This is sick, i'm never buying anything from these people again, and if i see them on the street, i'd spit on them. What a bunch of assholes, i mean, the kid lives in the goddamn projects for christs sakes.
Well generally we don't know exactly what future technologies can do, that's why I used the absolute smallest as an example, rather than thinking about the potentially smallest with our technologies. I'm just saying that if it were possible to litterally just have a pile of atoms and read and write to them while simultaneously taking advantage of quantum properties that we could go infinitly smaller provided we could do this...and who knows if we could? there are alot of things people said were impossible that we're doing as the norm in computers now-a-days, so that's why there is a potential infinity with moore's law, rather than a set end point to it.
you'd get your output by reading the radiation squeezed out in dual jets from every black hole which blast across light years in either direction
Re:probes die, shuttles die quicker
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we need to leave, what's the point of sending up unmanned probes to look at what where we'll never go? We send up people to test out technologies and feasabilities of sending up people and colonizations of extra terestrail bodies. Plus its a sighn, possibly the greatest sighn of our species, the pinicle of our acheivements that we can physically leave this planet at will. We have a culture that is interested in utility, but utility without purpose is worthless. We need to goto space because it is our purpose and goal, and we have worked on everything so hard for so long, we died to be there among the stars.
I think it's actually past time, way past time, in fact they've done so much horrible stuff to people (like wiping out that one guys bank account because he wrote and indexing program for his campus) that this isn't enough anymore. They went far and beyond the call of duty in being malicious to people. I don't download songs because I don't have the money, the money isn't a problem, I just hate the RIAA now with such a zest that they'd have to pull a massive miracle to ever get me to buy anything from them again. They went out of their way to make this whole thing not be about buisness, but about personal pettiness and spite towards thier customers.
You know, alot of people talk about the death of moore's law, but uh, has anyone ever considered the possibility that moore's law might keep going and going and going ad infinitum?
It isn't impossible. Theoretically when you get down to quantum computers where your using atomic mater itself your almost at the smallest possible size for computation, until you break down the individual peices of the positrons and electrons into quarks and gluons which could possibly be used for calculation, then you think about creating an artificial black hole and stuffing ever more matter into a singularity and you could calculate the universe from something the size of the head of a pin (especially if you adhere to the multiverse theory, which states there are infinite realities). If there are infinite realities, we could litterally collapse our own reality, and possibly others nearby into a singularity for calculation, and just keep on going and going and going.
Truly as we begin to see the emergence of quantum computers we start to head towards these paths for higher and higher calculations, instead of knowing a universe around us, abit at a time. We could know it all at once, in all it's enormousness. We could then know and create others (computation being equivilant according to babbage, a computer simulating a reality perfectly is in fact a new reality as our reality is nothing but mathematical laws anyhow).
While I know moore's law can fail us at any time now being a theory and not a fact. Dismissing it as most do so casually after it has perservered time and time again for so many decades running is really getting to be rather ridiculous.
Hrm, damn i forgot to give a selection of games as you had asked for if a LAN was suggested, but i'd guess the classics like Warcraft III, Quake III, Unreal tournament, Neverwinter nights, and probably Tom Clancey's ghost recon as well as Counter Strike would all be decent enough game to bring in some buisness
As for a cafe, well that just needs a star bucks pretty much and your set to go.
Honestly I'd say that if your main base of users is out of towners, then you should head into a conveniece or entertainment avenue since they aren't going to be around long enough to take a class
Maybe open up a cyber cafe or a LAN gaming center, both are proven effective buisness models.
I used to buy cd's all the time, and occaisionally download stuff when I knew the cd had crap on it except for 1 good song. Since the RIAA has begun to attack the general buying population like rabid dogs, I haven't thought at all about buying anything
The incidents of them attacking people is so odious that I can't bear to buy anything coming from them at all anymore, and since the people who are working against them are usually not just the underdog, but intelligent good hard working people, I have little to no sympathy for the RIAA's whining about lost sales. These aren't some sorta dirty scum whom are robbing the RIAA blind, they're college students with little money who are simply listening to a copy of a song, and I doubt anyone is out any extra money from it.
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I was just saying that in order for linux to compete it has to deprive windows of it's installed base of average users, the more linux users of any sort (developer or user) the merrier, an exec who can play half life on linux would be more comfy having his office running with linux than if he was mystified by it and had no reason to approach it, and no way to really use it once he had it.
