Possibly they are opposing, but not necessarily. Yes, they would reduce the client to $5, but would then keep Office etc at it's current level ($199 +). This gets them a good pad. However, the consumer will still not want to pay $200+ in sw fees on a computer they pay $200 or less for. So in effect, I think Raymond's point could be that people can't afford the MS monopoly software anymore. What needs to be inferred is that The consumer understands this point. I believe that as Linux based GUIs get better (to the point where your average user can plug and play with it) and linux based WP/Spreadsheet/Presentation software is acceptable (ie can read the current standard format (ie MS Office), which is not too hard) then the consumer will actually understand this point because CompUSA will have these linux machines lined up next to the MS and Apple machines.
Very simply, you can't screen for most human traits.
Well, this is true in the way that someone in the 1920s saying "We can't fly the speed of sound." was true. Right now we can't. But, with our understanding of the human genome just now beginning to evolve beyond just "It makes us grow", it is quite possible that we will be able to accurately correlate a sequence of set of genes to various attributes. It is also true that many of these would initially be expressed in terms of potential, but would still need the right nurturing environment to bring them out.
Hopefully we will eventually be able to screen for the "I want something for nothing" gene and disappearing from the consumer landscape will be a boatload of drug companies, the George Forman line of cooking products, and the entire take this pill to (choose one): increase your IQ, ejaculation distance, breast size, cilia length (no more utensils!), ability to sit on your ass and watch TV all day in leu of getting up and contributing to society in some meaningful way industry.
You mean like NASA already did in 1969 with the "moon landing"?
Now the minister of propaganda will be able to artificially render himself in front of an artificially rendered, fully clothed, sculpture, and show scenes from the latest battle in our war on the world.
Seriously, I'm wondering what will happen on those fronts when we have the technology at hand to truly fool a viewing audience. At least right now I know that everything I see on TV is real!
I've always thought this "yelling fire in a theatre" line was a red herring in the whole free speech discussion.
Interesting. There is a difference between people panicking and rushing outside to actually save their lives vs doing so because some idiot thought it would be funny. Also, it could lead to someone pulling the fire alarm and then emergency response teams are called to respond to the farce. That means that other real emergencies get potentially less attention than may be required.
In the event of a real fire, the ushers/employees should be trained on how to act. The correct number of exits does not mean that no matter what the state of panic amongst the people, they are all guaranteed a safe exit, just that an orderly evacuation can happen within a reasonable amount of time. If you really see this as a red heering to the free speech discussion, then I suggest you think about the consequences of reversing the rule.
Living in a society means that we must act in a way so as to respect others. We have very few laws set up to actually encourage this, and this is good because once you try to govern morality and behavior you start down a slippery slope towards oppression. However, the few laws we do have (like don't kill, maime, or cause harm to other people) are good. The fact that we actually have to have laws like this says a little bit about human nature. If no one ever did something like cause a mass panic by yelling "fire", then we probably would not have the law. But basic respect for other living things escapes a large portion of humanity.
Lest I be accused of being off topic: I can't believe this guy is off the hook. He has broken the law, not a stupid law like not being able to posses one of the Earth's plants, but a good law about not killing people. I definitely don't appreciate some of the actions of our government, but violent protest is not the answer. Dr. Lee spent 8 months in solitary confinement with no case against him. But this guy is off the hook when he has done far worse.
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Let's see here. We could continue with things how they are now: You understand that you must use good coding practices in order to promote cross platform compatibility. So you use a solid design and standard C or C++ to develop with. For the GUI you create classes with virtual functions and override them where necessary for Windows, Xm, Open GL, etc. You compile a version on each platform you intend to use it on.
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you decide that you would like to be able to not put much thought into design and abstracting the GUI calls from the actual code, and want to only write it once for everything in the world. You end up with something like JAVA, slow, buggy, and not working quite right on any platform.
The windows development environment is slick, and I use it a lot. But I still prefer writing Apps that use the Xm/Motif calls. But commercial apps should be written in standard languages with cross platform compatibility, ie, not VB. Right now C and C++ are the best things going..Net does nothing to improve things for C/C++ developers, but does a lot to help VB "developers"
Back when I went to college, I bought an IBM PS/2 Model 30. This baby was screaming (8086 8MHz), and I got the 20MB hard drive, instead of the 2 floppy drives, all for a cool $3500. It came with MCGA graphics. What was that? I remember that it also came with Windows 2.0, which came with a cool Othello game called reversi. This was about the last version of Windows (tm) that I enjoyed using by the way.
So, why does this MCGA not show up on the list? I was quite proud of this machine until my roomate showed up with the model 50. That sucker was a 286 running at 16Hz. WOW.
I looked at their web page (link topic post) and it seems that this is a device that straps to your head and a screen ends up in front of your eye. The screen does not interupt vision, but draws on top of what your eye is seeing. This indeed is a wearable head up display, and could be used for everything from driving to finding a needle in a haystack. One way to make this interesting technology useless is to mount it into a device that is not attached to your head. Like a toaster. Or a cell phone.
it would be interesting to see if this technology could work in reverse as well. Read the information from the retina that the eye is seeing, and then access usefull and pertinant information. For instance, you are looking at the night stars, and the computer locates and displays an astronomy chart over them, helping you to find and name constellations.
Well it looks to me (in the NASA document) much like the security clearance background check stuff that many of my friends had to go through to work for DoD related companies. Basically, the lifestyle stuff is there so that they don't get surprised. Of course NASA has some other concerns, including general health, because they don't want any medical emergencies up there, which means that Joe Beergut does not get to go.
