Or maybe you could look at it the other way. Always keep your network wide open (and your machines locked down!) for the purposes of plausible deniability ?
Am I missing something, or would just gzip'ing xml when it goes over the network not solve the problem ? And isn't this sort of solution already widely implemented for web content ?
[feeds troll under table] Now I'm not an AI professional, but I do know a little about Steve Grand and his work, and feel compelled to balance the article's adoration a little. You should know that I haven't read the book.
Having followed Steve Grand's work for the last few years, and having seem him speak a couple of times, I'd warn potential readers/purchasers not to expect any 'real' content. Lots of speculation, sure. A few good ideas, almost certainly. Any substantial scientific content, probably not.
A lot was made of the Norns (as featured in Creatures). A lot of hype, and a pretty fun game. But I still haven't seen Norns flying fighter planes into combat as was promised, or replacing conventional AI constructs wherever they appear. Nor have the ideas made a significant impact on the academic AI community.
Like I say, I haven't read the book, and may be surprised if I do. But I just felt I needed to say caveat lector/emptor.
Exactly. Guaranteeing the safety of decommissioned fission plants necessarily involves making political/economic assumptions about future societies that cannot be reasonably justified.
Decommissioning fusion plants is projected to be of a similar scale to decommissioning fossil fuel plants, assuming progress on the materials development front (making materials that are not easily neutron-activated) keeps up with expectations.
As I understand, getting the power out is one of the more tricky aspects of building a usable fusion reactor. The problem is that if the fusion plasma comes to close to anything it tends to cool down, get polluted, and stops burning.
The current designs use a 'diverter' which modifies the magnetic confinement field near the edge of the plasma, sucking out both impurities and energy.
You will experience approximately the same kind of quality as with a DSL connection though the connection speed will vary based on obstacles along the railway track
Never mind the connection speed varying - we're all gonna die !
An important point that's not made explicit in the article is that the Visual Editor code is written to be language and GUI-framework agnostic.
The most wonderful thing about Eclipse is that it's so easy to extend; the addition of an extensible GUI editor should enable people to make a lot of nice tools (I've got an idea for it already:-).
It's straightforward to produce single photons - just turn on a lamp, you'll get loads of them !
These Q cryptography schemes don't need single photon generation on demand, which is the tricky thing (although good progress is being made). It's sufficient to use a dim light source, such that the mean photon number is low.
I think it's important to separate the idea bheind p2p from its most popular use, filesharing.
p2p filesharing may yet be squashed by the RIAA's evil henchmen - this is an argument that will probably, in the short term at least, be settled by cash. However, it seems that p2p itself - the move away from the little client, great big server, towards lots of modestly proportioned servents - is unavoidable. Fact is, most people have more computing power/storage space/network bandwidth than they really need; p2p often makes better use of the resources that are available. Unless there is a really radical shift in the hardware market (super thin clients maybe ?) I think p2p will be here to stay.
Perhaps they should have changed the name a bit more - ever since Brian Blessed bellowed "Palm Pilot... sounds like a wanking device" on a TV out-takes show, I've felt Palm wasn't such a good name for a company.
Or even better, we could add some code to Apache for killing people !
I guess what shocked me is that I'd assumed people in the military insulated themselves from the horror of what they are charged to do by casting things in terms of 'missions' and 'objectives' rather than killing and death. I'm surprised people can be so upfront and still deal with it.
One book that hasn't been mentioned yet that I think highly of is "Lectures on Quantum Theory: Mathematical and Structural Foundations" by Chris J. Isham (Imperial College Press). It presents things differently from most of the books mentioned above - a very modern axiomatic treatment. It shares a lot with Sakurai's book, but is more theoretical and less physical. I'd recommend as a second book - once you've got the idea of what's going on, it'll help fill in any gaps in your understanding of the mathematical framework.
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I'm confused. Are you talking about smoking or slashdot ?
Errrm ... it was like that when I got here ?!
Or maybe you could look at it the other way. Always keep your network wide open (and your machines locked down!) for the purposes of plausible deniability ?
Somebody fill me in ...
Isn't grass green because it reflects green light ?!
This is possibly the most useful thing I've ever learned from /. !
Having followed Steve Grand's work for the last few years, and having seem him speak a couple of times, I'd warn potential readers/purchasers not to expect any 'real' content. Lots of speculation, sure. A few good ideas, almost certainly. Any substantial scientific content, probably not.
A lot was made of the Norns (as featured in Creatures). A lot of hype, and a pretty fun game. But I still haven't seen Norns flying fighter planes into combat as was promised, or replacing conventional AI constructs wherever they appear. Nor have the ideas made a significant impact on the academic AI community.
Like I say, I haven't read the book, and may be surprised if I do. But I just felt I needed to say caveat lector/emptor.
Decommissioning fusion plants is projected to be of a similar scale to decommissioning fossil fuel plants, assuming progress on the materials development front (making materials that are not easily neutron-activated) keeps up with expectations.
As I understand, getting the power out is one of the more tricky aspects of building a usable fusion reactor. The problem is that if the fusion plasma comes to close to anything it tends to cool down, get polluted, and stops burning.
The current designs use a 'diverter' which modifies the magnetic confinement field near the edge of the plasma, sucking out both impurities and energy.
There's more info on the ITER site here
Never mind the connection speed varying - we're all gonna die !
The most wonderful thing about Eclipse is that it's so easy to extend; the addition of an extensible GUI editor should enable people to make a lot of nice tools (I've got an idea for it already :-).
It's straightforward to produce single photons - just turn on a lamp, you'll get loads of them !
These Q cryptography schemes don't need single photon generation on demand, which is the tricky thing (although good progress is being made). It's sufficient to use a dim light source, such that the mean photon number is low.
p2p filesharing may yet be squashed by the RIAA's evil henchmen - this is an argument that will probably, in the short term at least, be settled by cash. However, it seems that p2p itself - the move away from the little client, great big server, towards lots of modestly proportioned servents - is unavoidable. Fact is, most people have more computing power/storage space/network bandwidth than they really need; p2p often makes better use of the resources that are available. Unless there is a really radical shift in the hardware market (super thin clients maybe ?) I think p2p will be here to stay.
Not sure I want my underwear "ping:ed on the net", thank you very much.
Perhaps they should have changed the name a bit more - ever since Brian Blessed bellowed "Palm Pilot ... sounds like a wanking device" on a TV out-takes show, I've felt Palm wasn't such a good name for a company.
It's what I'd suspected all along.
I guess what shocked me is that I'd assumed people in the military insulated themselves from the horror of what they are charged to do by casting things in terms of 'missions' and 'objectives' rather than killing and death. I'm surprised people can be so upfront and still deal with it.
Convince your boss to play against you and then you don't even have to get back on time ...
One book that hasn't been mentioned yet that I think highly of is "Lectures on Quantum Theory: Mathematical and Structural Foundations" by Chris J. Isham (Imperial College Press). It presents things differently from most of the books mentioned above - a very modern axiomatic treatment. It shares a lot with Sakurai's book, but is more theoretical and less physical. I'd recommend as a second book - once you've got the idea of what's going on, it'll help fill in any gaps in your understanding of the mathematical framework.