Only one issue with your post. It makes us no money to try and hold him in our own country. There is no way we will get enough money out of him to pay for the investigation, the legal fees, the courts and the prison time. Which really only adds insult to injury as the US tax payers now get to pay for this "War on Piracy" when the bill could and would have easily been paid by Australia. The move simply makes no sense other than to try to intimidate and waste tax payer's money.
Most I2 projects that require that kind of bandwidth involve scientific coordination between research universities where very large amounts of data must be moved from one researcher to another. Another major use of that kind of bandwidth is for high quality video streaming and video confrencing between researchers. Both of these types of legitimate academic activities would benefit from increased bandwidth and are big reasons why I2 was established in the first place.
Technically it isn't even a rotational cipher. A rotational cipher is far more complex, such as the ciphers used in the enigma coding machiene. A rotational cypher does only substitute letters, but it changes the nature of the substitution at each letter. This was really only an r3 shift cipher which might as well not be "encrypted" at all.
I am a student at RPI, which is one of the 10 most wired campuses in the United States, yet we have several professors that prohibit the use of laptops in their classrooms. Not only can people go too nuts on note taking, but they can also easily be distracted by other things on their laptop such as AIM or games or even just work for other classes. Nobody here thinks anything of it when laptops are prohibited so I don't see why they are making such a big deal of it.
Wow, I definatly read this article when it came out. Didn't think much of it until I looked at my college's homepage today and found out it was a team of scientists from my school. Just a bit of a surprise.
You make an interesting point that the PS2 was a large step forward for console games, but that it should be, it was being compared to a previous generation of consoles. They are claiming that they will trash the 360, which is same generation. They are also claiming that it will blow away desktop systems in many respects and that the cel processor will far out-perform Intel, AMD and PowerPC chips. They are not simply saying it will be better than the previous generation, that is to be expected with any new generation of products (otherwise it would be pointless to start a new generation). What they are claiming now is completely different.
Also, lets not forget the huge problems the PS2 had. First, it had no hard drive for a good long time. Second, how many disks did the originals destroy and how many of their optical drives died. Lets also not forget the countless system burn outs and other failures which Sony never really did get worked out in the PS2. Even when they recently released the new smaller PS2, it was immediatly plagued by horrible heat management issues and could easily burn itself out.
A little tip for the masses. When a company says they are going to release the most revolutionary product known to man. That it will completely blow away the competition and that it will be superior to any other products, even if they cost 6 times as much, then they say it will have a price tag under $500 and fail to mention that most of the technology that they need doesn't even exist yet, chances are good they have something in common with the apes at the zoo. They like to fling their own crap.
Yeah, seriously. I'm really interested in what they actually figured out, since it has been a puzzleing question for a while, but all this article is, is an off-"beat" article taking a little bit of news and trying to slap ID around with it. It doesn't even bother explaining how bees actually fly.
This mouse looks like a rectangle brick, is really big, not very ergonomic, is only optical and every single "feature" it has is on atleast 3 other mice. Most of which are lazer mice and made by a halfway reputable mouse company, not Creative. This is what we call a marketing ploy to those who worship the ground that Fatal1ty walks on.
RTFA... This isn't talking about more cheaply made third party alternatives, those still have atleast some basic level of support from their manufacturer and are labeled as such. What this article is talking about is people actually making a product themselves, and then selling it as a product made by someone else. That means it has no warantee at all and there is almost no way to track it back to the people who originally made it when something goes wrong or worse yet, someone gets hurt. That is what this article is talking about. There is a very big difference between that and third party accessories, which are perfectly fine and perfectly legal.
Anyone else notice that both movie studios are owned by our best friends over at Sony. Go figure that they are the first to announce a list of movies for Blu-ray. The Sony propaganda machiene at work force feeding Blu-ray. Yipee.
Yeah, for good reviews of games, one approach is to look at message boards, which still run the risk of having the occasional moron.
The other option is to search around for good, smaller news sites which aren't run by corporations. They tend to have much better reviews because they are done by gamers and for gamers and thus don't have the same level of corporate crap going on behind the scenes. It also has the benefit of having a regular staff of writers who you can get a feel for how they review, so you know if you want to trust them.
