Umm, a spud is only capable of 0.5-1 volt. If you want 5VDC, you need to convert it to AC so you can use a voltage multiplier / transformer to attain the required voltage. There is no way currently to add DC voltages together without converting to AC first.
I already did the calculations, you need 6 spuds, a couple diodes, a cap, and an opamp to get the required voltage. Why all the extra stuff? Because converting from DC to Ac is a real pain.
You managed to piece together a wonderful collage of buzzwords, circular reasoning, and a brilliant Subject line that combined say exactly nothing.
Plato's Republic didn't have much to say, either, other than silly stuff about philosophy which has absolutely no relation to what I'm doing today. I guess that since it doesn't mean anything to me that he was an idiot.
What planet are you from again?
I'm only aware of one planet which supports life at present.
You're aware that, beyond not having read the book, you're not even talking about the same kind of Virtual War, right?
Yup. I'd also like to point out that discussing only the book would be quite boring, especially since the very nature of a book review is to provide information to those who have not read it. That means that there would be all of, umm, 5 comments in this tread if only people who had read the book posted. =)
I'm not in a position to comment on what the author has to say as I have not read the book, but I can share with you my own outlook on "virtual" morality. The virtual (online) world is rapidly taking the shape and form of the real world. It has money, it has people, it has little governments with both facism and democracy and everything in between. In all the ways that count, humanity has migrated most of its identity into the virtual world. We have also carried with us social and other conventions learned from the real world.
We fight wars with guns in the real world. We fight wars with scripts, computers, and bandwidth online. We trade money online through credit cards, we chat online through e-mail and IRC. We telecommute for our jobs. We have a plethora of technologies to interface the realworld's knowledge and information directly into the virtual one.
Yet despite the overwhelming evidence that the virtual world is a mirror of the realworld, we continue to treat this medium as somehow different from the real one. Our legal conventions somehow didn't cross the digital divide, and we're left with the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, the CDA, software patents, and "e-commerce". It seems that the world has fallen under the dillusion that if someone creates something "new" in the virtual world that is "old" in the real world.. it must be valuable and something to be protected. This is the single most dangerous idea threatening the virtual world - it could easily destroy it or render it a useless wasteland of advertisements and billboards, push technology, and download-only bandwidth.
That's my take on virtual morality - it is just the same as realworld morality, only mirrored and adapted. Minus one minor glitch in people's thinking: that the two are somehow seperate and not to be mixed.
Well, I don't know jack about quantum physics, but I do know something about regular physics. If I yell to a friend of mine across the room, it will take a finite period of time before he hears it. If I take that same friend, throw him into a pool of water the same size as the room, and yell at him, it will take longer for sound to reach him because it is in a different medium. Every waveform you blast through a medium exhibits this "drag" effect.
In light of this (and pardon the pun), wouldn't this mean by definition that the light travelling through a gas chamber filled with cesium atoms would move slower than light in a vaccum? Also, we know that electrons always move at approximately the speed of light, sooo.. what's to say these highly unstable cesium atoms aren't converting the light energy into electrons and passing them between each other to the other side?! I'm no physicist, so this may be bunk, but I can see how in certain circumstances you could get electricity to travel faster than light through a particular medium..
It may simply be the quantum version of the trick where you take three pennies, put your finger on the one in the middle, put the other one on the "far" side touching it, and then throw the other penny at the one on your finger. Your finger doesn't move, but the penny on the other side "jumps" away.
Who knows? without a real unit to look at, it's hard to tell - this may have been from a simulation box, not the real thing, in which case the graphics may look different than on the production machine. Then again, MS isn't exactly known for being truthful, so...
Such violence - I propose we ban fast computers immediately because they are violent(note to slashdot moderators: this is a joke). Violence is inherent in computers - look at how a computer is reviewed - invariably how fast it can run Quake is cited as the reason why it is superior to other computers(note to slashdot moderators: this is fact!). DOOM was the very same video game which compelled two teenagers to go on a shooting rampage in columbine(note to slashdot moderators: this is not flamebait)! We must act quickly - ban fast computers now! Go back to 286/25's and MS Flight Simulator 1.0(note to slashdot moderators: MSFS sucks). Churches unite! Oppose this menace to decency!
Of all the "neutral" comments, I found none that were anything but neutral. However, there were "4 praise comments". Below are these comments. =)
User: socketware (18) (not a registered user) Date: Dec-21-99 00:54:41 PST Praise: Got back to me after ending auction and set things right. Thanks for the help!
User: bobbennett (8) Date: Apr-06-99 13:16:33 PST Praise: Microsoft pirates their own software, allowing full registration, & upgrades????
User: kluessendorf (265) Date: Mar-25-99 10:26:20 PST Praise: Cancelled auction on legal retail Windows 98 upgrade with contacting me
User: twinsoft (2748) Date: Mar-22-99 20:53:45 PST Praise: This is a COMPLAINT! They ended an auction for legal MS software, no explanatio
From this, one can deduce that there were, infact, no positive comments on the action of Microsoft. Just wanted to set the record straight.
