Oh, come now you are thinking too small. direct pleasure stimulation to the brain. never being drunk, but maybe a "drunkness filter" to let folks experience it. Improved imagination... if only what I day dream seemed alittle more real to me and if I could just share those day dreams with others for a small price.
New company that controls and patents almost all nanoprogramming. Ops you got that one.
Actually, you may have something on that "Lighting Horror" and "Tube of Death". They sound like early Batman episodes that I missed. Would working 12-16 hours be considered making numb zombies out IT workers? They aren't there yet... The "Evil Steam-Monster" sounds like that movie about the car that tried to run over people... I've forgotten the name. We've got to face it Bad News "it'll kill us all!" Headlines and predictions have always sold well. It's like sexual images: you know guys will look at it.
Considering most of us have dial-up at home, they would really cut us out of the XBox market. I wouldn't want to start a game and what 5-10 mins while a damn save file is downloading from MS Servers over a dial-up. You might like that, having a faster option in your area, but alot of us don't. I like not having to have a game machine connect to anything just to play my games! You might like that kind of user tracking, but I don't.
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Unfortunately you have the KeepingUpWithTheJoneses factor to deal with: Jones(A) gets a new phone with games. Not to be outdone, Jones(B) gets a phone with games and a camera. Jones(C) gets a phone with games and a higher-resolution camera.. Repeat ad infinitum.
All I want is unlimited calling on a cell-phone for $5 a month. I define "unlimited calling" as no long distance charges, no local charges, no roaming charges, no limits on minutes used, and global coverage. I know that will never happen unless there is a very cheap way of broadcasting masses of phone calls through wireless access points. I would be happy with 2 state coverage, no roaming charges or long distance fees within those states, no limites on minutes or time of day and still $5 a month. I could care less about anything else. Our damn "phone taxes" are more than $5 a month. We currently pay about $50-$60 a month. I want cheaper not more!
Yes you can still get viruses in other ways (if some damn fool downloads a virus direct from a website) but how often does that actually happen? They all come via e-mail, and propagate via e-mail - be it your server or their own SMTP connection.
As long as the user has an internet connection, the user can get a legimate looking e-mail with a link in it. User clicks the link. Webpage opens and asks user to download and run said utility program. Admin's mail filtering totally by-passed by user. Just wait it'll happen sooner than latter.
I cannot think of any major criminal activity that can be done on the Internet, still less in the restricted environment of a cybercafe. Sure, threats and extortion can be communicated, but these are accessory to the crime contemplated/committed.
I'm not really talking about them sueing. Think of it this way if you were doing something illegeal with a bank account. Companies that you may have ripped of wouldn't have the right to go to the bank and ask for all the information of such and such account number. I don't know maybe they do. Well, they should go to the police, and the police would obtain the information from the bank and then ask the companies if they wanted to file charges. Of course my example is criminal not civial in nature. I'm talking about the RIAA doing work that should be legally only open to police agencies not industry organizations.
If they handed out my info. or sold it to non law enforcement personnel, I'd have to sue the ISP and the RIAA. The ISP for handing over personnal information without consent to nonauthorized personnel. If I'm breaking the law, the cops be it the FBI or the local police should come knocking at the door. Private entities don't have law enforcement privleges in this country unless the entity is something like campus cops though they are also fully trained police officers. I would not trust oh Green Peace with their own private police force. If the RIAA can do it, way couldn't some one else?
I have a question for the physicist. How much excess heat is generated in the average daily rountine of an American house person including all home applicances?
I don't think the candle would be required at all. Just put in a human or some thing is that is alive, or some applicances and that should be more than enough heat. I don't have any numbers to back that up. I just figure that if we can use clothes and quilts to stay warm. Then if our home had near perfect insulation, then all it would take would be me to heat it up. I agree that there would need to be some way to move excess heat out though. I know laying down on the couch covered in a quilt can get quite hot, and feels alot better when colder fresher room area is circulated under it.
Oh, back in the 1930's it was cheap, easily obtainable, and no one really knew what to do with it. Move forward in time, I'm sure some one is making a pretty penny of this stuff selling it to NASA and claiming it is all manufacuring costs keeping it so expensive. I remember reading a popular science article about this stuff about how this could be awesome if put into window panes or insulate freezers and refigators. I think it would be trival to do, but since some thing is keeping the cost high it won't happen.
