>>>Unfortunately most modern research is far more complex, far more costly, requires substantial facilities to conduct and many people working together to achieve.
Which is precisely why government should stay far-away. Adding lays of government bureacracy to the mix is like pouring molasses into the machinery. Its harms the process, not helps it. (I know, I waste half my day dealing with gov't paperwork instead of doing actual work.)
From the article: "President Clinton signed into law exactly a decade ago Tuesday."
Well good job Bill! (cheers). By the way, you're the same joker who signed into law the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, which repealed a portion of the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 (forbidding banks from speculating in stock markets), and thereby caused the current housing mess & rampant bank failures of 2007-8 and approximately 1.5 trillion in taxpayer bailouts to the rich fat cats on Wall Street (corporate welfare).
A sniper rifle aimed at the head of the principal and/or prosecutor also works: "Don't try to 'make examples' of good, decent people trying to do the right thing. Else YOU will be made an example of how Liberty-loving people deal with out-of-control Tyrants."
Okay, I joke.
But any politician hearing about this unfair prosecution ought to update the "Good Samaritan Law" so it not only protects people trying to save injured persons, but also protects people trying to help schools/companies by revealing security flaws in their system.
>>>To reach that lofty level of 140 million in 8 years, it would have taken a manufacturing capacity of ~1.5 million units per month.
Your statistical analysis doesn't hold-up, because the PS2 sold its first 100 million in just four years time. That's over 2 million per month. The Wii has sold "only" 30 million in two years; which would be 60 million in four years.... far short of what the PS2 did.
Even if the Wii continues its current rates it won't reach 100 million until the middle of year 6... 2012... by which point its SD-quality graphics will start looking rather aged, so it's unlikely to keep-up with its present pace. I predict the Wii will outsell both the Super Nintendo and the Original Nintendo, but not surpass the 100 million mark.
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Sony was able to meet the demand, and manufacture over 100 million PS2s during the previous generation. Likewise Nintendo was able to keep-up with demand for its Super Nintendo when it sold 50 million between 1991 and 1996.
I don't understand why Nintendo can not do the same with its Wii console. Could it be that Nintendo is purposely not expanding manufacturing lines, in order to create a deliberate shortage on the market? Hmmmm. I'm not sure why they'd want to do that, except possibly to inflate the retail price $50 above actual cost of manufacture.
(shrug)
I'll do the same thing I did last-gen. I'll buy whichever is the most-popular console when it hits $199. And I'll buy the Nintendo Wii if it's either $100 flat or $150 with a free game. (Last time I got a Cube for just $100 + a free Zelda NES/N64 Collection. Sweet deal.)
From the article: "President Clinton signed into law exactly a decade ago Tuesday."
Well good job Bill! (cheers). By the way, you're the same joker who signed into law the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, which repealed a portion of the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 (forbidding banks from speculating in stock markets), and thereby caused the current housing mess & rampant bank failures of 2007-8 and approximately 1.5 trillion in taxpayer bailouts to the rich fat cats on Wall Street (corporate welfare).
Here are some cool images from that 1985 game. Remember: This was all done with a primitive 0.064 megabyte computer and phoneline modems that barely ran 1 kbit/s. It's amazing that LucasArts was able to create a graphical world using such slow connections.
Precisely. I've been doing the Habitat/Club Caribe virtual worlds since the 80s - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitat_(video_game) - The only people who think this is "new" are the teeny-boppers. To them, everything is new.
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If we go with your premise, how would an "idiot" be able to choose which man is the most-qualified to be the leader of the executive branch? Do they just flipa coin and pick randomly? Is that really the best way to pick a leader?
(1) How is the FCC going to enforce that rule on a bunch of Unlicensed devices? We know some cheap Chinese Whitespace Device will probably fail to suppress anything.
(2) Even with 47 dB suppression of channel 18's "spillover", that's still enough to drown-out a signal on channel 17 that is only -60 or -70 dB at the television receiver. You'll see garbage/pixelization on the screen. Or possibly nothing, given how DTV works (cliff effect).
This happened with both my Motorola analog and my Virgin Mobile (Nokia) digital cellphones:
I lay my phone in a little slot next to the car radio. From time to time I hear "digital noise" like a buzzing. I know I'm about 1 second from hearing my phone ring. Sometimes people ask me, "How'd you know I was calling? It didn't even ring.";-)
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>>> None of those companies would have gotten anywhere without... government contracts.
