If you look at their actual web page and not the article it does say they paid $20 for the balloon (300g latex weather balloon) and around $30 for the helium.
So yeah it looks like it is within the reach of mortals now:)
Probably to late in the year to do it now, but I'm definitely going to do this next spring/summer.
I love articles like this, and I've dreamed of doing a similiar project. While the costs of the equipment is doable and with a little know how you can get a rig together for less than $200 it's the flight that cost so much.
Does the $150 cover the weather balloon and the tank(s) of helium it took to get the payload there? If so I'd love to know where they bought it. Last time I priced a modest balloon it was in the $500-$1k US range (just for the balloon).
Perhaps I'm the only one who doesnt understand what this is, can someone else elaborate?
From my understanding of the page these are programs if given a dataset or description of a dataset can tell you how that data was derived. I can see this being useful in AI. If you have significant dataset of possibilities and trying to yield the best algorithm you could spawn a million children processes with their own genetic algorithm to come up with variations.
Perhaps I'm way off. Would like some clarification or pointers to more info.
These are businesses not institutions. They are in the business of making money via products they have mastered. Not a troll just the truth.
However check out some of the better colleges and you'll find some sweet research going on. Then these big companies pay the kid 1m for the rights, patent it and make 100m off of it. Cycle of life:)
Are we talking about some webpage ticket that ticks ever second? That's nice but not all that great.
What I want is access to a real-time data feed, and I mean real time, every single share done and every tick on the exchange, not snapshots.
I looked into several options, satellite feeds, even 1-2 internet based solutions. The biggest problem with those? They required proprietary software, windows only, can't or not easily able to save data for later mining, and extremely expensive.
So, this might be one step closer but I doubt it's the same thing brokerage firms get.
During games or analysis I could store the entire 3-6men endgame table bases in memory and get rid of the bottleneck that a HD is when doing a lot of searching in a 1.5 TB dataset.
So yes, it could be useful to some people. Perhaps not mom and pop who check email, but researchers who crunch large datasets.
What is the difference between the Turing Test and the Turing Machine? I thought it was less about mimicking a human and more about generalities that can cause a machine to mimic everything possible thing possible via programming. I'm off to read....
He should get in contact with Project Gutenberg, that would make a nice volunteer and resource center for this project. Both have the same end goal; to get public domain knowledge freely available.
Good point, though while it is a large dataset, not that many people use it. I would roughly guess 50-100 people around the world? Primarily researchers in the field. It took us over a year to rebuild and recollect the pieces that various people had to have a solid set available again. I think the main concern isn't so much as having a good site for people to leech, but having a solid data warehouse and redundant. Dr. Hyatt once stored and offered the set on his ftp site via the university connection. When the array died the data was almost lost to the world. I think that was the main problem, 1 source of failure. The goal is redundancy yet somewhat accessible for those that do want it. The edonkey project has been successful in that regards, but it's still getting pieces from a lot of different people and myself have been unable to get the whole set, though I don't download like others have.
I emailed Google after their offer to host "open-source data" after the post here a while back. Hoping that too bears fruit.
So will they host the entire 3-4-5 and 6 men Chess endgame databases? We in the community have been trying hard over the last year to keep the dataset alive, but few people can house 1.6 Tb at home.
I try my best with my own modest server, but $12 a month? I'll bite, Yahoo will you host it?
Yup, this is the same argument I've heard from people/companies for years but against MS. Guess they don't like being on the receiving end of this equation.
Let me rephrase then based on my recent experience. I might be wrong with outsourcing jobs in which people access PCI data, but there was a lot of steam about hosted servers with PCI data on them. So for my initial point is, that as long as you pretty much have to maintain your own servers and can't buy into a mainframe or some other shared system, IT can still be useful. Again I may stand corrected, I dont pretend to be a PCI expert just trying to learn as I go.
If you work with PCI data then you can't outsource anything with PCI data in it, nor can you host your infrastructure on a shared system. So that market still requires you to be isolated rather than farming out to some bigger company. Just my $0.02
So how long till there's a DS port? The console has a full development suite and wifi is accessible, has a microphone. So start the clock:)
I think the best news for the PSP people, is that an official sony product will work on any PSP. So you don't needs any homebrew hardware (flashcart,custom firmware, etc)
This seems like a rehash of the Netscape suit years ago. Didnt that jumpstart the initial monopoly case? Anyway I find it more interesting at this point that they want for force IE into compliance with a standard that is defined and regulated by an open assembly. I think that is more important as that will ensure that web 3.0 doesn't use mono/.net, Silverlight or some proprietary based framework that forces us back to the days when you can't go to a bank, school, work, website w/o IE.
This is funny, I was just watching a documentary a couple hours ago on the History Channel that discussed this very thing. Though they were concentrating more on Mammoths. One guy used a shotgun for of small specs and shot if at an old arrow head to see if that much power could embed pieces of metal into it, which it didn't. So he concluded the arrowhead he had found with small metal specs had to be caused by a cosmic impact (turned out they were micro-meterites). Also another gentleman was using a highpower magnet over 2 tones of mammoth tusks looking for similiar metal pieces. Was a good show.
I'm 29 and became a ham earlier this year. I think there are to many posts knocking amateur radio as an "old time hobby".
One of the reasons I was introduced to Ham was Suit-sat. Where a russian space suit had an ham rig added and set into orbit. The thought of using radio to transmit data, or heaven forbid work at satellite seemed like something reserved for NASA. Nope some studying, and a minimal fee for the license later I can do things like that.
Agree after reading the article it seems Comedy Central bought the rights to Futurama, so no more 11 Futurama on Adult Swim.
Kinda sad too, the new shows have sucked the past years. I really miss Sealab 2021, Harvey Birdman, The Brak Show, and countless others that modernized remakes of classic based shows. The new shows seem centered on being weird but not in a funny way. Mole people!?
