I've seen Kazaa mess up our DSL connection quite a few times. Now, did we use Kazaa? Nope. (we prefered WinMX and irc, but thats beside the point:-D).
When a user gets on Kazaa, the Kazaa network perpetuates that External IP address through their network. Your external_IP is linked to your kazaa_username. Now, when people search and get your kazaa_username, they hit that IP address. All is fine and good... until you are knocked off of DSL or your dhcp timer is up.
Then, you reconnect using a new external_IP. Now, you have many users on Kazaa that know your username goes to either your old IP or your new IP.
The network trashing occurs to the person who inhabits your OLD external_IP. You see a LOT of bandwidth from users and Kazaa network towards your new IP address. We had a 768/384 Kb connection, and 200 Kb was ate up with garbage from Kazaa from the previous IP inhabitor. This number of garbage connections approaches 0Kb, but never meets it.
Perhaps they detected a residual connection like that.
I DONT have the money, and even a software engineer COULDNT AFFORD IT.
What makes you think I can, or let alone pay 25K to fly for 1 day? Sorry, I have better things I could do with that money... Like a second degree or pay off my loans.
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---I'm almost ashamed to admit this, but I have no clue about where things go or why......
Nothing's wrong with not knowing. It's not fixing that not knowing that is wrong.
---One place everything was in/usr and then some attempt to use the root tree. So you end up with stuff in/usr/local/bin/etc or/usr/bin/local/etc and who cares. It's just pretty much arbitrary and was writ in stone back in the dark ages.
Thats not right. The system makes sense if you know how Unices run.
---This may smack of heresy, but wouldn't it be nice to have a directory tree that means something to people who have never seen it? Something like.../SYSTEM../kernel../gui../config/APPLICATIONs../kernel../games../allusers../user1../user2/DATA../sound../photos../pron
Lets take your ideas and explain it, beyond the jokes;)/SYSTEM == Isnt a bad idea, but not in your sense. What comprises the system: the kernel or the software tools that allow the kernel interfaces to be used? Using a wifi connection can be mighty hard without iwconfig. Instead, your/SYSTEM could be used for signed and known good basic binaries required on every connection. Did you know that/bin/ls on most Linux installs is dynamic? What happens if your system lib failed?/kernel == Thats ok, but you also need support from kernel loaders. Also many distributions maintain this in one aspect or another./gui == Do you mean XWindows or programs that run on XWindows? Yes, there is a massive distinction. A graphics-cardless computer can process the instructions on that computer while displaying to ANOTHER Xserver the output. So, does this catch-all directory get local XServer data or all X based programs?/config == is/etc . Plain and simple./APPLICATIONS == Unix segregates different types of binaries. Yours would not. Not Good./games == Are games not applications?/user1... == Would you have users populating / ? That's really nasty. Even/home/~ is still not quite there. Sun did this multi-home setup the best.
Go study why Linux and Unix puts files the way they do. It is all maintained fairly well, and that includes support for multiple versions of the same program (for backwards compatibility). Windows isnt even compatible with its own previous versions.
Why do people continue to shop at a Retailer who is known for treating customers like E-Tards and continually abuses them and lies to them and most likely commits bait-n-switch?
NOBODY is going to buy your eCrapStation. Not here, not now, not ever. Anybody who does is a retard who deserves to lose their money.
Instead, please go to the Dell innovation website and go try to sell your garbage-soft there. Perhaps we'll see another story about a eCrapStation loser that is also silenced.
Then what are case studies? Why are they accepted? Or, when does anecdote turn into a statistically significant function?
---Besides I don't really care if you uninstalled Vista. I only care what happens within the confines of my home network.
If you don't care, why are you responding?
---I have trwo Vista Ultimate machines; one an older P4 that is going to be a web/file server and media center PC, with my XBOX 360 running as an extender to my HDTV, and my new Dell XPS M2010 which came with Vista Ultimate pre-installed.
