Cell phones that look like phones, and take pictures. Digital camera's that look like camera's, and record mp3's, and internet terminals that look like a small appliance.
I want all 3 combined in a pair of some cool looking Oakley sunglasses so I can get the cool terminator overlay of my slashdot while I take naked pictures of Natilie Portman listening to they might be giants.
Recently on slash we had an article about why nerds are unpopular. My super duper +5 comment basically made the argument that there was two kinds of nerds, social butterfly nerds, and the social outcast nerds. Read my comment for the whole explaination..
The music industry is run by the popular crowd for the popular crowd. Musical talent is irrelevant because of all the studio mixing that can be done these days. Basically anyone can sound like what the RIAA can put out. The RIAA is more than just records though, they are the pep rally at your high school, they take the people who are most outrageous, ill tempered, and idiotic and put them on display as a way of saying WTF is a matter with you, if this idiot can be a star so can anyone!
That's the problem though, it's not just popularity that makes something good it's talent, hard work and dedication that makes it good. For the last 100 years American society has downplayed quality over popularity in everything.
Now things are changing, the nerds are rising up against their oppressors, and they are scared they are losing their power. Through a few lines of code, we have basically destroyed their industry.
The next 100 years of music is going to look radically different than the last 100 years. Music distribution will DIE. Music stores will die, everything that was once a huge industry for popular bullies on campus is useless now, because when it comes down to it, do you want a stack of 100 cd's? Or would you rather have them all on 6.5 gigs of hard drive space that can fit in a shirt pocket?
If you claim to love what you do money becomes irrelevant. I don't make what I used to in tech, but I love it so much that doesn't matter. Despite getting paid next to nothing to be a webmaster, IT guy to 2 different jobs, it's what I love doing, so I got a 3rd job as a bouncer on Friday nights.
And if you're truly a musician, money isn't what it's all about. It's about hanging out with your buddies or by yourself, maybe taking bonghits and trying to find some new sound out of your instrument. Personally, i'm not a musician, but working for zero magazine, I know plenty of them, they take side jobs to pay for what they love. I know guys that will sit there practicing their guitars for 5 hours a night until their fingers turn into hamburger.
No it's not fair what the record industry is doing to the musicians. But like I said in the title of this post, we're going through the revenge of the nerds period in human society now, prepare for the uprising of the minds has begun.
Every time I think of the BMW-7 Series I always think about what the dad in Tokyo Breakfast said to his weeping daughter.
(please follow link and watch video)
Father: You failed every class except animation!
Daughter: So What?
Father: So what? If nigga no go to school, nigga no get a job, if nigga no get a job, nigga no make no money, if nigga make no money, nigga can no afford BMW seVUHN series nigga!
I know it sounds horrible, just watch the video if you've never seen it, funny ass shit.
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2) chipmakers would be ignoring this rate and going potentially higher than Moore claimed.
Oh absolutely. I sometimes wonder if the chip companies haven't already reached the "theoretical" limit first lithography out of the die.
I'll expand a bit. For instance, currently we have P4's that run at 3ghz. BUT the bin sorting may yeild chips that can run way above that. Possibly 10ghz or 20. These "superchips" may be in the top %99.9999999 percent of the bin sort.
So what happens to these chips? Well, i'd imagine they keep a few to learn why it runs so nice so they can make more, and the rest are given to the.gov.
Now what makes this chip so perfect is the accuracy of the lith transfer used, despite our best efforts the closest we are so far is a.13 micron process, which is basically a nice way of saying "We can get it within.13 microns accurate" Each lith is going to be off just by a tiny bit.
Now the real gamble is how well you can replicate the best of the bin. If it only takes intel a few months to tweak their lith's, they can slowly release sub speed processors to the consumer market. The.Gov get's the processors that are 10x faster in clock speed than the public for a set time, eventually the public catches up. Then it's time for a new architecture so the.gov can stay one step ahead of the public.
I dunno, it's a weird conspiracy theory of mine, but I use conspiracy theory as an exercise in creativity. But how else would you explain the.gov turning cheeck to intels blatent enviromental superfund area's created in the bay area and around the world? All over the web you read about all these.gov's letting intel get away with everything from dumping toxic crap to having people work in dangerous working conditions. It's not a joke, it's all over the web.
Worthwile rebuttal, you mention kali:D I used to play descent back in the day, still got my reg # 11896
Ok, games ARE cool, you can start a computer club that challenges other universities completely legitimizing it BUT how does your rebuttal relate in terms to piracy?
