whatever happened to that open source cola? where the recipe is open source? i'd like to buy some can's of that, and or patch the recipe via cvs.:D mod me down, i can't even code a good baked potato recipe.
because i thought it was important pertinent information for the many coders that *i* know personally troll/. why wasn't my article posted? how did kai get props for this? why wasn't it posted FORTY EIGHT HOURS AGO?!?!/. editors SUCK!
i was just thinking about how cool it would be to have an in car PC, for running mp3/ogg, and then while parked zsnes/divx... seems like you could fit a small form factor pc with the appropriate components into a car stereo size.
Here's the spex on what i was thinking:
amd athlon (power not an issue, much, is it?) geforce2 integrated style 3d audio maybe with setup for 4 speaker 3d, not 5.1... vid out to LCD, radio/mp3/ogg decoding hardware? and a usb 2.0/firewire/ethernet port. anti theft device (removable face, spinny face)
can u get one of these somewhere for $300? i'd buy it!
Not PRECISELY a tech prediction, but so overwhelming and connected in so many ways that it will radically alter the american landscape (again!) and for the long term:
A severe backlash to the ludicrous business negotiations that have been brokered under the last several administrations, and especially the current one led by (as the rest of the world sees him) a completely genocidal babbling idiot.
This ties in closely with your eating our seed corn in technology idea, as it is yet another example of the reprecusions of completely free markets and total lack of anti corporate/monopoly laws and procedings.
The most publically hated and hottest of "red hot" issues of course being microsofts complete steam roll over the justice dept. DESPITE being convicted on many counts of "anti competitive behavior". this combined with the aol/time 50 billion "where'd that money go?" and enron etc. and the world economy completely turning it's back on american investments as a result spells an over all scenario for bad times here in the states, and bad times ALWAYS = big change.
This big change is going to correspond with generation Y waking up as a bunch of starving college students hating britney spears just as much as they hate the copy protection included on the cd, and quite possibly, the whole economic and social establishment producing them.
all of this combined with p2p exploding even more in a very likely wifi guerilla network environment, and the fact that most of generations X and Y thinking that the hippies "just didn't get it." spell some much more violent and radical social upheavals. these upheavals will be better planned, better funded (quite possibly), and much much better connected given the whole of societys new found friend : wireless connectivity, which will continue to expand and exceed all human expectations once the bandwidth is in place, which alot of it is already.
i see things like virtual presense over wifi making demonstrations where protesters are beaten by police being a VERY BIG DEAL in shifting alot of power in america in the near future, in fact I've seen small indications of this already, primarily in Europe (and in the Seattle WTO demonstration).
when the people of a democracy own the media (guerilla networks), and anyone can produce TV, guess where the ratings are going to go? then guess where the advertising dollars are going to go?
and if it gets really ugly, i'd hate to see the markmanship of some of the teens growing up on q3 and counterstrike in net cafes with REAL guns. but this is bound to be of course an extreme rarity.... i hope.
I've been a windows open source addict for some time now.
Here is what i use almost daily:
http://www.dscaler.org/ (on sourceforge) for watching tv with a capture card, is the best AVAILABLE program PERIOD, and it's open source!!!
Tenebrae Quake. (on sourceforge) the most advanced 3d engine available PERIOD and open source.:D it's on sourceforge, too, just like dscaler.
ZSNES. (sourceforge again) and yeah, the romz aren't free, but it works perfectly. and i love mario brothers on my desktop.
PJ64. (www.emulation64.com) again, the rom thing, but this plays 90% of my n64 romz flawless.
FCEultra (sourceforge) best nes emulator.
Mozilla. nuff said.
and the others mentioned previously: gnucleus gimp abiword (who needs openoffice bloatware?) virtualdub cdex ogg (look out for theora soon!!;D)
ok, that's my top 10. i use all of these almost daily.
as for IM, the only other app i use on THIS box, it just ain't there for me. trillian 1.0 pro is the best i've seen/used, and it's now at a price:(, much less open source!
crhylove
PS if you're a windows user and you haven't used any of these, go do so immediately!!!
you can change just about EVERYTHING in ut2k3, it is so incredibly geared toward the mod community that i am personally amazed. i was doubtful of anyone embracing modders as much as q3 and halflife had, but apparently the ut2k3 boys are.
why any mod wouldn't just start with tenebrae though is lost on me. anyone deving for urban terror should switch now!
oh yeah, and this: And, incidentally, no, I don't find it a problem having only one mouse button.
is just plain crap, and a good optical usb mous with 2 buttons and a scroll wheel are ~$30 so that's ONE rebate i would want from mac before *i* switch.
