we can only perceive three dimensions and yet we must exist in the other six as well
More like they'd exist within us. The article describes them as mostly existing at the nanometer scale. Nanometers certainly do exist within us, and I surely can't perceive them. I'll grant you that that doesn't jibe with my understanding of dimentions, having only the other 4 to work with as reference.
but we can't see them
Lot's of stuff we can't directly perceive. For instance, I believe in UV radiation, but I can only infer it from the pain of my white irish ass getting about 4 minutes exposure to the sun.
life-forms that exist in one or two dimensions, so how can we exist in just three?
I don't know where life-forms come into this. Your sentiocentricity gives me great pleasure in coining a word.
Well, I guess you didn't specify sentients. But babelfish doens't have english to latin so I got nothin. I wonder, though, how many dimentions a sea cucumber percieves? Maybe time? That doesn't mean it doesn't exist in at least 3 more.
It's like saying that it's politically incorrect to ask new mothers whether they have Jewish ancestry, and give them lots of extra tests if they do. It's just science...
Are you kidding?
This is your argument to the/. crowd. A more wretched hive of paranoia and tinfoil-hattedness can't be found in the galaxy. Remember the dustup when it turned out Tivo knows what we're reviewing? But to your mind, it's granted that there's not just nothing wrong, but that questions wouldn't even be raised by this scenario:
OB/GYN: Mrs, eh, Fleishman, is it? Hebess: Yes, Doctor. OB/GYN: Sounds kinda, um, Jewy. Hebess: Well, yes. OB/GYN: Huh. Well, we're gonna need to run a bunch of tests. Nurse! Bleed that baby!
Personally I wish you were right. Being Irish Catholic isn't minority enough these days for special treatment, so I'd like to pretend we were all responsible adults. But pretending is pretty much what that would be.
visit as many free seminars as you can (visit some that you have to pay for if you think its worth while and you have the cash)
As a 15 year old (just that many years ago) just getting interested in GUI programming, I found MS's developer net. an invaluable resource, once I filled out that stupid 'getting to know you' required for access.
As an amusing side effect, my mom still gets occaisional mail addressed to [SixTwelve], CEO, Reign of the Flaming Chicken Inc. It starts, as it did then, "Due to your work in the industry, we'd like to give you a complimentary..." Many free tickets to paid seminars that way.
Of course you remember that Intel tried this a few years ago. Message boards and newsgroups were full of Instant Privacy Advocates (just add black helos) going quickly apeshit.
Intel is trying to log what PornoZeraw searches I'm getting from Yahoo!? That's an invasion of my privacy...
Stationed in Puerto Rico, the family and oldest friends are inaccessable. "That Guy" from GTA3 is AWOL as my PS2 managed to eat the disk! BUT - I did get myself a printer, and a Marine buddy of mine got me good and drunk. What more could you really ask for?
These interfaces are neither revolutionary nor intuitive. You are not kidding! Revolutionary?!
A spinning globe graphically displaying relationships... Sounds like Explorer. But you can't turn it off, and it goes insane when your sneezes trigger pointer twitches.
the desktop metaphor itself becomes unnecessary: machines would automatically present information to you as you need it OK actually producing cybernauts would be revolutionary, but the idea's not new
Accessing files by asking for them Speech recognition is already available. Wooptie-doo
The people who are incapable of finding their files need simply to be shown how to organize information. I don't recall losing a file, except perhaps the odd downloaded.jpeg, in a long long time. Why not? Well, the utils are in Utils, the games are in Games, and the developing stuff is in Dev.
The only thing I found kind of neat is having Axees(?) Axises? multiple directories pointing to the same files. But really I can't see that being all good -.lnks work fine, and there's less accidentally erasing or not erasing files. I think that more than makes up for the little extra clean-up it requires, which could really be fixed anyway.
Granted, more options for more people is a Good Thing. It employs more people, and satasfies more customers. I mean, some people will buy freaking absolutely ANYthing, but that doesn't make it any less retarded.
It would still require electricity to power the book, and there would have to be traces embedded in the pages to get the electricity to the print. Interesting idea, though.
Plenty of room in the binding for a little inductive coil. -instant transformer- If there was a real market for these (I doubt it) a rechargeable battery or two would line you into as many books as you could buy for a good long time.
Also I could mince around the room all day dragging my posters to different locations...
I expect my favorite part of this will be virtua posters hung off-kilter. It'll certainly be an advertising point; "Our resolution is so high you can actually tilt your pictures without any jagged lines! Your guests will never know you're not a collector!"
And a thousand bucks says the 1st demo tilted poster will be an image of Natalie Portman.
