This is the first bastion of the Ministry of Truth. The transfer of data over the internet is the closest you'll get what a person is thinking. When you sit, surfing, coding or whatever, you're mind wanders remarkably little (Check yourself when your doing some hardcore coding).
These new data retentions put the foot in the door more more invasive tracking and more firghtenly, soon this data will be cross refrenced (taking timescale into accoutn) with other aspects of your life.
God, I thought DRM was the worst thing to happen recently.
More stage hypnosis, less my area. What you're saying is the case though, a shock will sometimes case the same effects for differant reasons.
In stage hypnosis they rely on the subject's belief, the pressure of an audiance, and you'll see the hypnotist tap, push, or slap the subject on the back so as to induce the shock effect.
I did at one point do a few weeks on hypnosis during a psycology course, hypnosis is over complicated by people.
There is no deep dark secret of how it works (Even stage hypnosis), its just simply getting a person to trust you and be relaxed enough with you for their mind to take what you're saying as true and not need to "vet" or check the information.
So if you tell a person when their in a hypnotic state that they don't need to smoke, and that they dont want to smoke. Their mind will just accept it, it bypasses the concious thinking process.
A (actually) less geeky friend of mine spents a good percentage of his time on a discworld MUD (telnet://discworld.atuin.net.
I can't remember weather it was the Colour of Magic or the Light Fantastic, but in one of the Rincewind books he comes accross a "computer" built out of rocks. Must have been a factor in the decision.
In 2002 this guys was tested, now they found HIV Fighting T Cells in his blood stream (Expected for an HIV patient) but no sign of the virus (Again, normal in the early stages) then, when the tested him later there was no virus, and no T cells.
So they claim a cure, However this could just as easily been a results as a localised infection (perhaps in a few skin cells) that had then died.
If the guy really did kill off the HIV virus, then those anti-bodies will still be readily available (If you kill it once, your body will kill it again, no problem)
In my opinion, they've fucked up (Apple).
They've entered into a new area in the market, Music on phones. They were really the first people who produced an "MP3 Player Phone". But it was crap.
Thus leaving the market open for ANYBODY to jump on and say: "Look, we've produced this great MP3 player fone tht can store 5gb of songs!" and immediatly they've got themselves brand respect.
Personally I'd go with xvid, its open sourced so they'll be no surprises and i've found it very easy to rollout in the past.
This subject actually touches on something i was daydreaming about the other day. It'd be nice (but of course HORRIBLY insecure:p) to be able to optionally embed the "codec" into a bit of media so as to avoid all these annoying FourCC tag hacking issues. Let just wait for the MPEG-5 standard hey;)
RSS feeders are going to end up getting far to bloated. I use the one built into firefox, and the Personalized Google RSS aggregator and i find them very useful, but i have never felt the need to waste CPU with some full blown groupware-RSS-magikal-argagator, which in reality, takes a text file, and cuts it into smaller bit of text.
What do u mean "without ego" IRC is the most egocentric protocol on the net;) Its all a bunch of geeks hanging out on chan with names like #null0r and #l33tkr3w trying to impress people who they don't know on the other side of the world, by tring to out-geek them in certain aspects, all the time ever chasing that elisive @ sign!
"When a wounded dog is cornered, its more dangerous than an angry, healthy one"
It seem Microsoft are doing whatever they can to hit out at Google, MSN really stepped up their game, started trying their own 'AdSense', and now they've gone for what I thought was the more likly thing google was going to branch into: WebApplications.
Are Microsoft feeling threatened by Google? Well, Google hasn't encroached onto Microsofts market space (yet!), Desktop Products and OSs etc, But they are 'surrounding' Microsoft. They have a VERY diverse set of products, all for free (as in beer) and soon we'll see base.google.com (Going to KILL ebay) coming out of the box, and perhaps Microsoft are feeling scared:p
Heh, thing is everybody loves google, cos google likes firefox:D and now M$ seem to have bowed to that pressure:D
The great thing about the BBC is all their stories are available syndicated into RSS, and of course as a Brit and a Firfox user i have it in the in-build aggregator, so unless BBC count every RSS clickthru as wee, then the figures will DEFINATLY be off, because remember, IE doesnt have an aggregator, until crappy vista (god, it sound like a feminine hygine product!) comes out the vast majority of frontpage hits, will be through MSIE.
"Microsoft is not a helicopter dropping relief materials; we're there in the field."
Microsoft: The fucking Wartorn front line company who we should feel sorry for because people in Africa can't afford their software.
A quote like this REALLY gets to me, you're average African has NO interest in IT, his interest is very firmly placed at providing for his family. Now, an open sourced initiative would give these people the ability to actually learn how to use a computer, providing a new skill, allowing him to feed his family. Now Microsoft go and and make out that they're all hard done by how these people won't buy their shitty software for a 99% profit to M$ (How much does it cost them to knock out an XP cd????)
while you can give people free software or computers, they won't have the expertise to use it.
Yeah! And while you don't give them free software or computer, they'll never have the chance to learn. I'd its amazing, when you have that kind of money, analysts will prove anything...
As my Dad used to say: There are lies, damn lies, and statistics.
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My guess: Orwell was only 30-50 years off.
This is the first bastion of the Ministry of Truth. The transfer of data over the internet is the closest you'll get what a person is thinking. When you sit, surfing, coding or whatever, you're mind wanders remarkably little (Check yourself when your doing some hardcore coding).
These new data retentions put the foot in the door more more invasive tracking and more firghtenly, soon this data will be cross refrenced (taking timescale into accoutn) with other aspects of your life.
God, I thought DRM was the worst thing to happen recently.
More stage hypnosis, less my area. What you're saying is the case though, a shock will sometimes case the same effects for differant reasons.
