Yes, but in a large enough mesh network, chances are your neighbor would have the file you need; no need to go out on the internet for it. The idea is a network fabric, hopefully with many outgoing routed connections to it as possible. It's not like most people with 1.5 MB cable connections use all that bandwidth all the time also. Might as well share. Someone has to just do it.
I know that this sounds a little paranoid, but when I was watching the first coverage, and they mentioned that the temperature in the left wing rose suddenly, all I could think of was a high powered laser blast hitting the shuttle.
I mean, let's be honest--the first mission with an Israeli, the whole mess going on right now, ok, it is a little paranoid.
I've had a lot of caffine, give me a break. Still, something to think about.. foul play..
Personally, it's the only thing I'm looking forward to this year, besides being reunited with my fiance.
Anyway, that out of the way, I just wanted to quote some George Bernard Shaw because your comment provoked it:
"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." --George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
I think that this quote both validates and invalidates your comment on the human response to history.
Firstly, it agrees with what you are saying, in that we humans are pretty ignorant of the past, and continue to make the same mistakes even when we know what the right way is.
Secondly, it may also imply that humans have nothing to learn from history--like in statistics, the past simply does not matter; everything that happens "now" has the same odds as everything that happened before it.
And in the end, the unity of the two ideas, the fact that we learn from history that we, humans, can never learn anything from history.
And what do they do with all that profit? Reinvest to enlarge their company, create higher quality software, hire more employees?
Nope. They put it in the bank. Microsoft is not concerned with making their stuff better. They just go with the flow. Now they have $50bln in the bank, which is enough to do something real, like hard money lending....
Software to Microsoft is like, the baseboard, of a huge empire. Remember that.
No MSG has a website that illustrates in more detail the side of humanity who is against MSG use. Mainly, the fact that it's in EVERYTHING. It goes by many different names, such as sodium benzoate, hydrolyed soy protein, hydrolyzed protein, rhizome, "natural flavoring", etc. Nobody ever comes clean with what's really in their food. Most prepackaged food has MSG or other gluatmates in it..
A lot more people are beginning to believe the truth, that they reguarly ingest poison on an everyday basis... It is now known that there are glutamate receptors in every major organ in the body--not just in the tongue.. and it tickles those organs in the much the same way as it tickles the nerves in your tongue.
It's known to cause numerous health issues, including tachycardia, ultra high blood pressure, nervousness, and obesity plus a host of "mental illnesses". It's linked to depression, ADHD, male erectile dysfunction, seasonal affective disorder, and many more.
If you're the kind of person who likes a 1/2 cup of ketchup with your large fries, or ranch by the cupful, watch out. It has TONS of msg in it. Ramen eaters, beware. NORMAL AMOUNTS OF MSG ARE NOT HARMFUL, but today's concentrations of MSG are bordering on inhuman. I think the FDA should revisit their testing with today's scientific methods before we just dismiss this as clucking in the hen house.
Interestingly enough, I have a friend who designs and implements repeater systems on big ships (aircraft carriers). He once described to me the difficulty of making a simple walkie talkie radio work all around the ship. The excessive steelwork and armory are the least of his worries. Making it all work with less than 1mw is the big issue.
Remember, "stealth" is important, and when a carrier group goes dark to be more invisible, the last thing we want is the enemy sniffing out a little walkie talkie somewhere.
Take that little walkie talkie times a thousand repeaters and you are looking at quite a bit of radiation. They literally have to make sure that only one is operating at a given time on a given frequency. In a ship with 5000 occupants, this is quite difficult.
Then again, this is just a little destroyer the article is talking about. I imagine 802.11b is probably alright still, but they will probably use something like bluetooth--lower power--and then putting a tranciever in every room. Still, interesting to think about..
What is much more interesting is what IE does AFTER it sends that first request without opening the connection... You know the lovely MSN Search page it loves to pop up? Everytime IE encounters (for the first time in each session) a non-IIS server, it promptly connects to MSN Search and submits the website address....
