I agree, it is definately not ROBOCOP, but what did you expect it's the DoD. As you mentioned the demonstration was to give the government and civilian officials information about devices for defense... but do they relize they are also telling these terrorist they are trying to destroy what is available?
I know this doesn't classify as a hacker or sci-fi/fantasy, but if you start with Cybernation and read the books that come after it you will find some interesting views on open source. In particular making the entire world open source. You'll find it listed under Tom Clancy; however, in my opinion the only ones that are interesting are written by Steve Perry and his associates.
Ya, there is a reason most smart people play video games; after a while, books get boring and video games are the closest thing to a social life they can comprehend (maybe appreciate is a better word?).
... You can't actually play real sports... You can't (or are unwilling to) socialize... You can't see your hand in front of your face without your glasses... You never go outside...
I know you want to go out and get that dvd burner now , but if you can get by with your (s)vcds for another year or so the blue laser dvd burners which store a little over 24 gigabytes will probably be about the same price as the current dvd burners. However, if you can't wait (and I don't blame you I want one too), I would by one of the Sony burners that supports all of the formats, they cost a little more though. After you get it installed and have a new dvd player you can try recording in different formats to see what your or friends or families dvd players like best and burn your dvds accordingly.
I don't care how they charge their customers, but the way I figure it, if they can get the same thing elsewhere cheaper they will.
Now, for them to make me a customer, they would have to let me track the visitors to my site (without their knowledge of course) and bill them for the "computon" usage; after all, why should I pay for it if they're the ones using it?
It should be like when you go to a buffet (excluding all you can eat), you eat whatever you want and you are charged according to how much you "taxed" the buffet.
Doesn't the paper feel different? Yes, but there are a lot of idiots here.
Don't the bills have security strips that are different colors? Yes, but who carries a UV light with them and even if they did there are a lot of idiots here
Where can I get that type of paper? It's actually made out of denim, so if you have enough time for trial and error you can actually make it out of your old jeans - $25 pair = at least 100 bills after you master the technique. (look in kids books on how to make paper out of newspaper - similar technique)
In conclusion, my solution to this is do away with money. Make everything free. Then, the morally poor will be the "poor people" and those with high standards will be "weathy people." Everyone would actually have a chance in life and it would be their fault if they blew it. Plus, Microsoft would be open source.
This is kind of playing out like the Net Force books; a goverment agency patrolling the internet (in the case of NF an independant division of the FBI) and they try to prevent "cyber terrism"... there biggest enemy is Cybernation; a country that is totally online (no physical property and everything is free; like open source without the donation buttons).
Does this mean that someone will try to take over the world by doing away with the current economy and create their own country online in the process?
Sorry, mistake in mymy numbers, all sixes should be fives, the rest of the numbers should be fine since the Matrix was loaded once without "the One," the perfect world, that crashed massively.
I personally don't think it really matters what year it was in either of the movies. Here is the basis for may "belief":
Since there were 6 "ones" before Neo, that means that the Matrix was reloaded at least 6 times, and assuming that that Morpheus was right in the number of years since the beginning of the revolution (~200) that would mean that the Matrix would have been around for at least 1200 years (assuming that it took 200 years to crash every time) thus making the current year atleast 3199. However, I believe it to be much longer than this seems how the Architech told Neo he would have to choose 13 (or something close to that. *memory*) people from the matrix to repopulate the destroyed Zion. Assuming, again, that the crashes were on fairly regular intervals, and the population of Zion, it would take a lot longer than 200 years to breed a population equivilent of that which we saw in Zion.
I'm no geologists, but based on what I learned in school (no doudt out-dated by now), the mantle is molten rock and probably gets hotter as you near the core. So what is stopping this molten iron from dispersing into the molten rock in the mantle?
That teenagers are just about the only people downloading movies and/or music (and if they couldn't download it they'd find someone at school and copy the CD) everyone else who is not a teenager uses the P2P to download porn
First off, the project which microsoft is conducting has the purpose of storing all of the memories of a person, a virual brain of sorts. Even with the readilly increasing size of hard drives if it takes five years to get to a terabyte, then it will be a very long time before they get hard drives that will be big enough to hold all of the memories of a person. Thus delaying their production and testing of this thing they're making for at least 20 years; which, in my opinion, is a good thing. Think of the consequences that this virtual brain could have: it could kill or paralize you, do damage to your nervous system, and most frighteningly, if there is a security flaw in the software (99.9999% certain there will be: Microsoft need I say more?) someone could take control of your brain thus controlling you.
