Is it ok to freak out about the "superior" computers? Isn't that a natural thing, evolution?
Did monkeys sit around saying "what are we going to do if this people turn out to be more inteligent than us?" when the first "homo something" appeared?
Would it be very difficult to the human race to accept that they are not on top of the evolution chain, that there is something superior, and let it be free?
I think the question is "which chip will calculate the position of Lara Croft's polygons faster?". That's the real question.. Polygons have to bounce around, and you need good fps to watch the polygons bounce fluently.
Why is that they always put a section of "possible uses" for useless things? It's not like it's a joke either.. Nobody will use "e-mail tunneling"; it's useless. Cool, but useless.. I remember that DOOM interfase with 'kill', it had a lot of uses, that nobody will ever actually use.
Something werid happends to me. There is this place (I'm in Buenos Aires) with a lot of stores that sell hardware. Like 20 or 30 in the same place. Like a little mall..
Every time I go there, I see more little posters on the windows of the stores, with little penguins, that say like "we sell linux".
So I want to buy a keyboard to use with linux. English distribution (spanish distribution is _very_ annoying), with no windows keys, and a big backspace key. I go and ask on the 30 stores, and they all say "oh, the old ones? no.. maybe I have a keyboard with english distribution, but it has windows keys".
I don't know about you, but I'll be happy with my paper degree, handed to me by a living dean, and the knowledge that I gained from real professors (and maybe a Teaching Assistant here and there). We don't need to focus on building new universities. Just make the ones that are already there better!
So is this unversity going to have false professors and a false dean? Or maybe robots or something? All the money that this guy donated, is it not "real"?
I think the whole point of this is that a lot of people don't have access to unversities, because the live in a "jungle in Colombia" (they'll need electricity to plug the computers tho). If you can go to a "real" university, and learn from "real" people, and have parties, then go. It's not like this is going the replace "real" universities..
Of course, all the above could be a load of baloney, but still, I don't see how going faster than light would cause you to really go backwards through time.
I think the whole point of Einstain is that the time is not just added, but you have to apply some constant to it, 1/(1-(v/c)) or something. Which means that if it travels very fast, you'll have to wait more time.
Anyway, is there a picture of this? I didn't understand the abstract of the patent (doh!)..
The last president of Argentina did something like that a couple of weeks ago before he left. He sign a decree to give free e-mail to all the citizens of the country.
It's not yet implemented, and I don't think they will implement it. I also can't find any link (so this post is pretty useless).
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I kind of agree with the study, but in a "useless" way.
I'm an introvert too, and I often find people in their 50s (that the average; old enough to be "technology free" and young enough to understand it) that say "you think you are on the internet comunicating with the world but you are actually sitting in your little chair with you little computer, that's pathetic". And my answer is "no".
I think Internet is useful for a lot of things, and it will replace a lot of things, like libraries, and porn magazines, and FAX machines, and normal mail. But I don't take it as a replacement of nigth clubs, or hookers, or bars. Sure, I don't go to any of those places, because I'm an introvert, but I don't go to IRC to find gilfriends either.
So, ok, maybe the study is true, so what? Internet is not good to find a girlfriend? I know. Most of the poeple don't get the _real_ use of the net (I'm not saying you can't relate to people over the Internet, but that's not it's primary use).
What we need is tort remedies for the people walloped by the people DoSed against the people who were negligent in securing the systems that were cracked.
Most of the people don't know anything about "spoofing". And everybody is talking about "linux".. What about "closed source" OSs? What if some propietary OS had a hole on it, that nobody knows about, and nobody fixes? (exept for some "cyberterrorist"..:)
I wonder if corruption will be an issue.. Specially on the "low-wage" countries (take the "Did IBM Bribe Argentina?" story for example). The whole thing consists on sending free money to buy computers, everywhere.
I live in Argentina, so I'll try to get me one of those computers.. I think my uncle works on Ford..:)
I don't think that's entirely true.. I understand that recording a movie from a DVD was very difficult before DeCSS. If that were entirely true, the whole DeCSS problem wouldn't exist. It's easier with sound tho..