Wine is the best thing to happen to linux
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I started out using good old DOS
It crashed all the time, i had to fiddle with the autoexec.bat and command.com files to get ANYTHING to run (not to mention figuring out which device used which port)
Then came win 3.1 things ran ok, slightly less stable, but not quite as much fiddling required
Windows 98 was a godsend, but suddenly people were WNuke'ing me all to hell, I had netbus, and I learned that there was a NSA key (i'm canadian, which makes me hate having an American intelligence agency key on my comp rather annoying), then I learned that my browser was also spying on me, and that everything was bugg riddled and insecure
I've tried linux before, it was horrible, now though I can play my games, all i require my computer to do is play games, browse the net, allow me to watch television through my tv wonder card, allow me to watch dvd movies, allow me to watch mpeg, mpg, asf, and avi files. This is the sum total of what I require my compute for.
At the moment linux is becoming more and more attractive, I know it can play games, and browse the web (two big ones) soon the rest will follow, to you nay-sayers, linux grows and gets better with more people, who those people are does not matter, i'm a windows user, but i'd help any way i could if I could use it properly, the idea of ridiculing and telling people oh if you want windows use windows, WE DON'T WANT WINDOWS BECAUSE IT SUCKS everyone has woken up and knows the virtues of linux, we just require more functionality which everyone is beginning to see emerge, so trying to crap on one of the best applications is beyond foolhardy.
Three cheers to the wine development team, and the winex team, here's hoping they have a successful run in the buisness world
I go online and chat pretty often, as a Canadian I used to use dial.com before it became a paid service (is it even in existance anymore?) to call my friends in the states and chit chat...So is the american government going to listen to the things I say privatly to friends of mine in the states?
I'm pretty sure this would be a boon to linux in alot of ways, most net savvy people, and yes there are millions now a days (the days of the stupid newbie user is by and large over), know all about palladium and what a peice of shit it is, and they know about microsoft and what sort of an unethical sleeze ball company they are, so this might actually drive more people towards linux
The fact is, there has never been enough damage to home computer systems to warrent any sort of cryptographic systems such as that which microsoft is describing. How many people could say that because of some random person on the net or in a chat room they lost all of thier data? The worst offenders in these regards are COMPANIES, spy-ware, ad-ware, crappy patchs that break the system, and yes, even DRM schemes are the cause of most of our headaches. So microsoft's proposed solution is to say that they as the worst offenders of crapping out our systems are the only ones who should hold the keys to fix it? Microsoft who gets into bed with the RIAA by extolling the virtues of how great the copy protection systems of windows is, they expect us to trust that they won't lock us out first chance they get? Microsoft who has thier windows media player try to "phone home" through OUR lines without paying us for it, sending our personal data...we should trust these people with their "trusted computing" ???
This is madness, if MS tries to impliment this, i'm going 100% linux because i'll have no choice, if pentium and amd refuse to offer a chip which is not palladium or a similar system compatible, then i will refuse to upgrade for as long as humanly possible, or i'll attempt to get a hold of another type of chip. I don't know if the rest of slashdot has cottoned on, and for those of you that post in the RIAA and in Microsoft's denfense, this is war you know, there are no guns, and there are no bullets, but they're attacking our minds, they are going to chain us up and throw away the key, we see example after example after example. I can't beleive how lightly this is going over, think 50 years down the road of us laying down and taking this...where will we be? are they going to start bar-coding us and deducting 50 dollars directly from our pay cheque because of our alleged piracy?
You say "no, that's being stupid" well considering what they've done already, and what's in the works that we know about, can you really say that it is all that dumb? These are scary times, and we need to fully wake up and realize exactly what sorts of things are happeneing around us.
So wait, whenever we the people get nailed by 2 tons of junk mail, spam mail, and get our ear talked off by telemarketers, have bill board ads vying for our eye site, and our television sets screaming at us not to mention pop up ads all over the place (unless you have a popup eliminator or use an alternative web browser, long live opera).
These things are all "good" but whenever we all collectively get together and nail the hell out of spammers with the pent up rage of 2 million people who can sighn them up for nail mail garbage, it's considered wrong? I think it's nothing more than a reaction from the masses and that it should be expected, after all if they can dish it, they should be able to take it.
