Explorer GPs all the time where I work, and, when I ran Windows 95B five years ago, the DLL in charge of the display (not the monitor, or the video card) got corrupted.
And then there's that "The system has become either busy or unstable. Press any key to continue, or press Ctrl-Alt-Del again to reboot." (tm) I got an hour ago on this machine I'm using. (98 SE at a college campus)
And if you say the "system has become either busy or unstable" error is an understandable result of a poorly written program (I was running Netscape 4.7), then I'd like to point out that in a properly multitasking environment (like any UNIX-based system), you can kill any process, right up to the one stuck in an infinite loop, therefore taking 99.99% of my 200MHz computer's CPU time.
As for catastrophic hardware failures, I lost a hard drive without the kernel panicking. I'd like to see WinME survive a non-primary harddrive death without going down.
Not a laptop, a tablet PC. Difference being that (IIRC) tablet PCs are supposed to be able to adjust their display geometry (and orientation, come to think of it) when you tilt them one way or another.
I don't know much about professional mail, but wouldn't it be better if you sent the letter as verified mail? I'm not sure they're legally required to send a return receipt.
Depending on how quickly you need to print the organ, stem cells might actually be your ink. (A nice ink they would be, self-replicating and all.)
As a potential use, you may want to produce blood with 100x the number of platelets, or maybe with tuned antibodies (such antibodies may be designed as a temporary treatment, such as attacking cancerous cells, for when continued treatment is dangerous.).
I see "printing" special fluids (or body fluids) as conceptually similar to printing a monolithic object like a muscle, or a heart.
There's certain things you can do to make it harder to cheat, even with open source Quake.
For example, you can monitor the speed at which player objects are moving. When Neo says, "There is no spoon," the server can say, "Ooooh yes ther is."
I think they're going to have to figure out what to do about the length of time it takes for them to print an organ(ism). Your average organ may start drying out before it's done being printed.
Thinking of banks...Blood should be a relatively easy substance to print. (All cells are individual, and they're suspended in a liquid, instead of being stuck together.)
Anyone know what the advantages are for receiving whole blood?
There's a lot about a modern car that's very difficult to recycle. Printed Circuit Boards have lead, plastic, and a myriad of other toxic things. Some kinds of plastic are expensive to recycle, and plastics with coloring agents are almost useless for reusing in the same type of product.
You also run into health issues (Like, did the previous owners let mold grow in the seats?)
First, I've never heard of police cars being equipped with live OCR equipment. First you'd have to be able to single out the license plate text from that of the neighboring car, or a road sign, or even a piece of litter tumbling across your Line-of-Sight.
Second, the only reason to have such live OCR would be for aid in automating vehicle tracking. While the ACLU (or international counterparts) would be quick to try to plaster attention over this, people already consider it common.
Third, searches through public databases take time. It's not like they'll be able to identify you the moment their computer gets a lock on your identifying characteristic. Local caching would be prohibitively expensive for your average police department, no matter what the size of the city.
Fourth, there's really no range limit on how far away you could detect these things. Your effective range depends on the power being broadcasted at, and the sensitivity of your instruments. It being a digital signal makes the matter a heck of a lot easier.
Fifth, it might be possible to fry the RFID device by feeding it so much RF power that its circuitry melts. (I know I'd certainly try if I had tires or clothing that had these devices. I'd go park next to a high-power radio tower for a few hours.) There'd certainly be a market in devices capable of high-power directional transmissions. The devices are probably already illegal.
Sixth, the government is going to have a hell of a time passing laws prohibiting unlicensed transfer of RFID-enabled devices. And I can tell you that laws regulating the sales and transfers of something so common as tires (and, later, clothing, shoes, etc.).
Seventh, if you need an alibi, intentionally broadcast one of your RFIDs at, say, forty watts. (Talk about getting around a lot!) Or just send someone driving around with your RFID clothing, or driving around in your car.
Eighth, 1984 should have been titled 2005. People don't take it seriously because the things it predicted didn't happen by 1984.
Ok... So quantum computers aren't around yet. And everyone is saying, "So, until we get quantum computers..."
What happens when we do get them? You want the NSA to have a database of encryption keys on-hand? Kind of like that Trusted Authority that one notable polititian proposed should hold all your encryption keys for you. (Can't say his name, 'cause I got massively flamed last time I did.)
