We all know that video game addiction can reach some pretty amazing levels. Even way back in the early days of Multi-User-Dungeons (MUDs) I knew some people who were so addicted to these games that they wouldn't leave the house for weeks just to play them non-stop. With VR entering the picture how deep will the addiction and weirdness go?
Right now for any reasonably popular multi-user game there are huge subcultures on youtube, reddit and elsewhere dedicated to the finest intricacies of the game and literally thousands of hours of recorded game play. With VR I wonder in what weird ways will this all intensify.
What about the social aspects of this? Are people really going to VR helmets at Starbucks or other public settings?
Healthcare spending in the U.S is already double, as a percentage of GDP, as any other industrialized country. Hard to believe, but spending more money is not the solution!
You know the whole Ad Business relies on a trusted client security model. The client is trusted to be looking at your ads and not clicking on them if it's not interested. Now that someone has started to do wide scale hacking of that client it's no longer trusted. It's amazing they made it this far with the whole thing.hanging together.
I have been following the Syrian Civil War and reading http://reddit.com/r/syriancivi... is about the best there is. It's got a lot better content than anything they write in the New York Times or any other mainstream news. It's basically the perfect news feed: Lots of different opinions from all sides. Occasional analysis, minute by minute updates, etc. I can't imagine how a newspaper could do a better job.
Agreed, an alternate title: "How science fiction is or isn't meeting our goals as a propaganda tool for 2015's approved list of progressive causes". The writer obviously doesn't have any science background nor has he read much sci-fi. It's such a third rate article. Why is this even on Slashdot?
Just like the last financial crisis, whoever owns the derivatives on the AAA Mortgage Backed Securities on all that Alderon Property, that will never be paid back, is going to make quadrillions of credits.
Ross Perot's "Great Sucking Sound" in reverse is starting to show up everywhere as the trillions we printed and sent out the trade deficit to China and elsewhere over the last 20 years is now boomeranging back into any possible hard asset class that isn't nailed down. Same goes for bay area real estate. Hopefully the money won't be excessively dumb.
They should sell the technology to the makers of RealDoll, the hyper-realistic sex doll. They could charge a ton for an anamatronic version that could talk dirty.
I have a little inconspicuous black piece of electrical tape over my webcam. I take it off whenever I need to video conference, which is not very often. I just don't get why they don't put a small manual shutter over the webcam on laptops. I guess grandma wouldn't figure out how to operate it or something.
The self driving car does not recognize its moral imperative to try to move out of the way if it is stopped and a car is trying to hit it. Even if that means breaking the law slightly, by , for instance moving slightly into the intersection.
We will now be witness to a very large controlled experiment.
I have all ready arranged an explanation for you guys when Russia shows lower rates of disease X and scientists proclaim the "Russia Paradox":
1. There is better disease reporting in the west. 2. Russian statistics are doctored by corrupt officials. 3. Moderate vodka consumption has health benefits.
In the future, whenever anything bad happens, people will ascribe it to the actions of a rogue AI. This will be great for corporate and government plausible deniability because they could program the computer to do exactly what it did but they'll just say that AI is too powerful and too complex for it to be controllable by us mere humans and we just have to live with the occasional bad outcomes. The high-frequency trading industry already tries to slide by with this excuse saying their market manipulations are too complicated for regulators to understand and are the results of emergent behavior of their algorithms.
If I was living in some remote rural town, say in southeast Utah that was 100 miles from the nearest Walmart and suddenly they start offering free delivery via self driving car on everything in the store, I think that would be kind of cool.
What about having a self driving camper with satellite wifi? You could sit in the back and do your digital nomad thing while the self driving car figured everything else and drove you all sorts of cool places.
I have been taking Lyft "Line" around and it's sweet.. They take you just about anywhere for $5. Yes, you have to stop and pick someone else up or drop them off usually but it's so damned cheap! This is one of those too good to be true things that will only last till the end of the tech bubble. Reminds me of getting Kozmo.com to deliver a snickers bar to your door during the last bubble.
Performance hasn't increased that much over the last couple of years. Mainly power consumption and die size decreased and GPUs have been integrated, most laptops come with SSDs, but other than that things just aren't that much faster. It's not like the late 90s where you went from a Pentium 66mhz to 3ghz in practically no time.
Not all power use is residential. Something like an aluminum smelting plant can use 200MW of energy, so they would run at peak capacity during the day when costs were lower and take capacity off line at night.
What causes the emotion of happiness? Serotonin? Dopamine? Endorphins? But what do these chemicals do except trigger receptor sites or cause further chemical reactions. What is being modulated to create that emotion? Is it an EEG pattern in the brain perhaps that modulates something else? The experience of consciousness is still a mystery...
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We all know that video game addiction can reach some pretty amazing levels. Even way back in the early days of Multi-User-Dungeons (MUDs) I knew some people who were so addicted to these games that they wouldn't leave the house for weeks just to play them non-stop. With VR entering the picture how deep will the addiction and weirdness go?
Right now for any reasonably popular multi-user game there are huge subcultures on youtube, reddit and elsewhere dedicated to the finest intricacies of the game and literally thousands of hours of recorded game play. With VR I wonder in what weird ways will this all intensify.
