maybe, but this still seems bizarre - why not map the pixels into real space and give a value based on a non-discreet scale (like meters or football fields)?
yeah speaker chips aren't going to solve this piracy epidemic. The chips will go in your cochlea. This will prevent all those freeloaders at parties from listening to music blasted through your loudspeakers, music they have not payed licensing for! And maybe the RIAA will finally achieve their goal of preventing hip twisting, booty shaking, and head bobbing of all those pathetic saps that are dancing without paying royalties. I know, it's grotesque, but thousands of youths are listening to and dancing to music, copy-righted-for-profit material, without paying a damn thing. Why just the other day I had to roll my windows up and cover my ears when some reckless pirates pulled up next to me at a traffic light blasting music I did not own.
unless you happen to be a trained child psychologist experienced in dealing with child stars and media figures, I have to seriously question your extrapolation of the appropriate behavioral response to typical embarrassing events to unwillful exposure of something private and personal to the global community. The laugh it off response is not necessarily scalable to to something like this. Consider the inability to seek solace in shared discussion of your traumatic experience. Few people can relate to embarrassment on this scale, and adults are now laughing at you as much as your peers. This can make a child feel extremely isolated.
I agree that if this kid could take his publicity and run with it, he'd eliminate his victim role and make the bully's look pretty stupid. Someday he'll probably wish he did this, but who knows how his parents are pressuring him or if he's simply too introverted to pull off a "she bangs" kind of career.
well what about the shift from horse and buggy to car, the shift from penmanship to printer, from sword skills to gun handling? I think the bigger picture point is that yes of course widely adapted technology shifts the skill paradigm, and history has proven it silly to get all worked up about it.
maybe yes, maybe no. One of the greatest advances technology can make these days is in making things cheaper, easier, and quicker. If technology allowed for more affordable diagnosis and treatment of diseases I believe we would see less of them. I agree that for many simple diseases diagnosis and treatment could be fairly well executed on a nearly global scale if geo-political, and ethnic obstructions did not exist. However, take something like AIDS where the cost of an effective multi-drug treatment for and individual exceeds the net worth of entire African villages. Sure, some of that is drug company politics, but better technology could certainly make a big difference.
Nevertheless, my point was just that technology is not likely a panacea for the woes of humanity, largely due to the factors like those you mentioned.
Taking into account the fact that even mentally or physically disabled humans still reproduce
We are far from the only species that do this.
If for some reason the environment gradually changes so that only a fraction of humans can survive, by that time we will all, either by genetics or other technology, be able to survive. That's not good in my opinion since we are already overpopulated in several areas, but I can see it happening
This faith in technology seems unfounded. It's the year 2006, we should have been vacationing on the moon for at least the last five years. Instead, we could nuke the surface of every continent by noon tomorrow, but meanwhile millions of people on this planet are still dying of things like diarrhea.
sure he looks handsome now, but it's not like he can keep that thing up all day. I bet it looks pretty silly when it's flopping about in front of his eyes.
excellent, that song will be stuck in my head like a campy broadway soundtrack all week! I was hoping to find all kinds of great links in this discussion, but was largely disappointed until this one!
yeah, but what about laptops? Some will throw fish at me for saying this, but Linux for the most part is not laptop friendly. I guess you could say laptops are not linux friendly as well.
If they can simulate something else than a virus (because I don't think viruses are intelligent) could they by this way obtain intelligence by simulating an intelligent animal?
Of course. It would take an absolutely colossal amount of computing power, but given sufficient resources and a complete understanding of the basic physics and chemistry involved (neither of which we have yet) you could absolutely simulate a living creature, and the simulation would be intelligent. There have been many sci-fi stories that have used this basic concept. In fact I expect the first intelligent machine will attain its intelligence by simulating a living brain (although at a much higher level than individual atoms).
"The next Big Thing" should be a massive drop in Big Blue's stock value and subsequent removal of Mr. Donofrio. The moment an executive in your innovation department says that all the really good ideas are used up - you drop his uninspired ass. Can you imagine Donofrio trying to get another job in this field after making a ridiculous statement like this? Time to switch to accounting Donofrio.
