They hide behind the fact that petrol is bad for the environment and high taxes put people off using so much, when we all know that really they just want the money.
to say the article is thin on info is a bit of an understatement:-D
Its still pretty exciting though, I mean concievably you could have a pellet manufacturing machine underneath your garage or something (the hydrogen stored in a sealed container before it makes it into pellet form). You'd have a solar panel on your roof and you pump out pellets 24/7 when weather permits, you then use the pellets to power your car/toaster/computer (anything with a pellet drive in it)
maybe I'm getting a little ahead of the technology here but I for one am looking forward to the day when it doesn't cost a small fortune to fill my car;-)
...I mean, think about it. When Microsoft/Linux Distro write software they have almost no control over the environment it is used. Sure they can test the most common combinations of motherboard, hard-disk etc. but lets face it they really have no idea what sort of system the stuff gets used on.
In a car such as the Prius, Toyota know EXACTLY what is in the system so they can test the hell out of it, making it much much less likely to contain bugs.
I think a case in point is OS X (and no, I am not an Apple fanboy - I don't have an Apple at home). Apple strictly control the hardware they sell (very picky about RAM for instance) and many people find it is much more stable as a result
Numenta is developing a new type of computer memory system modeled after the human neocortex
surely this technology would be incredibly slow? (this is not a troll, read on before you mod me down!)
From what I remember from my neural networks days the human brain/neocortex works so well because of its massively parallel nature (not because of the processing power of any one neuron), and that computers simply aren't able to exploit this as they aren't designed to work like this - They are instead designed to to massively serial operations using extremely powerful chips (neurons) because the overhead of managing these parallel operations synchronously is too great (the human brain/neocortex work asynchronously)
am I wrong about this or am I missing something great that they've stumbled accross?
Personally I don't like automatic updates, I like to know what's going on and I don't feel the need to always have the latest but if that's your bag then slackware provides slackpkg in/extra in the current tree of the slack packages that does the same job as swaret.
A lot of people tend to use swaret or slapt-get
Seeing as I don't use them I couldn't comment on how good any of them are but from what I gather slackpkg is pretty good but lacking a bit in full automation but swaret allows everything to be done automatically (be careful with it though!)
boy do I feel like a dumbass now! That's what comes from reading the article waay too quickly and in small snippets (I work in an open plan office;-) ). My bad
... the internet is an anarchy - this is inherant in the design it is totally unreasonable to expect companies to police what someone else posts on a very large website, its simply not cost effective.
I think you missed the point slightly, it goes something like this:
Intel: "if you buy 1 chip it costs $500"
Intel: "But if you buy 10 it costs $450 per chip"
Intel: "If company X wants to buy 10 then it will cost them $480 per chip because we found out they bought an athlon chip last week"
But I'm even more grateful for the publicity that Allofmp3 has got, perhaps RIAA and other online music stores will sit up and take note that it is popular because of the freedom it offers and the fair price - its time to give the consumer their freedom back and realise the way to takle the piracy problem is to offer a good service at a resonable cost (and NO $0.99 IS NOT REASONABLE COST, that is the same per track as a CD!)
Well I for one think that it's awesome that Mozilla develop for the Windows platform, I have one Windows PC at work, an HP-UX and at home I use Linux. I HAVE to use Windows at work because we must support our software on Windows, Solaris and HP-UX so I think its great that I can use the same tools on all three.
FWIW this will type of thing will gradually wear Microsoft down - I no longer need to pay for MS Office, Open Office is more than good enough (and getting better all the time), eventually the only bit of MS software I'll be running on a windows box will be the OS itself.
Microsoft will shrink or they will have to adapt and start writing more quality software for less cost to the consumer - I fail to see how this is a bad thing unless you hate Microsoft for the sake of it? (I dislike them very much, not for the sake of it but because of their hideous business practices)
Sounds to me like there is a community of hackers waiting in the wings (just have a look at the large numbers of extensions available for firefox) - its just that they haven't allowed any of them to get past the first steps and into more involved hacking
And if there are no US citizens involved, you have no business with our campaigns.
