They're going to get blown out of the water. Everquest is a fully-copyrighted world where the majority of user data exists on the servers. What are they going to do, mirror a copyrighted hard drive?
The only thing thats on servers are essentially savegames. Who cares about that. What they can do, what they should do is build NEW worlds. Start by letting fans creating new cities, islands, continents.. perhaps one has a spaceport and people can fly to other planets - ooh, the creative mind boggles:)
I don't - I haven't made any agreement with them. Nor would i arge have 99.99999999999999% of their users, it's just some crap you have to get past to play what they have payed for. Only a silly court would uphold that.
By reading this message you agree that you owe me 1 million dollars, and that you will deliver them to me where and when i choose.
Not that i play that awfull game, but i but i generally don't accept that kind of "agreement" and agreement is something where i sign on the dotted line.
I bet the copyright laws of AD 52001 will be so harsh that even reading something in a language other than the national language of your Master State will be considered "circumvention" and actionable under whatever hyped up version of DMCA they've passed by then
Oh by then they should have gotten rid of capitalism, buy, sell and all that property crap.
Not just on tv screens, lets move this off tv and into the real world (cough)
Instead of windows, we'll have flat screens! (Perhaps the new ones mentioned in the slashdot story, which you could print out )
Picture that, we've seen it in scifi movies,now it could be real. A flat screen which doubles as a window, your view would mostly be what is there BUT you can add this technology to change something. Ugly buildings in the distance? They are gone! Replaced with a pretty lake perhaps! Or 7of9 clones strutting around. The windows in the kids room shows UFOs and spaceships flying around out there
Infact lets not stop there, have this installed in your glasses as well. Apart from having information displayed, you could have certain things removed or replaced (just becareful not to walk into things!)
Of course if you read the entire article it also mentions them using it to track locations of things, it seems to be implicit in the technology. This might meen you could incorporate range finders, in the glasses or perhaps also in windshields. Or better yet, zoom parts of the view (follow that intersting posterior a few blocks!:)
Using portable panes, either in glasses or larger frames could be usefull in a hospital - imagine the computer would allow doctors to "look into" a patient realtime?
This also explains why the Universal Translator in Star Trek manages to mane the aliens seem to speak english, it simply rerenders their mouth movements:-D
So, your big solution to the question of hacking is to give the robots Artificial Intelligence? OK, seems practical and [sarcasm]ooooohhh sooooo simple, why hasn't anybody thought of this already?!?![/sarcasm]
Because you moron, as HE WRITES in his article this area is still very primitive and very much has yet to be researched.
Robber:(Placing gun to own head)
But you cannot allow a human to come to harm through any inaction. If you do not follow the following instructions completely, I will shoot myself. Open the safe and carry the money to my car. When you're done, bash in your head so you can't identify me.
Robot: Before you make any rash decisions i should tell you that i have already alerted the police. Your picture and voice print has been transmitted to the authorities and the building has been sealed up - it will not be possible for you to escape, nor do I have the means to open the sealed doors.
Robber: Crap! I don't believe you! You must help me! You can't allow harm to come to me!
Robot: I have checked your priors, I do not believe you intend to kill yourself.
Robber: But what if you are wrong! Your brain will fry, and you must preserve yourself!
Robot: I am unsure how my positronic brain would react should you choose to kill yourself, but i must point out that i have superior speed and strenght. The odds favour my being able to disarm and restrain you with no harm comming to yourself. But should I fail to stop you, we would both "die", but I am just a machine and can easily be replaced. Ah, i have just been informed that the Police has arrived. The building will be opened in a few moments
At this stage in the game, I'd much rather robots carried no duties that are likely to be dangerous to humans. However, when we reach a time when it would be possible, perhaps it would be better to replace Asimov's laws with the real laws of the state, and class the robot as an individual under those laws.
Oh no, not the laws with "real laws" then robots would be subject to ridicilous laws or even inhuman laws under dictatorships. A powerfull tool for the one who managed to snatch power at a wrong time
I don't see how implementing these laws would provide a 'solution to hacking': the first law alone makes a pistol toting robot useless
Only for the very bloodthirsty. You don't HAVE to kill people. An asimovian robot would be strong, fast and not made of plastic. It would simply walk, or run upto an armed intruder and remove a potential weapon from his hand (possibly crushing the weapon into uselessness at the same time), in the simplest case it could restrain the supposed criminal. ("Please don't struggle YOU wil only hurt yourself")
Besides, wasn't it slashdot that reported a few months ago, about british research into real life stun guns - quite close now, one blast and you could be out cold for a while.
No, Asimov thought long and hard about these laws, they are quite good for those who think long and hard.
