how about the short 3 foot walls that surround the the baseball field behind homeplaye? Notice those advertisements, well many of them are computer generated onto that little wall. Same with some NBA courts, i do believe.
If Apple has a worm sent around by email(or whatever) you know what would happen... you would get it (after the user who sent it to you click the OK box before the worm auto sended to your mail list), it would ask you to open the porgram and if you want to execute the code, if you choose yes, then it would do whatever damage it could do... that is after you clicked OK and let it do it.
Just because MS is a bigger target, doesn't mean they don't shoot themselves in the foot. Running arbitrary code automaticly without a prompt, along with sending bulk email without getting permission are BUGS, not features.
seems like an archive or.torrent files would be the best answer. i would think the 100% of things like.isos linux distrobutions, large movies, etc would move to using bittorrent. Sadly, bittorrent is only most useful when it gets slashdotted, not during the lul when noone or 1 person downloads a file, but being able to coap with the/. effect would be a good idea.
well, ya, that is a nice side bonus. But things like instant counting, rather than having hand counted cards(remember 'chads'?) along with better security(in theory) seem like just as good of reasons to persue this as the accessability is.
since OpenOffice.org is moving to an xml document system, and there was once talk about having an open source document file system, so that different office-type apps can share them easily(like rich text docs, but richer;) Couldn't OpenOffice and Gnumeric have a file that they both understand and kinda of lower the importance of haveing MS office vs OpenOffice vs Gnumeric?
Ofcourse OpenOffice has more publicity, but projects like OOo and gnumeric and abiword fighting over such a small userbase seems silly, when they should be working together to take over the MS Office userbase.
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"The Cyc product family is powered by an immense multi-contextual knowledge base and an efficient inference engine. The knowledge base is built upon a core of over 1,000,000 hand-entered assertions (or "rules") designed to capture a large portion of what we normally consider consensus knowledge about the world. For example, Cyc knows that trees are usually outdoors, that once people die they stop buying things, and that glasses of liquid should be carried rightside-up."
I am a huge fan of AI, and geeky robot toys, but it seems like this Cyc is flawed. A system should be built to be able to make assumptions on its own, and alter those assumptions/rules through their experience... Don't just tell the bot that holding a glass upside down will make it's contents spill on the floor, rather, let the bot spill the glass(maybe 100 times if needed) and have it slowly learn that 'hey, this water keeps falling out when i do this, maybe i shouldn't.'
Ofcourse, that may be a little over our collective heads in the AI design world.
and the interview says that those 'unlicensed' copies weren't in use, rather, when they computers were moved from department A(with software specific to dept. A) to department B(who can make use of the older computer, and has their own set of software) the company didn't wipe the harddrive, so dept. A software was installed(but never used) in a computer in dept. B...
They(MS/BSA) knew, as said in the interview, that the software wasn't being used, but fined them anyway... how lame.
It seems odd that we can spend 400 billion dollars on defense in a year, but not have NASA be doing 10x the work they do now....
Why can't we spend 20 billion less (what is that, a couple stealth bombers?) and get: *NASA sending a probe a month to mars, or the OTHER 7 PLANETS *build a better ISS. *colonize the moon *colonize mars *put a big honkin telescope(or an array of them!) on the moon/mars. *mine moon/mars for resources(water, building materials?, ore???) *have a launchpad on the moon, since it would be less fuel intensive to launch from there *build a space shuttle that kicks ass. that can easily takeoff/land/look cool without needs major repairs after every mission. *or...
those might not seem practical, but why not? the advancement of science shouldn't be determined by profitability of a given project.
then don't buy the games when they are first released, wait a few months and get them at a cheaper price... if you want the latest and greatest, you have to pay for it.
I am hoping voice recognition will be close to common place usability, right now it is a ways off. AI is atleast more of a possibility, with some cool projects hitting the streets.
heads up/glasses display will be more common(still mostly a geek toy, but a cool toy!), preferrably the system overlays what you see with information about what you are seeing... labeling the building you are looking at with a digital readout of its address, company, office hours, contact info... the same with people, having common place(And usable!) face/person recognition that is overlaid in your glasses. Ofcourse these glasses would have a nightvision feature to that feeds the printout right onto the lense, along with (maybe?) a heat vision filter as well.
I would also like to see a useful, not annoying, secretary AI system... one that would be able to do an auto-google for things you asked, along with the basic PIM functions we use palms for now... with decent voice recognition, synthesis. The AI doesn't haev to be phuman-like, only able to figure out what you mean, and answer you.
And one more.. having a directions/mapping system built into cars, the system must both work, AND not suck.:)
you are right, now, if only there was a way for someone to save all those books, and literature in a digital format, so that even when books become a thing of the past, their content won't....
Project Gutenberg
And in this future of drm and loss of privacy, if only there was a system to allow the distrobution of content anonymously. So that you may state your opinion to the world(1st ammendment right), and not be punished for it.
Freenet
purely by definition that 'war' will be anything but cold. The cold war was called 'cold' because the two sides were so powerful, that if one attacked, the attack and counter-attack would wipeout the civilizations of the 2 waring nations, possibly, all life. Mutual annihilation made the war Cold.
