Alex Chiu: As long as the user doesn't get killed in accidents or be murdered by someone or die from a severe disease, the person would continue living.
So basically, as long you do not live in this universe (where all those things occur regularly), you'll remain eternal.
Question: If you were to end up dying someday, who should I contact for a refund on my eternal life device?
Alex:
The Immortality Device Inc is a corporation. So if I die, somebody else from the corporation will take over the business.
There should be no "if you die" there, Alex. Makes me skeptical of your ability to deliver if you don't think your own product can do the job for you! Would you then also have to have your successor sue his/her own corporation for defamation of character? After all, you did name your corp. 'Immortality Device Inc.', which it's now proven not to be, so....
Read the article, troll. The feature comes from Office XP and can be turned off. And no-one necessarily 'wants' smart-tags, but tons of people are buying every new iteration of Windows, so M$ doesn't have a great way of knowing what people want. Probably because many computer manufacturers package Windows on every new machine so that end-users don't have to think about which operating system they should use. If they did, I would bet that M$ wouldn't retain it's monopolistic market share on OS's.
Ok, academic status may not matter (although I think that's debatable), but criminal charges for 'computer crimes'? That's like charging a mechanical engineer with murder because he designed a car that someone else drove improperly, while drunk, and killed someone with!
Choice is important, but majority rules. That's the way America runs. The bad happens when the majority is so much more powerful than minority that it is given governmental 'rights' to tell the minority what to do. Barrier to entry into the market, like M$ being allowed to dictate who can or cannot write new code is bad. That is, of course, not reality, but I think that's what we're saying could happen if we had a completely laisez-fare economy.
What could be really bad, is if a company like M$ became so powerful as to dictate who did or did not get elected for public office based on their monetary contributions and political clout.
Capitalism is an economy based on greed. I supply you with product X to make money for myself, you buy it because you want it for yourself. I'll continue to raise the price as long as you're willing to buy it. If one group gets too powerful, they'll take advantage of the other group for their own benefit. On the other hand, if you use communism as your 'economic' model, it's supposed to keep everyone equal economically. But then the minority (heads of state, usually) become the ones taking advantage of the masses because they make sure to filter the most money to themselves. So it's the reverse bad situation. Therefore, the only solution is a middle of the road system. It's like walking a tightrope, and is very difficult, but so far America has managed to pull it off. The big problem is that people on either side of the issue, tend to get pissed off easily because at any one time one side will have just a little more power than the other. Personally, I'd rather take the temporary pissed off approach than the constant screwing of a pure laisez-fair or communist economy. Having said that, maybe it's time to pull the reigns in on M$ just a little, to provide more options again to the consumers.
Wow, good point. Not only can crackers shutdown a selected site or two with a well-planned DDoS, now they will also stick it to the average Joe who doesn't know his cable/DSL computer has a Zombie sending out 3gigs a month of DDoS packets. He can't use his service because he magically goes over the 3gig limit in 5 days, and he's forced to switch to dial-up in the end! That sucks.:(
If I understand correctly, the most expensive bandwidth is the overseas bandwidth... the inter-AU bandwidth shouldn't be that expensive. If that's the case, why doesn't Telstra put up a couple TB web cache and require that people use it?
Troll boy, wouldn't that actually blow the bandwidth problem out of the water (pun intended)?! Instead of cutting down cross continent access rates, they would have to suck it up continuously as they downloaded every domain in the world, constantly, so that they wouldn't miss a beat? Not to mention all those sites with server based code that wouldn't run on 'cached' websites in Australia. "This has got to be one of the worst trolls ever." (Simpson's comic guy)
I agree. And if all those music/movie consortiums are so concerned about their precious profits, maybe they should go back to releasing their stuff on vinyl and tape formats so that it wears out. Oh wait, the consumer doesn't want that, that's right! (Duh).
Or maybe we should just purchase less of their stuff to show them who really counts in this whole mess.
How quickly we forget? Some days the mob mentality on Slashdot gets ridiculous.
Gee, thanks for making a generalization about everyone who reads slashdot. Yes, you're right, we're all hypocrites. Or then again, maybe I never advocated buying one thing or another, and I just want to make copies of CD's I already own, and have stuck to this mentality all along. Group think/= everyone's think. Some of us DO actually hold to logical thought processes and are not hypocritical. Apparently, you do not.