Oh yeah, and i want pj64 to work like it does in XP, too...
Corporations almost unilaterally (sp?) have similar shareholders, or are owned outright by the same group of shareholders or another corporation. (think AOL/TIME/SATAN, Viacom/Blockbuster/Demons). They don't care if you have a good connection or not. EVEN if you pay them for the service! The fact that in most if not almost ALL metropolitan and ESPECIALLY rural areas they have a monopoly on the service means they care even less. Who's going to replace them? 56k. Even crappy overpriced broadband is better than 56k, though not from an ethical/financial standpoint, certainly from a technological/convenience standpoint.
The only ways to lower broadband prices altogether are:
roll your own. (this is being done in some cities (see roll your own dsl, guerilla networks, etc.)
steal it till prices come down. (this is being done alot from college and corporate networks, and personally I think it's justified by the prices we consumers already pay both colleges and corporations).
Install a large government infrastructure as is being done in cananda. (not likely to happen since at least in the US, if not all of europe/asia also, the government is OWNED by corporations (think cheney/enron, etc. etc. ad nauseum ad hysterical rage).
so really I don't see the broadband situation improving for at least another 10 years. When monopolies own the technology, they abuse it and limit it's ability as long as they can, and with governments being owned by those monopolies, that is forever, or until millions die in a revolution. The best example I can think of to outline this scenario is microsoft, though there is far too much cowardice to have a revolution about it in this country any time soon.
and to think we had our revolution against brittain over 2% taxes!!! what the hell happened to us? anyone read any late roman history?
when can i get a royalty free burner? when can i get a component that'll play divx? when can i get blue ray capacity on an optical disk? when are white LED's gonna be put in LCD projectors lowering the price to under $100? when can i then replace every tv and crt in my house?
when are corporations going to do ANYTHING good for humanity at their own expense?
when is our government going to be run for by and of the people instead of said corporations?
my guess the answer to all of these is NEVER. because somebody somewhere would "loose" money that they had never MADE yet.
Just because he didn't dominate in terms of exposure, doesn't mean he didn't dominate in terms of quality and complexity (depth?) in the genre. In 100 years, KSR will be remembered and read, others (from his particular niche) may well not. This is bold wording, but quite possibly accurate. Mozart is often said to dominate his period of classical music, and saying so at the time would be an example of tremendous foresight, but I think could have been done with impunity for similar reasons.
Let's cut down on the fact that you haven't read his work. Really now.
The earlier/. article about white LEDs claimed that currently they were roughly $1 a piece in volume. They are due to come down significantly in price when the demand rises as expected. Sure, at $1 10 of them would be more than the $10 car headlight, but the longevity would be greater, nevermind the heat issue.
Whoever puts one of these together for me, i'll send $250. That's $50 profit!
How about setting up this configuration, not with an LCD screen, but an old CRT monitor? Would the output be too dim? Could you crank the brightness, or would you then loose contrast?
i have dozens of old CRT's around for hacking. could i just put a fresnel lense on one and aim it at a lense, then at a wall?
first: it's about time there's a video game network! the electric playground is SOOOO lame! i especially hate the fatter blondish one!
second: why are all these fags playing everquest? why not try a REAL game, like URBAN TERROR. i find myself logging in at least 2 hours a day, on BUSY days, when i really, really, swore to myself i wouldn't. i like all modes, but especially CTF with a live friend teammate (on my inhouse LAN) against an unfair amount of bots (2:1 bots:us). snipe on the way there, switch to the machine gun and spray and pray back to the base.
I have several on my wish list, and all are possible technologically right NOW.
