IMO, we will then go in the proper direction. Instead of trivial increases like FSB speed and MHZ increases we can do things which will truly revolutionize CPU design. True paralel computing. Imagine a million CPUs in the space of a modern PIII chip. Not just a million transistors, but a million CPUs each with it's own transistors.
When your PC is ready to be upgraded, you just add more CPUs to it. Not just doubling the MIPS or FLOPS a machine can perform but increasing it a thousand fold at a time. That is where I hope and think this will head.
Imagine having millions of molecule sized robots in your body that repair any and all damage 1000 times faster than your body can naturally heal. Imagine robots which actively patrole your coronary arteries and destroy any plaque that they encounter.
Imagine robots what can manually alter the synapses in your brain to code knowledge while you sleep. Or remove unpleasant memories from your mind.
Imagine never losing muscle mass because all of your muscles are stimulated into growth while you watch TV.
Remember the movie "Silent Rage"? Imagine healing as fast a John Kirby did. This is the promise of nanotech. I just hope I live long enough to see it.
This is only a tiny step in that direction, but it is a step nonetheless.
The guys from Xenu have a distributed.net team that is doing fairly well.
Does anyone remember the movie Primary Colors? John Travolta is a Scientlogist and apparantly he and some others in the production staff went to president clinton and asked him to pressure Germany to recognize Scientology as a valid religion. The carrot was this, if he did get them to they'd portray him in a more positive light in the movie.
Read the book, watch the movie, you'll see that there are BIG differences between the way that the main character is portrayed.
is why anyone needs "permission". If you own the actual CD's and can present them when provided with a legally binding request I don't see why one would NEED anyone's permission to use them.
LK
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>>Since when can you copyright terms?
MP3 is a type of audio file. Not unlike the way Xerox is a type of copier or Jello is a type of gelatin, Kleenex is facial tissue.
Adobe is clearly the owner of "pdf", so who owns "MP3"?
If the originators of the MP3 format were to claim it as a brand name they could put a serious hurting on the RIAA.
The RIAA has repeatedly claimed MP3 to be illegal (which it is not), imagine if some health group claimed that "Cola X" is made with toilet water from Grand Central Station. The RIAA has made a similar type of assault on MP3.
Look at what is going on with the "GIF" format.
LK
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Please tell me that an individual company owns the right to "MP3" as a Copyrighted piece of IP.
What we need to do is convince these people to hammer the fuck out of the RIAA for Copyright infringement everytime one of their minions mentions the Copyrighted term "MP3".
If this is possible, one can turn the tables on this bullshit assault on consumer rights.
M$ has more millionaires working for it than any other company on the planet. Al Gore is struggling to keep his head above water in his own party.
He's hoping to get some soft money for the DNC and boost his populatiry within his party. This can help him edge out Bill Bradley if he can bring in a few million in soft money.
He's also trying ot make himself appealing to all of the "fiscal" conservatives out there, (a fiscal conservative is a liberal in a $500 suit) this is pandering pure and simple.
I hope that the people of the US can see through it.
>>$50 a month is too expensive when compared to cable which is much faster.
Cable CAN BE faster, but if you live in a neighborhood where many people are techies that bandwidth drops geometrically. That 27mbs is split up among all the people on your block, what if you have a neighbor like me who is downloading porn at all hours? Your bandwidth goes to shit. The other downside is that with DOCSIS equipment the cableco can throttle your bandwitdh anyway, don't hold out of cable, take whichever you can get first.
>>Someone was apparently charitably giving away computers, and they're willing to fly their airplanes into North Korean airspace. I presume they have a desire to help.
PDAs are alot lighter than rifles. A cessna could carry hundreds of PDAs but only a few dozen rifles.
>>Even if you can't get the weapons, secure communications makes it easier to arrange it so that the next time the 3 soldiers come into your hut, instead of finding one scared farmer, they find 20 angry ones.