Certainly there's room to "test" out what you can do on a campus network. You want to explore remote exploitation of network machines? Great, start a computer club, get a list of people that allow it, talk back and forth about each others findings.
Want to develop the next P2P app? Pipe the output from a random number generator into a file of any size and test it. No need to ruffle the feathers of the RIAA by sharing britney spears. Hell I bet there's a ton of college bands on campus that would love to have people sharing their music.
The reason the U of W is going after the students is because of the enormous amount of bandwidth at each dorm rooms disposal. It's not just a bunch of guys scattered around with SDSL lines, it's 1000+ computers all connected at 100baseT, just the shear volume of traffic that can flow out of there is mindboggling.
Notice they didn't mention shutting down multiplayer games, they didn't mention shutting down the ports for kazaa, and they didn't mention stopping anyone from hacking in their own sandbox. Kudos to them and I wish them the best of luck.
SO, i guess they have no problem with ME running a sniffer on all traffic on their network? I mean, since they feel its ok for them to do it, its ok for me to do it.
Dude you are so off base you should be modded a funny. (Mods, please read parent before modding me)
The point is, it's THEIR network. It's not the student network, it's not the taxpayers network, it's not even the Alumni's network. It belongs to the University plain and simple. University is for research, not d/l pr0n or sharing eminem. Students are given access to the internet in their dorm rooms to assist them with their studies.
If I caught you running a sniffer on my network, I would yank that patch cord leading up to your room so fast it would make a "whooosh" sound like a whip cracking in the air.
Re:It's not a law: Right, it's a visable trend.
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There comes a time when only so much can be fit on that piece of silicon.
Couldn't resist replying since i'm on your foes list for god knows what.
Moores law doesn't just apply to silicone, it applies to integrated circuit design in general. If moores law was based purely on the manufacturing techniques at the time, of course it wouldn't hold true in 20 to 30 years.
What we've seen though is a change in manufacturing processes, and with the research going on in quantum computing, light computing, and biological computing, I would speculate that we will see "moores trend" (calling it that because it's not really a law) will continue on course as these advancements are made.
Take for example our use of Si (silicon) for every IC designed today. We use it because of it's strength, and low electrical conductivity. It's a rather large atom though, and we will run out of space eventually using it. http://www.cs.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/nph-pertab/tab/e lemen t/C
But wait! Right above Si on the periodic table of elements is C (carbon) which is roughly.525 the size of a Si atom. http://www.cs.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/nph-pertab/tab /elemen t/C
Now why don't we use carbon based IC's? Well for one thing, carbon does not play well with itself unless you use a lot of heat and pressure (Carbon melting point is 3727c vs Si's 1410c). Secondly we haven't really mass produce the carbon buckyballs/nanotube enough where we could actually use them in place of Si.
Now where was I going with this... Oh yeah..
Basically Moores law will continue to hold true as long as material manufacting keeps up. Silicon has nada to do with it.
When I was a kid I went to live with my grandma. She got me into model rocketry seeing as how I was into all the technology stuff.
We had gotten back from toys-r-us with an estes clear payloader. This was the 6th rocket I had built that year and I was getting pretty good at it. I had the little base for lining up your fins at perfect angles, my sanding and painting techniques were downright perfect.
I looked at my creation in awe, this was truly one of the best rockets I had ever built.
Roaming around the backyard something told me to roll over this huge rock by the fountain. Rolling it over, I saw the usual pill bugs, worms and such, but there was something strange and black squirming around in the dirt. I picked it up, and noticed there were 2 pin sized black eyes staring at me. It was a newt.
"Astronewts!" was the first thing that popped into my head.
My grandma was famous for getting those little german candies in the metal tin, so I cleaned out an empty tin and place the "astronewt" inside the container, hopped on my bike and rode down to the schools field.
It was one of those hazy overcast days, one of those days that model rocketrist hate because it meant tracking your vehicle was near impossible when it was nothing more than a speck against the pale grey sky.
"Mr. Astronewt, you're going to be the first newt in space!" I told the little guy as I struggeled to get him into the payload compartment. I stood back the normal 15' the control wire would allow. I could see him in the chamber now, wiggling and squirming, as if he knew his own fate.
"Houston this is Astronewt oh one, we're ready to begin final countdown" "Roger that, 5-4-3-2-1"
All the skill I had put into this rocket had paid off, the C6-7 engine shot the rocket up towards the heavens faster than any previous rocket I had built. I counted.
