theoretical solutions to theoretical problems. or rather, speculative solutions to speculative problems.
BRILLIANT! METAMERSE!
also, I fail to see how they are breakthroughs if they aren't actually broken through. like, skunkworks fusion reactor? who cares if it helps with interstellar projects when it would change everything down here.
what I believe he is doing is building a system based on OS/2 Warp.
I mean come on, teach the voice recognition and interface it after that with trivial systems like playing music or switching io pins on/off is basically straight out of a OS/2 advertisement.
furthermore, unless he has something more ambitious in mind he could just have bought these systems for the past 20+ years.
well, the lawyers already said that the job is too hard for robots because it's impossible to calculate the contingencies.
basically what that means is that the law is broken though. or in other words if you could have robot lawyers you wouldn't need lawyers in the first place.
also what the lawyers said means that the performance of the lawyers is random, because the lawyers said that they don't know the effects of their decisions themselves either.
well that the movie has bad time pacing and interlaces things that are happening at different times is not so problematic as saying that hyperspace works in such a way that they could just put a droid to drive millenium falcon, put it full of explosives and hyperspace it straight to the target through the shields. and get around blockage in ep1. and blow up the deathstar in ep4. the list would go on..
a ditch of certain size will get the humvee stuck. it will not fit between two big rocks either. that's why the soldiers would have been walking in the first place.
the soldiers don't like walking though so there you have it, the reason why they don't want it. if it's silent the excuse will be that they might get walked over by it because they can't hear it. the first excuse was that the gear was too heavy. so they'll keep going in oh so stealthy blackhawks.
the real problem is the introduction of a hyperspace mechanic that breaks the plot to the movie and to all prior star wars movies. so there's that, dunno how much the lore can be fixed for that..
their mobile operating system used to make money and had 90%+ marketshare in certain segments...then they decided it was a good idea to throw all that away, take all the general computing device/hackability features away and market _that_ as a smartphone OS.
and that's how they fucked up the profitable portions of windows ce.
all they needed was a decent user interface, so they copied zunes shitty user interface, called it "new from the ground up", shipped the phone with zune software to manage it(no support for desktop windows's built in phone support they spent 10 years making). and while doing that they took away the access to the lower level under the interface making it in a de facto "feature phone" segment OS from users perspective. and then they tried selling that for top smartphone prices.
also, surface phone? the fuck? microsoft already has lumia's which are as surface phones as anything they could come up with.
or they want the spiritual phone equivalent of surface rt compared to windows phones? like, it would run just a subset of windows phone apps? yeah, that would be great.
I guess they forgot that they ALREADY FRIGGIN HAVE A PHONE ON MARKET THAT HAS A DEVICE TO USE IT ON A BIG SCREEN AND USE CRAPPY WINDOWS RT (windows 10, they say, but hey, it's just the windows store apps that it runs) APPS IF THE USER WANTS TO PAY. how much more of a surface phone can you frigging GET? nobody cares about that phone though, for good reasons.
the more often than not reason is that there is market for the cheaper chip but there's no reason to produce and design the cheaper chip without the extra parts, fit it on the die optimally and all that.
so just produce the top end sell them as whatever people are willing to pay for.
the dishwasher though.. hah good luck with that. aren't the 3 modes enough? if you want it hotter you could just hack the thermostat..
well, it's just easier to coerce it out of geeks that they feel superior - even if they're fat losers and they know they're fat losers you can get them to give answers that would mark them as feeling grandiose. especially at a geek event(well why the fuck not, they're having fun there).
probably australian governent buys the sms sending with a shitty deal with either expensive or nonfunctional internationl sms's - and just expensive for them for domestic.
they probably bought it from telstra or some other shit company for ten cents a piece or something and thought they were getting a great deal because they had not checked the market in 15 years...
well this is actually something that's pretty common around the world already...
like, it has to be obvious to the reader in print media if it is a total advertisement or not...
of course plenty of (hobby, special) magazines especially tend to be pretty sketchy about this.
same goes for games media, car media etc portions that depend on publishers/manufacturers giving them free access to products in exchange of positive review pumping.
obvious answer is obvious, report a feature request to sophos. or buy a different firewall. or do attack detection after it. or just don't bother with doing anything with it(proper).
really this is a problem with his firewall device/software in it. I have no idea why this passed through to slashdot since he already tried contacting the offender and his isp.
