Re:No, Linux is more like techno/rave
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Linux And Hip Hop
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you're right, how could I forget funk. I also failed to mention jazz I believe.
Re:No, Linux is more like techno/rave
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ok, I'm gonna say, what in god's name do you think you're saying. Invented Techno?
No, I beg to differ.
LFO, Kraftwerk, Depeche Mode, Genesis, YMO, Walter Carlos even, techno has had it's roots as far back as the 60s. The theramin, and various pioneering synthesizer technologies that progressed afterwards.
Disco, Euro, the tribal music from Goa, James Brown, Soul, and hip hop all lend their sounds and feels to techno.
The breakbeat, the dance-diva lyrics, the screaming acid of a 303 (digery do reminiciscant?).
I'd qualify, the chemical brothers, as Big Beat, pioneering in their own way, by far they aren't the inventors.
And I don't even prefer the chemical brothers.
I prefer (psy-/cyber-)trance, jungle (darkstep and techstep) and house (chicago or french)
In the early days, there was electro, and breakbeat, disco, and soul. Hardcore, House, and straight techno emerged from this soup.
hardcore bred with hip hop and breakbeat to form jungle(dnb) which takes it's name from the james brown track "into the jungle groove". House emerged from disco and soul.
Hardcore bred with house to form hard house, hip hop and house's child became booty house (ugh). Techno and house merged and mutated and trance was born, a relatively new genre. Trance borrowed from Goa to form Goa trance and cybertrance. breeding with hardcore, hard and hard acid trance were born.
Techno puttered along without much outside influence, and broke off into various sub-genres, and bred with other genres to form the likes of trance, tech house, it influenced dnb, and most other genres.
>Now, couldn't there be some positive >applications for this technology? How about a >device that can counter a tsunami or a potential >tsunami?
While that's a noble idea, don't forget, waves propogate in all directions from one point. Like the ripples in a pond when you toss a pebble in. With precise timing, and positioning, you'd be able to stop the offending tsunami. However, you'd have another tsunami that has to be equal in size to the original (out of phase waves cancel eachother out completely, if both equal in amplitude and are out of phase by 180 degrees) if I remember correctly.
Then again, maybe a tsunami barrier of sorts could be developed, or a damper. A series of small waves just out of phase enough with the original, but with less amplitude, would dampen the tsunami to a mere lap at the shore. But then you'd have a series of progessively smaller tsunamis instead of one.
>Or maybe a wavemaker device to help flood >coastal farming areas that require it or whatnot?
Once again, a good idea, but some crops don't like salty water. In fact, pretty much most plants can't tolerate salty water.
>We have something here that can move a lot of >water, why not put it to practical use?
Something that moves alot of water in all directions in massive amounts and anything else not bolted down with gigantic steel rods.
10lbs money 1lb Explosive sound effects 15lbs visual FX 5 cups hammy string orhestra music 20 cups of children 20 cups of "the man" (science/buisness/adults) 10 cups sappy optimisim 2 cups child wisdom 1 predictable outcome 1 underdog 1 antagonist 1lb hype 1tsp good script/book/screenplay/hallucination 2lbs cliche 4lbs valium 5 cups modern trends 10 cups advertisers 10 cups endorsement 10 cups merchandising
Steps:
Lower the temperature to 72 degrees farenheight if not already so. maintain this temperature throughout.
Take 15lbs of Visual FX, and mix slowly with the hammy string orchestra music. Sprinkle in 1tsp of your story/script/hallucination.
Proceed to draw this out in an extremely long string, producing about sixty feet of material from this 1tsp of story.
Now, roll in a thick mixture of children and sappy optimisim mixed together and heated lightly. Sweeten until subtle tastes are lost.
Drizzle with the underdog, appropriately governed by the story's consistency spread thin through the material.
At about a quarter of the way through, smother with antagonist. Soak with the man, and lighly whip in valium, to keep things nice and even for the moviegoers, don't want to suprise them.
Now slowly start pouring on child wisdom until all has been expended. At this point take whatever FX, music, and sappy optimisim you have left and smother.
Remove all traces of the man, and the antagonist, and dip in a predictable ending mixed with sappy optimisim.
Mix the advertisers and modern trends together, and lightly powder with it. Sprinkle on cliche.
Mix the hype and product endorsement and merchandising together. A thick sticky broth-like mixture should result. Add some FX, and sprinkle on sound.
Boil your movie in this mixture.
Here's your acadamy award.
I'm just being cynical. Seriously, saving private ryan was OK, as was schindler's list, and empire of the sun.
Chicago, ah chicago, well, the north burbs at least. Ameritech you... don't serve... us well. DSL is just poking it's head. Forget about cable, TCI, Ameritech, whoever, have us in a head-lock.
Good may come. AT&T bought TCI, TCI bought US Cable long ago. Mindspring is airing commericials around the clock hyping DSL rollout in the chicago area. Billboards are going up. And the phone/cable grid is being worked extensively by technicians.
TCI tested the waters of "more than TV" a little while back, rolling out it's digital cable plan. For anyone who has it, basically satellite similar TV, 900 channels, 10 bucks a month extra, and a really big box.
