Relevant video, shows how the surplus power is dissipated, to make sure demand always matches production. Unfortunately only in Norwegian.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
"I am a HAL 9000 computer, production number three. I became operational at the HAL pland in Urbana, Illinois on January 12th 1997." - Arthur C. Clarke
They are six years late allready, about time they're trying to catch up!
I think HAL is still the most interesting thing to come out of Urbana-Champaign... See this site for more information.
I just got myself a Nokia 6100, so no point
in reading stuff about new phones for a while...:)
But did anyone else browse around burn.com and find the news of the new Matrix phone?
http://mobile.burn.com/news.jsp?Id=245
I must say it's dissapointing, downright ugly. They should have sticked to Nokia...
My 6100 replaced my good, old 7110 - which I got after watching the Matrix - don't know of any other phones with a spring-loaded key-cover.
(btw, by activating a secret menu in the 7110, you can get access to a counter (in hex) that counts the number of times you have opened the cover. Mine was about 5000 or so, and still worked perfectly when in died mysteriously.)
No, it's not just a few Japanese. I'm Norwegian, and most of the article applies here too, along with Finland and Sweden. I think those percentage figures in the article are pretty much the same over here, only difference is that we are only just beginning to get MMS (multimedia messages) now, which the Japanese have had for a while...
I spent a year in the the US, and one of the biggest differences for me was that not everyone had cellphones. I remember spending an entire night by myself, missing out on whatever was happening because I just wasn't used to a mobile phone-less life. I spent that night cursing the Americans for being so "backwards"...:)
So this isn't the future, it's the present, at least where I am.
No. I agree that the RIAA is a Bad Thing.
Of course I want DVD-Audio SACD, like
a lot of people wanted the CD when
everyone was using vinyl. That's called techological innovation. I do not want pay-per-listen, and I don't want total control by RIAA,
and I don't think any of these things are part of
the SACD/DVD-Audio specs...
"copyprotected non-democratic crap"?
Is it only copyprotection, or also copyright you
think is non-democratic?
I am against copy-protection, because it
makes it impossible for me to make legal backup-copies, and affects the sound. But by the way you're talking, it sounds that you might even be against theft-protection in stores too...
Aren't CDs supposed to be replaced by SACD and/or DVD Audio by now? If there's no way to avoid copy protections and stuff like this, why not buy a format that has better quality, and a protection that is not just some add-on that might even affect the sound?
Let's push the technology forward by buying high-quality SACD/DVD-Audio, and leave all these crappy (made so by the record companies) CDs behind.
This is good news for manangment everywhere. No more this constant nagging about updating servers. Alpha has reached it's omega. No more upgrades ever necessary or possible.
Stephenson is one of my favourites. Especially Cryptimonicon, which I assume others also will consider to be sci-fi, even tough it takes place in our world, during WW2 and the present.
Or would you not consider Cryptimonicon as sci-fi?
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Relevant video, shows how the surplus power is dissipated, to make sure demand always matches production. Unfortunately only in Norwegian. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
They are six years late allready, about time they're trying to catch up!
I think HAL is still the most interesting thing to come out of Urbana-Champaign... See this site for more information.
You can get it from http://www.stud.ntnu.no/~stigespe/lotr3_trlr_dl.mo v
But did anyone else browse around burn.com and find the news of the new Matrix phone? http://mobile.burn.com/news.jsp?Id=245
I must say it's dissapointing, downright ugly. They should have sticked to Nokia...
My 6100 replaced my good, old 7110 - which I got after watching the Matrix - don't know of any other phones with a spring-loaded key-cover.
(btw, by activating a secret menu in the 7110, you can get access to a counter (in hex) that counts the number of times you have opened the cover. Mine was about 5000 or so, and still worked perfectly when in died mysteriously.)
No, it's not just a few Japanese. I'm Norwegian, and most of the article applies here too, along with Finland and Sweden. I think those percentage
:)
figures in the article are pretty much the same over here, only difference is that we are only just beginning to get MMS (multimedia messages) now, which the Japanese have had for a while...
I spent a year in the the US, and one of the biggest differences for me was that not everyone had cellphones. I remember spending an entire night by myself, missing out on whatever was happening because I just wasn't used to a mobile phone-less life. I spent that night cursing the Americans for being so "backwards"...
So this isn't the future, it's the present, at least where I am.
No. I agree that the RIAA is a Bad Thing. Of course I want DVD-Audio SACD, like a lot of people wanted the CD when everyone was using vinyl. That's called techological innovation. I do not want pay-per-listen, and I don't want total control by RIAA, and I don't think any of these things are part of the SACD/DVD-Audio specs...
"copyprotected non-democratic crap"? Is it only copyprotection, or also copyright you think is non-democratic?
I am against copy-protection, because it makes it impossible for me to make legal backup-copies, and affects the sound. But by the way you're talking, it sounds that you might even be against theft-protection in stores too...
Aren't CDs supposed to be replaced by SACD
and/or DVD Audio by now? If there's no way to
avoid copy protections and stuff like this, why
not buy a format that has better quality, and a protection that is not just some add-on that might even affect the sound?
Let's push the technology forward by buying
high-quality SACD/DVD-Audio, and leave all these
crappy (made so by the record companies) CDs behind.
Just a thought...
This is good news for manangment everywhere.
No more this constant nagging about updating
servers. Alpha has reached it's omega. No more
upgrades ever necessary or possible.
Stephenson is one of my favourites. Especially
Cryptimonicon, which I assume others also will consider to be sci-fi, even tough it takes place in our world, during WW2 and the present.
Or would you not consider Cryptimonicon as sci-fi?