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Nanotech: "Smart Fabrics"
Reidar Gunn writes: "This article is about nano technology... I read it over to make sure I was really reading what I read! Red to Blue cloths, sizes going from bigger to smaller... Wonder if they'll make wireless clothes with a subscription service, Yah never know! Logo changing shirts eh!"
Nahh - it just starts showing advertisements on your shirt, and if you get far enough behind, starts putting "Kick Me" signs on the back, and ranting about what a deadbeat you are.
Think of nano-suits that exert force on the wearer.
The field of tele-dildonics can finally come!
to accept the praise of personal wisdom is an affront to the very ideal i hold dear.
And what world do you live in?
If we have self-cleaning, color changing, size-shifting shirts, what am I going to do with all my trade show accumulated shirts from now-defunct .com's that come in the "one size fits all - or else" XL? I have shirts I haven't even worn yet. From 1996....
tim
Just what I'd want, a Microsoft shirt that reads "Hacked by Chinese"
good point, i agree.
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Shoot, we may even have people try to ironically tie everything to some factory workers who are being treated unfairly, so that they can be 'Freedom Fighters' as well. Why think when you can react, why work for a better world when you can sit by and steal others work and then shout out your a soldier of 'the people' (who of course, you are actually hurting... but who cares, it is something you WANT)
Know someone you want to see killed? Hire someone to hack into his new turtleneck and set the size to "Petite" and strangle him to death.
Your right, I'm am very sorry. I was reacting from my own conservative political viewpoint. I have not felt the pinch that pushes a nation over the edge.
Quote:Martynov's implied conclusion is that the working class should impose self-restraint on itself so as not to 'frighten' the bourgeoisie; but at the same time he states that it should persistently press the bourgeoisie to lead the revolution: 'The struggle to influence the course and outcome of the bourgeoisie can be expressed simply in the proletariat's exerting revolutionary pressure on the will of the liberal and radical bourgeoisie, the more democratic 'lower' section of society's compelling the 'higher' section to agree to lead the bourgeois revolution to its logical conclusion.' (A Martynov Dve Diktatury, Geneva, 1905, pp 57-8).
Do you think the US falls under this category?:
Dissolving cultures give rise to a powerful urge for a new integration that must be total and dynamic if it is to fill the social and spiritual vacuum, that must combine religious fervour with militant nationalism
Feh. The degree to which we can coopt a technology for ourselves is the degree to which we remove control from the hands of our masters.
There's not much we can do to get our hands on our masters' looms, but once the replication is done by nanomites, we've gotten our hands on the machine - the control has moved outward as it did when mainframes gave way to PCs where Linux and the likes were born - the control has moved outward as it did when huge bandwidth went from just a few sites to everyone who could afford cable and DSL and peer to peer file sharing became/is becoming the norm - and when we can capture and successfully reprogram the little knitting machines that comprise a sweater, we'll find a new wealth there as well.
Don't fear the nanobots. Fear the legislation that will attempt to stop you from using them yourself.
The spokeswoman says the clothing will even be able to do the same things as the uniforms on the Enterprise. So, uhhh, I guess the jackets will ride up and the shirts will get ripped in fistfights :)
ever expanding geeks.... you sign up with service where you give them your calorie consumption habits, and they slowly expand your jeans to keep a perfect fit...
-- "Other than that, how was the play Mrs. Lincoln?"
No wonder slashdot has become a sewer.
I just want my Okama GameSphere.
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Imagine the field day advertising morons^H^H^H^H^H^H people would have with them
Is this still considered a threat, or has it been debunked?
To me it seems rather like a "worst case scenario" by SF writers. From what I've read on nanotech (Which admittedly is not much but articles.) it seems like building generic little machines is very hard. Sure, you might be able to make a self-replicating machine which can reduce a block of an alloy into a lot of copies of itslef. (No not today.) But unleash it on a lump of dirt and it won't do anything. It can't just magically transform everything into copies of itself. Only the few structures that are suitable for the task.
Do we really want to bring those days back?
A man is nothing without a job, unless man has a reason for existence, be it tilling the soil or repetitively inserting screws on an assembly line, he is nothing, for work maketh a man.
