> two-passenger air-cushion car Didn't happen sadly > national traffic computer Read "GPS system" > morning paper/flat TV screen / Tapping a button changes the page. Your basic ebook > smooth plastic road Still concrete, altho progress has been made in using polymers in road construction > cities... covered by the new domes This one didn't happen > The traffic computer... feeds/receives signals to and from all cars / keeps vehicles/apart. GM has prototypes that do just this. It's creepy to see them on the road. > attache case / draw the diagram with / infrared flashlight on what looks like a TV screen You basic tablet > The diagram is relayed to a similar screen in your associate's office, 200 mi. away. Have this > He jabs a button and a fixed copy of the sketch rolls out of the device. The printer > vehicle parks itself / municipal garage Again, GM has made leaps and bounds for this > Private cars are banned inside most city / Moving sidewalks and electrams carry the public Your basic Arcology idea, but not yet in practice. > With the U.S. population having soared to 350 million Close, only 270 million > transportation is among the most important factors keeping the economy running smoothly. Quite true, and also where we are starting to break apart > Giant transportation hubs / located/from 15 to 50 mi. outside all major urban centers. Some cities have done this, but not in the US to date > Tube trains, pushed through bores by compressed air This is ancient, but not in use > launching pad from which 200-passenger rockets Commercial rocketry is currently for the super-rich, and only a gimmick for now. > SST and hypersonic planes Concorde was retired a few years back > jumbo jets. The mainstay of transportation >Electrostatic precipitators clean the air Ionic Breeze anyone? >climatizers maintain the temperature and humidity at optimum levels. We have this in spades > Robots are available to do housework and other simple chores. Vacuuming is about all we have here with the Roomba > New materials for siding and interiors are self-cleaning and never peel, chip or crack. He got this one right > Dwellings / prefabricated modules / attached speedily Dead on here, most home construction now involves at least some prefabrication. > job that doesn't take more than a day. Didn't wind up this fast save for Extreme Home Makeover > Such modular homes easily can be expanded to accommodate a growing family. This sadly did not wind up the case. > A typical wedding present / a fully equipped bedroom, kitchen or living room module. Man, and all I got was 4 waffle irons.... > determines in advance her menus / prepackaged meals / automatic food utility Didn't happen > microwave oven and is cooked or thawed. Did happen > disposable plastic plates / knives, forks and spoons / so inexpensive they can be discarded This very much happened. > The single most important item in 2008 households is the computer. 100% bingo! > These electronic brains govern everything from meal preparation and waking up the household to assembling shopping lists and keeping track of the bank balance. Sensors in kitchen appliances, climatizing units, communicators, power supply and other household utilities warn the computer when the item is likely to fail. A repairman will show up even before any obvious breakdown occurs. We have not gotten to this point yet, however, it is appearing piecemail > Computers also handle travel reservations, relay telephone messages, keep track of birthdays and anniversaries, compute taxes and even figure the monthly bills for electricity, water, telephone and other utilities. This is now almost a decade old > Not every family has its private computer. Now he called it short.
The truth hurts, doesn't it? You sit there, afraid of the truth, hiding behind anonymity else be branded. I don't need to know you AC, I know your kind, chicken and fearful, afraid to face the tough truth that is out there.
Microsoft in their arguement has managed to demonstrate a clear lack of understanding of the core issue.
Software is not a charity, nobody is discussing it as such.
Software is, however, a written tool, in the end. Control of that tool is the key to empowerment. South Africa, actually all of Africa was held under oppression for many centuries by corporate interests such as microsoft, who held the keys for livelihood out of the masses hands in order to force the yoke.
Microsoft cannot understand why people with such a memory would not jump at the option of putting a new yoke on their necks, to work themselves to death in order to enrich a new foreign master.
Now imagine, if you will, a trojan/virus/worm which, rather than being an application or code running on top of ones operating system, can fool the system into embedding itself as part of the operating system.
I remember the US Army contract index had this little requirement for some filing cabinets to have "three letter names in the (can't recall) font" which of course limited the contracts to just IBM... until Commodore renamed itself Commodore Business Machines (CBM) and Digital became DEC.
What we need are solid, intelligent geeks out there running for congressional seats. We have a plethora of legal-types within our community who are faster at coming up with why things work, and why they don't, than those within Congress itself. We are the force to unify both Conservatives and Liberals. In general we like our personal freedom, but also know how to be individually free *within* a collective, and to use that collective for it's strength. We are the middle road.
