Conclusions from googling..
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From what I can tell via google,
- Ash melts at 1100 degrees, below operating temperature of jet engines, and fuses into the engine - Windshields can be abraded so badly you cannot see out of them - Ash is dry and doesn't show up on radar, so new sensors are needed so pilots can discover it - There are no standards for how much ash is allowed or how to test aircraft against it. - Possibility that propellor planes and helicopters are safer
So my conclusions for now are: - Need better rules, and government should pay for the experimentation - Need better intelligence, so we can be sure a route is safe - Need to examine flying propellor planes slowly at very low altitudes below the ash - Nobody has thought about ash bothering ground transportation. Does it? - Need alternative transportation
o Trains, buses, boats
o Slower aircraft.. hovercraft or balloons? (they still have engines though)
o Need a closed engine design. (chemical or hydrogen powered electric closed engine?)
o This is a common problem, more needs to be done for global transportation security. I even found a volcanic explosion in Japan yesterday at the ash advisory center, though it is not in the news at all. http://ds.data.jma.go.jp/svd/vaac/data/TextData/20100420_SAKU_0403_Text.html
For a single unix server I use firehol. It is pretty easy to use its simple English-like settings file which is used to generate the iptables firewall. It's not Star Trek, not even a gui, but seems to do the simple job well. Possibly this could be run on the router.
It would be nice if you could have a program that is updated with information about how to set up various manufacturers' products, and lets you describe your setup, then programs your firewalls on the various machines.
Islands in the Net
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In Bruce Sterling's Islands in the Net, the protagonist wears video sunglasses (1988). Streaming to the net live is seen as a shield. Even now, clearly it would be safer to stream it than carry the video on you.
No bets about quality of the recording. However a cue might be taken from the "smart bandaid" wireless health sensors that are being developed now, with enough power to reach a wristwatch or pocket device. What market opportunity (and perhaps technological advance) needs to be presented to camera manufacturers in order to get them to package small wireless audio/video sensors for the mass market?
I wonder what happened to those two profs from Jian who sent in all those fabricated crystal papers.
Sadly, although I am looking to do business in China in the future, I have come across many anecdotes from people who tell me it is very dangerous. - Someone I know well lost millions due to Chinese side refusing to pay for computer equipment sold - One firm in Hong Kong told me mainland companies prefer to hire their CFOs from Hong Kong because they are seen as being more trustworthy - Several companies that had focused on China, leaving it and heading to Japan, due to difficulty in finding trustworthy partners.
I think China has reached a point where cheating in one way or another is limiting its growth potential severely. The main factor in considering a project in China is how not to get screwed. This is not a theory I made up, but actually what has come up in discussions about 2 different companies who have asked me to sell their products in China.
The news articles attached suggest that academia is also completely ridden with cheating unfortunately. I can't see that the country will be able to get anywhere in the future without a sweeping change. I don't think it is a matter of imprisoning or killing academics like China has done with financial or government people in the past. The only idea I have is for someone to give John Boswell a grant to translate the Symphony of Science videos into Chinese. This could be mandatory viewing for all academics, and the leaders of universities would be required to institute programs for instilling a new culture of honesty in students and having papers tested before they leave the university. Another idea is to create a bilingual (Chinese-English) transparency website that can be used to discover cheating authors and to also post what happened to them when they were discovered.
The attempt would be to supplant this supposedly celebrated part of Chinese culture and redirect the energy into an understanding of what science is really about. Clearly, you cannot perceive the wonder, or make great contributions, if you cheat. The linked articles suggest that this understanding is not yet mainstream in China, or is too overshadowed by the economic chaos.
Maybe so. It might seem unlikely an advanced race would be so dumb.
Perhaps industrial infrastructure will be focused on digitized minds in a virtual landscape, and will not be "wasted" on supporting organic bodies and fixing them over the centuries. Maybe digital life is going to be much richer and more expanded than what can fit inside an organic brain.
On the other hand, we've had the public Internet for 15 years, say they've had it for 15,000 years. It's hard to understand what their issues will be.
However one possible link is that there may be a point of decision near the beginning of Internet development for all societies, which characterizes all history after that.
Not to be tongue in cheek, but it could be summarized as DRM/MAFIAA/ACTA/ANTI-TERROR/WTF vs. OpenSource/Level Playing Field/Honesty&Balance. As time progresses, the DRM..WTF government-industrial players control the lifeblood of the society, whether it is controlling software/entertainment or perhaps with more advanced technology, controlling a person's biological makeup, or perhaps your life as a simulated person in a planet-wide computer.
The organics will (as some recent novels have suggested) be on the outside of mainstream society and will have only the OpenSource technologies and resources available to them. They probably do not have extra resources lying around enough to waste on contacting other civilizations, especially if their communications are considered equivalent to caveman grunts by most all of the listeners.
