1st) By Far is the E*Trade Monkey commerical (irony done well is just to funny). 2nd) I think it would have to be for lifeminders.com, and I like how they have changed there page to reflect it. 3rd) would have to be the mountain dew comercials, the lepoard one, and then the queen one. But did anyone else notice how there were animals in 99% of the commericals?! Do Animals sell?!
I hope they clean up the ArcServe interface up first before they port it. I had to support ArcServe on 8 NT servers at my last job and it was not a pretty picture.
Arcserve appears to have horrible support for library tape devices, and their instructions for installing patches (as well as figuring out which patches are pre-requisites to others is a nightmare.)
The tape device I was using was a Magstar B10. It had support for 20 tape cartidges and was a fast little machine, however, Arcserve would often leave the tape device in an unwritable state.
When I left that job in June, I had found out from a colleague in November that they hadn't had a full backup since August.
Raymond Kurzweil's thought-provoking essay, "Live Forever: Uploading the Human Brain," paints a striking picture of future science at the intersection of artificial intelligence and neurobiology. Like Kurzweil, I am also an optimist for the future, but I feel strongly that some of the implications of the technology he discusses are potentially disastrous and thus necessitate public discussion well before that future arrives.
In my opinion, the future of virtual reality is what should be at the forefront of such discussions. Kurzweil describes nanobots (super-tiny machines that work on a molecular scale) which will take up positions at each neuron in our body, able to influence both afferent information coming from our senses and efferent output to structures like our muscles. He states: "The nanobots would prevent our real bodies from moving; instead, we would have a virtual body in a virtual environment."
Now, take a minute to think of the psychological implications here. Right now, your brain is the only computer that can control your neurons. With the nanobots, your desktop computer will share control over these neurons. Thus, you can specify certain experiences via the desktop computer, which will be transferred to you in a type of extremely realistic virtual reality. The key concern is that if virtual reality is created at the neuronal level, we could potentially have experiences that are for ourselves completely indistinguishable from actual reality. This is not like a dream; in this virtual reality, all of the details are crystal clear, just like in our daily lives.
I find it interesting that Kurzweil's essay is published in Psychology Today, since the virtual reality technologies he outlines could spawn a whole slew of human psychological disorders that we cannot yet even conceive. For example, when virtual reality becomes indistinguishable from actual reality, what happens? Will humans automatically adapt? If our sense of reality becomes distorted and uncertain, human society will change drastically.
Imagine if someone else is able to control the nanobots in your brain (by gaining access to your personal computer or by remote control). Can we afford a technology that requires such an immense compromise? In other words, will we accept the fact that at any time our experiences could be purely simulations and still go about our ways normally? It is difficult to conceive of a future where a malicious person might hijack your brain, but it is definitely possible in the world Kurzweil describes.
Back to the psychological side, here is a more likely scenario: After experiencing a fully personalizable virtual reality, someone might decide that they like their own personal virtual reality more than actual reality and thus avoid normal social interaction. So, then, what will human society look like in the future? A benefit of virtual reality would allow for augmented social interaction, like being able to spend time with relatives who are thousands of miles away. But it is equally possible that large groups of people will simply choose to stay tied to their virtual reality and experience a world that they prefer to live in. Is this the next step in our evolution or is it the beginnings of a delusional society with serious psychological problems?
Let me say one last thing before I end: I sincerely hope that this essay does not appear alarmist or, even worse, apocalyptic. Neither of these are my intentions. I simply think that a dialogue on this issues is of vital important, regardless of how science-fiction-ish the issues seem to be. After all, at the present time, virtual reality only means a video game that has really nice graphics.
I haven't quite waded through the mire of posts on this topic yet, but I hope this gets a Score: 0, redundant, from all the others saying the same thing. This is slashdot though.:) I'm expecting all the posts to be one sided only.
Anyway, on to the point. Who cares about "Draconian" parole regulations. If Kevin didn't want to have his life turned upside down, maybe the twit shouldn't have been out there doing as much illegally as he could on his computer.
He deserved whatever he got, and he deserves whatever parole regulations he's on. If more people like him were to get what they deserved, ie, jail time, perhaps the vast majority of script kiddies and their peers would wake up and realize that they could be next.
You are missing the point: not the SUM is important ! The percent of the donator's wealth wich is donated is what that matters. Its easy to donate when you have bilions but much harder when you only have money for survival (or less). You obviously haven't experienced this. Take back this *hypocrisy* thing, it only make you look like you are one. ---- Off topic and redundant - I know...
The computer sounds very impressive. They will be able to make more long-range forecast as well as predict more factors sooner thereby giving people more warning.
I would think this would also help them with tornado predictions as well.
