This is great. You'd be able to fit all the MP3s you could ever want onto something the size of a sugar cube... and, unlike regular hard drives, it won't get screwed up if you jostle it.
Compact and reliable... but is it cheap enough? If it is, all we have to worry about is the RIAA nixing it's use in the players...
The problem with that idea is the massive fights that will break out at all the Star Trek conventions due to the disagreements of how to pronounce "Linux".
Depends if corporations achieve extraterritoriality like they did in the Shiawase decision... if that happens, we'll all get screwed... Basically, the MegaCorporate complexes were treated as separate countries and had their own set of laws, armies, etc. It came to the point where companies were stronger than any government.
I used to think that it would never happen, but with some of the recent issues...
Then things will progress from there... eventually you'll be plugging your head into the internet... and scenarios like Neuromancer/Shadowrun/Johnny Mnemonic start becoming a reality...
Okay, maybe this won't happen, but it would be damn cool if it did.
Yes! They could be sent down to an office to wait in insanely long lines, only to be given a 10 minute test.
Successfully passing this test would allow you to stand in even MORE long lines so you can get your picture for your "Surfing License".
And, yes, of course this sounds great... only to us people over 18, though.... think about all the people who are younger than us getting violent upon reading these posts...
On a bit of a serious note, if that sex led to actual childbearing, wouldn't there me a MASSIVE inbreeding effect?
I mean, if having children with family whose genes are merely close to yours produces it, then what would happen if one was to have a child with someone that had the EXACT SAME genes as themselves, only a different sex?
In general a game client really should just be a dumb terminal
Such was the case with many many MUDs before EQ came around, (either telnet or dial-up software) and people still found a way to cheat. They set up scripts to play their character for them 24/7. Now, while some may not view this as cheating, it certainly gave a very unfair advantage to these people.
Even if the client gets ONLY the essential information (in the aforementioned case, just text) people will FIND a way to get an advantage.
Note: I don't condone virus writing in any way shape or form... really. I don't. You can trust me. Honest.
I must say... that would be *cool* =).
Although, I'm sure that the MPAA could blow THAT way out of proportion too...
"Look at those rogue hackers! They're making viruses now to spread this evil illegal code! You computer could get infected and it might crash! Show your support for us and help us crush these evil-doers!"
They called it the emotion chip because it's powerful enough to produce graphics so detailed that real-looking emotions could be displayed on the characters in realtime.
The other problem is, of course, that most of the military's infrastructure now runs on NT. Like Arnold in Terminator 2... it cannot self-terminate. So, even if you managed to somehow bypass the 32 safeguards preventing launch, you'd still be stuck at a BSOD on the console.
Wow! I think you've just figured out the military's strategy!
See, if anyone manages to break into our military systems, since they're running Windows, it will be next to impossible for then to get anything productive done! This way it gives us much more time to respond to the threat!
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This is great. You'd be able to fit all the MP3s you could ever want onto something the size of a sugar cube... and, unlike regular hard drives, it won't get screwed up if you jostle it.
Compact and reliable... but is it cheap enough? If it is, all we have to worry about is the RIAA nixing it's use in the players...
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The problem with that idea is the massive fights that will break out at all the Star Trek conventions due to the disagreements of how to pronounce "Linux".
-- Dr. Eldarion --
Is a partnership between the makers of Star Trek and Squaresoft... they could make a totally computer-animated show based on the Star Trek setting...
Maybe called Square Trek?
-- Dr. Eldarion --
Depends if corporations achieve extraterritoriality like they did in the Shiawase decision... if that happens, we'll all get screwed... Basically, the MegaCorporate complexes were treated as separate countries and had their own set of laws, armies, etc. It came to the point where companies were stronger than any government.
I used to think that it would never happen, but with some of the recent issues...
-- Dr. Eldarion --
Allright! But is the beer free? (as in... er, well, beer..)
-- Dr. Eldarion --
I do see a downside to neuo interfaces though.
You forgot the obvious one... get into a company's system, and your neighbors may be smelling burnt flesh coming from your house if you get caught...
I can see the MPAA/RIAA/Other acronyms loving this, though... their new technology will fry your brain if you try to copy it...
-- Dr. Eldarion --
Then things will progress from there... eventually you'll be plugging your head into the internet... and scenarios like Neuromancer/Shadowrun/Johnny Mnemonic start becoming a reality...
Okay, maybe this won't happen, but it would be damn cool if it did.
