The US already has this... The Robo Sapien...Japan is sooo behind the US in technology...they need to catch up(sarcasm)...The robosapien is much better...well atleast it looks alot better...
This is getting lame....every week some part of the movie is getting leaked....just leak the damn movie already...i know one of you out there has it....
They will finally have population control that works...Anyone who has taken economic development will tell you...that the 2 of the main causes of poverty is high population growth and lack education....With the internet comes free education(which comes not only in form or learning new things but also getting help from places like webmd to treat common problems...and with it also comes poplation control...how? well porn...well actuall the main cause of poluation growth is a lack of development which causes children to be seen as an investment..take for example germany...germany has negative poluation growth(more people dying than getting born)..france and other developed countries also follow a similar tred....when the country is developed children as seen as oppurtunity cost rather than investment...
it was bad enough when people lost jobs because they were outsourced now we're going to lose ever more job because of foriegn takeovers...if this isn't stopped i think its about time we start considering the option to outsource our congress...
I know verizon is still fighting RIAA. And i know that comcast and some other cable companies said that they would cooperate with RIAA.
Comcast has had the most subpeonas sent to it by RIAA and they are #1 on thier hitlist. Real people are bieng affected here. For example there was a case with the mother of 4 who doesn't even have enough money for an attorney.(you think she will be sending her kids to college if riaa bankrupts her)What does RIAA gain out of it?? Some extra revenue so the ridicuosly wealthy singers can support thier drug habit and thier trips to space.
Verizon is dead set against it. http://dc.internet.com/news/article.php/30754 51 http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/04/25/1614244.s html ?tid=158
RIAA can't keep fighting all these companies and the negative publicity its recieving...P2P network will get more sophisticated and secure...as many as said in the past RIAA needs to change thier business models..thats the only way to combat piracy...piracy has been around for as long as there was any type of trade...even coporations/organizations larger than RIAA have to deal with piracy but they do it by changing thier business model...gaming companies(ie blizzard) started offering online subscriptions which make the user more inclined to buy the game instead of pirating it...M$ started offering...well thats sort of a bad example...but even they dont use thier windowsupdate site to check if your cdkey is valid...RIAA often argues that "you can't compete with free" but that is wrong...people buy botteled water...they buy gorumet coffee from startbucks instead of the free cup they can get at work...hell people even buy M$ windows over linux...anways what i'm trying to say is you can compete with free if the incentive is there...riaa needs to change thier business model and offer these incentives....
"To test the technology the Columbia space shuttle was fitted with an embedded PC that has a 233 MHz processor, 128 MB of RAM and a solid-state 144 MB hard drive. "
I remember when nase used to be the technology leader...people used to brag about how this product came from nasa...what happened...budget cut backs must be really hurting them if they're sending that computer to space...my dell x5 with 512 mb compact flash can outperform NASA equipment....man i'd love to goto nasa and brag to them about my pda...
Hookers on demand....the porn/sex industry is going to be the first in line if they can ever get matter to teleport correctly...even if they don't i wouldn't mind having hooker with 3 breasts =]..
With all the developers and programmrs that subscribe to slashdot i was hoping someone would develop an application that would aalow u to install J2ME on Brew phones...
Anyone else here feel that games based of ever quest are really not worth buying, in fact i think that the bottom line for the new star war game is how much is it going to be? Although this is a new twist in the heavily saturated market of games based on "Star Wars"....
This device since it is based on satellite technology rather than cellular technologies will have draw backs related with satellite technologies. On of the worst draw backs is that no signal if your not in open space.(meaning something isn't obstructing your signal such as going through a tunnel even tall buildings or a cloudy day can block the signal) Maybe a Combination of cellular, radio, and satellite could be the ultimate solution.
Most car dealerships or car security dealers already have a system which can be used to track down theif if they steal your car. It called LoJack, which was unpopular because by the time they found the police found the car the only thing left was the frame of the car and the lojack box.
