>I can't say the response in Canada to MP3s has been too much different in nature than the US, although it's probably less heavy-handed.
In much the same way that our response to Marijauna and other mild narcotics has been much less heavy-handed than our good neighbours to the south, eh?
(For those not schooled in Canadian politics, there is about a 50/50 chance that Marijauna will be legalized in Canada within the next federal term, which becomes significantly greater for the one thereafter. It is already to the point where somebody can be stopped by a cop with 30g of the stuff, and get off with a warning, provided it isn't divided into portions.)
I don't really mind Intel doing that. I also don't think Intel will actually enforce such a patent:
They're reliant on Microsoft to stay in business. While people don't really have a choice about Microsoft (don't. You know, and I know, that there are always better options to Microsoft, but do you expect Joe Idiot to install Linux?), they do have a choice about Intel. As more and more people are shying away from Intel in favour of IDT WinChip, Cyrix, AMD, and other giants, Intel would only shoot itself in the foot by enforcing such a move.
Microsoft would not be very friendly to having to write new versions of all their operating systems, each coded to a different architechture. They aren't very happy with having an Alpha and an x86 version of Windows NT. How do you think they'll react to an Intel, and x86, AND an Alpha version of Whistler?
I can think of many reasons to have a Cell phone, and the only people who "bother" me are the so-called "cellemarketers". I haven't been called by one of them since the first time when I told them I was in Italy paying $20/minute for connection and expected recompense.
Given that my phone is an Ericcson KF-788.... that's really assuring....
Time to buy a new phone, methinks. (Although, this might explain why I've been having these strange powers appearing... laser eyes, telekinesis, the whole nine yards!)
Infinite power is impossible. The Universe has a finite amount of Energy, and if I remember 11th grade Physics: "Energy can neither be created nor destroyed."
Still, I wouldn't mind it if Ontario Hydro started running a few tokamaks, just as long as they were nowhere near me:). Might actually make Electric cars feasable, and I can stop paying that whopping $26 every two weeks for gas!
I'm looking forward to seeing my tank of gas hit $50, because that means that the f$cking Minivans and SUV's will have a $150 tank of gas every week and people will stop driving the damn things!
"Originally, the internet served a specific purpose of allowing academics to communicate and further the development of social and scientific knowledge."
Um....No. Originally the Internet was created by the US government as a means of maintaining communication lines between cities in the event of a nuclear war. Conceived in the early '60s, and the first link was built around '68. Yes, they were using TCP/IP, too. Perhaps you're referring to ARPAnet, which has been obsolete for a very long time.
Besides that, where do you get off saying that porn is the death of society? It is a means of expression. No more. It has been around since the dark ages, probably longer. (Archaeologists in England have dug up some "pornographic" sketches and engravings dating to about 900AD. Even "Punch" was mildly pornographic in the 1300's.) Now, if Porn were the root of the death of Civilization, then why, oh why great godess of knowledge did the Baroque, Classical, and Romantic periods of our history happen? (Not to mention the whole Rennaissance itself!)
I was against it from the start.... Netscape-AOL-Lycos-Time-Warner would be too powerful. Specifically, AOL would have too much free advertising, and there would be a sudden influx of AOLamers on the internet. Ugh. My job would get harder overnight.
BTW, is anybody else incensed that AOL started using CD's a couple years back? I can't format the disks and use them any more, so end up getting a free coaster about every week or so. They're starting to pile up!
I'm reasonably sure (still having the battery packs and motors) that Lego already has a line of mechanized toys. Not too sure what the line was, but it was something along the lines of "Mechanix", and sold for about $40 CDN.
Aside from a few "specially-molded" parts, this is pretty much the same thing, isn't it? I think I'll take the older set, and live with my ATAT Walker looking a little blocky, thank you very much.
In Oz, I can vote first for a minority candidate, then give preference to whichever of the major parties I despise least. I'm not forced to vote for a major party because of fear of "wasting" my vote.
See, if we did that in Canada, then the Rhino party would probably have won the last election, and we'd have the Rhino in the Metro Toronto Zoo as our PM!
Dammit! That's another new toy that I have to buy! How am I supposed to pay for life when they keep coming out with Cars, Computers, and Toys that I have to buy?!?!?!?
Forgot to take into account two things:
1. AMD has overtaken Intel on the "power-of-cpu" camp. This means that they're going to become more and more popular.
2. The law of exponential growth. AMD Should overtake Intel in less than 3 years. AMD's popularity is increasing by the day, while Intel is falling out of favour.