Angry farmers with pitchforks are a joke to battle ready soldiers with AK-47s.
>>Heh heh. Well, if the common people actually manage to get the weapons, then it doesn't really matter what the soon-to-be-ex-government thinks about it.
Two words, Waco Texas.
Having guns means squat when the other side has MORE guns, BETTER guns and is MORE willing to use them.
>>But if guns aren't your cup of tea, there's also the possibility that one of the farmers will, while surfing, will learn about Ghandi's techniques.
Going on a hunger strike is just what the soldiers would want, you eating LESS food. It only leaves more food for them and you even weaker.
We must investigate every such claim as if it's a hoax, but still keep an open mind because even if only 1 out of every 100,000 claims is legitimate, that's something that we must not allow ignorance to prevent us from discovering.
I've seen UFOs, I've known abductees (or at least people who believe that they're abductees), I don't know what is real and what isn't but I DO know that anything is possible.
If we were to encounter earth as as was 100 years ago, those people would be amazed at how advanced we are. Just as we are now amazed at the advancement of civilizations which could be 1000 years more advanced than we are.
In the past 100 years, we've learned to fly, we've learned to leave the ocnfines of our planet, we've learned to harness the power of the atom, we've learned that it's possible to bend time and space, 1oo years from now what will be possible? 1000 years?
These skulls look like a case of down's syndrome or neurofibromatosis(sp?), BUT anything is possible, no?
Um, I don't know about your accuracy as it relates to the name Linus. Under RedHat 6.0 ( and I think 5.x) the configuration of the sound card is tested by playing a sound file where Linus pronounces his first name like
lee-o-nis. Perhaps it's his accent, but it sure doesn't sound like linn-us to me.
However I do agree that Linus pronoinces Linux, linn-icks.
I'd think that Username/Password-HTTPS is secure enough for tranmissions like...
"Yes Mr. Johnson your colon is going to be just fine."
But for something like this.
"Mr. Johnson I just got the results of your tests back and you're not responding to the AZT the way we thought you would. We can't even treat your HIV."
Call me old fashioned but public key crypto is the way to go. You can go for convience or you can go for security.
Please save the "Not everyone's a geek like us, this is too hard for my poor little mom."
People who can't handle public key crypto are just as likely to leave their username/password/codeword written on a slip of paper taped to the underside of the keyboard.
Go to your local BestBuy® and find a non-upgrade copy of Win98. You'll see that $180 is a rather accurate assessment of it's cost.
>>Also, if the price was jacked up to $500, the barrier to entry into the market would be a lot lower for competing OS's.
Like WHO?????? M$ has done everything in it's power to eliminate fair competition at every turn.
They had restrictive license agreements so that if you use Windows as an OEM mfgr. You COULDN'T use other OSes. Why do you think that Compaq and others are now bundling Linux with their machines? Because with the US DoJ watching M$ wouldn't dare enforce those policies lest their monopoly be more obvious.
Hey dickhead, the country where the reverse engineering was done does not prohibit the practice, hence it was LEGAL to reverse engineer the Xing DVD player.
>>Clear enough? So stop whining about it and start finding other solutions.
Complaining about abuses is only annoying "whining" to you? Short sighted asshole, would you tell someone who'd just been raped to "Quit whining and pull up your panties."?
>>It may not be open source, but at least it gets the process moving. And gives us something to use.
Not good enough. If there is no open source alternative the people who make it have the power to kill it.
If you're going to do something illegal, at least have the common sense to be low key about it.
Since I live less than 15 miles from the CMU campus, I think of this as hitting close to home.
The RIAA is in the right if they are persuing people who illegally are distributing MP3s.
If these kids had ANY brains at all they would have hosted the servers on their own machines. Why? Because it would take a warrant for someone to look at their machines. And if they were going to search the machines of 71 students it's going to be hard to keep the word from getting out. This would give many people time to encrypt, hide, or dump the MP3s.
