...But if no one was allowed to think a "wrong" thought...there would be no law enforcement, but no one would care because they wouldn't need to be taught about obeying the rules because no one would ever think about breaking them (The Pre-Crime Division would take care of that);)
Wasn't that the premise of the original matrix (the one built prior to the trilogy)? It was a paradise, but the problem was that no one believed it and so massive amounts of people would wake from it. Hence the reason why the second matrix was built (going back to Agent Smith's description in the first movie).
I always thought the matrix was more a playground for individual minds to play in. If you set up an environment that is engineered to look like our world, place the minds in the system with some initial parameters (e.g. you are a programmer looking for work and like potato chips and coffee, etc) and then let those objects loose in the system, things should flow fairly smoothly. The matrix was more like a drug to keep the minds of their batteries happy basically, and the reason they chose this section of our history is that it was "the height of our civilization". But even Neo has a choice by the architect in the second movie.
I would say that control came by limiting choices. This comes from the societal structure that is put in place, something which most people are more than happy to live within. The few that refused to accept that were shown a different reality (i.e. unplugged from the matrix). However, the one wrench that Matrix:Reloaded tossed into the mix was Neo's ability to sense the machines on the other side. This would indicate that the true architects of the matrix built a buffer zone in which those minds that didn't believe the first matrix would wake up into the second thus saving them as a power source for a while longer and ensuring that every once and awhile you could flush those who would attempt to destroy your creation. By controlling the resistance you have complete control as Orwell showed us in 1984.
funny, my computer at work has linux running on it (of course, so does my one at home:), and the only things that I really configured were the network settings and the window manager theme on gnome...
Does this mean that Microsoft will go all out and start reinventing DOS just to try to get back into touch with its inner child, or will it finally keel over from a massive heart attack?
Before you jump on the what-about...-train, I'll admit that drugs like marijuana do have ligitimate medical uses. However, recent research has isolated the elements of the plant that work for pain relief from the other elements, such as those that cause the "high" that can permanently damage the brain's pleasure receptors after frequent use. If that first element can be administered seperately in a refined form, say in a pill, shot or nasal spray, it can be safely taken. Heck, even a patch (strangely, sounds almost on-topic).
Yeah, it's about time they came out with the THC patch! Finally, one can just slap this puppy on and instantly go to that happy place in those situations where smoking it isn't ideal.
well, consider the fact that openBSD runs openssh like linux, apache like linux, bind like linux, and a slew of other application level software that linux also does and wammo, you have something that relates to openbsd.
How many exploits can actually be attributed to the underlying operating system alone? On the whole, not many. Most are a consequence of what applications the sysadmin/user are running atop the os.
Now that it has mastered tai chi...
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it should be able to learn how to do the laundry, clean the dishes, fix dinner, and clean the house relatively easy. Excellent...
First, while the police can do things that we as normal citizens cannot, it doesn't mean that we have to like it or even agree to it. If nothing else the fact that they do have rights that go beyond the laws that they are supposed to uphold means they should be even more heavily scrutinized as a result.
Second, this is not about the police doing something that a normal citizen can't. According to the article the police took the trash without a warrant because it was essentially placed in the public domain (the sidewalk) and therefore was freely available for anyone, including the police to take. This means that it should be completely legal for any bloke wandering the streets to pick up anyones trash sitting at the curb and do what they will with it. That these people can't accept the fact that someone used their excuse to pilfer their trash just means that they are nothing but hypocrites (which is nothing new given the fact that they are politicians, lawyers, and cops). However, this also means that if this manner of taking ones trash is indeed illegal then those indicted from their trash that was taken in the same fashion should be released immediately.
Really, I think that the only thing that you should cry foul over is the fact that there are those in this world who willingly buy into what law enforcement and other government agencies do without ever questioning it. To say that they can do that because they are the police is just ignorance. It is this ignorance that is the reason for things like the Patriot and Homeland Security Acts which infringe on our unalienable rights to pass so readily. 1984 is becoming more a reality every day.
I think the real question should be can you hihglight, underline, or write in the margins period? Most likely they will also come out and patent some new contraption that people will have to spend a fortune on in order to mark up their books properly.
I still don't think I'd pay $3k for a 2gig replacement. Especially when there is a lot of headway being made in MEMS technology (site above). I think I'll wait until it becomes a mainstream product.
of course, the whole idea behind giving away their os would be to try to get opensource developers working on it--I can't see m$ wanting to pay programmers to work on a free product.
"Today The International Astrologers Cul, er Organization made a statement saying that Quaoar was indeed the reason why all of those predictions that they had continuously bungled were off. In the meantime, they stated that your horoscope today would be plagued with trying to figure out where in the hell the name Quaoar originates from, or more precisely, who pulled it out of their arse."
Let's not forget that the New York Times
did something similar a couple of years ago
here. Granted it wasn't anything as drastic as actually linking directly to the code or a binary, but it was something that was ruled against by good old Kaplan.
