As far as I know, things don't usually evolve right in front of our eyes. Sometimes, the strains that already existed (and which took millons of years to evolve) become dominant for whatever reason. I assume that's where you use "emerge".
Unless you think there's something wrong with being a 'young girl', how is this an insult? So they made it thinking about girls, and then a bunch of weird old guys liked it. It's not like they're calling you a nazi or something like that.. It might be inaccurate, but it's not really offensive.
I have a bunch of DS games that show a pink screen right after you load them, and I'm not ashamed by it! (I wouldn't be caught dead with the pink DS tho, I have my limits)
I thought the purpose of the NDA was to stop people from figuring out how the hardware works.. how will they do that if I can see the source of the driver?
I assume that the reason why most companies won't do open source drivers is because they want to cripple the hardware from the driver, to speculate or do stuff like DRM and things like that..
I think it's more like a series of trucks connected by a bunch of tubes. Sometimes it's all about sending stuff through the tube (IRC), sometimes it's about dumping stuff on a truck (google has some big ones), most of the time it's a convination of both.
I think we laugh at the guy because of the bizarre situation: a senator had an idea about how the internet worked (that he pulled out of his ass) and when he discovered he was wrong, he just went out to enlighten the rest of the world about it, like he just made a big discovery for all humanity.
that was the pilot. and BTW, the 'building' was the world trace center. aparently it was a government plot so that some arab group would take credit for the attack and the government would get rich in some endless war.
like infinite resolution (can you enhance that?), or clients that pull every available record on the database from the server and flash them on the screen while searching for dna/fingerprints/faces (no wonder they constantly complain about the network and servers being slow on 24).
Heh South America and Japan would take some offense
Being from one of the countries in south america, I have to say that I've never seen a baseball bat in person. I know we have a baseball staduim (I know this because there's a sign that says "baseball stadium" about 20km outside the city, on the way to the airport), but it's mostly used for football (see original post for the definition of that word).
I think most people here would take offence to your implication that they play such a sport, but of course I can't speak for the rest of the sub-continent.
There seems to be 2 choices to stop the 'copyright infringement '. We 'adapt to the new business model' (or something), or we find a way to stop it. So is 'finding a way to stop it' a valid option? Does education work? Is there a way to enforce the law that does not require giving total control of the internet to some organization, to decide what information you can and cannot access at the moment the request is made?
I wouldn't pay $300 for the CM1 (I don't have that much disposable income), but it's interesting to at least see how many people would.. For this kind of deal (buy one for you, X for the starving children in Uganda) to work massively, we need to figure out what we can do in the 'real world' with the machine. Sure, I'd get one just because it's cool, as soon as I can afford it ($200 would be all right), but what could a 'real person' do with it, say in a office, sitting next to the desktop computer? Since OLPC is doing their best to prevent anyone from answering this question, it's up to the ~3000 'early adopters' to figure it out.
7. People Want Technology thats 15 Minutes Ahead of Its Time
Wrong, and this is why this whole article is useless. Remember the first time you used a modem, how you thought "this is how all information should be transmitted", and when you tried to go out and tell everybody about it, their response was basically "leave me alone kid, I'm reading the newspaper here"? 10 years later, and people are starting to realize that "OMFG, newspapers might become obsolete!!!!?" Pleople like their technology at least 5 years behind of its time.
I'm not really defending the new formats (and I won't buy into them until they sell me a drive that can play both formats for = $100), but a bunch of guys saying "we don't need some new fancy format, we're fine with good old DVDs" sounds familiar.. Lets talk again in 5 years.
I knew a guy who was running this for our team (Argentina) on the olympic games (golden medal, not that they'd need some pansy software to win it anyway:p), and he had been using it for a while on local european teams.. It's basically a big data-entry effort.. They have a bunch of guys recoding every movement of the players and the ball during the match, and then they do whatever analysis they need.
No big deal I think.. Unless they can input the information into a football-playing robot, they're still dealing with the human factor..
If your presentation is about the impact of bittorrent in society, what difference does it make if the use is legal or not? There are a lot of things that shape society that aren't legal.. For example, I'm sure any history class will teach you about the black market of alcohol created by prohibition, that was part of society.. There are current, technology-related examples too; Napster became pretty popular in its time, and I'm sure most of the stuff on those 60gb mp3 players people have now is not exactly legal (at least not to the satisfaction of the RIAA).
The truth is that most people use bittorrent to download illegal music, illegal movies/tv show, illegal anime (yes, fansubs are illegal no matter how you put it). That's the real effect on society, and you can show it objectively (I think it's a good thing, but that's another discussion).
plus, they'll have an easier prononuncing 'wii' than 'revolution', which has an 'l' and an 'r' that are supposed to sound differently. _that_ would be a challenge for them.
called "Why do Wii care?". Don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of nintendo, and I'm looking forward to this.. But really, who cares? what's in a name anyway?
