I took a brief look at their website. It looks like the company specilizes in embeded systems. Mainly military systems. I have to think that this wouldn't be an objective article.
I understand that the military needs to be protectionist with its weapons. I'd think that OSS would make them feel more secure. I don't want the US military to be using Red Flag Linux on all its servers. (I'd hope that they'd be a little brighter than that.) It's the main reason that other countries don't want US MS to be in their military's computers.
Actually, I wonder if anyone has suggested to SETI about scanning in our RF noise that we generate and attempting to find something useful out of it.
Have you ever just stared out the clouds and watched them make pretty shapes? I think that is basicaly SETI. I just hope that some folks get inspired by the pretty shapes.
Just out of curiosity, at which of those 10 stages are we permitted to start worrying?
About step 11 it passes, or step 12 date of enforcement of bill will begin, or step 13 enforcement begins actually enforcing the bill, then you are allowed to worry about it.
In any event, I think Seti@home is ridiculous because surely, future communication is data-compressed and the best compression methods produce data that cannot easily be distinguished from random space background noise.
There you go. Who knows what we may discover by having our most powerful computers scan and decode random noise! I think this field has a huge potential for growth if any thing actually comes out of it.
Why, then, is the man who was at the forefront of Square's shared delusion suddenly the sole heir of the blame?
I'd say he is the management fall guy. Would you rather have to "punish" an entire team for their work, or just one higher up manager that gave the go ahead and approved it?
The woman has been designing D&D type games for 20 years. I think if she's been in the industry that long; she should know what she is doing.
Actually I could care less about how Play Boy attempts to build a game. Before I ever read Play Boy, I thought that it would be 90% pictures of nude women. I was wrong it was more like 5-10% pictures of nude women. The other 90%-95% was filled with interviews, articles, and ads.
Let's face it, Play Boy, is a main stream product that is designed with pleasing the wife and/or girl friend in mind.
She thinks that being a woman gives her an edge because she wouldn't be turned on where most straight men would. I personally think that the folks that would be turned on would get over it if not the first day then in the first week. There is nothing sacred about the female body that makes it turn men on every time.
What I want is a $400-500 tasked designed device. I want 20+ hours of battery life. To get this, I don't need a P4 1.8 + Ghz. I'd take a P2 300 Mhz chip. I'd like it to play dvd's if possible, and be a large screened PDA for display info. I don't want it to try and compete with the next P4 3+ghz desktop or latest laptop offerings. I'd like to plug in my storage media, be it usb key chain to DVDs and cheaply and easily view my content in a form several others can see as well.
John Kerry is the richest man to ever grace the senate, he's married to Teresa HEINZ Kerry, you know, the ketchup chick. They have billions, none of it he EARNED. He married the widow of a rich ketchup producer.
Damn politicians, they find all the really wealthy ones. We need to make a list of the top wealthiest single females.
Forget tracking people. We need to elimate all those strays. This is the first step toward tracking all those pets. After we have all the pets marked, then we can remove all the unmarked ones. Let's just hope our removal system just removes that species and not us as well.
Woah! Been reading a lot of SF lately I take it?:)
Yeah, this would be "do able." All we really need to figure out is how to get an organ to transmit radio waves. Then we refine that from barely tranmiting RF to tranmitting RF out to about a mile. Every cell in our body has a copy of our DNA. It should be that difficult to pick enough markers for the individual to be unquie. Then you have the organ just operate 24x7 similar to the heart. Then we'd just have it passed down to all the offspring. Actually, all the really hard parts could be tested out in other organisms before field testing it in humans.
Of course you could be evil and design cockroaches that broadcast out random RFID tags or copied useful RFID tags. Could you imagine tring to find your RFID keys in the morning when your house says that you have 10 copies of them moving around in different rooms?
Remember SF is good for thinking about things that may or may not be that far in the future.
The technology exists such that they could in theory make this thing only operate when pysically attached to the body ( say, powered off of blood or bloodflow ), and only operate when in contact with his specific blood type.