Nanotechnology changes all this - the technology does the work. With this new technology, it looks as though the textiles industry will be the first to suffer once again. Clothes will manufacture themselves, and the honest worker in the clothing industry will become as the ancient hand weavers, non-existent.
This is the stuff revolutions are made off gentlemen. By supporting nanotechnology you are supporting revolution, both technological and, much more dangerously, social.
I for one support nanotechnology for I believe it brings the day of revolt closer, the day when we can throw of thw chains of government, corporation and society comes ever closer with ever little gear wheel an MIT professor makes.
Nanotechnology will change the world, and bring the vision of Trotsky that little bit closer.
KTB:Lover, Poet, Artiste, Aesthete, Programmer.
There is no
Too bad Douglas Adams is gone, he would have incorporated THHGTTG into the towel...
So they'll be able to track you, not only will they know where you go, who you're with, but they'll know when you violate good fashion sense.
Of all the comments I've ever posted, this is definately one of them
Red to Blue cloths, sizes going from bigger to smaller.
:)
How about an IR-remote that changes baggy t-shirts into semi-sheer micro-bikinis ?
-Billco, Fnarg.com
I wonder how long it will take before we will all be wearing one AlwaysClean(tm) Wrinkle-B-Gone(tm) T-shirt for your entire life, having it change color, shape, texture, even brand-name as fads come and go... It's going to be great!
"Your superior intellect is no match for our puny weapons!"
OOH Bayybee!!
Damnit, Jim, I'm an anarchist, not a F@#$!^& doctor!
Oh,man!
If you're going to the pool... make sure you take a towel... wanna get high?
There is much cruelty in the universe, John.
Yeah, we seem to have the tour map.
first slumpie!!!
Then, random friends hacked my server.
Now, they'll hack my pants? I can just imagine walking in a room, and having my pants get 10 sizes bigger and falling off. Or, when I'm out on a date with my girl, porno videos start playing on my shirt. I can imagine the first T-Shirt eMail virus now...
Joe User gets his email
**ATTN!** NEW TSHIRT DESIGN JUST 4 U!!
Joe User downloads new_tshirt.tsht to his shirt
Joe User's T-shirt starts sending out more mail viri and then catches fire
Or, your shirt could be rented out as ad space to any advertiser who could pay...JUST THINK OF THE POSIBILITIES!
No, really, I dont hate tech, I just hate people!
The opinions in this post are ficticious. Any similarity to actual opinions, real or imagined, is purely coincidental.
Could be embarrassing if you're out in public when you forget to renew your subscription and the clothes disappear.
This is the postmodernist drivel we've all been fed since infancy.
We are something, regardless of who we know, what relationships we have, or what we do. A tree that falls in the forest without anyone around still falls.
Did anyone see South Park this past week? Trey, ever the visionary had the RS 450 SMART Towel, with synthetic fibers to fluff itself to adjust to the users level of wetness. Embedded chips and everything...
Oh, and the towel likes to get high
HAHAHAHA!!! Right On! I hate fat people to... fucking fat idiots! HAHA! We can cover ugly chicks faces next too, and make it so ATTRACTIVE woman HAVE to be naked! Embarassing and humiliating people might even be able to get federal funds as a community service!
sizes going from bigger to smaller...
If only my body worked that way.
Salesman: Work, huh? Let me guess. Computer programmer, computer magazine columnist, something with computers?
Homer: Well, I use a computer.
Salesman: [quietly, to self] Yeah, what's the connection? Must be the non-stop sitting and snacking.
-- [3F05] "King-Size Homer"
Decades ago when things like these were being proposed, there were enormous leaps in technology required thus the ideas being the domain of Science Fiction. As you very well know, science fiction can become well understood technology and when the technology is close enough to make future preductions believable for the population, that is when the popular media will catch on. This is despite the fact that the true state of technology may be far from achieving the goal, it is only the perception of the media thinking that it is getting very close.
Until the porn industry finds a way to exploit this.
hoping your rules and wisdom choke you, since 1976
Oh great, I can see it now; "Little Johnny's stopped breathing, we better get home and check him". heh, and all from a wrong phone number. oops.
There are 10 kinds of people; those who know ternary, those who don't, and those now hunting for a dictionary.
I see a nice suit design I like, program the material to stretch and shrink in the right places, and presto -- my outfit looks just like what I saw. Armani sees this and sends a pack of lawyers after me. I press a few keystrokes, it is now a shark fighting suit.
