It is neat from the retro point of view. I'd much rather have an "updated" PS2 Version and I don't mean that is looks just like the classic game. I'm talking about a choice of 20-30 tanks, planes, cars, boats or what not, thousands of maps, and randomly generated maps. I'd also want some updated music, sound effects, and pretty textures to look at for hours on end. Oh remember to make the entire playing field just the screen that is very important. I think their is a huge market for "retro-ish" photorealistic 2D games.
I just thought hey, you'd just end up with a "modern" version of Bomberman.
I found one at Walmart for $18 that was almost an exact PS2 controller. An adapter wouldn't work for me. I let the kids play "safe" class Nintendo titles on the computer, Donkey Kong Country, while my wife and I play FFX2. I works for me.
You know, if the media industry wants us to take their copyright claims seriously, then they need to start giving us some sort of discount as they re-release the same material on new formats. If I've got a license to view/hear it, then that should carry over, and I should only have to pay a small fee to upgrade.
Actually, Star Wars 7, 8, & 9 could be the first major movies to use CG actors to replace the aging actors. They could scan in Harrison Ford from all his movies and pick just the age that they want him at. Actually, I'd think the only hard part would be the face. How hard would it be to use some one else's body? I could imagine contract disputes galore.
IF they actually are reproducing the moments, are they making a really short lived universes that die because the following moments didn't mimic the rest?
Could each of these experiments create an another realty?
The thing that really upsets me about this is that you can almost guarantee the government will require car-owners to buy these units out of their own pockets.
You are assuming that RFID tags are removable and that there are only one per product. Button up shirts: one in each button. Watches 3 at a min. 1 in the watch and 2 on each side of the band. 3 or 4 in each shoe. Pants, only 3-3 buttons, one in each belt loop. 3 in every drink can.
An average Dell computer: 4 for the LCD monitor, 2 for the LCD plastic base, 101 for the keyboard, 3 for the mouse, 3 per each speaker, 1 per mouse pad, 1 at each end of every cable, 1 on each separate piece of plastic on the case. 4 for each storage media and drive.
You are thinking of tags and UPCs as they currently exist. I'm thinking of the future. Are you going to dig out the RF tags in shoes at a store? No the clerks will catch you. Will you be able to remove the 20 or so tags embedded in any and all electronics products? How about every circuit board having RFID as part of it? How are you going to steal that TV if you have to take it apart and remove 10 tags? It will be possible. But it will be very very annoying and difficult for those that enage in that sort of business.
Just wait until Japan gets into RFID. They'll put it into everything, which is a good idea. Then all that stuff we import will have about a dozen of these tags in them. Imagine cheap RFID in clothing buttons. RFID will be in passports, drivers lic., school ids, birth and death certs., nearly all offical government documents or bills will have RFID tags and barcodes on them. Actually they should all have atleast barcodes on them.
I'm confused. I want tracking. I really really do. I don't really care about governmental or corporate tracking too much. I care about being noticed. If everyone has a house full of this stuff and is recording every item they have, all corporates recording all sales and who bought each item and what their total business with you is, and the govenment tracked every citizen, tourist, and illegal alien and every tag you own, would that in and of itself be bad and evil? Nope. Actually, I'd want all my warranty info automatically submitted to the manufacurer and everything of $50 or more recorded with the government. Petty theft would be elimanted if criminals couldn't sell what they stole. If every pawn shop was required to scan all RFID tags, and the item showed that the person attempting to pawn didn't legally own the item. Well, the pawn shop would automatically have notified the police and a unit would be on the way. If the mafia hijacks a semi-truck to a warehouse, they would have to move it out side of the country to be sold or they'd be caught. Theft would still exist, but it would be very difficult.
how long before we have government schemes for informants?
After they get the wireless network built, then they'd just require all new cars to come with wireless cameras and microphones in the steering wheel to catch criminals, potential criminals, or those that just mutter about how controlling the government is.
This could be wonderful news for the advancement of science in general. Most of it is trial and error. Mix these 2 together and see if has the desired effect. There may be 10 or 20 thousand combinations to try. That's what experimental science is all about. Now if a grad student could just setup one of these things to test all combinations until either the wanted result appears, interesting things not predicted happen, or favorable or disfavorable results happen that could be useful else where. I could see a robot testing combinations until a given event is true. How would software flag "interesting results?"
Example: Scientist is looking for non-stick film to apply to pots. Robot is testing combinations. Does it notify the scientist if say this combination makes the pot super conductive, but things still stick to it?
