Blurb isn't for people like slashdot readers, trust me. You can get beter quality for less at Qoop, Lulu or even by going to the book printers directly.... But only if you know how to make a PDF, which is beyond the scope of most people... thus the 100% blurb markup.
And IRONICALLY the nearly unlimited resources we could harness in space would almost univerally and instantly create the utopia that they are thinking of (unlimited resources means the end of *economics* as we know it... it will take a few years to figure out how to utilize/extract all that good stuff... but once we do, wham, utopia, mostly)
The problem with all kinds of "berzerker" "grey goo" type stories is that they ignore the thermodynamics of evolution. All over the Earth, right now, as we read slashdot, there are a trillion different forms of "grey goo" trying like hell to take over the earth and eat every last ounce of available energy. They are called plants, animals, fungus and bacteria. All of these things, genetically speaking, would like NOTHING beter than to cover the entire world with copies of itself and devour *everything*.
But, for some reason, that doesn't happen...
Every wondered WHY something was more or less fit than something else? It simply has to do with resource efficiency. You can't just go gung-ho in one single direction, such as non-stop reproduction, and expect to be successful... otherwise there would be organisms NOW that don't stop reproducing to take a breath. If the evolutionary system doedn't spend teh energy to balance the forces, focusing in required measure on health, defense, resource allocation and rationing, it will be quickly over taken by an organism that does.
The grey goo spends all it's time making more grey goo.... thus very little time developing defenses against the things that would love to either make a meal of them (everything is edible to someone, various iron metabolizing microbes are hungrily waiting to meet the micromachines at the bottom of the ocean) or build a house out of it, nor does it spend any time building feedback systems to make sure that it is expanding in a direction that won't leave it stranded in a dead end (like expanding directly down a hole and then unable to expand back out because it's own dead little corpses are blocking the exit), etc.
Grey goo, on Earth today, would quickly discover that attepting to compete with an system with a 4.5 billion history of winnter-take-all-no-holds-barred-free-for-all evolutionary deathmatch is not quite as easy as it may have first thought, and that's before the humans even begin to notice.
Instead of fixing our problems and looking for solutions, lets go into space to get away from it all.
Ah, but what you fail to see is that going into space IS the solution... It's like, imagine living on an island for generations... The ratural resources get slim, so thier is crime and poverty and starvation.... and then somone builds a boat to the main land.... All the nay sayers say, "Hey let's solve the problems here first before heading over to the mainland..." but he goes ahead and builds it anyway. And then he comes back with food and resources aplenty, and knows where to get a trillion times more and suddenly all those pesky problems just vanish, without any real effort. Presto!
Yeah, just around 100% everything seemed to plateau out real nicely... Seriously, once we reached that mark there just doesn't seem to be any further growth. I think we've just about seen the end of p2p, my friends.
What I want to know is, how can I get around their speed throttling for sites that do not pay up?
Take some pure-p2p application like Dijjer and teach it how to tunnel through any protocol you care to mention... Find the protocol that moves fastest and tunnel all communications through that.
6)as an independent content producer (and soon a distributor), I want the Net environment to be as unregulated as possible (even from laws that purport to ensure acess). If some ISPs are going to charge for tiered service, either they better offer substantial benefits to customers or people will abandon them in droves.
No, lemme explain:
You create your content site, called awesomecontent.com.
You have REALLY awesome content there.
You are a small fry, not a billion dollar global conglomerate.
You pay $100 a month for a 10 MB/s.
Your ISP looks at your content and says, hmm, seems you are sending out streaming videos on that line... so either pay an EXTRA $100 per MB of video feed, or we will rate limit that data to 1 b/s... (but don't worry... your email and web pages will still go through at the 10 MB/s speed of the line you already paid for).
You can't pay that, it'll cost millions. Your uses look at your site, the page loads fine, the amils flow back and forth at great speeds... your streaming video is slow as hell.
Your compentitior has similar, but not QUITE as awesome content.
