1. It'll run fine until you plug anything into it, then the power supply will burn out because it's spec'ed to the 1/2 watt of the average load on the tablet..
2. The insides will be all held together with bubble gum and twine...
3. It'll randomly turn itself on and off and when youc all tech support they'll tell you "That's a feature, ain't it cool!"
4. You'll be convinced they installed the "Gir" version of windows on the machine... "I like taco's"
Gee, spend 16 bucks (My wife and I) and go see it with full surround soung in a theater of fellow cheering Harry Potter fans OR instead, get to watch it from the perspective of a midgit in the back row of some crappy theater while someone in the throws of tuberculosis coughs non-stop in the foreground.
Now, if someone can get a good setup in an empty theater and get tied right into the sound board, that might be different... Maybe I just have bad warez connections...
Here I've been collecting all those rare earth magnets out of harddrives for years while my friends and family laughed at me... HAHAHA, see now, who was the fool!!!! Every day I'll go out side, roll some dice and hide a couple of them in different spots, that should shank their bell graphs!
The biggest problem would be that your asteroid would be mostly burned up before it hit the earth, and for it to be big enough that it wouldn't burn up would mean it would be of a size that it would devistate a large area.
This sounds cool, I just hope they can pull it off.
Personally, I'd pay what HBO costs to have a channel like that provided it would do the following things.
1. Run complete series. Aka, "Cowboy Bebop Weekend" 2. No editing... Show the series the way it was intended to be shown, not all edited to pieces to cut out "objectible" content.
Not because they went after Nintendo, but it validated that their actually a govermental body that can actually do something. As for the Levi's comment, I like Eddie Bauer jeans anyway.
Yeah, I know it was getting anime out into the main stream, but I'd be happy with an HBO type channel where they could show cowboy bebop in it's complete form without having to edit it into something acceptable for the censors...
I went out and spent the money and all the office apps work execpt for project... which is a problem for me... I need project. My boss uses project and its part of my job requirement that all my activities are connected to project. Now if there was some application that could RW project files I'd be very happy and could sever my windows ties...
Now combine this with some good VR technology and presto, you strap your self in, put on the goggles and insert the credit card...
Imagine a cybersex cafe instead of an internet cafe... you'd go in, and there'd be a counter, you'd slap down your credit card and the person would say "Room #15"...
Yup, lots and lots of people are going to get rich and a lot more are going to get some pleasure... Now the next set of moral questions... if you go have sex with a machine, is it cheating??? Technically your just masterbating...
Batman did kick supermans ass but he was wearing a biomechanical suit and had some kryptonite.
Now, if it was a nude grecko roman wrestling match, If superman didn't just kill him outright, he could
a) light his balls on fire with his heat vision. b) break every bone in his body and then grind him into a flesh colored paste. c) fly him into out space and enjoy watching the effects of an absolute vacuum. d) Imagine the scene in Snatch when the parkie puches out gorgeous george? Not imagine if georges head popped off... e) superman could scoop up a bunch of rock, melt it into a ball, make a cavity in the ball, knock out batman, put him into the ball, seal the ball and then either throw it into the sun or slam it into the moon...
Needless to say, without his technology, batman would be screwed....
Why doesn't somebody put together a set top box with a 40 gig harddrive, plus a couple more IDE slots, a couple of PCI slots, capture card, TV out, a network card, USB, firewire and a remote, and sell the damn thing as a kit... then let the standards make themselves... Personally, even if the thing cost 500 bucks, I'd buy one just to make my own Tivo and I'd plug a CDRW into the thing so I could archive the content as well. And before you respond with some rehtorical whitty comment about how nobody would buy it, that's the problem! See, years ago, you actually had to build your television (now that's what I call dedication!!!) I think people have lost a bit of the lust to tinker!
You've almost gotta wonder if they sat around in some board room somewhere and said:
bonehead1:"What we really need todo is drive more unix users into the arms of linux!"
bonehead2:"I know, we'll charge an obsurd price for our x86 version of solaris!"
bonehead1:"Yeah! In fact we'll even charge for the crippled only one user can login, disables the ethernet after 24 hours beta to discourage people from even testing it!" (*note: I'm not sure that's true, it just sounds funny so I made it up...*)
I can't wait until this stuff can be put like wall paper and connected to the house backbone. Just a quick calibration so it can map images to it properly and presto. Just imagine all the cool stuff you could do with it. I still think having a camera pointed at the sky out in the middle of the pacific so you could have a truely starry night on your ceiling would be amazing!