>>Ultimately, warefare is more about economic might than military might.
I'd consider the two equally important.
>>the US (NATO) won, because we had the economic power to manufacture enough missiles to scare the bejeezus out of them, and cause them to manufacture just as many missiles, which caused their weaker economy to fizzle.
I disagree as it respects to your soley financial reasons for the USSR's failing. The socialist system of government doesn't work because people have no incentive to give any extra effort. People won't work as hard if they get the same compensation as if they do "just enough".
In the US and most of the free world working extra hard gets extra benefits for you.
Our different peoples were fed propaganda from our respective governments. I remember seeing a video back in high school about life inside the USSR, and school children no older than 9 or 10 rambled on and on about how "Reagan" wanted to have a war with them and their heroic government was keeping him at bay.
It's about morale. Cutting power lines, destroying factories & foundries, and the like are designed to eliminate the enemy's ability to produce weapons and demoralize their population.
After all two atomic bombs forced Hirohito to surrender, but there were Japanese soldiers found on pacific islands YEARS later who didn't know that the war was over because they had not lost their morale.
I forget where this happened but someone put 20's in the 10's bin not too long ago. So when you think you're taking out $100 you actually take out $200.
>>They certainly are greedy, (as are all businesses) but they acquired their position by developing products their customers want and marketing them effectively.
Are you on drugs? Microsoft has used deplorable tactics in their race to get ahead. They've forced hardware vendors to not use other OS's under threat of losing the ability to sell windows. They (allegedly) STOLE code to make doublespace. They (allegedly) tinkered with Windows to make it incompatible with other forms of DOS.
In the USA there are laws to protect us against predatory practices on the part of monopolies. The US DoJ is (for once) right about this. M$ needs to be reminded that being the biggest most powerful company on the planet doesn't mean that there isn't an entity bigger and more powerful than you.
The one good think M$ has done is cause browsers to be free.
>>they should have at least the common decency to not interfere with industry or technology critical to the civilian population.
You can't win a war merely be destroying the military of your enemy. You have to create as much of an uproad amongst it's own people as possible. When a government loses the backing of it's people it's easier to beat.
>>it would be nice to know that civilian hospitals etc would not become targets.
I agree with you here 100%. Hospitals shouldn't ever become targets unless they're being used by the military in a strategic sense.
>> this last comment was a joke, mocking the utterly stupid policies of the US toward democratic ideas
The US outlasted the USSR. Appearantly those ideas were not all that stupid huh?
>>Affirmitive Action debates are full of variations on that sentance, it's the very basis of the Anti-Affirmative action platform.
So I take that as a no. Opposition to Affirmative action is opposition to ANYONE getting unfair advantages.
>>I can list for sure several: Helms, Lott, Alexander- even D'Souza. You're the Knucklehead, trying to paint me off as a cheap shot.
Ok, please do so. If you can. Verifyable quotes???
>>The point is not just the cigarettes kill people, but that the cig companies a) buried this information wherever possible, sometimes illegally, and b) completely obscured the addictiveness of tobbacco for decades, and even deliberately used it to build their customer base.
As a smoker who is in the process of quitting I can say first hand that nicotine is addictive, but I think that the act of smoking is psychologically addictive because over time you become used to making the motions with your hands. Smoking is an activity that becomes compulsive.
But that is all academic. They are producing a product which is currently legal. Cigarettes do exactly what people expect them to do. They damage your health and they cause the desired effect by delivering a stimulant to the body.
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IMO, we will then go in the proper direction. Instead of trivial increases like FSB speed and MHZ increases we can do things which will truly revolutionize CPU design. True paralel computing. Imagine a million CPUs in the space of a modern PIII chip. Not just a million transistors, but a million CPUs each with it's own transistors.
When your PC is ready to be upgraded, you just add more CPUs to it. Not just doubling the MIPS or FLOPS a machine can perform but increasing it a thousand fold at a time. That is where I hope and think this will head.
