You are at the Van Halen concert, and it's just about time for one of Eddie's solos, and all the sudden script kiddies DoS the mixer panel. Or worse. They're really clever, and all the sudden, the speakers start booming...
"I love you, you love me, we're a happy fam-i-ly..." from the Barney kids show.
Um, you fool. Woz didn't have anything to do with that... but even if he had, it was an above the table deal. Xerox knew that Apple wanted some ideas, and was willing to trade some of its own, in exchange for a stake in the company. Only M$ goblins spread this stupid gossip, to try and argue that "everybody does it".
A fresh new game from my friend Urchlay on undernet. His exciting use of color card suits and software character generation pushes the limits of the 2600's abilities. I'm still waiting for him to port DoomII though.
Yes, seriously, he writes games for the 2600 and NES. I'm more of an AppleII man myself though.
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Actually, I'm moving up to fibre channel with software raid 5. I fully expect to be able to a constant data transfer of over 100mps. I'm afraid I won't be using XP though.
Maybe if you dumbass consumers weren't busy jerking off to the latest IDE spec, you'd have noticed 2 or 3 alternative technologies that are quite a bit faster.
You know, it is theoretically possible to avoid both pretentious circle-jerking, and trolling simultaneously. For instance, had you only been polite, and said the same message (even sarcastically), you would have came close to that ideal. I have a question for you. Do fuckwits like yourself ALWAYS have to invade beatiful places, and ruin them?
All these hybrid troll/moderators we've been seeing lately. Too bad they have already harvested their brains by the time they mature enough to post on slashdot.
Hey, neither of us had this idea first... I just brought it up in what I thought was a relevant discussion.
I, of course, think gigabit, or whatever the next incarnation of ethernet is, is the ideal networking medium... but there's more to it than just that. For instance, I can see them using this on a microscopic level on cpu's... those things keep shrinking the dies, and yet the buses still aren't as fast as they'd like. Or how bout the PCI bus? You could have little QE busses and links all over your motherboard, as soon as they perfect it, if they were to let this tech go public.
NASA probes with this would be cool, but I have an even better application for it... and this is good. Imagine that the entangled particles are electrons, and the spin isn't the state that is entangled. You might be able to have something the size of a AA battery, to plug into your gameboy, but its mated device plugs into the wall back home. It would beam power instantly across the distance, and your "battery" would never go dead. Good for just gameboys? Hardly. High power versions could supply electricity to remote regions of third world countries... we could kill the internal conbustion engine for good, and, even more exciting, the possibility of cheap and easy space travel.
See, when a rocket launches, 95% or more of the weight is fuel. Fuel is good for 2 things, one of which is power. If the rocket doesn't have to bring its "power" with it (and presumably the high power QE battery would weigh much less), then you only need fuel for the other part, the reaction mass. And heck, maybe there are ways to even get around that. I'm thinking some sort of space plane that uses props to get it above 40k ft, where it boosts to orbit from there. Or maybe it can scoop up air on the way up, and ionize it for reaction mass.
And we might even be able to plant some solar power plants REALLY close to the sun (as close as we can get without melting them), and beam the power straight to earth. Nearly endless energy. As long as a space vessel had adequate reaction mass (or could find it along the way), it could continue to accelerate indefinitely. Within a solar system, maybe you could even use the magnetics/plasma fields as a solar sail (previous slashdot articles) ditching the need entirely.
This technology could finally give us the universe. And it will probably be strictly controlled, not for public consumption, so that the powers that be can protect their privileges. Just imagine the communications aspect alone. Cell phones would be pointless (you'd simply use a transciever plugged into your home phone). Long distance would be even more worthless than the internet made it (call grandma for free? Just ship her one half of a transciever pair). Warez dudes would use this to setup super-highspeed ftp sites, and busting them would be next to impossible, since you can't use one to track down another. They wouldn't be able to tap our phones, if we didn't want them to. The FM radio industry would die. Why listen to the 3 cruddy FM stations that you can recieve in your car, when there is a guy halfway around the world, that plays the music you want, for a $5 subscription per month (and he doesn't necessarily license the music from whoever you legally have to). I'm sure secure communications have some tax evasion aspect too...
