Well, I gotta say, from my travels (and from the reports of friends and colleagues), the security staff at the US border controls are by far the most rude and ignorant, intimidating and downright stupid that I've ever met anywhere in my (not inconsiderable) travels.
So if this is to work then they might have to start (*shock*) being nice to people!
I spent a brief period developing HMI boxes for controlling big metal-processing machines. Our customers liked to keep the control systems as tightly coupled to the machinery as possible and would get very nervous at even the *suggestion* of some kind of remoting. These big machines emit a good bit of EM-interference which could have a significant impact on communications equipment, not to mention the fact that they really didnt like the idea of someone operating the machine not being in front of it.
In the end we were able to persuade them to go with a limited remote terminal based on a CAN network. Their initial safety concerns were allayed when we told them its the same networking protocol that controls the Brakes in their Mercs...
Now, that was just about acceptable, but to even have these machines with the *capability* of being controlled over the ethernet, (perhaps) and then HTTP across the www is tantamount to irresponsibility. It would be a slip-up on the part of everyone in the development chain: Engineers, Buyers, Managers, and even the Operators if they know about it!
The reason that youtube adopted flash was because it was already ubiquitous. Flash has been shipped with Netscape (and then Mozilla, with IE following suit) since around 2000 and has always been available across all major platforms.
When youtube sat down to determine how they could play their videos with the least impact to users and with the widest penetration they opted for the Multimedia browser plugin that had these characteristics (Flash).
Then they did the clever thing of turning it into a video streaming client (Google video, and perhaps others had done this too, but I dont think any other site did it quite so well or had developed the business model to the extent that youtube had).
Reason for this is that Tesco's are an amazingly sharp fast-moving company. There's nothing they wont sell if they think they have a market for it. Aswell as groceries: credit-cards, personal finance (loans etc), Filling-stations. In the US maybe this would come into antitrust hassles but (in Ireland at least) it appears to be a win for the consumer. They've got the cheapest petrol (Gasoline) going, decent prices on groceries. I've never been so brave as to check out their personal loans though. They also do some clever cross-marketing stuff like spend 50 euro on groceries get 5 euro off your petrol and such.
They seem like clever guys - and now they're selling cut-price phones with their groceries!
As if it it wasnt hard enough getting work this side of the atlantic! Not only do we have to deal with work getting outsourced to india - pretty soon we'll have to compete with the wave of hungry refugee-programmers pouring in from the US:-(
overview: Your IP address is rooted with one provider who, when you're within his network sends traffic directly to you. When you're in a foreign n/w he forwards your traffic to an 'foreign agent' in the other n/w that sends it on to you. A mobile-ip daemon on your host takes care of all the automatic registration/deregistration. The difficulty: As you said, agreements between operators:-(
All modern network equipment (DSL modems, network cards etc) should come with security. If its a necessity that a system have it in order to be useable why burden the CPU with it? Is it Nvidia or someone that is selling mother-boards with embedded firewalls - good move.
On Kurzweil... sarcasm? I wasnt dissing that guy, I'm not even too sure who he. I was thinking more of the guy who wrote TFM.
And to add to that whole idea of how we cant really take a flat copy of a consciousness. For one, I'm not so sure that the human brain has discrete areas allocated for nicely-organized state-information that can just have its binary pattern copied onto a Blu-ray or whatever. For two, its probably more likely to be distributed, have a high rate of redundancy, have continuous-range values (ie analogue) which have not only current value but future value (ie their current rate state transition lets say) and lets say you could find a way of analyzing and storing all this information (ignoring for a second that each and every individual likely has a customized 'schema' into which their memorys are stored) what of the physical part of consciousness? If there's a copy of my consiousness sitting in a Google cache does it feel pain? Can it get drunk and eat a bag of chips and get sick the next morning. If it cant experience physical sensation is it me? What of all my muscle-memory? The scar on my little finger that reminds me of a dog that bit me 20 years ago?
Is consciousness just what goes on *inside* your head?
There was a film a few years ago starring Arnold Schwarzenneger (maybe the californians can help me with the spelling) - was it Eraser? anyway, these guys figured out how to do imortality by making copys of their brains and creating clones of themselves and then uploading the copy to the clone when the original died. Is Dr. Pearson ripping off an Arnie movie?
remember hearing this idea time and time again as I was growing up. Cartoons, books, films whatever and every time the fundamental flaws were always explored and the thesis ultimately rejected.
The one that sticks in my mind (cause it scared the shite out of me) is the background literature for a game years ago called bioforge (remember when games came with books and leaflets and all sorts of goodies - in the case of bioforge, reading them was neseccary to completing the game - a nice subtle copy-protection that actually *enhanced* the game-experience!). But anyway: "Consciousness download complete - organic remains please report to auto-disposal area".
Anyone any idea why this is news? why its on slashdot? And how a futurologist of any note could posit this as his own idea?
