We hear about the US evolution-denial movement in the news, I have never heard about such a movement in europe, but I'm sure there is a person here and there in denial,
Ok so youve seen the both the Matrix and Ghost in the Shell, and you note there are some similarities. But how similar are they? Well with this page will attempt show them scene by scene
"This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us." -- Western Union internal memo, l876.
Whatever the situation in the USA, Britain had little use of the telephone because, "Here we have a superabundance of messengers, errand boys and things of that kind." W. H. Preece, then Post Office Assistant Engineer in Chief, testified in 1879 to a House of Commons Committee
CS: I wrote "Lobsters" and showed it to a friend. He said "that's really cool, but you'll never sell it--the audience would have to overdose on Slashdot for six months before they got it." He was completely right--he just underestimated the number of people out there who overdose on Slashdot!
It's the year 2044, and America has gone to hell. A disenfranchised U.S. Air Force base has turned to highway robbery in order to pay the bills. Vast chunks of the population live nomadic lives fueled by cheap transportation and even cheaper computer power. Warfare has shifted from the battlefield to the global networks, and China holds the information edge over all comers. Global warming is raising sea level, which in turn is drowning coastal cities. And the U.S. government has become nearly meaningless. This is the world that Oscar Valparaiso would have been born into, if he'd actually been born instead of being grown in vitro by black market baby dealers. Oscar's bizarre genetic history (even he's not sure how much of him is actually human) hasn't prevented him from running one of the most successful senatorial races in history, getting his man elected by a whopping majority. But Oscar has put himself out of a job, since he'd only be a liability to his boss in Washington due to his problematic background. Instead, Oscar finds himself shuffled off to the Collaboratory, a Big Science pork barrel project that's run half by corruption and half by scientific breakthroughs. At first it seems to be a lose-lose proposition for Oscar, but soon he has his "krewe" whipped into shape and ready to take control of events. Now if only he can straighten out his love life and solve a worldwide crisis that no one else knows exists
RUF combines the best of cars with the best of trains
The RUF system is a system where all vehicles can drive in 2 ways (Dual-Mode). They can either use the normal roads or they can "ride" on top of a triangular monorail.
The RUF vehicles can both be cars (ruf) and busses (maxi-ruf). The rail (guideway) is a very slender triangular monorail made from 20 m long modules and carried by masts.
When the vehicles "rides" on top of the monorail, the center of gravity is placed below the top of the rail, so the stability is very high. Derailment is impossible. It is possible to squeeze the top of the rail in order to make an emergency braking. This way it is possible under all circumstances to brake in a very short time. Short safety distances means large capacity.
Energy consumption is very low due to the close coupling of vehicles to form a train. This principle also increases safety, since collisions within the train are eliminated when the vehicles already touch each other.
The rufs are electric vehicles with small batteries. The batteries are partly recharged while the ruf uses the rail.
G o o g l e's cache of "True Names"
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What is Media Nokia Game?
It's a new type of gaming that we call an 'all media experience'. As a player, you have to step into the shoes of the main character in a fictional story. You will experience life from his point of view - along the way, encountering a series of problems that you'll have to solve on his behalf.
Messages and clues will reach you via every imaginable media (Internet, TV, radio, voicemail, SMS, magazines and newspapers). Your job is to follow the leads and stay connected by visiting the game web sites. Nokia Game will keep you busy for a month - that is, if you survive all the stages...
from the cnet article
Executives said they would not guarantee access to the full Bertelsmann catalog because they are relying on individual Napster members to provide and store all of the files.
The file-sharing model puts much of the burden of distributing files on people with fast connections and large libraries of music. Whether those people will happily spend money on a service that turns them into unpaid BMG distributors remains to be seen.
The companies failed to explain how customers would be prevented from making membership-only material downloaded onto their PCs freely available to others.
Iain M Banks has created a highly advanced space faring society called
The Culture. In it phenomenally intelligent machines called 'Minds' run a
civilization that many would consider as utopia or as close as you can
get to it.
Banks realized that a science fiction book set in utopia would be very
dull and so he created 'Contact' the branch of The Culture that handles
the dealing with, and meeting of, other civilizations. The plots of his
Culture books all revolve around Contact and its espionage division
called 'Special Circumstances'.
In published order The Culture novels are:
Consider Phlebas (1987)
The Player of Games (1988)
Use of Weapons (1990)
Excession (1996)
Inversions (1998) (Not a 'full' Culture novel, see below.)
Look To Windward (2000)
What is The Culture?
The Culture is a kind of anarchist utopia (for the most part). It's
inhabitants are a mixture of mostly humanoid species and intelligent
machines. These machines fall into several categories: Minds are very
intelligent and are generally found in the Culture's ships - in fact it
could be said they 'are' the ships. Sometimes in the case of a huge
ship, say, a General Systems Vehicle (which may have a population
measured in the billions) there may be more than one Mind, typically
three. Hub's are a special kind of Mind but one that is located on one
of the Culture's non-ship habitats (more on this later) and performs a
similar role. Finally Drones, these come in all kinds of shapes and
sizes and have varying levels of intelligence typically one and a half
times that of the intelligence of a typical Culture humanoid.
