I'm beginning to get the idea that "trusted computing" and "digital rights management" are not necessarily being implemented with the consumer's benefit in mind.
You are 1)Slow on the uptake and 2)no where near cynical enough.;-)
Just looking at our teeth, we're clearly not designed to eat too much meat, or grains that are too hard.
We've been using tools to transform our food to facilitate our digestion for a good long part of our human evolution. We have evolve into our use of fire to cook our food and rocks to cut or crush our food.
Now, if we could just grow out of our appendix...stupid thing doesn't do much besides get infected and kill you.
What's disturbing here is that while they've documented the physiological effects on the rat's brains, they didn't do any follow-up studies as to how this actually effected the rat's capacity to learn, or any of the effects on the rat's behavior.
That's not disturbing, that's lazy.
Baby steps: First you kill the super rats you created and you chop up their giant brains. Takes notes while you do it. Publish, wait for more money to show up. Then you either hightail it out to Mexico and live like a king on your stolen grant money, letting the rest of the scientific community recreate and then raise uber-rats of their own to see if they can be thought to pilot military vehicles over rough terrain autonomously. Or you buckle down and you do it yourself.
If you're not happy with the speed at wich they are getting their research done, dope up your own rats, see for yourself.
When these things are actually out in the field doing their jobs, they're going to be doing it on LEGS, not wheels, and they're gonna be going like a bat out of hell on top of it.
Remember that 8 legged wheeled robot car scale model prototype those wacky japanese showcased a few months ago? It was posted on here, everybody was compairing it to a skateboard...
Well, they're not elligible to the DARPA thing, what with being insidious foreigners and all that jazz, but if they built one full scale and gave it some AI, that would be it. They have the hardware technology already, all they need to do is devellop the autonomy.
It could whizz along on its wheels when the terrain is mostly clear and switch to walker mode when it detects obstacle. Plus that thing was so maneuvrable it could easily get over or around pretty much anything it encountered if "guided" right (yeah, that's the hard part).
So perhaps step one should have been just doing a long ordinary road course, minimal obstical avoidance, just handling roads, turns, potholes, ramps and even traffic lights (where you are told they are). That contest would provide useful civilian tech and also useful military tech in terms of a autonomous vehicles to carry cargo in a controlled area with intact roads.
They (both the robots and the engineers) would also have to be able to handle gangs of very angry truckers running them over to protect their livelyhood.
Of course maybe the truckers could get a union/lobby powerfull enough to enact laws that would require a human operator to provide full-time supervision and technical support (autonous trucks won't repair themselves I guess). Should be easy enough, most of the population would be quite happy to know that multiton soulless machines aren't roaming the open highways unsupervised.
If there are any sudden loud noises, then we lose track of whatever we're doing, and have to start over again. Such noises include slamming door
All my life, I've allways been the only one in my class NOT startled by slamming doors. I am, however, distracted by the mumblings of 30 students complaining about being startled.
I see absolutely no reason for people to be listening to music while in any sort of educational institution.
In the computer lab at my university there are:
Annoying ventilation noises.
People discussing their projects.
People listening to loud hiphop on their headphones
The sounds of people coming and going.
People asking questions and being awnsered to.
People using that loud card reader to get access to the printer.
The printer.
People in the hall and adjacent cafeteria being loud.
People coughing, sneezing.
I think that people are shy enough as it is. We do very little REAL social interaction as it is. Do we really want to become even more anti-social creatures by promoting music as some sort of "shield" from the outside world? Music is something I like to enjoy with others at concerts and at home..
And
Extroverts who refuse to stop distracting people working quietly on their projects.
Nothing like finding a new genre of music you have never heard before because a friend had it playing in the car or in his house.
I see no reason to wear headphones at home or in a car with friends.
I know, though I would class the PocketStation more as a memory-card-with-a-display than a real handheld
It has buttons, it has games, its held in the hands.
But even back then, people gave Sony undue credit for the idea, which was nothing more than a ripoff of the Dreamcast VMU's which had been around for some time beforehand.
8th October 1998 - Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCEI) announced the December 23 launch in Japan of PocketStation, a miniature PDA* which will greatly enhance the gaming experience and enjoyment of the PlayStation. By spring 1999, 31 titles compatible with PocketStation are scheduled to be released by several publishers including SCEI.
*PDA = Personal Digital Assistant Product Name SCPH-4000 Product Name SCPH-4000 "PocketStation(TM)" SRP 3,000 Yen (excluding tax) Release Date December 23, 1998
I wonder how many of the people who said Nintendo's handheld to home-console connectivity ideas were bad and would never work will now be saying stuff along the lines of "That's a good idea.", and giving all the (undeserved) credit to Sony?
Sony had a hand-held that connected to the PSX back in the 90's. It was pretty much the same thing as the Dreamcast VMU, except it came out before and had a lil' screen protector. It wasn't much, but its not like this is their first time, and Nintendo didn't do it before them.
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It's just SpaceShipOne in an X-Prize test flight gone horribly wrong.
I'd say its gone horribly right...
you need less lift at night.
What?
I'm beginning to get the idea that "trusted computing" and "digital rights management" are not necessarily being implemented with the consumer's benefit in mind.
;-)
You are 1)Slow on the uptake and 2)no where near cynical enough.
Actually the appendix is part of your immune system (just like your tonsils)
Not anymore...
Just looking at our teeth, we're clearly not designed to eat too much meat, or grains that are too hard.
