I think the best part about a country having powerful weapons is their ability to NOT use them. Keeps evil powers in check (of course, evil is a subjective term, but anyways...). Same with nuclear weapons. Einstein basically told U.S. representatives, "yes, splitting atoms will work, but don't do it. It has disasterous consequences." Well, they didn't exactly listen. But I hope the ability to develop new weapons comes with the mindset to not use them.
I would prefer to see these laser weapons go from fighter jets to medical surgery. Imagine the medical uses for this. Small, precise cuts, no sterilization necessary.
But it feels good, doesn't it? But with regards to an effect on real life, imagine how it would feel to do it to someone out on the street.
When I played Metal Gear Solid 2, I would hold a Russian up at gunpoint, and shoot him in the arm. He would keep his other arm raised, but the wounded arm would quiver in pain. It kind of bothered me... just a little more realistic than GTA3. In GTA3 there's something funny about watching people fly around on fire after you've just blasted them with the flamethrower. Correct me if I'm insane.
I find GTA3 an excellent vent for agression... you can beat people up, fire a rocket launcher at them, etc. But I know the difference from right and wrong (at least I should). I wonder if younger kids still might get the wrong idea. In any case, I wouldn't let my 6-year-old play a game like Grand Theft Auto 3.
In general, the longer kids spend playing video games inside, the less they're out getting into fights and robbing stores (I met a 17-year-old on the bus who just got out of juvenile detention for attempted robbery of a gas station). Why go out and beat someone up when you just did it for the past four hours with your favorite fighting game? Just don't set the skill level too high...
You may get it. I know my SonicBlue Riovolt has had numerous updates. I'm just hoping the amount of RAM on the device is enough to accommodate upgrades. That would absolutely rock (pun intended).
How about registering domains like www.oeone.org, www.oone.com, www.oone.com or www.oe-one.com? Any permutations or slight modifications of the original domain would be enough to catch a few users. , this is a horrible way to do things. Whatever happened to the days of downloadable installers? I would expect that people who install Linux would have enough sense to choose a link off a website related to their distribution. This is how Ximian does it on their download page. I think they still provide the old lynx -source http://? | sh method as well.
I see no reason why not, but focusing technological efforts on the early learning stages in life might prove to be more beneficial. Children who can't learn aren't as likely to be productive adults. Chemically, your brain is more likely to connect neurons at a faster rate (and develop better concentration) when you're younger.
I saw something on TV where they showcased this brainwave device. You put a 1 pound helmet on your head, and play games. Each game has a certain task you need to accomplish, and you can accomplish it faster simply by concentrating. The more you concentrate, for example, the faster a character on a bicycle will cross a finish line. They think this type of technology may help kids with ads/adhd (attention deficeit syndrome and attention deficeit hyperactive disorder). No more ritalin for me, just pure video games.
Since you mention the three major players, I just hope the rights to console publishing don't get bought out by any particular company. I'd hate to have yet another reason to buy an X-Box, and the target audience for the GameCube just doesn't cut it. It's nice that they're targeting the console from the get-go on this game, as many PC games ported to consoles have been just a shadow to their PC counterparts (with the exception of many of EA's games--including NFS--which have separate development teams for console and PC).
My uncle finally got cancer after smoking 3 packs of cigarettes a day for 25 years. He had thyroid cancer, which is one or more tumors located near your thyroid gland (in your neck). This was discovered shortly after his mild stroke. He ended up getting a tracheotomy (they punch a hole in your throat and you breathe through a tube) after the surgery, and had what he calls a "nuclear drink".
While down in the states, he lost his traech (the tube that sits in the hole), and didn't notice until they crossed the border on the way into Canada. He and his wife decided to go back to the U.S. to find it. While driving around late at night, retracing their steps, a cruiser pulled up and armed guards jumped out of the car. They rifled through my uncle's truck, throwing things out, and finally stopped at the window so my uncle could explain he had cancer and was taking a "nuclear" drink. The troopers were carrying some kind of geiger counter that had picked up his medication. They let them go.
