Anybody see the lack of tactile feedback as a problem? Holograms are great for unobtrusive displays like in aircraft like the story says, but once you start interacting with it, you would expect some type of feedback.
Especially, if they plan to use this sort of thing for remote medical procedures. Imagine a doctor trying to perform a delicate surgery, without any sort of sensation of touch whatsoever.
Maybe they'll come up with force feedback gloves or something.
As an aside, about an earlier event fromThe Universe Today:
A rare astronomical event will occur in May 1999- Mars will be the closest it ever gets, only 52.8 million miles. In addition, the Red Planet is in opposition, which means its face is completely lit up by the Sun. Amateur astronomers will be able to see normally obscure features like the polar caps and canyons.
I've been having these troubling thoughts since a couple of years...approximately since the first Matrix was released.
Not that I'm an atheist or anything, but I've been developing a feeling off late, that religion was introduced in ancient times as a deterrent against perceived immoral/harmful behavior. In the absence of effective law-enforcement agencies, the best way to encourage people to act peacefully/etc was to lay down a set of rules of "acceptable behaviour" and make it known that breach of the rules would result in punishment in the form of hell or alternately reward in the form of heaven.
I think the world has developed enough now, that we no longer need religion as a deterrent. It serves more as a tool for discrimination/fanaticism, rather than what it was intended for.
Not sure if there are other people who've thought along these lines...who knows, I may be the ONE:)
*wears Matrix goggles and gets back to work*
I have heard from my friends' friends that chicks dig well-built, charismatic guys. But since that doesn't help most of us here, I did a bit of research: Apparently, girls also have a soft corner for guys who like babies!!
Now I know, babies suck BIG TIME....nothing like a whining baby to distract you while you're sitting at the computer reading/.. But girls needn't know that!! I would recommend a catchy phrase saying something like : "I love babies", or "I want to be a father" to attract females, who normally wouldn't step within 300 feet of you. Bold vertical stripes (purple or some such color), would also helpfully hide bulging beer bellies and give build a macho-escaped convict look.
Finally, those wizards at the MIT Media Lab bring you Hyperscore, a visual composition program which is intended for childen to be able to easily create complex and fantastic music sequences.
I have dabbled with Fruity Loops for a while, but my greatest complaint, while trying to create/remix music has been it's immense complexity.
True, it has an infinite number of features, and is supposed to be an all-in-one music studio, but as a novice at music, I found it extremely difficult to learn. I know it was designed for expert musicians in order to produce commercial-grade music, but I, for one am happy to know there's something out there, capable of producing "complex and fantastic" music without being fantastically complex and difficult to learn.
In some instances, piracy can actually be more damaging than traditional theft. Unlike traditional theft, where a person steals a specific number of tangible objects, one product in digital format can alone be used to generate hundreds of thousands of near-perfect digital copies within hours. In the case of software piracy, for example, the developer has not been deprived of his product in the traditional sense it has merely been copied. Yet, he faces the grim reality that his product is now available around the world, often for free, to anyone with a computer and an Internet connection. In very real terms, even though he retains his property, the digital victim is in a much worse position than the victim of a more traditional theft. To him, the theft is clear and the harm couldn t be more real.
In almost every discussion on/. regarding RIAA and the like, somebody comes up with the point that file-sharing is not theft, since nobody was actually deprived of the property.
I guess that's valid, only when you look at it from the customer's point of view. Though none of the customers were deprived of music as a result of file sharing (as opposed to stealing a CD), the artist was deprived of a certain amount of money which he could've made as a result of selling the music. So it *could* be labelled as theft, since the artist was deprived indirectly as a result of filesharing.
Not that I'm opposed to filesharing, but I think most of the questions (especially the one regarding theft and piracy) were answered pretty well.
Does anyone else think it would be a good idea if we all had IM available to us during these lectures?
*frantically raises hand*
Yes! Yes! I think it is a great idea. I'm all for IM in class. It is probably one of the few reasons I stay awake through class. The only persistent problem is the professor's droning voice which keeps distracting me from my engaging conversation with Blondebomb25 and Super_gal22.
