I've been digging through the bookshelf for good old books I haven't read in a long time. Just finished Dune and I'm about half way through Neuromancer. Hard to think of two more different books that still fall under the category of sci-fi. I remember Dune being great, but I'd forgotten just how great. Shame about the movie though. Maybe a decent film in its own right, but really lets the book down. Watching that after rereading the book was a bit of a mistake.
That's a good point. I wonder if they do charge a processing fee. There's probably no reason they can't, and its more money in the bank. There's a thought... maybe Right to be Forgotten requests actually represent a small additional revenue stream for Google.
Google isn't a search engine. Google is a company... With shareholders. They just happen to be in control of the world's most popular search engine. Why on earth would they take a stand against the EU government? What's in it for them? I can't think of a convincing argument that their revenue would go up if they took some ideological stance against the EU law.
I use the 12v output from my Anker Astro Pro2 portable charger to power a Terasic Cyclone V GX FPGA development kit while I'm on train journeys. I do occasionally get funny looks from the train conductor. I haven't tried this on an aeroplane yet.
I bought the Anker Pro2 specifically because it has a 12v output in addition to the usual 5v USB port. Very handy.
Anyway, these battery packs are perfect for powering Arduinos and other small development/hobby boards.
I've used Ketso for mind mapping in a group product design brainstorm session. It worked really well for capturing everybody's ideas and grouping them to come up with common themes and shared ideas. I know its a bit low-tech, but its nice to get away from the computer sometimes.
You want to get the most scope for your money, but like any good tool, you want it to last a long time, so expect to pay out a bit more for quality and performance. I purchased a LeCroy WaveJet after graduation, and it still meets all my needs. The only thing I don't like about it is the noisy fan. LeCroy's WaveJet line does a quite well with packing a lot of feature into a reasonably priced scope. Tek and Agilent don't really have a product comparable to the WaveJet - it sits right between the low end and mid range products from these companies. Having said that, if you can afford a mid range scope from Agilent, they are great - the fastest and most responsive (digital) scopes I've ever used. On the Tek end of things, they still make the most user friendly and solidly built scopes out there - I feel like I could knock a Tek scope off my desk, and it would still work perfectly when I pick it up off the floor.
All things considered, I think you should try to double your budget - $2k just isn't enough to make a future-proof investment. With the way electronics is evolving, I wouldn't consider buying a scope with less than 200MHz bandwidth and a deep memory (at least 500kpts).
Every time this happens, all the democrats and liberals say "I'm gettin the heck outta here", and the situation gets worse. This is understandable, after all, I must look out for myself first. But the problem is that we dont need yet another extreamist nation on this planet!
I'm pretty impressed. This guy is way ahead of these EEs. Its too bad most of the video clips have pretty bad sound quality... you can't hear much of the drummer.
I suspect that making the stick recoil off the drum head after applying a certain amount of force is difficult to calibrate, and even more difficult to modulate. That is, being able to play a range of soft to loud notes require more than just hitting the drum harder or softer, you also have to vary the duration that the stick actually applies force to the drum.
Its really important to be able to precisly adjust these parameters if you want to create a convincing drum roll! It may even be necessary to use two sticks (actuators) just on the snare for a good roll sound.
In the past, I put some thought into doing a project virtually identical to this, and while I never fabricated anything, I came to realize that accuratly mimicking the motion and mechanics of a drum stick striking a recoiling from a drum head is far more difficult than it seems. When their site comes back up, I'll be interested to see how they've pulled this off.
The fact is that a pnumatic "robot" can play the drums faster than just about any human drummer. It would be pretty impressive to hear live, acoustic drum riffs at 200+ bpm...
In the coming decades, it is a safe assumption that humans will continue their attempt to create artificial intelligence. Cool. Meanwhile, we will continue to store volumes of raw data in archives for generations to come. And of course, all the while, millions of songs will be traded.
As your cell phone conversation breaks up, you notice that distinct buffer-looping granular noise. It reminds you of a CD skipping or an old video game lock-up. It is a bit of a stretch, but you can see how it resembles the various block distortions on digital cable and dish TV.
