Friday, June 15, 2012

13 and 15 -17-inch MacBook Pro


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacBook_Pro_(Intel-based) 

www.pcworld.com/article/163842/eight_reasons_your_next_computer_should_be_a_mac.html

The 17 inch laptop is still portable, but its also big enough to be a good substitute to the stationary desk top.
http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/11/apple-axes-17-inch-macbook-pro,
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/why-apple-dumped-the-17-inch-macbook-pro/20761,
http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/11/3078783/apple-quietly-discontinues-the-17-inch-macbook-pro,
http://www.cnet.com/laptops/apple-macbook-pro-15/4505-3121_7-35330109.html,
http://venturebeat.com/2012/06/11/apple-kills-17-inch-mabbook-pro-in-high-end-laptop-reshuffle,
http://www.techgoondu.com/2012/06/12/apple-refreshes-macbook-line-axes-17-inch-macbook-pro/#.UGRAE42PUQg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacBook_Pro_Retina-Technical_specifications:
http://www.apple.com/why-mac/compare/notebooks.html

http://www.ijailbreak.com/news/apple-discontinues-17-inch-macbook-pro-2012,
http://appleinsider.com/articles/12/06/08/apple_still_expected_to_retire_17_inch_macbook_pro_in_2012,
http://macbookpro.macrumors.comhttps://discussions.apple.com/thread/4128728?start=0&tstart=0
Considering how much money Apple brings in, there still should have been some 17in MBPs in production.
http://www.macworld.com/article/1167248/apple_discontinues_17_inch_macbook_pro.html,
http://www.trustedreviews.com/opinions/rip-macbook-pro-17-inch-why-we-won-t-miss-you,
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-3121_7-57451750-220/the-best-alternatives-to-the-late-great-17-inch-macbook-pro

Perhaps the 17-inch MacBook Pro 2011 will become a little like the 1957_Chevrolet_in_popularity.
http://www.digitaltrends.com/laptop-reviews/apple-macbook-pro-17-inch-2011-review,
http://www.techradar.com/reviews/pc-mac/laptops-portable-pcs/laptops-and-netbooks/apple-macbook-pro-2011-17-inch-933991/review  

Steve Jobs vs Bill Gates. Epic Rap Battles of History 

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Digital Money

Electronic_money & business continue to intertwine into digital_money. Already for many the coin wont be part of the-digital-currency-of-the-future. That's because the stored-value_card is much more convenient than carrying a pocket full of change. Banks & governments can select whatever form of ElectronicProperty they want & the public will just have to lump it. Eventually all money will be in the form of debit_cards & credit cards. Although it will be much more convenient, it might not be any safer.


Its all being coordinated under the global watchful eye.

Saturday, March 24, 2012

The Cosmic Computer Hypothesis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacron-3 , 
http://www.novaspivack.com/uncategorized/is-the-universe-a-computer-new-evidence-emerges ,
SimCity,  The_SimsSimEarth, Earth_Simulatorwww.messagetoeagle.com/livingearthsimulator.php Welt_am_DrahtThe_Thirteenth_Floor

{"As for my own collaboration on adinkras, the path my colleagues and I have trod since the early 2000s has led me to conclude that codes play a previously unsuspected role in equations that possess the property of supersymmetry. This unsuspected connection suggests that these codes may be ubiquitous in nature, and could even be embedded in the essence of reality. If this is the case, we might have something in common with the Matrix science-fiction films, which depict a world where everything human beings experience is the product of a virtual-reality-generating computer network.
If that sounds crazy to you — well, you could be right. It is certainly possible to overstate mathematical links between different systems: as the physicist Eugene Wigner pointed out in 1960, just because a piece of mathematics is ubiquitous and appears in the description of several distinct systems does not necessarily mean that those systems are related to each other. The number pi, after all, occurs in the measurement of circles as well as in the measurement of population distributions. This does not mean that populations are related to circles.
Yet for a moment, let us imagine that this alternative Matrix-style world contains some theoretical physicists, and that one of them asks, "How could we discover whether we live inside a Matrix?". One answer might be "Try to detect the presence of codes in the laws that describe physics." I leave it to you to decide whether Wigner's warning should be applied to the theoretical physicists living in the Matrix — and to us. James Gates is a theoretical physicist at the University of Maryland, US, e-mail gatess@wam.umd.edu "} http://being.publicradio.org/programs/2012/codes-for-reality/gates-symbolsofpower.shtml

The cosmic-computer-hypothesis 
Metaphorically, each galaxy is like its own BD or DVD. http://thefutureofthings.com/site/7895/galaxy-zoo.html

In ancient times the crystal-ball wasn't considered to be a form of augmented-reality. There was just a natural concept that cosmic information could be transmitted & perceived in the world.

