I stopped buying most games since they're no fun and too problematic.
EA Games screws up games by adding DRM and multi-player only. They only hurt the consumer and unscrupulous geniuses figure out ways around them.
I miss the good old days when you could just install, click, and play. You could reimage your PC without having to worry about weird licensing and DRM.
--- Prime example, look how they screwed up Command and Conquer 4. I uninstalled it and still play 3.
A few Symantec products such as Norton Internet Security suite have this issue as well.
Real world example:
Hardware DRM doesn’t work for MacOS users running Parallels. In the Mac OS, Parallels can “temporally” virtualize the natively installed Windows (a.k.a. BootCamp) partition.
A benefit of virtualizing hardware in this manner is faster disk access for Windows. The MacOS BIOS switches to legacy mode (133Mb/s hard drive access) when booted natively into a non-MacOS environment, rather than (3Gb/s drive access).
Innovation is being stifled by hardware DRM. My advice is to not limit yourself and avoid all software with hardware DRM.
It should be interesting to see how this affects the field of plastic surgery and people with forms of osteoporosis (bone loss). Although, I could foresee a potential misuse of this technology by body modification artists. Just what we need, people growing horns on their heads.
1. The refinery on the moon will work be nuclear for most power, use solar lenses (as a magnifying glass) and the moons little gravity to sort out materials. Such as oxygen/hydrogen for fuel from the moon to the space station.
2. Use a robot asteroid grabber to grab the really juicy looking asteroids to haul it back to the moon for mining.
3.Next have the shipment sent from the moon to the orbiting space station, so the orbital station can obtain water/fuel/etc.
4. Have the shipment dropped from orbit (with a rather large parachute or with materials built from the factory on the moon have a large glider built).
5. An high flying/low orbital airplane carrier with pick up the shipment and drop it off all nice and neat to the factory.
Very few humans would have to be in space for this, only for maintenance and repairs.
Ok, first of all doing brain transplants would open up a Pandora's box of problems.
Ex: Ethics issues...
Military: Alright, we can send some excellent spies in by kidnapping the body and putting our agents brain in there.
Criminals: Hey man, got this nice looking body for you. I just smashed his brains in a while ago.
Religious: Ok, now where is that soul located....Your all going to go to hell!!!
TG community response: Woo hoo!! Religious response. Your all going to hell!!!
Medical issues aka problems... would be that though you're a 70 year old in the body of a 18 year old your brain is still 70. You have corroded arties in the brain. Therefore you'll only live for so long. One night on the town with some college students would probably cause a stroke.
Yes, there was animal testing in the 60's and 70's with brain transplants....Only problem was the animals died shortly after.
People with transplants of any kind usually have to take large doses of drugs to counteract rejection because the foreign tissue in their system and most of the time it leads to the inevitable rejection anyway.
Ok, now we solve the problem with cloning. Now the ethics nuts would probably say, that's immoral. Well, it probably would be, if you consider this: Currently we cannot do a full body adult clone now.
Step 1: So we pay some women from ex, a low paying country to conceive a clone. Lab kids in completely artificial wombs are not possible yet.
Step 2: You must raise the clone in some sort of environment other than just sitting brain dead non-mobile in a lab all day or the muscles would atrophy. I suppose constant shock treatment would work, although would you want a body that would take you 10 years to get into shape, that may alright have cancer from 18 years of exposure to shock treatment. Then you could have that lovely nervous twitch in your new body J
Step 3: Find a Doctor nutty enough to do the operation.
Oh yeah for those TG people up there, just add or subtract a chromosome on a close....Easy as pie...heh heh
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I stopped buying most games since they're no fun and too problematic.
EA Games screws up games by adding DRM and multi-player only. They only hurt the consumer and unscrupulous geniuses figure out ways around them.
I miss the good old days when you could just install, click, and play. You could reimage your PC without having to worry about weird licensing and DRM.
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Prime example, look how they screwed up Command and Conquer 4. I uninstalled it and still play 3.
A few Symantec products such as Norton Internet Security suite have this issue as well. Real world example: Hardware DRM doesn’t work for MacOS users running Parallels. In the Mac OS, Parallels can “temporally” virtualize the natively installed Windows (a.k.a. BootCamp) partition. A benefit of virtualizing hardware in this manner is faster disk access for Windows. The MacOS BIOS switches to legacy mode (133Mb/s hard drive access) when booted natively into a non-MacOS environment, rather than (3Gb/s drive access). Innovation is being stifled by hardware DRM. My advice is to not limit yourself and avoid all software with hardware DRM.
It should be interesting to see how this affects the field of plastic surgery and people with forms of osteoporosis (bone loss). Although, I could foresee a potential misuse of this technology by body modification artists. Just what we need, people growing horns on their heads.
Not a bad idea, but perhaps do this:
1. The refinery on the moon will work be nuclear for most power, use solar lenses (as a magnifying glass) and the moons little gravity to sort out materials. Such as oxygen/hydrogen for fuel from the moon to the space station.
2. Use a robot asteroid grabber to grab the really juicy looking asteroids to haul it back to the moon for mining.
3.Next have the shipment sent from the moon to the orbiting space station, so the orbital station can obtain water/fuel/etc.
4. Have the shipment dropped from orbit (with a rather large parachute or with materials built from the factory on the moon have a large glider built).
5. An high flying/low orbital airplane carrier with pick up the shipment and drop it off all nice and neat to the factory.
Very few humans would have to be in space for this, only for maintenance and repairs.
This looks exactly like the prototype I saw on TV several years ago. So whats new and fantastic about this new one? Does he break dance down?
Ok, first of all doing brain transplants would open up a Pandora's box of problems. Ex: Ethics issues... Military: Alright, we can send some excellent spies in by kidnapping the body and putting our agents brain in there. Criminals: Hey man, got this nice looking body for you. I just smashed his brains in a while ago. Religious: Ok, now where is that soul located....Your all going to go to hell!!! TG community response: Woo hoo!! Religious response. Your all going to hell!!! Medical issues aka problems... would be that though you're a 70 year old in the body of a 18 year old your brain is still 70. You have corroded arties in the brain. Therefore you'll only live for so long. One night on the town with some college students would probably cause a stroke. Yes, there was animal testing in the 60's and 70's with brain transplants....Only problem was the animals died shortly after. People with transplants of any kind usually have to take large doses of drugs to counteract rejection because the foreign tissue in their system and most of the time it leads to the inevitable rejection anyway. Ok, now we solve the problem with cloning. Now the ethics nuts would probably say, that's immoral. Well, it probably would be, if you consider this: Currently we cannot do a full body adult clone now. Step 1: So we pay some women from ex, a low paying country to conceive a clone. Lab kids in completely artificial wombs are not possible yet. Step 2: You must raise the clone in some sort of environment other than just sitting brain dead non-mobile in a lab all day or the muscles would atrophy. I suppose constant shock treatment would work, although would you want a body that would take you 10 years to get into shape, that may alright have cancer from 18 years of exposure to shock treatment. Then you could have that lovely nervous twitch in your new body J Step 3: Find a Doctor nutty enough to do the operation. Oh yeah for those TG people up there, just add or subtract a chromosome on a close....Easy as pie...heh heh