Well probability theories being what they are, I guess that acceptable by the majority. Of course seeing as the majority might take some time to react to any problem known by the few who understand what problems probability theories pose...
There's another theory that's called the Chaos Theory and given that anything left unguarded will most likely go haywire or be vulnerable in it's unguarded state, I'm not sure I'm a fond believer of the 0.00009 error margin.
What about compounding the problem though time? Isn't it remotely possible that we could be slowly adding to the problem instead of just remaining status quo? The news that companies like Intel release to the general public have to do with current technology and not compounded problems with technology. Isn't it possible that the flaw can accumulate through time and with the changing of the guard (The older scientists leaving and the newer scientists picking up the slack) that there could be some loss of information concerning the acceptable flaws of the chip designs?
I know that when my computer crashes it isn't because the probability error factor kicked in, but more likely that my computer did what it could do given the circumstances of it's invention. The human body isn't perfect either and nothing we could possibly invent could ever be perfect. How can we expect our computer chips to be? It's nothing more than human after all.
Here we go with the conspiracy theories all over again. 10k smackers! Wow, what the heck are they trying to find out.
You would think that once you shredded paper it was gone for good, but no, they invent cross shredding, and still no. If you'd burn all this cross-shredded paper, then you'd damage the economy to no end, not that we're not doing that already.
I just imagine that a lot of people have a lot of stuff to hide, and this being dictated by the companies that want to hide this information. The poor individuals that have to work in these situations, and are forced to abide to certain protocols just to keep their chairs...
Haven't we all heard the story behing gas consumption and how somebody developped an engine that had nothing to do with gas and ran on Ether?
Well doesn't this somewhat feel like the same thing. Back then, the big car Corporations could buy the engine designs and patents and shelf them. No promises, just money. Of course for the Petroleum industry it also meant a lot of money. Now they plan to shelf this guy's work. What a surprise.
I think it even less of a surprise that I'm becoming more and more jaded by these types of stories, or maybe I'm turning out old and grouchy. At this point, I could care less, and you avid/. readers, moreso. Lessso? Anyhoo.
I wonder when people will stop making excuses for progress. In this case they say it's a question of National Security. In which case I say foo. This is utter crap. Public information is public information regardless. The guy decided to make some form of cognizant application by gathering this information together, and all of a sudden! Oh NO. Fooey. America is vulnerable! You cannot leave your home without an agent, and you use the red plunger when you flush, be careful the blue one calls in the troops and the 1st air unit division.
Here's a very real question Mr. National Security: What if a non-American citizen came up with the idea and developped it? I'm willing to bet that your so-called National Security would impede on any diplomatic privilege such candidate would have and toss it aside like it didn't matter. Like you can step on my lawn, but I can't step on yours. Why? Well cause, your the US. The tough guy in the neighborhood. Again, we're getting used to that one too. Peacekeepers the States are not, bullies on the other hand... funny they should even run that add on FOX. And without sounding overly righteous, I sympathize with anyone stuck in the US that can't do a goddamned thing about this whole f****** mess and are opposed to being cattle-proded.
In a very possible future use, this system could benefit more than one country with the information it gives out; and that organized criminal activity, still needs to be organized regardless, but because of Sept. 11, and the failiure of American security to stop what happened, Osama managed to do the one thing no other country managed to do. Show everyone that America, like every other country, is vulnerable from within. (like we didn't know that already) And now with a bruised ego, it's trying to do something that hasn't even been thought out properly. Penalize everyone, ask questions later.
Hell hath no mercy like a woman scorned
Is pretty much the only thing that pops to mind regarding America's new stand on security. Register everyone in a database, tag em, give em' some iodine solution and find out when they eat, sleep and flush. Just not the blue plunger please. That one's rather expensive.
Just don't all you baztadz and bichaz come running up to Canada after they bomb the sh** out of your country and call us friends and neighbors all of a sudden. We know how you feel about us deep inside. Think about that next time you hang up on a Canadian customer. A-holes. Pfft.
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The Bussard ramjet will only work when the vehicle is moving fast enough to collect enough interstellar mass. Since space is almost empty, The ship has to go faster than about 6% light speed for the ramjet to even work. Therefore a Bussard ramjet needs to carry sufficient fuel to get up to 6% light speed on its own.
The magnetic field required is HUGE, estimated at over 10 million tesla for an unmanned vehicle. Generating such a field will take a lot of power itself, not to mention the power to charge the atoms in the flight path.
Well these were the arguments given on the page when I went to find out about the Bussard ramjet.
