Everything else, given the existence of enough computer programming: not futureproof.
Amusingly, this includes things very near computer programming, like robotics. You can, after all, and with enough expert interviews, design a program to design anything else. Veni.
There... there weren't really millions of scribes at any given time. More like tens of thousands, tops. There simply wasn't much demand for books when they were so labour-intensive to make. One thing that's fantastic about truly "disruptive" technologies is that the world becomes vastly more accessible once they're commonplace, and the artisans have moved on or died off.
I was skimming the second half of your post, and "Kazundo Gouda" turned into "Kudzu". Let's go with "kudzu" instead of "hydra". It just fits so well. I mean, they're a pretty invasive species, and in the world of government intelligence operations, a fleet of teenagers in it for the lulz is pretty alien.
I might suggest considering this viewpoint: producing someone with perfect skin is more of a challenge, and efforts like Geminoid DK mask those issues with flaws. If you stare at all of the stills on that page for long enough, you'll still see the slight unnaturalness of the android. Particularly of point is the translucence of the skin: check out the effect shown off in this link. In several of the head-on shots of the android, it looks like he's being lit from behind in a similar manner, even though the rest of the scene isn't lit in such a way as to permit that. There are still objective defects; it's not merely a matter of setting the bar lower for the design.
But I'll certainly agree with you: that's damn minor, and everything else is fantastically indistinguishable, except the way the head rattles slightly after a sudden movement.
Yes, but once you learn it you're going to be faced with the simple reality that your keyboard is not the only one in the world. This has two major consequences: you'll have trouble using others' keyboards, and your keyboard will be a pain for everyone else. Further, like it or not, you will lose productivity during the time you take to learn. Getting used to a new method of doing things is precisely everyone's problem with what GNOME's doing—you're just not being told that your favourite OS/distro/WM combination is now Dvorak-only.
And to make matters worse, Dvorak hasn't been proven to be an improvement in studies, either, much like this change.
What we really need is a more generalized iecountdown spoof—exactly the same in every way, except trying to get people to move away from IE as a whole. A cursory glance says that the site's pretty generic and easily search-and-replaced into an even more noble effort.
The GameBoy ones are very classy, following in the footsteps and formula of A Link to the Past. Zelda 2, which has the distinction of being a sidescroller with a Dragon Warrior-style overworld, is generally considered the dark sheep of the family. The original Zelda 1 would probably feel very archaic to you, given that it's an ancient NES game. But later 2D games, like the Oracle of Seasons/Ages and Link's Awakening are great stuff, and newer DS games borrow even more heavily from A Link to the Past in style, but scaled down to make the adventure more compact—all of the GameBoy and DS games have less roaming than the SNES game.
(P.S. Technically, only the original NES games are numbered; the rest of the continuity is a shitstorm.)
Interesting opportunity for a history lesson. It was initially Romanized with a "C", by the Italians, and this spelling survives in most European languages, e.g. French "Corée". The Japanese, however, were the face through which the United States interacted with the region around the dawn of the 20th century, and since the Romanization of Japanese used "K" for that sound, the spelling drifted to the Japanese convention. As far as I know, Koreans consider this another example of their subjugation by the Japanese Empire. (See Wikipedia for more.)
The strange things you find in the metamod queue. (And no, I'm not waiting for a woosh—consider yourself educated.)
You forgot the text-to-speech feature that kids were so excited about. You can teach yourself to read with a Kindle, and using nearly any book; that's much harder with a regular text unless it's designed to introduce the reader to the basics of language first. RTFS.
...wait, and if the pool is the size of the Indian Ocean, a few thousand ice cubes will produce a noticeable temperature difference? You live in weird ways.
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Don't be silly!
These "engineers" you speak of will write good documentation and then die off peacefully, just like in the real world.
I'm more concerned about the trolling that will result. How long before we see this cited in claims that there are no more than 3500 KDE users? ;)
Computer programming: futureproof.
Everything else, given the existence of enough computer programming: not futureproof.
Amusingly, this includes things very near computer programming, like robotics. You can, after all, and with enough expert interviews, design a program to design anything else. Veni.
There... there weren't really millions of scribes at any given time. More like tens of thousands, tops. There simply wasn't much demand for books when they were so labour-intensive to make. One thing that's fantastic about truly "disruptive" technologies is that the world becomes vastly more accessible once they're commonplace, and the artisans have moved on or died off.
