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- Fiction as causation
- Fiction as causationRudy...What is the point here....?Is this just another non specific abstract ramble?That is kind of oddhttp://tinyurl.com/g5xm2Mixed messages?You need to read more books.What Paul is trying to show is how science-fiction is becoming reality. I know, I've been watching another type of sci-fi invade our reality.I'm a forum...
- Tags: perpetrator, causation, fiction
- Discussion threads 2007-02-09
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- Cablevision, part 2: Is RS-DVR like a VCR or a copy shop?
- (See Part 1: Buffering is not copying) Direct liability for creating playback copies The plaintiffs charged that Cablevision violated its reproduction right by creating copies for playback to customers. The question here is who made the copies. "If it is Cablevision, plaintiffs' theory of...
- Tags: Cablevision Systems Corp., VCR, Netcom, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-08-05
- Robofish teams of underwater robots
- Robofish teams of underwater robots'Skills' broken down into specified tasksFor some reason this reminds me of Stanislaw Lem's "The Invincible", where a ship of that name is brought down...depending on your point of view, by either a supercomputer or a bunch of crystals. The kinds of preconceptions we unknowingly...
- Tags: Robots, Robofish team, robot
- Discussion threads 2008-06-17
- The death gap
- The death gapCause and Effect[i]Death rates are rising from all causes — heart attack, stroke, cancer, diabetes — because prevention messages aren’t being heeded. We’re saving no money from this horror show.[/i]But are we looking at cause or effect? To what extent is this a matter of those who...
- Tags: Vertical industries, death gap, Poor people
- Discussion threads 2008-05-14
- A professor deals the political climate around climate change
- A professor deals the political climate around climate change"summaries for policy makers"There's your problem right there.The minute scientists stop writing papers for evaluation by scientists, and start writing polemic for politicians, they have overstepped the boundaries of their craft.As such, they are no longer experts and the hoi polloi have...
- Tags: climate change thing, climate change, environment
- Discussion threads 2008-04-27
- Go with the generic
- Go with the genericNever take statinsA multi-billion dollar industry based on mass-confusion of correlation with causation. What folly!I've been against statins from the outset. People look at me funny when I insist cholesterols are a good thing. Apparently no one educated them that cholesterol comprises about 99%...
- Tags: Insurance, statin, Niacin, generic
- Discussion threads 2008-03-31
- Power costs and responses
- Power costs and responsesDistributed is the way to goOne rack of servers maybe none per building or floor coupled with Linux workstations on desktops is the most efficient way to go. (User education and IT SLAs are key in this environment. Users that like to reboot should be shown the...
- Tags: global warming, server, closet, POWER COSTS, user hostility
- Discussion threads 2008-03-31
- Windows, Linux, and the Kyoto Climate Protocols
- Windows, Linux, and the Kyoto Climate ProtocolsAh the zombiesNice report from Bali:http://nzclimatescience.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=178&Itemid=1]Fortnight%20of%20the%20undeadHmm, Windows v. Linux AND Global Warming?All in one post? You must really need hits :)Parallel world?Obviously a dimensional rift has opened up and swallowed you Rudy. A world where MS client server doesn't work and Unix...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Microsoft Windows, God, Kyoto Climate, Linux
- Discussion threads 2007-12-19
- Windows, Linux, and the Kyoto Climate Protocols
- I read a blog, yesterday, by one Randall Hoven, titled "Kyoto Schmyoto" which started with this: One would think that countries that committed to the Kyoto treaty are doing a better job of curtailing carbon emissions. One would also think that...
- Tags: Emission, Treaty, Climate, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating Systems, UNIX, Software, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2007-12-19
- TV, film, and game violence seen as a threat
- TV, film, and game violence seen as a threatNotice this is based on nothing new.This is garbage science.They study other studies and decide that they have discovered something new when they are simply restating other people's results.You will notice that social soiences types are notorious for over-footnoting their work and...
- Tags: game, TV, violence
- Discussion threads 2007-11-28
- A consequence of convergence?