And this is just the communications application of QE. They simply won't let us have this (unless it was doable by a Joe Sixpack like me, and I published plans on how to make your own on the 'net, try to put that genie back in the bottle). State sanctioned devices will certainly include 2 links, one to whereever you are using it, and the other to the monitoring agency, complete with GPS coordinates so they can make sure you aren't "misusing" it. I hate humanity, don't you?
I won't claim to be an expert in any of this, I'm at best a misinformed layman. Still, I'm not quite sure that this is really the case. Relativity isn't one of my favorite theories. There is almost certainly something that isn't understood yet, that prevents this from allowing true "time travel", even for just information. Quite possibly, these particles occupy the exact same point on the S/T continuum, and therefor this doesn't violate relativity. I dunno.
I just wish this was something a guy like me could play with. Not without a million dollar lab though, it would seem.
The next 20 years will see quite a revolution in wireless. It won't do away with wires, mind you, but will complement it seamlessly. What technology is this, you ask?
Quantum entanglement transcievers.
Never heard of it? That's not suprising. It's a really weird physics phenomena (OK, so maybe you have heard of it.) where 2 particles start acting as if they're a single particle. Even after they are seperated by a distance. You can push particle A and particle B moves... things like that. Now, imagine that you can "entangle" these particles for an indefinite period of time... well, at this point, you merely have to put them each into seperate hardware devices. I propose gigabit ethernet as the tech of choice for this.
*grin*
(Note: Actually, each transciever would have 2 particles, a Rx and a Tx, while the mated transciever would have 2 particles paired to each them.)
So you take yours home to your switch, and plug it into an uplink port, or straight into the nic in the back of your linux box. You mail the mated transciever to a friend, or any geek that has plenty of ethernet ports free (like me). When I plug it into my switch, boom! Wireless long distance gigabit. You could be buried in a lead vault, and it wouldn't matter. A few moutain ranges in between? No biggy. Aliens have abducted you, and they didn't think to confiscate the laptop? Big deal... even if you're already on the other side of the universe.
(Note: To create something much more cool, you and 20 friends chip in for a 24port gigabit switch, and decide who gets the burden of maintaining it. You each plug one of your transciever pairmates into his switch, and take the other home with you. As more people do this, you interconnect the switches. Since distance doesn't matter, no telling where they might be. You might even set up scenarios where you interconnect anonymously. Totally cool possibilities, if you ask me.)
Oh, and if they catch me using this to pirate MP3's? They STILL can't use my transciever to trace it back to you. No such thing as triangulation.
Now, why, you ask, if I'm such a depressed pessimistic asshole, do I think this will happen, and realtively soon at that??? Because, you see, people like you and I will NEVER... I repeat NEVER EVER get to use this. Military, official goverment use. Built-in GPS that sends location info via another split muon, included for just that purpose, and a tamper proof mechanism that ruins the transciever, if you try to remove it. (Doubtless transmitting the location to some fucking scary NSA place, where all this is monitored) It will be outlawed for the average citizen, and it's incredibly doubtful that it will be homebrewable.
Right now, I'm still experimenting with liberating the DNS system. Give me another 12 months, and we'll see about the internet as a whole. I mean, lots of improvements we could make right from the start... ipv6 from scratch, etc.
No, the complaint is this. Microsoft pays lip service to so many virtues, yet somehow manages to exhibit none of them.
Innovation? Well that means repackaging technology they bought somewhere else at firesale prices because the original owner couldn't compete. Increased customer value? Changing the terms of licensing, so that you need twice as many CAls as before. Or alternatively, discovering that while you could make a profit selling 98 at $50, $80 is the 'optimal' price. Security? That means 'Shhh, don't talk about it'.
So...
User interaction on newsgroups? Astro-turfing when someone asks about QNX or rtLinux. Trolling. Arguing that there is no bug, or if there is, it's actually a feature. Trying to change the subject. Overwhelming the moderators intentionally. If there are no moderators, ensuring that embedded XP posts outnumber other solutions 20 to 1. Excessive product announcements, in html format. That cause netscape to crash. Etc.
If you can't see this happening, then you're not just optimistic, you're naive.
But aren't you guys just a little suspicious that this ruling seems impossibly clueful? Did I wake up in a parallel universe this morning, and not notice it until now? There's gotta be some angle on this, like the Supreme Court will have a suprise announcement tomorrow negating this ruling. Something.
