I don't see why anyone thinks The Singularity has happened. If they engineered narcotics into our neural system that had no disadvantages (only euphoria of ideal magnitude) than I'd say we're starting to approach the era of where technology is blended into us and takes us into more control and innovation in everyday life. BCS and Neuroscience and BME are so young. We're nowhere. Computer advancements only matter as far as them getting small and compatible enough to mimic and enhance brain functionality, etc. inside us.
Is it so improbable that Einstein took advantage of his celebrity status and embraced the women flocking to him? What may be shocking is how he treated his wives but he did act honest. Personally I wouldn't get cuckolded. I do understand that schizo is a bad life for a large amount of the time. I think we need to hear more summaries of the letters.
I just wrote a complaint to Apple, or rather a suggestion, that there be an AppleCare designed for desktop and AirPort users in mind because our systems are not portable---an in-home service plan. I hope Best Buy lights Apple's fire of competition even if they suck. I want to stop being the geek of the house and enjoy reading what i read on the computer rather than pretending to know how or want to fix firmware or who knows what...the point is this is a long time coming.
Recently I invested under $20 in Allofmp3.com download store. The files I chose were MP3. They had no DRM and although poorly tagged (everything was marked Blues and the artist was the album name) and not available as a group zip file...at least there wasn't DRM. Is it a good long-term solution? No.
In season 1, there's an episode where they setup an additional translation system with a laser that monitors his back tail flipper and creates video images out of it. That's the one with William Shatner's autistic kid. The other one that I've seen that showed off Darwin's psychology was about a former prodigy who steals Darwin in order to research his circle theory of the universe. He looks at dolphins as holding the secret. It turns out to be a touching, elegant dialogue between Darwin and the obsessed genius.
Thanks for connecting for me O'Bannon to SeaQuest DSV, [Alien Nation], and Farscape.
Darwin the dolphin is not a gag but rather a thought out statement to attract the audience into respecting animals more by humanizing them. The SeaQuest show took advantage of promising science and speculated about advancements in marine technology and yes, inter-species translation apparently, to increase harmony with the ocean and its creatures. And the first season wasn' that bad!
As much as I want access to new classics to discover I dread re-buying my cassettes in DRM'ed low bitrate lossy files. Normal Apple Lossless files are all I ask...I'm already intrigued but I have no interest in ever buying this material again and there's no reason in the world why I need to accept lower quality when much better is possible (they are indeed using the source materials many times when converting these files).
Thank you for the information about FEMA and their naive idea. If somebody is a libertarian they still think the government can protect them from violent crime and invaders (but not necessarily natural disasters). I guess that's naive too considering how inefficient it would still be even if they stopped focusing on drugs and copyright scandals... Then only anarcho-capatalism combined with being armed and trained in self-defense could help you in that you could always protect yourself if you're skilled and private companies could compete to offer protection and perhaps prevention, perhaps. Based on what you're saying prevention still sounds unlikely even with optimism about such a free market security system.
Haha. By "Vendors are often willing to subsidize the rollout" though do you mean the girl's parents are the vendors or the woman herself makes it easy?
With the 128kbs MP3 craze going it could take years for people to go back to hi-fi standards. Perhaps LP's are a safe bet:) I am happy with any music I can play that sounds good, regardless of whether others know about the technology or think it's better. I am spreading my bets across the iTunes and DVD-based technologies. An entry-level $100 SACD/DVD-audio player can satisfy your curiousity about the format until you're allowed to play them on your DRM'ed DVD Player software.
When Sony comes out with their Blu-Ray player why not put Super Audio CD in there just like in the PS3. State of the art and state of the art. 3,000+ SACD titles and the newest in high definition movies. Awesome audio and video. Both worth the premium.
Sanduski says that the Blu-Ray prices will come down quickly once other manufacturers bring their players to market. "There are nine manufacturers building Blu-Ray devices," according to Sanduski. "There is only one building HD-DVD drives: Toshiba."
Good news. I think Apple will have one of these babies in their Mac Pro by Rev. B of the Intel design makeover. For me, $1000 is too much. I can barely justify $100 for a low-end SACD player. My HDTV is $900 although it's worth more than that. I'm lucky to get DVR for no upfront free and under $7 a month. $1000 is out of sync with that. I'll just have to wait but Netflix supports the format and that's great because I subscribe. I can try it out if someone gets a PS3 or something.