I have 2 15" LCD monitors. I keep regretting that decision mainly because of games. Most of the turnbased games that I'd want to scale across 2 screens won't. Actually, about the only games that do are FPS and driving/flight sims. With 3 monitors that would work o.k., but with 2 you have cross hairs directly at the edge of two monitors or your eyes are centered on border space between the 2 monitors. The illusion of one large monitor is never complete with the games that I've played. I'm disappointed that it will take Nintendo making specialized hardware to force develpers to think outside of the normal box. They could have been doing all of these things on the PC since Win98. Heck, it would have driven purchases for dual monitors if the games made excellent usage of them. I hope the system has a good future. I also hope that it has some sort of A/V inputs to accept video from a portable DVD player or portable TIVO.
I'm surprised they lasted this long. I wonder how they decided on this business model. Hey, I have a brilliant idea! I'll do a random search through the U.S. Code, pick a section, and build a business around disobeying that law!
Oh come on now, the only real surprise is that they were a visible company. Criminals have and will always be around. Why do you think the war on drugs is still around? Because the drug trade is so damn profittable. The same could be said for sex, black mail, gambling, and organized crime in general. I'm not surprised at some enitity was breaking the law; it happens all the time. I'm just surprised that it was making itself so public. Usually criminal types hide there illegeal doings behind legal doings. I'm surprised fax.com didn't run a business that looked legit, but was making all their money breaking the law.
What we need is a daily space soap opera. The setting could be oh, a moon base, an asteriod mining colony, an asteriod colony ship headed away from Earth and will take X years to reach the nearest star, or space station. The key is to have a small town population that is convined and self supporting. You can have plots that are based on politics, how they've modified laws or criminal justice to fit, about economics, you could have feuding families and competing departments or guilds. Conflict, story, and soft core porn is what draws audences. Remember that and you'll be set.
Kiss ass! This isn't about bringing up your department's problems. This is about your department telling the VP about how wonderful he is doing! IF you really want to BS with the VP say things like this. IF you want to look at our molehill, our main problems are personal communciations difficulties, and internal disagreements on what direction the techonology world is heading. Don't give any facts. Just tell him that is about like Ford vs. Chevy vs. Honda that you'll be paying about the same for the same performace, and it'll come come down on from manager's personal decision as to which direction we head in. Then when the VP says that Honda are usually cheaper bring up IBM using Linux.
From the posts, it seems the my slashdot opinion doesn't like the old NASA going to explore or solar system switching gears to a colonization and defense program. I on the other hand think it is a great idea. Other than pretty pictures of completely unreachable space. What has NASA given us? They gave us the Space Shuttle to get "cheap" transportation to space, they gave us really over rated space stations. Did they give us a moon base, mars base or a full asteriod mining industry? Nope.
The only negatives to this are we won't know what they are working on. I don't want NASA switch to NSA observers mapping ever square millimeter of the Earth. I wouldn't mind if they developed a communcations network around the moon and some defense/offense bases. Space based missles make more sense than moon based. The major advantages of the moon is that you have materials to construct with, gravity, and short path to Earth.
NASA has always been a money black hole. What makes you think these defense contractors don't already get NASA money? To "defend space" you need material up there to defend with.
I think that you are confusing nomads with ease of transportation. Most of those that I know rarely travel outside a one day with car radius. If we didn't have cars, that one day radius would be alot shorter. The "distance" I've traveled has always been within 2 days of either car or plane. That is a several thousand mile radius. Nomads had to move around to eat to get to where their food supply is. I don't know about you, but I don't have to drive to the bread basket states to get my morning breakfast foods. The food travels from their to my local Walmart. I travel 40 mins. to Walmart and back to get food and other supplies. I don't have to travel 2 or 3 weeks to get my food. I may chose to vacation or live in a better climate. Most places in the US I could travel to within a week and vacation. I know some people enjoy moving. Since college I've had to move several times. I'd much rather have just picked a spot and never moved from it. Employment doesn't work that way though. I don't consider the European coloization nomads. I do agree that the bio-warfare and genoicide worked wonders. I never considered pioneers nomads. Once a pioneer has picked their homestead, they don't typical move if they could help it. Explorers and armies could be classified as nomads. I would have to seriously re-read my American history to come up with conclusion that we were nomads. Oh, I remember folks taking advantage of nomads, but miners and farmers generally stopped nomadic folk.
