The tenth season will more than likely end up redoing time in order to kill off the vampirish humans in the Pegasus galaxy, who interbred with monster life-sucking spiders.
Send a team back in time to right before this happens and nuke the spider planet - bad guys gone. Back in the Present, just a happy, peaceful galaxy.
Do the same with the ORI, those ascended soul-sucking beings invading our own Milky Way galaxy. Sic Daniel Jackson on them, right before they all ascend, to straighten out their greedy tendencies.
So the final season of SG-1 is about time. And its about time they did this - I mean, how many times you want to climb through that ORIFACE?
The only fun we have any more with Stargate, or Atlantis, for that matter, is their self-parody 200th episode.
I guess I gave up watching SG-1 after they killed off all the Gou'alds. The ORI just stink as bad guys. Reminds me of some old teacher I had growing up, trying to bind all those semi-moral rules on all of us already decent kids....
No fun there any more.
"These are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others."
You're in the Army. You're in the field under fire. You have a hardened Army laptop. You are sending and receiving vital messages back and forth with another unit directing fire around your position. Your laptop doesn't have any software or files on it that are personal to you. Not your music. Not your games, etc. What is has is a trusted and fool-proof means of getting and receiving messages that you can trust with your life and the lives of your unit.
Therefore, you trust the info on your Army issued laptop. You know that no foreign agent or enemy can break in and send info to you or anyone else in the system, pretending to be someone you trust.
If your unit is overrun and you lose your laptop, anyone trying to use it without authentication or by hacking, will cause the laptop to self-destruct.
It is the Army who owns the computer. They own the software. They own the system. They own the TMP.
What everyone has been trying to do here is to apply TMP to their onw personal consumer/business computer. These are two separate and definitive worlds of computing operation. The only thing similar in our world is trusting who the person is you are communicating with, as being who they say they are, and not someone else pretending to be that person, in Chat or Email. But that is completely different (and minor) level of trust than what the Army is looking for, isn't it?
We will need all the computing power we can get, and on ultraportable units.
If for nothing else, for Voice-To_Text applications.
How else are we going to get on-the-fly live CAPTIONING of conversations around us, writting on microflexible displays on the bottoms of the lenses of our glasses? (Yeah, it would take a Bluetooth pocket unit...)
Considering that over 45% of the adult male population of this country no longer has adequate hearing for conversations, phones and other forms of verbal communications, we need this kind of computing power on a single chip.
Regards, "I don't feel old. I don't feel anything until noon. Then it's time for my nap."
This Chris Walken method interests. But Apple would have to come up with a (much) smaller and rounder iPod (aPod?).
And as for the white earbuds, I don't think they would reach... So perhaps a set of Bluetooth headphones, or even in-the-ear hearing aid type earbuds would eliminate that teletale white cord coming from your rectum.
I guess any mugger, seeing where the white cord was coming from, would likely make a face and just leave in disgust.
If your cell phone was small enough, you could store that in there too, but again, you would need a hands-free headset, right? I imagine, with a bit of practice, you could learn to manipulate your colon to do the dialing as well.
But I am sure I would still walk funny, going down the street, regardless, let alone dance . . . sorry. Perhaps Chris has a hardened rectum, to be able to dance so well with that equipment stowed away...
Me? I would employ two hulking, armed bodyguards to walk with me. Or stay out of England altogther.
Cheers, Roger Born "These are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others."
APPLE JUST ANNOUNCED THEIR NEW IPOD VIDEO FOR APRIL FIRST
SAMSUNG is going to build it.
It has the SAME SPECIFICATIONS AS THE SAMSUNG UMPC!
the new ipod video device is actually the exact same samsung model of the new microsoft origami UMPC.
consternation is reigning in redmond over this fiasco.
the new ipod will not use windows for tablet software, and thusly, will have an eight hour battery life, due to using better batteries and more intelligent software. prices are very different, with the redmond device going for 8 big ones and the ipod for 5 hundred.
samsung scored a real coup here, selling the same device to both microsoft and apple without either of them knowing about it.
you heard it here first.
april first will really be april first this year.
regards, roger born "Sorry. No refunds."
