Let's not forget NAT. Cheap wireless APs from Linksys, DLink or NetGear have NAT capabilities built in. Assuming that most wireless "Lillipad hosts" will be current broadband users, there really is no problem
Now, considering that most DSL/Cable broadband is provided by large companies with a vested interest in minimizing public wireless networks, I would expect a large crackdown on anyone openly sharing their connection in the near future. Rather than pass laws, the bells and cable co's will disconnect users suspected of trafficking in free wireless networks or ratchet their available bandwidth way down, or, even more likely, start charging for actual bandwidth used.
So, what really needs to happen? Community sponsored broadband with wireless links, perhaps. Find a group in the community willing to share bandwidth such as the school district or library, or fund your own T3 line, and share it out using directional antennas to other areas which use omni-directionals on top of fairly tall buildings to create the lillipads.
...and the prospect of personality uploads that make death itself ambiguous.
I'm sorry, but I refuse to consider myself alive after my body is dead. Death will not be ambiguous, death will still be a static occurence. The fact that a computer can emulate your personality to some extent doesn't make you "alive".
BTW, does anybody else see a major issue with even a slighty larger percentage of the population living into the 100's? Don't we have enough population problems already?
Hex was actually first created in 1942 by a Danish mathematician, Piet Hine. It was then discovered independantly later on by Nash in 1947. It is another game which has only been solved on small boards.
A good beginner's game (written in java) with 7 hex to a side is available here and a better one with more info can be found here.
There's also a games site where you can play this against other people, but I'm at work and can't find it now. Sadly, there is seldom anyone else there:-(.
Microsoft would have a hard time stopping companies from making drivers for Win2k even if they really wanted to. Ever since Win98SE, all MS OSes have used the Windows Driver Model (WDM), which basically makes every driver from SE through XP compatible. I'm sure there would be a switch they could put in the INF to say specifically "Only works with XP", but that could easily be found and disabled.
Yes, we're currently running Win95, 98, NT4.0 and 2000, but MS has another plan to fix this: Since they're retiring Win9x and NT systems as of 6/30/03, corporations will have to upgrade to 2000 or XP to get continued support in the form of patches and premiere support from Microsoft. MS will no longer guarantee interoperability of their software with older versions of Windows, either, and will probably ensure that new versions of Office don't work with 9x and NT, if their previous track record is any indication.
Will this cause a mass exodus to Linux? Probably not. My boss is convinced that open source is inherently unsecurable, since the source code is openly available.
I'm all for Palladium-bashing, but I'd prefer that it come from someone who isn't an idiot. First of all, Palladium isn't a replacement for TCP/IP at all, secondly, he has no understanding whatsoever of the Windows 2k raw sockets and probably just ripped his information off from that other retarded piece of monkey shit Steve Gibson. Palladium would do absolutely nothing to solve any problems caused by raw sockets.
Third, in his last paragraph the dumbfuck asks how Palladium is supposed to keep attachments in emails from spreading virii. If he knew anything about the proposed technology, he'd understand that if everything had digital signatures applied to it, no.js.jpeg files would be signed and thus the problem caused by MS which could easily be fixed by forcing all extensions to be shown in an attachment gets fixed using a product much more lucrative to MS.
Actually, with XBOX supporting ethernet connections, I would love to use this as a cheap media client to connect my TV/stereo to my media server. Sure beats spending $300 on a cheap box and adding a good video card. If I can get it to recognize my SMB share, I will buy an XBOX just for this functionality.
Actually, most microwaves are pretty well shielded, even though they do run in the 2.4GHz range. While implementing Wireless at my company, I stood by the four microwaves in our kitchen at lunch time and watched for interference. I got good signal strength even when all four were running simultaneously.
It's interesting that you mention history books. When I took the required History of California class in grade school (many, many years ago), the book mentioned that Spanish explorers found Chinese goods such as blankets and pottery in the posession of the indigenous peoples.