LK
Imagine having millions of molecule sized robots in your body that repair any and all damage 1000 times faster than your body can naturally heal. Imagine robots which actively patrole your coronary arteries and destroy any plaque that they encounter.
Imagine robots what can manually alter the synapses in your brain to code knowledge while you sleep. Or remove unpleasant memories from your mind.
Imagine never losing muscle mass because all of your muscles are stimulated into growth while you watch TV.
Remember the movie "Silent Rage"? Imagine healing as fast a John Kirby did. This is the promise of nanotech. I just hope I live long enough to see it.
This is only a tiny step in that direction, but it is a step nonetheless.
LK
The guys from Xenu have a distributed.net team that is doing fairly well.
Does anyone remember the movie Primary Colors?
John Travolta is a Scientlogist and apparantly he and some others in the production staff went to president clinton and asked him to pressure Germany to recognize Scientology as a valid religion. The carrot was this, if he did get them to they'd portray him in a more positive light in the movie.
Read the book, watch the movie, you'll see that there are BIG differences between the way that the main character is portrayed.
LK
is why anyone needs "permission". If you own the actual CD's and can present them when provided with a legally binding request I don't see why one would NEED anyone's permission to use them.
LK
>>Since when can you copyright terms?
MP3 is a type of audio file. Not unlike the way Xerox is a type of copier or Jello is a type of gelatin, Kleenex is facial tissue.
Adobe is clearly the owner of "pdf", so who owns "MP3"?
If the originators of the MP3 format were to claim it as a brand name they could put a serious hurting on the RIAA.
The RIAA has repeatedly claimed MP3 to be illegal (which it is not), imagine if some health group claimed that "Cola X" is made with toilet water from Grand Central Station. The RIAA has made a similar type of assault on MP3.
Look at what is going on with the "GIF" format.
LK
Please tell me that an individual company owns the right to "MP3" as a Copyrighted piece of IP.
What we need to do is convince these people to hammer the fuck out of the RIAA for Copyright infringement everytime one of their minions mentions the Copyrighted term "MP3".
If this is possible, one can turn the tables on this bullshit assault on consumer rights.
LK
M$ has more millionaires working for it than any other company on the planet. Al Gore is struggling to keep his head above water in his own party.
He's hoping to get some soft money for the DNC and boost his populatiry within his party. This can help him edge out Bill Bradley if he can bring in a few million in soft money.
He's also trying ot make himself appealing to all of the "fiscal" conservatives out there, (a fiscal conservative is a liberal in a $500 suit) this is pandering pure and simple.
I hope that the people of the US can see through it.
LK
>>$50 a month is too expensive when compared to cable which is much faster.
Cable CAN BE faster, but if you live in a neighborhood where many people are techies that bandwidth drops geometrically. That 27mbs is split up among all the people on your block, what if you have a neighbor like me who is downloading porn at all hours? Your bandwidth goes to shit. The other downside is that with DOCSIS equipment the cableco can throttle your bandwitdh anyway, don't hold out of cable, take whichever you can get first.
LK
>>Someone was apparently charitably giving away computers, and they're willing to fly their airplanes into North Korean airspace. I presume they have a desire to help.
PDAs are alot lighter than rifles. A cessna could carry hundreds of PDAs but only a few dozen rifles.
>>Even if you can't get the weapons, secure communications makes it easier to arrange it so that the next time the 3 soldiers come into your hut, instead of finding one scared farmer, they find 20 angry ones.
Angry farmers with pitchforks are a joke to battle ready soldiers with AK-47s.
>>Heh heh. Well, if the common people actually manage to get the weapons, then it doesn't really matter what the soon-to-be-ex-government thinks about it.
Two words, Waco Texas.
Having guns means squat when the other side has MORE guns, BETTER guns and is MORE willing to use them.
>>But if guns aren't your cup of tea, there's also the possibility that one of the farmers will, while surfing, will learn about Ghandi's techniques.
