A hospital in Somewhere, USA uses XYZ Software's Medical Manager suite. This application runs on a Windows based network. One of the internal databases is called $sys$PatientAllergies which keeps track of which patients are allergic to certain medicines. A patient, John Doe, is admitted for having potentially serious illness. Mr. Doe is highly allergic to medicine XXX and tells the nurse he could die if used on him. Sometime after the nurse enters this information into the Medical Manager, she plays her new copy of Sony's latest release with said DRM technology. A short while later Mr. Doe takes a turn for the worst becomes unconcious. Only two medicines can save him, medicine XXX and a less effective alternative. The doctor on hand checks the Medical Manager suite for any allergies Mr. Doe might have and sees that there are none because Sony's root kit has silently hidden Medical Manager's $sys$PatientAllergies database. Mr. Doe is given medicine XXX and dies within minutes.
...the iTunes Video Store being played on Macs with Front Row. Not to mention commuters watching their favorite shows on the train in the mornings and evenings.
I don't think so. Sure, iTunes will have their slice of pie when the video iPods start selling, but the real winner is going to be Google. GoogleVideo: recording every episode of every show over the air. You can stream absolutely anything you want to watch to your PC. They'll take the closed captioning text stream and use that to index the video. You'll see Google AdWords scrolling in the side panel based on whatever the people are talking about in real time.
Okay, I admit, I've never recorded an album and I don't know how everything works, but couldn't an artist take their album straight to iTunes, and thereby bypass the whole RIAA thing? I think if that were possible, it really would make the RIAA obsolete.
Flash drives as the future of computing is an idea that just doesn't add up for one simple reason... Removable harddrive technolgy has existed for years... you don't see people carrying their harddrives around, do you?
No, the future of computing always has been, and still is over the network. As networks pipes become fatter, an increasing number of applications are appearing over the network. Think Hotmail. Think Google Office. Soon Google will offer their operating system that functions entirely over the network. You will have a nice big chunk of disk space that is for your own personal stuff, and every machine will share the same operating system code. You will turn on your computer, it fetches Google's boot loader over the net, you enter your name and password, and within minutes you're at your personal Google desktop.
I think you're thinking of the physics award. This one's for chemistry, a related but separate field of science. I'm also sorry to hear that you find Nobel prize winner's stories "dull", I can not imagine what other greatness you must aspire too.
I bet if they had some type assurance that you weren't going to turn around and pirate a copy of Apple's OS they would do this. I think their fear is that if they started selling computers with free software and a significantly smaller price tag, everyone would go for the cheaper system and overwrite their free OS with pirate versions of Apple's OS. The only way to be sure their software is selling is to bundle it with the hardware. Yes, it's a heavy handed approach, but from a business perspective, it's the least risky.
I've bought from Monarch several times in the past and it's always been a really good experience. I've never had a system made by them, but I get all my parts there. The service is like something you would expect from a big name retailer, but prices much better. You don't have to take my word for it though, check out what other people have to say on reseller ratings.
HA! Dude, no it's not. If we were close enough to a black hole to send a probe into it, we'd also be close enough to have the entire Earth sucked in and squeezed down to a grain of sand... or you know, whaver actually happens when you get sucked into a black hole.
Let's see here... 100Ghz or 100,000,000,000 c/s at the speed of light 299,792,458 m/s... gives us about 3cm the signal can travel without breaking the laws of physics.
Hope they've figured out how to make things really really small also.
I was watching an episode of systm where they showed how to put together a mythtv box, and when they got to the part about typing the root password I noticed the keyboard became oddly silent. I figured it had something to do with this, but didn't know it could actually be done.
Go to any company you'd like to work for and see what their requirements are for becoming a software engineer. You will find most, if not all, list having at least a BS in computer science for a basic requirement. Take Google for example:
Requirements:
BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent (PhD a plus).
Several years of software development experience.
Enthusiasm for solving interesting problems.
Experience with Unix/Linux or Windows environments, C++ development, distributed systems, machine learning, information retrieval, network programming and/or developing large software systems a plus.
So, assuming you get your degree, which I hope you will, you will have the top requirement met, and because you're taking a machine learning class, you will have one of the bonuses covered. Everything else is up to you.
