I meant you wouldn't be able to have meaningful (low latency communication). This is still up in the air in the physics community. Also up in the air and quite meaningful are speculations on heat death--are we guaranteed to die because of thermodynamics?
Hopefully we'll get IPv6 going so we can speed up cost savers such as this.
Although maybe the cell companies will see this and sabotage the IPv6 process.
The only problem I see with this is taking off from the house while in a call. Cell phone latencies for connect are in the multi-second range. May not be an issue as we already have call hand-offs between towers. Also, sometimes my WiFi gets iffy for no good reason. I'd like a smooth handoff to cell in this situation as well. But anything to cut into rediculous cell bills is a good thing!
Sorry, you do NOT own. If you are completely self sufficient, and travelling the stars, you have no need for barter, laws, or lawyers. If the speed of light holds--it will be impossible to even interact with others.
Some say only death and taxes are certain. They are wrong. When one is completely self-sufficient and traveling through deep space, taxes are a non-issue. Death is because of heat-death.
"The best way to ensure you don't lose your music and videos is to perform regular backups"
Maybe they'll redownload it if you beg them, but there doesn't seem to be a willingness to use it as a repository to move from computer to computer--something I'd find useful. "Plays for sure" does this just fine. I did buy a song through Urge--I'm not sure if that will be transferable.
I've used yahoo music for a year, and now Urge (Urge is far better from a user interface viewpoint). I think these services are great! I know this is against some singulatarians--but I hope this gets patched up quick. Look at the differences between iStore and this. I can download all I want--and the bookmarks are even saved so I can download to another computer! If you lost your tracks in iStore, you're out the money. I don't want the iStore to be the only game in town!
Yeah, information wants to be free and all that. But this service rocks. I haven't bought a CD since (probably not what they want to hear!) And it works fine with portable music players. You just have to plug it in every few weeks-which you can do to get more music anyway. Yeah, a bit annoying, but come singularity we won't have any limitations.
Why do people mention the screen size so often without talking resolution? I've seen some extremely compact screens (the Sony ultra-mobile pc is the most dense I've seen at about 12cm and 1024 pixels across!) I'd like to see a screen like that on a phone or device like this. Resolution is the number one problem when using a portable device I've noticed--at least with my HTC Wizard (320x240 pocketpc phone).
The PDP8 used the 12-bit word as its building block. It's not hard to see it expanded to 64-bits for the current generation. The byte is not the only way.
Intel is doing a lot of things right. This is a common core from laptop to server. Keeping it simple--AMD has a lot to worry about. I wonder about what a giant leap in energy issues would do. For example, greatly reduce power reduction at the transistor level. The whole issue of power usage would go away--and you'd have Intel and AMD racing for performance as they did in the late 1990's. The Conroe is a great processor, but a lot of effort went toward being miserly.
And I'm still waiting for an architecture change. How about finally retiring the byte as a base logical unit? In return, just use the bit, or whatever word length the machine is.
The world of online games is chock full of people trying to be clever by seeing how they can draw analogies to the world before online games. Or be even more clever by trying to be the first to spot something "totally new!" Get over yourselves!
Well at least these email won't get me in trouble at work, unlike some of the nastier ones.
But it's scary that people are actually following any information in this spams. Unlike Nigerian scams, this at least has a hint of legitimacy, which will mean the spam floodgates will open even further.
I notice the department is "anything-for-a-buck". That will change after the singularity. I see money as being a non-issue then.
Ah, slashdot groupthink. You like space. You're intelligent. I get it. Now try to read replies before you become yet another nerd piping in with your obvious comment.
I call bull. Notice I say mysticism is just as bad as religion. And I've seen the Dalai Lama speak--he knows very little of math, physics, and technology. And is thus worthless.
The money is not a huge amount. I do agree with money being spent to catch stupid terrorists who don't use encryption. I don't agree with catching "intellectual property" problems or drug transactions.
As the article says, the US is "secretly taping conversations between people in the U.S. and people in other countries". I assume these are just telephone conversations.
I disagree with the ruling. If they want to get phone records, that's fine. As long as they don't strike down encryption, they can do what they want. Not just because I don't want to be blown up, but because the technological solution should win.
Can't they just admit that it's annoying having to plug in three separate cables? Now they want us to plug in a separate drive even! Enough with the kludge. Just release another version of the console.
Component is pretty annoying--it's easy to get the red audio channel mixed up with the red component channel. I hear about an HDMI adapter, but it's certainly not as easy as doing a DVI-D to HDMI cable.
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I meant you wouldn't be able to have meaningful (low latency communication). This is still up in the air in the physics community. Also up in the air and quite meaningful are speculations on heat death--are we guaranteed to die because of thermodynamics?
Hopefully we'll get IPv6 going so we can speed up cost savers such as this.
Although maybe the cell companies will see this and sabotage the IPv6 process.
