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I wonder if these things can be programmed to upload your complete profile information to some central database much like the one "doubleclick" maintains. That would be really scary.
Imagine these sort of monitoring stations strategically placed which download your profile automatically when you come within a certain range of them. They then all talk to each other since they are all networked and build a profile of you keeping track of exactly where you were and when you were there. I mean these things could track your every move. Watch out for "Big Brother".
Actually, these things could be really useful in some applications, but I doubt that many people would agree to carry one around.
Ok, this is even better. The little device stores all your like, dislikes and preferences, so as soon as you enter a store the interactive advertisments could adapt to your likings. In fact, you could sit down at a restarant and the overhead lighting could self adjust, the waiter would already know that you don't like mustard on your hamburger and the seats could change to your favorite color.
I think I'm getting somewhere with this. Let me know if I'm taking this too far...
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson NPS Internet Solutions, LLC www.npsis.com
Parsing is what my cgi scripts do... you are just having trouble connecting the syntax/grammar with my intended meaning of these statements. Sorry for the confusion. I read it myself, and become utterly confounded.
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson NPS Internet Solutions, LLC www.npsis.com
Ok, there are two reasons why this is really cool, actually probably more but let me list just two.
1) I'm not an environmentalist but this does save a few trees.
2) I couldn't help notice a comment posted by someone a few discussion back who basically claimed the internet was dead simply because it was now filled with so many commercial and useless websites. After contemplating his remarks I found it hard not to disagree at least to some extent. But on the other hand when something like this comes along it makes me look on the bright side again... There is use for the internet... distribution of information that is both informative and educational. Granted there is plenty of crap out there if you go searching but putting a good book like this online restores my faith in the internet once again.
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson NPS Internet Solutions, LLC www.npsis.com
Wrong, you can perform surgery and make me incapable of thinking rationally or being able to communicate with the outside world but you cannot take away my self awareness even though it might be masked by drugs or other methods.
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson NPS Internet Solutions, LLC www.npsis.com
There is nothing wrong with registering a few domains, heck we have guys that register over a 100 domains per day.
I'm not sure what to make of this trademark issue though, its arguable both ways. But I don't think we can say that this mp3.com guy is squatting so long as he payed for the domains he registered.
Just my two cents...
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson NPS Internet Solutions, LLC www.npsis.com
AI as portrayed in the Matrix will never happen simply because an awareness of self is something more than just 10 billion neurons (or transistors) firing in a coherent fashion. To aquire true AI or intelligence is to be aware of one's self this can neither be created nor destroyed. I suppose it is something like a "sole" but even deeper than that. If this all sounds too metaphysical it isn't its just the simple truth on the matter...
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson NPS Internet Solutions, LLC www.npsis.com
You can't take a billion plus people and try to control their basic freedoms without some backlash... I think within a year or two we are going to see a collapse of the Chinese Communist Regime currently in power.
Anarchy will rule but as compared with a the current situation anything is better...
What I don't understand is exactly how many people in China have internet access, and if there are that many people I'm sure there are ways to get around the firewalls using anonymizing programs etc... Smart programmers exist in China as well as in the US.
Just my two cents.
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson NPS Internet Solutions, LLC www.npsis.com
Nothing new about the Clinton Administration will surprise me. Its all been lies built upon lies.
The fact that these e-mails were covered up probably has something do to with the Lewinsky affair among other things. The Clinton Admin is all about cover ups... Of course, its only natural considering all the illegal and immoral things they are involved in.
I'm sure the American Public would love to get their hands on this stuff, I know I would.
Let's just hope the next administration will be an improvement over this last one.
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson NPS Internet Solutions, LLC www.npsis.com
Well... that is one theory. The second more plausible theory put forth by a certain group of NASA engineers is suggesting that these canals are simply remnants of "lava" flows that occurred when the red planet was still "hot".
I think I'll go with the second theory myself. We see much the same phenomena on volcanic islands such as Hawaii. Underground lava flows creating rivers of molten rock.
Of course everyone likes to toss around the water theory, who wouldn't? But realistically, these channels are due more to the lithography and not a fictious hydrosphere.
