At some point it has to come out analog... can we all say mic in front of a speaker? Hey it is all just 0's and 1's, get them in the right order and shazam! no copy protection.
My mom has said she would never tell me I have too much time on my hands ever again...
I wonder if they will pipe in 'Crazy Train' by Ozzy or 'Slip slidin' away'???
I'm guessin' the snow grooming machine is going to resemble a giant record player arm that starts at the edge and works i's way in... unless they go high tech and then it will have to be a lazer device that starts at the centre and moves to the edge...
this brings up another question... will the RIAA nail you for copyright infringement if your skiis make any sound?
you can always club your opponent to death with the keyboard... I wonder how many Hit Ponts( showing my age) you would lose if you got hit with one of these things. I wonder if this is a pre-cursor to input devices for wearable computers. Well if all else fails, and the games suck, you can strap a couple of trucks onto the thing and use it as a skate board for a PS2 game.
Peer-to-peer is useful where "the goods you're trying to get at lie at many endpoints; in other words, where the value of information lies in the contributions of many users rather than the authority of one." It's obvious that this could be valuable in research and some kinds of business development. But the book offers precious few examples of the kind of information that might be valuable in that way to large numbers of people. (from 'does peer to peer suck')
The interesting challenge will be to see if we can provide a similar program for smaller companies and home users that offers the same customer benefits of license simplicity and paying for the services that you use. In some ways it is much like the system most phone or cable companies use today. Pay a monthly fee to subscribe to a set number of features. There is no reason why you can't do this with software and associated services. (from ' Widows exec DougMiller Responds')
Does anyone want to comment on how, or if your Linux system would search the Net for the correct drivers etc... for your hardware set up and automatically 'get the goods'... perhaps on a fee basis, rather than having to do it yourself in a complex techie setup, or by being stuck with a distro, ie redhat etc?
hey it's simple, if the recording industry doesn't want us to have the ability to record and copy cd quality music then then they should start making records again or perhaps 8 tracks... I guess then all we would have would be analog recordings. Oh well jus my 2 cents worth.
I never said a chile was a tumor, just that the foetus is... at least until it can survive on it's own without the mother or the support of medical attention.
A great push will be made which will right away develop into cars that drive themselves. The push will be fulled by the fact that grown adults are too damn stupid to 'stay between the lines and not kill anybody'. Because human error will be taken out of the picture, speed limits will increase to about double what they are now (can't get it too fast or the cars physically won't be able to handle turns, bumps, potholes, etc).
Reminds me of a commercial here... "Car, Start... Car, To the airport, I 75... Car, hey wait for me...CAAAAAAARRRRRRR......"
The world will standardize on GMT time and no more timezones/daylight savings time.
Didn't Swatch try this one?
The budget of the US government will become public record. Every citizen will have the right to see every 500$ toilet seat and can ask for justification. Also, even penny of income to a public offical will be public record. This single measure will nutralize so much of the corruption among public officals you can't imagine.
And the government will spend $1000 satisfying each public request to find out where the money was spent.
Abortion will be outlawed, I don'tt say this as a hopeful advocate, but as someone who sees it's blatant condradiction with the right of life (you an have an abortion but only after a it is convicted of a murder and sentenced to death).
The dark ages will end and women will have the right to choose what they do with their bodies and the tumor growing within which was planted by some tool with a tool.
The phone company will disintegrate, each house will have fiber-optics going to and from at least 3 surrounding homes, this serves as an outlet so every home can connect, and redundancy just in case one of the lines goes down. There will thus be no internet backbone as the lines make up the web. Our phones will be internet appliances, when someone wants to call you, they need your phone's IP address and your public-key.
Criminal cases will no longer be subject to jury decision, a panel of judges will decide. These judge's actions will be as public as the voting record of congress and judges will be prosecuted when they make a bad decision (i.e. O.J. would finally get a fair trial, and if not, the judges would face the music)
You know anyone who would be interested in information at a cost when someone will likely steal it and post it for free... If we can't get a handle on mp3's how will we get one on vaporwrite?
Won't it be fun when someone figures a way to hack them using nothing more than their own barcode scanner... I'm sure all this Cue Cat hacking will come in handy here... Just think, put one of your own home made bar codes on a purchase, and when it is scanned 10% is taken off the sub-total.
With the comming of photo quality printers for every home, distribution of these barcode images would proliferate like, ummmm, MP3's...
Now if only we can convince the Home Depot to carry computer parts we will all be happy...
On another note with the Home Depot... I just got a call from my lawer telling me that The Home Depot has settled out of court with me for a whopping $1500 to compensate me for the broken finger one of their employees was kind enough to give me.
All this aside, I would imagine that having Linux on their cash registers would be a first step towards the Linuxing of all their computer systems... I guess this could allow them to change prices on the fly... Someone updates the cost of a hammer in Tulsa and across the Home Depot network, the increase ( or less likely the decrease) in price is instantly updated on all their cash registers...
Of course, I will want to get my hands on one of these Linux cash registers because I need one that can preform complex boolian operations, to sort out the tax structure here in Canada, as well as keep me entertained through a full T1 internet connection.