1-2-3-4-5-6, Main burn complete, counting down parachute deployment, 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 *POOF*
The wind had caught the parachute, and I could tell that I had better get hopping on my bike to go chase it down.
About a mile down the road was another school, and my good fortune landed my rocket right in the middle of that field. I rode up, did my classic 180 by locking my rear brakes and looked inside.
"A sad day of mourning for americans, as their first "Astronewt" died during launch today"
I wasn't entirely sure what had happened. Did he die from shock? Too many G forces during parachute deployment? What?
But anyways, onto some "ontopic" commenting
Model rockets for the most part are completely safe. I cannot fathom anyone being able to use them for anything more than an annoyance, because you cannot control their flight path, other than pointing and praying they hit their target.
Perhaps a better ban would be anything RC. RC cars and planes come to mind first. Strap a X-10 wireless camera and some C4 to your favorite RC vehicle and you have a really nice remote control bomb.
Alternatively, you could also use a single board computer coupled with GPS and write your own guidance/flight software to make a cruise missle. So I guess we should ban single board computer too because they are light enough to be used in a homemade cruise missle.
Ashcroft, get your fucking head out your ass you fucking tard.
Oh you never said "open source" or "commercial", kind of arsinine for you to make that point after the fact...
Ok GLtron Flightgear BZtank That weird pharos of egypt one coverered on slash a few days back, well maybe thats commercial, but it's open source. How about GLgraph in XmmS?
Show me a single bare bones PC under $200 with an nvidia 3d accellerator on it. Can you? Can anyone? For that matter show me one that comes with ram, hard drive and DVD drive + nvidia.
PIII 733, 20 gig hard drive, TV out, and a proven, somewhat stable O/S and a pretty decent 3D platform.
Xbox needs to be sold as a cheap PC. I think PC makers missed the mark for a home computer years ago when they started forcing people to use a VGA monitor.
Anyone old enough to remember the 8-bit era of home computing would know that all these systems just required power. You connected it to your TV and started using it. No need to buy a special sound card, or 3d accelerator, for that matter you didn't need a special VGA monitor to use your computer. Because of this for the time, they were relatively cheap, enjoyed enormous success and still have a small, but loyal following today.
Do I really care about dot pitch when i'm reading an e-mail, or browsing the web, or watching a movie? Hmm, nah.. The only time I REALLY REALLY need a VGA monitor is when I have to read config files for hours on end, and with the multiple windows I have open I need all the resolution I can get for the multiple windows I have open.
I think MS may eventually take the home computer market with the Xbox. Why not? They're already in position to do it. Most of the NNGWX (non-nerd-gamer-with-xbox) I know think Xbox live is the most fantastic shit since sliced bread, despite having played multiplayer PC games for a few years.
I'm not trying to troll the public, I'm just trying to take a guess here at what MS's intentions are with the Xbox. I think they will go for this simply because they are trying to become the next apple, with MS balls.
Go read my journal sometime, I never asked for any of the shit my parents brought down on me.
My mother put me in a mental institution when I was 12 as part of a plan to keep my father from visiting me. 6 mo. later I was released to the delight of the kids that teased me before. Now they could point fingers at me and say, "Look there's toqer, he goes to the nurses office to take crazy pills" I routinely had gangs of 5 or 6 girls following me around at recess calling me "loonie boy" The principal didn't want me in woodshop because they were afraid I would take a skillsaw to someones head (*Note, I wasn't institutionalized for anything violence related either, just depression)
As far as you learning how to walk the walk and talk the talk, well, that's great when you have people that will actually talk to you. Good for you! I'm glad you found something that "worked" for you. Unfortunately for me, I was branded a "psycho killer" at 12 by both my peers, parents, and school administration. Nobody wants to talk to a guy rumored to have killed a mental patient while he was locked up.
econdly, it allows resources to be redistributed or added on the fly, especially if your VM is seamless enough to span nodes.
I looked into this recently, I wanted to make my 3d app render faster:D
Bascially running a virtual machine across a distributed network isn't there yet. VMware does not work with openmosix, however there was some other virual machine that did (name escapes me at the moment)
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i do wish that there was a way i could help these kids out tho, today... i'm concidering setting up a free service for kids like this to give them hidden cameras, hidden mikes...
You gave me an idea... I think this would make an awesome reality TV series, sort of like "cheaters" PI's could tape the bullying, and then end it with a confrontation to the parents. I know if I had ever humiliated any of my bullies like that, they wouldn't have touched me again. Especially if I had tapes that I could seek damages with at any time. A good threatening lawer letter saying "You authorize us to use this footage on TV or we sue" would definitly make the parents of said bully rethink their discipline.