1. A networked house. Fully networked, everything integrated, and some nice voice recognition bot to remind me about apointments and when i should shower to get ready for work. I want my computer to turn on the speakers in my bedroom playing an energetic mp3 from my collection, and if i say snooze out loud, i want it to fade out and wait 15 min. i want the shower to memorize my favorite temperature. how F'ing hard is this? Just say "shower" and it starts up at the desired temperature. i want those heated toilet seats like in japan, and while we're at it, i want my bathroom tile floor heated. in fact every aspect of my house should be fully climate controlled. i want solar roof shingles to lower my bills, as well as peizoelectric carpet to turn my footsteps into voltage. the springs in the bed should do the same. i want my windows to be that titanium based transparent solar panels, and i want them double paned and to look like old windows, not those new ugly aluminum paned ones. i want a vacuum that is cordless and doesn't vacuum up stuff that it shouldn't, and vacuum by itself. same with the lawn mower. both should have solar panels. hell anything with a big surface should have solar panels so i can lower my bills. while we're at it, i'd like flywheel electric storage as described by U.S. Flywheels. Or was that all bullshit? where are you know skunk works engineer?
2. My car. I want an electric car. not some pussy battery based thing, but an electric flywheel powered car that can use as much juice as it wants at a given time. if i want to peel my tires completely off, i should be able to. and i want this system housed in a classic car. a mid 60's dart would do nicely, or a 67 malibu. better yet a pre 64 car, so i don't need seetbelts. i want the windows all titanium based solar cells, and the paint to collect solar energy also. and i want all this in a package that will drive me at least 300 miles before a VERY FAST charging at a power station. and you can charge electrical flywheels almost as fast as you can drain them, so this should be even FASTER than pumping gas. when i'm there i want the pump to register my liscence plate and charge me automatically. in fact, i shouldn't even have to get out of the car. the whole thing should take about 10 seconds.
3. i want better rail systems. here in the us, particularly in california, we don't have much. there's only 2 places i can go by rail. LA and san diego. i want to go to any of the big cities, and for cheaper than a bus ride. rail is cheap to operate.
4. i want a better WINE. no more of this windows crap. an ez distro that anyone can operate that is identical to win 98 se, free, stable, and will run all your precious dos games from 1985.
5. i want cheap lcd projectors. why the F#*% are the so expensive? they're just a little sliver of lcd and a flashlight!!! and i want this to be higher resolution that HD tv. i want 1600x1200 cuz my geforce 4 can handle it no problem.:)
6. i want a huge boycott of radio until the fcc laws are changed. i don't know how anybody can listen to a full HALF day of corporate advertisents, interspersed with the worst half of your dad's top 40 collection, but that is all radio is where i live. we should all boycott it.
7. we don't need radio, cause we'll all have DSL or better. and it'll be a cheap public utility. screw that, i pay enough taxes to have fiber optics, and they should be DIRT CHEAP. way, way cheaper than my trash pickup service (~$15 a month) because once the infrastructure is there, that's the end of the costs almost completely.
8. then i won't have to pay for cable either, which has as many ads as regular tv now, and barely any extra content, and is WAY OVERPRICED.
9. i want dvd's and cd's to benefit the artists, not AOL/TIMESATAN or some other big corporation. CD's and DVD's cost about $.04 to make. there should be that price, and let's say $2 per copy for the artist(s). then i'll even give the corporation oh.... $.09 per copy. and they'll still make a profit. so cd's and dvd's shouldn't cost more that $2.13 unless there are huge expenses incurred like for LOTR where they have to buy a huge aussie linux server farm. then they can charge me an extra buck, cuz, hey, it'll be worth it.
10. I want movie's to be $5. and i don't want ANY ADS. Isn't that why you PAY to go to the movies? To avoid the ads on TV? And i want sodas etc. to be a dollar or less. I don't know how they get $5 per soda at the local theater, i know *i* smuggle a 2 liter in my jacket, or a six pack depending.
11. Smoking anywhere in public should be illegal. If suicide is illegal, then smoking (a very slow version of suicide) should be, besides it's rude, smells like shit, and is disgusting. not to mention the huge evil corporations that you are supporting by buying cigerettes.
12. I want a quantum computer that can emulate any previous generation computer. Because YES i'm still going to play the original NES version of Dr. Mario. I bet the cia already has one.
13. I want nanotechnology. I want a molecular assembler. It IS possible, it IS feasible, and i bet there already IS one in some government lab, right next to the quantum computer.
14. I want a better understanding than we currently have about the relationship between gravity and electricity.
15. Then i want to take all this stuff and GET OFF THE PLANET, hedging humanities bets (and maybe life itself's?) against the cosmic odds of us getting demolished by one big slow moving rock. Or of somebody unleashing a crazy nano designed virus, which i think is MORE likely to happen if the government restricts legitimate researchers of nanotech.