So to use it, a perpetraitor would have to a) Kidnap him, b ) cut off his arm, c) surgically graft the thing into someone else with the same blood type.
Hopefully by that point they'd have de-activated his chip.
I imagine in a few years we'd even be able to make these things DNA specific.
Just wait till we start doing human genetic tinkering. I bet one of the first ideas would an internal organ that's sole purpose is to broadcast out a small DNA finger print. All you'd have to do is develop one really good version then you put it into all the people that you want tracked. Then you never have to worry about tracking them or their offspring. To be really evil, you'd make death or extreme illness happen if this organ were removed.
Why doesn't some entity work on a universal system of tracking nearly everything?
I'd like to scan in that barcode at the bottom of a Walmart Reciept and import all the tag information about what I bought to my home database and/or spreadsheet.
ISBN, UPC, VIN are all fairly standard. The artical wants a standard for reusable resellabl items. Bus tickets, subway tickets, airplane tickets, and movie tickets all come to mind.
I'd love to be able to track/search/use all this information for my own personal use. I wouldn't want to have to list it on my IRS returns or to my insurance company. Well, if I'd get a big deduction I wouldn't mind listing it.
correct me if i'm wrong, but i believe the original release was scheduled for june. when june came it got delayed until only july. now that we're in july it's been delayed just one more month....riiiight. i for one will not be surprised to see it delayed until september next month. and who knows? maybe october after that....?
This is Microsoft we are talking about. I'm glad it just isn't named something like Windows XP Service Pack 2004. If it were named that, it would be "released" Decemeber, 31, 2004.
Start a company that uses a cell phone to do this. You could have a radar map with the "nearest" targets. Of course, it would freak some folks out to have people sneaking around with their cell phones pointed like guns.
Not usually. If you get something in return for what you paid, then you didn't make a donation. However, if the ammount you paid is dramatically more than the value of what you got in return, you can deduct the overage.
Then does that mean that all those that downloaded and use Mozilla can't make a deduction because they got something (better software) in return?
Or are you meaning any amount that we donate should be deductable because it is "free?"
Most of the problematic friends/relatives/co-workers/etc. who bug me with computer questions are still using Windows 98/ME/2000... heck I know people still using Windows 95 because they're too cheap to upgrade...
Tell them your support for anything pre XP has just expired and for you to work on their hardware or software that they need to either upgrade to Linux or be evil and say XP.
The article mentions mainly about how they are looking at emulators because HP/Compaq isn't producing any new VAXs. I'm guessing HP will release a new "VAX" that is just a custom emulator running on top of intel's lastest. From a marketing point of view, it's what I'd do.
If it was so much easier than building nuclear bombs, why haven't we gone alot father in that field than we have?
I agree once you have a virus or some time of self spreading destructive agent, it is easier to spread than tradional bombs. Building tailored geneic machines will be like every other process. It won't be very profitable until some big break through makes it cheaper for certain apps. Then we'd carelessly use the tech for 5-10 years without any problems then one day we'd have an accident and the news folks would be all over it. There would be all sorts of safe guards so that nothing like that could happen again. Every six months or so their would be a new special report about how that tech could have been better managed and what not.
I don't care about somethings changing all the time, others bug me out. My pet peeve is cell phones. The entire cell phone industry should be standardized so that all batteries, chargers, and other items would fit every phone. Heck, I'd like them to one print cartiridge for 1-2 years across all the models. It seems with ink jet printers that they are on a 3 month cycle. (I'd rather just have one decent item that I know is good and buy that one each time.)
I hate having to look up the new model and if all the extras would still fit into the new model. It is very annoying.
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I took a brief look at their website. It looks like the company specilizes in embeded systems. Mainly military systems. I have to think that this wouldn't be an objective article.
I understand that the military needs to be protectionist with its weapons. I'd think that OSS would make them feel more secure. I don't want the US military to be using Red Flag Linux on all its servers. (I'd hope that they'd be a little brighter than that.) It's the main reason that other countries don't want US MS to be in their military's computers.
