Well well, just in case you didn't get it, some nutjob who calls himself John Titor claims to be a time traveller from 2038 claims that there will be a civil war brewing in the US of A in the 2004/2005.
Also "predicted" (well, not really so since it is all history for him) the war on iraq.
Better educate yourself, it is just another "the end is nigh" message, but in the recent days I find myself more and more spooked by the events in the news.
Looks like a police state is really coming to pass!
Maybe it is really time to buy some really heavy armaments, and know how to use it well..
I think we will see a lot of cool applications for this like virtual ticket sales counters/telemarketing calls (ask a question through the phone and the computer will look up an answer) as well as tech support phone centres!
No need to outsource to India, opensource it to Linux & ViaVoice!
Remember Intel are the guys who were trying to downplay AMD's 64bit processor when it first came out?
They basically say something like "640k is enough for everyone" except that a few months down the road when market forces start acting, who are the ones playing the catch up game now?
I'd say we'd all be happily surfing the WWW in our subterran bunkers in 2038 when Intel is no more..
Well, so now we have to pay for a new "license" to possess a device that can playback other "licensed" media we bought from the store. For all the licensing, we still need to pay for the license in this damned player to play something we rightfully own.
Is it just me? Or is everyone starting to get sick from the word "license"?
So what are we getting here, is a "license" something that I can eat? Or is it something I can use to wipe my ass like toilet paper? Or can a "license" protect me from the elements?
None! It is really just a pay-and-pay world nowadays. We have to bear all these extra costs just to be able to spend money and view their products?
I'd say all consumers should unite and show them what consumerism is all about by giving them such a big backlash they will never get to forget it.
Screw it, it is not like the stuff they make are so worth it anyway. I can't stand the (RIA|MPA|BS)A making such a big fuss over their pathetic ingenuity and creativity.
That's the definition of broadband there. By that standard, most of us aussies don't even have broadband, except for those "business broadband" customers who pay a lot more.
All these thanks to our evil phone company telstra. Apparently they charge $70 to the ISP just to provide a "service" of catering a 1500kbps adsl connection. While charging a lower fee to 256k adsl lines.
Yet, the irony is.. there is no cost differential for them whatever port speed they provide.
Well, let's just say that hollywood only has tunnel vision and can't see any potential for growth beyond their current business models.
That was why they sued sony back then, they were scared shitless by the prospects of their property being stolen!
Unfortunately for them, they lost, but even then they still managed to get a new cash cow out of it. Home videos.
But with the coming of DVDs, they decided, "hey, we needed home videos no more, now that we got these new high tech media like DVDs and CDs that can only be pressed at the factory, why not we make all recording mediums illegal eh"
And if this law passes, the implications are powerful. With CDRs, DVDRs, videos, cassettes, maybe even video cameras all outlawed? Guess who are the only ones with access to recording equipment?
Just because they produce some lousy stinking movies doesn't mean they produce ALL the material in the whole wide world. What about people making home videos of little nelly celebrating her first birthday? Or can you imagine needing to procure a license from hollywood in the future just so you can make a video recording of big nelly's wedding?
No good would come out of this man.. no good at all..
While mindstorm is cool, but i'm kind of disappointed to see how underpowered the motors are. If only they'd have some kind of "adult" mindstorm sets where you can build you own remote controlled helicopter out of legos.. wow, that'd be so darned cool.
Of course I doubt usual lego blocks would do though, too heavy to fly, but there's the idea. I'm sure many parents still have a secret longing for the toys they played in their childhood.
Once I had the experience of trying to install Linux on my Dad's machine, and Linux was up and running, and all that was left is to get the computer online using the USB wireless dongle.
But when I googled around looking for drivers, apparently that dongle has 3 revisions, each with totally different drivers. Still, I wasn't discouraged and try then all in turn!
But somehow it doesn't work!
Then I found a thread in a forum somewhere which says I have to look at the stuff that is displayed during bootup, copy down something, and type a command. I did that, still doesn't work.
Then I did the same for each of the other 2 drivers in turn, ditto.
End up, defeated, I reinstalled Windoze on that machine. That so sucks man. Cos months later I got a phone call from my folks asking me how to get rid of those pr0n popups and stuff.
If only those drivers worked back then.
Currently it is really quite a challenge getting some bits of hardware to work right on linux. In fact, it is not currently, it has always been an issue. Once this is improved, I don't see why Linux won't fly.
2005 is the year of Linux on the desktop (and if John Titor is right, the end of US of A as we know it)
I don't know.. but I think it is really going to be pretty tough.
