True, it would require an infinite amount of energy, but it depends on how you're accelerating. Most people think you blast from the ass instead of suck from the front. If we created a time distortion in front of us, it would drag us along instead of propel us.
Speed is speed whether its the speed of my sister's brain (which is known to be VERY slow) or the speed of light. We're sort of arrogant on that one, assuming light is the fastest thing out there.
Time distortion happens. Much like $hit. Its how we protect ourselves from it that matters. We'd have to create a static shield of sorts to contain ourselves within the car, much like rolling up a window.
Now, we all know standing still is zero on the acceleration scale, but what if the universe is moving itself? What if absolute zero is a trillion miles an hour in reverse? Hmmmmm?
Until we establish an environment in space, we have to be EXTREMELY careful doing stuff out there.
I'm not replying to this message with these ideas as a flame or anything personal, but merely to voice my opinions. I respect everyone elses opinions and ideas, but we have a lot to consider before we go warping about in the vast unknown...
You humans and your wormholes. When will you learn?
We all know that subspace exists, but why are we using it? We don't know what "space" is. We can define the basic physics of the environment as "no air, near-weightless (since gravity is everywhere and exerts some sort of pull on objects), and filled with almost every source of noise known to man". What if space is a sphere and subspace is like the chicken and gravy under the crispy, flaky crust of the pot pie?
Another factor to consider, what if we live in a closed space? An open space would have the same adverse affects of time travel. Time pockets where time may run slower or faster or not at all, then there are problems with rate of growth/collapse of the universe. Where would we come out? We wouldn't know since we have no way of calculating the physics of subspace since no one has been there.
The idea is all fine and dandy, but how are we going to produce the power necessary to break the subspace barrier? We're a wimpy level 3 civilization. Until we become a true level 2, we have no hope. And HOW are we going to break the subspace barrier?
Sounds like NASA has chosen to scan for something they have no idea about. You have to have a brain first to understand what is coming from it. On the flip-side, probing people's minds based on their emmitted brainwaves may pose a threat to privacy. Despite everyone having the ability to emit brainwaves, there is no natural way to understand what another person is thinking just by "changing the mental channel". Since not everyone can do that, NASA would essentially be probing our minds and getting inside our personal thoughts. It was once thought that the last remaining bit of privacy was the space between our ears, but I guess NASA knows that too now...
Has anyone seen the movie, "Runaway" with Tom Seleck? If you haven't, brief summary. Robots go crazy with infected/contaminated chip programming and start killing people. Featured weapon: "Smart Bullet" powered by a fuel-cell rocket. Woohoo. And the fact that the bad guy made an exact replica of Tom's retina pattern from a file he obtained in his employer's database. Funny part is, his employer is the police department. Even funnier, the bad guy got into the police department, disguised as a cop of course, and accessed an unsecured terminal. If that seems too hard to do, look, *chop* I have your thumb. The only way to get around this crap we're facing is to go about living like people. PEOPLE, NOT NUMBERED DATABASE ENTRIES! For example, my friend, Matt likes mountain biking and is a friendly outgoing person. Versus... Number Z-80BB-0395G.80, 440C, made a purchase at Bob's Bike Hut. See, no name, no characteristics, nothing. Matt has been stripped of being a person. Congratulations. If Congress succeeds in this National Biometric ID plan, we're screwed. George Orwell, "1984". Good book, read it.
Has anyone considered the two terms, "Legal" and "Tazer"? Believe it or not, but I was at the opening night of Star Wars - The Phantom Menace and some huge, fat, black (Not that overly-glorified term, "African-American") woman picks up a call on her brand new Nokia with that ear-splitting ring that wakes up the neighbors two houses down. All I could think was, "Gee, I'm glad we're stuck in the stone age and light sabres haven't been invented yet, but if they were..." Needless to say, it took buying the movie to find out what happened in the pod racer sequence. Is there a possibility we could implement the chicken wire-concrete method to build new walls and to also encase those who fail to abide by the courtesy rules?:-)
We've got to find a way to bring the DMCA to its knees so we don't get screwed everyday. He's right. Some fatass politician is sitting there spouting crap about computer hardware. I might as well be CONVICTED because I happen to build computers. I have to "decode" the jumper configurations that are configurations PATENTED by the manufacturer every time I build a computer. Technically, building a computer is in violation...