What it'd do to have a pipe like that. I'd download to the point of explosion. Hell, I'd need to set up a farm of massive disks just to fill with all the crap I'd cram into it. Maybe I'd take online gaming a bit more serious, as stuttering pauses and dropped connections are nobody's favorite thing.
Then again, that might be just this winmodem . Better yet... I'd like... Yes... a huge data pipe, yeah, an OC-192 (I think that's as high as it goes) and I'll have it hooked up real close to the chicago (ameritech) midwest NAP. Then I'll have a a 20 or so terabyte disk farm. Ooh, and say, 149 or so SGI beasts beowulfing their way to greatness. And a SGI immersion room... And a hi-fi surround sound system with outstanding and vomit inducing bass... and 50gb RAM.... A power station at my dispostal... A farm of state of the art DVD drives....
Hardware lust. Better yet... A quantum computer that utilizes spherical gallium arsenide support ICs with optical circutry, and that paints images onto your retina. Yeah, oh yeah.
By the way, the number 149 didn't come out of thin air, it's the number of networked SGI boxes in the supercomputer "Blue mountain" in Los Alamos. Damnit... all that hot technology just has to be south of the border....
On the other hand... It's hard enough to pry myself away from this box with my dinky 56k connection. If I had a T-x, my face would fuse with the screen and my rear would become solid oak wood as it merged with the chair. But oh the bits would fly.
Nothing said, go broadband, The wait will be interminable, but one day...
I always get this feeling, when I see on TV, or in some way come across a planned community. This eerie sense, icy cold, slimy, of something amiss strange and sinister. Fake, and nothing but a facade.
Examples in cinema and television being the apartments and luxurious paradise offered in The Devil's Advocate. The factory-oriented town in the Simpsons run by a evil world-dominating mougul. The covenant bound neigborhood in the X-files with creatures in your lawn.
Utopia is a very frightening thing. For, with peace, and serenity, comes loss of control, and bondage. Independance and utopia are two different things that never go together.
A somewhat appalling example of this would be Aldous Huxley's "A brave new world". The complete brain-washing, and caste system, the organization, segmentation, and structurization of a chaotic entity are what make it seem so off.
A city or a town is a thing that cannot be created. It has to evolve, it is a mixture of old, new, dirty, clean, rich, poor, colorful, bland, ugly, pretty. It is an eclectic mixture of everything that urban and human life has come to represent.
With streets criscrossing in haphazard manners, and strange people. Collages of colorful billboards, and signs, franchises, chains, and stores. Capitolisim breathing.
I suppose perhaps that's what strikes the wrong note in most people when it comes to planned communites. The subconcious equation of control over citizens with socialisim or similar forms of government.
I've lived in communities that are segmented, structured, laid down by hand, and controlled by a governing body. They're called military bases. They are cold, silent, un-giving, and gray repetitive landscapes of industry, unity, and control.
In stark contrast is the human element, vibrant, breathing, families, picnics. Picnics on a barren airstrip near a seawall, with jets screaming in off the inland sea onto the airstrip. A mother and two daughters working their gardens at the foot of a massive fuel farm. Garden plots supplied by the base of course.
I'd rather live, where freedom can be seen every day. Where the people across the street build their flower-bed into what appears to be a fortress. Where a guy paints his house in vibrant victorian candy hues of pink and blue. Where you don't see 2.3 children, two minivans in every garage, and soccer practice with shake & bakes for dinner.
Suburbia was the late 80's and early 90's vision of peace, unity, serentiy, and freedoms. Suburbia, has evoloved into another utopia. Governed by silent icy cold covenants, where dogs bark in the twilight hours, echoing across meticulously groomed lawns, and gray sided houses.
Unity, planned community, utopia, and things like celebration freak me out. I hope I captured that feeling I can't quite place my finger on in this writing.
Then we just slashdotted the world's smallest webserver. I wonder what a match-head sized webserver does when it feels the wrath of slashdot. melt? explode? scream? That is... if it's even real, which I don't think so
Let's be alarmed by things we shouldn't. Did you know you're dying as we speak? That oxygen is ripping your cellular DNA apart like swiss cheeze? That your bathroom tiles emit radiation? How about sugar, gasoline, breathing, hyperventilation, and numerous other every day chemicals causing Olney's lesions on your brain?
Every second you've got roughly 60 billion neutrinos streaming through every square cenimeter of your body? Too bad they have almost no mass. And most would travel through a lightyear of lead unscathed. (props to sciam) How about the breeding fields of bacteria on your kitchen counters? The flesh eating mites that dwell on your clothes right now.
So, we've got some plutonium, non weapons grade, shielded, in safe tablets, blazing past us at mind bending speeds. So, a micrometeorite hits it, and perhaps knocks it a few hundred feet, or maybe a few inches. So what? Even if it was to by some improbable fluke slam into our atmosphere, odds are it'd a:) bounce off into space, or b:) burn up.
It can't, and won't kill us. It won't crash, if it was to, it wouldn't be a problem. Of course... I don't pay my taxes yet, so no problem of mine.
Now excuse me, I'll take my neutrino bombarded, flesh mite riddled, irradiated, lesioned, breathing, self out for a cigarette. They kill you? you don't say...
