For the longest time Steven Hawking advocated the existence of white holes (so called for their inverse relation to black holes as dumping grounds of matter of which black holes feed). I wonder if there is a way to determine where exactly in hyperspace these could be traced to based on the location and growth rate of the black holes. Also isn't there a possible danger in having say the black hole in the center of our galaxy consume our own? Will the black hole evaporate before it destroys the galaxy?
Hmm are there any good references for beginning modern assembly language programming out there? Most of the stuff I see barely goes into 486+ instructions most of the time.
precent a procesor from using an instruction or ability if it's already in silicon? And if they don't actually do what they claim won't people drop them like a hot rock?
I think the best thing would be able to run any binary from any other processor with the same processor. Having never studied enough about ram electronics I can't comment on embeddibility but that might just be good for it too.
Hmm I seem to have a couple of 486 class chips around here somewhere... Also I really doubt you would need a dual processor to "help make porn render faster" unless you are getting an encrypted video stream via Poland or something.
Mobile computing has it's uses but I think the money would be better spent on something that dosn't force you to put all your eggs in one basket and perhaps offer a nice wireless network connection. All it takes is one little thief to ruin your dreams. Also unless I am very much mistaken laptops are very, very, very prone to breakage from various facets of handling thermal expansion/contraction as well as almost never being able to upgrade. Now if you have a choice of burning $5,000+ USD or buying one then pehraps...
Ok I'm all for nice improvements in laptop technology but when will desktop systems ever have one of these. I thought that the major selling points were that it could do code morphing and emulation and also allow for a very power efficient design (think overclocking). I just wish that I could get a really cheap desktop system with linux and run almost any binary I want to. The problem is that most laptops use LCD and other expensive technologies (relatively) compared to the machine that is sitting on my desk.
Well if this means this much to the world I assume that Sealand could get their own hired goombas to combat the ones that any country could get without it attracting attention.
Read the nyt article and you will find this there: To forestall some government alarm, Havenco has established an "acceptable use" policy banning its customers from using the service for sending the unsolicited bulk e-mail known as spam, mounting attacks on other computer systems or trafficking in child pornography.
Get a bunch heavily armed "terrorists" (agents from a military unit) and have them attack or perhaps place a nice little explosive charge on the base of the pillar. The resulting explosion would take out most of the area and then sink anythink that wasn't destroyed would sink in 25 feet of water.
It's already happening. Telecommunications networks are becomming more and more oriented towards the public like the phone networks are now. There comes a time where things are equal for all to use. Take the example of public sidewalks in cities. I can walk almost anywhere I want if there is a sidewalk I can walk while in posession of a big neon sign that says Fuck Bill Clinton, fuck America, and fuck religion if I prefer. Also if you have enough cash you could get a satellite launched and have it work via a wireless or shortwave network to prevent the evil government from doing bad things to you. Have it launched into geostationary orbit directly above Sealand and have an embedded webserver with maybe flashable rom or something to give updates to the comm protocol. That would make it almost bulletproof. As far as I know there isn't really any technology to demolish a satellite in orbit of the earth or we would have used it by now against other countries of the world.
So the work will be avaible to the rest of the world via the GPLed liscence and that dosn't change. Who in their right mind will go and try and sell a product for a cost when anyone can just go ahead and do it for free anywhere else. Also what happens if I decide to pirate someone's code that they stole from me and host in in Sealand? I guess you could do this ad infinitum and it might work. Also considering the reputaton this place will get who is going to buy software that automatically conjures up images of some scraggly pirate with a three cornered hat an eye patch a peg leg a hook and perhaps a bottle of rum and a couple of pirate wenches under each arm; that kind of picture will almost certainly get associated with this place.
Spain and their "invincible armada" got their asses kicked by British ships that were smaller and more agile. They lost. Looking at territorial acquisitions in history the people with the biggest guns and the most troops usually win hands down until someone bigger and tougher comes along or until the natives get restless.
