I noticed that a LOT of online stores try and push those overpriced cables exclusively too. I bought a 25' foot S-Video cable for $13, and as far as I'm concerned, paying 10 times as much for 2% more quality (or whatever) isn't worth it.
audio/videophiles get the worst bang for their buck. But hey, they gotta blow their dough on something.
I'm not laughing at the bastards on the west coast who are costing the economy $1 Billion per day with their shipping lockout. They feel threatend by new efficient robotic load/unload tech. Labor unions don't have a chance in the face of higher productivity.
I had a nearly identical failure: I bought the WD120BB in March, and it failed in August. I reverted back to my old IBM 20GB Deskstar (which was supposed to be the failure-prone drive), and waited a month for my replacement which I can only hope is of higher quality (statistically).
I've had many Caviar drives before this one that lasted for years, but I'm ditching this iffy drive for a Maxtor 320gig early next year - the warranty's for both may only be 1 year now, but I'd rather not have to deal with the hassle of a yearly RMA.
Drug patents have been assumed by governments before
That's the main reason I continue running the UD client (on all my 'puters). I know that even if they wanted to hold the cancer cure/treatment for ransom, the world (minus pharma shareholders) wouldn't let them get away with it.
By claiming that sexual deviancy, er, perversion, is "unnatural" and "encourages immoral behavior", you show your true religious colors; you don't have state it explicitly.
Humans (and technology) are PART of nature. Anything we do -- including ass-fucking, polluting the environment, or nuking ourselves - *IS* natural IMO.
As for "encouraging immorality", well, that didn't seem to stop you xians from your crusades. Maybe they were doing it doggystyle? Or cowgirl style even? Or maybe one doesn't have much to do with the other?!
Well, all things considered, humans as a whole do have control over tech. It's just that the average individual has to specialize his knowledge more and more, so he's a antlike cog in the sum of knowledge, and can't possibly be in tune with the big picture (as much as someone who's specialization *is* manipulating the bigpicture).
Is it just me, or have others cut way down on reading since they got on the internet?
You just have to drag yourself away from your 'puter once in a while. I look forward to getting out of my somewhat comfortable computer chair, and onto my very comfortable sofa to read a deadtree book.
Granted, I seem to be buying anthologies more often these days (currently reading the Verner Vinge collection). It's a sign of the (accelerating) times that people only have patience for compressed info with so much out there.
The role of a college education isn't force you to memorize facts, but to learn how to solve problems.
Yeah, I 'warezed' the sum total of all Human Knowledge (v8.1), and have the storage capacity to keep it all in short-term memory, but I can't find a good correlation module to make sense of it.:-(
Yeah, sometimes treating the symptoms is more profitable than curing the cause.
e.g.: the U.S. inching towards a police state and manufacturing consent for GulfWar2 in order to combat the "evildoing terrorists", rather than reexamining years of arrogant foreign policy that pisses these millions of people off while we pretend to think they're just "jealous" of our freedom.
Hmm... so that must be why they call it General Tso's Chicken: The privileged general gets the meat (MMmmmmm...), and the proles get the rice (w/o soy sauce! the horror!);)
I will continue to support the fight against artificial scarcity towards business models that work. Capitalism doesn't work well when things aren't scarce... it's a kludge.
mp3's are free ads in my book - for (overpriced) CDs, concerts (real work), merchandise, direct support, etc. The recording isn't scarce, which is why pressing CDs is liking printing money, which in turn is why the RIAA is fighting like mad to keep control of their old cashcow.
I wonder (and I should google for info), how much progress has been made in connecting up neurons in the visual cortex to look for patterns in the monkey's vision?
(I want my NVidia OpticNerv Ti4600!...after the blind people get theirs, of course:)
Simple tool use is instinctual in many animals, but yeah, you need language to pass down complex tool making memes. It's hard to imagine how constructing a bow and arrow could end up encoded in genes to be hardcoded in the developed brain and expressed as instinct later on.
And I am concerned about what we are doing to our unrecoverable resources.
Technology will take care of that:-) Specifically, once we have precise control over matter at the molecular level, all our resources are suddenly 100% recyclable without nasty pollution. And IMO, it's only natural what we're doing to the planet at the moment - progress wants to march exponentially... until we kill ourselves or reach the Singularity.
I haven't seen this film yet, but from what I've heard I know I'll appreciate it. I absolutely love the hypnotic filmmaking style that gets you thinking. Stuff like Pi, Requiem for a Dream, Bagdad Cafe, Apolcalypse Now, IMAX's Living Sea...
Would you be willing to attach 2 cents to each E-mail where the recipient of the mail gets the money? Send mail to your friend and he gets 2 cents, he send you mail and you get the 2 cents back.
