In order to gain a competitive edge, I have overclocked my Microsoft Intellimouse and my serial port. I find that with the overclocked UART, I get finer control over my mouse movements and can move the mouse faster and more accurately.
Of course I had to replace my hand with a Borg implant with a heatsink and cooling fan instead of a palm, but you should see my Frag Count!!!
when/. can mention a kernel has problems with a new piece of hardware and they have the next kernel out within ten hours! Even if the kernel really doesn't have problems with the hardware, and/. has done it's usual piss-poor job of reporting the facts in it's stories, to jumpstart kernel development like that. Here I thought/. just DDOSed websites.
Come on guys, use this power for good. Start saying that the P4 doesn't work with the 2.4 kernel, I want a kernel upgrade!
When/. can mention a kernel has problems with a new piece of hardware and they have the next kernel out within the hour! Even if the kernel really doesn't have problems with the hardware, and/. has done it's usual piss-poor job of reporting the facts in it's stories, to jumpstart kernel development like that. Here I thought/. just DOSed websites.
Come on guys, use this power for good. Start saying that the P4 doesn't work with the 2.4 kernel, I want a kernel upgrade!
Ahh, that brings back memories. Well, one memory at least.
Phantasy Star, no bloody II, III, or IV Just Phantasy Star on the original Sega Master System. Man that game was great. Three planets, tons of dungeons, you had to talk to virtually EVERYONE to get info you NEEDED! Explore every freakin INCH of every world and then do some quasi-dimensional-transport thing to beat the big bad villan, only the big bad villan wasn't the real big bad villan! Try as I might, I can't beat the Succubus no matter how long I wait before I go to the Governor the first time. That damn thing is TOUGH. A good mix of new characters and old favorites like Medusa. Good story too.
I still have that SMS and the cart around. I have it in a box in the attic and emulate the system and load a ROM for the game(in fact, that's the reason I downloaded an emulator and the ROM, because I wanted to play PS again, no other games, just PS). I'd love to be able to play some of my old favorites again without rummaging through garage sales or illegally downloading ROMs.
Sadly, I don't think it will happen. Why? It's not just the market and the consumer who have moved on, technology has as well. I found an old copy of S(pace)Q(uest) IV and loaded it up on my PII-450 and it's unplayable. The game is tied to system clock and while you're supposed to have a certain amount of time to hide before the bad guys come and shoot you, the time runs out before you can do anything. Yes, I know I could run a emulator for an older/slower machine and get this taken care of, but the average joe expects software to work out of the box. If he buys SQ as part of a collection of old games for a buck at the local bookstore and it doesn't work, he's going to want someone on the other end of the support line. Sure turning your old games back into a revenue sream sounds great, but would you get enough revenue to offset the support costs? I doubt it.
So Intel has a transistor which is three atoms thick. According to Moore's Law, within 18 months Intel will come out with a transistor 1.5 atoms thick. Hmm, I guess the portable atom smasher isn't very far away!
But seriously, I don't see why/. editors have to ruin a great advance like this one by linking it to Intel's financial troubles. What are you guys saying? Intel won't be around in 18 months to top this achievement? Or is it a "But you're still losing marketshare to AMD so Nyah!" kind of mentality? Advances in science are advances in science. Just because they were made by a company with profit in mind doesn't mean their scientific discoveries won't be shared.
Hmm, of course internal need for bandwidth would obviously take a higher precendence over external customers attempting to lease/buy Sprint bandwidth. I think every company is going to be in this crunch though in the very near future as wireless expands. Of course, other companies are free to build their own towers, that's the difference between the possibility of Sprint not sharing it's bandwidth and the Bells not opening the local loop. It's a lot easier to build new towers than it would be to set up telephone poles which parallel all of the Bell poles for each competitor. Imagine five poles side by side everywhere you see one today. Just not feasible. Of course people don't like towers in their backyards either, so we'll have to wait and see which way the wind blows.
