Thanks for the thoughtful suggestion. It is much appreciated, and though I have considered the possibility, your suggestion encourages me to give it more thought. ~sincerely PB
LOL..I haven't any mod points or I would have to mod this as "really funny" but then I've always been lax about close tags:) I felt like such a buffon after I dutifully previewed (twice!), posted, and realized that I had forgotten to.. thanks for the notice and the laugh.
..are in the foreseeable future. 3D tattoos are a reality. Check out some of the combined efforts of Guy Atchison and various implant practitioners. However, IMNSHO, the first animated tattoo will come from a group of guys known as Steve Haworth, Jesse Jarrell, and Chryst Childe, AKA The Mad Science Collective http://www.kaossoftwear.com/ . These guys are on the cutting edge of both 3D body art and cybernetics, so its only a matter of time~
admittedly mine was in 1997, and I too have heard of recent advancements in screening and heard that soon side effects like mine would become the cautionary tales of the early days of the procedure. Mine was done at least 20 years after the (basic)procedure and protocol were devoloped, what will the people getting the current "state of the art" laser eye surgery going to find out 20 years from now?
I would never do it again. Among other things it has completely decimated my night vision. Being an amatuer astronomer (among myriad other things) I could always take relief in that my relatively rotten eyesight was not really a hindrance when peering at points of light through a telescope. Now virtually any lighting above ambient in a low-light environment creates tons of hazy starbursts which blast my acuity all to hell. The surgery hasn't helped my vision when I'm the least bit fatigued either. I can't find any satisfactory explanation for this, so it may be an effect of my overall displeasure with the result of the sugery. Be Forewarned. According to my research I am far from being in the minority with respect to most of my complaints. Best of Luck, there are those who have done it and are pleased as punch, but I'd say it's at best a crapshoot.
Several years ago I used a slackware 7 box with KDE (and konqueror and K-manage) to administrate and provide DHCP and mail services for an NT network, another *x alpha box was the file and app server (radius, webtrends, etc) All of the NT boxes had their native partitions and the OS and native apps mounted on NTFS. The whole rest of the network was EXT2FS and it was flawless under samba 2. I haven't built a trick *x box in a few years but if they have a journaled file system now I'm ready to build a new one:)
Radiophones were around. My dad (a small town doctor) had one in about 1962. As previously mentioned by Beowulf, it looked like a 60's wall type phone mounted on the dash. It had a long-ass whip antenna that you bent over and connected to a hook mounted on the rear door, and a large suitcase sized box of electronics (tubes and stuff maybe?) mounted in the trunk. It cost several hundred 1960s dollars, maybe even as much as a grand, but it didn't have much effect on your month to month phone bill (according to my Mom's recollections, my dad passed away in 1966).
It was a big deal to my dad that he had the first one in Arkansas, even the governor didn't have one at the time. We also had radio controlled toys, a stereo phonograph in 1959, FM radios before there were local stations to listen to on them, etc.
In Little Rock, Ar ADSL through SWBell is marketed at minimum 384dwn/128up at $39.95/mo, you can also get SWBell internet for an additional $10.00 per month, the whole deal, local phone service and phone options included, ends up being about $70.00 per month, which isn't bad (especially considering that the actual speeds end up being about 1.5-3.0 mbps dwn and 384/512 up. The one exception being NNTP which is throttled to a symmetrical 128K.
70 miles west in Russellville AR (centurytel country) there is no DSL available and cox-internet.com provides hideous cable service, I recently tested a friends "premium service" cox_cable fed box which was slower than dual channel ISDN (only a little, roughly the same as dual 56K modems) and costs $30/month + $15/month for modem rental. Centurytel promises a DSL rollout in the area in 3rd quarter 2001.
I think its a question of the files not made available that scares me. I was banned from napster because of an apocalyptica *cover* of a metallica song that was _not-in-a-directory-shared-via-napster_. It was the only thing even resembling metallica in my home at the time it was "detected" and got me banned. This tells me that some one made a quantitative judgement about the legalities of my filesharing activities on the web based on the _name and file format_ of a file that was in a directory that they _allegedly_ did not have the ability to see. This is fully documented with napster. I haven't used gnutella or napster since. What if some of the more obvious commercial concerns were to use P2P networks as a means of looking for installed directories of certain proprietary apps and then back tracing the source to see if they were legitimately purchased or pirated?
actually,goatsex (this is for free) makes perfect sense. The code is free, but what about the people who package it, the cost of maintaining servers to distro it from. A linux distro that you get for free is one of the few things that is worth more than you pay for it in this world. To actually compensate the people who make that free distro available to you for their actual costs is only good economics. Try to get support from corel for their "free" distro, them try to get support for corel linux, deluxe release FEEL THE DIFFERENCE (both corel distros IMO are great for linux newbies) at $15 from libranet I feel reasonably safe in saying its "cheap at twice the price"
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or read about it in read William Gibson . He is almost Heinleinian in his ability to fantasize the fantasies first.