From: PoorBoy@mexico.com
To: RichAmerican@AOL.com
Bcc: { insert 5 million other suckers }
Subject: Please help me
I am so poor I only have two pennies to rub together, and I just spent them sending you this very email message.
PLEASE send me 10 email messages in return so I and my family won't starve this year. I beg you!!!
In your debt forever,
Jesus Gonzales (a real honest to god poor boy)
For some reason I don't find what he doesn't as that impressive because it should be easy enough to write software to translate 3d objects to lego build instructions. Basically, paint-by-numbers for lego.
today there's no real use for it, but what about in 10 years?
In ten or fifteen years I'd expect these same multi-millionaires to be among the first paying for a much more valuable "Brain Map". Wouldn't you much rather know how each and every one of your neurons is interconnected, NOW, than know your DNA's seed-AI sequence to grow a new blank one? I would.
I know it seems crazy to think about, but biological genes won't really mean much to post-humans. Eventually every atom in my body (and in the solar system) will be brain substrate.
Slashdot Mirror
audio/videophiles get the worst bang for their buck. But hey, they gotta blow their dough on something.
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I'm rooting for bottom-up wireless networks to displace those who would want to control communication...
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I've had many Caviar drives before this one that lasted for years, but I'm ditching this iffy drive for a Maxtor 320gig early next year - the warranty's for both may only be 1 year now, but I'd rather not have to deal with the hassle of a yearly RMA.
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That's the main reason I continue running the UD client (on all my 'puters). I know that even if they wanted to hold the cancer cure/treatment for ransom, the world (minus pharma shareholders) wouldn't let them get away with it.
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Humans (and technology) are PART of nature. Anything we do -- including ass-fucking, polluting the environment, or nuking ourselves - *IS* natural IMO.
As for "encouraging immorality", well, that didn't seem to stop you xians from your crusades. Maybe they were doing it doggystyle? Or cowgirl style even? Or maybe one doesn't have much to do with the other?!
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(hmm... that didn't make much sense).
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Do you only fuck your wife missionary style? ... and then pray to god for forgiveness after?
Just because sex embarrasses the oldfarts that write religious books doesn't make it evil.
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You just have to drag yourself away from your 'puter once in a while. I look forward to getting out of my somewhat comfortable computer chair, and onto my very comfortable sofa to read a deadtree book.
Granted, I seem to be buying anthologies more often these days (currently reading the Verner Vinge collection). It's a sign of the (accelerating) times that people only have patience for compressed info with so much out there.
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Yeah, I 'warezed' the sum total of all Human Knowledge (v8.1), and have the storage capacity to keep it all in short-term memory, but I can't find a good correlation module to make sense of it. :-(
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e.g.: the U.S. inching towards a police state and manufacturing consent for GulfWar2 in order to combat the "evildoing terrorists", rather than reexamining years of arrogant foreign policy that pisses these millions of people off while we pretend to think they're just "jealous" of our freedom.
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I will continue to support the fight against artificial scarcity towards business models that work. Capitalism doesn't work well when things aren't scarce... it's a kludge.
mp3's are free ads in my book - for (overpriced) CDs, concerts (real work), merchandise, direct support, etc. The recording isn't scarce, which is why pressing CDs is liking printing money, which in turn is why the RIAA is fighting like mad to keep control of their old cashcow.
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That'd be an 11 second ping. I'd imagine that'd put a big damper on the snappy telepresence feedback loop.
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(I want my NVidia OpticNerv Ti4600! ...after the blind people get theirs, of course :)
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Instinct and imitation only go so far.
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Technology will take care of that :-) Specifically, once we have precise control over matter at the molecular level, all our resources are suddenly 100% recyclable without nasty pollution. And IMO, it's only natural what we're doing to the planet at the moment - progress wants to march exponentially... until we kill ourselves or reach the Singularity.
I haven't seen this film yet, but from what I've heard I know I'll appreciate it. I absolutely love the hypnotic filmmaking style that gets you thinking. Stuff like Pi, Requiem for a Dream, Bagdad Cafe, Apolcalypse Now, IMAX's Living Sea...
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From: PoorBoy@mexico.com
To: RichAmerican@AOL.com
Bcc: { insert 5 million other suckers }
Subject: Please help me
I am so poor I only have two pennies to rub together, and I just spent them sending you this very email message.
PLEASE send me 10 email messages in return so I and my family won't starve this year. I beg you!!!
In your debt forever,
Jesus Gonzales (a real honest to god poor boy)
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In ten or fifteen years I'd expect these same multi-millionaires to be among the first paying for a much more valuable "Brain Map". Wouldn't you much rather know how each and every one of your neurons is interconnected, NOW, than know your DNA's seed-AI sequence to grow a new blank one? I would.
I know it seems crazy to think about, but biological genes won't really mean much to post-humans. Eventually every atom in my body (and in the solar system) will be brain substrate.
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Fuck you.
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