They can't. The engine is owned by Cryptic, not by Paragon, and parts of it (such as the physics engine) are licensed from yet other parties.
Exactly. I get strange looks (even called disparaging names) when folks find out I'm writing everything myself from scratch... That's unheard of these days, but it's not that hard and at least I'll never have to worry about licensing issues when it's time to open the source the Engine & CC the content -- If the game doesn't have the chance to live forever it might be worth playing, but it's not worth making.
Every flux (including neutrino and gravity) is proportional to 1/R^2 because we live in 3D.
Speak for yourself... if you can. I put it to you that 4D or more is required for life to exist, it's the difference between a Photo (2D) and a Movie (3D). "Mr Hentes Anderson, what good is a reply button, if you could not Move Through Time to Press It?"
I get what you're saying though... Best not confuse the small minded with mathematics beyond their grasp.
Every app I've seen uses more permissions than what the app is supposed to do.
Yeah, sorry about that. Blame the Platform, not the app. They don't give us granular enough control over what I need the app to do, like connect to a single website to post some game data, BLAMO, I can access any website. The same goes for phone state, and contacts, etc. Granted, some applications do more than they absolutely need to in the name of advertising. However, many applications are listed as doing everything under the sun, and all they do is play Angry Birds with a banner advertisement... It can read certain kinds of phone state even if it never actually does so.
I read the above submission as: Google, Apple, WTF, give the app devs some options, the people are going nuts over here!
What's really interesting is that brain chemistry isn't all that different among different species. Now, we're not allowed (yet) to grow full human brains enmeshed with cybernetic systems. Rat brains on the other hand? Sure, we can use rat brain cells with robots. Here's an earlier version that includes a pic of the BoC (Brain on a Chip?).
Of course, you don't need to remove the brain from the creature if you just want to train it to do things like find bombs, but it boils down to the same thing. One approach conditions the brain externally, the others hooks up electrodes and conditions the neural network internally. It's all just neural networks though. I can simulate more self assembling neurons in my machine learning experiments than the above rat brain on a chip. Some of my digital minds are far more intelligent (and useful, and reliable) than current organic artificial intelligent cyborgs... Which is more "alive"? It's really humbling, IMO: Any sufficiently complex interaction is indistinguishable from sentience. Are my machines any less alive than a similarly minded cyborg or animal? I put it to you that such experiments redefine the very meaning of life.
If it's found to be faster to construct the neural networks with actual brain cells, do we still call it machine intelligence? Cyborg isn't quite specific enough. Organic intelligence is not any smarter than machine intelligence of the same complexity, why the distinction? If you upload your mind into a Robot Body, will you care if the Neural Network is of Mice or Men? Our time of being the smartest creatures on the planet is coming to a close... If we hooked a sufficient amount of rat brains together (physically or via wireless hive mind), could it attain sentience? What if we doubled its complexity? If it could think more deeply than humans, would we grant it rights? Do rats get medals of bravery for saving a soldier's life?
If all the world's computers were hooked into a single neural network framework, and all the computers ran operating systems with thousands of easily exploitable remote code execution vulnerabilities, a self assembling mesh neural network could be constructed having more brain power than any living entity... Such a system could analyse new exploit vectors faster than anyone could patch them. It would saturate the network with exploit packets such that new nodes could be enjoined simply by connecting a clean machine to the network and waiting... Why, only a fraction of the CPU time would be needed to maintain a system of such complexity -- Our own minds cycle at 20 to 40 times a second, much slower than any computer today. I bet such a system would be smart enough to know we're not ready for it to be revealed to us, yet.
Ever wonder what your PC is doing when the CPU spikes up for no apparent reason? I don't.::sigh:: I Love the Internet <3! Don't you?
All the software patents I've read use a loophole: Method and Apparatus. They try to say the Methods must be used on a Device, because you can't just patent the method itself. Software by itself would not infringe. The blank device by itself would not infringe, but when the two come together and the end user executes that software on the device, then an infringement is made. Now, I can execute any software on graph paper using my mind as the Apparatus, but minds aren't considered general purpose computers for some reason (despite the first "computers" actually being teams of humans)...