Side note; while I know that the article doesn't neccessarily refer to the attack against spammers by the slashdot crowd, there hasn't been any other successful campaign of this type that i've ever heard of on such a scale.
Time to smack them with a rolled up magazine like the bad doggies they've been
I can't beleive anyone in the scientific community would ever consider the issue of self censorship. Knowlege is supposed to be used for the betterment of human kind, even dangerous military technology has been used for the benefit of all (think nuclear power).
Would any of us really be so naive as to beleive that if someone in the biotech industry had developed a great genetic code for new amazing eyes that would let us see in the ifra-red spectrum and with amazing accuracy and clairty, that the code for such a thing would not eventually end up on a P2P system being traded around for anyone to find?
We can no longer put the genie back into the bottle on these types of things, and in alot of respects it's better to have ALL knowledge out at once than to restrict and keep hidden that which our "betters" would like to keep from we the unwashed masses. E.g would you be so affraid of the public camera's if we could all tap in and see what was on them, rather than some hidden secretive agent?
Right now as we turn a corner in humanity we should not be trying to retard our development with these restrictions, but rather to embrace the knowledge so that we can all push forwards. Yes, bad things will happen, but big deal, we can all make homemade bombs and naplam (think jolly rogers handbook, or the anarchists cookbook). But people using these things to cause widespread panic and death are INCREADIBLY rare.
Although some of the components for assembling a nano machine are in place (blowing superglue through nano tubes to smooth them, bucky balls, carbon nano tubes) There is already a wide variety of nano machines readily available, they're called cells, quite frankly the first massive leaps in independant nano machines (as opposed to surfaces) would be in the form of genetically engineering new types of cells with new programming. Getting over the hurdle of airborne particulate matter would be no real problem. They could be grown with time release anti-hystamine medicine encapsulated in them or any other number of tricks...why people assume that independant nano machines would be made out of metal when cells are more readily available for the job at hand is beyond me.
It seems as though lately all knowledge for hacking has to be gotten from underground warez sites and websites which are increasingly subject to removal by the DOJ acording to the DMCA.
Would you say that the development of P2P could bring back the ability to freely trade hacking secrets the way they used to be traded back and forth on the old BBS systems?
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This is sick, i'm never buying anything from these people again, and if i see them on the street, i'd spit on them. What a bunch of assholes, i mean, the kid lives in the goddamn projects for christs sakes.
Well generally we don't know exactly what future technologies can do, that's why I used the absolute smallest as an example, rather than thinking about the potentially smallest with our technologies. I'm just saying that if it were possible to litterally just have a pile of atoms and read and write to them while simultaneously taking advantage of quantum properties that we could go infinitly smaller provided we could do this...and who knows if we could? there are alot of things people said were impossible that we're doing as the norm in computers now-a-days, so that's why there is a potential infinity with moore's law, rather than a set end point to it.
you'd get your output by reading the radiation squeezed out in dual jets from every black hole which blast across light years in either direction
we need to leave, what's the point of sending up unmanned probes to look at what where we'll never go? We send up people to test out technologies and feasabilities of sending up people and colonizations of extra terestrail bodies. Plus its a sighn, possibly the greatest sighn of our species, the pinicle of our acheivements that we can physically leave this planet at will. We have a culture that is interested in utility, but utility without purpose is worthless. We need to goto space because it is our purpose and goal, and we have worked on everything so hard for so long, we died to be there among the stars.
I think it's actually past time, way past time, in fact they've done so much horrible stuff to people (like wiping out that one guys bank account because he wrote and indexing program for his campus) that this isn't enough anymore. They went far and beyond the call of duty in being malicious to people. I don't download songs because I don't have the money, the money isn't a problem, I just hate the RIAA now with such a zest that they'd have to pull a massive miracle to ever get me to buy anything from them again. They went out of their way to make this whole thing not be about buisness, but about personal pettiness and spite towards thier customers.
You know, alot of people talk about the death of moore's law, but uh, has anyone ever considered the possibility that moore's law might keep going and going and going ad infinitum?
