Simply put, insurance companies and government regulators won't allow these kinds of systems to come into play any time soon due to good old risk aversion. Until cars can drive themselves reliably and the operator is downgraded to passenger...this kind of system simply is not well received outside of the circles of auto manufacturers and computer companies looking for something different.
With the number of jurisdictions that are bringing in laws against distracted driving, I think this is already a dead point. The auto companies can be investing their research monies better than this.
"It takes about 20 transistors to implement a synapse. Clearly, building the silicon equivalent of 220 trillion synapses is not an easy problem to solve."
-- That's nice if you want to model the entire brain but why would you? How much of the brain is geared toward bodily functions that one would not necessarily need to model? If you exclude the required synapses dedicated to those functions you can focus on a smaller subset that would be easier to build and operate...no?
Another thought is when building a brain model...who's? Not all brains are built equal...almost every brain related health story I read online speaks of neurological issues in the brain...what are the odds of building these into any model of a brain? It can get expensive correcting the circuitry to improve and correct these? Which leads me to wonder...what does a flawless brain look like exactly?
I suspect that a lot of the creators/publishers of games that fit into the questionable mold don't really care about what other people or organizations think about their creation. They measure their ability to produce and sell a game based upon market opportunity/demand, differentiation from other products, and what has or has not already been ruled on by the courts.
You can bet that if the combination adds up to profit and manageable risk, titles will be published. Now if there is enough backlash that it becomes unprofitable or too risky, then they get cancelled. I doubt there is very much gray area here.
The real value of geocities was not in the actual content it contained (although some of the content was simply awesome), but rather how it encouraged a lot of individuals to start publishing content onto the web via a personal home page. Both the skills learned and the desire to get oneself "one the Internet" that geocities (and its kin websites) provided were launchpads into the web we know now.
I am very glad to hear that he is recovering from the immediate health concerns. Despite his age combined with his Lou Gehrig's disease, he potentially has so much more to offer the scientific world specifically and humanity in general. His mind is clear and simply, utterly amazing.
It should be said that through his book, A Brief History of Time, that he has encourage many people otherwise ignorant of science to not only better understand our universe but to do so with enjoyment and sometimes passion. It is not too often that a scientist can elicit that level of societal consciousness.
It would be a shame for him to become fully incapacitated or die and eliminate the greatest modern looking-glass into the world of physics and science.
From an corporate perspective I would expect that most corporations would automatically set this feature to disabled. Most corporations have privacy policies in place to cover information being sent outside the company. Additionally, to meet these privacy policies, it would take time to sanitize the information going out to Microsoft. Can you see many managers allocating time for their employees to sanitize the information to send to Microsoft? Its not a revenue generating activity. Thus, we can conclude that most corporations will simply disable the "feature".
Home users and small home offices are the ones most likely to leave the functionality on and/or use the feature. This often simply comes from a lack of understanding of the feature and its implications. As previously mentioned, uninformed users will often just click OK to attempt to continue on with their work. They don't want the interruption but often don't know enough to turn it off and so click through the dialog boxes thoughtlessly.
Draw your own conclusions on the value of this feature to end users and to Microsoft. 'nuf said!
I thought for a minute there that "Global Dimming" was referring to the decrease in average human intelligence in proportion to the global increase in lawyers!
And coming within the next 50 years...designer girlfiends for those geeks who cannot get a real one. Just code in your preferences and a mental picture that you are the hottest thing on the planet and awaaaaaaaay you go. Geekdom will never be the same again.
Great. Now we can drive and get a virtual analysis of our insurance rates skyrocketing appearing before our eyes as we crash into that ferrari that we missed because we were getting a virtual tour of the city that we were driving through. Hmmmm, I'm sold.
I can see it now: I'll get one for use at work and things'll be going dandy until one day I sneeze and lose my balance thus falling off of my chair grasping and flailing wildly thus deleting the days purchase order records, deleting all my email and the corporate public folders, and causing a reformat operation on a critical file server! At least, that's my luck.
Just let me demonstrate my "magic black box" digital camera made out of a calculator and a coffee maker...it'll record 200 hours of video at the highest quality...and if you invest only $6 million....But just don't ask for the schematics!
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"One dose for da froggies...one for me...weeeee! One dose for da froggies..."