But the transporter in star-trek doesnt make a copy - it actually converts your mass into energy, transmits that energy, and reconverts it into solid matter. You know, energy is mass. It falls down though because e=mc^2 which is a hell of a lot of mass for a tiny piece of matter... I'm not sure how different this would be from just making copies but at least it solves the problem of two consciousness at once.
Open, well established, good compression, good quality (Its whats used on DVDs) and its been around absolutely ages (therefore not requiring the latest player or plugin). It should run on just about anything.
I honestly cant understand why people use proprietary standards when these perfectly good open ones are available.
... and the military 'never' f\/k anything up at all?
The military is indemnified against their mistakes (or at least have been until recently when the media started getting in). Individuals and private companys are not.
Cf. Friendly fire, 300,000 civilians dead in Iraq, 80M dead in the Somme thanks to bad management (Military PHB says "Trench Warfare - against Machine-guns and Heavy Artillery. should work a treat!").
Seems to me (a US outsider) that the system's probably okay. It, just like much of the other US public services, is just laughably underfunded. You're a graduate - what are you going to do? Earn a pitiful salary developing spyware or slaving away for EA? Or earn even less pouring over documents of other people's ideas and earning even less? Or if you're an underfunded USPTO will you even be hiring that many people at all?
You've got only a handful of underpaid, overworked USPTO patent examiner's wading through piles of stuff. I dunno, if I was them, I'd just be getting out my big red "approved" rubber-stamp, stamping them all, and going home to my wife and kids.
1. Pay more tax 2. ??? 3. Get better public services for all 4. ??? 5. Build a content, productive society 6. Profit
A Better idea would be to use those motion-based generator things. You move, weight inside mouse moves, turns some generator gizmo. Kind of like how some watches wind themselves.
BTW, doesn't this hark back to those old-style optical mice where you had to use a special reflective mouse-pad that got scratched and dirty and were crap?
And doesn't the fact that you have to use your mouse with a mouse-pad at all defeat one of the key feature's of an optical mouse in the first place?
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Well, I gotta say, from my travels (and from the reports of friends and colleagues), the security staff at the US border controls are by far the most rude and ignorant, intimidating and downright stupid that I've ever met anywhere in my (not inconsiderable) travels. So if this is to work then they might have to start (*shock*) being nice to people!
Solution: Stay away from America ... if they keep going the way they're going that probably wont be such a sacrifice!
I spent a brief period developing HMI boxes for controlling big metal-processing machines. Our customers liked to keep the control systems as tightly coupled to the machinery as possible and would get very nervous at even the *suggestion* of some kind of remoting. These big machines emit a good bit of EM-interference which could have a significant impact on communications equipment, not to mention the fact that they really didnt like the idea of someone operating the machine not being in front of it.
...
In the end we were able to persuade them to go with a limited remote terminal based on a CAN network. Their initial safety concerns were allayed when we told them its the same networking protocol that controls the Brakes in their Mercs
Now, that was just about acceptable, but to even have these machines with the *capability* of being controlled over the ethernet, (perhaps) and then HTTP across the www is tantamount to irresponsibility. It would be a slip-up on the part of everyone in the development chain: Engineers, Buyers, Managers, and even the Operators if they know about it!
Youtube works on the browser in my Nintendo Wii.
Case Closed.
The reason that youtube adopted flash was because it was already ubiquitous. Flash has been shipped with Netscape (and then Mozilla, with IE following suit) since around 2000 and has always been available across all major platforms.
When youtube sat down to determine how they could play their videos with the least impact to users and with the widest penetration they opted for the Multimedia browser plugin that had these characteristics (Flash).
Then they did the clever thing of turning it into a video streaming client (Google video, and perhaps others had done this too, but I dont think any other site did it quite so well or had developed the business model to the extent that youtube had).
Or a Group of people living on the same road (ie: Street) fighting with a robot ...
Reason for this is that Tesco's are an amazingly sharp fast-moving company. There's nothing they wont sell if they think they have a market for it. Aswell as groceries: credit-cards, personal finance (loans etc), Filling-stations. In the US maybe this would come into antitrust hassles but (in Ireland at least) it appears to be a win for the consumer. They've got the cheapest petrol (Gasoline) going, decent prices on groceries. I've never been so brave as to check out their personal loans though. They also do some clever cross-marketing stuff like spend 50 euro on groceries get 5 euro off your petrol and such.
They seem like clever guys - and now they're selling cut-price phones with their groceries!
and its really strong so it'll have you bouncing off the walls like a good stimulant should
As if it it wasnt hard enough getting work this side of the atlantic! Not only do we have to deal with work getting outsourced to india - pretty soon we'll have to compete with the wave of hungry refugee-programmers pouring in from the US :-(
How's this different from just splitting one phone-line to 3 handsets?
