My experience is that that has always been the appeal of tech support, particularly when doing it for a large institution or business (I worked tech support at my college). You get shit pay, often deal with shit people, but get to take all kinds of things that people are throwing out for no good reason.
I held a similiar position on the idea of conciousness for a while but then I looked a bit deeper and found that its really hard to tell what conciousness is. There's the often quoted (not sure about accuracy of it) fact that every cell in your body is replaced at least every seven years or so. So are you the same person you were seven years ago? The matter you are made of is different, just the configuration is mostly the same. I think that it would be best to slowly integrate your brain with machines till your brain recognized it as part of you. This happens all the time with prosthetics and your brain even does it with hand tools over time. One day the remaining organic bits of your brain would have all died off and you would be a machine without even recognizing it immediately.
Except, of course, the fact remains that their SSN were accessible along with everyone else. If they were doing this to expose a security flaw (which is quite unlikely as they never exposed it), then it was in their own interest in addition to any higher motive.
That said, I find this all rather funny. Hinsdale Central is my high school's rival school.:)
This is what I've been saying all along! Hole in the ozone layer leading to increased skin cancer? Geeky shut-ins will preserve humanity! If only we could figure out how to breed...
I too have bought hardware from TigerDirect in the past and had nothing to complain about. Of course, part of this may have to do with the fact that they have an outlet store within convient reach of my home so I have never order anything online from them. I'm curious, what problems have people had in the past with TigerDirect?
I'm not saying that their lawsuit wasn't utterly ridiculous, it was. I just want to know if it was problems with service or products or if they just have a history of this kind of stupid litigation.
I too figured that this info would be basicly the same as your ISP has, hence why I decided to use the accelerator despite the security concerns. Letting people have access to your accounts on the other hand is a much greater concern. I hope more info is released/the bug is fixed as I have noticed a great performance boost and would hate to quit using it.
Good idea! Next time a major government is looking to off load an aircraft carrier, I'll be sure to check it out. May have to look into financing though... Don't know the next time I'll have that kind of cash on hand.
In all seriousness, this reminds me a great deal of L. Bob Rife and his use of the Enterprise in Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash.
I think the idea is that this way there is minimal visible changes to a person's features. To those of us for whom cyborg = ultimate geek fashion statement, this might not be a problem but I imagine a lot of people would want the ability to take off the external equipment and look basicly like everyone else. The article seems to indicate that only the connection for the camera would be visible, the chip itself hidden in the back of the eye.
If you're talking about seeing heat, that's far spectrum infared. Our eyes can already see bright near spectrum infared, just as we can hear loud subsonics. If you filter out visible light on a bright, sunny day, you can see some infared. Check out http://www.amasci.com/amateur/irgoggl.html for a cheap interesting experiment regarding this. I tried it with mild success, I need to play around with it a bit more.
But from what I can tell from the article, anything you can get to show up on some kind of display could probably be outputted to the bionic eyes. Heat vision would just require the same bulky and expensive equipment, just minus the screen. Most of the mass of heat vision infrared goggles comes from cooling the sensor so you can see things other than just the heat from the sensor itself at room temperature.
The false colors in present day heat vision equipment may not be necessary. It would be interesting to see how the brain processed those signals.
I think it has a lot more to do with how you act and how you carry yourself rather than actual height. I'm 6' 4" but I'm also a fairly unobtrusive guy and I have actually had people I've known for a while be suprised to realize that I am in fact taller than they are. If you're not tall, maybe try acting tall, emulating the behavior that tall brings to mind and you may well get the same effect.
We can only hope that VoIP destroys their revenue model. The big telcos in the U.S. are all too content to sit back and rest on what they have rather than moving forward. I agree that we're likely to see even more lobbying by the telcos for protectionist legislation.
The bigger issue is that DRM just plain does not work. DVD Jon has already cracked it again. http://www.boingboing.net/2005/03/22/jon_l ech_joha nsens_p.html Unfortunatly, the link to his blog does not seem to work.:(
I use minitures when DMing mainly to clarify combat. As far as the map goes, I generally just use dice to represent various obstacles. Minitures arn't strictly necessary by anymeans, I use them because I enjoy painting them.
