You left out the detail, that one could still “pre-measure”/prepare a certain amount of entangled particles (with light-speed communication), and then later slowly use them up for “instantaneous“ communication.
Pff. I have a cluestick for you: Opera? Mozilla? Listen closely:
LINK. TO. FFMPEG. IF. AVAILABLE!!
There. problem solved. ffmpeg (or ffdshow) already plays h.246. Just linking to it does not integrate it into anything. Not the installation package, and not the binaries. You can even just put a link to it in the “video not playable” frame in the site. Or define a dependency for it in Linux package managers.
Easy peasy.
I hope Firefox offers a generic video playback interface, so that someone can just hack ffmpeg in there. While the Mozilla still will bitch and live in fantasy world, 10 years later, condeming that “evil“ version that now everybody out there will use.:/
(Don’t get me wrong. I am on the “software patents should be illegal, and we should all use open codecs“ side. [With the limitation, that the open one should actually be superior.])
Seriously... Vorbis has not even taken over MP3, despite it being far superior. And you expect Theora to beat H.246??
The fact is, that apart from us few experts, nobody cares what format it is, as long as it works, and has the best quality for its size. Look at what movies are used on BitTorrent nowadays. It’s mostly H.264, since the quality is simply superior. And XviD, since that’s what most pre-bluray standalone players can play.
Even though I’m a supporter of open formats, I support H.246 right now. Because there are two groups of sources I have: 1. Commercial video streams (YouTube, Daily Show, South Park, etc), who can handle the legal rights, and usually have a license anyway to distribute physical media etc. 2. P2P-shared movies, that don’t care for laws anyway. (Bonus question: Guess how I would release my work? ^^)
But: Offer me something that has all features of H.246, plus only one single tiny superior property, and I’ll be the strongest supporter of that format, that you will be able to find. Until then, it’s no war. Because one side has no teeth at all. (Sadly.)
Nope. I’m not one of those “singularity” idiots. I know that the problems that that approaching “singularity” causes, will themselves slow things down in such a way, that “singularity” itself can never be reached. it will simply balance out.
So it’s an S curve. Like with every resource that runs out. The same thing will happen with oil. We will never run out of it. It will just become too expensive to use up. The last drop will be filled in a small sphere of glass, and worn around the neck of the riches woman of the planet, as a precious jewel.
Because as far as I know, Google Docs is not only closed-source and proprietary. It’s one step worse: It’s not even controlled by you, as it’s on another computer.
No, it being a netbook is not making it OK, that it is only accessible when you have reception. “Netbook” is just a (marketing) name. It’s still just a small computer. It still has to be able to perform normal things without an Internet connection.
This, to me, is one step worse, than replacing OOo by MS Office. At least with MS Office, your private data won’t be sold of to anyone, and you can still cut the connection. Were they drunk? Was someone payed?
To me, this takes Ubuntu NE out of the equation for all possible uses.
Really? Explaining what “IP address” means? Are Cnet reader really that stupid? Every child knows what that is. Hell, even my grandma knows it from crossword puzzles.
I call “intentional dumbing down of humanity” on that one.
I don’t think US equipment is much better. Microsoft *cough*backdoor*cough* Windows, for example.
Then again who can you really trust anyway? There’s no point in listing who you don’t trust. That’s like making a firewall solely based on a blacklist. It makes no sense as it will never work. It makes more sense, and is more efficient, to list only those you trust.
Frankly, in IT security, I don’t know any single human, I would trust to be competent enough, and to be on my side, at the same time.
Still needs speech (partially possible), a bar of moving lights (existing), turbo boost (as the lowriders for assistance) and super pursuit mode (might be a biit hard, to accelerate time itself to twice the normal speed.;)
Wait for a Chinese-Russian joint-venture, producing KARR! ^^ And David Hasselhoff with a goatee!
Just get DeBeers to sell people coal as if it were something valuable. They did it with the now nearly worthless diamonds. So coal should not be hard for them.
