Engines of Creation is a good read about the possibilities we have with nanotech. It's also pretty cool that this was published in 1986 (several years before the internet really was available to most people) and he wrote about having online forums and large reositories of books/information like exists today. (and he even published the book online in hopes more authors would do the same.)
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It says: "showmeshowyoukikoman is a fscking moron."
Actually, no it doesn't. Apparently you didn't spend the time to decrypt it. For you (and everyone else) who gave up quickly, this is the gyst of what the decrytped message is:
By using photons with quantum entanglement, it's possible to transmit data from Earth to Mars with nearly no latency.
hm. From what I've read about quantum entanglement, there would actually be NO latency; what happens with one particle would happen to the entangled particle at EXACTLY the same time.
And yes, researchers ARE trying to get entanglement to work better (or work at all), but there's obviously no use (yet) in talking about basing an entire planetary-system network on entanglement when there are so many troubles getting it to work in a stable laboratory environment.
tape: use a product such as masking tape, Scotch tape, duct tape, etc... glue: you know, the sticky stuff on the back of a sticker (hence the reference to the nicotine patch) insert: surgically implant the tag under your skin
Huh. Why BlueTooth? If you just want it to initiate events while you move around/through the house, just put one of those RFID tags in your pocket and put sensors in all of the doorways. (Supposedly the sensors can only pick up the tags within a few feet.) This way you don't have any hardware that you still might drop/misplace/etc...
Hell, just tape/glue/insert an RFID tag to your arm (like a nicotine patch or something) and you can walk around your house naked and still have everything working.
Looking at the picture of the back of the case, it looks as though you CAN add an extra card. (The card is seated parallel to the motherboard, not perpendicular as I had initially expected.)
The only thing missing is a TV card, but you can add that in the PCI slot that is available.
um. not sure about this, but I doubt you can just add a TV tuner card. Look how small the case is; if you tried to add pretty much ANY hardware to this, I don't think you'd be able to put the top back on.
However, I was reading up on this Hush thing a few weeks ago. If you want to add a TV card or something, I suggest looking at the Mini-ITX site and looking into building your own machine and buying a different case. (like something from Casetronic)
I just noticed this last night while looking at my SprintPCS cellphone bill. I noticed that over the past few months my bill has been steadily increasing. (It's only a few cents every month, but it still keeps climbing!) My last bill was $0.41 higher than the previous one!
Now, they put the extra charge in the "Taxes and Federal Fines" (or whatever) section, and yet when I checked up on the explanation of these fees, it says something along the lines of "Eventhough we SAY that these are taxes, they really aren't. We're just making this tax/charge up because we're being forced into this number-portability thing..."
Seriously. Is this legal to label it as a "tax" eventhough it isn't? Man, I'm starting to distrust any fee-based company because they keep raising charges. (I've been with DirectTV for only about 1.5 years and they've already raised my monthly fees by at least $6 and removed some of the channels in hopes that I'll just "upgrade" my package and pay more.)
For those of you with SprintPCS, check your April bill.
Just a thought on a possible application of this technology: I don't know what state laws are about your hearing capabilities in order to get a driving license (it could be dangerous to have someone driving the roads without being able to hear a siren... but then again, we have teenagers blasting car stereos all of the time anyways.) but something like this might be useful. Put a microphone on the outside of the car that picks up random noise from outside and, if it hears anything like a police/firetruck siren [you don't want it to pick up EVERYthing or you'd go crazy], it could "tell" the driver about it.
Or maybe having some kind of apparatus/booth so deaf people can practice their speaking. A recording can say a word and they can try to repeat it. Talking into a microphone with a delay on the playback could allow them to learn to adjust their pitch/tone/accentuation/etc....
Just a thought. (and no, I don't know anything about being deaf or even know anyone that is deaf. This is just me thinking out loud.)
Never heard of Blakes 7 and I'm a little too young for Dr. Who. (Although my older brothers used to watch it; I was more interested in Voltron and Kung Fu Theatre at the time.)