I won't go in to a list of such sites, because I work for one, however they are out there and they do useually have good material that isn't the force fed crap that the "professional" industry tries to feed us.
True enough that it is turning on and off fast enough to make it appear different. I more ment to indicate that there were only 8 settings which could be set (even at the assembly level) and they were not speed settings because there was no way of verifying the movement of the motor. The new system will have built in rotation sensors which will allow verification of the speed of the motors, which will open a much larger set of options and possibilities.
I agree that LabView is not a programming language and will not be useful to any techno-hobbyist. It will however, in a modified form, be far more functional than the original system that shipped with LEGO Mindstorms, which was horribly, horribly clunky and limited. It will be more productive for those who do not know how to program, but wish to play around with the system. As I stated later in my post, I fully expect the ActiveX API and assembly documentation to be extended as well for any techno-hobbyists who wish to do any true programming.
It should be noted that the spammer was not prohibited from using a computer for 3 years, which would be darn near impossible in this day and age. (You couldn't for example use a car or phone or just about any other electronic device for that matter. Not to mention that even if limited from PCs, he would have a hard time getting a useful job.) He was rather prohibited from accessing the Internet for 3 years, which is a much more fitting penalty. It is a significant difference from not being able to use a computer.
First, Sony is in a much better position to force a format since they control a massive means to put the technology in a large number of homes and they also own four movie studios so they have the means and the media. Second, Microsoft gets a licensing fee from both technologies.
My biggest concern however is that Blu-ray will either not come to fruition, or it will have major issues when it does. Sony has long had a problem with promising technology more advanced than what they could deliver. (Overheating PS2s that burn themselves out, CD drives that die in PS2s, PSPs with bad pixels, I won't even dignify Sony's desktop computers by listing the problems, etc.) I don't really see any reason that blu-ray will be any different. Granted, if there is one thing Sony is good at, it is optical media, but I'll believe Blu-ray when there is an affordable, working player in front of me, with affordable, durable disks available.
The original brick was a more limited processor, had 3, 8 power setting motors (in each direction) and had 3 "analog" inputs which had a value range of 0 to 1023. The new system has 3 speed sensitive motors which is a significant step up. The CPU itself is much more powerful. The inputs are presumably more complex if they are able to pass information such as color and intensity back (ie, they can't be a simple analog value).
Also the addition of another input is nice, but if they are no longer analog, it could actually create problems, since there were formerly several techniques to make one of the analog inputs work as 8 or more digital switches. (Using varied resistance on each switch) The out of the box programming system appears that it will be significantly better since it is being based on LabView (disclaimer: I'm friends with the nephew of the guy that came up with LabView.) I also would assume that the more hardcore programming interfaces, such as the ActiveX control and the assembly instruction documentation available for the first brick, will continue to be available and will be even further developed with more instructions available.
All around, it looks like a really solid next generation from Lego. Having been an avid Mindstorm fan since the original, I can't wait for this new generation to come out.
Keep in mind that they have a desire to know how well used different sections of their site are used. It is logical, economical, and responsible to use off the shelf software for this purpose and it helps them make sites that better aid those who use their site. It is not like they are spending every waking second thinking about the fact that cookies need to be off. Chances are good that whoever installed the package wasn't even aware that they weren't supposed to have cookies off. I know it isn't something I immediatly check for when setting up a site.
And lets not forget AIM. My sister uses her computer almost exclusivly for AIM, checking her friend's blogs and updating her own.
As long as we are talking about stats, does anyone know of a good report on who gets infected with viruses the most?
While the ear bud style may be frequently turned up to loud, this is even more true for in-ear headphones. The problem is compounded by the fact that in-ear headphones are designed to provide sound isolation which makes it impossible to judge volume level based on surrounding noise. A similar thing could probably be said for ear buds, but you can always hit the mute button and easily hear what is going on.
