These things can never become truly 100% perfect as there's lots of people that will show up as statistical anomalies. There are for example people who suffer from hormonal imbalancies resulting in overly feminine looks in a male, or overly masculine looks in a female. Just as well transsexual people will be hard for these things: hormonal medication does not change skeletal features, but they change distribution of fat in the body, including face, and thus for a machine they'll like fall in the grey area between either gender. And how about intersexual people who are physically neither gender? I had a friend before who was IS and it just was really hard to tell from the looks what gender one should assume. Mentally she identified as female, but that can't obviously be told from a picture.
This also makes me wonder about the future.. I hope these "gender guessing machinery" do not become the norm in our society and public areas because they will lead to lots of issues with the aforementioned groups of people.
Even my phone has 256MB of ram, and its replacement will have at least 1GB. Remind me again why this is a problem?
What is up with embedded devices having less than 64MBs of ram?
What is up with simply using the correct tools instead of just throwing more memory at the problem? I mean, embedded devices are often bought in large quantities and thus the less they cost the better. So, if you can drop the cost with more intelligent software choices then that should be more than enough of an answer to you.
Besides, I feel the whole "lets just throw in more memory so we don't have to think about our choices!" a very poor approach to computing, embedded or otherwise.
That there's smart and stupid people is no surprise. But I still get surprised about how smart and stupid the one and same person can be. Not just for lack of domain knowledge, but one moment seeming like a highly intelligent being and the next a drooling idiot...
There is a difference between intelligence and wisdom, and in this case it's clearly the lack of wisdom that became the hacker's downfall.
I can confirm this. My wife suffers from ALS, and every day is a struggle
I know it doesn't really matter that some completely random person on the internets says this, but I feel really sorry for both of you : I can only imagine how hard it is, both for your wife and for you to watch the disease eating her away :
The subject isn't very clear, but.. well, my point is that why are these things always presented in a manner that it is somehow the software being open-source which enables stuff like this? After all, there's lots of closed-source development going in the medical area too and they've just as well helped hundreds if not thousands of people. Basically, what does the license have to do with the fact that it enabled a disabled person to do something? To me it just sounds like trying to spin this as somehow a superior achievement from open-source, not accomplishable with closed-source, while diminishing the real point in all this: the disabled person.
Some applications make use of multitouch gestures, for which I see no general analog on a mouse. For example, how do I pinch to zoom with a mouse?
As others have commented there's plenty of ways for such, including using various modkeys, the scroll wheel, and/or both mouse buttons. Then there's for example simply that the application displays a simple toolbar when the tablet is docked and the toolbar exposes the multitouch functionality. Simple and effective, doesn't even require restarting the application in question.
You can use any blue tooth keyboard and most USB keyboards today. Apple released a keyboard dock the first day the iPad came out, if that's your thing Wtf would you want a mouse for..
Not sure why I am always amazed when people at slashdot talk authoritatively about things they know nothing about.. No reason you can't use a real keyboard. No shit. Maybe that is why the iPad has supported external keyboards since the day it was released.
I never claimed it can't use a keyboard. You're barking up the wrong tree, now.
Except you still have to deal with the lack of a desktop OS, so the tablet would need two separate environments.
Err. Exactly why do you think you'd need a separate OS for it? There is nothing special as to why the same OS couldn't just extend the screen real-estate to cover the larger screen.
[quote]On that note, apps would have to be with a separate environment for kb/mouse and touchscreen, much higher resolutions, no multitouch...the list goes on.[/quote]
Again, there is nothing specific as to why a mouse and keyboard wouldn't work. Hell, grab a tablet with bluetooth and connect a bluetooth keyboard to it: voila, it works just peachy. It is the OS itself which handles input devices, the apps only respond to signals from the OS. Similarly, I have a Nokia N900 mobile phone; if I connect a mouse and keyboard to it they work just as fine as the touchscreen does, across all the installed applications.
Either you don't understand OSes, or you're confused about something.
I read quite a comprehensive study last year about the topic of transsexuality, I don't remember if it was here or some other site, but there were several brain surgeons who studied the brains of transsexual people. All of them noted that there were several differences in the brain that didn't match the physical gender they were supposed to belong to, and in fact did resemble more the brains of the opposite gender. The conclusion in the study was that transsexuality is indeed atleast partly a physical phenomenon and thus there is nothing that can be done about it and it isn't somehow the transsexual person's own fault.