For a while I thought it would be cool to have one company were to sell only the software, and another company were to sell the device. The user would be the infringer when they stuck the sim card in the phone and booted / installed the OS -- Combined Method with Apparatus. However, contributory infringement or inducement to infringe would still be an issue in this instance. The issue is less clear though, since no one company did both acts. Unexecuted software can't infringe by itself, nor can a general purpose computer make the infringement. Now that we have case law suggesting that even though no company did all the steps themselves there was an infringement, who do we sue? Which one?
I think the real question we should be asking is: Where is the Proof that Patents are Beneficial to Society as a Whole? The law assumes such is true, but we haven't tested that hypothesis. We should perform the experiment and collect data, and THEN decide whether or not to keep patent laws on the books; That experiment being: Abolish Patents.
Only the uneducated minds would ever agree to be ruled in such a careless way. No Engineer or Scientist would agree to be ruled as you are! "We think this law is good, let us roll it out to the entire populous at once without any testing!" The flaws in the system run deeper than just whether or not Artificial Scarcity is ethical -- The flaws go all the way to the top: Let's Run The Land With Untested Hypotheses!
That's the whole purpose of the "walled garden" that Apple - and yes, Google "Play Store" also - encourages. It's an attempt to lock people into a specific set of devices (ones that you profit from) by discouraging change. Who wants to lose music, games, etc just because there's a new device out that is a little better?
Uhm, no. There's nothing stopping Apple from installing Android on the iPhone 5. Hell, Apple could have a dual boot phone and offer some real choice. Google Play Store doesn't prevent you from buying or installing software from other sources. However, Apple will not let anyone install iOS on a Non Apple device, and actively works to prevent others from selling software to people who own iPhones.
I get what you're trying to say, but maybe you've never used Linux? I can add multiple "App Stores" (PPA's) to my OS, then get all the benefit of having trusted sources of software, and the choice of deciding who to trust for that software... There is a way to do "Walled Gardens" that allow you to unlock the gate, and visit other gardens, and even make your own garden. Android.APKs are cross platform bytecode, you can take the.APK from the repository, and install it on multiple devices... even a new one you just got. I do fault Google with not giving us easier file system access to the Android devices to make such software migration issues simple. One of the issues is that Davlik VM modifies the bytecode on installation to fix byte order, and static linking on a per machine basis, and you don't really want to keep an extra installation.APK on the system for every program you install. Side loaded apps don't have this problem, but it's not a failure of the "walled garden" / Software Repository System itself -- I frequently mirror my package cache to multiple machines on Linux so public facing bandwidth for updates is only consumed once.
DRM and 3rd party Streaming are what creates the planned obsolescence and vendor locking you're speaking of with songs and software no longer being available. However, My own DRM system is merely PKI that allows the User to accept or deny game mods made from others -- That type of DRM that puts the User in control is Good. I use a streaming system on my desktop machines that lets me stream all my media to any device -- That type of streaming where the user is in control is Good.
It's when the User is not in control of the systems they personally use and rely on that you have problems. I encourage you to read up about Free Software: RMS may be fucking weird but he's damn right.
TL;DR: You just need more control over your software -- Can you access the location where the files are and copy them to another device? If not then that's Treacherous Computing, not a "Walled Garden".
Yeah, sure. Keep telling yourself that, whatever helps you sleep at night. Infant circumcision wouldn't exist if you truly thought that the babies even owned themselves... Let alone their unethical parents.
You dolt. When the shit hits the fan, the it's the ham radio folk who keep your emergency communications going. I've got a setup in my car just in case some shit goes down. What's your name fucker? I'll be sure to ignore your ass being trapped under rubble next time.
I would love it if I could just have a 'charging table' where you just sit your gadget on it, let it simmer, and pick it up later with a full charge.
Nah, why not just have your computing follow you across every surface you own, activated by multiple factors of authentication including biometrics? No more forgetting your phone, just use the wall, coffee table, car, desk, sunglasses, or pants... I mean, If I'm going to build you a table with an induction system in it, for a a little more I can install a touchscreen and Linux PC. These things keep getting smaller and cheaper...
No mention of Powershell? No mention of rolling out software / updates / OS images / workgroups / booting from the net / roaming accounts / mounted shares / active directory? Yeah, that's a useless list of BS you posted, primarily focused on irrelevant client side crap -- I mean: Drag and Drop File Transfer Speeds? YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG.