So we have to think light here like you were saying there's no way to get such a ship in space without assistance, but I think the ramjet engine defeats the purpose. I'm sure there are other types of transferral engines. Like vinegar and cow-brand! Yup. It would take a sh**load of cowbrand in this case, but I think you get what I'm trying to say.
So what you are saying is that you would have a photon engine by converting heat from your solar panels, storing it in a tank, and using it staight away,once it could be expelled as a mass,(maybe in a compressed way) can photons be compressed?
Yeah actually getting this type of ship into space would definitely require some help from another rocket-type ship, and in order to propel the ship (in theory) you would have to be able to create limitless mass from the solar power and tranferral unit. Compressing the gas is another add-on, but I'm guessing it would serve once you use the propulsion unit. How do you create limitless gas (mass) from heat?
Well actually, without reverting to the rocket model is what I was thinking. The way that, when oxygen will get expelled from a tank, it will actually give you some preliminary propulsion. So if heat being caught by the panels could then be converted into some sort of gas and maybe even compressed right on the spot...(of course we'd have to develop it, but I'm sure it exists already) and then expelled as propulsion, without the need to use huge tanks to store (on the spot made gas)...hmmm. No?
But this is what I'm saying...instead of bringing up all this fuel with you, wouldn't it be possible to have the solar panels to act as a catalyst for the heat being transferred into gas and then being ejected for propulsion? Can heat be handled in such a way? Then you would still need the sun to transfer the heat into gas...
Being as I am in no way knowledgeable about thermodynamics...I have a few questions for the ones who are more aware.
I saw this documentary on Discovery about a russian torpedo that creates it's own air bubble around it so that it can use a different propulsion system to increase the speed of it underwater.
Given the fact that space is a vaccuum, and that we're talking about solar sails here, obviously anything remotly related to gas emition wouldn't work, since any gas propelled would immediately get sucked out into space.
My question is, wouldn't it be possible to contain the solar power, have the heat transferred into gas (again in a contained field), and use the gas emition as an exhaust instead, like gas propelled? I'm guessing you could still use the sail as a way of collecting energy to created this gas. Of course this is still not quite effective the more distant to the sun your ship travels.
In which case wouldn't solar sails only be good for a Sun-present quadrant? And this being relatively close to it in any event?
Newer stuff all the time. As far as fabrics go, I think it's still a great invention, but as with all inventions, it will only do wonders when used properly. In which case it's still has to be handled by us puny hoomans.
What if this new technology enables criminals to get away with stuff they didn't used to?
Like when the Flash had to eat so many candy bars just to absorb...
Mark my words! The day will come when Nanocriminals will be about!
~Sayeth the nanoprophet of doom
How bout we make some roofing with the stuff? At least it'll last longer than 15 years, or Winter 98 in Québec.
Hey maybe we can even convince the people in Montreal to keep the big O and have it covered with this stuff (Good luck)
Betcha when it hits urban industries the taxpayers will be emptying their wallets because of it.
While we're ahead maybe we should start making nano-checks; I wonder what a nanopenny will look like and how many it'll take for my nano jujubee.
Sorry, what? If that's your argument as to why Microsoft is responsible for your scanner not working, could you explain that? I can't make any sense of it.
Sorry cookiepus. It wasn't an argument. Let's move on to something else, cuz I think by the time I explain what I think, I'll have bought another scanner.
Actually everything is Microsoft's fault. I've been nicely and effectively brainwashed by my non-MS gurus.
You should get yourself one of those.
Getting back to the point at hand...the only reason that the scanner won't work on the newer OS platform is the fact that the drivers are legacy-based and not available in any other file format type.
In which case, Microsoft have been able to develop only so far into supporting old applications.
Whereas Microsoft monopolizes the market and gets most manufacturers who produce peripherals to send them their drivers in order to enlist their support and to add them to the Harware listing.
In which case any company that decides not to, will surely lose some business because their stuff isn't driver signed.
I agree with your point about it being mostly the manufacturers fault here, but unfortunately, I've heard too many reports about peripherals not being supported after the installation of XP.
Mind you, XP is too much of a definite improvement over 98 to be compared. And stuff that used to be incompatible in the NT4 years suddenly becomes compatible with XP. True enough, I've seen this too.
