Does anyone remeber Harry Selden from Asimov's Foundation Trilogy? He had a hand held device that given the right input could give the probability of any major future event. It's the same concept as the butterfly flapping his wings in Tahiti and 2 months later, that little wind grows to a hurricane.
With enough computing power, we can do real world simulations on weather patterns, economics, crash testing, materials fabrication, heck, we can even fuck around with genetics on HUGE computational scales.
With the right applications and a sufficient amount of data, I can predict the future. The problem is that even with a Pentium 4, it would take until the future was ancient history. [not to mention the archetectural flaws in the chip...]
If I had a sufficiently fast platform with practically unlimited memory: would that help me do the Harry Seldon bit? I think it gets me lots closer.
This guy is absolutely correct. I mean, he is a DOCTOR from HARVARD for cryin' out loud....
I myself believe that vacuum tubes are the way to go: small, cheap and reliable. As a benefit, lots of heat as a byproduct to keep the lab toasty.
I believe that there are many other technologies that are similar to quantum computing in that they are a waste of time because I do not understand them. Radio, for instance. It will never work!!! And combustion engines? WTF? Maybe in major industrial uses but.... Airplanes? What is this "lift" phenomenon everyone is giving so much attention to? If man was meant to fly, we'd all have turboprops in our asses.
Clearly, if I do not understand the technology, it does not exist and cannot be valuable in any future applications. The "Cold-fusion on the desktop" hoax taught us never to try anything new, or at least it should have. Tell all the scientists to go home, there is nothing new to know.
While I am up for the trip to Venice Beach, we can almost certainly voice displeasure with ICANN Board squatting with a letter to your Congressman.
Bullhorns at boardmeetings are always good fun, but a letter to the Whitehouse or your Representitive would be a kick in the balls to these rogue ICANN mofos.
The problem is that writing letters to Congressmen gives no Karma, so no on here will write one.
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... is spark the interest of 1000 kids in science, it will be worth the money. If it gets 100 Americans to think outside their own little world for 10 minutes or so, again, money well spent.
Anybody remember where we got fuelcells? Tang? Personal computers, advanced medical equipment [CAT Scanners and MRI technology (Computer-Aided Tomography and Magnetic Resonance Imaging) used in hospitals worldwide, came from technology developed to computer-enhance pictures of the moon for the Apollo program], communications satellites, cordless power tools....
Personally, I think Tang is worth a few billion right there.
So let's go to Mars. Fuck it, best reason to do it is that we can. Doesn't mean we won't try to help the needy, but as long ago as Jesus people said "the poor will be with us always." Let's go. And don't forget the Tang.
That knocking sound you hear is the FBI at your door. I hear Thursday's desert is stewed prunes at Levenworth. Don't worry, I'll donate to your commisary account.
Ask yourself: why would anyone pay that kind of money for barcodes? What do they hope to accomplish? Well, my brothers and sisters, DC would like to get to know you better.
There are 2 things on the internet that make money: porn and targeted advertising.
If CueCat delivers a database of identifiable humans and their buying habits, would LL Bean or Land's End pay $1 each for a targeted name? For a name that has just bought chinos at the Gap website? Or scanned an ad barcode for turtlenecks at J Crew? Hmm....
And that's just the begining. There is a reason they give away hardware. It's cheap hardware, but they had to pay something for it and even shipped it to some Wired and Forbes readers. Are they that dumb?
Check out the DC website or SEC filings and see who these guys are. Not a lot of dummies in the bunch. They have a plan... they just ain't tellin' us what it is.
... to confirm that Einstein was right? You bet your ass. Of all the theortical physics to date has translated into some kind of everyday usefull product [a very small subset of academic physics], we now have computers from Dicky Feynman's work in quantum mechanics, space travel from Neuton's laws and really good rubber bands from the superstring theory.
I spend a ton of money on taxes in this fine nation of ours. I write to my government officials and tell them to spend what they can on pure research and space exploration. Aside from the pure joy of knowing there is a unified theory to explain it all, it's just too cool not to do some of this stuff.