There are too many logical fallicies in this bit to count -- while it starts with a reasonable premise (there's too much information to be processed -- and it may be taking up too much time distracting the masses from more important matters) it really fades into babble quickly.
If you're going to discuss information and its transmission -- you might want to discuss it in terms of communication theory, not try to shoehorn the discussion into the boundaries of natural selection. Predators for information? Please.
Concerned parties may wish to read Neil Postman's "Amusing Ourselves to Death" which discusses the problems with the electronic media and the unchecked proliferation of electronic entertainment -- and what it is doing to public discourse. While I don't agree with every point that Postman makes, it's certainly a much more valid and lucid discussion than this piece of dribble.
It's counter-productive to assault Katz (or anyone else) for their faulty reasoning or pretentious posturing as an authority on these topics. The fact is they do need to be discussed. Even if the initial spark to the conversation was a bit weak, it's still a conversation worth having...
actually i think apple will support the older systemsd because apple is announcing the "single OS strategy" their old strategy was doing mac os x and mac os 9.x in parallel... with mac os x only supporting the g3s.. i hope this will change because i have a old mac pci too(8600).
The stereotype apply to me very correctly but I think that if I would develop the same logical skills in manny other tech areas if I were'nt a coder. That is nobody is born nerd but that cannot be teached if you don't have a basic couriosity on wich the logic skills can be grown. Great article ! Just my twocents...
sounds like "foot in mouth" situation. "uh, we really didn't think about what we said..."
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Posted by cookieman.k:
Hi AC! You have some good points (ex: VC editor) but the debugger crash faster than the NT itself. The wizards are useles I'm not that lazy to write some file on my own. You say that graphics aplication and games are all over the place in Win world but the DirectX scheme of programing 3D (or else) was designed by a masochist. MSDN is good but do not count on the API because half of MSDN is bug recognition/workaround. The DSP file itself is very cute until something scrues some little thing in itt and after that you can say goodby to the project. I will not mention that the space needed for all these API/GUI/whatever is huge. My 8Gb disk is full of this crap. Long life Kdevelop! Happy coding! don't complain about my spelling...
Greets:
I mostly agree with you, but for repetitive work there is allways the MACRO option (thing, whatever) that I once used to do some repetitive boring stuff. Thus a the macro isn't very easy to create if you want some special stuff done. You port to NT, I port to Linux from NT, isn't that cute?
Greets:
I know that characterizing a potential Linux market as "one billion communists" sounds kind of funny, but it's really quite wrong.
The newsmedia has been doing this for quite a while -- to set things straight: this is a communist government (which, of recent, has had some serious capitalist leanings!) Most of the Chinese people did not choose Communism, and several recent studies have shown that most Chinese don't even agree with Communist ideals. In addition, most of the "one billion" are rural people, who have little knowledge of their government. They abide by the Communists because they are unaware of other "options."
So, let's say "one billion people in a Communist country"... it's a bit more accurate!
and I don't really think that we should create life Why is that? That's an utterly absurd opinion. After all we create life all the time. Ever heard of procreation? Ever heard of giving birth to a child? That's creating life. Is that wrong? --
I don't think that the Bible must be interpreted textualy. Can actualy imagine az invasion in the fasioned way ? with all the nukes sitting around ? I don't but hey there is Y2K problem everyway. I hope none of the nukes will try to fly because of this problem. We are blind to revelation and often do not want to see. Everything can be interpreted pro/contra around this subject. There is another issue: if we see that the end is comming will we start praying for all our sins ? Come on. We will have the "tools" and "technology" to ignore the signs and close our eyes. I end my explanations here, but is allways nice to talk with other peoples and I wish you all the best and "God be with you and your family". Happy new year!
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1st) By Far is the E*Trade Monkey commerical (irony done well is just to funny).
2nd) I think it would have to be for lifeminders.com, and I like how they have changed there page to reflect it.
3rd) would have to be the mountain dew comercials, the lepoard one, and then the queen one.
But did anyone else notice how there were animals in 99% of the commericals?! Do Animals sell?!
Posted by NJViking:
I hope they clean up the ArcServe interface up first before they port it. I had to support ArcServe on 8 NT servers at my last job and it was not a pretty picture.
Arcserve appears to have horrible support for library tape devices, and their instructions for installing patches (as well as figuring out which patches are pre-requisites to others is a nightmare.)
The tape device I was using was a Magstar B10. It had support for 20 tape cartidges and was a fast little machine, however, Arcserve would often leave the tape device in an unwritable state.
When I left that job in June, I had found out from a colleague in November that they hadn't had a full backup since August.
NJV
Posted by NJViking:
I'm typing this now on M13 under Windows NT and I have to say, it's a heck of a lot more stable than M12.
