Microsoft should have been dead and buried for very long. OS/2, Linux and Mac OS X in the desktop/high end laptops, Android/Linux in the low end ones/netbooks, iOS/Android/other linux based ones in the mobile arena. And still, providing inferior, insecure, expensive and not so intuitive to use "solutions" has thrived and expanded. So, while the factors that made it successful remains (i.e. NOT the quality of their products) it will keep going.
Instead of modifying our genes, why don't modify our culture? Is already being controlled or at least pushed by a lot of corporations (media companies, coke&pepsi, tobacco, banks, politics, church and others), so why don't push it in a somewhat better direction just for once? It should be easier and faster than modifying the genes of enoguh humans in next generations,
Justice: done by lawyers, for lawyers. They want to maximize their cash, so every iteration of your attack just give even more money to them. And after their agenda is full, they just don't care if hell breaks loose, they got their money already.
Could be dependant on the project (where its used, how much it varies with time, how hard or easy is to incorporate this collaborations, etc), both for translation and customization. If the collaborator feels that is something that is needed, for some cases don't even need to be integrated in the core product, even could be a separate download from his own page.
Localization is always needed, either correcting, improving or adding translations for an open source project.
Doing themes, skins, plugins, macros, whatever is around it that is not specifically programming and could need less or different skills than programming.
Also actually using it and being vocal about that fact, the social component make people aware that exist that software, that have users that you know, and that there is a point of contact with the community behind it.
Documentation, and everything around documentation (i.e. putting in your blog or in a comment how to do x with that software)
Considering that now most comments are +1, me too, or even variants of "i was here before", from all the first posts to this very one, we are hopeless.
In the other hand, the "We are the 99%" movement could join forces with the "We are the 80%" (that voted to NOT have the current government) one. And to put some light to the issue of how representative of the americans is the american government.
Both are insecure, but how much it is needed to exploit them in critical numbers? For some Bush election in 2000 was a case, and probably latest russian elections are a good sample too. But how much easy for those in the (local? federal?) government to put something in the middle to rig an internet election? Or to do a worm like stuxnet, meant to change the votes sent instead of sabotage nuclear installations.
> half the population is resistant enough (or intelligent enough)
or dumb enough. Even expressing (i.e. with some sort of "none of the above") that none of the options is good for you is a powerful message if in large enough numbers. Is not an "is ok what chooses everyone else", nor "anyway will win candidate x, no matter what i vote". Is not the same a president backed by 51% of the population of a country than one backed by the 26% because only 50% of potential voters cared about it (and in those people could have something rigging the sample, like some interest, or pressure, or getting some benefit, or, well, not being resistant/intelligent enough to empty political speech)
Emotions are the biological mechanism we use. Robots could have another kind of positive/negative reward system. Even recognizing the smile "gesture" from their human teachers could work as it.
Anyway, trying to learning from speech, from natural languages, would be tricky, would be harder to associate semantics to natural languages than simulating a reward system analogous to emotions.
Looks that the investment, time, resources, etc should be orders above of the ones needed for a space elevator, and even that one is pretty hard to ever happen.
How dare those companies to make 2 profits instead of one? Because we are speaking of exactly that, taking out the costs of making/distributing/storing/managing the physical book from the cost don't take out the original profit.
And you can make exactly as many digital copies as will be sold (provided that at least one will), but for books you have to print a lot, and add to your costs the odds of not selling absolutelly all of them (i.e. none getting damaged/stolen/lost/whatever, even given to reviewers)
And maybe in the big city those costs aren't so big, but in far/small cities, or overseas, those costs scale up quickly
Your solution is not dilluted enough. Just let P teach them
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Don't forget animated and/or interactive "books" like this ones to the list of better-in-tablet books.
Being meant for a media so easy to distract you will call for a do-not-disturb background app/mode, in fact, wonder if some of the book reading apps don't have a setting to disable all distractions... trying to watch a movie and getting a notification will do similar harm as reading books.
even if you are "smart enough" (that most aren't, are unaware of that, and even fight you if you even suggest that fact) you have partial, prettified, rigged or even plain false data, probably don't have the base context to understand it, neither won't dedicate the time that it needs to properly judge, And no matter how smart you are, you are human, you are pretty easy to get influenced by tone of voice, keywords, looks and other cultural signals surrounding the message.
Looked more like that showed a vulnerability on it.
The real danger are the ones that could had been exploiting it and didn't announced that... and then, modified some obscure core component in a not very monitored repository to introduce a trojan or backdoor into some widely deployed open souce software based on it (i.e. not sure if that problem would make able to mask a commit as one from a trusted and active developer)
So far their best effort was to put laws over internet like ACTA, PIPA, and similar ones, and "pushing" other governments (like Spain, Canada or most of the European Union ones) to do the same. In this war, Han Solo shot first. Whatever comes next, would be like bombing over ruins.
If they can't handle an exception that is around since 2k years ago, what about newer exception? Would be interesting to see what could happen next June 30.
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Microsoft should have been dead and buried for very long. OS/2, Linux and Mac OS X in the desktop/high end laptops, Android/Linux in the low end ones/netbooks, iOS/Android/other linux based ones in the mobile arena. And still, providing inferior, insecure, expensive and not so intuitive to use "solutions" has thrived and expanded. So, while the factors that made it successful remains (i.e. NOT the quality of their products) it will keep going.