Now the flames start.
rhy
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i wrote (in basic) my first video games on an old trash 80... some horrible ansi gfx tanks running around avoiding asterisks... lol those were the days!
my programming eventually ran into the limitations of the 7 1/2" disks.
no ? whatsoever in my mind that the album as an art form has it's place... this is the exception though, rather than the rule. i mean, rush and pink floyd (two of MY faves, also) are definitely not your average RIAA bands.
There's alot disheartening about the current music world, from a musical point of view, if you observe the bikini clad n'sync britney fest that our musical culture has become, but in the end, history has been written, and will forget all of those people except for in novelty clubs of the distant future. Alot of really excellent things have come about in the music world, only in the last few years. this is only going to be more radical when virtual presence is a reality through higher bandwidth internet connections and lower cost audio/video equipment. Location will cease to be a barrier to musical collaboration.
First off, the level of international collaboration between quality musical acts has been astounding. Anybody who's heard the chieftains, the gypsy kings, strunz & farah, or any of the "underground" world music that is in virtually every upscale boutique here in downtown riverside these days, can attest to a new pallette of global styles to work for that is now available to composers across the globe. The legitimizing of ethnic folk musics as a respected art form, elevated to almost classical stature, will hugely broaden the music that will be popular once the anti mtv-marketing backlash begins with generation y. Alot of it is starting now, as 16 year olds look back and are embarrassed as ex-clown posse/limp bizkit fans. These kids are getting into euro-trance, local punk, and a whole range of other more interesting and less polished venues. as they hit college and begin maturing as people and music connesieurs, the music industry will be picking up smaller artists and expecting less mega stars, and the diversity will expand and begin to become polished as well. I think this is phenomenal.
Secondly, the post napster world means that people won't buy albums anymore, and will eliminate the pressure for artists to put out albums full of worthless studio time and one or two hits. every song will be given the quality time it needs, and maybe even "albums" will begin to disappear as artists release singles and then eventually collections, giving every song it's fair shake.
Also exciting is the recording technology available today. small time artists are able to record stuff at a quality that was never able to exist outside of million dollar studios before. this new robin hood style music industry is going to mean alot of bands will make it on merit, at least the merit of popularity, and not investment hype. mp3.com is littered with well recorded/poorly funded material that has a very high fidelity.
And then the obvious revolution, free music on the web. this is not going away. the implications are huge, predictions about how this will effect future generations of musicians and listeners alike will all be off as the landscape radically transforms in it's wake.
Those of you who like to download mp3s (that means every single/. reader, i'm sure) should check out gnucleus, the open source gnutella client. the newest beta is able to download one song from many people at once, ushering in a new era of p2p file sharing and copyright obliteration. with freenet reaching stable beta, and guerilla networks proliferating in the face of ridiculous cable/dsl isp pricing schemes, there is absolutely NO going back. the RIAA and anyone else that thinks content protection is any kind of business should know this, and if they refuse to see it, they are no smarter than that branch of hominids that continued to eat shrubs and berries instead of learning to eat meat. they will eventually be bred out, at least financially.
The funny thing to me is that the RIAA even bothers trying out watermarking and cd mod copyright schemes. They are playing music for a party that nobody wants to be caught dead at.
RhY
http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/194/communizt_va gi na.html
then advanced alien civilizations have been sending us transmissions after all, just in tiny super compressed data packets, and we just couldn't understand them. Now we will get to join the universal community...
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why don't u just write a quick script that will make u an mp3 playlist with the songs u like proportionately multiplied? That's a piece of cake! if TNT = 100% (ac/dc) then 10 links in the m3u playlist. if GIRLFROMIPANEMA = 80% then 8 links in the m3u.
uh... 8 keys in an octave, or 12 if u count the black ones, so i'm guessin' one hand can type about 12 letters, without moving, which is about standard... maybe? yeah, definitely he didn't get specific so he could be "cute"... typical band geek....
rhy
(yeah, yeah, i know... takes one to know one.)