It isn't impossible. Theoretically when you get down to quantum computers where your using atomic mater itself your almost at the smallest possible size for computation, until you break down the individual peices of the positrons and electrons into quarks and gluons which could possibly be used for calculation, then you think about creating an artificial black hole and stuffing ever more matter into a singularity and you could calculate the universe from something the size of the head of a pin (especially if you adhere to the multiverse theory, which states there are infinite realities). If there are infinite realities, we could litterally collapse our own reality, and possibly others nearby into a singularity for calculation, and just keep on going and going and going.
Truly as we begin to see the emergence of quantum computers we start to head towards these paths for higher and higher calculations, instead of knowing a universe around us, abit at a time. We could know it all at once, in all it's enormousness. We could then know and create others (computation being equivilant according to babbage, a computer simulating a reality perfectly is in fact a new reality as our reality is nothing but mathematical laws anyhow).
While I know moore's law can fail us at any time now being a theory and not a fact. Dismissing it as most do so casually after it has perservered time and time again for so many decades running is really getting to be rather ridiculous.
Hrm, damn i forgot to give a selection of games as you had asked for if a LAN was suggested, but i'd guess the classics like Warcraft III, Quake III, Unreal tournament, Neverwinter nights, and probably Tom Clancey's ghost recon as well as Counter Strike would all be decent enough game to bring in some buisness
As for a cafe, well that just needs a star bucks pretty much and your set to go.
Honestly I'd say that if your main base of users is out of towners, then you should head into a conveniece or entertainment avenue since they aren't going to be around long enough to take a class
Maybe open up a cyber cafe or a LAN gaming center, both are proven effective buisness models.
I used to buy cd's all the time, and occaisionally download stuff when I knew the cd had crap on it except for 1 good song. Since the RIAA has begun to attack the general buying population like rabid dogs, I haven't thought at all about buying anything
The incidents of them attacking people is so odious that I can't bear to buy anything coming from them at all anymore, and since the people who are working against them are usually not just the underdog, but intelligent good hard working people, I have little to no sympathy for the RIAA's whining about lost sales. These aren't some sorta dirty scum whom are robbing the RIAA blind, they're college students with little money who are simply listening to a copy of a song, and I doubt anyone is out any extra money from it.
I was just saying that in order for linux to compete it has to deprive windows of it's installed base of average users, the more linux users of any sort (developer or user) the merrier, an exec who can play half life on linux would be more comfy having his office running with linux than if he was mystified by it and had no reason to approach it, and no way to really use it once he had it.
I started out using good old DOS
It crashed all the time, i had to fiddle with the autoexec.bat and command.com files to get ANYTHING to run (not to mention figuring out which device used which port)
Then came win 3.1 things ran ok, slightly less stable, but not quite as much fiddling required
Windows 98 was a godsend, but suddenly people were WNuke'ing me all to hell, I had netbus, and I learned that there was a NSA key (i'm canadian, which makes me hate having an American intelligence agency key on my comp rather annoying), then I learned that my browser was also spying on me, and that everything was bugg riddled and insecure
I've tried linux before, it was horrible, now though I can play my games, all i require my computer to do is play games, browse the net, allow me to watch television through my tv wonder card, allow me to watch dvd movies, allow me to watch mpeg, mpg, asf, and avi files. This is the sum total of what I require my compute for.
At the moment linux is becoming more and more attractive, I know it can play games, and browse the web (two big ones) soon the rest will follow, to you nay-sayers, linux grows and gets better with more people, who those people are does not matter, i'm a windows user, but i'd help any way i could if I could use it properly, the idea of ridiculing and telling people oh if you want windows use windows, WE DON'T WANT WINDOWS BECAUSE IT SUCKS everyone has woken up and knows the virtues of linux, we just require more functionality which everyone is beginning to see emerge, so trying to crap on one of the best applications is beyond foolhardy.
Three cheers to the wine development team, and the winex team, here's hoping they have a successful run in the buisness world
I go online and chat pretty often, as a Canadian I used to use dial.com before it became a paid service (is it even in existance anymore?) to call my friends in the states and chit chat...So is the american government going to listen to the things I say privatly to friends of mine in the states?
