double that for two eyes, but then again what yo said is bogus. Consider that almost all the time almost all the screen stays constant even the simplest forms of compression would be able to narrow that.
But what even more siginificant is that couple this technology and Moore's Law you can have the entire device into a not too bulky pair of glasses within a couple of years.
I love that someone actually took the time to make this, but looking at the demo I can't help but ask a couple of "But what if... ?" questions.
For one, I don't see anyone performing a medical procedure, even as simple as inserting a needle, while trying to hold this thing at proper angle a the same time. Also, can you imagine trying the contorting needed should a doctor want to take look at some part of the body from the side. That said, here is a suggestion.
Instead of using the "HUD" approach, why not project the image on the body from an independent source while being able to leave the probe on a secured arm. First, data acquisition should not be very hard. Attach the ultrasound probe to an arm that can measure the rotation of joints (such as these), or use four receivers and two transmitters attached to the probe (just like GPS) to determine the position and orientation of the probe. Quick linear transform on the acquired image and now you know what to project. This part I am not so clear about.
You could either use overhead projectors pointed down, or something smaller. Another idea I have to reduce cost here is something as simple at using a small laser pointer with a mirror that has two axis of rotation. Since the image is black and white anyway, all you need to do is determine the timing for each pixel and turn the pointer on and off to draw a picture. Depending on how fast you can turn the laser pointer and off you should be able to achieve much greater resolution (talking out of my ass, but I hope) Again, mount it on an arm or use triangulation to determine where you projecting.
I hope this post provokes more suggestions on how to improve on the concept, but this really does look like a technology demonstrator rather than something practical. Imagine what you could do if you could take X-rays, MRIs, PET scans, and real-time ultrasound to merge them all together and project all that on information on the patient. BTW, considering from watching TLC it looks like most doctors operate with a whole bunch of crap attached to their head anyway, 3D goggles to really "see" inside the body wouldn't be too much of a hassle for them.
When is this going to get top-of-the-line goodies like Xscale upgrade and built-in Microdrive. That kind of machine would probably be able to run a recomplied version of win95.
Oh, I just can't wait for this to begin. I can't imagine it will be even a week until people will create clients to connect to these networks and present false targets to download. At the same time, that stats for the use of Morpheus and such will spike, giving them increased legitamacy and and advertising revenue. Should anyone actually atempt this, it will only be bleasing in descise for the P2P.
I can't be sure this page will still be up in the afternoon (I'm writing this at 5:30 AM EDT), but do check the community fiber network. And while you're there, scroll all the way to the bottom and click on link that says Visitors (or go directly from here) and check out the people from all over that followed the herd.
Reading the article, I couldn't help but notice the similarities between DARPA's objective and the problems inherent with P2P projects like Gnutella.
First, both must overcome a lack of a central server. While Napster has a server for the clients to connect to and cell phones communicate with a radio tower in that the geographic area, a "cell", P2P and Army's new system do not.
Second, both must be adaptive to their environment. Army's system must be able to use almost any frequency within a broad range and provide a means of concealment, and P2P must able to use almost any port within TCP or UDP and vary packets enough not to be snagged by a firewall.
Third, and most challenging, both must be able to deal with that pesky bandwidth problem as the number of users increase. I will be amazed if almost the same code used by the Army, if released, would not make it into a P2P client, or vise-versa. Virtually the same problem.
1) XFL is kind of cool, once they figure out a better way to follow the action. Amazing concept, actually paying professional athletes based on their performance.
2) There is huge difference between bottle rockets and something that can go a couple of thousand feet in the air carrying a payload with controlled descent. Although I don't think these kinds of rules should be imposed, I can see how someone can try to justify them. What I think if unfair is the fact that only select few are allowed to do this.
Back when I was considering getting into model rockets, I remember reading that it was against US law to put any sort of guidance or guided payloads on amateur rockets. I know foreign spies have actually been arrested trying to infiltrate American rocket launching societies. So the question is how the hell did these guys get around the rules or did I just misread all those warnings?
