Notice it's only an addiction once other people don't like it anymore? It's a hobby if it's only slightly annoying.:P
The ease of addition is simple, your body produces chemicals to react to the environmients, even simulated ones. This occurs especially in "action" games where adrenaline pumps with each round fired/guard killed or KO'd/level completed. The great ability to adapt also comes in, your body gets used to the chemicals present inth blood stream and begins to rely on them, much like smoking (as said earlier).
Even in the quieter aspect of games where the body is relaxing, your body still produces endorphins (sp?) to "reward" you for letting your body settle down and repair itself, furthering your "chance" of survival.
In both cases, the body gets used to the chemical balance and needs it eventually, causing what some call addiction.
Second, IPv6 will solve this, at least for a while. Despite IPv6 having enough addresses for all the particles in the universe, I'm sure we'll run out again in a few years:-)
But I wanna access the 67,523,972nd muon the to the left of the exact center of the sun! You people and using IPs to access your toys, tsk tsk. Yay for particle level IP access!
This stuff seems to be coming along faster and faster these days. Heck, I wouldn't be surprised if in the next 3-5 years they have small fuel cell generators for backup power in homes (I know it requires a converter, but who knows?). But I'd rather have one of these in my electric cars rather than 12 or so huge car batteries, and having it last twice as long is a good bonus!
Using double the desity of Photomultiplier Tubes allows them to get a better resolution picture of the energy released when the nutrino passes through. They won't get half the pictures, but they'll see them half as well.
It's a good solution for the time being because at least they can take pictures. If they waited until longer to get all the PMTs replaced, then they'd have less pictures overall instead of less resolution for a short period of time.
On the web, everything is speed-of-light compared to old business ways. Why should anyone be stuck waiting for some guy getting around to accepting their registration? Now it'll sure be faster to get a domain!
I'd be mad too if it took months just to get a tripod or geocities account.
I don't know exactly, but it's probably brightness. An electron stream of that thickness would be well past gigamps considering the size of an electron. Get a teacher to ask "on behalf of a kindergarden class"...usually they'll annswer then:)
They actually designed a system for it a few years back. The idea was to initiate enough voltage to gap the extreme resistance between ground and the clouds, then divert the amperage generated to a huge storage facility once the bolt had established an ionized air path. Once the air had ionized, it was easier to maintain the stream (for milliseconds).
However, the equipment involved was cost prohibitive, despite the fact that one thunderstorm could litteraly power a city for some amount of time (cant remember exactly). The scientists believed that this would be great for places like Texas where thunderstorms are common.
As for the lightning hitting rarely in one area, they found if you're the only large, highly conductive object for miles you get a much higher chance of being hit by lightning. One steel building in the middle of a flat area with a big antenna on top is going to attract lighting many times per storm.
I'm not too informed when it comes to the different licenses, but it seems M$ made a bit of a point. However, It seems to me that it's not entirely true. Yes, the code must be released and free and all that good stuff. They seem to miss the fact that a lot of the comercial systems seem to sell user support and hard copies of the system. Not only will the average user want a physical copy of their OS (once the Linux/BSD world becomes easier to use), but the average user won't be able to install their own hardware, etc, etc. I mean, come on! We've all read tech support calls from hell:)
This sounds great, but it will be interesting to see how exactly they implement this. I mean, without rewriting the entire scheme of things or having people decompile it and remove the protection anyway. This seems really hard because whether or not you get it, you still need to address the packets somewhere and with logs on ISP computers across the net, you could be traced. Unless of course they somehow bypass logs...but then the decompiling comes into play again.
This seems like a cool thing. Someday when I get lost in a foreign city I could call and get someone to show me a map.:) Or actually put the phone in front of me and let them give me verbal directions.
But you know the laws prohibiting these while operating anything at all that moves will be a book in themselves. I mean, cellphones are bad, these will be MUCH worse.
One day we'll develop a technology that transmits at those speeds but travels like nutrinos (I think thats the sub atomic particle Im thinking of...) that arent affected by earth's crust and links the continents that way... Of course we haven't thought of a way to do that yet, so I'll just sit here and dream about it.:)
Personally, I think the average Joe has no need for all this high-power computing. What it really comes down to is that the average computer illiterate only uses the computer to check email, surf the web, play games, and maybe use apps like Word (I know, but they usually don't get Linux). And all they see is the clock speed, true, but then again they can never really use much of the processing power.
But the whole performance rating really doesn't matter much once you get past the point of human usability. I mean, unless you're running more programs than you can possibly use at once, who can truely use all that computing power personally?
Both companies should just forget pushing processors farther and faster, and go for manufacturing. Once they can mass produce those processors, the whole world can have a computer. (Hence, the government has more to worry about;P )
I think the government is going way to far anyway. This Carnivore thing is the government wedging itself into the power of the internet. If they can look at any packets going through/from/to a server, what keeps them from dictating what is allowed through what could be called "United States 'Netspace"? Heck, the government atempts to regulate everything that moves physically within the borders of the US, why not throught the electronics of the US as well?
Once they get in and regulate what they want, its too easy for them to, as the article put it, "Shutdown the Internet". If we dont stop their atempts to regulate everything through US Servers now, they'll push for more control, give an inch, they'll take a mile.
All I know is, if they end up trying to shutdown the internet or control it, I know there'll be alot of computer techs out there extremely mad.:)
Einstien, Newton, Da Vinci, Hawking, Gallileo, Descartes, Tesla, Edison, Nobel, and all female scientists who pushed their way into a male dominated field (at the time). Sorry I can't name any specific female nerds, Not to knowledgable there:(
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Notice it's only an addiction once other people don't like it anymore? It's a hobby if it's only slightly annoying. :P
The ease of addition is simple, your body produces chemicals to react to the environmients, even simulated ones. This occurs especially in "action" games where adrenaline pumps with each round fired/guard killed or KO'd/level completed. The great ability to adapt also comes in, your body gets used to the chemicals present inth blood stream and begins to rely on them, much like smoking (as said earlier).
