We've got gene banks in case something like that happens. And that's cataclysmic ecocaust worst case preparation there. It'll always (for most values of 'always') be possible to buy non-GM seed.
Thank God, otherwise these biotech firms might spark a war trying to make third-world countries that can't afford anything but a few AKs and RPGs license their IP.
You know, they wrote the law so that police wouldn't have to use smartguns, though they were first developed to save cops who lost the scuffle for the dropped handgun.
So? Leave a general-purpose interface in there somewhere (grid networking?) and provide it with a flash-able bios*. That should be enough to keep the early adopters alive until their first implants wear out.
*requiring physical access to flash the thing. I know opening up patients again is bad, but an airport x-ray stopping someone's cyberheart is worse.
Not yet, anyway -- The first time some woman's gun locks her out during a mugging because she reacts differently under stress, and she's beaten to death with it... can we say product recalls? Lawsuits? Massive protests? (maybe not, but the lawsuits will fly anyway.)
I'd bloody well hope that you've put a little more planning into it than replacing things piecewise, or your early adopters will be stuck using squishy bits as connectors and when your 'cabling' begins to wear out there's no convenient way to replace it. At the very least, important stuff like brain-structure replacements should be able to talk straight to other replacements, or you'll eventually start falling apart along the seams, on a mental level.
Seems to me that a 'braintape recorder' could be implanted in the chest/abdomen which would allow a person to gradually offload memory and processing until they were only using their squishy brain for the extra processor cycles. Down the road when thier body craps out, they never even lose conciousness and can have their new optical-computer diamond brain implanted in a new cloned body (or new robot body) of their choice.
I know that's on my agenda twenty years down the line.
Since Apple's not doing it, and iPod firmware is no longer clear as mud, let me suggest something to those l33ter than I: A really compelling feature would be a book reader program that can take large text files with limited HTML -- just the basics like bold, italic, and underline, maybe even blockquote.
With Baen distributing free books in RTF format with many hardbacks, and me getting an iPod for Christmas, this just got a lot more interesting.
If anyone figures this out, I'd be happy to send a couple Baen CDs (copied) as a thank-you.
I'm rather fond of my Treo 90, but I find the screen rather limited -- in a perfect world, I'd have a Tungsten T3 with that stretch screen or a Tapwave Xodiac - whatever it is, it must have an SD slot; Baen releases a frickin' ton of eBooks with their hardbacks, and I have two CDs of Mobipocket files on my 128 mb SD card.
The Xodiac would have a wi-fi card in SD slot 1, and a memory card in slot 2; that way I could read Slashdot from the bathtub. This may or may not be a good thing.:)
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Treo 90 + Ziploc baggie.
You need to pick your bok before you close the lid, but you can scroll through it without taking it out.
Pardon me. They don't all sound the same because of Clear Channel marketing execs, they sound the same due to survival of the fittest, and Darwinian evolution.
Unfortunately, if your tastes lie somewhere in the long tail...
Really? I live in Disneyville, Florida and I can only think of one radio station (NPR excluded) that's not owned by ClearChannel.
With all the formats, there's only 3 palatable commercial stations between them. (again, NPR excluded)
Two of them are rock stations, and have irritatingly similar playlists at times. Down to those times when they're playing the same song at the same time.
Sure, there's 40 odd stations I can recieve, but if they all suck...
Very much so. So, if someone is pissed enough to take this to the SCOTUS, Valve is screwed. They slapped down the publishing industry in the 30s, and the movie industry in the 70s.
Still sucks that no game store is going to have used copies of HL2 until then, though.
Consoles where activation isn't an issue?
Looked at the Xbox lately? Specifically Halo 2, and how it's been used to deactivate Xboxes dual-booting to Linux?
It may be violating some clause in the intentionally obfuscated EULA; that's just fine and dandy -- I did my friggin' best to understand every one of those I read; only Apple's and the GPL seemed to be written so as to be understandable to laymen. If you write licenses with the intent that they're incomprehensible to your customers, should they be binding?
I'm going to give Valve the benefit of the doubt here, I'll pay for half-life 2 either way.
but I plan to firewall the hell out of Steam after activation, and if I can download the crack and the ISOs before that finishes, I'm going to play the cracked version. If that fails, I'm going to play the cracked version. If my post on the Steam forums pisses of Gabe and I get banned, I'm going to play the cracked version. I've got $50 in my wallet right now that's going to buy me HL2, I have no qualms about that. I just want assurance that the game will run when I need it to; I never played Half-Life online because every time (80%) I tried, I needed to download some large patch, and by the time it was done I was out of time. I don't want that to happen again.
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.dnahack.com/ Let the mayhem begin.
We've got gene banks in case something like that happens. And that's cataclysmic ecocaust worst case preparation there. It'll always (for most values of 'always') be possible to buy non-GM seed.
Thank God, otherwise these biotech firms might spark a war trying to make third-world countries that can't afford anything but a few AKs and RPGs license their IP.
Reads like a hit list.
I give it ten minutes for the DDOS to start.
You know, they wrote the law so that police wouldn't have to use smartguns, though they were first developed to save cops who lost the scuffle for the dropped handgun.
They will, however, be affected by being kicked in the hand. Or fired left-handed with a broken right hand.