Someone's been smoking the MS crackpipe. Unless you can't set up a file server with Samba using SWAT, why not delegate the serving duties to something more robust? Debian Stable handles that quite effectively. Even one of the stylish Linux kits (Ubuntu or Fedora) would work well here. Do you need a pretty GUI and demand to have a monitor dedicated to that machine?
---I happen to like a lot of what Vista offersw in the way of bettwr file searching and vastly improved netowrking.
What do you mean "better file searching"? If you are meaning that Indexing daemon or Find Fast... well.. I don't know what to say. Still, I've not found much quicker than
find $directory | grep $filename
Also, if you arrange your Samba server properly, you can segregate different types of media via different shares (and stored in different directories). Once this is done, you can push the media via different transport protocols.
Also, I severely argue that Windows Vista is NOT better in networking. Even compared to previous counterparts, the networking system is unstable and refuses to work properly with published standards. Witness the switch to NTLMv2 and how nearly every SAN now either needs an upgrade or to delevel to NTLMv1 on the Vista box. Also, MS praised the 'innovative' IP stack switch from BSD to an unstable untested stack. That is not an ugrade in any opinion.
Also, my Linux machine can communicate with nearly every protocol ever made and supports nearly every network device. Network devices that do not have native drivers can use NDISwrapper. My machines, with the proper Wireless chipset and driver can become a full access point. Can Windows do that?
---I use Aero but I don't go all gaga over it.
We also have OpenGL accelerated desktops that will work with many more graphics cards than Windows will accept. It is also possible to prune the system to very basic, but very usable desktops that allow you to get work done. Vista pretties are more of an annoyance, and will probably cost a nice sum of money for the proper tools to turn off the bloat. Then again, you will pay computationally for the DRM built in to your system. I can, at any time, build in DRM-like controls but under my complete control.
---It's pleasing to look at, especially compared to Vista Basic and the crippled classic UI. Now if Adobe woudl just hurry up and release the Creative and Production suites I can quit having see those stupid UAC dialogs.
I have something similar to a "UAC" dialog. It's called sudo. It doesnt co-opt my screen, nor does it steal focus from anything. It also logs all usage in a log file so you can determine possible command errors. Mine was designed for that purpose and works well.
---To a degree, the points made in TFA are to be expected. Heck, even a bunch of MS's own software is incompatible with Vista (big boys like.NET Framework 2.0 and SQL Server 2005, last I checked). There have been alot of changes, and it seems unrealistic to expect companies to roll out new drivers that are 100% right off the bat.
About that driver issue: most companies are just writing off their previous hardware by not making any soft of effort. Even nVidia claimed to have a "100% DirectX 10 card", in which it was not. Creative is just saying 'too bad', and all the big box manufacturers dont support anything not done explicitly by them. Witness the multitudes of Dell equipment and printers that have no working drivers for any buy one specific MS OS. All these problems are hardware manufacturer "dont care"isms.
---That being said, there seems to have been a huge jump in paradigm from XP to Vista. Even though I know I'll be modded down for this, I like XP. I've installed the operating system with faulty RAM, and it STILL worked great after I replaced the chips. Its driver support is just awe inspiring, and about the only driver I have to manually set up on a fresh install is my sound and video card, and for the most part it was like this at release.
Once, I was doing a consulting job in which the MS OS was crashing at weird intervals. After a good end-user explanation, I knew what to look for. The machine was one of the older types, so it had a nice insulating "scuzz" inside it. After taking it outside with my small air compressor, I proceeded to load up my trusty copy of Linux to check for basic hardware instabilities: heat, SMART gone awry, bad expansion cards, bad ram. Came down to it, I checked ram using Memtest86. Yep. Bad chip. And if I remember correctly, the error blocks were around 120M of the 126M module.
I went back into Linux, with the sectors at hand. I use the badram option, and Linux doesnt crash anymore... It just doesnt use those blocks. I wonder if MS could even write that kind of functionality in their software.
As a last note, my sound, ethernet, graphics, and other goodies almost always work properly on Linux (bootCDs). I also screen my hardware properly in that it has active drivers on Linux. No headaches there.
