This could have many advantages or dissadvantages.
First of all, this may in the future allow governments to control population. If every citizen has a chip implanted, and they dont want people to reproduce, the can turn off their sperm producing or ovaries through the use of a radio signal and through nanobots rendering that organ useless for a temporary ammount of time. This could be bad because it could be hacked most likely or the government might use it to its advantage as far as making people behave as they want. If they want population control, they could give out a lottery type system where if you get on the list you have a time limit to concive a child, this would greatly reduce population growth, and could stablalize it, and even make people who sit around on walfare and make 20 kids unable to do that any more! Good for our taxes!
Also through use of nanobots or whatnot, if a new illness comes about they could send out a signal to broadcast a cure signal for the nanobots to reprogram the immune system and make the person immune to the newest flu or whatnot.
Also, a lot of industries could benefit. Suppose you work in a warehouse. And you are packing stuff, and you want a pallate moved, you think about it and make the forklift drive over, and move to wherever it needs to go.
There are many pro's and cons, but i dont think we are ready for this sytem as it stands because of the security issues, maybe when a new algorithm will be invented where there is a 100% chance it cant be exploited.
Anyways, sorry for the ramblings, lack of sleep and work killed me.
Companies like Kazaa and others alike (no clue if there others in australia) are gonna get shafted (not that they arent already with the raids), RIAA and MPAA are going to stick their noses in there no doubt.
Maybe someday this could be put to use on something like mapquest. Do a search, pop up with a picture of your location, this sure as hell beats any map, when the user can SEE where they are going.
I cant remember how many times i have been stuck guessing which building i have to walk into.
They better have valid sources for the timeline, or SCO will say something along the lines of "this is crap, we did it all!" and the courts would care less.
And whats up with the lack of responses? People must be getting fed up with SCO crap.
I dont know why a slashdot user asks such a question, if you read slashdot, normally you would be versed in such a decision. But since you are asking, best you can do with that money is invest into something other than something that will be outdated in a few years.
Wireless isnt the best for gaming, so go the wired route if youre really serious about something like this. Also, consider the fact that if youre going to connect it to the outside world, make sure you have enough bandwith and be able to cover costs.
Seven floors probably means that quite a few people live there, and expect your bandwith to be more than your average dsl/cable connection.
As far as cost, if you want to do go through it, $1000 should be plenty really (wireless), a little less for wired.
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http://www.lightscribe.com/user/labelTips.aspx
Closeups of different labels using this thing.
This one time, in band camp, I etched a CD...
All humor aside, sounds promissing if the media isnt too much expensive, might even replace my plextor 12x
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This could have many advantages or dissadvantages.
First of all, this may in the future allow governments to control population. If every citizen has a chip implanted, and they dont want people to reproduce, the can turn off their sperm producing or ovaries through the use of a radio signal and through nanobots rendering that organ useless for a temporary ammount of time. This could be bad because it could be hacked most likely or the government might use it to its advantage as far as making people behave as they want. If they want population control, they could give out a lottery type system where if you get on the list you have a time limit to concive a child, this would greatly reduce population growth, and could stablalize it, and even make people who sit around on walfare and make 20 kids unable to do that any more! Good for our taxes!
Also through use of nanobots or whatnot, if a new illness comes about they could send out a signal to broadcast a cure signal for the nanobots to reprogram the immune system and make the person immune to the newest flu or whatnot.
Also, a lot of industries could benefit. Suppose you work in a warehouse. And you are packing stuff, and you want a pallate moved, you think about it and make the forklift drive over, and move to wherever it needs to go.
There are many pro's and cons, but i dont think we are ready for this sytem as it stands because of the security issues, maybe when a new algorithm will be invented where there is a 100% chance it cant be exploited.
Anyways, sorry for the ramblings, lack of sleep and work killed me.
Companies like Kazaa and others alike (no clue if there others in australia) are gonna get shafted (not that they arent already with the raids), RIAA and MPAA are going to stick their noses in there no doubt.
...why on earth would it take $5 million to get images of magnified beer?
Maybe someday this could be put to use on something like mapquest. Do a search, pop up with a picture of your location, this sure as hell beats any map, when the user can SEE where they are going.
I cant remember how many times i have been stuck guessing which building i have to walk into.
They better have valid sources for the timeline, or SCO will say something along the lines of "this is crap, we did it all!" and the courts would care less.
And whats up with the lack of responses? People must be getting fed up with SCO crap.
I dont know why a slashdot user asks such a question, if you read slashdot, normally you would be versed in such a decision. But since you are asking, best you can do with that money is invest into something other than something that will be outdated in a few years.
Wireless isnt the best for gaming, so go the wired route if youre really serious about something like this. Also, consider the fact that if youre going to connect it to the outside world, make sure you have enough bandwith and be able to cover costs.
Seven floors probably means that quite a few people live there, and expect your bandwith to be more than your average dsl/cable connection.
As far as cost, if you want to do go through it, $1000 should be plenty really (wireless), a little less for wired.
That is all.
An easter egg to get rid of another easter egg (bsod)...