Spelling and pronunciation not perfect, but it means "A star shines upon the hour of our meeting!" - rough translation of this Quenya Elvish phrase which is a derivative of the Tengwar elven language built by JRR Tolkien. And yes, I have actually used it with close friends before.
I guess this helps to explain why the last good alternative/rock station got bought out in my town and switched over to YET ANOTHER classic rock station. It also explains why the one main teenie bopper station plays Britney and Destiny's Child every hour. They're all getting 'paid' to put some of that crap on air, instead of making a concerted effort to play whatever people want to hear. Which is why I listen to burned CD's from my collection of purchased CD's. Oh yes, there is a purpose for copying CD's. So I don't have to listen to the radio (which record companies push their boy-bands on), and I don't have to worry about the originals that are OUT-OF-PRINT being stolen from my car. A $.50 copied CD is a lot less of a loss to me than $16!
Well, if any of the Sony exec's are anything like your average American, this doesn't surprise me at their lack of caring what really is true, as long as the end justifies the means.
A friend of mine in high school had to write a 2 page essay on a magazine article from a National Geographic (we all did in this particular class). After reading the first page, he turned it to find that the rest of the article had been ripped out of the magazine. Not having the time to start reading another article, he simply made up the rest of his essay on the article! So it went a little something like this:
"Gorilla's in the wild have had a declining population over the past 20 years as studied by scientists. They have found that deforestation and... (Oh crap! The rest of the story is gone, oh well, here goes nothing)... male mating patterns have added to the loss of gorilla population. After extensive study, it was found that the male will seek out the best looking female gorilla and display wild dancing acts to attract her. When he has gotten her attention, he will find a fallen tree branch, club her over the head, and drag her back to his cave to mate." - (Summarized for brevity).
The teacher bought it, gave him an A+, and commented at the top of his paper on this alarming research, and that she hoped they would find a way to dissuade the clubbings of the females.:)
Needless to say, she's one of the many types of person today that buys into crap movie reviews and has no idea what the world is all about.
I mean, who really cares what Jim Jeffords does or what Trent Lott or Tom Daschle has to say about it? . . . If nothing, then what could possibly be newsworthy about them?
Ohhh, I don't know, maybe that they deceptively tell the public what their new law called the DMCA will do for everyone to 'sell' their point to America!
What part of your operating system are they responsible for?
Well, pretty soon, they'll be responsible for the part that doesn't let me make copies of my own files without a permit for each file. Or to even write up a critical review of a crappy movie and post it to the web that opposes all those with 'jornalistic' licenses (like "Mr. Manning"), 'cause hey, maybe I'm copying someone else's work somewhere in the world, and we certainly wouldn't want that?!
I think this new architecture, and design mindset, could be a very nice addition to the PC market. I want the nicest multimedia computers to play my games on, but I don't really feel like shelling out money for the nicest gaming rig for features that won't be used for gaming. If they can reduce the overall cost of this mobo, and resulting PC parts for it that make it more like a PS2 or Xbox that operates like a PC, I'm going to buy one or two. I can still have my server for playing with hardcore computer stuff, but I won't have to spend a fortune to have a really nice gaming platform to run computer games on, surf the web, and view multimedia.
And no, a PS2 or XBox is not like a computer with a keyboard, mouse, and expandability built into its design. (Although they are getting closer to this realization).
Don't you mean, the sooner the consortium of music industry recording companies, like RIAA, die, the better? I'm sure you don't want the music industry as a whole to die.
Yes, I think this is not entirely unplausible as it has happened before, in a way. Several minor squables that got the US into a tizzy were created by both media hype, and government denial, when really they were just playing off each other. I read a few days ago about how Pearl Harbor was actually instigated by FDR to get America into WW2 by not giving vital info to his Admirals commanding the Pacific fleet so that they would be sitting ducks for the Japanese to attack. It's a very well documented fact, despite what the recent movie may say (but I haven't seen it yet so I don't know how they portrayed it exactly).
I also think it was the Spanish-American war that was started over a reporter's hyping up an accident aboard a US ship as a deliberate attack by Cuba? (Correct me if I'm wrong as I don't remember it exactly).
I think a big reason the government let AOL/Time Warner merge was to create a mega-media outlet in cyberspace. Even a lot of us geeks are apart of it. How many of you subscribe to Cable RoadRunner? And how many average Joe's have simple old AOL? (Answer: about 30 million).
