Lol, right. I mean, companies would just love spending billions of dollars to develop something and then having a rival just pick it up and copy it. That would _totally_ spur innovation, dude!
This is fucking absurd. Just imagine if the law had no clearance to work in Science or technology. Think about how much more advanced the world would be if people could freely build on existing technology without fear of things like this.
What a backwards-ass world we live in, where innovation is stifled by greed. It's sad.
Do just like any other 'public' place would do - put up cameras and have them record however much space you can get away with. Let the people know, too. That will take care of half of them, the other half will (hopefully) be able to be reviewed.
Or, you could just walk around with a fully automatic AK-47 airsoft rifle. Hell, do that anyway. Nothing like sniping an unsuspecting gamer from the top of the stairs. And getting it on camera. =p
This day in age, where things like this (CG fakes) are easily cooked up and served to the masses makes the concept of "real" fade into a gray area. It's really sad for me to hear that things like this are being done - Why not, at the VERY least, let the people know officially that they weren't real fireworks? Why try to give people a false sense that anything at all you are presenting is real, when it isn't? People will understand the danger involved with whatever. It's not like people are going to be pissed off that there weren't huge fireworks. It's the Olympics - where everyone in the world get to come together and root for their locale.
I guess you really *can't* trust anything you see on TV - even the Olympics. That is sad.
If you write open source software to make a stand against Microsoft, all the power to you. But what happens, when the giant falls? Does your ambition fall with it? Does your software become neglected?
Oh no, Microsoft is gone - I have no reason to write quality code now!/me wonders if that was the case before 1979...
The idea that there is this one, monolithic Microsoft that's single-mindedly driven to crush all competition (beginning with open source)...
BEGINNING with?
Look - Nobody said anything about M$ being some huge evil monolithic consciousness. I was plainly talking about their (very) public track-record regarding their stance against open-source software. You're trying to show M$ has small-time departments with insightful, honest programmers - I agree 100%. There is no doubt in my mind that Microsoft employs some of the brightest, most motivated and insightful programmers out there.
That doesn't mean that the ones at the top are those kinds of people.
Listen, I hate to break this to you and *every damn person* (nothing personal, you're far from the only one) that thinks the mere mention of chairs whenever the topic of Steve Ballmer- or even just MS- comes up is funny... it's not.
Yes it is.
Secondly, most of the "jokes" aren't; they just mention chairs.
Which is all that's needed to rekindle the fire that apparently got Ballmer's ass so hot he had to throw it.
This shouldn't be mistaken for true group-shared humour. Whether it's funny is irrelevant. People don't even bother making true jokes about it any more, they just mention chairs as a shortcut. It's canned humour... it's cargo cult humour, because most of those jokes have lost sight of what was meant to be funny in the first place. They just go through the motions of mentioning Ballmer on the assumption that it's "funny".
Actually, something that's "funny" is based purely on individual perception. Given that most people around SD *still*, after 3 years, mention the Olympic event of chair-throwing (ha ha!), they still find humorous value in it. You can't tell someone that something isn't funny if they think it is. That's like telling someone "You don't like cheese." If they actually do like cheese, you're just trying to tell them what they like. Which is exactly what you're trying to do in your comment.
Do we actually think it's funny any more? Do we actually think that others find it funny any more? Or do we just all know that everyone else has implicitly agreed that this topic is considered funny?
Yes, yes, and no. Again, something is funny to someone when they think it's funny. Obviously, a LOT of people think that a balding, fat billionaire throwing a chair and screaming like a toddler because someone left their company for another, more honest and progressive company...well sh*t yeah, that's funny as hell!! Hahahahahaha!
Here are the plain, simple facts regarding this sudden "change of heart":
1) Microsoft has, up until this point, violently opposed the open-source model, community and underlying morals & ethics that sustain our "ecosystem" as they put it. They have used Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt, slander (and lots of PR/marketing money) to make open-source look inferior to their products. Remember, open-source is a "cancer".
2) Microsoft, since the beginning, has outright sabotaged other software companies' software, pushed (against their own customers no less) software onto their customers that only benefits them (WGA, Terminal server licensing server) and causes unjust amounts of headache for the people who purchase said software.
3) Speaking of Terminal Server, just a quick personal note from my recent experience: Microsoft intentionally limited Windows 2000 Server color depth to 256 colors for connecting devices (NT4 did NOT have this limitation). Windows 2003 Server touted features include 'Increased color depth in connecting devices'. This seems an awful lot to me as a conscious effort to cripple one version of their product, to be able to sell more of their next.
