I didn't even know that Lucas was going to revise episodes four through six. Is he going to release them again, in *another* special remastering, with all new footage? Isn't that blatent cash cow behaviour anyway?
If someone has any info on this, I'd be much oblidged if they posted the links below...
"worker habits" are not seperable from "the design of computer interfaces" - your environment creates your habits just as much as the reverse. Change your chair and your keyboard, and your habits will change as well. This article is just bunk.
This is almost certainly true. The days where one human could contain enough of our knowledge in order to make a technologically *useful* advance in that knowledge, in a short period of time, are long over.
Sure, one guy might have an idea, but it would take him years to get all the peices together - just determining if it's gonna work or not! (let alone actually manufacturing it, etc.).
Now, there are places where a good idea can make a difference immediatly - the internet being one of them. But even there, getting people to look at it requires resources...
"Mr. Sarnoff next gave a little talk, in which he cheerfully, and with enormous self-effacement, admitted that the real problem of television was not its mechanical vagaries but finding programs for it when it finally gets ironed out."
Sixty-six years of progress, and there is *still* no good programs on television!
I think companies here in North America still have a lot to learn about cooperation as a method of business. I mean, we have incompatible cell phone standards, lots of proprietary interfaces, etc. The real value in any economy comes from trade - which is basically different things interacting. The more we create closed off little worlds, the worse we do, and yet it seems that's all North American businesses are interested in these days!
The book sounds superficially like David Deutsch's "The Fabric of Reality", which tries to try everything together using a computational theory of reality + the multiverse intrepretation of quantum mechanics.
Deutsch believes that the simulation of something at a deep enough level is entirely equivalent to the real thing -- which is another way of stating this authors belief that reality is just an algorithm. I personally think it's at least as good a metaphysics as anything else I've read...
The engineering undergraduate program at Queens University actually has a disasters course as one of the non-technical electives. Basically, it involves dividing the class up into small teams, each of which then picks an engineering disaster to analyse in great detail. Presentations and written reports are submitted at the end of the semester.
Supposedly this engenders a greater sense of responsibility into the engineers to be. I think it worked it for me:-)
Man, coincidince! I just finished reading this excellent essay on The Economic Viability of Mars Colonization, which convinced me that Mars missions are not actually wastes of money. They say these things come in threes, I wonder what the next one will be?
I sure hope NASA sticks to their guns this time. Shuttle technology is like 30 years old now, and it's seriously *embarassing* because of that. I mean, the gains that they are expecting are reasonable - which shows you how out of date the Shuttle is.
Privacy is one of those issues where you should watch what people do, not what they say. Everyone *says* they value their privacy online and off. But almost everyone also gives away their privacy for the smallest benefit - like 5% discounts at your local grocery store, in exchange for them tracking everything you ever buy from them...
I'm convinced that until people actually start acting the way they talk, privacy online and offline will continue to get worse.
**If you value your privacy, don't give it up for small discounts, or extra convenience, or anything!**
Man, kids these days! Back in my day, we were happy with pencils. And crayons, man, a pack of those could keep us happy for weeks, until nothing but little stubs were left!
Now kids got all these newfangled toys with bright color lcd's... it's almost sick! I bet they don't get the preverse pleasure of drawing on walls with 'em thou...
phpwebhosting.com
is easily the cheapest full service bandwidth I've found. For $12/month, they give you everything you could want - shell access, *unlimited* bandwidth, mySQL, perl, python, php, sweet log analysis, email, mailing lists, etc. Since it's only one (small) bill a month, and you talk directly to their tech people for support, I'd say it's pretty autonomous... short of having you own box on the net, of course.
I hope the game has a more realistic simulation of people lives and economics than The Sims had. If so, it could be an extremely useful tool not only for universities, but for all large organizations - I imagine they face many of the same types of challenges.
Of course, like all such games, it's limitation will be your in-ability to impliment any policies or creative solutions that the game designs didnt think to allow. For instance, I bet the game doesn't let you switch to an Open Source IT infrastructure...
