The dollar amount of transactions over the internet in one year will exceed those made by traditional means
Microsoft's dominance will wane due not to the inroards of Linux, but due to information applicances, PDAs, etc...
We should see around 24GHz computers, if Moore's law holds over the entire decade
Distributed net will finally crack the RC-64 key. No one will care.
At least one group of artists or writers will form their own co-operative to promote and distribute their music or books. Results will be mixed.
Apple, after a number of below standard years, will be bought out and will become an OS and Applications company, and realize hardware is a sucker's game
The Lord of the Rings movies become the Star Wars of their generation
The first human clone is born, but not revealed until several years after its birth
Well, supposedly you can survive a short interval in space without a spacesuit.... the only reference I can find to this on the web quickly is here, but it sounds pretty beliveable to me.
These greedy f*ckers don't want to accept that inevitably, information (state secrets, corporate skulldugery, music, movies, software, games) will be free. It's an erosive force, just like water. In the internet age, once one person knows how to break a lock, everyone can know it.
You know, its people like you who are usually the first to complain though when some corporation wants to sell your personal data or medical information or something.... ironic, isn't it?
I mean, guns are (mostly) legal, but lots of states have laws that add penalties to offenses commited with a gun. I don't see why treating crypto the same way is a big deal.
...than in todays economy, with unemployment at an all time low and employers begging for workers, than reading someone bitch about how shitty their job is.
They must be a real idiot of they don't realize they can get another one pretty much at will.
I seem to recall that the last batch of moons (around Netptune???), were named after women in Shakesperian plays, since they've pretty much ran through all of the major and minor players in Greek mythology.
OK... Shakespear is cool, but when then? I don't think we really want moons named Marge, Lisa, Maggie, and, um, Miss Krabappel do we?
So, what, we should extend this to prision sentences to? If you are 20 and rob a bank you should get 30 years, since you have more average lifetime left, but if you are 60 you should get a few months?
So music should be freely available and downloadable by any idiot with a modem, since "information wants to be free", and software should be distributed with source code since its "wrong" to keep this information from people, yet for some reason, your name, address and phone number have some sort of sacred status??
... NASA should use several poorly-trained astronaut teams, instead of one well-trained team. This way, they could afford to lose one or more astronaut teams, but the mission could still continue because of the hot spares available.
Would this be a RAID system (Redundent Array of Inexperienced Dudes?)
This place is an environmental disaster. The air always smells like it is on fire; 365 days a year. Your lung capacity will drop precipitously as you hoover up buckets of PM10 and diesel exhaust while stuck in traffic on 280, 880 and 101.
Yet, ironically, you can't smoke in bars. I mean, if you gave a damn abou tyour health, what are you doing in a bar in the first place?
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The dollar amount of transactions over the internet in one year will exceed those made by traditional means
Microsoft's dominance will wane due not to the inroards of Linux, but due to information applicances, PDAs, etc...
We should see around 24GHz computers, if Moore's law holds over the entire decade
Distributed net will finally crack the RC-64 key. No one will care.
At least one group of artists or writers will form their own co-operative to promote and distribute their music or books. Results will be mixed.
Apple, after a number of below standard years, will be bought out and will become an OS and Applications company, and realize hardware is a sucker's game
The Lord of the Rings movies become the Star Wars of their generation
The first human clone is born, but not revealed until several years after its birth
Well, supposedly you can survive a short interval in space without a spacesuit.... the only reference I can find to this on the web quickly is here, but it sounds pretty beliveable to me.
These greedy f*ckers don't want to accept that inevitably, information (state secrets, corporate skulldugery, music, movies, software, games) will be free. It's an erosive force, just like water. In the internet age, once one person knows how to break a lock, everyone can know it.
You know, its people like you who are usually the first to complain though when some corporation wants to sell your personal data or medical information or something.... ironic, isn't it?
A more apropriate analogy would be a law that adds extra penalties when a crime is committed my a felon wearing a mask.
Well, I don't think there's anything fundamentally wrong with that, either.
I mean, guns are (mostly) legal, but lots of states have laws that add penalties to offenses commited with a gun. I don't see why treating crypto the same way is a big deal.
That Tolkein's Gollum sounds a lot like Yoda. (OK... that should be the other way around...)
Let see, jumped on the Java bandwagon. Failed.
Jumped on the Linux bandwagon. Failed.
I guess we will see a big M-Commerce push from Corel next -- or they will become an ASP or something....
You also have to understand this fact: Apple is a BUSINESS. Last time I checked, businesses were in the business (ha ha, pun!) of making money.
I don't know... given their performance lately, its kind of hard to say that with a straight face.
You can't fight in here, this is the War Room!
From the CIA World Fact Book entry on the United Kingdon:
Country name:
conventional long form: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
conventional short form: United Kingdom
abbreviation: UK
Government type: constitutional monarchy
Then again, they probably don't have a clue about what they are talking about either, huh?
Yeah. It's kinda weird though: AFAIK those "primitive limeys" have a democracy that actually works...
Democracy? Hello, they've got a fuckin' Queen... They have an entire house of Parliment that is populated with Nobility... democracy my ass.
So if it sucked so bad, why did you work there?
These people need a union.
These people need to do something about the person holding a gun to their head making them work there... oh wait, there isn't one.
If this job sucks so bad, get another one... it's not like there aren't tons of them out there.
...than in todays economy, with unemployment at an all time low and employers begging for workers, than reading someone bitch about how shitty their job is.
They must be a real idiot of they don't realize they can get another one pretty much at will.
I seem to recall that the last batch of moons (around Netptune???), were named after women in Shakesperian plays, since they've pretty much ran through all of the major and minor players in Greek mythology.
OK... Shakespear is cool, but when then? I don't think we really want moons named Marge, Lisa, Maggie, and, um, Miss Krabappel do we?
Hmmm.. then again...
And if you are unemployed and have no income, you can speed all you want for free!
So, what, we should extend this to prision sentences to? If you are 20 and rob a bank you should get 30 years, since you have more average lifetime left, but if you are 60 you should get a few months?
The Oldest Known Life Keeps Getting Older
As opposed to all those things that don't get older everyday???
So music should be freely available and downloadable by any idiot with a modem, since "information wants to be free", and software should be distributed with source code since its "wrong" to keep this information from people, yet for some reason, your name, address and phone number have some sort of sacred status??
Its a shame you went though all that effort and then someone just read your monitor becuase you forgot to shield against TEMPEST technologies...
So, reimplmenting a 30 year old OS is revolutionary now?
Thompson and Richtie may be revolutionaries for designing unix in the first place, but redoing someone elses work hardly seems revolutionary.
Heck, someone is going to call Gjs Van Sant's Psycho original next...
...in his afterword to 3001, Clarke states that he does most of this writing on an IBM Thinkpad.
... NASA should use several poorly-trained astronaut teams, instead of one well-trained team. This way, they could afford to lose one or more astronaut teams, but the mission could still continue because of the hot spares available.
Would this be a RAID system (Redundent Array of Inexperienced Dudes?)
This place is an environmental disaster. The air always smells like it is on fire; 365 days a year. Your lung capacity will drop precipitously as you hoover up buckets of PM10 and diesel exhaust while stuck in traffic on 280, 880 and 101.
Yet, ironically, you can't smoke in bars. I mean, if you gave a damn abou tyour health, what are you doing in a bar in the first place?
No tenticle rape? Come on, what comes out of Japan these days that doesn't involve tenticle rape?