Go to office Depot or Staples or whatever the local office supply store is, buy out their entire stock of paper and number 2 pencils. Proceed to copy down bit for bit the content from your hard drive. If you write really small, you might be able to fit it in under $500 worth of supplies.
For even greater redundancy, you can use clay and chisels, but thats just too time consuming for the average user.
The design loophole was sufficiently documented. If I remember correctly, it took advantage of a characteristic of the timing pulse that allowed me to send an extra timing pulse, executing two one word instructions in one cycle. This also allowed me to compress more code in the allowed memory space to display a scrolling message on the LED output with our team name. It was worth the point deduction to one-up the rest of the teams. The code was custom built for the specific device we were using and could not have been imported to another device without rewriting large amounts of the processor, so it seems to me to be perfectly sound to use all the capabilities of the device.
Yeah, but wouldn't you like it if you could charge your laptop to full in less than a second? Running low on power at a presentation, tap it against a plate on your desk and your ready for another 2-3 hours.
Ever forget to charge your cell phone the night before and have to leave it turned off all day until you can get to a charger?
There could even be power sharing among laptops. Steal a bit of power from your friend's device to keep you going...who knows.
At college, I took a Digital Electronics course where the course project was to design and build your own microprocessor from scratch. From paper RTN descriptions to the full working prototype on a PLC. Our group started out with 6 people, 3 of whom dropped the class and the other two couldn't program their way out of a paper bag. I wrote the entire process in VHDL in under 2 months, the other two barely pulled of just the documentation (not that I envied them). I was pretty pissed at my professor since I used a design flaw in the PLC board to double the speed of one word instructions and he took of points for it even though it ran fine... What you get when the prof is more interested in procedure and forcing people to work in groups then the actual science.
When will people understand, its not how technically cool something is that makes it cool. Its how interesting and useful it is to the mass community. They are the ones that drive technology by using and buying it.
What do you think they are going to mine, raw materials. There is also theoretically a large amount of sub-surface ice that can be tapped.
As far as getting these materials around, getting them to orbit is the only challenge, but that could be accomplished by mass driver or rockets fueled with propellant made from ice. The lower gravity of Mars would make this far more cost effective then launching supplies from Earth, although more costly then the Moon. At this point, the ores can be ballistically sent anywhere in the solar system for minimal cost (It may take a few years for shipment but once continuous shipment starts, there will be a constant stream of materials arriving at the destination.)
The following is an excerpt I found on available materials. This also doesn't account for substantial metorite deposits left on the surface.
http://www.space.gc.ca/asc/pdf/csew4_BarrieCT01.pd f The approach should consider terrestrial, non-arc settings on Earth, including: impact-related magmatic Ni-Cu-PGE sulfide deposits (e.g., Sudbury Basin, Ontario, the world's largest Ni resource), komatiite-hosted (e.g., "lunar rille"-related) magmatic sulfide deposits (Kambalda district in Western Australia, Timmins, Ontario komatiite-hosted deposits, anorthositic (e.g., lunar and martian highlands) Fe-Ti oxide (Schreifferville, Quebec) and magmatic sulfide (Voisey's Bay, Labrador) deposits, kimberlitic diamond (Ekati, NWT) deposits (potential at Olympus Mons and nearby volcanos?); sedimentary Fe (Helen Iron Range, Ontario), Mn (Kalahari deposits, South Africa) Cu (Kupreschifer, Poland) and possibly U (Athabasca deposits, Saskatchewan) deposits; and a variety of continental magmatic-hydrothermal deposits (Olympic Dam Cu-U-REE, Australia; possibly Creede caldera epithermal Au-Ag, Colorado). Aggregate minerals need to be considered as well.
There is a little thing called the Better Business Bureau that does a great job of collecting customer complaints already. Any time you use a service company especially (moving companies, lawn services, food services) you should check them to make sure they don't have a large number of complains.
I seem to remember reading somewhere that the anus is the single most identifiable part of the human body for biometrics (excluding dna of course). It has the added benefit of not being easily removed like a hand/eyeball. The down side is obvious as the scanners would be neither hygenic not much fun to watch people in a line pulling down their pants.
When I was taking CE/EE classes at college, our professor had us create and design an entire SRC computer from scratch starting with RTN Diagrams and working up to a full blown implementation of a processor/memory/io/alu/etc on FPGA boards. A good CE book on Digital Electronics and a VHDL programming language (Ie Altera Max) and you could build on from scratch. If you want to actually do the wire wrapping, you can print off connection lists form the software and handwire it, but that would be a nightmare.
Building a motherboard for Motorola 68k processor would probably be a better start for someone interested more in the theory as the pin count is significantly lower and you can still get the chips today.
