The odds of the iPod playing a completely even distribution of every song, with no detectable 'pattern', is MUCH smaller than it playing a list that has a detectable 'pattern'. Think about it this way.
Songs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
And you want to play 5 songs. To have it play each song once and only once would be 5!. However, this is out of the number of choices total, which is 5^5.
In other words, it's 120/3125 that the distribution would be even. As opposed to 3005/3125 that it wouldn't.
...how about he get a giant collection of journals/diaries from the 50s and 60s and see how they stack up?
A Blog is little more than a person's personal journal. Of course they're not put up against an editor or an ombudsman, THEY'RE JOURNALS. This guy's assuming that a blog is supposed to be held to some kind of higher standard.
The government's gotten all paranoid about this kind of stuff recently, what with the very recent and very publicized hacker attacks.
And although your analogy is for the most part valid, wouldn't a fox know how another fox would get into the henhouse? Where do you think we get most 'security analysts'?
I didn't see any mention of this, but considering that they say 'it has the consistency of paper' and the extremely high resolution, if it were touch sensitive, it would replace paper/pencil in a way that PDAs couldn't. I couldn't doodle that well on a palm, but with nanotech resolution and a thin enough stylus, notes on a tablet PC would become a reality.
Of course they're not supposed to be all-powerful, but considering details as to how exactly the algorithm is broken are not available, I'm quite interested as to how they broke it.
I'm particularly worried about BT users, personally. The breaking of SHA-1 will essentially allow the RIAA and others to corrupt many bittorrent downloads.
Those electrical generators are going to TOTALLY kill those waves I wanted to surf. Oh MAN.
Seriously, though, it's a clean source of power, but what kind of impact will it have on coastal areas? No more beach fish spawning, no more killer waves to surf, and the area where these will be deployed will become almost like kiddie pools.
How is acquiring a blog service in any way 'redeem' a search service? I don't use google because it has Picasa or Groups or anything. I use google because it has a no-frills, high quality search engine with a clean interface and relatively unobtrusive ads. I don't see AskJeeve's search engine as being anywhere near as good.
So in essence, was getting the blog service good for the company? Sure. Was it good for the reputation of the engine? Hell no.
Who needs computerized systems? I'm still driving my Ford Pinto, and it works great without any of those 'electronics' in it.
But in all seriousness, why computerize some of those systems? Analog controls aren't 'bad' per se, and the upshot of digital controls is more precision, which I doubt is needed in a car. I'd be fine with 'relatively warm' than '75 F'.
Government: Hmm, hurricane heading towards Alabama.
People: Hmm, it's rainy all of a sudden. Let's check the weather....what? What do you mean we have to pay? Dammit, screw that.
Foul weather, debt, fading Christmas memories, failed resolutions and a lack of motivation conspire to depress, Cliff Arnalls found.
1. Slashdotters don't go outside.
2. Slashdotters live with parents, i.e. don't have debt.
3. Didn't have any special christmas memories, except maybe that promised X850 that failed to show up.
4. What resolutions?
5. What motivation?
The situation: Creationists say that evolutionists are just another form of a religious cult. Same vice versa. The courts are literally stuck depending on their interpretation of the constitution article banning the interaction between church and state.
Will this go down in history as another Scopes Monkey Trial? No. But it's sure as hell going to reignite the debate (wasn't the last uproar a few years back, in Kansas?).
Personally, the only thing I would see that would pacify both sides would be a complete omission of any theory regarding how we came to be. While politically correct, it would be a massive disservice to the students. Either way, the government really cannot handle this through the judicial.
I have a copy of 'The Age of Spiritual Machines' by Ray Kurzweil, and he essentially predicts that organic systems and bodies will be outmoded within a century. Personally, I find this vision disturbing, and am personally against add-ons that don't 'repair' the human body. I'm by no means religious, but there has to be some pride in using what was given to you by luck of the draw to the best of your abilities.
But full cyborgs are bound to exist sooner or later.
This statistic bolsters many people's claims that dial-up is long and dead. Combine this with a rumor I heard that AOL is planning to phase out all dial-up service, and we have 100 percent broadband access foreseeable in the near future.
But how about the rest of the world? Especially unindustrialized nations. They'll be using dial-up for years to come. If more software comes out directed at the industrialized broadband world, the narrowband world is pushed out, therefore increasing the gap between the First and Third World. If we can increase broadband access here, we should do so likewise in other countries.
Look at Genesis. Parachute failed to deploy, and the thing smashed into the ground. And that was a relatively small capsule. Also, think of the parachutes needed to save even slightly larger aircraft. If a parachute of that size was needed for small private aircraft, there probably is no practical way to use them on large commercial liners.
I don't see this being more practical in small planes than simply having individual passenger parachutes in small planes, and letting them bail.
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The odds of the iPod playing a completely even distribution of every song, with no detectable 'pattern', is MUCH smaller than it playing a list that has a detectable 'pattern'. Think about it this way.
Songs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
And you want to play 5 songs. To have it play each song once and only once would be 5!. However, this is out of the number of choices total, which is 5^5.
In other words, it's 120/3125 that the distribution would be even. As opposed to 3005/3125 that it wouldn't.
...how about he get a giant collection of journals/diaries from the 50s and 60s and see how they stack up?
A Blog is little more than a person's personal journal. Of course they're not put up against an editor or an ombudsman, THEY'RE JOURNALS. This guy's assuming that a blog is supposed to be held to some kind of higher standard.