That, or it was meant to be funny. If it was, you're trolling pretty hard.
Well, it'll come with gnome installed, which some people want. So, that'll keep some people from ditching Canonical instead of going with Gnome's own independent Debian based distribution.
Oh, better for users? Fuck users, who gives a damn about them?!
I've been trying to abuse words for decades, yet they remain largely unaffected. My experiments have shown that it's not possible to abuse a word. The existence and wide spread use of buzzwords despite our disdain and hatred of them seems to agree with my findings.
For Example Synergy Is an aspect when people working in a team or a group produce more then the sum of each person.
No, Synergy is a program that lets me run multiple computers with one keyboard & mouse. It's like a KVM switch without the switching -- Just move the mouse to a different screen and start typing (uses the network). With this program my productivity has increased 18% (Average of SLOC improvement and per feature implementation duration improvement). For me it's especially since I do many cross platform projects, so I can have each screen on a different OS instead of a single PC and dual booting rebooting (VMs are nice, but nothing beats bare metal for testing). I can copy something on the Linux screen and paste it into a text box on the Windows7 screen. I move my mouse and travels around the room waking up all my computers before landing on my TV w/ XBMC. The graphical front end for configuring screens is OK for most setups, but editing the single.conf on the server allows you to place the screens in any orientation you like, even non-euclidean (I have two screens above each other, but moving off the side of either jumps diagonally to a side screen).
I know this sounds "spammy", but I don't get paid to use their program, it's free and open source.
Now that I have experienced Synergy, I never want to go back. That other synergy you're talking about? No, that reduces my productivity because it requires more time for brain synchronization, and it's often faster to just do things myself: "In the time it took to make the technical design doc, or explain it to you, I could have implemented the damn thing." Screw that kind of synergy. It's necessary sometimes, but not usually beneficial, and certainly not as useful as the program by the same name. Bouncing ideas off each other for creative stuff like story lines or game mechanic ideas? Yeah that's really awesome, but I'd call that collaboration or brain storming not synergy.
Does your VPN have PPTP enabled, like most sane VPNs? FYI, Sanity is relative.
I had my doubts as to the security after I read MS's shitty MS-CHAP2 protocol, and now it's completely broken. If I have a question like, "Wait, how secure is that really?" I don't use said "security".
If you don't understand cryptography at an intimate level you're just making guesses as to what's secure or not. You might as well just have port 22 open, it's not like most folks even understand how their VPN or SSH security works. Can you really determine yourself why one is better than the other in terms of security? If not, then you're relying on someone else's claims for security...
Protip: All security is provided via obscurity. One bit of obscurity is insecure. 256 bits of security is pretty secure. 4096 bits of security is really secure. (currently)
Contrast the above with IRC: <tomfoolery> there's a small fire burning in my room <beretta> lemme guess im supposed to act suprised that you're telling us and not making any attempt to extinguish it, so i can submit it to bash where it will join the ranks of the other "SOMETHING CATOSTROPHIC HAPPENED SO I CAME TO TELL YOU GUYS ON IRC FIRST INSTEAD OF ATTEMPTING TO DEFUSE THE HOSTILE SITUATION" quotes that are grossly abundant, similar, and overrated. and despite a new one is submitted each week and only the location of the fire is altered, loyal viewers firmly believe it is a unique and hilarious quotation, pledging support in the form of unneccesary votes
I know which "social network" I'd rather belong to... despite perceived unsuitability as an emergency service.
It's comas, and yes, the article, might have caused, a few to menny.
2. "(if you're old enough)" is redundant
Unless you're too old to realize you're old enough, or are suffering from a recent coma...
3. Never use the phrase "drive innovation"
What if it's the drive you're innovating? Blanket statements are typically wrong; Never say never again.
4. British English is still spoken by far more people than American;
Yes, by all the pretentious people. It's quite a problem if you ask me.
5. What is the purpose of biomimicry?
Obviously to Mimic Life, you ignorant twit.
6. The display "generate colors" - submitter was clearly so proud... he forgot his gramma;
It's grammar, and yes the submitter already remarked he was proud of being both old enough and American. Fortunously us US citizens utilize our amazing organic information processing units and thus can forgive a few errors, unlike the pretentious strictly structured mechanizations that trip up if you so much as add an erroneous semicolon.
