Survival of your self, your family, your genetic lineage, by any means necessary is not human nature, because those traits are very common in the animal world. It is Mammalian Nature of which you speak. The protection of family, an extension of yourself, to survive.
What differentiates us from animals is our human nature. The ability to live with a code of ethics, to die for a cause that is greater than yourself (for your community, for some immaterial gain, for love, for god, faith, etc.).
Acting out of personal interest and greed is just a complicated mammalian process that is the result of our societies determination of what we need to survive (Money, wealth, prestige).
Acting like a true human is hard. Living by any code of conduct, respecting every living being, having compassion and understanding at the most difficult times, that is the human potential. That is what makes us different from animals.
That "black magic" you refer to do is download accellorator (or something like that) which breaks an ftp transfer into 4-5 chunks (if the server supports resume) and downloads all 4-5 chunks simulatenously, then recombines them at the end of the transfer. With multiple links, you would get a faster download from one source using it. The nexland page suggests that owners of the router use Download Accel. to really experience the difference in transfer speeds.
Considering Jane was a self aware entity living among the ansible connections. Ender just used a "jewel" embedded in his ear to talk communicate with her. I was always struck that for all the future advances Card envisioned, that he still hadn't thought of anything a little more advanced than the jewel (althou to his credit, it never needed to be charged, and had an unlimited range, possibly had a built in ansible?)
He is now on "Inactive duty" from the navy, serving for 7 years and then blowing out his knees. During that time he "had one of the highest security clearances" in the navy.
Asked him if he got to carry around the briefcase of codes for the president, the ones that supposedly change once a week. His response: "I couldn't tell you if I did, but they change every 3 months"
I seem to remember it saying that if it had been more efficient to make a big duct they would have, but then they would have needed a grill and something keep the grill clean from all the birds etc. that would have been sucked into it. I don't have my copy on me to check.
And it would be entirely feasible to break down material not made by the makers, it would be a process similar to the raw materials harvesting facilities.
The game is dirt cheap now. Also pick up the game sack, its $10 from store.bungie.com and has all their original Mac games, which will run great on just about any powerpc level machine.
Myth, for me, really brought in some more immediate challenges than starcraft, because it wasn't just build orders, etc. It was about physical placement of units, who had the higher ground, etc.
And get them into making levels. My highschool had a 3D design course, a programming course, and a bunch of other things, and it would have been really cool if one could be able to tap into all of those resources and work on developing a mod for a game. There is the usual "create a q3a map of your highschool, down to the principles office housing C'thon" theme, but I don't know how well that will go over post columbine. But it could make the meetings more exciting, as each month they meet, and work on / debug their level, with a party thrown for them at the end of the year.
And then all their work would be rolled into next years project, so students following them would have to improve on that, etc.
Of course, Neal Stephenson had a pretty good idea of the impact of practical nano construction is.
One of the coolest parts of the book was how eco friendly the designs were, and not by intention. Because when you have the ability to build at the same level nature does (molecule by molecule) you can make extremely simple designs, which are easy to break down. The whole idea that the water intake system for the raw materials plant was not a gigantic intake duct, but instead, thousands of little tubes which could do a better job because of its ability to act as a wick. The side affect of this design was that it was almost identical to clump of reeds, and after like it.
And items could be broken back down easily, however if they were made pre-nanotech, it took longer, because their patterns were chaotic.
By firewire camera, I meant DV camera. And I do believe the high end, 3-4 mega pixel professional models do have firewire on them also.
And Firewire was never meant to replace USB, USB 2 is actually trying to replace Firewire as a high speed device for hard drives, cdrws, etc. If i had a mixed environment of machines (Macs which all shipping models have firewire on, PCs with USB 2.0) there are plenty of devices that come with both USB and Firewire connections on them (hard drives and cd/dvd recorders).
Again, firewire is not for cheap devices, and more and more computers are starting to include them, since there is yet to be a DV camera to ship with USB 2 on it (that I know of). And Home Video editing has become very popular.
And while I don't have links to back this up, from the last firewire vs USB2 debate, I believe Firewire still gives better throughput to hard drives, etc.
