If it means saving a buck for some company, you bet they'd lobby for it really hard regardless if it screws the rest of the world over. And if that company's got $$ and congresscritters, they'd probabbly get their way too.
Venice is on the verge of becomming more of a water town than it already is - granted, the fact that the city is sinking doesn't help much - but damn, don't accelerate the problem.
Most cities are near some major bodies of water, which usually means that having the ocean rise a couple meters means deep sh*t for a lot of peope and a lot of financial centers. Before anybody goes "but but" - Even if the city does not drown, you will have serious sewage problems, kay?
Not to mention that melting tons of ice means releasing million year-old viruses and other goodness that we probabbly don't have defences for anymore / or never even had in the beginning.
sigh... this kind of "oh yeah global warming have these benefits" crap should not even be entertained and whoever came up with it really need a good spanking.
which means that if we bell curve it, there are some highly paid individuals being cut. probabbly software engineers, maybe some management.
I have heard somewhere that when a company start cutting engineers, then the company REALLY is not doing so well. I wish them luck regardless, though. They make some nice software.
but then the 12M may not be all from job cuts, though - so I am just blabbing, actually.
At any given point in history, probably a large portion of the human population is Thoroughly Pissed Off.
I am sorry, but prove it. I have sufficient faith in the human race as a whole to believe that for the most, peaceful living points toward the same goals. For the most part, if the same people are allowed and not discriminated against in practicing their own religions, they don't give much of a damn about other people and their religions either (until, at least, the other religion goes about opressing (crusade anyone?))
You thoroughly underestimate people's ability to just "deal with it." I mean, even when you look back in the days of slavery, many african americans was pretty much like "oh well, kinda sucks, but such is life." And many of them didn't rebel unless they were treated real bad, etc.
Of course, there will probabbly always be pissed-off people, and extremist groups. Bell curve will always have that 1% tip. However, if we can increase education, and generally allow people to communicate with eachother (instead of in a "herd"), eventually there will be understanding and tolerance for eachother. Eventually we can tighten the said curve until the tips are marginal in number AND in presence.
Not trolling, but the parent post touches on an interesting point.
You can use fuzzy logic to govern group-battles. By the same line of reasoning, it shoud be similarly probable to use the said engines to govern "actors" and "actresses" in pornographic productions.
I suppose it will just take some time for the price of this sort of computing to come down to the porn-budget, or for people to make porn with such high budget that they will be able to do this.
I would not be surprised if the exact same kind of setup / method is used to generate CGI pornography several years down the line.
Have to wonder, though - will the/. community cheer the said production similarly?;^)
FYI, though - the cylinder is still used every once in a while (once per 60 revs or some such) even in "gas save mode" to make sure the cylinder keeps warm. Pretty important.
Car and Driver had an article about this within the last year. I am sure you can find it online somewhere.
Maybe he is onto something design-wise - but I don't think it's "interesting."
What I mean is (drawing on real-life examples) that while bacteria and viruses (yes it's spelled viruses, see here), I don't really think that's what we are looking for when doing battlebots.
for the longest time, rambots (bots that basically has a lot of power and a wedge shape) would win consistently. This guy's little contraption is not much different. the bot still depends on a very rudamentary skill to attack / defend. - the only difference is that he usese Mathematica for modelling vs. say, ProE (which I think would be better anyhow).
real brain over brawn would be, let's say, an (almost) universal manipulator, and enough sensors, reactory circuits, and capability that the robot will make reasonable decisions to duck, block, parry, jump, or just (calculatedly) take an attack, and then be able to exploit the other robot's weakness at the same time.
Yeah... I have been thinking actually if it really was possible to do something like that for fun (i mean, slashcode IS opensource).
I mean, of course you will need to kill anon. access to mod points, and then make sure people with rediculously low karma do not get mod access - but in the end, since you can mod both UP and DOWN, i think it will eventually work out okay even though more people got more (as in, a LOT more) mod points.
It might even bring out more good stuff, and discourage more crap.
Then again, though - maybe that people who clicked through to the test site are actually adament/.ers who does not represent the real/. population faithfully.