Granted this is beyond most users, but pop the harddrive from the old machine into the new one (chances are you have enough free channels) and viola, you have a backup of all their information. It doesn't matter how much spyware, viruses or other nonsense got on it as long as the file system is intact. If its not then thats a whole other story and of course if your willing to shell out $500 you can have just about any data retrieved. The new harddrive can sit in the machine indefintely and if you copy the files, they will always be backed up on the old drive just in case the new one barfs on you.
As long as the machine in question is connected to a lan with dhcp (almost all public terminals) then you can usually get by with just rebooting the computer with a Knoppix CD in the drive to guarantee you have a clean computer to work from. Then just use whatever techniques others have suggested to fool hardware keyloggers or check the cables to the computer. This worked fine for me at the local coffee house, just might have to deal with pissy management if they are confused at what you are doing.
This is just a plot by Sony to sell more accessory kits.
Washable Screen Cover $19.95
Memory Stick Lotion Dispender $29.95 (refills $5.00)
External Force Feedback Device $99.95
Check out the Mac LCD Panels, have had several of these sitting on my desk while i was setting up macs for the design department. They are simply gorgeous, to the point where running video on them makes it look like you are just looking through a glass window. Also, I have seen a couple of Toshiba Laptops (Qosmio F15) that have beautiful screens on them. I think a big part of making the lcd great is also on the filters they use on top of them. High end LCD exist and the gap is closing, much like it did between digital and analog photography
Perhaps you are getting the wrong kind of laptops.
On IBM Thinkpads we have (A,T,G-series) haven't had one problem with projectors. Just hit Fn-F7 and it pops up an easy to read menu, select the right one and boom its there....now why can't these things autodetect....
Personally, I detest having to go to the library, search through often poorly organized books during certain hours only to find I have to come back for them to order it. An Online Library would be perfect. No waits, no returns, no damaged books, able to grab them at home-copy them to my PDA and read. Heck, I'd even pay a decent subscription service fee. What I will not pay is the ridiculous $7-20 for a digital version of a book that sells hardcover, printed, in store for the same price.
Actually the eye has a large concentration of rods and cones at the center of the eye to enhance vision of what you are staring at. The area outside this small sphere is full of gaps and dead spots that as you pointed out are filled in by the brain's image processing.
So what sort of copyright protection would copied individuals have. Would it be illegal to backup a copy of yourself in case of data loss. The liability factor on that will be a lot higher than a lost cd. Maybe a future MPAA like clone, the DPAA digital personality association.
Also, what rights would a copied personality have. I don't see any reason why you couldn't copy your personality *before* you died unless the process is destructive. But would your digital you have access to your finances, accounts, property, etc? Could you use your copy as your personal slave, kinda like a built in secretary to screen your calls/answer emails/do your work for you...after all you could trust it if it was "yourself" making these decisions.....unless your one of those people that are afraid of themselves.
Cool idea, remember reading it first in Greg Bears Eon series....but the implications are enormous.
You are forgetting one key fact. Microsoft controls both product's pricing. They can just refuse to give the prebundled starter edition licensing any discounts like they do for the full versions. I am sure that Prebundled windows is a lot cheaper per unit then starter edition will be.
Geeks have got it all wrong. The secret to a girl's bedroom is their linux prowess...that is as long as their pc is in their bedroom (which it likely is covered with pink fluff and hearts). You build her a cheap eye candy linux machine, teach them just enough to get hooked on it, then when they start wanting to do more than just IM you have a free pass to their bedroom every time.
PS: this only works on really dumb or really smart girls.
Sorry to nitpick, but you did ask.
Convicted can mean "to be shown or declared as blameworthy"
It can be argued that convicted monopolist means he is shown to be to blame for being a monopolist.
At the company I work for, we have been holding off releasing service pack 2 b/c it not only breaks old/custom software, it also interferes with some of Microsoft's own software (SMS 2003) which is neither old or custom. Opening ports/programs in the firewall will fix some of these issues, but a case-by-case solution is absurd in a very large roll-out. Also, SP-2 not only blocks network access for programs, but it also does some behind the scenes checks to see if the program running is spyware and will often block calls to the network layer regardless of ports open on the computer.
The point being, companies should not be strong-armed into installing updates that really aren't nescessary on a corporate network. An unbundled SP2 with just the necessary hotfixes (and not their firewall/security options) would be a much better solution....perhaps a corporate Automatic Update seperate from the Home Users w/o installing more software.
Its not a moon, its a giant plastic easter egg with goodies inside. We must get a team of robots out there post haste to figure out how to crack it open. Just hope the candy inside isn't stale
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Go to office Depot or Staples or whatever the local office supply store is, buy out their entire stock of paper and number 2 pencils. Proceed to copy down bit for bit the content from your hard drive. If you write really small, you might be able to fit it in under $500 worth of supplies. For even greater redundancy, you can use clay and chisels, but thats just too time consuming for the average user.