Here's an answer for you:r .html h tm
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http://mosquitonet.stanford.edu/mip/
http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/mobileip-charte
http://www.eeng.dcu.ie/~jnoonan/mobileip/mipwork.
overview: Your IP address is rooted with one provider who, when you're within his network sends traffic directly to you. When you're in a foreign n/w he forwards your traffic to an 'foreign agent' in the other n/w that sends it on to you. A mobile-ip daemon on your host takes care of all the automatic registration/deregistration.
The difficulty: As you said, agreements between operators
All modern network equipment (DSL modems, network cards etc) should come with security. If its a necessity that a system have it in order to be useable why burden the CPU with it? Is it Nvidia or someone that is selling mother-boards with embedded firewalls - good move.
On Kurzweil ... sarcasm? I wasnt dissing that guy, I'm not even too sure who he. I was thinking more of the guy who wrote TFM.
And to add to that whole idea of how we cant really take a flat copy of a consciousness. For one, I'm not so sure that the human brain has discrete areas allocated for nicely-organized state-information that can just have its binary pattern copied onto a Blu-ray or whatever. For two, its probably more likely to be distributed, have a high rate of redundancy, have continuous-range values (ie analogue) which have not only current value but future value (ie their current rate state transition lets say) and lets say you could find a way of analyzing and storing all this information (ignoring for a second that each and every individual likely has a customized 'schema' into which their memorys are stored) what of the physical part of consciousness? If there's a copy of my consiousness sitting in a Google cache does it feel pain? Can it get drunk and eat a bag of chips and get sick the next morning. If it cant experience physical sensation is it me? What of all my muscle-memory? The scar on my little finger that reminds me of a dog that bit me 20 years ago?
Is consciousness just what goes on *inside* your head?
em, end of days??? , yep: http://imdb.com/title/tt0216216/
There was a film a few years ago starring Arnold Schwarzenneger (maybe the californians can help me with the spelling) - was it Eraser? anyway, these guys figured out how to do imortality by making copys of their brains and creating clones of themselves and then uploading the copy to the clone when the original died. Is Dr. Pearson ripping off an Arnie movie?
remember hearing this idea time and time again as I was growing up. Cartoons, books, films whatever and every time the fundamental flaws were always explored and the thesis ultimately rejected.
The one that sticks in my mind (cause it scared the shite out of me) is the background literature for a game years ago called bioforge (remember when games came with books and leaflets and all sorts of goodies - in the case of bioforge, reading them was neseccary to completing the game - a nice subtle copy-protection that actually *enhanced* the game-experience!). But anyway: "Consciousness download complete - organic remains please report to auto-disposal area".
Anyone any idea why this is news? why its on slashdot? And how a futurologist of any note could posit this as his own idea?
But the transporter in star-trek doesnt make a copy - it actually converts your mass into energy, transmits that energy, and reconverts it into solid matter. You know, energy is mass. It falls down though because e=mc^2 which is a hell of a lot of mass for a tiny piece of matter ...
I'm not sure how different this would be from just making copies but at least it solves the problem of two consciousness at once.
Fine. my point still stands though. Low-paid public-service job or better paid tech-job in the private-sector?
Open, well established, good compression, good quality (Its whats used on DVDs) and its been around absolutely ages (therefore not requiring the latest player or plugin). It should run on just about anything. I honestly cant understand why people use proprietary standards when these perfectly good open ones are available.
... and the military 'never' f\/k anything up at all?
The military is indemnified against their mistakes (or at least have been until recently when the media started getting in). Individuals and private companys are not.
Cf. Friendly fire, 300,000 civilians dead in Iraq, 80M dead in the Somme thanks to bad management (Military PHB says "Trench Warfare - against Machine-guns and Heavy Artillery. should work a treat!").
Seems to me (a US outsider) that the system's probably okay. It, just like much of the other US public services, is just laughably underfunded. You're a graduate - what are you going to do? Earn a pitiful salary developing spyware or slaving away for EA? Or earn even less pouring over documents of other people's ideas and earning even less? Or if you're an underfunded USPTO will you even be hiring that many people at all?
You've got only a handful of underpaid, overworked USPTO patent examiner's wading through piles of stuff. I dunno, if I was them, I'd just be getting out my big red "approved" rubber-stamp, stamping them all, and going home to my wife and kids.
1. Pay more tax
2. ???
3. Get better public services for all
4. ???
5. Build a content, productive society
6. Profit
So If I get one of those special addition VW beetles, can I PMP my ride with an IPod?
Was this timed to coincide with Brian Harvey's quitting of "I'm a Celebrity get me out of here"?
A Better idea would be to use those motion-based generator things. You move, weight inside mouse moves, turns some generator gizmo. Kind of like how some watches wind themselves.
BTW, doesn't this hark back to those old-style optical mice where you had to use a special reflective mouse-pad that got scratched and dirty and were crap?
And doesn't the fact that you have to use your mouse with a mouse-pad at all defeat one of the key feature's of an optical mouse in the first place?
Why would I do that? My playstation's got analogue buttons. which are far better.