I think that people are really not looking at the big picture. That your only in trouble if you get caught. That's what encryption is for. Guess what anything that is even remotely questionable is encrypted via gpg with a 4096 bit ELG key with a very long passphrase protecting the secret key. Now suppose that someone tried to seize the machine and try to take is as evidence well they are just screwed because the encryption is very good and so is the password. By the time they actually are able to bruteforce the password I will be long dead. What does this mean to anyone. Well this. You aren't going to be in as much trouble as you think. Suppose that given the most heanous example I can think of kiddie porn or murder. Now both of these acts are in and of themselves bad however if no one can prove that you did either it eliminates any ability to make the act punishable. Also consider this. How many people are actually in the business of independent software development and retail? I would fathom not many at all. Considering all the work that authors do to get even a simple novel or technical reference out under contract it would be almost impossible to actually get a liveable income off that. So what how is this place any different than Hong Kong or any other place that really dosn't give a shit. How about Russia and Eastern Europe ( a place I am at least familar with). In general almost no one cares about piracy. If you have something and you want to give it to another illegally the authority dosn't really care. Nothing has changed except it's now in a better and more observable light.
How is a almost difficult to impliment to use game periphrial making progress? I don't see how that makes for any good accomplishment to mankind or should win any award.
I recall that there are several nasty settings on federation weapons in the small hand variety that go from 1-8 the first 2 are the only non lethal settings that they have. Phaser rifles go up to 16 and can be set for a very nice wide dispersal pattern. Also those weapons are tame in comparison to all the other nasties that have weapons like magnetic disruptor technology that many of the other star trek universe's inhabitants have. Also even a clumsy bow and arrow or maybe an old fashioned Colt.45 would kill a Klingon before it even got close. The only people you are going to get are sick and defenseless scientists and even then it's not sure. Klingons are almost like various old time factions of the Soviet Union (check out the stricking similarities in ST:TOS between the USSR's communist regime and the Klingons quite appropriate). Their sense of "honor" overules their intellect.
Games that would require this type of intreface would be intensely CPU intensive I would also imagine that the problems associated with such things would also make gameplay a bitch. The real problem you have to think about is that is VR isn't practal for small computers without millions of dollars for a CAVE system or something similar.
Early in the history of man we figured out that fighting with swords in close range combat was a really stupid idea. That's why gunpowder the long bow and other inventions were worked out. I would have to point out that the only possible use a "light saber" type weapon would be for a Lucas Arts(tm) blessed game. Also most of these parephrials are not very useable to most other methods of interaction. Think of it this way. How do I determine that I am actually doing something workeable against a foe if I can't even see the enemy with all the twisting/turning/dodging that would be needed if I looked at the films correctly. About the only useful intreface was perhaps a laser or pulse weapon and a "gun" like thing for the original nintendo and the only game I ever remember that worked with that was that crummy game duck hunt. Oh well maybe there were a couple more but not many. Now if there were sensors and maybe a portable display to see exactly what they were doing then perhaps then but I don't see how that could work. Also scientifically creating such a weapon is almost an impossibility in and of itself. It appears to be a magnetically constricted length of dynamically generated plasma or something like that. Unfortunately to accurately contain a plasma I think you need a torrisonal shaped containment field or you start to leak superheated gas everywhere and considering that if would appear that it have a metal grip the weapon would provide a nice and toasty grip. Not exactly the kind of think that some militia individual would want. Now what would be slightly cool is if quake could be modified to allow for a real assortment of realistic looking weapons with recoil and perhaps a nice large field. Combine that with full battle armor and perhaps a nice holographic interface and death matches would be realistic and give a nice workout at the same time.
Usually the delivery mechanism is less harmful than the actual operation of a program so precisely what does it do and furthermore does the company still impliment it?
This is a problem with the actual scripting environment that is to blame. Attatchments hae been given a bad name because of the fact that people are forced to use an OS that is completely stupid when it comes to any security issues at all. I never fear opening up an attatchment in say Xemacs because I know that there is no way unless I specifically tell the app to run any code that any code will be run. Also you have to understand that there are Mac ports of various office apps from MS and last I checked Intel didn't fabricate the Machintosh processors.
Really one of the best things about linux is it's lack of any useful viruses at all. Essentially the problem with windows is that no matter what (well except some NT stuff but that's not perfect) is that the computer is usually sitting with a root prompt and total access 24/7/365 and it really dosn't have a chance to stop any malicious program without a lot of dancing.
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For the longest time Steven Hawking advocated the existence of white holes (so called for their inverse relation to black holes as dumping grounds of matter of which black holes feed). I wonder if there is a way to determine where exactly in hyperspace these could be traced to based on the location and growth rate of the black holes. Also isn't there a possible danger in having say the black hole in the center of our galaxy consume our own? Will the black hole evaporate before it destroys the galaxy?