Lock me up boys and throw away the key. I'd like to be put in your minimum security resort where there's decent food, electric light, cushy reclining chairs, and cable tv. God Bless America.
I hope you two have a wonderful future together and spawn many new instances! That had to be the most romantic way to propose and I'm certainly glad Kathleen said, "Yes." I'm sure it surprised her more than any of us... Again, congratulations!
Yeah, so the Big Bang threw out all these Gazillions of galaxies and don't ya'll think it might be a slight bit possible this one did a 180 degree flip? It's more than likely a slow week in the news, so of course, as always, we have to make up some interesting BS that befuddles unintellectual types. Way to go guys, I'm glad to see we passed geometry class. Get a life you dumbass reporters...
...swift smack in the head. You lugnuts have been fighting for a piece of that sweet, sweet, iPie since the whole damned thing was created. The Internet is not something used to fill Mr. Greedy's pants with dough. Sorry. If someone wants to link to another site, that's great, it helps to propagate business. No link, no business. We need to get our cranial-rectal orientation rectified or else we're going to end up killing the one thing that means the most to people. Think about it before you open your paid-off mouth.
Bob Young seems to have a rather fecal outlook on life. Linux will indeed rule the desktop because its cost is SIGNIFICANTLY lower than Micro$oft Windows and is far more stable. A lot of games are compatible with Linux and Linux is just as easy to use as Windows. If anyone ever wanted to crawl out of a rut that's costing them dearly, they'd jump over to Linux and spare themselves the agony. Everyone is so caught up in the hype of WindowsXP that no one has really researched the market. Way to go guys. We keep dumping more vats of money to the unholy kernel lord which gives him leverage in court by allowing him to buy his way out of punishment. Believe it or not, kickbacks occur all the time in court. Those of us who say something about it might as well have some brass bearings. Enough money will make people do and say (sometimes not say) anything.
Has anyone else noticed that the 'open source' model is what made Windows so pervasive? Most people have installed a single copy of Windows on all of their systems and at $249.99 per copy, can you really blame them? Most of those people who installed the OS on all their machines actually ripped a copy off from their employer. Why buy it when you can give it that little "test-drive"? Those same dingbats buy an upgrade to Windows and install that on their home systems. However, MS Office isn't so lucky. The price of Office is so outrageous, even for the pathetic upgrade. So, they copy the Office CD-ROM and install that too. The only way to bring down the giant (Microsoft) is to freely-distribute Linux. The copying and installing of Microsoft products in the previously stated methods are known as a 'free distribution' model. We could only be so lucky to have AOL on our side! Microsoft's business practice will experience 'technical difficulties' because of the registration methods for XP. The inability to copy the CDs will inadvertently destroy their marketing and distribution channels. Eventually their mandatory online registration will become undermined by the cracking community and fully-cracked versions of XP will surface on BearShare and KaZaa. The only drawback to this is it will continue the Microsoft Desktop stranglehold instead of just bypassing the overpriced bloatware. The AOL/RH merger would probably have propagated a single-user, easy to install, low-overhead version of the Linux/GNU targetted at the typical home-user. After that, the development community could flourish and begin making high-quality games, applications, and business apps.
Who cares about AOL eating RedHat. I think the most important thing to say is, "AOL CAN EAT _ME_!" Honestly though. AOL can eat me. I don't need them running every aspect of my life. I have CEREAL boxes with their ads on them. Did you know they actually package their CDs on boxes of General Mills' Cheerios? Sick, eh? I have to stare at that ad every morning when I eat breakfast. I walked into WalMart (don't we all love this store) one night and was bombared with AOL CRAP when I walked in the door. I say we make a move not to shop somewhere like that or buy products that have AOL attached to it in any way. We should start barbecuing their CDs and sending them back to AOL, but that would be pricey. Instead, check out www.nomoreaolcds.com and follow their lead.
You don't like your car, but the parts are just enough to make a hefty bundle, right? So, how do you start a fire? Exactly. Now if we only knew where the info is really going...
