Thanks - so how fast are we expanding away from other stuff in the universe? I understand the 71km/sec part. How does that relate to parsecs? 71km per sec per every 3.26 million light years?
I think the trade show demise is more the victom of the web. 6 years ago, at Comdex, when you wanted more info on a product, the booth-bodys referred you to their web page - no brochures, no knowledge.
It used to take me two days to to the trade show in Toronto (before it was overtaken over by Comdex). The last Comdex here, I did in 2 hours.
Computer shows were great when you could find products that you never knew existed and could talk to the actual designers. When it became more focused on the end user, the consumer, the web became a much better medium.
You forgot the dimension! Or maybe the evil, oppposite universe. "Phone, dial 11d.good.Universe.Milky-Way.Earth.Canada.Ontario.T oronto.Ma in-Street.2871.apartment-832.Smith.Robert.Henry"
you would still need developers, designers, customer support, etc.
That's where the open-source would come in, although customer support would be tricky. It might take the form of a user forum instead of a 1-800 #.
Early adopters would be the developers and designers. New users would d/l the client/server package and could just play or learn to add their own features which may or may not be taken up by the whole community.
Is anyone developing a free to use mmorpg, maybe based on a p2p method? I pay enough monthly bills I don't want to pay a monthly fee just to play a game. I don't mind paying for the game though.
I wonder if there's a way to build a mmorpg system that doesn't require central servers, but could exist on thousands of p2p machines. As pc's log on and off, the load is moved around. Sort of a combination of p2p and a distributed.net.
Instead of servers slowing down with more people logging on, the game gets faster when more pc's log in and add their computing power.
I was about to comment the same thing... There are many plants that require fires to enable their seeds to germinate. I'm thinking of all the fires recently in California. There's a certain bush there that needs small brush fires.
here's just one link found through google: http://www.werc.usgs.gov/fire/shrubland.h tml
If you've got $10k to spare you can buy a laser based record player. It would be nice if there was a business in every major city where you could take your most cherished records and transfer them to digital using one of these machines.
Read about this years ago: Send a laser transceiver way out in space and have another in earth orbit (always able to see the far satellite). Encode your data in a continuous stream to the far end, and it sends it back, which is then sent out again. The further the distance, the more you can store in the stream. Although you have to wait until it comes around again if you want to access or change it. You can use radio instead of lasers and you might want a bunch of them in case of a failure at either end.
Ford didn't invented the car and GE and Bell weren't the first in their businesses either, but like they say: "History is written by the winners..."
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My first TV screen interactive experience was in the middle 70's using the 3-sided Coleco box. It had 3 games: Pong, a driving game (keep a dot between two swerving lines), and a shooting game ( a light sensor in the barrel of a gun).
When tell kids today of those days they think I'm joking. They can't imagine that first time you could do something that caused changes on your home tv set and how important a change that was.
A boat in International Waters?! Detroit is on the Great Lakes waterway - on the water you're either in the US or in Canada!
PS: On a weekend I've seen 8 different Canadian and US authorities patrol those waters (between Detroit and Windsor): (Coast Guard, Customs, Fisheries, Metro Marine, RCMP...) They practically bump into each other!
Oop - found some info myself: http://www.motobykz.co.uk/Ecomobile/Perav es_Ecomob ile.htm http://www.bmw.co.uk/c1/ http://www.corb inmotors.com/products_sparrow1.html
What ever happened to the German enclosed bike? I saw it once on Beyond2000 around 1995. It was 2 wheeled, but when you came to a stop, side-wheels came down on either side.
My dedicated wireless (3Mbps) is good for about 10km and has to be line of sight. I'd rather have the same speed over a longer distance with no LOS conditions.
I wonder what will happen when bionic eys (ears, limbs, memory) are better than your perfectly functioning ones. Will people upgrade themselves like they do now with implants and plastic surgery? It's closer to reality with these great technological advances, but are we ready for it in our culture?
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Thanks - so how fast are we expanding away from other stuff in the universe? I understand the 71km/sec part. How does that relate to parsecs? 71km per sec per every 3.26 million light years?
From the article: Expansion rate (Hubble constant) value: Ho= 71 km/sec/Mpc
What does the Mpc stand for?
Homer: Hey, they have the internet on computers now!
Or
(Bart falls out of a tree)
Bart: I think I broke my leg.
Nelson: Ha-ha!
Bart: No really. I think it's broken.
Nelson: I SAID Ha-ha.
I think the trade show demise is more the victom of the web. 6 years ago, at Comdex, when you wanted more info on a product, the booth-bodys referred you to their web page - no brochures, no knowledge.