USB 2 suffers from a master / slave design. Theoretically one can plug a firewire drive into a firewire camera, and transfer footage from the camera directly to the HD. And you can run IP over firewire, for some really fast / cheap LAN for a central storage server.
On top of that, 1394b supports up to 1.2Gbps or 1.6 Gbps (depending on the media) which is being developed. And it works nicely with 1394a.
the "The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Dating and Sex" is a great read.
GF got it for me for christmas, I don't know if that is a good thing or a bad thing.
Also, if you want to prep someone for college, sit down and drink WITH them. Your child will drink at college, it is almost certain. But if they are introduced to it in a safer environment beforehand, if just for the parents.
(My father specifically stated that he wanted me to learn my limit before I got to college, so he wouldn't get a phone call from a hospital / public safety / police).
The problem is, with digital projectors, they are noisy (big fan to cool the lightbulbs in em) and the bulbs tend to be expensive when they burn out.
Of course, you would also need a big flat, matte white painted wall to project onto, etc.
There are major Home theatre heads who do have such setups, but usually the project is in a projection room, with a double layer of optical class to project through.
Also, don't forget, that with a projector behind you, you would have to change your entire cabling setup (because everything was in front, plugged into your TV, remember?) so everything is behind you. After someone has dropped a few hundred (thousand at times) on cables, getting the speakers setup JUST right, its a pain to move everything around. A Plasma TV is something you can put in place of your TV, get an image just like from your projector, but without the hassle of having to setup a projector.
(and then there is an entire other issue of which tvs can provide true "blacks" etc.)
Why? cause it's cheaper than upgrading any PC i have to becoming a decent game box.
And, hopefully someone will start hacking at it, and get it running some more fun things. On board networking, great video out, great audio capabilities, could turn into a decent home entertainment system (actually, it is a decent one right now, if you don't mind keeping everything in WMA on it, and not be able to retrieve information from it). I would hope someone could break open the box and start hacking with it, get linux on it. (I don't know if the CD ROM drive un able to read burned CDs is true or not).
It would be a fun project box. And because I spent 3 hours playing halo on it, and I want one.
For the price, this is amazing. the box has two 64bit/66mhz slots in it, which could probably fit two dual channel scsi160 (or 320) controller cards in it.
It's a 1U case, if I was going to do massive storage intensive tasks on it, I would plug it into a hardware raid. Like the Lacie TX12000 system, http://www.lacie.com/products/product.cfm?id=4A867 A58-54C8-11D5-97C60090278D3ED0
Which is rackmountable, and handles all the aspects of the raid itself. That way, if the server breaks, I can remove it, put a new one in its place, and keep going. (Servers support netbooting now, so I wouldn't have to change configuration). For the education / science / lets get work done crowd, this is an awesome benefit.
Since storage capacity is essential, and you can raid the drives, why not put ATA in there? Instead of scsi. If you need scsi do the above, and put them in a box dedicated to handle them.
I realize there are tons of web gui's, etc. for controlling a streaming server. But I love the iTunes interface.
Being able to do what I think steve was showing off (Mp3s stored remotely, server acts like the internal iTunes dbase, and just streams the mp3s to the client when they hit play). Would mean that I could use the iTunes app, which I love, to listen to music and select what I am listening too (most streaming servers need a command line / playlist / webgui interface, I want it straight from iTunes).
Hopefully someone makes an opensource mp3 server that acts exactly like this. Screw a web interface, give me a database front end app on my desktop. Write a plugin or two for winamp / linux mp3 player good ness, and it is one hell of a nice project. And it would be good practice implementing zeroconf (on linux anyway, getting MS to do it would be something entirely different).
I have a laptop, so being able to store my mp3s on a big, cheap, hard drive in a server somewhere, instead of locally, on my small, expensive, laptop drive, would be a dream.
The bandwidth for a 192K stream is inconsequential over airport / home network for me.
I still get the sense they got some "urging" from apple to do this, or atleast some really nice machines to test the hardware out on, for not much expense.
Making nature to suite our needs usually ends up with us being made natures bitch as a consequence.
When I saw in the story post the "we have been doing this for years" I immediately thought, of course you have. It's called training.