I had to just say that was an interesting name. This issue of piracy being enforced by governments, especially our very powerful one (USA) is disturbing because it's an area the government need not interfere with. Piracy is supposed to happen when you design hardware and software that's open to it. The governments must just let it happen. The people who need to enforce it, these publishers and content companies that is, should have no legal authority to do so and must use technology and voluntary compliance alone. Piracy is not stealing. Piracy is a special digital loophole that can be solved with DRM and non-legal means. Dare I say, it can be severly curbed by FUCKING offering the service we want in the first place like the music downloads that took a decade to come online and now movies in HD will take so damn long to be distributed when they could be, and they will be pirates instead. It's not a crime to take advantage of a market opportunity like that. The companies can see this coming but want to put people in jail because they're better business people than themselves.
Voluntary regulation, heavy fines or not, is voluntary. Easily or not, you can band together and sell games as downloads or Netflix-style rentals. Publishers should expect to do that from the start because in America this discrimination against certain content by MPAA/RIAA etc. and because of our public's crazy standards, the retailers themselves is bound to happen inevitably ruining creative opportunities for those who aren't prepared to use different sales channels.
OK so New Mexico politicians will keep the lab alive (last paragraphs) and maybe biology research is the wrong field for a classified-capable facility's limited time. I'm glad to see they closed down and restructured based on at the least those two news story with the missing sensitive data and suspected spy. Hopefully the facility will acquire better utilization and purpose but in nuclear technology it's OK to be a backup as long as you're competent. IMO, the lab should continue to exist, not only to do the computational research, but most importantly to compete with the other two labs in the west and elsewhere because competition is important and should be especially encouraged with something as risky and complex as nuclear technology.
PS3 offers both Super Audio CD and Blu-Ray reading and I think that makes it less of a commodity. Wii and Apple position themselves as charging a premium for good design quality and special features and I'm glad Sony is adding unique/first to market technologies to their mix. I personally can't wait to try the SACD I ordered from Amazon.com (Switchfoot) but my the entry fee is at least $100 for a player of not so great quality...it's being sold at TigerDirect and discounted and all but I don't think a Pioneer for $100 is going to compare to what Sony, king of SACD, puts into the PS3. I'd buy the PS3 just for Blu-Ray and SACD if it were a little cheaper, assuming neither were crippled but of course it'd be a bitch to even acquire the device amidst the crowds and fans waiting in the queue. 360's HD DVD doesn't seem as special of a format compared to Blu-Ray and SACD.
Don't forget that TiVo is built on Linux and KDE will/has widget support. Motorola IMO could do a better UI; we have two of their cellular phones and I think they could use better GUI/menu system. Maybe if they focus less on the kernel and spend money outsourcing the looks improvements can be had. If Apple does a cellphone it'll look as good as iChat AV.
Would you honestly say that a girl who's a 7.5 or greater out of 10 would make running your programming project easier if she were doing the same work as you? Would the obvious tension be so easy to ignore and surely you wouldn't be the only guy in the office to notice. No, it should be allowed but how are we ready to interact equally with someone who lowers our IQ just when we look at them (studies say that bla bla bla) because of their good looks. I can see how communicating over e-mail and AIM and sharing code is more productive if you guys telecommute you may never realize how she really looks.
In this rather disturbing episode in the fourth season of TNG, engineer Commander Geordi La Forge has to investigate why he and three colleagues are drawn to a particular small area of a planet, to their peril. There's visual evidence from their first trip he keeps pouring over until he decides to focus on a small shadow and take that frame to the holodeck. The holodeck gives the 2D shadow 3D shape, both proving there was something else in the room and more. We see it's not human. In the fiction he tells the computer to extrapolate the shadow based on the size of an average human, say 5'8" and using personnel logs the other crew men can be rendered in 3D completely. Most of it though is from a 2D frame in a video. Geordi has a weird costume at the end of this episode...blue man group anyone?
That's not just any woman, that's a beautiful woman reading a Unix book. The last blonde female geek i thought was attractive in our computer science class hung out with football players and almost failed out (like i did) the first semester. Maybe if I gone to a less geeky school...well mine wasn't exactly where the hottest people are. The smarter the school the uglier the women. Those few women at my school who were hot were had way too much attention, this is out of 4000 women. The worst part was when the nearby technical college of 30,000 people, surely many many men, would get involved in campus parties. Oh but yes there was an OK Mac user girl there, a former cheerleader who went with us to see Steve Wozniak. Taken. So I guess the next place to look is an ordinary school where most guys don't prize smart women.
i read all these articles about various seemingly simple things being patented, and Amazon.com's got a few of those for sure. the true abuse is the time length. i hear patent stuff is increasing so these are better thought out before approval but if you can't avoid patenting generic things at least give patent holders less time to exploit the public. patent and copyright last too long.
"The minute I hear stories about the abuse of this power, I'll start to worry." ---no, no we don't wait for corruption or abuse, we expect it and come up with contingency plans to contain the problems. These databases are powerful and can be abused even though most will not be.
