Savy profs will be able to ensure their students have adequately covered the course material by building courseware into PS2/PSP games. Instead of reading law at Oxford, perhaps one can play Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer or Computer Architecture at A&M. Not really. The PS3 makes more sense for that sort of number-crunching work, and there's already Linux distros available to facilitate this on the Cell CPU. For the rest of it, Microsoft has the XNA environment available for the XBox, to enable game/learning-environment development. Indeed, I was enrolled in just such a (postgrad) paper last year. Moreover, none of these options require going through the drama that Sony wanted to impose... and who knows how easy or hard it will be to prove you're an institution or prof worthy of the free licensing, and what catches there are in the legal agreement? IMHO, it's too little too late, with Sony trying to catch up on the ground it has already lost to Microsoft (and Nintendo, for those profs particularly interested in HCI).
Many many ISPs in many many countries operate this way. It's not as nice as "flat rate" in some folks eyes, but at least you get what you pay for (assuming no BT throttling, etc shenanigans).
It's already been fixed and the Debian team should be sending a patched version of samba to their repos for downstream distros either last night or some time today. Yeah, but how long before someone fixes that patch? 2 years?
Also, law enforcement should be raiding MD offices where the attacks came from to collect evidence (ie PCs and servers). What evidence? You *know* those machines will be sparkling clean by now.
Perhaps it's time the legislation was put in place to ensure that government actually is representative of the people. Like jury service, onyl better paid, so people actually want to do it.
I think you'd be wrong about that. I suspect we'll get this working with a small but well designed framework running on a low overhead OS, because part of the deal with these things is that so much of it is self-organizing (or at least, organizes itself based on a template). Once we get the model right (and it might be very similar to cockroach-esque models currently working), most of the resources should be directly usable for the e-brain.
I made no mention of timeframe, so no, I'm not saying that at all. If reality was anything like this random idea of mine, I think it's more likely that small pieces of spacetime would fall(?) back to the greater body of they were ejected from... I've no idea if that would be anything like our one though. If it was, we'd probably be none the wiser other than our large scale observations might change between times. No need for end-o-the-world panic.
What if it's actually a smaller part of a whole, and we only see it as a donut from the inside? The edges of our universe are inner surfaces... the edges of a splash from a raindrop in a puddle of spacetime.
(If you didn't follow the metaphor, the raindrop impact would be viewed as the big-bang, and the edges would be formed by water surface tension, so the universe would continue to expand but not forever... eventually it would "pop" or disperse as the surface tension becomes too weak to fold things together... or something)
I'm honestly confounded why the American people are putting up with this. What are they going to do about it? Complain? Vote the president out? Stop buying petroleum products? Short of large-scale and extreme civil disobedience, there's nothing Americans can do to change it. And the bastards who did this know that all too well.
Hello, NASA engineer here. Look up the Mars Science Lander (MSL) mission being built at JPL (link below). Nuke powered and huge. Upgrade from the Vikings mission since it has WHEELS. Will launch in September 2009. http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/
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It's a cool experiment, but it's news once you get the result, not "a few years" before.
Unless they're trying to drum up interest for funding...
Many many ISPs in many many countries operate this way. It's not as nice as "flat rate" in some folks eyes, but at least you get what you pay for (assuming no BT throttling, etc shenanigans).
Just make the punishment fit the crime: Release the personal information of the company directors into the wild.
...I want a quality date in Japan!
Perhaps it's time the legislation was put in place to ensure that government actually is representative of the people. Like jury service, onyl better paid, so people actually want to do it.
Which of the following are appropriate use of an apostophe?
1) To form possessives of nouns
2) To show the omission of letters
3) To indicate certain plurals of lowercase letters.
4) Look out! Here comes an s!
I think you'd be wrong about that. I suspect we'll get this working with a small but well designed framework running on a low overhead OS, because part of the deal with these things is that so much of it is self-organizing (or at least, organizes itself based on a template). Once we get the model right (and it might be very similar to cockroach-esque models currently working), most of the resources should be directly usable for the e-brain.
I made no mention of timeframe, so no, I'm not saying that at all. If reality was anything like this random idea of mine, I think it's more likely that small pieces of spacetime would fall(?) back to the greater body of they were ejected from... I've no idea if that would be anything like our one though. If it was, we'd probably be none the wiser other than our large scale observations might change between times. No need for end-o-the-world panic.
What if it's actually a smaller part of a whole, and we only see it as a donut from the inside? The edges of our universe are inner surfaces... the edges of a splash from a raindrop in a puddle of spacetime.
(If you didn't follow the metaphor, the raindrop impact would be viewed as the big-bang, and the edges would be formed by water surface tension, so the universe would continue to expand but not forever... eventually it would "pop" or disperse as the surface tension becomes too weak to fold things together... or something)
Very interesting info. Thanks A.C!
Well, they do spend more on marketing than they do actual research...
That would beat the big Yellow Pages it's been turning into lately...
...and what do we get on Slashdot? Nothing but posts about a fracking typo in the summary. Grow up and get some perspective.