I disagree. The reason they didn't say anything was because they DIDN'T KNOW. In the Architect speech he say that the one will choose "23 people, seven male, sixteen female, FROM THE MATRIX". These are still plugged in people. Harken back to M1 when Morpheous describes the last One. "He awakened the first of us."
They aren't the same people.
Not that anyone will ever see this now...
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But if you do here's some of the stuff I tried when I was skeptical of my diagnosis. The easiest question, does caffeine affect you? I mean negatively. Can you drink a bunch of coffee and get caffeine jitters? I can't. I've never even noticed the presence of caffeine unless I get that damn withdrawal headache. Never had the jitters.
To try to check out the diagnosis I went to the gas station. I picked up one of those trucker packs of OTC speed they always have on the counter. I should have gotten all jumpy and maybe sweat too much. In fact I finished a project I had been trying to get done for weeks.
Its different for everyone. Do what works for YOU.
Thats a gain of 180 Mhz. It just seems like a bigger jump to go from 300mhz to 480mhz than from 1.5ghz to 1.68ghz.
I guess its one of those mental tricks like 48 hours seems less to me than 2 days. No idea why.
I don't see what's so ground breaking about this. It's just a KVM switch with a port replicator. We use a system like this for our servers now. If this is what I'm gathering then it's just like having a USB hub, mouse, monitor and keyboard cords that are REALLY long. A KVM switch.
The only "management" of the desktops sounds like its in the form keeping them nice and frosty and UPSed in the server room. Other than than SOS (same ol' $#!+).
In addition to being a satire on real issues, it's basically godawful fiction. None of this stuff is believable. Maybe if this was a letter from 3050. I can guarentee that I will not forget about CD's in 20 years. Hell I still remember victrolas, and they've been obsolete for about 80 years. This is horse shit.
Censorship is bad. Dumb patents are bad. Awful fiction is ALSO bad. I'm not sure which is worse.
That is the question. Whether tis nobler to help the powers that be begin relasing digital media, or to let them think they have a secure system and then hack it to hell once they've adopted it.
The very idea that using a robotic army would destroy the economy of small towns is as silly as the paperless office. Remember that one? Computers are going to wipe out any need for paper?
The fact is advanced technology simply moves the required humans around. The support crew for a technological army is massive. Factor in the fact that anyone capable of maintaining mechanized equipment is far more valuable to the commercial market and thus in greater risk of leaving and you end up with perhaps slightly fewer, but much more well paid soldiers staffing those bases.
Having said that, the cost of constant maintenance on thousands of robots is a major money drain on the military. People aren't free but they don't cost nearly as much to train as it would to replace, repair and upgrade any robot that would qualify for the rigors of military use.
Speaking of Terminator, if you read the novel adaptaions, one of the reasons that the machines were losing was that the human resistance simply reproduced too fast. The machines couldn't keep up.
Bear in mind that the insanely low cost of current HDDs is based on the same technology (more or less) as MRAM. The people working on this currently are approaching it from a memory poit of view. What happens when the HD companies get a hold of this?
If nothing else they should be able to use the technology combined with current HDD systems to decrease seek times.
Quoth ABCnews.com:
"The prototype has storage density as good as DRAM (dynamic random access memory), the most common type of semiconductor memory, but reads and writes information 20 times faster while consuming less than than one hundredth the energy."
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I really do. I wish all this was possible, but, at least where I live, you have to have win9x on the machine that will be talking to the cable modem.
Sadly all this is for naught. We set our shared cable connection up with IP masquerading and put 5 machines on the lan, all going out through one cable line, but the firewall machine had to be a 98 box in order for RR to do it's thing.
There is a system tray program that runs to authenticate the user of the account. As far as I know you could use anything behind that 9x box but the one the cable modem sees has to be win9x.
I suppose you could have your linux desktop, a bsd firewall and THEN the win9x machine, but that just sounds silly.
So now we have a computer sweating. This means it needs water (or something) to sweat out. And if it needs water, I'm sure it needs food too. So now I have a smelly organic lump that I have to feed and water constantly.
