Government pays off telecom with $200bn.(nudge nudge, wink wink. You don't really *have* to roll out the hardware, guys.) Government gets telecom to install snoop switches everywhere. Not just when they need a tap, but you know, *proactively*. Telecom has to "want" to do it and they do. Government doesn't say anything about bandwidth, universal access, net neutrality or EULAs that go against the Constitution. Meanwhile other countries (all buying U.S. hardware) roll way ahead in phones, fiber, online privacy laws, online video and film, etc.
Look, it's a pattern. Reminds me of Microsoft and the Government too. Wonder how much they gave the government for the same purpose, huh? It isn't easy to see the pattern until years go by, or to do much about it. But having this system and leaving important things to such corporations is why the U.S. is, I'm sorry to say, beginning to suck. However I did just rent two cheap servers in the U.S., because there are still cool U.S. geeks. When you complain though you have to realize you get what you pay for. In this case, you paid for the kind of AT&T and Comcast that you have.
Conceivably it would be possible to have good companies that do what the government wants, unless perhaps the government slyly applied massive pressure to turn them into the kind of companies that can get bought off, but it would appear that the financial system prefers jerks. The only way out would seem to get a lot of shareholders mad.
There are no absolutes but the risks could be reduced by not using such bleeding edge tech/services (which seems against the Google always-beta policy), or by having true AI (not there yet though maybe something useful could be done now) at all the major nodes of the net that can understand what is going on in real time and block off those parties (although this is vulnerable to distributed attacks).
However this is perhaps good for me since I write search engines. One I installed at a big company for 5 years (and beat out Alta Vista at the time) got outsourced to Google instead when the replacement hardware manufacturer went out of business. Presumably though such a company as that one would not really even see the current vulnerability news as a blip on the radar yet, so Google has a short grace period to respond.
I know the games on at least one airline (sorry can't remember but I think Continental, otherwise NW or UA) has games in the lcd in front of you that are tricked.. they seem to make it easy for you to win on purpose to reduce your stress. Of course they are therefore not too interesting.
p.s. I was quite bummed I couldn't get mysql editing through OOo working in the PortableApps.com version. Worked okay with windows though. OOo should help them get it going and recommending it, it's a very good way to show people OOo and I like being able to carry my own configuration with me.
Yup. I've contributed lots of test cases, bug reports and enhancement requests to OOo.
But still, they just need to get power users to use the thing and lots of low hanging fruit will magically appear. Problem is much of it requires confidential docs I don't want to post..
For example in very long text documents I would sometimes see it try to split it into pages to display it even though not displaying in print view.
Also I just tried the db forms thing for a client to be able to access a mysql db. It is totally unintuitive! Once you edit a form it is hard to get it back into the admin console, whatever that area needs some work. But it does seem to work though, even minimally it was useful. Any guides anywhere about using it?
Also, if you edit a live db in it, do rows that are displayed get locked while being displayed or might they be old data not reflecting current state of the db?
Also OOo formatting does not follow MS formatting in particular PPT. But it seems to work this is mainly interoperability I guess. I do use OOo myself now a lot, especially autocorrect helps my hands, so perhaps I should go back to usability testing it again.
Also I find the portableapps.com version of OOo very useful but a bit worried about updating, OOo should link to them.
Yeah, I got a NASANews article in the mail today, they talk about how the wind of Neptune "blows there at more than 2,000 kilometers per hour [240 miles per hour]".
Thank you very much for your excellent comment. I'm very sad to hear about what happened to your wife.
I'm particularly worried about how we have been seeing tazing in universities lately. From what you said it seems the public needs more protection against rabid security and police officers, perhaps starting with requiring more visible identification, public announcement of the name of the officer in charge, and investigations into all incidents of violence on the unarmed and the political.
Actually Google's policy is a bit screwy (if you are listening Google how about a reply?).
