Being able to store games sounds cool. I hope that more technologies get memory storage in the future. Tivo, mp3 players are all cool signs of the future...
This sounds a bit like some DARPA simulations I've seen performed before. Much of this stuff I see is pretty much like basic science, a lot of theology and a little applicability. The models of the future are so wrong that it would be impossible to even get the technology correct, one of the assumptions of the model. Does that make the simulation uninteresting? No, it can help guide current weapons development to lead us away from situations that are expensive and unfruitful.
R.H. has a lot of money. So I like hearing them working with other companies to get new stuff with R.H. linux. Hopefully we'll see some fruits of all those investment dollars.;)
-Moondog
After the "We spent 200000 in this add", etrade monkey ad from last year, Adding the monkey with the sock puppet was great. Other ads aren't very good. Didn't find the kasparov add that funny, but I'm biased against all soft drink ads. The squirrel ad was pretty funny when compared the cat hearders from last year.
I wonder... I've always wanted to be able to distribute client software that just needed a cdrom and not a website. This might just be able to fill that need...
Perhaps it is the cynic in me, but semantic arguments are pretty stupid. Argue about what something *is* not about what it is *called*. Pluto is a very large ball of ice. Perhaps we could argue about something interesting like how it formed or whether its orbit is decaying. Jeez, sometimes I think you guys are just upset because that diorama (sp?) you got an A+ on in the fifth grade was wrong.
-Moondog
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Looking back at all the posts, not one person has pointed out how miserably overpriced $10,000 is. Come on! I remember a couple of weeks ago there was a/.'ed video game collection of an unbelievable amount of games and that was only going for $20K, or so.
This guy loves his 'bots, but anyone who would pay that much for them is silly. This guy isn't the only person out there with this collection.
I see lots of people trying to extract content from scientific journals using natural language processing. Tough problem. Getting the content isn't hard it is trying to sort out what it all means. For example a computer might predict that that method yyy is derived from method xxx simply because the sentence refers to both of them:
Unlike method xxx, our method yyy does something completely different, unrelated and totally offtopic.
Although you could envision ways of sorting through this example, realworld examples can be far more abstract and disjoined.
Too bad. This is just another example of OS advocates using their passion to shoot themselves in the foot. It is amazing to see how passionate people can really scare people away. Many OS/2'rs used to have the same problem. If we all just relax a little, we might find that we have more in common than we think.... Why can't we all get along? (sorry couldn't resist)
This is not important because people can get free stuff. This is important because it creates a free public record of music. Although there are other public storehouses like the library of congress and others, they usually cost money or time to access the data. I personally think the government should have funding to support free projects like this, In the long run this is going to be as beneficial as many public projects.
-Moondog
Slowly and fairly quietly, M$ seems to be cleaning up its high profile cases. Although the government case is the highest profile case I can remember, this is the least number of total cases I can remember in since I've been following M$.
Those all must suck, so they should go ahead and stop developing them.
My intention on the original post was not to speak against scientific research (I am a scientist at Stanford University). My intention was to warn against the folly of believing that just because they have a company with cool press releases that they are going to change the world. As a scientific undertaking I'm all for it, as a business opportunity, I'm skeptical.
Sounds like we've been through this path before. Unfortunately, developing new technologies rarely works and just because there is a company dedicated to it doesn't mean much more. Remember 3d protein memory based on lasers and rhodopsin? I'll believe it when I see it.
Lets make sure we understand that there are very different philosophy with NeXT and Apple than with the "IBM"-esque pc's many of us use. Apples and NeXT boxes are extremely proprietary, difficult to service and poorly scalable. While they lack the diversity of traditional PC's they countered with a solid group of software and hardware that worked, which often made up for the lack of choice.
I'm surprised that Jobs has returned to the NeXT philosophy (and been successful with it). Perhaps it is the high profit margins of the we-package-everything in our niche market that has made it survive so well.
I have an old next box that I use occasionally, and I like it. I kind of hope that OSX will really bring that os style to the forefront. I hope, though, that OS X will be more open than NeXT...
Games programming and scientific programming can often be similar in spirit. If people are interested in either learning to program or want to push their skills elsewhere, they should try working in science, especially in the bio arena where programmers are needed....
Yup, you are correct. I just think because MySQL is used so much more now that to avoid confusion, mSQL should change its name to represent the new development effort. It was a shear numbers thing, not an age thing...
Like many intelligent posters have pointed out, while being lucrative for the developers, this will only serve to segment the market more. MySQL (and postgres) has become the standard and developing mSQL may have the unfortunate problem of confusing people. At least change the name...