It just occured to me: Could that lead to commercial support and development for those products?
It may seem like a vaporware, but they could potentially build the systems out of mini-ITX boards and fancy cases, as a pre-built Linux box. Marketing such a device as a console system could be a great way to introduce Linux to the youthful masses.
Otherwise, like you implied, Microsoft is going to charge them up the rear for legal licenses to DOS, Windows, and whatnot. (Considering that they would be Microsoft's competitors, I can see Microsoft making life very difficult. Oh well...more material for the next antitrust case.)
Salesman: Try our FingerComputer 5000. It has a powerful AI, and implants under your fingernails so it can sense your typing. Of course, not everyone wants an intelligent computer knowing what they've been doing.
It's the old issue of states' rights. See nullification.
I used to be massively in favor of a strong federal gov't over states, (what you'd expect from Republican public school teachers covering the (American) Civil War) until I got involved with this crowd.
Now I find myself standing on the battlefield between the two. Quite uncomfortable.
I wouldn't recommend it. A field that strong might leave a strong magnetic image on the metal parts of the drive. That image could interfere with the read-write heads of the drive.
Floppy disks aren't so bad, since A) they're cheap and B) they're mostly plastic.
Never took apart a Zip disk, though. Dunno what'd happen.
He specifically pointed out that it isn't a global identification.
I think the only thing it can identify is what BIOS-and-bootloader combination you're running.
The REAL question is, "so I have an ASUS P5B, and I use LILO. How does that affect the operating system?" (You can use LILO without using Linux or BSD...you might be running OS/2, DOS and x86 OS/X)
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Explorer GPs all the time where I work, and, when I ran Windows 95B five years ago, the DLL in charge of the display (not the monitor, or the video card) got corrupted.
And then there's that "The system has become either busy or unstable. Press any key to continue, or press Ctrl-Alt-Del again to reboot." (tm) I got an hour ago on this machine I'm using. (98 SE at a college campus)
And if you say the "system has become either busy or unstable" error is an understandable result of a poorly written program (I was running Netscape 4.7), then I'd like to point out that in a properly multitasking environment (like any UNIX-based system), you can kill any process, right up to the one stuck in an infinite loop, therefore taking 99.99% of my 200MHz computer's CPU time.
As for catastrophic hardware failures, I lost a hard drive without the kernel panicking. I'd like to see WinME survive a non-primary harddrive death without going down.
(end rant)
Ever heard of a kernel panic?
Not a laptop, a tablet PC. Difference being that (IIRC) tablet PCs are supposed to be able to adjust their display geometry (and orientation, come to think of it) when you tilt them one way or another.
I don't know much about professional mail, but wouldn't it be better if you sent the letter as verified mail? I'm not sure they're legally required to send a return receipt.
Weren't tablet PCs supposed to change the geometry from portrait to landscape (and back) when the display was tilted in the appropriate direction?
Sounds like buggy X drivers, to me. My laptop resizes the geometry fine when I switch from the LCD display to the external VGA port.
"Everybody backup now!"
I saw that, and fell out of my chair. (Which really bites, since I'm sitting behind a tall reception desk in a computer lab.)
Depending on how quickly you need to print the organ, stem cells might actually be your ink. (A nice ink they would be, self-replicating and all.)
As a potential use, you may want to produce blood with 100x the number of platelets, or maybe with tuned antibodies (such antibodies may be designed as a temporary treatment, such as attacking cancerous cells, for when continued treatment is dangerous.).
I see "printing" special fluids (or body fluids) as conceptually similar to printing a monolithic object like a muscle, or a heart.
Stem cells would let you create whatever cell type you need.
There's certain things you can do to make it harder to cheat, even with open source Quake.
For example, you can monitor the speed at which player objects are moving. When Neo says, "There is no spoon," the server can say, "Ooooh yes ther is."
I think they're going to have to figure out what to do about the length of time it takes for them to print an organ(ism). Your average organ may start drying out before it's done being printed.
Anyone have any ideas on what would go into a PostScript-like language for printing cells? (and other biologicals?) It would definately have a niche.
Thinking of banks...Blood should be a relatively easy substance to print. (All cells are individual, and they're suspended in a liquid, instead of being stuck together.)
Anyone know what the advantages are for receiving whole blood?
I'd hate to have receive a transplant faxed from the organ bank. (Faxes never seem to come out well...)
