Actually, I don't get many at all. I also don't get more than a couple spam emails a week. My wife gets both chain-mail and spam. It's a small sample size, but I percieve a correlation.
IIRC they don't send anywhere near 1 photon. It's more like 100 photons and these can possibly be passed through one of those multiplier thingies. Obviously if you've got that kind of access to the fiber, you can perform a man-in-the-middle attack anyway. Just cut the cable and plug in some equipment like they use at the 2 ends. To each party you pretend to be the other party and just relay the messages. If key exchange is done over the wire, you perform that step for each of them. If a key is exchanged via another channel (say by floppy disk) then there is no need for the quantum crypto anyway.
QC gets you nothing but an increase in complexity - which is helpful against most people, but probably not a big deal to those who can get access to the bank fiber.
Hopefully Netscape will get the SVG code from Mozilla enabled by default and AOL will use SVG in all their pages. This would make the most common browser incompatible with AOL content:-) It would also provide a good seed of people who have SVG enabled browsers.
I'm convinced that spammers get email addresses from those emails that people forward around all the time. If I receive a joke that has been forwarded 5 times, I can easily grab 100 email addresses from it. If any ONE of the people on the same distribution as me gets compormised MY email address gets out. A compromise could be 1)forwarding to a spammer 2)infection with a virus that can read addresses off the machine 3)interception of the email somehow 4)something I can't think of right now. This is speculation of course, but your friends (or their friends) may be inadvertently contributing to you spam problem. Why else would some of those things say "please forward this to everyone you know". Oh no, if I don't it means I'm not your friend! BARF
You may only require knowing which AREA of the brain to connect. It has this neat ability to adapt to things. If this "chip" is connected to an artificial limb, but it's "understanding" of the brain signals is incorrect, the person may learn to manipulate the limb as desired anyway due to some relearning in the brain. Using this line of thinking, who needs the special chip? A viable connection to the right part and some feedback (in the form of a real limb) is all you may need.
"Consider the dozens of distributions, forks, and delays caused by a licence not being "free enough."
"In the real world, good-quality software comes with no strings attached."
Those 2 thing go together. "Free" as in freedom (as in GPL) gets you no-strings. The whole X fork happened because someone tried to add strings.
"In short, please work on developing good software. As long as it's free as in $0.00, I'll be happy."
This makes me want to call you all sort of nasty stuff. Why don't YOU go develop something I want and then give it to ME? I'll just sit here and bitch about your development process and complain if it isn't $0.00.
Or was your post supposed to be a joke and I missed it?
With all the concern about bio-terrorism, shouldn't the government be a little concerned about offshoring biotech? They'll be increasing the capability of foreigners in that area. Granted, security through obscurity is not really secure. But in these situations, access to information is different than having full blown (cheap) capability.
Agreed. All that stuff that goes into a game is non-trivial. Content creation - weather it be manually created or algorithmicly - is challenging. The original comment about the simplicity of ray tracing, and my comment about the simplicity of using OpenGL both overlook things like occlusion culling or oct-tree traversal. I was just firing a cheap shot back at theirs:-)
Did Toms Hardware test what happens when the fan fails? I bet it bursts into flames like the first Athlons did. AMD learned well, but nVidia seem to be following the Intel Presshot philosophy.
A reasonable explanation. There is a new technique called photon mapping too. Photons are emitted from the light sources much like this guy is doing. However, each time a photon hits a surface, the impact is stored in a big data structure - the photon may then be reflected depending on surface properties. This "photon map" is view independant. Rendering an image then consists of doing ray tracing from the eye into the scene, but to calculate surface illumination where the ray hits a surface, you use the photon map. This avoids throwing away the 99.9% of photons that don't strike the eye. It can be made physically correct as well. BTW to see how fast regular ray tracing has become check out rtChess
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I've heard MBA students spouting something about how all the "work" will be outsourced and people in the US will just "manage" everything. I fail to see how this is a viable model for a country. The foreigners will learn management too, and then those US managers that don't know anything about day to day operations in Singapore will be next to go. How can anyone claim a nation of upper managers is viable with a straight face?
"Accidents will likely still occur until the system had all the kinks worked out of it."
That is why we will never see the fabled car that drives itself to your destination. If you and I are in an accident, and both of us were letting the cars drive themselves, who is at fault? The manufacturer(s) of course. The liability of such systems is unbelievably high.
I've often suspected the automated highway project demonstrated in CA was canceled for this reason. I imagine some high level people after the demo finally realizing what it was really about and then realizing what happens when it DOES break down in some way.
You may need to add an option to "de-link" words (or other parts of a page) that point to certain cites. Similar to the way I can choose not to load images from doubleclick. This will allow us to "block" the worst advertisers using this method. For an initial test, just have it de-link stuff that I already declared I don't want content from - i.e. share the blocking list.
