And even better: "Attractive" does not necessarily mean "good looking". It means being something interesting and exciting, like some sparkling stuff. And then catching them with the "bubble of love" that they can't exit, where they even forget that their friends ever existed.;))
Hahahaa! Yeah, right! As if those companies would care for your request for royalities! It's simple: The biggest cell phone network providers will let a company "consult" them on the terms for their contracts, and those terms will include that they only offer you the contract, if you will resign the right to any royalties, but pay *them* royalties for selling your private data to Russia, Korea and Nigeria. (So you have to pay thrice, of course!)
So what? What will you do? You will do nothing. That's how simple it is. After all, there are no others, but you don't have to make a contract with them.
A bit of lobbying will close your door to the government too.
I give you a more likely solution: Learn how to motivate people so much, that they will create a raging lobby, so big that it crushes all other interests. *That* gives you a chance.
I wonder why Fox is so good at creating such groups, but we are so bad. After all, we are the intelligent side, aren't we? Maybe the difference is that we have a conscience, and they have not.
And maybe Lord Helmet was right, that evil always with triumph, because good is too stupid (aka "good") for it.:/
I think elections are a great invention. They only have one small flaw, that was not thought through: The non-voters case!
So I propose the following solution pattern:
Every non-voter *counts*. Either trough making a law, that automatically makes you a foreigner if you don't vote, and adding a "none of the above" option on the ballot, or more conservative, to automatically count people not showing up to have voted as "none of the above".
BUT: The "none of the above" gets all the same abilities as a party. In its own way. If, for example, more than 50% vote for that option, then the parliament ceases to have any powers and anarchy is declared. This sounds bad, but actually it is there so it does not happen. and *if* it should happen, then it toggles a switch in all those who just complain but never do anything, so they will start to think and act on their own. Which usually means that differences get resolved pretty quickly, and normality returns after that. People are also free to segregate, and found their own communities in that time.
Something along the lines of that should resolve the voting problems. But don't dare dismiss the entire idea because of some small error! It's just a rough idea. You are expected to think up your own much better version of it, and beat me with *that* one!:)
I don't care for your rules. I pick 'em all, draw 20 other points below them, and pick those too. Then I throw 'em all in a mixer, and wait for the good stuff to rise to the top, so I can skim it. THAT is then what I will too. The rest will go to my mudwater cannon, to be launched in your general direction!:P
He doesn't have to emigrate, just to sell stuff here. After all, the money that he will make there, and is well-tunneled past duties, will be worth more stuff in the USA.
But of course Sweden has nice girls, and Switzerland has, as we determined in an earlier "Ask Slashdot" about emigration, a large number of positive sides, apart from the nice nature, the money there, the relative independence from EU regulations, and the relatively nice grassroots government system.:)
And by free I mean "without software patents". Then when you have made some money, you can still sell to non-free countries, because you can 1. actually pay that lawyer, 2. have prior art on your side.
The first version of the ATHLETE vehicle is under development and has the following characteristics: [...] * Able to dock or mate with special-purpose devices, including a launchable/releasable grappling hook, refueling stations, excavation implements, and/or special end effectors [...]
Are you one of that "death panels will kill my grandmother" crowd? Because you sound just like one.
Do you even realize that you just stated that the EC would abuse American firms, only because TFS stated it, which is a wild assumption, and is not anywhere backed by anything. It's just made out of thin air. Even if something like that would happen, your statement would be false, because you know nothing about it.
And I, for one, think it's great, that finally someone kicked Microsoft's and Intel's ass, after all their monopolistic abuses. Because the US government just was so far up those companies asses, that they nearly came out of the mouth again.
I will check what the EC really does to Sun, and then decide for myself what of those things I find right and wrong. MY right, wrong and everything in between. I won't just totally dissolve in the realities of others, and then start to parrot that stuff, like you. No matter who thinks it's right, wrong, or whatever.
Without patents, we could have used those resources to *not* reinvent the wheel at all, but to make it better right away. Even more so than when you first have to re-invent that wheel! Because there would be more resources.
What if it's empirically proven that some speech causes physical pain to some people?
Because even if it's still a taboo, this is a biochemical fact! (Yes, I had to check it myself, but it's the case. And if you think about it, it makes sense too.)
Then we have a hard time. Because we want free speech. But we also don't want to actually hurt people, do we?
And I think, saying what you want to say, without hurting people, is sadly a lost art. One where we can actually be really great at. The key is psychology. Like knowing that what you say has to be able to fit with a person's world view, for him to be able to accept it without losing his self-respect (which nobody can tolerate and not wanting to kill himself). These are no "whiner's concepts". These are facts in what makes us human. And calling it "not real" is being a really freakin' arrogant asshole. (Just like acting as if we were no animals, but something special, because animals would not be able to actually think and have emotions. Or the sun would revolve around us. Or that we would be the only life in the universe.)