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson NPS Internet Solutions, LLC www.npsis.com
If you take a good look into this it becomes clear that graphics cards have actually exceed Moore's Law within the past three years. Current graphics chips have nearly as many transistors as the original Pentiums and when you compare that with their predecessors... there is no comparison. The interesting thing about graphic chips is they are still not on the bleeding edge as far as total number of transistors or speed and throughput. Eventually they may catch up to the CPU simply because the road is already paved for them. I won't be surprised to see a 500MHZ graphics engine within the year and possibly a 1GHZ sometime next year. The technology is already there and "proven" by the CPUs, its just a matter of pushing the graphic chips into that ballpark. What does this all mean? Well I think our StarTrek Holodeck idea isn't too far fetched. Movies will involve more digital actors and maybe even become the majority in the acting world. Games of course will continue to boom and will only get better, more lifelike and realistic. I think simulators are the next big step, ones that really fool your brain into thinking that your actually within your virtual environment. What I don't understand is why the pipeline between the CPU and the graphics card isn't opened up more or at least made more direct. If this one done, truly astounding products would result.
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson NPS Internet Solutions, LLC www.npsis.com
I have no problem with this... at least it will slow down these name hogs who call themselves "brokers" and then try to scam everyone. Trademarks and Corporate names should be protected they are the ones who have gone to all the hard work to make the name not some "broker". Just my two cents...
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson NPS Internet Solutions, LLC www.npsis.com
Is it just me or is slashdot always down. I think if they would think about providing a mirror site it might help. At least we wouldn't be completely left hanging...
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson NPS Internet Solutions, LLC www.npsis.com
It is interesting to note that these same number theories "recreational mathematics" have helped us explain many theories and puzzles in the physical world. For example matrices were simply a mathmatical mind game when first devised and no actual use for them was imagined. Of course later it was realized that they could be aptly used in all sorts of real life scenarios such as vector algebra and robotics "inverse kinematics".
Actually most branches of mathematics no matter how abstract have eventually found their way into physics or some other related scientific field. Does this not strike you as somewhat strange? I mean we devise up these crazy number theories and ideas and then they almost magically appear in nature to fit our mathmatical model.
Just some food for thought...
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson NPS Internet Solutions, LLC www.npsis.com
Can't something like this be dangerous? I mean what if the disk somehow flies apart due to the extreme inertial forces from the centrifugal forces that it is experiencing. Ok, I could be just thinking to hard here but there has to be a limit somewhere...
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson NPS Internet Solutions, LLC www.npsis.com
I'll believe it when I see it... Besides I have never seen a good seamless display every attempt at this has pretty much been a failure if I'm correct. However, there is potential here. The other issue is bandwidth of course. Unless you have a serious data path from your digital video card to your monitor this sort of technology is just not going to work.
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson NPS Internet Solutions, LLC www.npsis.com
We have already been experiencing disruptions in service. Of course these may just be a result of recent widespread DDOS attacks. Anyhow take a look at the animated gif on the web site, its really amazing.
We can actually see matter exiting the sun's surface. I am truly impressed. What is scary though is that within the next few months we can expect to see a lot more of this. I guess I will put that new satellite dish on hold for awhile. Really, though I don't expect it to have much affect on our current infrastructure. Sure I might knock out a couple of satellites, but when you realize that currently we have over a 1000 active satellites orbiting the earth you quickly realize that there is some redundancy in place. Lets try to get away from the Y2K scare thing... it only encourages people to spend a lot of time and energy on otherwise useless pursuits.
Just my two cents...
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson NPS Internet Solutions, LLC www.npsis.com
Have you noticed lately the horde of rumors permeating the internet lately: Bill Gates giving away Windows source,... and now this.
I'm not sure who starts these rumors, but that is exactly what they are, just rumors.
I wonder if they are somehow related to the recent DDOS attacks??
I think we're on to something here...
Ok, enough BSing. My point is that Slashdot should try to post slightly more credible stories and news. In other words research it a little before posting every little comment from some loony that comes along on the grape vine or is deposited in their "make a comment" bin. When we post this kind of garbage it only serves to weaken our credibility.
Just my two cents...
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson NPS Internet Solutions, LLC www.npsis.com
Soon the technology will be available so that we can download and freely distribute media without worrying about stupid encryption schemes. Eventually the big corps I going to realize that they have to stop robbing everyone and charging reasonable prices for their products. Until that time, call it what you will, but there will be plenty of underground activity.
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson NPS Internet Solutions, LLC www.npsis.com
Slashdot Mirror
I wonder if these things can be programmed to upload your complete profile information to some central database much like the one "doubleclick" maintains. That would be really scary.
Imagine these sort of monitoring stations strategically placed which download your profile automatically when you come within a certain range of them. They then all talk to each other since they are all networked and build a profile of you keeping track of exactly where you were and when you were there. I mean these things could track your every move. Watch out for "Big Brother".
Actually, these things could be really useful in some applications, but I doubt that many people would agree to carry one around.
