I want to congratulate you on being the only person (so far) to comment on the "sensory whiskers" part of the story, and furthermore doing so without mentioning penises.
And this research suggests that you're incorrect in this assumption. It showed that people's reaction varied, depending on the robot's perceived intent. Which is a lot like how humans respond to human touch. If I believe someone is hugging me to show encouragement I take it differently than if I believe they are hugging me because they like the feel of human body.
The observations about old apps running on the later OSes are a little hasty and overly generous to Windows, though. While simple demo-level applets like Reversi – written by Microsoft according to approved API specs –might still work, there have been a lot of old Windows apps that simply couldn't survive through OS upgrades (clean install or not), and either had to be fixed by the developer or abandoned by the user. Often the only way the old app would work is if you'd done an inplace upgrade of the OS, such that the remnants of the earlier OS (e.g. obsolete DLLs) were still lying around for the app to use. But sometimes not even then, most often with the ugprades to Win95 and WinXP (which were major overhauls of the architecture). Win7 has problems too: just yesterday I was trying to install Adobe CS2 on a new Win7 machine, and the only way to get it to work was to tell the installer to use ye olde DOS-compatible 8.3 name for "C:\Program Files (x86)" ("C:\PROGRA~2"). That's probably Adobe's fault, not Microsoft's, but to suggest that Microsoft has provided flawless backward compatibility for apps in every new version of Windows is a bit misleading.
As the video explains, it was omitted because there is no upgrade path from WinME to Win2K. Remember that "Millennium Editon" came after Win2K, as a stopgap for the consumer market until WinXP was ready, so going from ME to the business-targeted Win2K would not have made sense.
Without having seen the video I wonder what type of hardware is able to run all these versions of MS OS?
The virtual kind. (VMware to be specific.) About 10 years ago I tried installing some versions of Ancient Windows I had sitting around (probably 1.04 and 2.0) on then-current hardware, and failed. The lack of proper EGA video-mode support was the culprit, I think. So this demo would have to have involved some changes of the virtual hardware along the way to keep it going. He probably also had to increase the size of the DOS 5.0 FAT16 partition (max 2GB?) before he got to Win7.
Failing to name "the enemy" is standard military procedure. Referring to them by a name would humanize them more than a generic noun like "the enemy" would.
It isn't (or shouldn't) be a question of whether someone is breaking the law or not that troubles us. Sometimes that's a Bad Thing (e.g. Oliver North) and sometimes it's a Good Thing (e.g. M. L. King). What we should be asking in any given case is whether what the "vigilante" is doing is ethical or not. It's a more difficult question to answer in many cases (e.g. Anonymous), but at least it's a question worth exploring.
That definitely tripped me up the first time I tried tweaking some conf files myself, then going back to Linuxconf later for something else, and those changes via vi being overwritten.
I don't consider myself an old-school Linux user, but maybe I'm just in denial, because I remember Linuxconf fondly. I came to Linux a few years before Why-Too-Kay with a little experience as a Unix user but mostly as a WinDOS tech, and Linuxconf was an invaluable set of training wheels as I learned to set up Apache and Sendmail and BIND on the first *n*x system where I had root. I mostly use vi these days (and Webmin for daemons that I'm not as familiar with), but if it weren't for Linuxconf to get me rolling with Linux, I might have suffered through Windows admin-ing for a few more years (at least until OS X Server came along).
I once built a "stealth" computer with an old ATX motherboard in a FedEx shipping box. It's more of a sit-in-the-corner novelty than a useful machine, though.
The opinion was delivered by Roberts; did he write it? If so, I want to remove one of the pins from my voodoo doll of him, in appreciation for the delightful joke it ended with.
NASA, if you want to call a probe "Messenger", just call it "Messenger" and explain to the members of the media who slept through middle school that you called it that because Mercury was the Roman messenger of the gods. You don't need to emulate the US Congress and try to justify the names you want to use with backronyms that violate several Geneva Convention prohibitions against torture (e.g. U.S.A. P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act), and which even Stan Lee would be embarrassed by.