2) somebody posted something about 200 monkeys. I did not cache it - but it was funny and got 118 moderations! (probabbly more, actually) That is some serious messed-up-ness there. (somebody re-post the monkey story please)
3) Did I mention the 30 mod points? I did already? you sure you understood the consequences of *everyone* having *30* mod points? at the *same time*?
4) there are a lot more...
but yeah. really. somebody. need. to. re-post. the. monkey. story.
third is good enough for me. considering, anyway, that it came from Japan and all that. (no joke)
on the other hand, I can just SEE Taco add a little thing to the FAQ like "getting first/second/third/nth post on exodus west does not equate to your dick/cup size, value as a human bean, blah blah"...
I think I speak for everyone (or, a lot of people) when I say that brak.slashdot.org was really neat (in a "we are all tripping on acid from the 30 mod points and silly stories / posts") kind of way...
How about putting up an "alternative universe slashdot" for us to play on?
(everyone who was "stress testing" brak please say "aye")
If my kids are going to be anything like the kids that I hope they will be, they will:
1) Jam the Robot's wireless frequency 2) Hack the firmware and play a loop-back video of them doing homework. 3) Rewrite AI in Aibo and the robot to deathmatch mode and take bets. etc
but realistically, kids will probabbly
1) knock robot down with chair, accidentally or otherwise 2) sit on it, accidentally or otherwise 3) spray ketchup onto it, accidentally or otherwise 4) go swimming with it, accidentally or otherwise you get the idea
either way - to make a robot "kids proof" is a tall order - i am not sure if this flimsy looking thing fills it.
you download the applications from the net (for the phones) - all of them (let me say that again: ALL OF THEM are internet / browsing capable). and hopefully 3G will change the "monopoly" situation with phones - much more than micro-java ever will.
Man... to do real work or reply on almost pointless debate. so - this will be last one I will write.
you seem to think i am attacking your choice personally or something... i don't give a rat's ass what you like, don't like, etc. but when you go off and talk about things without any real info backing you up, that's where I come in.
if you would read your original (about three / four levels up), your original argument was: can you download stuff to your phone? no! (and you were wrong) and then you said: It's only the phone company's software! (and you were wrong again)... research before you speak, man (or woman - in case you are one)
anyway - that's all i wanted to do - correct the misinformed. don't even have opinion on this actually - i don't use either phone or PDA; post-it-notes and notepad is good enough for my simple life. But I do notice trends, and it appears to me that a lot of people believes that the phone is enough and PDA unnecessary. I am concuring the original poster that his observation in this regard, as far as i can see, was correct.
but anyway. enough productivity lost already. - but just one last thing - a lot (or, i have heard here and there) people are developing phone stuff in java-micro. so maybe they will become open... i don't know. but at the mean time - in japan that might not happen, since almost every company is, or is trying to be, monopolic. that's a different discussion, though.
your original premise of the disapproval for phone-based (instead of a full-fledge PDA) is that 1) there are no downloadable applications, and 2) it is difficult to input 3) it is costly
I am telling you that: 1) yes you can download applications - and FYI, they are not phone-company only - there are definitely 3rd party apps out there, for example, Mapfan (kinda like mapquest) has a mapping app for your phone; 2) the input does not seem to be a problem for many (in fact, most people - and I bet you never tried one yourself before making the claim it's "too hard for you"); and 3) the price difference - if there are any - is perfectly justifiable. 4) there are other benefits in weight, size, and convenience.
besides, just because you will stick with a palm is ancedotal evidence at best. You don't represent the market, I agree with the parent of your original post, that there is no good reason (or, at least does not seem to be a market for it) in Japan, as cellphones seem to do everything that everybody needs to do.
'tis all. (and your original post was flame-baitish. FYI)
After over a year in the making, Freenet 0.5 stable has been released. This new version is far superior to previous versions of Freenet
Or what? inferior to previous versions? I suppose I will believe that... but you never know these days, I guess...
the same headline can read, for example: After over two years in the hyping, Windows 2004, codenamed Longhorn, has been released. This new version is much more broken than previous versions of Windows, and will allow you to exploit even more security holes than before. (subsitute "cause more blue screens of death", or "even more restricted EULA", etc to your heart's content.)
actually you CAN download new applications onto your cellphone.
here is a website with some info on Docomo, by NTT. (the only cellphone provider with english info, AFAIK
The 504i series does what's called "iAppli" (nevermind the silly names for a sec) - but they do let you download software.
