What's the matter... he's afraid that after patenting too much obvious and frivolous stuff like robot competition rules, they'll start telling him... duhhhh, this is too obvious dude:) ?
An indian man who hadn't cleaned himself up for 35 years joins a fridge clean up effort... and the fridge explodes... 50 people sent to the hospital.
A bystander reports, "wow! that was cool, never saw a fridge explode like that. I didnt even know such colors existed"
A member of the swat team cautions, "you gotta be careful with approaching fridges with rotten stuff, they are dangerous... wash at least once a year before getting close to one."
The genetic engineering community, in an unprecedented communique said, "You see, if we could advance genetic engineering to a point where people could choose the sex of their baby, none of this would have happened"
Sounds useful... recursive searching of results, being able to manipulate the summary, that would be fun... and while they're at it a mini scripting language helping the rewriting of results.
then have a library of custom searches that people could build on... that would allow people to share custom searches for things such as mp3s, specific types of data such as scientific data, etc...
Dude, cant wait until they have a scandisk & defrag... I definitely need one... I would settle for a reboot if I wouldnt lose all my data... backup strategies are not yet up to par
You may say I am pedant... but if someone calls a rose an apple, or calls slashdot CNN, I'll give him a smack over the head... common sense:)
I agree with you though... I believe in trademarks and the right to defend them... someone who modifies firefox should do so under a different name... I guess if someone takes salt, puts it in meat, cooks an elaborate dish.. and still calls it salt, I'll smack him over the head too:)
although there is a minority of people that like to have the latest technologies, most resist change. When it comes to the phone, it is particularely true. Video calls have been around for a long time now... how many people use them? The same with wap. voice converted to text is an interesting concept, but it will have the same problem for mainstream adoption. 1) Text conversion is approximate at best, especially if noise levels get high 2) it's as much how you say it that counts... irony, hesitation, sobbing, sorrow wont get translated and even if they are what is the message gonna be "Hello [laughter] I miss you [sob][sob][sob]" 3) multicultural societies will have even more messed up translations... I occasionally use 3 languages in a conversation (and I know others use more)
have they figured out a way to internet enable beer glasses yet... that would be the utmost experience... beer & net browsing combined. would they be covered by the current law or would they need to make amendments?
innocent question... I'm assuming you are talking about the triple A? getting people to the right place when they're stuck in a bad situation, right?... I didnt know it covered the economy?:p
Thanks... in the meanwhile, while talking to a friend who said the problem is you cant get things out of a blackhole... I had time to toy some more with the idea and refine the black hole part...
Assuming a superior entity wanted to monitor the state universe (Quality control). It could put the CPU in the center of that blackhole, it could process all information necessary... and only react by broadcasting commands through Hawking radiation... like a video surveillance system passively storing and processing billions of images, but only reacting when movement/ a particular event is detected, like intruder alarm triggers.
Actually, since we're wildly speculating, in such a theory where blackholes would be the recipients of the Universe data, one could say the fact nothing gets out of the system is a firewall, an added security feature.
of course, today, we cant get things out of a blackhole (retrieval system) but imho, the only reason we cant get anything of a blackhole is... we never actually had blackholes at our disposal to study an interfacing scheme... and that may change when the Hadron collider starts producing micro black holes.
In fact, theoretically nothing's to prevent us from building an even more powerful collider allowing us to create larger black holes... preferably in orbit where the natural vacuum and low temperature would be a feature... doing it on another planet could be a solution.. I wouldnt want to experiment on earth with real size blackholes
Of course, we can think of ourselve as "the center of the universe":)... I believe it's already been done... but I believe even the Vatican is not adamant about that these days.:)
The universe's backup system seems fine to me. Of course I'm not a Universe Backup Strategy Expert... but here's my take...
I believe the universe is built in a redundant start topology system... with them often organized in clusters. Light emitted id sent as a continuous optic backup beam, in all directions, using a mega thermo cooled void serving as a conduit (think supra conductors) called the ether (the complete name being the ether - net). It's not fiber optic, it's better than fiber.... at such distance collisions dont really matter because "information is emitted in all directions at all angles)... as matter of fact, gravity bends some of the rays so it can go through. The emission of data is made in all wavelength, using all possible particles in the dictionary (and not yet in the dictionary). Just the milky way could be thought of a raid 100,000 million system.
Who's to say black holes dont serve as a mega parabolic antenna, trapping all data flowing in its direction). Theoretically, with the proper sensing technology, the proper error correction algorithms, all the solar system could be recreated some place else.
I know ZPMs are rare... but he really gotta get a hold of himself.
PS: I welcome our star blowing overlords... looks like you really dont wanna get on their bad side
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What's the matter... he's afraid that after patenting too much obvious and frivolous stuff like robot competition rules, they'll start telling him... duhhhh, this is too obvious dude :) ?
Yes, too small... too big... I believe you're right, for that industry, size does matter
An indian man who hadn't cleaned himself up for 35 years joins a fridge clean up effort... and the fridge explodes... 50 people sent to the hospital.
