Flyover landscape graphics demos are a shopworn rabbit pulled out of a threadbare hat: convert fractals into craggy vertical displacements with extremely primitive lighting/mapping. Show me an architecture that can *realtime* render Incredibles-caliber cloth/hair simulations and I'll get a hard-on while ATI and nVidia executives slit their wrists.
Ha! Reminds me of when, during the summer of '96, I had a job at NIST Boulder and the "SGI Bus" stopped by. It was a tour bus demoing lot's of expensive hardware. They had an 8 processor Onyx doing the whole realtime-rendered-flight thing. I made a comment comparing the demo to Microsoft Flight. Man, did that guy give me a dirty look.
This guy made one with 4 digits, and he's the fist thing to come up when you google "nixie watch". Oh, wait, it's the same guy. Don't know why he when from 4 to 2 digits.
I could be wrong, but isn't the lens on backwards? Which would make this a little different than a simple extension tube.
I showed this to a photographer friend of mine a few days ago and he said "It looks like he was the lens on backwards. If you put a wide angle backwards at the end of the bellows you will get huge magnification."
I RTFA (submitted it too, not fast enough) and honestly it goes way over my head. Is it actually a root kit, ie can Sony or Sony's adgents (in a legal sense, not a black helicopters sense) push arbitrary code onto the machine and have it executed?
Process of preventing visual access to a semiconductor device by applying an opaque ceramic coating to integrated circuit devices," No. 5,258,334
Oh, the delicious irony. The patent "Scanning confocal electron microscope, No. 6,548,810" is assigned to Nestor Zaluzec and Argonne National Lab.
It was developed specifically as an easy [easier than super high energy xrays, the kind you need a linear accelerator for. Note IANAP, I am not a physicist.] way to look at the structure of a circuit without destroying it.
There's nothing that guarantees that someone else, or another branch of the government, won't come up with something that renders an NSA patent moot.
So when we mean we are going to have a meeting in New York at 15:00, we mean we are going to have a meeting in California at 15:00.
How can we going to agree on what time the meeting is, when we don't know which side of the continent it's on?:)
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I believe the confusion about signs comes from requirements on property boundaries out west, places like Colorado where I used to live [tear].
If I'm remembering correctly if you don't have a "Private Property - No Trespassing" sign something link every 100 yards a person who is trespassing can't be arrested since it's basically impossible to tell private property from say BLM land. And just because there's a fence doesn't mean it's not public land. IANAL, but that's what I seem to recall
Though that's not to say that you can stay if some one tells you it's private property and asks you to leave. So it's more about explicitly stating that the land is private, not that trespassing is not allowed.
Maybe I'm stupid or my PowerBook is broken, but when I try to read the new Bruce Springsteen dual format disc [which is a sony DRM'ed "CD" on one side and a DVD on the other] it just spins for a while and then gets spat it out.
The DVD side works fine, it's the CD side that's borked. This is with the latest version of iTunes, and it plays fine outside of a computer. Any body else have this problem or similar?
As far as I can tell their instructions DO NOT WORK on the Mac in my case. [Which may be special because of the dual format]
I have no idea if this is why, but I was walking down the street two weeks ago in Cambridge MA and some guy just handed me an Unbuntu cd. Two actually, one live cd and one install. I didn't even realize what it was until I had walked 50 feet past him. That's never happened to me with any other distro...
Huh?
[I think some one has girl parts on the brain.]
How are microscopic robots good for macroscopic surgery? I don't have a copy of Gray's Anatomy in front of me, but aren't fallopian tubes ~1 cm in diameter?
And as for selective destruction of cells how would these microbots:
1- Be powered
2- Recognise the correct cell type
3- Not be viewed as foreign material [which they are] and trigger an immune response
IANADOABC
[I am not a doctor or a biochemist]
Not to diss your method, but the "auto stop" on a gas pump is not accurate. They vary from station to station and some cars set them off more. Like the time I thought I filled up and then ran out of gas at 3am in the Mexican desert while talking to the army officers at a drug checkpoint who wanted to take my friend to jail for allmost running them over.
