I work with a guy who started up a video game company called Park Place Productions (Which Sony ended up gobbling up in a hostile takeover years ago.) He was responsible for the Madden series of football games among many other things.
At one stage he was working on a virtual reality headseat (Similar to the VirtualBoy style visor) except you wore it on your head and controlled it with two handheld sensors / input pads.
It was phenomenal, until during a demonstration with an investor, the user got tricked into thinking it was real and actually stepped backwords and fell over the couch he was standing in front of and twisted his ankle. The product did not sell.
So yes, the bottleneck is definable in one word: Liability.
not to mention 1.0gb in 2009?? Who puts up with that kinda slow progress nowadays! In 2009 I'm expecting google's archive on a 2 disc set of (media) - none of this 1tb hosh-posh.
I just remember the talk radio stations all going crazy like 6 months ago about the road funding and Rio Rancho wanting to get more funding and the east half not voting for it or something like that, and then Rio Rancho was all threatening to seporate from Albuquerque and become it's own city, apparantly there are still *some* governmental ties between the halves. I just assumed that since everywhere I went I kept hearing people's opinions about RR/ABQ splitting into two different cities I incinuated that RR was just a subdivision-type title.
"There are approximately 275 Indian land areas in the U.S. administered as Indian reservations (reservations, pueblos, rancherias, communities, etc.). The largest is the Navajo Reservation of some 16 million acres of land in Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah. Many of the smaller reservations are less than 1,000 acres with the smallest less than 100 acres. On each reservation, the local governing authority is the tribal government."
People know of Arizona and Utah. The problem I think is more that A) many Americans do not really study geography too well, and B) "New Mexico" sounds an awful lot like "Mexico" if you are not paying close attention, and that is the most common symptom.
I get people all the time who when I tell where I live, act shocked "You are in Mexico??" ORRR "That is in Arizona, right?"
This is a very common issue, and in fact, our New Mexico magazine has a back cover feature dedicated to people disregarding this state as a legitimate part of the U.S.
And, about the headline, it isn't Rio Ranch. There is always the 'o' at the end and it is a suburb of Albuquerque, not it's own city, (governmentally some seporation but you can't help but drive in and out and through it as part of Albuquerque.. kinda like chula vista, spring valley, del mar, oceanside etc in San Diego,.. Different "Cities" but all the same "City"
Funny you mention that, I just had a strange question pop in my head...
(threshold = open source & free)... If you added up all the developers who write software for windows, and all the developers who write software for Linux...
A) Which is higher, in number of *persons sitting at a desk writing software for public use / open source*
and..
B) What are the average development times feature/package to feature/package.. (counting dev, testing, deployment and support)
Somehow, I think that developing for linux by *skilled* programmers is still today far more *efficient* vs. windows programming overall. (But this is a semi-educated guess as I am basing this 'postulation' on the words of my peers.)
Any real life experiences or comparisons between developing for win32 and linux, given *any* toolkit/lang/script/etc? I find personally to spend far less time in linux.
No, I really like this unit, I'll just have to synch with PC. To me (A fairly average consumer... I think) that is a small consolation as I will always have PCs around. Macs do some things better, PCs other things.
Since I really do not care about the size difference whatsoever, so far the only things that would make me want the iPod instead are the nicer UI/firmware and the array of aftermarket accessories. But, they both play music. My Zen Xtra plays albums flawlessly, no gaps between songs, and usability wise it suits my purposes.
Well, I got it as a gift, but the online shop of Creative's lists it as:
Qty 1 - NOMAD Jukebox Zen Xtra 60GB - PN 70PD055000001 - In Stock (Available for Shipment) - $399.99 My GF tells me she paid alot less but wont tell me how much:/
And.. it doesn't look like it is Apple compatible. That kinda sucks, I was planning on getting a G5 tower for my recording studio (switching away from PC.. tired of the crap, and, I havent found a linux system that I can depend on either.. Mac is just what I need.) Bummer that I wont be able to synch this to my Mac, but, Them's the breaks.
The case is a bit poorer of quality than the iPod no doubt. The lid needs a bit of blu-tac if you are banging it around alot and rough with it, but for me, all I use it for is in a pocket or car.
As like any other equipment, with proper care and treatment it will last. The Zen Xtra really appears to be a well-engineered device.
I know it is a bit bigger and clunkier than the iPod, but both seem just as pocket sized to me, and I have my Zen Xtra 60 right now.. you got your iPod 60 yet?;) Not to mention the price difference.