And hopefully you can see that the input / email capabilities is no worse than any Zaurus / palm / Sony keypad (it's cool looking at young people franticly thumb in emails on the train).
and the camera actually do better than you think. Imagine web-cam quality color pictures. be sarcastic all you want, but it's pretty neat feature (albeit one I will never use - my ugly mug will probabbly shock the phone system into some fratic emergency mode), and many people uses it.
the only thing you are halfly on-the-mark is the cost... but then, when you think about it, a cell phone that costs 180 bux or so (cheaper yet if you buy older model / longer contract) - that weights like 3 oz. compared to your palm for about 500... and if you are conservative on yapping, the monthly fee is no worse than US plans i have seen. - and considering that you recieve calls for free, it might be cheaper.
and the screen area is not even that much different : cellphones here have resolution as high as 176x216... it's tiny (like everything else) - but again, for the money and convenience and all that... not to quote anybody, but fsck palm... fsck palm in the ear.
(This is the first time I saw her picture - even the "try-to-be-flattering" ones, and I am still trying to overcome the shock)
It's (I guess that's supposed to be "she's," eh?) like a cross between that octopus woman (from Disney's Little Mermaid (Ursula or something?) and a mutated Phillsbury Doe-boy.
yuck. *shudders*. If I ever wanted to delay ejaculation during intercourse - I'm prepared. In fact, I think I might be mentally scarred.
no, the simple solution is to fly your own ass around. get a pilot's license and rent a plane when you go travelling. most planes have auto-pilot anyway -- all you really have to do is to call in the now-and-then radio-handoff (crossing FAA districts - forgot what they were called) and of course takeoff and landing.
you probabbly can't do this for REALLY long-distance / international, though; personal crafts usually does not have the range for cross ocean flights. but you can still hop across the US if you are determined: just have to stop and refuel once in a while. usually props go at ~200mph to 250 if you got a fast one -- so it is gonna take longer, but sure beats the train. have you seen the amtrak stations lately?
What the heck huh, I goto a "less glorified school" compared to MIT, and study / do research in semiconductor electron migrations, efficiency in cryptograhy systems, implementation of computer based voice and image recognition.
MIT kids do research in TETRIS.
wtf? tell me again why MIT is one of the best engineering school again?
Somebody correct me if I am getting this whole thing wrong, but AFAIK, when you go down to molecular levels, due to the uncertainty principle, sometimes the dominos will not fall as you predict, becauese either 1) they were already fallen you just didn't know, or 2) statistically speaking there is a much higher chance for "spontaneous reverse-thermodynamics" on a molecular level.
what i mean is that while macroscopically speaking, the universe is headed toward higher entropy, molecularly speaking, it's not necessarily so; The example commonly given is that you can drop and shatter an egg, or an shattered egg can come together, absorbing the sound waves etc and rise back into your hand. the latter will not (or, has completely ignorable probability of) happening, but as you and the egg gets smaller, the chance of this ignorable probability becomes less so.
hence, a molecular computer has the probability of operating "faultily" because of the laws of thermodynamics is not followed 100%. this is currently overcome by the thousands / millions of electrons we send over gates, probabilistically speaking they still behave on a macro level, but a molecular computer has no such luxury.
i mean, even there was only a minute chance that one molecule will go backwards as what we intended -- counting up the billions of calculations per second we expect from each chip, and the number of chips out there, and then the number of seconds / days / monthes / years they are expected to operate, the chance of error is almost inevitable. some serious redundancy / self-healing hardware / software might need to be invented.
i am just blabbing, though. like i said: i am no molecular physicist, so if there are some here, please comment.
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If it means saving a buck for some company, you bet they'd lobby for it really hard regardless if it screws the rest of the world over. And if that company's got $$ and congresscritters, they'd probabbly get their way too.
Venice is on the verge of becomming more of a water town than it already is - granted, the fact that the city is sinking doesn't help much - but damn, don't accelerate the problem.
