I doubt it. I think we'll see more and more super-quick charging batteries though. Everybody doing the "15-minute" recharge now... next it is will "5-minute", then a few seconds.
There are retired ex-nuclear-physisists working on creating reproducable cold fusion reactions in their basement labs at this very moment. Read that in a magazine somewhere.
You'd think that Slashdot being the number 1 site for geeks, nerds and techies, that the site developers could put in a little bit of code to check for dupes or display similarity percentages to the previous years worth of articles. I mean, come on, it's NOT THAT HARD! There really is no excuse for dupes.
Why would having a GPS in your car be a political hot issue? GPS's just tell YOU where you are located on the planet, they do NOT transmit that information to anybody else.
My LUG has maybe 2-3 females, who rarely show up. And I don't blame them... there are some creepy characters in the LUG. and a LOT of complete nerd types.
Zip.ca is the big online DVD rental outfit here in Canada and I've been with them about 4 months now. I haven't rented a single movie from BB in that time, as I am slowly working through every older movie that I wish to see via Zip. It's been great so far, they provide a lot of obscure titles. The few times I've tried for new releases, I find that it takes forever to get them... this is where BB has them easily beat! With BB, you can usually walk into the store the day a movie it's released and rent it. With Zip (and possibly with NetFlix?) you wait weeks for a new release. So, after I get through watching about the 120 or so movies left on my list from Zip, I might cancel them and go back to BB for the new releases. We'll see.
and forget nethack... just install Planeshift ( from http://www.planeshift.it/ ) and load you're character, which is stored in their database and accessible from anywhere with Internet access. The Planeshift client program is available for Windows, Linux and Mac!! And it's open source, and FREE! It's hard at first, but great fun after a while.
1) use an alias for the name, remember that alias if anybody should try to call you that, you'll know they got it from "whois"
2) rent a PO Box and use that address, or specify additional information on your real address, like "Unit C", which will help identify possible junk snail mail
3) look up the phone number for your registrar, specify that instead of your own number. if somebody REALLY needs to call you, they can get the number from your registrar, as they know all your real info
I disagree that we should have to pay to use a proxy service to disguise our whois identities and I won't pay it. (for those that will undoubtedly say "just use a proxy service")
Remember, if some person doesn't like your website and hunts you down using your whois info, when they come to the door asking if you are so-and-so, just say "no, he's in Unit C". Close the door quickly and call the police.
I know the head IT guy of a certain company that sets the root password on all his servers to be the same 6 letter word that he also uses for all the web apps and databases I develop for him. I tell him he should really REALLY not do that... but he keeps doing it. I am just a contract worker for him, so I don't have the power to change them. He's had various servers hacked about 3 times in the last 4 years, leading to much panic and re-installing and backup restorations... but yet he doesn't change his ways! And updating software and security patches on his servers?... forget about it, I think he's still using the same system as the first day it was setup.
I put a false name and a rarely checked gmail email address. My address is correct, except I add "Apt. 2" to it. This way, whenever I get snail mail to my false name at Apt.2, I'll know some spammer sent it. Or then someone is legitimatly trying to contact me for some legal purposes or whatnot. I check the email once a month... only ever gotten spam there.
I think this method of using only a false name is probably OK. As people can still reach me, but do not know my real name.
Ok, wow, I didn't know the projector bulbs are that high in lumens! I guess incandescent or flourescent just won't cut it. The LED lights sound interesting though.
Hmmm, so what about using mini flourescent bulbs? They cost about $5 each and supposedly last about 7 years and produce very little heat. A 23W flouresent bulb is equivalent to a 100W incandescent which produces around 1500 lumens (according to wikipedia). So, with 6 23W flourescent bulbs, you'd get 138W which would produce a minimal amount of heat and 9000 lumens.
I know the idea is to get light emitting from a tiny point, hence the super expensive bulbs... but couldn't that be solved somehow, using a different configuration for the optics or focusing the light, etc.. It would be so much cheaper to just plug in maybe 6 100 watt regular household light bulbs. Possible?
then try to figure out how to make it work. Isn't that how most programming newbies will treat VB? They'll make these great GUI's without a working backend and go "wow, I'm an amazing programmer". yeah.
I remember having a debate back in my highschool computer class (back in the 80's) and whether or not AI will ever be possible. EVERYBODY in the class was saying "yeah, given enough RAM and processing power", escpecially the trek nerds believed this. I was the only one that dared say it will never happen. I still believe this today and think I'm right. Electronics cannot ever replicate the functionality of a biological system. It just isn't possible. The only way I see true AI ever having even a slight chance of working is via cybernetics... mixing electronical parts with biological parts. ACtually, even then, true AI probably won't happen.
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Your vote will be mostly determined by which political invested more capital in diebold.
I doubt it. I think we'll see more and more super-quick charging batteries though. Everybody doing the "15-minute" recharge now... next it is will "5-minute", then a few seconds.
