Has it ocurred to anyone that the research part might be done, and no one ever noticed? I'd be quite shocked, if fusion is possible in a practical sense and we haven't stumbled on the basic ideas yet. It's not like we have none at all.
Tokamaks Z-pinch electro-static confinement Pd/D and 20 others I couldn't put a name to
Are you sure all these are dead ends, and that if we dumped a shitload of cash on them, that we couldn't accelerate a timetable?
+4 Insightful? No rocket scientist here, but even I understand that this is referring to the magnetic properties of the electrons themselves, and is only incidentally related to what is traditional magnetic media.
So, unless you don't want to invest in another technology based on electrons, your comment is about as stupid as any in recent memory I've stumbled across. And on slashdot, that's saying something.
Two guys in a knife fight would be "at war" with this definition. Pretty useless, don't you think?
Learning to speak effectively, to get your message across means that someday you wake up, usually as a child, and learn the nuances of certain words. Sure, the thesaurus lists them as synonyms, but they'll always be out of place, awkward sounding, and do little to actually communicate your ideas.
"War" is best used in two instances, one as a formal, legally declared war (legal by the laws of the nation declaring it), or conflicts so large or long of duration that there can be no doubt. If Vietnam had went on for 25 years, yes, definitely a war in my book, with or without congress declaring it. WWII, yes, we declared it (and so had most of the other major players). Somalia? No way. Iraq? Well, since it isn't over, and it's not yet clear that we'll be there decades...
But I tell you what. Go ahead, keep using "war" for everything on down to 2 person knife fights that last 15 seconds. Nothing destroys the meaning of a word like that, except maybe newspeak. War is peace, anyone?
First, I'll get the nitpicking out of the way. There is no war in Iraq unless congress formally declares war, which hasn't happened. I believe the correct term for this is "conflict".
Next, even if it had been a war, it's now over. Certainly there is a bunch of shit happening over there, but it's not exactly warfare. So, what exactly is this guy opposed to? This isn't the 1890s, guys. Our soldiers aren't over there raping the women and stealing everything they can find as war trophies. They're trying to keep some semblance of peace, and make sure that when we leave, the same fuckheads who ran that country into the ground (Saddam and his cronies) don't take over immediately. Would you rather these soldiers pack up and leave tomorrow?
Are you expecting some bright and shiny, miraculous UN coalition force to take over maybe? Did you forget that whenever such UN forces have any teeth, it's because US soldiers make up a majority of that force?
I was, and still am opposed to the idea of pre-emptively invading Iraq. Bush is worse than an idiot. But now that we're there, I can't fathom the idea of just leaving. We'd only be adding to the harm of the Iraqis, and then only some reactionary fools could feel good about themselves.
Finally, how the fuck does this have anything to do with linux? Why does this cretin think that his "resigning in protest" will have any effect, even that of some noble sacrifice? I hear stuff like this, and laugh at the boob that did it, and forget about it 10 minutes later. Never fails to amaze me how childish some people are.
But how will someone like me ever email you? Not that anything jumps out at me, as something I need to tell you... but hell, maybe I'll point out something funny on your sig website, that you'd find amusing or useful. Maybe I'm your long lost brother.
I can understand hating the spam, and wanting a whitelist... but that has its own problems.
I'm not sure that the benefits of a 2 party system outweigh what I see to be a inevitable stagnation they devolve to. It wouldn't hurt to mix things up every now and then, and lord knows we need it now.
You miss the point, though. And this is coming from someone who doesn't vote, because he doesn't want to encourage them.
When there are a bunch of people who feel as Mr. Afzal does, you aren't nearly as damned as you are in the USA. Chances are, enough voters like him, and you could really stir things up, and demolish this 2 party bullshit.
The Catweasel is nice, even somewhat fits the bill. Hell, they could even license the design, and sell it as such (or incorporate it into the A1 mlb's). But instead, they let another opportunity slip, and the 3rd party guys are picking up the pieces. Just seems lame.
