Maybe metal punch cards with ASCII text will suffice. Make it out of something magnetic and you can include metadata:) Heck, have the first batch of cards show how to make a magnetic/optical reader. Something like vellum would work, but you'd have to take care of it. Wood pulp I wouldn't trust past 100 years, less if it gets hot and humid.
Other than maybe bitmaps, I can't think of any other data that I haven't had conversion problems or media problems at some point. But I've managed to keep plain text files for 30 years, moving them from punch cards to Apple to Amiga to DOS to Linux. I do have books going on 60, but only because they stay in a controlled environment, I don't expect them to last very long if civilization went to crap.
And I wouldn't exactly call Mayan unreadable, as new works are being written in Mayan today. Well, Eastern Branch Mayan, anyway.
That's the point! It looks like a CD drive, so the OS treats it like one, so you can autorun something on older machines(virus, antivirus, OS install discs). But you can make it go away and get a couple megs of storage back very easily. It isn't a seperate chunk of silicon, just a little trickery.
All the forklifts(the normal 2 tine, skid moving kind) at my company's warehouse are propane fueled. The picking lifts are all electric, though, but they only need to lift a person and maybe 100 lbs of inventory.
While I'd prefer no filtering by the government at all, I'd much rather prefer a filter that is clear about what it permits(public whitelist) than a filter that is unclear about what it denies(hidden blacklist).
Especially since a whitelist would be nearly impossible to maintain effectively and would piss off everyone much more than the blacklist would.
Insist that no filtering method be used unless it is blocks 100% of objectionable material:)
With audio, radio, etc, the rate of change is not so great and the desire to replace them is usually based on if a device has them at all.
Batteries and storage have reasons for more frequent replacements(both can be used/filled up, are easily expandable).
If I buy a device, I usually don't worry about having to replace the wireless with a dongle when the next version comes out or wanting to replace just the webcam, but I really like to swap batteries when their drained and swap storage when they fill up.
Storage may stop being a problem for mobile devices in the next decade, although Parkinson's law will probably prevent it, but the battery will always be something I want to replace, barring a miracle in battery density or everybody switching to ARM chips with color E-ink.
Exactly, I want a device that lasts for days either on or in a sleep that takes 3 seconds to wake from, i.e. the time it takes to hit the wake button and move my hand back to operating it. You'll actually win points if you put the button in an inconvenient spot:)
While I do think eink screens look nicer, it's because the material actually changes colors instead of filtering. When they start using a more durable substrate(most use glass!), I'd love to get a laptop case made of the stuff and run a slow plasma sim or have those Escher curl-ups crawling over it.
Unless you are paying extra for archival paper, your books will be crumbling before my flat text files become unreadable. I don't rely on the storage medium, I rely on the format.
When somebody makes a laptop that lasts upwards of 3 days of frequent usage, has a negligible sleep-to-on time, has a screen that can be both fast emissive & non-emissive(slower if necessary), the size of a EEE, and costs less than $500, I will drop all my other devices except for a phone.
It doesn't need to play 1080P, have good 3d capability, or be fast enough to trip export restrictions, so I don't want the stars, just the moon:)
While I have a large screen cellphone, that is just because of the lack of a good portable long life multifunction device. I'd rather have an itty-bitty cellphone and my wish-list multifunction device. Until said miracle device arrives, I'll get by with a dedicated book reader that last for weeks, an EEE that lasts a long flight, and a large screen cellphone that lasts at least 2 days.
If your files are non-DRM epub, you can convert them to just about anything else, including formats the other readers can handle.
I've only got problems with DRM'ed files and so chose my reader based on if its DRM has been cracked yet. I buy, then crack and backup so I no longer care about the future of the vendor or its ability to "recall" products.
In the US, reverse phone directories have been available at public libraries for a long time, for land lines.
Unlike land lines, which require no permission to publish, cell numbers are prevented from being included in regular and reverse directories without subscribers' permission by the Wireless 411 act.
It is rather common to have a "works cited" in the front of your novel if you quote poetry or lyrics. If you write a story in somebody else's setting or use a character, even if there is no text copied, you generally cite that as well.
Relatedly, if you write a novel expanding on a short story, you cite that too, but I think that has to do with your own copyrights more than citing your own previous works.
Microsoft is only too big to fail in that when WGA stops validating, everyone will panic until somebody sends them a crack.
If Google went away, nobody would be inconvenienced immediately, but it would take an annoyingly long time to replace them completely and nobody would be as comprehensive until there was some reconsolidating of the replacements.
Phone companies? They'd get absorbed by other phone companies first. If they straight out tanked, it'd be painful but would perhaps spur VOIP in their region.
You're right, I'm going to find a gopher server and put up some racist furry cookbooks, the noobs will never look there./I know, the furry bit was too much. I'll just go censor myself, OK?