I never read the book so I judged the movie on it's own. I found it absolutely hilarious. I was hoping there would be a sequel, but figured it would never happen since my high rating of the film seems to be quite unusual.
Linux supporters should be ashamed at this response letter. It makes points about how the study misinterpreted the data, but offers no alternative analysis or conclusions. It's basically saying "they're wrong because the didn't do X" without showing how the results differ if you do X. Go ahead and tell someone they are wrong, but please show it. They haven't shown the methodology to be wrong until they show that changing it produces different results. I expect the results to change, but I don't know by how much without data - perhaps they're raving about nothing.
"We should really start to concentrate on making the software run best under what we currently have."
Exactly. The original Doom ran fine on a 33MHz 486 and the original Quake ran OK with software rendering on a Pentium 90. I suppose PDAs require 400MHz processors to play tetris because it's written in JAVA using a bloated GUI toolkit written in JAVA. There might be CPU time to spare in that case, but there could be a LOT more.
Laptops will get efficient (OLED?) displays and slower processors when the common metric becomes battery life instead of MHz. People don't realize they don't need a 3GHz laptop, but it sounds impressive. They don't demand long battery life which is obviously a good thing, because no one advertises it prominently - because 2-4 hours is obviously not impressive.
Can you sue for anything remotely resembling punishment? I presume (IANAL so I don't even know) you might be able to sue for back pay (based on what records?). So there is no penalty for doing this other than having to pay what you would normally pay if you get caught. If it's possible to get damages that might be considered punitive, I might just quit my day job and work at one of these places for a while and then sue;-)
Why aren't there commercials for labor lawyers? "Is your company altering your time records or making you work off the clock? We can help. blah blah" Why don't we hear this?
"I think Sun is serious about becoming the biggest Linux vendor"
I think Sun is serious about taking the place of Microsoft. After world domination comes charging for JAVA. I'm not sure if they'd go after the free implementations of the VM, the libraries, or the software that uses them. I'm not saying they'd have a case, but that doesn't mean they won't try. Meanwhile, lots of OSS stuff is getting written in JAVA... Or perhaps SUN will play nice and just enjoy their large marketshare in free software.
The artists are represented by their recording company. The companies are represented by the RIAA, and the RIAA is represented the IFPI? I think the artists are far enough removed at this point that the IFPI is a purely political organization only interested in money / power / self.
Did you RTFA? I would guess not. He discusses scaling at length and concludes that 20 machines can be nicely utilized. His initial attempt with distcc took 45 minutes, but he got it down to 6. He specifically talks about shortcommings that will limit the benefit to the first few machines and explains how to overcome that and make effective use of many more.
He's going to do more actual research up there than NASA does. With the budget cuts, they are down to just enough crew to keep the lights on and don't really have time for much else. I'm not sure how lame (or not) his experiment is, but it's probably a better use of the station than is going on right now. Even the president has said the ISS will be abandoned after the US "obligations" to the international community that built it have been met. Why not let a rich guy bang around up there, maybe it will crash and our obligation will be over sooner than expected;-)
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Actually, I don't get many at all. I also don't get more than a couple spam emails a week. My wife gets both chain-mail and spam. It's a small sample size, but I percieve a correlation.
QC gets you nothing but an increase in complexity - which is helpful against most people, but probably not a big deal to those who can get access to the bank fiber.
Hopefully Netscape will get the SVG code from Mozilla enabled by default and AOL will use SVG in all their pages. This would make the most common browser incompatible with AOL content :-) It would also provide a good seed of people who have SVG enabled browsers.
Could be the state got overcharged, but there are enough other cases where it works the way I interpreted this one to ask anyway.
You may only require knowing which AREA of the brain to connect. It has this neat ability to adapt to things. If this "chip" is connected to an artificial limb, but it's "understanding" of the brain signals is incorrect, the person may learn to manipulate the limb as desired anyway due to some relearning in the brain. Using this line of thinking, who needs the special chip? A viable connection to the right part and some feedback (in the form of a real limb) is all you may need.
"In the real world, good-quality software comes with no strings attached."
Those 2 thing go together. "Free" as in freedom (as in GPL) gets you no-strings. The whole X fork happened because someone tried to add strings.
"In short, please work on developing good software. As long as it's free as in $0.00, I'll be happy."
This makes me want to call you all sort of nasty stuff. Why don't YOU go develop something I want and then give it to ME? I'll just sit here and bitch about your development process and complain if it isn't $0.00.
Or was your post supposed to be a joke and I missed it?
With all the concern about bio-terrorism, shouldn't the government be a little concerned about offshoring biotech? They'll be increasing the capability of foreigners in that area. Granted, security through obscurity is not really secure. But in these situations, access to information is different than having full blown (cheap) capability.