They have big fat pockets, full of cash. They also happen to own your ISP.
They pay the extra "video feed" overhead (maybe pay to themselves).
Your customers look at your competitor's site and see, oh look how fast and smooth those videos are! Then they look back at yours... so pathetic.
You lose! Go back and work a real job, like a good American, this creative stuff isn't for you "normal" types.
My wife walks past that building on the way to work every day. She has been calling it the "Spy Headquarters" ever since she first saw it. It just LOOKS guilty... It's almost hollywood in it's attempt to look like a secret NSA headquarters (completely "abandoned", but without the graphiti and homeless that a typical abandoned building in that area draws, and except for the mysterious lights that are only on at certian hours of the day and night only on the floors with the blinds drawn)...
You have to understand that this is a necesary evil. A game can sell 1 million copies and be profitable, because games are $50 or so. If the movie is made to appeal to the fans of the game, then they can expect (best case scenario) that every person who bought the game will see the movie. That makes for a grand total of 1 million movie tickets at $9... or $9 Million revenue for a movie, which by all means is a horrible flop. Lets not even get into the fact that most fans of the game will still hate the movie no matter how good it is, because you can't condense 40 hours of gameplay into a 2 hour movie and keep everybody happy.
Therefore, the movie must be broadened to appeal to a wider audience.
That's my point... This is exactly the thinking that makes game-movies suck so bad and fail.
Wouldn't this just be a simple case of emergent behavior? Like, the roach has a simple rule that they follow over and over again, and when the house gets too big that rule proells them to the next house. Like somethign along the lines of:
1) Stay in shelter 2) Count other roaches nearby 3) If otherCount > X move to the next house.
I have heard ants follow this kind of "reasoning" and thus perform very complext tasks.
1) Gather Food 2) If gatherFoodSmell becomes too strong then hunt for food 3) If fellowHunters smell becomes too strong then make tunnel repairs
It will be a matter of very very little time, once this bladder has shown to be functional, before one of the scientists who worked on this says to himself, hey, why not make a boob shaped scaffold, implant breast cells, and make a NATURAL breast implant that will NOT have any of the complicatons of silicone (Breastfeeding will still be possible, natual shape, size and feel, indistinguishable, basically, from the real thing), and thus finds himself a billionaire surrounded by huge breasted yet rail-thin women.
I'll bet these first "300GB" drives are really just NORMAL hard drives with some neon paint in order to raise money for the rest of the R&D to make a real holigraphic drive. Otherwise why are they starting off with such a small capacity drive when they have such great technology?
Duh, because that's more complicated than whiping something up in Visual Basic and a weekend, claiming it to be "secure and accurate", charging $27 million dollars for it.
Basically, he is saying that his company cannot compete with the likes of Apple and Microsoft. It's just too good. even his own kis would jump on the iPod badwagon dispite the fact that they could get the Microsoft equivlenet for FREE. I mean that's how much better the ipod is! Steve Ballmer's own kids would use Google instead of MSN search if they were given a choice! So he takes what little control he has and forces his kids not to buy these products...
users in a demographic that is notorious for not having any brand loyalty and are willing to jump onto the next big thing with flashing neon lights and lots of shiny colors... Get a good marketing company to come up with a sweet interface full of Apple-like bubbles and plastic-liiking shapes and you'll have all of facebook's users in a month... but you'll lose them all again next month for somone else.
Don't bet your money on mindshare when your demographic is teens.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm making a note here: HUGE SUCCESS.
Do you think this memory has lights on it?
It IS the lights.
Blurb isn't for people like slashdot readers, trust me. You can get beter quality for less at Qoop, Lulu or even by going to the book printers directly.... But only if you know how to make a PDF, which is beyond the scope of most people... thus the 100% blurb markup.
A lot more informative, and in video form:
n ja-special-delivery-4-net-neutrality
http://www.askaninja.com/news/2006/05/11/ask-a-ni
network neutrality == gluereed
The "Fix us first" crowd wants Utopia on Earth.