If the corporations don't all get behind a standard the standard languishes [ie: firewire and memory stick] or dies [ie: Betamax]. Pay to play is the way big corporations think. It's the wrong way to do this and I am glad to see a few intrepid and fearless souls like Tim stand up. But... if we don't get a protocol 3com, Intel, and The Evil Empire [Microsoft] all support wholesale, it could die on the vine.
Don't get me wrong: a protocol just needs support, and not necessarily corporate support. Corporate support would just make the protocol available in a more widespread, fait-acomplis sort of fashion. It's ultimately users that decide protocols.
As I have posted here before, I am a lawyer whose interest lies in protecting user privacy: on the Internet, using standalone software that connects to another server without user knowledge, anywhere.
My standard and touchstone is "user knowledge." If a user knows that Digital Convergence will track them every time they scan something, well OK. DC gave them the scanner, for crying out loud. No blood, no foul. This is America, make a buck if you can.
Where I get involved is where companies act outside what it is they disclose they will do. I sued DoubleClick for my client when they tracked him without his knowledge. He had no knowledge of their actions. If they disclosed that they had placed a unique ID on his machine to track him and he had agreed to it, they could do it all day.
If someone hadn't paid attention, DoubleClick would continue to throw a digital tatoo on the neck of every unknowing web site visitor and know more about you than Santa Claus [he knows if you've been sleeping, ETC.]
Does DC disclose the unique ID on its CueCat? Do users know that if they scan their "Nakid Grandmas in Hell" video that DC will tuck that info away for sale later? Hmmm.
If they do adequatly disclose their actions, I am a vigorous advocate for their right to make a buck. I believe they have their heads where the sun don't shine when it comes to "cease and desist" letters that don't explain what they want a person to cease and desist doing. Sounds like some corporate defense attorney said "Send him a letter on our stationery and growl at him. He'll stop posting [insert useful and objectionable-from-the-corporate-standpoint web content here] on that damn web site."
If people don't stand up for themselves, The Man will ride roughshod over us all.
Paul C. Whalen, Esq. www.manhasset.net The Law Office of Paul
C. Whalen, P.C.
need different distros. I am not a Linux geek [though I am working on it], so a good easy install is important to me. To the professional, Redhat's install packages might not be important.
There will always be different distros. As a user driven OS, if there is a need, there will be a developer.
Adam Smith said we vote with our feet our our dollars. Don't buy Redhat if you dissapprove. SuSE and others still support Sparc. Send an e-mail to Redhat telling them you are buying elsewhere. They will bring back Sparc if it's profitable.
Kids, these people are a publicly traded company now. They have a fiduciary responsibility to shareholders to MAXIMIZE DOLLARS EARNED. Quite a shock. No more "What's good for the Linux community" now its "Does it impact our quater?"
Paul C. Whalen, Esq. www.manhasset.net The Law Office of Paul
C. Whalen, P.C.
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And you call the Spinal Tap Reference a TROLL? Well, OK then.
Also, let me mention that burning Karma is a sure sign you said something good.
Wow. Beat me. Whip me. Make me write bad checks.
How again was this a troll, Mr. Moderator-man, Mr. Police-the-Net-man? Hmmm?
H-U-M-O-R.
Break Like The Wind was second only to The Black Album.
Tap Rules.
Windows 2000 Editing important file Blue screen of death
Does anyone remeber Harry Selden from Asimov's Foundation Trilogy? He had a hand held device that given the right input could give the probability of any major future event. It's the same concept as the butterfly flapping his wings in Tahiti and 2 months later, that little wind grows to a hurricane.
With enough computing power, we can do real world simulations on weather patterns, economics, crash testing, materials fabrication, heck, we can even fuck around with genetics on HUGE computational scales.