FIRST, the capsules will be used in livestock. (already done)
SECOND, the capsules will be implanted into companion pets (done)
THIRD, they will be put into every suitcase and you will have to have a registered suitcase to take stuff on a plane.
FOURTH, they will put a mini-transmitter into a football and use it to show exactly where the ball is on the field at any given time, thus removing all questionable calls at the goal line.
FIFTH, they will put GPS enabled capsules in all of the things they already have them in--pets, etc.
Imagine, the airport says they lost your bag; you log into a website, slide your card that came with the suitcase, and it shows you the exact location on earth (within a few meters) of where it is.
Or your pet. Or your car keys. Or a piece of mail, a package, a shipping container.
Perhaps then the law will realize they want to know where the pedophile is at any given time.
Then, people will just get them implanted into their grandparents with alzheimer's.
Cliff Stoll is not a grad student. He's an astronomer. The cuckoo's egg is post cliff stoll grad student days.
It's good stuff. He's a hippy tracking a hacker and the government won't do anything. So, his sense of duty keeps him going, and eventually he goes to visit the NSA and stuff like that.
The article was vague. Maybe he made a mistake and gave the investigators something that identified him. Equally likely, maybe the infosec guys decided the payoff for letting him continue hacking for a while (firm up the evidence for a conviction, be able to convict him for more serious offences, and most importantly figure out what his motives and techniques were) was more important than having him arrested immediately.
Might as well use all that radiation we are constantly bathed in for something useful... I wonder how long before they can turn a cell tower into a sort of directed engergy weapon. Think about it, get 2 or 6 phone towers and electronically steer them towards a point on earth, possibly using this "CellDar" as a targetting system. Time the intersecting beams for the various towers to reach the target exactly in-phase, causing constructive interference at the target's brain, say. The 500,000 watts or so of RF/microwave radiation placed in a few square inches of brain tissue would cause immediate nervous system disruption and perhaps instant death.
The former Soviets actually did a lot of research into directed energy and such weapons. They also developed a lot of interesting research on other uses for concentrated RF--it seems as though the human nervous system operates on a kind of clock (it isn't just randomly firing), and certain frequencies of directed energy can disrupt and change brain patterns, even influence behavior. Of course, all of their experiments involved very powerful RF at very close range to the emitter under lab conditions.... Only with many emitters, computer-controlled, with some type of targeting system, could make this thing work at a longer range.
Of course, it isn't published--so it doesn't exist--and I'm going to get flamed off slashdot and told to go put on my tinfoil hat. What would you do if you had a mind control system? Tell the world. I guess so...
I think the time has come for us to do what we really have been needing to do for about a year now. Turn our fucking backs to the terrorists, the government, and all the other fucking assholes in the world and start enjoying our lives.
WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE SOMEDAY. It doesn't make a difference WHEN. Sure, mod me flamebait if you don't get it--I'm capped.
These god dammed masses with their red white and blue turbans and stupid laws and talk and bombs and patriotism can blow it out of their ass.
I DON'T CARE, and I have a basic human right to not care.
No laws, no amount of bombing, fighting, security equipment, idle talk, posting of messages, crashing of planes into skyscrapers, nuclear weapons exploding and destroying the world will EVER solve the problem of terrorism.
THE ONLY THING WE CAN DO is to turn our backs and say "fuck it."
"How has it affected me? I'm worried about what I say in public; that's how it's affected me...."
And who knows what effect that has had on the future? I mean, you are not alone. I too feel the same way, and I'm sure MANY other Americans do also. What impact has this had? It's uncountable, unfathomable. What things haven't been stopped that should have been. What things haven't been said.
From tomorrow on, I am going to say what I feel, regardless. If they take me to jail or execute me, that will be the price I pay for excercising my freedom. If I can't be free, what is the point of living? They are trying to turn us into robots, slowly but surely.
