"to reduce the risk of the male-only gene spreading to other species"
Did anyone notice that line in the article? If there is a possiblility that the gene transfers to other species, it could eventually "infect" many species of fish in the sea. Hopefully it would die out fast enough that this wouldn't happen. Just think if the goal of killing all Australian carp ended up killing most the fish in the ocean. Sure I might be alarmist here, but I'm not the one who mentioned the possibility of the gene jumping species. I agree that evolution would prevail, but the transient would be umm interesting. Perhaps something like this could be used on the Zebra muscles in the great lakes if it works on Carp.
Is this a problem of the patent system getting in the way of progress? Each faction wants the new "standard" to be thier own so they can collect money for each device sold weather they make it or not. Obviously customers want:
1) High capacity
2) Reliability
3) Backward compatibility (at least for reading)
4) Low cost, but this comes with time regardless
I bet 2 and 3 are possible for all formats, which would make the decision obvious. Only a political agenda or "IP" concerns could be slowing this down.
There is the HD-2000 over at www.pchdtv.com it receives HDTV and outputs the ATSC bit stream which can be dumped to hard drive or piped into xine. It also claims to receive NTSC broadcasts, so I imagine it has an MPEG encoder on it (not sure yet). The drivers are 100% OSS for Linux, but someone will probably do a windoze port at some point. It does NOT have a cable tuner (only broadcast) so you need one of those antenna things. If you're looking to the future, you need HDTV - all my local stations are broadcast in both. My card came by mail yesterday, but I can't give any details, as I now have to buy that new computer it's supposed to go into:-)
I did something similar with the pathfinder images. Big purple alien. Afterward, I realized it could be even more fun to place a small beer can in the distance and claim they never went to mars. Look, they left something on the set! Stir that pot.
"I just think it'd be horrible if they used the GPL'ed GCC to develop their methods (having access to a full portable compiler onto which to do research and development is hardly a "small thing"), and then lock these same methods away from the community."
What if they used Linux to develop proprietary software? That's OK. I can go home and do anything I want to GPLed or other OSS in the privacy of my home. I can even patent my discoveries. Now if I want to keep it proprietary, I need to completely reinvent it because I can't release my mods to GPLed code with patent restriction.
I do see your point though. If one student built on the work of a previous student, the code has been modified and redistributed. The first student has now provided that code under GPL to the second student. Whoever is last in the chain should just release all the code, but they don't have to. They could demand money from the new company in return for NOT releasing it:-) contact the students and get their modified GCCs - they have every right to hand them over, but no obligation. IANAL.
I have a Linksys 802.11b PCI card in an old computer and it works great. I bought another one for my newer (but still old) computer and it caused all kinds of problems. Video repaint issues and crashes. The software indicated the card was working all the way up to the point of connecting to the access point and then it failed. I checked the box, and it says it works with Windows 98 SE, 2000, XP.... I have windows 98 on both machines (not SE). I suspect the older version of the drivers worked on plain 98 but Linksys decided to "upgrade" them at some point. We're talking network card here with a couple extra features (WEP key) that should be configured independant of the networking API. But it seems MS is as you say, retarded too. I thought I bought another one of the same product to work on the same OS, but I guess thet little "SE" makes a big difference in the Windows world. I'll try the old card in the newer machine and then perhaps a new card with old driver in the old machine. Feels just as "retarded" as Linux doesn't it?
Someone once told me "never argue with a fool, people on the outside can't tell which one is the fool" or something to that effect. This guy should take that advise.
How does 1906 predate 1903? It also claims he was the first to go over 100 meters - the Wrights beat that on their 4th flight of Dec 17, 1903. Then they went back to Ohio and steadily improved things over the next several years - beating their own records on a weekly basis.
No sir, they were the first to build a machine that took off under its own power, and only that power, and landed at or above the same altitude, while flying under complete human control.
Even if you argue who was "first" based on specific technical definitions (like the usefullness and stability of that first plane) they were also first to make something practical. Their initial accomplishment went largely unnoticed. It was in 1908 that they wowed europe with a practical Model that could carry pilot and passenger. They took many many people (including royalty) for rides in a vehicle that could cover great distance with reasonable safety. Nothing like this had ever been seen except by the locals in Ohio who had gotten used to seeing it years before.
BTW, I've heard there is a place in Ohio where you can actually get a ride on a replica of the Write model B - the first truely useful airplane.
I'm not suprised that someone has done it. Even the RSA site suggested 576 would fall soon. What I do find interesting is that it took 4 days for word to get out, and that the factorization was done in Germany. More interesting would be knowing what algorithm was used - is it new, or just further refinement of GNFS or MPQS with faster hardware?
If I port my land-line number to my cell, and then move to another state, and then port back to a land line.... I like having area codes that are common to most people I know. Just how portable is all this portability supposed to be? The scenario I outlined above is probably not even supported by much of the network.
"Even without the landing gear, the EMBRIO would be stable when motionless because of the gyroscope."