I think you are completely right, I was re-evaluating what i said and i think The Open Source community shouldn't feel threatened by Microsoft's Presence. Ultimately, the goal is to provide a superegos way of developing a product, and we shouldn't be scared if we know for a fact that we're superior. So LET Microsoft officials be a part of the panel, Infect I can't recall where but I read articles stating that Microsoft would release source to certain parts of it OS to certain government funded organizations. By the way my original Subject line got truncated it read "Its like having a cigarette company decide if tobacco is healthy"
Does anyone else think Microsoft Employees would be bias? I think the panel should only include people who are not bias and experts in the field of open source and security. This definitely rules out Microsoft.
Its great that they can do heart surgery with robots but consider for a second what if ther e is a black out the back up generators don't kick in or run out of gas or any kind of malfunction for that matter....on the other hand at least the robot doesn't need Malpractice Insurance. I'd prefer that my heart be handled by a well trained doctor, atleast if something goes wrong I have some one to sue.
You know what I noticed about GBA and just Nintendo games in general, they might not have the best graphics or the latest type of shading and lighting but they are addictive and fun. For Example for me its SUPER MARIO CART....I can't get enough of that game. Even Mario, I thought I'd get tired of him by now but once I started playing I am just as much addicted now as I was 10 years ago with Super Mario Brothers on Nintendo.
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IBM has gained a new found respect from me, it is the ideal coporation in my eyes, unlike some other coporations such as M$. IBM is bieng very innovative and embracing new techinologies that will help our society adcance, adopting technologies such as P2P networks and Linux based servers it is showing an effort to try to understand the comsumer's point of view. Thier business practice is not known to me but just knowing that they value the opniion of the Users such as slashdotters earns them respect in my book unlike M$.
We need to stop wrrying about every possible thing that can destroy this planet, sure we're advance enough to possibly change the out come of certain castrophic events but instead of changing the course of these events, our money will be better spent on trying to find new ways to help our current situations such as global hunger or AIDS or even find ways to reach beyond earth and begin colonising other planets...how long will the earth sustain us anyways...at the speed that we're using our resources and damaging the planet mix that with the population growth and u have a castraphic even that is much more likely to happen then an asteroid collision...
2 things i propose we should do to prevent spam, if you have more feel to share. First of all things like whitelisting won't work too tell since spammers can send mail using fake email adrresses from a whitelisted company. The best things to do to kill spam is to set up 3 or more mail accounts sign up with about 50 or so mailing list and then wait for the spam to come in. The spam that comes in to these mail account should be filtered globally to all mail ccounts listed under the provider(ie. hotmail), in theory this would work well. The second thing we should do as a community is to find out exactly who these spammers are and give them a taste of thier own medicine by spamming thier coporate email accounts. The govvernment should help and sponsor such programs if they can't legitamely stop spammers.
if that wasn't enough for you..=]...which i'm guessing is not the case...if u really want to have a phone that will in europe...goto ebay buy ur self a cheap UNLOCKED nokia gsm phone and u can buy prepaid cards in europe which will be much better than the coverage or the PRICE you will get from the gsm enabled networks jsut ash att,cingular or voicestream. Another bit about these networks is that att and cingular wre originally and TDMA network and later had to setup completely new GSM towers because TDMA(what ur most probably using right now is NOT backward compatible so u have get a dual mode phone to get around this little trick. THINK TWICE BEFORE U GET M-LIFE OR CINGUALR GSM...