I'm pretty sure this would be a boon to linux in alot of ways, most net savvy people, and yes there are millions now a days (the days of the stupid newbie user is by and large over), know all about palladium and what a peice of shit it is, and they know about microsoft and what sort of an unethical sleeze ball company they are, so this might actually drive more people towards linux
The fact is, there has never been enough damage to home computer systems to warrent any sort of cryptographic systems such as that which microsoft is describing. How many people could say that because of some random person on the net or in a chat room they lost all of thier data? The worst offenders in these regards are COMPANIES, spy-ware, ad-ware, crappy patchs that break the system, and yes, even DRM schemes are the cause of most of our headaches. So microsoft's proposed solution is to say that they as the worst offenders of crapping out our systems are the only ones who should hold the keys to fix it? Microsoft who gets into bed with the RIAA by extolling the virtues of how great the copy protection systems of windows is, they expect us to trust that they won't lock us out first chance they get? Microsoft who has thier windows media player try to "phone home" through OUR lines without paying us for it, sending our personal data...we should trust these people with their "trusted computing" ??? This is madness, if MS tries to impliment this, i'm going 100% linux because i'll have no choice, if pentium and amd refuse to offer a chip which is not palladium or a similar system compatible, then i will refuse to upgrade for as long as humanly possible, or i'll attempt to get a hold of another type of chip. I don't know if the rest of slashdot has cottoned on, and for those of you that post in the RIAA and in Microsoft's denfense, this is war you know, there are no guns, and there are no bullets, but they're attacking our minds, they are going to chain us up and throw away the key, we see example after example after example. I can't beleive how lightly this is going over, think 50 years down the road of us laying down and taking this...where will we be? are they going to start bar-coding us and deducting 50 dollars directly from our pay cheque because of our alleged piracy? You say "no, that's being stupid" well considering what they've done already, and what's in the works that we know about, can you really say that it is all that dumb? These are scary times, and we need to fully wake up and realize exactly what sorts of things are happeneing around us.
So wait, whenever we the people get nailed by 2 tons of junk mail, spam mail, and get our ear talked off by telemarketers, have bill board ads vying for our eye site, and our television sets screaming at us not to mention pop up ads all over the place (unless you have a popup eliminator or use an alternative web browser, long live opera). These things are all "good" but whenever we all collectively get together and nail the hell out of spammers with the pent up rage of 2 million people who can sighn them up for nail mail garbage, it's considered wrong? I think it's nothing more than a reaction from the masses and that it should be expected, after all if they can dish it, they should be able to take it. Side note; while I know that the article doesn't neccessarily refer to the attack against spammers by the slashdot crowd, there hasn't been any other successful campaign of this type that i've ever heard of on such a scale. Time to smack them with a rolled up magazine like the bad doggies they've been
I can't beleive anyone in the scientific community would ever consider the issue of self censorship. Knowlege is supposed to be used for the betterment of human kind, even dangerous military technology has been used for the benefit of all (think nuclear power). Would any of us really be so naive as to beleive that if someone in the biotech industry had developed a great genetic code for new amazing eyes that would let us see in the ifra-red spectrum and with amazing accuracy and clairty, that the code for such a thing would not eventually end up on a P2P system being traded around for anyone to find? We can no longer put the genie back into the bottle on these types of things, and in alot of respects it's better to have ALL knowledge out at once than to restrict and keep hidden that which our "betters" would like to keep from we the unwashed masses. E.g would you be so affraid of the public camera's if we could all tap in and see what was on them, rather than some hidden secretive agent? Right now as we turn a corner in humanity we should not be trying to retard our development with these restrictions, but rather to embrace the knowledge so that we can all push forwards. Yes, bad things will happen, but big deal, we can all make homemade bombs and naplam (think jolly rogers handbook, or the anarchists cookbook). But people using these things to cause widespread panic and death are INCREADIBLY rare.
Although some of the components for assembling a nano machine are in place (blowing superglue through nano tubes to smooth them, bucky balls, carbon nano tubes) There is already a wide variety of nano machines readily available, they're called cells, quite frankly the first massive leaps in independant nano machines (as opposed to surfaces) would be in the form of genetically engineering new types of cells with new programming. Getting over the hurdle of airborne particulate matter would be no real problem. They could be grown with time release anti-hystamine medicine encapsulated in them or any other number of tricks...why people assume that independant nano machines would be made out of metal when cells are more readily available for the job at hand is beyond me.
It seems as though lately all knowledge for hacking has to be gotten from underground warez sites and websites which are increasingly subject to removal by the DOJ acording to the DMCA. Would you say that the development of P2P could bring back the ability to freely trade hacking secrets the way they used to be traded back and forth on the old BBS systems?