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Depending on how they wrote their AUP, users might be able to sue for impersonation - they have modified what you said. Second, this doesn't suprise me as eBay is all about protecting its corporate ledger - anyone believing this is anything but a faceless corporation obviously hasn't had their morning coffee yet.
Now, about potential remedies - first off there are dozens of eBay look-alikes out there. Yahoo springs to mind. Take your business elsewhere and let msoft@buddy.ebay.com know it. Also, I think it may be possible to trick eBay into tripping over itself: I say everyone takes their old copies of Windows 3.1 and puts them on sale. When MS comes around and tries to remove them, point them to the shrink-wrap license and let 'em know that it is perfectly legal to sell it. Oh, and then sue them, of course.
There's the material you need to make optical transistors possible. Depending on how quickly the polarization takes effect (I'm assuming damn near instantanious) we now have a way to interface electrical and optical systems together in a much more convenient way. Cisco should be eating its heart out right now - THIS will make a (near) pure optic router possible.
Okay, the PROCESSOR will run at 1/6th watt, I still need to solve the LAN card problem. In any event, you want this link which details a microcontroller which was converted to run a small TCP/IP stack and webserver. As to the power output from a spud, try here.
About 17,000 by my estimates, excluding the resistance of the wires interconnecting them all. This, of course, assumes you use a "standard" computer. You can do the calculations yourself: assume 0.5 volts and 20mA of current per battery. Given that, calculate the wattage (hint: volts * amps), and then do some simple alegbra. I used 250 watts to be my "normal" server, hence the result above. I found a small RISC computer and did some quick calculations and figured out that you could make a mini-webserver that served maybe 2-3 pages and had a functional TCP/IP stack + LAN card to run on about 15 potatoes.
Personally, I can't wait until the NSA has its own IPO - what, with all the demand for privacy-invading software and hardware, employers spying on employee e-mail and phone calls. I'd daresay it might even fund Echelon II ("This time, it's really, really personal").
Oh, hell, you can get within a hundred feet without any computer at all. Ham operators do it all the time - it's called "fox hunting" and basically they all get on a net (same frequency, but with alot of ops) and one guy says "I'm gonna talk on this frequency for 10 seconds".. and then he does. While he's doing that, everyone else points around directional antennas and figures out which direction gets the best gain.
After that, they chat with each other and exchange location info.. and someone just draws the damn thing on a map (optional) and drives over to the person's house, knocks on their door, and says "tag, you're it!":)
It takes any respectable computer no more than 3 seconds to track you, with sophisticated ones taking under a second. I'm completely serious. You only need two things to do triangulation: the direction of the signal, its strength, and 3 or more receivers. The more receivers, the quicker it goes. Anyway, that aside, you can even use time-delay algos to figure out where someone is nearly instantaniously, provided you can sync each of the receivers to exactly the same time (and I *mean* exact - like within a few hundred uS). Bleh.. forget it.. anyone with a couple hundred bucks can build accurate triangulation equipment. You don't need GPS for this...
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Umm, a spud is only capable of 0.5-1 volt. If you want 5VDC, you need to convert it to AC so you can use a voltage multiplier / transformer to attain the required voltage. There is no way currently to add DC voltages together without converting to AC first.
I already did the calculations, you need 6 spuds, a couple diodes, a cap, and an opamp to get the required voltage. Why all the extra stuff? Because converting from DC to Ac is a real pain.
Yeah.. it had something to do with frequency... *cough*
Actually, he's in my killfile.
You managed to piece together a wonderful collage of buzzwords, circular reasoning, and a brilliant Subject line that combined say exactly nothing.
Plato's Republic didn't have much to say, either, other than silly stuff about philosophy which has absolutely no relation to what I'm doing today. I guess that since it doesn't mean anything to me that he was an idiot.
What planet are you from again?
I'm only aware of one planet which supports life at present.
Yup. I'd also like to point out that discussing only the book would be quite boring, especially since the very nature of a book review is to provide information to those who have not read it. That means that there would be all of, umm, 5 comments in this tread if only people who had read the book posted. =)
I didn't say war in the real world equated with war in the online one, only that there are parallels.
We fight wars with guns in the real world. We fight wars with scripts, computers, and bandwidth online. We trade money online through credit cards, we chat online through e-mail and IRC. We telecommute for our jobs. We have a plethora of technologies to interface the realworld's knowledge and information directly into the virtual one.
Yet despite the overwhelming evidence that the virtual world is a mirror of the realworld, we continue to treat this medium as somehow different from the real one. Our legal conventions somehow didn't cross the digital divide, and we're left with the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, the CDA, software patents, and "e-commerce". It seems that the world has fallen under the dillusion that if someone creates something "new" in the virtual world that is "old" in the real world.. it must be valuable and something to be protected. This is the single most dangerous idea threatening the virtual world - it could easily destroy it or render it a useless wasteland of advertisements and billboards, push technology, and download-only bandwidth.
That's my take on virtual morality - it is just the same as realworld morality, only mirrored and adapted. Minus one minor glitch in people's thinking: that the two are somehow seperate and not to be mixed.