I just automated a site called www.thecommunitypage.com (using perl/catalyst/fastcgi/linux/apache if you are interested) which used to be just static pages. They have a very nasty competitor who has pulled dirty tricks, including telling people his site is theirs, and I believe their programmer is in jail or some such. Anyway, Google apparently canceled his AdSense account with them because they thought he was trying to get extra clicks, presumably by clicking on ads manually. We think it was probably this competitor doing it, but even though he explained the situation to Google they wouldn't listen and so he still has no AdSense.
At any rate, it seems quite easy to ruin someone's AdSense account and since my client wasn't doing it as far as I know, since Google didn't go after the people who are doing it they are partly to blame. Obviously AdSense is too fragile and it is too hard for them to investigate, which is why they have such a huge loophole and are losing all this money. They should roll out a new secure version of AdSense with cryptographic signatures and if they get complaints such as in my client's case they should cooperate by showing them what the offending log is, so they can attempt to prove it was somebody else. Maybe they have rolled out so much AdSense they are scared to change anything but it seems likely Google's entire AdSense portfolio is in fact quite fragile. It would make sense to scrap the current system and phase in something secure. That, or stop cavalierly breaking accounts. Disclaimer: I only know one side of the story but have a feeling it reflects reality. I don't make any money from AdSense or running the above site myself.
I'm frightened by all the people (90%?) saying the kid got what he deserved being tazed.
What utter bullshit! You guys seem to forget, this was a political rally in a university! What the heck do you think academic freedom is supposed to be about anyway? I remember pretty well when they had that killer Meir Kahane get invited to Cornell U. when I was there, I wish there had been more people like this kid. Maybe he's immature, and a hundred other things but he has balls and he is a presumably a student paying for an education, paying to have Kerry come and to have the privilege to talk back to the Senator. If there is one place that kids MUST NOT BE TAZED it is at political rallies in universities. The idea that a kid has to be educated by corporal and potentially lethal punishment as to where the neocon-sensitized line is in public discourse, is utterly repellent. You expect undergrads to be immature. They are growing their minds. Kids are shown video of how political disobedience and political rallies are often done by people who are getting frog walked away by cops. It is assumed rubber and metal bullets are the province of Myanmar or past South American regimes. Tazers do not feature in the media they are pseudo-educated with, as far as I know they are only on-campus. I think there can be worse things than an unruly but passionate and basically harmless kid talking long. I doubt that is illegal either. And I senators expect this sort of thing. Unless you see someone rushing at the Senator with a knife there is no reason to taze. I'm sorry, I am almost entirely nonpolitical and never was on campus either but there has to be a line drawn. I cannot agree at all with the jerks who say the kid got what he asked for. Imagine what the scene would have been like 10 years ago when tazers were not the fad. This is BAD. It is educating people to be mice. Or if you still don't get it, it is educating people to buy Microsoft, they can't go wrong and what's good for them is good for you. Need I go on? The idea that there needs even to be an investigation is utterly bizarre. This country has gone quite insane, I'm sure.
Easy, they will make more works of software that use those engines, and will boost those engines so they continually require the most cutting edge cpus.
Intel invests in companies that develop products which make people want to buy higher end chips, for example physics-based acoustic instrument simulation like one company I know.
FWIW, in Yahoo's "Maboo" Japanese Internet cafe chain yesterday I noted they stopped including MS Office and instead their computers all feature OpenOffice.org icons for the OOo apps prominently on the desktop with a big circle around them. This from probably the No. 1 or 2 hugest pro-MS country in the world. Maboo is cheap among Internet cafes, although a more upscale and expensive chain (aprecio) uses MS. It is a dollars per hour difference.
Just get a Mac. You can play your PC games guaranteed on the Windows partition since it is just an Intel PC really, and all your add-on hardware will work fine since it's in Windows. But most of the time you'll just use the Mac OS which just works, and you can use Parallels to have your PC programs (all except maybe some games that require wierd hardware, those work on the PC partition) run alongside Mac apps. You can ignore the step about having a Windows partition if you want to be free of the crap Redmond is throwing at you, but if you are addicted to those games you have (and if they are not out for the Mac) then you will have to deal with Windows sometimes. Maybe skip the partition, use your old Windows machine just for games. There you go.