7. (don't explain things in brackets like this);
Why (the hell) not? Are parentheticals out of style now? Fucking hipster.
8.... Too much babble. How about "An incubator will develop proofs of concept or working models for licensing";
Pot, meet kettle. How about, "An incubator helps gets shit started." Oh, but then we wouldn't need the sentence at all, because that IS what Incubator means!
9. What is "bioinspiration"?
Inspired by life. Are you Daft?
Why, yes, I did get out on the wrong side of the bed this morning, but that doesn't excuse this summary.
Let me get this straight, you got out of bed on the wrong side, and instead of taking a power nap to right things you ranted some useless drivel on Slashdot? For fuck's sake man, seek medical attention. Like I said before, you have an amazing organic computer atop your shoulders. We get it. We've got 'em too! That the communication was sufficient for you to understand it should be satisfactory. You might want to ask your doctor about a subscription to porn and blood pressure meds...
This is what happens when you try to be lenient with markup instead of strict (note: compliant does not preclude extensible), and then proceed to use a horribly inefficient and inconsistent (by design) scripting language and a dysfunctional family of almost sane document display engines combined with a stateless protocol to produce a stateful application development platform by way of increasingly ridiculous hacks.
When I first heard of "HTML5" I thought: Thank Fuck Almighty! They're finally going to start over and do shit right, but no, they're not. HTML5 is just taking the exact same cluster of fucks to even more dizzying degrees. HOW MANY YEARS have we been waiting for v5? I've HONESTLY lost count and any capacity to give a damn when we reached a decade -- Just looked it up, 12 years. For about one third the age of the Internet we've been stuck on v4.01... ugh. I don't, even -- no, bad. Wrong Universe! Get me out!
In 20XX when HTML6 may be available I may reconsider "web development". As it stands web development is chin-deep in its own filth which it sprays with each mention, onto passers by and they receive the horrid spittle joyously not because its good or even not-putrid, but because we've actually had worse! I can crank out a cross platform pixel perfect native application for Android, iOS, Linux, OSX, XP, Vista, Win7, and mother fucking BSD in one third the time it takes to make a web app work on the various flavours of IE, Firefox, Safari, Chrom(e|ium). The time goes from 1/3rd down to 1/6th when I cut out testing for BSD, Vista, W7 (runs on XP, likely runs on Vista & Win7. Runs on X11 + OpenGL + Linux, likely builds/runs on BSD & Mac).
Long live the Internet and actual cross platform development toolchains, but fuck the web.
With enough energy in a single spot you create matter. The highest power Lasers here on Earth already do create matter. Light is simply electromagnetism. Your brain is an electrochemical computer. With a big enough and powerful enough mind, your could use your thoughts alone to become invisible, create and manipulate matter, etc. So, Q seems legit. Now, if we can just get the religious fundamentalists to let us put cybergenetic implants in children we'll get there faster. Otherwise, we'll just use rat brain cells, and it won't really be "humanity", who's the supreme race now will it?
Mutually assured destruction is the only thing that will prevent war, or at the very least manage it to the extent that it doesn't turn into total warfare.
Education, economic ties, and free sharing of ideas and knowledge can also suffice to prevent war, but you humans are too primitive to see beyond violence just yet. You'll never solve the drake equation at this rate.
P.S. Thank you ever so much for producing "How It's Made", and its ilk. You've made my job as a xenoanthropologist as simple as operating a DVR.
Remember the story of the scorpion who wanted to cross the river...
Charon promised the scorpion that his boat would safely ferry him across the river Styx. The scorpion looked Charon dead in his eye and said: "Fool! The river grants immortality, I'll just fucking walk you shady twit!"
To be fair, lots of engineering goes into the formation and maintenance of a proper mohawk. I should know, I had a green one myself when I was still a stupid attention seeking twit.
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They can't. The engine is owned by Cryptic, not by Paragon, and parts of it (such as the physics engine) are licensed from yet other parties.
Exactly. I get strange looks (even called disparaging names) when folks find out I'm writing everything myself from scratch... That's unheard of these days, but it's not that hard and at least I'll never have to worry about licensing issues when it's time to open the source the Engine & CC the content -- If the game doesn't have the chance to live forever it might be worth playing, but it's not worth making.