And IRONICALLY the nearly unlimited resources we could harness in space would almost univerally and instantly create the utopia that they are thinking of (unlimited resources means the end of *economics* as we know it... it will take a few years to figure out how to utilize/extract all that good stuff... but once we do, wham, utopia, mostly)
The problem with all kinds of "berzerker" "grey goo" type stories is that they ignore the thermodynamics of evolution. All over the Earth, right now, as we read slashdot, there are a trillion different forms of "grey goo" trying like hell to take over the earth and eat every last ounce of available energy. They are called plants, animals, fungus and bacteria. All of these things, genetically speaking, would like NOTHING beter than to cover the entire world with copies of itself and devour *everything*.
But, for some reason, that doesn't happen...
Every wondered WHY something was more or less fit than something else? It simply has to do with resource efficiency. You can't just go gung-ho in one single direction, such as non-stop reproduction, and expect to be successful... otherwise there would be organisms NOW that don't stop reproducing to take a breath. If the evolutionary system doedn't spend teh energy to balance the forces, focusing in required measure on health, defense, resource allocation and rationing, it will be quickly over taken by an organism that does.
The grey goo spends all it's time making more grey goo.... thus very little time developing defenses against the things that would love to either make a meal of them (everything is edible to someone, various iron metabolizing microbes are hungrily waiting to meet the micromachines at the bottom of the ocean) or build a house out of it, nor does it spend any time building feedback systems to make sure that it is expanding in a direction that won't leave it stranded in a dead end (like expanding directly down a hole and then unable to expand back out because it's own dead little corpses are blocking the exit), etc.
Grey goo, on Earth today, would quickly discover that attepting to compete with an system with a 4.5 billion history of winnter-take-all-no-holds-barred-free-for-all evolutionary deathmatch is not quite as easy as it may have first thought, and that's before the humans even begin to notice.
Talk about avoiding the problem.
Instead of fixing our problems and looking for solutions, lets go into space to get away from it all.
Ah, but what you fail to see is that going into space IS the solution... It's like, imagine living on an island for generations... The ratural resources get slim, so thier is crime and poverty and starvation.... and then somone builds a boat to the main land.... All the nay sayers say, "Hey let's solve the problems here first before heading over to the mainland..." but he goes ahead and builds it anyway. And then he comes back with food and resources aplenty, and knows where to get a trillion times more and suddenly all those pesky problems just vanish, without any real effort. Presto!
Yeah, just around 100% everything seemed to plateau out real nicely... Seriously, once we reached that mark there just doesn't seem to be any further growth. I think we've just about seen the end of p2p, my friends.
Well, if you used that same matter replicator to replicate a physical DVD then there you go...
What I want to know is, how can I get around their speed throttling for sites that do not pay up?
Take some pure-p2p application like Dijjer and teach it how to tunnel through any protocol you care to mention... Find the protocol that moves fastest and tunnel all communications through that.
6)as an independent content producer (and soon a distributor), I want the Net environment to be as unregulated as possible (even from laws that purport to ensure acess). If some ISPs are going to charge for tiered service, either they better offer substantial benefits to customers or people will abandon them in droves.
No, lemme explain:
You create your content site, called awesomecontent.com.
You have REALLY awesome content there.
You are a small fry, not a billion dollar global conglomerate.
You pay $100 a month for a 10 MB/s.
Your ISP looks at your content and says, hmm, seems you are sending out streaming videos on that line... so either pay an EXTRA $100 per MB of video feed, or we will rate limit that data to 1 b/s... (but don't worry... your email and web pages will still go through at the 10 MB/s speed of the line you already paid for).
You can't pay that, it'll cost millions.
Your uses look at your site, the page loads fine, the amils flow back and forth at great speeds... your streaming video is slow as hell.
Your compentitior has similar, but not QUITE as awesome content.
They have big fat pockets, full of cash.
They also happen to own your ISP.