You should work on pitching that to a production company, i'm sure it would get good ratings.
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I had a rough childhood, almost everything was beyond my control. There were times growing up I wasn't just ridiculed for my small stature or interest in being a "computer nerd" Go read my journal if you want all the details.
There are two types of nerds, there's the nerd with a good family, that has a clue on how to raise their kids. The kid goes into all the clubs, and is pretty popular. This kid is recognized by their peers and peers parents as having a loving, stable home. Their well being and stability is attractive to teachers, students, and other members of the school community.
Then you got nerds like me. People who had some fucked up parents. Never learned to socialize properly at a young age with other people. I used to spend all my lunches and recesses either in the library or, if I kissed butt with teacher, could spend it with an appleIIe. I would do this to hide from the bullying that would take place. Even my "freinds" took turns bullying me, everything from practicing what Hulk Hogan was doing on WWF (now WWE) to just talking me down to make themselves feel better, since our group was cast from the social misfits known as the "mod" style in the 80's.
I was different than all of them, I could not "fit" in with the "normal" kids. I could not fit in with the "abnormal" mod kids. I didn't know U2 from The Cure. I knew all the poke locations on my atari, I knew how to format a floppy, I knew some basic. While my friends were picking out styles of clothes to wear I just wore whatever was in my drawer. I had no style sense whatsoever, I would wear green shirts with blue pants.
There were times at school, I would just be standing there, and suddenly some stupid ass jock I didn't even know would run into my back full speed to knock me down. I would always do my best to try and kick their asses then and there, which would end up with 4 guys jumping on me.
Sometimes the teachers would give me shit, "Toqer, why don't you just walk away?" Yeah thats it, just walk away, while they shout out insults to your back. Not fighting just shows them you're scared of them, which makes the bullying worse.
It's never stopped throughout my life. Even as an adult, I let people influence me because sometimes I feel inadequate when it comes to interpersonal matters. Am I inadequate? Or did outside influences keep me from developing what I needed in this area early in life?
I really blame my parents a lot. They couldn't get along with each other, they had a vicious divorce. Us kids were passed back and forth as messanger, "TELL YOUR FATHER HE'S A BUMB" "TELL YOUR MOTHER SHE'S A WHORE!" This was how I was taught to deal with the oppisite sex at 3-4 years of age.
I got lucky, I met a good woman who loves me and tries to remind me that I'm no longer there. Still though, all these scars have effected me in my adult life. I couldn't control my life as a kid, I just wished the jocks, teachers had the empathy to see that as well.
"But when Willy Wonka met Charlie," Savage says, "he didn't say, 'You can be an intern and in a few years can suggest one feature in a product'--he gave him the keys!"
No he said:
Just over there.
Charlie bucket.
Well, well, charlie bucket. I read all about you in the papers. I'm so happy for you.
And who is this gentleman?
My grandfather, grandpa joe.
Delighted to meet you, sir.
Overjoyed, enraptured, entranced. Are we ready? Yes. Good.
I know that sometimes a buyout or merger is just a nice way to cover up the layoffs to the investors.
Investor "Oh why did you scale back? I thought you said we needed all these workers to make product!"
CEO "Nevermind those bums, we just aquired another company and all their intellectual property! Because of the merger we now own 20 patents in blogging technology that are good for another 20 years! Since we already have the R&D for these patents completed, we can fire the new guys too! That's going to make our stock worth more!"
Investor "I'll buy that for a dollar!"
I really don't know if google is a good/bad company, I can't really say the above skit is anything more than fiction in regards to google, but I have seen similiar things happen in the business world. I just hope in another 15 years google doesn't go after all the people using their own open source blogging software claiming royaltee's on an idiotic patent.
Damn, I'm sounding a bit too YRO slashdotish today.
Slashdot Mirror
In reference to perl vs. C that scripting is good for a quick and dirty "proof of concept"
Cell phones that look like phones, and take pictures. Digital camera's that
look like camera's, and record mp3's, and internet terminals that look like a
small appliance.
I want all 3 combined in a pair of some cool looking
Oakley sunglasses so I can get the
cool terminator overlay of my slashdot while I
take naked pictures of
Natilie
Portman listening to
they might be giants.
Recently on slash we had an
article
about why nerds are unpopular. My super duper +5
comment
basically made the argument that there was two kinds of nerds, social butterfly
nerds, and the social outcast nerds. Read my comment for the whole
explaination..
