Fuzzy logic will be key in making this happen. Martial arts often require precise movements in certain patterns when moves are being displayed. I think that robots will be able to perform this very well, more perfect than humans in a sense. In real practical world use, it takes split second timing to decide what the next move should be in order to defend or attack in various combinations. Blend this in with the many styles (algorithms) and you have quite a bit of programming. It could give "programming for security" a whole new meaning.
Still, I can see a future ten years from now where this will be completely possible and, like in the Matrix, one would be able to upload Jujitsu, Drunken Boxing, or Tae Kwon Do into the fighter. The only question is whether the robots will fit into today's arenas, and will the robots object to being made to beat the shit out of each other at the pleasure of their organic masters. Will they, for one, welcome their "bags of mostly water" overlords?
When the network is down there is no "large network". With 600 minutes most don't need rollover...others can get larger plans. I don't consider lack of rollover to be a showstopper.
This means that local power generation will not contribute as much to the overall grid and each local area will need to have a large power generating plant "in their back yard" where most don't want it.
If the power networks are mismanaged it doesn't matter how much power there is. Lack of redundancy will mean you will still have loss of power from the sunny states to the not-so-sunny states when some Al Qaeda boys figure out how to topple a tower or someone merely stares dumbfounded during a grid misbalance.
Good to see cheap power that can be had on almost anywhere on the planet. Someone with the $$$ still has to build the plants and infrastructure to deliver the power.
Think of how quickly a marketing campaign gets old. I've seen cases of Coke lately with Star Wars Episode 1 (not 2!) on the side. What if this could be kept in sync with the latest marketing campaign so that cases on the display shelves all showed the latest logo or ad? RFID can keep track of what the product is and only display the ad for that particular brand out of the thousands that might be playing on shelves that day. Imagine a stack of sode cubes on the shelf displaying ads and leasing time to the supermarket to show promos. Little subtleties like an old trademark character occasionally winking at the customers as they pass by. Imagine the Trojan condoms horse dancing around on the box. Then hook that up to some sort of RFID for people and the shelves can recognize you a la Minority Report. Fantastic reminders like "Say Mr. Jones, isn't it time you refilled that gonorreah medication?" follow you around the store.
Gaaaaahhhh! Noooooooo! Were counting the days until this was going into effect! How the hell else do I get it across to these people that I do not want their encyclopedias, mortgages, credit cards, or what other crap they are pushing?!?
Short of rationalizing with these people and trying to get laws passed there isn't much else you can do with these people, spammers and telemarketers alike, other than physically remove them and their lunacy from the planet. It just comes down to how much you really hate them. Imagine if Fight Club's Tyler Durden had been all about taking down spammers and telemarketers.
Folks, don't make fun. This really is an important leap in computing. It means Java applications will only be considered the light-truck of programming platform rather than the SUV. Imagine a fast responsive Java interface. Imagine how fast that old HotJava browser will be.
Don't be so sentimental. Maybe there are better things to look at, like the virgin ground beneath the ice. Just because we value that scene, it doesn't mean they will or will not find something of more value in their time. You also don't know what you've got until it arrives.
Agreed! Somewhere people are buying faster processors solely for the purpose of making their Java app run right. Is it a lot...it is surely more than zero. Faster systems = more power = more wasted energy = more wasted $$$. That electricity for powering that bloated run time environment comes from burning something somewhere in the world. Somewhere a Saudi prince is smiling.
Yet we know for sure that you are a friggin moron. Stop wallowing in your ignorance and read something that will actually educate you. There is more to the Internet besides the Black Helicopters newsletter.
Two days is a lot to be incommunicado. We're not talking about protocol changes locking anyone out. Like you said they can code around it. They'll surely take the next step of certificates to make sure only their client stays. You're not getting around that without paying for one of their approved certs.
Forests contain 80% of the atmospheric carbon and 40% of the ground carbon. Is there some math we can do there? Mine is obviously off because I had quickly assumed they were both the same quantity, which is not the case at all.
If we're interested in maintaining status quo: This leaves 60% of the ground carbon which should stay locked in the ground. This leaves 20% of atmospheric carbon which should not be added to. Additionally, carbon added to the high atmosphere will never be touched by plants, just like carbon deep deep down in the earth would never be absorbed by them.