Evolution is not attempting to attain a certain "goal" at which it stops.
Well, yes and no. While it is true that there is no explicitly defined "goal" state, evolution does try to converge on an optimal state. Optimal is where any random mutation results in a less successful structure, as defined by some heuristic function... which is usually survival in animals. In an ecosystem as complex as Earth, this optimal state for every organism is in a constant state of flux. As one species becomes better at eatting another, the eatten need to evolve new defense mechanisms.
Another intersting thing about evolution is a state called a local minima. This is where a species converges on a less than optimal solution because it doesn't have enough mutation to sway the trend out of the rut. One way to attempt to avoid this in genetic alogrithms with with technique called simulated annealing.
I think only because this is the least evil use of DRM any of us have ever seen, is everyone saying it's a good thing. While it is true that I, and most other people, would be willing to tollerate this kind of DRM, it is still nonetheless evil, and here is why.
When you go to the library to do some research, they have publicly available copying machines. You can make your own copy of anything they have there for a small fee. Typically the fee is whatever it costs for paper, ink, and maintaining the copier. That copy is then yours, it never expires, and you can do whatever you need to with it provided that you're not profiting from the work. This is FAIR USE.
If libraries actually needed to control documents, they would've been loading their copiers with dissapearing inks since the invention of the copier!! What has changed between now and then? Nothing! There is not, and never has been an actual need for DRM. It's just some bullshit scheme by the DRM manufacturers that's been cleverly sold to the library system, which will be shoved down the throats of every day users.
DRM is bad, period. Do not ever accept it as fair, because it is not.
Actually, I think there's a good chance this could work. The biggest problem I can think of is getting two views of the scene. You would probably need two video cards, each rendering the same scene a few inches apart... Probably not going to happen for Doom3, but I do recall something like this done with Quake and anaglyphs.
If he'd just put the Mac Mini under the table it'd look the same.
Yeah, exactly. Matter of fact, there's more than enough room next to that monitor to neatly fit the mini, which IMHO would've looked just as good. For this hack to be interesting to me, he would have to figure out some way of embedding the monitor into the wall, and find a way to hide the keyboard and mouse when they're not needed.
The way this is set up now is just a tad less ordinary than a desktop setup on the kitchen counter.
I love people saying that they have a PSP so they can play with a GameBoy emulator.
Wanting to play with the Gameboy emulator is NOT the same thing as simply wanting to play Gameboy games. You've completely overlooked the hacker mantra of making things do what they're not supposed to. Yes, I think playing Super Mario is fun, but I think it's ten times more fun figuring out how to make it run on a machine it wasn't designed for. I too own a GBA, and I still like using the emulator on my PSP more.
I'd really like PSP fans to explain to me why it's worth paying the $250 PSP price tag to play games that don't even need an emulator on the $80 GBA.
This is just rediculous. Not one single person that bought their PSP did it solely so they could play Nintendo games. That would be stupid. Most likely people picked them up because they're fun little machines and they could afford them. Quit harassing PSP owners for buying them just because you don't think they're worth parting with $250.
It's funny to me that you've given plenty of examples of what is not a not a right, yet give no examples of what a right is.
Please, if you would, define what our rights are.
The earliest definition that I can find of what our rights are is clearly stated in the declaration of independence. "all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness".
By that definition, your statement "the major problem we have is that everyone feels everythign [sic] is a right" is completely unjust. Whatever makes me happy is my right to do.
I needed a fun summer project, so I built myself a Mythtv box out of some spare hardware. After getting everything together and working I showed my girlfriend what it could do and she stole it from me. I'd say 80% of the shows recorded on there are her doing. Then one day I tried upgrading to a new version of software and some dependencies broke. I didn't hear the end of it until I got it back up and running again. So, now my fun summer project is the "do not touch" box.
