Absolutely! I came away with a much-altered impression of the man, I thought he did quite well. And I couldn't agree more about the stupid "$". Get rid of that idiocy and you might have something of some journalistic quality...
For perhaps a better set of information about safety concerns and the like, go to the academic source of the technology in the first place: UW's HITLab.
The retinal display page is here, for starters. I don't imagine that the publicly traded company which got the technology would be as interested in disseminating this kind of info.... For what it's worth, they actually did quite a few trials of this at the UW's Medical Center, which is actually a very well respected hospital, and felt quite confident in it's safety.
There's a reason that certain ideas occur over and over: cause they are easy targets. There's an entire group dedicated to finding references to the "virtual/digital/electronic Pearl Harbor." Cause any damn fool can make that one up...
Interesting thing: sometimes, we who make the technology, make the rules.
Yeah, it's not "marketing-friendly", but sometimes that just means we drive a little change in the world a little more to our view of things. People come around eventually to whatever level is required to participate in the next "big thing". Influx into common american usage patterns by outside linguistic groups isn't exactly something new...
One can (if a bit wistfully) think that indeed,
perhaps people can take their music back.
Studios are not people. They are large artificial constructs held together by predictable laws of capital and profit. Perhaps by being the hoi polloi, the numerous, the People, by gum, we can remove them from power and put People before Corporations, instead of vice versa.
au contrair: the gpl is under constant scrutiny and debate. i doubt any single piece of lawyer-legalistic-mumbo-jumbo has had as many plain old folks like us attempt to read, debate, and understand its implications.
perhaps that attitude is only gleaned from slashdot discussions (/me ducks also)
i would think that part of the reason people attempt to make licenses GPL-compatable is because it has been around for so much longer, and covers so much more code. The new kid on the block has to work a little harder to play nicely, but thats nothing too wierd. in any case, i'm glad to see Apple attempting to make things converge more for everyone's benefit. Free Software projects have a habit of doing useful things that the people who set the code Free never planned.
the GPL is (and should probably remain) strict because it _forces_ people to deal with its limitations and its offered Freedom. otherwise, i fully believe it would have become obsolete by now by someone less concerned by Freedom and more concerned with Profit.
not to be argumentative, but MTV is what _spews_ that pop/rap/uber-commercialized crap. i listen to my own stuff and other peoples to get away from that...
i agree that, in his chosen medium, Elliott is a better writer. musicians just work in a different medium: thats writing in a different sense.
I'm rather surprised that many of the comments on this story seem to indicate that the authors believe you cannot create dreamcast discs with your PC, or that the two are completely unable to swap media.
Hate to tell you folks, but there's a fairly active community of people involved in both creating their own games for the DC, as well as successfully replicating their purchased games. Boot loaders, cdi's, and a few other twists...
That's why (just a little OT here) the game of GO is such an excellent model for computational game theory. I lost the bookmark, but I've read a great paper once on why chess was relatively easy to program, but CompSci's spend a good amount of time working on good GO implementations. One reason is that any single moment in chess can be summed up (in general) by a point count of pieces on the board, or in other words, used in part of a branching equation. Piece count is irrelevant for GO, and the game state at any moment is hard to summarize in any sort of neat numerical way: the shifting "influences" on the board don't translate very well.
This isn't to say there aren't GO programs out there, the GnuGO is pretty good. It's just a very difficult problem to solve, which hasn't received as much attention from the computational set...
good gracious, I thought I was the only one to remember those! Wow, yeah, you were part of the ACT team, it was all cold-war type stuff, like jummp a little man across the river or (my favorite) guess the passcode to the nuclear device before the timer went off... Those were SO cool, although I hardly ever managed to type the whole thing in on my little commodore 128. I should go on ebay and see if anyone's selling copies of em, they were good entertainment.
Come to think of it, maybe someone _should_ start bundling some sort of simple interactive games into children's stories, a cdrom or a disk that held part of the story. To get to the end of the book, you have to beat the game or something like that. Or maybe even to teach some tech skills, read in the source from disk, compile, run, debug, I dunno. This seems like it would have a lot of potential to revive this "old" idea...
Maybe if I was a hacker with kids to raise, I'd get really into this.