Bullshit. Plants absorb quite a bit of carbon from the ground. That's a lot of old carbon that's released there. They estimate about 30% of the plant is old carbon.
Who is regulating how many nuts are burned in these plants? Is this a real limit, or just some pie in the sky model the proponents use? Burning is burning. Are you actually saying that plants absorb no carbon from the ground? That is carbon that was locked in rock form and not spread across the atmosphere. And it *is* absorbed by plants. From http://www.sciencenet.org.uk/database/earth/natura lenvironment/e00077d.html:
The greatest stores of carbon are believed to be the world's oceans and fossil fuel reserves. On land, carbon is stored in ground litter, soils and plants. Forests are thought to contain about 80% of all above-ground and 40% of all below-ground terrestrial organic carbon.
Keep in mind that at one point that C *was* in the biosystem, if it's the pressurized remains of precambrian forests and animals. It's just that the C belongs in compressed contained form on the surface rather than scattered across the atmosphere. Just like O3 is good in the upper atmosphere but bad in the lower atmosphere.
But the planet itself doesn't care about C or O3 levels...it only matters to the things living on it.
So if I burn up half the forests right now you would not mind; the other half will use it anyway, right? I doubt this is true, or the tree huggers would not be hugging so many trees. The fact is, if they are burning they are still causing damage. It's not a "good thing" just because it's "not oil". Don't mix geopolitical with environmental.
This is like pure electrical cars...someone is burning something somewhere to produce that electricity!! Hyric cars have it right, but we can do better.
The whole reason that Trillian exists is that AIM, YIM, and MSN refused to standardize on protocols that would enable clients to access competing networks. Trillian fills that void. It's very important for support amd sales people to have instant contact to their customers and fellow workers and these are some good tools for that. Who wants to use five different chat clients when you can use a single application?
You're wrong about MSN and pals doing this only because of Trillian. They are doing it because the new clients are going to offer ad revenue and by closing the network they can guarantee their clients will provide it as a meterable service. This is just a new way of capturing eyeballs. If they could do it every time you saved a file, they would give you a burst of advertisements right in the face. You're seeing generosity where there is none. The free services are on their way out the toll booths are going up. The only question is who is going to be left out and will access to information again be only available for the ones that can afford it?
If the people running InfoSeek or Altavista had any brains, they'd strike a deal with the 3rd party systems and campaign against the storm of banner ads that are going to strike the recentl upgraded clients. They are the only ones left with bandwidth to handle this. Still, I'm not sure it would last since someone needs to pay for that bandwidth and the administration andcoding of the service.
Let's just asdmit that we're going to be seeing someone's ads or paying a fee. The days of free Internet goodies are OVER. For pulling a fast one on all the 3rd party clients, I'd rather it was not AIM or YIM. MSN was at least good enough to talk to some of the developers about licensing rather than immediately cutting people off. Paying for Trillian Pro was painful enough for someone used to only going for freeware, but I think it's the coming thing and will unfortunately close a lot of people out. The AIM and YIM enterprise editions are evidence of this. AIM and YIM personal edition are next along with AIM and YIM Pro. Product payment tiering is coming.
What will replace IM? I think a lot of people will go back to slower things like email and blogging on their home pages. Did anyone really have anything to say over IM that was so urgent they could not call? It's great for international communications, but email does just as well in most cases.
What, are you some kind of IM snob? "Oooo, BlahIM znot 1337 enuff for me. I only cyber people that use MSNBCIM. Did u heer about Fred...hez so Yahoo..wut a queerhead. Maybe one day I'll actually talk to a living human being or possible screw something other than my palm."
OMFG, I hope I can talk to you whatever the fuck it is you chat on! That would so friggin rock!
I agree the link should just die. I can see the industry that would revolve around failed link lookups with appearances sold to the highest bidder. This would make search engine ranking look like nothing. Everyone types URLs wrong. Plus, I don't think there is any way rotating registrars on failed links could legitimately cover all the smaller registrars or their affliate programs, thus shutting out the smaller guys. That would imply a central organization that controls the rotation...Verisign?