Since when does the government of the US of A listen to its people?
When USA invaded iraq, did the govt listen to the people?
When PIRATE act was enacted, did they listen to the people?
When PATRIOT act was passed, does the people seriously think it is for their own good?
The problem nowadays is people are too darned complacent, and too lazy to do anything about it. They will just sit there as their civil liberties and rights get gobbled up, and finally when they realise what has happened, it is already too late.
"Google just lets such failed computers sit useless, and waits until there are enough downed computers to justify sending in the repair people."
Wow, rather than letting it sit there useless and depreciating, I rather they find some cheap and efficient means to just sell that machine (cheaply!) outright, and then they order a new replacement to go back into that empty pigeonhole.
This prediction was made in late 2000, when bush just got elected probably.. so either that guy is a genius, or he is telling the truth
"...Civil war in the United States will begin in 2004 or 2005, as the result of increasingly oppressive police state tactics like warrantless searches and other violations of American civil liberties. It will become common for people to have their doors kicked in and homes violently invaded by police looking for evildoers. The Gestapo-style oppression of innocents by an increasingly oppressive and murderous government will be worst in the cities, so many people will seek refuge in the countryside, but police will soon enough seek them out there too. Civil war will emerge as a more or less continuous series of military sieges and confrontations resembling the Ruby Ridge and Waco police massacres of 1992 and 1993, and it will begin by 2004 or perhaps 2005 (it might not be obvious in the beginning what's actually happening). As time goes on the civil war will become more and more a continuous conflict between paranoid government forces headquartered in the cities, against perceived or imagined threats in the rural civilian population. The American government will wage war against its own citizens, winning most of the battles, but the battling will drag on for years. In the nuclear war of 2015 our cities will be primary targets, so the civil war will end then in favor of the rurals when the government and its domestic armies are destroyed. In this way the nuclear war will be regarded by the survivors as a good thing..."
You will need my home defense system detailed above =)
The turret is only responsible for rotational aiming, and a servo/pivot thing will flip the weapons towards the ENEMY. Rifle/chaingun/whatever is such that it points skywards when it is parked in the firehole.
Maybe if you make the turret pop up very fast, it can actually look even MORE COOL!
The only thing I'm pondering about is if it rains wouldn't all that gunk get into the barrels of your weapons?
Even better, why not make it a cooperative system. So suppose the ENEMY runs away, wouldn't your system lose him? Not if your computers alert your neighbours and wake theirs up too. You will see the turd run down the walkway with a trail of rockets exploding behind him, just like in Duke Nukem Forever! **Except here the ENEMY is fragged before he knows it =)
You'd obviously want to turn this thing off if your kids come home late though.. otherwise they'd innocently step onto the driveway and *boom*... the neighbourhood turns into a warzone.
" When you're sleeping, those aren't particularly effective.;-)"
I had a crazy idea while listening to a tutor talk about what he is researching on.
He was talking about 'computer vision'. So basically a computer can look at something using 2 cameras and gauge its distance/etc relative to itself.
So I was thinking.. "Hey, how about if I mount that array onto a gun, and then mount the whole shebang onto a turret?"
That's be so cool!
And better yet, I'll have a small hole in the ground and put the whole turret inside, so that it is protected and only shows up when needed.
Of course, now that it is dormant, we need to wake it up. What then? And I imagined that if we use pressure sensors embedded around the house and in the garden, the coordinating targetting computers can immediately aim the turrets in the right direction so that when it comes out, it is ready to fire.
For added effect, add a million laser pointers. And put like 6 of these on every side of your house.
And there you go, a winner geek's home defense system =)
**If you are really paranoid, you might want to mount SAM/bazooka launchers onto those turrets too! Good for stopping an oppressive govt cold! What can they do? Nuke the whole nation?
Maybe in future Google will implement a small server in our "Gmail notifier" application, and each time we search for something on google, it will cache some of the results, and should anyone close by ask for it, just forward the old results to them.
Save the server load on the main google server!
**Plus maybe some smart guy will figure out how to trade mp3s over the GoOgLe-P2p network!:D
"Intel and AMD stockholders must be wondering what the fuck their company's have been blowing their R&D budgets on."
AMD has been putting out good tech after good tech lately.
On the other hand, Intel is in some serious (steaming brown substance) if they don't buck up. Seems like they are the ones playing catch-up now.. the Pentium architecture really needs a good overhaul.
