Are there any other software-related projects you're working on? With the attention being paid to alternate web browsers (Mozilla, Netomat), it seems like this is an area which would benefit from your witty perspective. Since Netomat actuallly has random links spinning off on their own tangents, I can only imagine how a "Meaning of Liff" or Holistic-themed interface can add to the internet experience =)
I'm also curious of how you feel about 3D perspective games. Having done Starship Titanic, it would seem a more immersive experience (as in navigating stairways, running & jumping from a first-person perspective) would be ripe material for satire.
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...And the can of beans had nothing to say to the three, of course, for it was spoiled.
The military has invested quite a bit in the design of "spaceships" - there was an actual flying saucer craft which was propeller-driven from the center, as one of the early development models for what we now call "skimmer" type hovercraft today.
Most of the others, including the USAF designs, were proposed supersonic plane ideas which either preceeded or were later incorporated to some degree to the SR-71 Blackbird and even the current crop of "stealth-enabled" aircraft.
Okay, everyone mentioned the hydraulics and the remote sensor on the car, but what about the UV headlamps, the underwater mode, annd the ultra-rare spinning sawblades which retract from under the hood?
It would probably be best for the replica to be cane-resistant as well, in case someone like the Car Hater shows up on his horse and tries to smack the hood with his walking stick...
Wake up and smell the coffee, Forge -- Our contacts in the Kremlin said the UGN-3676 code was supposed to be discontinued following Glastnost! You should be using the RZW-7751 cointerintelligence standard for transmitting secrets outside the U.S. base of operations!
Waitaminute, the other contributors to this site are probably reading this message as well! Abort mission! Abort! Abort!
Throughout high school & college, some friends & myself would have a little "fun" by kicking hosts off their own BBSes, or going to a physical location (acquaintance's house, retail cashier terminal) and screwing with the memory settings in DOS.
Like the song goes, "Merrily we trolled along..."
Despite a lot of FUD in the article, a valid point is made: unsecured linux structures, in spite of the grassroots cred & popularity, are just as vulnerable to getting hosed as any NT or Netware setup caught with its pants flapping in the breeze. Giving credit to basic nature, just about any OS (or NOS) is fodder waiting to be struck.
Had Garfinkel used the term exploits or some other, his piece would've served as a nice wake-up call. But "virus alerts" are the sort of crap that only succeeds in more day-trading stupidity (IPO, IPO, it's off to work they go) and a guranteed guest slot on MSNBC and Nightline.
No, the handwriting recognition was greatly improved by the time the Messagepad 120 and 130 were released.
If anything, it was the high price overhead, the failure to provide on-the-fly synchronization like the PalmPilot and the sluggishness of its OS (which wasn't improved until the Messagepad 2000, 2100 and eMate, which by then was way too late).
Steve Jobs also had a hand in essentially tossing the project out with the trash; rather than approve of designs which tried to make the devices more affordable, he announced division wasn't worthwhile to Apple's future (which included the iBook, which was basically the eMate on steroids). Go figure.
Mitnick can't touch a PC, as part of his sentancing; if he wanted his data back, he could have one of his friends mail him box filled with twenty pounds (11.339809 kilograms) worth of Post-It notes. ^_^
>They can be used for much more sophisticated purposes however. Most noteable, as your business card, perhaps your entire website, authentication (probably not likely), medical/personal records, identification (probably not likely, too easy to forge/fake), Product documentation (no more bulky manuals), and many other things conceivable...
Actually, medical and other lab facilities would be able to greatly benefit from these, since thier small size would allow for storing them in high numbers. (Blood drives and water analysis are two that come to mind.)
OTOH,I can also see these things being handed out as electronic "dog tags" at outdoor concerts, with colors/patterns denoting general access, vendor status, backstage pass, etc. and crappy radio station info/limited free isp gimmicks encoded on the data portion.
If it's done properly, a company like IBM could use these as an employee badge, with the wage slave/vendor/guest's user id & password encrypted on the data track.
It's funny how this happens almost immediately after the relaxing of crypto standards, not to mention the recent effors to encourage people to file in their tax returns online.
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Cosm (cosm.mithral.com) is one such place; check out their FAQ.
While not actually working on the level of shared clock cycles, some of the more of a grassroots-oriented efforts include the Peacetree/Food Not Bombs Network. USENET's alt.beograd and some of the spider networks during the Gulf War, Soviet Upheaval & Tiannamen Suare Riots have been important communications relays.