Hmm are there any good references for beginning modern assembly language programming out there? Most of the stuff I see barely goes into 486+ instructions most of the time.
precent a procesor from using an instruction or ability if it's already in silicon? And if they don't actually do what they claim won't people drop them like a hot rock?
I think the best thing would be able to run any binary from any other processor with the same processor. Having never studied enough about ram electronics I can't comment on embeddibility but that might just be good for it too.
Hmm I seem to have a couple of 486 class chips around here somewhere... Also I really doubt you would need a dual processor to "help make porn render faster" unless you are getting an encrypted video stream via Poland or something.
Mobile computing has it's uses but I think the money would be better spent on something that dosn't force you to put all your eggs in one basket and perhaps offer a nice wireless network connection.
All it takes is one little thief to ruin your dreams.
Also unless I am very much mistaken laptops are very, very, very prone to breakage from various facets of handling thermal expansion/contraction as well as almost never being able to upgrade.
Now if you have a choice of burning $5,000+ USD or buying one then pehraps...
Ok I'm all for nice improvements in laptop technology but when will desktop systems ever have one of these. I thought that the major selling points were that it could do code morphing and emulation and also allow for a very power efficient design (think overclocking). I just wish that I could get a really cheap desktop system with linux and run almost any binary I want to. The problem is that most laptops use LCD and other expensive technologies (relatively) compared to the machine that is sitting on my desk.
I really don't completely understand the military protocols that are involved but I don't think an execution would be out of the question.
Well if this means this much to the world I assume that Sealand could get their own hired goombas to combat the ones that any country could get without it attracting attention.
Read the nyt article and you will find this there:
To forestall some government alarm, Havenco has established an
"acceptable use" policy banning its customers from using the
service for sending the unsolicited bulk e-mail known as spam,
mounting attacks on other computer systems or trafficking in child
pornography.
Get a bunch heavily armed "terrorists" (agents from a military unit) and have them attack or perhaps place a nice little explosive charge on the base of the pillar. The resulting explosion would take out most of the area and then sink anythink that wasn't destroyed would sink in 25 feet of water.
However, now that Havenco is setting
up a lucrative business, the UK might be more interested in taking
back the territory.
Dosn't the fact that Havenco is currently beyond the realm of legal jurisprudence of all countries keep it interesting and profitable?
The British Navy created them as floating islands and then sunk the pontoons causing them to sink 25ft to the bottom of the channel in that area.
It's already happening. Telecommunications networks are becomming more and more oriented towards the public like the phone networks are now. There comes a time where things are equal for all to use. Take the example of public sidewalks in cities. I can walk almost anywhere I want if there is a sidewalk I can walk while in posession of a big neon sign that says Fuck Bill Clinton, fuck America, and fuck religion if I prefer. Also if you have enough cash you could get a satellite launched and have it work via a wireless or shortwave network to prevent the evil government from doing bad things to you. Have it launched into geostationary orbit directly above Sealand and have an embedded webserver with maybe flashable rom or something to give updates to the comm protocol. That would make it almost bulletproof. As far as I know there isn't really any technology to demolish a satellite in orbit of the earth or we would have used it by now against other countries of the world.
So the work will be avaible to the rest of the world via the GPLed liscence and that dosn't change. Who in their right mind will go and try and sell a product for a cost when anyone can just go ahead and do it for free anywhere else. Also what happens if I decide to pirate someone's code that they stole from me and host in in Sealand? I guess you could do this ad infinitum and it might work. Also considering the reputaton this place will get who is going to buy software that automatically conjures up images of some scraggly pirate with a three cornered hat an eye patch a peg leg a hook and perhaps a bottle of rum and a couple of pirate wenches under each arm; that kind of picture will almost certainly get associated with this place.
Spain and their "invincible armada" got their asses kicked by British ships that were smaller and more agile. They lost. Looking at territorial acquisitions in history the people with the biggest guns and the most troops usually win hands down until someone bigger and tougher comes along or until the natives get restless.
