The point for me is: what you said about the smell and feel of a book, can be maybe abstracted in a sense. Basically you don't take it so that you try to emulate the feel and smell of a book in an e-reader, but abstract it as "a feeling of having something nice and cool or cute you can carry around", and make the ebook-readers equally appealing, by making them look like really cool interesting objects (since you obviously can't emulate a yellowing paper book with it).
I don't know, maybe like a small (flat) treasure chest for girls, or some kind of spaced-out PDA for guys, something like that.
As long as the ebook-readers look like the Kindle, they will not take off because people see that they are NOT like books, but they're also not really anything else that's interesting, nice, cute or cool.
Yeah the iPhone is really dead now. Apple totally blew it, I agree. It's totally done for. This is a total misfeature: a hidden root shell!
BTW what's this 'Android' you're talking about?
Basically you have this nice Mercedes, but instead of a windshield the front is fully closed.
How bad can it be, right? you think, so you drive straight on, hit your fence really hard, break through and stagger down the road until you hit right the front window of Aunt Elma's bakery.
All the buns drop and scatter over the floor and onto the walkway, and a sudden bystander drops her marmalade, which gives you a dissociated orange marmalade jelly bun inversion.
The resulting proton and muon-neutrino particle emission burns a big hole into your windshield, just SLIGHTLY missing your head, and finally you can see.
The resulting Schroedinger waveform collapse from you suddenly looking at the buns, the marmalade, the woman who dropped the marmalade and Aunt Elma causes a time paradox which results in you repeating the event forever and ever, that is, until you realize, that you're NOT the final cylon, because, you just can't be (can you?).
Hopefully they will also be able to restore functionality to WPSHU (Whatever Propulsion System Hubble Uses), so we can get a nice DOL (Direct Oriented Look) on the STARS (Stars That ARe Special). If not, I will commit SWABBL (Suicide With A Big, Big fraking Lens) and then BLAH (Burn Like A Hubble inferno) like Pinback on bomb #20!
A guy i know recently told me that while being under NDA, he's willing to slip me that such stuff *does* in fact already exist, involves huge supercomputers (think 200,000+ cores) and is already being used in Iraq. Maybe he was also talking about stuff that is going to be introduced. He works in the digital movie business so I'm not sure what his connection with that stuff is, but he is in himself credible.
I think there is not enough focus in AI research on emotions and some kind of base programming.
We know a sunset is beautiful, but what is it? Is it the rasterized image of the sunset, a specific arrangement of the pixels? No that surely isn't it. What makes it beautiful to us is because there are some very, very deeply hidden associations to something deep within us that cause an emotional outburst when we see a beautiful sunset.
I don't believe that we will ever have a strong AI if all it's focused on will be just emulating something. It has to be something on its own. Someone once said (i forgot where I got the quote from): "Having self-consciousness means knowing what it is to be like something". So unless that AI has no feeling for what it actually is, it will never develop an inner incentive to interact with the world. It will always just be a pile of algorithms and hardware.
" Lecturer in Electronic Engineering at Bangor University in Wales, Dr Justin Lawrence, told CNN small steps were always being made on technology like 3D holograms, but, he couldn't see it being ready for the market in the next ten years."
That guy is a prick and a true disbeliever.
I think it has been widely misunderstood what exactly this breakthrough is. It is not yet another display with a fast-rotating spiral in the center, or a box filled with smoke and crossing beams form a 3D picture.
No. What this is, is basically a "normal" hologram, the kind you have as small stickers on CCs or (ugh) EULAs, or the kind you hang on your wall if you're so inclined, just erasable. It's basically the CD-RW of holograms. With that technology, if they can 'erase' and 'write' images fast enough (fast enough for let's say 25fps), we finally can have a holographic display.
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No, what I want instead is a GIMP/Inkscape hybrid;)
I'm all sure they're "just" a company too, but they indeed Think Different in a way that i can not yet fully grasp, but which shows. Everyone can clearly see that patent trolling (in the described form of "looky there's nothing invented here yet; let's make a patent, bring it through USPTO, do nothing with it and sue people to death") is not good for general business and the market as a whole.
It definitely makes me feel a lot better that IBM has filed this patent and not Microsoft, SCO, and/or other scourges;)
Maybe this sounds stupid, but in a weird way this reminds me of this little project here, and I think it is the wrong approach, no matter the subject. It might work better on a computer system because a lot can be predicted, complexity is simpler but i can see the same kind of false positives occuring with this system as well.
The consequences of course have a different quality of impact, this isn't dealing with human lives, but there still might be a lot at stake.
I've got a 30mbps connection (also with a small 'b'), and it's not a big problem to come by servers which max out my line; package updates, trailer downloads, etc.
Not speaking of BitTorrent downloads. Given the right number of seeders, and the right seeding speeds, it's not problem to (theoretically, of course!), download a BD-movie rip (in around 4.4GB) in approx. 20 minutes when maxing out my line with ca. 3.7MB/s
"Zhai lifted himself through the hatch and waved at the camera attached to the service module on the outside of the craft, with Earth looming overhead."
"He then tried to take off the helmet for a 'nicer portrait shot'."