But of course there is one solution. Boycott the evil sons of female dogs. There is a lesson to be learned here. Do we really need the computers we have? No. You see, everyone has been caught up in there own little "Speed Wars" that no one has really stopped to think. Its all about the guy on top. We're the bottom b!tches and so far, its not looking that great for us. So. How do you bring down the wealthiest man in the world and crush an evil empire? Use Linux and boycott the Microsoft Empire. Afterall, Windows ME isn't Millenium Edition. Its actually a typo too. Its supposed to be "Windows' Microsoft Empire". Get the hint?
Looks like the courts are going to have to cram it. They wrote the law that says we can say what we want. It's too bad the nation doesn't have the b@lls to stand up to a government that's walking all over us. We're too busy paying the hefty penalties so Mr. Jollypants can stuff his pockets with a little more green. Washington was right, we shouldn't have formed political parties and definately not become the world's referee. Fighting other people's wars is not our business. If the courts don't like what I have to say, go find a hobby...
Does anyone remember Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country where Captie Kirk and Doc McCoy are on the surface of the ice planet after they break out of prison? Their little campfire was one of those cute little "Snap-N-Warm" thingies. They broke a 'plastic' stick and the light started coming out and kept the people warm... Way to go Gene and thanks for showing us the way! Rest in Peace friend...
THANK GOD!
I'm tired of having myself subjected to the minutely assault of DoubleClick's crap. I know why no one wants broadband: No one wants the ads rammed down their throats. In fact, if we add more speed to the internet, that's just a fraction of the speed we get to use since ads take up the most bandwidth. I can't tell you how much their ads pi$$ me off. - well, them and www.x10.com
That's ok if you want to knock Linux on a Linux site and promote Windows as well, but you're not going to get very far with that. In fact, you might as well be making a point that Linux is hard to use. Well, it is, for people who have only half a brain and don't realize the power of Linux. It's like giving a performance sound system to a monkey. He turns it on and listens only to casette tapes of Sesame Street songs from the early '80s because it's simple enough to understand and the tape deck is doing what it's supposed to. Play tapes. Linux boasts a weapons arsenal of plethoratic proportions compared to Windows. Windows is made for wussies who don't want to get dirty doing their work. Work is dirty. Suck it up. That's life. If you want an office app for Linux, see www.staroffice.com and download StarOffice 5.2. If you don't like that, wait for K-Office. Don't knock products 'til you know the low down and git all da facts, yo. Buyah.
It's amazing how some people get all excited about a little bit of "see-through" on the desktop. RedHat has had that ability for quite a long time. It's always nice to see that Unix has an impression on Window$.
eyeball,
I've seen far worse. Head to http://www2.windrivers.com/benefits.asp and check out the latest $49.99 a year fee for using their site. That comes out to 13.696 cents a day and on leap years 13.658 cents a day. Isn't that nice that you get a 2.775 percent price break every 4 years? If broadband access through SWBell (SBC) costs $54.11 a month after taxes, that's $649.37 a year. Now lets say you see 20 sites that require a typical $50.00 a year membership. That's another $1000 on top of the $649.37 and lets not forget that $200 cable modem you just bought and the three 3Com NICs for another $90 each. Now we're at a total of $2119.37 for the first year. No thanks. I'd rather subscribe to the dead tree edition of the news and use my dialup connection ($10 a month or $7 AT&T WorldNet) with my craptastic, $14.99, 56k Lucent WinModem.
Would you believe that was the original movie title for "Bring It On!"? Cheer Fever? C'Mon Hollywood, you can crank out something better than that.
Anyway, what I've been saying in relation to the war for the past few days is, "Gimme 20 bucks, a shotgun, and keep the ammo comin'!" I've had enough of these sleeper agents screwing us over in America. I'd love to be part of the special forces team that goes in there and wipes out the little buggers. I'm not sure if any of you have seen the recent issue of the Houston Chronicle, but there's a comic strip in it showing the country, Afghanistan, as a smoking crater in the ground with scattered debris and scorch marks trailing out into the surrounding countries. The quote in the cartoon is, "...and this is Afghanistan before we start bombing."
