Any more than two choices and my brain hurts. So no, please, keep it simple... don't confuse me with new poli9tical parties like "Independant", "Green", "Socialist", "Constitution", "Libertarian".
Just stick with Liberal Democrats and Conservative Republican fatcats. That I can understand... and the duality is so entertaining! three's a crowd ya know.
if you choose skip your more then likely looking at a situation of random crashing because some file missing
Not likely. Most of the data in any OS install isn't the critical stuff, it's the bloat. You'd have to be somewhat unlucky for a kernel bit to get corrupted vs a giant background image, an unused driver, etc.
e.g. 'sndrec32.exe' is corrupt on my XP CD, but it's not critical.
It sounds to me like you're afraid. Afraid that our 'AI mind children' will leave us in the evolutionary dust without a second thought... or at least with as much thought as we give our own parents after leaving the nest.
You should consider that the post-human transition probably won't be so black and white. Rather than assume a superintelligence would dismiss its parents as 'redundant', I'd assume it'd help us join them -- and even if not, sentient AI isn't the only kind of computation capable of engineering a brain-to-machine bridge.
Progress is exponential... and we're on the knee of that curve. Can't avoid it. We've gotta deal.
Who ever said you have the right to survive? Especially at my expense
No, not YOUR expense - OUR expense (maybe that sounds to communistic for you). Can you imagine a future where the vast majority of people have been automated out of work, but whose basic needs are essentially taken care of by this same community-owned automation? I can. Most people's "job" would then entail entertaining themselves and everyone else. Self-sufficiency isn't evil just because a human doesn't have to sweat for it.
A strong work ethic was necessary when your survival depended on it. The meme won't die easily because many people won't be able to see the difference between a 'lazy freeloader' when resources are scarce, and a millions of 'lazy freeloaders' when resources are overly abundant & recyclable.
A "post scarcity" economy of abundance is still a ways off... but once we get there, "welfare" won't be a derogatory term. It'll be the default state that most people won't have to work for mere survival.
Disposable items create economic churn - durable goods are un-American.:-)
Reminds me of Soylent Green where people were forced to buy worthless colored boxes to keep the economy moving, only to throw them in the garbage moments later.
Sorry, but there's no way that one guy is going to be able to sit at his computer and create a complicated movie with several characters, and accurately express emotion in their appearances and voices.
Sorry, but you're assuming that future CG will require the artists to explicitly define every last detail of their scenes as they do today. Not so. Much more likely they'll have "living" virtual worlds and actors that they can direct at higher levels of abstractions by default, rather than spending 2 hours painstakingly perfecting TomCruise2.0's smirk, and 3 hours getting Bimbo3.0s boobs to jiggle just right.
Its hard for an actor to seriously act terrified when some head on a stick representing a T-rex is chasing them.
And in those same 20 years augmented reality will be a reality. Instead of wasting time and money on animatronics, the actors will be wearing (green) augmented reality glasses so they WILL be able to interact with the CG world around them.
Sorry to come down so hard on your naysaying, but you said "never" at the end of your post, so I felt compelled.:)
Smith, for example, is helping to create an edgy, hand-held camera look for some of Firefly's computer effects shots -- something that's been done in live-action TV shows like NYPD Blue.
Edgy? this motion-sickness-inducing, MTV-abused, BlairWitch amateur hour crap is still called edgy?
Call me oldfashioned, but I I'll take a steadicam shot over this crap any day. Sure, sometimes the camera needs to tumble, and vibrate for effect, but most of the time you don't want to watch a movie as if it was shot by a crackmonkey with a camcorder...
It's this same institutional arrogance that explains why NASA throws away a perfectly good space station component on every Shuttle mission.
A real "hacker" would have recognized the huge value in boosting the external tanks a tiny bit further so they could make orbit and be repurposed later.
It looks to me like there is no solution to this problem short of violent revolution. There is simply no way to get "there" (a government that listens and responds to the actual wants and needs of the people and not those of the corporations) from "here", because the system itself has feedback mechanisms (see above) in place that make such a direction impossible.
I'll probably get added to some list just for mentioning this... but... Assassination Politics is one solution to keep assholes in check (and as an added bonus prevents millions of soldiers from needlessly dying for their leaders' stupidity when a few well placed bullets can often do the job).
As long as the perception remains that we can change a system from within, and as long as the majority people are reasonably happy, a 'revolutionary' will be thought of no differently than a terrorist... just as our founding fathers were considered terrorists by the powers that used to be.
It's a good thing MetroCards are anonymous, otherwise I'd still be using tokens... or jumping the turnstyles.