But remember - most of our inventions go back to Edison Labs. He didn't receive government funds, but instead did it partly for his own enjoyment & partly to earn profit off his creations. Same applies to the other inventors of the day like Tesla or Bell. All of today's inventions ultimately trace back to a period (1800s) when Washington D.C. was little more than swampland & took a non-active role in business.
As for this Eureka Town in Australia, I kinda suspect it won't go anywhere. I'd prefer to take part in this project: http://www.freestateproject.org/ (New Hampshire)
I'm feeling old too, but yet worn out. This means if I want to back to college, I should do it now at age 37, while my brain is near peak capacity, rather than wait until I'm a doddering 40-something.;-)
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>>>When they shut down analog TV, I wonder what interesting new signals one will be able to intercept with old TV sets on those frequencies
Nothing because those same frequencies will be used to broadcast DTV. Analog and digital television share the same radioband, and your old set will be picking-up the pseudo-random noise of DTV.
Except that when an Ipod (or other WSD) is broadcasting on channel 18, not all the signal stays inside channel 18. A lot of it spills-over into WPHL's channel 17. Think of them as the EM equivalent of harmonics of the original signal.
So you cannot place two broadcasts directly side-by-side and expect it to work. This is not a flaw of design. This is a flaw of nature. "You cannae change the laws of physics" is a favorite joke from Star Trek, but it also happens to be true. A DTV receiver cannot decode WPHL-17's signal when the Ipod/WSD on channel 18 is overflowing its own signal onto the channel.
>>>to the tune of 3,000 civilians in a well orchestrated sneak attack.
And we killed 20,000 innocents in Iraq and 10,000 innocents in Afghanistan, so WE have become the terrorists as well. We have become the evil. The proper response was to mourn the losses, and tighten border patrols, not go on a killing spree of revenge.
Hey now.
I have my current job thanks to hacking Atari 2600 consoles, Commodore 64s, and Amiga 500s. I also did a little bit of "phreaking" until one of our local BBS Sysops got caught by the FBI, so I decided to back-off the illegal stuff.
I learned more skills in my bedroom as a "script kiddie" than I ever learned in the gov't-monopoly school system. (I'm happy to say the privatized college education was much more useful. It helped provide focus.)
Obviously we need to program our nanites to do myelin deposition in the nerve cells. And while they're there, they can carry off any amyloid plaques to the intestine for disposal.
There is No "one" point where the body stops working. Different systems age at different rates:
- the reproductive system peaks somewhere around age 16 or 17 (lowest risk of birth defects) - the *desire* for sex peaks just prior to menopause for women (circa age 35) and apparently never ends for men;-) - flexibility (ala gymanasts and skaters) peaks at 15 and ends around 25 - reaction time peaks at 30 - and now it's revealed that the human brain peaks just prior to 40 - after which the neurons' tendrils start falling apart (like an old rubber hose).
So if I want to back to college, I should do it now at age 37, while my brain is near peak capacity, rather than wait until I'm a doddering 40-something.;-)
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The "enemy" is on the other side of a 5,000 mile wide ocean (more or less). They'd have a very difficult time getting past beefed-up security. There was no need to go kill 30,000 innocent Arabs in Iraq and Afghanistan.
>>>When do you folk feel a bit ethically obliged to let the company just make some money out of the good work they've done.
When they produce good work. That's when I hand-over the cash. Not before. I owned a Gamecube, spent a lot of money on their games, and was very disappointed with the results. I didn't think the quality of the games were as good as what I played on the previous N64 console, or Super Nintendo console.
At this point, if anybody owes anything, it's Nintendo who owes ME for sucking-away my money on poor-quality Cube games. I don't see Nintendo "ethically obliged" to refund my money??? So I'll just treat Nintendo how they treat me. "Nothing personal; just business."
>>>always being less driven to have the latest and greatest
That's their current philosophy, but it wasn't "always" like that. The NES/Super NES were not the best, but they were no slouches next to other 8 and 16 consoles. The N64 was the most-advanced technology of the 1994-96 console releases. Ditto the Gamecube (I consider it equal in power to the Xbox). It was only with the most-recent generation that Nintendo decided to settle for third (in terms of tech).
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>>>Unfortunately most modern research is far more complex, far more costly, requires substantial facilities to conduct and many people working together to achieve.
Which is precisely why government should stay far-away. Adding lays of government bureacracy to the mix is like pouring molasses into the machinery. Its harms the process, not helps it. (I know, I waste half my day dealing with gov't paperwork instead of doing actual work.)
From the article: "President Clinton signed into law exactly a decade ago Tuesday."
