screw microsoft, screw the RIAA - napster should just sell itself to anyone outside north america and then there is nothing that could be done. the RIAA would only be able to throw a hissy fit becuase they were finally out smarted. after all, the creator of napster was never in it for the money.
where i live, all the local internet companies are struggling to stay alive. With the high speed internet being offered by DSL and CABLE, the only reason the little guys have held on was because they had been around for a while and built up a fairly large customer group based on their dial in access. Now with the big compaines moving in to sell the high speed, the only thing the little guys can do is re-sell the big companies services. And it just dosn't seem to be working out right now. The one thing that the little guys are starting to look into is the wireless technology. That seems to be their only way out of this situation. But they still dont know how its going to turn out. Ah well... i guess what im trying to say is don't bother with it.
This is a summary of all the dot.com stories this guy has read. It dosn't mean that this particular sotry is true. After all, with the ecomony just plain sucking right now, and most of the dot.com businesses going under, this was just representing what most people want to do with e-commerse. Big expectations, going to make huge money on a product that nobody knows abour and a product that nobody really needs but your too fooslish to realize it, work with only people you know and like, and comming up with the most unorthodox methods of running your businees because they suit your needs of work monday & tuesday, and jerk off wednesday to sunday. Finaly realizing that your business if doomed becuase you had no idea what you were getting into, until it was far to late. (final plunge out the window onto the limo you leased at far too much of a price - because it looked good outside of your business)
Napster were to sell out to these people, then what could the RIAA do about it. They wouldn't be able to enforce any type of "filtering" on them. Ah well, just an idea...
i read an article somewhere that said the average person that worked at a full time job, if you add up the smoke breaks, snack breaks, gossip, chit chat, talking on the phone (unless thats your job), and just plain slacking off. You would get about 2-4 hours of "work related" stuff done. After all, how many of us/. people are at work right now reading this post and gettign paid for it. I'll see if i can dig up the article and post it.
have a small portable device with a holographic projector so we wouldn't need to worry about any type of small display. Now to get some type of voice recognition software built into it would eliminate the need for keyboards or any type of input tablet. Now that would be one of the better items to get. Oh wait... wer're not in the 23rd century yet... damn the timeline.... damn the timeline!!
they are going to try and get ISP's to start searching their users e-mail messages for MP3's and filter them out. Why dont they just come out and say, 'hey everybody, no more sending encrypted messages with file attachments to anyone ever again'.
if you don't use any company resources to write your software, and it is in no way associated with the bussiness you currently work for, then how can the even begin to claim rights to it?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but writting software when your employed by someone does not grant them any right to the software you're developing. Unless of course you have been contracted by that company to create that software. Thats the only time you can get into copyright issues. Besides, if you were to only write software when you were unemployed, how could you afford to do it in the first place. --- going by your first piece of advice, does this mean McDonald's has the rights to the many database programs i've written for any given business that has contracted me to do so... i don't think so.
i quickly skimmed over the story link and it seems that they are trying to develop a method of making a bio-computer (so to speak). -- " 1. Scalable DNA Computing
2. Compact, content addressable storage
3. Programmable, self-assembled 2-D and 3-D DNA nano-structures
4. Implementing computational elements and circuits that use in-vitro transcription and/or translation, and application demonstrations
5. Other related ideas with revolutionary promise" -- and not only a computer but an atrifically intelligent one at that -- "Second, the program aims to develop computational models, techniques, and tools, for in-silico analysis, capable of predicting cellular processes and their spatio-temporal behavior, which can also assist in developing control strategies. These include rapid prediction of the impact of external agents and environmental factors, and quick identification of targets and design of intervention mechanisms." -- now does this sound much like the human brain?
make four 9's (9 9 9 9) equal 100 -- you can do whatever you like to the four 9's, add, multiply, put them in any order you want, but you must use only the four 9's
was it just me or was the idea of fiber computers no good because of the length of the fiber inside the computer would be so short it wouldn't make any huge differances in how quickly the data would be transfered. over large distances (say several klicks or so) would be great because then it would actually be used to its fullest potential... or am i just way off track here... any ideas?
Well, one way they could get rid of some of the future space junk is to give them a life span... After x number of days, weeks, months, years, whatever... dump it into the atmosphere or shoot it off to the sun. I always thought it was pretty obvious that leaving something in space and simply forgetting about it after they have lost contact was just asking for trouble. But hey, its the governments decision to do what they want, and if they want future problems with all the man made crap left floating around in orbit, so be it.
come on people, we all know that AMD is faster then the Pentium chips, the only questoin is, how long until it burns out. We all know its going to happen, sooner or later it will die just like every other over clocked AMD processor out there.