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Only one issue with your post. It makes us no money to try and hold him in our own country. There is no way we will get enough money out of him to pay for the investigation, the legal fees, the courts and the prison time. Which really only adds insult to injury as the US tax payers now get to pay for this "War on Piracy" when the bill could and would have easily been paid by Australia. The move simply makes no sense other than to try to intimidate and waste tax payer's money.
Most I2 projects that require that kind of bandwidth involve scientific coordination between research universities where very large amounts of data must be moved from one researcher to another. Another major use of that kind of bandwidth is for high quality video streaming and video confrencing between researchers. Both of these types of legitimate academic activities would benefit from increased bandwidth and are big reasons why I2 was established in the first place.
Technically it isn't even a rotational cipher. A rotational cipher is far more complex, such as the ciphers used in the enigma coding machiene. A rotational cypher does only substitute letters, but it changes the nature of the substitution at each letter. This was really only an r3 shift cipher which might as well not be "encrypted" at all.
I am a student at RPI, which is one of the 10 most wired campuses in the United States, yet we have several professors that prohibit the use of laptops in their classrooms. Not only can people go too nuts on note taking, but they can also easily be distracted by other things on their laptop such as AIM or games or even just work for other classes. Nobody here thinks anything of it when laptops are prohibited so I don't see why they are making such a big deal of it.
Oh yeah and this link: http://news.rpi.edu/update.do?artcenterkey=1358&se tappvar=page(1) has more info on the team of Rensselaer scientists.
Wow, I definatly read this article when it came out. Didn't think much of it until I looked at my college's homepage today and found out it was a team of scientists from my school. Just a bit of a surprise.
You make an interesting point that the PS2 was a large step forward for console games, but that it should be, it was being compared to a previous generation of consoles. They are claiming that they will trash the 360, which is same generation. They are also claiming that it will blow away desktop systems in many respects and that the cel processor will far out-perform Intel, AMD and PowerPC chips. They are not simply saying it will be better than the previous generation, that is to be expected with any new generation of products (otherwise it would be pointless to start a new generation). What they are claiming now is completely different. Also, lets not forget the huge problems the PS2 had. First, it had no hard drive for a good long time. Second, how many disks did the originals destroy and how many of their optical drives died. Lets also not forget the countless system burn outs and other failures which Sony never really did get worked out in the PS2. Even when they recently released the new smaller PS2, it was immediatly plagued by horrible heat management issues and could easily burn itself out.
A little tip for the masses. When a company says they are going to release the most revolutionary product known to man. That it will completely blow away the competition and that it will be superior to any other products, even if they cost 6 times as much, then they say it will have a price tag under $500 and fail to mention that most of the technology that they need doesn't even exist yet, chances are good they have something in common with the apes at the zoo. They like to fling their own crap.
Yeah, seriously. I'm really interested in what they actually figured out, since it has been a puzzleing question for a while, but all this article is, is an off-"beat" article taking a little bit of news and trying to slap ID around with it. It doesn't even bother explaining how bees actually fly.
This mouse looks like a rectangle brick, is really big, not very ergonomic, is only optical and every single "feature" it has is on atleast 3 other mice. Most of which are lazer mice and made by a halfway reputable mouse company, not Creative. This is what we call a marketing ploy to those who worship the ground that Fatal1ty walks on.
RTFA... This isn't talking about more cheaply made third party alternatives, those still have atleast some basic level of support from their manufacturer and are labeled as such. What this article is talking about is people actually making a product themselves, and then selling it as a product made by someone else. That means it has no warantee at all and there is almost no way to track it back to the people who originally made it when something goes wrong or worse yet, someone gets hurt. That is what this article is talking about. There is a very big difference between that and third party accessories, which are perfectly fine and perfectly legal.
Anyone else notice that both movie studios are owned by our best friends over at Sony. Go figure that they are the first to announce a list of movies for Blu-ray. The Sony propaganda machiene at work force feeding Blu-ray. Yipee.
