Nicotine is most definately not good for you. It constricts blood vessels and raises blood pressure. Unless you're shooting for a heart attack I'd avoid nicotine.
You know those things in your body called cells? The ones that run on sugars, create copies of themselves, and propel themselves with various techniques (flagella, cilia, etc.)?
Those are pretty damn small, and they seem to work ok. Cells may or may not be nanotechnology depending on your definition but there are definately precedents in nature that show us that nanotechnology is feasible. Viruses might be a better (smaller) example.
Created computers, then made them useful enough to take over the jobs of 80% of our species, smart eh?
This would mean that 80% of the jobs people have are boring and repetitive crap that can be easily automated. So ya, it would be pretty smart to alleviate people from doing this shit-work to focus on something not easily automated by computers, you know, something creative. And when computers can take over the creative tasks and improve on our current abilities I'd like to welcome you to utopia and the transcendece of human-kind.
I wish him luck and hope that nothing ever tragic happens to him, but if any story sounded like the start of a Darwin award description, this has to be it.
The article didn't mention it but I wonder if this system can detect LSD. It would seem to me that LSD (due to its extremely low effective dose) would be the only drug that dealers would think about mailing. The dose (500 micrograms to 1 milligram) is so minute I have trouble believing that it's going to be detected.
If it can't detect LSD what's the use? We already have cheap detectors to alert to the presense of cocaine, meth, etc. without opening packages.. they're called dogs.
I think that that's really an extremely insightful idea. What would be much better than a competition to get a robot car to navigate rough terain would be a car that could navigate high traffic conditions at a high speed. Thats where the real pay off is; we really have a strong desire for faster travel, but things like running into trees or other drivers at 150 tends to be a real obstacle.
.. what I really want is for everyone to have self driving cars. It's really much more efficient to roll a weight across a smooth path than it is to fly it over the same path. I'd like to be laying back on my couch in my car going 200.
I'm sure most people know this by now, but if you're looking for web radio, www.shoutcast.com is a great place to look.
They have everything broken down by category and sub-category so you'll be able to find something you like.
I just tried to do a search for chinese delivery near my house. Google responded with a server too busy message. Granted, I'm sure this service isn't on Google's main cluster of servers, but nontheless, we slashdotted google!!
This is indeed a monumentous occassion for geeks everywhere.
Umm.. except that science isn't going to stand still. If science has figured out a way to allow your cells to divide forever (with the associated fixing of the natural errors that will occur) science has also probably figured out how to reattach your head to your body after its been ripped off by said train.
Whether you think immortal life is desirable or not, the reality is that it is within the grasp of each and everyone of us within this century.
It appears to me that cryogenics is in its infacy; not much research, not much intereest. But over the next 50 years the ability to suspend a body's degeneration is sure to increase. Assuming that we can develop some way to perfectly preserve a body before you die, the chance for immortality is realized.
Worried that your great-great-great-grand kids won't want to wake you up? Deposit $10,000 in a mutual fund and gurantee the value of the mutual fund to whoever wakes you up. Great-great-grandkid gets a load of money and the chance to meet face to face one of their forebearers. You wake up from death with a perfectly repaired body and the promise of eternal life. I'm not sure whether this is desirable, but if you're so inclined I see little reason that you won't be able to obtain immortality (assuming you've got the dough!)
For all you./'rs out there who were thinking that this font would make for a romantic and heartfelt letter to finally admit your love for that girl you've been admiring from afar:
Don't.
Believe me, your ego will thank me later.
The big problem: change management
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I think this is a really exciting idea, not really because of the implications on the auto industry, but because of the envolved IT.
The first thing that strikes me is that the choice in web services was depicted as a choice between Linux and.Net. Of course its really J2EE/Linux vrs..Net (Mono excluded, but at this stage in its development I really doubt they're looking to use Mono).
Nitpicking from a java advocate aside, I see some tremendous complexity in the IT system and they can't do it with current technology. If they succeed they'll be doing something new and exciting.
The problem is with change management of data formats. If you've got all of these different formats of data (the article mentioned: Web services, EDI, email, and fax!). It's extremely difficult to even build a model thats going to allow communication between systems talking in such different ways. The real problem, though, is when you do design that extremely complex system, because of the way the proposed company is being set up, is that you have no way to maintain the consistency of all of the involved data formats.
Here is an example. Supplier A sends its information to the company with a flat file. Its product number is in a five digit field. Supplier A changes it to a six digit field. Hilarity ensues. (fark)
No control of the suppliers systems = a very complex system. The standard responses to managing this complexity (usually amounting to stick the data in a self referential data format like xml) does not work here because they can't demand that their suppliers adhere to any particular format (according to the article).
Anyway sounds like a cool idea, I'd like to see how they're going to pull off the system to make it a reality.
Ya, but all you have to do is do a search and replace with your button names and add your event handling code.