This is a good thing in disguise
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Goal number one, I'd love to see, Linux, or some UNIX variant on as many desktops, servers, laptops, set top boxes, toaster, cars, refrigerators as possible.
What is hindering this? Not much, but WinModems have been a thorn in the side of Linux for awhile. Why have they prevailed? No, the evil microsoft giant hasn't shoved it in people's faces. The fact of the matter is, they are cheaper. Cheaper, doesn't mean better, but cheaper is more valued than better to OEMs.
When I purchased my machine, long ago, from gateway, a winmodem was slipped inside. Unknown to me, but i noticed.. I didn't do as well as other modems. When the CPU load got high, my connection stuttered, dropped, and my mouse got drunk. With a 56k modem, connecting at 53000 or something like that bps... I was only getting 2.5kbps!
So, time goes by, I install linux (around january) and gasp, come june, I try to dial up to my newfound *non proprietary ISP* and discover. Winmodem = death. Sharp slap in the face.
Two choices, sit on my butt, and wait for the OSS community to shoot something useful into my phone jack, or buy a new modem. I'm choosing the latter.
The question is, how many prospective linux users will run into this problem and just *give up*? A Linmodem sold to OEMs is garbage, but a step in the right direction. What we need. Is to work out and support those Winmodems regardless of manufacturer.
They may suck. But a new linux user is a new linux user, regardless of hardware power or modem type.
The suit gods fail to see that mp3's main attractor is the fact that it's free. Sure, it sounds decently like a CD (not audiophine herion, but a very good sound) And it's small, another plus. But we could always just hurl huge files in other formats around. Would you like other formats, say wave, to cost anything? I don't think so.
Unless they were to keep every person from ripping the track they love from the CD, or from exchanging files in a format that's not prohibited in any manner, it'll never happen.
Besides, it's just a watermark, embedded signature in the data. Given enough time I'm sure it can easily be bypassed. Like sticking a needle in a haystack, you're bound to find it eventually.
Sure the mp3 standard will die someday, as all standards do. But the idea of giving the public a pay alternative is kind of nuts. That's like throwing a pair of knitting needles at a junkie and hoping they take up that and kick the habbit.
(sarcasm)
Yep, that's all we need, we can kill this pesky open source software thing like that too! Just throw a pay "fake-standard" at em and hope they jump onboard. Then again, Microsoft's been doing it for years..
The suit gods fail to see that mp3's main attractor is the fact that it's free. Sure, it sounds decently like a CD (not audiophine herion, but a very good sound) And it's small, another plus. But we could always just hurl huge files in other formats around. Would you like other formats, say wave, to cost anything? I don't think so.
Unless they were to keep every person from ripping the track they love from the CD, or from exchanging files in a format that's not prohibited in any manner, it'll never happen.
Besides, it's just a watermark, embedded signature in the data. Given enough time I'm sure it can easily be bypassed. Like sticking a needle in a haystack, you're bound to find it eventually.
Sure the mp3 standard will die someday, as all standards do. But the idea of giving the public a pay alternative is kind of nuts. That's like throwing a pair of knitting needles at a junkie and hoping they take up that and kick the habbit.
(sarcasm)
Yep, that's all we need, we can kill this pesky open source software thing like that too! Just throw a pay "fake-standard" at em and hope they jump onboard. Then again, Microsoft's been doing it for years..
Oh, of course I told the doctor. Didn't listen, but hey, his loss. As for that last bit:
\disclaimer> of course you shouldn't do that, if you decide to anyways, hey, nothing lost that was never gained \disclaimer>
Re:Don't Unionize, For a political party!
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Why use a traditional political or orginizational system? Form a new orginizational system and change the game. The thoughts of banding together or having some lobby power in congress is a good one though. It would without a doubt be for the better..
The one thing is, as was mentioned about the "immense power" which could bring things to a screeching halt if stopped. I think that's not exactly the best way to think about things. Would you like it if your ISP went tits up for a day? Or if sites just started winking off the web like fireflies?.
Maybe it should focus more on the silent, outrageous, and surely troublesome crimes. Around the country, K - 12 schools have or are dropping advanced computer classes. Subconciously, young kids intensely interested in technology are told to shy away from it, as they are left on their own to learn in an increasing uphill struggle..
There's invisible bristling abound when a kid expresses intrest or talent in technology. Adults condecend, kids chastize, parents fear. Parents, teachers, peers against them, many children have and will choose not to move on, and put out burning skills in it's earliest form..
Sure, we hold power, and influence. But what rights come with that? Every child should get a chance to presue what he or she wants. The school systems say they've embraced technology. The parents watch their CNN spots on the "information superhighway." While education may have embraced the machine, it has no intrest in teaching it's children beyond secretarial skills. Those who want to learn past keyboarding, are on their own for the most part..
The parents view it as a "voodoo box", a mysterious and troublesome game their kid is always "playing" I hear it enough. "You're always playing with that..." I don't view it as playing. Maybe learning is play for me. Something big happens, and they turn to Time for it's "in depth" expose on children on the internet (which by the way, The Internet = AOL to most media).
Hmm, I've gone a bit astray. Final opinion: Geeks should band together, and fight injustice against young talent.