The war with Digital Rights and hackers will be hot. It will be openly aggresive, and both sides with viciously attack the other. Wether that be by dragging into court every possible person with whom the 'hacker' label can be assigned, or by defacing and bringing down any internet based aspects of the corporations in question.
That war you are talking about, will be anything but cold.
the 10gig ipod is bootable on your mac, has a windows client, though this may be limited to music, and i am pretty sure there is a linux project to get it functional.
well, 1. the gba is actaully OUTSELLING the ps2 in japan, with the gc and the original gba selling very very well. in japan, those 3 units are 3 out of the top 4 gaming systems being sold, with the ps2 at number 2, and xbox at 5...
and no, nintendo doesn't NEED to have the number 1 spot, but they are a corporation, and they are in it for money, and the higher you are on the food chain, the more money you get...
SCO has recorded pretty huge losses for the past 5 straight years or so... breaking even would be a HUGE improvement, and they aren't on track to even do that.
slashdot.org expects to get slashdotted (the name gives it all away). and so before they do(since the beginning, i suppose) they have mulitple servers that are load balanced, along with a pretty good sized pipe for bandwidth.
Slashdot effects happen to hobby sites, or sites that rarely get a more than a few dozen/hundred hits, so there is no need for those site to have redundency or large bandwidth. Basicly, we at slashdot try to blindside every smalltime developer and hobbiest who have a good idea by massively DDOSing there site with our userbase...
You completely undermined one of the fundemental goals of os X.
Darwin, the userspace anyway, is LARGELY based on FreeBSD. The means that with your sexy gui, you get a neat kernel that is very freebsd like, so you, the freebsd-loving son, have a minimal ammount of learning(if any?) to take care of that.
Secondly, a mac is infact a mac. which means a powerful gui. Things are easy to setup with the mac gui, things like servers, apache, etc. so that means your dad can fiddle around without having to learn a new system(the command-line).
os X is all about bring the power of a unix command-line together with the ease of the mac gui, take advantage of that.
ya, and the cheap labor helps too... Do you think China would be as popular a place to manufacture things in if it had salary laws similar to the US? Granted, there are many things that give China a strong hold in the 'made in X' market, but not having to pay each worker the equvilent of 6-7 US Dollars an hour has to be a huge factor.
Slashdot Mirror
how about the short 3 foot walls that surround the the baseball field behind homeplaye? Notice those advertisements, well many of them are computer generated onto that little wall. Same with some NBA courts, i do believe.
nope. i call BS.
If Apple has a worm sent around by email(or whatever) you know what would happen... you would get it (after the user who sent it to you click the OK box before the worm auto sended to your mail list), it would ask you to open the porgram and if you want to execute the code, if you choose yes, then it would do whatever damage it could do... that is after you clicked OK and let it do it.
Just because MS is a bigger target, doesn't mean they don't shoot themselves in the foot. Running arbitrary code automaticly without a prompt, along with sending bulk email without getting permission are BUGS, not features.
seems like an archive or .torrent files would be the best answer. i would think the 100% of things like .isos linux distrobutions, large movies, etc would move to using bittorrent. Sadly, bittorrent is only most useful when it gets slashdotted, not during the lul when noone or 1 person downloads a file, but being able to coap with the /. effect would be a good idea.
well, ya, that is a nice side bonus. But things like instant counting, rather than having hand counted cards(remember 'chads'?) along with better security(in theory) seem like just as good of reasons to persue this as the accessability is.
since OpenOffice.org is moving to an xml document system, and there was once talk about having an open source document file system, so that different office-type apps can share them easily(like rich text docs, but richer ;) Couldn't OpenOffice and Gnumeric have a file that they both understand and kinda of lower the importance of haveing MS office vs OpenOffice vs Gnumeric?
Ofcourse OpenOffice has more publicity, but projects like OOo and gnumeric and abiword fighting over such a small userbase seems silly, when they should be working together to take over the MS Office userbase.
I am a huge fan of AI, and geeky robot toys, but it seems like this Cyc is flawed. A system should be built to be able to make assumptions on its own, and alter those assumptions/rules through their experience... Don't just tell the bot that holding a glass upside down will make it's contents spill on the floor, rather, let the bot spill the glass(maybe 100 times if needed) and have it slowly learn that 'hey, this water keeps falling out when i do this, maybe i shouldn't.'
Ofcourse, that may be a little over our collective heads in the AI design world.
and the interview says that those 'unlicensed' copies weren't in use, rather, when they computers were moved from department A(with software specific to dept. A) to department B(who can make use of the older computer, and has their own set of software) the company didn't wipe the harddrive, so dept. A software was installed(but never used) in a computer in dept. B...
They(MS/BSA) knew, as said in the interview, that the software wasn't being used, but fined them anyway... how lame.
It seems odd that we can spend 400 billion dollars on defense in a year, but not have NASA be doing 10x the work they do now....
Why can't we spend 20 billion less (what is that, a couple stealth bombers?) and get:
*NASA sending a probe a month to mars, or the OTHER 7 PLANETS
*build a better ISS.
