they make it themselfs... acording to the article, the original purpose of the software isn't always what they curently do with it, yust that they noticed that they could do more.
actualy... it's been a while since I've seen people use querty's around here... all azerty's:p
got to agree on the hand writing tho... takes me ages to write a simple text by hand, while it would only take a few minuts to type it.. with 2 fingers...:)
you might not put it on the web, but can you be shure that your naiber, your local police officer, your wife, etc. aren't putting that bit of information that you don't want everybady to know on the web?
and what if sombady puts on allot of false information about you? for example, a group of people who start a rumor that you raped sombady... they start it as a rumor, sombady else see's it as some real information and put's it online... from rumor to part of your identity in no time...
like always... information is a powerfull thing... and power atracts coruption...
aslong as they are yust banners, then they can display them all they want, since you can easely look past them while surfing, and they don't disrupt your surfing like popup's.
popups on the other hand... (especialy flash popup's) get blocked instantly. if I visit a site, I want to be able to see the site, and not have to close 5 popup windows before I can get to the actual site.
actualy... they aren't giving away stuff for free... see those adds on the right of your gmail? they create money for google, making a profit for google. and unless you find that your paying yust by looking at those adds, gmail is still free for you, even tho google is earning a profit from it.
actualy... not everybady has a Gmail acount yet:D you don't happen to have a spare invite for Gmail laying around by any chance do you?;) my curent e-mail is buti AT pandora.be;)
isn't windows xp a starter edition on it's own? a tour at the start, allot of helpfiles and all the dangerous files hidden, so that you can't mess mutch up...
I wonder if they couldent have thought of a more fitting name for a stripped down version, like windows lite or so, since now it seems that windows normal is for the pro's;)
considering that that pool is completely sealed from the outside world would mean that anything in it isn't resistant to infections from the outside world or the other way around...
so couldent it be that once humans put a crack in that icy shield that protects the pool, that some human deseases, to which humans have already build a resistance, that these deseases infect the ancient inhabitants of that pool, creating a slaughter among them... or the other way around...
so... altho the stuff they'll find can prove valuble to science, I would aproach with caution if I was them...
once they start sending stuff farther away from earth, they seem to have 3 posibilities. 1) send a human with it to make the decissions 2) create a AI to either work on it on or atleast lessent the required communication to earth (less input from earth and more making it's own decissions) 3) increase the bandwith/transmission speed - number 1 is hard, since a human requires allot of support systems, increasing the size of your (space)craft. number 3 get's hard, if not inposible, due to the law's of the universe (lightspeed etc. can't remember exact name right now:) ). number 2 seems like a likly candidate, since in it earliest stages, it lessens direct comunication needs (mainly output towards the homebase, no high speed required) and later on, with the more advanced versions, it can become totaly self suficient, exploring on it's own and either sending it's information back imeadiatly or storing it for when it get's back in the naiborhood (for universal exploration probes, or probes that go to places where comunication becomes inposible)
so in the near future, this isn't realy necesairy, yust usefull... but once we go past ower own solarsystem, it will become usefull:D
programing robots to not kill or harm humand is good... but what if they do not know what a human is? then the 3 rules of assimov become less valuble, if not usseless, since robots could then consider themselfs humand and real humans as pets or lifestock or somthing else that CAN be killed...
robots could be a great thing... but use with caution...
it seems to me that they are doing this to reduce the bandwith that is required between the ground and the satelite...
if this becomes a good working program, then they can probably set it up so that only the new images get send tru (of floods etc, things that change), so that instead of comunication with one satelite that transmits all it's images, they could devide the conection over several satelites, each only sending the importand images and deleting the unimportant ones.
I think it's easiest to compare with a webcam. if the webcam takes 60 images/second, but you only want to show 1 image every second on your webspace... what would be best for your bandwith? cutting out 59pictures/second on your own computer and sending the 1 remaining picture/second to the website, or sending all the 60pictures/second to the webserver, and letting the webserver cut out the 59 unwanted ones... I'm on a 10gb limit/month... I would let my own pc cut out the 59 images/second and save on the bandwith;)
isn't part of the people that use technology already on route to working without phones, but using the internet instead to stay in contact?
this might be becouse all my fellow students are IT students to, but when we arent face to face, we use instant messengers allot, where other people would use phones. and most of us have only 1 or 2 e-mail adresses that they regulary check (and a few extra for the spam), but when we send a message, we know that we will either have a repply within minutes (when using IM) or within a day or 2 (when using mail). with phones, the other person needs to be close to that phone to get a responce... with IM, you can send a message now and read the repply later...