I don't know but I agree it is insane. Not only does it cut into your wrists, the indentation you use to open the cover of the MacBook (I have a MBP 17" from late 2009) actually tapers at the front top edge to an extremely razor-sharp point!! INSANITY!
That plus always being paranoid about scratching the aluminum.. I would appreciate a different material.
It's worse than that. I'm considering paying the hundred bucks to develop for iPad (and iPhone). But I will also have to buy an iPad (and an iPhone).
Because in order to develop and sell a program you have to understand what is in the market, and you cannot run apps from the App Store in the iPhone Simulator.
Granted I have heard apps crashing and badly performing when developed without a real iPad there, but can anyone tell me if there is an iPad simulator in that 100 dollar fee? I can't even buy one here yet.
If the naming system was built right you would still see the relationship of different subspecies even when splitting is done.
It probably is an old discussion but I wonder, shouldn't taxonomy use more than 2 names, or perhaps use syllables to indicate relationships?
Is there a numerical system, perhaps like IP dot notation, or something else, that handles this more gracefully? If a numerical system existed that matches the relationships borne out by analysis of dna and the like, then maybe that should be the real base used, and then the latin or whatever names you want can be attached to it like a DNS?
The problem seems to be that as you discover more things, you will have to keep splitting and renaming, and you will lose links and make obsolete old articles that cannot be easily updated. A system that fits the way biology and discovery works should maybe be considered.
TFA is not clear whether non-Japanese really cannot break down seaweed at all. In Japan it is popular to buy yogurt with live culture, for example there is Meiji's LB51 (lacto bacillus 51) yogurt supposedly good for your gut. Might be cool if a yogurt with this organism is made. Of course if you could just eat non-sterile seaweed maybe it would make a culture for you in your gut.. anybody know about edible seaweeds that would have this? I've had seaweed salad and maybe that would have it. Also the American gut is supposedly longer does that balance not having the enzyme at all?
I have a question for any physicists in the room. Is it theoretically possible to create nanoscale machinery that can mechanically, perhaps via a nanoscale accelerator, add and subtract protons and neutrons to atoms?
Wondering what the possiblity is of seeing superheavy elements from this new island appearing in quanitities useable by industry.
I suppose another question would be, the possibility of seeking such atoms in the solar system where they could be discovered and obtained more easily.
Just a thought experiment for now but it might be reality this century, if physically possible.
I DEFINITELY recommend linode.com which gives you root and your own distro. They have kept expanding your hard disk etc. for free periodically for years, and keep developing new things for its users. You ssh in and can install anything you want, and can organize disk images, reboots and dns from dashboard.
However you wouldn't want to host a simple very high volume site there, so I have hostgator as well. I haven't pushed it, but their baby account seems quite good. It is the opposite of linode, being high capacity and lower functionality but even then it has quite a lot of good stuff. Cpanel based but with ssh too.
I loved GIMP on linux. Even made an automatic compositing system with perl-fu. But I really hate, hate-hate-hate GIMP on Mac OS X. Seashore and Leeshore also suck, having thrown out all the functionality I look for, but oh GIMP in X on the Mac has been utter pain. I am sooo looking forward to this. FYI Leeshore is the Cocoa minimized GIMP version called Seashore, but with Core Image effects added. The site is all in Japanese but the program is in English.
Unless you are a troll, I don't understand why you don't say the company name, the application name, and give website and street address. And why you are so defeatist despite apparently having the answer to breaking this dumb patent? Come on, if you are telling the truth then how about telling everybody what your clue is about? (Or are you holding out so you can settle with Google?)
As another poster mentioned I am quite worried about the health safety of this product. My impression is that the product includes spiked balls that are constantly pushed against each other (maybe even just from vibrations not just when touched). The spikes are if I understand correctly of nanoscale dimensions. So, these spikes will break off once in a while. Too often and perhaps the material won't work well, but even just a little bit and you now have microscopic spearheads that may likely penetrate any fabric and the skin. They could travel through the body. And they are electrical conductors, so perhaps they could short-circuit nerves even. Is anyone thinking about this at all?