Ok, this is even better. The little device stores all your like, dislikes and preferences, so as soon as you enter a store the interactive advertisments could adapt to your likings. In fact, you could sit down at a restarant and the overhead lighting could self adjust, the waiter would already know that you don't like mustard on your hamburger and the seats could change to your favorite color.
I think I'm getting somewhere with this. Let me know if I'm taking this too far...
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
NPS Internet Solutions, LLC
www.npsis.com
Parsing is what my cgi scripts do... you are just having trouble connecting the syntax/grammar with my intended meaning of these statements. Sorry for the confusion. I read it myself, and become utterly confounded.
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
NPS Internet Solutions, LLC
www.npsis.com
Ok, there are two reasons why this is really cool, actually probably more but let me list just two.
1) I'm not an environmentalist but this does save a few trees.
2) I couldn't help notice a comment posted by someone a few discussion back who basically claimed the internet was dead simply because it was now filled with so many commercial and useless websites. After contemplating his remarks I found it hard not to disagree at least to some extent. But on the other hand when something like this comes along it makes me look on the bright side again...
There is use for the internet... distribution of information that is both informative and educational. Granted there is plenty of crap out there if you go searching but putting a good book like this online restores my faith in the internet once again.
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
NPS Internet Solutions, LLC
www.npsis.com
Here, Here!!
Moderate this up...
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
NPS Internet Solutions, LLC
www.npsis.com
Wrong, you can perform surgery and make me incapable of thinking rationally or being able to communicate with the outside world but you cannot take away my self awareness even though it might be masked by drugs or other methods.
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
NPS Internet Solutions, LLC
www.npsis.com
There is nothing wrong with registering a few domains, heck we have guys that register over a 100 domains per day.
I'm not sure what to make of this trademark issue though, its arguable both ways. But I don't think we can say that this mp3.com guy is squatting so long as he payed for the domains he registered.
Just my two cents...
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
NPS Internet Solutions, LLC
www.npsis.com
AI as portrayed in the Matrix will never happen simply because an awareness of self is something more than just 10 billion neurons (or transistors) firing in a coherent fashion. To aquire true AI or intelligence is to be aware of one's self this can neither be created nor destroyed. I suppose it is something like a "sole" but even deeper than that. If this all sounds too metaphysical it isn't its just the simple truth on the matter...
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
NPS Internet Solutions, LLC
www.npsis.com
Think about it... This is the 21st Century, anything is possible.
No one ever thought that communist Russia would collapse either.
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
NPS Internet Solutions, LLC
www.npsis.com
You can't take a billion plus people and try to control their basic freedoms without some backlash... I think within a year or two we are going to see a collapse of the Chinese Communist Regime currently in power.
Anarchy will rule but as compared with a the current situation anything is better...
What I don't understand is exactly how many people in China have internet access, and if there are that many people I'm sure there are ways to get around the firewalls using anonymizing programs etc... Smart programmers exist in China as well as in the US.
Just my two cents.
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
NPS Internet Solutions, LLC
www.npsis.com
Anyone have any information on how this will integrate with Apache, and any news on a multi-threaded version?
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
NPS Internet Solutions, LLC
www.npsis.com
Nothing new about the Clinton Administration will surprise me. Its all been lies built upon lies.
The fact that these e-mails were covered up probably has something do to with the Lewinsky affair among other things. The Clinton Admin is all about cover ups... Of course, its only natural considering all the illegal and immoral things they are involved in.
I'm sure the American Public would love to get their hands on this stuff, I know I would.
Let's just hope the next administration will be an improvement over this last one.
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
NPS Internet Solutions, LLC
www.npsis.com
Well... that is one theory.
The second more plausible theory put forth by a certain group of NASA engineers is suggesting that these canals are simply remnants of "lava" flows that occurred when the red planet was still "hot".
I think I'll go with the second theory myself. We see much the same phenomena on volcanic islands such as Hawaii. Underground lava flows creating rivers of molten rock.
Of course everyone likes to toss around the water theory, who wouldn't? But realistically, these channels are due more to the lithography and not a fictious hydrosphere.
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
NPS Internet Solutions, LLC
www.npsis.com
Let me guess... Energizer Batteries, Right?
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
NPS Internet Solutions, LLC
www.npsis.com
I think you give Tim O'Reilly to much credit. Sure he is influential but he's not "Bill Gates".
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
NPS Internet Solutions, LLC
www.npsis.com
If you take a good look into this it becomes clear that graphics cards have actually exceed Moore's Law within the past three years. Current graphics chips have nearly as many transistors as the original Pentiums and when you compare that with their predecessors... there is no comparison.