It used to take me two days to to the trade show in Toronto (before it was overtaken over by Comdex). The last Comdex here, I did in 2 hours.
Computer shows were great when you could find products that you never knew existed and could talk to the actual designers. When it became more focused on the end user, the consumer, the web became a much better medium.
You forgot the dimension! Or maybe the evil, oppposite universe.T oronto.Ma in-Street.2871.apartment-832.Smith.Robert.Henry"
"Phone, dial 11d.good.Universe.Milky-Way.Earth.Canada.Ontario.
Wired article
People who want to enforce it (with exact amounts listed)
People who want to stop it
So, can I borrow your cd's? I want to burn a couple 100 since I just bought a big whack of blanks and have already paid for the right to do so!
Who can give a guarantee that nobody tampers with the results or creates a database with citizens voting information?
Who can garuntee that now with the papaer based systems? At some point you have to trust somebody.
I just wait for my warantee to run out - it becomes unreable shortly thereafter!
you would still need developers, designers, customer support, etc.
That's where the open-source would come in, although customer support would be tricky. It might take the form of a user forum instead of a 1-800 #.
Early adopters would be the developers and designers. New users would d/l the client/server package and could just play or learn to add their own features which may or may not be taken up by the whole community.
VB and Windows don't bug me! I looking forward to trying out your software.
I had forgotten about the possiblities of cheating, since you would have a piece of the overall server.
PS: You should run a spell checker through your site!
Is anyone developing a free to use mmorpg, maybe based on a p2p method? I pay enough monthly bills I don't want to pay a monthly fee just to play a game. I don't mind paying for the game though.
I wonder if there's a way to build a mmorpg system that doesn't require central servers, but could exist on thousands of p2p machines. As pc's log on and off, the load is moved around. Sort of a combination of p2p and a distributed.net.
Instead of servers slowing down with more people logging on, the game gets faster when more pc's log in and add their computing power.
I was about to comment the same thing...
h tml
There are many plants that require fires to enable their seeds to germinate. I'm thinking of all the fires recently in California. There's a certain bush there that needs small brush fires.
here's just one link found through google:
http://www.werc.usgs.gov/fire/shrubland.
If you've got $10k to spare you can buy a laser based record player. It would be nice if there was a business in every major city where you could take your most cherished records and transfer them to digital using one of these machines.
Read about this years ago: Send a laser transceiver way out in space and have another in earth orbit (always able to see the far satellite). Encode your data in a continuous stream to the far end, and it sends it back, which is then sent out again. The further the distance, the more you can store in the stream. Although you have to wait until it comes around again if you want to access or change it. You can use radio instead of lasers and you might want a bunch of them in case of a failure at either end.
Bob talks about this very thing in this week's I, Cringely
D'oh! Screwup up on the copy and paste:
Meucci NOT Marconni in my last msg
Here's two pages on the history of the telephone invention:
Bell as inventor
Marconi as inventor
But you're right about Bell corp. Here's ATT's history
Ford didn't invented the car and GE and Bell weren't the first in their businesses either, but like they say: "History is written by the winners..."
My first TV screen interactive experience was in the middle 70's using the 3-sided Coleco box. It had 3 games: Pong, a driving game (keep a dot between two swerving lines), and a shooting game ( a light sensor in the barrel of a gun).
When tell kids today of those days they think I'm joking. They can't imagine that first time you could do something that caused changes on your home tv set and how important a change that was.
A boat in International Waters?!
Detroit is on the Great Lakes waterway - on the water you're either in the US or in Canada!
PS: On a weekend I've seen 8 different Canadian and US authorities patrol those waters (between Detroit and Windsor):
(Coast Guard, Customs, Fisheries, Metro Marine, RCMP...)
They practically bump into each other!
Oop - found some info myself:v es_Ecomob ile.htmb inmotors.com/products_sparrow1.html
http://www.motobykz.co.uk/Ecomobile/Pera
http://www.bmw.co.uk/c1/
http://www.cor
What ever happened to the German enclosed bike? I saw it once on Beyond2000 around 1995. It was 2 wheeled, but when you came to a stop, side-wheels came down on either side.
My dedicated wireless (3Mbps) is good for about 10km and has to be line of sight. I'd rather have the same speed over a longer distance with no LOS conditions.
I wonder what will happen when bionic eys (ears, limbs, memory) are better than your perfectly functioning ones. Will people upgrade themselves like they do now with implants and plastic surgery? It's closer to reality with these great technological advances, but are we ready for it in our culture?
Check out:
http://www.noblenet.org/reference/inter.htm
http://www.chinasprout.com/html/column15.html