That's awesome. This would become very powerful once these results are amalgamated with millions of other viewers. It would also be a very effective way of improving search results because rather than simply clicking the close button, there could be feedback to say the results sucked. And combined with another technology, which results sucked.
I rememebr seeing a documentary about this technology on beyond2000 years ago. It's great to see that it has made it into the consumer world.
What stops them to buy an eReader and ask the magazine be delivered in electronic format, with all the multimedia ads they want?
In a lot of parts of the world, an internet connection. For example, it's very hilly here, so it's not viable to run lines or get wireless access to remote areas.
I'd go a little further to say, here at least, tyres are the loudest part on the outside of the car when the car's moving. The only exceptions I can think of are if the car is traveling really slow, still, old or suped up. I think at traffic lights, the external speakers could have real value. I can't think of any other situation. Can anyone else?
How to make a golden omlette:
0) Preheat a frying pan and add a little oil. I took some from my car, but BP has some pretty cheap products right now.
1) Take one golden egg laying goose, and induce a lay "beGARK!"
2) Repeat
3) Repeat
4) Empty contents into a bowl while separating the yokes into a separate bowl. It may be necessary to curse profoundly. Alternatively a hammer may be used.
Caution: The yokes are radio active, so a condom is essential.
5) Beat the egg golds with a paint mixer. Small explosives may also be used, however I haven't tested this.
6) Pour both bowls into the pan, gently mixing as you go.
7) Add your favourite seasoning. I like Zinc, Copper and Lead. You may also want to try argon for that radiant look.
8) Add cheese. Some people like to add bacon before the cheese.
9) Wait 120
10) Using a shovel and a quick tilt of the pan, flip half the mess onto the other half so that it effectively folds in half.
11) Wait 60
12) Flip it. This is easy if you know how. But funnier if you don't......
13) Wait 60
14) Garnish with 2 bearded tits, and you have the perfect breakfast.
If we had enough capacity in our wallets, we wouldn't *need* to prioritize anything.
Businesses and people need scarcity to survive. It's gives us something to overcome. Without it, we'd be fat and lazy, and would hardly achieve a fraction of what we do. Managing that scarcity is an essential part of surviving.
Years ago, there were discussions on putting an OS on a chip to improve boot and operating times. Given the number of patches that come out, that wasn't feasible for mainstream use. These days SSD's are a kind of happy medium in that they offer some performance gain in the right situations, but can easily be updated without the OS needing to be specifically written for them.
So this chip would be really cool for that. It'd also be cool for mini itx stuff.
"What people need to do is stop thinking 'either or'; people need to stop thinking like for like substitution for oil. That's not going to happen. Different things will be needed in different countries. Electric cars will play some role in the market, taking cars off the road could be one of the most important things we ever do."
I'll be interested to see how well cars running this mix perform in the cold. Many years ago I was in Brazil where they have Alcohol powered cars, and during winter there it was a problem getting these cars to start. To put that in perspective a cold winters day in Brazil is a like a warm summers day in New Zealand. This was many years ago and may well be solved by now.
Was IMAX not in the title and description before? 'cas it's in tfa. While to a certain extent it's branding and marketing, there are important differences between IMAX and other techniques.
I'm split on this. Mostly I think it's excellent because it sounds feasible to get a lot of people behind it, which would then make it quite effective. It'll bring back a level of "privacy" that we took for granted not many years ago. It will also open up the connotations that come with that, although I'm sure that has/will be discussed to tiring length.
But where my concern really is, is the trend that those in power see something like this as if it's only purpose is crime. They will be scared of this, because it will undermine their ability to do their job. When there's something they are scared of, they clamp down on it and make an example of someone. If you're that person it doesn't matter if you've done anything wrong, because they will find something, and bend it to the context that allows them to say you've broken a law. eg It could be an image sitting in your browser cache that they can object to based on someones' religion, that came in an ad on a page.
Early adopters will face significantly higher risk than those adopting once the project is well established. In this countext I see three distinct routes:
Manage the athorities' and public view: Ideally sell the idea to them that this is a good thing for them. I can't think what angle that would be, but it would be worth it. Convince them that this isn't the evil devil they will otherwise assume it to be.
Ignore the authorities: Take a chance and go for it. Don't rub it in their faces. Just get on with it and try not to make a scene.
Rub it in their faces: Highlight that this is going to let people bypass their precious proxies that combat terrorism.
At one end of the scale, you may even get buy in, but hopefully won't attract too much negative attention. Potentially, you may have a more "legit" user base who have positive community concerns. At the other end of the scale, things could get rather ugly. The authorities will. not. like. you. They will do everything in their power to shut you down, and there will be significant risk to innocent people who had good intentions at heart. This is also very likely to attract the people who the authorities will have a legitimate concern over. You're going to get those in any scenario, but the proportions will make a big difference.
Take care. I really do believe this has a legitimate positive place in modern society.
