I would lie saying that i have a big plasma tv, a lot of gadgets and money hidden in my house, and stay hidden till the buglar with that wonderful augmented reality device come to take it.
The real problem there is not so much augmented reality as is making public things that you dont want everyone know. Once you go that road, probably augmented reality and/or geotagged photos aren't necessary.
So more expending means more more energy and more global warming? That didnt took into account the huge expendings that means try to reduce global warming. Is an ok analogy if we dont care about it (or say that is a hoax, a trap or a government/scientist evil plot), and dont take any measure. But once you start taking measures, expendings go up, and energy output (should) go down.
Remember when web mail providers were giving like 4Mb of mailbox capacity, and then Google came with 2Gb (oh, yes, and a spam filter that actually worked)? Most providers didnt vanished, just had to adapt and still are here, giving a better service to their costumer. For cellphone industry that is something very needed, someone that come with a disruptive idea and weight enough behind to actually push it. Wont kill all companies, but to survive they will have to improve, not just giving the latest gizmo and charging you a lot.
"They provide a facility that is able to be used for copyright infringement purposes"
So next will come shops that sell computers, and photo/video cameras ? Keep reasoning that way and dont stop till all lives in caves (or worse, after all, human brain can be used for copyright infringement purposes after all).
Of all disaster movies, alien/monster attacks, still have to see one where the copyright industry attacks and successfully destroy mankind, at least have more chances to happen than the arguments of most blockbuster disaster movies.
What natural language you mean to use instead? Babel 17? Learning that language have nasty side effects.
Probably there is a language on is simple to explain even to a computer how to solve a particular complex problem, but the language probably will have to be different for another kind of complex problem.
Could be "given" by cellphone companies with 3g-data contracts.
But cellphone companies make me remember that they put their content or links on cellphones. When you login (with your i.e. google account) where you land? What will be the Chrome (browser) homepage in that context? Could end being your cellphone provider homepage tied with your account, if you got that way your netbook?
I've been ever fan of Opera innovations, because i know i will probably see them in my future, no matter in which browser. But the new additions looks dangerous. Are open the field tie browser/user content to the maker of the browser (the 10gb of shared photos and opera turbo mean opera servers and services behind, and not so sure about the "embedded" server) and if well they could do that right or wrong, are practically forcing the other players in the browser arena to do the same, and not all are so well behaved.
Is not meant to be a full computer replacement, just a window to the web, no more, no less. Even could forget that is Linux what it runs. And about performing like the other distros, i suppose that further in the development will be tuned, and trimmed, and adjusted to the very specific hardware that is meant to run on, and that could change how it performs (and even what it does, is nice on paper but reality could change that idea)
Thats the keyword that matters more there. Global communications (in particular with cellphones), and internet (with all the tools described in the article) have global and instant access from all the world. If you want to put in a word the difference between past and present, "World" will be what we have now, in this instant, all of it (including the bad parts, as globalization and properly named pandemic diseases)
Wrong question. A better one would be "What are the legal status of not following standards?". Unfortunately none so far (else Microsoft would had turned into a black hole by the sheer mass of complains filled on them till date), but Google seems to try to follow standards, specially as basic web ones like honoring robots.txt.
Even if not honoring robots.txt, most popular search engine crawlers have a known user agent (that could be blocked by the site or web server configuration), and come from a known ip range (that can be blocked at firewall) if you definately dont want to be indexed by them.
Regarding linking, in general, there was some troubles in the past regarding deep linking, but linking in general is a so essential part of internet that if you dont want it, you should be somewhere else (i.e. printed media exclusively). Putting public something and then claiming i.e. no copies allowed (every browser cache or intermediate cache does that automatically) is another thing that goes a bit against the very nature of internet. But dont wanted to be linked, even by someone in particular is something already contemplated and easily fixable.
Maybe Google should assume that Murdoch&Co don't understand the intricacies of robots.txt and do them a favor stoping linking at them, after all the yelling they are doing of it. They should be thankful after that action.
