Getting yourself into space - something which has been done before - will not make you any money. It will give you a moment of fame, but nothing that will last. There's not that much incentive. You get about the same effect from going postal in a mall and taking out hundreds of people.
On the other hand, solving the nation's energy problems would make you one of the most influential and important people on the planet forever, and it'll get you more money than you could ever possibly spend. This isn't some vague and esoteric quality. Money, glory, and power are already the prize, and anyone who is smart enough to get cold fusion working is probably smart enough to recognize that as well.
Metroid Special Edition Pepsi! I'd probably buy it, if it had a picture of Shamus without the suit on.
I'd really like to see some marketing to adults. I would definitely buy Super Mario Special Edition Draino over the regular Liquid Plumer. And I'd definitely go to a chinese place named "Yoshi's buffet."
Yeah, I'm sure we'll get right on that if someone offers a prize. That's much more valuable than the fame of having their name up there with Einsteins in importance, the power of gained by the trust of the masses in thanks to solving the energy crisis, and the trillions gained from actually selling the technology.
Oh, and don't forget the other prize you win if you get it: the Nobel prize (most likely, anyway).
Here are a few common business tasks we have to solve before the tech industry can turn it over to the machines: 1) No bugs. Stuff has to just work, or we'll need tech support staff. This conflicts with all the rest of the goals, because less bugs require less complexity. This will be the last problem. If you're good at bugfixes, you can keep your job longest. 2) Red tape must be handled by the machines. Until it is, we will constantly have machines that try to make it easier, and people who make those machines better until all red tape can be handled by machines. Since this usually falls in the form of forms written in a natural language, until the natural language problem is solved, this won't go away.
This may never go away simply because insurance companies and bureaucracies thrive under red tape. If the machines get to efficient, laws/policies will make the machines have to work harder to make it easy. Then the machines will get more efficient, and... I would like to refer you to this story-arc of Schlock Mercenary.
3) Machines must be as good an expert system as people. For example, if you told a secretary, "prepare the usual document for X conference," it would need to know what that entailed, and what creativity might be involved in it's part of things. 4) Communication between humans and machines must be intuitive for all humans. This will probably never be true, simply because communication between humans is not intuitive for all humans - even those sharing the same background. If we can't even communicate within our own species, there's no way we can get the machines to do it.
I suspect that is why there is not yet a cure for diabetes - the disease that you keep for life (which probably won't kill you), and for which you can accessorize.
By the way, if we could get some Chinese citizens to come over here and correct the problems in our government, that'd be great. I'd love for them to fix our political problems if they could.
The general idea behind that quote is that you shouldn't help fix someone else's problems very if you're in worse shape. You don't seriously think that the US is in worse shape than China on the freedom front, do you?
The last war protest we had that someone died in due to protest was Vietnam, and that was a matter of a few nervous national guardsman with guns and a lot of violent protesters with stones than willfully running people over with tanks. Further, I can say "George W. Bush was given Hitler's Brain in a ceremony performed by Nazi-Satanic brain surgeons" without getting a knock on my door tomorrow.
Yes it does. If the owner cannot be found or won't come get it, it gets impounded by the state and sold at an auction, and the proceeds are used for public welfare (theoretically, every dollar gained this way is one you're not paying in taxes).
Very little work is put into making the car look nicer. They just auction it as soon as possible. Auctioning is one of the cheapest ways of selling something, man-hours-wise.
The point? This is the most expedient way of passing the wealth of physical property on to the public with the least strain on the taxpayers (in the form of people who need to do the selling).
So...I don't know. I think the most expedient means of making information public is to make it public domain. At any rate, your analogy, had you actually made one (instead of saying "best party, whatever that may mean"), wouldn't hold.
The idea sways me a bit towards making abandonware public domain, actually.
In public colleges, professors are government employees. There is a professional record for every government employee, including paycheck, that is public knowledge. You can go look them up.
This is to hold the government accountable with it's money.
I don't know...I can choose some pretty interesting flowers. You know the flower that a supermodel pops out of when the petals open? Yeah, that'd be my flower of choice. Or perhaps the G5-flower, which is exactly like the supermodel flower except...you know. Another interesting one to see would be the live-grenade flower. Not to be close while it blooms, mind you, just close enough to watch the fun.
