ok, but the point is you have gone back to a your own past, landed at an intersection point with a parallel universe (all points are intersection points) from which your new future may be different. However, the poster was correct that you would forget your memories this way, and be in an identical state as then. Any differences would be from randomness.
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The problem with this is clear to me. The physics he is relying on says that a second neutron will appear, the neutron will visit itself from the future.
Ok, right there is a good science fiction story, you step into a time machine and turn it on... You don't go anywhere, you get a visit from yourself from the future! Holy hell! Very nice.
But the real problem is that you would not visit yourself from the future, because all your neutrons of now are in piles of shit by then.
>would be like Coke or Pepsi promoting a campaign against the evils of water.
that is what they are doing... if Microsoft was Coke their goal would be to have all plumbing use coke (great for the toilet, showers, watering the lawn)
I worked in online gaming from 1992 to 1998 and we built a MMORG that never got to see the light of day.
During it's development it suffered from many of the things mentioned in this article.
(1) was it a game? No one knew, it ended up being made into an interface for our other previously developed games (like Spades and Poker and Bass Lake Fishing). The RPG aspect and personal space customization were to be done later, after this was decided. So the answer was, no it wasn't a game.
(2) it's for adults more than kids, and at the time people still thought only kids played video games (ooops, kids grow up and... still play)
(3) we were hot enough to be bought by AT&T and then AOL... ug, death!
(4) finally, we were around before the (commercialized) net and had a you-have-to-build-it-yourself mentality. This is not a "not invented here" syndrome, when we started making network games in 1991, you really did have to build it yourself. Email, chat, everything. We didn't survive all the help we would get, and never leveraged the explosion of the net to our advantage... instead it was a sort of tsunami that swamped us.
(5) Violence: it sells, the 3d "revolution" in games is associated with it. Making a peaceful game hedging on community and social play, construction exploration and politics... why, it's a hard sell now, it was even harder then. Thank god for the Sims for opening this up a little, potentially.
BTW: I still remember how to make these things... our technology could support tens of thousands of people on the hosts where there was no limit to packing, but you saw only the closest couple hundred people. It sits unused, now owned, I think, by EA. The hosts are in use for non-mmorg use, oddly enough. Inside these hosts people playing mundane card games have existence in a 3D world because the message passing paradigm is great... but they don't move in the 3D space and essentially sit in a matrix keeping track of an unpresented 3D position in the world.
... to get someone to let them make a superconducting magnetic flying disk machine.
I am totally a sucker for this in that I really believe understanding the field of gravity better would be a major accomplishment, and so likely to occur as to be a good place to expect a revolution in science.
But this guy is not really a scientist. His contribution is not open, and that is a part of science. Modern science came from hobbyists in science that shared information openly. That where the idea of free and open projects comes from.
The only thing I know that really works (i.e. "is simple") is to lessen the conflicts through design... that is, two people shouldn't HAVE to edit the same modules. Or at least not the same lines of the same modules (those are the only merges that are really painful). Similarly, if you have well understood specification for modules then there should not be a problem when the lines edited don't overlap, because the functions and modules will continue to behave to the spec, which is all the other code can expect.
I know this isn't really easy to do (can't be done retroactively), and doesn't really fit all cases (such as near a release when there is a lot of chaos), but it's the only elegant solution I know of, all the rest are more brute force.
I bet some is in there! I just bet! For god's sake, someone less lazy... um I mean less busy, than me, find GPLed code in Microsoft. I want RMS to make us all call XP GNU/XP.
Microsoft is an old hand at using public domain stuff! They don't dislike it... like all companies they grew used to swallowing it up! It's even cheaper than buying QDOS was.
No, the GPL is not about giving software away, that was already happening. It was about KEEPING software GIVEN AWAY.
true, but I think they need to worry. Cable is used to sitting on their laurels and assuming no one else can afford to grease the palms and use eminent domains, etc. etc. to get another set of cable in. They're right, but wireless looks to destroy that advantage. DSL and satelite are also providing some competition for broadband, but nothing seems to match the speed that local ISPs are rolling out wireless. I mean, one tech and a relatively small wad of cash and you are good to have your wireless network deployed on a time scale of months.
the web didn't remake or begin to remake culture in the way your expectations idealized. But it is remaking culture. No, it's not a new compelling medium to enlighten people and make them interested in things that they had ignored, things that bore them.
It makes people interested in things they are already interested in. It puts them in contact with information and groups of people they don't have access too. It's small influence (like the force of gravity is small) is that, slowly but surely, you realize, if you think of an interesting question, you can find interesting answers. It's the most passive thing imaginable. There is nothing more boring than expecting the net to entertain you... but come up with a good question, or think about an old hobby you dropped in the past, or ask yourself, "I wonder what Pitcairn is like" and you will find it the Most Entertaining thing.
I believe that elightenment comes from awakening the hunger for knowledge, and the net awakens that. Like all human change, it will look slow to us individuals.