Modern science has developed a pet that can check email.
"Hey, what kinda software you running on your dog?"
I agree. The $2200 price tag makes this pointless. I can buy a nice laptop for that. Why would I buy what is essentially a crappy laptop with no keyboard for that kind of money.
Its almost as if the whole industry has missed the point. These have to be CHEAP if they are gonna sell. Just because it's an "appliance" doesn't mean it should cost as much as a commercial freezer.
With OS X being based on a Unix kernel, I'm sure someone will make the point about how earthshatteringly bad it is to power cycle a Unix machine, but even they lock up from time to time.
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They aren't the same people.
But if you do here's some of the stuff I tried when I was skeptical of my diagnosis. The easiest question, does caffeine affect you? I mean negatively. Can you drink a bunch of coffee and get caffeine jitters? I can't. I've never even noticed the presence of caffeine unless I get that damn withdrawal headache. Never had the jitters.
To try to check out the diagnosis I went to the gas station. I picked up one of those trucker packs of OTC speed they always have on the counter. I should have gotten all jumpy and maybe sweat too much. In fact I finished a project I had been trying to get done for weeks.
Its different for everyone. Do what works for YOU.
Thats a gain of 180 Mhz. It just seems like a bigger jump to go from 300mhz to 480mhz than from 1.5ghz to 1.68ghz. I guess its one of those mental tricks like 48 hours seems less to me than 2 days. No idea why.
The only "management" of the desktops sounds like its in the form keeping them nice and frosty and UPSed in the server room. Other than than SOS (same ol' $#!+).
Censorship is bad. Dumb patents are bad. Awful fiction is ALSO bad. I'm not sure which is worse.
That is the question. Whether tis nobler to help the powers that be begin relasing digital media, or to let them think they have a secure system and then hack it to hell once they've adopted it.
The fact is advanced technology simply moves the required humans around. The support crew for a technological army is massive. Factor in the fact that anyone capable of maintaining mechanized equipment is far more valuable to the commercial market and thus in greater risk of leaving and you end up with perhaps slightly fewer, but much more well paid soldiers staffing those bases.
Having said that, the cost of constant maintenance on thousands of robots is a major money drain on the military. People aren't free but they don't cost nearly as much to train as it would to replace, repair and upgrade any robot that would qualify for the rigors of military use.
Speaking of Terminator, if you read the novel adaptaions, one of the reasons that the machines were losing was that the human resistance simply reproduced too fast. The machines couldn't keep up.
Bear in mind that the insanely low cost of current HDDs is based on the same technology (more or less) as MRAM. The people working on this currently are approaching it from a memory poit of view. What happens when the HD companies get a hold of this?
If nothing else they should be able to use the technology combined with current HDD systems to decrease seek times.
Quoth ABCnews.com:
"The prototype has storage density as good as DRAM (dynamic random access memory), the most common type of semiconductor memory, but reads and writes information 20 times faster while consuming less than than one hundredth the energy."
Answers that question.
I really do. I wish all this was possible, but, at least where I live, you have to have win9x on the machine that will be talking to the cable modem.
Sadly all this is for naught. We set our shared cable connection up with IP masquerading and put 5 machines on the lan, all going out through one cable line, but the firewall machine had to be a 98 box in order for RR to do it's thing.
There is a system tray program that runs to authenticate the user of the account. As far as I know you could use anything behind that 9x box but the one the cable modem sees has to be win9x.
I suppose you could have your linux desktop, a bsd firewall and THEN the win9x machine, but that just sounds silly.
Modern science has developed a pet that can check email.
"Hey, what kinda software you running on your dog?"
Its almost as if the whole industry has missed the point. These have to be CHEAP if they are gonna sell. Just because it's an "appliance" doesn't mean it should cost as much as a commercial freezer.
With OS X being based on a Unix kernel, I'm sure someone will make the point about how earthshatteringly bad it is to power cycle a Unix machine, but even they lock up from time to time.