- Buy Diet Coke from the Pepsi machines at my office
- Get a Whopper at McDonalds
- Watch "The Sopranos" newest episodes on NBC
- Have Dubya back therapeutic cloning
- Pay only $1/gal for gasoline
Carbon isn't a very good element for building intelligent life forms, either, but hey, it's a start.
Trillions of dollars of market value were created in the last 10-15 years based on HTML's not-very-good ability to build a webpage. Having trouble printing? That's a conversion problem. Having trouble interacting? Maybe you could spend some time with air-breathing carbon-based life forms instead of digital avatars...
I had a similar approach in my graduate work in English... my professor, Tom Remington (one of the most brilliant people I've ever known), was exploring not how science fiction became science fact, but how science and literature prefigure each other, anticipating developments. The general idea is that in a literate society, the free flow of ideas cross disciplines. This was particularly true before the advent of specializations in the last 150 years or so.
Some of the reading we did included "Gulliver's Travels" (gravity), "Frankenstein" (electricity), and from the other direction, "Theory of Relativity" (deconstruction).
Can't someone come up with better future scenarios than the nearest place to eat Italian or the next movie I might want to see?
How about when I'm grocery shopping, an agent scans the ingredients of products to make sure they don't contain something I'm allergic to?
Or from today's headlines, how about showing me where my kids are at this moment in proximity to the nearest sex offender? Or that my daughter is at that dope's house?
The problem with the question of privacy in our online world is all about free will and society's determination that it, not God, will determine whether you exercise your free will properly. Increasingly, our society plays the role of God in mandating behavior and thought.
Should we trust scientists to decide when to implement a technology? Philosophers, who spend time thinking about thinking? The clergy, who attempt to "think as God would have us think"?
Why not say it and be done? In all matters, it's the lawyers who will have the final say. Isn't that a comforting thought?
If Not for DOJ We'd Already Be Using Microsoft NDS
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Novell suffered from its founder's desire to beat Microsoft at the desktop. Ray Noorda bought UNIX from AT&T and WordPerfect. Novell couldn't create a competitive desktop and ended up selling both at a loss. Now Microsoft owns a big chunk of Corel. Who even thinks about SCO much these days?
If not for the DOJ investigations, Microsoft would have bought Novell years ago. History has an ugly habit of making sense of how and why things happen.
Listen,/.ers, Microsoft sold a UNIX-derivative operating system in the early 80s called XENIX. Don't fool yourself for a moment that MS "doesn't get" the power of UNIX or the threat of LINUX. What it's been waiting for is a real indication that LINUX can become a viable desktop competitor.
You don't become a behemoth by being stupid. Watch the PBS special "The Rockefellers" if you need a clue. Bill Gates has already started giving his billions away and Paul Allen's been doing it for years.
History will remember Bill Gates as a great man of his time, even though people of his own era eschewed him as the Anti-Christ. They did the same to John D.
Where does Larry Ellison spend his billions? On himself. At least we have Steve Jobs to thank for "Toy Story".
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For most /.ers whose left hands don't know what their right hands are doing, this is likely NOT a benefit.
Interesting digression, Science Friday just had a piece on rewiring nerves for amputees.
http://www.sciencefriday.com/program/archives/200711301
I want to:
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- Buy Diet Coke from the Pepsi machines at my office
- Get a Whopper at McDonalds
- Watch "The Sopranos" newest episodes on NBC
- Have Dubya back therapeutic cloning
- Pay only $1/gal for gasoline
Come on, Google! Kwitchersnivelin'
Carbon isn't a very good element for building intelligent life forms, either, but hey, it's a start.
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Trillions of dollars of market value were created in the last 10-15 years based on HTML's not-very-good ability to build a webpage. Having trouble printing? That's a conversion problem. Having trouble interacting? Maybe you could spend some time with air-breathing carbon-based life forms instead of digital avatars
I had a similar approach in my graduate work in English ... my professor, Tom Remington (one of the most brilliant people I've ever known), was exploring not how science fiction became science fact, but how science and literature prefigure each other, anticipating developments. The general idea is that in a literate society, the free flow of ideas cross disciplines. This was particularly true before the advent of specializations in the last 150 years or so.
Some of the reading we did included "Gulliver's Travels" (gravity), "Frankenstein" (electricity), and from the other direction, "Theory of Relativity" (deconstruction).
This is a great topic to explore. Enjoy!
People screaming in the streets! Panic!
Fire! Foes! Awake!
The real revolution takes place after Microsoft America v3.0 is released and dissident Microsofties upload the entire code library to SourceForge.
Wood cases for systems are certainly nothing new.
Can't someone come up with better future scenarios than the nearest place to eat Italian or the next movie I might want to see? How about when I'm grocery shopping, an agent scans the ingredients of products to make sure they don't contain something I'm allergic to? Or from today's headlines, how about showing me where my kids are at this moment in proximity to the nearest sex offender? Or that my daughter is at that dope's house? The problem with the question of privacy in our online world is all about free will and society's determination that it, not God, will determine whether you exercise your free will properly. Increasingly, our society plays the role of God in mandating behavior and thought.
Should we trust scientists to decide when to implement a technology? Philosophers, who spend time thinking about thinking? The clergy, who attempt to "think as God would have us think"?
Why not say it and be done? In all matters, it's the lawyers who will have the final say. Isn't that a comforting thought?
Novell suffered from its founder's desire to beat Microsoft at the desktop. Ray Noorda bought UNIX from AT&T and WordPerfect. Novell couldn't create a competitive desktop and ended up selling both at a loss. Now Microsoft owns a big chunk of Corel. Who even thinks about SCO much these days?
/.ers, Microsoft sold a UNIX-derivative operating system in the early 80s called XENIX. Don't fool yourself for a moment that MS "doesn't get" the power of UNIX or the threat of LINUX. What it's been waiting for is a real indication that LINUX can become a viable desktop competitor.
If not for the DOJ investigations, Microsoft would have bought Novell years ago. History has an ugly habit of making sense of how and why things happen.
Listen,
You don't become a behemoth by being stupid. Watch the PBS special "The Rockefellers" if you need a clue. Bill Gates has already started giving his billions away and Paul Allen's been doing it for years.
History will remember Bill Gates as a great man of his time, even though people of his own era eschewed him as the Anti-Christ. They did the same to John D.
Where does Larry Ellison spend his billions? On himself. At least we have Steve Jobs to thank for "Toy Story".