The design loophole was sufficiently documented. If I remember correctly, it took advantage of a characteristic of the timing pulse that allowed me to send an extra timing pulse, executing two one word instructions in one cycle. This also allowed me to compress more code in the allowed memory space to display a scrolling message on the LED output with our team name. It was worth the point deduction to one-up the rest of the teams. The code was custom built for the specific device we were using and could not have been imported to another device without rewriting large amounts of the processor, so it seems to me to be perfectly sound to use all the capabilities of the device.
Yeah, but wouldn't you like it if you could charge your laptop to full in less than a second? Running low on power at a presentation, tap it against a plate on your desk and your ready for another 2-3 hours. Ever forget to charge your cell phone the night before and have to leave it turned off all day until you can get to a charger? There could even be power sharing among laptops. Steal a bit of power from your friend's device to keep you going...who knows.
At college, I took a Digital Electronics course where the course project was to design and build your own microprocessor from scratch. From paper RTN descriptions to the full working prototype on a PLC. Our group started out with 6 people, 3 of whom dropped the class and the other two couldn't program their way out of a paper bag. I wrote the entire process in VHDL in under 2 months, the other two barely pulled of just the documentation (not that I envied them). I was pretty pissed at my professor since I used a design flaw in the PLC board to double the speed of one word instructions and he took of points for it even though it ran fine... What you get when the prof is more interested in procedure and forcing people to work in groups then the actual science.
When will people understand, its not how technically cool something is that makes it cool. Its how interesting and useful it is to the mass community. They are the ones that drive technology by using and buying it.
What do you think they are going to mine, raw materials. There is also theoretically a large amount of sub-surface ice that can be tapped.
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As far as getting these materials around, getting them to orbit is the only challenge, but that could be accomplished by mass driver or rockets fueled with propellant made from ice. The lower gravity of Mars would make this far more cost effective then launching supplies from Earth, although more costly then the Moon. At this point, the ores can be ballistically sent anywhere in the solar system for minimal cost (It may take a few years for shipment but once continuous shipment starts, there will be a constant stream of materials arriving at the destination.)
The following is an excerpt I found on available materials. This also doesn't account for substantial metorite deposits left on the surface.
http://www.space.gc.ca/asc/pdf/csew4_BarrieCT01.p
The approach should consider terrestrial, non-arc settings on Earth, including: impact-related magmatic Ni-Cu-PGE sulfide deposits (e.g., Sudbury Basin, Ontario, the world's largest Ni resource), komatiite-hosted (e.g., "lunar rille"-related) magmatic sulfide deposits (Kambalda district in Western Australia, Timmins, Ontario komatiite-hosted deposits, anorthositic (e.g., lunar and martian highlands) Fe-Ti oxide (Schreifferville, Quebec) and magmatic sulfide (Voisey's Bay, Labrador) deposits, kimberlitic diamond (Ekati, NWT) deposits (potential at Olympus Mons and nearby volcanos?); sedimentary Fe (Helen Iron Range, Ontario), Mn (Kalahari deposits, South Africa) Cu (Kupreschifer, Poland) and possibly U (Athabasca deposits, Saskatchewan) deposits; and a variety of continental magmatic-hydrothermal deposits (Olympic Dam Cu-U-REE, Australia; possibly Creede caldera epithermal Au-Ag, Colorado). Aggregate minerals need to be considered as well.
There is a little thing called the Better Business Bureau that does a great job of collecting customer complaints already. Any time you use a service company especially (moving companies, lawn services, food services) you should check them to make sure they don't have a large number of complains.
I seem to remember reading somewhere that the anus is the single most identifiable part of the human body for biometrics (excluding dna of course). It has the added benefit of not being easily removed like a hand/eyeball. The down side is obvious as the scanners would be neither hygenic not much fun to watch people in a line pulling down their pants.
When I was taking CE/EE classes at college, our professor had us create and design an entire SRC computer from scratch starting with RTN Diagrams and working up to a full blown implementation of a processor/memory/io/alu/etc on FPGA boards. A good CE book on Digital Electronics and a VHDL programming language (Ie Altera Max) and you could build on from scratch. If you want to actually do the wire wrapping, you can print off connection lists form the software and handwire it, but that would be a nightmare. Building a motherboard for Motorola 68k processor would probably be a better start for someone interested more in the theory as the pin count is significantly lower and you can still get the chips today.