Mind you I'm one of those paranoid people who knows they are being manipulted by the industry in order to push the older equipment away in order to satisfy the companies push for newer products. And in this vein, I have to say that Microsoft plays a definite role, and I'll be willing to disagree with you for my stand regardless of the manufacturer's direct implication with the problem
Umm. Ok fine I'm upset. I still think I have a valid reason. In which case, I think that's is still an oversight by the manufacturer and in this case I would include the OS developper, to make obsolete a product that is 5 years in existence when it still works perfectly.
What you're trying to convince me of, is the fact that my scanner should have broken down about 2 years ago, then everything would be in conjunction with the moon, OS developpment, and the Nexxus of planet Imin and it's moon Zala.
Pfffft. - Bill the Cat.
I think there are many people stuck in the same smelly sh** I'm in but don't even know yet, because they haven't made the move to switch the OS.
Go back to 98?
Instead of XP?
You're not serious are you? You know how long it takes for that suck** to boot? Fine my scanner works, but I think it slightly traumatic to have to format a fat partition in order to install a slower and less secure OS so my scanner can work.
Ahhh Plug and Pray
Leave your home without it
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It's a good thing sh** like this happens to cars on a less regular basis.
~I hope I don't die in my sleep like my grandfather, but go down in flames like the passengers in his car. - anonymous
One of these days technology will speed us up right out of our wallets. Oh wait that's been going on for the past 2 years or so. Nevermind. I'll stop now.
I'm done ranting.
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p.s. Of course there is one thing I forget to mention. Is that I haven't installed it on Linux yet. Oh well wish me luck.
I'm not sure I agree with the way technology is moving either.
I have an old scanner, (like a lot of people probably) which still works fine with Win98 but as soon as you install it on anything Win2k or XP it's obsolete. But it works with Win98, how can it be obsolete?
Which means that I have to get rid of my scanner because the OS decides not to support my scanner or the scanner company (Plustek) doesn't know how to create a driver that will work on the newer platforms. I can almost see the bubbles over the marketing VP's heads now:
Ahh we sell em' so cheap that they'll buy another one, after all they had enough money for the OS...
Which obviously egged me on to another question: Who are they to dictate that we're rich enough to throw away good working equipment, in order to bend to the will of the OS?
I know that most techs I know are in the middle class or lower upper class section of the Revenue system, but heck...I know I'm materialistic, I don't need some 2-bit company telling I should throw away stuff that still works.
That burns the sh** outta me.
Isn't it a bit the same with NT4? I mean the software is stable as all hell, except when you're dumb enought to install a Win9X driver on it, in order to blue screen it (I mean it's not complicated to crash it is it?) And the lack of support for USB ports, which I thought MS missed the boat on that one. Anyone who has any idea what I'm talking about have moved on to Linux by now.
Yes somehow we believe we should throw away good working equipment (or some of us believe in dual/triple booting their pc's) but with the coming of XP, who would want to go back to 98?
Way to go progress! Here's a thumb up your ass for your efforts!
Again I'm stuck trying to ponder why I would re-purchase something I've already purchased? Just to have it in the newest media/technology with the little extras that the production house decided to add-on for good measure so that they can sleep better knowing that they've somewhat bettered the product?
Well all of you know that's bullcrap...
Send me your money -Suicidal Tendencies
Afterall, isn't exactly what we're supposed to be paying for? New technology with sharper this and crisper that? In which case it's not really the material that's new and only the media that's improved is it not?
Everybody is out to make a dime anyway. How many people have gotten jipped by buying something that they had already on Vinyl or Tape only to find out that whatever new media they were getting their material on, wears out just the same after normal use.
So to resume, aren't we stuck in a consumer circle where the technology gets improved but not enough to outlast time, for a few new frills? With the advent of DVD and newer movies I would agree that you get more bang for your dollar, but for the older material? No way.
In which case you have old bands comming out with new stuff which is fine for the newer technology, but just remastering something over and over to sell something to some poor fool that needs to spend money on a simili-product.
It also bothers me that this new technology is being produced on the sweat of the previous products and that the market will turn around and choose to discontinue any media that they find redundant or not market conscious. What do you say to that?
I tend to disagree. Hoover himself was corrupt, so we agree to disagree on the man.
But you are right in saying that he would at least have enough evidence collected to use as collateral against little pissants like the RIAA. I guess that can always be something to look up to. Whatever.
You know people always mention that there are strings behind the presidency, like capital funded by Rich Corporations, like the Oil and Pharmaceutical industries...to mention some
I'm thinking that Hoover was one of those people that could manipulate what would happen in such circumstances, but only in the betterment of his own sake, which hardly dictates a democracy.