Even in the quieter aspect of games where the body is relaxing, your body still produces endorphins (sp?) to "reward" you for letting your body settle down and repair itself, furthering your "chance" of survival.
In both cases, the body gets used to the chemical balance and needs it eventually, causing what some call addiction.
Second, IPv6 will solve this, at least for a while. Despite IPv6 having enough addresses for all the particles in the universe, I'm sure we'll run out again in a few years :-)
But I wanna access the 67,523,972nd muon the to the left of the exact center of the sun! You people and using IPs to access your toys, tsk tsk. Yay for particle level IP access!
This stuff seems to be coming along faster and faster these days. Heck, I wouldn't be surprised if in the next 3-5 years they have small fuel cell generators for backup power in homes (I know it requires a converter, but who knows?). But I'd rather have one of these in my electric cars rather than 12 or so huge car batteries, and having it last twice as long is a good bonus!
One more way to reduce pollution in urban areas.
Using double the desity of Photomultiplier Tubes allows them to get a better resolution picture of the energy released when the nutrino passes through. They won't get half the pictures, but they'll see them half as well.
It's a good solution for the time being because at least they can take pictures. If they waited until longer to get all the PMTs replaced, then they'd have less pictures overall instead of less resolution for a short period of time.
On the web, everything is speed-of-light compared to old business ways. Why should anyone be stuck waiting for some guy getting around to accepting their registration? Now it'll sure be faster to get a domain!
I'd be mad too if it took months just to get a tripod or geocities account.
Next step is GPS for the toilets. You get to find out which is the closest open toilet to your dorm room, accurate to the foot.
I don't know exactly, but it's probably brightness. An electron stream of that thickness would be well past gigamps considering the size of an electron. Get a teacher to ask "on behalf of a kindergarden class"...usually they'll annswer then :)
They actually designed a system for it a few years back. The idea was to initiate enough voltage to gap the extreme resistance between ground and the clouds, then divert the amperage generated to a huge storage facility once the bolt had established an ionized air path. Once the air had ionized, it was easier to maintain the stream (for milliseconds).
However, the equipment involved was cost prohibitive, despite the fact that one thunderstorm could litteraly power a city for some amount of time (cant remember exactly). The scientists believed that this would be great for places like Texas where thunderstorms are common.
As for the lightning hitting rarely in one area, they found if you're the only large, highly conductive object for miles you get a much higher chance of being hit by lightning. One steel building in the middle of a flat area with a big antenna on top is going to attract lighting many times per storm.
I'm not too informed when it comes to the different licenses, but it seems M$ made a bit of a point. However, It seems to me that it's not entirely true. Yes, the code must be released and free and all that good stuff. They seem to miss the fact that a lot of the comercial systems seem to sell user support and hard copies of the system. Not only will the average user want a physical copy of their OS (once the Linux/BSD world becomes easier to use), but the average user won't be able to install their own hardware, etc, etc. I mean, come on! We've all read tech support calls from hell :)
This sounds great, but it will be interesting to see how exactly they implement this. I mean, without rewriting the entire scheme of things or having people decompile it and remove the protection anyway. This seems really hard because whether or not you get it, you still need to address the packets somewhere and with logs on ISP computers across the net, you could be traced. Unless of course they somehow bypass logs...but then the decompiling comes into play again.
This seems like a cool thing. Someday when I get lost in a foreign city I could call and get someone to show me a map. :) Or actually put the phone in front of me and let them give me verbal directions.
But you know the laws prohibiting these while operating anything at all that moves will be a book in themselves. I mean, cellphones are bad, these will be MUCH worse.
One day we'll develop a technology that transmits at those speeds but travels like nutrinos (I think thats the sub atomic particle Im thinking of...) that arent affected by earth's crust and links the continents that way... Of course we haven't thought of a way to do that yet, so I'll just sit here and dream about it. :)
Personally, I think the average Joe has no need for all this high-power computing. What it really comes down to is that the average computer illiterate only uses the computer to check email, surf the web, play games, and maybe use apps like Word (I know, but they usually don't get Linux). And all they see is the clock speed, true, but then again they can never really use much of the processing power.
;P )
But the whole performance rating really doesn't matter much once you get past the point of human usability. I mean, unless you're running more programs than you can possibly use at once, who can truely use all that computing power personally?
Both companies should just forget pushing processors farther and faster, and go for manufacturing. Once they can mass produce those processors, the whole world can have a computer. (Hence, the government has more to worry about
I think the government is going way to far anyway. This Carnivore thing is the government wedging itself into the power of the internet. If they can look at any packets going through/from/to a server, what keeps them from dictating what is allowed through what could be called "United States 'Netspace"? Heck, the government atempts to regulate everything that moves physically within the borders of the US, why not throught the electronics of the US as well?
:)
Once they get in and regulate what they want, its too easy for them to, as the article put it, "Shutdown the Internet". If we dont stop their atempts to regulate everything through US Servers now, they'll push for more control, give an inch, they'll take a mile.
All I know is, if they end up trying to shutdown the internet or control it, I know there'll be alot of computer techs out there extremely mad.
Einstien, Newton, Da Vinci, Hawking, Gallileo, Descartes, Tesla, Edison, Nobel, and all female scientists who pushed their way into a male dominated field (at the time). Sorry I can't name any specific female nerds, Not to knowledgable there :(