don't forget Matsumune Shirow (sp?) and his Appleseed series. (and to a lesser extent some of his other comics) His illustrations are very well thought out mechanically. They are much closer to Starship trooper type exo-suits than 50ft high Macross/Gundam bots.
Maybe the best format would be some sort of serial release on the internet. Every week, release another 3-5 minute segment in mpg. At the end, re-render in high quality and release the DVD.
Or even more fun, write a 3D game-type engine, release the models + engine and script each episode/chapter.
I wonder who currently owns the internet/game rights to Snow Crash?
- when you buy meat you don't want exactly 1 lb - you want roughly enough to feed the people who are at dinner tonight - 1/2 a kilo will probably do the job.
I've heard that the reason the companies like to use your SSN is that its a easy way to get a unique identifying number for their customer database that has a high reliability of being able to track you down.
A credit card number is unique, but if the card is cancelled and you move, it would be more difficult to find you.
Maybe the answer is to have third party holders of private information. The consumer only releases specific information to the third-party company and the company wanting certain information just interfaces through them. Is customer 31415 credit worthy. Are they acceping credit card solicitations? etc.
Reading over many of the comments on decay of digital media it occurs to me that many people are missing the point that digital data is really analog when you get right down to the fundamental formatting. (until we're storing data in quantam media that is...)
Even if a standard CD players can't play a degraded CD, if someone wants the data bad enough, they'll build an error correcting CD player that will reconstruct bits that a normal player can't read. Just like archeologists reconstruct paper or heiroglyphs or fossils today, future archeologists will no doubt reconstruct CD's and hard drives.
Even today, data recovery specialists can read off multiple generations of files. Maybe archeologists will have optical readers which will read the CD/magnetic surface at many times their original resolution / sensitivity and reconstruct the data. Of course it would be nice for us to leave them some equivalent of the rosetta stone so they can decipher the various formats. But overall, I think today's digital media will be far more recoverable than people might think.
The thing about all copy protection schemes is that anything that can be manufactured in the first place can be counterfeited. The trick is to operate in a window where its too expensive or too inconvenient to conterfeit.
Does anyone know if there are keyboards for non-laptops that have the trackpoint eraserhead on/in them? If you want to keep you're hands on the keyboard that would be an ideal way.
Computer languages are really just a useful convention providing an abstraction layer that a compiler translates to machine instructions. In some applications, I wonder if its possible to eliminate an abstraction layer with the transmeta architecture and "compile" to a customized instruction set instead of a given machine instruction set (virtual or otherwise)
e.g. Suppose I wanted to create a router. Instead of writing source code that is translated to machine code which is translated by the transmeta chip. Could I write an instruction set that defines "router" instructions?
Practically speaking, current compiler technology / language specification isn't setup to handle this paradigm, at least with my limited understanding. But why not have a X-window instruction set and a html instruction set? In a way, the protocol becomes the insruction set.
Of course, if you do this, I think you'd might be tying yourself to machine architecture again -- hmm, maybe not...
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don't forget Matsumune Shirow (sp?) and his Appleseed series. (and to a lesser extent some of his other comics) His illustrations are very well thought out mechanically. They are much closer to Starship trooper type exo-suits than 50ft high Macross/Gundam bots.
Maybe the best format would be some sort of serial release on the internet. Every week, release another 3-5 minute segment in mpg. At the end, re-render in high quality and release the DVD.
Or even more fun, write a 3D game-type engine, release the models + engine and script each episode/chapter.
I wonder who currently owns the internet/game rights to Snow Crash?
- when you buy meat you don't want exactly 1 lb - you want roughly enough to feed the people who are at dinner tonight - 1/2 a kilo will probably do the job.
;)
You mean 0.5 kilo don't you?
I've heard that the reason the companies like to use your SSN is that its a easy way to get a unique identifying number for their customer database that has a high reliability of being able to track you down.
A credit card number is unique, but if the card is cancelled and you move, it would be more difficult to find you.
Maybe the answer is to have third party holders of private information. The consumer only releases specific information to the third-party company and the company wanting certain information just interfaces through them. Is customer 31415 credit worthy. Are they acceping credit card solicitations? etc.
Reading over many of the comments on decay of digital media it occurs to me that many people are missing the point that digital data is really analog when you get right down to the fundamental formatting. (until we're storing data in quantam media that is...)
Even if a standard CD players can't play a degraded CD, if someone wants the data bad enough, they'll build an error correcting CD player that will reconstruct bits that a normal player can't read. Just like archeologists reconstruct paper or heiroglyphs or fossils today, future archeologists will no doubt reconstruct CD's and hard drives.
Even today, data recovery specialists can read off multiple generations of files. Maybe archeologists will have optical readers which will read the CD/magnetic surface at many times their original resolution / sensitivity and reconstruct the data. Of course it would be nice for us to leave them some equivalent of the rosetta stone so they can decipher the various formats. But overall, I think today's digital media will be far more recoverable than people might think.
Just a thought.
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The thing about all copy protection schemes is that anything that can be manufactured in the first place can be counterfeited. The trick is to operate in a window where its too expensive or too inconvenient to conterfeit.
Does anyone know if there are keyboards for non-laptops that have the trackpoint eraserhead on/in them? If you want to keep you're hands on the keyboard that would be an ideal way.
Heres a random thought...
Computer languages are really just a useful convention providing an abstraction layer that a compiler translates to machine instructions. In some applications, I wonder if its possible to eliminate an abstraction layer with the transmeta architecture and "compile" to a customized instruction set instead of a given machine instruction set (virtual or otherwise)
e.g. Suppose I wanted to create a router. Instead of writing source code that is translated to machine code which is translated by the transmeta chip. Could I write an instruction set that defines "router" instructions?
Practically speaking, current compiler technology / language specification isn't setup to handle this paradigm, at least with my limited understanding. But why not have a X-window instruction set and a html instruction set? In a way, the protocol becomes the insruction set.
Of course, if you do this, I think you'd might be tying yourself to machine architecture again -- hmm, maybe not...
Well, what do people think -- flame away.
You don't necessarily need a long track -- Think circular...