We broke the DVD encryption, we crack software that has cd checking. If this becomes a standard, we will cross the right wires and set thing right again.
We're too determined to let something like this exist without a challenge.
I certainly hope the TV-internet does not become popular. Using a remote controll to navigate the web lends itself to weak, vertical website design, and I don't want to see an ugly internet optimized for the TV user.
You mentioned something about `rummaging through all your DVDs' when a friend comes over.
Maybe the box could also function as a DVD jukebox, or include a port that could connect to a DVD jukebox, so one could merely select a DVD in the index on the box, and the jukebox could play it, this is probably expensive, but what about the box isn't?
I don't spend that much time outdoors, and I doubt that many slashdotters do, but I have yet to see a lizzard with a tick on it.
I work at a zoo, but that doesn't count, the lizzards are all indoors, and well groomed and cared for. No ticks on the zoo lizzards, anyhow.
Is this really a tractor beam?
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A method has been developed that uses laser light to spin molecules.
Is this a tractor beam? I would think that to qualify as such it would need to draw the particles toward the source of the beam.
It does sound as if movement perpendicular to the laser is possible. So, maybe one day, with two of these focused on a single point, we could draw this point closer. I'll have to shift my vision of single-ray tractor beams to double-ray beams.
I think they did that on the Simpsons once, Homer was too fat for one beam to lift him. They're visionaries, down at FOX.
1. The Bill text has yet to be posted to the web, but should be up in a week or so.
2. I'm not quite sure where that $225 million is going, but I don't like it.
Perhaps the money will hasten and improve the process of posting government data online. Maybe one day bill texts will be online instantly. Also, in the far furture, we may be so advanced that we no longer require a representative legislature. People might vote on bills from their homes, or public buildings like libraries. Then again, the thought of million-man fillibusters is daunting, as is the fear of hacker attacks.
If a corporation (erm Apple) were to manufacture computers looked more like teletubbies, I'm sure the general public would have a much easier time using them. They would be availible in all the teletubby colors, and to simplify the whole left mouse and right mouse dilemma that bothers many users, they would only have one mouse button. The mouse itself would be shaped like a hockey puck, because everybody loves hockey. Of course a teletubby would use all USB peripherals so the technilogically impaired wouldn't have to worry about plugging in anything into the wrong place. A plush antenna would provide wireless intenet access. Nobody would lose an eye. There would be no floppy disk drives to confuse users. One day a computer like this will be built, and all our nation's computer deficient may lead normal lives. [okay no pluch antenna, yet]
I'm in high school, and I'm curious to find out how my life, as defined by LAN events, will change after I get out of school. To do this, I will describe what the events are like for me, and then I would like those of you who are adults to tell me what I can expect to change when I become *ack* older.
First of all, our LAN parties (we call them parties) are an overnight affair, but we bring no sleeping bags, pillows, or change of clothes. We bring caffine. Many of our parties begin around 6pm and only end around 5pm the next day. Once I added it all up and figured that I had been awake for 38 hours. We become extremely giddy when we go without sleep for this long. How long they will play in this German competition? If they stay awake playing computer games for as long as we do, the conditioning nessessary may qualify it as a real sport. How long do you stay awake for your events?
We don't take ourselves seriously, especially after we begin to become giddy with tiredness. For example, in Counter-strike whenever a flashbang is thrown a recorded voice says, "fire in the hole." One night, after playing Counter-strike for many hours, one of our companions tried to go to sleep. Crept up beside him, gave my best impression of the recorded "fire..." and deployed my flash camera. As his hands groped violently in the room lit only by computer monitors, I was in hysterics. I wonder, do good-natured pranks continue into adulthood?
We drink many bottles of pop, and Oreos and french loaves of bread are popular snacks. There are usually between 7 to 12 in attendance, and we usually play about 2 times a month.
Also, does anyone have any tips for making this a better experience?
I don't think size really matters in a desktop system. I want a processor to be fast as well as inexpensive, and while I understand that a smaller chip means a slower travel time for electrons, does that really make a difference?
Sounds eerily similar to the situation at my high school. We have a great LAN and many computers, but it is all wasted because there will always be policy preventing us from bringing a burn of counterstrike to school.