And why the hell do you think that? Considering the US president is arguable the most powerful, influential (and dangerous, well the current one IMHO) person on the planet I'm sure you would expect a lot of foreigners have legitimate business to be interested in the campaigns
Granted there a plenty of people like you (and me, incidentally) that still use them as tools - a means to getting a job done, but there are also plenty of people that simply want a media box that plays dvd's, their mp3 collection etc. Now for these people aesthetic is important, expandability and features are not at all important - an mp3 will always be an mp3 if the box plays it ok that is all that matters
Sounds to me like the legal system is becoming a bit of a joke in the US when it comes to the big media companies.
I wonder if when you become a congressperson (gotta be PC;-) ) you get training on how to "assume the position" whenever a big media company wants something made into law
thankfully here in the UK I can't see something like this happening (at least in the near future).
Individual European Union member states are not allowed to mandate receiver requirements and any copy protection system would need to be agreed at a European level.
I watch the patent debate closely, if that goes the wrong way I assume the EU will crumble to corporate pressure just the US is starting to now
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Is it just me or is the article missing something....like what was wrong with the name cmdrtaco !!?!?! Can someone enlighten us all (or at least me)?
sad, but probably true.
They hide behind the fact that petrol is bad for the environment and high taxes put people off using so much, when we all know that really they just want the money.
to say the article is thin on info is a bit of an understatement :-D
;-)
Its still pretty exciting though, I mean concievably you could have a pellet manufacturing machine underneath your garage or something (the hydrogen stored in a sealed container before it makes it into pellet form). You'd have a solar panel on your roof and you pump out pellets 24/7 when weather permits, you then use the pellets to power your car/toaster/computer (anything with a pellet drive in it)
maybe I'm getting a little ahead of the technology here but I for one am looking forward to the day when it doesn't cost a small fortune to fill my car
...I mean, think about it. When Microsoft/Linux Distro write software they have almost no control over the environment it is used. Sure they can test the most common combinations of motherboard, hard-disk etc. but lets face it they really have no idea what sort of system the stuff gets used on.
In a car such as the Prius, Toyota know EXACTLY what is in the system so they can test the hell out of it, making it much much less likely to contain bugs.
I think a case in point is OS X (and no, I am not an Apple fanboy - I don't have an Apple at home). Apple strictly control the hardware they sell (very picky about RAM for instance) and many people find it is much more stable as a result
while Darwin may be based heavily on BSD, are they actually contributing anything back?
If not then the fact that OS X is based on it is something of a moot point
isn't this just the same in principle as ray tracing? or am I missing something
this is a fool too far, nothing to see here - come back tomorrow when you can actually trust the `news`
Numenta is developing a new type of computer memory system modeled after the human neocortex
surely this technology would be incredibly slow? (this is not a troll, read on before you mod me down!)
From what I remember from my neural networks days the human brain/neocortex works so well because of its massively parallel nature (not because of the processing power of any one neuron), and that computers simply aren't able to exploit this as they aren't designed to work like this - They are instead designed to to massively serial operations using extremely powerful chips (neurons) because the overhead of managing these parallel operations synchronously is too great (the human brain/neocortex work asynchronously)
am I wrong about this or am I missing something great that they've stumbled accross?
maybe DonkeyHote is an alien trying to communicate, but we just can't understand him/her/it? ;-P
This could save a student hours of finding books in the library, not to mention tons of cash (which they are incredibly short of).
I am guessing though that they aren't allowed to publish a lot of recent books due to copyright?
Personally I don't like automatic updates, I like to know what's going on and I don't feel the need to always have the latest but if that's your bag then slackware provides slackpkg in /extra in the current tree of the slack packages that does the same job as swaret.
