I can't find the link but there is a manufacturer who makes a big office style desk with weights attached to everything...the phone, file drawers, even the chair is attached. You can set the resistance on all the items so you get a workout while doing office work!
How long do YOU think you'll stay on the phone when the handle is attached to a 30 pound weight!
People should also remember that with reduced wages of workers overseas, the company that uses them also takes on the risk of doing buisness in that country. All it takes is a dictator to come to power, a war or a hurricane to take out your cheep labor force. One thing the U.S. does provide is a stable government and stable country. Also, communication and shipping becomes more expensive and critical. If you ship your manufacturing over to Asia, then west coast ports become critical. There are other risks as well.
All it will take is one Major catastrophy to hit one of these places where our corporations have set up their remote locations and you'll be seeing them start to think twice about using cheap labor! Hopefully...
Although an unlikely scenario, imagine the mouth foam that would be generated in Washington as HDTV quality video shows a Chinese astronaut walking around Tranquility Base.
Personally, I don't care WHO goes into space as long as it happens. But, if nationalism is what kicks the space race back into high gear, why not?
It worked for the U.S. Moonshot. Maybe this will get us to Mars.
Europe and the Far East will deploy IPv6 LONG before the U.S. does. For the simple reason that the U.S. scooped up far more address space before the rest of the world. Cell phone companies in japan and Europe are thinking they would like to IP enable MILLIONS of cell phones, pagers and all sorts of embedded devices. There aint that much IPv4 space available, even the non-routable address spaces wont scale to 10s of millions of users. As a result, japan and Europe is where you'll see the most deployment of IPv6. The U.S. will be dragged to IPv6 by embedded devices after the rest of the world deploys them.
The Directorate for Computers and Information Science and Engineering at the U.S. National Science Foundation has a fairly comprehensive report on women and Information Techology.
http://www.cise.nsf.gov/new/div/eia/cwardle/it_w me n/itwomen_final_report.doc
It would seem to me that an easier problem (nor not!) might be to fix the body that directs where X is going. If X.org were to come out with enhancements to the standard more often, it would force the implementation groups like XFree86 and other commercial versions to get up off their ass and implement them.
What is the history of the X.org group and why has there been almost NO movment (at least not public) on growth with the standard?
In the movie the fly, the scientist gets in the first pod. The teleportation machine destroys the original and then re-creates it from the data scanned in the first pod. The scientist (copy) gets out of the second pod and looks at his lab monkey and says "is it real or is it memorex". The point being, if it talks like you, walks like you and is indistinguishable from you, from a the point of another person it really does not matter. From their point of view, it IS you. Of course how can you really prove it after the event occurs, not really knowing how somebody would of acted in the future say that a particular person would not of acted in a particular way. The original is destroyed, only the new one exists. So you really can't ask the original (In the movie)
The Buddhists believe (I think) the idea of "self" only exists in humans minds to reconsile time with conciousness. If all we are, I'm talking about "self" (minus the religious aspect) are the combined total of our experiences up to a point in time (is it really a point since you can split time infinitely?), then we are fundamentally a different person then we were in the past. There can never be two duplicate people with exactly the same experiences since time is always moving forward and as long as people are alive they are aquiring information or memories are disappearing as we forget or as nerons die.
So all this talk about what if we upload our brain and what do we do with the original could be the wrong way of looking at it. In order to accurately get a complete and indistinguishable copy of a brain you would have to stop TIME around the person, and then somehow take a snapshot and duplicate it, making sure that the new copy is also frozen in time. Once you did that, then you could say both are EXACT copies of one another.
As soon as you started time again, they would be different people (although highly similar) as since they occupy geographically different places in the universe their total sum experiences would slowly drift away from similarity of each other.
I am unique and there can never be another one like me. Possbily VERY similar, but never exactly the same.
It's late and I'm sure somebody will shoot holes through it. But it's my two cents worth after 3 beers!
Just because I can't prove flying pink elephants(or extraterrestrials) DON'T exist does NOT mean that they DO infact exist.
Now if you have a credible theory about the existance of flying pink elephants(or UFO's) you might go looking for them and you might convince others to come with you and help.
Does this make your search goofy or un-scientific? Only to those who disagree with your theory. They of course do NOT need to help you out and should politely stay out of the way.