(by "they", I am not sure who I mean. It could be a group of men, or some aliens, or perhaps society itself, acting in unison. I don't believe there's a grand conspiracy of intelligent making; perhaps it is the nature of the beast we live within?)
I watched an interesting talk given by Noam Chomsky on CSPAN. For those who have never heard of Chomsky, he's a world famous anthropologist and political activist.
Anyway, he was talking about (among other things) pretexts used by "America" to justify other actions totally unrelated to the original pretext. For instance, the cold war was used as a pretext to place our influence all around the world in the form of military bases in other countries, aircraft carriers, submarines, etc. The important point, since that is all obvious, is that whether or not the threat actually existed, we did this stuff anyway.
I don't really know how to explain it all as eloquently as Mr. Chomsky, but he went on to describe the FIRST war on terror, began in 1981 by the Regan administration (many of the same people are in the current Bush administration). Firstly, there was a war on terror declared after the olympic shootings, then deadly narco-trafficers were used as a pretext to attack and occupy Nicuragua. Then there was the invasion of Panama, etc.
It was almost like, as he said, they knew that the cold war was coming to an end and a new pretext needed to be created.
It goes on and on. It doesn't make much sense, but it goes to show that the people in power will use a crisis or situation or pretext to further their own goals. In the case of the present "war on terror", the goal was to implement almost Stalinist policies into the state--such as the ironically named "U.S. Patriot Act" and other such nonsense.
Of course, the real reasons lie hidden beneath lies. One can naturally assume that it has a lot to do with the largest energy source on earth being located in the gulf and the fact that a lot of people with a very different religion live on top of it, and EVERY country wants a piece of the action underneath (ie: russia, china, india, france, germany, etc, etc, etc)
Of course, crazies have been talking about some agents of the U.S. or israel being responsible for the 9/11 incident but that's a small detail. It doesn't really matter who did it; the results are what count. The current administration is going out of its way to blame all the changes on Terrorists, yet this threat has been here since the 1950's and we've never done anything because we all know that nothing we can do will ever protect ourselves.
Just, please, remember to trust very little anyone who tries to blame anything on some unseen entity, especially when they appear to be profitting from it..... anyway, we'll see what happens tomorrow.
Microsoft only has about 35 billion dollars, and I believe their GDP is greater than that of Bolivia, or Uruaguay or something.
Looking at this logically, they have all this money and favorable public support so there is no Political solution to the problem. People like Microsoft.
So, a small number of us hate them, because we choose to not run windows. Welp, sorry to say, this IS a democracy (ok, *cough*) and the majority has spoken. Until the majority gives a fuck, nothing will change. You can lobby congress about the blah blah blah and this and that, but the bottom line is that M$ makes money for America, so it is a Good Thing. It puts money into the pockets of the shrinkwrapper at the factory and the needy Senator alike.
But yes, it goes beyond frustration. Having to pay for something you don't use. Like, dammit, I had to pay for the spare tire in my car, but I've never had to use it. That's bullshit, I should never have to pay for it unless I use it.
Guess what, you still have a choice. DON'T BUY DELL! You can get PC's without OS's on them from other manufacturers. Yes, the manufacturers will probably be hurt by MS's licensing requirements. SO WHAT! Buy from a open source only builder. Or build yourself. Or hire some college student to build for you for 10/hr!
Or if it really has you that worked up, buy a gun, and shoot yourself, because MS isn't going away, the bastards.
What about a disease or -- hey, why not -- an ASTEROID that threatens to wipe out Earth. Surely telling everyone would induce mass panic, possibly injuring more people than the original antagonist.
But maybe, if you find some way to warm people to the idea that they could all die soon from some unknown force, several years in advance, when the shit hits the fan they could be more prepared psychologically to deal with it.
