I remember reading somewhere that Salt Caverns, being almost hermetically sealed could be used to store radioactive materials. Although it's not the best monument, I doubt that a monument is something that could be used to really store something. Rather, have the monument marking the place.
This is all well and great if you have the money to afford something like this. IN a lot of our cases, we have 1.2 ghz athlons, and we like them just fine. Having more speed is great. The only thing being that if you spent so much on a cpu and mobo that you can't afford the power it runs on, then you have a problem.
Not to put it down, but I'm going to wait for it until it comes down to like, oh, under 400 dollars a unit. Then it will be 'affordable'.
IBM has always made great harddrives. They were the first to use glass substrates, and their drives are the only ones I trust. They're not too exspensive, and they hold up to anything. I've dropped one a few times with no ill effects.
However, with 'pixie dust', I can imagine that there is a small chance that the 'pixie dust just might fall off in on of these situations. Better be careful.
Yeah, the XBox Is pretty sweet. And unlike Sony, Microsoft will be making the Developer's Kit's Avaliable to common people. I plan on writing an mp3 player that uses the directX controls to do some really killer vis.
Even if they can get these tubes to grow to 47,000km, what is going to lift the people up? I mean, think about it, 47,000km is a long distance for an elevator. Cables aren't going to cut it, and if your lucky, your might be able to do it with magnets. But really, what is going to make this work? At least what will make it work in my lifetime?
I find it interesting that someone finds this to be such a big deal, really. The project is cool and all, but if you think about it, this is really just smart play for them. I think it's not so much that someone 'plans' to enter dirty words, it 's rather that the system might not speechrender something properly, and it could come out as 'fuck' or worse, goat.... nevermind.
Anyways, the thing is that it's like TV. They don't want it that something this widely used might have obscenities. There is enough parents that would raise hell over something as small as that, and likely, they just don't want to deal with it. That's all.
It's not the cost of the cable, but rather the cost of digging up the ground, laying the cable, and then filling it back in. Not to mention the redtape and permits. People don't want the sidewalk in front of their apartment getting dug up.
If you don't have problems with bugs and slow load times, free content does exsist.
Be it pron, opensource, other things, itdoes exsist.
I play in a few M:eT Larps and I had some cards made for my char at VistaPrint for free, I think it comes under the 'Show em what you've got, and they might buy more" model.
Well put, although my experience with government has proven that only vast amounts of money affect them, and that they will often ignore the very people that elect them.
Because, unlike software, and even hardware, lines and the property they run on cannot be moved over to something instead of the monopoly. That's a scary thought, considering that if it is the fault of the govt, that they'll be stubborn to say 'We were wrong'
In short, write your representative about this, make sure that they know that this is something that you don't want. Or at least that I don't want.
Now they can design and make chips even faster. Now they can make even more powerful chips.
If they, 'they' being major chip manufacturers are to make chips go through even faster, that high end gaming rig you bought last month just might be able to keep up with the chip released this month.
Don't get me wrong, I like the fact that hardware can be developed faster. It's just that as things are, my 'gaming rig' is a duron850 with a 16 meg video card. Nothing high end, but it runs sweet and stable. Despite being a windows box.
Anyways, I just want to know, how fast exactly will the chips be going? And will it shatter Moore's law into oblivion?
Actually, I meant it as a possible abuse of a legal use that might be implemented into techno use. Please forgive my schizo. It tends to lead me in directions that people don't understand.
Although I wouldn't mind working a day or so for AOL tech support.
"Sir, I've found the problem. You need to turn your computer ON. So, boot it up. No sir, please, stop kicking it...."
Irf the (o) is in the filename, then I could see potential abuse in this, say, putting (o) in all if the filenames of mp3's that you want to trade. Although this would take some time to manually, if someone wrote a script to do it, I can imagine it being abused.
Kind of like AIMster using pig latin in napster, although I much prefer napigator.
The idea is cool, akin to the GPL or GNU, but at first glance, I can see some problems arosing from it. BUt mabye that;s just my corprate mind at work. Or manbye it's the paranoia. Either or.
Delays in producing the new handsets mean that most consumers across Europe are unlikely to get the new service before 2003.
So in otherwords, flying cars? Call me impatient, but I've seen bigger and smaller ventures fall much faster then three years. Although this does remind me of a book by Randy Rucker, Freeware (or wetware or software, depending on which one you ppick up) where the 'uuvy' allowed you to contact someone with video and voice. Although without proper marketing, this could fall into abyss, like the first gen vid-phones.
I hope they planned around the incompatibiltys that plauged the first vid-phones, as it would be a shame for these to go down the drain.
You know what, I have absolutely no freaking idea where It came from, I just knew that I had it. Keep in mind, I was all of four. So my memorys are clouded, at best.
I mean, if they wanted a way to determine if a webpage has been updated or not, it should be labeled in the document. And if it's not, then it probably doesn't matter, or the content is no good anyways.
if you take into consideration that until recently, 60ns RAM was considered something that could be used without the end user griping. Of course, end users will always find something to gripe about. But then again, it's not a bug, it's a feature. Security, yea, that's the ticket....
Back to the switch. I read about this in this month's wired, and it's pretty cool, but I need to know.... evem though they're trying to get rid of the bottlenecks, how long till this kind of thing is "profitable" enough for say, my broadband providederto be giving be an extra megabit of bandwidth? Hmmm?
(Yes, I am a spoiled teenager)
(But Yes, I did start with a 200bps modem. So don't tell me that in your day....I played Tic Tac Toe at a godly 4fps.)
No kidding. I cannot count the number of times that I've told them that they shouldn't put me in anything that even resembles a 'tell your freinds' box, and they just go and do it anyways.