Steven Milunovich, an analyst at Merrill Lynch & Co., views the recent technology bust as the latest wave in a series for the industry. The first wave was the boom and bust of the mainframe computer in the early '70s. The second was that of the PC in the '90s. The third wave, as he sees it, will be the rise of more networked computing, in which, for example, applications will be used via the Internet.
Okay, does anyone else see a problem with this? First, an analysis of the tech market from a stock analyst. Second, the analyst in question works for a company under investigation for bogus analysis of market trends(click)?
Third, as I don't quite remember the pc boom, or the mainframe boom as being discussed by stock analysts, shortly after whatever previous bust I am even more likely not to believe this. Especially when the speil for the next great major advancement sounds like.NET propaganda. Oh wait, I suppose that Merril Lynch is in bed with Microsoft too.
it is backward compatible. This is one of the many fascinating things about the architecture. It is capable of running 3 different architectures, x86 ( ia32 ), ia64, and pa-risc
Many game vendors do this, hopefully blizzard will/can be pursuaded to do the same thing? I would think any company would want to maximize it's profit on such an endeavor, and as such, leaving out such a huge demographic would be just plain stupidity especially considering the fact that their original fan base for this series is pc based.
I think what should be the focus here is that Intel is planning on hitting the 90nm scale. Hell the 130nm scale has barely been accepted by all chip manufacturers, and it's already becoming obselete. The chip process technology is the thing that should really be the focus here.
This is an article related to this. Essentially Intel will be using Silicon Germanium like IBM. According to Intel, this will not only mean a smaller scale production, but will also produce a chip that can tolerate higher frequencies. Here is another article relating to this: click
AOL Time Warner. The media giant owns one of the major record labels that's successfully cracked down on such sites.
Although the company doesn't have an internal network and prohibits use of major file-swapping sites, the employee said AOL Time Warner has yet to block some smaller, more obscure sites where he can find music.
There are three outcomes for this that I would find reasonable:
1) The US Government admits that it had erred, apologizes, and repeals all of these ridiculous laws that it has inacted
2) The people get so fed up with the whole situation, that they rise up and overthrow the existing government. This is one of our duties as us citizens when the government no longer exists to suit the needs of its people.
3) Those opposed leave and go to some country/island/wherever where carp refers solely to a fish.
However, knowing the government, and the attitudes of the majority of it's populace when it comes to the policies being created/enforced by our elected officials, and their minions, the following is much more probable:
1) The government will pass more and more restrictive laws for the 'good' of it's citizens
2) The majority of the populace will continue not to care, and while they will occassionally bitch about some of the stuff that the government is pulling they will shrug it off because they don't care in the end.
3) Any attempts to move to a location not within the United States will be considered an act of terrorism, and any attempts to do so will result in immediate execution for the good of the nation.
I remember a similar storyline in UserFriendly: http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=19990609
btw, shouldn't it be
Geek: We don't need Windows XP. Our current setup runs fine and downgrading would cost an obscene amount of money.
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Wasn't that the premise of the original matrix (the one built prior to the trilogy)? It was a paradise, but the problem was that no one believed it and so massive amounts of people would wake from it. Hence the reason why the second matrix was built (going back to Agent Smith's description in the first movie).
I always thought the matrix was more a playground for individual minds to play in. If you set up an environment that is engineered to look like our world, place the minds in the system with some initial parameters (e.g. you are a programmer looking for work and like potato chips and coffee, etc) and then let those objects loose in the system, things should flow fairly smoothly. The matrix was more like a drug to keep the minds of their batteries happy basically, and the reason they chose this section of our history is that it was "the height of our civilization". But even Neo has a choice by the architect in the second movie.
I would say that control came by limiting choices. This comes from the societal structure that is put in place, something which most people are more than happy to live within. The few that refused to accept that were shown a different reality (i.e. unplugged from the matrix). However, the one wrench that Matrix:Reloaded tossed into the mix was Neo's ability to sense the machines on the other side. This would indicate that the true architects of the matrix built a buffer zone in which those minds that didn't believe the first matrix would wake up into the second thus saving them as a power source for a while longer and ensuring that every once and awhile you could flush those who would attempt to destroy your creation. By controlling the resistance you have complete control as Orwell showed us in 1984.
I wonder if it comes with ammo and planes, or if not could you throw them in with some package deal for say, and extra 500k?
;)
Then you wouldn't have to even worry about docking into a harbor, just take your own jet to the mainland for the day
funny, my computer at work has linux running on it (of course, so does my one at home :), and the only things that I really configured were the network settings and the window manager theme on gnome...
Does this mean that Microsoft will go all out and start reinventing DOS just to try to get back into touch with its inner child, or will it finally keel over from a massive heart attack?
Yeah, it's about time they came out with the THC patch! Finally, one can just slap this puppy on and instantly go to that happy place in those situations where smoking it isn't ideal.
well, consider the fact that openBSD runs openssh like linux, apache like linux, bind like linux, and a slew of other application level software that linux also does and wammo, you have something that relates to openbsd.
