When I was a kid I used to fantasize about a future where the would be teleportation booths on every street corner.
You'd walk in, pop some coins in the slot, dial your destination then whoooooooo.....
I live in the UK so the teleportation booths would be run by BT, Vodafone, O2 or possibly Virgin. I imagine that you could get an off-peak tariff to be able to teleport anywhere in the world after 6pm.
Trouble is, your head would arrive at the intended destination but your limbless and bloody torso would arrive somewhere in Cairo and your assorted arms and legs would be buffered indefinitely, only to ve lost for all time once they reboot their server.
We would need to record the quantum state (spin, polarization, momentum, position) of every particle of matter in the thing being 'teleported' and then reproduce that state at the other end.
As we all know from Quantum Mechanics 101, it is impossible to to measure the state of a particle without affecting it (the Uncertainty principle).
Teleportation experiments to date have involved the reproduction of state between a particle pair (quantum entanglement). This is an impressive feat but the amount of information need to convey the particle states of say, a bacterium, and encode and transmit it to some notional receiver would take more time than the universe has existed for.
Hmmm. So reading between the lines here (and I'm just wildly guessing) I think you are saying that the Linux desktop should be OS X.
I use OS X every single working day and although it is pretty good and pretty much gets out of my way, it is not ideal in many respects. Finder, for example, is a pile of steaming junk, but I live with it, rather than installing some 3rd-party solution - because if I did, I'd soon become dependent on it and would be lost if I had to use a Mac that wasn't mine (which I do often).
The OS X desktop also has many usability and consitency issue. The fact you can only resize a window by dragging the bottom-righthand corner is just one example. It's just lame. When I use Windows for a while (and I have to) then it just annoys the fuck out of me when I get back to OS X that I have to locate and reach the bottom-right corner to resize the window - this should have been fixed YEARS ago.
As far as Linux desktops go, KDE and Gnome are not brilliant, and not as good as the Windows/OS X experience, but they are certainly more than usable.
Blaming the desktop software for Linux not being able to run MS Office or Photoshop is just plain silly.
Anyone who wants or needs to concentrate suffers from the constant barrage of interruptions from this 'always on' technology.
IM, Cellphones, SMS etc. It seems to be expected now that everyone should be instantly contactable, at any time, for the most trivial of communications.
I'm not an introvert, but prefer to be uninterrupted unless it's something really important.
I annoy people by not playing the game, by turning off my cellphone, not running an IM client (unless I want to specifically talk to someone), only checking my email twice a day etc.
The constant jabbering and twittering that surrounds us now really pisses me off. QUIET please!
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>>The reason you haven't seen any of the stuff mentioned was that you were constrained to the tourist zones
Boy you make some fucking big assumptions don't you?
You assume a) I'm an American and b) I was a Tourist.
WRONG ON BOTH COUNTS.
My time in Cuba was spent as a contractor for a large (non-US) energy company. I could go anywhere I wanted. Or at least nobody told me otherwise, and nobody challenged me and asked for 'papers' and shit.
Have you ever been there? Really?
Keep on drinking your USA propoganda Kool-aid.
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Get off your high horse pal.
Yes I have been there many times. I don't see a lot of the BS you posted.
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When I was a kid I used to fantasize about a future where the would be teleportation booths on every street corner.
You'd walk in, pop some coins in the slot, dial your destination then whoooooooo.....
I live in the UK so the teleportation booths would be run by BT, Vodafone, O2 or possibly Virgin. I imagine that you could get an off-peak tariff to be able to teleport anywhere in the world after 6pm.
Trouble is, your head would arrive at the intended destination but your limbless and bloody torso would arrive somewhere in Cairo and your assorted arms and legs would be buffered indefinitely, only to ve lost for all time once they reboot their server.
Where did he say that?
Turn in your Troll Card now.
Ha ha ha! Nice try but no cigar!
Most quantum theorists?
I hate to be a bore but could you provide a citation for that
Once we are able to?
We would need to record the quantum state (spin, polarization, momentum, position) of every particle of matter in the thing being 'teleported' and then reproduce that state at the other end.
As we all know from Quantum Mechanics 101, it is impossible to to measure the state of a particle without affecting it (the Uncertainty principle).
