This would imply a direct connection between iPods and P2P networks, which is something that just isn't there. If you want to follow through on these false relationships, then you could say that everyone who has an iPod participates in P2P file sharing. The RIAA might as well sit outside of an Apple store and have their lawyers sue every person that comes out with a new iPod, since they must be, by stereotype, doing illegal things in their spare time. I just don't think it's either fair or accurate.
The Zune is yesterdays trash... Now tell me more about the iPhone!!! It seems I am addicted and the methadone the clinic gave me, which I've been shooting up, doesn't seem to be controlling my cravings! *scratches myself obsessively as though there are little bugs crawling under my skin*
I live in Milwaukee, and the beach here smells like a port-o-potty, and the water is entirely gross. Lake Superior is still beautiful and relatively untouched, but lake Michigan has gone to crap. The good news is that in the 90's Milwaukee updated their water filtration systems and now we have some of the cleanest drinking water in the country. It's quite good, actually! But the lake is the kind of thing where if you accidentailly touch it you think "I hope I didn't just get herpes..."
Actually nicotine plays an extremely important role in controlling how these other neurotransmitters are released in the brain. Not only does it help release more dopamine, but it helps your brain better use the dopamine it already has. This is extremely important for any sort of mental disease involving a cognitive impairment (schizophrenia, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's). It is estimated that up to 85% of schizophrenia patients self-medicate by smoking cigarettes. http://www.schizophrenia.com/smoke.htm
These types of drugs have a lot of potential to change how we treat these diseases. There's also a lot of money to be made doing it. They might also one day be considered a type of "cognitive enhancer" that anyone can take and benefit from.
Actually, studies show that once humans adapted the ability to drink milk that our population increased dramatically. There was a genetic shift in our ability to digest lactose in Europe a few thousand years ago that they believe helped increase our vitamin intake. We also grow taller now, partly because of our calcium intake. We probably live longer too. I think the article also said that drinking milk helped fight infection as well.
By doing this Google has grouped dishonest essays with drugs and weapons and other unethical practices. I think this better shows just how powerful language is and how it can be used to create great truth, but also great illusion, and that we must learn to use it appropriately. Anyone who's read anything by George Orwell understands the power of words and ideas.
Besides, I don't think it's right that richer people are able to buy their way through college and then act the part of a trained professional. I'd prefer that my doctor, nurse, and boss have a thorough, honest education. I think it's better that these students be forced to write their own papers and actually read the material. However, I don't believe there is anything wrong with things like Sparknotes, as they often help better explain the material, and still require some studying and effort by the student.
So you're thinking about something like in the Matrix, where they hook you up and download information? I agree it would be useful. There are obviously things that computers can do that we very easily fail at, and I can see how better implementing these technologies into our bodies could improve us in some scenarios.
I do think it's important that we not forget about other countries and their development. Some of them are having a hard time due to their culture, or government, or economic situation, or geographic region. I think all people everywhere should have access to information and education and have a chance to grow. I'm not saying we should abandon all new developments until everyone in the world has equal rights and all... I just think that we're at a point where things are so extreme for some countries that we should stop and help them a little bit. We live like kings here and we're lucky we can sit around and chat on web pages like/. Many people are lucky if they get dinner... or if they don't get AIDS... That's all....
Whatever happens, it will probably progress slowly and isn't anything we need to be worried about. We will find ways to link our brains with machines, we will invent new ways to communicate, which is something humans always have done, and we will slightly mesh our brains and bodies with implanted neural tissue and sometimes electrical devices, but I don't think there will be a demand for things that are too invasive to our lives and our ability to stabilize and control ourselves. We might have the ability to create all of these fancy chips and neural tissue, but if there is no demand, there won't be any money to be made. Of course for someone like Stephen Hawking, being able to hook your brain up to a mouse on a computer and type with your thoughts would be a great improvement to his quality of life, and is something I'd like to see happen. But for the average person to receive "upgrades", I think it's something that is unnecessary and isn't something we should be too worried about. Besides, with the rising risk of oil running out, global warming, and nuclear warfare, I think we'd be better off spending this money enjoying life while it still exists, or helping people in other countries stabilize their economies and educational systems. Feeding hungry kids and helping poor families get an education... Oh wait... we can't even do that in America yet... Sorry guys....
They'll be able to increase the genetic expression of this protein and create ultra intelligent humans? Maybe making us more human than we already are?
In the words of Thom Yorke, "The more you try to erase me, the more that I appear..."
