It all depends on the interpretation. Tomorrow, some crazy prime minister or president may try to control the internet in order to control the terrorists, based on this bill.
I disagree that the article is FUD. It may be a little bit sensational, but it's the truth.
Online sex could be done like this: a doll could be animated by receiving the kinematics of the person on the other side; the kinematics are recorded through wearable motion capture. If both parties have an animated doll, and both are wearing motion capture, then the animated doll could serve as a replacement for the other person.
...why not rename them to phasers? and since they can also 'deactivate' a person, we can name the deactivation action 'stunning'...you know, the stun setting...:-)
The next big monster from Japan will be the Sunjira: The Sun datacenter goes 'live' after a big earthquake. Its brain consists of 30000 CPUs directly connected to the internet, filling it with hentai tentacle porn. Its target is, strangely enough, not Tokyo, but Seattle (Redmond, to be more specific)...
On the other side of the Pacific ocean, chair production reaches an all-time high.
They don't have distinct sets of data types. They all have integers, floats, strings, tuples, datetimes, booleans. None of them have varchars, decimals, timestamps, tiny integers, clobs, blobs, and other weird and esoteric DB types.
Many TVs today can easily show a 800x600 desktop which is affordable for work. If this computer had a VGA which could connect directly to a TV, there wouldn't be a need to buy a monitor...it would be something like the home computers of the 80s, but with a real operating system and very good software behind it.
...and not a single comment in the entire Slashdot discussion about how pointless all the weapons are. When African tribes battle for supremacy, they are uncivilized (and thus inferior) people. When westerners do the same, it's ok. The bigger guns justify it somehow, I suppose.
Since it's not possible to define stupidity universally, all I see is more censorship. In the end, this technology will be used to suppress all opinions different from the mainstream.
If you want intelligent conversation on a topic, do your own site, and be a dictator: ban every user which does not conform to your own standards. It's a good and effective way to maintain a certain level of quality. It may not sound very democratic, but it is more democratic than you imagine: it allows certain people to maintain a specific view/quality of conversation that fits their mentality. If you don't like it, don't go there.
If the futuristic setting of this movie is removed, what is left? an very mediocre movie about political intrigue: a bunch of guys want to assassinate a leader of the opposing force in order to change the balance of power in favor of them. We have seen this a hundred times before; it's not real Star Trek.
A real Star Trek movie would be a movie which tackles with the unexpected, the mysterious, the alien; a movie which would respect Rodenberry's vision as expressed through TOS and TNG: a relatively peaceful galaxy, with many mysteries to explore, strange new enemies, strange new situations, things that stress the human imagination...
But that requires real talent, original thinking, knowledge of sciences and history, and many other things, which are difficult to find in todays writers.
I, as many other fans, will go to see this movie. But this will not prove that the movie is good; it will only prove that we Star Trek fans are hungry for more Trek. If the movie is not bad, it will be cast as a success...it will take a huge number of fans to deny it to make it a failure. And all this simply because it's about Star Trek.
Why database types are so different from programming language types?
Lots of CPU processing power is spent in translating from/to database types. Do you think that the types of SQL are outdated? Do you think that the industry should move towards something like DB4O (www.db4o.com) where objects are written in directly to/read directly from the database?
Databases will certainly be faster and simpler if they adopted the data types and principles of modern programming languages.
So will this device allow us to observe viruses in real time? so instead of finding cures for specific viruses that do not work on the next mutation, we could find how viruses operate on atom level and find a cure for that level...much like doing debugging in assembly language.
This all-in-one helmet does not allow for natural vision, does it? so what happens if the aicraft cameras fail for some reason? if the pilot removes the helmet, then he will not have access to the extra oxygen and other data projected onto his ears and eyes.
A context menu for a selection should only have the common operations for the selected items, not all the operations for all the items. Therefore, unless an item has thousands of selections, operations for a selection with multiple items will be more limited than for a single item.
How about an object-oriented interface? you know, there are no commands and options on the screen, unless you right-click to bring up the context menu...and each context menu contains the necessary tools for the item that was clicked. Simple, elegant, exercises muscle memory, never confuses the user!
Slashdot Mirror
"Europeans in general don't understand this"
"In most of Europe you can be to another country in an hour or two."
"is like wanting to travel from Moscow to London"
Ehmm, and Americans in general don't understand that Moscow is in Europe...
It all depends on the interpretation. Tomorrow, some crazy prime minister or president may try to control the internet in order to control the terrorists, based on this bill.
I disagree that the article is FUD. It may be a little bit sensational, but it's the truth.
No, compare the client parts of both.
uTorrent author says in the documentation that he chose c++ because he wanted a small app without dependencies.
