From the article: "Submerged in an electrolyte solution, several robots were wired to an electrical source and videotaped as they as hoisted a glass bead. Much like puppeteers pulling one string or another, the researchers stimulated the microrobots' fingers, wrists and elbows by applying a charge to specific joints. To open and close the microrobots' hand, for example, they successively applied positive and negative potentials."
It's amazing to me that these little guys can move a glass beed more than 250 microns (. They're only ~200 microns big, so that's like an ant moving another ant the length of his body. Not a big achievment for an ant, but a pretty impressive undertaking for todays nanostructures. I know a few mold makers who would like to set a few of these things loose inside of a high detail plastic mold to polish the hard to reach areas. They still have to be wired to a controler, but they can reach areas unreachable with conventional tools. ___
Well, that's just it. It's a vapor box. Anything is possible. Do you honestly think MS will release this without some kind of OS check in the boot cycle?
By this logic, wouldn't this make the Apple Machintosh (hardware and software made by one company) the most stable personal computer on the market? ___
Re:"With all of the use of standard parts, it isn't inconceivable that someone could make an X-Box clone. With clones come upgrades. Perhaps we will start to see hopped-up X-Box clones? At the very least, I would expect to see plug adapters so we can use our PC parts with the non-standard X-Box plugs.
This is where ms would, yet again, as it has done for years, exercise it's monopoly position and not licence the OS to anyone cloneing the box. ___
Re:" The X box looks like a GeForce III with a CPU and peripheral bus tacked on. In six months, it will be state of the art. In a year or so when it's released, it'll still get acceptable performance, and will be dirt cheap - and thus markettable in a console price range. From what I can see, this looks like a good strategy. My only concern is that the article implied (didn't explicitly state) that the main graphics API would be Direct X.
What on earth could you be basing your statements on? What tangible piece of evidence would lead you to this conclusion?
The Xbox the most unadulterated case of vaporware I have ever witnessed and is all pie in the sky speculation. ___
You bring up an interesting point. There really won't be much of a differance. The key differance is that microsoft is getting into the hardware biz, and I don't expect that a lot of hardware makers are going to take this laying down.
It's interesting that our beloved emmet chose the words "Micros~1 new X-Box" instead of the more acurate "Micros~1 imagined X-Box". ___
Gene Kranz. Is admired and respected by his readers. Jon Katz. Nope. (lothe is a better word)
Gene Kranz. Has made significant contribution to the advancement of humankind. Jon Katz. Has made a significant advancement in helping kids find porn on the net. ___
3) Find the name Jon Katz in the list of AUTHORS (try not to wince in discust while reading his name):
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Your/. experience will now be as informative and interesting as before but without those dreadfully trollish rantings from the tiresome and clueless yonny cats. ___
A) Hire someone. B) Do it yourself. C) Forbid a teenager from doing it. The more the RIAA whimpers and moans, the more free PR and name recognition Napster gets. ___
Lets say Hole sells 1.5 million CDs. Lets say that the record company samples a demographicly diverse cross section of 1% of the album buying public and finds that the overwhelming majority of Hole fans are girls 12 to 15. It can then be infered that girls age 12 to 15 bought 1.5 million CDs. This, of course, is a thin explanation. Billboard uses many varied sources including radio play, request, MTV/VH1 rotations, etc. ___
In the brick and morter distribution model there is millions spent each year to track who buys what CD when, where, and why. Big money (read:Billboard) is made from knowing about the distribution of music in the conventional model. This very same tracking data is hurting the RIAAs argument that CD sales have fallen.
Indy artists do benifit from napster, it's just that nobody knows about it.
Only recently has there been a means to track who downloads what and when on file sharing networks. If an independant artist can prove that they distributed just 10 MP3s a month, it would help Boies and his case considerably. ___
I got that impression too. You bring up an interesting point. On the one hand he's saying that they are an independant country and on the other hand he points to the UK navy as a form of protection for the nation in the event of a naval invasion.
What's to stop the UK government from negotiating a backdoor diplomatic agreement from another country to drive a boat up to sealand and blow it up while the UK navy and defence system sit idle. The UK gov would have plausable deniability saying "We do not interfear with other independant nations" while sealand is sunk.
Ya know this sounds a little paranoid even as I type it. From a secutity point of view, if this is the least of their worries, they don't have any.
I do admire Ryans experience and knowhow in his job and I have to respect the risk he's willing to take to see his beliefs come to fruition.
King of sealand: dude, wanna run my colo? Ryan: sounds kewl, what's the catch? King of sealand: Our army is smaller than that box of little green army men and we're as defenseless as a windows box at a hacker con. Ryan:sign me up!
DSN = the Nasa Deep Space Network, and it's the reason why 3rd parties don't take over deep space satalites when they're done. If there were other installation similar to these facilities (a compeating interest in another country, perhaps) then your plan makes sence. It is the eyes and ears of people here on earth and without it, the satelites would just be another rock in space. ___
We can look at the rentry of these little microbes into a planet as kinda like rush week in college. If you survive, you deserve to stay. survival of the fitest? Only the strong survive?:) ___
Your comments are right on the mark. We are just as much a part of the environment as any other organism large or small and we interact with them all the time. Clarifying this interaction as some kind of contamination is missing the mark.
Re:" it seems awful selfish to put the creation of knowledge above the creation of life.
I know that our little Galileo will burn up fast in the gargantuan planets atmosphere, But it's still contamination isn't it? If one's goal is to not unknowingly alter another planet, shouldn't another form of disposal be pursued?