I just don't get it. Why do they keep announcing these things?! You'd think they don't want terrorists to use the Internet or something. It's either bullshit or bullshit. Otherwise these idiots are committing treason! Or does even the top spy agency prefer vaporware to working systems? Or maybe they want them to use crypto so they can easily detect their streams?? The only thing worse than security theater is when something that sounds like real security is blabbed to the point you realize something must be wrong with it.
If it was really useful software I'd urge the company to buy it.
If there was any way it could be made to stop working, I would not.
The companies now who are your target market actually have strict rules in place that do not allow cracked software.
I would recommend making it possible for it to be copied from one computer to another, and not to check on how many copies are installed. Allow the corporate IT dept. to automatically install it on new computers that get started up (sell them a separate autoinstall tool if you really want, so they can keep track of which machines have it - but don't base any kind of charge on that number).
Once you sell it, you sold it to that company.
This is because license management is a royal pain and it seems unlikely that a company will buy from you more than once. Also, it becomes more useful the more people are using it. So companies using more of it will be more enthusiastic about it and tell people about it. You can feature those companies on your website with recommendations perhaps (if they say okay).
If you wish to make a lot of money selling seats, then consider a site license that will be a lot cheaper than the ordinary version if they have a large number of users. But do not even think about sneaking something onto their network. In fact don't do it even if you tell them about it.
Why not rely on honesty. No company will make this a part of their infrastructure if they may suddenly not be able to add a new employee, or have it stop working. Just figure on the general size and sell them it once. This is the model best suited to a scheduling app which is what yours sounds like. No sane company would base their scheduling on cracked software.
If you want later maybe you can add things that will let companies that work together schedule together. That kind of a bridge also is a one shot thing, deploy it on one of the companies and it will work.
Make it easy for them to keep on deploying. It costs you nothing for an extra seat to be made at the same company, but it will be a big merit if they can tell people in house that deployment is unlimited and they can back things up, virtualize, or do whatever they want. At the moment you have no clients. I recommend you make it easy to get it used and don't be greedy. The Internet equivalent of per-seat dongles only makes sense on expensive engineering software. What you need is the opposite model, make it easy for success stories to grow, build value-added products and an online community site, and get it so popular that it is regularly featured in magazines and word of mouth. If you have a good product and eliminate the barriers to it I expect you'll do well.
Excellent now we can have a Matryoshka shell of advanced computing equipment orbiting nearer to the sun just like in the (soon to be outdated) scifi novels!
It seems likely a machine with more than human brainpower for sheer logic would get made first but nobody would trust it to hand it the keys to everything. However if you follow the plot of Accelerando IIRC simulation of living humans (uploading) could be accompanied with magnification/expansion of that human's brainpower (perhaps first as adjuncts to your own living brain) which means that the hyperintelligent computer will in fact be you, or like a utility program that enables you to function as you but with much greater breadth of consciousness. In other words, use of a human-patterned personality or a large number of such personalities to monitor computing processes or in fact to be the main purpose of computing processes would be both logical and a way to make the argument moot. At the moment a single brain cannot build a nuclear reactor but it might be a trivial task for a single brain empowered by a massive computing facility. That brain could direct expansion of its own power but (at least the story goes) that the limiting factor will be 1) speed of creation of computing hardware and 2) that organic humans will get left behind while uploaded ones grow far beyond them and think so much faster there is no comparison possible anymore.
So the idea that the last invention ever needing to be made is that hyperintelligent computer may be true but also may seem quaint. You have to wonder what a hyperintelligent computer would think about that line, and *who* that hyperintelligent computer is.