Oh yeah, the other thing it, it's changed the culture, and you just don't notice because the culture has already normalized the change.
Do you think roads and communication lines take more than 50 years to get in place? If it was just infrastructural issues, it could happen over night. But it's a matter of waiting for democracy to set in, it's a cultural issue. I don't believe that India will take that long on cultural grounds, and in fact my prediction is exactly as you deny, 50-100 years.
There is no doubt in my mind that India is the next big superpower.
(1) Lots of unspoilt natural resources (2) Smart People (3) Most Important (A LOT OF PEOPLE) (4) and it doesn't hurt they speak english allowing them to segue their way in.
My premise..? Numbers don't lie. A giant market is a giant period. This prediction does cover China too, their population makes them a sleeping giant. Except that China does not have an open society. India is struggling against years of exploitation and it's own caste system... but given the adoption of democracy there I can't imagine it won't arrise from these difficulties and when it does, it will have more resources than anyone will be able to (or want to) stop.
I have to admit I'm not surprised. But of course you go too far to say it's "what most intelligent people already knew was there with absolute certainty". What most intelligent people, such as the astronomers knew is that until they started finding evident of them, what they lacked was "absolute certainty".
I will be suprised if slashdot does this, and even more if it works. Why? I've been there, and the problem with this common-sense idea is two-fold:
(1) Advertising pays based on the number of people that look at the ad. You lessen the value of the banners you still sell by allowing some of your customers to avoid them.
...AND...
(2) You just selected out the people with the most disposable income! The people still looking at the ads are the people that know how to ignore them or don't have the money to get rid of them, and therefore either won't or can't buy from you, the advertiser.
I like operator overloading. However, you make a point that it's mostly "costmetic" but in two cases this "cosmetic" effect is really really important. The two cases:
(1) conversion operators (2) the operator= (and copy constructor) which can be very useful in handling your own class instances as data types.
Slashdot Mirror
ok, but the point is you have gone back to a your own past, landed at an intersection point with a parallel universe (all points are intersection points) from which your new future may be different. However, the poster was correct that you would forget your memories this way, and be in an identical state as then. Any differences would be from randomness.
The problem with this is clear to me. The physics he is relying on says that a second neutron will appear, the neutron will visit itself from the future.
Ok, right there is a good science fiction story, you step into a time machine and turn it on... You don't go anywhere, you get a visit from yourself from the future! Holy hell! Very nice.
But the real problem is that you would not visit yourself from the future, because all your neutrons of now are in piles of shit by then.
I think this is just a, "look, we can too" aimed at Microsoft as part of the growing Sony vs. Microsoft war.
April 1 already?
>would be like Coke or Pepsi promoting a campaign against the evils of water.
that is what they are doing... if Microsoft was Coke their goal would be to have all plumbing use coke (great for the toilet, showers, watering the lawn)
Kesmai, Worldplay... bleeding edge for early adopters, eh?! ooops, bled to death... hey! what are you doing with my corpse?
I worked in online gaming from 1992 to 1998 and we built a MMORG that never got to see the light of day.
During it's development it suffered from many of the things mentioned in this article.
(1) was it a game? No one knew, it ended up being made into an interface for our other previously developed games (like Spades and Poker and Bass Lake Fishing). The RPG aspect and personal space customization were to be done later, after this was decided. So the answer was, no it wasn't a game.
(2) it's for adults more than kids, and at the time people still thought only kids played video games (ooops, kids grow up and... still play)
(3) we were hot enough to be bought by AT&T and then AOL... ug, death!
(4) finally, we were around before the (commercialized) net and had a you-have-to-build-it-yourself mentality. This is not a "not invented here" syndrome, when we started making network games in 1991, you really did have to build it yourself. Email, chat, everything. We didn't survive all the help we would get, and never leveraged the explosion of the net to our advantage... instead it was a sort of tsunami that swamped us.
(5) Violence: it sells, the 3d "revolution" in games is associated with it. Making a peaceful game hedging on community and social play, construction exploration and politics... why, it's a hard sell now, it was even harder then. Thank god for the Sims for opening this up a little, potentially.
BTW: I still remember how to make these things... our technology could support tens of thousands of people on the hosts where there was no limit to packing, but you saw only the closest couple hundred people. It sits unused, now owned, I think, by EA. The hosts are in use for non-mmorg use, oddly enough. Inside these hosts people playing mundane card games have existence in a 3D world because the message passing paradigm is great... but they don't move in the 3D space and essentially sit in a matrix keeping track of an unpresented 3D position in the world.
... to get someone to let them make a superconducting magnetic flying disk machine.
I am totally a sucker for this in that I really believe understanding the field of gravity better would be a major accomplishment, and so likely to occur as to be a good place to expect a revolution in science.
But this guy is not really a scientist. His contribution is not open, and that is a part of science. Modern science came from hobbyists in science that shared information openly. That where the idea of free and open projects comes from.
excellent idea!!! really good.