Camera photo import connectivity kit looks hideously clunky. But maybe they know something about camera manufacturers going wireless? No video camera is bad. Apple must have been incapable of cutting a deal with anyone for good lenses etc. I'd pay a lot if there was a high-end HD quality video camera built in. Definitely I'd love to use this to read books. But not have to buy from Apple. I want it open. Problem with using this for business: Can't sign your name or draw diagrams. Could have been smarter and made it possible to use this to lead presentations or draw on a video whiteboard. You could even pass it around a conference table to draw things that people on the other end of a video conference could see. No stylus... So they are aiming at the "I have a Mac and now want one for the kitchen that I can take to the living room and read books on". Maybe should wait until they make the next version? Also I would consider buying two to stay in close touch with someone, if it could do all the time iChat and drawing with stylus. Unfortunately it still seems to be a luxury item. I do want to buy an eBook reader, but am not sure it will be Apple's iTablet. It looks nice but... Maybe I'll wait and see if something better with an e-Ink display comes out cheaper. 10 hours for an eBook reader isn't good. It really would be good though as a control for a living room speaker system. Or maybe as a TV controller interface.
Make a website that is clean and understandable. If the project is mature then it should be usable in the real world. Get it used. Make articles in newspapers. Get interview with client if they agree. Put client names on homepage if they agree. Contact blogs etc. about it and post it also on sites like freshmeat, etc. Respond lightning fast to queries and monitor online media. Write a column or blog describing what you do and new plugins etc. If it is useful people who already trust open source will try it. If it is too complex a system maybe that is a problem too. Simple things that are easy to understand tend to get sold quickly. Personally I'd be worried about trusting a system written by a tiny team with no real world clients, except as a hobby. Maybe you want to tell Wikipedia to update their page to include you in a category list too. Make sure all references link to your site. This will raise your google ranking. Talk to schools or potential customers and actually install and support it. This is your living right? Finally, tell us what the project is in the comments here. Yeesh!
IIRC RFID tags are indeed used to track patients against procedures in at least one Japanese hospital system working now. I met the developer, who worked for years on it. He tried to open source it once a decade or more ago, and someone tried to push him off a train platform he was convinced in retaliation for threatening their income. He may try it again now that things are a bit different. I also visited a radiation facility and remember something about them using RFID checks on the patient. It sounds like totally irresponsible procedure design by a fucked up health system run by insurance companies, why my Dad (a cancer surgeon) was glad to get out of it. The kind of things discussed in this thread just should not be happening at all. There is no reason in this age for a single patient to be wrongly irradiated even counting human error. What must have happened is the insurance actuarialists computed statistics of a bad dose compared to the cost of overengineering the entire medical procedure from patient checkin to irradiation. The patients lost. Or can someone give a better reason?
Okay, I have done a fair amount of programming and yet with a new Mac I have not yet dived into the SDKs, etc. I once wanted to do some batch resizing of photos and yet couldn't get it done in Automator easily without being scared of losing the original photos, on my first dive into it. Yes, I actually wrote a great auto-compositing and resizing program once driving the Gimp on linux. It was awesome. But that was years ago and now I have a nice new computer. And where did that code go. Yes I'm sure Automator, Quartz Composer, my shiny new Xcode system and whatever else works on a Mac will be great. But I haven't had time to learn it.
Enter Sikuli. I wrote a hello world and it worked fast. I don't know if I could do it to do batch photo processing still but it just seems cool. I'd rather it was decoupled from a language and the editor was open sourced (maybe it is?) though, so others could build on that. For example if there was a binding to Perl and you could just use the IDE, then maybe someone could add Perl bindings and someone else might add use of CPAN modules for downloading web pages, etc.
Also the vision algorithm looks a bit slow.
There was once an experimental system created that allowed you to program graphic drawings drawn as if on a napkin which would animate in 2D, which is how the program would run. A true graphic language. Maybe someone can find it probably in the ACM SIGGRAPH proceedings several years ago. Maybe "graphic shell" and "napkin drawings" would find it.
Anyway, Sikuli is spectacular for using computer vision techniques to allow for slight changes, and for being immediately useful. I'd like to see it linked to Xcode for RAD of Objective-C apps; Apple should definitely license it or hire the developers for research on it. There is a vast field opened up by this, finally an a-hah experience and not just Apple but many developers should now consider how to get the computer to be smart and find out what you want to do.
This ought to make it possible to do easy mechanized data extraction from the web, analysis of webcam feeds, acting on audio and other types of sensor cues, accessing data and devices over networks, and taking action based on feeds from other devices that are minimally enhanced like my cellphone telling my mac and maybe my mail server when its battery is about to die. It could forward mail to another device, etc. This kind of thing even could work in video cameras and household devices. Even if you just consider it a way to turn people on to programming it is invaluable and fun. I'd like to see Sikuli's functional pieces broken off into standalone services that can be used by other things. As for the comment about window manager themes or operating system versions changing and breaking the script due to icon changes, I think the vision detection of a gui button actually is finding the button and window ids in Sikuli and ought to be able to hand those back.
