I'm not going to waste typing into this (way way OT) and
Unacceptable as in; respect for human beings, and acts that show intelligence instead of hate / arrogange / greed /...
The "humans who want to kill you for whatever reason" are a threat to the functioning and harmony of a society. Who kills is a murdered and a murdered will be taken of his rights as a member of that society. (eg freedom, you used to lose your head or would been publically scolded / tortured and left to die for that, you still get death-penalty in some US states if I'm correct.)
Look.. I don't hate the US nor you; this isn't a personal attack to anyone...
I hearthly agree with you, it's hypocrite and kindof immature to throw facts to eachother and trying to forget a few for the sake of the argument.
And you're right about Islam terror breading here too, but what's the cause of that?
Of all wars and bad life-conditions, we have been getting fugitives, (political, warvictims,...) poeple who tried their luck for a better life. They reside here with large numbers, and form much of the 'ghetto' overhere.(not to extremes though, but it's very clear it's a social problematic group; And not because of racial differencesn but that's a whole other subject.) We have legal procedures of legalizing them in our country; if they get refused (or are ordered to leave the country) they try again in the same or another country.
We cannot just "kick them all out", for obvious reasons.(the party trying to promote that idea after immer growing criminality is being boycotted, legacy of hitler(tm)))
And ofcourse, the moslims, or whatever grouping (may it be Indian, Chinese, whatever.. *Human") is feeling it's called for their fatherlands' needs or even 'god' in some same cases, and groups up "to protect what they believe is just."
I'm not certain with this statement; but I actually believe it's a EU regulation. Think there has been stated "we proved a multicultural society can work". Which is true, to some extend. (here is this 'well.. we invited them in the first place to work for us in the mines, cause we didn't want to' - I'm not mentioning.)
You know, it just goes over and over.. each one has it's arguments, and it's probably all valid in one or more ways.
But, war is just not good; The EU may be very carefull before it takes actions, but it has the whole "lets not just blow our way through it" thing right IHMO.
I am certain that every war ever has had a motivation which could be considered as an acceptable cause.. But war reminds me at the darkages.. where they bashed eachother skulls in order to persuide someone of their right or wrong. (even with missiles you can hit a fly with at the other side of the world, it's all the same...)
Oh wow... DOH.
I regret not checking "annonymous coward" on that one.
But Civil War, and being attacked from a foreign country / overthrowing a country's government (how evil it might be; cause I can foresee the "But Sadam was EVIL!" or the "Fidel.. EVIL!", etc..) does seem to be a slight difference? (I might've expressed myself wrongly so I stand corrected, partially)
I also imagine the civil war being man to man / canon to canon fights instead of jets / high accuracy / hightech to... man without means to fight back (or even reason). Nor with a 'real reason'. (more and more starts to sound like WW-stuff, I don't mean too. you guys are alright, seriously. But just cannot comprehend the stuff your gov gets away with.)
We all have had our civil wars. In Belgium, for my case, we did some serious killing too (well we just killed lots of French once, wrote a book about it and kindof shut up about the other ones), it leaded to our independance and the Belgium we are today. But we mostly just remember the WW's when we think about war for several reasons; we heard our grandparents talk about the horrors about war and know the direct effects of wars. (kindof want to point out the "far far away, doesn't concern me"-point.)
If I'm not mistaken the US civil war was about 1861-1865, Belgium was attacked by Romans in 50B.C ('The Belgians are the most brave...'), ruled by Romans for 300yrs, then in the Middle ages after Vikins pokes around with us for a while we had some centuries of *internal* wars. So then, came the Spanisch for two centuries until the Austrians in 1713. In 1794 till defeated in 1815 the French took over. After defeat Belgium was "rewarded" to the Netherlands for 15 years. In 1830 we became independant. In 1914 (till 1918) the germans overran us while attacking the French so we joined the french to help ('we' defeated Germany in Belgium), in 1940 they -the germans- visited us again. The *Americans* knowing how it is being invaded are the natives...
My point was in essence "war is bad, don't bomb others nor tell others what they *have to do*." (how many nukes do you have laying around there in the US? WMD?.. who's coming to bomb you?) and such..
I'll go hiding under my rock now, sipping some more coffee..
I've been thinking it over, and can just conclude that the US (gov.) is in a stage where the EU was a long time ago (like puberty or something...) The US hasn't had a war on own soil yet; so everything is a "far far away not affecting me" kindof thing for the US-citizens (or under a propagaded motive; "WMD!", "terrorism", "Nuclear treath!",...).