lets clear a few myths on cell phones so everyone has a basic understanding of what we're talking about here. First of all i wanna point out the the US is not trailing europe in cell phone technology. Next i'd like to point out that sprint sucks, because it has the very bad coverage compared to other providers. Let compare providers first, these are genralization depending on where u live they may vary. The market is currently dominated by Verizon at 24% of the share, then comes Cingualr, Sprint, ATT, Nextel, Voicestream, in that order. Verizon had the largest network and can cover just about all of the us if u have a tri-band phone. Verizon and sprint both us cdma technology, this is in contrast to Att, voicestream and cingualr who are using tdma or gsm. GSM SUCKS...i'll tell u why...CDMA is far superior...DONOT GET ANY GSM ENABLED PLAN...LOOK AT THE COVERAGE!!! CDMA will evolve into cdma 2000 which is currently holding the market share in 3g technologies. CDMA 2000 competes with WCDMA which currently is the upgrade from gsm networks...as u can see to use 3g(get pictures and stream video on ur phone) u have to switch to cdma sooner or later. The upgrade cost for cdma operators such as verizon and sprint will be far less just have to change a network card and software upgrade...for gsm networks like att and cingular the upgrade cost is tremendous because u have to set up a whole new cell phone tower. Verizon and sprint will switch to 3G next year and they will have the push to talk feature currently in nextel phones. There by crippiling nextel who already has 14 billion dollar debt. A good move would be to switch to verizon and sprint and wait for the 3g technology to come out..something att cingular or voicestream won't have for another 3 years. whats bettter about cdma 3g compared to gsm evolved 3g(w-cdma)...number one thing Data transfer...2 mb/s on gsm eveolved service(w-cdma)...5 mb/s on cdma evolved service(cdma 2000)...in fact beacuse of such advanteages...Europe might actually because of lower cost to upgrde to a CDMA 2000 network compare to a W-CDMA network go with CDMA 2000. Not only lower upgrade costs but also the data transfer and performance is much better. This is not open to debate most of what i have sazid is fact. But do you own research and find out...REPLY TO THIS IF U THINK IT HLPED YOU OR IF U HAVE QUESTIONS.
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The US already has this... The Robo Sapien ...Japan is sooo behind the US in technology...they need to catch up(sarcasm)...The robosapien is much better...well atleast it looks alot better...
This is getting lame....every week some part of the movie is getting leaked....just leak the damn movie already...i know one of you out there has it....
They will finally have population control that works...Anyone who has taken economic development will tell you...that the 2 of the main causes of poverty is high population growth and lack education....With the internet comes free education(which comes not only in form or learning new things but also getting help from places like webmd to treat common problems...and with it also comes poplation control...how? well porn...well actuall the main cause of poluation growth is a lack of development which causes children to be seen as an investment..take for example germany...germany has negative poluation growth(more people dying than getting born)..france and other developed countries also follow a similar tred....when the country is developed children as seen as oppurtunity cost rather than investment...
Don't tell the terrorists that there might tbe uranium in their body...They might try to blow themselves up...ohh wait they do that anyways...
it was bad enough when people lost jobs because they were outsourced now we're going to lose ever more job because of foriegn takeovers...if this isn't stopped i think its about time we start considering the option to outsource our congress...
I know verizon is still fighting RIAA. And i know that comcast and some other cable companies said that they would cooperate with RIAA.
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Comcast has had the most subpeonas sent to it by RIAA and they are #1 on thier hitlist. Real people are bieng affected here. For example there was a case with the mother of 4 who doesn't even have enough money for an attorney.(you think she will be sending her kids to college if riaa bankrupts her)What does RIAA gain out of it?? Some extra revenue so the ridicuosly wealthy singers can support thier drug habit and thier trips to space.
http://www.techtv.com/news/culture/story/0,2419
Verizon is dead set against it.
http://dc.internet.com/news/article.php/3075
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/04/25/1614244.
RIAA can't keep fighting all these companies and the negative publicity its recieving...P2P network will get more sophisticated and secure...as many as said in the past RIAA needs to change thier business models..thats the only way to combat piracy...piracy has been around for as long as there was any type of trade...even coporations/organizations larger than RIAA have to deal with piracy but they do it by changing thier business model...gaming companies(ie blizzard) started offering online subscriptions which make the user more inclined to buy the game instead of pirating it...M$ started offering...well thats sort of a bad example...but even they dont use thier windowsupdate site to check if your cdkey is valid...RIAA often argues that "you can't compete with free" but that is wrong...people buy botteled water...they buy gorumet coffee from startbucks instead of the free cup they can get at work...hell people even buy M$ windows over linux...anways what i'm trying to say is you can compete with free if the incentive is there...riaa needs to change thier business model and offer these incentives....