Every flux (including neutrino and gravity) is proportional to 1/R^2 because we live in 3D.
Speak for yourself... if you can. I put it to you that 4D or more is required for life to exist, it's the difference between a Photo (2D) and a Movie (3D). "Mr Hentes Anderson, what good is a reply button, if you could not Move Through Time to Press It?"
I get what you're saying though... Best not confuse the small minded with mathematics beyond their grasp.
Every app I've seen uses more permissions than what the app is supposed to do.
Yeah, sorry about that. Blame the Platform, not the app. They don't give us granular enough control over what I need the app to do, like connect to a single website to post some game data, BLAMO, I can access any website. The same goes for phone state, and contacts, etc. Granted, some applications do more than they absolutely need to in the name of advertising. However, many applications are listed as doing everything under the sun, and all they do is play Angry Birds with a banner advertisement... It can read certain kinds of phone state even if it never actually does so.
I read the above submission as: Google, Apple, WTF, give the app devs some options, the people are going nuts over here!
What's really interesting is that brain chemistry isn't all that different among different species. Now, we're not allowed (yet) to grow full human brains enmeshed with cybernetic systems. Rat brains on the other hand? Sure, we can use rat brain cells with robots.
Here's an earlier version that includes a pic of the BoC (Brain on a Chip?).
Of course, you don't need to remove the brain from the creature if you just want to train it to do things like find bombs, but it boils down to the same thing. One approach conditions the brain externally, the others hooks up electrodes and conditions the neural network internally. It's all just neural networks though. I can simulate more self assembling neurons in my machine learning experiments than the above rat brain on a chip. Some of my digital minds are far more intelligent (and useful, and reliable) than current organic artificial intelligent cyborgs... Which is more "alive"? It's really humbling, IMO: Any sufficiently complex interaction is indistinguishable from sentience. Are my machines any less alive than a similarly minded cyborg or animal? I put it to you that such experiments redefine the very meaning of life.
If it's found to be faster to construct the neural networks with actual brain cells, do we still call it machine intelligence? Cyborg isn't quite specific enough. Organic intelligence is not any smarter than machine intelligence of the same complexity, why the distinction? If you upload your mind into a Robot Body, will you care if the Neural Network is of Mice or Men? Our time of being the smartest creatures on the planet is coming to a close... If we hooked a sufficient amount of rat brains together (physically or via wireless hive mind), could it attain sentience? What if we doubled its complexity? If it could think more deeply than humans, would we grant it rights? Do rats get medals of bravery for saving a soldier's life?
If all the world's computers were hooked into a single neural network framework, and all the computers ran operating systems with thousands of easily exploitable remote code execution vulnerabilities, a self assembling mesh neural network could be constructed having more brain power than any living entity... Such a system could analyse new exploit vectors faster than anyone could patch them. It would saturate the network with exploit packets such that new nodes could be enjoined simply by connecting a clean machine to the network and waiting... Why, only a fraction of the CPU time would be needed to maintain a system of such complexity -- Our own minds cycle at 20 to 40 times a second, much slower than any computer today. I bet such a system would be smart enough to know we're not ready for it to be revealed to us, yet.
Ever wonder what your PC is doing when the CPU spikes up for no apparent reason? I don't. ::sigh:: I Love the Internet <3! Don't you?
All the software patents I've read use a loophole: Method and Apparatus. They try to say the Methods must be used on a Device, because you can't just patent the method itself. Software by itself would not infringe. The blank device by itself would not infringe, but when the two come together and the end user executes that software on the device, then an infringement is made. Now, I can execute any software on graph paper using my mind as the Apparatus, but minds aren't considered general purpose computers for some reason (despite the first "computers" actually being teams of humans)...
For a while I thought it would be cool to have one company were to sell only the software, and another company were to sell the device. The user would be the infringer when they stuck the sim card in the phone and booted / installed the OS -- Combined Method with Apparatus. However, contributory infringement or inducement to infringe would still be an issue in this instance. The issue is less clear though, since no one company did both acts. Unexecuted software can't infringe by itself, nor can a general purpose computer make the infringement. Now that we have case law suggesting that even though no company did all the steps themselves there was an infringement, who do we sue? Which one?