I wasn't blaming the USPTO for anything other than using TIFFs as their document standard, which is annoying.
And firefox/acrobat 6/safari/preview won't show a complete or non-garbbled pdf. I give up.
I didn't RTFA, but I've read many of Eric's papers and met/conversed with him several times. I don't see what the problem is with the error rate. Yes it is high, but my understanding is that what Eric is trying to do is harness the massively parallel nature of DNA based computation, remember Avagadro's number is a very big number, and not develop a novel kind of information storage. Also, since no one has done this yet, he obviously has to start with simple problems, eg the Sierpinski experiment and the counting in binary experiment, both of which only used a few (2 to 3) different tile types. However I think his latest (unpublished) experiments use something on the order of 20-30 tile types.
As for a cubic lattice, people have made single 3D polyhedra, though I can't remember their names, and it would be simple to create a lattice out of these. But then the problem becomes one of looking at the lattice to "read" whatever information there is. Eric is imaging these structures with an AFM (atomic force mircoscope) which could not "look inside" and 3D lattice. The lattice would be far too small to use light based microscopy and the energies involved with a regular electron microscope would literally blow the lattice apart. Maybe cryogenicly cooled scanning confocal electron microscopy (google Nestor Zaluzec at Argonne) would get you something but I don't know.
I agree. My friend's box got owned and some one put up a phishing-scam style site, paypal I think. It was up for maybe an hour before he knew what was going on. A week later he got a call from the mounties. He told them what happened and sent them the logs. And this was maybe 3 years ago...
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.bookofparagon.com/News/News_00012.htm It's way too late for me to read these right now. Anybody know how this might be related to Conway's surreal numbers?
Mod parent up, since he's right...
And here's a paper 3-rotor version... Print out and play.
I think I can refute his argument. To wit:
Pffft!
He's obviously written an aapple sctipt to comment for him.
PS: I kid, I kid. And I love my mac.
Flyover landscape graphics demos are a shopworn rabbit pulled out of a threadbare hat: convert fractals into craggy vertical displacements with extremely primitive lighting/mapping. Show me an architecture that can *realtime* render Incredibles-caliber cloth/hair simulations and I'll get a hard-on while ATI and nVidia executives slit their wrists.
Ha! Reminds me of when, during the summer of '96, I had a job at NIST Boulder and the "SGI Bus" stopped by. It was a tour bus demoing lot's of expensive hardware. They had an 8 processor Onyx doing the whole realtime-rendered-flight thing. I made a comment comparing the demo to Microsoft Flight. Man, did that guy give me a dirty look.
This guy made one with 4 digits, and he's the fist thing to come up when you google "nixie watch". Oh, wait, it's the same guy. Don't know why he when from 4 to 2 digits.
I could be wrong, but isn't the lens on backwards? Which would make this a little different than a simple extension tube.
I showed this to a photographer friend of mine a few days ago and he said "It looks like he was the lens on backwards. If you put a wide angle backwards at the end of the bellows you will get huge magnification."
Thanks for clreaing that up.
I RTFA (submitted it too, not fast enough) and honestly it goes way over my head. Is it actually a root kit, ie can Sony or Sony's adgents (in a legal sense, not a black helicopters sense) push arbitrary code onto the machine and have it executed?
Oh, the delicious irony. The patent "Scanning confocal electron microscope, No. 6,548,810" is assigned to Nestor Zaluzec and Argonne National Lab.
It was developed specifically as an easy [easier than super high energy xrays, the kind you need a linear accelerator for. Note IANAP, I am not a physicist.] way to look at the structure of a circuit without destroying it.
There's nothing that guarantees that someone else, or another branch of the government, won't come up with something that renders an NSA patent moot.