Sheep dogs have been bred to do it. And sure it takes a little longer, but I doubt their would be much difference. Ok, so a trained animal could have trouble hearing the trainer in a loud, confusing situation. Instead of wiring some forced control into the animal (since animals have a pretty good ability to judge if they are going to be hurt) how about a wireless radio in the ear, so the commands are still "optional".
And they have been doing this for a while. Does anyone else remember the CIA Cat Spy? Which promptly walked into oncoming traffic, after they did a routine trick of wiring its pleasure center so it "wouldn't walk away when it got bored, hungry, tired" etc.
Even with rats, this makes me sick. "electrically stimulating the pleasure center" is supposedly quite addicting. From what I've heard, rats in a cage with two buttons, one for food, one for a jolt o pleasure, the rat will continue to push the button for pleasure until it dies from starvation / dehydration.
For something even trippier, read Infinite Jest, by David Foster Wallace, which has a plot that revolved around a video tape which will VISUALLY stimulate the pleasure center of the brain, so much so, that people because they just watch it, until their bladder bursts, or they don't take their insulin, etc. The most addictive drug ever becomes a video.
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I have to disagree....
Survival of your self, your family, your genetic lineage, by any means necessary is not human nature, because those traits are very common in the animal world. It is Mammalian Nature of which you speak. The protection of family, an extension of yourself, to survive.
What differentiates us from animals is our human nature. The ability to live with a code of ethics, to die for a cause that is greater than yourself (for your community, for some immaterial gain, for love, for god, faith, etc.).
Acting out of personal interest and greed is just a complicated mammalian process that is the result of our societies determination of what we need to survive (Money, wealth, prestige).
Acting like a true human is hard. Living by any code of conduct, respecting every living being, having compassion and understanding at the most difficult times, that is the human potential. That is what makes us different from animals.
That "black magic" you refer to do is download accellorator (or something like that) which breaks an ftp transfer into 4-5 chunks (if the server supports resume) and downloads all 4-5 chunks simulatenously, then recombines them at the end of the transfer. With multiple links, you would get a faster download from one source using it. The nexland page suggests that owners of the router use Download Accel. to really experience the difference in transfer speeds.
With wheels....
check out www.anthro.com
Just bolt everything onto that, along with a big ass UPS, and you won't loose downtime moving it around.
At one point I found a female employee with lesbian porn in her home folder. She was fired.
Wait a second! I hope there was more to that than just finding lesbian porn in a women's file space which were the grounds for her being fired.
You refigerate twinkies?
What kind of weird sicko are you?
If it keeps me from the red meat portion, there will be compressors rolling!
What is going to stop him from putting a "nuclear powered" sticker on his car in the first place?
I mean, if the beaterz.com website taught us anything, it is stickers with cool names can compensate for lack of actual performance any day.
A very small step...
Considering Jane was a self aware entity living among the ansible connections. Ender just used a "jewel" embedded in his ear to talk communicate with her. I was always struck that for all the future advances Card envisioned, that he still hadn't thought of anything a little more advanced than the jewel (althou to his credit, it never needed to be charged, and had an unlimited range, possibly had a built in ansible?)
As a techdesk monkey at like local college, I can say that Klez is a bitch to get rid of.
Actually, www.sarc.com provides a free klez removal tool, which will fix all executables, etc. which were infected by klez.
I asked my friend about this (the launch codes).
He is now on "Inactive duty" from the navy, serving for 7 years and then blowing out his knees. During that time he "had one of the highest security clearances" in the navy.
Asked him if he got to carry around the briefcase of codes for the president, the ones that supposedly change once a week. His response: "I couldn't tell you if I did, but they change every 3 months"
Take that as you may.
I seem to remember it saying that if it had been more efficient to make a big duct they would have, but then they would have needed a grill and something keep the grill clean from all the birds etc. that would have been sucked into it. I don't have my copy on me to check.
And it would be entirely feasible to break down material not made by the makers, it would be a process similar to the raw materials harvesting facilities.
The game is dirt cheap now. Also pick up the game sack, its $10 from store.bungie.com and has all their original Mac games, which will run great on just about any powerpc level machine.
