And now, a lot of people are saying that there should be no long term financial gains from music. A lot of slashdotters seem to feel that artist should only be "allowed" to make money from live performances. Why should the music industry be interested in creating a recording that people will still want to listen to 20 years later in an environment in which people feel that it would be immoral not to give the recording away for free?
How long before these bots link up and become nodes in a larger network? At that point they store information, react to direct stimulus and transmit to the rest of the network. Each cell might be relatively simplistic, with no goals other than self-preservation, replication and transmission of data to the other nodes. Surely, there will be fitness rewards for a node that behaves in a certain way? With a billion of them, I wonder what potential would be for emergence?
They're MILF organisms too? Stoppit, you're killing me. Sounds like I've got some sex lined up involving a petri dish. And not for the first time. Damn FBI sex crimes division! But that's story for another time...
This makes me think of a horror writing competition that I was thinking of entering (although I think that the entry date might have passed now).
It's called Machine Of Death. Basically, the organisers are compiling a collection of submitted stories on the subject of a machine that can accurately make a prediction as to how you are going to die.
"I don't know who they are or who they are with but I am certain the US Military/DOD has the foresight..."
HOMER Ah-ah! Lisa, the whole reason we have elected officials is so we don't have to think all the time. Just like that rainforest scare a few years back. Our officials saw there was a problem and they fixed it, didn't they?
I agree with that. For most back packers, a modern laptop would be their heaviest, most valuable and most fragile piece of equipment.
Another advantage of a wireless PDA with keyboard is that they are relatively cheap when compared to a laptop. If the PDA is destroyed or lost, there is a fair chance that the media card might survive and could be moved over to a replacement PDA.
Unless the OP is going to be staying exclusively in hotels with modern amenities, I think that he will come to curse the laptop for both it's weight and complexity. At least with a PDA, you can quickly check some train time tables to get some journal written while you are waiting somewhere without the same pressure preserve the 2hrs of reliable battery time.
Basically, laptops just aren't made for back packing.
That said, I did damage a Series 5 by getting it a bit wet. Fortunately, I had a spare machine, with a damaged screen, and I was able to swap motherboards to make a working machine.
It also depends on what the OP wants to do with it. The multimedia capabilities are extremely basic, for example. There is loads of software available for it but it's all rather dated now.
The other problem with a Psion 5 is that it can, due to the clamshell design, be a bit 'fiddly' to operate on the move compared to a Palm style PDA.
If you can work within the technical limitations of series 5, it's hard to beat for text entry/reading and basic PIM functionality:
It runs for ages on a pair of AA batteries. It has, perhaps, the best small keyboard on a PDA. With a bit of practice, it's possible to get up to surprising speed with it. There is absolutely loads of software. As you say, it saves to a CF card. When I got some water in my machine, the data on the CF was safe. I suspect that you could probably submerge it in water and still be able to get the data off the CF card.
Seems like the old ploy of slapping a respected old brand name on some unrelated kit. There is a company selling Acorn branded equipment in much the same manner:
I won't consider one of these machines to be a true Commodore until they start to do things like: Refuse to give the currently running Star Trek series a free machine as a prop forcing paramount to acquire a Mac instead. Make a cut-down budget machine that is more expensive to manufacture than the regular machine (a600).
When I have some *guarantees* that they are running the business into the ground even though they have massive lead over their competitors, then I'll consider this to be a Commodore. And not before!
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When I were a lad we used to have to build our own laptops.
OK then, if evolution has all of the answers, how do you explain that movie with Raquel Welsh in which human beings can clearly been seen interacting with dinosaurs?
I've still got a little white scar on my wrist from super cheap AT case. I was reaching inside (with the machine on - like you do) when I touched the CPU fan and instinctively drew my hand back.
Oh come on, you know how these discussions go. Creative people will be able to make money through "some more imaginative model". You just need to get hip to the new way of doing things.
I mean, no one will take advantage of the situation and try to get away with not paying for things. Apparently, there was one guy - once - who started downloading instead of buying his music. But apart from that guy, people only download to see if they like the thing, and if they do, they buy it.
