Is it just me, or it really seems that large scale technological advances are going TOO slow?
It's just you.
Technological advancement has been increasing at an exponential rate from the beginning; it's just that most of it is occurring at the micro- and nano-scale where you take it for granted. biotech, cloning, the Internet, Google, nano-materials, 133MHz (in 1995) to 3+ GHz today, etc.
Most large-scale tech is also progressing, but you don't notice it at the human-scale, and you won't, until we can build amazing things using bottom-up nanotech instead of top-down bulk-tech.
Consider a better, safer, cheaper and much faster way to get from NYC to Tokoyo with near-future tech: A maglev train via an underground tunnel, in vacuum for frictionless acceleration to ludicrious-speed at the midway point before decel. Currently, tunnel excavation is labor intensive and very EXPENSIVE; precise control over matter and robotic automation will change that.
He didn't say that the manufacturer shouldn't make money -- because they do, by selling in volume to the better-priced resellers -- he said that you shouldn't buy directly from the manufacturer because it's almost always a ripoff, and it is. (Obscene profit margins aren't efficient either.)
If you want to know where all the irrational exuberance is this time, it's not in stocks, it's in realestate.
People honestly expect property values to continue to grow at double digit rates for the foreseeable future(!), with no regard for what's actually sustainable.
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The elimination of most material scarcity through molecular manufacturing will go a long way towards reducing conflict in the world, but you're right that there will still be the psycho element to contend with.
There can be no paradise on earth as long as the nastier bits of our evolutionary psychology are still holding us back. Egomaniacal, power-hungry, sociopaths (many of whom are now CEOs and politicians) may have been genetically successful in the past, but with increasing technological power, that mindset becomes a liability for net-positive happiness in the world. It's a good thing, then, that a biological solution, and a non-biological solution, will emerge parallel to the growing threat of exponentially more powerful tech in the hands of mostly static primate brains.
I feel a lot of unique and original work is lost or covered up by folks like myself moderating content off the system.
It's not that bad.
Most people mixing up their own derivative works for fun will share within their circle of friends privately, or via centralized services that haven't grown big enough to care about being legally anal, or via decentralized p2p (which is where I find most of those anime music vids, halo vids, GTA trick vids, CS cheater vids, WoW "hammertime" vids, and whatnot).
Bins that sing and chuckle are going to be safer from theft?
Sure, when the bot's inertial and GPS sensors detect that it's being abused, it'll switch to shrieking car-alarm mode: "Bot-beater! Bot-napper! Help! *KLAXXON* I have your picture! I have 1000volts! Help!"
I'm 31, and I almost covered MY eyes during that scene.
You can't be serious... oh, you said were. Then are you a metrosexual bychance?
there WERE children in the theater laughing at that scene
Oh my. Then that must mean their 'souls' have gone to the darkside, right? They're callous little heathens who didn't pay due respect to the seriousness of the scene? It's a MOVIE! Most kids are smart enough to grok that. Seeing the same shit in real life is the true empathy filter.
I'm confused: how could your nine-year-old not have seen Star Wars 1-3 yet? There are re-runs on TV all the time...... Seriously, how? Just a coincidence? (or are you really that over-protective?)
but whole albums? I think not.... we use Poisoned, which searches FastTrack, Gnutella, Ares and OpenFT
Well there's your problem right there. Gnutella and FastTrack are yesteryears' p2p cesspool that specialized in small files (and weak hashes).
If you were looking for full albums and other large files, today, you would be using eMule (edonkey search for Pond archives) for the more obscure and BitTorrent search for the more popular.
Then that would be called a marketing gimmick, and isn't deserving of a patent monopoly which is supposed to promote progress, not one-trick/click exclusive idiocy.
And how do polar bears get so big? They eat stuff you don't see that often because it's under the ice: seals. Hoth must have some kind of geothermal-fed water underworld goin' on.
perhaps this merger will be the beginning of the end of the specialists.
Fewer unnecessary middlemen is always a good thing; now they can specialize in something that's more useful than being an overpaid floor trader. Mmm.. automation cuts from both sides.
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To: Dad
From: IHaveNoWhereElse2Go!@yahoo.com
Subject: Video Postcard from Iraq
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Interesting... interesting enough to download.
I couldn't find a torrent (isohunt/torrentsearch/torrentspy), but there's ~20 sources on the eDonkey network that have a 70MB low-res version of it: ed2k://|file|Hikikomori-Japan.The.Missing.Million. (30.Minuts)(Divx5)(Ogg.Vorbis)(Catalan).ogm|745544 28|69CA73729C661DAA9E239D955C237DA7|/
(sorry about the spaced plaintext link, but slashdot still doesn't support ed2k hrefs. I have no idea if there's english subs in this OGM.)
I played a little over a year ago, but I'm wondering: did 2ndlife ever get the GPL-ish license for ingame objects/scripts? I quit before that was supposed to come into effect, but there were still tons of free objects being passed around (like the rocket fireworks) in the open source spirit. I'd hate to think the game went downhill to the point where the majority of objects were only for-pay & proprietary.
Actually, from all the forums and reviews I've read, the 20" Dell edges out the 20" Apple Cinema on all points but subjective style. Also, the Cinema apparently has big problems with a reddish/pink cast on the edges, that a bunch of people on the mac forums still rightly bitch about.
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AGP -> PCI-Express
ATA -> SATA-{1,2}
GDDR -> DDR (on my vid card)
black & white: mplayer -vo aa foo.mpg
color: mplayer -vo caca foo.mpg
It's just you.