I don't know. That's standard practice among most wireless providers and I wouldn't be suprised if Sprint would lease bandwidth to other companies, but if they don't I'd suspect it's due to incompatibilities more than stuffiness. Remember, PCS is a different technology than traditional wireless or even digital wireless. It may not be possible. I'm not privy to all that, but I do know from some recent meetings on Sprint's strategic goals for the near future that they intend to use wireless towers to get beyond the "last mile" problem.
Sprint has a couple advantages over the typical companies trying to get into the local loop. First, they're huge. Secondly, they have the ability to tell the local loop owners "Either open up your loop for us or we'll distribute wireless broadband modems and leverage our PCS network to put your ass completely out of business. We'd rather not take the bloody nose in extra costs it would take to implement this suggestion, but we will if you don't share. So play nice, K? Thks." That having been said, Sprint ION is a bundled service, local, long distance, and data over one line. I'm not sure, but I think the local is still handed off to the local telco and Sprint pays a access fee to run DSL over their lines like everyone else does but it works out as a better deal for both parties in the bundle. They're in quite a few cities, and expecting more soon.
The article basically says that since the Baby Bells (SBC and Verizon) own the physical "last mile" lines, they are keeping a stranglehold on the possibilities of competition for local service. These companies are still getting to enter the long-distance service buisness, which they weren't supposed to do until they opened up their lines to competitors, by sucking up to politicians.
How is Sprint facing this? Wireless. Screw the physical infrastructure of the last-mile lines. Sprint basically gave the baby Bells the finger and started building digital wireless towers everywhere they can. Pretty soon you'll be able to buy a wireless broadband modem and hit a PCS tower with a digital signal without touching a bit of Bell property. Since the wires are all owned by someone who won't share and has no interest in letting Sprint in, Sprint is doing what has been proven to work in markets where the physical infrastructure doesn't exist. Make it wireless.
So go to a local library with the source for your decryption software on a diskette and upload it onto Slashdot posted as an AC. The Library isn't tracking who accessed their system when and even if they could prove it's his code, they can't prove he distibuted it. Kind of like the loophole I heard about where it's not illegal to have drugs in your system, but just to posess them, so if you sniff the cocaine as the cops are beating on the door, they can't charge you for posession.
These tech support workers are overworked, underpaid, undertrained, and a step away from the funny farm. They write a story about it and you DOS their website.
With my plans of running plasma fiber lines to transmit super-light-speed particles, I'll run this company into the ground. Just imagine getting data before you actually request it. It boggles the mind.
Our only hurdle is to actually observe the super-light-speed particles. If anyone is really good at seeing really fast stuff, please, by all means, let me know.
Yes please! Let him know immediately! His VC funding is about to run out!
Oh who do I think I'm kidding. We all know that all you have to do is say things like "plasma fiber lines to transmit super-light-speed particles" and you'll have VC funding for as long as you want it.
Umm, Shoeboy. Whatever your name is. You forgot to post anonymously. Your karma could take a hit and if you're above fifty(since you have a low UID, I guess you could have gotten high karma before the kap went on) you'll have a hard time getting more karma.
You seem to be assuming(or at least the original author of the essay you karma-whoriffically summarized for us seemed to be assuming) that intelligent machines would have the same drives as humans. The assumption that a AI would _necessarially_ have the drive to subdue the natural world and attain the highest position on the food chain is a fallacy. Sentience does not equal "desire to dominate." It seems that since humans don't know their place, we logically(?) assume that an intelligent machine would loot the Earth's resources, plunder it's oceans and rape it's population. Get past it people.
The machines of the future may be agressive, but they may be as Asimov predicted and want nothing but to help and aid humans in any way they can. Most people assume machines will inherit human psychology. Don't.
The idea of objects being passed around by handles is the original concept for the Internet as espoused by Dr. Alan Kay. This is how he originally envisioned Object-Oriented information models. Now the Internet is being re-invented to change it from the simple collection of connection paths to a real highway where real self-contained objects can be passed around. This may be better, maybe not. I guess it depends on how it's implemented. If each object has to be accompanied by a slew of "helpers" to allow the recieving node to interpret it, this could get ugly. But if a single, open, method is used, this could be beautiful. Imagine a fully portable object going from platform to platform totally transparent to the user!
