We don't know how to CREATE gravity yet. If we were able, it should be needed as much gravity as entire Earth offers to feel a warp effect as weak as the registered by the experiment in a period of 52 years. Even if the (yet to be discovered) Higgs Boson particle offers a way to manipulate gravity and inertia, there is no (safe enough) energy source to use in space to handle it. It is not impossible, but it is unfeasible nowadays and for a looooong time.
Agreed, make it so. Geordi, estimate developement period from current stardate. Data, start doing some calculations. Wesley, contact Dr. Sheldon Cooper and piss him off.
No ActionScript, no audio, no video... It's a good starting point, but useless out of banner scope. Then you have the HTML code openess vs. FLA decompiling.
Tis is a great advance, but closer to "Minority Report" family videos (bumped 2D) than "Star Wars" holograms (360 degrees hologram). Nothing that can't be solved with more Kinects and more GPUs.
Good job, young padawans!
Thank you for your comments. SW patents are not allowed in Europe so I'm not used to it (neither I'm a supporter of it).
I do not have a team to technically develop it (this is not a one-single-person-project size, you know) and I don't want to become a troll by myself. I just hoped some open-sourcer to pick my idea and enjoy it in a near future as user.
I agree my one-paragraph summary is not enough for a lawyer, but it is for most developers. I wish someone picked my idea and let it a try.
Every running workstation could distribute a fraction of the boot to the starting up ones. Central server (lighter than ever) would be the root distributor for new versions and the validator of the digital signature of each piece for all the running versions. Version upgrade would be forced seamlessly for new runners from central server. The distribution shouldn't be the booting filesystem but the booted memory image to speed it up, or at least most of it. This can apply to applications too.
This idea cannot be patent-trolled. If not patented yet, it is released as (CC) by me and this post is registered in slashdot servers as a proof of previous concept against the troll.
It's a good idea to have an "aimed to browsing and nothing else" device, just like the Network Computers envisioned by Sun 15 years ago (the computer is the network), but anything more expensive than an iPad touch is a worthless effort. It must beat sexyness, efficency and the lot of things it also does besides price.
You'd better get used to it. Soon there will be "Casablanca in 3D" and so on... It could even reach the first feature film of the Lumiere bros. "The arrival of a train to the station, now in atonishing 3D and Technicolor".
I miss old good days of WWW (green VT100 screen) and LYNX (in atonishing colour!!!), where all web browsers were text-only UNIX executables...
I guess it was a mistake to embed a GIF viewer in MOSAIC and following browsers. Then there came all the rest: JPG, PNG... It could had been a better approach to let MPEG Consortium to offer a plug-in for every browser, and several others from Compuserve, the creators of GIF.
Nowadays we have at last the good approach from Flash, Silverlight, etc.
Maybe you don't know yet I'm kidding. Maybe you don't remember there was a patent fight about LZW compression between Compuserve and Unisys. Maybe you don't remember both companies. Maybe you think Flash or Silverlight are super-optimized binary code and HTML is a slooow-interpreted language. Maybe you don't know what modern javascript parser/interpreter/jit-compilers do. Maybe it's time to let the web viewer do what it's supposed to do, allow you to view the web content, even video.
Maybe in a few years you won't either remember Flash and Silverlight and, this is the key scary point for them, Maybe you won't remember their creators.
I'm proud to be a donor, and this is one of the best expenditures I've ever done.
Once I knew about them one year ago (through Slashdot, by the way) I told my wife: "If I stop being a rocket modelling fan forever, will you let me give them the money I planned to spend on rocket models for the rest of my life? It could be the way to be part of a really big thing".
And she said: "Ok, but I don't want to know if he dies or not".
I think it's a fair deal, so I gave them a huge amount of money and I won't tell her about the final result.
Excuse me, COBOL itself is still the COBOL of the 21st century, as it still makes banking, airlines and quite a lot of brick and mortar industrial companies keep on rolling. Maybe average slashdotters are out of this reality, but it is still alive and kicking. Please don't blame me, I've never programmed a line of COBOL in my whole live.
I feel smarter, stronger, MORE AGGRESSIVE. I feel like I could... Like I could... Like I could...
CONQUER THE WORLD!!!
I miss "The Day of the Tentacle"...
I guess it is easier to define a destructive algorithm than a joke generator because if jokes were predictible, they eventually would become pointless.
I was about to write I also miss "The Incredible Toon Machine" but... hey! Isn't it "Little Big Planet" a reincarnation?
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I'm not aware about any OS improvement, but a squarified Window Manager.
Agreed. Statistics is a harmfull toy in wrong hands. According to statistics, "in Vatican there are 2 Popes per square kilometer".
We don't know how to CREATE gravity yet. If we were able, it should be needed as much gravity as entire Earth offers to feel a warp effect as weak as the registered by the experiment in a period of 52 years. Even if the (yet to be discovered) Higgs Boson particle offers a way to manipulate gravity and inertia, there is no (safe enough) energy source to use in space to handle it. It is not impossible, but it is unfeasible nowadays and for a looooong time.
Agreed, make it so. Geordi, estimate developement period from current stardate. Data, start doing some calculations. Wesley, contact Dr. Sheldon Cooper and piss him off.
