Big {1:1 scale} wall units would work well for teleconferencing and video gaming---particularly nice when added to the late Mitsubishi DiamondTouch system or MS's equivalent (rip-off?): imagine you've got two tables "joined" at the wall, like the shared desk in "Brazil" but more benign...you could play virtual "air hockey".
For reasons others and I have stated above, I don't think this will actually fly that well for home-use, not even for porn---"3D" != "More realistic"
I think a standard would be a great, though, because it would lower the price of 3-D displays used in research and development.
Also, with rising energy prices, I can see this feeding into the video conferencing industry---"Fahrenheit 451"*-style rooms for feeling like you're facing your associates far away as they whine and pointlessly argue just like they were there.
*The live-in soap opera part, not the book burning, though some of my corporate overlords seem like they'd like that part.
A science-fiction author pointed that out in the late 'Sixties, I can't remember the author (the story involved aliens who eat "animals" that look exactly like us, but which/whom they claim aren't sentient).
"Realistic" is largely a function of your brain, and often having _less_ information gets you more involved. [INSERT CANONICAL COMMENT ABOUT RADIO EMPLOYING THE WORDS 'THEATRE OF THE MIND' _HERE_]
The original run of "Star Trek" looked _much_ more realistic to me in black-and-white and with bad sound, because my brain was better at special effects (and acting) than the show; I find it really easy to get infatuated with female DJs over-the-air.
I don't see why a simple 'Do not eat of it, for on that day you shall surely die,' wouldn't be best.
It's good enough: either it will actually work, or, should they disobey, or don't understand English, then it's their fault, so we shouldn't have to feel bad about the result in that case.
(Note: yes, I'm plagiarising an old Corman movie.)
Someone has beaten me to it, but I'll expand: the more complicated the combination to a vault, the greater the incentive to torture the person who knows it.
I can very easily imagine that if torture should become normalised for actual terrorists*, there will suddenly be a growth industry in referring to anyone we'd find it convenient (or just would like to) to torture as a "terrorist" of some sort...this guy would be a simple case, it's already easy to refer to his actions as "hijacking" (I'm not criticising, I probably would have used the same term).
Banned drugs dealers? Of course they're terrorists. Counterfeiters? Terrorists. DMCA violators? They strike at the foundations of our society---terrorists. People who torture and wiretap? Upstanding citizens....
PILT: "Person I'd Like to Torture"
.
*and suspected actual terrorists, and guys who were sold to us for a bounty as part of fighting an inter-clan feud, and people who happened to be handy....
A lot of these devices just charge batteries at nV/DC...what are the losses typically associated with the AC-->DC conversion? Those adapters seem to get fairly warm sometimes.
Of course, you'd really need to have a big trickle-charging battery between your roof array or fuel cell and the DC devices to help you get a constant voltage....
I have a reluctance to _send_ a facsimile of my signature via e-mail (especially when sent from an aerioplane on the week-end). True, someone can cut and paste my faxed signature, but my scanned signature is more easily distributable to more unpleasant people at once.
Winston Smith's job would have been all the easier if the Party paper were on-line only....
Query: People who understand the laws about this: What about the legal status of documents received by systems whose "fax" machines dump directly to a stored image?
I'm making a joke, and I'm serious: once it's a direct neural access thing, this stuff will look like Victrolas and Stanley Steamers---both excellent technologies, but now they look quaint and limited.
It won't be easy, but the desires of the military and the handicapped community will make it happen sooner rather than later, even if the initial profit motive should not prove there.
What's text-messaging compared with something more like telepathy?
C and C++ should not be lumped together. C is very, very good at being what it's supposed to be (a half-decently-portable hemi-demi-semi-assembly language that lets you finesse/{screw up} the heap) and C++ has always struck me as being neither fish nor flesh nor fowl, and master of none. Being neither hot nor cold, I spit it out.
Note that their results of (a whole!) two years seems to bear this out---C is close to holding steady, C++ is slipping a bit more (though still de minimus).
Most "life" is micro-organisms, followed at a great distance by insects. It's also much easier to massively change one-cell organisms, usually into something that dies very quickly.
The question of "species" is also less relevant with one-celled guys/gals/whatevers, since questions of viable interbreeding don't come up, and they seem often to be willing to conjugate with anything else willing to do.
The net effect is anti-bacterial resistance: is the change (in, say, gonorrhea) from something nearly 100% curable with penicillin to one that often laughs at it enough of a change? If they had both been classified at the same time, they might have been called two separate species....
I think I have less faith in Linneas than do some....
If the site had evolved into being, it would have been barely useful enough to work, and actually spend as much of itself as it could trying to pass its information down, no matter how kludgy and out-of-date its code.
...as in _paper_. To the tech polloi out there, you're a wizard who could fake any kind of electronically-stored document forcing you to do these shoddy things (if you are, you might be able to find a better job than this one).