But it's not secret societies running the show, or even fully planning it. There is too much infighting between 'secret societies' cause everyone in them wants to reach the top. If you want to know more about how I think the world is being controlled, email me. Just my $.02 on the issue...
Balmer replying to a question in the article: We are trying to simplify our licensing practices in many ways. We are clearly providing some incentive to upgrade more regularly. Your better customers get a better price. An analysis we've done, 80 percent of our customers are going to see the same or lesser prices, and 20 percent are going to see very small to somewhat larger increases.
And I'll bet that 20% is the big business customer's (where all the money is really made by M$), and they'll be forking out 80% of the profits M$ makes on.NET. So average Joe will say, wow!, look at what great savings this is WinXP/OfficeXP is while the business customer's are forced to waste even more money on software. That's not innovative, that's extortionist.
Alex, you say that this invention of eternal life that you have developed and/or promote is true, and comparable to Einstein, Tesla, and other 'great scientific minds.' Exactly how can you prove that? The only way would be to show that a person could live infinitely, and since there is no end to infinity, you would never be able to end your expirement and provide conclusions in true scientific form. If you have a better explanation, please feel free to share.
But if you could be immortal in this life, would anyone be able to stand it? After seeing all of the evils of the world committed again and again, I think you would grow weary of experiencing the same tragic things over and over, even if there was no death involved. Plus, the more emotional scars you bear, the harder it is to go on in this life.
To go kill yourself - now there's a plan. Think of all the emotional scars you'll give others when they find out you couldn't stand this life anymore (which means you couldn't stand it even enough with them by your side). What will they have to look forward to, except a life that will eventually end by suicide. You have a very self-centered view of what immortality in this life would be like if it were possible.
OK, I see your point. You are willing to pay to have input in the direction of the company and the software. That's fine, but not necessarily a good thing without monetary risk and reward. Some clueless wannabe Linux user with tons of money to burn might pour tons of money into buying shares of this 'stock' to have a bigger say in how the company is run. But without monetary rewards and risks, there's nothing stopping him vote to make it run like M$ Windows. And when he's voted on too many stupid things, and the software is no longer what anyone wants to use, and there's no monetary loss for him, 'cause he now has what he wants, but not what the majority of people want, your investment into 100 'shares' is now a waste because the software is now nothing like what you, or the majority of people, want out of it. I guess that's where I see the flaw in doing this, even though that's probably a pretty far-flung possibility.
On the other hand, I think sending a donation to Mandrake for their hard work, without any rights to say how they run their show is quite all right. It shows them that you, personally, are ecstatic about the work they do. I'm sure they'll consider your input very carefully when designing their next code release, because they want to keep you pleased for your generosity towards their cause. Also, with this system, they still don't have to listen to the guy sending them millions, because he has no 'voting' rights, he just likes giving lots of money to them just like you and the other non-millionaires.
So what's this book about? Hemos didn't really provide me with much more insight about what it is, or how good it is, then the blurb at the beginning from the author. I think I'm going to quit reading the book reviews on slashdot. Everyone launches into ranting about their favorite author with big, and I mean really big, words that do nothing but make everyone whip out their dictionaries for a half hour while they try to decode exactly what the reviewer is saying. I'm not reading this book until someone tells me what the heck it's about!
timothy is right. These things keep getting promised, but not happening. I saw stuff about OLED's in Pop. Sci. like two years ago. The Economist is a magazine that is geared towards the world economy news. It's hardly a 'tech' mag. The only reason I can see that timothy posted this stale story is 'cause he must be anxious to see OLED laptops or gigantic, affordable widescreen HDTV's. Otherwise, this news is stale.
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So basically, as long you do not live in this universe (where all those things occur regularly), you'll remain eternal.
ROFLMAO!!!!
If you were to end up dying someday, who should I contact for a refund on my eternal life device?
Alex:
The Immortality Device Inc is a corporation. So if I die, somebody else from the corporation will take over the business.
There should be no "if you die" there, Alex. Makes me skeptical of your ability to deliver if you don't think your own product can do the job for you! Would you then also have to have your successor sue his/her own corporation for defamation of character? After all, you did name your corp. 'Immortality Device Inc.', which it's now proven not to be, so....
lol!
