No, the worst type of virus/worm would be one that send out important confidential data to outside sources.
Imagine a worm that sent your credit card number, bank accounts, passwords, and other personal information to the creator of the virus?
Hmmm. That makes me think of something even scarier. What if the RIAA/MPAA decided to do this to scan your computer for "illegal" files and then sue you?
Or even better, use your brainwaves to select buttons and enter text! Then you could have one of those wearable style computers, with a screen that fits over one eye, and you could use it anywhere anytime, hands-free.
Then again, we'd have even more accidents due to people reading blogs and porn while driving than we have morons with cellphones and ditzy chicks applying make-up now.
There already is pretty good TTS. Its been mentioned on Slashdot too. Both IBM and AT&T have pretty good products, even web applets that let you test it out.
And there are also speech-to-text (STT) as well, but of course STT to Understanding is a bit of a ways off.;-)
Then again, some humans have problems with that too.
...stuff like this goes and happens! I mean, GODDAMMIT I was just starting to get out the Universe worked but then....WHO ORDERED THAT!
I've enjoyed reading about physics and cosmology since I was in high school, but just didn't have the math to actually pursue it. Now I'm glad I didn't...the more the physicists and astronomers investigate, the more they realize they haven't a clue what's going on!
Maybe I'll go back to sleep and everything will be alright again...
It works great using Winex 3.1-1 on Gentoo Linux 2.4.20 and Nvidia 43.63 drivers. Just thought you'd like to know. The only glitch is some weird transparency issue when shadows are enabled where the wheels can be seen through the car, and the track is transparent in the rear view mirrors. You can disable those options though.
Read the article. They aren't enriching or reprocessing the spent fuel rods. They're using a new process to fission U238 directly, using steam as a moderator to control the speed of neutrons so they'll split the atoms.
I got mine last week, Athlon XP 2000+, 512 MB PC2700 (although it only works at 2100 since the mobo doesn't support DDR333), Samsung combo drive, MSI Geforce 4 Ti 4200 128MB, 40 GB 7200 rpm HD.
Unfortunately, I'm having a sporadic problem with black screen/lock ups in 3D games. UT2003 only does it once in a while, but Earth & Beyond just isn't playable, within a minute, instant black screen, computer is frozen.
OS is Win2K Pro, SP 3. All the updates installed. Got the latest Via 4 in 1 drivers direct from viatech.com, tried both Nvidia 40.72 and 30.11 drivers. Shuttle doesn't have an update for the BIOS yet, and neither does MSI for the VGA BIOS.
I've tried setting AGP to 2x instead of 4x, no change, Read/Write WS off and on, and even tried lowering the video RAM and GPU speed with MSI's driver.
I know the video card is good, it worked fine in my old system (MSI Turbo2.)
Hmmm...all I get there is a generic Network Solutions registered domain page. A whois brings up this little tidbit:
Technical Contact:
Administrator, Internet DNS (JC15245) opsmgr@BELLATLANTIC.COM
Verizon
Arch Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103
1-800-621-9900 (FAX) 215-567-0652
Kinda looks like Verizon bought the domain huh? No more dissent from the masses. Figures. Stupid megatelcos.
This is mentioned in this biography of Sagan. He was working for the RAND Corporation at the time. RAND (Research and Development) was a military think tank. This was a period when the only way to get research money was from the government/military, and besides it was your patriotic duty.
However, Sagan began to disagree with the military during the '60's with the whole Vietnam thing, and he stopped working for them. (Although I believe the book said he still had some ties to RAND...)
I think everyone should read the book, even if you're not a fan of Carl Sagan.
(geez!! Had to wait 5 minutes before this reply form came up....what gives??) Don't get your hopes up, folks...this HAS to be an early April Fool's Day joke. Anyway, I Am Not A Physicist (IANAP), but I've read in many science magazines and books, not to mention seen on TV documentaries, that any kind of faster than light communciation or travel is strictly impossible. Has to do with causality. There are some fantastic theories floating around about how do do these things, but they require exotic things like antigravity or negative energy, which I gather aren't strictly disallowed by modern physical theory, but then again, may just be mathematical oddities that happen to work with our equations and don't actually have any reality. I seem to remember reading that wormholes would require antigravity and negative energy to stay open...plus wormholes are smaller than the diameter of atoms, which I believe precludes their use as channels of communication. I love Star Trek, but we aren't there yet.
When Escape Velocity came out, I thought I was in love. Here was a game *I* would have made, if I were a programmer. But there was something missing....3D texture mapped graphics!!! Now that I think about...anyone remember Starglider 2 for the Amiga? THAT game kicked ass!! I'd just like to be able to use these 3D accelerator cards for something other than mindless killing sprees. I'm sick of those games. My head feels numb for hours after playing them! Just imagine being able to explore a 3D galaxy, visit planets, and be able to engage in lucrative commerce, join a starfleet, or be a rogue pirate swooping down on unexpecting merchant fleets... Gotta get those credits for that whiz bang particle accelerator cannon somehow! 8^) Something of a cross between Escape Velocity and Star Control but with 3D would be my ultimate game....only wish I knew how to do it myself.
