RFID will come to be. It will rest upon layer upon layer of technology and mythology.
Did you nuke the green tag she asks? Did you encrypt your email he asks? What about WEP? Was this tomatoe ogranicaly grown? Are there steroids in this meat, in this milk?
What was once considered human has been lost. We have become the society that was depicted in so many comic books, pulp movies, and tv shows.
We have become. With every day, the age of our parents and their parents and their parents parents becomes a dream, a fiction that never existed.
As far fetched as flying saucers and robots was to a generation ago, an age of baseball and apple pie will be even more impossibly so for our children.
Always looking over our shoulder, wondering who's watching, wondering who's consuming. Technology promises more because it requires more.
As technology enables us, it enslaves us. We have past the point of no return. We cannot exist without it. With every clock cycle faster, with every megabyte per square inch more, we become.
Interesting timing as not more than 1 hour ago, I just purchased my first laptop on ebay. I bought it becuase there is work I need to do where it would be impossible to take a pc (peoples roofs for antenna alignment) but I will NEVER use a laptop as my primary machine.
Price, power, and upgradablility are all things laptops desperatly lack. That and I can build myself a kick ass computer out of spare parts in about an hour.
I can have 3 monitors, a kick ass sound system, 3 hard drives, a wireless keyboard and mouse, the configurations are endless.
Besides, where would I put all those cool neon lights flourescent fans on a laptop? -M@
I think what has gotten everyone so frustrated, is that everything you said is true, and they [copyright holders] are taking advantage of that fact. To make matters worse, because of the internet and the PC, the majority of the function of these entities have become either redundant or obsolete, but through the years of power accumulated through a societal loophole, progress is being hampered at the cost of the public.
-M@
I don't see what can REALLY be done to stop this sort of thing. In the past year, my TV viewing has been reduced to about 45min a day, down from maybe 3 hours or so a day. Part of the reason for this is that if a show was on that I wanted to see, I would just download it off winmx. (my girlfriend is kinda nutty about this and has every single "friends" episode saved. That and that fact that most tv shows are awful, and watching commercials of guys in cowboy suits yelling at me to buy a car is just rubbing salt in the wounds. If things continue unabated in the direction they are headed, we will soon be seeing the end of $1,000,000 an episode actors (Seinfeld, friends). Cable tv channels will no longer be able to afford the cost of doing business, and cease operations. The cable infrastucture owners, in an effort to salvage what is left of their business, will sell cable channels at drastically reduced prices, allowing independant content providers access to a medium never before available to them. Then, just maybe, TV will become a little more entertaining, and a little less....well, commercial.
-M@
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And the future is written.
RFID will come to be. It will rest upon layer upon layer of technology and mythology.
Did you nuke the green tag she asks? Did you encrypt your email he asks? What about WEP? Was this tomatoe ogranicaly grown? Are there steroids in this meat, in this milk?
What was once considered human has been lost. We have become the society that was depicted in so many comic books, pulp movies, and tv shows.
We have become. With every day, the age of our parents and their parents and their parents parents becomes a dream, a fiction that never existed.
As far fetched as flying saucers and robots was to a generation ago, an age of baseball and apple pie will be even more impossibly so for our children.
Always looking over our shoulder, wondering who's watching, wondering who's consuming. Technology promises more because it requires more.
As technology enables us, it enslaves us. We have past the point of no return. We cannot exist without it. With every clock cycle faster, with every megabyte per square inch more, we become.
-M@
Interesting timing as not more than 1 hour ago, I just purchased my first laptop on ebay. I bought it becuase there is work I need to do where it would be impossible to take a pc (peoples roofs for antenna alignment) but I will NEVER use a laptop as my primary machine. Price, power, and upgradablility are all things laptops desperatly lack. That and I can build myself a kick ass computer out of spare parts in about an hour. I can have 3 monitors, a kick ass sound system, 3 hard drives, a wireless keyboard and mouse, the configurations are endless. Besides, where would I put all those cool neon lights flourescent fans on a laptop? -M@
I think what has gotten everyone so frustrated, is that everything you said is true, and they [copyright holders] are taking advantage of that fact. To make matters worse, because of the internet and the PC, the majority of the function of these entities have become either redundant or obsolete, but through the years of power accumulated through a societal loophole, progress is being hampered at the cost of the public. -M@
Beautiful!! Warmed my soul!!!! -M@
did you notice any sort of performance gain with the upgrade? Was it worth the cost? -M@
I don't see what can REALLY be done to stop this sort of thing. In the past year, my TV viewing has been reduced to about 45min a day, down from maybe 3 hours or so a day. Part of the reason for this is that if a show was on that I wanted to see, I would just download it off winmx. (my girlfriend is kinda nutty about this and has every single "friends" episode saved. That and that fact that most tv shows are awful, and watching commercials of guys in cowboy suits yelling at me to buy a car is just rubbing salt in the wounds. If things continue unabated in the direction they are headed, we will soon be seeing the end of $1,000,000 an episode actors (Seinfeld, friends). Cable tv channels will no longer be able to afford the cost of doing business, and cease operations. The cable infrastucture owners, in an effort to salvage what is left of their business, will sell cable channels at drastically reduced prices, allowing independant content providers access to a medium never before available to them. Then, just maybe, TV will become a little more entertaining, and a little less ....well, commercial.
-M@
is who do they pay these royalties to? Are they divided up equally among all artists? FUBAR -M@
ha-ha -M@