It's possible to make physical objects extremely difficult to reproduce by using custom-built and carefully monitored equipment and materials in their construction; look at what goes into manufacturing paper money.
Undue stress? It's the immigrant's responsibility to keep track of his legal status, and to leave the country once his license to remain within it has expired. "Illegal immigrants" are called that for a reason.
Once you own the hardware, there is no additional cost (stemming directly from the hardware) to storing more and more data on it. It doesn't get heavier, it doesn't get larger, it doesn't use more electricity- in most cases it doesn't even slow down or respond to the increased "cargo" in any way. All this article is showing is that it's difficult and not always useful to make too direct analogies between data and matter.
Packet prioritization does not work in the real world beyond the LAN because of the potential for abuse. If ISPs were known to obey packet priority settings, everyone (or at least a number of scummy people large enough to break the system) would set all their packets to maximum priority, and enjoy improved speed at everyone else's expense until ISPs switched back to FCFS.
I believe TCP/IP has always supported packet prioritization, but it's always been ignored for this reason.
(Yes, I realize the spreadsheet in this article was developed by a Microsoft employee. He's not the first by far, there were many others developed by fans.)
No. All Microsoft did was publish Halo 2 stats via RSS. These spreadsheets were developed entirely by fans, with no support from MS.
I'm not terribly surprised that an article about a product mentions that product. By that logic, Slashdot is nothing more than a giant shill for Linux (cue +5-rated replies rationalizing why that's a good thing).
There is a meaningful practical (even in science) difference between a claim that does not violate anything previous believed to be true (5'11) and one that does (11'5). Would you accept a verbal description of this man? Probably not. Would you accept a photograph of this man? In this age of digital manipulation, probably not. Would you accept a personal interview with this man? Sure, if you can see him for yourself, he's probably real. What if I told you he had five heads and could transform into a turtle on command and summon demons from the infernal plane? You could examine him, but at that point it's pretty likely I just slipped you some subtle but powerful hallucinogenics a while back. We can argue this all the way back to Cartesian first principles if necessary, but for any claim likely to be encountered in the real world, Sagan's statement is correct.
Yeah, saving power in portable devices is such a waste of time. That must explain why the PSP's tiny battery life is already being described as its Achilles' heel and the reason it will lose to the DS.
"You are wonderful."
"Thank you; I've worked hard to become so. "
"I admit it, you are better than I am."
"Then why are you smiling? "
"Because I know something you don't know."
"And what is that? "
"I... am not left-handed!"
[...]
"You are amazing."
"I ought to be, after 20 years."
"Oh, there's something I ought to tell you."
"Tell me."
"I'm not left-handed either!"
Download mode is *supported* in the US version- I see it in the main menu when I turn on the DS. It really is up to the individual games, not the DS itself.
Refinements to existing technology happened. Back when holographics were in vogue, nobody could have predicted that Winchester drives would scale to 400 gigabytes in less space than a paperback book.
You're actually not too far from something feasible (given pie-in-the-sky future technology)... How about microscopic nanite "fireflies" that actively maintain their location in space and receive wireless signals from the projector?
Right now, the major obstacle that will face 3D graphics in the future is storage space. A 3D bitmap, like a voxel image, takes up a vast amount of storage- imagine it as a stack of several thousand flat images at a decent resolution. Not only do you need enough VRAM to hold all that, you also need to be able to process it very, very quickly to be able to update the display without artifacts and fast enough for nontrivial real-time use.
Of course, these problems will be solved like everything else. Remember when game consoles didn't have enough power to touch every single pixel on the screen during a frame?
Apple almost certainly did not write that biography; they must have gotten it from some standard who's who of music. There must be equivalents in Japanese that they can use.
They seem to tailor their selection to local taste, so there's a chance Tom Waits won't appear at all on the ITMSJ, and that it will have artists who are not in ITMSes outside Japan.
