Not to nit pick your view (which I appreciate hearing) but I've heard that many of those street vendors are selling "perfect forgeries" of real software cheap. Meaning that it has been pirated and pirated so well that you can't tell. The software works, sure, but its been manufactured illegally. (Like fake the Rolex you might buy on the streets of any major city in America)
This is precisely why I'm glad I know how to fish, start a fire without matches, and otherwise generally survive in the wild.
Imagine if you will your world with no electronic devices. Not a lack of electricity, just a lack of devices that are working currently. No computers, no internet, no car, no stop lights, no elevators, no microwave ovens, no pizza deliver, nothing that requires electronic components.
Could you live in that world were you suddenly thrown into it?
The super market wouldn't have food for very long and of course everyone instantly becomes a looter.
Luckily buildings would still be standing. But could you heat and cool your home?
I imagine that this will have lots of uses in the real world at some point.
I was able to download and watch one of the movies and he's done a really impressive implementation. Sure, right now he has a backpack full of equipment, but I imagine that technology for personal space location of equipment will come down in size, price, and battery power pretty quickly.
Why should I give you any money to reward you for your crimes? You've given a bad name to the term "Hacker", why should anyone in the legitimate technology community respect you or even give you a second chance?
In Virginia you go to a desk and you check in. They check off that you have checked in and they give you a ballot card. These cards are then taken to another line (in the same room, usually a gymnasium of a school) and when you get to the front they let you into a voting booth when you present them the card.
You vote "electronically" by pressing in a box next to the choice that you make. Your choice is illuminated by an LED from behind and recorded in a computer as well as on a printed piece of paper from the machine (for redundancy and accuracy).
Now then, the ballot cards are reused. All they are is a "hall pass" or "permission slip" to let you into the machine. They are not placed into the machine or anything. They are just a blue rectangle of paper with no identifying marks.
And there is nothing saying that you cannot wear gloves or push the buttons with your knuckles.
I have about 15 gigs of MP3s that I've ripped from about 250+ CDs.
They all sit in a share directory on my machine in my office.
They all sit in a share directory on my machine in my basement as well.
This is because my machine upstairs is where I rip and the machine downstairs is where I play them all throughout the house.
Now then... I know I am not infected because I don't download MP3s or have any P2P network software on my machines. But if I were infected due to, for example, one legal download, then they would see that I have all of this data on shared network folders.
Imagine that your state requires you to carry a drivers license that has an RFID chip in it that returns your SSN when it is scanned by the police from a nearby police car.
I don't think that that technology is too far fetched.
While drivers licenses might be a bit tough for people to swallow, imagine requiring them in all US passports? Then customs/immigration would be able to track anyone while they were inside of the designated security zones inside of airports. Great for tracking terrorists!
Anyone want to patent this to keep it from ever being used?
If you have two exhaust fans, the ideal solution would be to install two ventilation systems. If you only want to install one, install it on the power supply fan, this generates the most heat.
You mean, they don't have an option to hook two hoses up to one hole in the wall? Seems like they just want to prey on their customers and stupid people. But I repeat myself.
...The FBI today announced that before raiding any houses they will use a new anti-gun device called an EMP pulse that will effectively disable all electronics including the chips that allow so called "Smart Guns" to fire only in the presence of their owner.
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Actually this is accomplished by tilting you backwards a bit.
Try this: Close your eyes and lean back in your chair. This generates a force on your back that could, when combined with other visual and audio inputs, be confused by your brain into being acceleration. That part of it I didn't have complaints about. Altough the acceleration does need to be smooth... it won't simulate the aircraft carrier type spring loaded launches that lots of rollercoasters do today.
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... I know... Disney is evil.
But Downtown Disney (Orlando, FL) has a huge arcade with a RollerCoaster simulator in it that I rode.
It was lots of fun, especially since you got to build your own roller coaster and then ride it...
But it wasn't perfect to be sure. Real rollercoasters have wind and that is the one main thing that this was missing.
Tablet PC. I think I would like to get one and hang it on a wall. Then I could put pictures on it (in a screen saver like mode) and it will be plugged in so that battery life isn't important.
Then when I need to control my MP3 Jukebox I can simply walk up to the "picture" and access my MP3 Jukebox (which I can control remotely) and request a new song.
....As if the free AOL icons on the screen weren't enough... now is the paperclip going to pop up and say "You haven't been force fed pop music lately. Would you like me to play something by Brittney Spears?"
Music = marketing and product all in one. The more you listen to music the more you either like it or hate it. If you like it you'll buy more, if you hate it you'll suffer through it or turn it off.
Now the music companies are going to put their marketing materials (free?? music) on the computers to further entrench themselves.
Well, the balls of rice that the girl on the right are holding should definitely be white.
