If you have exponential growths in available energy, that leads to exponential growths in:
- Spaceflight potential (hell, it suddenly becomes a cinch to take a entire power station to the Moon or Mars and back - and while you're there look for fuel, etc.).
I am immediately going to being a campaing to save the gas giants. My God, in a thousand years, there will be nothing left of Jupiter!
This is something I would never do because, well, it's dumb and there are better things to do.
But I wonder how much of this is "there is a serious risk we could crash" and how much is "damn kids, we are pilots, FAA we are quite put out, use your quick-and-dirty-no-legislation-needed administrative law powers".
It's probably not "just" email. It's people who have created apps in Lotus Notes, Microsoft Exchange-integrated stuff, mail server X that has special requirement Y because of public law 123.45 which has some privacy rule, mail server Z that has to be audited three times a year, some old Burroughs mainframe that only speaks SMTP and can't authenticate with SASL so it has to have a mail server, and then Betty in Baltimore found out about that server and it was easier to configure ccMail to use it and she spread the word so now there's a galaxy of users all over sending mail through it, and...
For example, look at the advances Google has capitalized on for autonomous driving. I can easily envision the jobs of taxi driver, chauffeur, airline pilot and bus driver going away in a reasonable amounts of time. And just look at the skill gamut there. Commercial airline pilot is a bit more up the ladder than taxi driver. But with GPS and other advances, combined with the realization that the bulk of reported incidents are the result of human error, I can see even that job disappearing in a couple decades.
They are different. Is it surprising for one company to spin out more than one language? For a company of their size and age, Google has actually not invented very many. Compare to Microsoft, Apple, Sun, and Adobe who have each created several.
Your point is valid, but MS, Apple, and Sun were all operating system publishers and creating languages makes sense. Adobe was long a tool maker and their languages were tooly.
Google has become an operating system publisher only relatively recently (Android) and these languages don't target that platform. You could argue ChromeOS is an operating system but really that's just a Linux distro.
Google creating programming languages is sort of like Yahoo or Facebook creating programming languages. In Google's case, I suspect that these creations have little to do with their actual corporate mission and more to do with their wildly undisciplined engineering management.
(That doesn't indicate they're good or bad languages, of course.)
Ever since I read Gary Taubes' "Bad Science," I've been unshakably convinced that cold fusion is an example of pathological science, and Pons/Fleischman's "room temperature fusion" was utter nonsense.
However, CF believers seems to soldier on year after year. As recently as 2009, the U.S. Navy Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center reported finding neutron bursts when using heavy water electrolysis, though their claims were not accepted by the mainstream scientific community.
Has anything emerged since the debunking of Pons/Fleischmann that gives any credence to cold fusion?
And if you have the time...is there any future for muon-catalyzed fusion (which I understand is legitimate but falls far short of break even for energy production)?
And you would be wrong. Queue is a perfectly acceptable English word, derived from the French word for "tail".
And you would be wrong. The idiom is "cue", not "queue", though both happen to work depending on how flexible one is on the meaning.
Given this is supposedly (though rarely actually) a technology discussion site, I think "queue" in this context could be clever. I doubt it was meant as such, however.
Forget artificial intelligence. The future of computing is artificial consciousness, and it will be here within 20 years, and maybe much sooner than that
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If you have exponential growths in available energy, that leads to exponential growths in:
- Spaceflight potential (hell, it suddenly becomes a cinch to take a entire power station to the Moon or Mars and back - and while you're there look for fuel, etc.).
I am immediately going to being a campaing to save the gas giants. My God, in a thousand years, there will be nothing left of Jupiter!
This is something I would never do because, well, it's dumb and there are better things to do.
But I wonder how much of this is "there is a serious risk we could crash" and how much is "damn kids, we are pilots, FAA we are quite put out, use your quick-and-dirty-no-legislation-needed administrative law powers".
This is why I think the Microsoft system is the best one. They control the OS updates, but allow vendors to compete on the hardware.
I prefer the FOSS system: the users control the OS updates but allow vendors to compete on the hardware.
It's freaken email
It's probably not "just" email. It's people who have created apps in Lotus Notes, Microsoft Exchange-integrated stuff, mail server X that has special requirement Y because of public law 123.45 which has some privacy rule, mail server Z that has to be audited three times a year, some old Burroughs mainframe that only speaks SMTP and can't authenticate with SASL so it has to have a mail server, and then Betty in Baltimore found out about that server and it was easier to configure ccMail to use it and she spread the word so now there's a galaxy of users all over sending mail through it, and...
