That keeps four copies of it's DNA in rings and error checks constantly. They're probably using one of these, as it happens to be very radiation resistant, I'm guessing they used these, and so the mutation rate would be very, very low. So it wouldn't keep forever, but would for a very long time.
You could also put error checking (parity, checksums, etc) so once you found some bactera you could check to make sure they had the right version and not a mutation
Heh, I'm actually reading that right now. It's an interesting read, (not quite what I expected after snow crash) but enjoyable. Interestingly I'm going to the school that one of the main characters did (Iowa state university). Probably has something to do with the fact that I graduated from the same high school as NEIL STEPHENSON, the author. Both ISU and Ames high school are in Ames, IA.
And I loved it. I think I was about 14? And the book was hot off the presses. I read virtual light later, and I didn't like it all that much, but it was still enjoyable.
I agree with you on ATP. One of the best books I've ever read.
The thing is, I don't think neuromancer is all that great, especialy after reading all tomorrow's parties. I think the ending is a bit confused (or, at least, confusing) and the ideas arn't all that intresting. Maybe it has something to do with the timelyness of it, the computer generated cyberspace of Neuromancer is just dull compared to what I see on my computer every day. maybe if I'd read it in '77 I'd feel diffrently.
Anyway, I'm really looking forward to this book. (so much so that I bid $122 on ebay for the prerelease...)
Of course, there would be even more suffering and more death if the products where not invented, which is mostly what would happen if drug companies couldn't make money off of them>
You might see some work being done at universities and such, but not nearly at the same level.
Of course, there are also other possible revinue streams, such as the government paying a bounty and such.
Step 1. Think up an interesting idea for a game. Spend a few days coming up with mockup graphics.
step 2. Keep working on other projects and spend a few hours a month working on more mockups and prototypes.
Repeat step 2 for a couple years, show the 'game' to reporters. Hype relentlessly, but gradually taper off.
Wait a few more years, occasionally report problems 'we switched engines' etc. everyone laughs, you become the quintessential vaporware, etc. Tell everyone you're waiting because the game is going to be perfect. Ship the games you were actually working on
After 4 or 5 years of this, start working on the game. Everyone's heard of it, everyone knows about it. And when you're finished (in a year or so) everyone downloads the demo, even non-hardcore gamers. Of course, you'll need to make sure the game is fun, and polished, but if you succeed you'll have huge mindshare already, and probably a hit.
Unreal was delayed and delayed, and since it was pretty good it sold well. Daikatana took forever, but it was shitty. If it had actually been a good game, it probably would have done well. We'll have to see what happens with DNF, but I bet it would have sold well if it was good.
With my plan, you'll have years of hype and anticipation waiting for a game that only cost a year or so of development costs.
and licensing my patent will only cost you 4% of the development costs!
Unlike what VA thinks of the SourceForge software (that it has value as a comercial product, yeah right) They should be aware that the/. sourcode isn't really worth anything. I mean, there's lots of blog+comment sofware out there, and a lot of it's better too.
The only thing closing the slash sorce would do would be to antagonize the userbase. Not they seem to mind doing that, but I doubt they would do it for no value.
Anyway, the value in/. is the userbase, and nothing more.
Front-lit with a special kind of light built into the side, rather then from behind. It looks very cool, but isn't as 'true' as a backlit screen.
Anyway, all you really need to do to make a back-lit, or self-lit (like a CRT, or LED) screen look good is ajust the brightness. it would be cool if monitors had an 'auto' setting and a light sensor. But most do provide you with handy buttons to change the brightness.
I think people who incesently bitch about "the left", claim anything that they disagree with as 'leftist' are idiots. In case It's not clear to you, I think you are an idiot.
That said, unlike Lott, Byrd was not the senate majority leader or whatever. What the point in democrats bitching about him? It's up to the people in his state to get rid of him, unlike Lott who the actual leader of the senate.
Also, wanting to end legal immigration is both hypocritical and xenophobic, regardless of how many people want to do it.
Lott? His racist years were spent as a democrat, and he dropped his views when he joined up with the republicans
HA!
Not only is the assertion ridiculous on it's face, but if he dropped his views, then why the hell did he make those statements a few weeks ago?
