first of all.. let me just say that NO.. i am NOT wearing a tin foil hat.. However...
what are the conciquences of having all these waves being beamed and bounced around the world? Radar.. Radio.. TV.. Microwaves.. Cell Phones.. Wireless Internet.. and God knows what the military is REALLY using up in alaska.. ect.. ect.. ect..
what are the long long term effects to the earth? the us? dose any one know?
This is a Question ive wanted answered for a while now.. these news 64bit proc's will they bis SISC? or RISC? isnt it time we dumped the whole SISC architecture? like the ISA standard
Bold technology predictions for 2012 By Mike Langberg Mercury News
Smart devices that talk to each other without human intervention, store merchandise that rings itself up for purchase and machines that finally understand the spoken word are just some of the new technologies awaiting us in the year 2012.
On Monday I gave myself a ``B'' for my 1992 predictions of what life would be like in 2002.
Before sticking my neck out another 10 years, I consulted three Silicon Valley futurists: Tim Bajarin, president of technology consulting firm Creative Strategies in Campbell; Tim Brown, president of Palo Alto design firm Ideo; and Paul Saffo, a director of the Institute for the Future in Menlo Park.
I've borrowed many ideas from these three deep thinkers, but the predictions that follow are mine -- so I deserve all the blame for anything that looks silly 10 years from now.
So here are my five big ideas for how technology will reshape our daily routines in 2012:
The Internet is everywhere -- and nowhere.
Almost every object we own that uses electricity will be connected to the Internet in 2012, yet we will rarely be aware of this near-universal connectivity, because so much of the conversation will be machine-to-machine communication.
You'll no longer be surprised to get a call from the repair center at Sears or Maytag saying your washing machine is using too much hot water and needs adjustment -- information the washing machine has sent through the Net, without any action of your part, back to the factory where it was built.
All present and accounted for -- always.
Instant messaging is popular, in part, because IM software tells you which of your friends are online waiting to chat. This concept, formally known as ``presence,'' will be extended to all forms of electronic communication.
Family, friends and co-workers will be able to instantly see where you are, thanks to wireless phones even tinier than what's available today and other devices with built-in GPS locators. You'll be able to specify how you wish to be reached: by text if you're busy, by voice or video if you're free. Between now and 2012, expect major controversy on whether employers, schools and advertisers should have access to your ``presence.''
Walk now, pay later.
Stores without doors will rely on RFID, or radio-frequency identification, tags to keep track of inventory and payment. These tiny semiconductors communicate a small amount of information, such as a product serial number, when queried by inexpensive transmitter/receivers. Only recently selling for several dollars, RFID chips should cost only a few cents next year and will be smaller than a grain of rice.
In 2012, RFID chips will sell for less than a penny and be printed onto packaging and price tags -- the beginning of the end for cash registers. You walk into a store, put what you want in a bag and walk out the door. An RFID transmitter/receiver in the entryway instantly totals up your purchases and makes a deduction from the RFID credit card in your wallet. If nothing else, RFID could have spared Winona Ryder her recent and very embarrassing shoplifting arrest.
Prime time is your time.
Every cable and satellite television receiver will include a hard disk for recording shows, and those disks will have a minimum capacity of one terabyte, or 1,000 gigabytes, enough to store hundreds of hours of high-definition programming.
Except for special events such as the Super Bowl and the Academy Awards, no one will watch TV shows at the time they are transmitted, and conventional 30-second commercials will be rare because advertisers won't pay when most viewers can hit the fast-forward button. Major broadcast networks and traditional prime-time programming will be fading, with most entertainment sold through either a monthly subscription or a pay-per-view fee.
Finally, we can talk to our computers.
I'm recycling a prediction from 1992 that didn't come true this year but just might happen by 2012: Reliable speech recognition will allow computers, phones and household appliances to understand our spoken commands.
Driving alone down an unfamiliar interstate, it won't seem to odd to say, ``Car, how far to the next gas station?'' and for the car to reply ``Eight miles ahead at exit 37, there is a Chevron and a Union 76.'' You won't need to know or care that your car required GPS navigation, a speech-recognition processor, a text-to-speech synthesizer and a wireless data link to an online Yellow Pages directory to answer what seems like a simple question.
Not everything will change in the next decade. I predict the Mercury News will continue, printed on paper and delivered to doorsteps every morning. The business of putting news and ads together on newsprint has worked for more than a century and probably has at least a few more decades of life. As for me, if I'm still here in 2012, I'll dig out this column and give myself another report card.
