I don't know about anyone else but the thought of writing a nanomachine 'Hello World' program scares the hell out of me. Maybe Bill Joy's Grey Goo scenario was right.
Or just have a most excellent project welder bring home the core component and play some music to figure out the secret acoustical sound. The story doesn't mention how upset some organiszations will be, willing to blow up lots of things to keep this technology secret.
I'd also blame some of the higher standards/increased prices. I agree that the artwork is much nicer, and today's comics are very eye appealing now. But having comics (Marvel / DC) for 50 cents in every little grocery store or even gas stations on the cheap paper made reading them easy. Now you need to go to a specialty shop or order online to read a comic, what kid that can't drive is going to bother?
Of course your comment on the interweaving did make comics annoying too. You'd need to get every marvel annual to typically follow the storylines when I was reading as a kid. That was a lot of comics and shame if you missed one.
I remember using a 286 in the early 90s, dialing in to MUD. If a bad bit of linenoise hit, the screen would start scrolling vertically. You know the Matrix code? That's it, except in multicolor splendor. Would take a system restart to do do anything. Ahh the fun old days.
having watched ST 4 not that long ago - been going through the old sci fi movies with the nephew - they didn't use transparent aluminum. Scotty gave the company the design for the aluminum in exchange for a lot of thick plexiglass, which sulu delivered by helicopter.
I wonder if there's any correlation with women being more acceptable to porn. Now we just need to have some sort of anti-sunlight erotica... like twilight. Fantasy meeting reality, what a time to be living!
I think appreciating women is like a maturing understanding of electricity. You start out early with 1 10. You hit puberty and you want 2 20. It's the rare guy to master 4 40.
Government mandated telco monopolies AT&T/Verizon using courts to get even more profit = bad
Desperate company (SCO) filing bullshit claims in a failed attempt to make money, in the process potentially hurting innovation and open source = bad
Decent IT company (Opera) that makes innovative products fighting against a recognized monopoly (MS) = good
Making money isn't a problem. MS did a lot of things right and should rake in as much as legally possible. Being a monopoly and/or stifling innovation is bad
Wow there's a lot of MS supporters on this article marking everything anti MS a troll. I guess the US and the EU findings of MS being a monopoly doesn't matter to those people. Besides, your car analogy was spot on.
I'm mostly a hands off as much red tape as possible for companies but monopolies are horrid things. I spent 10 years with an ISP fighting the hassles of monopolies in the telco world. It slows innovation and it hinders the entrepreneurs of the world. Microsoft finally getting slapped for their anti-competitive behavior is good news.
Just maybe the web can start improving if we're not locked into whatever MS ships as the most common denominator (Such as IE6 still being used by 15% of web users)
When I was doing direct credit card billing the merchant account agreement had a 10,000 fine for each and every card if it was stolen and was our fault. I'm hoping netsol gets a huge bill for this sort of thing. After the horrors of their monopoly on DNS I'm all for them suffering for bad service.
Actually there's just the big kahuna in Christianity, the 10 commandments say "you shall have no other gods before me." Minor gods are alright, in this religion they're called Saints and people pray to them all the time.
I'm actually surprised Amway never got into the cell business. They did jump into the Internet with quixstar, the 'oh we're not amway - this is different' branch of the company that is now branded as amway. I guess technology might not be the best thing for their business plans.
Dodd made a proposal to filibuster the immunity and the other Dem candidates pledged support. Then Clinton, Obama, etc forgot their pledge as no such filibuster occurred. Dodd was left standing in the cold (I joined his email list because of his stance on this issue).
I can't say Obama's vote on a failed amendment counts as positive at all as there would be no need for such an amendment if he had lived up to his pledge. Weaseling out of a promise of support and then doing a less than half hearted attempt at saving face is politics as normal,wheres the change?
Anytime I see Tesla coils mentioned I think of the Tesla Coils playing the mario theme song. Now that's a project sure to catch student's attention, even if it would be way over the budget.
While I'm not that much of a tinfoil hat wearer, I did once stumble across a site that shows supposed photo manipulation of the raw data images from the mars landers. This/. story made me do some searches to find it again. It's at least a more novel conspiracy than a sound stage in hollywood.
What shocks me is that he didn't run to some country with a non-extradite treaty with the US. I'm sure he has to have some money stashed away somewhere, enough to hire a blackwater/XI style group to smuggle him out.
Then again I wondered this about the Enron, Worldcom, Adelphia, etc people. Maybe they are such arrogant bastards that they figured nothing would actually get them.
0day exploits that infect machines and turn them into spammers would get mighty expensive.