Nobody in their right mind would really call Muon-catalyzed fusion as 'cold fusion'.
cold fusion - it worked like claimed, would be damn easy to verify to actually happen.
but.. for some strange reason they skip peer reviews and scientific process and look for private money they then use.
"Fine, the excess heat produced by "cold fusion" is not produced by nuclear reactions as high-energy physicists understand them. So, where is it coming from?" uh. you would need to have the excess heat first, after that you can find out where it is coming from if you bother - that wouldn't really matter until later. IF YOU HAD the excess heat you WOULD HAVE PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS and could easily generate practical apparatuses to verify the claims that your machine generates power(heat) from either a) fusion or b) some unknown source.
if it was from fusion that would be pretty straightforward to measure too through various mechanisms, by observing radiation, by observing if the atoms have changed. if you ruled out that you would probably find the real process then.
difference with curies experiments was of course that you could shown them to be true fairly easily compared to rossinis.
the burden of proof is on the pseudoscience - if not, then you might just as well start believing in ghosts and join scientology.
that link doesn't mention the skull that Cage has anyways - if it did, it wouldn't really be a voluntary return anyways.
besides, I would be willing to bet money that post 1924 the government of mongolia allowed remains to leave.. the expeditions were negotiated with them, with almost certainly money changing hands as is the custom in the region.
the moon rocks only became cultural heritage of the USA after USA got them. However.. Would you count the ruins the Mongol horde created as mongolian cultural heritage?
Obviously they had no standing actual legal claim to the fossil, otherwise it would have been returned already, so I'm unsure why it was described as stolen. I just wish Cage got some assurances(however feeble they may be) that the skeleton doesn't get sold again, because that would be a nice pretty scam for the mongolians. just sell it off and keep claiming back... futhermore, it might have been a lot easier to get decent 3d scans of it while under his possession. a lot cheaper probably anyways than paying off the bureaucrats to gain access.
from quick research, it seems that the government negotiated expeditions happened way after mongolian independence so there's that too to negate any claims. the mongolian government in practice already sold them once so what is going to hold them from selling them again.. especially after any scientific use has been exhausted(would be easy to argue that any foreseeable use for scanning or whatever has been exhausted already and thus it would be better to have the remains distributed across the globe evenly).
just because something blocks you from accessing a context menu doesn't mean that you're not allowed to press save as.
besides, for all your examples you would notice if someone did that.
furthermore, are you really so stupid that you think people don't generally leave their guns at home when boarding a flight because there's signs(rules) saying so? wtf man, wtf. how would you know if a bar banned open carry if they did not post a sign. those signs, they stop a plenty of people from doing things other people don't want them to do. sure, they're not a fence or a wall or a safe, but they are not supposed to be those things either.
how would you know it wasn't private property without the no trespassing sign anyways? ok, so, in the desert around area 51 the signs stop nobody? you sure about that? how the fuck are hikers supposed to know that they are not allowed to go there unless they have signs up.
and back to the original subject - why do they keep pushing javascript fake drm? for the same reason sony shipped crappy cd drm that never worked. because someone SOLD THEM THAT DRM SOLUTION AND THEY WERE STUPID ENOUGH TO BUY IT.
have you used any adobe products? the company that has seemingly invented their own drop down menus for sake of usability. well, it's really more for user lock in.
and then ubuntu & etc trying to copy just that.
it's shite I tell you and it originates from adobe & their "professional tools".
nobody of ANY "UX" experts I know seem to have ANY knowledge or information about UI concepts researched for years and years during late '80s and all '90s.
like, some people think they're UX experts because they've used twitter, facebook etc. yet they have no concept of what should happen if you double click a word or if you triple click it.
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theoretical solutions to theoretical problems. or rather, speculative solutions to speculative problems.
BRILLIANT! METAMERSE!
also, I fail to see how they are breakthroughs if they aren't actually broken through. like, skunkworks fusion reactor? who cares if it helps with interstellar projects when it would change everything down here.
what I believe he is doing is building a system based on OS/2 Warp.
