This would be apt if you had some prior reason to assume that the real Ray Kurzweil must have a low UID or that he actually has been confirmed to have a legit account. What if Ray Kurzweil never actually got a slashdot account for himself, and did so tomorrow (as sometimes minor celebrities/company reps do to respond to a popular posting on here). He would be more of a "noob" than this account.
The irony of a few people's indignation at my posting here is that my question was completely serious. Someone claimed that the real Ray Kurzweil had an account, and so I am actually curious which UID is the real Ray Kurzweil. I never claimed to be the real Kurzweil, that is merely your and a few other's unprovoked assumption.
It also amuses me a little that the relative age of this account to yours is not much less than its age relative to a newly created account. i.e. a little less than a year and a half vs 3 years or so.
Or was calling people noobs with a 7-digit UID your shtick? Well played, then.
You people just have no idea, and seem not to care about any human life other than your own. You care nothing about the tragedy of death.
I guess so few of you have experienced real loss; traumatic loss. I suddenly lost my father when I was only 32 years old, he was robbed from us by the scourge of natural causes.
Few of you have ever had to bear a loss like this and I wish it never happens to any of you. It is such a tremendously sad thing when children outlive their parents.
Maybe if you understood this tragedy, you would understand why I'm going to reconstruct my father's brain and put it in a beautiful robot body, even better than my father's original body, a beautiful woman's body, and call it Ramona. It won't be able to sing or dance for shit, just like daddy.
Fuck, the cat just yakked on the floor. Goddamn it.
So I wondered if Val Henson had ended up getting married. And I was going to use the opportunity to make a lame remark (Slashdot calibre) and advise her to try not to kill her husband (filesystem design can be stressful). But it turns out she just has daddy issues.
My friend selling anti-aging supplements is an MD, too. We are even in business together. Thank god so many people think like you do. Dr. Oz is also an MD. Deepak Chopra, anyone?
Really, you'll need a cite on this one. Are you claiming that there were cordless phones in the 70s that ran in the 2.4GHz ISM band?
I don't believe it.
The earliest cordless phones were >180 meter or so AM (near the AM broadcast band). Then they came out with 49MHz models. I don't recall anything near 900MHz until the early 90s. Same with baby monitors.
Radio phones started around 150MHz. Cell Phones in the US (1980 era AMPS) ran in 800MHz, which is reclaimed for PCS use and GPRS.
Consumer electronic use of 2.4GHz was not until the mid-90s except for Microwaves (formerly Radar Ranges).
Name one consumer electronic item other than a microwave that used 2.4GHz before 1990. I think your timeline is screwed up.
Having claimed or opined that the GPL "is an awesome" license I of course assume that you are well aware of its wording.
For the GPLv3: Why do you think Section 11 and Section 10 are completely useless? Is it a legal technicality in your opinion, or something more than that?
For the GPLv2 (which is what applies in this case): Patents are mentioned a few times in the Preamble and section 7 IIRC. Basically, since Microsoft is the copyright holder of the code (the "contributor"), how can they loophole their way around the requirements in the GPL that patents covering a contribution must be royalty-free to all parties eligible for the licensed software?
While if I personally, or IBM, or someone else release software that (either knowingly or unknowingly) infringes on Microsoft's patents, it is obvious that Microsoft never gave up their right to make claims, this is somewhat different. Microsoft is releasing this code themselves. If they turn around and claim that some of this particular code is patent encumbered by their own patents, how do you think they will get around the "implicit free licensing" requirement in the GPLv2.
I predicted that by 2009, there would be many portable electronic devices. I have of course been proven right.
I predicted that by 2009, we will have sent a man to the moon. That turned out to be true, in fact it was accomplished 40 years prior!
I predicted that by 2009, you would be able to purchase a nutritional shake that doesn't taste like shit.
Due to the Law of Accelerating Returns some of these predictions actually occur SO FAST, that they are realized BEFORE I PREDICT THEM. But I'm still fucking amazing.
You're just some punk ass bitch. You're all punk ass bitches.
Blacklisting really doesn't cause problems most of the time anyway, even when there are highly publicized stories.