If we somehow got everyone to agree to post torrents of (non-premium cable) TV shows including commercials, would that make the "we're not harming anyone" defense stronger and maybe get the studios to let up with their legal attacks?
According to your sig, it's the stage just before "???". I guess this means that in the future, all blogs will contain utter gibberish. Although it looks like this particular revolution has already happened.
How do you filter out the crap? If you read all of the blogs (or even a large proportion of them, let alone a majority), you'll spend hours on it. If you get someone else to point you to a selection of blogs that provide a balanced set of differing but objective viewpoints, you're in the same situation that exists today in traditional media (a middleman is performing value judgements on the raw newsfeeds before presenting them to you). There is no easy solution to the problem of quantity; it's why journalism is set of professional full-time occupations.
Regarding ASCII sort- it's actually a very good idea that OS X partially implements already. Try naming a set of files with numbers counting up from 1 to, say, 25. On an older system, they would sort alphabetically as:1, 10, 11, 12, 13, [...], 19, 2 , 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 3, 4, 5, [...]. This is because ASCII 1 always comes before 2 regardless of context. But the OS X finder will detect consecutive digits at the front of the filename, convert it to an actual number, and sort based on the result, so the files get listed in correct ascending order. I could easily see this extended to parsing dates, and it would be very useful.
Actually, I do see his point with the greyed-out items. It would be (relatively) easy for the system to support tooltips on menu items. And the comment would only have to be something short like "Copies selected item. Unavailable because nothing that can be copied is selected." Balloon Help in System 7 was capable of this, but only Apple ever bothered to implement it properly (and only masochists and easter-egg hunters ever turned on Balloon Help at all...)
I would assume that, since the 2.4Ghz spectrum is unlicensed and used by lots of things other than wifi gear (Bluetooth, cordless phones, etc), there needs to be some sort of filter that detects 802.11 frames flying by.
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There are, depending on who you ask, at least several billion comets in the solar system. *One* of them won't be missed. And they aren't like archeological sites, where every one is unique, either.
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It's possible to make physical objects extremely difficult to reproduce by using custom-built and carefully monitored equipment and materials in their construction; look at what goes into manufacturing paper money.
Undue stress? It's the immigrant's responsibility to keep track of his legal status, and to leave the country once his license to remain within it has expired. "Illegal immigrants" are called that for a reason.
Once you own the hardware, there is no additional cost (stemming directly from the hardware) to storing more and more data on it. It doesn't get heavier, it doesn't get larger, it doesn't use more electricity- in most cases it doesn't even slow down or respond to the increased "cargo" in any way. All this article is showing is that it's difficult and not always useful to make too direct analogies between data and matter.
Packet prioritization does not work in the real world beyond the LAN because of the potential for abuse. If ISPs were known to obey packet priority settings, everyone (or at least a number of scummy people large enough to break the system) would set all their packets to maximum priority, and enjoy improved speed at everyone else's expense until ISPs switched back to FCFS.
I believe TCP/IP has always supported packet prioritization, but it's always been ignored for this reason.
(Yes, I realize the spreadsheet in this article was developed by a Microsoft employee. He's not the first by far, there were many others developed by fans.)
No. All Microsoft did was publish Halo 2 stats via RSS. These spreadsheets were developed entirely by fans, with no support from MS.
I'm not terribly surprised that an article about a product mentions that product. By that logic, Slashdot is nothing more than a giant shill for Linux (cue +5-rated replies rationalizing why that's a good thing).
There is a meaningful practical (even in science) difference between a claim that does not violate anything previous believed to be true (5'11) and one that does (11'5). Would you accept a verbal description of this man? Probably not. Would you accept a photograph of this man? In this age of digital manipulation, probably not. Would you accept a personal interview with this man? Sure, if you can see him for yourself, he's probably real. What if I told you he had five heads and could transform into a turtle on command and summon demons from the infernal plane? You could examine him, but at that point it's pretty likely I just slipped you some subtle but powerful hallucinogenics a while back. We can argue this all the way back to Cartesian first principles if necessary, but for any claim likely to be encountered in the real world, Sagan's statement is correct.