It sounds plausible, if the introduction of the antibody doesn't inform the immune system how to reproduce it in the same fashion that introduction of inert viral proteins does.
If so, it would only be effective until the antibodies degraded/were flushed out.
It would still be useful for improving immune response to diseases that kill quickly or used as a prophylactic when you don't have time to wait after the inoculation before being exposed(e.g. emergency aid workers).
And after he does it a second time and realizes, for example, the first half of the keys are identical or the odd and even bits fulfill a certain function, then a brute force software solution becomes trivial.
It can be automated, just not solely in software. You could probably design a device the size of a breadbox that would perform the attack with minimal supervision by a human.
Pop off the case, seal the device onto the chip, press button, then wait. Somebody with a lot of time or a lot of money will do it.
As for games providing education, a good trick is not to make the mechanics from the subject, but to make the mechanics reward knowledge of the subject. To use an example of a game I've actually played, you can simulate kidney function by using an Arkanoid style game where you have to collide with, shoot, or avoid particles based on the chemical balance of the system. Initially, you just hit, dodge, and shoot, but eventually knowing about the chemicals involved and the concepts resulted in better scoring. Of course, the game has to be fun enough to make you want to do better, which most educational games fail to do.
Oregon Trail taught flexibility in planning(good) and hatred of random number generators(bad). The only subject related knowledge I retained was "Basic bridge engineering and buffalo jerky drying racks would have improved success for pioneers"
Part of that is because many of the teachers have too little real world experience to apply their subject and were never given any while earning a teaching license, which is why many states now prefer or require an undergraduate degree in a subject.
The teachers I felt were most effective in high school were frequently the substitute teachers, as they generally framed the lesson plan in terms of personal experience. Rather than "maximizing A(X) while minimizing B(X) with constraints C and D", they wanted you to "Maximize net income while minimizing work-in-progress because you have a 3 week lag time from your supplier and management straight-lined your weekly budget instead of allocating for seasonal variations".
Similarly, in university I always preferred either the adjuncts, who might be mediocre as professional teachers but practiced the subject for a living, or the professors that consulted on the side instead of just being a tenure leech.
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Maybe metal punch cards with ASCII text will suffice. Make it out of something magnetic and you can include metadata:) Heck, have the first batch of cards show how to make a magnetic/optical reader. Something like vellum would work, but you'd have to take care of it. Wood pulp I wouldn't trust past 100 years, less if it gets hot and humid.
Other than maybe bitmaps, I can't think of any other data that I haven't had conversion problems or media problems at some point. But I've managed to keep plain text files for 30 years, moving them from punch cards to Apple to Amiga to DOS to Linux. I do have books going on 60, but only because they stay in a controlled environment, I don't expect them to last very long if civilization went to crap.
And I wouldn't exactly call Mayan unreadable, as new works are being written in Mayan today. Well, Eastern Branch Mayan, anyway.
That's the point! It looks like a CD drive, so the OS treats it like one, so you can autorun something on older machines(virus, antivirus, OS install discs). But you can make it go away and get a couple megs of storage back very easily. It isn't a seperate chunk of silicon, just a little trickery.
SD classes are the minimum write speed, but are only guaranteed on a freshly formatted card, and the max speed is all over the place.
Lower class cards can potentially be faster than higher class cards, depending on the manufacturers and usage of the card.
All the forklifts(the normal 2 tine, skid moving kind) at my company's warehouse are propane fueled.
The picking lifts are all electric, though, but they only need to lift a person and maybe 100 lbs of inventory.
Hulu content is protected?
While I'd prefer no filtering by the government at all, I'd much rather prefer a filter that is clear about what it permits(public whitelist) than a filter that is unclear about what it denies(hidden blacklist).
Especially since a whitelist would be nearly impossible to maintain effectively and would piss off everyone much more than the blacklist would.
Insist that no filtering method be used unless it is blocks 100% of objectionable material:)
With audio, radio, etc, the rate of change is not so great and the desire to replace them is usually based on if a device has them at all.
Batteries and storage have reasons for more frequent replacements(both can be used/filled up, are easily expandable).
If I buy a device, I usually don't worry about having to replace the wireless with a dongle when the next version comes out or wanting to replace just the webcam, but I really like to swap batteries when their drained and swap storage when they fill up.
Storage may stop being a problem for mobile devices in the next decade, although Parkinson's law will probably prevent it, but the battery will always be something I want to replace, barring a miracle in battery density or everybody switching to ARM chips with color E-ink.
Exactly, I want a device that lasts for days either on or in a sleep that takes 3 seconds to wake from, i.e. the time it takes to hit the wake button and move my hand back to operating it. You'll actually win points if you put the button in an inconvenient spot:)
While I do think eink screens look nicer, it's because the material actually changes colors instead of filtering. When they start using a more durable substrate(most use glass!), I'd love to get a laptop case made of the stuff and run a slow plasma sim or have those Escher curl-ups crawling over it.