Consider if Galileo is placed on a trajectory to exit our solar system. Eventially, someday, in some way our little Galileo will impact something in the inuverse and contaminate it. We're just as much a part of the galaxy as everything else in it and we will "contaminate" no matter how carefull.
In a way this reminds me of animal right activist trying to save only the really cute animals. Cute little io?! noo! ! noo!! ! don't club that little baby seal ..but big nasty mean ol jupiter?? let the hammer fall! ! ___
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Keep in mind, they still have to be "tethered" to some kind of controler.
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It's amazing to me that these little guys can move a glass beed more than 250 microns (. They're only ~200 microns big, so that's like an ant moving another ant the length of his body. Not a big achievment for an ant, but a pretty impressive undertaking for todays nanostructures. I know a few mold makers who would like to set a few of these things loose inside of a high detail plastic mold to polish the hard to reach areas. They still have to be wired to a controler, but they can reach areas unreachable with conventional tools.
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Aren't you the same /.er who just got done spamming the message area of the last few stories with ascii art?
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Well, that's just it. It's a vapor box. Anything is possible. Do you honestly think MS will release this without some kind of OS check in the boot cycle?
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By this logic, wouldn't this make the Apple Machintosh (hardware and software made by one company) the most stable personal computer on the market?
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1) can't buy it.
2) can't see it.
3) can't get it.
4) can't touch it.
5) can't develop for something that doesn't exist.
Some statistics to back up my claim.
Number of units produced by ms = 0
Number of units shipped by ms = 0
User base = 0
In other words, what part of "no such thing" don't you understand?
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This is where ms would, yet again, as it has done for years, exercise it's monopoly position and not licence the OS to anyone cloneing the box.
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That was ms vaporware layed a turd.
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What on earth could you be basing your statements on? What tangible piece of evidence would lead you to this conclusion?
The Xbox the most unadulterated case of vaporware I have ever witnessed and is all pie in the sky speculation.
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It's interesting that our beloved emmet chose the words "Micros~1 new X-Box" instead of the more acurate "Micros~1 imagined X-Box".
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The X box does not yet exist.
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Jon Katz. When he talks, geeks listen.
Gene Kranz. Has a wild haircut.
Jon Katz. Has no hair.
Gene Kranz. Is admired and respected by his readers.
Jon Katz. Nope. (lothe is a better word)
Gene Kranz. Has made significant contribution to the advancement of humankind.
Jon Katz. Has made a significant advancement in helping kids find porn on the net.
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Your /. experience will now be as informative and interesting as before but without those dreadfully trollish rantings from the tiresome and clueless yonny cats.
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A) Hire someone.
B) Do it yourself.
C) Forbid a teenager from doing it.
The more the RIAA whimpers and moans, the more free PR and name recognition Napster gets.
___
Lets say Hole sells 1.5 million CDs. Lets say that the record company samples a demographicly diverse cross section of 1% of the album buying public and finds that the overwhelming majority of Hole fans are girls 12 to 15. It can then be infered that girls age 12 to 15 bought 1.5 million CDs. This, of course, is a thin explanation. Billboard uses many varied sources including radio play, request, MTV/VH1 rotations, etc.
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In the brick and morter distribution model there is millions spent each year to track who buys what CD when, where, and why. Big money (read:Billboard) is made from knowing about the distribution of music in the conventional model. This very same tracking data is hurting the RIAAs argument that CD sales have fallen.
Indy artists do benifit from napster, it's just that nobody knows about it.
Only recently has there been a means to track who downloads what and when on file sharing networks. If an independant artist can prove that they distributed just 10 MP3s a month, it would help Boies and his case considerably.
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Images (some were just strange) Sounds Languages and also Music.
The problem is, in 10,000 people won't know what to make of it.
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What's to stop the UK government from negotiating a backdoor diplomatic agreement from another country to drive a boat up to sealand and blow it up while the UK navy and defence system sit idle. The UK gov would have plausable deniability saying "We do not interfear with other independant nations" while sealand is sunk.
Ya know this sounds a little paranoid even as I type it. From a secutity point of view, if this is the least of their worries, they don't have any.
I do admire Ryans experience and knowhow in his job and I have to respect the risk he's willing to take to see his beliefs come to fruition.
King of sealand: dude, wanna run my colo?
Ryan: sounds kewl, what's the catch?
King of sealand: Our army is smaller than that box of little green army men and we're as defenseless as a windows box at a hacker con.
Ryan:sign me up!
Lackey got nads
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This fantastic resonse amounts to the begining of a "Data haven howto". woo hoo!
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DSN = the Nasa Deep Space Network, and it's the reason why 3rd parties don't take over deep space satalites when they're done. If there were other installation similar to these facilities (a compeating interest in another country, perhaps) then your plan makes sence. It is the eyes and ears of people here on earth and without it, the satelites would just be another rock in space.
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We can look at the rentry of these little microbes into a planet as kinda like rush week in college. If you survive, you deserve to stay. survival of the fitest? Only the strong survive? :)
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Classic!
Absolutly classic.
I never realized that violating a companies trade secrets could be so easy.
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Re:" it seems awful selfish to put the creation of knowledge above the creation of life.
Yes! Life happens. let it.
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Consider if Galileo is placed on a trajectory to exit our solar system. Eventially, someday, in some way our little Galileo will impact something in the inuverse and contaminate it. We're just as much a part of the galaxy as everything else in it and we will "contaminate" no matter how carefull.
In a way this reminds me of animal right activist trying to save only the really cute animals. Cute little io?! noo! ! noo!! ! don't club that little baby seal . .but big nasty mean ol jupiter?? let the hammer fall! !
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