(Assuming I understand you correctly,) I agree that a show that can be so flexible that it can _completely_ change its characters is a great thing. But this show IS called "Farscape" which refers to the IASA program that Crighton was in. To me, it would only make sense that he still (in some way, shape or form) be involved with the series in order for it to still be called this. Otherwise, it should probably be considered a spin-off.
At least with Dr. Who they said it was the same guy eventhough it was a different actor. (on 2 or 3 occassions if I heard correctly)
Could you elaborate more on this? (I actually thought Ogg and Vorbis were just abbreviated names of the same codec "Ogg Vorbis".)
So, you're saying that Ogg is "a container format" and "Vorbis" and "Speex" are codecs.... To make this easier for me to understand, could you give an example of an equivalent of that. (like, is Microsoft's "doc" format a container, but you can actually save different versions of text documents to that container? or would that just simply be using the sae file extension for different formats?)
What the hell are you talking about? I have DirecTV. I have SciFi channel. I do not have to pay $6 extra per month. I have the basic package with local channels as an add-on.
From an insert that came with my bill just last week: ----- SELECT CHOICE $26.99 The SELECT CHOICE package will no longer include: Sci Fi, TRIO and The National Network (TNN)... Prices changes effective after 3/17/03. ----- The next (cheapest) package they offer is $33.99 so... Wow. Excuse me. I wouldn't have to pay $6 extra; it would be $7 extra.
And yes, local channels cost an additional $5 on top of that $33.99 price.
heh. You think cancelling one little show is bad? DirecTV decided to change their program guide a little bit and removed some channels from the basic-channel package that I have. Yep. They completely removed SciFi channel and expect me to pay like $6 per month just to get my channel back.
What's WORSE is that they did this EARLIER THIS WEEK!!! Just in time so I couldn't watch the third part of Children of Dune or the season/series finales.
Well, I thought it was a very good ending to the series. He got to say bye to his daddy. Earth is safe. The baby is gonna be born. They're engaged. Pilot survived. Everybody is happy. What else would be necessary for an incredible ending for an incredible series.
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Additional hours can be purchased for $3... or another zillion calorie combo meal. Mmmm. Healthy.
Yeah really. They SHOULD be offering hour-access to a treadmill or exercise bike with the purchase of those combo meals. (Especially the meals that come with the half-liter of mayo on it.)
Hm, why not use
DC++? Open source too, and the power downloader's tool of choice:)
eh, because I never heard of it.
At first glance of that site, it looks like that DC++ project may be progressed as far as eMule: both approximately at a version of 0.25... not that that really means anything, but just pointing out that they're both still under heavy development.
I've only glanced at the first 20 or so replies to this article and already about a third of them are talking about KaZaA.
If you don't like KaZaA's constant pop-up windows and warning messages and prompts to install the latest Flash plug-in etc... use something else!
I just discovered the eMule Project about a week ago. Open source. No ads. And it looks a lot nicer than the spamware that I've been using for the past year or so too. Yes, it took me a while to get used to it (I had to actually READ THE HELP FILES to figure out how to get it past my router!) but it works really well now.
My parents still have a rotary [pulse, dial...] phone in their kitchen. It still works just fine (after about 25 years of use from a family of 7) so there hasn't been a need to replace it. Although impatient people complain that you still have to wait a full 5 seconds longer to complete your outbound phone calls compared to touch-tone phones. (oh the horror!)
A friend of my younger brother was over there a few years ago and had to ask my dad how to use the phone because he'd never seen a phone without a number-pad on it. Pathetic. Times are changin and these young whipper-snappers aren't learning things that we took for granted. Like learning to read the time off of the face of a (non-digital) clock.
Anyways... back to the subject.
TV, telephones, wallclocks, pocket calculators (solar powered ones too), etc... there are a bunch of pieces of technology I use every day that have lasted beyond initial expectation.
I wish I could say the same thing about computers now-a-days. (Most are considered "old" or "out of date" within 6 months.)