Someone was telling me a story about some collateral damage due to a blacklist gone awry, what with 99% of some major ISPs customers unable to send email or something. I thought about a second and then realized that most of those people were not doing anything worthwhile anyways. This same person said, "Well, oh yeah, what if it were you? I'm sure you wouldn't be happy." I was about to agree, but then realized that actually if my email were cut off, I might actually accomplish something worthwhile.
Compare and contrast the number of digits in your SlashID with mine. I was actually there.
While I can't disagree with much of the technical stuff that you said in that post, this is a pretty pathetic debate tactic. Look at my ID. I've been using the Internet since the first day I could get access through a university shell account, back in the early 90s. I could have registered on slashdot for an ID much lower than yours. I simply did not, because I always thought registering was pointless.
I still think it is pointless, but my lameness got the better of me earlier in 2009.
** I've written many apps with Xlib. The underlying ideas/primitives that X uses for graphics ops are obsolete so doing anything "cool" (and sometimes useful!) requires using crufty extensions rather than calling routines that are a "natural" part of the system.
Understand that extensions are a natural part of the system. The X11 protocol was designed with the support for extensions from day one. A lot of the original X people knew that a lot of core X was woefully inadequate or behind the times from the very beginning. People knew that text handling in X was crap. People knew that core X rendering was extremely limited the day it was released.
The unfortunate story of the X extension system has nothing to do with technology and everything to do with commercial politics. The idea of X from a political standpoint, was a miserable failure.
The fact that text in X wasn't really even improved that much until the turn of the century, nearly 15 years, is a testament to that.
I'd like to something fresh that builds on the concept of using modern graphics hardware to do all the heavy lifting for the GUI instead of clever CPU-intensive hacks on top of Xlib**.
Thjs comment sounds like you came out of a time warp from 5 years ago. A lot of this is done. Features like the RENDER extension can be implemented with hardware acceleration in the X server, and in fact they are in many cases. That is what things like EXA and UXA are for. AIGLX was implemented to allow acceleration of eyecandy that requires server support.
Things aren't perfect, mainly due to the realities of non-technical implementation issues including the fact that hardware vendors either can't (NVIDIA) or won't (Via) play ball and that volunteers that aren't employed by Intel or Redhat are mainly interested in scratching their own itches.
I don't see Google changing this fundamental property in any regard, by the way. While they might make some interesting things for certain hardware they're interested in, and I welcome that, they are simply not going to change the status quo for support. A graphics utopia that makes everyone happy is impossible. Who cares?
But anyway, adding an hour or two to an 8 hour trip really isn't that big a deal. Quit your whining. Go back in time 100 years, and that 8 hour trip would have taken a week, and the world didn't stop spinning. Yeah, sometimes creating a better world requires accepting some mild inconveniences. If you really can't handle an extra 45 minutes on an 8 hour trip, then fly.
Are you stupid? We don't live 100 years ago. Even just 100 years ago, a great number in the US of people (like more than 25% of all deaths) were children under 5. In the US, women couldn't vote, many people would have only been so happy to welcome a modern AIDS epidemic in place of their contemporary ways to die from disease. Just don't go down this line of argument ever again, unless you like sounding like an idiot to everyone you encounter.
Also why don't you study what opportunity costs are, and not come back until you fucking understand.
People will never accept a cost that isn't suitably offset. You are simply arrogant to think that your concept of a "better world" (the benefit) is interpreted by all people (or even most people).
Also, you allude to the difference between things being "psychological" and "real" costs. This is really utter bullshit. Many "psychological" things are REAL COSTS. Unless you are a machine and not a human, psychological burden is a real burden. My sitting around waiting with my thumb up my ass for 45 minutes is painful and therefore costly. It is in all senses a legitimate and real cost. A bit of a simplification but generally true: If someone has money that they earned, and they offer to *pay you* to do something that only helps them psychologically, then whatever that was, was a REAL COST to them. Almost all waiting in our modern world is a "convenience" issue. The "convenience" is simply abstract to you, because it just so happens to be something that isn't personally inconvenient to you. I guarantee a little twinkle toe shit like you will be the first one bitching when they have to wait 5 more seconds to download some goat porn mpgs.