The editor should also be broken off, of course it needs to be able to launch a screenshot capturing action but that does not mean it must be the sole application allowed to do this. And you could write (snap?) a Sikuli script to run a screenshot capture. Finally I think the Sikuli scripts ought to allow being compiled or otherwise optimized since obviously once it is run, Sikuli knows what the ID of the graphic element it finds is and thereafter need not do vision recognition, it seems.
Some companies will register the software purchased as an asset, and that is the procedure they must follow. They need a contract that specifies the license terms. There also has to be someone they can complain to, or contact to make improvements, or at least explain some code so they can make improvements (if you allow that). This is their procedure for operating business responsibly and that's fine.
Also as someone else mentioned, they might have to have their legal department, or paid external lawyers, analyze carefully an open source contract for viral bits. If they can write the contract for you it is easiest but make sure it contains what is shown below. Or you could use a template on the web.
People here telling you to tell them to buzz off if they won't accept BSD, etc. are not in business, and that's what is scary. Open source programmers need to be able to make a living in order to support doing their open source work, so a company asking you for a commercial liscense for that exact work you have already done is fabulous! Unless you have a job where you are paid to write open source software, this is ideal I should think. More like that and you wouldn't need to do other commercial work, right?
A commercial liscense costs money; no real company buys software for $1. The code may be exactly the same as the free version, it is okay to charge money for it.
All you need to do is make it easy for your client to purchase the a non-exclusive liscense to your product. This is actually an opportunity for you. You can make some money now, have a possibility for a support contract or more commercial work in the future, and you can say the code is used in a commercial product, which speaks of its quality.
Things you should specify (off the top of my head - maybe you can find some more information elsewhere):
Your (or your company's) name and address, and theirs. At the bottom, your name and the person on their side, with signatures.
Disclaimer of your liability: That the software is provided on an as-is basis and you the vendor have absolutely no liability for any defect in it, nor for any losses that may ensue through its use, or its legality in some jurisdiction, nor it is intended for illegal uses, or use in mission critical applications, etc. There is plenty of boilerplate around you can find that says this. (Assuming they are just buying something of yours and they aren't hiring you to create something for them. If they were, you'd have to guarantee against fatal-level defects, and that it meets a carefully agreed-on specification. Things like behavior in a cluster, usability on a certain architecture, 64-bit, Y2K or security related vulnerabilities would then require you to maintain it. You should add in it that any work to make improvements or repair bugs will be charged separately.)
The price. Charge them a reasonable price for it, this is a commercial license and you can include some support with it. If you include 10 hours support for free then maybe $1000 is okay, or more it depends on what the amount of code is of course. Charge for additional work you do at a certain hourly rate too if you want. Maybe you could discuss that here. You could sound them off about the price verbally. Priced beyond a certain threshold will make the decision get booted up higher. The deliverables. Usually they need something physical. Make a CD with a nice label, write a short instruction manual, and print it out on paper (also included as a PDF or text file inside the CD). The CD and manual are physical assets that they can put in the vault and have available for software audits.
Your responsiblity to support them. You may be tempted to say support is free forever, but don't do that, it costs you your time and they want value. Say limited support for a short amount of time and if they want it you can make some separate consulting or support contract with them. If they are paying you then you can afford to provide them with support to get up and running, or to discuss wit
It sounds like there is a lot more information that has not been disclosed yet. It almost sounds like the Chinese government is somehow implicated in the attack, which would sound incredible if it didn't include the personal information of dissidents.
I will be attending a financial conference in Hong Kong this month. Just last week I asked a Japanese government executive negotiating with China is it really safe to invest there? As I am considering now.
You can be sure this topic will be one of the top issues discussed. It is very unfortunate indeed and is bound to involve disclosures from other companies in China as well, especially once they investigate the attacks on their own infrastructure.
Personally I hope that information about the vulnerabilities exploited will be shared so that other companies can patch their systems too. This is quite a chilling incident and ratchets up the perceived risk of investment in China.
Incidentally I found something about Google leaving Japan in a blog post linked from the Google China homepage. ChineseGoogle Translate to English.
Nobody ever died of not eating nuts for a whole flight, but people have I expect died from eating them.
Now, nuts are a healthy, convenient, nutritional, tasty food item and undoubtedly a valuable part of aerospace cuisine. But they should just stop serving them. It isn't a matter of catering to every last kook, but simple safety management.
300 packets of roasted peanuts being opened at once, with static and dry air in a closed cabin, just might be fatal to someone.
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Check out the full-screen mpegs here: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/Gallery/SDOFirstLight.html
From what I can tell via google,
- Ash melts at 1100 degrees, below operating temperature of jet engines, and fuses into the engine
- Windshields can be abraded so badly you cannot see out of them
- Ash is dry and doesn't show up on radar, so new sensors are needed so pilots can discover it
- There are no standards for how much ash is allowed or how to test aircraft against it.