The device can also be used to find stolen or hijacked trains... :)
"To test the technology the Columbia space shuttle was fitted with an embedded PC that has a 233 MHz processor, 128 MB of RAM and a solid-state 144 MB hard drive. " I remember when nase used to be the technology leader...people used to brag about how this product came from nasa...what happened...budget cut backs must be really hurting them if they're sending that computer to space...my dell x5 with 512 mb compact flash can outperform NASA equipment....man i'd love to goto nasa and brag to them about my pda...
Hookers on demand....the porn/sex industry is going to be the first in line if they can ever get matter to teleport correctly...even if they don't i wouldn't mind having hooker with 3 breasts =]..
With all the developers and programmrs that subscribe to slashdot i was hoping someone would develop an application that would aalow u to install J2ME on Brew phones...
"Lots of talk about nanotech accidents and biological accidents wiping out civilization"
It is "civilization" that created these threats and now the threats might destroy "civilization"...The Irony....
Completely off topic I just hope none of the Back Street Boys or 'NSYNC are on the same Space Ship I am on.
Anyone else here feel that games based of ever quest are really not worth buying, in fact i think that the bottom line for the new star war game is how much is it going to be? Although this is a new twist in the heavily saturated market of games based on "Star Wars"....
This device since it is based on satellite technology rather than cellular technologies will have draw backs related with satellite technologies. On of the worst draw backs is that no signal if your not in open space.(meaning something isn't obstructing your signal such as going through a tunnel even tall buildings or a cloudy day can block the signal) Maybe a Combination of cellular, radio, and satellite could be the ultimate solution.
Most car dealerships or car security dealers already have a system which can be used to track down theif if they steal your car. It called LoJack, which was unpopular because by the time they found the police found the car the only thing left was the frame of the car and the lojack box.
I think you are completely right, I was re-evaluating what i said and i think The Open Source community shouldn't feel threatened by Microsoft's Presence. Ultimately, the goal is to provide a superegos way of developing a product, and we shouldn't be scared if we know for a fact that we're superior. So LET Microsoft officials be a part of the panel, Infect I can't recall where but I read articles stating that Microsoft would release source to certain parts of it OS to certain government funded organizations. By the way my original Subject line got truncated it read "Its like having a cigarette company decide if tobacco is healthy"
Does anyone else think Microsoft Employees would be bias? I think the panel should only include people who are not bias and experts in the field of open source and security. This definitely rules out Microsoft.
Its great that they can do heart surgery with robots but consider for a second what if ther e is a black out the back up generators don't kick in or run out of gas or any kind of malfunction for that matter....on the other hand at least the robot doesn't need Malpractice Insurance. I'd prefer that my heart be handled by a well trained doctor, atleast if something goes wrong I have some one to sue.
You know what I noticed about GBA and just Nintendo games in general, they might not have the best graphics or the latest type of shading and lighting but they are addictive and fun. For Example for me its SUPER MARIO CART....I can't get enough of that game. Even Mario, I thought I'd get tired of him by now but once I started playing I am just as much addicted now as I was 10 years ago with Super Mario Brothers on Nintendo.
IBM has gained a new found respect from me, it is the ideal coporation in my eyes, unlike some other coporations such as M$. IBM is bieng very innovative and embracing new techinologies that will help our society adcance, adopting technologies such as P2P networks and Linux based servers it is showing an effort to try to understand the comsumer's point of view. Thier business practice is not known to me but just knowing that they value the opniion of the Users such as slashdotters earns them respect in my book unlike M$.