I wish people like you would wake up and get hip to the inevitable change that happening what with these "new models" that are coming along.
Besides, who do these musicians and writers think they are, *demanding* that I pay them money when I am merely doing what I want with my freedoms? They'll be taken care of, financially, "in some way".
It seems to me that the characteristic quality of exoplanet discoveries is that the findings are always astonishing and baffling. Who's ready to bet that when they can resolve one optically, it's triangular?
Another of these hypothetical projects that works like: (?-?)x(?+?*?)/?=?
As none of the variables can be accurately guessed at, I don't see the point. Perhaps instant teleportation will be solves next year for all we know. Remote viewing of some kind would also ruin the equation.
A 17th century philosopher might have a go at calculating the typical layout of a 21st urban area by working out a typical reasonable distance that a person could commute each day on horseback.
>>>"Game Over" would come up on screen, then Guybrush popped back onto the cliff and said "Rubber Tree."
You've missed the best part. What made that so side-splitting the first time around was the fact that they had cloned the look of the Sierra dialog boxes. The MI team always had another trick up their sleeves.
Surely, in both pre-human hominid creatures and ancient prehistoric human beings, the males did the gathering while the female role was a home-based domestic one? I'm not sure what the appropriate analog of that role would be within scientific re-search though.
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I KNEW that some women could see right through me, particularly when I was standing in front of a strong UV source.
Is "runs windows XP" becoming a euphemism for something sickly?
At least the EU is doing *something*.
And now, a lot of people are saying that there should be no long term financial gains from music. A lot of slashdotters seem to feel that artist should only be "allowed" to make money from live performances. Why should the music industry be interested in creating a recording that people will still want to listen to 20 years later in an environment in which people feel that it would be immoral not to give the recording away for free?
How long before these bots link up and become nodes in a larger network? At that point they store information, react to direct stimulus and transmit to the rest of the network. Each cell might be relatively simplistic, with no goals other than self-preservation, replication and transmission of data to the other nodes. Surely, there will be fitness rewards for a node that behaves in a certain way? With a billion of them, I wonder what potential would be for emergence?
[mike begins to buy canned food]
They're MILF organisms too? Stoppit, you're killing me. Sounds like I've got some sex lined up involving a petri dish. And not for the first time. Damn FBI sex crimes division! But that's story for another time...
Females that haven't had sex in millions of years. I moving there. I could get laid.
This makes me think of a horror writing competition that I was thinking of entering (although I think that the entry date might have passed now).
It's called Machine Of Death. Basically, the organisers are compiling a collection of submitted stories on the subject of a machine that can accurately make a prediction as to how you are going to die.
http://machineofdeath.net/
Some interesting discussion about the issues that such a machine would raise in the forums.
"I don't know who they are or who they are with but I am certain the US Military/DOD has the foresight..."
HOMER
Ah-ah! Lisa, the whole reason we have elected officials is so we don't have to think all the time. Just like that rainforest scare a few years back. Our officials saw there was a problem and they fixed it, didn't they?
LISA
No, Dad, I don't think--
HOMER
Ah-ah! There's that word again
I agree with that. For most back packers, a modern laptop would be their heaviest, most valuable and most fragile piece of equipment.
Another advantage of a wireless PDA with keyboard is that they are relatively cheap when compared to a laptop. If the PDA is destroyed or lost, there is a fair chance that the media card might survive and could be moved over to a replacement PDA.
Unless the OP is going to be staying exclusively in hotels with modern amenities, I think that he will come to curse the laptop for both it's weight and complexity. At least with a PDA, you can quickly check some train time tables to get some journal written while you are waiting somewhere without the same pressure preserve the 2hrs of reliable battery time.
Basically, laptops just aren't made for back packing.
Good call. The Psion Series 5 rocks!
That said, I did damage a Series 5 by getting it a bit wet. Fortunately, I had a spare machine, with a damaged screen, and I was able to swap motherboards to make a working machine.
