For the first time in the history of Mankind, a Law will stop the related
Crime.
Seriously, tell me why this is not just another ploy to make yet another
invasive law
that lets the govt. sleuths access your desktop easily, without any 'warrant'
hassle ?
Though that doesn't mean everyone who visits their site downloads Kazaa. The high rank can also be attibuted to malware/zombie pcs.
Jobs cashing out ?
on
Pixar For Sale?
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· Score: 4, Interesting
Just a random thought: Considering what Jobs can do with Apple, Jobs would need to buy out some minority partners to have more board control in Apple (Valued at about $50bn http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=aapl) -- and for that he would need good cash. That cash can come out of Pixar.
Apple would sure do better with Jobs in better control (of the board) and with Microsoft blundering big-time, MAC could be the next windows. Better control would also decrease the probability of a Sculley-like 1985 takeover Deja-vu.
On a side note, the fact that Google's founders have a unique 3:1 voting power in the board (you can google to find more about it) reflects on the way they focus and innovate tirelessly. Also, the stories of Billy B Gates and Larry "I am God" Ellison and numerous other Successful Owner-CEOs would tell you that when it comes to running (and being in control of) your own damn public limited company, your ownership (shares) is very critical, no matter how good (or bad) a CEO are you.
And, as a reminder, we must never forget how HP (the HP way) got screwed by board politics.
Let pixar be Disney's, but I'll bet you'll want Apple to be Jobs. If Pixar's sale can help him do that, so be it.
Cheers! (Followed by Sculley "I'm the CTO" Jokes...)
It's strange that noone has really talked about Low Bugdget Independent Film Makers in bolloywood/elsewhere who see India/Indian Diaspora as a market. They would benefit immensely by this, as they work on shoe-string budget and are always in need of alternatives to cut down on costs.
Last heard, a low budget Indie movie "Hyderabad Blues" about an Indian returning from states went on to become a surprise hit and made more money than other movies. This is what makes Low-Cost Digital Cinema exciting. Low cost digital cinema lowers the barriers and lets your reach more people per dollar. This is what the article should be about.
Not the 20 mafia-funded, casting couch expert producers (everyone other than perhaps the police knows bollywood is mostly a conduit to route underworld money) who anyway have to route black money, but hundreds of Indie film makers who have a new story to tell and spend their own dollar on it.
Me ? I don't watch big budget bollywood movies. I hate to spend my dollar to fund poppy growing Afghanistanian warlords.
Yes, but the question is -- will the superfast $500 computer from Wal-Mart with 4,000 times the memory and a fast hard drive with 100k times more data than the floppy I am using, run Duke Nokem Forever ?
Singularity ? I say, BS. Give me my circa 25BC $1200 apple II anyday. These $500 machines rhyme with hell.
http://biz.yahoo.com/rb/050823/markets_stocks_befo rethebell.html?.v=1Google Inc. (GOOG) rose nearly 1 percent before the bell on Tuesday after the Los Angeles Times reported the Web search company will launch its own instant messaging system
Shares of Google rose $2.54 to $276.55 on the Inet electronic brokerage system, from a $2.74.01 close on Nasdaq.
Boy oh Boy, that's almost $1 BN ($0.767 BN to be exact) jump in market cap. Tin foil hats and Conspiracy theorists, jump right in.
First Post is
a fad, according to this wikipedia article.
Strange, the article mentions Blogger as a Fad --
blogging certainly was (and is) no "fad" since it picked up like anything. Much
like the way google or apple ipod or even slashdot got popular and became a
mainstay.
As wikipedia puts it -- A
fad, also known as a craze,
refers to a fashion that becomes popular in a culture (or subcultures)
relatively quickly, remains popular, often for a rather brief period, then loses
popularity dramatically.
Quantum computers can be used to get approximate
solutions to large
NP-complete optimization problems much more quickly than the best known
methods running on any supercomputer.
Simulation has always been an important part of
what conventional computers do. For engineers and scientists, simulation is
about asking "what if?" questions without having to actually do it. Today's
engineering marvels would not be possible were it not for computer modeling.
Everything from the car you drive, to the plane you last flew in, to the
building in which you sit, to the computer chip in your PC, are made possible by
simulation.
There is an implicit assumption that the tactics used in engineering today will
apply to engineering at the nanoscale. The promise of nanotechnology is based on
the premise that since everything is built of atoms, if we can manipulate matter
on the level of atoms, we can build anything that is physically possible.
Building, however, is only a part of engineering. Just being able to build any
given assembly of atoms does not mean that we can predict how it behaves before
we build it.