But...for some reason, I don't believe that the researchers actually have phenomenal flower-based super powers. It's probably limited to whatever kind of flowers the researchers already have. Oh well. Back to the drawing board.
I actually have a Millenium G450 (a Matrox card) because Matrox actually offers the most technical information for their cards of any company.
The result of this is that XDirectFB is unbelievably fast for this card. I'd be using it, but I couldn't get over the lack of other virtual terminals (with XDirectFB, if X crashes or becomes nonresponsive, you must reboot).
Na, they should be designated "international McHistorical McParks" since any colonization on Mars will probably be done by a corporation that will eventually run everything. After all, if we have a nuclear holocaust before we go to Mars (which would be a good reason to try to colonize there despite the enormous expense), what will be more important than food, and what kind of food will survive a nuclear holocaust? I guess it might also be "Hostess International Historical Parks" or even "McHostess International McHistorical McParks" at that point.
On the other hand, wouldn't Microsoft buy McDonalds before the holocaust as it expands in an ever-encompassing web of mediocracy? So...I guess it'd be "MSMcHostess MSInternational McHistorical McParks" or some similar variation.
That, and that to actually do it over phone lines would require more bandwidth than phones have. The only place it can actually work is over the internet, and guess what?
It is starting to take off. It's moving at about the same rate as VOIP. The biggest problem now is the horrible latency you get with some connections.
I have a group of three very close friends that I've had since high school. One is going to MIT, one is in Washington, and one is in Florida. We were thinking of starting to meet regularly using video conferencing.
I'm sure that if the technology was actually as available as you claimed there would be lots of people doing this.
I think calling one a cathedral and the other a bazaar really requires that any developer who wants to actually can create code for other people to use, and that they'll use it if it's good.
There are large barriers to doing that from both the Linux kernel and from Sun. A more bazaar like example is CPAN or sorceforge. Anybody who creates something coherent can have it published there for everyone to use.
Java and Linux are much more limiting. You can't "hawk your wares" in either case. That said, I don't think this should be absolute...more like a scale. Linux is closer to the bazaar than Java, I think.
Ironic. Daredevil was supposed to be one of the least self-absorbed characters in the Marvel universe - one who was always thinking of others. He made peace with his problem, and used it to help people - not because he was compelled like Batman, but simply because he was a good person. Affleck did a worse job than you thought, apparently, if he seemed self-absorbed.
If you have a girlfriend who finds Titanic to be the ultimate love story, you've got one committed to cheating on you as soon as she finds someone new (specifically, someone interesting because they're new, and explaining that its "for love."
Someone like that is more likely to be a Microsoft girl - nice looking user interfaces, but not very dependable. Go get another.
Somebody was going to come along and ruin the joke by telling everyone what a brouhaha was.
Fine.
brouhaha (noun) - a large, rather hairy, south American snake known for it's prized tusks. Because of their value, and inability to breed in captivity, they have been hunted nearly to extinction, and are therefore considered unlucky.
Whoa. I mean, I knew about the memory issues, and stuff, but I never thought it would escalate into a full-scale brouhaha. Maybe I should return my palm.
I don't want to get any of that, you know, brouhaha on me.
Are you saying that the US is a bully for "picking on" Afghanistan and Iraq, both of whom have a history of fighting back (and starting fights), or that China is a bully for it's hold on Tibet, since Tibet doesn't?
Right next to the "right-shift" (to the left of it) is a very special key. Try hitting "shift" and that key, and you'll see what it does.
Your output should look like this: ?
Did you see it? There - I used it with a sentence for you. Use it to end a sentence whenever you ask questions in a post. That's why it's called the question mark, because it ends a question. Note that rhetorical questions also count as questions, and should also have a question mark.
It is by the juice of caffiene that thoughts aquires speed, the hands develop shakes, the shakes become a warning. It is by will alone I set my code in motion.
The returns diminish if you don't get enough sleep and food.
Solution: Work while eating and sleeping. The second is a lot harder than the first, I'll admit, but if you're stuck on a problem, and you sleep on it, things sometimes look better.
With that strategy, I've been able to do a few 70 hour weeks without diminishing returns. 80 starts cutting into my sleep/food time, and I start getting diminishing returns.
However, I'm a big proponent of a social life. All work and no play makes Jack a mentally retarded boy.