What happens if you registered on Kazaa, logged in once, and then forgot to log off? You don't have to relogin again, if the password is "remembered". What if you logged on a public computer, used by thousands of users (in a school or library), who subsequently downloaded stuff without relogging in.
Not that I'm on the list, but do they intend to catch the person who actually created the account, but may not have downloaded any copyrighted material, but inadvertently forgotten to log off? Failing to log off isn't a crime by itself, nor should you be responsible if your account was used for illegal activity, unknown to you.
Computer Recycling event at Georgia Tech
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A computer equipment recycling event was held at Georgia Tech a couple of weeks back...in partnership with Dell. I went and donated an antique graphics card I had, but they were looking for larger donations, from local organizations.
A snippet:
The Georgia Institute of Technology in partnership with Dell Computer Corporation of Round Rock, Texas is pleased to announce a one-day computer equipment-recycling event in Atlanta. The event will be held at the Alexander Memorial Coliseum parking lot on the Georgia Tech campus on Saturday, July 12, 2003 from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM. The Coliseum is located on 10th Street off the I-75/85 Connector in downtown Atlanta. Participants are asked to enter the Coliseum via Fowler and 8th Street. The general public is encouraged to bring any brand of old computer-related equipment--computers, computer monitors, keyboards, mice, printers or other peripherals to the site for collection and recycling by Dell.
I know it's real bad in my office, especially with all the beer I consume. What do you do to stay in shape? Any secrets, acessories? Recently I've started to do sit ups, push ups, and running up and down the stairs. I get alot of odd looks and would prefer something that doesn't make the whole office stare at me.
An average human being can burn up to 100 calories for every ten minutes of masturbation. All you need is some tissue, a quiet room, and some good porn. It's fun, enjoyable and doesn't make you look like an ass running up and down the stairs. So, this is what I would suggest:
Put in about an hour of vigorous masturbation through the day. An hour can help you burn upto 600 calories. That itself would make up for a pitcher of beer. Start slow, and gradually increase the amount of effort you put in. Soon, you will be having fun several hours a day, compensating for several gallons of beer and having fun, while you're at it!
The only chapter that I glossed over was Chapter,... The chapter begins with a recipe for creating a PAM-Aware Application. I started to type in the C code but stopped a few lines from the end, it just didn't make sense for me to have this knowledge at this time.
You were right in taking the material with a pinch of salt.
LSC is for the most part very easy to follow.
In other words, it was a piece of cake.
Because of this experience I am a bit more stingy when shelling out for a computer book. This is one instance where I would be willing to shell out the $61.95 Canadian for a book.
You obviously knew which side your bread was buttered on.
The Linux Security Cookbook covers a wide range of potential security problems and it presents its solutions such that each takes only a few minutes to implement.I found this book to be a great source for information on different Linux security issues.
So you're telling me Google is not an oracle. Duh!
Ofcourse Google is not the Oracle. Anybody who's seen the Matrix Reloaded knows that the Oracle was actually an evil program in cahoots with the machines.
Google is not like that. Google is more like...um...Trinity: smart, beautiful, intelligent and always there for you when you need it.
I RTFA, but couldn't figure out whether they plan to use the cameras as live surveillance equipment (video beamed live to surveillance centers on ground) or just as a more advanced flight data recorder (to be recovered and used for investigation after something untoward happens and/or serve as a deterrent as in gas stores-not useful for suicidal criminals).
If they indeed are planning to install cameras, I would like to see them choose the first alternative...beam all videos live to monitoring stations, to constantly monitor the passengers, warn the crew of dangerous activity and take preventive action.
FDRs are basically doomsday equipment, useful only after an incident has occurred, it would make more sense to work towards preventing incidents, rather than plan towards subsequent investigations and lawsuits.
Ofcourse, the costs involved in setting up live broadcasting of video, and the infrastructure to monitor the large number of simultaneous flights/cameras would prove prohibitive.