If you butter both sides, will it land on its edge? A better question, what if you butter the edge as well?
or
butter some bread and attach it to a cat, then throw it up in the air. Cats always land on their feet, but bread always lands butter side down, so the cat/bread combination will spin round and round indefinately...
Isn't that almost the secret to flight? (Throw yourself at the ground... and miss.)
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Engines of Creation is a good read about the possibilities we have with nanotech. It's also pretty cool that this was published in 1986 (several years before the internet really was available to most people) and he wrote about having online forums and large reositories of books/information like exists today. (and he even published the book online in hopes more authors would do the same.)
Jen McCarthy's web site
8-)
It says: "showmeshowyoukikoman is a fscking moron."
Actually, no it doesn't. Apparently you didn't spend the time to decrypt it. For you (and everyone else) who gave up quickly, this is the gyst of what the decrytped message is:
nalc84n8yA*WCOIlrw7cnr8AWn874c;545CQN%($PQC% (% c547npc.
hm. From what I've read about quantum entanglement, there would actually be NO latency; what happens with one particle would happen to the entangled particle at EXACTLY the same time.
And yes, researchers ARE trying to get entanglement to work better (or work at all), but there's obviously no use (yet) in talking about basing an entire planetary-system network on entanglement when there are so many troubles getting it to work in a stable laboratory environment.
Wow. If you REALLY need an explanation:
tape: use a product such as masking tape, Scotch tape, duct tape, etc...
glue: you know, the sticky stuff on the back of a sticker (hence the reference to the nicotine patch)
insert: surgically implant the tag under your skin
jackass
Huh. Why BlueTooth? If you just want it to initiate events while you move around/through the house, just put one of those RFID tags in your pocket and put sensors in all of the doorways. (Supposedly the sensors can only pick up the tags within a few feet.) This way you don't have any hardware that you still might drop/misplace/etc...
Hell, just tape/glue/insert an RFID tag to your arm (like a nicotine patch or something) and you can walk around your house naked and still have everything working.
"Listen! ... Do you smell something?"
...and moments later I eat my words.
Looking at the picture of the back of the case, it looks as though you CAN add an extra card. (The card is seated parallel to the motherboard, not perpendicular as I had initially expected.)
However, I was reading up on this Hush thing a few weeks ago. If you want to add a TV card or something, I suggest looking at the Mini-ITX site and looking into building your own machine and buying a different case. (like something from Casetronic)
I just noticed this last night while looking at my SprintPCS cellphone bill. I noticed that over the past few months my bill has been steadily increasing. (It's only a few cents every month, but it still keeps climbing!) My last bill was $0.41 higher than the previous one!
Now, they put the extra charge in the "Taxes and Federal Fines" (or whatever) section, and yet when I checked up on the explanation of these fees, it says something along the lines of "Eventhough we SAY that these are taxes, they really aren't. We're just making this tax/charge up because we're being forced into this number-portability thing..."
Seriously. Is this legal to label it as a "tax" eventhough it isn't? Man, I'm starting to distrust any fee-based company because they keep raising charges. (I've been with DirectTV for only about 1.5 years and they've already raised my monthly fees by at least $6 and removed some of the channels in hopes that I'll just "upgrade" my package and pay more.)
For those of you with SprintPCS, check your April bill.
Idiots.
Way too many blithering idiots on this site.
That little BB that is a piece of crap. Literally. ;-)
"now if we could somehow drop a satellite telescope behind in orbit around the sun about 6 months behind us..."
From what I understand, there's already a spaceship in that precise location.
Just a thought on a possible application of this technology:
I don't know what state laws are about your hearing capabilities in order to get a driving license (it could be dangerous to have someone driving the roads without being able to hear a siren... but then again, we have teenagers blasting car stereos all of the time anyways.) but something like this might be useful. Put a microphone on the outside of the car that picks up random noise from outside and, if it hears anything like a police/firetruck siren [you don't want it to pick up EVERYthing or you'd go crazy], it could "tell" the driver about it.