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True, it would require an infinite amount of energy, but it depends on how you're accelerating. Most people think you blast from the ass instead of suck from the front. If we created a time distortion in front of us, it would drag us along instead of propel us. Speed is speed whether its the speed of my sister's brain (which is known to be VERY slow) or the speed of light. We're sort of arrogant on that one, assuming light is the fastest thing out there. Time distortion happens. Much like $hit. Its how we protect ourselves from it that matters. We'd have to create a static shield of sorts to contain ourselves within the car, much like rolling up a window. Now, we all know standing still is zero on the acceleration scale, but what if the universe is moving itself? What if absolute zero is a trillion miles an hour in reverse? Hmmmmm? Until we establish an environment in space, we have to be EXTREMELY careful doing stuff out there. I'm not replying to this message with these ideas as a flame or anything personal, but merely to voice my opinions. I respect everyone elses opinions and ideas, but we have a lot to consider before we go warping about in the vast unknown...
You humans and your wormholes. When will you learn?
We all know that subspace exists, but why are we using it? We don't know what "space" is. We can define the basic physics of the environment as "no air, near-weightless (since gravity is everywhere and exerts some sort of pull on objects), and filled with almost every source of noise known to man". What if space is a sphere and subspace is like the chicken and gravy under the crispy, flaky crust of the pot pie?
Another factor to consider, what if we live in a closed space? An open space would have the same adverse affects of time travel. Time pockets where time may run slower or faster or not at all, then there are problems with rate of growth/collapse of the universe. Where would we come out? We wouldn't know since we have no way of calculating the physics of subspace since no one has been there.
The idea is all fine and dandy, but how are we going to produce the power necessary to break the subspace barrier? We're a wimpy level 3 civilization. Until we become a true level 2, we have no hope. And HOW are we going to break the subspace barrier?
Is it me or am I just nuts...
This is the first article I've seen about QuakeCon 2002 and I'm sadly disappointed. I thought SlashDot was on the cutting edge of major events...
Sounds like NASA has chosen to scan for something they have no idea about. You have to have a brain first to understand what is coming from it. On the flip-side, probing people's minds based on their emmitted brainwaves may pose a threat to privacy. Despite everyone having the ability to emit brainwaves, there is no natural way to understand what another person is thinking just by "changing the mental channel". Since not everyone can do that, NASA would essentially be probing our minds and getting inside our personal thoughts. It was once thought that the last remaining bit of privacy was the space between our ears, but I guess NASA knows that too now...
Has anyone seen the movie, "Runaway" with Tom Seleck? If you haven't, brief summary. Robots go crazy with infected/contaminated chip programming and start killing people. Featured weapon: "Smart Bullet" powered by a fuel-cell rocket. Woohoo. And the fact that the bad guy made an exact replica of Tom's retina pattern from a file he obtained in his employer's database. Funny part is, his employer is the police department. Even funnier, the bad guy got into the police department, disguised as a cop of course, and accessed an unsecured terminal. If that seems too hard to do, look, *chop* I have your thumb. The only way to get around this crap we're facing is to go about living like people. PEOPLE, NOT NUMBERED DATABASE ENTRIES! For example, my friend, Matt likes mountain biking and is a friendly outgoing person. Versus... Number Z-80BB-0395G.80, 440C, made a purchase at Bob's Bike Hut. See, no name, no characteristics, nothing. Matt has been stripped of being a person. Congratulations. If Congress succeeds in this National Biometric ID plan, we're screwed. George Orwell, "1984". Good book, read it.
Has anyone considered the two terms, "Legal" and "Tazer"? Believe it or not, but I was at the opening night of Star Wars - The Phantom Menace and some huge, fat, black (Not that overly-glorified term, "African-American") woman picks up a call on her brand new Nokia with that ear-splitting ring that wakes up the neighbors two houses down. All I could think was, "Gee, I'm glad we're stuck in the stone age and light sabres haven't been invented yet, but if they were..." Needless to say, it took buying the movie to find out what happened in the pod racer sequence. Is there a possibility we could implement the chicken wire-concrete method to build new walls and to also encase those who fail to abide by the courtesy rules? :-)
We've got to find a way to bring the DMCA to its knees so we don't get screwed everyday. He's right. Some fatass politician is sitting there spouting crap about computer hardware. I might as well be CONVICTED because I happen to build computers. I have to "decode" the jumper configurations that are configurations PATENTED by the manufacturer every time I build a computer. Technically, building a computer is in violation...
