We could create a commision to study the problem, that surely will create subcommission for each alternative and so on till we die in 16 millon(?) years in the black hole created by that massive weight of burocracy.
Anyway, so far we where the first ones smart enough to build weapons capable to extinguish ourselves, while still being stupidity enough to think in using them. If we survive to ourselves the next 160 or 1600 years, we could start to think in what will come so much further.
Each person is the 1-person intersection of a lot of circles of different sizes, potentially having a different personality in front of each of them. And some of those circles are totally contained in others (as in class colleages, and small group of closest friends in that class).
Is not just 4-6, are a lot, and is very dynamic too.
They seem to go in the right direction, but falling short on the real problem.
Take this current Google Game. Is not very social, you don't interact with anyone else playing it, don't push anyone to measure how can play compared to you. Maybe Farmville could be seen more as viral gaming than social gaming, but still is just another way of being social.
There are a lot of creative work published thanks to piracy. Look at all the reports of RIAA reporting damages because pirating music, or justifying trillons of dollars of loss because of it, Isnt that creativity? isnt that art? The world could had miss that amazing display of creativity if werent because piracy.
If well is not fully open (the actual cellphone part is somewhat closed source) the N900 could had started a trend of open, very flexible phones, you can even find alternative kernels where you can over/underclock them for special uses. It is still an impressive phone, but is lacking mindshare. It could have got more developers attention, but they didnt put their weight supporting that phone.
Now they are going for Meego, still having closed components, and the question is for how much they will give to it attention or how soon they will forget about that platform too. They should be more open on them, letting developers fully take advantage of that hardware (i.e. there is an Android port for it, but the cellphone part don't work because being one of the closed components), and see how far it could get... if the phone gets wildly popular because its flexibility, maybe they won't sell so much associated services if what most run is not tied with them, but for sure they will sell a lot of hardware.
Can't say that the experience in my country has been a wild success, but still things has changed since most school children here in Uruguay got their XO, and not just for the children.
And if well it went for children for most social classes (they were deployed in all public schools, so some private schools didnt got them) somewhat chokes you to see poor children on the streets playing with them or browsing internet close to places with free wifi.
If you asked that question in USA like 3 years ago, probably the answer would have been "yes".
And in modern "democracy", what is chosen is not because how much intelligent is, there are very limited options (at least in USA, remember that Simpsons joke where you have to choose between 2 evil aliens or throw your vote?), and media campaing, not truth (or real candidate intelligence/honestity), is what matters.
I know im burning karma with a flamethrower here, but probably linking goatse guy could be on topic in this particular article, depending on how much costed the camera it was taken, and the incidence of colorectal cancer.
If you think it will make you look badass, or even evil, you can try putting there the Hanlon's Razor. That will give the others the opportunity to think.
They promote the use of IE6 instead of Chrome or Opera to decrease security... probably they will kick people usiing updated flash players and recent firefox.
If well Hanlon's always take precedence, by now a variation of Clarke's law should be applied: "Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice"
This say plainly that if you encrypt your info with the right, cheaply available technology, not even the FBI could get it, no matter what is it, or who you are. How much time now till some law around criminalizing the use of encryption gets approved?
Probably most of the "waiting" in popular culture was more about the one in Back to the Future, from 1985 (ok, mostly was flying in part II, in 1989), than anything else. It even had a specific date for having them, at 2015. But apparently we are a bit far away from personal, portable fussion reactors (that can be feed with just garbage), antigrav devices and, well, time machines, in less than 5 years, but i still don't lose hope. A flying DeLorean can still land on Cyberdyne 20 years ago and we would have them by now (of course, that could end being a bad nightmare too, like being all killed by antigrav robots or blue butterflies)
I am thinking 2011. Nokia didnt put a lot of love supporting and expanding the N900 (btw, have one), plus is the only cellphone featuring maemo, not even other from the same company. In a lot of areas still beats badly any competitor, but need more support from app makers (and, btw, as already was pointed, is 256M what have of ram)
With MeeGo, being in netbooks, cellphones and maybe other devices maybe more cellphone makers join the platform, plus all the N models that could release Nokia next year.
And Android is gaining big momentum too (probably more now with the iOS4 debacle) and still have Linux somewhere down there.
Ok, it enables everyone to make their owns shows without needing infrastructure to broadcast it (as in a tv/cable station). But youtube (and several clones) are already in that spot. In fact, there are a lot of web "tv" series running in that media already for years now. And are easier to reach the big public that way (there could be even tv sets and dvrs that directly show youtube videos, and that without even getting to google tv). What other thing you could have here? video quality? offline viewing? you have it all there
For much resources you have now, there are widely available strong enough crypto to ensure that if you don't want to be hear, you wont. So the "normal" people will lose privacy, and the ones you say you want to control dont.
To make things worse, if this goes on people that care about privacy will use hard encryption, and eventually will be chased because of that because "they have something to hide", "could be terrorists", etc, etc.
So this don't have anything to do about terrorists coordinating thru internet, but effectively terminating privacy at world scale (and prosecuting the ones that want it). So much for a government that say that cares about freedom and human rights.
What if someone from other country hacks some US big instutution/organization (nasa, fbi, nsa, whatever) and destroy/publish/modifies something "delicate". He won't commit the crime on US, but wherever he is, no matter if it will hit computers that are in US. Will the US authorities note that fact? Because whatever Zuckerberg is doing, is also hitting pakistani computers.
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He owns Faceboo
Beware, if you don't hold iHistory with an iron grip could be public reception problems.
We could create a commision to study the problem, that surely will create subcommission for each alternative and so on till we die in 16 millon(?) years in the black hole created by that massive weight of burocracy.