Fight Spammers!
Baby pajamas could be fashioned with a cellphone, so anxious parents could call home from the theater to listen to their infant's breathing, check his heart rate or even sing a lullaby.
English translation:
Rather than being involved in their childrens' development and well-being, yuppie parents can simply rely even further on technology to be their babysitter. And as if their cell phones ringing during a movie wasn't bad enough, now they can be annoying at a whole new level by singing in the theatre!
That's it. I'm never going outside again.
The shirt said things like "Hell is a city much like Newark". Having spent the better part of a year living in New Jersey, I suspect that Hell can't be much worse. (My apologies to anyone who actually *likes* New Jersey.)
Hmmm... it's certainly been a while since I've seen it. I must have confused that aspect of it with a short story along similar lines.
"Argv! Cursed nanoworm!"
Hey! It's not the size of the worm, it's... oh forget it.
I think the word is "Sarcasm"
Fast machines, powerfull AI, impulsive invention,... All I lack is a good espresso machine!
I bet some of it is from the TLAs. Do they have any involvement in the development of this technolgoy? I can see it now:
TOP SECRET//NOPORN//ULTIMAC
Classified by: X33
Declassify on: X1
Codeword: Astro Media
Subject: Embedded Surveillance in Clothing
Date: August 11, 2001
To date, our research in digital clothing and embedding of complex circuitry has been hampered by the ultra-liberal activities of the MIT Media Lab and those employeed. There is no indication that they suspect our involvement. DSA is investigating but has not uncovered any leaks.
With the recent discussion on the ultra-liberal, communist, open source site, Slashdot (www.slashdot.org), the redirection of our efforts appears to be successful. Our ultimate goals (and our financing of the efforts) have apparently been successful.
The current goals are as follows:
Believe it! Its real. Its here now. The TLAs are behind it. Watch yourselves! Is that new shirt really just a shirt?
I remeber a twilight zone episode from a newer run with sherman hemsly (sp?) Were he sold his soul to the devil for a solution to some math problem i think. Any way to the point. The devils shirt would change it's says evey time the camera went back to him. Some of them were very funny, that would be cool to have preprogrammed sayings that would change. or hocked up to a keyboard of sorts and be able to type message on it.
There is something very wrong with your brother if he is see through women's clothes and likeing it...
It was me, I did it, I moved your cheese
Never get caught wearing the wrong gang colors in the wrong hood ... wessyyyyyde!!
sTrAiN
anxious parents could call home from the theater to listen to their infant?s breathing, check his heart rate or even sing a lullaby
see the story here!
"The clothes that we wear might not look like the uniforms on the bridge of the Starship Enterprise, but they will be able to do the same things," DuPont product manager Stacey Burr says.
Hmm... shirts that come with a toggle switch that flips the integral girdle and chestplate from "buff" to "buxum" depending on your gender?
then well be seeing lots of blue t-shirts whit the legend General Protection Fault...
DON'T PANIC.
Imagine how great this will be for a night out: No more worries about dress codes, your clothes will always match to the club you're in!
yeah, up.
So why do we DigiGarments(tm) to do this again?
You don't exist. Go away. --SysVinit Halt
Just imagine, you walk into Radio Shack, and your tshirt turns into a huge X10 ad...
SIGFEH
the thought of pop-under ads in my jeans... whooo hooooo
You'd better hope the clothing doesn't involve too much targeted advertising.
There'd be nothing quite like seeing an ad for Viagra flash across your girlfriend's ass right as you're undressing her to be intimate for the first time. (At least there she might not notice it...)
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You could even enjoy it in public, at work, or, well, while programming or hacking Linux. Imagine the revolution it will bring. Geeks everywhere will FINALLY get laid (at least by their clothes).
The ULTIMATE in safe sex!
Now I can wear a t-shirt of whatever team is winning at the moment and say I've had it since before they were big!
grep -ri 'should work'
I keep seeing you guys post "Oh, haha, let's make clothes that you can hack to turn into a micro-bikini or see-through..."
Screw that,what about the big hairy Yeti-rednecks with a gut hanging five inches over the waist of their jeans and a wife beater tanktop. Can you hack these things to cover that UP and keep people from going blind?