EZPass doesn't NEED to know who I am - an anonymous system like Metrocard could have worked just as well. I'd rather prepay cash than be able to be tracked.
The RIAA can certainly claim that their file has the same size, name, and hash. You won't know for sure until you download the entire file and calculate its hash.
At which point the node that lied to you loses some trust, and you pass this info along your trust network.
"Hey guys, node '1234abcd' is a RIAA NARC; pass it along."
NARC says, "No I'm not, you are!", but the assholes will always be outnumbered... as long as it's really damn computationally expensive to create floods of fake digital identities (vs dynamic IP addresses).
Like the previous poster said, ISPs who gouge their users (not "leeches") for using their unlimited connection are simply profiteering.
The SANE and FAIR thing to do is to use traffic shaping to severely limit the "hogs" rate during peak traffic times so the light users like grandma don't suffer. The more bandwidth you use over time, the less you get to use when it's scarce - but at 3am, even the hog should be able to use his full 2Mbps if it's not being used, because unused bandwidth doesn't cost the ISP anything.
We don't have p2p webs of trust yet because they're nontrivial to implement, and because we don't absolutely need them to function yet. Most people are crisis motivated (witness 9/11 kneejerking.. or jobseeking intensity after your nestegg dips below 2 months rent.)
honest-to-god ending, like The Irresponsible Captain Tylor
You call that an ending? It was as predictable and corny as Hollywood. It should have been (open)ended after the nonbattle on the 2nd to last episode... instead of the crap about Tylor obviously not being able to quit, and choosing the old ship with the old crew over the new..... IMO.
World? As in you think us humans will remain in our current oversized brain vehicles long enough to overpopulate the Earth?
Not likely.
Assuming we don't kill ourselves first, shortly after curing the biological aging disease, we'll no doubt have the nano/bio/cognitive tech to build a man->machine bridge and become immortal 'virtual beings' running on vastly more efficient substrate.
At that point memetic "mind children" replace genetic evolution, and the computational limits of all the energy & matter in the solar system become the new upper limit on population size. Though, assuming our increased intellgence recognizes that zero population growth isn't healthy, that doesn't mean you'd have to "die" for their to be new birth. Just as in "Ghost in the Shell", memes could merge, and "you" would still exist in the hivemind.
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Musicmachines - Pop music composed and performed by digital stars, RIAA introduces bill banning non- organic musicians.
You're right on about that one - for at least some types of music isn't too terribly difficult to automatically sythesize on-the-fly according to taste.
Also, I'd add "Pornmachines" to that list a little later... then I'd get to be director.:)
So... 1Gbps is ~128MB/s, which would require 4 striped HDs capable of ~30MB/s sustained write throughput. But to make sure there's enough room for a 2 hour show, better make it a 6 drive RAID of Western Digital's new 200GB drives for 1.2TB of fast storage.
About the encoding time: yeah, it takes a couple hours to encode the few gigs of a DVDs VOB+audio to Divx+mp3/ogg/ac3... so 1.2TB would take just a little longer with current tech.:)
The analog hole isn't plugged in this scenario, but it's pretty tight, and the digital holes will still be there ready to be exploited...
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Just stick with Liberal Democrats and Conservative Republican fatcats. That I can understand... and the duality is so entertaining! three's a crowd ya know.
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That's a feature, not a bug.
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Not likely. Most of the data in any OS install isn't the critical stuff, it's the bloat. You'd have to be somewhat unlucky for a kernel bit to get corrupted vs a giant background image, an unused driver, etc.
e.g. 'sndrec32.exe' is corrupt on my XP CD, but it's not critical.
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You should consider that the post-human transition probably won't be so black and white. Rather than assume a superintelligence would dismiss its parents as 'redundant', I'd assume it'd help us join them -- and even if not, sentient AI isn't the only kind of computation capable of engineering a brain-to-machine bridge.
Progress is exponential... and we're on the knee of that curve. Can't avoid it. We've gotta deal.
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No, not YOUR expense - OUR expense (maybe that sounds to communistic for you). Can you imagine a future where the vast majority of people have been automated out of work, but whose basic needs are essentially taken care of by this same community-owned automation? I can. Most people's "job" would then entail entertaining themselves and everyone else. Self-sufficiency isn't evil just because a human doesn't have to sweat for it.
A strong work ethic was necessary when your survival depended on it. The meme won't die easily because many people won't be able to see the difference between a 'lazy freeloader' when resources are scarce, and a millions of 'lazy freeloaders' when resources are overly abundant & recyclable.