The problem is that there are some scientists who are not satisfied with letting people explore theories that they disagree with, in fact some of these people actively try to keep people from doing research. Why? Because the very idea that somebody thinks differently then them might cause somebody else to think differently about THEIR theory, which is a risk they would like to avoid.
This line of activity not only happens in Science, it happens in religion as well. Surprised?
Just because I CANT prove flying pink elephants (or aliens) don't exist does not mean that they DO infact exist.
The point being that humans search for extra-terrestrial intelligence is based on our own understanding of life which at this point is ONLY life from earth (or from a meteorite from Mars if you believe that).
Since we have no real evidence of what life is like elsewhere (if it exists at all) you really cannot make any authoritative statements of what IS really out there.
Of course the what you do look for has to be grounded in some basis or theory that might have some chance being proven. This keeps us all from wasting time and energy from spending alot of money and time trying to prove the rediculus. This is not saying that we should have closed minds! Every possibility (even the crazy ones) should be at least considered.
When we look at the statistics for earth like worlds and from those statistics then start postulating reasons why or why not we can or cannot find life people need to remember that we still have VERY little scientific concrete conclusive evidence to go on. Sure there is lots of INCONCLUSIVE evidence, from alleged alien abudctions to metorite fossils (possibly) and other things more or less credible, who knows maybe some of these or none of these might turn out to be fact.
People just need to step back and have perspective . Just because we THINK statistically there WILL be earth like worlds does not mean there WILL be earth like worlds or earth like worlds where we think they should be.
If you look at the successful OS's (even though some of them eventually died) their appeal was a specific advantage a particular platform (hardware/OS combination) that could be EASILY demonstrated to the average person
The Amiga had graphics and great multitasking. The Mac had/has desktop publishing and a windowing system that was/is easy for the average user. The PC was/is cheap and software was/is plentiful.
In order for LINUX to to become a true desktop contendor, there has to be some application that makes people WANT to buy a LINUX system. This application's appeal must in some way do something that Windows cannot do or do well but that LINUX can do well.
Example, I bought an Amiga way back because the PC (hardware and OS) COULD'NT do what it could do. Even my mother was amazed at the time. Another example was with the MAC, the PC COULD'NT do desktop publishing (well...not nearly as well) as due to the way the OS was designed (interface and all).
Bottom line. Somebody needs to think of GNU/LINUX's REAL advantages and make a killer app that uses those SPECFIC advantages. Then when and if it's a success, people will WANT to use GNU/LINUX just for the use of the app. Then it snowballs from there.
What is the deal with people wanting EVERYTHING in a SQL/LDAP style databse! Every intern I have to manage out of college seems to have been brainwashed to think that whatever the app, it's data should be in a relational database.
I like datbases, but for somethings they should not be used!
When it comes to the OS, I want to be able to text process data EASILY...with BASH! This road leads to things like binary configuration files and that leads to things like the Microsoft registry which I detest.
Databasizing everything (including the filesystem) IS NOT THE ANSWER
factoring out that there is'nt a DVD manufacturer with 90% market share, some DVD manufacturers DO bundle competing player software. My DVD player came with both PowerDVD and WinDVR.
How bout Smart CLUSTERED intellgent clients...
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As much as I like PC's, somehow the guy seems right. It could be not too hard to set up an organization with a centralized system that uses PC's, but with no hard drive and a centralized storage system where the OS is managed by IT staff. A PC with a graphics card/NIC and a monitor could be set up as a intelligent graphical terminal, and with the advances in clustering like OpenMOSIX you could have all those "smart terminals" load balance CPU among themselves, so that upgrades to individual users benefit everybody.
The interesting thing is that you could deploy a prototype system like this one without destroying an organizations current LAN. You could build it and then just give a floppy to a test user to "try out" without ever hurting their system. So, its one step beyond just graphical XTerminals, its clustered computing but with centralized management of the OS.