I mean come on, teach the voice recognition and interface it after that with trivial systems like playing music or switching io pins on/off is basically straight out of a OS/2 advertisement.
furthermore, unless he has something more ambitious in mind he could just have bought these systems for the past 20+ years.
it's common practice to just add a few typos and a foreword to a public domain book.
well, the lawyers already said that the job is too hard for robots because it's impossible to calculate the contingencies.
basically what that means is that the law is broken though. or in other words if you could have robot lawyers you wouldn't need lawyers in the first place.
also what the lawyers said means that the performance of the lawyers is random, because the lawyers said that they don't know the effects of their decisions themselves either.
nope. they had the idea from tiger electronics headheld lcd game.
and augmented reality part of it.. well, anyone who has played videogames since 1993.
it's really just not that novel of an idea on idea basis.. so he probably stole it from you.
well that the movie has bad time pacing and interlaces things that are happening at different times is not so problematic as saying that hyperspace works in such a way that they could just put a droid to drive millenium falcon, put it full of explosives and hyperspace it straight to the target through the shields. and get around blockage in ep1. and blow up the deathstar in ep4. the list would go on..
it's still better than installing norton, avg or any of that shit though.
a ditch of certain size will get the humvee stuck. it will not fit between two big rocks either. that's why the soldiers would have been walking in the first place.
the soldiers don't like walking though so there you have it, the reason why they don't want it. if it's silent the excuse will be that they might get walked over by it because they can't hear it. the first excuse was that the gear was too heavy. so they'll keep going in oh so stealthy blackhawks.
but it might have just that switch.
if the driver is found to have been driving a car that had been modified as such, then he should go to jail of course.
I mean, the rules should be in the law.
but this exact thing has been on slashdot for more times than I care to count for already so this article can go to hell and cory doctorow too.
the real problem is the introduction of a hyperspace mechanic that breaks the plot to the movie and to all prior star wars movies. so there's that, dunno how much the lore can be fixed for that..
their mobile operating system used to make money and had 90%+ marketshare in certain segments. ..then they decided it was a good idea to throw all that away, take all the general computing device/hackability features away and market _that_ as a smartphone OS.
and that's how they fucked up the profitable portions of windows ce.
all they needed was a decent user interface, so they copied zunes shitty user interface, called it "new from the ground up", shipped the phone with zune software to manage it(no support for desktop windows's built in phone support they spent 10 years making). and while doing that they took away the access to the lower level under the interface making it in a de facto "feature phone" segment OS from users perspective. and then they tried selling that for top smartphone prices.
also, surface phone? the fuck? microsoft already has lumia's which are as surface phones as anything they could come up with.
or they want the spiritual phone equivalent of surface rt compared to windows phones? like, it would run just a subset of windows phone apps? yeah, that would be great.
I guess they forgot that they ALREADY FRIGGIN HAVE A PHONE ON MARKET THAT HAS A DEVICE TO USE IT ON A BIG SCREEN AND USE CRAPPY WINDOWS RT (windows 10, they say, but hey, it's just the windows store apps that it runs) APPS IF THE USER WANTS TO PAY. how much more of a surface phone can you frigging GET? nobody cares about that phone though, for good reasons.
well the lol seems right and the well written wrong.
in early days you would certainly have cared. you know, installing debian in a day or 4 days would have mattered.
that's the usual excuse.
the more often than not reason is that there is market for the cheaper chip but there's no reason to produce and design the cheaper chip without the extra parts, fit it on the die optimally and all that.
so just produce the top end sell them as whatever people are willing to pay for.
the dishwasher though.. hah good luck with that. aren't the 3 modes enough? if you want it hotter you could just hack the thermostat..
well, it's just easier to coerce it out of geeks that they feel superior - even if they're fat losers and they know they're fat losers you can get them to give answers that would mark them as feeling grandiose. especially at a geek event(well why the fuck not, they're having fun there).
neo-nazis beat them at that score though.
smartcard readers or wtf?
fyi, google two factor authentication uses sms...
probably australian governent buys the sms sending with a shitty deal with either expensive or nonfunctional internationl sms's - and just expensive for them for domestic.
they probably bought it from telstra or some other shit company for ten cents a piece or something and thought they were getting a great deal because they had not checked the market in 15 years...
well this is actually something that's pretty common around the world already...
like, it has to be obvious to the reader in print media if it is a total advertisement or not...
of course plenty of (hobby, special) magazines especially tend to be pretty sketchy about this.
same goes for games media, car media etc portions that depend on publishers/manufacturers giving them free access to products in exchange of positive review pumping.
or.. like blogger?
or... like google docs/drive/files?
or... like amazon?
all these are used for same kind of purposes with advertising based rewards that go to the actual perpetrators(the people using the service to share).
obvious answer is obvious, report a feature request to sophos.
or buy a different firewall.
or do attack detection after it.
or just don't bother with doing anything with it(proper).
really this is a problem with his firewall device/software in it. I have no idea why this passed through to slashdot since he already tried contacting the offender and his isp.