Technological advancement has been increasing at an exponential rate from the beginning; it's just that most of it is occurring at the micro- and nano-scale where you take it for granted. biotech, cloning, the Internet, Google, nano-materials, 133MHz (in 1995) to 3+ GHz today, etc.
Most large-scale tech is also progressing, but you don't notice it at the human-scale, and you won't, until we can build amazing things using bottom-up nanotech instead of top-down bulk-tech.
Consider a better, safer, cheaper and much faster way to get from NYC to Tokoyo with near-future tech: A maglev train via an underground tunnel, in vacuum for frictionless acceleration to ludicrious-speed at the midway point before decel. Currently, tunnel excavation is labor intensive and very EXPENSIVE; precise control over matter and robotic automation will change that.
Nothing boggling about it.
People honestly expect property values to continue to grow at double digit rates for the foreseeable future(!), with no regard for what's actually sustainable.
There can be no paradise on earth as long as the nastier bits of our evolutionary psychology are still holding us back. Egomaniacal, power-hungry, sociopaths (many of whom are now CEOs and politicians) may have been genetically successful in the past, but with increasing technological power, that mindset becomes a liability for net-positive happiness in the world. It's a good thing, then, that a biological solution, and a non-biological solution, will emerge parallel to the growing threat of exponentially more powerful tech in the hands of mostly static primate brains.
It's not that bad.
Most people mixing up their own derivative works for fun will share within their circle of friends privately, or via centralized services that haven't grown big enough to care about being legally anal, or via decentralized p2p (which is where I find most of those anime music vids, halo vids, GTA trick vids, CS cheater vids, WoW "hammertime" vids, and whatnot).
So? It's always been easy to get kickbanned from IRC channels for the slightest comment than a op-nazi takes offense at.
In soviet russia... wait, are these Russian kids? That would explain everything. (nope, didn't RTFA, and neither did you.)
Fashion is all so arbritrary. "Dress for Success" should be titled "Dress for WASP Conformity".
Sure, when the bot's inertial and GPS sensors detect that it's being abused, it'll switch to shrieking car-alarm mode: "Bot-beater! Bot-napper! Help! *KLAXXON* I have your picture! I have 1000volts! Help!"
So there's fewer desperate people in Europe stealing bikes, eh? Guess Austin needs more socialism first.
You can't be serious... oh, you said were. Then are you a metrosexual bychance?
there WERE children in the theater laughing at that scene
Oh my. Then that must mean their 'souls' have gone to the darkside, right? They're callous little heathens who didn't pay due respect to the seriousness of the scene? It's a MOVIE! Most kids are smart enough to grok that. Seeing the same shit in real life is the true empathy filter.
I'm confused: how could your nine-year-old not have seen Star Wars 1-3 yet? There are re-runs on TV all the time. ..... Seriously, how? Just a coincidence? (or are you really that over-protective?)
Well there's your problem right there. Gnutella and FastTrack are yesteryears' p2p cesspool that specialized in small files (and weak hashes).
If you were looking for full albums and other large files, today, you would be using eMule (edonkey search for Pond archives) for the more obscure and BitTorrent search for the more popular.
Then that would be called a marketing gimmick, and isn't deserving of a patent monopoly which is supposed to promote progress, not one-trick/click exclusive idiocy.
"This application requires Linux Standards Base (LSB) 3.0" ... ah, who has time for that standards crap anyway.
And how do polar bears get so big? They eat stuff you don't see that often because it's under the ice: seals. Hoth must have some kind of geothermal-fed water underworld goin' on.
"Excuse-uh meesa?!"
Fewer unnecessary middlemen is always a good thing; now they can specialize in something that's more useful than being an overpaid floor trader. Mmm.. automation cuts from both sides.
To: Dad
t ikrit_by_us_troops_Jun_07_2005.html
From: IHaveNoWhereElse2Go!@yahoo.com
Subject: Video Postcard from Iraq
Yo dad! Check out this sandnigger guerrilla we terminated today!
http://www.ogrish.com/archives/insurgent_shot_in_
p.s. don't forward this shit or i'll get court marshalled.
p.p.s. please forward it!
I couldn't find a torrent (isohunt/torrentsearch/torrentspy), but there's ~20 sources on the eDonkey network that have a 70MB low-res version of it: ed2k://|file|Hikikomori-Japan.The.Missing.Million. (30.Minuts)(Divx5)(Ogg.Vorbis)(Catalan).ogm|745544 28|69CA73729C661DAA9E239D955C237DA7|/
(sorry about the spaced plaintext link, but slashdot still doesn't support ed2k hrefs. I have no idea if there's english subs in this OGM.)
/nick l33tk1dd1e
Free Kev1n!!!!!111
Inf0rmation wants to be Fr33!!!!!!
die you f00king gr33dy RIAAsses and MPAAssholes!!
l0lz! r0flz!
I played a little over a year ago, but I'm wondering: did 2ndlife ever get the GPL-ish license for ingame objects/scripts? I quit before that was supposed to come into effect, but there were still tons of free objects being passed around (like the rocket fireworks) in the open source spirit. I'd hate to think the game went downhill to the point where the majority of objects were only for-pay & proprietary.
Actually, from all the forums and reviews I've read, the 20" Dell edges out the 20" Apple Cinema on all points but subjective style. Also, the Cinema apparently has big problems with a reddish/pink cast on the edges, that a bunch of people on the mac forums still rightly bitch about.