Having read all the (on topic) posts on this topic I find myself wanting to describe the website I am building for my community. I live in a co-operative housing community of approximately 180 residences in the middle of a large city. Currently there is no online presence for the community other than a single page advertising its existence on its parent associations website.
The people who live in the community come from all walks of life and embrace most age groups, religious backgrounds, levels of financial stability, etc. However, having talked to a large number of them, I have come to an understanding of some of the general functions and premises that would build a great community website.
First is universal access. A website doesn't do a community any good if there are some who cannot (not to read will not) gain access to it. Currently there is a single computer and dial up internet connection at the main office available for public use. After talking with the board of directors for the co-operative, they have agreed that if I could get enough interest and show sufficient progress and early participation from community members that they would be willing to purchase three additional computers and install high speed internet...its a start. (Note: about 78% of the residences in my community have Internet connected computers).
Of the things that I have discovered that are most desired are:
1. A community schedule of events 2. An online copy of the co-operatives manuals 3. A set of community chat boards 4. A news board for non co-operative sponsored happenings 5. An online booking resource for the co-operative's public maintenance and groundscare equipment 6. A community for sale / wanted board 7. A babysitting service listing / opportunities 8. A personalized reminder / scheduling system for those community members who have tasks assigned 9. A place for people to publish their thoughts, ideas, suggestions, comments, etc...(moderated of course) 10. A place where some of the more creative souls in the community could write the occaisonal column or review for their friends to read 11. A listing of all the public facilities with up to date descriptions and comments on availability 12. A birthday / anniversary board 13. A listing of all the businesses in the area such as stores, restaurants, etc. where the members can post reviews, critiques,etc. 14. A member listing 15. A security and advisory alert 16. Links to other pertinent and community-useful sites on the internet. 17. Personal pages for some of the members
There really isn't much else that the community has currently expressed interest in so I won't try to include anything that isn't needed yet. As the title to my comment notes, you have to target the community with the website.
These are just suggestions that have come my way. I plan to implement them in stages as time and resources permit. Currently I have just the basic foundations laid out so this is quite a timely discussion for me.
As for the site, I have a service plan through my service provider that has a static IP and a domain name...I will be offering it to the community as part of my contribution as a member of the co-operative.
I will be making every available attempt to make the site fast, easy to use, and personable for as many people as I can. You cannot usually please everyone, but if I can get most of them then we're laughing. Who knows, if this takes off, I might box it up and offer the basics to other co-operatives to use...anyways, thanks for letting me share my thoughts.
The scientists claimed that 118 was seen which decayed into the "never before seen" 116. Does the invalidation of 118 also mean that 116 also didn't exist? Does anyone have any further information? Thanks.
My company has, in the past, hired a few coop students on for 10 week stints. We stopped the practice after we realized that the drain on our permanent resources was greater than the benefit of having the coop staff around.
We had to hold their hands when we did anything "interesting" and even then, more often than not, they got in the way and used up a great deal of time asking questions which they thought were pertinent but actually were off base and shouldn't have been asked then.
As a company, we generally support education of tomorrow's workforce...just not at the expense of today's work.
This is why you are given the crap jobs...they don't require handholding and the senior staff can get on with the real work.
Plus, there is a general feeling that after we've spent all that time training you, you just leave back for the pack and we are forced to start all over again.
Great...put enough cubes up there and the citizens can have there own Stars Wars defence system. With enough cubes up there, no ballistics missiles would get through!
I agree here. Whenever we purchase or commission a server, we always ensure that a UPS is present. It is mandatory for a server. I suspect that Microsoft is either pulling a fast one here or was completely stupid about the UPS issue!
Having read a great number of comments and I have reached a point of saturation here. So, here is my comment. Pepsi made a mistake. The guy suing is making another mistake. I say that Pepsi should return the $700,000 and give the guy some free promo stuff. The guy then goes home after dropping the lawsuit. Then WE ALL learn from the mistakes made here so that they don't happen again. Trying to fleece Pepsi for their mistake is simply the wrong attitude to take. And Pepsi should have had a disclaimer but they didn't. Lets be reasonable here folks or else the world's just gonna get uglier and uglier to live in. I don't want that and I don't think that you do either. Thanks for listening.