Finally a voice of reason. I came to TNG towards the end of the run, something like the last 3-4 years, and it kicked ass. But it blew me away when I saw the crap known as the first season of TNG in reruns after the series got the axe. I was amazed the two were related. Not too mention the original series. I was upset they wasted air time while trying to figure out where to take the plot or what role each race was supposed to play.
Babylon 5, on the other hand, only took a couple of episodes to get going (and a crappy TV movie). 5 year arc, awesome foreshadowing, desent acting, and I can't forget to mention the 3D. Oh and can we say the story actually had a great SCI-FI angle. Several people wrote books on physics of star trek, but did any star treck people get INVITED to NASA? I don't think anyone would actually consider making a star craft based on Enterprise (any edition) or Voyager.
DS9 was arguably the best OVERALL series, too bad they ended it early. They could have had a lot more fun with the story. I just hope they don't repeat their mistakes with the new series.
I have to wonder if it is only a ploy by Microsoft to secretly gather the names of all the troublemakers out there with a trojan horse otherwise known as the registration wizard, or possibly just to erase any ext2 partition the installation wizard comes across.
Here is my problem with the information page on how to hack this thingy. The page said the cpu was a 180 Mhz Winchip. But from the logs you can clearly see the following:
Linux version 2.2.14-15mdk (root@kenobi.mandrakesoft.com) (gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release)) #1 Tue Jan 4 22:24:20 CET 2000 relocating initrd image: initrd_start:0xc0faa000 initrd_end:0xc0fff935 mem_start:0xc0274000 mem_end:0xc1e00000 initrd_size:0x00055935 dest:0xc1daa000 Detected 200462336 Hz processor. Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 79.87 BogoMIPS
I've never heard the 4mbps used, but you are surely mistaken about the 10 vs 100mbps. 10 mbps reffers to the ethernet port of the modem itself. No matter what you connect to it, even a gigabit card if you got one, will go over 10 mbps.
Furthermore, almost all modems in use today are compliant to fairly similar specs, so modems are not that far apart. The robustness of the backend architecture effects your experience, the technology itself is similar.
Third, ADSL. If relatively few people are on your local circuit, cable modem beats the pants off ADSL. They are about twice the fast on upload AND download. The upload on ADSL is extremely limited. Most importantly though I had the misfortune of finishing a botched install of ADSL for my best friend's parents. Having worked in the field I consider myself fairly proficient in this kind of thing, but it even took me more than 6 hours to do what 2 telco technicians couldn't over a whole day. Until that is solved I think ADSL is pretty much useless in on the free market.
I have and use Sprint PCS. And the phone I use the Denso Touchpoint, the phone used to launch these services in the US. I am extremely satisfied with the voice service. I rarely have a problem with signal getting through, and it's a dual-band phone, which means I can switch to analog if digital doesn't get through. Above all, I have been most impressed with the quality of calls. Back to the topic, I did manage to rack up more than $20 in the first month playing around with the web.
The service can be extremely useful and useless at the same time. All depends on how you want to use the service because of the weakness of the software used to browse. I found it was awesome for 3 main uses. First is stock and news information. It was easy enough to use the phone get this information from CNN and Yahoo!. Second, I found that the Mapquest can be useful. Although it can be cumbersome to use, it could serve a purpose to get direction from zip code to zip code or from address to address. But what impressed me the most was Yahoo!'s personalized services. You can check your email from the phone and even get access to a web scheduler or something like that (didn't bother exploring it).
Overall, the service is cool, until you consider the alternatives. It's a pain the ass to even log in considering you have to punch the buttons 16 times for an 8 letter login. I've also seen those RIM two-way pagers in action, and got damn can it do so much more so much faster. As much as people are screaming about the need for better screens and speed, until there is a way to input with something over than keypad these things will remain only toys.
