Re:Stop nit-picking and just enjoy the damn film
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I certainly do NOT agree. IN fact, I am very sick of seeing these skinny little creatures that barely look like women paraded around. Size 6 (or whatever she is) is just not natural. The average size of a woman is 14, and that range is just perfect as far as I can tell. I do not believe personally that a conspiracy is afoot, but there is definately a self-reinforcing cycle involving the media, diet industry, and many physicians. (BMI anyone?) Women are simply not generally supposed to be that thin. Yes, there are some who are built to be that thin but the number is far smaller than most would imagine. The mark of a woman is wide hips, thick legs, round behind, etc. None of these are visible on most if not all of the actresses who are super-stars today, not to mention the size-4 models.
Personally, the multi-generation starship seems to me to be the best place to start moving to some sort of optical circuitry for most of the systems, and maybe even a place to have an on-board fab plant so that replacement spares for everything can be made on-the-fly. Keep the traditional silicon down to a minimum, and use optical components for most of it so that you may have to replace fibre from time to time, and some silicon components, but no optical ones. This is of course assuming that optical components don't have similar failure modes, which they just might. Either way, an on-board fab plant would take care of replacement problems, and once you have the systems standardized, it could be easily run. Remember we're not talking about bastardized desktops here but a designed fully integrated (hopefully) system.
As for the 100GHz machines, unless clustering has induced much more delay than I am used to expecting, you would still need many of those to render realistic virtual worlds on the fly, given the time it took to render scenes on render farms for films like Monsters, INC., toy story, FF:TSW, and others. a 10THz machine, with well optimized code, however, should be able to pull it off. Your 100GHz machine though would almost certainly be able to throw a primitive polygon-based version in realtime. Anyway, just my $0.02.
There are already portable DVD players, complete with 5.1 sound output and 2 builtin speakers for stereo using internals. They also have a smallish HD aspect (16:9?) screen complete with backlight. I think they are phillips too but I am not sure.
Your post was going along quite well until you came to the very last point, and suggested that we vote the Red Hat Package Manager as the president of the Moon. While I understand that ease of installing packages on the moon is important, I really think that you must have meant RMS. However, given the choice, I think RPM would be better at the politics of actually running a government, RMS would simply disband it. (yes, this is hyperbole, this whole post is comedy. If you don't have a funnybone, that is your problem.)
An "it" cannot be an oligopoly. The RIAA is to its member organizations as the US Federal Government is to the states, for the most part, except that the RIAA cannot prohibit organizations from seceeding (though they are trying very hard to prohibit any competition). The RIAA (and its sister the MPAA) are both controlled by a central ruling body, which passes down orders to member organizations, who can either take it or leave, but leaving generally means going out of buisiness.
Well...it's supposed to be EL (like an indiglo watch) which means that as long as it does not overheat, it should last nearly forever. It just depends on how well designed it is, it should last at least 10 years.
A culture as a whole is almost never ready for a change. In any correctly functioning culture, around 80% of the people do not even think of the future, they just think of their own lives, if even that. 20% of the people think of change and the future, and at least 15% are trying to do something about it. 5% (part of those 20%) are moving in a direction most would consider "forward" (in hindsight), but are nutcases to the rest of the world. (disclaimer:my statistics might be erring toward being too big). These 5% of the population drag the culture kicking and screaming into the future. The reason for the rest of the population is simple. The other 15% of the change-happy 20% are there to provide balance of ideas, and play devil's advocate, and the 80% who are fine-the-way-it-is are there to maintain the stability of society, without them the changes would tear any semblance of order apart in a matter of seconds. Society is a house of cards, all human organizations are. When you get your first job you realize this, often it comes as quite a shock...and then it happens again and again as you realize every place is the same. Unfortunately, human cultural studies are not taught well in high-school, and are elective in colleges. Therefore, most members of society who are among the 20% can't see the function of the other 80% or why society has to be such a house of cards. I'm not saying that things cannot be improved, simply that there is a very big picture that needs considering.