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whatever happened to that open source cola? where the recipe is open source? i'd like to buy some can's of that, and or patch the recipe via cvs. :D mod me down, i can't even code a good baked potato recipe.
rhy
i'm still waiting for a fully 3d opengl real time online chess board.... for windows. how damn hard can this be?!?
rhy
because i thought it was important pertinent information for the many coders that *i* know personally troll /. why wasn't my article posted? how did kai get props for this? why wasn't it posted FORTY EIGHT HOURS AGO?!?! /. editors SUCK!
ummm... i forgot EASILY ACCESSIBLE/CHANGEABLE ide hard drive, mayb 20g to start? and a cd drive too, for my divx/ogg/cd pleasures....
i was just thinking about how cool it would be to have an in car PC, for running mp3/ogg, and then while parked zsnes/divx... seems like you could fit a small form factor pc with the appropriate components into a car stereo size.
Here's the spex on what i was thinking:
amd athlon (power not an issue, much, is it?)
geforce2 integrated style
3d audio maybe with setup for 4 speaker 3d, not 5.1...
vid out to LCD,
radio/mp3/ogg decoding hardware?
and a usb 2.0/firewire/ethernet port.
anti theft device (removable face, spinny face)
can u get one of these somewhere for $300? i'd buy it!
Here was my response to cringley:
Not PRECISELY a tech prediction, but so overwhelming and connected in so many ways that it will radically alter the american landscape (again!) and for the long term:
A severe backlash to the ludicrous business negotiations that have been brokered under the last several administrations, and especially the current one led by (as the rest of the world sees him) a completely genocidal babbling idiot.
This ties in closely with your eating our seed corn in technology idea, as it is yet another example of the reprecusions of completely free markets and total lack of anti corporate/monopoly laws and procedings.
The most publically hated and hottest of "red hot" issues of course being microsofts complete steam roll over the justice dept. DESPITE being convicted on many counts of "anti competitive behavior". this combined with the aol/time 50 billion "where'd that money go?" and enron etc. and the world economy completely turning it's back on american investments as a result spells an over all scenario for bad times here in the states, and bad times ALWAYS = big change.
This big change is going to correspond with generation Y waking up as a bunch of starving college students hating britney spears just as much as they hate the copy protection included on the cd, and quite possibly, the whole economic and social establishment producing them.
all of this combined with p2p exploding even more in a very likely wifi guerilla network environment, and the fact that most of generations X and Y thinking that the hippies "just didn't get it." spell some much more violent and radical social upheavals. these upheavals will be better planned, better funded (quite possibly), and much much better connected given the whole of societys new found friend : wireless connectivity, which will continue to expand and exceed all human expectations once the bandwidth is in place, which alot of it is already.
i see things like virtual presense over wifi making demonstrations where protesters are beaten by police being a VERY BIG DEAL in shifting alot of power in america in the near future, in fact I've seen small indications of this already, primarily in Europe (and in the Seattle WTO demonstration).
when the people of a democracy own the media (guerilla networks), and anyone can produce TV, guess where the ratings are going to go? then guess where the advertising dollars are going to go?
and if it gets really ugly, i'd hate to see the markmanship of some of the teens growing up on q3 and counterstrike in net cafes with REAL guns. but this is bound to be of course an extreme rarity.... i hope.
sell your american stock is my advice.
rhy
I've been a windows open source addict for some time now.
:D it's on sourceforge, too, just like dscaler.
;D)
:(, much less open source!
Here is what i use almost daily:
http://www.dscaler.org/ (on sourceforge)
for watching tv with a capture card, is the best AVAILABLE program PERIOD, and it's open source!!!
Tenebrae Quake. (on sourceforge)
the most advanced 3d engine available PERIOD and open source.
ZSNES. (sourceforge again)
and yeah, the romz aren't free, but it works perfectly. and i love mario brothers on my desktop.
PJ64. (www.emulation64.com)
again, the rom thing, but this plays 90% of my n64 romz flawless.
FCEultra (sourceforge)
best nes emulator.