Lock me up boys and throw away the key. I'd like to be put in your minimum security resort where there's decent food, electric light, cushy reclining chairs, and cable tv. God Bless America.
I hope you two have a wonderful future together and spawn many new instances! That had to be the most romantic way to propose and I'm certainly glad Kathleen said, "Yes." I'm sure it surprised her more than any of us... Again, congratulations!
Yeah, so the Big Bang threw out all these Gazillions of galaxies and don't ya'll think it might be a slight bit possible this one did a 180 degree flip? It's more than likely a slow week in the news, so of course, as always, we have to make up some interesting BS that befuddles unintellectual types. Way to go guys, I'm glad to see we passed geometry class. Get a life you dumbass reporters...
...swift smack in the head. You lugnuts have been fighting for a piece of that sweet, sweet, iPie since the whole damned thing was created. The Internet is not something used to fill Mr. Greedy's pants with dough. Sorry. If someone wants to link to another site, that's great, it helps to propagate business. No link, no business. We need to get our cranial-rectal orientation rectified or else we're going to end up killing the one thing that means the most to people. Think about it before you open your paid-off mouth.
Bob Young seems to have a rather fecal outlook on life. Linux will indeed rule the desktop because its cost is SIGNIFICANTLY lower than Micro$oft Windows and is far more stable. A lot of games are compatible with Linux and Linux is just as easy to use as Windows. If anyone ever wanted to crawl out of a rut that's costing them dearly, they'd jump over to Linux and spare themselves the agony. Everyone is so caught up in the hype of WindowsXP that no one has really researched the market. Way to go guys. We keep dumping more vats of money to the unholy kernel lord which gives him leverage in court by allowing him to buy his way out of punishment. Believe it or not, kickbacks occur all the time in court. Those of us who say something about it might as well have some brass bearings. Enough money will make people do and say (sometimes not say) anything.
No kidding, I love my organs very much. I need them to digest my Mexican food.
Has anyone else noticed that the 'open source' model is what made Windows so pervasive? Most people have installed a single copy of Windows on all of their systems and at $249.99 per copy, can you really blame them? Most of those people who installed the OS on all their machines actually ripped a copy off from their employer. Why buy it when you can give it that little "test-drive"? Those same dingbats buy an upgrade to Windows and install that on their home systems. However, MS Office isn't so lucky. The price of Office is so outrageous, even for the pathetic upgrade. So, they copy the Office CD-ROM and install that too. The only way to bring down the giant (Microsoft) is to freely-distribute Linux. The copying and installing of Microsoft products in the previously stated methods are known as a 'free distribution' model. We could only be so lucky to have AOL on our side! Microsoft's business practice will experience 'technical difficulties' because of the registration methods for XP. The inability to copy the CDs will inadvertently destroy their marketing and distribution channels. Eventually their mandatory online registration will become undermined by the cracking community and fully-cracked versions of XP will surface on BearShare and KaZaa. The only drawback to this is it will continue the Microsoft Desktop stranglehold instead of just bypassing the overpriced bloatware. The AOL/RH merger would probably have propagated a single-user, easy to install, low-overhead version of the Linux/GNU targetted at the typical home-user. After that, the development community could flourish and begin making high-quality games, applications, and business apps.
Who cares about AOL eating RedHat. I think the most important thing to say is, "AOL CAN EAT _ME_!" Honestly though. AOL can eat me. I don't need them running every aspect of my life. I have CEREAL boxes with their ads on them. Did you know they actually package their CDs on boxes of General Mills' Cheerios? Sick, eh? I have to stare at that ad every morning when I eat breakfast. I walked into WalMart (don't we all love this store) one night and was bombared with AOL CRAP when I walked in the door. I say we make a move not to shop somewhere like that or buy products that have AOL attached to it in any way. We should start barbecuing their CDs and sending them back to AOL, but that would be pricey. Instead, check out www.nomoreaolcds.com and follow their lead.
You don't like your car, but the parts are just enough to make a hefty bundle, right? So, how do you start a fire? Exactly. Now if we only knew where the info is really going...