It also depends on what the OP wants to do with it. The multimedia capabilities are extremely basic, for example. There is loads of software available for it but it's all rather dated now.
The other problem with a Psion 5 is that it can, due to the clamshell design, be a bit 'fiddly' to operate on the move compared to a Palm style PDA.
If you can work within the technical limitations of series 5, it's hard to beat for text entry/reading and basic PIM functionality:
It runs for ages on a pair of AA batteries.
It has, perhaps, the best small keyboard on a PDA. With a bit of practice, it's possible to get up to surprising speed with it.
There is absolutely loads of software.
As you say, it saves to a CF card. When I got some water in my machine, the data on the CF was safe. I suspect that you could probably submerge it in water and still be able to get the data off the CF card.
When I first played the original Warcraft, I began to wonder if it was the same game engine as Dune II with a different sprite set.
I think some people get WC and WCII mixed up.
Seems like the old ploy of slapping a respected old brand name on some unrelated kit. There is a company selling Acorn branded equipment in much the same manner:
http://www.drobe.co.uk/riscos/artifact1698.html
I won't consider one of these machines to be a true Commodore until they start to do things like:
Refuse to give the currently running Star Trek series a free machine as a prop forcing paramount to acquire a Mac instead.
Make a cut-down budget machine that is more expensive to manufacture than the regular machine (a600).
When I have some *guarantees* that they are running the business into the ground even though they have massive lead over their competitors, then I'll consider this to be a Commodore. And not before!
When I were a lad we used to have to build our own laptops.
(RiscPC one)
http://www.drobe.co.uk/riscos/artifact1255.html
(Amiga A600 one)
http://www.amigahistory.co.uk/suzanne.html
OK then, if evolution has all of the answers, how do you explain that movie with Raquel Welsh in which human beings can clearly been seen interacting with dinosaurs?
I've still got a little white scar on my wrist from super cheap AT case. I was reaching inside (with the machine on - like you do) when I touched the CPU fan and instinctively drew my hand back.
Homer voice - "Ooww! My wrist is hurting."
Oh come on, you know how these discussions go. Creative people will be able to make money through "some more imaginative model". You just need to get hip to the new way of doing things.
I mean, no one will take advantage of the situation and try to get away with not paying for things. Apparently, there was one guy - once - who started downloading instead of buying his music. But apart from that guy, people only download to see if they like the thing, and if they do, they buy it.
I wish people like you would wake up and get hip to the inevitable change that happening what with these "new models" that are coming along.
Besides, who do these musicians and writers think they are, *demanding* that I pay them money when I am merely doing what I want with my freedoms? They'll be taken care of, financially, "in some way".
About four days, if the hidden cargo areas are fully laden.
It seems to me that the characteristic quality of exoplanet discoveries is that the findings are always astonishing and baffling. Who's ready to bet that when they can resolve one optically, it's triangular?
These robots are going to need a considerable degree of in-built intelligence. So, quite different.
Another of these hypothetical projects that works like: (?-?)x(?+?*?)/?=? As none of the variables can be accurately guessed at, I don't see the point. Perhaps instant teleportation will be solves next year for all we know. Remote viewing of some kind would also ruin the equation. A 17th century philosopher might have a go at calculating the typical layout of a 21st urban area by working out a typical reasonable distance that a person could commute each day on horseback.
>>>"Game Over" would come up on screen, then Guybrush popped back onto the cliff and said "Rubber Tree." You've missed the best part. What made that so side-splitting the first time around was the fact that they had cloned the look of the Sierra dialog boxes. The MI team always had another trick up their sleeves.
Surely, in both pre-human hominid creatures and ancient prehistoric human beings, the males did the gathering while the female role was a home-based domestic one? I'm not sure what the appropriate analog of that role would be within scientific re-search though.
Ah, you've hit upon another fact of the NHS: a large proportion of the doctors are Asian immigrants.
'Death Benefits'? I'm sick of these lazy dead people, lying around, accepting every handout going. But when someone tries to get them to work...