engineering time on earth/evolution time on earth = basically, 0.
But doesn't that just show you how much more effective engineering time is than dice throwing time? Look at how much new and useful STUFF has appeared on the earth in these last few hundred years. Incredibly complex machines and global systems (the Internet?) have sprung up within one human generation, and within only a few (<20) machine generations (286->386->486->Pentium->etc.).
I still think evolving technology is cool though, and I'm sure that *engineers* will put it to great use.
By contrast, Phil Sbarbaro, NSI's legal counsel, offered a parallel to summarize prevailing law: "You don't own a domain name any more than you own your phone number."
Reading this really scares me, because it shows how big NSI *thinks* it's roll is on the Internet. NSI is not the provider of the Internet or even the provider of domain names; they are just an administrative body in place to manage the root name servers and take fees to manage the names in them. They didn't CREATE these domain names.
Argh, why did the government ever hand this over to private industry? =P Or at least, why weren't there more protections put in place BEFORE they handed it over?
Kinda offtopic, but gravity-related and FUN! Try collecting a bunch of the stars into a small cluster, and then clicking right in the middle of it. BOOM!
You're basically just trading off computational time for space
Ah, but doesn't it take time to produce all that RNA? They have to be encoded with specific patterns for each problem. And they can only be used once, and then you need a fresh batch.
ALL you would get is ROM BASIC and everyone was a programmer...
And I think this is why computers were not very popular at the time. Only computer geeks (by definition) are excited by and interested in programming their computers. Most people just want to get info off the web, play games, send email, or print something.
After using BeOS for a while, I can understand the excitement of a computer that is designed for a programmer, one where you pretty much *have* to code something cause there aren't many apps. But I finally went back a mainstream OS because I don't use a computer as just a hobby (though I have hobbies that are *on* the computer). I have things I want to get done (not just work, but games, chatting, mp3s), and I don't want to spend all that time messing around with configurations or coding. I'm absolutely willing to sacrifice some control over the way the computer works in exchange for all that time I don't have to spend making it work my own way.
But if you wear the glasses that 'pre-flips' the image, sure, it's not the upside down on the retina (according to the normal way) but how would the brain know this?
To get this nicely back on topic, the brain would know the image wasn't correct because of your sense of motion. When you turn your head, the image would move the wrong way.
Now what if you wore these reversing glasses AND used the inner ear motion simulator? And then drank a pitcher of beer...
At 7 yards, I can guarantee you that I would make a head-shot on a stationary target every time.
But that's without the stress of a real-life shootout (where the other person is trying to KILL you!). LEO's get a lot of training for these situations, but when it comes down to two people 7 yards away trying to put holes in eachother, it's probobly pretty hard to concentrate (particularily becuase shootouts don't happen that often, so it's not something an officer is used to). I'd also guess that at least some of those missed shots are being fired in the general direction of the bad guy, so that he can't relax and get a better shot.
Hmm.. I guess playing games like Quake/Unreal might help one deal with the pyschological effects of a shootout, and so in that way they could make a person have better aim (because you are used to dealing with that adreline rush of being shot at).
> Anyone noticed that IdeaLab owns OpenSales, > makers of OpenMerchant (open source e-commerce > program). I think it is apporiate to boycott > this free software also.
Or just don't use openmerchant cause it is pretty lame software. Have you looked at the code? ick! I could hardly believe it was coming from such a hyped-up company, with backers like IdeaLab. The distibution is ugly, with tmp files left in by the developers, and the high-level design of the software doesn't look like it had much thought put into it. And they don't use CVS! =P
One problem would be after-spin. When you spin a trackball, it will continue to spin for a second or two after you let go, depending on how fast you would spin them.
You could solve this by having the weight of your body press the balls down, away from a friction brake. When they have weight on them, they roll easily, but when the weight is removed, they lock in place.
And to save money you could use an optical tracking system that tracked multiple balls at once (like a video camera pointed at 8 or 16 or more balls at once).
- Isaac =)
Re:The RIAA seems scared (baby with the bathwater)
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umm... but if you are dumping thousands and thousands of incorrectly named mp3s into the mix, then how does everyone else find the right mp3s?
seems like this would massively screw up the system for everyone, not just the RIAA monitors.
CDDB (www.cddb.com) has been tracking every cd you listen to using your email address. Sure you can enter a bogus address when you are asked for one, but you can enter bogus info with RealNetworks or any of the others too.
If you REALLY don't want ANY hints, don't read this!