One leak is a huge violation of our privacy and financial safety. The risk of an accidental leak, IMO the more likely type, needs to be partially countered by stronger precautions and internal security measures.
e.g. today, http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/06/15/024 5212
Poor security measures on government computers are just as bad as bad intentions.
yes. i personally didn't invade Iraq or set foreign policy for years now or before I was born. even if we changed everything today and stayed neutral we'd still have powerful enemies left over that we can't just ignore.
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I don't see why anyone thinks The Singularity has happened. If they engineered narcotics into our neural system that had no disadvantages (only euphoria of ideal magnitude) than I'd say we're starting to approach the era of where technology is blended into us and takes us into more control and innovation in everyday life. BCS and Neuroscience and BME are so young. We're nowhere. Computer advancements only matter as far as them getting small and compatible enough to mimic and enhance brain functionality, etc. inside us.
Is it so improbable that Einstein took advantage of his celebrity status and embraced the women flocking to him? What may be shocking is how he treated his wives but he did act honest. Personally I wouldn't get cuckolded. I do understand that schizo is a bad life for a large amount of the time. I think we need to hear more summaries of the letters.
I just wrote a complaint to Apple, or rather a suggestion, that there be an AppleCare designed for desktop and AirPort users in mind because our systems are not portable---an in-home service plan. I hope Best Buy lights Apple's fire of competition even if they suck. I want to stop being the geek of the house and enjoy reading what i read on the computer rather than pretending to know how or want to fix firmware or who knows what...the point is this is a long time coming.
lol...damn. nothing is perfect then unless it's star trek. i guess we all have to not take data seriously. it's bound to get corrupted or lost :(
Recently I invested under $20 in Allofmp3.com download store. The files I chose were MP3. They had no DRM and although poorly tagged (everything was marked Blues and the artist was the album name) and not available as a group zip file...at least there wasn't DRM. Is it a good long-term solution? No.
In season 1, there's an episode where they setup an additional translation system with a laser that monitors his back tail flipper and creates video images out of it. That's the one with William Shatner's autistic kid. The other one that I've seen that showed off Darwin's psychology was about a former prodigy who steals Darwin in order to research his circle theory of the universe. He looks at dolphins as holding the secret. It turns out to be a touching, elegant dialogue between Darwin and the obsessed genius. Thanks for connecting for me O'Bannon to SeaQuest DSV, [Alien Nation], and Farscape.
Darwin the dolphin is not a gag but rather a thought out statement to attract the audience into respecting animals more by humanizing them. The SeaQuest show took advantage of promising science and speculated about advancements in marine technology and yes, inter-species translation apparently, to increase harmony with the ocean and its creatures. And the first season wasn' that bad!
As much as I want access to new classics to discover I dread re-buying my cassettes in DRM'ed low bitrate lossy files. Normal Apple Lossless files are all I ask...I'm already intrigued but I have no interest in ever buying this material again and there's no reason in the world why I need to accept lower quality when much better is possible (they are indeed using the source materials many times when converting these files).
Thank you for the information about FEMA and their naive idea. If somebody is a libertarian they still think the government can protect them from violent crime and invaders (but not necessarily natural disasters). I guess that's naive too considering how inefficient it would still be even if they stopped focusing on drugs and copyright scandals... Then only anarcho-capatalism combined with being armed and trained in self-defense could help you in that you could always protect yourself if you're skilled and private companies could compete to offer protection and perhaps prevention, perhaps. Based on what you're saying prevention still sounds unlikely even with optimism about such a free market security system.
Haha. By "Vendors are often willing to subsidize the rollout" though do you mean the girl's parents are the vendors or the woman herself makes it easy?
With the 128kbs MP3 craze going it could take years for people to go back to hi-fi standards. Perhaps LP's are a safe bet :) I am happy with any music I can play that sounds good, regardless of whether others know about the technology or think it's better. I am spreading my bets across the iTunes and DVD-based technologies. An entry-level $100 SACD/DVD-audio player can satisfy your curiousity about the format until you're allowed to play them on your DRM'ed DVD Player software.
I had to just say that was an interesting name. This issue of piracy being enforced by governments, especially our very powerful one (USA) is disturbing because it's an area the government need not interfere with. Piracy is supposed to happen when you design hardware and software that's open to it. The governments must just let it happen. The people who need to enforce it, these publishers and content companies that is, should have no legal authority to do so and must use technology and voluntary compliance alone. Piracy is not stealing. Piracy is a special digital loophole that can be solved with DRM and non-legal means. Dare I say, it can be severly curbed by FUCKING offering the service we want in the first place like the music downloads that took a decade to come online and now movies in HD will take so damn long to be distributed when they could be, and they will be pirates instead. It's not a crime to take advantage of a market opportunity like that. The companies can see this coming but want to put people in jail because they're better business people than themselves.
