"You could store as delayed and compressed wave signals... an incredibly elaborate matrix of data. It would be interesting to use something other than a physical mask to create the interference in the wave... say another set of photons in the form of a laser... would this be a form of holographic storage?"
Virtual transistors made of nothing but photons interfering with or reinforcing each other at the nodes of a 3D matrix in empty space. And if a task suddenly required a few terabytes of temporary storage, the system could dynamically reconfigure a whole bank of processing points to hold the incoming data, which more often than not would be a patch from Microsuckware to plug a new exploit.
"The only reason hierarchies seem like a good idea is because we've been using them since the birth of file systems, because computers at the time couldn't handle anything more expressive. It's time to move on."
The heirarchal structure of the file system was imposed by the Patriarchy. The new paradigm promoted by feminists is to group files and file "containers" into an equal but interconnected web of dependencies where they all sit around in a circle and any user (no scratch that, it sounds so oppressive), a participant, if she feels like it, can learn the community consensus reached by all the other background processes.
I'm not trying to troll, but has anyone else noticed that slashdot is slowly repositioning itself from pro-google to anti-google?
The turning point was the censorship they dabbled in while searching for the almighty buck. Lots of/.'ers are on the, err, left hand of the electronic freedom spectrum.
"Because apparently when Democrats can't punch out a hole right, they're stupid idiots, but when Republicans can't fill out a ballot, their voice deserves to be heard."
Hey, are you calling those Palm Beach County butterfly ballot Buchanan voters stupid?
The initial count showed her trailing Rossi by 261 votes
Recount #1 diminished that lead to only 42 votes.
Recount #2 gave her a 10-vote lead.
Enter the courts, tossing in some ballots, tossing out others.
The final results had Christine Gregoire ahead by 130 votes
Google is going be sued by the companies that control the distribution of music in physical form, historically known as "labels". Look what happened to Lindows.
"My phone also has enough resolution that, if I miss a day of class and need to get notes, I can just take a picture of someone else's (with their permission, of course) and transcribe it later"
Or maybe a buddy can squirt his notes to you. Unless he idly scribbled the lyrics of some Sony-owned pop song in the margin. Then the OCR kicks in and disables the wi-fi feature.
The advise of G.Gordon Liddy on his radio show echoes in my ear. 'All these traffic cameras are just another violation of your privacy and more governmental control.Take a bb gun and aim for the lens.Fight the power'"
In other news today, policeman Adam Jones was suspended with pay yesterday pending the investigation of the shooting death of talk show host and third-rate Watergate burglar G. Gordon Liddy at the corner of 5th and Broad yesterday. "I thought he was brandishing a rifle at other motorists, Officer Jones said to reporters. "How was I supposed to know it was a Daisy rifle and he was just aiming at the traffic camera?"
"I might be shooting myself in the foot here, but I'd love to have a Zune for dirt cheap. Not because I care about the player itself, but because I want the hard drive inside"
At the Las Vegas CES 2007 Summit, A-DATA showcased a solid state disk hard drive based on Flash technology with a capacity of 128 GB. So pretty quick, bashing a Zune to dig out the hard drive will be like ripping apart this to get the single-density 5 1/4 inch floppy drives.
"I work in a refinery, where security is extremely prohibitive towards cameras and camera phones"
The morons. Just wait until Moore's Law really kicks in, and we get camera phones built right in to the collar of one's blouse or polo shirt. Don't they know there's a singularity coming?
"Also, the artists *could* receive money, but the RIAA and associated member companies refuse to collect their royalties from the applicable Russian copyright organization that has been collecting them."
Maybe because the Russian "collections" agents have bigger baseball bats.
"So I ripped my copy of The Eagles Greatest Hits to my iPod [I've personally purchased the LP, 8-Track, cassette and CD of that silly little record over the course of 20 years..."
Great little slab of tunes. I can neither confirm, nor deny, that I picked the whole thing up from alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.classic-rock using the Pan newsreader in about four minutes. Oh, if the labels only knew about that Venue-That-Shall-Not-Be-Named which is older than the web.
"It would have been funny if the Zune marketplace had very little content and then the remainder of providers pulled out simply due to too small a marketshare."
Two years from now that Goodwill thrift store a hop and skip away from Microsoft where I get all my software is gonna have more $4.99 Zunes than they had Jar Jar Binks action figures in 1999. They'll stick 'em over by the 8-tracks.
