The only 3D display tech worth working on -- until we figure out how to tap the optic nerve and/or brain itself -- is Retinal Scanning. Yep, "low-energy laser beams shot into the eye!" - the old LCD hud's are crap by comparison.
Once this tech goes mainstream, even the most monsterous of 2D displays won't seem so desirable anymore (except for social viewing).
The the #1 killer app for this kind of display is augmented reality... ah... to be able to have an ad-filter for the realworld...
Ugh, the lame thing about experts-exchange.com is that Google has a lot of their pages highly ranked, and yet when you land on their page you have to "Sign up to see the solution!"
So, in the spirit of making that site almost as useful as the open Google groups, here's some no-hassle username/passwords to bypass it.
The "send a fucking human" sentiment is just that: emotional sentiment. People like to romanticize about other people like them doing StarTrekkie things that they can relate to, and wish to be doing themselves one day (in human form). Most people are naturally bio-chauvinists, especially in the face of increasingly efficient robotics.
"Protectionism" is not an accurate word, it carries a negative connotation.
"Welfare" is the accurate word, but it's dirty too; better to call it a "living wage", or a "'fair' dividend from the fruits of collectively-owned AUTOMATED production", or just a $25G stipend.
Offshoring is just the beginning of the increasing "screw everyone else" trend...
Molecular manufacturing is "just around the corner"
If you're young, then maybe for your grandchildren.
In our lifetimes, actually - as long as you're healthy and younger than ~60. You see, the rate of overall technological progress (not just "Moore's Law") has been increasing exponentially for a long time, and we're just now on the knee of the accelerating curve to Singularity, so the future will get here much faster than you think. And nanotech itself isn't the (deadly) destination anyway, but a stepping stone.
Because making hardware is as simple as typing "cp SunE450 SunE450.2" and making new software requires factories, tooling up, shipping, and maintenance.
Molecular manufacturing is "just around the corner" so don't be so quick to write off free hardware (as in speech & near-zero-cost beer) because we're really not so many decades away from being able to do a "print 72_inch_OLED_display.gnu.object; print La-Z-Boy_5000.object; print 1980s_junkfood_collection-by_Fatass.object" to your 3d printer with recycled feedstock matter and cheap solar energy being piped in (you did bootstrap your own solar panels and fuelcell storage system right?)
Of course, the type of "free hardware" that's being talking about by Sun and MS is the kind that has more to do with enticing you into a locked down system payed for by proprietary software subscriptions.
He said, "As long as I live in this city, I'll never pay for Internet again." We'll see if that remains true when consumers with wireless routers wise up and turn on some of the security features.
Consumers aren't going to 'wise up' and enable anything. The most likely way the percentage of open APs could be decreased is if frightened telecom lobbyists pushed some "anti-wireless-terror-and-child-porn" law that required wireless APs to be CLOSED by default. Good way to nip the whole free wireless mesh network in the bud eh? Fat chance I say.
There are people running Slackware that use a GUI?
Yeah, and those rehabilitated console-snobs are now able to perform l33t magic like viewing & editing images, watching movies, and playing games besides nethack!
Step 1 of the 12 step program is disassociating exclusive CLI-mastery from self-worth.:)
Unfortunately, at some point we're just going to have to face it: we're using too much energy.
Too much energy? We're not even a Type 1 civilization yet. No, what we're going to have to face is intelligent energy use, because demand will continue to grow exponentially.
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the teacher, assures the smart bomb that "There'll always be a job for a chap like you." Dear God, it's more true today than it was fourteen years ago.
Dear Logic, why should that be so surprising? It should be expected that our technology will continue to get smarter, and faster, than your average "daft" person because of the differences in the rate of evolution.
Soon enough we won't even have to send any "daft" grunts with smart bullets onto the battlefield; we'll send bots who won't question orders instead.
It doesn't have to be Us Vs. Them when it comes to thinking machines. Certainly there will be those who romanticize the bio-human condition, but AI and IA is an inevitability that we'll need to guide rather than futiley attempt to destroy.
For me, the anti-machine Jihad was always the most depressing aspect of Dune. bunch of luddites.
Yes, Nielsen is guilty of the "intuitive linear" view of progress, when the reality is that progess is exponential in any evolutionary system.