Microsoft is by far the biggest threat to microsoft. Somebody of at M$ should figure out that if they took a linux distro and pulled a JAVA they could screw the entire linux community while making a few bucks. The threat of linux becoming a shambles industry with many standards, lack of support, etc, Could really become a problem if one big company tries to professionalize it as a distro.
Costs to companies should go lower, because now they won't have to deal with all the limits on both marketing and distribution. They should also be able to reach a broader market. Good news all around.
-Moondog
Is gore-tex great or an expensive way to get wet?
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I've used gore-tex for many years. I've also used a lot of coatings that are supposedly "breathable". I find that breathables and gore-tex work excellently in snow, but heavy downpores like I see in the PNW eventually let water creep in.
I hope this technology works, but it would have to be as good as gore-tex to be competitive, and it should be durable. I know most people who have gore-tex $500 n.f. jackets only walk accross the parking lot in them, but for those of us who escape to the mountains regularly it is critical.
Nice to see that previous posts have pointed out that 7500 cards may be statistically not evidence of a breakin. (Sometimes I think/.'ers go off the handle without thinking -- I like being proven wrong)
Even so, it seems that having 3,000,000 cards on file is a huge security risk, not just for egghead and the customers, but VISA as well. I bet credit card companies start using more temporary number authentication schemes in the future to limit their liability to problems such as this....
-Moondog
It is too bad that he has died. We all use ping regularly. I find it rather unbelievable that we get so upset about some things (plane crashes, devestating but rare diseases, etc) and we completely ignore the danger that cars pose to us everyday. Hopefully people will drive safely this thanksgiving.
I am a graduate student very familiar with the issues of intellectual property rights. As a student you usually given a bit more leeway than most other university employees. Usually blanket intellectual property terms comes from whoever funds your tuition and salary (if you receive one). BUT - The university will believe it has rights to anything you use university resources to develop. Often PI's, not students, are the ones that make the opensource/commercialize decisions. The university, can put an enormous amount of pressure on a PI to go the commercial route if the technology is lucrative.
As a student you really don't have many rights to what you create using University resources. What constitutes use? The courts and universities tend to disagree. Some universities content that any use constitutes ownership, when in reality it is if the project couldn't have succeeded without the universities resources. This includes web servers, internet lines, dorm rooms, everything.
Also, to make matters worse, usually the university requires a full declaration of all intellectual property developed by you EVEN if the university doesn't own it. Software generally falls under the heading of copyrights, and each univesity has their own policy on dealing with that. I suspect that they are much more interested in CS depts' code than with thesis materials.
My suggestion to you is to talk to the Tech Transfer department for your university and ask them. They should be your friends, because if you piss them off they can make your life hell. Generally they want to see their students successful, so they will be willing to work with you.
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Being able to store games sounds cool. I hope that more technologies get memory storage in the future. Tivo, mp3 players are all cool signs of the future...
-Moondog
-Moondog
R.H. has a lot of money. So I like hearing them working with other companies to get new stuff with R.H. linux. Hopefully we'll see some fruits of all those investment dollars. ;)
-Moondog
After the "We spent 200000 in this add", etrade monkey ad from last year, Adding the monkey with the sock puppet was great. Other ads aren't very good. Didn't find the kasparov add that funny, but I'm biased against all soft drink ads. The squirrel ad was pretty funny when compared the cat hearders from last year.
-Moondog
I wonder... I've always wanted to be able to distribute client software that just needed a cdrom and not a website. This might just be able to fill that need...
-Moondog
Perhaps it is the cynic in me, but semantic arguments are pretty stupid. Argue about what something *is* not about what it is *called*. Pluto is a very large ball of ice. Perhaps we could argue about something interesting like how it formed or whether its orbit is decaying. Jeez, sometimes I think you guys are just upset because that diorama (sp?) you got an A+ on in the fifth grade was wrong.
-Moondog
They should replace the cam occasionally with a prerecorded ASCII Doom feed.
-Moondog
Looking back at all the posts, not one person has pointed out how miserably overpriced $10,000 is. Come on! I remember a couple of weeks ago there was a /.'ed video game collection of an unbelievable amount of games and that was only going for $20K, or so.
This guy loves his 'bots, but anyone who would pay that much for them is silly. This guy isn't the only person out there with this collection.
-Moondog
Unlike method xxx, our method yyy does something completely different, unrelated and totally offtopic.
Although you could envision ways of sorting through this example, realworld examples can be far more abstract and disjoined.
-Moondog
-Moondog
Slowly and fairly quietly, M$ seems to be cleaning up its high profile cases. Although the government case is the highest profile case I can remember, this is the least number of total cases I can remember in since I've been following M$.
-Moondog
Although it doesn't rain as much in SF than NY, I find that when it does, I don't have an umbrella or a cab. Blows...