A bystander reports, "wow! that was cool, never saw a fridge explode like that. I didnt even know such colors existed"
A member of the swat team cautions, "you gotta be careful with approaching fridges with rotten stuff, they are dangerous... wash at least once a year before getting close to one."
The genetic engineering community, in an unprecedented communique said, "You see, if we could advance genetic engineering to a point where people could choose the sex of their baby, none of this would have happened"
Sounds useful... recursive searching of results, being able to manipulate the summary, that would be fun... and while they're at it a mini scripting language helping the rewriting of results.
find nano(computing|computer|qbit) in_site slashdot.com
result=custom_cleanup_subroutines_for_irrelevant_websites_such_as_nano_the_text_editor()
then have a library of custom searches that people could build on... that would allow people to share custom searches for things such as mp3s, specific types of data such as scientific data, etc...
you mean it's the first time they tell us that file sharing is illegal and that they should disconnect offenders? :) No way??
next they'll tell us they should augment copyright length.... because of increased life span.
would the cause of the accident be a driving under influence of spirit ?
Dude, cant wait until they have a scandisk & defrag... I definitely need one... I would settle for a reboot if I wouldnt lose all my data... backup strategies are not yet up to par
you're not going to call it slashdot?
You may say I am pedant... but if someone calls a rose an apple, or calls slashdot CNN, I'll give him a smack over the head... common sense :)
I agree with you though... I believe in trademarks and the right to defend them... someone who modifies firefox should do so under a different name... I guess if someone takes salt, puts it in meat, cooks an elaborate dish.. and still calls it salt, I'll smack him over the head too :)
although there is a minority of people that like to have the latest technologies, most resist change. When it comes to the phone, it is particularely true. Video calls have been around for a long time now... how many people use them? The same with wap. voice converted to text is an interesting concept, but it will have the same problem for mainstream adoption.
1) Text conversion is approximate at best, especially if noise levels get high
2) it's as much how you say it that counts... irony, hesitation, sobbing, sorrow wont get translated and even if they are what is the message gonna be "Hello [laughter] I miss you [sob][sob][sob]"
3) multicultural societies will have even more messed up translations... I occasionally use 3 languages in a conversation (and I know others use more)
How different would that be from people already talking to their neighbor on the airplane... no need for wifi to make a lot of noise :)
have they figured out a way to internet enable beer glasses yet... that would be the utmost experience ... beer & net browsing combined. would they be covered by the current law or would they need to make amendments?
this talk about virii reminds me of a a mail I got once...
this is the manual virus, based on the code of honour.
for every of your disk drive
for every folder
delete contents
type the following, in capitals: you've been owned :)
They were aiming for the bigbang era... came in only 600 million years after... close but no cigar.. no cigar shaped ufo either ;)
I'm even more confused... when the quakes play quake... is it doom?
innocent question... I'm assuming you are talking about the triple A? getting people to the right place when they're stuck in a bad situation, right?... I didnt know it covered the economy? :p
Assuming a superior entity wanted to monitor the state universe (Quality control). It could put the CPU in the center of that blackhole, it could process all information necessary... and only react by broadcasting commands through Hawking radiation... like a video surveillance system passively storing and processing billions of images, but only reacting when movement/ a particular event is detected, like intruder alarm triggers.
Actually, since we're wildly speculating, in such a theory where blackholes would be the recipients of the Universe data, one could say the fact nothing gets out of the system is a firewall, an added security feature.
of course, today, we cant get things out of a blackhole (retrieval system) but imho, the only reason we cant get anything of a blackhole is... we never actually had blackholes at our disposal to study an interfacing scheme... and that may change when the Hadron collider starts producing micro black holes.
In fact, theoretically nothing's to prevent us from building an even more powerful collider allowing us to create larger black holes... preferably in orbit where the natural vacuum and low temperature would be a feature... doing it on another planet could be a solution.. I wouldnt want to experiment on earth with real size blackholes
Of course, we can think of ourselve as "the center of the universe" :)... I believe it's already been done... but I believe even the Vatican is not adamant about that these days. :)
The universe's backup system seems fine to me. Of course I'm not a Universe Backup Strategy Expert... but here's my take...
I believe the universe is built in a redundant start topology system... with them often organized in clusters. Light emitted id sent as a continuous optic backup beam, in all directions, using a mega thermo cooled void serving as a conduit (think supra conductors) called the ether (the complete name being the ether - net). It's not fiber optic, it's better than fiber.... at such distance collisions dont really matter because "information is emitted in all directions at all angles)... as matter of fact, gravity bends some of the rays so it can go through. The emission of data is made in all wavelength, using all possible particles in the dictionary (and not yet in the dictionary). Just the milky way could be thought of a raid 100,000 million system.
Who's to say black holes dont serve as a mega parabolic antenna, trapping all data flowing in its direction). Theoretically, with the proper sensing technology, the proper error correction algorithms, all the solar system could be recreated some place else.
I know ZPMs are rare... but he really gotta get a hold of himself. PS: I welcome our star blowing overlords... looks like you really dont wanna get on their bad side