Kurzweil is a madman and he is full of shit. This is no troll.
The guy says people have historically underestimated the future. This is painfully not true. Think about it: HAL, Flying cars, personal helicopters, nuclear reactors in your house, big settlements on mars.
People ALWAYS take a current trend and "overestimate" what that tech can do. Kurzweil is one of them.
Why?
Because that is what gets peoples attention. This year we have already seen Intel researchers write scientific papers about why Moore's law will end soon. Now these are the people that have everything to gain from Moore's law continuing.
Kurzweil is just a crazy optimist, and his articles are sensationalist, higlhly speculative and more often than not: factually incorrect.
That's exactly why they model the avatar after you, so you can see how it fits.
You could virtually try on 15 sets of clothes in a minute, and then go try the one you settled for IRL. And it would always give you the correct sizes to try out..
Sounds like a great deal to me. I hate shopping...
It's not any better than altavista used to be, back when people complained "When you search for things, you always get tons of useless crap"..
The only good thing about google is that it often lists the official page of something first. But if you aren't looking for the official page, you are out of luck..
Google became popular because it listed extremely relevant results directly on the first results page, but it is in my experience a completely different beast nowadays..
I once visited mp3.com when they we're still going strong. They had something like 400 employees and very luxurious buildings with graffitti on the walls and everything.
They were having a talent show there, and I expected to see some of the thousand of bands they had signed up performing. Unfortunately, it was the employees themselves who were the talent. With the bosses performing their own poems and so on.
I feel sorry for the guys working there, as you could smell the money being burnt everywhere you went, and they probably had no idea they were already dead.
This was almost 3 years ago, and back then they had already been working for six months on the next generation music-selling tech that they are currently advertising on their site.
The point to all this is: Don't employ 400 people unless you are generating huge amounts of cash.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, but what came first?
If people weren't in front of their computers 24/7 maybe they wouldn't be isolated and lonely..
Just a thought..
Pretty big, eh?
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http://fun.from.hell.pl/2003-06-09/male-copy-pa
Before anyone makes a pun about me not being factually correct.
I meant last year.
Doh.
Kurzweil is a madman and he is full of shit. This is no troll.
The guy says people have historically underestimated the future. This is painfully not true. Think about it: HAL, Flying cars, personal helicopters, nuclear reactors in your house, big settlements on mars.
People ALWAYS take a current trend and "overestimate" what that tech can do. Kurzweil is one of them.
Why?
Because that is what gets peoples attention. This year we have already seen Intel researchers write scientific papers about why Moore's law will end soon. Now these are the people that have everything to gain from Moore's law continuing.
Kurzweil is just a crazy optimist, and his articles are sensationalist, higlhly speculative and more often than not: factually incorrect.
Umm.. am I still on Slashdot? what the hell happened here?
there's a video of this around you know.
That's exactly why they model the avatar after you, so you can see how it fits.
You could virtually try on 15 sets of clothes in a minute, and then go try the one you settled for IRL. And it would always give you the correct sizes to try out..
Sounds like a great deal to me. I hate shopping...
On a related note, I found this on urbandictionary.com:
/. adds)t erm=dar l&f=1
d ar l+mcbride&f=1
m cb ride&f=1
:)
(remove the spaces that
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=
It seems the search engine on urbandictionary.com is so smart, you don't even have to add a definition to get the right search results!
The current definitions:
No definitions found for "mcbride."
Suggestions:
jackhole
8 votes
a dumbshit
Fucker quit being a jackhole!
tea bag
40 votes
(v). To lower your body as to dip the testicles into her mouth as the woman is tounging the scrotum.
Hey man, you should have seen the look on that bitches face when I tea bagged her.
I suggest not to mess with the definitions as these suggestions are even funnier than the real thing. Thanks!
It's official: MS fears us.
I bet they're reading this.
Hello Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer and Martin Taylor.
Send me a hundred thousand dollars and I will start posting in favor of windows.
It's a good deal and you know it!
Thanks.
POOFF
What are the long-term consequences of doing this?
1) Less mines
2) More weed
lol
:(
Lowtax, is that you?
Wish I had mod points
I like the last scene..
where the camera holder gets stabbed in the back of the head by Lucas security goons.
Current Job: Unemployed
Yeah, that would look really good..
those pics look like textures. Nice gfx and all but the poly count is pretty low. And no sky box!
I'm starting to think that these journalists make these factual errors to get peoples attention.
Have you noticed they always put a much bigger number than it was supposed to be? The error is never a lesser number...
hotmail.com
At least it was an indian guy who created it. Sold it to microsoft for $400 million..
Bash it all you want, hotmail was pretty revolutionary and is probably used by hundreds of millions of people..
It's not any better than altavista used to be, back when people complained "When you search for things, you always get tons of useless crap"..
The only good thing about google is that it often lists the official page of something first. But if you aren't looking for the official page, you are out of luck..
Google became popular because it listed extremely relevant results directly on the first results page, but it is in my experience a completely different beast nowadays..
Tiny Mars..OR X-Box huge rover..place bets NOW!
r .j pg
http://astrobio.net/articles/images/spirit_pola
I once visited mp3.com when they we're still going strong. They had something like 400 employees and very luxurious buildings with graffitti on the walls and everything.
They were having a talent show there, and I expected to see some of the thousand of bands they had signed up performing. Unfortunately, it was the employees themselves who were the talent. With the bosses performing their own poems and so on.
I feel sorry for the guys working there, as you could smell the money being burnt everywhere you went, and they probably had no idea they were already dead.
This was almost 3 years ago, and back then they had already been working for six months on the next generation music-selling tech that they are currently advertising on their site.
The point to all this is: Don't employ 400 people unless you are generating huge amounts of cash.
So where can I download this map of the universe and fly my x-wing around the habitable zone?
What are you smoking? Do you even know what goatse is?
I've been wanting sub-queries and stored procedures for a couple of years now.
This is sweet, professional level db programming for free might have an incredible impact on the web
Don't forget that most of your favorite sites probably use MySQL.
They probably count "theaters" in africa, that consist of a 13" television set, a video casette, and most probably an extremely low entrance fee.
At least, that's how some of the theatres looked like in a documentary about bollywood that I saw on Discovery.
Id like to be a field investigator for muff on.