I would love to have the time (and money) to fiddle with Wearables myself. I think that augumented reality has such *huge* potential. I mean, esp. prompters for when you remeet people whose names you are supposed to remember:-)
The article does an excellent job relating the possible physical improvements that technology will bring to humans. But slashdot is probably potentially more interested in the possible *informational* improvements. I mean, we suffer under so much information explosion these days!
There is lots of research into direct implants and other "wetware" these days. But even something as simple as better ways for people to work together can be revolutationary.
Everyone has their own favorite webpages, and they find new cool ones every so often. But aside from search engines and other dead simple technologies, we don't have any system for gathering together this knowledge of what's good and what's not. That's what StumbleUpon is for: gathering meta-information about the web, and using it to show the best stuff to the right people at the right time. Not only is it cool, it promisses to help accelerate us towards the singularity!
I maintain a page on transhuman / posthuman resources, with lots of links and information. If you're at all interested, I'm sure you'll find something cool there!
All modes of transportation have dangers. I mean, how many people are killed by automobiles every day? The real question for society is: are we better off with or without fast and convenient transportation? So far we have already answered with, and I expect that to continue.
I thought IBM was planning on Bailing Out of the Hard Drive Market? I guess IBM really does have multiple heads these days - although maybe like the article says, IBM's focus on this product is the hugely complicated software that will be necessary to make it work, rather than the hardware.
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I didn't even know that Lucas was going to revise episodes four through six. Is he going to release them again, in *another* special remastering, with all new footage? Isn't that blatent cash cow behaviour anyway?
If someone has any info on this, I'd be much oblidged if they posted the links below...
Websurfing done right! StumbleUpon
"worker habits" are not seperable from "the design of computer interfaces" - your environment creates your habits just as much as the reverse. Change your chair and your keyboard, and your habits will change as well. This article is just bunk.
Websurfing done right! StumbleUpon
This is almost certainly true. The days where one human could contain enough of our knowledge in order to make a technologically *useful* advance in that knowledge, in a short period of time, are long over.
Sure, one guy might have an idea, but it would take him years to get all the peices together - just determining if it's gonna work or not! (let alone actually manufacturing it, etc.).
Now, there are places where a good idea can make a difference immediatly - the internet being one of them. But even there, getting people to look at it requires resources...
Websuring done right! StumbleUpon
From the article:
"Mr. Sarnoff next gave a little talk, in which he cheerfully, and with enormous self-effacement, admitted that the real problem of television was not its mechanical vagaries but finding programs for it when it finally gets ironed out."
Sixty-six years of progress, and there is *still* no good programs on television!
Websurfing done right! StumbleUpon
I think companies here in North America still have a lot to learn about cooperation as a method of business. I mean, we have incompatible cell phone standards, lots of proprietary interfaces, etc. The real value in any economy comes from trade - which is basically different things interacting. The more we create closed off little worlds, the worse we do, and yet it seems that's all North American businesses are interested in these days!
Websurfing done right! StumbleUpon
The holy grail! Now we will be able to rain down death on our opponents without risking the neck of even one of our own! Glorious glorious day!
Websurfing done right! StumbleUpon
The book sounds superficially like David Deutsch's "The Fabric of Reality", which tries to try everything together using a computational theory of reality + the multiverse intrepretation of quantum mechanics.
Deutsch believes that the simulation of something at a deep enough level is entirely equivalent to the real thing -- which is another way of stating this authors belief that reality is just an algorithm. I personally think it's at least as good a metaphysics as anything else I've read...
Websurfing done Right! StumbleUpon
The engineering undergraduate program at Queens University actually has a disasters course as one of the non-technical electives. Basically, it involves dividing the class up into small teams, each of which then picks an engineering disaster to analyse in great detail. Presentations and written reports are submitted at the end of the semester.
:-)
Supposedly this engenders a greater sense of responsibility into the engineers to be. I think it worked it for me
Websurfing done Right! StumbleUpon
Man, coincidince! I just finished reading this excellent essay on The Economic Viability of Mars Colonization, which convinced me that Mars missions are not actually wastes of money. They say these things come in threes, I wonder what the next one will be?