I don't know how to deal with the refusal to give you a hard-copy remit, and this is behaviour that might cost you your job. Of course, in that case, they'd try to deny you unemployment coverage by saying it was "for cause", and your statement about why it really was becomes part of an official record, and they suddenly have triggered an investigation into themselves.... (That's how it can work in the U.S., at least....)
As far as I'm concerned, the real "war" is the Global Struggle with Armed Fundamentalism. (Note: "ism", not "ists"---though if we're not careful we'll obviously screw up and eliminate the distinction.)
Imagine bringing to bear something that looks like classic Divine Intervention against them...unfortunately, technology can be used by people who are bright enough, regardless of whatever else they might believe, so you'd soon have the government of the Eternal and Universal Caliphate* using it to impress its subjects....
*That is, "Pashtunistan, for about twenty to seventy years." Neighbour to Beluchistan, Kashmir, and Greater Iran.
I agree that the list reads more like an idiosyncratic gripes list than anything else; I expect more of someone more financially secure than I, and probably a better coder/architect as well. I think the differences between it and HTML4 are so great that a lot of older code will stay out there, mooting his security improvements---more honestly, I'm irritated by the disingenuousness of his 'well, HTML5 is very different from HTML4 ['so far', I'd add] and HTML very different from XHTML"---he's talking about dropping a few tags that have been all over the place for a century in web-years.
As a JavaScript user and (more frequently than I'd wish) developer, I'd intensely miss "javascript:" URIs---I have a bunch of them on my personal toolbar, and find them very useful for simple debugging. Similarly, I'd miss "document.write()", which can be very good for debugging and which never forced anyone to use it...
I don't like the "run all script tags when done with the <head> or <body/> tag enclosing" idea. I like finer control.
Missing?: A decent, simple, "<include/>" mechanism. Sure, the "<module/>" tag would do this, but it does so much more and will probably be shot down...I also don't like the way "<module/>" privileges JSON.
Mobile? The problem is mostly browser incompatability...I _wish_ I could run into trouble running normal desktop browser JS under pIE.
...and red fluorescing paint, or does the installer have to buy them separately? Don't try this at home, please, but: 1.) Let someone else install one of these. 2.) Start a suitable explosion on top of the reactor, or the lines bringing the coolant in and out. 3.) Watch the broken containment spew rad waste in the area, or while the lack of coolant produces at least a 3-Yard Island event.
My father's office was, for an half-century, in the Diamond District (W. 47th Street). At least through the mid-70's, he claimed trouble with building management over what appliances (particularly, an air conditioner) he could run because "they were on DC". I didn't know or understand the details, and it's possible that they were bulling him, but my guess is that they had a half-arsed inverter supplying some outlets with inadequate AC until they installed an adequate, building-wide, inverter c. 1974.
In 1997, when I was on the ECMAScript standards committee, meetings mostly consisted of Netscape and MS reps shouting at each other while the rest of us twiddled our thumbs.
My only contribution was a scathing indictment of the idea (I think from MS, but I'm biased) of putting a hard memory limit INTO THE LANGUAGE. Guhh.
'...and raise you one "Way way cool, might make everyone immortal."'
Of course, there are some who wouldn't enjoy being rich or immortal if everyone were so; they can go die then, the poor things.
'I have been told that Isaac has discovered, and will now reveal to me, the Secret of Immorality!'
[Whisper, whisper, whisper]
'Oh. Well, that wouldn't be bad either...."
----half-rememberèdly stolen from Book two[?] of Neal Stephenson's Baroque Trilogy.
Regardless of the percentage of Jews in the industry (or government, or science, or the Russian Mafia), if it looks like Jews are in charge, it means they're in charge, but if they're not obviously in charge that prooves how fiendishly clever they are at concealment (As Agent Muldaur said, "You might be talking to one right now," and he was sort-of half-right).
This way of thinking is generic to conspiratists---and they're always wrong, since it's the Whiffenpoofs that run the world.
Q: How do we know C.I.A. didn't kill Kennedy?
A: He's dead.
---old F.B.I. joke.
(I thought of this a decade ago; the similar reference somewhere in this discussion is coincidental, though more likely because the whole thing is so geeky the feathers are stuck in my teeth.)
Q.: What's the deal with the "Star Trek" animated series.
A.: One morning, Yeoman Rand (or Spock, if you really must) looked groggily up from the bed; Kirk stepped out of the sonic shower and said, "I just had the strangest dream."
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Big {1:1 scale} wall units would work well for teleconferencing and video gaming---particularly nice when added to the late Mitsubishi DiamondTouch system or MS's equivalent (rip-off?): imagine you've got two tables "joined" at the wall, like the shared desk in "Brazil" but more benign...you could play virtual "air hockey".
