Darl's been guilty of pretty much only one thing: Shooting his mouth off. Now he needs protection from it? Hell, if he's packing heat, I can't WAIT for him to shoot his mouth off!
"If thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out and cast it from thee. If thy mouth offend thee, blow off thy lips with a.45 caliber hollowpoint."
I tried to read the article, but I couldn't find the bloody thing! I'm used to that though, but the part that boggles me is, "Was this the standard Slashdot Effect or was it Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle?"
So I don't have 4 different IM clients running at any one given time. And until MS offers that kind of functionality, they can bite my bag. (i'm reminded here of MSIE's support for tabbed browsing)
In addition, is MS REALLY losing money? The way i see it, most people using multi-protocol clients are fairly immune to the Techni-color lure of banner ads. Word.
Can you imagine better protection for a virus writer?
"Mr. Prosecuter, was your client adversely affected by Mr. Jones malicious program?"
"Yes sir, he was."
"And is your client 'stupid,' under the statuates of the State of New York."
" Uhh.. No sir? He's not?"
"CASE DISMISSED!"
"In 10 or 20 years there might be no more need for hard disks, because solid-state memory could store so much data."
5 Terabyte, solid state hard drive: 150 USD.
No more need to de-frag, the memory could dynamically reallocate the clusters, etc. This would probably revolutionize everything we've ever thought about traditional filesystems.
"Superposition theoretically allows quantum computers to solve complex algorithms (such as those used in cryptography) that would be impossible for a conventional computer to tackle."
Will any of our data truly be safe? Who's going to get these computers first? Big Brother. Would even a 512K or 1Mb encryption key be big enough? A 1Mb key would be feasible for a 20K message with optical net connections, but would it do us any good? Is the solution also going to be a quantum-type algorithm?
"An undergraduate student of his is taking this idea even further, and working to create a biological computing interface."
Wearable? IMPLANTABLES? Was William Gibson right all along? Will a tradional UI even be neccessary when we can all interface at the speed of thought? Might a standardized thought-interface be a way to diagnose mental illness? Might it be the cure?
Pandora's box is opening, slowly and surely before us.
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I've known for YEARS that alcohol makes music sound better! Where's MY article?
Darl's been guilty of pretty much only one thing: Shooting his mouth off. Now he needs protection from it? Hell, if he's packing heat, I can't WAIT for him to shoot his mouth off!
.45 caliber hollowpoint."
"If thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out and cast it from thee. If thy mouth offend thee, blow off thy lips with a
-From "The Book of Darl"
I tried to read the article, but I couldn't find the bloody thing! I'm used to that though, but the part that boggles me is, "Was this the standard Slashdot Effect or was it Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle?"
More worrying: Are they somehow related?
I'll leave that one to deeper minds.
So I don't have 4 different IM clients running at any one given time. And until MS offers that kind of functionality, they can bite my bag. (i'm reminded here of MSIE's support for tabbed browsing)
In addition, is MS REALLY losing money? The way i see it, most people using multi-protocol clients are fairly immune to the Techni-color lure of banner ads. Word.
Can you imagine better protection for a virus writer?
"Mr. Prosecuter, was your client adversely affected by Mr. Jones malicious program?"
"Yes sir, he was."
"And is your client 'stupid,' under the statuates of the State of New York."
" Uhh.. No sir? He's not?"
"CASE DISMISSED!"
Imagine being able to give your computer a piece of your mind ..."
i don't know about you fellas, but i'd rather give my mind a piece of my computer.
can't wait to install my new Ultra ATA spinal column
"In 10 or 20 years there might be no more need for hard disks, because solid-state memory could store so much data."
5 Terabyte, solid state hard drive: 150 USD.
No more need to de-frag, the memory could dynamically reallocate the clusters, etc. This would probably revolutionize everything we've ever thought about traditional filesystems.
"Superposition theoretically allows quantum computers to solve complex algorithms (such as those used in cryptography) that would be impossible for a conventional computer to tackle."
Will any of our data truly be safe? Who's going to get these computers first? Big Brother. Would even a 512K or 1Mb encryption key be big enough? A 1Mb key would be feasible for a 20K message with optical net connections, but would it do us any good? Is the solution also going to be a quantum-type algorithm?
"An undergraduate student of his is taking this idea even further, and working to create a biological computing interface."
Wearable? IMPLANTABLES? Was William Gibson right all along? Will a tradional UI even be neccessary when we can all interface at the speed of thought? Might a standardized thought-interface be a way to diagnose mental illness? Might it be the cure?
Pandora's box is opening, slowly and surely before us.
Maybe if we give them enough awards, they'll tell us what the "K" stands for!