Should detonate it on Mars,
Should detonate it on the moon.
For example, look at the advances Google has capitalized on for autonomous driving. I can easily envision the jobs of taxi driver, chauffeur, airline pilot and bus driver going away in a reasonable amounts of time. And just look at the skill gamut there. Commercial airline pilot is a bit more up the ladder than taxi driver. But with GPS and other advances, combined with the realization that the bulk of reported incidents are the result of human error, I can see even that job disappearing in a couple decades.
Our regards to captain dunsel.
Which is why most people will pursue other interests, rather than slaving away at a menial job or a desk pounding out crap for someone else.
No, most people will lie on the couch, eat pizza, and watch Judge Judy.
General reaction is DD-WRT is crappy these days. I don't really know.
Not only crappy but a fairly evil project as well. Closed source, deceptive project leaders, software activation.
The tomato project is much better run and does everything that DD-WRT does. I like tomato-USB but there are several other flavors.
No, there wasn't much interest in putting lipstick on Algol-68.
Even better, do something in your new language that we couldn't do before.
They are different. Is it surprising for one company to spin out more than one language? For a company of their size and age, Google has actually not invented very many. Compare to Microsoft, Apple, Sun, and Adobe who have each created several.
Your point is valid, but MS, Apple, and Sun were all operating system publishers and creating languages makes sense. Adobe was long a tool maker and their languages were tooly.
Google has become an operating system publisher only relatively recently (Android) and these languages don't target that platform. You could argue ChromeOS is an operating system but really that's just a Linux distro.
Google creating programming languages is sort of like Yahoo or Facebook creating programming languages. In Google's case, I suspect that these creations have little to do with their actual corporate mission and more to do with their wildly undisciplined engineering management.
(That doesn't indicate they're good or bad languages, of course.)
Ever since I read Gary Taubes' "Bad Science," I've been unshakably convinced that cold fusion is an example of pathological science, and Pons/Fleischman's "room temperature fusion" was utter nonsense.
However, CF believers seems to soldier on year after year. As recently as 2009, the U.S. Navy Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center reported finding neutron bursts when using heavy water electrolysis, though their claims were not accepted by the mainstream scientific community.
Has anything emerged since the debunking of Pons/Fleischmann that gives any credence to cold fusion?
And if you have the time...is there any future for muon-catalyzed fusion (which I understand is legitimate but falls far short of break even for energy production)?
People manage to distribute petabytes of illegal material daily on bittorrent. Assange can't find a way to distribute megabytes?
The real story is that Assange can't make a dime off seeding a few torrents, and so he's not interested.
Android builds on Itanium?
For those who didn't read TFA, it states the netbook in question will be running AmigaOS.
(When I read the summary, I'd assumed someone had bought the trademark and was going to slap it on a Windows 7 Starter Edition laptop)
These posts express my own personal views, not those of my employer
Since you're anonymous and we don't know who your employer is, you're just being pretentious.
perverted-justice.com has been taking down pedophiles online for years, and doing it legally.
And you would be wrong. Queue is a perfectly acceptable English word, derived from the French word for "tail".
And you would be wrong. The idiom is "cue", not "queue", though both happen to work depending on how flexible one is on the meaning.
Given this is supposedly (though rarely actually) a technology discussion site, I think "queue" in this context could be clever. I doubt it was meant as such, however.
You can read about the news on a million different websites, but you can only get the Slashdot groupthink perspective here.
FTFY.
But can I write for Metro in Lisp?
In other words you're cherry picking your experts. You're committing a classic example of the No True Scotsman fallacy.
What makes it a "classic" example as opposed to just an example?
I think you are committing a classic overuse of the word "classic".
Forget artificial intelligence. The future of computing is artificial consciousness, and it will be here within 20 years, and maybe much sooner than that
Yes, that's what we all meant by AI.
...is just a fashion choice.
I recommend reading the work of Steve Keen, an academic economist who went public in 2005 predicting this crisis.
Someone publishes a book predicting a crisis in 5 years every year.
but if I could come up with a 'Hackintosh' with OS X
Because that's so hard to do...