---Vista? You need up to date hardware and specific drivers. Not just 'decent' or 'good' hardware, but edging on unnecessary from the point of view of what I would expect my family to spend on a PC. A day just to get onto the internet? How many technical and monetary hoops are we expected to jump through? I've experienced similar problems with learning Linux and finding drivers, but in that case there were forums and community solutions. Vista leaves the users at the mercy of third party companies.
It takes me 5 or so minutes to get on from an unfamiliar connection, and 30 seconds (negotiation of 802.11b and DHCP) if I know where im at. I've seen Windows a stunning on standard open wifi gateways at the "authenticating". Excuse me, but its open. Just associate (5 frames) and then call DHCP (3 seconds). But windows hides behind all sorts of lies. I dont like that.
---I don't see myself going to Vista, in all honesty. Two steps forward, three steps back.
I wouldnt use it if it was free (and I dont mean in the Piratebay way either).
---Total cost to you: Zero. Well, that certificate for signing the 64-bit drivers costs money, but that's not going to MS.
Thats not true. They could add their own CERT authority and grant signing for free.
Why do they trust the cert authorities? It almost sounds if they want to stratify out the free software guys from the "we buy the 2000$ power pack" guys.
And to iterate between a different OS....
Want to develop drivers for Linux? goto Kernel.org
Want a kernel debugger and access to the O/S symbol files? We give source. Kernel.org
Need some know-how on passing the Linux logo requirements? We dont have steennkin logo requirements.
How about 64-bit Linux drivers? As long as it compiles. kernel.org . No certs or such inane requirements. If you can code for the kernel, you can do it.
Total cost to you: Zero.
There are somethings money cant buy, but for everything else there's Microsoft.
No no no. The Borg was much more of an allegory to Communism. Also note that they were partially made of flesh. They were the ultimate consumer whose units would willingly die for the "greater good". Individuality meant nothing, and later on in the ST:TNG universe, a simple act of giving a unit Borg a name was actually a devastating virus. Hue was "his" name.
Instead, the Singularity indicates that we all humans will be made of much more durable substrates (diamondoid processors) and will require nothing more than energy and metal to do anything. The idea is we could simultaneously link to create a super-consciousness entity. We will not need to raze worlds for "food", nor will we need to destroy other civilizations to prevent them from "killing" us.
To get an idea what this world might become, go read what Greg Egan authors. His world of sci-fi is what I see from the result of what Kurzweil mentions. I hope that our world will turn out like those, and hopefully stay away from the likes of Neuromancer and Blade Runner like dystopian cultures.
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Well, to get to the heart of your point...
"Just a gut feeling but I don't think that we will develop real general purpose AIs without some type of hardware breakthrough like quantum computers."
Do you think that we humans use some sort of Quantum Coherence to maintain very short decision chains? If so, where in a cell would be stable for such temporary coherence be maintained? Theories suggest that microtubules MIGHT be able to hold containment, but most experts say 'probably not'.
However, to hold that theory, a recent study found that water does really weird things in carbon nanotubules with 4 gigapascals @ 250 K. H2O helixes are quite interesting, and do show promise to any sort of quantum processing in cells.
The AMA eventually lead that system on its way out, claiming that physicians have some sort of sixth sense on "really bad things", unlike what you would input into a computer.
Of course, they are the ones that OK devices like that (well, input into the FDA) and they are also lobbying for higher status and power and pay for their doctors. No wonder tech like that is essentially banned.
Go read Kurzweil's book. He does not directly advocate life expansion. He instead advocates the Singularity.
Our bodies are made up of neurons. Does 1 neuron make us "us"? No. What if each of our brains were linked to a global consciousness. Then each human would be but a neuron..
Well, part of my post might be a bit foreign to the way your citizens act.. Quite a few people in rural places just dump their trash over a ridge or down a stream, hoping for it to go "out of sight". Recently, we had some assholes do the "fill truck with garbage, open tailgate, hit the accelerator" gag near our land and spread probably about 100 lbs of garbage.
