And I can see where you could be doing real, direct work via simulation -- airline pilot or drone pilot, where the simulation is just to keep humans from doing the work in real space, but where the "game" is actually happening in real time and in real life (ie, Predator drone pilots).
Let's take that one step further into an actual 'doppelganger' situation, where a robot of some kind feeds 3d visual (and auditory) data via sensors to a control center, and your actions are recorded and imitated by the robot. You could retrieve resources from places a human would instantly perish. You could travel to the depths of the ocean. You could work on a space station without having to worry about the vacuum or the lack of gravity. Robots could do literally all the preparation work required to build a base for humans on Mars. The possibilities are endless if the technology develops.
Here I am being whimsical about an Apple product. Lame.
I'm wondering if this will have productive applications that couldn't also double as video games, i.e. flight simulators and combat programs. Could this be (excuse the bad pun) a new "dimension" in interface design for those of us that use computers from day to day?
Maybe you should read the post in question before posting a smart-ass remark.
I'm wondering if this will have productive applications that couldn't also double as video games, i.e. flight simulators and combat programs. Could this be (excuse the bad pun) a new "dimension" in interface design for those of us that use computers from day to day?
If it is, my money says the Linux crowd will employ it first, Apple will make it sexy, and Windows will blatantly copy it. In that order.
Read David Brooks' column this week. He talks about how instead of revealing what Assange wanted, which was a government rife with corruption and internal power struggles, it simply shows a world with frank views on the positions of leaders around the globe.
My problem with him is when he opens up to our enemies items like schematics for devices that might save American lives from armored vehicles, or as in the last round, names of undercover agents and their posts. He has put American lives in jeopardy, rendered valuab]e resources useless, and for that should at the very least end up in Guantanamo and at the most be shot on sight.
Remember, it's not money itself that is the "root of much evil", but the love of money. This child exhibited that love.
And I'm sure that when I was eight, I would have traded my parents away for a Super Nintendo. Kids tend to be superficial and don't have the self-reflective capabilities that adults have; you have no idea how this child will turn out based on scrutiny of one sentence he said when he was a pre-pubescent child. So what's your point?
This I did not know, but it makes sense. That way they could have control over who has access to their technology; it's actually kind of brilliant. It also explains why the unlicensed games were all those funky colors...
The quest for money is the most empty and fruitless thing in life but our society idolizes it beyond everything else.
You say that as though it's fact. People are achievement-driven, not money driven. Money is just part of the equation of a successful life. I'd say getting a patent when you're eight is a good first step towards success. I don't know about you, but where I grew up the kids who were at the top of my class were more often than not the best athletes (and the richest, too). If I were a betting man, I'd say that kid's probably spending more time with his friends and enjoying his childhood than you think. His dad's just trying to take give him a head start in life; I see no fault in that.
They did it before them, sure, but they were hardly the first. Off the top of my head, I seem to remember Nintendo doing the same thing with the NES/Famicom in the late 1980s (that is, only allowing licensed titles to be used in their system, thereby receiving access through their special lockout chip).
"Advancement of society" is completely subjective. Maybe somebody someday will spend the time he normally used picking up his charging cell phone off the floor coming up with an idea for curing cancer. I'm just happy the kid has a bright future ahead of him.
There was a time where insulting a child was off limits (particularly one you know nothing about), but I know that's long in the past...
"the most patents" - almost as useful as "cleanest rest rooms"
This is how we keep money flowing in the US economy. Companies pour money into R&D to copy and patent their and other companies' ideas, then the other companies sue the company for infringing on their patents, which in turn build up litigation costs. The victor in court pours the settlement/award money back into R&D and the process starts all over again.
How is one supposed to forget what is bullshit in the first place? Your comments are beneath contempt. The Marines fight and die to protect this country and for that they have my eternal gratitude and respect (as opposed to foul-mouthed anonymous little jerkoffs on the internet, which garner the opposite).
Pakistan I'd worry about; not so much them using the nukes as their government being toppled and [insert Islamic fundamentalist jihad group here] obtaining them.
Why, so you can spin it and beat me over the head with it? I'm not playing your game.
It's an attempt to make a failure of a President look good and give excuses as to why he could do very little other than keep a seat warm and get treated like the royalty he really wanted to be Bush is a egotistic black-hating terrorist blah blah BLAHAHGH
There is no evidence to back up any of what you're asserting. Where Obama's votes have been ALL along party lines, Bush enjoyed bipartisan support for most of his major initiatives for the first six years. He accomplished a hell of a lot more than Obama has, and with more support (that is, if you consider Obamacare and the stimulus package "accomplishments").
