I think it is great that Mozilla is putting the M14 crypto out, but this is just one of many things that needs to be done by Mozilla. I am quite concerned about the browser situation. 4.72 was a step, but Netscape is still behind IE. There needs to be much done with the cascading style sheets, more applications tied in with the browser for the newer media. This is without the recent security concerns to say the least.
I will come out now and say that everything in this comment is idealistical and probably never going to be one of general approval. As far as censureship is concerned, one can never, ever, force someone to censure themselves. For example, if a browser comes with a filter, there should be an easy way to turn it on and off. There should never be involuntary blocking of sites.
I will say that I would love to be able to run a search engine on some arbitrary topic and not pull up a site with questionable relevance. But there has got to be a better way to keep kids (I assume that this filter business has to do with kids in cyberspace) out of these sex web sites. Is it possible just to limit the access children have to the Internet? Perhaps the internet providers have logins and passwords? Have the computer in a room where kids can be supervised while they are surfing?
No matter how many times I see it, I cannot believe that people think that they can force other people to be good, moral, ethical, etc. It is just not something that can be done. Ciao. nahtahoj
I have recently written a paper on this area for a photonics course. The inherent problems of 3D data storage are numerous to say the least. The only way currently to write the data is by way of laser, which also creates a problem of cross talk between the layers of the lattice structure of the recording medium. There is currently research being performed to eliminate this problem by utilising a dual-laser writing technique that would create only constructive interference at the position of recording.
The other major problem is the type of laser used. A pulse laser writes and retrieves data faster, yet is known to damage the recording medium. The solution is to use a high-powered contiuous-wave laser, which is being looked into.
The real decider in whether holographic memory is whether or not a certain compression of data can be reached. Off the top of my head I think it is somewhere around 10 megabits of data per square cm. Last I knew, I believe it was somewhere near 1 megabit per square cm. This is a really facinating topic, and I encourage all to look into it for themselves.
A couple of people have said that this Intel announcement has nothing to do with Crusoe. I will tell you now why it does. It is the fact that Intel is putting a chip on the market that overlaps some of what the Crusoe is supposed to accomplish. The terms that clearly shout "Crusoe" are 'heat-dissapation' and 'low-power consumption'. This is Intel's way of trying to say that no-one needs to buy or use a Crusoe processor. The one problem they have is that the secrecy of Transmeta allowed the Crusoe to stun Intel when they were taking their sweet time to make advances on the problems that the Crusoe chips confront. Thus, Transmeta has a year to get OEM's and companies behind the Cursoe chips. Also, they have the time to start on the next generation of Crusoe chips that might extend the foothold that they have gained on the mobile processor market. All this should have been obvious..... Ciao nahtanoj
I would like to point out that Einstein did understand Schroedinger's theories about quantum mechanics, he just did not like what he saw as a precise science reduced to probability. The way he saw things, they were on the verge of defining everything in a universal law, much the way Newton thought he did. Also, about the dual existence of buckey-balls (carbon 60), it has been known for years now that inside a quantum box an object can have two superstates. These superstates are position probabilities, either inside or outside the box. In order for a particle to be "in two places at the same time", the particle needs two superstates of high probability. (Like 50% and 40%) Ciao nahtanoj
I thought it was a good thing that Time wrote this topic up and is unafraid to present such things in an objective way. The article presented Time's usuall neutral stance. The thing that got to me was how hard I found it to tell the damn server to stop trying to cookie me. I had to stop the page loading to get the damn thing to stop. As for AOL, I have never liked their setup or their majority share of the ISP market. True, their were one of the first providers, but they seized a hold of the market and have never let go. I am glad that when I received the 500 free hours of AOL 5.0 CD I held it over the fire in my fireplace and warped it beyond use. My roommate appreciated the artistry of it and has it still in his room. BTW, AOL, if you see this, email me and I will tell you where to send another CD. I am interested in developing this new CD art-form. Ciao. nahtanoj
While this article does state a need to make radical changes in webpages and browsers in the future, I could not help being amused at the warning to avoided being a "promiscuous browser." I can foresee in the near future the talk of one being a "web-slut" or groups of young boys going "web-wenching." "Don't chat with him, his browser is infected." "Be sure to turn on your condom code before you browse tonight." Practice safe surfing. Jon
What is this? It stated that Microsoft was the author of the testing tool they used. I am not familiar with the tool itself, but I have doubts as to whether it is unbiased. It is thus obvious that they were using Windows PC's to run the testing. I myself work with Redhat in the research lab I have a job at, and to me it seems that one would not use Redhat to manage a huge network. I think it is ideal to run a network of about 20-50 users, no more. If you do happen to run a major network, you would use a SunOS or FreeBSD, if you wanted a Unix network. I am personally quite suspicious of this networking test. Who is providing funds for this test, and did they run a similar test utilizing a unix testing tool? I don't know....