1. Maturity of solution; Catalyst and Perl both more mature than the frameworks/languages mentioned. 2. Features; CPAN is bigger, Perl has more functionality which is why there is more than one way to do it (TIMTOWTDI) in Perl. 3. Size of community of skilled users (to build a team); More skilled Perl programmers. 4. Complexity/ease of use (for neophytes to master); Mmmm well can't say. PHP based thing with only one layout you can use might be simplest for a newbie. On the other hand, are you trying to make a serious webapp or just a cookie cutter steaming phpnuke thing? Am interested in Ruby mainly because it just might reduce typing but then again maybe not. Just seems neat. But for making a live system I'd go with Perl. 5. Greatest strength of your choice, and the greatest weaknesses of the other two. Many available modules. Other two have a much shorter [programmer pool size] x [framework and modules powerfulness] vector.
Just because it is hardware does not mean it is "true" randomness. TFA did not say just how random it is. The idea that the data is compromised enough that significant portions of it can be used to fingerprint, which is close to the opposite of the meaning of true randomness since it is based on a pattern, sounds to me like the more random components are in fact not so random. In other words the jitter down near the threshold of signal discrimination may look real random but actually may look a lot like the same jitter on another machine after you take away the fingerprint. Not a new idea of dialing in how much randomness you want but they will have to prove it.
I heard a story once I believe to be true from someone in Japan. It resonates with me because I am silly enough/fortunate/unfortunate to have an 8 inch Cassegrain in Tokyo, probably one of the brightest places around.
The story is that children who grew up in the city, where one is only able to see a handful of stars, did not belive that the starscapes one sees in movies and so on are real. They thought they were fake, because the real sky isn't like that.. there couldn't be that many stars.
Perhaps taking city kids periodically into dark areas would teach them about science, nature and the importance of dark skies. From 50 min. away from New York I can see star scapes and maybe the milky way but nothing like what's really out there.
No reason to be facetious. That was the quote from TFA and there is real science behind the superhighway or whatever you want to call the gravitational assist network found by Martin Lo for slow, low energy transfers.
I'm not screaming chicken little, though I think it is the kind of thing where you don't really know the risk until you spend the money to investigate. Like these guys did. Last week astronomers found a huge number of the nearby galaxies are all pointed the same way, who would have imagined that. So I am not afraid per se but it would not be irrational to be afraid given we know so little.
Anyway FYI the most recent extinction level event of which I am aware was 13 years ago. In March 1994 as you probably remember a train of 1-2 kilometer diameter fragments of Comet Shoemaker-Levy struck Jupiter. The biggest one according to this link was a 6 MILLION megaton blast, 600 times the world's arsenal it says. Luckily Jupiter must catch most of the maverick objects. You remember how Sandia National Laboratory modeled the blast in advance (correctly IIRC) using their nuclear weapons simulator? Just because the dinosaur killer was so long ago and the crater is so big you don't see it from the ground doesn't mean these things are old news. I submit that we ought to spend as much monitoring objects in the solar system that we spend on say, pop music.
No. As mentioned in TFA, the asteroid fragments are expected to have ridden on the "interplanetary superhighway" which though not described is a network of paths throughout the solar system that things like spaceships and apparently asteroids can ride on without requiring additional energy. So they got onto a gravitational path that brought them to the Earth. There seem to be a limited number of these paths so the risk is high not low. Anyway the superhighway was found by Martin Lo who used it on the Genesis Project. I think the satellite in halo orbit between the Earth and the Sun used it for a very fuel efficient journey IIRC. Besides, even if the IS didn't exist still you would have a 100km wide piece of rock going around the Sun and after a while it would get attracted to the gravity of the Earth. Hitting us the millionth orbit is as bad as doing it the first time, if we are around then.
I wonder if you pulled a disc-shaped sandwich apart from the center real fast would you get concentric circles like a fresnel lens.. if so then by varying the film thikness you could vary the wavelength of focused energy?
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Government pays off telecom with $200bn.(nudge nudge, wink wink. You don't really *have* to roll out the hardware, guys.)