I can't disagree with the people being sent to jail for doing something stupid, but...
where are MY rights when my cable modem provider sells me 3.2Mb/s service but does PER CONNECTION bandwidth throttling. I call them about it and they LIE about it. When I run a test from my server at work on TWO unconstricted T3's early sunday morning and get more (maximum cap limit) bandwidth with a mult-threaded simultaneous IPERF test than than a single connection...it pissess me OFF!!! But I can't sue THEM for purposly trying to cheep out on their upstream connection to the Tier2/1 internet provider!!!
And then DSL companies spread FUD about shared cable - FACT...the bottleneck is ALMOST NEVER on the shared coax segments...its almost ALWAYS on the upstream connection that they UNDER provisioned! DSL AND CABLE!!!
So what does this have to do with uncapping? It has to do with how the cable companies think...NO VISION! There are SO may applications that could be done if we were given more bandwidth - and I am not talking about bandwidth to the Internet...think if they gave you the full power of your cable modem (30-45 MB/s) to other local cable users within your physical segment!!! They have NO realization about the DATA PC services they could provide on a local area network. At 5 MB/s you can transmitt DVD 's in realtime, at 10 MB/s you can do realtime multicast video conferencing the software is FREE...have AWSOME gaming sessions....anyhow...I rant....mod me however you like, I care not....but I feel much better:)
For those of you who are interested in burning this puppy to a CDROM. The ISO is 698MB, so if you do not have a CDROM that will do Overburn you will NOT be able to make the CD from the ISO
Back in the early 80's the C64 was priced at that point and it sold like hotcakes. If this new machine is marketed correctly, it could sell just as well.
The monitor is a problem though. Maybe they'll figure out some way to output it to a tv....nah
I've always thought that fusion would be great, but think for a second. If all of a sudden the whole world has access to unlimited amounts of power, how would that affect the planet, the heat created from the use of all this power has got to go somewhere.
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Listen to the new Metallica and that is EXACTLY what you get. Snare drums that sound like cow bells!
Get a peddal attached flywheel that creates power. Install it underneath your desk and plug your PC into it. As long as you peddal, your PC stays on!
Instant excercise! And Environmentally friendly too...well that is untill you reek of Body Odor..
I can't find the link but there is a manufacturer who makes a big office style desk with weights attached to everything...the phone, file drawers, even the chair is attached. You can set the resistance on all the items so you get a workout while doing office work!
How long do YOU think you'll stay on the phone when the handle is attached to a 30 pound weight!
It would be nice if they came out with a version that worked with DirecTV...
People should also remember that with reduced wages of workers overseas, the company that uses them also takes on the risk of doing buisness in that country. All it takes is a dictator to come to power, a war or a hurricane to take out your cheep labor force. One thing the U.S. does provide is a stable government and stable country. Also, communication and shipping becomes more expensive and critical. If you ship your manufacturing over to Asia, then west coast ports become critical. There are other risks as well.
All it will take is one Major catastrophy to hit one of these places where our corporations have set up their remote locations and you'll be seeing them start to think twice about using cheap labor! Hopefully...
Although an unlikely scenario, imagine the mouth foam that would be generated in Washington as HDTV quality video shows a Chinese astronaut walking around Tranquility Base.
Personally, I don't care WHO goes into space as long as it happens. But, if nationalism is what kicks the space race back into high gear, why not?
It worked for the U.S. Moonshot. Maybe this will get us to Mars.
Well, it looks like it's gone. Does anybody have a mirror?
Europe and the Far East will deploy IPv6 LONG before the U.S. does. For the simple reason that the U.S. scooped up far more address space before the rest of the world. Cell phone companies in japan and Europe are thinking they would like to IP enable MILLIONS of cell phones, pagers and all sorts of embedded devices. There aint that much IPv4 space available, even the non-routable address spaces wont scale to 10s of millions of users. As a result, japan and Europe is where you'll see the most deployment of IPv6. The U.S. will be dragged to IPv6 by embedded devices after the rest of the world deploys them.
hrrrmph....Whine....Whine, it's not as good as I remembered the original when I was 8, therefore it all sucks...whine...bitch...whine....
Take a look at the original, the acting sucked there too, which makes the current crop of films look not so bad.
The Directorate for Computers and Information Science and Engineering at the U.S. National Science Foundation has a fairly comprehensive report on women and Information Techology.
w me n/itwomen_final_report.doc
http://www.cise.nsf.gov/new/div/eia/cwardle/it_
It would seem to me that an easier problem (nor not!) might be to fix the body that directs where X is going. If X.org were to come out with enhancements to the standard more often, it would force the implementation groups like XFree86 and other commercial versions to get up off their ass and implement them.