Teleportation experiments to date have involved the reproduction of state between a particle pair (quantum entanglement). This is an impressive feat but the amount of information need to convey the particle states of say, a bacterium, and encode and transmit it to some notional receiver would take more time than the universe has existed for.
No shit
32 weeks of studying 'Sign Language for Gerbils' - all for nothing.
Anything that causes pain for Zuckerberg is fine by me.
Yeah! Go HTML5!
Amen Beardo, amen.
Hmmm. So reading between the lines here (and I'm just wildly guessing) I think you are saying that the Linux desktop should be OS X.
I use OS X every single working day and although it is pretty good and pretty much gets out of my way, it is not ideal in many respects. Finder, for example, is a pile of steaming junk, but I live with it, rather than installing some 3rd-party solution - because if I did, I'd soon become dependent on it and would be lost if I had to use a Mac that wasn't mine (which I do often).
The OS X desktop also has many usability and consitency issue. The fact you can only resize a window by dragging the bottom-righthand corner is just one example. It's just lame. When I use Windows for a while (and I have to) then it just annoys the fuck out of me when I get back to OS X that I have to locate and reach the bottom-right corner to resize the window - this should have been fixed YEARS ago.
As far as Linux desktops go, KDE and Gnome are not brilliant, and not as good as the Windows/OS X experience, but they are certainly more than usable.
Blaming the desktop software for Linux not being able to run MS Office or Photoshop is just plain silly.
"Even without the acceptance of Linux on the desktop..."
What acceptance, where?
In industry?
In commerce?
In the media?
In the home?
Did I miss something? The 'Year of Linux on the Desktop' maybe?
"open source has been a ridiculously huge success"
Ok, I'm a heretic - so burn me now - but I don't think spin and wishful thinking furthers anyones aims.
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God. You sound almost brainwashed.
"constant communication is expected, so nothing is an interruption"
What a superb propaganda slogan! I don't think even Himmler could have put it better.
"Of course I go into my noise proof chamber from time to time"
Do you know Winston Smith? He works in the next 'noise proof chamber' right?
Politics is essentially a strain of philosophy, and yes, fine minds have indeed engaged in it.
Though I must confess, I do have my doubts about the intellectual abilities of the current crop of the world's politicians.
Yep. Says it all really.
'Here' is wherever Taco is, presumably - otherwise he would have edited this dumb article intro appropriately.
That's a bit of a generalization, wouldn't you say?
Some of the finest minds in science, art, engineering, literature and politics have been highly extrovert.
They used to say that about masturbation but most of the slashdotters seem to have emerged unscathed.
Agree.
My wife is a fine example. Every call gets answered, every ping! of an incoming SMS gets her immediate attention.
About the only time she doesn't react to it is when she's driving or asleep.
My cellphone, on the other hand is an 'always off' technology.
Hey! Why WOULDN'T you want to know what I had for breakfast, what underwear I put on this morning and how many birds I can see on my lawn right now?
What the hell is wrong with you? Some kind of weird 'introvert' eh?
Anyone who wants or needs to concentrate suffers from the constant barrage of interruptions from this 'always on' technology.
IM, Cellphones, SMS etc. It seems to be expected now that everyone should be instantly contactable, at any time, for the most trivial of communications.
I'm not an introvert, but prefer to be uninterrupted unless it's something really important.
I annoy people by not playing the game, by turning off my cellphone, not running an IM client (unless I want to specifically talk to someone), only checking my email twice a day etc.
The constant jabbering and twittering that surrounds us now really pisses me off. QUIET please!
Finally.
Proof of alternative universes.
>>And if you are like me, your handle/username/login is the same across many sites.
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Well your username is certainly very prevalent on most of the sites I visit.
I wonder how you find the time!
I hear Castro was a big fan of Lego
>>The reason you haven't seen any of the stuff mentioned was that you were
constrained to the tourist zones
Boy you make some fucking big assumptions don't you?
You assume a) I'm an American and b) I was a Tourist.
WRONG ON BOTH COUNTS.
My time in Cuba was spent as a contractor for a large (non-US) energy company. I could go anywhere I wanted. Or at least nobody told me otherwise, and nobody challenged me and asked for 'papers' and shit.
Have you ever been there? Really?
Keep on drinking your USA propoganda Kool-aid.
Get off your high horse pal.
Yes I have been there many times. I don't see a lot of the BS you posted.