Journalists getting out of control? Too many newsites with the same-old, same-old newstories? We don't have to just sit around while they bombard us with trivial matters portrayed as the beginning of the apocalypse. Let us pass new legislation legalising the hunting of jounalists and spamming of newsites, to pay them back for all they have put us through. Certainly, there shall have to be a designated "season" for the hunting part, but I can only foresee good coming from this.
"Come on, son! It's time to bag us Peter Jennings!"
This parallels a previous question about the effects of a newly-elected president on these preceedings. I am fuzzy on the detail, but I am certain that a president could replace many of the people on the DoJ.
So my questions are: whether or not you think that a more economically conservative president would pressure the DoJ into settling or to accept a lesser punishment, and would campaign contributions from Micro$oft make a candidate more amenable to the aforesaid action.
You think you can sell the intergalatic realestate? You fools! Were you not at the Symposium at MK 451? It was there that these things were settled. For your information, it is I who own this sector, as well as Andromeda, the Pleides Cluster, and the Galatic Core. Keep up this farce, and I will be forced to authorize a "cleaning" job on this puny world you inhabit. That will be all.
Just a few questions flittering through my thoughts at this moment. How exactly is one supposed to fight the demons in this game? The Christian way would be to turn the other cheek. Am I right about assuming that this is not what they do here? Do you forgive the demon for striking you? Do you pray that one day (s)he will see the light and give up evil for good?
This is just typical of Microsoft. They go for the throat every time something threatens them. I say Bill is just too blatant this time. Go DOJ! Break 'em up!
The whole question is how much do you regulate? This is quite similar to the break-up of Ma Bell. In some ways, things got better (like being able to own your own phone) and some things got worse (Bell labs). I think that if regulations came into play (if Microsoft is found liable) that it would soon lead to regulation of the web. This, of course, seems to be looming anyway.
I can hardly wait to play around with 6.1. I use 6.0 all the time at my work place, and it is sweeet! It is too bad that Linux is slowly being killed off at the univsersity level though. I hate too think what a world with only Windows for an OS would be like.
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I think it is great that Mozilla is putting the M14 crypto out, but this is just one of many things that needs to be done by Mozilla. I am quite concerned about the browser situation. 4.72 was a step, but Netscape is still behind IE. There needs to be much done with the cascading style sheets, more applications tied in with the browser for the newer media. This is without the recent security concerns to say the least.
Ciao
nahtanoj
I will come out now and say that everything in this comment is idealistical and probably never going to be one of general approval. As far as censureship is concerned, one can never, ever, force someone to censure themselves. For example, if a browser comes with a filter, there should be an easy way to turn it on and off. There should never be involuntary blocking of sites.
I will say that I would love to be able to run a search engine on some arbitrary topic and not pull up a site with questionable relevance. But there has got to be a better way to keep kids (I assume that this filter business has to do with kids in cyberspace) out of these sex web sites. Is it possible just to limit the access children have to the Internet? Perhaps the internet providers have logins and passwords? Have the computer in a room where kids can be supervised while they are surfing?
No matter how many times I see it, I cannot believe that people think that they can force other people to be good, moral, ethical, etc. It is just not something that can be done.
Ciao.
nahtahoj
I have recently written a paper on this area for a photonics course. The inherent problems of 3D data storage are numerous to say the least. The only way currently to write the data is by way of laser, which also creates a problem of cross talk between the layers of the lattice structure of the recording medium. There is currently research being performed to eliminate this problem by utilising a dual-laser writing technique that would create only constructive interference at the position of recording.
The other major problem is the type of laser used. A pulse laser writes and retrieves data faster, yet is known to damage the recording medium. The solution is to use a high-powered contiuous-wave laser, which is being looked into.
The real decider in whether holographic memory is whether or not a certain compression of data can be reached. Off the top of my head I think it is somewhere around 10 megabits of data per square cm. Last I knew, I believe it was somewhere near 1 megabit per square cm. This is a really facinating topic, and I encourage all to look into it for themselves.
Ciao.
nahtanoj
A couple of people have said that this Intel announcement has nothing to do with Crusoe. I will tell you now why it does. It is the fact that Intel is putting a chip on the market that overlaps some of what the Crusoe is supposed to accomplish. The terms that clearly shout "Crusoe" are 'heat-dissapation' and 'low-power consumption'. This is Intel's way of trying to say that no-one needs to buy or use a Crusoe processor. The one problem they have is that the secrecy of Transmeta allowed the Crusoe to stun Intel when they were taking their sweet time to make advances on the problems that the Crusoe chips confront. Thus, Transmeta has a year to get OEM's and companies behind the Cursoe chips. Also, they have the time to start on the next generation of Crusoe chips that might extend the foothold that they have gained on the mobile processor market. All this should have been obvious.....