Myth, for me, really brought in some more immediate challenges than starcraft, because it wasn't just build orders, etc. It was about physical placement of units, who had the higher ground, etc.
And get them into making levels. My highschool had a 3D design course, a programming course, and a bunch of other things, and it would have been really cool if one could be able to tap into all of those resources and work on developing a mod for a game. There is the usual "create a q3a map of your highschool, down to the principles office housing C'thon" theme, but I don't know how well that will go over post columbine. But it could make the meetings more exciting, as each month they meet, and work on / debug their level, with a party thrown for them at the end of the year.
And then all their work would be rolled into next years project, so students following them would have to improve on that, etc.
Of course, Neal Stephenson had a pretty good idea of the impact of practical nano construction is.
One of the coolest parts of the book was how eco friendly the designs were, and not by intention. Because when you have the ability to build at the same level nature does (molecule by molecule) you can make extremely simple designs, which are easy to break down. The whole idea that the water intake system for the raw materials plant was not a gigantic intake duct, but instead, thousands of little tubes which could do a better job because of its ability to act as a wick. The side affect of this design was that it was almost identical to clump of reeds, and after like it.
And items could be broken back down easily, however if they were made pre-nanotech, it took longer, because their patterns were chaotic.
What the hell are the 6100s doing?
And what appears to be either Beige G3s or 72/3/5/6 00's.
Damn man, what are you using those machines for?
(tempted, because my own college dorm room is starting to look that, which is why I am probably going to have to move off campus junior year)
By firewire camera, I meant DV camera. And I do believe the high end, 3-4 mega pixel professional models do have firewire on them also.
And Firewire was never meant to replace USB, USB 2 is actually trying to replace Firewire as a high speed device for hard drives, cdrws, etc. If i had a mixed environment of machines (Macs which all shipping models have firewire on, PCs with USB 2.0) there are plenty of devices that come with both USB and Firewire connections on them (hard drives and cd/dvd recorders).
Again, firewire is not for cheap devices, and more and more computers are starting to include them, since there is yet to be a DV camera to ship with USB 2 on it (that I know of). And Home Video editing has become very popular.
And while I don't have links to back this up, from the last firewire vs USB2 debate, I believe Firewire still gives better throughput to hard drives, etc.
USB 2 suffers from a master / slave design. Theoretically one can plug a firewire drive into a firewire camera, and transfer footage from the camera directly to the HD. And you can run IP over firewire, for some really fast / cheap LAN for a central storage server.
On top of that, 1394b supports up to 1.2Gbps or 1.6 Gbps (depending on the media) which is being developed. And it works nicely with 1394a.
the "The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Dating and Sex" is a great read.
GF got it for me for christmas, I don't know if that is a good thing or a bad thing.
Also, if you want to prep someone for college, sit down and drink WITH them. Your child will drink at college, it is almost certain. But if they are introduced to it in a safer environment beforehand, if just for the parents.
(My father specifically stated that he wanted me to learn my limit before I got to college, so he wouldn't get a phone call from a hospital / public safety / police).
I've been wondering this myself.
The problem is, with digital projectors, they are noisy (big fan to cool the lightbulbs in em) and the bulbs tend to be expensive when they burn out.
Of course, you would also need a big flat, matte white painted wall to project onto, etc.
There are major Home theatre heads who do have such setups, but usually the project is in a projection room, with a double layer of optical class to project through.
Also, don't forget, that with a projector behind you, you would have to change your entire cabling setup (because everything was in front, plugged into your TV, remember?) so everything is behind you. After someone has dropped a few hundred (thousand at times) on cables, getting the speakers setup JUST right, its a pain to move everything around. A Plasma TV is something you can put in place of your TV, get an image just like from your projector, but without the hassle of having to setup a projector.
(and then there is an entire other issue of which tvs can provide true "blacks" etc.)
SimCity 2K it was...
PORNTIPSGUZZARDO
IIRC
Geez, thats taking me back.
I was bored, maxed out my money using the above cheat, and then built the entire thing on pause. It was fun, and almost worked.
Damn straight.
I mean, to have more alternatives would be great. It would a nice change of pace to see the games of the future not reinforcing ideas of the past.
