Or they use the wine software under linux or another fast/secure OS, keeping legacy support and fixing the mess it is now Windows in a fresh, new (for them) environment. Or they drink the beverage, make a big party, forget all the troubles, and keep going in the same bloatlegacy direction as usual.
maybe would be a better example of teaching critical thinking than evolution or global warming. Take some widely accepted by a lot of people in some moment, something "self-evident", "obvious", and give elements that proved it wrong even in the time it was popular.
It would take all the "actual" controversy away, and will teach how critical/scientific thinking work.
The unexpected can tell you 2 kind of things... that there is something that we dont know, or that there are something in what we are wrong. Looking at the show is not so urgent, but finding an explanation for the unknown (specially, being the 1st doing so), is.
neither why is open source per se or social networking potential culprits there.
- Palestine appearing in the countries list because is a (valid?) short form of "Palestinian Territory, Occupied". If isnt valid is not Web 2.0 or open source fault, was a developer decision that could had been taken in any part of the chain (i agree that the chain in this particular case is pretty long).
- Israel not listed because, as with other 14 countries, their IP space is very used by fraudsters. Maybe with spam is easier to understand... If Israel were responsible for 80% of world spam, and because of that becomes filtered from a lots of mail servers (lots of countries used to be widely filtered because of spam coming from them), that would be anti-semitism of those servers admins? Maybe a bit worse, if an israeli ISP a lot of spam is being sent, and it ends a rbl (if behaves badly that way, will end in most), would be antisemitism too?
Is a nice spin to blame web 2.0 and open source for things that dont implies them to happen. Next big hurricane, if being tracked by web 2.0 sites and with open source software, will be blamed to them too.
... this particular kind, extract the spam and forces you to eat it, specially after your built-in, 1 million years (?) into development, antispam filter discarded it.
If anything, will be useful to understand more how and why our perception process discard things. But maybe even walking wearing that things could prove being very hard.
See as human may or may not be easy... but interpret as human could be a bit more complicated. Could recognize patterns, detect movements, and more things that we take as normal without thinking too much on them, ok, but things are a bit more complex than that. As the brain is not so fast processing visual info, somewhat we anticipate the future in our perceptions. That is the base of most optical illusions.
Could be useful to simulate such things, based on our limitations? Will that computer be fooled by "normal" optical illusions? In some sense, i think that yes, will be useful. If it dont perceive the world the same as us, high level communication with humans could be harder or have a lot of misunderstanding.
You put this as there are only 2 alternatives to for someone to try to avoid the filter. Filters not always are right, and even if tag something as simply porno (not going to child pornography here) you are avoiding adults too to access it (and there are a lot of rightful content that because is about medicine, beaches in Mallorca or a slipped nipple in an award ceremony, to put a small sample, could be tagged as it).
And going to child pornography, you are not avoiding to get that content to the real, as you say, sick bastard pedophiles (freenet and tor are 2 obvious ways to avoid it), and could end block something to people that have the right to be there, or is not doing anything wrong because of that.
In my country there is a law proposal that forces cybercafes to use filtering software, more meant for minors going to such places, and there i think too that the best approach is some centralized optional proxy that does that filtering.
And last, but not least, is the perfect excuse to further filterings, from there to the great firewall of china is just to follow an straight road.
... like the DeLorean... it runs with fuel or with garbage (with the optional MrFussionTM attached), and is so light that even floats.
Ok, wasnt so hybrid, the garbage only was used for time travel, and the floating part somewhat dont work in the far west... but at least with it you can load fuel when it was dirty cheap on gas stations.
3D avatar per se could have no point. What have a point is to have an environment where interaction with other people is richer than i.e. IRC. Play games, collaborate in a text, or painting, or making a photo gallery.
Ok, there are websites that does that, and you can link them from IRC, but dont need to be the same people that you have present. A virtual world is a good way to represent a meeting, and what you do to use all the potential of that (including whatever implies having a phisical-like representation of yourself in that meeting) probably will end being beneficial.
So we have website apps with special features meant to be used with certain browsers, with certain plugins (i.e. flash), with certain devices (mobiles), and now within certain games?
If well integrating different "virtual" worlds (if you call the web a virtual world, at least) could have interesting results, probably could have some conflict with economic interests behind. And, of course, there is the people too... you will literaly interacting with people of other (virtual) worlds, or the actual one, without clear indication of that difference.
Was about to suggest the same. Give the "intelligence" agencies something as easy to digest as a list of what they should shutdown, and they probably will (you know, subliminal messages like a poll always work). Probably for most they will notice their existence and/or meaning for first time.
Dont worry, CowboyNeal, we will bring you lime cakes to prison.
Split of paper book real cost? There is something for the media/printing, something that goes to the final seller, something that goes thru all the distribution chain, something that goes to the publisher, and finally, something that goes to the author (not sure which percent, but looks like an small percent of the final cost).
With ebooks, an author could get its part directly, and for us would be cents (or the author get a better share, for some books i would not mind). Just is needed a comfortable way to read it, and that is a one-time expending.
