I'd love to see the oldest chinese editions (or as close to as possible) of Sun Tsu's The Art of War side by side with english translations and annotations. I'm sure there are lots of other people out there who feel similarly about thousands of other publications.
Not really going to happen till we as a society[1] get comfortable with the idea of books being available online from sites like Google.
I'll bet the Project Gutenberg people are jealous of the resources. Go for it Google, an astoundingly huge but very very worthy task.
[1] corporations, politicians, lawyers, the general public.
People who live in areas frequented by natural disasters have a greater tendency to believe in god, gods or other mythic beings. You have to remember that the average IQ is around 100, that's pretty dumb really, so it's easier to attribute chance, natural disasters, anything detrimental outwith their control to mythical beings than it is to try to analyse the real reasons for them and to do something about it.
We'll see them sacrificing money, posessions in order to attempt to appease their particular deities over the coming months. Church memberships will increase, as will takings. Politics will take a turn to the conservative, the literal word of the bible becoming even more important.
It's a good time to start a religion or to use one to influence people.
LOL. You train all you like to fight martial artists. Good luck when the shit hits the fan. I'll train to fight the muggers, rapists and other similar scum.
In fact it's one of the aims of certain forms of training, martial arts like karate etc train repetitively in order to get you into the habit of standing certain ways, moving, hitting, kicking certain ways on autopilot without thinking. I came back to it after 17 years away and apart from almost lethally bad fitness (yeah that's you) I fell right back into it like riding a bike.
It's everywhere, it doesn't have or need "strongholds". It simply flows to areas the economics make it useful. The implication of a stronghold is that it's good for one or two things and has to defend against instrusion by a determined foe. Very... Balmeresque... thinking.
The form of hydrogen storage is lower energy density than current battery technologies and there are already high performance fully electric sportscars which can do 300 miles per charge at motorway speeds, 0->60 sub 4 seconds. Sure, you need to have a quarter of a million to buy one but guess how much Ferraris or Paganis cost.
More realistically Mitsubishi are planning production of a fully electric vehicle by 2008.
Go on. Explain how fire works. Yet we've been using it for thousands of years. It doesn't matter that everyone knows how everything works, it only matters that they know how to use it and there are some people who do know how it works.
The PC is an open platform, mobile phones are highly proprietary, the design, the chips, the OS, the software is custom created and highly controlled by the manufacturer so I don't see DRM as a big issue in this case.
You go on smoking as much of the stuff as you can get your hands on, they'll just section you, lock you up and dope you to the eyeballs with anti psychotics. If you're lucky you'll get some of the more recent drugs and you might be able to lead a semi-normal life when you grow up.
Particularly if smoked when younger. My brother was heavily into marijuana during his teens. He's now been on anti psychotics and subsequently anti depressants for around 10 years now. He isn't a functioning member of society any more but the current crop of anti psychotics are actually quite good, he only hears voices and thinks the aliens are out to get him occasionally.
In terms of IQ, age, job (tech support) and TV are almost certainly far worse for your brain, there's even an article in this month's Mensa mag about it. Late teens my IQ was in the 160s, well into the top 1%. I recently tested in the top 2-3% range, quite a come down.
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That's what alt.binaries.* is for.
Scare the living shit out of them.
So it's probably about right for UK business desktop stats.
I'd love to see the oldest chinese editions (or as close to as possible) of Sun Tsu's The Art of War side by side with english translations and annotations. I'm sure there are lots of other people out there who feel similarly about thousands of other publications.
Not really going to happen till we as a society[1] get comfortable with the idea of books being available online from sites like Google.
I'll bet the Project Gutenberg people are jealous of the resources. Go for it Google, an astoundingly huge but very very worthy task.
[1] corporations, politicians, lawyers, the general public.
People who live in areas frequented by natural disasters have a greater tendency to believe in god, gods or other mythic beings. You have to remember that the average IQ is around 100, that's pretty dumb really, so it's easier to attribute chance, natural disasters, anything detrimental outwith their control to mythical beings than it is to try to analyse the real reasons for them and to do something about it.
