People don't use nanotech in the sense that they use a phone. If anything nanotech would be used on people.
A grain of sugar is too small to use. ..unless you ingest it. Then it manages to power your body.
Your body does this by using nanotech machines, called enzymes. You couldn't call your girlfriend on an enzyme, but you'd be in deep shit without them and I wouldn't advise not using them because they're too small.
I've always thought the British terminology was the acme of government doublespeak.
"Hey, we're not taxing you, we're 'adding value'."
No Sparky, you're raising the price.
When did price become a synonym for value anyway?
A friend was once talking about the 'value' of his house being effected by his neighbors. I had to point out that he was refering to his house's price. It's value was that it housed him and his family.
It was a concept completely foreign to him.
I guess for him a tax actually rasises the value of something.
"If you want to get all mathematical in someone's face, do it right.;-) "
Indeed. It always pays to study the classics to see how things have been traditionally done. Even the most tired cliche became that way because of its inate broadbased appeal.
I think you'll discover that if you want to get all mathmatical in someone's face history records that nothing beats a pi.
No more nasty "thinking." It will tell you "where you want to go today," how you want to get there, how you want to see it and how you store it for retrieval.
Choice is good, so choose not to be bothered with making your own choices. That's the ultimate choice. Brainless sheep for diversity unite!
Of course this is just a preliminary step along the way to the ultimate goal. In the Brave Newer World of the future you will turn your computer on, stick it in the closet, and it will simply do everything for you on it's own. Read and answer your mail, conduct your business, play your games, etc., all without any interaction with you at all. Think of the time and productivity savings!
Once a year it will print out a summary of how your life is going on a 3X5 card in easy to read large type which it will place in a location it deems to be most suitable for such an item.
Simply because it's what we do. We don't have much of what you could call "choice" in the matter, and as such it isn't "doing it to ourselves."
Why on earth do some people just code Java all day, and love it? Beats the hell out of me, but it's what makes them tick. More power to them, and they can have it.
And, to me at least, Relativity is obvious, but Java is about as arcane as it gets.
Please note which one is natural law and which is man made.
"As a former Saturday morning TV addict, this doesn't seem like a bad thing to me."
You're not a parent, are you?:)
Seriously. I never used the TV as a babysitter but the Glass Teat did have it's use on Saturday morning. After putting in an 80 hour, five day week an extra few hours to sleep on that one critical day was, well, critical. The Saturday morning cartoons were something for my little sweetie to do instead of prying my eyelids up and asking me to entertain her at six in the morning. And I didn't have to worry about what she might be watching because I *knew* what was on, on every channel ( we didn't have quite so many of them in those days).
In times when I wasn't working quite so hard, or at all, we'd watch Danger Mouse together every afternoon, then go out and play, and read books after dinner and most Saturday mornings would find us in the car going somewhere neat.
But in those times when I was working that hard Saturday morning cartoons were a gift from God and the only thing that kept me alive, and sane. Probably kept her alive too.:)
Oh that's alright. Don't worry. I've already gained access to your information in their 'vault' and I'll sell it back to you for only $500. It's a bargain.
And if you don't want it, that's ok, I've got *lots* of customers.
"Yes -- but that's because eBay designed their system that way, and they continue to maintain it in that fashion. They can't really claim solace in a policy that is entirely under their own discretion."
Yes, they can. They can design their site to take advantage of any legal status they wish.
Although you perhaps don't realize it there's no technological reason why the phone system and the post system are designed the way they are either.
The phone system *could* be a monitored party line. They only *choose* for it to private and unmonitord.
Similarly the post office *could* only carry postcards and refuse to deliver any they deemed unappropriate.
They don't lose common carrier status *because* they chose to be common carriers. That would be doofey.
"Hey, you. Over there. Yeah, you buddy. You're under arrest for murder because you *chose* not to kill someone. You Bastard."
KFG
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Indeed, as anyone who reads the headlines knows the *professional* way to deal with things is to hack up some baseless claim and sic the lawyers on them.
And the people at SCO are *pros.*
Whatever happened to doing things the *ethical* way?
Oh, yeah, that brings us back to the lawyers, doesn't it?
Indeed, and it's ironic that my cat can interface with my computer quite fine with the keyboard, and insists on doing it on a regular basis, but she's absolutely unable to use a mouse.
The devil in this movie is the best ever. Bar none. It was so good you'll note that most film depictions of the devil since have ripped it off shamelessly.