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It'd be great if by the time you were able to sell out you weren't in bed with the devil already. It's hard to grow any company without bringing in some sort of wealthy partner or group of investors. The reason why most new businesses fail within 5 years, even those that have a good product or service, is undercapitalization. Once you bring in the money the rules change drastically.
The fortunate entrepreneurs that are successful the first go around and have it in them to self fund another company are very rare. Being altruistic and very successful in business don't often seem to go hand in hand. Although from my experience the honest geeks actually make decent deals like you say, often times screwed up by the rest of the corporate world.
I can only imagine the lobbying going against anything like this in the USA. The baby bells love their monopolies, so do the cable companies. Flying one of these over any major metro area could potentially cost them tens of thousands of customers almost instantly.
With a few billion set aside in the stimulus package for broadband penetration it would be nice to have someone get some to get the Nasa pathfinder project working for this sort of thing. I haven't heard anything about the skytower concept since the crash in '03 of the prototype. From the wiki article :
successfully using the aircraft to transmit both an HDTV signal as well as an IMT-2000 wireless communications signal from 65,000 feet (19,812.0 m), giving the aircraft the equivalence of a 12 miles (19.3 km) tall transmitter tower. Because of the aircraft's high lookdown angle, the transmission utilized only one watt of power, or 1/10,000 of the power required by a terrestrial tower to provide the same signal.[6] According to Stuart Hindle, Vice President of Strategy & Business Development for SkyTower, "SkyTower platforms are basically geostationary satellites without the time delay." Further, Hindle said that such platforms flying in the stratosphere, as opposed to actual satellites, can achieve much higher levels of frequency use. "A single SkyTower platform can provide over 1,000 times the fixed broadband local access capacity of a geostationary satellite using the same frequency band, on a bytes per second per square mile basis."
Iran is simply trying to emulate the US in how we handle our elections. Kicking out poll watchers and unsealed election boxes is nothing new here. BlackBox Voting keeps a good handle on some of the glaring problems close to home.
My frat house had a crib room with tests, quizzes, homework stored. Simply look up the teacher and class and you could easily find examples. Oftentimes most projects just had answers slightly changed. While you couldn't memorize the exact answers it did help in figuring out what areas to narrow down to study. Except for a few cases that did just recycle the exact same things - those were the best!
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I don't know about anyone else but the thought of writing a nanomachine 'Hello World' program scares the hell out of me. Maybe Bill Joy's Grey Goo scenario was right.
Or just have a most excellent project welder bring home the core component and play some music to figure out the secret acoustical sound. The story doesn't mention how upset some organiszations will be, willing to blow up lots of things to keep this technology secret.
I'd also blame some of the higher standards/increased prices. I agree that the artwork is much nicer, and today's comics are very eye appealing now. But having comics (Marvel / DC) for 50 cents in every little grocery store or even gas stations on the cheap paper made reading them easy. Now you need to go to a specialty shop or order online to read a comic, what kid that can't drive is going to bother?
Of course your comment on the interweaving did make comics annoying too. You'd need to get every marvel annual to typically follow the storylines when I was reading as a kid. That was a lot of comics and shame if you missed one.
I remember using a 286 in the early 90s, dialing in to MUD. If a bad bit of linenoise hit, the screen would start scrolling vertically. You know the Matrix code? That's it, except in multicolor splendor. Would take a system restart to do do anything. Ahh the fun old days.
having watched ST 4 not that long ago - been going through the old sci fi movies with the nephew - they didn't use transparent aluminum. Scotty gave the company the design for the aluminum in exchange for a lot of thick plexiglass, which sulu delivered by helicopter.
minorities? Alrighty, which GOP fund raiser should we crash.
I wonder if there's any correlation with women being more acceptable to porn. Now we just need to have some sort of anti-sunlight erotica... like twilight. Fantasy meeting reality, what a time to be living!
I think appreciating women is like a maturing understanding of electricity. You start out early with 1 10. You hit puberty and you want 2 20. It's the rare guy to master 4 40.
That should be corrected to
Government mandated telco monopolies AT&T/Verizon using courts to get even more profit = bad
Desperate company (SCO) filing bullshit claims in a failed attempt to make money, in the process potentially hurting innovation and open source = bad
Decent IT company (Opera) that makes innovative products fighting against a recognized monopoly (MS) = good
Making money isn't a problem. MS did a lot of things right and should rake in as much as legally possible. Being a monopoly and/or stifling innovation is bad
Wow there's a lot of MS supporters on this article marking everything anti MS a troll. I guess the US and the EU findings of MS being a monopoly doesn't matter to those people. Besides, your car analogy was spot on.