I work help desk.. and its soooo borring telling end users to put there coffe tray back in the drive and to do a defrag so that aol will connect better. here are the sites i check on an hourly bassis
www.cnn.com [american news] www.slashdot.com [duplicate IT news] www.theregister.co.uk [more IT news] http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi.html [world news]
Daily www.kuro5hin.org/ [political thinking and stuff] cagle.slate.msn.com/politicalcartoons/ [funny]
I dont know why you posted that as an AC but your compleatly right i dont need caller ID, confrencing, call waiting bla bla bla.. i just want it to come with an answeing machine (or voice mail as they call it) but i have to shell out cash for everything.
That being said there is ONE service id like to see.. Mobile Phone + MP3!!! . i have a handsfree set right now.. why cant i get a phone with MP3 built in for thoes times i dont really feel like listing? and i have a pen and paper so i dont need a PDA
Why Ill (almost) never switch to linux "It's nice to see user-centric distributions at all, but it really is a niche market for now" Yes.. your right.. it is a niche market.. one that Microsoft currently has a monopoly one
I totally Agree.. im glad you have the +5 Mod Points
My Issue with the bond films of late is lack of continuance and violance. the Continuance... all the recent bond films have random evil characters doing the same old (new) thing.. money and big buisness (drugs, Oil, media)
Where is Ernst Blowfelt? the man that killed his fiance? where is shmert? (sp?) bring back an old charachter.. or bring back a character from one of the new films... a past advisary.. thoes always ROCK
and the Violence.. they blood and guts the wanton killing (yes he has a licence to kill) but the violence is just wrong for bond, its out of character. (p.s. im not saying violence is bad, i love GTA3, imjust saying its not a bond trait)
Everyone has said all of my reasons.. (work, games, and yes even pr0n)
sooo... why havent i switched?
i dont like the linux attitude.. i remeber when apple released a patch for there iToons software and it delted any secondary partitions. and this was all posted on/. the majority of the comments were about how it was an "OBVIOUS" mistake in the OSX install file.. and why didnt the users pick up on it, it was there own fault.. ect.. ect..
well.. me.. i AM a Power User.. im even an Extreme Power user.. having some of my work posted on/. front page. but ya know what.. im not a code.. i dont know any coding.. if its windows and im installing something that dosent work i can troubleshoot it.. but reading code in a.bat/.inf.whatever file.. sorry nope.. out of my game.
i dont like the "more holy than thou linux attitude and the "im using linux so i know what i should be doing" attitude. and of course the allmighty.. "M$ sucks linux is 31337 we are the underdog" attitude
just my 2 cents on why i havnt switched to linux.. but OSX.. i just dont have the cash for another new system
What ive come to see.. is that a lot of ppl here.. dont hate M$.. they dont Love M$.. there just neutral.. there just end users who use something.
And it seems to me that a very large group of people are fed up with bashkiddies who just post shit saying how much M$ sucks (I.there.H.O.) so why is it the editors havent heard the voice of the people? enough with the MS bashing Editors.. give it a rest.. your no longer the underdog.. your a bunch of whining children.
2 Realize no amount of security can stop a Determined person(s) 3 FREEDOM!:) Freedom? You say you want Freedom? Is that Freedom to? or Freedom From? Marget Attwood
He has a point... I NEVER even heard of GTA3 until i saw a comercial/story on CNN where hillary clinton was talking about how killing hookers for their money is bad... I WENT APE SHIT called all of my friends who has this game who the fsk HAS THIS GAME i got a 'copy' played it LOVED IT!!! im sooo looking forward to pay for GTA VC.. these guys can have my money.
your walking down the beach and you see two men with equally dishevaled aperances
one man has so much money he can vacation at the beach with out carrying a cellphone or his pda. the other man is so poor he lives at the beach and dosent even know what a pda is.
so the quesion is.. wich man is richer? which man would you rather be?
Slashdot Mirror
WOW!!! even if that is /. (ie.. imaginary) Math
that is a Beautiful post..
well writen.. kudos to you sir..kudos
This brings up something ive always wondered
first of all.. let me just say that NO.. i am NOT wearing a tin foil hat.. However...
what are the conciquences of having all these waves being beamed and bounced around the world? Radar.. Radio.. TV.. Microwaves.. Cell Phones.. Wireless Internet.. and God knows what the military is REALLY using up in alaska.. ect.. ect.. ect..
what are the long long term effects to the earth? the us? dose any one know?
The French Translation Page says it has a 2 year warranty.. yet the Company page says 1..
Odd...
This is a Question ive wanted answered for a while now..
these news 64bit proc's
will they bis SISC? or RISC?
isnt it time we dumped the whole SISC architecture? like the ISA standard
Bold technology predictions for 2012
By Mike Langberg
Mercury News
Smart devices that talk to each other without human intervention, store merchandise that rings itself up for purchase and machines that finally understand the spoken word are just some of the new technologies awaiting us in the year 2012.
