Heck, the Altair didn't even have a monitor, you had to flip switches to process commands. Freiburger & Swaine's Fire in the Valley shows you some of these early computers and their users.
Sure, with 500 home computer users worldwide, it doesn't surprise me at all that 100% of them were programmers back in the day.
Now there's 1 billion computer users in the world, and a much larger number of programmers.
"Guns do not kill. Bullets do not kill. It is a hard heart that kills."
"Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets."
This isn't bullshit. They don't spend millions of dollars training soldiers to within an inch of their lives for nothing, you know. And the 90% failure rate in the SEAL training program effectively make up this "Everyone" of which you speak.
I have every confidence that modern technology would still be no match for a master ninja like Masaaki Hatsumi. Infrared detectors can be fooled. Motion detectors can be defeated. Guards can be distracted.
Where am I going to store my groceries in this thing?
I don't know what city you live in, but around here, we call that "Delivery." As in "I'll have that delivered, please". Most grocery stores will do it for free, too. There's a couple that let you shop online even.
Yes. If you had ever been in Europe before, you would know that they already have a long tradition of driving tiny little half-cars that Americans wouldn't even grant the name "car" to. Think more like a motorcycle with 3 or 4 wheels and a covered-in space.
Just the other day I was watching Jamie Oliver on his trip in Italy, where he was riding along with a restaurant owner who was driving such a thing with a little pickup box in the back.
This sort of thing is acceptable, because in cities that have been around for a thousand years, the term "streets wide enough for a car" doesn't exactly apply too often.
The remaining spammers are either selling drugs illegally, trying to manipulate the stock market, or running a scam. That's ordinary law enforcement work, and it's now routine to hear of spammer arrests and convictions.
Um, no. Spammers have been performing illegal scams and stock market manipulations ever since the first spammer. And I've never heard of any of them getting arrested. Heck, every time send such a scam to my local law enforcement agency, nothing happens and I don't even get so much as a reply telling me to go away.
Philips acknowledged that this technology might not sit well with consumers and suggested in its patent filing that consumers be allowed to avoid the feature if they paid broadcasters a fee.
Or I could just say "fuck you", cancel my cable subscription, and if I really wanted to see something on TV, I could buy it on DVD or download it off the internet. How about that asshole?
I guess you'll have no problems whatsoever with the other damned question, "where do you see yourself in 5 years time?":-)
I actually like that question now. My answer:
"You know, the stock answer to that question, which is written in every book on taking interviews, is 'I want your job.' Not me. I expect to acheive omnipotence through the use of Perl regular expressions."
I can see how this can backfire horribly. Imagine you're channel surfing, and you come across a station that's currently playing commercials...
Mind you, marketing types relish the idea that you won't be able to watch anything *but* commercials. Mind you, marketing types should be dragged out into the street and beaten, burned, and shot. Repeatedly. And the survivors prosecuted.
"Where I was taken to, brothers was like no cinnie I ever viddied before. I was bound up in a straightjacket and my gulliver was strapped to a headrest with like wires running away from it. Then they clamped like lodlocks on my eyes so that I could not shut them, no matter how hard I tried."
Sorry guys. This has already been done by the guys who made A Clockwork Orange, circa 1971.
In other words, can this technology be used by countries with not so deep pockets as Japan?
Yeah, I can't think of another single country that could possibly have pockets as deep as Japan's. Nope. Not a single one. *Especially* countries that use lots and lots of oil, and could benefit from using less of it. I mean, Japan is so huge. And their industrial might is second to none. How could anyone possibly catch up?
Most laptops get stolen in airport terminals. What will be the point of having an alarm go off when the laptop is picked up, when the user is constantly picking it up himself?
I keep trying to tell my boss that these constant interruptions are draining my productivity. That damn telephone device keeps going off, and then I have to talk to some customer about fulfilling *their* trivial needs. What about the company's needs? If only we could get rid of all these customers, I'd be able to get everything I need to get done in 1/4 of the time!
