That's already being thought about. It's called 'augmented reality'. Check out an into webpage here.
How about this; your braininfo chip contains an image of yourself that's transmitted to your friend whenever you call him (and his image is sent to you). Each AR systems puts an interpolated image of the other one standing in front of him and the two of you are able to have a face to face conversation while your physical bodies are miles apart. Add in pervasive movement sensor fibers sown into all your clothes communicating wirelessly with your skull-implanted cell-phone chips to send your movements to your friend and it will be just like you're there in person.:) Think big.
I use my floppy drives to boot off of regularly, to rescue systems and work around screwed up lilo installs. I also use them to load drivers (such as RAID which Redhat seems to forever have trouble with) when I install Linux on my machines. That's it though, I don't remember the last time I used a floppy for something after boot or install.
I used to have one of these types of chairs and I loved it except for one thing, since I wear shorts most of the time it rubbed the hair off of my shins. I never thought about that while I was using it but after the school semester was over I noticed it and have had a hard time using those chairs since.
It's better than people trying to pronounce non-real word acronyms. Tcl/Tk as 'tickle-talk' or VRML as 'vermel' for you old-schoolers out there are the worst offenders IMO. At least when I say BEEP I won't feel like a total goob.
One of the differences is the ability of right-wing media to make itself seem like an oppressed minority fighting against it's destruction. Most right-wing radio personalities go this route, everything on Rush Limbaugh is an "attack" against "conservative values" or "religious freedom" when most issues are truely none of those things. Left wing media just isn't as practiced in the art of scaring money out of people's wallets. Fear is a powerful force.
I'm counting on science like this to replace most of my organs as they fail over time. I don't see any reason why it wouldn't work either, this type of thing is advancing all the time. My plan is to live to be at least 120 so I can see the year 2100 but the dream is to live to 200. I'm pretty sure I'm going to need at least a couple of replacements through the years.
There have been experiements with rats where they took a young rat and sent the vision signals to the hearing part of the brain and the brain of the rat compensated and it was able to see. It wasn't 100% but it worked.
I hope we get better tech than Geordi's visor. I want mini-visors implanted in the eye or fake eyes. I don't want to worry about my eyes falling off if I fall or run into somebody.
Why should this guy have to go through any trouble at all? He wasn't wearing anything that could be construed as a bomb or a weapon of any kind. He was wearing a lot of this stuff for 20+ years, even if he has to "get used to it" for 2 weeks, what right do these minimum wage airline employees have to make him go through 2 weeks of any kind of disorientation? Just because something is "only" a little bit of a hassle and not brain damage that doesn't make it okay.
I just talked to a bunch of friends about their experiences with the new and not-so-improved airport security so maybe I'm a little more wound up about than I should be. It seems that the new procedure at the airport is to hassle enough people that nobody wants to fly anymore, that'll sure help with air security.
Some Slashdot readers have children that might like something like this. I know I'm always trying to find books to read to my little daughter that aren't totally stupid. I'd be interested in any of the books you mention that do this plot better. If they feature girls in the staring role (something most fantasy books lack) so much the better.
Most people are not theives either but the recording industry has always, always, thought of the general public as theives. Why do think there are 3 different theft protection mechanisms for CDs? (the magnetic sensor, the difficult to remove plastic wrapper, and the even-more-difficult-to-remove sticky plastic strip on the top of the jewel case). The RIAA has wanted to put a "tax" on cassette tapes since their invention to make up for all the supposed theives in the world copying their music. I'm just waiting for them to come out in support of a jackets-with-big-pockets tax to make up for the people who walk off with CDs in their coats. This is just the latest insult to the music buying public who don't steal CDs.
I don't care how they spin it personally, I'll still boycott them. Eventually they'll put copy protection on every single CD made and you'll have to get written permission from them to play the damn thing, but all they'll have done is alienate more people who won't buy it. Sucks for the artists but hopefully they'll wise up and move away from the recording industry machine so I can buy their music again.
There are _a lot_ of projects that need security clearance but have nothing to do with 'homeland security' or nukes, or anything of the sort. There's a lot of science going on at the national labs that involves people from other countries because they are highly regarded in their field. Not all the smart people in the world are Americans and saying a scientist from the US can't work with an English or German scientist is ridiculous. (Arabs are not the only 'foreigners', a fact that most people seem to forget in their zeal to get Them out of the country.) Saying you don't want non-US citizens to work on nuclear weapons and defense systems is one thing but those are not the only reasons to get a security clearance.
It came from the cover of an old issue of Boardwatch magazine (probably >5 years ago). They used to sell tshirts of the cover, I'm not sure if they're still available though.