It's not that I find it "revolutionary", terms like that are real nowhere but in press releases... I do however, find it as the best use of an old and outdated technology known as the TCP/IP suite. And if it isn't 'revolutionary', it is certainly A Good Thing for the internet at large. I think there are going to be other companies that with varying degrees of success will try to do the same sort of thing.
It's easy to forget that some of what you hear from a company is, in fact , just marketing. But the technical details underneath can still be pretty interesting and somewhat unique...
As for M$ marketing, they can suck eggs, but thats besides the point.
1) They don't "lay connections" between web sites. They pay for peering with large BB providers.
2) They do some really funky stuff to BGP to make things more efficient and redundant. But it's a secret;)
3) "Forcing people to pay"? Uhh, it's called selling something, and you study it in econ.
Why is it that every gee-whiz article these days has 50 people sign on immediately and say "whoopdeedoo"? I understand being a jaded technologist, but sometimes someone does something cool, and not EVERYONE on the planet knows about it. Don't dig it, don't read techie news sites...
They run mostly linux, too. Check their GPL policy.
Good lord, if you haven't read "The Fountainhead" by Ayn Rand, you are hereby commanded to do so immediately. You have perhaps unwittingly given a direct quote from the main character (whom I happen to admire...)
While I appreciate your commentary on linux, I have to point something out. This was not a story, it was a press release. From the subtle FUD vapors to the slimy use of quotes and manipulation, i felt dirtier after reading it. RH 7 may be a great product, but I dislike the corporate air gathering...
It gets easier to say that everything old is better, and that all we have now is crap. Makes me sound like some sort of crotchety old timer...
"Back in _MY_ day, we hand rendered CGI sequences on paralell-processor SGI farms. You kids with your holographic nonsense these days are all flash and no substance...." (puckered mouth and scratchy voice)
I'm sure I'm not the only one that doesn't really care what on earth they call it...
After the last travesty against star wars fans, what makes you think the next one will be even less of an over-commercialized fub. It doesn't how matter how much we all want another epic like the original 3, the stuff he's going to be making is _not_ it...
Please pay no attention to the vocal but silly majority that is only coming up with dumb one-liners in reaction.
I think these look kinda cool. Between the cell I carry on my hip and the MiniDisc player with behind-the-head headphones hiding in my inside jacket pocket, I can assure you that some people would want these. I'm sure the prices will be pretty steep for at first, but who knows what might catch on, eh?
Actually, this isn't true. While children in this country these days do learn to read phonetically, research shows that most adults read by recognizing whole words at a time, just after pre-attentive processing, by recognizing the 'shape' of a word. This is an extension of "chunking", which is how we recognize simple components of a more complex syntax in language we may have never heard before.
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You know, it's almost funny that I pointed out this story, at a time just before all this exploded. It was a good point then, too. Check it out.
Actually, there have been some wonderful editorials on this topic in the NYTimes print edition, although I am unable to find any of them (anyone know of an editorial index online?) at the moment.
The gist is, as we allow technology into our lives, we have to make it slave to us, not enslave ourselves to it. Luddites complain that cellphones keep us apart and remote while techno-enthusiasts claim it brings us together. My arkansas mother claims she talks more in email with her remote family now that she did on the phone in a year, while a fellow LUG officer I know turns his pager off the minute he leaves work because it stresses him out to be "too-connected". The truth is that tech can do both, enslave us or serve us, and it's all in the amount of control that you have technology to have in your life. Do you feel ABSOLUTELY COMPELLED to answer a ringing phone? It is in _your_ home, for _your_ convenience, and if you are busy, then let it ring and lose the stress. If you're in class, TURN YOUR FRIGGIN CELL PHONE OFF unless you just happen to be part of the 1% of the population that absolutely HAS to be reachable 24/7, and in that case, use the vibrate feature that almost all of them come with now.
tech is what you make of it, like many other things...
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Absolutely! I came away with a much-altered impression of the man, I thought he did quite well. And I couldn't agree more about the stupid "$". Get rid of that idiocy and you might have something of some journalistic quality...
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For perhaps a better set of information about safety concerns and the like, go to the academic source of the technology in the first place: UW's HITLab.