In my experience the layout code is really the stuff you want to have automatically generated for you. The event handling is mostly different for every application so you end up having to rewrite it anyway. Additionally other GUI editors like the one in NetBeans have the annoying habit of not letting you edit the layout code. You have to manually delete the form file and java file and then add the java file back for it to let you edit the layout handling. I like the fact that its dirty and barebones because I prefer to do everything but the layout, decleration, and instantiation of form objects by hand.
Sure its simplisitic, but give it another look and you'll be suprised on how useful it actually can be. You can always edit the source code to add anything you want and release the code back to the community. That would be nice:-)
Actually Eclipse does include a GUI SWT editor. If you install the example plugins the SWT editor is included as one of the examples. Granted, its not a full feature editor. But it allows you to quickly lay out all of the components and generate the SWT. I use it and it saves quite a bit of time.
Please. I hear this same argument all of the time. Although we have challenges to overcome in the next few years, to bet that US economy will not continue to be the world wide leader for the concievable future is insane.
The US started the IT craze. The IT industry is being increasingly taken over by countries outside of the US. The US started the biotech craze. The biotech industry, is and will continue, to be increasingly non-US based. The US is starting the nanotech craze right now. Eventually countries outside of the US will start doing that to. The point is things aren't nearly as dire for the US as you think. Just look at the amount of money the US government is putting into basic nanotech.
From the site:
This database is intended to enable the maintenance of a peer group based set of XML descriptions for web application attacks.
Most people here are comparing this to vulnerability scanners like nessus, but acording to the description provided by the website this appears to be something entirely different. It doesn't check for known vulnerabilities versus services, but rather tries various attacks on web applications. I'm sure that something out there has been created along these same lines before, but I've never heard of it. This sounds like a good idea, and an easy way for inexperienced web application designers to insure that they're not vulnerable to a large database of known attacks.
I'm sure there are all sorts of applications for this technology. One that immediately comes to my mind are laptop screens that fold out for a bigger screen, On the 17" powerbook there is a lot of extra room around the keyboard. If the display could fold out the entire width and length could be reduced to the size of a keyboard.
Can you imagine how ridiculous it will get lugging around non-foldable 19" laptops? The whole catch, of course, is how thick the lcd is when folded out. If its the same thickness of normal lcd's than folding it a couple times will soon make the lcd-foldable laptop kludgy.
Anyway I'm sure there are plenty of other applications, but I think a laptop taking up a small area when folded up, but with a huge monitor when extended would be really cool.
On the other hand some parasites stay with their host for life.
They could just charge licencing fees to be able to sell a Linux derivative. Sure it would kill free Linux, but Linux as packaged commercial software would still exist. Sounds like a pretty promising business model. Unfortunately for us, they already sold their soul to the devil.
The whole Ender's game series is awesome. Its perfect for introducing people to science fiction. The ideas that the books present get progressively deeper so that even non sci-fi fans can find themeselves enjoying some pretty geeky stuff.
Speaker for the dead (the second in the Enders series) is my favorite. It starts slow, methodically laying out the backstory, but crescendos into a very satisfying ending. I think Card's discussion of a network that could be considered an intelligent "alien" lifeform is great. Makes you wonder if the internet will at some time in the future become "self aware"
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I read that book a long time ago but don't remember much, could you refresh our memories? Didn't have something to do with OCD?
Nicotine is most definately not good for you. It constricts blood vessels and raises blood pressure. Unless you're shooting for a heart attack I'd avoid nicotine.
Those are pretty damn small, and they seem to work ok. Cells may or may not be nanotechnology depending on your definition but there are definately precedents in nature that show us that nanotechnology is feasible. Viruses might be a better (smaller) example.
This idea, taken to the extreme is pretty much The Fountainhead
This would mean that 80% of the jobs people have are boring and repetitive crap that can be easily automated. So ya, it would be pretty smart to alleviate people from doing this shit-work to focus on something not easily automated by computers, you know, something creative. And when computers can take over the creative tasks and improve on our current abilities I'd like to welcome you to utopia and the transcendece of human-kind.
That would look pretty good on the resume, eh?
If it can't detect LSD what's the use? We already have cheap detectors to alert to the presense of cocaine, meth, etc. without opening packages.. they're called dogs.
I think that that's really an extremely insightful idea. What would be much better than a competition to get a robot car to navigate rough terain would be a car that could navigate high traffic conditions at a high speed. Thats where the real pay off is; we really have a strong desire for faster travel, but things like running into trees or other drivers at 150 tends to be a real obstacle.
That would be cool.
I'm sure most people know this by now, but if you're looking for web radio, www.shoutcast.com is a great place to look.
They have everything broken down by category and sub-category so you'll be able to find something you like.
I just tried to do a search for chinese delivery near my house. Google responded with a server too busy message. Granted, I'm sure this service isn't on Google's main cluster of servers, but nontheless, we slashdotted google!!
This is indeed a monumentous occassion for geeks everywhere.
Would this prevent me from accidently clicking a goatse link? Would it redirect me to the young and willing sluts I was looking for?