By that I meant GOOD! Our current P4s are really just extensions of the old P3 design, except they had a longer pipe line on it to make it scale better for those nice Ghz numbers.
With the Pentium-M they actually went back to the original P3 design and tried to make it more efficient instead of making it clock so fast.
In all... nothing new to see from Intel, move along..
I don't know.. but I can't imagine some aliens coming to a frozen earth after a nuclear winter, salvage that data centre, look at all those financial records, and conclude that all humans are just a bunch of money grabbing weasels (ala enron/worldcom/you-name-it-american-corp) fashion.
Instead of making such nice bunkers we should ensure that no bomb gets used in the first place!
"I have been wondering how long it would take the Windows world to adopt this feature. Of course it has been shipping with every Powerbook since the very first one (I believe the Powerbook 100 back in 1990 or 1991). Of course back then it was with SCSI and now it is with Firewire leading me to wonder why they used USB?"
Yeah, this feature is really good to have. Just like cars, you can actually use one laptop to bootup another dead laptop and put a OS back inside.
Except that MacOS doesn't crash so easily...!
If only the Wintel world would adapt this. Easy installation for all!
Does anyone know if the new Transmeta processor is any better than the older ones?
If AMD vs Intel has thought us anything, it certainly proves that clockspeed does not equal to performance!
While Transmetas are really great power-wise (even predating the Pentium Ms), I really wonder if they can hold their own speedwise when compared to a 1.6Ghz Centrino processor.
Actually, if you are into LinuxMobile IBM thinkpads are really good choices.
I own a small Thinkpad X31 and Linux couldn't be happier on this machine than any other. At least I can just imagine what will happen if I run Linux on my friends' Toshibas, Fujitsus, Dells, HPs, and what-nots.
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I will make use of AC more effectively next time =(
Will the chip also say "666" on it?
Or maybe it says "999" so that when God looks down from above it says "666"?
Sorry, just can't resist!
Well well, just in case you didn't get it, some nutjob who calls himself John Titor claims to be a time traveller from 2038 claims that there will be a civil war brewing in the US of A in the 2004/2005.
Also "predicted" (well, not really so since it is all history for him) the war on iraq.
And a whole lot of other things.
http://www.johntitor.com/
http://johntitor.strategicbrains.com/
Better educate yourself, it is just another "the end is nigh" message, but in the recent days I find myself more and more spooked by the events in the news.
Looks like a police state is really coming to pass!
Maybe it is really time to buy some really heavy armaments, and know how to use it well..
It's in the 2nd Amendment!!
I think we will see a lot of cool applications for this like virtual ticket sales counters/telemarketing calls (ask a question through the phone and the computer will look up an answer) as well as tech support phone centres!
No need to outsource to India, opensource it to Linux & ViaVoice!
Woohoo! +1 for IBM again!
Remember Intel are the guys who were trying to downplay AMD's 64bit processor when it first came out?
They basically say something like "640k is enough for everyone" except that a few months down the road when market forces start acting, who are the ones playing the catch up game now?
I'd say we'd all be happily surfing the WWW in our subterran bunkers in 2038 when Intel is no more..
Who are they to confirm anything? AMD will probably crush them into the dirt and the WWW will still be here waaaaay after Intei is gone =)
Fight fight!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0137523/
Well, so now we have to pay for a new "license" to possess a device that can playback other "licensed" media we bought from the store. For all the licensing, we still need to pay for the license in this damned player to play something we rightfully own.
Is it just me? Or is everyone starting to get sick from the word "license"?
So what are we getting here, is a "license" something that I can eat? Or is it something I can use to wipe my ass like toilet paper? Or can a "license" protect me from the elements?
None! It is really just a pay-and-pay world nowadays. We have to bear all these extra costs just to be able to spend money and view their products?
I'd say all consumers should unite and show them what consumerism is all about by giving them such a big backlash they will never get to forget it.
Screw it, it is not like the stuff they make are so worth it anyway. I can't stand the (RIA|MPA|BS)A making such a big fuss over their pathetic ingenuity and creativity.
"speeds exceeding 200 kbps in both directions"
That's the definition of broadband there. By that standard, most of us aussies don't even have broadband, except for those "business broadband" customers who pay a lot more.
All these thanks to our evil phone company telstra. Apparently they charge $70 to the ISP just to provide a "service" of catering a 1500kbps adsl connection. While charging a lower fee to 256k adsl lines.
Yet, the irony is.. there is no cost differential for them whatever port speed they provide.
This kind of thing can only happen in a monopoly!