As for the name, maybe A5000 is wrong. But they could still have kept the scheme... A10000 (A10K) anyone? Something other than the one they chose.
But they had them on the old Amigas! I could declare ISA-less PCs as "new PCs", and equally complain that they've yet to release a generation of "new PCs" with ISA slots. They were selling Zorro based A4000s for years.
And don't you see the gap in continuity here? I can't even tell you the last mac with nubus, or the last dell with ISA.... it blended from one to the next. With the 10 year gap in hardware, and the last ZorroII machine on the other side of that gap, no "blending" is going on here.
And ZorroII is only the most extreme, most expensive way to get that. Hell, something as simple as building an alternative form factor for the AmigaOne, so it fit snugly in a A2000 (A4000 maybe) case (call it the upgrade logic board) might do the trick. The compatible floppy controller might be another way to do that. I'm sure other people could think of even better ideas.
But worst of all... the new Amiga should have been the Amiga 5000. WTF with this "One" ?
Do I get a Nubus slot with my Mac? And I can't find the ISA slot on my PC.
No, but you did get those things. There were a few PPC macs with nubus, and PCs had 1 or 2 token slots on up until just a few years ago. Never having had the equivalent on this "new amiga", I hesitate to call it an amiga at all.
than to pay the increased cost for a motherboard that has a Zorro slot.
Given the geometries of standard motherboards, they have the board space to do it already. The chip cost would be truly minimal (think $1 per unit on an already outrageous price, they're not trying to shave that last dime off the retail to get it below the $5 mark). Design time? Well, maybe that is a cost, given how little credit they deserve... 30 months for an OS that might not have been so cool even in 1996?
Maybe they would, but most people are just glad to save development time and their money by doing away with ancient hardware.
Haha. Sorry, again, time has moved on. Being an OS company (or rather a trademark company farming out the minimal OS work you're doing) is no longer anything special. Especially when you are touting a "computer" that was only ever really cool for its hardware to begin with. Now they want to come up with some marginal PPC mainboard, and be done with it? No thanks. It's worse than that, they want to give us some marginal OS, for x86... a very crowded market, of many high-powered and free operating systems. I mean, you do get the impression that they want to drop the idea of amiga hardware entirely, but they don't want anyone to notice?
Besides, if someone wants to save time and money, they should buy a PC, running Windows XP if they are a loser, or an even cheaper power OS like BSD or linux. People even considering running this OS, are not the "I just need a cheap computer that works" crowd. I wonder why some don't realize McEwen is just taking advantage of their nostalgia.
There is a need for hardware, even if they can't fill that need, or go bankrupt trying to.
Without hardware, they're just a trademark (and marginal OS software) company, of which there have been multitudes, all now dead, or at least out of those businesses.
The real trouble is, that for a 3rd platform to be at all viable, it would have had to have mostly continuously been available and evolving. With a what, decade long gap there, what's the point?
The OS has little in common with its namesake, the hardware even less. Hell, if they had even just included an amiga-compatible floppy controller on these mainboards, able to read the old media (if for no other reason than shits and giggles), they could have at least claimed some kind of heritage with real amigas, albeit a token one. But they didn't. And there sure as hell isn't a ZorroII slot on the thing.
Now, before all you zealots start ragging me about wanting obselete hardware, I don't. A new amiga shouldn't be using recovered 680x0's. There should be PCI slots, and hdb15 video ports, not abominable db23s. No quadrature mouses, give me standard USB. (But also sell a USB keyboard with Amiga "A" keys, and not make me use one with windows keycaps) But c'mon, a single ZorroII slot inline with the PCI? The bridge logic would fit in a single, cheap FPGA. Hell, just for one generation, so there could be some kind of continuity. Or like I said earlier, even just a floppy controller.
