The UPO needs public/free/open/... peeps to do the job?
Where do Canadians sign up?
[Numbers: ~1400 PTO,s, and 1,000,000 applications in
in pipe? No wonder it takes 17 years]
It seems everyone, on/., has a different idea on how things should be taught. Laptops are good/bad, paper/pen is better,...
Fuckit. In the good old days, all you needed was a textbook, and some decent notes the prof would hand out before or after the class. The notes would augment material not covered in the textbook, tell you what the assignments were, and where the exams where held.
And scientific calculators were not allowed in the final exams.
Disclaimer: This is a rant from a mid-70s EngPhys graduate, and has no bearing on the current subject.
there's a recent article on salon.com titled "I, Nanobot" by Alan H. Goldstein. If the future possibility of "Nanobiobots" doesn't scare the bejezzus out of you, nothing will.
What acceleration would it take to reach escape velocity (~11,200 meters per second)?
Newton say's a = (v*v)/(2*x), so:
if X = 1000m, A = 62,700 m/s^2...
Hmmm. If you (or the cargo) can handle ~6.3 G's, it would only take a rail (tube, whatever) 1000 km long to put you in orbit. At 630 G's, a mere 10 Km long launcher would do.
I had a similar idea some years ago, about using rotary methods (aka high-speed catapults) to put stuff in orbit. My head still hurts thinking about it;-(
After reading the forum discussions (thanks RB), this quote sticks out:
"I think the policy is clear that this type of dirty-room reverse engineering should be used as a last resort only"
A last resort? Disassembly of *any* proprietory program to understand its internals is a big NONO, whether you use the info yourself, or pass it on. [Unless you have permission from the owner, of course]
If you are going to reverse-engineer something, do it cleanly.
If Buddy submitted stories to slashdot on a regular basis, I'd worry about his future offspring. Posting comments, on the other hand, is mostly harmless. (At least that's what I tell myself.)
If anyone actually read the New Scientist article, the current system consists of a video camera connected to a computer (I'm assuming a 30 fps video camera with 640x480xN colors, which is not cheap) and a pair of brightly colored gloves. The *next* version will be compatible with a normal webcam.
How can universities, in the US, Canada, and elsewhere
patent things? Like the government, they are supported by taxes and "donations".
The only difference between the two, in my opinion, is that a GOV forces you to pay for increased "services", while a UNI just jacks the prices of admission.
Dropping a dummy down an N-floor elevator to see if 'jumping' at the last second decreases the damage to the dummy, i.e., increases you chance of survival if you are ever caught in a falling elevator.
If you call this "making a guess at what might happen if they try X" , when X is so absurd, it's no longer science or education - it's entertainment.
If there was an airbag at the bottom of the shaft in that particular experiment, I'd charitably call it pseudoscience.
I'd like to see a button labelled "eliminate more than X postings from person Y on Slashdot". Seriously... 5 out of the last 31 comments (at +3) I've read so far have been submitted by CyricZ.
Yah, I know it's a free world and nobody is forcing me to read on, but even KFG has better style and sense (apologies to K) when slashdotting/.
How many square feet of solar panels, and how many wind-turbines, are need to produce an *average* output of 150 KW? When a blurb says 'up to', I wonder what's the 'down to'.
lp goes through the loop X times (2 or 4 billion?) and who fucking knows where ilp started. And for what it's worth, the 5-billion loop code takes 10 to 13 seconds (gcc -O2...) to execute on an AMD 3000+ box, using ints, doubles, or long doubles for lp and ilp.
"I think Canadians may have higher levels of passive aggression, which on the outside *may* look like they are more shy about things. But I am not so sure that it is always so passive.:-)"
Passive aggression? I'll have to ask my (fictional) therapest about that, before we start discussing military intelligence;-)
Slashdot Mirror
are literate developers. Users are a bigger bag of hammers.
The UPO needs public/free/open/... peeps to do the job? Where do Canadians sign up? [Numbers: ~1400 PTO,s, and 1,000,000 applications in in pipe? No wonder it takes 17 years]
Fuckit. In the good old days, all you needed was a textbook, and some decent notes the prof would hand out before or after the class. The notes would augment material not covered in the textbook, tell you what the assignments were, and where the exams where held.
And scientific calculators were not allowed in the final exams.
Disclaimer: This is a rant from a mid-70s EngPhys graduate, and has no bearing on the current subject.
Perhaps one of OCCs' bikes?
there's a recent article on salon.com titled "I, Nanobot" by Alan H. Goldstein. If the future possibility of "Nanobiobots" doesn't scare the bejezzus out of you, nothing will.