I work for Compaq computer corp. I've got some news for you: your source is outdated.
We're already selling laptops with SpeedStep technology. They're available in P3/600-750.
The 17XL262 (Canadian model. US is 17XL265), for example, hit the market in June 2000.
Frankly, I was being flippant. I'm well aware that Nasa needs to get some competent engineers organizing the Mars project, and don't care what form they come in.
People will not be willing to hop on a ship bound for Mars when 8 of the last 10 missions sent to Mars ended in abject failure.
I'm not too sure that I would want an Atmosphere like Canada's.... The air in Toronto is brown.
Still... Wouldn't mind that beer. For you Americans, the missing ingredient is ALCOHOL. I've been told by Americans that it is rare to find a beer over 3.2% alc/vol in the USA. Here in Canada, that's still a Light beer.
So what you're saying is that the reason nobody's volunteering to go to Mars is that none of the men are willing to go for a year or more without getting Laid?
I beg to differ....
I found that it was too scientific, and that when Robinson didn't know what he was talking about, the BS that he spewed didn't sit well with my knowledge of physics/biology/chemistry.
Oh yeah, and I found the idea of an immortality vaccine to not be very believable either....
If Anonymous Coward was removed from the options for posting a reply?
Anyway. A similar system of elections is used in the States. They're called Primaries. One of the few ideas from our neighbours to the South (Yes, I'm Canadian, and No, I don't live in an Igloo) that I respect.
What I would like to see is an Australian-type system of politics: Have a primary election in which all but two candidates are eliminated, and then a secondary election. Would eliminate most of the BS that passes for government around here.
Could do that, but do you remember the ST:TNG episode when nanites got loose?
Oooh, the memories.... I don't think we want that happening. Might lend some truth to the "theory" (which was actually pitched to me by a friend yesterday) that the internet has developped a consciousness.
I, for one, was not surprised when I read that article. I'm not a physicist of that calibre (yet), but already knew of the existence of buckyballs, and carbon nano-tubes.
But what interests me the most about that article was that when the tip of the inner-tube broke off the tip of the probe, it "sprung" back in the outer tube.
I would assume that the same van der Waal forces that reduce the friction to negligible levels are also strong enough to break the bond between the probe and the tube.
Just wait 'till we can mass produce these things! It may be possible to make a nano-filament of extreme strength. When we get that, we may be able to make a space elevator as suggested in Red Mars. (We won't discuss that book. Author trying to be too technical, and getting the facts wrong.... Sounds like NASA:)
I just read the article that was posted on Heise News. (Untranslated... using what little German I remember from HS) The German firm, CMG, doesn't have a case.
They're complaining because they have an on-line banking software under the name "Standard Anmeldung Meldewesen Banken", which they abbreviate as SAMBa. (Babelfish translates the name as: "Standard log-on reporting department banks")
As far as copyright goes, the SMB protocol, including client, daemon, etc. has been around for much longer than on-line banking. Under International copyright agreements, if anybody owes anything, it would be the German CMB firm that owes the Samba group for infringing on its copyright.
Samba stays. The CMB firm doesn't have the right to do what they're doing, and IF this whole issue actually gets to trial (though correctly speaking, it wouldn't really be a trial), they won't win.
Stars are found (usually) by measuring an irregular pulse coming from the star. E.G: we look at a pulsar, and determine that based on its size and distance it should be pulsing at X rate. Instead, it is pulsing at Y rate, therefore there's something orbitting it.
Also, if there's irregular pulses coming from a star that shouldn't be pulsing......
There's a few different ways of finding planets, Red Shift, etc. I don't know them all....
TTFN
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The gist of it was that engineers at University of Toronto had been able to make a silicon mesh that was capable of performing the same operations as a transistor, except using light. Oh the possibilities!
So I started thinking. I don't think that these "biotransistors" are appropriate for computing technology. They might make a good control chip for a bionic appendage, but that's about it. These bacteria have to eat. And as so many others have pointed out, it would get a bit ridiculous to have to wake up, feed the cats, the fish, and the computer. I think they're only practical in situations where they can be attached to an existing food supply, like blood, because we all know that the average user will forget to feed their computer.
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>I can't say the response in Canada to MP3s has been too much different in nature than the US, although it's probably less heavy-handed.
In much the same way that our response to Marijauna and other mild narcotics has been much less heavy-handed than our good neighbours to the south, eh?