The EU has, and took care that it "would never happen again". (Genève treaty, of which the US seems to fail to see the idea behind it.)
Overthowed countries (~Implement dummy US gov here~)by the US;
Egypt (1952)
Iran (1953)["Nearly anyone in Iran, with importance, has had a brother.. Or a mother..or a sister.. or a son or a father tortured, jailed, deprived of their property without due process... In our -US- name that we supported. Savac was created by the CIA"]
Guatemala (1953)
Korea (1960-1961)
Laos (1960)
Zaire (1960)
Cuba (1961)
Domican Republic (1963)
Vietnam (1963)
Bolivia (1964, 1971)
Brazil (1964)
Indonesia (1965)
Ghana (1966)
Greece (1967)
Cambodia (1970)
Chile (1973)
Panama (1989, Operation "Just Cause", civilians executed on the streets by US forces. 4000:20 death ratio)
Could list much and many more.
War in any way is certainly in this day of age unacceptable...
"Yea.. so you can make my computer faster? It takes like 15 minutes to boot.."
"Sure... No problem, just give me a 3 minutes." (I so have forgotten how slow 56K modems are, so it took a bit longer)
*Cleaning out the system, leave the comp while it downloads*
*Screen saver pops up, get prompted by login-screen*
"Um, what's your password? I can't get in otherwise to finish up"
"It's *******, oh no.. that's my hotmail.. um *****, no that's the other account. Oh there.. It's just my name on that login thing."
"mhmh.. that seems to work."
Ramani expects his search engine will serve huge industrial companies whose engineers often waste time and energy designing a specialized part when someone else has already created, used or rejected something similar.
It seems they target the industries only, but somewhat earlier I've been thinking too that we need some other way to crawl / search data then we've been doing so far or at least a more advanced way to get specific data. (granted; google does what it does, and does it extremely well)
Consider a world where you have stuff recording your life and creating lots and lots of data of which you can't manually analyze, categorize, pinpoint a certain piece of data you have in mind , the typical naming of digital pictures; Im000931.jpg - Im001069.jpg.
B: Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering?
P: Well, I think so, Brain, but "apply North Pole" to what?
When was the last time they talked about "helium filled (weather-) balloons"?
So this time they're telling us this in advance, so we're prepared when we see a colorfull "thing" flying around you can dail into; when actually you have an UFO with aliens who're testing their wireless telephone system or something..
That's pretty neat, thanks for that info/link!
I didn't realize holographic storage is in a stage where it's already use-able and reliable. (if I got that right from the webpage)
[Taken from page] According to researchers at The University of California at Berkeley, more information will be created in the next 3 years then in the previous 300,000 years.
Blu-ray, also known as Blu-ray Disc (BD) is the name of a next-generation optical disc format jointly developed by eleven leading consumer electronics companies (Hitachi, LG, Mitsubishi, Panasonic, Pioneer, Philips, Samsung, Sharp, Sony, TDK and Thomson). The format was developed to enable recording, rewriting and playback of high-definition television (HDTV), which isn't possible with todays VCRs. Blu-ray makes it possible to record over 2 hours of HDTV, or more than 13 hours of SDTV on a 27GB disc. There are also plans for higher capacity discs that are expected to hold up to 54GB of data.
The beauty is, as opposed to the "not until 10yrs"-statements, you can buy a recorder from sony (BDZ-S77) already in Japan.
You'll probably have to wait until 2005-2006 for Blu-ray recorders to become commonly available. The driving force behind the development of Blu-ray Disc recorders is the need to record HDTV programming and currently the only country where HDTV is well established is Japan. The only Blu-ray Disc recorder that's currently available to consumers is the Sony BDZ-S77 Blu-ray Disc Recorder, but as you can see in our Blu-ray Recorders section, most well-known consumer electronics companies have their own prototype Blu-ray Disc recorder in development, so we expect to see more Blu-ray recorders on the Japanese market during 2004.
According to Sony of America's senior vice president Mike Fidler, products based on the Blu-ray Disc format are not likely to be available in the United States until 2005. However, LG Electronics has stated that they have plans to introduce a Blu-ray Disc recorder in the United States in the third quarter of 2004.
