What's happening to this planet ?
(1) You can't buy a cd/dvd/firewire product w/o permission.
(2) Taxi drivers have to pay royalty if their passengers listen to radio.
(3) New audio cds which will not work on standard audio equipment, but only on PCs with security locks.
(4) The DMCA which just abt doesnt let you comment/work on any digital product.
(5) Billing Kazaa users - no small amounts either
(6) MP3 compression usage now demands a royalty fee.(br)
These people seem to be forgetting that they exist because of us, the customers. And they are trying to upset those very people that help them stay in business. These guys are trying to push us into a corner and will probably start charging us for the air we breathe... soon. It disgusts me, and OPEN SOURCE makes all the more sense to me. Looks like there is gonna be a war... on intellectual property and rights.. soon.
This is a brilliant concept. There was a 3d game called Chasm-The Rift, which enabled the server to actually split the display into 4 quadrants , so that one could see the players fragging each other - i guess it was ahead of its time. I wonder how they are gonna make the costing work ; will they charge the same as a movie ticket for 2 hrs of gameplay? And why only consoles ? Why not PCs ? I guess we'll have publishers like EA sponsering events, with banners (and maybe pompom girls) all over the place. I'd be spending the better part of my weekend at such a venue !!!!
I would consider bundling Star Office as a half hearted attempt. It would STILL mean a product from a large corporate, it would STILL mean you are paying for it. Why not go with OpenOffice ? Sony may have to build a support service specifically for OpenOffice concerns, but it would mean propagating open source and maybe pushing OpenOffice to develope higher standards.
We hate Microsoft coz they have a monopoly and they exploit it. Would things really be better if SUN or Oracle had that same monopoly? Why not just boost opensource? And let these biggies develope their support services for these products.
I guess we have geeks/enthusiasts for every possible field/product in this world... I didn't get most of the "terms" they used in the specifications.
interesting concept... but will the cable companies accept it ? Is not that the BIG question here ?
Open Source in the government will save the government a lot of money, though they may need a helping hand (they don't have to spend on training sessions; the community is always there to help). I'm surprised though, that the US govt is contemplating this. They have always been a paranoid and suspicious lot, and to embrace technology, the innards of which many "outsiders" have designed, is a brave step for them. The recent "hack" in one of the recently released open source software, doesn't seem to have perturbed them either.
This is a step, in the right direction. No software is perfect. BUT Linux definitly is more sound than windows......(maybe they're opting for linux coz they know NSA has its access into the Windows OS;) )
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This idea has been floating around for some time, and it is nice to see it being actually implemented. (Even GM's Hy-wire car uses fuel cells). IMO, this technology hasn't matured as yet, and I will NOT consider it matured till the day these cells will run on WATER itself and NOT hydrogen. More than 70% of the world is covered by water, can you imagine how much energy we have, potentially ???
I must admit though , I can imagine nomads in the deserts running their water powered buggies and then stopping for a drink from their buggie's fuel(water) tank !!!!!!
God is an artist... or maybe I should say science is artistic. Yah, I think I believe more in that, especiall when science is let acting on its own accord (which would be nature).
Coming back to the pics themselves, I couldn't find pics of the "Rama bridge", the one which as been in the news recently. It's a mythological bridge supposedly constructed by Rama and his devotees from India to SriLanka. They found evidence of this bridge thanks to... you guessed it... satellite imagery.
There were some striking colors, I wonder it that's the natural actual color, or if its the atmosphere playing optical tricks.
Atleast that's what Fatboy Slim's "RIGHT HERE RIGHT NOW" video , portrays. It's a nice animation.. show's underwater uni-celled organisms evolve into fish into land blubbers into monkeys and finally into man... if you haven't seen it,check it out... a crash course in evolution.
It's actually an interesting technique ; if you DO confess to falling for this, then well you aren't too bright and would think twice about letting someone else know. I guess that's why its been so successful. Well, I guess an easy follow up to this can be a simple error message, with an OK button.
