All joking aside, this is pretty hard/cool stuff. Early chess-playing computers were pretty laughable as well. They went from laughable to kicking Kasparov's butt in the span of few short years.
I'm looking forward to the next race... Go Red Team!
DARPA has announced that in light of the difficulties encountered this year, next's year event will be reworked as the "reasonably-ordinary-challenge' and consist of an autonomous vehicle locating the nearest McDonalds, ordering burgers and fries, and returning before they get cold.
Watching the live broadcast, the cyberrider just refuses to fight! The flagman waved the green go flag and instead of charging like a good infantryman it just threw itself down to the ground! Of course its from Berkeley so no that suprising I guess.
I hope this poor "interactive 3d mapping" application isn't what DARPA has in mind for providing 'battlefield awareness' to our generals. Talk about taking the fog of war to an entirely new technology-driven level...
The proper solution to the microwave interference problem is to just make the microwave a proper client to the WLAN and have it do RTS/CTS before each blast!
This Internet Phenomenon is essentially redefining _property_. It's redefining what "property" is and henceforth redefining what "property" is worth. That's causing some excitement as well as quite a bit of concern. These sort of "intellectual property" issues seem to be in the process of building to a crescendo (e.g recent WIPO/Julia Roberts). It would seem that these issues are going to be addressed and largely decided within the next couple years. That presents an fine opportunity to wield a disproportionate influence through coordinated action.
Realtime embedded systems. Java doesn't work too well for these. Networking and telecommunications equipment in particular are almost exclusively C or C++.
Yeah, governments need money but with our form of government here in the U.S. the people are responsible for deciding how the government should be run. This isn't just a theory... it is reality to the extent that people care how their government is run.
Sounds like people here have definite opinions, and these opinions are an important part of the democratic process.
Money is a form of information. A tax will be interpreted as damage to the flow of information and the network ecosystem will route around it as appropriate.
This happens to some extent today, but as a larger portion of the economy moves online, the effect will become even more pronounced.
Each entitity that rates stuff would not rate every site on the net, just the sites they feel strongly about or that interest them for some reason.
You would not need a central store of ratings, either. Major organizations would publish their ratings via their own servers. Individuals could publish via Yahoo!, their personal servers, IM client, etc.
Sounds like a great idea. Imagine being able to assign weights to other's opinions or recommendations. These would be combined, along any of your own, to form your own "opinion/recommendation" space. Others in turn could "link" to your opinions. Order emerges from chaos...
Transmeta is probably making a very fast, flexible processor. This processor must do two things very well:
1. Run Linux 3 to 10 times faster than any existing processor (at the time of it's release).
2. Provide a virtual machine emulation of the x86 architecture (in microcode) such that it can run windows and windows apps (simultaneously with linux or standalone) at competetive speeds.
As a fallout from #2, it can probably provide fast emulations of any processor, including Java.
Ahh... I made the mistaken assumption that Apple had "Akamaized" all of their static content. But judging from the joint press-releases, it seems like Apple is only using Akamai for streaming QuickTime and certain software downloads.
I would think that if Apple took a 5% stake in the company that they would make better use of the technology, especially for major product roll-outs like this...
Apple is a customer of (and equity investor in) Akamai. It's interesting that Akamai's hyped technology doesn't seem to be alleviating the performance issues.
Quality control is useful and sometimes necessary, but it doesn't have to be tied to the distribution mechanism (as is currently the case in the publishing industry). This sort of self publishing divorces these two aspects.
Other entities, better suited to the task and the individual consumer, can provide the quality control. Bravo!
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All joking aside, this is pretty hard/cool stuff. Early chess-playing computers were pretty laughable as well. They went from laughable to kicking Kasparov's butt in the span of few short years.
I'm looking forward to the next race... Go Red Team!
DARPA has announced that in light of the difficulties encountered this year, next's year event will be reworked as the "reasonably-ordinary-challenge' and consist of an autonomous vehicle locating the nearest McDonalds, ordering burgers and fries, and returning before they get cold.
Watching the live broadcast, the cyberrider just refuses to fight! The flagman waved the green go flag and instead of charging like a good infantryman it just threw itself down to the ground! Of course its from Berkeley so no that suprising I guess.
I hope this poor "interactive 3d mapping" application isn't what DARPA has in mind for providing 'battlefield awareness' to our generals. Talk about taking the fog of war to an entirely new technology-driven level...
The proper solution to the microwave interference problem is to just make the microwave a proper client to the WLAN and have it do RTS/CTS before each blast!
Any such list that doesn't include Bellman-Ford distance vector or Dijksta's algorithm can't be taken seriously.
This Internet Phenomenon is essentially redefining _property_. It's redefining what "property" is and henceforth redefining what "property" is worth. That's causing some excitement as well as quite a bit of concern. These sort of "intellectual property" issues seem to be in the process of building to a crescendo (e.g recent WIPO/Julia Roberts). It would seem that these issues are going to be addressed and largely decided within the next couple years. That presents an fine opportunity to wield a disproportionate influence through coordinated action.
what isn't webrelated these days
Realtime embedded systems. Java doesn't work too well for these. Networking and telecommunications equipment in particular are almost exclusively C or C++.
Yeah, governments need money but with our form of government here in the U.S. the people are responsible for deciding how the government should be run. This isn't just a theory... it is reality to the extent that people care how their government is run.
Sounds like people here have definite opinions, and these opinions are an important part of the democratic process.
Money is a form of information. A tax will be interpreted as damage to the flow of information and the network ecosystem will route around it as appropriate.
This happens to some extent today, but as a larger portion of the economy moves online, the effect will become even more pronounced.
A: Someone with 25000/11 = 2272 times your net worth.
"Bionomics : Economy As Ecosystem" by Michael Rothschild is a decent book devoted to this concept. Check it out.
Yeah, this is a good idea. Allow "weights" that can be positive or negative.
Each entitity that rates stuff would not rate every site on the net, just the sites they feel strongly about or that interest them for some reason.
You would not need a central store of ratings, either. Major organizations would publish their ratings via their own servers. Individuals could publish via Yahoo!, their personal servers, IM client, etc.
Sounds like a great idea. Imagine being able to assign weights to other's opinions or recommendations. These would be combined, along any of your own, to form your own "opinion/recommendation" space. Others in turn could "link" to your opinions. Order emerges from chaos...
Transmeta is probably making a very fast, flexible processor. This processor must do two things very well:
1. Run Linux 3 to 10 times faster than any existing processor (at the time of it's release).
2. Provide a virtual machine emulation of the x86 architecture (in microcode) such that it can run windows and windows apps (simultaneously with linux or standalone) at competetive speeds.
As a fallout from #2, it can probably provide fast emulations of any processor, including Java.
If they can deliver this, they are golden.
Ahh... I made the mistaken assumption that Apple had "Akamaized" all of their static content. But judging from the joint press-releases, it seems like Apple is only using Akamai for streaming QuickTime and certain software downloads.
I would think that if Apple took a 5% stake in the company that they would make better use of the technology, especially for major product roll-outs like this...
Apple is a customer of (and equity investor in) Akamai. It's interesting that Akamai's hyped technology doesn't seem to be alleviating the performance issues.
Quality control is useful and sometimes necessary, but it doesn't have to be tied to the distribution mechanism (as is currently the case in the publishing industry). This sort of self publishing divorces these two aspects.
Other entities, better suited to the task and the individual consumer, can provide the quality control. Bravo!