I can recall some Xenix(!)-based Daisy CAD systems based on 386-based PCs (might have even been 286's?) where I used to work. We also had the puck/digitiser tablet thingies.
The systems had 19 or 21 inch monitors and one major problem was that the EM field generated by the monitors interfered with the puck. If you had your tablet too close to the screen and then moved to the top left, the EM pickup would make the pad/software freak out and draw hundreds of lines/vectors/nodes in sync with the monitor scan frequencies all over your wonderful design!!
The other problem was that the OS paging used to thrash the disks so hard that the drives (something like ST4096's I would imagine) were being replaced every few weeks/months.
This may be too radical for M$ Lovers. Note, however that M$'s bulletin states "Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition (Me) does not include the features that are associated with these vulnerabilities" - so there's an option for NT, 2000 and XP users - 'upgrade' to Me!!!
Could they be programmed to tunnel through the Internet, seek out and bind to the sender in a way that makes them instantly the most attractive object to, say, any and all lightning discharges within a 1000 mile radius - it would look kinda like Neo when he took the red pill and then looked in the mirror.
The usual semi-informed opinions about why it won't work, the spotting of 'obvious' flaws for the benefit of the designers (because they're clearly going to be unable to spot the obvious, are they?). References to Web sites detailing someone who's already done the same thing (but who also seems not to have managed to change the world with their invention or fired the public's imagination). Add a sprinkle of smart-ass comments modded as funny when they're not really. Someone will try and make reference to one or more of the following: Linux, beowulf clusters, sco, the dmca and big corporates. Someone will think it clever to string the word 'fuck' together in some rambling irrelevant post. There may even be some unoriginal, 'anatomical' ASCII art from a lamer that's just discovered that a large amount of time can be wasted with an artform most of us had a small amount of fun with about 15-20 years ago when we actually owned a dot matrix printer, had a copy of TheDraw, had a VT220 on our desk and wrote text-based login scripts for mainframes, minis and PC-based servers. Welcome to slashdot! All the world is here but many useful features have been disabled in this evaluation copy.
You obviously haven't read the follow up article relating to the planned compulsory DCI display technology...Can't find the link at the moment, I'll post it later...
"Direct Cortex Injection will enable a high resolution 'display' image to be transmitted directly to the recipient's visual cortex where decoding of the encrypted data stream will be carried out by a pair of transceiver chips attached to the user's optic nerves. Several levels of public and private key encryption, coupled with authentication by the recipient's DNA signature will make the transmitted signal impossible to intercept.
Multicast modes will allow meetings and conferences to be 'viewed' by multiple recipients, provided that they accept the transmission using the appropriate sequence of evey movements against the virtual control interface.
Initial plans specify a low-power interface with an intended reception range of 30m, but wide-area use, such as real-time news broadcasts and opt-in advertising (rewarded by credits posted direcly to the receipient's bank), are planned for phase II roll out.
Power for the transceivers will be made by the innovative bio-glucose process recently unveiled.
Other uses for the technology include education during sleep, remote projection of images between persons (imagine 'being' at the party you're not 'at'!!). DMCA control will prevent one host from retransmitting copyright images, such as films, live concerts and corporate sensitive documents. One further development envisages an in-built cache to store several minutes of recent events as viewed by the host, with the images being retrievable by law enforcement agencies in the event of a fatality or accident (bio-glucose power being available for roughly 18 hours after the death of the host)
A decision whether the implantation of DCI transceivers should be made compulsory has not yet been made although several organisations are believed to be pursuing this issue through various lobbying groups."
I mentioned this some threads up (but you won the 'interesting points'-well done!).
I kinda posted it tongue in cheek because, for reasons pointed out by other posters, RWs take too long to burn, they're too expensive and relatively fragile.
Well, there was one game - a 'find the pairs' based on flags of the world--kept my 3yr old son amused for, oh, 10 mins before he got bored with it. I was expecting the games previews to at least be demos but the 'experience' [sic] for all of them was just a watchable presentation. The 'look and feel of the whole presentation on the CD was slick, but it was definitely more of an 'ad show' than anything else. Now, if they put the entire contents of the paper onto CD/DVD so it could be read 'as and when' during the week that would be great!
I have just tried Kazaa Lite on various other search engines and meta
search engines, and without fail they return at least one of the forbidden 8
sites that Google removes:
Obviously not a comprehensive effort (I have a 3yr old son to entertain right
now and that's much more important!), but it leads to the conclusion that either
the complainant thinks the world revolves around Google OR the other sites
haven't checked their mail yet!
As others have pointed out, the genie is out of the bottle and so semi-hiding
the links is going to be pointless. I loved the written up DMCA
complaint--putting the list of banned sites on it is kind of like having an
English test question that says: Write down the correct spelling of following
word: 'incomprehensible'?.
...the year was divided into, say, 12 monitoring periods and if absolutely no offences were committed during a period (not even 1 mile per hour over a limit), the driver was awarded a bonus payment of, say 50 uk pounds...er..actually, no, the whole idea of the system is totally cack in the first place. Forget it.
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I can recall some Xenix(!)-based Daisy CAD systems based on 386-based PCs (might have even been 286's?) where I used to work. We also had the puck/digitiser tablet thingies.
The systems had 19 or 21 inch monitors and one major problem was that the EM field generated by the monitors interfered with the puck. If you had your tablet too close to the screen and then moved to the top left, the EM pickup would make the pad/software freak out and draw hundreds of lines/vectors/nodes in sync with the monitor scan frequencies all over your wonderful design!!
The other problem was that the OS paging used to thrash the disks so hard that the drives (something like ST4096's I would imagine) were being replaced every few weeks/months.
