How is what they're talking about not some subset of fourier analysis? Come on, recasting the data as sound waves? You mean, shifting the frequency domain from ELF to human-audible? What in the world is the point?
They must be using some software package originally written for audio guys, and are unaware that the "conversion" they are talking about is conceptually nothing more than editing the sampling rate constant in the datafile.
I am never surprised at the dearth of researchers competent in data analysis in our country.
Okay, so some guy with a slick-sounding name took a sheet of plywood, a whole bunch or permanent magnets, some steel cabling, and put them together. When I first heard about this over a week ago, I didn't bother to RTFA and assumed there were no cables. That actually impressed me, the thought he solved the problem of movement along the field lines using just magnetism. I had thoughts of some sophisticated system of electromagnets continually detecting and adjusting the field to keep the bed aligned, or at least some sort of damping configuration to justify the absurd price!
But no, as usual, it's just another laughable device to separate scientifically-ignorant wealthy people from their money.
point taken. What one considers a "computer game" is really subjective and personal. I grew up playing and liking single-player RPG's. The truth is, I wouldn't know what to suggest to a game developer.
Every time I hear someone equate highbrow to a series like Myst, I shudder. I see little difference between hack 'n slash versus having to solve some totally contrived logic puzzle.
Just because I don't want to shoot someone does not mean I desire a big book of sudoku. Not that I can't -- I'm quite good at them just like my Dad, but there is no motivation for me to.
Perhaps this is why I fall into the RPG category of gamers? Richard Garriott was my God.
If this technology actually comes to market, it will only result in a temporary drop in these cases. Doctors will start to rely on a non-visual frequency sweep of the patient, which will make the baseline event rate drop to the failure rate of the RFID tags combined with the unavoidable operator error (mostly from laziness) that creeps in with any technique or technology.
I see this more as a way for medical equipment companies to control recycling of instruments so as to increase sales by fending off competition from refurbishers.
Then again, if we could just sweep a pile of medical waste that washes to shore for RFIDs and trace it to whoever is responsible for dumping it, that would be a major plus. Even this would be a temporary benefit, as the illegal dumpers will find some easy way of frying all the RFID tags before doing so.
To sum it up, this has a lot of upside for manufacturers, not much for doctors or the patients.
Um, and embedding these tags in metal tools has its complications, right? Fermi cages, anyone?
The lone "Dr." in the film tries to justify the 10 or 11 billion $$$ the thing is costing by saying that 2200 physicists are participating. That group's incredibly high ego-density alone should produce the conditions they're looking for.
I can see it now: the first paper they publish will take up an entire year's worth of Nature (that's 52 issues) just to print the damn authors. It will get published there regardless of what they find or don't find, and 95% of the text will be essentially an engineering report. Oh, and then 75% of any claims they make will be retracted within a couple years, but it will be referred to as a "refinement of their results."
The whole thing feels like a piece of propaganda for experimentalists, at the expense of theorists. Hmm, are they really that insecure about their raison d'etre, despite hiding 100m safely under ground?
Oh well, at least they will all be paid for a few years. Pints all around!
My final dig: To the probable 1000 or so grad students making this their research project, what will be your piece of important novel science worthy of a Ph.D. dissertation? "I made sure all the control computers had sufficiently stupid hostnames, like charmquark and drwho."
Not that I'm against the project at all, they all should just be pretty humble about their part in it, especially the dork who made this sub-par film. Isn't there something he could be machining with the time he spent on this? Guess not, they contract out all the critical work.
Problem: BIOS untrustworthy after reboot due to surreptitious flashing. All devices in a particular computer that have a flashable BIOS have this identical risk independently. Reflashing with a double BIOS chip is a solution, but requires significant development to make a single utility that can flash each device after the bios.
Easy Rock-Solid Solution: Replace all the flashable write-many BIOS chips with write-once chips that you burn yourself. This can be done for minimal cost for all the various devices in a system that need it, and guarantees physical version control. If this became a desired solution, vendors would start to provide (once again) pre-burned write-once chips at a minimal cost, with eventual convenient subscription services. Then, you wouldn't even need to buy a burner or blank chips, eliminating any up-front costs altogether.
