Digital preservation still doesn't solve the problem of preserving images on the 1000 year scale. In a previous post I mused about the possibility of a solid-state, solar powered, physically rugged media that has the ability to store and display images. Now that would rock. Think Superman's crystals...
TFA implies some desire to produce ~forever lasting photos for the historical benefit of future generations/civilizations:
"Those images should last thousands of years," he said from his office in Grinnell, Iowa. "Imagine seeing photos of the building of the pyramids." Digital information may be totally useless to a future civilization. Still doesn't seem like paper is the way to achieve this goal. Some kind of solid-state, solar-powered, physically rugged yet-to-be-invented store and display media would be perfect.
Sadly, even a marvel such as that will be useless when the machines force us to blot out the sun with nuclear weapons...
I have a theory that every TV show or movie out there is considered by at least one person in the world as the all time best. This can be backed up, albeit not proved, by browsing imdb message boards.
Seems like every other movie that comes out these days is a remake or spin off of an old idea, I'd think Tron would fall right in line. It would be very similar to the most recent "King Kong" remake, as the original was considered a revolution in special effects for its time much as Tron was in its time.
It would probably be complete slop if they did it, but I would go see it out of curiosity.
Was able to just lay down in the Shark Tunnel and watch the sharks swim overhead for about a half hour with no one coming down. Had it occurred to you that no one came down the tunnel because there was a strange man laying down in it?;)
I completely agree! She sounds just as savvy as some of the card carrying "geeks" (antonym of "newbie"??) I know. This line hit me right off the bat:
My current system is a reasonably powerful, home-built one: I think home building a box disqualifies you immediately from newbie status.
That was the end of that particular segment, had you gone to the next (last) page. I think the conclusion was simply that the "live-in geek" had done some research and found out that Adobe is working on the problem and there is no solution yet.
So on that point she conceded that the flash player doesn't work but apparently felt it was not Ubuntu's fault.
If you can get all of the power of unix shells combined with a platform that actaully runs real apps? Just install Cygwin on your windows box, works like a charm. I've always used it, but when I got my dad (old school Bell Labs DMTS and UNIX guru) to install and enjoy it I knew it was for real. Granted you can't do much in the way of windows sys admin from the cygwin command line, but for tasks like quickly editing/building/running test code, running tricky sed/awk scripts for editing files, using find (which now hooks into the windows fast find crap), etc. it's the shizznat. Check out my journal for some "cygwinized" versions of bash script I ported from my linux profile - there are some good examples of getting around directories with spaces in bash script.
Maybe you've heard of cygwin or even tried it, but I am always stunned by how few people know about it.
From TFA:
Jack Newman, PhD, Amyris Biotechnologies VP: "This was technology that was really great for the current application of making an anti-malarial drug and we said, great, pharmaceuticals, that's a wonderful model and then we realized, our market is in Africa and they make less than a dollar a day." Dr. Newman went on to say "not only do they make a dollar a day, but they all have malaria for god's sake!!"
Am I mistaken, or did this company start with a $43 million gimme with the explicit goal of saving people from malaria?
I completely agree with the parent. It's astonishing to me how anxious people are to jump all over Microsoft that they will happily rush to the defense of businesses using unlicensed software to make their own money. I've worked for software companies for my entire professional life and take software pirating pretty seriously - even if it's Microsoft's software. Stealing is stealing, and Microsoft has every right to passively seek out and actively question companies illegally using their software.
I believe TV, albeit in a different form, will continue to exist for a long time. What is the definition of "TV" here?
What a lot people dont seem to realize is that the lack of interaction and choice with TV can be an advantage. You can't change the channel on your television?
TVs role will diminish but I would be doubtful if pre-programmed channels(even if over the internet) will ever disappear. So the definition of TV is not "pre-programmed channels". Again - what do you mean by "TV"? In short, what the hell are you talking about?
From TFA:
A majority of Americans (52%) describe their most recent experience with a computer problem as one of anger, sadness or alienation. (emphasis mine) This seemed a little extreme to me at first, but I realized my perception of computer problems as a professional software developer may be much different than that of the majority of Americans. I suppose if I think back to car problems I've had (as someone with zero knowledge of cars) "anger, sadness, and alienation" (ASA) is a fair description of my experience.
Now, something that would be truely useful would be a service that would do translations from a wider variety languages.
Agreed. How sweet would it be to have a cross-compiler that could "compile" C code to Java, Java to C, Java to C#, etc. I'm pretty sure that at some level of code complexity it becomes an impossibility but even a cross compiler that could translate single methods/functions at a time would have some use. Sounds like a fun javacc or yacc experiment.
"Let's say I want to squirt the robot a picture of my kids, the robot can squirt me back a precision tactical airstrike. That's a software experience." - The Ballms
Yeah - I've about had it with the startup hit (mine is more like +7 minutes - ugh), if it's not corrected soon I may bail. Wasn't meant as an ad, just pointing out that they have rootkit detection, which is one of the reasons I went with it in the first place.
