it's one of those things that SOUNDS good prima facie, like "gets your message out to 25 million email addresses! Unlimited Income opportunity!!!" just a little thought (again see a recent SciAm) reveals that it's like trying to listen for fleas next to Niagra Falls - In a Universe of powerful quasars and other radio sources any intelligent signal (unless the ET's are modulating a pulsar or something and somehow beaming it our way) would be way too puny to detect. You stand about as much chance as winning the powerball, hitting 18 holes in one, getting hit by lightning AND a meteorite all on the same day.
saying what is perfect (which is subjective anyway)
As subj suggests, used to be "what is perfect" is "what survives to reproduce", or "what gets chosen as a mate for reproduction" - I guess with custom genetics the latter will predominate. I mean, looking at pet cockatiels, I'm wondering: Why do they have that orange dot over their ears? What POSSIBLE contribution to survival does it or other seemingly unimportant features impart? Or is it the result of many years of sexual selection, where cockatiels just prefer mating with other birds with orange dots over their ears? So if someone makes or passes a genetic alteration, it will survive if all potential mates don't scream, "ew, yuck!!" and run away.
Hmmm, don't think "Hunkapiller" is poised for mass brainwashing ala "Gates"; would seem to induce more snickering than boot licking syncophantic genie-ass worship.
"strategic vision for the evolution of computer entertainment in the broadband network era."
To me, the most entertaining part is building the broadband network infrastructure itself - once that's done, it'll just be a pipe for all the same old commercials, spam and asst. garbage that clogs up AM radio, TV, Cable, telephones, snail mail, email, search engines, etc. Ya know, business as usual:))
Wow, that jerky little 5inch window is pretty damn valuable, compared to the big screen, surround sound, full immersion experience you get for a lousy $[5-9] at the theatre! Appearently they (over)estimate each download is going to cost at least 15,000 ticket buyers or 75,000 video rentals. Amazing.
My strategy is to mirror two disks on the server, and nightly copy important data to a backup server with a single similarly sized disk. Then you have three copies over two machines. If you must have tapes a (relatively expensive but nice) DLT tape drive and/or library will handle it. I think they go to 80Gigs compressed, and are fast. Yep, my 8Gig-compressed DAT is getting smaller every day.
That's right - if your running Linux and boot off a SCSI drive you dont even NEED to install the disk drive in BIOS! The kernel drivers will find it. However, if you do need to boot off the beyond-bios-capability disk, sometimes they have jumpers that make it report fewer cylinders, just to get around BIOS (if it locks up or otherwise freaks out), and then the Linux kernel will still use the entire disk.
just have to observe that where I shop, people regularly swap cards - if someone is getting checked out and doesn't have a card, more often than not the cashier will use theirs, or someone in line will let the person paying use theirs. The point being that that database is basically useless as far as tracking the buying habits of any ONE person.
Msft reports better than expected earnings, public brand name recognition that rivals Coca-cola - it's starting to look like the bazaar dwellers are storming the Cathedral with sticks and stones, while the guards look over the ramparts, chuckle at the rabble's feeble attemtps at penetration, then turn back to their latte's. Revolution? Certainly, but it'll probably take half a generation to manifest itself, like the hippy youth rebellion of the 60's had to wait 'till the 90's before they came to any real power to change things. The 'middle aged managers' and power brokers of today grew up with WinTel, that's what they know and can't conceive of anything else replacing it, but they'll grow old and retire and the young Linux enthusiasts/advocates will take their place. It's a slow train a'coming.
SGI's Reality Engine, Sony's Emotion Engine, throw in a printer personality cart and you have a really intelligent bot w/ feelings that's a pleasure to have around.
right here - the Al Foil Deflector Beenie, altho targeted at deflecting psychotronic mind control carriers, it may also help with your cell phone problems.
it's a small island in the Indian ocean - Cocoas or Keelings Islands - territory of Austrailia, pop. 636, sale cash crop: coconuts. Just the perfect site for your servers.
that depict the horrors of falling into deep crevices, having anvils fall on animal heads and crushing them into the ground, as well as exploding ACME devices which leave the user in smoldering ruins when they backfire.
SPACE WAR can be played right now right here (if you have Java) - it runs the original PDP-1 code in a Java emulator. Story of it's development in early 60's here
maybe they're trying to keep the spam scam promised land going with Internet technobabble - "We offer you 250 million email address for $150, PLUS! New psychographic network topography data gathered by our state of the art analysts completely insures that YOUR MESSAGE is precisely timed and targeted to the audience primed for purchasing!! Act now!!!"
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it's one of those things that SOUNDS good prima facie, like "gets your message out to 25 million email addresses! Unlimited Income opportunity!!!" just a little thought (again see a recent SciAm) reveals that it's like trying to listen for fleas next to Niagra Falls - In a Universe of powerful quasars and other radio sources any intelligent signal (unless the ET's are modulating a pulsar or something and somehow beaming it our way) would be way too puny to detect. You stand about as much chance as winning the powerball, hitting 18 holes in one, getting hit by lightning AND a meteorite all on the same day.
