I still prefer books of paper becuase they are a) portable, b) compact, c) made out of recyclable materials, and d) never need to recharge at an outlet. Best of all, they're availible free at your local library, and you won't have to pay fines if you take a book out of it's local coverage area.
Of course, millions of people will end up getting these book-phones anyway if only for the sake of looking cool and impressing their friends (designer nike shoes,anyone?).
..this is another instance of big organizations only really hurting themselves. Five bucks won't do much to help most people, but multiply $5 by several thousand unsatisfied customers and you've got the potential to do much pain to Bill Gates and Co.
Thomas Jefferson High School for Sci./Tech.- this school has an entire computer systems lab with running on Debian, complete with Cray SV1 and cluster of 386's. The lab is run largely by student system administrators who know and learn much about the Linux operating system during their stay at TJ, which helps to prepare them for entry into the business world and tech industry where UNIX based operating systems are the common standard. TJ is a public school located in Fairfax County, Virginia. It also has a Wikipedia entry that goes into more detail than my post here (Sorry for lack of link, but Wikipedia seems to be running slowly for me as of late and I couldn't get the page).
The so-called Martian "sea-monkeys" would turn out to be no more than an elobarate deception consisting of (admittedly Martian) brine shrimp larvae being passed off as something decidedly more cute and consumer friendly.
... this'll all turn out just like Beta vs. VHS with some initial worriement that resolves itself with one set of standards beating down the other and becoming the norm. As for the possible role of Microsoft... whoever gets Bill Gates on their team, wins.
...I see two posible futures for the MMO(RP)G genre, each with distincively different results and social implications.
#1: One company emerges from the fray victorious, and becomes the Microsoft-esque supergiant of massively multiplayer online games. It happened with EA and the NFL, and I think that it could happen again with RPGs through the means of the merging of Blizzard-SOE along with few patents in just the right places. Thisscenario would open itself up to more global connectivity, with Japanese gamers playing alongside their American friends and the US no longer hating the French since they've got all the best healers and spellcasters (what? it coudl happen...).
#2: Gamers, fed up with big-name companies giving them lousy customer service and blase customer support, band together and create a variety of independent MMO(RP)Gs in a fashion similar to the Protestant Reformation breaking away from the Catholic Church and forming many splinter groups each with different and unique approaches to the same common issue. Already there's the assumption that if you like MMORPGS and live in Korea, you play Lineage II, and that if you live in the US you play EQ or WoW, and that if you live in Europe you play EQ and don't know what WoW is all about... this phenomenon could become even more regional in the days to come, with people in Virginia playing something different than those folks out on the West Coast and vice-versa... this scenario would lend itself more to isolationism and modular commnities with one area having nothing to do with the other, and each group of gamers living in their own seperate world.
Just the thoughts of an ex-EQ addict who's been monitoring the industry... and to all of my friends still hooked on EQ, I say: "Camp out right now and go for a walk... the Planes of Power will still be there when you get back, but you may have missed a million opportunitees in the real world". As much as I love online gaming, it's still no substitue for real world experiences; However, it's still ok as long as you balance playtime with human-to-human facetime.
First, Microsoft sends out free antivirus tools that when run, "detect" and "remove" several hundred "severe threats" on the faithful Windows user's PC (these threats include, but are not limited to, Firefox, Netscape, and Spybot S&D). The Windows-using population, convinced that the tools are "vital" to their PC's security, will go out to buy them from Bill when they're no longer free.
By Windows-using population, I mean the segment of the population who are either too ignorant/slow to use a decent antivirus such as Norton. These same people feel tech saavy when they use Kazaa, which won't be detected as malware since the makers of it paid of Micrsoft before the antivirus was released.
There's already been the first arrest for wardriving, let's just hope these maps don't let to a second (or third, fourth, etc. with so many eager undergrads involved).
...that the scientists get the lense size right on their first try this time around. Don't want to be sending up another replacement, to replace the replacement for the original replacement... and yes, that sentence does make sense when you think about it;-]
It's not so much that they create something that's "more than the sum of their parts". It's the idea that so many "dumb" entities can combine together to form a single (or several) coherent beings of a moderate-high degree of intelligence. Similar to the basic structure of a supercomputing cluster: a single microprocessor can do nothing, but when 200 microprocessors work in parallel, they produce amazing results, more than any single/double processor machine could ever hope to accomplish.
Not to be the over-hyping fanboy, but a similar concept to that discussed here would be the topic of Michael Crichton's Prey.
Disregard the subject header, I'm letting my inner news columnist get the better of me.
Many people play violent video games so that they can have fun and do things outside their normal realm of controlled behavior. This is fun for us because it is new and diferent than what we are used to doing as we go about our daily lives as citizens. For example, many respectable, middle aged men play GTA3 and love it, yet those same nice guys would never run over innocent bystanders like that in real life. Granted, the men in question probably wouldn't ever get the chance to drive something like the Rhyno tank anyway, but still...