Well, let's just say that hollywood only has tunnel vision and can't see any potential for growth beyond their current business models.
That was why they sued sony back then, they were scared shitless by the prospects of their property being stolen!
Unfortunately for them, they lost, but even then they still managed to get a new cash cow out of it. Home videos.
But with the coming of DVDs, they decided, "hey, we needed home videos no more, now that we got these new high tech media like DVDs and CDs that can only be pressed at the factory, why not we make all recording mediums illegal eh"
And if this law passes, the implications are powerful. With CDRs, DVDRs, videos, cassettes, maybe even video cameras all outlawed? Guess who are the only ones with access to recording equipment?
Just because they produce some lousy stinking movies doesn't mean they produce ALL the material in the whole wide world. What about people making home videos of little nelly celebrating her first birthday? Or can you imagine needing to procure a license from hollywood in the future just so you can make a video recording of big nelly's wedding?
No good would come out of this man.. no good at all..
While mindstorm is cool, but i'm kind of disappointed to see how underpowered the motors are. If only they'd have some kind of "adult" mindstorm sets where you can build you own remote controlled helicopter out of legos.. wow, that'd be so darned cool.
Of course I doubt usual lego blocks would do though, too heavy to fly, but there's the idea. I'm sure many parents still have a secret longing for the toys they played in their childhood.
Guys never grow out of their toys! =)
I think this would be great.
Once I had the experience of trying to install Linux on my Dad's machine, and Linux was up and running, and all that was left is to get the computer online using the USB wireless dongle.
But when I googled around looking for drivers, apparently that dongle has 3 revisions, each with totally different drivers. Still, I wasn't discouraged and try then all in turn!
But somehow it doesn't work!
Then I found a thread in a forum somewhere which says I have to look at the stuff that is displayed during bootup, copy down something, and type a command. I did that, still doesn't work.
Then I did the same for each of the other 2 drivers in turn, ditto.
End up, defeated, I reinstalled Windoze on that machine. That so sucks man. Cos months later I got a phone call from my folks asking me how to get rid of those pr0n popups and stuff.
If only those drivers worked back then.
Currently it is really quite a challenge getting some bits of hardware to work right on linux. In fact, it is not currently, it has always been an issue. Once this is improved, I don't see why Linux won't fly.
2005 is the year of Linux on the desktop (and if John Titor is right, the end of US of A as we know it)
I don't know.. but I think it is really going to be pretty tough.
Since when does the government of the US of A listen to its people?
When USA invaded iraq, did the govt listen to the people?
When PIRATE act was enacted, did they listen to the people?
When PATRIOT act was passed, does the people seriously think it is for their own good?
The problem nowadays is people are too darned complacent, and too lazy to do anything about it. They will just sit there as their civil liberties and rights get gobbled up, and finally when they realise what has happened, it is already too late.
Dang.. you guys are too serious!
"Google just lets such failed computers sit useless, and waits until there are enough downed computers to justify sending in the repair people."
Wow, rather than letting it sit there useless and depreciating, I rather they find some cheap and efficient means to just sell that machine (cheaply!) outright, and then they order a new replacement to go back into that empty pigeonhole.
http://johntitor.strategicbrains.com/CopyrightProo f.cfm
This prediction was made in late 2000, when bush just got elected probably.. so either that guy is a genius, or he is telling the truth
"...Civil war in the United States will begin in 2004 or 2005, as the result of increasingly oppressive police state tactics like warrantless searches and other violations of American civil liberties. It will become common for people to have their doors kicked in and homes violently invaded by police looking for evildoers. The Gestapo-style oppression of innocents by an increasingly oppressive and murderous government will be worst in the cities, so many people will seek refuge in the countryside, but police will soon enough seek them out there too. Civil war will emerge as a more or less continuous series of military sieges and confrontations resembling the Ruby Ridge and Waco police massacres of 1992 and 1993, and it will begin by 2004 or perhaps 2005 (it might not be obvious in the beginning what's actually happening). As time goes on the civil war will become more and more a continuous conflict between paranoid government forces headquartered in the cities, against perceived or imagined threats in the rural civilian population. The American government will wage war against its own citizens, winning most of the battles, but the battling will drag on for years. In the nuclear war of 2015 our cities will be primary targets, so the civil war will end then in favor of the rurals when the government and its domestic armies are destroyed. In this way the nuclear war will be regarded by the survivors as a good thing..."
You will need my home defense system detailed above =)
The turret is only responsible for rotational aiming, and a servo/pivot thing will flip the weapons towards the ENEMY. Rifle/chaingun/whatever is such that it points skywards when it is parked in the firehole.
