Obviously the children are going to need to develop some way to communicate with the world around them. Almost all deaf children (and young hearing children) develop some form of gesture language before "proper training" is given. Think a young hearing child who walks to their parents holding their arms up in the air wanting to be picked up for a hug, it's the same principle.
Go to Everything Linux
It's been around for several years as well.. It sells linux distros, linux compatible hardware, and linx related software (vmware/etc)
Won't the smugglers just remove the chips, much in the same way that people now remove microchips from pedigree animals stolen from family homes? I personally think they will have to do a bit better than this, but full marks for trying:)
... This one will really make the sh*t hit the fan in terms of gender equality. To make a blanket statement about the abilities of either gender is bound to form harsh criticism from many fronts.
I mean perhaps the "spatial ability" of the different genders is tuned to a different form of interface. Perhaps the symptom we should be addressing is that current user interfaces are designed for use from the male aspect, and therefore the generic woman (whatever that is) functions in such an environment.
In my psychology days we looked at many examples of studies that were swayed in a particular direction to to flaws in the testing procedures.
Not to say that this article in new scientist really backs up its claims - statements such as it seems.. that women possess lower spatial abilities, and it tends
But that's aside from the point - I can accept that men and women interact with a user interface in differing ways. But to suggest that taking a "male" user interface, and making it bigger - to adapt it more to the "generic woman" (see above) - I find ludicrous, and a vast underestimation of the task at hand.
I'm just stirring, but I think it's really something to think about in the next decade as we move away from windowing environments to whatever is next - be it 3D interfaces on a 2D display, virtual immersion - or whatever... We need to think about things more than "lets make it bigger".
Now that you've said the page looks 'Artsy', all of their various pictures have taken on a mysteriously phallic quality.
I mean seriously, look at the picture of the Morphotheque
It Can't be just me. Maybe it's what I'm drinking.
On a more serious note, it's interesting to see art and science start to mix more and more in recent years. Seems that technology, especially robotics, has gone the full circle. I mean, in publications such as Astounding from the Forties and Fifties had "outrageous" desings of humanoid robots performing all kinds of tasks and interactions - then science took over and designed the ugly montrosities that grace our car factiories today.
And now it seems that robots hold a place both functionally and aesthetically - seen both here and in recent events such as the Robot competition mentioned on slashdot a few weeks back.
Just my random rambling.
It's about time something other that gun runners and trode hackers came out of Chiba City. Oh, wait, I'm in the wrong universe. My mistake./me needs less Cyberpunk
It's quite expensive - $AUD89.95 - about 30 GBP or 43 USD I use it mainly for work - I work from home as a software developer, and have to send huge CVS trees back and forth.
We hav had download limits here in.au for ages... all our broadband providers limit usage.. I am on a 4GB ADSL Plan.. gives me 4GB/month! 1GB per day would be *very* nice indeed.
Even more so than the existing Intranets and Corporate Firewalls, this sounds like something borrowed from William Gibson - turning the internet into a corporate jungle, where pipes and tunnels that are access restricted flow alongside the rest of the public. On that note this is really the dream of the VPN, or am I wrong? Maybe such an eDNA technology could keep those unwanted nasties out of such a VPN. Even more so than the "desktop" model of GUIs, this seems like a plan where the world of computers models the real world - it's not just passwords and encryption anymore, it's an infringement on what we see as "public space" and our property. Even though we don't really own the infrastructure of cyberspace, any more so than we own the sidewalks and steets we live in, we pay our rates, we pay our access fees.. don't do this!
...Anyone thinking of radioactive man? Seriously, and environmental impedement introduced to a sample population of basically anything will yield a small but significant number of them resistant.
Therefore, basically, we're introducing a population of flies into Africa that are resistant to this strange nuclear form of sterilization
Is it just me or is that not a good thing?
In all seriousness, does a machine in an arcade really need all the features that the xbox contains..
I mean, from the xbox website, its features include:
Remembering that most of an arcade's revenue comes from people who drop in, play a game and leave - and even with hardcore gamers, are you really going to sit down and use the inbuilt DVD playing features?
I mean - the xbox was designed as a home console, windows based etc.. An arcade machine is a specialised device that has the raw features that are necessary in such an environment. Cost is important, as every increased dollar cuts into total revenue.
Of course there's the argument to be raised that some of the more advanced features such as this will be disabled, but then again - why not just use a machine/system that didn't have useless features in the first place
Anyways, I'll stop rambling on, but I'm sure you can see my point.
