Doesn't matter whether they are publicised or not - it's the Spartacus effect*. There are far, far too many to take down or disable. It's beneficial to get the word out, too - better to have a few big, efficient networks than many scattered, underperforming ones. Besides, the real killer p2p app (decentralized, full privacy) will come that much faster this way.
*Not sure if I'm using that correctly.
Re:3D interfaces - the Uncanny Valley of UI
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A link for the interested - Kaya, the digital model. Short demo videos of a detailed model. Quite creepy, a good demonstration of the Uncanny Valley effect.
As for the usability of 3D GUIs, I'd say we need more dimensions of input (such as measurement of applied force like the PS2 controller) to match the more dimensions available.
Re:It's cost of storage, not quantity
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The only real problem we have is the use of proprietary formats that cannot be recovered when the medium changes. I used to have 8" diskettes for stuff I had for the PDP-11; I could no longer read those now. I can no longer read 5" diskettes for the PC unless I find an old computer and buy it for the floppy drive. The 3 1/2" diskette is becoming obsolete except as a near-universal exchange medium and for use on older computers without CD drives.
True, but at least they are digital. You can still extract a exact copy once you have the hardware. It would be a nightmare if analog storage were the norm!
The point is, there may be some use for it in future - say, a couple later, some random neurons fire and you remember that old song or movie (or whatever), then you can just go and open it, no hassles. Even if it means nothing to anybody else, and therefore would be hard to find.
Besides, the only case where this is harmful / dangerous is when money is spent to buy more storage, instead of going back through and deleting the crap on a case-by-case basis.
Yes, but the bandwidth saved would be negligible when serving imageless pages, and there would still be the issue of misbehaving clients scraping the tracker. Not to mention, integrating a Bittorrent-esque client with the users browser of choice.
The far more basic solution (as mentioned on BoingBoing), is to simply cache IPs that have downloaded the current RSS feed, then flush the cache at the next update.
This requires readers that cache feeds though, as many users would get caught out if they tried getting the feed too often.
"George is, quite simply, the worst helpdesk technician ever.
His grasp on the written word is shakier than a canoe full of epileptics. His knowledge of computers is thinner than a Vegas dancer's chiffon underpants. He is, by all standards of intelligence, a rock.
While we worked together, George was responsible for turning out some of the most mangled, garbled, and just plain screwed up help desk tickets ever before seen by mortal man. I have taken these tickets and collected them, and I present them to you as a cathartic expression, a venting of fourteen months' pain and frustration (George's employ and my own overlapped by that amount of time).
Mean? Perhaps. Spiteful? Probably. Funny? Oh, most definitely."
Includes such choice qoutes as: "she is havening problems connecting to the z drive,she told never i will figure it out on my own" "is receiving an error that states line x excuration locked at another user will not be created at this time" "would like to have a reinstall a ghost image development evirroment"
But, I have greater fears for the live action Evangelion movie. If they fuck it up, no one will ever get the budget to try it again and do it properly.
The next time I go to a horror or horror action film, I want to be deeply disturbed. (snip) H. R. Giger (the man who designed the artwork for Alien) should design the atmosphere for Doom the movie.
Amen, brother. The depiction of Hell in Doom 3 (for the most part) didn't really seem like a heavily freaky place, only some floating bricks and lava everywhere. I don't think Giger would do a conventional Hell, but that's kind of the point - unexpected == good.
I want to see more original movies, but those in control of the big budget productions are horribly short sighted, greedy and narrow minded. They gauge success based on opening night / week figures, really before word-of-mouth has time to spread around (which is the better indicator of artistic success). They'll only spend big on the proven formulas - which means no backing for creative projects. And all too often, when they do take a chance on an unknown, they'll chop and change it to take it away from the creator's vision and into the mainstream, butchering it in the process. I guess I'll just have to wait for the filter of time to erode the crap from the brilliant. Or, eDonkey. Whatever works...
- If the earth's spin warps space around the planet what else is created by others planets or, what's a galaxy's effect arounds or inside itself ?
It's the same for all objects, from Pluto to the Sun to galaxy clusters.
