Maybe all the other cultures are stuck in their equivalent of the Holodeck? Taking us as the only example I can find, our computing capability is increasing at a far greater rate than our ability (or desire) to rush off into the universe and colonise it. Why constrain yourself with physical limits when you can leave "meatspace" and explore anything you like at will? Possibly some galactic explorers/settlers are out there - but in a form we wouldn't recognise yet at our tech. level, like pieces of "computronium"...
That's exactly what I thought. Where I live you can buy unlocked N900s, iPhones, etc. but you still need a contract with *somebody* to use their cell network or roam others. The data costs are high, especially when roaming and I don't see a way round this - the networks belong to the telecos. What's different about the "GooglePhone"? AFAIK Google don't own any cellular infrastructure so, unfortunately, have to deal with those that do, like Apple does. Am I missing something fundamental here?
I choose a numbers/letters phrase, then change the capitalisation on an increasing binary basis: lllllllU, llllllUl, llllllUU, etc. I only ever have to remember one complex password which never changes and a fairly small number that increments every now-and-then. I don't think I could manage without writing things down, otherwise. I know some systems bar 'similar' passwords but luckily ours doesn't...
"A snapshot of an electronic brain can be made at any moment in time, it can then be shut down and later restarted in exactly the same state as when it was shut down. This would mean the 'intelligent' component can be resurrected with no loss of whatever made it 'it' in the first place."
So, we are going to have an on-line competition between a few EuroPlod with a EUR300,000 budget and 1,000's of mafia-backed hackers with PhDs. I wonder who the winners might be? We'll probably find out when the Police computer is discovered to have been compromised from the beginning...
I agree - it seems to be much more about being a considerate neighbour than covering vulnerabilities in the OS. What do the virus checkers available for OSX look for, anyway? I haven't heard of anything out in the wild (yet) for OSX that can auto propagate, so I'd expect all the definitions are for other OSs. On the XP side of my Mac, the anti-virus software seems to fulfil all the criteria for an actual virus, in terms of the effects on the system.
Overall, though, I think it's a good thing for Apple to recommend to get their users thinking about the possibilities as undoubtedly there _will_ be a successful viral attack on OSX, although we've been saying that for some considerable time now...
Does anyone know what happens when two unequal normal and anti- particles meet, e.g. an electron and a positron annihilate to two gammas but what is the result of a positron-proton interaction, for instance? What is 1835/1836ths of a proton (if that's what happens)?
I just made nearly the same calculation on the back of an envelope... Very similar numbers.
I worked out that over four hours, the power available at 100% conversion efficiency was 20milliwatts. Given that the best white LEDs are currently knocking out 100Lumens per watt, you'd need 6-8W of power to drive them. This would exhaust the potential energy of the supply in just over 30 seconds.
if we're so stupid we can't find a stable balance to ensure the survival of the specie, so be it. let mass extinction come.
I used to think that by becoming "greener" in the way I behaved was actually going to help. I fitted efficient light bulbs, changed to a car that used half the fuel, cut down on "unnecessary" energy expenditure, etc.
Recently, I've had a change of mind. I travel regularly to all six (or seven) continents and a fair bit to the so-called Developing World. I now understand that my contribution is futile; whatever increases in energy efficiency I (and those living in industrialised nations) make, they are wiped out over a very short period by what's going on in the rest of the planet.
I am now considering a counter-behaviour based on this logic:
a) In terms of hydrocarbons, there are definite limits to the amounts that can be extracted and used. b) The global population is increasing with no end in sight. c) Quality of life reduces with growing numbers of humans.
Therefore, it'll be better to run out of energy sooner rather than later as it might put a brake on the population increase - and those present then will have a greater individual share of whatever's left than would have been the case later on. That means we should go about our daily lives without any particular worry about efficiency and generally behave as though we were back in the time before the first oil crisis, because it doesn't really matter any more.
AFAIK on the 777 (which is the closest Boeing to the 787), the fly-by-wire flight control system IS physically separated from the entertainment system, etc. as any software updates have to be done on the aeroplane using physical media to upload from. The navigation systems are connected to the outside world via VHF and SatCom datalinks.
Maybe someone thought it would be a good idea to be able to remotely update ALL the systems in the 787, for instance to stick some new films on the IFE server or to apply a patch to the nav. unit if there were problems. This would probably result in shared connection hardware to save weight/complexity and the more critical systems behind hard/soft firewalls & encrypted. Not sure it's a good idea, though...