- Possibility that propellor planes and helicopters are safer
So my conclusions for now are:
- Need better rules, and government should pay for the experimentation
- Need better intelligence, so we can be sure a route is safe
- Need to examine flying propellor planes slowly at very low altitudes below the ash
- Nobody has thought about ash bothering ground transportation. Does it?
- Need alternative transportation
o Trains, buses, boats
o Slower aircraft.. hovercraft or balloons? (they still have engines though)
o Need a closed engine design. (chemical or hydrogen powered electric closed engine?)
o This is a common problem, more needs to be done for global transportation security. I even found a volcanic explosion in Japan yesterday at the ash advisory center, though it is not in the news at all.
http://ds.data.jma.go.jp/svd/vaac/data/TextData/20100420_SAKU_0403_Text.html
Links:
http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/412103-ash-clouds-threaten-air-traffic.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/apr/15/volcanic-ash-bad-for-planes
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?threadid=2055888944
http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/VAAC/vaac.html
For a single unix server I use firehol. It is pretty easy to use its simple English-like settings file which is used to generate the iptables firewall. It's not Star Trek, not even a gui, but seems to do the simple job well. Possibly this could be run on the router.
It would be nice if you could have a program that is updated with information about how to set up various manufacturers' products, and lets you describe your setup, then programs your firewalls on the various machines.
In Bruce Sterling's Islands in the Net, the protagonist wears video sunglasses (1988). Streaming to the net live is seen as a shield. Even now, clearly it would be safer to stream it than carry the video on you.
No bets about quality of the recording. However a cue might be taken from the "smart bandaid" wireless health sensors that are being developed now, with enough power to reach a wristwatch or pocket device. What market opportunity (and perhaps technological advance) needs to be presented to camera manufacturers in order to get them to package small wireless audio/video sensors for the mass market?
I wonder what happened to those two profs from Jian who sent in all those fabricated crystal papers.
Sadly, although I am looking to do business in China in the future, I have come across many anecdotes from people who tell me it is very dangerous.
- Someone I know well lost millions due to Chinese side refusing to pay for computer equipment sold
- One firm in Hong Kong told me mainland companies prefer to hire their CFOs from Hong Kong because they are seen as being more trustworthy
- Several companies that had focused on China, leaving it and heading to Japan, due to difficulty in finding trustworthy partners.
I think China has reached a point where cheating in one way or another is limiting its growth potential severely. The main factor in considering a project in China is how not to get screwed. This is not a theory I made up, but actually what has come up in discussions about 2 different companies who have asked me to sell their products in China.
The news articles attached suggest that academia is also completely ridden with cheating unfortunately. I can't see that the country will be able to get anywhere in the future without a sweeping change. I don't think it is a matter of imprisoning or killing academics like China has done with financial or government people in the past. The only idea I have is for someone to give John Boswell a grant to translate the Symphony of Science videos into Chinese. This could be mandatory viewing for all academics, and the leaders of universities would be required to institute programs for instilling a new culture of honesty in students and having papers tested before they leave the university. Another idea is to create a bilingual (Chinese-English) transparency website that can be used to discover cheating authors and to also post what happened to them when they were discovered.
The attempt would be to supplant this supposedly celebrated part of Chinese culture and redirect the energy into an understanding of what science is really about. Clearly, you cannot perceive the wonder, or make great contributions, if you cheat. The linked articles suggest that this understanding is not yet mainstream in China, or is too overshadowed by the economic chaos.
People don't realize how loud the keypunch is, it gave me a feeling of power!
Maybe so. It might seem unlikely an advanced race would be so dumb.
Perhaps industrial infrastructure will be focused on digitized minds in a virtual landscape, and will not be "wasted" on supporting organic bodies and fixing them over the centuries. Maybe digital life is going to be much richer and more expanded than what can fit inside an organic brain.
On the other hand, we've had the public Internet for 15 years, say they've had it for 15,000 years.
It's hard to understand what their issues will be.
However one possible link is that there may be a point of decision near the beginning of Internet development for all societies, which characterizes all history after that.
Not to be tongue in cheek, but it could be summarized as DRM/MAFIAA/ACTA/ANTI-TERROR/WTF vs. OpenSource/Level Playing Field/Honesty&Balance. As time progresses, the DRM..WTF government-industrial players control the lifeblood of the society, whether it is controlling software/entertainment or perhaps with more advanced technology, controlling a person's biological makeup, or perhaps your life as a simulated person in a planet-wide computer.
The organics will (as some recent novels have suggested) be on the outside of mainstream society and will have only the OpenSource technologies and resources available to them. They probably do not have extra resources lying around enough to waste on contacting other civilizations, especially if their communications are considered equivalent to caveman grunts by most all of the listeners.