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Simply put, insurance companies and government regulators won't allow these kinds of systems to come into play any time soon due to good old risk aversion. Until cars can drive themselves reliably and the operator is downgraded to passenger...this kind of system simply is not well received outside of the circles of auto manufacturers and computer companies looking for something different.
With the number of jurisdictions that are bringing in laws against distracted driving, I think this is already a dead point. The auto companies can be investing their research monies better than this.
Quote from article:
"It takes about 20 transistors to implement a synapse. Clearly, building the silicon equivalent of 220 trillion synapses is not an easy problem to solve."
-- That's nice if you want to model the entire brain but why would you? How much of the brain is geared toward bodily functions that one would not necessarily need to model? If you exclude the required synapses dedicated to those functions you can focus on a smaller subset that would be easier to build and operate...no?
Another thought is when building a brain model...who's? Not all brains are built equal...almost every brain related health story I read online speaks of neurological issues in the brain...what are the odds of building these into any model of a brain? It can get expensive correcting the circuitry to improve and correct these? Which leads me to wonder...what does a flawless brain look like exactly?
I suspect that a lot of the creators/publishers of games that fit into the questionable mold don't really care about what other people or organizations think about their creation. They measure their ability to produce and sell a game based upon market opportunity/demand, differentiation from other products, and what has or has not already been ruled on by the courts.
You can bet that if the combination adds up to profit and manageable risk, titles will be published. Now if there is enough backlash that it becomes unprofitable or too risky, then they get cancelled. I doubt there is very much gray area here.
The real value of geocities was not in the actual content it contained (although some of the content was simply awesome), but rather how it encouraged a lot of individuals to start publishing content onto the web via a personal home page. Both the skills learned and the desire to get oneself "one the Internet" that geocities (and its kin websites) provided were launchpads into the web we know now.
I am very glad to hear that he is recovering from the immediate health concerns. Despite his age combined with his Lou Gehrig's disease, he potentially has so much more to offer the scientific world specifically and humanity in general. His mind is clear and simply, utterly amazing.
It should be said that through his book, A Brief History of Time, that he has encourage many people otherwise ignorant of science to not only better understand our universe but to do so with enjoyment and sometimes passion. It is not too often that a scientist can elicit that level of societal consciousness.
It would be a shame for him to become fully incapacitated or die and eliminate the greatest modern looking-glass into the world of physics and science.
From an corporate perspective I would expect that most corporations would automatically set this feature to disabled. Most corporations have privacy policies in place to cover information being sent outside the company. Additionally, to meet these privacy policies, it would take time to sanitize the information going out to Microsoft. Can you see many managers allocating time for their employees to sanitize the information to send to Microsoft? Its not a revenue generating activity. Thus, we can conclude that most corporations will simply disable the "feature".
Home users and small home offices are the ones most likely to leave the functionality on and/or use the feature. This often simply comes from a lack of understanding of the feature and its implications. As previously mentioned, uninformed users will often just click OK to attempt to continue on with their work. They don't want the interruption but often don't know enough to turn it off and so click through the dialog boxes thoughtlessly.
Draw your own conclusions on the value of this feature to end users and to Microsoft. 'nuf said!
I thought for a minute there that "Global Dimming" was referring to the decrease in average human intelligence in proportion to the global increase in lawyers!
And coming within the next 50 years...designer girlfiends for those geeks who cannot get a real one. Just code in your preferences and a mental picture that you are the hottest thing on the planet and awaaaaaaaay you go. Geekdom will never be the same again.
Great. Now we can drive and get a virtual analysis of our insurance rates skyrocketing appearing before our eyes as we crash into that ferrari that we missed because we were getting a virtual tour of the city that we were driving through. Hmmmm, I'm sold.
I can see it now: I'll get one for use at work and things'll be going dandy until one day I sneeze and lose my balance thus falling off of my chair grasping and flailing wildly thus deleting the days purchase order records, deleting all my email and the corporate public folders, and causing a reformat operation on a critical file server! At least, that's my luck.
Hey,
Just let me demonstrate my "magic black box" digital camera made out of a calculator and a coffee maker...it'll record 200 hours of video at the highest quality...and if you invest only $6 million....But just don't ask for the schematics!
Yeah right.
"One dose for da froggies...one for me...weeeee! One dose for da froggies..."
Having read all the (on topic) posts on this topic I find myself wanting to describe the website I am building for my community. I live in a co-operative housing community of approximately 180 residences in the middle of a large city. Currently there is no online presence for the community other than a single page advertising its existence on its parent associations website.