Most cities are near some major bodies of water, which usually means that having the ocean rise a couple meters means deep sh*t for a lot of peope and a lot of financial centers. Before anybody goes "but but" - Even if the city does not drown, you will have serious sewage problems, kay?
Not to mention that melting tons of ice means releasing million year-old viruses and other goodness that we probabbly don't have defences for anymore / or never even had in the beginning.
sigh... this kind of "oh yeah global warming have these benefits" crap should not even be entertained and whoever came up with it really need a good spanking.
average out to be 54k / person.
which means that if we bell curve it, there are some highly paid individuals being cut. probabbly software engineers, maybe some management.
I have heard somewhere that when a company start cutting engineers, then the company REALLY is not doing so well. I wish them luck regardless, though. They make some nice software.
but then the 12M may not be all from job cuts, though - so I am just blabbing, actually.
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I am sorry, but prove it. I have sufficient faith in the human race as a whole to believe that for the most, peaceful living points toward the same goals. For the most part, if the same people are allowed and not discriminated against in practicing their own religions, they don't give much of a damn about other people and their religions either (until, at least, the other religion goes about opressing (crusade anyone?))
You thoroughly underestimate people's ability to just "deal with it." I mean, even when you look back in the days of slavery, many african americans was pretty much like "oh well, kinda sucks, but such is life." And many of them didn't rebel unless they were treated real bad, etc.
Of course, there will probabbly always be pissed-off people, and extremist groups. Bell curve will always have that 1% tip. However, if we can increase education, and generally allow people to communicate with eachother (instead of in a "herd"), eventually there will be understanding and tolerance for eachother. Eventually we can tighten the said curve until the tips are marginal in number AND in presence.
I hope, that one day, it will be _Star Trek_.
Not trolling, but the parent post touches on an interesting point.
/. community cheer the said production similarly? ;^)
You can use fuzzy logic to govern group-battles. By the same line of reasoning, it shoud be similarly probable to use the said engines to govern "actors" and "actresses" in pornographic productions.
I suppose it will just take some time for the price of this sort of computing to come down to the porn-budget, or for people to make porn with such high budget that they will be able to do this.
I would not be surprised if the exact same kind of setup / method is used to generate CGI pornography several years down the line.
Have to wonder, though - will the
Yeah MB had this in one of their newer sedans.
FYI, though - the cylinder is still used every once in a while (once per 60 revs or some such) even in "gas save mode" to make sure the cylinder keeps warm. Pretty important.
Car and Driver had an article about this within the last year. I am sure you can find it online somewhere.
Wait, so it's possible (hopefully unlikely, but nontheless possible) that DoJ completely ignores her suggestions and let Microsoft get off EASIER?
wow gotta love this government... Judges cannot impost judgements =)
quick rundown: video-enabled cellphone / dictionary / evenything including the kitchen sink / etc, etc, etc...
too bad only in japan.
What I mean is (drawing on real-life examples) that while bacteria and viruses (yes it's spelled viruses, see here), I don't really think that's what we are looking for when doing battlebots.
for the longest time, rambots (bots that basically has a lot of power and a wedge shape) would win consistently. This guy's little contraption is not much different. the bot still depends on a very rudamentary skill to attack / defend. - the only difference is that he usese Mathematica for modelling vs. say, ProE (which I think would be better anyhow).
real brain over brawn would be, let's say, an (almost) universal manipulator, and enough sensors, reactory circuits, and capability that the robot will make reasonable decisions to duck, block, parry, jump, or just (calculatedly) take an attack, and then be able to exploit the other robot's weakness at the same time.
Yeah... I have been thinking actually if it really was possible to do something like that for fun (i mean, slashcode IS opensource).
/.ers who does not represent the real /. population faithfully.
I mean, of course you will need to kill anon. access to mod points, and then make sure people with rediculously low karma do not get mod access - but in the end, since you can mod both UP and DOWN, i think it will eventually work out okay even though more people got more (as in, a LOT more) mod points.
It might even bring out more good stuff, and discourage more crap.
Then again, though - maybe that people who clicked through to the test site are actually adament
I guess we will never know.
1) There was a story, in entirety, is as follows:
Is this working? fee, fo, fum...
