I am entirely for replacing traditional storage devices. Hard drives contain moving parts, and that usually lends itself to failure more often than solid state devices. The thing I have a hard time imagining at this point in the game is a standard of interface for the new devices.
Right now we have plenty of good storage media in the market: Flash Cards, Sandisk, etc.. and gobs of neat things in the prototype/research stage: this "postage stamp" card, holographic storage, and if you remember a while ago there was the physicist at U Michigan who was fooling with the idea of encoding an infinite amount of data on a single electron. The problem is standardized interface.
Proprietary interfaces won't be very easy for the market to utilize. We like hard drives because our motherboards come with the proper interface to read/write the data to the disk. What if we ended up with all these cool new devices, but didn't have a standard of interface? Simple: they would not catch on, money would dry up, and the technology would still be in a rut.
Black people being 3/5 of a person had nothing to do with whether they are human or not, it was for population statistics, which had only to do with representation in Congress.
Kazaa lobbyist Phil Corwin says a $1-a-month fee per user on Internet providers alone (it's unclear whether costs would be passed along to subscribers) would generate $2 billion yearly: "We're talking about a modest fee on all the parties who benefit from the availability of this content."
I don't like this idea one bit. It's the same principle that would end up letting a whole host of "fees" into the bill that we get from our ISPs at the end of the month.
It also reminds me of the college tuition bill. The tuition, and then the tens of fees tacked onto the bill, that end up summing at nearly $1000.
Yeah, actually, I did. And then I read the blurb, and got confused. So, after going back to the title, I realzied that I need to read things more carefully.
Imagine if that were the true title, though. Reminds me of "Max Headroom" but with radios instead of televisions.
I'm no expert, but I am curious about why everyone says that the shuttle is a bad design? It is just too costly, or are there other engineering problems surrounding all the ill feelings towards the shuttle?
I'll buy one...
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Bah. Just like the elitist fscks down the road who want to build an 'exclusive community' on public infrastructure paid for with my taxes.
I fail to see how this is "just like" "public infrastructure paid for with my taxes." This has nothing to do with your taxes - this is a commercial venture, not a public venture. If you are not involved, than it does not involve you.
I'm with the poster a few threads up who says "let the market decide." That's usually the best way to do things, and really, why not?
Go for it.Pro people. Of course, I certainly won't be buying a "premium" domain anytime soon, either.
I agree completely with what you are saying. The guns are not the problem. The weapons are never the problem. The PEOPLE are the problem. I'm with you on betting that he is a Democrap, too.
They should go away. Remember, we live in a REPUBLIC.
But what about the child who was taught well by his parents, and is responsible enough to handle such elements in a public setting? Should he be policed just as the kids who lacked that essential component of their socialization? I don't think so.
Bottom line - I don't want the government trying to act as a parent. That's why we have parents.
there is no reason to trust anybody on ebay. none.
I disagree.
I've been using eBay since late 1999, and up until VERY recently (the last month) I have had absolutely NO trouble. I have participated in thousands of auctions, and have both purchased and sold items. The overwhelming majority of people who use eBay are trustworthy and use the service because it facilitates transactions with ease.
As for the small few who misrepresent items, don't deliver, or just cheat in general, well, they are idiots. Last month I was ripped off twice. The result? I called the proper authorities, and those members are, well, not members anymore. Furthermore, I pursued the crimes and got either my money back, or the item I had purchased.
eBay works, if people are willing to use what's there.
The Internet prides itself, or, the users of the Internet, on anonymity, so it's no suprise that crime (fraud is just another type of crime) would soar. Without proper dererrents, people have no reasons not to commit these crimes. (Morals aside.)
Of course, we shouldn't overlook the fact that the Internet is where a great deal of commerece is moving, and where there is commerece, there is fraud.
However, often the same people eat meat (requires killing of much larger clusters of non human cells) and have no problems with getting rid of annoying insects, which is very inconsistent to say the least.
Non Human. Therein lies the difference. Most of the people raving agsint these technologies are Christian, or, to be more specific, Catholic. Their belief system espouses that humans are in the right to take life from those other "non-humans" in order to survive. That's the difference. Scripture supports them.
That's one of the more informed posts under this thread. I agree with you for the most part, but I can't help but remember the days when I played Ultima Online. I played when I was on vacation. I played when at a friend's house and the computer was free. It seemed as if it was actually an addicition. Of course, I don't play any MMORPG anymore (they all got really boring), so perhaps you are correct. Then again, when FF XI comes out, I'll be compulsive towards that game.;-)
True, but you can contain it. Think of lead-acid batteries, flywheels, or any other energy storage device. The energy becomes somewhat of a potential (although in flywheels the energy is rotational), and can later be turned into useful energy.
I can't get over when an RPG takes out some very basic physical actions in order to make the game just a little easier to code. Simply put, I think those two actions add/take a great deal to/from the game, depending on if they are in the game or not, or if they are implemented well.