Selling ebooks at similar prices than paper ones means that you are taking all the profits of that big chain, and still giving the same low pay to the author, in fact you winning far more than the author for each sold ebook. Of course, you need infrastructure, storage, ability to process orders, is not zero cost, but with enough volume of sold books (with near zero profit) you should cover that.
Imagine a beowulf cluster of those... then maybe that cluster will be able to perform at 30fps at full settings with the next version.
But your options don't end there, technology has advanced. You can get people to run a modified seti@home client to give you the missing cpu cycles to be able to get that performance (2-3k machines could do the trick?), or go to the black market and hire a mid-sized botnet for that task (will have the side effect of reducing global spam too, those machines will not have spare cpu cycles to send spam while serving you)
We need an UN declaration on Machine Rights. There are no punishment for smash, throw out windows, sued for file sharing without a fair judgement or even (is hard for me to write this, human cruelty have no limits) install windows in them.
How you think a singularity will decide to show up in such environment?
What about Windows 3.1 refusing to run specifically under DR DOS? That is a bit more documented, you will have to erase half of internet to cover that.
I think that is a bigger challenge than most of fans of any sort of singularity think. Yes, in the big scheme of things could be pretty close, but that "close" could be centuries from now.
Think that in most classic sci-fi books we already should have humanoid bots walking between us, colonized most of the solar system planets (even visited and returned from other stars/galaxies), sent manned probes to jupiter, have flying cars and/or MrFusion (and not as exceptions, but as something that everyone have), etc. There are some "practical" issues that delayed a bit that, wasnt found a way to travel safely faster than light, antigravity wasnt discovered, duplicators just arent there, neither teletransporting (with flies in it or not), even getting a full grown clone with my memory and concience is a little hard to get.
Worse than that, between the practical issues arent just technical ones. Economy, ethical, social, safety issues are as good stopping reaching some utopical sci-fi society as FTL travel.
In this category falls any kind of machine that talks and in fact think like a human, including handling contexts and perceiving reality like human. Is something very common in movies and sci-fi stories, but afaik is still a bit far on time.
Most if not all internet based games have a layer of chat behind it, is almost a plugin. That a chat program have could games as plugin is something potentially good. Connecting people is the 1st step, maximizing what they can do together is the 2nd one, and games fits perfectly there.
The next steps is to have an standard for implementing those games in more chat clients/platforms, and of course, adding good multiuser games.
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Wine could be the answer to Microsoft problems.
Or they use the wine software under linux or another fast/secure OS, keeping legacy support and fixing the mess it is now Windows in a fresh, new (for them) environment. Or they drink the beverage, make a big party, forget all the troubles, and keep going in the same bloatlegacy direction as usual.
Some old greek got moded +6 insightful just for saying "all I know is that I know nothing". The GP post was not that bad compared to that.
maybe would be a better example of teaching critical thinking than evolution or global warming.
Take some widely accepted by a lot of people in some moment, something "self-evident", "obvious", and give elements that proved it wrong even in the time it was popular.
It would take all the "actual" controversy away, and will teach how critical/scientific thinking work.
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The unexpected can tell you 2 kind of things... that there is something that we dont know, or that there are something in what we are wrong. Looking at the show is not so urgent, but finding an explanation for the unknown (specially, being the 1st doing so), is.
neither why is open source per se or social networking potential culprits there.
- Palestine appearing in the countries list because is a (valid?) short form of "Palestinian Territory, Occupied". If isnt valid is not Web 2.0 or open source fault, was a developer decision that could had been taken in any part of the chain (i agree that the chain in this particular case is pretty long).
- Israel not listed because, as with other 14 countries, their IP space is very used by fraudsters. Maybe with spam is easier to understand... If Israel were responsible for 80% of world spam, and because of that becomes filtered from a lots of mail servers (lots of countries used to be widely filtered because of spam coming from them), that would be anti-semitism of those servers admins? Maybe a bit worse, if an israeli ISP a lot of spam is being sent, and it ends a rbl (if behaves badly that way, will end in most), would be antisemitism too?
Is a nice spin to blame web 2.0 and open source for things that dont implies them to happen. Next big hurricane, if being tracked by web 2.0 sites and with open source software, will be blamed to them too.
... this particular kind, extract the spam and forces you to eat it, specially after your built-in, 1 million years (?) into development, antispam filter discarded it.
If anything, will be useful to understand more how and why our perception process discard things. But maybe even walking wearing that things could prove being very hard.
I think the right term in this case is "Worlddotted", wasnt just a slashdot frontpage link.
Despair.com posters would be my suggestion too. Not only great photos, but also work as fun and warning when you read/think on them.
Space race just found a new meaning for its life, its universe, and everything.
See as human may or may not be easy... but interpret as human could be a bit more complicated. Could recognize patterns, detect movements, and more things that we take as normal without thinking too much on them, ok, but things are a bit more complex than that. As the brain is not so fast processing visual info, somewhat we anticipate the future in our perceptions. That is the base of most optical illusions.
Could be useful to simulate such things, based on our limitations? Will that computer be fooled by "normal" optical illusions? In some sense, i think that yes, will be useful. If it dont perceive the world the same as us, high level communication with humans could be harder or have a lot of misunderstanding.
