"And I'm not sure that a physical model will ever be totally replaced by a networked model, even for things you get to keep like downloaded songs."
It will the day when ethernet is truly ether. When transparent, distributed, p2p networking is always on everywhere. Then the physical model will be replaced. There will be no need for it. All content will be on the "grid". And you will have access to it all the time.
Even better will be when you and I are on the "grid". But that's a few more years down the road...
"1. A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm."
Doesn't seem that a robot police officer programmed with rule #1 would be too effective in stoping one human being intent on causing harm to another hjman being.
Ahhh, I can see it now...
Police Robot: Scanning... Police Robot: ##Alert## Helpless human pedestrian in danger by unknown assilant Police Robot: Analysis... [Possible mugging] Police Robot: Acquiring unknown assilant... Police Robot: ##ERROR## Unknown assilant is human Police Robot: Disengage... Police Robot: Resume acquire donuts mode...
I was just wondering... If all the sites that MS runs were operated as seperate entities who had to acutally pay for the MS software they use, would they still run Windows? Heck, would they still even be able to pay other bills?
...though it is incredibly hard to resist the urge to accidentally just close the Opera window... accidentally closing all 30 tabs I have open...
If you're on Windows, try Crazy Browser. It's kind of a shell on top of IE which adds tabbed browsing, popup blocking, etc.
One of the cool things it does is remember all the tabs you had open when it quits. When you start it again, all the tabs you had open are still there. It's very handy and there's no danger in quiting the browser (accidental or not).
I wonder what the folks at Google are thinking when that shows up as a high-ranking source of traffic... I also wonder why somebody felt that was neccesary to even put. Ah well.
It's free, open source, comes with an unlimited license and has the support and backing of one of the largest enterprise application comapnies.
It runs on most platforms including Linux, Solaris, other *NIX, and Windows. It has interfaces for C/C++, Java, Perl, ODBC, Python, and PHP.
You benifit from a proven, highly scalable, SQL compliant database that continues to be developed and maintained by an actual company which gets revenue from paying customers who use its other non-free products which are built on top of SAP DB.
SAP made it open source because they feel, "...that times have changed, that databases are becoming part of the basic technology infrastructure, and as such, they need not be proprietary or complex. SAP sees that the time is right to drive open-source development of database technology and contribute to this effort by making SAP DB Open Source. Open-source development is revolutionizing the way software is created, as shown by the success of Linux, and SAP - which is already providing the first comprehensive e-business solution on Linux - wants to encourage this development."
I whole heartedly agree. The state-of-the-art in GUI or human computer interface technologies has stalled in my opinion--at least commercially.
What we need is soem more gesture based computing (as seen in Minority Report) along with much more intutive data storage and retrival based on context and time (maybe like the Brain).
I find that I often recall information based on its proxmity and relationship to other information. For example, sometimes I can't recall an exact web site I visited, but I can remember what other web sites I saw around the same time I was visiting it. That information along with a history allows me to find what I was looking for.
Also, my email repository is a great history of infomration and conversations that I often refernce. I find that I don't even like to save specific information into files any longer, but just leave it in the email to be recalled (by searching) later.
What would be cool is if we never explicity saved anything, but everything we did was archived automatically. After some preset period of time, old stuff could be moved to offline storage or erased based on some defined attributes. Of course, you could go into the archives and mark some stream or bits of information as very important and not to be erased.
I don't know, I guess I'm rambeling, but I do feel that much more humanistic interfaces to computers are possible, and possible today, we just have to be open to try them.
It's like with typing, they made QWERTY to cripple people because the old typewriters couldn't handle the speed at which they typed. Well, that's not an issue anymore, but are we abandoning QWERTY? NO! Why not? We should so that we can type faster now.
It's the same with interfaces, this whole mouse, GUI, folder file storage, helped us deal with technology that wasn't cabable of more. Now, processing, storage, and memory are so much cheaper... we could be doing much more.
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"And I'm not sure that a physical model will ever be totally replaced by a networked model, even for things you get to keep like downloaded songs."
It will the day when ethernet is truly ether. When transparent, distributed, p2p networking is always on everywhere. Then the physical model will be replaced. There will be no need for it. All content will be on the "grid". And you will have access to it all the time.
Even better will be when you and I are on the "grid". But that's a few more years down the road...
"1. A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm."
Doesn't seem that a robot police officer programmed with rule #1 would be too effective in stoping one human being intent on causing harm to another hjman being.
Ahhh, I can see it now...
Police Robot: Scanning...
Police Robot: ##Alert## Helpless human pedestrian in danger by unknown assilant
Police Robot: Analysis... [Possible mugging]
Police Robot: Acquiring unknown assilant...
Police Robot: ##ERROR## Unknown assilant is human
Police Robot: Disengage...
Police Robot: Resume acquire donuts mode...