(For those not schooled in Canadian politics, there is about a 50/50 chance that Marijauna will be legalized in Canada within the next federal term, which becomes significantly greater for the one thereafter. It is already to the point where somebody can be stopped by a cop with 30g of the stuff, and get off with a warning, provided it isn't divided into portions.)
I don't really mind Intel doing that. I also don't think Intel will actually enforce such a patent:
They're reliant on Microsoft to stay in business. While people don't really have a choice about Microsoft (don't. You know, and I know, that there are always better options to Microsoft, but do you expect Joe Idiot to install Linux?), they do have a choice about Intel. As more and more people are shying away from Intel in favour of IDT WinChip, Cyrix, AMD, and other giants, Intel would only shoot itself in the foot by enforcing such a move.
Microsoft would not be very friendly to having to write new versions of all their operating systems, each coded to a different architechture. They aren't very happy with having an Alpha and an x86 version of Windows NT. How do you think they'll react to an Intel, and x86, AND an Alpha version of Whistler?
Spoken like a true non-believer.
I can think of many reasons to have a Cell phone, and the only people who "bother" me are the so-called "cellemarketers". I haven't been called by one of them since the first time when I told them I was in Italy paying $20/minute for connection and expected recompense.
Given that my phone is an Ericcson KF-788.... that's really assuring....
Time to buy a new phone, methinks. (Although, this might explain why I've been having these strange powers appearing... laser eyes, telekinesis, the whole nine yards!)
Infinite power is impossible. The Universe has a finite amount of Energy, and if I remember 11th grade Physics: "Energy can neither be created nor destroyed."
:). Might actually make Electric cars feasable, and I can stop paying that whopping $26 every two weeks for gas!
Still, I wouldn't mind it if Ontario Hydro started running a few tokamaks, just as long as they were nowhere near me
I'm looking forward to seeing my tank of gas hit $50, because that means that the f$cking Minivans and SUV's will have a $150 tank of gas every week and people will stop driving the damn things!
"Originally, the internet served a specific purpose of allowing academics to communicate and further the development of social and scientific knowledge."
Um....No. Originally the Internet was created by the US government as a means of maintaining communication lines between cities in the event of a nuclear war. Conceived in the early '60s, and the first link was built around '68. Yes, they were using TCP/IP, too. Perhaps you're referring to ARPAnet, which has been obsolete for a very long time.
Besides that, where do you get off saying that porn is the death of society? It is a means of expression. No more. It has been around since the dark ages, probably longer. (Archaeologists in England have dug up some "pornographic" sketches and engravings dating to about 900AD. Even "Punch" was mildly pornographic in the 1300's.) Now, if Porn were the root of the death of Civilization, then why, oh why great godess of knowledge did the Baroque, Classical, and Romantic periods of our history happen? (Not to mention the whole Rennaissance itself!)
I was against it from the start.... Netscape-AOL-Lycos-Time-Warner would be too powerful. Specifically, AOL would have too much free advertising, and there would be a sudden influx of AOLamers on the internet. Ugh. My job would get harder overnight.
BTW, is anybody else incensed that AOL started using CD's a couple years back? I can't format the disks and use them any more, so end up getting a free coaster about every week or so. They're starting to pile up!
I'm reasonably sure (still having the battery packs and motors) that Lego already has a line of mechanized toys. Not too sure what the line was, but it was something along the lines of "Mechanix", and sold for about $40 CDN.
Aside from a few "specially-molded" parts, this is pretty much the same thing, isn't it? I think I'll take the older set, and live with my ATAT Walker looking a little blocky, thank you very much.
In Oz, I can vote first for a minority candidate, then give preference to whichever of the major parties I despise least. I'm not forced to vote for a major party because of fear of "wasting" my vote.
See, if we did that in Canada, then the Rhino party would probably have won the last election, and we'd have the Rhino in the Metro Toronto Zoo as our PM!
Dammit! That's another new toy that I have to buy! How am I supposed to pay for life when they keep coming out with Cars, Computers, and Toys that I have to buy?!?!?!?
"We were so caught up in whether or not we could that nobody stopped to ask if we should."
BTW, as it has been said, cloning human cells isn't the same as cloning humans.
naw... Just open the case....
Have a liquid-cooled system. With these new-fangled biochips, might actually need the water.
:P~~
Forgot to take into account two things:
1. AMD has overtaken Intel on the "power-of-cpu" camp. This means that they're going to become more and more popular.
2. The law of exponential growth. AMD Should overtake Intel in less than 3 years. AMD's popularity is increasing by the day, while Intel is falling out of favour.
not too long, I hope...
