"and if there is no internet access to a mailbox, they'll print it out and hand deliver it to the address"
Now, let's see how many ways this is a bad idea...
1) Spam will kill trees and fill physical mailboxes. I hope "postage" is charged back to the sender and not delivered "postage due"
2) The benefit of paperless communication with someone is short circuited
Re:Chemical Detection.
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They already have the technology to do this. When my daughter was travelling recently, they swabbed down her backpack and put it into an analyzer. I think the movement to electro-mechanical methods will happen pretty quickly since it's more reproducible than using animals. It's also tireless and easier to provide to "lots" of sites in a short time. It can also be augmented and retrained to new and emerging threats much easier. Most of the animals currently used are single threat detectors. There are drug dogs and bomb dogs but not dogs trained in both. (do you really want the cross-trained drug dog getting all excited and clawing at a suspected bomb package?)
R5 saw the end of the Unix client development stream. The only option you're going to have is either Wine or HTML based clients. Even the Java-based security projects are so specific to Wintel that it's useless to try to run it on *nix. You're not going to see a push for a Linux/Solaris/AIX/HPUX client with the current goals and you're not going to see a lot of browser interface development due to the Wintel people still having a non-browser Notes client. There are a lot of *nix projects internally that have picked up the Linux banner on the server side and there needs to be a groundswell of non-Microsoft client requests before they take notice. They make money selling servers, browsers are free... where do you spend your development dollars?
Yeah, I went down the road known as the bloodstream and saw that the cells tended to congregate in certain sections and that this drew the attention of the local patrols. Trouble is, the bad guys get organized and go underground and we don't want to try to reinvent ways to compromise their hiding places.
Nah, not replaced, supplemented. We're talking about technology working inside the cells. It would be very easy and much more useful to load them into the white blood cells themselves and let the body's already functioning method of getting white blood cells to the site do the delivery. Once on site, point the "big guns" out the "car windows" and waste 'em.
Having a sister-in-law going through high dosage chemo at the moment, I can attest to the need for more pinpoint delivery methods. Everybody reading/. probably remembers the promise of Buckyballs for undetectable delivery methods. Lots of research is happening in this area and it's good to see some of it make some public progress. It's also good for people to start realizing that chemical engineering is a good, current way of getting nanotech things done rather than having to rely on the programmed, atom by atom assemblers and VLSI lithography methods exclusively.
Long range travel isn't as much of a problem if you can find ways around it, literally. The wormhole theories do allow two regions of space, physically separated by huge distances to be joined by a "shortcut". Travel time is still limited to less than the speed of light but the distance has been greatly reduced so the transit time appears faster than possible. Think about places like California where houses, blocks apart, can be hours apart by transit time since you have to go around the canyons separating them. Whose to say that our "straight line 3 dimensional route" is truely the shortest path in an 11 dimensional universe. Go back and read Flatland by Abbott and see what we're up against as 3D beings
I'm actually rather pleased by the article for the exact reasons you mention. There have been a few shows here in the states that have had "interviews " with him and they've all come off without the long pauses. Having done a little bit of handicap access work for X Windows in the past, I couldn't figure out how he could get the apparent speed through the interface I figured he had. There's been far more "science/techie" articles on his work, most at a level beyond mere mortals, and it's interesting to see his uneditted, real time interactions with "normal space". I look at the insights given as the wanderings of the author while waiting in the gaps and that's probably a goodway to differentiate the article from other interview which often sound like they could have been written while flirting with the research librarian instead.
The other point to sort of fill in your journalism comment is that the author didn't seem qualified to interpret and report on Hawkingsmost interesting technical topics and I don't know that I'd place a lot of faith in any new and revolutionary findings THAT article might have made. The technical papers based on his actual work are available. This article is just a different perspective on the person that is Hawkings. It does also have the benefit of covering topics that probably wouldn't be covered in those other articles. Certainly not authored by a credible theoretical physics technical journalist 8^)
The problem with reading in Newest order is that you miss out on the redundancy part. I think that's also why some of the redundant articles get submitted, because people are reading in newest order as well. I'd like a version where you didn't get the comments you already read. Maybe just some sort of read/unread indicator like news. Otherwise, it's tough to wade through the list on the third or fourth pass through. It's far more useful to have moderation early but it would be useful to look at "new" comments on previously moderated threads.
I share the nickname although I don't use it in computing circles. Mine comes from an afternoon in the dorm where I won a bet by "treeing" a cat, running after it on all fours, barking. My wife's nickname has been Minou, a french variant for cat. You do stop chasing once you catch the right one...