We've been using tools to transform our food to facilitate our digestion for a good long part of our human evolution.
We have evolve into our use of fire to cook our food and rocks to cut or crush our food.
Now, if we could just grow out of our appendix...stupid thing doesn't do much besides get infected and kill you.
What's disturbing here is that while they've documented the physiological effects on the rat's brains, they didn't do any follow-up studies as to how this actually effected the rat's capacity to learn, or any of the effects on the rat's behavior.
That's not disturbing, that's lazy.
Baby steps: First you kill the super rats you created and you chop up their giant brains.
Takes notes while you do it. Publish, wait for more money to show up.
Then you either hightail it out to Mexico and live like a king on your stolen grant money, letting the rest of the scientific community recreate and then raise uber-rats of their own to see if they can be thought to pilot military vehicles over rough terrain autonomously. Or you buckle down and you do it yourself.
If you're not happy with the speed at wich they are getting their research done, dope up your own rats, see for yourself.
I suspect that the first industrialised nation that develops autonomous fighting machines will take over the world (or at least have a damn good go).
Pffft, some backward island nation will simply name a bumbling idiot General and he'll trip his way to victory against the mechanik's robot army...
When these things are actually out in the field doing their jobs, they're going to be doing it on LEGS, not wheels, and they're gonna be going like a bat out of hell on top of it.
Remember that 8 legged wheeled robot car scale model prototype those wacky japanese showcased a few months ago? It was posted on here, everybody was compairing it to a skateboard...
Well, they're not elligible to the DARPA thing, what with being insidious foreigners and all that jazz, but if they built one full scale and gave it some AI, that would be it.
They have the hardware technology already, all they need to do is devellop the autonomy.
It could whizz along on its wheels when the terrain is mostly clear and switch to walker mode when it detects obstacle. Plus that thing was so maneuvrable it could easily get over or around pretty much anything it encountered if "guided" right (yeah, that's the hard part).
So perhaps step one should have been just doing a long ordinary road course, minimal obstical avoidance, just handling roads, turns, potholes, ramps and even traffic lights (where you are told they are).
That contest would provide useful civilian tech and also useful military tech in terms of a autonomous vehicles to carry cargo in a controlled area with intact roads.
They (both the robots and the engineers) would also have to be able to handle gangs of very angry truckers running them over to protect their livelyhood.
Of course maybe the truckers could get a union/lobby powerfull enough to enact laws that would require a human operator to provide full-time supervision and technical support (autonous trucks won't repair themselves I guess). Should be easy enough, most of the population would be quite happy to know that multiton soulless machines aren't roaming the open highways unsupervised.
P.S. Here come the Simpson's quotes! : )
fires, tornados and alien attacks
Man are you ever not thinking of the children.
(Insert appropriate mention of 9/11/2001)
You can't have that in schools!
Most people in the world speak english.
nope.
For proof, get your ass out in say, the middle of china.
When you continously are using headphones to listen to music
Shut up troll, I never said I was listening to music on headphones continuously.
If there are any sudden loud noises, then we lose track of whatever we're doing, and have to start over again. Such noises include slamming door
All my life, I've allways been the only one in my class NOT startled by slamming doors.
I am, however, distracted by the mumblings of 30 students complaining about being startled.
In the computer lab at my university there are
I think that people are shy enough as it is. We do very little REAL social interaction as it is. Do we really want to become even more anti-social creatures by promoting music as some sort of "shield" from the outside world? Music is something I like to enjoy with others at concerts and at home..
And
Nothing like finding a new genre of music you have never heard before because a friend had it playing in the car or in his house.
I see no reason to wear headphones at home or in a car with friends.
a real geek would have said gold-pressed latinum.
Real geeks don't quote DS9 and VOY.
Rick Berman must die.
I stand corrected, 1998 it is. I was sure it had been released in early 99 in japan and of course, on 9/9/99 in NA, that date is easy to remember : )
The Dreamcast was released in 1998 in Japan, on November 27th.
Back that up.
happy to give them a micropayment for their nanotubes.
You overpaid.
It has buttons, it has games, its held in the hands.
But even back then, people gave Sony undue credit for the idea, which was nothing more than a ripoff of the Dreamcast VMU's which had been around for some time beforehand.
The Dreamcast was released in 1999.
I wonder how many of the people who said Nintendo's handheld to home-console connectivity ideas were bad and would never work will now be saying stuff along the lines of "That's a good idea.", and giving all the (undeserved) credit to Sony?
Sony had a hand-held that connected to the PSX back in the 90's. It was pretty much the same thing as the Dreamcast VMU, except it came out before and had a lil' screen protector.
It wasn't much, but its not like this is their first time, and Nintendo didn't do it before them.
They also have said that these first two lawsuits will be against companies that hold SCO Unix licenses. (EV1.net servers or Lindows?)
Stop giving the terrorists ideas!
The only thing that would be against the law is defacing currency and attempting to use it in commerce. So we learned in Business Law.
Well, that explains every decision my boss ever made. Not one included defacing currency...
when it comes to shooting things, nothing beats a mouse and keyboard.
Nintendo light gun.
Old school.
Yet again, this will be a waste of valuable resources.
This is what I think everytime I see some pro wrestling!
Libery City = New York City (Modern Day)
Vice City = Miami (1986-87 there or about)
San Andreas = (I Imagine that is Los Angeles, but when?)
19th century.
Grand theft horse-carriage, baby! Whoooo!