wear a beeper in case a citizen had networking problems with the government database? Imagine the overtime this poor person would rack up...
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Broadband access at our house has been excellent - we'll be watching a movie or reading a book or a newspaper article, and be able to pull up additional information. This would often spawn off conversations...
Net addicted? Nope - info addicted. Never before has such a per-capita number of people had access to knowledge. Right now, my biggest use of the net is: news/info/radio - secondly: would be keeping in contact with family members - thirdly: pulling new kernel builds down.
Before broadband and the net, I was TV/radio/book/newspaper locked - starved for information and more information.
Even worse than this, it becomes an extension of and American law through large corporations in other countries.
Now the artist (actually the company that owns his butt) comes to my country, my house, and tells me how I can or cannot use this in the privacy of my own home. That scares me.
It's no longer an issue of receiving a C&D letter from some company in another country (followed by my giving the letter a raspberry) but now the company has a local branch which happens to own a chunk of my ISP who backs up the C&D with my internet access cut. Or even worse, applications and followups using local laws.
That whole issue of fair use has clearly gone out of system, and that sucks. Fair use obviously now means that I can pay money to place the DVD in some sanctioned piece of technology to only view the movie. I cannot play frisbee with it, I cannot use it as a coaster, I probably cannot even write a review on my webpage that the movie sucked... Because nowhere in the new concept of fair use can I turn a paid-for-item into a dog toy...
What about a rackmount with a flat-panel display? If you build the mechanical around it (has convenient screws and frame) then you could have your solution...
You might even be able to scale it up to a quad processor machine too if you really needed the power.
If you did have that clone made in a country where cloning was legal, you might still have to have some proof of guardianship - taking children across borders is often questioned. Otherwise, your parental units might still have legal guardianship even though the clone was spawned from you.
All sorts of legal messiness will ensue no doubt resulting in some very rich lawyers.
But yes, if they were suspicious (as they may be with people coming from cloning-allowable countries) perform a DNA analysis.
I hope some reader (in the bio-field) could tell us if DNA from a clone could be distinguished in ALL cases from the DNA of a child...
I know this falls under the stem-cell research, but does the proposed law concern the cloning of a whole human, or parts? If it only applies to a human, at what percentage of a cloned human could be allowed to be cloned?
Only organs? Skin? Eyes? Bone marrow? Blood? Nerve cells? Deformed or not, a clone might still have viable nerve cells...
I wonder if the machine could be fooled into fireworks and strobing lights during the orgasm scene in When Harry Met Sally?
With your new game in the house, would you be able to tell the difference between The Horse Whisperer or The Bridges of Madison County? Wow - this could be a whole new way to categorize movies: "Did it light up the theatre? Not enough Kablams I guess..."
I went up against one of these things...
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In the game Wasteland - man, Las Vegas was crawling with 'bots, but this one scorpion bot was just jasty - had to practically use all my LAW rockets before it finally died...
Although I don't visit Minneapolis a lot - only 6/7 times a year, I have visited some of the restaurants and bars advertised on the station.
I may be the exception, but whenever I'm going to travel somewhere, I like to hear what the road conditions are like (might rent a truck instead of a car if there's tonnes of construction), what the political climate is like (is there a municipal election?), or if they are having things like flooding problems.
I also gain an additional familiarity with the area if I listen to "Jim & Bob" talking each day about how some highway is always backed up at or around the time I might be arriving at my destination...
Yeah, I don't think that numbers of listeners over the internet is a good indication of compensation, but it is for the first time, an almost perfect count of number of listeners... A station could certainly use this to gauge what shows were popular or not.
Oh well, as they say, whenever things like this happen, just follow the money trail to get to the heart of the matter.
Drat - those budget cuts to NASA has really hurt..
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These "insects" could be much smaller if the US government hadn't cut budgets at NASA, providing for the ISS which in turn would have housed ants, trained to sort very tiny screws... Tiny screws for very tiny machines.
One thing that I did wonder is if they ever acheive an insect-sized flying camera, would birds, insects, frogs, or other wildlife try eating them? I could just imagine the NSA folks watching the "fly on the wall" view of the interior of a frog's stomach...
