Wow, I remember a show called "What will they think of next" (sort of a pre-Beyond2000), talking about banana trees doing the same thing... wow, lets see that makes it almost 20 years ago?
Thats funny, not only have I started using the term "baked" when I see an Idea thats already in use, but that was the first thought that popped in my head when reading the blurb.
I wonder if the motor can be used to generate more electricity for a given amount of input... hmm, or would it create a small current for a LOT of movement.... hmm.
question is, will it "all" eventually be one big mesh out there? I imagine the telcos will do what they can to stop it, but I could see mass mesh adoption as an incredible force to recon with.
1) patch the OS, since no one can see it, with a bit of code to "simulate" a buffer overrun... in actuality it reports back to MS home office the IP address of the affected machine. Call it a "straw man" flaw 2) release a patch for other problems and have this new item go with the patch 3) release a "known flaw".. await for the first few reports of the flaw 4) show up at the butthead's house with a few large baseball bats 5)?? 6) profit!
wow, looks like the furrows in a field, if you had a large rectangular solid, you could move across a field without disurbing the furrows.. hmm, wonder if there is something useful in that idea.
A few years ago (8), I took a democracy studies class from a guy that not only was an election judge during Taiwan's first democratic elections, had been president of UWF.
During this particular class we discussed the difference between a mob and democracy... of note was a certain event at the University that sparked an actual demonstration/sit-in around the doors of the admin building. The issue was fairly minor, but was the straw that broke the camels back - like "no more 25 cent sodas" or something...
There were MANY issues with the administration, so they came out and made a big deal to conceed to the mob. A mob likes appeasement. The mob, unfortunately missed the fact that - while conceding on this issue, they were able to keep the "real" issues from becoming concessions. The inflamed mob was appeased on a relatively minor issue and got to feel like they won, when - in reality- they lost on several MUCH more important issues.
I believe small acts like this will not only give appeasement to much of "the mob", but will also strengthen their foothold - no different than free computers + windows XP for schools.
Imagine I own a new store. I "sponsor" a power-up or a cool monster by paying mogi a lot of money.. the monster shows up every 4 hours or so... causing people to come hunt down the monster and conveniently end up inside my shop. (say in the corner, where I have a place for them to sit and drink some tea)
How about a small service that comes on after power up to run a traceroute back to a website and then report that route... granted, a *smart* thief would pull off any docs (without net connection), and then wipe the harddrive (or just wipe the drive) before using it.
Looks like its an advanced form of "Rate my nakedness" sites.. except you post revealing photos as people tip you... Send me a tip and I'll reveal my underthings...
hmmm, now that is inrteresting.
Makes me wonder what happens if your shareware program is installed on someone's office network, if you could use the same act to cause probs. Weren't there issues with unregistered software being run by senate officials?.. wonder if you can turn this on its head.
Although I don't have the problem yet, many old folks have problems focusing at certain distances.. this causes them to move paper or a PDA back and forth.. which would zoom/shrink. They aren't necessarily zooming, so much as finding a focal point... this might lead to some serious over-correction as you try and find a usable size and focal point. hope you can turn it off.
With all this wireless crap, you start wondering about "cloud computing", where wireless processors, storage, software, etc could have a "central node" for a cloud and then you could have processes spawn spontaneously on processors/storage as they came into the cloud.
Is this without preview turned on? I haven't left preview on by default in several years.
Although I think racing is a waste of resources...
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Racing *was*, and occasionally *is still* a major source for automotive innvations to control a car at high speed. Hacks like this are the modern equivalent for non-racing items. Play with it break it, see if you can make it better.
I was thinking more on a cultural level. Your norms and mores are shaped by the language and visa versa... but I suppose that would explain the hypothesis on the "individual" level.
Having been an ASL interpreter for nearly 7 years, I do have to say the ASL provided a VASTLY different format for thought (being a visual language).. but I am convinced that ASL has more than linguistic repercussions. How many spoken languages require you to have visual space? You can literally tell a 10 minute story by iterating a time "Yesterday", a couple of nouns (placed in space- "School"/"Home"/"Car") and then "moving" the placed objects around, detailing what happened on your way home from school without a single word. The Deaf (cultural) world definitely has a unique perspective, very different from the "Hearing" world.
Language affects the way you think. The only way to effectively advance a technological curve is to create new language/taxonomy... which also the affects your thinking, your culture.. I imagine once the language/tech reaches a certain point in adoption and common use (jets in your example), then the pace of change slows - as would the addition of new verbage... hmm,theres a sociology paper in that thought. (Either proving or disproving the hypothesis)
Didn't really intend to spam, but, well.. I did. sorry bout that, so I accept the modding and jabs.
Point was, I got into coding because I love it - and have sort of become a catch-all. Its pretty much been a survival mechanism for the current economy - not blaming anyone or anything, just a fact. In my mental train of thought, *I* understood the point I was trying to make, guess I wasn't so explicit in my delivery.
I've been rebuilding the site to try and re-align my business with my original idea: To help people get their work done, and write code. If that requires me to become a digital plumber, so be it
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Wow, I remember a show called "What will they think of next" (sort of a pre-Beyond2000), talking about banana trees doing the same thing... wow, lets see that makes it almost 20 years ago?
Thats funny, not only have I started using the term "baked" when I see an Idea thats already in use, but that was the first thought that popped in my head when reading the blurb.