Your computer is broadcasting your IP address
P.S : Please ignore this message if you are running Linux.
We seem to be obesessed with the idea of playing god. Science is a dangerous "tool". If applied appropriatly, it may make life easier and more enriched experience; however it can go horribly wrong.
I just hope they know what they're doing. Should make rain in their own backyard before they make rain elsewhere;)
Anyways it would be extremely boring to have a weather controlled earth.....
Yahoo better mail all its subscribers and others to warn them about spam.... er oops.. that itself would constitute spam. oh well.
It's tough to avoid spam , and i guess it is impossible to completly block it out.. as you will always get unwanted mail from some pesky friend or relentless ma-in-law. It seems to be more of a problem of social engineering, rather than technology.
Hari Seldon of foundation fame (thanks to isaac assimov) was an expert at psychohistory , a science which could predict the future by studying the behavior of large mass of people. The larger the mass, the more accurate the prediction. And that was science fiction......
Well, atleast in this case it is limited to economic forcasting. But then, what kind of data tracking do they do ? I mean, for example, how will the nature of slashdot postings help decide what that user is going to buy/sell/mortgage ? and security software that reports your browsing ? it's like saying microsoft is preaching GPL...
Assimov and his imperial galaxy.
It would be so typical of humans to migrate from earth , and after a few million years refuse to admit that humanity originated on earth. Assimov's books do tend to be a little slow in comparison to other sci fis and he does tend to over-obsess with mind control and telepathy, and he may be wrong about his robot fundas, but the rest is all brilliant. He addresses the shorcomings of mankind - this is who we are - this is what we do.
Gene Rodenberry was supposed to be very accurate with his sci-fi predictions. Apparantly the design of the starship Enterprise is credible, the matter-anti-matter converters would have to be a safe distance from the main hull. He also foresaw the mobilie phone/wireless funda. Ofcourse, he too had a few flaws in his plot - he couldnt land the damn ship- hence the beaming up and down and he was obsessed with peace and minimized violence (which seems to be impossible for the human race).
Orson Scott Card and his Ender series were pretty cool too.
20,000 leagues under the sea was hardcore sci-fi at the time of its relese. It maybe all real now, but Jules Verne , again, was ahead of his time.
The most convincing sci-fi plot i have ever come across is - The Matrix. it's more credibile and has lesser loopholes.....
Games seem to be a major factor when it comes to choosing an OS (or even a console). Thanks to apps like Wine and orgs like Loki, we'll have em all someday on the *nix systems. Things are looking up. I got hold of The Return to Castle Wolfenstien beta for linux before I could get a Windows version. And if you're targetting Linux , why not the rest of the *nix distros. It's all moving in the right direction.
How about a KILLER game for the *nix platform which can NOT be run on windows........
when was the last time you drove an australian car or used an australian manufactured home appliance ?
LG, Samsung, Daewoo, Goldstar are all Korean companies. They may not be the largest, but Australian companies can't stand up to these cos.
BUT Fosters(australian for beer)...has gr8 market presence.. no denying
cheers
Hypocracy.. why do countries/polititians claim they advocate freedom of speech , when they don't. Certain issues like child pornography and terrorist organizations , I can understand. But, why should they want to censor anything else ? DO they like flexing their political arms,or do they just want to be noticed ?
And why drag Korea into all this ? Korean companies anyways have a much stronger global presence than Australian companies.. except for beer ofcourse....;)
you can't even spell your own name:) hence the "coward" label.
yah... i aint Mr Spelling bee... but I talk only what i know about.... don't like wasting time over monkeys who like talking to their parrots...
there is a striking similarity b/w the matrix concept and the sims.. only one difference... in our world here.. we want to jump into cyberspace and go about our mundane activities ie The Sims. In the matrix however.. people were trying to jump out of the virtual world. Maybe, if the matrix DID exist.. people would have prefered NOT to jump out of the virtual world... and that's scary.. but that is where the world is heading.