Granted this is beyond most users, but pop the harddrive from the old machine into the new one (chances are you have enough free channels) and viola, you have a backup of all their information. It doesn't matter how much spyware, viruses or other nonsense got on it as long as the file system is intact. If its not then thats a whole other story and of course if your willing to shell out $500 you can have just about any data retrieved. The new harddrive can sit in the machine indefintely and if you copy the files, they will always be backed up on the old drive just in case the new one barfs on you.
As long as the machine in question is connected to a lan with dhcp (almost all public terminals) then you can usually get by with just rebooting the computer with a Knoppix CD in the drive to guarantee you have a clean computer to work from. Then just use whatever techniques others have suggested to fool hardware keyloggers or check the cables to the computer. This worked fine for me at the local coffee house, just might have to deal with pissy management if they are confused at what you are doing.
This is just a plot by Sony to sell more accessory kits. Washable Screen Cover $19.95 Memory Stick Lotion Dispender $29.95 (refills $5.00) External Force Feedback Device $99.95
Check out the Mac LCD Panels, have had several of these sitting on my desk while i was setting up macs for the design department. They are simply gorgeous, to the point where running video on them makes it look like you are just looking through a glass window. Also, I have seen a couple of Toshiba Laptops (Qosmio F15) that have beautiful screens on them. I think a big part of making the lcd great is also on the filters they use on top of them. High end LCD exist and the gap is closing, much like it did between digital and analog photography
Perhaps you are getting the wrong kind of laptops. On IBM Thinkpads we have (A,T,G-series) haven't had one problem with projectors. Just hit Fn-F7 and it pops up an easy to read menu, select the right one and boom its there....now why can't these things autodetect....
Personally, I detest having to go to the library, search through often poorly organized books during certain hours only to find I have to come back for them to order it. An Online Library would be perfect. No waits, no returns, no damaged books, able to grab them at home-copy them to my PDA and read. Heck, I'd even pay a decent subscription service fee. What I will not pay is the ridiculous $7-20 for a digital version of a book that sells hardcover, printed, in store for the same price.
Actually the eye has a large concentration of rods and cones at the center of the eye to enhance vision of what you are staring at. The area outside this small sphere is full of gaps and dead spots that as you pointed out are filled in by the brain's image processing.
So what sort of copyright protection would copied individuals have. Would it be illegal to backup a copy of yourself in case of data loss. The liability factor on that will be a lot higher than a lost cd. Maybe a future MPAA like clone, the DPAA digital personality association. Also, what rights would a copied personality have. I don't see any reason why you couldn't copy your personality *before* you died unless the process is destructive. But would your digital you have access to your finances, accounts, property, etc? Could you use your copy as your personal slave, kinda like a built in secretary to screen your calls/answer emails/do your work for you...after all you could trust it if it was "yourself" making these decisions.....unless your one of those people that are afraid of themselves. Cool idea, remember reading it first in Greg Bears Eon series....but the implications are enormous.
More like you would be convicted of Assault on Battery
You are forgetting one key fact. Microsoft controls both product's pricing. They can just refuse to give the prebundled starter edition licensing any discounts like they do for the full versions. I am sure that Prebundled windows is a lot cheaper per unit then starter edition will be.
Geeks have got it all wrong. The secret to a girl's bedroom is their linux prowess...that is as long as their pc is in their bedroom (which it likely is covered with pink fluff and hearts). You build her a cheap eye candy linux machine, teach them just enough to get hooked on it, then when they start wanting to do more than just IM you have a free pass to their bedroom every time.
PS: this only works on really dumb or really smart girls.
I couldn't bring myself to feel bad for stealing $20 out of Bill Gates wallet. Morality is a measure of the size of the wallet.
Sorry to nitpick, but you did ask. Convicted can mean "to be shown or declared as blameworthy" It can be argued that convicted monopolist means he is shown to be to blame for being a monopolist.
We apologize again for the fault in the subtitles. Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked... have been sacked.
At the company I work for, we have been holding off releasing service pack 2 b/c it not only breaks old/custom software, it also interferes with some of Microsoft's own software (SMS 2003) which is neither old or custom. Opening ports/programs in the firewall will fix some of these issues, but a case-by-case solution is absurd in a very large roll-out. Also, SP-2 not only blocks network access for programs, but it also does some behind the scenes checks to see if the program running is spyware and will often block calls to the network layer regardless of ports open on the computer. The point being, companies should not be strong-armed into installing updates that really aren't nescessary on a corporate network. An unbundled SP2 with just the necessary hotfixes (and not their firewall/security options) would be a much better solution....perhaps a corporate Automatic Update seperate from the Home Users w/o installing more software.
Its not a moon, its a giant plastic easter egg with goodies inside. We must get a team of robots out there post haste to figure out how to crack it open. Just hope the candy inside isn't stale