You are forgetting the exponentinal acceleration of progress.
So the duration between 1925 and when they were first used, is not linearly comparable to the duration between now and when those graphene ones will be first used.
Uuum, I don’t know in what kind of crazy world you think you live in... but here in reality, Slashdot, Wikipedia editors, politicians, companies, and in fact nations and the world... are not uniform bodies with uniform opinions. ^^
There are a lot of crazy people here. Just look at the raging Apple fanboi cancer, modding down everything in its sight that does not call Apple products a gift from heaven.:/
Which brings up the question, if the test will include famous lolcat quotes, knowledge about goatse/tubgirl/etc, memes, 4chan, YouTube “stars”, etc... and most importantly... will be 99.9% questions about porn topics. ^^
Ok, I did not expect some control freak lunatic like Craig Mundie to come up with something realistic...
Then again, nobody cares about him anyway. Ever. Especially from now on.
Sorry, but this is a particle with a spin of 1/2. You have to turn it around 360 degrees, until it’s on its real opposite side (head). 180 degrees is still bad. Just in another direction.;)
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You left out the detail, that one could still “pre-measure”/prepare a certain amount of entangled particles (with light-speed communication), and then later slowly use them up for “instantaneous“ communication.
...that one can teleport matter?
(Perhaps “serialized” into energy first, and put back together later.)
Now all we need is a way to remote-materialize things without first having to fly a machine all the millions of light years to that other planet. :/
the Free Software Guidelines used by Debian (and hence Ubuntu)
Seeing how Ubuntu now apparently chose, to replace OpenOffice by a not only proprietary and closed-source, but also remotely-controlled office software, I say that argument is extremely moot.
Pff. I have a cluestick for you:
Opera? Mozilla? Listen closely:
LINK. TO. FFMPEG. IF. AVAILABLE!!
There. problem solved.
ffmpeg (or ffdshow) already plays h.246.
Just linking to it does not integrate it into anything. Not the installation package, and not the binaries.
You can even just put a link to it in the “video not playable” frame in the site.
Or define a dependency for it in Linux package managers.
Easy peasy.
I hope Firefox offers a generic video playback interface, so that someone can just hack ffmpeg in there. :/
While the Mozilla still will bitch and live in fantasy world, 10 years later, condeming that “evil“ version that now everybody out there will use.
(Don’t get me wrong. I am on the “software patents should be illegal, and we should all use open codecs“ side. [With the limitation, that the open one should actually be superior.])
Seriously... Vorbis has not even taken over MP3, despite it being far superior.
And you expect Theora to beat H.246??
The fact is, that apart from us few experts, nobody cares what format it is, as long as it works, and has the best quality for its size.
Look at what movies are used on BitTorrent nowadays. It’s mostly H.264, since the quality is simply superior. And XviD, since that’s what most pre-bluray standalone players can play.
Even though I’m a supporter of open formats, I support H.246 right now. Because there are two groups of sources I have:
1. Commercial video streams (YouTube, Daily Show, South Park, etc), who can handle the legal rights, and usually have a license anyway to distribute physical media etc.
2. P2P-shared movies, that don’t care for laws anyway.
(Bonus question: Guess how I would release my work? ^^)
But: Offer me something that has all features of H.246, plus only one single tiny superior property, and I’ll be the strongest supporter of that format, that you will be able to find.
Until then, it’s no war. Because one side has no teeth at all. (Sadly.)
Nope. I’m not one of those “singularity” idiots. I know that the problems that that approaching “singularity” causes, will themselves slow things down in such a way, that “singularity” itself can never be reached.
it will simply balance out.
So it’s an S curve. Like with every resource that runs out.
The same thing will happen with oil. We will never run out of it. It will just become too expensive to use up. The last drop will be filled in a small sphere of glass, and worn around the neck of the riches woman of the planet, as a precious jewel.