On Monday I gave myself a ``B'' for my 1992 predictions of what life would be like in 2002.
Before sticking my neck out another 10 years, I consulted three Silicon Valley futurists: Tim Bajarin, president of technology consulting firm Creative Strategies in Campbell; Tim Brown, president of Palo Alto design firm Ideo; and Paul Saffo, a director of the Institute for the Future in Menlo Park.
I've borrowed many ideas from these three deep thinkers, but the predictions that follow are mine -- so I deserve all the blame for anything that looks silly 10 years from now.
So here are my five big ideas for how technology will reshape our daily routines in 2012:
The Internet is everywhere -- and nowhere.
Almost every object we own that uses electricity will be connected to the Internet in 2012, yet we will rarely be aware of this near-universal connectivity, because so much of the conversation will be machine-to-machine communication.
You'll no longer be surprised to get a call from the repair center at Sears or Maytag saying your washing machine is using too much hot water and needs adjustment -- information the washing machine has sent through the Net, without any action of your part, back to the factory where it was built.
All present and accounted for -- always.
Instant messaging is popular, in part, because IM software tells you which of your friends are online waiting to chat. This concept, formally known as ``presence,'' will be extended to all forms of electronic communication.
Family, friends and co-workers will be able to instantly see where you are, thanks to wireless phones even tinier than what's available today and other devices with built-in GPS locators. You'll be able to specify how you wish to be reached: by text if you're busy, by voice or video if you're free. Between now and 2012, expect major controversy on whether employers, schools and advertisers should have access to your ``presence.''
Walk now, pay later.
Stores without doors will rely on RFID, or radio-frequency identification, tags to keep track of inventory and payment. These tiny semiconductors communicate a small amount of information, such as a product serial number, when queried by inexpensive transmitter/receivers. Only recently selling for several dollars, RFID chips should cost only a few cents next year and will be smaller than a grain of rice.
In 2012, RFID chips will sell for less than a penny and be printed onto packaging and price tags -- the beginning of the end for cash registers. You walk into a store, put what you want in a bag and walk out the door. An RFID transmitter/receiver in the entryway instantly totals up your purchases and makes a deduction from the RFID credit card in your wallet. If nothing else, RFID could have spared Winona Ryder her recent and very embarrassing shoplifting arrest.
Prime time is your time.
Every cable and satellite television receiver will include a hard disk for recording shows, and those disks will have a minimum capacity of one terabyte, or 1,000 gigabytes, enough to store hundreds of hours of high-definition programming.
Except for special events such as the Super Bowl and the Academy Awards, no one will watch TV shows at the time they are transmitted, and conventional 30-second commercials will be rare because advertisers won't pay when most viewers can hit the fast-forward button. Major broadcast networks and traditional prime-time programming will be fading, with most entertainment sold through either a monthly subscription or a pay-per-view fee.
Finally, we can talk to our computers.
I'm recycling a prediction from 1992 that didn't come true this year but just might happen by 2012: Reliable speech recognition will allow computers, phones and household appliances to understand our spoken commands.
Driving alone down an unfamiliar interstate, it won't seem to odd to say, ``Car, how far to the next gas station?'' and for the car to reply ``Eight miles ahead at exit 37, there is a Chevron and a Union 76.'' You won't need to know or care that your car required GPS navigation, a speech-recognition processor, a text-to-speech synthesizer and a wireless data link to an online Yellow Pages directory to answer what seems like a simple question.
Not everything will change in the next decade. I predict the Mercury News will continue, printed on paper and delivered to doorsteps every morning. The business of putting news and ads together on newsprint has worked for more than a century and probably has at least a few more decades of life. As for me, if I'm still here in 2012, I'll dig out this column and give myself another report card.
I work help desk.. and its soooo borring telling end users to put there coffe tray back in the drive and to do a defrag so that aol will connect better.
here are the sites i check on an hourly bassis
www.cnn.com [american news]
www.slashdot.com [duplicate IT news]
www.theregister.co.uk [more IT news]
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi.html [world news]
Daily
www.kuro5hin.org/ [political thinking and stuff]
cagle.slate.msn.com/politicalcartoons/ [funny]
Weekly
www.anandtech.com [awsome hardware reviews]
www.tomshardware.com [awsome hardware reviews]
www.comics.com [funny]
oh.. yes.. and of course
hrdc-drhc.gc.ca
wich i check on a minute by minute basis
In Other news today Molson and Labbat both changed long standing policies and decided to give away their recipes in every two-fer purchased
Canadian Geeks everywhere cheered Free.. as in Beer
I dont know why you posted that as an AC but your compleatly right
i dont need caller ID, confrencing, call waiting bla bla bla.. i just want it to come with an answeing machine (or voice mail as they call it)
but i have to shell out cash for everything.