We'll see them sacrificing money, posessions in order to attempt to appease their particular deities over the coming months. Church memberships will increase, as will takings. Politics will take a turn to the conservative, the literal word of the bible becoming even more important.
It's a good time to start a religion or to use one to influence people.
LOL. You train all you like to fight martial artists. Good luck when the shit hits the fan. I'll train to fight the muggers, rapists and other similar scum.
In fact it's one of the aims of certain forms of training, martial arts like karate etc train repetitively in order to get you into the habit of standing certain ways, moving, hitting, kicking certain ways on autopilot without thinking. I came back to it after 17 years away and apart from almost lethally bad fitness (yeah that's you) I fell right back into it like riding a bike.
It's everywhere, it doesn't have or need "strongholds". It simply flows to areas the economics make it useful. The implication of a stronghold is that it's good for one or two things and has to defend against instrusion by a determined foe. Very... Balmeresque... thinking.
The form of hydrogen storage is lower energy density than current battery technologies and there are already high performance fully electric sportscars which can do 300 miles per charge at motorway speeds, 0->60 sub 4 seconds. Sure, you need to have a quarter of a million to buy one but guess how much Ferraris or Paganis cost.
More realistically Mitsubishi are planning production of a fully electric vehicle by 2008.
Who gets to remove "undesirable" countries from the top level domain then? All in the name of safety from terrorism of course.
And because it's a trademark it's entirely possible that it'll have to go away.
It's just like moving house without the moving of course, or the house... Everyone has to be told.
For those of us with gmail accouts. Start moving to googlemail now, whether it's required in the future or not.
Using the words McDonalds and restaurant in reference to one another.
Cancer.
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Maybe the new cells rewire the brain, causing paranoia and hallucinations...
http://www.schizophrenia.com/New/Jan%2004/cannabi
Plug it into your LAN, plug any phone, cordless or not into it and boom, VOIP telephony and you don't even need your PC switched on.
They use some interesting statistical clustering algorithms to determine who might be a reasonable match with who.
Axis did this ages ago. It even runs Linux for extra bonus points.
http://www.axis.com/products/cam_206w/
Go on. Explain how fire works. Yet we've been using it for thousands of years. It doesn't matter that everyone knows how everything works, it only matters that they know how to use it and there are some people who do know how it works.
It's what everyone else is doing to get away from the expense and inconvenience of doing business in the US.
http://www.gnustep.org/
Write code which should pretty much just port to OS X without too much trouble.
I've always wondered why KDE and Gnome get so much attention.
This'd be a rocking machine, more than enough for my day to day usage, where do we get them?
The PC is an open platform, mobile phones are highly proprietary, the design, the chips, the OS, the software is custom created and highly controlled by the manufacturer so I don't see DRM as a big issue in this case.
Uh, go look through my post for the words "cause, causes, caused" etc. You chicken shit annonymous muppet.
s risk.htm
http://www.schizophrenia.com/New/Jan%2004/cannabi
You go on smoking as much of the stuff as you can get your hands on, they'll just section you, lock you up and dope you to the eyeballs with anti psychotics. If you're lucky you'll get some of the more recent drugs and you might be able to lead a semi-normal life when you grow up.
You're absolutely right.
Software along with dirt cheap ubiquitous wireless kit. Adhoc grid routing, anonymous nodes in a wireless network.
e.g. something like:
http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/grid/
Information is, and always has been power and guess who can do something about it...
"Do any of those schizophrenia studies demonstrate directionality?"
Yes.
Particularly if smoked when younger. My brother was heavily into marijuana during his teens. He's now been on anti psychotics and subsequently anti depressants for around 10 years now. He isn't a functioning member of society any more but the current crop of anti psychotics are actually quite good, he only hears voices and thinks the aliens are out to get him occasionally.
In terms of IQ, age, job (tech support) and TV are almost certainly far worse for your brain, there's even an article in this month's Mensa mag about it. Late teens my IQ was in the 160s, well into the top 1%. I recently tested in the top 2-3% range, quite a come down.