I guess those dailiy commutes could be classified as revenge of the nomad, but I consider it the same as peasants walking to the fields except the fields are farther away and we do differnt work.
Back in the days of NES & SNES, I could eat anything and not worry about my weight. Then came the N64 controller and I suddenly started to gain weight. I switched to computer games and played games mostly with the keyboard and mouse. My weight has increased through college and since. I have a PS2 now. I'm not noticing the effects of the SNES controller where I'd keep the same weight. I don't think the vibration controllers have helped. I think the jumping around the room and yelling at the screen because the character didn't move when I pressed the button helped. I'm calmer now. I just lay down on the couch and play FFX2. Hell I just hold down the damn X button and beat just about all the enemies except for bosses.
We need a return to classic gaming where we had to press that jump and shot button like 5 million times and jump around the room and off the couch alot. I think a sensor in the controller that wouldn't let your onscreen guy jum unless you did would work wonders. Jumping would help everything.
Putting genetically modified fish in the food-chain is not a good idea, unless it's *very* strictly controlled to make sure the fish aren't eaten by other animals.
Please, correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't putting them in the food chain mean that they are being eaten by animals? Humans are animals. Maybe you meant fungus, bacteria, and worms that are meant to eat dead animals. That would work. It's in the food chain then. Uh, what would happen if a bird ate your worm? I'm guessing nothing. Maybe a few generations and there would be a modification in the bird's feeding habits, but for one worm it would be o.k. If I recall my enivornimental science, the food web has a pyramid effect with posions. The top predators get a lot higher dose of a toxin than those worms or grass. It would depend on if the new fish would be a toxin. It shouldn't. I'd bet that there are alots of new species being made right now that humans will never see. We like to think we know alot. We know very little. We have no idea how this would react in the wild. I general think it is a bad idea. Glowing fish would be fine with me, but how long until folks make fish that can sink boats or eat through fishing nets? We are stupid enough to do it. Or make predators that are higher than us. Think elphants that could survive tank rounds and liked the taste of human. Or tigers that could survive small arms fire, but really liked to eat humans. Think genetic warfare. If we could release a virus or bateria that made all life forms within a area suddenly want to eat humans if possible. Don't you think we are stupid enough to release it? I know we are.
Slashdot, please, tell me what a trade mark is! If I were to search for playmate or playboy, I wouldn't be looking for PlayBoy's stuff, I'd be looking for any products that fit the description. I consider playboy, playgirl, and playmate to be part of the modern english langauge that means attractive woman under 25 modelling nude for porn magazines. I consider alot of what companies would consider trademark to be part of the general US English language. Qtips, I don't have a clue about the brand but I know it is a noun that refers to cotton swabs.
Coke, Pespi, Sprite, and Dr. Pepper are nouns of specific drinks. They are part of the langauage now. Lang. changes! Dicitionaries never keep up with what we keep changing. If I did a search for Coke or Coke Products. I'd want things that had to do with the specific Coke product or product line not really any given soft drink. If I searched for pop, I'd be stupid. Now "Soft drink brands" might return generic soft drinks that I've never heard of.
Windows are those glass things in the holes in the side of houses and a specific software OS family. If I did a search for Windows, I would be ticked of to get returns for AIX, VMS, OSX, and Linux. If I did a search for Operating System, then those would be valid returns.
So would you like the US to return to a hunter-gather mode? My vote is for large scale corporate farming. I don't want to do it, and they have to be more productive than I'd be. I'd starve and die if I had to switch to hunting gathering or farming for myself. You know what we have that makes large scale agriculture work? Better long term and short term food storage! I could live happily off of corn flakes or oatmeal and milk if need be. Milk is a product that without cold storage wouldn't last 2 days! Corn flaks and oatmeal can keep for months if you can keep pests out of them.
I know we'd have better genetic stock of humans if we stopped all medical care for our elders and our young. I don't want my young to die off, and I'm thrilled that both my parents and grandparents are alife. If we turned by the clock, my parents would be lucky to be alive. My first set of kids may or may not have survived. One reason for large families was because of high infant mortaility rates. I'll be honest. I don't give a flip about the genetic stock of the human race or any one else. I'm a greedy bastard that would like to be as immortial as possible and make sure my family shares that as well. I don't care if the rest of humanity is along just my family and afew of my friends and I'd be happy.