I've had a cable modem for almost 2 years and know a shitload of people around Michigan using one. Here are some facts I have come to know as a result of this and other circumstances: (All numbers refer to bits)
1. Motorola's modems theoretical top speed is around 33 mbps, but even that is limited to 10 mbps ethernet interface.
2. I have NEVER hit faster than 1.6-1.8 mbps.
3. I have a REALLY REALY GOOD connection. Most people I know almost never hit 1 mbps.
4. A guy I worked with was told directly by one the senior managers of Mediaone that for the for foreseeable future, even though the local loops can probably handle around 7 mbps, they are capping it around 1-2 mbps.
But most of all, let's use common sense. Since that kind of bandwidth would be useless without a serious backbone upgrade for Mediaone and others I don't see why anyone would care. Think of this if you will as the first generation cell phones. I don't think it mattered that much which bulky Motorola phone you got for free from your cell phone company ten years ago, they all ended up in the garbage pretty soon anyway.
One obvious problem that couple of people have mentioned here already is that our age group doesn't think it's a priority to vote. In fact, I remember not too long ago on one of those Sunday morning news programs couple of Congressmen discussing their priorities for tax cuts, and they plainly said that we (people in their 20's to 30's) shouldn't expect one since there isn't any advantage for them to offer those tax cuts to us. So why is it so strange that the generation that arguably knows the most about and stands to loose the most in this information age doesn't have a voice in the issue.
Here is the part that upsets me the most though. Don't you have to commit a crime first before your rights are taken away?! Yes, most people d/l mp3 on Napster that are not backups of the CDs they own themselves. But there is a lot of legal mp3s being traded on Napster too. Why the hell should anyone deny me the right to use an excellent software tool because someone else abused it? That's like saying because every Microsoft product ever made has been used to produce harmful and illegal material (from viruses to storing kiddy porn and everything between) and has caused vast amount of damage (through it's shoddy security or 50 crashes a day) Microsoft should have to pony up couple of billion. Oh wait, they can better spend couple of million to buy off the Congress and problem solved. The fact is this country is based on the idea that the rights on the minority should be considered on the same of if not greater level than that of the majority. If that isn't how you feel, write an amendment to the Constitution or some god-owfull pice of crap law like DMCA, but until then, that's the law of the land.
Too bad in the year everyone wants to be the reformer, the only thing getting reformed is the way the money is funneled.
You want to know how I know? Very simple. I don't trust a word anyone else says. I prove it myself. If it doesn't make sense, I question. I am quite sinical, but that doesn't mean I as close minded as the moron who keeps calling Clinton Klinton in his posts. Funny thing is, I just got back from my Physics midterm.
Too bad most of the computing power goes to predict corrosion and decay of the current stockpile. Considering at the very least US and former USSR have enough warheads to destroy the world many times over I don't see where the efficiency from better weapons is to be gained.
I guess none of your relatives died in the pacific or during the raid on Pearl Harbor. Those cities were helping the war effort. Furthermore, if the United States unjustly attacks another country, I have an affermative duty to prevent or arrest that action. ie: the demostrations during the Vietman war. Those people weren't exactly "innocent" War is about killing more of them quicker than they can kill you. That is what the A-Bomb allowed us to do. The estimates for the loss of life if we had to invade Japan are in the millions. Truman made a good strategic move. Furthermore, had the war lasted any longer than it did Japan would had have jet fighters (in production before the end of the war), possibly nuclear weapons (uranium on the way from Germany in a sub), and the would have had time shore up their defense. It would have taken pretty much leveling the islands to end the war. In the end everyone benefited from the A-bombs being dropped on Japan.
PS I hate to think where else they could have dropped.
Don't have a foot to stand on in this argument. You don't even know what fuck being a libertarian is. Let's see here. If creation took place roughly 5500 years ago, as the bible says, that would mean pretty much everything we believe about hard sciences, especially physics, including the knowledge used to create the machine you are using to post your stupid crap, impossible. There may be a God, but he certainly is not subject to all the ridiculous crap credited to him through organized religion, and he certainly didn't create you.