When I'm in a game, I want to be completely surrounded by the fantasy. I don't want to remember that it's just a game, and not being able to do simple actions like swimming and climbing rip me right out of the fantasy, and plop me down in reality.
They have had ample time for this project; they should have done it right. Don't get me wrong - I'm excited about the game - I'll finally be able to bring my old campaign to life again, but I am slightly disappointed in the engine.
You are presuming that the spiders are intelligent enough to get past Slashdot's ultra super randomizer..... oh... wait.
Yeah, you're right. But, really, I should be able to. I'm sick of spammers, period. I don't want to "prevent" spam - I want it to be curbed, severely. I don't want to have to swim in an ocean of spam to get to my island of real email. It's a joke.
Excuse me? Are you living under a rock? Every day I receive something like 30-40 spams. So, that totals to: 35 (mid-range) * 365 = 12775 spams in a year. I'm not kidding. I get junked down with so much spam I have a hard time finding messages that are NOT spam in my mailbox. Is this a problem? You bet your ass. Have I done anything about it? Yep. I spent about a month forwarding headers to abuse addresses, but did that help? no! What it did was cost me time. Lots of time. About an hour every day, devoted to nothing but bothering with spam.
I don't want that shit in my email box. I didn't ask for it (I _NEVER_ use that email address for registrations) - it just seems to come to me. Personally, I want all those companies shut down, and hard. They should be fined like crazy. Ever hear of an effulent fee? That's what should be proposed. They are wasting bandwidth, time, money, electricity, everything.
It's a big problem. I don't know what cloud you are on, but come back to Earth.
Errr, damn, yep, you are right. I was hideously tired when I made my post. Props to you for pointing that out to me. But, anyway, yes, I still like that idea. The goggles, though, would be _such_ a hassle. Maybe contact lenses? That might be just the right mix of safety and non-intrusiveness that's needed here.
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I am entirely for replacing traditional storage devices. Hard drives contain moving parts, and that usually lends itself to failure more often than solid state devices. The thing I have a hard time imagining at this point in the game is a standard of interface for the new devices.
Right now we have plenty of good storage media in the market: Flash Cards, Sandisk, etc.. and gobs of neat things in the prototype/research stage: this "postage stamp" card, holographic storage, and if you remember a while ago there was the physicist at U Michigan who was fooling with the idea of encoding an infinite amount of data on a single electron. The problem is standardized interface.
Proprietary interfaces won't be very easy for the market to utilize. We like hard drives because our motherboards come with the proper interface to read/write the data to the disk. What if we ended up with all these cool new devices, but didn't have a standard of interface? Simple: they would not catch on, money would dry up, and the technology would still be in a rut.
Let's hope someone addresses this issue.
hehe :-)
I agree, and I'm a Republican.
You beat me to it, bastage. ;-)
I live in Pittsburgh (while at school) and I must say, this is really neat.
You, sir, are a moron.
Black people being 3/5 of a person had nothing to do with whether they are human or not, it was for population statistics, which had only to do with representation in Congress.
Kazaa lobbyist Phil Corwin says a $1-a-month fee per user on Internet providers alone (it's unclear whether costs would be passed along to subscribers) would generate $2 billion yearly: "We're talking about a modest fee on all the parties who benefit from the availability of this content."
I don't like this idea one bit. It's the same principle that would end up letting a whole host of "fees" into the bill that we get from our ISPs at the end of the month.
It also reminds me of the college tuition bill. The tuition, and then the tens of fees tacked onto the bill, that end up summing at nearly $1000.
Don't let people nickel and dime us to death.
Yeah, actually, I did. And then I read the blurb, and got confused. So, after going back to the title, I realzied that I need to read things more carefully.
Imagine if that were the true title, though. Reminds me of "Max Headroom" but with radios instead of televisions.
*shutters* (either way)
I'm no expert, but I am curious about why everyone says that the shuttle is a bad design? It is just too costly, or are there other engineering problems surrounding all the ill feelings towards the shuttle?
... if I mine comes with a cute Japanese girl hiding behind it. ;-)
In a word, yes.
That's one heck of a stretch. ;-)
The Internet is no longer a non-profit government entity, though, so the point is rather moot.
Bah. Just like the elitist fscks down the road who want to build an 'exclusive community' on public infrastructure paid for with my taxes .
.Pro people. Of course, I certainly won't be buying a "premium" domain anytime soon, either.
I fail to see how this is "just like" "public infrastructure paid for with my taxes." This has nothing to do with your taxes - this is a commercial venture, not a public venture. If you are not involved, than it does not involve you.
I'm with the poster a few threads up who says "let the market decide." That's usually the best way to do things, and really, why not?
Go for it
Dude, I love you.