Orders to be taken from May 10, sales in second half of May. A month later than expected.
I don't know but I agree it is insane. Not only does it cut into your wrists, the indentation you use to open the cover of the MacBook (I have a MBP 17" from late 2009) actually tapers at the front top edge to an extremely razor-sharp point!! INSANITY!
That plus always being paranoid about scratching the aluminum.. I would appreciate a different material.
It's worse than that. I'm considering paying the hundred bucks to develop for iPad (and iPhone). But I will also have to buy an iPad (and an iPhone).
Because in order to develop and sell a program you have to understand what is in the market, and you cannot run apps from the App Store in the iPhone Simulator.
Granted I have heard apps crashing and badly performing when developed without a real iPad there, but can anyone tell me if there is an iPad simulator in that 100 dollar fee? I can't even buy one here yet.
If the naming system was built right you would still see the relationship of different subspecies even when splitting is done.
It probably is an old discussion but I wonder, shouldn't taxonomy use more than 2 names, or perhaps use syllables to indicate relationships?
Is there a numerical system, perhaps like IP dot notation, or something else, that handles this more gracefully? If a numerical system existed that matches the relationships borne out by analysis of dna and the like, then maybe that should be the real base used, and then the latin or whatever names you want can be attached to it like a DNS?
The problem seems to be that as you discover more things, you will have to keep splitting and renaming, and you will lose links and make obsolete old articles that cannot be easily updated. A system that fits the way biology and discovery works should maybe be considered.
TFA is not clear whether non-Japanese really cannot break down seaweed at all.
In Japan it is popular to buy yogurt with live culture, for example there is Meiji's LB51 (lacto bacillus 51) yogurt supposedly good for your gut.
Might be cool if a yogurt with this organism is made.
Of course if you could just eat non-sterile seaweed maybe it would make a culture for you in your gut.. anybody know about edible seaweeds that would have this?
I've had seaweed salad and maybe that would have it.
Also the American gut is supposedly longer does that balance not having the enzyme at all?
I have a question for any physicists in the room. Is it theoretically possible to create nanoscale machinery that can mechanically, perhaps via a nanoscale accelerator, add and subtract protons and neutrons to atoms?
Wondering what the possiblity is of seeing superheavy elements from this new island appearing in quanitities useable by industry.
I suppose another question would be, the possibility of seeking such atoms in the solar system where they could be discovered and obtained more easily.
Just a thought experiment for now but it might be reality this century, if physically possible.
I DEFINITELY recommend linode.com which gives you root and your own distro. They have kept expanding your hard disk etc. for free periodically for years, and keep developing new things for its users. You ssh in and can install anything you want, and can organize disk images, reboots and dns from dashboard.
However you wouldn't want to host a simple very high volume site there, so I have hostgator as well. I haven't pushed it, but their baby account seems quite good. It is the opposite of linode, being high capacity and lower functionality but even then it has quite a lot of good stuff. Cpanel based but with ssh too.
I loved GIMP on linux. Even made an automatic compositing system with perl-fu.
But I really hate, hate-hate-hate GIMP on Mac OS X. Seashore and Leeshore also suck, having thrown out all the functionality I look for, but oh GIMP in X on the Mac has been utter pain.
I am sooo looking forward to this.
FYI Leeshore is the Cocoa minimized GIMP version called Seashore, but with Core Image effects added.
The site is all in Japanese but the program is in English.
False. Some displays do not require glasses.
Just google for: 3d tv no glasses
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Unless you are a troll, I don't understand why you don't say the company name, the application name, and give website and street address. And why you are so defeatist despite apparently having the answer to breaking this dumb patent? Come on, if you are telling the truth then how about telling everybody what your clue is about? (Or are you holding out so you can settle with Google?)
As another poster mentioned I am quite worried about the health safety of this product.
My impression is that the product includes spiked balls that are constantly pushed against each other (maybe even just from vibrations not just when touched). The spikes are if I understand correctly of nanoscale dimensions. So, these spikes will break off once in a while. Too often and perhaps the material won't work well, but even just a little bit and you now have microscopic spearheads that may likely penetrate any fabric and the skin. They could travel through the body. And they are electrical conductors, so perhaps they could short-circuit nerves even. Is anyone thinking about this at all?
Camera photo import connectivity kit looks hideously clunky. But maybe they know something about camera manufacturers going wireless?
No video camera is bad. Apple must have been incapable of cutting a deal with anyone for good lenses etc. I'd pay a lot if there was a high-end HD quality video camera built in.
Definitely I'd love to use this to read books. But not have to buy from Apple. I want it open.
