...the manditory 'Beowolf it!' post... let's see...a bunch of those things...networked together running a cluster...i could fit a supercomputer in my messenger bag...
This guy sounded a bit arrogant himself. He's prolly only upset because if the library did digitize it's books, he'd be outta work. In his ideals world, everyone who is a free thinker would be punished. Everyone would though 'Neuromancer' superior to 'Romeo and Juliet' would be pushed off a cliff. It sounds like Communist China, or public hish school...
If this works how long will it take me to whip up something real interesting... I can see it now...but you'll can't, half of yas is underage... *bad cowboy grammar intentional* this is what happens when I try to think with too much blood in my caffiene stream.
They'll be nanoing someone and then, due to their inability to convert metric to standard measurement will cause them to put the legs down and the engine will cut off, thinking it had landed. Then the stupid thing will crash into something pretty fragile and kill the patient. --That's why I recomend they test it on Bill Gates. Valar
As far as the Europeans, I was referring to commercial space lift (launching satilites/experiments for a reasonable fee), which they use to fund their research. It was half-joking anyway...NASA really hasn't made much in the way of progress since the first shuttle...It's kind of sad...It seems that the advance in technology in or collective culture as taken a backseat, and now the focus is on political dances. I geuss it takes a cold war to keep a program like this moving. Valar
To give you an idea, the way they have it set up would hold more resimblance to RAM access times than hardrive access times, because it is a truly magnetic storage device with no mechanical parts.
This has lots of potential, if the funding survives well into a production cycle. We probably won't see it outside of a lab for another couple of year though. But think, the best application wouldn't be in 3.5" drives and personal computers, it would be in very small devices, where little or no power and infastructure could be placed. I'm thinking in terms of brain-chip type nanotechnology. An entire career or martial art or even programed expirences(trully interactive movies!!!) could be programed on a tiny chip and feed through the nervous system. Of course this would require much more advanced technology (like identifying electrical charges headed for the brain), but now we have the storage capability and the other technology can't be more than 20 years away.
Just a sec. The header on the main page says 'this would be illegal if they did it to adults' or something like that. Who says it's not unconstitutional to do it to kids. NO WHERE in the constitution does it says that minors have different rights than adults(exceptions : voting and serving in the army). All that crock your teachers they you about not haveing rights until you are 18, is a lie they use to control you! I have read the entire constitution that they can take basic rights from minors. If that was true, girls under 18 would still be their father's property and blacks under 18 could stilll be unslaved, minors held without charges until they were 18 etc... So remember it. Protest what you don't agree with. Sue if you can afford it (or if your parents are lawyers....you can even act as your own lawyer if legally ruled competent). They can't do anything about it. Enough oppression of the last true minorities in the melting pot of America. Geeks and children. Valar
In my opinion, in Congress doesn't wannna pay for them, they shouldn't let Congress pay for them. They should detatch from the gov't, and form a private company. Then they can get a website where ppl can pay (a lot) to send their stuff into space (messages, open source communication sattilites, small rocks, children). Then they go public, and have hotter IPO value than eBay did. Funding problems over. That's how the Europeans do it, if I'm not mistaken ( though I don't think they have a website). Valar
I can't help but notice that this is a good time for a release. Windows 2000 has just been released, but isn't living up to reliability expectations (I hear it's blue screening left and right). However, a new, more stable Linux (an OS with a knack for reliability already) is being released with a new, more diversified, line of server software in the distribution(as always). Windows 2000 is also incompatable with lots of older programs (DOS legacy problems due to it's NT roots), and upgrades are looking extremely costly. And with that lawsuit hanging over their heads, this is trouble for Microsoft...though not the end by a long shot. They will just cling onto the client end of client-server...
If MI5 is anything like I bet they are as far as security goes, the drive controller has onboard encryption (so the drive isn't readable by any other machine), multiple passwords that change daily, and a virus set to go off if the compueter stays unconnected to the MI5 network for more than, say, 24 hours. It's just a geuss though.... Lubarsky's Rule of Cybernetic Entomology-- "There's always one more bug."
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I think it's trying to be a swiss army pc... speaking of swiss army... It's nifty! I promise!