Voluntary regulation, heavy fines or not, is voluntary. Easily or not, you can band together and sell games as downloads or Netflix-style rentals. Publishers should expect to do that from the start because in America this discrimination against certain content by MPAA/RIAA etc. and because of our public's crazy standards, the retailers themselves is bound to happen inevitably ruining creative opportunities for those who aren't prepared to use different sales channels.
OK so New Mexico politicians will keep the lab alive (last paragraphs) and maybe biology research is the wrong field for a classified-capable facility's limited time. I'm glad to see they closed down and restructured based on at the least those two news story with the missing sensitive data and suspected spy. Hopefully the facility will acquire better utilization and purpose but in nuclear technology it's OK to be a backup as long as you're competent. IMO, the lab should continue to exist, not only to do the computational research, but most importantly to compete with the other two labs in the west and elsewhere because competition is important and should be especially encouraged with something as risky and complex as nuclear technology.
Seconded. I don't have any mod points to give you but :)
PS3 offers both Super Audio CD and Blu-Ray reading and I think that makes it less of a commodity. Wii and Apple position themselves as charging a premium for good design quality and special features and I'm glad Sony is adding unique/first to market technologies to their mix. I personally can't wait to try the SACD I ordered from Amazon.com (Switchfoot) but my the entry fee is at least $100 for a player of not so great quality...it's being sold at TigerDirect and discounted and all but I don't think a Pioneer for $100 is going to compare to what Sony, king of SACD, puts into the PS3. I'd buy the PS3 just for Blu-Ray and SACD if it were a little cheaper, assuming neither were crippled but of course it'd be a bitch to even acquire the device amidst the crowds and fans waiting in the queue. 360's HD DVD doesn't seem as special of a format compared to Blu-Ray and SACD.
Don't forget that TiVo is built on Linux and KDE will/has widget support. Motorola IMO could do a better UI; we have two of their cellular phones and I think they could use better GUI/menu system. Maybe if they focus less on the kernel and spend money outsourcing the looks improvements can be had. If Apple does a cellphone it'll look as good as iChat AV.
Would you honestly say that a girl who's a 7.5 or greater out of 10 would make running your programming project easier if she were doing the same work as you? Would the obvious tension be so easy to ignore and surely you wouldn't be the only guy in the office to notice. No, it should be allowed but how are we ready to interact equally with someone who lowers our IQ just when we look at them (studies say that bla bla bla) because of their good looks. I can see how communicating over e-mail and AIM and sharing code is more productive if you guys telecommute you may never realize how she really looks.
In this rather disturbing episode in the fourth season of TNG, engineer Commander Geordi La Forge has to investigate why he and three colleagues are drawn to a particular small area of a planet, to their peril. There's visual evidence from their first trip he keeps pouring over until he decides to focus on a small shadow and take that frame to the holodeck. The holodeck gives the 2D shadow 3D shape, both proving there was something else in the room and more. We see it's not human. In the fiction he tells the computer to extrapolate the shadow based on the size of an average human, say 5'8" and using personnel logs the other crew men can be rendered in 3D completely. Most of it though is from a 2D frame in a video. Geordi has a weird costume at the end of this episode...blue man group anyone?
That's not just any woman, that's a beautiful woman reading a Unix book. The last blonde female geek i thought was attractive in our computer science class hung out with football players and almost failed out (like i did) the first semester. Maybe if I gone to a less geeky school...well mine wasn't exactly where the hottest people are. The smarter the school the uglier the women. Those few women at my school who were hot were had way too much attention, this is out of 4000 women. The worst part was when the nearby technical college of 30,000 people, surely many many men, would get involved in campus parties. Oh but yes there was an OK Mac user girl there, a former cheerleader who went with us to see Steve Wozniak. Taken. So I guess the next place to look is an ordinary school where most guys don't prize smart women.
*patent review staff members are increasing
i read all these articles about various seemingly simple things being patented, and Amazon.com's got a few of those for sure. the true abuse is the time length. i hear patent stuff is increasing so these are better thought out before approval but if you can't avoid patenting generic things at least give patent holders less time to exploit the public. patent and copyright last too long.
"The minute I hear stories about the abuse of this power, I'll start to worry." ---no, no we don't wait for corruption or abuse, we expect it and come up with contingency plans to contain the problems. These databases are powerful and can be abused even though most will not be. One leak is a huge violation of our privacy and financial safety. The risk of an accidental leak, IMO the more likely type, needs to be partially countered by stronger precautions and internal security measures. e.g. today, http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/06/15/024 5212
Poor security measures on government computers are just as bad as bad intentions.
yes. i personally didn't invade Iraq or set foreign policy for years now or before I was born. even if we changed everything today and stayed neutral we'd still have powerful enemies left over that we can't just ignore.