I think the real question we should be asking is: Where is the Proof that Patents are Beneficial to Society as a Whole? The law assumes such is true, but we haven't tested that hypothesis. We should perform the experiment and collect data, and THEN decide whether or not to keep patent laws on the books; That experiment being: Abolish Patents.
Only the uneducated minds would ever agree to be ruled in such a careless way. No Engineer or Scientist would agree to be ruled as you are! "We think this law is good, let us roll it out to the entire populous at once without any testing!" The flaws in the system run deeper than just whether or not Artificial Scarcity is ethical -- The flaws go all the way to the top: Let's Run The Land With Untested Hypotheses!
Fools. All of you!
That's the whole purpose of the "walled garden" that Apple - and yes, Google "Play Store" also - encourages. It's an attempt to lock people into a specific set of devices (ones that you profit from) by discouraging change. Who wants to lose music, games, etc just because there's a new device out that is a little better?
Uhm, no. There's nothing stopping Apple from installing Android on the iPhone 5. Hell, Apple could have a dual boot phone and offer some real choice. Google Play Store doesn't prevent you from buying or installing software from other sources. However, Apple will not let anyone install iOS on a Non Apple device, and actively works to prevent others from selling software to people who own iPhones.
I get what you're trying to say, but maybe you've never used Linux? I can add multiple "App Stores" (PPA's) to my OS, then get all the benefit of having trusted sources of software, and the choice of deciding who to trust for that software... There is a way to do "Walled Gardens" that allow you to unlock the gate, and visit other gardens, and even make your own garden. Android .APKs are cross platform bytecode, you can take the .APK from the repository, and install it on multiple devices... even a new one you just got. I do fault Google with not giving us easier file system access to the Android devices to make such software migration issues simple. One of the issues is that Davlik VM modifies the bytecode on installation to fix byte order, and static linking on a per machine basis, and you don't really want to keep an extra installation .APK on the system for every program you install. Side loaded apps don't have this problem, but it's not a failure of the "walled garden" / Software Repository System itself -- I frequently mirror my package cache to multiple machines on Linux so public facing bandwidth for updates is only consumed once.
DRM and 3rd party Streaming are what creates the planned obsolescence and vendor locking you're speaking of with songs and software no longer being available. However, My own DRM system is merely PKI that allows the User to accept or deny game mods made from others -- That type of DRM that puts the User in control is Good. I use a streaming system on my desktop machines that lets me stream all my media to any device -- That type of streaming where the user is in control is Good.
It's when the User is not in control of the systems they personally use and rely on that you have problems. I encourage you to read up about Free Software: RMS may be fucking weird but he's damn right.
TL;DR: You just need more control over your software -- Can you access the location where the files are and copy them to another device? If not then that's Treacherous Computing, not a "Walled Garden".
You don't own a baby, they own you.
Yeah, sure. Keep telling yourself that, whatever helps you sleep at night. Infant circumcision wouldn't exist if you truly thought that the babies even owned themselves... Let alone their unethical parents.
You dolt. When the shit hits the fan, the it's the ham radio folk who keep your emergency communications going. I've got a setup in my car just in case some shit goes down. What's your name fucker? I'll be sure to ignore your ass being trapped under rubble next time.
I would love it if I could just have a 'charging table' where you just sit your gadget on it, let it simmer, and pick it up later with a full charge.
Nah, why not just have your computing follow you across every surface you own, activated by multiple factors of authentication including biometrics? No more forgetting your phone, just use the wall, coffee table, car, desk, sunglasses, or pants... I mean, If I'm going to build you a table with an induction system in it, for a a little more I can install a touchscreen and Linux PC. These things keep getting smaller and cheaper...
No mention of Powershell? No mention of rolling out software / updates / OS images / workgroups / booting from the net / roaming accounts / mounted shares / active directory? Yeah, that's a useless list of BS you posted, primarily focused on irrelevant client side crap -- I mean: Drag and Drop File Transfer Speeds? YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG.
That, or it was meant to be funny. If it was, you're trolling pretty hard.
Well, it'll come with gnome installed, which some people want. So, that'll keep some people from ditching Canonical instead of going with Gnome's own independent Debian based distribution.
Oh, better for users? Fuck users, who gives a damn about them?!