On the way back to Canada (for the second time), they were about to drive away from the booth when an armed officer comes rushing out out of the customs office screaming, "stop that car!" The fallout from the medication had set off the sensors in the customs building. They had a bit of explaining to do.
So yeah, if you have anything that even remotely decays (some home appliances, like smoke detectors, may even have traces of radioactive elements), be prepared to be seized and searched.
There likely is. What do car manufacturers want more than anything? For you to buy their hardware. That's why car hardware standards aren't what they should be. Go in and ask for a stereo with an auxiliary jack. What'll they say? "Buy our CD player instead." Tell them you want more music, and that your MP3 player suffices. "Buy our 10-CD changer." Buy this, buy that. If they included an auxiliary jack in the stereo when you buy their car, you would have no need of tacking on that extra $500 to get their CD player.
Proprietary rules. We shouldn't have to live with it but we do. It's too bad you can't solder a headphone jack onto a CD and use that;).
This started with 7.3. Likely the first three discs contain RPMs, while the last three contain SRPMs. Why the overlap? Disc 3 is half RPM and half SRPM. Just d/l the first three. You might even be able to get away with the first two depending on the kind of install, but I don't know enough about how they position their RPMs on the discs to be able to tell. I recommend you check the listing of RPMs on the third disc (it should be available in the FTP tree) to see if you need it, or can do without it.
Add a sub-agreement to any forms you fill out indicating that your information will not be shared with a third party. Just write it somewheres in a blank area and get the person you're filling the form out for to sign it. My father went in to buy a vehicle one time, and that's what he did. If in doubt, or if this you find adding this agreement cumbersome, spell your name wrong. When you receive mail or a telemarketer calls, look at your name on the mail or ask the telemarketer to spell your name. If it's incorrect, you know your info has been sold.
You're thinking the iPAQ with its little speaker inside the directional pad. Oh, wait, the iPAQ has a headphone out. Hmm... if only the GB had a headphone jack... oh wait, it does! Hmm... if only it had 16-bit sound. Well, the GBA does. So that's most of the problem solved.
The only sound quality problem I see here is with the original game boy and game boy color, assuming they implement their MP3 player for it. I see mention of the game boy color, but may have overlooked any mention of the MP3 device supporting it (I'm not sure if it mentions it). In any case, since the GBA can play everything back to the original game boy games, and since it's more attractive, lighter (than the older, larger ones) and is becoming fairly cheap, I can't see there being as much of a market for it. I see the GBA one taking a chunk, but not so much the GBC and original GB. My guess is if anyone's going to go out and buy an MP3 player, or even an MP3 add-on, they'll likely buy a full-fledged player, or they'll already have a GBA.
You're absolutely right: people automatically think flooding or hacking when they hear DoS. But denial of service attacks can mean rendering a network virtually useless in what it's supposed to provide. In the case of a web server, you use up so many connections no one else (ie: valid clients) can connect. In the case of Morpheus, you imitate so many false matches that clients can't get valid results (they can't retrieve the information, even though the information is available and the server -- or network -- should technically be able to produce it).
The RIAA has already started doing this -- by posting songs with repeated choruses or large sections of the songs faded to silence, but the calibur has been relatively small -- you can usually pull off a legitimate copy after a few searches.
Legalizing this operation would give the RIAA a defense for using these mechanisms, and they could avoid [further] bad publicity. They would also be permitted to store massive amounts of slightly varied mp3 names that house illegitimate or incomplete songs, register numerous Kazaa/Morpheus/etc. accounts and attempt to pose as valid song providers, flooding the network with useless information.
The sad revelation came to me when my brother visited for a weekend. I had been playing Black and White for a good while on my P3-700 with 256MB RAM and a GeForce 2 64MB. I thought that was powerful enough.