"The days of the "quiet introduction" are probably numbered"
One can only hope you are right. But then one has to wonder why you would have to fight sneaky underhanded tactics within your own government.
Since I'm not a Bush fan...this change you are mentioning, isn't going to be positive one I fear. It almost feels like we are back in the dark, and whatever info is disseminated, trickles down with a purpose, while the hidden factions still hide their agendas.
Ok, maybe a bit Robocop. The similarities are there.
Meanwhile, thinking of Robocop made me think of the Running Man with the "I'd pay a dollar for that!" comment.
Hey at least we have televised war (almost) next thing you know the soldiers will be carrying vid-cams on their cameras instead of bayonnets, so we can get the 'fatalities'. I wonder if those 7 years of hell have started yet?
I swear the faster future tech and future laws spring up, the more and more I find myself in a future looking a lot like Judge Dredd.
This particular saying bugs the sh** outta me: "Quietly introduced"
What exactly does that mean...that these people will try and make up some sort of law and unless people are aware enough and rebel against it, there's a good chance it will come to pass?
Not to be pessimistic...ahem, but as far as I know, countries go to war without consent of the people. You can bloody bet that laws can be "Quietly introduced" without the will of the people.
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Ahh to ponder what to get, and what to share or who to kick off your f***ing system because the a**hole is connected to twenty other machines so he's crawling at.12 Kb a sec.
To fileshare or not to fileshare? I've pondered this question about a billion times. (minus 999 million times or so) and still, at anytime I can actually get away with not having too, my happiness increases.
I've once asked someone for some software over the net, and for communication purposes and the way to make new (friends/leeches) over the net filesharing is great. The reply to that was "Well what do you have to offer me, what can you actually give someone who's got everything?"
I found this answer somewhat of a revelation. What the heck do you do after you have everything? It's not like I want to get fed up of the process, in which case I already am, but nonetheless, I'm stretching my point thin here...
Now, being a musician myself, I am definitely at odds with the whole let's share stuff freely thingy, but I have to admit to d/l and u/l tons of stuff too. That is until I found out what the heck cd-ripping was about.
Yep that's right folks. CD-ripping. Man, it's like I don't know how much effing money I've already put into the music industry. I've definitely put somebody's stuck-up, pompous Porshe-driving brat through school and University. I mean I knew what music was about in the Vinyl days...
Moving on to some sort of point...
Do you think that it's fair to the consumer when you use a tape over and over again and it ends up being chewed, used or damaged and leaving you with the need to have to buy another effing copy? And doesn't this rule apply to all media including CD's. I've got a Smashing Pumpkins CD that will never sound like it did when I bought it.
So I said, scr** that. I borrowed actual CD's from people I know, about stuff I wanted and ripped right through the whole fuc**** thing. Now I have every song, and the albums I'm interested in and not some live version no one's interested in.
Kinda like Metallica. And Justice for All. I've listened to that tape too often. So much so, I actually lend it to a friend of mine who never returned the effing thing. But that's old news, I'm much better now. Do you think I'd have to buy another album? I've got most of their albums and even some super-mini vinyls...and yet Mr. Ulrich would come up to me to be some certain Ass**** and say it was illegal. Yeah...send more money bit**!
So there you have it. File-sharing in a nutshell, legalized my way. I once had yer fuc**** album but your godamn product wears down and gets destroyed after about a million listens...So I blame crappy material for the use of filesharing.
I still think what I'm doing on a certain level can be wrong. But here's another question for you dames and fellas. What happens after the artist dies. Who the heck do you think you are supporting if not the industry itself, that is still giving you the same crappy product it always has?
Buy some Jimmy Hendrix and tell me he's seeing any of that money today?
Better yet, download the album and pay the artists through Paypal, without the industry taking a cut on a product that'll wear down eventually anyway. I wonder who's bit**** the most here anyway.
Filesharing like every other trend, will eventually be replaced with much better way to scr** the system. Long-live progression.
Speaking of censorship...
Funny you should mention that the Chinese Govnt is covering up all this information but then I figure that's been their way all along. Which by no means implies that it's ok. So you raise the issue and we somehow discuss the topic and it eventually will fall through the cracks...and the wheel gets turned around bla bla.
Somewhere in there I wonder how Chinsese civilians are taking this. In a certain sense freedom of speech is for everyone to enjoy, not only people in the West. Except for some minor differences in culture. Being oppressed and restrained from commenting would make the Chinese people want to shout out whatever it is that they feel in unjust. Not the same approach as us North Americans have obviously. Mind you, when they did, would we take it as a protest or actual dissemnination of information, without actually thinking that the person was inciting a riot? The way we view things is IMO very different from the way things are viewed in China, no matter how right or righteous our way of thinking is.