The new "AmigaOne" is no different than any PPC sbc, nor any cheaper. Some Amiga fanatics would buy Amiga-branded toilets, if McEwen sold them, and would tell everyone theyre the best computer in the world. Just slapping their legal trademark on the damn things doesn't make it an amiga in any true sense of what the computers used to be.
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The problem is that the energy produced in the U.S. is largely from burning greenhouse gas emitting fossil fuels. Therefore
Not much argument there, though we come to that conclusion for different reasons, I'm sure.
a) we're a big part of the current problem (rise of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere)
It's likely that extra (and especially unnecessary) greenhouse gases are going to cause us some kind of problem, it's less clear that we will be unable to undo the damage before the consequences catch up with us, or that we're anywhere near some some fatal line that if we cross it, there will be hell to pay.
b) we're setting a bad example for the developing nations, who want the same standard of living as us
I didn't realize that we were obligated to be a role model, and I laugh at ridiculousness of your suggestion that we should be. Even if we wanted to, and took the proper steps, half the world hates the USA, and the other half tries to ignore it.
c) we're passing up an opportunity, something uncharacteristic of Americans. If we are smart we will start investing heavily in R&D into alternative energy
We are missing one. But it isn't some pansy-assed alternative energy that you suggest. It isn't windmills, it isn't solar arrays, it isn't homes built of compacted peat moss. The only true friendly energy source is fusion, which we can't do, and the next closest thing is fission, which we can, but idiots like you have demonized to the point that no one would tolerate it.
The american auto makers would be a good place to start, they are going to get their asses handed to them (for the umpteenth time) by the Japanese and Germans, who are both taking fuel cell research seriously.
Well, that may or may not happen, but they're barking up the wrong tree anyway. Electric cars are the only way to go, and if we had fusion, or something comparable, they'd be affordable. No one will trade an $80 a month gasoline bill for the $400 a month electric (charging car) that would replace it. Besides, until the power plant is also clean, charging it only looks to be the case, but just means the utility company is burning coal or oil and belching the smoke for you. Not much of an improvement.
hat question man made global warming when there really isn't much question among honest scientists.
There are always questions among scientists. Far more than there are ever any answers, let alone certain answers. To suggest otherwise, is to ignore the truth. Hell, look at the two possibilities: On one hand, the arctic circle becomes a tropical paradise, and anything south of it a baked wasteland. On the other hand, everything freezes into a planet earth popsicle. Which is it? Is it possible there is a third, choice, a happy middle? You're simply angry that your pseudoscientist propaganda specialists aren't being heard over the top of the other sides propaganda specialists. I don't care to hear either side of it.
They want to burn oil like they intend to set the world on fire, and you want me living in some hippy adobe hut using 3 watt hours of power a year. Sorry, I want a third option.
I would think that if you were to visit here, and get mugged, they'd still convict the mugger even though you aren't a US citizen.
I think it still applies with spam, so yeh, in theory you could report them.
I'd also think you have enough proof that the spam is fraudulent and uninvited.
The big problem is, and always has been, identifying the culprit. First, the culprit has to be american (otherwise, since both parties are outside the US, it is outside the jurisdiction of this law), and second, you have to know who he is. If you can identify the guy, or at least have some good leads... and if a prosecutor is interested, then yes, you just might get him indicted. Maybe.
He'll still walk when his slimy defense attourney claims he was framed. Do you honestly think 12 random jurors will be able to sift through arguments that his computer was infected with a virus, and he had no knowledge of the outgoing spam?
I wish there was a +2, OCT (original conspiracy theory) moderation. You would have gotten it, my friend, even if I suspect you were sincere.
Haha.
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Do you know that the US produces and consumes 25 percent of the world's power and yet has only 4 percent of the world's population?
So what? Because some third world dirt grubber doesn't have electricity, I shouldn't either? Or is there simply a fixed some of energy, and I'm taking more than my fair share? Either way, I say "go to hell" to you.
Your other concerns are somewhat valid, but exaggerated for some kind of political effect. I've seen too many producitve intellectual conversations killed outright by eco fanatics, who want us living in some kind of stone age.