Mozilla. nuff said.
and the others mentioned previously:
gnucleus
gimp
abiword (who needs openoffice bloatware?)
virtualdub
cdex
ogg (look out for theora soon!!
ok, that's my top 10. i use all of these almost daily.
as for IM, the only other app i use on THIS box, it just ain't there for me. trillian 1.0 pro is the best i've seen/used, and it's now at a price
crhylove
PS if you're a windows user and you haven't used any of these, go do so immediately!!!
you can change just about EVERYTHING in ut2k3, it is so incredibly geared toward the mod community that i am personally amazed. i was doubtful of anyone embracing modders as much as q3 and halflife had, but apparently the ut2k3 boys are.
why any mod wouldn't just start with tenebrae though is lost on me. anyone deving for urban terror should switch now!
oh yeah, and this:
And, incidentally, no, I don't find it a problem having only one mouse button.
is just plain crap, and a good optical usb mous with 2 buttons and a scroll wheel are ~$30 so that's ONE rebate i would want from mac before *i* switch.
Oh yeah, and i want pj64 to work like it does in XP, too...
rhy
Corporations almost unilaterally (sp?) have similar shareholders, or are owned outright by the same group of shareholders or another corporation. (think AOL/TIME/SATAN, Viacom/Blockbuster/Demons). They don't care if you have a good connection or not. EVEN if you pay them for the service! The fact that in most if not almost ALL metropolitan and ESPECIALLY rural areas they have a monopoly on the service means they care even less. Who's going to replace them? 56k. Even crappy overpriced broadband is better than 56k, though not from an ethical/financial standpoint, certainly from a technological/convenience standpoint.
The only ways to lower broadband prices altogether are:
roll your own.
(this is being done in some cities (see roll your own dsl, guerilla networks, etc.)
steal it till prices come down.
(this is being done alot from college and corporate networks, and personally I think it's justified by the prices we consumers already pay both colleges and corporations).
Install a large government infrastructure as is being done in cananda.
(not likely to happen since at least in the US, if not all of europe/asia also, the government is OWNED by corporations (think cheney/enron, etc. etc. ad nauseum ad hysterical rage).
so really I don't see the broadband situation improving for at least another 10 years. When monopolies own the technology, they abuse it and limit it's ability as long as they can, and with governments being owned by those monopolies, that is forever, or until millions die in a revolution. The best example I can think of to outline this scenario is microsoft, though there is far too much cowardice to have a revolution about it in this country any time soon.
and to think we had our revolution against brittain over 2% taxes!!! what the hell happened to us? anyone read any late roman history?
rhy
when can i get a royalty free burner? when can i get a component that'll play divx? when can i get blue ray capacity on an optical disk? when are white LED's gonna be put in LCD projectors lowering the price to under $100? when can i then replace every tv and crt in my house?
when are corporations going to do ANYTHING good for humanity at their own expense?
when is our government going to be run for by and of the people instead of said corporations?
my guess the answer to all of these is NEVER. because somebody somewhere would "loose" money that they had never MADE yet.
rhy
Anybody who's arguing that it is still hard to make copies of DVDs hasn't used all the software available yet.
check out dvdx which is easily obtainable from a variety of sources....
Just because he didn't dominate in terms of exposure, doesn't mean he didn't dominate in terms of quality and complexity (depth?) in the genre. In 100 years, KSR will be remembered and read, others (from his particular niche) may well not. This is bold wording, but quite possibly accurate. Mozart is often said to dominate his period of classical music, and saying so at the time would be an example of tremendous foresight, but I think could have been done with impunity for similar reasons.
Let's cut down on the fact that you haven't read his work. Really now.
The earlier /. article about white LEDs claimed that currently they were roughly $1 a piece in volume. They are due to come down significantly in price when the demand rises as expected. Sure, at $1 10 of them would be more than the $10 car headlight, but the longevity would be greater, nevermind the heat issue.
Whoever puts one of these together for me, i'll send $250. That's $50 profit!
rhy
How about setting up this configuration, not with an LCD screen, but an old CRT monitor? Would the output be too dim? Could you crank the brightness, or would you then loose contrast?
i have dozens of old CRT's around for hacking.
could i just put a fresnel lense on one and aim it at a lense, then at a wall?
first:
it's about time there's a video game network! the electric playground is SOOOO lame! i especially hate the fatter blondish one!
second:
why are all these fags playing everquest? why not try a REAL game, like URBAN TERROR. i find myself logging in at least 2 hours a day, on BUSY days, when i really, really, swore to myself i wouldn't. i like all modes, but especially CTF with a live friend teammate (on my inhouse LAN) against an unfair amount of bots (2:1 bots:us). snipe on the way there, switch to the machine gun and spray and pray back to the base.
so when is this radio going to have tivo like capabilities? that would be the killer app making it all worth it.
rhy
I have several on my wish list, and all are possible technologically right NOW.