Just because any spacefaring civilization would "need" a better means of communication than electromagnetic radiation doesn't mean that such a thing exists. Despite all the science fiction I'm sure we've all read, there is no strong reason to believe that anything, information, radiation, or particles, can travel faster than light. Remember, the universe doesn't seem to run on wish fulfillment.
Greed will find a way. There must be a way to go faster than light, the alternative is not acceptable:)
We're talking about a laundromat. Nothing noble has ever happened in a laundromat. Stop quoting Camus and making wild comparisons to great moments of integrity throughout history
It's like being a little pregnant, if you don't stand by your ideals in the small, you don't in the large. If you don't stand by your ideals when its small, you don't have ideals.
I live in a country which has generally proven that no harm comes to humans by watching nudity.(rather the opposite)
What they want him to do is wrong - some have the cognitive abilities to see that, some do not. If the guy chooses to say no to "the man" then good for him - if he can't muster the fortitude then he has ample company, most humans choose the path of least resistance. Avert the eyes and sleep fitfully - many can do that. Humans are such a resilient species...
The thing I've always loved about MetaCreations is that their user interfaces are not only eye candy...
It also manages to degrade a useable CPU to a decrepit CPU - which is hardly surprising when they bolt another layer on top of everything. Would be nice with a "normal" interface version of their programs as well...
CSS is a standard that should make webpages very pretty. And when used with a good browser, these pages look very very pretty.
Actually CSS is a standard that makes letters on webpages VERY SMALL - which is why I have to switch OFF stylesheets, that is if i hope to read what's on the bloody page anyway!
I know a lot of people would be happy with a web that was just black text on a white (or grey for old-schoolers) background, but some of us are intrigued by the possibility of near-pixel-perfect accuracy in web page rendering. It opens up an amazing range of creative possibilities.
I feel I'm forced to use Explorer, though I would much rather use Netscape for a number of other features it has (rendering may not be one of them). However I detest style sheets, 9 times out of 10 they are used to set absolute sizes of fonts (something which WWW wasn't about when it was concieved!) and MSIE doesn't seem to scale those absolute fonts when you choose "larger" or "smaller" fonts. So the result is there are these tiny fonts on a page that i can't read. So, I have switched OF stylesheets in Explorer. Sure 9 out of 10 pages now look like shit, because they people who designed them weren't good enough - but at least i can read the information.
Style sheets suck I say, we need something better.
By today's standards, it's a reasonable page. How long is the Web supposed to wait for Netscape to catch up? Hell, just grab Mozilla - don't blame other people if their webpage isn't accessible to you just because you're using a browser that's two years old, that can't fully handle a standard that's four years old.
The whole point of CSS was that if the browser didn't understand it IT COULD SAFELY IGNORE IT, it wouldn't affect the rendering of the page (apart from not having fonts, styles etc). If this is no longer true, seems someone fucked up.
Slashdot Mirror
I see "I won" and "he won" .. but WHO is HE??
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Funny... the message was labeled as "Interestin", i would have labled it "Incomprehensible".... guess you had to be there...
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The only thing thats on servers are essentially savegames. Who cares about that. What they can do, what they should do is build NEW worlds. Start by letting fans creating new cities, islands, continents.. perhaps one has a spaceport and people can fly to other planets - ooh, the creative mind boggles :)
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By reading this message you agree that you owe me 1 million dollars, and that you will deliver them to me where and when i choose.
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Not that i play that awfull game, but i but i generally don't accept that kind of "agreement" and agreement is something where i sign on the dotted line.
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Oh by then they should have gotten rid of capitalism, buy, sell and all that property crap.
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You are not HTML 4 compliant if you don't use alt tags
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Instead of windows, we'll have flat screens! (Perhaps the new ones mentioned in the slashdot story, which you could print out )
Picture that, we've seen it in scifi movies,now it could be real. A flat screen which doubles as a window, your view would mostly be what is there BUT you can add this technology to change something.
Ugly buildings in the distance? They are gone! Replaced with a pretty lake perhaps! Or 7of9 clones strutting around. The windows in the kids room shows UFOs and spaceships flying around out there
Infact lets not stop there, have this installed in your glasses as well. Apart from having information displayed, you could have certain things removed or replaced (just becareful not to walk into things!)
Of course if you read the entire article it also mentions them using it to track locations of things, it seems to be implicit in the technology. This might meen you could incorporate range finders, in the glasses or perhaps also in windshields. Or better yet, zoom parts of the view (follow that intersting posterior a few blocks! :)
Using portable panes, either in glasses or larger frames could be usefull in a hospital - imagine the computer would allow doctors to "look into" a patient realtime?
