I would be very careful to gather a lot of technical information and multiple refutable "experts" on your side about this. Because if you get it on the air, Charter is going to set up their "experts" saying that the technical claims are invalid. This argument will seem perfectly valid to the non-technical public, so you'll need some fire to fight back with. Preferably a LOT of fire.
Instead of using buggy MS updates, simply cook up a fix yourself (for the hole you're using, and maybe some others) and have the virus update the system it's on after it propogates itself.
That's a very good idea. As it is, plastic takes hundreds of years to degrade in nature. This will help a lot. Next on the list is glass, which currently takes around 1 million.
Too bad we pack our landfills so tight that newspapers don't even start to degrade in 50 years. Until we're willing to take a hit in the short-term (more landfills), we're not going to make any long-term progress - we're just gonna fill up the planet with waste.
1. On paper, design the flow of data, what is hoped to be accomplished.
2. Prototype the functionality as a proof of concept, using routines that suck and are slow and leak memory like a fish net.
3. Test the functionality.
4. Somebody watching the calendar sees you are already over schedule.
5. Some bean counter over-rules your demands to rewrite the entire package, given that he watched it work.
6. Ship it!
7. ??????
8. Profit!
True, true. One can expound theory after theory about things that "must happen" given sufficient time ..but they don't always have to. Given sufficient time we may have the computational power to create a Matrix ..but would we?
eventually computer capability will allow complete simulation of the human cortex. Consequently, there must be far more simulations running in future millennia than seconds since you were born.
There's the logical disconnect in the article - humanity could go forever without ever making such simulations. First of all, we might never see the need. Also, think about the power of religion, among other things, to brainwash the population. Then again, the, ahem ..sexual applications of such technologies would probably end up pushing it into the mainstream, even if it was heavily opposed.
Also ..an interesting thought I just had - if a matrix-like simulation was created by humans, for humans, there would undoubtably be a lot of friction between the outsiders and the insiders. And the outsiders could quite possibly pull the plug. One wonders if that effect might, in itself, lower the likelihood of one's life being a simulation.
"that David Bowie guy, who plain refuses to die and go away."... thank you for the pertinent information, but if you don't stop talking your bad taste will make you sound like an idiot.
It's called taste. We could argue all day with this. How about everyone gets to put their one little statment of taste in their post (like the parent did) and then nobody argues? It's not like there's a point to it.
Hmm..this conversation is starting to sound disturbingly like a Maddox email/response ...
How much fun is this really, when the majority of your time is spent screaming your head off as you fall back to Earth? Maybe the inflight meal will be really good.
If it's got enough G-force to make you scream your head off, maybe the inflight meal will be the last flight's inflight meal . . .
(Is there a reason that what any sane person would call a "zero" is a 400 on the SATs?)
Yeah. It lowers the apparent difference between equal scores. A 1000 and a 1600 look a lot less apart than a 6000 and a 1200.
The Intellimouse Explorer 3.0 has a triple-speed optical sensor. So they wind up being about equal. The only difference is color of LEDs and mouse shape, pretty much.
Um, so what's the point of having an AGP video card?
There is no point. AGP is shittacularly unneccessary. It probably won't be really used effectively until they develop multiple-AGP slot motherboards and start using it for RAM drives.
That is true for individual users. However, if you read the Simputer site, you'll find this:
The projected cost of the Simputer is about Rs 9000 at large volumes. But even this is beyond the means of most citizens. The Smart Card feature that the Simputer provides enables the Simputer to be shared by a community.
A local community such as the village panchayat, the village school, a kiosk, a village postman, or even a shopkeeper should be able to loan the device to individuals for some length of time and then pass it on to others in the community. The Simputer, through its Smart Card feature allows for personal information management at the individual level for an unlimited number of users.
There you have it - it's not intended for single users.
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Regular Mozilla, while a bid slower than Firebird, has an IE theme.
Install programs shine in WINE, especially for something so simple.
DeviantArt is what you're looking for, me thinks.
Why'd they do that? Saddam will only wind up beheading the sysadmins who did it when he gets back from Wal-Mart, picking up this week's armament.
But Saddam's in Montreal, remember? Drinking martini's and laughing his arse off. Not in Good Old God Forsaken Family Values Walmart Censored America.