Agriculture can bring tremendous profit and clearly supply much more food than the hunter-gatherer lifestlye. But the risks are greater, too
O.k. give me an example of any nomadic group that conquered those that used large scale agriculture after the invention of guns. How would that nomadic group survive if those farmers decided to send in an army? Hmm. Nomads need alot more land than farmers to live. Farmers can afford to feed themselves and specialists such as a military. Militaries have always killed the enemies women and childern first when possible. Genocide is very efficient at eliminating threats.
Actually I really hate 3D. In Real Life, people do well with it, but hey, 2D is easier! Why should we have things that are more complicated just because we can? Actually, the shooting part I wouldn't mind, but the actually 3D moment I'm not fond of other than "jumping" and maybe "ducking." My reasons for hating 3D are mainly point of view and rotating field of vision. That 2D map is great. Make it 3D and you won't be able to see something. I want simple, fast, and lots of it. This should be something that you could pick up hand have fun playing in for 30 sec. and not have to worry about visually that huge virtual universe and where in the plot line you are at the moment. Simple games people will play and love. Complicated games people will play but they have to be better and they take up much more time. FFX2 takes several hours a day playing it. I'd like something I could setup so that I could have fun during a 5 min. break, but wouldn't worry about anything after it is over type of game. Puzzle games take too much time. They are good and make you think, but while you think you lose track of time and suddenly you've just being playing sol. at work for an hour. I want something that I can set to let me play for 3 min. play it and at the 3 min mark it saves and shuts down and I wouldn't have the urge to restart it.
Welcome to business under MBAs. IF you really want IBM's guiding goals, it are these:
1. Make lots of money legally! 2. If you have an idea, give it to R&D to develop. We will make money off it in the future if not now. 3. If we have some company that plays real hard ball with us, put them on the black list. 4. Remember the black list. Remember we will get our enemies in the end! 5. Don't worry about the black list, we have another division working on it. 6. Remember all those companies that have been scratched off the black list.
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Oh, come now you are thinking too small.
direct pleasure stimulation to the brain.
never being drunk, but maybe a "drunkness filter" to let folks experience it.
Improved imagination... if only what I day dream seemed alittle more real to me and if I could just share those day dreams with others for a small price.
New company that controls and patents almost all nanoprogramming. Ops you got that one.
Actually, you may have something on that "Lighting Horror" and "Tube of Death". They sound like early Batman episodes that I missed. Would working 12-16 hours be considered making numb zombies out IT workers? They aren't there yet... The "Evil Steam-Monster" sounds like that movie about the car that tried to run over people... I've forgotten the name. We've got to face it Bad News "it'll kill us all!" Headlines and predictions have always sold well. It's like sexual images: you know guys will look at it.
Considering most of us have dial-up at home, they would really cut us out of the XBox market. I wouldn't want to start a game and what 5-10 mins while a damn save file is downloading from MS Servers over a dial-up. You might like that, having a faster option in your area, but alot of us don't. I like not having to have a game machine connect to anything just to play my games! You might like that kind of user tracking, but I don't.
Unfortunately you have the KeepingUpWithTheJoneses factor to deal with: Jones(A) gets a new phone with games. Not to be outdone, Jones(B) gets a phone with games and a camera. Jones(C) gets a phone with games and a higher-resolution camera.. Repeat ad infinitum.
All I want is unlimited calling on a cell-phone for $5 a month. I define "unlimited calling" as no long distance charges, no local charges, no roaming charges, no limits on minutes used, and global coverage. I know that will never happen unless there is a very cheap way of broadcasting masses of phone calls through wireless access points. I would be happy with 2 state coverage, no roaming charges or long distance fees within those states, no limites on minutes or time of day and still $5 a month. I could care less about anything else. Our damn "phone taxes" are more than $5 a month. We currently pay about $50-$60 a month. I want cheaper not more!
Well, if they have more than a PB, then they should easily handling a slashdotting!
Yes you can still get viruses in other ways (if some damn fool downloads a virus direct from a website) but how often does that actually happen? They all come via e-mail, and propagate via e-mail - be it your server or their own SMTP connection.
As long as the user has an internet connection, the user can get a legimate looking e-mail with a link in it. User clicks the link. Webpage opens and asks user to download and run said utility program. Admin's mail filtering totally by-passed by user. Just wait it'll happen sooner than latter.