It seems the interviewer still misses the point: what happened to the "Do you understand that DeCSS does not aid copying DVDs, and in fact does the opposite?" question That's exactly what I would ask, and it seems he's still missing this one. There's all this piracy propoganda going round, when all it comes down to is media control and licensing with a poor coverup. Sure, the MPAA want "the movie industry to make money" - when in fact they are limiting their audience by disallowing us to access data which we have already paid them money to access. Someday, they will see. I hope. Otherwise I'll go back to by Betamax collection and watch I love lucy reruns. They were better than the matrix anyway.
In my opinion, the discussion currently going on in the LiVid mailing list at the moment has the more practical solution to the Linux DVD-playing problem: Linux Mpeg-2 players can still be developed (there is nothing illegal about them) - and DeCSS can be distributed as a binary-only plugin to these players. Using this method, the developers of Linux DVD players are not putting themselves at risk - and furthermore the DeCSS plugins can be developed off-shore (not a very hard task, DeCSS didn't come from the US anyways). As for the actual use of the DeCSS program in any form being illegal soon, everyone who has never jay-walked - raise their hands.
Interesting to think that, technically, since last week, this is illegal here in Australia That is, buying a domain name and selling it is illegal (unless the company is declared bankrupt and the domain name is one of it's assets). Mind you domain name laws have always been more strict in Australia - just look at the distributor of.com.au domains - Melbourne IT. You can't register a.com.au domain unless it is your company name - i.e. fred bloggs inc can only have something similar to www.fredbloggs.com.au.
Humor doesn't always have to be well thought out. In fact, it's normally funny quite because it *isn't* well thought out. Just learn to laugh for once. That's all it takes...hell I laugh at myself most days.
Data: Captain, we're picking up a strange anomaly on radar Picard: On screen Data: It can't be Picard: It is..! Another wild theory captured by the media-machine and blown out of all proportion. Data: What's your order, sir? Picard: Shields. Lock phasers ... Picard: Mr Scott, Warp 4. Get us out of here. And avoid that trans-dimensional worm hole, damnit.
...Somewhere, someone will have cached it, copied it, given it to their grandmother On the internet, everyone can hear you scream Personally I think its impossible to ever completely cover your tracks on the internet..no matter how diligantly you try..
So we're different. So what? Why is it that geeks are always portrayed as the poor, innocent souls trampled on by society just waiting for revenge? Sure, I can take a joke - but just as in this book "Casmir Radon, is a resumed-ed physics student in his 30s, with no social skills. " - the society at large sees us this way. Why? Who knows I, for one, am sick of seeing the media at large portraying geek culture in this way. Sure, some will say I've missed the point of this book. That it's a parody - and therefore is a detached introverted objective blah blah blah etc look at society and is making fun of every societal group - but how different is persecuting geeks to persecuting any social minority? "The role of geeks in all this is interesting." Interesting? Heh More like typical.
Let's face it - for the vast majority of people, an IP is not an address - it says nothing about your physical location, and for those of us with dynamic IPs at least we retain some privacy in the bowels of our ISP's internals - assuming they have at least some kind of decent privacy policy. Sure - if someone's IP resolves to whitehouse.gov then we smell something in the works, but 61.2.54.2 resolving to dial245.someisp.ch doesn't do much for anyone... Sure, people will scream and scream every time our "online privacy" becomes an issue - this is simply another example of it, but think about it, folks - when was the last time someone turned up at your door saying "Hi, I'm fred from somewherechat. I got your home address after I got your IP on the chat room, hacked into your ISP and looked at the dial in logs, and cross-referenced it to the your information on their server"..? Sure, some might be persistant enough to do it (lord help them) - but when it comes down to it, an IP doesn't mean much, does it now? As for bosses tracing the IPs of their employees, we still have some privacy when we create an account on an ISP, they will only surrender a user's personal details in a criminal offence has been committed. I don't really think mouthing off one's boss falls in that category. And for those stupid enough to do that from their work computer... they deserve such a fate... Well, next time there is another "online privacy scare" - remember these words.
Slashdot Mirror
... being one of the first people to make the world see that atomic warfare was not such a good idea - to which he devoted much of his later life.
Obviously the children are going to need to develop some way to communicate with the world around them. Almost all deaf children (and young hearing children) develop some form of gesture language before "proper training" is given. Think a young hearing child who walks to their parents holding their arms up in the air wanting to be picked up for a hug, it's the same principle.