I was on ritalin too, however, I was young, on an eye-popping dosage. They were cramming 100mg a day down my mouth at age 10-12. And at that level, I find it particularly incapacitating. I don't really see why... I wasn't hyperactive... I suppose ADHD is the most over-diagnosed condition among kids.
I'd take my dose in the morning, and within an hour later I'd be in a cold sweat. Barely able to read or carry on a stable conversation and just shell shocked into meek cooperation with my teachers. I'd get a gnawing stomache-ache and sometimes I'd shake uncontrollably and babble incoherently (when I was upped to 200mg for ONE day)
Smart me, I learned to ditch the pills at first, then, for some odd reason (beats me) they were in demand by others. Sure, I'll gladly unload those retched tabs on you for money. So ritalin free, I'm happy. I'll stick to mild stimulants, thank you. Caffene, Nicotine (not mild, but hey) and the always invigorating walk on a nice morning.
Now I have, and have had friends who were on dosages that make my mind spin. 300mg of Adderol. Then again he has a habbit of doing daring things that make your heart stop. Hyperactive might be an understatement.
It's gettin plain scary in the High Schools with Ritalin, I see people breaking up and sniffing 100mg at a time.
Frankly, 10 mountain dews, a half pack, and a loud CD will keep me working for a *long* time. Then again, smoke a couple rocks, freebase, take some K, extacy perhaps, a 24 case of mountain dew, and a carton of unfiltered camels, I'd probably write some incoherent code that has cryptic comments like: "who are you looking at you nasty little grain dog"
Hoax, drips of it, from the first words on the page. Relies on a time tested technique, you throw some complicated terms at them, hope they don't see through it, and if they don't... bam, putty in your hands. TransCapacitor.. I'm positive they don't know a farad from a ferret.
Nice molestation of the Pentium casing. I've seen better jobs done. Can Intel sue? Perhaps. Check their licenses! Fraud latent claims are abound.
Silver Alkane? Let me see.. is that an element.. or even an alloy? Besides, we all know, Gallium Arsenide is *much* better than Silicon, or even "Silver Alkane" (isn't sliver a traditional conductor?)
Impressive operating voltage levels. Throw a baby that swings faster between "1.8 to 6.0 Volt"s as they put it, in your computer, you're bound to have problems.
Basic principle, RAM. But it's been molested and abused in strange ways. RAM is capacitors, each one is a junction that retains charge with a given refresh rate. Transistors retaining charge? Sounds like an elaborate flip-flop. That draws way too much current regardless.
Embedded NT? excuse me while I laugh. Let's spell hertz right please. TeraHertz? Sounds like the FCC would have a field day with such a high frequency, and obviously EMF latent device.
An electron trap. Hmm. Interesting traditional idea. Even though conventional semiconductor technology relies on more of an.. "electron linebacker" prinicple (the base in a transistor). I'm humoring them.
I'm sure you could apply physics somewhere. Switching at rates of 12 Thz, Silver alloy, drawing what.. 1ma? 6.0volts... Unless you're violating the second law of thermodynamics, you're bound to generate buko heat (I beleve it's said, a running PII could cook a steak on it's surface)
ahah, the emulation, that's what I knew I was lacking. I beleve that's where I read it, regardless, a cheap CPU that can emulate others, run low power, and programmable (see my re-flash analogy) would be a blessing. Pile Linux on top (Linus, Transmeta, Linux, connection perhaps?) and I'm sure it'll knock the existing semiconductor industry on it's cache.;) Of course, it could also employ fun new techniques, like Gallium Arsenide fabrication, copper, Sperical fabrication... or maybe it's a quantum-processing "coffee cup". Then again, it could just be another new-fangled refrigerator decoration.
Long long ago, I beleve this time last year. I had heard, in Wired magazine, or was it PC Computing.. One of those magazines geeks love so much. I had heard that Transmeta was working on a new CPU, if I recall the article correctly, it was x86, RISC (I think), low power, and was.. programmable.. I'm not sure that has rammafications to "downloading" a new CPU, like re-flashing your BIOS. I think however, it was meant that it's not programmable in the sense of a typical CPU.. but soft-wired, where the whole architechture can be burnt like junctions are blown for an EPROM. But, it'd be cool. I heard that it was named Neon. But then again, who really knows what Transmeta's up to. Correct me if I'm wrong
First, laser beams weren't used, it was achieved on the basic premise that:
Particles possess properties, such as spin or charge.
These properties can represent 0 or 1, but more than one representation of 0 or 1 on a given particle.
The Wave function forbids us measuring a system directly without interfering, so how do we get information in and out?
we contain it, there's your coffee cup, but also, we use NMRI (Nuclear Magnetic Resonant Imaging) to tap into the processes within.
It's still in it's infancy, but they can add numbers, etc.
All we need now is a spooky action at a distance network, a few wormhole-to-nowhere paper shredders, and a leech brain operator to run this beastly machine.
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you're right, how could I forget funk. I also failed to mention jazz I believe.
ok, I'm gonna say, what in god's name do you think you're saying. Invented Techno?
No, I beg to differ.
LFO, Kraftwerk, Depeche Mode, Genesis, YMO, Walter Carlos even, techno has had it's roots as far back as the 60s. The theramin, and various pioneering synthesizer technologies that progressed afterwards.
