At at an overly optimistic method of billions of atoms/sec, it'd take three years to get your left foot through the process.
Yeah and based upon early 1980's computers you'd think hires color inkjet printing would never arrive. Given enough parallel processing the tearing down and storage probably wouldn't be the worst of the worries. It probably would be bleeding to death while being re-assembled that I think is the challenge.
Assuming it could be done and kickstart your mind to where it had been before you were disintegrated, you should be able to make backups (then all you'd have to do is have to talk one into dying so you could live... read 'Good Night, Mr. James' by Clifford D. Simak)
Don't worry, any research into such things will be rapidly banned in the US I would expect. Anything that involves the construction of a living organism from base matter in anything other than the "church approved" manner is going to find itself in difficulty given the way things are going in the US.
All you have to do is find the right person and any group will reconsider. Take the Christian Right, if it were a gay man, they'd march on Washington DC, but if it was George W. Bush, they'd applaud his second coming. (There are truly those who believe he is the messiah!)
Not surprising. Where I work people only seem to get pay increases by moving up the ladder, there's been no COLA of any sort for a few years. Other places I've worked in the past 10 years have only mustered 2% if anything at all.
That, however isn't just the IT depts but entire organizations, with the notable exceptions at a few places where executives cut nice retro-active deals, even as the ship was foundering around them.
If you can't afford this skin surgery, you can always get sponsorship from companies like Intel and let the printer print a non-removable "Intel Outside" on your new skin.
Not like people don't already pay $$$ for tatoos of corporate logos.
Just imagine, though, having to build in copyright protection to protect your trademark tan...
"After expenses, actionables, depreciation, distribution, promotion, etc., etc., etc. you owe US $3487.02, we accept checks, cash and most credit cards."
Interesting that years back Marvel was on the verge of bankruptcy. This may put them there again.
2 Years and I still love my Samsung Synchmaster 172t, though my only gripe is it's TOO BRIGHT! Even
on the lowest settings I think I'm getting some sort of tan. Manufacturers may wish to consider some users sit in dark
rooms, plugging away at nefarious^H^H^H^H^Hworking very diligently on upstanding fine projects their mothers would be proud of!
Thing even came with a wall mount, too bad I live in an apartment (though toothpaste does have its other uses...)
Size is great, too, because a 17" LCD is almost as big as a 19" CRT:-)
first i would let us know who the company is... i think the lack of commuication alone is enough to warn the rest of us!
Maybe anonymously, to avoid getting sued. Nothing quite as rewarding as turning all your hard earned capital over to someone who was incompetent, you whine publicly about and then lost a defamation suit to.
I knew we had a bad one when the guy came in and and had been given a week to do some conversion and had been given a simple task I could have knocked off in 5 minutes. They guy claimed to be profficient in C, but borroed my K&R book and a week later still hadn't got it done. Contract cancelled, no check issued, guy led out door, executive announcement we would no longer do business with that company (they directly called our AP dept and sexually harrassed a clerk, suggesting she pay them.)
It's almost rational to think that way, but in reality it probably has more to do with an agreement or understanding with Microsoft.
That's way harsh, considering Intel has been very much a promoter of Linux, giving out compilers to their new processors, even the much maligned Itanium, and making technical information available to developers. You seem to forget Intel has much to lose, with a strong competitor in AMD, taking chunks of their market. As much as I like my AMD processor, it was AMD that not so long ago was selling themselves out to Microsoft, so keep your facts straight.
No guy in an airport whining is going to blow centrino out of the market--
Word of mouth is the most effective form of advertising and bad news travels fast, from an airport if can spread widely. Couldn't figure that out out, eh?
It obviously makes very little difference technically what
name is on the outside of the box,
To them it does, as they've been interested in projecting a particular
value of the Centrino brand, being low power consumption.
but does this represent a major philosophical shift for the chipmaker,
Obviously not, did you actually RTFA?
or are they just leaping upon the nearest bandwagon in pursuit of
a few extra bucks?
Most likely they have been promoting Linux, but not at the expense of their own
brand of stuff. After all their marketing (possibly preceded by some actual
innovation, but that's usually optional for any company) they want to ensure
their brand lives up to their beliefs. If you were selling a line of Linux Laptops
which didn't conserve power and ran the batteries down and some guy in an airport, surrounded
by dozens of pairs of ears (some not connected to iPods) and started carrying on
about what a piece of shit your Centrino laptop was because it drained the battery before you
even got on your flight, well, that's the kind of damage lots of $ of advertising and
spin can't undo.