My question though is "are the consumer's televisions" balanced correctly?
I was amazed when I got a the Avia video calibration disk at how much red was in my televisions by default. It seems that TV manufacturers make them more red by default so that display models will look good under store lighting. But when you get it home you don't look at it under store lighting and so you need to adjust things back to NTSC standards. (I can't speak for PAL, sorry Europe)
Anyway, movies from my DVDs look a lot better now that the color has been adjusted. Blacks are black, whites are whiter, and color balance is near perfect. My TV (57" Widescreen Sony) allows for multiple color settings as well. So I have one for Lights Out watching and one for when the lights are on in the room. Makes a big difference.
So what you're saying is that if I set up my Tivo to record a show and then I watch it once and the commercials 47,000 times that the show will suddenly become profitable and they'll split it off?;-)
... if you have this software running on a phone then if you are hearing impared you could get real time conversation with the other party without having to go through a human being.
I've spoken with a hearing impared person on a phone before through a TTY system and it is painfully slow. First you have to say your sentence and then they send it. Then the other end needs to read it, type in a response, and then send it at which point it is read back to you. Imagine having a conversation over an Instant Messenger except you're secretary was reading the screen and typing for you. (IM for the blind for example)
I agree that we need better voice to text and text to voice translation. That technology would give use better access for everyone. You could have "hearing" for the hearing impared (speech to text), "reading" for the vision impaired (text to speech), and you could even have "writing" for those with fine muscle control imparement or who are lacking the necessary limbs for various reasons.
But this is an interesting approach to solve one of the three problems.
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Not to nit pick your view (which I appreciate hearing) but I've heard that many of those street vendors are selling "perfect forgeries" of real software cheap. Meaning that it has been pirated and pirated so well that you can't tell. The software works, sure, but its been manufactured illegally. (Like fake the Rolex you might buy on the streets of any major city in America)
This is precisely why I'm glad I know how to fish, start a fire without matches, and otherwise generally survive in the wild.
Imagine if you will your world with no electronic devices. Not a lack of electricity, just a lack of devices that are working currently. No computers, no internet, no car, no stop lights, no elevators, no microwave ovens, no pizza deliver, nothing that requires electronic components.
Could you live in that world were you suddenly thrown into it?
The super market wouldn't have food for very long and of course everyone instantly becomes a looter.
Luckily buildings would still be standing. But could you heat and cool your home?
I imagine that this will have lots of uses in the real world at some point.
I was able to download and watch one of the movies and he's done a really impressive implementation. Sure, right now he has a backpack full of equipment, but I imagine that technology for personal space location of equipment will come down in size, price, and battery power pretty quickly.
Long live innovation!
Rhapsody, Prophecy, and Destiny Written by Elizabeth Haydon.
I've read the first one and I have the second and third and they are in my book queue.
Right now though I am working on reading Imajica by Clive Barker (also recommended) and I just finished re-reading Idoru by William Gibson.
Why should I give you any money to reward you for your crimes? You've given a bad name to the term "Hacker", why should anyone in the legitimate technology community respect you or even give you a second chance?
Not in Virginia
In Virginia you go to a desk and you check in. They check off that you have checked in and they give you a ballot card. These cards are then taken to another line (in the same room, usually a gymnasium of a school) and when you get to the front they let you into a voting booth when you present them the card.
You vote "electronically" by pressing in a box next to the choice that you make. Your choice is illuminated by an LED from behind and recorded in a computer as well as on a printed piece of paper from the machine (for redundancy and accuracy).
Now then, the ballot cards are reused. All they are is a "hall pass" or "permission slip" to let you into the machine. They are not placed into the machine or anything. They are just a blue rectangle of paper with no identifying marks.
And there is nothing saying that you cannot wear gloves or push the buttons with your knuckles.
Why should the music industry be able to poison the well?
Because there might be legitimate artists trying to use P2P as an avenue for spreading their popularity.
Let me ask you another question....
Why shouldn't a large motor car company be able to drive 10,000 cars on a highway at 5 miles an hour?
The net belongs to everyone. If you pay for bandwidth and someone is sending you junk in that bandwidth then they are stealing money from you.
Hey, has anyone ever written a worm that somehow benefits the "infected" systems by ... say... killing off other viruses?
Imagine a worm that installed an antivirus program....
could we call this an innoculation?
I have about 15 gigs of MP3s that I've ripped from about 250+ CDs.
They all sit in a share directory on my machine in my office.
They all sit in a share directory on my machine in my basement as well.
This is because my machine upstairs is where I rip and the machine downstairs is where I play them all throughout the house.
Now then... I know I am not infected because I don't download MP3s or have any P2P network software on my machines. But if I were infected due to, for example, one legal download, then they would see that I have all of this data on shared network folders.
So am I a criminal?
