Near future, perhaps not. But what if you could take your iPhone/AndroidPhone version 15 and set it on your desk next to a a pair of monitors, keyboard and fancy speakers and this FuturePhone would detect the devices and ask if you want to use them as your display/input/sound devices. When you're done, just pick up your phone and walk away without skipping a beat.
Give it 10 years, I could see this being how we work.
I once thought sales looked like any monkey could do it. I was working as a developer at a company whose product was software which dealt with real estate agents and their listings. After doing this for years I saw what appeared to be bumbling fools making three times the money I did. I quit my job and became a real estate agent. After a miserable couple of years, I realized I was not a salesman and went back to IT. That was a very expensive lesson in humility.
So you don't think that a trillion dollar debacle of a war against a country which posed no threat to us wasn't in some way related to a request from a group of wealthy benefactors?
The US government budget is trillions of dollars. Even at that size it's an arm of corporations. The only way to stop corporations from taking more power it to stop growing government. Or do you really think that the problem is that the US government is still too small?
You think everything kept secret from Americans is all about our technical military specs?
The problem with allowing secrecy is that government officials can claim anything is secret, and once that happens you have no way of knowing whether it really should be or not. You have to trust the person making the decision. And if you're a libertarian, I know you don't trust politicians.
No mystery about it, the wealthy control government, and control who we the little people are allowed to vote for.
When this country was formed government was small enough that controlling didn't matter. Now that we have a federal government with a multi-trillion dollar yearly budget, there's trillions of reasons to control it.
Even as enlisted grunt almost 20 years ago, I had Secret level clearance. It doesn't really take much to get a security clearance to be "entrusted with classified data" that you seem to think is vital to the nation.
The nice thing about the free market is that you can give it the finger back. I canceled cable TV years ago and haven't looked back. Netflix is $15 for a steady stream of movies and television shows, and it's exactly what I want to watch without TBS editing for content.
On the other side we have government. Every time somebody gives them the finger they end up in jail or dead.
There was Jet Set Radio Future for the original Xbox, which after a cursory search appears to be supported on the 360 through backward compatibility. Not sure how similar it is to the original, but JSRF did get good reviews on its own.
The Japanese invented an entirely new alphabet just for foreign words. There must be enough words that they've co-opted to make that exercise worthwhile.
If twitter.com was to be trusted with defining our language, the correct spelling would now be "u" so I think I'll stick with the NYT editor for now. I'd rather not allow my language to be defined by the detritus of society.
Web 2.0 was in many ways broken when it first came out. So much was done in Flash, and many AJAX sites often had no way to link to anything of any value because URLs never changed as data changed. There are valid reasons not to jump on every technology as soon as it's released.
Who exactly is going to create overseers? The people who are currently trying to keep everything a secret? Hell, there's currently a push by some in government to make it illegal to take video of police officers while on duty.
This country is going downhill fast, a leak of some seriously embarrassing documents might be just the thing we need, even if it costs a few lives. God only knows how many lives it will cost in the future if we keep heading down the totalitarian path we seem to be on.
That may be the only way to wake Americans up. If the world gets pissed at us because abused our privilege as one of the worlds most prosperous countries, and abdicated our authority to corrupt politicians as we drank Starbucks and watched American Idol, we will simply be getting what we deserve. The citizens of the US needs a wake up call before those assholes in Washington destroy this country.
I think they should be. Perhaps if every law had a sunset clause, we'd have one concise set of laws that people could live with rather than a maze of laws so complex that it takes an expert to understand the rules he is bound to live by.
Wrong. The people haven't delegated anything for a long time. The state of "democracy" in the US is a joke. We're given a choice between sock puppet A and sock puppet B, and the same person has their hands in both of them. Then once we have chosen which sock puppet is more entertaining, the actual business of governing is then further removed from actual choice because laws are written not by our "representatives" but by special interest groups and unelected bureaucrats. When was the last time congress declared war? Yet somehow we've been in a perpetual state of war for many decades now. Apparently those "experts" that we delegated authority too have further delegated their responsibilities to god knows who.
We still have slavery. They're called illegal immigrants, and the federal government loves having them here. In fact Obama is fighting to keep them here. But keep telling yourself that the feds ended slavery if it helps you sleep at night.
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Except do you really think anybody wants Google employees in jail for committing crimes?
I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess that the real reason is the number 1, preceded by a dollar sign and followed by a lot of zeros.
Decades? Wow, Germans are lucky. Here in the US we get saddled with bad laws for centuries.
Near future, perhaps not. But what if you could take your iPhone/AndroidPhone version 15 and set it on your desk next to a a pair of monitors, keyboard and fancy speakers and this FuturePhone would detect the devices and ask if you want to use them as your display/input/sound devices. When you're done, just pick up your phone and walk away without skipping a beat.
Give it 10 years, I could see this being how we work.
