I think he means more a giant VPN setup where we have our own internet running on top of the existing internet. Freenet is more a P2P, anti-censorship, file sharing system. I couldn't find a link either, damn!
We don't really need all that paranoid freenet stuff, just a way to recapture the "old days" of the net. Then again if the "I Can't Believe It's Not The SSSCA" gets passed we may need something like freenet! Scary!
I've always wondered about finger prints.. perhaps this will shed some light.
If you're referring to the finger prints on your hands (as opposed to DNA finger prints) and you mean "Will they be the same on the clone?" then... probably not. Identical twins can have different finger prints because of differing environments, etc. I don't see why it would be any different for other types of clones (yes, I consider identical twins clones, they were just cloned at the embryo stage). In fact, the environment of the clone will be *very* different to the environment the adult it was cloned from developed in so I'd expect the difference to be even larger. But, I'm not a doctor so I could be wrong.
This whole thing reminds me of the time when Microsoft released an annual report which was made on a Mac. The embedded meta-data Word puts in gave them away.
Have you forgotten *why* they scrapped the clones? They nearly went under! Sorry, but as a mac user I'm not willing to risk Apple's future so that you can buy a marginally cheaper computer. Apple wants feedback so that they know what they have to do to win you over. There's no point in winning you over if they fold in the process.
I'm sure it is more dangerous to land a shuttle with all that extra weight in the cargo area.
The shuttle is designed to be able to bring satellites back. From the link:
The space shuttle is the world's first reusable spacecraft, and the first spacecraft in history that can carry large satellites both to and from orbit.
Now, whether it's more dangerous to bring back a satellite leaking fuel is another matter! I figure that they'd drain it before bringing it back though.
Yeah, to me the most important milestones are the first two:
1)send an unmanned craft into space.
2)send a manned craft into space.
America loves to hype up the moon landings and how they won the space race, but to me the Soviets had it won when Yuri Gagarin was launched. The later stuff, while difficult, was just exploring, the Soviets opened up the space. Who's more important: the Wright Brothers or the guy who first crossed the Atlantic?
IIRC, Capt'n Hector is Ambrosia's mascot. He started his attacking-the-cheap-user ways in the original . In Override he would also occasionally steal credits from you as you left a planet. Bastard! I wonder what he'll do in EV:Nova?
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The BBC article is very short on details. I read the Corante article a while ago and it has some good info on Google Bombing (first use, effect, etc). Guess what? I used google to find it again. And it was the first link on the page. Seems to be working OK to me.
If this really does start to get out of control, Google will adjust their techniques to work around the problem. I hope.
In the very early days of flight people were making similar claims to the ones you're making now. "Flying across the atlantic will only be for the very rich and then only if they're fit."
In order to survive launch astronauts hhave to be in peak physical condition.
You do realise that there is no fundamental reason why launches have to be so hard on the astronauts. It's just cheaper to make the acceleration more violent and get into space more quickly.
More importantly, to avoid bone loss...
You're assuming that once in space they would be in constant zero g. You could always spin the craft tethered to its booster and just give them a taste of zero g rather than enduring it for the whole trip. I think I'd go up for the view mostly and just the thrill of being in space. If I wanted zero g, I'd book a flight on the vomit comet.
I think 2005 is a little optimistic. I'd say that by ~2015, space tourism will be in full swing. IMHO, it'll take one of the big players (ie. Boeing) to make it happen.
A lot of people seem to be saying "But I can still read 5 1/4 floppies and they're from 20 years ago!" Think longer term. Will you still be able to read them in 100 years? Don't say "Before they wear out, I'll copy the data to something new." What happens after you're dead? Will the next generation care about crufty old data as much as you do? This is assuming the civilisation survives and there even *is* another generation to copy it. The problem is that, even if you are religious about keeping the data safe, it only takes one generation, for one 10 year period (or whatever the medium's life is) to forget, not care, not have the resources, etc and the data is *gone*. One slip up 70 years from now and the data won't be there in 100, when it might be needed. This is the main problem with active preservation.
The other part of this is: What we consider important may not be what historians of the future consider important. They will most likely want to know how we lived, etc. We might save historical records, scientific data, etc but is anyone religiously copying DVDs of popular shows and will they keep doing it for as long as it takes?
So, with your limited resources, what do you save? Apollo mission logs or 'N Sync?