Of course, it'll have to compete with.NET and I just hope the geniuses who are behind this idea don't get mown down by Microsoft's marketing muscle.
3) it will not only be released for Windows, but also BeOS, Linux, and Windows, Dreamcast, PlayStation and Gameboy Color (although, with some sytems there will obviously be a loss of features)
Now that's not a very nice thing to say about Windows.;)
I don't know about you, but I'd rather refresh memory by sleeping than by getting an electric current run to each of my cells a few million times per second.
31337 H4X0R5?? You mean 5KR1P7 K1DD135? What the hell would some lame hacker-wannabe need with a multi-processor box? Do you believe they are at the forefront of technology? Leading the charge for newer and faster equipment?
I resent your implication that because I like to keep my desktop on the cutting edge of technology that that makes me either a 31337 H4X0R or not a "ligitimate user." Maybe I won't build a server farm out of dual processor Athalons, (until it's stability is proven at least) but your implication that "if the fortune 500 firms wouldn't use it, it's crap" really gets up my nose.
I see a lot of legitimate uses for this technology outside the server room. I've been running dual processor desktob systems at home for a while now. I've never been described, nor would I ever describe myself as 31337.
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In order to gain a competitive edge, I have overclocked my Microsoft Intellimouse and my serial port. I find that with the overclocked UART, I get finer control over my mouse movements and can move the mouse faster and more accurately.
Of course I had to replace my hand with a Borg implant with a heatsink and cooling fan instead of a palm, but you should see my Frag Count!!!
Steven
when /. can mention a kernel has problems with a new piece of hardware and they have the next kernel out within ten hours! Even if the kernel really doesn't have problems with the hardware, and /. has done it's usual piss-poor job of reporting the facts in it's stories, to jumpstart kernel development like that. Here I thought /. just DDOSed websites.
Come on guys, use this power for good. Start saying that the P4 doesn't work with the 2.4 kernel, I want a kernel upgrade!
Steven
When /. can mention a kernel has problems with a new piece of hardware and they have the next kernel out within the hour! Even if the kernel really doesn't have problems with the hardware, and /. has done it's usual piss-poor job of reporting the facts in it's stories, to jumpstart kernel development like that. Here I thought /. just DOSed websites.
Come on guys, use this power for good. Start saying that the P4 doesn't work with the 2.4 kernel, I want a kernel upgrade!
Steven
Ahh, that brings back memories. Well, one memory at least.
Phantasy Star, no bloody II, III, or IV Just Phantasy Star on the original Sega Master System. Man that game was great. Three planets, tons of dungeons, you had to talk to virtually EVERYONE to get info you NEEDED! Explore every freakin INCH of every world and then do some quasi-dimensional-transport thing to beat the big bad villan, only the big bad villan wasn't the real big bad villan! Try as I might, I can't beat the Succubus no matter how long I wait before I go to the Governor the first time. That damn thing is TOUGH. A good mix of new characters and old favorites like Medusa. Good story too.
I still have that SMS and the cart around. I have it in a box in the attic and emulate the system and load a ROM for the game(in fact, that's the reason I downloaded an emulator and the ROM, because I wanted to play PS again, no other games, just PS). I'd love to be able to play some of my old favorites again without rummaging through garage sales or illegally downloading ROMs.
Sadly, I don't think it will happen. Why? It's not just the market and the consumer who have moved on, technology has as well. I found an old copy of S(pace)Q(uest) IV and loaded it up on my PII-450 and it's unplayable. The game is tied to system clock and while you're supposed to have a certain amount of time to hide before the bad guys come and shoot you, the time runs out before you can do anything. Yes, I know I could run a emulator for an older/slower machine and get this taken care of, but the average joe expects software to work out of the box. If he buys SQ as part of a collection of old games for a buck at the local bookstore and it doesn't work, he's going to want someone on the other end of the support line. Sure turning your old games back into a revenue sream sounds great, but would you get enough revenue to offset the support costs? I doubt it.
