I don't understand people who claim that humanity doesn't need some form of mass control. Without a system of laws, morals, and controls we would have anarchy.
Obviously I am not going to convince you that God exists, but I don't understand why you think "mass control of the people" is unnecessary.
Not to reply to your far superior story, but in case my wording was confusing for other readers too, South Korea was buying these along with Patriot missiles. Patriots are big sellers in countries like Saudi Arabia and S. Korea that *border* our enemies (like Iraq and N. Korea)
I used to work at the place that made these things. We were usually shipping them to places with large orders of Patriot Missles and hostile neighbors, like Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and South Korea. How do you ship that? Well, we had to take everything out of the racks, wrap them in several layers of bubble-wrap, put them in boxes, and fill the boxes with expanding foam compound. Then we would wrap the rack in bubble-wrap, and build a crate around it. Someone would have to follow the thing overseas to re-assemble it. Of course, every time we shipped one, something was bound to break between the US and its (usually) 3rd world destination. Although that something was generally the software;-)
I wonder what these lights would look like. Some of our more efficient lights (like sodium) have colors nowhere near natural sunlight. There's plenty of niche markets for different lighting sources. Colored LED's for signals, flourescent for efficient indoor lighting, orange/pinkish sodium lights for outdoors.
I think the color of the light produced would be very important for its potential uses.
My university used to have 11x17 scanners in the Geography department's computer lab. We used them (of course) to scan maps.
Even then, it often wasn't big enough.
The scanners we used were made by Umax, and they were bought circa 1999.
The were probably similar to this.
A stem cell is cell that can turn into different type of cells. There are many type of stem cells, and the controversy in the US is only over human embryonic stem cells. These cells can only be obtained by destroying what many consider a human life.
Stem cells in adult bone marrow can turn into many types of blood cells. From the article, it sounds like the stem cells used came from the patients' own bone marrow so human embryos probably weren't used. The article doesn't say where the normal copy of the gene came from, but I doubt it would need to come from a human embryo.
Churchill and Roosevelt did this to communicate during WWII.
They each had a phone setup where 2 identical records containing random noise was played along with their conversations, and the analog circuitry subracted the noise on each end.
You can still see Churchill's phone at the Cabinet War Rooms in London. I don't know if Roosevelt's phone is in a museum or not.
Was this the thing mentioned in Cryptonomicon? I can't remember.
As a VERY satisfied VisorPhone user, I feel like the "there is no GSM in the US" is one of those "Big Lies." It was probably true two years ago. I have never had a problem getting a connection in a city or on an interstate.
Check the coverage map. I realize it's got some huge gaps it in, but it's fine for my purposes.
Why do people keep saying stuff like this? I have a GSM Visor Phone, and I love it. I do live in a city of about half a million, but I have coverage everywhere I've gone in the city. I've had good coverage in every city I've gone too, with some bad spots here and there.
Maybe not "Covered everywhere you want it" but I don't get the "semi-mythical" quip.
You might have noticed in the article that they have found juvenile specimens of this creature. I was hearing an interview with one of the scientists on the radio. He said they had a pickled specimens of a 6-inch baby in the Smithsonian. So I'm assumming they have used that actual specimen to determine it is a squid, and not a jelly.
Remember how diverse cephalapods are. They include everything from garden slugs, to oysters, to giant squids.
I have had some problems, but still consider it a good deal. Probably the two biggest problems. My dad got a 19" monitor from an off-brand for $99 (this was two years ago), the only problem with it is there is a melted part on the plastic casing on the side. It looks weird, but is totally cosmetic.
I have a refurbished Sony 19" monitor. It is excellent, but has a small dark spot in the lower left corner, and a reddish spot in the lower right. These are only noticable against a white back ground. Well worth paying less than half price for a really good monitor.
I got a letter this week from Charter (my cable TV provider) saying they were trying to work out a transition plan. My service went out sometime between 4pm yesterday and noon today (I was out of town)
In the mail, I had a setup CD from Charter. I unplugged my router, ran the Windows program, copied the changed settings to my router, and and am now back up and running, with less than a 24 hour outtage.
On the downside, It added a Charter logo to IE, and changed my IE color scheme to flat white, and set my default page to charter.msn.com. But I'm just glad to be reconnected with no problems.