- Will this fabric help us to travel farther without a conventional energy ?
I think you misunderstand - the "fabric" of spacetime is everywhere already, it's comparable to the "ether" in terms of its basic concept. We still require energy to move objects, the 'fabric' cannot be assymetrically affected.
- Is the actual space station fullproof against anykind of fabric ripples ??
Ripples in spacetime would require vast amounts of concentrated energy before they would even be noticeable - besides the fact that if anything even remotely destructive enough to cause damaging 'ripples' detonated within the galaxy, the conventional energy released would wipe us out.
Of course, but 25 years is little more than a single generation - an effective selection process would likely take many thousands, especially since HIV is not an instant kill and susceptible persons may live to have children.
Like other posters have mentioned, from the time of the Black Death / Bubonic plague which was devastatingly effective, less than 1% of the population involved now has immunity from that particular infection.
first-to-market in this case sounds like no more than a hook for fanboys
Not really - these "fanboys" are the people who convince the company(ies) to keep selling the product and kick-start the 'economy of scale' that allow you to buy the now-standard and cheaper features. If they didn't take the risks, then you'd never see the feature/technology.
Sorry if that seems too obvious, but your post just seemed to be missing something. (NB: The TiVo could live on those who watch free-to-air stations)
You pique my interest with that talk of true surround sound headphones, that compensate for head turning, and all this magical stuff, AND YOU DON'T SAY WHO MAKES THEM?!!
The next product from these guys should be some kind of high-refresh-rate pupil tracker. Imagine the next generation of window managers, where the parts of the screen you aren't looking right at are shrunken, to fit more on the screen. Looking at a widget and pressing a button could simulate a mouse click, or documents could automatically scroll when you're reading close to the bottom of the page. Or in an FPS, where the mouse still controls the first-person camera, but the gun points at where you look on the screen - dude that would be so awesome
Now about gravity- does the effect of gravity happen instantaneously like quantum entanglement? For example, if the sun was moved, would all the planets instantly alter their orbits, or would the effect on their orbits have a delayed effect that would reach them at the speed of light because of something like gravitons?
As far as I've read, there is some discussion as to whether gravity is instantaneous or not. This Wikipedia article should help you out. Someone else posted about Gravity Probe B, I think its purpose was to detect the waves that would occur, if there were any local supermassive object orbiting each other very rapidly AND gravity had a limited speed.
Does quantum entanglement mean that the entangled particles, at some wierd mathematically inversed level, are the same point? Someone give it to me in layman's terms so I don't get a nosebleed.
As for that, well... I think most particle physicists could give you their opinion, but it's such an esoteric subject the "how and why" may never be known, only that it happens a certain way...
Black Guy Doesn't Talk About All The Times He Didn't Get Discriminated Against
DETROIT, MI - Renald Boyd, 27, of course doesn't mention all the times he wasn't discriminated against, sources reported Tuesday. "I had the lease all set up through an agent," Boyd said. "But then, when I went in to sign it, the landlord suddenly started acting all weird and said he had to run out for a minute. We sat there for an hour before the agent got him on the phone, at which point the landlord said he was looking for a 'quieter type.' This country is insane." Boyd naturally failed to mention that the real-estate agent worked with him with no hesitation, and that the taxi he took away from the real-estate agency was only the second one that he'd attempted to hail.
This is the direct link, but it'll expire when this weeks issue moves into the paid archives.
The Moz vulnerability is the same as IE - the page can present a fake render / picture, but can't tell what the actual browser is set to look like. So you're lime-green scheme would be quite effective.
The fix should be simply disabling Javascript's window-modifying permission defaults, and preventing XUL from being loaded from outside the local machine (without permission).
There's also the consideration that the next Xbox may not be backwards compatible. If that's the case, and Sony manages to put this feature in the PS3, a lot of consumers will be willing to hold off (for maybe a year?) for a console that isn't just starting fresh, in terms of their gaming library.
Also, there's the comparison of the Dreamcast and the original Playstation where the DC got the jump but failed to keep the momentum and faded away. (Do correct me if I have my consoles mixed up!)