Or maybe having some kind of apparatus/booth so deaf people can practice their speaking. A recording can say a word and they can try to repeat it. Talking into a microphone with a delay on the playback could allow them to learn to adjust their pitch/tone/accentuation/etc....
Just a thought. (and no, I don't know anything about being deaf or even know anyone that is deaf. This is just me thinking out loud.)
Never heard of Blakes 7 and I'm a little too young for Dr. Who. (Although my older brothers used to watch it; I was more interested in Voltron and Kung Fu Theatre at the time.)
(Assuming I understand you correctly,) I agree that a show that can be so flexible that it can _completely_ change its characters is a great thing. But this show IS called "Farscape" which refers to the IASA program that Crighton was in. To me, it would only make sense that he still (in some way, shape or form) be involved with the series in order for it to still be called this. Otherwise, it should probably be considered a spin-off.
At least with Dr. Who they said it was the same guy eventhough it was a different actor. (on 2 or 3 occassions if I heard correctly)
Could you elaborate more on this? (I actually thought Ogg and Vorbis were just abbreviated names of the same codec "Ogg Vorbis".)
So, you're saying that Ogg is "a container format" and "Vorbis" and "Speex" are codecs.... To make this easier for me to understand, could you give an example of an equivalent of that. (like, is Microsoft's "doc" format a container, but you can actually save different versions of text documents to that container? or would that just simply be using the sae file extension for different formats?)
I'm curious.
-----
SELECT CHOICE $26.99
The SELECT CHOICE package will no longer include: Sci Fi, TRIO and The National Network (TNN)
Prices changes effective after 3/17/03.
-----
The next (cheapest) package they offer is $33.99
so... Wow. Excuse me. I wouldn't have to pay $6 extra; it would be $7 extra.
And yes, local channels cost an additional $5 on top of that $33.99 price.
heh. You think cancelling one little show is bad? DirecTV decided to change their program guide a little bit and removed some channels from the basic-channel package that I have. Yep. They completely removed SciFi channel and expect me to pay like $6 per month just to get my channel back.
What's WORSE is that they did this EARLIER THIS WEEK!!! Just in time so I couldn't watch the third part of Children of Dune or the season/series finales.
What great timing, eh?
Spoiler!
Well, I thought it was a very good ending to the series. He got to say bye to his daddy. Earth is safe. The baby is gonna be born. They're engaged. Pilot survived. Everybody is happy. What else would be necessary for an incredible ending for an incredible series.
What's that you say? Kill them off? uh... ok!
At first glance of that site, it looks like that DC++ project may be progressed as far as eMule: both approximately at a version of 0.25
Thanks for the link though!
I've only glanced at the first 20 or so replies to this article and already about a third of them are talking about KaZaA.
If you don't like KaZaA's constant pop-up windows and warning messages and prompts to install the latest Flash plug-in etc... use something else!
I just discovered the eMule Project about a week ago. Open source. No ads. And it looks a lot nicer than the spamware that I've been using for the past year or so too. Yes, it took me a while to get used to it (I had to actually READ THE HELP FILES to figure out how to get it past my router!) but it works really well now.
My parents still have a rotary [pulse, dial...] phone in their kitchen. It still works just fine (after about 25 years of use from a family of 7) so there hasn't been a need to replace it. Although impatient people complain that you still have to wait a full 5 seconds longer to complete your outbound phone calls compared to touch-tone phones. (oh the horror!)
A friend of my younger brother was over there a few years ago and had to ask my dad how to use the phone because he'd never seen a phone without a number-pad on it. Pathetic. Times are changin and these young whipper-snappers aren't learning things that we took for granted. Like learning to read the time off of the face of a (non-digital) clock.
Anyways... back to the subject.
TV, telephones, wallclocks, pocket calculators (solar powered ones too), etc... there are a bunch of pieces of technology I use every day that have lasted beyond initial expectation.
I wish I could say the same thing about computers now-a-days. (Most are considered "old" or "out of date" within 6 months.)