The people who live in the community come from all walks of life and embrace most age groups, religious backgrounds, levels of financial stability, etc. However, having talked to a large number of them, I have come to an understanding of some of the general functions and premises that would build a great community website.
First is universal access. A website doesn't do a community any good if there are some who cannot (not to read will not) gain access to it. Currently there is a single computer and dial up internet connection at the main office available for public use. After talking with the board of directors for the co-operative, they have agreed that if I could get enough interest and show sufficient progress and early participation from community members that they would be willing to purchase three additional computers and install high speed internet...its a start. (Note: about 78% of the residences in my community have Internet connected computers).
Of the things that I have discovered that are most desired are:
1. A community schedule of events
2. An online copy of the co-operatives manuals
3. A set of community chat boards
4. A news board for non co-operative sponsored happenings
5. An online booking resource for the co-operative's public maintenance and groundscare equipment
6. A community for sale / wanted board
7. A babysitting service listing / opportunities
8. A personalized reminder / scheduling system for those community members who have tasks assigned
9. A place for people to publish their thoughts, ideas, suggestions, comments, etc...(moderated of course)
10. A place where some of the more creative souls in the community could write the occaisonal column or review for their friends to read
11. A listing of all the public facilities with up to date descriptions and comments on availability
12. A birthday / anniversary board
13. A listing of all the businesses in the area such as stores, restaurants, etc. where the members can post reviews, critiques,etc.
14. A member listing
15. A security and advisory alert
16. Links to other pertinent and community-useful sites on the internet.
17. Personal pages for some of the members
There really isn't much else that the community has currently expressed interest in so I won't try to include anything that isn't needed yet. As the title to my comment notes, you have to target the community with the website.
These are just suggestions that have come my way. I plan to implement them in stages as time and resources permit. Currently I have just the basic foundations laid out so this is quite a timely discussion for me.
As for the site, I have a service plan through my service provider that has a static IP and a domain name...I will be offering it to the community as part of my contribution as a member of the co-operative.
I will be making every available attempt to make the site fast, easy to use, and personable for as many people as I can. You cannot usually please everyone, but if I can get most of them then we're laughing. Who knows, if this takes off, I might box it up and offer the basics to other co-operatives to use...anyways, thanks for letting me share my thoughts.
I can see it now...my kid comes to sell chocolates for school and is lugging a debit card device...oh yeah, he also takes credit cards now.
Better buy that 3 mile extension cord I've always been meaning to get.
The scientists claimed that 118 was seen which decayed into the "never before seen" 116. Does the invalidation of 118 also mean that 116 also didn't exist? Does anyone have any further information? Thanks.
My company has, in the past, hired a few coop students on for 10 week stints. We stopped the practice after we realized that the drain on our permanent resources was greater than the benefit of having the coop staff around.
We had to hold their hands when we did anything "interesting" and even then, more often than not, they got in the way and used up a great deal of time asking questions which they thought were pertinent but actually were off base and shouldn't have been asked then.
As a company, we generally support education of tomorrow's workforce...just not at the expense of today's work.
This is why you are given the crap jobs...they don't require handholding and the senior staff can get on with the real work.
Plus, there is a general feeling that after we've spent all that time training you, you just leave back for the pack and we are forced to start all over again.
Just some thoughts...
Great...put enough cubes up there and the citizens can have there own Stars Wars defence system. With enough cubes up there, no ballistics missiles would get through!
I agree here. Whenever we purchase or commission a server, we always ensure that a UPS is present. It is mandatory for a server. I suspect that Microsoft is either pulling a fast one here or was completely stupid about the UPS issue!
Having read a great number of comments and I have reached a point of saturation here. So, here is my comment. Pepsi made a mistake. The guy suing is making another mistake. I say that Pepsi should return the $700,000 and give the guy some free promo stuff. The guy then goes home after dropping the lawsuit. Then WE ALL learn from the mistakes made here so that they don't happen again. Trying to fleece Pepsi for their mistake is simply the wrong attitude to take. And Pepsi should have had a disclaimer but they didn't. Lets be reasonable here folks or else the world's just gonna get uglier and uglier to live in. I don't want that and I don't think that you do either. Thanks for listening.