For reasons others and I have stated above, I don't think this will actually fly that well for home-use, not even for porn---"3D" != "More realistic"
I think a standard would be a great, though, because it would lower the price of 3-D displays used in research and development.
Also, with rising energy prices, I can see this feeding into the video conferencing industry---"Fahrenheit 451"*-style rooms for feeling like you're facing your associates far away as they whine and pointlessly argue just like they were there.
*The live-in soap opera part, not the book burning, though some of my corporate overlords seem like they'd like that part.
A science-fiction author pointed that out in the late 'Sixties, I can't remember the author (the story involved aliens who eat "animals" that look exactly like us, but which/whom they claim aren't sentient).
"Realistic" is largely a function of your brain, and often having _less_ information gets you more involved. [INSERT CANONICAL COMMENT ABOUT RADIO EMPLOYING THE WORDS 'THEATRE OF THE MIND' _HERE_]
The original run of "Star Trek" looked _much_ more realistic to me in black-and-white and with bad sound, because my brain was better at special effects (and acting) than the show; I find it really easy to get infatuated with female DJs over-the-air.
I don't see why a simple 'Do not eat of it, for on that day you shall surely die,' wouldn't be best.
It's good enough: either it will actually work, or, should they disobey, or don't understand English, then it's their fault, so we shouldn't have to feel bad about the result in that case.
(Note: yes, I'm plagiarising an old Corman movie.)
Someone has beaten me to it, but I'll expand: the more complicated the combination to a vault, the greater the incentive to torture the person who knows it.
I can very easily imagine that if torture should become normalised for actual terrorists*, there will suddenly be a growth industry in referring to anyone we'd find it convenient (or just would like to) to torture as a "terrorist" of some sort...this guy would be a simple case, it's already easy to refer to his actions as "hijacking" (I'm not criticising, I probably would have used the same term).
Banned drugs dealers? Of course they're terrorists. Counterfeiters? Terrorists. DMCA violators? They strike at the foundations of our society---terrorists. People who torture and wiretap? Upstanding citizens....
PILT: "Person I'd Like to Torture"
.
*and suspected actual terrorists, and guys who were sold to us for a bounty as part of fighting an inter-clan feud, and people who happened to be handy....
A lot of these devices just charge batteries at nV/DC...what are the losses typically associated with the AC-->DC conversion? Those adapters seem to get fairly warm sometimes.
Of course, you'd really need to have a big trickle-charging battery between your roof array or fuel cell and the DC devices to help you get a constant voltage....
I have a reluctance to _send_ a facsimile of my signature via e-mail (especially when sent from an aerioplane on the week-end). True, someone can cut and paste my faxed signature, but my scanned signature is more easily distributable to more unpleasant people at once.
Winston Smith's job would have been all the easier if the Party paper were on-line only....
Query:
People who understand the laws about this:
What about the legal status of documents received by systems whose "fax" machines dump directly to a stored image?
The web exists, but the implants aren't here yet.
I'm making a joke, and I'm serious: once it's a direct neural access thing, this stuff will look like Victrolas and Stanley Steamers---both excellent technologies, but now they look quaint and limited.
It won't be easy, but the desires of the military and the handicapped community will make it happen sooner rather than later, even if the initial profit motive should not prove there.
What's text-messaging compared with something more like telepathy?
C and C++ should not be lumped together. C is very, very good at being what it's supposed to be (a half-decently-portable hemi-demi-semi-assembly language that lets you finesse/{screw up} the heap) and C++ has always struck me as being neither fish nor flesh nor fowl, and master of none. Being neither hot nor cold, I spit it out.
Note that their results of (a whole!) two years seems to bear this out---C is close to holding steady, C++ is slipping a bit more (though still de minimus).
Most "life" is micro-organisms, followed at a great distance by insects. It's also much easier to massively change one-cell organisms, usually into something that dies very quickly.
The question of "species" is also less relevant with one-celled guys/gals/whatevers, since questions of viable interbreeding don't come up, and they seem often to be willing to conjugate with anything else willing to do.
The net effect is anti-bacterial resistance: is the change (in, say, gonorrhea) from something nearly 100% curable with penicillin to one that often laughs at it enough of a change? If they had both been classified at the same time, they might have been called two separate species....
I think I have less faith in Linneas than do some....
If the site had evolved into being, it would have been barely useful enough to work, and actually spend as much of itself as it could trying to pass its information down, no matter how kludgy and out-of-date its code.
Just like every other site.
...as in _paper_. To the tech polloi out there, you're a wizard who could fake any kind of electronically-stored document forcing you to do these shoddy things (if you are, you might be able to find a better job than this one).
I don't know how to deal with the refusal to give you a hard-copy remit, and this is behaviour that might cost you your job. Of course, in that case, they'd try to deny you unemployment coverage by saying it was "for cause", and your statement about why it really was becomes part of an official record, and they suddenly have triggered an investigation into themselves.... (That's how it can work in the U.S., at least....)