Some republicans are racist today, and some (Condi rice..) are obviously not.
It's no secret that republicans pander to southern segregationists and other racists, it's called Nixon's 'southern strategy', to sweep up southern racists disillusioned by the democrats switch from being racist to being pro-civil-rights.
. Hitler's party was called the National Socialist Party.
That's true, but there is a huge diffrence between national socialism, of facism, and socialism. If you don't know the diffrence, you really shouldn't be talking.
Germany was a long way down the path of collectivization to begin with, and the Nazis "inherited" that fine tradition...they also got some of their "best" ideas from Stalin.
that's why they persicuted communists with the same zeal they did with jews an gypsies?
Nazis engaged in class warfare.
This just isn't true at all, and I have no idea where you got that idea. Do you have a any refrences at all?
Industries were nationalized.
Again, no they were not. You don't seem to know anything about the Nazi platform at all.
If these sound familiar, it's because these are things the Democrats support.
The democrats do engage in a little class rivaly, but the nazis did not. The democrats do not want to nationalize much, but neither did the nazis. the democrats certanly don't want colectivisation, but then neither did the nazis.
You don't seem to have any undrestanding of either the Nazi platform or the Democrat platform. It's just really sad that an idiot such as yourself can vote in this country...
Gore did fund some internet stuff, but what his bills spesificaly talked about where for connecting super-computers together, not building a network for email and gofer.
Gore had a big hard on for the whole "Information Superhighway" idea during the early years of the Clinton admin, and that meant interactive TV and the like, which we know never got off the ground.
Al gore said he created the internet, not A internet.
If I said "I created a lightbuilb" it would not mean that I thought I invented it. If I said "I created the lightbulb." it would. Gore said he took the initative in creating the internet.
And post 9/11, I'd pick Bush hands down over Gore. And I'm a Libertarian. Gore would be down at ground zero doing an environmental impact study instead of taking decisive action. Even Democrats seemed relieved that Gore lost.
Decisive action? What decisive action? Shaking his dick at Iraq? Pissing on the constitution? Gore would have the same thing with Afghanistan, almost anyone would have (maybe not Nader...) to say otherwise is idiotic.
You mean AL GORE'S information superhighway? Back during the early clinton admin Gore was championing the "information superhighway" idea. If gore really did have his way, we'd all be sitting in front of cable boxes watching PPV movies, not running our own servers on great internet.
Gore's bills when he was in congress had nothing to do with what we think of as the internet. None of what he did does. Gore provided some funding for building a 'super-computer network'... i.e. for hooking up supercomputers so they could share computational data. Not a network for sending email and surfing the web.
Withotu al gore's initiatives, the internet would still be here, dumbass. Gore didn't even know what the internet was when he wrote those bills. They only provided a little funding to the network. The network didn't need actual laws passed to get all of its funding, just some of it.
Wired did an overview of his bills right after his comments, and they hardly constitute 'creation' of the internet. Indeed, they have very little to do with what we think of when we think of the 'internet'.
a political hack who sold out the internet to the Icann cronies. I wouldn't listen to a word he says.
Gore's bills helped the internet, true. but if you actualy read them it's pretty clear he had no idea what the internet actualy was when he wrote them. If you looked at the bills, they were mostly about building a network for trasfering data between supercomputers for scientific research, not the person-to-person, PC network that the internet became.
Generaly, if a program is well-designed its not any harder to translate then a book, I mean, beyond issues of layout and the like.
Generaly what you do is put all the text in a file or compiled-in resource called a string-table. Then you refrence strings by their ID in the program, rather then their literal. When you want to ship to a diffrent country, you just swap the string table. (Although, you would probably want to include lots of tables for switching locals on the fly)
I'm certan microsoft uses this method with their software.
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That keeps four copies of it's DNA in rings and error checks constantly. They're probably using one of these, as it happens to be very radiation resistant, I'm guessing they used these, and so the mutation rate would be very, very low. So it wouldn't keep forever, but would for a very long time.
You could also put error checking (parity, checksums, etc) so once you found some bactera you could check to make sure they had the right version and not a mutation
Um, have you ever tried it?