I'd say the main areas that need work are compact power supplies/storage units, motor units that scale up to human sizes without breaking or being too bulky, and the whole "Reasoning" intelligence thing (decent vision interpretation would probably branch off that).
As for the whole "Human Companion" thing, I'm sure there would be a market for motorized RealDolls that plug in to the wall... but seriously, that could be the gateway to commercial acceptance of consumer robotics.
There were a few levels in DN3D where weird topology was happening - one of the two I can remember was this large square, with four hallways around it where the players started. Each hallway had a large open door going into the center "courtyard". The freaky thing was that there were four different courtyards occupying the same space, but existing seperately. Which courtyard you saw (and interacted with) depended on which door you went through. Each courtyard only had one door back to the hallways, to keep it sane. The other level looked like a smallish torus, the catch was that you had to walk around it twice to get back to the same place. I still have no idea how they managed that, even after opening the levels in the BUILD editor. Wouldn't it be excellent if a new(ish) proper 3D game could pull stunts like that?!
Can someone explain to me how an IE vulnerability can lead to a Sasser like virus? I thought Sasser was a worm that spread automatically through open ports of unpatched Windows machines, whereas IE vulnerabilities seem to have to be user initiated.
IE can have open ports as well as the "Click Here" type exploits. Basically any program that accepts connections can be exploited like this.
At school the command prompt is disabled, and you can't right click and make a new batch file, and you can't rename the extensions so in order to run some commands all you have to do is write them in notepad, and then tell it save as "all files" and then give it the.bat extension. We sure did have a lot of fun with the netsends:P until someone put it in a loop and the teacher found out.
An example of why Windows (all versions) is so hard to lock down. It's been said before, but some people just don't get how bad it is to design security around the os, rather than the *n*x / BSD model of building the os around security. Getting into the registry (and in the case of thin clients, onto the server C:\ drive) is just too easy. I pity the poor sysadmins who are told to lock down their networks, when any Joe with a way to get data into the system can start a prompt and run any program. There's no way to stop that in Windows, but it's real easy in Unix/Linux.
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Doesn't matter whether they are publicised or not - it's the Spartacus effect*. There are far, far too many to take down or disable. It's beneficial to get the word out, too - better to have a few big, efficient networks than many scattered, underperforming ones. Besides, the real killer p2p app (decentralized, full privacy) will come that much faster this way.
*Not sure if I'm using that correctly.
A link for the interested - Kaya, the digital model. Short demo videos of a detailed model. Quite creepy, a good demonstration of the Uncanny Valley effect.
As for the usability of 3D GUIs, I'd say we need more dimensions of input (such as measurement of applied force like the PS2 controller) to match the more dimensions available.
The only real problem we have is the use of proprietary formats that cannot be recovered when the medium changes. I used to have 8" diskettes for stuff I had for the PDP-11; I could no longer read those now. I can no longer read 5" diskettes for the PC unless I find an old computer and buy it for the floppy drive. The 3 1/2" diskette is becoming obsolete except as a near-universal exchange medium and for use on older computers without CD drives.
True, but at least they are digital. You can still extract a exact copy once you have the hardware. It would be a nightmare if analog storage were the norm!
The point is, there may be some use for it in future - say, a couple later, some random neurons fire and you remember that old song or movie (or whatever), then you can just go and open it, no hassles. Even if it means nothing to anybody else, and therefore would be hard to find.
Besides, the only case where this is harmful / dangerous is when money is spent to buy more storage, instead of going back through and deleting the crap on a case-by-case basis.
Yes, but the bandwidth saved would be negligible when serving imageless pages, and there would still be the issue of misbehaving clients scraping the tracker. Not to mention, integrating a Bittorrent-esque client with the users browser of choice.
The far more basic solution (as mentioned on BoingBoing), is to simply cache IPs that have downloaded the current RSS feed, then flush the cache at the next update.
This requires readers that cache feeds though, as many users would get caught out if they tried getting the feed too often.
The Chronicles of George
,she told never i will figure it out on my own"
"George is, quite simply, the worst helpdesk technician ever.
His grasp on the written word is shakier than a canoe full of epileptics. His knowledge of computers is thinner than a Vegas dancer's chiffon underpants. He is, by all standards of intelligence, a rock.