I've been trying to abuse words for decades, yet they remain largely unaffected. My experiments have shown that it's not possible to abuse a word. The existence and wide spread use of buzzwords despite our disdain and hatred of them seems to agree with my findings.
For Example Synergy Is an aspect when people working in a team or a group produce more then the sum of each person.
No, Synergy is a program that lets me run multiple computers with one keyboard & mouse. It's like a KVM switch without the switching -- Just move the mouse to a different screen and start typing (uses the network). With this program my productivity has increased 18% (Average of SLOC improvement and per feature implementation duration improvement). For me it's especially since I do many cross platform projects, so I can have each screen on a different OS instead of a single PC and dual booting rebooting (VMs are nice, but nothing beats bare metal for testing). I can copy something on the Linux screen and paste it into a text box on the Windows7 screen. I move my mouse and travels around the room waking up all my computers before landing on my TV w/ XBMC. The graphical front end for configuring screens is OK for most setups, but editing the single .conf on the server allows you to place the screens in any orientation you like, even non-euclidean (I have two screens above each other, but moving off the side of either jumps diagonally to a side screen).
I know this sounds "spammy", but I don't get paid to use their program, it's free and open source.
Now that I have experienced Synergy, I never want to go back. That other synergy you're talking about? No, that reduces my productivity because it requires more time for brain synchronization, and it's often faster to just do things myself: "In the time it took to make the technical design doc, or explain it to you, I could have implemented the damn thing." Screw that kind of synergy. It's necessary sometimes, but not usually beneficial, and certainly not as useful as the program by the same name. Bouncing ideas off each other for creative stuff like story lines or game mechanic ideas? Yeah that's really awesome, but I'd call that collaboration or brain storming not synergy.
I have a vpn like most sane people.
Does your VPN have PPTP enabled, like most sane VPNs? FYI, Sanity is relative.
I had my doubts as to the security after I read MS's shitty MS-CHAP2 protocol, and now it's completely broken. If I have a question like, "Wait, how secure is that really?" I don't use said "security".
If you don't understand cryptography at an intimate level you're just making guesses as to what's secure or not. You might as well just have port 22 open, it's not like most folks even understand how their VPN or SSH security works. Can you really determine yourself why one is better than the other in terms of security? If not, then you're relying on someone else's claims for security...
Protip: All security is provided via obscurity. One bit of obscurity is insecure. 256 bits of security is pretty secure. 4096 bits of security is really secure. (currently)
There was a plot in Johnny Mnemonic?!
Or your willy wang and the police busting down your door for unauthorised jerking methods.
I think I would take the risk if my down-under-thunder could honestly be used to bust down doors...
Although not appointed as moderator, I came here for this post and was not disappointed.
Contrast the above with IRC:
<tomfoolery> there's a small fire burning in my room
<beretta> lemme guess im supposed to act suprised that you're telling us and not making any attempt to extinguish it, so i can submit it to bash where it will join the ranks of the other "SOMETHING CATOSTROPHIC HAPPENED SO I CAME TO TELL YOU GUYS ON IRC FIRST INSTEAD OF ATTEMPTING TO DEFUSE THE HOSTILE SITUATION" quotes that are grossly abundant, similar, and overrated. and despite a new one is submitted each week and only the location of the fire is altered, loyal viewers firmly believe it is a unique and hilarious quotation, pledging support in the form of unneccesary votes
I know which "social network" I'd rather belong to... despite perceived unsuitability as an emergency service.
1. Too, many, commas;
It's comas, and yes, the article, might have caused, a few to menny.
2. "(if you're old enough)" is redundant
Unless you're too old to realize you're old enough, or are suffering from a recent coma...
3. Never use the phrase "drive innovation"
What if it's the drive you're innovating? Blanket statements are typically wrong; Never say never again.
4. British English is still spoken by far more people than American;
Yes, by all the pretentious people. It's quite a problem if you ask me.
5. What is the purpose of biomimicry?
Obviously to Mimic Life, you ignorant twit.
6. The display "generate colors" - submitter was clearly so proud ... he forgot his gramma;
It's grammar, and yes the submitter already remarked he was proud of being both old enough and American. Fortunously us US citizens utilize our amazing organic information processing units and thus can forgive a few errors, unlike the pretentious strictly structured mechanizations that trip up if you so much as add an erroneous semicolon.