I cannot think of any major criminal activity that can be done on the Internet, still less in the restricted environment of a cybercafe. Sure, threats and extortion can be communicated, but these are accessory to the crime contemplated/committed.
Try Fraud and Identity Theft.
When giving the finger to your computer monitor, reboots it.
I'm not really talking about them sueing. Think of it this way if you were doing something illegeal with a bank account. Companies that you may have ripped of wouldn't have the right to go to the bank and ask for all the information of such and such account number. I don't know maybe they do. Well, they should go to the police, and the police would obtain the information from the bank and then ask the companies if they wanted to file charges. Of course my example is criminal not civial in nature. I'm talking about the RIAA doing work that should be legally only open to police agencies not industry organizations.
If they handed out my info. or sold it to non law enforcement personnel, I'd have to sue the ISP and the RIAA. The ISP for handing over personnal information without consent to nonauthorized personnel. If I'm breaking the law, the cops be it the FBI or the local police should come knocking at the door. Private entities don't have law enforcement privleges in this country unless the entity is something like campus cops though they are also fully trained police officers. I would not trust oh Green Peace with their own private police force. If the RIAA can do it, way couldn't some one else?
I have a question for the physicist. How much excess heat is generated in the average daily rountine of an American house person including all home applicances?
I don't think the candle would be required at all. Just put in a human or some thing is that is alive, or some applicances and that should be more than enough heat. I don't have any numbers to back that up. I just figure that if we can use clothes and quilts to stay warm. Then if our home had near perfect insulation, then all it would take would be me to heat it up. I agree that there would need to be some way to move excess heat out though. I know laying down on the couch covered in a quilt can get quite hot, and feels alot better when colder fresher room area is circulated under it.
Oh, back in the 1930's it was cheap, easily obtainable, and no one really knew what to do with it. Move forward in time, I'm sure some one is making a pretty penny of this stuff selling it to NASA and claiming it is all manufacuring costs keeping it so expensive. I remember reading a popular science article about this stuff about how this could be awesome if put into window panes or insulate freezers and refigators. I think it would be trival to do, but since some thing is keeping the cost high it won't happen.
I have 2 15" LCD monitors. I keep regretting that decision mainly because of games. Most of the turnbased games that I'd want to scale across 2 screens won't. Actually, about the only games that do are FPS and driving/flight sims. With 3 monitors that would work o.k., but with 2 you have cross hairs directly at the edge of two monitors or your eyes are centered on border space between the 2 monitors. The illusion of one large monitor is never complete with the games that I've played. I'm disappointed that it will take Nintendo making specialized hardware to force develpers to think outside of the normal box. They could have been doing all of these things on the PC since Win98. Heck, it would have driven purchases for dual monitors if the games made excellent usage of them. I hope the system has a good future. I also hope that it has some sort of A/V inputs to accept video from a portable DVD player or portable TIVO.
Yes, but the boss was invented centuries ago. The survey is about inventions within the last century.
I'm surprised they lasted this long. I wonder how they decided on this business model. Hey, I have a brilliant idea! I'll do a random search through the U.S. Code, pick a section, and build a business around disobeying that law!
Oh come on now, the only real surprise is that they were a visible company. Criminals have and will always be around. Why do you think the war on drugs is still around? Because the drug trade is so damn profittable. The same could be said for sex, black mail, gambling, and organized crime in general. I'm not surprised at some enitity was breaking the law; it happens all the time. I'm just surprised that it was making itself so public. Usually criminal types hide there illegeal doings behind legal doings. I'm surprised fax.com didn't run a business that looked legit, but was making all their money breaking the law.
What we need is a daily space soap opera. The setting could be oh, a moon base, an asteriod mining colony, an asteriod colony ship headed away from Earth and will take X years to reach the nearest star, or space station. The key is to have a small town population that is convined and self supporting. You can have plots that are based on politics, how they've modified laws or criminal justice to fit, about economics, you could have feuding families and competing departments or guilds. Conflict, story, and soft core porn is what draws audences. Remember that and you'll be set.