For decades now, Mexico has transmitted radio broadcasts within levels which they have considered appropriate, to the ire of the U.S. on as the signals have jammed out the stateside broadcasts. This involved not only the statioms along the borders of Texas & Louisianna, but even as far as Baltimore, and the Eastern Seaboard.
iCrave's taken the spill of signals from U.S. broadcasts along the border (while in levels negotiated via free trade accords, etc.) and has used it for their own business purposes. One would think by now (as the FCC and even Congress have been sucking up to Rupert Murdoch and his ilk) the main brunt of legal action regards the distribution and control of a commodity (con$umer) resource.
Unlike the radio broder wars, this is a money issue, as any city which watches content from U.S. interests is "market share" regardless of country. Without revenue to studios, networks, or advertisers, the only free TV might as well be static.
You can generally pick one up from eBay for about $100 or so.
If you don't really need a server style rack, an inelegant soloution would be to place the towers inside a utility cabinet, or like I'm planning to do, a wooden armoire. Some of them fetch ridiclous prices, but many hardware places as well as the odd Pier 1 type place usually have okay versions in pine for about $200. That may still seem high, but for that price, you'll be housing all your decks in one shot, as opposed to $/each.
Considering the race for megamergers such as this one, you'd think somebody at one of the business schools would've told half these CEOs & investment strategists about the original Dutch East India Trading Company. By the end of its days, the DETC had inevitably cracked under its own weight, as the new merger will undoubtedly will, should it actually be allowed to transact.
EMI, or rather, THORN/EMI as they're known in Europe (& Toshiba/EMI Entertainment in Japan, due to their broadcast and distribution arrangement for Asia), already owns a considerable piece of pie. Mixed with Time Warner without AOL's involvement would've been trouble enough by itself. Unless the international courts pounce upon this one, the markets are sure to stagnate, resulting in another "Dutch East" scenario.
And let's not forget, the DEITC was considered a "PRE-industrial revoloution" monopoly. Any progress that will occur in IS will do so in spite of the growth of AOL and its subsidies.
Sulfur, of course - probably the most appropriate use would be during those "This Program Has Performed an Illegal Operation and Has Shut Down" crashes.
And we'd all know what The Onion would be like...
But the best would be Segfault, with Pall Mall Menthol - nobody would know if the smell mail app was working or not!
This reminds me of the zdnet pieces featuring Spenser F. Katt's "pal", Tilde. Basically a 3D rendered mannequin with a mid-80's haircut and casual streetclothes ('cause standard newscaster's outfits are so conservative & intimidating), etc.
What makes both Ananova and Tilde so scary are the fact that they're digital avatars based on Patrick Nagel's pinup work, often seen at your nearest shopping mall's framing gallery.
It won't be long now, folks, before you start seeing blipverts!
Since the technology has already existed (frame-rate compression,etc.), and many networks use 15 second "mini-blurbs" between news updates, it won't be long before some programming honcho decides that time-sharing five or more ads in a 30 second timeslot would be a really "hot" concept...
The 80486 processor has a smaller instruction set than Pentium/MMX chipsets and their variants (AMD, CYRIX). The MMX sets are optimized more for multimedia functions than scientific calculations.
Another issue is the floating-point concern; though Intel has come a long way from the notorious Pentium 60.876564 MHz errors, there are still enough quirks in the more advanced calculations (especially in the IBM/Cyrix copycat processors) to make their use by an orbiiting telescope impractical.
As a 486 is exssentially a 386 chip with a built-in math coprocessor, its reliable calculation scale, along with the right operating command scheme would be as close to a RISC-based system as one could getwithout building a new chip out of whole cloth, or using larger clusters of older MAC - and of course, Motorola Dragonball - processors to achieve the same results.
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Are there any other software-related projects you're working on? With the attention being paid to alternate web browsers (Mozilla, Netomat), it seems like this is an area which would benefit from your witty perspective. Since Netomat actuallly has random links spinning off on their own tangents, I can only imagine how a "Meaning of Liff" or Holistic-themed interface can add to the internet experience =)
I'm also curious of how you feel about 3D perspective games. Having done Starship Titanic, it would seem a more immersive experience (as in navigating stairways, running & jumping from a first-person perspective) would be ripe material for satire.
...And the can of beans had nothing to say to the three, of course, for it was spoiled.
