Though your post makes some sense - I dont completely agree with the "this sentance brought to you by State Farm" I think that most ads will (are?) going to become really insidious - think about that targeting sound speaker they want to put into coke vending machines.
"Does NAV2004 have some kind of feature where certain sites can be exempt from ad blocking (in the case you do wish to support a site with ads)?"
Please, Correct me if im wrong - but doesnt "Supporting a site with ADs" mean that one must actually click on the ads?
I dont see the difference between blocking the ads and jsut not clicking on them - aside from the obvious cleaner thought-space and the atrophy and sweet death of marketing creatures the world over.
Every telecom company in history has a long track record of charging additional costs for services even though their cost for implementing them are not that expensive.
The highest cost in telecom is placing new lines - this will remain a high cost endevor, but allowing new protocols and applications to run on those lines are far cheaper.
DOnt be fooled. just because it does cost millions to roll out a service offering - that cost dwarfs in comparison to the cost of rolling out new infrastructure AND the R&D for new services.
The thing is that the services and protocols that will run overthe infrastructure will be R&D'd by someone else - on someone else's dime.
I pay 65.99 for DSL - plus an additional 7.95 for static IP...
and I HAVE to have a regular line (25.00) in orderto have DSL in the first place. They claim this is for billing purposes - they have to have a traditional phone number on the account.
this means I am paying 102.00 per month basically for DSL.
I stopped watching TV about a year ago as well. I must say thatthe most disgusting experience in my daily life is advertising - from any source - hitting my senses.
I drive up to san francisco and back every day to commute to work - and in that hour, I can handle about 10 minutes max of radio - due to advertising. I prefer to have music for a short time - and silence most...
I feel that all advertising is Thought Pollution and I am trying to figure out something to do about it... but it is pretty tough.
I rent netflix - and (sadly) blockbuster for movies that I will only watch in bed before we sleep (which may not be the best idea....)
anyway - TV is evil crap - and I am thankful to not have it.
Not that the Nachos, Hotdogs and people burping up disgusting popcorn are any better....
Popcorn burps are the worst smelling gaseous entities on the planet.
For the record, I have never, EVER caused a problem in a theatre, and my vegitarian burrito eating with a jug of vodka-cran is far better than anything you would find in most theatres. I am an extremely considerate person when it comes to the comfort level of other beings around me, which is far more than I can say for many people I have had the displeasure of observing over my nearly thirty year life span.
(For the record - I do not get gas from burrito... you may not be aware - but you *can* order things to your liking, and in my case this would mean no beans. Thankyouverymuch.)
It would appear that you in fact, are the moron - as this is the only comment you can think of. Rather than actually thinking of anything greater than base impulses, I am sure you have a good time living in your dull and numbed stated of mind. Fool of a troll are you.
"Does it imply that Linux now has a reputation as a scientifically-orientated OS?
No, what it implies is that in the interest of enabling research to continue and be open - an OS without legal licensing issues, or closed proprietary code was chosen. This allows for researches to expand upon, modify and use code that may have been developed on another project...
What about a CVS repository for code and apps that run on linus for the purpose of driving humanoid like robots.
how bout compiling in "Bipedal ambulation support" into the kernal?
I was just reading about these robots in Popular Science - (febuary 2003) where they were talking about this robot in the pic (HOAP) and others like the Honda Asimo...
They were talking about the differing perspectives between japanese robots and US ones - where the japanese are going after the humanoid approach and the US robots tend to be designed around a specific task.
There was a quote from Joe Engelberger "The Father of Industrial Robotics": "Robots dont need a mind of their own" and he states that Robots don't need to have human-like ambulatory abilities (legs) that "wheels are fine for most applications"
The first though that jumped into my head was, seriously, "Ya, but how are they going to do martial arts!"
The thing is that if we are going to build a super army of TX-thousands - then we need to begin work on bipedal humanoid robots and get them advanced enough to the point where they can accomplish fantastic feats of human movement like Gymnastics.
It may sound troll-ish but I am serious. I think that through the teaching of Robots to be able to move in the full range of motion that the human body is capable of - that we will learn a great deal about ourselves.
