to Dr Ogawa!
If you read the page, then follow the link to the (ISC)2 website www.isc2.org, and click on the "Click Here for More Alerts" link at the bottom, you'll see that the person the grand jury is probably looking into has also sent emails containing what would probably count as "hate crime" in most jurisdictions.
That still doesn't justify subpeonaing the logfiles, though;-)
I'd rather employ a History or English graduate with some programming experience than a CS graduate.
Why?
Because there's more to life than knowing how a processor works, that's why.
In the real world, software has to interact with people, and CS grads just don't cut it.
CS is only useful for OS programming and numerical stuff - the rest of the world couldn't give a stuff, so long as they get a sub-second response.
Spot on - we have a guy who works for us who could never write a whole app to save his life, but he prototypes all the UI stuff for me in VB, and I then write the final program in Java.
Unreadable at best, and full of technical errors - who needs Gibson?
I've never yet read a book of the 'cyberpunk' genre that was entertaining, not full of misunderstood ideas about hacking and networks, or even well written.
Novelists should stick to novels, and leave tech stuff well alone.
I was going to post this anonymously, but fuck it, I'm not bothered.
Now that we have the Internet, you overpaid Yankee saps are going to have to accept that there are people as bright as (or brighter than) you who can do programming jobs a lot cheaper.
Sorry, but that's the way of the world.
If you made hay while the sun shone, all well and good, but you're going to get screwed by the Indians (and the Chinese, Koreans, et al) for the forseeable future.
Until you can find a way to make your lardy arses and expensive lifestyles make a real competitive difference (e.g. by voting for protectionists), you are all screwed.
Do I give a shit?
No - because I can do the hands-on work that will always be needed - designing and building networks, fixing problems, etc. that will always need local labour.
Take a break, guys - reskill in problem solving and network skills - who's going to come from India to sort that stubborn switch port that won't behave, or put the protocol analyser on the network and actually think about the problem?
If you're a shit hot programmer, you'll be OK, but for the rest of you guys that know as little (or less) than me - sayonara, chaps - see you down the dole queues.
the AI project in question was intended to provide a 'thinking machine' to enable Dubya to understand foreign policy and to comment intelligibly and intelligently thereupon.
It stands to reason that they didn't want no darned furriners messin up the works...
If having violent bits in your religious texts, smiting unbelievers, etc. etc. is a reason to be discriminated against, then only Bhuddists and Confucianists should ever be allowed to work on government projects.
did I read in all the legal bullshit that all the FBI uses for verification is a CRC sum?
It's easy to defeat CRC - just add empty space to the end of each file until you get the result you want. SHA-1 or MD-5 is safe(ish), but a straight CRC is too easy to forge.
I wouddn't trust these disk copies with a bargegepole.
Even if you did, it takes a couple of seconds per email to manually spot and delete the spam, so what's the big deal?
It's not like junk faxes, where the bastids use your paper - or like junk mail, where you have to dispose of the crap sent to you physically.
It's not that important - it's just something for the anally retentive to whinge about.
Personally, I'd rather not be bothered by any of it, but until they make unsolicited telephone cold calling illegal (soon, please!!!), email spam is far less time consuming and a whole lot less irritating.
I've written a couple of simple ISAPI DLLs to return data from various sources, and seriously considered using them when I had a full application to write, but couldn't reconcile the fivefold loss in productivity over using servlets, nor the unfeasibility of maintaining 7-8 times as much code.
That may be why C/C++ doesn't get used quite so often in web apps...
I remember repatching certain financial outfit in Salford Quays a couple of years ago - luckily it was part of a major switch upgrade, but it still took several nights of work to reroute around 500 patch cables, after at least a days planning.
Still, with a portable CD, some loud speakers and a couple of Thin Lizzy CDs....
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They can if they act as a phased array...
bounced sound sounds bad, and not all rooms have walls suitable for bouncing sound
My Bose Acoustimass sounds pretty darn good bouncing sound around this living room - that's how it's supposed to work.
This technology will fail
Probably, but more due to the inevitable cost of having 254 computer controlled speakers than any aesthetic or technical reason. If it didn't cost $40K, I'd want one.
You don't put milk in Earl Grey tea.
Unless you're a colonial pleb... never mind.
Who do you despise more - the idiot who acts like an idiot, or the intelligent person who acts like an idiot?
The trouble is, it's not likely to be you or your 8yr old cousin in the Senate or the judges office - it's likely to be the same sort of venal bastards as are there now.
Unless you radicalise your peers who are going into the law or politics, and impress on them the need to protect fair use, to take a balanced view of IP rights, etc. etc., they'll blithely take the **AA dollar and sing their tune.