What about the social aspects of this? Are people really going to VR helmets at Starbucks or other public settings?
Healthcare spending in the U.S is already double, as a percentage of GDP, as any other industrialized country. Hard to believe, but spending more money is not the solution!
We should ask him to get the CTO of Bitcoin to implement the spec and to break his contract with the mining cartel. That will fix everything. /s
You know the whole Ad Business relies on a trusted client security model. The client is trusted to be looking at your ads and not clicking on them if it's not interested. Now that someone has started to do wide scale hacking of that client it's no longer trusted. It's amazing they made it this far with the whole thing.hanging together.
I have been following the Syrian Civil War and reading http://reddit.com/r/syriancivi... is about the best there is. It's got a lot better content than anything they write in the New York Times or any other mainstream news. It's basically the perfect news feed: Lots of different opinions from all sides. Occasional analysis, minute by minute updates, etc. I can't imagine how a newspaper could do a better job.
Agreed, an alternate title: "How science fiction is or isn't meeting our goals as a propaganda tool for 2015's approved list of progressive causes". The writer obviously doesn't have any science background nor has he read much sci-fi. It's such a third rate article. Why is this even on Slashdot?
Just like the last financial crisis, whoever owns the derivatives on the AAA Mortgage Backed Securities on all that Alderon Property, that will never be paid back, is going to make quadrillions of credits.
Ross Perot's "Great Sucking Sound" in reverse is starting to show up everywhere as the trillions we printed and sent out the trade deficit to China and elsewhere over the last 20 years is now boomeranging back into any possible hard asset class that isn't nailed down. Same goes for bay area real estate. Hopefully the money won't be excessively dumb.
It's as if all progress in the humanities has ended by fiat.
I bet a lot of people who have contaminated well water thanks to fracking are going to love this!
They should sell the technology to the makers of RealDoll, the hyper-realistic sex doll. They could charge a ton for an anamatronic version that could talk dirty.
I have a little inconspicuous black piece of electrical tape over my webcam. I take it off whenever I need to video conference, which is not very often. I just don't get why they don't put a small manual shutter over the webcam on laptops. I guess grandma wouldn't figure out how to operate it or something.
So, if I understand correctly, if you get a rootkit in your SMM you have to throw out your computer?
The self driving car does not recognize its moral imperative to try to move out of the way if it is stopped and a car is trying to hit it. Even if that means breaking the law slightly, by , for instance moving slightly into the intersection.
Putin just states that GMOs will be forbidden in Russia. This is not even a joke:
http://sustainablepulse.com/20...
We will now be witness to a very large controlled experiment.
I have all ready arranged an explanation for you guys when Russia shows lower rates of disease X and scientists proclaim the "Russia Paradox":
1. There is better disease reporting in the west.
2. Russian statistics are doctored by corrupt officials.
3. Moderate vodka consumption has health benefits.
In the future, whenever anything bad happens, people will ascribe it to the actions of a rogue AI. This will be great for corporate and government plausible deniability because they could program the computer to do exactly what it did but they'll just say that AI is too powerful and too complex for it to be controllable by us mere humans and we just have to live with the occasional bad outcomes. The high-frequency trading industry already tries to slide by with this excuse saying their market manipulations are too complicated for regulators to understand and are the results of emergent behavior of their algorithms.
"If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever." - George Orwell
"If you want a vision of the future, imagine a feminist monster truck rally - forever" - Me after watching Mad Max
If I was living in some remote rural town, say in southeast Utah that was 100 miles from the nearest Walmart and suddenly they start offering free delivery via self driving car on everything in the store, I think that would be kind of cool.
What about having a self driving camper with satellite wifi? You could sit in the back and do your digital nomad thing while the self driving car figured everything else and drove you all sorts of cool places.
That guy is going to be pissed when we don't get cold supercomputers with billions of times more power than the brain using reversible computing.
Spam, SEO, etc. People lie in meta data. Semantic publishing was clearly doomed when the meta keywords tag turned into a big spam pit.
I have been taking Lyft "Line" around and it's sweet.. They take you just about anywhere for $5. Yes, you have to stop and pick someone else up or drop them off usually but it's so damned cheap! This is one of those too good to be true things that will only last till the end of the tech bubble. Reminds me of getting Kozmo.com to deliver a snickers bar to your door during the last bubble.
Performance hasn't increased that much over the last couple of years. Mainly power consumption and die size decreased and GPUs have been integrated, most laptops come with SSDs, but other than that things just aren't that much faster. It's not like the late 90s where you went from a Pentium 66mhz to 3ghz in practically no time.
Not all power use is residential. Something like an aluminum smelting plant can use 200MW of energy, so they would run at peak capacity during the day when costs were lower and take capacity off line at night.
Good find! Here's an interesting study on how over-activation of Toll-Like Receptor 5 by certain bacteria was highly correlated with obesity:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pu...
What causes the emotion of happiness? Serotonin? Dopamine? Endorphins? But what do these chemicals do except trigger receptor sites or cause further chemical reactions. What is being modulated to create that emotion? Is it an EEG pattern in the brain perhaps that modulates something else? The experience of consciousness is still a mystery...