Looks like they fixed the "Same Image as" bug, and the mouse-clicking-in-URL-address-blank causes GPF/segfault problem.
Kudos to the Mozilla team!
NJV
Danger in the Future of Virtual Reality?
By Neville Sanjana
Raymond Kurzweil's thought-provoking essay, "Live Forever: Uploading the Human Brain," paints a striking picture of future science at the intersection of artificial intelligence and neurobiology. Like Kurzweil, I am also an optimist for the future, but I feel strongly that some of the implications of the technology he discusses are potentially disastrous and thus necessitate public discussion well before that future arrives.
In my opinion, the future of virtual reality is what should be at the forefront of such discussions. Kurzweil describes nanobots (super-tiny machines that work on a molecular scale) which will take up positions at each neuron in our body, able to influence both afferent information coming from our senses and efferent output to structures like our muscles. He states: "The nanobots would prevent our real bodies from moving; instead, we would have a virtual body in a virtual environment."
Now, take a minute to think of the psychological implications here. Right now, your brain is the only computer that can control your neurons. With the nanobots, your desktop computer will share control over these neurons. Thus, you can specify certain experiences via the desktop computer, which will be transferred to you in a type of extremely realistic virtual reality. The key concern is that if virtual reality is created at the neuronal level, we could potentially have experiences that are for ourselves completely indistinguishable from actual reality. This is not like a dream; in this virtual reality, all of the details are crystal clear, just like in our daily lives.
I find it interesting that Kurzweil's essay is published in Psychology Today, since the virtual reality technologies he outlines could spawn a whole slew of human psychological disorders that we cannot yet even conceive. For example, when virtual reality becomes indistinguishable from actual reality, what happens? Will humans automatically adapt? If our sense of reality becomes distorted and uncertain, human society will change drastically.
Imagine if someone else is able to control the nanobots in your brain (by gaining access to your personal computer or by remote control). Can we afford a technology that requires such an immense compromise? In other words, will we accept the fact that at any time our experiences could be purely simulations and still go about our ways normally? It is difficult to conceive of a future where a malicious person might hijack your brain, but it is definitely possible in the world Kurzweil describes.
Back to the psychological side, here is a more likely scenario: After experiencing a fully personalizable virtual reality, someone might decide that they like their own personal virtual reality more than actual reality and thus avoid normal social interaction. So, then, what will human society look like in the future? A benefit of virtual reality would allow for augmented social interaction, like being able to spend time with relatives who are thousands of miles away. But it is equally possible that large groups of people will simply choose to stay tied to their virtual reality and experience a world that they prefer to live in. Is this the next step in our evolution or is it the beginnings of a delusional society with serious psychological problems?
Let me say one last thing before I end: I sincerely hope that this essay does not appear alarmist or, even worse, apocalyptic. Neither of these are my intentions. I simply think that a dialogue on this issues is of vital important, regardless of how science-fiction-ish the issues seem to be. After all, at the present time, virtual reality only means a video game that has really nice graphics.
Posted by NJViking:
Programs run in user space not kernel space so they can't fsck with your resources.
The virus would have to find a way to get root access.
I can see how something like kernel NFS or the new kernel web server could possibly be exploited to do this, which is why I won't run them.
NJV
Posted by NJViking:
:)
I agree. I spent hours playing games like Elevator Action, Silkworm.. anyone remember Star Castles?
I could kill for a Star Castles MAME ROM.
Ahh.. memories.
NJV
Posted by Synsthe:
:) I'm expecting all the posts to be one sided only.
/should/ be next.
I haven't quite waded through the mire of posts on this topic yet, but I hope this gets a Score: 0, redundant, from all the others saying the same thing. This is slashdot though.
Anyway, on to the point. Who cares about "Draconian" parole regulations. If Kevin didn't want to have his life turned upside down, maybe the twit shouldn't have been out there doing as much illegally as he could on his computer.
He deserved whatever he got, and he deserves whatever parole regulations he's on. If more people like him were to get what they deserved, ie, jail time, perhaps the vast majority of script kiddies and their peers would wake up and realize that they could be next.
Correction,
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Posted by NJViking:
It was amazing! I think totality was earlier than 11 pm though because when I came out, a bright crescent was appearing on the right-hand side.
It didn't go totally dark, the moon was a kind of dark amber colour. Like the color of stout when held up to a light.
NJViking
Posted by cookieman.k:
You are missing the point: not the SUM is important ! The percent of the donator's wealth wich is donated is what that matters. Its easy to donate when you have bilions but much harder when you only have money for survival (or less). You obviously haven't experienced this. Take back this *hypocrisy* thing, it only make you look like you are one. ---- Off topic and redundant - I know...
Posted by NJViking:
The computer sounds very impressive. They will be able to make more long-range forecast as well as predict more factors sooner thereby giving people more warning.