The government's gotten all paranoid about this kind of stuff recently, what with the very recent and very publicized hacker attacks.
And although your analogy is for the most part valid, wouldn't a fox know how another fox would get into the henhouse? Where do you think we get most 'security analysts'?
...am I lucky.
Lynx is, and continues to be, the ultimate browser for ad-less internet browsing.
Take that, 21st century!
Yes, it IS a news-flash, you CANNOT keep movies you've rented, forever.
But since when have advertising campaigns been free of ambiguity and deceit?
By that same argument, since Google uses proprietary code and is hoping to corner the market, we should all stop using Google.
...would be having this on Tablet PCs.
I didn't see any mention of this, but considering that they say 'it has the consistency of paper' and the extremely high resolution, if it were touch sensitive, it would replace paper/pencil in a way that PDAs couldn't. I couldn't doodle that well on a palm, but with nanotech resolution and a thin enough stylus, notes on a tablet PC would become a reality.
Just my thoughts on this.
Of course they're not supposed to be all-powerful, but considering details as to how exactly the algorithm is broken are not available, I'm quite interested as to how they broke it.
I'm particularly worried about BT users, personally. The breaking of SHA-1 will essentially allow the RIAA and others to corrupt many bittorrent downloads.
Those electrical generators are going to TOTALLY kill those waves I wanted to surf. Oh MAN.
Seriously, though, it's a clean source of power, but what kind of impact will it have on coastal areas? No more beach fish spawning, no more killer waves to surf, and the area where these will be deployed will become almost like kiddie pools.
How is acquiring a blog service in any way 'redeem' a search service? I don't use google because it has Picasa or Groups or anything. I use google because it has a no-frills, high quality search engine with a clean interface and relatively unobtrusive ads. I don't see AskJeeve's search engine as being anywhere near as good.
So in essence, was getting the blog service good for the company? Sure. Was it good for the reputation of the engine? Hell no.
Who needs computerized systems? I'm still driving my Ford Pinto, and it works great without any of those 'electronics' in it.
But in all seriousness, why computerize some of those systems? Analog controls aren't 'bad' per se, and the upshot of digital controls is more precision, which I doubt is needed in a car. I'd be fine with 'relatively warm' than '75 F'.
...uses a keylogger DONGLE?
Seriously. Did he think that the teacher wouldn't notice a DONGLE that was added to the computer?
Please. At least use a trojan-type keylogger, or something even slightly covert.
...this.
So yes, we'll be seeing Terminator deja vu in a few years.
At this point, I've decided to get out of the game. No IRC-crawling, no Kazaa, no DRM-breaking.
It's much easier to use the five-finger discount.
It was considered a military secret early on, because it has applications such as "spotting stealth planes" and "looking through walls."
They can't decide which.
Government: Hmm, hurricane heading towards Alabama.
People: Hmm, it's rainy all of a sudden. Let's check the weather....what? What do you mean we have to pay? Dammit, screw that.
Several thousand deaths later...
Foul weather, debt, fading Christmas memories, failed resolutions and a lack of motivation conspire to depress, Cliff Arnalls found.
1. Slashdotters don't go outside.
2. Slashdotters live with parents, i.e. don't have debt.
3. Didn't have any special christmas memories, except maybe that promised X850 that failed to show up.
4. What resolutions?
5. What motivation?
In other words, going to be a normal day for me.
I will personally decapitate anyone I see on the freeway playing Halo 2 while driving. Cell phones are bad enough.
Like so.
Just some stuff for people too lazy to line their house with tinfoil.
The situation: Creationists say that evolutionists are just another form of a religious cult. Same vice versa. The courts are literally stuck depending on their interpretation of the constitution article banning the interaction between church and state.
Will this go down in history as another Scopes Monkey Trial? No. But it's sure as hell going to reignite the debate (wasn't the last uproar a few years back, in Kansas?).
Personally, the only thing I would see that would pacify both sides would be a complete omission of any theory regarding how we came to be. While politically correct, it would be a massive disservice to the students. Either way, the government really cannot handle this through the judicial.
The first installment lets us know that somewhere between 0 and 1 Billion (or more)
Excellent, it's nice to know that a negative number of people won't die.
Scenario 1: They are spherical. Yay.
Scenario 2: They are slightly off center. The universe spontaneously combusts.
I have a copy of 'The Age of Spiritual Machines' by Ray Kurzweil, and he essentially predicts that organic systems and bodies will be outmoded within a century. Personally, I find this vision disturbing, and am personally against add-ons that don't 'repair' the human body. I'm by no means religious, but there has to be some pride in using what was given to you by luck of the draw to the best of your abilities.
But full cyborgs are bound to exist sooner or later.
This statistic bolsters many people's claims that dial-up is long and dead. Combine this with a rumor I heard that AOL is planning to phase out all dial-up service, and we have 100 percent broadband access foreseeable in the near future.
But how about the rest of the world? Especially unindustrialized nations. They'll be using dial-up for years to come. If more software comes out directed at the industrialized broadband world, the narrowband world is pushed out, therefore increasing the gap between the First and Third World. If we can increase broadband access here, we should do so likewise in other countries.
Look at Genesis. Parachute failed to deploy, and the thing smashed into the ground. And that was a relatively small capsule. Also, think of the parachutes needed to save even slightly larger aircraft. If a parachute of that size was needed for small private aircraft, there probably is no practical way to use them on large commercial liners.
I don't see this being more practical in small planes than simply having individual passenger parachutes in small planes, and letting them bail.