With the right applications and a sufficient amount of data, I can predict the future. The problem is that even with a Pentium 4, it would take until the future was ancient history. [not to mention the archetectural flaws in the chip...]
If I had a sufficiently fast platform with practically unlimited memory: would that help me do the Harry Seldon bit? I think it gets me lots closer.
Cool.
This guy is absolutely correct. I mean, he is a DOCTOR from HARVARD for cryin' out loud....
I myself believe that vacuum tubes are the way to go: small, cheap and reliable. As a benefit, lots of heat as a byproduct to keep the lab toasty.
I believe that there are many other technologies that are similar to quantum computing in that they are a waste of time because I do not understand them. Radio, for instance. It will never work!!! And combustion engines? WTF? Maybe in major industrial uses but.... Airplanes? What is this "lift" phenomenon everyone is giving so much attention to? If man was meant to fly, we'd all have turboprops in our asses.
Clearly, if I do not understand the technology, it does not exist and cannot be valuable in any future applications. The "Cold-fusion on the desktop" hoax taught us never to try anything new, or at least it should have. Tell all the scientists to go home, there is nothing new to know.
While I am up for the trip to Venice Beach, we can almost certainly voice displeasure with ICANN Board squatting with a letter to your Congressman.
Bullhorns at boardmeetings are always good fun, but a letter to the Whitehouse or your Representitive would be a kick in the balls to these rogue ICANN mofos.
The problem is that writing letters to Congressmen gives no Karma, so no on here will write one.
... is spark the interest of 1000 kids in science, it will be worth the money. If it gets 100 Americans to think outside their own little world for 10 minutes or so, again, money well spent.
Anybody remember where we got fuelcells? Tang? Personal computers, advanced medical equipment [CAT Scanners and MRI technology (Computer-Aided Tomography and Magnetic Resonance Imaging) used in hospitals worldwide, came from technology developed to computer-enhance pictures of the moon for the Apollo program], communications satellites, cordless power tools....
Personally, I think Tang is worth a few billion right there.
So let's go to Mars. Fuck it, best reason to do it is that we can. Doesn't mean we won't try to help the needy, but as long ago as Jesus people said "the poor will be with us always." Let's go. And don't forget the Tang.
EZ 2 do.
We run "Survivor II: Mission to Mars" where 10 people go through brutal and degrading training to get a spot on the Mars mission.
Wait, they're doing that with Mir?
OK, wait.
Get a corporate sponsor like Pepsi to sponsor "Mars: 2005" - the concert tour - and send Sting!!!! Big money sponsors pay the way!!!
And we get rid of Sting for a while!
and think of all the pussy you could get from showing geek-girls around this thing!!!! Am I wrong here?
Flamebait? It was HUMOR, asshole.
And MS didn't pick this up? On August 14, 2000, PC Mag ran a story on this trojan and only rated it a 5 out of 10 for harmfullness. WTF?
That knocking sound you hear is the FBI at your door. I hear Thursday's desert is stewed prunes at Levenworth. Don't worry, I'll donate to your commisary account.
on Office and Win 2000 whether or not MS wants it. Hmmm.......
for security? :]
Ask yourself: why would anyone pay that kind of money for barcodes? What do they hope to accomplish? Well, my brothers and sisters, DC would like to get to know you better.
There are 2 things on the internet that make money: porn and targeted advertising.
If CueCat delivers a database of identifiable humans and their buying habits, would LL Bean or Land's End pay $1 each for a targeted name? For a name that has just bought chinos at the Gap website? Or scanned an ad barcode for turtlenecks at J Crew? Hmm....
And that's just the begining. There is a reason they give away hardware. It's cheap hardware, but they had to pay something for it and even shipped it to some Wired and Forbes readers. Are they that dumb?
Check out the DC website or SEC filings and see who these guys are. Not a lot of dummies in the bunch. They have a plan... they just ain't tellin' us what it is.