Likewise, a new energy source would be a revolutionary product, but the oil companies would squash it like a fly. Maybe you could introduce the idea of amazing new energy to people, show a few, and gauge their reaction. Then, when the time comes to release your amazing invention, YOU can be prepared with the right sort of marketing campaign, or publicity, etc. Maybe you need to wait anyway, for the right time, the right situation (or the right major crises) where you can make the most out of it all (ie: Sept. 11 and the flag companies).
Now, don't raise your eyebrows, we all know that there was capitalization on that crisis, and there will be on every other crisis to come. Of course, the most guilty party is the media. But anyway, just trying to make a point.
There ARE reasons maybe you should prepare society or yourself for the right time and to be in the right mindset for the release of an idea. Be it for profit OR safety.
Well, then you have to worry about condensation, etc. of the evaporated water. If you use freon or sorry tetrafluoroethane, the resulting vapor and condensate is inert. With water cooling, you might as well be using a closed loop system, as it it would be cheaper than building a system to withstand water.
So, while you're at it, you might as well use a real refrigerant and actually chill the chips. Basically, this is a cool project, but seems pretty pointless. I can think of some other jobs it could do.
I believe IMAX also uses a higher frame rate--something like 60fps. They also use some of the most powerful light bulbs in the world. I hope one day they will get DLP up to the resolution of IMAX. IMAX looks almost real.
SAP is definately only for really large commodity driven companies. If I were the CTO of a medium size business, I would not use an ERP like SAP. I'd use something much lighter weight. Of course, if I were Amazon, Dell, Anheiser-Busch, Pepsico, etc. I would be using SAP. Nothing else comes close when you need to know what, where, when, and how much.
And of course there's always a little IBM product called AS/400...
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Yes, but in a large enough mesh network, chances are your neighbor would have the file you need; no need to go out on the internet for it. The idea is a network fabric, hopefully with many outgoing routed connections to it as possible. It's not like most people with 1.5 MB cable connections use all that bandwidth all the time also. Might as well share. Someone has to just do it.
No wonder they've been putting this war off for so long--They had to wait until Mitnick got out. ;)
I know that this sounds a little paranoid, but when I was watching the first coverage, and they mentioned that the temperature in the left wing rose suddenly, all I could think of was a high powered laser blast hitting the shuttle.
I mean, let's be honest--the first mission with an Israeli, the whole mess going on right now, ok, it is a little paranoid.
I've had a lot of caffine, give me a break. Still, something to think about.. foul play..
But maybe it was placed in the Zion archives AFTER the 3 movies are over?
HA HA!
Personally, it's the only thing I'm looking forward to this year, besides being reunited with my fiance.
Anyway, that out of the way, I just wanted to quote some George Bernard Shaw because your comment provoked it:
"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." --George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
I think that this quote both validates and invalidates your comment on the human response to history.
Firstly, it agrees with what you are saying, in that we humans are pretty ignorant of the past, and continue to make the same mistakes even when we know what the right way is.
Secondly, it may also imply that humans have nothing to learn from history--like in statistics, the past simply does not matter; everything that happens "now" has the same odds as everything that happened before it.
And in the end, the unity of the two ideas, the fact that we learn from history that we, humans, can never learn anything from history.
And what do they do with all that profit? Reinvest to enlarge their company, create higher quality software, hire more employees?
Nope. They put it in the bank. Microsoft is not concerned with making their stuff better. They just go with the flow. Now they have $50bln in the bank, which is enough to do something real, like hard money lending....
Software to Microsoft is like, the baseboard, of a huge empire. Remember that.
No MSG has a website that illustrates in more detail the side of humanity who is against MSG use. Mainly, the fact that it's in EVERYTHING. It goes by many different names, such as sodium benzoate, hydrolyed soy protein, hydrolyzed protein, rhizome, "natural flavoring", etc. Nobody ever comes clean with what's really in their food. Most prepackaged food has MSG or other gluatmates in it..
A lot more people are beginning to believe the truth, that they reguarly ingest poison on an everyday basis... It is now known that there are glutamate receptors in every major organ in the body--not just in the tongue.. and it tickles those organs in the much the same way as it tickles the nerves in your tongue.