I'm mostly a hands off as much red tape as possible for companies but monopolies are horrid things. I spent 10 years with an ISP fighting the hassles of monopolies in the telco world. It slows innovation and it hinders the entrepreneurs of the world. Microsoft finally getting slapped for their anti-competitive behavior is good news. Just maybe the web can start improving if we're not locked into whatever MS ships as the most common denominator (Such as IE6 still being used by 15% of web users)
When I was doing direct credit card billing the merchant account agreement had a 10,000 fine for each and every card if it was stolen and was our fault. I'm hoping netsol gets a huge bill for this sort of thing. After the horrors of their monopoly on DNS I'm all for them suffering for bad service.
Actually there's just the big kahuna in Christianity, the 10 commandments say "you shall have no other gods before me." Minor gods are alright, in this religion they're called Saints and people pray to them all the time.
I'm actually surprised Amway never got into the cell business. They did jump into the Internet with quixstar, the 'oh we're not amway - this is different' branch of the company that is now branded as amway. I guess technology might not be the best thing for their business plans.
Dodd made a proposal to filibuster the immunity and the other Dem candidates pledged support. Then Clinton, Obama, etc forgot their pledge as no such filibuster occurred. Dodd was left standing in the cold (I joined his email list because of his stance on this issue).
I can't say Obama's vote on a failed amendment counts as positive at all as there would be no need for such an amendment if he had lived up to his pledge. Weaseling out of a promise of support and then doing a less than half hearted attempt at saving face is politics as normal,wheres the change?
Anytime I see Tesla coils mentioned I think of the Tesla Coils playing the mario theme song. Now that's a project sure to catch student's attention, even if it would be way over the budget.
While I'm not that much of a tinfoil hat wearer, I did once stumble across a site that shows supposed photo manipulation of the raw data images from the mars landers. This /. story made me do some searches to find it again. It's at least a more novel conspiracy than a sound stage in hollywood.
Don't forget the nice Dtrace on FreeBSD. Great stuff for servers.
I thought the main reason museums don't allow photos is to stop the flashes from hurting the paintings from light damage.
Don't forget he's the ultimate voyeur, always watching. Especially if you're being naughty.
What shocks me is that he didn't run to some country with a non-extradite treaty with the US. I'm sure he has to have some money stashed away somewhere, enough to hire a blackwater/XI style group to smuggle him out.
Then again I wondered this about the Enron, Worldcom, Adelphia, etc people. Maybe they are such arrogant bastards that they figured nothing would actually get them.
0day exploits that infect machines and turn them into spammers would get mighty expensive.
It'd be great if by the time you were able to sell out you weren't in bed with the devil already. It's hard to grow any company without bringing in some sort of wealthy partner or group of investors. The reason why most new businesses fail within 5 years, even those that have a good product or service, is undercapitalization. Once you bring in the money the rules change drastically.
The fortunate entrepreneurs that are successful the first go around and have it in them to self fund another company are very rare. Being altruistic and very successful in business don't often seem to go hand in hand. Although from my experience the honest geeks actually make decent deals like you say, often times screwed up by the rest of the corporate world.
I can only imagine the lobbying going against anything like this in the USA. The baby bells love their monopolies, so do the cable companies. Flying one of these over any major metro area could potentially cost them tens of thousands of customers almost instantly.
With a few billion set aside in the stimulus package for broadband penetration it would be nice to have someone get some to get the Nasa pathfinder project working for this sort of thing. I haven't heard anything about the skytower concept since the crash in '03 of the prototype. From the wiki article :
successfully using the aircraft to transmit both an HDTV signal as well as an IMT-2000 wireless communications signal from 65,000 feet (19,812.0 m), giving the aircraft the equivalence of a 12 miles (19.3 km) tall transmitter tower. Because of the aircraft's high lookdown angle, the transmission utilized only one watt of power, or 1/10,000 of the power required by a terrestrial tower to provide the same signal.[6] According to Stuart Hindle, Vice President of Strategy & Business Development for SkyTower, "SkyTower platforms are basically geostationary satellites without the time delay." Further, Hindle said that such platforms flying in the stratosphere, as opposed to actual satellites, can achieve much higher levels of frequency use. "A single SkyTower platform can provide over 1,000 times the fixed broadband local access capacity of a geostationary satellite using the same frequency band, on a bytes per second per square mile basis."
Iran is simply trying to emulate the US in how we handle our elections. Kicking out poll watchers and unsealed election boxes is nothing new here. BlackBox Voting keeps a good handle on some of the glaring problems close to home.
My frat house had a crib room with tests, quizzes, homework stored. Simply look up the teacher and class and you could easily find examples. Oftentimes most projects just had answers slightly changed. While you couldn't memorize the exact answers it did help in figuring out what areas to narrow down to study. Except for a few cases that did just recycle the exact same things - those were the best!