Java is nice, but compare Azureus with uTorrent (for example), and you see why c/c++ is still a popular choice.
Online sex could be done like this: a doll could be animated by receiving the kinematics of the person on the other side; the kinematics are recorded through wearable motion capture. If both parties have an animated doll, and both are wearing motion capture, then the animated doll could serve as a replacement for the other person.
...why not rename them to phasers? and since they can also 'deactivate' a person, we can name the deactivation action 'stunning'...you know, the stun setting... :-)
The next big monster from Japan will be the Sunjira: The Sun datacenter goes 'live' after a big earthquake. Its brain consists of 30000 CPUs directly connected to the internet, filling it with hentai tentacle porn. Its target is, strangely enough, not Tokyo, but Seattle (Redmond, to be more specific)...
On the other side of the Pacific ocean, chair production reaches an all-time high.
...the Flintstones!!!!
Hey, ghosts in space! captured by phasers! ghosts using transporters to go places! it would be cool!!!!
The government knows you through your driver's license, tax statements, birth certificates etc.
You should be modded funny.
Excuse me sir, someone is knocking at your door!!! I wonder who (*cough*CIA*cough*) that might be...
The exit polls usually are accurate at around 99% anyway...
Are you saying that women are predators to men, like a cat is to a mouse?
They don't have distinct sets of data types. They all have integers, floats, strings, tuples, datetimes, booleans. None of them have varchars, decimals, timestamps, tiny integers, clobs, blobs, and other weird and esoteric DB types.
Many TVs today can easily show a 800x600 desktop which is affordable for work. If this computer had a VGA which could connect directly to a TV, there wouldn't be a need to buy a monitor...it would be something like the home computers of the 80s, but with a real operating system and very good software behind it.
"I'm looking forward to your reasoned response..."
the ribbon mate! the RIBBON! it's so cool! *drooling*...Office 2007 is sooo much better than any other office out there!!!
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...and not a single comment in the entire Slashdot discussion about how pointless all the weapons are. When African tribes battle for supremacy, they are uncivilized (and thus inferior) people. When westerners do the same, it's ok. The bigger guns justify it somehow, I suppose.
Since it's not possible to define stupidity universally, all I see is more censorship. In the end, this technology will be used to suppress all opinions different from the mainstream.
If you want intelligent conversation on a topic, do your own site, and be a dictator: ban every user which does not conform to your own standards. It's a good and effective way to maintain a certain level of quality. It may not sound very democratic, but it is more democratic than you imagine: it allows certain people to maintain a specific view/quality of conversation that fits their mentality. If you don't like it, don't go there.
If the futuristic setting of this movie is removed, what is left? an very mediocre movie about political intrigue: a bunch of guys want to assassinate a leader of the opposing force in order to change the balance of power in favor of them. We have seen this a hundred times before; it's not real Star Trek.
A real Star Trek movie would be a movie which tackles with the unexpected, the mysterious, the alien; a movie which would respect Rodenberry's vision as expressed through TOS and TNG: a relatively peaceful galaxy, with many mysteries to explore, strange new enemies, strange new situations, things that stress the human imagination...
But that requires real talent, original thinking, knowledge of sciences and history, and many other things, which are difficult to find in todays writers.
I, as many other fans, will go to see this movie. But this will not prove that the movie is good; it will only prove that we Star Trek fans are hungry for more Trek. If the movie is not bad, it will be cast as a success...it will take a huge number of fans to deny it to make it a failure. And all this simply because it's about Star Trek.
My question is:
Why database types are so different from programming language types?
Lots of CPU processing power is spent in translating from/to database types. Do you think that the types of SQL are outdated? Do you think that the industry should move towards something like DB4O (www.db4o.com) where objects are written in directly to/read directly from the database?
Databases will certainly be faster and simpler if they adopted the data types and principles of modern programming languages.
So will this device allow us to observe viruses in real time? so instead of finding cures for specific viruses that do not work on the next mutation, we could find how viruses operate on atom level and find a cure for that level...much like doing debugging in assembly language.
This all-in-one helmet does not allow for natural vision, does it? so what happens if the aicraft cameras fail for some reason? if the pilot removes the helmet, then he will not have access to the extra oxygen and other data projected onto his ears and eyes.
A context menu for a selection should only have the common operations for the selected items, not all the operations for all the items. Therefore, unless an item has thousands of selections, operations for a selection with multiple items will be more limited than for a single item.
How about an object-oriented interface? you know, there are no commands and options on the screen, unless you right-click to bring up the context menu...and each context menu contains the necessary tools for the item that was clicked. Simple, elegant, exercises muscle memory, never confuses the user!