Re:Star Trek's Money System
on
Beaming Money
·
· Score: 1
Some people spend most of their lives making Star Trek "consistant". Personally I think that's way over the verge of sadness, but what can I say, my Ex girlfriend was really into this kinda thing. Check the credits, you'll see "consistancy checkers".......
Of course, you're all forgetting one of the largest trials of electronic cash performed so far. You should have heard of Mondex - an electronic cash system co-developed by BT,Midland Bank (now HSBC)> and others. They have an electronic card which uses a smart chip to actually store the cash. You can get electronic "wallets" with which you can exchange cash with other private individuals. Shops have have more permanently fixed card readers. You can lock the card with strong encryption (hello US:-) so that others cant get at your cash even if you loose your card - to use it again you have to "unlock" it, and just like a mobile phone, it can be set to only authenticate with your own "wallet" so someone else can't even try cracking it. Using BT's specially developed telphones, you can withdraw money from the bank without leaving your home and you can also deposit it aswell. Anyone who is interested in this, I wrote a report on mondex several years ago when the Swidon trial took place. Unfortunately it's in M$ word format as my university hasn't embraced Linux yet and their sun's are laughably inequiped with decent word/text processing capabilities. Anyways, if you're interested - it has lots of pretty pictures:-) anyone who mails mondex-request@periscope-systems.freeserve.co.uk will receive a copy - that is if I can find it:-)
Star Trek's Money System
on
Beaming Money
·
· Score: 1
On the subject of star trek: According to Jean Luc Picard in Star Trek: First Contact "money doesn't exist in the 24th centuryto which Cockrin's assistant replies "no money? you mean you don't get paid...". This is was in response to the question of how much the Enterprise (1701-E) cost. This is all very good,etc.. but haven't you noticed how the Ferengi and just about everyone else seem to have money or some form or other. Indeed, the Federation seems to have money on some occasions, but on others it "doesn't exist". Can anyone clarify how this is explaned or is it yet another classic Star Trek wonderful inconsistancy?
Oxford University have been doing this kind of stuff for ages - go to the oxford University Wolfson Research Laboratory. I don't have the full link off hand, but you'll find their research in the Parallel Computing department.
Ah. So where can I get the source code for your article? It sure is a freedom thing. Oh and while your at it, where can I get the source for my bacon sandwich?
I think that you are very possibly right here. MIT is doing some work with FPGAS (Field Programmable Gate Arrays) but so is the Oxford University Wolfson Research lab (with which I have links). A us company was recently on slashdot for building a computer using that uses FPGAs which is claimed to be 20,000 times faster than the fastest desktop machine. Are Transmeta trying to do something similar? who knows, but this "publicity stunt" of deliberately not telling us to create hype can only go so far - Transmeta: put us out of our misery. Thanks.
I thought Rob Malda and the other guys got to keep control - if there was ever a legal (or any other issue really), ownership is attributed to andover and so Malda has no come back - just thought you might be interested.
Am I the only one who thinks of the James Bond film Goldeneye? I know goldeneye used EMP, but this could be "targetted" to give varying amounts of concentrated radion to a particular point of the Earth's surface - it'd be quite accurate too, I think:-) Yet another weapon for the US to exploit....
There is no clearly defined beginning to a disk. However, location wise on the disk's surface, it would make more sense to have the swap on the tracks closest to the centre of the disk, however, IDE disks use a variable track density and so this philosophy is actually incorrect. Therefore, in conclusion, it makes no different where on the disk the swap goes (as long as it is ofcourse a contguous allocation:-)
just thought I'd point that out.
I can see the advantage to having swap partitions on different disks, but what about adjusting the system buffers. The kernel uses a lot of buffering on my PII (128 Mb RAM) - perhaps there is a way to fine tune the way in which RAM is used also?
-- "Don't try to be a great man, just be a man." -- Star Trek, First Contact
You talk of "spoofing" Microsoft or Netscape. Why not just use Fortify which is distributed from Australia - and so is NOT subject to standard US Export laws on Encryption - and which will increase the Export Grade Navigator/Communicator from Netscape to 128Bit. It's completely legal and best of all, it only works with Netscape NOT M$:-)
I believe that Gates lost 8 billion a couple of weeks ago so he's now only worth $90 billion. I mean, imagine loosing 8 billion down the back of the sofa:-)
-- Jonathan C. Masters (masters.jonathan.c@brookes.ac.uk) PGP: www.brookes.ac.uk/~95227860/KEY "Upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it".
Is it just my Imagination or does the site clearly state that the software ***********IS************ available for download in the NETHERLANDS. It is not available on their server, however, it is "AVAILABLE". Why this hype over US export laws etc.... it CLEARLY states that the distribution is available. Sorry for being so negative, but no one ever posts any of my submissions and then crap like this gets posted.
I don't agree with the way in which others have voiced their opinions on the subject. However, I would have to agree the Mindcraft are FUD writers who probably benefit very nicely from M$ for doing so. I'll never touch that company with a barge pole.:-)
Slashdot Mirror
Some people spend most of their lives making Star Trek "consistant". Personally I think that's way over the verge of sadness, but what can I say, my Ex girlfriend was really into this kinda thing. Check the credits, you'll see "consistancy checkers".......