Well good job Bill! (cheers). By the way, you're the same joker who signed into law the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, which repealed a portion of the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 (forbidding banks from speculating in stock markets), and thereby caused the current housing mess & rampant bank failures of 2007-8 and approximately 1.5 trillion in taxpayer bailouts to the rich fat cats on Wall Street (corporate welfare).
Nice job there ol' buddy.
A sniper rifle aimed at the head of the principal and/or prosecutor also works: "Don't try to 'make examples' of good, decent people trying to do the right thing. Else YOU will be made an example of how Liberty-loving people deal with out-of-control Tyrants."
Okay, I joke.
But any politician hearing about this unfair prosecution ought to update the "Good Samaritan Law" so it not only protects people trying to save injured persons, but also protects people trying to help schools/companies by revealing security flaws in their system.
>>>To reach that lofty level of 140 million in 8 years, it would have taken a manufacturing capacity of ~1.5 million units per month.
Your statistical analysis doesn't hold-up, because the PS2 sold its first 100 million in just four years time. That's over 2 million per month. The Wii has sold "only" 30 million in two years; which would be 60 million in four years.... far short of what the PS2 did.
Even if the Wii continues its current rates it won't reach 100 million until the middle of year 6... 2012... by which point its SD-quality graphics will start looking rather aged, so it's unlikely to keep-up with its present pace. I predict the Wii will outsell both the Super Nintendo and the Original Nintendo, but not surpass the 100 million mark.
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Sony was able to meet the demand, and manufacture over 100 million PS2s during the previous generation. Likewise Nintendo was able to keep-up with demand for its Super Nintendo when it sold 50 million between 1991 and 1996.
I don't understand why Nintendo can not do the same with its Wii console. Could it be that Nintendo is purposely not expanding manufacturing lines, in order to create a deliberate shortage on the market? Hmmmm. I'm not sure why they'd want to do that, except possibly to inflate the retail price $50 above actual cost of manufacture.
(shrug)
I'll do the same thing I did last-gen. I'll buy whichever is the most-popular console when it hits $199. And I'll buy the Nintendo Wii if it's either $100 flat or $150 with a free game. (Last time I got a Cube for just $100 + a free Zelda NES/N64 Collection. Sweet deal.)
From the article: "President Clinton signed into law exactly a decade ago Tuesday."
Well good job Bill! (cheers). By the way, you're the same joker who signed into law the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, which repealed a portion of the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 (forbidding banks from speculating in stock markets), and thereby caused the current housing mess & rampant bank failures of 2007-8 and approximately 1.5 trillion in taxpayer bailouts to the rich fat cats on Wall Street (corporate welfare).
Nice job there ol' buddy.
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Here are some cool images from that 1985 game. Remember: This was all done with a primitive 0.064 megabyte computer and phoneline modems that barely ran 1 kbit/s. It's amazing that LucasArts was able to create a graphical world using such slow connections.
http://www.atarimagazines.com/compute/issue77/habitat.php - And a RUN magazine article: http://thefarmers.org/Habitat/2004/09/the_avatar_is_legal_voting_age.html
Check out the cool Commodore 128 Pizza Box. I want one. :-) http://web.archive.org/web/20070221043915/www.fudco.com/habitat/archives/page05.jpg
>>>there isn't anything really new here
Precisely. I've been doing the Habitat/Club Caribe virtual worlds since the 80s - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitat_(video_game) - The only people who think this is "new" are the teeny-boppers. To them, everything is new.
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If we go with your premise, how would an "idiot" be able to choose which man is the most-qualified to be the leader of the executive branch? Do they just flipa coin and pick randomly? Is that really the best way to pick a leader?
(1) How is the FCC going to enforce that rule on a bunch of Unlicensed devices? We know some cheap Chinese Whitespace Device will probably fail to suppress anything.
(2) Even with 47 dB suppression of channel 18's "spillover", that's still enough to drown-out a signal on channel 17 that is only -60 or -70 dB at the television receiver. You'll see garbage/pixelization on the screen. Or possibly nothing, given how DTV works (cliff effect).
This happened with both my Motorola analog and my Virgin Mobile (Nokia) digital cellphones:
I lay my phone in a little slot next to the car radio. From time to time I hear "digital noise" like a buzzing. I know I'm about 1 second from hearing my phone ring. Sometimes people ask me, "How'd you know I was calling? It didn't even ring." ;-)
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Well, I just meant that there are very few gynasts/skaters competing after age 25. Their bodies are no longer flexible enough to do the routines.