Well, this armageddon would have a very deep impact - I suspect that the hammer would carve out a nice, deep lake to add northern England.
Mind you - no radioactive fallout, and this could become a nice, wide, deep lake - several tourist resorts could pop up around it after all of the devastation etc is removed.
Fortunately it's tough enough for industrialized nations to launch rockets let alone ones that could carry the nuclear weapons required to move the asteroid. I don't forsee this as being used as a weapon right now.
But yes, people should be made aware of this danger. I'm going to paraphrase Larry Niven on this one (because I'm not sure of the exact quote):
'The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space programme.' It will serve us right if we suffer the same fate."
Friends shouldn't let friends drive drunk - even if they are an entire universe... Sigh...
What I think is fascinating is that we get to look at the whole thing from a different perspective again. If the universe was already "large" to begin with, then was that first burst or explosion super dense plasma? Or, was our universe just a splinter of that explosion?
Oh well, it's just another reason for my worry-wart friend to ponder:
death by universe ultimately condensing again;
death by a forever expanding universe;
AND NOW! death by collision from something we can't even see coming our way!
Now, most of this depends on how complex the programmes can be for the FPGAs, but it would be nice to have a complete box loaded with cards of these puppies for specific applications. For example:
A piece of gaming software downloads additional morphing/rendering code to GFPGA card #1, while loading the game engine into GFPGA card #2.
Download updated compression algorithms as a compression co-processor.
Card #1 becomes a highly optimized search engine for your corporate site.
Card(s) #1 gets GIMP modules
Yup - it would be nice. But seriously, I don't see it happening at my house in the near future. Although, using cards #1-#4 for rendering near perfect Natalie Portman photos, and a fabber... Hmm....
Archeologists will be noting fingerprints on CD ROMs from ancient Redwood Shores discussing a draft contract involving Bill Gates who sold crappy software. The contract said that if the goods proved faulty, the buyer could just go stuff themselves and wait for the next release.
5000 years have passed since Ur Ningal drew up that contract, and it seems that things have really regressed.
I wonder if there is a DNA link to the fingerprint pattern, and if this encoded sequence could be used to find descendants of good old Ur. Being a slave-trader, I suspect he might have had a few descendants...
The digression about guns pointed out a beautifully predictable aspect of a lot of American citizens - this secret desire to be able to take the law into their own hands (or so I observe).
You're right - guns wouldn't be needed in a nicer society - personally, I feel we have it here in Canada. Guns are an easy target because they show up in the press so much more so than "somebody bludgeoned somebody else with a baseball bat." It also tends to illustrate that people get violent even over the issue of guns. This violent behaviour is at the root of American society.
Religion to me is a very personal subject. And I have come from small towns where my religious beliefs would have gotten me persecuted in a second by the majority of the townsfolk. I really got sick and tired of having this forced in my face everyday - especially with respect to government and public institutions. My government should have absolutely nothing to do with how I or others practice religion. I have nothing to do with how others practice their religion - I just think it should be removed in that sense.
I can really empathize with that Wiccan who committed suicide (although I'm not Wiccan) because of persecution - do the people of the USA remember why they came to the New World? Religious persecution.
I agree that the better culture needs to accomodate people who think differently - often cultures that are able to grow and adapt succeed. I have nothing wrong with diversity - just don't stick it in my face and tell me that I am wrong because I *shrugs* worship in the nude or on Saturdays, or don't at all.
This might get me modded down, but that's okay too - it happens.
But what is it that you and other anachronistic people tend to believe that they have to defend themselves from?
I've never understood that "defense" (pardon the pun) for owning guns. I don't own a gun, and I feel perfectly safe walking through my neighbourhood, or other neighbourhoods.
It has to be a complete culture change - from that of a typically violent, religious-based, keeping-up-with-the-Jones' culture to one where individuality is respected. And that is not likely going to happen in the near future.
The solution to foot-in-mouth disease is to not have any foot-in-mouth disease. Read: get rid of the guns. I know that won't help the poor individuals who will take their own lives or come up with more inventive means of striking out, but it might slow things down. Seriously, what the f*ck does a person need a gun for anyway?
