Well okay it was actually only code from 1991 on 3.5" floppies, but I'm sure, in one of the locked file drawers somewhere there are punch cards. Tons of them. This is probably why I can never find someplace to put my current class materials.
Btw they just stuck a plato terminal up behind glass with bits lieing around in DCL. Quite cool.
Best as in sticking your foot firmly in your own mouth maybe.
Not that I'm not stuck with three intel (well one's AMD but it's all the same really) boxes here but that doesn't mean I have to like it. Bandwidth within the machine? What's that?
The e-books may soon have a medium as good as real books. Some of the electronic papers in development are not light emitting like a CRT or LCD, but rather are physically black and white dots, moved by electronics. Could make e-books better than real books -- lighter and just as clear.
It should be noted, (though I haven't finished the books so I could summarize their content) that he's also got out "The Third Wave" and "Power Drift" (I think are the correct names), one spaced 10 years after Future, the other 20 years after.
I'd actually found a particularly good way to get the zoned feeling was good old X-Wing by Lucasarts. Get in an A-wing, turn off the guns, turn off the shields, and attempt to fly through the course (can be simulated with a defender in TIE as well).
Note however, crashing tends to drag you out of the zone, so make sure to avoid it.;)
You can try telling that to the 20 odd pounds of steel and silicon next to me then.
It works just fine, the TNT2 is backwards compatable to the TNT, and BeOS handles it without a problem. Maybe it's not on the web site, but I can tell you for a fact that the V770 is a dropin replacment for the V550 under BeOS.
Windows on the other hand had to install new drivers.
I'd be more worried, actually, with them being able to patent changing genes and things like that. Consider the following:
Company A discoveres a cure for/blank/ (cancer, AIDS, whatever you like). A patents the gene sequence change that cures it. Now A revelas to the world that they have this and would like $1000 a pop for it, and, oh yeah, when you get it, it only lasts a month, then something they introduced changes it back to the way it was.
And now what? That one company holds the cure to something in it's hand and can pick and chose who gets it. Or even worse, figure out a cure for a engineered disease they release, and basically hold the world hostage (with a sufficiently good coverup).
Not that this is at all like certain things in other realms (*cough* computers *cough* microsoft) right now.
If you blindly think information should be free, then please, post your credit card number, expiration date, and the name on the card for us.
I would fear someone who says information wants to be free more than someone who says information wants to be protected. Do you want anyone having access to your personal private information? Bank statments? Emails to friends? There is some information that should be free; protocols, standards, file formats, maybe even some source code or all source code. But that's not all that there is to information.
And if you read the blurb about government regulations on protocols, it says that we need to trust the government because we can't trust corporations to do open protocols. Well, let's see, you say you don't trust the government, then you probably don't trust TCP/IP, because it was probably funded by the government's money (DoD?), and so it's the government's protocol.
I'd also note that it doesn't actually say that tech standard should be determined by the government, it says that corporations who don't really have the public interest at heart should not determin the standards. This doesn't exclude open-source groups from proposing standards, much like now. In fact it specifically mentions that governments should respect the rules and customs of cyberspace. That could just maybe mean stuff like RFCs, etc.
Not that I'm saying that group is all peaches and wine, but that you need to read and think a little bit yourself. Actually that's one of the principals they mention.;)
How about mentioning his Power Shift and... The Third Wave (I believe that's the right title), also both by Toffler, but slightly more recent. Or perhaps National Geographic's Aug 99 "Global Culture" article. (I write, with future shock sitting a foot above his machine on the rack, and power shift sitting in a static bag for it's protection)
What I find interesting about this rampant technolust they're constantly describing isn't effecting me like they describe. I don't have a cell phone, I don't have a pager. In fact nobody in my immediate family has one. I think that some of my extended family may, but I don't think that many do. I don't have a PDA or laptop (though I wouldn't mind a wearable, but it wouldn't be netted most likely), and I value substance over style on the web (to a point -- unreadable-colored pages suck whichever you value more). My friends (mostly CS majors like me who spend a lot of time in front of a machien) don't have cell phones, and I need one finger to count the number of them who have PDAs.