Yeah, it is one more subscription to pay for, but this GUARANTEES security. Unless, of course, someone hacks the vendors servers and changes the BIOS that was supposed to be burned. Hopefully, they would be using this technique on their own computers, in which case they would have guaranteed intra-corporate security, which by extension gives all the customers perfect security.
Note: When I say security here, in every instance I am implying perfect forward security.
Games will most definitely benefit immediately from dual-"The Core" technology. Until now, programmers could only have either the theatrical OR the director's cut of "The Core" loaded into the processor at any one time. It is well known that all games use the Plot_Ideas_From_The_Core( _crapin, _crapout) library built into the x86 architecture. Therefore all games in existence suck, save the ciever !crapout work-around developed by John Carmack. Enabling simultaneous access to both versions of "The Core" via the theatrical/directors context switch will enable real-time mixing of various _crapout plot nuances, which if done in a random enough way, may actually make the story of "The Core" make a little sense.
The is some concern about upgradability, however. As many may fear, "The Core 2" is probably in production at some secret subterranean (sic) location. When it is released, game publishers will quickly migrate to dual-"The Core 1-2" technology, enabling a whole new era of Games That Suck, in ways we can only imagine. Therefore there is considerable noise in the community for re-writable "The Core"s. Intel is hesitant to produce such a chip, as enthusiasts are certain to defeat the "The Core"-DRM and overwrite it. I for one think lowly of such scofflaws, as supplanting "The Core" technology with anything else robs oscar-collecting Hillary Swank of the recognition she so richly deserves for the film. It is rumored an unlicnesed open-source dual-"The Matrix 1-2" port is in the works, which results in an instant 7-8 order of magnitude improvement in game quality across the board, without any tweaking! Hah, fat chance! IMHO, nothing beats an infinite-heat-capacity drilling sausage boring into a super-colossal mantle-geode plot twist.
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How is what they're talking about not some subset of fourier analysis? Come on, recasting the data as sound waves? You mean, shifting the frequency domain from ELF to human-audible? What in the world is the point?
They must be using some software package originally written for audio guys, and are unaware that the "conversion" they are talking about is conceptually nothing more than editing the sampling rate constant in the datafile.
I am never surprised at the dearth of researchers competent in data analysis in our country.
Why is this news?
Okay, so some guy with a slick-sounding name took a sheet of plywood, a whole bunch or permanent magnets, some steel cabling, and put them together. When I first heard about this over a week ago, I didn't bother to RTFA and assumed there were no cables. That actually impressed me, the thought he solved the problem of movement along the field lines using just magnetism. I had thoughts of some sophisticated system of electromagnets continually detecting and adjusting the field to keep the bed aligned, or at least some sort of damping configuration to justify the absurd price!
But no, as usual, it's just another laughable device to separate scientifically-ignorant wealthy people from their money.
I hope he patents it! LOL
point taken. What one considers a "computer game" is really subjective and personal. I grew up playing and liking single-player RPG's. The truth is, I wouldn't know what to suggest to a game developer.
...if they need any virtual roadies?
Every time I hear someone equate highbrow to a series like Myst, I shudder. I see little difference between hack 'n slash versus having to solve some totally contrived logic puzzle.
Just because I don't want to shoot someone does not mean I desire a big book of sudoku. Not that I can't -- I'm quite good at them just like my Dad, but there is no motivation for me to.
Perhaps this is why I fall into the RPG category of gamers? Richard Garriott was my God.
'And [now] with me really being the guy who's here every day running the place, I must be the champion of innovation.'
QED
If this technology actually comes to market, it will only result in a temporary drop in these cases. Doctors will start to rely on a non-visual frequency sweep of the patient, which will make the baseline event rate drop to the failure rate of the RFID tags combined with the unavoidable operator error (mostly from laziness) that creeps in with any technique or technology.
I see this more as a way for medical equipment companies to control recycling of instruments so as to increase sales by fending off competition from refurbishers.
Then again, if we could just sweep a pile of medical waste that washes to shore for RFIDs and trace it to whoever is responsible for dumping it, that would be a major plus. Even this would be a temporary benefit, as the illegal dumpers will find some easy way of frying all the RFID tags before doing so.