If a native app can analyze the disk volume directly it can identify malicious drivers and reveal them to a friendly Win32 application that can remove them after a reboot. This works for user mode and kernel mode rootkits, but if there's a BIOS rootkit you're pretty much screwed. See my previous post, Norton AntiVirus 2007 operates in this way.
If we as a society/government do not provide for an equal shot at the lowest level of education, i.e. public schooling, then it seems that we are taking for granted your first reason for poor people being poor. How would we know what effect giving all children equal opportunity for education would have?
I used to write code for a company that made a runtime-replaceable (no re-compile) garbage collecting allocator for C/C++ apps and in the process came across numerous cases of our allocator causing crashes by fixing memory errors in the app. E.g. Netscape on Solaris would crash on our buffer-overrun detection flag because the app was depending on the word after the end of a buffer to be all zeros. When it hit our flag it puked (Maybe you are seeing the same bug!!).
It only takes a couple of cases like this to make you believe that these products are just too intrusive to be practical for day to day use. I would bet that ~15-30% of all commercial software will react poorly with DieHard.
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Digital preservation still doesn't solve the problem of preserving images on the 1000 year scale. In a previous post I mused about the possibility of a solid-state, solar powered, physically rugged media that has the ability to store and display images. Now that would rock. Think Superman's crystals...
Sadly, even a marvel such as that will be useless when the machines force us to blot out the sun with nuclear weapons...
I have a theory that every TV show or movie out there is considered by at least one person in the world as the all time best. This can be backed up, albeit not proved, by browsing imdb message boards.
The will of the people hasn't been lost, it's been hijacked. How's that for irony?
Seems like every other movie that comes out these days is a remake or spin off of an old idea, I'd think Tron would fall right in line. It would be very similar to the most recent "King Kong" remake, as the original was considered a revolution in special effects for its time much as Tron was in its time.
It would probably be complete slop if they did it, but I would go see it out of curiosity.
That was the end of that particular segment, had you gone to the next (last) page. I think the conclusion was simply that the "live-in geek" had done some research and found out that Adobe is working on the problem and there is no solution yet.
So on that point she conceded that the flash player doesn't work but apparently felt it was not Ubuntu's fault.
I haven't seen that many adjectives in a row since my wife's last order at Starbucks...
Write my love on the side of a satellite...anyone have a kleenex?
Maybe you've heard of cygwin or even tried it, but I am always stunned by how few people know about it.
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Am I mistaken, or did this company start with a $43 million gimme with the explicit goal of saving people from malaria?
I completely agree with the parent. It's astonishing to me how anxious people are to jump all over Microsoft that they will happily rush to the defense of businesses using unlicensed software to make their own money. I've worked for software companies for my entire professional life and take software pirating pretty seriously - even if it's Microsoft's software. Stealing is stealing, and Microsoft has every right to passively seek out and actively question companies illegally using their software.
What a lot people dont seem to realize is that the lack of interaction and choice with TV can be an advantage. You can't change the channel on your television?
TVs role will diminish but I would be doubtful if pre-programmed channels(even if over the internet) will ever disappear. So the definition of TV is not "pre-programmed channels". Again - what do you mean by "TV"? In short, what the hell are you talking about?
Agreed. How sweet would it be to have a cross-compiler that could "compile" C code to Java, Java to C, Java to C#, etc. I'm pretty sure that at some level of code complexity it becomes an impossibility but even a cross compiler that could translate single methods/functions at a time would have some use. Sounds like a fun javacc or yacc experiment.
"Let's say I want to squirt the robot a picture of my kids, the robot can squirt me back a precision tactical airstrike. That's a software experience." - The Ballms
Yeah - I've about had it with the startup hit (mine is more like +7 minutes - ugh), if it's not corrected soon I may bail. Wasn't meant as an ad, just pointing out that they have rootkit detection, which is one of the reasons I went with it in the first place.
If a native app can analyze the disk volume directly it can identify malicious drivers and reveal them to a friendly Win32 application that can remove them after a reboot. This works for user mode and kernel mode rootkits, but if there's a BIOS rootkit you're pretty much screwed. See my previous post, Norton AntiVirus 2007 operates in this way.
Norton AV 2007 boasts rootkit protection.
If we as a society/government do not provide for an equal shot at the lowest level of education, i.e. public schooling, then it seems that we are taking for granted your first reason for poor people being poor. How would we know what effect giving all children equal opportunity for education would have?
I used to write code for a company that made a runtime-replaceable (no re-compile) garbage collecting allocator for C/C++ apps and in the process came across numerous cases of our allocator causing crashes by fixing memory errors in the app. E.g. Netscape on Solaris would crash on our buffer-overrun detection flag because the app was depending on the word after the end of a buffer to be all zeros. When it hit our flag it puked (Maybe you are seeing the same bug!!).
It only takes a couple of cases like this to make you believe that these products are just too intrusive to be practical for day to day use. I would bet that ~15-30% of all commercial software will react poorly with DieHard.