The retinal display page is here, for starters. I don't imagine that the publicly traded company which got the technology would be as interested in disseminating this kind of info....
For what it's worth, they actually did quite a few trials of this at the UW's Medical Center, which is actually a very well respected hospital, and felt quite confident in it's safety.
Go Huskies!
heh. Both wrong. :)
Bill Watterson, in Calvin & Hobbes...
honestly, it's not that close...
There's a reason that certain ideas occur over and over: cause they are easy targets. There's an entire group dedicated to finding references to the "virtual/digital/electronic Pearl Harbor." Cause any damn fool can make that one up...
o for gods sake, lighten up :)
He was actually being funny for once...
what's your point? Rome, as in, conquered the known world, Rome?
Interesting thing: sometimes, we who make the technology, make the rules.
Yeah, it's not "marketing-friendly", but sometimes that just means we drive a little change in the world a little more to our view of things. People come around eventually to whatever level is required to participate in the next "big thing". Influx into common american usage patterns by outside linguistic groups isn't exactly something new...
isn't that cool?
One can (if a bit wistfully) think that indeed, perhaps people can take their music back. Studios are not people. They are large artificial constructs held together by predictable laws of capital and profit. Perhaps by being the hoi polloi, the numerous, the People, by gum, we can remove them from power and put People before Corporations, instead of vice versa.
Dang, I'm getting all philosophical...
au contrair: the gpl is under constant scrutiny and debate. i doubt any single piece of lawyer-legalistic-mumbo-jumbo has had as many plain old folks like us attempt to read, debate, and understand its implications.
perhaps that attitude is only gleaned from slashdot discussions (/me ducks also)
i would think that part of the reason people attempt to make licenses GPL-compatable is because it has been around for so much longer, and covers so much more code. The new kid on the block has to work a little harder to play nicely, but thats nothing too wierd. in any case, i'm glad to see Apple attempting to make things converge more for everyone's benefit. Free Software projects have a habit of doing useful things that the people who set the code Free never planned.
the GPL is (and should probably remain) strict because it _forces_ people to deal with its limitations and its offered Freedom. otherwise, i fully believe it would have become obsolete by now by someone less concerned by Freedom and more concerned with Profit.
not to be argumentative, but MTV is what _spews_ that pop/rap/uber-commercialized crap. i listen to my own stuff and other peoples to get away from that...
i agree that, in his chosen medium, Elliott is a better writer. musicians just work in a different medium: thats writing in a different sense.
didn't you read the subject?
Just because you are incompetent does not mean they are out to get you...
(It doesn't mean they aren't, but one does not follow from the other.)
I'm rather surprised that many of the comments on this story seem to indicate that the authors believe you cannot create dreamcast discs with your PC, or that the two are completely unable to swap media.
Hate to tell you folks, but there's a fairly active community of people involved in both creating their own games for the DC, as well as successfully replicating their purchased games. Boot loaders, cdi's, and a few other twists...
That's why (just a little OT here) the game of GO is such an excellent model for computational game theory. I lost the bookmark, but I've read a great paper once on why chess was relatively easy to program, but CompSci's spend a good amount of time working on good GO implementations. One reason is that any single moment in chess can be summed up (in general) by a point count of pieces on the board, or in other words, used in part of a branching equation. Piece count is irrelevant for GO, and the game state at any moment is hard to summarize in any sort of neat numerical way: the shifting "influences" on the board don't translate very well.
This isn't to say there aren't GO programs out there, the GnuGO is pretty good. It's just a very difficult problem to solve, which hasn't received as much attention from the computational set...
good gracious, I thought I was the only one to remember those! Wow, yeah, you were part of the ACT team, it was all cold-war type stuff, like jummp a little man across the river or (my favorite) guess the passcode to the nuclear device before the timer went off... Those were SO cool, although I hardly ever managed to type the whole thing in on my little commodore 128. I should go on ebay and see if anyone's selling copies of em, they were good entertainment.
Come to think of it, maybe someone _should_ start bundling some sort of simple interactive games into children's stories, a cdrom or a disk that held part of the story. To get to the end of the book, you have to beat the game or something like that. Or maybe even to teach some tech skills, read in the source from disk, compile, run, debug, I dunno. This seems like it would have a lot of potential to revive this "old" idea...