On a side note, I have no idea if this topic has been discussed, but didn't the U.S. slightly censor Canadian citizens for not joining them in the war against Iraq? And before someone gets all gung-ho on my case, I don't blame the American people for this little tid-bit. Rather the American Govnt. I've written with many Americans who opposed the war and what was being said about Canada at that time (of course most came from American States that are closest to us.)
Propaganda will run rampant whether in China or in N.A. so maybe the censorship is a little closer than you think. In Canada the same could be said, because either side of the fence that the P.M. sat on, he got shelled.
Aaahh hidden agendas...don't leave home without them.
P.s. in any event, I'm happy that the relationship between Canada and the U.S. didn't deteriorate more than it could have. It sure looked like it would.
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I skipped the comebacks chapter...cause nothing in there was satisfactory.
There's another theory that's called the Chaos Theory and given that anything left unguarded will most likely go haywire or be vulnerable in it's unguarded state, I'm not sure I'm a fond believer of the 0.00009 error margin.
What about compounding the problem though time? Isn't it remotely possible that we could be slowly adding to the problem instead of just remaining status quo? The news that companies like Intel release to the general public have to do with current technology and not compounded problems with technology. Isn't it possible that the flaw can accumulate through time and with the changing of the guard (The older scientists leaving and the newer scientists picking up the slack) that there could be some loss of information concerning the acceptable flaws of the chip designs?
I know that when my computer crashes it isn't because the probability error factor kicked in, but more likely that my computer did what it could do given the circumstances of it's invention. The human body isn't perfect either and nothing we could possibly invent could ever be perfect. How can we expect our computer chips to be? It's nothing more than human after all.
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You would think that once you shredded paper it was gone for good, but no, they invent cross shredding, and still no. If you'd burn all this cross-shredded paper, then you'd damage the economy to no end, not that we're not doing that already.
I just imagine that a lot of people have a lot of stuff to hide, and this being dictated by the companies that want to hide this information. The poor individuals that have to work in these situations, and are forced to abide to certain protocols just to keep their chairs...
The stuff that happens behind closed doors!
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Well doesn't this somewhat feel like the same thing. Back then, the big car Corporations could buy the engine designs and patents and shelf them. No promises, just money. Of course for the Petroleum industry it also meant a lot of money. Now they plan to shelf this guy's work. What a surprise.
I think it even less of a surprise that I'm becoming more and more jaded by these types of stories, or maybe I'm turning out old and grouchy. At this point, I could care less, and you avid /. readers, moreso. Lessso? Anyhoo.
I wonder when people will stop making excuses for progress. In this case they say it's a question of National Security. In which case I say foo. This is utter crap. Public information is public information regardless. The guy decided to make some form of cognizant application by gathering this information together, and all of a sudden! Oh NO. Fooey. America is vulnerable! You cannot leave your home without an agent, and you use the red plunger when you flush, be careful the blue one calls in the troops and the 1st air unit division.
Here's a very real question Mr. National Security: What if a non-American citizen came up with the idea and developped it? I'm willing to bet that your so-called National Security would impede on any diplomatic privilege such candidate would have and toss it aside like it didn't matter. Like you can step on my lawn, but I can't step on yours. Why? Well cause, your the US. The tough guy in the neighborhood. Again, we're getting used to that one too. Peacekeepers the States are not, bullies on the other hand... funny they should even run that add on FOX. And without sounding overly righteous, I sympathize with anyone stuck in the US that can't do a goddamned thing about this whole f****** mess and are opposed to being cattle-proded.
In a very possible future use, this system could benefit more than one country with the information it gives out; and that organized criminal activity, still needs to be organized regardless, but because of Sept. 11, and the failiure of American security to stop what happened, Osama managed to do the one thing no other country managed to do. Show everyone that America, like every other country, is vulnerable from within. (like we didn't know that already) And now with a bruised ego, it's trying to do something that hasn't even been thought out properly. Penalize everyone, ask questions later.
Hell hath no mercy like a woman scorned
Is pretty much the only thing that pops to mind regarding America's new stand on security. Register everyone in a database, tag em, give em' some iodine solution and find out when they eat, sleep and flush. Just not the blue plunger please. That one's rather expensive.
Just don't all you baztadz and bichaz come running up to Canada after they bomb the sh** out of your country and call us friends and neighbors all of a sudden. We know how you feel about us deep inside. Think about that next time you hang up on a Canadian customer. A-holes. Pfft.