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1. A networked house. Fully networked, everything integrated, and some nice voice recognition bot to remind me about apointments and when i should shower to get ready for work. I want my computer to turn on the speakers in my bedroom playing an energetic mp3 from my collection, and if i say snooze out loud, i want it to fade out and wait 15 min. i want the shower to memorize my favorite temperature. how F'ing hard is this? Just say "shower" and it starts up at the desired temperature. i want those heated toilet seats like in japan, and while we're at it, i want my bathroom tile floor heated. in fact every aspect of my house should be fully climate controlled. i want solar roof shingles to lower my bills, as well as peizoelectric carpet to turn my footsteps into voltage. the springs in the bed should do the same. i want my windows to be that titanium based transparent solar panels, and i want them double paned and to look like old windows, not those new ugly aluminum paned ones. i want a vacuum that is cordless and doesn't vacuum up stuff that it shouldn't, and vacuum by itself. same with the lawn mower. both should have solar panels. hell anything with a big surface should have solar panels so i can lower my bills. while we're at it, i'd like flywheel electric storage as described by U.S. Flywheels. Or was that all bullshit? where are you know skunk works engineer?
2. My car. I want an electric car. not some pussy battery based thing, but an electric flywheel powered car that can use as much juice as it wants at a given time. if i want to peel my tires completely off, i should be able to. and i want this system housed in a classic car. a mid 60's dart would do nicely, or a 67 malibu. better yet a pre 64 car, so i don't need seetbelts. i want the windows all titanium based solar cells, and the paint to collect solar energy also. and i want all this in a package that will drive me at least 300 miles before a VERY FAST charging at a power station. and you can charge electrical flywheels almost as fast as you can drain them, so this should be even FASTER than pumping gas. when i'm there i want the pump to register my liscence plate and charge me automatically. in fact, i shouldn't even have to get out of the car. the whole thing should take about 10 seconds.
3. i want better rail systems. here in the us, particularly in california, we don't have much. there's only 2 places i can go by rail. LA and san diego. i want to go to any of the big cities, and for cheaper than a bus ride. rail is cheap to operate.
4. i want a better WINE. no more of this windows crap. an ez distro that anyone can operate that is identical to win 98 se, free, stable, and will run all your precious dos games from 1985.
5. i want cheap lcd projectors. why the F#*% are the so expensive? they're just a little sliver of lcd and a flashlight!!! and i want this to be higher resolution that HD tv. i want 1600x1200 cuz my geforce 4 can handle it no problem.
6. i want a huge boycott of radio until the fcc laws are changed. i don't know how anybody can listen to a full HALF day of corporate advertisents, interspersed with the worst half of your dad's top 40 collection, but that is all radio is where i live. we should all boycott it.
7. we don't need radio, cause we'll all have DSL or better. and it'll be a cheap public utility. screw that, i pay enough taxes to have fiber optics, and they should be DIRT CHEAP. way, way cheaper than my trash pickup service (~$15 a month) because once the infrastructure is there, that's the end of the costs almost completely.
8. then i won't have to pay for cable either, which has as many ads as regular tv now, and barely any extra content, and is WAY OVERPRICED.
9. i want dvd's and cd's to benefit the artists, not AOL/TIMESATAN or some other big corporation. CD's and DVD's cost about $.04 to make. there should be that price, and let's say $2 per copy for the artist(s). then i'll even give the corporation oh.... $.09 per copy. and they'll still make a profit. so cd's and dvd's shouldn't cost more that $2.13 unless there are huge expenses incurred like for LOTR where they have to buy a huge aussie linux server farm. then they can charge me an extra buck, cuz, hey, it'll be worth it.
10. I want movie's to be $5. and i don't want ANY ADS. Isn't that why you PAY to go to the movies? To avoid the ads on TV? And i want sodas etc. to be a dollar or less. I don't know how they get $5 per soda at the local theater, i know *i* smuggle a 2 liter in my jacket, or a six pack depending.
11. Smoking anywhere in public should be illegal. If suicide is illegal, then smoking (a very slow version of suicide) should be, besides it's rude, smells like shit, and is disgusting. not to mention the huge evil corporations that you are supporting by buying cigerettes.