There have been lots of articles on what is the future of the current Linux projects... What do you see as the NEW, non-current directions that Linux will embark on in the near future/next century?
How about three sheets of paper WRAPPING your linux distro CD. The only problem is what use is the distro CD to a paper computer? You'd have to ship it in the paper equivalent of a ROM
Aren't there some spreadsheet based versions that could be converted to run under the Star Office package?
As for how hard is it to whip one up? You must file the EZ form. I went to software two years when I found that trying to manually balance a couple of businesses and consulting and profit sharing generated 50 pages of paper to be filed. I have enough problems understanding all the clauses without having to figure out all the lines that don't apply to me. The other problem is IRS approved forms printout but I guess some of that can be handled by grabbing the PDFs from the IRS website. The software is nice since I can make a rough pass to get the initial bottom line and then dig for deductions to try to bring it back to a realistic number.
If you're not going to fund the appearance group, I think the design is elegantly simple.
Re:Gattaca? Is this an obscure reference?
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I think it made the theaters for a week or so. Most recently its been out on HBO. Due to having Uma Thurman and the release of The Avengers, it got a passing notice in that timeframe. It's either mind candy, or a view into future methods of descrimination, your choice.
From a personal point of view, I'm pleased with the advances made in the Genome project BUT, I'm not sure I agree with the application of the information. While I'm definately "pro-choice", I don't think prenatal testing should be used for the search of the "perfect" offspring. Do we really want to abort a child due to a heart disease gene that will go active in their 40s? What is the reason for disease research if we can just as easily remove it from the gene pool by judicious abortion? I don't think the religious issues are going to be any worse than the plain old moral ones of choices for who remains in the womb to term. We're already seeing this with various tests done, where does the line get drawn with the new tests? Aborted due to brown eyes?
The website doesn't seem to mention a price. Anyone in the UK know the going rate?
I want the pet avoidance feature to have programable agressiveness. I need something to terrorize my cats while I'm gone.
I also want to know if it comes with a cow catcher feature so it can collect the legos as it goes (no, not from it's predecessor, but the lego mindfield most parents are familiar with)
I think it would be easy enough to modify it into a Van de Graf generator to charge the outer shell. That would solve the external harassment issues 8^)
It has to be. Who else is going to be going there for a first look at a Linux distro? To be honest, I find it reassuring that they're easing the Windoze users into the Linux fold by getting them to the most likely to succeed distro for the install. I still remember my first Linux install (Slackware) and if I hadn't had significant unix background, I never would have figured out all the config files. My feeling is that if people are going to put in the effort for "ease of install" then we should be sending them the newbies to make it bulletproof. A successful first install is going to make separation from M$ so much easier and they won't be spreading the "difficult to use" FUD when they get finished.
offering Linux on their Lifebooks would be a better statement. Having the application suite available is a good initial step. Why not bundle it onto the hardware?
If you want a bare bones, powerful search...
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http://av.com/?text=y
All the power of Altavista with none of the chrome. Great for Lynx users.
I agree. I want to be able to find the latest info on their products in 2 clicks or less.
Re:Only some assembly required (if done right 8^)
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My hobby business s based off one of the MIT 6.270 Lego project boards that lead into the Mindstorm brick.
As anyone into Nanotech will tell you, if done right, you build a macro prototype of your nanoassembler and then you just need to keep feeding it more raw materials (batteries and additional Mindstorm sets). Somehow, with the memories of my kids growing up with legos (and the incidents involving bare feet), I'm not sure I want to walk through a house infested with the lego equivalent of the "gray goo" problem.
But I need the feedback loop that tells me someone has already bought something off my list when I impulse buy it while I'm out geeking some real world store. Besides, you think my (gawd I hope it isn't another tie) relatives are online.
1) I like the Books suggestion but it needs to be a gift certificate. The last thing I want is Aunt Alice getting me the Internet for Dummies guide because I'm "into computers". Besides, none of my gift givers know my technical library and it'll still change between now and Christmas.
2) Lego Mindstorms. Which part of "some assembly required" don't you understand?
3) Any hardware that comes with it's own cryogenic cooling. We can deduct the cost off the house heating bill.
4) any neat hardware toy that only has beta drivers available for it. Open source preferred.
5) Any hardware that requires opening the case several times for optimum installation. If we break something else in setting it up, we get a free upgrade! 8^)
Does that mean I'd have to let my wife win and get rid of my 3640 sucking down 30 amps from the special twistlock plug we had wired?
The Open Genera Alpha implementation listed in the third reply is available. There is some talk of getting things moving again. I for one would like to see it come back to the land of the living. It's been the best rapid prototyping environment I've ever worked in.