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If so I would dd dump the drive and bit scan it. Would be neat to pull out an old unreleased work that he scratched.
I bet it'll go for 3-4k. If they were to auction it for charity I'd bet it'd easily go over 10k
If you look at their actual web page and not the article it does say they paid $20 for the balloon (300g latex weather balloon) and around $30 for the helium. So yeah it looks like it is within the reach of mortals now :)
Probably to late in the year to do it now, but I'm definitely going to do this next spring/summer.
I love articles like this, and I've dreamed of doing a similiar project. While the costs of the equipment is doable and with a little know how you can get a rig together for less than $200 it's the flight that cost so much. Does the $150 cover the weather balloon and the tank(s) of helium it took to get the payload there? If so I'd love to know where they bought it. Last time I priced a modest balloon it was in the $500-$1k US range (just for the balloon).
Perhaps I'm the only one who doesnt understand what this is, can someone else elaborate? From my understanding of the page these are programs if given a dataset or description of a dataset can tell you how that data was derived. I can see this being useful in AI. If you have significant dataset of possibilities and trying to yield the best algorithm you could spawn a million children processes with their own genetic algorithm to come up with variations. Perhaps I'm way off. Would like some clarification or pointers to more info.
I gladly stand corrected :) in that case glad to hear that money is going to people who create.
These are businesses not institutions. They are in the business of making money via products they have mastered. Not a troll just the truth. However check out some of the better colleges and you'll find some sweet research going on. Then these big companies pay the kid 1m for the rights, patent it and make 100m off of it. Cycle of life :)
Are we talking about some webpage ticket that ticks ever second? That's nice but not all that great. What I want is access to a real-time data feed, and I mean real time, every single share done and every tick on the exchange, not snapshots. I looked into several options, satellite feeds, even 1-2 internet based solutions. The biggest problem with those? They required proprietary software, windows only, can't or not easily able to save data for later mining, and extremely expensive. So, this might be one step closer but I doubt it's the same thing brokerage firms get.
During games or analysis I could store the entire 3-6men endgame table bases in memory and get rid of the bottleneck that a HD is when doing a lot of searching in a 1.5 TB dataset. So yes, it could be useful to some people. Perhaps not mom and pop who check email, but researchers who crunch large datasets.
What is the difference between the Turing Test and the Turing Machine? I thought it was less about mimicking a human and more about generalities that can cause a machine to mimic everything possible thing possible via programming. I'm off to read....
He should get in contact with Project Gutenberg, that would make a nice volunteer and resource center for this project. Both have the same end goal; to get public domain knowledge freely available.
I emailed Google after their offer to host "open-source data" after the post here a while back. Hoping that too bears fruit.
I try my best with my own modest server, but $12 a month? I'll bite, Yahoo will you host it?
Yup, this is the same argument I've heard from people/companies for years but against MS. Guess they don't like being on the receiving end of this equation.
Didn't realize this was a real product. Only time I've heard of it was in Ghostbusters :) If this is real how about those nifty boxes.
Let me rephrase then based on my recent experience. I might be wrong with outsourcing jobs in which people access PCI data, but there was a lot of steam about hosted servers with PCI data on them. So for my initial point is, that as long as you pretty much have to maintain your own servers and can't buy into a mainframe or some other shared system, IT can still be useful. Again I may stand corrected, I dont pretend to be a PCI expert just trying to learn as I go.
If you work with PCI data then you can't outsource anything with PCI data in it, nor can you host your infrastructure on a shared system. So that market still requires you to be isolated rather than farming out to some bigger company. Just my $0.02
I think the best news for the PSP people, is that an official sony product will work on any PSP. So you don't needs any homebrew hardware (flashcart,custom firmware, etc)
This seems like a rehash of the Netscape suit years ago. Didnt that jumpstart the initial monopoly case? Anyway I find it more interesting at this point that they want for force IE into compliance with a standard that is defined and regulated by an open assembly. I think that is more important as that will ensure that web 3.0 doesn't use mono/.net, Silverlight or some proprietary based framework that forces us back to the days when you can't go to a bank, school, work, website w/o IE.
This is funny, I was just watching a documentary a couple hours ago on the History Channel that discussed this very thing. Though they were concentrating more on Mammoths. One guy used a shotgun for of small specs and shot if at an old arrow head to see if that much power could embed pieces of metal into it, which it didn't. So he concluded the arrowhead he had found with small metal specs had to be caused by a cosmic impact (turned out they were micro-meterites). Also another gentleman was using a highpower magnet over 2 tones of mammoth tusks looking for similiar metal pieces. Was a good show.
I'm 29 and became a ham earlier this year. I think there are to many posts knocking amateur radio as an "old time hobby". One of the reasons I was introduced to Ham was Suit-sat. Where a russian space suit had an ham rig added and set into orbit. The thought of using radio to transmit data, or heaven forbid work at satellite seemed like something reserved for NASA. Nope some studying, and a minimal fee for the license later I can do things like that.
We have packet radio, but broadcasting in any form is strictly prohibited by the FCC for any ham license.
While this may sound funny, but isn't that a lot. While air does have weight how much air is 3 lbs? The area over vermont 10' deep?
Agree after reading the article it seems Comedy Central bought the rights to Futurama, so no more 11 Futurama on Adult Swim. Kinda sad too, the new shows have sucked the past years. I really miss Sealab 2021, Harvey Birdman, The Brak Show, and countless others that modernized remakes of classic based shows. The new shows seem centered on being weird but not in a funny way. Mole people!?
Thought the DVD's didnt come about till after it was on [AS] for a year or so. That the DVD sales were sparked by the following on AdultSwim.