The next paradigm will be along just as the current one seems to be leveling off.
"Moore's Law Was Not the First, but the Fifth Paradigm To Provide
Exponential Growth of Computing. Each time one paradigm runs out of steam, another picks up the pace." - Ray Kurzweil.
Diamond will eventually replace silicon, and we haven't even started building dense 3D or 2-1/2D layered chips yet (because we can't build with atomic precision yet).
I'd be willing to help write an Apache module that detects IPs who view my pages but not my ads, and block those IPs for an hour or so.
It would end up costing you more in the end if you tried to block the blockers by checking to see if they downloaded your ads too. Those such as myself who block ads to decrease pageload time and reduce stress would simply switch to filters that fake it. So you would be wasting bandwidth sending me ads I never see.
Yeah, maybe you set up Proxomitron to render the ads but not actually *display* them... which is fine by providers, because the ad impression is still counted. Unfortunately, most ad blockers don't do this.
So it's not okay to filter ads, but it is okay for you to lie to your upstream advertisers about the effectiveness of the ads because the impression is still technically counted? That's rich.
Actually, no, far from it. I'm assuming that by the time we have the ability to build such a massive structure, that humankind will have long since evolved beyond the limitations of the fragile human body. Transhumans don't need to waste meatspace.
My response to the RedHat news was a bit different:
Gets notification that RedHat 9 is the last of the series.
Sees that Fedora is essentially the [trademark/brand-recognition free] replacement for the average geek, but without a cheap and easy RHN way to stay up2date anymore.
Decides to switch to the more desktop friendly Mandrake at some point in the future, but still suggest the more expensive 'industry leader' (redhat) for work use.
And that's the real reason why Schrodinger's cat is both alive and dead until you peek in the box - it saves space when nobody's looking anyway. And you thought quantum mechanics was complicated.
Why are you my foe? Oh, that's right, you're that bitter old fart who's always talking about his store, and how out of touch with reality everyone is, except of course for you, Mr. Beaten Down Grounded Hero.
You sure it's milk you pouring in your cereal every morning?
When the two snipers volunteered for a suicide mission to protect the downed pilots, and got turned into dead beef as expected. I bow to you, tough guy.
Hey, NanoGator, you're a prolific +5 slashdot regular, and I noticed that I'm your one and only friend. I don't like being singled out, so... I hate you I hate you I hate you. what gives?
(add some more friends to fill out the web of trust)
All the more reason that trust networks will be the inevitable defense against SPAM and so much more.
I'd want my retinal-HUD to display reputation and other info (based on a facial recognition query) for this bimbo. I might learn from some of my friends, and more of my friends-of-friends, and many of my friends-of-friends-of-friends, that this chick is married, is religious, hates bars, and thus is probably a stealth corporate shill. (Yay for the transparent society.)
On the flipside, the bimbo-shill might be able to make me out for the culture-jamming type, and not waste any time on me... or *sigh* she might try pushing some corporate co-opted counter-culter flick on me instead. But I'd *know* it was the co-opted crap, like Mountain Dew's "OBEY" marketing, so I'd have to slap the bitch.:)
There's a restaurant in Seattle that requires you to sign a "I'm a dumbass" waiver before serving you an ultra-fatty dessert. It's a gimmick to point out how fucking idiotic and litigious America is becoming.
"Hey! Can I play the lawsuit lottery too?! I deserve a piece of that!"
Grave of the Fireflies is one of the most heart wrenching stories ever told in any style.
Plot summary: two kid brothers starve to death in post-nuke Japan.
There's only a couple movies that managed to jerk a tear out of me, and this is one of 'em. The others on the shortlist (from recent memory) are: Blackhawk Down, Braveheart, Shawshank, Tears of the Sun, Thin Red Line,... Dumb and Dumberer.
don't get me started with anime writers obsession with young women
I think it's because they haven't grow up yet... into pussywhipped hypocrites who are supposed to deny biology and thousands of years of history where age ~15 was ripe. Not that I'm defending that borderline pedocrap in todays society or anything, as I find it highly annoying for another reason: I can't stand the way characters in most jap anime always act so embarrassed about anything remotely sexual.
Maybe it would be faster for me to learn Japanese?
No, it would be faster to wait a couple hours for the fansubbers to do their subtitle translation on the pirate version of the movie (that you'll obviously replace with the official DVD when released, right?). fansubs are very often better than the official translations anyway, and include handy cultural notes.