A lot of people tend to use swaret or slapt-get
Seeing as I don't use them I couldn't comment on how good any of them are but from what I gather slackpkg is pretty good but lacking a bit in full automation but swaret allows everything to be done automatically (be careful with it though!)
wouldn't it be foolish to create a firefox foundation when so much of the firefox code comes from the mozilla suite (and vice versa to some extent)?
boy do I feel like a dumbass now! That's what comes from reading the article waay too quickly and in small snippets (I work in an open plan office ;-) ). My bad
... the internet is an anarchy - this is inherant in the design it is totally unreasonable to expect companies to police what someone else posts on a very large website, its simply not cost effective.
I think you missed the point slightly, it goes something like this:
Intel: "if you buy 1 chip it costs $500"
Intel: "But if you buy 10 it costs $450 per chip"
Intel: "If company X wants to buy 10 then it will cost them $480 per chip because we found out they bought an athlon chip last week"
THAT is not on!!
thank god for the loophole!
But I'm even more grateful for the publicity that Allofmp3 has got, perhaps RIAA and other online music stores will sit up and take note that it is popular because of the freedom it offers and the fair price - its time to give the consumer their freedom back and realise the way to takle the piracy problem is to offer a good service at a resonable cost (and NO $0.99 IS NOT REASONABLE COST, that is the same per track as a CD!)
Well I for one think that it's awesome that Mozilla develop for the Windows platform, I have one Windows PC at work, an HP-UX and at home I use Linux. I HAVE to use Windows at work because we must support our software on Windows, Solaris and HP-UX so I think its great that I can use the same tools on all three.
FWIW this will type of thing will gradually wear Microsoft down - I no longer need to pay for MS Office, Open Office is more than good enough (and getting better all the time), eventually the only bit of MS software I'll be running on a windows box will be the OS itself.
Microsoft will shrink or they will have to adapt and start writing more quality software for less cost to the consumer - I fail to see how this is a bad thing unless you hate Microsoft for the sake of it? (I dislike them very much, not for the sake of it but because of their hideous business practices)
Sounds to me like there is a community of hackers waiting in the wings (just have a look at the large numbers of extensions available for firefox) - its just that they haven't allowed any of them to get past the first steps and into more involved hacking
my $0.02
whoha it seems I've touched a nerve there! how is linking to a site for the sake of interest illegal and how is that going to influence your politics?
and for what it's worth the US economy is not the strongest in the world
And if there are no US citizens involved, you have no business with our campaigns.
And why the hell do you think that? Considering the US president is arguable the most powerful, influential (and dangerous, well the current one IMHO) person on the planet I'm sure you would expect a lot of foreigners have legitimate business to be interested in the campaigns
This may include regulation of bloggers and mailing lists linking to or forwarding campaign website URL
because it won't be hard to stop someone in belgium linking to the campaign site or anything now will it, noooo
you must be a manager! you managed to slip paradigm in there and it actually made sense! lol
These days a computer is so much more than a tool
Granted there a plenty of people like you (and me, incidentally) that still use them as tools - a means to getting a job done, but there are also plenty of people that simply want a media box that plays dvd's, their mp3 collection etc. Now for these people aesthetic is important, expandability and features are not at all important - an mp3 will always be an mp3 if the box plays it ok that is all that matters
Sounds to me like the legal system is becoming a bit of a joke in the US when it comes to the big media companies.
;-) ) you get training on how to "assume the position" whenever a big media company wants something made into law
I wonder if when you become a congressperson (gotta be PC
thankfully here in the UK I can't see something like this happening (at least in the near future).
Individual European Union member states are not allowed to mandate receiver requirements and any copy protection system would need to be agreed at a European level.
I watch the patent debate closely, if that goes the wrong way I assume the EU will crumble to corporate pressure just the US is starting to now
I thought that judges told the broadcast regulator that the flag was unlawful? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4290315.stm
Hence rolling your own tv would be entirely redundant?