I was actually thinking of the women gymnasts & skaters.
>>> None of those companies would have gotten anywhere without... government contracts.
But remember - most of our inventions go back to Edison Labs. He didn't receive government funds, but instead did it partly for his own enjoyment & partly to earn profit off his creations. Same applies to the other inventors of the day like Tesla or Bell. All of today's inventions ultimately trace back to a period (1800s) when Washington D.C. was little more than swampland & took a non-active role in business.
As for this Eureka Town in Australia, I kinda suspect it won't go anywhere.
I'd prefer to take part in this project: http://www.freestateproject.org/ (New Hampshire)
I'm feeling old too, but yet worn out. This means if I want to back to college, I should do it now at age 37, while my brain is near peak capacity, rather than wait until I'm a doddering 40-something. ;-)
- posted with LYNX, a Commodore 64 web browser (using 2 kbit/s modem)
>>>When they shut down analog TV, I wonder what interesting new signals one will be able to intercept with old TV sets on those frequencies
Nothing because those same frequencies will be used to broadcast DTV. Analog and digital television share the same radioband, and your old set will be picking-up the pseudo-random noise of DTV.
Except that when an Ipod (or other WSD) is broadcasting on channel 18, not all the signal stays inside channel 18. A lot of it spills-over into WPHL's channel 17. Think of them as the EM equivalent of harmonics of the original signal.
So you cannot place two broadcasts directly side-by-side and expect it to work. This is not a flaw of design. This is a flaw of nature. "You cannae change the laws of physics" is a favorite joke from Star Trek, but it also happens to be true. A DTV receiver cannot decode WPHL-17's signal when the Ipod/WSD on channel 18 is overflowing its own signal onto the channel.
>>>to the tune of 3,000 civilians in a well orchestrated sneak attack.
And we killed 20,000 innocents in Iraq and 10,000 innocents in Afghanistan, so WE have become the terrorists as well. We have become the evil. The proper response was to mourn the losses, and tighten border patrols, not go on a killing spree of revenge.
Hey now. I have my current job thanks to hacking Atari 2600 consoles, Commodore 64s, and Amiga 500s. I also did a little bit of "phreaking" until one of our local BBS Sysops got caught by the FBI, so I decided to back-off the illegal stuff. I learned more skills in my bedroom as a "script kiddie" than I ever learned in the gov't-monopoly school system. (I'm happy to say the privatized college education was much more useful. It helped provide focus.)
Obviously we need to program our nanites to do myelin deposition in the nerve cells. And while they're there, they can carry off any amyloid plaques to the intestine for disposal.
There is No "one" point where the body stops working. Different systems age at different rates:
- the reproductive system peaks somewhere around age 16 or 17 (lowest risk of birth defects) ;-)
- the *desire* for sex peaks just prior to menopause for women (circa age 35) and apparently never ends for men
- flexibility (ala gymanasts and skaters) peaks at 15 and ends around 25
- reaction time peaks at 30
- and now it's revealed that the human brain peaks just prior to 40 - after which the neurons' tendrils start falling apart (like an old rubber hose).
So if I want to back to college, I should do it now at age 37, while my brain is near peak capacity, rather than wait until I'm a doddering 40-something. ;-)
- posted with LYNX, a Commodore 64 web browser (using 2 kbit/s modem)
The "enemy" is on the other side of a 5,000 mile wide ocean (more or less). They'd have a very difficult time getting past beefed-up security. There was no need to go kill 30,000 innocent Arabs in Iraq and Afghanistan.
WE have become the terrorists killing innocents.
>>>When do you folk feel a bit ethically obliged to let the company just make some money out of the good work they've done.
When they produce good work. That's when I hand-over the cash. Not before. I owned a Gamecube, spent a lot of money on their games, and was very disappointed with the results. I didn't think the quality of the games were as good as what I played on the previous N64 console, or Super Nintendo console.
At this point, if anybody owes anything, it's Nintendo who owes ME for sucking-away my money on poor-quality Cube games. I don't see Nintendo "ethically obliged" to refund my money??? So I'll just treat Nintendo how they treat me. "Nothing personal; just business."
>>>always being less driven to have the latest and greatest
That's their current philosophy, but it wasn't "always" like that. The NES/Super NES were not the best, but they were no slouches next to other 8 and 16 consoles. The N64 was the most-advanced technology of the 1994-96 console releases. Ditto the Gamecube (I consider it equal in power to the Xbox). It was only with the most-recent generation that Nintendo decided to settle for third (in terms of tech).