I wonder why it is so expensive. I have an SMS phone with VoiceStream. I get 500 messages for $5 a month (a penny a message for the math impaired), and no daily limit. I receive weather report and news headlines every day (6 messages daily), and use the AIM-to-SMS gateway all the time. 3 a day would suck.
That's funny. I put XP on an old hard drive. While dual-monitors is supported more cleanly than Win2K or Enlightenment, and I seem to be more productive on it than any OS I've ever used, and I am utterly amazed by the multimedia improvements, what are the 2 things that keep me booting into Win2K?
I can't play DVD's or burn CD-RW's! (CD-R's work fine, though).
I went outside from my parents' house in Alabama. I live Birmigham (where we see very few stars), but my parents' house is in a town of about 20,000 people. Despite some haze, and streetlights, I saw a lot.
I saw 50 in 12 minutes. After 23 minutes (4:09-4:32 CST), I saw 100, and went in. I can't even imagine what it must have been like further out in the country.
I used to do support for a large number of Win95 PC's a few years back. I had a similar CD (full sized-though). The person who recommended VNC client and server was very insightful, I used these a lot, and they would be a must have. I had a few of the CAB files, that contained DLL's that were commonly corrupted on our machines, and up-to-date drivers for all the components. I was intimitely familiar with all those problem DLL's, but I don't know what they are anymore.
The big thing that I didn't like about the encryption (implementation-wise) is that it didn't obscure the file names. I would have preferred that each user directory would be a total black box to all other users.
I didn't know that much about the algorithm (and know very little about encryption anyway_, but figured it would be better than nothing. Still, I would prefer something that works well better than something that works poorly or not at all.
I have thought about an idea like this too. But I'm not so sure it would would be popular, because of the bandwith problems. At least on my cable, my upload speed is a less than a quarter of my download speed (approx 30KB up/150KB down). I think a lot of people on DSL have similar limitations.
Also, when I got my modem installed this summer, the tech gave me a lecture about bandwith, and warned me that people often get ports blocked for bandwidth abuse. I could see such a bandwidth deal resulting in nasty things happening to your connection, like getting ssh blocked.
If you are looking for Dirt Cheap, I have exactly what you are looking for.
I got this desk from OfficeMax for less than $200. It has just enough room for 2 19" monitors on each side. I it is just big enough to fit my 2 monitors, speakers, tower, and laptop on it. It could squeeze another monitor on it if necessary. And is just small enough to fit in my crowded room. It really doesn't have anything in the way of drawers, but I got what I paid for.
Now that I have a VisorPhone, I think it does what I want on a daily basis fairly well.
The features I would want are phone, e-mail, a useful GPS/mapping system, a couple hundred megs of MP3 storage, and voice recognition.
But if you could integrate all of that into something that was the thickness of a Palm V, with good battery life. I don't care if you use hard drives, flash mem, or other technology. Just as long as it has the capabilities. PalmOS, WinCE, Linux, don't matter either. Just as long as I can get stuff done on it, with a minimum of pen strokes/voice commands.
I use my mobile phone for long distance. My carrier charges the same rate for nationwide calls. Whereas BellSouth wants a deposit in the +100 range to allow a long distance carrier to be set up.
And since I'm paying for my mobile minutes whether I use them or not, it just makes sense to use it for long distance, even if I am at home. And I know a lot of people that don't have wired phone service at all.
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OK, some adds are annoying. But I find most web ads like banners and pop-unders to be more bearable than pages and pages of ads in a newspaper.
I feel like many of these sites are providing me with a cool service or interesting reading, and the least I can do is glance at what their advertisings are offering. Often, if I really like what a site has, I will click on the ad out of pity, and sometimes read what they have to offer.
This is how capitalism works. If you like the site, and you are even slightly interested in the ad, click on it. Both the site's owners and the advertiser deserve at least a shot.
Digital rights management, size, etc, notwithstanding, I think the format is too small.
It's the size of quarter. I lose quarters all the time. I probably lost one today. I understand why flash media, Memory Sticks, etc. are so small, but that's OK with me. I only own two flash cards, one's always in my camera, and so they are not hard to keep up with.