Maybe if you make the turret pop up very fast, it can actually look even MORE COOL!
The only thing I'm pondering about is if it rains wouldn't all that gunk get into the barrels of your weapons?
Even better, why not make it a cooperative system. So suppose the ENEMY runs away, wouldn't your system lose him? Not if your computers alert your neighbours and wake theirs up too. You will see the turd run down the walkway with a trail of rockets exploding behind him, just like in Duke Nukem Forever! **Except here the ENEMY is fragged before he knows it =)
You'd obviously want to turn this thing off if your kids come home late though.. otherwise they'd innocently step onto the driveway and *boom*... the neighbourhood turns into a warzone.
" When you're sleeping, those aren't particularly effective. ;-)"
I had a crazy idea while listening to a tutor talk about what he is researching on.
He was talking about 'computer vision'. So basically a computer can look at something using 2 cameras and gauge its distance/etc relative to itself.
So I was thinking.. "Hey, how about if I mount that array onto a gun, and then mount the whole shebang onto a turret?"
That's be so cool!
And better yet, I'll have a small hole in the ground and put the whole turret inside, so that it is protected and only shows up when needed.
Of course, now that it is dormant, we need to wake it up. What then? And I imagined that if we use pressure sensors embedded around the house and in the garden, the coordinating targetting computers can immediately aim the turrets in the right direction so that when it comes out, it is ready to fire.
For added effect, add a million laser pointers. And put like 6 of these on every side of your house.
And there you go, a winner geek's home defense system =)
**If you are really paranoid, you might want to mount SAM/bazooka launchers onto those turrets too! Good for stopping an oppressive govt cold! What can they do? Nuke the whole nation?
Maybe in future Google will implement a small server in our "Gmail notifier" application, and each time we search for something on google, it will cache some of the results, and should anyone close by ask for it, just forward the old results to them.
:D
Save the server load on the main google server!
**Plus maybe some smart guy will figure out how to trade mp3s over the GoOgLe-P2p network!
"Intel and AMD stockholders must be wondering what the fuck their company's have been blowing their R&D budgets on."
AMD has been putting out good tech after good tech lately.
On the other hand, Intel is in some serious (steaming brown substance) if they don't buck up. Seems like they are the ones playing catch-up now.. the Pentium architecture really needs a good overhaul.
By that I meant GOOD! Our current P4s are really just extensions of the old P3 design, except they had a longer pipe line on it to make it scale better for those nice Ghz numbers.
With the Pentium-M they actually went back to the original P3 design and tried to make it more efficient instead of making it clock so fast.
In all... nothing new to see from Intel, move along..
What good is all that data if everyone were dead?
I don't know.. but I can't imagine some aliens coming to a frozen earth after a nuclear winter, salvage that data centre, look at all those financial records, and conclude that all humans are just a bunch of money grabbing weasels (ala enron/worldcom/you-name-it-american-corp) fashion.
Instead of making such nice bunkers we should ensure that no bomb gets used in the first place!
"I have been wondering how long it would take the Windows world to adopt this feature. Of course it has been shipping with every Powerbook since the very first one (I believe the Powerbook 100 back in 1990 or 1991). Of course back then it was with SCSI and now it is with Firewire leading me to wonder why they used USB?"
Yeah, this feature is really good to have. Just like cars, you can actually use one laptop to bootup another dead laptop and put a OS back inside.
Except that MacOS doesn't crash so easily...!
If only the Wintel world would adapt this. Easy installation for all!
1.6GHz Transmeta processor
Does anyone know if the new Transmeta processor is any better than the older ones?
If AMD vs Intel has thought us anything, it certainly proves that clockspeed does not equal to performance!
While Transmetas are really great power-wise (even predating the Pentium Ms), I really wonder if they can hold their own speedwise when compared to a 1.6Ghz Centrino processor.
Anyway the Pentium Ms are pretty good.
Actually, if you are into LinuxMobile IBM thinkpads are really good choices.
I own a small Thinkpad X31 and Linux couldn't be happier on this machine than any other. At least I can just imagine what will happen if I run Linux on my friends' Toshibas, Fujitsus, Dells, HPs, and what-nots.
IBM's the real deal, no poppycock Win-anything!
That is some good pay man, and in view of all that whinging on /. sometimes I really wonder why no one took up that offer.
Anyway why are they still bothering with OS5? I thought OS6 is already coming soon? They might as well save the $ for the new OS.