It was quite an interesting read and somewhat eye-opening. And you definitely need some of the latter.
If gaming is their primary use, then tablet is doomed because the general purpose computers, game consoles and portable game consoles are all much, much better for playing games.
First of all, those things you mentioned might be better for _certain types of gaming_, secondly, market forces simply do NOT work that way. Just look at BetaMax; clearly superior to VHS, yet VHS trumpeted it.
Ie. tablets do what people want, it doesn't matter if some other device does _some_ of the functionality better if they don't do all the functionality better.
1. Those are afterthoughts. Tablets aren't designed to replace desktops. They're meant to be highly portable and quick to use.
Having a simple dock where you can sit the tablet and which allows you to connect various USB-peripherals, including mouse and keyboard, doesn't in any way hinder portability. There is nothing that says you can't use a real keyboard to input text instead of the virtual one, for example. Even if tablets weren't originally meant to replace desktops they _could_ do it for many people if such a dock was available.
Just imagine this: you have a black surface, kind of like a mousepad, on your table. Next to it sits a regular monitor, mouse and keyboard. You pop your tablet on that surface with its screen down and poof, the peripherals come alive. You do what you meant to do, like for example write a longer e-mail or do a quick home budget on Google Docs. Then you just pick the tablet up from the surface and its again as it was. No hassle, and all the mobility you could hope for.
I do seriously claim that that would be really popular if done right -- you know, no horrible slowdowns, standardized system so it works across different manufacturers and OSes, etc. -- and very many regular consumers would ditch their old desktops.
So basically, you're saying the point to using freenet is to feed your own delusions and conspiracy theories? No thanks, there's much better uses for it than just to create needless traffic.
First of all, if you are using e.g. MSN protocol with Jitsi all the data goes through Microsoft servers and are again in the exact same situation as before and liable for listening. Thus you have gained nothing. Secondly, if you instead use one of the decentralized protocols you have to deal with all the hassles it entails, like for example setting up the server settings and such. Considering that I will want to be able to chat with my friends and family, and they will want to chat with their friends and families, and their friends will want to chat with their friends and so on everyone would have to deal with that hassle. It's a lot easier to just use one of the centralized ones. Ie. atleast none of my non-geek fellows will want to start using non-centralized stuff and there's no point in telling them to change client just to use the same stuff they are already using.
Batman is the more realistic of the lot due to actually training himself for over a decade in all the skills he is a master in. No one compares, to the extent he has trained his mind. Someone significantly weaker than his superpowered counterparts and can regularly beat them with ease.
That doesn't make him an engineer. And the question was indeed who is the greatest engineer. Batman doesn't really craft much or anything so out-of-ordinary (in the comic world, not the real world) that he'd be somehow above everyone else. Batman is simply good at using the tools, not at crafting them, especially if you count his body as one of the tools.
While as a character I really love Batman, I mean he is a plain human being without some fancy superpowers, he has reached his status by immense amounts of training and sheer willpower, and hell, he is utterly sexy, I still wouldn't say he is the ultimate engineer.
There's plenty of Coop in the FPS genre I find, just look at Halo, Gears of War, Army of Two, Splinter Cell etc, Call of Duty also has coop although there the coop missions are seperate.
Do you actually get to play the single-player campaing co-operatively with another player? If not then I atleast don't count those as co-op.
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These things can never become truly 100% perfect as there's lots of people that will show up as statistical anomalies. There are for example people who suffer from hormonal imbalancies resulting in overly feminine looks in a male, or overly masculine looks in a female. Just as well transsexual people will be hard for these things: hormonal medication does not change skeletal features, but they change distribution of fat in the body, including face, and thus for a machine they'll like fall in the grey area between either gender. And how about intersexual people who are physically neither gender? I had a friend before who was IS and it just was really hard to tell from the looks what gender one should assume. Mentally she identified as female, but that can't obviously be told from a picture.
This also makes me wonder about the future.. I hope these "gender guessing machinery" do not become the norm in our society and public areas because they will lead to lots of issues with the aforementioned groups of people.
