...(and a human camuflaged as a crane from a crane).
I am now picturing a terrified North Korean soldier, on stilts, with a big orange cone strapped to his face, being shooed into the DMZ by his superiors as a test of the new systems' pattern recognition ability.
Of course, with IBM's patent portfolio, they can match you sword-for-sword and still have fifteen thousand left to swing at you after you've run out.
Which won't protect them from any of those patent litigation firms, but then there's still the sheer megatonnage of IBM's legal department to contend with.
We've also found that there's a category of customers that say, "Give me a brand experience, advertise it to me on television; I want to be part of the digital music revolution, and that solution [PlaysForSure] doesn't work for me."
I would give him a dollar of my very own money if he could produce even one customer, let alone a category of them, who have said "That solution where all the music I buy will play on all the devices I own? That doesn't work for me -- do you have something less convenient?"
The article doesn't mention what happens to the hot exhaust after it passes through the turbine. Does this mean that have not tackled this problem yet? This could give a whole new meaning to the whole "laptop frying your balls".
Well, more like air-popping, really, so at least they'll be low-fat. Which, I concede, will likely not be much of a comfort.
Damn right, screw that. I don't know who this Franklin guy was, but he sounds like one of those whiny socialist hippies who doesn't have any idea how America works.
The point (theoretically, at least) is to reward hard work and innovation.
No. The point, made clear and explicit in the Constitution, is to "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts." Rewarding hard work and innovation is a means to that end, not the end itself.
So, they'd like to sell me a disk that won't play in my car stereo or my portable CD player, with video content I doubt I'd ever watch and pre-ripped DRM'd tracks I can't use, most likely for more money.
Wow -- where do I sign up?
And what really cracks me up is they think that, not only will I want to buy new music in this format, but that I'm going to rush out and replace my existing CDs.
Another company, d3o Labs, has developed a similar substance, but they've been adapting it to sports applications -- ski racing suits, hockey pads, and sneakers.
Who's to say how much smarter you are than a 15th century monk?
More precisely: my brain is no different than the brain that was in the head of a 15th century monk. The only difference between a 15th century monk and me is the world we grew up in. We're discussing different brains, which I think I was pretty clear on in my post. Trying to pin down a definition of intelligence is largely off-topic -- the agents under discussion will have brains that can do anything my brain can do, and lots of things that it can't, and I don't have any such advantage over a 15th century monk.
From a 15th century monk's perspective, today's curve is vertical. Of course to us it's clearly not.
That's really not what's under discussion here -- I'm not more intelligent than a 15th-century monk. Putting that monk in the modern world would cause severe culture shock because of the disconnect between the world and his existing frames of reference. He'd have to run like mad to try to catch up, because he didn't have his whole life to become used to it, but a bright person could probably manage it.
What the futurists are talking about is a different level of intelligence. A person (machine, augmented human, whatever) who has more basic potential than a human, in the way a human has more basic potential than a cat. Someone for whom advanced calculus solutions are as intuitively obvious and immediate as "2+2" is for you. Someone who remembers anything they've ever seen or heard the way you can remember what someone just said to you a moment ago. Someone who can picture deformations of multi-dimensional topographies as easily as you can imagine a checkerboard folding in the middle. And even those examples are pretty poor, coming as they are from an average human intelligence -- probably only the first step along the path these guys are trying to think about.
...final break between the human and chimpanzee species did not come until 6.3 million years ago at the earliest, and probably less than 5.4 million years ago.
They should go to the mall sometime and revise their estimate accordingly.
Wow...Meiselman, Denlea, Packman, Carton & Eberz managed to fit human rights in China, child pornography, and availabilty of porn to children in one sentence. A veritable trifecta of outrage.
It's actually a bit surprising that they missed terrorists.
...let me suggest he sweeten the deal a bit... In addition to the laptop, give the winner a tiny link to his (or her) site on any Slashdot page using his design.
Meh. Now, if the Great Taco went and hunted down a 3-digit/. ID that was no longer being used and put that in the prize package...
We got to beta test the book, so we got early copies from the photocopy centre. I think for the semester it ended up around $CDN 30. Which is pretty good considering the price that the book is selling for now. He even gave prizes at the end of the semester for students who found the most mistakes.
So, he got a room full of students to pay him $30 to proofread his book, and you came away thinking it was a good deal? This man could sell BLTs on a street corner in Islamabad.
Hm. Yeah, okay, I'll buy that. It wouldn't be my preference (most of the tasks I do daily are either keyboard-dominant where I don't have to reach for the trackball very often, or vice-versa), but I can certainly see how someone who did a lot of mixed work could prefer this kind of keyboard. Thankee kindly.