Umm... isn't that just going to ask for a password? A better one that would do almost as much damage, but doesn't require authentication is:
do shell script "rm -rf ~/"
Which would wipe the user's home directory. Nasty!
BTW, can anyone give me one good reason for Apple keeping Autostart support in OS9? After the autostart worms, a lot of users would have turned it off. CD-ROM makers don't make autostart CDs anymore (did they ever?) because they don't know how many users have it on. I've never had a CD Autostart (yes, I was careful. I checked for the worm prior to testing). So why didn't Apple drop it from OS9?
Spelling litre somehow reminds me of sometype of a French word, rather than an english one
That's my point. Litre *is* a french word (IIRC, they started the metric system) but it was good enough for Britain and Australia and pretty much every other English speaking country (should have made that more clear). I'm just thinking America's re-spelling might be a case of NIH. Sort of "If we have to have the metric system, we'll damn well spell it different! Can't leave it French sounding, can we?"
The British hecklers in the audience may wish to remember that they are the only first-world nation without a written constitution.
And yet which country's people are currently more at risk of loosing their freedom (DMCA, terrorist pirates, etc)? You're acting like not having a constitution (assuming it's true) is equivalent to being lawless. It's still illegal to murder someone in Britain and, last time I checked, there was freedom of the presses by law. A constitution is just law that's hard to change. You could argue that Britain's system is more flexible and adaptable to our changing world.
Also, there's a reason most scientists in America use the metric system. Guess what it is.
The pictures are cool but wouldn't one of the Fasttrack based P2P networks be a better example? I've got nothing against Gnutella but Morpheus and co seem to have scaled better. Is it because Gnutella is easier to test, its protocol more open, etc? Can anyone enlighten me as to why Gnutella would be better? Not trying to be a troll, just curious.
Ok, you got me. My point was that, unlike Microsoft, Apple is not bending over backwards to put DRM in their products. Jobs has stated that he thinks piracy is a social problem and no amount of technology will stop it.
The iPod will only auto-sync to one Mac at a time -- you can't use the auto-sync to transfer tunes from one Mac to another.
Yeah, but it's real easy to get past. IIRC, you just manually drag and drop the iPod onto a playlist in iTunes. Apple doesn't want the iPod to be seen by the tech-illiterate RIAA as a music copying device. Auto-syncing would be seen as a big, easy to use, "pirate me" button.
The DVD thing can't really be helped. Once copy-protection is in the specs, it's hard to remove. In summary: They're allies, they're just cautious.
I think you need *cool* water. IIRC, the water out of a fuel cell is hot (sometimes steam). Why can't the water be in a closed loop from the CPU to a radiator on the case. IMHO, we need cooler, more efficent processors not complex cooling systems.
Jobs has refused to put any form of DRM in any Apple products. Witness iPod/iTunes, both of which are completely free of DRM. Apple is an ally in this.
I said that you can't *expect* them to be viable not that it's *impossible* for them to be viable. I said that if they're *not* profitable, but are important, then the government should step in. The computer market in general *is* profitable, so... what are you talking about? How is it relevent to what I was saying? My point was that until technologies like broadband are profitable, they should be helped along. The computer industry is already profitable and so needs no help. You're just using my post as a way to bring up the whole Microsoft-Linux thing in a seemingly on-topic way. That's low dude.
It's good to see someone showing some foresight. You can't expect immature technologies to be viable to private companies, hence @Home's problems. Until increasingly important services like broadband can be delivered profitably and cheaply to the population, it's the role of the government to provide them (for a fee of course, but a low one). Insert economies of scale arguments, etc.
That's not to say that *every* unprofitable service should be provided but the internet is becoming increasingly important to modern society. The first communities to get these ubiquitous connections will start to be seen as high-tech communities. The rest will fall behind. They'll get it eventually, but by then it won't be any more special than the telephone. It'll snowball. As more tech-savvy (and high income) people move into the area, they'll increase demand for more tech-services.
Well, that's what I think anyway. OK, I'm dreaming. This is making Australia (where I am) look even more backwards. This will be really interesting to follow.
The solution is to not be so anal about it. Make the forces on the avatar realistic but make the avatar super-human. By this I mean that if you punch him in the head, he goes down. However, it doesn't "hurt" him as much as it hurts a real person. Think about it, what we want is for games to look better not to be more realistic for realism's own sake.