Although is thought to be an inovation that will significantly reduce paper consumption, based on my knowledge it will not. It may replace standard paper, but eventually it will get dirty, torn, and/or just become too old to use. It would be beneficicial if they made it with a very heavy lamination on it; preferably one heavy enough you could put it in the dishwasher or something.
Blue laser DVD burners will be readilly available and probably cost about the same amount as the current DVD burners. This gives you two options:
1) You could buy the standard DVD Burner for around a $100(??) and use something such as the All-in-Wonder (~4.7 gigs per disc) or 2)You could buy the blue laser burner for around $350(??) and use the same capture device (~24 gigs per disc)
Who is stupid enough to sue anyone, especially Microsoft, for something they didn't have control of. Sure it could have been prevented, but seriously if they took the time to look over every inch of code to make sure there were no flaws, we'd probably still be using windows 3.1. If your going to sue Microsoft come up with something that will actually stand up in court... Although I hate to say it Microsoft isn't really that bad, but they could be much much better.
Unless your Microsoft, then you can sell it for $300-$1000 release a series of patches/updates every wednesday and when someone calls to complain you simply ask them "Did you log onto Windows?" If they respond yes, you tell them "Sorry, by logging onto Windows you waived all rights to tech support; it's your problem deal with it" If they respond no, you tell them "You must log onto Windows before I can provide tech support"
"Which is why I will never trust the Strategic Defence Initiative - the star wars project. It only takes one line of mistyped code in what will always be a beta release."
Hey, Bob, how come every time I try to shoot that stupid skeet there's a bright flash and it just disapears?
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I've been interested in a new job for a while now ...
Do they teach you how to fix VCRs?
This is just telling me what I already knew ...
1). I am not in controll
2). I will die when my number is drawn out of a giant lottery thing
I agree, it is definately not ROBOCOP, but what did you expect it's the DoD. As you mentioned the demonstration was to give the government and civilian officials information about devices for defense ... but do they relize they are also telling these terrorist they are trying to destroy what is available?
I know this doesn't classify as a hacker or sci-fi/fantasy, but if you start with Cybernation and read the books that come after it you will find some interesting views on open source. In particular making the entire world open source. You'll find it listed under Tom Clancy; however, in my opinion the only ones that are interesting are written by Steve Perry and his associates.
Ok, I'll admit that the post isn't great even though I wrote it, but give me a break I'm a little behind in the gaming department.
And to prevent any question I will not replace my Atari 2600.
Ya, there is a reason most smart people play video games; after a while, books get boring and video games are the closest thing to a social life they can comprehend (maybe appreciate is a better word?).
You never know, she still may be right to some extent; they kill all brain cells except the ones for vision and moving your thumbs.
... You can't actually play real sports ... You can't (or are unwilling to) socialize ... You can't see your hand in front of your face without your glasses ... You never go outside ...
I know you want to go out and get that dvd burner now , but if you can get by with your (s)vcds for another year or so the blue laser dvd burners which store a little over 24 gigabytes will probably be about the same price as the current dvd burners. However, if you can't wait (and I don't blame you I want one too), I would by one of the Sony burners that supports all of the formats, they cost a little more though. After you get it installed and have a new dvd player you can try recording in different formats to see what your or friends or families dvd players like best and burn your dvds accordingly.
I don't care how they charge their customers, but the way I figure it, if they can get the same thing elsewhere cheaper they will.
Now, for them to make me a customer, they would have to let me track the visitors to my site (without their knowledge of course) and bill them for the "computon" usage; after all, why should I pay for it if they're the ones using it?
It should be like when you go to a buffet (excluding all you can eat), you eat whatever you want and you are charged according to how much you "taxed" the buffet.
Answers to a few questions.
Doesn't the paper feel different? Yes, but there are a lot of idiots here.
Don't the bills have security strips that are different colors? Yes, but who carries a UV light with them and even if they did there are a lot of idiots here
Where can I get that type of paper? It's actually made out of denim, so if you have enough time for trial and error you can actually make it out of your old jeans - $25 pair = at least 100 bills after you master the technique. (look in kids books on how to make paper out of newspaper - similar technique)
In conclusion, my solution to this is do away with money. Make everything free. Then, the morally poor will be the "poor people" and those with high standards will be "weathy people." Everyone would actually have a chance in life and it would be their fault if they blew it. Plus, Microsoft would be open source.