I can't remember the link.. but I read this article about how the internet.. or a common virtual world may be harmful to the development cycle of the world... WHY.. that's because if people are in such close/instant contact with each other , they begin to think alike. Whereas if you have segregated areas, people have the oppertunity to develope independantly.. original ideas flow.. as a result they may discover more than one way of achieving something in their respective areas..... dunno how true this is but it DOES make one think
Well, I aint exactly a newbie when it comes to physics. I understand Hisendberg's uncertainty principle since it can be proved in real world parameters, but what I dont understand is how can one understand a hypothetical principle ?
Well.. we had relativity (which has been beyond us mortals), we had quantum mechanics ( whic again has been beyond us mortals) and now we have quantum relativity (and guess what ! they all are STILL beyond us).
Now what? Humans have this notion that they are gonna solve the mystery of life.. which they may someday.. but not for the next few centuries (unless we have vulcans landing up on earth a-la star trek). When we discovered the atom we thought we had all the answers.. and NOW we say if we crack quantum mechanics.. we are gonna have it all.
Hm.. maybe if I understoof what this lady was saying, it would help.. but.... wooooooshh.. over my head
Yellow Dog was there first ! I thought their distro was up and running on the PPC quite some time back....I guess they forgot the hard-disk part:)
The MacOS of the future.... a Linux/BSD variant with a unified snazzy theme (ala redhat's bluecurve) .
Ok.. how about this. Someone sets up a company, in Denmark or wherever and he stocks or pretends to stock a helluva lota these audio/video cds. Now if the(bad)guys trace a downloader and demand payment from him, he approaches this company which claims that it was selling him these secondhand cds for a sum of $1 or lesser each (who can regulate second hand prices?) and the downloader can pay them that wee bit of money. After all he technically would have owned these second hand cds and can claim to have downloaded these cds in anticipation. Its a vague idea... but I guess even a group of friends can set up such an arrangement... ie a second/thirdhand sale...
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redefines "Seeing red"!They literally are !
I guess realtime digital enhancing DVD video demands lotsa processing
What's happening to this planet ?
(1) You can't buy a cd/dvd/firewire product w/o permission.
(2) Taxi drivers have to pay royalty if their passengers listen to radio.
(3) New audio cds which will not work on standard audio equipment, but only on PCs with security locks.
(4) The DMCA which just abt doesnt let you comment/work on any digital product.
(5) Billing Kazaa users - no small amounts either
(6) MP3 compression usage now demands a royalty fee.(br) These people seem to be forgetting that they exist because of us, the customers. And they are trying to upset those very people that help them stay in business. These guys are trying to push us into a corner and will probably start charging us for the air we breathe... soon. It disgusts me, and OPEN SOURCE makes all the more sense to me. Looks like there is gonna be a war... on intellectual property and rights.. soon.
This is a brilliant concept. There was a 3d game called Chasm-The Rift, which enabled the server to actually split the display into 4 quadrants , so that one could see the players fragging each other - i guess it was ahead of its time. I wonder how they are gonna make the costing work ; will they charge the same as a movie ticket for 2 hrs of gameplay? And why only consoles ? Why not PCs ? I guess we'll have publishers like EA sponsering events, with banners (and maybe pompom girls) all over the place. I'd be spending the better part of my weekend at such a venue !!!!
I would consider bundling Star Office as a half hearted attempt. It would STILL mean a product from a large corporate, it would STILL mean you are paying for it. Why not go with OpenOffice ? Sony may have to build a support service specifically for OpenOffice concerns, but it would mean propagating open source and maybe pushing OpenOffice to develope higher standards.
We hate Microsoft coz they have a monopoly and they exploit it. Would things really be better if SUN or Oracle had that same monopoly? Why not just boost opensource? And let these biggies develope their support services for these products.