Two 120 gig drives, mirrored... Unless there is a disaster, I'm pretty confident my music is secure.
Tip: Have a 3rd 120GB drive ready to swap in a heartbeat, because Murphy's Law will kill your only remaining drive during the time you're waiting for a new one to arrive. "Oh, no, that'll never happen", says I.:)
Ever hear of something called a jobless recovery? Eventually technology will automate a lot of people out of work. Then they can either "adapt" to a new "make work" shit-job, welfare, the military, or homelessness... unless society chooses to deal with abundance less greedily.
expelled for writing fictional stories about school shootings
You know, if I was still in school, I'd write a fictional story about a student who gets expelled for writing a fictional story about a school shooting, gets pissed off, then returns to shoot his English teacher with a paintball gun.:)
Whenever I hear about these scammer stories I often wonder what the face of scum looks like-- if maybe I could tell it apart from the average car salesman's. So I wonder if this 55 year old woman has got the permanently furrowed eyebrows (like most news anchors), and those squinty, contemptuous eyes.
FYI: The "trick" to getting direct links to Apple's movie trailers is to view the html source, find the.mov link, then put the letter 'm' before the resolution in the URL.
Just because Jason ended up with Freddy's still-living decapitated head doesn't mean Freddy lost. Sequel$ guarantee that there can't be a loser.:)
btw, the blatant anti-smoking message in that movie was almost as annoying as the bad acting and fake tits. If they want to make smoking look uncool, they should at least try to be a bit more subtle. (I wonder who paid for it.)
Here's a tip: change your nickname if you don't want to get hassled. I've chosen a new gaming nickname every couple months for as long as I can remember because petty people keep grudges, and it just feels good to join in with a clean slate.
Of course, in the future, webs of trust will make picking new pseudonyms all the time much harder - you won't have enough initial trust to do a lot of the things your other accounts earned the right to.
Restriction of trade is one of the more humane ways of keeping [relative wealth]
And what happens to the one-sided trade of scarce resources when "magic desktop manufacturing" nanotechnology arrives in few decades? Global economic equality is only a matter of time (and technology), and the "free trade" debate will morph into the current debate about open/closed information to benefit many vs the few.
The fate of the world is determined by our actions and decisions, and many of the most profound decisions and actions are made by the largest of actors: states. The range of possible behaviors for states is partly delineated by the relations among them, as each state must always act in a world of other states. Kingdoms, republics and empires have risen and fallen over the millennia, their fortunes determined at all points by their store of power (1), and by their ability to use it in the world in which they acted. There are many sources of power, and the relative value of those sources to a nation has fluctuated historically. At one time, a nation's army may have been her most valuable asset. At other times, her store of gold, her population, her navy, her factories and technology and even her religion may have been determining factors in her relative standing in the world. -
Tom McCarthy
Does anybody really feel that they are being more accurately targetted these days?
I noticed that after I switched from using $EXPENSIVE_BRANDNAME products to the $CHEAP_STORE_BRAND products -- which often have exactly the same ingredients -- that the advertisers stopped wasting their time and money trying to convert me.
Because, you know, it's a viscious feedback loop: the mental engineering costs (aka: advertising) it takes to make Product X look sexy are included in the inflated cost of Product X.
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Diamond will eventually replace silicon, and we haven't even started building dense 3D or 2-1/2D layered chips yet (because we can't build with atomic precision yet).
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It would end up costing you more in the end if you tried to block the blockers by checking to see if they downloaded your ads too. Those such as myself who block ads to decrease pageload time and reduce stress would simply switch to filters that fake it. So you would be wasting bandwidth sending me ads I never see.
Yeah, maybe you set up Proxomitron to render the ads but not actually *display* them... which is fine by providers, because the ad impression is still counted. Unfortunately, most ad blockers don't do this.
So it's not okay to filter ads, but it is okay for you to lie to your upstream advertisers about the effectiveness of the ads because the impression is still technically counted? That's rich.
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Actually, no, far from it. I'm assuming that by the time we have the ability to build such a massive structure, that humankind will have long since evolved beyond the limitations of the fragile human body. Transhumans don't need to waste meatspace.
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Gets notification that RedHat 9 is the last of the series.