The music industry is run by the popular crowd for the popular crowd.
Musical talent is irrelevant because of all the studio mixing that can be done
these days. Basically anyone can sound like what the RIAA can put out.
The RIAA is more than just records though, they are the pep rally at your high
school, they take the people who are most outrageous, ill tempered, and idiotic
and put them on display as a way of saying WTF is a matter with you, if this
idiot can be a star so can anyone!
That's the problem though, it's not just popularity that makes something
good it's talent, hard work and dedication that makes it good. For the last
100 years American society has downplayed quality over popularity in everything.
Now things are changing, the nerds are rising up against their oppressors,
and they are scared they are losing their power. Through a few lines of code, we
have basically destroyed their industry.
The next 100 years of music is going to look radically different than the
last 100 years. Music distribution will DIE. Music stores will die,
everything that was once a huge industry for popular bullies on campus is
useless now, because when it comes down to it, do you want a stack of 100 cd's?
Or would you rather have them all on 6.5 gigs of hard drive space that can fit
in a shirt pocket?
If you claim to love what you do money becomes irrelevant. I don't
make what I used to in tech, but I love it so much that doesn't matter.
Despite getting paid next to nothing to be a webmaster, IT guy to 2 different
jobs, it's what I love doing, so I got a 3rd job as a bouncer on Friday nights.
And if you're truly a musician, money isn't what it's all about. It's about
hanging out with your buddies or by yourself, maybe taking bonghits and trying
to find some new sound out of your instrument. Personally, i'm not a musician,
but working for zero magazine, I know plenty of them, they take side jobs to pay
for what they love. I know guys that will sit there practicing their
guitars for 5 hours a night until their fingers turn into hamburger.
No it's not fair what the record industry is doing to the musicians. But like
I said in the title of this post, we're going through the revenge of the nerds
period in human society now, prepare for the uprising of the minds has begun.
But hey, don't let that get in the way of your knee-jerk reaction
No shit, I gave 2 disclaimers to watch the movie and still got downmodded, sorry if u mods can't watch windows media format on your linux PC's.
Jeesh
Tokyo
Breakfast said to his weeping daughter.
(please follow link and watch video)
Father: You failed every class except animation!
Daughter: So What?
Father: So what? If nigga no go to school, nigga no get a job, if nigga no get
a job, nigga no make no money, if nigga make no money, nigga can no afford BMW
seVUHN series nigga!
I know it sounds horrible, just watch the video if you've never seen it,
funny ass shit.
These
are just as nice IMHO.
Quoting DS9's Benjermin Cisco, it's 2003, where are my flying cars?
Because jpg pr0n looks better than ascii pr0n?
*I used to think ppl that got giddy on ascii pr0n back in the bbs days were *WEIRD*
2) chipmakers would be ignoring this rate and going potentially higher than Moore claimed.
.gov.
.13 micron process, which is basically a nice way of saying "We can get it within .13 microns accurate" Each lith is going to be off just by a tiny bit.
.Gov get's the processors that are 10x faster in clock speed than the public for a set time, eventually the public catches up. Then it's time for a new architecture so the .gov can stay one step ahead of the public.
.gov turning cheeck to intels blatent enviromental superfund area's created in the bay area and around the world? All over the web you read about all these .gov's letting intel get away with everything from dumping toxic crap to having people work in dangerous working conditions. It's not a joke, it's all over the web.
:D
Oh absolutely. I sometimes wonder if the chip companies haven't already reached the "theoretical" limit first lithography out of the die.
I'll expand a bit. For instance, currently we have P4's that run at 3ghz. BUT the bin sorting may yeild chips that can run way above that. Possibly 10ghz or 20. These "superchips" may be in the top %99.9999999 percent of the bin sort.
So what happens to these chips? Well, i'd imagine they keep a few to learn why it runs so nice so they can make more, and the rest are given to the
Now what makes this chip so perfect is the accuracy of the lith transfer used, despite our best efforts the closest we are so far is a
Now the real gamble is how well you can replicate the best of the bin. If it only takes intel a few months to tweak their lith's, they can slowly release sub speed processors to the consumer market. The
I dunno, it's a weird conspiracy theory of mine, but I use conspiracy theory as an exercise in creativity. But how else would you explain the
Friend added
Worthwile rebuttal, you mention kali :D I used to play descent back in the day, still got my reg # 11896
Ok, games ARE cool, you can start a computer club that challenges other universities completely legitimizing it BUT how does your rebuttal relate in terms to piracy?
