In theory, you could use a keyboard to communicate with another person using Morse code with the space bar to send and the num lock light to receive them.
In practice, though, you'd likely use the alphanumeric keys conveniently provided for just this purpose.
The inexpensive x86 machines out there all run Windows. Would people have bought them if there were no OS to run on them? Odds are likely that Apple would be the already dominant force in the home, similar to how they were in the Apple ][ days.
Colour me confused, but I thought the X-Prize was a straightforward "First one to get a person 60 miles in the air wins" thing. Where does lobbying fit in?
The vehicles need to launch from somewhere, therefore several places are lobbying to have the X-Prize guys choose their backyard to be the official launch point.
I keep hoping for news of mineral resources somewhere in the solar system, that would make space travel profitable.
The prohibitive cost of this would make it unprofitable though. Say there's a huge repository of gold somewhere out there. The cost of going there and lugging it back would be so expensive that it would have to be a really *huge* amount of gold to make it worthwhile. Then the problem becomes liquidating that much gold on the market -- it would create such a glut that gold prices would fall sharply. The only chance of this making sense would be for something which is extremely rare on Earth, yet is in very high demand so that they could effectively monopolize the market.
There has to be a way to make money off of outer space, but what is it?
One of the easiest ways is tourism. The first people to setup shop in space charge others for the service of travelling in space or simply staying in an orbiting hotel. Substitute "space" for some remote corner of the planet, and the profit motive is similar. Moon/Mars safari, anyone?
Look at perl for example. Do you think it would be where it is today if it were closed source? It would probably be some hack that about 2 guys use.
You contradict yourself. Java is closed source. Yet, by your reasoning, it should only be some hack that 2 guys use. Well, that's obviously not true.
Regarding the rest of your post, I'm not sure if you're trying to be serious or sarcastic so I won't nitpick the rest of it.
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It's in TFA:
Disclosure Timeline
5 March 2004 Ethereal developers were contacted by email telling them about 10(of the 13) holes. 6 holes were closed the same day EIGRP, IGAP, ISUP and BGP.
7 March 2004 IRDA hole closed (after checking specs)
8 March 2004 PGM hole closed (after checking specs)
9 March 2004 NetFlow hole closed (after checking specs)
17 March 2004 UCP holes were discovered and mailed to vendor
19 March 2004 UCP and TCAP holes closed (after checking specs)
22 March 2004 Ethereal developers have releases a mini advisory urging their users to upgrade to version 0.10.3 which will be released later this week
Who wants to use a proprietary sound format, when they can use a much more appealing open format.
MP3: Everything supports it, which is very appealing for consumers. OGG: Few products support it, not very appealing for consumers.
This is the old VHS/BETA debate again. Each one has various advantages over the other, but MP3 has already won mindshare and, as a result, is ubiquitous. In the end, consumers don't really care that Apple has to pay Fraunhofer $1 (or whatever) for licensing iPod's MP3 tech instead of $0 for OGG. After all, you'll never see Apple advertising a regular iPod for $299 -OR- you can get an iPod which doesn't play MP3 for $298.
Planting an obvious ad in the middle of "journalism" is just wrong.
I don't see anything wrong about it. Imagine if you ran a tech review site and couldn't afford to equip all your various test machines with gigs of RAM each. Wouldn't you approach a company and ask if they could perhaps donate (or at least loan) you the equipment you needed? And, if they did such a thing, wouldn't it be nice to credit them for helping you out?
I fail to see how this is a "plant". It would be suspect if this were a review of sound cards and, right in the middle of the article, it said "Hey, your system needs more memory... purchase Corsair RAM today!" then that would be a plant. It would be no different than somebody comparing operating systems and thanking IBM/Dell/whoever for loaning you the equipment to do a side-by-side comparison with realtime parameter tweaking rather than having to tediously reformat a single machine every time you want to test a new config.
It's the lost art of the professional "thank you".
While all that processor speed is mighty good, who needs top-of-the-line equipment anymore? The new games all rely on the GFX card rather than the CPU. Any suggestions, other than the fact that Intel is keeping up to Moore's law?
Many non-game apps are CPU bound, and speed is always desired in these situations. Examples include rendering, video compression, SETI@Home, etc. Likely you don't need a faster processor, but it doesn't mean that the business world sees it the same way. Heck, maybe some day these processors will power your graphics card too!
The average human has 1 billion neurons. Lucy has about 30,000. In humans, each neuron has between 1,000 and 10,000 dendrites connecting it to other neurons. So basically, you're looking at an average of at least 1 trillion connections in the human brain.
AI will be a lot more advanced when we can find a good storage and computational means of processing that kind of volume of information in parallel.