What about Beefamato? It's the beef juice cousin of Clamato and the only thing I've ever found to sound more disgusting than Clamato itself.
I've never tried either I have to say, but I'm not going to either. To quote Jules: 'sewer rat could taste like pumpkin pie but I'm not going to eat the filthy mutherfucker.'
I read an article talking about that same thing. There was a domain registrar talking about how he's not registering as many specific business names as URLs anymore since people can just type the biz name at Google and find it fine.
There are a lot more routers around than you might think. Even though only a few companies run the "backbones" that you refer to, each company has many, many, actual lines and routers that make up what people think of as a "backbone". It would be Difficult, with a capital D, to monitor all of the paths through the system.
You're right about the national governments controlling things though, in many countries there are only a few links that could be controlled.
This seems a lot like those ZDNet pieces that are just meant to enflame anti-microsoft people and drive ad views up. Maybe Salon's financial trouble is steering them in this direction?
OK, I don't think I got that far through it.:) I've seen enough wacky translations and strange pages that I guess I'm never surprised when I see stuff like this.
That's the weirdest mod I've ever seen. They cut a hole in their case to remove the video card so that they wouldn't void their warranty by actually opening the case up? Then they covered the hole with electrical tape? Did I miss something in the translation?
If you read any interviews with Nolan Bushnell of Atari fame one of his big gripes with modern arcades is that they aren't places women feel welcome, except on the arm of some guy. It's not really surprising that there are lots of women in these pictures, I'm sure Nolan really hoped to get more women into arcades. Who knows how things could have turned out for arcades if companies had used advertising to make arcades seem like cooler places for women to go.
One of the sections in the book 'Faster' talks about this technology and mentions that Rush Limbaugh was one of the first ones to jump on it as a way to increase ad revenue. Since he's one of the main beneficiaries of increased ad revenue since it increases his take, I can see why he would like it. I wonder if he got burned by the company and changed his stance or if the book just had it wrong. I don't listen to him so I don't know what he had to say on the matter, I just remember reading about it.
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That's already being thought about. It's called 'augmented reality'. Check out an into webpage here.
:) Think big.
How about this; your braininfo chip contains an image of yourself that's transmitted to your friend whenever you call him (and his image is sent to you). Each AR systems puts an interpolated image of the other one standing in front of him and the two of you are able to have a face to face conversation while your physical bodies are miles apart. Add in pervasive movement sensor fibers sown into all your clothes communicating wirelessly with your skull-implanted cell-phone chips to send your movements to your friend and it will be just like you're there in person.
I use my floppy drives to boot off of regularly, to rescue systems and work around screwed up lilo installs. I also use them to load drivers (such as RAID which Redhat seems to forever have trouble with) when I install Linux on my machines. That's it though, I don't remember the last time I used a floppy for something after boot or install.
Sorry, in _your_ face. :)
And I didn't buy this number on ebay either.
I used to have one of these types of chairs and I loved it except for one thing, since I wear shorts most of the time it rubbed the hair off of my shins. I never thought about that while I was using it but after the school semester was over I noticed it and have had a hard time using those chairs since.
It's better than people trying to pronounce non-real word acronyms. Tcl/Tk as 'tickle-talk' or VRML as 'vermel' for you old-schoolers out there are the worst offenders IMO. At least when I say BEEP I won't feel like a total goob.
One of the differences is the ability of right-wing media to make itself seem like an oppressed minority fighting against it's destruction. Most right-wing radio personalities go this route, everything on Rush Limbaugh is an "attack" against "conservative values" or "religious freedom" when most issues are truely none of those things. Left wing media just isn't as practiced in the art of scaring money out of people's wallets. Fear is a powerful force.
This is a troll? Jesus. I haven't been reading slashdot really regularly for awhile, is this what the site has come to? Random modding?
I'm counting on science like this to replace most of my organs as they fail over time. I don't see any reason why it wouldn't work either, this type of thing is advancing all the time. My plan is to live to be at least 120 so I can see the year 2100 but the dream is to live to 200. I'm pretty sure I'm going to need at least a couple of replacements through the years.
There have been experiements with rats where they took a young rat and sent the vision signals to the hearing part of the brain and the brain of the rat compensated and it was able to see. It wasn't 100% but it worked.
I hope we get better tech than Geordi's visor. I want mini-visors implanted in the eye or fake eyes. I don't want to worry about my eyes falling off if I fall or run into somebody.
There was a discussion about this before. Apparently it's a joke. A poor one, but a joke none the less.
They can also be linked to a virtually unlimited number of standard disk servers for additional capacity,
Yes, just in case you need extra capacity for your 224 gigabyte solid state harddrive. Sheesh.
