What is the significance of the 500 parts per million figure in the article? What is the rest of the gas made up of? As a reminder, normal air is 20% oxygen, or 200,000 parts per million.
How fair is it really to say that Apple is holding the music industry back when sales for one week (a small sample) are down (compared to the last quarter, a very large sample) a fraction of a percent?
I know the basics: more IP space, future of the Internet, yada, yada... but how does IPv6 look different than IPv4 to the end user? Will I have to throw away my Linksys router? Will Windows need new drivers? Will "dhcpcd interface" still work in Linux?
Can someone point me in the right direction? I've looked for this information before and I keep running into very technical articles and articles about how things will change for ISPs and network administrators. What is the average high-speed cable user going to see?
The CEO of the company that makes product A, when he finds out that product B will be sold for much less than his, says that product B is no good. What a surprise!
Next week: Bill Gates denounces its operating system.
This is old news... Nova ran a special on this back in 2001! But that's what you get for paying attention to mainstream media (msnbc, in this case), instead of PBS, NPR, and scientific journals.
As a particle physicist I know exactly the kind of challenge that this is. The SNR is horrible, you've got tons of data, and the data may be distorted by all sorts of sources (background, misalignment, the wrong reaction, etc).
I also know that these sorts of algorithms are created all of the time. In fact, someone in my lab got his Ph.D. for applying a neural network to this problem. Furthermore, these algorithms are not "plug-n-play". They must be manually adjusted, by a team with a deep in-depth knowledge of the system in order to be useful.
So trust me when I say that Roland has blown this out of proportion. Congratulations to the CWRU team for getting the PRL paper published, but this is hardly the kind of ground-breaking news that deserves to be on Slashdot.
As a physicist, I depend on the journals and as a matter of fact, I rarely read the bound versions. More often, I use a web service, such as Web Of Science, to search for interesting papers, print the ps files, and read those. As far as making the journals available free on the web? Nah, don't bother, since just about everyone who has a need for journal access already has it either through their employment, university, or library.
I wasn't talking about a next-gen CD format, just an encrypted CD. That way the price increase (in players and in CD production) is minimal. DVD-A is overkill for someone who wants to go jogging with a CD player: overkill in the sense of the player would cost too much, the disc would cost too much, and the increased bitrate would kill battery life. And SACD is not an industry backed solution - it's only a Sony backed solution. What I outlined would have only worked if Sony had joined together with other companies, in a manner similar to the DVD consortium.
The Lawyers and Cows comment really sums it up perfectly. If Sony was smart, back in 1999 when Napster presented the first real challenge to their business model, they would have joined forces with all of the other labels and come out with an encrypted CD standard. I'm thinking something similar to the encryption on DVDs.
They would have made sure that the weaknesses in the DVD encryption scheme wasn't in their scheme (which dvdjon cracked in October 1999, so the music industry would have been aware of the problems). And even if their scheme was broke, like the DVD scheme was, it would still be hard enough to copy a CD that most people wouldn't try.
By encouraging and perhaps subsidising (for the first couple of years) the placement of the encryption chip, by today, six years later, nearly every CD player would be encryption enabled and they could stop producing unencrypted CDs entirely. Through encryption, they could allow the music to be ripped to the harddrive, but it would only play on your computer. They could also allow you to produce a copy, but the copy would be uncopyable. And they could let you place the files on your DAP.
People would have the fair use rights they expect and criminal copying becomes nearly impossible.
Not Mandriva specific, since all of the distrobutions and packages are guilty to some degree, but this is a perfect example of what's wrong with the Linux desktop. Mandriva pops up a window when you connect a digital camera to give you the option of importing your photos. Great! But the title bar reads "Warning". No problem for us geeks, but now, think Grandma. What is she going to do when she gets a warning? Will she think that an error has occurred? Perhaps. That's why these dialog boxes need to have the polish and unified feel that they do on XP or OS X.
In the same vein as the PSX was the Panasonic Q, a Gamecube DVD player. It wasn't stackable, but it did offer front loading instead of the flip-top design on the Cube.
All it takes is a verified observation to disprove a theory.
In logic theory, this is true, but in physics it is not. Take the Standard Model. It explains a large set of nuclear and atomic phenomenon. But occasionally some experiment produces results that don't jive with the Model. Do we throw the Standard Model out?? Nope, it is adjusted for the new results.
Another example: consider Newton's Classical Mechanics. It doesn't work at microscopic levels and it doesn't work at relativistic speeds. Has it been "disproven"? No, it just has defined boundaries of applicability.
Thus, if this guy is right and his discovery contradicts Quantum Mechanics, then QM needs to be adjusted or given limits.
I can only imagine that the next major release of Firefox (1.5) will cause another wave of Firefox adoption. Personally, I am currently not pushing Firefox that strongly since I know that if I help someone install 1.0.7 today, I'll have to do the same thing with 1.5 in a few weeks. But I will once again be pushing the browser heavily once a new, production-version of the browser is ready. Also a new release means new publicity. I think 1.5 will easily push Firefox into the 15-20% range.
Looking at their press release, the first line reads in part "Maui X-Stream (MXS)". Usually, the abbreviation is the company's stocks' ticker symbol. But I did a quick search and found that Maui X-Stream is not publically traded. It looks like they are trying to create the impression of being a real, publically traded corporation, without all the trouble of an SEC filing.