Problem with using this for business: Can't sign your name or draw diagrams. Could have been smarter and made it possible to use this to lead presentations or draw on a video whiteboard. You could even pass it around a conference table to draw things that people on the other end of a video conference could see. No stylus...
So they are aiming at the "I have a Mac and now want one for the kitchen that I can take to the living room and read books on".
Maybe should wait until they make the next version?
Also I would consider buying two to stay in close touch with someone, if it could do all the time iChat and drawing with stylus.
Unfortunately it still seems to be a luxury item. I do want to buy an eBook reader, but am not sure it will be Apple's iTablet. It looks nice but... Maybe I'll wait and see if something better with an e-Ink display comes out cheaper. 10 hours for an eBook reader isn't good. It really would be good though as a control for a living room speaker system. Or maybe as a TV controller interface.
Just tell us the name already!
Make a website that is clean and understandable.
If the project is mature then it should be usable in the real world. Get it used.
Make articles in newspapers. Get interview with client if they agree.
Put client names on homepage if they agree.
Contact blogs etc. about it and post it also on sites like freshmeat, etc.
Respond lightning fast to queries and monitor online media.
Write a column or blog describing what you do and new plugins etc. If it is useful people who already trust open source will try it.
If it is too complex a system maybe that is a problem too. Simple things that are easy to understand tend to get sold quickly.
Personally I'd be worried about trusting a system written by a tiny team with no real world clients, except as a hobby.
Maybe you want to tell Wikipedia to update their page to include you in a category list too.
Make sure all references link to your site. This will raise your google ranking.
Talk to schools or potential customers and actually install and support it. This is your living right?
Finally, tell us what the project is in the comments here. Yeesh!
IIRC RFID tags are indeed used to track patients against procedures in at least one Japanese hospital system working now. I met the developer, who worked for years on it. He tried to open source it once a decade or more ago, and someone tried to push him off a train platform he was convinced in retaliation for threatening their income. He may try it again now that things are a bit different.
I also visited a radiation facility and remember something about them using RFID checks on the patient.
It sounds like totally irresponsible procedure design by a fucked up health system run by insurance companies, why my Dad (a cancer surgeon) was glad to get out of it. The kind of things discussed in this thread just should not be happening at all. There is no reason in this age for a single patient to be wrongly irradiated even counting human error. What must have happened is the insurance actuarialists computed statistics of a bad dose compared to the cost of overengineering the entire medical procedure from patient checkin to irradiation. The patients lost. Or can someone give a better reason?
Okay, I have done a fair amount of programming and yet with a new Mac I have not yet dived into the SDKs, etc. I once wanted to do some batch resizing of photos and yet couldn't get it done in Automator easily without being scared of losing the original photos, on my first dive into it. Yes, I actually wrote a great auto-compositing and resizing program once driving the Gimp on linux. It was awesome. But that was years ago and now I have a nice new computer. And where did that code go. Yes I'm sure Automator, Quartz Composer, my shiny new Xcode system and whatever else works on a Mac will be great. But I haven't had time to learn it.
Enter Sikuli. I wrote a hello world and it worked fast. I don't know if I could do it to do batch photo processing still but it just seems cool. I'd rather it was decoupled from a language and the editor was open sourced (maybe it is?) though, so others could build on that. For example if there was a binding to Perl and you could just use the IDE, then maybe someone could add Perl bindings and someone else might add use of CPAN modules for downloading web pages, etc.
Also the vision algorithm looks a bit slow.
There was once an experimental system created that allowed you to program graphic drawings drawn as if on a napkin which would animate in 2D, which is how the program would run. A true graphic language. Maybe someone can find it probably in the ACM SIGGRAPH proceedings several years ago. Maybe "graphic shell" and "napkin drawings" would find it.
ALso see VizDraw (pdf) where recognition is done on drawing with a pen tablet.
http://www.eng.uwaterloo.ca/~akmishra/VizDraw2.pdf
Anyway, Sikuli is spectacular for using computer vision techniques to allow for slight changes, and for being immediately useful. I'd like to see it linked to Xcode for RAD of Objective-C apps; Apple should definitely license it or hire the developers for research on it. There is a vast field opened up by this, finally an a-hah experience and not just Apple but many developers should now consider how to get the computer to be smart and find out what you want to do.
This ought to make it possible to do easy mechanized data extraction from the web, analysis of webcam feeds, acting on audio and other types of sensor cues, accessing data and devices over networks, and taking action based on feeds from other devices that are minimally enhanced like my cellphone telling my mac and maybe my mail server when its battery is about to die. It could forward mail to another device, etc. This kind of thing even could work in video cameras and household devices. Even if you just consider it a way to turn people on to programming it is invaluable and fun. I'd like to see Sikuli's functional pieces broken off into standalone services that can be used by other things. As for the comment about window manager themes or operating system versions changing and breaking the script due to icon changes, I think the vision detection of a gui button actually is finding the button and window ids in Sikuli and ought to be able to hand those back.