Now, if it could file patents and lawsuits, it would be ready to enter today's world of technology.
Come on that's a lawyer's job. Scientist's just discover stuff. They don't actually get to sell it or make money. Some one else either their corporate sponsor, the government, the unviersity they work for, or the "business partner" that they are working with will file the patents and handle the lawsuits until it is time to dump the orginial scientist.
I really hope that I never have to work at your company! I don't think this system beats paper time cards. The only reason mentioned so far is this might be a good things is verification that it is the proper employee. O.k. Does a freaking McDonald's need this kind of security? I'll say "NO!" If fast food place, gas stations, and all other min. wage jobs require this, then every job would start to! The mentioned positive from an employer's point of view it to make sure that the proper employee is the at the scheduled time.
Building materials of war, government employees, verification of elected officals, passports, energy generation personal could all have this used. Food workers? What is the worst thing that could happen? A mass posioning or a bombing? Well, we have to check out all the employees first! Would this actually prevent anything like that? Nope. Terrorist actions could still occur. You do realize if McDonalds could do this than every corporate employer with time clocks could. How long do you think a mandatory interface with DHS terriorist watch list is put into effect? Anyone that the government labels as a pontential terriorist would be scanned at every big company and either "picked up", watched, or denied a job. Smaller companies that hired these personal wouldn't worry about it until they hit it big. Then they'd put this into place and "layoff" or give "early retirement" to any one the government flags.
Although i agree with you I can't recall ever seeing a post containing the words "butt munch" getting a 5: Informative.
Quick people here is your chance to make it happen! The parent is Offtopic at the moment, but with alittle more help he can get that Informative. Then he won't believe his eye's when the words "butt munch" have been modded to +5 and isn't funny.
Additionally, many many ISP's charge a premium on extra IP addresses. What makes you think that they want to ditch that income so you and I can each address our refrigerator from the supermarket to see how much milk is left?
What makes you think that ISP's won't charge for each IP address that all those appliances in your house have? I'm sure they'd charge you more for that IP address over time than most of your appliances cost if you'd let them.
The people fucking up the State are NOT elected, and they do NOT have finite limits on how long they can stay in power. Some of the most important people making some of the most significant decisions in the history of the country, weren't even elected by the people.
Too bad the misdirection works so well, making everybody point their blame the temp worker who occupies the hot seat while the real power people stay under the radar for decades.
Oh, that's just the shadow government. You have to be a political insider of either party to get in. Don't worry they are even less organized than our visible government. They are just around longer.
It seems that nobody is allowed privacy in this White House administration except GWB and friends.
O.k. if it came from some one appointed by Bush, I could accept your comment. But come on, you know this more like a PHB said to some underling hey post all these comments on the website. There shouldn't be more than about 20 or 30 comments any way. The underling said sure boss. Then the boss sends the poor underling the thousands of comments. The underling goes ahead and starts edited out personnal information and posting it on the website all manually. I'd say it should take less than 2 weeks to go through do this assignment. After a day or two, the underling's boss comes in and says why aren't you doing your regular job. Underling explains that he or she is still busy at the other task. The boss decides it would be more efficient use of the underling's time to just post all the info on the website with out editing for personal info. 5 minutes latter it is all posted on the website with a short blurb that the personal info was going to be left in there. I can understand blaming alot of things on the head of our government, but come on this is just government business as usual! It could have happened reguardless of who was head of our government. Actually, I think it wouldn't have been that bad for some intern to go through and delete all the personnal info. I think it was a poor decision of some middle manager some where. O.k. it could have been a plot be the evil forces in our government to get your e-mail address, but I just don't buy it this time.
Instead of dissing this, you should hail it as bringing Gb storage to the masses.
I thought CDRs did that. Ok. 650MB isn't a 1 GB, but for practical purposes it is close enough. $7 per 1 disk vs $20 per stack of 50 disks. I would welcome a GB Floppy replacement, but not from Sony. I would like a format that will stay they same for a decade or to. Come on Sony has 2 different Playstation Memory cards, several different flavors of memory stick, (the newer ones were supposed to be in this range,) and Minidiscs. That is why I'm not really happy with Sony. Heck, they could have just used minidiscs or memory sticks in PS1 or PS2. It would be usefull if PS3 included a Minidisc slot for "saved games."
Although that is the feeling that I had getting my BS, I can tell you that all the CS concepts where quite new. It was all the damned general ed. requirements that was a complete rehash of highschool. Comp I & II, World Lit I & II, World History I & II, Chemisty, & Biology. We even had PE credits that we had to take! I'd say that most of my CS degree could have been reduced to a 2 year program if it was just the absolute needed in the math & CS classes.