They pay the extra "video feed" overhead (maybe pay to themselves).
Your customers look at your competitor's site and see, oh look how fast and smooth those videos are! Then they look back at yours... so pathetic.
You lose! Go back and work a real job, like a good American, this creative stuff isn't for you "normal" types.
If you can somehow insert all of that into an 8-hour version of David Lynch's Dune, I'm there.
To get David Lynch's Dune down to 8 hours you'd have to CUT all those scenes...
My wife walks past that building on the way to work every day. She has been calling it the "Spy Headquarters" ever since she first saw it. It just LOOKS guilty... It's almost hollywood in it's attempt to look like a secret NSA headquarters (completely "abandoned", but without the graphiti and homeless that a typical abandoned building in that area draws, and except for the mysterious lights that are only on at certian hours of the day and night only on the floors with the blinds drawn)...
You forgot about executive orders... He could just retroactivly declassify something via executive order and poof, problem solved.
And this should properly be followed by: How Intel outfoxed IBM with Apple
Would this be a "word" to my mother, or more of a simple "word up?"
Or a mad crazy word up to my mizzle?
if a mysogenist is a female hater, would a male hater be... androgenous?
You have to understand that this is a necesary evil. A game can sell 1 million copies and be profitable, because games are $50 or so. If the movie is made to appeal to the fans of the game, then they can expect (best case scenario) that every person who bought the game will see the movie. That makes for a grand total of 1 million movie tickets at $9... or $9 Million revenue for a movie, which by all means is a horrible flop. Lets not even get into the fact that most fans of the game will still hate the movie no matter how good it is, because you can't condense 40 hours of gameplay into a 2 hour movie and keep everybody happy.
Therefore, the movie must be broadened to appeal to a wider audience.
That's my point... This is exactly the thinking that makes game-movies suck so bad and fail.
Wouldn't this just be a simple case of emergent behavior? Like, the roach has a simple rule that they follow over and over again, and when the house gets too big that rule proells them to the next house. Like somethign along the lines of:
1) Stay in shelter
2) Count other roaches nearby
3) If otherCount > X move to the next house.
I have heard ants follow this kind of "reasoning" and thus perform very complext tasks.
1) Gather Food
2) If gatherFoodSmell becomes too strong then hunt for food
3) If fellowHunters smell becomes too strong then make tunnel repairs
etc...
It will be a matter of very very little time, once this bladder has shown to be functional, before one of the scientists who worked on this says to himself, hey, why not make a boob shaped scaffold, implant breast cells, and make a NATURAL breast implant that will NOT have any of the complicatons of silicone (Breastfeeding will still be possible, natual shape, size and feel, indistinguishable, basically, from the real thing), and thus finds himself a billionaire surrounded by huge breasted yet rail-thin women.
So it's NOT about money? All the pin stiped suites in the world won't save your business if you don't watch the bottom line...
I'll bet these first "300GB" drives are really just NORMAL hard drives with some neon paint in order to raise money for the rest of the R&D to make a real holigraphic drive. Otherwise why are they starting off with such a small capacity drive when they have such great technology?
Duh, because that's more complicated than whiping something up in Visual Basic and a weekend, claiming it to be "secure and accurate", charging $27 million dollars for it.
Basically, he is saying that his company cannot compete with the likes of Apple and Microsoft. It's just too good. even his own kis would jump on the iPod badwagon dispite the fact that they could get the Microsoft equivlenet for FREE. I mean that's how much better the ipod is! Steve Ballmer's own kids would use Google instead of MSN search if they were given a choice! So he takes what little control he has and forces his kids not to buy these products...
users in a demographic that is notorious for not having any brand loyalty and are willing to jump onto the next big thing with flashing neon lights and lots of shiny colors... Get a good marketing company to come up with a sweet interface full of Apple-like bubbles and plastic-liiking shapes and you'll have all of facebook's users in a month... but you'll lose them all again next month for somone else.
Don't bet your money on mindshare when your demographic is teens.