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This rant sponsored by Molson Canadian and the letter A, also the number 7. Peace!
The magnetic field required is HUGE, estimated at over 10 million tesla for an unmanned vehicle. Generating such a field will take a lot of power itself, not to mention the power to charge the atoms in the flight path.
Well these were the arguments given on the page when I went to find out about the Bussard ramjet.
So we have to think light here like you were saying there's no way to get such a ship in space without assistance, but I think the ramjet engine defeats the purpose. I'm sure there are other types of transferral engines. Like vinegar and cow-brand! Yup. It would take a sh**load of cowbrand in this case, but I think you get what I'm trying to say.
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So what you are saying is that you would have a photon engine by converting heat from your solar panels, storing it in a tank, and using it staight away,once it could be expelled as a mass,(maybe in a compressed way) can photons be compressed?
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I saw this documentary on Discovery about a russian torpedo that creates it's own air bubble around it so that it can use a different propulsion system to increase the speed of it underwater.
Given the fact that space is a vaccuum, and that we're talking about solar sails here, obviously anything remotly related to gas emition wouldn't work, since any gas propelled would immediately get sucked out into space.
My question is, wouldn't it be possible to contain the solar power, have the heat transferred into gas (again in a contained field), and use the gas emition as an exhaust instead, like gas propelled? I'm guessing you could still use the sail as a way of collecting energy to created this gas. Of course this is still not quite effective the more distant to the sun your ship travels.
In which case wouldn't solar sails only be good for a Sun-present quadrant? And this being relatively close to it in any event?
Just a few lingering thoughts.
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http://www.exn.ca/video/?video=exn20030325-airsh ip.asx
Newer stuff all the time. As far as fabrics go, I think it's still a great invention, but as with all inventions, it will only do wonders when used properly. In which case it's still has to be handled by us puny hoomans.
What if this new technology enables criminals to get away with stuff they didn't used to?
Like when the Flash had to eat so many candy bars just to absorb...
Mark my words! The day will come when Nanocriminals will be about!
~Sayeth the nanoprophet of doom
How bout we make some roofing with the stuff? At least it'll last longer than 15 years, or Winter 98 in Québec.
Hey maybe we can even convince the people in Montreal to keep the big O and have it covered with this stuff (Good luck)
Betcha when it hits urban industries the taxpayers will be emptying their wallets because of it.
While we're ahead maybe we should start making nano-checks; I wonder what a nanopenny will look like and how many it'll take for my nano jujubee.
~Nanoo Nanoo. Mork the Alien.
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p.s. at least I started on topic.
Sorry cookiepus. It wasn't an argument. Let's move on to something else, cuz I think by the time I explain what I think, I'll have bought another scanner.
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You should get yourself one of those.
Getting back to the point at hand...the only reason that the scanner won't work on the newer OS platform is the fact that the drivers are legacy-based and not available in any other file format type.
In which case, Microsoft have been able to develop only so far into supporting old applications.
Whereas Microsoft monopolizes the market and gets most manufacturers who produce peripherals to send them their drivers in order to enlist their support and to add them to the Harware listing.
In which case any company that decides not to, will surely lose some business because their stuff isn't driver signed.
I agree with your point about it being mostly the manufacturers fault here, but unfortunately, I've heard too many reports about peripherals not being supported after the installation of XP.
Mind you, XP is too much of a definite improvement over 98 to be compared. And stuff that used to be incompatible in the NT4 years suddenly becomes compatible with XP. True enough, I've seen this too.
Mind you I'm one of those paranoid people who knows they are being manipulted by the industry in order to push the older equipment away in order to satisfy the companies push for newer products. And in this vein, I have to say that Microsoft plays a definite role, and I'll be willing to disagree with you for my stand regardless of the manufacturer's direct implication with the problem
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What you're trying to convince me of, is the fact that my scanner should have broken down about 2 years ago, then everything would be in conjunction with the moon, OS developpment, and the Nexxus of planet Imin and it's moon Zala.
Pfffft. - Bill the Cat.
I think there are many people stuck in the same smelly sh** I'm in but don't even know yet, because they haven't made the move to switch the OS.
Go back to 98?
Instead of XP?
You're not serious are you? You know how long it takes for that suck** to boot? Fine my scanner works, but I think it slightly traumatic to have to format a fat partition in order to install a slower and less secure OS so my scanner can work.