I'm thinking that maybe the first 10 numbers of each line (the book ISBNs) are somehow used to encode the rest of the line. I think this because I doubt the ISBNs are the result of a calculation, so I'm guessing they are *used* in a calculation.
There are no repeated values in the first two lines, so either the same letter isn't repeated in the message, or else the key is applied to each letter in a different way (like using 2 numbers from the key for one encoded letter, then the next two numbers for the next letter, etc.).
Or I'm just way off with the isbn key idea...
Good luck everybody!
- Isaac =)
P.S. If the numbers between each dash are a letter, the first line has 6 letters. "crypto" has 6 letters too. yay wild speculation!
Re:Sorry, but you know NOTHING about video
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No one, and I mean No one at all ever has used IDE for serious video editing.
This used to be true, but times (and tech) and definately changing. If you are editing video from a DV camera (as I do, and as I assume you would be with an iMacDV since there are no pci slots for capture cards) you only need 3.5 megs per sec, and an ATA33 drive is serious overkill for that (around 10-14mps sustained). The new G4's have ATA66, and for less than $300 you can get a 7200rpm 27gig drive that has sustained transfers above 20mps! I know, I just bought one of these drives (Maxtor DiamondMax Plus).
The CIA isn't a typical venture capitalist (it won't get rid of the founders when the company gets big)
Since we're talking about the CIA, the phrase "get rid of" is kinda scary. =)
If you come up with a tech that they really like (which I would assume is the point of this whole, er, venture), and they really don't want anyone else to have access to it, seems like it would be in their interest to prevent you from marketing it. Is that the kinda of VC you> want?
I'm all for making interfaces more appealing, but in the case of the LinuxPPC graphical installer, I think they totally screwed up.
My biggest problem is that they present a sequential task as a non-sequential task (by allowing you to click on any step of the install process in any order you like). You cannot install linux into a partition you haven't created yet.
It's also confusing to start-up into x-windows with lot's of visual clutter (mouse eyes, task bar, logo windows) as opposed to going into a modal install program where you can do *one* thing: install the software.
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Are all these GIANT devices going to attach to some walkman-sized PC kept in your pocket?
Yeah, if there's no place to hook-up my punch card reader, then what the hell kinda computer is it?
- Isaac =)
engineering time on earth/evolution time on earth = basically, 0.
But doesn't that just show you how much more effective engineering time is than dice throwing time? Look at how much new and useful STUFF has appeared on the earth in these last few hundred years. Incredibly complex machines and global systems (the Internet?) have sprung up within one human generation, and within only a few (<20) machine generations (286->386->486->Pentium->etc.).
I still think evolving technology is cool though, and I'm sure that *engineers* will put it to great use.
- Isaac =)
From the article:
By contrast, Phil Sbarbaro, NSI's legal counsel, offered a parallel to summarize prevailing law: "You don't own a domain name any more than you own your phone number."
Reading this really scares me, because it shows how big NSI *thinks* it's roll is on the Internet. NSI is not the provider of the Internet or even the provider of domain names; they are just an administrative body in place to manage the root name servers and take fees to manage the names in them. They didn't CREATE these domain names.
Argh, why did the government ever hand this over to private industry? =P Or at least, why weren't there more protections put in place BEFORE they handed it over?
- Isaac =)
Check out this cool little java applet that lets you draw using gravity and stars.
http://www.snibbe.com/sc ott/dynamic/gravilux/gravilux.html
Kinda offtopic, but gravity-related and FUN! Try collecting a bunch of the stars into a small cluster, and then clicking right in the middle of it. BOOM!
- Isaac =)
You're basically just trading off computational time for space
Ah, but doesn't it take time to produce all that RNA? They have to be encoded with specific patterns for each problem. And they can only be used once, and then you need a fresh batch.
- Isaac =)
ALL you would get is ROM BASIC and everyone was a programmer...
And I think this is why computers were not very popular at the time. Only computer geeks (by definition) are excited by and interested in programming their computers. Most people just want to get info off the web, play games, send email, or print something.
After using BeOS for a while, I can understand the excitement of a computer that is designed for a programmer, one where you pretty much *have* to code something cause there aren't many apps. But I finally went back a mainstream OS because I don't use a computer as just a hobby (though I have hobbies that are *on* the computer). I have things I want to get done (not just work, but games, chatting, mp3s), and I don't want to spend all that time messing around with configurations or coding. I'm absolutely willing to sacrifice some control over the way the computer works in exchange for all that time I don't have to spend making it work my own way.
