That's the problem with you damn Luddites and naysayers. I bet when they invented the wwww you said that all those wires would get crossed and when you ask for some pron you'd get Aunt Milly's Fudge brownie recipe instead.... Sure there are a few issues to sort out, for which there are some solutions and for others we can apply some Service Patches at a later date.
1)Corruption due to hitting planets, space debris and astronauts holding zero gravity chick-wrestling tournaments: There are two types of fix for this: ECC (error correction codes) and RAID (two lasers instead of one). Both are well proven and used by Google to locate your house and see you in your backyard hot tub.... and stop doing that!
2) Seek time: Sure, it might take a long time for space to curve back to planet earth, but long access is not necessarily such a bad thing. You just need to store it. If humankind is wiped out before the data returns, well that's just one more file that gets shredded at headquarters. And when the Feds come knocking, you just point to where the data is [up] and they bring in one of those super-hackers you see on TV shows who can bend physics and get to where the data is. Alternatively you can point to the trash compactor and tell the Fed investigator that it's a time machine that they can use to travel to where the data is. For a small fee paid up front, of course.
You might say that dumb actiities like walking around with your ipod or smoking etc should be personal choices. That is fine so long as society is not expected to pick up the tab when you screw up.
But society does pick up the tab through healthcare, insurance, etc. Responsibility and freedom are a two-way street. If you do walk with you ipod on, then you should also be personally responsible for resulting costs.
The storage requirements are easily achieved with Curved Space Storage (CSS) or the secure equivalent CSS/DES.
This storage method is based on the accoustical storage method that was proven over 50 years ago, now updated with more recent innovations to provide better bit density and bandwitdh. The way this works is that the digital stream is moduled onto a laser that is pointed upwards. As we all know, space is curved, so eventually the laser beam comes back to earth where it can be reread after a long trip through space. There's lots of space out there and it is free.
There will always be some sort of trade off between cost effectiveness of storage vs processing and cost effectiveness. There are no obvious winners, and the best solution will change as the memory vs micro prices change.
Many voice mail systems only use 32kbps sampling and achieve fine results for that purpose, and the algorithms are easy enough to render on a 8-bit micro costing 50c.
When it comes to medium quality sound then there are basically two routes you can take: 8 bit micro (or even some dumb logic)running less fancy algorithms and a bit more flash/rom to store more verbose sound data; or more compressed sound and a flashier micro to run a heavier algorithm. You can now get 32-bit ARM micros for less than $1 making the second option reasonably feasible at low cost.
However flash is very cheap. NAND flash only costs approx 2c per MB (for multi-MB chips, so small chips are going to cost more per MB). You can fit a lot of "mama" phrases in a couple of MB. As a result you don't want to spend too much money on micros to save on flash.
I was going to say that MS will support this the same way one of those Kama Sutra players support their partner during rather vigorous sex in a less stable psotion. Adding a man in the middle spoils that image somewhat.
Quite correct. What picks winners from losers in general? Often it is more about timing and other issues than anything else. Quite often aspects of a "loser" project are the seeds of a "winner" project.
Real kids will also want to see the hardware + the broadband connection. They want to sit in their rooms and play games, pr0n etc. Not hang out in uncool internet cafe's.
The real problem with warrantless tracking is that ist opens up a whole new field of investigation via data mining etc. Getting a good feed of GPS positions, cell phone locations, whatever and it soon becomes a data mining exercise to determine who was where when. Add some bullshit stats ("it's a million to one chance that...")and suddenly we see people being declared guilty with very little extra evidence.
This sort of conviction has already started with DNA, except now we see things being opened up to include non-physical evidence too.
Parent is completely right. Once again stupid headline writers fuck up.
Hardness, toughness, stiffness are all different. Gimme a $2 claw hammer and your wife etc's $2000 diamond ring and I'll soon show you which is tougher.
where they make the most money. The moms and pops are not as big a revenue source and are a pain in the ass (low profits per sale)!
MS's biggest problem is to try justify all the effort that goes into making something "new" that is not perceived to be new by most people looking at it from the outside. There must be a lot of investors/share holders asking why MS spent $5bn or whatever developing Vista when XP seems healthy enough.
Corporate funding often stitches up IP rights before the IP is even developed. Now universities often need to keep stuff sectret until patents etc are in place.
On top of that, there's saying the right things so as to attract and not offend investors^h^h^h^h^h^hfunding: "We'd better not publish xxx because TwinkleCorp, our benefactors, would not like it", "We'd better not hire/promote Joe Sixpaxi because he is outpoken against TwinkleCorp".
Instead of being free thinking research establishments where ideas are formed and shared, universities are now becoming self-censoring commercial enterprises. This really changes the nature of what a university is.