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Hey Billy!
Great analysis here.
Actually, I wish Apple would come out with the ITEM all of us seem to want - something to surf with, answer emails, and watch our media.
My idea is something between the iPod and the iBook - 9" IMOS wide screen (16x9), super thin clamshell, with a 55 key full sized keyboard. It won't need drives if it has enough flash memory, thereby giving it excellent battery life. let it download via USB2 and/or Bluetooth, with WiFi on board, and I think you have the device we all wish ORIGAMI was (and isn't).
Such a device would be so popular that clothing manufacturers would invent clothes and jackets to carry this thing in, IMO.
Regards, Roger Born "Always drink upstream from the herd"
Actually, since Jobs "The Creator" came back, most everything i pointed out is more fact than poppa-ganda.;-)
But, who sez Apple computers cost more than PCs do? Hasn't been true for a while now. Check out the mini, or the iBook. And where could you get such software functionality in any PC at any price?
=)
Best regards, Roger Poppa-ganda Born "Who sponsors your feelings?"
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There is a difinitive difference between the design paradigms of Apple Computers and Microsoft Window devices, and it affects everything you do with computers. The development of ORIGAMI proves this.
"Microsoft hopes the computer makers will make great UMPCs for the market." - B. Gates
"Let the market drive the design of these devices" - B. Gates
Do you see the evolution here? Let the market drive the improvements. Hands off the suppliers of these devices. Let them follow whatever pattern works. (Maybe they will get lucky...)
But it is the customer who suffers, right? People buy the newest things running Windows. What do they get? Beta devices. Buggy. Feature poor. Scant battery life. Rotten interface. Such a great way to build a world-class device that everyone desires, isn't it?
Now look at Intelligent Design in consumer computing. Look at anything made by Apple.
Most likely, you will find that any product made by Apple is of excellent design right out of the box. There is no throwing of the standards out to the market and hoping something intelligent immerges. Apple takes control of the hardware design themselves, and it is not released to the consumer until it is perfect, and with an intuitive human interface that work flawlessly. And what the consumer gets are jewel-like Nanos, glittering iPods, and awesome, elegant iMacs, MacBook Pros and Towers. Things anyone would be pleased to carry or place in their homes of offices.
Besides this, there is no hopeful evolution of Apple's software either. Instead, the software adds real value to the excellent hardware, and most of it is absolutely free. And if it is not free, it is well worth investing in, for the small amount that it costs. Nobody has software like Apple's software - Tiger OS X, iLife,.Mac, iPhoto, iDVD, iTunes, GarageBand, iWeb, iDisk, etc., etc.
Apple computers and iPods reflect intelligence in their design of both the hardware and software.
Let's just say, that in comparison to all the Windows devices out there, it is like the difference between a man and a monkey.
So, why choose chancy evolution in your computing over intelligent design?
Don't monkey around. Get a Mac. It is the intelligent choice.
the inherent problem with trying to measure the cosmological constant is that we are standing in a gravity well. if we could get outside of the gravity well of the solar system, we might find that time and space has a different constant. after all, time and the appearance of speed SLOW DOWN in a gravity well, as it also changes when observed at relativistic speeds. it probably also changes in the presence of extreme cold, such as is found at intersteller places.
think about it.
if time is slower in a gravity well, and within great speeds and in the presence of 0 degrees Kelvin, what makes us think we can even measure the constant at all? our measurement is skewed. therefore, the universe may be quite different in size and shape than we can observe here on earth or in local earth orbit. we may never know the true shape of the universe or be able to observe its conents until we get well outside of the ortt cloud, imo.
anyone ever do any research on this idea?
i know i am late to the party here, but email me if you know anything about this, please.