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I remember reading somewhere that Salt Caverns, being almost hermetically sealed could be used to store radioactive materials. Although it's not the best monument, I doubt that a monument is something that could be used to really store something. Rather, have the monument marking the place.
Not to put it down, but I'm going to wait for it until it comes down to like, oh, under 400 dollars a unit. Then it will be 'affordable'.
However, with 'pixie dust', I can imagine that there is a small chance that the 'pixie dust just might fall off in on of these situations. Better be careful.
Yeah, the XBox Is pretty sweet. And unlike Sony, Microsoft will be making the Developer's Kit's Avaliable to common people. I plan on writing an mp3 player that uses the directX controls to do some really killer vis.
Even if they can get these tubes to grow to 47,000km, what is going to lift the people up? I mean, think about it, 47,000km is a long distance for an elevator. Cables aren't going to cut it, and if your lucky, your might be able to do it with magnets. But really, what is going to make this work? At least what will make it work in my lifetime?
Anyways, the thing is that it's like TV. They don't want it that something this widely used might have obscenities. There is enough parents that would raise hell over something as small as that, and likely, they just don't want to deal with it. That's all.
The thing being, though, that there is an INCREDIBLE Amount of bandwidth in fiber-op.
It's not the cost of the cable, but rather the cost of digging up the ground, laying the cable, and then filling it back in. Not to mention the redtape and permits. People don't want the sidewalk in front of their apartment getting dug up.
"do you have a distrubited network applications class?"
Or advanced finite method elements?
What about perl?
Oddly, none of them could answer.
Although I do enjoy java. My stepdad works for HiddenMind, and they do some really cool stuff with java.
I have a level 60 monk on Everquest
And a 90 rogue in Nexus:tk\
But I'm not addicted.
I can quit whenever I want. Alhough I don't try. because I don't want to.
If you don't have problems with bugs and slow load times, free content does exsist. Be it pron, opensource, other things, itdoes exsist. I play in a few M:eT Larps and I had some cards made for my char at VistaPrint for free, I think it comes under the 'Show em what you've got, and they might buy more" model.
Well put, although my experience with government has proven that only vast amounts of money affect them, and that they will often ignore the very people that elect them.
Because, unlike software, and even hardware, lines and the property they run on cannot be moved over to something instead of the monopoly. That's a scary thought, considering that if it is the fault of the govt, that they'll be stubborn to say 'We were wrong'
In short, write your representative about this, make sure that they know that this is something that you don't want. Or at least that I don't want.
Now they can design and make chips even faster. Now they can make even more powerful chips.
If they, 'they' being major chip manufacturers are to make chips go through even faster, that high end gaming rig you bought last month just might be able to keep up with the chip released this month.
Don't get me wrong, I like the fact that hardware can be developed faster. It's just that as things are, my 'gaming rig' is a duron850 with a 16 meg video card. Nothing high end, but it runs sweet and stable. Despite being a windows box.
Anyways, I just want to know, how fast exactly will the chips be going? And will it shatter Moore's law into oblivion?
Although I wouldn't mind working a day or so for AOL tech support.
"Sir, I've found the problem. You need to turn your computer ON. So, boot it up. No sir, please, stop kicking it...."
Ok, so that is a damning thing....
Kind of like AIMster using pig latin in napster, although I much prefer napigator.
The idea is cool, akin to the GPL or GNU, but at first glance, I can see some problems arosing from it. BUt mabye that;s just my corprate mind at work. Or manbye it's the paranoia. Either or.
Delays in producing the new handsets mean that most consumers across Europe are unlikely to get the new service before 2003.
So in otherwords, flying cars? Call me impatient, but I've seen bigger and smaller ventures fall much faster then three years. Although this does remind me of a book by Randy Rucker, Freeware (or wetware or software, depending on which one you ppick up) where the 'uuvy' allowed you to contact someone with video and voice. Although without proper marketing, this could fall into abyss, like the first gen vid-phones.
I hope they planned around the incompatibiltys that plauged the first vid-phones, as it would be a shame for these to go down the drain.
You know what, I have absolutely no freaking idea where It came from, I just knew that I had it. Keep in mind, I was all of four. So my memorys are clouded, at best.
I mean, if they wanted a way to determine if a webpage has been updated or not, it should be labeled in the document. And if it's not, then it probably doesn't matter, or the content is no good anyways.
Just my four cents (Adjusted for inflation)
Back to the switch. I read about this in this month's wired, and it's pretty cool, but I need to know.... evem though they're trying to get rid of the bottlenecks, how long till this kind of thing is "profitable" enough for say, my broadband providederto be giving be an extra megabit of bandwidth? Hmmm?
(Yes, I am a spoiled teenager)
(But Yes, I did start with a 200bps modem. So don't tell me that in your day....I played Tic Tac Toe at a godly 4fps.)
That we have no individula thought...
That we would all do the same things...
Read slashdot....
Drink caffeine
Phew... we created linux. We wouldn't have ever gone againstthe grand windows if we were AI.
And from this moment on, I hereby copyright all of my failure under the new simplyfyed copyright laws.
So bah.
And should this post be modded down -don't- I copyright that too.
IN FACT, ALL YOUT FAILURE IS BELONG TO ME.
No kidding. I cannot count the number of times that I've told them that they shouldn't put me in anything that even resembles a 'tell your freinds' box, and they just go and do it anyways.
Although someone wouldn't feel good with cool tubs running over their head... Mm... frosty hair.
Which is a common occurene where I live. (take a shower, go outside)
Ran an article that had a similar title a while back. You can read it Here