The problem with what you've listed is that you've pretty much listed almost all the advances combined. Now try to repeat the same for a time period of 1863. - now.
You can't solve a social problem with technology. You can try but you'll fail. Any protection you build someone will go that extra mile to break it - and break it he/she will.
Actually, CPU is not that much of a problem. There are lots of examples how people built their own cpus from TTL, or transistors even. Granted, they're not fast but they're there. Also, there's SPARC designs (i.e. leon, T1, T2), Zilog gave Z80 to everyone free of charge etc.
Graphics cards which are more complicated than TTL 74165 are another matter.
Wine is safe... but here's a twist; how does this connect to stuff like microprocessors' ISA? One could argue that opcodes are APIs, too - therefore ARM, MIPS, x86, x86_64, Power, PowerPC, PA-Risc, M68K, 6502, etc. are up for grabs as long as nobody uses the original implementation which is practically impossible anyway.
If it holds up it could get to some interesting results.
You poor soul... I had a machine that could do this but the machine was not too popular and people didn't use it until it was too late. They all thought it was a little better than spectrum and ported only lousy spectrum games. Heck, they even thought this machine couldn't do scrolling:D CPC6128, yeah!:)
My understanding is that you still need to plug the USB end somewhere to power it. So you need either a USB extension cable, or an HDMI extension cable.
So seriously, enough with this "OMG MS just needs to make a 100% perfectly secure OS!" shit. It shows massive ignorance of how complex and OS is, and what all you have to balance. No problem with that, you needn't learn about it if you don't want, but then don't argue from a position of ignorance and assume that they could make a perfect OS if only they wanted to bad enough.
Well, the problem is the complexity of their OS. Even Mark Russinovich said they didn't know how the system works:
What we do [instead] is take full Windows, and start pulling pieces off of it. The problem with that is, pieces that're left sometimes have dependencies out to pieces that we've removed. And we don't really understand those dependencies.
The Cold War was initially thought to be an American "win", but it was more due to problems within the USSR, rather than anything America did.
Not really. The problems within the USSR were largely caused by pressures due to their participation within the Cold War. In a sense, the U.S. won the Cold War by out-producing the Soviets.
So, what you are saying is that the Afghanis and Iraqis are winning because of financial pressures due to U.S. participation within the Iraq and Afghanistan war?
Nobody's opposing religion. What is being opposed are specific claims some religions sometimes make. I.e. world being 6k yrs. old, people were magically summoned into shape the way they are today....
Something like that is demonstratively falsifiable, and indeed had been proven false. Shit hits the fan when people try to use "blind faith" to go over proofs for things like that. Or using blind faith to heal someone exclusively by praying and not even trying to get doctor's help. Or for mutilating people (circumcision anyone?), exorcism, forced arranged marriages, denying human rights, freedom of speech, etc., etc., etc. If it weren't for those things nobody on earth could possibly care who worships whom, and in what way.
I don't see how you can prove something conclusively in silico, you put in what you know and you get a distillation of it out. How can you discover* completely new physics when the computer can only start with a potentially incorrect/inaccurate theory and make deterministic calculations based on that input? I mean, you can't get out more than you put in, can you?
Actually, yes, you can get out more than you put in. These guys made the machine extrapolate laws of physics without any knowledge of physics or geometry.
They used a genetic algorithm to explain the measurements of a pendulum sways, and in the process the computer "invented"/"learned about" things like adding, substracting, multiplying, dividing, some algebra, conservation of momentum and Newton's second law.
Return all the search results with information about privacy concerns, censorship by the government, hacking into human rights activists' mail accounts, Tiananmen, lying about the age of athletes, IP theft, human organ trafficking, small wages, lying leaders... everything, possibly with video on youtube. Rub their noses in it all the way. With gusto.
And, yes, I do realize Apple stole the GUI from Xerox...
Actually, no. Apple traded their stocks for a day with Xerox engineers which had to show them what they've done. And they've done very little compared to things that were in the first Mac GUI. I.e. overlapping windows.
There is only one answer for any tech minded nerd - you would build your own. It's just like BSD/Linux vs. AT&T Unix. When you're accustomed to something that good and suddenly get deprived of it you DIY. From hardware to software, the ideas for such a system are distributed globally and those ideas, principles and implementations should be incredibly difficult to eradicate.
1) look at some weird hobby project you did 2) describe it's functionality in the form of a contest description:) 3) send the contest description to NASA 4) apply your weird hobby project for the contest 5) profit!:D
The problem with networking is they don't have any devices powerful enough to beam the return signal BACK to us.
Plant XO-1 OLPC laptops (or something simpler but with the same network specs) all over the place like mines. Their built-in mesh network capability will ensure that if one is found the whole data pathway would be automatically reconfigured on the fly.
Do not use computers just as substitute for books, use them to help with visualization not previously possible in books. I.e., animations, interactive materials, etc, etc. I know this is just a first step and too many features at once would delay the project, but it's just something to keep one's mind on.
And if you think it's bad where you live, you should try things out here where I live (Crawford County, Ohio). We've got 15% unemployment last I heard.