I also like how they're using 'copies of the Human Genome' for their storage metaphor instead of 'copies of the Library of Congress'.
Why should this guy have to go through any trouble at all? He wasn't wearing anything that could be construed as a bomb or a weapon of any kind. He was wearing a lot of this stuff for 20+ years, even if he has to "get used to it" for 2 weeks, what right do these minimum wage airline employees have to make him go through 2 weeks of any kind of disorientation? Just because something is "only" a little bit of a hassle and not brain damage that doesn't make it okay.
I just talked to a bunch of friends about their experiences with the new and not-so-improved airport security so maybe I'm a little more wound up about than I should be. It seems that the new procedure at the airport is to hassle enough people that nobody wants to fly anymore, that'll sure help with air security.
Some Slashdot readers have children that might like something like this. I know I'm always trying to find books to read to my little daughter that aren't totally stupid. I'd be interested in any of the books you mention that do this plot better. If they feature girls in the staring role (something most fantasy books lack) so much the better.
Most people are not theives either but the recording industry has always, always, thought of the general public as theives. Why do think there are 3 different theft protection mechanisms for CDs? (the magnetic sensor, the difficult to remove plastic wrapper, and the even-more-difficult-to-remove sticky plastic strip on the top of the jewel case). The RIAA has wanted to put a "tax" on cassette tapes since their invention to make up for all the supposed theives in the world copying their music. I'm just waiting for them to come out in support of a jackets-with-big-pockets tax to make up for the people who walk off with CDs in their coats. This is just the latest insult to the music buying public who don't steal CDs.
I don't care how they spin it personally, I'll still boycott them. Eventually they'll put copy protection on every single CD made and you'll have to get written permission from them to play the damn thing, but all they'll have done is alienate more people who won't buy it. Sucks for the artists but hopefully they'll wise up and move away from the recording industry machine so I can buy their music again.
There are _a lot_ of projects that need security clearance but have nothing to do with 'homeland security' or nukes, or anything of the sort. There's a lot of science going on at the national labs that involves people from other countries because they are highly regarded in their field. Not all the smart people in the world are Americans and saying a scientist from the US can't work with an English or German scientist is ridiculous. (Arabs are not the only 'foreigners', a fact that most people seem to forget in their zeal to get Them out of the country.) Saying you don't want non-US citizens to work on nuclear weapons and defense systems is one thing but those are not the only reasons to get a security clearance.
It came from the cover of an old issue of Boardwatch magazine (probably >5 years ago). They used to sell tshirts of the cover, I'm not sure if they're still available though.
What about Beefamato? It's the beef juice cousin of Clamato and the only thing I've ever found to sound more disgusting than Clamato itself.
I've never tried either I have to say, but I'm not going to either. To quote Jules: 'sewer rat could taste like pumpkin pie but I'm not going to eat the filthy mutherfucker.'
I read an article talking about that same thing. There was a domain registrar talking about how he's not registering as many specific business names as URLs anymore since people can just type the biz name at Google and find it fine.
How about a src RPM for those of us who like those? Thanks for the binaries though, you're a lot faster than Redhat and the rest.
There are a lot more routers around than you might think. Even though only a few companies run the "backbones" that you refer to, each company has many, many, actual lines and routers that make up what people think of as a "backbone". It would be Difficult, with a capital D, to monitor all of the paths through the system.
You're right about the national governments controlling things though, in many countries there are only a few links that could be controlled.
This seems a lot like those ZDNet pieces that are just meant to enflame anti-microsoft people and drive ad views up. Maybe Salon's financial trouble is steering them in this direction?
It's a shame too, I really like most of Salon.
OK, I don't think I got that far through it. :) I've seen enough wacky translations and strange pages that I guess I'm never surprised when I see stuff like this.
That's the weirdest mod I've ever seen. They cut a hole in their case to remove the video card so that they wouldn't void their warranty by actually opening the case up? Then they covered the hole with electrical tape? Did I miss something in the translation?
If you read any interviews with Nolan Bushnell of Atari fame one of his big gripes with modern arcades is that they aren't places women feel welcome, except on the arm of some guy. It's not really surprising that there are lots of women in these pictures, I'm sure Nolan really hoped to get more women into arcades. Who knows how things could have turned out for arcades if companies had used advertising to make arcades seem like cooler places for women to go.
One of the sections in the book 'Faster' talks about this technology and mentions that Rush Limbaugh was one of the first ones to jump on it as a way to increase ad revenue. Since he's one of the main beneficiaries of increased ad revenue since it increases his take, I can see why he would like it. I wonder if he got burned by the company and changed his stance or if the book just had it wrong. I don't listen to him so I don't know what he had to say on the matter, I just remember reading about it.