I do have reservations about a company like Intel telling people what they can and can't
do with their product, but if it's meet some specification to earn the right to logo
the boxen, I think that's within the realm of acceptable business practice.
The ultimate technology to emerge from the field may be a quantum computer so powerful that the only way to protect against its prodigious code-breaking capability may be to deploy quantum-cryptographic techniques
I always think it's kind of neat when these sorts of auctions happen, because people tend to bid things up that they could otherwise get for free or cheap (such as something signed by Neil Gaiman - he's a pretty personable guy, and is happy to sign things in person or by special arrangement mailed to certain bookstores that he frequents..
I couldn't help but notice he's got 3 different printings of American Gods (none of which are the copy I have.) I assume the Hugo and Nebula awards were good for him. He was out in Mountain View a few years back and doing a reading from the book, where I got my copy signed. He was also kind enough to sign a very battered Good Omens, borrowed from a friend in Ann Arbor, which was returned bearing the inscription "Chris- Burn this book! Neil Gaiman" It was certainly a hit with him.
I've got a small collection of autographed items, but the thought of selling them for Profit(!) I find distasteful, though I'd consider giving some up for the right charity.
I'm just happy my Nikon Coolpix 800 takes AA batteries. I keep a few sets of NiMH cells around and charged for a quick exchange if I need them and can always zip into a Quickie Mart for some Duracells if I'm in a pinch.
I'm a hard sell on those Li-Ion specialized batteries. They usually require chargin in the camera, right?
3D High Def THX Surround Sound home entertainment (some brain surgery required)
The 100th season of the Simpsons
200 more years of Dick Clark in Times Square
Windows Cthulhu (C'mon, you know it was coming some day...)
Baseball players finally agree to seriously address the steroid issue after a homerun ball is driven through the skull of a guy two miles away from the stadium.
No matter how well you cared for your teeth, you'll eventually lose them.
Watching every public retirement system go into the stock market and then watch it really tank! (Alpo! Yum!)
Liver Spot removal pill spam
Survivor Krakatoa
Final Fantasy LXXVI: The ploy that isn't beaten to death, yet.
After about 20 presidents claiming to reduce spending you realize they're full of shit as the world runs out
of money to finance the US debt. And those guys who said, "The debt doesn't matter", they died, so it didn't matter to them.
Zaurus are nice units, but the battery life seems rather short. I picked up one of those SL 5600s off the home shopping thingamabob, with the $25 discount for first-time buyer, etc. Nice unit, but after using it for a few months the battery would hold a charge for noticibly shorter lenght of time.
Has anyone a recommendation on a better source of batteries for these puppies?
I'd have it with me at work, but it's run down again.
Melbourne IT, which sells its domains through Yahoo and many other hosting firms, defended its claim of 24/7 customer service for resellers and technical contacts (although not retail customers), but said it will evaluate whether it can improve.
Translation: We won't commit to doing a damn thing, and frankly we're only interested in the people who pay us to fuck up. Nonethless, we're attempting to put it nicely, so be grateful.
Translation: We are committed to solutions which enhance your whole internet experience and lifestyle. Please see our website if you have any questions concerning customer service.
He doesn't go into detail about what that loophole was, or how it was closed. As a Panix user, I'd like more detail, and I'd like to know what can be done to stop this sort of nonsense happening to other domains."
1. Paypal is not a bank.
2. Sometimes people lie.
3. I've done almost 100 transactions through paypal knowing #1 and #2, and I've been lucky enough not to get hit. If I want absolute security, I'll pay through the nose for an escrow service. If I want convenience for small purchases, I'll use PayPal.
So... when it goes badly for you, that's OK, eh? Hmm never thought of it like that. Kind of charity for the rich.
The parent post is clearly a troll. PayPal isn't perfect, nobody is, but making the paypal slam AND the 'up in smoke' comment in the same sentence, that's straight up under the bridge, 'gonna eat some billy goats' type trolling.