A little smaller and considerably cheaper. I don't need the sort of industrial/military grade thing that Dolch supplies. I can build it cheaply with standard parts off the rack with a bit of cleverness and hacking, which, as it happens, I enjoy doing.:)
Perhaps we just have differing points of view, which is ok. I don't understand why anyone would have a big laptop if they can have an equally portable desktop that suits their needs. If nothing else he basic ergonomics of a desktop are suited for desktop work. The ergonomics of a laptop are subordinate to its form folded up for transportation.
Again, in that sense, I'm not even aiming for a Dolch, I'm aiming for a desktop that packs reasonable neatly for carrying into a suitcase form, with a completely standard keyboard and mouse. Cheaply.
Maybe it just comes down to that. I can build what I want for a fraction of the price I can buy something that only simulates what I want.
And I want what I *want*, you can't argue with that.:)
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"I suspect that once the world is dominated by one country, one culture, one affinity, that we will actually know the truth."
This is like saying that if there were only one newspaper we'd know the truth. Or that China is the paragon of open information.
It is only through the maintenence of mulitiple sources of information, power and control that the truth can ever be known.
KFG
People don't use nanotech in the sense that they use a phone. If anything nanotech would be used on people.
.unless you ingest it. Then it manages to power your body.
A grain of sugar is too small to use. .
Your body does this by using nanotech machines, called enzymes. You couldn't call your girlfriend on an enzyme, but you'd be in deep shit without them and I wouldn't advise not using them because they're too small.
KFG
Actually, on this scale things are very, very mechanically strong, depending for their strength on atomic bonding.
Think of trying to break a particle of talcum powder, rather than a tiny little teacup.
Besides, you don't rely on just one or two of the thingies, you make them up in the millions and if you lose a few it doesn't matter.
KFG
Indeed. Just wait until MS gets ahold of this idea and starts claiming Linux causes exothermic chemical reactions of a violent nature.
Obviously unsafe and a tool of terrorism that will virally infect your code. . . and then blow it up.
I'm dissapointed actually. I just printed out the kernel source code, rolled it up and stuffed it up the butt of an Estes rocket and, nothin'.
Maybe I should have printed it on flash paper.
KFG
Q.E.D.
KFG
I've always thought the British terminology was the acme of government doublespeak.
"Hey, we're not taxing you, we're 'adding value'."
No Sparky, you're raising the price.
When did price become a synonym for value anyway?
A friend was once talking about the 'value' of his house being effected by his neighbors. I had to point out that he was refering to his house's price. It's value was that it housed him and his family.
It was a concept completely foreign to him.
I guess for him a tax actually rasises the value of something.
KFG
Nah, he's so vain he'd probably think the definition was about him.
(Insert Carly Simon refrain here)
KFG
Yeah. I'm afraid my keyboard has a bad case of Pepsi Syndrome. Time to hose it down, eh?
KFG
"This thing is a farm implement. It's a high-quality farm implement, and I admire his work ethic, but it's still a farm implement."
Dude, he's Candian!
'Nough said.
KFG
And the obvious answer is. . .because that's the way he likes it. Uh huh, Uh huh.
KFG
Which means you have to cough up for the tshirt out of your own pocket.
It's one of the downsides to this internet thingy I'm afraid.
KFG
"If you want to get all mathematical in someone's face, do it right. ;-) "
Indeed. It always pays to study the classics to see how things have been traditionally done. Even the most tired cliche became that way because of its inate broadbased appeal.
I think you'll discover that if you want to get all mathmatical in someone's face history records that nothing beats a pi.
KFG
operates you!
No more nasty "thinking." It will tell you "where you want to go today," how you want to get there, how you want to see it and how you store it for retrieval.
Choice is good, so choose not to be bothered with making your own choices. That's the ultimate choice. Brainless sheep for diversity unite!
Of course this is just a preliminary step along the way to the ultimate goal. In the Brave Newer World of the future you will turn your computer on, stick it in the closet, and it will simply do everything for you on it's own. Read and answer your mail, conduct your business, play your games, etc., all without any interaction with you at all. Think of the time and productivity savings!
Once a year it will print out a summary of how your life is going on a 3X5 card in easy to read large type which it will place in a location it deems to be most suitable for such an item.
Bend over. It won't hurt your computer a bit.
KFG
Simply because it's what we do. We don't have much of what you could call "choice" in the matter, and as such it isn't "doing it to ourselves."
Why on earth do some people just code Java all day, and love it? Beats the hell out of me, but it's what makes them tick. More power to them, and they can have it.
And, to me at least, Relativity is obvious, but Java is about as arcane as it gets.
Please note which one is natural law and which is man made.
KFG
Because you need the 9g crash protection and side bolsters for those 3g turns?