Thanks for the thoughtful suggestion. It is much appreciated, and though I have considered the possibility, your suggestion encourages me to give it more thought.
~sincerely
PB
LOL..I haven't any mod points or I would have to mod this as "really funny" but then I've always been lax about close tags :) I felt like such a buffon after I dutifully previewed (twice!), posted, and realized that I had forgotten to.. thanks for the notice and the laugh.
. These guys are on the cutting edge of both 3D body art and cybernetics, so its only a matter of time~
admittedly mine was in 1997, and I too have heard of recent advancements in screening and heard that soon side effects like mine would become the cautionary tales of the early days of the procedure. Mine was done at least 20 years after the (basic)procedure and protocol were devoloped, what will the people getting the current "state of the art" laser eye surgery going to find out 20 years from now?
I would never do it again. Among other things it has completely decimated my night vision. Being an amatuer astronomer (among myriad other things) I could always take relief in that my relatively rotten eyesight was not really a hindrance when peering at points of light through a telescope. Now virtually any lighting above ambient in a low-light environment creates tons of hazy starbursts which blast my acuity all to hell. The surgery hasn't helped my vision when I'm the least bit fatigued either. I can't find any satisfactory explanation for this, so it may be an effect of my overall displeasure with the result of the sugery. Be Forewarned. According to my research I am far from being in the minority with respect to most of my complaints. Best of Luck, there are those who have done it and are pleased as punch, but I'd say it's at best a crapshoot.
Several years ago I used a slackware 7 box with KDE (and konqueror and K-manage) to administrate and provide DHCP and mail services for an NT network, another *x alpha box was the file and app server (radius, webtrends, etc) All of the NT boxes had their native partitions and the OS and native apps mounted on NTFS. The whole rest of the network was EXT2FS and it was flawless under samba 2. I haven't built a trick *x box in a few years but if they have a journaled file system now I'm ready to build a new one :)
Radiophones were around. My dad (a small town doctor) had one in about 1962. As previously mentioned by Beowulf, it looked like a 60's wall type phone mounted on the dash. It had a long-ass whip antenna that you bent over and connected to a hook mounted on the rear door, and a large suitcase sized box of electronics (tubes and stuff maybe?) mounted in the trunk. It cost several hundred 1960s dollars, maybe even as much as a grand, but it didn't have much effect on your month to month phone bill (according to my Mom's recollections, my dad passed away in 1966).
It was a big deal to my dad that he had the first one in Arkansas, even the governor didn't have one at the time. We also had radio controlled toys, a stereo phonograph in 1959, FM radios before there were local stations to listen to on them, etc.
In Little Rock, Ar ADSL through SWBell is marketed at minimum 384dwn/128up at $39.95/mo, you can also get SWBell internet for an additional $10.00 per month, the whole deal, local phone service and phone options included, ends up being about $70.00 per month, which isn't bad (especially considering that the actual speeds end up being about 1.5-3.0 mbps dwn and 384/512 up. The one exception being NNTP which is throttled to a symmetrical 128K.
70 miles west in Russellville AR (centurytel country) there is no DSL available and cox-internet.com provides hideous cable service, I recently tested a friends "premium service" cox_cable fed box which was slower than dual channel ISDN (only a little, roughly the same as dual 56K modems) and costs $30/month + $15/month for modem rental. Centurytel promises a DSL rollout in the area in 3rd quarter 2001.
I think its a question of the files not made available that scares me. I was banned from napster because of an apocalyptica *cover* of a metallica song that was _not-in-a-directory-shared-via-napster_. It was the only thing even resembling metallica in my home at the time it was "detected" and got me banned. This tells me that some one made a quantitative judgement about the legalities of my filesharing activities on the web based on the _name and file format_ of a file that was in a directory that they _allegedly_ did not have the ability to see. This is fully documented with napster. I haven't used gnutella or napster since. What if some of the more obvious commercial concerns were to use P2P networks as a means of looking for installed directories of certain proprietary apps and then back tracing the source to see if they were legitimately purchased or pirated?
Maybe this is a case of paranoia=awareness?
actually,goatsex (this is for free) makes perfect sense. The code is free, but what about the people who package it, the cost of maintaining servers to distro it from. A linux distro that you get for free is one of the few things that is worth more than you pay for it in this world. To actually compensate the people who make that free distro available to you for their actual costs is only good economics. Try to get support from corel for their "free" distro, them try to get support for corel linux, deluxe release FEEL THE DIFFERENCE (both corel distros IMO are great for linux newbies) at $15 from libranet I feel reasonably safe in saying its "cheap at twice the price" Penguin_Boi