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"and if there is no internet access to a mailbox, they'll print it out and hand deliver it to the address"
Now, let's see how many ways this is a bad idea...
1) Spam will kill trees and fill physical mailboxes. I hope "postage" is charged back to the sender and not delivered "postage due"
2) The benefit of paperless communication with someone is short circuited
They already have the technology to do this. When my daughter was travelling recently, they swabbed down her backpack and put it into an analyzer. I think the movement to electro-mechanical methods will happen pretty quickly since it's more reproducible than using animals. It's also tireless and easier to provide to "lots" of sites in a short time. It can also be augmented and retrained to new and emerging threats much easier. Most of the animals currently used are single threat detectors. There are drug dogs and bomb dogs but not dogs trained in both. (do you really want the cross-trained drug dog getting all excited and clawing at a suspected bomb package?)
Actually, it's because they have to lure them away from M$ and the DOJ lawsuit!
R5 saw the end of the Unix client development stream. The only option you're going to have is either Wine or HTML based clients. Even the Java-based security projects are so specific to Wintel that it's useless to try to run it on *nix. You're not going to see a push for a Linux/Solaris/AIX/HPUX client with the current goals and you're not going to see a lot of browser interface development due to the Wintel people still having a non-browser Notes client. There are a lot of *nix projects internally that have picked up the Linux banner on the server side and there needs to be a groundswell of non-Microsoft client requests before they take notice. They make money selling servers, browsers are free... where do you spend your development dollars?
Yeah, I went down the road known as the bloodstream and saw that the cells tended to congregate in certain sections and that this drew the attention of the local patrols. Trouble is, the bad guys get organized and go underground and we don't want to try to reinvent ways to compromise their hiding places.
Nah, not replaced, supplemented. We're talking about technology working inside the cells. It would be very easy and much more useful to load them into the white blood cells themselves and let the body's already functioning method of getting white blood cells to the site do the delivery. Once on site, point the "big guns" out the "car windows" and waste 'em.
Having a sister-in-law going through high dosage chemo at the moment, I can attest to the need for more pinpoint delivery methods. Everybody reading /. probably remembers the promise of Buckyballs for undetectable delivery methods. Lots of research is happening in this area and it's good to see some of it make some public progress. It's also good for people to start realizing that chemical engineering is a good, current way of getting nanotech things done rather than having to rely on the programmed, atom by atom assemblers and VLSI lithography methods exclusively.
Long range travel isn't as much of a problem if you can find ways around it, literally. The wormhole theories do allow two regions of space, physically separated by huge distances to be joined by a "shortcut". Travel time is still limited to less than the speed of light but the distance has been greatly reduced so the transit time appears faster than possible. Think about places like California where houses, blocks apart, can be hours apart by transit time since you have to go around the canyons separating them. Whose to say that our "straight line 3 dimensional route" is truely the shortest path in an 11 dimensional universe. Go back and read Flatland by Abbott and see what we're up against as 3D beings
I'm actually rather pleased by the article for the exact reasons you mention. There have been a few shows here in the states that have had "interviews " with him and they've all come off without the long pauses. Having done a little bit of handicap access work for X Windows in the past, I couldn't figure out how he could get the apparent speed through the interface I figured he had. There's been far more "science/techie" articles on his work, most at a level beyond mere mortals, and it's interesting to see his uneditted, real time interactions with "normal space". I look at the insights given as the wanderings of the author while waiting in the gaps and that's probably a goodway to differentiate the article from other interview which often sound like they could have been written while flirting with the research librarian instead.
The other point to sort of fill in your journalism comment is that the author didn't seem qualified to interpret and report on Hawkingsmost interesting technical topics and I don't know that I'd place a lot of faith in any new and revolutionary findings THAT article might have made. The technical papers based on his actual work are available. This article is just a different perspective on the person that is Hawkings. It does also have the benefit of covering topics that probably wouldn't be covered in those other articles. Certainly not authored by a credible theoretical physics technical journalist 8^)
The problem with reading in Newest order is that you miss out on the redundancy part. I think that's also why some of the redundant articles get submitted, because people are reading in newest order as well. I'd like a version where you didn't get the comments you already read. Maybe just some sort of read/unread indicator like news. Otherwise, it's tough to wade through the list on the third or fourth pass through. It's far more useful to have moderation early but it would be useful to look at "new" comments on previously moderated threads.
I share the nickname although I don't use it in computing circles. Mine comes from an afternoon in the dorm where I won a bet by "treeing" a cat, running after it on all fours, barking. My wife's nickname has been Minou, a french variant for cat. You do stop chasing once you catch the right one...