The editor should also be broken off, of course it needs to be able to launch a screenshot capturing action but that does not mean it must be the sole application allowed to do this. And you could write (snap?) a Sikuli script to run a screenshot capture. Finally I think the Sikuli scripts ought to allow being compiled or otherwise optimized since obviously once it is run, Sikuli knows what the ID of the graphic element it finds is and thereafter need not do vision recognition, it seems.
Some companies will register the software purchased as an asset, and that is the procedure they must follow. They need a contract that specifies the license terms. There also has to be someone they can complain to, or contact to make improvements, or at least explain some code so they can make improvements (if you allow that). This is their procedure for operating business responsibly and that's fine.
Also as someone else mentioned, they might have to have their legal department, or paid external lawyers, analyze carefully an open source contract for viral bits. If they can write the contract for you it is easiest but make sure it contains what is shown below. Or you could use a template on the web.
People here telling you to tell them to buzz off if they won't accept BSD, etc. are not in business, and that's what is scary. Open source programmers need to be able to make a living in order to support doing their open source work, so a company asking you for a commercial liscense for that exact work you have already done is fabulous! Unless you have a job where you are paid to write open source software, this is ideal I should think. More like that and you wouldn't need to do other commercial work, right?
A commercial liscense costs money; no real company buys software for $1. The code may be exactly the same as the free version, it is okay to charge money for it.
All you need to do is make it easy for your client to purchase the a non-exclusive liscense to your product. This is actually an opportunity for you. You can make some money now, have a possibility for a support contract or more commercial work in the future, and you can say the code is used in a commercial product, which speaks of its quality.
Things you should specify (off the top of my head - maybe you can find some more information elsewhere):
Your (or your company's) name and address, and theirs. At the bottom, your name and the person on their side, with signatures.
Disclaimer of your liability: That the software is provided on an as-is basis and you the vendor have absolutely no liability for any defect in it, nor for any losses that may ensue through its use, or its legality in some jurisdiction, nor it is intended for illegal uses, or use in mission critical applications, etc. There is plenty of boilerplate around you can find that says this. (Assuming they are just buying something of yours and they aren't hiring you to create something for them. If they were, you'd have to guarantee against fatal-level defects, and that it meets a carefully agreed-on specification. Things like behavior in a cluster, usability on a certain architecture, 64-bit, Y2K or security related vulnerabilities would then require you to maintain it. You should add in it that any work to make improvements or repair bugs will be charged separately.)
The price. Charge them a reasonable price for it, this is a commercial license and you can include some support with it. If you include 10 hours support for free then maybe $1000 is okay, or more it depends on what the amount of code is of course. Charge for additional work you do at a certain hourly rate too if you want. Maybe you could discuss that here. You could sound them off about the price verbally. Priced beyond a certain threshold will make the decision get booted up higher.
The deliverables. Usually they need something physical. Make a CD with a nice label, write a short instruction manual, and print it out on paper (also included as a PDF or text file inside the CD). The CD and manual are physical assets that they can put in the vault and have available for software audits.
Your responsiblity to support them. You may be tempted to say support is free forever, but don't do that, it costs you your time and they want value. Say limited support for a short amount of time and if they want it you can make some separate consulting or support contract with them.
If they are paying you then you can afford to provide them with support to get up and running, or to discuss wit
It sounds like there is a lot more information that has not been disclosed yet. It almost sounds like the Chinese government is somehow implicated in the attack, which would sound incredible if it didn't include the personal information of dissidents.
I will be attending a financial conference in Hong Kong this month. Just last week I asked a Japanese government executive negotiating with China is it really safe to invest there? As I am considering now.
You can be sure this topic will be one of the top issues discussed. It is very unfortunate indeed and is bound to involve disclosures from other companies in China as well, especially once they investigate the attacks on their own infrastructure.
Personally I hope that information about the vulnerabilities exploited will be shared so that other companies can patch their systems too.
This is quite a chilling incident and ratchets up the perceived risk of investment in China.
Incidentally I found something about Google leaving Japan in a blog post linked from the Google China homepage. Chinese Google Translate to English.
Nobody ever died of not eating nuts for a whole flight, but people have I expect died from eating them.
Now, nuts are a healthy, convenient, nutritional, tasty food item and undoubtedly a valuable part of aerospace cuisine.
But they should just stop serving them. It isn't a matter of catering to every last kook, but simple safety management.
300 packets of roasted peanuts being opened at once, with static and dry air in a closed cabin, just might be fatal to someone.