Lets do the math.
...
;-(
Imagine a drag strip X kilometers long.
What acceleration would it take to reach escape
velocity (~11,200 meters per second)?
Newton say's a = (v*v)/(2*x), so:
if X = 1000m, A = 62,700 m/s^2
Hmmm. If you (or the cargo) can handle ~6.3 G's, it
would only take a rail (tube, whatever) 1000 km long
to put you in orbit. At 630 G's, a mere 10 Km long
launcher would do.
I had a similar idea some years ago, about using
rotary methods (aka high-speed catapults) to put
stuff in orbit. My head still hurts thinking
about it
"I think the policy is clear that this type of dirty-room reverse engineering should be used as a last resort only"
A last resort? Disassembly of *any* proprietory program to understand its internals is a big NONO, whether you use the info yourself, or pass it on. [Unless you have permission from the owner, of course]
If you are going to reverse-engineer something, do it cleanly.
Purchase/licence/... this technology, make it work remotely, and Mr. Orwell be be your friend forever.
Perhaps we should all (slashdotters included) have imbedded liar chips installed at birth.
40+ million deaths from a virus ... no problem.
A few million males with penile problems ... profit!
"Without patent protection, once you have a serum, tens of companies around the world will analyze it and duplicate it in short time."
but later on you state:
"Now, perhaps one medical company distributes the SARS vaccine, AIDS, and avian flu. Nobody else knows how the stuff works or how to produce it."
Which statement is correct? If a serum/technique/machine can be analysed and duplicated, what difference does the patent make?
Virii, and assorted critters, have been around for millions (or mexillions/bazillions) of years on this planet. Yet life marches on.
;-)
Computer viruses are different, in that they are created on, and propogated through, devices used only by humans, for the past 20+ years.
Who do you think will win in the long run -- Si or DNA?
Sig - Post when drunk, to avoid further discussion
If Buddy submitted stories to slashdot on a regular basis, I'd worry about his future offspring. Posting comments, on the other hand, is mostly harmless. (At least that's what I tell myself.)
and carry the plane the rest of the way across the country?
If anyone actually read the New Scientist article, the current system consists of a video camera connected to a computer (I'm assuming a 30 fps video camera with 640x480xN colors, which is not cheap) and a pair of brightly colored gloves. The *next* version will be compatible with a normal webcam.
If you can notice a "few milliseconds" of latency on a desktop system, you are the fastest human in creation.
;-)
I'd suggest a career in sports
How can universities, in the US, Canada, and elsewhere patent things? Like the government, they are supported by taxes and "donations".
The only difference between the two, in my opinion, is that a GOV forces you to pay for increased "services", while a UNI just jacks the prices of admission.
Perhaps this "State Department of Corrections" is using the same software as the school board in CA (as described in a recent /.article).
If middle-school students can hack it, I'm sure a few smart cons could as well.
Dropping a dummy down an N-floor elevator to see if 'jumping' at the last second decreases the damage to the dummy, i.e., increases you chance of survival if you are ever caught in a falling elevator.
If you call this "making a guess at what might happen if they try X" , when X is so absurd, it's no longer science or education - it's entertainment.
If there was an airbag at the bottom of the shaft in that particular experiment, I'd charitably call it pseudoscience.
So, who are one of these "best sharpshooters in the world" going to take out in defence of Roche? The leader of Taiwan?
Perhaps Tom has an idea.
A startup with two developers and one lawyer? I hope your lawyer and outside counsel can code on the side ;-(
I'd like to see a button labelled "eliminate more than X postings from person Y on Slashdot". Seriously ... 5 out of the last 31 comments (at +3) I've read so far have been submitted by CyricZ.
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Yah, I know it's a free world and nobody is forcing me to read on, but even KFG has better style and sense (apologies to K) when slashdotting
"There's no technical reason Windows can't have a good Unix environment on top of it." ??? A real solution would have Windows running on top of Unix.
How many square feet of solar panels, and how many wind-turbines, are need to produce an *average* output of 150 KW? When a blurb says 'up to', I wonder what's the 'down to'.
lp goes through the loop X times (2 or 4 billion?) and who fucking knows where ilp started. And for what it's worth, the 5-billion loop code takes 10 to 13 seconds (gcc -O2 ...) to execute on an AMD 3000+ box, using ints, doubles, or long doubles for lp and ilp.
And only f-tards use floats as loop counters.
Passive aggression? I'll have to ask my (fictional) therapest about that, before we start discussing military intelligence ;-)
Thanks for the link.