There has been enormous progress in medicine: imaging, diagnostics, genetics, drug treatments, surgical techniques, etc. Many medical problems that used to be serious are now treatable, preventable, or manageable. The one thing medical science can't do is extend life much, but that's because people are basically evolved for living around 70 years, and after that, many things go wrong at once.
Intel, however, is a different story. Until Intel came along, there was a wide variety of processor designs, programming languages, runtimes, and a strong interest in parallel computation. By pushing the x86 architecture, Intel has killed off two decades of work in parallel programming, new programming languages, and many other areas.
Grove and Gates should be remembered as the Genghis Khans of the 20th century: uncivilized, destructive, opportunistic hordes that became fabulously rich and powerful by plundering other civilization, and creating little of lasting value.
My point is this: bots are here to stay, they can serve various reasonable purposes, so people like you should just deal with it and stop complaining. What you were saying sounded an awful like you didn't want bots around at all, and that's simply not reasonable in the long term.
I'm sorry that you didn't find my advice of using a CAPTCHA useful, but other people who aren't as unimaginative and argumentative as you may, in fact, find the suggestion useful.
I'm also sorry that you can't figure out how to make sure people can only enter at designated points and can't just fly in, but it's not hard and it can be done. If you need it and can't figure it out yourself, pay someone to do it for you.
This kind of crime strikes me as being comparable in severity to grand larceny without a firearm or weapon, which is punishable by up to 16 months in prison in California.
It isn't a open access policy, it's not the mainland.
By "open access" I mean that people can just wander in. If they can just wander in, bots will wander in; that's just a fact.
Not that it helps since we often get people from many different nations (who can't speak English)... Germans, Korean, Japanese, Russians and languages I don't recognize (never had to kick one out since they used common sense).
Well, tough. Either bots wander in, or you have people register, or you use a CAPTCHA.
Nevermind the fact there isn't a way to dictate where a avatar arrives in a sim unless he used a map teleport
Of course, you can control where people are allowed in your sim and where they can teleport. RTFM...
I'm not sure what you want, but SL is trying to position itself as an open 3D platform analgous to the web. Just like there are web bots and they are tolerated, there will be more and more SL bots. Unless and until there is some kind of robot exclusion standard for the SL platform, you will have to do one of the things I suggested above.
It's not just an "open" platform, it's an "open source platform". RTFA.
would be closed from the public to tinker with and actually only be available to the mobile phone providers? Is that the idea?
Quite to the contrary: the platform is clearly intended for people to develop software for easily. It's also intended for handset manufacturers to incorporate into their hardware easily. RTFA.
Isn't openMoko and others (something QT) developing an open platform mobile OS already?
OpenMoko started after Android and is probably far less complete. Trolltech's platform is GPL rather than LGPL or Apache 2, making it a much less attractive platform for manufacturers.
It's just like a web site: if you have an open access policy, you can't complain if people come in.
If you want only real people to enter, use a CAPTCHA: put a texture on some surface and/or a sound in the environment that says: "Please say the magic word 'apple star' or be kicked out."
Properly configured, a Linux system can boot in a few seconds on reasonable hardware. The reason it takes so much longer right now is just because of all the configuration crap that gets read and servers that get started.
And how is the iPhone not 'available to all' (in the same way that a Porsche is available to all if you want to actually spend your money on one)?
Among other things, if Apple lets you program the thing at all, it requires Apple approval to distribute the software, and you have to use iTunes to talk to the phone.
I'm not sure whether "not available to all" is the right way of putting it, but the iPhone is one of the most restrictive phones in existence.
...which could be said of any and every advance in technology. But we must point it out this time because it is Microsoft and how dare anyone even hint that they might have done something cool!
The reason we must point this out is because there is completely inadequate mention of prior work or work by others in Microsoft's press releases or talks about this software.
And, yes, this is just as wrong when Apple does it, and Apple does it too.
Keep in mind that Microsoft didn't single-handedly come up with these technologies; their work is based on decades of work in user interfaces and image processing at many institutions.
Well even if we accept that CentOS does hurt RedHat, what can RedHat actually do about it? The GPL stops them from squashing the product
Linux isn't entirely covered by the GPL; parts of it are BSD, Apache, and other licenses. Furthermore, RedHat could easily use a non-GPL license for some of their contributions.
CentOS exists because RedHat made the choice to keep things open and available.
I think much of the Unix Workstation market (not all) as been subsumed as PCs became more capable.
And as PCs disappear, people will go back to specialized "developer" machines, aka workstations.
Now you might argue this is largely because much more of the development being done today is in abstracted languages (Like Java or the.Net/Mono languages) and scripted languages (Ruby, Python - you know their names) and advances in compiler technology, the choice of processor is largely irrelevant.