If you think it's bad where you live, you should try things out here where I live. We've got 1.3 working people on every retired person in a population on 4.5 million:) Incompetent government(s) that are mentally still in the WWII, people that expect the government to do everything for them, no hi-tech (or almost any other as well:) ).
Unemployment rate of over 16%, with average pay of ~ $817 a month. Beat that!:)
Oh man... do you have any idea how outsourced/globalized the Linux market is? Linux as a commercial software product is almost entirely third world off-shored. Microsoft was sort of an outlier in doing so much development here in America.
I guess you've probably heard of this one:
WHY AMERICA 'S ECONOMY FELL OFF THE CLIFF
John Smith started the day early having set his alarm clock
(MADE IN JAPAN ) for 6 am. While his coffeepot (MADE IN CHINA)
was perking, he shaved with his electric razor (MADE IN HONG KONG)
He put on a dress shirt (MADE IN SRI LANKA), designer jeans
(MADE IN SINGAPORE) and tennis shoes (MADE IN KOREA).
After cooking his breakfast in his new electric skillet
(MADE IN INDIA) he sat down with his calculator (MADE IN MEXICO)
to see how much he could spend today. After setting his watch
(MADE IN TAIWAN) to the radio (MADE IN INDIA) he got in his car
(MADE IN GERMANY) filled it with GAS (from Saudi Arabia)
and continued his search for a good paying AMERICAN JOB.
At the end of yet another discouraging and fruitless day checking
his computer (MADE IN MALAYSIA), John decided to relax for a while.
He put on his sandals (MADE IN BRAZIL), poured himself a glass of wine
(MADE IN FRANCE) and turned on his TV (MADE IN INDONESIA),
and then wondered why he can't find a good paying job in AMERICA.
AND NOW HE'S HOPING HE CAN GET HELP FROM THE PRESIDENT
(MADE IN KENYA)!!!
Heck, MS has more feet then that. They shot themselves in the foot with Windows ME too, luckily for them they had the reasonably stable Windows NT ready to go out the door.
They shot themselves in the foot with MS-DOS 4.0 an nobody even blinked. They released MS-DOS 5.0 and everybody just flocked around it.
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How's that raw port access coming along? Making joysticks? Simple plotters? Comm cables? Connecting TTLs to the machines?
You're right, it can be downloaded. From Project Gutenberg even.
The problem with what you've listed is that you've pretty much listed almost all the advances combined. Now try to repeat the same for a time period of 1863. - now.
You can't solve a social problem with technology. You can try but you'll fail. Any protection you build someone will go that extra mile to break it - and break it he/she will.
Actually, CPU is not that much of a problem. There are lots of examples how people built their own cpus from TTL, or transistors even. Granted, they're not fast but they're there. Also, there's SPARC designs (i.e. leon, T1, T2), Zilog gave Z80 to everyone free of charge etc.
Graphics cards which are more complicated than TTL 74165 are another matter.
Wine is safe... but here's a twist; how does this connect to stuff like microprocessors' ISA? One could argue that opcodes are APIs, too - therefore ARM, MIPS, x86, x86_64, Power, PowerPC, PA-Risc, M68K, 6502, etc. are up for grabs as long as nobody uses the original implementation which is practically impossible anyway.
If it holds up it could get to some interesting results.
You poor soul... I had a machine that could do this but the machine was not too popular and people didn't use it until it was too late. They all thought it was a little better than spectrum and ported only lousy spectrum games. Heck, they even thought this machine couldn't do scrolling :D CPC6128, yeah! :)
My understanding is that you still need to plug the USB end somewhere to power it. So you need either a USB extension cable, or an HDMI extension cable.
Or something like this :)
I accidentally other os. Is this dangerous?
Greetings, professor Falken... shall we play a game?
You can actually own it for free just by signing up at GOG
Actually, you can own it for free by apt-getting it in Ubuntu, too ;)
So seriously, enough with this "OMG MS just needs to make a 100% perfectly secure OS!" shit. It shows massive ignorance of how complex and OS is, and what all you have to balance. No problem with that, you needn't learn about it if you don't want, but then don't argue from a position of ignorance and assume that they could make a perfect OS if only they wanted to bad enough.
Well, the problem is the complexity of their OS. Even Mark Russinovich said they didn't know how the system works:
What we do [instead] is take full Windows, and start pulling pieces off of it. The problem with that is, pieces that're left sometimes have dependencies out to pieces that we've removed. And we don't really understand those dependencies.
The Cold War was initially thought to be an American "win", but it was more due to problems within the USSR, rather than anything America did.
Not really. The problems within the USSR were largely caused by pressures due to their participation within the Cold War. In a sense, the U.S. won the Cold War by out-producing the Soviets.
So, what you are saying is that the Afghanis and Iraqis are winning because of financial pressures due to U.S. participation within the Iraq and Afghanistan war?
If you ban CIFS and NFS, what's left? Sneakernet has great bandwidth, but the latency sucks and it's a bitch to search.