While current optical disc technologies such as DVD, DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW and DVD-RAM use a red laser to read and write data, the new format uses a blue laser instead, hence the name Blu-ray. The benefit of using a blue laser is that it has a shorter wavelength (405 nanometer) than a red laser (650 nanometer), which means that it's possible to focus the laser beam with even greater precision. This allows data to be packed more tightly on the disc and makes it possible to fit more data on the same size disc. Despite the different type of lasers used, Blu-ray Disc recorders can be made backwards compatible with current red-laser technologies and allow playback of CDs and DVDs.
JVC, Maxell, Maxell TDK, mitsubishi, sony and many others are working on this...
HP and DELL were accepted into the group to help further develop the format for PC data storage in 2004. (which means, this is going to be widespread in a few years.)
My brother got an order of 700 harddrives, and sent me the email to analyze it cause it sounded somewhat *too* shady.
After he negotiated a reduction for the huge order he got a contact adress in Nigeria.
well.. First the person claimed to be an employer of a GameSpy(tm) affliate in the US and the order looked realistic, after my brother stated every European shipment would be out of charge (the negotiated reduction) a Mohammed was put on handling the order, someone stating being a contact person but this time we were linked to a completely different company in France. (you know, the footer in those emails.)
They found only 3 airline companies that *only* would be *acceptable* to use the shipment (???) to Nigeria (after I tracked down the adress)
We happily told them to get there harddrives somewhere else..
Thought it was just us getting these shady offers..:-\
quote: The precise properties of individual Neurons are unpredictable and highly variable. Worse, they require constant life support just to stay alive. A 5 minute power interruption to your neural CPU and it's time to go shopping for a new one./quote
That would be like forgetting to feed a fish, no? But then wouldn't you need to "feed" your biological chip? instead of having it hooked on electricity-network? Maybe cause it's biologic, you'd keep your high-tech as a pet? Why not implement a personality into the device? Chinese robodog developers' wet dream! "Build your own supercomputing pet, with upgradable GPU neuron chips. Hook your neuronPet up with friend to build a multiprocessor super neuronPet."
Why not take it further and..
Oh well I can dream,...
I do admit my ignorance on biochemical / electrotech connectivity and how the interaction with both works exactly in full detail, but I do know dreams have pushed the perceptions of what most thought to be impossible in the past.
ExistenZ shows a really fascinating world where "biotech exists". You should rent this one if you get the chance.:) They toy with biological 'pods' in the movie, being plugged into a human for bio-energy, very fascinating stuff. Matrix- feel anno '99.
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I'm not going to waste typing into this (way way OT) and
...
Unacceptable as in; respect for human beings, and acts that show intelligence instead of hate / arrogange / greed /
The "humans who want to kill you for whatever reason" are a threat to the functioning and harmony of a society. Who kills is a murdered and a murdered will be taken of his rights as a member of that society. (eg freedom, you used to lose your head or would been publically scolded / tortured and left to die for that, you still get death-penalty in some US states if I'm correct.)
Look.. I don't hate the US nor you; this isn't a personal attack to anyone...
I hearthly agree with you, it's hypocrite and kindof immature to throw facts to eachother and trying to forget a few for the sake of the argument.
...) poeple who tried their luck for a better life. They reside here with large numbers, and form much of the 'ghetto' overhere.(not to extremes though, but it's very clear it's a social problematic group; And not because of racial differencesn but that's a whole other subject.) We have legal procedures of legalizing them in our country; if they get refused (or are ordered to leave the country) they try again in the same or another country.
And you're right about Islam terror breading here too, but what's the cause of that?
Of all wars and bad life-conditions, we have been getting fugitives, (political, warvictims,
We cannot just "kick them all out", for obvious reasons.(the party trying to promote that idea after immer growing criminality is being boycotted, legacy of hitler(tm))) And ofcourse, the moslims, or whatever grouping (may it be Indian, Chinese, whatever.. *Human") is feeling it's called for their fatherlands' needs or even 'god' in some same cases, and groups up "to protect what they believe is just."
I'm not certain with this statement; but I actually believe it's a EU regulation.
Think there has been stated "we proved a multicultural society can work". Which is true, to some extend.
(here is this 'well.. we invited them in the first place to work for us in the mines, cause we didn't want to' - I'm not mentioning.)
You know, it just goes over and over.. each one has it's arguments, and it's probably all valid in one or more ways.
But, war is just not good;
The EU may be very carefull before it takes actions, but it has the whole "lets not just blow our way through it" thing right IHMO.
I am certain that every war ever has had a motivation which could be considered as an acceptable cause..