*colonize the moon
*colonize mars
*put a big honkin telescope(or an array of them!) on the moon/mars.
*mine moon/mars for resources(water, building materials?, ore???)
*have a launchpad on the moon, since it would be less fuel intensive to launch from there
*build a space shuttle that kicks ass. that can easily takeoff/land/look cool without needs major repairs after every mission.
*or...
those might not seem practical, but why not? the advancement of science shouldn't be determined by profitability of a given project.
then, possibly the worst thing to linux could happen: forks.
even with distrobutions, most everyone sticks with linus' kernel more or less. but if heavy forks were developed, all hell could break lose.
then don't buy the games when they are first released, wait a few months and get them at a cheaper price... if you want the latest and greatest, you have to pay for it.
na, only 2,000 for the g5, but no gaurentees SCO won't sue you whatever the flavor of the week is.
install linux for her, ofcourse...
but she didn't even think to ask if there was an equvilent program for windows?
how about just develop better auto recongintion, so that when installing, it won't need to ask you in the first place?
I am hoping voice recognition will be close to common place usability, right now it is a ways off. AI is atleast more of a possibility, with some cool projects hitting the streets.
:)
heads up/glasses display will be more common(still mostly a geek toy, but a cool toy!), preferrably the system overlays what you see with information about what you are seeing... labeling the building you are looking at with a digital readout of its address, company, office hours, contact info... the same with people, having common place(And usable!) face/person recognition that is overlaid in your glasses. Ofcourse these glasses would have a nightvision feature to that feeds the printout right onto the lense, along with (maybe?) a heat vision filter as well.
I would also like to see a useful, not annoying, secretary AI system... one that would be able to do an auto-google for things you asked, along with the basic PIM functions we use palms for now... with decent voice recognition, synthesis. The AI doesn't haev to be phuman-like, only able to figure out what you mean, and answer you.
And one more.. having a directions/mapping system built into cars, the system must both work, AND not suck.
Project Gutenberg
And in this future of drm and loss of privacy, if only there was a system to allow the distrobution of content anonymously. So that you may state your opinion to the world(1st ammendment right), and not be punished for it.
Freenet
purely by definition that 'war' will be anything but cold. The cold war was called 'cold' because the two sides were so powerful, that if one attacked, the attack and counter-attack would wipeout the civilizations of the 2 waring nations, possibly, all life. Mutual annihilation made the war Cold. The war with Digital Rights and hackers will be hot. It will be openly aggresive, and both sides with viciously attack the other. Wether that be by dragging into court every possible person with whom the 'hacker' label can be assigned, or by defacing and bringing down any internet based aspects of the corporations in question. That war you are talking about, will be anything but cold.
the 10gig ipod is bootable on your mac, has a windows client, though this may be limited to music, and i am pretty sure there is a linux project to get it functional.
Someone needs to convince those Japanese scientists to run this on their super computer.
well, 1. the gba is actaully OUTSELLING the ps2 in japan, with the gc and the original gba selling very very well. in japan, those 3 units are 3 out of the top 4 gaming systems being sold, with the ps2 at number 2, and xbox at 5...
and no, nintendo doesn't NEED to have the number 1 spot, but they are a corporation, and they are in it for money, and the higher you are on the food chain, the more money you get...
SCO has recorded pretty huge losses for the past 5 straight years or so... breaking even would be a HUGE improvement, and they aren't on track to even do that.
we should just hire a bunch of farmers to camp out on our borders with shotguns, with instructions to blow the hell out of any suspicious RC planes.
slashdot.org expects to get slashdotted (the name gives it all away). and so before they do(since the beginning, i suppose) they have mulitple servers that are load balanced, along with a pretty good sized pipe for bandwidth.
Slashdot effects happen to hobby sites, or sites that rarely get a more than a few dozen/hundred hits, so there is no need for those site to have redundency or large bandwidth. Basicly, we at slashdot try to blindside every smalltime developer and hobbiest who have a good idea by massively DDOSing there site with our userbase...
It doesn't pay the bills, but it is fun.
not to troll, but honestly, is there a more prefered way of pronouncing it....
I always say LIE-nucks, because it was named after 'linus' and the only times i have heard that named they have been pronounce 'lie-nus'.
However, everyone else i talked to pronounce it lin-ux, for whatever reason.
Not to bring up a flame war, but, how do i say 'linux'?
You completely undermined one of the fundemental goals of os X.
Darwin, the userspace anyway, is LARGELY based on FreeBSD. The means that with your sexy gui, you get a neat kernel that is very freebsd like, so you, the freebsd-loving son, have a minimal ammount of learning(if any?) to take care of that.
Secondly, a mac is infact a mac. which means a powerful gui. Things are easy to setup with the mac gui, things like servers, apache, etc. so that means your dad can fiddle around without having to learn a new system(the command-line).
os X is all about bring the power of a unix command-line together with the ease of the mac gui, take advantage of that.
ya, and the cheap labor helps too...
Do you think China would be as popular a place to manufacture things in if it had salary laws similar to the US?
Granted, there are many things that give
China a strong hold in the 'made in X' market, but not having to pay each worker the equvilent of 6-7 US Dollars an hour has to be a huge factor.