And that is just the problem. Digital. It's all digital. When was the last time you heard radio or TV static? It is evident that the actual form of "noise" is changing for our cultures. How does this persistent presence of digital sampling butterfly into our cultural manner?
More importantly, how will the limitations of digital data influence our future? An immediate example is to see how the RIAA shot its self in the foot by convincing the world that a digitalization of an analog signal was the same as the real thing. Now they see just how worthless a hand-full of bits are when compared to a continuous physical fluctuation over the surface of a material.
A greater problem is the lack of resolution in data stored in archives. We create data records in our labs across the world and digitally sample them, fixing the resolution of the information forever. In ten years, a lot can be learned about how to filter broadband noise from an analog signal, but I'm afraid that there will be very little we can ever do to extract any data that was present between digital samples. So, in ten or twenty year, when we are sampling data ten or twenty times faster, isn't the stuff we're saving to disk today destined to be full of big gaping holes?
And the single most important question is what the moral implications will be if we proceed with our relentless effort to create artificial intelligence as finite state automata? How would you feel knowing you had to exist in a reality defined with a finite number of states? I realize that at approximately the atomic level, we too exist as states in a vast, but likely finite universe. Considering the orders of magnitude to which our digital creations would be restricted when compared to the resolution of the natural analog universe, how big of a god will we be?
Imagine for a moment, that a Lorenz attractor is an intelligent entity; consider how much better its quality of life would be, modeled in an analog computer as opposed to a digital one.
How many people out there, do you think, realize that there is a (astronomical) finite number of compact disks that can be made before you would have to repeat some pattern of 1s and 0s to make another?
But if you answer only one of the questions I pose, I believe that you are among the worlds most qualified to discuss whether digitalization will, can, and should increase its presence in our lives. How about Analog?
certainly this is not a catch-all solution, but it does seem to work...
when i was living in the dorms in college, lots of people had PC's...and lots of people had bad habits of leaving the doors to their rooms wide open. One of my friends had his computer stolen right off his desk while he out getting some food. He was only gone for a moment, but with the door to his room open, the computer was in plain sight to any theif who walks by. That poor guy didn't leave his door open all the time, he was just unlucky enough on that one occasion.
On the other hand, i had another friend whos computer probably should have been stolen. He would leave his door open all day long...leaving it unattended for hours. His anti-theft system was simple and effective.... he had gotten crazy on his computer with multi-colored paint pens. His computer was so uniquely covered in colorfull doodles that nobody could ever walk down the hall lugging his computer without it being identified as belonging to somebody else. Most likly, anybody who did see it would know who's it was cause they saw it in that one dorm room w/ the door open....
anyway... that was a long winded explanation of a simple idea.... the more you personalize your stuff...the less somebody else can see it as theirs.
because then children would grow up to be adults with too much diversity in their values and morals. and that leads to disruptive dissagreements within the society...such as people thinking they should be able to sample music for free before they decide to buy it....or feeling that they should be able to grow and smoke any ole plant they want.
You have a right to modify your copy of a copyrighted work. Take a book and black out the offensive sections, rip out the dull chapters, etc.
exactly..... but how would you like it if the book store ripped out that dull chapter or blacked out offensive words from every copy of that book before they stocked it on their shelf....thats more or less what this is... you wouldnt be very happy about that...and neither would the author!
Microsoft is notorious for matking "On" the default selection for a potentially unwanted "feature". The metatag should at least turn this feature on, not off...so authors can permit microsoft to tag up their page. For example, you dont see signs on all the walls in the world specifying that grafitti is not permitted....although sometimes owners of buildings DO give graf-artistis permission to tag up their walls because they appreciate the art for whatever reason. What microsoft is trying to do should be illegal....for the same reason that spray-painting all over somebody's building without permission is illegal.
wait... dont stop. yer thinking in the right direction. napster's downfall was it's "purpose". you can share anything on gnutella. i share essays i've written and artwork and stuff. thats what we're really trying to build... a massive searchable distributed something or other file transfer network... ya know?