- A consequence of convergence?Maybe it's that off-line capabilitywhich is - NOTHING. The network goes down, the thin-client stares stupidly into space. I guess "The network is the computer" is true in this case.With a good distributed computer topology, that 3.2 Ghz desktop computer and all its kin - can be...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Servers, NETWORKING, WTF, Roger, server, Sun Ray, network, SunRay, computer, Sun Microsystems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-06-22
- Thoughts on Apple TV
- Thoughts on Apple TVHere We Go AgainLet me save you some time John. "Real men use Microsoft and Macs are for girls and florists. Not that there is anything wrong with that"Wasn't that easier than another long missive about Apple's fashion sense. Please spare us in future.We understand the most...
- Tags: Biotechnology, TVs, Desktops, appleTV, Apple Inc., Apple TV, TV
- Discussion threads 2007-05-08
- F**k China
- F**k ChinaThank you......for being a voice for civilization. Not that it'll do any good; I'm sure you'll get lots of reasons why it's a Good Thing for bloggers to be so crude/insulting/mysogenistic. Makes me ashamed of the human race sometimes.Carl RapsonI agreeThis is pretty sad, and a monumental waste of...
- Tags: Blogging, WTF, blog, civilization, Wiki
- Discussion threads 2007-04-25
- Novell: "Windows cheaper than Linux"
- Novell: "Windows cheaper than Linux"Correct Headline: "One Windows Cheaper than 15 Linuxes"I am disappointed by the misleading headline.Going back to the source article on zdnet UK, it indicates that HSBC used multiple Linux distros and are now moving to one Linux distro, notable Novel Suse Enterprise.The EXACT same thing is...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, ROI/TCO, EXACT SAME THING, Linux, Novell Inc., Microsoft Corp., TCO, Microsoft Windows, Adrian
- Discussion threads 2007-03-15
- When robots see red
- We use all of our senses to interact with our environment. Our brain and our body work together, but are robots designed in a similar way? An Indiana University neuroscientist and a University of Tokyo roboticist have worked together with real and simulated robots to verify that valid information doesn't...
- Tags: robot, Olaf Sporns, DOF
- Blog posts 2006-10-28
- The long green
- The long greenPower MathThese very same power and cooling costs have kept the blade server from becoming the next great thing. The idea is sound - make servers as small as possible and make it easy to add more when you need to. In practice, the hundreds of power and...
- Tags: Servers, Blade servers, Utility computing, Network technology, server, Paul Murphy, Sun Ray, Al Gore, rack, Sun Microsystems Inc., blade
- Discussion threads 2006-10-04
- It's obvious, therefore it's true
- I just demonstrated my status as a luddite by buying a used Sony CD-500 camera specifically to get my pictures directly on a CD instead of having to worry about airport and other x-ray devices affecting memory stick storage. As coincidence would have it, therefore, I happened to be thinking...
- Tags: Operating systems, camera, Sony Corp., Microsoft Windows, image
- Blog posts 2006-06-23
- Playboy, Pornography, and Eclipse
- Playboy, Pornography, and EclipsePlayboy should serve eclipse...I do understand that lots of corporate firewall are blocking the playboy site, but... you are not forced to choose that mirror, so if you are on your work, just pick another one.I think playboy should be able to host eclipse software and everyone...
- Tags: Java development tools, OPEN SOURCE, Playboy, Eclipse
- Discussion threads 2006-03-07
- This is your brain on a Super Bowl ad
- This is your brain on a Super Bowl adThere were Super Bowl ads this year?Funny, I didn't notice any of them.A very weak cropThis was a bad year to study anything about Super Bowl ads - this year's crop was a huge letdown from previous years' efforts.I watched the commercials,...
- Tags: IBM Corp., Big Brother, advertisement
- Discussion threads 2006-02-08
- Report: Napster in talks with Google
- Report: Napster in talks with GoogleWill Napster shares outshine Sun?The race is on.The issue will be decided by investor decisions about which company has better prospects.I'm betting that being sold and disappearing into another company will be considered the best possible outcome.Another one bites the dustYet another copycat system bites...
- Tags: Branding, Digital music, Digital media, Napster Inc., music, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2006-01-31
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