You fool. Token ring is only available in 3 different cable types, none of which use the BNC connector. This is EXACTLY why Jif and token ring are incompatible.
Oh, and never connect CDDI to a Smuckers Grape Jelly, it tends to short out the nic or concentrator.
Well, last year we did really poor compared to the chinese, but in Tiannemen years we do quite well... that is, if violent crimes by the chinese goverment are counted.
Not only will the last orthodox free registrar be gone forever, but we'll have 20 million all.your.bases.belong.to.us variants.
Then again, because certain municipalities were delegated to various ISP's it wasn't necessarily free... in Richmond, VA i2020.net wanted $200 per year for mydomain.richmond.va.us. This was only after 6 hours on the phone, trying to convince various people there that they had it delegated to them...
Maybe I take these things too seriously, but it makes me sick just thinking about it.
Of course not. One of the many great features of XP is that you get a handcrafted M$ Official License printed on the flayed skins of slaves in human blood. This is so much more than some random number....
I suspect that while this might be true for most retail software, Microsoft easily recieves better than 65% of retail price as profit. Retailers that hesitate at this "deal" are simply reminded that they could just as easily find themselves on the wrong side of supply problems for all sorts of M$ products.
Wow. Think about it, Momma can have a legal copy on her computer, and Dadda's computer in the den will be legal also. The kids? Well, thanks to this great M$ pricing plan, the entire family can stay within the bounds of laws (laws M$ paid good money for, I might add) for only $250!!!! How about that? And if Grandma comes to live with them and wants to play MahJonng on her own Circuit City special, they could upgrade her to XP for only an additional $80 !!!.
Am I the only one that thinks that M$ should lower the cost to $60 or less for a license, and make the defaul licensing for all computers at the same mailing address? Doing that, might make them somewhat defendable.
Oh, sure. And M$ will never get away with their current crimes, will they? The goverment has had enough, and will punish them severely.
Haha. The businesses already lease prepackaged systems, and hardly ever open the boxes up. A closed system would be very favorable to them, and its not just M$ pushing towards one.
Developers? They'll pay incredible fees for "DevBox" systems that don't work very well. A substantial chunk of M$'s cash is from various Visual $tudio licensing schemes, and related products.
Servers? I believe you mean those who are buying corp. enterprise style hardware. Sure that will still be there to be bought, at $600+ per motherboard. Granted, it would be my kind of motherboard, but that doesn't mean I'll be able to afford it.
Customizing it? Sure, M$ is caught off guard, (Aren't they always? I've never claimed they were smart giants, only giants) but this will change.
How many game studios are being told that, if they want the SDK's early, or even at all, that they must sign exclusivity contracts with M$ ? My prediction for sure, is this. No game released for Xbox will ever be released for linux. My 80% sure prediction is this... no game released for Xbox will be released for ANYTHING else.
Sega is gone. It's possible Nintendo is hurting. How far can they be pushed, before they have to give up too? Even Sony might have to pull out, if M$ behaves as I've suggested. Bingo. Video Game Industry Monopoly.
But... it gets worse. The powers that be have always HATED people building their own computers, upgrading them. Here is a viable PC platform, that is almost completely sealed. Even a bigger hard drive might be impossible for a user to install, if M$ wants to really cheat. If they release this as a home pc, or even business... and Office XP2 is released for it, what then? "People buy the Xbox, it's the end to all those hardware conflicts, software too!". Compaq(HP?), Dell, Gateway... their days are numbered.
Bingo. PC Industry Monopoly.
Won't affect you, you say? "I'll always buy my own, and build as I chooose!". Noble thoughts. But the fact is, the prices you pay for hardware are in part subsidized by the fact that everyone else is doing the same. People like you and I might be left paying prices similar to those that corporate enterprise purchasers are paying, since they will be the only other market that won't be able to use a sealed system like Xbox. The future looks grim, my friend.
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You are at the Van Halen concert, and it's just about time for one of Eddie's solos, and all the sudden script kiddies DoS the mixer panel. Or worse. They're really clever, and all the sudden, the speakers start booming...
"I love you, you love me, we're a happy fam-i-ly..." from the Barney kids show.