Actually, if they weren't so arrogantly idiotic, they could have easily been a monopoly by now. Hell, they're passing up an opportuntity to become a online music monopoly... I mean, why snub someone who wants to help make your standard the de facto?
Seems Microsoft will cook up something here soon, just to spite them... and they might manage that easily, especially if Apple is alone and outnumbered.
I host a small webpage on my cable modem. As for "fantasy countries", I have no idea what the fuck you are talking about. Now, if your first language isn't english, then my apologies. I have been meaning to have it translated to various languages for months, and just haven't had the time (or money). But if that isn't the case, just means you're a fool.
Metanet isn't a "fantasy country", nor is it the little webpage I pointed you to so you could read about it. Like any true internetwork, it's distributed across many hosts, all over the place. The clever part is, that I don't know the identities of but a few of the participants, nor could I unless I flew several trans-oceanic flights, and somehow "persuaded" the few I do know, to give up the identities of the people *they know*. Even there, it doesn't stop, I might have to then chase down even more people. In theory, at most I would only ever have to do this 24 times (in 24 seperate jurisdictions), but in practice it's not quite that secure. If you weren't an asshat, I would invite you onto the network for a tour. Hell, maybe you would have stayed, and made it even harder for those who want to break it.
Apparently, roulette is also beatable, at least with (cheating) timers/computers. Always wondered if someone could practice enough, to time it in their head...
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Not that I don't agree with you, but...
Has it ocurred to anyone that the research part might be done, and no one ever noticed? I'd be quite shocked, if fusion is possible in a practical sense and we haven't stumbled on the basic ideas yet. It's not like we have none at all.
Tokamaks
Z-pinch
electro-static confinement
Pd/D
and 20 others I couldn't put a name to
Are you sure all these are dead ends, and that if we dumped a shitload of cash on them, that we couldn't accelerate a timetable?
+4 Insightful? No rocket scientist here, but even I understand that this is referring to the magnetic properties of the electrons themselves, and is only incidentally related to what is traditional magnetic media.
So, unless you don't want to invest in another technology based on electrons, your comment is about as stupid as any in recent memory I've stumbled across. And on slashdot, that's saying something.
No, that's spontaneous gender changing, still requires a male and female parent.
For that bit of stupidity, I'm confiscating your lower UID and keeping it for my own. Now go grab an 800,000 uid before they're all gone.
Two guys in a knife fight would be "at war" with this definition. Pretty useless, don't you think?
Learning to speak effectively, to get your message across means that someday you wake up, usually as a child, and learn the nuances of certain words. Sure, the thesaurus lists them as synonyms, but they'll always be out of place, awkward sounding, and do little to actually communicate your ideas.
"War" is best used in two instances, one as a formal, legally declared war (legal by the laws of the nation declaring it), or conflicts so large or long of duration that there can be no doubt. If Vietnam had went on for 25 years, yes, definitely a war in my book, with or without congress declaring it. WWII, yes, we declared it (and so had most of the other major players). Somalia? No way. Iraq? Well, since it isn't over, and it's not yet clear that we'll be there decades...
But I tell you what. Go ahead, keep using "war" for everything on down to 2 person knife fights that last 15 seconds. Nothing destroys the meaning of a word like that, except maybe newspeak. War is peace, anyone?
Point taken. Never claimed to be much of a historian.
Seems to me he just doesn't want to be a part of something that is used to fascilitate needless deaths
Like the air? Air is used by all the internal combustion engines in tanks, and is breathed by soldiers. Fighter jets use it to create lift!
I have an idea, maybe he should stop breathing....
I get tired of this shit. So what if the vote was mishandled, or even cheated... this has been going on for what, the last 50 years, that I know of?
And if you want to count local/regional elections, even before that.
Didn't every dead man in Illinois vote for JFK?
First, I'll get the nitpicking out of the way. There is no war in Iraq unless congress formally declares war, which hasn't happened. I believe the correct term for this is "conflict".