I once thought sales looked like any monkey could do it. I was working as a developer at a company whose product was software which dealt with real estate agents and their listings. After doing this for years I saw what appeared to be bumbling fools making three times the money I did. I quit my job and became a real estate agent. After a miserable couple of years, I realized I was not a salesman and went back to IT. That was a very expensive lesson in humility.
So you don't think that a trillion dollar debacle of a war against a country which posed no threat to us wasn't in some way related to a request from a group of wealthy benefactors?
The US government budget is trillions of dollars. Even at that size it's an arm of corporations. The only way to stop corporations from taking more power it to stop growing government. Or do you really think that the problem is that the US government is still too small?
You think everything kept secret from Americans is all about our technical military specs?
The problem with allowing secrecy is that government officials can claim anything is secret, and once that happens you have no way of knowing whether it really should be or not. You have to trust the person making the decision. And if you're a libertarian, I know you don't trust politicians.
No mystery about it, the wealthy control government, and control who we the little people are allowed to vote for.
When this country was formed government was small enough that controlling didn't matter. Now that we have a federal government with a multi-trillion dollar yearly budget, there's trillions of reasons to control it.
Even as enlisted grunt almost 20 years ago, I had Secret level clearance. It doesn't really take much to get a security clearance to be "entrusted with classified data" that you seem to think is vital to the nation.
The nice thing about the free market is that you can give it the finger back. I canceled cable TV years ago and haven't looked back. Netflix is $15 for a steady stream of movies and television shows, and it's exactly what I want to watch without TBS editing for content.
On the other side we have government. Every time somebody gives them the finger they end up in jail or dead.
Frankly, I like my odds against the free market.
There was Jet Set Radio Future for the original Xbox, which after a cursory search appears to be supported on the 360 through backward compatibility. Not sure how similar it is to the original, but JSRF did get good reviews on its own.
Fuv lep da pha kap!
What, didn't understand me? I guess you just need to hurry up and die. I'm changing language faster than you can keep up old man.
Tweet also applies only to one specific function of a specific commercial website. At least the word blog is a generic term that anybody can use.
I can just see the uproar on /. if the following headline hit the mainstream:
"Canonical Ltd released the newest version of their windows today."
The Japanese invented an entirely new alphabet just for foreign words. There must be enough words that they've co-opted to make that exercise worthwhile.
If twitter.com was to be trusted with defining our language, the correct spelling would now be "u" so I think I'll stick with the NYT editor for now. I'd rather not allow my language to be defined by the detritus of society.
Web 2.0 was in many ways broken when it first came out. So much was done in Flash, and many AJAX sites often had no way to link to anything of any value because URLs never changed as data changed. There are valid reasons not to jump on every technology as soon as it's released.
Who exactly is going to create overseers? The people who are currently trying to keep everything a secret? Hell, there's currently a push by some in government to make it illegal to take video of police officers while on duty.
This country is going downhill fast, a leak of some seriously embarrassing documents might be just the thing we need, even if it costs a few lives. God only knows how many lives it will cost in the future if we keep heading down the totalitarian path we seem to be on.
That may be the only way to wake Americans up. If the world gets pissed at us because abused our privilege as one of the worlds most prosperous countries, and abdicated our authority to corrupt politicians as we drank Starbucks and watched American Idol, we will simply be getting what we deserve. The citizens of the US needs a wake up call before those assholes in Washington destroy this country.
I used to be soldier in the US army as well. And frankly, I say fuck the US government. Somebody needs to take those assholes in DC down a peg.
Not sure which asshole mod modded this redundant. This is an excellent post. Particularly "the information discredits us whether or not its secret."
If the information is embarrassing to the US, then perhaps we should stop doing things that embarrass us.
I think they should be. Perhaps if every law had a sunset clause, we'd have one concise set of laws that people could live with rather than a maze of laws so complex that it takes an expert to understand the rules he is bound to live by.
Wrong. The people haven't delegated anything for a long time. The state of "democracy" in the US is a joke. We're given a choice between sock puppet A and sock puppet B, and the same person has their hands in both of them. Then once we have chosen which sock puppet is more entertaining, the actual business of governing is then further removed from actual choice because laws are written not by our "representatives" but by special interest groups and unelected bureaucrats. When was the last time congress declared war? Yet somehow we've been in a perpetual state of war for many decades now. Apparently those "experts" that we delegated authority too have further delegated their responsibilities to god knows who.
You think small government is the problem here? How many trillions of dollars does the US govt spend each year? You're saying that isn't big enough?
The problem isn't size. It's priorities.
We still have slavery. They're called illegal immigrants, and the federal government loves having them here. In fact Obama is fighting to keep them here. But keep telling yourself that the feds ended slavery if it helps you sleep at night.
I think you'll find that many or most libertarians are in favor of reducing military spending. So if you're trolling for a reaction, try elsewhere.