To sum it up, this has a lot of upside for manufacturers, not much for doctors or the patients.
Um, and embedding these tags in metal tools has its complications, right? Fermi cages, anyone?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Damn, I had one ugly-ass son! Jumpin' Bejeezus, he isn't even younger than me!
The lone "Dr." in the film tries to justify the 10 or 11 billion $$$ the thing is costing by saying that 2200 physicists are participating. That group's incredibly high ego-density alone should produce the conditions they're looking for.
I can see it now: the first paper they publish will take up an entire year's worth of Nature (that's 52 issues) just to print the damn authors. It will get published there regardless of what they find or don't find, and 95% of the text will be essentially an engineering report. Oh, and then 75% of any claims they make will be retracted within a couple years, but it will be referred to as a "refinement of their results."
The whole thing feels like a piece of propaganda for experimentalists, at the expense of theorists. Hmm, are they really that insecure about their raison d'etre, despite hiding 100m safely under ground?
Oh well, at least they will all be paid for a few years. Pints all around!
My final dig: To the probable 1000 or so grad students making this their research project, what will be your piece of important novel science worthy of a Ph.D. dissertation? "I made sure all the control computers had sufficiently stupid hostnames, like charmquark and drwho."
Not that I'm against the project at all, they all should just be pretty humble about their part in it, especially the dork who made this sub-par film. Isn't there something he could be machining with the time he spent on this? Guess not, they contract out all the critical work.
...and I propose they do this via some sort of dedicated network that controls them all, say, Skynet?
Problem: BIOS untrustworthy after reboot due to surreptitious flashing. All devices in a particular computer that have a flashable BIOS have this identical risk independently. Reflashing with a double BIOS chip is a solution, but requires significant development to make a single utility that can flash each device after the bios.
Easy Rock-Solid Solution: Replace all the flashable write-many BIOS chips with write-once chips that you burn yourself. This can be done for minimal cost for all the various devices in a system that need it, and guarantees physical version control. If this became a desired solution, vendors would start to provide (once again) pre-burned write-once chips at a minimal cost, with eventual convenient subscription services. Then, you wouldn't even need to buy a burner or blank chips, eliminating any up-front costs altogether.
Yeah, it is one more subscription to pay for, but this GUARANTEES security. Unless, of course, someone hacks the vendors servers and changes the BIOS that was supposed to be burned. Hopefully, they would be using this technique on their own computers, in which case they would have guaranteed intra-corporate security, which by extension gives all the customers perfect security.
Note: When I say security here, in every instance I am implying perfect forward security.
Games will most definitely benefit immediately from dual-"The Core" technology. Until now, programmers could only have either the theatrical OR the director's cut of "The Core" loaded into the processor at any one time. It is well known that all games use the Plot_Ideas_From_The_Core( _crapin, _crapout) library built into the x86 architecture. Therefore all games in existence suck, save the ciever !crapout work-around developed by John Carmack. Enabling simultaneous access to both versions of "The Core" via the theatrical/directors context switch will enable real-time mixing of various _crapout plot nuances, which if done in a random enough way, may actually make the story of "The Core" make a little sense.
The is some concern about upgradability, however. As many may fear, "The Core 2" is probably in production at some secret subterranean (sic) location. When it is released, game publishers will quickly migrate to dual-"The Core 1-2" technology, enabling a whole new era of Games That Suck, in ways we can only imagine. Therefore there is considerable noise in the community for re-writable "The Core"s. Intel is hesitant to produce such a chip, as enthusiasts are certain to defeat the "The Core"-DRM and overwrite it. I for one think lowly of such scofflaws, as supplanting "The Core" technology with anything else robs oscar-collecting Hillary Swank of the recognition she so richly deserves for the film. It is rumored an unlicnesed open-source dual-"The Matrix 1-2" port is in the works, which results in an instant 7-8 order of magnitude improvement in game quality across the board, without any tweaking! Hah, fat chance! IMHO, nothing beats an infinite-heat-capacity drilling sausage boring into a super-colossal mantle-geode plot twist.
On second thought, maybe anything does.