For instance there is something that I am really interested to know - how much your mind has control over your ability to accomplish certain moves. Take martial arts as a perfect example - as a machine - the human body is capable of a great many things - we can move in fantastic ways. But there are times when you see humans moveing in "Super-human" ways. How much of the "Super-human" is mind - and how much is actual application of physics.
I would love to see a robot that was physically designed to be as complex as a human in movement - meaning being able to be as soft, hard supple and dexteritous as someone like say, jackie chan. Then get jackie chan to wear sensors that would translate and transmit all movements to a robot which would mirror his every single move.
Would the robot be able to have as fine control over its balance as Mr Chan would? would the robot be able to actually do some of the moves without falling over - or would they be indentical?
I beleive that we will find out that there is a lot more to our movements than jsut pure mechanics and straightforward physics.
Thats funny that you state that... the post that I made originally wasnt joking at all - and one thing I was going to write was that there is a great burrito place on sixth and mission that we always get burritos at before going to the metreon - then we sit in the movie and eat - or in the case of opening nights - stand in line and eat at one of the tall tables they have there.
I have *never* had a problem - and if they did try to hassle me about it I would laugh in their face. Theatres are not allowed to prevent you from bringin food and drink into their theatres precisely because they gouge their customers.
Also we would smuggle alcohol into the theatre by getting a large thing of cranberry juice - and drinking the top third - then filling it back up with vodka.
As much as I would like to be against big ass theatres and corporate mega-complexes, the metreon in SF is actually a great theatre. I will definitely be seeing this there...
I have a mail server that I run at home. I setup all sorts of mail accounts so that I know who or where I submitted an emial address to...
for example: bills@ sbc@ ebay@ etc....
This way i know what email address of mine any given company may have.
I had been having some problems with a car that my wife bought and was in contact with the DMV (Californis) fraud department regarding this car dealer. The email that I was using was DMV@[my home domain].com in order to track all emails to and from on this subject.
I received a Cease and Desist letter from the head counsil for DMV CA - telling me that I cannot "confuse the public" through the use of DMV in my email address. They stated that they will "agressively defend" their brand.
I asked Slashdot (rejected) about this - as it would set a very interesting precident if it were to go into a full legal battle. Who can own an email address. What if my name David M. Verovich or some such thing.
Anyone that knows anything about email knows how using *@domain.com has no visibilty to the "Public" in that there would be slim to none chance of people confusing the email address that I use to correspond WITH the DMV with an actual DMV address...
First of all i picked this handle back a few years before it was "haxor" speak - only because the primary spelling version was already taken...
I have probably been using computers longer than you, but I dont try to be too cool about it.
your arrogance shows with your weak posting AC - Sigh... I am jsut too far above you to even make a public posting, so ill jsut get my lame ass jab in now under an AC guise.
They have a few differnt models. and one of them has a circular slide rule... but i was unable to determin exactly which model it was... they all seem to have some version - the flight version and the maritime version are the two that i found pics of.
I met an engineer from Sun who had a really interesting watch - it was made by Breitling - and the round bevel around the watch face was a slide rule!.
I agree and I don't. First of all I do not watch TV of ANY sort with regards to cable, free or whatever... I do rent DVDs from netflix.
I listen (selectively) to the radio on my daily commute to and from SF from san jose for work.
I call *ALL* advertising Thought Pollution. I cannot tell you of any media aside from maybe whitepapers and some books that are not assaulting my consciousness with adverts. I really want to stop the proliferation of ads.
on the one hand you can make the naive statement to simply "dont look" or "turn of the tube" - but the fact of the matter is that advertising is DESIGNED around this... they force the ads into areas where you cannot escape them.
The are the absolute trash of the landscape - both the physical and mental.
I think that there truly should be a method to opt out of all advertising schemes. - Maybe at least they should pay me.
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Though your post makes some sense - I dont completely agree with the "this sentance brought to you by State Farm" I think that most ads will (are?) going to become really insidious - think about that targeting sound speaker they want to put into coke vending machines.
"Does NAV2004 have some kind of feature where certain sites can be exempt from ad blocking (in the case you do wish to support a site with ads)?"
Please, Correct me if im wrong - but doesnt "Supporting a site with ADs" mean that one must actually click on the ads?