At a dollar a song, that means a whole CD would cost at least $10, depending on how many tracks there are. Many would be equal to or more than $14. Then look at the fact that your use of these tracks are extremely limited compared to the CD, thanks to DRM. Finally you have to consider that iTunes is designed to sell iPods, not turn a large profit. If movies were released like this, they would be equally locked down and would be being sold to make a profit. iTune's value comes from the fact that you can pick and choose tracks. With movies, this is irrelevant as they are already sold individually (ignoring box sets and the like). I'd buy a CD before buying all its tracks on iTunes and I'd buy a DVD before paying to download it.
What this obviously means is that I'm one step closer to a cyberpunk style computer in my skull. Who needs to learn when you have google access directly interfaced with your brain?
As much as I am opposed to them blocking encrypted messages, I wonder if it would be a worthwhile tradeoff for forcing people to IM me in intelligable english?:) Obviously they would need multiple language dictionaries or even sperate services for different languages for dictionary based blocking of encryption to be even semi-practical. Even then most of their users would probably be driven off because of having messages dropped for too many acronyms or misspellings.
Throw them at things. Most mouse balls have quite a satisfying heft. It is said that one student at my high school managed to crack a chalkboard before the school switched to optical. Now i see a lot of people steal mousepads, likely just for the thrill of it.
You say the people are free to do what they want? The poster's issue is that in the U.S. that doesn't seem to hold true any longer. The poster did not vote to fuck himself over, regardless of what others voted for. With that said, I agree with the rest of your point. The problem here is that majority rule does not work when the majority doesn't care. People need to wake up.
My thoughts exactly. Most Linux gamers are willing to dual boot or run Windows on a seperate box. On the other hand, I don't strictly agree on the comparison to making a Mac version of a game. Mac versions would mean more sales, though a percentage of Mac gamers are probably willing to keep a Windows machine for gaming, albeit likely a lower percentage than those Linux user willing to dual boot. If this is true, why then are there still very few Mac games? I believe many developers tend to just focus on the platform with the largest user base rather than port the games to other OSs. With that said, there has been an increase in the number of high visibility games ported to linux so the future is uncertain.
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My experience is that that has always been the appeal of tech support, particularly when doing it for a large institution or business (I worked tech support at my college). You get shit pay, often deal with shit people, but get to take all kinds of things that people are throwing out for no good reason.
I held a similiar position on the idea of conciousness for a while but then I looked a bit deeper and found that its really hard to tell what conciousness is. There's the often quoted (not sure about accuracy of it) fact that every cell in your body is replaced at least every seven years or so. So are you the same person you were seven years ago? The matter you are made of is different, just the configuration is mostly the same. I think that it would be best to slowly integrate your brain with machines till your brain recognized it as part of you. This happens all the time with prosthetics and your brain even does it with hand tools over time. One day the remaining organic bits of your brain would have all died off and you would be a machine without even recognizing it immediately.
Um...unfortunate typo there.
Except, of course, the fact remains that their SSN were accessible along with everyone else. If they were doing this to expose a security flaw (which is quite unlikely as they never exposed it), then it was in their own interest in addition to any higher motive.
:)
That said, I find this all rather funny. Hinsdale Central is my high school's rival school.
This is what I've been saying all along! Hole in the ozone layer leading to increased skin cancer? Geeky shut-ins will preserve humanity! If only we could figure out how to breed...
I too have bought hardware from TigerDirect in the past and had nothing to complain about. Of course, part of this may have to do with the fact that they have an outlet store within convient reach of my home so I have never order anything online from them. I'm curious, what problems have people had in the past with TigerDirect?
I'm not saying that their lawsuit wasn't utterly ridiculous, it was. I just want to know if it was problems with service or products or if they just have a history of this kind of stupid litigation.
I too figured that this info would be basicly the same as your ISP has, hence why I decided to use the accelerator despite the security concerns. Letting people have access to your accounts on the other hand is a much greater concern. I hope more info is released/the bug is fixed as I have noticed a great performance boost and would hate to quit using it.
Good idea! Next time a major government is looking to off load an aircraft carrier, I'll be sure to check it out. May have to look into financing though... Don't know the next time I'll have that kind of cash on hand.
In all seriousness, this reminds me a great deal of L. Bob Rife and his use of the Enterprise in Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash.
Get a camcorder and filter, it will be much cheaper. http://www.india-today.com/ctoday/20011001/marvels .html
Sony seems to have found a way to boost sales with this special feature...