Certainly there's room to "test" out what you can do on a campus network. You want to explore remote exploitation of network machines? Great, start a computer club, get a list of people that allow it, talk back and forth about each others findings.
Want to develop the next P2P app? Pipe the output from a random number generator into a file of any size and test it. No need to ruffle the feathers of the RIAA by sharing britney spears. Hell I bet there's a ton of college bands on campus that would love to have people sharing their music.
The reason the U of W is going after the students is because of the enormous amount of bandwidth at each dorm rooms disposal. It's not just a bunch of guys scattered around with SDSL lines, it's 1000+ computers all connected at 100baseT, just the shear volume of traffic that can flow out of there is mindboggling.
Notice they didn't mention shutting down multiplayer games, they didn't mention shutting down the ports for kazaa, and they didn't mention stopping anyone from hacking in their own sandbox. Kudos to them and I wish them the best of luck.
SO, i guess they have no problem with ME running a sniffer on all traffic on their network? I mean, since they feel its ok for them to do it, its ok for me to do it.
Dude you are so off base you should be modded a funny. (Mods, please read parent before modding me)
The point is, it's THEIR network. It's not the student network, it's not the taxpayers network, it's not even the Alumni's network. It belongs to the University plain and simple. University is for research, not d/l pr0n or sharing eminem. Students are given access to the internet in their dorm rooms to assist them with their studies.
If I caught you running a sniffer on my network, I would yank that patch cord leading up to your room so fast it would make a "whooosh" sound like a whip cracking in the air.
There comes a time when only so much can be fit on that piece of silicon.
e lemen t/C
.525 the size of a Si atom.b /elemen t/C
Couldn't resist replying since i'm on your foes list for god knows what.
Moores law doesn't just apply to silicone, it applies to integrated circuit design in general. If moores law was based purely on the manufacturing techniques at the time, of course it wouldn't hold true in 20 to 30 years.
What we've seen though is a change in manufacturing processes, and with the research going on in quantum computing, light computing, and biological computing, I would speculate that we will see "moores trend" (calling it that because it's not really a law) will continue on course as these advancements are made.
Take for example our use of Si (silicon) for every IC designed today. We use it because of it's strength, and low electrical conductivity. It's a rather large atom though, and we will run out of space eventually using it.
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/nph-pertab/tab/
But wait! Right above Si on the periodic table of elements is C (carbon) which is roughly
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/nph-pertab/ta
Now why don't we use carbon based IC's? Well for one thing, carbon does not play well with itself unless you use a lot of heat and pressure (Carbon melting point is 3727c vs Si's 1410c). Secondly we haven't really mass produce the carbon buckyballs/nanotube enough where we could actually use them in place of Si.
Now where was I going with this... Oh yeah..
Basically Moores law will continue to hold true as long as material manufacting keeps up. Silicon has nada to do with it.
When I was a kid I went to live with my grandma. She got me into model rocketry seeing as how I was into all the technology stuff.
We had gotten back from toys-r-us with an estes clear payloader. This was the 6th rocket I had built that year and I was getting pretty good at it. I had the little base for lining up your fins at perfect angles, my sanding and painting techniques were downright perfect.
I looked at my creation in awe, this was truly one of the best rockets I had ever built.
Roaming around the backyard something told me to roll over this huge rock by the fountain. Rolling it over, I saw the usual pill bugs, worms and such, but there was something strange and black squirming around in the dirt. I picked it up, and noticed there were 2 pin sized black eyes staring at me. It was a newt.
"Astronewts!" was the first thing that popped into my head.
My grandma was famous for getting those little german candies in the metal tin, so I cleaned out an empty tin and place the "astronewt" inside the container, hopped on my bike and rode down to the schools field.
It was one of those hazy overcast days, one of those days that model rocketrist hate because it meant tracking your vehicle was near impossible when it was nothing more than a speck against the pale grey sky.
"Mr. Astronewt, you're going to be the first newt in space!" I told the little guy as I struggeled to get him into the payload compartment. I stood back the normal 15' the control wire would allow. I could see him in the chamber now, wiggling and squirming, as if he knew his own fate.
"Houston this is Astronewt oh one, we're ready to begin final countdown"
"Roger that, 5-4-3-2-1"
All the skill I had put into this rocket had paid off, the C6-7 engine shot the rocket up towards the heavens faster than any previous rocket I had built. I counted.
1-2-3-4-5-6, Main burn complete, counting down parachute deployment, 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 *POOF*
The wind had caught the parachute, and I could tell that I had better get hopping on my bike to go chase it down.