1863 Paris_in_the_Twentieth_Century

To The_Observer, reality is a big interactive recording of space & time. He & they are able to skip through time & occasionally do more than just observe. 
www.fringebloggers.com/explore/the-fringe-timeline

www.fringebloggers.com/fringe-4-22-brave-new-world-part-2-observations

Saturday, March 17, 2012

Friday, January 13, 2012

Person of Interest (The Super)


Its fascinating to observe when various things start & end throughout history. The supercomputer depicted in POI is an intriguing part of this entertaining TV series. Of course, such special computers are essential for massive surveillance

Taraji_P._Henson is one of the main people in POI & was born on 9-11 in 1970.  


The Kryptos Mystery, the movie, Enemy-of-the-State & the Recorded-Future-Concept  



Wednesday, December 28, 2011

The - and + of RFID

People need to see various perspectives on this stuff for the mind to fully register the implications of such gadgets
Radio-frequency_identification has many benefits, but it also means that people can be tracked like a bit of livestock.

Saturday, December 03, 2011

The Global Surveillance Industry...

Things like GPS & RFID certainly have a good side, but the dark side of using data & digital-security can be challenging. https://wikileaks.org/the-spyfiles.html
As the Web grows, personal_privacy is tougher to maintain. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiLeaks
The TV drama, Person-of-Interest provides a fascinating depiction of a supercomputer that can record & access almost anything.

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Get Smart-phone

The days of talking into a phone the size of a shoe or a boot are long gone.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoe_phone 
The mobile phone use to be as big as a shoe & didn't boot up. It was a basic on & off device & a simple transmitter & receiver. Star Trek gave people in the 1960s an idea of what it could be like to have a personal communication device that's smaller than an apple & orange. A pocket size phone couldn't happen until the technology started to get small enough to allow for the gradual development path into pocket computers. That process took from the 1970s to the early 21st century.

Shoe Phone featured on Get Smart.

The 1960s version of Get Smart never had to worry about boot up speeds because the technology was so slow & bulky. www.fiftiesweb.com/tv/get-smart.htm
Today there are so many kinds of phones & choosing the best one is a matter perspective, objective & how you want to access the net.
Eventually an artificial arm might have a standard bionic phone included.

Jules_Verne was one of the few people to realize the long term potential of Telegraphy & made several interesting predictions about technology. Long before the Internet, newspapers like The Daily_Telegraph, realized that they could transmit & receive information from around the world.

A bionic arm or robotic limb would have to have its own Bluetooth & nano-fiber optic_communication system. In order for bionic limbs & other parts to fully mimic natural limbs, the proper signals need to reach the brain.

So the phone eventually became like a TV & the TV a phone, because of smaller & faster computers.

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The Tablet_PC and the iPad have the potential to become a mobile intercom, but hopefully not shoe size phone.


Monday, September 19, 2011

Digital Security Technology and Maps, etc.

The website, unknowncountry.com has a good post on digital security & mentions Kevin Mitnick.
Cyber_security is essential but electronic-tracking of the public has the potential to get outrageous. Several books & movies have provided warnings of how things could get.
Kevin Mitnick is one of several people that can find there way around computers & the Internet.
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The Concept of The Global Data System goes back quite a ways.
Once a Hypertext_Editing_System was established then there had to be a World_Wide_Web. Eventually the development of locating each web_page became a goal for Larry_Page who became a key component in creating the algorithm for the PageRank. Although Vannevar_Bush didn't have the same level of technology that was available to the founders of Google, he was already realizing the potential for a global library or database that would become The Internet.
http://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/2011/10/get-smartphone.html


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/111_Eighth_Avenue,
http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2010/09/14/111-8th-avenue-carrier-hotel-is-for-sale,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/111_Eighth_Avenue#Google

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Fiber#Future_expansion

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Exchange_Point,
http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2007/10/domestic_taps,
http://www.telegeography.com/telecom-maps/global-traffic-map