What is the history of the X.org group and why has there been almost NO movment (at least not public) on growth with the standard?
In the movie the fly, the scientist gets in the first pod. The teleportation machine destroys the original and then re-creates it from the data scanned in the first pod. The scientist (copy) gets out of the second pod and looks at his lab monkey and says "is it real or is it memorex". The point being, if it talks like you, walks like you and is indistinguishable from you, from a the point of another person it really does not matter. From their point of view, it IS you. Of course how can you really prove it after the event occurs, not really knowing how somebody would of acted in the future say that a particular person would not of acted in a particular way. The original is destroyed, only the new one exists. So you really can't ask the original (In the movie)
The Buddhists believe (I think) the idea of "self" only exists in humans minds to reconsile time with conciousness. If all we are, I'm talking about "self" (minus the religious aspect) are the combined total of our experiences up to a point in time (is it really a point since you can split time infinitely?), then we are fundamentally a different person then we were in the past. There can never be two duplicate people with exactly the same experiences since time is always moving forward and as long as people are alive they are aquiring information or memories are disappearing as we forget or as nerons die.
So all this talk about what if we upload our brain and what do we do with the original could be the wrong way of looking at it. In order to accurately get a complete and indistinguishable copy of a brain you would have to stop TIME around the person, and then somehow take a snapshot and duplicate it, making sure that the new copy is also frozen in time. Once you did that, then you could say both are EXACT copies of one another.
As soon as you started time again, they would be different people (although highly similar) as since they occupy geographically different places in the universe their total sum experiences would slowly drift away from similarity of each other.
I am unique and there can never be another one like me. Possbily VERY similar, but never exactly the same.
It's late and I'm sure somebody will shoot holes through it. But it's my two cents worth after 3 beers!
Absense of evidence is not evidence of absense...
BUT
Just because I can't prove flying pink elephants(or extraterrestrials) DON'T exist does NOT mean that they DO infact exist.
Now if you have a credible theory about the existance of flying pink elephants(or UFO's) you might go looking for them and you might convince others to come with you and help.
Does this make your search goofy or un-scientific? Only to those who disagree with your theory. They of course do NOT need to help you out and should politely stay out of the way.
The problem is that there are some scientists who are not satisfied with letting people explore theories that they disagree with, in fact some of these people actively try to keep people from doing research. Why? Because the very idea that somebody thinks differently then them might cause somebody else to think differently about THEIR theory, which is a risk they would like to avoid.
This line of activity not only happens in Science, it happens in religion as well. Surprised?
But...
Just because I CANT prove flying pink elephants (or aliens) don't exist does not mean that they DO infact exist.
The point being that humans search for extra-terrestrial intelligence is based on our own understanding of life which at this point is ONLY life from earth (or from a meteorite from Mars if you believe that).
Since we have no real evidence of what life is like elsewhere (if it exists at all) you really cannot make any authoritative statements of what IS really out there.
Of course the what you do look for has to be grounded in some basis or theory that might have some chance being proven. This keeps us all from wasting time and energy from spending alot of money and time trying to prove the rediculus. This is not saying that we should have closed minds! Every possibility (even the crazy ones) should be at least considered.
When we look at the statistics for earth like worlds and from those statistics then start postulating reasons why or why not we can or cannot find life people need to remember that we still have VERY little scientific concrete conclusive evidence to go on. Sure there is lots of INCONCLUSIVE evidence, from alleged alien abudctions to metorite fossils (possibly) and other things more or less credible, who knows maybe some of these or none of these might turn out to be fact.
People just need to step back and have perspective . Just because we THINK statistically there WILL be earth like worlds does not mean there WILL be earth like worlds or earth like worlds where we think they should be.
ramble off
If you look at the successful OS's (even though some of them eventually died) their appeal was a specific advantage a particular platform (hardware/OS combination) that could be EASILY demonstrated to the average person
The Amiga had graphics and great multitasking. The Mac had/has desktop publishing and a windowing system that was/is easy for the average user. The PC was/is cheap and software was/is plentiful.