Unfortunately, conventional (non-quantum) computers, no matter how powerful, are
very bad at predicting the behaviour of nature at the nanoscale. The quantum
properties of matter and energy that make nanotechnology so interesting wreak
havok with conventional simulation methods.
Quantum computers are the only known solution to this problem. They are able to
directly solve the fundamental equations of quantum mechanics for any physical
system. Sufficiently robust quantum computers will be able to create the
ultimate virtual reality environment, where products and processes at the level
of atoms and molecules can be exactly and effortlessly probed.
"Using refilled print cartridges alone does not affect either the warranty or
any maintenance contract purchased from HP for its HP Inkjet printers.
However, if an HP Inkjet printer fails or is damaged because you used a modified
or refilled HP Inkjet print cartridge, the repair will not be covered under the
warranty or by the maintenance contract. Instead, standard time and material
charges will be applied to service the printer for that particular failure or
damage."
If your cartridges damages the printer -- which the HP service staff will
readily claim -- you might have to payup for the damage done.
So who decides the cartridges are good or bad for the printer ?
Re:AJAX meme
on
Ajax On Rails
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· Score: 3, Informative
It has been pointed out that the AJAX technologies did not have a common name
before, and that some welcome a unifying term for the process. However it is
also reported that the Google engineers who have created the most prominent
applications using this technique consider their technologies as 'Javascript'
AJAX is not a new approach of building software. From a higher perspective
the presentation layer is like a form and a programming layer behind handling
the events, commonly known in programming terms as
MVC. This kind of
programming is very well known in older programming environments like Delphi,
MFC, Visual Basic, Oracle ADF, and Windows Forms, just to name a few.
Applications using this model of programming have been around for years:
Microsoft Outlook Web Access using WebDAV and the Web based ERP system P2plus
using web services directly from the browser. However, because there are no
standards available for the communication model behind previous implementations,
all use proprietary extensions.
A new aspect to AJAX is that there are now multiple browsers that can be used
to realize this type of application, as opposed to earlier technologies which
were frequently limited only to
Microsoft's
Internet Explorer.
It keeps referring to the "speed of light" which itself is not constant -- is a function of the media it travels in.
--
All your speed is belongs to us.
"About 300 commercial Web sites, including popular destinations such as Yahoo, AOL and MSN, already have been buying AP content, said Jane Seagrave, the news cooperative's director of new media markets."
Most of the commercial web-sites are already buying content. It'll be mostly small-time portals and bloggers who'll be really affected. Think of all the blogs cross-posting APs content.
Also, bloggers who post APs content on there websites might be discouraged to do that henceforth. Imagine, if bloggers are not allowed to link content to AP/reuters or other authentic news sources -- blogging might suffer.
Hell, even slashdot carries AP articles. Will Slashdot be affected ??
--
All your content are belong to us.
Been there, heard that before. From Bill G to Larry E. All say the same damn thing. Nothing beats the aura of being a Messiah.
And they fail to mention "the tax breaks" they get. Instead of parting with money in form of taxes, and let the govt do the job, they would rather spend it themselves and get the attention. Ah, it feels like god.
And what about the offshore dev centre they own in India -- two of them actually. Will they be doing some philanthropy in India too since they already get huge tax breaks for their development centre in India(being an EOU).
--
All our taxes are belongs to you.
The analysis, to be published in the April 14 issue of the
journal Nature, is based on 53 images from the spacecraft Clementine, which
orbited the Moon for 71 days in 1994.
11 years for the data to be analyzed.
In another equally insightful phrase...
"That fits in neatly with the
White House vision
of using the Moon as a stepping stone to Mars."
Slashdot Mirror
Dumped to China ?
For the first time in the history of Mankind, a Law will stop the related Crime.
Seriously, tell me why this is not just another ploy to make yet another invasive law that lets the govt. sleuths access your desktop easily, without any 'warrant' hassle ?
--
Root of America's predilection for gun violence
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/?url=www.kazaa.c om
Traffic Rank for kazaa.com: 3,951
That's pretty high I guess.
Though that doesn't mean everyone who visits their site downloads Kazaa. The high rank can also be attibuted to malware/zombie pcs.
Just a random thought: Considering what Jobs can do with Apple, Jobs would need to buy out some minority partners to have more board control in Apple (Valued at about $50bn http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=aapl) -- and for that he would need good cash. That cash can come out of Pixar.
Apple would sure do better with Jobs in better control (of the board) and with Microsoft blundering big-time, MAC could be the next windows. Better control would also decrease the probability of a Sculley-like 1985 takeover Deja-vu.
