Just out of curiosity, I usually line up with most Livertarians? So what did I say to piss you off? nick[NOSPAM].gibson[ENOUGHWITHTHESPAMMING]-tech.co [REMOVETHIS]m
As the aleged copyright infringement was textual, the US ISP investigated. But put a piece of music or some open source software on a website and try your experiment again, this time citing the DMCA. I'll wager 10 out of 10 fold before you have time to check your email again.
Another popular (but horrid) game in this genre was Phantasmagoria. Horror movie inspired hackishness.
The Myst games were great, but Riven was silly hard. The marble puzzle at the end haunted my very dreams. Uru seems to be much easier, so maybe Cyan got complaints about Riven's difficulty.
Does anyone else find it funny that the main comparisons made are not to current tech, but to Star Trek and Star Wars? Never let there be any doubt: a coke-fiend may run be the president, but nerds run the country.
Building a homebrew that technically qualifies as an STM is one thing. Building one that can spell IBM with neon (or whatever) atoms is another. But building one that can build proteins from scratch doesn't seem to be within the realm of possibility.
Maybe you should have ended that post with a IANAS (scientist) disclaimer. In both high school and college debate, nano was my primary and favorite topic for years, and I frequently debated on both sides of the issue. The one argument that I could never win against nano was an attack on Drexler's qualifications. Perhaps he should not be called the father of nano. The real father of nano is Richard Fayman. In his lecture entitled "There Is Plenty of Room At the Bottom" he basically invented the concept. Drexler, however brought it forward. He has a Ph.D. in Molecular Nanotechnology from MIT (a degree that did not exist before Drexler was awarded it). His S.M. and S.B. are both from MIT as well. He was a research affiliate for two departments at MIT and a visiting scholar at Stanford, where he taught a doctorate level class. As recently as 1993 he won the Kilby Yound Innovator Award. He has testified before Congress, written dozens of articles and books, even winning the 1992 Oustanding Computer Science Book for Nanosystems, a VERY technical book almost impossible to understand for anyone without at least a M.S. in Chem or Engineering (or both!). He holds numerous patents, and has lectured everywhere from Apple and Bell Labs to TI and the Xerox PARC.
Disbelieve if you want, but please do not be so foolish as to challange the credentials of Dr. Drexler.
The idea of 'accidentally' creating an assembler (Drexler's term for the nanobots that can build other nanobots) that can run wild in the open is like the idea of shaking up a large box of parts and having a car that runs on spit and honey. These things will be designed to only be active under VERY special conditions. Say in a vat of some type of CHO under UV light say 10 times more intense than outside.
The idea of John Q. building his own is silly as well. John Q. does not build small nuclear power plants, nor does he use home-built STMs. Even after several generations of assemblers, the hardware required for programming and design will be out of the Everyman's reach.
Leaving aside power requirements, assemblers won't be universal machines that can tear apart anything and put anything back together. They'll be like custom proteins. One assembler will strip the H from H2O. And that's it. One might add an O to CO. And that's it. They are not magic, they are robotic assembling on a small scale. Think robotic assembly in a auto plant, and you will have the right idea.
Finally, even if Drexler had an ulterior motive to make this statement, his motive was not that he sold out to DARPA (I hope you were kidding!). If anything, the initial scenario was made at a time when there was little publicity and it made sense to cover ever possible eventuality, no matter how remote. But now that it is in the news on almost a continual basis, and gaining spotlight in pop culture (witness Chriton's Prey. Whenever Chriton covers something, that is when America pays attention to it.) it is time to re-evaluate some of the more remote possibilities and calm the public down. The worst thing that could happen is that the public gets scared and Congress either bans research (allowing other countries to develop, but not allowing us to make a defense) or classifies everything (meaning we'll only see war-like applications for decades).
Wouldn't this be HIGHLY suseptable to some form of radar jamming, similar to what is done (albiet, illegally) with speed guns?
Additionally, the hacking wouldn't be to change your code to 'l0s3r', it would be to change your code to someone with a similar make/model/color as your own.
I've actually seen all those movies, and most of his 100 some-odd movies. It was required of us as pledges,as he is one of the more famous members of my frat (Sigma Chi). He played himself in every movie. They were great movies, and VERY entertaining, but he is not a character actor like Tom Hanks or William H. Macy.
Clock speed long ago stopped being the benchmark of choice for speed. One should look much more carefully at the MIPS or BIPS rating (Millions/Billions of Instructions Per Second).
Vin Diesel plays one character in every movie he's ever been in: himself. That said, he plays himself very well, and involves himself in projects that are appropriate to his character. No one ever accused John Wayne or Clint Eastwood for being great actors, but their performances were still enjoyable because they choose the right projects (Bridges of Madison County notwithstanding).
The problem for some is becomming a sys admin. Most sys admin want years of hands-on, but to get years of hand-on you first have to get a sys admin job, but to get the job, you first need years of hands-on . . .
Now I can't respond to painted capacitors (that seems to be a silly level of modding), but Alienware does a top-notch job of cable tie-downs. So much so, I end up having to untie everything if I ever want to add a component. Annoying, but impressive, nonetheless.
All in all, though, these "retail mods" seem to be a very niche market.
Indeed, as Netflix practically begs you to make copies of your "rentals". I live about 10 miles away from a distribution center, so even USPS first class is next day for me. With their 5-disc $30 plan, I get about 20 new movies a month. And while such ripping violates the CDMA, it is an unenforcable aspect of copyright law. Back in the VHS days, rental stores assumed that most tapes were dubbed, and the MPAA did too, but there was nothing that could be done there, and little than can be here.