Dont tell me everyone has forgotten about the good old days of Space Quest, Kings Quest, Police Quest or even the infamous Leasure Suit Larry series. Now those were great games because you had to interact with just about everything to get the full score at the end. Or you could skip over stuff and still get to the end. The part I liked the most was the story line behind them. I dont think i was ever disappointed with any of the games. Now it seems to be all FPS with blood and gore (dont get me wrong, I like half-life as much as the next guy, espically CS) but its getting repetitive. I say bring back the old style and get some more good quality games out there again.
Ok, so the scientists thought it would orignaly be around 100,000 genes, but who came up with that number... It was most likley based on some early experiments done on the human genome when they were just guessing at how many it could be. Leave it to the human race to jump to conclusions way too early, probably some over zealous scientist that wanted to be the one to calculate the number of genes. This just proves that they still dont know what the human genome does and there is a lot more work that needs to be done before they go making any other predictions.
Once software makers realize that they can start making loads of money by making people re-subscribe after 3, 6 or even 12 months, everyone will start doing it. Now the only problem that I have with these sort of products is they are making us pay to use a product that we have already paid for orignaly. So what is one to do about it. Who knows, write oodles and oodles of emails telling them to stop it, but thats about it. Someone will probably say to boycott the software packages, but that never works either becuase there are always people who must have it in order to run the business'. I guess this message is just more of a personal statement about that type of marketing, but like I said before, what can we do about it if they decide to take this route in marketing.
like i said, using vowels would be a little extream, but think about specific words. Like trade marking the word "future". would that grant me the right to take down all sites with the word future in it?
How about I go and register a domain name using only vowels for the name. Would that give me the right to have every site using vowels to be taken down? I guess that may be going a little extream but (at least I think) it has the same concept behind it. Any comments?
Aplying this material to our socks just may solve the age old mystery of -- "did the washing machine eat the left sock?":-) Anyways, I could think of a lot more usefuly applications than just socks. Think of the more practical uses like safty harnesses or suspension wires for bridges, support beams. But with all the good that this could do, there is also the bad. Once its introduced into warfare, once again the options are endless. Regenerating armor, bullet proof vests, heavy artillery that normally would require some sort of maintance after so many shots would be able to fire more and more vollies. I guess it would just be a toss up really. Wiegh the pros and cons and then decide if its worth persuing.
Dosn't the post office have to make sure the person the letter is addressed to actually gets the letter? Maybe im just babaling now, I think i'll go look up some of these laws before I start throwing ideas out there....
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screw microsoft, screw the RIAA - napster should just sell itself to anyone outside north america and then there is nothing that could be done. the RIAA would only be able to throw a hissy fit becuase they were finally out smarted. after all, the creator of napster was never in it for the money.
where i live, all the local internet companies are struggling to stay alive. With the high speed internet being offered by DSL and CABLE, the only reason the little guys have held on was because they had been around for a while and built up a fairly large customer group based on their dial in access. Now with the big compaines moving in to sell the high speed, the only thing the little guys can do is re-sell the big companies services. And it just dosn't seem to be working out right now. The one thing that the little guys are starting to look into is the wireless technology. That seems to be their only way out of this situation. But they still dont know how its going to turn out. Ah well... i guess what im trying to say is don't bother with it.
This is a summary of all the dot.com stories this guy has read. It dosn't mean that this particular sotry is true. After all, with the ecomony just plain sucking right now, and most of the dot.com businesses going under, this was just representing what most people want to do with e-commerse. Big expectations, going to make huge money on a product that nobody knows abour and a product that nobody really needs but your too fooslish to realize it, work with only people you know and like, and comming up with the most unorthodox methods of running your businees because they suit your needs of work monday & tuesday, and jerk off wednesday to sunday. Finaly realizing that your business if doomed becuase you had no idea what you were getting into, until it was far to late. (final plunge out the window onto the limo you leased at far too much of a price - because it looked good outside of your business)
Napster were to sell out to these people, then what could the RIAA do about it. They wouldn't be able to enforce any type of "filtering" on them. Ah well, just an idea...
i read an article somewhere that said the average person that worked at a full time job, if you add up the smoke breaks, snack breaks, gossip, chit chat, talking on the phone (unless thats your job), and just plain slacking off. You would get about 2-4 hours of "work related" stuff done. After all, how many of us /. people are at work right now reading this post and gettign paid for it. I'll see if i can dig up the article and post it.
have a small portable device with a holographic projector so we wouldn't need to worry about any type of small display. Now to get some type of voice recognition software built into it would eliminate the need for keyboards or any type of input tablet. Now that would be one of the better items to get. Oh wait... wer're not in the 23rd century yet... damn the timeline.... damn the timeline!!
they are going to try and get ISP's to start searching their users e-mail messages for MP3's and filter them out. Why dont they just come out and say, 'hey everybody, no more sending encrypted messages with file attachments to anyone ever again'.
what they didn't tell you, was that it was being replaced by a glue stick...
what about a saved game?
