Put yourself in the shoes of the evil overlord, If you had a nice little sim to keep the slaves in line, and were facing revolution... your *BEST* protection would be to overhype a movie that detailed the revolution and showed how gloriously people would "Win" it...
Now All your slaves would literally laugh about anyone silly enough to approach them to join "I am your redeemer, this is all a dream"... they would say "ohhh, I think you've been watching too many movies, how silly".
You would basically reduce anyone to a state worse than "crackpot" (which can lead to "genius"), you reduce them to "fanboy/poser" which leads to sweaty palms in their mother's basement.
This is just the tip of the iceburg for Open Source outside of computing... It would be nice to have a central repository for things like OSCar and some of the "open source" plane and other ideas out there... I wonder if there are opensource housing plans (I realize the Amish have had OS-barns for years, "pair programmed" even)..
Imagine a FPS related to Paradroid... you are the little "Wraith" flying around trying to free a ship.. you can take over other bots (heck, why not use the same sceme), the logic game would come up overlayed on the 3-d screen, imagine a "3d- chessboard" style view, your "inputs" on your side, theirs on the other side.. and it just jumps into action, you having a very short time to make the lights all your color to "take over" the bot. I think it would work quite well.
Figured I'd wait and see if anyone thought it worthwhile first. I'll put you down for a "not interested, thank you"... hmm, I guess constructive criticism isn't common down under?
That was planned Later version, thought I might see if anyone even wanted to play the game before I got into multiple I/O... When I came up with scoring was just getting the idea together.. It just seemed better to try and come up with *some* kind of scoring instead of just saying *Yeah, you won!* I've also thought about building "blackbox" circuits that you have to try and duplicate, getting points for having fewer logic gates than used in the black-box circuit.
You get the prize, the first person to mention Paradroid!.. I'll have to check out NightHawk. I honestly think paradroid was *VERY* instrumental to my career path and a LOT of tinkering (both hardware and software) growing up.
Play the "corportae responsibility" trump card. Let them know that you are willing to sign the non-compete if-and-only-if they take responsibility for your unemployability while it is in force (like establishing a nice severence package *NOW*).. "If you have the power and desire to take away my livelyhood for your corporate gain for the time given, you will take responsibility for my livelihood until that period is over".. or you can give me a nice lump sum.
Its funny, with all the discussion of religion/etc surrounding the matrix, I've been realizing I'm sort of a "neo-Gnostic"... I've felt this way all along, and although many of the gnostic "tenets" aren't in line with what I feel to be true, its the closest approximation of my internal ideas.
Could this be adapted for a MQ system (say queuing database queries?).. just adding some extra info into the "document", like where the query came from, etc.
What kind of load can it handle?
hmm.. I claim rights on the electro-carseat (or door lining).. take the same material and build it into your carseats... if the keys are out of the ignition (so it won't arm while driving) and you arm the car-alarm, no one can get in the car without "difficulties"... just have it line every surface in the car (seat, headliner, floormat)...
Or, for the evil world domination types.. a nice pair of "gauntlets" with this same capability to add a little "spice" to a fistfight.
Star Trek has been completed!
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Ok, now, can we control the "shift" from software?
which a real explaination for how StarTrek does those "lets generate a xMhz pulse" sorts of things... sending hailing signals over arbitrary frequencies. (like if you had an array of these devices tuned to different freq.).
Also, (boy the nerd in me loves this), it generates ideas for reception.. tuning all sorts of frequencies into a standard freq (like for SETI searches....)... wow, neat idea folks.
When do we get "useful" P2P?
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When does the technology get pervasive enough to start warranting more useful apps built on top of P2P? Like a way to post resumes, jobs, RFPs, etc.. and be able to query/respond... without needing the 400 job boards out there. Or code snippets, or news services that can survive massive overloads ala 9/11?
there was a USB-boot option in my BIOS, I would think this a very cool thing.
How many harddrives could you fill in a year?
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OK... lets see, you need an ID for each Event, and event type, a "person", a time and place, lat/long, and an ability to "string" events together (so you can do Ogg packets for audio) (all Id's being 128bit unqiue id's)
[EventID][EventTypeID][PERSONGUID][timestamp][lat/ long][Data segment]
[Datasegment] may also include [REFERNCES EventID]
Comes out to about 64 bytes+ your data segment (which is interpreted based on the EventTypeID... lets guess each "packet" is about 1k with this header, you'd be looking at (if this was a good enough header) 30 gig/year is you captured one record per second... which might just suffice for your position alone. add mood logging each second, audio (say 1 meg/minute) ~510 g/year... what else, heart rate? I suppose the "position" could give basic biometrics like heart rate, pressure, skin conductivity, etc... your still looking at terabytes per person.