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Modular_Data_Center,
http://www-935.ibm.com/services/us/en/it-services/it-facilities-assessment-design-and-construction-services-portable-modular-data-center.html

http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/m.dodge/cybergeography/atlas/more_isp_maps.html 

http://www.telepresenceoptions.com/2008/04/att_first_service_provider 




Saturday, September 10, 2011

From the (Crimson) Sky Down and into the U2 MATRIX

Before people got to see the first MATRIX movie in 1999, U2 transitioned into their cyberpunk ZOO TV entertainment phase. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-09-12-tm-34172-story.html , 
"the tour began in Lakeland, Florida, on 29 February 1992 and ended in Tokyo, Japan, on 10 December 1993." 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoo_TV_Tour 
From_the_Sky_Down : //www.u2.com/news/title/from-the-sky-down ,
http://www.slicingupeyeballs.com/2011/09/09/u2-from-the-sky-down-trailer-showtime ,

We’re free to fly the crimson sky...

"And I have no compass and I have no map" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooropa_(song)  


William Gibson has had some key influence for U2 over the years.
Thus, its not surprising that there was some collaboration.


William_Gibson was born on March 17, 1948. Is it that surprising that a famous band from Ireland would eventually cross paths with him? http://people.loyno.edu/~hobbs/bib/wgibson.htm

U2 ZOO TV Tour

ZOO TV 1st leg: North America

: Lakeland Arena - Lakeland, Florida, USA


There happens to be a Lake_Gibson in Lakeland,_Florida
https://upload.wikimedia.org/Lakeland_FLA_lake_Mirror , 

Of course 1992-2-29 was a leap-year and that was perfect for U2 to symbolically venture down The_Rabbit hole.

"U2 started the Zoo Tv Tour on February 29, 1992 with a sold out concert with a total of 7,400 people."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RP_Funding_Center There is a W. Lemon Street near by.

Zoo TV Live from Sydney 1993-11-27

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoo_TV:_Live_from_Sydney

There is a lot of synchronicity between, W.Gibson, U2 and The_Matrix, that should be revealed.




It's all about exploring, The Nature Of Reality. (TNOR

Monday, August 15, 2011

Electronic Tracking Chips and Tattoos, etc.

Its good to see that spychips.com is still online to provide valuable information from a different perspective.
http://www.spychips.com/media/liz-mcintyre.html

Digital tracking and data-mining are a big business.
Katherine Albrecht & Roger Tolces offer some interesting perspectives on technology & its potential for abuse.
Lauren Weinstein is quite an expert consultant on security & privacy.

Sunday, August 14, 2011

Digital Memory Crystals and Robert Vamosi

www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/Supermans-memory-crystals-may-become-reality-in-computers.html,
Eventually once computers are fast enough, total immersion VR worlds could be created. Perhaps even an entire universe when enough data storage is available. A simulation of a city, world or galaxy. Some people already liken the universe as being like a vast OS.

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 Crystal the Monkey EPIC Red Carpet Adventure "The Hangover Part 2" Premiere 


Tuesday, March 15, 2011

A Logic Named Joe (1946)

A_Logic Named_Joe provides a fascinating glimpse into an automated_online_assistant or personal A.I. program.
See the transcript at baen.com & bestsciencefictionstories.com for another perspective on the story. Some more interesting observations at markbernstein.org & sfsite.com .

From As_We_May_Think to Machines_That_Think
Hypertext on a Smart TV is a commonplace feature & eventually most machines will be somewhere in between Siri & HAL.

A Smart-TV, along with a tablet computer & smartphone might be considered as an inanimate form of A.I. Of course laptops & phones are designed to be portable devices, but don't travel under their own power. Animated A.I. is basically self propelled robotics & the movie A.I. provides a glimpse of various possible robots. There is even one A.I. bot called, Joe.

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=A.I.

Saturday, January 15, 2011

FB, Big Data, Tracking and Entertainment...

When you have a lot of money to invest sometimes you just have to invest in metadata

The Facebook_effect continues to grow in popularity and so much more data continues to be tracked and stored. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Accidental_Billionaires , 
You start out in a rock band in your teens & a few decades later the big money just keeps piling up. That's what has happened to a few of the world's most popular and successful bands like U2

Since the early 1990s, U2 has always been big on technology, as well as good showmanship.

U2 in Montreal.

Saturday, December 18, 2010

Tron: 1982 and 2010 Legacy, etc.