I would think this would also help them with tornado predictions as well.
NJV
Posted by Nr9:
ya.. but the strange thing is that the key is found with over 98% of the keyspace done. there is only 2% chance that the key is over 98%.
Alright Chris, How much wood, would a wood chuck chuck, if a wood chuck could chuck wood?
Posted by polar_bear:
There are too many logical fallicies in this bit to count -- while it starts with a reasonable premise (there's too much information to be processed -- and it may be taking up too much time distracting the masses from more important matters) it really fades into babble quickly.
If you're going to discuss information and its transmission -- you might want to discuss it in terms of communication theory, not try to shoehorn the discussion into the boundaries of natural selection. Predators for information? Please.
Concerned parties may wish to read Neil Postman's "Amusing Ourselves to Death" which discusses the problems with the electronic media and the unchecked proliferation of electronic entertainment -- and what it is doing to public discourse. While I don't agree with every point that Postman makes, it's certainly a much more valid and lucid discussion than this piece of dribble.
It's counter-productive to assault Katz (or anyone else) for their faulty reasoning or pretentious posturing as an authority on these topics. The fact is they do need to be discussed. Even if the initial spark to the conversation was a bit weak, it's still a conversation worth having...
Posted by Nr9:
actually i think apple will support the older systemsd because apple is announcing the "single OS strategy" their old strategy was doing mac os x and mac os 9.x in parallel... with mac os x only supporting the g3s.. i hope this will change because i have a old mac pci too(8600).
Posted by Synsthe:
I wonder if there''ll be any future lawsuits from parents, if their kids start glowing in the dark at night and keeping everybody awake.
Hey, it could happen.
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Posted by cookieman.k:
The stereotype apply to me very correctly but I think that if I would develop the same logical skills in manny other tech areas if I were'nt a coder. That is nobody is born nerd but that cannot be teached if you don't have a basic couriosity on wich the logic skills can be grown. Great article ! Just my twocents...
Posted by patg:
sounds like "foot in mouth" situation. "uh, we really didn't think about what we said..."
Posted by cookieman.k:
...
Greets:
Hi AC! You have some good points (ex: VC editor) but the debugger crash faster than the NT itself. The wizards are useles I'm not that lazy to write some file on my own. You say that graphics aplication and games are all over the place in Win world but the DirectX scheme of programing 3D (or else) was designed by a masochist. MSDN is good but do not count on the API because half of MSDN is bug recognition/workaround. The DSP file itself is very cute until something scrues some little thing in itt and after that you can say goodby to the project. I will not mention that the space needed for all these API/GUI/whatever is huge. My 8Gb disk is full of this crap. Long life Kdevelop! Happy coding! don't complain about my spelling
Posted by cookieman.k:
I mostly agree with you, but for repetitive work there is allways the MACRO option (thing, whatever) that I once used to do some repetitive boring stuff. Thus a the macro isn't very easy to create if you want some special stuff done. You port to NT, I port to Linux from NT, isn't that cute? Greets:
Posted by PartA:
...because of all the people who love their Big Macs and the like.
I know that characterizing a potential Linux market as "one billion communists" sounds kind of funny, but it's really quite wrong.
The newsmedia has been doing this for quite a while -- to set things straight: this is a communist government (which, of recent, has had some serious capitalist leanings!) Most of the Chinese people did not choose Communism, and several recent studies have shown that most Chinese don't even agree with Communist ideals. In addition, most of the "one billion" are rural people, who have little knowledge of their government. They abide by the Communists because they are unaware of other "options."
So, let's say "one billion people in a Communist country"... it's a bit more accurate!
Posted by Synsthe:
and I don't really think that we should create life Why is that? That's an utterly absurd opinion. After all we create life all the time. Ever heard of procreation? Ever heard of giving birth to a child? That's creating life. Is that wrong?
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Posted by polar_bear:
Okay...wayyy off topic...but, it is the Beatles...isn't that worth a "1" or something? It's not like it was NKOTB lyrics... ah well...
Posted by cookieman.k:
No problem man, it happens to others too.
Posted by cookieman.k:
I don't think that the Bible must be interpreted textualy. Can actualy imagine az invasion in the fasioned way ? with all the nukes sitting around ? I don't but hey there is Y2K problem everyway. I hope none of the nukes will try to fly because of this problem. We are blind to revelation and often do not want to see. Everything can be interpreted pro/contra around this subject. There is another issue: if we see that the end is comming will we start praying for all our sins ? Come on. We will have the "tools" and "technology" to ignore the signs and close our eyes. I end my explanations here, but is allways nice to talk with other peoples and I wish you all the best and "God be with you and your family". Happy new year!