Disco, Euro, the tribal music from Goa, James Brown, Soul, and hip hop all lend their sounds and feels to techno.
The breakbeat, the dance-diva lyrics, the screaming acid of a 303 (digery do reminiciscant?).
I'd qualify, the chemical brothers, as Big Beat, pioneering in their own way, by far they aren't the inventors.
And I don't even prefer the chemical brothers.
I prefer (psy-/cyber-)trance, jungle (darkstep and techstep) and house (chicago or french)
In the early days, there was electro, and breakbeat, disco, and soul. Hardcore, House, and straight techno emerged from this soup.
hardcore bred with hip hop and breakbeat to form jungle(dnb) which takes it's name from the james brown track "into the jungle groove". House emerged from disco and soul.
Hardcore bred with house to form hard house, hip hop and house's child became booty house (ugh). Techno and house merged and mutated and trance was born, a relatively new genre. Trance borrowed from Goa to form Goa trance and cybertrance. breeding with hardcore, hard and hard acid trance were born.
Techno puttered along without much outside influence, and broke off into various sub-genres, and bred with other genres to form the likes of trance, tech house, it influenced dnb, and most other genres.
And that, is a brief history of techno
Ah, yes, UFO, spelled:
m-e-t-e-o-r
>Now, couldn't there be some positive >applications for this technology? How about a >device that can counter a tsunami or a potential >tsunami?
While that's a noble idea, don't forget, waves propogate in all directions from one point. Like the ripples in a pond when you toss a pebble in.
With precise timing, and positioning, you'd be able to stop the offending tsunami. However, you'd have another tsunami that has to be equal in size to the original (out of phase waves cancel eachother out completely, if both equal in amplitude and are out of phase by 180 degrees) if I remember correctly.
Then again, maybe a tsunami barrier of sorts could be developed, or a damper. A series of small waves just out of phase enough with the original, but with less amplitude, would dampen the tsunami to a mere lap at the shore. But then you'd have a series of progessively smaller tsunamis instead of one.
>Or maybe a wavemaker device to help flood >coastal farming areas that require it or whatnot?
Once again, a good idea, but some crops don't like salty water. In fact, pretty much most plants can't tolerate salty water.
>We have something here that can move a lot of >water, why not put it to practical use?
Something that moves alot of water in all directions in massive amounts and anything else not bolted down with gigantic steel rods.
You will need the following ingredients:
10lbs money
1lb Explosive sound effects
15lbs visual FX
5 cups hammy string orhestra music
20 cups of children
20 cups of "the man" (science/buisness/adults)
10 cups sappy optimisim
2 cups child wisdom
1 predictable outcome
1 underdog
1 antagonist
1lb hype
1tsp good script/book/screenplay/hallucination
2lbs cliche
4lbs valium
5 cups modern trends
10 cups advertisers
10 cups endorsement
10 cups merchandising
Steps:
Lower the temperature to 72 degrees farenheight if not already so. maintain this temperature throughout.
Take 15lbs of Visual FX, and mix slowly with the hammy string orchestra music. Sprinkle in 1tsp of your story/script/hallucination.
Proceed to draw this out in an extremely long string, producing about sixty feet of material from this 1tsp of story.
Now, roll in a thick mixture of children and sappy optimisim mixed together and heated lightly. Sweeten until subtle tastes are lost.
Drizzle with the underdog, appropriately governed by the story's consistency spread thin through the material.
At about a quarter of the way through, smother with antagonist. Soak with the man, and lighly whip in valium, to keep things nice and even for the moviegoers, don't want to suprise them.
Now slowly start pouring on child wisdom until all has been expended. At this point take whatever FX, music, and sappy optimisim you have left and smother.
Remove all traces of the man, and the antagonist, and dip in a predictable ending mixed with sappy optimisim.
Mix the advertisers and modern trends together, and lightly powder with it. Sprinkle on cliche.
Mix the hype and product endorsement and merchandising together. A thick sticky broth-like mixture should result. Add some FX, and sprinkle on sound.
Boil your movie in this mixture.
Here's your acadamy award.
I'm just being cynical. Seriously, saving private ryan was OK, as was schindler's list, and empire of the sun.
The rest is just a long drawn out toy commercial.
Just mainline that bandwidth please.
Chicago, ah chicago, well, the north burbs at least. Ameritech you... don't serve... us well. DSL is just poking it's head. Forget about cable, TCI, Ameritech, whoever, have us in a head-lock.
Good may come. AT&T bought TCI, TCI bought US Cable long ago. Mindspring is airing commericials around the clock hyping DSL rollout in the chicago area. Billboards are going up. And the phone/cable grid is being worked extensively by technicians.
TCI tested the waters of "more than TV" a little while back, rolling out it's digital cable plan. For anyone who has it, basically satellite similar TV, 900 channels, 10 bucks a month extra, and a really big box.
What it'd do to have a pipe like that. I'd download to the point of explosion. Hell, I'd need to set up a farm of massive disks just to fill with all the crap I'd cram into it. Maybe I'd take online gaming a bit more serious, as stuttering pauses and dropped connections are nobody's favorite thing.