Government gets telecom to install snoop switches everywhere. Not just when they need a tap, but you know, *proactively*. Telecom has to "want" to do it and they do.
Government doesn't say anything about bandwidth, universal access, net neutrality or EULAs that go against the Constitution. Meanwhile other countries (all buying U.S. hardware) roll way ahead in phones, fiber, online privacy laws, online video and film, etc.
Look, it's a pattern. Reminds me of Microsoft and the Government too. Wonder how much they gave the government for the same purpose, huh?
It isn't easy to see the pattern until years go by, or to do much about it. But having this system and leaving important things to such corporations is why the U.S. is, I'm sorry to say, beginning to suck. However I did just rent two cheap servers in the U.S., because there are still cool U.S. geeks. When you complain though you have to realize you get what you pay for. In this case, you paid for the kind of AT&T and Comcast that you have.
Conceivably it would be possible to have good companies that do what the government wants, unless perhaps the government slyly applied massive pressure to turn them into the kind of companies that can get bought off, but it would appear that the financial system prefers jerks. The only way out would seem to get a lot of shareholders mad.
-Users can instead pray to the hacking deities
+Users can instead pay to the hacking deities
There you go! That should do it.
There are no absolutes but the risks could be reduced by not using such bleeding edge tech/services (which seems against the Google always-beta policy), or by having true AI (not there yet though maybe something useful could be done now) at all the major nodes of the net that can understand what is going on in real time and block off those parties (although this is vulnerable to distributed attacks).
However this is perhaps good for me since I write search engines. One I installed at a big company for 5 years (and beat out Alta Vista at the time) got outsourced to Google instead when the replacement hardware manufacturer went out of business. Presumably though such a company as that one would not really even see the current vulnerability news as a blip on the radar yet, so Google has a short grace period to respond.
I know the games on at least one airline (sorry can't remember but I think Continental, otherwise NW or UA) has games in the lcd in front of you that are tricked.. they seem to make it easy for you to win on purpose to reduce your stress. Of course they are therefore not too interesting.
p.s. I was quite bummed I couldn't get mysql editing through OOo working in the PortableApps.com version. Worked okay with windows though. OOo should help them get it going and recommending it, it's a very good way to show people OOo and I like being able to carry my own configuration with me.
Yup. I've contributed lots of test cases, bug reports and enhancement requests to OOo.
But still, they just need to get power users to use the thing and lots of low hanging fruit will magically appear.
Problem is much of it requires confidential docs I don't want to post..
For example in very long text documents I would sometimes see it try to split it into pages to display it even though not displaying in print view.
Also I just tried the db forms thing for a client to be able to access a mysql db. It is totally unintuitive! Once you edit a form it is hard to get it back into the admin console, whatever that area needs some work. But it does seem to work though, even minimally it was useful. Any guides anywhere about using it?
Also, if you edit a live db in it, do rows that are displayed get locked while being displayed or might they be old data not reflecting current state of the db?
Also OOo formatting does not follow MS formatting in particular PPT. But it seems to work this is mainly interoperability I guess. I do use OOo myself now a lot, especially autocorrect helps my hands, so perhaps I should go back to usability testing it again.
Also I find the portableapps.com version of OOo very useful but a bit worried about updating, OOo should link to them.
Yeah, I got a NASANews article in the mail today, they talk about how the wind of Neptune "blows there at more than 2,000 kilometers per hour [240 miles per hour]".
Thank you very much for your excellent comment. I'm very sad to hear about what happened to your wife.
I'm particularly worried about how we have been seeing tazing in universities lately. From what you said it seems the public needs more protection against rabid security and police officers, perhaps starting with requiring more visible identification, public announcement of the name of the officer in charge, and investigations into all incidents of violence on the unarmed and the political.
Matt
Actually Google's policy is a bit screwy (if you are listening Google how about a reply?).