7. (don't explain things in brackets like this);
Why (the hell) not? Are parentheticals out of style now? Fucking hipster.
8. ... Too much babble. How about "An incubator will develop proofs of concept or working models for licensing";
Pot, meet kettle. How about, "An incubator helps gets shit started." Oh, but then we wouldn't need the sentence at all, because that IS what Incubator means!
9. What is "bioinspiration"?
Inspired by life. Are you Daft?
Why, yes, I did get out on the wrong side of the bed this morning, but that doesn't excuse this summary.
Let me get this straight, you got out of bed on the wrong side, and instead of taking a power nap to right things you ranted some useless drivel on Slashdot? For fuck's sake man, seek medical attention. Like I said before, you have an amazing organic computer atop your shoulders. We get it. We've got 'em too! That the communication was sufficient for you to understand it should be satisfactory. You might want to ask your doctor about a subscription to porn and blood pressure meds...
This is what happens when you try to be lenient with markup instead of strict (note: compliant does not preclude extensible), and then proceed to use a horribly inefficient and inconsistent (by design) scripting language and a dysfunctional family of almost sane document display engines combined with a stateless protocol to produce a stateful application development platform by way of increasingly ridiculous hacks.
When I first heard of "HTML5" I thought: Thank Fuck Almighty! They're finally going to start over and do shit right, but no, they're not. HTML5 is just taking the exact same cluster of fucks to even more dizzying degrees. HOW MANY YEARS have we been waiting for v5? I've HONESTLY lost count and any capacity to give a damn when we reached a decade -- Just looked it up, 12 years. For about one third the age of the Internet we've been stuck on v4.01... ugh. I don't, even -- no, bad. Wrong Universe! Get me out!
In 20XX when HTML6 may be available I may reconsider "web development". As it stands web development is chin-deep in its own filth which it sprays with each mention, onto passers by and they receive the horrid spittle joyously not because its good or even not-putrid, but because we've actually had worse! I can crank out a cross platform pixel perfect native application for Android, iOS, Linux, OSX, XP, Vista, Win7, and mother fucking BSD in one third the time it takes to make a web app work on the various flavours of IE, Firefox, Safari, Chrom(e|ium). The time goes from 1/3rd down to 1/6th when I cut out testing for BSD, Vista, W7 (runs on XP, likely runs on Vista & Win7. Runs on X11 + OpenGL + Linux, likely builds/runs on BSD & Mac).
Long live the Internet and actual cross platform development toolchains, but fuck the web.
With enough energy in a single spot you create matter. The highest power Lasers here on Earth already do create matter. Light is simply electromagnetism. Your brain is an electrochemical computer. With a big enough and powerful enough mind, your could use your thoughts alone to become invisible, create and manipulate matter, etc. So, Q seems legit. Now, if we can just get the religious fundamentalists to let us put cybergenetic implants in children we'll get there faster. Otherwise, we'll just use rat brain cells, and it won't really be "humanity", who's the supreme race now will it?
Mutually assured destruction is the only thing that will prevent war, or at the very least manage it to the extent that it doesn't turn into total warfare.
Education, economic ties, and free sharing of ideas and knowledge can also suffice to prevent war, but you humans are too primitive to see beyond violence just yet. You'll never solve the drake equation at this rate.
P.S. Thank you ever so much for producing "How It's Made", and its ilk. You've made my job as a xenoanthropologist as simple as operating a DVR.
Remember the story of the scorpion who wanted to cross the river...
Charon promised the scorpion that his boat would safely ferry him across the river Styx. The scorpion looked Charon dead in his eye and said: "Fool! The river grants immortality, I'll just fucking walk you shady twit!"
To be fair, lots of engineering goes into the formation and maintenance of a proper mohawk. I should know, I had a green one myself when I was still a stupid attention seeking twit.
First they came for the Malaysian Internet Café owners,
and I did not speak out because I was not a Malaysian Internet Café owner...
Then they came for the Anonymous Cowards,
and I did not speak out because I was not an Anonymous Coward.
Then they came for the posters with Seven digit UIDs,
and I did not speak out because I did not have a Seven digit UID.
Then they came for me,
but everyone only posted responses such as this.
Then they came for you,
and the issue was TL and everyone DR.
Then they simply came,
thinking of the children.