Probably was too busy writting other things, like others 499 books in a really lot of topics. And he did wote a follow up, a lot of them. He unified a in a single future history a good bunch of his sci-fi books and tales, from The gods themselves to Foundation and Earth, going thru the robot books almost from the start.
I just hope that this new sequels are good. If they are, well, we all win. And if they don't, just dont read/buy them.
If you want to know how will evolve humanity, specially when all survive, is sociology the answer, not biology. Our capacity to replicate memes, like speaking, acting and looking as being actually popular somewhat increases our chances of reproducing. Is globalization pushing us towards not only unified culture, but also unified look,
Still, most people that dont fully comply with that usually reproduce too. Numbers are just too high, so even if there is a clear trend there, will take many generations, and nothing ensures that our civilization in the current way will remain that long. Won't be so surprising that in a somewhat near future not all survive (disasters, wars, totalitarian governments trying to "clean" their gene pool, etc), or not all will be free to have children (too many books and movies around that), or genes could be "corrected" (we are almost there to avoid genetic diseases, but could derive into "designing" children to met some fashion criteria), and not always will be natural or slow that "evolution".
You must give some credit to Microsoft. If weren't because of them, we would never knew the risks of botnets, trivial exploits and trusting by default in the network. Who knows, if they werent there probably some centuries from now, when we invade some primitive planet, natives would hack our mothership because we never got aware of those risks.
You should had read better our latest memo. Our company proposal targets exactly the source of the current information leaking problem. By using stealth technology, disguising as one of the culprit software, it infiltrate in their networks and kill those pesky PEBCAK softwares that are giving so much headaches lately. Give our company full freedom to act and that problem will be terminated.
Communicate? Will take a lot of years to do a "conversation" if there happens to be intelligent life there
Getting there? Still a lot to develop to be able to do such trip for human beings, just doing the technology to make us able to live for years or generations to get there is something potentially more important than finding a "good enough" planet out there. For machines the technology could be ready or close enough, but still, would be a version of the communicate option, once the ship its there.
Will smartphones kill all the devices that are converging to them? Why stop at GPS when from clocks and calculators to netbooks (including cameras, ebook readers and music players, of course) all are possibly being replaced by smartphones?
We have traditional definition on humans age, the line is drawn when you leave the body of your mother, not when you got conceived, or been 3 months since that, when you spoke your 1st word or did your 1st abstract thinking, but that don't exclude that could be valid criteria to consider all those other times your "starting" moment.
Where you draw the line when really started the internet as we know it? Probably in the next days or years several dates will be claimed as the 40th anniversary of a basic and fundamental moment that we could say as the birth of internet, 1st ping, 1st mail, 1st web, 1st spam, 1st botnet, etc there are a lot of things on which we can draw a line and say that what was before wasnt properly "internet"
People do. Smells aren't the ones that do that, but associations of it in people's mind. What seem to work in some regions or cultures could have different effects in others.
If associations are the ones that do the job, then trends of decoration (not just smell, but visual, lights, architecture, etc) for public places should follow that ideas. Of course, i don't think that the only alternative that will be good for banks is to look and smell like torture chambers, but probably most elements that promote some behaviour were tested in the past in a way or another.
Not only you have to "predict" the end on the world (based on trusty facts like ancient calendars, weird math tricks, how mush grows, holy books, tea leaves and hand lines), but have to pick something flexible enough to show after the predicted time how you made a small mistake and will happen somewhat shortly after anyway (so, i.e. you dont have to return what has been "donated" to your church or something similar because all was ending). Is not the 1st time that the end of the world has been delayed. In Y2K some tough that was after Dec 31/99, but some of the scare survived till Dec 31/00. Jehovah’s Witnesses predicted that all will end in 1874, then 1878, 1881, 1910, 1914, 1918, 1925, 1975, and 1984.
There are several lists of those Doomsday predictions, i.e. here
"it"? What runs most of the (dedicated) servers of internet isnt exactly Microsoft products, the server side and people that dont use Microsoft products will still be there. Not sure how to call an internet with <10% of actual spam, <5% of port scans and automated tries to attack, <1% anonymous cowards posts and >5k% more available bandwidth... but "paradise" is a good first try.
That was actually was we were doing before internet (even remember doing international calls to download a file from a BBS overseas), we could perfectly do it after internet too... Of course, unless what ended internet also ended modems, computers and/or humans.
I tought in collecting around as much children books i could for that same target, there is a lot of books that enjoyed as child that are public domain by now and would be great to be easily available for all those children, but wasnt so trivial to find them in spanish.
Probably the initial target should be focus (o at least, discriminate or categorize) on books for children, and preferably in spanish (as probably is the language of the countries where has been more widely deployed so far, they are pointing to Uruguay, but i think is being deployed or tested in more countries of south america by now, and in far bigger numbers than in i.e. africa or asia).
