I think you have it backwards. It's more like that old commercial with the monkey and the cocaine. You have some guy cranking on the game putting in a good 142 hours a week then auctioning off his character then go buying the newest multi player online game. He's saying to himself I've got to do this so I can play more, so I can make more money, So I can get more online games.
Another thing you could do is make it so everytime something is searched for it also searches a joke database for a joke containing some of the words. And returns a little humor at the top of the search page.
Now this one is pretty good. This is how lazy I am and how little I care about my intellectual property. Change the search so anytime a site is returned multiple times they get an expandable tree and the top link would be the first page in the hierarchy on thier website. This would allow more returns per page and help you sort stuff you know isn't what your looking for. I think that would win and they could use it.
When a link on google is bad it would be cool to click a button that could send it's cached page through a paper shredder. Maybe to make it more timely it could go into an Enron trash can. Now that is probably one that could work. Since I'm not gonna develop it still it and use it for yourself.
It would never win but since we don't seem to have enough porn out there. It would be funny to write a program that would return pornographic images relating to whatever you searched for. You type in Ballmer and you get an image of Steve Ballmer blowing a donkey. Or for you microsoft loving people you type in Jobs and you get him with an apple in his backend. Of course no bad images of Linus. Though him in a compromising position with a penguin might be funny.
You are so off your rocker. I have an XBox and it's collecting dust. The games are too expensive and 99% of them suck. You'd think by now that a game that gets a 4 or lower on every game rating site or magazine would get marked down but not with XBox because they only have 2 dozen games so people keep buying them even though they are crap. Ok now for the hardware capabilities everything is good except for one thing I'm not Andre the Giant can I get a controller that doesn't weigh 20lbs? I understand they were trying to save money on the thing but at least have an aftermarket alternative available. Also i don't hate Bill and Stevie for thier OS, I hate them for being wealthier than me and not sharing.
First off you should have had them sign a Non Disclosure agreement. If you type Non Disclosure Agreement Sample into google you will get tons of examples here is one at http://www.inventnet.com/nondisclosure.html. You see that it should state that anything you tell him he won't disclose to a third party. Also if it's for an individual it should make him list all patents he currently has and any he may be working on. So basically if he didn't list that he was developing Bubba's Backyard EZ-Bake oven he doesn't have any rights to it. It is a little different when you are dealing with a third party company basically then you need a Non Compete. Which most companies will sign without a problem if they are getting free software. This just says hey I understand you make and market Peanut Butter and Bolgna sandwiches I won't try to do the same. If you have those things in place you should be in great shape if not. Call a lawyer so he can get on it right away. The longer you wait the more claim they may have.
AI is certainly possible and will probably occur. At what level and in what manner is what remains to be seen. I personally don't think we will develop a chip or write code that will mimic the human brain. The man hours to accomplish it would be do too much. But I do think we may unlock more on how our brain and sensors work and that will enable us to create things out of cells that can react and respond on their own. But I'm probably just a babbling idoit so who cares. If it comes it comes.
I know there will eventually be some more releases but if your going to give me a full technical run down of your new OS, at least throw me a bone and give me one screen shot. Also it sounds like no matter how much more I overclock my palm Vx there will be no more OS upgrades for me. So sad, afterburner has been a good friend but I guess I'll finally have to upgrade.
I'm with you. Something is kind of spooky when you get a little PPV spice channel and they know how many times you rewound to see the money shot.
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I've been waiting and waiting for a 64 bit processor in my desktop forever. You just can't get all hot and bothered about the itanium till you can have one at home to play with. I'm ready for a massive performance increase in my home computer like we had when the first Pentium came out. More clock cycles are nice but 64 bits get you even more bang for your buck.
I took an old PIII 700 and a $30 PVR card and made my own Tivo. There are only 2 things that are a pain. One is finding software. This is not a problem if you want to pay for it but if your building a tivo yourself your probably trying to be as cheap as possible. Second is you'll need a ir reciever for a remote. You can get them for as little $20 if you don't mind using IR-assistant or $40 if you want to use IRMan. The best thing about this over a tivo is that after the video is done recording I can transfer it across the network and archive it and play it from my regular PC so I don't need a giant array of disks sitting by my TV. Plus the recording software will do it in almost any format you want. So no spending time ripping the video afterwards. For VCD's I go Mpeg-2 for my personal stuff and Mpeg-1 for others. And if I'm gonna archive it on the PC I'll record it in Mpeg-4 to save space and keep the quality.
I think the figures are probably accurate on the number of bugs. But Linux exploits aren't necessarily exploits. If someone debugs the code and finds something that is written funky that can be taken advantage of, That is not an exploit because he knows right then and there how to fix it. It should be rated on how long known exploits are out before the exploit can be patched or taken care of. That is the real measure of security. When Microsoft wants to wait 3 weeks to release patches, release patches that cause more problems, or denies that the bugs exist that is more of an issue than anything else. At least with Linux when it's found it's taken care of.
This guy totally went the wrong way for expandability and speed. You can get the Promise SuperTrakSX 6000 for $480 and that has hardware raid 5 and supports 6 drives. I'd throw one of those in with 6 drives to start and take my 800Gig and be happy. That would save me at least a $1000 up front. I wouldn't need 2 of the harddrives, the second processor or so much ram. Plus it would be faster and much more reliable. Then later on I could add another one for about $2500 and have 1.6 TB of space to store my huge collection of pornography... err rather mp3's, software and G-rated dvd movies.