Then again, that might be just this winmodem . Better yet... I'd like... Yes... a huge data pipe, yeah, an OC-192 (I think that's as high as it goes) and I'll have it hooked up real close to the chicago (ameritech) midwest NAP. Then I'll have a a 20 or so terabyte disk farm. Ooh, and say, 149 or so SGI beasts beowulfing their way to greatness. And a SGI immersion room... And a hi-fi surround sound system with outstanding and vomit inducing bass... and 50gb RAM.... A power station at my dispostal... A farm of state of the art DVD drives....
Hardware lust. Better yet... A quantum computer that utilizes spherical gallium arsenide support ICs with optical circutry, and that paints images onto your retina. Yeah, oh yeah.
By the way, the number 149 didn't come out of thin air, it's the number of networked SGI boxes in the supercomputer "Blue mountain" in Los Alamos. Damnit... all that hot technology just has to be south of the border....
On the other hand... It's hard enough to pry myself away from this box with my dinky 56k connection. If I had a T-x, my face would fuse with the screen and my rear would become solid oak wood as it merged with the chair. But oh the bits would fly.
Nothing said, go broadband, The wait will be interminable, but one day...
I always get this feeling, when I see on TV, or in some way come across a planned community. This eerie sense, icy cold, slimy, of something amiss strange and sinister. Fake, and nothing but a facade.
Examples in cinema and television being the apartments and luxurious paradise offered in The Devil's Advocate. The factory-oriented town in the Simpsons run by a evil world-dominating mougul. The covenant bound neigborhood in the X-files with creatures in your lawn.
Utopia is a very frightening thing. For, with peace, and serenity, comes loss of control, and bondage. Independance and utopia are two different things that never go together.
A somewhat appalling example of this would be Aldous Huxley's "A brave new world". The complete brain-washing, and caste system, the organization, segmentation, and structurization of a chaotic entity are what make it seem so off.
A city or a town is a thing that cannot be created. It has to evolve, it is a mixture of old, new, dirty, clean, rich, poor, colorful, bland, ugly, pretty. It is an eclectic mixture of everything that urban and human life has come to represent.
With streets criscrossing in haphazard manners, and strange people. Collages of colorful billboards, and signs, franchises, chains, and stores. Capitolisim breathing.
I suppose perhaps that's what strikes the wrong note in most people when it comes to planned communites. The subconcious equation of control over citizens with socialisim or similar forms of government.
I've lived in communities that are segmented, structured, laid down by hand, and controlled by a governing body. They're called military bases. They are cold, silent, un-giving, and gray repetitive landscapes of industry, unity, and control.
In stark contrast is the human element, vibrant, breathing, families, picnics. Picnics on a barren airstrip near a seawall, with jets screaming in off the inland sea onto the airstrip. A mother and two daughters working their gardens at the foot of a massive fuel farm. Garden plots supplied by the base of course.
I'd rather live, where freedom can be seen every day. Where the people across the street build their flower-bed into what appears to be a fortress. Where a guy paints his house in vibrant victorian candy hues of pink and blue. Where you don't see 2.3 children, two minivans in every garage, and soccer practice with shake & bakes for dinner.
Suburbia was the late 80's and early 90's vision of peace, unity, serentiy, and freedoms. Suburbia, has evoloved into another utopia. Governed by silent icy cold covenants, where dogs bark in the twilight hours, echoing across meticulously groomed lawns, and gray sided houses.
Unity, planned community, utopia, and things like celebration freak me out. I hope I captured that feeling I can't quite place my finger on in this writing.
Then we just slashdotted the world's smallest webserver. I wonder what a match-head sized webserver does when it feels the wrath of slashdot. melt? explode? scream? That is... if it's even real, which I don't think so
Let's be alarmed by things we shouldn't. Did you know you're dying as we speak? That oxygen is ripping your cellular DNA apart like swiss cheeze? That your bathroom tiles emit radiation? How about sugar, gasoline, breathing, hyperventilation, and numerous other every day chemicals causing Olney's lesions on your brain?
Every second you've got roughly 60 billion neutrinos streaming through every square cenimeter of your body? Too bad they have almost no mass. And most would travel through a lightyear of lead unscathed. (props to sciam) How about the breeding fields of bacteria on your kitchen counters? The flesh eating mites that dwell on your clothes right now.
So, we've got some plutonium, non weapons grade, shielded, in safe tablets, blazing past us at mind bending speeds. So, a micrometeorite hits it, and perhaps knocks it a few hundred feet, or maybe a few inches. So what? Even if it was to by some improbable fluke slam into our atmosphere, odds are it'd a:) bounce off into space, or b:) burn up.
It can't, and won't kill us. It won't crash, if it was to, it wouldn't be a problem. Of course... I don't pay my taxes yet, so no problem of mine.
Now excuse me, I'll take my neutrino bombarded, flesh mite riddled, irradiated, lesioned, breathing, self out for a cigarette. They kill you? you don't say...
Goal number one, I'd love to see, Linux, or some UNIX variant on as many desktops, servers, laptops, set top boxes, toaster, cars, refrigerators as possible.