And if well PDF is "good enough", for flexibility (as in looks as good in both screen orientations), speed for download and size that would be using in the device will be great to have most of them in HTML or another format with a good reader already included in the XO (or that could be easily included, i think there are at least one activity for it that read ePub format already)
Thousands of Linux systems now are running windows virus. That new improvement in Wine made a lot of Linux users to intentionally install the last wine version and browse dangerous places using IE6 under it to see if they get lucky and get some virus. "I'm excited", said one linux user, "i managed to get 3 different virus, a worm, and you wont believe, my machine is now part of a botnet! Woohoo!".
Probably a better example would be looking for a "Taken" about computer security... At least, the start of the movie, no matter how much we would like to hit, shot, stab, and put a spammer/botnet hoarder under electric shocks until the light gets cut for no payment.
At least here in Uruguay costs for housing content are extremely high compared with the developed world. I remember last decade when the "standard" connection for 64kbps output was like US$2k. And things didnt improved a lot in the following years. This year finally you could get an affordable (as in US$200/mo) to get a fixed IP (adsl) with 4M/512K connection, but other kinds of (non-adsl) connections could be far more expensive.
And if that is the situation here, don't want to think how bad is in other less developed countries.
Well, in that event probably the women were the ones that remained intelligent while that was happened, Wonder how much hours passed before any of the men tough again on coding or whatever was being promoted day.
Oh, wait... "Open Hack day" gives a hint. Well, we have another trend in security. Is not open source security, is not security by obscurity, is security by lapdance, no straight men will try to hack yahoo while it is being performed (in fact, will turn into whitehats to make yahoo keeps doing those performances)
I for one, welcome our new security female lapdancers overlords.
Software patents, specially the common sense ones, are potentially worse (specially if tried to be enforced). Freedom to sing (an existing, copyrighted song, etc, etc) is one thing, but freedom to think is something that not even some totalitarian regimes tried to enforce.
If Higgs Boson makes time loops that get solved when something break and then is not discovered, really weird things could happen to end those loops (i.e. in FAQ about time travel there were giant ants, and in PKDick's Medler were intelligent killer butterflies). That so far has been just somewhat minor problems that affected only the LHC, but next try could happen something that ends civilization, life on earth or the entire universe.
I thought that it arrived already some years ago. Is mainly for children, and have less battery life, but have a foldable keyboard (you can see it as table or as notebook), can run full linux distributions, and even you can see it in color instead of BN and have a screen better than Kindle (at least according to this history).
A shame that book industry didnt jump at it when was the right moment.
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Probably was too busy writting other things, like others 499 books in a really lot of topics. And he did wote a follow up, a lot of them. He unified a in a single future history a good bunch of his sci-fi books and tales, from The gods themselves to Foundation and Earth, going thru the robot books almost from the start.
I just hope that this new sequels are good. If they are, well, we all win. And if they don't, just dont read/buy them.
If you want to know how will evolve humanity, specially when all survive, is sociology the answer, not biology. Our capacity to replicate memes, like speaking, acting and looking as being actually popular somewhat increases our chances of reproducing. Is globalization pushing us towards not only unified culture, but also unified look,
Still, most people that dont fully comply with that usually reproduce too. Numbers are just too high, so even if there is a clear trend there, will take many generations, and nothing ensures that our civilization in the current way will remain that long. Won't be so surprising that in a somewhat near future not all survive (disasters, wars, totalitarian governments trying to "clean" their gene pool, etc), or not all will be free to have children (too many books and movies around that), or genes could be "corrected" (we are almost there to avoid genetic diseases, but could derive into "designing" children to met some fashion criteria), and not always will be natural or slow that "evolution".
You must give some credit to Microsoft. If weren't because of them, we would never knew the risks of botnets, trivial exploits and trusting by default in the network. Who knows, if they werent there probably some centuries from now, when we invade some primitive planet, natives would hack our mothership because we never got aware of those risks.
You should had read better our latest memo. Our company proposal targets exactly the source of the current information leaking problem. By using stealth technology, disguising as one of the culprit software, it infiltrate in their networks and kill those pesky PEBCAK softwares that are giving so much headaches lately. Give our company full freedom to act and that problem will be terminated.
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Its name should be Legion by now.
2 years delay to analize that data... for?
Communicate? Will take a lot of years to do a "conversation" if there happens to be intelligent life there
Getting there? Still a lot to develop to be able to do such trip for human beings, just doing the technology to make us able to live for years or generations to get there is something potentially more important than finding a "good enough" planet out there. For machines the technology could be ready or close enough, but still, would be a version of the communicate option, once the ship its there.
Will smartphones kill all the devices that are converging to them? Why stop at GPS when from clocks and calculators to netbooks (including cameras, ebook readers and music players, of course) all are possibly being replaced by smartphones?