However, as with a security clearance, the fact that you smoked a bit of weed and took some mushrooms along the way probably won't hurt. If you have a history of abuse ala Tyson, then perhaps they won't want to include you in a crew that gets to spend weeks in a sardine can together. It just makes good sense.
I saw a NOVA episode recently where the occurrance of pseudo or genuinely random bursts of radiation are visible from Earth. They (some very astute astronomers) have been figuring out what is up with them for some time. They have proven so far that they originate from a very long distance from our galaxy, and go on to say that any life that is in the beam will be immediately sterilized. The bottom line was that there may likely be other earths out there, but the likelihood that they are safe from this radiation is very small. It seems that they have discovered that we are safe enough, as the radiation is caused when massive stars collapse. The star size has to be something very much bigger than any star they have actually located in our galaxy. I can't remember the size estimation, but it was orders of magnitude larger than our sun (a medium sized star).
Our universe is probably a mere atom inside a larger universe, and these radiation bursts are simply the efforts of their Einstein trying to split us.
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Possibly they are opposing, but not necessarily. Yes, they would reduce the client to $5, but would then keep Office etc at it's current level ($199 +). This gets them a good pad. However, the consumer will still not want to pay $200+ in sw fees on a computer they pay $200 or less for. So in effect, I think Raymond's point could be that people can't afford the MS monopoly software anymore. What needs to be inferred is that The consumer understands this point. I believe that as Linux based GUIs get better (to the point where your average user can plug and play with it) and linux based WP/Spreadsheet/Presentation software is acceptable (ie can read the current standard format (ie MS Office), which is not too hard) then the consumer will actually understand this point because CompUSA will have these linux machines lined up next to the MS and Apple machines.
Well, this is true in the way that someone in the 1920s saying "We can't fly the speed of sound." was true. Right now we can't. But, with our understanding of the human genome just now beginning to evolve beyond just "It makes us grow", it is quite possible that we will be able to accurately correlate a sequence of set of genes to various attributes. It is also true that many of these would initially be expressed in terms of potential, but would still need the right nurturing environment to bring them out.
Hopefully we will eventually be able to screen for the "I want something for nothing" gene and disappearing from the consumer landscape will be a boatload of drug companies, the George Forman line of cooking products, and the entire take this pill to (choose one): increase your IQ, ejaculation distance, breast size, cilia length (no more utensils!), ability to sit on your ass and watch TV all day in leu of getting up and contributing to society in some meaningful way industry.
Now the minister of propaganda will be able to artificially render himself in front of an artificially rendered, fully clothed, sculpture, and show scenes from the latest battle in our war on the world.
Seriously, I'm wondering what will happen on those fronts when we have the technology at hand to truly fool a viewing audience. At least right now I know that everything I see on TV is real!
Interesting. There is a difference between people panicking and rushing outside to actually save their lives vs doing so because some idiot thought it would be funny. Also, it could lead to someone pulling the fire alarm and then emergency response teams are called to respond to the farce. That means that other real emergencies get potentially less attention than may be required.
In the event of a real fire, the ushers/employees should be trained on how to act. The correct number of exits does not mean that no matter what the state of panic amongst the people, they are all guaranteed a safe exit, just that an orderly evacuation can happen within a reasonable amount of time. If you really see this as a red heering to the free speech discussion, then I suggest you think about the consequences of reversing the rule.
Living in a society means that we must act in a way so as to respect others. We have very few laws set up to actually encourage this, and this is good because once you try to govern morality and behavior you start down a slippery slope towards oppression. However, the few laws we do have (like don't kill, maime, or cause harm to other people) are good. The fact that we actually have to have laws like this says a little bit about human nature. If no one ever did something like cause a mass panic by yelling "fire", then we probably would not have the law. But basic respect for other living things escapes a large portion of humanity.
Lest I be accused of being off topic: I can't believe this guy is off the hook. He has broken the law, not a stupid law like not being able to posses one of the Earth's plants, but a good law about not killing people. I definitely don't appreciate some of the actions of our government, but violent protest is not the answer. Dr. Lee spent 8 months in solitary confinement with no case against him. But this guy is off the hook when he has done far worse.
OR
you decide that you would like to be able to not put much thought into design and abstracting the GUI calls from the actual code, and want to only write it once for everything in the world. You end up with something like JAVA, slow, buggy, and not working quite right on any platform.
The windows development environment is slick, and I use it a lot. But I still prefer writing Apps that use the Xm/Motif calls. But commercial apps should be written in standard languages with cross platform compatibility, ie, not VB. Right now C and C++ are the best things going. .Net does nothing to improve things for C/C++ developers, but does a lot to help VB "developers"
So, why does this MCGA not show up on the list? I was quite proud of this machine until my roomate showed up with the model 50. That sucker was a 286 running at 16Hz. WOW.
I also had a Beta.
it would be interesting to see if this technology could work in reverse as well. Read the information from the retina that the eye is seeing, and then access usefull and pertinant information. For instance, you are looking at the night stars, and the computer locates and displays an astronomy chart over them, helping you to find and name constellations.
However, as with a security clearance, the fact that you smoked a bit of weed and took some mushrooms along the way probably won't hurt. If you have a history of abuse ala Tyson, then perhaps they won't want to include you in a crew that gets to spend weeks in a sardine can together. It just makes good sense.
Sometimes you really just want the wheat
Our universe is probably a mere atom inside a larger universe, and these radiation bursts are simply the efforts of their Einstein trying to split us.