Next, even if it had been a war, it's now over. Certainly there is a bunch of shit happening over there, but it's not exactly warfare. So, what exactly is this guy opposed to? This isn't the 1890s, guys. Our soldiers aren't over there raping the women and stealing everything they can find as war trophies. They're trying to keep some semblance of peace, and make sure that when we leave, the same fuckheads who ran that country into the ground (Saddam and his cronies) don't take over immediately. Would you rather these soldiers pack up and leave tomorrow?
Are you expecting some bright and shiny, miraculous UN coalition force to take over maybe? Did you forget that whenever such UN forces have any teeth, it's because US soldiers make up a majority of that force?
I was, and still am opposed to the idea of pre-emptively invading Iraq. Bush is worse than an idiot. But now that we're there, I can't fathom the idea of just leaving. We'd only be adding to the harm of the Iraqis, and then only some reactionary fools could feel good about themselves.
Finally, how the fuck does this have anything to do with linux? Why does this cretin think that his "resigning in protest" will have any effect, even that of some noble sacrifice? I hear stuff like this, and laugh at the boob that did it, and forget about it 10 minutes later. Never fails to amaze me how childish some people are.
But how will someone like me ever email you? Not that anything jumps out at me, as something I need to tell you... but hell, maybe I'll point out something funny on your sig website, that you'd find amusing or useful. Maybe I'm your long lost brother.
I can understand hating the spam, and wanting a whitelist... but that has its own problems.
I'm not sure that the benefits of a 2 party system outweigh what I see to be a inevitable stagnation they devolve to. It wouldn't hurt to mix things up every now and then, and lord knows we need it now.
You miss the point, though. And this is coming from someone who doesn't vote, because he doesn't want to encourage them.
When there are a bunch of people who feel as Mr. Afzal does, you aren't nearly as damned as you are in the USA. Chances are, enough voters like him, and you could really stir things up, and demolish this 2 party bullshit.
The Catweasel is nice, even somewhat fits the bill. Hell, they could even license the design, and sell it as such (or incorporate it into the A1 mlb's). But instead, they let another opportunity slip, and the 3rd party guys are picking up the pieces. Just seems lame.
As for the name, maybe A5000 is wrong. But they could still have kept the scheme... A10000 (A10K) anyone? Something other than the one they chose.
But they had them on the old Amigas! I could declare ISA-less PCs as "new PCs", and equally complain that they've yet to release a generation of "new PCs" with ISA slots. They were selling Zorro based A4000s for years.
And don't you see the gap in continuity here? I can't even tell you the last mac with nubus, or the last dell with ISA.... it blended from one to the next. With the 10 year gap in hardware, and the last ZorroII machine on the other side of that gap, no "blending" is going on here.
And ZorroII is only the most extreme, most expensive way to get that. Hell, something as simple as building an alternative form factor for the AmigaOne, so it fit snugly in a A2000 (A4000 maybe) case (call it the upgrade logic board) might do the trick. The compatible floppy controller might be another way to do that. I'm sure other people could think of even better ideas.
But worst of all... the new Amiga should have been the Amiga 5000. WTF with this "One" ?
Do I get a Nubus slot with my Mac? And I can't find the ISA slot on my PC.
No, but you did get those things. There were a few PPC macs with nubus, and PCs had 1 or 2 token slots on up until just a few years ago. Never having had the equivalent on this "new amiga", I hesitate to call it an amiga at all.
than to pay the increased cost for a motherboard that has a Zorro slot.
Given the geometries of standard motherboards, they have the board space to do it already. The chip cost would be truly minimal (think $1 per unit on an already outrageous price, they're not trying to shave that last dime off the retail to get it below the $5 mark). Design time? Well, maybe that is a cost, given how little credit they deserve... 30 months for an OS that might not have been so cool even in 1996?
Maybe they would, but most people are just glad to save development time and their money by doing away with ancient hardware.