Steven
I'll bet the kernel mailing list really loathes Hemos right about now, because they're gonna get another flood of misinformation going.
Oh my God!!! They've Slashdotted the kernel mailing list. You Bastards!
Steven
So Intel has a transistor which is three atoms thick. According to Moore's Law, within 18 months Intel will come out with a transistor 1.5 atoms thick. Hmm, I guess the portable atom smasher isn't very far away!
/. editors have to ruin a great advance like this one by linking it to Intel's financial troubles. What are you guys saying? Intel won't be around in 18 months to top this achievement? Or is it a "But you're still losing marketshare to AMD so Nyah!" kind of mentality? Advances in science are advances in science. Just because they were made by a company with profit in mind doesn't mean their scientific discoveries won't be shared.
But seriously, I don't see why
Steven
Hmm, of course internal need for bandwidth would obviously take a higher precendence over external customers attempting to lease/buy Sprint bandwidth. I think every company is going to be in this crunch though in the very near future as wireless expands. Of course, other companies are free to build their own towers, that's the difference between the possibility of Sprint not sharing it's bandwidth and the Bells not opening the local loop. It's a lot easier to build new towers than it would be to set up telephone poles which parallel all of the Bell poles for each competitor. Imagine five poles side by side everywhere you see one today. Just not feasible. Of course people don't like towers in their backyards either, so we'll have to wait and see which way the wind blows.
Steven
[Disclaimer, I am a Sprint employee]
I don't know. That's standard practice among most wireless providers and I wouldn't be suprised if Sprint would lease bandwidth to other companies, but if they don't I'd suspect it's due to incompatibilities more than stuffiness. Remember, PCS is a different technology than traditional wireless or even digital wireless. It may not be possible. I'm not privy to all that, but I do know from some recent meetings on Sprint's strategic goals for the near future that they intend to use wireless towers to get beyond the "last mile" problem.
Steven
[Disclaimer, I am a Sprint Employee]
Sprint has a couple advantages over the typical companies trying to get into the local loop. First, they're huge. Secondly, they have the ability to tell the local loop owners "Either open up your loop for us or we'll distribute wireless broadband modems and leverage our PCS network to put your ass completely out of business. We'd rather not take the bloody nose in extra costs it would take to implement this suggestion, but we will if you don't share. So play nice, K? Thks." That having been said, Sprint ION is a bundled service, local, long distance, and data over one line. I'm not sure, but I think the local is still handed off to the local telco and Sprint pays a access fee to run DSL over their lines like everyone else does but it works out as a better deal for both parties in the bundle. They're in quite a few cities, and expecting more soon.
Steven
[disclaimer, I am an employee of Sprint]
The article basically says that since the Baby Bells (SBC and Verizon) own the physical "last mile" lines, they are keeping a stranglehold on the possibilities of competition for local service. These companies are still getting to enter the long-distance service buisness, which they weren't supposed to do until they opened up their lines to competitors, by sucking up to politicians.
How is Sprint facing this? Wireless. Screw the physical infrastructure of the last-mile lines. Sprint basically gave the baby Bells the finger and started building digital wireless towers everywhere they can. Pretty soon you'll be able to buy a wireless broadband modem and hit a PCS tower with a digital signal without touching a bit of Bell property. Since the wires are all owned by someone who won't share and has no interest in letting Sprint in, Sprint is doing what has been proven to work in markets where the physical infrastructure doesn't exist. Make it wireless.
Steven
So go to a local library with the source for your decryption software on a diskette and upload it onto Slashdot posted as an AC. The Library isn't tracking who accessed their system when and even if they could prove it's his code, they can't prove he distibuted it. Kind of like the loophole I heard about where it's not illegal to have drugs in your system, but just to posess them, so if you sniff the cocaine as the cops are beating on the door, they can't charge you for posession.
Steven
These tech support workers are overworked, underpaid, undertrained, and a step away from the funny farm. They write a story about it and you DOS their website.