I'm not being sarcastic here -- I'm honestly not sure what group of users is being targetted here. It seems that the only people who might find this useful are people who don't have a flat surface in front of them to rest a keyboard on. That might be laptop users, but if there's nowhere to rest the laptop, you can't use it anyway -- and while it can be argued that typing on the laptop while it's sitting on your lap is uncomfortable, I'm not sure balancing the laptop using only your knees while holding this thing over it is going to be any better. So, if not laptop users, then PDA users -- except this thing is larger than most of the PDAs commonly in use. Tablet users walking around the shop floor? If you're using both hands to hold the controller, what's holding up the tablet?
This is an honest question: who is this thing for?
It isn't a matter of sour grapes (well, except for some people, maybe) but it IS a matter of finding out what the hell is going on.
That's the key, I think. The questions of tampering and transparency are entirely separate, but are constantly conflated. And, to a large extent, the transparency issue is the more immediate one. Whether Bush stole the election or not is, at this late date, largely moot -- we can't rewind the clock, and while I'd very much like to see a conga line into prison if there was election tampering, right now I think it's more important that we can trust the results of the next election, and those after them.
I often feel that I must only speak of it in hushed whispers. It is hard because I really don't want to make people feel uncomfortable but at the same time I have no idea why it should make anyone feel uncomfortable.
The problem, I think, is that while there are many people of faith, the quiet ones are, you perceive, not the ones whose voices rise above the crowd. The ones that get heard are the shrill idiots, and as a result other people tend to assume that everyone with faith central to their lives is a shrill idiot. Which, obviously, doesn't work out so well for those of you who aren't shrill idiots, don't think that faith gives you a license to dismiss science, and do have something constructive to say in this debate.
Hey, CSI -- the 80's called, and they want their inane movie-of-the-week plot back.
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I think MMO's are replacing most table top games...
Which, to me, is very strange. The thing I love most about tabletop RPGs is the way that the game world can (depending on the way your GM likes to run) mold itself to be appropriate to the players and their characters, and the way that characters tend to be exceptional (again, depending on how your GM runs). Our GM made it very clear that adventurers were special -- the dozen or so people born to be the world-shakers of their generation. In most of the MMO games I've heard about (I confess I haven't played any, so this impression may be entirely uninformed), you have tons and tons of "special" people. Which is fine, obviously, if that's what you like, but I wouldn't think the two kinds of play would appeal to the same kinds of players.
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...(and a human camuflaged as a crane from a crane).
I am now picturing a terrified North Korean soldier, on stilts, with a big orange cone strapped to his face, being shooed into the DMZ by his superiors as a test of the new systems' pattern recognition ability.
"Live by the sword, die by the sword."
Of course, with IBM's patent portfolio, they can match you sword-for-sword and still have fifteen thousand left to swing at you after you've run out.
Which won't protect them from any of those patent litigation firms, but then there's still the sheer megatonnage of IBM's legal department to contend with.
(I can hear their servers weeping in the corner right now).
Oh, they're not weeping -- that sound you hear is the server's molten case dripping out of the rack.
We've also found that there's a category of customers that say, "Give me a brand experience, advertise it to me on television; I want to be part of the digital music revolution, and that solution [PlaysForSure] doesn't work for me."
I would give him a dollar of my very own money if he could produce even one customer, let alone a category of them, who have said "That solution where all the music I buy will play on all the devices I own? That doesn't work for me -- do you have something less convenient?"
The article doesn't mention what happens to the hot exhaust after it passes through the turbine. Does this mean that have not tackled this problem yet? This could give a whole new meaning to the whole "laptop frying your balls".
Well, more like air-popping, really, so at least they'll be low-fat. Which, I concede, will likely not be much of a comfort.
But screw that, right?
Damn right, screw that. I don't know who this Franklin guy was, but he sounds like one of those whiny socialist hippies who doesn't have any idea how America works.
The point (theoretically, at least) is to reward hard work and innovation.
No. The point, made clear and explicit in the Constitution, is to "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts." Rewarding hard work and innovation is a means to that end, not the end itself.
So, they'd like to sell me a disk that won't play in my car stereo or my portable CD player, with video content I doubt I'd ever watch and pre-ripped DRM'd tracks I can't use, most likely for more money.
Wow -- where do I sign up?
And what really cracks me up is they think that, not only will I want to buy new music in this format, but that I'm going to rush out and replace my existing CDs.
Another company, d3o Labs, has developed a similar substance, but they've been adapting it to sports applications -- ski racing suits, hockey pads, and sneakers.
Who's to say how much smarter you are than a 15th century monk?
More precisely: my brain is no different than the brain that was in the head of a 15th century monk. The only difference between a 15th century monk and me is the world we grew up in. We're discussing different brains, which I think I was pretty clear on in my post. Trying to pin down a definition of intelligence is largely off-topic -- the agents under discussion will have brains that can do anything my brain can do, and lots of things that it can't, and I don't have any such advantage over a 15th century monk.
From a 15th century monk's perspective, today's curve is vertical. Of course to us it's clearly not.
That's really not what's under discussion here -- I'm not more intelligent than a 15th-century monk. Putting that monk in the modern world would cause severe culture shock because of the disconnect between the world and his existing frames of reference. He'd have to run like mad to try to catch up, because he didn't have his whole life to become used to it, but a bright person could probably manage it.