I would be very careful to gather a lot of technical information and multiple refutable "experts" on your side about this. Because if you get it on the air, Charter is going to set up their "experts" saying that the technical claims are invalid. This argument will seem perfectly valid to the non-technical public, so you'll need some fire to fight back with. Preferably a LOT of fire.
Run Knoppix and set it up with that. ;)
Instead of using buggy MS updates, simply cook up a fix yourself (for the hole you're using, and maybe some others) and have the virus update the system it's on after it propogates itself.
That's a very good idea. As it is, plastic takes hundreds of years to degrade in nature. This will help a lot. Next on the list is glass, which currently takes around 1 million.
Too bad we pack our landfills so tight that newspapers don't even start to degrade in 50 years. Until we're willing to take a hit in the short-term (more landfills), we're not going to make any long-term progress - we're just gonna fill up the planet with waste.
You're missing a couple steps:
1. On paper, design the flow of data, what is hoped to be accomplished.
2. Prototype the functionality as a proof of concept, using routines that suck and are slow and leak memory like a fish net.
3. Test the functionality.
4. Somebody watching the calendar sees you are already over schedule.
5. Some bean counter over-rules your demands to rewrite the entire package, given that he watched it work.
6. Ship it!
7. ??????
8. Profit!
True, true. One can expound theory after theory about things that "must happen" given sufficient time . .but they don't always have to. Given sufficient time we may have the computational power to create a Matrix . .but would we?
.sexual applications of such technologies would probably end up pushing it into the mainstream, even if it was heavily opposed.
.an interesting thought I just had - if a matrix-like simulation was created by humans, for humans, there would undoubtably be a lot of friction between the outsiders and the insiders. And the outsiders could quite possibly pull the plug. One wonders if that effect might, in itself, lower the likelihood of one's life being a simulation.
eventually computer capability will allow complete simulation of the human cortex. Consequently, there must be far more simulations running in future millennia than seconds since you were born.
There's the logical disconnect in the article - humanity could go forever without ever making such simulations. First of all, we might never see the need. Also, think about the power of religion, among other things, to brainwash the population. Then again, the, ahem .
Also .
They're not middle-men, they're end-men. The final retail sale of a product is what counts for GDP.
Why would BIOS even care? It's not like the signal for 'A' from a Dvorak keyboard should be different from another keyboard.
Most people use software translation so they don't have to buy a real Dvorak keyboard, myself included. It's just easier that way.
"that David Bowie guy, who plain refuses to die and go away."... thank you for the pertinent information, but if you don't stop talking your bad taste will make you sound like an idiot. It's called taste. We could argue all day with this. How about everyone gets to put their one little statment of taste in their post (like the parent did) and then nobody argues? It's not like there's a point to it. Hmm ..this conversation is starting to sound disturbingly like a Maddox email/response . ..
Or a USB hub . . .
But ..but . .imagine a Beowulf cluster of these!
How much fun is this really, when the majority of your time is spent screaming your head off as you fall back to Earth? Maybe the inflight meal will be really good. If it's got enough G-force to make you scream your head off, maybe the inflight meal will be the last flight's inflight meal . . .
Er . .that should be 600, not 6000 . ..
(Is there a reason that what any sane person would call a "zero" is a 400 on the SATs?) Yeah. It lowers the apparent difference between equal scores. A 1000 and a 1600 look a lot less apart than a 6000 and a 1200.
But will they let you add them to your Ogg collection, or just their format? They could argue that they don't need to support all standards.
But how much will it cost?
gOShell.
I just got 126K, without cheating. No use of bug. 45K was to the head and 48K to the neck. That guy is SO dead.
The Intellimouse Explorer 3.0 has a triple-speed optical sensor. So they wind up being about equal. The only difference is color of LEDs and mouse shape, pretty much.
Um, so what's the point of having an AGP video card? There is no point. AGP is shittacularly unneccessary. It probably won't be really used effectively until they develop multiple-AGP slot motherboards and start using it for RAM drives.
That is true for individual users. However, if you read the Simputer site, you'll find this:
The projected cost of the Simputer is about Rs 9000 at large volumes. But even this is beyond the means of most citizens. The Smart Card feature that the Simputer provides enables the Simputer to be shared by a community.
A local community such as the village panchayat, the village school, a kiosk, a village postman, or even a shopkeeper should be able to loan the device to individuals for some length of time and then pass it on to others in the community. The Simputer, through its Smart Card feature allows for personal information management at the individual level for an unlimited number of users.
There you have it - it's not intended for single users.