Disclaimer: I don't design them, I only fly them for a living.
Counting to nine is one thing, since each number has a unique digit. Grasping the concepts behind multi-digit base-ten numbers is one of the first steps toward real mathematics, and I imagine monkeys would need a lot more training to handle that.
What manufacturer would take on an open ended commitment of $60/yr? Even with Apple's legendary profit margins, they would be losing money by absorbing a $60 levy on their low-end iPods ($79 Shuffle, $149 Nano) and that's just in the first year! I can't see the situation being any better for other MP3 player makers.
From TFA, Apple allegedly get $0.29 from every $0.99 iTunes sale, i.e. the record companies get $0.70; I'd bet that $0.29 has to fund the credit card charges and infrastructure costs while the $0.70 is pure profit for emailing one master song copy to Cupertino. Does the music industry not realise what a good deal they have here? Pretty much every attempt at 'going solo' by a major has ended in disaster, indeed the quoted article states that Sony are closing their on-line music stores: how much did they lose there?
I think we're witnessing the beginning of the end of the 'traditional' music company and these sort of suggestions are just spasms from a body that doesn't know it's head has been cut off...
I have to say that I find it interesting that a publication in an Islamic part of the world (with all that implies in terms of law) would publish an article that is close to defending the "right to steal". What part of a convicted P2P filesharer gets cut off in the Kingdom? Clicking finger?
Slashdot Mirror
I store all my important data in transcendental numbers - at the moment, my hard drive is backed up from the 10^39,845,247th digit of pi...
Maybe all the other cultures are stuck in their equivalent of the Holodeck? Taking us as the only example I can find, our computing capability is increasing at a far greater rate than our ability (or desire) to rush off into the universe and colonise it. Why constrain yourself with physical limits when you can leave "meatspace" and explore anything you like at will? Possibly some galactic explorers/settlers are out there - but in a form we wouldn't recognise yet at our tech. level, like pieces of "computronium"...
As a glider pilot I'm all for it... However, there may be enough energy there to trigger a storm in some atmospheric conditions...
That's exactly what I thought. Where I live you can buy unlocked N900s, iPhones, etc. but you still need a contract with *somebody* to use their cell network or roam others. The data costs are high, especially when roaming and I don't see a way round this - the networks belong to the telecos. What's different about the "GooglePhone"? AFAIK Google don't own any cellular infrastructure so, unfortunately, have to deal with those that do, like Apple does. Am I missing something fundamental here?
Decepticons!!
I choose a numbers/letters phrase, then change the capitalisation on an increasing binary basis: lllllllU, llllllUl, llllllUU, etc. I only ever have to remember one complex password which never changes and a fairly small number that increments every now-and-then. I don't think I could manage without writing things down, otherwise. I know some systems bar 'similar' passwords but luckily ours doesn't...
"A snapshot of an electronic brain can be made at any moment in time, it can then be shut down and later restarted in exactly the same state as when it was shut down. This would mean the 'intelligent' component can be resurrected with no loss of whatever made it 'it' in the first place."
Tell that to HAL...
So, we are going to have an on-line competition between a few EuroPlod with a EUR300,000 budget and 1,000's of mafia-backed hackers with PhDs. I wonder who the winners might be? We'll probably find out when the Police computer is discovered to have been compromised from the beginning...
I agree - it seems to be much more about being a considerate neighbour than covering vulnerabilities in the OS. What do the virus checkers available for OSX look for, anyway? I haven't heard of anything out in the wild (yet) for OSX that can auto propagate, so I'd expect all the definitions are for other OSs. On the XP side of my Mac, the anti-virus software seems to fulfil all the criteria for an actual virus, in terms of the effects on the system.
Overall, though, I think it's a good thing for Apple to recommend to get their users thinking about the possibilities as undoubtedly there _will_ be a successful viral attack on OSX, although we've been saying that for some considerable time now...
How about some hairdressers and telephone sanitisers? Wouldn't need any of those retro-rocket thingies, either...
Does anyone know what happens when two unequal normal and anti- particles meet, e.g. an electron and a positron annihilate to two gammas but what is the result of a positron-proton interaction, for instance? What is 1835/1836ths of a proton (if that's what happens)?