I wonder if the motor can be used to generate more electricity for a given amount of input... hmm, or would it create a small current for a LOT of movement.... hmm.
question is, will it "all" eventually be one big mesh out there? I imagine the telcos will do what they can to stop it, but I could see mass mesh adoption as an incredible force to recon with.
1) patch the OS, since no one can see it, with a bit of code to "simulate" a buffer overrun... in actuality it reports back to MS home office the IP address of the affected machine. Call it a "straw man" flaw
2) release a patch for other problems and have this new item go with the patch
3) release a "known flaw".. await for the first few reports of the flaw
4) show up at the butthead's house with a few large baseball bats
5)??
6) profit!
Is this Bonobos we're talking about? (The chimps that use sex for pretty much every social interaction)
wow, looks like the furrows in a field, if you had a large rectangular solid, you could move across a field without disurbing the furrows.. hmm, wonder if there is something useful in that idea.
A few years ago (8), I took a democracy studies class from a guy that not only was an election judge during Taiwan's first democratic elections, had been president of UWF.
During this particular class we discussed the difference between a mob and democracy... of note was a certain event at the University that sparked an actual demonstration/sit-in around the doors of the admin building. The issue was fairly minor, but was the straw that broke the camels back - like "no more 25 cent sodas" or something...
There were MANY issues with the administration, so they came out and made a big deal to conceed to the mob. A mob likes appeasement. The mob, unfortunately missed the fact that - while conceding on this issue, they were able to keep the "real" issues from becoming concessions. The inflamed mob was appeased on a relatively minor issue and got to feel like they won, when - in reality- they lost on several MUCH more important issues.
I believe small acts like this will not only give appeasement to much of "the mob", but will also strengthen their foothold - no different than free computers + windows XP for schools.
Imagine I own a new store. I "sponsor" a power-up or a cool monster by paying mogi a lot of money.. the monster shows up every 4 hours or so... causing people to come hunt down the monster and conveniently end up inside my shop. (say in the corner, where I have a place for them to sit and drink some tea)
How about a small service that comes on after power up to run a traceroute back to a website and then report that route... granted, a *smart* thief would pull off any docs (without net connection), and then wipe the harddrive (or just wipe the drive) before using it.
Looks like its an advanced form of "Rate my nakedness" sites.. except you post revealing photos as people tip you... Send me a tip and I'll reveal my underthings... hmmm, now that is inrteresting.
Require a patent review before suit is allowed. This might also further define the scope of the patent for the judge.
Makes me wonder what happens if your shareware program is installed on someone's office network, if you could use the same act to cause probs. Weren't there issues with unregistered software being run by senate officials?.. wonder if you can turn this on its head.
Although I don't have the problem yet, many old folks have problems focusing at certain distances.. this causes them to move paper or a PDA back and forth.. which would zoom/shrink. They aren't necessarily zooming, so much as finding a focal point... this might lead to some serious over-correction as you try and find a usable size and focal point. hope you can turn it off.
With all this wireless crap, you start wondering about "cloud computing", where wireless processors, storage, software, etc could have a "central node" for a cloud and then you could have processes spawn spontaneously on processors/storage as they came into the cloud.
Post hurricane, or in remote relief situations, this sort of thing could be invaluable.
Hmm.. makes me wonder how many operatives would show up in a db? eg: France's spies in england.
Is this without preview turned on? I haven't left preview on by default in several years.
Racing *was*, and occasionally *is still* a major source for automotive innvations to control a car at high speed. Hacks like this are the modern equivalent for non-racing items. Play with it break it, see if you can make it better.
Is there a LINEAR@Home type thing? I would prefer to use my spare cpu cycles protecting life on earth. "meta-environmentalism" I guess.
I was thinking more on a cultural level. Your norms and mores are shaped by the language and visa versa... but I suppose that would explain the hypothesis on the "individual" level.
Having been an ASL interpreter for nearly 7 years, I do have to say the ASL provided a VASTLY different format for thought (being a visual language).. but I am convinced that ASL has more than linguistic repercussions. How many spoken languages require you to have visual space? You can literally tell a 10 minute story by iterating a time "Yesterday", a couple of nouns (placed in space- "School"/"Home"/"Car") and then "moving" the placed objects around, detailing what happened on your way home from school without a single word. The Deaf (cultural) world definitely has a unique perspective, very different from the "Hearing" world.
Language affects the way you think. The only way to effectively advance a technological curve is to create new language/taxonomy... which also the affects your thinking, your culture.. I imagine once the language/tech reaches a certain point in adoption and common use (jets in your example), then the pace of change slows - as would the addition of new verbage... hmm,theres a sociology paper in that thought. (Either proving or disproving the hypothesis)
Commander USA's Groovy Movies (IMDB) was a favorite, I remember seeing the crappy B movie that got made into Little Shop of Horrors.. another favorite was Higgins Boys and Gruber
Didn't really intend to spam, but, well .. I did. sorry bout that, so I accept the modding and jabs.
Point was, I got into coding because I love it - and have sort of become a catch-all. Its pretty much been a survival mechanism for the current economy - not blaming anyone or anything, just a fact. In my mental train of thought, *I* understood the point I was trying to make, guess I wasn't so explicit in my delivery.
I've been rebuilding the site to try and re-align my business with my original idea: To help people get their work done, and write code. If that requires me to become a digital plumber, so be it
Yeah, I'm re-doing the main page (currently). We had the group up and running for some time... just wasn't plausible in the long run.