I keep waiting for someone in this thread to come up with something other than information technology. What else have you got? Routine space flight? In the 60s/70s there was already routine manned spaceflight TO THE MOON.
No one is saying the information revolution isn't amazing, it's just that, well, what else have you got.? You're giving all these details about the explosion of the internet, and yeah, you're right. But look at the 1900->1950 range and you can list multiple major astonishing technologies that weren't there at the beginning and were mature by the end. We've gone from the age of Jules Verne to the age of, I don't know, Bill Gates?
Welcome, Pollyanna, you must be new here. Every day there are multiple posts on slashdot that should be labeled "still ten years away". I'll celebrate the blindness cures and magic windshields as soon as they are proven to work enough to actually be used outside of studies.
What's your point (assuming there is one)? Because this has been discussed before it should never be discussed again? Do you disagree with the thesis? If so why? Your comment is part of the problem, not part of the solution, because it adds nothing but irritation.
An auto mechanic who has only a hammer is inferior to an auto mechanic with the same skill at car repair who has a full garage of tools. Words are tools for thought and if your vocabulary is stunted you are, in effect, dumber than someone with the same "IQ" but a much wider vocabulary. So be careful who you accuse of bigotry. They might accuse you of blind political correctness.
Mod parent up please. This is exactly why my wife and I quit WoW. We both have real jobs and limited time to play. We enjoyed WoW for the first 20 levels where continuous varied content is available in a geographically dense area, but once the quests had us skipping all over the planet to do repetitive tasks it started to feel like work. If we could only play for 3 hours it felt like we spent most of the time dealing with the game equivalent of the DMV. And forget dungeon crawls, much less raids.
The first 2-3 books are phenomenal must reads if you like fantasy. But beware the 4th book. It is boring and is clearly Martin treading water in some kind of record-setting writer's block. It's almost entirely about minor and annoying characters. My guess is that he did that so as not to upset anything in the larger plotlines he is procrastinating on until the next book, if he ever finishes it.
Actually you're making the same mistake as most apologists, defining religion down instead of up. Most of the ideologies you add to the list share much more in common with religion than with enlightenment ideas.
Communism, nazism, etc are close enough to religions to earn the name.
You're seriously suggesting we continue to ride around in several ton hunks of metal at high velocities using explosive "gas"?
What about when some toddler gets run over by one of these things? What about when some child or pet drinks one of the many poisonous fluids required to run one of these things? What about when these things crash into each other.
Wow, so I guess they've never thought of any of this since it's their company and all and they don't have the same amount of time to think about it that some off the cuff guy does on slashdot during his "coffee break". Better call them so they can shut down the company right away and not waste any more time on this stupid idea. I'll tell them to check with you next time before rounding up series A shares.
The wardrobe malfunction thing was completely ridiculous, but if you are really trying to equate government control of speech in Western countries (especially the US) with government control of speech in China (and Saudi Arabia etc.) you are generalizing the concept to the point of meaninglessness.
How does this relate to the beam splitting, noise-plagued GEO600 gravity wave detector that recently made the news for possibly showing the universe to be a hologram?
the only revolution apple has ever pulled off is a marketing revolution. the ipod, macbook and iphone do nothing other gadgets haven't before. indeed on many technical levels they are inferior, especially the ipod.
You couldn't be more wrong. The Lisa/Mac GUI was a total, earth-shaking, you don't even get it until you suddenly do, mass lightbulb going off revolution. The Apple II a bit less so.
More recently the "revolutionary" qualities of iPhone and iPod are a little blurrier. The revolutions were perhaps more ones of mass adoption than of innovation, but it goes quite a bit beyond mere marketing.
Can anyone remember the last time an incremental advance in chip speed was anything close to "jaw dropping?" Having been in this industry a while I can't count the number of times people like Steve Jobs and Andy Grove claimed speed increases of more than double with almost no apparent effect on anything but benchmarks. The early days of 3D accelerators was about the only time I really went "wow!"
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I keep waiting for someone in this thread to come up with something other than information technology. What else have you got? Routine space flight? In the 60s/70s there was already routine manned spaceflight TO THE MOON.
No one is saying the information revolution isn't amazing, it's just that, well, what else have you got.? You're giving all these details about the explosion of the internet, and yeah, you're right. But look at the 1900->1950 range and you can list multiple major astonishing technologies that weren't there at the beginning and were mature by the end. We've gone from the age of Jules Verne to the age of, I don't know, Bill Gates?