I bet you feel all warm and fuzzy when you've lost (or spent poorly) hard earned money, when you see the mogul who received a chunk of it, having fun while you struggle with Windows Security, Ebay's Enigmatic Policies or PayPal's Inattention to Customers. I loved it when someone with a 'Power' account forwarded on to me special email addresses and phone numbers that get actual human beings employed by eBay/PayPal, while little fish get form replies or overtaxed volunteers...
Seriously, it takes the fun out of it unless I visualize some of these same people being on that 5-man rocket and hitching a ride on a wayward asteroid.
I have been wondering when I would start to see these alternate character set domain names that you can get now play a role in this. You know, like someone registers cnn.com, but the c is not the latin character set c but one from another character set. Or something that almost looks like a c.
...
Has anyone seen anything like this yet?
It was old hat to register paypa1.com, paypalaccount.com, etc. for a while as most web domain registries did no checks on visual similarities, etc. I don't believe I've seen any site with characters outside the (0-9,a-z,.,-,etc.) as in UNICODE. Seems there was some snit about that years ago, some puke claiming to hold a patent on it or such and the whole idea fading with the dotcom bust.
I do see lots of email addresses with alternate characters or unicode characters, but not domains.
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Yeah and based upon early 1980's computers you'd think hires color inkjet printing would never arrive. Given enough parallel processing the tearing down and storage probably wouldn't be the worst of the worries. It probably would be bleeding to death while being re-assembled that I think is the challenge.
Assuming it could be done and kickstart your mind to where it had been before you were disintegrated, you should be able to make backups (then all you'd have to do is have to talk one into dying so you could live... read 'Good Night, Mr. James' by Clifford D. Simak)
All you have to do is find the right person and any group will reconsider. Take the Christian Right, if it were a gay man, they'd march on Washington DC, but if it was George W. Bush, they'd applaud his second coming. (There are truly those who believe he is the messiah!)
That, however isn't just the IT depts but entire organizations, with the notable exceptions at a few places where executives cut nice retro-active deals, even as the ship was foundering around them.
Not like people don't already pay $$$ for tatoos of corporate logos.
Just imagine, though, having to build in copyright protection to protect your trademark tan...
You, too, can look like CowboyNeal!
This was one of the theories exlained to me, years ago in a physics class on how matter transportation may be accomplished...reconstructing by layers.
The downside was you had to be destroyed to find out what you were made of in order to reassemble you.
Batman is DC.
Interesting that years back Marvel was on the verge of bankruptcy. This may put them there again.
Thing even came with a wall mount, too bad I live in an apartment (though toothpaste does have its other uses...)
Size is great, too, because a 17" LCD is almost as big as a 19" CRT :-)
Maybe anonymously, to avoid getting sued. Nothing quite as rewarding as turning all your hard earned capital over to someone who was incompetent, you whine publicly about and then lost a defamation suit to.
I knew we had a bad one when the guy came in and and had been given a week to do some conversion and had been given a simple task I could have knocked off in 5 minutes. They guy claimed to be profficient in C, but borroed my K&R book and a week later still hadn't got it done. Contract cancelled, no check issued, guy led out door, executive announcement we would no longer do business with that company (they directly called our AP dept and sexually harrassed a clerk, suggesting she pay them.)
That's way harsh, considering Intel has been very much a promoter of Linux, giving out compilers to their new processors, even the much maligned Itanium, and making technical information available to developers. You seem to forget Intel has much to lose, with a strong competitor in AMD, taking chunks of their market. As much as I like my AMD processor, it was AMD that not so long ago was selling themselves out to Microsoft, so keep your facts straight.
No guy in an airport whining is going to blow centrino out of the market--
Word of mouth is the most effective form of advertising and bad news travels fast, from an airport if can spread widely. Couldn't figure that out out, eh?
To them it does, as they've been interested in projecting a particular value of the Centrino brand, being low power consumption.
but does this represent a major philosophical shift for the chipmaker,
Obviously not, did you actually RTFA?
or are they just leaping upon the nearest bandwagon in pursuit of a few extra bucks?