As much as I have come to hate the RIAA and it's dictatorial attitude off late, I really don't think online anonymity is the thing of the future.
True, we would all like to be anonymous, and protect are so called privacy: online and elsewhere, but I just don't see it happening anytime soon, or maybe ever.
Consider anonymity in the real world. It's almost impossible to do anything really worthwhile completely anonymously. True, you may get along for a while, but sooner or later, you would need a job, a place to live, maybe a phone...the list goes on....and it's pretty much impossible to do any of these without proving your identity. You just cannot get along without remaining completely anonymous, in a fast developing world.
Maybe in lesser developed countries, you would not need an SSN or ID, but you would need alternate means of identification nevertheless, unless ofcourse you prefer to exist illegally under multiple identities.
With the Internet fast becoming part of our lives, and the ever broadening range of stuff that can be done online, it's but natural that some measures to establish identity come into force some time or the other.
People may argue that in the offline world, you are able to perform certain activities anonymously...say relax in a lounge chair in front of the fireplace...but BAM....as soon as you interact with society, anonymity is gone....Poof.
The problem with the Internet, is, that you are *always* interacting with some computer, somewhere, which does not belong to you. This is not true with the real world, if you're sitting lounging on a chair, you're interacting with the chair which belongs to you, thus ensuring anonymity. Anonymity on the Internet, on the other hand, is and will remain to be a very hard thing to achieve.
I guess that's a long enough rant for this time of the night.
Check out the Google Voice Search page. This has been up for quite a while now, and though not directly applicable as is, to people with a slow internet connection, it's just another alternative to emails. They should design it to respond by phone though. But again, people with dialup connections would, more often than not, not have a second phone line to request searches by phone.
To try out this demo, please follow these simple steps:
1. Pick up the phone and call the automated voice search system at (650) 318-0165.
2. After the prompt Say your Search Keywords, say your query to the system.
3. Click this link and a new window will open with your voice search results.
4. Say another query, and the new window with the search results will be updated with the new results.
When it was first revealed in 1984, TRON, which can be modified for use on personal computers, was hailed in Japan as a homemade software which could break the dominance of Microsoft and free Japanese computer firms from the burden of paying for the basic software.
First revealed in 1984, PR0N, which can be modified for use on personal computers, was hailed in Japan as a homemade software which could break the dominance of Playboy and Hustler and free Japanese masturbators from the burden of paying for the basic software.
They have an interesting page about the success stories of SGI graphics workstations.
A particularly interestingone about their role in the making of the LOTR:
The Wellington, New Zealand, company is using a full complement of IRIX OS-based Silicon Graphics® Octane® and Silicon Graphics® Onyx2® visual workstations, SGI® Origin® family servers, and SGI Linux OS-based visual workstations and servers to create and manage up to 100TB of data. Cool pictures too.
This review needs a Disclaimer
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First, chicks dig scars -- although that theorem lies well outside of the scope of this book.
How very careless of the/. editors to post an article carrying dangerous references like this without any disclaimer or warnings.
Going by the average mindset of the female-starved crowd here, I thought it best to post a disclaimer, before somebody seriously injures him/herself.
The theorem quoted herein is pure hypothesis. We can and will not confirm the above fact about chicks. Nor are we responsible for any damage to life, limb or property arising out of attempts to prove the same. If you kill yourself, you alone are responsible for it
I don't know the exact figures, but a fairly large number of websites continue to use Microsoft IIS to power their webservers.
As long as the Microsoft IIS server continues to favor IE, (can't find the older/. articles about IIS circumventing the standard HTTP protocol to serve pages faster to IE, and also display crappy pages on Mozilla) rather than serving pages fairly across all browsers, and continues to be as widely as Apache, IE will still remain in the game. Simply because general home users wont understand why some pages crap out with Mozilla/etc (not designed for any browser other than IE or due to discrimination by IIS).
It's a pity Apache doesn't start favoring Mozilla/Opera over IE, but I guess that wouldn't be fair play.
for this would be cellphones or PDA's, which have displays that are too small to view normal webpages designed for larger displays.