Better yet, Q#: the fastest way to negate any speed improvments gained by quantum computers.
You bring up an iteresting point...
I was just wondering... If all the sites that MS runs were operated as seperate entities who had to acutally pay for the MS software they use, would they still run Windows? Heck, would they still even be able to pay other bills?
One of the reasons they decided to turn off SA in the first place was that they had the capability to enable it regionally if needed IIRC.
So, couldn't they just dither the signal for Iraq/Middle East and leave everyone else with high accuracy?
...though it is incredibly hard to resist the urge to accidentally just close the Opera window ... accidentally closing all 30 tabs I have open...
If you're on Windows, try Crazy Browser. It's kind of a shell on top of IE which adds tabbed browsing, popup blocking, etc.
One of the cool things it does is remember all the tabs you had open when it quits. When you start it again, all the tabs you had open are still there. It's very handy and there's no danger in quiting the browser (accidental or not).
I hope no one tells the RIAA about this. They will be putting landmines in P2P soon.
To late... They already thought of it...
but in the past, the stuff coming of of google labs seem to have much more of a cool factor. It was really innovative what they were bringing out...
however, none of these tools seem particularly interesting or even that useful.
I'd much rather use Price Grabber then froogle. I know it's a beta and all, but heck I can't even sort by the lowest price!
I'd say back to the lab with these ones.
...where going to see a lot of "COMDEX is dead"-trolls ?
we're did you learn how to spell?
I wonder what the folks at Google are thinking when that shows up as a high-ranking source of traffic... I also wonder why somebody felt that was neccesary to even put. Ah well.
./ will censor it...
To see if
They turned the camera on for a temporary test. Here's an actual preview of what the shot looks like from the Shuttle. Gonna be pretty cool.
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http://www.spaceflightnow.com/station/sts112/0209
No, they should have called it:
Super Building 323 Turbo Champions Special Edition
(oddly the picture has 6 people on the windows side and 5 on the unix side just a little subliminal hint at which they think is better)
Or just that it takes more Windows admins than Unix admins to do the same job...
Now, at least, black holes won't have to work as hard.
Then you probably should be using PostgreSQL...
Or you may want to look at SAP DB.
It's free, open source, comes with an unlimited license and has the support and backing of one of the largest enterprise application comapnies.
It runs on most platforms including Linux, Solaris, other *NIX, and Windows. It has interfaces for C/C++, Java, Perl, ODBC, Python, and PHP.
You benifit from a proven, highly scalable, SQL compliant database that continues to be developed and maintained by an actual company which gets revenue from paying customers who use its other non-free products which are built on top of SAP DB.
SAP made it open source because they feel, "...that times have changed, that databases are becoming part of the basic technology infrastructure, and as such, they need not be proprietary or complex. SAP sees that the time is right to drive open-source development of database technology and contribute to this effort by making SAP DB Open Source. Open-source development is revolutionizing the way software is created, as shown by the success of Linux, and SAP - which is already providing the first comprehensive e-business solution on Linux - wants to encourage this development."
have you heard of apple? ie is free for the mac os.
kick ass!!! i got the 6th post! woooooo
Damn! Where are my mod points! +1 Funny!
Best post I've ever seen on /. Couldn't aggree more.
mod parent up!
I whole heartedly agree. The state-of-the-art in GUI or human computer interface technologies has stalled in my opinion--at least commercially.
What we need is soem more gesture based computing (as seen in Minority Report) along with much more intutive data storage and retrival based on context and time (maybe like the Brain).
I find that I often recall information based on its proxmity and relationship to other information. For example, sometimes I can't recall an exact web site I visited, but I can remember what other web sites I saw around the same time I was visiting it. That information along with a history allows me to find what I was looking for.
Also, my email repository is a great history of infomration and conversations that I often refernce. I find that I don't even like to save specific information into files any longer, but just leave it in the email to be recalled (by searching) later.
What would be cool is if we never explicity saved anything, but everything we did was archived automatically. After some preset period of time, old stuff could be moved to offline storage or erased based on some defined attributes. Of course, you could go into the archives and mark some stream or bits of information as very important and not to be erased.
I don't know, I guess I'm rambeling, but I do feel that much more humanistic interfaces to computers are possible, and possible today, we just have to be open to try them.
It's like with typing, they made QWERTY to cripple people because the old typewriters couldn't handle the speed at which they typed. Well, that's not an issue anymore, but are we abandoning QWERTY? NO! Why not? We should so that we can type faster now.
It's the same with interfaces, this whole mouse, GUI, folder file storage, helped us deal with technology that wasn't cabable of more. Now, processing, storage, and memory are so much cheaper... we could be doing much more.
Oh well...
What about: Super ASCI White Turbo Champions Special Edition
It's running Windows XP Embedded with IE removed so it will boot up faster. Duh!
mod parent up you mindless GPL/Moderators