"Passengers who[se profile] raise[s] questions [in the minds of airport security] would be classified as yellow and would receive extra security screening."
A bit different from "Passengers who ask questions...".
I know a mathematician by proxy of a good friend of mine, who noticed the 7 trick. He also suggests that there is a rule for any prime number, but I haven't seen any proofs.
One of those rules will eventually be "don't run over friendly troops". I don't think it's such a bad thing to force vehicles to stay within the rules. Otherwise we'll see over-optimization in areas which won't make sense down the road, pardon the pun.
I still don't know why Slashdot doesn't reference non-high bandwidth sites using the freecache service. All that needs to be done is prefix the URL with http://freecache.org/ and follow it with the full regular URL, eg:
No, really. If you're just doing this for fun and you don't want to spend anything (other than your time), then perhaps there's some Open Source project you can work with to help develop it to the level you need.
But if you're doing this to make money, there's no substitute for getting a Mac. Final Cut Express + DVD Studio is the combination you're looking for. Extremely professional results, all the flexibility you want, and support for the full range of DVD authoring options.
You don't accept substandard results if nobody can produce. This is something you intend to throw massive money on eventually, you'd want the would-be contractors to put up or shut up real quick.
Then again, this is very very early in development for all teams involved. Should they cancel the event or only have one team competing? Kinda ruins the whole purpose. DARPA set an ambitious goal and, seeing that the technology wasn't quite there yet, revised the goal. Nothing wrong with that. It encourages people to participate and, by allowing more teams to actually get involved with the competition, mistakes will be made, they will learn what not to do, and the science will advance.
Remember, they're not ordering a few billion dollars worth of equipment yet. This is mostly a proof-of-concept event to foster investment from outside parties. Start small, encourage teams to make advancements, then hold a more challenging event in a year or two. Seems like a good way to do it to me.
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In theory, you could use a keyboard to communicate with another person using Morse code with the space bar to send and the num lock light to receive them.
In practice, though, you'd likely use the alphanumeric keys conveniently provided for just this purpose.
The inexpensive x86 machines out there all run Windows. Would people have bought them if there were no OS to run on them? Odds are likely that Apple would be the already dominant force in the home, similar to how they were in the Apple ][ days.
Colour me confused, but I thought the X-Prize was a straightforward "First one to get a person 60 miles in the air wins" thing. Where does lobbying fit in?
The vehicles need to launch from somewhere, therefore several places are lobbying to have the X-Prize guys choose their backyard to be the official launch point.
I keep hoping for news of mineral resources somewhere in the solar system, that would make space travel profitable.
The prohibitive cost of this would make it unprofitable though. Say there's a huge repository of gold somewhere out there. The cost of going there and lugging it back would be so expensive that it would have to be a really *huge* amount of gold to make it worthwhile. Then the problem becomes liquidating that much gold on the market -- it would create such a glut that gold prices would fall sharply. The only chance of this making sense would be for something which is extremely rare on Earth, yet is in very high demand so that they could effectively monopolize the market.
There has to be a way to make money off of outer space, but what is it?
One of the easiest ways is tourism. The first people to setup shop in space charge others for the service of travelling in space or simply staying in an orbiting hotel. Substitute "space" for some remote corner of the planet, and the profit motive is similar. Moon/Mars safari, anyone?
Look at perl for example. Do you think it would be where it is today if it were closed source? It would probably be some hack that about 2 guys use.
You contradict yourself. Java is closed source. Yet, by your reasoning, it should only be some hack that 2 guys use. Well, that's obviously not true.
Regarding the rest of your post, I'm not sure if you're trying to be serious or sarcastic so I won't nitpick the rest of it.
It's in TFA:
Disclosure Timeline
5 March 2004
Ethereal developers were contacted by email telling them about 10(of the 13) holes. 6 holes were closed the same day EIGRP, IGAP, ISUP and BGP.
7 March 2004
IRDA hole closed (after checking specs)
8 March 2004
PGM hole closed (after checking specs)
9 March 2004
NetFlow hole closed (after checking specs)
17 March 2004
UCP holes were discovered and mailed to vendor
19 March 2004
UCP and TCAP holes closed (after checking specs)
22 March 2004
Ethereal developers have releases a mini advisory urging their users to upgrade to version 0.10.3 which will be released later this week
23 March 2004
Public Disclosure
Next SCO will be asking Russians for licenses in Chernobyl, where women really *do* glow.
Who wants to use a proprietary sound format, when they can use a much more appealing open format.
MP3: Everything supports it, which is very appealing for consumers.
OGG: Few products support it, not very appealing for consumers.