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they make it themselfs...
acording to the article, the original purpose of the software isn't always what they curently do with it, yust that they noticed that they could do more.
actualy... :p
:)
it's been a while since I've seen people use querty's around here... all azerty's
got to agree on the hand writing tho... takes me ages to write a simple text by hand, while it would only take a few minuts to type it.. with 2 fingers...
you might not put it on the web, but can you be shure that your naiber, your local police officer, your wife, etc. aren't putting that bit of information that you don't want everybady to know on the web?
and what if sombady puts on allot of false information about you?
for example, a group of people who start a rumor that you raped sombady...
they start it as a rumor, sombady else see's it as some real information and put's it online...
from rumor to part of your identity in no time...
like always... information is a powerfull thing... and power atracts coruption...
aslong as they are yust banners, then they can display them all they want, since you can easely look past them while surfing, and they don't disrupt your surfing like popup's.
popups on the other hand... (especialy flash popup's) get blocked instantly.
if I visit a site, I want to be able to see the site, and not have to close 5 popup windows before I can get to the actual site.
actualy... they aren't giving away stuff for free...
see those adds on the right of your gmail?
they create money for google, making a profit for google.
and unless you find that your paying yust by looking at those adds, gmail is still free for you, even tho google is earning a profit from it.
yust a update, sombady sent me a invite... ;)
tss... as if I don't get enough spam on that acount yet :D ;)
anyway... e-mail is indeed buti@pandora.be
any invites would be apreciated
actualy... not everybady has a Gmail acount yet :D ;) ;)
you don't happen to have a spare invite for Gmail laying around by any chance do you?
my curent e-mail is buti AT pandora.be
TIA
maibe the hydrogen bomb payload could have somthing to do with it ;)
not everybady is born in a english speaking country ;)
isn't windows xp a starter edition on it's own?
;)
a tour at the start, allot of helpfiles and all the dangerous files hidden, so that you can't mess mutch up...
I wonder if they couldent have thought of a more fitting name for a stripped down version, like windows lite or so, since now it seems that windows normal is for the pro's
considering that that pool is completely sealed from the outside world would mean that anything in it isn't resistant to infections from the outside world or the other way around...
so couldent it be that once humans put a crack in that icy shield that protects the pool, that some human deseases, to which humans have already build a resistance, that these deseases infect the ancient inhabitants of that pool, creating a slaughter among them... or the other way around...
so... altho the stuff they'll find can prove valuble to science, I would aproach with caution if I was them...
giant space jojo with earth in the middle :D
once they start sending stuff farther away from earth, they seem to have 3 posibilities. :) ).
:D
1) send a human with it to make the decissions
2) create a AI to either work on it on or atleast lessent the required communication to earth (less input from earth and more making it's own decissions)
3) increase the bandwith/transmission speed
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number 1 is hard, since a human requires allot of support systems, increasing the size of your (space)craft.
number 3 get's hard, if not inposible, due to the law's of the universe (lightspeed etc. can't remember exact name right now
number 2 seems like a likly candidate, since in it earliest stages, it lessens direct comunication needs (mainly output towards the homebase, no high speed required) and later on, with the more advanced versions, it can become totaly self suficient, exploring on it's own and either sending it's information back imeadiatly or storing it for when it get's back in the naiborhood (for universal exploration probes, or probes that go to places where comunication becomes inposible)
so in the near future, this isn't realy necesairy, yust usefull... but once we go past ower own solarsystem, it will become usefull
programing robots to not kill or harm humand is good... but what if they do not know what a human is? then the 3 rules of assimov become less valuble, if not usseless, since robots could then consider themselfs humand and real humans as pets or lifestock or somthing else that CAN be killed...
robots could be a great thing... but use with caution...
it seems to me that they are doing this to reduce the bandwith that is required between the ground and the satelite...
;)
if this becomes a good working program, then they can probably set it up so that only the new images get send tru (of floods etc, things that change), so that instead of comunication with one satelite that transmits all it's images, they could devide the conection over several satelites, each only sending the importand images and deleting the unimportant ones.
I think it's easiest to compare with a webcam.
if the webcam takes 60 images/second, but you only want to show 1 image every second on your webspace... what would be best for your bandwith? cutting out 59pictures/second on your own computer and sending the 1 remaining picture/second to the website, or sending all the 60pictures/second to the webserver, and letting the webserver cut out the 59 unwanted ones...
I'm on a 10gb limit/month... I would let my own pc cut out the 59 images/second and save on the bandwith
I dont know, but from the image, the board does seem a bit fat...
it could yust be the fact that the mobo is smaller on the 2 flat axes tho.
isn't part of the people that use technology already on route to working without phones, but using the internet instead to stay in contact?
this might be becouse all my fellow students are IT students to, but when we arent face to face, we use instant messengers allot, where other people would use phones.
and most of us have only 1 or 2 e-mail adresses that they regulary check (and a few extra for the spam), but when we send a message, we know that we will either have a repply within minutes (when using IM) or within a day or 2 (when using mail).
with phones, the other person needs to be close to that phone to get a responce... with IM, you can send a message now and read the repply later...