posting this story was a moral thing for slashdot to do, it's still the biggest news event in gaming for quite a while. Can't expect the press to not spread the news.
How can I sell more products? Why are my customers fleeing before they ever use my product? Can you please get your enormous crowd of readers to tell me how I can sell more products to them?
I wonder what the responses to this question would be worth to a marketing department...
From what I've read about it, isn't NSA's Linux more just a proof of concept of attaching hardware access to a user, and actually not a 'super elite security OS'? I see it's name tacked on to things like this and think that either I'm wrong or someone else is....
Linus said that evolution can be accelerated, so as to not take millions of years. Acceleration of evolution is just making more and more intelligent mutations; isn't that design?
Okay, here's my thoughts on what's going to happen. I'm sure all kinds of people have said different versions of this, but here it goes anyway.
Arguing that CD sales go up because of Napster just isn't going to hold water for very long. When the process of getting music into my car gets to be easier through the internet than shelling out the $15 or whatever for a CD, I'll be doing it. For some, it already is that way.
What's going to happen is this: CD sales will drop. Recording industry profits will drop. Recording artists profits will drop. Big time rock stars will not be any longer (e.g. Metallica). Instead, microbands will spring up, bands that like to make music rather than make lottery levels of money. People will search for genres of music, instead of bands names.
The recording industry is at least intelligent enough to forsee the first two steps, and they panic. The fact that they fail to forsee any further steps amazes me. If they shifted towards creating online communities to search for music, they score one of the biggest directed marketing audiences in existance. Think about it, they could sell annoying little ads to various companies, marketing to very specific audiences. Kinda like this FUCKING THINKGEEK AD that keeps blinking in my face. Yes, I hate ads as much as the next guy, but I'd rather look at ads for things I might want rather than pay $15 for a CD.
The telecom companies got on with the internet. Why can't RIAA do the same?
The Vertex Shader seems to me the beginnings of a really cool idea. Right now they have 128 programmable 'vertex shading' instructions, why don't they work towards making the whole damn thing programmable. Make the GPU load up applications to create the rendering engine instead of being so hardwired, and have these engines created by game programmers. Prefabbed engines could be made to run DX/OpenGL. Or game programmers could make their own engines. Hell, they could even make engines to accelerate 2D stuff also. The possibilities are endless...the only thing that might be a downside is if this would hit performance considerably, and unless it's completely catastrophic, it might be worth the flexability.
It seems very likely to be a form of transportation, but the scooter idea doesn't fit a couple of the mentioned hints.
1) Allowing people to use it would be an issue.
2) Redesigning cities would be very likely.
3) It would definitely be revolutionary (and I don't care how fricking cool a scooter gets, it probably isn't going to be world revolutionary.)
4) It would threaten the billion-dollar old-line automotive industry (again, I don't think scooters could ever pose a strong threat.)
A jetpack just seems more deserving of the hype they're trying to raise. Plus, it's about damn time someone gets it done!
would be to implement a public key algorithm. Signing a contract would entail encrypting the contract with your private key. Verifying the contract would entail using your public key to see if the cyphertext decrypts to the original contract text. The problem that then arises is protecting your private key. Perhaps a standard method would be to use a type of removable media to prevent hacking and whatnot.
LegOS rocks! For anyone unaware, it's an open source replacement for the firmware, allowing easy development of programs for the RCX in C. The programer(s) that wrote it really went off on this...it has a small 7segment font, and it's even multitasking!
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For years, aviation has been using technology called RAIM. With enough satellites, position is over-specified and can be checked for self-consistency.
or does this seem like an auto generated headline? Seems like "NASA creates beowulf cluster of TiVos" and "New anime series converted to linux".
posting this story was a moral thing for slashdot to do, it's still the biggest news event in gaming for quite a while. Can't expect the press to not spread the news.
Once I saw this gem, I decided I had to have it for my shelf at work.
How can I sell more products? Why are my customers fleeing before they ever use my product? Can you please get your enormous crowd of readers to tell me how I can sell more products to them?
I wonder what the responses to this question would be worth to a marketing department...
From what I've read about it, isn't NSA's Linux more just a proof of concept of attaching hardware access to a user, and actually not a 'super elite security OS'? I see it's name tacked on to things like this and think that either I'm wrong or someone else is....
Linus said that evolution can be accelerated, so as to not take millions of years. Acceleration of evolution is just making more and more intelligent mutations; isn't that design?
Okay, here's my thoughts on what's going to happen. I'm sure all kinds of people have said different versions of this, but here it goes anyway.
Arguing that CD sales go up because of Napster just isn't going to hold water for very long. When the process of getting music into my car gets to be easier through the internet than shelling out the $15 or whatever for a CD, I'll be doing it. For some, it already is that way.
What's going to happen is this: CD sales will drop. Recording industry profits will drop. Recording artists profits will drop. Big time rock stars will not be any longer (e.g. Metallica). Instead, microbands will spring up, bands that like to make music rather than make lottery levels of money. People will search for genres of music, instead of bands names.
The recording industry is at least intelligent enough to forsee the first two steps, and they panic. The fact that they fail to forsee any further steps amazes me. If they shifted towards creating online communities to search for music, they score one of the biggest directed marketing audiences in existance. Think about it, they could sell annoying little ads to various companies, marketing to very specific audiences. Kinda like this FUCKING THINKGEEK AD that keeps blinking in my face. Yes, I hate ads as much as the next guy, but I'd rather look at ads for things I might want rather than pay $15 for a CD.
The telecom companies got on with the internet. Why can't RIAA do the same?
The Vertex Shader seems to me the beginnings of a really cool idea. Right now they have 128 programmable 'vertex shading' instructions, why don't they work towards making the whole damn thing programmable. Make the GPU load up applications to create the rendering engine instead of being so hardwired, and have these engines created by game programmers. Prefabbed engines could be made to run DX/OpenGL. Or game programmers could make their own engines. Hell, they could even make engines to accelerate 2D stuff also. The possibilities are endless...the only thing that might be a downside is if this would hit performance considerably, and unless it's completely catastrophic, it might be worth the flexability.
It seems very likely to be a form of transportation, but the scooter idea doesn't fit a couple of the mentioned hints.
1) Allowing people to use it would be an issue.
2) Redesigning cities would be very likely.
3) It would definitely be revolutionary (and I don't care how fricking cool a scooter gets, it probably isn't going to be world revolutionary.)
4) It would threaten the billion-dollar old-line automotive industry (again, I don't think scooters could ever pose a strong threat.)
A jetpack just seems more deserving of the hype they're trying to raise. Plus, it's about damn time someone gets it done!
would be to implement a public key algorithm. Signing a contract would entail encrypting the contract with your private key. Verifying the contract would entail using your public key to see if the cyphertext decrypts to the original contract text. The problem that then arises is protecting your private key. Perhaps a standard method would be to use a type of removable media to prevent hacking and whatnot.
It had all my homework and...
LegOS rocks! For anyone unaware, it's an open source replacement for the firmware, allowing easy development of programs for the RCX in C. The programer(s) that wrote it really went off on this...it has a small 7segment font, and it's even multitasking!