I'd also like to add that photo student IDs are really pointless. After all, how are we protected if non-students are in the building, the students that are supposed to be there are what really worry me.
Isn't that the source of Microsofts Power? What I mean to say is that Microsoft is the giant that it is because, IMHO it has all the best software and games produced for it.
Linux really has a potential to become more popular amoung the consumer market if it can run popular games and apps at or above the speed of the Microsoft Operating Systems.
Sounds to me like Direct3d for Linux might accomplish this. If Direct3d would hurt the future of Linux, Microsoft would have already published it.
I have been thinking abot all this cloning and genetics research, and the other day I thought of something, what would a human look like with two Y chomosomes?
All women have two X chomosomes, their egg always cairries an X.
Men have an X and a Y, and the sperm may carry either.
Of course because always have X it has been inmpossible in the past to generate offspring with a YY configuration, but what would a YY man be like? Naturally, no femenine side whatsoever. Given the lack of logic and reason displayed in most women, would a YY be superintelligent, Superstrong? Super-sterile?
I have been thinking abot all this cloning and genetics research, and the other day I thought of something, what would a human look like with two Y chomosomes?
All women have two X chomosomes, their egg always cairries an X.
Men have an X and a Y, and the sperm may carry either.
Of course because always have X it has been inmpossible in the past to generate offspring with a YY configuration, but what would a YY man be like? Naturally, no femenine side whatsoever. Given the lack of logic and reason displayed in most women, would a YY be superintelligent, Superstrong? Super-sterile?
It seems like bleeding-edge technology like that might never make it into our living-rooms. I really think 10 ghz is full possible, but I truely hate the person that could afford that kind of technology. Not to mention cooling. Sometimes I think those technicians and scientists make that sort of thing for their own use. I can only imagine the Intel people in their bunny suits playing Half-Life on machines that break down after the half-life of their processors has past and the CPU decays.
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We broke the DVD encryption, we crack software that has cd checking. If this becomes a standard, we will cross the right wires and set thing right again.
We're too determined to let something like this exist without a challenge.
I certainly hope the TV-internet does not become popular. Using a remote controll to navigate the web lends itself to weak, vertical website design, and I don't want to see an ugly internet optimized for the TV user.
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But it will never happen to
You mentioned something about `rummaging through all your DVDs' when a friend comes over.
Maybe the box could also function as a DVD jukebox, or include a port that could connect to a DVD jukebox, so one could merely select a DVD in the index on the box, and the jukebox could play it, this is probably expensive, but what about the box isn't?
How soon until I get this sort of thing to write my English papers for me?
I'm betting, 25 years, too late for me.
I'd like to make something that compiles an essay from paragraphs and phrases in other works, that could be made in the next 2 years I think.
I don't spend that much time outdoors, and I doubt that many slashdotters do, but I have yet to see a lizzard with a tick on it.
I work at a zoo, but that doesn't count, the lizzards are all indoors, and well groomed and cared for. No ticks on the zoo lizzards, anyhow.
A method has been developed that uses laser light to spin molecules.
Is this a tractor beam? I would think that to qualify as such it would need to draw the particles toward the source of the beam.
It does sound as if movement perpendicular to the laser is possible. So, maybe one day, with two of these focused on a single point, we could draw this point closer. I'll have to shift my vision of single-ray tractor beams to double-ray beams.
I think they did that on the Simpsons once, Homer was too fat for one beam to lift him. They're visionaries, down at FOX.
1. The Bill text has yet to be posted to the web, but should be up in a week or so.
2. I'm not quite sure where that $225 million is going, but I don't like it.
Perhaps the money will hasten and improve the process of posting government data online. Maybe one day bill texts will be online instantly. Also, in the far furture, we may be so advanced that we no longer require a representative legislature. People might vote on bills from their homes, or public buildings like libraries. Then again, the thought of million-man fillibusters is daunting, as is the fear of hacker attacks.