I think that people are really not looking at the big picture. That your only in trouble if you get caught. That's what encryption is for. Guess what anything that is even remotely questionable is encrypted via gpg with a 4096 bit ELG key with a very long passphrase protecting the secret key. Now suppose that someone tried to seize the machine and try to take is as evidence well they are just screwed because the encryption is very good and so is the password. By the time they actually are able to bruteforce the password I will be long dead. What does this mean to anyone. Well this. You aren't going to be in as much trouble as you think. Suppose that given the most heanous example I can think of kiddie porn or murder. Now both of these acts are in and of themselves bad however if no one can prove that you did either it eliminates any ability to make the act punishable. Also consider this. How many people are actually in the business of independent software development and retail? I would fathom not many at all. Considering all the work that authors do to get even a simple novel or technical reference out under contract it would be almost impossible to actually get a liveable income off that. So what how is this place any different than Hong Kong or any other place that really dosn't give a shit. How about Russia and Eastern Europe ( a place I am at least familar with). In general almost no one cares about piracy. If you have something and you want to give it to another illegally the authority dosn't really care. Nothing has changed except it's now in a better and more observable light.
I would like to know.
How is a almost difficult to impliment to use game periphrial making progress? I don't see how that makes for any good accomplishment to mankind or should win any award.
I recall that there are several nasty settings on federation weapons in the small hand variety that go from 1-8 the first 2 are the only non lethal settings that they have. Phaser rifles go up to 16 and can be set for a very nice wide dispersal pattern. Also those weapons are tame in comparison to all the other nasties that have weapons like magnetic disruptor technology that many of the other star trek universe's inhabitants have. Also even a clumsy bow and arrow or maybe an old fashioned Colt .45 would kill a Klingon before it even got close. The only people you are going to get are sick and defenseless scientists and even then it's not sure. Klingons are almost like various old time factions of the Soviet Union (check out the stricking similarities in ST:TOS between the USSR's communist regime and the Klingons quite appropriate). Their sense of "honor" overules their intellect.
Games that would require this type of intreface would be intensely CPU intensive I would also imagine that the problems associated with such things would also make gameplay a bitch. The real problem you have to think about is that is VR isn't practal for small computers without millions of dollars for a CAVE system or something similar.
Early in the history of man we figured out that fighting with swords in close range combat was a really stupid idea. That's why gunpowder the long bow and other inventions were worked out. I would have to point out that the only possible use a "light saber" type weapon would be for a Lucas Arts(tm) blessed game. Also most of these parephrials are not very useable to most other methods of interaction. Think of it this way. How do I determine that I am actually doing something workeable against a foe if I can't even see the enemy with all the twisting/turning/dodging that would be needed if I looked at the films correctly. About the only useful intreface was perhaps a laser or pulse weapon and a "gun" like thing for the original nintendo and the only game I ever remember that worked with that was that crummy game duck hunt. Oh well maybe there were a couple more but not many. Now if there were sensors and maybe a portable display to see exactly what they were doing then perhaps then but I don't see how that could work. Also scientifically creating such a weapon is almost an impossibility in and of itself. It appears to be a magnetically constricted length of dynamically generated plasma or something like that. Unfortunately to accurately contain a plasma I think you need a torrisonal shaped containment field or you start to leak superheated gas everywhere and considering that if would appear that it have a metal grip the weapon would provide a nice and toasty grip. Not exactly the kind of think that some militia individual would want. Now what would be slightly cool is if quake could be modified to allow for a real assortment of realistic looking weapons with recoil and perhaps a nice large field. Combine that with full battle armor and perhaps a nice holographic interface and death matches would be realistic and give a nice workout at the same time.
Usually the delivery mechanism is less harmful than the actual operation of a program so precisely what does it do and furthermore does the company still impliment it?
This is a problem with the actual scripting environment that is to blame. Attatchments hae been given a bad name because of the fact that people are forced to use an OS that is completely stupid when it comes to any security issues at all. I never fear opening up an attatchment in say Xemacs because I know that there is no way unless I specifically tell the app to run any code that any code will be run. Also you have to understand that there are Mac ports of various office apps from MS and last I checked Intel didn't fabricate the Machintosh processors.
Really one of the best things about linux is it's lack of any useful viruses at all. Essentially the problem with windows is that no matter what (well except some NT stuff but that's not perfect) is that the computer is usually sitting with a root prompt and total access 24/7/365 and it really dosn't have a chance to stop any malicious program without a lot of dancing.