Now I'm working as a "computer tech" Doing basic webpage updates, setting up windows & outlook accounts, & filling out purchase requests. I wish that I could have had minored in network administration or tech support.
The part which I find the most scary about this hasn't been mentioned yet: The US Postal Service counts as a "financial institution" for the purpose of this act.
As a result, an FBI agent can walk into the USPS, without a warrant, and demand a detailed listing of all the mail you receive.
From what I've gathered through other slashdot posts, they can only track "money movements." So if your Agent Fox went to your local USPS and asked for all their records on you. The best that Agent Fox will get is all those books of stamps and money orders. (Which I'd "generally" find legit if the money orders are over $1000.)
So MS buys Sega to get exclusive Sega games on Xbox 3. You know that will be the one that will be the first MS "Game Machine" worth buying. Every MS product takes about 3 iterations to get the bugs out. Why should Xbox be different?
I'm more scared of driving to work and back home every day. I know for a fact that I have a high chance of ending up dead because of someone else's individuals actions. I'm not scared that I'm going to die because my Walmart gets bombed. I'm also not scared that random people will mail me bomb. I never really thought of being scared of being shot. O.k. now that I think about it I'm not scared. Generally, when a nut is out on the loose, the police are after them! Would have tighter security measures stopped any of the events you listed? Possibly 9/11 could have been prevented. The Unabomber could have be prevented if the US postal service verified who was sending a package like Fedex and UPS. Oklahoma City, I don't think could have been prevented without more than reasonable measures. Would Columbine been prevented if schools were required to post guards at all the entrances all day and night? I can't think of anything that could prevent a random sniper. Can you think of anything that can stop people from using fists, rocks, knives, and cars as weapons?
Just what I always wanted DNS entries for all the products that I own. So then everyone could slashdot that RFID tag with embedded wireless webserver that will one day be in my fruit of the looms? It will be a very connected brave new world.
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It is neat from the retro point of view. I'd much rather have an "updated" PS2 Version and I don't mean that is looks just like the classic game. I'm talking about a choice of 20-30 tanks, planes, cars, boats or what not, thousands of maps, and randomly generated maps. I'd also want some updated music, sound effects, and pretty textures to look at for hours on end. Oh remember to make the entire playing field just the screen that is very important. I think their is a huge market for "retro-ish" photorealistic 2D games.
I just thought hey, you'd just end up with a "modern" version of Bomberman.
I found one at Walmart for $18 that was almost an exact PS2 controller. An adapter wouldn't work for me. I let the kids play "safe" class Nintendo titles on the computer, Donkey Kong Country, while my wife and I play FFX2. I works for me.
You know, if the media industry wants us to take their copyright claims seriously, then they need to start giving us some sort of discount as they re-release the same material on new formats. If I've got a license to view/hear it, then that should carry over, and I should only have to pay a small fee to upgrade.
Your small upgrade fee is either $15 or $20.
Actually, Star Wars 7, 8, & 9 could be the first major movies to use CG actors to replace the aging actors. They could scan in Harrison Ford from all his movies and pick just the age that they want him at. Actually, I'd think the only hard part would be the face. How hard would it be to use some one else's body? I could imagine contract disputes galore.
IF they actually are reproducing the moments, are they making a really short lived universes that die because the following moments didn't mimic the rest?
Could each of these experiments create an another realty?
The thing that really upsets me about this is that you can almost guarantee the government will require car-owners to buy these units out of their own pockets.
Just think of it as a tax.
1. Steal stuff.
2. Remove RFID tags from stuff.
You are assuming that RFID tags are removable and that there are only one per product. Button up shirts: one in each button. Watches 3 at a min. 1 in the watch and 2 on each side of the band. 3 or 4 in each shoe. Pants, only 3-3 buttons, one in each belt loop. 3 in every drink can.
An average Dell computer: 4 for the LCD monitor, 2 for the LCD plastic base, 101 for the keyboard, 3 for the mouse, 3 per each speaker, 1 per mouse pad, 1 at each end of every cable, 1 on each separate piece of plastic on the case. 4 for each storage media and drive.
You are thinking of tags and UPCs as they currently exist. I'm thinking of the future. Are you going to dig out the RF tags in shoes at a store? No the clerks will catch you. Will you be able to remove the 20 or so tags embedded in any and all electronics products? How about every circuit board having RFID as part of it? How are you going to steal that TV if you have to take it apart and remove 10 tags? It will be possible. But it will be very very annoying and difficult for those that enage in that sort of business.
