Doesn't this sound like the Terminator?
The first of these special assassins had rubber skin and were easy to detect. Then they had skin grown for them organically...
I, for one, welcome these organic transistor-skinned cybernetic overlords!
I agree. My family uses a G4 iMac and we raise and lower the screen all the time. We use it just like an adjustable altitude swivel chair. Everyone has a place they want the monitor (and seat cushion) to be.
They probably could make a G5 powerbook, but it would be a mega-luggable; a behemoth among the beautiful, svelte laptops we expect from Apple. This is something they have tried to avoid since the mac portable.
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Notice they said "tamper-resistant" not "tamper-proof".This is just like in armor manufacturing, where there is no such thing as a "bulletproof" vest or a "bulletproof" door; there are bullet resistant things, but nothing can be entirely "proofed" from bullets or tampering.
If a seemingly "unupgradable" and unassuming iMac can be overclocked, then the cask can be broken.
If a supposedly "rock-solid" DRM can be defeated by depressing the shift key, then the alarms can be neutralized.
If the entire east coast of North America's power can be shut off by a single local power outage, then the coolant can be blocked.
Plus in AA you can't jump all the time, either. You get about one or two good jumps and then all your subsequent jumps are shorter and shorter.
The training actually serves a useful purpose in FPS games, because it makes sure that there are no complete noobs asking "how do I shoot?" or "HELP! I can't move!".
That's cool!... but could you actually hold this pen with one hand? I mean, come on. This is '70s era electronic equipment we're talking about. It had to be huge.
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The pen is only mightier when you have the strength to wield it. I'm guessing this would be like an elf trying to use a palladin's broadsword.
"He devoted more time to what we would now regard as non-scientific topics such as theology and alchemy, writing treatise after treatise on early church history and biblical prophecy."
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He probably had to do this kind of stuff to appease the church. Scientists in this era lived in fear of the mighty clergy. Just look at what happened to Galileo!
I guess sunglasses would work, but I'd go for a mirror-like finish on the outside (like those rainbow things skiers wear!). This should work unless they get Minority Report-like technology and figure out how to scan your retina through glasses-or even eyelids!
My school runs primarily Windoze boxxen (almost all Dells, with a few converted knoppix discs;-) , but in the mac tradition, there is one room full of macs for graphical design. It is pretty much self-contained; they have a few PowerMac G4s running 10.3 server edition, about 20 emacs, and a networked printer dedicated to that room.
I find your post interesting because I have done this exact same thing. I made some knoppix discs, dressed them up in a fancy jacket (didn't have hardware to print on CDs), and disributed them to my classmates. The risk of being caught by our school's techies made it all the more attractive. I found it a great way to introduce my friends to linux.
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This happened about the same time the sasser worm was going around, so naturally I got some queries from those infected as to whether this so-called virus proof "linux" stuff could run on your hard drive. Then I broke out the RedHat CDs.:-)
I use a mix of macs and a few different kinds of PCs, so to share files betwixt them, I already carry both my filesystem and my OS with me. I have a 128 Megabyte USB flash drive and two knoppix discs (one for Apple Boxxen, the other for IBM and similar). This allows me to open my files and settings on almost any computer I come across, even library card catalog kiosks with IDE CD drives. The whole package is less than 100 grammes. If I had a 1 or 2 gigabyte bootable USB flash drive, I could even eliminate the discs.
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Of course, this system requires me to restart the computer to set the boot options, but it nonetheless helps me share files between mac and PC. I suppose that with the system suggested above, I could boot off of the 'Net, making the total load zero. It's an interesting idea. Meanwhile, I use my knoppix discs for cross-platform sharing.
I saw this show on the History channel once where some guys used a soda can to conceal a small explosive charge.
I also saw a movie in which a terrorist uses a cell phone to detonate some C4.
Not only will terrorists use coke cans to hide explosives, they will use them to detonate them as well!
Concerning all the comments attached to this which say that other PDAs came before Newton:
The most talked about model is the Psion ans Psion series 3. Neither of these had a touch sensitive screen. I think that is what defines a modern PDA (although some of the newer ones have keyboards, touchscreens and the stylus have come to be associated with PDAs)
According to Emerson, the nonconformists in the world are the ones that change the world (i.e. Galileo, Jesus, etc).
Nonconformist players like Apple and the Open Source Community have contributed a lot to the computer industry.
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Apple gave us:
-The first mass-marketed GUI operating system
-The PDA
-The iMac (which changed the way computers are made today i.e. NOT BEIGE)
-The first personal supercomputer (it was inevitable, but they got it out first)
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Open source gave us:
-The GPL
-Operating systems for the rest of us
-Countless open standards
-Tux!