But maybe it's just me.. a lot of people seem to think that 'hard core gamers' will respond better to a name like "TEH SUPAR XTREME GAMING FRAMEWORK" or something.. I find that annoying, maybe I'm out of touch..
I agree on 3d graphics, but not even finance requires 'advanced' math skills. Last time I had to use math (collision of a segment with a circle for a 2d game), the math involved was stuff I learned on high school (and not some fancy private place, just an average 3rd-world country public high school). And I didn't even have to actually know all the details, just understand the basic concepts, enough to let the math software solve the equations for me.
Sure, for a lot of specific problems, a mathematical aproach will be a lot simpler and optimal (like the typical "how many bricks does it take to build a piramid?"), but most of the times it's enough to recognize that you need math, and understand the basic concepts.
Most people here will tell you "take a formal course", but the thing is that we're used to learning things that might seem complicated, but are based on a few simple concepts that one can learn from reading a couple of pages on the manual and then looking at the source. I think the right question would be "how can I learn japanese the same way I learned programming?", and there is no easy answer. You have to learn around 1000 'basic' words, and then their variations (like conjugations, etc).
I know people who learned english from games like Maniac Mansion when they were teenagers, but that meant spending several hours every day on the games, and they didn't have to learn any new alphabets to get started. I don't know what would happen if you gave a japanese graphic adventure to a teenager (but I'd be interested to know:)
plus they just say "the internet is better without centralized control, it's better for us to control it instead of a multi-government entity" (wtf?). That's not really a very good point, they're just stating their position (and inplying that they're serious about it). It would have been very easy to rebut it.. I wonder why they much such a big deal about it.
I worked for the local 'lego ripoff' leading brand in my country a couple of years ago (they wanted to make a bunch of video games to go with their sets), and I remember they had similar problems with their sets. The main reason why they favored the 'specialized' sets was marketing: anyone can build a bunch of square blocks and compete with them, and in the case of lego they can even make a themed set, but only one can make a 'Star Wars' set, and that's what gives them a marketing edge. Otherwise, why would I buy lego when I can buy Mis Ladrillos or whatever cheap knock-off?
In the case of Mindstorms, the 'media buzz' is mostly a bunch of geeks writing in their blogs; that's probably not enough for lego. They sell to kids, that's where they get their money from, and kids don't care about being able to compile thieir own programs.. Still, they could make an effort, since robots _are_ cool, and they don't have as much competition in that area (on the other hand, I just found out that there's a local 'mindstorms rip-off' brand here now, so I'm buying one as soon as I can get them to tell me what kind of CPU they use).
This reminds me of what happened to "the night stalker". They decided to remake it, take some 'liberties with the original', so it became a cheap copy of the x-files (which aparently was heavily influenced by the original night stalker), and now it's cancelled.
I hope they make something interesting out of this, and not just try to ride on Lost's popularity.. (I didn't really care for the x-files or the night stalker, but I like the prisoner and lost).
the question of oversight, and the paradigm of co-operation amongst all stakeholders.
Nobody wants to have supervision, and nobody wants some comitee deciding who the 'stakeholders' are. What we need is to be certain that no government or corporation will be able to pull stupid shit like killing the xxx TLD or Verisign's hijacking of the root for their little search engine.
Also, I know the start trek geeks hate to consider Enterprise as part of the franchise, but the captain of the NX-02 was a chick too, and she wasn't bad looking (I'll take her over the captain of the voyager any time).
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As far as I know, things don't usually evolve right in front of our eyes. Sometimes, the strains that already existed (and which took millons of years to evolve) become dominant for whatever reason. I assume that's where you use "emerge".
I have a bunch of DS games that show a pink screen right after you load them, and I'm not ashamed by it! (I wouldn't be caught dead with the pink DS tho, I have my limits)
I assume that the reason why most companies won't do open source drivers is because they want to cripple the hardware from the driver, to speculate or do stuff like DRM and things like that..
I think we laugh at the guy because of the bizarre situation: a senator had an idea about how the internet worked (that he pulled out of his ass) and when he discovered he was wrong, he just went out to enlighten the rest of the world about it, like he just made a big discovery for all humanity.
right before the plane hits the building
that was the pilot. and BTW, the 'building' was the world trace center. aparently it was a government plot so that some arab group would take credit for the attack and the government would get rich in some endless war.
so unrealistic.
like infinite resolution (can you enhance that?), or clients that pull every available record on the database from the server and flash them on the screen while searching for dna/fingerprints/faces (no wonder they constantly complain about the network and servers being slow on 24).