Homemade, low-cost, inject signals into my head... For some reasons I don't think this is one place for DIY :)
Are you kidding? Think of the Darwin Awards this will generate!
Actually, I wonder if anyone has suggested to SETI about scanning in our RF noise that we generate and attempting to find something useful out of it.
Have you ever just stared out the clouds and watched them make pretty shapes? I think that is basicaly SETI. I just hope that some folks get inspired by the pretty shapes.
Just out of curiosity, at which of those 10 stages are we permitted to start worrying?
About
step 11 it passes, or
step 12 date of enforcement of bill will begin, or
step 13 enforcement begins actually enforcing the bill,
then you are allowed to worry about it.
In any event, I think Seti@home is ridiculous because surely, future communication is data-compressed and the best compression methods produce data that cannot easily be distinguished from random space background noise.
There you go. Who knows what we may discover by having our most powerful computers scan and decode random noise! I think this field has a huge potential for growth if any thing actually comes out of it.
Why, then, is the man who was at the forefront of Square's shared delusion suddenly the sole heir of the blame?
I'd say he is the management fall guy. Would you rather have to "punish" an entire team for their work, or just one higher up manager that gave the go ahead and approved it?
The woman has been designing D&D type games for 20 years. I think if she's been in the industry that long; she should know what she is doing.
Actually I could care less about how Play Boy attempts to build a game. Before I ever read Play Boy, I thought that it would be 90% pictures of nude women. I was wrong it was more like 5-10% pictures of nude women. The other 90%-95% was filled with interviews, articles, and ads.
Let's face it, Play Boy, is a main stream product that is designed with pleasing the wife and/or girl friend in mind.
She thinks that being a woman gives her an edge because she wouldn't be turned on where most straight men would. I personally think that the folks that would be turned on would get over it if not the first day then in the first week. There is nothing sacred about the female body that makes it turn men on every time.
What I want is a $400-500 tasked designed device.
I want 20+ hours of battery life. To get this, I don't need a P4 1.8 + Ghz. I'd take a P2 300 Mhz chip. I'd like it to play dvd's if possible, and be a large screened PDA for display info. I don't want it to try and compete with the next P4 3+ghz desktop or latest laptop offerings. I'd like to plug in my storage media, be it usb key chain to DVDs and cheaply and easily view my content in a form several others can see as well.
John Kerry is the richest man to ever grace the senate, he's married to Teresa HEINZ Kerry, you know, the ketchup chick. They have billions, none of it he EARNED. He married the widow of a rich ketchup producer.
Damn politicians, they find all the really wealthy ones. We need to make a list of the top wealthiest single females.
I can meet that. I'm just glad it didn't require 1 gig of RAM as the min. spec.
Forget tracking people. We need to elimate all those strays. This is the first step toward tracking all those pets. After we have all the pets marked, then we can remove all the unmarked ones. Let's just hope our removal system just removes that species and not us as well.
Hey, what about cd?
Woah! Been reading a lot of SF lately I take it? :)
Yeah, this would be "do able." All we really need to figure out is how to get an organ to transmit radio waves. Then we refine that from barely tranmiting RF to tranmitting RF out to about a mile. Every cell in our body has a copy of our DNA. It should be that difficult to pick enough markers for the individual to be unquie. Then you have the organ just operate 24x7 similar to the heart. Then we'd just have it passed down to all the offspring. Actually, all the really hard parts could be tested out in other organisms before field testing it in humans.
Of course you could be evil and design cockroaches that broadcast out random RFID tags or copied useful RFID tags. Could you imagine tring to find your RFID keys in the morning when your house says that you have 10 copies of them moving around in different rooms?
Remember SF is good for thinking about things that may or may not be that far in the future.
IE 7 adds CSS 3 support and PNG support in Japan.
The technology exists such that they could in theory make this thing only operate when pysically attached to the body ( say, powered off of blood or bloodflow ), and only operate when in contact with his specific blood type.