On a side note, the fact that Google's founders have a unique 3:1 voting power in the board (you can google to find more about it) reflects on the way they focus and innovate tirelessly. Also, the stories of Billy B Gates and Larry "I am God" Ellison and numerous other Successful Owner-CEOs would tell you that when it comes to running (and being in control of) your own damn public limited company, your ownership (shares) is very critical, no matter how good (or bad) a CEO are you.
And, as a reminder, we must never forget how HP (the HP way) got screwed by board politics.
Let pixar be Disney's, but I'll bet you'll want Apple to be Jobs. If Pixar's sale can help him do that, so be it.
Cheers!
(Followed by Sculley "I'm the CTO" Jokes...)
It's strange that noone has really talked about Low Bugdget Independent Film Makers in bolloywood/elsewhere who see India/Indian Diaspora as a market. They would benefit immensely by this, as they work on shoe-string budget and are always in need of alternatives to cut down on costs.
Last heard, a low budget Indie movie "Hyderabad Blues" about an Indian returning from states went on to become a surprise hit and made more money than other movies. This is what makes Low-Cost Digital Cinema exciting. Low cost digital cinema lowers the barriers and lets your reach more people per dollar. This is what the article should be about.
Not the 20 mafia-funded, casting couch expert producers (everyone other than perhaps the police knows bollywood is mostly a conduit to route underworld money) who anyway have to route black money, but hundreds of Indie film makers who have a new story to tell and spend their own dollar on it.
Me ? I don't watch big budget bollywood movies. I hate to spend my dollar to fund poppy growing Afghanistanian warlords.
Yes, but the question is -- will the superfast $500 computer from Wal-Mart with 4,000 times the memory and a fast hard drive with 100k times more data than the floppy I am using, run Duke Nokem Forever ?
Singularity ? I say, BS. Give me my circa 25BC $1200 apple II anyday. These $500 machines rhyme with hell.
What's the point of getting a degree when you can Dropout
=$1000 Million.
=$1,000,000,000
Odd, yes.
No matter what you denote it with, BN or bn or G -- that kind of money is always odd.
--
There's no sig.
http://biz.yahoo.com/rb/050823/markets_stocks_befo rethebell.html?.v=1
Google Inc. (GOOG) rose nearly 1 percent before the bell on Tuesday after the Los Angeles Times reported the Web search company will launch its own instant messaging system
Shares of Google rose $2.54 to $276.55 on the Inet electronic brokerage system, from a $2.74.01 close on Nasdaq.
Boy oh Boy, that's almost $1 BN ($0.767 BN to be exact) jump in market cap. Tin foil hats and Conspiracy theorists, jump right in.
Do no evil, yes, but only as long as it makes sense to us. :)
Ten things Google has found to be true (only as long as it works in our favor, that is)1. Focus on the user and all else will follow ( (only as long as it works in our favor, that is))
2. It's best to do one thing really, really well. (only as long as it works in our favor, that is)
3. Fast is better than slow. (only as long as it works in our favor, that is)
4. Democracy on the web works. (only as long as it works in our favor, that is)
5. You don't need to be at your desk to need an answer. (only as long as it works in our favor, that is)
6. You can make money without doing evil. (only as long as it works in our favor, that is)
7. There's always more information out there. (only as long as it works in our favor, that is)
8. The need for information crosses all borders. (only as long as it works in our favor, that is)
9. You can be serious without a suit. (only as long as it works in our favor, that is)
10. Great just isn't good enough. (only as long as it works in our favor, that is)
You can't charge awefully more than your competition, can you ? If the competition gives it up for free -- then well, all your calculations go awry.
Think about the price of a browser, media player and well, a operating system.
Think Netscape vs IE circa 2000 AD. Now, only a free product could defeat IE.
--
This sig is up for free.
First Post is a fad, according to this wikipedia article.
.
Strange, the article mentions Blogger as a Fad -- blogging certainly was (and is) no "fad" since it picked up like anything. Much like the way google or apple ipod or even slashdot got popular and became a mainstay.
As wikipedia puts it -- A fad, also known as a craze, refers to a fashion that becomes popular in a culture (or subcultures) relatively quickly, remains popular, often for a rather brief period, then loses popularity dramatically
Find some fads here and here.
--I'm a sig,& I'm a fad.
Btw, Mr Sriram has little to do with Google's huge success. He made his billions pimping for the two crazy lads. Google's wasn't even mentioned in his presentation in 1999. Give credit where credit is due.
--"There is a $5 trillion market opportunity for e-commerce today. " Ram Shriram Circa 1999 AD
Application 1: Optimization
http://www.dwavesys.com/optimization.php
Quantum computers can be used to get approximate solutions to large NP-complete optimization problems much more quickly than the best known methods running on any supercomputer.