Um, you fool. Woz didn't have anything to do with that... but even if he had, it was an above the table deal. Xerox knew that Apple wanted some ideas, and was willing to trade some of its own, in exchange for a stake in the company. Only M$ goblins spread this stupid gossip, to try and argue that "everybody does it".
A fresh new game from my friend Urchlay on undernet. His exciting use of color card suits and software character generation pushes the limits of the 2600's abilities. I'm still waiting for him to port DoomII though.
Yes, seriously, he writes games for the 2600 and NES. I'm more of an AppleII man myself though.
Actually, I'm moving up to fibre channel with software raid 5. I fully expect to be able to a constant data transfer of over 100mps. I'm afraid I won't be using XP though.
Maybe if you dumbass consumers weren't busy jerking off to the latest IDE spec, you'd have noticed 2 or 3 alternative technologies that are quite a bit faster.
You know, it is theoretically possible to avoid both pretentious circle-jerking, and trolling simultaneously. For instance, had you only been polite, and said the same message (even sarcastically), you would have came close to that ideal. I have a question for you. Do fuckwits like yourself ALWAYS have to invade beatiful places, and ruin them?
All these hybrid troll/moderators we've been seeing lately. Too bad they have already harvested their brains by the time they mature enough to post on slashdot.
People aren't port 80 telnetting into that IP already, and manually typing in the GET HTTP 1.1 themselves? Gee, they must not be serious slashdotters.
TLD's that are only potentially usable by at most, 10,000 or so different sites. Of course, with their policies, it's probably closer to 500 total.
Hey, neither of us had this idea first... I just brought it up in what I thought was a relevant discussion.
I, of course, think gigabit, or whatever the next incarnation of ethernet is, is the ideal networking medium... but there's more to it than just that. For instance, I can see them using this on a microscopic level on cpu's... those things keep shrinking the dies, and yet the buses still aren't as fast as they'd like. Or how bout the PCI bus? You could have little QE busses and links all over your motherboard, as soon as they perfect it, if they were to let this tech go public.
NASA probes with this would be cool, but I have an even better application for it... and this is good. Imagine that the entangled particles are electrons, and the spin isn't the state that is entangled. You might be able to have something the size of a AA battery, to plug into your gameboy, but its mated device plugs into the wall back home. It would beam power instantly across the distance, and your "battery" would never go dead. Good for just gameboys? Hardly. High power versions could supply electricity to remote regions of third world countries... we could kill the internal conbustion engine for good, and, even more exciting, the possibility of cheap and easy space travel.
See, when a rocket launches, 95% or more of the weight is fuel. Fuel is good for 2 things, one of which is power. If the rocket doesn't have to bring its "power" with it (and presumably the high power QE battery would weigh much less), then you only need fuel for the other part, the reaction mass. And heck, maybe there are ways to even get around that. I'm thinking some sort of space plane that uses props to get it above 40k ft, where it boosts to orbit from there. Or maybe it can scoop up air on the way up, and ionize it for reaction mass.
And we might even be able to plant some solar power plants REALLY close to the sun (as close as we can get without melting them), and beam the power straight to earth. Nearly endless energy. As long as a space vessel had adequate reaction mass (or could find it along the way), it could continue to accelerate indefinitely. Within a solar system, maybe you could even use the magnetics/plasma fields as a solar sail (previous slashdot articles) ditching the need entirely.
This technology could finally give us the universe. And it will probably be strictly controlled, not for public consumption, so that the powers that be can protect their privileges. Just imagine the communications aspect alone. Cell phones would be pointless (you'd simply use a transciever plugged into your home phone). Long distance would be even more worthless than the internet made it (call grandma for free? Just ship her one half of a transciever pair). Warez dudes would use this to setup super-highspeed ftp sites, and busting them would be next to impossible, since you can't use one to track down another. They wouldn't be able to tap our phones, if we didn't want them to. The FM radio industry would die. Why listen to the 3 cruddy FM stations that you can recieve in your car, when there is a guy halfway around the world, that plays the music you want, for a $5 subscription per month (and he doesn't necessarily license the music from whoever you legally have to). I'm sure secure communications have some tax evasion aspect too...
