Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter have written one of my favorite science fiction books
The Light Of Other Days
which addresses the question "What would the world be like if anyone could open up a little wormhole connected to anywhere at anytime and peek in?". The end of all privacy. Some answers: The end of crime, exhibitionists for future viewers, and toms peeping on Jesus. IMHO, this is a first rate book and as usual, Clarke follows up with why years from now it might be for real.
A better service might be to provide PATHS OF MOST SURVEILLANCE. Those with fears of being victimized might subscriber. Most likely, these paths are safer.
Saw the Dr Dobb's Sept article "The Curl Programming Environment": It's yaool: yet another object-oriented language, it comes out of MIT and it is ahem proprietary ,
owned by Curl Corporation who, according to the article, plans to release parts of it to the public domain. It was purportedly designed to combine features of Javascript and Shockwave into one language. It has a "meter-based" license which in effect means that, someone gets nano-taxed everytime they reference your page! Communists have infitrated the american technological bastion. These guys are smart though, better watch them!
Unabashed plug for a sensible programming language:
NetRexx on the other hand is FREE, is object oriented, and generates Java which can run anywhere, and is combines the best of oo and procedural code, IMHO.
Slightly veering off topic...
We stumbled on a hilarious site the other day. Finish drinking your milk first then, check out www.dangeorge.com
Recipe for fine art with a PC: take your PC. Smash it to pieces with a sledgehammer. Piss on it. Put it into a plexiglass box with a dead pig. Throw in some graph paper. Splash some paint around it. Put a crucifix on top of it.
Now that is fine art!
I just finished reading this book. Here's my take:
Share some genes (don't let species get in the way) and be one big happy family; it's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.
"I don't care." heres one link...
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=%22I+don%27t+car e%22+ld&hl=en&safe=off&rnum=2&ic=1&selm=31EB167D.E D1%40postoffice.worldnet.att.net
In a similar vein: How about when Ma Bell asks you what long distance company you want? "I don't care" - yep used to be a valid choice, "I don't know" - that too. "It doesn't matter." - "Uh huh you're signed up, anything else I can do for you today!" Real phone companies I've been told from a reliable source.
I think it has to do with improving the musculature. Used to be I would have some tendonitis after a long coding session. Same think for the neck pain. Had some neck pain a web page recommended simple excercize: slowly
tilt head forward then slowly back, forward...back, 5 times. then left, then right,
etc, 5 times. Voila, no neck pain.
IMHO, I think the cause is overworking one part while underworking another. Balancing with excercise pays off.
-Wargames
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Soon they'll start producing these bots 5 nanometers on a side. Then we'll be in trouble!!!!
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Get a life, Chess is Life, Life is Chess, therefore I am. -Wargames- The Light Of Other Days
which addresses the question "What would the world be like if anyone could open up a little wormhole connected to anywhere at anytime and peek in?". The end of all privacy. Some answers: The end of crime, exhibitionists for future viewers, and toms peeping on Jesus. IMHO, this is a first rate book and as usual, Clarke follows up with why years from now it might be for real.The publisher has some sample reading from this book at www.tor.com/lood.html.
I personally would find a map of the path of most surveillance more comforting.
A better service might be to provide PATHS OF MOST SURVEILLANCE. Those with fears of being victimized might subscriber. Most likely, these paths are safer.
Quality, Resources, Scope, or Time. You can pick any three you like.
eXtreme Programming is one solution:
http://www.xprogramming.com/index.htm
Chess would be a perfect application for one of these suputers. It's hard to play chess when you are in a nuclear war, I wouldn't call that fun.
I've heard this proposal before, the only practical solution is for everyone to FLY NAKED!
Unabashed plug for a sensible programming language: NetRexx on the other hand is FREE, is object oriented, and generates Java which can run anywhere, and is combines the best of oo and procedural code, IMHO.
Slightly veering off topic... We stumbled on a hilarious site the other day. Finish drinking your milk first then, check out www.dangeorge.com
At current spot prices this guy must weigh a ton!
Recipe for fine art with a PC: take your PC. Smash it to pieces with a sledgehammer. Piss on it. Put it into a plexiglass box with a dead pig. Throw in some graph paper. Splash some paint around it. Put a crucifix on top of it. Now that is fine art!
Recommended bedtime reading.
An excerpt and review can be found at: Bookbrowse.com : Fear Nothing: Review.
"I don't care." heres one link... http://groups.google.com/groups?q=%22I+don%27t+car e%22+ld&hl=en&safe=off&rnum=2&ic=1&selm=31EB167D.E D1%40postoffice.worldnet.att.net
In a similar vein: How about when Ma Bell asks you what long distance company you want? "I don't care" - yep used to be a valid choice, "I don't know" - that too. "It doesn't matter." - "Uh huh you're signed up, anything else I can do for you today!" Real phone companies I've been told from a reliable source.
I think it has to do with improving the musculature. Used to be I would have some tendonitis after a long coding session. Same think for the neck pain. Had some neck pain a web page recommended simple excercize: slowly tilt head forward then slowly back, forward...back, 5 times. then left, then right, etc, 5 times. Voila, no neck pain. IMHO, I think the cause is overworking one part while underworking another. Balancing with excercise pays off. -Wargames