Re:who use lycos ? aliens ?
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I work in a children's library, which means that a lot of kids who are too poor to have internet at home come in to use ours. * A LOT * of them just search for Dragonball Z. Which means:
1.) I get bombarded with requests for how to spell strange names that sound like "Gokugeeta".
2.) These kids get pissed when the crapass websites they go to eventually open enough popups that the computer gives up and freezes.
Tim
Re:Am I out of touch...?
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He is a rapper. But from what I've heard he raps about ladies and enjoying some fine mary jane, so he's better than all the other rappers talking about killing cops and raping people and whatever.
I suppose if you have other kids living in the neighborhood it's easy enough, but when I was a little boy no other kids lived near me, so I made almost all of my friends in school.
I'm more thinking about the younger ages, say 6, 7, 8, where kids don't have any problems making friends but they might have a problem finding other kids to be friends with (can't go places alone, etc...).
I'd imagine if there were enough people homeschooling in an area you could form some sort of a unity for social stuff, but that might only work in cities.
I could be abnormal in meeting a lot of childhood friends through school though, no kids living near me, and my parents waited somewhat long to have children so their friend's kids are much older than I am.
There were at least as many "Good" corporations (the Mafia, the corporation that made the mech-enhanced guard dogs...) as "Bad" ones (Rife, The Pearly Gates) in Snow Crash. And remember in Snow Crash the world is still transitioning from the death of Nation States. If you read The Diamond Age, it's a depiction of how it eventually ends up, and yoÅÕï8t to find out what happens to Y.T.
It will be fought tooth and nail by the corporations. Look at what happened when P2P did the same for music distribution. They fight and fight.
Hopefully, as they seem to be doing with P2P, the corporations will fail because of their lack of understanding and the distributed, hard-to-kill nature of their enemy. It will depend on whether or not you can easily get an assembler in your home and an appropriate source of materials. If you can, it's all over. If worse comes to worse, and they try and cut off the flow of materials, you might have to resort to chucking your computer into the assembler for it to be reduced to component silicon atoms and then remade, more powerful than before.
It's the damn future! Read Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age.
For example, imagine if you never had to take a shower or bath again, becuase there were tiny little robots that went over you in your sleep, grabbed all the dirt in their tiny robot claws, and threw it in a tiny robot garbage can.
I second that. Just a week ago I had the pleasure of looking out the window of a 737 while the Concorde took off, making an awe inspiring trail of flame, heat, and smoke. Probably generated about 5 times the pollution of the 747, but it was damn cool looking. A unique sight.
They have a very slow pipe or are slashdotted, downloading is very slow. So tell what is worth trying.
So far I've only tried out the Wyrm one. It had promise, but was a dissapointment. The flight model was very hard to use - sometimes my dragon would be furiously flap his wings and end up going backwards. On top of that you don't have enough "mana", or it doesn't recharge fast enough. Considering that you need this to shoot, flap your wings, and cast spells, about 15 seconds after you enter battle you end up sitting on the ground exhausted while the computer dragons shoot you to death.
Because it's real easy to read the tachyons and know to hide before a surprise nuclear attack....
You should still be in the shelter even if you were exposed to the blast, for treatment if needed (some shelters were equipped as hospitals) and to hide from the fallout.
I remember reading a book, I think it was part of the Manifold series by Stephen Baxter, where the premise of the story was that every few hundred million years a collision like this killed all life in the entire galaxy through a massive release of radiation.
B)You are burying it on the moon or another spacebone body.
C)If ISS has proper shielding, it's going into ISS.
A would probably be insanely expensive. Costs a lot to shoot lead into space. That's why NASA buys radiation-hardened equipment instead of buying some P4s and shooting them up in a big lead box.
B would be huge news. It would be extremely likely to fail if you send a robotic digger to the moon or an asteroid, so you'd have to do it with people, which would be a historic event.
C makes the most sense, but I don't know if ISS has enough shielding. Presumably there's enough to keep the people from overdosing on bad particles, but I'd imagine the computers would still have problems.
If you're planning to shoot this into space, I'd think again. You're going to have trouble finding solid state storage that both holds a petabyte AND is radiation-hardened.
The only other practical place I can think of right now where hard drives wouldn't survive the trip is some sort of undersea base. Sealand already has an offshore data haven, and they can visit theirs.
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Simple.
Humans are more important or valuable than mice.
Tim
I work in a children's library, which means that a lot of kids who are too poor to have internet at home come in to use ours. * A LOT * of them just search for Dragonball Z. Which means:
1.) I get bombarded with requests for how to spell strange names that sound like "Gokugeeta".
2.) These kids get pissed when the crapass websites they go to eventually open enough popups that the computer gives up and freezes.
Tim
He is a rapper. But from what I've heard he raps about ladies and enjoying some fine mary jane, so he's better than all the other rappers talking about killing cops and raping people and whatever.