Haha. Sorry, again, time has moved on. Being an OS company (or rather a trademark company farming out the minimal OS work you're doing) is no longer anything special. Especially when you are touting a "computer" that was only ever really cool for its hardware to begin with. Now they want to come up with some marginal PPC mainboard, and be done with it? No thanks. It's worse than that, they want to give us some marginal OS, for x86... a very crowded market, of many high-powered and free operating systems. I mean, you do get the impression that they want to drop the idea of amiga hardware entirely, but they don't want anyone to notice?
Besides, if someone wants to save time and money, they should buy a PC, running Windows XP if they are a loser, or an even cheaper power OS like BSD or linux. People even considering running this OS, are not the "I just need a cheap computer that works" crowd. I wonder why some don't realize McEwen is just taking advantage of their nostalgia.
There is a need for hardware, even if they can't fill that need, or go bankrupt trying to.
Without hardware, they're just a trademark (and marginal OS software) company, of which there have been multitudes, all now dead, or at least out of those businesses.
The real trouble is, that for a 3rd platform to be at all viable, it would have had to have mostly continuously been available and evolving. With a what, decade long gap there, what's the point?
The OS has little in common with its namesake, the hardware even less. Hell, if they had even just included an amiga-compatible floppy controller on these mainboards, able to read the old media (if for no other reason than shits and giggles), they could have at least claimed some kind of heritage with real amigas, albeit a token one. But they didn't. And there sure as hell isn't a ZorroII slot on the thing.
Now, before all you zealots start ragging me about wanting obselete hardware, I don't. A new amiga shouldn't be using recovered 680x0's. There should be PCI slots, and hdb15 video ports, not abominable db23s. No quadrature mouses, give me standard USB. (But also sell a USB keyboard with Amiga "A" keys, and not make me use one with windows keycaps) But c'mon, a single ZorroII slot inline with the PCI? The bridge logic would fit in a single, cheap FPGA. Hell, just for one generation, so there could be some kind of continuity. Or like I said earlier, even just a floppy controller.
The new "AmigaOne" is no different than any PPC sbc, nor any cheaper. Some Amiga fanatics would buy Amiga-branded toilets, if McEwen sold them, and would tell everyone theyre the best computer in the world. Just slapping their legal trademark on the damn things doesn't make it an amiga in any true sense of what the computers used to be.
The problem is that the energy produced in the U.S. is largely from burning greenhouse gas emitting fossil fuels. Therefore
Not much argument there, though we come to that conclusion for different reasons, I'm sure.
a) we're a big part of the current problem (rise of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere)
It's likely that extra (and especially unnecessary) greenhouse gases are going to cause us some kind of problem, it's less clear that we will be unable to undo the damage before the consequences catch up with us, or that we're anywhere near some some fatal line that if we cross it, there will be hell to pay.
b) we're setting a bad example for the developing nations, who want the same standard of living as us
I didn't realize that we were obligated to be a role model, and I laugh at ridiculousness of your suggestion that we should be. Even if we wanted to, and took the proper steps, half the world hates the USA, and the other half tries to ignore it.
c) we're passing up an opportunity, something uncharacteristic of Americans. If we are smart we will start investing heavily in R&D into alternative energy
We are missing one. But it isn't some pansy-assed alternative energy that you suggest. It isn't windmills, it isn't solar arrays, it isn't homes built of compacted peat moss. The only true friendly energy source is fusion, which we can't do, and the next closest thing is fission, which we can, but idiots like you have demonized to the point that no one would tolerate it.
The american auto makers would be a good place to start, they are going to get their asses handed to them (for the umpteenth time) by the Japanese and Germans, who are both taking fuel cell research seriously.