Ciao
nahtanoj
I would like to point out that Einstein did understand Schroedinger's theories about quantum mechanics, he just did not like what he saw as a precise science reduced to probability. The way he saw things, they were on the verge of defining everything in a universal law, much the way Newton thought he did.
Also, about the dual existence of buckey-balls (carbon 60), it has been known for years now that inside a quantum box an object can have two superstates. These superstates are position probabilities, either inside or outside the box. In order for a particle to be "in two places at the same time", the particle needs two superstates of high probability. (Like 50% and 40%)
Ciao
nahtanoj
I thought it was a good thing that Time wrote this topic up and is unafraid to present such things in an objective way. The article presented Time's usuall neutral stance. The thing that got to me was how hard I found it to tell the damn server to stop trying to cookie me. I had to stop the page loading to get the damn thing to stop. As for AOL, I have never liked their setup or their majority share of the ISP market. True, their were one of the first providers, but they seized a hold of the market and have never let go. I am glad that when I received the 500 free hours of AOL 5.0 CD I held it over the fire in my fireplace and warped it beyond use. My roommate appreciated the artistry of it and has it still in his room. BTW, AOL, if you see this, email me and I will tell you where to send another CD. I am interested in developing this new CD art-form.
Ciao.
nahtanoj
While this article does state a need to make radical changes in webpages and browsers in the future, I could not help being amused at the warning to avoided being a "promiscuous browser." I can foresee in the near future the talk of one being a "web-slut" or groups of young boys going "web-wenching." "Don't chat with him, his browser is infected." "Be sure to turn on your condom code before you browse tonight."
Practice safe surfing.
Jon
What is this? It stated that Microsoft was the author of the testing tool they used. I am not familiar with the tool itself, but I have doubts as to whether it is unbiased. It is thus obvious that they were using Windows PC's to run the testing. I myself work with Redhat in the research lab I have a job at, and to me it seems that one would not use Redhat to manage a huge network. I think it is ideal to run a network of about 20-50 users, no more. If you do happen to run a major network, you would use a SunOS or FreeBSD, if you wanted a Unix network. I am personally quite suspicious of this networking test. Who is providing funds for this test, and did they run a similar test utilizing a unix testing tool? I don't know....
Journalists getting out of control? Too many newsites with the same-old, same-old newstories? We don't have to just sit around while they bombard us with trivial matters portrayed as the beginning of the apocalypse. Let us pass new legislation legalising the hunting of jounalists and spamming of newsites, to pay them back for all they have put us through. Certainly, there shall have to be a designated "season" for the hunting part, but I can only foresee good coming from this.
"Come on, son! It's time to bag us Peter Jennings!"
nahtanoj
This parallels a previous question about the effects of a newly-elected president on these preceedings. I am fuzzy on the detail, but I am certain that a president could replace many of the people on the DoJ.
So my questions are: whether or not you think that a more economically conservative president would pressure the DoJ into settling or to accept a lesser punishment, and would campaign contributions from Micro$oft make a candidate more amenable to the aforesaid action.
Thank you for answering our questions.
You think you can sell the intergalatic realestate? You fools! Were you not at the Symposium at MK 451? It was there that these things were settled. For your information, it is I who own this sector, as well as Andromeda, the Pleides Cluster, and the Galatic Core. Keep up this farce, and I will be forced to authorize a "cleaning" job on this puny world you inhabit. That will be all.
Just a few questions flittering through my thoughts at this moment. How exactly is one supposed to fight the demons in this game? The Christian way would be to turn the other cheek. Am I right about assuming that this is not what they do here? Do you forgive the demon for striking you? Do you pray that one day (s)he will see the light and give up evil for good?
This is just typical of Microsoft. They go for the throat every time something threatens them. I say Bill is just too blatant this time. Go DOJ! Break 'em up!
The whole question is how much do you regulate? This is quite similar to the break-up of Ma Bell. In some ways, things got better (like being able to own your own phone) and some things got worse (Bell labs). I think that if regulations came into play (if Microsoft is found liable) that it would soon lead to regulation of the web. This, of course, seems to be looming anyway.
I can hardly wait to play around with 6.1. I use 6.0 all the time at my work place, and it is sweeet! It is too bad that Linux is slowly being killed off at the univsersity level though. I hate too think what a world with only Windows for an OS would be like.