This is nothing new: scripting languages, cross-platform systems, byte code formats, and machine independent languages were widely used. If anything, PCs represented a step backwards, with their strong focus on C/C++ development.
As a Russian doctor, she can't just work in the US; when she made the decision to marry an American and move to the US, she basically decided to be a stay-at-home-mother.
But you're right: why would an "intelligent, highly educated doctor" make this choice in the first place, unless there were other motives?
People don't fly anonymously, do they? Isn't it easy to check if she's left the country?
No. She may have driven to Canada or Mexico, she may have gone by ship, and even if she went by plane, there isn't a single, perpetual database where these things can be looked up.
they'll figure out how important PCs are once they want to start designing those video games, cell phones, PDAs, etc.
"They" don't want to; "they" are home users.
None of those could exist without the PC.
Prior to the PC, a lot of that stuff was done on UNIX workstations. And after the PC stops being the darling of home users, it will be done on UNIX workstations again.
The fact that home computers and professional workstations are the same right now is a temporary state of affairs.
except that they don't have a monopoly on anything, haven't been convicted of illegal business practices, and haven't been pressuring customers into exclusive contracts. And they have been sponsoring and supporting true open source projects.
But, yes, they are like Microsoft in that their stock is doing really well.
It's pretty clear why Microsoft wants a new language: they think they can get away with designing it and imposing it on the world, after patenting it and making one of their bogus covenants.
ECMAScript 4 is a nice language, and a good evolutionary development from the current version of JavaScript. And if Microsoft wishes to, they can view ECMAScript 4 as a "new language" too; we can have bold old and new JavaScript in the same browser.
But Professor Hanson played this down. "Right now, this is impossible to do - putting a gene into muscle. It's unethical.
I'm tired of people claiming that it's "unethical" to enhance one's body--or destroy it for that matter. What substances I ingest or what modifications I make to my body is my own business. Even genetic modifications to one's own children aren't automatically "unethical".
Genetic engineering on humans is going to happen. Get over it.
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There has been enormous progress in medicine: imaging, diagnostics, genetics, drug treatments, surgical techniques, etc. Many medical problems that used to be serious are now treatable, preventable, or manageable. The one thing medical science can't do is extend life much, but that's because people are basically evolved for living around 70 years, and after that, many things go wrong at once.
Intel, however, is a different story. Until Intel came along, there was a wide variety of processor designs, programming languages, runtimes, and a strong interest in parallel computation. By pushing the x86 architecture, Intel has killed off two decades of work in parallel programming, new programming languages, and many other areas.
Grove and Gates should be remembered as the Genghis Khans of the 20th century: uncivilized, destructive, opportunistic hordes that became fabulously rich and powerful by plundering other civilization, and creating little of lasting value.
My point is this: bots are here to stay, they can serve various reasonable purposes, so people like you should just deal with it and stop complaining. What you were saying sounded an awful like you didn't want bots around at all, and that's simply not reasonable in the long term.
I'm sorry that you didn't find my advice of using a CAPTCHA useful, but other people who aren't as unimaginative and argumentative as you may, in fact, find the suggestion useful.
I'm also sorry that you can't figure out how to make sure people can only enter at designated points and can't just fly in, but it's not hard and it can be done. If you need it and can't figure it out yourself, pay someone to do it for you.
This kind of crime strikes me as being comparable in severity to grand larceny without a firearm or weapon, which is punishable by up to 16 months in prison in California.
So, 20 years seems excessive to me.
It isn't a open access policy, it's not the mainland.
By "open access" I mean that people can just wander in. If they can just wander in, bots will wander in; that's just a fact.
Not that it helps since we often get people from many different nations (who can't speak English)... Germans, Korean, Japanese, Russians and languages I don't recognize (never had to kick one out since they used common sense).
Well, tough. Either bots wander in, or you have people register, or you use a CAPTCHA.
Nevermind the fact there isn't a way to dictate where a avatar arrives in a sim unless he used a map teleport
Of course, you can control where people are allowed in your sim and where they can teleport. RTFM...
I'm not sure what you want, but SL is trying to position itself as an open 3D platform analgous to the web. Just like there are web bots and they are tolerated, there will be more and more SL bots. Unless and until there is some kind of robot exclusion standard for the SL platform, you will have to do one of the things I suggested above.
From the video, it sounds like it's going to run X11, Gtk, Python, and all that good stuff.
Oh I get it. This open platform
It's not just an "open" platform, it's an "open source platform". RTFA.
would be closed from the public to tinker with and actually only be available to the mobile phone providers? Is that the idea?
Quite to the contrary: the platform is clearly intended for people to develop software for easily. It's also intended for handset manufacturers to incorporate into their hardware easily. RTFA.
Isn't openMoko and others (something QT) developing an open platform mobile OS already?
OpenMoko started after Android and is probably far less complete. Trolltech's platform is GPL rather than LGPL or Apache 2, making it a much less attractive platform for manufacturers.