You put this as there are only 2 alternatives to for someone to try to avoid the filter. Filters not always are right, and even if tag something as simply porno (not going to child pornography here) you are avoiding adults too to access it (and there are a lot of rightful content that because is about medicine, beaches in Mallorca or a slipped nipple in an award ceremony, to put a small sample, could be tagged as it).
And going to child pornography, you are not avoiding to get that content to the real, as you say, sick bastard pedophiles (freenet and tor are 2 obvious ways to avoid it), and could end block something to people that have the right to be there, or is not doing anything wrong because of that.
In my country there is a law proposal that forces cybercafes to use filtering software, more meant for minors going to such places, and there i think too that the best approach is some centralized optional proxy that does that filtering.
And last, but not least, is the perfect excuse to further filterings, from there to the great firewall of china is just to follow an straight road.
What about providing *optional* proxies that does that filtering to their users?
... like the DeLorean... it runs with fuel or with garbage (with the optional MrFussionTM attached), and is so light that even floats.
Ok, wasnt so hybrid, the garbage only was used for time travel, and the floating part somewhat dont work in the far west... but at least with it you can load fuel when it was dirty cheap on gas stations.
3D avatar per se could have no point. What have a point is to have an environment where interaction with other people is richer than i.e. IRC. Play games, collaborate in a text, or painting, or making a photo gallery.
Ok, there are websites that does that, and you can link them from IRC, but dont need to be the same people that you have present. A virtual world is a good way to represent a meeting, and what you do to use all the potential of that (including whatever implies having a phisical-like representation of yourself in that meeting) probably will end being beneficial.
So we have website apps with special features meant to be used with certain browsers, with certain plugins (i.e. flash), with certain devices (mobiles), and now within certain games?
If well integrating different "virtual" worlds (if you call the web a virtual world, at least) could have interesting results, probably could have some conflict with economic interests behind. And, of course, there is the people too... you will literaly interacting with people of other (virtual) worlds, or the actual one, without clear indication of that difference.
Was about to suggest the same. Give the "intelligence" agencies something as easy to digest as a list of what they should shutdown, and they probably will (you know, subliminal messages like a poll always work). Probably for most they will notice their existence and/or meaning for first time.
Dont worry, CowboyNeal, we will bring you lime cakes to prison.
Split of paper book real cost? There is something for the media/printing, something that goes to the final seller, something that goes thru all the distribution chain, something that goes to the publisher, and finally, something that goes to the author (not sure which percent, but looks like an small percent of the final cost).
With ebooks, an author could get its part directly, and for us would be cents (or the author get a better share, for some books i would not mind). Just is needed a comfortable way to read it, and that is a one-time expending.
Selling ebooks at similar prices than paper ones means that you are taking all the profits of that big chain, and still giving the same low pay to the author, in fact you winning far more than the author for each sold ebook. Of course, you need infrastructure, storage, ability to process orders, is not zero cost, but with enough volume of sold books (with near zero profit) you should cover that.
Microsoft should seek patent on brain-damaged development. At least with that one they will have the monopoly on prior art.
Imagine a beowulf cluster of those... then maybe that cluster will be able to perform at 30fps at full settings with the next version.
But your options don't end there, technology has advanced. You can get people to run a modified seti@home client to give you the missing cpu cycles to be able to get that performance (2-3k machines could do the trick?), or go to the black market and hire a mid-sized botnet for that task (will have the side effect of reducing global spam too, those machines will not have spare cpu cycles to send spam while serving you)
We need an UN declaration on Machine Rights. There are no punishment for smash, throw out windows, sued for file sharing without a fair judgement or even (is hard for me to write this, human cruelty have no limits) install windows in them.
How you think a singularity will decide to show up in such environment?
What about Windows 3.1 refusing to run specifically under DR DOS? That is a bit more documented, you will have to erase half of internet to cover that.
slashdot post comments on you.
I think that is a bigger challenge than most of fans of any sort of singularity think. Yes, in the big scheme of things could be pretty close, but that "close" could be centuries from now.
Think that in most classic sci-fi books we already should have humanoid bots walking between us, colonized most of the solar system planets (even visited and returned from other stars/galaxies), sent manned probes to jupiter, have flying cars and/or MrFusion (and not as exceptions, but as something that everyone have), etc. There are some "practical" issues that delayed a bit that, wasnt found a way to travel safely faster than light, antigravity wasnt discovered, duplicators just arent there, neither teletransporting (with flies in it or not), even getting a full grown clone with my memory and concience is a little hard to get.
Worse than that, between the practical issues arent just technical ones. Economy, ethical, social, safety issues are as good stopping reaching some utopical sci-fi society as FTL travel.
In this category falls any kind of machine that talks and in fact think like a human, including handling contexts and perceiving reality like human. Is something very common in movies and sci-fi stories, but afaik is still a bit far on time.
Most if not all internet based games have a layer of chat behind it, is almost a plugin. That a chat program have could games as plugin is something potentially good. Connecting people is the 1st step, maximizing what they can do together is the 2nd one, and games fits perfectly there.
The next steps is to have an standard for implementing those games in more chat clients/platforms, and of course, adding good multiuser games.