LOL LOL LOL.
see subject, All Tomorrow's Parties is better then Neromancer, hands down.
Heh, I'm actually reading that right now. It's an interesting read, (not quite what I expected after snow crash) but enjoyable. Interestingly I'm going to the school that one of the main characters did (Iowa state university). Probably has something to do with the fact that I graduated from the same high school as NEIL STEPHENSON, the author. Both ISU and Ames high school are in Ames, IA.
And I loved it. I think I was about 14? And the book was hot off the presses. I read virtual light later, and I didn't like it all that much, but it was still enjoyable.
I agree with you on ATP. One of the best books I've ever read.
The thing is, I don't think neuromancer is all that great, especialy after reading all tomorrow's parties. I think the ending is a bit confused (or, at least, confusing) and the ideas arn't all that intresting. Maybe it has something to do with the timelyness of it, the computer generated cyberspace of Neuromancer is just dull compared to what I see on my computer every day. maybe if I'd read it in '77 I'd feel diffrently.
Anyway, I'm really looking forward to this book. (so much so that I bid $122 on ebay for the prerelease...)
so damn tired. All I can think of now is that I'd like to bid on that thing on ebay, and I wish so many other people haddn't already...
Of course, there would be even more suffering and more death if the products where not invented, which is mostly what would happen if drug companies couldn't make money off of them>
You might see some work being done at universities and such, but not nearly at the same level.
Of course, there are also other possible revinue streams, such as the government paying a bounty and such.
but if you were Eisner, wouldnt you do the same?
No.
Step 1. Think up an interesting idea for a game. Spend a few days coming up with mockup graphics.
step 2. Keep working on other projects and spend a few hours a month working on more mockups and prototypes.
Repeat step 2 for a couple years, show the 'game' to reporters. Hype relentlessly, but gradually taper off.
Wait a few more years, occasionally report problems 'we switched engines' etc. everyone laughs, you become the quintessential vaporware, etc. Tell everyone you're waiting because the game is going to be perfect. Ship the games you were actually working on
After 4 or 5 years of this, start working on the game. Everyone's heard of it, everyone knows about it. And when you're finished (in a year or so) everyone downloads the demo, even non-hardcore gamers. Of course, you'll need to make sure the game is fun, and polished, but if you succeed you'll have huge mindshare already, and probably a hit.
Unreal was delayed and delayed, and since it was pretty good it sold well. Daikatana took forever, but it was shitty. If it had actually been a good game, it probably would have done well. We'll have to see what happens with DNF, but I bet it would have sold well if it was good.
With my plan, you'll have years of hype and anticipation waiting for a game that only cost a year or so of development costs.
and licensing my patent will only cost you 4% of the development costs!
Do you have any proof that he 'got' the internet back then? Show spesific legislation, or STFU.
Unlike what VA thinks of the SourceForge software (that it has value as a comercial product, yeah right) They should be aware that the /. sourcode isn't really worth anything. I mean, there's lots of blog+comment sofware out there, and a lot of it's better too.
/. is the userbase, and nothing more.
The only thing closing the slash sorce would do would be to antagonize the userbase. Not they seem to mind doing that, but I doubt they would do it for no value.
Anyway, the value in
How do you do location based services with WiFi?
:P. That said, it's possible some new standards might emerge to help with that.
Duh
How do you realise payment, how identification?
Digital certificates?
How does roaming between different WiFi providers work?
Well, it's not to hard when most of them are free
Front-lit with a special kind of light built into the side, rather then from behind. It looks very cool, but isn't as 'true' as a backlit screen.
Anyway, all you really need to do to make a back-lit, or self-lit (like a CRT, or LED) screen look good is ajust the brightness. it would be cool if monitors had an 'auto' setting and a light sensor. But most do provide you with handy buttons to change the brightness.
I think people who incesently bitch about "the left", claim anything that they disagree with as 'leftist' are idiots. In case It's not clear to you, I think you are an idiot.
That said, unlike Lott, Byrd was not the senate majority leader or whatever. What the point in democrats bitching about him? It's up to the people in his state to get rid of him, unlike Lott who the actual leader of the senate.