Would you give up your broadband connection for a dial-up line? If not, then, really, just STFU.
At an extreme, you may say that torture and a 45-minute wait aren't the same thing, but then where exactly do you draw the line for a "psychological" and "real" cost in a way that is accurate for all humans and isn't amorphous?
Still, that's not too typical for most people's day-to-day routine. And like the previous poster said, I would expect that most people can live with a 45 minute break every 4 hours on long car trips.
What is up with the people arguing on this. Your first sentence is totally reasonable, and is a sound argument about the utility of a short-range car. No one (sensible) is going to argue that 400 mile commutes are common.
Anyway I got one damn question about all this: People talk about how they won't mind charging for 45 minutes on a trip. WHERE THE FUCK ARE YOU GOING TO DO THIS? I don't of any rest stops or other places on any of the roads I travel on long trips where I could get the kind of power delivery to charge one of these fuckers for 45 minutes.
Could this be solved? Yes, of course it could, it is an infrastructure issue. At this point though, it is valid to ask if the idea of allowing charges and the necessary high power delivery this would require is worth it. And some point one needs to question if there are better ways.
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This would be apt if you had some prior reason to assume that the real Ray Kurzweil must have a low UID or that he actually has been confirmed to have a legit account. What if Ray Kurzweil never actually got a slashdot account for himself, and did so tomorrow (as sometimes minor celebrities/company reps do to respond to a popular posting on here). He would be more of a "noob" than this account.
The irony of a few people's indignation at my posting here is that my question was completely serious. Someone claimed that the real Ray Kurzweil had an account, and so I am actually curious which UID is the real Ray Kurzweil. I never claimed to be the real Kurzweil, that is merely your and a few other's unprovoked assumption.
It also amuses me a little that the relative age of this account to yours is not much less than its age relative to a newly created account. i.e. a little less than a year and a half vs 3 years or so.
Or was calling people noobs with a 7-digit UID your shtick? Well played, then.
PS: Go fuck yourself.
Put that in your pipe and smoke it you singularity naysaying bitches.
Bitches.
You people just have no idea, and seem not to care about any human life other than your own. You care nothing about the tragedy of death.
I guess so few of you have experienced real loss; traumatic loss. I suddenly lost my father when I was only 32 years old, he was robbed from us by the scourge of natural causes.
Few of you have ever had to bear a loss like this and I wish it never happens to any of you. It is such a tremendously sad thing when children outlive their parents.
Maybe if you understood this tragedy, you would understand why I'm going to reconstruct my father's brain and put it in a beautiful robot body, even better than my father's original body, a beautiful woman's body, and call it Ramona. It won't be able to sing or dance for shit, just like daddy.
Fuck, the cat just yakked on the floor. Goddamn it.
unless you buy a few cases of these longevity shakes.
Bitches.
Which account is it?
PS: Go fuck yourself.
Thank you, Captain Obvious!
So I wondered if Val Henson had ended up getting married. And I was going to use the opportunity to make a lame remark (Slashdot calibre) and advise her to try not to kill her husband (filesystem design can be stressful). But it turns out she just has daddy issues.
Whatever.
Jeez, AC.
Yes, maybe the GGP exageratted some things, but it still doesn't change the fact that the Catholic Church sucks.
You must be new here.
An M.D. is involved in the paper.
My friend selling anti-aging supplements is an MD, too. We are even in business together. Thank god so many people think like you do.
Dr. Oz is also an MD. Deepak Chopra, anyone?
Really, you'll need a cite on this one. Are you claiming that there were cordless phones in the 70s that ran in the 2.4GHz ISM band?
I don't believe it.
The earliest cordless phones were >180 meter or so AM (near the AM broadcast band). Then they came out with 49MHz models. I don't recall anything near 900MHz until the early 90s. Same with baby monitors.
Radio phones started around 150MHz. Cell Phones in the US (1980 era AMPS) ran in 800MHz, which is reclaimed for PCS use and GPRS.
Consumer electronic use of 2.4GHz was not until the mid-90s except for Microwaves (formerly Radar Ranges).