4) Microsoft is headed by a guy who got so butt hurt at an honest competitor that he threw a chair and started cursing.
---
The open source community must stand tall against Microsoft. Don't let the easily forgotten past dilute in your current glass of water - Microsoft has absolutely no intention of making an about face. They exist because they want to make MONEY. LOTS of money. And that's not bad, we all need money to survive - but Microsoft doesn't play by the rules. Never has, never will. I say we give them 10 years to prove their intentions (since it took them at least that long to put them in the position with the community in the first place) with the community. After that, maybe we'll feel more comfortable with letting the wolf into the sheep's domain.
Have you ever had to restore from backup? From time to time, things simply fail.
As a computer tech for over 10 years, yes. I've had to restore from backups before. That's what verification of your backups is for - to make sure it happened.
If you back up religiously, assuming you have the backups on some sort of removable media, why would recovering from them be impossible when data loss via electrical outage occur?
First of all...2 watts.... *with* wifi? Puh. lease. I'll dub this vaporware until they prove me wrong.
Secondly.. LTSP and thin-client computing in general are on their way in (fast) as the eco-friendly alternatives to traditional workstation/server model. The educational sector is one example that are jumping on the bandwagon - not only for power savings, but for central administration (and if Linux is used, which many schools I have been contracted from are excited about) and the nice "not-paying-M$-for-Vista" aspect.
"Cloud computing" is just another buzzword with no merit behind it. Thin-clients are solid, functional and are proven - and are improving every day to provide the functionality they weren't able to provide yesterday (such as synced sound/video output, storage facilities, peripheral support). In the future I'm sure LTSP & related projects will improve in the "retail" sector for at-home thin-client computing.
I don't see how learning to use a device like this will be any different.
Because you are consciously trying to alter the way your brain works (I.E. the specific output of brainwaves) to adhere to a device's calibration requirements.
Someone in the media said I.T. jobs are going to drop next year? They *MUST* be able to tell the future! =p
On a serious note, I'm glad I.T. jobs are going to decrease. Hopefully it will align with I.T. jobs demanding more expertise and more actual work getting done, instead of having a "cloud" (or "grid", if you will) of Windows-only support drones reading scripts to you over the phone while you try to get support for a purchased product.
I've been casually studying brainwaves and generally how the brain works for a couple of years. To see a device like this, that reads raw input regarding voltages/signal from the brain seems like something that will, as a lot of technologies in the past, only be launched as a video-gaming device.
From there, and as the technology matures, we can probably expect a LOT more direct brain -> computer functionality (think "Strange Days" movie as an extreme, although that was based around an OUTPUT to the brain).. Remember that Star Trek episode where they had that game that you hooked up to the brain and you had to maneuver the flying discs into the hole (I might not be remembering it correctly)?
Hopefully the NIA will be very closely monitored/tested as this type of technology gets more popular. Think about the people who modify their raw brain activity to calibrate these things - will it effect how they think when they're NOT using it?
In closing, the last thing we need is a bunch of SUV swerving dorks on the road with one of these things strapped on, trying to call their husbands/wives via the "Mind recognition dialing" feature.
Maybe it's just screaming for help? okay. . . okay, I'll get back in the VW bus. ..
It's sad to think that the mass majority of people think you're a dirty hippie when you say we're trashing our own planet. I guess, come the point of no return, people will then be saying "Wow, what insightful, in-tune-with-nature people those dirty pot smoking hippies actually are!" As they sit atop their 15MPG SUVs, clutching onto their iPods and wondering what will happen when the batteries for their cellphones lose charge - as the melted ice from the North Pole gently directs them to the center of the (new) oceanic floor.
Exactly. And even if they don't "officially" get revenue from something like that, there's always 'under the table'. Slashdot has a very valuable website, and there's no question that other companies would love to have a featured story linking to their website.
Not to say this is the truth, but it's definitely not out of the picture.
Morality is subjective, as is "meaningless", friend.
That aside, wouldn't it be nice to have relevant links to project pages directly responsible for the cool technology Slashdot is giving press to? Instead of a cookie-cutter article from a large news corp. that obviously is profiting off of a slashdotting?
Slashdot Mirror
Lol, right. I mean, companies would just love spending billions of dollars to develop something and then having a rival just pick it up and copy it. That would _totally_ spur innovation, dude!
Yeah, you're right. The concept of open sharing sure hasn't spurred innovation in the past...