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A hospital in Somewhere, USA uses XYZ Software's Medical Manager suite. This application runs on a Windows based network. One of the internal databases is called $sys$PatientAllergies which keeps track of which patients are allergic to certain medicines. A patient, John Doe, is admitted for having potentially serious illness. Mr. Doe is highly allergic to medicine XXX and tells the nurse he could die if used on him. Sometime after the nurse enters this information into the Medical Manager, she plays her new copy of Sony's latest release with said DRM technology. A short while later Mr. Doe takes a turn for the worst becomes unconcious. Only two medicines can save him, medicine XXX and a less effective alternative. The doctor on hand checks the Medical Manager suite for any allergies Mr. Doe might have and sees that there are none because Sony's root kit has silently hidden Medical Manager's $sys$PatientAllergies database. Mr. Doe is given medicine XXX and dies within minutes.
Is protecting your copyright worth killing for?
...the iTunes Video Store being played on Macs with Front Row. Not to mention commuters watching their favorite shows on the train in the mornings and evenings.
I don't think so. Sure, iTunes will have their slice of pie when the video iPods start selling, but the real winner is going to be Google. GoogleVideo: recording every episode of every show over the air. You can stream absolutely anything you want to watch to your PC. They'll take the closed captioning text stream and use that to index the video. You'll see Google AdWords scrolling in the side panel based on whatever the people are talking about in real time.
Okay, I admit, I've never recorded an album and I don't know how everything works, but couldn't an artist take their album straight to iTunes, and thereby bypass the whole RIAA thing? I think if that were possible, it really would make the RIAA obsolete.
Flash drives as the future of computing is an idea that just doesn't add up for one simple reason... Removable harddrive technolgy has existed for years... you don't see people carrying their harddrives around, do you?
No, the future of computing always has been, and still is over the network. As networks pipes become fatter, an increasing number of applications are appearing over the network. Think Hotmail. Think Google Office. Soon Google will offer their operating system that functions entirely over the network. You will have a nice big chunk of disk space that is for your own personal stuff, and every machine will share the same operating system code. You will turn on your computer, it fetches Google's boot loader over the net, you enter your name and password, and within minutes you're at your personal Google desktop.
It will happen, I promise.
I think you're thinking of the physics award. This one's for chemistry, a related but separate field of science. I'm also sorry to hear that you find Nobel prize winner's stories "dull", I can not imagine what other greatness you must aspire too.
I bet if they had some type assurance that you weren't going to turn around and pirate a copy of Apple's OS they would do this. I think their fear is that if they started selling computers with free software and a significantly smaller price tag, everyone would go for the cheaper system and overwrite their free OS with pirate versions of Apple's OS. The only way to be sure their software is selling is to bundle it with the hardware. Yes, it's a heavy handed approach, but from a business perspective, it's the least risky.
You mean to tell me the teen girl world doesn't revolve around politics or current events? Inconceivable!
I've bought from Monarch several times in the past and it's always been a really good experience. I've never had a system made by them, but I get all my parts there. The service is like something you would expect from a big name retailer, but prices much better. You don't have to take my word for it though, check out what other people have to say on reseller ratings.
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/BlueScreen.h tml
HA! Dude, no it's not. If we were close enough to a black hole to send a probe into it, we'd also be close enough to have the entire Earth sucked in and squeezed down to a grain of sand... or you know, whaver actually happens when you get sucked into a black hole.
Yeah, cause God forbid, in 2.9 million years we'd all be dead!!
Finally, a site I won't be duped into looking like an idiot on April fools day.
Let's see here... 100Ghz or 100,000,000,000 c/s at the speed of light 299,792,458 m/s ... gives us about 3cm the signal can travel without breaking the laws of physics.
Hope they've figured out how to make things really really small also.
Keep your friends close and your enemies even closer...
I don't doubt for a second that Gates has used Firefox and is very familiar with it.
I was watching an episode of systm where they showed how to put together a mythtv box, and when they got to the part about typing the root password I noticed the keyboard became oddly silent. I figured it had something to do with this, but didn't know it could actually be done.
Go to any company you'd like to work for and see what their requirements are for becoming a software engineer. You will find most, if not all, list having at least a BS in computer science for a basic requirement. Take Google for example:
Requirements:
BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent (PhD a plus).
Several years of software development experience.
Enthusiasm for solving interesting problems.
Experience with Unix/Linux or Windows environments, C++ development, distributed systems, machine learning, information retrieval, network programming and/or developing large software systems a plus.