Kiss ass! This isn't about bringing up your department's problems. This is about your department telling the VP about how wonderful he is doing! IF you really want to BS with the VP say things like this. IF you want to look at our molehill, our main problems are personal communciations difficulties, and internal disagreements on what direction the techonology world is heading. Don't give any facts. Just tell him that is about like Ford vs. Chevy vs. Honda that you'll be paying about the same for the same performace, and it'll come come down on from manager's personal decision as to which direction we head in. Then when the VP says that Honda are usually cheaper bring up IBM using Linux.
From the posts, it seems the my slashdot opinion doesn't like the old NASA going to explore or solar system switching gears to a colonization and defense program. I on the other hand think it is a great idea. Other than pretty pictures of completely unreachable space. What has NASA given us? They gave us the Space Shuttle to get "cheap" transportation to space, they gave us really over rated space stations. Did they give us a moon base, mars base or a full asteriod mining industry? Nope.
The only negatives to this are we won't know what they are working on. I don't want NASA switch to NSA observers mapping ever square millimeter of the Earth. I wouldn't mind if they developed a communcations network around the moon and some defense/offense bases. Space based missles make more sense than moon based. The major advantages of the moon is that you have materials to construct with, gravity, and short path to Earth.
NASA has always been a money black hole. What makes you think these defense contractors don't already get NASA money? To "defend space" you need material up there to defend with.
I think that you are confusing nomads with ease of transportation. Most of those that I know rarely travel outside a one day with car radius. If we didn't have cars, that one day radius would be alot shorter. The "distance" I've traveled has always been within 2 days of either car or plane. That is a several thousand mile radius. Nomads had to move around to eat to get to where their food supply is. I don't know about you, but I don't have to drive to the bread basket states to get my morning breakfast foods. The food travels from their to my local Walmart. I travel 40 mins. to Walmart and back to get food and other supplies. I don't have to travel 2 or 3 weeks to get my food. I may chose to vacation or live in a better climate. Most places in the US I could travel to within a week and vacation. I know some people enjoy moving. Since college I've had to move several times. I'd much rather have just picked a spot and never moved from it. Employment doesn't work that way though. I don't consider the European coloization nomads. I do agree that the bio-warfare and genoicide worked wonders. I never considered pioneers nomads. Once a pioneer has picked their homestead, they don't typical move if they could help it. Explorers and armies could be classified as nomads. I would have to seriously re-read my American history to come up with conclusion that we were nomads. Oh, I remember folks taking advantage of nomads, but miners and farmers generally stopped nomadic folk.
I guess those dailiy commutes could be classified as revenge of the nomad, but I consider it the same as peasants walking to the fields except the fields are farther away and we do differnt work.
Back in the days of NES & SNES, I could eat anything and not worry about my weight. Then came the N64 controller and I suddenly started to gain weight. I switched to computer games and played games mostly with the keyboard and mouse. My weight has increased through college and since. I have a PS2 now. I'm not noticing the effects of the SNES controller where I'd keep the same weight. I don't think the vibration controllers have helped. I think the jumping around the room and yelling at the screen because the character didn't move when I pressed the button helped. I'm calmer now. I just lay down on the couch and play FFX2. Hell I just hold down the damn X button and beat just about all the enemies except for bosses.
We need a return to classic gaming where we had to press that jump and shot button like 5 million times and jump around the room and off the couch alot. I think a sensor in the controller that wouldn't let your onscreen guy jum unless you did would work wonders. Jumping would help everything.
Putting genetically modified fish in the food-chain is not a good idea, unless it's *very* strictly controlled to make sure the fish aren't eaten by other animals.
Please, correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't putting them in the food chain mean that they are being eaten by animals? Humans are animals. Maybe you meant fungus, bacteria, and worms that are meant to eat dead animals. That would work. It's in the food chain then. Uh, what would happen if a bird ate your worm? I'm guessing nothing. Maybe a few generations and there would be a modification in the bird's feeding habits, but for one worm it would be o.k. If I recall my enivornimental science, the food web has a pyramid effect with posions. The top predators get a lot higher dose of a toxin than those worms or grass. It would depend on if the new fish would be a toxin. It shouldn't. I'd bet that there are alots of new species being made right now that humans will never see. We like to think we know alot. We know very little. We have no idea how this would react in the wild. I general think it is a bad idea. Glowing fish would be fine with me, but how long until folks make fish that can sink boats or eat through fishing nets? We are stupid enough to do it. Or make predators that are higher than us. Think elphants that could survive tank rounds and liked the taste of human. Or tigers that could survive small arms fire, but really liked to eat humans. Think genetic warfare. If we could release a virus or bateria that made all life forms within a area suddenly want to eat humans if possible. Don't you think we are stupid enough to release it? I know we are.