Modern Art has calmed down a bit, but back in the 1990s, and at other times, there was a rash of extreme modern art. People throw up in a fish tank and call it art, etc etc. When the "artist" does not get paid $100k for his bucket of sick, he complains that nobody appreciates truely innovative art and that they're stuck in caves of preconception.
Perhaps the same is happening in the games industry.
Art, and games, are after all in the eye of the beholder. Many people do like art that conforms to certain recipes and certain types of art have mass appeal and sell well (nudes, landscapes, flowers and stuff), and there are certain game types that people tend to enjoy (FPS etc). Don't bitch if people don't all appreciate yourr bucket of sick game.
If it is much more than a phone, then you want a reasonable screen etc. Once you start messing with hard drives, the whole usage scenario changes and you need to start thinking of charging the puppy every night.
svn is an example that supports my statements. svn is successful and it is not "anybody edits". If you wish to contribute to svn, you either have to become a committer or you send in patches which get vetted and applied by the patch manager (read svn's website for details on the process). Joe Sixpack can't just jump in and modify svn code, like you can do with Wikipedia content.
Thus, drawing parallels between Wikipedia content and OS projects is misguided. Perhaps if Wikipedia pages were controlled by "patch managers" you would not get some of the errors and shit-wars that you do get, but then content would get generated more slowly too.
I am not at all saying "Wikipedia is broken". Wikipedia deals with human knowledge/opinions etc which is often very subjective and is more toleratant of errors etc. What I am saying is that Wikipedia content and OSS projects have different needs aand use very different mechanisms to interact with the community and that it is wrong to say that they are similar.
True. On punch cards I twice had programs run first time with no compilation or runtime errors. With no debuggers etc, you had to use the grey stuff a lot more.
I did approx half of my CS degree with punch cards. Luckily in those days code density seemed to be higher. I did a compiler on less than 2000 cards. Perhaps the media forced people to be frugal. Tripping and dropping a box of 2000 cards, then having to put them all back in order is an ordeal that the modern CS student does not have to face. At least you could spot the geeks... they carried a punch card box and a slide rule.
I well remember moving to 8 inch, then 5.25 inch floppies. My wife made me a few shirts with extra big pockets which could take a couple of 5.25s.
This paints a picture of most open source projects being run like Wikipedia is, in an "anyone can edit" mode. What crap.
I know of no successful open source software projects run that way. On all the successful open source projects only few are granted write access to cvs/svn and most open source projects are run by one or two very opinionated people who do not accomodate others on a whim. In most cases, people finding a problem submit a patch and onte of the trusted few will apply it. In many cases, the patch will not be applied directly, but will be rewritten to achieve the desired effect better.
Sure people can take all the code and fork the project, but that is very different to having control over the document. You very seldom get wikipeia-style edit wars in OSS code bases because "the boss" does not tolerate it. Abuse the privaledge of write access and you lose it.
To draw a parallels between Wikipedia (which is uncontrolled) and Open Source (which is controlled) just does Open Source a disservice. There's enough anti-Open Source FUD out there and we don't need people thinking that any dummy with a chip on their shoulder can modifyt open source.
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1)Corruption due to hitting planets, space debris and astronauts holding zero gravity chick-wrestling tournaments: There are two types of fix for this: ECC (error correction codes) and RAID (two lasers instead of one). Both are well proven and used by Google to locate your house and see you in your backyard hot tub.... and stop doing that!
2) Seek time: Sure, it might take a long time for space to curve back to planet earth, but long access is not necessarily such a bad thing. You just need to store it. If humankind is wiped out before the data returns, well that's just one more file that gets shredded at headquarters. And when the Feds come knocking, you just point to where the data is [up] and they bring in one of those super-hackers you see on TV shows who can bend physics and get to where the data is. Alternatively you can point to the trash compactor and tell the Fed investigator that it's a time machine that they can use to travel to where the data is. For a small fee paid up front, of course.
But society does pick up the tab through healthcare, insurance, etc. Responsibility and freedom are a two-way street. If you do walk with you ipod on, then you should also be personally responsible for resulting costs.
This storage method is based on the accoustical storage method that was proven over 50 years ago, now updated with more recent innovations to provide better bit density and bandwitdh. The way this works is that the digital stream is moduled onto a laser that is pointed upwards. As we all know, space is curved, so eventually the laser beam comes back to earth where it can be reread after a long trip through space. There's lots of space out there and it is free.
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Many voice mail systems only use 32kbps sampling and achieve fine results for that purpose, and the algorithms are easy enough to render on a 8-bit micro costing 50c.