The era of nanotech could very well be right around the corner, and I assure you Mr. Donofrio - this will be a "big thing" (yes, I am aware of the newspaper headline quality irony of "nanotech" being a "big" thing).
I am a huge proponent of striping funding from sports and channeling it into academic classes, but please do not think for a moment that the arts are not as valuable as science and math (or any less academic.) If anything, the arts are what make society's achievments in science and math worth striving for. It would be a very dull world if everyone suddenyl decided to stop writing fiction, stop creating music, and stop painting/sketching/sculpting. What would be a greater travesty would be if we suddenly decided that the artistic achievements of the past aren't worth studying (art classes tend to teach history as well, and from a different perspective than social studies classes.)
The same argument could be made for sports. There are plenty of people that would care much less about diminished fiction, music, painting, than they would about the elimination of professional sports. And why shouldn't sports and science be combined not arts and science as you propose? Sports can benefit from science as can military strategy and technology, both of these things are deemed important by society.
I'm playing a bit of devil's advocate here, but my point is that basic education should be the primary focus, arts, sports, war, etc. can be built upon this foundation.
Slashdot Mirror
maybe, but this still seems bizarre - why not map the pixels into real space and give a value based on a non-discreet scale (like meters or football fields)?
yeah speaker chips aren't going to solve this piracy epidemic. The chips will go in your cochlea. This will prevent all those freeloaders at parties from listening to music blasted through your loudspeakers, music they have not payed licensing for! And maybe the RIAA will finally achieve their goal of preventing hip twisting, booty shaking, and head bobbing of all those pathetic saps that are dancing without paying royalties. I know, it's grotesque, but thousands of youths are listening to and dancing to music, copy-righted-for-profit material, without paying a damn thing. Why just the other day I had to roll my windows up and cover my ears when some reckless pirates pulled up next to me at a traffic light blasting music I did not own.
wow, wish you had just googled that - you're making me feel old.
btw, this game looks like a precursor to a next-gen duck hunt game at best. 3D duck hunt is going to be friggin' awesome - just you wait.
from Steve Jobs to Christian Kleins:
"What the hell did I ever do to you?"
unless you happen to be a trained child psychologist experienced in dealing with child stars and media figures, I have to seriously question your extrapolation of the appropriate behavioral response to typical embarrassing events to unwillful exposure of something private and personal to the global community. The laugh it off response is not necessarily scalable to to something like this. Consider the inability to seek solace in shared discussion of your traumatic experience. Few people can relate to embarrassment on this scale, and adults are now laughing at you as much as your peers. This can make a child feel extremely isolated.
I agree that if this kid could take his publicity and run with it, he'd eliminate his victim role and make the bully's look pretty stupid. Someday he'll probably wish he did this, but who knows how his parents are pressuring him or if he's simply too introverted to pull off a "she bangs" kind of career.
well what about the shift from horse and buggy to car, the shift from penmanship to printer, from sword skills to gun handling? I think the bigger picture point is that yes of course widely adapted technology shifts the skill paradigm, and history has proven it silly to get all worked up about it.
what!!? no ..., no PROFIT!! ?
you must be new here.
btw, "But we get a lot of sales reps in posh cars coming and they get so cross" hmm, wonder what the sales reps are selling in crackpot?
maybe yes, maybe no. One of the greatest advances technology can make these days is in making things cheaper, easier, and quicker. If technology allowed for more affordable diagnosis and treatment of diseases I believe we would see less of them. I agree that for many simple diseases diagnosis and treatment could be fairly well executed on a nearly global scale if geo-political, and ethnic obstructions did not exist. However, take something like AIDS where the cost of an effective multi-drug treatment for and individual exceeds the net worth of entire African villages. Sure, some of that is drug company politics, but better technology could certainly make a big difference.