This may be too radical for M$ Lovers. Note, however that M$'s bulletin states "Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition (Me) does not include the features that are associated with these vulnerabilities" - so there's an option for NT, 2000 and XP users - 'upgrade' to Me!!!
Remote execution of code on multiple machines? Imagine a Beo..er..XP cluster of those!
But can they stop the viagra and enlargement ads?
Could they be programmed to tunnel through the Internet, seek out and bind to the sender in a way that makes them instantly the most attractive object to, say, any and all lightning discharges within a 1000 mile radius - it would look kinda like Neo when he took the red pill and then looked in the mirror.
Bwahahahaha
I had a book on my shelf once. It explained all about these things and their supernatural origins. I didn't buy the book, it just appeared one day.
...have fun...
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Thank you for not posting any ASCII art to back up your comment!!!
The usual semi-informed opinions about why it won't work, the spotting of 'obvious' flaws for the benefit of the designers (because they're clearly going to be unable to spot the obvious, are they?). References to Web sites detailing someone who's already done the same thing (but who also seems not to have managed to change the world with their invention or fired the public's imagination). Add a sprinkle of smart-ass comments modded as funny when they're not really. Someone will try and make reference to one or more of the following: Linux, beowulf clusters, sco, the dmca and big corporates. Someone will think it clever to string the word 'fuck' together in some rambling irrelevant post. There may even be some unoriginal, 'anatomical' ASCII art from a lamer that's just discovered that a large amount of time can be wasted with an artform most of us had a small amount of fun with about 15-20 years ago when we actually owned a dot matrix printer, had a copy of TheDraw, had a VT220 on our desk and wrote text-based login scripts for mainframes, minis and PC-based servers. Welcome to slashdot! All the world is here but many useful features have been disabled in this evaluation copy.
Imagine a Beo...nah!
Next: How to make movies on an Etch-a-Sketch by drawing each frame and then using a scanner to create individual GIF frames.
What monitor?
You obviously haven't read the follow up article relating to the planned compulsory DCI display technology...Can't find the link at the moment, I'll post it later...
"Direct Cortex Injection will enable a high resolution 'display' image to be transmitted directly to the recipient's visual cortex where decoding of the encrypted data stream will be carried out by a pair of transceiver chips attached to the user's optic nerves. Several levels of public and private key encryption, coupled with authentication by the recipient's DNA signature will make the transmitted signal impossible to intercept.
Multicast modes will allow meetings and conferences to be 'viewed' by multiple recipients, provided that they accept the transmission using the appropriate sequence of evey movements against the virtual control interface.
Initial plans specify a low-power interface with an intended reception range of 30m, but wide-area use, such as real-time news broadcasts and opt-in advertising (rewarded by credits posted direcly to the receipient's bank), are planned for phase II roll out.
Power for the transceivers will be made by the innovative bio-glucose process recently unveiled.
Other uses for the technology include education during sleep, remote projection of images between persons (imagine 'being' at the party you're not 'at'!!). DMCA control will prevent one host from retransmitting copyright images, such as films, live concerts and corporate sensitive documents. One further development envisages an in-built cache to store several minutes of recent events as viewed by the host, with the images being retrievable by law enforcement agencies in the event of a fatality or accident (bio-glucose power being available for roughly 18 hours after the death of the host) A decision whether the implantation of DCI transceivers should be made compulsory has not yet been made although several organisations are believed to be pursuing this issue through various lobbying groups."
I mentioned this some threads up (but you won the 'interesting points'-well done!).
I kinda posted it tongue in cheek because, for reasons pointed out by other posters, RWs take too long to burn, they're too expensive and relatively fragile.
I then wondered about USB memory sticks!!
L3K
I didn't say it would be easy or likely!
Hows about putting it on a 512MB/1GB USB memory stick then - do you think economies of scale would bring the price down enough!
L3K
PS: Don't worry about replying, I know the answer!
Now, if they put it on a CD-RW!!!!
Well, there was one game - a 'find the pairs' based on flags of the world--kept my 3yr old son amused for, oh, 10 mins before he got bored with it. I was expecting the games previews to at least be demos but the 'experience' [sic] for all of them was just a watchable presentation.
The 'look and feel of the whole presentation on the CD was slick, but it was definitely more of an 'ad show' than anything else.
Now, if they put the entire contents of the paper onto CD/DVD so it could be read 'as and when' during the week that would be great!
Open soy source surely? Bwahahahahahaha (Sorry, it's been a long day...)
CTLR-ART-DER
Actually, according to SearchEngineWatch, it was nearer 76% in May 2003, but point taken.
I have just tried Kazaa Lite on various other search engines and meta search engines, and without fail they return at least one of the forbidden 8 sites that Google removes:
Altavista
Webcrawler
Teoma
Dogpile
Obviously not a comprehensive effort (I have a 3yr old son to entertain right now and that's much more important!), but it leads to the conclusion that either the complainant thinks the world revolves around Google OR the other sites haven't checked their mail yet!
As others have pointed out, the genie is out of the bottle and so semi-hiding the links is going to be pointless. I loved the written up DMCA complaint--putting the list of banned sites on it is kind of like having an English test question that says: Write down the correct spelling of following word: 'incomprehensible'? .
Top marks for a sensible comment on the situation.
We'll just have to see what the terms of the Microsoft licence are.
L3K
...the year was divided into, say, 12 monitoring periods and if absolutely no offences were committed during a period (not even 1 mile per hour over a limit), the driver was awarded a bonus payment of, say 50 uk pounds. ..er..actually, no, the whole idea of the system is totally cack in the first place. Forget it.
IsoBuster
That too!
Sorry but the words the doll won't say belong to ONE category (obscene) hence 'kind' = singular.
The era of biological computing when I can just sneeze on my PC to double its RAM!