Well, for the fast focusing, I suggest making sure you have enough rest. I may be a freak but my focusing comes up faster than I notice as long as I am not tired. As for the filters, that's good, let's put in some programmable gamma/curve corrections too. Light enhancement is simple, just add a fourth receptor in the IR range, depth of field really can only be done with either (maybe, I don't know much about lenses) a replacement lens, or more probably, sacrificing stereoscopic vision temporarily. The zoom could be done digitally or optically, with a frame-compositor to make the digital zoom nice, the image enhancement would be doable but maybe not realtime...I don't know about today's processing power. The goggles stuff really just has to do with the biological part of your eyes...some people can do it, some can't.
Well, the problems do seem important but there are a few solutions. There are legal ways to create and repeat a signal over fairly long distances, without paying too much in electricity, or you could tunnel out through an ISP of some kind and the "public internet". The biggest plus though is interconnection within an area...maybe the notion of community would come back? And there are ways other than RF 2.4GHz or 5GHz transmission to connect from one point to the next that can be used. Tunneling through the public internet, using any kind of cabling available, lasers (cool but relatively useless), and even laying your own fibre. As for providing connectivity to the public internet, people could do it in exchange for advertising, could provide a part of their own connection for free (if so available in their TOS), or could just keep content mostly on the ad-hoc grids (which should be using IPv6 or something similar that can handle the address requirements) Anyway, just the ramblings of someone with nothing better to say, and a desire to see these networks. Someone let me know if you have the ability to put together the proper hardware/software, or would wish to discuss it. I know that routing on this kind of network is not trivial but I can think of a few options, some of which involve obtaining rout trees based on physical direction, and creating a new packet protocol that can quickly weed out bad nodes by lack of an ACK backwards on the route from one, two, or more nodes ahead.
Most of us would much rather create our own new "internet" infrastructure than handle the one we are currently stuck with. Software autorouting radios and other similar advances in the 2.4 and 5GHz bands (with 900MHz long-range support) should soon allow us to create grids independant of both wires and the "internet". Internetworking these grids would be a relatively trivial task, now that it's been done once (Internet). Such grids could run any protocols we see fit, and hopefully we will have the sense to not let another ICANN ocurr.
Well, given that it says two rail lanes, I would assume that it means light rail transit, moving at at most 30-40mph (not sure of that in kph), with little chance of derailing due to the small size of cars/trains.
That sounds interesting, though it is hardly a threat on the order of the credit card or inbox theft level, since KaZaA's client does not allow you to write to something shared, only read from it. Therefore, all you would have would be the same grades that you could get (for yourself at least) by asking her. If she kept tests on there, that would be a whole other story though.
Personally, my feeling is that there should be a filesystem developed where 'file formats' go the way of the dinosaur, and are replaced by objects that exist in various formats (text+formatting for word processor, graphics in various codecs, sound the same) but are not kept from the user by strange encapsulation into 'files', and are simply objects within the filesystem by themselves, with all of the metadata handled by the filesystem.
Your argument unfortunately does not hold water, or more importatnly information. Coca-cola's formula is not at all connected to this because you cannot store data in coca-cola. The trouble with proprietary file formats is that, although nowhere in the EULA does it say that the data in the files you create belong to the company, the company, through licensing schemes or any other trickery, can keep the data that rightly belongs to you from you. This is true for all non-open file formats. There is no reason not to open a file format to the world, as it does not reveal anything that would allow anyone to create a functionally similar program that they would not have already known. All it allows is that other program to read your files.
Actually, this just sounds like BGP's inherent troubles rearing their ugly head. Unfortunately, a better solution often turns out to be a travelling salesman problem, though I'm sure some smart routing could be built that at least accounted for which link direction was generally closer/faster to get to the stated targed.
you do not save energy because of that. The point is that you can do waves->electricity->hydrogen->transport-& gt;electricity->consumer device you don't have to plug in.