The one that you're just a pussy for complaining about it. And the one that causes physical pain and is known by the speaker to do so.
Yes, it's proven nowadays, that emotional pain is no different or less real than "real" physical pain to the brain. Same chemical reaction. Same everything. So being left by your girlfriend really hurts. And perhaps some painkillers would actually work! So if you know it, and deliberately hurt someone, it does not matter in what way you are doing it. What matters is, if it hurts or not.
And the only reason we're discussing this at all, is that it is so hard, to prove emotional damage.
Wait for some idiot referencing this in the article itself, and then some wikinazi "protecting" it from the constant "vandalism", for the circle of fail to be complete.
And people still think the idea behind of Wikipedia is physically possible...
Suppose you got a mirror that reflects 90% and reflects it back to the target. Then that laser gun plane will be pretty much fucked. And much faster than the mirrored building. ^^
With an actively controlled mirror, this should be no big problem.:)
luckily (or possibly unluckily) for the guys at USAspending.gov, Google's APIs don't just segfault out and crash the page, instead they try to parse it in a "is this what you wanted?" sort of way.
Speaking as an ex-professional web-developer: Definitely unluckily. "is this the way you wanted?" is the cause for the horrors of IE, the mess of HTML 4, the catastrophe that is PHP data type conversions, and many more such wide-reaching failures.
It's bad specification, to leave ambiguities. But it's worse programming, to not define clear states (in this case error states) for those cases. Or at least make them configurable.
Well, what he basically was saying: "Me want to dominate you like slave! Me no like independent think! You not look like me can dominate you. Me no like you! Boowroagh!" Be lucky that you did not "get" that job. Or better: That he did not get you, by fuckin' it up for himself.
A good boss hires people, because they can bring something to the table, that you did not think of, and possibly were not even able to think of.
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This "culture" of "I have to appeal to the boss" but "the boss does not have to appeal to me" because he is somehow better or higher than you, is sickening! What we need in companies, is not salary, but budget or billing, with the free choice to hire people below oneself. And with the free choice to work for anyone in the company. But why stop at the company? Just work with anyone you want. Leave multiple choices. Leave the choice to also fire one of your "bosses". Tadaa: Now it's equal.
In a way, a hierarchy is always a monopoly. And as we know, these are bad for the economy as a whole. I argue, that a unidirectional hierarchy is an, if not the enemy of a free market. That does not mean communism. No. It means to use all features of the natural structure called "graph" as opposed to a simple "tree".
I don't think so. The new major decision in life will be, what not to learn.
Besides: What do you think studying consists of, if not learning some material from others (e.g. through reading)?
I can make professional games, music, 3d objects, software, websites, a bit of matte painting, AND am an expert in nutrition and psychology. I also learned English trough the Internet. Mainly from learning material on the above subjects, Slashdot, The Daily Show and some torrented TV shows. I kid you not!
I don't think I would have been able to do that without the Internet! (Especially the professional tutorials, e.g. via Torrent or books;) Not even remotely.
It's a common misconception, that in the future everything is wireless. But if you actually think about it for so much as a minute, you will notice, that wired connections will always be faster and more efficient. Therefore they will never go away. There will be a place for both. But I think some stuff will always continue to be better and cheaper when wired.
- device, what device?: [...] those bulky iPhones around
Actually, we already were over the sweet spot for size. Remember that old tiny Nokia that everyone had in circa 2000? People later decided, that bigger sometimes is better. Especially with displays. The second wave will come, when displays finally will be independent and integrated into contact lenses, glasses, etc. But then there is still the point of processing power and lifespan. As long as it fits my pocket, why make it smaller. It's good enough.:)
- telepresence: I see you, you see me, in HD, anytime, wherever you and I are.
Already exists in east Asia.
Maybe we can even shake hands. Definitely coming in the next decade
Naah, I don't think that someone would wear a tactile glove all day long, just to shake hands. Maybe with more, it will become a fashion. And Matrix-style BCIs are still a bit too far away. But I wouldn't want to shake virtual hands anyway.
Slashdot Mirror
And even better: "Attractive" does not necessarily mean "good looking". It means being something interesting and exciting, like some sparkling stuff. And then catching them with the "bubble of love" that they can't exit, where they even forget that their friends ever existed. ;))
Hahahaa! Yeah, right! As if those companies would care for your request for royalities! It's simple: The biggest cell phone network providers will let a company "consult" them on the terms for their contracts, and those terms will include that they only offer you the contract, if you will resign the right to any royalties, but pay *them* royalties for selling your private data to Russia, Korea and Nigeria. (So you have to pay thrice, of course!)