But if I'm going to go out and buy something with specific data on it (like an album, or a movie), I would like it to be a little more substantial. Floppy disks are a good size and I think credit card size is ideal. MiniDiscs are pushing it.
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I don't understand people who claim that humanity doesn't need some form of mass control. Without a system of laws, morals, and controls we would have anarchy.
Obviously I am not going to convince you that God exists, but I don't understand why you think "mass control of the people" is unnecessary.
Not to reply to your far superior story, but in case my wording was confusing for other readers too, South Korea was buying these along with Patriot missiles. Patriots are big sellers in countries like Saudi Arabia and S. Korea that *border* our enemies (like Iraq and N. Korea)
I used to work at the place that made these things. We were usually shipping them to places with large orders of Patriot Missles and hostile neighbors, like Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and South Korea. How do you ship that? Well, we had to take everything out of the racks, wrap them in several layers of bubble-wrap, put them in boxes, and fill the boxes with expanding foam compound. Then we would wrap the rack in bubble-wrap, and build a crate around it. Someone would have to follow the thing overseas to re-assemble it. Of course, every time we shipped one, something was bound to break between the US and its (usually) 3rd world destination. Although that something was generally the software ;-)
I think the color of the light produced would be very important for its potential uses.
My university used to have 11x17 scanners in the Geography department's computer lab. We used them (of course) to scan maps. Even then, it often wasn't big enough. The scanners we used were made by Umax, and they were bought circa 1999. The were probably similar to this.
A stem cell is cell that can turn into different type of cells. There are many type of stem cells, and the controversy in the US is only over human embryonic stem cells. These cells can only be obtained by destroying what many consider a human life.
Stem cells in adult bone marrow can turn into many types of blood cells. From the article, it sounds like the stem cells used came from the patients' own bone marrow so human embryos probably weren't used. The article doesn't say where the normal copy of the gene came from, but I doubt it would need to come from a human embryo.
You can still see Churchill's phone at the Cabinet War Rooms in London. I don't know if Roosevelt's phone is in a museum or not.
Was this the thing mentioned in Cryptonomicon? I can't remember.
As a VERY satisfied VisorPhone user, I feel like the "there is no GSM in the US" is one of those "Big Lies." It was probably true two years ago. I have never had a problem getting a connection in a city or on an interstate. Check the coverage map. I realize it's got some huge gaps it in, but it's fine for my purposes.
Why do people keep saying stuff like this? I have a GSM Visor Phone, and I love it. I do live in a city of about half a million, but I have coverage everywhere I've gone in the city. I've had good coverage in every city I've gone too, with some bad spots here and there.
Maybe not "Covered everywhere you want it" but I don't get the "semi-mythical" quip.
You might have noticed in the article that they have found juvenile specimens of this creature. I was hearing an interview with one of the scientists on the radio. He said they had a pickled specimens of a 6-inch baby in the Smithsonian. So I'm assumming they have used that actual specimen to determine it is a squid, and not a jelly.
Remember how diverse cephalapods are. They include everything from garden slugs, to oysters, to giant squids.
I always thought it was spelled "37337."
I have had some problems, but still consider it a good deal. Probably the two biggest problems. My dad got a 19" monitor from an off-brand for $99 (this was two years ago), the only problem with it is there is a melted part on the plastic casing on the side. It looks weird, but is totally cosmetic.
I have a refurbished Sony 19" monitor. It is excellent, but has a small dark spot in the lower left corner, and a reddish spot in the lower right. These are only noticable against a white back ground. Well worth paying less than half price for a really good monitor.
I just wanted to boot into Windows, and install everything the "official way" to try to keep everything running smoothly
I got a letter this week from Charter (my cable TV provider) saying they were trying to work out a transition plan. My service went out sometime between 4pm yesterday and noon today (I was out of town)
In the mail, I had a setup CD from Charter. I unplugged my router, ran the Windows program, copied the changed settings to my router, and and am now back up and running, with less than a 24 hour outtage.
On the downside, It added a Charter logo to IE, and changed my IE color scheme to flat white, and set my default page to charter.msn.com. But I'm just glad to be reconnected with no problems.