We need to stop wrrying about every possible thing that can destroy this planet, sure we're advance enough to possibly change the out come of certain castrophic events but instead of changing the course of these events, our money will be better spent on trying to find new ways to help our current situations such as global hunger or AIDS or even find ways to reach beyond earth and begin colonising other planets...how long will the earth sustain us anyways...at the speed that we're using our resources and damaging the planet mix that with the population growth and u have a castraphic even that is much more likely to happen then an asteroid collision...
2 things i propose we should do to prevent spam, if you have more feel to share. First of all things like whitelisting won't work too tell since spammers can send mail using fake email adrresses from a whitelisted company. The best things to do to kill spam is to set up 3 or more mail accounts sign up with about 50 or so mailing list and then wait for the spam to come in. The spam that comes in to these mail account should be filtered globally to all mail ccounts listed under the provider(ie. hotmail), in theory this would work well. The second thing we should do as a community is to find out exactly who these spammers are and give them a taste of thier own medicine by spamming thier coporate email accounts. The govvernment should help and sponsor such programs if they can't legitamely stop spammers.
if that wasn't enough for you..=]...which i'm guessing is not the case...if u really want to have a phone that will in europe...goto ebay buy ur self a cheap UNLOCKED nokia gsm phone and u can buy prepaid cards in europe which will be much better than the coverage or the PRICE you will get from the gsm enabled networks jsut ash att,cingular or voicestream. Another bit about these networks is that att and cingular wre originally and TDMA network and later had to setup completely new GSM towers because TDMA(what ur most probably using right now is NOT backward compatible so u have get a dual mode phone to get around this little trick. THINK TWICE BEFORE U GET M-LIFE OR CINGUALR GSM...
lets clear a few myths on cell phones so everyone has a basic understanding of what we're talking about here. First of all i wanna point out the the US is not trailing europe in cell phone technology. Next i'd like to point out that sprint sucks, because it has the very bad coverage compared to other providers. Let compare providers first, these are genralization depending on where u live they may vary. The market is currently dominated by Verizon at 24% of the share, then comes Cingualr, Sprint, ATT, Nextel, Voicestream, in that order. Verizon had the largest network and can cover just about all of the us if u have a tri-band phone. Verizon and sprint both us cdma technology, this is in contrast to Att, voicestream and cingualr who are using tdma or gsm. GSM SUCKS...i'll tell u why...CDMA is far superior...DONOT GET ANY GSM ENABLED PLAN...LOOK AT THE COVERAGE!!! CDMA will evolve into cdma 2000 which is currently holding the market share in 3g technologies. CDMA 2000 competes with WCDMA which currently is the upgrade from gsm networks...as u can see to use 3g(get pictures and stream video on ur phone) u have to switch to cdma sooner or later. The upgrade cost for cdma operators such as verizon and sprint will be far less just have to change a network card and software upgrade...for gsm networks like att and cingular the upgrade cost is tremendous because u have to set up a whole new cell phone tower. Verizon and sprint will switch to 3G next year and they will have the push to talk feature currently in nextel phones. There by crippiling nextel who already has 14 billion dollar debt. A good move would be to switch to verizon and sprint and wait for the 3g technology to come out..something att cingular or voicestream won't have for another 3 years. whats bettter about cdma 3g compared to gsm evolved 3g(w-cdma)...number one thing Data transfer...2 mb/s on gsm eveolved service(w-cdma)...5 mb/s on cdma evolved service(cdma 2000)...in fact beacuse of such advanteages...Europe might actually because of lower cost to upgrde to a CDMA 2000 network compare to a W-CDMA network go with CDMA 2000. Not only lower upgrade costs but also the data transfer and performance is much better. This is not open to debate most of what i have sazid is fact. But do you own research and find out...REPLY TO THIS IF U THINK IT HLPED YOU OR IF U HAVE QUESTIONS.