The Big thing is now you won't have to agreee to some silly dracnonian EULA that pretty much says "We Microsoft have the right to rape and pillage your pc like a bavarian village if we even start to think your not doing what we want..."
Just do what I did. When out and bought the network adaptor for my PS2 and bought a copy of this software: broadq Now, I download the videos I want to my linux box, or setup jobs to capture when I'm not around, boot the PS2 and watch them on my TV. It's like Tivo, only I have lots more control and it'll play DivX, Mpeg(1,2,4),mp3,etc... Also, instead of making VCD's, when I want to archive something, I just write it onto a cdrw and throw it on the shelf...
Firstly, this is extremely sneaky way of generating lots of market information about your customer base... (now we see one of the many ways that cable companies plan on making back their money for shelling out billions to deliver broad band...)
I've just applied for a patent, on a process where a device known as a "clerk" stands behind a device called a "counter" and accepts "payment" for objects brought up to the "counter" from the "store". This patent also includes provisions for a tabulation device that the "clerk" would use for keeping track of the "transaction". I've also got a patent on the words "clerk,counter,payment and transaction", start paying now...
What a lame pile of festering shit. Good thing it isn't the french revolution, those ass monkeys would have ended up at the recieveing end of a number of sharp impliments, none the least, a guillotine...
With things such as the DMCA and the patriot act, the ability of american citizens to speak freely and henceforth report freely has been limited as well.
A good example where this could be taken to an extreme with the copy protected cd's. Technically if a news source reports that you can defeat the copy protection by using a felt permanent marker to cover the bad part of the disk, their violating the DMCA because their disiminating information used to subvert the copy protection on a piece of media.
Of all the things that are done to pigs, I would think taking blood from them would be the least... In order for pigs to be used as blood donors, they'd need to be well fed, well taken care of, gee sounds alot better than ending up as a link of jimmy dean saugage if you ask me!
If the software relates to national security, then it should be made top secret.
Here's two examples... 1. A goverment contractor builds an encryption system that'll be used to encrypt communications between locations, that should be designed top secret.
2. If DARPA gives a grant to a university to create a better piece of weather modeling software, it should be public domain. Now, if a company goes and takes that software and builds upon it and sells it, fine.
However, I as a citizen of the united states should be able to obtain a copy of the source code, since ultimately, my tax money went to fund the creation of that software.
What it sounds like is that the congress wants to possibly put some regime in place were tax payers money goes to find a project and then that project gets handed off to the highest bidder/(company who gave the most ammount of money to their campaign coffers...)
Everybody and their mother's ISP has their own DNS server anyway. Just because the root node servers take a wacking for a day doesn't mean shit. That is the beauty of the internet. Even the "centeralized" services really aren't that centeralized...
I think they should create a pig that creates O+ and every other type human compatible blood. Then we could have farms of blood donor pigs. The red cross could setup this ultra sterile facility just for harvesting blood.
As for the organs, I think this is a great step forward in being able to save peoples lives. However, my preferred method would be to grow cloned organs in vats. I think it would be cool if you could pay a company and they would take a blood sample from you and make a whole bunch of organs and put them in the deep freeze so when you need them, all the doctor has todo is make a phone call and ta-da, a copy of your existing heart shows up in 3 hours.
In a more far fetched idea...keeping with the idea that you could in the future transfer your brain to a computer, you could start cloning a copy of yourself and when the clones ready, transfer your essence into the new body! Though, how you could go the other direction really isn't clear.
I could see where if you were doing a presentation and you wanted some mobility to walk around this would make a lot of sense. As for the office or home office I would think prolonged use while not moving around or standing would cause more fatique then a good old logitechs mouseman... Though on a side note, if you were going to seup a CAVE system, this would be exactly the mouse I'd want.
The problem is, now that the patriot act has been passed, the FBI doesn't need a search warrant issued from a judge to tap your phone, they just tap your phone and don't tell you...
They can also stop by the library and by law the libarian has to given them a print out of every book you ever loaned out... and if the libarian informs you that your being investigated, they can goto jail &| be fined...
Ah, america... home of brave, land of the sorta free...
If you've got a machine out on the internet and you've windows networking turned on, you've probably got bigger problems.
A couple years ago, a co-worker of mine were at his house when he turned on windows networking and set his domain to "WORKGROUP" did the obligatory reboot suffle and started surfing all the shares in the area. It was hilarious, people had their entire C:\ drives shared, etc. Needless to say, after we got him setup with a firewall (linux/maq box) sure enough the logs just rolled with people trying to connect to ports 137/138/139. In one regard may ISP's block the netbios ports on their ingress and egress gateways.