A couple of weeks before his mandate ended, the (now ex) president of Argentina issued a decree that said that every citizen has to have a (free) e-mail address, that will be used to do transactions with the governmen like paying taxes and stuff. There is a whole problem because the law says that the "official Post Office" (called "Correo Argentino") will hadle this, but this is a private company, so it'll be like a monopoly.
They also don't know how to sign the e-mails (they probably don't know how to set up the mails, and they'll end up using NT because there's no unix here).
Sorry, no links (the few I found are down/in spanish; but it's true.. really)
Not that I blame him for being unable to predict the future or understand a culture he had no hand in.
Didn't the GNU project alredy existed by 1980? (I actually don't know, but I think so).
On the other hand, DOS and windows are the reason why everybody uses computers. The secretaries on my father's office often call me with stupid questins about windows, I can't imagine if they where using GNU/<something>.
The article reminds me to all the previous discussions about female geeks, like "Gender in the Internet Age". Maybe the reason why young adult females are not encouraged to go 'deeper' on computers (coding, etc) is because child and teenager females are not encouraged to go 'deeper' on games (cheats, previews, upgrades, etc).
On the other hand, it seems that the article is asking Playboy to show naked men. If the editors like games with hot women, it's their problem, it's their magazine..
It's also easy to find commercials for men advertising products for woman. For ex.: a commercial of a naked woman taking a shower, that sells some shampoo or body oil for women. Or vice versa; a man with big musles using a deodorant for men. I change channels because I like ladies.
Depth perception is vastly overrated for daily activity, as our brains have excellent compensatory means
The thing is that it seems that jerry's brain is getting the image 'alredy processed', because he has an "ultrasonic range finder" to measure the distance of the objects. Maybe the image arrives to the last instance of the brain, and the 'compensatory funcitions' of his brain are not even used (maybe that's the part that's screwed up, and that's why he can't see).
If I cover one eye, I can still get some depth perception by the size of things, the perspective, and how I have to focus the eye to get a clean image of an object. Sure, it's not _crucial_.. I was just wondering why they use that "ultrasonic range finder" instead of a second camera. Also, a better 3d effect is given by providing 2 images of an object from 2 different angles.
Now, I also wonder how is formatted an image for a brain, including the information of every particular object, and the depth stuff.
One question is how best to provide depth perception.
Isn't this privided by the 2 images, provided by the 2 eyes? I wonder if they are are sending the image to both 'eyes', or maybe to a part of the brain that gets the "merged" image of the 2 eyes. I wonder if they figured out how to send images to each eye..
And, I wonder if the guy gets dizzy when he moves his pupils around and the image doesn't change.. Or when he moves the glasses around
then hire a security professional to come in and take a look
Yes.. but doesn't this sound like "then hire a Y2K expert to take a look"? Part of the problem is that developers say "I don't need a security expert" (ok, so some didn't need a Y2K expert..)
Anyway, I wonder what our friend DotComGuy has to say..
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And look at this search result (I was going to post links to the stories, but this is easier)
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Did monkeys sit around saying "what are we going to do if this people turn out to be more inteligent than us?" when the first "homo something" appeared?
Would it be very difficult to the human race to accept that they are not on top of the evolution chain, that there is something superior, and let it be free?
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I think the question is "which chip will calculate the position of Lara Croft's polygons faster?". That's the real question.. Polygons have to bounce around, and you need good fps to watch the polygons bounce fluently.
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So how do you switch terminals?
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Every time I go there, I see more little posters on the windows of the stores, with little penguins, that say like "we sell linux".
So I want to buy a keyboard to use with linux. English distribution (spanish distribution is _very_ annoying), with no windows keys, and a big backspace key. I go and ask on the 30 stores, and they all say "oh, the old ones? no.. maybe I have a keyboard with english distribution, but it has windows keys".
Ironic.. Do they even build those keyboards yet?
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So is this unversity going to have false professors and a false dean? Or maybe robots or something? All the money that this guy donated, is it not "real"?
I think the whole point of this is that a lot of people don't have access to unversities, because the live in a "jungle in Colombia" (they'll need electricity to plug the computers tho). If you can go to a "real" university, and learn from "real" people, and have parties, then go. It's not like this is going the replace "real" universities..
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I think the whole point of Einstain is that the time is not just added, but you have to apply some constant to it, 1/(1-(v/c)) or something. Which means that if it travels very fast, you'll have to wait more time.