what we're really trying to create is the next generation of information sharing. face it...the http/ftp combination is out of date. this apprococh is more like having every single file on any anonymous ftp site and public web site distributed and searchable in such a way that every person who is intrested enough to download the info becomes a new mirror for it.
how many hackers use hallucinogenic drugs? i think perhaps the common link between mystics, zens, trippers, programmers, etc... are the desire to program, alter, and most of all explore complex systems. they wish to understand that which most people...or nobody at all understand, and make use of it.
this reminds me of an essay that was posted on slashdot a while back. i cant find the article, but here's the essay...The Academy and the Ecstasy
but he's right... it has never mattered in the past that something was used primarily for illegal practices, just that it had some practical legal use. forget about "Ziploc" and think about those little tiny half inch square baggies that are useless for anything other than storing a tab of LSD...or the 1 inch square bags that are perfect for nothing but about twenty bucks of weed...or what about pipes in general? and its not just drugs.... what about weapons? they are made to physical hurt or kill people. what about cell phone scanners and cable descramblers and all the publications that explain how to make bombs...
the list goes on and on.
what is the difference between downloading napster and buying a bong in regards to my potential to commit a crime?
at our high school, we had AP (for a while...till we switched to IB), but no computer science. the most we had was a few graphics and web design classes, a spreadsheet class and a basic programming class (taught on mac LC2's) the most intresting project i ever did with my computer (and this was on my own) was to interface to a pic microcontroller thru the parallel port to make some stepper motors move a little car around. it was fun and intresting...i got to build the circuits, write the code for the PIC, and best of all, write code on the computer to move the car around. -james
Slashdot Mirror
Your premise seems to be that you can only create laws in response to a problem, not in an attempt to prevent one.
I've been digging through the bookshelf for good old books I haven't read in a long time. Just finished Dune and I'm about half way through Neuromancer. Hard to think of two more different books that still fall under the category of sci-fi. I remember Dune being great, but I'd forgotten just how great. Shame about the movie though. Maybe a decent film in its own right, but really lets the book down. Watching that after rereading the book was a bit of a mistake.
That's a good point. I wonder if they do charge a processing fee. There's probably no reason they can't, and its more money in the bank. There's a thought... maybe Right to be Forgotten requests actually represent a small additional revenue stream for Google.
Google isn't a search engine. Google is a company... With shareholders. They just happen to be in control of the world's most popular search engine. Why on earth would they take a stand against the EU government? What's in it for them? I can't think of a convincing argument that their revenue would go up if they took some ideological stance against the EU law.
Oooooh... I love recursion! What comes next??
I use the 12v output from my Anker Astro Pro2 portable charger to power a Terasic Cyclone V GX FPGA development kit while I'm on train journeys. I do occasionally get funny looks from the train conductor. I haven't tried this on an aeroplane yet.
I bought the Anker Pro2 specifically because it has a 12v output in addition to the usual 5v USB port. Very handy.
Anyway, these battery packs are perfect for powering Arduinos and other small development/hobby boards.
I've used Ketso for mind mapping in a group product design brainstorm session. It worked really well for capturing everybody's ideas and grouping them to come up with common themes and shared ideas. I know its a bit low-tech, but its nice to get away from the computer sometimes.
You want to get the most scope for your money, but like any good tool, you want it to last a long time, so expect to pay out a bit more for quality and performance. I purchased a LeCroy WaveJet after graduation, and it still meets all my needs. The only thing I don't like about it is the noisy fan. LeCroy's WaveJet line does a quite well with packing a lot of feature into a reasonably priced scope. Tek and Agilent don't really have a product comparable to the WaveJet - it sits right between the low end and mid range products from these companies. Having said that, if you can afford a mid range scope from Agilent, they are great - the fastest and most responsive (digital) scopes I've ever used. On the Tek end of things, they still make the most user friendly and solidly built scopes out there - I feel like I could knock a Tek scope off my desk, and it would still work perfectly when I pick it up off the floor.