It's known to cause numerous health issues, including tachycardia, ultra high blood pressure, nervousness, and obesity plus a host of "mental illnesses". It's linked to depression, ADHD, male erectile dysfunction, seasonal affective disorder, and many more.
If you're the kind of person who likes a 1/2 cup of ketchup with your large fries, or ranch by the cupful, watch out. It has TONS of msg in it. Ramen eaters, beware. NORMAL AMOUNTS OF MSG ARE NOT HARMFUL, but today's concentrations of MSG are bordering on inhuman. I think the FDA should revisit their testing with today's scientific methods before we just dismiss this as clucking in the hen house.
Interestingly enough, I have a friend who designs and implements repeater systems on big ships (aircraft carriers). He once described to me the difficulty of making a simple walkie talkie radio work all around the ship. The excessive steelwork and armory are the least of his worries. Making it all work with less than 1mw is the big issue.
Remember, "stealth" is important, and when a carrier group goes dark to be more invisible, the last thing we want is the enemy sniffing out a little walkie talkie somewhere.
Take that little walkie talkie times a thousand repeaters and you are looking at quite a bit of radiation. They literally have to make sure that only one is operating at a given time on a given frequency. In a ship with 5000 occupants, this is quite difficult.
Then again, this is just a little destroyer the article is talking about. I imagine 802.11b is probably alright still, but they will probably use something like bluetooth--lower power--and then putting a tranciever in every room. Still, interesting to think about..
What is much more interesting is what IE does AFTER it sends that first request without opening the connection... You know the lovely MSN Search page it loves to pop up? Everytime IE encounters (for the first time in each session) a non-IIS server, it promptly connects to MSN Search and submits the website address....
You are being watched, friends.
Applied Digital Solutions makes implantable RFID capsules..
I see it more as like this:
FIRST, the capsules will be used in livestock. (already done)
SECOND, the capsules will be implanted into companion pets (done)
THIRD, they will be put into every suitcase and you will have to have a registered suitcase to take stuff on a plane.
FOURTH, they will put a mini-transmitter into a football and use it to show exactly where the ball is on the field at any given time, thus removing all questionable calls at the goal line.
FIFTH, they will put GPS enabled capsules in all of the things they already have them in--pets, etc.
Imagine, the airport says they lost your bag; you log into a website, slide your card that came with the suitcase, and it shows you the exact location on earth (within a few meters) of where it is.
Or your pet. Or your car keys. Or a piece of mail, a package, a shipping container.
Perhaps then the law will realize they want to know where the pedophile is at any given time.
Then, people will just get them implanted into their grandparents with alzheimer's.
Then, maybe their children.
Then, it's done.
Cliff Stoll is not a grad student. He's an astronomer. The cuckoo's egg is post cliff stoll grad student days.
It's good stuff. He's a hippy tracking a hacker and the government won't do anything. So, his sense of duty keeps him going, and eventually he goes to visit the NSA and stuff like that.
It's tiiiiiiight.
The article was vague. Maybe he made a mistake and gave the investigators something that identified him. Equally likely, maybe the infosec guys decided the payoff for letting him continue hacking for a while (firm up the evidence for a conviction, be able to convict him for more serious offences, and most importantly figure out what his motives and techniques were) was more important than having him arrested immediately.
Maybe, just maybe, he doesn't exist at all.....
Popular Science has long been the media tool of the U.S. Miltary/Industrial Complex.
Because you can put your weed in it.
Might as well use all that radiation we are constantly bathed in for something useful... I wonder how long before they can turn a cell tower into a sort of directed engergy weapon. Think about it, get 2 or 6 phone towers and electronically steer them towards a point on earth, possibly using this "CellDar" as a targetting system. Time the intersecting beams for the various towers to reach the target exactly in-phase, causing constructive interference at the target's brain, say. The 500,000 watts or so of RF/microwave radiation placed in a few square inches of brain tissue would cause immediate nervous system disruption and perhaps instant death.