Those are not state capitals you see listed; they are merely "landmark" major cities within each time zone. State capitals are often mid-sized cities, usually chosen for geographic reasons, or even specifically to avoid putting the capital in any of the state's largest cities; as a Scot you probably wouldn't recognize half of them by name. The U.S. did the same thing when the federal capital was created, and when we get around to making the home countries of the UK into the 51st-54th states, we'll probably move the capitals to Dundee SL, Aberystwyth WL, Nottingham EN, and Antrim NI.:)
"However, this can be vetoed by the Scottish Parliment. I hope it does, or else we'll be having dawn at 9am during winter."
Isn't that what already happens? I spent a term at the University of Aberdeen, and I remember the sun being up about 9am-4pm around Winter Solstice.
I agree entirely. I hesitate to use a "framer's intent" argument referring to the U.S. Constitution, but in this case it's a good frame of reference. The kind of copyright that Madison et al. had in mind was one in which a person had exclusive rights for several years (expanded later a bit at a time to 56), to recoup the time and creative energy he put into it, plus some profit if it was popular, but then anyone could use it. It wasn't intended to give someoen an income for life, and it certainly wasn't any kind of hereditary estate to passed on to the children and grandchildren of the creators. The idea of copyrights lasting for decades after the creator's death (as popularized in Europe and now codified into international law) is just way too long. It rewards people who had nothing to do with the original creation, and it stifles later creative endeavors, such as this one.
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Anyone who doesn't see the value of teacher-student interaction as part of the educational process has apparently hit a glass ceiling in his own.
You seem to have a rather limited understanding of what "education" consists of.
I want to congratulate you on being the only person (so far) to comment on the "sensory whiskers" part of the story, and furthermore doing so without mentioning penises.
And this research suggests that you're incorrect in this assumption. It showed that people's reaction varied, depending on the robot's perceived intent. Which is a lot like how humans respond to human touch. If I believe someone is hugging me to show encouragement I take it differently than if I believe they are hugging me because they like the feel of human body.
The observations about old apps running on the later OSes are a little hasty and overly generous to Windows, though. While simple demo-level applets like Reversi – written by Microsoft according to approved API specs –might still work, there have been a lot of old Windows apps that simply couldn't survive through OS upgrades (clean install or not), and either had to be fixed by the developer or abandoned by the user. Often the only way the old app would work is if you'd done an inplace upgrade of the OS, such that the remnants of the earlier OS (e.g. obsolete DLLs) were still lying around for the app to use. But sometimes not even then, most often with the ugprades to Win95 and WinXP (which were major overhauls of the architecture). Win7 has problems too: just yesterday I was trying to install Adobe CS2 on a new Win7 machine, and the only way to get it to work was to tell the installer to use ye olde DOS-compatible 8.3 name for "C:\Program Files (x86)" ("C:\PROGRA~2"). That's probably Adobe's fault, not Microsoft's, but to suggest that Microsoft has provided flawless backward compatibility for apps in every new version of Windows is a bit misleading.
As the video explains, it was omitted because there is no upgrade path from WinME to Win2K. Remember that "Millennium Editon" came after Win2K, as a stopgap for the consumer market until WinXP was ready, so going from ME to the business-targeted Win2K would not have made sense.
The virtual kind. (VMware to be specific.) About 10 years ago I tried installing some versions of Ancient Windows I had sitting around (probably 1.04 and 2.0) on then-current hardware, and failed. The lack of proper EGA video-mode support was the culprit, I think. So this demo would have to have involved some changes of the virtual hardware along the way to keep it going. He probably also had to increase the size of the DOS 5.0 FAT16 partition (max 2GB?) before he got to Win7.
.... Wizards Turn Wine Snobs Into Mice.