Just wait. In twenty years or so, Industrial L&M will put out "Star Wars Ultra Special Edition," which will be just the original version released again. Included will be dialog by other people involved in the creative process who were excluded from the "improvements" when Lucas became a megalomaniac.
This will be just after Lucas' death, and will be shortly be followed by a series of Star Wars universe movies and cartoons that result from Lucasfilms finally selling creative rights to other interested parties.
Not that television will be worth watching anymore. As commercial avoidance becomes more rampant, advertisers will switch to product placement to sell their wares. At this point, the major demographic in the US will still be the baby boomers, but they'll be elderly. At the beginning of the Star Wars TV-show, Obi-wan will mention to Luke how Metamucil keeps him regular, while also mentioning that he can still eat corn thanks to Fix-o-Dent. Vader will be shown putting on his mask, but not before they show the last stages of putting on his Depends.
For a while there I was trying to use source rpms to get around dependency hell.
The big trouble was in the little things - patches to gcc, or the libraries I had, and occasionally the code that I needed - weren't there.
Case in point - the latest version of Redhat ships with a version of Bison that won't work with g++ 3.4, which also comes with Redhat.
Even bigger - the last version of Mandrake I used (8.2) came with a gcc compiler that couldn't compile the Mandrake flavored kernel with the default options (the ones included by MandrakeSoft).
It was costing hours and hours of time to find out why things weren't working, and I couldn't take it. Sometimes I didn't ever figure out why something wouldn't compile.
This is why I switched to a source-based distro. Other people are working on compiling the stuff on many architectures, in many ways. They usually find bugs having to do with compilation before I do, so I don't have to scour the internet to get out of dependency hell.
Most important of all, this means that any obscure app that I want to install will be more likely to work, because there are fewer compiling related bugs with a distro that has compiling as it's focus.
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Getting yourself into space - something which has been done before - will not make you any money. It will give you a moment of fame, but nothing that will last. There's not that much incentive. You get about the same effect from going postal in a mall and taking out hundreds of people.
On the other hand, solving the nation's energy problems would make you one of the most influential and important people on the planet forever, and it'll get you more money than you could ever possibly spend. This isn't some vague and esoteric quality. Money, glory, and power are already the prize, and anyone who is smart enough to get cold fusion working is probably smart enough to recognize that as well.
Metroid Special Edition Pepsi!
I'd probably buy it, if it had a picture of Shamus without the suit on.
I'd really like to see some marketing to adults. I would definitely buy Super Mario Special Edition Draino over the regular Liquid Plumer. And I'd definitely go to a chinese place named "Yoshi's buffet."
But it's probably not going to happen.
Yeah, I'm sure we'll get right on that if someone offers a prize. That's much more valuable than the fame of having their name up there with Einsteins in importance, the power of gained by the trust of the masses in thanks to solving the energy crisis, and the trillions gained from actually selling the technology.
Oh, and don't forget the other prize you win if you get it: the Nobel prize (most likely, anyway).
Not yet.
Here are a few common business tasks we have to solve before the tech industry can turn it over to the machines:
1) No bugs. Stuff has to just work, or we'll need tech support staff. This conflicts with all the rest of the goals, because less bugs require less complexity. This will be the last problem. If you're good at bugfixes, you can keep your job longest.
2) Red tape must be handled by the machines. Until it is, we will constantly have machines that try to make it easier, and people who make those machines better until all red tape can be handled by machines. Since this usually falls in the form of forms written in a natural language, until the natural language problem is solved, this won't go away.
This may never go away simply because insurance companies and bureaucracies thrive under red tape. If the machines get to efficient, laws/policies will make the machines have to work harder to make it easy. Then the machines will get more efficient, and...
I would like to refer you to this story-arc of Schlock Mercenary.
3) Machines must be as good an expert system as people. For example, if you told a secretary, "prepare the usual document for X conference," it would need to know what that entailed, and what creativity might be involved in it's part of things.
4) Communication between humans and machines must be intuitive for all humans. This will probably never be true, simply because communication between humans is not intuitive for all humans - even those sharing the same background. If we can't even communicate within our own species, there's no way we can get the machines to do it.
I suspect that is why there is not yet a cure for diabetes - the disease that you keep for life (which probably won't kill you), and for which you can accessorize.