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1. It'll run fine until you plug anything into it, then the power supply will burn out because it's spec'ed to the 1/2 watt of the average load on the tablet..
2. The insides will be all held together with bubble gum and twine...
3. It'll randomly turn itself on and off and when youc all tech support they'll tell you "That's a feature, ain't it cool!"
4. You'll be convinced they installed the "Gir" version of windows on the machine... "I like taco's"
Gee, spend 16 bucks (My wife and I) and go see it with full surround soung in a theater of fellow cheering Harry Potter fans OR instead, get to watch it from the perspective of a midgit in the back row of some crappy theater while someone in the throws of tuberculosis coughs non-stop in the foreground.
Now, if someone can get a good setup in an empty theater and get tied right into the sound board, that might be different... Maybe I just have bad warez connections...
Here I've been collecting all those rare earth magnets out of harddrives for years while my friends and family laughed at me... HAHAHA, see now, who was the fool!!!! Every day I'll go out side, roll some dice and hide a couple of them in different spots, that should shank their bell graphs!
The biggest problem would be that your asteroid would be mostly burned up before it hit the earth, and for it to be big enough that it wouldn't burn up would mean it would be of a size that it would devistate a large area.
This sounds cool, I just hope they can pull it off.
Personally, I'd pay what HBO costs to have a channel like that provided it would do the following things.
1. Run complete series. Aka, "Cowboy Bebop Weekend"
2. No editing... Show the series the way it was intended to be shown, not all edited to pieces to cut out "objectible" content.
Not because they went after Nintendo, but it validated that their actually a govermental body that can actually do something. As for the Levi's comment, I like Eddie Bauer jeans anyway.
Yeah, I know it was getting anime out into the main stream, but I'd be happy with an HBO type channel where they could show cowboy bebop in it's complete form without having to edit it into something acceptable for the censors...
I went out and spent the money and all the office apps work execpt for project... which is a problem for me... I need project. My boss uses project and its part of my job requirement that all my activities are connected to project. Now if there was some application that could RW project files I'd be very happy and could sever my windows ties...
Now combine this with some good VR technology and presto, you strap your self in, put on the goggles and insert the credit card...
Imagine a cybersex cafe instead of an internet cafe... you'd go in, and there'd be a counter, you'd slap down your credit card and the person would say "Room #15"...
Yup, lots and lots of people are going to get rich and a lot more are going to get some pleasure... Now the next set of moral questions... if you go have sex with a machine, is it cheating??? Technically your just masterbating...
Batman did kick supermans ass but he was wearing a biomechanical suit and had some kryptonite.
Now, if it was a nude grecko roman wrestling match, If superman didn't just kill him outright, he could
a) light his balls on fire with his heat vision.
b) break every bone in his body and then grind him into a flesh colored paste.
c) fly him into out space and enjoy watching the effects of an absolute vacuum.
d) Imagine the scene in Snatch when the parkie puches out gorgeous george? Not imagine if georges head popped off...
e) superman could scoop up a bunch of rock, melt it into a ball, make a cavity in the ball, knock out batman, put him into the ball, seal the ball and then either throw it into the sun or slam it into the moon...
Needless to say, without his technology, batman would be screwed....
Why doesn't somebody put together a set top box with a 40 gig harddrive, plus a couple more IDE slots, a couple of PCI slots, capture card, TV out, a network card, USB, firewire and a remote, and sell the damn thing as a kit... then let the standards make themselves... Personally, even if the thing cost 500 bucks, I'd buy one just to make my own Tivo and I'd plug a CDRW into the thing so I could archive the content as well. And before you respond with some rehtorical whitty comment about how nobody would buy it, that's the problem! See, years ago, you actually had to build your television (now that's what I call dedication!!!) I think people have lost a bit of the lust to tinker!
You've almost gotta wonder if they sat around in some board room somewhere and said:
bonehead1:"What we really need todo is drive more unix users into the arms of linux!"
bonehead2:"I know, we'll charge an obsurd price for our x86 version of solaris!"
bonehead1:"Yeah! In fact we'll even charge for the crippled only one user can login, disables the ethernet after 24 hours beta to discourage people from even testing it!" (*note: I'm not sure that's true, it just sounds funny so I made it up...*)
bonehead2:"I am in awe of you!"
bonehead1:"What can I say, I am god.."
I can't wait until this stuff can be put like wall paper and connected to the house backbone. Just a quick calibration so it can map images to it properly and presto. Just imagine all the cool stuff you could do with it. I still think having a camera pointed at the sky out in the middle of the pacific so you could have a truely starry night on your ceiling would be amazing!