Yeah, for good reviews of games, one approach is to look at message boards, which still run the risk of having the occasional moron. The other option is to search around for good, smaller news sites which aren't run by corporations. They tend to have much better reviews because they are done by gamers and for gamers and thus don't have the same level of corporate crap going on behind the scenes. It also has the benefit of having a regular staff of writers who you can get a feel for how they review, so you know if you want to trust them. I won't go in to a list of such sites, because I work for one, however they are out there and they do useually have good material that isn't the force fed crap that the "professional" industry tries to feed us.
True enough that it is turning on and off fast enough to make it appear different. I more ment to indicate that there were only 8 settings which could be set (even at the assembly level) and they were not speed settings because there was no way of verifying the movement of the motor. The new system will have built in rotation sensors which will allow verification of the speed of the motors, which will open a much larger set of options and possibilities.
I agree that LabView is not a programming language and will not be useful to any techno-hobbyist. It will however, in a modified form, be far more functional than the original system that shipped with LEGO Mindstorms, which was horribly, horribly clunky and limited. It will be more productive for those who do not know how to program, but wish to play around with the system. As I stated later in my post, I fully expect the ActiveX API and assembly documentation to be extended as well for any techno-hobbyists who wish to do any true programming.
It should be noted that the spammer was not prohibited from using a computer for 3 years, which would be darn near impossible in this day and age. (You couldn't for example use a car or phone or just about any other electronic device for that matter. Not to mention that even if limited from PCs, he would have a hard time getting a useful job.) He was rather prohibited from accessing the Internet for 3 years, which is a much more fitting penalty. It is a significant difference from not being able to use a computer.
First, Sony is in a much better position to force a format since they control a massive means to put the technology in a large number of homes and they also own four movie studios so they have the means and the media. Second, Microsoft gets a licensing fee from both technologies. My biggest concern however is that Blu-ray will either not come to fruition, or it will have major issues when it does. Sony has long had a problem with promising technology more advanced than what they could deliver. (Overheating PS2s that burn themselves out, CD drives that die in PS2s, PSPs with bad pixels, I won't even dignify Sony's desktop computers by listing the problems, etc.) I don't really see any reason that blu-ray will be any different. Granted, if there is one thing Sony is good at, it is optical media, but I'll believe Blu-ray when there is an affordable, working player in front of me, with affordable, durable disks available.
The original brick was a more limited processor, had 3, 8 power setting motors (in each direction) and had 3 "analog" inputs which had a value range of 0 to 1023. The new system has 3 speed sensitive motors which is a significant step up. The CPU itself is much more powerful. The inputs are presumably more complex if they are able to pass information such as color and intensity back (ie, they can't be a simple analog value). Also the addition of another input is nice, but if they are no longer analog, it could actually create problems, since there were formerly several techniques to make one of the analog inputs work as 8 or more digital switches. (Using varied resistance on each switch) The out of the box programming system appears that it will be significantly better since it is being based on LabView (disclaimer: I'm friends with the nephew of the guy that came up with LabView.) I also would assume that the more hardcore programming interfaces, such as the ActiveX control and the assembly instruction documentation available for the first brick, will continue to be available and will be even further developed with more instructions available. All around, it looks like a really solid next generation from Lego. Having been an avid Mindstorm fan since the original, I can't wait for this new generation to come out.
Keep in mind that they have a desire to know how well used different sections of their site are used. It is logical, economical, and responsible to use off the shelf software for this purpose and it helps them make sites that better aid those who use their site. It is not like they are spending every waking second thinking about the fact that cookies need to be off. Chances are good that whoever installed the package wasn't even aware that they weren't supposed to have cookies off. I know it isn't something I immediatly check for when setting up a site.
And lets not forget AIM. My sister uses her computer almost exclusivly for AIM, checking her friend's blogs and updating her own. As long as we are talking about stats, does anyone know of a good report on who gets infected with viruses the most?
While the ear bud style may be frequently turned up to loud, this is even more true for in-ear headphones. The problem is compounded by the fact that in-ear headphones are designed to provide sound isolation which makes it impossible to judge volume level based on surrounding noise. A similar thing could probably be said for ear buds, but you can always hit the mute button and easily hear what is going on.