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Apple and Open Source belong together, and will probably continue to be major players in the computer industry as leaders, not followers.
"Dell is also offering free shipping, free software..."
Do my eyes decieve me? Is Dell going to start shipping software under the banner of the GPL?
Or are their DJs now going to run linux?
28 pieces of spyware on the drive
28 pieces of spyware
Go to download.com get a "Removal app"
29 pieces of spyware on the drive!
_
But seriously, there are a lot of apps out there pretending to be "spyware removal programs" that are actually spyware themselves. ACCEPT NO IMITATIONS!
The guns also got screwed up because the original design did not incorporate a chromium-plated firing chamber. The GI's said they needed chromium plating, but the Wiz kids @ DOD said that the M-16 wasn't designed with plating, thus it didn't need it.
A friend of mine has money invested in Microsoft, yet she has been faithful to MacOS since 1986 and, like other mac users, reacts with a mix of pity and amusement when thousands of M$ boxxen nosedive because of a virus. Why? A little bit of zealotry, of course, but mostly for stability and security. It seems she will trust Microsoft with her money, but not her much more valuable data.
No... people that weaned on Wind0ze would say of an iMac: "Neat monitor. Where's the tower?" or [whine]"I can't install the internet!"[/whine]. Speaking of people ignorant to *other* Operating systems, I think that this comic woud be most relevant and interesting.
The maximum RAM for these things is supposedly around 512megs. I don't know if anyone has gotten anything higher in this type of computer. It has 2 sockets for 66mHz 144 pin SO-DIMM RAM.
I can run knoppix on my mac, and I believe it will work on most macs with a New-World ROM (The iMac was the first to use this), so it should work fine. Can't promise you any current versions of knoppix on PPC, though. The latest I've seen recently is 3.2
The only problem with a liveCD is that the CD drive is the only removable media the iMac had, and the students will not be able to play music on it.
There is also a way to get around booting into knoppix. You can start it up in OpenFirmWare and eject the CD from there. When you tell it to boot, it will automatically choose the hard drive as the boot drive (at least this is the way it works in my experiences).
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Doesn't this sound like the Terminator? The first of these special assassins had rubber skin and were easy to detect. Then they had skin grown for them organically... I, for one, welcome these organic transistor-skinned cybernetic overlords!
I agree. My family uses a G4 iMac and we raise and lower the screen all the time. We use it just like an adjustable altitude swivel chair. Everyone has a place they want the monitor (and seat cushion) to be.
They probably could make a G5 powerbook, but it would be a mega-luggable; a behemoth among the beautiful, svelte laptops we expect from Apple. This is something they have tried to avoid since the mac portable.
Notice they said "tamper-resistant" not "tamper-proof".This is just like in armor manufacturing, where there is no such thing as a "bulletproof" vest or a "bulletproof" door; there are bullet resistant things, but nothing can be entirely "proofed" from bullets or tampering.
If a seemingly "unupgradable" and unassuming iMac can be overclocked, then the cask can be broken.
If a supposedly "rock-solid" DRM can be defeated by depressing the shift key, then the alarms can be neutralized.
If the entire east coast of North America's power can be shut off by a single local power outage, then the coolant can be blocked.
Check out BZflag. I play it myself and have found very few glitches or anything. And it's cross-platform, so I have no problem finding others to frag.
Of course, there is no single player mode and it has nowhere near the eyecandy of closed-source shooters, but it is a notable exception.
I once used the lens of an old CD-ROM drive as a keychain. I used the holes where the slide goes through to slide in the chain.
Plus in AA you can't jump all the time, either. You get about one or two good jumps and then all your subsequent jumps are shorter and shorter.
The training actually serves a useful purpose in FPS games, because it makes sure that there are no complete noobs asking "how do I shoot?" or "HELP! I can't move!".
A soldier sees another soldier standing in one place behind some rocks, looking very tense and pointing a SAW into the distance.
Says one soldier to the other: "What the hell are you doing!?
The reply: "I'm camping their spawn point!"
oops...team kill! My bad!
That's cool! ... but could you actually hold this pen with one hand? I mean, come on. This is '70s era electronic equipment we're talking about. It had to be huge.
_
The pen is only mightier when you have the strength to wield it. I'm guessing this would be like an elf trying to use a palladin's broadsword.
"He devoted more time to what we would now regard as non-scientific topics such as theology and alchemy, writing treatise after treatise on early church history and biblical prophecy." _ He probably had to do this kind of stuff to appease the church. Scientists in this era lived in fear of the mighty clergy. Just look at what happened to Galileo!
"...aren't most proxies open by mistake? And you'll get heavily fined (or worse) for using them? _ Lemme guess... you work for NBC?