Then he showed up with this weird-looking blue case, a Toshiba laptop. It had a combined DVD-ROM/CD-ROM/CD-RW 12x10x24. The screen was 16". It was an Athlon 1.2GHz, and had a GeForce 2 mobile 64MB (the bus was faster than my desktop cousin). The real kicker was when I sat it on my lap and began to play music. We're talking a male vibrator folks. The damn thing had a subwoofer built into the bottom. Unbelievable. Now a far cry from the specs of a 1.6GHz P4 w/GeForce 4, but hey...
Oh yeah.. and battery power? My guess was about 10 minutes on a single battery. It actually lasted 2 hours.
I can see enormously huge advantages to this technology. My eyesight isn't great, and I get headaches (for some reason) when I wear my glasses for extended periods of time in front of the monitor. I don't have the funds to buy a 19" LCD, but recently got a 19" CRT for Christmas.
Have you ever tried to lift one of these things? They're heavily. Not entirely immobile, but I've moved 4 times in the past two years, and it's a real pain to drag around. Add that to the weight of a TV, and you're really starting to bulk up on your electronics. I can't imagine struggle for those with 21" or larger monitors.
Granted, not everyone moves that often, but it seems to me that with the flexibility (variable scan rate, low electronics weight) these things could outsell LCD screens in no time. Imagine hanging _these_ on your wall. Or standing in the hallway playing a quick game of Quake Arena on the 32" screen on the wall while you wait for your coffee to perk.
For the environmentally conscious (we've seen a few lately on/.) there's nothing more easily disposable than a box filled almost entirely with air. I think the test will be when they cost less to replace than they do to repair. Kudos to this technology. I only hope the "straight face" Cringley mentioned was indicative of the truth, and not by an invitation for someone to call their bluff.
sigh... those were the days. I remember terms like SysOp, Co-SysOp, etc. You could page the SysOp and talk one on one (that was cool!!!), the sound of the modem connecting (replaced by the weird pings of now slow-compared-to-broadband 56k modems). I remember how excited everyone was when a sysop would add another "node" to the system, either through DesqView with QEMM under DOS or by using a fossil driver and running Windows.
I miss things like PCBoard and ProBBS... those were the days. Now, with the Internet, not only can anyone hide behind a mask of anonymity but anyone with half a brain (or half a paycheque) can connect to the Internet.
You know what? BBSes were far less commercial (depending on what services they provided). I remember a friend of mine down the street ran a BBS when he was 13 (I did quite a bit of ANSI and ASCII art for him, sloooow over a 2400 though, better at 14400). Back then, advertisements were things you saw on TV, magazines, bathroom stalls (er, scratch that last one).
I remember briding the child internet and aged BBS gap with "virtual" connections: a telnet driver that would respond via the internet and send "RING" or "CONNECT" strings to the running BBS so you could have numerous nodes on one machine through multiple telnet connections.
Now we have popup removals, filter proxies, all to try and eliminate if not reduce the barrage of banners and animations on just about any even remotely-commercial web site out there.
For many people, the hardware technology itself is the same. It's become slightly faster, but you still get your roommate or family member off the phone so you can wait for dial-up, then log in and check your mail. Only now you're responding to the world (neglecting FIDONet, but I had a few problems with that in the past).
The best was to download 1000's of E-Mails from one system for reading off-line, repackaging the.zip file and upload to another BBS as a response. Then again, now we have spam... hmm... which one is better, the 'net or BBS's? The question is becoming more ludicrously rhetoric the more I think about it...
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Even the ability to cut flesh? I know they can reduce broken capillaries by frying them with a red laser, but can they also do cuts?
Star Trek, here we come... Mr Worf, arm phasers!
I think the best part about a country having powerful weapons is their ability to NOT use them. Keeps evil powers in check (of course, evil is a subjective term, but anyways...). Same with nuclear weapons. Einstein basically told U.S. representatives, "yes, splitting atoms will work, but don't do it. It has disasterous consequences." Well, they didn't exactly listen. But I hope the ability to develop new weapons comes with the mindset to not use them.