or start up another slashdot blog about it.
thanks
roger born roger@borngraphics.com 'time flies like an arrow. fruit flies like a banana'
last month scientists proved that they were wrongly using newtonian physics to measure the amount of matter in the universe, but when they changed their equations to einsteinian physics, there was no need of any dark matter to make up 'lost' matter in the universe. as einstein said, 'everything is just-as-it-is.
if all that is true, why does anyone need dark matter to 'prove' the cosmological constant?
regards, roger born "always drink upstream from the herd."
not going with paper copies means that you are going to be dependent on some digital media. but it is not just the digital media that you will need. you will also need the full computer system, including the current OS to faithfully restore your data decades from now. just having some hard drives around is not a viable solution. without the computer system and software to redigitize your data into a newer format or media, you will need the whole setup. witness countless companies who have old data on old disks that no one can read on today's equipment.
better stick with paper and video tape for the long term.
all photos and stills from videos are much longer lasting on acid free paper for archiving. they can always be scanned into digital format again.
betamax video tape or laser discs are also better for long term video archiving than the CD/DVD medium. ditto on the reinsertion into digital format when necessary.
all this is old school, low tech, but your chances of keeping your photos and footage are much better than going with current digital media.
regards, roger born writing.borngraphics.com Always drink upstream from the herd.
No. I don't have a kit to hook it to the Chebby transmission?
What?
No, none of the wires and hoses hooks up so well.
Its all up on blocks right now, you see.
But in a few days, I gonna have somethin' HOT!
(so by definition, OS X is on sumbudddy's X86, with-out drivers, software, fonts, etc., etc. - Big Whoop there! at least they can look at the startup screen, right?)
the essential paradigm of my website is information, and all of that is in text, so hopefully anyone on the planet can access it. loband confirms this.
thank you for the heads up on this concept.
regards, roger born writer, teacher, general troublemaker. "time flies like an arrow. fruit flies like a banana"
Slashdot Mirror
But he is going to do it under a pseudonymn, since he works for Apple,
and has designed all the Macintosh and iPod devices.
His super-secret pseudonymn will be ROGER BORN.
He will also use the following addy -
*** ****** ***
Ridgecrest CA 93555
(that's where they can mail the prize money)
Regards,
The third, and by far the most excellent device is the TIVO.
Get a life on Friday night, and watch yer shows on Saturday morning
instead of cartoons.
TIVO is great for instant replays, rewinding to see what you missed,
pausing while getting more pizza and beer, and FF through commershes.
All on a fast Hard Drive with live Cable TV.
Regards,
Roger
"You already have zero privacy. Get over it."
Remember, they cancelled BABYLON 5 first, and killed CRUSADE outright, without an ending.
Regards,
Roger
"Always drink upstream from the herd."
"Arrgh!!! Now what am I to do on Friday nights?!?!?!?!?"
How about NCIS on CBS Friday nights.
Excellent series.
Regards,
Roger Born
"Time Flies like an arrow. Fruit Flies like a banana"
This is not to say that SG-1 had a terrific run.
And I (we) should thank RDA and cast for all that.
And thanks in advance for that great TIME TRAVEL
FIX for winding up the series. (you heard it
here first)
Regards,
Roger Born
"Sorry. No Refunds"
The tenth season will more than likely end up redoing time
in order to kill off the vampirish humans in the Pegasus
galaxy, who interbred with monster life-sucking spiders.
Send a team back in time to right before this happens and
nuke the spider planet - bad guys gone. Back in the Present,
just a happy, peaceful galaxy.
Do the same with the ORI, those ascended soul-sucking
beings invading our own Milky Way galaxy. Sic Daniel
Jackson on them, right before they all ascend, to straighten
out their greedy tendencies.
So the final season of SG-1 is about time. And its about
time they did this - I mean, how many times you want to
climb through that ORIFACE?