Tim
In Soviet Russia, we belong to all your base!
Yakov
In one of the old Google zeitgeists, CNN was the most popular search for days after the WTC terror attacks.
Tim
The real news to me in this story is that Lycos still exists.
Tim
I suppose if you have other kids living in the neighborhood it's easy enough, but when I was a little boy no other kids lived near me, so I made almost all of my friends in school.
I'm more thinking about the younger ages, say 6, 7, 8, where kids don't have any problems making friends but they might have a problem finding other kids to be friends with (can't go places alone, etc...).
I'd imagine if there were enough people homeschooling in an area you could form some sort of a unity for social stuff, but that might only work in cities.
I could be abnormal in meeting a lot of childhood friends through school though, no kids living near me, and my parents waited somewhat long to have children so their friend's kids are much older than I am.
Tim
I know I sound like an asshole asking this, but I'm serious.
Does/did your daughter have any friends?
Tim
Wow! Totally waste your time FOUR TIMES AS FAST!
Tim
But he used it with such a noble spirit that it still embiggens his post.
Tim
There were at least as many "Good" corporations (the Mafia, the corporation that made the mech-enhanced guard dogs...) as "Bad" ones (Rife, The Pearly Gates) in Snow Crash. And remember in Snow Crash the world is still transitioning from the death of Nation States. If you read The Diamond Age, it's a depiction of how it eventually ends up, and yoÅÕï8t to find out what happens to Y.T.
Tim
It will be fought tooth and nail by the corporations. Look at what happened when P2P did the same for music distribution. They fight and fight.
Hopefully, as they seem to be doing with P2P, the corporations will fail because of their lack of understanding and the distributed, hard-to-kill nature of their enemy. It will depend on whether or not you can easily get an assembler in your home and an appropriate source of materials. If you can, it's all over. If worse comes to worse, and they try and cut off the flow of materials, you might have to resort to chucking your computer into the assembler for it to be reduced to component silicon atoms and then remade, more powerful than before.
Tim
Just in case you drop it in a lake or something, or the building burns down. Good idea!
Tim
It's the damn future! Read Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age.
For example, imagine if you never had to take a shower or bath again, becuase there were tiny little robots that went over you in your sleep, grabbed all the dirt in their tiny robot claws, and threw it in a tiny robot garbage can.
Tim
Does the plastic *TASTE* sweet? If so, this might be a problem for use as utensils. Some foods don't go well with sugar.
Tim
I second that. Just a week ago I had the pleasure of looking out the window of a 737 while the Concorde took off, making an awe inspiring trail of flame, heat, and smoke. Probably generated about 5 times the pollution of the 747, but it was damn cool looking. A unique sight.
Tim
They're trying to put in some weird floodgates that will keep Venice from sinking.
Of course environmentalists are bitching. Hugging a tree more important than one of the most historic and interesting cities humanity has constructed.
Tim
They have a very slow pipe or are slashdotted, downloading is very slow. So tell what is worth trying.
So far I've only tried out the Wyrm one. It had promise, but was a dissapointment. The flight model was very hard to use - sometimes my dragon would be furiously flap his wings and end up going backwards. On top of that you don't have enough "mana", or it doesn't recharge fast enough. Considering that you need this to shoot, flap your wings, and cast spells, about 15 seconds after you enter battle you end up sitting on the ground exhausted while the computer dragons shoot you to death.
Tim
Because it's real easy to read the tachyons and know to hide before a surprise nuclear attack....
You should still be in the shelter even if you were exposed to the blast, for treatment if needed (some shelters were equipped as hospitals) and to hide from the fallout.
Tim
It also allows you to play imported games or try and develop stuff for the X-Box.
Tim
I remember reading a book, I think it was part of the Manifold series by Stephen Baxter, where the premise of the story was that every few hundred million years a collision like this killed all life in the entire galaxy through a massive release of radiation.
Tim
Funniest comment ever.
Tim
I run my computer with the side of the case removed!
Tim
That means:
A)You are sending it up in a big lead box.
B)You are burying it on the moon or another spacebone body.
C)If ISS has proper shielding, it's going into ISS.
A would probably be insanely expensive. Costs a lot to shoot lead into space. That's why NASA buys radiation-hardened equipment instead of buying some P4s and shooting them up in a big lead box.
B would be huge news. It would be extremely likely to fail if you send a robotic digger to the moon or an asteroid, so you'd have to do it with people, which would be a historic event.
C makes the most sense, but I don't know if ISS has enough shielding. Presumably there's enough to keep the people from overdosing on bad particles, but I'd imagine the computers would still have problems.
Tim
If you're planning to shoot this into space, I'd think again. You're going to have trouble finding solid state storage that both holds a petabyte AND is radiation-hardened.
The only other practical place I can think of right now where hard drives wouldn't survive the trip is some sort of undersea base. Sealand already has an offshore data haven, and they can visit theirs.
Tim