Go to Everything Linux
It's been around for several years as well.. It sells linux distros, linux compatible hardware, and linx related software (vmware/etc)
If these are used for, let's say, more violent purposed: ...... he's definitely dead. Nice shot."
"Yup
Won't the smugglers just remove the chips, much in the same way that people now remove microchips from pedigree animals stolen from family homes? :)
I personally think they will have to do a bit better than this, but full marks for trying
Ha.. I read that as "Public Spaceflight *Explosion*". Probably not a word you would want to use in that context ;)
From the article:
"We're doing everything we can to get it up by 2008"
Have they tried viagra??
... This one will really make the sh*t hit the fan in terms of gender equality. To make a blanket statement about the abilities of either gender is bound to form harsh criticism from many fronts.
.. that women possess lower spatial abilities, and it tends
I mean perhaps the "spatial ability" of the different genders is tuned to a different form of interface. Perhaps the symptom we should be addressing is that current user interfaces are designed for use from the male aspect, and therefore the generic woman (whatever that is) functions in such an environment.
In my psychology days we looked at many examples of studies that were swayed in a particular direction to to flaws in the testing procedures.
Not to say that this article in new scientist really backs up its claims - statements such as it seems
But that's aside from the point - I can accept that men and women interact with a user interface in differing ways. But to suggest that taking a "male" user interface, and making it bigger - to adapt it more to the "generic woman" (see above) - I find ludicrous, and a vast underestimation of the task at hand.
I'm just stirring, but I think it's really something to think about in the next decade as we move away from windowing environments to whatever is next - be it 3D interfaces on a 2D display, virtual immersion - or whatever... We need to think about things more than "lets make it bigger".
Now that you've said the page looks 'Artsy', all of their various pictures have taken on a mysteriously phallic quality.
I mean seriously, look at the picture of the Morphotheque
It Can't be just me. Maybe it's what I'm drinking.
On a more serious note, it's interesting to see art and science start to mix more and more in recent years. Seems that technology, especially robotics, has gone the full circle. I mean, in publications such as Astounding from the Forties and Fifties had "outrageous" desings of humanoid robots performing all kinds of tasks and interactions - then science took over and designed the ugly montrosities that grace our car factiories today.
And now it seems that robots hold a place both functionally and aesthetically - seen both here and in recent events such as the Robot competition mentioned on slashdot a few weeks back.
Just my random rambling.
It's about time something other that gun runners and trode hackers came out of Chiba City. /me needs less Cyberpunk
Oh, wait, I'm in the wrong universe.
My mistake.
Here are the google caches of the front page, and their FAQ:
Front Page
FAQ
It's quite expensive - $AUD89.95 - about 30 GBP or 43 USD
I use it mainly for work - I work from home as a software developer, and have to send huge CVS trees back and forth.
We hav had download limits here in .au for ages... all our broadband providers limit usage.. I am on a 4GB ADSL Plan.. gives me 4GB/month!
1GB per day would be *very* nice indeed.
Even more so than the existing Intranets and Corporate Firewalls, this sounds like something borrowed from William Gibson - turning the internet into a corporate jungle, where pipes and tunnels that are access restricted flow alongside the rest of the public.
On that note this is really the dream of the VPN, or am I wrong? Maybe such an eDNA technology could keep those unwanted nasties out of such a VPN.
Even more so than the "desktop" model of GUIs, this seems like a plan where the world of computers models the real world - it's not just passwords and encryption anymore, it's an infringement on what we see as "public space" and our property. Even though we don't really own the infrastructure of cyberspace, any more so than we own the sidewalks and steets we live in, we pay our rates, we pay our access fees.. don't do this!
BayTSP is known to operate on:
209.204.128.0 to 204.204.191.255
209.204.130.0 to 209.204.130.255
...Anyone thinking of radioactive man? Seriously, and environmental impedement introduced to a sample population of basically anything will yield a small but significant number of them resistant.
Therefore, basically, we're introducing a population of flies into Africa that are resistant to this strange nuclear form of sterilization
Is it just me or is that not a good thing?
In all seriousness, does a machine in an arcade really need all the features that the xbox contains..
I mean, from the xbox website, its features include:
Remembering that most of an arcade's revenue comes from people who drop in, play a game and leave - and even with hardcore gamers, are you really going to sit down and use the inbuilt DVD playing features?