Drop the religious aspect of your society back to the individual's beliefs. Don't ever allow it to creep back into politics or society as a whole. I've been to engineering meetings in the USA where problems encountered in designs were met with a "prayer" session. Sheesh - why don't we just sacrifice a goat or virgin or two to Baal to help our sales team.
Keeping-up-with-the-Jones' is going to be a real tricky thing - this is the result of feedback from a capitalist society - more money tends to breed more money, and a drive to get what is perceived to be better and better things. Some people will be able to afford the "bestest" things (generally the goal of all), most people will be able to afford the "next-to-bestest/acceptable" things, and unfortunately, there are a lot of people who never will - they get left out. I don't know how to counter this one.
Perhaps as the boomers die out, we can influence our children to respect each other's individuality a bit more. Cycles like this occur to counter the previous generation - we just have to wait for the prevaiing group to die for the other extremists to take over.
Oh well, that's all I got's to say - let's see what fallout comes from this...
Personally, I only use free-range LED displays, and only ones that I personally pick out of the herd.
Refresh rates and certainly brightness are real issues here - I agree. But one thing I'd like to see is what is under my soon-to-be (shurley) recovered deskspace when the behemoths are moved out for the new flat panel...
Mir will be brought down on: 2001-03-16 14:00:00 to commemorate the historical significance of:
The first man to give dreams of reaching the stars a glimpse of reality was Dr. Robert H. Goddard, who launched the first liquid-fueled rocket to an altitude of 41 feet on this day in 1926. The test occurred shortly before Charles Lindbergh's flight across the Atlantic and never received the headlines that Lindbergh did, but the historic significance was staggering.
We used to use these on the Macs to do work at our desk from the lab, or vice-versa.
I can't recall who made it, but it was more than handy to do similar operations as remote administration, as well as complete control over the remote machine.
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wear a beeper in case a citizen had networking problems with the government database? Imagine the overtime this poor person would rack up...
Broadband access at our house has been excellent - we'll be watching a movie or reading a book or a newspaper article, and be able to pull up additional information. This would often spawn off conversations...
Net addicted? Nope - info addicted. Never before has such a per-capita number of people had access to knowledge. Right now, my biggest use of the net is: news/info/radio - secondly: would be keeping in contact with family members - thirdly: pulling new kernel builds down.
Before broadband and the net, I was TV/radio/book/newspaper locked - starved for information and more information.
But yes, it's there, I use it.
Even worse than this, it becomes an extension of and American law through large corporations in other countries.
Now the artist (actually the company that owns his butt) comes to my country, my house, and tells me how I can or cannot use this in the privacy of my own home. That scares me.
It's no longer an issue of receiving a C&D letter from some company in another country (followed by my giving the letter a raspberry) but now the company has a local branch which happens to own a chunk of my ISP who backs up the C&D with my internet access cut. Or even worse, applications and followups using local laws.
That whole issue of fair use has clearly gone out of system, and that sucks. Fair use obviously now means that I can pay money to place the DVD in some sanctioned piece of technology to only view the movie. I cannot play frisbee with it, I cannot use it as a coaster, I probably cannot even write a review on my webpage that the movie sucked... Because nowhere in the new concept of fair use can I turn a paid-for-item into a dog toy...
Argle...
What about a rackmount with a flat-panel display? If you build the mechanical around it (has convenient screws and frame) then you could have your solution...
You might even be able to scale it up to a quad processor machine too if you really needed the power.
Little Jeremey will have to either go through radical surgery or face copyright infringement fines from D*sney...
Or even worse - become a living mascot...
If you did have that clone made in a country where cloning was legal, you might still have to have some proof of guardianship - taking children across borders is often questioned. Otherwise, your parental units might still have legal guardianship even though the clone was spawned from you.
All sorts of legal messiness will ensue no doubt resulting in some very rich lawyers.
But yes, if they were suspicious (as they may be with people coming from cloning-allowable countries) perform a DNA analysis.
I hope some reader (in the bio-field) could tell us if DNA from a clone could be distinguished in ALL cases from the DNA of a child...
I know this falls under the stem-cell research, but does the proposed law concern the cloning of a whole human, or parts? If it only applies to a human, at what percentage of a cloned human could be allowed to be cloned?