All things considered, I think you should try to double your budget - $2k just isn't enough to make a future-proof investment. With the way electronics is evolving, I wouldn't consider buying a scope with less than 200MHz bandwidth and a deep memory (at least 500kpts).
Every time this happens, all the democrats and liberals say "I'm gettin the heck outta here", and the situation gets worse. This is understandable, after all, I must look out for myself first. But the problem is that we dont need yet another extreamist nation on this planet!
so its gonna be 4 MORE WAR!
I'm pretty impressed. This guy is way ahead of these EEs. Its too bad most of the video clips have pretty bad sound quality... you can't hear much of the drummer.
I suspect that making the stick recoil off the drum head after applying a certain amount of force is difficult to calibrate, and even more difficult to modulate. That is, being able to play a range of soft to loud notes require more than just hitting the drum harder or softer, you also have to vary the duration that the stick actually applies force to the drum.
Its really important to be able to precisly adjust these parameters if you want to create a convincing drum roll! It may even be necessary to use two sticks (actuators) just on the snare for a good roll sound.
In the past, I put some thought into doing a project virtually identical to this, and while I never fabricated anything, I came to realize that accuratly mimicking the motion and mechanics of a drum stick striking a recoiling from a drum head is far more difficult than it seems. When their site comes back up, I'll be interested to see how they've pulled this off.
The fact is that a pnumatic "robot" can play the drums faster than just about any human drummer. It would be pretty impressive to hear live, acoustic drum riffs at 200+ bpm...
at least for ten or fifteen minutes.
In the coming decades, it is a safe assumption that humans will continue their attempt to create artificial intelligence. Cool. Meanwhile, we will continue to store volumes of raw data in archives for generations to come. And of course, all the while, millions of songs will be traded.
As your cell phone conversation breaks up, you notice that distinct buffer-looping granular noise. It reminds you of a CD skipping or an old video game lock-up. It is a bit of a stretch, but you can see how it resembles the various block distortions on digital cable and dish TV.
And that is just the problem. Digital. It's all digital. When was the last time you heard radio or TV static? It is evident that the actual form of "noise" is changing for our cultures. How does this persistent presence of digital sampling butterfly into our cultural manner?
More importantly, how will the limitations of digital data influence our future? An immediate example is to see how the RIAA shot its self in the foot by convincing the world that a digitalization of an analog signal was the same as the real thing. Now they see just how worthless a hand-full of bits are when compared to a continuous physical fluctuation over the surface of a material.
A greater problem is the lack of resolution in data stored in archives. We create data records in our labs across the world and digitally sample them, fixing the resolution of the information forever. In ten years, a lot can be learned about how to filter broadband noise from an analog signal, but I'm afraid that there will be very little we can ever do to extract any data that was present between digital samples. So, in ten or twenty year, when we are sampling data ten or twenty times faster, isn't the stuff we're saving to disk today destined to be full of big gaping holes?
And the single most important question is what the moral implications will be if we proceed with our relentless effort to create artificial intelligence as finite state automata? How would you feel knowing you had to exist in a reality defined with a finite number of states? I realize that at approximately the atomic level, we too exist as states in a vast, but likely finite universe. Considering the orders of magnitude to which our digital creations would be restricted when compared to the resolution of the natural analog universe, how big of a god will we be?
Imagine for a moment, that a Lorenz attractor is an intelligent entity; consider how much better its quality of life would be, modeled in an analog computer as opposed to a digital one.
How many people out there, do you think, realize that there is a (astronomical) finite number of compact disks that can be made before you would have to repeat some pattern of 1s and 0s to make another?
But if you answer only one of the questions I pose, I believe that you are among the worlds most qualified to discuss whether digitalization will, can, and should increase its presence in our lives. How about Analog?
perhaps.... but he said it was written by Bill Gates himself.... the article mentions that as well.
if Gates was able to write some good code when he wrote that, whats wrong with all his clones???
certainly this is not a catch-all solution, but it does seem to work...
when i was living in the dorms in college, lots of people had PC's...and lots of people had bad habits of leaving the doors to their rooms wide open. One of my friends had his computer stolen right off his desk while he out getting some food. He was only gone for a moment, but with the door to his room open, the computer was in plain sight to any theif who walks by. That poor guy didn't leave his door open all the time, he was just unlucky enough on that one occasion.