There is no hierarchy as such in the Culture's society every individual
is equal (machine or organic). The Culture is post-scarcity due to
sophisticated technology. That is to say because the Culture can
manipulate things at an atomic level (maybe below even that) anything
can be produced with ease so anybody can have anything they want. Money,
therefore, has no place in the Culture (in fact the Culture considers
money to be a sign of poverty).
The Culture has no laws, anybody can do pretty much what they want to
do. It would be very hard for a member of the Culture to kill someone
else (it would be considered very strange to even want to) but if you
did do this you would be slap-droned, which is having a drone follow you
around forever, making sure you didn't do it again. Worse though would
be the social reaction; no one would want to talk to you.
Organic life forms in the Culture have been genetically modified
(geno-fixed) with all kinds of things. You can initiate a sex change by
thinking about it. Drug glands in your brain allow all kinds of mood
enhancements like; improving speed of thought, relief of tiredness,
inebriation among many others. You don't get sick and a typical life
span would be several centuries.
Inhabitants of the Culture live in/on a variety of habitats. A few live
on planets but there are only a few hundred inhabited planets in the
Culture. The Culture's 'cities' are its GSV's, most have hundreds of
millions of residents or even billions. Rocks consist of a converted
asteroid and, like planets, living on one is unusual rather than the
norm. The other forms of habitat are all manufactured. The most abundant
are Orbitals which are giant rings in orbit around a star. Plates are
similarly in orbit but are a pair of huge plates. Rings are an even
bigger version of an Orbital, instead of orbiting a star they encircle
one. Many members of Contact live on ships called GCU's (General Contact
Units) on which they travel to observe, meet or interfere with other
civilizations.
more here http://home.freeuk.net/m.stanfield/culture/culture faq.txt
Slashdot Mirror
I'm Danish
We hear about the US evolution-denial movement in the news, I have never heard about such a movement in europe, but I'm sure there is a person here and there in denial,
http://marsnet.jpl.nasa.gov/
on-board camera at 515kmh/320mph
Will brake for nobody !!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ih3-2v3FA_M
Yep it's fast
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1Bel_LcjZg
Ok so youve seen the both the Matrix and Ghost in the Shell, and you note there are some similarities. But how similar are they? Well with this page will attempt show them scene by scene
Charles Stross's weblog is here
Buy a Dell:
r s_2003- ford.htm
Boot from Bootable USB Flash Memory Drive
http://www.dell.com/us/en/gen/topics/vecto
watch it all on video
"This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us." -- Western Union internal memo, l876.
Whatever the situation in the USA, Britain had little use of the telephone because, "Here we have a superabundance of messengers, errand boys and things of that kind." W. H. Preece, then Post Office Assistant Engineer in Chief, testified in 1879 to a House of Commons Committee
Alternative download sites ??
from the interview
CS: I wrote "Lobsters" and showed it to a friend. He said "that's really cool, but you'll never sell it--the audience would have to overdose on Slashdot for six months before they got it." He was completely right--he just underestimated the number of people out there who overdose on Slashdot!
and here in Denmark is 37 hours a week
and in france it is 35 hours a week.
It's Distraction by Bruce Sterling:
It's the year 2044, and America has gone to hell. A disenfranchised U.S. Air Force base has turned to highway robbery in order to pay the bills. Vast chunks of the population live nomadic lives fueled by cheap transportation and even cheaper computer power. Warfare has shifted from the battlefield to the global networks, and China holds the information edge over all comers. Global warming is raising sea level, which in turn is drowning coastal cities. And the U.S. government has become nearly meaningless. This is the world that Oscar Valparaiso would have been born into, if he'd actually been born instead of being grown in vitro by black market baby dealers. Oscar's bizarre genetic history (even he's not sure how much of him is actually human) hasn't prevented him from running one of the most successful senatorial races in history, getting his man elected by a whopping majority. But Oscar has put himself out of a job, since he'd only be a liability to his boss in Washington due to his problematic background. Instead, Oscar finds himself shuffled off to the Collaboratory, a Big Science pork barrel project that's run half by corruption and half by scientific breakthroughs. At first it seems to be a lose-lose proposition for Oscar, but soon he has his "krewe" whipped into shape and ready to take control of events. Now if only he can straighten out his love life and solve a worldwide crisis that no one else knows exists
RUF combines the best of cars with the best of trains
The RUF system is a system where all vehicles can drive in 2 ways (Dual-Mode). They can either use the normal roads or they can "ride" on top of a triangular monorail.
The RUF vehicles can both be cars (ruf) and busses (maxi-ruf). The rail (guideway) is a very slender triangular monorail made from 20 m long modules and carried by masts.
When the vehicles "rides" on top of the monorail, the center of gravity is placed below the top of the rail, so the stability is very high. Derailment is impossible. It is possible to squeeze the top of the rail in order to make an emergency braking. This way it is possible under all circumstances to brake in a very short time. Short safety distances means large capacity.