By the way, if we could get some Chinese citizens to come over here and correct the problems in our government, that'd be great. I'd love for them to fix our political problems if they could.
The general idea behind that quote is that you shouldn't help fix someone else's problems very if you're in worse shape. You don't seriously think that the US is in worse shape than China on the freedom front, do you?
The last war protest we had that someone died in due to protest was Vietnam, and that was a matter of a few nervous national guardsman with guns and a lot of violent protesters with stones than willfully running people over with tanks. Further, I can say "George W. Bush was given Hitler's Brain in a ceremony performed by Nazi-Satanic brain surgeons" without getting a knock on my door tomorrow.
Keep things in perspective.
One of your answers there is wrong.
Does it become a "public" car?
Yes it does. If the owner cannot be found or won't come get it, it gets impounded by the state and sold at an auction, and the proceeds are used for public welfare (theoretically, every dollar gained this way is one you're not paying in taxes).
Very little work is put into making the car look nicer. They just auction it as soon as possible. Auctioning is one of the cheapest ways of selling something, man-hours-wise.
The point? This is the most expedient way of passing the wealth of physical property on to the public with the least strain on the taxpayers (in the form of people who need to do the selling).
So...I don't know. I think the most expedient means of making information public is to make it public domain. At any rate, your analogy, had you actually made one (instead of saying "best party, whatever that may mean"), wouldn't hold.
The idea sways me a bit towards making abandonware public domain, actually.
In public colleges, professors are government employees. There is a professional record for every government employee, including paycheck, that is public knowledge. You can go look them up.
This is to hold the government accountable with it's money.
I don't know...I can choose some pretty interesting flowers. You know the flower that a supermodel pops out of when the petals open? Yeah, that'd be my flower of choice. Or perhaps the G5-flower, which is exactly like the supermodel flower except...you know. Another interesting one to see would be the live-grenade flower. Not to be close while it blooms, mind you, just close enough to watch the fun.
But...for some reason, I don't believe that the researchers actually have phenomenal flower-based super powers. It's probably limited to whatever kind of flowers the researchers already have. Oh well. Back to the drawing board.
I actually have a Millenium G450 (a Matrox card) because Matrox actually offers the most technical information for their cards of any company.
The result of this is that XDirectFB is unbelievably fast for this card. I'd be using it, but I couldn't get over the lack of other virtual terminals (with XDirectFB, if X crashes or becomes nonresponsive, you must reboot).
Na, they should be designated "international McHistorical McParks" since any colonization on Mars will probably be done by a corporation that will eventually run everything. After all, if we have a nuclear holocaust before we go to Mars (which would be a good reason to try to colonize there despite the enormous expense), what will be more important than food, and what kind of food will survive a nuclear holocaust? I guess it might also be "Hostess International Historical Parks" or even "McHostess International McHistorical McParks" at that point.
On the other hand, wouldn't Microsoft buy McDonalds before the holocaust as it expands in an ever-encompassing web of mediocracy? So...I guess it'd be "MSMcHostess MSInternational McHistorical McParks" or some similar variation.
Yes. That's exactly what it is.
Except that this is software, so I think it means a group of people whose way of life revolves around (a culture) getting mono to work on Windows.
Which, of course is equally gross. Like the assumption that Christopher Lambert is a Scotsman, or that Sean Connery is Spanish.
That, and that to actually do it over phone lines would require more bandwidth than phones have. The only place it can actually work is over the internet, and guess what?
It is starting to take off. It's moving at about the same rate as VOIP. The biggest problem now is the horrible latency you get with some connections.
I have a group of three very close friends that I've had since high school. One is going to MIT, one is in Washington, and one is in Florida. We were thinking of starting to meet regularly using video conferencing.
I'm sure that if the technology was actually as available as you claimed there would be lots of people doing this.
I think calling one a cathedral and the other a bazaar really requires that any developer who wants to actually can create code for other people to use, and that they'll use it if it's good.
There are large barriers to doing that from both the Linux kernel and from Sun. A more bazaar like example is CPAN or sorceforge. Anybody who creates something coherent can have it published there for everyone to use.
Java and Linux are much more limiting. You can't "hawk your wares" in either case. That said, I don't think this should be absolute...more like a scale. Linux is closer to the bazaar than Java, I think.
Ball doesn't move = no induction.
Ball moves slower than necessary = not enough induction.