Read the article, troll. The feature comes from Office XP and can be turned off. And no-one necessarily 'wants' smart-tags, but tons of people are buying every new iteration of Windows, so M$ doesn't have a great way of knowing what people want. Probably because many computer manufacturers package Windows on every new machine so that end-users don't have to think about which operating system they should use. If they did, I would bet that M$ wouldn't retain it's monopolistic market share on OS's.
Ok, academic status may not matter (although I think that's debatable), but criminal charges for 'computer crimes'? That's like charging a mechanical engineer with murder because he designed a car that someone else drove improperly, while drunk, and killed someone with!
What could be really bad, is if a company like M$ became so powerful as to dictate who did or did not get elected for public office based on their monetary contributions and political clout.
Capitalism is an economy based on greed. I supply you with product X to make money for myself, you buy it because you want it for yourself. I'll continue to raise the price as long as you're willing to buy it. If one group gets too powerful, they'll take advantage of the other group for their own benefit. On the other hand, if you use communism as your 'economic' model, it's supposed to keep everyone equal economically. But then the minority (heads of state, usually) become the ones taking advantage of the masses because they make sure to filter the most money to themselves. So it's the reverse bad situation. Therefore, the only solution is a middle of the road system. It's like walking a tightrope, and is very difficult, but so far America has managed to pull it off. The big problem is that people on either side of the issue, tend to get pissed off easily because at any one time one side will have just a little more power than the other. Personally, I'd rather take the temporary pissed off approach than the constant screwing of a pure laisez-fair or communist economy. Having said that, maybe it's time to pull the reigns in on M$ just a little, to provide more options again to the consumers.
Wow, good point. Not only can crackers shutdown a selected site or two with a well-planned DDoS, now they will also stick it to the average Joe who doesn't know his cable/DSL computer has a Zombie sending out 3gigs a month of DDoS packets. He can't use his service because he magically goes over the 3gig limit in 5 days, and he's forced to switch to dial-up in the end! That sucks. :(
Troll boy, wouldn't that actually blow the bandwidth problem out of the water (pun intended)?! Instead of cutting down cross continent access rates, they would have to suck it up continuously as they downloaded every domain in the world, constantly, so that they wouldn't miss a beat? Not to mention all those sites with server based code that wouldn't run on 'cached' websites in Australia. "This has got to be one of the worst trolls ever." (Simpson's comic guy)
Or maybe we should just purchase less of their stuff to show them who really counts in this whole mess.
Gee, thanks for making a generalization about everyone who reads slashdot. Yes, you're right, we're all hypocrites. Or then again, maybe I never advocated buying one thing or another, and I just want to make copies of CD's I already own, and have stuck to this mentality all along. Group think /= everyone's think. Some of us DO actually hold to logical thought processes and are not hypocritical. Apparently, you do not.
Spelling and pronunciation not perfect, but it means "A star shines upon the hour of our meeting!" - rough translation of this Quenya Elvish phrase which is a derivative of the Tengwar elven language built by JRR Tolkien. And yes, I have actually used it with close friends before.
I guess this helps to explain why the last good alternative/rock station got bought out in my town and switched over to YET ANOTHER classic rock station. It also explains why the one main teenie bopper station plays Britney and Destiny's Child every hour. They're all getting 'paid' to put some of that crap on air, instead of making a concerted effort to play whatever people want to hear. Which is why I listen to burned CD's from my collection of purchased CD's. Oh yes, there is a purpose for copying CD's. So I don't have to listen to the radio (which record companies push their boy-bands on), and I don't have to worry about the originals that are OUT-OF-PRINT being stolen from my car. A $.50 copied CD is a lot less of a loss to me than $16!
Apparently, Bill Gates has already achieved such god-like figures and is continueing his quest at an alarming rate!
A friend of mine in high school had to write a 2 page essay on a magazine article from a National Geographic (we all did in this particular class). After reading the first page, he turned it to find that the rest of the article had been ripped out of the magazine. Not having the time to start reading another article, he simply made up the rest of his essay on the article! So it went a little something like this:
"Gorilla's in the wild have had a declining population over the past 20 years as studied by scientists. They have found that deforestation and ... (Oh crap! The rest of the story is gone, oh well, here goes nothing) ... male mating patterns have added to the loss of gorilla population. After extensive study, it was found that the male will seek out the best looking female gorilla and display wild dancing acts to attract her. When he has gotten her attention, he will find a fallen tree branch, club her over the head, and drag her back to his cave to mate." - (Summarized for brevity).
