Since there would be no more keyboards, there would be no other place to look at but the screen. Thus, as soon as you'd notice that you're 'typing' your text in the wrong text area, one thought and it's moved to the right place. Don't think of this "brain interface" as a mere replacement of a keyboard. It's a whole new way to interact with a PC, which is removing one unnecessary layer between the machine and its user.
By the way... I'd like to try visualising some of my thoughts in GIMP or some music program this way... That'd be kinda... Interesting experience, to see how a computer can represent my feelings and thoughts. I can't wait to see these devices in action...
> (...) forcing them to do something they'd absolutely suck at wouldn't exactly solve world problems either.
We're good at X so we'll do X. I wasn't talking about forcing guys from project X to do Y. I know it won't work. But why nobody even cares about Y? Sure there are people who are willing to take care of Y, but $GUY_WITH_LOTS_OF_MONEY is more interested in making more money, or seeing what will come out of X, or is just simply ignoring Y. Well, do you really think that $GUY_WITH_LOTS_OF_MONEY deserves every single of his bloody dollars while people in Africa are dying of hunger each day?
And the war. Does it cost money to put down all the weapons (except if giving up producing them)? The human race hasn't changed anything for thousands of years. Is there really no other way to "solve" some of our "problems" but with a gun?
Well, I ain't just saying "stop staring at the sky", but, more like "can you sometimes look at the earth as well?".
And by the way, I think communism isn't such a bad idea, it's the latest implementation attempt that was so shitty...
GM: M$, you go first. M$: Trying to summon a lawyer. GM: 1d20+43 = 63, you summoned bloodsucker bastard lawyer from ninth circle of hell. Your turn, Apple. Apple: Trying to cast "Control minds of iPod users with vision of drm-free music" GM: 1d20+16 = 17, forty thousand iPod users are under your command, Steve. M$? M$: We try to sue Linux users for using software infrigning our patents. GM: 1d20 - 16 = -4, and you do not own any useful patents. Apple? Apple: We tell our customers that higher bitrate is worthy 30c. GM: 1d20+27 = 41, forty one thousand users now believe you. Minus the forty thousands that were hypnotised, they've lost their mind and thus cannot reason. Some Random Geek: But where are the Linux users? Some Random Computer User: WTF is Linux? GM: Some Random Computer User does not know Linux. Sorry, Some Random Geek. Some Random Geek: But there is Ubuntu... Dell:...although computers with Ubuntu cost the same as Windows machines... Some Random Crapware Company:...no, they're actually more expensive, since they're not bloated with our crap... Another Random Geek: It was supposed to be a fight between M$ and Apple. Some Random Geek: Mod parent +5 insightful! Another Random Crapware Company: This is not crap! Dell: Let's have a deal with M$... M$: OK, like the one with Novell? Novell: We only want SuSE to be more compatible with M$! Another Random Geek: You betrayed us, Novell! Some Random Geek: Mod parent +5 insightful! Some random/. mod: *goes to preferences, unchecks "willing to mod"* Apple: Leopard will be delayed. Another Random Geek: Damn it! I knew that Apple is going to forget about Macs when it dropped "Computers" from its name... Some Random Geek: Mod parent +5 insightful! Another Random Geek: Mod parent -1 redundant... GM: SHUT UP EVERYONE! Time's out, it's been an hour.
Also, virtually everything that is a subject to copyright is very easy to reproduce/copy. Of course you can own your car, but if your neighbour forges 100% identical one in his garage, you do not sue him for copyright infringement, or do you? Of course if "real" objects could be copyrightable...
Our civilisation got so far only because the idea was free. What if the ancient guys patented the math? Would you be reading/. now?
Information wants to be free, this is its nature and nobody'll change that.
THEY ARE RETARDED FUCKIN GOD DAMN MORONS, I HATE THEM, AND SO DOES ~75% OF OUR SOCIETY.
I had to pay a bill for crossing an empty street when the lights were red (250 zloty, about $100), but they didn't cared about the guy who stole my cell phone.
The police used to control our homes and seek for illegal installations of MS crap, mp3s, etc while they all have pirated windows running on their home computers.
And now they arrested nine people for providing subtitles, while two streets away five bandits are "politely asking" some guy to give them his cell phone, wallet, all the money he has, and possibly his clothes (yes, clothes, the things he is wearing at the moment on his body).
Same thing with our politicians. To some people, "politician" in our country means "thief", "asshole", "idiot", or something like that.