Heh South America and Japan would take some offense
Being from one of the countries in south america, I have to say that I've never seen a baseball bat in person. I know we have a baseball staduim (I know this because there's a sign that says "baseball stadium" about 20km outside the city, on the way to the airport), but it's mostly used for football (see original post for the definition of that word).
I think most people here would take offence to your implication that they play such a sport, but of course I can't speak for the rest of the sub-continent.
should we start moving to freenet now?
There seems to be 2 choices to stop the 'copyright infringement '. We 'adapt to the new business model' (or something), or we find a way to stop it.
So is 'finding a way to stop it' a valid option? Does education work? Is there a way to enforce the law that does not require giving total control of the internet to some organization, to decide what information you can and cannot access at the moment the request is made?
I wouldn't pay $300 for the CM1 (I don't have that much disposable income), but it's interesting to at least see how many people would.. For this kind of deal (buy one for you, X for the starving children in Uganda) to work massively, we need to figure out what we can do in the 'real world' with the machine. Sure, I'd get one just because it's cool, as soon as I can afford it ($200 would be all right), but what could a 'real person' do with it, say in a office, sitting next to the desktop computer?
Since OLPC is doing their best to prevent anyone from answering this question, it's up to the ~3000 'early adopters' to figure it out.
Why do we assume that an attack on a US 'target' (NASA) is protesting a war between israel and lebanon?
Last time I checked, iraq was still at war..
Wrong, and this is why this whole article is useless. Remember the first time you used a modem, how you thought "this is how all information should be transmitted", and when you tried to go out and tell everybody about it, their response was basically "leave me alone kid, I'm reading the newspaper here"? 10 years later, and people are starting to realize that "OMFG, newspapers might become obsolete!!!!?" Pleople like their technology at least 5 years behind of its time.
I'm not really defending the new formats (and I won't buy into them until they sell me a drive that can play both formats for = $100), but a bunch of guys saying "we don't need some new fancy format, we're fine with good old DVDs" sounds familiar.. Lets talk again in 5 years.
o noes, If someone got a hold of lilo's password, they could start spamming the users with useless server-wide notices nobody cares about!!1!
No big deal I think.. Unless they can input the information into a football-playing robot, they're still dealing with the human factor..
The truth is that most people use bittorrent to download illegal music, illegal movies/tv show, illegal anime (yes, fansubs are illegal no matter how you put it). That's the real effect on society, and you can show it objectively (I think it's a good thing, but that's another discussion).
plus, they'll have an easier prononuncing 'wii' than 'revolution', which has an 'l' and an 'r' that are supposed to sound differently. _that_ would be a challenge for them.
But maybe it's just me.. a lot of people seem to think that 'hard core gamers' will respond better to a name like "TEH SUPAR XTREME GAMING FRAMEWORK" or something.. I find that annoying, maybe I'm out of touch..
I agree on 3d graphics, but not even finance requires 'advanced' math skills. Last time I had to use math (collision of a segment with a circle for a 2d game), the math involved was stuff I learned on high school (and not some fancy private place, just an average 3rd-world country public high school). And I didn't even have to actually know all the details, just understand the basic concepts, enough to let the math software solve the equations for me.
Sure, for a lot of specific problems, a mathematical aproach will be a lot simpler and optimal (like the typical "how many bricks does it take to build a piramid?"), but most of the times it's enough to recognize that you need math, and understand the basic concepts.
I know people who learned english from games like Maniac Mansion when they were teenagers, but that meant spending several hours every day on the games, and they didn't have to learn any new alphabets to get started. I don't know what would happen if you gave a japanese graphic adventure to a teenager (but I'd be interested to know :)
plus they just say "the internet is better without centralized control, it's better for us to control it instead of a multi-government entity" (wtf?). That's not really a very good point, they're just stating their position (and inplying that they're serious about it). It would have been very easy to rebut it.. I wonder why they much such a big deal about it.
In the case of Mindstorms, the 'media buzz' is mostly a bunch of geeks writing in their blogs; that's probably not enough for lego. They sell to kids, that's where they get their money from, and kids don't care about being able to compile thieir own programs.. Still, they could make an effort, since robots _are_ cool, and they don't have as much competition in that area (on the other hand, I just found out that there's a local 'mindstorms rip-off' brand here now, so I'm buying one as soon as I can get them to tell me what kind of CPU they use).
I hope they make something interesting out of this, and not just try to ride on Lost's popularity.. (I didn't really care for the x-files or the night stalker, but I like the prisoner and lost).
Nobody wants to have supervision, and nobody wants some comitee deciding who the 'stakeholders' are. What we need is to be certain that no government or corporation will be able to pull stupid shit like killing the xxx TLD or Verisign's hijacking of the root for their little search engine.
Also, I know the start trek geeks hate to consider Enterprise as part of the franchise, but the captain of the NX-02 was a chick too, and she wasn't bad looking (I'll take her over the captain of the voyager any time).