I had it happen once where I'd replaced a motherboard and CPU when they became damaged. System ran fine, but when I had to reinstall, "whoop whoop whoop"
docx, cannot be used for government work, contract work, most inter-office communications at this time, any international work
OOo supports the importing of docx from the '07 guys, but also supports those formats that have been accepted as standards, such as odf, so if you want government contracts you'll need OOo anyways.
So, you can run '07 and have to have 2 solutions, or OOo and have 1.
With the erasure of the analog spectrum, a whole range of learned skills will be forgotten, a whole range of home projects will vanish. Once the television spectrum is done, then comes Radio. As a kid, I made my own home AM radios, an incredibly useful tool for the budding EE's in the world. the loss of such profound examples will cut off the joy of home electronic projects to another generation.
I work on complicated systems. Complicated COMPUTER systems. Computers are programmable, limited, do not think on their own. Such a comparison is in and of itself a farce on its face. Your conspiracy is based on real people, with real lives, real ambitions, real dreams. Computers do their job, and thats it. People have a nasty habit of this odd thing called free will. Hate to break it to you dude, this does not meet the test of a system, or even plausable. UFO, JFK, Area51, those conspiracys are limited to the realm of the "it might be" but this one would require complicity by so many people that would have to be lobotomized first. And 3 billion people lobotomized, I think we'd notice...
I took your bait and read up on those. Hate to tell you guy, but the level of complicity for either plan to work borders on ludicrus. You would literally need billions of people in on the conspiracy for it to work, and as the end target is 2 billion, well guess what, the math does not add up. Add in that the only way for three people to keep a secret is for two to be dead, well, sorry dude, doesn't work.
But go on believing the paranoia kool-aid. I'd rather deal with real problems rather than ghosts and jumping at shadows.
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I wonder if this town will next try and ban Dihydrogen Monoxide like the good folks at Aliso Viejo almost did.
> two-passenger air-cushion car /flat TV screen / Tapping a button changes the page. ... feeds/receives signals to and from all cars / keeps vehicles /apart. /from 15 to 50 mi. outside all major urban centers.
Didn't happen sadly
> national traffic computer
Read "GPS system"
> morning paper
Your basic ebook
> smooth plastic road
Still concrete, altho progress has been made in using polymers in road construction
> cities... covered by the new domes
This one didn't happen
> The traffic computer
GM has prototypes that do just this. It's creepy to see them on the road.
> attache case / draw the diagram with / infrared flashlight on what looks like a TV screen
You basic tablet
> The diagram is relayed to a similar screen in your associate's office, 200 mi. away.
Have this
> He jabs a button and a fixed copy of the sketch rolls out of the device.
The printer
> vehicle parks itself / municipal garage
Again, GM has made leaps and bounds for this
> Private cars are banned inside most city / Moving sidewalks and electrams carry the public
Your basic Arcology idea, but not yet in practice.
> With the U.S. population having soared to 350 million
Close, only 270 million
> transportation is among the most important factors keeping the economy running smoothly.
Quite true, and also where we are starting to break apart
> Giant transportation hubs / located
Some cities have done this, but not in the US to date
> Tube trains, pushed through bores by compressed air
This is ancient, but not in use
> launching pad from which 200-passenger rockets
Commercial rocketry is currently for the super-rich, and only a gimmick for now.
> SST and hypersonic planes
Concorde was retired a few years back
> jumbo jets.
The mainstay of transportation
>Electrostatic precipitators clean the air
Ionic Breeze anyone?
>climatizers maintain the temperature and humidity at optimum levels.
We have this in spades
> Robots are available to do housework and other simple chores.
Vacuuming is about all we have here with the Roomba
> New materials for siding and interiors are self-cleaning and never peel, chip or crack.
He got this one right
> Dwellings / prefabricated modules / attached speedily
Dead on here, most home construction now involves at least some prefabrication.
> job that doesn't take more than a day.
Didn't wind up this fast save for Extreme Home Makeover
> Such modular homes easily can be expanded to accommodate a growing family.
This sadly did not wind up the case.
> A typical wedding present / a fully equipped bedroom, kitchen or living room module.
Man, and all I got was 4 waffle irons....
> determines in advance her menus / prepackaged meals / automatic food utility
Didn't happen
> microwave oven and is cooked or thawed.
Did happen
> disposable plastic plates / knives, forks and spoons / so inexpensive they can be discarded
This very much happened.
> The single most important item in 2008 households is the computer.
100% bingo!
> These electronic brains govern everything from meal preparation and waking up the household to assembling shopping lists and keeping track of the bank balance. Sensors in kitchen appliances, climatizing units, communicators, power supply and other household utilities warn the computer when the item is likely to fail. A repairman will show up even before any obvious breakdown occurs.