Or,
"You mean I have to trade in my Creative Zen Xtra 60gb and pay so much more for a basically equivilant device?" (pros and cons exist for both, but, I'd say low cost is a major pro-side)
Hehe.. Actually, I did just get one for a b-day present. They are good overall, I'd rate it as about a 8/10 or so, only because of a few firmware quirks that could be nicer, and the case is designed poorly. (I.e. no window, and strap covers the port you need to charge it.)
But, for far less $ than the Trendy(TM) equivilant, you can have a device which performs the same if not better, has a user-replacable battery, and looks sexy to boot.
What entire episode would that be? I mean.. so you get/.ed.. that means that you have < (x) bandwidth and/or serving capacity in machine power needed to serve your contents to (y) the demographic among slashdotters who care about the topic material.
Assuming the site was hosted in a colocation facility and the user even *had* 24/7 access to his cage or rack, more than likely all that would happen is the server begins chunking out, he tries to get into it to remove some content if he is paying attention, otherwise it just sucks till the demand drops (or if running older IIS, gets "set" by a "temporary stealth administrator" to display goatsepr0n.) If he cant get in, he triggers a remote power supply to reset the machine, it comes back up, he gets in... Crisis averted.
Unfortunately that rarely happens though on here it seems.. In my experiences, a good site slashdotting to the point of no return i'd say for links that I click maybe one in fifteen slowed down sites have content adjusted on the fly to compensate, most site admins don't appear to be paying the attention to notice that they're crawling to a halt. It is in itself an interesting phenomenon, a frequent reminder on how spontanteous and enormous the internet is.
But back to the point, no, I don't think that video would be any fun. If anything at all, itd be some kid in his 20s with a toolbox and a laptop sitting on a hard raised-tile floor for 20 minutes behind a wall of rackmounted crap.:)
You also have to remember that Linksys GOT to be big and popular, and eventually bought by Cisco, because of a great routing algorhythm which allowed them to build very cheap switches which performed well above their processor class.
Doesn't really apply to the wireless side of things, though. Linksys hardware has always been this side of shabby, just relying on tight written routing algorhythms and little tricks to make it go as fast as possible.
Moderated Funny? It's True! I live in Albuquerque.. There most certainly does exist that column and it is quite an entertaining read on occasion. It happens frequently even to me...
And.. When people *do* get the hint that I live in the Albuquerque... they begin to say "Oh yes, you are in Arizona, right?"
I find it profound just now many people actually do not recognize NM as a state of the union!
But, I think that is mostly due to alien abduction.. The Overlords make sure that this area is kept low-key..;)
I just was surfing through the music archive.. and check this out!
Excerpt from the tracklisting on the CD "Dirty Vegas - Dirty Vegas"
1. I Should Know - Listen - 6:13 - $0.88 2. Ghosts - Listen - 5:22 - $0.88 3. Lost Not Found - Listen - 4:08 - $0.88 4. Days Go By - Listen - 7:12 - Song only available with album download. 5. Etc.. Etc..
WHOA! They take the main hit track off the CD, and not let you purchase that one individually... make you buy the whole CD! (Apparantly because that track would be the only REASON people would by the CD).. Thus keeping the old concept of "I bought the CD cuz' I heard the song on the radio" alive on the net.. very tricky...
Anyone else noticed any other albums exhibiting this pattern?
Agreed.. there is no reason to play pastor and deem what is and what is not good for their customers, but.. hey, it's wal*mart, they have the right to sell or not sell what they choose.
My curiousity was about the "Free Demo Song"
I think they chose a horrible song to give away because:
A) It is incredibly boring. The guy just strums his guitar and doesnt even have interesting lyrics, the bass that comes in is very, very light. Not really too musical. (I'm not saying that the artist is bad, I've never heard of him before, just saying, musically it sounded like a Track 1 on a cd thats just kinda an intro)
B) The sound quality is crisp but biting. I am sure that the WMA codec used gives a very clean sampling of the original sound quality, but I am not talking about the format. I am talking about out of the studio. To give away this free song that is going to make most people's tinny PC speakers sound even tinnier and crappier, is poor marketing.
Just a couple thoughts..... I would have thought that maybe having.. 4 or 5 "Free demo songs" and spanning one track from jazz, one classical, one pop-rock and one pop-pop... so people can see something they like and better hear how this newfangled online music actually sounds good on their PC... that track was not an advertisement imho.