But war reminds me at the darkages.. where they bashed eachother skulls in order to persuide someone of their right or wrong. (even with missiles you can hit a fly with at the other side of the world, it's all the same...)
Oh wow... DOH.
... man without means to fight back (or even reason). Nor with a 'real reason'. (more and more starts to sound like WW-stuff, I don't mean too. you guys are alright, seriously. But just cannot comprehend the stuff your gov gets away with.)
I regret not checking "annonymous coward" on that one.
But Civil War, and being attacked from a foreign country / overthrowing a country's government (how evil it might be; cause I can foresee the "But Sadam was EVIL!" or the "Fidel.. EVIL!", etc..) does seem to be a slight difference? (I might've expressed myself wrongly so I stand corrected, partially)
I also imagine the civil war being man to man / canon to canon fights instead of jets / high accuracy / hightech to
We all have had our civil wars.
In Belgium, for my case, we did some serious killing too (well we just killed lots of French once, wrote a book about it and kindof shut up about the other ones), it leaded to our independance and the Belgium we are today.
But we mostly just remember the WW's when we think about war for several reasons; we heard our grandparents talk about the horrors about war and know the direct effects of wars.
(kindof want to point out the "far far away, doesn't concern me"-point.)
If I'm not mistaken the US civil war was about 1861-1865, Belgium was attacked by Romans in 50B.C ('The Belgians are the most brave...'), ruled by Romans for 300yrs, then in the Middle ages after Vikins pokes around with us for a while we had some centuries of *internal* wars. So then, came the Spanisch for two centuries until the Austrians in 1713. In 1794 till defeated in 1815 the French took over. After defeat Belgium was "rewarded" to the Netherlands for 15 years. In 1830 we became independant. In 1914 (till 1918) the germans overran us while attacking the French so we joined the french to help ('we' defeated Germany in Belgium), in 1940 they -the germans- visited us again.
The *Americans* knowing how it is being invaded are the natives...
My point was in essence "war is bad, don't bomb others nor tell others what they *have to do*." (how many nukes do you have laying around there in the US? WMD?.. who's coming to bomb you?) and such..
I'll go hiding under my rock now, sipping some more coffee..
I cannot agree more with you.
...).
... In our -US- name that we supported. Savac was created by the CIA"]
I've been thinking it over, and can just conclude that the US (gov.) is in a stage where the EU was a long time ago (like puberty or something...)
The US hasn't had a war on own soil yet; so everything is a "far far away not affecting me" kindof thing for the US-citizens (or under a propagaded motive; "WMD!", "terrorism", "Nuclear treath!",
The EU has, and took care that it "would never happen again". (Genève treaty, of which the US seems to fail to see the idea behind it.)
Overthowed countries (~Implement dummy US gov here~)by the US;
Egypt (1952)
Iran (1953)["Nearly anyone in Iran, with importance, has had a brother.. Or a mother..or a sister.. or a son or a father tortured, jailed, deprived of their property without due process
Guatemala (1953)
Korea (1960-1961)
Laos (1960)
Zaire (1960)
Cuba (1961) Domican Republic (1963)
Vietnam (1963)
Bolivia (1964, 1971)
Brazil (1964)
Indonesia (1965)
Ghana (1966)
Greece (1967)
Cambodia (1970)
Chile (1973)
Panama (1989, Operation "Just Cause", civilians executed on the streets by US forces. 4000:20 death ratio)
Could list much and many more.
War in any way is certainly in this day of age unacceptable...
"Yea.. so you can make my computer faster? It takes like 15 minutes to boot.."
"Sure... No problem, just give me a 3 minutes." (I so have forgotten how slow 56K modems are, so it took a bit longer)
*Cleaning out the system, leave the comp while it downloads*
*Screen saver pops up, get prompted by login-screen*
"Um, what's your password? I can't get in otherwise to finish up"
"It's *******, oh no.. that's my hotmail.. um *****, no that's the other account. Oh there.. It's just my name on that login thing."
"mhmh.. that seems to work."
Ramani expects his search engine will serve huge industrial companies whose engineers often waste time and energy designing a specialized part when someone else has already created, used or rejected something similar.
It seems they target the industries only,
but somewhat earlier I've been thinking too that we need some other way to crawl / search data then we've been doing so far or at least a more advanced way to get specific data. (granted; google does what it does, and does it extremely well)
Consider a world where you have stuff recording your life and creating lots and lots of data of which you can't manually analyze, categorize, pinpoint a certain piece of data you have in mind , the typical naming of digital pictures; Im000931.jpg - Im001069.jpg.