The only problem I see with this is taking off from the house while in a call. Cell phone latencies for connect are in the multi-second range. May not be an issue as we already have call hand-offs between towers. Also, sometimes my WiFi gets iffy for no good reason. I'd like a smooth handoff to cell in this situation as well. But anything to cut into rediculous cell bills is a good thing!
Sorry, you do NOT own. If you are completely self sufficient, and travelling the stars, you have no need for barter, laws, or lawyers. If the speed of light holds--it will be impossible to even interact with others.
You know not of what you talk. The singularity will be unlike any other event in our past. A self-sufficient being needs not to barter or gain money.
Some say only death and taxes are certain. They are wrong. When one is completely self-sufficient and traveling through deep space, taxes are a non-issue. Death is because of heat-death.
http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/itunes/it7-3. html
"The best way to ensure you don't lose your music and videos is to perform regular backups"
Maybe they'll redownload it if you beg them, but there doesn't seem to be a willingness to use it as a repository to move from computer to computer--something I'd find useful. "Plays for sure" does this just fine. I did buy a song through Urge--I'm not sure if that will be transferable.
Uh, come singularity, there won't be a money concept at all.
I've used yahoo music for a year, and now Urge (Urge is far better from a user interface viewpoint). I think these services are great! I know this is against some singulatarians--but I hope this gets patched up quick. Look at the differences between iStore and this. I can download all I want--and the bookmarks are even saved so I can download to another computer! If you lost your tracks in iStore, you're out the money. I don't want the iStore to be the only game in town!
Yeah, information wants to be free and all that. But this service rocks. I haven't bought a CD since (probably not what they want to hear!) And it works fine with portable music players. You just have to plug it in every few weeks-which you can do to get more music anyway. Yeah, a bit annoying, but come singularity we won't have any limitations.
Why do people mention the screen size so often without talking resolution? I've seen some extremely compact screens (the Sony ultra-mobile pc is the most dense I've seen at about 12cm and 1024 pixels across!) I'd like to see a screen like that on a phone or device like this. Resolution is the number one problem when using a portable device I've noticed--at least with my HTC Wizard (320x240 pocketpc phone).
The PDP8 used the 12-bit word as its building block. It's not hard to see it expanded to 64-bits for the current generation. The byte is not the only way.
Intel is doing a lot of things right. This is a common core from laptop to server. Keeping it simple--AMD has a lot to worry about. I wonder about what a giant leap in energy issues would do. For example, greatly reduce power reduction at the transistor level. The whole issue of power usage would go away--and you'd have Intel and AMD racing for performance as they did in the late 1990's. The Conroe is a great processor, but a lot of effort went toward being miserly.
And I'm still waiting for an architecture change. How about finally retiring the byte as a base logical unit? In return, just use the bit, or whatever word length the machine is.
Why not work toward the singularity and watch people throw money your way because you're doing something so important?
If people go this ga-ga over online games, the singularity will just make them faint.
The world of online games is chock full of people trying to be clever by seeing how they can draw analogies to the world before online games. Or be even more clever by trying to be the first to spot something "totally new!" Get over yourselves!
But as people become true gods through technology, what power will the fundies have then? Transhumanism promises to change everything.
Well at least these email won't get me in trouble at work, unlike some of the nastier ones.
But it's scary that people are actually following any information in this spams. Unlike Nigerian scams, this at least has a hint of legitimacy, which will mean the spam floodgates will open even further.
I notice the department is "anything-for-a-buck". That will change after the singularity. I see money as being a non-issue then.
Trying to look smart, ends up looking stupid. Very stupid.
So maybe that's a problem. Eh?
Ah, slashdot groupthink. You like space. You're intelligent. I get it. Now try to read replies before you become yet another nerd piping in with your obvious comment.
Lojban is a constructed language that can be parsed like computer languages! He did a major book on the subject. Anyone in lojban is pretty cool.
I call bull. Notice I say mysticism is just as bad as religion. And I've seen the Dalai Lama speak--he knows very little of math, physics, and technology. And is thus worthless.
Well that is interesting. I thought most IT people shun religion and mysticism. Goes along with being scientific-minded.
The money is not a huge amount. I do agree with money being spent to catch stupid terrorists who don't use encryption. I don't agree with catching "intellectual property" problems or drug transactions.
As the article says, the US is "secretly taping conversations between people in the U.S. and people in other countries". I assume these are just telephone conversations.
I disagree with the ruling. If they want to get phone records, that's fine. As long as they don't strike down encryption, they can do what they want. Not just because I don't want to be blown up, but because the technological solution should win.
Can't they just admit that it's annoying having to plug in three separate cables? Now they want us to plug in a separate drive even! Enough with the kludge. Just release another version of the console.
Component is pretty annoying--it's easy to get the red audio channel mixed up with the red component channel. I hear about an HDMI adapter, but it's certainly not as easy as doing a DVI-D to HDMI cable.
Oh, and interlacing has to go. Now.