It might be fun to do an opensource "version" of this to prevent it from becoming patented.
It goes to show that we'd rather pretend to know that something works, than know that something works.
I'm a coder, and I love using computers for all sorts of tasks, but simulation is as only as good as the model you are using... how do you (in 20 years time) know that your model is accurate without a wind tunnel or actual tests to compare it with?
My bet? I bet the wind tunnel simulator people will end up building wind-tunnels to comfirm their models.
Wow, too bad we can't put GPS on it, and make a MMPRPG that maps to the real world!... so as you walk around the real world, you have a "window" into the game... so I see you have one, and we can do battle, or some such... put some "god" users to walk around and create the world (like tunnels where there are real subways, etc.)
Sort of a geocaching+multiplayer... now all you need is a pair of HUD glasses to make a completely nerd-immersion game!
And you could "disoconnect" the map so you can wander around without needing to actually walk anywhere.
That could be really cool.
Show several IFRAMEs driven by Javascript... Each frame looks up a different extension, one after another. as long as they fire only when the last has completed, you're ok. ( or a script to check and then update..) seems as long as the user SEES the lookups happening in serial, your not breaking the patent.... or you may the user click a button next to each "suggestion"
Have one group of developers look at the offending code, write up a series of unit tests that describe the code, then offer the tests up to anyone who has NEVER looked at the code.
Re-write the offending code and document that you followed this clean room process..
Problem solved, SCO is left in the dust, and everyone can get on with their lives.
I'll coordinate the process if necessary. Got me a nice web-based workflow engine that would fit the bill prefectly.
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Put yourself in the shoes of the evil overlord, If you had a nice little sim to keep the slaves in line, and were facing revolution... your *BEST* protection would be to overhype a movie that detailed the revolution and showed how gloriously people would "Win" it... ... they would say "ohhh, I think you've been watching too many movies, how silly".
Now All your slaves would literally laugh about anyone silly enough to approach them to join "I am your redeemer, this is all a dream"
You would basically reduce anyone to a state worse than "crackpot" (which can lead to "genius"), you reduce them to "fanboy/poser" which leads to sweaty palms in their mother's basement.
This is just the tip of the iceburg for Open Source outside of computing... It would be nice to have a central repository for things like OSCar and some of the "open source" plane and other ideas out there... I wonder if there are opensource housing plans (I realize the Amish have had OS-barns for years, "pair programmed" even)..
science does not (or at least, should not) include any aspect of "faith".
Have you tested EVERY theory that your hypothesis relies on in preparation of your current experiment?
No?
Are you *SURE* gravity on earth is 9.8m/s^2? When was the last time you tested it? And are you sure of that meter?
Science is just chock full of "faith"... read any experiment which begins "Given X..." You have to trust that you know what X is and that it is true.
Source is now posted on the site:
PortaLogica
Looks like there *IS* a pc (and a heavily modified Linux version) Here:d 90/paradroid90/frames.html
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/paradroi
Imagine a FPS related to Paradroid... you are the little "Wraith" flying around trying to free a ship.. you can take over other bots (heck, why not use the same sceme), the logic game would come up overlayed on the 3-d screen, imagine a "3d- chessboard" style view, your "inputs" on your side, theirs on the other side.. and it just jumps into action, you having a very short time to make the lights all your color to "take over" the bot. I think it would work quite well.
Figured I'd wait and see if anyone thought it worthwhile first. I'll put you down for a "not interested, thank you" ... hmm, I guess constructive criticism isn't common down under?
That was planned Later version, thought I might see if anyone even wanted to play the game before I got into multiple I/O... When I came up with scoring was just getting the idea together.. It just seemed better to try and come up with *some* kind of scoring instead of just saying *Yeah, you won!* I've also thought about building "blackbox" circuits that you have to try and duplicate, getting points for having fewer logic gates than used in the black-box circuit.
You get the prize, the first person to mention Paradroid!.. I'll have to check out NightHawk. I honestly think paradroid was *VERY* instrumental to my career path and a LOT of tinkering (both hardware and software) growing up.