How many exploits can actually be attributed to the underlying operating system alone? On the whole, not many. Most are a consequence of what applications the sysadmin/user are running atop the os.
it should be able to learn how to do the laundry, clean the dishes, fix dinner, and clean the house relatively easy.
Excellent...
First, while the police can do things that we as normal citizens cannot, it doesn't mean that we have to like it or even agree to it. If nothing else the fact that they do have rights that go beyond the laws that they are supposed to uphold means they should be even more heavily scrutinized as a result.
Second, this is not about the police doing something that a normal citizen can't. According to the article the police took the trash without a warrant because it was essentially placed in the public domain (the sidewalk) and therefore was freely available for anyone, including the police to take. This means that it should be completely legal for any bloke wandering the streets to pick up anyones trash sitting at the curb and do what they will with it. That these people can't accept the fact that someone used their excuse to pilfer their trash just means that they are nothing but hypocrites (which is nothing new given the fact that they are politicians, lawyers, and cops). However, this also means that if this manner of taking ones trash is indeed illegal then those indicted from their trash that was taken in the same fashion should be released immediately.
Really, I think that the only thing that you should cry foul over is the fact that there are those in this world who willingly buy into what law enforcement and other government agencies do without ever questioning it. To say that they can do that because they are the police is just ignorance. It is this ignorance that is the reason for things like the Patriot and Homeland Security Acts which infringe on our unalienable rights to pass so readily. 1984 is becoming more a reality every day.
I think the real question should be can you hihglight, underline, or write in the margins period? Most likely they will also come out and patent some new contraption that people will have to spend a fortune on in order to mark up their books properly.
http://www.lcs.ece.cmu.edu/research/MEMS/
I still don't think I'd pay $3k for a 2gig replacement. Especially when there is a lot of headway being made in MEMS technology (site above).
I think I'll wait until it becomes a mainstream product.
of course, the whole idea behind giving away their os would be to try to get opensource developers working on it--I can't see m$ wanting to pay programmers to work on a free product.
"Today The International Astrologers Cul, er Organization made a statement saying that Quaoar was indeed the reason why all of those predictions that they had continuously bungled were off. In the meantime, they stated that your horoscope today would be plagued with trying to figure out where in the hell the name Quaoar originates from, or more precisely, who pulled it out of their arse."
Okay, does anyone else see a problem with this? First, an analysis of the tech market from a stock analyst. Second, the analyst in question works for a company under investigation for bogus analysis of market trends(click)? .NET propaganda. Oh wait, I suppose that Merril Lynch is in bed with Microsoft too.
Third, as I don't quite remember the pc boom, or the mainframe boom as being discussed by stock analysts, shortly after whatever previous bust I am even more likely not to believe this. Especially when the speil for the next great major advancement sounds like
it is backward compatible. This is one of the many fascinating things about the architecture. It is capable of running 3 different architectures, x86 ( ia32 ), ia64, and pa-risc
Many game vendors do this, hopefully blizzard will/can be pursuaded to do the same thing? I would think any company would want to maximize it's profit on such an endeavor, and as such, leaving out such a huge demographic would be just plain stupidity especially considering the fact that their original fan base for this series is pc based.
click ;)
Amazon actually has both the vhs and dvd for your viewing pleasure
I think what should be the focus here is that Intel is planning on hitting the 90nm scale. Hell the 130nm scale has barely been accepted by all chip manufacturers, and it's already becoming obselete. The chip process technology is the thing that should really be the focus here. This is an article related to this. Essentially Intel will be using Silicon Germanium like IBM. According to Intel, this will not only mean a smaller scale production, but will also produce a chip that can tolerate higher frequencies. Here is another article relating to this: click
Remember Napster, and the courts decision, and the immediate response by one of the many who they ticked off then?
that senator probably did way too much drugs or something during the 70's and this is the result...
Although the company doesn't have an internal network and prohibits use of major file-swapping sites, the employee said AOL Time Warner has yet to block some smaller, more obscure sites where he can find music.
This explains a lot about their service...
There are three outcomes for this that I would find reasonable:
1) The US Government admits that it had erred, apologizes, and repeals all of these ridiculous laws that it has inacted
2) The people get so fed up with the whole situation, that they rise up and overthrow the existing government. This is one of our duties as us citizens when the government no longer exists to suit the needs of its people.
3) Those opposed leave and go to some country/island/wherever where carp refers solely to a fish.
However, knowing the government, and the attitudes of the majority of it's populace when it comes to the policies being created/enforced by our elected officials, and their minions, the following is much more probable:
1) The government will pass more and more restrictive laws for the 'good' of it's citizens
2) The majority of the populace will continue not to care, and while they will occassionally bitch about some of the stuff that the government is pulling they will shrug it off because they don't care in the end.
3) Any attempts to move to a location not within the United States will be considered an act of terrorism, and any attempts to do so will result in immediate execution for the good of the nation.
I remember a similar storyline in UserFriendly:
http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=19990609 btw, shouldn't it be Geek: We don't need Windows XP. Our current setup runs fine and downgrading would cost an obscene amount of money.