I assume based on comment you will be moving to a Quaker community sometime soon and God himself knows you are never going to benefit from all the new genetically engineered drugs, which, mind you, would never have been created had Darwin's theory not been believed. After all, part of being a libertarian is taking control over your domain. If God's pulling on the reigns, where the hell does that leave you?
I'm afraid for any kid that got the same education as you. WTF are you thinking? Six thousand years ago civilizations were already flurishing on this planet. That would mean as soon as the sun came up man evolved on this planet from single celled organizms in no time flat. Oh wait, YOU NEED A FUCKING STAR to form a solar system. Not too mention that scientific evidence puts the sun about 4.6 billion years old. You're only ofF on the order of about a MILLION!
Now, what about the sun not being harmfull?!? You forget that the reason life is so rare in the universe is that to support life a planet needs to be protected from the effects of star like our sun. Let's see, without the atmosphere and large oceans we might see temperature changes of only a hundred degrees C or so. Without the magnetic field this planet enjoys we'd all be cooked like like a burnt turkey in microwave from Sun's radiation. But alas, why would anyone think the sun is harmfull when so many people get skin cancer or sun burns every year despite all the protection this planet offers.
I think most us (Napster users) forgot about the most important issue in this whole debate. All over the world, including here, colleges are the breeding pits for new ideas and movements for social reform. All the revolutions and civil rights movements started by students are too long to list here. What the hell does that have to do with Napster and MP3? very simple...
It was students who almost single handedly brought mp3s to everyone else's attention. I am willing to bet 50 years from now when people ask where the exchange of audio and video between people really took off MP3 will certainly be mentioned. And now Napster is fast becoming the model for rapid distribution of media. The overwellming demand for Napster will certainly lead ISP and backbone providers to restucture their networks to allow for Voice, Audio, and Video over IP. Who wins: everyone, and if it is at the expense of of a few bitches, so be it.
Why such strong language? These people think their use of the bandwidth is somehow more noble or more productive. Well, for the reasons stated above I think they are wrong. And should somehow this nee jerk reaction spread, universities will have a revolt on their hands.
What's the point of having all that bandwidth if you won't let people use it!?
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double that for two eyes, but then again what yo said is bogus. Consider that almost all the time almost all the screen stays constant even the simplest forms of compression would be able to narrow that.
But what even more siginificant is that couple this technology and Moore's Law you can have the entire device into a not too bulky pair of glasses within a couple of years.
Not to rehash, but the hell is up with the guy submitting the post referring to free software. Not even the article this was linked talked about free.
when the first 100 posts aren't concerned with how to flash the thing to make it run something else.
On a more serious note, I can't wait until Evolution and Outlook will natively support synching over IP.
For one, I don't see anyone performing a medical procedure, even as simple as inserting a needle, while trying to hold this thing at proper angle a the same time. Also, can you imagine trying the contorting needed should a doctor want to take look at some part of the body from the side. That said, here is a suggestion.
Instead of using the "HUD" approach, why not project the image on the body from an independent source while being able to leave the probe on a secured arm. First, data acquisition should not be very hard. Attach the ultrasound probe to an arm that can measure the rotation of joints (such as these), or use four receivers and two transmitters attached to the probe (just like GPS) to determine the position and orientation of the probe. Quick linear transform on the acquired image and now you know what to project. This part I am not so clear about.
You could either use overhead projectors pointed down, or something smaller. Another idea I have to reduce cost here is something as simple at using a small laser pointer with a mirror that has two axis of rotation. Since the image is black and white anyway, all you need to do is determine the timing for each pixel and turn the pointer on and off to draw a picture. Depending on how fast you can turn the laser pointer and off you should be able to achieve much greater resolution (talking out of my ass, but I hope) Again, mount it on an arm or use triangulation to determine where you projecting.