So what? What will you do? You will do nothing. That's how simple it is.
After all, there are no others, but you don't have to make a contract with them.
A bit of lobbying will close your door to the government too.
I give you a more likely solution: Learn how to motivate people so much, that they will create a raging lobby, so big that it crushes all other interests. *That* gives you a chance.
I wonder why Fox is so good at creating such groups, but we are so bad. After all, we are the intelligent side, aren't we?
Maybe the difference is that we have a conscience, and they have not.
And maybe Lord Helmet was right, that evil always with triumph, because good is too stupid (aka "good") for it. :/
I think elections are a great invention. They only have one small flaw, that was not thought through: The non-voters case!
So I propose the following solution pattern:
Every non-voter *counts*. Either trough making a law, that automatically makes you a foreigner if you don't vote, and adding a "none of the above" option on the ballot,
or more conservative, to automatically count people not showing up to have voted as "none of the above".
BUT: The "none of the above" gets all the same abilities as a party. In its own way.
If, for example, more than 50% vote for that option, then the parliament ceases to have any powers and anarchy is declared. This sounds bad, but actually it is there so it does not happen. and *if* it should happen, then it toggles a switch in all those who just complain but never do anything, so they will start to think and act on their own. Which usually means that differences get resolved pretty quickly, and normality returns after that. People are also free to segregate, and found their own communities in that time.
Something along the lines of that should resolve the voting problems. But don't dare dismiss the entire idea because of some small error! It's just a rough idea. You are expected to think up your own much better version of it, and beat me with *that* one! :)
I don't care for your rules. I pick 'em all, draw 20 other points below them, and pick those too. Then I throw 'em all in a mixer, and wait for the good stuff to rise to the top, so I can skim it. THAT is then what I will too. The rest will go to my mudwater cannon, to be launched in your general direction! :P
But... but... it's the *free* market... we can't *regulate* it... or we might become socialist... ruled by one evil group of people... ...Oh, wait!
He doesn't have to emigrate, just to sell stuff here. After all, the money that he will make there, and is well-tunneled past duties, will be worth more stuff in the USA.
But of course Sweden has nice girls, and Switzerland has, as we determined in an earlier "Ask Slashdot" about emigration, a large number of positive sides, apart from the nice nature, the money there, the relative independence from EU regulations, and the relatively nice grassroots government system. :)
And by free I mean "without software patents". Then when you have made some money, you can still sell to non-free countries, because you can 1. actually pay that lawyer, 2. have prior art on your side.
From the description
The first version of the ATHLETE vehicle is under development and has the following characteristics:
[...]
* Able to dock or mate with special-purpose devices, including a launchable/releasable grappling hook, refueling stations, excavation implements, and/or special end effectors
[...]
That sounds like some wild "mating"... :D
they gave it six legs, just to be able to name it that way:
'All-Terrain Hex-Legged Extra-Terrestrial Explorer,' or ATHLETE.
Are you one of that "death panels will kill my grandmother" crowd? Because you sound just like one.
Do you even realize that you just stated that the EC would abuse American firms, only because TFS stated it, which is a wild assumption, and is not anywhere backed by anything. It's just made out of thin air. Even if something like that would happen, your statement would be false, because you know nothing about it.
And I, for one, think it's great, that finally someone kicked Microsoft's and Intel's ass, after all their monopolistic abuses. Because the US government just was so far up those companies asses, that they nearly came out of the mouth again.
I will check what the EC really does to Sun, and then decide for myself what of those things I find right and wrong. MY right, wrong and everything in between. I won't just totally dissolve in the realities of others, and then start to parrot that stuff, like you. No matter who thinks it's right, wrong, or whatever.
So it's like law for people: Every one violates at least one of them.
And that is the point!
As said: Broken window fallacy:
Without patents, we could have used those resources to *not* reinvent the wheel at all, but to make it better right away. Even more so than when you first have to re-invent that wheel! Because there would be more resources.
OGG would have been called MP4/AAC
PNG would perhaps been called GIF2000+
etc.
What if it's empirically proven that some speech causes physical pain to some people?
Because even if it's still a taboo, this is a biochemical fact! (Yes, I had to check it myself, but it's the case. And if you think about it, it makes sense too.)
Then we have a hard time. Because we want free speech. But we also don't want to actually hurt people, do we?
And I think, saying what you want to say, without hurting people, is sadly a lost art. One where we can actually be really great at.