Never quite got over that
is *MUCH* easier than the serpent sacrifice!
saying what is perfect (which is subjective anyway)
As subj suggests, used to be "what is perfect" is "what survives to reproduce", or "what gets chosen as a mate for reproduction" - I guess with custom genetics the latter will predominate. I mean, looking at pet cockatiels, I'm wondering: Why do they have that orange dot over their ears? What POSSIBLE contribution to survival does it or other seemingly unimportant features impart? Or is it the result of many years of sexual selection, where cockatiels just prefer mating with other birds with orange dots over their ears? So if someone makes or passes a genetic alteration, it will survive if all potential mates don't scream, "ew, yuck!!" and run away.
Have a fun day
Hmmm, don't think "Hunkapiller" is poised for mass brainwashing ala "Gates"; would seem to induce more snickering than boot licking syncophantic genie-ass worship.
But another syndrome in the ascendancy of trendy diseases is Sensory Integration Dysfunction!
Have a fun day
"strategic vision for the evolution of computer entertainment in the broadband network era."
:))
To me, the most entertaining part is building the broadband network infrastructure itself - once that's done, it'll just be a pipe for all the same old commercials, spam and asst. garbage that clogs up AM radio, TV, Cable, telephones, snail mail, email, search engines, etc. Ya know, business as usual
Have a fun day....
here - Outguess (haven't tried it, going to now) - Unix source tarball, BSD license.
I repeat, Steganography to also hide the fact that any encrypted comm is even taking place. Put the payload in Islamic and Chinese art, etc.
Wow, that jerky little 5inch window is pretty damn valuable, compared to the big screen, surround sound, full immersion experience you get for a lousy $[5-9] at the theatre! Appearently they (over)estimate each download is going to cost at least 15,000 ticket buyers or 75,000 video rentals. Amazing.
even with speed-o-light satellite links a musician in one continent will be out of time with the others....
put up the notebook and cell phone, go trekking in the Himalayas for a couple of weeks - it'll all look much better then.
My strategy is to mirror two disks on the server, and nightly copy important data to a backup server with a single similarly sized disk. Then you have three copies over two machines. If you must have tapes a (relatively expensive but nice) DLT tape drive and/or library will handle it. I think they go to 80Gigs compressed, and are fast. Yep, my 8Gig-compressed DAT is getting smaller every day.
That's right - if your running Linux and boot off a SCSI drive you dont even NEED to install the disk drive in BIOS! The kernel drivers will find it. However, if you do need to boot off the beyond-bios-capability disk, sometimes they have jumpers that make it report fewer cylinders, just to get around BIOS (if it locks up or otherwise freaks out), and then the Linux kernel will still use the entire disk.
just have to observe that where I shop, people regularly swap cards - if someone is getting checked out and doesn't have a card, more often than not the cashier will use theirs, or someone in line will let the person paying use theirs. The point being that that database is basically useless as far as tracking the buying habits of any ONE person.
Msft reports better than expected earnings, public brand name recognition that rivals Coca-cola - it's starting to look like the bazaar dwellers are storming the Cathedral with sticks and stones, while the guards look over the ramparts, chuckle at the rabble's feeble attemtps at penetration, then turn back to their latte's. Revolution? Certainly, but it'll probably take half a generation to manifest itself, like the hippy youth rebellion of the 60's had to wait 'till the 90's before they came to any real power to change things. The 'middle aged managers' and power brokers of today grew up with WinTel, that's what they know and can't conceive of anything else replacing it, but they'll grow old and retire and the young Linux enthusiasts/advocates will take their place. It's a slow train a'coming.
since the word "verb" is actually a noun, it's been 'verbed' too!
SGI's Reality Engine, Sony's Emotion Engine, throw in a printer personality cart and you have a really intelligent bot w/ feelings that's a pleasure to have around.
www.failuremag.com is running Apache/1.3.12 (Unix) PHP/4.0.0 mod_ssl/2.6.2 OpenSSL/0.9.5a on Linux
Sorry about that.
right here - the Al Foil Deflector Beenie, altho targeted at deflecting psychotronic mind control carriers, it may also help with your cell phone problems.
it's a small island in the Indian ocean - Cocoas or Keelings Islands - territory of Austrailia, pop. 636, sale cash crop: coconuts. Just the perfect site for your servers.
Always thought it would make a comeback....
[NOT]
that depict the horrors of falling into deep crevices, having anvils fall on animal heads and crushing them into the ground, as well as exploding ACME devices which leave the user in smoldering ruins when they backfire.
SPACE WAR can be played right now right here (if you have Java) - it runs the original PDP-1 code in a Java emulator. Story of it's development in early 60's here
(Thanks JL)
He is a writer and lecturer on subjects relating to the virtualization of society and is a contributing editor of numerous publications,
I've heard of virtualized device drivers but this is a new one on me.
The Virtual Realist - on 2nd thought I've few virtues at all, but many vices in the shop. There's little virtue in not being for real.
We need a weekend already.
maybe they're trying to keep the spam scam promised land going with Internet technobabble - "We offer you 250 million email address for $150, PLUS! New psychographic network topography data gathered by our state of the art analysts completely insures that YOUR MESSAGE is precisely timed and targeted to the audience primed for purchasing!! Act now!!!"