While we worked together, George was responsible for turning out some of the most mangled, garbled, and just plain screwed up help desk tickets ever before seen by mortal man. I have taken these tickets and collected them, and I present them to you as a cathartic expression, a venting of fourteen months' pain and frustration (George's employ and my own overlapped by that amount of time).
Mean? Perhaps. Spiteful? Probably. Funny? Oh, most definitely."
Includes such choice qoutes as:
"she is havening problems connecting to the z drive
"is receiving an error that states line x excuration locked at another user will not be created at this time"
"would like to have a reinstall a ghost image development evirroment"
In order of suckage, most to least:
D&D 2.
Doom.
Vampire: TM.
Duke Nukem. (well.. it's already cheesy, no?)
But, I have greater fears for the live action Evangelion movie. If they fuck it up, no one will ever get the budget to try it again and do it properly.
The next time I go to a horror or horror action film, I want to be deeply disturbed.
...
(snip)
H. R. Giger (the man who designed the artwork for Alien) should design the atmosphere for Doom the movie.
Amen, brother. The depiction of Hell in Doom 3 (for the most part) didn't really seem like a heavily freaky place, only some floating bricks and lava everywhere. I don't think Giger would do a conventional Hell, but that's kind of the point - unexpected == good.
I want to see more original movies, but those in control of the big budget productions are horribly short sighted, greedy and narrow minded. They gauge success based on opening night / week figures, really before word-of-mouth has time to spread around (which is the better indicator of artistic success). They'll only spend big on the proven formulas - which means no backing for creative projects. And all too often, when they do take a chance on an unknown, they'll chop and change it to take it away from the creator's vision and into the mainstream, butchering it in the process. I guess I'll just have to wait for the filter of time to erode the crap from the brilliant. Or, eDonkey. Whatever works
Apologies for length.
Well, if the ED2 is that much better, than image the superb quality of ED209!
*looks at steps outside doorway*
Well.. maybe not.
- If the earth's spin warps space around the planet what else is created by others planets or, what's a galaxy's effect arounds or inside itself ?
It's the same for all objects, from Pluto to the Sun to galaxy clusters.
- Will this fabric help us to travel farther without a conventional energy ?
I think you misunderstand - the "fabric" of spacetime is everywhere already, it's comparable to the "ether" in terms of its basic concept. We still require energy to move objects, the 'fabric' cannot be assymetrically affected.
- Is the actual space station fullproof against anykind of fabric ripples ??
Ripples in spacetime would require vast amounts of concentrated energy before they would even be noticeable - besides the fact that if anything even remotely destructive enough to cause damaging 'ripples' detonated within the galaxy, the conventional energy released would wipe us out.
Something happen to my HD? I read download it. Problem solved.
Of course, that will still work when Valve no longer supports Steam, won't it...
Of course, but 25 years is little more than a single generation - an effective selection process would likely take many thousands, especially since HIV is not an instant kill and susceptible persons may live to have children.
Like other posters have mentioned, from the time of the Black Death / Bubonic plague which was devastatingly effective, less than 1% of the population involved now has immunity from that particular infection.
first-to-market in this case sounds like no more than a hook for fanboys
Not really - these "fanboys" are the people who convince the company(ies) to keep selling the product and kick-start the 'economy of scale' that allow you to buy the now-standard and cheaper features. If they didn't take the risks, then you'd never see the feature/technology.
Sorry if that seems too obvious, but your post just seemed to be missing something.
(NB: The TiVo could live on those who watch free-to-air stations)
AAARGH! Links please! (or at least some names!)
You pique my interest with that talk of true surround sound headphones, that compensate for head turning, and all this magical stuff, AND YOU DON'T SAY WHO MAKES THEM?!!
You, sir, are a cruel individual.
The next product from these guys should be some kind of high-refresh-rate pupil tracker.
Imagine the next generation of window managers, where the parts of the screen you aren't looking right at are shrunken, to fit more on the screen. Looking at a widget and pressing a button could simulate a mouse click, or documents could automatically scroll when you're reading close to the bottom of the page.
