...we turned this "congestion" into "p2p cooperation" by using the same protocol in which we all routed each other's data.. rather than dreading interference, you'd PRAY that the guy a block away set up a wireless network, so you could hop through him to that evasive Internet access point...
First, I doubt that anyone, including yourself, would believe for a moment that "shortsighted individuals" would be able to keep the wireless world from coming into existence/solely due to their belief that "the FCC has dominion over the world"/.
Second, the FCC obviously doesn't have dominion over the world. They're federal. They have dominion over the USA. Therefore, I retract a small portion of my original comment and rephrase it as,"I often wonder how we can achieve this utopian wireless USA (a Net connection in every citizen's pocket) with the overbearing FCC regulations we have to exist under right now."
"It's a giant LED made up of 3 lights that sits on top of the bathroom, and somehow has solar power that lights up the bathroom."
This is my girlfriend's interpretation of the article - if she's right, then the Japanese are wasting their technological brilliance. If she's wrong, then it's a good example of how lacking of fundamental data that the original article was.
Dude, if it isn't already a problem (which would suprise me), then it soon will be.
You can't deny the fact that with the limited frequency ranges and tons of adopting users, we will quickly approach critical mass. I would imagine that in some areas, where wireless technologies cohabitate in high concentrations, critical mass is already in the foreseeable future.
I often wonder how we can achieve this utopian wireless world (a Net connection in every citizen's pocket) with the overbearing FCC regulations we have to exist under right now.
As usual, the corporate website reveals little about its function, purpose, or use. It shows lots of pictures and a pretty little flash movie with writing all in japanese.
From the writing in the Slashdot article, I've gathered the following:
It has solar panels. It has an LED display. It has bathrooms "under" it.
So based on this information, the "ark" is a solar-powered advertising sign with bathrooms under it which are lit by LEDs. Are the bathrooms underground? Are they porta-potties? Why were bathrooms part of the design when they seem rather unrelated to the concept of advertising? Is the "ark" a prototype for a whole bunch of "arks" which are to be produced and distributed for home use? Or for commercial use? Or are they too huge/expensive for more than a few organizations in the world to use? OR, is it a one-of-a-kind tourist destination somewhere in Tokyo? Will it fit on your computer desk, or is it the size of a couple football fields? (I got a small incling of scale in the flash animation, because little flowers were growing on the ground below the picture of the ark, but you never know)
Is this another example of the increasingly-common marketing mimimalism that companies like to use to infuse an annoying hybrid emotion (composited from annoyance and curiosity) into their victims in order to spur them to voraciously seek out all information available on the product just to find out what it IS?
Or was there some hidden screen on the website somwhere that said, in plain english, "The Ark is a ______, built for ______, it will probably be used for the purpose of __________ by _______ or _________."?
It's doubtful that dinosaurs would truly "flourish" in today's world - they aren't as tough as they're made out to be, the climates on earth have changed a lot since they ran the show, not to mention pollution and such.
I believe that they'd get sick and die rather quickly.
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No. The color was/intially/ blue, but they later realized that was a mistake, and the real color is a boring beige.
He told me to "get with the 90's" and grab a wireless card as he was running a wireless network at his place.
Tell your friend that the 90's ended a few years ago, the official new millenium ANSI standard phrase for telling someone that they are outdated is,"Join the rest of us here in the 21st century, dude" This standard will only be in effect until the year 2020, in which we will revert to the more familiar "Get with the 20's!"
I think the problem that we're gonna run into with games like this one, with graphics so detailed and smooth, is that the cloned meshes we use to generate enemies will all look like just that: clones. [see: http://www.gamespy.com/e32002/pc/doom3b/12.jpg] - before, like with Quake, we could imagine that each character we encountered was an individual (as monstrous and demonic as they may have been) - but with the huge leap forward in realism, Id may have forgotten that the players won't be as forgiving of obviously duplicated characters. And I don't think they can hide for very long behind the thin veil of storylines involving evil clones coming to kill us to excuse their code-thriftiness.....
May I ask, how is it that a person talking on a cellular phone in a restaurant is more annoying than the same person talking to a friend who they're dining with at the same table?
Is it because you can't hear the other side of the conversation?
Other than that, and the fact that the conversation may start with a ring, I can't think of any other differences between the two types of conversation.
Or are you equally annoyed by people who talk over dinner?
IMHO, the tendency of some people to get annoyed by cell phones at restaurants is brought on solely by fear of change, or more specifically, a change in a familiar and comforting atmosphere (a restaurant).
This isn't flamebait, just an inquisitive observation, and if anyone can answer my questions I'd be very interested to hear it!
...that I read slashdot several (dozens of) times a day, and this is the first time I was even made aware of the existence of a spyware-free Kazaa! So in summary; I am one of those people who want it but don't already have it.
Just more evidence that just because you visit a website religiously, you can still miss something right under your nose.