I'm getting pretty sick of all of these companies running around talking about how they "own" things and how a large majority of us consumers are doing illegal things by sharing certain files, or pieces of information, or speaking our mind on the internet. This has got to change. And the worst part is that congress is too old, underexperienced, and too undereducated to do anything about it. We're stuck with a government system that isn't capable of evolving at the same rate that the economic system and global culture is. That's called obsolete. And these companies are trying to take advantage of it, and these companies are pretty much obsolete too, they just don't know it yet. Anyways, the more they try to hold us back, the stronger we'll become. Sometimes we don't grow until someone or something else tells us that we can't.
Yes, I did some reading and understand a little more about it now. I'm slightly disappointed that UW-Wisconsin Madison doesn't have I2. But they say that the main reason I2 is so nice and so fast is because of the low amount of people on it.
Eventually we will have to upgrade the hardware and cables that currently run the internet. I think this article is talking more about software though... And for right now, the internet is as fast as I need it to be. I just download stuff and surf the web. Nothing too fancy.
Yeah, I thought Internet 2 (I2) was supposed to eventually replace everything we have?
Anyways, I think the main thing we should be focusing on is wireless internet, such as WiMax. We need to form some sort of long range wifi like connection. These cell phone networks are overpriced and not widely available.
As these new technologies grow, things will evolve closer to how we would like them to be. It's impossible to "rebuild" something like the internet. It's too big, too complicated. Most people have a hard enough time downloading Windows updates better yet learning how to transition to a new internet. But I'm sure it will happen when it becomes economically convincing enough.
What about numerous different die connected together, in the way that AMD is looking to add graphics processors onto their pc processors?
I don't really pay much attention to hardware anymore. It moves too fast for me to keep up with. I keep my eye out for things about quantum computers and carbon nanotubes, but that's about it. As far as I'm concerned, within the next 10 years we're going to have computers that will go way faster than anything your average user will ever need. I think the biggest change in computers will be in software and input devices, like touch screens or neural implants. Also in mobile devices. The only thing I know about the future of computing is that I know nothing.
I don't know much about DoubleClick, but from what I've heard people say about their ads and their company, they don't sound entirely desirable. It could be possible that Google might buy them simply so that their competitors (MS and Yahoo) don't. Lets face it, this is Google's territory, and I would not be surprised to see them go to extreme lengths (blowing 2Bil$) just to protect it and ensure their security. This could be Google flexing their muscles and screaming "I AM GOOGLE!" right in MS's face.
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This would imply a direct connection between iPods and P2P networks, which is something that just isn't there. If you want to follow through on these false relationships, then you could say that everyone who has an iPod participates in P2P file sharing. The RIAA might as well sit outside of an Apple store and have their lawyers sue every person that comes out with a new iPod, since they must be, by stereotype, doing illegal things in their spare time. I just don't think it's either fair or accurate.
Mostly I'm just waiting for the iPhone to pose for Playboy. Oh baby!
The Zune is yesterdays trash... Now tell me more about the iPhone!!! It seems I am addicted and the methadone the clinic gave me, which I've been shooting up, doesn't seem to be controlling my cravings! *scratches myself obsessively as though there are little bugs crawling under my skin*
I live in Milwaukee, and the beach here smells like a port-o-potty, and the water is entirely gross. Lake Superior is still beautiful and relatively untouched, but lake Michigan has gone to crap. The good news is that in the 90's Milwaukee updated their water filtration systems and now we have some of the cleanest drinking water in the country. It's quite good, actually! But the lake is the kind of thing where if you accidentailly touch it you think "I hope I didn't just get herpes..."
Actually nicotine plays an extremely important role in controlling how these other neurotransmitters are released in the brain. Not only does it help release more dopamine, but it helps your brain better use the dopamine it already has. This is extremely important for any sort of mental disease involving a cognitive impairment (schizophrenia, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's). It is estimated that up to 85% of schizophrenia patients self-medicate by smoking cigarettes. http://www.schizophrenia.com/smoke.htm These types of drugs have a lot of potential to change how we treat these diseases. There's also a lot of money to be made doing it. They might also one day be considered a type of "cognitive enhancer" that anyone can take and benefit from.
I hope the simulated me has an iPhone.
By making it accessible through the internet it is, theoretically, inherently multi-platform. Any OS running Firefox should be able to run it.
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/technology/HTC_Touch.j pg
Plain and simple.
Actually, studies show that once humans adapted the ability to drink milk that our population increased dramatically. There was a genetic shift in our ability to digest lactose in Europe a few thousand years ago that they believe helped increase our vitamin intake. We also grow taller now, partly because of our calcium intake. We probably live longer too. I think the article also said that drinking milk helped fight infection as well.
Besides, I don't think it's right that richer people are able to buy their way through college and then act the part of a trained professional. I'd prefer that my doctor, nurse, and boss have a thorough, honest education. I think it's better that these students be forced to write their own papers and actually read the material. However, I don't believe there is anything wrong with things like Sparknotes, as they often help better explain the material, and still require some studying and effort by the student.