Bought a t-bird 900 today, and successfully o/c'd it to 1.25GHz.
I work for Compaq computer corp. I've got some news for you: your source is outdated. We're already selling laptops with SpeedStep technology. They're available in P3/600-750. The 17XL262 (Canadian model. US is 17XL265), for example, hit the market in June 2000.
Frankly, I was being flippant. I'm well aware that Nasa needs to get some competent engineers organizing the Mars project, and don't care what form they come in.
People will not be willing to hop on a ship bound for Mars when 8 of the last 10 missions sent to Mars ended in abject failure.
I'm not too sure that I would want an Atmosphere like Canada's.... The air in Toronto is brown.
Still... Wouldn't mind that beer. For you Americans, the missing ingredient is ALCOHOL. I've been told by Americans that it is rare to find a beer over 3.2% alc/vol in the USA. Here in Canada, that's still a Light beer.
So what you're saying is that the reason nobody's volunteering to go to Mars is that none of the men are willing to go for a year or more without getting Laid?
.................
Makes sense.
I beg to differ....
I found that it was too scientific, and that when Robinson didn't know what he was talking about, the BS that he spewed didn't sit well with my knowledge of physics/biology/chemistry.
Oh yeah, and I found the idea of an immortality vaccine to not be very believable either....
If Anonymous Coward was removed from the options for posting a reply?
Anyway. A similar system of elections is used in the States. They're called Primaries. One of the few ideas from our neighbours to the South (Yes, I'm Canadian, and No, I don't live in an Igloo) that I respect.
What I would like to see is an Australian-type system of politics: Have a primary election in which all but two candidates are eliminated, and then a secondary election. Would eliminate most of the BS that passes for government around here.
Could do that, but do you remember the ST:TNG episode when nanites got loose?
Oooh, the memories.... I don't think we want that happening. Might lend some truth to the "theory" (which was actually pitched to me by a friend yesterday) that the internet has developped a consciousness.
I, for one, was not surprised when I read that article. I'm not a physicist of that calibre (yet), but already knew of the existence of buckyballs, and carbon nano-tubes.
:)
But what interests me the most about that article was that when the tip of the inner-tube broke off the tip of the probe, it "sprung" back in the outer tube.
I would assume that the same van der Waal forces that reduce the friction to negligible levels are also strong enough to break the bond between the probe and the tube.
Just wait 'till we can mass produce these things! It may be possible to make a nano-filament of extreme strength. When we get that, we may be able to make a space elevator as suggested in Red Mars. (We won't discuss that book. Author trying to be too technical, and getting the facts wrong.... Sounds like NASA
I just read the article that was posted on Heise News. (Untranslated... using what little German I remember from HS) The German firm, CMG, doesn't have a case.
They're complaining because they have an on-line banking software under the name "Standard Anmeldung Meldewesen Banken", which they abbreviate as SAMBa. (Babelfish translates the name as: "Standard log-on reporting department banks")
As far as copyright goes, the SMB protocol, including client, daemon, etc. has been around for much longer than on-line banking. Under International copyright agreements, if anybody owes anything, it would be the German CMB firm that owes the Samba group for infringing on its copyright.
Samba stays. The CMB firm doesn't have the right to do what they're doing, and IF this whole issue actually gets to trial (though correctly speaking, it wouldn't really be a trial), they won't win.
More of an appendix.
Stars are found (usually) by measuring an irregular pulse coming from the star. E.G: we look at a pulsar, and determine that based on its size and distance it should be pulsing at X rate. Instead, it is pulsing at Y rate, therefore there's something orbitting it.
Also, if there's irregular pulses coming from a star that shouldn't be pulsing......
There's a few different ways of finding planets, Red Shift, etc. I don't know them all....
TTFN
As I read this, earlier today, I was reminded of a news bit that I saw on @Discovery.ca a while back. (http://www.exn.ca/Stories/2000/05/30/5 4.cfm)
The gist of it was that engineers at University of Toronto had been able to make a silicon mesh that was capable of performing the same operations as a transistor, except using light. Oh the possibilities!
So I started thinking. I don't think that these "biotransistors" are appropriate for computing technology. They might make a good control chip for a bionic appendage, but that's about it. These bacteria have to eat. And as so many others have pointed out, it would get a bit ridiculous to have to wake up, feed the cats, the fish, and the computer. I think they're only practical in situations where they can be attached to an existing food supply, like blood, because we all know that the average user will forget to feed their computer.
ciao.