Only organs? Skin? Eyes? Bone marrow? Blood? Nerve cells? Deformed or not, a clone might still have viable nerve cells...
Just asking...
I guess with no clones, Episode II will have to be re-written? (Again?)
I wonder if the machine could be fooled into fireworks and strobing lights during the orgasm scene in When Harry Met Sally?
With your new game in the house, would you be able to tell the difference between The Horse Whisperer or The Bridges of Madison County? Wow - this could be a whole new way to categorize movies: "Did it light up the theatre? Not enough Kablams I guess..."
In the game Wasteland - man, Las Vegas was crawling with 'bots, but this one scorpion bot was just jasty - had to practically use all my LAW rockets before it finally died...
Although I don't visit Minneapolis a lot - only 6/7 times a year, I have visited some of the restaurants and bars advertised on the station.
I may be the exception, but whenever I'm going to travel somewhere, I like to hear what the road conditions are like (might rent a truck instead of a car if there's tonnes of construction), what the political climate is like (is there a municipal election?), or if they are having things like flooding problems.
I also gain an additional familiarity with the area if I listen to "Jim & Bob" talking each day about how some highway is always backed up at or around the time I might be arriving at my destination...
Yeah, I don't think that numbers of listeners over the internet is a good indication of compensation, but it is for the first time, an almost perfect count of number of listeners... A station could certainly use this to gauge what shows were popular or not.
Oh well, as they say, whenever things like this happen, just follow the money trail to get to the heart of the matter.
These "insects" could be much smaller if the US government hadn't cut budgets at NASA, providing for the ISS which in turn would have housed ants, trained to sort very tiny screws... Tiny screws for very tiny machines.
One thing that I did wonder is if they ever acheive an insect-sized flying camera, would birds, insects, frogs, or other wildlife try eating them? I could just imagine the NSA folks watching the "fly on the wall" view of the interior of a frog's stomach...
Well, this armageddon would have a very deep impact - I suspect that the hammer would carve out a nice, deep lake to add northern England.
Mind you - no radioactive fallout, and this could become a nice, wide, deep lake - several tourist resorts could pop up around it after all of the devastation etc is removed.
Fortunately it's tough enough for industrialized nations to launch rockets let alone ones that could carry the nuclear weapons required to move the asteroid. I don't forsee this as being used as a weapon right now.
But yes, people should be made aware of this danger. I'm going to paraphrase Larry Niven on this one (because I'm not sure of the exact quote):
'The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space programme.' It will serve us right if we suffer the same fate."
Sigh...
Friends shouldn't let friends drive drunk - even if they are an entire universe... Sigh...
What I think is fascinating is that we get to look at the whole thing from a different perspective again. If the universe was already "large" to begin with, then was that first burst or explosion super dense plasma? Or, was our universe just a splinter of that explosion?
Oh well, it's just another reason for my worry-wart friend to ponder:
death by universe ultimately condensing again;
death by a forever expanding universe;
AND NOW! death by collision from something we can't even see coming our way!
Now, most of this depends on how complex the programmes can be for the FPGAs, but it would be nice to have a complete box loaded with cards of these puppies for specific applications. For example:
A piece of gaming software downloads additional morphing/rendering code to GFPGA card #1, while loading the game engine into GFPGA card #2.
Download updated compression algorithms as a compression co-processor.
Card #1 becomes a highly optimized search engine for your corporate site.
Card(s) #1 gets GIMP modules
Yup - it would be nice. But seriously, I don't see it happening at my house in the near future. Although, using cards #1-#4 for rendering near perfect Natalie Portman photos, and a fabber... Hmm....
My wife doesn't use the internet - I'll finally have complete control over the temperature...
This is truly a good day indeed for all who argue over temperature.
Archeologists will be noting fingerprints on CD ROMs from ancient Redwood Shores discussing a draft contract involving Bill Gates who sold crappy software. The contract said that if the goods proved faulty, the buyer could just go stuff themselves and wait for the next release.
5000 years have passed since Ur Ningal drew up that contract, and it seems that things have really regressed.
I wonder if there is a DNA link to the fingerprint pattern, and if this encoded sequence could be used to find descendants of good old Ur. Being a slave-trader, I suspect he might have had a few descendants...