TRON: Legacy 3D-Blu-ray , http://tron-legacy.movie-trailer.com , http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1339119/The-real-Tron-Lightcycle-hit-120mph-costs-55-000.html , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:TRON_Legacy_Light_Cycle.JPG , http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3822028288/tt1104001 , http://tron-legacy.movie-trailer.com/2009/07/tron-2-lightcycle.html - Tron:_Legacy#Development & Tron:_Evolution#Plot
File:Tron poster.jpg
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In the TRON movies, the consciousness of the protagonist is transferred or downloaded into a digital body. In Avatar, a genetically engineered body is grown for the user to temporarily link to it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacron-3
Eventually a person will be able to link to their digital avatar and enter something like SimCity for an hour or so. If you are in the game for a day or 2, you might get thirsty & hungry & certainly will have to go to the bathroom. A lot of people can regularly sleep for 7-9 hours & not have to go to the bathroom. So there could be a form of digital dreaming. The movie, Vanilla_Sky depicts a very advanced version of a digital dream program, where elements of the real world are integrated into the experience program.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_theory#Many-player_and_population_games ,
http://www.gametheory.nethttp://oyc.yale.edu/economics/econ-159

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thirteenth_Floor ,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulation#Computer_science ,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_simulation#Types ,
http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/general/whatis.htm

http://www.realitysandwich.com/what_are_akashic_records ,
The concept of the akashic_records has been around since ancient times.
http://www.crystalinks.com/akashicrecords.html,
http://www.edgarcayce.org/are/spiritualGrowth.aspx?id=2078
TUS is a fascinating book & website that explores the nature of reality.
http://www.theuniversesolved.com , http://urlm.co/www.theuniversesolved.com 

People will continue to gather & store as much data as possible, on everyone & everything within reach.
http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2010/12/03/wsj-google-has-bought-111-8th-avenue

The Earth Simulator will eventually become a super-program matrix. http://www.top500.org/system/167148
The various religions & belief systems of the world already imply that this world & universe is some kind of an interactive construct of space & time.
http://www.futurict.eu/the-project

A global resource & population management system might eventually become general public knowledge.
http://www.breathingearth.net
For now, most people remain unaware of such a global control program. At a certain point someone or something might determine that there are too many people on a limited planet. An advanced A.I. system might eventually see humanity as a herd that needs to be reduced or eliminated. The Matrix provides depictions of runaway A.I. technology.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/seo/the-matrix-4-and-the-matrix-5-are-on-the-way

Bill_Joy wrote a cautionary article in the year 2000 about the possibility of runaway A.I.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_the_Future_Doesn't_Need_Us ,
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy.html

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2010/oct/21/terminator-judgement-day-cameron

616 & 666, etc. can be a common theme in various Sci-Fi stories. However for some, this isn't just Sci-Fi entertainment.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_the_beast#616
1,911-6-16 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM#History
 6-16-1977 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Corporation#Overall_timeline

The cover of this book shows, 666/66/666 from a company that started up on 6-16 in the year 1,911. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
Tools & technology have been used throughout history to capture & kill people.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust#Company_response
Obviously, most people hope that nothing on the scale of WW2 ever happens again.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_during_World_War_II#Germany

As technology progresses, digital transactions to buy & sell things becomes more commonplace.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Payments#Competition
People are already tracked in so many ways.
http://www.av1611.org/666/whatis.htmlhttp://biblehub.com/revelation/13-17.htm

http://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Revelation-13-17
Its important that people study various religions & philosophies to gain a wider perspective of things.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/world.htm
Many people are atheist or agnostic, but still might be curious about various patterns that supercomputers can reveal about symbolism, coincidence & synchronicity. Especially if this world might be part of an interactive cosmic recording and projection of space-time.

Unless A.I. has specific instructions not to harm humans, there could be trouble. If A.I. can't understand why its OK to kill some people, but not others, it might not see any reason for people to exist in general.
http://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.ca/2011/03/logic-named-joe.html

Battlestar_Galactica is another cautionary story about intelligent machines that no longer seeing any value in the existence of humans. Thus, the A.I. units eventually want to destroy most people.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight_Rider_(1982_TV_series)#Plot
People die in car crashes all the time, perhaps some day with A.I., there might be less crashes. Technology has always been a double sided issue.

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=A.I.