I would prefer to see these laser weapons go from fighter jets to medical surgery. Imagine the medical uses for this. Small, precise cuts, no sterilization necessary.
Imagine having to go through all those at bootup! I can see extending the bootloader to provide regex searches.
But it feels good, doesn't it? But with regards to an effect on real life, imagine how it would feel to do it to someone out on the street.
When I played Metal Gear Solid 2, I would hold a Russian up at gunpoint, and shoot him in the arm. He would keep his other arm raised, but the wounded arm would quiver in pain. It kind of bothered me... just a little more realistic than GTA3. In GTA3 there's something funny about watching people fly around on fire after you've just blasted them with the flamethrower. Correct me if I'm insane.
I find GTA3 an excellent vent for agression... you can beat people up, fire a rocket launcher at them, etc. But I know the difference from right and wrong (at least I should). I wonder if younger kids still might get the wrong idea. In any case, I wouldn't let my 6-year-old play a game like Grand Theft Auto 3.
In general, the longer kids spend playing video games inside, the less they're out getting into fights and robbing stores (I met a 17-year-old on the bus who just got out of juvenile detention for attempted robbery of a gas station). Why go out and beat someone up when you just did it for the past four hours with your favorite fighting game? Just don't set the skill level too high...
You may get it. I know my SonicBlue Riovolt has had numerous updates. I'm just hoping the amount of RAM on the device is enough to accommodate upgrades. That would absolutely rock (pun intended).
How about registering domains like www.oeone.org, www.oone.com, www.oone.com or www.oe-one.com? Any permutations or slight modifications of the original domain would be enough to catch a few users. , this is a horrible way to do things. Whatever happened to the days of downloadable installers? I would expect that people who install Linux would have enough sense to choose a link off a website related to their distribution. This is how Ximian does it on their download page. I think they still provide the old lynx -source http://? | sh method as well.
The Romans used to hold their balls when they gave a "testimonial". And yes, I believe you're full of shit.
I see no reason why not, but focusing technological efforts on the early learning stages in life might prove to be more beneficial. Children who can't learn aren't as likely to be productive adults. Chemically, your brain is more likely to connect neurons at a faster rate (and develop better concentration) when you're younger.
I saw something on TV where they showcased this brainwave device. You put a 1 pound helmet on your head, and play games. Each game has a certain task you need to accomplish, and you can accomplish it faster simply by concentrating. The more you concentrate, for example, the faster a character on a bicycle will cross a finish line. They think this type of technology may help kids with ads/adhd (attention deficeit syndrome and attention deficeit hyperactive disorder). No more ritalin for me, just pure video games.
Since you mention the three major players, I just hope the rights to console publishing don't get bought out by any particular company. I'd hate to have yet another reason to buy an X-Box, and the target audience for the GameCube just doesn't cut it. It's nice that they're targeting the console from the get-go on this game, as many PC games ported to consoles have been just a shadow to their PC counterparts (with the exception of many of EA's games--including NFS--which have separate development teams for console and PC).
I swear on my mother's grave (which hasn't been dug yet), the first time I read her name I thought Torn Anus. You know you love it.
Not unless this smuggler was hiding it in his stomach - they searched everything (except rectal cavities). Colon cancer? I think so.
My uncle finally got cancer after smoking 3 packs of cigarettes a day for 25 years. He had thyroid cancer, which is one or more tumors located near your thyroid gland (in your neck). This was discovered shortly after his mild stroke. He ended up getting a tracheotomy (they punch a hole in your throat and you breathe through a tube) after the surgery, and had what he calls a "nuclear drink".