If the user is looking for specific information/keywords that are too small to read on the display, the browser could "popout" a magnified/highlighted/easier to read version of the surrounding context.
And rather than coming out with a whole new browser, maybe it could be incorporated into The Google Toolbar or something similar....they've recently added new features to make searching within a webpage easier.
Are You a Sharecropper? If you're developing software for the Windows platform, yes. Or for the Apple platform, or the Oracle platform, or the SAP platform, or, well, any platform that is owned and operated by a company.
I can't say I agree completely with this definition of ShareCropper.
Are You really a Sharecropper if you're developing software using well established standard API's implemented on Windows? Is it really Sharecropping to use the standard TCP/IP stack implementation on Windows? As long as the platform which you are developing for adheres to non proprietary standards, and if you're using platform specific implementations of well established standards, you are still fine. Since you have stuck by the standards, you are screwed only if the standards change, or if the the company owning the implementation decides not to stand by the standards.
So you would be a ShareCropper if you're developing software for any proprietary standard that is owned by a company.
What I meant in the parent was, if they are going higher up into space, so that air molecules aren't an issue, and if the lower height with a small number of air particles is good enough for satellites etc, why not use differential thrust at that height to propel them.
In fact it is well known that the radiometer blades turn due to the heating of air molecules by the light, causing a differential thrust on the two sides of the blades. Only in a perfect vacuum would light pressure be a significant factor. Gold created a vacuum in a laboratory experiment - but his vacuum wasn't perfect, or even good enough, and he got the wrong answer from his experiment. (The same reason we are insisting that the Cosmos 1 spacecraft fly in a high enough orbit so that air molecules don't interfere with solar sailing.)
So, rather than going through all the trouble of avoiding air molecules, so that differential thrust due to heating does not propel the spacecraft, why not use the differential thrust to your advantage? After all propulsions is what they want. If differential heating of air molecules is capable of producing motion, so be it. Why not use it instead of trying to avoid it.
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Especially, if they plan to use this sort of thing for remote medical procedures. Imagine a doctor trying to perform a delicate surgery, without any sort of sensation of touch whatsoever.
Maybe they'll come up with force feedback gloves or something.
Whoa there, no need to get nasty. We'll post them questions as soon as we thinks them up. What kind of name is Beck for a dog anyway.
Space.com
abc.net.au
Telescopes-Astronomy.com - lots of details about suitable telescopes etc.
As an aside, about an earlier event fromThe Universe Today:
A rare astronomical event will occur in May 1999- Mars will be the closest it ever gets, only 52.8 million miles. In addition, the Red Planet is in opposition, which means its face is completely lit up by the Sun. Amateur astronomers will be able to see normally obscure features like the polar caps and canyons.
Not that I'm an atheist or anything, but I've been developing a feeling off late, that religion was introduced in ancient times as a deterrent against perceived immoral/harmful behavior. In the absence of effective law-enforcement agencies, the best way to encourage people to act peacefully/etc was to lay down a set of rules of "acceptable behaviour" and make it known that breach of the rules would result in punishment in the form of hell or alternately reward in the form of heaven.
I think the world has developed enough now, that we no longer need religion as a deterrent. It serves more as a tool for discrimination/fanaticism, rather than what it was intended for.
Not sure if there are other people who've thought along these lines...who knows, I may be the ONE :)
*wears Matrix goggles and gets back to work*
Now I know, babies suck BIG TIME....nothing like a whining baby to distract you while you're sitting at the computer reading /.. But girls needn't know that!! I would recommend a catchy phrase saying something like : "I love babies", or "I want to be a father" to attract females, who normally wouldn't step within 300 feet of you. Bold vertical stripes (purple or some such color), would also helpfully hide bulging beer bellies and give build a macho-escaped convict look.
I have dabbled with Fruity Loops for a while, but my greatest complaint, while trying to create/remix music has been it's immense complexity.