So? Leave a general-purpose interface in there somewhere (grid networking?) and provide it with a flash-able bios*. That should be enough to keep the early adopters alive until their first implants wear out.
*requiring physical access to flash the thing. I know opening up patients again is bad, but an airport x-ray stopping someone's cyberheart is worse.
Not yet, anyway -- The first time some woman's gun locks her out during a mugging because she reacts differently under stress, and she's beaten to death with it... can we say product recalls? Lawsuits? Massive protests? (maybe not, but the lawsuits will fly anyway.)
I'd bloody well hope that you've put a little more planning into it than replacing things piecewise, or your early adopters will be stuck using squishy bits as connectors and when your 'cabling' begins to wear out there's no convenient way to replace it. At the very least, important stuff like brain-structure replacements should be able to talk straight to other replacements, or you'll eventually start falling apart along the seams, on a mental level.
Seems to me that a 'braintape recorder' could be implanted in the chest/abdomen which would allow a person to gradually offload memory and processing until they were only using their squishy brain for the extra processor cycles. Down the road when thier body craps out, they never even lose conciousness and can have their new optical-computer diamond brain implanted in a new cloned body (or new robot body) of their choice.
I know that's on my agenda twenty years down the line.
About Damn Time.
Energy weapons are hard enough to use properly; I can't see a firearm that fires two seconds after you pull the trigger being legal, so...
You know, this is one of those things I'd actually download and use if it were available. Consider putting it on Sourceforge?
SCO is Micro$oft's bitch. This is a given. .Nyet. This is a given.
.nyet, and therefore licensing fees.
Microsoft is planning on making money through
Microsoft will be pissed when it becomes illegal to use much of the internet since it limits deployment of
I can't see Micro$oft allowing this to continue very far before they start cutting SCO's funding.
Since Apple's not doing it, and iPod firmware is no longer clear as mud, let me suggest something to those l33ter than I: A really compelling feature would be a book reader program that can take large text files with limited HTML -- just the basics like bold, italic, and underline, maybe even blockquote.
With Baen distributing free books in RTF format with many hardbacks, and me getting an iPod for Christmas, this just got a lot more interesting.
If anyone figures this out, I'd be happy to send a couple Baen CDs (copied) as a thank-you.
Put two and two together!
That is riding on one fundamental assumption -- that baroque and over-demanding software such as Steam even works.
I purchased HL2 two weeks ago and scripted events still crash the game, including the one at the beginning of the first level.
I dunno how Steam reduces piracy; I'm about ready to pirate the game just to get it to work.
Also, the validity of instant purchase is contingent on broadband, which as much as it might suprise some people here, is *not* yet a given.
I'm rather fond of my Treo 90, but I find the screen rather limited -- in a perfect world, I'd have a Tungsten T3 with that stretch screen or a Tapwave Xodiac - whatever it is, it must have an SD slot; Baen releases a frickin' ton of eBooks with their hardbacks, and I have two CDs of Mobipocket files on my 128 mb SD card. The Xodiac would have a wi-fi card in SD slot 1, and a memory card in slot 2; that way I could read Slashdot from the bathtub. This may or may not be a good thing. :)
Treo 90 + Ziploc baggie.
You need to pick your bok before you close the lid, but you can scroll through it without taking it out.
Pardon me. They don't all sound the same because of Clear Channel marketing execs, they sound the same due to survival of the fittest, and Darwinian evolution. Unfortunately, if your tastes lie somewhere in the long tail...
Really? I live in Disneyville, Florida and I can only think of one radio station (NPR excluded) that's not owned by ClearChannel.
With all the formats, there's only 3 palatable commercial stations between them. (again, NPR excluded)
Two of them are rock stations, and have irritatingly similar playlists at times. Down to those times when they're playing the same song at the same time.
Sure, there's 40 odd stations I can recieve, but if they all suck...
Ah, I love the smell of burning servers in the morning.
Unfortunately, that link seems to be missing its spaces.
http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~ia656516/There Will Be Dragons.zip
Very much so. So, if someone is pissed enough to take this to the SCOTUS, Valve is screwed. They slapped down the publishing industry in the 30s, and the movie industry in the 70s. Still sucks that no game store is going to have used copies of HL2 until then, though.
Consoles where activation isn't an issue? Looked at the Xbox lately? Specifically Halo 2, and how it's been used to deactivate Xboxes dual-booting to Linux?
It may be violating some clause in the intentionally obfuscated EULA; that's just fine and dandy -- I did my friggin' best to understand every one of those I read; only Apple's and the GPL seemed to be written so as to be understandable to laymen. If you write licenses with the intent that they're incomprehensible to your customers, should they be binding?
I'm going to give Valve the benefit of the doubt here, I'll pay for half-life 2 either way.
but I plan to firewall the hell out of Steam after activation, and if I can download the crack and the ISOs before that finishes, I'm going to play the cracked version. If that fails, I'm going to play the cracked version. If my post on the Steam forums pisses of Gabe and I get banned, I'm going to play the cracked version. I've got $50 in my wallet right now that's going to buy me HL2, I have no qualms about that. I just want assurance that the game will run when I need it to; I never played Half-Life online because every time (80%) I tried, I needed to download some large patch, and by the time it was done I was out of time. I don't want that to happen again.
A pity you can't get a '+5 depressing' mod, 'cause that's what that really is.