This is the old VHS/BETA debate again. Each one has various advantages over the other, but MP3 has already won mindshare and, as a result, is ubiquitous. In the end, consumers don't really care that Apple has to pay Fraunhofer $1 (or whatever) for licensing iPod's MP3 tech instead of $0 for OGG. After all, you'll never see Apple advertising a regular iPod for $299 -OR- you can get an iPod which doesn't play MP3 for $298.
Planting an obvious ad in the middle of "journalism" is just wrong.
I don't see anything wrong about it. Imagine if you ran a tech review site and couldn't afford to equip all your various test machines with gigs of RAM each. Wouldn't you approach a company and ask if they could perhaps donate (or at least loan) you the equipment you needed? And, if they did such a thing, wouldn't it be nice to credit them for helping you out?
I fail to see how this is a "plant". It would be suspect if this were a review of sound cards and, right in the middle of the article, it said "Hey, your system needs more memory... purchase Corsair RAM today!" then that would be a plant. It would be no different than somebody comparing operating systems and thanking IBM/Dell/whoever for loaning you the equipment to do a side-by-side comparison with realtime parameter tweaking rather than having to tediously reformat a single machine every time you want to test a new config.
It's the lost art of the professional "thank you".
I thought Intel was killing their label of chips by speeds...
Doesn't mean that the chips still don't have an internal clock speed. I guess this is the engineering benchmark rather than the marketing benchmark.
While all that processor speed is mighty good, who needs top-of-the-line equipment anymore? The new games all rely on the GFX card rather than the CPU. Any suggestions, other than the fact that Intel is keeping up to Moore's law?
Many non-game apps are CPU bound, and speed is always desired in these situations. Examples include rendering, video compression, SETI@Home, etc. Likely you don't need a faster processor, but it doesn't mean that the business world sees it the same way. Heck, maybe some day these processors will power your graphics card too!
Sure, here's the reference. Looks like I was off by a bit. Human brain has an average 100 billion neurons, not 1 billion. :) Lots of great stuff there.
I was hoping to read how to get popcorn from the kernel.
The average human has 1 billion neurons. Lucy has about 30,000. In humans, each neuron has between 1,000 and 10,000 dendrites connecting it to other neurons. So basically, you're looking at an average of at least 1 trillion connections in the human brain.
AI will be a lot more advanced when we can find a good storage and computational means of processing that kind of volume of information in parallel.
I think you misunderstood the intent:
"Passengers who[se profile] raise[s] questions [in the minds of airport security] would be classified as yellow and would receive extra security screening."
A bit different from "Passengers who ask questions...".
I know a mathematician by proxy of a good friend of mine, who noticed the 7 trick. He also suggests that there is a rule for any prime number, but I haven't seen any proofs.
:)
The margin wasn't big enough to write it down?
And what if you have no throat?
Ah... looks like I didn't wait long enough at the last page. Thanks.
Check out the teaser pages. There's a sequence of numbers presented throughout the 15 or so pages. Any meaning to them?
One of those rules will eventually be "don't run over friendly troops". I don't think it's such a bad thing to force vehicles to stay within the rules. Otherwise we'll see over-optimization in areas which won't make sense down the road, pardon the pun.
I still don't know why Slashdot doesn't reference non-high bandwidth sites using the freecache service. All that needs to be done is prefix the URL with http://freecache.org/ and follow it with the full regular URL, eg:
g _p ictures.html
http://freecache.org/http://www.slowsite.com/bi
It benefits the site owner by having reduced bandwidth costs and it also benefits Slashdot as we can read the articles.
Here's the secret scoop on how they did it.
No, really. If you're just doing this for fun and you don't want to spend anything (other than your time), then perhaps there's some Open Source project you can work with to help develop it to the level you need.
But if you're doing this to make money, there's no substitute for getting a Mac. Final Cut Express + DVD Studio is the combination you're looking for. Extremely professional results, all the flexibility you want, and support for the full range of DVD authoring options.
What kind of data are you preloading to help with the route planning? Contour map? Satellite imagery? Hand-crafted data, etc.?
You don't accept substandard results if nobody can produce. This is something you intend to throw massive money on eventually, you'd want the would-be contractors to put up or shut up real quick.
Then again, this is very very early in development for all teams involved. Should they cancel the event or only have one team competing? Kinda ruins the whole purpose. DARPA set an ambitious goal and, seeing that the technology wasn't quite there yet, revised the goal. Nothing wrong with that. It encourages people to participate and, by allowing more teams to actually get involved with the competition, mistakes will be made, they will learn what not to do, and the science will advance.
Remember, they're not ordering a few billion dollars worth of equipment yet. This is mostly a proof-of-concept event to foster investment from outside parties. Start small, encourage teams to make advancements, then hold a more challenging event in a year or two. Seems like a good way to do it to me.