The former Soviets actually did a lot of research into directed energy and such weapons. They also developed a lot of interesting research on other uses for concentrated RF--it seems as though the human nervous system operates on a kind of clock (it isn't just randomly firing), and certain frequencies of directed energy can disrupt and change brain patterns, even influence behavior. Of course, all of their experiments involved very powerful RF at very close range to the emitter under lab conditions.... Only with many emitters, computer-controlled, with some type of targeting system, could make this thing work at a longer range.
Of course, it isn't published--so it doesn't exist--and I'm going to get flamed off slashdot and told to go put on my tinfoil hat. What would you do if you had a mind control system? Tell the world. I guess so...
Wait until the fucking Communists come back.
I think the time has come for us to do what we really have been needing to do for about a year now. Turn our fucking backs to the terrorists, the government, and all the other fucking assholes in the world and start enjoying our lives.
WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE SOMEDAY. It doesn't make a difference WHEN. Sure, mod me flamebait if you don't get it--I'm capped.
These god dammed masses with their red white and blue turbans and stupid laws and talk and bombs and patriotism can blow it out of their ass.
I DON'T CARE, and I have a basic human right to not care.
No laws, no amount of bombing, fighting, security equipment, idle talk, posting of messages, crashing of planes into skyscrapers, nuclear weapons exploding and destroying the world will EVER solve the problem of terrorism.
THE ONLY THING WE CAN DO is to turn our backs and say "fuck it."
"How has it affected me? I'm worried about what I say in public; that's how it's affected me...."
And who knows what effect that has had on the future? I mean, you are not alone. I too feel the same way, and I'm sure MANY other Americans do also. What impact has this had? It's uncountable, unfathomable. What things haven't been stopped that should have been. What things haven't been said.
From tomorrow on, I am going to say what I feel, regardless. If they take me to jail or execute me, that will be the price I pay for excercising my freedom. If I can't be free, what is the point of living? They are trying to turn us into robots, slowly but surely.
(by "they", I am not sure who I mean. It could be a group of men, or some aliens, or perhaps society itself, acting in unison. I don't believe there's a grand conspiracy of intelligent making; perhaps it is the nature of the beast we live within?)
Very remeniscent of early Stalinist doctrine, if anyone remembers.. That is, unless they've already erased that out of the history books..
Read Noam Chomsky's book "9-11" for some very very insightful facts..pick it up tomorrow, in fact, if you can.
I watched an interesting talk given by Noam Chomsky on CSPAN. For those who have never heard of Chomsky, he's a world famous anthropologist and political activist.
Anyway, he was talking about (among other things) pretexts used by "America" to justify other actions totally unrelated to the original pretext. For instance, the cold war was used as a pretext to place our influence all around the world in the form of military bases in other countries, aircraft carriers, submarines, etc. The important point, since that is all obvious, is that whether or not the threat actually existed, we did this stuff anyway.
I don't really know how to explain it all as eloquently as Mr. Chomsky, but he went on to describe the FIRST war on terror, began in 1981 by the Regan administration (many of the same people are in the current Bush administration). Firstly, there was a war on terror declared after the olympic shootings, then deadly narco-trafficers were used as a pretext to attack and occupy Nicuragua. Then there was the invasion of Panama, etc.
It was almost like, as he said, they knew that the cold war was coming to an end and a new pretext needed to be created.
It goes on and on. It doesn't make much sense, but it goes to show that the people in power will use a crisis or situation or pretext to further their own goals. In the case of the present "war on terror", the goal was to implement almost Stalinist policies into the state--such as the ironically named "U.S. Patriot Act" and other such nonsense.