The teacher bought it, gave him an A+, and commented at the top of his paper on this alarming research, and that she hoped they would find a way to dissuade the clubbings of the females. :)
Needless to say, she's one of the many types of person today that buys into crap movie reviews and has no idea what the world is all about.
Ohhh, I don't know, maybe that they deceptively tell the public what their new law called the DMCA will do for everyone to 'sell' their point to America!
What part of your operating system are they responsible for?
Well, pretty soon, they'll be responsible for the part that doesn't let me make copies of my own files without a permit for each file. Or to even write up a critical review of a crappy movie and post it to the web that opposes all those with 'jornalistic' licenses (like "Mr. Manning"), 'cause hey, maybe I'm copying someone else's work somewhere in the world, and we certainly wouldn't want that?!
So do I, but not in the computer field... ;)
I tend to get 200 pounds an hour, for the testing/analysis - and the report writing
Yikes! I try to avoid anything over 120 pounds, and I definitely don't write reports about it! Just a bragging session or two with the fella's ;)
And if you think I'm actually serious about all this, you need your head examined, and the wedgie pulled out of your bottom.
And no, a PS2 or XBox is not like a computer with a keyboard, mouse, and expandability built into its design. (Although they are getting closer to this realization).
Don't you mean, the sooner the consortium of music industry recording companies, like RIAA, die, the better? I'm sure you don't want the music industry as a whole to die.
I also think it was the Spanish-American war that was started over a reporter's hyping up an accident aboard a US ship as a deliberate attack by Cuba? (Correct me if I'm wrong as I don't remember it exactly).
I think a big reason the government let AOL/Time Warner merge was to create a mega-media outlet in cyberspace. Even a lot of us geeks are apart of it. How many of you subscribe to Cable RoadRunner? And how many average Joe's have simple old AOL? (Answer: about 30 million).
But it's not secret societies running the show, or even fully planning it. There is too much infighting between 'secret societies' cause everyone in them wants to reach the top. If you want to know more about how I think the world is being controlled, email me. Just my $.02 on the issue...
And I'll bet that 20% is the big business customer's (where all the money is really made by M$), and they'll be forking out 80% of the profits M$ makes on .NET. So average Joe will say, wow!, look at what great savings this is WinXP/OfficeXP is while the business customer's are forced to waste even more money on software. That's not innovative, that's extortionist.
I think that's exactly why he's got that Reichish eagle banner on his 'Immortality Rings' page...
Alex, you say that this invention of eternal life that you have developed and/or promote is true, and comparable to Einstein, Tesla, and other 'great scientific minds.' Exactly how can you prove that? The only way would be to show that a person could live infinitely, and since there is no end to infinity, you would never be able to end your expirement and provide conclusions in true scientific form. If you have a better explanation, please feel free to share.
To go kill yourself - now there's a plan. Think of all the emotional scars you'll give others when they find out you couldn't stand this life anymore (which means you couldn't stand it even enough with them by your side). What will they have to look forward to, except a life that will eventually end by suicide. You have a very self-centered view of what immortality in this life would be like if it were possible.
On the other hand, I think sending a donation to Mandrake for their hard work, without any rights to say how they run their show is quite all right. It shows them that you, personally, are ecstatic about the work they do. I'm sure they'll consider your input very carefully when designing their next code release, because they want to keep you pleased for your generosity towards their cause. Also, with this system, they still don't have to listen to the guy sending them millions, because he has no 'voting' rights, he just likes giving lots of money to them just like you and the other non-millionaires.
So what's this book about? Hemos didn't really provide me with much more insight about what it is, or how good it is, then the blurb at the beginning from the author. I think I'm going to quit reading the book reviews on slashdot. Everyone launches into ranting about their favorite author with big, and I mean really big, words that do nothing but make everyone whip out their dictionaries for a half hour while they try to decode exactly what the reviewer is saying. I'm not reading this book until someone tells me what the heck it's about!
timothy is right. These things keep getting promised, but not happening. I saw stuff about OLED's in Pop. Sci. like two years ago. The Economist is a magazine that is geared towards the world economy news. It's hardly a 'tech' mag. The only reason I can see that timothy posted this stale story is 'cause he must be anxious to see OLED laptops or gigantic, affordable widescreen HDTV's. Otherwise, this news is stale.