IPv6 won't take off until is supported by more commerical and leisure sites.
Just as the real internet didn't catch only until sites like Yahoo, Amazon, Lycos et.al appeared and made information more accessible, IPv6 won't become widely adopted until these sites upgrade their addresses and make themselves available to us early IPv6 adopters.
At the moment I am limited to a few educational sites and those IPv4 sites that are compatible with IPv6 to IPv4 proxies (slashdot, obviously, being amoung them)
They believe that they can subvert the democratic processes of their own and others' countries by writing a steganography program with a bizarre license.
This seems to be mainly aimed at governments which do a lot of things that are legal (both locally and internationally) but are perceived by some as being breaches of human rights.
The example in the article was privacy. Many governments, your's included probably, keep over-detailed records of their citizens. This license (unenforcable as it is, IMO) aims to stop those governments using this software.
Okay, so I tried a few (the intro from the story and a couple from an earlier poster's link).
I thought the demo scene was supposed to be about efficiency - doing amazing things in small space and with other limitations. It is depressing to see that decoding an audio stream and bouncing some characters around an 80x50 display can't be done with less than 100% processor.
A proper MP3 player can decode an MP3 stream with about 1-2% of avaialable cycles (on my 600MHz athlon) - I can't believe it takes the rest to calculate 80x50 at 50-odd fps.
There should be a catagory for algorithm efficiency - then I might vote.
It's actually impossible to make a perfect cube out of Lego. The ratios of lengths of the sides of the pieces are such that there is no integer multiples which are identical.
I've never found out whether this was deliberate on the part of Lego, or an accident.
Is P2P still alive? I gave up using it when Napster started collapsing under its own weight. This was before it got shutdown through the courts, of course.
As the number of nodes increased, searches took longer and longer until they just started timing out and failing altogether.
Until P2P developers solve these tricky problems, I don't see how P2P can resurrect itself.
3G's main market is downloading ringtones and backgrounds
This focus on non-core functionality is rampant throughout the technical industry. Take MP3 players for example; the main feature of MP3 players (winamp, Musicmatch etc.) nowadays in skinning.
Who cares what the music quality is, as long as I can make my player look like Tux it must be good.
There's so much crap out there, I don't understand why designers don't try to make their product stand out by actually working properly instead of looking pretty.
My new tablet computer (I got it 2 weeks ago) is so perfect it made me forget it is running XP and I simply haven't had time to try and get Linux running on it.
It suits my way of working so well that I can't think how I managed before. I don't do my main development on it, I still prefer typing to writing for that. But it allows me to do my email and do lots of design (both development and UI usability) while commuting to work on the train each day [yeah, I know I'll be criticised for being conned into working during personal time, but I'm not stupid - my productivity is higher so I go home early!].
Back to the internals... I'm sure when I upgrade, I will try and hack linux onto this thing [perhaps by then there will be video drivers!] but until then I don't want to break it.
Just because something is unsolicited doesn't mean the owner has abandoned their copyright and the work has entered the public domain.
There is plenty of precedent - billboards and posters and broadcast advertisments (radio and television) are all unsolicited yet few would deny that they are still copyrighted by their owners.
Why not take pictures of everyone on the street as well? After all they're all watching you; maybe not as overtly as the cameras but they do notice and they have longer memories than the cameras. The majority of crimes are solved, not by the police watching a grainy, out-of-focus security video but by interviewing witnesses.
If you're bothered about being watched, then don't go out. It isn't worth complaining about a few cameras, they're harmless.
Technical gifts are cool; that microscope on page 5 is exactly what I was looking for for my brother.
But they soon lose their charm, run out of batteries and end up polluting the environment with mercury, Lithium, Chlorine and other heavy metals.
SciAm should also promote more ethical gifts, such as adopting endangered animals, areas of threatened land and donations to trusts promoting research in to disease cure and treatment.
It's cliched, I know, but christmas is far too commercial but I hope simple things like this can reverse the trend
Andrei Markov himself used his models to filter text. Not e-mails obviously, but poetry.
He would both write and solicit poetry and he devised what are now know as markov models to assess poetry for aesthetic quality. Sounds like a silly idea now, but this was in the Victorian era when science and maths were blossoming. It was believed that everything could be measured and quantified; even philosophical qualities such as 'goodness' of poetry.
So,
step 1 : first search for rhyme and meter. step 2 : then search for spamlike characteristics.
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IPv6 won't take off until is supported by more commerical and leisure sites.
Just as the real internet didn't catch only until sites like Yahoo, Amazon, Lycos et.al appeared and made information more accessible, IPv6 won't become widely adopted until these sites upgrade their addresses and make themselves available to us early IPv6 adopters.
At the moment I am limited to a few educational sites and those IPv4 sites that are compatible with IPv6 to IPv4 proxies (slashdot, obviously, being amoung them)
The software authors'.
They believe that they can subvert the democratic processes of their own and others' countries by writing a steganography program with a bizarre license.
This seems to be mainly aimed at governments which do a lot of things that are legal (both locally and internationally) but are perceived by some as being breaches of human rights.