True, it has an infinite number of features, and is supposed to be an all-in-one music studio, but as a novice at music, I found it extremely difficult to learn. I know it was designed for expert musicians in order to produce commercial-grade music, but I, for one am happy to know there's something out there, capable of producing "complex and fantastic" music without being fantastically complex and difficult to learn.
In almost every discussion on /. regarding RIAA and the like, somebody comes up with the point that file-sharing is not theft, since nobody was actually deprived of the property.
I guess that's valid, only when you look at it from the customer's point of view. Though none of the customers were deprived of music as a result of file sharing (as opposed to stealing a CD), the artist was deprived of a certain amount of money which he could've made as a result of selling the music. So it *could* be labelled as theft, since the artist was deprived indirectly as a result of filesharing.
Not that I'm opposed to filesharing, but I think most of the questions (especially the one regarding theft and piracy) were answered pretty well.
*frantically raises hand*
Yes! Yes! I think it is a great idea. I'm all for IM in class. It is probably one of the few reasons I stay awake through class. The only persistent problem is the professor's droning voice which keeps distracting me from my engaging conversation with Blondebomb25 and Super_gal22.
Not that I'm on the list, but do they intend to catch the person who actually created the account, but may not have downloaded any copyrighted material, but inadvertently forgotten to log off? Failing to log off isn't a crime by itself, nor should you be responsible if your account was used for illegal activity, unknown to you.
The link is here
A snippet:
The Georgia Institute of Technology in partnership with Dell Computer Corporation of Round Rock, Texas is pleased to announce a one-day computer equipment-recycling event in Atlanta. The event will be held at the Alexander Memorial Coliseum parking lot on the Georgia Tech campus on Saturday, July 12, 2003 from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM. The Coliseum is located on 10th Street off the I-75/85 Connector in downtown Atlanta. Participants are asked to enter the Coliseum via Fowler and 8th Street. The general public is encouraged to bring any brand of old computer-related equipment--computers, computer monitors, keyboards, mice, printers or other peripherals to the site for collection and recycling by Dell.
An average human being can burn up to 100 calories for every ten minutes of masturbation. All you need is some tissue, a quiet room, and some good porn. It's fun, enjoyable and doesn't make you look like an ass running up and down the stairs. So, this is what I would suggest:
Put in about an hour of vigorous masturbation through the day. An hour can help you burn upto 600 calories. That itself would make up for a pitcher of beer. Start slow, and gradually increase the amount of effort you put in. Soon, you will be having fun several hours a day, compensating for several gallons of beer and having fun, while you're at it!
You were right in taking the material with a pinch of salt.
LSC is for the most part very easy to follow.
In other words, it was a piece of cake.
Because of this experience I am a bit more stingy when shelling out for a computer book. This is one instance where I would be willing to shell out the $61.95 Canadian for a book.
You obviously knew which side your bread was buttered on.
The Linux Security Cookbook covers a wide range of potential security problems and it presents its solutions such that each takes only a few minutes to implement.I found this book to be a great source for information on different Linux security issues.
So all in all, you cut the cake and ate it too.
WTF are they going to do with a 100 IP Addresses per human being??? Maybe their grand plan is to assign an address to each body part or something.
Great! So my brain could send lightning fast, low-overhead UDP requests to my organs, instead of bulky nerve impulses.
Ofcourse Google is not the Oracle. Anybody who's seen the Matrix Reloaded knows that the Oracle was actually an evil program in cahoots with the machines.
Google is not like that. Google is more like...um...Trinity: smart, beautiful, intelligent and always there for you when you need it.
If they indeed are planning to install cameras, I would like to see them choose the first alternative...beam all videos live to monitoring stations, to constantly monitor the passengers, warn the crew of dangerous activity and take preventive action.
FDRs are basically doomsday equipment, useful only after an incident has occurred, it would make more sense to work towards preventing incidents, rather than plan towards subsequent investigations and lawsuits.
Ofcourse, the costs involved in setting up live broadcasting of video, and the infrastructure to monitor the large number of simultaneous flights/cameras would prove prohibitive.