But of course there is one solution. Boycott the evil sons of female dogs. There is a lesson to be learned here. Do we really need the computers we have? No. You see, everyone has been caught up in there own little "Speed Wars" that no one has really stopped to think. Its all about the guy on top. We're the bottom b!tches and so far, its not looking that great for us. So. How do you bring down the wealthiest man in the world and crush an evil empire? Use Linux and boycott the Microsoft Empire. Afterall, Windows ME isn't Millenium Edition. Its actually a typo too. Its supposed to be "Windows' Microsoft Empire". Get the hint?
Looks like the courts are going to have to cram it. They wrote the law that says we can say what we want. It's too bad the nation doesn't have the b@lls to stand up to a government that's walking all over us. We're too busy paying the hefty penalties so Mr. Jollypants can stuff his pockets with a little more green. Washington was right, we shouldn't have formed political parties and definately not become the world's referee. Fighting other people's wars is not our business. If the courts don't like what I have to say, go find a hobby...
Does anyone remember Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country where Captie Kirk and Doc McCoy are on the surface of the ice planet after they break out of prison? Their little campfire was one of those cute little "Snap-N-Warm" thingies. They broke a 'plastic' stick and the light started coming out and kept the people warm... Way to go Gene and thanks for showing us the way! Rest in Peace friend...
THANK GOD! I'm tired of having myself subjected to the minutely assault of DoubleClick's crap. I know why no one wants broadband: No one wants the ads rammed down their throats. In fact, if we add more speed to the internet, that's just a fraction of the speed we get to use since ads take up the most bandwidth. I can't tell you how much their ads pi$$ me off. - well, them and www.x10.com
That's ok if you want to knock Linux on a Linux site and promote Windows as well, but you're not going to get very far with that. In fact, you might as well be making a point that Linux is hard to use. Well, it is, for people who have only half a brain and don't realize the power of Linux. It's like giving a performance sound system to a monkey. He turns it on and listens only to casette tapes of Sesame Street songs from the early '80s because it's simple enough to understand and the tape deck is doing what it's supposed to. Play tapes. Linux boasts a weapons arsenal of plethoratic proportions compared to Windows. Windows is made for wussies who don't want to get dirty doing their work. Work is dirty. Suck it up. That's life. If you want an office app for Linux, see www.staroffice.com and download StarOffice 5.2. If you don't like that, wait for K-Office. Don't knock products 'til you know the low down and git all da facts, yo. Buyah.
It's amazing how some people get all excited about a little bit of "see-through" on the desktop. RedHat has had that ability for quite a long time. It's always nice to see that Unix has an impression on Window$.
eyeball, I've seen far worse. Head to http://www2.windrivers.com/benefits.asp and check out the latest $49.99 a year fee for using their site. That comes out to 13.696 cents a day and on leap years 13.658 cents a day. Isn't that nice that you get a 2.775 percent price break every 4 years? If broadband access through SWBell (SBC) costs $54.11 a month after taxes, that's $649.37 a year. Now lets say you see 20 sites that require a typical $50.00 a year membership. That's another $1000 on top of the $649.37 and lets not forget that $200 cable modem you just bought and the three 3Com NICs for another $90 each. Now we're at a total of $2119.37 for the first year. No thanks. I'd rather subscribe to the dead tree edition of the news and use my dialup connection ($10 a month or $7 AT&T WorldNet) with my craptastic, $14.99, 56k Lucent WinModem.
Would you believe that was the original movie title for "Bring It On!"? Cheer Fever? C'Mon Hollywood, you can crank out something better than that.
Anyway, what I've been saying in relation to the war for the past few days is, "Gimme 20 bucks, a shotgun, and keep the ammo comin'!" I've had enough of these sleeper agents screwing us over in America. I'd love to be part of the special forces team that goes in there and wipes out the little buggers. I'm not sure if any of you have seen the recent issue of the Houston Chronicle, but there's a comic strip in it showing the country, Afghanistan, as a smoking crater in the ground with scattered debris and scorch marks trailing out into the surrounding countries. The quote in the cartoon is, "...and this is Afghanistan before we start bombing."
Clap if you love fruit cake!
raptorGT
Ya'll chekc out what I found in a newsgroup this mornin. I thought it was funny as all hell and had to print a copy to put up in the shop... http://www.geocities.com/raptor1113a/usama/binlade n.html