Even my phone has 256MB of ram, and its replacement will have at least 1GB. Remind me again why this is a problem?
What is up with embedded devices having less than 64MBs of ram?
What is up with simply using the correct tools instead of just throwing more memory at the problem? I mean, embedded devices are often bought in large quantities and thus the less they cost the better. So, if you can drop the cost with more intelligent software choices then that should be more than enough of an answer to you.
Besides, I feel the whole "lets just throw in more memory so we don't have to think about our choices!" a very poor approach to computing, embedded or otherwise.
Which are all things you can also do in perl and python...
Not all systems have perl or python installed, but all of them have a shell. Lowest common denominator is a powerful thing sometimes.
That there's smart and stupid people is no surprise. But I still get surprised about how smart and stupid the one and same person can be. Not just for lack of domain knowledge, but one moment seeming like a highly intelligent being and the next a drooling idiot...
There is a difference between intelligence and wisdom, and in this case it's clearly the lack of wisdom that became the hacker's downfall.
You know who else produced regrettable artwork? Hitler.
I've always thought that there was some resemblance between Hitler and vegetables!
people-who-copy-books-for-a-living.
Not to sound snarky or anything, but those people were called scribes.
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Scribe
And this is a great proof that playing WoW teaches you things!
I can confirm this. My wife suffers from ALS, and every day is a struggle
I know it doesn't really matter that some completely random person on the internets says this, but I feel really sorry for both of you : I can only imagine how hard it is, both for your wife and for you to watch the disease eating her away :
Mr. Hands had a serious disability, what's yours? ..oh, sorry, I didn't notice the big 'M' letter. Carry on.
>not a nice way to go.
Is there such a thing :-| ?
Painlessly while sleeping, for example. Many would argue that it's one of the nicest ways of going.
The subject isn't very clear, but.. well, my point is that why are these things always presented in a manner that it is somehow the software being open-source which enables stuff like this? After all, there's lots of closed-source development going in the medical area too and they've just as well helped hundreds if not thousands of people. Basically, what does the license have to do with the fact that it enabled a disabled person to do something? To me it just sounds like trying to spin this as somehow a superior achievement from open-source, not accomplishable with closed-source, while diminishing the real point in all this: the disabled person.
Some applications make use of multitouch gestures, for which I see no general analog on a mouse. For example, how do I pinch to zoom with a mouse?
As others have commented there's plenty of ways for such, including using various modkeys, the scroll wheel, and/or both mouse buttons. Then there's for example simply that the application displays a simple toolbar when the tablet is docked and the toolbar exposes the multitouch functionality. Simple and effective, doesn't even require restarting the application in question.
You can use any blue tooth keyboard and most USB keyboards today. Apple released a keyboard dock the first day the iPad came out, if that's your thing Wtf would you want a mouse for..
Not sure why I am always amazed when people at slashdot talk authoritatively about things they know nothing about.. No reason you can't use a real keyboard. No shit. Maybe that is why the iPad has supported external keyboards since the day it was released.
I never claimed it can't use a keyboard. You're barking up the wrong tree, now.
Except you still have to deal with the lack of a desktop OS, so the tablet would need two separate environments.
Err. Exactly why do you think you'd need a separate OS for it? There is nothing special as to why the same OS couldn't just extend the screen real-estate to cover the larger screen.
[quote]On that note, apps would have to be with a separate environment for kb/mouse and touchscreen, much higher resolutions, no multitouch...the list goes on.[/quote]
Again, there is nothing specific as to why a mouse and keyboard wouldn't work. Hell, grab a tablet with bluetooth and connect a bluetooth keyboard to it: voila, it works just peachy. It is the OS itself which handles input devices, the apps only respond to signals from the OS. Similarly, I have a Nokia N900 mobile phone; if I connect a mouse and keyboard to it they work just as fine as the touchscreen does, across all the installed applications.
Either you don't understand OSes, or you're confused about something.
LOL trannys are worse than gays.
All you have to contribute is ignorance?