(After the implosion of his body, another astronaut from the 344 person manned spacecraft was sent to replace him.)
Simply being a personal opinion, I believe that traditional notebooks will see a sale rise in 2009.
When the EEE was announced I made a bet with a friend as to whether netbooks would shake the notebook market up and turn it a little inside out, and yes, they did.
But looking at what I feel I would buy when I wanted a portable computer, during all of 2008 I strongly felt I'd get some kind of netbook (I particularily had my eye on the Acer devices), but now i feel that I'd really want a normal work machine with a big screen, almost fullsize keyboard, good connectivity (optical drive, etc) (I currently own no notebook at all).
That said, I must say that for me, a normal notebook should always be the default decision (I'm a C++ developer), but having had a lot of free time in 2008 it seems I have let myself go asway. Wonder how that was for other people.
It's not really their interest, i agree to that now that you say it, but it is or should be the normal course of technological advancement.
DVDs might work for maybe 5 more years, but by that time, virtually everyone will have a HD-capable screen and people will notice the quality difference by any chance.
So while now it's a 2-level market like you said, it's inevitable that Bluray will have to become the new DVD, maybe they just want to make as much money off it as they can while it's still so separated.
What is up with people with panic disorder? I used to suffer from panic attacks and am now suffering from PTSD. It's not nice believe me, but most importantly for this context, it's sometimes not avoidable to get a (negative feeling) adrenaline rush, heart rate is going up and i'm sure all the other signs which would be detectable from distance by this detector.
So now we've arrived at a level where we're repeating the Inquisition again?
Yes but everyone or every second one has a geek- or geek-inclined friend, which will tell them "Yeah but, you CAN'T JUST PLAY IT ON YOUR IPOD." Dang. So people don't really think that much, like you said, but simply avoid it, knowing that DVD has worked for them for ages and the picture quality is "pretty good".
Most people still having older TVs or only HD-Ready screens (on which upscaled DVDs look pretty OK), so not really being able to appreciate the benefits of higher resolution, will thus see definitely no compelling reason at all to try a BD player out. (E.g. not even buying the BD version of a movie for coolness sake, because they can't even view it while on the way on their portable player.)
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The point for me is: what you said about the smell and feel of a book, can be maybe abstracted in a sense. Basically you don't take it so that you try to emulate the feel and smell of a book in an e-reader, but abstract it as "a feeling of having something nice and cool or cute you can carry around", and make the ebook-readers equally appealing, by making them look like really cool interesting objects (since you obviously can't emulate a yellowing paper book with it).
I don't know, maybe like a small (flat) treasure chest for girls, or some kind of spaced-out PDA for guys, something like that.
As long as the ebook-readers look like the Kindle, they will not take off because people see that they are NOT like books, but they're also not really anything else that's interesting, nice, cute or cool.
Yeah the iPhone is really dead now. Apple totally blew it, I agree. It's totally done for. This is a total misfeature: a hidden root shell!
BTW what's this 'Android' you're talking about?
lol
Basically you have this nice Mercedes, but instead of a windshield the front is fully closed.
How bad can it be, right? you think, so you drive straight on, hit your fence really hard, break through and stagger down the road until you hit right the front window of Aunt Elma's bakery.
All the buns drop and scatter over the floor and onto the walkway, and a sudden bystander drops her marmalade, which gives you a dissociated orange marmalade jelly bun inversion.
The resulting proton and muon-neutrino particle emission burns a big hole into your windshield, just SLIGHTLY missing your head, and finally you can see.
The resulting Schroedinger waveform collapse from you suddenly looking at the buns, the marmalade, the woman who dropped the marmalade and Aunt Elma causes a time paradox which results in you repeating the event forever and ever, that is, until you realize, that you're NOT the final cylon, because, you just can't be (can you?).
Hopefully they will also be able to restore functionality to WPSHU (Whatever Propulsion System Hubble Uses), so we can get a nice DOL (Direct Oriented Look) on the STARS (Stars That ARe Special). If not, I will commit SWABBL (Suicide With A Big, Big fraking Lens) and then BLAH (Burn Like A Hubble inferno) like Pinback on bomb #20!
A guy i know recently told me that while being under NDA, he's willing to slip me that such stuff *does* in fact already exist, involves huge supercomputers (think 200,000+ cores) and is already being used in Iraq. Maybe he was also talking about stuff that is going to be introduced. He works in the digital movie business so I'm not sure what his connection with that stuff is, but he is in himself credible.
Maybe by giving so superior stability that it's immediately feelable (I guess Chrome passes in that, but does IE8 it seems).
Better even, change them randomly.
The "Brick" is probably just a FUD campaign to scare off customers trying to unlock their phones >_>
I think there is not enough focus in AI research on emotions and some kind of base programming.
We know a sunset is beautiful, but what is it? Is it the rasterized image of the sunset, a specific arrangement of the pixels? No that surely isn't it. What makes it beautiful to us is because there are some very, very deeply hidden associations to something deep within us that cause an emotional outburst when we see a beautiful sunset.