I guess sunglasses would work, but I'd go for a mirror-like finish on the outside (like those rainbow things skiers wear!). This should work unless they get Minority Report-like technology and figure out how to scan your retina through glasses-or even eyelids!
My school runs primarily Windoze boxxen (almost all Dells, with a few converted knoppix discs ;-) , but in the mac tradition, there is one room full of macs for graphical design. It is pretty much self-contained; they have a few PowerMac G4s running 10.3 server edition, about 20 emacs, and a networked printer dedicated to that room.
I find your post interesting because I have done this exact same thing. I made some knoppix discs, dressed them up in a fancy jacket (didn't have hardware to print on CDs), and disributed them to my classmates. The risk of being caught by our school's techies made it all the more attractive. I found it a great way to introduce my friends to linux. _ This happened about the same time the sasser worm was going around, so naturally I got some queries from those infected as to whether this so-called virus proof "linux" stuff could run on your hard drive. Then I broke out the RedHat CDs. :-)
I use a mix of macs and a few different kinds of PCs, so to share files betwixt them, I already carry both my filesystem and my OS with me. I have a 128 Megabyte USB flash drive and two knoppix discs (one for Apple Boxxen, the other for IBM and similar). This allows me to open my files and settings on almost any computer I come across, even library card catalog kiosks with IDE CD drives. The whole package is less than 100 grammes. If I had a 1 or 2 gigabyte bootable USB flash drive, I could even eliminate the discs. _ Of course, this system requires me to restart the computer to set the boot options, but it nonetheless helps me share files between mac and PC. I suppose that with the system suggested above, I could boot off of the 'Net, making the total load zero. It's an interesting idea. Meanwhile, I use my knoppix discs for cross-platform sharing.
I saw this show on the History channel once where some guys used a soda can to conceal a small explosive charge. I also saw a movie in which a terrorist uses a cell phone to detonate some C4. Not only will terrorists use coke cans to hide explosives, they will use them to detonate them as well!
Concerning all the comments attached to this which say that other PDAs came before Newton: The most talked about model is the Psion ans Psion series 3. Neither of these had a touch sensitive screen. I think that is what defines a modern PDA (although some of the newer ones have keyboards, touchscreens and the stylus have come to be associated with PDAs)
According to Emerson, the nonconformists in the world are the ones that change the world (i.e. Galileo, Jesus, etc). Nonconformist players like Apple and the Open Source Community have contributed a lot to the computer industry. _ Apple gave us: -The first mass-marketed GUI operating system -The PDA -The iMac (which changed the way computers are made today i.e. NOT BEIGE) -The first personal supercomputer (it was inevitable, but they got it out first) _ Open source gave us: -The GPL -Operating systems for the rest of us -Countless open standards -Tux! _ Apple and Open Source belong together, and will probably continue to be major players in the computer industry as leaders, not followers.
"Dell is also offering free shipping, free software..." Do my eyes decieve me? Is Dell going to start shipping software under the banner of the GPL? Or are their DJs now going to run linux?
28 pieces of spyware on the drive 28 pieces of spyware Go to download.com get a "Removal app" 29 pieces of spyware on the drive! _
But seriously, there are a lot of apps out there pretending to be "spyware removal programs" that are actually spyware themselves. ACCEPT NO IMITATIONS!
The guns also got screwed up because the original design did not incorporate a chromium-plated firing chamber. The GI's said they needed chromium plating, but the Wiz kids @ DOD said that the M-16 wasn't designed with plating, thus it didn't need it.
A friend of mine has money invested in Microsoft, yet she has been faithful to MacOS since 1986 and, like other mac users, reacts with a mix of pity and amusement when thousands of M$ boxxen nosedive because of a virus. Why? A little bit of zealotry, of course, but mostly for stability and security. It seems she will trust Microsoft with her money, but not her much more valuable data.
No... people that weaned on Wind0ze would say of an iMac: "Neat monitor. Where's the tower?" or [whine]"I can't install the internet!"[/whine]. Speaking of people ignorant to *other* Operating systems, I think that this comic woud be most relevant and interesting.
The maximum RAM for these things is supposedly around 512megs. I don't know if anyone has gotten anything higher in this type of computer. It has 2 sockets for 66mHz 144 pin SO-DIMM RAM.
I can run knoppix on my mac, and I believe it will work on most macs with a New-World ROM (The iMac was the first to use this), so it should work fine. Can't promise you any current versions of knoppix on PPC, though. The latest I've seen recently is 3.2 The only problem with a liveCD is that the CD drive is the only removable media the iMac had, and the students will not be able to play music on it. There is also a way to get around booting into knoppix. You can start it up in OpenFirmWare and eject the CD from there. When you tell it to boot, it will automatically choose the hard drive as the boot drive (at least this is the way it works in my experiences).