A good model to follow would be the kind of cartoon violence in movies like Die Hard, etc. Bruce gets hit with a lead pipe. He reacts with the full *force* of the impact (ie. he gets sent flying to the ground) but he gets up again - limping, with a bit of blood on him, but otherwise OK.
When I shoot a rocket at someone in Quake, I expect them to react to the blast more than by just loosing health. They should be sent flying, or at least knocked over. Same goes for anyone close to them. So as not to affect game-play adversely, the blast radius could be kept unrealistically small (and fall off quickly) but within it I expect realistic reactions!
If I shoot someone in the shoulder with a gun, they should react. They might do a quarter turn on impact, even though the amount taken from their health is the same.
Remember what the goal for FPS is: fun violence. Make the game more realistic but don't go overboard at the expense of fun.
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I think he means more a giant VPN setup where we have our own internet running on top of the existing internet. Freenet is more a P2P, anti-censorship, file sharing system. I couldn't find a link either, damn!
We don't really need all that paranoid freenet stuff, just a way to recapture the "old days" of the net. Then again if the "I Can't Believe It's Not The SSSCA" gets passed we may need something like freenet! Scary!
I've always wondered about finger prints.. perhaps this will shed some light.
If you're referring to the finger prints on your hands (as opposed to DNA finger prints) and you mean "Will they be the same on the clone?" then... probably not. Identical twins can have different finger prints because of differing environments, etc. I don't see why it would be any different for other types of clones (yes, I consider identical twins clones, they were just cloned at the embryo stage). In fact, the environment of the clone will be *very* different to the environment the adult it was cloned from developed in so I'd expect the difference to be even larger. But, I'm not a doctor so I could be wrong.
This whole thing reminds me of the time when Microsoft released an annual report which was made on a Mac. The embedded meta-data Word puts in gave them away.
Have you forgotten *why* they scrapped the clones? They nearly went under! Sorry, but as a mac user I'm not willing to risk Apple's future so that you can buy a marginally cheaper computer. Apple wants feedback so that they know what they have to do to win you over. There's no point in winning you over if they fold in the process.
The shuttle is designed to be able to bring satellites back. From the link:
The space shuttle is the world's first reusable spacecraft, and the first spacecraft in history that can carry large satellites both to and from orbit.
Now, whether it's more dangerous to bring back a satellite leaking fuel is another matter! I figure that they'd drain it before bringing it back though.
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1)send an unmanned craft into space.
2)send a manned craft into space.
America loves to hype up the moon landings and how they won the space race, but to me the Soviets had it won when Yuri Gagarin was launched. The later stuff, while difficult, was just exploring, the Soviets opened up the space. Who's more important: the Wright Brothers or the guy who first crossed the Atlantic?
IIRC, Capt'n Hector is Ambrosia's mascot. He started his attacking-the-cheap-user ways in the original . In Override he would also occasionally steal credits from you as you left a planet. Bastard! I wonder what he'll do in EV:Nova?
If this really does start to get out of control, Google will adjust their techniques to work around the problem. I hope.
In order to survive launch astronauts hhave to be in peak physical condition.
You do realise that there is no fundamental reason why launches have to be so hard on the astronauts. It's just cheaper to make the acceleration more violent and get into space more quickly.
More importantly, to avoid bone loss...
You're assuming that once in space they would be in constant zero g. You could always spin the craft tethered to its booster and just give them a taste of zero g rather than enduring it for the whole trip. I think I'd go up for the view mostly and just the thrill of being in space. If I wanted zero g, I'd book a flight on the vomit comet.
I think 2005 is a little optimistic. I'd say that by ~2015, space tourism will be in full swing. IMHO, it'll take one of the big players (ie. Boeing) to make it happen.
I'm pretty sure that you could make "not for resale" part of the contract.
The other part of this is: What we consider important may not be what historians of the future consider important. They will most likely want to know how we lived, etc. We might save historical records, scientific data, etc but is anyone religiously copying DVDs of popular shows and will they keep doing it for as long as it takes?
So, with your limited resources, what do you save? Apollo mission logs or 'N Sync?
See the problem?
The whole site is cool, browse around. I love the hydrogen bomb (chemical not nuclear). The levitating magnet's cool too. Now, to build that gun...
Umm... isn't that just going to ask for a password? A better one that would do almost as much damage, but doesn't require authentication is:
Which would wipe the user's home directory. Nasty!