Uh...."Be just and fear not,"?
As far as I'm concerned, the real "war" is the Global Struggle with Armed Fundamentalism. (Note: "ism", not "ists"---though if we're not careful we'll obviously screw up and eliminate the distinction.)
Imagine bringing to bear something that looks like classic Divine Intervention against them...unfortunately, technology can be used by people who are bright enough, regardless of whatever else they might believe, so you'd soon have the government of the Eternal and Universal Caliphate* using it to impress its subjects....
*That is, "Pashtunistan, for about twenty to seventy years." Neighbour to Beluchistan, Kashmir, and Greater Iran.
What did they worship? There weren't even any normal nuclear weapons around back then, much less an alpha/omega device....
I agree that the list reads more like an idiosyncratic gripes list than anything else; I expect more of someone more financially secure than I, and probably a better coder/architect as well. I think the differences between it and HTML4 are so great that a lot of older code will stay out there, mooting his security improvements---more honestly, I'm irritated by the disingenuousness of his 'well, HTML5 is very different from HTML4 ['so far', I'd add] and HTML very different from XHTML"---he's talking about dropping a few tags that have been all over the place for a century in web-years.
As a JavaScript user and (more frequently than I'd wish) developer, I'd intensely miss "javascript:" URIs---I have a bunch of them on my personal toolbar, and find them very useful for simple debugging. Similarly, I'd miss "document.write()", which can be very good for debugging and which never forced anyone to use it...
I don't like the "run all script tags when done with the <head> or <body/> tag enclosing" idea. I like finer control.
Missing?: A decent, simple, "<include/>" mechanism. Sure, the "<module/>" tag would do this, but it does so much more and will probably be shot down...I also don't like the way "<module/>" privileges JSON.
Mobile? The problem is mostly browser incompatability...I _wish_ I could run into trouble running normal desktop browser JS under pIE.
...and red fluorescing paint, or does the installer have to buy them separately?
Don't try this at home, please, but:
1.) Let someone else install one of these.
2.) Start a suitable explosion on top of the reactor, or the lines bringing the coolant in and out.
3.) Watch the broken containment spew rad waste in the area, or while the lack of coolant produces at least a 3-Yard Island event.
In post-Soviet Russia, "Valeri" (vah-LAY-ri) is man's name to YOU!
My father's office was, for an half-century, in the Diamond District (W. 47th Street). At least through the mid-70's, he claimed trouble with building management over what appliances (particularly, an air conditioner) he could run because "they were on DC". I didn't know or understand the details, and it's possible that they were bulling him, but my guess is that they had a half-arsed inverter supplying some outlets with inadequate AC until they installed an adequate, building-wide, inverter c. 1974.
In 1997, when I was on the ECMAScript standards committee, meetings mostly consisted of Netscape and MS reps shouting at each other while the rest of us twiddled our thumbs.
My only contribution was a scathing indictment of the idea (I think from MS, but I'm biased) of putting a hard memory limit INTO THE LANGUAGE. Guhh.
'...and raise you one "Way way cool, might make everyone immortal."'
Of course, there are some who wouldn't enjoy being rich or immortal if everyone were so; they can go die then, the poor things.
'I have been told that Isaac has discovered, and will now reveal to me, the Secret of Immorality!'
[Whisper, whisper, whisper]
'Oh. Well, that wouldn't be bad either...."
----half-rememberèdly stolen from Book two[?] of Neal Stephenson's Baroque Trilogy.
Thousands of them, in ur grooves, scurrying around making measurements, then going home to compare notes.
Curse me for working today, the important stuff gets ignored....
(But I would have added, "Thank-you, thank-you...try your waiter, tip me, your veal will be here all week.")
There are a _lot_ of ten-year-old girls*; this means they'll never get to the college students.
*"And I know where they're hiding!!!"
Regardless of the percentage of Jews in the industry (or government, or science, or the Russian Mafia), if it looks like Jews are in charge, it means they're in charge, but if they're not obviously in charge that prooves how fiendishly clever they are at concealment (As Agent Muldaur said, "You might be talking to one right now," and he was sort-of half-right).
This way of thinking is generic to conspiratists---and they're always wrong, since it's the Whiffenpoofs that run the world.
Q: How do we know C.I.A. didn't kill Kennedy?
A: He's dead.
---old F.B.I. joke.
(I thought of this a decade ago; the similar reference somewhere in this discussion is coincidental, though more likely because the whole thing is so geeky the feathers are stuck in my teeth.)
Q.: What's the deal with the "Star Trek" animated series.
A.: One morning, Yeoman Rand (or Spock, if you really must) looked groggily up from the bed; Kirk stepped out of the sonic shower and said, "I just had the strangest dream."