While down in the states, he lost his traech (the tube that sits in the hole), and didn't notice until they crossed the border on the way into Canada. He and his wife decided to go back to the U.S. to find it. While driving around late at night, retracing their steps, a cruiser pulled up and armed guards jumped out of the car. They rifled through my uncle's truck, throwing things out, and finally stopped at the window so my uncle could explain he had cancer and was taking a "nuclear" drink. The troopers were carrying some kind of geiger counter that had picked up his medication. They let them go.
On the way back to Canada (for the second time), they were about to drive away from the booth when an armed officer comes rushing out out of the customs office screaming, "stop that car!" The fallout from the medication had set off the sensors in the customs building. They had a bit of explaining to do.
So yeah, if you have anything that even remotely decays (some home appliances, like smoke detectors, may even have traces of radioactive elements), be prepared to be seized and searched.
There likely is. What do car manufacturers want more than anything? For you to buy their hardware. That's why car hardware standards aren't what they should be. Go in and ask for a stereo with an auxiliary jack. What'll they say? "Buy our CD player instead." Tell them you want more music, and that your MP3 player suffices. "Buy our 10-CD changer." Buy this, buy that. If they included an auxiliary jack in the stereo when you buy their car, you would have no need of tacking on that extra $500 to get their CD player.
;).
Proprietary rules. We shouldn't have to live with it but we do. It's too bad you can't solder a headphone jack onto a CD and use that
This started with 7.3. Likely the first three discs contain RPMs, while the last three contain SRPMs. Why the overlap? Disc 3 is half RPM and half SRPM. Just d/l the first three. You might even be able to get away with the first two depending on the kind of install, but I don't know enough about how they position their RPMs on the discs to be able to tell. I recommend you check the listing of RPMs on the third disc (it should be available in the FTP tree) to see if you need it, or can do without it.
Add a sub-agreement to any forms you fill out indicating that your information will not be shared with a third party. Just write it somewheres in a blank area and get the person you're filling the form out for to sign it. My father went in to buy a vehicle one time, and that's what he did. If in doubt, or if this you find adding this agreement cumbersome, spell your name wrong. When you receive mail or a telemarketer calls, look at your name on the mail or ask the telemarketer to spell your name. If it's incorrect, you know your info has been sold.
You're thinking the iPAQ with its little speaker inside the directional pad. Oh, wait, the iPAQ has a headphone out. Hmm... if only the GB had a headphone jack... oh wait, it does! Hmm... if only it had 16-bit sound. Well, the GBA does. So that's most of the problem solved.
The only sound quality problem I see here is with the original game boy and game boy color, assuming they implement their MP3 player for it. I see mention of the game boy color, but may have overlooked any mention of the MP3 device supporting it (I'm not sure if it mentions it). In any case, since the GBA can play everything back to the original game boy games, and since it's more attractive, lighter (than the older, larger ones) and is becoming fairly cheap, I can't see there being as much of a market for it. I see the GBA one taking a chunk, but not so much the GBC and original GB. My guess is if anyone's going to go out and buy an MP3 player, or even an MP3 add-on, they'll likely buy a full-fledged player, or they'll already have a GBA.
You're absolutely right: people automatically think flooding or hacking when they hear DoS. But denial of service attacks can mean rendering a network virtually useless in what it's supposed to provide. In the case of a web server, you use up so many connections no one else (ie: valid clients) can connect. In the case of Morpheus, you imitate so many false matches that clients can't get valid results (they can't retrieve the information, even though the information is available and the server -- or network -- should technically be able to produce it).
The RIAA has already started doing this -- by posting songs with repeated choruses or large sections of the songs faded to silence, but the calibur has been relatively small -- you can usually pull off a legitimate copy after a few searches.
Legalizing this operation would give the RIAA a defense for using these mechanisms, and they could avoid [further] bad publicity. They would also be permitted to store massive amounts of slightly varied mp3 names that house illegitimate or incomplete songs, register numerous Kazaa/Morpheus/etc. accounts and attempt to pose as valid song providers, flooding the network with useless information.