Also, I'm extremely skeptical of any new taxes, knowing how much wasting our government can do. Perhaps you didnt hear of it, but when Bill Clinton was in office, there was a national story of a toilet seat that cost 5000$ (notice that Clinton was not involved in that price, but indicates the date). Evidently, Air Force 1 couldnt use just any standard seat, so one had to have been crafted.
It would be nice to see a smallish government that cares for its citizens by not squandering money and treating the people like buffoons. Then again, I guess I could move to Ireland;)
That would mean that we can just leave them anywhere, right?
We already pay for removal when it works.... Well, Ill just open my truckbed with all these computer junk parts and gun it. Thats what road crews are for, right?
Reminds me of the stupid "music cd" tax. And the RIAA still sues, even when you buy and trade tariff'ed discs that go directly to the labels for 'assumption of copyright infringement'.
It's their website. Their ownership. Let'em do whatever they want.
HOWEVER they do pay for that choice of quelling dissent and calling upon falsehoods. They pay for that in even more lost goodwill and eventually, profit. So, yes, let them do whatever they want. Smaller "frys" will move in and snap away business that they refuse and dismiss.
2% of the market? Hmm... Thats around 4-5 Million people. Would YOU sneeze at this market segment?
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What?! The magical crystal I bought for 300$ from my local fortuneteller wont actually stop my cancer???
She promised in the tarot reading that my cancer was in remission!!
You really are sad.
You dont understand that personal hallucinations do not count as proof.
How do we know that YOUR Jesus is "My Jesus"? Eh? Thats because its made up in your head.
You only see what proves your theory correct, and not what proves it wrong.
And I tried to read that website incoherently babbling about how prophesies will come true and Jesus is the savior of the blablabla.
What does it take to make you BELIEVE that nobody cares what faith, or lack thereof, you choose?
WiFiSuperDuperPowrXtraLolMax doesnt mean anything.
What matters is Watts, bits per Hz, frequency used, and average noise floor for frequency block. Thats all.
I've seen Kazaa mess up our DSL connection quite a few times. Now, did we use Kazaa? Nope. (we prefered WinMX and irc, but thats beside the point :-D).
When a user gets on Kazaa, the Kazaa network perpetuates that External IP address through their network. Your external_IP is linked to your kazaa_username. Now, when people search and get your kazaa_username, they hit that IP address. All is fine and good... until you are knocked off of DSL or your dhcp timer is up.
Then, you reconnect using a new external_IP. Now, you have many users on Kazaa that know your username goes to either your old IP or your new IP.
The network trashing occurs to the person who inhabits your OLD external_IP. You see a LOT of bandwidth from users and Kazaa network towards your new IP address. We had a 768/384 Kb connection, and 200 Kb was ate up with garbage from Kazaa from the previous IP inhabitor. This number of garbage connections approaches 0Kb, but never meets it.
Perhaps they detected a residual connection like that.
Erm, excuse me?
I DONT have the money, and even a software engineer COULDNT AFFORD IT.
What makes you think I can, or let alone pay 25K to fly for 1 day? Sorry, I have better things I could do with that money... Like a second degree or pay off my loans.
My god. That looks like an egg-brator attached in the center !
How about those tax problems with accepting prizes of "space trip"?
Yes, we're supposed to pay taxes on things won in a give away, but the dude refusing a trip due to 25K$ is just sad.
Who else, in the mass of average Joes can even afford to contemplate a space trip?
Hey Jobe, Wake the 'Hick Up'!!!
---I'm almost ashamed to admit this, but I have no clue about where things go or why. .....
/usr and then some attempt to use the root tree. So you end up with stuff in /usr/local/bin/etc or /usr/bin/local/etc and who cares. It's just pretty much arbitrary and was writ in stone back in the dark ages.