The only thing I know that really works (i.e. "is simple") is to lessen the conflicts through design... that is, two people shouldn't HAVE to edit the same modules. Or at least not the same lines of the same modules (those are the only merges that are really painful). Similarly, if you have well understood specification for modules then there should not be a problem when the lines edited don't overlap, because the functions and modules will continue to behave to the spec, which is all the other code can expect.
I know this isn't really easy to do (can't be done retroactively), and doesn't really fit all cases (such as near a release when there is a lot of chaos), but it's the only elegant solution I know of, all the rest are more brute force.
I bet some is in there! I just bet! For god's sake, someone less lazy... um I mean less busy, than me, find GPLed code in Microsoft. I want RMS to make us all call XP GNU/XP.
> have never spent time with Windows 2000.
I'm sure this is a typo. You must have meant "did time".
Microsoft is an old hand at using public domain stuff! They don't dislike it... like all companies they grew used to swallowing it up! It's even cheaper than buying QDOS was.
No, the GPL is not about giving software away, that was already happening. It was about KEEPING software GIVEN AWAY.
true, but I think they need to worry. Cable is used to sitting on their laurels and assuming no one else can afford to grease the palms and use eminent domains, etc. etc. to get another set of cable in. They're right, but wireless looks to destroy that advantage. DSL and satelite are also providing some competition for broadband, but nothing seems to match the speed that local ISPs are rolling out wireless. I mean, one tech and a relatively small wad of cash and you are good to have your wireless network deployed on a time scale of months.
the web didn't remake or begin to remake culture in the way your expectations idealized. But it is remaking culture. No, it's not a new compelling medium to enlighten people and make them interested in things that they had ignored, things that bore them.
It makes people interested in things they are already interested in. It puts them in contact with information and groups of people they don't have access too. It's small influence (like the force of gravity is small) is that, slowly but surely, you realize, if you think of an interesting question, you can find interesting answers. It's the most passive thing imaginable. There is nothing more boring than expecting the net to entertain you... but come up with a good question, or think about an old hobby you dropped in the past, or ask yourself, "I wonder what Pitcairn is like" and you will find it the Most Entertaining thing.
I believe that elightenment comes from awakening the hunger for knowledge, and the net awakens that. Like all human change, it will look slow to us individuals.
Oh yeah, the other thing it, it's changed the culture, and you just don't notice because the culture has already normalized the change.
What? He's sorry he tried to rip off Mosaic and commercialize a public domain effort and got out foxed by a company much better at doing that?
Ok, apology accepted.
Do you think roads and communication lines take more than 50 years to get in place? If it was just infrastructural issues, it could happen over night. But it's a matter of waiting for democracy to set in, it's a cultural issue. I don't believe that India will take that long on cultural grounds, and in fact my prediction is exactly as you deny, 50-100 years.
There is no doubt in my mind that India is the next big superpower.
(1) Lots of unspoilt natural resources
(2) Smart People
(3) Most Important (A LOT OF PEOPLE)
(4) and it doesn't hurt they speak english allowing them to segue their way in.
My premise..? Numbers don't lie. A giant market is a giant period. This prediction does cover China too, their population makes them a sleeping giant. Except that China does not have an open society. India is struggling against years of exploitation and it's own caste system... but given the adoption of democracy there I can't imagine it won't arrise from these difficulties and when it does, it will have more resources than anyone will be able to (or want to) stop.
I have to admit I'm not surprised. But of course you go too far to say it's "what most intelligent people already knew was there with absolute certainty". What most intelligent people, such as the astronomers knew is that until they started finding evident of them, what they lacked was "absolute certainty".
>In fact, if one were to look at computer science departments across the country, you'd see that Java has replaced C++.
Too bad they don't define the standard languages... PASCAL anyone?
This guy had no idea what is going on in languages. IMNSHO.
I think it's rolled up socks (that he's smoking). Frankly, he just classed himself, that's all.
"Today's mechanical engineers will use one of three development systems, MindStorm, Erector Set, or Tinker Toys..."
I will be suprised if slashdot does this, and even more if it works. Why? I've been there, and the problem with this common-sense idea is two-fold:
(1) Advertising pays based on the number of people that look at the ad. You lessen the value of the banners you still sell by allowing some of your customers to avoid them.
...AND...
(2) You just selected out the people with the most disposable income! The people still looking at the ads are the people that know how to ignore them or don't have the money to get rid of them, and therefore either won't or can't buy from you, the advertiser.
re: operator overloading.
I like operator overloading. However, you make a point that it's mostly "costmetic" but in two cases this "cosmetic" effect is really really important. The two cases:
(1) conversion operators
(2) the operator= (and copy constructor) which can be very useful in handling your own class instances as data types.
and fire, please, never use fire, it's far too dangerous.
Bohr thought the sun would continue to rise in the east. Heinsenberg was said to be uncertain.