Presumably, but the idea isn't very threatening sounding.
In the states, I believe the only law enforcement agency that would concern themselves with triangulating rogue radio transmissions is the FCC. They probably have better things to do than try and protect companies from their own negligent sysadmins.
I suppose the companies could hire jack-booted thugs to hunt you down, but I'd think the cost effictive solution would really be to hire a competent sysadmin. Furthermore, rent-a-cops are rent-a-cops, and we never had any trouble running away from them when we got caught smoking in malls. I bet it's even easier to get away when you've got a bike or a car handy.
Lastly, as the thread originator mentioned, it might not even be illegal. If you don't want someone accessing your data, I think a good start would be to not broadcast it on unprotected airwaves. I suspect it is illegal, though - it just seems likely to me that the laws that made radio scanners have protections against reading cell phone freqs. would have been wide enough to cover non-verbal communications, too.
...I don't see the point of nanobots. They're hard to make, they're expensive to make...
Difficult and expensive, yes. But onlt the first one. After that you're only looking at the cost of materials. Hell, only even that if you can't get them to collect the materials themselves.
...and they're useless when compared with similar toxins or biochemical agents.
As to that, well I suppose it depends on what your goals are. As far as building sheets of diamond for hyper-efficient & sturdy windows for your home goes, I'd call nanotech far, far superior to traditional chemical agents. Killing only people of a certain ethnic origin is another area where traditional CB attacks just don't up to the potential of nanotech.
PS: Get a grip - I don't hope some jackass will succeed in that last example.
The article makes it seem as if the 3d gui is sort of optional
<Slant-Six article> that can present the output of programs as anything from terminal text to a 3-dimensional Hollywood-style GUI... depending on what the user chooses to see and what the hardware can handle. <Slant-Six article>
cool that. Windows and too many html coders are going to find this user power way too hard to deal with, but to hell with 'em.
You don't know the web and the internet are the same thing? Jeeze! I bet you're not very good at AOL!!
OK, sorry... the point is, these are unfortunately interchangable words in modern English. Lucky us for getting the right decision (for once.) But man oh man do I hope you don't put up a http as these other folks are suggesting. Don't legitimize it!
If you get letters from lawyers complaining about them, reply that the administrater can only be contacted at webmaster@your.disputed.domain and give you evidence you're actually using the things.
I would also hope that you record your McDonald's avenue analogy, along with all your other thoughts on the issue now, in case some jackass does decide to sue you. Who knows? Maybe educating a judge will actually effect a change in the way we all live, and put you next to ESR in the anals of making my computer a better place to live!
My apologies if this isn't coherant - I should've got to sleep about seven hours ago!
Right after this movie came out there was an awesome security alert e-mail going around. (There's a bug in the BGSs [Big Green Shields]that allows even primative lifeforms...])
(anyone know what the standard actually is?). I mean, who the hell expects upstanding citizens in criminal organizations?
I'd like to know why this rule exists. I assume President Clinton OK'd it, and he was certainly a master of 'what the people want.' Was there massive outcry when people realized that Suddam Hussein had received weapons fired on US troops from the DoD?
This rule just sounds so stupid there just has to be a reason behind it. I hope that there won't be more idiotic looking rules to reflect on in five years, although I'm positive I hope in vain. One doesn't study to think emotionally, and sometimes logic just doesn't feel as good.
you can't possibly be so naive as to believe that the people who carried out Tuesday's attacks are somehow incapable of writing (or having written) their own crypto software which contains no such back doors.
I've seen a shell emulator that pops up when the OS thinks you're trying to hack it. It'll appear to copy files, change names, etc. How much easier would it be to design a crypto-system with a "back door" that came up with Mother Goose & Grimm quotes or texts supplied by the author?
I tried to buy RH. Using their secure server, I gave them my CC# and asked for a distro. A couple of months later when I realized I still hadn't been charged for it, I called thier 800 line. I was able to give them the date, and the confirmation # in the return e-mail, but it just wasn't in the system. Their CS rep told me it just wasn't possible. (What, like I was making it up so I could be charged for a product but with drama?)
I would've ordered it again, but between that call and getting my CC a co-worker told me he'd had the exact same experience (!) when telephone ordering 3 distros from RH.
I used Mandrake disks he'd downloaded and have done so ever since. ---------
It's been far too long since a new gadget was added to shoes. In the halcyon days of footwear (that was the early and mid '80s for you youngins) we had a radically new pedal contraption every couple of weeks! Shoes with no laces?! That's a loafer! Shox? We've had spring loaded tennies for like a decade.
No. What we need is power.
I want to be the first kid on my block with pulse jet game!