I dont see the difference between blocking the ads and jsut not clicking on them - aside from the obvious cleaner thought-space and the atrophy and sweet death of marketing creatures the world over.
Nope.
Every telecom company in history has a long track record of charging additional costs for services even though their cost for implementing them are not that expensive.
The highest cost in telecom is placing new lines - this will remain a high cost endevor, but allowing new protocols and applications to run on those lines are far cheaper.
DOnt be fooled. just because it does cost millions to roll out a service offering - that cost dwarfs in comparison to the cost of rolling out new infrastructure AND the R&D for new services.
The thing is that the services and protocols that will run overthe infrastructure will be R&D'd by someone else - on someone else's dime.
I pay 65.99 for DSL - plus an additional 7.95 for static IP...
and I HAVE to have a regular line (25.00) in orderto have DSL in the first place. They claim this is for billing purposes - they have to have a traditional phone number on the account.
this means I am paying 102.00 per month basically for DSL.
Fuck em.
I stopped watching TV about a year ago as well. I must say thatthe most disgusting experience in my daily life is advertising - from any source - hitting my senses.
I drive up to san francisco and back every day to commute to work - and in that hour, I can handle about 10 minutes max of radio - due to advertising. I prefer to have music for a short time - and silence most...
I feel that all advertising is Thought Pollution and I am trying to figure out something to do about it... but it is pretty tough.
I rent netflix - and (sadly) blockbuster for movies that I will only watch in bed before we sleep (which may not be the best idea....)
anyway - TV is evil crap - and I am thankful to not have it.
HAHA...
Not that the Nachos, Hotdogs and people burping up disgusting popcorn are any better....
Popcorn burps are the worst smelling gaseous entities on the planet.
For the record, I have never, EVER caused a problem in a theatre, and my vegitarian burrito eating with a jug of vodka-cran is far better than anything you would find in most theatres. I am an extremely considerate person when it comes to the comfort level of other beings around me, which is far more than I can say for many people I have had the displeasure of observing over my nearly thirty year life span.
(For the record - I do not get gas from burrito... you may not be aware - but you *can* order things to your liking, and in my case this would mean no beans. Thankyouverymuch.)
Apparently the term "Seemingly supernatural" was lost on your tiny mind.
It would appear that you in fact, are the moron - as this is the only comment you can think of. Rather than actually thinking of anything greater than base impulses, I am sure you have a good time living in your dull and numbed stated of mind. Fool of a troll are you.
"Does it imply that Linux now has a reputation as a scientifically-orientated OS?
No, what it implies is that in the interest of enabling research to continue and be open - an OS without legal licensing issues, or closed proprietary code was chosen. This allows for researches to expand upon, modify and use code that may have been developed on another project...
What about a CVS repository for code and apps that run on linus for the purpose of driving humanoid like robots.
how bout compiling in "Bipedal ambulation support" into the kernal?
A kung-fu fight seen with a beowolf cluster of these things!
I was just reading about these robots in Popular Science - (febuary 2003) where they were talking about this robot in the pic (HOAP) and others like the Honda Asimo...
They were talking about the differing perspectives between japanese robots and US ones - where the japanese are going after the humanoid approach and the US robots tend to be designed around a specific task.
There was a quote from Joe Engelberger "The Father of Industrial Robotics": "Robots dont need a mind of their own" and he states that Robots don't need to have human-like ambulatory abilities (legs) that "wheels are fine for most applications"
The first though that jumped into my head was, seriously, "Ya, but how are they going to do martial arts!"
The thing is that if we are going to build a super army of TX-thousands - then we need to begin work on bipedal humanoid robots and get them advanced enough to the point where they can accomplish fantastic feats of human movement like Gymnastics.
It may sound troll-ish but I am serious. I think that through the teaching of Robots to be able to move in the full range of motion that the human body is capable of - that we will learn a great deal about ourselves.
For instance there is something that I am really interested to know - how much your mind has control over your ability to accomplish certain moves. Take martial arts as a perfect example - as a machine - the human body is capable of a great many things - we can move in fantastic ways. But there are times when you see humans moveing in "Super-human" ways. How much of the "Super-human" is mind - and how much is actual application of physics.