How can we going to agree on what time the meeting is, when we don't know which side of the continent it's on? :)
I believe the confusion about signs comes from requirements on property boundaries out west, places like Colorado where I used to live [tear].
If I'm remembering correctly if you don't have a "Private Property - No Trespassing" sign something link every 100 yards a person who is trespassing can't be arrested since it's basically impossible to tell private property from say BLM land. And just because there's a fence doesn't mean it's not public land. IANAL, but that's what I seem to recall
Though that's not to say that you can stay if some one tells you it's private property and asks you to leave. So it's more about explicitly stating that the land is private, not that trespassing is not allowed.
Maybe I'm stupid or my PowerBook is broken, but when I try to read the new Bruce Springsteen dual format disc [which is a sony DRM'ed "CD" on one side and a DVD on the other] it just spins for a while and then gets spat it out.
The DVD side works fine, it's the CD side that's borked. This is with the latest version of iTunes, and it plays fine outside of a computer. Any body else have this problem or similar?
As far as I can tell their instructions DO NOT WORK on the Mac in my case. [Which may be special because of the dual format]
I have no idea if this is why, but I was walking down the street two weeks ago in Cambridge MA and some guy just handed me an Unbuntu cd. Two actually, one live cd and one install. I didn't even realize what it was until I had walked 50 feet past him. That's never happened to me with any other distro...
And you could use the open software some guy wrote to control his music with a laser pointer to do the counting... http://www.raphnet.net/programmation/laserspotcam/ laserspotcam_en.php
It got posted to the Make blog a few days ago
http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2005/09/compu ter_control_with_a_laser.html
Huh? [I think some one has girl parts on the brain.] How are microscopic robots good for macroscopic surgery? I don't have a copy of Gray's Anatomy in front of me, but aren't fallopian tubes ~1 cm in diameter? And as for selective destruction of cells how would these microbots: 1- Be powered 2- Recognise the correct cell type 3- Not be viewed as foreign material [which they are] and trigger an immune response IANADOABC [I am not a doctor or a biochemist]
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I tried looking and got confused with all the versions that had things removed but evidently didn't pass.
Not to diss your method, but the "auto stop" on a gas pump is not accurate. They vary from station to station and some cars set them off more. Like the time I thought I filled up and then ran out of gas at 3am in the Mexican desert while talking to the army officers at a drug checkpoint who wanted to take my friend to jail for allmost running them over.
I wasn't blaming the USPTO for anything other than using TIFFs as their document standard, which is annoying. And firefox/acrobat 6/safari/preview won't show a complete or non-garbbled pdf. I give up.
I can't seem to save a non-garbbled copy of the patent app. At least it's not TIFFs, damn USPTO... Help?
I didn't RTFA, but I've read many of Eric's papers and met/conversed with him several times. I don't see what the problem is with the error rate. Yes it is high, but my understanding is that what Eric is trying to do is harness the massively parallel nature of DNA based computation, remember Avagadro's number is a very big number, and not develop a novel kind of information storage. Also, since no one has done this yet, he obviously has to start with simple problems, eg the Sierpinski experiment and the counting in binary experiment, both of which only used a few (2 to 3) different tile types. However I think his latest (unpublished) experiments use something on the order of 20-30 tile types. As for a cubic lattice, people have made single 3D polyhedra, though I can't remember their names, and it would be simple to create a lattice out of these. But then the problem becomes one of looking at the lattice to "read" whatever information there is. Eric is imaging these structures with an AFM (atomic force mircoscope) which could not "look inside" and 3D lattice. The lattice would be far too small to use light based microscopy and the energies involved with a regular electron microscope would literally blow the lattice apart. Maybe cryogenicly cooled scanning confocal electron microscopy (google Nestor Zaluzec at Argonne) would get you something but I don't know.
I agree. My friend's box got owned and some one put up a phishing-scam style site, paypal I think. It was up for maybe an hour before he knew what was going on. A week later he got a call from the mounties. He told them what happened and sent them the logs. And this was maybe 3 years ago...