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No, the worst type of virus/worm would be one that send out important confidential data to outside sources.
Imagine a worm that sent your credit card number, bank accounts, passwords, and other personal information to the creator of the virus?
Hmmm. That makes me think of something even scarier. What if the RIAA/MPAA decided to do this to scan your computer for "illegal" files and then sue you?
Or even better, use your brainwaves to select buttons and enter text! Then you could have one of those wearable style computers, with a screen that fits over one eye, and you could use it anywhere anytime, hands-free.
Then again, we'd have even more accidents due to people reading blogs and porn while driving than we have morons with cellphones and ditzy chicks applying make-up now.
There already is pretty good TTS. Its been mentioned on Slashdot too. Both IBM and AT&T have pretty good products, even web applets that let you test it out.
;-)
And there are also speech-to-text (STT) as well, but of course STT to Understanding is a bit of a ways off.
Then again, some humans have problems with that too.
...stuff like this goes and happens! I mean, GODDAMMIT I was just starting to get out the Universe worked but then....WHO ORDERED THAT!
I've enjoyed reading about physics and cosmology since I was in high school, but just didn't have the math to actually pursue it. Now I'm glad I didn't...the more the physicists and astronomers investigate, the more they realize they haven't a clue what's going on!
Maybe I'll go back to sleep and everything will be alright again...
It works great using Winex 3.1-1 on Gentoo Linux 2.4.20 and Nvidia 43.63 drivers. Just thought you'd like to know. The only glitch is some weird transparency issue when shadows are enabled where the wheels can be seen through the car, and the track is transparent in the rear view mirrors. You can disable those options though.
Very cool, I might just buy it.
Read the article. They aren't enriching or reprocessing the spent fuel rods. They're using a new process to fission U238 directly, using steam as a moderator to control the speed of neutrons so they'll split the atoms.
I got mine last week, Athlon XP 2000+, 512 MB PC2700 (although it only works at 2100 since the mobo doesn't support DDR333), Samsung combo drive, MSI Geforce 4 Ti 4200 128MB, 40 GB 7200 rpm HD.
:(
Unfortunately, I'm having a sporadic problem with black screen/lock ups in 3D games. UT2003 only does it once in a while, but Earth & Beyond just isn't playable, within a minute, instant black screen, computer is frozen.
OS is Win2K Pro, SP 3. All the updates installed. Got the latest Via 4 in 1 drivers direct from viatech.com, tried both Nvidia 40.72 and 30.11 drivers. Shuttle doesn't have an update for the BIOS yet, and neither does MSI for the VGA BIOS.
I've tried setting AGP to 2x instead of 4x, no change, Read/Write WS off and on, and even tried lowering the video RAM and GPU speed with MSI's driver.
I know the video card is good, it worked fine in my old system (MSI Turbo2.)
Help?
Hmmm...all I get there is a generic Network Solutions registered domain page. A whois brings up this little tidbit:
Technical Contact:
Administrator, Internet DNS (JC15245)
opsmgr@BELLATLANTIC.COM
Verizon
Arch Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103
1-800-621-9900 (FAX) 215-567-0652
Kinda looks like Verizon bought the domain huh? No more dissent from the masses. Figures. Stupid megatelcos.
This is mentioned in this biography of Sagan. He was working for the RAND Corporation at the time. RAND (Research and Development) was a military think tank. This was a period when the only way to get research money was from the government/military, and besides it was your patriotic duty.
However, Sagan began to disagree with the military during the '60's with the whole Vietnam thing, and he stopped working for them. (Although I believe the book said he still had some ties to RAND...)
I think everyone should read the book, even if you're not a fan of Carl Sagan.
(geez!! Had to wait 5 minutes before this reply form came up....what gives??)
Don't get your hopes up, folks...this HAS to be an early April Fool's Day joke.
Anyway, I Am Not A Physicist (IANAP), but I've read in many science magazines and books, not to mention seen on TV documentaries, that any kind of faster than light communciation or travel is strictly impossible. Has to do with causality.
There are some fantastic theories floating around about how do do these things, but they require exotic things like antigravity or negative energy, which I gather aren't strictly disallowed by modern physical theory, but then again, may just be mathematical oddities that happen to work with our equations and don't actually have any reality.
I seem to remember reading that wormholes would require antigravity and negative energy to stay open...plus wormholes are smaller than the diameter of atoms, which I believe precludes their use as channels of communication.
I love Star Trek, but we aren't there yet.
When Escape Velocity came out, I thought I was in love. Here was a game *I* would have made, if I were a programmer. But there was something missing....3D texture mapped graphics!!! Now that I think about...anyone remember Starglider 2 for the Amiga? THAT game kicked ass!! I'd just like to be able to use these 3D accelerator cards for something other than mindless killing sprees. I'm sick of those games. My head feels numb for hours after playing them! Just imagine being able to explore a 3D galaxy, visit planets, and be able to engage in lucrative commerce, join a starfleet, or be a rogue pirate swooping down on unexpecting merchant fleets... Gotta get those credits for that whiz bang particle accelerator cannon somehow! 8^) Something of a cross between Escape Velocity and Star Control but with 3D would be my ultimate game....only wish I knew how to do it myself.