I hope this post provokes more suggestions on how to improve on the concept, but this really does look like a technology demonstrator rather than something practical. Imagine what you could do if you could take X-rays, MRIs, PET scans, and real-time ultrasound to merge them all together and project all that on information on the patient. BTW, considering from watching TLC it looks like most doctors operate with a whole bunch of crap attached to their head anyway, 3D goggles to really "see" inside the body wouldn't be too much of a hassle for them.
When is this going to get top-of-the-line goodies like Xscale upgrade and built-in Microdrive. That kind of machine would probably be able to run a recomplied version of win95.
That's what happens. Blessing in disguise becomes bleasing in descise .
Oh, I just can't wait for this to begin. I can't imagine it will be even a week until people will create clients to connect to these networks and present false targets to download. At the same time, that stats for the use of Morpheus and such will spike, giving them increased legitamacy and and advertising revenue. Should anyone actually atempt this, it will only be bleasing in descise for the P2P.
I can't be sure this page will still be up in the afternoon (I'm writing this at 5:30 AM EDT), but do check the community fiber network. And while you're there, scroll all the way to the bottom and click on link that says Visitors (or go directly from here) and check out the people from all over that followed the herd.
First, both must overcome a lack of a central server. While Napster has a server for the clients to connect to and cell phones communicate with a radio tower in that the geographic area, a "cell", P2P and Army's new system do not.
Second, both must be adaptive to their environment. Army's system must be able to use almost any frequency within a broad range and provide a means of concealment, and P2P must able to use almost any port within TCP or UDP and vary packets enough not to be snagged by a firewall.
Third, and most challenging, both must be able to deal with that pesky bandwidth problem as the number of users increase. I will be amazed if almost the same code used by the Army, if released, would not make it into a P2P client, or vise-versa. Virtually the same problem.
1) XFL is kind of cool, once they figure out a better way to follow the action. Amazing concept, actually paying professional athletes based on their performance.
2) There is huge difference between bottle rockets and something that can go a couple of thousand feet in the air carrying a payload with controlled descent. Although I don't think these kinds of rules should be imposed, I can see how someone can try to justify them. What I think if unfair is the fact that only select few are allowed to do this.
Back when I was considering getting into model rockets, I remember reading that it was against US law to put any sort of guidance or guided payloads on amateur rockets. I know foreign spies have actually been arrested trying to infiltrate American rocket launching societies. So the question is how the hell did these guys get around the rules or did I just misread all those warnings?
Babylon 5, on the other hand, only took a couple of episodes to get going (and a crappy TV movie). 5 year arc, awesome foreshadowing, desent acting, and I can't forget to mention the 3D. Oh and can we say the story actually had a great SCI-FI angle. Several people wrote books on physics of star trek, but did any star treck people get INVITED to NASA? I don't think anyone would actually consider making a star craft based on Enterprise (any edition) or Voyager.
DS9 was arguably the best OVERALL series, too bad they ended it early. They could have had a lot more fun with the story. I just hope they don't repeat their mistakes with the new series.
I have to wonder if it is only a ploy by Microsoft to secretly gather the names of all the troublemakers out there with a trojan horse otherwise known as the registration wizard, or possibly just to erase any ext2 partition the installation wizard comes across.
Linux version 2.2.14-15mdk (root@kenobi.mandrakesoft.com) (gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release)) #1 Tue Jan 4 22:24:20 CET 2000
relocating initrd image:
initrd_start:0xc0faa000 initrd_end:0xc0fff935
mem_start:0xc0274000 mem_end:0xc1e00000
initrd_size:0x00055935 dest:0xc1daa000
Detected 200462336 Hz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 79.87 BogoMIPS
Now how is that possible?
I've never heard the 4mbps used, but you are surely mistaken about the 10 vs 100mbps. 10 mbps reffers to the ethernet port of the modem itself. No matter what you connect to it, even a gigabit card if you got one, will go over 10 mbps.