/SYSTEM ../kernel ../gui ../config /APPLICATIONs ../kernel ../games ../allusers ../user1 ../user2 /DATA ../sound ../photos ../pron
;) /SYSTEM == Isnt a bad idea, but not in your sense. What comprises the system: the kernel or the software tools that allow the kernel interfaces to be used? Using a wifi connection can be mighty hard without iwconfig. Instead, your /SYSTEM could be used for signed and known good basic binaries required on every connection. Did you know that /bin/ls on most Linux installs is dynamic? What happens if your system lib failed? /kernel == Thats ok, but you also need support from kernel loaders. Also many distributions maintain this in one aspect or another. /gui == Do you mean XWindows or programs that run on XWindows? Yes, there is a massive distinction. A graphics-cardless computer can process the instructions on that computer while displaying to ANOTHER Xserver the output. So, does this catch-all directory get local XServer data or all X based programs? /config == is /etc . Plain and simple. /APPLICATIONS == Unix segregates different types of binaries. Yours would not. Not Good. /games == Are games not applications? /user1 ... == Would you have users populating / ? That's really nasty. Even /home/~ is still not quite there. Sun did this multi-home setup the best.
Nothing's wrong with not knowing. It's not fixing that not knowing that is wrong.
---One place everything was in
Thats not right. The system makes sense if you know how Unices run.
---This may smack of heresy, but wouldn't it be nice to have a directory tree that means something to people who have never seen it? Something like...
Lets take your ideas and explain it, beyond the jokes
Go study why Linux and Unix puts files the way they do. It is all maintained fairly well, and that includes support for multiple versions of the same program (for backwards compatibility). Windows isnt even compatible with its own previous versions.
Why do people continue to shop at a Retailer who is known for treating customers like E-Tards and continually abuses them and lies to them and most likely commits bait-n-switch?
Stupid spammer.
NOBODY is going to buy your eCrapStation. Not here, not now, not ever. Anybody who does is a retard who deserves to lose their money.
Instead, please go to the Dell innovation website and go try to sell your garbage-soft there. Perhaps we'll see another story about a eCrapStation loser that is also silenced.
Hint: SPAMMERS SUCK.
---Ummm...anecdote is not the plural of data.
Then what are case studies? Why are they accepted? Or, when does anecdote turn into a statistically significant function?
---Besides I don't really care if you uninstalled Vista. I only care what happens within the confines of my home network.
If you don't care, why are you responding?
---I have trwo Vista Ultimate machines; one an older P4 that is going to be a web/file server and media center PC, with my XBOX 360 running as an extender to my HDTV, and my new Dell XPS M2010 which came with Vista Ultimate pre-installed.
Someone's been smoking the MS crackpipe. Unless you can't set up a file server with Samba using SWAT, why not delegate the serving duties to something more robust? Debian Stable handles that quite effectively. Even one of the stylish Linux kits (Ubuntu or Fedora) would work well here. Do you need a pretty GUI and demand to have a monitor dedicated to that machine?
---I happen to like a lot of what Vista offersw in the way of bettwr file searching and vastly improved netowrking.
What do you mean "better file searching"? If you are meaning that Indexing daemon or Find Fast... well.. I don't know what to say. Still, I've not found much quicker than
find $directory | grep $filename
Also, if you arrange your Samba server properly, you can segregate different types of media via different shares (and stored in different directories). Once this is done, you can push the media via different transport protocols.
Also, I severely argue that Windows Vista is NOT better in networking. Even compared to previous counterparts, the networking system is unstable and refuses to work properly with published standards. Witness the switch to NTLMv2 and how nearly every SAN now either needs an upgrade or to delevel to NTLMv1 on the Vista box. Also, MS praised the 'innovative' IP stack switch from BSD to an unstable untested stack. That is not an ugrade in any opinion.
Also, my Linux machine can communicate with nearly every protocol ever made and supports nearly every network device. Network devices that do not have native drivers can use NDISwrapper. My machines, with the proper Wireless chipset and driver can become a full access point. Can Windows do that?
---I use Aero but I don't go all gaga over it.
We also have OpenGL accelerated desktops that will work with many more graphics cards than Windows will accept. It is also possible to prune the system to very basic, but very usable desktops that allow you to get work done. Vista pretties are more of an annoyance, and will probably cost a nice sum of money for the proper tools to turn off the bloat. Then again, you will pay computationally for the DRM built in to your system. I can, at any time, build in DRM-like controls but under my complete control.