2) somebody posted something about 200 monkeys. I did not cache it - but it was funny and got 118 moderations! (probabbly more, actually) That is some serious messed-up-ness there. (somebody re-post the monkey story please)
3) Did I mention the 30 mod points? I did already? you sure you understood the consequences of *everyone* having *30* mod points? at the *same time*?
4) there are a lot more...
but yeah. really. somebody. need. to. re-post. the. monkey. story.
ahh fscking A....
third is good enough for me. considering, anyway, that it came from Japan and all that. (no joke)
on the other hand, I can just SEE Taco add a little thing to the FAQ like "getting first/second/third/nth post on exodus west does not equate to your dick/cup size, value as a human bean, blah blah"...
heh.
all is good and fun.
I think I speak for everyone (or, a lot of people) when I say that brak.slashdot.org was really neat (in a "we are all tripping on acid from the 30 mod points and silly stories / posts") kind of way...
How about putting up an "alternative universe slashdot" for us to play on?
(everyone who was "stress testing" brak please say "aye")
mod me down if you want - this is great honor (modded)
hmm... what's your definition of adult cartoons?
would that be, say, along the lines of "cowboy bebop," or, say, along the lines of "La blue girls"?
you really got to ask these days, unfortunately.
If my kids are going to be anything like the kids that I hope they will be, they will:
1) Jam the Robot's wireless frequency
2) Hack the firmware and play a loop-back video of them doing homework.
3) Rewrite AI in Aibo and the robot to deathmatch mode and take bets.
etc
but realistically, kids will probabbly
1) knock robot down with chair, accidentally or otherwise
2) sit on it, accidentally or otherwise
3) spray ketchup onto it, accidentally or otherwise
4) go swimming with it, accidentally or otherwise
you get the idea
either way - to make a robot "kids proof" is a tall order - i am not sure if this flimsy looking thing fills it.
you download the applications from the net (for the phones) - all of them (let me say that again: ALL OF THEM are internet / browsing capable). and hopefully 3G will change the "monopoly" situation with phones - much more than micro-java ever will.
yeah i lied about not replying.
Man... to do real work or reply on almost pointless debate. so - this will be last one I will write.
you seem to think i am attacking your choice personally or something... i don't give a rat's ass what you like, don't like, etc. but when you go off and talk about things without any real info backing you up, that's where I come in.
if you would read your original (about three / four levels up), your original argument was: can you download stuff to your phone? no! (and you were wrong) and then you said: It's only the phone company's software! (and you were wrong again)... research before you speak, man (or woman - in case you are one)
anyway - that's all i wanted to do - correct the misinformed. don't even have opinion on this actually - i don't use either phone or PDA; post-it-notes and notepad is good enough for my simple life. But I do notice trends, and it appears to me that a lot of people believes that the phone is enough and PDA unnecessary. I am concuring the original poster that his observation in this regard, as far as i can see, was correct.
but anyway. enough productivity lost already. - but just one last thing - a lot (or, i have heard here and there) people are developing phone stuff in java-micro. so maybe they will become open... i don't know. but at the mean time - in japan that might not happen, since almost every company is, or is trying to be, monopolic. that's a different discussion, though.
I am arguing against your un-informed-ness.
your original premise of the disapproval for phone-based (instead of a full-fledge PDA) is that
1) there are no downloadable applications, and
2) it is difficult to input
3) it is costly
I am telling you that:
1) yes you can download applications - and FYI, they are not phone-company only - there are definitely 3rd party apps out there, for example, Mapfan (kinda like mapquest) has a mapping app for your phone;
2) the input does not seem to be a problem for many (in fact, most people - and I bet you never tried one yourself before making the claim it's "too hard for you"); and
3) the price difference - if there are any - is perfectly justifiable.
4) there are other benefits in weight, size, and convenience.
besides, just because you will stick with a palm is ancedotal evidence at best. You don't represent the market, I agree with the parent of your original post, that there is no good reason (or, at least does not seem to be a market for it) in Japan, as cellphones seem to do everything that everybody needs to do.