Maybe if I was a hacker with kids to raise, I'd get really into this.
I will similarly de-escalate my own position =-)
It's not that I find it "revolutionary", terms like that are real nowhere but in press releases... I do however, find it as the best use of an old and outdated technology known as the TCP/IP suite. And if it isn't 'revolutionary', it is certainly A Good Thing for the internet at large. I think there are going to be other companies that with varying degrees of success will try to do the same sort of thing.
It's easy to forget that some of what you hear from a company is, in fact , just marketing. But the technical details underneath can still be pretty interesting and somewhat unique...
As for M$ marketing, they can suck eggs, but thats besides the point.
You are 100% completely wrong, on all accounts:
;)
1) They don't "lay connections" between web sites. They pay for peering with large BB providers.
2) They do some really funky stuff to BGP to make things more efficient and redundant. But it's a secret
3) "Forcing people to pay"? Uhh, it's called selling something, and you study it in econ.
Why is it that every gee-whiz article these days has 50 people sign on immediately and say "whoopdeedoo"? I understand being a jaded technologist, but sometimes someone does something cool, and not EVERYONE on the planet knows about it. Don't dig it, don't read techie news sites...
They run mostly linux, too. Check their GPL policy.
Good lord, if you haven't read "The Fountainhead" by Ayn Rand, you are hereby commanded to do so immediately. You have perhaps unwittingly given a direct quote from the main character (whom I happen to admire...)
While I appreciate your commentary on linux, I have to point something out. This was not a story, it was a press release. From the subtle FUD vapors to the slimy use of quotes and manipulation, i felt dirtier after reading it. RH 7 may be a great product, but I dislike the corporate air gathering...
Guess I'm a crank.
(laughing)
I suppose you are right =-)
It gets easier to say that everything old is better, and that all we have now is crap. Makes me sound like some sort of crotchety old timer...
"Back in _MY_ day, we hand rendered CGI sequences on paralell-processor SGI farms. You kids with your holographic nonsense these days are all flash and no substance...." (puckered mouth and scratchy voice)
LOL
I'm sure I'm not the only one that doesn't really care what on earth they call it...
After the last travesty against star wars fans, what makes you think the next one will be even less of an over-commercialized fub. It doesn't how matter how much we all want another epic like the original 3, the stuff he's going to be making is _not_ it...
This is not flamebait, but a genuine criticism.
Please pay no attention to the vocal but silly majority that is only coming up with dumb one-liners in reaction.
I think these look kinda cool. Between the cell I carry on my hip and the MiniDisc player with behind-the-head headphones hiding in my inside jacket pocket, I can assure you that some people would want these. I'm sure the prices will be pretty steep for at first, but who knows what might catch on, eh?
Actually, this isn't true. While children in this country these days do learn to read phonetically, research shows that most adults read by recognizing whole words at a time, just after pre-attentive processing, by recognizing the 'shape' of a word. This is an extension of "chunking", which is how we recognize simple components of a more complex syntax in language we may have never heard before.
You know, it's almost funny that I pointed out this story, at a time just before all this exploded.
It was a good point then, too. Check it out.
Actually, there have been some wonderful editorials on this topic in the NYTimes print edition, although I am unable to find any of them (anyone know of an editorial index online?) at the moment.
The gist is, as we allow technology into our lives, we have to make it slave to us, not enslave ourselves to it. Luddites complain that cellphones keep us apart and remote while techno-enthusiasts claim it brings us together. My arkansas mother claims she talks more in email with her remote family now that she did on the phone in a year, while a fellow LUG officer I know turns his pager off the minute he leaves work because it stresses him out to be "too-connected". The truth is that tech can do both, enslave us or serve us, and it's all in the amount of control that you have technology to have in your life. Do you feel ABSOLUTELY COMPELLED to answer a ringing phone? It is in _your_ home, for _your_ convenience, and if you are busy, then let it ring and lose the stress. If you're in class, TURN YOUR FRIGGIN CELL PHONE OFF unless you just happen to be part of the 1% of the population that absolutely HAS to be reachable 24/7, and in that case, use the vibrate feature that almost all of them come with now.
tech is what you make of it, like many other things...