Sometimes you just need the ability to bring two points together when no straight line between them exists.
I was skimming the second half of your post, and "Kazundo Gouda" turned into "Kudzu". Let's go with "kudzu" instead of "hydra". It just fits so well. I mean, they're a pretty invasive species, and in the world of government intelligence operations, a fleet of teenagers in it for the lulz is pretty alien.
No, no, you're doing it wrong. As the first reply to the first comment on this article said,
Why do you feel that Python is so bad? What do you find wrong with it?
I might suggest considering this viewpoint: producing someone with perfect skin is more of a challenge, and efforts like Geminoid DK mask those issues with flaws. If you stare at all of the stills on that page for long enough, you'll still see the slight unnaturalness of the android. Particularly of point is the translucence of the skin: check out the effect shown off in this link. In several of the head-on shots of the android, it looks like he's being lit from behind in a similar manner, even though the rest of the scene isn't lit in such a way as to permit that. There are still objective defects; it's not merely a matter of setting the bar lower for the design.
But I'll certainly agree with you: that's damn minor, and everything else is fantastically indistinguishable, except the way the head rattles slightly after a sudden movement.
Then next time try "i no rite" as a response instead :P
Yes, but once you learn it you're going to be faced with the simple reality that your keyboard is not the only one in the world. This has two major consequences: you'll have trouble using others' keyboards, and your keyboard will be a pain for everyone else. Further, like it or not, you will lose productivity during the time you take to learn. Getting used to a new method of doing things is precisely everyone's problem with what GNOME's doing—you're just not being told that your favourite OS/distro/WM combination is now Dvorak-only.
And to make matters worse, Dvorak hasn't been proven to be an improvement in studies, either, much like this change.
Ask yourself if you use a Dvorak keyboard. Then make that comment again.
You just lost the science.
What we really need is a more generalized iecountdown spoof—exactly the same in every way, except trying to get people to move away from IE as a whole. A cursory glance says that the site's pretty generic and easily search-and-replaced into an even more noble effort.
It's spelled "mitochloroplastondrion", not "midichlorian".
Hardly. It's quite trivial to add security holes thanks to XmlHttpRequest.
There may be some problems with that, sadly.
Your solipsism does not scale well.
Well, there's the trick—since the people who did it have announced that they belong to the WBC, they're jerks :)
Except if the WBC is claiming responsibility, then they're no longer anonymous, they're just jerks.
The GameBoy ones are very classy, following in the footsteps and formula of A Link to the Past. Zelda 2, which has the distinction of being a sidescroller with a Dragon Warrior-style overworld, is generally considered the dark sheep of the family. The original Zelda 1 would probably feel very archaic to you, given that it's an ancient NES game. But later 2D games, like the Oracle of Seasons/Ages and Link's Awakening are great stuff, and newer DS games borrow even more heavily from A Link to the Past in style, but scaled down to make the adventure more compact—all of the GameBoy and DS games have less roaming than the SNES game.
(P.S. Technically, only the original NES games are numbered; the rest of the continuity is a shitstorm.)
Interesting opportunity for a history lesson. It was initially Romanized with a "C", by the Italians, and this spelling survives in most European languages, e.g. French "Corée". The Japanese, however, were the face through which the United States interacted with the region around the dawn of the 20th century, and since the Romanization of Japanese used "K" for that sound, the spelling drifted to the Japanese convention. As far as I know, Koreans consider this another example of their subjugation by the Japanese Empire. (See Wikipedia for more.)
The strange things you find in the metamod queue. (And no, I'm not waiting for a woosh—consider yourself educated.)
Yeah, but there're only so many anecdotes on a day without incendiary politics stories.
“Anecdotal evidence isn't valid!”
“Yes it is! I once used an anecdote as evidence, and later it turned out I was right!”
You forgot the text-to-speech feature that kids were so excited about. You can teach yourself to read with a Kindle, and using nearly any book; that's much harder with a regular text unless it's designed to introduce the reader to the basics of language first. RTFS.
...wait, and if the pool is the size of the Indian Ocean, a few thousand ice cubes will produce a noticeable temperature difference? You live in weird ways.