In light of this (and pardon the pun), wouldn't this mean by definition that the light travelling through a gas chamber filled with cesium atoms would move slower than light in a vaccum? Also, we know that electrons always move at approximately the speed of light, sooo.. what's to say these highly unstable cesium atoms aren't converting the light energy into electrons and passing them between each other to the other side?! I'm no physicist, so this may be bunk, but I can see how in certain circumstances you could get electricity to travel faster than light through a particular medium..
It may simply be the quantum version of the trick where you take three pennies, put your finger on the one in the middle, put the other one on the "far" side touching it, and then throw the other penny at the one on your finger. Your finger doesn't move, but the penny on the other side "jumps" away.
I dunno.. my computer kinda looks like that...
Now you see why we doubt.
Who knows? without a real unit to look at, it's hard to tell - this may have been from a simulation box, not the real thing, in which case the graphics may look different than on the production machine. Then again, MS isn't exactly known for being truthful, so...
Dammit, forgot to hit preview.. that should be "a game with ping pong balls??" .. doh..
Such violence - I propose we ban fast computers immediately because they are violent(note to slashdot moderators: this is a joke). Violence is inherent in computers - look at how a computer is reviewed - invariably how fast it can run Quake is cited as the reason why it is superior to other computers(note to slashdot moderators: this is fact!). DOOM was the very same video game which compelled two teenagers to go on a shooting rampage in columbine(note to slashdot moderators: this is not flamebait)! We must act quickly - ban fast computers now! Go back to 286/25's and MS Flight Simulator 1.0(note to slashdot moderators: MSFS sucks). Churches unite! Oppose this menace to decency!
User: socketware (18) (not a registered user) Date: Dec-21-99 00:54:41 PST
Praise: Got back to me after ending auction and set things right. Thanks for the help!
User: bobbennett (8) Date: Apr-06-99 13:16:33 PST
Praise: Microsoft pirates their own software, allowing full registration, & upgrades????
User: kluessendorf (265) Date: Mar-25-99 10:26:20 PST
Praise: Cancelled auction on legal retail Windows 98 upgrade with contacting me
User: twinsoft (2748) Date: Mar-22-99 20:53:45 PST
Praise: This is a COMPLAINT! They ended an auction for legal MS software, no explanatio
From this, one can deduce that there were, infact, no positive comments on the action of Microsoft. Just wanted to set the record straight.
Cute, but you spelled "typos" wrong.
I'd be interested in buying that just for the bragging rights. E-mail me. :)
Now, about potential remedies - first off there are dozens of eBay look-alikes out there. Yahoo springs to mind. Take your business elsewhere and let msoft@buddy.ebay.com know it. Also, I think it may be possible to trick eBay into tripping over itself: I say everyone takes their old copies of Windows 3.1 and puts them on sale. When MS comes around and tries to remove them, point them to the shrink-wrap license and let 'em know that it is perfectly legal to sell it. Oh, and then sue them, of course.
Use javascript's "OnMouseOver" function. There's your no-click patent. =)
There's the material you need to make optical transistors possible. Depending on how quickly the polarization takes effect (I'm assuming damn near instantanious) we now have a way to interface electrical and optical systems together in a much more convenient way. Cisco should be eating its heart out right now - THIS will make a (near) pure optic router possible.
Okay, the PROCESSOR will run at 1/6th watt, I still need to solve the LAN card problem. In any event, you want this link which details a microcontroller which was converted to run a small TCP/IP stack and webserver. As to the power output from a spud, try here.
About 17,000 by my estimates, excluding the resistance of the wires interconnecting them all. This, of course, assumes you use a "standard" computer. You can do the calculations yourself: assume 0.5 volts and 20mA of current per battery. Given that, calculate the wattage (hint: volts * amps), and then do some simple alegbra. I used 250 watts to be my "normal" server, hence the result above. I found a small RISC computer and did some quick calculations and figured out that you could make a mini-webserver that served maybe 2-3 pages and had a functional TCP/IP stack + LAN card to run on about 15 potatoes.
I just want the blueprints for the DSP chips they're using.. to hell with the rest.
Personally, I can't wait until the NSA has its own IPO - what, with all the demand for privacy-invading software and hardware, employers spying on employee e-mail and phone calls. I'd daresay it might even fund Echelon II ("This time, it's really, really personal").
After that, they chat with each other and exchange location info.. and someone just draws the damn thing on a map (optional) and drives over to the person's house, knocks on their door, and says "tag, you're it!" :)
It takes any respectable computer no more than 3 seconds to track you, with sophisticated ones taking under a second. I'm completely serious. You only need two things to do triangulation: the direction of the signal, its strength, and 3 or more receivers. The more receivers, the quicker it goes. Anyway, that aside, you can even use time-delay algos to figure out where someone is nearly instantaniously, provided you can sync each of the receivers to exactly the same time (and I *mean* exact - like within a few hundred uS). Bleh.. forget it.. anyone with a couple hundred bucks can build accurate triangulation equipment. You don't need GPS for this...