12. I want a quantum computer that can emulate any previous generation computer. Because YES i'm still going to play the original NES version of Dr. Mario. I bet the cia already has one.
13. I want nanotechnology. I want a molecular assembler. It IS possible, it IS feasible, and i bet there already IS one in some government lab, right next to the quantum computer.
14. I want a better understanding than we currently have about the relationship between gravity and electricity.
15. Then i want to take all this stuff and GET OFF THE PLANET, hedging humanities bets (and maybe life itself's?) against the cosmic odds of us getting demolished by one big slow moving rock. Or of somebody unleashing a crazy nano designed virus, which i think is MORE likely to happen if the government restricts legitimate researchers of nanotech.
Now the flames start.
rhy
i wrote (in basic) my first video games on an old trash 80... some horrible ansi gfx tanks running around avoiding asterisks... lol those were the days!
my programming eventually ran into the limitations of the 7 1/2" disks.
if only i had cd burner in that thing!! lol
So basically, with this new CIL thingy, all my years of qbasic experience might translate into usable cross platform apps? GREAT!
rhy
no ? whatsoever in my mind that the album as an art form has it's place... this is the exception though, rather than the rule. i mean, rush and pink floyd (two of MY faves, also) are definitely not your average RIAA bands.
rhy
There's alot disheartening about the current music world, from a musical point of view, if you observe the bikini clad n'sync britney fest that our musical culture has become, but in the end, history has been written, and will forget all of those people except for in novelty clubs of the distant future. Alot of really excellent things have come about in the music world, only in the last few years. this is only going to be more radical when virtual presence is a reality through higher bandwidth internet connections and lower cost audio/video equipment. Location will cease to be a barrier to musical collaboration.
First off, the level of international collaboration between quality musical acts has been astounding. Anybody who's heard the chieftains, the gypsy kings, strunz & farah, or any of the "underground" world music that is in virtually every upscale boutique here in downtown riverside these days, can attest to a new pallette of global styles to work for that is now available to composers across the globe. The legitimizing of ethnic folk musics as a respected art form, elevated to almost classical stature, will hugely broaden the music that will be popular once the anti mtv-marketing backlash begins with generation y. Alot of it is starting now, as 16 year olds look back and are embarrassed as ex-clown posse/limp bizkit fans. These kids are getting into euro-trance, local punk, and a whole range of other more interesting and less polished venues. as they hit college and begin maturing as people and music connesieurs, the music industry will be picking up smaller artists and expecting less mega stars, and the diversity will expand and begin to become polished as well. I think this is phenomenal.
Secondly, the post napster world means that people won't buy albums anymore, and will eliminate the pressure for artists to put out albums full of worthless studio time and one or two hits. every song will be given the quality time it needs, and maybe even "albums" will begin to disappear as artists release singles and then eventually collections, giving every song it's fair shake.
Also exciting is the recording technology available today. small time artists are able to record stuff at a quality that was never able to exist outside of million dollar studios before. this new robin hood style music industry is going to mean alot of bands will make it on merit, at least the merit of popularity, and not investment hype. mp3.com is littered with well recorded/poorly funded material that has a very high fidelity.
And then the obvious revolution, free music on the web. this is not going away. the implications are huge, predictions about how this will effect future generations of musicians and listeners alike will all be off as the landscape radically transforms in it's wake.
Those of you who like to download mp3s (that means every single
The funny thing to me is that the RIAA even bothers trying out watermarking and cd mod copyright schemes. They are playing music for a party that nobody wants to be caught dead at.
RhY
http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/194/communizt_v
then advanced alien civilizations have been sending us transmissions after all, just in tiny super compressed data packets, and we just couldn't understand them. Now we will get to join the universal community...
...when will the REAL information age begin?
rhy
u think my webserver will crash by then?
why don't u just write a quick script that will make u an mp3 playlist with the songs u like proportionately multiplied? That's a piece of cake! if TNT = 100% (ac/dc) then 10 links in the m3u playlist. if GIRLFROMIPANEMA = 80% then 8 links in the m3u.
rhy
uh... 8 keys in an octave, or 12 if u count the black ones, so i'm guessin' one hand can type about 12 letters, without moving, which is about standard... maybe? yeah, definitely he didn't get specific so he could be "cute"... typical band geek....
rhy
(yeah, yeah, i know... takes one to know one.)