Quite insightful. Another quip I have (about the story since I dn RTFA ) is that apparently the story's poster thinks that joining individuals into a live feedback net with each other will somehow erase individuality. The thing is that since we are not exact cell perfect clones of one another individuals will tend to excel in differing tasks and - given a wide enough array of tasks - roles will finally emerge. Now I'm not saying that there actually will be `ring leaders` but surely the individuality of each of the hive mind participants will come to be used in the fields it excels in forming a recognizable structure and disrupting total equality.
tl;dr version: The importance of your thoughts varies depending on the likeness of their field to your publicly recognized specialties.
The problem with the Cinema industry is that they had a perfectly fine recipe (2D cinema) and then started to fiddle with it until it was unrecognizable and in the meantime they have lost track of what they had started with in the first place.
Now let's hope wen can get some good Flicks on the theaters only in 2D!
Also a total recall and destruction of all 3D movies that were created in the past 2.5ish years would be nice as well! And a ban on stereoscopic film making to protect posterity from our ill fates maybe?
As already pointed out the god mode question was more like a call to arms.
Also, your premise is only correct for single player environments since in a multi player setting the server will kill your sorry bottom even if your client says you still have 1 quadrillion HP.
And since FPS games largely make sense only in multi player your remark was a bit redundant as well.
So 4 classes minimum? Well, it's not that bad also, is it?
What I wanted to point out is that a lot of people in the top percentile were also better qualified than the average Stanford student. I found a lot of people on there who are CS professionals in the classes (I participated in all 3 initial ones). Some even had done work on ai or ml systems but even if they hadn't the experience of 4 or 5 years in the field coupled with an agile mind gives such participants a good advantage compared to an average student.
Note, I'm not saying that all CS professionals are better than a Stanford student, just that there are very smart people in the field that didn't even consider going through college.
IIRC the kernel alone won't help you much with that. You would still have to run a big part of android itself. Also, I think most applications that are not device dependent (not location aware apps, not radios etc.) always had better counterparts in Desktop Linux land anyway. The last bit obviously is debatable.
I just can't get over the fact that even though Android "flourishes" as a FOSS project nothing is actually brought back to the rest of the FOSS community. More so FOSS has started to be drained of resources by more and more people jumping on the Android bandwagon. In stead of adding to the wider community Android is fastly moving to make it a mono culture.
At least meego, maemo and mer were giving back to or improving their respecitve projects.
All mobile devices I have seen with a modifiable bootloader weren't what you would call top of the line products. And there exactly lies my rant in. All mobile devices worth working on (except the now abandoned n900 and n9) are locked down into some sort of proprietary eco system, yes that's right I'm calling Google a proprietary eco system.
Great links. Thanks for tipping a nerd into the right direction. Unfortunately you make exactly my point. To go from a gumstix module to a tablet or wearable device is a long, long way. Long enough for me too to start pondering if it is worth it to dump my next year's free time onto creating one single device (not even pondering the costs).
No, it is not funny nor is it clever. It is only logical that the SONY execs responsible should be held responsible for their criminal activity as much as I would be held responsible should I perform a criminal activity.
The "it's doomed" blog post linked to by the story is actually very ill conceived, misleading and uninformed. Also for such a "Hot" article to have only 15 comments after 3 days on the net I would suggest people have disregarded it in general.
Boot 2 Gecko is being flamed very hard lately, mostly and obviously by Google and Apple advocates. I hope this much (albeit artificial) bad press won't hurt it.
Not only low end hardware. I can totally see this becoming the de facto tinkerer os now that the pure linux based os solutions (meego et al) have been abandoned.
If there is one thing Mozilla knows well is to make software that can be expanded by end users. I'm hopeful there will be way to load it up on high end devices as well, or that there will be a high end device based on it.
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Stop being ridiculous, the French don't drink beer!
Quite insightful. Another quip I have (about the story since I dn RTFA ) is that apparently the story's poster thinks that joining individuals into a live feedback net with each other will somehow erase individuality. The thing is that since we are not exact cell perfect clones of one another individuals will tend to excel in differing tasks and - given a wide enough array of tasks - roles will finally emerge. Now I'm not saying that there actually will be `ring leaders` but surely the individuality of each of the hive mind participants will come to be used in the fields it excels in forming a recognizable structure and disrupting total equality.
tl;dr version:
The importance of your thoughts varies depending on the likeness of their field to your publicly recognized specialties.