Going on a hunger strike is just what the soldiers would want, you eating LESS food. It only leaves more food for them and you even weaker.
LK
We must investigate every such claim as if it's a hoax, but still keep an open mind because even if only 1 out of every 100,000 claims is legitimate, that's something that we must not allow ignorance to prevent us from discovering.
I've seen UFOs, I've known abductees (or at least people who believe that they're abductees), I don't know what is real and what isn't but I DO know that anything is possible.
If we were to encounter earth as as was 100 years ago, those people would be amazed at how advanced we are. Just as we are now amazed at the advancement of civilizations which could be 1000 years more advanced than we are.
In the past 100 years, we've learned to fly, we've learned to leave the ocnfines of our planet, we've learned to harness the power of the atom, we've learned that it's possible to bend time and space, 1oo years from now what will be possible? 1000 years?
These skulls look like a case of down's syndrome or neurofibromatosis(sp?), BUT anything is possible, no?
LK
Um, I don't know about your accuracy as it relates to the name Linus. Under RedHat 6.0 ( and I think 5.x) the configuration of the sound card is tested by playing a sound file where Linus pronounces his first name like
lee-o-nis. Perhaps it's his accent, but it sure doesn't sound like linn-us to me.
However I do agree that Linus pronoinces Linux, linn-icks.
LK
>>You can also arrange for drop shipments of arms without the thugs being able to intercept it.
And you'd pay for these arms how?
Not to mention the fact that asian countries seem to REALLY frown upon weapons posession by common people.
LK
There's an unusually high amount of brown here now.
LK
I'd think that Username/Password-HTTPS is secure enough for tranmissions like...
"Yes Mr. Johnson your colon is going to be just fine."
But for something like this.
"Mr. Johnson I just got the results of your tests back and you're not responding to the AZT the way we thought you would. We can't even treat your HIV."
Call me old fashioned but public key crypto is the way to go. You can go for convience or you can go for security.
Please save the "Not everyone's a geek like us, this is too hard for my poor little mom."
People who can't handle public key crypto are just as likely to leave their username/password/codeword written on a slip of paper taped to the underside of the keyboard.
LK
>>Hardly anybody pays $180 for Windows98.
Go to your local BestBuy® and find a non-upgrade copy of Win98. You'll see that $180 is a rather accurate assessment of it's cost.
>>Also, if the price was jacked up to $500, the barrier to entry into the market would be a lot lower for competing OS's.
Like WHO?????? M$ has done everything in it's power to eliminate fair competition at every turn.
They had restrictive license agreements so that if you use Windows as an OEM mfgr. You COULDN'T use other OSes. Why do you think that Compaq and others are now bundling Linux with their machines? Because with the US DoJ watching M$ wouldn't dare enforce those policies lest their monopoly be more obvious.
LK
As I said before, what they did was LEGAL in their countr(y/ies).
US law doesn't apply to people outside of the US.
LK
>>They broke the law. =(
Hey dickhead, the country where the reverse engineering was done does not prohibit the practice, hence it was LEGAL to reverse engineer the Xing DVD player.
>>Clear enough? So stop whining about it and start finding other solutions.
Complaining about abuses is only annoying "whining" to you? Short sighted asshole, would you tell someone who'd just been raped to "Quit whining and pull up your panties."?
>>It may not be open source, but at least it gets the process moving. And gives us something to use.
Not good enough. If there is no open source alternative the people who make it have the power to kill it.
DIVX anyone?
LK
Any chance of a generous /.er posting a URL that points to the DeCSS source?
LK
If you're going to do something illegal, at least have the common sense to be low key about it.
Since I live less than 15 miles from the CMU campus, I think of this as hitting close to home.
The RIAA is in the right if they are persuing people who illegally are distributing MP3s.