---It's pleasing to look at, especially compared to Vista Basic and the crippled classic UI. Now if Adobe woudl just hurry up and release the Creative and Production suites I can quit having see those stupid UAC dialogs.
I have something similar to a "UAC" dialog. It's called sudo. It doesnt co-opt my screen, nor does it steal focus from anything. It also logs all usage in a log file so you can determine possible command errors. Mine was designed for that purpose and works well.
---To a degree, the points made in TFA are to be expected. Heck, even a bunch of MS's own software is incompatible with Vista (big boys like .NET Framework 2.0 and SQL Server 2005, last I checked). There have been alot of changes, and it seems unrealistic to expect companies to roll out new drivers that are 100% right off the bat.
About that driver issue: most companies are just writing off their previous hardware by not making any soft of effort. Even nVidia claimed to have a "100% DirectX 10 card", in which it was not. Creative is just saying 'too bad', and all the big box manufacturers dont support anything not done explicitly by them. Witness the multitudes of Dell equipment and printers that have no working drivers for any buy one specific MS OS. All these problems are hardware manufacturer "dont care"isms.
---That being said, there seems to have been a huge jump in paradigm from XP to Vista. Even though I know I'll be modded down for this, I like XP. I've installed the operating system with faulty RAM, and it STILL worked great after I replaced the chips. Its driver support is just awe inspiring, and about the only driver I have to manually set up on a fresh install is my sound and video card, and for the most part it was like this at release.
Once, I was doing a consulting job in which the MS OS was crashing at weird intervals. After a good end-user explanation, I knew what to look for. The machine was one of the older types, so it had a nice insulating "scuzz" inside it. After taking it outside with my small air compressor, I proceeded to load up my trusty copy of Linux to check for basic hardware instabilities: heat, SMART gone awry, bad expansion cards, bad ram. Came down to it, I checked ram using Memtest86. Yep. Bad chip. And if I remember correctly, the error blocks were around 120M of the 126M module.
I went back into Linux, with the sectors at hand. I use the badram option, and Linux doesnt crash anymore... It just doesnt use those blocks. I wonder if MS could even write that kind of functionality in their software.
As a last note, my sound, ethernet, graphics, and other goodies almost always work properly on Linux (bootCDs). I also screen my hardware properly in that it has active drivers on Linux. No headaches there.
---Vista? You need up to date hardware and specific drivers. Not just 'decent' or 'good' hardware, but edging on unnecessary from the point of view of what I would expect my family to spend on a PC. A day just to get onto the internet? How many technical and monetary hoops are we expected to jump through? I've experienced similar problems with learning Linux and finding drivers, but in that case there were forums and community solutions. Vista leaves the users at the mercy of third party companies.
It takes me 5 or so minutes to get on from an unfamiliar connection, and 30 seconds (negotiation of 802.11b and DHCP) if I know where im at. I've seen Windows a stunning on standard open wifi gateways at the "authenticating". Excuse me, but its open. Just associate (5 frames) and then call DHCP (3 seconds). But windows hides behind all sorts of lies. I dont like that.
---I don't see myself going to Vista, in all honesty. Two steps forward, three steps back.
I wouldnt use it if it was free (and I dont mean in the Piratebay way either).
---Total cost to you: Zero. Well, that certificate for signing the 64-bit drivers costs money, but that's not going to MS.
Thats not true. They could add their own CERT authority and grant signing for free.
Why do they trust the cert authorities? It almost sounds if they want to stratify out the free software guys from the "we buy the 2000$ power pack" guys.
And to iterate between a different OS....
Want to develop drivers for Linux? goto Kernel.org
Want a kernel debugger and access to the O/S symbol files? We give source. Kernel.org
Need some know-how on passing the Linux logo requirements? We dont have steennkin logo requirements.
How about 64-bit Linux drivers? As long as it compiles. kernel.org . No certs or such inane requirements. If you can code for the kernel, you can do it.
Total cost to you: Zero.
There are somethings money cant buy, but for everything else there's Microsoft.