Freedom. Open source software generally makes it easy to connection functionality of different programs together. So once you have it decrypted, there's a lot of cool stuff you can do with it. Commercial software potentially makes all sorts of promises to the people they get the license from to not allow that.
I love the simplicity of this concept. It could easily be done in sofrware too meaning we don't have to buy potentially expensive hardware. Although, I'm sure the big corporations/govt will want to have the line of blame sitting there for if something goes wrong. And that, I think would be toshiba's best target market.
In my youth I would have been quick to say that computers are all powerful and the solution to everything. But these days, I have to agree with you that the social interaction is incredibly important. It gives us a reality check when we need it. A way to bounce ideas of each other. To come up with stupid ideas that subtlely form the foundations of something much better years later. And just as important, socialising for the sake of socialising. Humans need interaction with each other. We should all have those stories like using the OHP to project the bat symbol on the neighboring building.
Back in the mid 90's I made a controller than ran a couple of 12" subs off the computer's sound card. On the front I had a couple of volume controls and rows of LEDs to show the output visually.
I've also got something a little special in the next series of funnyhacks which starts in September.
I'm really happy that people are still doing this. However it's certainly not new. If my sources are correct, the sewage treatment plant in christchurch, new zealand stopped doing this about 10 years ago. I think it was because it wasn't economical, but I'm not entirely sure on that. It may have been longer ago. They were doing it when I was a kid, which seems to be getting longer and longer ago these days...
Still, with the changes in technology and attitudes to the environment, it's quite possible its viability could be entirely different now.
Totally agree. I've done a small amount of reading about this story, and it looks like the GPL argument is in the right in this case. I believe that the GPL should be protected so that it stands up in court when it needs to. So letting this slide would probably be detrimental to that cause. Yet, this is oh so bad PR between open source and potential contributers.
It would be like if you bought a book, sat it down on your desk, and when you pick it up later, you find that the book was doodling on your desk the whole time.
Agreed. Although in the mean time it should be a *fairly* effective work around to keep the users who *need* these features happy, while making the malicious code harder to write. If they intend to have these features still working, they will have to punch holes in the sand box, so i have no doubt that there will be ways around it. But I do see this as a positive short term step.
I haven't read enough to answer that. However looking at the bigger picture, I do think this sort of stunt would be good for getting more people working on open source software. Inspire them with something that is immediately fun and rewarding, and trigger the curiousities to try something deeper later on. I wouldn't be at all surprised to talk to someone 5-10 years from now and hear that something like this was their first project.
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That's awesome. This would become very powerful once these results are amalgamated with millions of other viewers. It would also be a very effective way of improving search results because rather than simply clicking the close button, there could be feedback to say the results sucked. And combined with another technology, which results sucked.
I rememebr seeing a documentary about this technology on beyond2000 years ago. It's great to see that it has made it into the consumer world.
What stops them to buy an eReader and ask the magazine be delivered in electronic format, with all the multimedia ads they want?
In a lot of parts of the world, an internet connection. For example, it's very hilly here, so it's not viable to run lines or get wireless access to remote areas.
I'd go a little further to say, here at least, tyres are the loudest part on the outside of the car when the car's moving. The only exceptions I can think of are if the car is traveling really slow, still, old or suped up. I think at traffic lights, the external speakers could have real value. I can't think of any other situation. Can anyone else?
Indeed. I think the speculation is more beneficial to them than anything they could put at the end of it.
The broadcast is not the bit of interest. It's the thing recieving it that's interesting.
How to make a golden omlette:
0) Preheat a frying pan and add a little oil. I took some from my car, but BP has some pretty cheap products right now.
1) Take one golden egg laying goose, and induce a lay "beGARK!"
2) Repeat
3) Repeat
4) Empty contents into a bowl while separating the yokes into a separate bowl. It may be necessary to curse profoundly. Alternatively a hammer may be used.
Caution: The yokes are radio active, so a condom is essential.
5) Beat the egg golds with a paint mixer. Small explosives may also be used, however I haven't tested this.
6) Pour both bowls into the pan, gently mixing as you go.
7) Add your favourite seasoning. I like Zinc, Copper and Lead. You may also want to try argon for that radiant look.
8) Add cheese. Some people like to add bacon before the cheese.
9) Wait 120
10) Using a shovel and a quick tilt of the pan, flip half the mess onto the other half so that it effectively folds in half.
11) Wait 60
12) Flip it. This is easy if you know how. But funnier if you don't......
13) Wait 60
14) Garnish with 2 bearded tits, and you have the perfect breakfast.
I was going to make an AWESOME point that took what you said a step further.... Then I read tfa...
If we had enough capacity in our wallets, we wouldn't *need* to prioritize anything. Businesses and people need scarcity to survive. It's gives us something to overcome. Without it, we'd be fat and lazy, and would hardly achieve a fraction of what we do. Managing that scarcity is an essential part of surviving.
Years ago, there were discussions on putting an OS on a chip to improve boot and operating times. Given the number of patches that come out, that wasn't feasible for mainstream use. These days SSD's are a kind of happy medium in that they offer some performance gain in the right situations, but can easily be updated without the OS needing to be specifically written for them.