>Heat bounced back to the laptop: RTFA, it is not bounced back to the laptop, it is radiated to the canvas, some of which radiates to the user and some of which radiates to the air. And it does it over a much larger surface area than a laptop. And of course some of the heat will be resident in the product itself.
What's really funny is the company's pageon How Much You'll Save using their product. Claims include students using laptops for schoolwork 7 days a week, and the belief that laptop heat hurt productivity in professions such as Dentistry, Physician, Buyer (whatever the hell that is), and (get this!) Account Executives. Everybody knows executives don't do work anyway. . .
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Just out of curiosity, I usually line up with most Livertarians? So what did I say to piss you off? nick[NOSPAM].gibson[ENOUGHWITHTHESPAMMING]-tech.c
As the aleged copyright infringement was textual, the US ISP investigated. But put a piece of music or some open source software on a website and try your experiment again, this time citing the DMCA. I'll wager 10 out of 10 fold before you have time to check your email again.
Another popular (but horrid) game in this genre was Phantasmagoria. Horror movie inspired hackishness.
The Myst games were great, but Riven was silly hard. The marble puzzle at the end haunted my very dreams. Uru seems to be much easier, so maybe Cyan got complaints about Riven's difficulty.
Does anyone else find it funny that the main comparisons made are not to current tech, but to Star Trek and Star Wars?
Never let there be any doubt: a coke-fiend may run be the president, but nerds run the country.
That I agree to. I misspoke by saying COMPLETELY outside possibility. I should have said not in the forseeable future.
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Building a homebrew that technically qualifies as an STM is one thing. Building one that can spell IBM with neon (or whatever) atoms is another. But building one that can build proteins from scratch doesn't seem to be within the realm of possibility.
would be too much to hope/pray for? --Doesn't God smite evil anymore?
Maybe you should have ended that post with a IANAS (scientist) disclaimer. In both high school and college debate, nano was my primary and favorite topic for years, and I frequently debated on both sides of the issue. The one argument that I could never win against nano was an attack on Drexler's qualifications.
Perhaps he should not be called the father of nano. The real father of nano is Richard Fayman. In his lecture entitled "There Is Plenty of Room At the Bottom" he basically invented the concept. Drexler, however brought it forward. He has a Ph.D. in Molecular Nanotechnology from MIT (a degree that did not exist before Drexler was awarded it). His S.M. and S.B. are both from MIT as well. He was a research affiliate for two departments at MIT and a visiting scholar at Stanford, where he taught a doctorate level class. As recently as 1993 he won the Kilby Yound Innovator Award. He has testified before Congress, written dozens of articles and books, even winning the 1992 Oustanding Computer Science Book for Nanosystems, a VERY technical book almost impossible to understand for anyone without at least a M.S. in Chem or Engineering (or both!). He holds numerous patents, and has lectured everywhere from Apple and Bell Labs to TI and the Xerox PARC.
Disbelieve if you want, but please do not be so foolish as to challange the credentials of Dr. Drexler.
Wouldn't this be HIGHLY suseptable to some form of radar jamming, similar to what is done (albiet, illegally) with speed guns?
Additionally, the hacking wouldn't be to change your code to 'l0s3r', it would be to change your code to someone with a similar make/model/color as your own.
Compare Forrest Gump to Terminal. Done and done.
I've actually seen all those movies, and most of his 100 some-odd movies. It was required of us as pledges,as he is one of the more famous members of my frat (Sigma Chi). He played himself in every movie. They were great movies, and VERY entertaining, but he is not a character actor like Tom Hanks or William H. Macy.
It's called irony, but in some circles it is known simply as humor. Now available in a low-carb variety!
Luxumburg has more per capita changes then any other country?
Finland needs to support its baby and fight back!
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Ah, but this would require me leaving my computer chair, and therefore preclude my glorious transformation into DVD Burning Guy.
DivX? Worst. Codec. Ever
Clock speed long ago stopped being the benchmark of choice for speed. One should look much more carefully at the MIPS or BIPS rating (Millions/Billions of Instructions Per Second).
Vin Diesel plays one character in every movie he's ever been in: himself. That said, he plays himself very well, and involves himself in projects that are appropriate to his character.
No one ever accused John Wayne or Clint Eastwood for being great actors, but their performances were still enjoyable because they choose the right projects (Bridges of Madison County notwithstanding).
The problem for some is becomming a sys admin. Most sys admin want years of hands-on, but to get years of hand-on you first have to get a sys admin job, but to get the job, you first need years of hands-on . . .
Now I can't respond to painted capacitors (that seems to be a silly level of modding), but Alienware does a top-notch job of cable tie-downs. So much so, I end up having to untie everything if I ever want to add a component. Annoying, but impressive, nonetheless. All in all, though, these "retail mods" seem to be a very niche market.
Indeed, as Netflix practically begs you to make copies of your "rentals". I live about 10 miles away from a distribution center, so even USPS first class is next day for me. With their 5-disc $30 plan, I get about 20 new movies a month. And while such ripping violates the CDMA, it is an unenforcable aspect of copyright law. Back in the VHS days, rental stores assumed that most tapes were dubbed, and the MPAA did too, but there was nothing that could be done there, and little than can be here.
>Heat bounced back to the laptop:
RTFA, it is not bounced back to the laptop, it is radiated to the canvas, some of which radiates to the user and some of which radiates to the air. And it does it over a much larger surface area than a laptop. And of course some of the heat will be resident in the product itself.
What's really funny is the company's pageon How Much You'll Save using their product. Claims include students using laptops for schoolwork 7 days a week, and the belief that laptop heat hurt productivity in professions such as Dentistry, Physician, Buyer (whatever the hell that is), and (get this!) Account Executives. Everybody knows executives don't do work anyway. . .
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