Furthermore, almost all modems in use today are compliant to fairly similar specs, so modems are not that far apart. The robustness of the backend architecture effects your experience, the technology itself is similar.
Third, ADSL. If relatively few people are on your local circuit, cable modem beats the pants off ADSL. They are about twice the fast on upload AND download. The upload on ADSL is extremely limited. Most importantly though I had the misfortune of finishing a botched install of ADSL for my best friend's parents. Having worked in the field I consider myself fairly proficient in this kind of thing, but it even took me more than 6 hours to do what 2 telco technicians couldn't over a whole day. Until that is solved I think ADSL is pretty much useless in on the free market.
I have and use Sprint PCS. And the phone I use the Denso Touchpoint, the phone used to launch these services in the US. I am extremely satisfied with the voice service. I rarely have a problem with signal getting through, and it's a dual-band phone, which means I can switch to analog if digital doesn't get through. Above all, I have been most impressed with the quality of calls. Back to the topic, I did manage to rack up more than $20 in the first month playing around with the web.
The service can be extremely useful and useless at the same time. All depends on how you want to use the service because of the weakness of the software used to browse. I found it was awesome for 3 main uses. First is stock and news information. It was easy enough to use the phone get this information from CNN and Yahoo!. Second, I found that the Mapquest can be useful. Although it can be cumbersome to use, it could serve a purpose to get direction from zip code to zip code or from address to address. But what impressed me the most was Yahoo!'s personalized services. You can check your email from the phone and even get access to a web scheduler or something like that (didn't bother exploring it).
Overall, the service is cool, until you consider the alternatives. It's a pain the ass to even log in considering you have to punch the buttons 16 times for an 8 letter login. I've also seen those RIM two-way pagers in action, and got damn can it do so much more so much faster. As much as people are screaming about the need for better screens and speed, until there is a way to input with something over than keypad these things will remain only toys.
I've had a cable modem for almost 2 years and know a shitload of people around Michigan using one. Here are some facts I have come to know as a result of this and other circumstances: (All numbers refer to bits)
1. Motorola's modems theoretical top speed is around 33 mbps, but even that is limited to 10 mbps ethernet interface.
2. I have NEVER hit faster than 1.6-1.8 mbps.
3. I have a REALLY REALY GOOD connection. Most people I know almost never hit 1 mbps.
4. A guy I worked with was told directly by one the senior managers of Mediaone that for the for foreseeable future, even though the local loops can probably handle around 7 mbps, they are capping it around 1-2 mbps.
But most of all, let's use common sense. Since that kind of bandwidth would be useless without a serious backbone upgrade for Mediaone and others I don't see why anyone would care. Think of this if you will as the first generation cell phones. I don't think it mattered that much which bulky Motorola phone you got for free from your cell phone company ten years ago, they all ended up in the garbage pretty soon anyway.
Here is the part that upsets me the most though. Don't you have to commit a crime first before your rights are taken away?! Yes, most people d/l mp3 on Napster that are not backups of the CDs they own themselves. But there is a lot of legal mp3s being traded on Napster too. Why the hell should anyone deny me the right to use an excellent software tool because someone else abused it? That's like saying because every Microsoft product ever made has been used to produce harmful and illegal material (from viruses to storing kiddy porn and everything between) and has caused vast amount of damage (through it's shoddy security or 50 crashes a day) Microsoft should have to pony up couple of billion. Oh wait, they can better spend couple of million to buy off the Congress and problem solved. The fact is this country is based on the idea that the rights on the minority should be considered on the same of if not greater level than that of the majority. If that isn't how you feel, write an amendment to the Constitution or some god-owfull pice of crap law like DMCA, but until then, that's the law of the land.
Too bad in the year everyone wants to be the reformer, the only thing getting reformed is the way the money is funneled.
My bad. Doing Calc and Physics homework at the time, the spelling of "cynical" escaped me at that moment.