Of course, you're all forgetting one of the largest trials of electronic cash performed so far. You should have heard of Mondex - an electronic cash system co-developed by BT , Midland Bank (now HSBC)> and others. They have an electronic card which uses a smart chip to actually store the cash. You can get electronic "wallets" with which you can exchange cash with other private individuals. Shops have have more permanently fixed card readers. You can lock the card with strong encryption (hello US :-) so that others cant get at your cash even if you loose your card - to use it again you have to "unlock" it, and just like a mobile phone, it can be set to only authenticate with your own "wallet" so someone else can't even try cracking it. Using BT's specially developed telphones, you can withdraw money from the bank without leaving your home and you can also deposit it aswell. Anyone who is interested in this, I wrote a report on mondex several years ago when the Swidon trial took place. Unfortunately it's in M$ word format as my university hasn't embraced Linux yet and their sun's are laughably inequiped with decent word/text processing capabilities. Anyways, if you're interested - it has lots of pretty pictures :-) anyone who mails mondex-request@periscope-systems.freeserve.co.uk will receive a copy - that is if I can find it :-)
On the subject of star trek: According to Jean Luc Picard in Star Trek: First Contact "money doesn't exist in the 24th centuryto which Cockrin's assistant replies "no money? you mean you don't get paid...". This is was in response to the question of how much the Enterprise (1701-E) cost. This is all very good,etc.. but haven't you noticed how the Ferengi and just about everyone else seem to have money or some form or other. Indeed, the Federation seems to have money on some occasions, but on others it "doesn't exist". Can anyone clarify how this is explaned or is it yet another classic Star Trek wonderful inconsistancy?
only as old as you feel
Oxford University have been doing this kind of stuff for ages - go to the oxford University Wolfson Research Laboratory. I don't have the full link off hand, but you'll find their research in the Parallel Computing department.
Get my point? You just spent several minutes pointing out the "frequently occuring posts". YOUc could be finding something better to do.
What? You mean you didn't produce any source code? Damn this thing is eating at my human rights! Maybe I'll file a petition with the UN.
Ah. So where can I get the source code for your article? It sure is a freedom thing. Oh and while your at it, where can I get the source for my bacon sandwich?
But not as much as microsoft.
Yep. They sure do.
Whatcha getting at?
Well, not quite.
It's old. It's been said before.
OK, so who's up for a Beowulf cluster?
Ah, but does your comment run Linux?
untrue
I think that you are very possibly right here. MIT is doing some work with FPGAS (Field Programmable Gate Arrays) but so is the Oxford University Wolfson Research lab (with which I have links). A us company was recently on slashdot for building a computer using that uses FPGAs which is claimed to be 20,000 times faster than the fastest desktop machine. Are Transmeta trying to do something similar? who knows, but this "publicity stunt" of deliberately not telling us to create hype can only go so far - Transmeta: put us out of our misery. Thanks.
Hi all,
Have you noticed how "the rest" used to be copyrighted to "Rob Malda" but now the bottom of every page says "The Rest © 1997-99 Andover.Net."
I thought Rob Malda and the other guys got to keep control - if there was ever a legal (or any other issue really), ownership is attributed to andover and so Malda has no come back - just thought you might be interested.
Am I the only one who thinks of the James Bond film Goldeneye? I know goldeneye used EMP, but this could be "targetted" to give varying amounts of concentrated radion to a particular point of the Earth's surface - it'd be quite accurate too, I think :-) Yet another weapon for the US to exploit....
Beginning of the disk?
:-)
There is no clearly defined beginning to a disk. However, location wise on the disk's surface, it would make more sense to have the swap on the tracks closest to the centre of the disk, however, IDE disks use a variable track density and so this philosophy is actually incorrect. Therefore, in conclusion, it makes no different where on the disk the swap goes (as long as it is ofcourse a contguous allocation
just thought I'd point that out.
I can see the advantage to having swap partitions on different disks, but what about adjusting the system buffers. The kernel uses a lot of buffering on my PII (128 Mb RAM) - perhaps there is a way to fine tune the way in which RAM is used also?
-- "Don't try to be a great man, just be a man."
-- Star Trek, First Contact
You talk of "spoofing" Microsoft or Netscape. Why not just use Fortify which is distributed from Australia - and so is NOT subject to standard US Export laws on Encryption - and which will increase the Export Grade Navigator/Communicator from Netscape to 128Bit. It's completely legal and best of all, it only works with Netscape NOT M$ :-)
Intel:
Old Crap, PSN.
AMD:
Forward thinking, no stupid PSN.
I believe that Gates lost 8 billion a couple of weeks ago so he's now only worth $90 billion. I mean, imagine loosing 8 billion down the back of the sofa :-)
--
Jonathan C. Masters (masters.jonathan.c@brookes.ac.uk)
PGP: www.brookes.ac.uk/~95227860/KEY
"Upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it".
-- Matthew 16, 17-18
Is it just my Imagination or does the site clearly state that the software ***********IS************ available for download in the NETHERLANDS. It is not available on their server, however, it is "AVAILABLE". Why this hype over US export laws etc.... it CLEARLY states that the distribution is available. Sorry for being so negative, but no one ever posts any of my submissions and then crap like this gets posted.
I don't agree with the way in which others have voiced their opinions on the subject. However, I would have to agree the Mindcraft are FUD writers who probably benefit very nicely from M$ for doing so. I'll never touch that company with a barge pole. :-)