Isn't that what they're on about when they talk about Extreme Programing?
Next year's model is going to be built into a street luge.
At least you'll fit on that, but it won't be a very pretty sight.
KFG
"As a former Saturday morning TV addict, this doesn't seem like a bad thing to me."
:)
:)
You're not a parent, are you?
Seriously. I never used the TV as a babysitter but the Glass Teat did have it's use on Saturday morning. After putting in an 80 hour, five day week an extra few hours to sleep on that one critical day was, well, critical. The Saturday morning cartoons were something for my little sweetie to do instead of prying my eyelids up and asking me to entertain her at six in the morning. And I didn't have to worry about what she might be watching because I *knew* what was on, on every channel ( we didn't have quite so many of them in those days).
In times when I wasn't working quite so hard, or at all, we'd watch Danger Mouse together every afternoon, then go out and play, and read books after dinner and most Saturday mornings would find us in the car going somewhere neat.
But in those times when I was working that hard Saturday morning cartoons were a gift from God and the only thing that kept me alive, and sane. Probably kept her alive too.
KFG
Oh that's alright. Don't worry. I've already gained access to your information in their 'vault' and I'll sell it back to you for only $500. It's a bargain.
And if you don't want it, that's ok, I've got *lots* of customers.
KFG
"Yes -- but that's because eBay designed their system that way, and they continue to maintain it in that fashion. They can't really claim solace in a policy that is entirely under their own discretion."
Yes, they can. They can design their site to take advantage of any legal status they wish.
Although you perhaps don't realize it there's no technological reason why the phone system and the post system are designed the way they are either.
The phone system *could* be a monitored party line. They only *choose* for it to private and unmonitord.
Similarly the post office *could* only carry postcards and refuse to deliver any they deemed unappropriate.
They don't lose common carrier status *because* they chose to be common carriers. That would be doofey.
"Hey, you. Over there. Yeah, you buddy. You're under arrest for murder because you *chose* not to kill someone. You Bastard."
KFG
Indeed, as anyone who reads the headlines knows the *professional* way to deal with things is to hack up some baseless claim and sic the lawyers on them.
And the people at SCO are *pros.*
Whatever happened to doing things the *ethical* way?
Oh, yeah, that brings us back to the lawyers, doesn't it?
KFG
Without any means of identifying you all such represive laws are inherently moot.
Has it never occured to you that nearly every law to "protect" minors, laws "for the children", in effect *remove* a right from the minors themselves?
You don't think that's accidental, do you?
We middle aged people in control have you right where we want you right now, and don't you forget it.
KFG
There's always room for improvement. Always some niggling little problem, even in "relatively" good times.
What do we do to improve things? Why, that's easy. Identify that group of people holding things back.
And if those people are listed in some database and are required to carry "papers" rounding them up is easy peasy.
And thus things "now" become things down the road, in easy, popular, and politically advantageous tasty little bite sized morsels.
America's founding fathers understood all of this very, *very* well and took steps to lay logs across the rails of such "progress."
Good thing we've gotten rid of most of *those,* eh brother?
You *are* a brother aren't you? Let's see your papers to be sure, shall we?
KFG
And has been for decades. The personal automobile outsells them by quite a large margin.
Well, unless, of course, you need a tractor instead of a BMW M5.
Oddly enough they are not interchangable. Go figure.
Come to think of it sporks outsell handheld devices, so replace your PDA with a spork.
The article is silly.
KFG
Indeed, and it's ironic that my cat can interface with my computer quite fine with the keyboard, and insists on doing it on a regular basis, but she's absolutely unable to use a mouse.
KFG
The devil in this movie is the best ever. Bar none. It was so good you'll note that most film depictions of the devil since have ripped it off shamelessly.
Shame about the *rest* of the movie though.
KFG
A little smaller and considerably cheaper. I don't need the sort of industrial/military grade thing that Dolch supplies. I can build it cheaply with standard parts off the rack with a bit of cleverness and hacking, which, as it happens, I enjoy doing. :)
:)
Perhaps we just have differing points of view, which is ok. I don't understand why anyone would have a big laptop if they can have an equally portable desktop that suits their needs. If nothing else he basic ergonomics of a desktop are suited for desktop work. The ergonomics of a laptop are subordinate to its form folded up for transportation.
Again, in that sense, I'm not even aiming for a Dolch, I'm aiming for a desktop that packs reasonable neatly for carrying into a suitcase form, with a completely standard keyboard and mouse. Cheaply.
Maybe it just comes down to that. I can build what I want for a fraction of the price I can buy something that only simulates what I want.
And I want what I *want*, you can't argue with that.
KFG