The key is psychology. Like knowing that what you say has to be able to fit with a person's world view, for him to be able to accept it without losing his self-respect (which nobody can tolerate and not wanting to kill himself). These are no "whiner's concepts". These are facts in what makes us human. And calling it "not real" is being a really freakin' arrogant asshole. (Just like acting as if we were no animals, but something special, because animals would not be able to actually think and have emotions. Or the sun would revolve around us. Or that we would be the only life in the universe.)
The one that you're just a pussy for complaining about it.
And the one that causes physical pain and is known by the speaker to do so.
Yes, it's proven nowadays, that emotional pain is no different or less real than "real" physical pain to the brain. Same chemical reaction. Same everything. So being left by your girlfriend really hurts. And perhaps some painkillers would actually work!
So if you know it, and deliberately hurt someone, it does not matter in what way you are doing it. What matters is, if it hurts or not.
And the only reason we're discussing this at all, is that it is so hard, to prove emotional damage.
Or the owners of the first porn domain on the Internet!
If you think this is off-topic, you really don't get it, nor know the topic very well...
Wait for some idiot referencing this in the article itself, and then some wikinazi "protecting" it from the constant "vandalism", for the circle of fail to be complete.
And people still think the idea behind of Wikipedia is physically possible...
Suppose you got a mirror that reflects 90% and reflects it back to the target. Then that laser gun plane will be pretty much fucked. And much faster than the mirrored building. ^^
With an actively controlled mirror, this should be no big problem. :)
luckily (or possibly unluckily) for the guys at USAspending.gov, Google's APIs don't just segfault out and crash the page, instead they try to parse it in a "is this what you wanted?" sort of way.
Speaking as an ex-professional web-developer: Definitely unluckily.
"is this the way you wanted?" is the cause for the horrors of IE, the mess of HTML 4, the catastrophe that is PHP data type conversions, and many more such wide-reaching failures.
It's bad specification, to leave ambiguities. But it's worse programming, to not define clear states (in this case error states) for those cases. Or at least make them configurable.
Sounds like you're just being jealous, to me. ^^
Well, what he basically was saying: "Me want to dominate you like slave! Me no like independent think! You not look like me can dominate you. Me no like you! Boowroagh!"
Be lucky that you did not "get" that job. Or better: That he did not get you, by fuckin' it up for himself.
A good boss hires people, because they can bring something to the table, that you did not think of, and possibly were not even able to think of.
---
This "culture" of "I have to appeal to the boss" but "the boss does not have to appeal to me" because he is somehow better or higher than you, is sickening!
What we need in companies, is not salary, but budget or billing, with the free choice to hire people below oneself. And with the free choice to work for anyone in the company. But why stop at the company? Just work with anyone you want. Leave multiple choices. Leave the choice to also fire one of your "bosses". Tadaa: Now it's equal.
In a way, a hierarchy is always a monopoly. And as we know, these are bad for the economy as a whole. I argue, that a unidirectional hierarchy is an, if not the enemy of a free market.
That does not mean communism. No. It means to use all features of the natural structure called "graph" as opposed to a simple "tree".
1. Go to a big forest. ...
2. Follow the loud noises.
3.
4. HACKER!
But nothing, compared to my... "cable"! :P
I don't think so. The new major decision in life will be, what not to learn.
Besides: What do you think studying consists of, if not learning some material from others (e.g. through reading)?
I can make professional games, music, 3d objects, software, websites, a bit of matte painting, AND am an expert in nutrition and psychology.
I also learned English trough the Internet. Mainly from learning material on the above subjects, Slashdot, The Daily Show and some torrented TV shows. I kid you not!
I don't think I would have been able to do that without the Internet! (Especially the professional tutorials, e.g. via Torrent or books ;) Not even remotely.
- wires, what wires?
It's a common misconception, that in the future everything is wireless. But if you actually think about it for so much as a minute, you will notice, that wired connections will always be faster and more efficient. Therefore they will never go away. There will be a place for both. But I think some stuff will always continue to be better and cheaper when wired.
- device, what device?: [...] those bulky iPhones around
Actually, we already were over the sweet spot for size. Remember that old tiny Nokia that everyone had in circa 2000? People later decided, that bigger sometimes is better. Especially with displays. :)
The second wave will come, when displays finally will be independent and integrated into contact lenses, glasses, etc. But then there is still the point of processing power and lifespan. As long as it fits my pocket, why make it smaller. It's good enough.
- telepresence: I see you, you see me, in HD, anytime, wherever you and I are.
Already exists in east Asia.
Maybe we can even shake hands. Definitely coming in the next decade
Naah, I don't think that someone would wear a tactile glove all day long, just to shake hands. Maybe with more, it will become a fashion. And Matrix-style BCIs are still a bit too far away.
But I wouldn't want to shake virtual hands anyway.