Slashdot, please, tell me what a trade mark is! If I were to search for playmate or playboy, I wouldn't be looking for PlayBoy's stuff, I'd be looking for any products that fit the description. I consider playboy, playgirl, and playmate to be part of the modern english langauge that means attractive woman under 25 modelling nude for porn magazines. I consider alot of what companies would consider trademark to be part of the general US English language. Qtips, I don't have a clue about the brand but I know it is a noun that refers to cotton swabs.
Coke, Pespi, Sprite, and Dr. Pepper are nouns of specific drinks. They are part of the langauage now. Lang. changes! Dicitionaries never keep up with what we keep changing. If I did a search for Coke or Coke Products. I'd want things that had to do with the specific Coke product or product line not really any given soft drink. If I searched for pop, I'd be stupid. Now "Soft drink brands" might return generic soft drinks that I've never heard of.
Windows are those glass things in the holes in the side of houses and a specific software OS family. If I did a search for Windows, I would be ticked of to get returns for AIX, VMS, OSX, and Linux.
If I did a search for Operating System, then those would be valid returns.
So would you like the US to return to a hunter-gather mode? My vote is for large scale corporate farming. I don't want to do it, and they have to be more productive than I'd be. I'd starve and die if I had to switch to hunting gathering or farming for myself. You know what we have that makes large scale agriculture work? Better long term and short term food storage! I could live happily off of corn flakes or oatmeal and milk if need be. Milk is a product that without cold storage wouldn't last 2 days! Corn flaks and oatmeal can keep for months if you can keep pests out of them.
I know we'd have better genetic stock of humans if we stopped all medical care for our elders and our young. I don't want my young to die off, and I'm thrilled that both my parents and grandparents are alife. If we turned by the clock, my parents would be lucky to be alive. My first set of kids may or may not have survived. One reason for large families was because of high infant mortaility rates. I'll be honest. I don't give a flip about the genetic stock of the human race or any one else. I'm a greedy bastard that would like to be as immortial as possible and make sure my family shares that as well. I don't care if the rest of humanity is along just my family and afew of my friends and I'd be happy.
Agriculture can bring tremendous profit and clearly supply much more food than the hunter-gatherer lifestlye. But the risks are greater, too
O.k. give me an example of any nomadic group that conquered those that used large scale agriculture after the invention of guns. How would that nomadic group survive if those farmers decided to send in an army? Hmm. Nomads need alot more land than farmers to live. Farmers can afford to feed themselves and specialists such as a military. Militaries have always killed the enemies women and childern first when possible. Genocide is very efficient at eliminating threats.
Actually I really hate 3D. In Real Life, people do well with it, but hey, 2D is easier! Why should we have things that are more complicated just because we can? Actually, the shooting part I wouldn't mind, but the actually 3D moment I'm not fond of other than "jumping" and maybe "ducking." My reasons for hating 3D are mainly point of view and rotating field of vision. That 2D map is great. Make it 3D and you won't be able to see something. I want simple, fast, and lots of it. This should be something that you could pick up hand have fun playing in for 30 sec. and not have to worry about visually that huge virtual universe and where in the plot line you are at the moment. Simple games people will play and love. Complicated games people will play but they have to be better and they take up much more time. FFX2 takes several hours a day playing it. I'd like something I could setup so that I could have fun during a 5 min. break, but wouldn't worry about anything after it is over type of game. Puzzle games take too much time. They are good and make you think, but while you think you lose track of time and suddenly you've just being playing sol. at work for an hour. I want something that I can set to let me play for 3 min. play it and at the 3 min mark it saves and shuts down and I wouldn't have the urge to restart it.
Welcome to business under MBAs.
IF you really want IBM's guiding goals, it are these:
1. Make lots of money legally!
2. If you have an idea, give it to R&D to develop. We will make money off it in the future if not now.
3. If we have some company that plays real hard ball with us, put them on the black list.
4. Remember the black list. Remember we will get our enemies in the end!
5. Don't worry about the black list, we have another division working on it.
6. Remember all those companies that have been scratched off the black list.