Well, that may or may not happen, but they're barking up the wrong tree anyway. Electric cars are the only way to go, and if we had fusion, or something comparable, they'd be affordable. No one will trade an $80 a month gasoline bill for the $400 a month electric (charging car) that would replace it. Besides, until the power plant is also clean, charging it only looks to be the case, but just means the utility company is burning coal or oil and belching the smoke for you. Not much of an improvement.
hat question man made global warming when there really isn't much question among honest scientists.
There are always questions among scientists. Far more than there are ever any answers, let alone certain answers. To suggest otherwise, is to ignore the truth. Hell, look at the two possibilities: On one hand, the arctic circle becomes a tropical paradise, and anything south of it a baked wasteland. On the other hand, everything freezes into a planet earth popsicle. Which is it? Is it possible there is a third, choice, a happy middle? You're simply angry that your pseudoscientist propaganda specialists aren't being heard over the top of the other sides propaganda specialists. I don't care to hear either side of it.
They want to burn oil like they intend to set the world on fire, and you want me living in some hippy adobe hut using 3 watt hours of power a year. Sorry, I want a third option.
I would think that if you were to visit here, and get mugged, they'd still convict the mugger even though you aren't a US citizen.
I think it still applies with spam, so yeh, in theory you could report them.
I'd also think you have enough proof that the spam is fraudulent and uninvited.
The big problem is, and always has been, identifying the culprit. First, the culprit has to be american (otherwise, since both parties are outside the US, it is outside the jurisdiction of this law), and second, you have to know who he is. If you can identify the guy, or at least have some good leads... and if a prosecutor is interested, then yes, you just might get him indicted. Maybe.
He'll still walk when his slimy defense attourney claims he was framed. Do you honestly think 12 random jurors will be able to sift through arguments that his computer was infected with a virus, and he had no knowledge of the outgoing spam?
I wish there was a +2, OCT (original conspiracy theory) moderation. You would have gotten it, my friend, even if I suspect you were sincere.
Haha.
Do you know that the US produces and consumes 25 percent of the world's power and yet has only 4 percent of the world's population?
So what? Because some third world dirt grubber doesn't have electricity, I shouldn't either? Or is there simply a fixed some of energy, and I'm taking more than my fair share? Either way, I say "go to hell" to you.
Your other concerns are somewhat valid, but exaggerated for some kind of political effect. I've seen too many producitve intellectual conversations killed outright by eco fanatics, who want us living in some kind of stone age.
Actually, if they weren't so arrogantly idiotic, they could have easily been a monopoly by now. Hell, they're passing up an opportuntity to become a online music monopoly... I mean, why snub someone who wants to help make your standard the de facto?
Seems Microsoft will cook up something here soon, just to spite them... and they might manage that easily, especially if Apple is alone and outnumbered.
Didn't even read it, did you asshat?
I host a small webpage on my cable modem. As for "fantasy countries", I have no idea what the fuck you are talking about. Now, if your first language isn't english, then my apologies. I have been meaning to have it translated to various languages for months, and just haven't had the time (or money). But if that isn't the case, just means you're a fool.
Metanet isn't a "fantasy country", nor is it the little webpage I pointed you to so you could read about it. Like any true internetwork, it's distributed across many hosts, all over the place. The clever part is, that I don't know the identities of but a few of the participants, nor could I unless I flew several trans-oceanic flights, and somehow "persuaded" the few I do know, to give up the identities of the people *they know*. Even there, it doesn't stop, I might have to then chase down even more people. In theory, at most I would only ever have to do this 24 times (in 24 seperate jurisdictions), but in practice it's not quite that secure. If you weren't an asshat, I would invite you onto the network for a tour. Hell, maybe you would have stayed, and made it even harder for those who want to break it.
Better idea: Metanet
So, to build a time machine capable of traveling into the past, I need only surround the "vehicle" with an incredible mass worth of unmated socks?
Is it dangerous, do I risk tearing a hole in the very fabric of spacetime itself?
That that was the price of a single seat license for Wavefront.
Apparently, roulette is also beatable, at least with (cheating) timers/computers. Always wondered if someone could practice enough, to time it in their head...