On the other hand, i had another friend whos computer probably should have been stolen. He would leave his door open all day long...leaving it unattended for hours. His anti-theft system was simple and effective.... he had gotten crazy on his computer with multi-colored paint pens. His computer was so uniquely covered in colorfull doodles that nobody could ever walk down the hall lugging his computer without it being identified as belonging to somebody else. Most likly, anybody who did see it would know who's it was cause they saw it in that one dorm room w/ the door open....
anyway... that was a long winded explanation of a simple idea.... the more you personalize your stuff...the less somebody else can see it as theirs.
nope...only if the bookstore does that for you and tries to sell it as new....or more specifically...implies that it was published that way.
because then children would grow up to be adults with too much diversity in their values and morals. and that leads to disruptive dissagreements within the society...such as people thinking they should be able to sample music for free before they decide to buy it....or feeling that they should be able to grow and smoke any ole plant they want.
(yes, i'm being sarcastic)
You have a right to modify your copy of a copyrighted work. Take a book and black out the offensive sections, rip out the dull chapters, etc.
exactly..... but how would you like it if the book store ripped out that dull chapter or blacked out offensive words from every copy of that book before they stocked it on their shelf....thats more or less what this is... you wouldnt be very happy about that...and neither would the author!
Microsoft is notorious for matking "On" the default selection for a potentially unwanted "feature". The metatag should at least turn this feature on, not off...so authors can permit microsoft to tag up their page. For example, you dont see signs on all the walls in the world specifying that grafitti is not permitted....although sometimes owners of buildings DO give graf-artistis permission to tag up their walls because they appreciate the art for whatever reason. What microsoft is trying to do should be illegal....for the same reason that spray-painting all over somebody's building without permission is illegal.
James Rudee
this whole thing got me thinking about putting up a page for ppl to post testamonials of products that dont work.
wait... dont stop. yer thinking in the right direction. napster's downfall was it's "purpose". you can share anything on gnutella. i share essays i've written and artwork and stuff. thats what we're really trying to build... a massive searchable distributed something or other file transfer network ... ya know?
what we're really trying to create is the next generation of information sharing. face it...the http/ftp combination is out of date. this apprococh is more like having every single file on any anonymous ftp site and public web site distributed and searchable in such a way that every person who is intrested enough to download the info becomes a new mirror for it.
get it?????
james
i once talked to a guy who would stick his dirty keyboard in the dishwasher then let it air dry.
how many hackers use hallucinogenic drugs? i think perhaps the common link between mystics, zens, trippers, programmers, etc... are the desire to program, alter, and most of all explore complex systems. they wish to understand that which most people...or nobody at all understand, and make use of it.
this reminds me of an essay that was posted on slashdot a while back. i cant find the article, but here's the essay...The Academy and the Ecstasy
echo-e
but he's right... it has never mattered in the past that something was used primarily for illegal practices, just that it had some practical legal use. forget about "Ziploc" and think about those little tiny half inch square baggies that are useless for anything other than storing a tab of LSD...or the 1 inch square bags that are perfect for nothing but about twenty bucks of weed...or what about pipes in general? and its not just drugs.... what about weapons? they are made to physical hurt or kill people. what about cell phone scanners and cable descramblers and all the publications that explain how to make bombs...
the list goes on and on.
what is the difference between downloading napster and buying a bong in regards to my potential to commit a crime?
at our high school, we had AP (for a while...till we switched to IB), but no computer science. the most we had was a few graphics and web design classes, a spreadsheet class and a basic programming class (taught on mac LC2's) the most intresting project i ever did with my computer (and this was on my own) was to interface to a pic microcontroller thru the parallel port to make some stepper motors move a little car around. it was fun and intresting...i got to build the circuits, write the code for the PIC, and best of all, write code on the computer to move the car around. -james
does anyone think that people would stop using them?
hey, i still smoke cigarettes.