Ideas for a New World

I got the Roxics.com domain name back. Somehow by some great act or kindness, company policy or just miracle of God. I don’t know. All I know is I sent and email askign waht it would cost me to get it back and got a replay saying it was back in my account. So I checked and sure enough it was. I renewed it right away.

It’s going to take a few days to get it set up again, but it will be back. Either just forwarded to here or as a new an extended alternate version of this site.

Unfortunately I lost the roxics.com web site address. I owned it for four years and all was fine and good. Then this past year I stopped using hotmail and switched to gmail as my primary email account. It’s been a good while since this switch and I’ve found I only check my hotmail now about once a month. However my Dotster (my old domain register) still had my old hotmail address and sent my reminder to renew email to there. I didn’t get it in time. The domain went public and someone else bought it. It’s unfortuante. Who would buy it that quick. It can only be a cold hearted cybersquatter who wants nothing more then to just put up some stupid search page and try to makes pennies off of it. It should be illegal to do that.

Now I had to register roxics.net in it’s place. I will register all my domains for 10 years now. Just to make sure.

People are telling me they like the .net better. I hope so, it’s what I’ve got.

It’s not like the domain name meant lot to other people. But it did to me. I invented the word roxics. It was the name of a character in a story I’ve been writing for half my life. I adopted that characters name as my online identity and call sign for the last 5-6 years. It’s a sentimental thing. My calling card. Now I don’t even own the .com to it anymore. It just irks me to no end somebody would come along and grab it up that quick just because.

Ok I’m done bitching. Please forget about the dot com address. Never visit it again. By visiting it you’re only enabling the company/person who grabbed it into thinking they did the right thing because people will visit it and they’ll make money off that. So forget about the dot com. The dot net it where it’s at now. Tell everyone abotu roxics.net.

Tonight I was browsing google (don’t remember what for)and I came across this article
http://marshallbrain.com/robotic-nation.htm
which deals with the possiblity of robots eliminating 50% of American jobs by 2055. I have to admit I agree with the guy to some extent. This is not a new subject by any means. It’s been talked about for years and years. But I think it’s only within the last 20 years that people have come to accept it is actually possible within our lifetime.
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I started shooting photography back when I was in tenth grade. Previous to that I never really shot a still camera. I could probably count on my hands the number of times I took photos in my life before then. Some parents give their kids cameras and some kids just grabs peoples to use. I never was interested. I did however use a video camera from age 10. Just goofing around.

When I hit tenth grade I knew by then I wanted to be a filmmaker. But my high school didn’t offer any video classes so I decided the next best thing was to take a photography class.
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Typically I use this weblog as a way to present some new or different ideas. Or at least I have for the last so many entires. However for anyone who does check this site they’ll notice that I have changed the format in the last couple of days. Instead of being just a site about “Ideas for a New World” I’ve blended it with my personal website. I needed a better way to get to my personal website and well these “ideas” are personally mine. So it all works out. In trying to blend the two sites together I had a figure out a way to do it.
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Have you ever played Laser tag? Imagine for a minute if we introduced some form of new display technology to the game. You put on a pair of what looks like sunglasses but are completely clear. The glasses have a wire going off of them connected to a small box clipped to your belt. This box acts as a trasmitter of types. Also connected to this box is your headphones with mic. Your wearing a vest. Looks like a regular black vest. Except inside are hundreds of little sensors.
In your hand is a gun. Everyone around you is dressed similiar.
Suddenly the games begin.
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When I started roxics.com a couple years ago I never knew what to do with it. The word itself is the name of a character in a screenplay I’ve been writing for years. I bought the URL (roxics.com) as a way to reserve it for when I hoped to make the film so that it could be the official website. However…
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Imagine if you could do a 3d scan of various objects at a certain resolution. Say 1 megapixels (1 million pixels) per square centimeter. Then you took those various objects and placed them all in a 3d enviornment. You would end up with an enviornment that was several billion pixels in size. In order to be able to see/interact in that enviroment in a realisitc way how well would you need it displayed to you?
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French owned RCA has announced that it will start shipping DVD players in the United States that will automatically censor offensive language, nudity, violence and other “offensive” content from DVDs that are played on the new player. This was done at Wal-Mart’s urging, RCA has claimed. Both Wal-Mart and Kmart will sell the players for $79.
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I’ve been taking a look at a few screenshots for the game Doom3 which will be released later this year. I have to say this looks like a pretty intense game. The industry has come a long way.

I’m not a big gamer myself. Every once in a while I find myself playing one to fill in a little bordem. I’m certainly not a hardcore gamer like people who go to conventions and lan parties. My glory days of gaming were when I was a kid and the NES first came out.
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