Just wait until Japan gets into RFID. They'll put it into everything, which is a good idea. Then all that stuff we import will have about a dozen of these tags in them. Imagine cheap RFID in clothing buttons. RFID will be in passports, drivers lic., school ids, birth and death certs., nearly all offical government documents or bills will have RFID tags and barcodes on them. Actually they should all have atleast barcodes on them.
I'm confused. I want tracking. I really really do. I don't really care about governmental or corporate tracking too much. I care about being noticed. If everyone has a house full of this stuff and is recording every item they have, all corporates recording all sales and who bought each item and what their total business with you is, and the govenment tracked every citizen, tourist, and illegal alien and every tag you own, would that in and of itself be bad and evil? Nope. Actually, I'd want all my warranty info automatically submitted to the manufacurer and everything of $50 or more recorded with the government. Petty theft would be elimanted if criminals couldn't sell what they stole. If every pawn shop was required to scan all RFID tags, and the item showed that the person attempting to pawn didn't legally own the item. Well, the pawn shop would automatically have notified the police and a unit would be on the way. If the mafia hijacks a semi-truck to a warehouse, they would have to move it out side of the country to be sold or they'd be caught. Theft would still exist, but it would be very difficult.
how long before we have government schemes for informants?
After they get the wireless network built, then they'd just require all new cars to come with wireless cameras and microphones in the steering wheel to catch criminals, potential criminals, or those that just mutter about how controlling the government is.
This could be wonderful news for the advancement of science in general. Most of it is trial and error. Mix these 2 together and see if has the desired effect. There may be 10 or 20 thousand combinations to try. That's what experimental science is all about. Now if a grad student could just setup one of these things to test all combinations until either the wanted result appears, interesting things not predicted happen, or favorable or disfavorable results happen that could be useful else where. I could see a robot testing combinations until a given event is true. How would software flag "interesting results?"
Example: Scientist is looking for non-stick film to apply to pots. Robot is testing combinations. Does it notify the scientist if say this combination makes the pot super conductive, but things still stick to it?
Now, if it could file patents and lawsuits, it would be ready to enter today's world of technology.
Come on that's a lawyer's job. Scientist's just discover stuff. They don't actually get to sell it or make money. Some one else either their corporate sponsor, the government, the unviersity they work for, or the "business partner" that they are working with will file the patents and handle the lawsuits until it is time to dump the orginial scientist.
I really hope that I never have to work at your company! I don't think this system beats paper time cards. The only reason mentioned so far is this might be a good things is verification that it is the proper employee. O.k. Does a freaking McDonald's need this kind of security? I'll say "NO!" If fast food place, gas stations, and all other min. wage jobs require this, then every job would start to! The mentioned positive from an employer's point of view it to make sure that the proper employee is the at the scheduled time.
Building materials of war, government employees, verification of elected officals, passports, energy generation personal could all have this used. Food workers? What is the worst thing that could happen? A mass posioning or a bombing? Well, we have to check out all the employees first! Would this actually prevent anything like that? Nope. Terrorist actions could still occur.
You do realize if McDonalds could do this than every corporate employer with time clocks could. How long do you think a mandatory interface with DHS terriorist watch list is put into effect? Anyone that the government labels as a pontential terriorist would be scanned at every big company and either "picked up", watched, or denied a job. Smaller companies that hired these personal wouldn't worry about it until they hit it big. Then they'd put this into place and "layoff" or give "early retirement" to any one the government flags.
Bad things could easily happen with this.
Although i agree with you I can't recall ever seeing a post containing the words "butt munch" getting a 5: Informative.
Quick people here is your chance to make it happen!
The parent is Offtopic at the moment, but with alittle more help he can get that Informative. Then he won't believe his eye's when the words "butt munch" have been modded to +5 and isn't funny.
Additionally, many many ISP's charge a premium on extra IP addresses. What makes you think that they want to ditch that income so you and I can each address our refrigerator from the supermarket to see how much milk is left?
What makes you think that ISP's won't charge for each IP address that all those appliances in your house have? I'm sure they'd charge you more for that IP address over time than most of your appliances cost if you'd let them.
And I for one welcome our new lawyer overlords.
Huh, when did the old lawyer overlords leave? Did I miss a memo?
The people fucking up the State are NOT elected, and they do NOT have finite limits on how long they can stay in power. Some of the most important people making some of the most significant decisions in the history of the country, weren't even elected by the people.
