This could actually prevent a lot of patent infringements. You could force artists and designers to proof their work against a central database. The central patent office would then certify a permit allowing the designer to start production. It would of course cost a few percent of the revenue to cover your fellow comrades efforts at the central office. Who said communism is dead. It is thriving more than ever. DRM is just one good example.
In the long run, I see it as a replacement for W3C and WHATWG. Seeing Google, Apple, Microsoft, Mozilla working on common ground is extremely exciting. Question is, will this initiative survive more than a week or two. Example: Microsoft + Webgl = goodbye DirectX That would not be popular. Especially when you think about all trouble Silverlight caused when replaced by HTML5 as the future web platform.
First of all I think smokers are some of the most annoying people on the planet, but still people. So I'm not going to stretch my self trying to defend those poor suckers. But I do think that everyone has a right to work one way or the other. Banning smokers from working sounds like east germany during the cold war, except they where probably less restrictive on smoking. Following this trend, next step must be that you get a bounty for each smoker that you kill? Perhaps we should just stick to fines. Going after the money is always the best way to control people. Let the tax authorities handle the administration. Yikes.
Please go ahead and try to change JavaScript into something new. But realize that JavaScript is the internet programming language equivalent to Cobol. It will survive everything you throw at it. It will be here when you cant chew butter any more. Yes you can make better compilers, perhaps support for hardware acceleration. But its too late for making any fundamental changes to the language it self.
The term "brilliant jerk" boils down to just jerk when all comes to all. Then, how do you deal with a jerk then. As push around? Title should have been "How do you deal with being a self important ( and propably ) useless idiot?" I could tell you but i would rather not worsen my karma rating.
First the bot got human rights, then voting rights and then and then.. it moved into congress, ran for president lost the first attempt. Then instantiated into billions (virtual bots). Four years later it won the president election, changed the constitution. The end.
Why can't light escape a black hole while gravity can or at least it's influence. I know they say that gravity is the curvature of space time, often illustrated by a funnel or a rubber sheet with a heavy metal ball in the center. But that's a bad example because that is using gravity it self to explain gravity. Like describing the color red, with a tomato. How do you know that the person next to won't see it as blue. You can't make a volumetric funnel that leads objects towards the same point in space from all directions. Things just like to move towards higher spacial densities for some reason. It's funny that such a fundamental force still today can not be explained.
Today it's quite normal that kids at junior school gets medical treatment for all kinds of disorders that practically didn't exist twenty years ago. Too bad. because instead of treating people the way they are, sometimes geniuses, sometimes mad, we end up with a whole zombie generation. One thing is for sure, the medical business makes a pile of money, while some unfortunate people end up on drugs for the rest of their lives.
If we start firering our strongest lasers at Andromeda now. Could we.... deflect it before its too late? Perhaps build a cloud of mirrors around the sun pointing towards the hostile galaxy. Unless the Andromendanians have allready startet to fire their deflector beams at us. In that case we should prepare for an even more accelerated climate change. Maybe that explains why the climate is already so hot. Hot hot hot. Hey SlashDot. This is a grat article. Keep up the good work.
To bad we live in a short term world. It's probably just a matter of time before we see some of these nucrackers in action. Actually it is funny how the world is changing in to a short term paradigm more and more every day.
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This could actually prevent a lot of patent infringements.
You could force artists and designers to proof their work against a central database.
The central patent office would then certify a permit allowing the designer to start production.
It would of course cost a few percent of the revenue to cover your fellow comrades efforts at the central office.
Who said communism is dead. It is thriving more than ever. DRM is just one good example.
That is Sauron taking a close look at you
In the long run, I see it as a replacement for W3C and WHATWG.
Seeing Google, Apple, Microsoft, Mozilla working on common ground is extremely exciting.
Question is, will this initiative survive more than a week or two.
Example: Microsoft + Webgl = goodbye DirectX
That would not be popular. Especially when you think about all trouble Silverlight caused when replaced by HTML5 as the future web platform.
Applause
First of all I think smokers are some of the most annoying people on the planet, but still people.
So I'm not going to stretch my self trying to defend those poor suckers.
But I do think that everyone has a right to work one way or the other.
Banning smokers from working sounds like east germany during the cold war, except they where probably less restrictive on smoking.
Following this trend, next step must be that you get a bounty for each smoker that you kill?
Perhaps we should just stick to fines. Going after the money is always the best way to control people.
Let the tax authorities handle the administration. Yikes.
Are you talking about action script?
Please go ahead and try to change JavaScript into something new.
But realize that JavaScript is the internet programming language equivalent to Cobol.
It will survive everything you throw at it.
It will be here when you cant chew butter any more.
Yes you can make better compilers, perhaps support for hardware acceleration.
But its too late for making any fundamental changes to the language it self.
The term "brilliant jerk" boils down to just jerk when all comes to all.
Then, how do you deal with a jerk then. As push around?
Title should have been "How do you deal with being a self important ( and propably ) useless idiot?"
I could tell you but i would rather not worsen my karma rating.
That must be great news for all alcoholics?
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Start you own company
First the bot got human rights, then voting rights and then and then.. it moved into congress, ran for president lost the first attempt. Then instantiated into billions (virtual bots). Four years later it won the president election, changed the constitution. The end.
Duh!
(one word comments are allowed on subjects like this!)
Me tinks there is a 99.99% chance they found zilch
Why can't light escape a black hole while gravity can or at least it's influence.
I know they say that gravity is the curvature of space time, often illustrated by a funnel or a rubber sheet with a heavy metal ball in the center.
But that's a bad example because that is using gravity it self to explain gravity.
Like describing the color red, with a tomato. How do you know that the person next to won't see it as blue.
You can't make a volumetric funnel that leads objects towards the same point in space from all directions.
Things just like to move towards higher spacial densities for some reason.
It's funny that such a fundamental force still today can not be explained.
This news story would have sounded very different 15 years ago.
Today it's quite normal that kids at junior school gets medical treatment for all kinds of disorders that practically didn't exist twenty years ago.
Too bad. because instead of treating people the way they are, sometimes geniuses, sometimes mad, we end up with a whole zombie generation.
One thing is for sure, the medical business makes a pile of money, while some unfortunate people end up on drugs for the rest of their lives.
What does the neighbours cat think about its enemy no. one, suddenly hissing around in the back yard ten feet in the air?
If we start firering our strongest lasers at Andromeda now.
Could we.... deflect it before its too late?
Perhaps build a cloud of mirrors around the sun pointing towards the hostile galaxy.
Unless the Andromendanians have allready startet to fire their deflector beams at us.
In that case we should prepare for an even more accelerated climate change.
Maybe that explains why the climate is already so hot. Hot hot hot.
Hey SlashDot. This is a grat article. Keep up the good work.
But they will be really really awesome!
Whats wrong with a good honest troll?
To bad we live in a short term world.
It's probably just a matter of time before we see some of these nucrackers in action.
Actually it is funny how the world is changing in to a short term paradigm more and more every day.
Is a tactical armageddon better than a strategic armageddon ?
It looks like the Jupiter moon Europa. That can't be right.
Where is all the green stuff?