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I certainly do NOT agree. IN fact, I am very sick of seeing these skinny little creatures that barely look like women paraded around. Size 6 (or whatever she is) is just not natural. The average size of a woman is 14, and that range is just perfect as far as I can tell. I do not believe personally that a conspiracy is afoot, but there is definately a self-reinforcing cycle involving the media, diet industry, and many physicians. (BMI anyone?) Women are simply not generally supposed to be that thin. Yes, there are some who are built to be that thin but the number is far smaller than most would imagine. The mark of a woman is wide hips, thick legs, round behind, etc. None of these are visible on most if not all of the actresses who are super-stars today, not to mention the size-4 models.
somebody start having sex with Liv Tyler!
Only if she eats something first and gains a real womanly figure. Bean-poles are just not sexy.
Personally, the multi-generation starship seems to me to be the best place to start moving to some sort of optical circuitry for most of the systems, and maybe even a place to have an on-board fab plant so that replacement spares for everything can be made on-the-fly. Keep the traditional silicon down to a minimum, and use optical components for most of it so that you may have to replace fibre from time to time, and some silicon components, but no optical ones. This is of course assuming that optical components don't have similar failure modes, which they just might. Either way, an on-board fab plant would take care of replacement problems, and once you have the systems standardized, it could be easily run. Remember we're not talking about bastardized desktops here but a designed fully integrated (hopefully) system.
As for the 100GHz machines, unless clustering has induced much more delay than I am used to expecting, you would still need many of those to render realistic virtual worlds on the fly, given the time it took to render scenes on render farms for films like Monsters, INC., toy story, FF:TSW, and others. a 10THz machine, with well optimized code, however, should be able to pull it off. Your 100GHz machine though would almost certainly be able to throw a primitive polygon-based version in realtime. Anyway, just my $0.02.
It's obvious. +0 Punny.
Go ahead, tell me you didn't see that coming.
There are already portable DVD players, complete with 5.1 sound output and 2 builtin speakers for stereo using internals. They also have a smallish HD aspect (16:9?) screen complete with backlight. I think they are phillips too but I am not sure.
Your post was going along quite well until you came to the very last point, and suggested that we vote the Red Hat Package Manager as the president of the Moon. While I understand that ease of installing packages on the moon is important, I really think that you must have meant RMS. However, given the choice, I think RPM would be better at the politics of actually running a government, RMS would simply disband it. (yes, this is hyperbole, this whole post is comedy. If you don't have a funnybone, that is your problem.)
An "it" cannot be an oligopoly. The RIAA is to its member organizations as the US Federal Government is to the states, for the most part, except that the RIAA cannot prohibit organizations from seceeding (though they are trying very hard to prohibit any competition). The RIAA (and its sister the MPAA) are both controlled by a central ruling body, which passes down orders to member organizations, who can either take it or leave, but leaving generally means going out of buisiness.
Well...it's supposed to be EL (like an indiglo watch) which means that as long as it does not overheat, it should last nearly forever. It just depends on how well designed it is, it should last at least 10 years.
A culture as a whole is almost never ready for a change. In any correctly functioning culture, around 80% of the people do not even think of the future, they just think of their own lives, if even that. 20% of the people think of change and the future, and at least 15% are trying to do something about it. 5% (part of those 20%) are moving in a direction most would consider "forward" (in hindsight), but are nutcases to the rest of the world. (disclaimer:my statistics might be erring toward being too big). These 5% of the population drag the culture kicking and screaming into the future. The reason for the rest of the population is simple. The other 15% of the change-happy 20% are there to provide balance of ideas, and play devil's advocate, and the 80% who are fine-the-way-it-is are there to maintain the stability of society, without them the changes would tear any semblance of order apart in a matter of seconds. Society is a house of cards, all human organizations are. When you get your first job you realize this, often it comes as quite a shock...and then it happens again and again as you realize every place is the same. Unfortunately, human cultural studies are not taught well in high-school, and are elective in colleges. Therefore, most members of society who are among the 20% can't see the function of the other 80% or why society has to be such a house of cards. I'm not saying that things cannot be improved, simply that there is a very big picture that needs considering.