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Fuzzy logic will be key in making this happen. Martial arts often require precise movements in certain patterns when moves are being displayed. I think that robots will be able to perform this very well, more perfect than humans in a sense. In real practical world use, it takes split second timing to decide what the next move should be in order to defend or attack in various combinations. Blend this in with the many styles (algorithms) and you have quite a bit of programming. It could give "programming for security" a whole new meaning.
Still, I can see a future ten years from now where this will be completely possible and, like in the Matrix, one would be able to upload Jujitsu, Drunken Boxing, or Tae Kwon Do into the fighter. The only question is whether the robots will fit into today's arenas, and will the robots object to being made to beat the shit out of each other at the pleasure of their organic masters. Will they, for one, welcome their "bags of mostly water" overlords?
When the network is down there is no "large network". With 600 minutes most don't need rollover...others can get larger plans. I don't consider lack of rollover to be a showstopper.
This means that local power generation will not contribute as much to the overall grid and each local area will need to have a large power generating plant "in their back yard" where most don't want it.
As if that was a bad thing. Who needs to mobilize forces when you just need a mirror-satellite to reflect back onto Iran? Bzzzt! Problem solved.
Sounds like this would only need to be hooked up with LIDAR LIDAR to compensate.
If the power networks are mismanaged it doesn't matter how much power there is. Lack of redundancy will mean you will still have loss of power from the sunny states to the not-so-sunny states when some Al Qaeda boys figure out how to topple a tower or someone merely stares dumbfounded during a grid misbalance.
Good to see cheap power that can be had on almost anywhere on the planet. Someone with the $$$ still has to build the plants and infrastructure to deliver the power.
How does that compare to TMobile's US$39.99/mo for 600 minutes plus unlimited nights and weekends AND A NETWORK THAT STILL OPERATES?!?
Think of how quickly a marketing campaign gets old. I've seen cases of Coke lately with Star Wars Episode 1 (not 2!) on the side. What if this could be kept in sync with the latest marketing campaign so that cases on the display shelves all showed the latest logo or ad? RFID can keep track of what the product is and only display the ad for that particular brand out of the thousands that might be playing on shelves that day. Imagine a stack of sode cubes on the shelf displaying ads and leasing time to the supermarket to show promos. Little subtleties like an old trademark character occasionally winking at the customers as they pass by. Imagine the Trojan condoms horse dancing around on the box. Then hook that up to some sort of RFID for people and the shelves can recognize you a la Minority Report. Fantastic reminders like "Say Mr. Jones, isn't it time you refilled that gonorreah medication?" follow you around the store.
Gaaaaahhhh! Noooooooo! Were counting the days until this was going into effect! How the hell else do I get it across to these people that I do not want their encyclopedias, mortgages, credit cards, or what other crap they are pushing?!?
Short of rationalizing with these people and trying to get laws passed there isn't much else you can do with these people, spammers and telemarketers alike, other than physically remove them and their lunacy from the planet. It just comes down to how much you really hate them. Imagine if Fight Club's Tyler Durden had been all about taking down spammers and telemarketers.
Folks, don't make fun. This really is an important leap in computing. It means Java applications will only be considered the light-truck of programming platform rather than the SUV. Imagine a fast responsive Java interface. Imagine how fast that old HotJava browser will be.
Don't be so sentimental. Maybe there are better things to look at, like the virgin ground beneath the ice. Just because we value that scene, it doesn't mean they will or will not find something of more value in their time. You also don't know what you've got until it arrives.
It pollutes the environment and wastes gas...
Agreed! Somewhere people are buying faster processors solely for the purpose of making their Java app run right. Is it a lot...it is surely more than zero. Faster systems = more power = more wasted energy = more wasted $$$. That electricity for powering that bloated run time environment comes from burning something somewhere in the world. Somewhere a Saudi prince is smiling.
Yet we know for sure that you are a friggin moron. Stop wallowing in your ignorance and read something that will actually educate you. There is more to the Internet besides the Black Helicopters newsletter.
I don't either. I use Trillian so I only have one IM client. That doesn't mean that YIM sucks.
Two days is a lot to be incommunicado. We're not talking about protocol changes locking anyone out. Like you said they can code around it. They'll surely take the next step of certificates to make sure only their client stays. You're not getting around that without paying for one of their approved certs.
