Who the hell is going to get implants done in a public hospital? No, this is going to be a private clinic affair.. and it will cost a fortune, and when things cost a fortune your doctors go to a lot of trouble to make sure you don't die.
You write some kickass module for Mono and you GPL it. People want to use that module in.NET and are constantly telling their customers where to get it from. Microsoft decides that this module is so damn common that they should actually distribute it with the runtime environment. Oops.. it's GPL, they can't do that.
It was wonderful. You'd hook up at 300 and chat to the sysop for a while, then go check out some files or download some fidonet for offline reading. Before xmodem started up you'd flip the switch and bam, download is 4 times faster. When the chat whilst downloading stuff became popular (pretty much the first time a packet based protocol was considered good for anything, to us BBS folk) you'd be sending your keystrokes at 75 baud, which is more than fast enough.
where you can go into WalMart and buy a copy of OpenOffice off the shelf. Inside you find a card with a 1900 number on it that you can call for technical support. Also included is a few flyers for local open source development shops where you can get bugs fixed or features added.
People are so used to buying software and saying "yep, it sux, but there's nothing I can do about it" that they don't even seek out maintenance. Can you imagine buying a car and saying "yeah, the brakes squeek a bit, but I'll just wait until the next upgrade and hope that someone fixes it". It doesn't even make sense! Yet that's what people do with software -- whine to everyone who'll listen (except the proper channels of course) and hope that someone will fix the bug they need fixed or add the feature they want written.
bah! There's upgradable hardware.. the connectors won't go out of fashion that fast. So you'd have a "standard" connector inserted, along with a whole lot of FPGA gates and you'd flash upgrade when necessary. Besides, what's wrong with going under the knife once a year?
Back when apple used to get their chips from Japan (in the 80s), there was a national conspiracy to make the new models fail. Apple would have no choice but to send the entire model to Japan where it was studied and copied. Apple clones started appearing on the market place shortly after. Their solution was to go to Motorolla, they should have started their own fab.
is why Apple didn't set up shop making microprocessors when the japs started fucking them back in the 80s. Then they never would have had any economy of scale problems as they would have had to pay 0 margins on their chips.
I was actually having a dig at Bertrand Meyer's use of adhoc inheritence. Looking at the standard library, he'd feel no guilt about creating a class called "fish" that inherits from a class called "dog" if it ment that he could reuse the "swim" function.
I'm pretty sure I'm going to have to get in a car crash or fall off a horse before I can get some electrodes inserted in my head. I'm a programmer, I work with computers every day.. I think I qualify for a brain-computer interface better than someone who just happened to have the misfortune to lose control of their upper body! But no, every time some new piece of research discovers a brain-computer interface the first bunch of people they go running after are the paralyzed.
"However, the results so far lead us to believe that these brain-machine interfaces hold enormous promise for restoring function to paralyzed people."
Just once I'd like to hear "results so far lead us to believe that these brain-machine interfaces hold enormous promise for increased programmer productivity."
Unless you're a geek, you don't know about Mozilla. You might know about Netscape and think 4.1 was about the end of the line. You may even have tried one of Netscape's releases of Mozilla and thought it sucked (which, let's face it, it does). Most users of IE think that installing a different browser on their computer will break IE. They fear losing their bookmarks and their history. All that's really needed is a good public education program. Most of which can be achieved by each of us sending our non-geek friends to www.mozilla.org.
Take the most important part of the (non-multiplayer) game and remove it. Gee, our product isn't selling, I wonder why? People play The Sims because you get to tell little people with their own thoughts and feelings what to do. The Sims Online version embodies the player in the sim removing the mental distinction between telling a little person what to do vs telling an avatar, that represents you what to do. It's pretty hard to imagine how much stress and infighting went on a Maxis to make them forget about this little issue.
We could encourage people to buy products that are locally made, but as we consider choice to be something that is only present in other markets, we've got no-one to blame but ourselves.
