"Differentiating trash and non-trash is subjective" and that's the issue. It's nice if you removed the problem they are trying to solve and then declrae it 'fixed'.
It's cure that you twist the meaning to make yourself feel good, but stop it.
This is what people mean when they say flying car:
"In science fiction, the vision of a flying car is usually a practical aircraft that the average person can fly directly from any point to another (e.g., from home to work or to the supermarket) without the requirement for roads, runways or other specially-prepared operating areas. In such works they can often start and land automatically in a garage or on a parking lot.[1] In addition, the science-fiction version of the flying car typically resembles a conventional car with no visible means of propulsion, unlike that of an fixed-wing aircraft or helicopter. A flying car is subtly different from a hovercar, which flies at a constant altitude of a few meters above the ground."
"positronic brains" where as powerful as the plot needed them to be.
" You also have to remember that the transistor hadn't yet been invented, " Your man crush has overridden you brain. the transistor was invented in 1908, the fet in 1925.
The transistor was well know to anyone who picked up a hobby magazine.
"As to probes exiting the solar system, he has human interstellar travel, way past the Voyagers. which means he was WRONG.
Most of your yes aren't, or they were based on thing already being developed. So like every other 'futuristic' author, you need a heavy does of cherry picking, bias, and twisting of the details.
Photosensitive windows that block out extreme light levels (well, usually sunglasses) Already around.
Automatically prepared meals (sort of, in microwave dinners; there's no standard for automated scanning of cooking times yet) So.. no then. If you looka t hat other were saying, he was literally tlakabout ut push a button and you complete meal rolls out. Not putting a hot dog in a microwave(which existed)
Machine language translation (this is still a big thing; Microsoft had a pretty big demo just a year or two ago—but, of course, the game's all about Chinese now) SO..not prime time yet>? Of cours ewithout an end date it's meaningless
Large solar arrays What we have aren't large. When we get them 50 miles to a side, then we will be what he was talking about.
Heavy dependence on nuclear (although not as much as he hoped) No, we do no have heavy dependence on Nuclear, not even close to heavy.
Automated driving (definitely show-off material, if not on the market much) Yes, soon.
Video calls (still not as popular as futurists want them to be) My kids make them every day with their friends.
Satellite networking What?
Mostly-automated road construction nope
Still no manned missions to Mars But a lot of robots he didn't predict.
Optical networking (although he thought it'd be through pipes and not glass fibres) Not really the same thing he was talking about.
Bus rapid transit (special lanes on highways) Again not waht he was tlaking about, nor wasn't futurist since they have had the discussion since they created the bus.
Earth's population over 6.5 billion Which was projected.
US population around 350 million (actually 319) Again. it ws a projection basedon the current data.
Less developed areas will have slipped further behind the well-developed ones (although he didn't realise that some of them would actually fall backward) Where, where is this happening?
Life expectancies around 85 in some countries (82.59 in Japan)
Slowing population growth (it peaked in the 60s) No it didn't.
Creative industries amongst the most valued ("The lucky few who can be involved in creative work of any sort will be the true elite of mankind, for they alone will do more than serve a machine.") Don't confuse making money with most valued. And computers will replace us there as well.
When talking about the current hurricane rating system, it's about amount of damage that occurs. category 5 is more then twice as damaging then a category 4, but it isn't twice the wind speed.
And if global warming doesn't stop, then yes we will have 700 MPH hurricanes. well, not humans becasue we will all be dead, the the planet could see it.
" calling a 2014 Dow-15000 the same thing as a 1999 Dow-15000 and declaring recovery." you seriously don't know why you wouldn't take inflation into account? really?
" but their desktop software market is still near its peak using every honest measure such as those numbers that you wanted people to look at." and that's the problem. IT's not going up and surpassing it's peak.
and people aren't pleased with SOny, but at least Sony is responding to their issues. Here is why people are having issues with MS: "So why did the market freak out? The biggest reason was that Microsoft booked a $900 million charge for “inventory adjustments” for its Surface tablets. In plain English, Microsoft admitted that its heavily-promoted tablet is selling poorly. And that’s an ominous sign for the Redmond firm’s long-term prospects. Tablets and smartphones are the future of computing, and Microsoft is falling farther and farther behind the market leaders, Apple and Google."
So there venture into the direct tech is going is failing. and then(and this is classic Ballmer): "But Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer shouldn’t be too depressed. Microsoft probably won’t lead the next generation of high-tech innovation. But history suggests that Windows and Office, its existing cash cows, will continue generating profits for years to come."
That is not what you want a CEO of a tech company to say. MS should OWN the tablet market and cloud computing, but Ballemr surrounds himself with idiots, and management is pact full of people who won't make a decision, or take a risk.
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I'm using it as my offences, as in getting the judge to strangle themselves and the bailiff to shoot the jurors.
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And the stupidest phrase ever award goes to:
Internet of Things!
Robot? where are my children?
"Differentiating trash and non-trash is subjective"
and that's the issue. It's nice if you removed the problem they are trying to solve and then declrae it 'fixed'.
Is a crumpled piece of paper trash? an old love note you want to save? An important contract you kid stepped on?
It's cure that you twist the meaning to make yourself feel good, but stop it.
This is what people mean when they say flying car:
"In science fiction, the vision of a flying car is usually a practical aircraft that the average person can fly directly from any point to another (e.g., from home to work or to the supermarket) without the requirement for roads, runways or other specially-prepared operating areas. In such works they can often start and land automatically in a garage or on a parking lot.[1] In addition, the science-fiction version of the flying car typically resembles a conventional car with no visible means of propulsion, unlike that of an fixed-wing aircraft or helicopter.