YouTube doesn't work anyway for me (stinkin' filthy damn slow GPRS modem, me living in the world's darkest cave 30km from any civilization, avg ping ~1200) but if you have flash&co. set up properly I don't see any reason why it shouldn't work. The biggest problem is that some widgets could be hardly visible (well, not visible at all. black app bg + black widget bg + sometimes black text. But I don't mind, I like it this way ^^). It's because the rest of my KDE is "dark bg + green fg" as well:) Also, my font of choice (terminus) does not look perfect when it's in italic.
Because Konqueror can move the menu bar to the Kicker, like in OS X, and I like that behaviour. Also, afaik links and lynx still suck at displaying pictures?
BTW IMO any intelligent web designer would do CSS preprocessing on the serverside via PHP, Perl or some other CGI.
Java, Javascript, Flash are disabled in my browser. Adblock + filtersetg are getting rid of 99% of ads. All CSS styles are overrided by my default one (monospaced font, black bg, darkgreen fg, m4tr1x like ^_^), and I must say the overall experience of using the web is way better. Why? Because everything runs faster.
Use another browser. Nobody's forcing anyone to choose only between FFx and IE. It could as well be Konqueror, Epiphany, Dillo, Lynx, Links{,2}, Elinks, Safari, Galeon, Camino, K-Meleon, Opera... And if one browser is getting too bloated, just fork it, or use older version, or tweak it, damn, you have *choice*!
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> Block any IP submitting a non-blank "name" or "password" field.
NATs.
Why waste your time setting up 3rd address, just pick a random one :) you say you never read it anyway, so... :P
Are you sure that you'd like to remember everything you were dreaming of all the night?
Since there would be no more keyboards, there would be no other place to look at but the screen. Thus, as soon as you'd notice that you're 'typing' your text in the wrong text area, one thought and it's moved to the right place. Don't think of this "brain interface" as a mere replacement of a keyboard. It's a whole new way to interact with a PC, which is removing one unnecessary layer between the machine and its user.
By the way... I'd like to try visualising some of my thoughts in GIMP or some music program this way... That'd be kinda... Interesting experience, to see how a computer can represent my feelings and thoughts. I can't wait to see these devices in action...
msg = me->newmessage();
if (me->sleeping() == true)
msg.discard();
You made me lmao :P actually 'g++ -o a.out this.cc && ./a.out' outputs '1-337' on my machine, but I really didn't test that with anything else.
Damn, I'd mod you +8 funny but I already posted a comment...
int c = 0x05;
// and the result is...
printf ("%d%d%d%d\n",4/c--,++c-c*2,c-c+c--,--c-1+c--);
> (...) forcing them to do something they'd absolutely suck at wouldn't exactly solve world problems either.
We're good at X so we'll do X. I wasn't talking about forcing guys from project X to do Y. I know it won't work. But why nobody even cares about Y? Sure there are people who are willing to take care of Y, but $GUY_WITH_LOTS_OF_MONEY is more interested in making more money, or seeing what will come out of X, or is just simply ignoring Y. Well, do you really think that $GUY_WITH_LOTS_OF_MONEY deserves every single of his bloody dollars while people in Africa are dying of hunger each day?
And the war. Does it cost money to put down all the weapons (except if giving up producing them)? The human race hasn't changed anything for thousands of years. Is there really no other way to "solve" some of our "problems" but with a gun?
Well, I ain't just saying "stop staring at the sky", but, more like "can you sometimes look at the earth as well?".
And by the way, I think communism isn't such a bad idea, it's the latest implementation attempt that was so shitty...
Lucky you. I'm still waiting for 2004.1 to finish...
But... Does anybody actually do?
> Why are we even LOOKING at other planets when we haven't solved the problems on our own?
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Shit, mod me offtopic too but... The guy's damn right.
http://www.seeklyrics.com/lyrics/Helloween/Back-O
Will Duke Nukem Forever be released until then?
30 years of star wars, 25 years of tron, 10 years of waiting for duke nukem forever...
Where are the times when it was a quick and lightweight browser I loved? Today... Konqueror > FF.
GM: M$, you go first. ...although computers with Ubuntu cost the same as Windows machines... ...no, they're actually more expensive, since they're not bloated with our crap... /. mod: *goes to preferences, unchecks "willing to mod"*
M$: Trying to summon a lawyer.
GM: 1d20+43 = 63, you summoned bloodsucker bastard lawyer from ninth circle of hell. Your turn, Apple.