What the hell is that supposed to mean? This whole thread is about "gameplay"... when you purchase a game, you want it to perform adequately for proper interaction and playability.. Like on a SNES or any other console system, you have a unified platform for which to develop so you know you are not producing a product which will not function properly on some home machines, but.. for PC development, you really have to cover alot of bases in order to get your product playable on a majority of your customers machines.
Remember that game Total Annihilation from Cavedog? When that came out it was pushing the limits of PCs at that time, and even had a "RAM" box when setting up multiplayer games so you could boot the kid who only had 32 mb when you wanted to play a 64mb map...That is scalability and being designed for use on multiple level platforms. I still to this day enjoy that game, but, it allowed you to tweak the graphics to turn off advanced effects, reduce the screen resolution, and held you accountable for your machine stats when playing multiplayer online for the better of all involved. I think this is kinda more of the point that is being made here.
Closing line of article >> "Of course, Microsoft's research group is still young, and its best years may still be ahead. They had better be. PC taxpayers might start rebelling."
Might start?
I am pretty sure that the trend of "OS-less" or free *nix preinstalled PCs is not going to lessen. I have bought many, many "mini-pcs" based on the micro-atx form factor over the years to use as a distributed server grid in some of my colocation cages to control Lucent MAX-TNT servers. They came with some noname distro of linux... and were cheap as dirt and worked just fine.
With more big name PC vendors taking this approach.. It will be very interesting to see *just how many* consumers really want Windows when the choice is put in their hands.
As my father always has told me.. "I am only nice to you because you are going to choose my nursing home"... I'm thinking.. somewhere in south florida.. a nice acre of premium swamp..er.... waterfront property....;)
okay, it is a loose analogy.. but applicable nonetheless.. look..
a sculptor / a mountaintop (natural beauty) / athletes in performance / actors on stage...
vs...
photographer / director / film crew
in my opinion, is the difference between what you call "real musicians" , those who create the songs or loops or beats or sing.... to the artistic dj (not radio dj, or karaoke, but true live mixing/mastering), studio engineers, etc..
you either make the beauty, or capture it in a new way..
dj's are entertainers! so are live musicians, you can combine them both at once, you can have on or the other.. but you cant be a dj without the artists in the same respects you cant be a photographer if you have no frame to capture.
DJing isn't "Music" in the same way that Photography isn't "Art"
Seriously..
A DJ is to a Music Author as a Photographer is to a Sculptor.. they are both needed and end up putting their own twist on prior art, changing it some. If you say a DJ is not a musician, then you are saying a photographer is not an arists, since, hey, God was the one that put those mountains there, your just cashing in on it.
I am a DJ and I have 38.3 gigs of music... 5514 "songs" where a couple hundred of them are live dj mixes (whole pieces.. betwee 50 and 120 minutes long on average,) so that equates to about 25.2 days of straight music.
I generally like all of my collection, there isn't any "fluff" in it.. it's all collected carefully and I would much prefer to have a device which could just hold the entire library.
I mean.. 20gb.. 40gb.. 60gb.. for laptop size mini drives, yes, it is important to keep it smaller than larger as a financial concern when building the units.. but.. i'd *definitely* take the larger drive; my music collection isn't shrinking.
As I use digital media nearly exclusively, (I buy cds, rip them, put them back in the jewel case and then they go to live in a box...) a higher capacity device is extremely important to me.
Recognize that that is an untrue statement. A 17 year old surely CAN have a mastercard. Absolutely. Have you ever heard of Access by QuickPay? Prepaid mastercards? no SSN needed, no credit checks, no age limits, no contracts. Real mastercard number.
This is not their site but it describes what I am talking about:
Things like this.... that have been slowly growing.... I have this sinking sensation... that some day.... possibly soon.... the internet is going to take a new form.
This new form will be where people restrict their webservers to serve only certain countries, due to legal differences and policies that different countries hold. Yes, the current domain system makes any domain name resolvable to any nation, but, one can drop packets from any ip blocks you choose... I just have this sinking sensation that it is likely that.... say, jojoilovemonkeysex.com hosted in the USA will piss off the netherlands and jojoilovegorillasex.com will piss off the usa... and either will restrict each country.... and.. sooner than later the internet ends up following the "community" symptoms which are evident in everyday physical life....
Does this make any sense to any of you? What do you think?
Slashdot Mirror
I work with a guy who started up a video game company called Park Place Productions (Which Sony ended up gobbling up in a hostile takeover years ago.) He was responsible for the Madden series of football games among many other things.
