Well, if you're going to be literal about it -- there's no stable definition for *life* at all. I can't find the article, but I think it was slashdotted within the past month.
The simpler definitions for life must include crystal growth and possibly fire. The more complicated ones, which exclude what we'd consider "chemical" or "mechanical", don't exclude botnets and some internet-spreading malware. Under some definitions, warez can be considered a parasitic organism, and any programmable computer as a form of host to all sorts of "life forms".
Now add the blurry definitions for "consciousness" and what "being self-aware" means, along with the debate over whether or not we have free will on any level, and you could say that we are both dead and alive at the same time, and/or that our property of "being alive" flickers on and off.
Who will eventually start suing anyone using the words "Make", "Maker", "Making" and "Made". I think you already have to write "Make(tm)". People who did this use to be "hackers" or "DIY-ers", but now this is catching on. The site/magazine already refers to anyone who creates/hacks anything as a "Maker", basically labeling them with their own trademark.
I wonder is this is even a defensible trademark. Will we need to start using "Creators" as an alternative? Also, isn't "The Maker" already kind of prior art?
I was waiting for the person who operated it to "slap" a picture of a person, but they managed to avoid it. So far you have two speeds for the backhand slap, and two for the forehand slap. Will the third speed be a punch? What happens if you headbutt it?
Humans in general simply aren't perceptive enough to realize "clockwise swirly motion" means refresh the browser page.
I don't remember which versions of which browser this was in, but in several of them the "back" button was an arrow that went "up" and "left", while the forward arrow was "up" and "right". The Enter key is traditionally "down" and "left". The refresh button is usually a "rotating" arrow. If you want to "play" media, hit the "play arrow". If you want to fast-forward, click the double-right arrow. If you want to move forward on a list, click the double-right arrow with a line after it, not to be confused with the "End" key which is a single-right arrow with a line after it (same for the "play previous" button and the "Home" key). The "Shift" button is usually an outline of an "Up" arrow, not to be confused with the "Page Up" button, which is a solid "up" arrow, or just the "Up" key. Obviously, none of these have anything to do with "Backspace", which also has a "left" arrow on it, but it's not just a triangle, but rather a line *and* a triangle, like the "Left" key.
Knowing this, what would you *expect* the symbol on the "Tab" key to do?
What about the ability to re-use a good power supply and case? I've had my PSU/Case combo for 3 computers now. When I say that I've "upgraded my computer", I often mean that I've replaced the motherboard, CPU, and RAM to a new architecture. Many/most of the other components remain the same -- I often have no reason to upgrade the storage, video card, optical drives, and, as mentioned above, the PSU/case. It's more flexible and modular, even if it does take some more work.
Modular computers. Easier upgrade paths. More re-use/re-sell value for external components. If you want to buy an iMac in which every component is epoxied together, that's your choice.
Depending on what you're working on, it could be right now. Have you seen a graphic designer on his/her own "turf"? I didn't know a laptop could dock into so many things at the same time. Monitor, keyboard, mouse, wacom tablet, storage, network, scanner, printer, and a partridge in a pair tree. Many of us have never left the rat's nest...
It would allow you to use components an a more modular way, especially around an office. If you're not big enough (of a company) to have dedicated rendering/encoding servers, you could move the GPU around depending on who's currently doing the work that requires it. Even on a more casual basis, you could have a bunch of laptops with mid-range GPUs, and have an external GPU for whomever if gaming at the moment. Just like people take turns in a household with the home-theater rig in the living room -- you don't need to install a huge LCD + amp + speaker system in every room, you just need to take turns.
I mean for laptops. Right now I can leave storage and a larger monitor when I take it with me, and of course anything that can be networked. I'd like to be able to "dock the laptop into" more RAM, a more powerful GPU, and (while I realize this is wholly unlikely) maybe a second CPU (4 cores on the laptop, 4 more on the table).
Adding a GPU as an external peripheral has already been done, just not in a commercially viable way. Hopefully this will change.
oh, and half of it is sky which doesnt really count.
Unless they intentionally degraded the quality of the sky (which is possible), then in the technical sense, it does count. It would even count if it were 99% sky.
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Also, how do you define "premature" in relation to dying? What's "mature" death?
I mean, Aging is mostly caused by breathing Oxygen!
Definitely. If you stop breathing for long enough, you'll stop aging.
Well, if you're going to be literal about it -- there's no stable definition for *life* at all. I can't find the article, but I think it was slashdotted within the past month.
The simpler definitions for life must include crystal growth and possibly fire. The more complicated ones, which exclude what we'd consider "chemical" or "mechanical", don't exclude botnets and some internet-spreading malware. Under some definitions, warez can be considered a parasitic organism, and any programmable computer as a form of host to all sorts of "life forms".
Now add the blurry definitions for "consciousness" and what "being self-aware" means, along with the debate over whether or not we have free will on any level, and you could say that we are both dead and alive at the same time, and/or that our property of "being alive" flickers on and off.