And this is just the communications application of QE. They simply won't let us have this (unless it was doable by a Joe Sixpack like me, and I published plans on how to make your own on the 'net, try to put that genie back in the bottle). State sanctioned devices will certainly include 2 links, one to whereever you are using it, and the other to the monitoring agency, complete with GPS coordinates so they can make sure you aren't "misusing" it. I hate humanity, don't you?
I won't claim to be an expert in any of this, I'm at best a misinformed layman. Still, I'm not quite sure that this is really the case. Relativity isn't one of my favorite theories. There is almost certainly something that isn't understood yet, that prevents this from allowing true "time travel", even for just information. Quite possibly, these particles occupy the exact same point on the S/T continuum, and therefor this doesn't violate relativity. I dunno.
I just wish this was something a guy like me could play with. Not without a million dollar lab though, it would seem.
The next 20 years will see quite a revolution in wireless. It won't do away with wires, mind you, but will complement it seamlessly. What technology is this, you ask?
Quantum entanglement transcievers.
Never heard of it? That's not suprising. It's a really weird physics phenomena (OK, so maybe you have heard of it.) where 2 particles start acting as if they're a single particle. Even after they are seperated by a distance. You can push particle A and particle B moves... things like that. Now, imagine that you can "entangle" these particles for an indefinite period of time... well, at this point, you merely have to put them each into seperate hardware devices. I propose gigabit ethernet as the tech of choice for this.
*grin*
(Note: Actually, each transciever would have 2 particles, a Rx and a Tx, while the mated transciever would have 2 particles paired to each them.)
So you take yours home to your switch, and plug it into an uplink port, or straight into the nic in the back of your linux box. You mail the mated transciever to a friend, or any geek that has plenty of ethernet ports free (like me). When I plug it into my switch, boom! Wireless long distance gigabit. You could be buried in a lead vault, and it wouldn't matter. A few moutain ranges in between? No biggy. Aliens have abducted you, and they didn't think to confiscate the laptop? Big deal... even if you're already on the other side of the universe.
(Note: To create something much more cool, you and 20 friends chip in for a 24port gigabit switch, and decide who gets the burden of maintaining it. You each plug one of your transciever pairmates into his switch, and take the other home with you. As more people do this, you interconnect the switches. Since distance doesn't matter, no telling where they might be. You might even set up scenarios where you interconnect anonymously. Totally cool possibilities, if you ask me.)
Oh, and if they catch me using this to pirate MP3's? They STILL can't use my transciever to trace it back to you. No such thing as triangulation.
Now, why, you ask, if I'm such a depressed pessimistic asshole, do I think this will happen, and realtively soon at that??? Because, you see, people like you and I will NEVER... I repeat NEVER EVER get to use this. Military, official goverment use. Built-in GPS that sends location info via another split muon, included for just that purpose, and a tamper proof mechanism that ruins the transciever, if you try to remove it. (Doubtless transmitting the location to some fucking scary NSA place, where all this is monitored) It will be outlawed for the average citizen, and it's incredibly doubtful that it will be homebrewable.
The universe sucks, doesn't it?
Right now, I'm still experimenting with liberating the DNS system. Give me another 12 months, and we'll see about the internet as a whole. I mean, lots of improvements we could make right from the start... ipv6 from scratch, etc.
*grin*
Actually, in a demented way, I'm quite serious.
No, the complaint is this. Microsoft pays lip service to so many virtues, yet somehow manages to exhibit none of them.
Innovation? Well that means repackaging technology they bought somewhere else at firesale prices because the original owner couldn't compete. Increased customer value? Changing the terms of licensing, so that you need twice as many CAls as before. Or alternatively, discovering that while you could make a profit selling 98 at $50, $80 is the 'optimal' price. Security? That means 'Shhh, don't talk about it'.
So...
User interaction on newsgroups? Astro-turfing when someone asks about QNX or rtLinux. Trolling. Arguing that there is no bug, or if there is, it's actually a feature. Trying to change the subject. Overwhelming the moderators intentionally. If there are no moderators, ensuring that embedded XP posts outnumber other solutions 20 to 1. Excessive product announcements, in html format. That cause netscape to crash. Etc.
If you can't see this happening, then you're not just optimistic, you're naive.
But aren't you guys just a little suspicious that this ruling seems impossibly clueful? Did I wake up in a parallel universe this morning, and not notice it until now? There's gotta be some angle on this, like the Supreme Court will have a suprise announcement tomorrow negating this ruling. Something.