Anyway, so far we where the first ones smart enough to build weapons capable to extinguish ourselves, while still being stupidity enough to think in using them. If we survive to ourselves the next 160 or 1600 years, we could start to think in what will come so much further.
Each person is the 1-person intersection of a lot of circles of different sizes, potentially having a different personality in front of each of them. And some of those circles are totally contained in others (as in class colleages, and small group of closest friends in that class).
Is not just 4-6, are a lot, and is very dynamic too.
They seem to go in the right direction, but falling short on the real problem.
Take this current Google Game. Is not very social, you don't interact with anyone else playing it, don't push anyone to measure how can play compared to you. Maybe Farmville could be seen more as viral gaming than social gaming, but still is just another way of being social.
There are a lot of creative work published thanks to piracy. Look at all the reports of RIAA reporting damages because pirating music, or justifying trillons of dollars of loss because of it, Isnt that creativity? isnt that art? The world could had miss that amazing display of creativity if werent because piracy.
If well is not fully open (the actual cellphone part is somewhat closed source) the N900 could had started a trend of open, very flexible phones, you can even find alternative kernels where you can over/underclock them for special uses. It is still an impressive phone, but is lacking mindshare. It could have got more developers attention, but they didnt put their weight supporting that phone.
Now they are going for Meego, still having closed components, and the question is for how much they will give to it attention or how soon they will forget about that platform too. They should be more open on them, letting developers fully take advantage of that hardware (i.e. there is an Android port for it, but the cellphone part don't work because being one of the closed components), and see how far it could get... if the phone gets wildly popular because its flexibility, maybe they won't sell so much associated services if what most run is not tied with them, but for sure they will sell a lot of hardware.
Can't say that the experience in my country has been a wild success, but still things has changed since most school children here in Uruguay got their XO, and not just for the children.
And if well it went for children for most social classes (they were deployed in all public schools, so some private schools didnt got them) somewhat chokes you to see poor children on the streets playing with them or browsing internet close to places with free wifi.
After removing all the oil will be easy to see that are part of the already known brucewaynefish species.
If you asked that question in USA like 3 years ago, probably the answer would have been "yes".
And in modern "democracy", what is chosen is not because how much intelligent is, there are very limited options (at least in USA, remember that Simpsons joke where you have to choose between 2 evil aliens or throw your vote?), and media campaing, not truth (or real candidate intelligence/honestity), is what matters.
Maybe you should care how nature took care of other ocean contaminations on the past,
I know im burning karma with a flamethrower here, but probably linking goatse guy could be on topic in this particular article, depending on how much costed the camera it was taken, and the incidence of colorectal cancer.
If i have one of this ones (yada yada oblig xkcd et al), i would pick the sun as favorite.
If you think it will make you look badass, or even evil, you can try putting there the Hanlon's Razor. That will give the others the opportunity to think.
too bad we are at the border of the abyss.
They promote the use of IE6 instead of Chrome or Opera to decrease security... probably they will kick people usiing updated flash players and recent firefox.
If well Hanlon's always take precedence, by now a variation of Clarke's law should be applied: "Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice"
This say plainly that if you encrypt your info with the right, cheaply available technology, not even the FBI could get it, no matter what is it, or who you are. How much time now till some law around criminalizing the use of encryption gets approved?
The same could be applied to OS instead of device. And there are always a reading of that that you wont like.
Probably most of the "waiting" in popular culture was more about the one in Back to the Future, from 1985 (ok, mostly was flying in part II, in 1989), than anything else. It even had a specific date for having them, at 2015. But apparently we are a bit far away from personal, portable fussion reactors (that can be feed with just garbage), antigrav devices and, well, time machines, in less than 5 years, but i still don't lose hope. A flying DeLorean can still land on Cyberdyne 20 years ago and we would have them by now (of course, that could end being a bad nightmare too, like being all killed by antigrav robots or blue butterflies)
Bionic shark got world's first implant laser guns.
I am thinking 2011. Nokia didnt put a lot of love supporting and expanding the N900 (btw, have one), plus is the only cellphone featuring maemo, not even other from the same company. In a lot of areas still beats badly any competitor, but need more support from app makers (and, btw, as already was pointed, is 256M what have of ram)
With MeeGo, being in netbooks, cellphones and maybe other devices maybe more cellphone makers join the platform, plus all the N models that could release Nokia next year.
And Android is gaining big momentum too (probably more now with the iOS4 debacle) and still have Linux somewhere down there.
2011 will be the year of the Linux Smartphone?
Ok, it enables everyone to make their owns shows without needing infrastructure to broadcast it (as in a tv/cable station). But youtube (and several clones) are already in that spot. In fact, there are a lot of web "tv" series running in that media already for years now. And are easier to reach the big public that way (there could be even tv sets and dvrs that directly show youtube videos, and that without even getting to google tv). What other thing you could have here? video quality? offline viewing? you have it all there
For much resources you have now, there are widely available strong enough crypto to ensure that if you don't want to be hear, you wont. So the "normal" people will lose privacy, and the ones you say you want to control dont.
To make things worse, if this goes on people that care about privacy will use hard encryption, and eventually will be chased because of that because "they have something to hide", "could be terrorists", etc, etc.
So this don't have anything to do about terrorists coordinating thru internet, but effectively terminating privacy at world scale (and prosecuting the ones that want it). So much for a government that say that cares about freedom and human rights.
What if someone from other country hacks some US big instutution/organization (nasa, fbi, nsa, whatever) and destroy/publish/modifies something "delicate". He won't commit the crime on US, but wherever he is, no matter if it will hit computers that are in US. Will the US authorities note that fact? Because whatever Zuckerberg is doing, is also hitting pakistani computers.