Welcome, Pollyanna, you must be new here. Every day there are multiple posts on slashdot that should be labeled "still ten years away". I'll celebrate the blindness cures and magic windshields as soon as they are proven to work enough to actually be used outside of studies.
What's your point (assuming there is one)? Because this has been discussed before it should never be discussed again? Do you disagree with the thesis? If so why? Your comment is part of the problem, not part of the solution, because it adds nothing but irritation.
An auto mechanic who has only a hammer is inferior to an auto mechanic with the same skill at car repair who has a full garage of tools. Words are tools for thought and if your vocabulary is stunted you are, in effect, dumber than someone with the same "IQ" but a much wider vocabulary. So be careful who you accuse of bigotry. They might accuse you of blind political correctness.
Mod parent up please. This is exactly why my wife and I quit WoW. We both have real jobs and limited time to play. We enjoyed WoW for the first 20 levels where continuous varied content is available in a geographically dense area, but once the quests had us skipping all over the planet to do repetitive tasks it started to feel like work. If we could only play for 3 hours it felt like we spent most of the time dealing with the game equivalent of the DMV. And forget dungeon crawls, much less raids.
The first 2-3 books are phenomenal must reads if you like fantasy. But beware the 4th book. It is boring and is clearly Martin treading water in some kind of record-setting writer's block. It's almost entirely about minor and annoying characters. My guess is that he did that so as not to upset anything in the larger plotlines he is procrastinating on until the next book, if he ever finishes it.
What, you don't want slow moving scenes about Hot Pie and Lommie Greenhands?
I hear they're going to open a restaurant in the new one!
Actually you're making the same mistake as most apologists, defining religion down instead of up. Most of the ideologies you add to the list share much more in common with religion than with enlightenment ideas. Communism, nazism, etc are close enough to religions to earn the name.
Please qualify that as "religious conservatives." Plenty of libertarian conservatives are all for embryonic stem cell research.
You're seriously suggesting we continue to ride around in several ton hunks of metal at high velocities using explosive "gas"?
What about when some toddler gets run over by one of these things? What about when some child or pet drinks one of the many poisonous fluids required to run one of these things? What about when these things crash into each other.
Automobiles are a non starter.
Wow, so I guess they've never thought of any of this since it's their company and all and they don't have the same amount of time to think about it that some off the cuff guy does on slashdot during his "coffee break". Better call them so they can shut down the company right away and not waste any more time on this stupid idea. I'll tell them to check with you next time before rounding up series A shares.
The wardrobe malfunction thing was completely ridiculous, but if you are really trying to equate government control of speech in Western countries (especially the US) with government control of speech in China (and Saudi Arabia etc.) you are generalizing the concept to the point of meaninglessness.
Negative, Captain.
Whatever happened to that? The latest update on their own site is 2002?
Bernie Madoff? They let you have internet access?
How does this relate to the beam splitting, noise-plagued GEO600 gravity wave detector that recently made the news for possibly showing the universe to be a hologram?
I'm pretty sure you mean Matt Demon
He was way off all over the place. The slashdot summary exaggerates.
Not to mention the spelling of rift, subduction, Aleutian, and cataclysmic.
Yes, geologists in real life spell "tectonic" as "techtonic" all the time. I'm a geologistist, so I know.
So I'm guessing from your posts that you are a gun owner. Is running a food slave plantation your plan, then?
the only revolution apple has ever pulled off is a marketing revolution. the ipod, macbook and iphone do nothing other gadgets haven't before. indeed on many technical levels they are inferior, especially the ipod.
You couldn't be more wrong. The Lisa/Mac GUI was a total, earth-shaking, you don't even get it until you suddenly do, mass lightbulb going off revolution. The Apple II a bit less so.
More recently the "revolutionary" qualities of iPhone and iPod are a little blurrier. The revolutions were perhaps more ones of mass adoption than of innovation, but it goes quite a bit beyond mere marketing.
I'm tired of paying the man to use them and I don't have the programming skill to figure out how to make them myself.
Can anyone remember the last time an incremental advance in chip speed was anything close to "jaw dropping?" Having been in this industry a while I can't count the number of times people like Steve Jobs and Andy Grove claimed speed increases of more than double with almost no apparent effect on anything but benchmarks. The early days of 3D accelerators was about the only time I really went "wow!"