Consider anonymity in the real world. It's almost impossible to do anything really worthwhile completely anonymously. True, you may get along for a while, but sooner or later, you would need a job, a place to live, maybe a phone...the list goes on....and it's pretty much impossible to do any of these without proving your identity. You just cannot get along without remaining completely anonymous, in a fast developing world.
Maybe in lesser developed countries, you would not need an SSN or ID, but you would need alternate means of identification nevertheless, unless ofcourse you prefer to exist illegally under multiple identities.
With the Internet fast becoming part of our lives, and the ever broadening range of stuff that can be done online, it's but natural that some measures to establish identity come into force some time or the other.
People may argue that in the offline world, you are able to perform certain activities anonymously...say relax in a lounge chair in front of the fireplace...but BAM....as soon as you interact with society, anonymity is gone....Poof.
The problem with the Internet, is, that you are *always* interacting with some computer, somewhere, which does not belong to you. This is not true with the real world, if you're sitting lounging on a chair, you're interacting with the chair which belongs to you, thus ensuring anonymity. Anonymity on the Internet, on the other hand, is and will remain to be a very hard thing to achieve.
I guess that's a long enough rant for this time of the night.
To try out this demo, please follow these simple steps:
1. Pick up the phone and call the automated voice search system at (650) 318-0165.
2. After the prompt Say your Search Keywords, say your query to the system.
3. Click this link and a new window will open with your voice search results.
4. Say another query, and the new window with the search results will be updated with the new results.
First revealed in 1984, PR0N, which can be modified for use on personal computers, was hailed in Japan as a homemade software which could break the dominance of Playboy and Hustler and free Japanese masturbators from the burden of paying for the basic software.
A particularly interestingone about their role in the making of the LOTR:
The Wellington, New Zealand, company is using a full complement of IRIX OS-based Silicon Graphics® Octane® and Silicon Graphics® Onyx2® visual workstations, SGI® Origin® family servers, and SGI Linux OS-based visual workstations and servers to create and manage up to 100TB of data. Cool pictures too.
How very careless of the /. editors to post an article carrying dangerous references like this without any disclaimer or warnings.
Going by the average mindset of the female-starved crowd here, I thought it best to post a disclaimer, before somebody seriously injures him/herself.
The theorem quoted herein is pure hypothesis. We can and will not confirm the above fact about chicks. Nor are we responsible for any damage to life, limb or property arising out of attempts to prove the same. If you kill yourself, you alone are responsible for it
As long as the Microsoft IIS server continues to favor IE, (can't find the older /. articles about IIS circumventing the standard HTTP protocol to serve pages faster to IE, and also display crappy pages on Mozilla) rather than serving pages fairly across all browsers, and continues to be as widely as Apache, IE will still remain in the game. Simply because general home users wont understand why some pages crap out with Mozilla/etc (not designed for any browser other than IE or due to discrimination by IIS).
It's a pity Apache doesn't start favoring Mozilla/Opera over IE, but I guess that wouldn't be fair play.
If the user is looking for specific information/keywords that are too small to read on the display, the browser could "popout" a magnified/highlighted/easier to read version of the surrounding context.
And rather than coming out with a whole new browser, maybe it could be incorporated into The Google Toolbar or something similar....they've recently added new features to make searching within a webpage easier.
I can't say I agree completely with this definition of ShareCropper.
Are You really a Sharecropper if you're developing software using well established standard API's implemented on Windows? Is it really Sharecropping to use the standard TCP/IP stack implementation on Windows? As long as the platform which you are developing for adheres to non proprietary standards, and if you're using platform specific implementations of well established standards, you are still fine. Since you have stuck by the standards, you are screwed only if the standards change, or if the the company owning the implementation decides not to stand by the standards.
So you would be a ShareCropper if you're developing software for any proprietary standard that is owned by a company.
So, rather than going through all the trouble of avoiding air molecules, so that differential thrust due to heating does not propel the spacecraft, why not use the differential thrust to your advantage? After all propulsions is what they want. If differential heating of air molecules is capable of producing motion, so be it. Why not use it instead of trying to avoid it.