With current advancements in internet and virtual reality, maybe a way to stop polluting/emiting greenhouse gases and/or survive to global heathing is to attach ourselves to machines and live a virtual life there, with minimal energy requirements, low pollution, letting the planet heal itself. And tell the machines that guard us to tell anyone who asked that they are dominating and using us to generate energy to not blame the human architects that designed that brilliant plan.
The only problem could happen is if some idiots want to keep screwing our climate funding a polluting underground city and driving around ships, but we can build an alternate virtual reality s specifically for them, with gateways with the main one.
Portable devices are converging, and cellphones so far are the main target of that convergence. But they are evolving. Started looking just as a bit more than a (big) keypad, added display that grew over time to be all display in touchscreens, added fast cpus and plenty of memory, photo/video cameras, gps/accelerometers and other sensors, etc. In a short future could be seen more as portable internet devices than phones, and its shape and way to use could evolve even more.
How they will end if start adopting the features of i.e. SixthSense or other approachs to user interfaces? More than cellphones will be called Augmented Reality Devices?
The companies that will take a direct hit when Chrome OS gets released commented that it will be bad. Amazing.
Anyway, there were some constructive comments. Saying that they should improve and boot in a second instead of 7, as they are actually doing, sounds to me like positive feedback. And if google or the community can't make boot Chrome as fast because of design choices, would be nice to have HyperSpace or SplashTop in normal computers/notebooks and chrome in specialized netbooks, the market is wide enough for all, and the consumers will win at the end. And, who knows, could be more feedback between all those fast booting linux all along chrome os development and advancements made in that area.
You just do this and that happens. As in "you run this and your phone gets even more awesome" or "you'll shut down your firewall be able to get movies in your pc" or things like that. But you dont have to understand what are really doing, or all that it implies. People are getting powerful things, and as childs are irresponsible about what could happen because their actions because they don't understand them.
It seem plain clear to us that having a common, default admin passwords in all the jailbroken devices is a very bad policy, but how many times we could had fell in a similar situation were are us who don't understand fully what we are using i.e. in other areas?
To make things worse, we complain a lot about products that takes the "safest" choice for us, not giving enough control/customization to the final (knowing enough?) user, making those impopular and so not taken even by the people that don't know (or don't want to know).
The concept of psycohistory maybe? predicting with large groups of people will probably do? Is more plausible now than when was written? That concept existed before, and in that extent?
Anyway, replaying history in future terms gives another meaning to the phrase "those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it"
Sometimes a popular sci-fi story makes ground on certain concept to help it being approved by the people that fund projects. Would satellites or so popular if ACClarke didnt wrote about them a lot of years ago? Submarines could had went from small test to the use we are giving them now without Nautilus? What about future space elevators?
Anyway, a good part of science fiction is more about us than about technology, how we will behave or think in a different environment, or take another point of view to our current one. That it could be possible by our current knowledge is a plus, a way to not just throw away all we know because anything could happens as is just fantasy.
Living in a country where all school children have an XO, all having access to wikipedia, i'd say that root of that history is already made real, or at least, close enough.
Google still hasn't shown a real 1) educational 2) business case 3) entertainment or 4) porn case for ChromeOS. Any of those could drive it. Right now, it's just a lightweight ROM-able appliance and a Microsoft/MacOS/Linux killer looking for a spot marked X.
They dont have to. What educational/business/entertainment/porn gives the search engine per se, already digested? is just a tool, and you are the one that applies it to whichever case.
Besides, regarding porn, rule 34 is still there, even for Chrome OS
The real Cuban article is in his blog. Is not like he did a legal proposal, listed the top 1k sites and offered them that money. Was doing a bit of math, and the rtfa took it out of context or proportion.
Healthier children is the only thing that could be possible improved there for me. The rest look more related to culture (education, environment, etc) things than to genetic ones. And they put it in the last place, even doubting that it could happen.
Of course, if both deeply believe what they said (won't be so different from any "predicted" match coming from tea leaves, astrology, dices, numerology and reading hand lines) there are a chance that it will happens, and that is cultural too.
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So if i set my firefox useragent as iPhone/Tablet 5.0 and start visiting iPhone related sites a lot of noise will be generated?
Announcing that they are looking specially to an info so easily modified is a good recipe for unfounded hype.