Play the "corportae responsibility" trump card. Let them know that you are willing to sign the non-compete if-and-only-if they take responsibility for your unemployability while it is in force (like establishing a nice severence package *NOW*).. "If you have the power and desire to take away my livelyhood for your corporate gain for the time given, you will take responsibility for my livelihood until that period is over" .. or you can give me a nice lump sum.
Its funny, with all the discussion of religion/etc surrounding the matrix, I've been realizing I'm sort of a "neo-Gnostic" ... I've felt this way all along, and although many of the gnostic "tenets" aren't in line with what I feel to be true, its the closest approximation of my internal ideas.
Could this be adapted for a MQ system (say queuing database queries?).. just adding some extra info into the "document", like where the query came from, etc. What kind of load can it handle?
Thats not a robot, the term is "waldo" .. the equivalent of "robotic arms" controlled from a joystick... just with a lot more feedback.
hmm.. I claim rights on the electro-carseat (or door lining) .. take the same material and build it into your carseats... if the keys are out of the ignition (so it won't arm while driving) and you arm the car-alarm, no one can get in the car without "difficulties" ... just have it line every surface in the car (seat, headliner, floormat)...
Or, for the evil world domination types.. a nice pair of "gauntlets" with this same capability to add a little "spice" to a fistfight.
Ok, now, can we control the "shift" from software? which a real explaination for how StarTrek does those "lets generate a xMhz pulse" sorts of things... sending hailing signals over arbitrary frequencies. (like if you had an array of these devices tuned to different freq.). Also, (boy the nerd in me loves this), it generates ideas for reception.. tuning all sorts of frequencies into a standard freq (like for SETI searches....)... wow, neat idea folks.
When does the technology get pervasive enough to start warranting more useful apps built on top of P2P? Like a way to post resumes, jobs, RFPs, etc.. and be able to query/respond... without needing the 400 job boards out there. Or code snippets, or news services that can survive massive overloads ala 9/11?
there was a USB-boot option in my BIOS, I would think this a very cool thing.
OK... lets see, you need an ID for each Event, and event type, a "person", a time and place, lat/long, and an ability to "string" events together (so you can do Ogg packets for audio) (all Id's being 128bit unqiue id's) [EventID][EventTypeID][PERSONGUID][timestamp][lat/ long][Data segment]
[Datasegment] may also include [REFERNCES EventID]
Comes out to about 64 bytes+ your data segment (which is interpreted based on the EventTypeID... lets guess each "packet" is about 1k with this header, you'd be looking at (if this was a good enough header) 30 gig/year is you captured one record per second... which might just suffice for your position alone. add mood logging each second, audio (say 1 meg/minute) ~510 g/year ... what else, heart rate? I suppose the "position" could give basic biometrics like heart rate, pressure, skin conductivity, etc... your still looking at terabytes per person.
It might be fun to do an opensource "version" of this to prevent it from becoming patented.
It goes to show that we'd rather pretend to know that something works, than know that something works. I'm a coder, and I love using computers for all sorts of tasks, but simulation is as only as good as the model you are using... how do you (in 20 years time) know that your model is accurate without a wind tunnel or actual tests to compare it with? My bet? I bet the wind tunnel simulator people will end up building wind-tunnels to comfirm their models.
GWB tard? No.. he already been re-tard.
Dreams of God and Men by William Thomas Quick The device is called a "Meatbox", a computer made of neural material.
Wow, too bad we can't put GPS on it, and make a MMPRPG that maps to the real world!... so as you walk around the real world, you have a "window" into the game... so I see you have one, and we can do battle, or some such... put some "god" users to walk around and create the world (like tunnels where there are real subways, etc.) Sort of a geocaching+multiplayer... now all you need is a pair of HUD glasses to make a completely nerd-immersion game! And you could "disoconnect" the map so you can wander around without needing to actually walk anywhere. That could be really cool.
Is there a linux distro that runs on Gameboy? I'd like to have swarms of little Gameboys in a cluster ;)
Show several IFRAMEs driven by Javascript... Each frame looks up a different extension, one after another. as long as they fire only when the last has completed, you're ok. ( or a script to check and then update..) seems as long as the user SEES the lookups happening in serial, your not breaking the patent.... or you may the user click a button next to each "suggestion"
Have one group of developers look at the offending code, write up a series of unit tests that describe the code, then offer the tests up to anyone who has NEVER looked at the code. Re-write the offending code and document that you followed this clean room process.. Problem solved, SCO is left in the dust, and everyone can get on with their lives. I'll coordinate the process if necessary. Got me a nice web-based workflow engine that would fit the bill prefectly. www.bigattichouse.com