if you don't use any company resources to write your software, and it is in no way associated with the bussiness you currently work for, then how can the even begin to claim rights to it?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but writting software when your employed by someone does not grant them any right to the software you're developing. Unless of course you have been contracted by that company to create that software. Thats the only time you can get into copyright issues. Besides, if you were to only write software when you were unemployed, how could you afford to do it in the first place. --- going by your first piece of advice, does this mean McDonald's has the rights to the many database programs i've written for any given business that has contracted me to do so... i don't think so.
what kind of software support does it have? can't say i've used it much, so im just a little curious.
is it just me or does this sound like a glorified PDA?
i quickly skimmed over the story link and it seems that they are trying to develop a method of making a bio-computer (so to speak). -- " 1. Scalable DNA Computing 2. Compact, content addressable storage 3. Programmable, self-assembled 2-D and 3-D DNA nano-structures 4. Implementing computational elements and circuits that use in-vitro transcription and/or translation, and application demonstrations 5. Other related ideas with revolutionary promise" -- and not only a computer but an atrifically intelligent one at that -- "Second, the program aims to develop computational models, techniques, and tools, for in-silico analysis, capable of predicting cellular processes and their spatio-temporal behavior, which can also assist in developing control strategies. These include rapid prediction of the impact of external agents and environmental factors, and quick identification of targets and design of intervention mechanisms." -- now does this sound much like the human brain?
make four 9's (9 9 9 9) equal 100 -- you can do whatever you like to the four 9's, add, multiply, put them in any order you want, but you must use only the four 9's
was it just me or was the idea of fiber computers no good because of the length of the fiber inside the computer would be so short it wouldn't make any huge differances in how quickly the data would be transfered. over large distances (say several klicks or so) would be great because then it would actually be used to its fullest potential... or am i just way off track here... any ideas?
Well, one way they could get rid of some of the future space junk is to give them a life span... After x number of days, weeks, months, years, whatever... dump it into the atmosphere or shoot it off to the sun. I always thought it was pretty obvious that leaving something in space and simply forgetting about it after they have lost contact was just asking for trouble. But hey, its the governments decision to do what they want, and if they want future problems with all the man made crap left floating around in orbit, so be it.
come on people, we all know that AMD is faster then the Pentium chips, the only questoin is, how long until it burns out. We all know its going to happen, sooner or later it will die just like every other over clocked AMD processor out there.
Dont tell me everyone has forgotten about the good old days of Space Quest, Kings Quest, Police Quest or even the infamous Leasure Suit Larry series. Now those were great games because you had to interact with just about everything to get the full score at the end. Or you could skip over stuff and still get to the end. The part I liked the most was the story line behind them. I dont think i was ever disappointed with any of the games. Now it seems to be all FPS with blood and gore (dont get me wrong, I like half-life as much as the next guy, espically CS) but its getting repetitive. I say bring back the old style and get some more good quality games out there again.
Ok, so the scientists thought it would orignaly be around 100,000 genes, but who came up with that number... It was most likley based on some early experiments done on the human genome when they were just guessing at how many it could be. Leave it to the human race to jump to conclusions way too early, probably some over zealous scientist that wanted to be the one to calculate the number of genes. This just proves that they still dont know what the human genome does and there is a lot more work that needs to be done before they go making any other predictions.
Once software makers realize that they can start making loads of money by making people re-subscribe after 3, 6 or even 12 months, everyone will start doing it. Now the only problem that I have with these sort of products is they are making us pay to use a product that we have already paid for orignaly. So what is one to do about it. Who knows, write oodles and oodles of emails telling them to stop it, but thats about it. Someone will probably say to boycott the software packages, but that never works either becuase there are always people who must have it in order to run the business'. I guess this message is just more of a personal statement about that type of marketing, but like I said before, what can we do about it if they decide to take this route in marketing.
like i said, using vowels would be a little extream, but think about specific words. Like trade marking the word "future". would that grant me the right to take down all sites with the word future in it?
How about I go and register a domain name using only vowels for the name. Would that give me the right to have every site using vowels to be taken down? I guess that may be going a little extream but (at least I think) it has the same concept behind it. Any comments?
Aplying this material to our socks just may solve the age old mystery of -- "did the washing machine eat the left sock?" :-) Anyways, I could think of a lot more usefuly applications than just socks. Think of the more practical uses like safty harnesses or suspension wires for bridges, support beams. But with all the good that this could do, there is also the bad. Once its introduced into warfare, once again the options are endless. Regenerating armor, bullet proof vests, heavy artillery that normally would require some sort of maintance after so many shots would be able to fire more and more vollies. I guess it would just be a toss up really. Wiegh the pros and cons and then decide if its worth persuing.
Dosn't the post office have to make sure the person the letter is addressed to actually gets the letter? Maybe im just babaling now, I think i'll go look up some of these laws before I start throwing ideas out there....