Because as far as I know, Google Docs is not only closed-source and proprietary. It’s one step worse: It’s not even controlled by you, as it’s on another computer.
No, it being a netbook is not making it OK, that it is only accessible when you have reception. “Netbook” is just a (marketing) name. It’s still just a small computer. It still has to be able to perform normal things without an Internet connection.
This, to me, is one step worse, than replacing OOo by MS Office. At least with MS Office, your private data won’t be sold of to anyone, and you can still cut the connection.
Were they drunk? Was someone payed?
To me, this takes Ubuntu NE out of the equation for all possible uses.
root@livecd ~ # emerge world
the Internet protocol (IP) address
Really? Explaining what “IP address” means? Are Cnet reader really that stupid?
Every child knows what that is. Hell, even my grandma knows it from crossword puzzles.
I call “intentional dumbing down of humanity” on that one.
Stop it with that old “junk DNA” hat!
That DNA is long proven not to be junk! Your information is deprecated.
No, those who parrot it anyway, over and over again, are not right.
I’m synthetic. But I’m not without feelings.
Bishop
I don’t think US equipment is much better.
Microsoft *cough*backdoor*cough* Windows, for example.
Then again who can you really trust anyway?
There’s no point in listing who you don’t trust. That’s like making a firewall solely based on a blacklist. It makes no sense as it will never work.
It makes more sense, and is more efficient, to list only those you trust.
Frankly, in IT security, I don’t know any single human, I would trust to be competent enough, and to be on my side, at the same time.
But carbon fiber breaks without showing any deformations before it happens. ;)
So when such a clock would be off, it would be off by millions of years.
The positioning thing should be solvable by the satellites pointing lasers at each other. Or something comparable.
The rest is math, and then earth’s and your relative position to that grid is the only inexact factor.
Still needs speech (partially possible), a bar of moving lights (existing), turbo boost (as the lowriders for assistance) and super pursuit mode (might be a biit hard, to accelerate time itself to twice the normal speed. ;)
Wait for a Chinese-Russian joint-venture, producing KARR! ^^
And David Hasselhoff with a goatee!
So you mean, “algorithms” becomes the new “gene”, as in “genetically modified”, meaning “It can’t possibly also have good applications.”?
Let’s see them become Amish then. ;) ;)
*must... wait...until... then... to tell them that our own bodies are basically based genetic algorithms*
Just get DeBeers to sell people coal as if it were something valuable.
They did it with the now nearly worthless diamonds. So coal should not be hard for them.
You are forgetting the exponentinal acceleration of progress.
So the duration between 1925 and when they were first used, is not linearly comparable to the duration between now and when those graphene ones will be first used.
Including his mom? ;))
This is the best comment on the whole “article”.
Uuum, I don’t know in what kind of crazy world you think you live in... but here in reality, Slashdot, Wikipedia editors, politicians, companies, and in fact nations and the world... are not uniform bodies with uniform opinions. ^^
There are a lot of crazy people here. Just look at the raging Apple fanboi cancer, modding down everything in its sight that does not call Apple products a gift from heaven. :/
Since when are laws meant to stop the bad guys?
There. Fixed that for ya.
Which brings up the question, if the test will include famous lolcat quotes, knowledge about goatse/tubgirl/etc, memes, 4chan, YouTube “stars”, etc... and most importantly... will be 99.9% questions about porn topics. ^^
Ok, I did not expect some control freak lunatic like Craig Mundie to come up with something realistic...
Then again, nobody cares about him anyway. Ever. Especially from now on.
Damn. At first glance, I read that as
Technically an Indian, but reborn and raised in Vancouver.
.
Care for a game of confuse-a-racist? ;))
Sorry, but this is a particle with a spin of 1/2. You have to turn it around 360 degrees, until it’s on its real opposite side (head). ;)
180 degrees is still bad. Just in another direction.
You mean everybody who survived...