Who'd a thunk selling screws could be so complex... Will we now have to refer to the Home Depot cashiers as Cashflow System Operators?... Hmmm CSO has a nice ring to it...
you sorry pathetic little loser.
brilliant... absolutely briliant... nothing intelegent to say so you revert to personal attacks...
vulgarity is the crutch of the ignorant.
One thing you should remember... prevention is the best medicine.
Dude... We all did that one the day garage door openers got remotes... But what is real fun is when you can capture the channel frequency from someones built in car remote and change it on the fly effectively locking them out of their own garage.
If I read this Carnivor thing right then, the US government will have what amounts to opening your snail mail and reading it, but in electronic form... I would imagine their logic behind this is that if you turn something into 0's and 1's and send it over the net then you didn't really want it safe from prying eyes... I wonder if anyone knows a lawer who could turn this into a coup against the privacy and copyright issues surrounding MP3's? hmmmmmmm... given a bit more thought and time this might be do-able.
I hate to flame but, people like you are the reason that we are in the shit hole situation we are in now... you sit around with your heads in the sand saying that there is no 'evidence' 'we don't have a 'computational model'' or 'there are bigger problems like world hunger'... which by the way has nothing to do with the ozone other than the fact that if we have no ozone world hunger won't be a problem as THERE WON'T BE ANYONE AROUND TO EAT... Has it ever occured to you Mr. I got bigger things to centre my life around that have dollar signs in front of them that we are all part of a cycle and as much as you want to believe that in your pathetic paultry 65 year life span nothing you do or say is going to change the fact that once you are dead and gone and long turned to dust your sorry ass will have long ago turned into ozone, fertilizer and probably gotten well sun burnt on the way due to your misconception that if we hide our collective heads in the sand the world will fix it's self and all the bad will go away... just one question though... did you have monsters under your bed when you were a child? do you still? at this point I would like to end my rant and apologise to the rest of the/.ers, oh and yes I could have mod'd this one to the grave but chose to respond.
How about if it atomatically accessed a personal database and filled in all the birthdays of friends and family that i forget about each year? It might be nice if it could remind me to take my pill.
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At some point it has to come out analog... can we all say mic in front of a speaker? Hey it is all just 0's and 1's, get them in the right order and shazam! no copy protection.
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My mom has said she would never tell me I have too much time on my hands ever again...
I wonder if they will pipe in 'Crazy Train' by Ozzy or 'Slip slidin' away'???
I'm guessin' the snow grooming machine is going to resemble a giant record player arm that starts at the edge and works i's way in... unless they go high tech and then it will have to be a lazer device that starts at the centre and moves to the edge...
this brings up another question... will the RIAA nail you for copyright infringement if your skiis make any sound?
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panasonic has a toughbook pad. it is a bit short on memory, HD space and peripheral xpansion, but it is a step in the right direction.
IBM has an interesting scratch pad sub notebook.
Unfortunately both of them are above the $4000 price.
I hope we see the price come down on them.
you can always club your opponent to death with the keyboard... I wonder how many Hit Ponts( showing my age) you would lose if you got hit with one of these things.
I wonder if this is a pre-cursor to input devices for wearable computers.
Well if all else fails, and the games suck, you can strap a couple of trucks onto the thing and use it as a skate board for a PS2 game.
It would be interesting to see how these
languages could be used as pieces to a puzzle.
now that they are all wearing blue, how are we going to tell who is going to die each episode?
I work for myself...
nurf sed.
Peer-to-peer is useful where "the goods you're trying to get at lie at many endpoints; in other words, where the value of information lies in the contributions of many users rather than the authority of one." It's obvious that this could be valuable in research and some kinds of business development. But the book offers precious few examples of the kind of information that might be valuable in that way to large numbers of people. (from 'does peer to peer suck')
The interesting challenge will be to see if we can provide a similar program for smaller companies and home users that offers the same customer benefits of license simplicity and paying for the services that you use. In some ways it is much like the system most phone or cable companies use today. Pay a monthly fee to subscribe to a set number of features. There is no reason why you can't do this with software and associated services. (from ' Widows exec DougMiller Responds')
Does anyone want to comment on how, or if your Linux system would search the Net for the correct drivers etc... for your hardware set up and automatically 'get the goods'... perhaps on a fee basis, rather than having to do it yourself in a complex techie setup, or by being stuck with a distro, ie redhat etc?
hey it's simple, if the recording industry doesn't want us to have the ability to record and copy cd quality music then then they should start making records again or perhaps 8 tracks... I guess then all we would have would be analog recordings. Oh well jus my 2 cents worth.
and to think that the Road Runner was taken off TV... How pathetic.
I'm thinkin' replacement eye... hmmmm
I never said a chile was a tumor, just that the foetus is... at least until it can survive on it's own without the mother or the support of medical attention.
A great push will be made which will right away develop into cars that drive themselves. The push will be fulled by the fact that grown adults are too damn stupid to 'stay between the lines and not kill anybody'. Because human error will be taken out of the picture, speed limits will increase to about double what they are now (can't get it too fast or the cars physically won't be able to handle turns, bumps, potholes, etc).