I'm not sure, but you might even be able to get federal funds to research doing that as a community service.
My Webcomic: Asylum on 5th Street
Damnit, Jim, I'm an anarchist, not a F@#$!^& doctor!
The view from the top doesn't spread effectively enough from the center, creating a bell curve not unlike the immense quality-of-life gap between First and Third world nations.
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I don't know about you, but I'd feel like a real big dork wearing stuff like this. Wearables of any sort would be a sure-fire way to avoid procreating, IMHO.
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http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewIt
have your shirt display some kinda winamp visualation plugin (like geiss, etc) and watch them trip out. "whoa, dude is changin colors... or is it the acid?" too bad it looks like phish isn't coming back tho...
WWJD.... for a Klondike bar?
that's fuckin' hilarious!!!!
Do you have a photo of it? I use stuff like that for my 404 pages and would like that on there. or just tell me where it's at (404 miles north of LA on I-5, i imagine) and the next time i'm there i'll take a photo of it.
...companies making micropayments to people who wear t-shirts with their logo on it?
The shirt could track exactly how long the logo was worn, and you get $.01 per minute or something like that. The current marketing slogan would always be on the shirt.
That might be the one thing that would get me to wear a non-plain shirt.
Of course, how long before people hack the shirts and get Nike to drop $1M into their account? LOL
~Philly
This plus sweat-eating bacteria:
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http://slashdot.org/science/01/07/06/0356218_F.
means some people may NEVER change their clothes!
Wow - and I just started reading The Diamond Age this week.
*punches kid in face*
My joke got modded as Insightful and my insight got modded as Funny.
My dad works for dupont as a ChemE...
i wonder if he can get my first dibs on some prototypes.[right]
i'll resell them to any slashdotters, for a price.
Just what I needed, banner ads on my underwear. Will there be any way to block porn sites? Maybe disable cookies?
--GrouchoMarx
Card-carrying member of the EFF, FSF, and ACLU. Are you?
If I could only find that paper, I'd be able to further argue my point.
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Now, imagine the price difference if, instead of just one logo, the shirt could display one of ten at any given moment. That sounds like justification for the clothing makers to charge ten times the price to me.
Of course, these clothes could be CHEAPER instead of more expensive (free advertising and all), but the average consumer is just so gullible...
If my washer talked to my clothes, it would promptly shut the door and lock itself in...
The stupidest idea in the history of the world.
If I want portable computing devices, I would rather have them just small, cheap, light, with long battery life. If I want to "wear" them, that's what I have pockets for.
The only things I might want to wear would be a display on my eyeglasses, or something in the form of a wristwatch. Fuck anything else.
Some people need to be rape-fucked by a bull, and then shot in the head 4 times...
a jacket with built in cell phone and mp3 player. where do I put the batteries? what if I want to wear a different jacket?
"Yeah...I know it's 12 degrees out, but I'm expecting a phonecall, that's why I'm just wearing a windbreaker."
I can already see the Marty McFly's of the world, walking around pulling up the sleeves of their one-size-fits-all coats because they don't know to hit the patch that fits the coat to their body.
But I can already see the controversy over people downloading graphics for their nanotech t-shirts on the internet. Today, we're downloading Metallica mp3's. Tomorrow we'll be downloading Metallica t-shirts. Oh well, we'll just hack James's t-shirt to read "I Sold Out" during the press conference to announce he and and [whatever equivelent of the RIAA for nanotech t-shirt designs will be] are filing a lawsuit against Textilester.
--
Intelligence is definitely a recessive trait.
I make no attempt to obscure my identity. The reason for this is due to deep philosophical beliefs that boil down to: once your dead, your dead. From your point of view it's like you never existed at all. So you might as well do what your going to do. Or as Ghandi said, Nothing you do is important, but it is very important that you do it.
In a more pragmatic sense, I know I am expendable. This is unfortunate but acceptable. However, I am not an island in the ocean, I exist within a social network of friends and family. Most of them are really normal people, some of them however are a counter to your vague threats. Unlike yourself though, they would ensure that you got your day in court.
I don't agree with what he said, in fact I believe there is a medium probability that he is actually a counter-revolutionary. Go eat your cake in my original reply insinuates this. Regardless, he has a right to say whatever the fuck he wants to say and I will die to preserve that right.