After Woodward's book came out, Bartlett said, he went back to the files. "I looked at every draft of the speech, every draft that was sent to the principals, the Cabinet secretaries," he said. "There was never 'mission accomplished' in any draft of the speech." Rumsfeld could not be reached for comment yesterday.
Second article:
The White House later acknowledged that it had provided the banner at the Navy's request.
Third article simply states that the banner is going back to the Bush library. So what?
Fourth article:
Navy and administration sources said that though the banner was the Navy's idea, the White House actually made it.
Fifth article is an opinion piece in a blog with no sources. How is that a citation exactly?
There is not one mention in any of those first four articles even insinuating that Bush personally ordered that sign. The debate was whether or not his staff ordered it, and it seems as though it was the Navy's idea and the White House made it.
I'm not impressed by your skills at copying and pasting random articles from a Google search into a browser. Don't think I can't see through your bullshit, you fucking snake.
Of course he claims to have worked for minorities, but Bush and his father only worked for one set of minorities: the filthy rich.
Your ridiculous platitudes make me sick. Show me one shred of evidence to back up your claim that he only cares about the rich. This is a man who spent us into a hole providing AIDS funds for Africa. Tax cuts and deregulation are just what Republicans (as I am damn proud to be) believe is best for the economy. Let businesses keep more money so they can spend it on growing and hiring. If you want to spin that and say it's about letting the filthy rich keep more money, that's your right, but don't think I buy into it for one second.
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And I can see where you could be doing real, direct work via simulation -- airline pilot or drone pilot, where the simulation is just to keep humans from doing the work in real space, but where the "game" is actually happening in real time and in real life (ie, Predator drone pilots).
Let's take that one step further into an actual 'doppelganger' situation, where a robot of some kind feeds 3d visual (and auditory) data via sensors to a control center, and your actions are recorded and imitated by the robot. You could retrieve resources from places a human would instantly perish. You could travel to the depths of the ocean. You could work on a space station without having to worry about the vacuum or the lack of gravity. Robots could do literally all the preparation work required to build a base for humans on Mars. The possibilities are endless if the technology develops.
Here I am being whimsical about an Apple product. Lame.
I'm wondering if this will have productive applications that couldn't also double as video games, i.e. flight simulators and combat programs. Could this be (excuse the bad pun) a new "dimension" in interface design for those of us that use computers from day to day?
Maybe you should read the post in question before posting a smart-ass remark.
Did you read any more than the last sentence of my post? It was about developing a UI using this new technology, not about the technology itself.
Why the heck did I have to type out the whole link. No paste for Apple computers?
First 3D eye-tracking TVs. Then paste. Get your priorities straight.
in 3D mother Russia, TV watches you
I'm wondering if this will have productive applications that couldn't also double as video games, i.e. flight simulators and combat programs. Could this be (excuse the bad pun) a new "dimension" in interface design for those of us that use computers from day to day?
If it is, my money says the Linux crowd will employ it first, Apple will make it sexy, and Windows will blatantly copy it. In that order.
I say "feel free to kick us out at any time."
Oh wait.
* excuse me, save American lives from IEDs in Armored Vehicles
Read David Brooks' column this week. He talks about how instead of revealing what Assange wanted, which was a government rife with corruption and internal power struggles, it simply shows a world with frank views on the positions of leaders around the globe.
My problem with him is when he opens up to our enemies items like schematics for devices that might save American lives from armored vehicles, or as in the last round, names of undercover agents and their posts. He has put American lives in jeopardy, rendered valuab]e resources useless, and for that should at the very least end up in Guantanamo and at the most be shot on sight.
This seems to be blatant character assassination and should be beneath an international political body.
In the oft-repeated phrase from Splinter Cell 3: "Take Him Down! Any Way You Can!"
Somebody needs to get rid of this asshole now before his self-righteous narcissism puts anyone else in harm's way.
Remember, it's not money itself that is the "root of much evil", but the love of money. This child exhibited that love.
And I'm sure that when I was eight, I would have traded my parents away for a Super Nintendo. Kids tend to be superficial and don't have the self-reflective capabilities that adults have; you have no idea how this child will turn out based on scrutiny of one sentence he said when he was a pre-pubescent child. So what's your point?
plus they manufactured all the game carts
This I did not know, but it makes sense. That way they could have control over who has access to their technology; it's actually kind of brilliant. It also explains why the unlicensed games were all those funky colors...