Remember, there are very few Jeffersons and Lincolns around these days, and if they were, they'd be unlikely to put up with all the shit involved in getting into office.
Still, at least you haven't got idiots of Tony Blair's calibre in charge - Dubya's at least got the excuse of moderate intellect to justify his actions...
err...
Thought of putting the access point next to receiver upstairs, with a wireless card in PC downstairs?
Might work...
Surely Dr Ogawa, the winner of the other Japan prize awarded this year, is just as worthy of mention.
It is his work that allows real-time monitoring of brain function using MRI - allowing researchers to map the brain according to function much more easily than ever before.
Personally, although I think fractals are 'cool', medical imaging is IMNSHO much more valuable and interesting - big up to Dr Ogawa!
That still doesn't justify subpeonaing the logfiles, though ;-)
it tickled me, anyway. LOL
Why?
Because there's more to life than knowing how a processor works, that's why.
In the real world, software has to interact with people, and CS grads just don't cut it.
CS is only useful for OS programming and numerical stuff - the rest of the world couldn't give a stuff, so long as they get a sub-second response.
Haven't done any QB with Btrieve for almost 11 years!
It was a bastard to program (the Btrieve), but it was fast.
I loved those days - VB one minute, AutoLisp the next, QB/Btrieve the next...
I, on the other hand, am shitty at designing UIs.
Horses for courses, anyone?
Unreadable at best, and full of technical errors - who needs Gibson?
I've never yet read a book of the 'cyberpunk' genre that was entertaining, not full of misunderstood ideas about hacking and networks, or even well written.
Novelists should stick to novels, and leave tech stuff well alone.
I was going to post this anonymously, but fuck it, I'm not bothered.
Sorry, but that's the way of the world.
If you made hay while the sun shone, all well and good, but you're going to get screwed by the Indians (and the Chinese, Koreans, et al) for the forseeable future.
Until you can find a way to make your lardy arses and expensive lifestyles make a real competitive difference (e.g. by voting for protectionists), you are all screwed.
Do I give a shit?
No - because I can do the hands-on work that will always be needed - designing and building networks, fixing problems, etc. that will always need local labour.
Take a break, guys - reskill in problem solving and network skills - who's going to come from India to sort that stubborn switch port that won't behave, or put the protocol analyser on the network and actually think about the problem?
If you're a shit hot programmer, you'll be OK, but for the rest of you guys that know as little (or less) than me - sayonara, chaps - see you down the dole queues.
It stands to reason that they didn't want no darned furriners messin up the works...
If having violent bits in your religious texts, smiting unbelievers, etc. etc. is a reason to be discriminated against, then only Bhuddists and Confucianists should ever be allowed to work on government projects.
Get a life, asshole.
did I read in all the legal bullshit that all the FBI uses for verification is a CRC sum?
It's easy to defeat CRC - just add empty space to the end of each file until you get the result you want. SHA-1 or MD-5 is safe(ish), but a straight CRC is too easy to forge.
I wouddn't trust these disk copies with a bargegepole.
Funniest quote on /. in ages.
Try subcanitude - it's pleasingly Latin, unpretentious (hah!), and would also alliterate nicely with 'scrappy'.
Even if you did, it takes a couple of seconds per email to manually spot and delete the spam, so what's the big deal?
It's not like junk faxes, where the bastids use your paper - or like junk mail, where you have to dispose of the crap sent to you physically.
It's not that important - it's just something for the anally retentive to whinge about.
Personally, I'd rather not be bothered by any of it, but until they make unsolicited telephone cold calling illegal (soon, please!!!), email spam is far less time consuming and a whole lot less irritating.
You can't be a 'windows nerd' - it's an oxymoron....
er...
dere's around 100 cells per pixel, so you night get significantly more than 8 colours...
I've written a couple of simple ISAPI DLLs to return data from various sources, and seriously considered using them when I had a full application to write, but couldn't reconcile the fivefold loss in productivity over using servlets, nor the unfeasibility of maintaining 7-8 times as much code.
That may be why C/C++ doesn't get used quite so often in web apps...
Imagine your average IBM bean counter receiving that claim!
I remember repatching certain financial outfit in Salford Quays a couple of years ago - luckily it was part of a major switch upgrade, but it still took several nights of work to reroute around 500 patch cables, after at least a days planning.
Still, with a portable CD, some loud speakers and a couple of Thin Lizzy CDs....
oops! looked at a few hobby type sites - a 20W CO2 laser can be built for roughly £70. This site: a funky CO2 laser has some nice pix.