Failing to name "the enemy" is standard military procedure. Referring to them by a name would humanize them more than a generic noun like "the enemy" would.
It isn't (or shouldn't) be a question of whether someone is breaking the law or not that troubles us. Sometimes that's a Bad Thing (e.g. Oliver North) and sometimes it's a Good Thing (e.g. M. L. King). What we should be asking in any given case is whether what the "vigilante" is doing is ethical or not. It's a more difficult question to answer in many cases (e.g. Anonymous), but at least it's a question worth exploring.
"Linux" is a near-rhyme with "Linus" if you pronounce both "Linux" and "Linus" as Mr. Torvalds does.
That definitely tripped me up the first time I tried tweaking some conf files myself, then going back to Linuxconf later for something else, and those changes via vi being overwritten.
I don't consider myself an old-school Linux user, but maybe I'm just in denial, because I remember Linuxconf fondly. I came to Linux a few years before Why-Too-Kay with a little experience as a Unix user but mostly as a WinDOS tech, and Linuxconf was an invaluable set of training wheels as I learned to set up Apache and Sendmail and BIND on the first *n*x system where I had root. I mostly use vi these days (and Webmin for daemons that I'm not as familiar with), but if it weren't for Linuxconf to get me rolling with Linux, I might have suffered through Windows admin-ing for a few more years (at least until OS X Server came along).
I once built a "stealth" computer with an old ATX motherboard in a FedEx shipping box. It's more of a sit-in-the-corner novelty than a useful machine, though.
The opinion was delivered by Roberts; did he write it? If so, I want to remove one of the pins from my voodoo doll of him, in appreciation for the delightful joke it ended with.
My mom has one of those.
I'm pretty sure that was Jesus.
NASA, if you want to call a probe "Messenger", just call it "Messenger" and explain to the members of the media who slept through middle school that you called it that because Mercury was the Roman messenger of the gods. You don't need to emulate the US Congress and try to justify the names you want to use with backronyms that violate several Geneva Convention prohibitions against torture (e.g. U.S.A. P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act), and which even Stan Lee would be embarrassed by.
And you're a homophobic asshole, too socially retarded to have the sense to post that kind of neanderfuck insult anonymously. :P
Evidently money is not distributed fairly in our society.
"The unfortunate fact is that Craigslist has become almost synonymous with crime."
So in the eventual remake of Repo Man, Debbi will say, "Duke, let's go do some craigslists."
Mac System 6 rocked. Since you bring it up.
Those are not state capitals you see listed; they are merely "landmark" major cities within each time zone. State capitals are often mid-sized cities, usually chosen for geographic reasons, or even specifically to avoid putting the capital in any of the state's largest cities; as a Scot you probably wouldn't recognize half of them by name. The U.S. did the same thing when the federal capital was created, and when we get around to making the home countries of the UK into the 51st-54th states, we'll probably move the capitals to Dundee SL, Aberystwyth WL, Nottingham EN, and Antrim NI. :)
"However, this can be vetoed by the Scottish Parliment. I hope it does, or else we'll be having dawn at 9am during winter." Isn't that what already happens? I spent a term at the University of Aberdeen, and I remember the sun being up about 9am-4pm around Winter Solstice.
I agree entirely. I hesitate to use a "framer's intent" argument referring to the U.S. Constitution, but in this case it's a good frame of reference. The kind of copyright that Madison et al. had in mind was one in which a person had exclusive rights for several years (expanded later a bit at a time to 56), to recoup the time and creative energy he put into it, plus some profit if it was popular, but then anyone could use it. It wasn't intended to give someoen an income for life, and it certainly wasn't any kind of hereditary estate to passed on to the children and grandchildren of the creators. The idea of copyrights lasting for decades after the creator's death (as popularized in Europe and now codified into international law) is just way too long. It rewards people who had nothing to do with the original creation, and it stifles later creative endeavors, such as this one.