No ActionScript, no audio, no video... It's a good starting point, but useless out of banner scope. Then you have the HTML code openess vs. FLA decompiling.
Oh my God! When it learn to speak spanish we're doomed: "Hasta la vista baby". Terminator is coming!!!
Do you mean one out of ten of us can acces Steve's account in his previous company? I guess it has already been disabled ;-)
Make it look like an accident...
Tis is a great advance, but closer to "Minority Report" family videos (bumped 2D) than "Star Wars" holograms (360 degrees hologram). Nothing that can't be solved with more Kinects and more GPUs. Good job, young padawans!
Maybe It has been mistranslated and they are talking about Sheldon Cooper
Let's see how long will remain Youtube in H.264 ;-)
You must be Amy Farrah Fowler as Annonymous Coward.
Or Howard Wolowitz cheating.
Bazinga!
Thank you for your comments. SW patents are not allowed in Europe so I'm not used to it (neither I'm a supporter of it).
I do not have a team to technically develop it (this is not a one-single-person-project size, you know) and I don't want to become a troll by myself. I just hoped some open-sourcer to pick my idea and enjoy it in a near future as user.
I agree my one-paragraph summary is not enough for a lawyer, but it is for most developers. I wish someone picked my idea and let it a try.
Every running workstation could distribute a fraction of the boot to the starting up ones. Central server (lighter than ever) would be the root distributor for new versions and the validator of the digital signature of each piece for all the running versions. Version upgrade would be forced seamlessly for new runners from central server. The distribution shouldn't be the booting filesystem but the booted memory image to speed it up, or at least most of it. This can apply to applications too.
This idea cannot be patent-trolled. If not patented yet, it is released as (CC) by me and this post is registered in slashdot servers as a proof of previous concept against the troll.
It's a good idea to have an "aimed to browsing and nothing else" device, just like the Network Computers envisioned by Sun 15 years ago (the computer is the network), but anything more expensive than an iPad touch is a worthless effort. It must beat sexyness, efficency and the lot of things it also does besides price.
I' guessing in which table to put the subwoofer...
You'd better get used to it. Soon there will be "Casablanca in 3D" and so on... It could even reach the first feature film of the Lumiere bros. "The arrival of a train to the station, now in atonishing 3D and Technicolor".
I miss old good days of WWW (green VT100 screen) and LYNX (in atonishing colour!!!), where all web browsers were text-only UNIX executables...
I guess it was a mistake to embed a GIF viewer in MOSAIC and following browsers. Then there came all the rest: JPG, PNG... It could had been a better approach to let MPEG Consortium to offer a plug-in for every browser, and several others from Compuserve, the creators of GIF.
Nowadays we have at last the good approach from Flash, Silverlight, etc.
Maybe you don't know yet I'm kidding. Maybe you don't remember there was a patent fight about LZW compression between Compuserve and Unisys. Maybe you don't remember both companies. Maybe you think Flash or Silverlight are super-optimized binary code and HTML is a slooow-interpreted language. Maybe you don't know what modern javascript parser/interpreter/jit-compilers do. Maybe it's time to let the web viewer do what it's supposed to do, allow you to view the web content, even video.
Maybe in a few years you won't either remember Flash and Silverlight and, this is the key scary point for them, Maybe you won't remember their creators.
I'm proud to be a donor, and this is one of the best expenditures I've ever done.
Once I knew about them one year ago (through Slashdot, by the way) I told my wife: "If I stop being a rocket modelling fan forever, will you let me give them the money I planned to spend on rocket models for the rest of my life? It could be the way to be part of a really big thing".
And she said: "Ok, but I don't want to know if he dies or not".
I think it's a fair deal, so I gave them a huge amount of money and I won't tell her about the final result.
Excuse me, COBOL itself is still the COBOL of the 21st century, as it still makes banking, airlines and quite a lot of brick and mortar industrial companies keep on rolling. Maybe average slashdotters are out of this reality, but it is still alive and kicking. Please don't blame me, I've never programmed a line of COBOL in my whole live.
Spanish FBI must inspect Microsoft now, because they CAN'T be that bad.
;-)
I'm pretty sure they intentionally inject bad code in every path they release just to make you move forward to the next version.
Spanish coders rule!!! We're the best
It has already been done!
Even more, I did it twice, and it was quite pleasing to do both (my wife says so). The two brains came along with arms, legs and a lot of extras.
They deal with zombies every night they yield "Dadyyyyyyy! Bring me some water..."
Flash gun handles with white sticks in them... Yeah, right... and now you'll tell me tooth fairy does not exist.
Thanks God we can still trust Santa Claus. Maybe next Christmas I'll ask for a real lightsaber with this technology.
You are right!!! 16 years is a loooong period to remember every single word, but 19 out of 21 wasn't that bad.
;-)
A secondary effect about lack of funny games is alzheimer increase levels
Let them come back. They could be better than "Brain Training"
I feel smarter, stronger, MORE AGGRESSIVE. I feel like I could... Like I could... Like I could...
CONQUER THE WORLD!!!
I miss "The Day of the Tentacle"...
I guess it is easier to define a destructive algorithm than a joke generator because if jokes were predictible, they eventually would become pointless.
I was about to write I also miss "The Incredible Toon Machine" but... hey! Isn't it "Little Big Planet" a reincarnation?