No kidding. I saw Mission To Mars too - we all know how that turned out. These bacteria will definitely mutate and eat anyone who comes out to check on them.
I agree. There have been a lot of studies that show that the more choices we have, the more difficult it is to make the choice - and the choice is virtually limitless now. Having so many choices, our options are to either become enmeshed in one little thing, or know very little about everything.
What about cryogenic suspension? That would be one way of dealing with the issue. We could either rotate the crew in suspension or do the Alien thing where the computer just wakes everyone up once they get there.
True - although there may be some conceptual compatibility issues with your scheme. Also, now the car will speed up if I'm hit from behind. Or even worse, imagine I do a jackrabbit start that pulls my hand back....
WRT #2, another unintended effect. Imagine someone hits you from the front. The inertia of the impact would force your hand forward, causing you to *speed up*. Don't forget about getting your arm bumped, spilling coffee...
Great article, however you should realize it's impossible to completely avoid bias. For example, he has restricted his population to MTurk users while generalizing to the population of web users. He also "weeded out" the lazy people for the convenience of his experiment - aren't there lazy people in the real world?
Couldn't disagree more. Unfortunately, enforcing training and reading manuals would probably have little effect. In my 10+ years doing usability for missile systems, you have to build in the mechanisms to keep the users from doing bad things. Even if you force the user to read the *entire manual* before each use, people still have bad days, hangovers, fights with significant others. It has to be designed in.
OK, I never said it was bad. Just pointing out that there might be some difficulties to overcome. I actually think this type of interaction is pretty cool.
Another problem is the assumption of 10 digits. For example, this might be more difficult for someone that is missing a digit or is paralyzed in an arm. In that case, the mouse would have a definite advantage.
...I guess this article explains why my electricity bill is so high. I pay 10 time more here than in any other state I've lived in. Perhaps having so much free energy requires a lot of paperwork.
IMHO, we are so obviously in the middle of the revolution brought on by our computers. We now have the capability to share information on any topic with any point on the earth instantaneously. Once we collectively figure out what this means, the technological advances are inevitable. We have no idea what we don't know yet, but throw nanotech, genetic mapping, Moore's law together (for starters) and the advances are inevitable.
Note I called them "advances" and not "progress". I agree with ciahound that these advances could and probably will come back to bite us.
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No kidding. I saw Mission To Mars too - we all know how that turned out. These bacteria will definitely mutate and eat anyone who comes out to check on them.
There's a copy of Red October on my retina too for a couple of nanoseconds too - I suppose the lawyers will be knocking on my door pretty soon .
I agree. There have been a lot of studies that show that the more choices we have, the more difficult it is to make the choice - and the choice is virtually limitless now. Having so many choices, our options are to either become enmeshed in one little thing, or know very little about everything.
Awesome!!! That's great - they might try it like those rotisserie chickens next.
What about cryogenic suspension? That would be one way of dealing with the issue. We could either rotate the crew in suspension or do the Alien thing where the computer just wakes everyone up once they get there.
I saw it on Star Trek too...so it must be true.
...if the moonquake/gravitiational earth pull/meteors broke a hole in the tube, couldn't the same thing happen over the heads of the moon cave-men?
True - although there may be some conceptual compatibility issues with your scheme. Also, now the car will speed up if I'm hit from behind. Or even worse, imagine I do a jackrabbit start that pulls my hand back....
Oh, it's serious. It's just a matter of hashing out the details.
It's a tough job, so let's get rolling.
WRT #2, another unintended effect. Imagine someone hits you from the front. The inertia of the impact would force your hand forward, causing you to *speed up*. Don't forget about getting your arm bumped, spilling coffee...
At least now you can do a barrel roll.
Now that we've got the joysticks out of the way, we can finally move on to more important matters.
A New Kind Of Science...er...Orbit. I wonder if Wolfram will try to take credit for this, too. Maybe there's an automata to describe it.
Awww...don't be a hater. The whole article is on avoiding bias - don't you see a little irony here?
Great article, however you should realize it's impossible to completely avoid bias. For example, he has restricted his population to MTurk users while generalizing to the population of web users. He also "weeded out" the lazy people for the convenience of his experiment - aren't there lazy people in the real world?
...look for the leaks.
Couldn't disagree more. Unfortunately, enforcing training and reading manuals would probably have little effect. In my 10+ years doing usability for missile systems, you have to build in the mechanisms to keep the users from doing bad things. Even if you force the user to read the *entire manual* before each use, people still have bad days, hangovers, fights with significant others. It has to be designed in.
OK, I never said it was bad. Just pointing out that there might be some difficulties to overcome. I actually think this type of interaction is pretty cool.
Another problem is the assumption of 10 digits. For example, this might be more difficult for someone that is missing a digit or is paralyzed in an arm. In that case, the mouse would have a definite advantage.
...but they can't see through my tin foil mask!
Come on - seriously? Haven't we covered this in /. before?
http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/09/08/1746226/US-Nuclear-Power-Industry-Poised-For-a-Comeback?from=rss
...I guess this article explains why my electricity bill is so high. I pay 10 time more here than in any other state I've lived in. Perhaps having so much free energy requires a lot of paperwork.
Slashdot - you modded this a 5??? That seems a bit high. but hey, whatever you want to do.
...we're not making progress??? It's funny.
IMHO, we are so obviously in the middle of the revolution brought on by our computers. We now have the capability to share information on any topic with any point on the earth instantaneously. Once we collectively figure out what this means, the technological advances are inevitable. We have no idea what we don't know yet, but throw nanotech, genetic mapping, Moore's law together (for starters) and the advances are inevitable.
Note I called them "advances" and not "progress". I agree with ciahound that these advances could and probably will come back to bite us.