If politicians are the inevitiable side effect of democracy then doesn't it make sense that a democratic media would create equally hideous monsters? That's the question he asks but he doesn't try to answer it.
If news is as customized as he proposes then it doesn't make sense to classify news as one thing. My media would be totally different from someone else's just like people today have the choice to read The Globe and other tabloids.
Media doesn't shape society as much as it is a reflection of our current level of awareness. Fix the education system and the media landscape will magically transform in 10 - 15 years. It's too bad people don't vote for the long term benefit of society.
We're just wet machines
Intellignece/consciousness is just an emgergent property of the complexity of our brains
We evolved from lower? life forms and therefore don't have a soul
There is no heaven or hell
The Earth isn't flat
I say bring on the AI, maybe they'll actually let us live. Maybe they'll end hunger, war, etc. for us because we've certainly been unable to do it.
Isn't about time Slashdot did an poll on the religious and/or philosophical beliefs of its members?
If the risk is 1 in 455 every 100 years then roughly every half million years the human species would be wiped out. Checking my 6th grade biology book seems to raise some interesting questions. Maybe he's a creationist.
Volcanoes and Asteriods? How about loose nukes and the wars cause by migration caused by global warming?
Had an outdoor wireless router power supply melt which caused a major outage. The out of production power supplies were a tad hard to find so we just used the POE adapter and it's been running fine ever since.
"The answer, of course, is to do nothing - allow the Invisible Hand of the Market to continue to do its work,
The invisible hand of the market would have 16 year olds consuming vast quantities of hard liquor and probably driving around afterwards. Not that this doesn't happen anyway but imagine if you weren't impeded by the need a fake id as a kid, I probably wouldn't even be here.
Isn't the whole point of computers to run applications? If so isn't the OS going to become less and less relevant as real standards start to emerge? The best marketing for the Open Source idea is a game or other very common application that people are used to paying for. Maybe they'll ask "I don't get it, why is this free and not accompanied by tons of syware?" Then, hopefully, the lightbulb turns on.
What if in 5 years it is possible to share files completely anonymously at very high speed? Does copyright law just become a relic of our pre-digital past?
Is it possible that our economy will resemble shareware? Donations requested if you like the content? We would become minority shareholders in production companies simply by donating what we find acceptable to content producers we like.
I saw a demonstration of this a few months ago. It was a 3d simulation of a 10kiloton nuclear bomb going off on a street corner in what looked like a major city. It was a very high resolution rendering on a big widescreen display and it was pretty scary. I've seen a few documentaries on this but to see it in slow motion, in 3D, was just mind boggling. I had a nightmare a few days later in fact, almost wish I hadn't seen that.
Note: Feds, leave me alone, this was NOT a classified demonstration. Just happened to be in the right place at the right time.
There was an attempt to fork Bzflag and use an updated graphics engine called OGRE but it turns out that the bzflag code isn't very modular so it has stalled.
I think open source games are on the cusp of a major breakthrough because of the maturation of third party graphics and physics engines like OGRE and ODE. I'm helping with a project that has been running for a little under a year and we've released a pre-alpha already because we didn't re-invent the wheel.
I think a lot of people go into these open source game projects without an understanding of the amount of work involved. It's sad because a lot of great ideas and great code are lost when developers become overwhelmed with the details. Flight/driving simulators are much easier to create in an open source environment because of the lack of a plot requirement so you'll probably see them first. My point is that as soon as flegling OSS game devs look to open source middleware first then hand code things only when necessary, we'll see a lot of great stuff in a very short amount of time. An entertainment singularity:)
Don't take my word for it though... "Some good news from down under! Primed Games have won the Best Indie Game award at the Australian Game Developers Conference with their Mario-kart inspired title 'Scootarama', which is based on OGRE, ODE, RakNet and FMod. It's especially impressive considering they only had 12 weeks to come up with it with a 10-man team."
We all need to drive to the houses of these guys, use their open wifi networks to download a few songs that we've copyrighted and then countersue. It'd make for a great rebuttal. I'm kidding of course, that'd be horribly unethical.