If a corporation (erm Apple) were to manufacture computers looked more like teletubbies, I'm sure the general public would have a much easier time using them. They would be availible in all the teletubby colors, and to simplify the whole left mouse and right mouse dilemma that bothers many users, they would only have one mouse button. The mouse itself would be shaped like a hockey puck, because everybody loves hockey. Of course a teletubby would use all USB peripherals so the technilogically impaired wouldn't have to worry about plugging in anything into the wrong place. A plush antenna would provide wireless intenet access. Nobody would lose an eye. There would be no floppy disk drives to confuse users. One day a computer like this will be built, and all our nation's computer deficient may lead normal lives. [okay no pluch antenna, yet]
I'm in high school, and I'm curious to find out how my life, as defined by LAN events, will change after I get out of school. To do this, I will describe what the events are like for me, and then I would like those of you who are adults to tell me what I can expect to change when I become *ack* older.
First of all, our LAN parties (we call them parties) are an overnight affair, but we bring no sleeping bags, pillows, or change of clothes. We bring caffine. Many of our parties begin around 6pm and only end around 5pm the next day. Once I added it all up and figured that I had been awake for 38 hours. We become extremely giddy when we go without sleep for this long. How long they will play in this German competition? If they stay awake playing computer games for as long as we do, the conditioning nessessary may qualify it as a real sport. How long do you stay awake for your events?
We don't take ourselves seriously, especially after we begin to become giddy with tiredness. For example, in Counter-strike whenever a flashbang is thrown a recorded voice says, "fire in the hole." One night, after playing Counter-strike for many hours, one of our companions tried to go to sleep. Crept up beside him, gave my best impression of the recorded "fire..." and deployed my flash camera. As his hands groped violently in the room lit only by computer monitors, I was in hysterics. I wonder, do good-natured pranks continue into adulthood?
We drink many bottles of pop, and Oreos and french loaves of bread are popular snacks. There are usually between 7 to 12 in attendance, and we usually play about 2 times a month.
Also, does anyone have any tips for making this a better experience?
I don't think size really matters in a desktop system. I want a processor to be fast as well as inexpensive, and while I understand that a smaller chip means a slower travel time for electrons, does that really make a difference?
Bring no disks,
Modify nothing,
or else.
Sounds eerily similar to the situation at my high school. We have a great LAN and many computers, but it is all wasted because there will always be policy preventing us from bringing a burn of counterstrike to school.
I'd also like to add that photo student IDs are really pointless. After all, how are we protected if non-students are in the building, the students that are supposed to be there are what really worry me.
Isn't that the source of Microsofts Power? What I mean to say is that Microsoft is the giant that it is because, IMHO it has all the best software and games produced for it.
Linux really has a potential to become more popular amoung the consumer market if it can run popular games and apps at or above the speed of the Microsoft Operating Systems.
Sounds to me like Direct3d for Linux might accomplish this. If Direct3d would hurt the future of Linux, Microsoft would have already published it.
I have been thinking abot all this cloning and genetics research, and the other day I thought of something, what would a human look like with two Y chomosomes?
All women have two X chomosomes, their egg always cairries an X.
Men have an X and a Y, and the sperm may carry either.
Of course because always have X it has been inmpossible in the past to generate offspring with a YY configuration, but what would a YY man be like? Naturally, no femenine side whatsoever. Given the lack of logic and reason displayed in most women, would a YY be superintelligent, Superstrong? Super-sterile?
My mind boggles.
I have been thinking abot all this cloning and genetics research, and the other day I thought of something, what would a human look like with two Y chomosomes?
All women have two X chomosomes, their egg always cairries an X.
Men have an X and a Y, and the sperm may carry either.
Of course because always have X it has been inmpossible in the past to generate offspring with a YY configuration, but what would a YY man be like? Naturally, no femenine side whatsoever. Given the lack of logic and reason displayed in most women, would a YY be superintelligent, Superstrong? Super-sterile?
My mind boggles.
It seems like bleeding-edge technology like that might never make it into our living-rooms. I really think 10 ghz is full possible, but I truely hate the person that could afford that kind of technology. Not to mention cooling. Sometimes I think those technicians and scientists make that sort of thing for their own use. I can only imagine the Intel people in their bunny suits playing Half-Life on machines that break down after the half-life of their processors has past and the CPU decays.