No no no. The Borg was much more of an allegory to Communism. Also note that they were partially made of flesh. They were the ultimate consumer whose units would willingly die for the "greater good". Individuality meant nothing, and later on in the ST:TNG universe, a simple act of giving a unit Borg a name was actually a devastating virus. Hue was "his" name.
Instead, the Singularity indicates that we all humans will be made of much more durable substrates (diamondoid processors) and will require nothing more than energy and metal to do anything. The idea is we could simultaneously link to create a super-consciousness entity. We will not need to raze worlds for "food", nor will we need to destroy other civilizations to prevent them from "killing" us.
To get an idea what this world might become, go read what Greg Egan authors. His world of sci-fi is what I see from the result of what Kurzweil mentions. I hope that our world will turn out like those, and hopefully stay away from the likes of Neuromancer and Blade Runner like dystopian cultures.
Well, to get to the heart of your point...
"Just a gut feeling but I don't think that we will develop real general purpose AIs without some type of hardware breakthrough like quantum computers."
Do you think that we humans use some sort of Quantum Coherence to maintain very short decision chains? If so, where in a cell would be stable for such temporary coherence be maintained? Theories suggest that microtubules MIGHT be able to hold containment, but most experts say 'probably not'.
However, to hold that theory, a recent study found that water does really weird things in carbon nanotubules with 4 gigapascals @ 250 K. H2O helixes are quite interesting, and do show promise to any sort of quantum processing in cells.
The AMA eventually lead that system on its way out, claiming that physicians have some sort of sixth sense on "really bad things", unlike what you would input into a computer.
Of course, they are the ones that OK devices like that (well, input into the FDA) and they are also lobbying for higher status and power and pay for their doctors. No wonder tech like that is essentially banned.
Go read Kurzweil's book. He does not directly advocate life expansion. He instead advocates the Singularity.
Our bodies are made up of neurons. Does 1 neuron make us "us"? No. What if each of our brains were linked to a global consciousness. Then each human would be but a neuron..
In essence, we would wake a God.
Heh, the more things change, the more they stay the same ;)
Well, if it works for you, it probably will work for us.. Though, the only worry is that I keep equipment a long time.
I wonder if the deposit will be linked to inflation? Im guessing not.
Dont forget the E-Chair. We use that invention a lot.
Well, part of my post might be a bit foreign to the way your citizens act.. Quite a few people in rural places just dump their trash over a ridge or down a stream, hoping for it to go "out of sight". Recently, we had some assholes do the "fill truck with garbage, open tailgate, hit the accelerator" gag near our land and spread probably about 100 lbs of garbage.
;)
Also, I'm extremely skeptical of any new taxes, knowing how much wasting our government can do. Perhaps you didnt hear of it, but when Bill Clinton was in office, there was a national story of a toilet seat that cost 5000$ (notice that Clinton was not involved in that price, but indicates the date). Evidently, Air Force 1 couldnt use just any standard seat, so one had to have been crafted.
It would be nice to see a smallish government that cares for its citizens by not squandering money and treating the people like buffoons. Then again, I guess I could move to Ireland
That would mean that we can just leave them anywhere, right?
We already pay for removal when it works.... Well, Ill just open my truckbed with all these computer junk parts and gun it. Thats what road crews are for, right?
Reminds me of the stupid "music cd" tax. And the RIAA still sues, even when you buy and trade tariff'ed discs that go directly to the labels for 'assumption of copyright infringement'.
It's their website. Their ownership. Let'em do whatever they want.
HOWEVER they do pay for that choice of quelling dissent and calling upon falsehoods. They pay for that in even more lost goodwill and eventually, profit. So, yes, let them do whatever they want. Smaller "frys" will move in and snap away business that they refuse and dismiss.
2% of the market? Hmm... Thats around 4-5 Million people. Would YOU sneeze at this market segment?
They will most likely link it to some IE based activescript that targets Vista and XP.
They will make it very difficult for any non-Windows user to use this ad-service.
Well.. A casual user who just needs to edit some images.. Doesnt need to have Photoshop on the machine all the time (every so often... or so)...
Sounds like a reason to try GIMP.