I don't believe that we will ever have a strong AI if all it's focused on will be just emulating something. It has to be something on its own. Someone once said (i forgot where I got the quote from): "Having self-consciousness means knowing what it is to be like something". So unless that AI has no feeling for what it actually is, it will never develop an inner incentive to interact with the world. It will always just be a pile of algorithms and hardware.
So say we all!
" Lecturer in Electronic Engineering at Bangor University in Wales, Dr Justin Lawrence, told CNN small steps were always being made on technology like 3D holograms, but, he couldn't see it being ready for the market in the next ten years."
That guy is a prick and a true disbeliever.
I think it has been widely misunderstood what exactly this breakthrough is. It is not yet another display with a fast-rotating spiral in the center, or a box filled with smoke and crossing beams form a 3D picture.
No. What this is, is basically a "normal" hologram, the kind you have as small stickers on CCs or (ugh) EULAs, or the kind you hang on your wall if you're so inclined, just erasable. It's basically the CD-RW of holograms. With that technology, if they can 'erase' and 'write' images fast enough (fast enough for let's say 25fps), we finally can have a holographic display.
No, what I want instead is a GIMP/Inkscape hybrid ;)
Namely to stop patent trolling once and for all.
;)
I'm all sure they're "just" a company too, but they indeed Think Different in a way that i can not yet fully grasp, but which shows. Everyone can clearly see that patent trolling (in the described form of "looky there's nothing invented here yet; let's make a patent, bring it through USPTO, do nothing with it and sue people to death") is not good for general business and the market as a whole.
It definitely makes me feel a lot better that IBM has filed this patent and not Microsoft, SCO, and/or other scourges
Maybe this sounds stupid, but in a weird way this reminds me of this little project here, and I think it is the wrong approach, no matter the subject. It might work better on a computer system because a lot can be predicted, complexity is simpler but i can see the same kind of false positives occuring with this system as well.
The consequences of course have a different quality of impact, this isn't dealing with human lives, but there still might be a lot at stake.
Woops yeah i meant EXplosion and yes i know it would be exaggerated!
I've got a 30mbps connection (also with a small 'b'), and it's not a big problem to come by servers which max out my line; package updates, trailer downloads, etc. Not speaking of BitTorrent downloads. Given the right number of seeders, and the right seeding speeds, it's not problem to (theoretically, of course!), download a BD-movie rip (in around 4.4GB) in approx. 20 minutes when maxing out my line with ca. 3.7MB/s
It's cheaper than what I pay for 30mbps down/2mbps up here in Germany, which would be 39.90 EUR == ~58.28 USD.
http://www.universetoday.com/2008/09/27/chinas-first-spacewalk-a-success-video/
"Zhai lifted himself through the hatch and waved at the camera attached to the service module on the outside of the craft, with Earth looming overhead."
"He then tried to take off the helmet for a 'nicer portrait shot'."
(After the implosion of his body, another astronaut from the 344 person manned spacecraft was sent to replace him.)
Simply being a personal opinion, I believe that traditional notebooks will see a sale rise in 2009.
When the EEE was announced I made a bet with a friend as to whether netbooks would shake the notebook market up and turn it a little inside out, and yes, they did.
But looking at what I feel I would buy when I wanted a portable computer, during all of 2008 I strongly felt I'd get some kind of netbook (I particularily had my eye on the Acer devices), but now i feel that I'd really want a normal work machine with a big screen, almost fullsize keyboard, good connectivity (optical drive, etc) (I currently own no notebook at all).
That said, I must say that for me, a normal notebook should always be the default decision (I'm a C++ developer), but having had a lot of free time in 2008 it seems I have let myself go asway. Wonder how that was for other people.
Ah yes; i remember my parents just had bought me this cool blue potty.. wait, UNIX you say?
Sounds a little like "GTFO" to me ;)
Hey Peter,
It's not really their interest, i agree to that now that you say it, but it is or should be the normal course of technological advancement.
DVDs might work for maybe 5 more years, but by that time, virtually everyone will have a HD-capable screen and people will notice the quality difference by any chance.
So while now it's a 2-level market like you said, it's inevitable that Bluray will have to become the new DVD, maybe they just want to make as much money off it as they can while it's still so separated.
What is up with people with panic disorder? I used to suffer from panic attacks and am now suffering from PTSD. It's not nice believe me, but most importantly for this context, it's sometimes not avoidable to get a (negative feeling) adrenaline rush, heart rate is going up and i'm sure all the other signs which would be detectable from distance by this detector.
So now we've arrived at a level where we're repeating the Inquisition again?
Yes but everyone or every second one has a geek- or geek-inclined friend, which will tell them "Yeah but, you CAN'T JUST PLAY IT ON YOUR IPOD." Dang. So people don't really think that much, like you said, but simply avoid it, knowing that DVD has worked for them for ages and the picture quality is "pretty good".
Most people still having older TVs or only HD-Ready screens (on which upscaled DVDs look pretty OK), so not really being able to appreciate the benefits of higher resolution, will thus see definitely no compelling reason at all to try a BD player out. (E.g. not even buying the BD version of a movie for coolness sake, because they can't even view it while on the way on their portable player.)