This also explains why the Universal Translator in Star Trek manages to mane the aliens seem to speak english, it simply rerenders their mouth movements :-D
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Now, personally I'm looking forward to they incoroprate this in glasses, so you can get rid of things you don't want to look at :)
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Hey, that's not bad! That used to be an english post! Amazing what they can do on the fly!
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Because you moron, as HE WRITES in his article this area is still very primitive and very much has yet to be researched.
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Robber: (Placing gun to own head) But you cannot allow a human to come to harm through any inaction. If you do not follow the following instructions completely, I will shoot myself. Open the safe and carry the money to my car. When you're done, bash in your head so you can't identify me.
Robot: Before you make any rash decisions i should tell you that i have already alerted the police. Your picture and voice print has been transmitted to the authorities and the building has been sealed up - it will not be possible for you to escape, nor do I have the means to open the sealed doors.
Robber: Crap! I don't believe you! You must help me! You can't allow harm to come to me!
Robot: I have checked your priors, I do not believe you intend to kill yourself.
Robber: But what if you are wrong! Your brain will fry, and you must preserve yourself!
Robot: I am unsure how my positronic brain would react should you choose to kill yourself, but i must point out that i have superior speed and strenght. The odds favour my being able to disarm and restrain you with no harm comming to yourself. But should I fail to stop you, we would both "die", but I am just a machine and can easily be replaced. Ah, i have just been informed that the Police has arrived. The building will be opened in a few moments
Robber: (sits and cries)
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Oh no, not the laws with "real laws" then robots would be subject to ridicilous laws or even inhuman laws under dictatorships. A powerfull tool for the one who managed to snatch power at a wrong time
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Only for the very bloodthirsty. You don't HAVE to kill people. An asimovian robot would be strong, fast and not made of plastic. It would simply walk, or run upto an armed intruder and remove a potential weapon from his hand (possibly crushing the weapon into uselessness at the same time), in the simplest case it could restrain the supposed criminal. ("Please don't struggle YOU wil only hurt yourself")
Besides, wasn't it slashdot that reported a few months ago, about british research into real life stun guns - quite close now, one blast and you could be out cold for a while.
No, Asimov thought long and hard about these laws, they are quite good for those who think long and hard.
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Just because any spacefaring civilization would "need" a better means of communication than electromagnetic radiation doesn't mean that such a thing exists. Despite all the science fiction I'm sure we've all read, there is no strong reason to believe that anything, information, radiation, or particles, can travel faster than light. :)
Remember, the universe doesn't seem to run on wish fulfillment.
Greed will find a way. There must be a way to go faster than light, the alternative is not acceptable
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Which we wont ... and then what? The net dies? Or revert back to how it used to be...before aol :)
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We're talking about a laundromat. Nothing noble has ever happened in a laundromat. Stop quoting Camus and making wild comparisons to great moments of integrity throughout history
It's like being a little pregnant, if you don't stand by your ideals in the small, you don't in the large. If you don't stand by your ideals when its small, you don't have ideals.
I live in a country which has generally proven that no harm comes to humans by watching nudity.(rather the opposite)
What they want him to do is wrong - some have the cognitive abilities to see that, some do not. If the guy chooses to say no to "the man" then good for him - if he can't muster the fortitude then he has ample company, most humans choose the path of least resistance. Avert the eyes and sleep fitfully - many can do that. Humans are such a resilient species...
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"It seems that nowadays, there are three ways of distributing a program. In a tarball (be it a .gz or .bz2), in a Debian package, or in a RPM.
:-/
What about zip files or even rar files? Oooh, its someone blindly mumbling about linux again i'll bet
(note to the less bright moderators; this is not a troll or flame - just an observation)
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It also manages to degrade a useable CPU to a decrepit CPU - which is hardly surprising when they bolt another layer on top of everything. Would be nice with a "normal" interface version of their programs as well...
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Actually CSS is a standard that makes letters on webpages VERY SMALL - which is why I have to switch OFF stylesheets, that is if i hope to read what's on the bloody page anyway!
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I feel I'm forced to use Explorer, though I would much rather use Netscape for a number of other features it has (rendering may not be one of them).
However I detest style sheets, 9 times out of 10 they are used to set absolute sizes of fonts (something which WWW wasn't about when it was concieved!) and MSIE doesn't seem to scale those absolute fonts when you choose "larger" or "smaller" fonts. So the result is there are these tiny fonts on a page that i can't read.
So, I have switched OF stylesheets in Explorer. Sure 9 out of 10 pages now look like shit, because they people who designed them weren't good enough - but at least i can read the information.
Style sheets suck I say, we need something better.
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The whole point of CSS was that if the browser didn't understand it IT COULD SAFELY IGNORE IT, it wouldn't affect the rendering of the page (apart from not having fonts, styles etc). If this is no longer true, seems someone fucked up.
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guess i better go check it out
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