The Zune display at Circuit City is just as big as the Divx display was back in about 1996, same hopeful looks in the salesperson's eyes as you float by.
Well, if the marketplace decrees that Zune is doomed, I suppose the next logical step is for Microsoft and dia-RIAA to lobby the Donks in Congress to outlaw all non-crippled portable hardware, maybe titling the bill the Music Players With Disabilities Act.
You can't wi-fi RIAA songs to each other, but if someone ever hacks the Zune, they'll sit there and infect each other, especially if everyone is close together at the stadium or something.
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"All well and good until your ISP throttles all bandwidth for unapproved services, where 'approved' services are ones sanctioned by the RIAA/MPAA, and which also pay a tithe to your ISP."
That's where competition comes in. No one is locked into any one ISP, unless they are on AOL.
The market will solve this one. MP3s cannot be DRM'd, so DRM'd podcasts will have to be in WMAs or AAC format, and they will be offered with all kinds of legal mumbo-jumbo which will turn most people off. The prospective customers shrug, go look for the MP3 ones, and that site won't get the hits it wants, and their advertisers will tell them to flake off. If Err America does this, so much the better.
If podcasts are from iPods, and Apple controls the DRM for iPods, wouldn't the government have to, err, get permission from Apple before making every broadcaster install the encyption software that Apple uses to distribute iTunes? Or are we living in Russia?
If the EUtopian's Department of Redundancy Department wants to spend billions of Euros making their own Google clone, or a GPS clone, or a whole new European internet just so they can say it's not controlled by an American corporation, more power to them, because the results aren't what they're looking for, only keeping people employed in their make-work economy.
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"You could store as delayed and compressed wave signals... an incredibly elaborate matrix of data. It would be interesting to use something other than a physical mask to create the interference in the wave... say another set of photons in the form of a laser... would this be a form of holographic storage?"
Virtual transistors made of nothing but photons interfering with or reinforcing each other at the nodes of a 3D matrix in empty space. And if a task suddenly required a few terabytes of temporary storage, the system could dynamically reconfigure a whole bank of processing points to hold the incoming data, which more often than not would be a patch from Microsuckware to plug a new exploit.
"The only reason hierarchies seem like a good idea is because we've been using them since the birth of file systems, because computers at the time couldn't handle anything more expressive. It's time to move on."
The heirarchal structure of the file system was imposed by the Patriarchy. The new paradigm promoted by feminists is to group files and file "containers" into an equal but interconnected web of dependencies where they all sit around in a circle and any user (no scratch that, it sounds so oppressive), a participant, if she feels like it, can learn the community consensus reached by all the other background processes.
I'm not trying to troll, but has anyone else noticed that slashdot is slowly repositioning itself from pro-google to anti-google?
/.'ers are on the, err, left hand of the electronic freedom spectrum.
The turning point was the censorship they dabbled in while searching for the almighty buck. Lots of
"Thanks to Heisenberg you can only know so much about location and energy at the same time."
Dern that Heisenberg. And you can also thank Einstein for the fact that it takes at least one year to travel one light-year.
"I can't put my finger on it, but they don't appear to be stereotypical Bush operatives."
I thought it was stereotypical Bush operatives who rejected science and went by appearances and by gut feelings that they can't put a finger on.
"RIAA filed a suit against University of Rochester and all of its students for "Helping those damn, dirty pirates infringe on our copyrights!!"
They turned Britney Spears' "Oops I Did It Again" into a giant single number, and imprinted that number on the photon, thus making an illegal photon.
"Because apparently when Democrats can't punch out a hole right, they're stupid idiots, but when Republicans can't fill out a ballot, their voice deserves to be heard."
Hey, are you calling those Palm Beach County butterfly ballot Buchanan voters stupid?
The initial count showed her trailing Rossi by 261 votes Recount #1 diminished that lead to only 42 votes. Recount #2 gave her a 10-vote lead. Enter the courts, tossing in some ballots, tossing out others. The final results had Christine Gregoire ahead by 130 votes
Google is going be sued by the companies that control the distribution of music in physical form, historically known as "labels". Look what happened to Lindows.
"My phone also has enough resolution that, if I miss a day of class and need to get notes, I can just take a picture of someone else's (with their permission, of course) and transcribe it later"
Or maybe a buddy can squirt his notes to you. Unless he idly scribbled the lyrics of some Sony-owned pop song in the margin. Then the OCR kicks in and disables the wi-fi feature.