In stage hypnosis they rely on the subject's belief, the pressure of an audiance, and you'll see the hypnotist tap, push, or slap the subject on the back so as to induce the shock effect.
I did at one point do a few weeks on hypnosis during a psycology course, hypnosis is over complicated by people.
There is no deep dark secret of how it works (Even stage hypnosis), its just simply getting a person to trust you and be relaxed enough with you for their mind to take what you're saying as true and not need to "vet" or check the information.
So if you tell a person when their in a hypnotic state that they don't need to smoke, and that they dont want to smoke. Their mind will just accept it, it bypasses the concious thinking process.
:D Got to love the discworld.
A (actually) less geeky friend of mine spents a good percentage of his time on a discworld MUD (telnet://discworld.atuin.net.
I can't remember weather it was the Colour of Magic or the Light Fantastic, but in one of the Rincewind books he comes accross a "computer" built out of rocks. Must have been a factor in the decision.
The days of having 8 or 9 AOL CD's in your mail are over people! They'll get involved in whatever they can, bringing Time Warner down with them :p
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Panic! Panic! Fucking Panic!
This year's thing thats going to kill us all, next year it'll be something from space.
In 2002 this guys was tested, now they found HIV Fighting T Cells in his blood stream (Expected for an HIV patient) but no sign of the virus (Again, normal in the early stages) then, when the tested him later there was no virus, and no T cells.
So they claim a cure, However this could just as easily been a results as a localised infection (perhaps in a few skin cells) that had then died.
If the guy really did kill off the HIV virus, then those anti-bodies will still be readily available (If you kill it once, your body will kill it again, no problem)
I've always seen it more as idealist marxism :D
Sadly that never worked in practise, Goodbye OSC, Hello OSCC (Open Source Communist Community)!
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In my opinion, they've fucked up (Apple). They've entered into a new area in the market, Music on phones. They were really the first people who produced an "MP3 Player Phone". But it was crap. Thus leaving the market open for ANYBODY to jump on and say: "Look, we've produced this great MP3 player fone tht can store 5gb of songs!" and immediatly they've got themselves brand respect.
Personally I'd go with xvid, its open sourced so they'll be no surprises and i've found it very easy to rollout in the past.
:p) to be able to optionally embed the "codec" into a bit of media so as to avoid all these annoying FourCC tag hacking issues. ;)
This subject actually touches on something i was daydreaming about the other day. It'd be nice (but of course HORRIBLY insecure
Let just wait for the MPEG-5 standard hey
RSS feeders are going to end up getting far to bloated. I use the one built into firefox, and the Personalized Google RSS aggregator and i find them very useful, but i have never felt the need to waste CPU with some full blown groupware-RSS-magikal-argagator, which in reality, takes a text file, and cuts it into smaller bit of text.
I said it when MySpace got fux0red, and i'll say it again: AJAX is shithot ya'll!
STOP JOINING THE FUCKING CHANNEL.
It's enought that website get slashdotted, but lets leave the poor chan out of this, its getting impossible to talk:
If you havn't been there before today: Leave it till tomorrow, hey!
What do u mean "without ego" IRC is the most egocentric protocol on the net ;) Its all a bunch of geeks hanging out on chan with names like #null0r and #l33tkr3w trying to impress people who they don't know on the other side of the world, by tring to out-geek them in certain aspects, all the time ever chasing that elisive @ sign!
"When a wounded dog is cornered, its more dangerous than an angry, healthy one"
:p
Heh, thing is everybody loves google, cos google likes firefox :D and now M$ seem to have bowed to that pressure :D
It seem Microsoft are doing whatever they can to hit out at Google, MSN really stepped up their game, started trying their own 'AdSense', and now they've gone for what I thought was the more likly thing google was going to branch into: WebApplications. Are Microsoft feeling threatened by Google? Well, Google hasn't encroached onto Microsofts market space (yet!), Desktop Products and OSs etc, But they are 'surrounding' Microsoft. They have a VERY diverse set of products, all for free (as in beer) and soon we'll see base.google.com (Going to KILL ebay) coming out of the box, and perhaps Microsoft are feeling scared
oh well, he's a bastard no doubt. But if satan himself offered me a cure for cancer, i'd be onboard ;)
The great thing about the BBC is all their stories are available syndicated into RSS, and of course as a Brit and a Firfox user i have it in the in-build aggregator, so unless BBC count every RSS clickthru as wee, then the figures will DEFINATLY be off, because remember, IE doesnt have an aggregator, until crappy vista (god, it sound like a feminine hygine product!) comes out the vast majority of frontpage hits, will be through MSIE.
This is great, soon i'll be able to hack up windows apps in php!
Looks like VMWare's been slashdotted ;)
Sorry, i just had to repost:
"Microsoft is not a helicopter dropping relief materials; we're there in the field."
Microsoft: The fucking Wartorn front line company who we should feel sorry for because people in Africa can't afford their software.
A quote like this REALLY gets to me, you're average African has NO interest in IT, his interest is very firmly placed at providing for his family. Now, an open sourced initiative would give these people the ability to actually learn how to use a computer, providing a new skill, allowing him to feed his family. Now Microsoft go and and make out that they're all hard done by how these people won't buy their shitty software for a 99% profit to M$ (How much does it cost them to knock out an XP cd????)
Truely shows you for what you are..
...100 MHz ARM9 processor...
Wow! Just 6 years ago i bought a computer with less processing power than that and i was extatic!
while you can give people free software or computers, they won't have the expertise to use it.
Yeah! And while you don't give them free software or computer, they'll never have the chance to learn.
I'd its amazing, when you have that kind of money, analysts will prove anything...
As my Dad used to say: There are lies, damn lies, and statistics.
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