The military has invested quite a bit in the design of "spaceships" - there was an actual flying saucer craft which was propeller-driven from the center, as one of the early development models for what we now call "skimmer" type hovercraft today.
Most of the others, including the USAF designs, were proposed supersonic plane ideas which either preceeded or were later incorporated to some degree to the SR-71 Blackbird and even the current crop of "stealth-enabled" aircraft.
Actually, this is how the Dark Judges must've gotten started :(
:)
Through applied logic, they decided the only way to reduce crime was to kill everybody
I guess they've GOT the saw blades.
But if had trouble with some of the other stuff, they could'a called Pops, who was profiles in one of the car mags in '96...
Okay, everyone mentioned the hydraulics and the remote sensor on the car, but what about the UV headlamps, the underwater mode, annd the ultra-rare spinning sawblades which retract from under the hood?
It would probably be best for the replica to be cane-resistant as well, in case someone like the Car Hater shows up on his horse and tries to smack the hood with his walking stick...
>(particularly the brooding samurai Dinobot)
Dinobot wasn't a samauri - he was a Dane!
"Alas, poor Tarantulas; I knew him, Cheetor..."
And every other bit from Hamlet, save for "Dead for a ducat, dead!" was the mainstay of his dialogue.
Wake up and smell the coffee, Forge --
Our contacts in the Kremlin said the UGN-3676 code was supposed to be discontinued following Glastnost! You should be using the RZW-7751 cointerintelligence standard for transmitting secrets outside the U.S. base of operations!
Waitaminute, the other contributors to this site are probably reading this message as well! Abort mission! Abort! Abort!
I just reread what I posted, and it's practically a Katz article! I gotta stop drinking decaf...
Throughout high school & college, some friends & myself would have a little "fun" by kicking hosts off their own BBSes, or going to a physical location (acquaintance's house, retail cashier terminal) and screwing with the memory settings in DOS.
Like the song goes, "Merrily we trolled along..."
Despite a lot of FUD in the article, a valid point is made: unsecured linux structures, in spite of the grassroots cred & popularity, are just as vulnerable to getting hosed as any NT or Netware setup caught with its pants flapping in the breeze. Giving credit to basic nature, just about any OS (or NOS) is fodder waiting to be struck.
Had Garfinkel used the term exploits or some other, his piece would've served as a nice wake-up call. But "virus alerts" are the sort of crap that only succeeds in more day-trading stupidity (IPO, IPO, it's off to work they go) and a guranteed guest slot on MSNBC and Nightline.
No, the handwriting recognition was greatly improved by the time the Messagepad 120 and 130 were released.
If anything, it was the high price overhead, the failure to provide on-the-fly synchronization like the PalmPilot and the sluggishness of its OS (which wasn't improved until the Messagepad 2000, 2100 and eMate, which by then was way too late).
Steve Jobs also had a hand in essentially tossing the project out with the trash; rather than approve of designs which tried to make the devices more affordable, he announced division wasn't worthwhile to Apple's future (which included the iBook, which was basically the eMate on steroids). Go figure.
Mitnick can't touch a PC, as part of his sentancing; if he wanted his data back, he could have one of his friends mail him box filled with twenty pounds (11.339809 kilograms) worth of Post-It notes. ^_^
>They can be used for much more sophisticated purposes however. Most noteable, as your business card, perhaps your entire website, authentication (probably not likely), medical/personal records, identification (probably not likely, too easy to forge/fake), Product documentation (no more bulky manuals), and many other things conceivable...
Actually, medical and other lab facilities would be able to greatly benefit from these, since thier small size would allow for storing them in high numbers. (Blood drives and water analysis are two that come to mind.)
OTOH,I can also see these things being handed out as electronic "dog tags" at outdoor concerts, with colors/patterns denoting general access, vendor status, backstage pass, etc. and crappy radio station info/limited free isp gimmicks encoded on the data portion.
If it's done properly, a company like IBM could use these as an employee badge, with the wage slave/vendor/guest's user id & password encrypted on the data track.
It's funny how this happens almost immediately after the relaxing of crypto standards, not to mention the recent effors to encourage people to file in their tax returns online.
Cosm (cosm.mithral.com) is one such place; check out their FAQ.
While not actually working on the level of shared clock cycles, some of the more of a grassroots-oriented efforts include the Peacetree/Food Not Bombs Network. USENET's alt.beograd and some of the spider networks during the Gulf War, Soviet Upheaval & Tiannamen Suare Riots have been important communications relays.