The advise of G.Gordon Liddy on his radio show echoes in my ear. 'All these traffic cameras are just another violation of your privacy and more governmental control.Take a bb gun and aim for the lens.Fight the power'"
In other news today, policeman Adam Jones was suspended with pay yesterday pending the investigation of the shooting death of talk show host and third-rate Watergate burglar G. Gordon Liddy at the corner of 5th and Broad yesterday. "I thought he was brandishing a rifle at other motorists, Officer Jones said to reporters. "How was I supposed to know it was a Daisy rifle and he was just aiming at the traffic camera?"
"I might be shooting myself in the foot here, but I'd love to have a Zune for dirt cheap. Not because I care about the player itself, but because I want the hard drive inside"
At the Las Vegas CES 2007 Summit, A-DATA showcased a solid state disk hard drive based on Flash technology with a capacity of 128 GB. So pretty quick, bashing a Zune to dig out the hard drive will be like ripping apart this to get the single-density 5 1/4 inch floppy drives.
"I work in a refinery, where security is extremely prohibitive towards cameras and camera phones"
The morons. Just wait until Moore's Law really kicks in, and we get camera phones built right in to the collar of one's blouse or polo shirt. Don't they know there's a singularity coming?
"Alpha Centuri is about 10 light-years away. Thus it would take 10 years, not 4."
On the contrary, Alpha Centauri A/B is 4.395 light-years away, plus or minus 0.007 light-years. Wikipedia is your friend!
"Also, the artists *could* receive money, but the RIAA and associated member companies refuse to collect their royalties from the applicable Russian copyright organization that has been collecting them."
Maybe because the Russian "collections" agents have bigger baseball bats.
"...(You just got zuned!)
I smell a meme..."
Zune (v). To demote with extreme prejudice. Astronomers zuned Pluto in a conference yesterday. See also, "Plutoed"
"So I ripped my copy of The Eagles Greatest Hits to my iPod [I've personally purchased the LP, 8-Track, cassette and CD of that silly little record over the course of 20 years..."
Great little slab of tunes. I can neither confirm, nor deny, that I picked the whole thing up from alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.classic-rock using the Pan newsreader in about four minutes. Oh, if the labels only knew about that Venue-That-Shall-Not-Be-Named which is older than the web.
"It would have been funny if the Zune marketplace had very little content and then the remainder of providers pulled out simply due to too small a marketshare."
Two years from now that Goodwill thrift store a hop and skip away from Microsoft where I get all my software is gonna have more $4.99 Zunes than they had Jar Jar Binks action figures in 1999. They'll stick 'em over by the 8-tracks.
The Zune display at Circuit City is just as big as the Divx display was back in about 1996, same hopeful looks in the salesperson's eyes as you float by.
Well, if the marketplace decrees that Zune is doomed, I suppose the next logical step is for Microsoft and dia-RIAA to lobby the Donks in Congress to outlaw all non-crippled portable hardware, maybe titling the bill the Music Players With Disabilities Act.
You can't wi-fi RIAA songs to each other, but if someone ever hacks the Zune, they'll sit there and infect each other, especially if everyone is close together at the stadium or something.
"All well and good until your ISP throttles all bandwidth for unapproved services, where 'approved' services are ones sanctioned by the RIAA/MPAA, and which also pay a tithe to your ISP."
That's where competition comes in. No one is locked into any one ISP, unless they are on AOL.
The market will solve this one. MP3s cannot be DRM'd, so DRM'd podcasts will have to be in WMAs or AAC format, and they will be offered with all kinds of legal mumbo-jumbo which will turn most people off. The prospective customers shrug, go look for the MP3 ones, and that site won't get the hits it wants, and their advertisers will tell them to flake off. If Err America does this, so much the better.
If podcasts are from iPods, and Apple controls the DRM for iPods, wouldn't the government have to, err, get permission from Apple before making every broadcaster install the encyption software that Apple uses to distribute iTunes? Or are we living in Russia?
If the EUtopian's Department of Redundancy Department wants to spend billions of Euros making their own Google clone, or a GPS clone, or a whole new European internet just so they can say it's not controlled by an American corporation, more power to them, because the results aren't what they're looking for, only keeping people employed in their make-work economy.