I would lie saying that i have a big plasma tv, a lot of gadgets and money hidden in my house, and stay hidden till the buglar with that wonderful augmented reality device come to take it.
The real problem there is not so much augmented reality as is making public things that you dont want everyone know. Once you go that road, probably augmented reality and/or geotagged photos aren't necessary.
So more expending means more more energy and more global warming? That didnt took into account the huge expendings that means try to reduce global warming. Is an ok analogy if we dont care about it (or say that is a hoax, a trap or a government/scientist evil plot), and dont take any measure. But once you start taking measures, expendings go up, and energy output (should) go down.
Remember when web mail providers were giving like 4Mb of mailbox capacity, and then Google came with 2Gb (oh, yes, and a spam filter that actually worked)? Most providers didnt vanished, just had to adapt and still are here, giving a better service to their costumer. For cellphone industry that is something very needed, someone that come with a disruptive idea and weight enough behind to actually push it. Wont kill all companies, but to survive they will have to improve, not just giving the latest gizmo and charging you a lot.
"They provide a facility that is able to be used for copyright infringement purposes"
So next will come shops that sell computers, and photo/video cameras ? Keep reasoning that way and dont stop till all lives in caves (or worse, after all, human brain can be used for copyright infringement purposes after all).
Of all disaster movies, alien/monster attacks, still have to see one where the copyright industry attacks and successfully destroy mankind, at least have more chances to happen than the arguments of most blockbuster disaster movies.
What natural language you mean to use instead? Babel 17? Learning that language have nasty side effects.
Probably there is a language on is simple to explain even to a computer how to solve a particular complex problem, but the language probably will have to be different for another kind of complex problem.
Yes, that explanation is a bit heavy. Can you take a big breath of hellium and explain it again? Worked for monopoles.
Could be "given" by cellphone companies with 3g-data contracts.
But cellphone companies make me remember that they put their content or links on cellphones. When you login (with your i.e. google account) where you land? What will be the Chrome (browser) homepage in that context? Could end being your cellphone provider homepage tied with your account, if you got that way your netbook?
I've been ever fan of Opera innovations, because i know i will probably see them in my future, no matter in which browser. But the new additions looks dangerous. Are open the field tie browser/user content to the maker of the browser (the 10gb of shared photos and opera turbo mean opera servers and services behind, and not so sure about the "embedded" server) and if well they could do that right or wrong, are practically forcing the other players in the browser arena to do the same, and not all are so well behaved.
Is not meant to be a full computer replacement, just a window to the web, no more, no less. Even could forget that is Linux what it runs. And about performing like the other distros, i suppose that further in the development will be tuned, and trimmed, and adjusted to the very specific hardware that is meant to run on, and that could change how it performs (and even what it does, is nice on paper but reality could change that idea)
Thats the keyword that matters more there. Global communications (in particular with cellphones), and internet (with all the tools described in the article) have global and instant access from all the world. If you want to put in a word the difference between past and present, "World" will be what we have now, in this instant, all of it (including the bad parts, as globalization and properly named pandemic diseases)
Wrong question. A better one would be "What are the legal status of not following standards?". Unfortunately none so far (else Microsoft would had turned into a black hole by the sheer mass of complains filled on them till date), but Google seems to try to follow standards, specially as basic web ones like honoring robots.txt.
Even if not honoring robots.txt, most popular search engine crawlers have a known user agent (that could be blocked by the site or web server configuration), and come from a known ip range (that can be blocked at firewall) if you definately dont want to be indexed by them.
Regarding linking, in general, there was some troubles in the past regarding deep linking, but linking in general is a so essential part of internet that if you dont want it, you should be somewhere else (i.e. printed media exclusively). Putting public something and then claiming i.e. no copies allowed (every browser cache or intermediate cache does that automatically) is another thing that goes a bit against the very nature of internet. But dont wanted to be linked, even by someone in particular is something already contemplated and easily fixable.
Maybe Google should assume that Murdoch&Co don't understand the intricacies of robots.txt and do them a favor stoping linking at them, after all the yelling they are doing of it. They should be thankful after that action.