The Big thing is now you won't have to agreee to some silly dracnonian EULA that pretty much says "We Microsoft have the right to rape and pillage your pc like a bavarian village if we even start to think your not doing what we want..."
Just do what I did. When out and bought the network adaptor for my PS2 and bought a copy of this software: broadq Now, I download the videos I want to my linux box, or setup jobs to capture when I'm not around, boot the PS2 and watch them on my TV. It's like Tivo, only I have lots more control and it'll play DivX, Mpeg(1,2,4),mp3,etc... Also, instead of making VCD's, when I want to archive something, I just write it onto a cdrw and throw it on the shelf...
Firstly, this is extremely sneaky way of generating lots of market information about your customer base... (now we see one of the many ways that cable companies plan on making back their money for shelling out billions to deliver broad band...)
I've just applied for a patent, on a process where a device known as a "clerk" stands behind a device called a "counter" and accepts "payment" for objects brought up to the "counter" from the "store". This patent also includes provisions for a tabulation device that the "clerk" would use for keeping track of the "transaction". I've also got a patent on the words "clerk,counter,payment and transaction", start paying now...
What a lame pile of festering shit. Good thing it isn't the french revolution, those ass monkeys would have ended up at the recieveing end of a number of sharp impliments, none the least, a guillotine...
With things such as the DMCA and the patriot act, the ability of american citizens to speak freely and henceforth report freely has been limited as well.
A good example where this could be taken to an extreme with the copy protected cd's. Technically if a news source reports that you can defeat the copy protection by using a felt permanent marker to cover the bad part of the disk, their violating the DMCA because their disiminating information used to subvert the copy protection on a piece of media.
Of all the things that are done to pigs, I would think taking blood from them would be the least... In order for pigs to be used as blood donors, they'd need to be well fed, well taken care of, gee sounds alot better than ending up as a link of jimmy dean saugage if you ask me!
If the software relates to national security, then it should be made top secret.
Here's two examples...
1. A goverment contractor builds an encryption system that'll be used to encrypt communications between locations, that should be designed top secret.
2. If DARPA gives a grant to a university to create a better piece of weather modeling software, it should be public domain. Now, if a company goes and takes that software and builds upon it and sells it, fine.
However, I as a citizen of the united states should be able to obtain a copy of the source code, since ultimately, my tax money went to fund the creation of that software.
What it sounds like is that the congress wants to possibly put some regime in place were tax payers money goes to find a project and then that project gets handed off to the highest bidder/(company who gave the most ammount of money to their campaign coffers...)
Everybody and their mother's ISP has their own DNS server anyway. Just because the root node servers take a wacking for a day doesn't mean shit. That is the beauty of the internet. Even the "centeralized" services really aren't that centeralized...
I think they should create a pig that creates O+ and every other type human compatible blood. Then we could have farms of blood donor pigs. The red cross could setup this ultra sterile facility just for harvesting blood.
As for the organs, I think this is a great step forward in being able to save peoples lives. However, my preferred method would be to grow cloned organs in vats. I think it would be cool if you could pay a company and they would take a blood sample from you and make a whole bunch of organs and put them in the deep freeze so when you need them, all the doctor has todo is make a phone call and ta-da, a copy of your existing heart shows up in 3 hours.
In a more far fetched idea...keeping with the idea that you could in the future transfer your brain to a computer, you could start cloning a copy of yourself and when the clones ready, transfer your essence into the new body! Though, how you could go the other direction really isn't clear.
I could see where if you were doing a presentation and you wanted some mobility to walk around this would make a lot of sense. As for the office or home office I would think prolonged use while not moving around or standing would cause more fatique then a good old logitechs mouseman... Though on a side note, if you were going to seup a CAVE system, this would be exactly the mouse I'd want.
The problem is, now that the patriot act has been passed, the FBI doesn't need a search warrant issued from a judge to tap your phone, they just tap your phone and don't tell you...
They can also stop by the library and by law the libarian has to given them a print out of every book you ever loaned out... and if the libarian informs you that your being investigated, they can goto jail &| be fined...
Ah, america... home of brave, land of the sorta free...
If you've got a machine out on the internet and you've windows networking turned on, you've probably got bigger problems.
A couple years ago, a co-worker of mine were at his house when he turned on windows networking and set his domain to "WORKGROUP" did the obligatory reboot suffle and started surfing all the shares in the area. It was hilarious, people had their entire C:\ drives shared, etc. Needless to say, after we got him setup with a firewall (linux/maq box) sure enough the logs just rolled with people trying to connect to ports 137/138/139. In one regard may ISP's block the netbios ports on their ingress and egress gateways.