If these kids had ANY brains at all they would have hosted the servers on their own machines. Why? Because it would take a warrant for someone to look at their machines. And if they were going to search the machines of 71 students it's going to be hard to keep the word from getting out. This would give many people time to encrypt, hide, or dump the MP3s.
LK
>>Ultimately, warefare is more about economic might than military might.
I'd consider the two equally important.
>>the US (NATO) won, because we had the economic power to manufacture enough missiles to scare the bejeezus out of them, and cause them to manufacture just as many missiles, which caused their weaker economy to fizzle.
I disagree as it respects to your soley financial reasons for the USSR's failing. The socialist system of government doesn't work because people have no incentive to give any extra effort. People won't work as hard if they get the same compensation as if they do "just enough".
In the US and most of the free world working extra hard gets extra benefits for you.
Our different peoples were fed propaganda from our respective governments. I remember seeing a video back in high school about life inside the USSR, and school children no older than 9 or 10 rambled on and on about how "Reagan" wanted to have a war with them and their heroic government was keeping him at bay.
It's about morale. Cutting power lines, destroying factories & foundries, and the like are designed to eliminate the enemy's ability to produce weapons and demoralize their population.
After all two atomic bombs forced Hirohito to surrender, but there were Japanese soldiers found on pacific islands YEARS later who didn't know that the war was over because they had not lost their morale.
LK
JP, do you think of yourself as the IT equivalent to Bill Clinton or Bill Gates?
After all, people who are entrenched in IT Security despise you, however the clueless dimwits in the IT society respect and even like you.
LK
I forget where this happened but someone put 20's in the 10's bin not too long ago. So when you think you're taking out $100 you actually take out $200.
That would be *SWEET*.
LK
>>They certainly are greedy, (as are all businesses) but they acquired their position by developing products their customers want and marketing them effectively.
Are you on drugs? Microsoft has used deplorable tactics in their race to get ahead. They've forced hardware vendors to not use other OS's under threat of losing the ability to sell windows. They (allegedly) STOLE code to make doublespace. They (allegedly) tinkered with Windows to make it incompatible with other forms of DOS.
In the USA there are laws to protect us against predatory practices on the part of monopolies. The US DoJ is (for once) right about this. M$ needs to be reminded that being the biggest most powerful company on the planet doesn't mean that there isn't an entity bigger and more powerful than you.
The one good think M$ has done is cause browsers to be free.
LK
>>they should have at least the common decency to not interfere with industry or technology critical to the civilian population.
You can't win a war merely be destroying the military of your enemy. You have to create as much of an uproad amongst it's own people as possible. When a government loses the backing of it's people it's easier to beat.
>>it would be nice to know that civilian hospitals etc would not become targets.
I agree with you here 100%. Hospitals shouldn't ever become targets unless they're being used by the military in a strategic sense.
>> this last comment was a joke, mocking the utterly stupid policies of the US toward democratic ideas
The US outlasted the USSR. Appearantly those ideas were not all that stupid huh?
LK
>>Affirmitive Action debates are full of variations on that sentance, it's the very basis of the Anti-Affirmative action platform.
So I take that as a no. Opposition to Affirmative action is opposition to ANYONE getting unfair advantages.
>>I can list for sure several: Helms, Lott, Alexander- even D'Souza. You're the Knucklehead, trying to paint me off as a cheap shot.
Ok, please do so. If you can. Verifyable quotes???
>>The point is not just the cigarettes kill people, but that the cig companies a) buried this information wherever possible, sometimes illegally, and b) completely obscured the addictiveness of tobbacco for decades, and even deliberately used it to build their customer base.
As a smoker who is in the process of quitting I can say first hand that nicotine is addictive, but I think that the act of smoking is psychologically addictive because over time you become used to making the motions with your hands. Smoking is an activity that becomes compulsive.
But that is all academic. They are producing a product which is currently legal. Cigarettes do exactly what people expect them to do. They damage your health and they cause the desired effect by delivering a stimulant to the body.
If you don't like that, make them illegal.
LK