Well, for the fast focusing, I suggest making sure you have enough rest. I may be a freak but my focusing comes up faster than I notice as long as I am not tired. As for the filters, that's good, let's put in some programmable gamma/curve corrections too. Light enhancement is simple, just add a fourth receptor in the IR range, depth of field really can only be done with either (maybe, I don't know much about lenses) a replacement lens, or more probably, sacrificing stereoscopic vision temporarily. The zoom could be done digitally or optically, with a frame-compositor to make the digital zoom nice, the image enhancement would be doable but maybe not realtime...I don't know about today's processing power. The goggles stuff really just has to do with the biological part of your eyes...some people can do it, some can't.
Well, the problems do seem important but there are a few solutions. There are legal ways to create and repeat a signal over fairly long distances, without paying too much in electricity, or you could tunnel out through an ISP of some kind and the "public internet". The biggest plus though is interconnection within an area...maybe the notion of community would come back? And there are ways other than RF 2.4GHz or 5GHz transmission to connect from one point to the next that can be used. Tunneling through the public internet, using any kind of cabling available, lasers (cool but relatively useless), and even laying your own fibre. As for providing connectivity to the public internet, people could do it in exchange for advertising, could provide a part of their own connection for free (if so available in their TOS), or could just keep content mostly on the ad-hoc grids (which should be using IPv6 or something similar that can handle the address requirements) Anyway, just the ramblings of someone with nothing better to say, and a desire to see these networks. Someone let me know if you have the ability to put together the proper hardware/software, or would wish to discuss it. I know that routing on this kind of network is not trivial but I can think of a few options, some of which involve obtaining rout trees based on physical direction, and creating a new packet protocol that can quickly weed out bad nodes by lack of an ACK backwards on the route from one, two, or more nodes ahead.
Most of us would much rather create our own new "internet" infrastructure than handle the one we are currently stuck with. Software autorouting radios and other similar advances in the 2.4 and 5GHz bands (with 900MHz long-range support) should soon allow us to create grids independant of both wires and the "internet". Internetworking these grids would be a relatively trivial task, now that it's been done once (Internet). Such grids could run any protocols we see fit, and hopefully we will have the sense to not let another ICANN ocurr.
Well, given that it says two rail lanes, I would assume that it means light rail transit, moving at at most 30-40mph (not sure of that in kph), with little chance of derailing due to the small size of cars/trains.
Just my 10bc
That sounds interesting, though it is hardly a threat on the order of the credit card or inbox theft level, since KaZaA's client does not allow you to write to something shared, only read from it. Therefore, all you would have would be the same grades that you could get (for yourself at least) by asking her. If she kept tests on there, that would be a whole other story though.
--just my 10bc
Personally, my feeling is that there should be a filesystem developed where 'file formats' go the way of the dinosaur, and are replaced by objects that exist in various formats (text+formatting for word processor, graphics in various codecs, sound the same) but are not kept from the user by strange encapsulation into 'files', and are simply objects within the filesystem by themselves, with all of the metadata handled by the filesystem.
Your argument unfortunately does not hold water, or more importatnly information. Coca-cola's formula is not at all connected to this because you cannot store data in coca-cola. The trouble with proprietary file formats is that, although nowhere in the EULA does it say that the data in the files you create belong to the company, the company, through licensing schemes or any other trickery, can keep the data that rightly belongs to you from you. This is true for all non-open file formats. There is no reason not to open a file format to the world, as it does not reveal anything that would allow anyone to create a functionally similar program that they would not have already known. All it allows is that other program to read your files.
English is a living language.
If you don't like that, I suggest Latin.
I prefer there to be more than my hands can take.
--that sound was my karma tunneling through the floor to China
that's exactly what he implied, given that he referred to the 'vampires' not releasing their patches back up the tree.
Actually, this just sounds like BGP's inherent troubles rearing their ugly head. Unfortunately, a better solution often turns out to be a travelling salesman problem, though I'm sure some smart routing could be built that at least accounted for which link direction was generally closer/faster to get to the stated targed.
Would you settle for a +5 funny? I'd give it to you but I don't have mod points.
Last I checked, on the PS/2 you can, but on the XBox it is impossible. Just my $0.01
I don't know about sci-fi but in my book it definately qualifies as fantasy or at the very least fantasized history.
you do not save energy because of that. The point is that you can do waves->electricity->hydrogen->transport-& gt;electricity->consumer device you don't have to plug in.