That's it? I haven't for a while, but when I was biking to work, it was 13km each way, and I'd do it about 3 or 4 times a week, for total of about 100km a week. 10 miles in a week isn't much of an accomplishment really, especially for biking where it's extremely common to be able to do more than 100km in a day. The truly athletic can do more than 200k in a day.
I daresay that it's a lot better than nothing at all though. All I'm doing right now is walking to and from the train on my way to work and back, which is all of about 20-30 minutes daily. I don't think that's anywhere near enough.
Every time I see a schematic drawing of the internet, it's a cloud. How do you attack a cloud? It's like, shooting at rainbows, or declaring war on an idea.
Oh wait, you mean we've already been doing that with the war on drugs and the New Global War on Evil?
Bush had is way on the war thing, but just let him try issuing a letter of marque and reprisal and a betcha Congress will hit him upside the head with a check and a balance.
Heeheehee. You're funny!
Congress wouldn't veto anything Bush wanted to do even if there was an open revolt on their hands against what Bush wanted to do. Or is that *especially* if there was an open revolt on their hands? This newspeak is so confusing...
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Heck, the Altair didn't even have a monitor, you had to flip switches to process commands. Freiburger & Swaine's Fire in the Valley shows you some of these early computers and their users.
Sure, with 500 home computer users worldwide, it doesn't surprise me at all that 100% of them were programmers back in the day.
Now there's 1 billion computer users in the world, and a much larger number of programmers.
I still think the latter is better.
Everyone can do it. Just pull the trigger.
*cough*
"Guns do not kill. Bullets do not kill. It is a hard heart that kills."
"Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets."
This isn't bullshit. They don't spend millions of dollars training soldiers to within an inch of their lives for nothing, you know. And the 90% failure rate in the SEAL training program effectively make up this "Everyone" of which you speak.
I have every confidence that modern technology would still be no match for a master ninja like Masaaki Hatsumi. Infrared detectors can be fooled. Motion detectors can be defeated. Guards can be distracted.
The battlefield seems to be centered around which group has the better funded lobbyists
Gee, I would *never* have thought! I mean, like, in this day and age, I would expect that buying off politicians was *impossible!*
Where am I going to store my groceries in this thing?
I don't know what city you live in, but around here, we call that "Delivery." As in "I'll have that delivered, please". Most grocery stores will do it for free, too. There's a couple that let you shop online even.
Time to visit Europe!
Yes. If you had ever been in Europe before, you would know that they already have a long tradition of driving tiny little half-cars that Americans wouldn't even grant the name "car" to. Think more like a motorcycle with 3 or 4 wheels and a covered-in space.
Just the other day I was watching Jamie Oliver on his trip in Italy, where he was riding along with a restaurant owner who was driving such a thing with a little pickup box in the back.
This sort of thing is acceptable, because in cities that have been around for a thousand years, the term "streets wide enough for a car" doesn't exactly apply too often.
I always found that amusing because our whole society is based on technology and will always need people to run it.
Yes. And as technology advances, we need fewer and fewer people to run it.
Just ask any sysadmin.
The remaining spammers are either selling drugs illegally, trying to manipulate the stock market, or running a scam. That's ordinary law enforcement work, and it's now routine to hear of spammer arrests and convictions.
Um, no. Spammers have been performing illegal scams and stock market manipulations ever since the first spammer. And I've never heard of any of them getting arrested. Heck, every time send such a scam to my local law enforcement agency, nothing happens and I don't even get so much as a reply telling me to go away.
If India ever outlaws child labor or the buying and selling of humans and gives the untouchables full rights the cost of development will go up there
And this is an incentive to the Indian government... how again?
Who said anything about getting his job? I just want omnipotence.
Philips acknowledged that this technology might not sit well with consumers and suggested in its patent filing that consumers be allowed to avoid the feature if they paid broadcasters a fee.