'tis all. (and your original post was flame-baitish. FYI)
Or what? inferior to previous versions? I suppose I will believe that... but you never know these days, I guess...
the same headline can read, for example: After over two years in the hyping, Windows 2004, codenamed Longhorn, has been released. This new version is much more broken than previous versions of Windows, and will allow you to exploit even more security holes than before. (subsitute "cause more blue screens of death", or "even more restricted EULA", etc to your heart's content.)
actually you CAN download new applications onto your cellphone.
here is a website with some info on Docomo, by NTT. (the only cellphone provider with english info, AFAIK
The 504i series does what's called "iAppli" (nevermind the silly names for a sec) - but they do let you download software.
And hopefully you can see that the input / email capabilities is no worse than any Zaurus / palm / Sony keypad (it's cool looking at young people franticly thumb in emails on the train).
and the camera actually do better than you think. Imagine web-cam quality color pictures. be sarcastic all you want, but it's pretty neat feature (albeit one I will never use - my ugly mug will probabbly shock the phone system into some fratic emergency mode), and many people uses it.
the only thing you are halfly on-the-mark is the cost... but then, when you think about it, a cell phone that costs 180 bux or so (cheaper yet if you buy older model / longer contract) - that weights like 3 oz. compared to your palm for about 500... and if you are conservative on yapping, the monthly fee is no worse than US plans i have seen. - and considering that you recieve calls for free, it might be cheaper.
and the screen area is not even that much different : cellphones here have resolution as high as 176x216... it's tiny (like everything else) - but again, for the money and convenience and all that... not to quote anybody, but fsck palm... fsck palm in the ear.
GOD is she (Hillary Rosen) Ugly!
(This is the first time I saw her picture - even the "try-to-be-flattering" ones, and I am still trying to overcome the shock)
It's (I guess that's supposed to be "she's," eh?) like a cross between that octopus woman (from Disney's Little Mermaid (Ursula or something?) and a mutated Phillsbury Doe-boy.
yuck. *shudders*. If I ever wanted to delay ejaculation during intercourse - I'm prepared. In fact, I think I might be mentally scarred.
no, the simple solution is to fly your own ass around. get a pilot's license and rent a plane when you go travelling. most planes have auto-pilot anyway -- all you really have to do is to call in the now-and-then radio-handoff (crossing FAA districts - forgot what they were called) and of course takeoff and landing.
you probabbly can't do this for REALLY long-distance / international, though; personal crafts usually does not have the range for cross ocean flights. but you can still hop across the US if you are determined: just have to stop and refuel once in a while. usually props go at ~200mph to 250 if you got a fast one -- so it is gonna take longer, but sure beats the train. have you seen the amtrak stations lately?
What the heck huh, I goto a "less glorified school" compared to MIT, and study / do research in semiconductor electron migrations, efficiency in cryptograhy systems, implementation of computer based voice and image recognition.
MIT kids do research in TETRIS.
wtf? tell me again why MIT is one of the best engineering school again?
oh wait... i just got it.
Somebody correct me if I am getting this whole thing wrong, but AFAIK, when you go down to molecular levels, due to the uncertainty principle, sometimes the dominos will not fall as you predict, becauese either
1) they were already fallen you just didn't know, or
2) statistically speaking there is a much higher chance for "spontaneous reverse-thermodynamics" on a molecular level.
what i mean is that while macroscopically speaking, the universe is headed toward higher entropy, molecularly speaking, it's not necessarily so; The example commonly given is that you can drop and shatter an egg, or an shattered egg can come together, absorbing the sound waves etc and rise back into your hand. the latter will not (or, has completely ignorable probability of) happening, but as you and the egg gets smaller, the chance of this ignorable probability becomes less so.
hence, a molecular computer has the probability of operating "faultily" because of the laws of thermodynamics is not followed 100%. this is currently overcome by the thousands / millions of electrons we send over gates, probabilistically speaking they still behave on a macro level, but a molecular computer has no such luxury.
i mean, even there was only a minute chance that one molecule will go backwards as what we intended -- counting up the billions of calculations per second we expect from each chip, and the number of chips out there, and then the number of seconds / days / monthes / years they are expected to operate, the chance of error is almost inevitable. some serious redundancy / self-healing hardware / software might need to be invented.
i am just blabbing, though. like i said: i am no molecular physicist, so if there are some here, please comment.