The sad revelation came to me when my brother visited for a weekend. I had been playing Black and White for a good while on my P3-700 with 256MB RAM and a GeForce 2 64MB. I thought that was powerful enough.
Then he showed up with this weird-looking blue case, a Toshiba laptop. It had a combined DVD-ROM/CD-ROM/CD-RW 12x10x24. The screen was 16". It was an Athlon 1.2GHz, and had a GeForce 2 mobile 64MB (the bus was faster than my desktop cousin). The real kicker was when I sat it on my lap and began to play music. We're talking a male vibrator folks. The damn thing had a subwoofer built into the bottom. Unbelievable. Now a far cry from the specs of a 1.6GHz P4 w/GeForce 4, but hey...
Oh yeah.. and battery power? My guess was about 10 minutes on a single battery. It actually lasted 2 hours.
I can see enormously huge advantages to this technology. My eyesight isn't great, and I get headaches (for some reason) when I wear my glasses for extended periods of time in front of the monitor. I don't have the funds to buy a 19" LCD, but recently got a 19" CRT for Christmas.
/.) there's nothing more easily disposable than a box filled almost entirely with air. I think the test will be when they cost less to replace than they do to repair. Kudos to this technology. I only hope the "straight face" Cringley mentioned was indicative of the truth, and not by an invitation for someone to call their bluff.
Have you ever tried to lift one of these things? They're heavily. Not entirely immobile, but I've moved 4 times in the past two years, and it's a real pain to drag around. Add that to the weight of a TV, and you're really starting to bulk up on your electronics. I can't imagine struggle for those with 21" or larger monitors.
Granted, not everyone moves that often, but it seems to me that with the flexibility (variable scan rate, low electronics weight) these things could outsell LCD screens in no time. Imagine hanging _these_ on your wall. Or standing in the hallway playing a quick game of Quake Arena on the 32" screen on the wall while you wait for your coffee to perk.
For the environmentally conscious (we've seen a few lately on
sigh... those were the days. I remember terms like SysOp, Co-SysOp, etc. You could page the SysOp and talk one on one (that was cool!!!), the sound of the modem connecting (replaced by the weird pings of now slow-compared-to-broadband 56k modems). I remember how excited everyone was when a sysop would add another "node" to the system, either through DesqView with QEMM under DOS or by using a fossil driver and running Windows.
.zip file and upload to another BBS as a response. Then again, now we have spam... hmm... which one is better, the 'net or BBS's? The question is becoming more ludicrously rhetoric the more I think about it...
I miss things like PCBoard and ProBBS... those were the days. Now, with the Internet, not only can anyone hide behind a mask of anonymity but anyone with half a brain (or half a paycheque) can connect to the Internet.
You know what? BBSes were far less commercial (depending on what services they provided). I remember a friend of mine down the street ran a BBS when he was 13 (I did quite a bit of ANSI and ASCII art for him, sloooow over a 2400 though, better at 14400). Back then, advertisements were things you saw on TV, magazines, bathroom stalls (er, scratch that last one).
I remember briding the child internet and aged BBS gap with "virtual" connections: a telnet driver that would respond via the internet and send "RING" or "CONNECT" strings to the running BBS so you could have numerous nodes on one machine through multiple telnet connections.
Now we have popup removals, filter proxies, all to try and eliminate if not reduce the barrage of banners and animations on just about any even remotely-commercial web site out there.
For many people, the hardware technology itself is the same. It's become slightly faster, but you still get your roommate or family member off the phone so you can wait for dial-up, then log in and check your mail. Only now you're responding to the world (neglecting FIDONet, but I had a few problems with that in the past).
The best was to download 1000's of E-Mails from one system for reading off-line, repackaging the
... I couldn't respond to your E-Mail because my router crashed... literally...
HAHAHA *ducks*
CNet has a longer article with quotes from testimony, etc. @ Kazaa, Morpheus legal case collapsing.
...a bright orange solution of a billion billion molecules.
In other news, astronauts have discovered a new use for tang.