Name one consumer electronic item other than a microwave that used 2.4GHz before 1990.
I think your timeline is screwed up.
Having claimed or opined that the GPL "is an awesome" license I of course assume that you are well aware of its wording.
For the GPLv3: Why do you think Section 11 and Section 10 are completely useless? Is it a legal technicality in your opinion, or something more than that?
For the GPLv2 (which is what applies in this case): Patents are mentioned a few times in the Preamble and section 7 IIRC. Basically, since Microsoft is the copyright holder of the code (the "contributor"), how can they loophole their way around the requirements in the GPL that patents covering a contribution must be royalty-free to all parties eligible for the licensed software?
While if I personally, or IBM, or someone else release software that (either knowingly or unknowingly) infringes on Microsoft's patents, it is obvious that Microsoft never gave up their right to make claims, this is somewhat different. Microsoft is releasing this code themselves. If they turn around and claim that some of this particular code is patent encumbered by their own patents, how do you think they will get around the "implicit free licensing" requirement in the GPLv2.
Sorry, in my experience I just don't see these new "Keyboard/Mouse" setups overtaking the established technology like WiiMotes and Light Pens.
Sorry, just don't see it. And I'm a futurist and MIT's Distinguished Inventor of the Year 1998, so I know that of which I speak.
Strong and weak agnosticism are both compatible with weak atheism and incompatible with strong atheism.
Yes, maybe. But which ones are GPL compatible?
Why We Suck at Predicting the Future [wired.com].
Just because "We" do, doesn't mean I don't.
I predicted that by 2009, there would be many portable electronic devices. I have of course been proven right.
I predicted that by 2009, we will have sent a man to the moon. That turned out to be true, in fact it was accomplished 40 years prior!
I predicted that by 2009, you would be able to purchase a nutritional shake that doesn't taste like shit.
Due to the Law of Accelerating Returns some of these predictions actually occur SO FAST, that they are realized BEFORE I PREDICT THEM. But I'm still fucking amazing.
You're just some punk ass bitch. You're all punk ass bitches.
can you think of any remakes that didn't suck the big wet titty?
While I don't expect people to reveal their sexual orientation, how can you expect such an analogy to not be unambiguous?
Actually nothing at all.
Blacklisting really doesn't cause problems most of the time anyway, even when there are highly publicized stories.
Someone was telling me a story about some collateral damage due to a blacklist gone awry, what with 99% of some major ISPs customers unable to send email or something. I thought about a second and then realized that most of those people were not doing anything worthwhile anyways.
This same person said, "Well, oh yeah, what if it were you? I'm sure you wouldn't be happy." I was about to agree, but then realized that actually if my email were cut off, I might actually accomplish something worthwhile.
According to Wikipedia, OOXML is superior to ODF anyway!
we in the Linux world still command a very small percentage of active users of desktop Linux.
Whatever. I never started using Linux to try to help some "movement" or organization of yours become the next Microsoft.
Some say we are irrelevant. It's sad.
What is sad is that you think that "some" saying this is sad.
Compare and contrast the number of digits in your SlashID with mine. I was actually there.
While I can't disagree with much of the technical stuff that you said in that post, this is a pretty pathetic debate tactic. Look at my ID. I've been using the Internet since the first day I could get access through a university shell account, back in the early 90s. I could have registered on slashdot for an ID much lower than yours. I simply did not, because I always thought registering was pointless.
I still think it is pointless, but my lameness got the better of me earlier in 2009.
If you look at natural processes, they grow exponentially. Until limiting factors come into place.
Interesting, your mom hasn't yet demonstrated this phenomenon you speak of.
** I've written many apps with Xlib. The underlying ideas/primitives that X uses for graphics ops are obsolete so doing anything "cool" (and sometimes useful!) requires using crufty extensions rather than calling routines that are a "natural" part of the system.
Understand that extensions are a natural part of the system. The X11 protocol was designed with the support for extensions from day one. A lot of the original X people knew that a lot of core X was woefully inadequate or behind the times from the very beginning. People knew that text handling in X was crap. People knew that core X rendering was extremely limited the day it was released.