So this chip would be really cool for that. It'd also be cool for mini itx stuff.
"What people need to do is stop thinking 'either or'; people need to stop thinking like for like substitution for oil. That's not going to happen. Different things will be needed in different countries. Electric cars will play some role in the market, taking cars off the road could be one of the most important things we ever do."
I'll be interested to see how well cars running this mix perform in the cold. Many years ago I was in Brazil where they have Alcohol powered cars, and during winter there it was a problem getting these cars to start. To put that in perspective a cold winters day in Brazil is a like a warm summers day in New Zealand. This was many years ago and may well be solved by now.
Was IMAX not in the title and description before? 'cas it's in tfa. While to a certain extent it's branding and marketing, there are important differences between IMAX and other techniques.
That was my first thought too. Although it's an easy convertion to put it into Anagyph, which can be very effective when done right.
I'm split on this. Mostly I think it's excellent because it sounds feasible to get a lot of people behind it, which would then make it quite effective. It'll bring back a level of "privacy" that we took for granted not many years ago. It will also open up the connotations that come with that, although I'm sure that has/will be discussed to tiring length.
But where my concern really is, is the trend that those in power see something like this as if it's only purpose is crime. They will be scared of this, because it will undermine their ability to do their job. When there's something they are scared of, they clamp down on it and make an example of someone. If you're that person it doesn't matter if you've done anything wrong, because they will find something, and bend it to the context that allows them to say you've broken a law. eg It could be an image sitting in your browser cache that they can object to based on someones' religion, that came in an ad on a page.
Early adopters will face significantly higher risk than those adopting once the project is well established. In this countext I see three distinct routes:
At one end of the scale, you may even get buy in, but hopefully won't attract too much negative attention. Potentially, you may have a more "legit" user base who have positive community concerns. At the other end of the scale, things could get rather ugly. The authorities will. not. like. you. They will do everything in their power to shut you down, and there will be significant risk to innocent people who had good intentions at heart. This is also very likely to attract the people who the authorities will have a legitimate concern over. You're going to get those in any scenario, but the proportions will make a big difference.
Take care. I really do believe this has a legitimate positive place in modern society.
This would be an interesting/cruel way to motivate sysadmins to make their servers reliable and get long uptimes.
I love the simplicity of this concept. It could easily be done in sofrware too meaning we don't have to buy potentially expensive hardware. Although, I'm sure the big corporations/govt will want to have the line of blame sitting there for if something goes wrong. And that, I think would be toshiba's best target market.
In my youth I would have been quick to say that computers are all powerful and the solution to everything. But these days, I have to agree with you that the social interaction is incredibly important. It gives us a reality check when we need it. A way to bounce ideas of each other. To come up with stupid ideas that subtlely form the foundations of something much better years later. And just as important, socialising for the sake of socialising. Humans need interaction with each other. We should all have those stories like using the OHP to project the bat symbol on the neighboring building.
Back in the mid 90's I made a controller than ran a couple of 12" subs off the computer's sound card. On the front I had a couple of volume controls and rows of LEDs to show the output visually.
I've also got something a little special in the next series of funnyhacks which starts in September.
I'm really happy that people are still doing this. However it's certainly not new. If my sources are correct, the sewage treatment plant in christchurch, new zealand stopped doing this about 10 years ago. I think it was because it wasn't economical, but I'm not entirely sure on that. It may have been longer ago. They were doing it when I was a kid, which seems to be getting longer and longer ago these days...
Still, with the changes in technology and attitudes to the environment, it's quite possible its viability could be entirely different now.
Totally agree. I've done a small amount of reading about this story, and it looks like the GPL argument is in the right in this case. I believe that the GPL should be protected so that it stands up in court when it needs to. So letting this slide would probably be detrimental to that cause. Yet, this is oh so bad PR between open source and potential contributers.
It would be like if you bought a book, sat it down on your desk, and when you pick it up later, you find that the book was doodling on your desk the whole time.
I love that analogy! :D
Should it be an operating system feature to force all user applications to run in a sandbox by default?
Sandboxie, Foxit reader, CutePDF writer. All Free, solves all your problems.
Yes, but missing the point. If it happens by default at the OS level, everyone does it. If it's an app you have to download, a few do it.
However, there will probably be some interesting issues with a one-size-fits-all approach to sand boxing.
Agreed. Although in the mean time it should be a *fairly* effective work around to keep the users who *need* these features happy, while making the malicious code harder to write. If they intend to have these features still working, they will have to punch holes in the sand box, so i have no doubt that there will be ways around it. But I do see this as a positive short term step.
I haven't read enough to answer that. However looking at the bigger picture, I do think this sort of stunt would be good for getting more people working on open source software. Inspire them with something that is immediately fun and rewarding, and trigger the curiousities to try something deeper later on. I wouldn't be at all surprised to talk to someone 5-10 years from now and hear that something like this was their first project.