Ahhh Plug and Pray
Leave your home without it
It's a good thing sh** like this happens to cars on a less regular basis.
~I hope I don't die in my sleep like my grandfather, but go down in flames like the passengers in his car. - anonymous
One of these days technology will speed us up right out of our wallets. Oh wait that's been going on for the past 2 years or so. Nevermind. I'll stop now.
I'm done ranting.
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p.s. Of course there is one thing I forget to mention. Is that I haven't installed it on Linux yet. Oh well wish me luck.
I have an old scanner, (like a lot of people probably) which still works fine with Win98 but as soon as you install it on anything Win2k or XP it's obsolete. But it works with Win98, how can it be obsolete?
Which means that I have to get rid of my scanner because the OS decides not to support my scanner or the scanner company (Plustek) doesn't know how to create a driver that will work on the newer platforms. I can almost see the bubbles over the marketing VP's heads now:
Ahh we sell em' so cheap that they'll buy another one, after all they had enough money for the OS...
Which obviously egged me on to another question: Who are they to dictate that we're rich enough to throw away good working equipment, in order to bend to the will of the OS?
I know that most techs I know are in the middle class or lower upper class section of the Revenue system, but heck...I know I'm materialistic, I don't need some 2-bit company telling I should throw away stuff that still works.
That burns the sh** outta me.
Isn't it a bit the same with NT4? I mean the software is stable as all hell, except when you're dumb enought to install a Win9X driver on it, in order to blue screen it (I mean it's not complicated to crash it is it?) And the lack of support for USB ports, which I thought MS missed the boat on that one. Anyone who has any idea what I'm talking about have moved on to Linux by now.
Yes somehow we believe we should throw away good working equipment (or some of us believe in dual/triple booting their pc's) but with the coming of XP, who would want to go back to 98?
Way to go progress! Here's a thumb up your ass for your efforts!
QD
Again I'm stuck trying to ponder why I would re-purchase something I've already purchased? Just to have it in the newest media/technology with the little extras that the production house decided to add-on for good measure so that they can sleep better knowing that they've somewhat bettered the product?
Well all of you know that's bullcrap...
Send me your money -Suicidal Tendencies
Afterall, isn't exactly what we're supposed to be paying for? New technology with sharper this and crisper that? In which case it's not really the material that's new and only the media that's improved is it not?
Everybody is out to make a dime anyway. How many people have gotten jipped by buying something that they had already on Vinyl or Tape only to find out that whatever new media they were getting their material on, wears out just the same after normal use.
So to resume, aren't we stuck in a consumer circle where the technology gets improved but not enough to outlast time, for a few new frills? With the advent of DVD and newer movies I would agree that you get more bang for your dollar, but for the older material? No way.
In which case you have old bands comming out with new stuff which is fine for the newer technology, but just remastering something over and over to sell something to some poor fool that needs to spend money on a simili-product.
It also bothers me that this new technology is being produced on the sweat of the previous products and that the market will turn around and choose to discontinue any media that they find redundant or not market conscious. What do you say to that?
Everybody together now: FUCK
QD p.s. how's that for being sheep?
But you are right in saying that he would at least have enough evidence collected to use as collateral against little pissants like the RIAA. I guess that can always be something to look up to. Whatever.
You know people always mention that there are strings behind the presidency, like capital funded by Rich Corporations, like the Oil and Pharmaceutical industries...to mention some
I'm thinking that Hoover was one of those people that could manipulate what would happen in such circumstances, but only in the betterment of his own sake, which hardly dictates a democracy.
Absolute power, means absolut Vodka
QD
One can only hope you are right. But then one has to wonder why you would have to fight sneaky underhanded tactics within your own government.
Since I'm not a Bush fan...this change you are mentioning, isn't going to be positive one I fear. It almost feels like we are back in the dark, and whatever info is disseminated, trickles down with a purpose, while the hidden factions still hide their agendas.
QD
Meanwhile, thinking of Robocop made me think of the Running Man with the "I'd pay a dollar for that!" comment.
Hey at least we have televised war (almost) next thing you know the soldiers will be carrying vid-cams on their cameras instead of bayonnets, so we can get the 'fatalities'. I wonder if those 7 years of hell have started yet?
QD
I swear the faster future tech and future laws spring up, the more and more I find myself in a future looking a lot like Judge Dredd. This particular saying bugs the sh** outta me: "Quietly introduced" What exactly does that mean...that these people will try and make up some sort of law and unless people are aware enough and rebel against it, there's a good chance it will come to pass? Not to be pessimistic...ahem, but as far as I know, countries go to war without consent of the people. You can bloody bet that laws can be "Quietly introduced" without the will of the people. QD
To fileshare or not to fileshare? I've pondered this question about a billion times. (minus 999 million times or so) and still, at anytime I can actually get away with not having too, my happiness increases.