I just automated a site called www.thecommunitypage.com (using perl/catalyst/fastcgi/linux/apache if you are interested) which used to be just static pages. They have a very nasty competitor who has pulled dirty tricks, including telling people his site is theirs, and I believe their programmer is in jail or some such. Anyway, Google apparently canceled his AdSense account with them because they thought he was trying to get extra clicks, presumably by clicking on ads manually. We think it was probably this competitor doing it, but even though he explained the situation to Google they wouldn't listen and so he still has no AdSense.
At any rate, it seems quite easy to ruin someone's AdSense account and since my client wasn't doing it as far as I know, since Google didn't go after the people who are doing it they are partly to blame. Obviously AdSense is too fragile and it is too hard for them to investigate, which is why they have such a huge loophole and are losing all this money. They should roll out a new secure version of AdSense with cryptographic signatures and if they get complaints such as in my client's case they should cooperate by showing them what the offending log is, so they can attempt to prove it was somebody else. Maybe they have rolled out so much AdSense they are scared to change anything but it seems likely Google's entire AdSense portfolio is in fact quite fragile. It would make sense to scrap the current system and phase in something secure. That, or stop cavalierly breaking accounts. Disclaimer: I only know one side of the story but have a feeling it reflects reality. I don't make any money from AdSense or running the above site myself.
I'm frightened by all the people (90%?) saying the kid got what he deserved being tazed.
What utter bullshit! You guys seem to forget, this was a political rally in a university! What the heck do you think academic freedom is supposed to be about anyway? I remember pretty well when they had that killer Meir Kahane get invited to Cornell U. when I was there, I wish there had been more people like this kid. Maybe he's immature, and a hundred other things but he has balls and he is a presumably a student paying for an education, paying to have Kerry come and to have the privilege to talk back to the Senator. If there is one place that kids MUST NOT BE TAZED it is at political rallies in universities. The idea that a kid has to be educated by corporal and potentially lethal punishment as to where the neocon-sensitized line is in public discourse, is utterly repellent. You expect undergrads to be immature. They are growing their minds. Kids are shown video of how political disobedience and political rallies are often done by people who are getting frog walked away by cops. It is assumed rubber and metal bullets are the province of Myanmar or past South American regimes. Tazers do not feature in the media they are pseudo-educated with, as far as I know they are only on-campus. I think there can be worse things than an unruly but passionate and basically harmless kid talking long. I doubt that is illegal either. And I senators expect this sort of thing. Unless you see someone rushing at the Senator with a knife there is no reason to taze. I'm sorry, I am almost entirely nonpolitical and never was on campus either but there has to be a line drawn. I cannot agree at all with the jerks who say the kid got what he asked for. Imagine what the scene would have been like 10 years ago when tazers were not the fad. This is BAD. It is educating people to be mice. Or if you still don't get it, it is educating people to buy Microsoft, they can't go wrong and what's good for them is good for you. Need I go on? The idea that there needs even to be an investigation is utterly bizarre. This country has gone quite insane, I'm sure.
Easy, they will make more works of software that use those engines, and will boost those engines so they continually require the most cutting edge cpus.
Intel invests in companies that develop products which make people want to buy higher end chips, for example physics-based acoustic instrument simulation like one company I know.
FWIW, in Yahoo's "Maboo" Japanese Internet cafe chain yesterday I noted they stopped including MS Office and instead their computers all feature OpenOffice.org icons for the OOo apps prominently on the desktop with a big circle around them. This from probably the No. 1 or 2 hugest pro-MS country in the world. Maboo is cheap among Internet cafes, although a more upscale and expensive chain (aprecio) uses MS. It is a dollars per hour difference.
Just get a Mac. You can play your PC games guaranteed on the Windows partition since it is just an Intel PC really, and all your add-on hardware will work fine since it's in Windows. But most of the time you'll just use the Mac OS which just works, and you can use Parallels to have your PC programs (all except maybe some games that require wierd hardware, those work on the PC partition) run alongside Mac apps. You can ignore the step about having a Windows partition if you want to be free of the crap Redmond is throwing at you, but if you are addicted to those games you have (and if they are not out for the Mac) then you will have to deal with Windows sometimes. Maybe skip the partition, use your old Windows machine just for games. There you go.