Apple does quality in a way that most other companies don't.
So you're thinking about something like in the Matrix, where they hook you up and download information? I agree it would be useful. There are obviously things that computers can do that we very easily fail at, and I can see how better implementing these technologies into our bodies could improve us in some scenarios. I do think it's important that we not forget about other countries and their development. Some of them are having a hard time due to their culture, or government, or economic situation, or geographic region. I think all people everywhere should have access to information and education and have a chance to grow. I'm not saying we should abandon all new developments until everyone in the world has equal rights and all... I just think that we're at a point where things are so extreme for some countries that we should stop and help them a little bit. We live like kings here and we're lucky we can sit around and chat on web pages like /. Many people are lucky if they get dinner... or if they don't get AIDS... That's all....
Whatever happens, it will probably progress slowly and isn't anything we need to be worried about. We will find ways to link our brains with machines, we will invent new ways to communicate, which is something humans always have done, and we will slightly mesh our brains and bodies with implanted neural tissue and sometimes electrical devices, but I don't think there will be a demand for things that are too invasive to our lives and our ability to stabilize and control ourselves. We might have the ability to create all of these fancy chips and neural tissue, but if there is no demand, there won't be any money to be made. Of course for someone like Stephen Hawking, being able to hook your brain up to a mouse on a computer and type with your thoughts would be a great improvement to his quality of life, and is something I'd like to see happen. But for the average person to receive "upgrades", I think it's something that is unnecessary and isn't something we should be too worried about. Besides, with the rising risk of oil running out, global warming, and nuclear warfare, I think we'd be better off spending this money enjoying life while it still exists, or helping people in other countries stabilize their economies and educational systems. Feeding hungry kids and helping poor families get an education... Oh wait... we can't even do that in America yet... Sorry guys....
They'll be able to increase the genetic expression of this protein and create ultra intelligent humans? Maybe making us more human than we already are?
In the words of Thom Yorke, "The more you try to erase me, the more that I appear..." I'm getting pretty sick of all of these companies running around talking about how they "own" things and how a large majority of us consumers are doing illegal things by sharing certain files, or pieces of information, or speaking our mind on the internet. This has got to change. And the worst part is that congress is too old, underexperienced, and too undereducated to do anything about it. We're stuck with a government system that isn't capable of evolving at the same rate that the economic system and global culture is. That's called obsolete. And these companies are trying to take advantage of it, and these companies are pretty much obsolete too, they just don't know it yet. Anyways, the more they try to hold us back, the stronger we'll become. Sometimes we don't grow until someone or something else tells us that we can't.
Yes, I did some reading and understand a little more about it now. I'm slightly disappointed that UW-Wisconsin Madison doesn't have I2. But they say that the main reason I2 is so nice and so fast is because of the low amount of people on it. Eventually we will have to upgrade the hardware and cables that currently run the internet. I think this article is talking more about software though... And for right now, the internet is as fast as I need it to be. I just download stuff and surf the web. Nothing too fancy.
Yeah, I thought Internet 2 (I2) was supposed to eventually replace everything we have? Anyways, I think the main thing we should be focusing on is wireless internet, such as WiMax. We need to form some sort of long range wifi like connection. These cell phone networks are overpriced and not widely available. As these new technologies grow, things will evolve closer to how we would like them to be. It's impossible to "rebuild" something like the internet. It's too big, too complicated. Most people have a hard enough time downloading Windows updates better yet learning how to transition to a new internet. But I'm sure it will happen when it becomes economically convincing enough.
What about numerous different die connected together, in the way that AMD is looking to add graphics processors onto their pc processors? I don't really pay much attention to hardware anymore. It moves too fast for me to keep up with. I keep my eye out for things about quantum computers and carbon nanotubes, but that's about it. As far as I'm concerned, within the next 10 years we're going to have computers that will go way faster than anything your average user will ever need. I think the biggest change in computers will be in software and input devices, like touch screens or neural implants. Also in mobile devices. The only thing I know about the future of computing is that I know nothing.
That's a really interesting idea. Processor, flash hd drive, ram, and power supply all on one board. That would definitely be sweet.
I don't know much about DoubleClick, but from what I've heard people say about their ads and their company, they don't sound entirely desirable. It could be possible that Google might buy them simply so that their competitors (MS and Yahoo) don't. Lets face it, this is Google's territory, and I would not be surprised to see them go to extreme lengths (blowing 2Bil$) just to protect it and ensure their security. This could be Google flexing their muscles and screaming "I AM GOOGLE!" right in MS's face.