Of course, the real reasons lie hidden beneath lies. One can naturally assume that it has a lot to do with the largest energy source on earth being located in the gulf and the fact that a lot of people with a very different religion live on top of it, and EVERY country wants a piece of the action underneath (ie: russia, china, india, france, germany, etc, etc, etc)
Of course, crazies have been talking about some agents of the U.S. or israel being responsible for the 9/11 incident but that's a small detail. It doesn't really matter who did it; the results are what count. The current administration is going out of its way to blame all the changes on Terrorists, yet this threat has been here since the 1950's and we've never done anything because we all know that nothing we can do will ever protect ourselves.
Just, please, remember to trust very little anyone who tries to blame anything on some unseen entity, especially when they appear to be profitting from it..... anyway, we'll see what happens tomorrow.
Microsoft only has about 35 billion dollars, and I believe their GDP is greater than that of Bolivia, or Uruaguay or something.
Looking at this logically, they have all this money and favorable public support so there is no Political solution to the problem. People like Microsoft.
So, a small number of us hate them, because we choose to not run windows. Welp, sorry to say, this IS a democracy (ok, *cough*) and the majority has spoken. Until the majority gives a fuck, nothing will change. You can lobby congress about the blah blah blah and this and that, but the bottom line is that M$ makes money for America, so it is a Good Thing. It puts money into the pockets of the shrinkwrapper at the factory and the needy Senator alike.
But yes, it goes beyond frustration. Having to pay for something you don't use. Like, dammit, I had to pay for the spare tire in my car, but I've never had to use it. That's bullshit, I should never have to pay for it unless I use it.
Guess what, you still have a choice. DON'T BUY DELL! You can get PC's without OS's on them from other manufacturers. Yes, the manufacturers will probably be hurt by MS's licensing requirements. SO WHAT! Buy from a open source only builder. Or build yourself. Or hire some college student to build for you for 10/hr!
Or if it really has you that worked up, buy a gun, and shoot yourself, because MS isn't going away, the bastards.
What about a disease or -- hey, why not -- an ASTEROID that threatens to wipe out Earth. Surely telling everyone would induce mass panic, possibly injuring more people than the original antagonist.
But maybe, if you find some way to warm people to the idea that they could all die soon from some unknown force, several years in advance, when the shit hits the fan they could be more prepared psychologically to deal with it.
Likewise, a new energy source would be a revolutionary product, but the oil companies would squash it like a fly. Maybe you could introduce the idea of amazing new energy to people, show a few, and gauge their reaction. Then, when the time comes to release your amazing invention, YOU can be prepared with the right sort of marketing campaign, or publicity, etc. Maybe you need to wait anyway, for the right time, the right situation (or the right major crises) where you can make the most out of it all (ie: Sept. 11 and the flag companies).
Now, don't raise your eyebrows, we all know that there was capitalization on that crisis, and there will be on every other crisis to come. Of course, the most guilty party is the media. But anyway, just trying to make a point.
There ARE reasons maybe you should prepare society or yourself for the right time and to be in the right mindset for the release of an idea. Be it for profit OR safety.
Well, then you have to worry about condensation, etc. of the evaporated water. If you use freon or sorry tetrafluoroethane, the resulting vapor and condensate is inert. With water cooling, you might as well be using a closed loop system, as it it would be cheaper than building a system to withstand water.
So, while you're at it, you might as well use a real refrigerant and actually chill the chips. Basically, this is a cool project, but seems pretty pointless. I can think of some other jobs it could do.
I believe IMAX also uses a higher frame rate--something like 60fps. They also use some of the most powerful light bulbs in the world. I hope one day they will get DLP up to the resolution of IMAX. IMAX looks almost real.
Or sex, at least.
More probably, sex is the primary driver of everything.
SAP is definately only for really large commodity driven companies. If I were the CTO of a medium size business, I would not use an ERP like SAP. I'd use something much lighter weight. Of course, if I were Amazon, Dell, Anheiser-Busch, Pepsico, etc. I would be using SAP. Nothing else comes close when you need to know what, where, when, and how much.
And of course there's always a little IBM product called AS/400...