I wonder why it is so expensive. I have an SMS phone with VoiceStream. I get 500 messages for $5 a month (a penny a message for the math impaired), and no daily limit. I receive weather report and news headlines every day (6 messages daily), and use the AIM-to-SMS gateway all the time. 3 a day would suck.
That's funny. I put XP on an old hard drive. While dual-monitors is supported more cleanly than Win2K or Enlightenment, and I seem to be more productive on it than any OS I've ever used, and I am utterly amazed by the multimedia improvements, what are the 2 things that keep me booting into Win2K?
I can't play DVD's or burn CD-RW's! (CD-R's work fine, though).
I went outside from my parents' house in Alabama. I live Birmigham (where we see very few stars), but my parents' house is in a town of about 20,000 people. Despite some haze, and streetlights, I saw a lot.
I saw 50 in 12 minutes. After 23 minutes (4:09-4:32 CST), I saw 100, and went in. I can't even imagine what it must have been like further out in the country.
I used to do support for a large number of Win95 PC's a few years back. I had a similar CD (full sized-though). The person who recommended VNC client and server was very insightful, I used these a lot, and they would be a must have. I had a few of the CAB files, that contained DLL's that were commonly corrupted on our machines, and up-to-date drivers for all the components. I was intimitely familiar with all those problem DLL's, but I don't know what they are anymore.
The big thing that I didn't like about the encryption (implementation-wise) is that it didn't obscure the file names. I would have preferred that each user directory would be a total black box to all other users.
I didn't know that much about the algorithm (and know very little about encryption anyway_, but figured it would be better than nothing. Still, I would prefer something that works well better than something that works poorly or not at all.
I have thought about an idea like this too. But I'm not so sure it would would be popular, because of the bandwith problems. At least on my cable, my upload speed is a less than a quarter of my download speed (approx 30KB up/150KB down). I think a lot of people on DSL have similar limitations.
Also, when I got my modem installed this summer, the tech gave me a lecture about bandwith, and warned me that people often get ports blocked for bandwidth abuse. I could see such a bandwidth deal resulting in nasty things happening to your connection, like getting ssh blocked.
If you are looking for Dirt Cheap, I have exactly what you are looking for. I got this desk from OfficeMax for less than $200. It has just enough room for 2 19" monitors on each side. I it is just big enough to fit my 2 monitors, speakers, tower, and laptop on it. It could squeeze another monitor on it if necessary. And is just small enough to fit in my crowded room. It really doesn't have anything in the way of drawers, but I got what I paid for.
I personally like the form factor of a Palm.
Now that I have a VisorPhone, I think it does what I want on a daily basis fairly well.
The features I would want are phone, e-mail, a useful GPS/mapping system, a couple hundred megs of MP3 storage, and voice recognition.
But if you could integrate all of that into something that was the thickness of a Palm V, with good battery life. I don't care if you use hard drives, flash mem, or other technology. Just as long as it has the capabilities. PalmOS, WinCE, Linux, don't matter either. Just as long as I can get stuff done on it, with a minimum of pen strokes/voice commands.
I use my mobile phone for long distance. My carrier charges the same rate for nationwide calls. Whereas BellSouth wants a deposit in the +100 range to allow a long distance carrier to be set up.
And since I'm paying for my mobile minutes whether I use them or not, it just makes sense to use it for long distance, even if I am at home. And I know a lot of people that don't have wired phone service at all.
I feel like many of these sites are providing me with a cool service or interesting reading, and the least I can do is glance at what their advertisings are offering. Often, if I really like what a site has, I will click on the ad out of pity, and sometimes read what they have to offer.
This is how capitalism works. If you like the site, and you are even slightly interested in the ad, click on it. Both the site's owners and the advertiser deserve at least a shot.
Digital rights management, size, etc, notwithstanding, I think the format is too small.
It's the size of quarter. I lose quarters all the time. I probably lost one today. I understand why flash media, Memory Sticks, etc. are so small, but that's OK with me. I only own two flash cards, one's always in my camera, and so they are not hard to keep up with.
But if I'm going to go out and buy something with specific data on it (like an album, or a movie), I would like it to be a little more substantial. Floppy disks are a good size and I think credit card size is ideal. MiniDiscs are pushing it.