The only fun we have any more with Stargate, or Atlantis,
for that matter, is their self-parody 200th episode.
I guess I gave up watching SG-1 after they killed off all
the Gou'alds. The ORI just stink as bad guys. Reminds
me of some old teacher I had growing up, trying to bind all
those semi-moral rules on all of us already decent kids....
No fun there any more.
"These are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others."
You're in the Army. You're in the field under fire. You have a hardened Army laptop. You are sending and receiving
vital messages back and forth with another unit directing fire around your position. Your laptop doesn't have any
software or files on it that are personal to you. Not your music. Not your games, etc. What is has is a trusted and
fool-proof means of getting and receiving messages that you can trust with your life and the lives of your unit.
Therefore, you trust the info on your Army issued laptop. You know that no foreign agent or enemy
can break in and send info to you or anyone else in the system, pretending to be someone you trust.
If your unit is overrun and you lose your laptop, anyone trying to use it without authentication or by hacking,
will cause the laptop to self-destruct.
It is the Army who owns the computer. They own the software. They own the system. They own the TMP.
What everyone has been trying to do here is to apply TMP to their onw personal consumer/business computer.
These are two separate and definitive worlds of computing operation. The only thing similar in our
world is trusting who the person is you are communicating with, as being who they say they are, and not
someone else pretending to be that person, in Chat or Email. But that is completely different (and minor)
level of trust than what the Army is looking for, isn't it?
"You already have zero privacy. Get over it."
Its called a M.A.C. (Built by Apple Computer Corp.)
Nuff said.
Roger
"If the world were a logical place, wouldn't men be the ones who ride sidesaddle?"
We will need all the computing power we can get, and on ultraportable units.
If for nothing else, for Voice-To_Text applications.
How else are we going to get on-the-fly live CAPTIONING of conversations
around us, writting on microflexible displays on the bottoms of the lenses of
our glasses? (Yeah, it would take a Bluetooth pocket unit...)
Considering that over 45% of the adult male population of this country
no longer has adequate hearing for conversations, phones and other
forms of verbal communications, we need this kind of computing power
on a single chip.
Regards,
"I don't feel old. I don't feel anything until noon. Then it's time for my nap."
This Chris Walken method interests. But Apple would have to come up with a (much) smaller and rounder iPod (aPod?).
And as for the white earbuds, I don't think they would reach... So perhaps a set of Bluetooth headphones, or even in-the-ear hearing aid type earbuds would eliminate that teletale white cord coming from your rectum.
I guess any mugger, seeing where the white cord was coming from, would likely make a face and just leave in disgust.
If your cell phone was small enough, you could store that in there too, but again, you would need a hands-free headset, right? I imagine, with a bit of practice, you could learn to manipulate your colon to do the dialing as well.
But I am sure I would still walk funny, going down the street, regardless, let alone dance . . . sorry. Perhaps Chris has a hardened rectum, to be able to dance so well with that equipment stowed away...
Me? I would employ two hulking, armed bodyguards to walk with me. Or stay out of England altogther.
Cheers,
Roger Born
"These are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others."
FINAL NOTICE
THIS IS YOUR FINAL BILL FROM INTERGALATIC EDISON
PLEASE PAY
$100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.29
FOR THE VACUUM PACKAGED ENERGY WE PROVIDED FOR YOU OVER THE PAST 100,000 YEARS
FAILURE TO PAY THIS BILL MAY RESULT IN YOUR SUN BEING TURNED OFF FOR NON PAYMENT
REGARDS,
INTERGALACTIC EDISON
A BIG BANG COMPANY
ITS TRUE!
APPLE JUST ANNOUNCED THEIR NEW IPOD VIDEO FOR APRIL FIRST
SAMSUNG is going to build it.