A flying car is subtly different from a hovercar, which flies at a constant altitude of a few meters above the ground."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_car_(fiction)
cite?
If you think that's 'the cloud' then you are an idiot.
NO he didn't.
sheesh.
The IC goes back to 1947.
So , no then.
"positronic brains"
where as powerful as the plot needed them to be.
" You also have to remember that the transistor hadn't yet been invented, "
Your man crush has overridden you brain.
the transistor was invented in 1908, the fet in 1925.
The transistor was well know to anyone who picked up a hobby magazine.
"As to probes exiting the solar system, he has human interstellar travel, way past the Voyagers.
which means he was WRONG.
Most of your yes aren't, or they were based on thing already being developed.
So like every other 'futuristic' author, you need a heavy does of cherry picking, bias, and twisting of the details.
Photosensitive windows that block out extreme light levels (well, usually sunglasses)
Already around.
Automatically prepared meals (sort of, in microwave dinners; there's no standard for automated scanning of cooking times yet) .. no then. If you looka t hat other were saying, he was literally tlakabout ut push a button and you complete meal rolls out. Not putting a hot dog in a microwave(which existed)
So
Machine language translation (this is still a big thing; Microsoft had a pretty big demo just a year or two ago—but, of course, the game's all about Chinese now)
SO..not prime time yet>? Of cours ewithout an end date it's meaningless
Large solar arrays
What we have aren't large. When we get them 50 miles to a side, then we will be what he was talking about.
Heavy dependence on nuclear (although not as much as he hoped)
No, we do no have heavy dependence on Nuclear, not even close to heavy.
Automated driving (definitely show-off material, if not on the market much)
Yes, soon.
Video calls (still not as popular as futurists want them to be)
My kids make them every day with their friends.
Satellite networking
What?
Mostly-automated road construction
nope
Still no manned missions to Mars
But a lot of robots he didn't predict.
Optical networking (although he thought it'd be through pipes and not glass fibres)
Not really the same thing he was talking about.
Bus rapid transit (special lanes on highways)
Again not waht he was tlaking about, nor wasn't futurist since they have had the discussion since they created the bus.
Earth's population over 6.5 billion
Which was projected.
US population around 350 million (actually 319)
Again. it ws a projection basedon the current data.
Less developed areas will have slipped further behind the well-developed ones (although he didn't realise that some of them would actually fall backward)
Where, where is this happening?
Life expectancies around 85 in some countries (82.59 in Japan)
Slowing population growth (it peaked in the 60s)
No it didn't.
Creative industries amongst the most valued ("The lucky few who can be involved in creative work of any sort will be the true elite of mankind, for they alone will do more than serve a machine.")
Don't confuse making money with most valued.
And computers will replace us there as well.
If it isn't anti-grav, it's not a flying car!
define beauty.
Of course, software is a science and an engineering discipline, not an art.
They certainly aren't thinking.
Applied rationality and logic would mean one should not believe in something their is no evidence to support.
However the human brains loves harmless routine because people can go by rote and we don't spend the energy thinking.
Wow. You literally change the definition of facts bacause using the correct definiiton means you are wrong, but you ego can't cope.
Simple..just.. wow.
There is specific brain chemistry that happens to facilitate religious beliefs, so I would say it is possible.
ALL you decisions, beliefs, thoughts are all just chemical reactions.
"- I am dead.
So am I.
--"
Not me.
Example? of course not.
According to a leak unfinished reports based on a link that doesn't mention hurricanes.
Actually you are being ignorant.
When talking about the current hurricane rating system, it's about amount of damage that occurs. category 5 is more then twice as damaging then a category 4, but it isn't twice the wind speed.
And if global warming doesn't stop, then yes we will have 700 MPH hurricanes. well, not humans becasue we will all be dead, the the planet could see it.
I figured the submission was overblown and whiny hate due to change.
But holy cow that site is HORRID. I hope some management gets fired.
Looking at it I can only think of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juFZh92MUOY
".. there was a crash of technology stocks right around the time Ballmer took over?"
Coincidence? almost certainly!
" calling a 2014 Dow-15000 the same thing as a 1999 Dow-15000 and declaring recovery."
you seriously don't know why you wouldn't take inflation into account? really?
CEO as of 2000 not 98.
" but their desktop software market is still near its peak using every honest measure such as those numbers that you wanted people to look at."
and that's the problem. IT's not going up and surpassing it's peak.
http://royal.pingdom.com/2010/04/09/the-money-made-by-microsoft-apple-and-google-1985-until-today/
Company value is about growth, and not only is MS not growing, it's failing to expand into new and emerging markets.
It's at a 3rd of what it was 4 years ago.
https://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE:MS
and people aren't pleased with SOny, but at least Sony is responding to their issues.
Here is why people are having issues with MS:
"So why did the market freak out? The biggest reason was that Microsoft booked a $900 million charge for “inventory adjustments” for its Surface tablets. In plain English, Microsoft admitted that its heavily-promoted tablet is selling poorly. And that’s an ominous sign for the Redmond firm’s long-term prospects. Tablets and smartphones are the future of computing, and Microsoft is falling farther and farther behind the market leaders, Apple and Google."
So there venture into the direct tech is going is failing.
and then(and this is classic Ballmer):
"But Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer shouldn’t be too depressed. Microsoft probably won’t lead the next generation of high-tech innovation. But history suggests that Windows and Office, its existing cash cows, will continue generating profits for years to come."
That is not what you want a CEO of a tech company to say. MS should OWN the tablet market and cloud computing, but Ballemr surrounds himself with idiots, and management is pact full of people who won't make a decision, or take a risk.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/07/24/microsoft-is-doomed-but-first-its-going-to-make-a-ton-of-money/