Nevertheless, my point was just that technology is not likely a panacea for the woes of humanity, largely due to the factors like those you mentioned.
Taking into account the fact that even mentally or physically disabled humans still reproduce
We are far from the only species that do this.
If for some reason the environment gradually changes so that only a fraction of humans can survive, by that time we will all, either by genetics or other technology, be able to survive. That's not good in my opinion since we are already overpopulated in several areas, but I can see it happening
This faith in technology seems unfounded. It's the year 2006, we should have been vacationing on the moon for at least the last five years. Instead, we could nuke the surface of every continent by noon tomorrow, but meanwhile millions of people on this planet are still dying of things like diarrhea.
where in the brain? what kind of response are you looking for?
blu ray's not a bomb mate... this (whips out a root-kit Sony Album), this is a bomb.
Yeah I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one who gets tired of this stupid shit.
/. today?
Man, quit being such a dullard.
This is officially the one day of the year I'd rather read CNN/FOX news than slashdot
Then this "officially" the day I ask what oppressive force is making you read and post on
sure he looks handsome now, but it's not like he can keep that thing up all day. I bet it looks pretty silly when it's flopping about in front of his eyes.
excellent, that song will be stuck in my head like a campy broadway soundtrack all week! I was hoping to find all kinds of great links in this discussion, but was largely disappointed until this one!
wait, this isn't pink anymore - holy crap, this isn't an April Fools post??!
hah! I like your last line, the way it's placed - for all I know it might as well be a sig line on this forum!
yeah, but what about laptops? Some will throw fish at me for saying this, but Linux for the most part is not laptop friendly. I guess you could say laptops are not linux friendly as well.
no, no, no.
These are Eastern RPGs
who told you they were books?
If they can simulate something else than a virus (because I don't think viruses are intelligent) could they by this way obtain intelligence by simulating an intelligent animal?
Of course. It would take an absolutely colossal amount of computing power, but given sufficient resources and a complete understanding of the basic physics and chemistry involved (neither of which we have yet) you could absolutely simulate a living creature, and the simulation would be intelligent. There have been many sci-fi stories that have used this basic concept. In fact I expect the first intelligent machine will attain its intelligence by simulating a living brain (although at a much higher level than individual atoms).
Dude, this is going to blow your mind.
Where did you get this from?
OR
if you are making this up, how the hell did it get modded up so high?
D'OH!!
hey, thanks for clearing that up!
no, no, I think he was looking for this. Must have been an add for it in the economist.
btw, is anyone suprised that the Japanese are building robots for this purpose? I mean, what aren't the Japanese building robots for?
"The next Big Thing" should be a massive drop in Big Blue's stock value and subsequent removal of Mr. Donofrio. The moment an executive in your innovation department says that all the really good ideas are used up - you drop his uninspired ass. Can you imagine Donofrio trying to get another job in this field after making a ridiculous statement like this? Time to switch to accounting Donofrio.
The era of nanotech could very well be right around the corner, and I assure you Mr. Donofrio - this will be a "big thing" (yes, I am aware of the newspaper headline quality irony of "nanotech" being a "big" thing).
I am a huge proponent of striping funding from sports and channeling it into academic classes, but please do not think for a moment that the arts are not as valuable as science and math (or any less academic.) If anything, the arts are what make society's achievments in science and math worth striving for. It would be a very dull world if everyone suddenyl decided to stop writing fiction, stop creating music, and stop painting/sketching/sculpting. What would be a greater travesty would be if we suddenly decided that the artistic achievements of the past aren't worth studying (art classes tend to teach history as well, and from a different perspective than social studies classes.)
The same argument could be made for sports. There are plenty of people that would care much less about diminished fiction, music, painting, than they would about the elimination of professional sports. And why shouldn't sports and science be combined not arts and science as you propose? Sports can benefit from science as can military strategy and technology, both of these things are deemed important by society.
I'm playing a bit of devil's advocate here, but my point is that basic education should be the primary focus, arts, sports, war, etc. can be built upon this foundation.