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Let's not forget NAT. Cheap wireless APs from Linksys, DLink or NetGear have NAT capabilities built in. Assuming that most wireless "Lillipad hosts" will be current broadband users, there really is no problem
Now, considering that most DSL/Cable broadband is provided by large companies with a vested interest in minimizing public wireless networks, I would expect a large crackdown on anyone openly sharing their connection in the near future. Rather than pass laws, the bells and cable co's will disconnect users suspected of trafficking in free wireless networks or ratchet their available bandwidth way down, or, even more likely, start charging for actual bandwidth used.
So, what really needs to happen? Community sponsored broadband with wireless links, perhaps. Find a group in the community willing to share bandwidth such as the school district or library, or fund your own T3 line, and share it out using directional antennas to other areas which use omni-directionals on top of fairly tall buildings to create the lillipads.
...and the prospect of personality uploads that make death itself ambiguous. I'm sorry, but I refuse to consider myself alive after my body is dead. Death will not be ambiguous, death will still be a static occurence. The fact that a computer can emulate your personality to some extent doesn't make you "alive". BTW, does anybody else see a major issue with even a slighty larger percentage of the population living into the 100's? Don't we have enough population problems already?
Hex was actually first created in 1942 by a Danish mathematician, Piet Hine. It was then discovered independantly later on by Nash in 1947. It is another game which has only been solved on small boards. A good beginner's game (written in java) with 7 hex to a side is available here and a better one with more info can be found here. There's also a games site where you can play this against other people, but I'm at work and can't find it now. Sadly, there is seldom anyone else there :-(.
Microsoft would have a hard time stopping companies from making drivers for Win2k even if they really wanted to. Ever since Win98SE, all MS OSes have used the Windows Driver Model (WDM), which basically makes every driver from SE through XP compatible. I'm sure there would be a switch they could put in the INF to say specifically "Only works with XP", but that could easily be found and disabled.
Yes, we're currently running Win95, 98, NT4.0 and 2000, but MS has another plan to fix this: Since they're retiring Win9x and NT systems as of 6/30/03, corporations will have to upgrade to 2000 or XP to get continued support in the form of patches and premiere support from Microsoft. MS will no longer guarantee interoperability of their software with older versions of Windows, either, and will probably ensure that new versions of Office don't work with 9x and NT, if their previous track record is any indication. Will this cause a mass exodus to Linux? Probably not. My boss is convinced that open source is inherently unsecurable, since the source code is openly available.
I'm all for Palladium-bashing, but I'd prefer that it come from someone who isn't an idiot. First of all, Palladium isn't a replacement for TCP/IP at all, secondly, he has no understanding whatsoever of the Windows 2k raw sockets and probably just ripped his information off from that other retarded piece of monkey shit Steve Gibson. Palladium would do absolutely nothing to solve any problems caused by raw sockets. Third, in his last paragraph the dumbfuck asks how Palladium is supposed to keep attachments in emails from spreading virii. If he knew anything about the proposed technology, he'd understand that if everything had digital signatures applied to it, no .js.jpeg files would be signed and thus the problem caused by MS which could easily be fixed by forcing all extensions to be shown in an attachment gets fixed using a product much more lucrative to MS.
Actually, with XBOX supporting ethernet connections, I would love to use this as a cheap media client to connect my TV/stereo to my media server. Sure beats spending $300 on a cheap box and adding a good video card. If I can get it to recognize my SMB share, I will buy an XBOX just for this functionality.
Actually, most microwaves are pretty well shielded, even though they do run in the 2.4GHz range. While implementing Wireless at my company, I stood by the four microwaves in our kitchen at lunch time and watched for interference. I got good signal strength even when all four were running simultaneously.
...We will be paying them money for media we can't rip our music to, anyway.
It's interesting that you mention history books. When I took the required History of California class in grade school (many, many years ago), the book mentioned that Spanish explorers found Chinese goods such as blankets and pottery in the posession of the indigenous peoples.