...the manditory 'Beowolf it!' post...
let's see...a bunch of those things...networked together running a cluster...i could fit a supercomputer in my messenger bag...
This guy sounded a bit arrogant himself.
He's prolly only upset because if the library did digitize it's books, he'd be outta work.
In his ideals world, everyone who is a free thinker would be punished. Everyone would though 'Neuromancer' superior to 'Romeo and Juliet' would be pushed off a cliff. It sounds like Communist China, or public hish school...
Ahh...the commonly thrown around technical term...floating point...a.k.a. big long decimal number crunching... :)
If this works how long will it take me to whip up something real interesting... I can see it now...but you'll can't, half of yas is underage... *bad cowboy grammar intentional* this is what happens when I try to think with too much blood in my caffiene stream.
and tin foil hats keep the radation away.
They'll be nanoing someone and then, due to their inability to convert metric to standard measurement will cause them to put the legs down and the engine will cut off, thinking it had landed. Then the stupid thing will crash into something pretty fragile and kill the patient.
--That's why I recomend they test it on Bill Gates.
Valar
As far as the Europeans, I was referring to commercial space lift (launching satilites/experiments for a reasonable fee), which they use to fund their research. It was half-joking anyway...NASA really hasn't made much in the way of progress since the first shuttle...It's kind of sad...It seems that the advance in technology in or collective culture as taken a backseat, and now the focus is on political dances. I geuss it takes a cold war to keep a program like this moving. Valar
To give you an idea, the way they have it set up would hold more resimblance to RAM access times than hardrive access times, because it is a truly magnetic storage device with no mechanical parts.
This has lots of potential, if the funding survives well into a production cycle. We probably won't see it outside of a lab for another couple of year though. But think, the best application wouldn't be in 3.5" drives and personal computers, it would be in very small devices, where little or no power and infastructure could be placed. I'm thinking in terms of brain-chip type nanotechnology. An entire career or martial art or even programed expirences(trully interactive movies!!!) could be programed on a tiny chip and feed through the nervous system. Of course this would require much more advanced technology (like identifying electrical charges headed for the brain), but now we have the storage capability and the other technology can't be more than 20 years away.
Just a sec. The header on the main page says 'this would be illegal if they did it to adults' or something like that. Who says it's not unconstitutional to do it to kids. NO WHERE in the constitution does it says that minors have different rights than adults(exceptions : voting and serving in the army). All that crock your teachers they you about not haveing rights until you are 18, is a lie they use to control you! I have read the entire constitution that they can take basic rights from minors. If that was true, girls under 18 would still be their father's property and blacks under 18 could stilll be unslaved, minors held without charges until they were 18 etc... So remember it. Protest what you don't agree with. Sue if you can afford it (or if your parents are lawyers....you can even act as your own lawyer if legally ruled competent). They can't do anything about it. Enough oppression of the last true minorities in the melting pot of America. Geeks and children.
Valar
In my opinion, in Congress doesn't wannna pay for them, they shouldn't let Congress pay for them. They should detatch from the gov't, and form a private company. Then they can get a website where ppl can pay (a lot) to send their stuff into space (messages, open source communication sattilites, small rocks, children). Then they go public, and have hotter IPO value than eBay did. Funding problems over. That's how the Europeans do it, if I'm not mistaken ( though I don't think they have a website).
Valar
I can't help but notice that this is a good time for a release. Windows 2000 has just been released, but isn't living up to reliability expectations (I hear it's blue screening left and right). However, a new, more stable Linux (an OS with a knack for reliability already) is being released with a new, more diversified, line of server software in the distribution(as always). Windows 2000 is also incompatable with lots of older programs (DOS legacy problems due to it's NT roots), and upgrades are looking extremely costly. And with that lawsuit hanging over their heads, this is trouble for Microsoft...though not the end by a long shot. They will just cling onto the client end of client-server...
Valar
If MI5 is anything like I bet they are as far as security goes, the drive controller has onboard encryption (so the drive isn't readable by any other machine), multiple passwords that change daily, and a virus set to go off if the compueter stays unconnected to the MI5 network for more than, say, 24 hours. It's just a geuss though.... Lubarsky's Rule of Cybernetic Entomology-- "There's always one more bug."