There are retired ex-nuclear-physisists working on creating reproducable cold fusion reactions in their basement labs at this very moment. Read that in a magazine somewhere.
You'd think that Slashdot being the number 1 site for geeks, nerds and techies, that the site developers could put in a little bit of code to check for dupes or display similarity percentages to the previous years worth of articles. I mean, come on, it's NOT THAT HARD! There really is no excuse for dupes.
Satellite raadio service will be all the rage... until people stop and figure out that they are paying monthly to *listen to the radio*.
Why would having a GPS in your car be a political hot issue? GPS's just tell YOU where you are located on the planet, they do NOT transmit that information to anybody else.
MY GOD, that interviewer needs some lessons in interviewing people. It's like she's never done this before.
That LUG sucks!
My LUG has maybe 2-3 females, who rarely show up. And I don't blame them... there are some creepy characters in the LUG. and a LOT of complete nerd types.
Zip.ca is the big online DVD rental outfit here in Canada and I've been with them about 4 months now. I haven't rented a single movie from BB in that time, as I am slowly working through every older movie that I wish to see via Zip. It's been great so far, they provide a lot of obscure titles. The few times I've tried for new releases, I find that it takes forever to get them... this is where BB has them easily beat! With BB, you can usually walk into the store the day a movie it's released and rent it. With Zip (and possibly with NetFlix?) you wait weeks for a new release. So, after I get through watching about the 120 or so movies left on my list from Zip, I might cancel them and go back to BB for the new releases. We'll see.
Um, never heard of Knoppix, or the million other live linux distros out there I assume?
Try planeshift
and forget nethack... just install Planeshift ( from http://www.planeshift.it/ ) and load you're character, which is stored in their database and accessible from anywhere with Internet access. The Planeshift client program is available for Windows, Linux and Mac!! And it's open source, and FREE! It's hard at first, but great fun after a while.
The real question then becomes... will wine (running on the windows Linux screensaver) be able to run the Windows Linux screensaver?
I leave my computer alone for 5 minutes and it's switched to Linux all by itself!
/just kidding, my computer always runs Linux
I live in Ontario and I've NEVER heard of maple coke before! Where can I get some?!
1) use an alias for the name, remember that alias if anybody should try to call you that, you'll know they got it from "whois"
2) rent a PO Box and use that address, or specify additional information on your real address, like "Unit C", which will help identify possible junk snail mail
3) look up the phone number for your registrar, specify that instead of your own number. if somebody REALLY needs to call you, they can get the number from your registrar, as they know all your real info
I disagree that we should have to pay to use a proxy service to disguise our whois identities and I won't pay it. (for those that will undoubtedly say "just use a proxy service")
Remember, if some person doesn't like your website and hunts you down using your whois info, when they come to the door asking if you are so-and-so, just say "no, he's in Unit C". Close the door quickly and call the police.
I know the head IT guy of a certain company that sets the root password on all his servers to be the same 6 letter word that he also uses for all the web apps and databases I develop for him. I tell him he should really REALLY not do that... but he keeps doing it. I am just a contract worker for him, so I don't have the power to change them. He's had various servers hacked about 3 times in the last 4 years, leading to much panic and re-installing and backup restorations... but yet he doesn't change his ways! And updating software and security patches on his servers?... forget about it, I think he's still using the same system as the first day it was setup.
I think this method of using only a false name is probably OK. As people can still reach me, but do not know my real name.
Ok, wow, I didn't know the projector bulbs are that high in lumens! I guess incandescent or flourescent just won't cut it. The LED lights sound interesting though.
Hmmm, so what about using mini flourescent bulbs? They cost about $5 each and supposedly last about 7 years and produce very little heat. A 23W flouresent bulb is equivalent to a 100W incandescent which produces around 1500 lumens (according to wikipedia). So, with 6 23W flourescent bulbs, you'd get 138W which would produce a minimal amount of heat and 9000 lumens.
I know the idea is to get light emitting from a tiny point, hence the super expensive bulbs... but couldn't that be solved somehow, using a different configuration for the optics or focusing the light, etc.. It would be so much cheaper to just plug in maybe 6 100 watt regular household light bulbs. Possible?
then try to figure out how to make it work. Isn't that how most programming newbies will treat VB? They'll make these great GUI's without a working backend and go "wow, I'm an amazing programmer". yeah.
Being able to do even zillions of calculations per second still does not mean you can "think".
I remember having a debate back in my highschool computer class (back in the 80's) and whether or not AI will ever be possible. EVERYBODY in the class was saying "yeah, given enough RAM and processing power", escpecially the trek nerds believed this. I was the only one that dared say it will never happen. I still believe this today and think I'm right. Electronics cannot ever replicate the functionality of a biological system. It just isn't possible. The only way I see true AI ever having even a slight chance of working is via cybernetics... mixing electronical parts with biological parts. ACtually, even then, true AI probably won't happen.