I guess we have geeks/enthusiasts for every possible field/product in this world... I didn't get most of the "terms" they used in the specifications.
interesting concept... but will the cable companies accept it ? Is not that the BIG question here ?
well.. granted... but then that's what makes it desirable. :p
Atleast no-one told me that i'm talking about "steam engines"
Open Source in the government will save the government a lot of money, though they may need a helping hand (they don't have to spend on training sessions; the community is always there to help). I'm surprised though, that the US govt is contemplating this. They have always been a paranoid and suspicious lot, and to embrace technology, the innards of which many "outsiders" have designed, is a brave step for them. The recent "hack" in one of the recently released open source software, doesn't seem to have perturbed them either.
This is a step, in the right direction. No software is perfect. BUT Linux definitly is more sound than windows......(maybe they're opting for linux coz they know NSA has its access into the Windows OS;) )
hmm.... sounds like voxel technology
thanks
This idea has been floating around for some time, and it is nice to see it being actually implemented. (Even GM's Hy-wire car uses fuel cells). IMO, this technology hasn't matured as yet, and I will NOT consider it matured till the day these cells will run on WATER itself and NOT hydrogen. More than 70% of the world is covered by water, can you imagine how much energy we have, potentially ???
I must admit though , I can imagine nomads in the deserts running their water powered buggies and then stopping for a drink from their buggie's fuel(water) tank !!!!!!
God is an artist... or maybe I should say science is artistic. Yah, I think I believe more in that, especiall when science is let acting on its own accord (which would be nature).
Coming back to the pics themselves, I couldn't find pics of the "Rama bridge", the one which as been in the news recently. It's a mythological bridge supposedly constructed by Rama and his devotees from India to SriLanka. They found evidence of this bridge thanks to... you guessed it... satellite imagery.
There were some striking colors, I wonder it that's the natural actual color, or if its the atmosphere playing optical tricks.
Atleast that's what Fatboy Slim's "RIGHT HERE RIGHT NOW" video , portrays. It's a nice animation.. show's underwater uni-celled organisms evolve into fish into land blubbers into monkeys and finally into man... if you haven't seen it ,check it out... a crash course in evolution.
It's actually an interesting technique ; if you DO confess to falling for this, then well you aren't too bright and would think twice about letting someone else know. I guess that's why its been so successful. Well, I guess an easy follow up to this can be a simple error message, with an OK button.
Your computer is broadcasting your IP address
P.S : Please ignore this message if you are running Linux.
We seem to be obesessed with the idea of playing god. Science is a dangerous "tool". If applied appropriatly, it may make life easier and more enriched experience; however it can go horribly wrong. ;)
I just hope they know what they're doing. Should make rain in their own backyard before they make rain elsewhere
Anyways it would be extremely boring to have a weather controlled earth.....
Yahoo better mail all its subscribers and others to warn them about spam.... er oops.. that itself would constitute spam. oh well.
It's tough to avoid spam , and i guess it is impossible to completly block it out.. as you will always get unwanted mail from some pesky friend or relentless ma-in-law. It seems to be more of a problem of social engineering, rather than technology.
Hari Seldon of foundation fame (thanks to isaac assimov) was an expert at psychohistory , a science which could predict the future by studying the behavior of large mass of people. The larger the mass, the more accurate the prediction. And that was science fiction...... Well, atleast in this case it is limited to economic forcasting. But then, what kind of data tracking do they do ? I mean, for example, how will the nature of slashdot postings help decide what that user is going to buy/sell/mortgage ? and security software that reports your browsing ? it's like saying microsoft is preaching GPL...
Assimov and his imperial galaxy. It would be so typical of humans to migrate from earth , and after a few million years refuse to admit that humanity originated on earth. Assimov's books do tend to be a little slow in comparison to other sci fis and he does tend to over-obsess with mind control and telepathy, and he may be wrong about his robot fundas, but the rest is all brilliant. He addresses the shorcomings of mankind - this is who we are - this is what we do. Gene Rodenberry was supposed to be very accurate with his sci-fi predictions. Apparantly the design of the starship Enterprise is credible, the matter-anti-matter converters would have to be a safe distance from the main hull. He also foresaw the mobilie phone/wireless funda. Ofcourse, he too had a few flaws in his plot - he couldnt land the damn ship- hence the beaming up and down and he was obsessed with peace and minimized violence (which seems to be impossible for the human race). Orson Scott Card and his Ender series were pretty cool too. 20,000 leagues under the sea was hardcore sci-fi at the time of its relese. It maybe all real now, but Jules Verne , again, was ahead of his time. The most convincing sci-fi plot i have ever come across is - The Matrix. it's more credibile and has lesser loopholes.....