What is hindering this? Not much, but WinModems have been a thorn in the side of Linux for awhile. Why have they prevailed? No, the evil microsoft giant hasn't shoved it in people's faces. The fact of the matter is, they are cheaper. Cheaper, doesn't mean better, but cheaper is more valued than better to OEMs.
When I purchased my machine, long ago, from gateway, a winmodem was slipped inside. Unknown to me, but i noticed.. I didn't do as well as other modems. When the CPU load got high, my connection stuttered, dropped, and my mouse got drunk. With a 56k modem, connecting at 53000 or something like that bps... I was only getting 2.5kbps!
So, time goes by, I install linux (around january) and gasp, come june, I try to dial up to my newfound *non proprietary ISP* and discover. Winmodem = death. Sharp slap in the face.
Two choices, sit on my butt, and wait for the OSS community to shoot something useful into my phone jack, or buy a new modem. I'm choosing the latter.
The question is, how many prospective linux users will run into this problem and just *give up*? A Linmodem sold to OEMs is garbage, but a step in the right direction. What we need. Is to work out and support those Winmodems regardless of manufacturer.
They may suck. But a new linux user is a new linux user, regardless of hardware power or modem type.
1.) Get a massive machine (we're talking massive, beefy, huge, makes any mere mortal shake with fear)
2.) Grab ahold of a gigantic dataline (OC-192 anyone?)
3.) Set up an engine to visit every IP concievable. then check each site for every directory concievable... And every filename concievable..
4.) Brace for lawsuits
5.) Throw more hardware at it
6.) run SETI@home (in it's spare time)
7.) a month later, all indexed, sued up the wazoo, time to start *all* over again
pardon the typo, there is no such thing as an "audiophine" at least not that I know of. (I meant, audiophile)
The suit gods fail to see that mp3's main attractor is the fact that it's free. Sure, it sounds decently like a CD (not audiophine herion, but a very good sound) And it's small, another plus. But we could always just hurl huge files in other formats around. Would you like other formats, say wave, to cost anything? I don't think so.
Unless they were to keep every person from ripping the track they love from the CD, or from exchanging files in a format that's not prohibited in any manner, it'll never happen.
Besides, it's just a watermark, embedded signature in the data. Given enough time I'm sure it can easily be bypassed. Like sticking a needle in a haystack, you're bound to find it eventually.
Sure the mp3 standard will die someday, as all standards do. But the idea of giving the public a pay alternative is kind of nuts. That's like throwing a pair of knitting needles at a junkie and hoping they take up that and kick the habbit.
(sarcasm)
Yep, that's all we need, we can kill this pesky open source software thing like that too! Just throw a pay "fake-standard" at em and hope they jump onboard. Then again, Microsoft's been doing it for years..
The suit gods fail to see that mp3's main attractor is the fact that it's free. Sure, it sounds decently like a CD (not audiophine herion, but a very good sound) And it's small, another plus. But we could always just hurl huge files in other formats around. Would you like other formats, say wave, to cost anything? I don't think so.
Unless they were to keep every person from ripping the track they love from the CD, or from exchanging files in a format that's not prohibited in any manner, it'll never happen.
Besides, it's just a watermark, embedded signature in the data. Given enough time I'm sure it can easily be bypassed. Like sticking a needle in a haystack, you're bound to find it eventually.
Sure the mp3 standard will die someday, as all standards do. But the idea of giving the public a pay alternative is kind of nuts. That's like throwing a pair of knitting needles at a junkie and hoping they take up that and kick the habbit.
(sarcasm)
Yep, that's all we need, we can kill this pesky open source software thing like that too! Just throw a pay "fake-standard" at em and hope they jump onboard. Then again, Microsoft's been doing it for years..
Oh, of course I told the doctor. Didn't listen, but hey, his loss. As for that last bit:
\disclaimer>
of course you shouldn't do that, if you decide to anyways, hey, nothing lost that was never gained \disclaimer>
Why use a traditional political or orginizational system? Form a new orginizational system and change the game. The thoughts of banding together or having some lobby power in congress is a good one though. It would without a doubt be for the better..
The one thing is, as was mentioned about the "immense power" which could bring things to a screeching halt if stopped. I think that's not exactly the best way to think about things. Would you like it if your ISP went tits up for a day? Or if sites just started winking off the web like fireflies?.
Maybe it should focus more on the silent, outrageous, and surely troublesome crimes. Around the country, K - 12 schools have or are dropping advanced computer classes. Subconciously, young kids intensely interested in technology are told to shy away from it, as they are left on their own to learn in an increasing uphill struggle..
There's invisible bristling abound when a kid expresses intrest or talent in technology. Adults condecend, kids chastize, parents fear. Parents, teachers, peers against them, many children have and will choose not to move on, and put out burning skills in it's earliest form..
Sure, we hold power, and influence. But what rights come with that? Every child should get a chance to presue what he or she wants. The school systems say they've embraced technology. The parents watch their CNN spots on the "information superhighway." While education may have embraced the machine, it has no intrest in teaching it's children beyond secretarial skills. Those who want to learn past keyboarding, are on their own for the most part..
The parents view it as a "voodoo box", a mysterious and troublesome game their kid is always "playing" I hear it enough. "You're always playing with that..." I don't view it as playing. Maybe learning is play for me. Something big happens, and they turn to Time for it's "in depth" expose on children on the internet (which by the way, The Internet = AOL to most media).