The computer in question belongs to your ISP. YOU are the "criminal*" who is using that computer. The "patriot" act takes away YOUR right to privacy while using your ISP.
*By criminal, I mean: A person who the government wants to eavesdrop on.
Check to see what server your browser connects to when the security goes on - that means it's contacting a host over https then getting forwarded back to a non https server. That one connection will give a lot of data about you to whoever owns the server you're connecting to.
The old, worn out simple-minded person's quip "too much time on your hands" doesn't get laughs anymore, dude. In fact, it's rather overused, unoriginal, and meaningless. If you don't want to use your brain, then don't, but do NOT criticize others for doing so.
When I first read this, it gave me ideas! I was thinking.. "Whoa! In that case, I'm gonna use the court's tendency to rule in favor of ridiculous copyright claims to my advantage! I'm gonna copyright my fingerprints, my retina, and my DNA! Then I'll sue the DMV if they refuse to remove my fingerprint from their databases! And from now on, I can proudly refuse to give away my fingerprints to banks and police!"
I know very little about "quantum mechanics"; but it seems to me that this would bring us closer to building a cloaking device of some sort. If you think about it, cloaking is nothing but the bending of light around an object - and it seems to me that if you can pause light and store it in matter; then you can move that matter around to the other side and re-emit it(?)
On the other hand, perhaps not, since it took two lasers and a lot of work to make this experiment happen.. I dunno.
Wasn't the military trying to look into cloaking recently? I think I remember reading that.
To my knowledge, such a beast should not be possible.
When I was younger, before CD burners were available to the public, I knew how CD's where made. Still, I remarked one day to my dad,"I can't wait until CD *RECORDERS* come out!"
He looked at me with a look that said,"Ah, son, how much you have to learn about the world.." and said (out loud, this time),"Well, do you know how CDs are made?", probably as way of breaking it to me gently that it'll never happen.
But I thought to myself,"Give them a year or two.. and they'll appear. I've seen much more amazing technological feats materialize with the right consumer pull.
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Haha! And you forgot to spell/grammar/capitalization check yours. :)
Wow, thank you, Anonymous Coward!
Now, if you could only get yourself hired to write copy for Sanyo; their press releases would start to make some sense!!!
...we turned this "congestion" into "p2p cooperation" by using the same protocol in which we all routed each other's data.. rather than dreading interference, you'd PRAY that the guy a block away set up a wireless network, so you could hop through him to that evasive Internet access point...
Dear Anonymous Coward,
/solely due to their belief that "the FCC has dominion over the world"/.
We appreciate your input.
First, I doubt that anyone, including yourself, would believe for a moment that "shortsighted individuals" would be able to keep the wireless world from coming into existence
Second, the FCC obviously doesn't have dominion over the world. They're federal. They have dominion over the USA. Therefore, I retract a small portion of my original comment and rephrase it as,"I often wonder how we can achieve this utopian wireless USA (a Net connection in every citizen's pocket) with the overbearing FCC regulations we have to exist under right now."
"It's a giant LED made up of 3 lights that sits on top of the bathroom, and somehow has solar power that lights up the bathroom."
This is my girlfriend's interpretation of the article - if she's right, then the Japanese are wasting their technological brilliance. If she's wrong, then it's a good example of how lacking of fundamental data that the original article was.
LOL!!!
:)
Pardon my density, I forgot who we were dealing with.
Dude, if it isn't already a problem (which would suprise me), then it soon will be.
You can't deny the fact that with the limited frequency ranges and tons of adopting users, we will quickly approach critical mass. I would imagine that in some areas, where wireless technologies cohabitate in high concentrations, critical mass is already in the foreseeable future.
I often wonder how we can achieve this utopian wireless world (a Net connection in every citizen's pocket) with the overbearing FCC regulations we have to exist under right now.
As usual, the corporate website reveals little about its function, purpose, or use. It shows lots of pictures and a pretty little flash movie with writing all in japanese.
From the writing in the Slashdot article, I've gathered the following:
It has solar panels.
It has an LED display.
It has bathrooms "under" it.
So based on this information, the "ark" is a solar-powered advertising sign with bathrooms under it which are lit by LEDs. Are the bathrooms underground? Are they porta-potties? Why were bathrooms part of the design when they seem rather unrelated to the concept of advertising? Is the "ark" a prototype for a whole bunch of "arks" which are to be produced and distributed for home use? Or for commercial use? Or are they too huge/expensive for more than a few organizations in the world to use? OR, is it a one-of-a-kind tourist destination somewhere in Tokyo? Will it fit on your computer desk, or is it the size of a couple football fields? (I got a small incling of scale in the flash animation, because little flowers were growing on the ground below the picture of the ark, but you never know)
Is this another example of the increasingly-common marketing mimimalism that companies like to use to infuse an annoying hybrid emotion (composited from annoyance and curiosity) into their victims in order to spur them to voraciously seek out all information available on the product just to find out what it IS?