Required reading for any so-called Futurist should be The Law of Accelerating Returns, which is more comprehensive than the more familiar Moore's "law".
An analysis of the history of technology shows that technological change is exponential, contrary to the common-sense "intuitive linear" view. So we won't experience 100 years of progress in the 21st century -- it will be more like 20,000 years of progress (at today's rate). The "returns," such as chip speed and cost-effectiveness, also increase exponentially. There's even exponential growth in the rate of exponential growth. Within a few decades, machine intelligence will surpass human intelligence, leading to The Singularity -- technological change so rapid and profound it represents a rupture in the fabric of human history. The implications include the merger of biological and nonbiological intelligence, immortal software-based humans, and ultra-high levels of intelligence that expand outward in the universe at the speed of light.
When confronted by this for the first time, a lot of people are understandablyshocked, and quick to dismiss it.
I ran across that tip a little while ago when searching for just such a fix, and it definitely sped up Flash on my SuSE 9.1 desktop.
However, I only put that export in my/usr/bin/firefox startup script, and not syswide, since firefox is the only browser I use for flash & java. Opera for everything else 99% of the time.
Flash shouldn't have been dog-slow out-of-the-box in the first place.
Well there's your problem right there: kazaa. The kazaa and gnutella networks are filled with tons of crappy small files. Edonkey on the hand handles large files very well and it's easy to find trusted hashes... a quick 'jenna jameson' global search reveals a couple dozen 700mb files with 100 or more sources.
File sharing isn't hurting the adult industry, but what WILL hurt it in the not-too-distant future is "virtual actors" who perform for free. AI and immersive rendering still isn't up to snuff tho.
The porn industry understands that the quality of P2P porn is substantially less than DVD quality, so they see it as mostly advertising.
The quality of "P2P porn" is no less than your standard DVD after being compressed to a 1 or 2 CD Divx/Xvid. Which is to say that it's quite good. In fact, I wouldn't WANT to see HDTV-or-higher-rez porn that brings the makeup and butt pimples into focus.:)
Maybe you believe the quality of "p2p porn" sucks because the last time you looked was a few years ago when tiny mpeg2 videoclips were the norm?
When's the last time you sat through a credit scroll and made a special note of who the Assisstant to the gaffer was? Never. If you want that info, that's what IMDB.com and other lookups are for.
The only endcredits I bother to wait through are at the end of Jackie Chan movies (because the outtakes are funnier than the actual movie:)
If we're ever forced to acknowledge that there are no intelligent radio signals in the universe, then we must also acknowledge that the odds of our own survival just became much bleaker.
A truly intelligent radio signal would be a compressed, encrypted, low-energy, point-to-point mesh network, and thus indistinguishable from background noise. This is even the direction our comms are going.
An inefficient RF broadcast that sticks out like a sore thumb should last a cosmic blink of an eye in the technological evolution of a civilization to Singularity.
in 100 years I doubt anyone could digest the information on a consumer hard drive.
In 100 years (actually, more like ~25), I doubt that we'll still be so limited by our slow organic brains. It's not just hard drives that are improving exponentially...
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The only 3D display tech worth working on -- until we figure out how to tap the optic nerve and/or brain itself -- is Retinal Scanning. Yep, "low-energy laser beams shot into the eye!" - the old LCD hud's are crap by comparison.
Once this tech goes mainstream, even the most monsterous of 2D displays won't seem so desirable anymore (except for social viewing).
The the #1 killer app for this kind of display is augmented reality... ah... to be able to have an ad-filter for the realworld...
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So, in the spirit of making that site almost as useful as the open Google groups, here's some no-hassle username/passwords to bypass it.
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The "send a fucking human" sentiment is just that: emotional sentiment. People like to romanticize about other people like them doing StarTrekkie things that they can relate to, and wish to be doing themselves one day (in human form). Most people are naturally bio-chauvinists, especially in the face of increasingly efficient robotics.
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"Welfare" is the accurate word, but it's dirty too; better to call it a "living wage", or a "'fair' dividend from the fruits of collectively-owned AUTOMATED production", or just a $25G stipend.
Offshoring is just the beginning of the increasing "screw everyone else" trend...
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If you're young, then maybe for your grandchildren.