Looks like SOMEONE has a case of the notgettingmyhumors! =p
This is fucking absurd. Just imagine if the law had no clearance to work in Science or technology. Think about how much more advanced the world would be if people could freely build on existing technology without fear of things like this.
What a backwards-ass world we live in, where innovation is stifled by greed. It's sad.
Do just like any other 'public' place would do - put up cameras and have them record however much space you can get away with. Let the people know, too. That will take care of half of them, the other half will (hopefully) be able to be reviewed.
Or, you could just walk around with a fully automatic AK-47 airsoft rifle. Hell, do that anyway. Nothing like sniping an unsuspecting gamer from the top of the stairs. And getting it on camera. =p
That's interesting, where can you find evidence of this?
This day in age, where things like this (CG fakes) are easily cooked up and served to the masses makes the concept of "real" fade into a gray area. It's really sad for me to hear that things like this are being done - Why not, at the VERY least, let the people know officially that they weren't real fireworks? Why try to give people a false sense that anything at all you are presenting is real, when it isn't? People will understand the danger involved with whatever. It's not like people are going to be pissed off that there weren't huge fireworks. It's the Olympics - where everyone in the world get to come together and root for their locale.
I guess you really *can't* trust anything you see on TV - even the Olympics. That is sad.
And as we all know, trying to ban something just makes it multiply like crazy
Very true.
If you write open source software to make a stand against Microsoft, all the power to you. But what happens, when the giant falls? Does your ambition fall with it? Does your software become neglected?
Oh no, Microsoft is gone - I have no reason to write quality code now! /me wonders if that was the case before 1979...
The idea that there is this one, monolithic Microsoft that's single-mindedly driven to crush all competition (beginning with open source)...
BEGINNING with?
Look - Nobody said anything about M$ being some huge evil monolithic consciousness. I was plainly talking about their (very) public track-record regarding their stance against open-source software. You're trying to show M$ has small-time departments with insightful, honest programmers - I agree 100%. There is no doubt in my mind that Microsoft employs some of the brightest, most motivated and insightful programmers out there.
That doesn't mean that the ones at the top are those kinds of people.
Listen, I hate to break this to you and *every damn person* (nothing personal, you're far from the only one) that thinks the mere mention of chairs whenever the topic of Steve Ballmer- or even just MS- comes up is funny... it's not.
Yes it is.
Secondly, most of the "jokes" aren't; they just mention chairs.
Which is all that's needed to rekindle the fire that apparently got Ballmer's ass so hot he had to throw it.
This shouldn't be mistaken for true group-shared humour. Whether it's funny is irrelevant. People don't even bother making true jokes about it any more, they just mention chairs as a shortcut. It's canned humour... it's cargo cult humour, because most of those jokes have lost sight of what was meant to be funny in the first place. They just go through the motions of mentioning Ballmer on the assumption that it's "funny".
Actually, something that's "funny" is based purely on individual perception. Given that most people around SD *still*, after 3 years, mention the Olympic event of chair-throwing (ha ha!), they still find humorous value in it. You can't tell someone that something isn't funny if they think it is. That's like telling someone "You don't like cheese." If they actually do like cheese, you're just trying to tell them what they like. Which is exactly what you're trying to do in your comment.
Do we actually think it's funny any more? Do we actually think that others find it funny any more? Or do we just all know that everyone else has implicitly agreed that this topic is considered funny?
Yes, yes, and no. Again, something is funny to someone when they think it's funny. Obviously, a LOT of people think that a balding, fat billionaire throwing a chair and screaming like a toddler because someone left their company for another, more honest and progressive company...well sh*t yeah, that's funny as hell!! Hahahahahaha!
Here are the plain, simple facts regarding this sudden "change of heart":
1) Microsoft has, up until this point, violently opposed the open-source model, community and underlying morals & ethics that sustain our "ecosystem" as they put it. They have used Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt, slander (and lots of PR/marketing money) to make open-source look inferior to their products. Remember, open-source is a "cancer".
2) Microsoft, since the beginning, has outright sabotaged other software companies' software, pushed (against their own customers no less) software onto their customers that only benefits them (WGA, Terminal server licensing server) and causes unjust amounts of headache for the people who purchase said software.
3) Speaking of Terminal Server, just a quick personal note from my recent experience: Microsoft intentionally limited Windows 2000 Server color depth to 256 colors for connecting devices (NT4 did NOT have this limitation). Windows 2003 Server touted features include 'Increased color depth in connecting devices'. This seems an awful lot to me as a conscious effort to cripple one version of their product, to be able to sell more of their next.