Most of the interior shots remind me of DOOM 3, only with the lights turned on.
Must be spooky crawling around in there on your own...
Agreed. Maybe if they made Slashdot look like this we'd actually get some work done?
Blimey! Is that the 'Acid4' test? If so, Firefox needs some more work doing on it... Or is it meant to look like that?
...because you can stretch your rubber wafer out, put a 45nm circuit on it, let go and there you have a 20nm one at no extra cost!
*checks for patents*
I just made nearly the same calculation on the back of an envelope... Very similar numbers.
I worked out that over four hours, the power available at 100% conversion efficiency was 20milliwatts. Given that the best white LEDs are currently knocking out 100Lumens per watt, you'd need 6-8W of power to drive them. This would exhaust the potential energy of the supply in just over 30 seconds.
Something not quite right here...
if we're so stupid we can't find a stable balance to ensure the survival of the specie, so be it. let mass extinction come.
I used to think that by becoming "greener" in the way I behaved was actually going to help. I fitted efficient light bulbs, changed to a car that used half the fuel, cut down on "unnecessary" energy expenditure, etc.
Recently, I've had a change of mind. I travel regularly to all six (or seven) continents and a fair bit to the so-called Developing World. I now understand that my contribution is futile; whatever increases in energy efficiency I (and those living in industrialised nations) make, they are wiped out over a very short period by what's going on in the rest of the planet.
I am now considering a counter-behaviour based on this logic:
a) In terms of hydrocarbons, there are definite limits to the amounts that can be extracted and used.
b) The global population is increasing with no end in sight.
c) Quality of life reduces with growing numbers of humans.
Therefore, it'll be better to run out of energy sooner rather than later as it might put a brake on the population increase - and those present then will have a greater individual share of whatever's left than would have been the case later on. That means we should go about our daily lives without any particular worry about efficiency and generally behave as though we were back in the time before the first oil crisis, because it doesn't really matter any more.
AFAIK on the 777 (which is the closest Boeing to the 787), the fly-by-wire flight control system IS physically separated from the entertainment system, etc. as any software updates have to be done on the aeroplane using physical media to upload from. The navigation systems are connected to the outside world via VHF and SatCom datalinks.
Maybe someone thought it would be a good idea to be able to remotely update ALL the systems in the 787, for instance to stick some new films on the IFE server or to apply a patch to the nav. unit if there were problems. This would probably result in shared connection hardware to save weight/complexity and the more critical systems behind hard/soft firewalls & encrypted. Not sure it's a good idea, though...
Disclaimer: I don't design them, I only fly them for a living.
Counting to nine is one thing, since each number has a unique digit. Grasping the concepts behind multi-digit base-ten numbers is one of the first steps toward real mathematics, and I imagine monkeys would need a lot more training to handle that.
My monkey goes to 11.
Not a bad idea... Maybe we need a repository of Open Source Organisms, whose genetics can be used/improved by anyone?
What manufacturer would take on an open ended commitment of $60/yr? Even with Apple's legendary profit margins, they would be losing money by absorbing a $60 levy on their low-end iPods ($79 Shuffle, $149 Nano) and that's just in the first year! I can't see the situation being any better for other MP3 player makers.
From TFA, Apple allegedly get $0.29 from every $0.99 iTunes sale, i.e. the record companies get $0.70; I'd bet that $0.29 has to fund the credit card charges and infrastructure costs while the $0.70 is pure profit for emailing one master song copy to Cupertino. Does the music industry not realise what a good deal they have here? Pretty much every attempt at 'going solo' by a major has ended in disaster, indeed the quoted article states that Sony are closing their on-line music stores: how much did they lose there?
I think we're witnessing the beginning of the end of the 'traditional' music company and these sort of suggestions are just spasms from a body that doesn't know it's head has been cut off...
Well, we're almost there! Only a short step from Di-Positronium to Dilithium!
Subj: Space Shuttle
However tempting it may be, given the considerable savings, please don't source any more tiles from "Home Depot".
NASA Mgmt.
Well, it sounds like Rohypnol, only for the day after...
Seconded.
I have to say that I find it interesting that a publication in an Islamic part of the world (with all that implies in terms of law) would publish an article that is close to defending the "right to steal". What part of a convicted P2P filesharer gets cut off in the Kingdom? Clicking finger?
I think I know where they got the idea from... The Toyminator