Nobody in their right mind would really call Muon-catalyzed fusion as 'cold fusion'.
cold fusion - it worked like claimed, would be damn easy to verify to actually happen.
but.. for some strange reason they skip peer reviews and scientific process and look for private money they then use.
"Fine, the excess heat produced by "cold fusion" is not produced by nuclear reactions as high-energy physicists understand them. So, where is it coming from?" uh. you would need to have the excess heat first, after that you can find out where it is coming from if you bother - that wouldn't really matter until later. IF YOU HAD the excess heat you WOULD HAVE PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS and could easily generate practical apparatuses to verify the claims that your machine generates power(heat) from either a) fusion or b) some unknown source.
if it was from fusion that would be pretty straightforward to measure too through various mechanisms, by observing radiation, by observing if the atoms have changed. if you ruled out that you would probably find the real process then.
difference with curies experiments was of course that you could shown them to be true fairly easily compared to rossinis.
the burden of proof is on the pseudoscience - if not, then you might just as well start believing in ghosts and join scientology.
that link doesn't mention the skull that Cage has anyways - if it did, it wouldn't really be a voluntary return anyways.
besides, I would be willing to bet money that post 1924 the government of mongolia allowed remains to leave.. the expeditions were negotiated with them, with almost certainly money changing hands as is the custom in the region.
that is, the skull would be safer in cages cage.
well.. yes and no.
the moon rocks only became cultural heritage of the USA after USA got them. However.. Would you count the ruins the Mongol horde created as mongolian cultural heritage?
Obviously they had no standing actual legal claim to the fossil, otherwise it would have been returned already, so I'm unsure why it was described as stolen. I just wish Cage got some assurances(however feeble they may be) that the skeleton doesn't get sold again, because that would be a nice pretty scam for the mongolians. just sell it off and keep claiming back... futhermore, it might have been a lot easier to get decent 3d scans of it while under his possession. a lot cheaper probably anyways than paying off the bureaucrats to gain access.
from quick research, it seems that the government negotiated expeditions happened way after mongolian independence so there's that too to negate any claims. the mongolian government in practice already sold them once so what is going to hold them from selling them again.. especially after any scientific use has been exhausted(would be easy to argue that any foreseeable use for scanning or whatever has been exhausted already and thus it would be better to have the remains distributed across the globe evenly).
just because something blocks you from accessing a context menu doesn't mean that you're not allowed to press save as.
besides, for all your examples you would notice if someone did that.
furthermore, are you really so stupid that you think people don't generally leave their guns at home when boarding a flight because there's signs(rules) saying so? wtf man, wtf. how would you know if a bar banned open carry if they did not post a sign. those signs, they stop a plenty of people from doing things other people don't want them to do. sure, they're not a fence or a wall or a safe, but they are not supposed to be those things either.
how would you know it wasn't private property without the no trespassing sign anyways? ok, so, in the desert around area 51 the signs stop nobody? you sure about that? how the fuck are hikers supposed to know that they are not allowed to go there unless they have signs up.
and back to the original subject - why do they keep pushing javascript fake drm? for the same reason sony shipped crappy cd drm that never worked. because someone SOLD THEM THAT DRM SOLUTION AND THEY WERE STUPID ENOUGH TO BUY IT.
have you used any adobe products? the company that has seemingly invented their own drop down menus for sake of usability. well, it's really more for user lock in.
and then ubuntu & etc trying to copy just that.
it's shite I tell you and it originates from adobe & their "professional tools".
well, that pretty much sums it up.
nobody of ANY "UX" experts I know seem to have ANY knowledge or information about UI concepts researched for years and years during late '80s and all '90s.
like, some people think they're UX experts because they've used twitter, facebook etc. yet they have no concept of what should happen if you double click a word or if you triple click it.
well it kinda is when a similar model but 10 years older would not have those random problems so much.
that's the nosedive of german cars, really. from 1990 to 2000.