I just don't get it. Why do they keep announcing these things?! You'd think they don't want terrorists to use the Internet or something. It's either bullshit or bullshit. Otherwise these idiots are committing treason! Or does even the top spy agency prefer vaporware to working systems? Or maybe they want them to use crypto so they can easily detect their streams?? The only thing worse than security theater is when something that sounds like real security is blabbed to the point you realize something must be wrong with it.
If it was really useful software I'd urge the company to buy it.
If there was any way it could be made to stop working, I would not.
The companies now who are your target market actually have strict rules in place that do not allow cracked software.
I would recommend making it possible for it to be copied from one computer to another, and not to check on how many copies are installed. Allow the corporate IT dept. to automatically install it on new computers that get started up (sell them a separate autoinstall tool if you really want, so they can keep track of which machines have it - but don't base any kind of charge on that number).
Once you sell it, you sold it to that company.
This is because license management is a royal pain and it seems unlikely that a company will buy from you more than once. Also, it becomes more useful the more people are using it. So companies using more of it will be more enthusiastic about it and tell people about it. You can feature those companies on your website with recommendations perhaps (if they say okay).
If you wish to make a lot of money selling seats, then consider a site license that will be a lot cheaper than the ordinary version if they have a large number of users. But do not even think about sneaking something onto their network. In fact don't do it even if you tell them about it.
Why not rely on honesty. No company will make this a part of their infrastructure if they may suddenly not be able to add a new employee, or have it stop working. Just figure on the general size and sell them it once. This is the model best suited to a scheduling app which is what yours sounds like. No sane company would base their scheduling on cracked software.
If you want later maybe you can add things that will let companies that work together schedule together. That kind of a bridge also is a one shot thing, deploy it on one of the companies and it will work.
Make it easy for them to keep on deploying. It costs you nothing for an extra seat to be made at the same company, but it will be a big merit if they can tell people in house that deployment is unlimited and they can back things up, virtualize, or do whatever they want. At the moment you have no clients. I recommend you make it easy to get it used and don't be greedy. The Internet equivalent of per-seat dongles only makes sense on expensive engineering software. What you need is the opposite model, make it easy for success stories to grow, build value-added products and an online community site, and get it so popular that it is regularly featured in magazines and word of mouth. If you have a good product and eliminate the barriers to it I expect you'll do well.
Excellent now we can have a Matryoshka shell of advanced computing equipment orbiting nearer to the sun just like in the (soon to be outdated) scifi novels!
It seems likely a machine with more than human brainpower for sheer logic would get made first but nobody would trust it to hand it the keys to everything. However if you follow the plot of Accelerando IIRC simulation of living humans (uploading) could be accompanied with magnification/expansion of that human's brainpower (perhaps first as adjuncts to your own living brain) which means that the hyperintelligent computer will in fact be you, or like a utility program that enables you to function as you but with much greater breadth of consciousness. In other words, use of a human-patterned personality or a large number of such personalities to monitor computing processes or in fact to be the main purpose of computing processes would be both logical and a way to make the argument moot. At the moment a single brain cannot build a nuclear reactor but it might be a trivial task for a single brain empowered by a massive computing facility. That brain could direct expansion of its own power but (at least the story goes) that the limiting factor will be 1) speed of creation of computing hardware and 2) that organic humans will get left behind while uploaded ones grow far beyond them and think so much faster there is no comparison possible anymore.
So the idea that the last invention ever needing to be made is that hyperintelligent computer may be true but also may seem quaint. You have to wonder what a hyperintelligent computer would think about that line, and *who* that hyperintelligent computer is.
1. Maturity of solution;
Catalyst and Perl both more mature than the frameworks/languages mentioned.