Umm.. except that science isn't going to stand still. If science has figured out a way to allow your cells to divide forever (with the associated fixing of the natural errors that will occur) science has also probably figured out how to reattach your head to your body after its been ripped off by said train.
It appears to me that cryogenics is in its infacy; not much research, not much intereest. But over the next 50 years the ability to suspend a body's degeneration is sure to increase. Assuming that we can develop some way to perfectly preserve a body before you die, the chance for immortality is realized.
Worried that your great-great-great-grand kids won't want to wake you up? Deposit $10,000 in a mutual fund and gurantee the value of the mutual fund to whoever wakes you up. Great-great-grandkid gets a load of money and the chance to meet face to face one of their forebearers. You wake up from death with a perfectly repaired body and the promise of eternal life. I'm not sure whether this is desirable, but if you're so inclined I see little reason that you won't be able to obtain immortality (assuming you've got the dough!)
Don't.
Believe me, your ego will thank me later.
The first thing that strikes me is that the choice in web services was depicted as a choice between Linux and .Net. Of course its really J2EE/Linux vrs. .Net (Mono excluded, but at this stage in its development I really doubt they're looking to use Mono).
Nitpicking from a java advocate aside, I see some tremendous complexity in the IT system and they can't do it with current technology. If they succeed they'll be doing something new and exciting.
The problem is with change management of data formats. If you've got all of these different formats of data (the article mentioned: Web services, EDI, email, and fax!). It's extremely difficult to even build a model thats going to allow communication between systems talking in such different ways. The real problem, though, is when you do design that extremely complex system, because of the way the proposed company is being set up, is that you have no way to maintain the consistency of all of the involved data formats.
Here is an example. Supplier A sends its information to the company with a flat file. Its product number is in a five digit field. Supplier A changes it to a six digit field. Hilarity ensues. (fark)
No control of the suppliers systems = a very complex system. The standard responses to managing this complexity (usually amounting to stick the data in a self referential data format like xml) does not work here because they can't demand that their suppliers adhere to any particular format (according to the article).
Anyway sounds like a cool idea, I'd like to see how they're going to pull off the system to make it a reality.
In my experience the layout code is really the stuff you want to have automatically generated for you. The event handling is mostly different for every application so you end up having to rewrite it anyway. Additionally other GUI editors like the one in NetBeans have the annoying habit of not letting you edit the layout code. You have to manually delete the form file and java file and then add the java file back for it to let you edit the layout handling. I like the fact that its dirty and barebones because I prefer to do everything but the layout, decleration, and instantiation of form objects by hand.
Sure its simplisitic, but give it another look and you'll be suprised on how useful it actually can be. You can always edit the source code to add anything you want and release the code back to the community. That would be nice :-)
Actually Eclipse does include a GUI SWT editor. If you install the example plugins the SWT editor is included as one of the examples.
Granted, its not a full feature editor. But it allows you to quickly lay out all of the components and generate the SWT. I use it and it saves quite a bit of time.
The US started the IT craze. The IT industry is being increasingly taken over by countries outside of the US. The US started the biotech craze. The biotech industry, is and will continue, to be increasingly non-US based. The US is starting the nanotech craze right now. Eventually countries outside of the US will start doing that to. The point is things aren't nearly as dire for the US as you think. Just look at the amount of money the US government is putting into basic nanotech.
Sorry US haters, we'll be here for a while.
From the site:
This database is intended to enable the maintenance of a peer group based set of XML descriptions for web application attacks.
Most people here are comparing this to vulnerability scanners like nessus, but acording to the description provided by the website this appears to be something entirely different. It doesn't check for known vulnerabilities versus services, but rather tries various attacks on web applications. I'm sure that something out there has been created along these same lines before, but I've never heard of it. This sounds like a good idea, and an easy way for inexperienced web application designers to insure that they're not vulnerable to a large database of known attacks.
Sounds pretty cool to me.
Can you imagine how ridiculous it will get lugging around non-foldable 19" laptops? The whole catch, of course, is how thick the lcd is when folded out. If its the same thickness of normal lcd's than folding it a couple times will soon make the lcd-foldable laptop kludgy.
Anyway I'm sure there are plenty of other applications, but I think a laptop taking up a small area when folded up, but with a huge monitor when extended would be really cool.
Wasn't this supposed to be an SCO story? We're falling behind our quota today.
They could just charge licencing fees to be able to sell a Linux derivative. Sure it would kill free Linux, but Linux as packaged commercial software would still exist. Sounds like a pretty promising business model. Unfortunately for us, they already sold their soul to the devil.
I sure hope it doesn't happen.
Speaker for the dead (the second in the Enders series) is my favorite. It starts slow, methodically laying out the backstory, but crescendos into a very satisfying ending. I think Card's discussion of a network that could be considered an intelligent "alien" lifeform is great. Makes you wonder if the internet will at some time in the future become "self aware"
CleverSig mySig = null;
Where would you plug it in?