The interesting thing about graphic chips is they are still not on the bleeding edge as far as total number of transistors or speed and throughput. Eventually they may catch up to the CPU simply because the road is already paved for them. I won't be surprised to see a 500MHZ graphics engine within the year and possibly a 1GHZ sometime next year. The technology is already there and "proven" by the CPUs, its just a matter of pushing the graphic chips into that ballpark.
What does this all mean? Well I think our StarTrek Holodeck idea isn't too far fetched. Movies will involve more digital actors and maybe even become the majority in the acting world. Games of course will continue to boom and will only get better, more lifelike and realistic. I think simulators are the next big step, ones that really fool your brain into thinking that your actually within your virtual environment. What I don't understand is why the pipeline between the CPU and the graphics card isn't opened up more or at least made more direct. If this one done, truly astounding products would result.
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
NPS Internet Solutions, LLC
www.npsis.com
I have no problem with this... at least it will slow down these name hogs who call themselves "brokers" and then try to scam everyone. Trademarks and Corporate names should be protected they are the ones who have gone to all the hard work to make the name not some "broker". Just my two cents...
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
NPS Internet Solutions, LLC
www.npsis.com
Jeez... if Motorola is using Linux now it won't be long before its in our Cars and appliances... what ever happened to Jini?
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
NPS Internet Solutions, LLC
www.npsis.com
Like I've said in the past you can't beat us for the average guy who just wants to register one or two domain names...
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
NPS Internet Solutions, LLC
www.npsis.com
Is it just me or is slashdot always down. I think if they would think about providing a mirror site it might help. At least we wouldn't be completely left hanging...
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
NPS Internet Solutions, LLC
www.npsis.com
It is interesting to note that these same number theories "recreational mathematics" have helped us explain many theories and puzzles in the physical world. For example matrices were simply a mathmatical mind game when first devised and no actual use for them was imagined. Of course later it was realized that they could be aptly used in all sorts of real life scenarios such as vector algebra and robotics "inverse kinematics".
Actually most branches of mathematics no matter how abstract have eventually found their way into physics or some other related scientific field. Does this not strike you as somewhat strange? I mean we devise up these crazy number theories and ideas and then they almost magically appear in nature to fit our mathmatical model.
Just some food for thought...
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
NPS Internet Solutions, LLC
www.npsis.com
Can't something like this be dangerous? I mean what if the disk somehow flies apart due to the extreme inertial forces from the centrifugal forces that it is experiencing. Ok, I could be just thinking to hard here but there has to be a limit somewhere...
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
NPS Internet Solutions, LLC
www.npsis.com
I'll believe it when I see it... Besides I have never seen a good seamless display every attempt at this has pretty much been a failure if I'm correct. However, there is potential here. The other issue is bandwidth of course. Unless you have a serious data path from your digital video card to your monitor this sort of technology is just not going to work.
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
NPS Internet Solutions, LLC
www.npsis.com
We have already been experiencing disruptions in service. Of course these may just be a result of recent widespread DDOS attacks. Anyhow take a look at the animated gif on the web site, its really amazing.
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http://www.spacescience.com/headlines/images/full
We can actually see matter exiting the sun's surface. I am truly impressed. What is scary though is that within the next few months we can expect to see a lot more of this. I guess I will put that new satellite dish on hold for awhile. Really, though I don't expect it to have much affect on our current infrastructure. Sure I might knock out a couple of satellites, but when you realize that currently we have over a 1000 active satellites orbiting the earth you quickly realize that there is some redundancy in place. Lets try to get away from the Y2K scare thing... it only encourages people to spend a lot of time and energy on otherwise useless pursuits.
Just my two cents...
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
NPS Internet Solutions, LLC
www.npsis.com
Have you noticed lately the horde of rumors permeating the internet lately: Bill Gates giving away Windows source,... and now this.
I'm not sure who starts these rumors, but that is exactly what they are, just rumors.
I wonder if they are somehow related to the recent DDOS attacks??
I think we're on to something here...
Ok, enough BSing. My point is that Slashdot should try to post slightly more credible stories and news. In other words research it a little before posting every little comment from some loony that comes along on the grape vine or is deposited in their "make a comment" bin. When we post this kind of garbage it only serves to weaken our credibility.
Just my two cents...
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
NPS Internet Solutions, LLC
www.npsis.com
Soon the technology will be available so that we can download and freely distribute media without worrying about stupid encryption schemes. Eventually the big corps I going to realize that they have to stop robbing everyone and charging reasonable prices for their products. Until that time, call it what you will, but there will be plenty of underground activity.
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
NPS Internet Solutions, LLC
www.npsis.com