You want to know how I know? Very simple. I don't trust a word anyone else says. I prove it myself. If it doesn't make sense, I question. I am quite sinical, but that doesn't mean I as close minded as the moron who keeps calling Clinton Klinton in his posts. Funny thing is, I just got back from my Physics midterm.
Too bad most of the computing power goes to predict corrosion and decay of the current stockpile. Considering at the very least US and former USSR have enough warheads to destroy the world many times over I don't see where the efficiency from better weapons is to be gained.
I guess none of your relatives died in the pacific or during the raid on Pearl Harbor. Those cities were helping the war effort. Furthermore, if the United States unjustly attacks another country, I have an affermative duty to prevent or arrest that action. ie: the demostrations during the Vietman war. Those people weren't exactly "innocent" War is about killing more of them quicker than they can kill you. That is what the A-Bomb allowed us to do. The estimates for the loss of life if we had to invade Japan are in the millions. Truman made a good strategic move. Furthermore, had the war lasted any longer than it did Japan would had have jet fighters (in production before the end of the war), possibly nuclear weapons (uranium on the way from Germany in a sub), and the would have had time shore up their defense. It would have taken pretty much leveling the islands to end the war. In the end everyone benefited from the A-bombs being dropped on Japan.
PS I hate to think where else they could have dropped.
Don't have a foot to stand on in this argument. You don't even know what fuck being a libertarian is. Let's see here. If creation took place roughly 5500 years ago, as the bible says, that would mean pretty much everything we believe about hard sciences, especially physics, including the knowledge used to create the machine you are using to post your stupid crap, impossible. There may be a God, but he certainly is not subject to all the ridiculous crap credited to him through organized religion, and he certainly didn't create you.
I assume based on comment you will be moving to a Quaker community sometime soon and God himself knows you are never going to benefit from all the new genetically engineered drugs, which, mind you, would never have been created had Darwin's theory not been believed. After all, part of being a libertarian is taking control over your domain. If God's pulling on the reigns, where the hell does that leave you?
I'm afraid for any kid that got the same education as you. WTF are you thinking? Six thousand years ago civilizations were already flurishing on this planet. That would mean as soon as the sun came up man evolved on this planet from single celled organizms in no time flat. Oh wait, YOU NEED A FUCKING STAR to form a solar system. Not too mention that scientific evidence puts the sun about 4.6 billion years old. You're only ofF on the order of about a MILLION!
Now, what about the sun not being harmfull?!? You forget that the reason life is so rare in the universe is that to support life a planet needs to be protected from the effects of star like our sun. Let's see, without the atmosphere and large oceans we might see temperature changes of only a hundred degrees C or so. Without the magnetic field this planet enjoys we'd all be cooked like like a burnt turkey in microwave from Sun's radiation. But alas, why would anyone think the sun is harmfull when so many people get skin cancer or sun burns every year despite all the protection this planet offers.
DUMB ASS!!!!
I think most us (Napster users) forgot about the most important issue in this whole debate. All over the world, including here, colleges are the breeding pits for new ideas and movements for social reform. All the revolutions and civil rights movements started by students are too long to list here. What the hell does that have to do with Napster and MP3? very simple...
It was students who almost single handedly brought mp3s to everyone else's attention. I am willing to bet 50 years from now when people ask where the exchange of audio and video between people really took off MP3 will certainly be mentioned. And now Napster is fast becoming the model for rapid distribution of media. The overwellming demand for Napster will certainly lead ISP and backbone providers to restucture their networks to allow for Voice, Audio, and Video over IP. Who wins: everyone, and if it is at the expense of of a few bitches, so be it.
Why such strong language? These people think their use of the bandwidth is somehow more noble or more productive. Well, for the reasons stated above I think they are wrong. And should somehow this nee jerk reaction spread, universities will have a revolt on their hands.
What's the point of having all that bandwidth if you won't let people use it!?