Besides, people are always easily entertained by novel and exciting games/inventions/concepts/OS's/pieces of hardware that are easily mistaken for a stick of gum (USB memory sticks and the iPod shuffle). Obvious excpetions include the Dreamcast, N-Gage, NeoGeo, and Virtual Boy.
Eh... I don't know a ton about wireless, but I think that a TV antenna probably won't help with 802.11b-g... UHF hookups on back of TV aren't exactly the same as the hookups for a PC or laptop.
70% sure, and too busy studying to do a thorough check.
...if you can find some. My friend's dad had some parabolic wireless antennas stuck in his basement, and he gave them to my friend for his personal use(my friend's dad is also a network engineer). The antennas were for 802.11, and in fine working order. I would recommend trying to pick up some cheap but decent wireless antennas wherever you can find them, for example in a (used?) hardware store, computer parts shop, or other such similar retail outlet.
In my experience, used bits of IT technology are usually in fine working order, having been sold by their owner when something newer came along.
Well.... considering the fact that my iPod has 40gb, and my Palm only has two, I'll go with the iPod. Plus, the iPod mini is smaller and fits easier in the pocket than a Microsoft PocketPC.
It's not like people are going to walk around with Media Center PC's slung around their backs.
Though I am sure that somewhere, someone has tried to do this and ended up flat on their back with several hundred dollars of busted equipment that didn't work right in the first place...
"The majority of IBM's Linux users to date are technical users in the company's product development and research and development groups -- users who are technical enough to support themselves, the sources said."
Eh... I'm no Sysadmin, but I still use Debian just fine without any problems or issues of usability. Metacity in particular is so much like Windows in its GUI that anyone can use it without much prior training or *nix experience, which is one of the many things that I love about Linux.
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He tried to do a cover-up, but ended up with egg (cells) all over his face.
So I guess Hillary will be running to be their Prime Minister sometime soon? (Even though it might hurt her chances a bit here in the US...)
"Never... have so few... been pinged so much, by so many, zombified by so few..."
I still prefer books of paper becuase they are a) portable, b) compact, c) made out of recyclable materials, and d) never need to recharge at an outlet. Best of all, they're availible free at your local library, and you won't have to pay fines if you take a book out of it's local coverage area.
Of course, millions of people will end up getting these book-phones anyway if only for the sake of looking cool and impressing their friends (designer nike shoes,anyone?).
..this is another instance of big organizations only really hurting themselves. Five bucks won't do much to help most people, but multiply $5 by several thousand unsatisfied customers and you've got the potential to do much pain to Bill Gates and Co.
Thomas Jefferson High School for Sci./Tech.- this school has an entire computer systems lab with running on Debian, complete with Cray SV1 and cluster of 386's. The lab is run largely by student system administrators who know and learn much about the Linux operating system during their stay at TJ, which helps to prepare them for entry into the business world and tech industry where UNIX based operating systems are the common standard. TJ is a public school located in Fairfax County, Virginia. It also has a Wikipedia entry that goes into more detail than my post here (Sorry for lack of link, but Wikipedia seems to be running slowly for me as of late and I couldn't get the page).
The so-called Martian "sea-monkeys" would turn out to be no more than an elobarate deception consisting of (admittedly Martian) brine shrimp larvae being passed off as something decidedly more cute and consumer friendly.
... this'll all turn out just like Beta vs. VHS with some initial worriement that resolves itself with one set of standards beating down the other and becoming the norm. As for the possible role of Microsoft... whoever gets Bill Gates on their team, wins.
...I see two posible futures for the MMO(RP)G genre, each with distincively different results and social implications.
#1: One company emerges from the fray victorious, and becomes the Microsoft-esque supergiant of massively multiplayer online games. It happened with EA and the NFL, and I think that it could happen again with RPGs through the means of the merging of Blizzard-SOE along with few patents in just the right places. Thisscenario would open itself up to more global connectivity, with Japanese gamers playing alongside their American friends and the US no longer hating the French since they've got all the best healers and spellcasters (what? it coudl happen...).
#2: Gamers, fed up with big-name companies giving them lousy customer service and blase customer support, band together and create a variety of independent MMO(RP)Gs in a fashion similar to the Protestant Reformation breaking away from the Catholic Church and forming many splinter groups each with different and unique approaches to the same common issue. Already there's the assumption that if you like MMORPGS and live in Korea, you play Lineage II, and that if you live in the US you play EQ or WoW, and that if you live in Europe you play EQ and don't know what WoW is all about... this phenomenon could become even more regional in the days to come, with people in Virginia playing something different than those folks out on the West Coast and vice-versa... this scenario would lend itself more to isolationism and modular commnities with one area having nothing to do with the other, and each group of gamers living in their own seperate world.