Energy consumption is very low due to the close coupling of vehicles to form a train. This principle also increases safety, since collisions within the train are eliminated when the vehicles already touch each other.
The rufs are electric vehicles with small batteries. The batteries are partly recharged while the ruf uses the rail.
hmm the site is down here is
G o o g l e's cache of "True Names"
This is as complete and accurate an etext of the 1984
edition of True Names
True Names by Vernor Vinge
well I will bet I can download it on eDonkey tomorrow.
Slashdot Europe ??
is about 2160 US$
check out the Nokia Media Terminal
Q: How much will the Nokia Media Terminal cost and when will it be available?
The Nokia Media Terminal will be priced competitively. The first Nokia Media Terminals will be available in Sweden in the middle part of 2001 and later on in the year in Europe and North America.
Mars Network
YES it is!!!!!!!!!!!!
check out www.christiania.org
What is Media Nokia Game? It's a new type of gaming that we call an 'all media experience'. As a player, you have to step into the shoes of the main character in a fictional story. You will experience life from his point of view - along the way, encountering a series of problems that you'll have to solve on his behalf. Messages and clues will reach you via every imaginable media (Internet, TV, radio, voicemail, SMS, magazines and newspapers). Your job is to follow the leads and stay connected by visiting the game web sites. Nokia Game will keep you busy for a month - that is, if you survive all the stages...
http://www.nokia-game.com/
from the cnet article Executives said they would not guarantee access to the full Bertelsmann catalog because they are relying on individual Napster members to provide and store all of the files. The file-sharing model puts much of the burden of distributing files on people with fast connections and large libraries of music. Whether those people will happily spend money on a service that turns them into unpaid BMG distributors remains to be seen. The companies failed to explain how customers would be prevented from making membership-only material downloaded onto their PCs freely available to others.
What are The Culture novels?
e faq.txt
Iain M Banks has created a highly advanced space faring society called
The Culture. In it phenomenally intelligent machines called 'Minds' run a
civilization that many would consider as utopia or as close as you can
get to it.
Banks realized that a science fiction book set in utopia would be very
dull and so he created 'Contact' the branch of The Culture that handles
the dealing with, and meeting of, other civilizations. The plots of his
Culture books all revolve around Contact and its espionage division
called 'Special Circumstances'.
In published order The Culture novels are:
Consider Phlebas (1987)
The Player of Games (1988)
Use of Weapons (1990)
Excession (1996)
Inversions (1998) (Not a 'full' Culture novel, see below.)
Look To Windward (2000)
What is The Culture?
The Culture is a kind of anarchist utopia (for the most part). It's
inhabitants are a mixture of mostly humanoid species and intelligent
machines. These machines fall into several categories: Minds are very
intelligent and are generally found in the Culture's ships - in fact it
could be said they 'are' the ships. Sometimes in the case of a huge
ship, say, a General Systems Vehicle (which may have a population
measured in the billions) there may be more than one Mind, typically
three. Hub's are a special kind of Mind but one that is located on one
of the Culture's non-ship habitats (more on this later) and performs a
similar role. Finally Drones, these come in all kinds of shapes and
sizes and have varying levels of intelligence typically one and a half
times that of the intelligence of a typical Culture humanoid.
There is no hierarchy as such in the Culture's society every individual
is equal (machine or organic). The Culture is post-scarcity due to
sophisticated technology. That is to say because the Culture can
manipulate things at an atomic level (maybe below even that) anything
can be produced with ease so anybody can have anything they want. Money,
therefore, has no place in the Culture (in fact the Culture considers
money to be a sign of poverty).
The Culture has no laws, anybody can do pretty much what they want to
do. It would be very hard for a member of the Culture to kill someone
else (it would be considered very strange to even want to) but if you
did do this you would be slap-droned, which is having a drone follow you
around forever, making sure you didn't do it again. Worse though would
be the social reaction; no one would want to talk to you.
Organic life forms in the Culture have been genetically modified
(geno-fixed) with all kinds of things. You can initiate a sex change by
thinking about it. Drug glands in your brain allow all kinds of mood
enhancements like; improving speed of thought, relief of tiredness,
inebriation among many others. You don't get sick and a typical life
span would be several centuries.
Inhabitants of the Culture live in/on a variety of habitats. A few live
on planets but there are only a few hundred inhabited planets in the
Culture. The Culture's 'cities' are its GSV's, most have hundreds of
millions of residents or even billions. Rocks consist of a converted
asteroid and, like planets, living on one is unusual rather than the
norm. The other forms of habitat are all manufactured. The most abundant
are Orbitals which are giant rings in orbit around a star. Plates are
similarly in orbit but are a pair of huge plates. Rings are an even
bigger version of an Orbital, instead of orbiting a star they encircle
one. Many members of Contact live on ships called GCU's (General Contact
Units) on which they travel to observe, meet or interfere with other
civilizations.
more here http://home.freeuk.net/m.stanfield/culture/cultur