Reminds me of a commercial here... "Car, Start... Car, To the airport, I 75... Car, hey wait for me...CAAAAAAARRRRRRR......"
The world will standardize on GMT time and no more timezones/daylight savings time.
Didn't Swatch try this one?
The budget of the US government will become public record. Every citizen will have the right to see every 500$ toilet seat and can ask for justification. Also, even penny of income to a public offical will be public record. This single measure will nutralize so much of the corruption among public officals you can't imagine.
And the government will spend $1000 satisfying each public request to find out where the money was spent.
Abortion will be outlawed, I don'tt say this as a hopeful advocate, but as someone who sees it's blatant condradiction with the right of life (you an have an abortion but only after a it is convicted of a murder and sentenced to death).
The dark ages will end and women will have the right to choose what they do with their bodies and the tumor growing within which was planted by some tool with a tool.
The phone company will disintegrate, each house will have fiber-optics going to and from at least 3 surrounding homes, this serves as an outlet so every home can connect, and redundancy just in case one of the lines goes down. There will thus be no internet backbone as the lines make up the web. Our phones will be internet appliances, when someone wants to call you, they need your phone's IP address and your public-key.
Criminal cases will no longer be subject to jury decision, a panel of judges will decide. These judge's actions will be as public as the voting record of congress and judges will be prosecuted when they make a bad decision (i.e. O.J. would finally get a fair trial, and if not, the judges would face the music)
can see these happening...
there is breakforce and ignorance in this.
You know anyone who would be interested in information at a cost when someone will likely steal it and post it for free... If we can't get a handle on mp3's how will we get one on vaporwrite?
Won't it be fun when someone figures a way to hack them using nothing more than their own barcode scanner... I'm sure all this Cue Cat hacking will come in handy here... Just think, put one of your own home made bar codes on a purchase, and when it is scanned 10% is taken off the sub-total.
With the comming of photo quality printers for every home, distribution of these barcode images would proliferate like, ummmm, MP3's...
Now if only we can convince the Home Depot to carry computer parts we will all be happy...
On another note with the Home Depot... I just got a call from my lawer telling me that The Home Depot has settled out of court with me for a whopping $1500 to compensate me for the broken finger one of their employees was kind enough to give me.
All this aside, I would imagine that having Linux on their cash registers would be a first step towards the Linuxing of all their computer systems... I guess this could allow them to change prices on the fly... Someone updates the cost of a hammer in Tulsa and across the Home Depot network, the increase ( or less likely the decrease) in price is instantly updated on all their cash registers...
Of course, I will want to get my hands on one of these Linux cash registers because I need one that can preform complex boolian operations, to sort out the tax structure here in Canada, as well as keep me entertained through a full T1 internet connection.
Who'd a thunk selling screws could be so complex... Will we now have to refer to the Home Depot cashiers as Cashflow System Operators?...
Hmmm CSO has a nice ring to it...
you sorry pathetic little loser.
brilliant... absolutely briliant... nothing intelegent to say so you revert to personal attacks...
vulgarity is the crutch of the ignorant.
One thing you should remember... prevention is the best medicine.
Dude... We all did that one the day garage door openers got remotes... But what is real fun is when you can capture the channel frequency from someones built in car remote and change it on the fly effectively locking them out of their own garage.
If I read this Carnivor thing right then, the US government will have what amounts to opening your snail mail and reading it, but in electronic form... I would imagine their logic behind this is that if you turn something into 0's and 1's and send it over the net then you didn't really want it safe from prying eyes... I wonder if anyone knows a lawer who could turn this into a coup against the privacy and copyright issues surrounding MP3's? hmmmmmmm... given a bit more thought and time this might be do-able.
I hate to flame but, people like you are the reason that we are in the shit hole situation we are in now... you sit around with your heads in the sand saying that there is no 'evidence' 'we don't have a 'computational model'' or 'there are bigger problems like world hunger'... which by the way has nothing to do with the ozone other than the fact that if we have no ozone world hunger won't be a problem as THERE WON'T BE ANYONE AROUND TO EAT... Has it ever occured to you Mr. I got bigger things to centre my life around that have dollar signs in front of them that we are all part of a cycle and as much as you want to believe that in your pathetic paultry 65 year life span nothing you do or say is going to change the fact that once you are dead and gone and long turned to dust your sorry ass will have long ago turned into ozone, fertilizer and probably gotten well sun burnt on the way due to your misconception that if we hide our collective heads in the sand the world will fix it's self and all the bad will go away... just one question though... did you have monsters under your bed when you were a child? do you still? at this point I would like to end my rant and apologise to the rest of the /.ers, oh and yes I could have mod'd this one to the grave but chose to respond.
all the hooplah, all the supposition, all for naught... give it a year and it'll all be forgot for the 128 bit, 256 bit 512 bit more.
oh hell, let's all just use Pig Latin from now on...
Calico cats are always female too.
How about if it atomatically accessed a personal database and filled in all the birthdays of friends and family that i forget about each year? It might be nice if it could remind me to take my pill.
I'll be impressed when they teach it how to ride a bicycle.