We have not gotten to this point yet, however, it is appearing piecemail
> Computers also handle travel reservations, relay telephone messages, keep track of birthdays and anniversaries, compute taxes and even figure the monthly bills for electricity, water, telephone and other utilities.
This is now almost a decade old
> Not every family has its private computer.
Now he called it short.
The truth hurts, doesn't it? You sit there, afraid of the truth, hiding behind anonymity else be branded. I don't need to know you AC, I know your kind, chicken and fearful, afraid to face the tough truth that is out there.
Microsoft in their arguement has managed to demonstrate a clear lack of understanding of the core issue.
Software is not a charity, nobody is discussing it as such.
Software is, however, a written tool, in the end. Control of that tool is the key to empowerment. South Africa, actually all of Africa was held under oppression for many centuries by corporate interests such as microsoft, who held the keys for livelihood out of the masses hands in order to force the yoke.
Microsoft cannot understand why people with such a memory would not jump at the option of putting a new yoke on their necks, to work themselves to death in order to enrich a new foreign master.
Now imagine, if you will, a trojan/virus/worm which, rather than being an application or code running on top of ones operating system, can fool the system into embedding itself as part of the operating system.
**applaudes for deductive reasoning**
Or the Amiga OS, which has used a RAMDISK since 1985?
When companies cannot innovate, they litigate. They work hard to slow down the market so that they can catch up.
If you have to ask this, then you would never understand the answer.
Just something my father (former DEC employee) used to tell me.
I remember the US Army contract index had this little requirement for some filing cabinets to have "three letter names in the (can't recall) font" which of course limited the contracts to just IBM... until Commodore renamed itself Commodore Business Machines (CBM) and Digital became DEC.
I'd easily imagine this showing up inside CPU's firs tho
Ted: Hey, that hot chick in H3378 just ordered another porno!
Bill: I'll get the popcorn!
What we need are solid, intelligent geeks out there running for congressional seats. We have a plethora of legal-types within our community who are faster at coming up with why things work, and why they don't, than those within Congress itself. We are the force to unify both Conservatives and Liberals. In general we like our personal freedom, but also know how to be individually free *within* a collective, and to use that collective for it's strength. We are the middle road.
These kinds of bold statements are all thoughout history. "Unsinkable Titanic" for example. Take with grain of salt.
And next week the announcement of the Hindenberg II...
I had it happen once where I'd replaced a motherboard and CPU when they became damaged. System ran fine, but when I had to reinstall, "whoop whoop whoop"
Well, let's see...
docx, cannot be used for government work, contract work, most inter-office communications at this time, any international work
OOo supports the importing of docx from the '07 guys, but also supports those formats that have been accepted as standards, such as odf, so if you want government contracts you'll need OOo anyways.
So, you can run '07 and have to have 2 solutions, or OOo and have 1.
With the erasure of the analog spectrum, a whole range of learned skills will be forgotten, a whole range of home projects will vanish. Once the television spectrum is done, then comes Radio. As a kid, I made my own home AM radios, an incredibly useful tool for the budding EE's in the world. the loss of such profound examples will cut off the joy of home electronic projects to another generation.
I work on complicated systems. Complicated COMPUTER systems. Computers are programmable, limited, do not think on their own. Such a comparison is in and of itself a farce on its face. Your conspiracy is based on real people, with real lives, real ambitions, real dreams. Computers do their job, and thats it. People have a nasty habit of this odd thing called free will. Hate to break it to you dude, this does not meet the test of a system, or even plausable. UFO, JFK, Area51, those conspiracys are limited to the realm of the "it might be" but this one would require complicity by so many people that would have to be lobotomized first. And 3 billion people lobotomized, I think we'd notice...
What I find funny is this total facination with Nukes, when nuclear weapons are not even the most practical weapons out there.
I took your bait and read up on those. Hate to tell you guy, but the level of complicity for either plan to work borders on ludicrus. You would literally need billions of people in on the conspiracy for it to work, and as the end target is 2 billion, well guess what, the math does not add up. Add in that the only way for three people to keep a secret is for two to be dead, well, sorry dude, doesn't work.
But go on believing the paranoia kool-aid. I'd rather deal with real problems rather than ghosts and jumping at shadows.
oh, so they turned it off. No chaos, no destruction, just ho hum... wait a second, did you say HARDCORE TORRENTS?!? MAN, I never see that on IPv4!
We would take this "Laser" and place it on the heads of sharks....
Violence does not solve anything. Look at the successful revolutions of the world, they have been peaceful, and successful.