I've studied balancing machines quite a bit (worked on some too) and I'm not aware of any good way to balance a unicycle at rest without some funny rocking/rotating motions. OTOH, I am impressed at how little of this is required to keep a 2-wheel machine upright. Maybe it's not so bad. I niticed the picture had no rider....
And perhaps if GPL code authors would set a few examples, others would take note and be more careful. OTOH, if they can be educated into compliance (as usually happens) it won't spread fear of using GPLed software, which is a good thing. OTOOH, just picture execs at a cocktail party recommending free software to their buddys - and if you get caught, well you release your source code and it still costs less than paying for the development, and it really doesn't affect business. (If only that last point was more clear up front, they could just comply in the first place)
I read the paper briefly, and it sounds good (closer re-examination required of course). Suppose this method is independantly verified by a LOT of experts and blessed as "good". We now risk the press and the public taking away the message that "electronic voting systems are fine" according to experts. It is important that they understand only THIS KIND of electronic system is OK if that's the case. It is also only OK if all the verification methods are in place, along with the public posting of the required data etc...
I always envisioned a really cheap way of mining asteroids... Calculate the minimum energy required to alter their course and divert them to earth using thrusters. Just let them crash down in the desert and then go mine the minerals. It may take years for a minimal energy diversion to get here, so there would be these guys who travel to different asteroids and install thrusters for a living to prime the pipeline. Every so often you'd have a minor miscalculation and a nice sim-city style disaster...
You need to know where it came from to tax it. If we knew where it came from, we could stop it.
Besides that, it's all just data. You can't tax some packets and not others - people will just develop new protocols to avoid the taxes. Unfortunately you have to understand the technology to make sensible rules governing its use.
When I signed the paperwork for my job, I was a little scared when that document came along. Much to my delight, it is crafted for fairness all around. As I recall, everything I do on company time, using company materials, etc... belongs to them. However, it explicitly excludes them from ownership of things that: are developed on my time, without company resources, and are not directly related to work presently being done at my facility.
This is in stark contrast to when I interviewed over at EDS. The HR person had just been talking about more money than I had asked for. Then she said I needed to read the "IP" agreement and some other document in particular. It basically said they had the right to use my voice, image, or other "likeness" for any business purposes as they see fit. Not just ideas and inventions, but my very likeness! The technical guy came to interview me and I asked if the IP thing could be altered. He said no, so I said we have nothing further to discuss and left. This was just as the 3 other tech guys were arriving to talk to me - they didn't even realize what happened. I paused in the lobby because I could see via the atrium that one of them was madly racing down the stairs to catch me. I breifly explained the situation and continued on my way. This was during a phase of unemployment after a layoff yet. Never sign something you find unacceptable or this absurd.
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"Free BSD" is not free software. This is why I've never even looked at it. They'll learn some day.
Did anyone notice that line in the article? If there is a possiblility that the gene transfers to other species, it could eventually "infect" many species of fish in the sea. Hopefully it would die out fast enough that this wouldn't happen. Just think if the goal of killing all Australian carp ended up killing most the fish in the ocean. Sure I might be alarmist here, but I'm not the one who mentioned the possibility of the gene jumping species. I agree that evolution would prevail, but the transient would be umm interesting. Perhaps something like this could be used on the Zebra muscles in the great lakes if it works on Carp.
The best feature would be something that I don't have to F--- with to get working.
1) High capacity
2) Reliability
3) Backward compatibility (at least for reading)
4) Low cost, but this comes with time regardless
I bet 2 and 3 are possible for all formats, which would make the decision obvious. Only a political agenda or "IP" concerns could be slowing this down.
Some friends and I had a decent couple rounds of Apples to Apples. Or did we first do that last year? Oh wait, you mean VIDEO games....
There is the HD-2000 over at www.pchdtv.com it receives HDTV and outputs the ATSC bit stream which can be dumped to hard drive or piped into xine. It also claims to receive NTSC broadcasts, so I imagine it has an MPEG encoder on it (not sure yet). The drivers are 100% OSS for Linux, but someone will probably do a windoze port at some point. It does NOT have a cable tuner (only broadcast) so you need one of those antenna things. If you're looking to the future, you need HDTV - all my local stations are broadcast in both. My card came by mail yesterday, but I can't give any details, as I now have to buy that new computer it's supposed to go into :-)
I did something similar with the pathfinder images. Big purple alien. Afterward, I realized it could be even more fun to place a small beer can in the distance and claim they never went to mars. Look, they left something on the set! Stir that pot.
What if they used Linux to develop proprietary software? That's OK. I can go home and do anything I want to GPLed or other OSS in the privacy of my home. I can even patent my discoveries. Now if I want to keep it proprietary, I need to completely reinvent it because I can't release my mods to GPLed code with patent restriction.
I do see your point though. If one student built on the work of a previous student, the code has been modified and redistributed. The first student has now provided that code under GPL to the second student. Whoever is last in the chain should just release all the code, but they don't have to. They could demand money from the new company in return for NOT releasing it :-) contact the students and get their modified GCCs - they have every right to hand them over, but no obligation. IANAL.