I think the idea is that this way there is minimal visible changes to a person's features. To those of us for whom cyborg = ultimate geek fashion statement, this might not be a problem but I imagine a lot of people would want the ability to take off the external equipment and look basicly like everyone else. The article seems to indicate that only the connection for the camera would be visible, the chip itself hidden in the back of the eye.
If you're talking about seeing heat, that's far spectrum infared. Our eyes can already see bright near spectrum infared, just as we can hear loud subsonics. If you filter out visible light on a bright, sunny day, you can see some infared. Check out http://www.amasci.com/amateur/irgoggl.html for a cheap interesting experiment regarding this. I tried it with mild success, I need to play around with it a bit more.
But from what I can tell from the article, anything you can get to show up on some kind of display could probably be outputted to the bionic eyes. Heat vision would just require the same bulky and expensive equipment, just minus the screen. Most of the mass of heat vision infrared goggles comes from cooling the sensor so you can see things other than just the heat from the sensor itself at room temperature.
The false colors in present day heat vision equipment may not be necessary. It would be interesting to see how the brain processed those signals.
I think it has a lot more to do with how you act and how you carry yourself rather than actual height. I'm 6' 4" but I'm also a fairly unobtrusive guy and I have actually had people I've known for a while be suprised to realize that I am in fact taller than they are. If you're not tall, maybe try acting tall, emulating the behavior that tall brings to mind and you may well get the same effect.
We can only hope that VoIP destroys their revenue model. The big telcos in the U.S. are all too content to sit back and rest on what they have rather than moving forward. I agree that we're likely to see even more lobbying by the telcos for protectionist legislation.
The bigger issue is that DRM just plain does not work. DVD Jon has already cracked it again.l ech_joha nsens_p.html :(
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/03/22/jon_
Unfortunatly, the link to his blog does not seem to work.
I use minitures when DMing mainly to clarify combat. As far as the map goes, I generally just use dice to represent various obstacles. Minitures arn't strictly necessary by anymeans, I use them because I enjoy painting them.
At a dollar a song, that means a whole CD would cost at least $10, depending on how many tracks there are. Many would be equal to or more than $14. Then look at the fact that your use of these tracks are extremely limited compared to the CD, thanks to DRM. Finally you have to consider that iTunes is designed to sell iPods, not turn a large profit. If movies were released like this, they would be equally locked down and would be being sold to make a profit. iTune's value comes from the fact that you can pick and choose tracks. With movies, this is irrelevant as they are already sold individually (ignoring box sets and the like). I'd buy a CD before buying all its tracks on iTunes and I'd buy a DVD before paying to download it.
What this obviously means is that I'm one step closer to a cyberpunk style computer in my skull. Who needs to learn when you have google access directly interfaced with your brain?
God, I hope I'm kidding...
As much as I am opposed to them blocking encrypted messages, I wonder if it would be a worthwhile tradeoff for forcing people to IM me in intelligable english? :)
Obviously they would need multiple language dictionaries or even sperate services for different languages for dictionary based blocking of encryption to be even semi-practical. Even then most of their users would probably be driven off because of having messages dropped for too many acronyms or misspellings.
This is insane. Sure some money will be saved, but nearly 30 years of funds will have been wasted. Do the math.
15. You can always rip it and store it on your hard drive.
Unbreakable DRM is a myth.
Throw them at things. Most mouse balls have quite a satisfying heft. It is said that one student at my high school managed to crack a chalkboard before the school switched to optical. Now i see a lot of people steal mousepads, likely just for the thrill of it.
You say the people are free to do what they want? The poster's issue is that in the U.S. that doesn't seem to hold true any longer. The poster did not vote to fuck himself over, regardless of what others voted for.
With that said, I agree with the rest of your point. The problem here is that majority rule does not work when the majority doesn't care. People need to wake up.
My thoughts exactly. Most Linux gamers are willing to dual boot or run Windows on a seperate box. On the other hand, I don't strictly agree on the comparison to making a Mac version of a game. Mac versions would mean more sales, though a percentage of Mac gamers are probably willing to keep a Windows machine for gaming, albeit likely a lower percentage than those Linux user willing to dual boot. If this is true, why then are there still very few Mac games? I believe many developers tend to just focus on the platform with the largest user base rather than port the games to other OSs. With that said, there has been an increase in the number of high visibility games ported to linux so the future is uncertain.