Application 2: Quantum Simulation
http://www.dwavesys.com/quantumsimulation.php
Simulation has always been an important part of what conventional computers do. For engineers and scientists, simulation is about asking "what if?" questions without having to actually do it. Today's engineering marvels would not be possible were it not for computer modeling. Everything from the car you drive, to the plane you last flew in, to the building in which you sit, to the computer chip in your PC, are made possible by simulation.
There is an implicit assumption that the tactics used in engineering today will apply to engineering at the nanoscale. The promise of nanotechnology is based on the premise that since everything is built of atoms, if we can manipulate matter on the level of atoms, we can build anything that is physically possible.
Building, however, is only a part of engineering. Just being able to build any given assembly of atoms does not mean that we can predict how it behaves before we build it.
Unfortunately, conventional (non-quantum) computers, no matter how powerful, are very bad at predicting the behaviour of nature at the nanoscale. The quantum properties of matter and energy that make nanotechnology so interesting wreak havok with conventional simulation methods.
Quantum computers are the only known solution to this problem. They are able to directly solve the fundamental equations of quantum mechanics for any physical system. Sufficiently robust quantum computers will be able to create the ultimate virtual reality environment, where products and processes at the level of atoms and molecules can be exactly and effortlessly probed.
What HP says about refills and warranties:
"Using refilled print cartridges alone does not affect either the warranty or any maintenance contract purchased from HP for its HP Inkjet printers. However, if an HP Inkjet printer fails or is damaged because you used a modified or refilled HP Inkjet print cartridge, the repair will not be covered under the warranty or by the maintenance contract. Instead, standard time and material charges will be applied to service the printer for that particular failure or damage."
If your cartridges damages the printer -- which the HP service staff will readily claim -- you might have to payup for the damage done.
So who decides the cartridges are good or bad for the printer ?
There have been some critics of the term AJAX, claiming that the Adaptive Path consultancy who created it are using it as a marketing vehicle (and as a meme) for previously used techniques
It has been pointed out that the AJAX technologies did not have a common name before, and that some welcome a unifying term for the process. However it is also reported that the Google engineers who have created the most prominent applications using this technique consider their technologies as 'Javascript'
AJAX is not a new approach of building software. From a higher perspective the presentation layer is like a form and a programming layer behind handling the events, commonly known in programming terms as MVC. This kind of programming is very well known in older programming environments like Delphi, MFC, Visual Basic, Oracle ADF, and Windows Forms, just to name a few. Applications using this model of programming have been around for years: Microsoft Outlook Web Access using WebDAV and the Web based ERP system P2plus using web services directly from the browser. However, because there are no standards available for the communication model behind previous implementations, all use proprietary extensions.
A new aspect to AJAX is that there are now multiple browsers that can be used to realize this type of application, as opposed to earlier technologies which were frequently limited only to Microsoft's Internet Explorer.
In Soviet Russia, Laws repeal you.
From the article: "Heatproof enzymes isolated from bugs brought back by earlier Japanese drill missions are now used in washing powders."
Now that's interesting. Rocket science meets home science.
--
The core has been breached before -- described here in detail
--
The Core: "Someone set up us the bomb"
It keeps referring to the "speed of light" which itself is not constant -- is a function of the media it travels in.
--
All your speed is belongs to us.
You saw this coming
If you really dont like it, dont bring your towel to the cinema...
"About 300 commercial Web sites, including popular destinations such as Yahoo, AOL and MSN, already have been buying AP content, said Jane Seagrave, the news cooperative's director of new media markets."
Most of the commercial web-sites are already buying content. It'll be mostly small-time portals and bloggers who'll be really affected. Think of all the blogs cross-posting APs content.
Also, bloggers who post APs content on there websites might be discouraged to do that henceforth. Imagine, if bloggers are not allowed to link content to AP/reuters or other authentic news sources -- blogging might suffer.
Hell, even slashdot carries AP articles. Will Slashdot be affected ??
--
All your content are belong to us.
Been there, heard that before. From Bill G to Larry E. All say the same damn thing. Nothing beats the aura of being a Messiah.
And they fail to mention "the tax breaks" they get. Instead of parting with money in form of taxes, and let the govt do the job, they would rather spend it themselves and get the attention. Ah, it feels like god.
And what about the offshore dev centre they own in India -- two of them actually. Will they be doing some philanthropy in India too since they already get huge tax breaks for their development centre in India(being an EOU).
--
All our taxes are belongs to you.
11 years for the data to be analyzed.
In another equally insightful phrase...
"That fits in neatly with the White House vision of using the Moon as a stepping stone to Mars."
No wonder.