Forests contain 80% of the atmospheric carbon and 40% of the ground carbon. Is there some math we can do there? Mine is obviously off because I had quickly assumed they were both the same quantity, which is not the case at all.
If we're interested in maintaining status quo:
This leaves 60% of the ground carbon which should stay locked in the ground. This leaves 20% of atmospheric carbon which should not be added to. Additionally, carbon added to the high atmosphere will never be touched by plants, just like carbon deep deep down in the earth would never be absorbed by them.
Bullshit. Plants absorb quite a bit of carbon from the ground. That's a lot of old carbon that's released there. They estimate about 30% of the plant is old carbon.
a lenvironment/e00077d.html
http://www.sciencenet.org.uk/database/earth/natur
This is a good read on carbon issues.
Keep in mind that at one point that C *was* in the biosystem, if it's the pressurized remains of precambrian forests and animals. It's just that the C belongs in compressed contained form on the surface rather than scattered across the atmosphere. Just like O3 is good in the upper atmosphere but bad in the lower atmosphere.
But the planet itself doesn't care about C or O3 levels...it only matters to the things living on it.
So if I burn up half the forests right now you would not mind; the other half will use it anyway, right? I doubt this is true, or the tree huggers would not be hugging so many trees. The fact is, if they are burning they are still causing damage. It's not a "good thing" just because it's "not oil". Don't mix geopolitical with environmental.
This is like pure electrical cars...someone is burning something somewhere to produce that electricity!! Hyric cars have it right, but we can do better.
Petition all you want. It'll fill up the time that you're not playing HL2
WHILE I AM!!!!
The whole reason that Trillian exists is that AIM, YIM, and MSN refused to standardize on protocols that would enable clients to access competing networks. Trillian fills that void. It's very important for support amd sales people to have instant contact to their customers and fellow workers and these are some good tools for that. Who wants to use five different chat clients when you can use a single application?
You're wrong about MSN and pals doing this only because of Trillian. They are doing it because the new clients are going to offer ad revenue and by closing the network they can guarantee their clients will provide it as a meterable service. This is just a new way of capturing eyeballs. If they could do it every time you saved a file, they would give you a burst of advertisements right in the face. You're seeing generosity where there is none. The free services are on their way out the toll booths are going up. The only question is who is going to be left out and will access to information again be only available for the ones that can afford it?
If the people running InfoSeek or Altavista had any brains, they'd strike a deal with the 3rd party systems and campaign against the storm of banner ads that are going to strike the recentl upgraded clients. They are the only ones left with bandwidth to handle this. Still, I'm not sure it would last since someone needs to pay for that bandwidth and the administration andcoding of the service.
Let's just asdmit that we're going to be seeing someone's ads or paying a fee. The days of free Internet goodies are OVER. For pulling a fast one on all the 3rd party clients, I'd rather it was not AIM or YIM. MSN was at least good enough to talk to some of the developers about licensing rather than immediately cutting people off. Paying for Trillian Pro was painful enough for someone used to only going for freeware, but I think it's the coming thing and will unfortunately close a lot of people out. The AIM and YIM enterprise editions are evidence of this. AIM and YIM personal edition are next along with AIM and YIM Pro. Product payment tiering is coming.
What will replace IM? I think a lot of people will go back to slower things like email and blogging on their home pages. Did anyone really have anything to say over IM that was so urgent they could not call? It's great for international communications, but email does just as well in most cases.
What, are you some kind of IM snob? "Oooo, BlahIM znot 1337 enuff for me. I only cyber people that use MSNBCIM. Did u heer about Fred...hez so Yahoo..wut a queerhead. Maybe one day I'll actually talk to a living human being or possible screw something other than my palm."
OMFG, I hope I can talk to you whatever the fuck it is you chat on! That would so friggin rock!
Fuckwad.
I agree the link should just die. I can see the industry that would revolve around failed link lookups with appearances sold to the highest bidder. This would make search engine ranking look like nothing. Everyone types URLs wrong. Plus, I don't think there is any way rotating registrars on failed links could legitimately cover all the smaller registrars or their affliate programs, thus shutting out the smaller guys. That would imply a central organization that controls the rotation...Verisign?