- Isaac =)
But if you wear the glasses that 'pre-flips' the image, sure, it's not the upside down on the retina (according to the normal way) but how would the brain know this?
To get this nicely back on topic, the brain would know the image wasn't correct because of your sense of motion. When you turn your head, the image would move the wrong way.
Now what if you wore these reversing glasses AND used the inner ear motion simulator? And then drank a pitcher of beer...
- Isaac =)
At 7 yards, I can guarantee you that I would make a head-shot on a stationary target every time.
But that's without the stress of a real-life shootout (where the other person is trying to KILL you!). LEO's get a lot of training for these situations, but when it comes down to two people 7 yards away trying to put holes in eachother, it's probobly pretty hard to concentrate (particularily becuase shootouts don't happen that often, so it's not something an officer is used to). I'd also guess that at least some of those missed shots are being fired in the general direction of the bad guy, so that he can't relax and get a better shot.
Hmm.. I guess playing games like Quake/Unreal might help one deal with the pyschological effects of a shootout, and so in that way they could make a person have better aim (because you are used to dealing with that adreline rush of being shot at).
- Isaac =)
> Anyone noticed that IdeaLab owns OpenSales,
> makers of OpenMerchant (open source e-commerce
> program). I think it is apporiate to boycott
> this free software also.
Or just don't use openmerchant cause it is pretty lame software. Have you looked at the code? ick! I could hardly believe it was coming from such a hyped-up company, with backers like IdeaLab. The distibution is ugly, with tmp files left in by the developers, and the high-level design of the software doesn't look like it had much thought put into it. And they don't use CVS! =P
- Isaac
but can he compile a Linux kernel?
How many adult CEOs do you think can compile a Linux kernel?
- Isaac =)
One problem would be after-spin. When you spin a trackball, it will continue to spin for a second or two after you let go, depending on how fast you would spin them.
You could solve this by having the weight of your body press the balls down, away from a friction brake. When they have weight on them, they roll easily, but when the weight is removed, they lock in place.
And to save money you could use an optical tracking system that tracked multiple balls at once (like a video camera pointed at 8 or 16 or more balls at once).
- Isaac =)
umm... but if you are dumping thousands and thousands of incorrectly named mp3s into the mix, then how does everyone else find the right mp3s?
seems like this would massively screw up the system for everyone, not just the RIAA monitors.
CDDB (www.cddb.com) has been tracking every cd you listen to using your email address. Sure you can enter a bogus address when you are asked for one, but you can enter bogus info with RealNetworks or any of the others too.
- Isaac =)
If you REALLY don't want ANY hints, don't read this!
I'm thinking that maybe the first 10 numbers of each line (the book ISBNs) are somehow used to encode the rest of the line. I think this because I doubt the ISBNs are the result of a calculation, so I'm guessing they are *used* in a calculation.
There are no repeated values in the first two lines, so either the same letter isn't repeated in the message, or else the key is applied to each letter in a different way (like using 2 numbers from the key for one encoded letter, then the next two numbers for the next letter, etc.).
Or I'm just way off with the isbn key idea...
Good luck everybody!
- Isaac =)
P.S. If the numbers between each dash are a letter, the first line has 6 letters. "crypto" has 6 letters too. yay wild speculation!
This used to be true, but times (and tech) and definately changing. If you are editing video from a DV camera (as I do, and as I assume you would be with an iMacDV since there are no pci slots for capture cards) you only need 3.5 megs per sec, and an ATA33 drive is serious overkill for that (around 10-14mps sustained). The new G4's have ATA66, and for less than $300 you can get a 7200rpm 27gig drive that has sustained transfers above 20mps! I know, I just bought one of these drives (Maxtor DiamondMax Plus).
- Isaac =)
Since we're talking about the CIA, the phrase "get rid of" is kinda scary. =)
If you come up with a tech that they really like (which I would assume is the point of this whole, er, venture), and they really don't want anyone else to have access to it, seems like it would be in their interest to prevent you from marketing it. Is that the kinda of VC you> want?
I'm all for making interfaces more appealing, but in the case of the LinuxPPC graphical installer, I think they totally screwed up.
My biggest problem is that they present a sequential task as a non-sequential task (by allowing you to click on any step of the install process in any order you like). You cannot install linux into a partition you haven't created yet.
It's also confusing to start-up into x-windows with lot's of visual clutter (mouse eyes, task bar, logo windows) as opposed to going into a modal install program where you can do *one* thing: install the software.