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Who the hell is going to get implants done in a public hospital? No, this is going to be a private clinic affair.. and it will cost a fortune, and when things cost a fortune your doctors go to a lot of trouble to make sure you don't die.
They'll see it as helping the Evil Empire man.
You write some kickass module for Mono and you GPL it. People want to use that module in .NET and are constantly telling their customers where to get it from. Microsoft decides that this module is so damn common that they should actually distribute it with the runtime environment. Oops.. it's GPL, they can't do that.
It was wonderful. You'd hook up at 300 and chat to the sysop for a while, then go check out some files or download some fidonet for offline reading. Before xmodem started up you'd flip the switch and bam, download is 4 times faster. When the chat whilst downloading stuff became popular (pretty much the first time a packet based protocol was considered good for anything, to us BBS folk) you'd be sending your keystrokes at 75 baud, which is more than fast enough.
the Apple freaks were there first. They took the hippy by the horns and rode him long before Stallman.
People are so used to buying software and saying "yep, it sux, but there's nothing I can do about it" that they don't even seek out maintenance. Can you imagine buying a car and saying "yeah, the brakes squeek a bit, but I'll just wait until the next upgrade and hope that someone fixes it". It doesn't even make sense! Yet that's what people do with software -- whine to everyone who'll listen (except the proper channels of course) and hope that someone will fix the bug they need fixed or add the feature they want written.
That was pure luxury.
Get a bunch of your hippy MacOS mates together and pay someone to develop it. Oh, you wanted it for free.. silly me.
And loading is slow...
Anything to get Sigourney Weaver back in her underwear.
scary isn't it?
bah! There's upgradable hardware.. the connectors won't go out of fashion that fast. So you'd have a "standard" connector inserted, along with a whole lot of FPGA gates and you'd flash upgrade when necessary. Besides, what's wrong with going under the knife once a year?
Back when apple used to get their chips from Japan (in the 80s), there was a national conspiracy to make the new models fail. Apple would have no choice but to send the entire model to Japan where it was studied and copied. Apple clones started appearing on the market place shortly after. Their solution was to go to Motorolla, they should have started their own fab.
is why Apple didn't set up shop making microprocessors when the japs started fucking them back in the 80s. Then they never would have had any economy of scale problems as they would have had to pay 0 margins on their chips.
would be a cool tool. Why don't you code one up?
email me.
I was actually having a dig at Bertrand Meyer's use of adhoc inheritence. Looking at the standard library, he'd feel no guilt about creating a class called "fish" that inherits from a class called "dog" if it ment that he could reuse the "swim" function.
nice try.
communication with speech would be cool.. except my girlfriend would probably want me to get an implant so she could nag me 24 hours a day :)
Just once I'd like to hear "results so far lead us to believe that these brain-machine interfaces hold enormous promise for increased programmer productivity."
"How much of a mockery you have made of inheritence".. At least then you'd be in the same league as Bertrand Meyer.
Unless you're a geek, you don't know about Mozilla. You might know about Netscape and think 4.1 was about the end of the line. You may even have tried one of Netscape's releases of Mozilla and thought it sucked (which, let's face it, it does). Most users of IE think that installing a different browser on their computer will break IE. They fear losing their bookmarks and their history. All that's really needed is a good public education program. Most of which can be achieved by each of us sending our non-geek friends to www.mozilla.org.
Take the most important part of the (non-multiplayer) game and remove it. Gee, our product isn't selling, I wonder why? People play The Sims because you get to tell little people with their own thoughts and feelings what to do. The Sims Online version embodies the player in the sim removing the mental distinction between telling a little person what to do vs telling an avatar, that represents you what to do. It's pretty hard to imagine how much stress and infighting went on a Maxis to make them forget about this little issue.
We could encourage people to buy products that are locally made, but as we consider choice to be something that is only present in other markets, we've got no-one to blame but ourselves.