... to confirm that Einstein was right? You bet your ass. Of all the theortical physics to date has translated into some kind of everyday usefull product [a very small subset of academic physics], we now have computers from Dicky Feynman's work in quantum mechanics, space travel from Neuton's laws and really good rubber bands from the superstring theory.
I spend a ton of money on taxes in this fine nation of ours. I write to my government officials and tell them to spend what they can on pure research and space exploration. Aside from the pure joy of knowing there is a unified theory to explain it all, it's just too cool not to do some of this stuff.
Use my backyard for the next one of these.
If the corporations don't all get behind a standard the standard languishes [ie: firewire and memory stick] or dies [ie: Betamax]. Pay to play is the way big corporations think. It's the wrong way to do this and I am glad to see a few intrepid and fearless souls like Tim stand up. But... if we don't get a protocol 3com, Intel, and The Evil Empire [Microsoft] all support wholesale, it could die on the vine.
Don't get me wrong: a protocol just needs support, and not necessarily corporate support. Corporate support would just make the protocol available in a more widespread, fait-acomplis sort of fashion. It's ultimately users that decide protocols.
This is right on the money.
As I have posted here before, I am a lawyer whose interest lies in protecting user privacy: on the Internet, using standalone software that connects to another server without user knowledge, anywhere.
My standard and touchstone is "user knowledge." If a user knows that Digital Convergence will track them every time they scan something, well OK. DC gave them the scanner, for crying out loud. No blood, no foul. This is America, make a buck if you can.
Where I get involved is where companies act outside what it is they disclose they will do. I sued DoubleClick for my client when they tracked him without his knowledge. He had no knowledge of their actions. If they disclosed that they had placed a unique ID on his machine to track him and he had agreed to it, they could do it all day.
If someone hadn't paid attention, DoubleClick would continue to throw a digital tatoo on the neck of every unknowing web site visitor and know more about you than Santa Claus [he knows if you've been sleeping, ETC.]
Does DC disclose the unique ID on its CueCat? Do users know that if they scan their "Nakid Grandmas in Hell" video that DC will tuck that info away for sale later? Hmmm.
If they do adequatly disclose their actions, I am a vigorous advocate for their right to make a buck. I believe they have their heads where the sun don't shine when it comes to "cease and desist" letters that don't explain what they want a person to cease and desist doing. Sounds like some corporate defense attorney said "Send him a letter on our stationery and growl at him. He'll stop posting [insert useful and objectionable-from-the-corporate-standpoint web content here] on that damn web site."
If people don't stand up for themselves, The Man will ride roughshod over us all. Paul C. Whalen, Esq.
www.manhasset.net
The Law Office of Paul C. Whalen, P.C.
Did anyone notice that Dell links to Slashdot on their Linux links page?
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http://www.dell.com/us/en/dhs/topics/linux_linuxl
need different distros. I am not a Linux geek [though I am working on it], so a good easy install is important to me. To the professional, Redhat's install packages might not be important.
There will always be different distros. As a user driven OS, if there is a need, there will be a developer.
Gates needs a charisma transplant. Why is everyone so worried this guy is appealing?
Adam Smith said we vote with our feet our our dollars. Don't buy Redhat if you dissapprove. SuSE and others still support Sparc. Send an e-mail to Redhat telling them you are buying elsewhere. They will bring back Sparc if it's profitable.
Kids, these people are a publicly traded company now. They have a fiduciary responsibility to shareholders to MAXIMIZE DOLLARS EARNED. Quite a shock. No more "What's good for the Linux community" now its "Does it impact our quater?"
Paul C. Whalen, Esq.
www.manhasset.net
The Law Office of Paul C. Whalen, P.C.
Touche! I am undone by your logic.
It is not enough merely to disagree, but if we are to all be learned people, we must discuss even those positions we abhor.
It is in this way we will be enlightened.
Nyah, nyah to you too.
... to the last 100 pages, doesn't the publisher have the right to have you KEEP the book? Shouldn't you know before then that it is not fot you?
Not everyone wants information to be free....