So, assuming you get your degree, which I hope you will, you will have the top requirement met, and because you're taking a machine learning class, you will have one of the bonuses covered. Everything else is up to you.
That answer your question?
Not surprising, really... With all the good people Microsoft's losing to Google, someone's got to pick up the slack.
Evolution is not attempting to attain a certain "goal" at which it stops.
Well, yes and no. While it is true that there is no explicitly defined "goal" state, evolution does try to converge on an optimal state. Optimal is where any random mutation results in a less successful structure, as defined by some heuristic function... which is usually survival in animals. In an ecosystem as complex as Earth, this optimal state for every organism is in a constant state of flux. As one species becomes better at eatting another, the eatten need to evolve new defense mechanisms.
Another intersting thing about evolution is a state called a local minima. This is where a species converges on a less than optimal solution because it doesn't have enough mutation to sway the trend out of the rut. One way to attempt to avoid this in genetic alogrithms with with technique called simulated annealing.
I think only because this is the least evil use of DRM any of us have ever seen, is everyone saying it's a good thing. While it is true that I, and most other people, would be willing to tollerate this kind of DRM, it is still nonetheless evil, and here is why.
When you go to the library to do some research, they have publicly available copying machines. You can make your own copy of anything they have there for a small fee. Typically the fee is whatever it costs for paper, ink, and maintaining the copier. That copy is then yours, it never expires, and you can do whatever you need to with it provided that you're not profiting from the work. This is FAIR USE.
If libraries actually needed to control documents, they would've been loading their copiers with dissapearing inks since the invention of the copier!! What has changed between now and then? Nothing! There is not, and never has been an actual need for DRM. It's just some bullshit scheme by the DRM manufacturers that's been cleverly sold to the library system, which will be shoved down the throats of every day users.
DRM is bad, period. Do not ever accept it as fair, because it is not.
Actually, I think there's a good chance this could work. The biggest problem I can think of is getting two views of the scene. You would probably need two video cards, each rendering the same scene a few inches apart... Probably not going to happen for Doom3, but I do recall something like this done with Quake and anaglyphs.
If he'd just put the Mac Mini under the table it'd look the same.
Yeah, exactly. Matter of fact, there's more than enough room next to that monitor to neatly fit the mini, which IMHO would've looked just as good. For this hack to be interesting to me, he would have to figure out some way of embedding the monitor into the wall, and find a way to hide the keyboard and mouse when they're not needed.
The way this is set up now is just a tad less ordinary than a desktop setup on the kitchen counter.
Let's attract even more attention to torrent sites so more can go down like btefnet and suprnova before them.
Dude, calm down. If you know anything about thepiratebay.org, you know they aren't going anywhere.
I love people saying that they have a PSP so they can play with a GameBoy emulator.
Wanting to play with the Gameboy emulator is NOT the same thing as simply wanting to play Gameboy games. You've completely overlooked the hacker mantra of making things do what they're not supposed to. Yes, I think playing Super Mario is fun, but I think it's ten times more fun figuring out how to make it run on a machine it wasn't designed for. I too own a GBA, and I still like using the emulator on my PSP more.
I'd really like PSP fans to explain to me why it's worth paying the $250 PSP price tag to play games that don't even need an emulator on the $80 GBA.
This is just rediculous. Not one single person that bought their PSP did it solely so they could play Nintendo games. That would be stupid. Most likely people picked them up because they're fun little machines and they could afford them. Quit harassing PSP owners for buying them just because you don't think they're worth parting with $250.
It's funny to me that you've given plenty of examples of what is not a not a right, yet give no examples of what a right is.
Please, if you would, define what our rights are.
The earliest definition that I can find of what our rights are is clearly stated in the declaration of independence. "all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness".
By that definition, your statement "the major problem we have is that everyone feels everythign [sic] is a right" is completely unjust. Whatever makes me happy is my right to do.
I needed a fun summer project, so I built myself a Mythtv box out of some spare hardware. After getting everything together and working I showed my girlfriend what it could do and she stole it from me. I'd say 80% of the shows recorded on there are her doing. Then one day I tried upgrading to a new version of software and some dependencies broke. I didn't hear the end of it until I got it back up and running again. So, now my fun summer project is the "do not touch" box.