4) Microsoft is headed by a guy who got so butt hurt at an honest competitor that he threw a chair and started cursing.
---
The open source community must stand tall against Microsoft. Don't let the easily forgotten past dilute in your current glass of water - Microsoft has absolutely no intention of making an about face. They exist because they want to make MONEY. LOTS of money. And that's not bad, we all need money to survive - but Microsoft doesn't play by the rules. Never has, never will. I say we give them 10 years to prove their intentions (since it took them at least that long to put them in the position with the community in the first place) with the community. After that, maybe we'll feel more comfortable with letting the wolf into the sheep's domain.
Have you ever had to restore from backup? From time to time, things simply fail.
As a computer tech for over 10 years, yes. I've had to restore from backups before. That's what verification of your backups is for - to make sure it happened.
If you back up religiously, assuming you have the backups on some sort of removable media, why would recovering from them be impossible when data loss via electrical outage occur?
Dur-durdur!
First of all...2 watts.... *with* wifi? Puh. lease. I'll dub this vaporware until they prove me wrong.
Secondly.. LTSP and thin-client computing in general are on their way in (fast) as the eco-friendly alternatives to traditional workstation/server model. The educational sector is one example that are jumping on the bandwagon - not only for power savings, but for central administration (and if Linux is used, which many schools I have been contracted from are excited about) and the nice "not-paying-M$-for-Vista" aspect.
"Cloud computing" is just another buzzword with no merit behind it. Thin-clients are solid, functional and are proven - and are improving every day to provide the functionality they weren't able to provide yesterday (such as synced sound/video output, storage facilities, peripheral support). In the future I'm sure LTSP & related projects will improve in the "retail" sector for at-home thin-client computing.
I don't see how learning to use a device like this will be any different.
Because you are consciously trying to alter the way your brain works (I.E. the specific output of brainwaves) to adhere to a device's calibration requirements.
Someone in the media said I.T. jobs are going to drop next year? They *MUST* be able to tell the future! =p
On a serious note, I'm glad I.T. jobs are going to decrease. Hopefully it will align with I.T. jobs demanding more expertise and more actual work getting done, instead of having a "cloud" (or "grid", if you will) of Windows-only support drones reading scripts to you over the phone while you try to get support for a purchased product.
I've been casually studying brainwaves and generally how the brain works for a couple of years. To see a device like this, that reads raw input regarding voltages/signal from the brain seems like something that will, as a lot of technologies in the past, only be launched as a video-gaming device.
From there, and as the technology matures, we can probably expect a LOT more direct brain -> computer functionality (think "Strange Days" movie as an extreme, although that was based around an OUTPUT to the brain).. Remember that Star Trek episode where they had that game that you hooked up to the brain and you had to maneuver the flying discs into the hole (I might not be remembering it correctly)?
Hopefully the NIA will be very closely monitored/tested as this type of technology gets more popular. Think about the people who modify their raw brain activity to calibrate these things - will it effect how they think when they're NOT using it?
In closing, the last thing we need is a bunch of SUV swerving dorks on the road with one of these things strapped on, trying to call their husbands/wives via the "Mind recognition dialing" feature.
the future of how we do things.
"That giant squid ain't messin' round!"
See title.
Maybe it's just screaming for help? .
okay. . . okay, I'll get back in the VW bus. .
It's sad to think that the mass majority of people think you're a dirty hippie when you say we're trashing our own planet. I guess, come the point of no return, people will then be saying "Wow, what insightful, in-tune-with-nature people those dirty pot smoking hippies actually are!" As they sit atop their 15MPG SUVs, clutching onto their iPods and wondering what will happen when the batteries for their cellphones lose charge - as the melted ice from the North Pole gently directs them to the center of the (new) oceanic floor.
Lather, rinse, repeat.
Exactly. And even if they don't "officially" get revenue from something like that, there's always 'under the table'. Slashdot has a very valuable website, and there's no question that other companies would love to have a featured story linking to their website.
Not to say this is the truth, but it's definitely not out of the picture.
Morality is subjective, as is "meaningless", friend.
That aside, wouldn't it be nice to have relevant links to project pages directly responsible for the cool technology Slashdot is giving press to? Instead of a cookie-cutter article from a large news corp. that obviously is profiting off of a slashdotting?
All power corrupts, my friend. Even on Slashdot.
Tell that to Queen Dopple-poppolus!
Gooyiit!