In our lifetimes, actually - as long as you're healthy and younger than ~60. You see, the rate of overall technological progress (not just "Moore's Law") has been increasing exponentially for a long time, and we're just now on the knee of the accelerating curve to Singularity, so the future will get here much faster than you think. And nanotech itself isn't the (deadly) destination anyway, but a stepping stone.
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Molecular manufacturing is "just around the corner" so don't be so quick to write off free hardware (as in speech & near-zero-cost beer) because we're really not so many decades away from being able to do a "print 72_inch_OLED_display.gnu.object; print La-Z-Boy_5000.object; print 1980s_junkfood_collection-by_Fatass.object" to your 3d printer with recycled feedstock matter and cheap solar energy being piped in (you did bootstrap your own solar panels and fuelcell storage system right?)
Of course, the type of "free hardware" that's being talking about by Sun and MS is the kind that has more to do with enticing you into a locked down system payed for by proprietary software subscriptions.
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Consumers aren't going to 'wise up' and enable anything. The most likely way the percentage of open APs could be decreased is if frightened telecom lobbyists pushed some "anti-wireless-terror-and-child-porn" law that required wireless APs to be CLOSED by default. Good way to nip the whole free wireless mesh network in the bud eh? Fat chance I say.
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Your oldschool skillz humble me, your l33tness. Do you got any spare punchcards?
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Here are few ways that dirty pinko commie subversives can bypass the NYTimes registration:
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Yeah, and those rehabilitated console-snobs are now able to perform l33t magic like viewing & editing images, watching movies, and playing games besides nethack!
Step 1 of the 12 step program is disassociating exclusive CLI-mastery from self-worth. :)
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Too much energy? We're not even a Type 1 civilization yet. No, what we're going to have to face is intelligent energy use, because demand will continue to grow exponentially.
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Dear Logic, why should that be so surprising? It should be expected that our technology will continue to get smarter, and faster, than your average "daft" person because of the differences in the rate of evolution.
Soon enough we won't even have to send any "daft" grunts with smart bullets onto the battlefield; we'll send bots who won't question orders instead.
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For me, the anti-machine Jihad was always the most depressing aspect of Dune. bunch of luddites.
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Required reading for any so-called Futurist should be The Law of Accelerating Returns , which is more comprehensive than the more familiar Moore's "law".
When confronted by this for the first time, a lot of people are understandablyshocked, and quick to dismiss it.
However, I only put that export in my /usr/bin/firefox startup script, and not syswide, since firefox is the only browser I use for flash & java. Opera for everything else 99% of the time.
Flash shouldn't have been dog-slow out-of-the-box in the first place.
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File sharing isn't hurting the adult industry, but what WILL hurt it in the not-too-distant future is "virtual actors" who perform for free. AI and immersive rendering still isn't up to snuff tho.
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The quality of "P2P porn" is no less than your standard DVD after being compressed to a 1 or 2 CD Divx/Xvid. Which is to say that it's quite good. In fact, I wouldn't WANT to see HDTV-or-higher-rez porn that brings the makeup and butt pimples into focus. :)
Maybe you believe the quality of "p2p porn" sucks because the last time you looked was a few years ago when tiny mpeg2 videoclips were the norm?
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His shortcomings are nothing his funny name can't overcome. Funny, memorable names often give extroverts a (undeserved) celebrity bonus. :)
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The only endcredits I bother to wait through are at the end of Jackie Chan movies (because the outtakes are funnier than the actual movie :)
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Just thought I'd ask you - a 3D freak - if you're aware of a good source of any stereogram movies (Google doesn't return much)?
A truly intelligent radio signal would be a compressed, encrypted, low-energy, point-to-point mesh network, and thus indistinguishable from background noise. This is even the direction our comms are going.
An inefficient RF broadcast that sticks out like a sore thumb should last a cosmic blink of an eye in the technological evolution of a civilization to Singularity.
Noxious chemical "bulk-tech" is the old frontier - clean chemical nanotech is the new.
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In 100 years (actually, more like ~25), I doubt that we'll still be so limited by our slow organic brains. It's not just hard drives that are improving exponentially...
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aMule is the better client (despite the psycho's bashing and admitted 'wget -r' bandwidth draining.)
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