Just the thoughts of an ex-EQ addict who's been monitoring the industry... and to all of my friends still hooked on EQ, I say: "Camp out right now and go for a walk... the Planes of Power will still be there when you get back, but you may have missed a million opportunitees in the real world". As much as I love online gaming, it's still no substitue for real world experiences; However, it's still ok as long as you balance playtime with human-to-human facetime.
..that this guy is married and not in attendance at any middle school/high school/place with changing rooms, heh.
Microsoft got money for putting the spyware on your machine in the first place, and now they get more money for (maybe) taking it off?
"Hey, Mrs. Chicken, how'd you like to purchase this fine looking egg I found? For you, only twenty-five dollars, plus tax."
"Ooo, I'll take it! That egg looks just like the one I had in my nest this morning."
Don't beat up on the consumers.... eventually they'll figure it out, and I don't think that Redmond could last very long against an all-out seige.
First, Microsoft sends out free antivirus tools that when run, "detect" and "remove" several hundred "severe threats" on the faithful Windows user's PC (these threats include, but are not limited to, Firefox, Netscape, and Spybot S&D). The Windows-using population, convinced that the tools are "vital" to their PC's security, will go out to buy them from Bill when they're no longer free.
By Windows-using population, I mean the segment of the population who are either too ignorant/slow to use a decent antivirus such as Norton. These same people feel tech saavy when they use Kazaa, which won't be detected as malware since the makers of it paid of Micrsoft before the antivirus was released.
redmond:washington
And that's all I need to say.
There's already been the first arrest for wardriving, let's just hope these maps don't let to a second (or third, fourth, etc. with so many eager undergrads involved).
...that the scientists get the lense size right on their first try this time around. Don't want to be sending up another replacement, to replace the replacement for the original replacement... and yes, that sentence does make sense when you think about it ;-]
It's not so much that they create something that's "more than the sum of their parts". It's the idea that so many "dumb" entities can combine together to form a single (or several) coherent beings of a moderate-high degree of intelligence. Similar to the basic structure of a supercomputing cluster: a single microprocessor can do nothing, but when 200 microprocessors work in parallel, they produce amazing results, more than any single/double processor machine could ever hope to accomplish.
Not to be the over-hyping fanboy, but a similar concept to that discussed here would be the topic of Michael Crichton's Prey.
Disregard the subject header, I'm letting my inner news columnist get the better of me.
Many people play violent video games so that they can have fun and do things outside their normal realm of controlled behavior. This is fun for us because it is new and diferent than what we are used to doing as we go about our daily lives as citizens. For example, many respectable, middle aged men play GTA3 and love it, yet those same nice guys would never run over innocent bystanders like that in real life. Granted, the men in question probably wouldn't ever get the chance to drive something like the Rhyno tank anyway, but still...
Besides, people are always easily entertained by novel and exciting games/inventions/concepts/OS's/pieces of hardware that are easily mistaken for a stick of gum (USB memory sticks and the iPod shuffle). Obvious excpetions include the Dreamcast, N-Gage, NeoGeo, and Virtual Boy.
Eh... I don't know a ton about wireless, but I think that a TV antenna probably won't help with 802.11b-g... UHF hookups on back of TV aren't exactly the same as the hookups for a PC or laptop.
70% sure, and too busy studying to do a thorough check.
...if you can find some. My friend's dad had some parabolic wireless antennas stuck in his basement, and he gave them to my friend for his personal use(my friend's dad is also a network engineer). The antennas were for 802.11, and in fine working order. I would recommend trying to pick up some cheap but decent wireless antennas wherever you can find them, for example in a (used?) hardware store, computer parts shop, or other such similar retail outlet.
In my experience, used bits of IT technology are usually in fine working order, having been sold by their owner when something newer came along.
"Hey! You with the iPod, put it away right now!"
"Yes sir, sorry sir."
"Ok, just make sure it never happens again. Wait a minute... is that Knoppix running on your workstation?!? Bill, for the last time..."
Well.... considering the fact that my iPod has 40gb, and my Palm only has two, I'll go with the iPod. Plus, the iPod mini is smaller and fits easier in the pocket than a Microsoft PocketPC.
It's not like people are going to walk around with Media Center PC's slung around their backs.
Though I am sure that somewhere, someone has tried to do this and ended up flat on their back with several hundred dollars of busted equipment that didn't work right in the first place...
Naturally, the development of solar sails would lead to the production of interplanetary sailing ships, which would give us something like this.
"Note to self: no more photo shoots for Teen Beat magazine; must attempt to keep what shreds of dignity I've got left..."
"The majority of IBM's Linux users to date are technical users in the company's product development and research and development groups -- users who are technical enough to support themselves, the sources said."
Eh... I'm no Sysadmin, but I still use Debian just fine without any problems or issues of usability. Metacity in particular is so much like Windows in its GUI that anyone can use it without much prior training or *nix experience, which is one of the many things that I love about Linux.