I have a Linksys 802.11b PCI card in an old computer and it works great. I bought another one for my newer (but still old) computer and it caused all kinds of problems. Video repaint issues and crashes. The software indicated the card was working all the way up to the point of connecting to the access point and then it failed. I checked the box, and it says it works with Windows 98 SE, 2000, XP.... I have windows 98 on both machines (not SE). I suspect the older version of the drivers worked on plain 98 but Linksys decided to "upgrade" them at some point. We're talking network card here with a couple extra features (WEP key) that should be configured independant of the networking API. But it seems MS is as you say, retarded too. I thought I bought another one of the same product to work on the same OS, but I guess thet little "SE" makes a big difference in the Windows world. I'll try the old card in the newer machine and then perhaps a new card with old driver in the old machine. Feels just as "retarded" as Linux doesn't it?
Someone once told me "never argue with a fool, people on the outside can't tell which one is the fool" or something to that effect. This guy should take that advise.
My ISP (Wide Open West) limits my download speed to the rate that I have paid for. This is simply not an issue for them.
No sir, they were the first to build a machine that took off under its own power, and only that power, and landed at or above the same altitude, while flying under complete human control.
Even if you argue who was "first" based on specific technical definitions (like the usefullness and stability of that first plane) they were also first to make something practical. Their initial accomplishment went largely unnoticed. It was in 1908 that they wowed europe with a practical Model that could carry pilot and passenger. They took many many people (including royalty) for rides in a vehicle that could cover great distance with reasonable safety. Nothing like this had ever been seen except by the locals in Ohio who had gotten used to seeing it years before.
BTW, I've heard there is a place in Ohio where you can actually get a ride on a replica of the Write model B - the first truely useful airplane.
I'm not suprised that someone has done it. Even the RSA site suggested 576 would fall soon. What I do find interesting is that it took 4 days for word to get out, and that the factorization was done in Germany. More interesting would be knowing what algorithm was used - is it new, or just further refinement of GNFS or MPQS with faster hardware?
If I port my land-line number to my cell, and then move to another state, and then port back to a land line.... I like having area codes that are common to most people I know. Just how portable is all this portability supposed to be? The scenario I outlined above is probably not even supported by much of the network.
I've studied balancing machines quite a bit (worked on some too) and I'm not aware of any good way to balance a unicycle at rest without some funny rocking/rotating motions. OTOH, I am impressed at how little of this is required to keep a 2-wheel machine upright. Maybe it's not so bad. I niticed the picture had no rider....
And perhaps if GPL code authors would set a few examples, others would take note and be more careful. OTOH, if they can be educated into compliance (as usually happens) it won't spread fear of using GPLed software, which is a good thing. OTOOH, just picture execs at a cocktail party recommending free software to their buddys - and if you get caught, well you release your source code and it still costs less than paying for the development, and it really doesn't affect business. (If only that last point was more clear up front, they could just comply in the first place)
Especially if you provide useful information.
1) put a big spool of cable on a ship.
2) anchor the cable to shore.
3) set sail for the other side of the ocean.
I had no idea it could be so simple and obvious when I heard it either.
There is a brit in the office next to mine, and he is having trouble calling his mates back home.
Isn't that the ultimate admission that you need to be kept on a TIGHT leash? The irony....
I read the paper briefly, and it sounds good (closer re-examination required of course). Suppose this method is independantly verified by a LOT of experts and blessed as "good". We now risk the press and the public taking away the message that "electronic voting systems are fine" according to experts. It is important that they understand only THIS KIND of electronic system is OK if that's the case. It is also only OK if all the verification methods are in place, along with the public posting of the required data etc...
I always envisioned a really cheap way of mining asteroids... Calculate the minimum energy required to alter their course and divert them to earth using thrusters. Just let them crash down in the desert and then go mine the minerals. It may take years for a minimal energy diversion to get here, so there would be these guys who travel to different asteroids and install thrusters for a living to prime the pipeline. Every so often you'd have a minor miscalculation and a nice sim-city style disaster...
Besides that, it's all just data. You can't tax some packets and not others - people will just develop new protocols to avoid the taxes. Unfortunately you have to understand the technology to make sensible rules governing its use.
This is in stark contrast to when I interviewed over at EDS. The HR person had just been talking about more money than I had asked for. Then she said I needed to read the "IP" agreement and some other document in particular. It basically said they had the right to use my voice, image, or other "likeness" for any business purposes as they see fit. Not just ideas and inventions, but my very likeness! The technical guy came to interview me and I asked if the IP thing could be altered. He said no, so I said we have nothing further to discuss and left. This was just as the 3 other tech guys were arriving to talk to me - they didn't even realize what happened. I paused in the lobby because I could see via the atrium that one of them was madly racing down the stairs to catch me. I breifly explained the situation and continued on my way. This was during a phase of unemployment after a layoff yet. Never sign something you find unacceptable or this absurd.
Let's hope it's IPV6. They claim it will not need an upgrade any time soon.