B: Pinky, Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering?
P: Well, I think so, Brain, but "apply North Pole" to what?
When was the last time they talked about "helium filled (weather-) balloons"?
So this time they're telling us this in advance, so we're prepared when we see a colorfull "thing" flying around you can dail into;
when actually you have an UFO with aliens who're testing their wireless telephone system or something..
Be afraid.. */me searches for his tinfoil hat*
ET phone home...
That's pretty neat, thanks for that info/link!
I didn't realize holographic storage is in a stage where it's already use-able and reliable. (if I got that right from the webpage)
[Taken from page]
According to researchers at The University of California at Berkeley, more information will be created in the next 3 years then in the previous 300,000 years.
Source: Blu-ray Disc
The beauty is, as opposed to the "not until 10yrs"-statements, you can buy a recorder from sony (BDZ-S77) already in Japan.
When will I be able to buy a Blu-ray Disc recorder?
JVC, Maxell, Maxell TDK, mitsubishi, sony and many others are working on this...
HP and DELL were accepted into the group to help further develop the format for PC data storage in 2004. (which means, this is going to be widespread in a few years.)
My brother got an order of 700 harddrives, and sent me the email to analyze it cause it sounded somewhat *too* shady. After he negotiated a reduction for the huge order he got a contact adress in Nigeria. well.. First the person claimed to be an employer of a GameSpy(tm) affliate in the US and the order looked realistic, after my brother stated every European shipment would be out of charge (the negotiated reduction) a Mohammed was put on handling the order, someone stating being a contact person but this time we were linked to a completely different company in France. (you know, the footer in those emails.) They found only 3 airline companies that *only* would be *acceptable* to use the shipment (???) to Nigeria (after I tracked down the adress) We happily told them to get there harddrives somewhere else.. Thought it was just us getting these shady offers.. :-\
And I was skeptical about that theory about those monkeys on typewriters.
quote: The precise properties of individual Neurons are unpredictable and highly variable. Worse, they require constant life support just to stay alive. A 5 minute power interruption to your neural CPU and it's time to go shopping for a new one. /quote
:)
That would be like forgetting to feed a fish, no?
But then wouldn't you need to "feed" your biological chip? instead of having it hooked on electricity-network?
Maybe cause it's biologic, you'd keep your high-tech as a pet? Why not implement a personality into the device? Chinese robodog developers' wet dream!
"Build your own supercomputing pet, with upgradable GPU neuron chips. Hook your neuronPet up with friend to build a multiprocessor super neuronPet."
Why not take it further and..
Oh well I can dream,...
I do admit my ignorance on biochemical / electrotech connectivity and how the interaction with both works exactly in full detail, but I do know dreams have pushed the perceptions of what most thought to be impossible in the past.
ExistenZ shows a really fascinating world where "biotech exists".
You should rent this one if you get the chance.
They toy with biological 'pods' in the movie, being plugged into a human for bio-energy, very fascinating stuff.
Matrix- feel anno '99.
I think she just wants to accentuate her importance and *intelligence*.
"I come from several generations of mathematicians.
My father, for example, is a world-renowned expert on some areas of functional analysis "
She needs to achieve and keep up with her name, Me thinks.
The pressure...
"When I first became a developer on large, real-world projects at Ford as part of an elite development group."
"Mathematicians, who feel comfortable with purely abstract syntax, spend years of intense study mastering certain skills"
In contrast;
"Programmers are "average" folks; they have to be, since programming is a profession of millions of people"
She cannot grasp the fact someone not having studied as much as her can program at all, it seems.
Actually she's telling us; "Programmers are too stupid to NOT write bugs, it has to be!" and logic fades..
"I'm not an average programmer; I'm L337, F34r M3!"
I know where to look when there's some H4x0r trying to start WWIII to prove him or herself.
Some awesome pictures;
"The Flower"
"Six Aerogel Nanocomposites"
"Magnetic Aerogel"
"Photoluminescent Silicon on Silica"
"Carbon Nanostructure in Aerogel"
General Info / Main
Blind man can see thanks to a camera implanted in his brain
I thought I read somewhere they're unable to understand the processes in the brain,
but can reproduce the Outcome of the electronical / neurological process by chips in hopes to once understand how *that gray matter* actually works.
Neurochips detect brain's reaction to learning