The problem with the Cinema industry is that they had a perfectly fine recipe (2D cinema) and then started to fiddle with it until it was unrecognizable and in the meantime they have lost track of what they had started with in the first place.
YES! Finally!
Now let's hope wen can get some good Flicks on the theaters only in 2D!
Also a total recall and destruction of all 3D movies that were created in the past 2.5ish years would be nice as well!
And a ban on stereoscopic film making to protect posterity from our ill fates maybe?
Yes but if game developers start supporting Linux what reason will there be for Microsoft and Apple's software division?
As already pointed out the god mode question was more like a call to arms.
Also, your premise is only correct for single player environments since in a multi player setting the server will kill your sorry bottom even if your client says you still have 1 quadrillion HP.
And since FPS games largely make sense only in multi player your remark was a bit redundant as well.
It is a fun reaction when I show folks how my netbook storage expands from a measly 250GB to 6.2TB when I'm connected to the Internet.
SSHFS has been around for years!
Wait, what? We call them lobbyists now?
Man things were sure easier when Adolf was around!
So 4 classes minimum? Well, it's not that bad also, is it?
What I wanted to point out is that a lot of people in the top percentile were also better qualified than the average Stanford student.
I found a lot of people on there who are CS professionals in the classes (I participated in all 3 initial ones). Some even had done work on ai or ml systems but even if they hadn't the experience of 4 or 5 years in the field coupled with an agile mind gives such participants a good advantage compared to an average student.
Note, I'm not saying that all CS professionals are better than a Stanford student, just that there are very smart people in the field that didn't even consider going through college.
Well, tbh when I first composed that comment I was actually only thinking of mobile devices.
Truth is arm servers could do great as caches or file servers.
Forget the article.
You are 6 levels abstracted from that.
IIRC the kernel alone won't help you much with that. You would still have to run a big part of android itself. Also, I think most applications that are not device dependent (not location aware apps, not radios etc.) always had better counterparts in Desktop Linux land anyway. The last bit obviously is debatable.
I just can't get over the fact that even though Android "flourishes" as a FOSS project nothing is actually brought back to the rest of the FOSS community. More so FOSS has started to be drained of resources by more and more people jumping on the Android bandwagon. In stead of adding to the wider community Android is fastly moving to make it a mono culture.
At least meego, maemo and mer were giving back to or improving their respecitve projects.
No.
There! Cited. ;-)
It is funny to be seeing dozens of ACs respond to my comments today but almost no actual humans.
And it isn't even as if the protrayed responses are offensive to the comunity, excep for being misleading of course.
No. That is completely wrong.
No android device to date has had a completely end user programmable boot loader.
Well, sort of.
All mobile devices I have seen with a modifiable bootloader weren't what you would call top of the line products.
And there exactly lies my rant in. All mobile devices worth working on (except the now abandoned n900 and n9)
are locked down into some sort of proprietary eco system, yes that's right I'm calling Google a proprietary eco
system.
It's plainly disappointing.
Great links. Thanks for tipping a nerd into the right direction. Unfortunately you make exactly my point. To go from a gumstix module to a tablet or wearable device is a long, long way. Long enough for me too to start pondering if it is worth it to dump my next year's free time onto creating one single device (not even pondering the costs).
Another pity is that (almost) no commercially available devices that will implement this chip will actually run a free OS....
Perhaps governments shouldn't be passing a bunch of new laws until they can start enforcing the ones they already have in a fair manner.
Oh now that wouldn't make sense now would it?
Ahh... wake up already! You are all criminals!
The only problem is that after the legals put us all into jail there won't be anybody around to make them dinner so they will starve.
Not that having potentially dangerous computer code is an offense. Were that true all scripts containing `rm -rf' would be legal offenses.
No, it is not funny nor is it clever. It is only logical that the SONY execs responsible should be held responsible for their criminal activity as much as I would be held responsible should I perform a criminal activity.
The "it's doomed" blog post linked to by the story is actually very ill conceived, misleading and uninformed.
Also for such a "Hot" article to have only 15 comments after 3 days on the net I would suggest people
have disregarded it in general.
Boot 2 Gecko is being flamed very hard lately, mostly and obviously by Google and Apple advocates.
I hope this much (albeit artificial) bad press won't hurt it.
Not only low end hardware. I can totally see this becoming the de facto tinkerer os now that the pure linux based os solutions (meego et al) have been abandoned.
If there is one thing Mozilla knows well is to make software that can be expanded by end users.
I'm hopeful there will be way to load it up on high end devices as well, or that there will be a high end device based on it.