MMm, I love the smell of sympathy in the morning.
Steven
The new planet is supposed to be RUPERT damn it! Rupert!
And now I'm off to check my updated horoscope. Hmm, When Saturn is in Libra and Rupert is in Scorpio that means...
Steven
With my plans of running plasma fiber lines to transmit super-light-speed particles, I'll run this company into the ground. Just imagine getting data before you actually request it. It boggles the mind.
Our only hurdle is to actually observe the super-light-speed particles. If anyone is really good at seeing really fast stuff, please, by all means, let me know.
Yes please! Let him know immediately! His VC funding is about to run out!
Oh who do I think I'm kidding. We all know that all you have to do is say things like "plasma fiber lines to transmit super-light-speed particles" and you'll have VC funding for as long as you want it.
Steven
Umm, Shoeboy. Whatever your name is. You forgot to post anonymously. Your karma could take a hit and if you're above fifty(since you have a low UID, I guess you could have gotten high karma before the kap went on) you'll have a hard time getting more karma.
If the 4 color vision is a good mutation, it will hopefully propogate into the general population eventually (well, half of it anyway :)
Is that supposed to be a pick-up line? I bet she could see right through it.
Steven
You seem to be assuming(or at least the original author of the essay you karma-whoriffically summarized for us seemed to be assuming) that intelligent machines would have the same drives as humans. The assumption that a AI would _necessarially_ have the drive to subdue the natural world and attain the highest position on the food chain is a fallacy. Sentience does not equal "desire to dominate." It seems that since humans don't know their place, we logically(?) assume that an intelligent machine would loot the Earth's resources, plunder it's oceans and rape it's population. Get past it people.
The machines of the future may be agressive, but they may be as Asimov predicted and want nothing but to help and aid humans in any way they can. Most people assume machines will inherit human psychology. Don't.
Steven
The idea of objects being passed around by handles is the original concept for the Internet as espoused by Dr. Alan Kay. This is how he originally envisioned Object-Oriented information models. Now the Internet is being re-invented to change it from the simple collection of connection paths to a real highway where real self-contained objects can be passed around. This may be better, maybe not. I guess it depends on how it's implemented. If each object has to be accompanied by a slew of "helpers" to allow the recieving node to interpret it, this could get ugly. But if a single, open, method is used, this could be beautiful. Imagine a fully portable object going from platform to platform totally transparent to the user!
.NET and I just hope the geniuses who are behind this idea don't get mown down by Microsoft's marketing muscle.
Of course, it'll have to compete with
Steven
3) it will not only be released for Windows, but also BeOS, Linux, and Windows, Dreamcast, PlayStation and Gameboy Color (although, with some sytems there will obviously be a loss of features)
;)
Now that's not a very nice thing to say about Windows.
Steven
that memory has to be refreshed.
I don't know about you, but I'd rather refresh memory by sleeping than by getting an electric current run to each of my cells a few million times per second.
Steven
Wow This phone is so cool Hemos is speechless. I wish I was that cool :(
Steven
Digital sigs are not...WHAT!! What is it that digital sigs aren't! Please! Stupid article title length restrictions!
Steven
31337 H4X0R5?? You mean 5KR1P7 K1DD135? What the hell would some lame hacker-wannabe need with a multi-processor box? Do you believe they are at the forefront of technology? Leading the charge for newer and faster equipment?
I resent your implication that because I like to keep my desktop on the cutting edge of technology that that makes me either a 31337 H4X0R or not a "ligitimate user." Maybe I won't build a server farm out of dual processor Athalons, (until it's stability is proven at least) but your implication that "if the fortune 500 firms wouldn't use it, it's crap" really gets up my nose.
I see a lot of legitimate uses for this technology outside the server room. I've been running dual processor desktob systems at home for a while now. I've never been described, nor would I ever describe myself as 31337.
Steven
let's see
$ whois www.ihatewipo.com
whois: whois.internic.net: host unknown
Looks like they got you already. Sorry about that. Damn the man!
Steven
Now looks really CAN kill! At least in Quake.
Steven