I just setup a home theater system and bought the guy a $180 remote control. It can switch on his fireplace, lights, you name it. If this technology could somehow be stuck in our head via permanent, sub-dermatic plugs and the technology/firmware could be upgraded independent of said plugs, it'd make sense to make this permanent assuming it's a one way(out) deal.
I have a security system at my office that allows you to manipulate the cameras via their web interface. Might be a good application for this tech.
The problem is that it's a zero sum game. We can reduce emissions but the economy will suffer, people lose jobs then they vote, probably for some populist candidate that promises jobs and is even less eco friendly than the Bush administration.
I read the following quote from the article and sorta freaked out: "The consequences of such a sea level rise would be calamitous, comparable (and perhaps including as a consequence) a global war. Unlike a world war, though, civilization cannot get back to normal afterwards, as much of the landscape will have been drowned, effectively forever. We consider the threat to be imminent, the timescale of the global changes seeming likely to include the lifespans of our children."
If we really are just the smartest monkeys (and it looks like we are) then it stands to reason that we are nowhere near intelligent enough as a species to manage a global ecosystem and sustain economic growth at the same time. I'm a believer in the idea that everybody, even the great leaders of yore, were fallable humans with specific talents so we can't assume that they'll just take care of it. I hope this article is a wakeup call because I'm sure as hell not having kids until someone comes up with a plan. Not having kids is bad for the economy though and the economy runs on hydrocarbons so maybe that's a good thing.
Maybe that international consortium of countries pursuing fusion will pull their thumbs out when a big chunk of the coldest continent slides into the ocean. Hopefully there aren't giant tsunamis in its wake when it does finally happen. Maybe this is why Bush is inexplicably dumping so much money into NASA.
This got me thinking, once you're dealing with the brain directly and not hearing, smell, touch, tase, vision, you could add senses in the same way modders currently add levels or features to games.
I think the best application would be the ability to wire your brain directly into another person's to express ideas without waiting for our mouths to do the work. There is a gob of tissue that connects the left and right sides of the brain that when cut leads to all sorts of weird problems.
If we can borrow the right side of someones brain for an art school assignment then wouldn't humanity start to look a lot like open source software? We own our brains now, they're proprietary. What happens when we connect a bunch together? What happens to "self"? Are we the final Beowulf joke?
You sir, are correct. I guess I just use the term CD instead of album out of habit. AFAIK a lot of albums are recorded in multichannel at 24bits, 192khz and downmixed before they're put on a CD. Maybe some open minded artists would do a re-release some time in the future for a new format.
Who said anything about fitting on a CD? No car cd player or existing equipment would play this other than a PC could play this. So unless you're stuck with a 700MB HDD it's not a big deal.
Chicken and Egg. Portable players don't support it and those that do claim that it eats more power during the decode than mp3. I think FLAC will take off because it's lossless and open AFAIK.
People who listen to music on surround setups probably want quality over miniscule files. A multichannel version of FLAC though with files distributed via bit torrent would be nice. A FLAC5.1 CD might weigh in at close to a GB but that's ok for audiophiles.
Last I checked, I can't pickup NY stations in California with an Antenna. If your home team is blacked out because it's not sold out then you could watch the game using this device if one was in NY.
I've found a happy middle ground working on an open source game. We work hard but if something comes up and you need a break there aren't life altering repercussions. Morale also isn't a problem because I think we all see the potential of open source and know that there isn't someone exploiting our dream of making a game.
So don't give up on your dreams of game making, just look around for an open source project you think you can contribute to and the people will most likely be thankful for your help.
I work with people in career transition. A lot of them go to technical schools because they hear ads claiming that they'll double their salary. Most of them graduate making $9.00 and hour doing tech support phone work and $10 -$20K of debt. I work in the IT field but have a business degree so I have some level of security but it bothers me that these students receive little or no business training. You'd think that with all of the automation now taking place and the commoditization of computer hardware the schools would be responsible enough to explain that computers aren't a panacea.