The quest for money is the most empty and fruitless thing in life but our society idolizes it beyond everything else.
You say that as though it's fact. People are achievement-driven, not money driven. Money is just part of the equation of a successful life. I'd say getting a patent when you're eight is a good first step towards success. I don't know about you, but where I grew up the kids who were at the top of my class were more often than not the best athletes (and the richest, too). If I were a betting man, I'd say that kid's probably spending more time with his friends and enjoying his childhood than you think. His dad's just trying to take give him a head start in life; I see no fault in that.
Why would they copy Apple in this area?
They did it before them, sure, but they were hardly the first. Off the top of my head, I seem to remember Nintendo doing the same thing with the NES/Famicom in the late 1980s (that is, only allowing licensed titles to be used in their system, thereby receiving access through their special lockout chip).
Ah, the obligatory "this isn't news" first post. I've come to love you so...
Please learn to appreciate or at least recognize sarcasm when you see it. Kthx.
"Advancement of society" is completely subjective. Maybe somebody someday will spend the time he normally used picking up his charging cell phone off the floor coming up with an idea for curing cancer. I'm just happy the kid has a bright future ahead of him.
There was a time where insulting a child was off limits (particularly one you know nothing about), but I know that's long in the past...
"the most patents" - almost as useful as "cleanest rest rooms"
This is how we keep money flowing in the US economy. Companies pour money into R&D to copy and patent their and other companies' ideas, then the other companies sue the company for infringing on their patents, which in turn build up litigation costs. The victor in court pours the settlement/award money back into R&D and the process starts all over again.
How is one supposed to forget what is bullshit in the first place? Your comments are beneath contempt. The Marines fight and die to protect this country and for that they have my eternal gratitude and respect (as opposed to foul-mouthed anonymous little jerkoffs on the internet, which garner the opposite).
is this this the first time a successful virus has been created to attack a specific target?
/me takes time machine to college dorm in 1987
/me grabs floppy and makes batch file with "@echo off / Format C: /s" in it, and names it something auspicious
/me replaces roommate's copy of "King's Quest" with malicious disk
/me giggles like an idiot when roommate wipes hard drive inadvertently
Short answer: nope.
Pakistan I'd worry about; not so much them using the nukes as their government being toppled and [insert Islamic fundamentalist jihad group here] obtaining them.
Israel's cool. We can trust them.
If you honestly think the Yanks pulled this off, you're an Idiot.
Indeed. Everyone knows it was Israel who did it. Thanks to their efforts, the world can breathe easier for a few more months.
Go on then, give me his good reason.
Why, so you can spin it and beat me over the head with it? I'm not playing your game.
It's an attempt to make a failure of a President look good and give excuses as to why he could do very little other than keep a seat warm and get treated like the royalty he really wanted to be Bush is a egotistic black-hating terrorist blah blah BLAHAHGH
There is no evidence to back up any of what you're asserting. Where Obama's votes have been ALL along party lines, Bush enjoyed bipartisan support for most of his major initiatives for the first six years. He accomplished a hell of a lot more than Obama has, and with more support (that is, if you consider Obamacare and the stimulus package "accomplishments").
First article:
After Woodward's book came out, Bartlett said, he went back to the files. "I looked at every draft of the speech, every draft that was sent to the principals, the Cabinet secretaries," he said. "There was never 'mission accomplished' in any draft of the speech." Rumsfeld could not be reached for comment yesterday.
Second article:
The White House later acknowledged that it had provided the banner at the Navy's request.
Third article simply states that the banner is going back to the Bush library. So what?
Fourth article:
Navy and administration sources said that though the banner was the Navy's idea, the White House actually made it.
Fifth article is an opinion piece in a blog with no sources. How is that a citation exactly?
There is not one mention in any of those first four articles even insinuating that Bush personally ordered that sign. The debate was whether or not his staff ordered it, and it seems as though it was the Navy's idea and the White House made it.
I'm not impressed by your skills at copying and pasting random articles from a Google search into a browser. Don't think I can't see through your bullshit, you fucking snake.
Of course he claims to have worked for minorities, but Bush and his father only worked for one set of minorities: the filthy rich.
Your ridiculous platitudes make me sick. Show me one shred of evidence to back up your claim that he only cares about the rich. This is a man who spent us into a hole providing AIDS funds for Africa. Tax cuts and deregulation are just what Republicans (as I am damn proud to be) believe is best for the economy. Let businesses keep more money so they can spend it on growing and hiring. If you want to spin that and say it's about letting the filthy rich keep more money, that's your right, but don't think I buy into it for one second.