I'm not sure who tagged this "qtopia", but given that Trolltech is absent from the alliance, it's a pretty good bet that it's not Qtopia based.
http://www.openhandsetalliance.com/press_110507.html
It's just like a web site: if you have an open access policy, you can't complain if people come in.
If you want only real people to enter, use a CAPTCHA: put a texture on some surface and/or a sound in the environment that says: "Please say the magic word 'apple star' or be kicked out."
Properly configured, a Linux system can boot in a few seconds on reasonable hardware. The reason it takes so much longer right now is just because of all the configuration crap that gets read and servers that get started.
And how is the iPhone not 'available to all' (in the same way that a Porsche is available to all if you want to actually spend your money on one)?
Among other things, if Apple lets you program the thing at all, it requires Apple approval to distribute the software, and you have to use iTunes to talk to the phone.
I'm not sure whether "not available to all" is the right way of putting it, but the iPhone is one of the most restrictive phones in existence.
...which could be said of any and every advance in technology. But we must point it out this time because it is Microsoft and how dare anyone even hint that they might have done something cool!
The reason we must point this out is because there is completely inadequate mention of prior work or work by others in Microsoft's press releases or talks about this software.
And, yes, this is just as wrong when Apple does it, and Apple does it too.
Keep in mind that Microsoft didn't single-handedly come up with these technologies; their work is based on decades of work in user interfaces and image processing at many institutions.
Well even if we accept that CentOS does hurt RedHat, what can RedHat actually do about it? The GPL stops them from squashing the product
Linux isn't entirely covered by the GPL; parts of it are BSD, Apache, and other licenses. Furthermore, RedHat could easily use a non-GPL license for some of their contributions.
CentOS exists because RedHat made the choice to keep things open and available.
I think much of the Unix Workstation market (not all) as been subsumed as PCs became more capable.
.Net/Mono languages) and scripted languages (Ruby, Python - you know their names) and advances in compiler technology, the choice of processor is largely irrelevant.
And as PCs disappear, people will go back to specialized "developer" machines, aka workstations.
Now you might argue this is largely because much more of the development being done today is in abstracted languages (Like Java or the
This is nothing new: scripting languages, cross-platform systems, byte code formats, and machine independent languages were widely used. If anything, PCs represented a step backwards, with their strong focus on C/C++ development.
As a Russian doctor, she can't just work in the US; when she made the decision to marry an American and move to the US, she basically decided to be a stay-at-home-mother.
But you're right: why would an "intelligent, highly educated doctor" make this choice in the first place, unless there were other motives?
People don't fly anonymously, do they? Isn't it easy to check if she's left the country?
No. She may have driven to Canada or Mexico, she may have gone by ship, and even if she went by plane, there isn't a single, perpetual database where these things can be looked up.
the open-source Minix OS [CC] -- a cousin of Linux
That must be the same sense in which Dick Cheney is "a cousin of" Barak Obama.
they'll figure out how important PCs are once they want to start designing those video games, cell phones, PDAs, etc.
"They" don't want to; "they" are home users.
None of those could exist without the PC.
Prior to the PC, a lot of that stuff was done on UNIX workstations. And after the PC stops being the darling of home users, it will be done on UNIX workstations again.
The fact that home computers and professional workstations are the same right now is a temporary state of affairs.
Someone has to decide guilt or innocence. What do you propose?
You know, the sad thing is: I can't tell whether the article is supposed to be serious. There really are nuts like that out there.
except that they don't have a monopoly on anything, haven't been convicted of illegal business practices, and haven't been pressuring customers into exclusive contracts. And they have been sponsoring and supporting true open source projects.
But, yes, they are like Microsoft in that their stock is doing really well.
It's pretty clear why Microsoft wants a new language: they think they can get away with designing it and imposing it on the world, after patenting it and making one of their bogus covenants.
ECMAScript 4 is a nice language, and a good evolutionary development from the current version of JavaScript. And if Microsoft wishes to, they can view ECMAScript 4 as a "new language" too; we can have bold old and new JavaScript in the same browser.
Either a load of designers would switch to the GIMP, or they would all but Macs. One of these things is likely, the other is not.
Some designers would probably switch to the Mac. Some would switch to other commercial tools on the PC. And some would probably switch to the Gimp.
Overall, it would probably be a good thing: Adobe's and Photoshop's dominance over the market would be greatly reduced.
How can it be defamation if it's true?
But Professor Hanson played this down. "Right now, this is impossible to do - putting a gene into muscle. It's unethical.
I'm tired of people claiming that it's "unethical" to enhance one's body--or destroy it for that matter. What substances I ingest or what modifications I make to my body is my own business. Even genetic modifications to one's own children aren't automatically "unethical".
Genetic engineering on humans is going to happen. Get over it.