I agree completely with what you are saying. The guns are not the problem. The weapons are never the problem. The PEOPLE are the problem. I'm with you on betting that he is a Democrap, too.
They should go away. Remember, we live in a REPUBLIC.
But, anyway, this lawsuit is ridiculous - just like most of the lawsuits that carry on inside this country.
But what about the child who was taught well by his parents, and is responsible enough to handle such elements in a public setting? Should he be policed just as the kids who lacked that essential component of their socialization? I don't think so.
Bottom line - I don't want the government trying to act as a parent. That's why we have parents.
there is no reason to trust anybody on ebay. none.
I disagree.
I've been using eBay since late 1999, and up until VERY recently (the last month) I have had absolutely NO trouble. I have participated in thousands of auctions, and have both purchased and sold items. The overwhelming majority of people who use eBay are trustworthy and use the service because it facilitates transactions with ease.
As for the small few who misrepresent items, don't deliver, or just cheat in general, well, they are idiots. Last month I was ripped off twice. The result? I called the proper authorities, and those members are, well, not members anymore. Furthermore, I pursued the crimes and got either my money back, or the item I had purchased.
eBay works, if people are willing to use what's there.
This makes a lot of sense.
The Internet prides itself, or, the users of the Internet, on anonymity, so it's no suprise that crime (fraud is just another type of crime) would soar. Without proper dererrents, people have no reasons not to commit these crimes. (Morals aside.)
Of course, we shouldn't overlook the fact that the Internet is where a great deal of commerece is moving, and where there is commerece, there is fraud.
However, often the same people eat meat (requires killing of much larger clusters of non human cells) and have no problems with getting rid of annoying insects, which is very inconsistent to say the least.
Non Human. Therein lies the difference. Most of the people raving agsint these technologies are Christian, or, to be more specific, Catholic. Their belief system espouses that humans are in the right to take life from those other "non-humans" in order to survive. That's the difference. Scripture supports them.
Of course, I don't agree.
That's one of the more informed posts under this thread. I agree with you for the most part, but I can't help but remember the days when I played Ultima Online. I played when I was on vacation. I played when at a friend's house and the computer was free. It seemed as if it was actually an addicition. Of course, I don't play any MMORPG anymore (they all got really boring), so perhaps you are correct. Then again, when FF XI comes out, I'll be compulsive towards that game. ;-)
April fools! ;-)
you just can't stop energy.
True, but you can contain it. Think of lead-acid batteries, flywheels, or any other energy storage device. The energy becomes somewhat of a potential (although in flywheels the energy is rotational), and can later be turned into useful energy.
Yep, I've heard some bad things.
1) No swimming.
2) No climbing.
I can't get over when an RPG takes out some very basic physical actions in order to make the game just a little easier to code. Simply put, I think those two actions add/take a great deal to/from the game, depending on if they are in the game or not, or if they are implemented well.
When I'm in a game, I want to be completely surrounded by the fantasy. I don't want to remember that it's just a game, and not being able to do simple actions like swimming and climbing rip me right out of the fantasy, and plop me down in reality.
They have had ample time for this project; they should have done it right. Don't get me wrong - I'm excited about the game - I'll finally be able to bring my old campaign to life again, but I am slightly disappointed in the engine.
You are presuming that the spiders are intelligent enough to get past Slashdot's ultra super randomizer..... oh... wait.
Yeah, you're right. But, really, I should be able to. I'm sick of spammers, period. I don't want to "prevent" spam - I want it to be curbed, severely. I don't want to have to swim in an ocean of spam to get to my island of real email. It's a joke.
1. I don't sign up for pr0n sites. There are enough free sites out there to keep my libido busy for a while.
2. I never even talk in public fora.
3. Wow.
No, I don't think I am doing something stupid. I think companies are acting very unethically.
Excuse me? Are you living under a rock? Every day I receive something like 30-40 spams. So, that totals to: 35 (mid-range) * 365 = 12775 spams in a year. I'm not kidding. I get junked down with so much spam I have a hard time finding messages that are NOT spam in my mailbox. Is this a problem? You bet your ass. Have I done anything about it? Yep. I spent about a month forwarding headers to abuse addresses, but did that help? no! What it did was cost me time. Lots of time. About an hour every day, devoted to nothing but bothering with spam.
I don't want that shit in my email box. I didn't ask for it (I _NEVER_ use that email address for registrations) - it just seems to come to me. Personally, I want all those companies shut down, and hard. They should be fined like crazy. Ever hear of an effulent fee? That's what should be proposed. They are wasting bandwidth, time, money, electricity, everything.
It's a big problem. I don't know what cloud you are on, but come back to Earth.
Errr, damn, yep, you are right. I was hideously tired when I made my post. Props to you for pointing that out to me. But, anyway, yes, I still like that idea. The goggles, though, would be _such_ a hassle. Maybe contact lenses? That might be just the right mix of safety and non-intrusiveness that's needed here.