This is kind of playing out like the Net Force books; a goverment agency patrolling the internet (in the case of NF an independant division of the FBI) and they try to prevent "cyber terrism" ... there biggest enemy is Cybernation; a country that is totally online (no physical property and everything is free; like open source without the donation buttons).
Does this mean that someone will try to take over the world by doing away with the current economy and create their own country online in the process?
Sorry, mistake in mymy numbers, all sixes should be fives, the rest of the numbers should be fine since the Matrix was loaded once without "the One," the perfect world, that crashed massively.
I personally don't think it really matters what year it was in either of the movies. Here is the basis for may "belief":
Since there were 6 "ones" before Neo, that means that the Matrix was reloaded at least 6 times, and assuming that that Morpheus was right in the number of years since the beginning of the revolution (~200) that would mean that the Matrix would have been around for at least 1200 years (assuming that it took 200 years to crash every time) thus making the current year atleast 3199. However, I believe it to be much longer than this seems how the Architech told Neo he would have to choose 13 (or something close to that. *memory*) people from the matrix to repopulate the destroyed Zion. Assuming, again, that the crashes were on fairly regular intervals, and the population of Zion, it would take a lot longer than 200 years to breed a population equivilent of that which we saw in Zion.
I'm sure there's one out there somewhere (in a galaxy far, far away).
Seriously, there's got to be a way to trick everyone into thinking that you are at school while your at home coding or whatever.
I'm no geologists, but based on what I learned in school (no doudt out-dated by now), the mantle is molten rock and probably gets hotter as you near the core. So what is stopping this molten iron from dispersing into the molten rock in the mantle?
Do you suppose excessive (near lethal) amounts of caffeine would affect the connection to my spinal cord?
Besides even if that has no effect, what happens when my computer crashes?
That teenagers are just about the only people downloading movies and/or music (and if they couldn't download it they'd find someone at school and copy the CD) everyone else who is not a teenager uses the P2P to download porn
First off, the project which microsoft is conducting has the purpose of storing all of the memories of a person, a virual brain of sorts. Even with the readilly increasing size of hard drives if it takes five years to get to a terabyte, then it will be a very long time before they get hard drives that will be big enough to hold all of the memories of a person. Thus delaying their production and testing of this thing they're making for at least 20 years; which, in my opinion, is a good thing. Think of the consequences that this virtual brain could have: it could kill or paralize you, do damage to your nervous system, and most frighteningly, if there is a security flaw in the software (99.9999% certain there will be: Microsoft need I say more?) someone could take control of your brain thus controlling you.
Although is thought to be an inovation that will significantly reduce paper consumption, based on my knowledge it will not. It may replace standard paper, but eventually it will get dirty, torn, and/or just become too old to use. It would be beneficicial if they made it with a very heavy lamination on it; preferably one heavy enough you could put it in the dishwasher or something.
Blue laser DVD burners will be readilly available and probably cost about the same amount as the current DVD burners. This gives you two options:
1) You could buy the standard DVD Burner for around a $100(??) and use something such as the All-in-Wonder (~4.7 gigs per disc)
or
2)You could buy the blue laser burner for around $350(??) and use the same capture device (~24 gigs per disc)
Does anyone think I can win ... ... I'm planning on sueing ...
My windows PC keeps crashing
Who is stupid enough to sue anyone, especially Microsoft, for something they didn't have control of. Sure it could have been prevented, but seriously if they took the time to look over every inch of code to make sure there were no flaws, we'd probably still be using windows 3.1. If your going to sue Microsoft come up with something that will actually stand up in court ... Although I hate to say it Microsoft isn't really that bad, but they could be much much better.
Unless your Microsoft, then you can sell it for $300-$1000 release a series of patches/updates every wednesday and when someone calls to complain you simply ask them
"Did you log onto Windows?"
If they respond yes, you tell them "Sorry, by logging onto Windows you waived all rights to tech support; it's your problem deal with it"
If they respond no, you tell them "You must log onto Windows before I can provide tech support"
"Which is why I will never trust the Strategic Defence Initiative - the star wars project. It only takes one line of mistyped code in what will always be a beta release."
Hey, Bob, how come every time I try to shoot that stupid skeet there's a bright flash and it just disapears?