At one stage he was working on a virtual reality headseat (Similar to the VirtualBoy style visor) except you wore it on your head and controlled it with two handheld sensors / input pads.
It was phenomenal, until during a demonstration with an investor, the user got tricked into thinking it was real and actually stepped backwords and fell over the couch he was standing in front of and twisted his ankle. The product did not sell.
So yes, the bottleneck is definable in one word: Liability.
not to mention 1.0gb in 2009?? Who puts up with that kinda slow progress nowadays! In 2009 I'm expecting google's archive on a 2 disc set of (media) - none of this 1tb hosh-posh.
Turn. Off. Unused. Services.
The most hilarious thing to me when someone gets hacked is looking at their box and a simple nmap shows every port under gods lcd monitor open.
I just remember the talk radio stations all going crazy like 6 months ago about the road funding and Rio Rancho wanting to get more funding and the east half not voting for it or something like that, and then Rio Rancho was all threatening to seporate from Albuquerque and become it's own city, apparantly there are still *some* governmental ties between the halves. I just assumed that since everywhere I went I kept hearing people's opinions about RR/ABQ splitting into two different cities I incinuated that RR was just a subdivision-type title.
"There are approximately 275 Indian land areas in the U.S. administered as Indian reservations (reservations, pueblos, rancherias, communities, etc.). The largest is the Navajo Reservation of some 16 million acres of land in Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah. Many of the smaller reservations are less than 1,000 acres with the smallest less than 100 acres. On each reservation, the local governing authority is the tribal government."
Source= http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0192524.html
People know of Arizona and Utah. The problem I think is more that A) many Americans do not really study geography too well, and B) "New Mexico" sounds an awful lot like "Mexico" if you are not paying close attention, and that is the most common symptom.
I get people all the time who when I tell where I live, act shocked "You are in Mexico??" ORRR "That is in Arizona, right?"
http://www.nmmagazine.com/FEATURES/50missing.html
.. Different "Cities" but all the same "City"
This is a very common issue, and in fact, our New Mexico magazine has a back cover feature dedicated to people disregarding this state as a legitimate part of the U.S.
And, about the headline, it isn't Rio Ranch. There is always the 'o' at the end and it is a suburb of Albuquerque, not it's own city, (governmentally some seporation but you can't help but drive in and out and through it as part of Albuquerque.. kinda like chula vista, spring valley, del mar, oceanside etc in San Diego,
Funny you mention that, I just had a strange question pop in my head...
(threshold = open source & free)...
If you added up all the developers who write software for windows, and all the developers who write software for Linux...
A) Which is higher, in number of *persons sitting at a desk writing software for public use / open source*
and..
B) What are the average development times feature/package to feature/package.. (counting dev, testing, deployment and support)
Somehow, I think that developing for linux by *skilled* programmers is still today far more *efficient* vs. windows programming overall. (But this is a semi-educated guess as I am basing this 'postulation' on the words of my peers.)
Any real life experiences or comparisons between developing for win32 and linux, given *any* toolkit/lang/script/etc? I find personally to spend far less time in linux.
No, I really like this unit, I'll just have to synch with PC. To me (A fairly average consumer... I think) that is a small consolation as I will always have PCs around. Macs do some things better, PCs other things.
Since I really do not care about the size difference whatsoever, so far the only things that would make me want the iPod instead are the nicer UI/firmware and the array of aftermarket accessories. But, they both play music. My Zen Xtra plays albums flawlessly, no gaps between songs, and usability wise it suits my purposes.
Well, I got it as a gift, but the online shop of Creative's lists it as: :/
.. tired of the crap, and, I havent found a linux system that I can depend on either.. Mac is just what I need.) Bummer that I wont be able to synch this to my Mac, but, Them's the breaks.
Qty 1 - NOMAD Jukebox Zen Xtra 60GB - PN 70PD055000001 - In Stock (Available for Shipment) - $399.99
My GF tells me she paid alot less but wont tell me how much
And.. it doesn't look like it is Apple compatible. That kinda sucks, I was planning on getting a G5 tower for my recording studio (switching away from PC
The case is a bit poorer of quality than the iPod no doubt. The lid needs a bit of blu-tac if you are banging it around alot and rough with it, but for me, all I use it for is in a pocket or car.
;) Not to mention the price difference.
As like any other equipment, with proper care and treatment it will last. The Zen Xtra really appears to be a well-engineered device.
I know it is a bit bigger and clunkier than the iPod, but both seem just as pocket sized to me, and I have my Zen Xtra 60 right now.. you got your iPod 60 yet?