Instead of modifying our genes, why don't modify our culture? Is already being controlled or at least pushed by a lot of corporations (media companies, coke&pepsi, tobacco, banks, politics, church and others), so why don't push it in a somewhat better direction just for once? It should be easier and faster than modifying the genes of enoguh humans in next generations,
Justice: done by lawyers, for lawyers. They want to maximize their cash, so every iteration of your attack just give even more money to them. And after their agenda is full, they just don't care if hell breaks loose, they got their money already.
Could be dependant on the project (where its used, how much it varies with time, how hard or easy is to incorporate this collaborations, etc), both for translation and customization. If the collaborator feels that is something that is needed, for some cases don't even need to be integrated in the core product, even could be a separate download from his own page.
So this rule forces people to use solutions that could actually remove copy protection or share outside of the home?
With employees like this the MPAA don't need enemies
Localization is always needed, either correcting, improving or adding translations for an open source project.
Doing themes, skins, plugins, macros, whatever is around it that is not specifically programming and could need less or different skills than programming.
Also actually using it and being vocal about that fact, the social component make people aware that exist that software, that have users that you know, and that there is a point of contact with the community behind it.
Documentation, and everything around documentation (i.e. putting in your blog or in a comment how to do x with that software)
Considering that now most comments are +1, me too, or even variants of "i was here before", from all the first posts to this very one, we are hopeless.
The problem is not just the AI, but the people behind. Since HAL9000 we know what happens when an AI gets bad prime directives.
In the other hand, the "We are the 99%" movement could join forces with the "We are the 80%" (that voted to NOT have the current government) one. And to put some light to the issue of how representative of the americans is the american government.
at last something 2012ish more serious than continents suddently moving thousand of kilometers because earth core getting microwaved
Both are insecure, but how much it is needed to exploit them in critical numbers? For some Bush election in 2000 was a case, and probably latest russian elections are a good sample too. But how much easy for those in the (local? federal?) government to put something in the middle to rig an internet election? Or to do a worm like stuxnet, meant to change the votes sent instead of sabotage nuclear installations.
> half the population is resistant enough (or intelligent enough)
or dumb enough. Even expressing (i.e. with some sort of "none of the above") that none of the options is good for you is a powerful message if in large enough numbers. Is not an "is ok what chooses everyone else", nor "anyway will win candidate x, no matter what i vote". Is not the same a president backed by 51% of the population of a country than one backed by the 26% because only 50% of potential voters cared about it (and in those people could have something rigging the sample, like some interest, or pressure, or getting some benefit, or, well, not being resistant/intelligent enough to empty political speech)
Emotions are the biological mechanism we use. Robots could have another kind of positive/negative reward system. Even recognizing the smile "gesture" from their human teachers could work as it. Anyway, trying to learning from speech, from natural languages, would be tricky, would be harder to associate semantics to natural languages than simulating a reward system analogous to emotions.
As with voice, giving casual input to the detector that could be interpreted and acted on, even if not meant for the phone, is a potential danger.
Looks that the investment, time, resources, etc should be orders above of the ones needed for a space elevator, and even that one is pretty hard to ever happen.
How dare those companies to make 2 profits instead of one? Because we are speaking of exactly that, taking out the costs of making/distributing/storing/managing the physical book from the cost don't take out the original profit.
And you can make exactly as many digital copies as will be sold (provided that at least one will), but for books you have to print a lot, and add to your costs the odds of not selling absolutelly all of them (i.e. none getting damaged/stolen/lost/whatever, even given to reviewers)
And maybe in the big city those costs aren't so big, but in far/small cities, or overseas, those costs scale up quickly
That would be a better measurement. And we are a few minutes before midnight.
Your solution is not dilluted enough. Just let P teach them
Don't forget animated and/or interactive "books" like this ones to the list of better-in-tablet books.
Being meant for a media so easy to distract you will call for a do-not-disturb background app/mode, in fact, wonder if some of the book reading apps don't have a setting to disable all distractions... trying to watch a movie and getting a notification will do similar harm as reading books.
even if you are "smart enough" (that most aren't, are unaware of that, and even fight you if you even suggest that fact) you have partial, prettified, rigged or even plain false data, probably don't have the base context to understand it, neither won't dedicate the time that it needs to properly judge, And no matter how smart you are, you are human, you are pretty easy to get influenced by tone of voice, keywords, looks and other cultural signals surrounding the message.
Looked more like that showed a vulnerability on it.
The real danger are the ones that could had been exploiting it and didn't announced that... and then, modified some obscure core component in a not very monitored repository to introduce a trojan or backdoor into some widely deployed open souce software based on it (i.e. not sure if that problem would make able to mask a commit as one from a trusted and active developer)
So far their best effort was to put laws over internet like ACTA, PIPA, and similar ones, and "pushing" other governments (like Spain, Canada or most of the European Union ones) to do the same. In this war, Han Solo shot first. Whatever comes next, would be like bombing over ruins.
In the Julian calendar you had 29 days in february each 4 years, basically counts as leap year.
Well, Javascript is not basic, and they can test their programs in any browser, but... why not scratch?
If they can't handle an exception that is around since 2k years ago, what about newer exception? Would be interesting to see what could happen next June 30.