SSHFS :)
Nobody's opposing religion. What is being opposed are specific claims some religions sometimes make. I.e. world being 6k yrs. old, people were magically summoned into shape the way they are today....
Something like that is demonstratively falsifiable, and indeed had been proven false. Shit hits the fan when people try to use "blind faith" to go over proofs for things like that. Or using blind faith to heal someone exclusively by praying and not even trying to get doctor's help. Or for mutilating people (circumcision anyone?), exorcism, forced arranged marriages, denying human rights, freedom of speech, etc., etc., etc. If it weren't for those things nobody on earth could possibly care who worships whom, and in what way.
we just slashdotted the youtube :D
I don't see how you can prove something conclusively in silico, you put in what you know and you get a distillation of it out. How can you discover* completely new physics when the computer can only start with a potentially incorrect/inaccurate theory and make deterministic calculations based on that input? I mean, you can't get out more than you put in, can you?
Actually, yes, you can get out more than you put in. These guys made the machine extrapolate laws of physics without any knowledge of physics or geometry.
They used a genetic algorithm to explain the measurements of a pendulum sways, and in the process the computer "invented"/"learned about" things like adding, substracting, multiplying, dividing, some algebra, conservation of momentum and Newton's second law.
Return all the search results with information about privacy concerns, censorship by the government, hacking into human rights activists' mail accounts, Tiananmen, lying about the age of athletes, IP theft, human organ trafficking, small wages, lying leaders... everything, possibly with video on youtube. Rub their noses in it all the way. With gusto.
And, yes, I do realize Apple stole the GUI from Xerox...
Actually, no. Apple traded their stocks for a day with Xerox engineers which had to show them what they've done. And they've done very little compared to things that were in the first Mac GUI. I.e. overlapping windows.
Things like these are documented on Apple's folklore site.
There is only one answer for any tech minded nerd - you would build your own. It's just like BSD/Linux vs. AT&T Unix. When you're accustomed to something that good and suddenly get deprived of it you DIY. From hardware to software, the ideas for such a system are distributed globally and those ideas, principles and implementations should be incredibly difficult to eradicate.
1) look at some weird hobby project you did :) :D
2) describe it's functionality in the form of a contest description
3) send the contest description to NASA
4) apply your weird hobby project for the contest
5) profit!
The problem with networking is they don't have any devices powerful enough to beam the return signal BACK to us.
Plant XO-1 OLPC laptops (or something simpler but with the same network specs) all over the place like mines. Their built-in mesh network capability will ensure that if one is found the whole data pathway would be automatically reconfigured on the fly.
Presto, persistent anonymous bandwidth.
Do not use computers just as substitute for books, use them to help with visualization not previously possible in books. I.e., animations, interactive materials, etc, etc. I know this is just a first step and too many features at once would delay the project, but it's just something to keep one's mind on.
And if you think it's bad where you live, you should try things out here where I live (Crawford County, Ohio). We've got 15% unemployment last I heard.
If you think it's bad where you live, you should try things out here where I live. We've got 1.3 working people on every retired person in a population on 4.5 million :) Incompetent government(s) that are mentally still in the WWII, people that expect the government to do everything for them, no hi-tech (or almost any other as well :) ).
Unemployment rate of over 16%, with average pay of ~ $817 a month. Beat that! :)
Oh man... do you have any idea how outsourced/globalized the Linux market is? Linux as a commercial software product is almost entirely third world off-shored. Microsoft was sort of an outlier in doing so much development here in America.
I guess you've probably heard of this one:
WHY AMERICA 'S ECONOMY FELL OFF THE CLIFF
John Smith started the day early having set his alarm clock (MADE IN JAPAN ) for 6 am. While his coffeepot (MADE IN CHINA) was perking, he shaved with his electric razor (MADE IN HONG KONG) He put on a dress shirt (MADE IN SRI LANKA), designer jeans (MADE IN SINGAPORE) and tennis shoes (MADE IN KOREA).
After cooking his breakfast in his new electric skillet (MADE IN INDIA) he sat down with his calculator (MADE IN MEXICO) to see how much he could spend today. After setting his watch (MADE IN TAIWAN) to the radio (MADE IN INDIA) he got in his car (MADE IN GERMANY) filled it with GAS (from Saudi Arabia) and continued his search for a good paying AMERICAN JOB.
At the end of yet another discouraging and fruitless day checking his computer (MADE IN MALAYSIA), John decided to relax for a while. He put on his sandals (MADE IN BRAZIL), poured himself a glass of wine (MADE IN FRANCE) and turned on his TV (MADE IN INDONESIA), and then wondered why he can't find a good paying job in AMERICA.
AND NOW HE'S HOPING HE CAN GET HELP FROM THE PRESIDENT (MADE IN KENYA)!!!
Anyways, I thought it was funny.
Heck, MS has more feet then that. They shot themselves in the foot with Windows ME too, luckily for them they had the reasonably stable Windows NT ready to go out the door.
They shot themselves in the foot with MS-DOS 4.0 an nobody even blinked. They released MS-DOS 5.0 and everybody just flocked around it.