BTW, can anyone give me one good reason for Apple keeping Autostart support in OS9? After the autostart worms, a lot of users would have turned it off. CD-ROM makers don't make autostart CDs anymore (did they ever?) because they don't know how many users have it on. I've never had a CD Autostart (yes, I was careful. I checked for the worm prior to testing). So why didn't Apple drop it from OS9?
Spelling litre somehow reminds me of sometype of a French word, rather than an english one
That's my point. Litre *is* a french word (IIRC, they started the metric system) but it was good enough for Britain and Australia and pretty much every other English speaking country (should have made that more clear). I'm just thinking America's re-spelling might be a case of NIH. Sort of "If we have to have the metric system, we'll damn well spell it different! Can't leave it French sounding, can we?"
I'm curious, why did America decide to call the litre a liter? They seem to be the only country to have done this.
The British hecklers in the audience may wish to remember that they are the only first-world nation without a written constitution.
And yet which country's people are currently more at risk of loosing their freedom (DMCA, terrorist pirates, etc)? You're acting like not having a constitution (assuming it's true) is equivalent to being lawless. It's still illegal to murder someone in Britain and, last time I checked, there was freedom of the presses by law. A constitution is just law that's hard to change. You could argue that Britain's system is more flexible and adaptable to our changing world.
Also, there's a reason most scientists in America use the metric system. Guess what it is.
It's 128 Bit. You need to double your number a few more times. I get about 3.4*10^38 unique addresses. Which is quite a bit more.
The pictures are cool but wouldn't one of the Fasttrack based P2P networks be a better example? I've got nothing against Gnutella but Morpheus and co seem to have scaled better. Is it because Gnutella is easier to test, its protocol more open, etc? Can anyone enlighten me as to why Gnutella would be better? Not trying to be a troll, just curious.
The iPod will only auto-sync to one Mac at a time -- you can't use the auto-sync to transfer tunes from one Mac to another.
Yeah, but it's real easy to get past. IIRC, you just manually drag and drop the iPod onto a playlist in iTunes. Apple doesn't want the iPod to be seen by the tech-illiterate RIAA as a music copying device. Auto-syncing would be seen as a big, easy to use, "pirate me" button.
The DVD thing can't really be helped. Once copy-protection is in the specs, it's hard to remove. In summary: They're allies, they're just cautious.
I think you need *cool* water. IIRC, the water out of a fuel cell is hot (sometimes steam). Why can't the water be in a closed loop from the CPU to a radiator on the case. IMHO, we need cooler, more efficent processors not complex cooling systems.
Jobs has refused to put any form of DRM in any Apple products. Witness iPod/iTunes, both of which are completely free of DRM. Apple is an ally in this.
I said that you can't *expect* them to be viable not that it's *impossible* for them to be viable. I said that if they're *not* profitable, but are important, then the government should step in. The computer market in general *is* profitable, so... what are you talking about? How is it relevent to what I was saying? My point was that until technologies like broadband are profitable, they should be helped along. The computer industry is already profitable and so needs no help. You're just using my post as a way to bring up the whole Microsoft-Linux thing in a seemingly on-topic way. That's low dude.
That's not to say that *every* unprofitable service should be provided but the internet is becoming increasingly important to modern society. The first communities to get these ubiquitous connections will start to be seen as high-tech communities. The rest will fall behind. They'll get it eventually, but by then it won't be any more special than the telephone. It'll snowball. As more tech-savvy (and high income) people move into the area, they'll increase demand for more tech-services.
Well, that's what I think anyway. OK, I'm dreaming. This is making Australia (where I am) look even more backwards. This will be really interesting to follow.
A good model to follow would be the kind of cartoon violence in movies like Die Hard, etc. Bruce gets hit with a lead pipe. He reacts with the full *force* of the impact (ie. he gets sent flying to the ground) but he gets up again - limping, with a bit of blood on him, but otherwise OK.
When I shoot a rocket at someone in Quake, I expect them to react to the blast more than by just loosing health. They should be sent flying, or at least knocked over. Same goes for anyone close to them. So as not to affect game-play adversely, the blast radius could be kept unrealistically small (and fall off quickly) but within it I expect realistic reactions!
If I shoot someone in the shoulder with a gun, they should react. They might do a quarter turn on impact, even though the amount taken from their health is the same.
Remember what the goal for FPS is: fun violence. Make the game more realistic but don't go overboard at the expense of fun.