About a mile down the road was another school, and my good fortune landed my rocket right in the middle of that field. I rode up, did my classic 180 by locking my rear brakes and looked inside.
"A sad day of mourning for americans, as their first "Astronewt" died during launch today"
I wasn't entirely sure what had happened. Did he die from shock? Too many G forces during parachute deployment? What?
But anyways, onto some "ontopic" commenting
Model rockets for the most part are completely safe. I cannot fathom anyone being able to use them for anything more than an annoyance, because you cannot control their flight path, other than pointing and praying they hit their target.
Perhaps a better ban would be anything RC. RC cars and planes come to mind first. Strap a X-10 wireless camera and some C4 to your favorite RC vehicle and you have a really nice remote control bomb.
Alternatively, you could also use a single board computer coupled with GPS and write your own guidance/flight software to make a cruise missle. So I guess we should ban single board computer too because they are light enough to be used in a homemade cruise missle.
Ashcroft, get your fucking head out your ass you fucking tard.
Nerds should have this thing flying, uhh I mean floatin, errr boyancy? through the water.
http://www.hispanicvista.com/html/000908am.html
Oh you never said "open source" or "commercial", kind of arsinine for you to make that point after the fact...
Ok GLtron
Flightgear
BZtank
That weird pharos of egypt one coverered on slash a few days back, well maybe thats commercial, but it's open source.
How about GLgraph in XmmS?
I could go on, and on and on.
Quake 3 linux?
UT2003 Linux?
Uhhm, anything else using the Nvidia X server?
Did I mention Neverwinter Nights Linux?
RTCW linux?
y0 ac!
Show me a single bare bones PC under $200 with an nvidia 3d accellerator on it. Can you? Can anyone? For that matter show me one that comes with ram, hard drive and DVD drive + nvidia.
(clicks the refresh button waitin for a response)
Actually I have, I have a windows box hooked up through a scan convertor (plays DiVX)
Any resolution over 640x480 sucks ass, I agree with that. Do you need that res to read a web page? Heck no...
I use a virtual desktop of 1024x768 with a viewport of 640x480. Large icons and fonts improves the readability of the text.
I honestly don't use it for work, but for a mornin cup of joe it sure as heck beats the lab.
I think they will go for this
:D
Should read:
I think they will go for linux
Sorry about the typo. Read away
I like the Xbox...
PIII 733, 20 gig hard drive, TV out, and a proven, somewhat stable O/S and a pretty decent 3D platform.
Xbox needs to be sold as a cheap PC. I think PC makers missed the mark for a home computer years ago when they started forcing people to use a VGA monitor.
Anyone old enough to remember the 8-bit era of home computing would know that all these systems just required power. You connected it to your TV and started using it. No need to buy a special sound card, or 3d accelerator, for that matter you didn't need a special VGA monitor to use your computer. Because of this for the time, they were relatively cheap, enjoyed enormous success and still have a small, but loyal following today.
Do I really care about dot pitch when i'm reading an e-mail, or browsing the web, or watching a movie? Hmm, nah.. The only time I REALLY REALLY need a VGA monitor is when I have to read config files for hours on end, and with the multiple windows I have open I need all the resolution I can get for the multiple windows I have open.
I think MS may eventually take the home computer market with the Xbox. Why not? They're already in position to do it. Most of the NNGWX (non-nerd-gamer-with-xbox) I know think Xbox live is the most fantastic shit since sliced bread, despite having played multiplayer PC games for a few years.
I'm not trying to troll the public, I'm just trying to take a guess here at what MS's intentions are with the Xbox. I think they will go for this simply because they are trying to become the next apple, with MS balls.
Go read my journal sometime, I never asked for any of the shit my parents brought down on me.
My mother put me in a mental institution when I was 12 as part of a plan to keep my father from visiting me. 6 mo. later I was released to the delight of the kids that teased me before. Now they could point fingers at me and say, "Look there's toqer, he goes to the nurses office to take crazy pills" I routinely had gangs of 5 or 6 girls following me around at recess calling me "loonie boy" The principal didn't want me in woodshop because they were afraid I would take a skillsaw to someones head (*Note, I wasn't institutionalized for anything violence related either, just depression)
As far as you learning how to walk the walk and talk the talk, well, that's great when you have people that will actually talk to you. Good for you! I'm glad you found something that "worked" for you. Unfortunately for me, I was branded a "psycho killer" at 12 by both my peers, parents, and school administration. Nobody wants to talk to a guy rumored to have killed a mental patient while he was locked up.
econdly, it allows resources to be redistributed or added on the fly, especially if your VM is seamless enough to span nodes.