-- Dr. Eldarion --
It's kinda like an old grandma driving a Diablo... you know the car can go faster, but you know that SHE can't ;)
-- Dr. Eldarion --
I don't know... I still have problems thinking of things to do when I get 100 KB/s off of my cable modem...
1024768 times that much would be totally overwhelming.
-- Dr. Eldarion --
Yes! They could be sent down to an office to wait in insanely long lines, only to be given a 10 minute test.
Successfully passing this test would allow you to stand in even MORE long lines so you can get your picture for your "Surfing License".
And, yes, of course this sounds great... only to us people over 18, though.... think about all the people who are younger than us getting violent upon reading these posts...
-- Dr. Eldarion --
'eh, sorry, my mistake. I didn't actually try it out... I'm at school, and the connection here sucks.
:/
All I know is that it worked for me on a couple different websites
-- Dr. Eldarion --
There's another way, actually.
Look in the source for the page and get the filename of the movie... then make a quick little html file that contains:
-html-
-a href=http://whereever.ext/movie.qt-
-/html-
Right click on the link, and save it to the disk!
-- Dr. Eldarion --
No, you can't change it... but, males come equipped with one of each. Now, if they just took two of the X's, everything would be fine
-- Dr. Eldarion --
I'm thinking 100 percent... since you would be contributing your one of your own chromosomes to another one of your own chromosomes...
Well, that's an easy way to make clones of yourself, I suppose... just make one and the others will come *ahem* naturally.
Although, they would probably be a bit... uhm... screwed up.
-- Dr. Eldarion --
On a bit of a serious note, if that sex led to actual childbearing, wouldn't there me a MASSIVE inbreeding effect?
I mean, if having children with family whose genes are merely close to yours produces it, then what would happen if one was to have a child with someone that had the EXACT SAME genes as themselves, only a different sex?
-- Dr. Eldarion --
In general a game client really should just be a dumb terminal
Such was the case with many many MUDs before EQ came around, (either telnet or dial-up software) and people still found a way to cheat. They set up scripts to play their character for them 24/7. Now, while some may not view this as cheating, it certainly gave a very unfair advantage to these people.
Even if the client gets ONLY the essential information (in the aforementioned case, just text) people will FIND a way to get an advantage.
-- Dr. Eldarion --
Note: I don't condone virus writing in any way shape or form... really. I don't. You can trust me. Honest.
I must say... that would be *cool* =).
Although, I'm sure that the MPAA could blow THAT way out of proportion too...
"Look at those rogue hackers! They're making viruses now to spread this evil illegal code! You computer could get infected and it might crash! Show your support for us and help us crush these evil-doers!"
-- Dr. Eldarion --
Say, for a moment, that the ruling went the other way...
What category would perl poetry fall under... it's poetry, so that's expression... yet it's source code, so it's not...
Okay, maybe it's just late and I'm going nuts. Back to your regularly scheduled programming.
-- Dr. Eldarion --
Well, lets see.
I can pay $200 for a Dreamcast.
OR
I can pay $22/month for 24 months.
$200 vs $520... and if you decide that the online gaming isn't worth it, you're pretty much screwed.
-- Dr. Eldarion --
They called it the emotion chip because it's powerful enough to produce graphics so detailed that real-looking emotions could be displayed on the characters in realtime.
-- Dr. Eldarion --
The other problem is, of course, that most of the military's infrastructure now runs on NT. Like Arnold in Terminator 2... it cannot self-terminate. So, even if you managed to somehow bypass the 32 safeguards preventing launch, you'd still be stuck at a BSOD on the console.
Wow! I think you've just figured out the military's strategy!
See, if anyone manages to break into our military systems, since they're running Windows, it will be next to impossible for then to get anything productive done! This way it gives us much more time to respond to the threat!
Er... uhm, yeah.
-- Dr. Eldarion --
A wise man once said, "Windows isn't a virus. Viruses *DO* something."
-- Dr. Eldarion --
A company that claims to provide easy internet access screwing their users over on their credit cards?... sounds familiar...
AOL, anyone?
-- Dr. Eldarion --
Well let's just say I'd rather have my toilet kernel panic
Don't even get me started on the 'core dump' jokes...
-- Dr. Eldarion --
But what you are not understanding is that it *IS* theirs, and they *DID* pay for it.
How exactly is that? They didn't get a room with access... they're *NOT* paying the $24/semester...
-- Dr. Eldarion --