The political situation in many countries makes me concerned for the future, nanotechnology gives me hope that humanity is still progressing in its development.
It seems to me that this technology makes humans more powerful, but not better. If this technology would only fall into the hands of persons who are well-intentioned, well-informed, and intelligent, that would be a good thing. But I think technology in general empowers both good and evil acts. So I'm not sure that advancing technology is clear-cut progress.
Don't get me wrong - when I'm in the hospital, I certainly want advanced tech. And when my car crashes, or my home needs power, ditto. But some former citizens of Hiroshima an Nagasaki probably have somewhat mixed feelings on the issue.
drawing power from natural motion in the surrounding environment.
I've hade some serious hatred issues with people who buy 2GW subwoofers and drive down my road. Would these nanogenerators significantly increase their output in such situations? Or are the subwoofer-produced sound frequencies too low for these generators to convert to energy?
Is there any good reasons that laptop / desktop computer monitors should stay with LCD rather than move to OLED? OLED sounds equal to or better than LCD in all measures we care about, afaik.
Since nearly 100% of the power in to servers is expressed as heat, you need the same amount of cooling.
That's why I drive a bank of high-intensity LEDs from each server power supply, and shunt the light out of the building with mirrors. It considerably lowers the fraction of power we spend on cooling!
When Walmart.com, etc. started offering Wii bundles, I was concerned that the bundles might only let you draw from a subset of all the Wii games sold by that retailer.
I was pleased to notice that when "Blazing Angels: Squadrons of WWII Wii" came out, it became a bundle option shortly soon-after at Walmart.com. Just a few days later, iirc.
Does anyone know: if a game comes to market and proves really popular, do retailers like Walmart.com tend to exclude it from being one of the game options that's included in the purchase of the bundle?
before the trolls come in - know that this doesn't debunk global warming. What most of the 'global warming' controversy is centers on "are humans contributing?"
the answer is absolutely undeniably: Yes
Oh please... you expect us to believe that humans cause sunspots???
This is to say that any IP -- once it is codified -- is owned by the university.
I wish I could agree with your interpretation, but I think your use of the word "codified" isn't something supported in the text. Trade secrets (I believe) and copyrights (I know) don't have to be specifically claimed on a piece of work in order to apply. They come along automatically with the creation of a qualifying piece of work. Similarly, something is an "invention" the moment it's created, regardless of the creator's plans to patent it.
Having the board of governors lay claim to anything a student thinks while on the URI campus is not, in my opinion, a rule that's optimized for the dissemination of knowledge. It's also not particularly motivating to would-be inventors.
The lessons I take away from this IP policy are:
Don't do any real innovation using their facilities. Do them in your apartment on you computer.
Be thankful that students aren't asked to consent to the IP Policy.
However, part of academic freedom stipulates that the university researcher has the right to bring his findings in the public domain without seeking to protect it - unlike typical employers where the employee must disclose any findings and cannot usually 'give away' advice or product of their work away independantly.
This is not the case at the Univ. of Rhode Island. Anything you do on their campus, network, with their grad students, etc. they try to claim ownership of.
The system calculates the probability that various objects it has been trained to recognize are present,
The probability is either zero or one, because whether or not the feature being sought is present is a state of nature. It would be more helpful to call this number the confidence that the feature is present.
I'd just like to remind people that there are social conservatives for whom the current Republican party does not speak.
There's nothing about social conservatism AT ALL that suggests:
- It's OK for corporations to be more important than individual citizens.
- It's OK to go to war because you want to set an example (or any other
aspect of realpolitik thinking, either.)
- That it's sane to ignore environmental or social issues because addressing them
might possibly have a 4% impact on the national economy.
- That it's ok for the executive branch to hide its actions from the public and
from the congress.
- That it's ok to silence government scientists or change their reports, because you
don't like the political ramifications of their findings.
- That torture and the suspension of habeus corpus are ok.
Please, please don't lump as all together with Bush. I think he speaks for almost no true conservative at this point.
Many conservatives do have genuine points of disagreement with liberals. But they have nearly nothing to do with Bush's conduct. Bush *has* proven to be a unifier of the country. Against him.
My guess is that one reason the senator cares is that his staff rely on Google to get their job done. It's interesting to see that throughout the federal government, workers are becoming dependent on various Google information services despite the fact that the govt. has put a lot of effort into building its own mapping services .
I wonder what other parts of government are dependent on Google's functionality, and what would happen if Google was interrupted.
Valgrind hooks into a running program, so it's important to make sure that you test all the corners of the codebase if you go this route.
One minor clarification: valgrind can't attach to an already-running program the way a debugger can. Valgrind is actually an x86 emulator, so you have to ask valgrind to execute your program from the very beginning.
No doubt you aren't a programmer, and wouldn't really grasp how complex a piece of software like a web browser really is,
Even if you're a programmer, you're still out of your league on this one. Only a plumber could understand the series of tubes that make up the Internet.
As many as 3 children could have died over the last 10 years because of this!" Suddenly all news organizations act as though the sky has fallen, and on slow news day, it is even the lead story!
Because speaking as a parent, I'm much, much more terrified about my child dying than I am about Vista crashing.