How about they throw in the medical conditions and possible side affects associated with corporate farm based foods, etc.
SimCommune instead of SimCity Maybe?
I know I would buy one.
Why? cause it's cheaper than upgrading any PC i have to becoming a decent game box.
And, hopefully someone will start hacking at it, and get it running some more fun things. On board networking, great video out, great audio capabilities, could turn into a decent home entertainment system (actually, it is a decent one right now, if you don't mind keeping everything in WMA on it, and not be able to retrieve information from it). I would hope someone could break open the box and start hacking with it, get linux on it. (I don't know if the CD ROM drive un able to read burned CDs is true or not).
It would be a fun project box. And because I spent 3 hours playing halo on it, and I want one.
For the price, this is amazing. the box has two 64bit/66mhz slots in it, which could probably fit two dual channel scsi160 (or 320) controller cards in it.
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It's a 1U case, if I was going to do massive storage intensive tasks on it, I would plug it into a hardware raid. Like the Lacie TX12000 system, http://www.lacie.com/products/product.cfm?id=4A86
Which is rackmountable, and handles all the aspects of the raid itself. That way, if the server breaks, I can remove it, put a new one in its place, and keep going. (Servers support netbooting now, so I wouldn't have to change configuration). For the education / science / lets get work done crowd, this is an awesome benefit.
Since storage capacity is essential, and you can raid the drives, why not put ATA in there? Instead of scsi. If you need scsi do the above, and put them in a box dedicated to handle them.
Oh, and the machines all have RS232 ports on em.
I've been waiting forever for this feature.
I realize there are tons of web gui's, etc. for controlling a streaming server. But I love the iTunes interface.
Being able to do what I think steve was showing off (Mp3s stored remotely, server acts like the internal iTunes dbase, and just streams the mp3s to the client when they hit play). Would mean that I could use the iTunes app, which I love, to listen to music and select what I am listening too (most streaming servers need a command line / playlist / webgui interface, I want it straight from iTunes).
Hopefully someone makes an opensource mp3 server that acts exactly like this. Screw a web interface, give me a database front end app on my desktop. Write a plugin or two for winamp / linux mp3 player good ness, and it is one hell of a nice project. And it would be good practice implementing zeroconf (on linux anyway, getting MS to do it would be something entirely different).
I have a laptop, so being able to store my mp3s on a big, cheap, hard drive in a server somewhere, instead of locally, on my small, expensive, laptop drive, would be a dream.
The bandwidth for a 192K stream is inconsequential over airport / home network for me.
In less than 6 months.....
How many other games that cost $350 sold so fast?
(Because it was a release game, you have to factor in that there wasn't really an Installed base of customers)
Wow, thats really cool, didn't realize that.
I still get the sense they got some "urging" from apple to do this, or atleast some really nice machines to test the hardware out on, for not much expense.
Or how about just properly training an animal?
Making nature to suite our needs usually ends up with us being made natures bitch as a consequence.
When I saw in the story post the "we have been doing this for years" I immediately thought, of course you have. It's called training.
Sheep dogs have been bred to do it. And sure it takes a little longer, but I doubt their would be much difference. Ok, so a trained animal could have trouble hearing the trainer in a loud, confusing situation. Instead of wiring some forced control into the animal (since animals have a pretty good ability to judge if they are going to be hurt) how about a wireless radio in the ear, so the commands are still "optional".
And they have been doing this for a while. Does anyone else remember the CIA Cat Spy? Which promptly walked into oncoming traffic, after they did a routine trick of wiring its pleasure center so it "wouldn't walk away when it got bored, hungry, tired" etc.
Even with rats, this makes me sick. "electrically stimulating the pleasure center" is supposedly quite addicting. From what I've heard, rats in a cage with two buttons, one for food, one for a jolt o pleasure, the rat will continue to push the button for pleasure until it dies from starvation / dehydration.
For something even trippier, read Infinite Jest, by David Foster Wallace, which has a plot that revolved around a video tape which will VISUALLY stimulate the pleasure center of the brain, so much so, that people because they just watch it, until their bladder bursts, or they don't take their insulin, etc. The most addictive drug ever becomes a video.