Makes me wonder if those who are creating this technology are somehow immune (not quite the right word but) to its effects.
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It's their system, it's their right to choose not yours. Run your own linux box and accept spam from who you choose. Until that point, bitch no more.
Well okay it was actually only code from 1991 on 3.5" floppies, but I'm sure, in one of the locked file drawers somewhere there are punch cards. Tons of them. This is probably why I can never find someplace to put my current class materials.
Btw they just stuck a plato terminal up behind glass with bits lieing around in DCL. Quite cool.
Microsoft couldn't care less if you sell on ebay. Hell the way they handle the game it encourages it.
Best as in sticking your foot firmly in your own mouth maybe.
Not that I'm not stuck with three intel (well one's AMD but it's all the same really) boxes here but that doesn't mean I have to like it. Bandwidth within the machine? What's that?
a lot better canidate than things like PP&M's Blowing in the Wind which I think I heard bars of from the candlelight vigil services.
Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower.
How quickly everyone forgets wolfenstein. I believe it came out a good bit before doom, but I could be wrong.
The e-books may soon have a medium as good as real books. Some of the electronic papers in development are not light emitting like a CRT or LCD, but rather are physically black and white dots, moved by electronics. Could make e-books better than real books -- lighter and just as clear.
It should be noted, (though I haven't finished the books so I could summarize their content) that he's also got out "The Third Wave" and "Power Drift" (I think are the correct names), one spaced 10 years after Future, the other 20 years after.
Note however, crashing tends to drag you out of the zone, so make sure to avoid it. ;)
It works just fine, the TNT2 is backwards compatable to the TNT, and BeOS handles it without a problem. Maybe it's not on the web site, but I can tell you for a fact that the V770 is a dropin replacment for the V550 under BeOS.
Windows on the other hand had to install new drivers.
Company A discoveres a cure for /blank/ (cancer, AIDS, whatever you like). A patents the gene sequence change that cures it. Now A revelas to the world that they have this and would like $1000 a pop for it, and, oh yeah, when you get it, it only lasts a month, then something they introduced changes it back to the way it was.
And now what? That one company holds the cure to something in it's hand and can pick and chose who gets it. Or even worse, figure out a cure for a engineered disease they release, and basically hold the world hostage (with a sufficiently good coverup).
Not that this is at all like certain things in other realms (*cough* computers *cough* microsoft) right now.
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I would fear someone who says information wants to be free more than someone who says information wants to be protected. Do you want anyone having access to your personal private information? Bank statments? Emails to friends? There is some information that should be free; protocols, standards, file formats, maybe even some source code or all source code. But that's not all that there is to information.
And if you read the blurb about government regulations on protocols, it says that we need to trust the government because we can't trust corporations to do open protocols. Well, let's see, you say you don't trust the government, then you probably don't trust TCP/IP, because it was probably funded by the government's money (DoD?), and so it's the government's protocol.
I'd also note that it doesn't actually say that tech standard should be determined by the government, it says that corporations who don't really have the public interest at heart should not determin the standards. This doesn't exclude open-source groups from proposing standards, much like now. In fact it specifically mentions that governments should respect the rules and customs of cyberspace. That could just maybe mean stuff like RFCs, etc.
Not that I'm saying that group is all peaches and wine, but that you need to read and think a little bit yourself. Actually that's one of the principals they mention. ;)
What I find interesting about this rampant technolust they're constantly describing isn't effecting me like they describe. I don't have a cell phone, I don't have a pager. In fact nobody in my immediate family has one. I think that some of my extended family may, but I don't think that many do. I don't have a PDA or laptop (though I wouldn't mind a wearable, but it wouldn't be netted most likely), and I value substance over style on the web (to a point -- unreadable-colored pages suck whichever you value more). My friends (mostly CS majors like me who spend a lot of time in front of a machien) don't have cell phones, and I need one finger to count the number of them who have PDAs.
Makes me wonder if those who are creating this technology are somehow immune (not quite the right word but) to its effects.