We have traditional definition on humans age, the line is drawn when you leave the body of your mother, not when you got conceived, or been 3 months since that, when you spoke your 1st word or did your 1st abstract thinking, but that don't exclude that could be valid criteria to consider all those other times your "starting" moment.
Where you draw the line when really started the internet as we know it? Probably in the next days or years several dates will be claimed as the 40th anniversary of a basic and fundamental moment that we could say as the birth of internet, 1st ping, 1st mail, 1st web, 1st spam, 1st botnet, etc there are a lot of things on which we can draw a line and say that what was before wasnt properly "internet"
Thats too little. Let be it 1.2Gigawatt, and make the 50's sci-fi writers talk about something more realistic.
People do. Smells aren't the ones that do that, but associations of it in people's mind. What seem to work in some regions or cultures could have different effects in others. If associations are the ones that do the job, then trends of decoration (not just smell, but visual, lights, architecture, etc) for public places should follow that ideas. Of course, i don't think that the only alternative that will be good for banks is to look and smell like torture chambers, but probably most elements that promote some behaviour were tested in the past in a way or another.
There are several lists of those Doomsday predictions, i.e. here
"Crabs Take Over the Island" by Anatoly Dnieprov is somewhat based on the same idea, not in that swarm scale, but scary anyway.
"it"? What runs most of the (dedicated) servers of internet isnt exactly Microsoft products, the server side and people that dont use Microsoft products will still be there. Not sure how to call an internet with <10% of actual spam, <5% of port scans and automated tries to attack, <1% anonymous cowards posts and >5k% more available bandwidth... but "paradise" is a good first try.
That was actually was we were doing before internet (even remember doing international calls to download a file from a BBS overseas), we could perfectly do it after internet too... Of course, unless what ended internet also ended modems, computers and/or humans.
I tought in collecting around as much children books i could for that same target, there is a lot of books that enjoyed as child that are public domain by now and would be great to be easily available for all those children, but wasnt so trivial to find them in spanish.
Probably the initial target should be focus (o at least, discriminate or categorize) on books for children, and preferably in spanish (as probably is the language of the countries where has been more widely deployed so far, they are pointing to Uruguay, but i think is being deployed or tested in more countries of south america by now, and in far bigger numbers than in i.e. africa or asia).
And if well PDF is "good enough", for flexibility (as in looks as good in both screen orientations), speed for download and size that would be using in the device will be great to have most of them in HTML or another format with a good reader already included in the XO (or that could be easily included, i think there are at least one activity for it that read ePub format already)
Thousands of Linux systems now are running windows virus. That new improvement in Wine made a lot of Linux users to intentionally install the last wine version and browse dangerous places using IE6 under it to see if they get lucky and get some virus. "I'm excited", said one linux user, "i managed to get 3 different virus, a worm, and you wont believe, my machine is now part of a botnet! Woohoo!".
Probably a better example would be looking for a "Taken" about computer security... At least, the start of the movie, no matter how much we would like to hit, shot, stab, and put a spammer/botnet hoarder under electric shocks until the light gets cut for no payment.
At least here in Uruguay costs for housing content are extremely high compared with the developed world. I remember last decade when the "standard" connection for 64kbps output was like US$2k. And things didnt improved a lot in the following years. This year finally you could get an affordable (as in US$200/mo) to get a fixed IP (adsl) with 4M/512K connection, but other kinds of (non-adsl) connections could be far more expensive.
And if that is the situation here, don't want to think how bad is in other less developed countries.
Well, in that event probably the women were the ones that remained intelligent while that was happened, Wonder how much hours passed before any of the men tough again on coding or whatever was being promoted day.
Oh, wait... "Open Hack day" gives a hint. Well, we have another trend in security. Is not open source security, is not security by obscurity, is security by lapdance, no straight men will try to hack yahoo while it is being performed (in fact, will turn into whitehats to make yahoo keeps doing those performances)
I for one, welcome our new security female lapdancers overlords.
Software patents, specially the common sense ones, are potentially worse (specially if tried to be enforced). Freedom to sing (an existing, copyrighted song, etc, etc) is one thing, but freedom to think is something that not even some totalitarian regimes tried to enforce.
The article indicates that many of these early users, though, are having better luck.
Windows refused to install in those cases?
If Higgs Boson makes time loops that get solved when something break and then is not discovered, really weird things could happen to end those loops (i.e. in FAQ about time travel there were giant ants, and in PKDick's Medler were intelligent killer butterflies). That so far has been just somewhat minor problems that affected only the LHC, but next try could happen something that ends civilization, life on earth or the entire universe.
A shame that book industry didnt jump at it when was the right moment.
Will take time till Android matches the market share of IPhone that way.