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But if 200,000ppm is not harmful at sea-level, then why is 500ppm harmful at altitude?
What is the significance of the 500 parts per million figure in the article? What is the rest of the gas made up of? As a reminder, normal air is 20% oxygen, or 200,000 parts per million.
How fair is it really to say that Apple is holding the music industry back when sales for one week (a small sample) are down (compared to the last quarter, a very large sample) a fraction of a percent?
Why is the parent post modded at +5?? He's just trying to get ppl to sign up for a MLM scheme.
Can someone point me in the right direction? I've looked for this information before and I keep running into very technical articles and articles about how things will change for ISPs and network administrators. What is the average high-speed cable user going to see?
Next week: Bill Gates denounces its operating system.
Alright, perhaps I was a bit hasty.
This is old news... Nova ran a special on this back in 2001! But that's what you get for paying attention to mainstream media (msnbc, in this case), instead of PBS, NPR, and scientific journals.
I also know that these sorts of algorithms are created all of the time. In fact, someone in my lab got his Ph.D. for applying a neural network to this problem. Furthermore, these algorithms are not "plug-n-play". They must be manually adjusted, by a team with a deep in-depth knowledge of the system in order to be useful.
So trust me when I say that Roland has blown this out of proportion. Congratulations to the CWRU team for getting the PRL paper published, but this is hardly the kind of ground-breaking news that deserves to be on Slashdot.
Same idea - I use MCHawking.com's Entropy to read the laws of Thermodynamics.
As a physicist, I depend on the journals and as a matter of fact, I rarely read the bound versions. More often, I use a web service, such as Web Of Science, to search for interesting papers, print the ps files, and read those. As far as making the journals available free on the web? Nah, don't bother, since just about everyone who has a need for journal access already has it either through their employment, university, or library.
I hold the patent on using lightbulbs to illuminate closets, thank you very much.
Since when is having your servers raped by an oncoming hoard a suitable birthday present?
What happened?
I wasn't talking about a next-gen CD format, just an encrypted CD. That way the price increase (in players and in CD production) is minimal. DVD-A is overkill for someone who wants to go jogging with a CD player: overkill in the sense of the player would cost too much, the disc would cost too much, and the increased bitrate would kill battery life. And SACD is not an industry backed solution - it's only a Sony backed solution. What I outlined would have only worked if Sony had joined together with other companies, in a manner similar to the DVD consortium.
They would have made sure that the weaknesses in the DVD encryption scheme wasn't in their scheme (which dvdjon cracked in October 1999, so the music industry would have been aware of the problems). And even if their scheme was broke, like the DVD scheme was, it would still be hard enough to copy a CD that most people wouldn't try.
By encouraging and perhaps subsidising (for the first couple of years) the placement of the encryption chip, by today, six years later, nearly every CD player would be encryption enabled and they could stop producing unencrypted CDs entirely. Through encryption, they could allow the music to be ripped to the harddrive, but it would only play on your computer. They could also allow you to produce a copy, but the copy would be uncopyable. And they could let you place the files on your DAP.
People would have the fair use rights they expect and criminal copying becomes nearly impossible.
Move along, nothing to see here. This is nothing but shameless self-promotion from a guy who can't even spell "useful" correctly.
Light grey text on a white background with salmon-colored links. That's just great on the ol' eyes!
Not Mandriva specific, since all of the distrobutions and packages are guilty to some degree, but this is a perfect example of what's wrong with the Linux desktop. Mandriva pops up a window when you connect a digital camera to give you the option of importing your photos. Great! But the title bar reads "Warning". No problem for us geeks, but now, think Grandma. What is she going to do when she gets a warning? Will she think that an error has occurred? Perhaps. That's why these dialog boxes need to have the polish and unified feel that they do on XP or OS X.
In the same vein as the PSX was the Panasonic Q, a Gamecube DVD player. It wasn't stackable, but it did offer front loading instead of the flip-top design on the Cube.
In logic theory, this is true, but in physics it is not. Take the Standard Model. It explains a large set of nuclear and atomic phenomenon. But occasionally some experiment produces results that don't jive with the Model. Do we throw the Standard Model out?? Nope, it is adjusted for the new results.
Another example: consider Newton's Classical Mechanics. It doesn't work at microscopic levels and it doesn't work at relativistic speeds. Has it been "disproven"? No, it just has defined boundaries of applicability.
Thus, if this guy is right and his discovery contradicts Quantum Mechanics, then QM needs to be adjusted or given limits.
The same thing occurred to me when I saw the white 360 controller in Walmart. "Is the Dreamcast back?" And then I saw the 360 logo. Interesting...
I can only imagine that the next major release of Firefox (1.5) will cause another wave of Firefox adoption. Personally, I am currently not pushing Firefox that strongly since I know that if I help someone install 1.0.7 today, I'll have to do the same thing with 1.5 in a few weeks. But I will once again be pushing the browser heavily once a new, production-version of the browser is ready. Also a new release means new publicity. I think 1.5 will easily push Firefox into the 15-20% range.
Looking at their press release, the first line reads in part "Maui X-Stream (MXS)". Usually, the abbreviation is the company's stocks' ticker symbol. But I did a quick search and found that Maui X-Stream is not publically traded. It looks like they are trying to create the impression of being a real, publically traded corporation, without all the trouble of an SEC filing.
What does this mean? I think that the exact opposite would be neat: An OS that can execute an app BEFORE it's installed.