It has the SAME SPECIFICATIONS AS THE SAMSUNG UMPC!
the new ipod video device is actually the exact same samsung model of the new microsoft origami UMPC.
consternation is reigning in redmond over this fiasco.
the new ipod will not use windows for tablet software, and thusly, will have an eight hour battery life, due to using better batteries and more intelligent software. prices are very different, with the redmond device going for 8 big ones and the ipod for 5 hundred.
samsung scored a real coup here, selling the same device to both microsoft and apple without either of them knowing about it.
you heard it here first.
april first will really be april first this year.
regards,
roger born
"Sorry. No refunds."
Hey Billy!
Great analysis here.
Actually, I wish Apple would come out with the ITEM all of us seem to want - something to surf with, answer emails, and watch our media.
My idea is something between the iPod and the iBook - 9" IMOS wide screen (16x9), super thin clamshell, with a 55 key full sized keyboard. It won't need drives if it has enough flash memory, thereby giving it excellent battery life. let it download via USB2 and/or Bluetooth, with WiFi on board, and I think you have the device we all wish ORIGAMI was (and isn't).
Such a device would be so popular that clothing manufacturers would invent clothes and jackets to carry this thing in, IMO.
Regards,
Roger Born
"Always drink upstream from the herd"
PFI Optix!
;-)
Excellent point about the pre-Jobs OS 8 at Apple.
Actually, since Jobs "The Creator" came back, most everything i pointed out is more fact than poppa-ganda.
But, who sez Apple computers cost more than PCs do? Hasn't been true for a while now. Check out the mini, or the iBook. And where could you get such software functionality in any PC at any price?
=)
Best regards,
Roger Poppa-ganda Born
"Who sponsors your feelings?"
There is a difinitive difference between the design paradigms of Apple Computers and Microsoft Window devices, and it affects everything you do with computers. The development of ORIGAMI proves this.
.Mac, iPhoto, iDVD, iTunes, GarageBand, iWeb, iDisk, etc., etc.
"Microsoft hopes the computer makers will make great UMPCs for the market." - B. Gates
"Let the market drive the design of these devices" - B. Gates
Do you see the evolution here? Let the market drive the improvements. Hands off the suppliers of these devices. Let them follow whatever pattern works. (Maybe they will get lucky...)
But it is the customer who suffers, right? People buy the newest things running Windows. What do they get? Beta devices. Buggy. Feature poor. Scant battery life. Rotten interface. Such a great way to build a world-class device that everyone desires, isn't it?
Now look at Intelligent Design in consumer computing. Look at anything made by Apple.
Most likely, you will find that any product made by Apple is of excellent design right out of the box. There is no throwing of the standards out to the market and hoping something intelligent immerges. Apple takes control of the hardware design themselves, and it is not released to the consumer until it is perfect, and with an intuitive human interface that work flawlessly. And what the consumer gets are jewel-like Nanos, glittering iPods, and awesome, elegant iMacs, MacBook Pros and Towers. Things anyone would be pleased to carry or place in their homes of offices.
Besides this, there is no hopeful evolution of Apple's software either. Instead, the software adds real value to the excellent hardware, and most of it is absolutely free. And if it is not free, it is well worth investing in, for the small amount that it costs. Nobody has software like Apple's software - Tiger OS X, iLife,
Apple computers and iPods reflect intelligence in their design of both the hardware and software.
Let's just say, that in comparison to all the Windows devices out there, it is like the difference between a man and a monkey.
So, why choose chancy evolution in your computing over intelligent design?
Don't monkey around. Get a Mac. It is the intelligent choice.
Regards,
Roger Born
"Sorry. No Refunds"
RIM caved to NTP?!!
That's like Patton surrendering to the Germans when they were kickin their asses!
NTP's patents were bogus to begin with. They had no product.
RIM was winning in court.
Whoever it was who made this decision, FIRE 'EM!
Now anybody with a worthless patent will try harder to sue legitimate businesses.
RATS!
Regards,
Roger Born
"Sorry. No Refunds."
Jobs will soon run and own Disney, and then make it a subsidiary of Apple.