I don't care about something that's (medium probability, low impact) nearly as much as I care about something that's (low probability, worst-case impact).
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It seems to me that this technology makes humans more powerful, but not better. If this technology would only fall into the hands of persons who are well-intentioned, well-informed, and intelligent, that would be a good thing. But I think technology in general empowers both good and evil acts. So I'm not sure that advancing technology is clear-cut progress.
Don't get me wrong - when I'm in the hospital, I certainly want advanced tech. And when my car crashes, or my home needs power, ditto. But some former citizens of Hiroshima an Nagasaki probably have somewhat mixed feelings on the issue.
I've hade some serious hatred issues with people who buy 2GW subwoofers and drive down my road. Would these nanogenerators significantly increase their output in such situations? Or are the subwoofer-produced sound frequencies too low for these generators to convert to energy?
Is there any good reasons that laptop / desktop computer monitors should stay with LCD rather than move to OLED? OLED sounds equal to or better than LCD in all measures we care about, afaik.
My goddam wii shortage has lasted since puberty.
That's why I drive a bank of high-intensity LEDs from each server power supply, and shunt the light out of the building with mirrors. It considerably lowers the fraction of power we spend on cooling!
If you want to sell it, let me know. If you'll go below retail I may be able to do it.
Where. Are. The. Fscking. Light. Saber. Games???
I saw the first Star Wars movie when I was 6 or 7. All potential Wii games are irrelevant, relative to the light saber game idea.
When Walmart.com, etc. started offering Wii bundles, I was concerned that the bundles might only let you draw from a subset of all the Wii games sold by that retailer.
I was pleased to notice that when "Blazing Angels: Squadrons of WWII Wii" came out, it became a bundle option shortly soon-after at Walmart.com. Just a few days later, iirc.
Does anyone know: if a game comes to market and proves really popular, do retailers like Walmart.com tend to exclude it from being one of the game options that's included in the purchase of the bundle?
Man, if there was ever a sign that I need to improve the quality of my jokes. :) No worries. Cheers.
Somewhat better than you spotted the humor in my post, I suspect :)
Oh please... you expect us to believe that humans cause sunspots???
If they're at their peak, that means they'll soon decline, and then global warming will be reversed! :)
(I think I'm kidding.)
If this is your boot drive, do you have any sense of how is affected boot time?
I'd love to do this for my laptop. Anyone know of a ComactFlash laptop-HDD adapter?
When I see that logo, it means "Hey, the cost of this laptop includes that of a Windows license that you're not going to use." (I just install Linux.)
That is, when I see the logo I get reminded of the Windows tax that I'm about to pay, and get more annoyed with both M$ and the manufacturer.
The depressing consequence of the current practice is that in 20 years we'll have outsourced the stockholders.
I wish I could agree with your interpretation, but I think your use of the word "codified" isn't something supported in the text. Trade secrets (I believe) and copyrights (I know) don't have to be specifically claimed on a piece of work in order to apply. They come along automatically with the creation of a qualifying piece of work. Similarly, something is an "invention" the moment it's created, regardless of the creator's plans to patent it.
Having the board of governors lay claim to anything a student thinks while on the URI campus is not, in my opinion, a rule that's optimized for the dissemination of knowledge. It's also not particularly motivating to would-be inventors.
The lessons I take away from this IP policy are:
This is not the case at the Univ. of Rhode Island. Anything you do on their campus, network, with their grad students, etc. they try to claim ownership of.
Good point. I concede.
The probability is either zero or one, because whether or not the feature being sought is present is a state of nature. It would be more helpful to call this number the confidence that the feature is present.
I'd just like to remind people that there are social conservatives for whom the current Republican party does not speak.
There's nothing about social conservatism AT ALL that suggests:
- It's OK for corporations to be more important than individual citizens.
- It's OK to go to war because you want to set an example (or any other
aspect of realpolitik thinking, either.)
- That it's sane to ignore environmental or social issues because addressing them
might possibly have a 4% impact on the national economy.
- That it's ok for the executive branch to hide its actions from the public and
from the congress.
- That it's ok to silence government scientists or change their reports, because you
don't like the political ramifications of their findings.
- That torture and the suspension of habeus corpus are ok.
Please, please don't lump as all together with Bush. I think he speaks for almost no true conservative at this point.
Many conservatives do have genuine points of disagreement with liberals. But they have nearly nothing to do with Bush's conduct. Bush *has* proven to be a unifier of the country. Against him.
My guess is that one reason the senator cares is that his staff rely on Google to get their job done. It's interesting to see that throughout the federal government, workers are becoming dependent on various Google information services despite the fact that the govt. has put a lot of effort into building its own mapping services .
I wonder what other parts of government are dependent on Google's functionality, and what would happen if Google was interrupted.
One minor clarification: valgrind can't attach to an already-running program the way a debugger can. Valgrind is actually an x86 emulator, so you have to ask valgrind to execute your program from the very beginning.
Even if you're a programmer, you're still out of your league on this one. Only a plumber could understand the series of tubes that make up the Internet.
Because speaking as a parent, I'm much, much more terrified about my child dying than I am about Vista crashing.
I don't care about something that's (medium probability, low impact) nearly as much as I care about something that's (low probability, worst-case impact).