Or I could just say "fuck you", cancel my cable subscription, and if I really wanted to see something on TV, I could buy it on DVD or download it off the internet. How about that asshole?
I guess you'll have no problems whatsoever with the other damned question, "where do you see yourself in 5 years time?" :-)
I actually like that question now. My answer:
"You know, the stock answer to that question, which is written in every book on taking interviews, is 'I want your job.' Not me. I expect to acheive omnipotence through the use of Perl regular expressions."
I can see how this can backfire horribly. Imagine you're channel surfing, and you come across a station that's currently playing commercials...
Mind you, marketing types relish the idea that you won't be able to watch anything *but* commercials. Mind you, marketing types should be dragged out into the street and beaten, burned, and shot. Repeatedly. And the survivors prosecuted.
And I quote:
"Where I was taken to, brothers was like no cinnie I ever viddied before. I was bound up in a straightjacket and my gulliver was strapped to a headrest with like wires running away from it. Then they clamped like lodlocks on my eyes so that I could not shut them, no matter how hard I tried."
Sorry guys. This has already been done by the guys who made A Clockwork Orange, circa 1971.
In other words, can this technology be used by countries with not so deep pockets as Japan?
Yeah, I can't think of another single country that could possibly have pockets as deep as Japan's. Nope. Not a single one. *Especially* countries that use lots and lots of oil, and could benefit from using less of it. I mean, Japan is so huge. And their industrial might is second to none. How could anyone possibly catch up?
Sure, that would work great.
If only but for one tiny problem:
The audience wants art. They want shiny things. 3d models. Realistic weapons. Storylines. Movie sequences.
If "Galaga" could ever be of any interest to the audience again, perhaps you have a point, but until that time, you're out of luck. Sorry.
You're posting on Slashdot on Sunday afternoon / evening claiming to have a girlfriend, and you say you're not making it up?
Having a girlfriend just means he's a geek older than 16 is all. Or is that 19? Or 21?
25?
C'mon, work with me here!
Most laptops get stolen in airport terminals. What will be the point of having an alarm go off when the laptop is picked up, when the user is constantly picking it up himself?
I keep trying to tell my boss that these constant interruptions are draining my productivity. That damn telephone device keeps going off, and then I have to talk to some customer about fulfilling *their* trivial needs. What about the company's needs? If only we could get rid of all these customers, I'd be able to get everything I need to get done in 1/4 of the time!
Last week, I biked 10.[miles]
That's it? I haven't for a while, but when I was biking to work, it was 13km each way, and I'd do it about 3 or 4 times a week, for total of about 100km a week. 10 miles in a week isn't much of an accomplishment really, especially for biking where it's extremely common to be able to do more than 100km in a day. The truly athletic can do more than 200k in a day.
I daresay that it's a lot better than nothing at all though. All I'm doing right now is walking to and from the train on my way to work and back, which is all of about 20-30 minutes daily. I don't think that's anywhere near enough.
As long as this is a new story on Slashdot, all the web traffic will be diverted to the Washington Post.
Every time I see a schematic drawing of the internet, it's a cloud. How do you attack a cloud? It's like, shooting at rainbows, or declaring war on an idea.
Oh wait, you mean we've already been doing that with the war on drugs and the New Global War on Evil?
Bush had is way on the war thing, but just let him try issuing a letter of marque and reprisal and a betcha Congress will hit him upside the head with a check and a balance.
Heeheehee. You're funny!
Congress wouldn't veto anything Bush wanted to do even if there was an open revolt on their hands against what Bush wanted to do. Or is that *especially* if there was an open revolt on their hands? This newspeak is so confusing...
Dude, how could you forget that it's April Fools? Everything is pink!
And besides, the only thing that made this story unbelievable was the gambling terminals thing. The rest is totally plausible and non-ridiculous.
You should see what it does to our servers! Once it gets into the USB ports, it's game over man.
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