The main issue here is "fair use" of airwaves.
For decades now, Mexico has transmitted radio broadcasts within levels which they have considered appropriate, to the ire of the U.S. on as the signals have jammed out the stateside broadcasts. This involved not only the statioms along the borders of Texas & Louisianna, but even as far as Baltimore, and the Eastern Seaboard.
iCrave's taken the spill of signals from U.S. broadcasts along the border (while in levels negotiated via free trade accords, etc.) and has used it for their own business purposes. One would think by now (as the FCC and even Congress have been sucking up to Rupert Murdoch and his ilk) the main brunt of legal action regards the distribution and control of a commodity (con$umer) resource.
Unlike the radio broder wars, this is a money issue, as any city which watches content from U.S. interests is "market share" regardless of country. Without revenue to studios, networks, or advertisers, the only free TV might as well be static.
You can generally pick one up from eBay for about $100 or so.
If you don't really need a server style rack,
an inelegant soloution would be to place the towers inside a utility cabinet, or like I'm planning to do, a wooden armoire. Some of them fetch ridiclous prices, but many hardware places as well as the odd Pier 1 type place usually have okay versions in pine for about $200. That may still seem high, but for that price, you'll be housing all your decks in one shot, as opposed to $/each.
Considering the race for megamergers such as this one, you'd think somebody at one of the business schools would've told half these CEOs & investment strategists about the original Dutch East India Trading Company. By the end of its days, the DETC had inevitably cracked under its own weight, as the new merger will undoubtedly will, should it actually be allowed to transact.
EMI, or rather, THORN/EMI as they're known in Europe (& Toshiba/EMI Entertainment in Japan, due to their broadcast and distribution arrangement for Asia), already owns a considerable piece of pie. Mixed with Time Warner without AOL's involvement would've been trouble enough by itself. Unless the international courts pounce upon this one, the markets are sure to stagnate, resulting in another "Dutch East" scenario.
And let's not forget, the DEITC was considered a "PRE-industrial revoloution" monopoly. Any progress that will occur in IS will do so in spite of the growth of AOL and its subsidies.
Sulfur, of course - probably the most appropriate use would be
during those "This Program Has Performed an Illegal Operation and Has Shut Down" crashes.
And we'd all know what The Onion would be like...
But the best would be Segfault, with Pall Mall Menthol - nobody would know if the smell mail app was working or not!
This reminds me of the zdnet pieces featuring Spenser F. Katt's "pal", Tilde. Basically a 3D rendered mannequin with a mid-80's haircut and casual streetclothes ('cause standard newscaster's outfits are so conservative & intimidating), etc.
What makes both Ananova and Tilde so scary are the fact that they're digital avatars based on Patrick Nagel's pinup work, often seen at your nearest shopping mall's framing gallery.
TFN also stands for the Transnational Financial Network, which is part of American Express, but somehow, that's probably not the right TFN, either.
It won't be long now, folks, before you start seeing blipverts!
Since the technology has already existed (frame-rate compression,etc.), and many networks use 15 second "mini-blurbs" between news updates, it won't be long before some programming honcho decides that time-sharing five or more ads in a 30 second timeslot would be a really "hot" concept...
...that Damned CDs and Alien Sex Fiend traveller's checks aren't too far behind.
The 80486 processor has a smaller instruction set than Pentium/MMX chipsets and their variants (AMD, CYRIX). The MMX sets are optimized more for multimedia functions than scientific calculations.
Another issue is the floating-point concern; though Intel has come a long way from the notorious Pentium 60.876564 MHz errors, there are still enough quirks in the more advanced calculations (especially in the IBM/Cyrix copycat processors) to make their use by an orbiiting telescope impractical.
As a 486 is exssentially a 386 chip with a built-in math coprocessor, its reliable calculation scale, along with the right operating command scheme would be as close to a RISC-based system as one could getwithout building a new chip out of whole cloth, or using larger clusters of older MAC - and of course, Motorola Dragonball - processors to achieve the same results.
Even if technology should fail, Viacom/Paramount will keep struggling to survive.
That's why they chose their "bunkernauts":
In theory, the strongest will become the next breed of celebs & ececs, while the rest become comsumers.
"We'll meet again, don't know where, don't know when..." - Dr. Strangelove