Too bad the misdirection works so well, making everybody point their blame the temp worker who occupies the hot seat while the real power people stay under the radar for decades.
Oh, that's just the shadow government. You have to be a political insider of either party to get in. Don't worry they are even less organized than our visible government. They are just around longer.
It seems that nobody is allowed privacy in this White House administration except GWB and friends.
O.k. if it came from some one appointed by Bush, I could accept your comment. But come on, you know this more like a PHB said to some underling hey post all these comments on the website. There shouldn't be more than about 20 or 30 comments any way. The underling said sure boss. Then the boss sends the poor underling the thousands of comments. The underling goes ahead and starts edited out personnal information and posting it on the website all manually. I'd say it should take less than 2 weeks to go through do this assignment. After a day or two, the underling's boss comes in and says why aren't you doing your regular job. Underling explains that he or she is still busy at the other task. The boss decides it would be more efficient use of the underling's time to just post all the info on the website with out editing for personal info. 5 minutes latter it is all posted on the website with a short blurb that the personal info was going to be left in there. I can understand blaming alot of things on the head of our government, but come on this is just government business as usual! It could have happened reguardless of who was head of our government. Actually, I think it wouldn't have been that bad for some intern to go through and delete all the personnal info. I think it was a poor decision of some middle manager some where. O.k. it could have been a plot be the evil forces in our government to get your e-mail address, but I just don't buy it this time.
Didn't you hear? Apple is paying for embedded Slashdot ads! It was 2 cents per 100 favorable comments about iPod.
Instead of dissing this, you should hail it as bringing Gb storage to the masses.
I thought CDRs did that. Ok. 650MB isn't a 1 GB, but for practical purposes it is close enough. $7 per 1 disk vs $20 per stack of 50 disks. I would welcome a GB Floppy replacement, but not from Sony. I would like a format that will stay they same for a decade or to. Come on Sony has 2 different Playstation Memory cards, several different flavors of memory stick, (the newer ones were supposed to be in this range,) and Minidiscs.
That is why I'm not really happy with Sony. Heck, they could have just used minidiscs or memory sticks in PS1 or PS2. It would be usefull if PS3 included a Minidisc slot for "saved games."
Although that is the feeling that I had getting my BS, I can tell you that all the CS concepts where quite new. It was all the damned general ed. requirements that was a complete rehash of highschool. Comp I & II, World Lit I & II, World History I & II, Chemisty, & Biology. We even had PE credits that we had to take! I'd say that most of my CS degree could have been reduced to a 2 year program if it was just the absolute needed in the math & CS classes.
Now I'm working as a "computer tech" Doing basic webpage updates, setting up windows & outlook accounts, & filling out purchase requests. I wish that I could have had minored in network administration or tech support.
Getting a BS in CS in 2000.
The part which I find the most scary about this hasn't been mentioned yet: The US Postal Service counts as a "financial institution" for the purpose of this act.
As a result, an FBI agent can walk into the USPS, without a warrant, and demand a detailed listing of all the mail you receive.
From what I've gathered through other slashdot posts, they can only track "money movements." So if your Agent Fox went to your local USPS and asked for all their records on you. The best that Agent Fox will get is all those books of stamps and money orders. (Which I'd "generally" find legit if the money orders are over $1000.)
So MS buys Sega to get exclusive Sega games on Xbox 3. You know that will be the one that will be the first MS "Game Machine" worth buying. Every MS product takes about 3 iterations to get the bugs out. Why should Xbox be different?
I'm more scared of driving to work and back home every day. I know for a fact that I have a high chance of ending up dead because of someone else's individuals actions. I'm not scared that I'm going to die because my Walmart gets bombed. I'm also not scared that random people will mail me bomb. I never really thought of being scared of being shot. O.k. now that I think about it I'm not scared. Generally, when a nut is out on the loose, the police are after them! Would have tighter security measures stopped any of the events you listed? Possibly 9/11 could have been prevented. The Unabomber could have be prevented if the US postal service verified who was sending a package like Fedex and UPS. Oklahoma City, I don't think could have been prevented without more than reasonable measures. Would Columbine been prevented if schools were required to post guards at all the entrances all day and night? I can't think of anything that could prevent a random sniper. Can you think of anything that can stop people from using fists, rocks, knives, and cars as weapons?
Just what I always wanted DNS entries for all the products that I own. So then everyone could slashdot that RFID tag with embedded wireless webserver that will one day be in my fruit of the looms? It will be a very connected brave new world.