I wonder how long before they'd come up with rules stating you couldn't change the look of your shirt in school, or that you couldn't wear any nanoclothes that can be customized...
You're nothing; like me.
If you put Linux next to some other operating systems out there for a cost comparison, the conclusions are devastating for Linux.
Linux costs not only more because of the frequent updates which require new cdrom's to be bought if you don't have a high speed Internet connection.
Another factor in Linux cost is its maintenance. Linux requires a *lot* of maintenance, work doable only by the relatively few high-paid Linux administrators that put themselves - of course willingly - at a great place in the market. Linux seems to be needing maintenance continuously.
Add to this the cost of loss of data. Linux' native file system, EXT2FS, is known to lose data like a firehose loses water, when the file system isn't unmounted properly. Other unix file systems are much more tolerant towards unexpected crashes. An example is the FreeBSD file system, which with soft updates enabled, performance-wise blows EXT2FS out of the water, and doesn't have the negative drawback of extreme data loss in case of a system breakdown.
Factor in also the fact that crashes happen much more often on Linux than on other unices. On other unices, crashes usually are caused by external sources like power outages. Crashes in Linux are a regular thing, and nobody seems to know what causes them, internally.
The steep learning curve compared to about any other operating system out there is a major factor in Linux' cost. The system is a mix of features from all kinds of unices, but not one of them is implemented right. A Linux user has to live with badly coded tools which have low performance, mangle data seemingly at random and are not in line with their specification. On top of that a lot of them spit out the most childish and unprofessional messages, indicating that they were created by 14-year olds with too much time, no talent and a bad attitude.
I can go on and on and on, but the message is clear. In this world, there is no place for Linux. It's not an option for any one who seeks a professional OS with high performance, scalability, stability, adherence to standards, etc. The best place it should ever reach is the toy store, and even that would be flattering.
and it's probably not funny even if you did.
oh, you mean like SouthPark.
You know, here's a few more thoughts:
I wonder if socialism must achieve world domination to succeed lie's in the fact that it's expensive. It cost's money to keep your people healthy, send them to school, and generally do good things for everyone. A lone socialist state is at an economic disadvantage compared to right wing states.
Another thought, the conditions the G8 is imposing on the third world has a strong projection of actually instilling socialist values in them once they develop fully; they will remember the pain and it's lesson. 70 years from now it might be a whole different ball-game.
And pity the Taliban, just wait until some biotechnologist develops a 'sanity plague' that suddenly educates them on the dangers of not proceeding with technology.
...until someone inadvertently uses it on Aunt Martha instead of the cute, petite college girl walking next to her. Just think of the damage to society you could cause with one of those things.
Bow before my sig, for it is good.
The Hype: Nanotech clothes are coming!!!
The Reality: Some innovations are being explored in the textile industry. Some of these are very good ideas (sports socks that absorb bacterial odors). Some of these are very bad ideas (a jacket with built in cell phone and mp3 player. where do I put the batteries? what if I want to wear a different jacket?)
The one thing that intrigues me about the article is not that big companies like DuPont are exploring new "smart" textiles, it is that the popular media has absorbed the idea that molecular nanotechnology is coming and is going to be a Big Thing. The idea of smart clothing is no surprise to anyone who read Drexler's ENGINES OF CREATION back in the late 80's, or for that matter anyone who reads a fair amount of SF, or has the least bit of technical knowledge and imagination. I find it simply fascinating and funny that popular culture is "discovering" these ideas many decades after they were first proposed.
What is even funnier is that the jounalists and speculators are making the same innane impractical speculations they have always made. Baby pajamas with a built in cell phone? Get a life. Remember these are the successors of those visionaries in the 50's and 60's who said we all would be driving nuclear cars, flying personal helicopters, and using too-cheap-to-meter electricity by now. Yeah, right.
There were many good ideas mentioned in the article. I hope that Nano-Tex, et. al. are able to bring out some of these products: Bio-monitoring clothing, color/pattern changing cloth, variable permiability cloth, etc.
Just do us all a favor. Leave the cell phones out of it.
IV
"These laws they're passing won't even compile anymore, let alone execute." - anon
A Credit Suisse First Boston trading executive told some institutional investors that the big securities firm expected them to pay a set percentage of their IPO profits in the form of stock-trading commissions, according to Wall Street traders.