It would need cleaning. Also, I doubt you could actually get enough power that way.
Ironic. Daredevil was supposed to be one of the least self-absorbed characters in the Marvel universe - one who was always thinking of others. He made peace with his problem, and used it to help people - not because he was compelled like Batman, but simply because he was a good person. Affleck did a worse job than you thought, apparently, if he seemed self-absorbed.
If you have a girlfriend who finds Titanic to be the ultimate love story, you've got one committed to cheating on you as soon as she finds someone new (specifically, someone interesting because they're new, and explaining that its "for love."
Someone like that is more likely to be a Microsoft girl - nice looking user interfaces, but not very dependable. Go get another.
I knew this was going to happen.
Somebody was going to come along and ruin the joke by telling everyone what a brouhaha was.
Fine.
brouhaha (noun) - a large, rather hairy, south American snake known for it's prized tusks. Because of their value, and inability to breed in captivity, they have been hunted nearly to extinction, and are therefore considered unlucky.
Whoa. I mean, I knew about the memory issues, and stuff, but I never thought it would escalate into a full-scale brouhaha. Maybe I should return my palm.
I don't want to get any of that, you know, brouhaha on me.
So...um...what's a brouhaha?
Are you saying that the US is a bully for "picking on" Afghanistan and Iraq, both of whom have a history of fighting back (and starting fights), or that China is a bully for it's hold on Tibet, since Tibet doesn't?
Look at your keyboard for a moment.
Right next to the "right-shift" (to the left of it) is a very special key. Try hitting "shift" and that key, and you'll see what it does.
Your output should look like this:
?
Did you see it? There - I used it with a sentence for you. Use it to end a sentence whenever you ask questions in a post. That's why it's called the question mark, because it ends a question. Note that rhetorical questions also count as questions, and should also have a question mark.
Okay, that's enough basic grammar for one day.
It is by will alone I set my code in motion.
It is by the juice of caffiene that thoughts aquires speed, the hands develop shakes, the shakes become a warning.
It is by will alone I set my code in motion.
--Coder's litany.
The returns diminish if you don't get enough sleep and food.
Solution: Work while eating and sleeping. The second is a lot harder than the first, I'll admit, but if you're stuck on a problem, and you sleep on it, things sometimes look better.
With that strategy, I've been able to do a few 70 hour weeks without diminishing returns. 80 starts cutting into my sleep/food time, and I start getting diminishing returns.
However, I'm a big proponent of a social life. All work and no play makes Jack a mentally retarded boy.
Just wait. In twenty years or so, Industrial L&M will put out "Star Wars Ultra Special Edition," which will be just the original version released again. Included will be dialog by other people involved in the creative process who were excluded from the "improvements" when Lucas became a megalomaniac.
This will be just after Lucas' death, and will be shortly be followed by a series of Star Wars universe movies and cartoons that result from Lucasfilms finally selling creative rights to other interested parties.
Not that television will be worth watching anymore. As commercial avoidance becomes more rampant, advertisers will switch to product placement to sell their wares. At this point, the major demographic in the US will still be the baby boomers, but they'll be elderly. At the beginning of the Star Wars TV-show, Obi-wan will mention to Luke how Metamucil keeps him regular, while also mentioning that he can still eat corn thanks to Fix-o-Dent. Vader will be shown putting on his mask, but not before they show the last stages of putting on his Depends.
For a while there I was trying to use source rpms to get around dependency hell.
The big trouble was in the little things - patches to gcc, or the libraries I had, and occasionally the code that I needed - weren't there.
Case in point - the latest version of Redhat ships with a version of Bison that won't work with g++ 3.4, which also comes with Redhat.
Even bigger - the last version of Mandrake I used (8.2) came with a gcc compiler that couldn't compile the Mandrake flavored kernel with the default options (the ones included by MandrakeSoft).
It was costing hours and hours of time to find out why things weren't working, and I couldn't take it. Sometimes I didn't ever figure out why something wouldn't compile.
This is why I switched to a source-based distro. Other people are working on compiling the stuff on many architectures, in many ways. They usually find bugs having to do with compilation before I do, so I don't have to scour the internet to get out of dependency hell.
Most important of all, this means that any obscure app that I want to install will be more likely to work, because there are fewer compiling related bugs with a distro that has compiling as it's focus.