That being said there is ONE service id like to see.. Mobile Phone + MP3!!! . i have a handsfree set right now.. why cant i get a phone with MP3 built in for thoes times i dont really feel like listing? and i have a pen and paper so i dont need a PDA
Thanx...
us Canadians have our Thanx Giving a month early
i had NO CLUE as to what this was
Yes.. you are correct
I will only switch when a user-centric distribution of linux becomes the mass market
Please see my Other Comments
Why Ill (almost) never switch to linux "It's nice to see user-centric distributions at all, but it really is a niche market for now"
Yes.. your right.. it is a niche market.. one that Microsoft currently has a monopoly one
Here Here
I totally Agree.. im glad you have the +5 Mod Points
My Issue with the bond films of late is lack of continuance and violance.
the Continuance... all the recent bond films have random evil characters doing the same old (new) thing.. money and big buisness (drugs, Oil, media)
Where is Ernst Blowfelt? the man that killed his fiance? where is shmert? (sp?) bring back an old charachter.. or bring back a character from one of the new films... a past advisary.. thoes always ROCK
and the Violence.. they blood and guts the wanton killing (yes he has a licence to kill) but the violence is just wrong for bond, its out of character. (p.s. im not saying violence is bad, i love GTA3, imjust saying its not a bond trait)
Everyone has said all of my reasons.. (work, games, and yes even pr0n)
/.
/. front page. but ya know what.. im not a code.. i dont know any coding.. if its windows and im installing something that dosent work i can troubleshoot it.. but reading code in a .bat/.inf .whatever file.. sorry nope.. out of my game.
sooo... why havent i switched?
i dont like the linux attitude.. i remeber when apple released a patch for there iToons software and it delted any secondary partitions. and this was all posted on
the majority of the comments were about how it was an "OBVIOUS" mistake in the OSX install file.. and why didnt the users pick up on it, it was there own fault.. ect.. ect..
well.. me.. i AM a Power User.. im even an Extreme Power user.. having some of my work posted on
i dont like the "more holy than thou linux attitude and the "im using linux so i know what i should be doing" attitude. and of course the allmighty.. "M$ sucks linux is 31337 we are the underdog" attitude
just my 2 cents on why i havnt switched to linux.. but OSX.. i just dont have the cash for another new system
Obligitory: Imagigine a Bewolf cluster of these
Imagine the Polar Ice Caps melting from the heat they would pump out
What ive come to see.. is that a lot of ppl here.. dont hate M$.. they dont Love M$.. there just neutral.. there just end users who use something.
And it seems to me that a very large group of people are fed up with bashkiddies who just post shit saying how much M$ sucks (I.there.H.O.) so why is it the editors havent heard the voice of the people? enough with the MS bashing Editors.. give it a rest.. your no longer the underdog.. your a bunch of whining children.
If you make it usable they will come
From the Article "For more information on SecNet 11 or to place an order for the product, go to www.secnet11.com."
wow.. and thanx... thats almost as wacked as a coke sniffing texan getting elected as president of the usofa
oh.. wait
You dont get much more mainstream (read: corprate lies) than this
Getting sued for silence [bbc.co.uk]
Can some one explain that to me?
i read it.. but i dont get it? ive had my morning 'Dew.. but i just dont get it
1 Eliminate civil liberties making security
:)
2 Realize no amount of security can stop a Determined person(s)
3 FREEDOM!
Freedom? You say you want Freedom? Is that Freedom to? or Freedom From? Marget Attwood
+5 mod points to that?!?
and yet my calls for a LORT logo go unmodded
He has a point... /story on CNN where hillary clinton was talking about how killing hookers for their money is bad...
I NEVER even heard of GTA3 until i saw a comercial
I WENT APE SHIT
called all of my friends who has this game who the fsk HAS THIS GAME i got a 'copy' played it LOVED IT!!!
im sooo looking forward to pay for GTA VC.. these guys can have my money.
A Million Movies a day ?!?!?!?
I WANT his network connection!!
http://www.apple.com/trailers/newline/the_two_towe rs/
Full Screen PPL
In the not so distant future
your walking down the beach and you see two men with equally dishevaled aperances
one man has so much money he can vacation at the beach with out carrying a cellphone or his pda.
the other man is so poor he lives at the beach and dosent even know what a pda is.
so the quesion is.. wich man is richer? which man would you rather be?