Just wait and see.
Jobs already did this with Apple, selling them Next, didn't he?
Whose OS does Apple use now? Who runs and owns Apple now?
Regards,
Roger Born
rogerborn.com
"Sorry, No Refunds"
the inherent problem with trying to measure the cosmological constant is that we are standing in a gravity well. if we could get outside of the gravity well of the solar system, we might find that time and space has a different constant. after all, time and the appearance of speed SLOW DOWN in a gravity well, as it also changes when observed at relativistic speeds. it probably also changes in the presence of extreme cold, such as is found at intersteller places.
think about it.
if time is slower in a gravity well, and within great speeds and in the presence of 0 degrees Kelvin, what makes us think we can even measure the constant at all? our measurement is skewed. therefore, the universe may be quite different in size and shape than we can observe here on earth or in local earth orbit. we may never know the true shape of the universe or be able to observe its conents until we get well outside of the ortt cloud, imo.
anyone ever do any research on this idea?
i know i am late to the party here, but email me if you know anything about this, please.
or start up another slashdot blog about it.
thanks
roger born
roger@borngraphics.com
'time flies like an arrow. fruit flies like a banana'
I hate that problem !
Isn't there a medical solution for these things?
Do astronomers have more of these than the rest of us?
Or do physicists and mathematicians also suffer from it?
Gads, even Einstein had the problem.
what's up with this?
last month scientists proved that they were wrongly using newtonian physics to measure the amount of matter in the universe, but when they changed their equations to einsteinian physics, there was no need of any dark matter to make up 'lost' matter in the universe. as einstein said, 'everything is just-as-it-is.
if all that is true, why does anyone need dark matter to 'prove' the cosmological constant?
regards,
roger born
"always drink upstream from the herd."
not going with paper copies means that you are going to be dependent on some digital media. but it is not just the digital media that you will need. you will also need the full computer system, including the current OS to faithfully restore your data decades from now. just having some hard drives around is not a viable solution. without the computer system and software to redigitize your data into a newer format or media, you will need the whole setup. witness countless companies who have old data on old disks that no one can read on today's equipment.
better stick with paper and video tape for the long term.
no kidding.
all photos and stills from videos are much longer lasting on acid free paper for archiving. they can always be scanned into digital format again.
betamax video tape or laser discs are also better for long term video archiving than the CD/DVD medium. ditto on the reinsertion into digital format when necessary.
all this is old school, low tech, but your chances of keeping your photos and footage are much better than going with current digital media.
regards,
roger born
writing.borngraphics.com
Always drink upstream from the herd.
Flamebait???
You called it Flamebait?
Wuz supposed to be funny.
gotta picture all these guys out there trying ta get OS X ta werk onna their old PCs...
rogerborn
borngraphics.com/writing
"time flies like an arrow. fruit flies like a banana"
How fast will it be? How cool? Huh?
What?
No. I don't have a kit to hook it to the Chebby transmission?
What?
No, none of the wires and hoses hooks up so well.
Its all up on blocks right now, you see.
But in a few days, I gonna have somethin' HOT!
(so by definition, OS X is on sumbudddy's X86, with-out drivers, software, fonts, etc., etc. - Big Whoop there! at least they can look at the startup screen, right?)
here is the link to my main website, as seen through loband.
3 A% 2F%2Fwriting.borngraphics.com&_ab_request=Go
since my page is text only, but with highly developed tables and color sets, you might not think of it as text only.
in fact, my page in loband looks so good, i might just abandon all the table colors.
http://www.loband.org/loband/page?_ab_url=http%
here is the page as normally seen.
http://writing.borngraphics.com
the essential paradigm of my website is information, and all of that is in text, so hopefully anyone on the planet can access it. loband confirms this.
thank you for the heads up on this concept.
regards,
roger born
writer, teacher, general troublemaker.
"time flies like an arrow. fruit flies like a banana"