Imagine that your state requires you to carry a drivers license that has an RFID chip in it that returns your SSN when it is scanned by the police from a nearby police car.
I don't think that that technology is too far fetched.
While drivers licenses might be a bit tough for people to swallow, imagine requiring them in all US passports? Then customs/immigration would be able to track anyone while they were inside of the designated security zones inside of airports. Great for tracking terrorists!
Anyone want to patent this to keep it from ever being used?
What if I have two exhaust fans?
If you have two exhaust fans, the ideal solution would be to install two ventilation systems. If you only want to install one, install it on the power supply fan, this generates the most heat.
You mean, they don't have an option to hook two hoses up to one hole in the wall? Seems like they just want to prey on their customers and stupid people. But I repeat myself.
Dead Link? What the heck do we pay the slashdot editors for?
Of course we pay, there are ads, aren't there?
Of course that would be a sure way to slashdot the site....
well I hope they "win" the award. They've certainly gone out of their way to piss off many of the Internet's users.
Oh, and Merry Christmas everyone!
...The FBI today announced that before raiding any houses they will use a new anti-gun device called an EMP pulse that will effectively disable all electronics including the chips that allow so called "Smart Guns" to fire only in the presence of their owner.
Actually this is accomplished by tilting you backwards a bit.
Try this: Close your eyes and lean back in your chair. This generates a force on your back that could, when combined with other visual and audio inputs, be confused by your brain into being acceleration. That part of it I didn't have complaints about. Altough the acceleration does need to be smooth... it won't simulate the aircraft carrier type spring loaded launches that lots of rollercoasters do today.
... I know... Disney is evil.
But Downtown Disney (Orlando, FL) has a huge arcade with a RollerCoaster simulator in it that I rode.
It was lots of fun, especially since you got to build your own roller coaster and then ride it...
But it wasn't perfect to be sure. Real rollercoasters have wind and that is the one main thing that this was missing.
Sounds like a 5GL to me. C+++?
I think that if something like what you are describing where to be widely adopted there would have to be other benefits to it as well.
For example, easy to code, distributed software. Security would also be paramount there.
A friend of mine works for Mythic (Dark Ages of Camelot) and they rented a Theater for their employees and went at 8:00 EST this morning.
Amen!
(Though the keyboard/mouse/gesture thing does look cool....)
Tablet PC. I think I would like to get one and hang it on a wall. Then I could put pictures on it (in a screen saver like mode) and it will be plugged in so that battery life isn't important.
Then when I need to control my MP3 Jukebox I can simply walk up to the "picture" and access my MP3 Jukebox (which I can control remotely) and request a new song.
It would be like using a terminal in Star Trek!
....As if the free AOL icons on the screen weren't enough... now is the paperclip going to pop up and say "You haven't been force fed pop music lately. Would you like me to play something by Brittney Spears?"
Music = marketing and product all in one. The more you listen to music the more you either like it or hate it. If you like it you'll buy more, if you hate it you'll suffer through it or turn it off.
Now the music companies are going to put their marketing materials (free?? music) on the computers to further entrench themselves.
Well, the balls of rice that the girl on the right are holding should definitely be white.
My question though is "are the consumer's televisions" balanced correctly?
I was amazed when I got a the Avia video calibration disk at how much red was in my televisions by default. It seems that TV manufacturers make them more red by default so that display models will look good under store lighting. But when you get it home you don't look at it under store lighting and so you need to adjust things back to NTSC standards. (I can't speak for PAL, sorry Europe)
Anyway, movies from my DVDs look a lot better now that the color has been adjusted. Blacks are black, whites are whiter, and color balance is near perfect. My TV (57" Widescreen Sony) allows for multiple color settings as well. So I have one for Lights Out watching and one for when the lights are on in the room. Makes a big difference.
.. they found men were thinking mostly about sex and women about shoes....So that they could find a man to have sex with.
So what you're saying is that if I set up my Tivo to record a show and then I watch it once and the commercials 47,000 times that the show will suddenly become profitable and they'll split it off? ;-)
... if you have this software running on a phone then if you are hearing impared you could get real time conversation with the other party without having to go through a human being.
I've spoken with a hearing impared person on a phone before through a TTY system and it is painfully slow. First you have to say your sentence and then they send it. Then the other end needs to read it, type in a response, and then send it at which point it is read back to you. Imagine having a conversation over an Instant Messenger except you're secretary was reading the screen and typing for you. (IM for the blind for example)
I agree that we need better voice to text and text to voice translation. That technology would give use better access for everyone. You could have "hearing" for the hearing impared (speech to text), "reading" for the vision impaired (text to speech), and you could even have "writing" for those with fine muscle control imparement or who are lacking the necessary limbs for various reasons.
But this is an interesting approach to solve one of the three problems.