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we can only perceive three dimensions and yet we must exist in the other six as well
More like they'd exist within us. The article describes them as mostly existing at the nanometer scale. Nanometers certainly do exist within us, and I surely can't perceive them. I'll grant you that that doesn't jibe with my understanding of dimentions, having only the other 4 to work with as reference.
but we can't see them
Lot's of stuff we can't directly perceive. For instance, I believe in UV radiation, but I can only infer it from the pain of my white irish ass getting about 4 minutes exposure to the sun.
life-forms that exist in one or two dimensions, so how can we exist in just three?
I don't know where life-forms come into this. Your sentiocentricity gives me great pleasure in coining a word.
Well, I guess you didn't specify sentients. But babelfish doens't have english to latin so I got nothin. I wonder, though, how many dimentions a sea cucumber percieves? Maybe time? That doesn't mean it doesn't exist in at least 3 more.
SAWs akimbo? You'd shoot off your legs.
It's like saying that it's politically incorrect to ask new mothers whether they have Jewish ancestry, and give them lots of extra tests if they do. It's just science...
/. crowd. A more wretched hive of paranoia and tinfoil-hattedness can't be found in the galaxy. Remember the dustup when it turned out Tivo knows what we're reviewing? But to your mind, it's granted that there's not just nothing wrong, but that questions wouldn't even be raised by this scenario:
Are you kidding?
This is your argument to the
OB/GYN: Mrs, eh, Fleishman, is it?
Hebess: Yes, Doctor.
OB/GYN: Sounds kinda, um, Jewy.
Hebess: Well, yes.
OB/GYN: Huh. Well, we're gonna need to run a bunch of tests. Nurse! Bleed that baby!
Personally I wish you were right. Being Irish Catholic isn't minority enough these days for special treatment, so I'd like to pretend we were all responsible adults. But pretending is pretty much what that would be.
As an amusing side effect, my mom still gets occaisional mail addressed to [SixTwelve], CEO, Reign of the Flaming Chicken Inc. It starts, as it did then, "Due to your work in the industry, we'd like to give you a complimentary..." Many free tickets to paid seminars that way.
As I remember that lasted about 10 minutes.
Stationed in Puerto Rico, the family and oldest friends are inaccessable. "That Guy" from GTA3 is AWOL as my PS2 managed to eat the disk! BUT - I did get myself a printer, and a Marine buddy of mine got me good and drunk. What more could you really ask for?
Happy holidays!
These interfaces are neither revolutionary nor intuitive.
You are not kidding! Revolutionary?!
A spinning globe graphically displaying relationships...
Sounds like Explorer. But you can't turn it off, and it goes insane when your sneezes trigger pointer twitches.
the desktop metaphor itself becomes unnecessary: machines would automatically present information to you as you need it
OK actually producing cybernauts would be revolutionary, but the idea's not new
Accessing files by asking for them
.jpeg, in a long long time. Why not? Well, the utils are in Utils, the games are in Games, and the developing stuff is in Dev.
.lnks work fine, and there's less accidentally erasing or not erasing files. I think that more than makes up for the little extra clean-up it requires, which could really be fixed anyway.
Speech recognition is already available. Wooptie-doo
The people who are incapable of finding their files need simply to be shown how to organize information. I don't recall losing a file, except perhaps the odd downloaded
The only thing I found kind of neat is having Axees(?) Axises? multiple directories pointing to the same files. But really I can't see that being all good -
Granted, more options for more people is a Good Thing. It employs more people, and satasfies more customers. I mean, some people will buy freaking absolutely ANYthing, but that doesn't make it any less retarded.
It would still require electricity to power the book, and there would have to be traces embedded in the pages to get the electricity to the print. Interesting idea, though.
Plenty of room in the binding for a little inductive coil. -instant transformer- If there was a real market for these (I doubt it) a rechargeable battery or two would line you into as many books as you could buy for a good long time.
Also I could mince around the room all day dragging my posters to different locations...
I expect my favorite part of this will be virtua posters hung off-kilter. It'll certainly be an advertising point; "Our resolution is so high you can actually tilt your pictures without any jagged lines! Your guests will never know you're not a collector!"
And a thousand bucks says the 1st demo tilted poster will be an image of Natalie Portman.
Presumably, but the idea isn't very threatening sounding.
In the states, I believe the only law enforcement agency that would concern themselves with triangulating rogue radio transmissions is the FCC. They probably have better things to do than try and protect companies from their own negligent sysadmins.
I suppose the companies could hire jack-booted thugs to hunt you down, but I'd think the cost effictive solution would really be to hire a competent sysadmin. Furthermore, rent-a-cops are rent-a-cops, and we never had any trouble running away from them when we got caught smoking in malls. I bet it's even easier to get away when you've got a bike or a car handy.