The unfortunate story of the X extension system has nothing to do with technology and everything to do with commercial politics. The idea of X from a political standpoint, was a miserable failure.
The fact that text in X wasn't really even improved that much until the turn of the century, nearly 15 years, is a testament to that.
I'd like to something fresh that builds on the concept of using modern graphics hardware to do all the heavy lifting for the GUI instead of clever CPU-intensive hacks on top of Xlib**.
Thjs comment sounds like you came out of a time warp from 5 years ago.
A lot of this is done. Features like the RENDER extension can be implemented with hardware acceleration in the X server, and in fact they are in many cases. That is what things like EXA and UXA are for. AIGLX was implemented to allow acceleration of eyecandy that requires server support.
Things aren't perfect, mainly due to the realities of non-technical implementation issues including the fact that hardware vendors either can't (NVIDIA) or won't (Via) play ball and that volunteers that aren't employed by Intel or Redhat are mainly interested in scratching their own itches.
I don't see Google changing this fundamental property in any regard, by the way. While they might make some interesting things for certain hardware they're interested in, and I welcome that, they are simply not going to change the status quo for support. A graphics utopia that makes everyone happy is impossible. Who cares?
But anyway, adding an hour or two to an 8 hour trip really isn't that big a deal. Quit your whining. Go back in time 100 years, and that 8 hour trip would have taken a week, and the world didn't stop spinning. Yeah, sometimes creating a better world requires accepting some mild inconveniences. If you really can't handle an extra 45 minutes on an 8 hour trip, then fly.
Are you stupid? We don't live 100 years ago. Even just 100 years ago, a great number in the US of people (like more than 25% of all deaths) were children under 5. In the US, women couldn't vote, many people would have only been so happy to welcome a modern AIDS epidemic in place of their contemporary ways to die from disease. Just don't go down this line of argument ever again, unless you like sounding like an idiot to everyone you encounter.
Also why don't you study what opportunity costs are, and not come back until you fucking understand.
People will never accept a cost that isn't suitably offset. You are simply arrogant to think that your concept of a "better world" (the benefit) is interpreted by all people (or even most people).
Also, you allude to the difference between things being "psychological" and "real" costs. This is really utter bullshit. Many "psychological" things are REAL COSTS. Unless you are a machine and not a human, psychological burden is a real burden. My sitting around waiting with my thumb up my ass for 45 minutes is painful and therefore costly. It is in all senses a legitimate and real cost. A bit of a simplification but generally true: If someone has money that they earned, and they offer to *pay you* to do something that only helps them psychologically, then whatever that was, was a REAL COST to them. Almost all waiting in our modern world is a "convenience" issue. The "convenience" is simply abstract to you, because it just so happens to be something that isn't personally inconvenient to you. I guarantee a little twinkle toe shit like you will be the first one bitching when they have to wait 5 more seconds to download some goat porn mpgs.
Would you give up your broadband connection for a dial-up line? If not, then, really, just STFU.
At an extreme, you may say that torture and a 45-minute wait aren't the same thing, but then where exactly do you draw the line for a "psychological" and "real" cost in a way that is accurate for all humans and isn't amorphous?
Still, that's not too typical for most people's day-to-day routine. And like the previous poster said, I would expect that most people can live with a 45 minute break every 4 hours on long car trips.
What is up with the people arguing on this. Your first sentence is totally reasonable, and is a sound argument about the utility of a short-range car. No one (sensible) is going to argue that 400 mile commutes are common.
Anyway I got one damn question about all this:
People talk about how they won't mind charging for 45 minutes on a trip. WHERE THE FUCK ARE YOU GOING TO DO THIS? I don't of any rest stops or other places on any of the roads I travel on long trips where I could get the kind of power delivery to charge one of these fuckers for 45 minutes.
Could this be solved? Yes, of course it could, it is an infrastructure issue. At this point though, it is valid to ask if the idea of allowing charges and the necessary high power delivery this would require is worth it. And some point one needs to question if there are better ways.
There's no such thing as either an AC engine or a DC engine.
They're called motors.
In the thermodynamic and mechanical engineering sense too, motor are engines.