Or,
"You mean I have to trade in my Creative Zen Xtra 60gb and pay so much more for a basically equivilant device?" (pros and cons exist for both, but, I'd say low cost is a major pro-side)
Hehe.. Actually, I did just get one for a b-day present. They are good overall, I'd rate it as about a 8/10 or so, only because of a few firmware quirks that could be nicer, and the case is designed poorly. (I.e. no window, and strap covers the port you need to charge it.)
But, for far less $ than the Trendy(TM) equivilant, you can have a device which performs the same if not better, has a user-replacable battery, and looks sexy to boot.
Link to the Zen Xtra
What entire episode would that be? I mean.. so you get /.ed.. that means that you have < (x) bandwidth and/or serving capacity in machine power needed to serve your contents to (y) the demographic among slashdotters who care about the topic material.
:)
Assuming the site was hosted in a colocation facility and the user even *had* 24/7 access to his cage or rack, more than likely all that would happen is the server begins chunking out, he tries to get into it to remove some content if he is paying attention, otherwise it just sucks till the demand drops (or if running older IIS, gets "set" by a "temporary stealth administrator" to display goatsepr0n.) If he cant get in, he triggers a remote power supply to reset the machine, it comes back up, he gets in... Crisis averted.
Unfortunately that rarely happens though on here it seems.. In my experiences, a good site slashdotting to the point of no return i'd say for links that I click maybe one in fifteen slowed down sites have content adjusted on the fly to compensate, most site admins don't appear to be paying the attention to notice that they're crawling to a halt. It is in itself an interesting phenomenon, a frequent reminder on how spontanteous and enormous the internet is.
But back to the point, no, I don't think that video would be any fun. If anything at all, itd be some kid in his 20s with a toolbox and a laptop sitting on a hard raised-tile floor for 20 minutes behind a wall of rackmounted crap.
You also have to remember that Linksys GOT to be big and popular, and eventually bought by Cisco, because of a great routing algorhythm which allowed them to build very cheap switches which performed well above their processor class.
Doesn't really apply to the wireless side of things, though. Linksys hardware has always been this side of shabby, just relying on tight written routing algorhythms and little tricks to make it go as fast as possible.
Moderated Funny? It's True! I live in Albuquerque.. There most certainly does exist that column and it is quite an entertaining read on occasion. It happens frequently even to me...
... they begin to say "Oh yes, you are in Arizona, right?"
;)
And.. When people *do* get the hint that I live in the Albuquerque
I find it profound just now many people actually do not recognize NM as a state of the union!
But, I think that is mostly due to alien abduction.. The Overlords make sure that this area is kept low-key..
I just was surfing through the music archive.. and check this out!
.. Thus keeping the old concept of "I bought the CD cuz' I heard the song on the radio" alive on the net.. very tricky...
Excerpt from the tracklisting on the CD "Dirty Vegas - Dirty Vegas"
1. I Should Know - Listen - 6:13 - $0.88
2. Ghosts - Listen - 5:22 - $0.88
3. Lost Not Found - Listen - 4:08 - $0.88
4. Days Go By - Listen - 7:12 - Song only available with album download.
5. Etc.. Etc..
WHOA! They take the main hit track off the CD, and not let you purchase that one individually... make you buy the whole CD! (Apparantly because that track would be the only REASON people would by the CD)
Anyone else noticed any other albums exhibiting this pattern?
Agreed.. there is no reason to play pastor and deem what is and what is not good for their customers, but.. hey, it's wal*mart, they have the right to sell or not sell what they choose.
My curiousity was about the "Free Demo Song"
I think they chose a horrible song to give away because:
A) It is incredibly boring. The guy just strums his guitar and doesnt even have interesting lyrics, the bass that comes in is very, very light. Not really too musical. (I'm not saying that the artist is bad, I've never heard of him before, just saying, musically it sounded like a Track 1 on a cd thats just kinda an intro)
B) The sound quality is crisp but biting. I am sure that the WMA codec used gives a very clean sampling of the original sound quality, but I am not talking about the format. I am talking about out of the studio. To give away this free song that is going to make most people's tinny PC speakers sound even tinnier and crappier, is poor marketing.
Just a couple thoughts..... I would have thought that maybe having.. 4 or 5 "Free demo songs" and spanning one track from jazz, one classical, one pop-rock and one pop-pop... so people can see something they like and better hear how this newfangled online music actually sounds good on their PC... that track was not an advertisement imho.