With current advancements in internet and virtual reality, maybe a way to stop polluting/emiting greenhouse gases and/or survive to global heathing is to attach ourselves to machines and live a virtual life there, with minimal energy requirements, low pollution, letting the planet heal itself. And tell the machines that guard us to tell anyone who asked that they are dominating and using us to generate energy to not blame the human architects that designed that brilliant plan.
The only problem could happen is if some idiots want to keep screwing our climate funding a polluting underground city and driving around ships, but we can build an alternate virtual reality s specifically for them, with gateways with the main one.
Portable devices are converging, and cellphones so far are the main target of that convergence. But they are evolving. Started looking just as a bit more than a (big) keypad, added display that grew over time to be all display in touchscreens, added fast cpus and plenty of memory, photo/video cameras, gps/accelerometers and other sensors, etc. In a short future could be seen more as portable internet devices than phones, and its shape and way to use could evolve even more.
How they will end if start adopting the features of i.e. SixthSense or other approachs to user interfaces? More than cellphones will be called Augmented Reality Devices?
The companies that will take a direct hit when Chrome OS gets released commented that it will be bad. Amazing.
Anyway, there were some constructive comments. Saying that they should improve and boot in a second instead of 7, as they are actually doing, sounds to me like positive feedback. And if google or the community can't make boot Chrome as fast because of design choices, would be nice to have HyperSpace or SplashTop in normal computers/notebooks and chrome in specialized netbooks, the market is wide enough for all, and the consumers will win at the end. And, who knows, could be more feedback between all those fast booting linux all along chrome os development and advancements made in that area.
You just do this and that happens. As in "you run this and your phone gets even more awesome" or "you'll shut down your firewall be able to get movies in your pc" or things like that. But you dont have to understand what are really doing, or all that it implies. People are getting powerful things, and as childs are irresponsible about what could happen because their actions because they don't understand them.
It seem plain clear to us that having a common, default admin passwords in all the jailbroken devices is a very bad policy, but how many times we could had fell in a similar situation were are us who don't understand fully what we are using i.e. in other areas?
To make things worse, we complain a lot about products that takes the "safest" choice for us, not giving enough control/customization to the final (knowing enough?) user, making those impopular and so not taken even by the people that don't know (or don't want to know).
The concept of psycohistory maybe? predicting with large groups of people will probably do? Is more plausible now than when was written? That concept existed before, and in that extent?
Anyway, replaying history in future terms gives another meaning to the phrase "those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it"
Sometimes a popular sci-fi story makes ground on certain concept to help it being approved by the people that fund projects. Would satellites or so popular if ACClarke didnt wrote about them a lot of years ago? Submarines could had went from small test to the use we are giving them now without Nautilus? What about future space elevators?
Anyway, a good part of science fiction is more about us than about technology, how we will behave or think in a different environment, or take another point of view to our current one. That it could be possible by our current knowledge is a plus, a way to not just throw away all we know because anything could happens as is just fantasy.
Living in a country where all school children have an XO, all having access to wikipedia, i'd say that root of that history is already made real, or at least, close enough.
Google still hasn't shown a real 1) educational 2) business case 3) entertainment or 4) porn case for ChromeOS. Any of those could drive it. Right now, it's just a lightweight ROM-able appliance and a Microsoft/MacOS/Linux killer looking for a spot marked X.
They dont have to. What educational/business/entertainment/porn gives the search engine per se, already digested? is just a tool, and you are the one that applies it to whichever case.
Besides, regarding porn, rule 34 is still there, even for Chrome OS
They are built at night too, and you get more or less the same security feeling.
They should patent Tourette instead, so maybe the rest of the world stop getting its symptoms every time they make a move.
Wrong movie. The 1st villain in 9 was a sort of robotic cat.
The real Cuban article is in his blog. Is not like he did a legal proposal, listed the top 1k sites and offered them that money. Was doing a bit of math, and the rtfa took it out of context or proportion.
Healthier children is the only thing that could be possible improved there for me. The rest look more related to culture (education, environment, etc) things than to genetic ones. And they put it in the last place, even doubting that it could happen.
Of course, if both deeply believe what they said (won't be so different from any "predicted" match coming from tea leaves, astrology, dices, numerology and reading hand lines) there are a chance that it will happens, and that is cultural too.