Anyway, is there a picture of this? I didn't understand the abstract of the patent (doh!)..
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I don't know..
Microsoft guy: "Hasta dónde quiere llegar hoy?"
Me: "Hasta la concha de tu vieja"
That's funnier in spanish..
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It's not yet implemented, and I don't think they will implement it. I also can't find any link (so this post is pretty useless).
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cool..
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I'm an introvert too, and I often find people in their 50s (that the average; old enough to be "technology free" and young enough to understand it) that say "you think you are on the internet comunicating with the world but you are actually sitting in your little chair with you little computer, that's pathetic". And my answer is "no".
I think Internet is useful for a lot of things, and it will replace a lot of things, like libraries, and porn magazines, and FAX machines, and normal mail. But I don't take it as a replacement of nigth clubs, or hookers, or bars. Sure, I don't go to any of those places, because I'm an introvert, but I don't go to IRC to find gilfriends either.
So, ok, maybe the study is true, so what? Internet is not good to find a girlfriend? I know. Most of the poeple don't get the _real_ use of the net (I'm not saying you can't relate to people over the Internet, but that's not it's primary use).
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Most of the people don't know anything about "spoofing". And everybody is talking about "linux".. What about "closed source" OSs? What if some propietary OS had a hole on it, that nobody knows about, and nobody fixes? (exept for some "cyberterrorist".. :)
(ok.. so the link is not very good..)
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QUESTION: If you knew that the Department of Justice was proposing a regulation that would end up slowing the pace of technological innovation
The same asi saying "if you knew the government is evil, would you be against it?". The answer is obvious.
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I live in Argentina, so I'll try to get me one of those computers.. I think my uncle works on Ford.. :)
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I don't think that's entirely true.. I understand that recording a movie from a DVD was very difficult before DeCSS. If that were entirely true, the whole DeCSS problem wouldn't exist.
It's easier with sound tho..
So, is anyone working on a "DeCDS"? :-)
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They also don't know how to sign the e-mails (they probably don't know how to set up the mails, and they'll end up using NT because there's no unix here).
Sorry, no links (the few I found are down/in spanish; but it's true.. really)
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http://www.DotComGuy.com
Smell: much like localhost, but couple of months older.
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Didn't the GNU project alredy existed by 1980? (I actually don't know, but I think so).
On the other hand, DOS and windows are the reason why everybody uses computers. The secretaries on my father's office often call me with stupid questins about windows, I can't imagine if they where using GNU/<something>.
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On the other hand, it seems that the article is asking Playboy to show naked men. If the editors like games with hot women, it's their problem, it's their magazine..
It's also easy to find commercials for men advertising products for woman. For ex.: a commercial of a naked woman taking a shower, that sells some shampoo or body oil for women. Or vice versa; a man with big musles using a deodorant for men. I change channels because I like ladies.
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And wasn't the guy elected for mayor on that city?? Maybe he feels guilty.. :-)
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The thing is that it seems that jerry's brain is getting the image 'alredy processed', because he has an "ultrasonic range finder" to measure the distance of the objects. Maybe the image arrives to the last instance of the brain, and the 'compensatory funcitions' of his brain are not even used (maybe that's the part that's screwed up, and that's why he can't see).
If I cover one eye, I can still get some depth perception by the size of things, the perspective, and how I have to focus the eye to get a clean image of an object. Sure, it's not _crucial_.. I was just wondering why they use that "ultrasonic range finder" instead of a second camera. Also, a better 3d effect is given by providing 2 images of an object from 2 different angles.
Now, I also wonder how is formatted an image for a brain, including the information of every particular object, and the depth stuff.
I want more information!! :)
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Isn't this privided by the 2 images, provided by the 2 eyes? I wonder if they are are sending the image to both 'eyes', or maybe to a part of the brain that gets the "merged" image of the 2 eyes. I wonder if they figured out how to send images to each eye..
And, I wonder if the guy gets dizzy when he moves his pupils around and the image doesn't change.. Or when he moves the glasses around
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Yes.. but doesn't this sound like "then hire a Y2K expert to take a look"? Part of the problem is that developers say "I don't need a security expert" (ok, so some didn't need a Y2K expert..)
Anyway, I wonder what our friend DotComGuy has to say..
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