I've once asked someone for some software over the net, and for communication purposes and the way to make new (friends/leeches) over the net filesharing is great. The reply to that was "Well what do you have to offer me, what can you actually give someone who's got everything?"
I found this answer somewhat of a revelation. What the heck do you do after you have everything? It's not like I want to get fed up of the process, in which case I already am, but nonetheless, I'm stretching my point thin here...
Now, being a musician myself, I am definitely at odds with the whole let's share stuff freely thingy, but I have to admit to d/l and u/l tons of stuff too. That is until I found out what the heck cd-ripping was about.
Yep that's right folks. CD-ripping. Man, it's like I don't know how much effing money I've already put into the music industry. I've definitely put somebody's stuck-up, pompous Porshe-driving brat through school and University. I mean I knew what music was about in the Vinyl days...
Moving on to some sort of point...
Do you think that it's fair to the consumer when you use a tape over and over again and it ends up being chewed, used or damaged and leaving you with the need to have to buy another effing copy? And doesn't this rule apply to all media including CD's. I've got a Smashing Pumpkins CD that will never sound like it did when I bought it.
So I said, scr** that. I borrowed actual CD's from people I know, about stuff I wanted and ripped right through the whole fuc**** thing. Now I have every song, and the albums I'm interested in and not some live version no one's interested in.
Kinda like Metallica. And Justice for All. I've listened to that tape too often. So much so, I actually lend it to a friend of mine who never returned the effing thing. But that's old news, I'm much better now. Do you think I'd have to buy another album? I've got most of their albums and even some super-mini vinyls...and yet Mr. Ulrich would come up to me to be some certain Ass**** and say it was illegal. Yeah...send more money bit**!
So there you have it. File-sharing in a nutshell, legalized my way. I once had yer fuc**** album but your godamn product wears down and gets destroyed after about a million listens...So I blame crappy material for the use of filesharing.
I still think what I'm doing on a certain level can be wrong. But here's another question for you dames and fellas. What happens after the artist dies. Who the heck do you think you are supporting if not the industry itself, that is still giving you the same crappy product it always has?
Buy some Jimmy Hendrix and tell me he's seeing any of that money today?
Better yet, download the album and pay the artists through Paypal, without the industry taking a cut on a product that'll wear down eventually anyway. I wonder who's bit**** the most here anyway.
Filesharing like every other trend, will eventually be replaced with much better way to scr** the system. Long-live progression.
QD
Computer UMP: Yes that's what I said a strike.
Computer UMP: Yes that's what I said a strike.
away in the stands: Hot dogs! Get yer hot dogs!
Ah the boys of summer. Wonder if they'll put a plastron on the sucker?
Steeeeeeeeerike.
QD
Speaking of censorship... Funny you should mention that the Chinese Govnt is covering up all this information but then I figure that's been their way all along. Which by no means implies that it's ok. So you raise the issue and we somehow discuss the topic and it eventually will fall through the cracks...and the wheel gets turned around bla bla. Somewhere in there I wonder how Chinsese civilians are taking this. In a certain sense freedom of speech is for everyone to enjoy, not only people in the West. Except for some minor differences in culture. Being oppressed and restrained from commenting would make the Chinese people want to shout out whatever it is that they feel in unjust. Not the same approach as us North Americans have obviously. Mind you, when they did, would we take it as a protest or actual dissemnination of information, without actually thinking that the person was inciting a riot? The way we view things is IMO very different from the way things are viewed in China, no matter how right or righteous our way of thinking is. On a side note, I have no idea if this topic has been discussed, but didn't the U.S. slightly censor Canadian citizens for not joining them in the war against Iraq? And before someone gets all gung-ho on my case, I don't blame the American people for this little tid-bit. Rather the American Govnt. I've written with many Americans who opposed the war and what was being said about Canada at that time (of course most came from American States that are closest to us.) Propaganda will run rampant whether in China or in N.A. so maybe the censorship is a little closer than you think. In Canada the same could be said, because either side of the fence that the P.M. sat on, he got shelled. Aaahh hidden agendas...don't leave home without them. P.s. in any event, I'm happy that the relationship between Canada and the U.S. didn't deteriorate more than it could have. It sure looked like it would.