-James
What the hell is that supposed to mean? This whole thread is about "gameplay" ... when you purchase a game, you want it to perform adequately for proper interaction and playability.. Like on a SNES or any other console system, you have a unified platform for which to develop so you know you are not producing a product which will not function properly on some home machines, but.. for PC development, you really have to cover alot of bases in order to get your product playable on a majority of your customers machines.
.That is scalability and being designed for use on multiple level platforms. I still to this day enjoy that game, but, it allowed you to tweak the graphics to turn off advanced effects, reduce the screen resolution, and held you accountable for your machine stats when playing multiplayer online for the better of all involved. I think this is kinda more of the point that is being made here.
Remember that game Total Annihilation from Cavedog? When that came out it was pushing the limits of PCs at that time, and even had a "RAM" box when setting up multiplayer games so you could boot the kid who only had 32 mb when you wanted to play a 64mb map..
Closing line of article >> "Of course, Microsoft's research group is still young, and its best years may still be ahead. They had better be. PC taxpayers might start rebelling."
Might start?
I am pretty sure that the trend of "OS-less" or free *nix preinstalled PCs is not going to lessen. I have bought many, many "mini-pcs" based on the micro-atx form factor over the years to use as a distributed server grid in some of my colocation cages to control Lucent MAX-TNT servers. They came with some noname distro of linux... and were cheap as dirt and worked just fine.
With more big name PC vendors taking this approach.. It will be very interesting to see *just how many* consumers really want Windows when the choice is put in their hands.
As my father always has told me.. "I am only nice to you because you are going to choose my nursing home" ... I'm thinking.. somewhere in south florida.. a nice acre of premium swamp..er.... waterfront property.... ;)
okay, it is a loose analogy.. but applicable nonetheless.. look..
a sculptor / a mountaintop (natural beauty) / athletes in performance / actors on stage...
vs...
photographer / director / film crew
in my opinion, is the difference between what you call "real musicians" , those who create the songs or loops or beats or sing.... to the artistic dj (not radio dj, or karaoke, but true live mixing/mastering), studio engineers, etc..
you either make the beauty, or capture it in a new way..
dj's are entertainers! so are live musicians, you can combine them both at once, you can have on or the other.. but you cant be a dj without the artists in the same respects you cant be a photographer if you have no frame to capture.
DJing isn't "Music" in the same way that Photography isn't "Art"
Seriously..
A DJ is to a Music Author as a Photographer is to a Sculptor.. they are both needed and end up putting their own twist on prior art, changing it some. If you say a DJ is not a musician, then you are saying a photographer is not an arists, since, hey, God was the one that put those mountains there, your just cashing in on it.
I am a DJ and I have 38.3 gigs of music... 5514 "songs" where a couple hundred of them are live dj mixes (whole pieces.. betwee 50 and 120 minutes long on average,) so that equates to about 25.2 days of straight music.
I generally like all of my collection, there isn't any "fluff" in it.. it's all collected carefully and I would much prefer to have a device which could just hold the entire library.
I mean.. 20gb.. 40gb.. 60gb.. for laptop size mini drives, yes, it is important to keep it smaller than larger as a financial concern when building the units.. but.. i'd *definitely* take the larger drive; my music collection isn't shrinking.
As I use digital media nearly exclusively, (I buy cds, rip them, put them back in the jewel case and then they go to live in a box...) a higher capacity device is extremely important to me.
Recognize that that is an untrue statement. A 17 year old surely CAN have a mastercard. Absolutely. Have you ever heard of Access by QuickPay? Prepaid mastercards? no SSN needed, no credit checks, no age limits, no contracts. Real mastercard number. This is not their site but it describes what I am talking about:
Access By QuickPay
I even have one of these, very handy.
Thats PERFECT! It will be now known as the RIAC.... pronounced 'reek' - More accurate than ever!
Things like this.... that have been slowly growing.... I have this sinking sensation... that some day.... possibly soon.... the internet is going to take a new form.
.... say, jojoilovemonkeysex.com hosted in the USA will piss off the netherlands and jojoilovegorillasex.com will piss off the usa... and either will restrict each country.... and.. sooner than later the internet ends up following the "community" symptoms which are evident in everyday physical life....
This new form will be where people restrict their webservers to serve only certain countries, due to legal differences and policies that different countries hold. Yes, the current domain system makes any domain name resolvable to any nation, but, one can drop packets from any ip blocks you choose... I just have this sinking sensation that it is likely that
Does this make any sense to any of you? What do you think?