:D
I looked into this recently, I wanted to make my 3d app render faster
Bascially running a virtual machine across a distributed network isn't there yet. VMware does not work with openmosix, however there was some other virual machine that did (name escapes me at the moment)
You gave me an idea...
I think this would make an awesome reality TV series, sort of like "cheaters" PI's could tape the bullying, and then end it with a confrontation to the parents. I know if I had ever humiliated any of my bullies like that, they wouldn't have touched me again. Especially if I had tapes that I could seek damages with at any time. A good threatening lawer letter saying "You authorize us to use this footage on TV or we sue" would definitly make the parents of said bully rethink their discipline.
You should work on pitching that to a production company, i'm sure it would get good ratings.
I had a rough childhood, almost everything was beyond my control. There were times growing up I wasn't just ridiculed for my small stature or interest in being a "computer nerd" Go read my journal if you want all the details.
There are two types of nerds, there's the nerd with a good family, that has a clue on how to raise their kids. The kid goes into all the clubs, and is pretty popular. This kid is recognized by their peers and peers parents as having a loving, stable home. Their well being and stability is attractive to teachers, students, and other members of the school community.
Then you got nerds like me. People who had some fucked up parents. Never learned to socialize properly at a young age with other people. I used to spend all my lunches and recesses either in the library or, if I kissed butt with teacher, could spend it with an appleIIe. I would do this to hide from the bullying that would take place. Even my "freinds" took turns bullying me, everything from practicing what Hulk Hogan was doing on WWF (now WWE) to just talking me down to make themselves feel better, since our group was cast from the social misfits known as the "mod" style in the 80's.
I was different than all of them, I could not "fit" in with the "normal" kids. I could not fit in with the "abnormal" mod kids. I didn't know U2 from The Cure. I knew all the poke locations on my atari, I knew how to format a floppy, I knew some basic. While my friends were picking out styles of clothes to wear I just wore whatever was in my drawer. I had no style sense whatsoever, I would wear green shirts with blue pants.
There were times at school, I would just be standing there, and suddenly some stupid ass jock I didn't even know would run into my back full speed to knock me down. I would always do my best to try and kick their asses then and there, which would end up with 4 guys jumping on me.
Sometimes the teachers would give me shit, "Toqer, why don't you just walk away?" Yeah thats it, just walk away, while they shout out insults to your back. Not fighting just shows them you're scared of them, which makes the bullying worse.
It's never stopped throughout my life. Even as an adult, I let people influence me because sometimes I feel inadequate when it comes to interpersonal matters. Am I inadequate? Or did outside influences keep me from developing what I needed in this area early in life?
I really blame my parents a lot. They couldn't get along with each other, they had a vicious divorce. Us kids were passed back and forth as messanger, "TELL YOUR FATHER HE'S A BUMB" "TELL YOUR MOTHER SHE'S A WHORE!" This was how I was taught to deal with the oppisite sex at 3-4 years of age.
I got lucky, I met a good woman who loves me and tries to remind me that I'm no longer there. Still though, all these scars have effected me in my adult life. I couldn't control my life as a kid, I just wished the jocks, teachers had the empathy to see that as well.
"But when Willy Wonka met Charlie,"
Savage says, "he didn't say, 'You can be an intern and in a few years can
suggest one feature in a product'--he gave him the keys!"
No he said:
Just over there.
Charlie bucket.
Well, well, charlie bucket. I read all about you in the papers. I'm so happy for
you.
And who is this gentleman?
My grandfather, grandpa joe.
Delighted to meet you, sir.
Overjoyed, enraptured, entranced. Are we ready? Yes. Good.
It's
here
I know that sometimes a buyout or merger is just a nice way to cover up the layoffs to the investors.
Investor "Oh why did you scale back? I thought you said we needed all these workers to make product!"
CEO "Nevermind those bums, we just aquired another company and all their intellectual property! Because of the merger we now own 20 patents in blogging technology that are good for another 20 years! Since we already have the R&D for these patents completed, we can fire the new guys too! That's going to make our stock worth more!"
Investor "I'll buy that for a dollar!"
I really don't know if google is a good/bad company, I can't really say the above skit is anything more than fiction in regards to google, but I have seen similiar things happen in the business world. I just hope in another 15 years google doesn't go after all the people using their own open source blogging software claiming royaltee's on an idiotic patent.
Damn, I'm sounding a bit too YRO slashdotish today.