...Word is based on Wordperfect so even if OO.o Writer is copying Word it'll be free and clear unless Novell decides to sue which is unlikely I'd guess.
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If politicians are the inevitiable side effect of democracy then doesn't it make sense that a democratic media would create equally hideous monsters? That's the question he asks but he doesn't try to answer it. If news is as customized as he proposes then it doesn't make sense to classify news as one thing. My media would be totally different from someone else's just like people today have the choice to read The Globe and other tabloids. Media doesn't shape society as much as it is a reflection of our current level of awareness. Fix the education system and the media landscape will magically transform in 10 - 15 years. It's too bad people don't vote for the long term benefit of society.
We're just wet machines
Intellignece/consciousness is just an emgergent property of the complexity of our brains
We evolved from lower? life forms and therefore don't have a soul
There is no heaven or hell
The Earth isn't flat
I say bring on the AI, maybe they'll actually let us live. Maybe they'll end hunger, war, etc. for us because we've certainly been unable to do it.
Isn't about time Slashdot did an poll on the religious and/or philosophical beliefs of its members?
Oops, make that 45,000 years not 450,000 but my point is now 10x stronger. At least the first post was correctly titled.
If the risk is 1 in 455 every 100 years then roughly every half million years the human species would be wiped out. Checking my 6th grade biology book seems to raise some interesting questions. Maybe he's a creationist. Volcanoes and Asteriods? How about loose nukes and the wars cause by migration caused by global warming?
Had an outdoor wireless router power supply melt which caused a major outage. The out of production power supplies were a tad hard to find so we just used the POE adapter and it's been running fine ever since.
"The answer, of course, is to do nothing - allow the Invisible Hand of the Market to continue to do its work,
The invisible hand of the market would have 16 year olds consuming vast quantities of hard liquor and probably driving around afterwards. Not that this doesn't happen anyway but imagine if you weren't impeded by the need a fake id as a kid, I probably wouldn't even be here.
Did this remind anybody the Therapists Jeopardy skit with a fake Sean Connery on SNL?
Isn't the whole point of computers to run applications? If so isn't the OS going to become less and less relevant as real standards start to emerge? The best marketing for the Open Source idea is a game or other very common application that people are used to paying for. Maybe they'll ask "I don't get it, why is this free and not accompanied by tons of syware?" Then, hopefully, the lightbulb turns on.
What if in 5 years it is possible to share files completely anonymously at very high speed? Does copyright law just become a relic of our pre-digital past? Is it possible that our economy will resemble shareware? Donations requested if you like the content? We would become minority shareholders in production companies simply by donating what we find acceptable to content producers we like.
I saw a demonstration of this a few months ago. It was a 3d simulation of a 10kiloton nuclear bomb going off on a street corner in what looked like a major city. It was a very high resolution rendering on a big widescreen display and it was pretty scary. I've seen a few documentaries on this but to see it in slow motion, in 3D, was just mind boggling. I had a nightmare a few days later in fact, almost wish I hadn't seen that.
Note: Feds, leave me alone, this was NOT a classified demonstration. Just happened to be in the right place at the right time.
"which is based on OGRE, ODE, RakNet and FMod."
Prediction. Those 4 APIs will become the LAMP of gaming in the not too distant future. ROOF maybe? Sounds sufficiently all encompassing.
There was an attempt to fork Bzflag and use an updated graphics engine called OGRE but it turns out that the bzflag code isn't very modular so it has stalled.
:)
Don't take my word for it though...
I think open source games are on the cusp of a major breakthrough because of the maturation of third party graphics and physics engines like OGRE and ODE. I'm helping with a project that has been running for a little under a year and we've released a pre-alpha already because we didn't re-invent the wheel.