There's a lot about a modern car that's very difficult to recycle. Printed Circuit Boards have lead, plastic, and a myriad of other toxic things. Some kinds of plastic are expensive to recycle, and plastics with coloring agents are almost useless for reusing in the same type of product.
You also run into health issues (Like, did the previous owners let mold grow in the seats?)
Some points:
First, I've never heard of police cars being equipped with live OCR equipment. First you'd have to be able to single out the license plate text from that of the neighboring car, or a road sign, or even a piece of litter tumbling across your Line-of-Sight.
Second, the only reason to have such live OCR would be for aid in automating vehicle tracking. While the ACLU (or international counterparts) would be quick to try to plaster attention over this, people already consider it common.
Third, searches through public databases take time. It's not like they'll be able to identify you the moment their computer gets a lock on your identifying characteristic. Local caching would be prohibitively expensive for your average police department, no matter what the size of the city.
Fourth, there's really no range limit on how far away you could detect these things. Your effective range depends on the power being broadcasted at, and the sensitivity of your instruments. It being a digital signal makes the matter a heck of a lot easier.
Fifth, it might be possible to fry the RFID device by feeding it so much RF power that its circuitry melts. (I know I'd certainly try if I had tires or clothing that had these devices. I'd go park next to a high-power radio tower for a few hours.) There'd certainly be a market in devices capable of high-power directional transmissions. The devices are probably already illegal.
Sixth, the government is going to have a hell of a time passing laws prohibiting unlicensed transfer of RFID-enabled devices. And I can tell you that laws regulating the sales and transfers of something so common as tires (and, later, clothing, shoes, etc.).
Seventh, if you need an alibi, intentionally broadcast one of your RFIDs at, say, forty watts. (Talk about getting around a lot!) Or just send someone driving around with your RFID clothing, or driving around in your car.
Eighth, 1984 should have been titled 2005. People don't take it seriously because the things it predicted didn't happen by 1984.
...ICANN?
Ok... So quantum computers aren't around yet. And everyone is saying, "So, until we get quantum computers..."
What happens when we do get them? You want the NSA to have a database of encryption keys on-hand? Kind of like that Trusted Authority that one notable polititian proposed should hold all your encryption keys for you. (Can't say his name, 'cause I got massively flamed last time I did.)
It just occured to me: Could that lead to commercial support and development for those products?
It may seem like a vaporware, but they could potentially build the systems out of mini-ITX boards and fancy cases, as a pre-built Linux box. Marketing such a device as a console system could be a great way to introduce Linux to the youthful masses.
They can run Wine. Or WineX. Or DOSEMU.
Otherwise, like you implied, Microsoft is going to charge them up the rear for legal licenses to DOS, Windows, and whatnot. (Considering that they would be Microsoft's competitors, I can see Microsoft making life very difficult. Oh well...more material for the next antitrust case.)
Reminds me of an old Dilbert cartoon:
Salesman: Try our FingerComputer 5000. It has a powerful AI, and implants under your fingernails so it can sense your typing. Of course, not everyone wants an intelligent computer knowing what they've been doing.
Voice from his finger: Dave, about last night...
Naw...she's a hot bunny who plays wicked basketball.
Whoops...I forgot. Don't call her "doll."
It's the old issue of states' rights. See nullification.
I used to be massively in favor of a strong federal gov't over states, (what you'd expect from Republican public school teachers covering the (American) Civil War) until I got involved with this crowd.
Now I find myself standing on the battlefield between the two. Quite uncomfortable.
I wouldn't recommend it. A field that strong might leave a strong magnetic image on the metal parts of the drive. That image could interfere with the read-write heads of the drive.
Floppy disks aren't so bad, since A) they're cheap and B) they're mostly plastic.
Never took apart a Zip disk, though. Dunno what'd happen.
After your sentence, do you differentiate between tech ethics issues? (Illegal P2P bad, but DMCA also bad)
Or is it possible you have a more blanketing approach? (Illegal P2P bad, DMCA good) (or, conversely, Illegal P2P good, DMCA bad)
He specifically pointed out that it isn't a global identification.
I think the only thing it can identify is what BIOS-and-bootloader combination you're running.
The REAL question is, "so I have an ASUS P5B, and I use LILO. How does that affect the operating system?" (You can use LILO without using Linux or BSD...you might be running OS/2, DOS and x86 OS/X)