I mean - the xbox was designed as a home console, windows based etc.. An arcade machine is a specialised device that has the raw features that are necessary in such an environment. Cost is important, as every increased dollar cuts into total revenue.
Of course there's the argument to be raised that some of the more advanced features such as this will be disabled, but then again - why not just use a machine/system that didn't have useless features in the first place
Anyways, I'll stop rambling on, but I'm sure you can see my point.
It seems the interviewer still misses the point: what happened to the "Do you understand that DeCSS does not aid copying DVDs, and in fact does the opposite?" question
That's exactly what I would ask, and it seems he's still missing this one.
There's all this piracy propoganda going round, when all it comes down to is media control and licensing with a poor coverup.
Sure, the MPAA want "the movie industry to make money" - when in fact they are limiting their audience by disallowing us to access data which we have already paid them money to access.
Someday, they will see. I hope. Otherwise I'll go back to by Betamax collection and watch I love lucy reruns. They were better than the matrix anyway.
In my opinion, the discussion currently going on in the LiVid mailing list at the moment has the more practical solution to the Linux DVD-playing problem: Linux Mpeg-2 players can still be developed (there is nothing illegal about them) - and DeCSS can be distributed as a binary-only plugin to these players.
Using this method, the developers of Linux DVD players are not putting themselves at risk - and furthermore the DeCSS plugins can be developed off-shore (not a very hard task, DeCSS didn't come from the US anyways).
As for the actual use of the DeCSS program in any form being illegal soon, everyone who has never jay-walked - raise their hands.
Interesting to think that, technically, since last week, this is illegal here in Australia .com.au domains - Melbourne IT. You can't register a .com.au domain unless it is your company name - i.e. fred bloggs inc can only have something similar to www.fredbloggs.com.au.
That is, buying a domain name and selling it is illegal (unless the company is declared bankrupt and the domain name is one of it's assets).
Mind you domain name laws have always been more strict in Australia - just look at the distributor of
Humor doesn't always have to be well thought out. In fact, it's normally funny quite because it *isn't* well thought out.
Just learn to laugh for once. That's all it takes...hell I laugh at myself most days.
Data: Captain, we're picking up a strange anomaly on radar
...
Picard: On screen
Data: It can't be
Picard: It is..! Another wild theory captured by the media-machine and blown out of all proportion.
Data: What's your order, sir?
Picard: Shields. Lock phasers
Picard: Mr Scott, Warp 4. Get us out of here. And avoid that trans-dimensional worm hole, damnit.
...Somewhere, someone will have cached it, copied it, given it to their grandmother
On the internet, everyone can hear you scream
Personally I think its impossible to ever completely cover your tracks on the internet..no matter how diligantly you try..
So we're different. So what? Why is it that geeks are always portrayed as the poor, innocent souls trampled on by society just waiting for revenge?
Sure, I can take a joke - but just as in this book "Casmir Radon, is a resumed-ed physics student in his 30s, with no social skills. " - the society at large sees us this way. Why? Who knows
I, for one, am sick of seeing the media at large portraying geek culture in this way. Sure, some will say I've missed the point of this book. That it's a parody - and therefore is a detached introverted objective blah blah blah etc look at society and is making fun of every societal group - but how different is persecuting geeks to persecuting any social minority?
"The role of geeks in all this is interesting."
Interesting? Heh More like typical.
Let's face it - for the vast majority of people, an IP is not an address - it says nothing about your physical location, and for those of us with dynamic IPs at least we retain some privacy in the bowels of our ISP's internals - assuming they have at least some kind of decent privacy policy.
Sure - if someone's IP resolves to whitehouse.gov then we smell something in the works, but 61.2.54.2 resolving to dial245.someisp.ch doesn't do much for anyone...
Sure, people will scream and scream every time our "online privacy" becomes an issue - this is simply another example of it, but think about it, folks - when was the last time someone turned up at your door saying "Hi, I'm fred from somewherechat. I got your home address after I got your IP on the chat room, hacked into your ISP and looked at the dial in logs, and cross-referenced it to the your information on their server"..?
Sure, some might be persistant enough to do it (lord help them) - but when it comes down to it, an IP doesn't mean much, does it now?
As for bosses tracing the IPs of their employees, we still have some privacy when we create an account on an ISP, they will only surrender a user's personal details in a criminal offence has been committed. I don't really think mouthing off one's boss falls in that category. And for those stupid enough to do that from their work computer... they deserve such a fate...
Well, next time there is another "online privacy scare" - remember these words.