What the futurists are talking about is a different level of intelligence. A person (machine, augmented human, whatever) who has more basic potential than a human, in the way a human has more basic potential than a cat. Someone for whom advanced calculus solutions are as intuitively obvious and immediate as "2+2" is for you. Someone who remembers anything they've ever seen or heard the way you can remember what someone just said to you a moment ago. Someone who can picture deformations of multi-dimensional topographies as easily as you can imagine a checkerboard folding in the middle. And even those examples are pretty poor, coming as they are from an average human intelligence -- probably only the first step along the path these guys are trying to think about.
...they've proven time and time again that the US has no monopoly on idiocy.
Only because, ironically, the patent is taking awhile to get through the review process.
...final break between the human and chimpanzee species did not come until 6.3 million years ago at the earliest, and probably less than 5.4 million years ago.
They should go to the mall sometime and revise their estimate accordingly.
Wow...Meiselman, Denlea, Packman, Carton & Eberz managed to fit human rights in China, child pornography, and availabilty of porn to children in one sentence. A veritable trifecta of outrage.
It's actually a bit surprising that they missed terrorists.
Why would you want to bother keeping an anachronistic collection of shiny discs, when you could have anything you want, instantly.
Because I don't want to pay every time I watch a movie on my TV.
...let me suggest he sweeten the deal a bit...
/. ID that was no longer being used and put that in the prize package...
In addition to the laptop, give the winner a tiny link to his (or her) site on any Slashdot page using his design.
Meh. Now, if the Great Taco went and hunted down a 3-digit
We got to beta test the book, so we got early copies from the photocopy centre. I think for the semester it ended up around $CDN 30. Which is pretty good considering the price that the book is selling for now. He even gave prizes at the end of the semester for students who found the most mistakes.
So, he got a room full of students to pay him $30 to proofread his book, and you came away thinking it was a good deal? This man could sell BLTs on a street corner in Islamabad.
Hm. Yeah, okay, I'll buy that. It wouldn't be my preference (most of the tasks I do daily are either keyboard-dominant where I don't have to reach for the trackball very often, or vice-versa), but I can certainly see how someone who did a lot of mixed work could prefer this kind of keyboard. Thankee kindly.
Having this handheld controller/keyboard would allow me to put a monitor up to my face, while comfortably typing with the controller near my lap.
Man -- wish I could moderate a discussion I'm taking part in. +4 Informative, methinks.
I'm not being sarcastic here -- I'm honestly not sure what group of users is being targetted here. It seems that the only people who might find this useful are people who don't have a flat surface in front of them to rest a keyboard on. That might be laptop users, but if there's nowhere to rest the laptop, you can't use it anyway -- and while it can be argued that typing on the laptop while it's sitting on your lap is uncomfortable, I'm not sure balancing the laptop using only your knees while holding this thing over it is going to be any better. So, if not laptop users, then PDA users -- except this thing is larger than most of the PDAs commonly in use. Tablet users walking around the shop floor? If you're using both hands to hold the controller, what's holding up the tablet?
This is an honest question: who is this thing for?
It isn't a matter of sour grapes (well, except for some people, maybe) but it IS a matter of finding out what the hell is going on.
That's the key, I think. The questions of tampering and transparency are entirely separate, but are constantly conflated. And, to a large extent, the transparency issue is the more immediate one. Whether Bush stole the election or not is, at this late date, largely moot -- we can't rewind the clock, and while I'd very much like to see a conga line into prison if there was election tampering, right now I think it's more important that we can trust the results of the next election, and those after them.
"TROOOOOOOLL! Troll in the dungeon!"
I often feel that I must only speak of it in hushed whispers. It is hard because I really don't want to make people feel uncomfortable but at the same time I have no idea why it should make anyone feel uncomfortable.
The problem, I think, is that while there are many people of faith, the quiet ones are, you perceive, not the ones whose voices rise above the crowd. The ones that get heard are the shrill idiots, and as a result other people tend to assume that everyone with faith central to their lives is a shrill idiot. Which, obviously, doesn't work out so well for those of you who aren't shrill idiots, don't think that faith gives you a license to dismiss science, and do have something constructive to say in this debate.
Hey, CSI -- the 80's called, and they want their inane movie-of-the-week plot back.
I think MMO's are replacing most table top games...
Which, to me, is very strange. The thing I love most about tabletop RPGs is the way that the game world can (depending on the way your GM likes to run) mold itself to be appropriate to the players and their characters, and the way that characters tend to be exceptional (again, depending on how your GM runs). Our GM made it very clear that adventurers were special -- the dozen or so people born to be the world-shakers of their generation. In most of the MMO games I've heard about (I confess I haven't played any, so this impression may be entirely uninformed), you have tons and tons of "special" people. Which is fine, obviously, if that's what you like, but I wouldn't think the two kinds of play would appeal to the same kinds of players.