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I think you have it backwards. It's more like that old commercial with the monkey and the cocaine. You have some guy cranking on the game putting in a good 142 hours a week then auctioning off his character then go buying the newest multi player online game. He's saying to himself I've got to do this so I can play more, so I can make more money, So I can get more online games.
Another thing you could do is make it so everytime something is searched for it also searches a joke database for a joke containing some of the words. And returns a little humor at the top of the search page.
Now this one is pretty good. This is how lazy I am and how little I care about my intellectual property. Change the search so anytime a site is returned multiple times they get an expandable tree and the top link would be the first page in the hierarchy on thier website. This would allow more returns per page and help you sort stuff you know isn't what your looking for. I think that would win and they could use it.
When a link on google is bad it would be cool to click a button that could send it's cached page through a paper shredder. Maybe to make it more timely it could go into an Enron trash can. Now that is probably one that could work. Since I'm not gonna develop it still it and use it for yourself.
It would never win but since we don't seem to have enough porn out there. It would be funny to write a program that would return pornographic images relating to whatever you searched for. You type in Ballmer and you get an image of Steve Ballmer blowing a donkey. Or for you microsoft loving people you type in Jobs and you get him with an apple in his backend. Of course no bad images of Linus. Though him in a compromising position with a penguin might be funny.
You are so off your rocker. I have an XBox and it's collecting dust. The games are too expensive and 99% of them suck. You'd think by now that a game that gets a 4 or lower on every game rating site or magazine would get marked down but not with XBox because they only have 2 dozen games so people keep buying them even though they are crap. Ok now for the hardware capabilities everything is good except for one thing I'm not Andre the Giant can I get a controller that doesn't weigh 20lbs? I understand they were trying to save money on the thing but at least have an aftermarket alternative available. Also i don't hate Bill and Stevie for thier OS, I hate them for being wealthier than me and not sharing.
First off you should have had them sign a Non Disclosure agreement. If you type Non Disclosure Agreement Sample into google you will get tons of examples here is one at http://www.inventnet.com/nondisclosure.html. You see that it should state that anything you tell him he won't disclose to a third party. Also if it's for an individual it should make him list all patents he currently has and any he may be working on. So basically if he didn't list that he was developing Bubba's Backyard EZ-Bake oven he doesn't have any rights to it. It is a little different when you are dealing with a third party company basically then you need a Non Compete. Which most companies will sign without a problem if they are getting free software. This just says hey I understand you make and market Peanut Butter and Bolgna sandwiches I won't try to do the same. If you have those things in place you should be in great shape if not. Call a lawyer so he can get on it right away. The longer you wait the more claim they may have.
AI is certainly possible and will probably occur. At what level and in what manner is what remains to be seen. I personally don't think we will develop a chip or write code that will mimic the human brain. The man hours to accomplish it would be do too much. But I do think we may unlock more on how our brain and sensors work and that will enable us to create things out of cells that can react and respond on their own. But I'm probably just a babbling idoit so who cares. If it comes it comes.
I know there will eventually be some more releases but if your going to give me a full technical run down of your new OS, at least throw me a bone and give me one screen shot. Also it sounds like no matter how much more I overclock my palm Vx there will be no more OS upgrades for me. So sad, afterburner has been a good friend but I guess I'll finally have to upgrade.
I'm with you. Something is kind of spooky when you get a little PPV spice channel and they know how many times you rewound to see the money shot.
I've been waiting and waiting for a 64 bit processor in my desktop forever. You just can't get all hot and bothered about the itanium till you can have one at home to play with. I'm ready for a massive performance increase in my home computer like we had when the first Pentium came out. More clock cycles are nice but 64 bits get you even more bang for your buck.
I took an old PIII 700 and a $30 PVR card and made my own Tivo. There are only 2 things that are a pain. One is finding software. This is not a problem if you want to pay for it but if your building a tivo yourself your probably trying to be as cheap as possible. Second is you'll need a ir reciever for a remote. You can get them for as little $20 if you don't mind using IR-assistant or $40 if you want to use IRMan. The best thing about this over a tivo is that after the video is done recording I can transfer it across the network and archive it and play it from my regular PC so I don't need a giant array of disks sitting by my TV. Plus the recording software will do it in almost any format you want. So no spending time ripping the video afterwards. For VCD's I go Mpeg-2 for my personal stuff and Mpeg-1 for others. And if I'm gonna archive it on the PC I'll record it in Mpeg-4 to save space and keep the quality.
I think the figures are probably accurate on the number of bugs. But Linux exploits aren't necessarily exploits. If someone debugs the code and finds something that is written funky that can be taken advantage of, That is not an exploit because he knows right then and there how to fix it. It should be rated on how long known exploits are out before the exploit can be patched or taken care of. That is the real measure of security. When Microsoft wants to wait 3 weeks to release patches, release patches that cause more problems, or denies that the bugs exist that is more of an issue than anything else. At least with Linux when it's found it's taken care of.
This guy totally went the wrong way for expandability and speed. You can get the Promise SuperTrakSX 6000 for $480 and that has hardware raid 5 and supports 6 drives. I'd throw one of those in with 6 drives to start and take my 800Gig and be happy. That would save me at least a $1000 up front. I wouldn't need 2 of the harddrives, the second processor or so much ram. Plus it would be faster and much more reliable. Then later on I could add another one for about $2500 and have 1.6 TB of space to store my huge collection of pornography... err rather mp3's, software and G-rated dvd movies.