Websurfing done right! StumbleUpon
I sure hope NASA sticks to their guns this time. Shuttle technology is like 30 years old now, and it's seriously *embarassing* because of that. I mean, the gains that they are expecting are reasonable - which shows you how out of date the Shuttle is.
Websurfing done right! StumbleUpon
Privacy is one of those issues where you should watch what people do, not what they say. Everyone *says* they value their privacy online and off. But almost everyone also gives away their privacy for the smallest benefit - like 5% discounts at your local grocery store, in exchange for them tracking everything you ever buy from them...
I'm convinced that until people actually start acting the way they talk, privacy online and offline will continue to get worse.
**If you value your privacy, don't give it up for small discounts, or extra convenience, or anything!**
Websurfing done right! StumbleUpon
Man, kids these days! Back in my day, we were happy with pencils. And crayons, man, a pack of those could keep us happy for weeks, until nothing but little stubs were left!
Now kids got all these newfangled toys with bright color lcd's... it's almost sick! I bet they don't get the preverse pleasure of drawing on walls with 'em thou...
Websurfing done right! StumbleUpon
Microsoft of Borg. Resistance is futile! You will be assimilated into our "XBox" plans...
Websurfing done right! StumbleUpon
woops, apparently it's *$10* a month now :-)
I love those guys!
phpwebhosting.com is easily the cheapest full service bandwidth I've found. For $12/month, they give you everything you could want - shell access, *unlimited* bandwidth, mySQL, perl, python, php, sweet log analysis, email, mailing lists, etc. Since it's only one (small) bill a month, and you talk directly to their tech people for support, I'd say it's pretty autonomous... short of having you own box on the net, of course.
Websurfing done right! StumbleUpon
I hope the game has a more realistic simulation of people lives and economics than The Sims had. If so, it could be an extremely useful tool not only for universities, but for all large organizations - I imagine they face many of the same types of challenges.
Of course, like all such games, it's limitation will be your in-ability to impliment any policies or creative solutions that the game designs didnt think to allow. For instance, I bet the game doesn't let you switch to an Open Source IT infrastructure...
Websurfing done right! StumbleUpon
Thanks.
:-)
I would love to have the time (and money) to fiddle with Wearables myself. I think that augumented reality has such *huge* potential. I mean, esp. prompters for when you remeet people whose names you are supposed to remember
Websurfing done right! StumbleUpon
aka Never-Release Nights
Websurfing done right! StumbleUpon
The article does an excellent job relating the possible physical improvements that technology will bring to humans. But slashdot is probably potentially more interested in the possible *informational* improvements. I mean, we suffer under so much information explosion these days!
There is lots of research into direct implants and other "wetware" these days. But even something as simple as better ways for people to work together can be revolutationary.
Everyone has their own favorite webpages, and they find new cool ones every so often. But aside from search engines and other dead simple technologies, we don't have any system for gathering together this knowledge of what's good and what's not. That's what StumbleUpon is for: gathering meta-information about the web, and using it to show the best stuff to the right people at the right time. Not only is it cool, it promisses to help accelerate us towards the singularity!
I maintain a page on transhuman / posthuman resources, with lots of links and information. If you're at all interested, I'm sure you'll find something cool there!
Eric's Transhumanism Page.
Think of the possibilities -- I'm sure that 1-900-lara-croft will be popular!
:-(
Of course, the downside is that now you can be telemarketed from deep within that gaming zone
Websurfing done right! StumbleUpon
All modes of transportation have dangers. I mean, how many people are killed by automobiles every day? The real question for society is: are we better off with or without fast and convenient transportation? So far we have already answered with, and I expect that to continue.
I thought IBM was planning on Bailing Out of the Hard Drive Market? I guess IBM really does have multiple heads these days - although maybe like the article says, IBM's focus on this product is the hugely complicated software that will be necessary to make it work, rather than the hardware.
Websurfing done right! StumbleUpon
Looks like an excellent step towards a truly borg like information technology system.
IBM: resistence is futile!
Websurfing done right! StumbleUpon
All the plastic toys from the next starwars movie should yeild enough tax money to fund many manned trips to mars!
Websurfing done right! StumbleUpon