Apple: Trying to cast "Control minds of iPod users with vision of drm-free music"
GM: 1d20+16 = 17, forty thousand iPod users are under your command, Steve. M$?
M$: We try to sue Linux users for using software infrigning our patents.
GM: 1d20 - 16 = -4, and you do not own any useful patents. Apple?
Apple: We tell our customers that higher bitrate is worthy 30c.
GM: 1d20+27 = 41, forty one thousand users now believe you. Minus the forty thousands that were hypnotised, they've lost their mind and thus cannot reason.
Some Random Geek: But where are the Linux users?
Some Random Computer User: WTF is Linux?
GM: Some Random Computer User does not know Linux. Sorry, Some Random Geek.
Some Random Geek: But there is Ubuntu...
Dell:
Some Random Crapware Company:
Another Random Geek: It was supposed to be a fight between M$ and Apple.
Some Random Geek: Mod parent +5 insightful!
Another Random Crapware Company: This is not crap!
Dell: Let's have a deal with M$...
M$: OK, like the one with Novell?
Novell: We only want SuSE to be more compatible with M$!
Another Random Geek: You betrayed us, Novell!
Some Random Geek: Mod parent +5 insightful!
Some random
Apple: Leopard will be delayed.
Another Random Geek: Damn it! I knew that Apple is going to forget about Macs when it dropped "Computers" from its name...
Some Random Geek: Mod parent +5 insightful!
Another Random Geek: Mod parent -1 redundant...
GM: SHUT UP EVERYONE! Time's out, it's been an hour.
Indeed.
/. now?
Also, virtually everything that is a subject to copyright is very easy to reproduce/copy. Of course you can own your car, but if your neighbour forges 100% identical one in his garage, you do not sue him for copyright infringement, or do you? Of course if "real" objects could be copyrightable...
Our civilisation got so far only because the idea was free. What if the ancient guys patented the math? Would you be reading
Information wants to be free, this is its nature and nobody'll change that.
Personally, I don't care about the graphics.
I want the *gameplay*.
...FUCK THE GOD DAMN POLISH POLICE.
THEY ARE RETARDED FUCKIN GOD DAMN MORONS, I HATE THEM, AND SO DOES ~75% OF OUR SOCIETY.
I had to pay a bill for crossing an empty street when the lights were red (250 zloty, about $100), but they didn't cared about the guy who stole my cell phone.
The police used to control our homes and seek for illegal installations of MS crap, mp3s, etc while they all have pirated windows running on their home computers.
And now they arrested nine people for providing subtitles, while two streets away five bandits are "politely asking" some guy to give them his cell phone, wallet, all the money he has, and possibly his clothes (yes, clothes, the things he is wearing at the moment on his body).
Same thing with our politicians. To some people, "politician" in our country means "thief", "asshole", "idiot", or something like that.
I WANT MY COUNTRY BURNED DOWN.
gnunet, tor, freenet.
YouTube doesn't work anyway for me (stinkin' filthy damn slow GPRS modem, me living in the world's darkest cave 30km from any civilization, avg ping ~1200) but if you have flash&co. set up properly I don't see any reason why it shouldn't work. The biggest problem is that some widgets could be hardly visible (well, not visible at all. black app bg + black widget bg + sometimes black text. But I don't mind, I like it this way ^^). It's because the rest of my KDE is "dark bg + green fg" as well :) Also, my font of choice (terminus) does not look perfect when it's in italic.
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Here are the screenies...
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Hmm. Tried that, and it certainly works ;] dunno, maybe if one day I'd get bored with Konqueror I'll eventually switch.
Hmm and what if I'd release my mod under GPL first? Once it's public, it stays public forever.
Because Konqueror can move the menu bar to the Kicker, like in OS X, and I like that behaviour. Also, afaik links and lynx still suck at displaying pictures?
I strongly agree.
BTW IMO any intelligent web designer would do CSS preprocessing on the serverside via PHP, Perl or some other CGI.
Java, Javascript, Flash are disabled in my browser. Adblock + filtersetg are getting rid of 99% of ads. All CSS styles are overrided by my default one (monospaced font, black bg, darkgreen fg, m4tr1x like ^_^), and I must say the overall experience of using the web is way better. Why? Because everything runs faster.
Use another browser. Nobody's forcing anyone to choose only between FFx and IE. It could as well be Konqueror, Epiphany, Dillo, Lynx, Links{,2}, Elinks, Safari, Galeon, Camino, K-Meleon, Opera... And if one browser is getting too bloated, just fork it, or use older version, or tweak it, damn, you have *choice*!