2. Features;
CPAN is bigger, Perl has more functionality which is why there is more than one way to do it (TIMTOWTDI) in Perl.
3. Size of community of skilled users (to build a team);
More skilled Perl programmers.
4. Complexity/ease of use (for neophytes to master);
Mmmm well can't say. PHP based thing with only one layout you can use might be simplest for a newbie. On the other hand, are you trying to make a serious webapp or just a cookie cutter steaming phpnuke thing? Am interested in Ruby mainly because it just might reduce typing but then again maybe not. Just seems neat. But for making a live system I'd go with Perl.
5. Greatest strength of your choice, and the greatest weaknesses of the other two.
Many available modules. Other two have a much shorter [programmer pool size] x [framework and modules powerfulness] vector.
Just because it is hardware does not mean it is "true" randomness.
TFA did not say just how random it is.
The idea that the data is compromised enough that significant portions of it can be used to fingerprint, which is close to the opposite of the meaning of true randomness since it is based on a pattern, sounds to me like the more random components are in fact not so random.
In other words the jitter down near the threshold of signal discrimination may look real random but actually may look a lot like the same jitter on another machine after you take away the fingerprint. Not a new idea of dialing in how much randomness you want but they will have to prove it.
I heard a story once I believe to be true from someone in Japan.
It resonates with me because I am silly enough/fortunate/unfortunate to have an 8 inch Cassegrain in Tokyo, probably one of the brightest places around.
The story is that children who grew up in the city, where one is only able to see a handful of stars, did not belive that the starscapes one sees in movies and so on are real. They thought they were fake, because the real sky isn't like that.. there couldn't be that many stars.
Perhaps taking city kids periodically into dark areas would teach them about science, nature and the importance of dark skies. From 50 min. away from New York I can see star scapes and maybe the milky way but nothing like what's really out there.
No reason to be facetious. That was the quote from TFA and there is real science behind the superhighway or whatever you want to call the gravitational assist network found by Martin Lo for slow, low energy transfers.
I'm not screaming chicken little, though I think it is the kind of thing where you don't really know the risk until you spend the money to investigate. Like these guys did. Last week astronomers found a huge number of the nearby galaxies are all pointed the same way, who would have imagined that. So I am not afraid per se but it would not be irrational to be afraid given we know so little.
Anyway FYI the most recent extinction level event of which I am aware was 13 years ago. In March 1994 as you probably remember a train of 1-2 kilometer diameter fragments of Comet Shoemaker-Levy struck Jupiter. The biggest one according to this link was a 6 MILLION megaton blast, 600 times the world's arsenal it says. Luckily Jupiter must catch most of the maverick objects. You remember how Sandia National Laboratory modeled the blast in advance (correctly IIRC) using their nuclear weapons simulator? Just because the dinosaur killer was so long ago and the crater is so big you don't see it from the ground doesn't mean these things are old news. I submit that we ought to spend as much monitoring objects in the solar system that we spend on say, pop music.
No. As mentioned in TFA, the asteroid fragments are expected to have ridden on the "interplanetary superhighway" which though not described is a network of paths throughout the solar system that things like spaceships and apparently asteroids can ride on without requiring additional energy. So they got onto a gravitational path that brought them to the Earth. There seem to be a limited number of these paths so the risk is high not low. Anyway the superhighway was found by Martin Lo who used it on the Genesis Project. I think the satellite in halo orbit between the Earth and the Sun used it for a very fuel efficient journey IIRC. Besides, even if the IS didn't exist still you would have a 100km wide piece of rock going around the Sun and after a while it would get attracted to the gravity of the Earth. Hitting us the millionth orbit is as bad as doing it the first time, if we are around then.
So which SqlServer bug will be blamed for this coup attemp^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hbureaucratic foulup?
I wonder if you pulled a disc-shaped sandwich apart from the center real fast would you get concentric circles like a fresnel lens.. if so then by varying the film thikness you could vary the wavelength of focused energy?