Agreed. All that stuff that goes into a game is non-trivial. Content creation - weather it be manually created or algorithmicly - is challenging. The original comment about the simplicity of ray tracing, and my comment about the simplicity of using OpenGL both overlook things like occlusion culling or oct-tree traversal. I was just firing a cheap shot back at theirs :-)
Handing polygons to OpenGL is even easier.
While we're talking RT, I must plug rtChess.
Did Toms Hardware test what happens when the fan fails? I bet it bursts into flames like the first Athlons did. AMD learned well, but nVidia seem to be following the Intel Presshot philosophy.
A reasonable explanation. There is a new technique called photon mapping too. Photons are emitted from the light sources much like this guy is doing. However, each time a photon hits a surface, the impact is stored in a big data structure - the photon may then be reflected depending on surface properties. This "photon map" is view independant. Rendering an image then consists of doing ray tracing from the eye into the scene, but to calculate surface illumination where the ray hits a surface, you use the photon map. This avoids throwing away the 99.9% of photons that don't strike the eye. It can be made physically correct as well. BTW to see how fast regular ray tracing has become check out rtChess .
I've heard MBA students spouting something about how all the "work" will be outsourced and people in the US will just "manage" everything. I fail to see how this is a viable model for a country. The foreigners will learn management too, and then those US managers that don't know anything about day to day operations in Singapore will be next to go. How can anyone claim a nation of upper managers is viable with a straight face?
That is why we will never see the fabled car that drives itself to your destination. If you and I are in an accident, and both of us were letting the cars drive themselves, who is at fault? The manufacturer(s) of course. The liability of such systems is unbelievably high.
I've often suspected the automated highway project demonstrated in CA was canceled for this reason. I imagine some high level people after the demo finally realizing what it was really about and then realizing what happens when it DOES break down in some way.
When you're hungry it can send that information to hot spots that can then send you ads for nearby food stuff :-)
You may need to add an option to "de-link" words (or other parts of a page) that point to certain cites. Similar to the way I can choose not to load images from doubleclick. This will allow us to "block" the worst advertisers using this method. For an initial test, just have it de-link stuff that I already declared I don't want content from - i.e. share the blocking list.
I never read the book so I judged the movie on it's own. I found it absolutely hilarious. I was hoping there would be a sequel, but figured it would never happen since my high rating of the film seems to be quite unusual.
Linux supporters should be ashamed at this response letter. It makes points about how the study misinterpreted the data, but offers no alternative analysis or conclusions. It's basically saying "they're wrong because the didn't do X" without showing how the results differ if you do X. Go ahead and tell someone they are wrong, but please show it. They haven't shown the methodology to be wrong until they show that changing it produces different results. I expect the results to change, but I don't know by how much without data - perhaps they're raving about nothing.
Exactly. The original Doom ran fine on a 33MHz 486 and the original Quake ran OK with software rendering on a Pentium 90. I suppose PDAs require 400MHz processors to play tetris because it's written in JAVA using a bloated GUI toolkit written in JAVA. There might be CPU time to spare in that case, but there could be a LOT more.
Laptops will get efficient (OLED?) displays and slower processors when the common metric becomes battery life instead of MHz. People don't realize they don't need a 3GHz laptop, but it sounds impressive. They don't demand long battery life which is obviously a good thing, because no one advertises it prominently - because 2-4 hours is obviously not impressive.
Why aren't there commercials for labor lawyers? "Is your company altering your time records or making you work off the clock? We can help. blah blah" Why don't we hear this?
You can always recompile for whatever architecture you want. No waiting for some monopolist to decide if/when to do the porting.
I think Sun is serious about taking the place of Microsoft. After world domination comes charging for JAVA. I'm not sure if they'd go after the free implementations of the VM, the libraries, or the software that uses them. I'm not saying they'd have a case, but that doesn't mean they won't try. Meanwhile, lots of OSS stuff is getting written in JAVA... Or perhaps SUN will play nice and just enjoy their large marketshare in free software.
The artists are represented by their recording company. The companies are represented by the RIAA, and the RIAA is represented the IFPI? I think the artists are far enough removed at this point that the IFPI is a purely political organization only interested in money / power / self.
Did you RTFA? I would guess not. He discusses scaling at length and concludes that 20 machines can be nicely utilized. His initial attempt with distcc took 45 minutes, but he got it down to 6. He specifically talks about shortcommings that will limit the benefit to the first few machines and explains how to overcome that and make effective use of many more.
He's going to do more actual research up there than NASA does. With the budget cuts, they are down to just enough crew to keep the lights on and don't really have time for much else. I'm not sure how lame (or not) his experiment is, but it's probably a better use of the station than is going on right now. Even the president has said the ISS will be abandoned after the US "obligations" to the international community that built it have been met. Why not let a rich guy bang around up there, maybe it will crash and our obligation will be over sooner than expected ;-)