The example in the article was privacy. Many governments, your's included probably, keep over-detailed records of their citizens. This license (unenforcable as it is, IMO) aims to stop those governments using this software.
On the "Windows Media 700"(*) link there was an ad for tooth whitener before the trailer.
(*) and probably others, but not on the quicktime version.
All present and accounted for -- always. ...
Family, friends and co-workers will be able to instantly see where you are,
I think this will come much sooner and, by 2012, will be gone again once everyone realises how bloody awful it is.
I watched the trailer
But its a film about tooth whitening? Sounds boring to me.
Okay, so I tried a few (the intro from the story and a couple from an earlier poster's link).
I thought the demo scene was supposed to be about efficiency - doing amazing things in small space and with other limitations. It is depressing to see that decoding an audio stream and bouncing some characters around an 80x50 display can't be done with less than 100% processor.
A proper MP3 player can decode an MP3 stream with about 1-2% of avaialable cycles (on my 600MHz athlon) - I can't believe it takes the rest to calculate 80x50 at 50-odd fps.
There should be a catagory for algorithm efficiency - then I might vote.
Maximum file size is 1440000 bytes in a ZIP file
(approx 1.4 megs), and 3 (THREE) megs uncompressed.
Their intro demo is a 2.3Mb zip
x3270 is my office phone-number.
But Deep Space One had something Mars Polar Lander lacked: an onboard robot ... [which] devised a successful plan
Nonsense, of course, it was just programmed better.
Immobile robot == computer. Whoopdedoo.
I thought is was BSD that had been fully source-code audited.
Assuming the bank follows SOP, will it release the results of it audits to the world? And the bugfixes resulting from the audit?
It's actually impossible to make a perfect cube out of Lego. The ratios of lengths of the sides of the pieces are such that there is no integer multiples which are identical.
I've never found out whether this was deliberate on the part of Lego, or an accident.
Works for me - Mozilla build 2002053012 on XP.
Why would Apple make something IE specific anyway?
Sheep -> Sheep
Bonsai -> Bonsai
Species -> Species
Lego -> Lego
Why no mention of DNF? When it was cancelled earlier this year (early Sept?) it marked the death of one of the most awaited games of all time.
And Stephen King is dead.
Is P2P still alive? I gave up using it when Napster started collapsing under its own weight. This was before it got shutdown through the courts, of course.
As the number of nodes increased, searches took longer and longer until they just started timing out and failing altogether.
Until P2P developers solve these tricky problems, I don't see how P2P can resurrect itself.
3G's main market is downloading ringtones and backgrounds
This focus on non-core functionality is rampant throughout the technical industry. Take MP3 players for example; the main feature of MP3 players (winamp, Musicmatch etc.) nowadays in skinning.
Who cares what the music quality is, as long as I can make my player look like Tux it must be good.
There's so much crap out there, I don't understand why designers don't try to make their product stand out by actually working properly instead of looking pretty.
My new tablet computer (I got it 2 weeks ago) is so perfect it made me forget it is running XP and I simply haven't had time to try and get Linux running on it.
It suits my way of working so well that I can't think how I managed before. I don't do my main development on it, I still prefer typing to writing for that. But it allows me to do my email and do lots of design (both development and UI usability) while commuting to work on the train each day [yeah, I know I'll be criticised for being conned into working during personal time, but I'm not stupid - my productivity is higher so I go home early!].
Back to the internals
Just because something is unsolicited doesn't mean the owner has abandoned their copyright and the work has entered the public domain.
There is plenty of precedent - billboards and posters and broadcast advertisments (radio and television) are all unsolicited yet few would deny that they are still copyrighted by their owners.
Why not take pictures of everyone on the street as well? After all they're all watching you; maybe not as overtly as the cameras but they do notice and they have longer memories than the cameras. The majority of crimes are solved, not by the police watching a grainy, out-of-focus security video but by interviewing witnesses.
If you're bothered about being watched, then don't go out. It isn't worth complaining about a few cameras, they're harmless.
Take them back to where you bought them and get some decent ones. Those are obviously cheap rubbish.
It would be better compressed to 24 seconds - the neighbourhood dogs would go apeshit.
Technical gifts are cool; that microscope on page 5 is exactly what I was looking for for my brother.
But they soon lose their charm, run out of batteries and end up polluting the environment with mercury, Lithium, Chlorine and other heavy metals.
SciAm should also promote more ethical gifts, such as adopting endangered animals, areas of threatened land and donations to trusts promoting research in to disease cure and treatment.
It's cliched, I know, but christmas is far too commercial but I hope simple things like this can reverse the trend
Andrei Markov himself used his models to filter text. Not e-mails obviously, but poetry.
He would both write and solicit poetry and he devised what are now know as markov models to assess poetry for aesthetic quality. Sounds like a silly idea now, but this was in the Victorian era when science and maths were blossoming. It was believed that everything could be measured and quantified; even philosophical qualities such as 'goodness' of poetry.
So,
step 1 : first search for rhyme and meter.
step 2 : then search for spamlike characteristics.