Most likely they have been promoting Linux, but not at the expense of their own brand of stuff. After all their marketing (possibly preceded by some actual innovation, but that's usually optional for any company) they want to ensure their brand lives up to their beliefs. If you were selling a line of Linux Laptops which didn't conserve power and ran the batteries down and some guy in an airport, surrounded by dozens of pairs of ears (some not connected to iPods) and started carrying on about what a piece of shit your Centrino laptop was because it drained the battery before you even got on your flight, well, that's the kind of damage lots of $ of advertising and spin can't undo.
I do have reservations about a company like Intel telling people what they can and can't do with their product, but if it's meet some specification to earn the right to logo the boxen, I think that's within the realm of acceptable business practice.
How about they just issue LOP's on silk?
I couldn't help but notice he's got 3 different printings of American Gods (none of which are the copy I have.) I assume the Hugo and Nebula awards were good for him. He was out in Mountain View a few years back and doing a reading from the book, where I got my copy signed. He was also kind enough to sign a very battered Good Omens, borrowed from a friend in Ann Arbor, which was returned bearing the inscription "Chris- Burn this book! Neil Gaiman" It was certainly a hit with him.
I've got a small collection of autographed items, but the thought of selling them for Profit(!) I find distasteful, though I'd consider giving some up for the right charity.
I'm a hard sell on those Li-Ion specialized batteries. They usually require chargin in the camera, right?
3D High Def THX Surround Sound home entertainment (some brain surgery required)
The 100th season of the Simpsons
200 more years of Dick Clark in Times Square
Windows Cthulhu (C'mon, you know it was coming some day...)
Baseball players finally agree to seriously address the steroid issue after a homerun ball is driven through the skull of a guy two miles away from the stadium.
No matter how well you cared for your teeth, you'll eventually lose them.
Watching every public retirement system go into the stock market and then watch it really tank! (Alpo! Yum!)
Liver Spot removal pill spam
Survivor Krakatoa
Final Fantasy LXXVI: The ploy that isn't beaten to death, yet.
After about 20 presidents claiming to reduce spending you realize they're full of shit as the world runs out of money to finance the US debt. And those guys who said, "The debt doesn't matter", they died, so it didn't matter to them.
Translation: Focusing on driving excellence and solutions to further enhance home entertainment.
nnnyeeeeooowwwwmmmmm ffsssshhhhhtttt eeeeerrrrk!
Has anyone a recommendation on a better source of batteries for these puppies?
I'd have it with me at work, but it's run down again.
Translation: We are committed to solutions which enhance your whole internet experience and lifestyle. Please see our website if you have any questions concerning customer service.
404 - Page not found
In a word - Fosters.
2. Sometimes people lie.
3. I've done almost 100 transactions through paypal knowing #1 and #2, and I've been lucky enough not to get hit. If I want absolute security, I'll pay through the nose for an escrow service. If I want convenience for small purchases, I'll use PayPal.
So ... when it goes badly for you, that's OK, eh? Hmm never thought of it like that. Kind of charity for the rich.
I'm not trying to be a jerk, but.. c'mon.
Oh, sure, exuuUUuuse me. I'll just put on my brave face and overlook these things. If it weren't for the Hong Kong (Tsuen Wan) Police I'd have gotten nowhere.
Shhh!!! I'm planning to sell fragments of it when it comes down over my state ;-)
I bet you feel all warm and fuzzy when you've lost (or spent poorly) hard earned money, when you see the mogul who received a chunk of it, having fun while you struggle with Windows Security, Ebay's Enigmatic Policies or PayPal's Inattention to Customers. I loved it when someone with a 'Power' account forwarded on to me special email addresses and phone numbers that get actual human beings employed by eBay/PayPal, while little fish get form replies or overtaxed volunteers...
Seriously, it takes the fun out of it unless I visualize some of these same people being on that 5-man rocket and hitching a ride on a wayward asteroid.
Just like some of my eBay purchases which PayPal didn't honor protection on when they didn't show up, more money up in smoke.
They should have put the < and > keys in the middle of the keyboard.
Has anyone seen anything like this yet?
It was old hat to register paypa1.com, paypalaccount.com, etc. for a while as most web domain registries did no checks on visual similarities, etc. I don't believe I've seen any site with characters outside the (0-9,a-z,.,-,etc.) as in UNICODE. Seems there was some snit about that years ago, some puke claiming to hold a patent on it or such and the whole idea fading with the dotcom bust.
I do see lots of email addresses with alternate characters or unicode characters, but not domains.