Hmm, I've gone a bit astray. Final opinion: Geeks should band together, and fight injustice against young talent.
I was on ritalin too, however, I was young, on an eye-popping dosage. They were cramming 100mg a day down my mouth at age 10-12. And at that level, I find it particularly incapacitating. I don't really see why... I wasn't hyperactive... I suppose ADHD is the most over-diagnosed condition among kids.
I'd take my dose in the morning, and within an hour later I'd be in a cold sweat. Barely able to read or carry on a stable conversation and just shell shocked into meek cooperation with my teachers. I'd get a gnawing stomache-ache and sometimes I'd shake uncontrollably and babble incoherently (when I was upped to 200mg for ONE day)
Smart me, I learned to ditch the pills at first, then, for some odd reason (beats me) they were in demand by others. Sure, I'll gladly unload those retched tabs on you for money. So ritalin free, I'm happy. I'll stick to mild stimulants, thank you. Caffene, Nicotine (not mild, but hey) and the always invigorating walk on a nice morning.
Now I have, and have had friends who were on dosages that make my mind spin. 300mg of Adderol. Then again he has a habbit of doing daring things that make your heart stop. Hyperactive might be an understatement.
It's gettin plain scary in the High Schools with Ritalin, I see people breaking up and sniffing 100mg at a time.
Frankly, 10 mountain dews, a half pack, and a loud CD will keep me working for a *long* time. Then again, smoke a couple rocks, freebase, take some K, extacy perhaps, a 24 case of mountain dew, and a carton of unfiltered camels, I'd probably write some incoherent code that has cryptic comments like: "who are you looking at you nasty little grain dog"
Hoax, drips of it, from the first words on the page. Relies on a time tested technique, you throw some complicated terms at them, hope they don't see through it, and if they don't... bam, putty in your hands. TransCapacitor.. I'm positive they don't know a farad from a ferret.
Nice molestation of the Pentium casing. I've seen better jobs done. Can Intel sue? Perhaps. Check their licenses! Fraud latent claims are abound.
Silver Alkane? Let me see.. is that an element.. or even an alloy? Besides, we all know, Gallium Arsenide is *much* better than Silicon, or even "Silver Alkane" (isn't sliver a traditional conductor?)
Impressive operating voltage levels. Throw a baby that swings faster between "1.8 to 6.0 Volt"s as they put it, in your computer, you're bound to have problems.
Basic principle, RAM. But it's been molested and abused in strange ways. RAM is capacitors, each one is a junction that retains charge with a given refresh rate. Transistors retaining charge? Sounds like an elaborate flip-flop. That draws way too much current regardless.
Embedded NT? excuse me while I laugh. Let's spell hertz right please. TeraHertz? Sounds like the FCC would have a field day with such a high frequency, and obviously EMF latent device.
An electron trap. Hmm. Interesting traditional idea. Even though conventional semiconductor technology relies on more of an.. "electron linebacker" prinicple (the base in a transistor). I'm humoring them.
I'm sure you could apply physics somewhere. Switching at rates of 12 Thz, Silver alloy, drawing what.. 1ma? 6.0volts... Unless you're violating the second law of thermodynamics, you're bound to generate buko heat (I beleve it's said, a running PII could cook a steak on it's surface)
Good laugh for a monday morning.
And, what a horrible website, ugh, HTML crimes.
ahah, the emulation, that's what I knew I was lacking. I beleve that's where I read it, regardless, a cheap CPU that can emulate others, run low power, and programmable (see my re-flash analogy) would be a blessing. Pile Linux on top (Linus, Transmeta, Linux, connection perhaps?) and I'm sure it'll knock the existing semiconductor industry on it's cache. ;) Of course, it could also employ fun new techniques, like Gallium Arsenide fabrication, copper, Sperical fabrication... or maybe it's a quantum-processing "coffee cup". Then again, it could just be another new-fangled refrigerator decoration.
Long long ago, I beleve this time last year. I had heard, in Wired magazine, or was it PC Computing.. One of those magazines geeks love so much. I had heard that Transmeta was working on a new CPU, if I recall the article correctly, it was x86, RISC (I think), low power, and was.. programmable.. I'm not sure that has rammafications to "downloading" a new CPU, like re-flashing your BIOS. I think however, it was meant that it's not programmable in the sense of a typical CPU.. but soft-wired, where the whole architechture can be burnt like junctions are blown for an EPROM. But, it'd be cool. I heard that it was named Neon. But then again, who really knows what Transmeta's up to. Correct me if I'm wrong
First, laser beams weren't used, it was achieved on the basic premise that:
Particles possess properties, such as spin or charge.
These properties can represent 0 or 1, but more than one representation of 0 or 1 on a given particle.
The Wave function forbids us measuring a system directly without interfering, so how do we get information in and out?
we contain it, there's your coffee cup, but also, we use NMRI (Nuclear Magnetic Resonant Imaging) to tap into the processes within.
It's still in it's infancy, but they can add numbers, etc.
All we need now is a spooky action at a distance network, a few wormhole-to-nowhere paper shredders, and a leech brain operator to run this beastly machine.
Where do we sit?