There have been lots of articles on what is the future of the current Linux projects... What do you see as the NEW, non-current directions that Linux will embark on in the near future/next century?
How about three sheets of paper WRAPPING your linux distro CD. The only problem is what use is the distro CD to a paper computer? You'd have to ship it in the paper equivalent of a ROM
Aren't there some spreadsheet based versions that could be converted to run under the Star Office package?
As for how hard is it to whip one up? You must file the EZ form. I went to software two years when I found that trying to manually balance a couple of businesses and consulting and profit sharing generated 50 pages of paper to be filed. I have enough problems understanding all the clauses without having to figure out all the lines that don't apply to me. The other problem is IRS approved forms printout but I guess some of that can be handled by grabbing the PDFs from the IRS website. The software is nice since I can make a rough pass to get the initial bottom line and then dig for deductions to try to bring it back to a realistic number.
Some of these systems can be quite huge...
Because "Weebles wobble but they don't fall down"
If you're not going to fund the appearance group, I think the design is elegantly simple.
I think it made the theaters for a week or so. Most recently its been out on HBO. Due to having Uma Thurman and the release of The Avengers, it got a passing notice in that timeframe. It's either mind candy, or a view into future methods of descrimination, your choice.
From a personal point of view, I'm pleased with the advances made in the Genome project BUT, I'm not sure I agree with the application of the information. While I'm definately "pro-choice", I don't think prenatal testing should be used for the search of the "perfect" offspring. Do we really want to abort a child due to a heart disease gene that will go active in their 40s? What is the reason for disease research if we can just as easily remove it from the gene pool by judicious abortion? I don't think the religious issues are going to be any worse than the plain old moral ones of choices for who remains in the womb to term. We're already seeing this with various tests done, where does the line get drawn with the new tests? Aborted due to brown eyes?
The website doesn't seem to mention a price. Anyone in the UK know the going rate?
I want the pet avoidance feature to have programable agressiveness. I need something to terrorize my cats while I'm gone.
I also want to know if it comes with a cow catcher feature so it can collect the legos as it goes (no, not from it's predecessor, but the lego mindfield most parents are familiar with)
I think it would be easy enough to modify it into a Van de Graf generator to charge the outer shell. That would solve the external harassment issues 8^)
It has to be. Who else is going to be going there for a first look at a Linux distro? To be honest, I find it reassuring that they're easing the Windoze users into the Linux fold by getting them to the most likely to succeed distro for the install. I still remember my first Linux install (Slackware) and if I hadn't had significant unix background, I never would have figured out all the config files. My feeling is that if people are going to put in the effort for "ease of install" then we should be sending them the newbies to make it bulletproof. A successful first install is going to make separation from M$ so much easier and they won't be spreading the "difficult to use" FUD when they get finished.
offering Linux on their Lifebooks would be a better statement. Having the application suite available is a good initial step. Why not bundle it onto the hardware?
http://av.com/?text=y
All the power of Altavista with none of the chrome. Great for Lynx users.
I agree. I want to be able to find the latest info on their products in 2 clicks or less.
My hobby business s based off one of the MIT 6.270 Lego project boards that lead into the Mindstorm brick.
As anyone into Nanotech will tell you, if done right, you build a macro prototype of your nanoassembler and then you just need to keep feeding it more raw materials (batteries and additional Mindstorm sets). Somehow, with the memories of my kids growing up with legos (and the incidents involving bare feet), I'm not sure I want to walk through a house infested with the lego equivalent of the "gray goo" problem.
But I need the feedback loop that tells me someone has already bought something off my list when I impulse buy it while I'm out geeking some real world store. Besides, you think my (gawd I hope it isn't another tie) relatives are online.
Lots of good ideas so far.
1) I like the Books suggestion but it needs to be a gift certificate. The last thing I want is Aunt Alice getting me the Internet for Dummies guide because I'm "into computers". Besides, none of my gift givers know my technical library and it'll still change between now and Christmas.
2) Lego Mindstorms. Which part of "some assembly required" don't you understand?
3) Any hardware that comes with it's own cryogenic cooling. We can deduct the cost off the house heating bill.
4) any neat hardware toy that only has beta drivers available for it. Open source preferred.
5) Any hardware that requires opening the case several times for optimum installation. If we break something else in setting it up, we get a free upgrade! 8^)
Does that mean I'd have to let my wife win and get rid of my 3640 sucking down 30 amps from the special twistlock plug we had wired?
The Open Genera Alpha implementation listed in the third reply is available. There is some talk of getting things moving again. I for one would like to see it come back to the land of the living. It's been the best rapid prototyping environment I've ever worked in.