Games seem to be a major factor when it comes to choosing an OS (or even a console). Thanks to apps like Wine and orgs like Loki, we'll have em all someday on the *nix systems. Things are looking up. I got hold of The Return to Castle Wolfenstien beta for linux before I could get a Windows version. And if you're targetting Linux , why not the rest of the *nix distros. It's all moving in the right direction. How about a KILLER game for the *nix platform which can NOT be run on windows........
when was the last time you drove an australian car or used an australian manufactured home appliance ? LG, Samsung, Daewoo, Goldstar are all Korean companies. They may not be the largest, but Australian companies can't stand up to these cos. BUT Fosters(australian for beer)...has gr8 market presence.. no denying cheers
Hypocracy.. why do countries/polititians claim they advocate freedom of speech , when they don't. Certain issues like child pornography and terrorist organizations , I can understand. But, why should they want to censor anything else ? DO they like flexing their political arms,or do they just want to be noticed ? And why drag Korea into all this ? Korean companies anyways have a much stronger global presence than Australian companies.. except for beer ofcourse.... ;)
you can't even spell your own name :) hence the "coward" label.
yah... i aint Mr Spelling bee... but I talk only what i know about.... don't like wasting time over monkeys who like talking to their parrots...
there is a striking similarity b/w the matrix concept and the sims.. only one difference... in our world here.. we want to jump into cyberspace and go about our mundane activities ie The Sims. In the matrix however.. people were trying to jump out of the virtual world. Maybe, if the matrix DID exist.. people would have prefered NOT to jump out of the virtual world... and that's scary.. but that is where the world is heading. I can't remember the link.. but I read this article about how the internet.. or a common virtual world may be harmful to the development cycle of the world... WHY.. that's because if people are in such close/instant contact with each other , they begin to think alike. Whereas if you have segregated areas, people have the oppertunity to develope independantly.. original ideas flow.. as a result they may discover more than one way of achieving something in their respective areas..... dunno how true this is but it DOES make one think
Well, I aint exactly a newbie when it comes to physics. I understand Hisendberg's uncertainty principle since it can be proved in real world parameters, but what I dont understand is how can one understand a hypothetical principle ?
Well.. we had relativity (which has been beyond us mortals), we had quantum mechanics ( whic again has been beyond us mortals) and now we have quantum relativity (and guess what ! they all are STILL beyond us). Now what? Humans have this notion that they are gonna solve the mystery of life.. which they may someday.. but not for the next few centuries (unless we have vulcans landing up on earth a-la star trek). When we discovered the atom we thought we had all the answers.. and NOW we say if we crack quantum mechanics.. we are gonna have it all. Hm.. maybe if I understoof what this lady was saying, it would help.. but.... wooooooshh.. over my head
Yellow Dog was there first ! I thought their distro was up and running on the PPC quite some time back....I guess they forgot the hard-disk part :)
The MacOS of the future.... a Linux/BSD variant with a unified snazzy theme (ala redhat's bluecurve) .
Ok.. how about this. Someone sets up a company, in Denmark or wherever and he stocks or pretends to stock a helluva lota these audio/video cds. Now if the(bad)guys trace a downloader and demand payment from him, he approaches this company which claims that it was selling him these secondhand cds for a sum of $1 or lesser each (who can regulate second hand prices?) and the downloader can pay them that wee bit of money. After all he technically would have owned these second hand cds and can claim to have downloaded these cds in anticipation. Its a vague idea... but I guess even a group of friends can set up such an arrangement... ie a second/thirdhand sale...