I would love to see a robot that was physically designed to be as complex as a human in movement - meaning being able to be as soft, hard supple and dexteritous as someone like say, jackie chan. Then get jackie chan to wear sensors that would translate and transmit all movements to a robot which would mirror his every single move.
Would the robot be able to have as fine control over its balance as Mr Chan would? would the robot be able to actually do some of the moves without falling over - or would they be indentical?
I beleive that we will find out that there is a lot more to our movements than jsut pure mechanics and straightforward physics.
Thats funny that you state that... the post that I made originally wasnt joking at all - and one thing I was going to write was that there is a great burrito place on sixth and mission that we always get burritos at before going to the metreon - then we sit in the movie and eat - or in the case of opening nights - stand in line and eat at one of the tall tables they have there.
I have *never* had a problem - and if they did try to hassle me about it I would laugh in their face. Theatres are not allowed to prevent you from bringin food and drink into their theatres precisely because they gouge their customers.
Also we would smuggle alcohol into the theatre by getting a large thing of cranberry juice - and drinking the top third - then filling it back up with vodka.
As much as I would like to be against big ass theatres and corporate mega-complexes, the metreon in SF is actually a great theatre. I will definitely be seeing this there...
I have just about any task down to issuing one command:
"Brian, go overto server X and do such-and-such"
I have a mail server that I run at home. I setup all sorts of mail accounts so that I know who or where I submitted an emial address to...
for example: bills@ sbc@ ebay@ etc....
This way i know what email address of mine any given company may have.
I had been having some problems with a car that my wife bought and was in contact with the DMV (Californis) fraud department regarding this car dealer. The email that I was using was DMV@[my home domain].com in order to track all emails to and from on this subject.
I received a Cease and Desist letter from the head counsil for DMV CA - telling me that I cannot "confuse the public" through the use of DMV in my email address. They stated that they will "agressively defend" their brand.
I asked Slashdot (rejected) about this - as it would set a very interesting precident if it were to go into a full legal battle. Who can own an email address. What if my name David M. Verovich or some such thing.
Anyone that knows anything about email knows how using *@domain.com has no visibilty to the "Public" in that there would be slim to none chance of people confusing the email address that I use to correspond WITH the DMV with an actual DMV address...
Your funny...
First of all i picked this handle back a few years before it was "haxor" speak - only because the primary spelling version was already taken...
I have probably been using computers longer than you, but I dont try to be too cool about it.
your arrogance shows with your weak posting AC - Sigh... I am jsut too far above you to even make a public posting, so ill jsut get my lame ass jab in now under an AC guise.
They have a few differnt models. and one of them has a circular slide rule... but i was unable to determin exactly which model it was... they all seem to have some version - the flight version and the maritime version are the two that i found pics of.
I met an engineer from Sun who had a really interesting watch - it was made by Breitling - and the round bevel around the watch face was a slide rule!.
Heres a pic
And the Datora is quite nice: here
GAH! - You'll Shoot your eye out!
....downloading the matrix off the internet considered fractal reflection? or maybe this would then make the movie a worm?
I, for one, welcome our new cinematic Overlord.
"...the best part is that I force GREEN power down ..."
Well technically Solar Power would be White Power, in that sunlight is white light... But that just sounds bad.
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hmm...
I agree and I don't. First of all I do not watch TV of ANY sort with regards to cable, free or whatever... I do rent DVDs from netflix.
I listen (selectively) to the radio on my daily commute to and from SF from san jose for work.
I call *ALL* advertising Thought Pollution. I cannot tell you of any media aside from maybe whitepapers and some books that are not assaulting my consciousness with adverts. I really want to stop the proliferation of ads.
on the one hand you can make the naive statement to simply "dont look" or "turn of the tube" - but the fact of the matter is that advertising is DESIGNED around this... they force the ads into areas where you cannot escape them.
The are the absolute trash of the landscape - both the physical and mental.
I think that there truly should be a method to opt out of all advertising schemes. - Maybe at least they should pay me.
No, It would still be RAID - although the D would denote "Devices"... unless they had a purchasing contract with Dell...