Or in an FPS, where the mouse still controls the first-person camera, but the gun points at where you look on the screen - dude that would be so awesome
As a result a number of new devices to help track winners, losers at the Games have been developed
Anyone else have to read that twice?
Now about gravity- does the effect of gravity happen instantaneously like quantum entanglement? For example, if the sun was moved, would all the planets instantly alter their orbits, or would the effect on their orbits have a delayed effect that would reach them at the speed of light because of something like gravitons?
... I think most particle physicists could give you their opinion, but it's such an esoteric subject the "how and why" may never be known, only that it happens a certain way...
As far as I've read, there is some discussion as to whether gravity is instantaneous or not. This Wikipedia article should help you out.
Someone else posted about Gravity Probe B, I think its purpose was to detect the waves that would occur, if there were any local supermassive object orbiting each other very rapidly AND gravity had a limited speed.
Does quantum entanglement mean that the entangled particles, at some wierd mathematically inversed level, are the same point? Someone give it to me in layman's terms so I don't get a nosebleed.
As for that, well
This is the direct link, but it'll expire when this weeks issue moves into the paid archives.
The Moz vulnerability is the same as IE - the page can present a fake render / picture, but can't tell what the actual browser is set to look like. So you're lime-green scheme would be quite effective.
The fix should be simply disabling Javascript's window-modifying permission defaults, and preventing XUL from being loaded from outside the local machine (without permission).
There's also the consideration that the next Xbox may not be backwards compatible. If that's the case, and Sony manages to put this feature in the PS3, a lot of consumers will be willing to hold off (for maybe a year?) for a console that isn't just starting fresh, in terms of their gaming library.
Also, there's the comparison of the Dreamcast and the original Playstation where the DC got the jump but failed to keep the momentum and faded away. (Do correct me if I have my consoles mixed up!)
I'd say the main areas that need work are compact power supplies/storage units, motor units that scale up to human sizes without breaking or being too bulky, and the whole "Reasoning" intelligence thing (decent vision interpretation would probably branch off that).
... but seriously, that could be the gateway to commercial acceptance of consumer robotics.
As for the whole "Human Companion" thing, I'm sure there would be a market for motorized RealDolls that plug in to the wall
There were a few levels in DN3D where weird topology was happening - one of the two I can remember was this large square, with four hallways around it where the players started. Each hallway had a large open door going into the center "courtyard". The freaky thing was that there were four different courtyards occupying the same space, but existing seperately. Which courtyard you saw (and interacted with) depended on which door you went through. Each courtyard only had one door back to the hallways, to keep it sane.
The other level looked like a smallish torus, the catch was that you had to walk around it twice to get back to the same place.
I still have no idea how they managed that, even after opening the levels in the BUILD editor.
Wouldn't it be excellent if a new(ish) proper 3D game could pull stunts like that?!
Can someone explain to me how an IE vulnerability can lead to a Sasser like virus? I thought Sasser was a worm that spread automatically through open ports of unpatched Windows machines, whereas IE vulnerabilities seem to have to be user initiated.
IE can have open ports as well as the "Click Here" type exploits. Basically any program that accepts connections can be exploited like this.
Can you imagine being dropped into a lager tag arena and being told you can't even walk at a fast pace, or duck to avoid shots?
If I was dropped into a Lager Tag arena, I don't think I'd be concerned about running and ducking...
At school the command prompt is disabled, and you can't right click and make a new batch file, and you can't rename the extensions so in order to run some commands all you have to do is write them in notepad, and then tell it save as "all files" and then give it the .bat extension. We sure did have a lot of fun with the netsends :P until someone put it in a loop and the teacher found out.
An example of why Windows (all versions) is so hard to lock down. It's been said before, but some people just don't get how bad it is to design security around the os, rather than the *n*x / BSD model of building the os around security. Getting into the registry (and in the case of thin clients, onto the server C:\ drive) is just too easy.
I pity the poor sysadmins who are told to lock down their networks, when any Joe with a way to get data into the system can start a prompt and run any program. There's no way to stop that in Windows, but it's real easy in Unix/Linux.