So to use it, a perpetraitor would have to a) Kidnap him, b ) cut off his arm, c) surgically graft the thing into someone else with the same blood type.
Hopefully by that point they'd have de-activated his chip.
I imagine in a few years we'd even be able to make these things DNA specific.
Just wait till we start doing human genetic tinkering. I bet one of the first ideas would an internal organ that's sole purpose is to broadcast out a small DNA finger print. All you'd have to do is develop one really good version then you put it into all the people that you want tracked. Then you never have to worry about tracking them or their offspring. To be really evil, you'd make death or extreme illness happen if this organ were removed.
Why doesn't some entity work on a universal system of tracking nearly everything?
I'd like to scan in that barcode at the bottom of a Walmart Reciept and import all the tag information about what I bought to my home database and/or spreadsheet.
ISBN, UPC, VIN are all fairly standard. The artical wants a standard for reusable resellabl items. Bus tickets, subway tickets, airplane tickets, and movie tickets all come to mind.
I'd love to be able to track/search/use all this information for my own personal use. I wouldn't want to have to list it on my IRS returns or to my insurance company. Well, if I'd get a big deduction I wouldn't mind listing it.
correct me if i'm wrong, but i believe the original release was scheduled for june. when june came it got delayed until only july. now that we're in july it's been delayed just one more month....riiiight.
i for one will not be surprised to see it delayed until september next month. and who knows? maybe october after that....?
This is Microsoft we are talking about. I'm glad it just isn't named something like Windows XP Service Pack 2004. If it were named that, it would be "released" Decemeber, 31, 2004.
Start a company that uses a cell phone to do this. You could have a radar map with the "nearest" targets. Of course, it would freak some folks out to have people sneaking around with their cell phones pointed like guns.
Not usually. If you get something in return for what you paid, then you didn't make a donation. However, if the ammount you paid is dramatically more than the value of what you got in return, you can deduct the overage.
Then does that mean that all those that downloaded and use Mozilla can't make a deduction because they got something (better software) in return?
Or are you meaning any amount that we donate should be deductable because it is "free?"
I'm confused.
That's not being a fan. That's having a fetish. And I don't have a problem with that, except you can't bring your hobbies in to work, okay?
Does that mean we can't wear the Vulcan ears at work any more?
Most of the problematic friends/relatives/co-workers/etc. who bug me with computer questions are still using Windows 98/ME/2000... heck I know people still using Windows 95 because they're too cheap to upgrade...
Tell them your support for anything pre XP has just expired and for you to work on their hardware or software that they need to either upgrade to Linux or be evil and say XP.
The article mentions mainly about how they are looking at emulators because HP/Compaq isn't producing any new VAXs. I'm guessing HP will release a new "VAX" that is just a custom emulator running on top of intel's lastest. From a marketing point of view, it's what I'd do.
If it was so much easier than building nuclear bombs, why haven't we gone alot father in that field than we have?
I agree once you have a virus or some time of self spreading destructive agent, it is easier to spread than tradional bombs. Building tailored geneic machines will be like every other process. It won't be very profitable until some big break through makes it cheaper for certain apps. Then we'd carelessly use the tech for 5-10 years without any problems then one day we'd have an accident and the news folks would be all over it. There would be all sorts of safe guards so that nothing like that could happen again. Every six months or so their would be a new special report about how that tech could have been better managed and what not.
I don't care about somethings changing all the time, others bug me out. My pet peeve is cell phones. The entire cell phone industry should be standardized so that all batteries, chargers, and other items would fit every phone. Heck, I'd like them to one print cartiridge for 1-2 years across all the models. It seems with ink jet printers that they are on a 3 month cycle. (I'd rather just have one decent item that I know is good and buy that one each time.)
I hate having to look up the new model and if all the extras would still fit into the new model. It is very annoying.
Timmy might be a bully now, keeping all the juiceboxes for him, but 15 years down the road he'll be a law abiding citizen.
You mean he'd be a corporate manager?