Sees that Fedora is essentially the [trademark/brand-recognition free] replacement for the average geek, but without a cheap and easy RHN way to stay up2date anymore.
Decides to switch to the more desktop friendly Mandrake at some point in the future, but still suggest the more expensive 'industry leader' (redhat) for work use.
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My favorite explaination for dark matter: It's advanced ETs who've built Dyson shell sized brains around stars to exploit every last drop of energy.
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And that's the real reason why Schrodinger's cat is both alive and dead until you peek in the box - it saves space when nobody's looking anyway. And you thought quantum mechanics was complicated.
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You sure it's milk you pouring in your cereal every morning?
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(add some more friends to fill out the web of trust)
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I'd want my retinal-HUD to display reputation and other info (based on a facial recognition query) for this bimbo. I might learn from some of my friends, and more of my friends-of-friends, and many of my friends-of-friends-of-friends, that this chick is married, is religious, hates bars, and thus is probably a stealth corporate shill. (Yay for the transparent society.)
On the flipside, the bimbo-shill might be able to make me out for the culture-jamming type, and not waste any time on me ... or *sigh* she might try pushing some corporate co-opted counter-culter flick on me instead. But I'd *know* it was the co-opted crap, like Mountain Dew's "OBEY" marketing, so I'd have to slap the bitch. :)
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"Hey! Can I play the lawsuit lottery too?! I deserve a piece of that!"
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Plot summary: two kid brothers starve to death in post-nuke Japan.
There's only a couple movies that managed to jerk a tear out of me, and this is one of 'em. The others on the shortlist (from recent memory) are: Blackhawk Down, Braveheart, Shawshank, Tears of the Sun, Thin Red Line, ... Dumb and Dumberer.
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90% of everything is crap.
don't get me started with anime writers obsession with young women
I think it's because they haven't grow up yet ... into pussywhipped hypocrites who are supposed to deny biology and thousands of years of history where age ~15 was ripe. Not that I'm defending that borderline pedocrap in todays society or anything, as I find it highly annoying for another reason: I can't stand the way characters in most jap anime always act so embarrassed about anything remotely sexual.
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Baraka is better.
Hypnotic. Depressing. Uplifting. Thought provoking. All at the same time, and without one word of dialog.
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No, it would be faster to wait a couple hours for the fansubbers to do their subtitle translation on the pirate version of the movie (that you'll obviously replace with the official DVD when released, right?). fansubs are very often better than the official translations anyway, and include handy cultural notes.
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Tip: Have a 3rd 120GB drive ready to swap in a heartbeat, because Murphy's Law will kill your only remaining drive during the time you're waiting for a new one to arrive. "Oh, no, that'll never happen", says I. :)
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Ever hear of something called a jobless recovery? Eventually technology will automate a lot of people out of work. Then they can either "adapt" to a new "make work" shit-job, welfare, the military, or homelessness ... unless society chooses to deal with abundance less greedily.
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You know, if I was still in school, I'd write a fictional story about a student who gets expelled for writing a fictional story about a school shooting, gets pissed off, then returns to shoot his English teacher with a paintball gun. :)
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avp-teaser_m480.mov [10MB]
avp-featurette_m320 [20MB]
FYI: The "trick" to getting direct links to Apple's movie trailers is to view the html source, find the .mov link, then put the letter 'm' before the resolution in the URL.
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btw, the blatant anti-smoking message in that movie was almost as annoying as the bad acting and fake tits. If they want to make smoking look uncool, they should at least try to be a bit more subtle. (I wonder who paid for it.)
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Of course, in the future, webs of trust will make picking new pseudonyms all the time much harder - you won't have enough initial trust to do a lot of the things your other accounts earned the right to.
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And what happens to the one-sided trade of scarce resources when "magic desktop manufacturing" nanotechnology arrives in few decades? Global economic equality is only a matter of time (and technology), and the "free trade" debate will morph into the current debate about open/closed information to benefit many vs the few.
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I noticed that after I switched from using $EXPENSIVE_BRANDNAME products to the $CHEAP_STORE_BRAND products -- which often have exactly the same ingredients -- that the advertisers stopped wasting their time and money trying to convert me.
Because, you know, it's a viscious feedback loop: the mental engineering costs (aka: advertising) it takes to make Product X look sexy are included in the inflated cost of Product X.
I'm joking of course - wish I wasn't though. :)
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