Lastly, as the thread originator mentioned, it might not even be illegal. If you don't want someone accessing your data, I think a good start would be to not broadcast it on unprotected airwaves. I suspect it is illegal, though - it just seems likely to me that the laws that made radio scanners have protections against reading cell phone freqs. would have been wide enough to cover non-verbal communications, too.
...I don't see the point of nanobots. They're hard to make, they're expensive to make...
...and they're useless when compared with similar toxins or biochemical agents.
Difficult and expensive, yes. But onlt the first one. After that you're only looking at the cost of materials. Hell, only even that if you can't get them to collect the materials themselves.
As to that, well I suppose it depends on what your goals are. As far as building sheets of diamond for hyper-efficient & sturdy windows for your home goes, I'd call nanotech far, far superior to traditional chemical agents. Killing only people of a certain ethnic origin is another area where traditional CB attacks just don't up to the potential of nanotech.
PS: Get a grip - I don't hope some jackass will succeed in that last example.
The article makes it seem as if the 3d gui is sort of optional
... depending on what the user chooses to see and what the hardware can handle. <Slant-Six article>
<Slant-Six article> that can present the output of programs as anything from terminal text to a 3-dimensional Hollywood-style GUI
cool that. Windows and too many html coders are going to find this user power way too hard to deal with, but to hell with 'em.
Throwing out everything from the file/folder/desktop heirarchy
Is it just me? I really can't see a distinction between the folder/file relatoinship and the parent/child data relationship.
You don't know the web and the internet are the same thing? Jeeze! I bet you're not very good at AOL!!
OK, sorry... the point is, these are unfortunately interchangable words in modern English. Lucky us for getting the right decision (for once.) But man oh man do I hope you don't put up a http as these other folks are suggesting. Don't legitimize it!
If you get letters from lawyers complaining about them, reply that the administrater can only be contacted at webmaster@your.disputed.domain and give you evidence you're actually using the things.
I would also hope that you record your McDonald's avenue analogy, along with all your other thoughts on the issue now, in case some jackass does decide to sue you. Who knows? Maybe educating a judge will actually effect a change in the way we all live, and put you next to ESR in the anals of making my computer a better place to live!
My apologies if this isn't coherant - I should've got to sleep about seven hours ago!
Right after this movie came out there was an awesome security alert e-mail going around. (There's a bug in the BGSs [Big Green Shields]that allows even primative lifeforms...])
Anyone have a copy?
(anyone know what the standard actually is?). I mean, who the hell expects upstanding citizens in criminal organizations?
I'd like to know why this rule exists. I assume President Clinton OK'd it, and he was certainly a master of 'what the people want.' Was there massive outcry when people realized that Suddam Hussein had received weapons fired on US troops from the DoD?
This rule just sounds so stupid there just has to be a reason behind it. I hope that there won't be more idiotic looking rules to reflect on in five years, although I'm positive I hope in vain. One doesn't study to think emotionally, and sometimes logic just doesn't feel as good.
you can't possibly be so naive as to believe that the people who carried out Tuesday's attacks are somehow incapable of writing (or having written) their own crypto software which contains no such back doors.
I've seen a shell emulator that pops up when the OS thinks you're trying to hack it. It'll appear to copy files, change names, etc. How much easier would it be to design a crypto-system with a "back door" that came up with Mother Goose & Grimm quotes or texts supplied by the author?
I tried to buy RH. Using their secure server, I gave them my CC# and asked for a distro. A couple of months later when I realized I still hadn't been charged for it, I called thier 800 line. I was able to give them the date, and the confirmation # in the return e-mail, but it just wasn't in the system. Their CS rep told me it just wasn't possible. (What, like I was making it up so I could be charged for a product but with drama?)
I would've ordered it again, but between that call and getting my CC a co-worker told me he'd had the exact same experience (!) when telephone ordering 3 distros from RH.
I used Mandrake disks he'd downloaded and have done so ever since.
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Anyone get the feeling that some exec got their feelings hurt by the OEM refund decision?
"What do you mean I can't charge you without your consent? Do you know who I am?!"
Gotta respect the tenacity, though. If not with a wimper than with a Tony Soprano bat to the head freaking bang.
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It's been far too long since a new gadget was added to shoes. In the halcyon days of footwear (that was the early and mid '80s for you youngins) we had a radically new pedal contraption every couple of weeks! Shoes with no laces?! That's a loafer! Shox? We've had spring loaded tennies for like a decade.
No. What we need is power.
I want to be the first kid on my block with pulse jet game!
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