Also, wanting to end legal immigration is both hypocritical and xenophobic, regardless of how many people want to do it.
Well, I can write random crap on the internet and link to it too. An unrefrenced asertion by Ann Coulter is worth less then nothing.
Lott? His racist years were spent as a democrat, and he dropped his views when he joined up with the republicans
HA!
Not only is the assertion ridiculous on it's face, but if he dropped his views, then why the hell did he make those statements a few weeks ago?
Some republicans are racist today, and some (Condi rice..) are obviously not.
It's no secret that republicans pander to southern segregationists and other racists, it's called Nixon's 'southern strategy', to sweep up southern racists disillusioned by the democrats switch from being racist to being pro-civil-rights.
. Hitler's party was called the National Socialist Party.
That's true, but there is a huge diffrence between national socialism, of facism, and socialism. If you don't know the diffrence, you really shouldn't be talking.
Germany was a long way down the path of collectivization to begin with, and the Nazis "inherited" that fine tradition...they also got some of their "best" ideas from Stalin.
that's why they persicuted communists with the same zeal they did with jews an gypsies?
Nazis engaged in class warfare.
This just isn't true at all, and I have no idea where you got that idea. Do you have a any refrences at all?
Industries were nationalized.
Again, no they were not. You don't seem to know anything about the Nazi platform at all.
If these sound familiar, it's because these are things the Democrats support.
The democrats do engage in a little class rivaly, but the nazis did not. The democrats do not want to nationalize much, but neither did the nazis. the democrats certanly don't want colectivisation, but then neither did the nazis.
You don't seem to have any undrestanding of either the Nazi platform or the Democrat platform. It's just really sad that an idiot such as yourself can vote in this country...
Gore did fund some internet stuff, but what his bills spesificaly talked about where for connecting super-computers together, not building a network for email and gofer.
Gore had a big hard on for the whole "Information Superhighway" idea during the early years of the Clinton admin, and that meant interactive TV and the like, which we know never got off the ground.
Al gore said he created the internet, not A internet.
If I said "I created a lightbuilb" it would not mean that I thought I invented it. If I said "I created the lightbulb." it would. Gore said he took the initative in creating the internet.
And he did not.
And post 9/11, I'd pick Bush hands down over Gore. And I'm a Libertarian. Gore would be down at ground zero doing an environmental impact study instead of taking decisive action. Even Democrats seemed relieved that Gore lost.
Decisive action? What decisive action? Shaking his dick at Iraq? Pissing on the constitution? Gore would have the same thing with Afghanistan, almost anyone would have (maybe not Nader...) to say otherwise is idiotic.
You mean AL GORE'S information superhighway? Back during the early clinton admin Gore was championing the "information superhighway" idea. If gore really did have his way, we'd all be sitting in front of cable boxes watching PPV movies, not running our own servers on great internet.
Gore's bills when he was in congress had nothing to do with what we think of as the internet. None of what he did does. Gore provided some funding for building a 'super-computer network'... i.e. for hooking up supercomputers so they could share computational data. Not a network for sending email and surfing the web.
Withotu al gore's initiatives, the internet would still be here, dumbass. Gore didn't even know what the internet was when he wrote those bills. They only provided a little funding to the network. The network didn't need actual laws passed to get all of its funding, just some of it.
Wired did an overview of his bills right after his comments, and they hardly constitute 'creation' of the internet. Indeed, they have very little to do with what we think of when we think of the 'internet'.
a political hack who sold out the internet to the Icann cronies. I wouldn't listen to a word he says.
Gore's bills helped the internet, true. but if you actualy read them it's pretty clear he had no idea what the internet actualy was when he wrote them. If you looked at the bills, they were mostly about building a network for trasfering data between supercomputers for scientific research, not the person-to-person, PC network that the internet became.
Generaly, if a program is well-designed its not any harder to translate then a book, I mean, beyond issues of layout and the like.
Generaly what you do is put all the text in a file or compiled-in resource called a string-table. Then you refrence strings by their ID in the program, rather then their literal. When you want to ship to a diffrent country, you just swap the string table. (Although, you would probably want to include lots of tables for switching locals on the fly)
I'm certan microsoft uses this method with their software.