-Moondog
Those all must suck, so they should go ahead and stop developing them.
My intention on the original post was not to speak against scientific research (I am a scientist at Stanford University). My intention was to warn against the folly of believing that just because they have a company with cool press releases that they are going to change the world. As a scientific undertaking I'm all for it, as a business opportunity, I'm skeptical.
(Jeez, you guys are harsh)
-Moondog
Sounds like we've been through this path before. Unfortunately, developing new technologies rarely works and just because there is a company dedicated to it doesn't mean much more. Remember 3d protein memory based on lasers and rhodopsin? I'll believe it when I see it.
-Moondog
Lets make sure we understand that there are very different philosophy with NeXT and Apple than with the "IBM"-esque pc's many of us use. Apples and NeXT boxes are extremely proprietary, difficult to service and poorly scalable. While they lack the diversity of traditional PC's they countered with a solid group of software and hardware that worked, which often made up for the lack of choice.
I'm surprised that Jobs has returned to the NeXT philosophy (and been successful with it). Perhaps it is the high profit margins of the we-package-everything in our niche market that has made it survive so well.
I have an old next box that I use occasionally, and I like it. I kind of hope that OSX will really bring that os style to the forefront. I hope, though, that OS X will be more open than NeXT...
-Moondog
Games programming and scientific programming can often be similar in spirit. If people are interested in either learning to program or want to push their skills elsewhere, they should try working in science, especially in the bio arena where programmers are needed....
-Moondog
Yup, you are correct. I just think because MySQL is used so much more now that to avoid confusion, mSQL should change its name to represent the new development effort. It was a shear numbers thing, not an age thing...
-Moondog
Like many intelligent posters have pointed out, while being lucrative for the developers, this will only serve to segment the market more. MySQL (and postgres) has become the standard and developing mSQL may have the unfortunate problem of confusing people. At least change the name...
-Moondog
Microsoft is by far the biggest threat to microsoft. Somebody of at M$ should figure out that if they took a linux distro and pulled a JAVA they could screw the entire linux community while making a few bucks. The threat of linux becoming a shambles industry with many standards, lack of support, etc, Could really become a problem if one big company tries to professionalize it as a distro.
-Moondog
Costs to companies should go lower, because now they won't have to deal with all the limits on both marketing and distribution. They should also be able to reach a broader market. Good news all around.
-Moondog
I've used gore-tex for many years. I've also used a lot of coatings that are supposedly "breathable". I find that breathables and gore-tex work excellently in snow, but heavy downpores like I see in the PNW eventually let water creep in.
I hope this technology works, but it would have to be as good as gore-tex to be competitive, and it should be durable. I know most people who have gore-tex $500 n.f. jackets only walk accross the parking lot in them, but for those of us who escape to the mountains regularly it is critical.
-Moondog
Nice to see that previous posts have pointed out that 7500 cards may be statistically not evidence of a breakin. (Sometimes I think /.'ers go off the handle without thinking -- I like being proven wrong)
Even so, it seems that having 3,000,000 cards on file is a huge security risk, not just for egghead and the customers, but VISA as well. I bet credit card companies start using more temporary number authentication schemes in the future to limit their liability to problems such as this....
-Moondog
It is too bad that he has died. We all use ping regularly. I find it rather unbelievable that we get so upset about some things (plane crashes, devestating but rare diseases, etc) and we completely ignore the danger that cars pose to us everyday. Hopefully people will drive safely this thanksgiving.
-Moondog
I am a graduate student very familiar with the issues of intellectual property rights. As a student you usually given a bit more leeway than most other university employees. Usually blanket intellectual property terms comes from whoever funds your tuition and salary (if you receive one). BUT - The university will believe it has rights to anything you use university resources to develop. Often PI's, not students, are the ones that make the opensource/commercialize decisions. The university, can put an enormous amount of pressure on a PI to go the commercial route if the technology is lucrative.
As a student you really don't have many rights to what you create using University resources. What constitutes use? The courts and universities tend to disagree. Some universities content that any use constitutes ownership, when in reality it is if the project couldn't have succeeded without the universities resources. This includes web servers, internet lines, dorm rooms, everything.
Also, to make matters worse, usually the university requires a full declaration of all intellectual property developed by you EVEN if the university doesn't own it. Software generally falls under the heading of copyrights, and each univesity has their own policy on dealing with that. I suspect that they are much more interested in CS depts' code than with thesis materials.
My suggestion to you is to talk to the Tech Transfer department for your university and ask them. They should be your friends, because if you piss them off they can make your life hell. Generally they want to see their students successful, so they will be willing to work with you.
-Moondog