Unless you are paying extra for archival paper, your books will be crumbling before my flat text files become unreadable. I don't rely on the storage medium, I rely on the format.
If I'm on a 24-hour plane ride, I'll probably be spending more time pestering the crew about how the plane stays in the air so long.
When somebody makes a laptop that lasts upwards of 3 days of frequent usage, has a negligible sleep-to-on time, has a screen that can be both fast emissive & non-emissive(slower if necessary), the size of a EEE, and costs less than $500, I will drop all my other devices except for a phone.
It doesn't need to play 1080P, have good 3d capability, or be fast enough to trip export restrictions, so I don't want the stars, just the moon:)
While I have a large screen cellphone, that is just because of the lack of a good portable long life multifunction device. I'd rather have an itty-bitty cellphone and my wish-list multifunction device. Until said miracle device arrives, I'll get by with a dedicated book reader that last for weeks, an EEE that lasts a long flight, and a large screen cellphone that lasts at least 2 days.
If your files are non-DRM epub, you can convert them to just about anything else, including formats the other readers can handle.
I've only got problems with DRM'ed files and so chose my reader based on if its DRM has been cracked yet. I buy, then crack and backup so I no longer care about the future of the vendor or its ability to "recall" products.
One x,y,z point per planck^3 with a probability of it being occupied?
In the US, reverse phone directories have been available at public libraries for a long time, for land lines.
Unlike land lines, which require no permission to publish, cell numbers are prevented from being included in regular and reverse directories without subscribers' permission by the Wireless 411 act.
It is rather common to have a "works cited" in the front of your novel if you quote poetry or lyrics. If you write a story in somebody else's setting or use a character, even if there is no text copied, you generally cite that as well.
Relatedly, if you write a novel expanding on a short story, you cite that too, but I think that has to do with your own copyrights more than citing your own previous works.
Microsoft is only too big to fail in that when WGA stops validating, everyone will panic until somebody sends them a crack.
If Google went away, nobody would be inconvenienced immediately, but it would take an annoyingly long time to replace them completely and nobody would be as comprehensive until there was some reconsolidating of the replacements.
Phone companies? They'd get absorbed by other phone companies first. If they straight out tanked, it'd be painful but would perhaps spur VOIP in their region.
Unless you live in Western Australia, where mere possession is illegal as well since 2008.
You're right, I'm going to find a gopher server and put up some racist furry cookbooks, the noobs will never look there. /I know, the furry bit was too much. I'll just go censor myself, OK?
Maybe if it was almost 497.1 days:)
It sounds plausible, if the introduction of the antibody doesn't inform the immune system how to reproduce it in the same fashion that introduction of inert viral proteins does.
If so, it would only be effective until the antibodies degraded/were flushed out.
It would still be useful for improving immune response to diseases that kill quickly or used as a prophylactic when you don't have time to wait after the inoculation before being exposed(e.g. emergency aid workers).
Unless his associates ran trucks into both power lines while your generator was being serviced.
Then he just has to kill anybody who noticed the "safe shutdown" text message from the UPS controller was faked and comes looking with a flashlight.
And after he does it a second time and realizes, for example, the first half of the keys are identical or the odd and even bits fulfill a certain function, then a brute force software solution becomes trivial.
It can be automated, just not solely in software. You could probably design a device the size of a breadbox that would perform the attack with minimal supervision by a human.
Pop off the case, seal the device onto the chip, press button, then wait. Somebody with a lot of time or a lot of money will do it.
As for games providing education, a good trick is not to make the mechanics from the subject, but to make the mechanics reward knowledge of the subject. To use an example of a game I've actually played, you can simulate kidney function by using an Arkanoid style game where you have to collide with, shoot, or avoid particles based on the chemical balance of the system. Initially, you just hit, dodge, and shoot, but eventually knowing about the chemicals involved and the concepts resulted in better scoring. Of course, the game has to be fun enough to make you want to do better, which most educational games fail to do.
Oregon Trail taught flexibility in planning(good) and hatred of random number generators(bad). The only subject related knowledge I retained was "Basic bridge engineering and buffalo jerky drying racks would have improved success for pioneers"
Part of that is because many of the teachers have too little real world experience to apply their subject and were never given any while earning a teaching license, which is why many states now prefer or require an undergraduate degree in a subject.
The teachers I felt were most effective in high school were frequently the substitute teachers, as they generally framed the lesson plan in terms of personal experience. Rather than "maximizing A(X) while minimizing B(X) with constraints C and D", they wanted you to "Maximize net income while minimizing work-in-progress because you have a 3 week lag time from your supplier and management straight-lined your weekly budget instead of allocating for seasonal variations".
Similarly, in university I always preferred either the adjuncts, who might be mediocre as professional teachers but practiced the subject for a living, or the professors that consulted on the side instead of just being a tenure leech.