George Coleman, a senior CSFB global stock-trading executive, held meetings with clients detailing how much of their profits from initial public offerings of stock from CSFB were to be paid back to the firm in trading commissions, the traders say.
In one meeting early in 2000, Mr. Coleman told a hedge-fund manager: "You get $3 -- we get $1," according to a person familiar with the events. In other words, the firm expected the manager to pay commissions to CSFB equal to 33% of his profits on the CSFB-led new stock issues that he received.
Mr. Coleman referred questions to a spokesman for CSFB, a unit of Credit Suisse Group, who declined to comment.
The U.S. attorney's office in Manhattan, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the National Association of Securities Dealers have launched investigations examining whether Wall Street firms sought what amounted to kickbacks in the form of unusually large trading commissions in exchange for IPO shares. Regulators are seeking evidence of any quid pro quo arrangements that included specific formulas tied to profits on IPOs.
The probes have cast a spotlight on CSFB's technology group in San Francisco led by technology banking star Frank Quattrone. In June, CSFB fired three brokers in Mr. Quattrone's group, in an acknowledgment that there were abuses in the way the firm allocated shares of IPOs. CSFB has denied wrongdoing, and said Mr. Quattrone bore no responsibility for IPO allocations; Mr. Quattrone has declined to comment.
But now, information is surfacing that suggests that Mr. Coleman and other senior executives in New York were both aware of and participated in the IPO allocation practices being examined by regulators. Mr. Coleman, for instance, is among several employees who have been notified by the NASD's regulatory arm that they could face administrative charges of rule violations in the case; Mr. Coleman and the others have denied any wrongdoing.
Other CSFB trading executives held one-on-one meetings with clients spelling out formulas regarding IPO allocations and trading commissions, according to a former CSFB salesman with knowledge of the firm's operations and whose clients were visited by the executives.
"They all had the same sheets" tracking investors' IPO allocations and short-term profits, the former CSFB salesman said. The firm executives "would say the account got X number of shares, made X million in profits after 10 days, 30 days and 90 days. They would say this was your profit, and we want to maintain a ratio" of commissions to IPO profits. CSFB declined to comment on this assertion.
Meanwhile, questions remain about who will take responsibility for the IPO allocation practices being scrutinized by regulators. New information bolsters the view that CSFB executives outside Mr. Quattrone's group had some responsibility for the brokers' allocations.
An e-mail "term sheet" dated Nov. 3, 1999, outlining management oversight of the tech-group brokers who were fired in June says Andrew Benjamin, then head of the firm's private-client-services brokers, was responsible for reviewing matters including new brokerage accounts, IPO allocations and daily trade runs, as well as "any other supervisory functions regularly associated with the PCS business."
The term sheet adds that John Schmidt -- one of the fired CSFB brokers -- would report directly to Mr. Quattrone on questions of staffing-level changes that affected the small group of fewer than a dozen brokers, with Mr. Benjamin having indirect responsibility as well. It was sent by Neil Moskowitz, chief operating officer of the CSFB equity division. Mr. Moskowitz referred questions to CSFB's press office. Mr. Benjamin's lawyer, Steven A. Reiss of Weil Gotshal & Manges, said his client didn't have any comment.
Mr. Benjamin is one of a half dozen or more CSFB employees who have received notices from NASDR Inc., the NASD's regulatory unit, that they may be charged with rule violations in linking the payment of big commissions to hot IPOs. Mr. Benjamin has denied wrongdoing. (Mr. Quattrone hasn't received such a notice.)
The three brokers -- Mr. Schmidt, Michael Grunwald and Scott Bushley -- were placed on administrative leave in April and later fired after the firm found evidence they had violated firm policy in allocating IPOs. Messrs. Schmidt, Grunwald and Bushley have denied wrongdoing.
Mr. Quattrone's influence clearly was felt in cases when important tech-group clients, such as venture-capital firms, received large IPO allocations. For example, Technology Crossover Ventures, a longtime Quattrone client, received a large allocation of 50,000 shares of the hottest IPO ever, VA Linux Systems Inc., a provider of Linux-based computer systems and services. Shares of VA Linux soared to nearly eight times their offering price on the first day of trading, Dec. 9, 1999.