In order for LINUX to to become a true desktop contendor, there has to be some application that makes people WANT to buy a LINUX system. This application's appeal must in some way do something that Windows cannot do or do well but that LINUX can do well.
Example, I bought an Amiga way back because the PC (hardware and OS) COULD'NT do what it could do. Even my mother was amazed at the time. Another example was with the MAC, the PC COULD'NT do desktop publishing (well...not nearly as well) as due to the way the OS was designed (interface and all).
Bottom line. Somebody needs to think of GNU/LINUX's REAL advantages and make a killer app that uses those SPECFIC advantages. Then when and if it's a success, people will WANT to use GNU/LINUX just for the use of the app. Then it snowballs from there.
What is the deal with people wanting EVERYTHING in a SQL/LDAP style databse! Every intern I have to manage out of college seems to have been brainwashed to think that whatever the app, it's data should be in a relational database.
I like datbases, but for somethings they should not be used!
When it comes to the OS, I want to be able to text process data EASILY...with BASH! This road leads to things like binary configuration files and that leads to things like the Microsoft registry which I detest.
Databasizing everything (including the filesystem) IS NOT THE ANSWER
Uh...
factoring out that there is'nt a DVD manufacturer with 90% market share, some DVD manufacturers DO bundle competing player software. My DVD player came with both PowerDVD and WinDVR.
As much as I like PC's, somehow the guy seems right. It could be not too hard to set up an organization with a centralized system that uses PC's, but with no hard drive and a centralized storage system where the OS is managed by IT staff. A PC with a graphics card/NIC and a monitor could be set up as a intelligent graphical terminal, and with the advances in clustering like OpenMOSIX you could have all those "smart terminals" load balance CPU among themselves, so that upgrades to individual users benefit everybody.
The interesting thing is that you could deploy a prototype system like this one without destroying an organizations current LAN. You could build it and then just give a floppy to a test user to "try out" without ever hurting their system. So, its one step beyond just graphical XTerminals, its clustered computing but with centralized management of the OS.
Seriously, this is SO funny, a new category needs to be created, like ROTFL funny, or supendously funny...and so on
I can't disagree with the people being sent to jail for doing something stupid, but...
:)
where are MY rights when my cable modem provider sells me 3.2Mb/s service but does PER CONNECTION bandwidth throttling. I call them about it and they LIE about it. When I run a test from my server at work on TWO unconstricted T3's early sunday morning and get more (maximum cap limit) bandwidth with a mult-threaded simultaneous IPERF test than than a single connection...it pissess me OFF!!! But I can't sue THEM for purposly trying to cheep out on their upstream connection to the Tier2/1 internet provider!!!
And then DSL companies spread FUD about shared cable - FACT...the bottleneck is ALMOST NEVER on the shared coax segments...its almost ALWAYS on the upstream connection that they UNDER provisioned! DSL AND CABLE!!!
So what does this have to do with uncapping? It has to do with how the cable companies think...NO VISION! There are SO may applications that could be done if we were given more bandwidth - and I am not talking about bandwidth to the Internet...think if they gave you the full power of your cable modem (30-45 MB/s) to other local cable users within your physical segment!!! They have NO realization about the DATA PC services they could provide on a local area network. At 5 MB/s you can transmitt DVD 's in realtime, at 10 MB/s you can do realtime multicast video conferencing the software is FREE...have AWSOME gaming sessions....anyhow...I rant....mod me however you like, I care not....but I feel much better
For those of you who are interested in burning this puppy to a CDROM. The ISO is 698MB, so if you do not have a CDROM that will do Overburn you will NOT be able to make the CD from the ISO
Even worse is having a baby constantly crying during a movie.
Lets pair the cell phone law with one that also bans taking any child 4 years or under to a PG-13/R rated films.
Back in the early 80's the C64 was priced at that point and it sold like hotcakes. If this new machine is marketed correctly, it could sell just as well.
The monitor is a problem though. Maybe they'll figure out some way to output it to a tv....nah
I've always thought that fusion would be great, but think for a second. If all of a sudden the whole world has access to unlimited amounts of power, how would that affect the planet, the heat created from the use of all this power has got to go somewhere.