I read quite a comprehensive study last year about the topic of transsexuality, I don't remember if it was here or some other site, but there were several brain surgeons who studied the brains of transsexual people. All of them noted that there were several differences in the brain that didn't match the physical gender they were supposed to belong to, and in fact did resemble more the brains of the opposite gender. The conclusion in the study was that transsexuality is indeed atleast partly a physical phenomenon and thus there is nothing that can be done about it and it isn't somehow the transsexual person's own fault.
It was quite an interesting read and somewhat eye-opening. And you definitely need some of the latter.
If gaming is their primary use, then tablet is doomed because the general purpose computers, game consoles and portable game consoles are all much, much better for playing games.
First of all, those things you mentioned might be better for _certain types of gaming_, secondly, market forces simply do NOT work that way. Just look at BetaMax; clearly superior to VHS, yet VHS trumpeted it.
Ie. tablets do what people want, it doesn't matter if some other device does _some_ of the functionality better if they don't do all the functionality better.
1. Those are afterthoughts. Tablets aren't designed to replace desktops. They're meant to be highly portable and quick to use.
Having a simple dock where you can sit the tablet and which allows you to connect various USB-peripherals, including mouse and keyboard, doesn't in any way hinder portability. There is nothing that says you can't use a real keyboard to input text instead of the virtual one, for example. Even if tablets weren't originally meant to replace desktops they _could_ do it for many people if such a dock was available.
Just imagine this: you have a black surface, kind of like a mousepad, on your table. Next to it sits a regular monitor, mouse and keyboard. You pop your tablet on that surface with its screen down and poof, the peripherals come alive. You do what you meant to do, like for example write a longer e-mail or do a quick home budget on Google Docs. Then you just pick the tablet up from the surface and its again as it was. No hassle, and all the mobility you could hope for.
I do seriously claim that that would be really popular if done right -- you know, no horrible slowdowns, standardized system so it works across different manufacturers and OSes, etc. -- and very many regular consumers would ditch their old desktops.
"It's a lot easier to just" let the KGB or whatever alphabet soup guys listen to all my chat.
FTFY
That doesn't refute the point I made, though.
So basically, you're saying the point to using freenet is to feed your own delusions and conspiracy theories? No thanks, there's much better uses for it than just to create needless traffic.
http://jitsi.org/
First of all, if you are using e.g. MSN protocol with Jitsi all the data goes through Microsoft servers and are again in the exact same situation as before and liable for listening. Thus you have gained nothing. Secondly, if you instead use one of the decentralized protocols you have to deal with all the hassles it entails, like for example setting up the server settings and such. Considering that I will want to be able to chat with my friends and family, and they will want to chat with their friends and families, and their friends will want to chat with their friends and so on everyone would have to deal with that hassle. It's a lot easier to just use one of the centralized ones. Ie. atleast none of my non-geek fellows will want to start using non-centralized stuff and there's no point in telling them to change client just to use the same stuff they are already using.
Now your porn collection can also double as personal data storage, what an awesome excuse for ever increasing collection!
This is why everyone should be running freenet, stick your virtual fingers in the mans eyes. http://freenetproject.org/
Since all the good stuff is outside of Freenet network, what good would using it do?
All it will do is drive people from Skype to Jitsi. (Or similar)
No one has ever heard of Jitsi or similar.
Batman is the more realistic of the lot due to actually training himself for over a decade in all the skills he is a master in. No one compares, to the extent he has trained his mind. Someone significantly weaker than his superpowered counterparts and can regularly beat them with ease.
That doesn't make him an engineer. And the question was indeed who is the greatest engineer. Batman doesn't really craft much or anything so out-of-ordinary (in the comic world, not the real world) that he'd be somehow above everyone else. Batman is simply good at using the tools, not at crafting them, especially if you count his body as one of the tools.
While as a character I really love Batman, I mean he is a plain human being without some fancy superpowers, he has reached his status by immense amounts of training and sheer willpower, and hell, he is utterly sexy, I still wouldn't say he is the ultimate engineer.
It ain't the same thing.
There's plenty of Coop in the FPS genre I find, just look at Halo, Gears of War, Army of Two, Splinter Cell etc, Call of Duty also has coop although there the coop missions are seperate.
Do you actually get to play the single-player campaing co-operatively with another player? If not then I atleast don't count those as co-op.