Yeah, saving power in portable devices is such a waste of time. That must explain why the PSP's tiny battery life is already being described as its Achilles' heel and the reason it will lose to the DS.
"You are wonderful."
"Thank you; I've worked hard to become so. "
"I admit it, you are better than I am."
"Then why are you smiling? "
"Because I know something you don't know."
"And what is that? "
"I... am not left-handed!"
[...]
"You are amazing."
"I ought to be, after 20 years."
"Oh, there's something I ought to tell you."
"Tell me."
"I'm not left-handed either!"
Download mode is *supported* in the US version- I see it in the main menu when I turn on the DS. It really is up to the individual games, not the DS itself.
Refinements to existing technology happened. Back when holographics were in vogue, nobody could have predicted that Winchester drives would scale to 400 gigabytes in less space than a paperback book.
You're actually not too far from something feasible (given pie-in-the-sky future technology)... How about microscopic nanite "fireflies" that actively maintain their location in space and receive wireless signals from the projector?
Right now, the major obstacle that will face 3D graphics in the future is storage space. A 3D bitmap, like a voxel image, takes up a vast amount of storage- imagine it as a stack of several thousand flat images at a decent resolution. Not only do you need enough VRAM to hold all that, you also need to be able to process it very, very quickly to be able to update the display without artifacts and fast enough for nontrivial real-time use.
Of course, these problems will be solved like everything else. Remember when game consoles didn't have enough power to touch every single pixel on the screen during a frame?
Require a password on boot to unlock filesystem-level encryption.
Just wait until ALL the networks use this strategy.
If we somehow got everyone to agree to post torrents of (non-premium cable) TV shows including commercials, would that make the "we're not harming anyone" defense stronger and maybe get the studios to let up with their legal attacks?
They could easily do that by blocking port 25 outgoing, but then people who run their own mail servers (you) would complain.
According to your sig, it's the stage just before "???". I guess this means that in the future, all blogs will contain utter gibberish. Although it looks like this particular revolution has already happened.
How do you filter out the crap? If you read all of the blogs (or even a large proportion of them, let alone a majority), you'll spend hours on it. If you get someone else to point you to a selection of blogs that provide a balanced set of differing but objective viewpoints, you're in the same situation that exists today in traditional media (a middleman is performing value judgements on the raw newsfeeds before presenting them to you). There is no easy solution to the problem of quantity; it's why journalism is set of professional full-time occupations.
As far as I can tell, dummies are already very good at getting to act in Hollywood.
Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all week. Try the veal.
Regarding ASCII sort- it's actually a very good idea that OS X partially implements already. Try naming a set of files with numbers counting up from 1 to, say, 25. On an older system, they would sort alphabetically as:1, 10, 11, 12, 13, [...], 19, 2 , 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 3, 4, 5, [...]. This is because ASCII 1 always comes before 2 regardless of context. But the OS X finder will detect consecutive digits at the front of the filename, convert it to an actual number, and sort based on the result, so the files get listed in correct ascending order. I could easily see this extended to parsing dates, and it would be very useful.
Actually, I do see his point with the greyed-out items. It would be (relatively) easy for the system to support tooltips on menu items. And the comment would only have to be something short like "Copies selected item. Unavailable because nothing that can be copied is selected." Balloon Help in System 7 was capable of this, but only Apple ever bothered to implement it properly (and only masochists and easter-egg hunters ever turned on Balloon Help at all...)
I would assume that, since the 2.4Ghz spectrum is unlicensed and used by lots of things other than wifi gear (Bluetooth, cordless phones, etc), there needs to be some sort of filter that detects 802.11 frames flying by.
There are, depending on who you ask, at least several billion comets in the solar system. *One* of them won't be missed. And they aren't like archeological sites, where every one is unique, either.