You fool. Token ring is only available in 3 different cable types, none of which use the BNC connector. This is EXACTLY why Jif and token ring are incompatible.
Oh, and never connect CDDI to a Smuckers Grape Jelly, it tends to short out the nic or concentrator.
Well, last year we did really poor compared to the chinese, but in Tiannemen years we do quite well... that is, if violent crimes by the chinese goverment are counted.
Not only will the last orthodox free registrar be gone forever, but we'll have 20 million all.your.bases.belong.to.us variants.
Then again, because certain municipalities were delegated to various ISP's it wasn't necessarily free... in Richmond, VA i2020.net wanted $200 per year for mydomain.richmond.va.us. This was only after 6 hours on the phone, trying to convince various people there that they had it delegated to them...
Maybe I take these things too seriously, but it makes me sick just thinking about it.
Some people actually consider never having used XP to be a virtue. I do.
Of course not. One of the many great features of XP is that you get a handcrafted M$ Official License printed on the flayed skins of slaves in human blood. This is so much more than some random number....
I suspect that while this might be true for most retail software, Microsoft easily recieves better than 65% of retail price as profit. Retailers that hesitate at this "deal" are simply reminded that they could just as easily find themselves on the wrong side of supply problems for all sorts of M$ products.
Seeing moderation's like yours is really starting to make me feel depressed. I hope they meta-moderate the fool.
Wow. Think about it, Momma can have a legal copy on her computer, and Dadda's computer in the den will be legal also. The kids? Well, thanks to this great M$ pricing plan, the entire family can stay within the bounds of laws (laws M$ paid good money for, I might add) for only $250!!!! How about that? And if Grandma comes to live with them and wants to play MahJonng on her own Circuit City special, they could upgrade her to XP for only an additional $80 !!!.
Am I the only one that thinks that M$ should lower the cost to $60 or less for a license, and make the defaul licensing for all computers at the same mailing address? Doing that, might make them somewhat defendable.
I saw this myself once, during a thunderstorm. Makes me wish I had a camcorder with me, who knows what interesting tidbits I might have learned.
Oh, sure. And M$ will never get away with their current crimes, will they? The goverment has had enough, and will punish them severely.
Haha. The businesses already lease prepackaged systems, and hardly ever open the boxes up. A closed system would be very favorable to them, and its not just M$ pushing towards one.
Developers? They'll pay incredible fees for "DevBox" systems that don't work very well. A substantial chunk of M$'s cash is from various Visual $tudio licensing schemes, and related products.
Servers? I believe you mean those who are buying corp. enterprise style hardware. Sure that will still be there to be bought, at $600+ per motherboard. Granted, it would be my kind of motherboard, but that doesn't mean I'll be able to afford it.
Customizing it? Sure, M$ is caught off guard, (Aren't they always? I've never claimed they were smart giants, only giants) but this will change.
How many game studios are being told that, if they want the SDK's early, or even at all, that they must sign exclusivity contracts with M$ ? My prediction for sure, is this. No game released for Xbox will ever be released for linux. My 80% sure prediction is this... no game released for Xbox will be released for ANYTHING else.
Sega is gone. It's possible Nintendo is hurting. How far can they be pushed, before they have to give up too? Even Sony might have to pull out, if M$ behaves as I've suggested. Bingo. Video Game Industry Monopoly.
But... it gets worse. The powers that be have always HATED people building their own computers, upgrading them. Here is a viable PC platform, that is almost completely sealed. Even a bigger hard drive might be impossible for a user to install, if M$ wants to really cheat. If they release this as a home pc, or even business... and Office XP2 is released for it, what then? "People buy the Xbox, it's the end to all those hardware conflicts, software too!". Compaq(HP?), Dell, Gateway... their days are numbered.
Bingo. PC Industry Monopoly.
Won't affect you, you say? "I'll always buy my own, and build as I chooose!". Noble thoughts. But the fact is, the prices you pay for hardware are in part subsidized by the fact that everyone else is doing the same. People like you and I might be left paying prices similar to those that corporate enterprise purchasers are paying, since they will be the only other market that won't be able to use a sealed system like Xbox. The future looks grim, my friend.