One factor in why the tech-group brokers were singled out for termination by CSFB is a series of e-mails sent by Messrs. Grunwald and Bushley, according to one person who has heard CSFB officials describe the situation internally. The officials said the e-mails indicated the brokers were "explicitly coercive" in demanding commissions as a condition to future IPO allocations, the same person said.
According to individuals who have seen e-mails sent by members of the group, the messages described commission targets needed from hedge funds to assure future IPO allocations, saying that if the targets weren't met, the customers would be cut off. Subsequently, at least one account was cut off, according to some CSFB employees and others familiar with the case.
Damnit, Jim, I'm an anarchist, not a F@#$!^& doctor!
Korey Stringer was well aware that he was very exhausted. He vomited several times during the practice the day before he died. He was pushing himself to beyond his limits and he knew it. A special shirt wouldn't have helped anything.
Hehe, just imagine it. 9/10ths of the population in clever-clothes and a virus strikes that makes everyones clothes all simultaneously go see-through. Ok, ok don't tell me you'll didn't think of that.
-nemof
"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
Having content delivered to your shirt gives new meaning to shrink-wrap licensing.
Seriously though.. This is a step towards the future we all abhor: One where everything is licensed. Sure, it starts out simple, then the shirt gets an IPv6 address, and starts calling home, and before you know it, you're only allowed to wash a shirt 10 times before you have to choose between it calling home or being called home.
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"Uh, sir, XYZ." "Oh, thanks." *zips up zipper* *A kid laughs on the other side of the store* *zips up zipper again* *again* *again* "Argv! Cursed nanoworm!"
all your clothes are belong to us and will self destruct in 30 seconds for non payment...
oh yeah, can't wait till that happens to the secretary or absent minded CEO at a conference...
hope you wore the real BVD's instead of the sexomatic kind today:)
Well, you've gotten it backwards. From the comment:
> wireless clothes with a subscription service
The big-name clothing companies like Adidas, Calvin Klein, will offer subscription service all right, but they'll _charge_ you for the priviledge each time you wear it, not pay you. Or your clothes will "expire" (change to a drab grey? seams unravel?) after they "go out of fashion" after a preset period of time. If they can do it with electronic books (and they are, already) they'll do it with electronic clothes.
Our clothes would come in one respectable size and respectable color and it stayed that way. Nowadays all you kids and your fancy schmancy rayon or neon colors think that your clothes need to glow and look fancy. Now you even want your shirts to change sizes as you grow up.
When I was a kid, I wore all of my older sisters shirts once she outgrew them and I liked it. When I outgrew these shirts I kept wearing them until my younger brother grew into them. This would often take about 2 years and the shirt would develop respectable worn marks and tears. My kid brother would eventually wear these clothes after they were thread bare and see-through and he liked it.
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Oh man, I'm so high I don't even know what's going on.
Hint: It's not funny if you didn't see last week's South Park - and it's probably not funny even if you did.
liB
I'm surprised nobody mentioned this yet, but it reminds me slightly of the semiconductor fabric that Luis Wu had at his disposal to fix up the the electronics on the Ringworld.
Not the same technology, but sort of the same idea.
Most things get hacked, this wont be any different. The GPS tracker will let everyone know where your child is, and the colour-changing fabric will be changed every time you walk down the street. And companies will fight to gator your label-patch with their logo's. On the plus side, imagine - chicks, transparency setting-crack and bra-cleavage-adjuster-bug. And maybe someone will get around to fixing the bra_unhook interface..
-tfga
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anyone remember Back to the Future II? Marty got clothes too large - no problem - and they were the right size. Same thing when he got wet - no problem. Would be cool to have that kinda clothes :)
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Blue Face Of Death?
At least now the arrow underneath my "I'm with Stupid" shirt will always be pointing in the right direction...
"Your superior intellect is no match for our puny weapons!"
From the article: A GPS unit could locate a wandering Alzheimer's patient.
Or a wandering spouse...
Inventor of the LOLbalrog meme.
Drying jacket.. VRRRRRRRRRRRRRR Your jacket is now dry!
I just heard some really sad news on talk radio Horror/fiction writer Stephen King was found dead in his Maine house this morning. I'm sure we'll all miss him - even if you didn't read his books you've probably enjoyed one of his movies. Truly an American icon.