Or was there some hidden screen on the website somwhere that said, in plain english, "The Ark is a ______, built for ______, it will probably be used for the purpose of __________ by _______ or _________."?
It's doubtful that dinosaurs would truly "flourish" in today's world - they aren't as tough as they're made out to be, the climates on earth have changed a lot since they ran the show, not to mention pollution and such.
I believe that they'd get sick and die rather quickly.
No. The color was /intially/ blue, but they later realized that was a mistake, and the real color is a boring beige.
He told me to "get with the 90's" and grab a wireless card as he was running a wireless network at his place.
Tell your friend that the 90's ended a few years ago, the official new millenium ANSI standard phrase for telling someone that they are outdated is,"Join the rest of us here in the 21st century, dude" This standard will only be in effect until the year 2020, in which we will revert to the more familiar "Get with the 20's!"
I think the problem that we're gonna run into with games like this one, with graphics so detailed and smooth, is that the cloned meshes we use to generate enemies will all look like just that: clones. [see: http://www.gamespy.com/e32002/pc/doom3b/12.jpg] - before, like with Quake, we could imagine that each character we encountered was an individual (as monstrous and demonic as they may have been) - but with the huge leap forward in realism, Id may have forgotten that the players won't be as forgiving of obviously duplicated characters. And I don't think they can hide for very long behind the thin veil of storylines involving evil clones coming to kill us to excuse their code-thriftiness.....
Do you really think that a guy walking to the north pole would take the type of GPS not designed for it??
May I ask, how is it that a person talking on a cellular phone in a restaurant is more annoying than the same person talking to a friend who they're dining with at the same table?
Is it because you can't hear the other side of the conversation?
Other than that, and the fact that the conversation may start with a ring, I can't think of any other differences between the two types of conversation.
Or are you equally annoyed by people who talk over dinner?
IMHO, the tendency of some people to get annoyed by cell phones at restaurants is brought on solely by fear of change, or more specifically, a change in a familiar and comforting atmosphere (a restaurant).
This isn't flamebait, just an inquisitive observation, and if anyone can answer my questions I'd be very interested to hear it!
...that I read slashdot several (dozens of) times a day, and this is the first time I was even made aware of the existence of a spyware-free Kazaa! So in summary; I am one of those people who want it but don't already have it.
Just more evidence that just because you visit a website religiously, you can still miss something right under your nose.
I'm gonna check it out now.
You're interpreting it the way they want you to.
The computer in question belongs to your ISP. YOU are the "criminal*" who is using that computer. The "patriot" act takes away YOUR right to privacy while using your ISP.
*By criminal, I mean: A person who the government wants to eavesdrop on.
Check to see what server your browser connects to when the security goes on - that means it's contacting a host over https then getting forwarded back to a non https server. That one connection will give a lot of data about you to whoever owns the server you're connecting to.
Hey, I did some web contracting for oWonder a while back.. for their telephone-ICQ gateway, now extinct.
It's a small web after all.
The old, worn out simple-minded person's quip "too much time on your hands" doesn't get laughs anymore, dude. In fact, it's rather overused, unoriginal, and meaningless. If you don't want to use your brain, then don't, but do NOT criticize others for doing so.
Yes, there was a toilet in the panic room, it was visible briefly during one scene.
And what a delightful way to prove it!
DAMMIT!
When I first read this, it gave me ideas! I was thinking.. "Whoa! In that case, I'm gonna use the court's tendency to rule in favor of ridiculous copyright claims to my advantage! I'm gonna copyright my fingerprints, my retina, and my DNA! Then I'll sue the DMV if they refuse to remove my fingerprint from their databases! And from now on, I can proudly refuse to give away my fingerprints to banks and police!"
Pity..
I know very little about "quantum mechanics"; but it seems to me that this would bring us closer to building a cloaking device of some sort. If you think about it, cloaking is nothing but the bending of light around an object - and it seems to me that if you can pause light and store it in matter; then you can move that matter around to the other side and re-emit it(?)
On the other hand, perhaps not, since it took two lasers and a lot of work to make this experiment happen.. I dunno.
Wasn't the military trying to look into cloaking recently? I think I remember reading that.
To my knowledge, such a beast should not be possible.
When I was younger, before CD burners were available to the public, I knew how CD's where made. Still, I remarked one day to my dad,"I can't wait until CD *RECORDERS* come out!"
He looked at me with a look that said,"Ah, son, how much you have to learn about the world.." and said (out loud, this time),"Well, do you know how CDs are made?", probably as way of breaking it to me gently that it'll never happen.
But I thought to myself,"Give them a year or two.. and they'll appear. I've seen much more amazing technological feats materialize with the right consumer pull.
Really!?? Huh.. I though it was Mr. Clean...