Although English is not mi mother tongue
You don't say.
Why use denial when logic will do:
I have no life -- therefor, I cannot die.
Well yeah, but they're each only half as long.
Who will eventually start suing anyone using the words "Make", "Maker", "Making" and "Made". I think you already have to write "Make(tm)". People who did this use to be "hackers" or "DIY-ers", but now this is catching on. The site/magazine already refers to anyone who creates/hacks anything as a "Maker", basically labeling them with their own trademark.
I wonder is this is even a defensible trademark. Will we need to start using "Creators" as an alternative? Also, isn't "The Maker" already kind of prior art?
I'm no office machine expert but I don't think I want a printer capable of transforming into a laser cutter
Not is Michael Bay is involved, anyway...
Also, how many lasers could a laser-cutter cut, if a laser-cutter could cut lasers?
I was waiting for the person who operated it to "slap" a picture of a person, but they managed to avoid it. So far you have two speeds for the backhand slap, and two for the forehand slap. Will the third speed be a punch? What happens if you headbutt it?
Humans in general simply aren't perceptive enough to realize "clockwise swirly motion" means refresh the browser page.
I don't remember which versions of which browser this was in, but in several of them the "back" button was an arrow that went "up" and "left", while the forward arrow was "up" and "right". The Enter key is traditionally "down" and "left". The refresh button is usually a "rotating" arrow. If you want to "play" media, hit the "play arrow". If you want to fast-forward, click the double-right arrow. If you want to move forward on a list, click the double-right arrow with a line after it, not to be confused with the "End" key which is a single-right arrow with a line after it (same for the "play previous" button and the "Home" key). The "Shift" button is usually an outline of an "Up" arrow, not to be confused with the "Page Up" button, which is a solid "up" arrow, or just the "Up" key. Obviously, none of these have anything to do with "Backspace", which also has a "left" arrow on it, but it's not just a triangle, but rather a line *and* a triangle, like the "Left" key.
Knowing this, what would you *expect* the symbol on the "Tab" key to do?
My fear is that we'll see a bunch of hand-waving drivers coming down the road...
Not a day goes by that I *don't* see that...
I prefer to use the whole fist.
Yes, but does she?
(am I a bad person because that popped into my mind?...)
Yes, there is a perl module for that.
I'm pretty sure that --
d0 57upid 7r4|\|5147i0|\| 14|\|gu4g35 (0u|\|7?
is valid perl6. You don't need a module.
Also, Ghost in the Shell teaches us that if you want a really good connection to someone's brain, it needs to be a physical one.
What about the ability to re-use a good power supply and case? I've had my PSU/Case combo for 3 computers now. When I say that I've "upgraded my computer", I often mean that I've replaced the motherboard, CPU, and RAM to a new architecture. Many/most of the other components remain the same -- I often have no reason to upgrade the storage, video card, optical drives, and, as mentioned above, the PSU/case. It's more flexible and modular, even if it does take some more work.
Modular computers. Easier upgrade paths. More re-use/re-sell value for external components. If you want to buy an iMac in which every component is epoxied together, that's your choice.
Depending on what you're working on, it could be right now. Have you seen a graphic designer on his/her own "turf"? I didn't know a laptop could dock into so many things at the same time. Monitor, keyboard, mouse, wacom tablet, storage, network, scanner, printer, and a partridge in a pair tree. Many of us have never left the rat's nest...
EMI/RFI
The higher the frequency, the bigger the problem.
that and a huge thunder of Ka-ching Ka-ching Ka-ching Ka-ching Ka-ching Ka-ching ...
I'm almost certain that he was born with the "Ka-ching Ka-ching" sound looping in his brain.
It would allow you to use components an a more modular way, especially around an office. If you're not big enough (of a company) to have dedicated rendering/encoding servers, you could move the GPU around depending on who's currently doing the work that requires it. Even on a more casual basis, you could have a bunch of laptops with mid-range GPUs, and have an external GPU for whomever if gaming at the moment. Just like people take turns in a household with the home-theater rig in the living room -- you don't need to install a huge LCD + amp + speaker system in every room, you just need to take turns.
I mean for laptops. Right now I can leave storage and a larger monitor when I take it with me, and of course anything that can be networked. I'd like to be able to "dock the laptop into" more RAM, a more powerful GPU, and (while I realize this is wholly unlikely) maybe a second CPU (4 cores on the laptop, 4 more on the table).
Adding a GPU as an external peripheral has already been done, just not in a commercially viable way. Hopefully this will change.
oh, and half of it is sky which doesnt really count.
Unless they intentionally degraded the quality of the sky (which is possible), then in the technical sense, it does count. It would even count if it were 99% sky.
Nobody likes Adobe Flash (excepted for Apple bashing time).
And everybody loves Apple bashing time! -QED
(someone really needs to make an "Apple Bashing Time" song...)
There is the girl in the red bra, though she's not really that hot.
True, but the one in the black bra is nice, and the naked lesbian couple performing acrobatic sex on their porch is impressive.