Just wondering...
The digression about guns pointed out a beautifully predictable aspect of a lot of American citizens - this secret desire to be able to take the law into their own hands (or so I observe).
You're right - guns wouldn't be needed in a nicer society - personally, I feel we have it here in Canada. Guns are an easy target because they show up in the press so much more so than "somebody bludgeoned somebody else with a baseball bat." It also tends to illustrate that people get violent even over the issue of guns. This violent behaviour is at the root of American society.
Religion to me is a very personal subject. And I have come from small towns where my religious beliefs would have gotten me persecuted in a second by the majority of the townsfolk. I really got sick and tired of having this forced in my face everyday - especially with respect to government and public institutions. My government should have absolutely nothing to do with how I or others practice religion. I have nothing to do with how others practice their religion - I just think it should be removed in that sense.
I can really empathize with that Wiccan who committed suicide (although I'm not Wiccan) because of persecution - do the people of the USA remember why they came to the New World? Religious persecution.
I agree that the better culture needs to accomodate people who think differently - often cultures that are able to grow and adapt succeed. I have nothing wrong with diversity - just don't stick it in my face and tell me that I am wrong because I *shrugs* worship in the nude or on Saturdays, or don't at all.
This might get me modded down, but that's okay too - it happens.
But what is it that you and other anachronistic people tend to believe that they have to defend themselves from?
I've never understood that "defense" (pardon the pun) for owning guns. I don't own a gun, and I feel perfectly safe walking through my neighbourhood, or other neighbourhoods.
It has to be a complete culture change - from that of a typically violent, religious-based, keeping-up-with-the-Jones' culture to one where individuality is respected. And that is not likely going to happen in the near future.
The solution to foot-in-mouth disease is to not have any foot-in-mouth disease. Read: get rid of the guns. I know that won't help the poor individuals who will take their own lives or come up with more inventive means of striking out, but it might slow things down. Seriously, what the f*ck does a person need a gun for anyway?
Drop the religious aspect of your society back to the individual's beliefs. Don't ever allow it to creep back into politics or society as a whole. I've been to engineering meetings in the USA where problems encountered in designs were met with a "prayer" session. Sheesh - why don't we just sacrifice a goat or virgin or two to Baal to help our sales team.
Keeping-up-with-the-Jones' is going to be a real tricky thing - this is the result of feedback from a capitalist society - more money tends to breed more money, and a drive to get what is perceived to be better and better things. Some people will be able to afford the "bestest" things (generally the goal of all), most people will be able to afford the "next-to-bestest/acceptable" things, and unfortunately, there are a lot of people who never will - they get left out. I don't know how to counter this one.
Perhaps as the boomers die out, we can influence our children to respect each other's individuality a bit more. Cycles like this occur to counter the previous generation - we just have to wait for the prevaiing group to die for the other extremists to take over.
Oh well, that's all I got's to say - let's see what fallout comes from this...
Personally, I only use free-range LED displays, and only ones that I personally pick out of the herd.
Refresh rates and certainly brightness are real issues here - I agree. But one thing I'd like to see is what is under my soon-to-be (shurley) recovered deskspace when the behemoths are moved out for the new flat panel...
Anybody remember Homer poking holes in the hood of his car with a pick? "Speed holes."
Cars/fibre optics - no big difference...
(Going out to put speed holes in his bike tires... D'oh!)
Mir will be brought down on: 2001-03-16 14:00:00 to commemorate the historical significance of:
The first man to give dreams of reaching the stars a glimpse of reality was Dr. Robert H. Goddard, who launched the first liquid-fueled rocket to an altitude of 41 feet on this day in 1926. The test occurred shortly before Charles Lindbergh's flight across the Atlantic and never received the headlines that Lindbergh did, but the historic significance was staggering.
The above post should be modded up above 0 - the information was handy, Timbuktu information can now be found at: Timbuktu Info
And yes, this product seems to work nicely inter-OS.
Thanks for the update, dude...
We used to use these on the Macs to do work at our desk from the lab, or vice-versa.
I can't recall who made it, but it was more than handy to do similar operations as remote administration, as well as complete control over the remote machine.