AdultSwim saved Futurama,and I believe it's still one of the most popular shows, even with it being a constant rerun over the past year or so.
Can't wait for the new season (?) movie (?).
We've been sending satellites and objects to mars for a long time now (USA) some succeeded several failed. This being the EU first rover I really hope it makes it. Mars has a tendency to chew up man made objects.
Personally I'd like to know just as much where this 4.6+ billion dollars is going to end up. The FCC while not an official government body is still somewhat kind of part of the government. Will this money go back to the people since after all it's all our frequencies, we just choose to let the FCC govern it for us.
They announce it to scare off others and set a starting bid. That way if it's public knowledge it may go for over 4billion, I'm sure a lot of smaller companies wont even show up to bid. Plus it says nothing about how much they are willing to spend total, just that 4.6 is what they're publicly saying now.
Personally I would prefer it. I dont want my feed to determine what I should get. I rely on my firewall, machines, and other things at my house that can control whether I get spam, DoS, worms, etc.
I'd much rather blame myself for getting a virus, than lose email because my ISP deemed it spam or have my connection throttled. I had a problem recently where I kept getting connection resets because I was uploading about 40 gigs of data to my website (chess endgame tablesbases). Guess whatever my ISP uses for throttling keeps seeing it as a large continuous upload and assumes it must be illegal when in fact the data is 100% public domain.
I use to be an OS collector, and I remember trying to get info on this years ago. All roads I came too said that the original tapes had disintegrated and the only remaining source code was a print out a guy at the uni had found and OCR'd.
So curious what happened along those years. Someone find a backup?
I agree on the greed part but not on the second part. I'm glad there are multiple formats. Gives us an option to choose from and the better product will sell more and win. That's the great part of an open market.
How would you feel if only IBM sold PC's and no one came up with an alternative? We'd probably still be running IBM PC 2007 running at 100mhz now.
Last week I voted and noticed something really odd. It never listed parties. WTF, granted you should really know who you are going to vote for, but how many people really know about council people and just vote a straight ticket for their party. It shocked me.
I went down memory lane so I fired up archive.org's wayback machine.
This was a post on 1998
Booker writes "So IBM announces a 25 gig hard drive... does the world need this yet? Unless this is in a RAID, would you really want to trust 25 gigs on a single drive? What would you use this for? 400+ hours of MP3s comes to mind... "
Maybe I'm not getting paid enough but 60k is the benchmark!? Personally I'd be grateful to make 35-40k and that's senior admin level. Am I getting screwed?
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It's definitely an interesting problem. I spent years researching Chess engines eventually ditching it for Go. If you want to really be on the bleeding edge check out the computer-go mailing list. We're all there.
http://computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
This is a highly philosphical topic. While I am not a creationalist, being able to biochemically construct a DNA pattern isn't what I'd really call life. If he can build an amoeba 100% from raw material, then that is pretty close. Looks like they're at the beginning stages though, so the field is definitely alive.:)
What I'll find amusing is if Microsoft actually follows the legal protocol that such an application has to follow. There are many laws dictating how medical data get's stored, how, and how it is to be accessed. My guess is that MS will "do their own thing" and try to market it as a new feature, even if it breaks a couple laws or compromises our medical info.
I dont know I think those numbers are bogus. Most of the people I know in the IT field make less than 40k a year living in the Mideast region 20's-early 30's.
In fact the few people I know who make anything near 70-80k a year are living in California or NYC.
I'm sure Pixar and other rendering houses will leverage this to keep production costs down and get videos out to market quicker. Then you have side-projects like the GPGPU, if this raw power can be harnessed for other applications it could be a boast for researchers.
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AdultSwim saved Futurama,and I believe it's still one of the most popular shows, even with it being a constant rerun over the past year or so. Can't wait for the new season (?) movie (?).
Congradulations! Science has no political boundaries. I just hope they are willing to share their results, much like we and the ESA has.
Freaking sweet!... while this might seem small. It's a first step in making synthetic life that can integrate into a real biosystem.
We've been sending satellites and objects to mars for a long time now (USA) some succeeded several failed. This being the EU first rover I really hope it makes it. Mars has a tendency to chew up man made objects.
Personally I'd like to know just as much where this 4.6+ billion dollars is going to end up. The FCC while not an official government body is still somewhat kind of part of the government. Will this money go back to the people since after all it's all our frequencies, we just choose to let the FCC govern it for us.
They announce it to scare off others and set a starting bid. That way if it's public knowledge it may go for over 4billion, I'm sure a lot of smaller companies wont even show up to bid. Plus it says nothing about how much they are willing to spend total, just that 4.6 is what they're publicly saying now.
That's a big twinkie. Man I love that movie.
Personally I would prefer it. I dont want my feed to determine what I should get. I rely on my firewall, machines, and other things at my house that can control whether I get spam, DoS, worms, etc. I'd much rather blame myself for getting a virus, than lose email because my ISP deemed it spam or have my connection throttled. I had a problem recently where I kept getting connection resets because I was uploading about 40 gigs of data to my website (chess endgame tablesbases). Guess whatever my ISP uses for throttling keeps seeing it as a large continuous upload and assumes it must be illegal when in fact the data is 100% public domain.
I use to be an OS collector, and I remember trying to get info on this years ago. All roads I came too said that the original tapes had disintegrated and the only remaining source code was a print out a guy at the uni had found and OCR'd. So curious what happened along those years. Someone find a backup?
How would you feel if only IBM sold PC's and no one came up with an alternative? We'd probably still be running IBM PC 2007 running at 100mhz now.
Last week I voted and noticed something really odd. It never listed parties. WTF, granted you should really know who you are going to vote for, but how many people really know about council people and just vote a straight ticket for their party. It shocked me.
This project has been around for a long time: http://www.gpgpu.org/ Though I agree modern GPU's are even more useful for general purpose computing.
I went down memory lane so I fired up archive.org's wayback machine. This was a post on 1998 Booker writes "So IBM announces a 25 gig hard drive... does the world need this yet? Unless this is in a RAID, would you really want to trust 25 gigs on a single drive? What would you use this for? 400+ hours of MP3s comes to mind... "
Maybe I'm not getting paid enough but 60k is the benchmark!? Personally I'd be grateful to make 35-40k and that's senior admin level. Am I getting screwed?
It's definitely an interesting problem. I spent years researching Chess engines eventually ditching it for Go. If you want to really be on the bleeding edge check out the computer-go mailing list. We're all there. http://computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
If only Einstein was around to see it :)
Wasn't there a case this year and a law passed where phone could legally be unlocked by the consumer. Cell phones and printers
This is a highly philosphical topic. While I am not a creationalist, being able to biochemically construct a DNA pattern isn't what I'd really call life. If he can build an amoeba 100% from raw material, then that is pretty close. Looks like they're at the beginning stages though, so the field is definitely alive. :)
What I'll find amusing is if Microsoft actually follows the legal protocol that such an application has to follow. There are many laws dictating how medical data get's stored, how, and how it is to be accessed. My guess is that MS will "do their own thing" and try to market it as a new feature, even if it breaks a couple laws or compromises our medical info.
Can it be forked? If not then no it's not really "open".
1/2 joking 1/2 serious.
grep -R "foobar" /
Yes! sad to see Palm died recently, really like it as well.
In fact the few people I know who make anything near 70-80k a year are living in California or NYC.
Ok easy enough :) curling old source now.
I'm sure Pixar and other rendering houses will leverage this to keep production costs down and get videos out to market quicker. Then you have side-projects like the GPGPU, if this raw power can be harnessed for other applications it could be a boast for researchers.