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Why do ANYTHING if you can get the cow AND the milk for free? :)
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Reminds me of Soylent Green where people were forced to buy worthless colored boxes to keep the economy moving, only to throw them in the garbage moments later.
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Sorry, but you're assuming that future CG will require the artists to explicitly define every last detail of their scenes as they do today. Not so. Much more likely they'll have "living" virtual worlds and actors that they can direct at higher levels of abstractions by default, rather than spending 2 hours painstakingly perfecting TomCruise2.0's smirk, and 3 hours getting Bimbo3.0s boobs to jiggle just right.
Its hard for an actor to seriously act terrified when some head on a stick representing a T-rex is chasing them.
And in those same 20 years augmented reality will be a reality. Instead of wasting time and money on animatronics, the actors will be wearing (green) augmented reality glasses so they WILL be able to interact with the CG world around them.
Sorry to come down so hard on your naysaying, but you said "never" at the end of your post, so I felt compelled. :)
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Edgy? this motion-sickness-inducing, MTV-abused, BlairWitch amateur hour crap is still called edgy?
Call me oldfashioned, but I I'll take a steadicam shot over this crap any day. Sure, sometimes the camera needs to tumble, and vibrate for effect, but most of the time you don't want to watch a movie as if it was shot by a crackmonkey with a camcorder...
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A real "hacker" would have recognized the huge value in boosting the external tanks a tiny bit further so they could make orbit and be repurposed later.
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What you say is mostly true, but pointing out the flaws in human nature never changes anything. My tribe is righteous... yours is evil, etc.
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I'll probably get added to some list just for mentioning this... but... Assassination Politics is one solution to keep assholes in check (and as an added bonus prevents millions of soldiers from needlessly dying for their leaders' stupidity when a few well placed bullets can often do the job).
As long as the perception remains that we can change a system from within, and as long as the majority people are reasonably happy, a 'revolutionary' will be thought of no differently than a terrorist... just as our founding fathers were considered terrorists by the powers that used to be.
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EZPass doesn't NEED to know who I am - an anonymous system like Metrocard could have worked just as well. I'd rather prepay cash than be able to be tracked.
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Somebody needs to hit the EPO over the head with a cluetrain.
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At which point the node that lied to you loses some trust, and you pass this info along your trust network.
"Hey guys, node '1234abcd' is a RIAA NARC; pass it along."
NARC says, "No I'm not, you are!", but the assholes will always be outnumbered ... as long as it's really damn computationally expensive to create floods of fake digital identities (vs dynamic IP addresses).
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How many shares do you own? *snicker*
Like the previous poster said, ISPs who gouge their users (not "leeches") for using their unlimited connection are simply profiteering.
The SANE and FAIR thing to do is to use traffic shaping to severely limit the "hogs" rate during peak traffic times so the light users like grandma don't suffer. The more bandwidth you use over time, the less you get to use when it's scarce - but at 3am, even the hog should be able to use his full 2Mbps if it's not being used, because unused bandwidth doesn't cost the ISP anything.
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That's because oil is slicker than shit.
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You call that an ending? It was as predictable and corny as Hollywood. It should have been (open)ended after the nonbattle on the 2nd to last episode... instead of the crap about Tylor obviously not being able to quit, and choosing the old ship with the old crew over the new. .... IMO.
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World? As in you think us humans will remain in our current oversized brain vehicles long enough to overpopulate the Earth?
Not likely.
Assuming we don't kill ourselves first, shortly after curing the biological aging disease, we'll no doubt have the nano/bio/cognitive tech to build a man->machine bridge and become immortal 'virtual beings' running on vastly more efficient substrate.
At that point memetic "mind children" replace genetic evolution, and the computational limits of all the energy & matter in the solar system become the new upper limit on population size. Though, assuming our increased intellgence recognizes that zero population growth isn't healthy, that doesn't mean you'd have to "die" for their to be new birth. Just as in "Ghost in the Shell", memes could merge, and "you" would still exist in the hivemind.
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You're right on about that one - for at least some types of music isn't too terribly difficult to automatically sythesize on-the-fly according to taste.
Also, I'd add "Pornmachines" to that list a little later... then I'd get to be director. :)
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About the encoding time: yeah, it takes a couple hours to encode the few gigs of a DVDs VOB+audio to Divx+mp3/ogg/ac3... so 1.2TB would take just a little longer with current tech. :)
The analog hole isn't plugged in this scenario, but it's pretty tight, and the digital holes will still be there ready to be exploited...
Thanks for the info...
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