When it comes to medium quality sound then there are basically two routes you can take: 8 bit micro (or even some dumb logic)running less fancy algorithms and a bit more flash/rom to store more verbose sound data; or more compressed sound and a flashier micro to run a heavier algorithm. You can now get 32-bit ARM micros for less than $1 making the second option reasonably feasible at low cost.
However flash is very cheap. NAND flash only costs approx 2c per MB (for multi-MB chips, so small chips are going to cost more per MB). You can fit a lot of "mama" phrases in a couple of MB. As a result you don't want to spend too much money on micros to save on flash.
I was going to say that MS will support this the same way one of those Kama Sutra players support their partner during rather vigorous sex in a less stable psotion. Adding a man in the middle spoils that image somewhat.
Weightless bitch-fighting.... hand me the beer and peanuts! Send 8 of 'em to space and they could make it into a survivor-style reality TV series.
Sure, this shows that you can fool a user tothink they're using a valid machine, but it does not get at the transaction.
Quite correct. What picks winners from losers in general? Often it is more about timing and other issues than anything else. Quite often aspects of a "loser" project are the seeds of a "winner" project.
Real kids will also want to see the hardware + the broadband connection. They want to sit in their rooms and play games, pr0n etc. Not hang out in uncool internet cafe's.
This sort of conviction has already started with DNA, except now we see things being opened up to include non-physical evidence too.
It was /. culture to not RTFA, it is now time for a new /. culture: don't RTF summary!
Hardness, toughness, stiffness are all different. Gimme a $2 claw hammer and your wife etc's $2000 diamond ring and I'll soon show you which is tougher.
MS's biggest problem is to try justify all the effort that goes into making something "new" that is not perceived to be new by most people looking at it from the outside. There must be a lot of investors/share holders asking why MS spent $5bn or whatever developing Vista when XP seems healthy enough.
On top of that, there's saying the right things so as to attract and not offend investors^h^h^h^h^h^hfunding: "We'd better not publish xxx because TwinkleCorp, our benefactors, would not like it", "We'd better not hire/promote Joe Sixpaxi because he is outpoken against TwinkleCorp".
Instead of being free thinking research establishments where ideas are formed and shared, universities are now becoming self-censoring commercial enterprises. This really changes the nature of what a university is.
Perhaps the same is happening in the games industry.
Art, and games, are after all in the eye of the beholder. Many people do like art that conforms to certain recipes and certain types of art have mass appeal and sell well (nudes, landscapes, flowers and stuff), and there are certain game types that people tend to enjoy (FPS etc). Don't bitch if people don't all appreciate yourr bucket of sick game.
to get the hell away from the problem. If they bottle it up causing a worse problem in 5 or 10 years, they won't care.
To me it looks more like she's lost her contact lenses than is stoned.
If it is much more than a phone, then you want a reasonable screen etc. Once you start messing with hard drives, the whole usage scenario changes and you need to start thinking of charging the puppy every night.
BCE WTF?? At least Y2K is both culturally OK and well understood. I vote for BY2K.
Thus, drawing parallels between Wikipedia content and OS projects is misguided. Perhaps if Wikipedia pages were controlled by "patch managers" you would not get some of the errors and shit-wars that you do get, but then content would get generated more slowly too.
I am not at all saying "Wikipedia is broken". Wikipedia deals with human knowledge/opinions etc which is often very subjective and is more toleratant of errors etc. What I am saying is that Wikipedia content and OSS projects have different needs aand use very different mechanisms to interact with the community and that it is wrong to say that they are similar.
Would anyone notice? Random pictures of cosmic gas and dust sure all look pretty similar after a while.
True. On punch cards I twice had programs run first time with no compilation or runtime errors. With no debuggers etc, you had to use the grey stuff a lot more.
I well remember moving to 8 inch, then 5.25 inch floppies. My wife made me a few shirts with extra big pockets which could take a couple of 5.25s.
Even with all these fond memories, I prefer CD.
I know of no successful open source software projects run that way. On all the successful open source projects only few are granted write access to cvs/svn and most open source projects are run by one or two very opinionated people who do not accomodate others on a whim. In most cases, people finding a problem submit a patch and onte of the trusted few will apply it. In many cases, the patch will not be applied directly, but will be rewritten to achieve the desired effect better.
Sure people can take all the code and fork the project, but that is very different to having control over the document. You very seldom get wikipeia-style edit wars in OSS code bases because "the boss" does not tolerate it. Abuse the privaledge of write access and you lose it.
To draw a parallels between Wikipedia (which is uncontrolled) and Open Source (which is controlled) just does Open Source a disservice. There's enough anti-Open Source FUD out there and we don't need people thinking that any dummy with a chip on their shoulder can modifyt open source.