I think a lot of people go into these open source game projects without an understanding of the amount of work involved. It's sad because a lot of great ideas and great code are lost when developers become overwhelmed with the details. Flight/driving simulators are much easier to create in an open source environment because of the lack of a plot requirement so you'll probably see them first. My point is that as soon as flegling OSS game devs look to open source middleware first then hand code things only when necessary, we'll see a lot of great stuff in a very short amount of time. An entertainment singularity
"Some good news from down under! Primed Games have won the Best Indie Game award at the Australian Game Developers Conference with their Mario-kart inspired title 'Scootarama', which is based on OGRE, ODE, RakNet and FMod. It's especially impressive considering they only had 12 weeks to come up with it with a 10-man team."
We all need to drive to the houses of these guys, use their open wifi networks to download a few songs that we've copyrighted and then countersue. It'd make for a great rebuttal. I'm kidding of course, that'd be horribly unethical.
I just setup a home theater system and bought the guy a $180 remote control. It can switch on his fireplace, lights, you name it. If this technology could somehow be stuck in our head via permanent, sub-dermatic plugs and the technology/firmware could be upgraded independent of said plugs, it'd make sense to make this permanent assuming it's a one way(out) deal. I have a security system at my office that allows you to manipulate the cameras via their web interface. Might be a good application for this tech.
The problem is that it's a zero sum game. We can reduce emissions but the economy will suffer, people lose jobs then they vote, probably for some populist candidate that promises jobs and is even less eco friendly than the Bush administration.
I read the following quote from the article and sorta freaked out:
"The consequences of such a sea level rise would be calamitous, comparable (and perhaps including as a consequence) a global war. Unlike a world war, though, civilization cannot get back to normal afterwards, as much of the landscape will have been drowned, effectively forever. We consider the threat to be imminent, the timescale of the global changes seeming likely to include the lifespans of our children."
If we really are just the smartest monkeys (and it looks like we are) then it stands to reason that we are nowhere near intelligent enough as a species to manage a global ecosystem and sustain economic growth at the same time. I'm a believer in the idea that everybody, even the great leaders of yore, were fallable humans with specific talents so we can't assume that they'll just take care of it. I hope this article is a wakeup call because I'm sure as hell not having kids until someone comes up with a plan. Not having kids is bad for the economy though and the economy runs on hydrocarbons so maybe that's a good thing.
Maybe that international consortium of countries pursuing fusion will pull their thumbs out when a big chunk of the coldest continent slides into the ocean. Hopefully there aren't giant tsunamis in its wake when it does finally happen. Maybe this is why Bush is inexplicably dumping so much money into NASA.
This got me thinking, once you're dealing with the brain directly and not hearing, smell, touch, tase, vision, you could add senses in the same way modders currently add levels or features to games.
I think the best application would be the ability to wire your brain directly into another person's to express ideas without waiting for our mouths to do the work. There is a gob of tissue that connects the left and right sides of the brain that when cut leads to all sorts of weird problems.
If we can borrow the right side of someones brain for an art school assignment then wouldn't humanity start to look a lot like open source software? We own our brains now, they're proprietary. What happens when we connect a bunch together? What happens to "self"? Are we the final Beowulf joke?
You sir, are correct. I guess I just use the term CD instead of album out of habit. AFAIK a lot of albums are recorded in multichannel at 24bits, 192khz and downmixed before they're put on a CD. Maybe some open minded artists would do a re-release some time in the future for a new format.
Who said anything about fitting on a CD? No car cd player or existing equipment would play this other than a PC could play this. So unless you're stuck with a 700MB HDD it's not a big deal.
Chicken and Egg. Portable players don't support it and those that do claim that it eats more power during the decode than mp3. I think FLAC will take off because it's lossless and open AFAIK.
People who listen to music on surround setups probably want quality over miniscule files. A multichannel version of FLAC though with files distributed via bit torrent would be nice. A FLAC5.1 CD might weigh in at close to a GB but that's ok for audiophiles.
Last I checked, I can't pickup NY stations in California with an Antenna. If your home team is blacked out because it's not sold out then you could watch the game using this device if one was in NY.
I've found a happy middle ground working on an open source game. We work hard but if something comes up and you need a break there aren't life altering repercussions. Morale also isn't a problem because I think we all see the potential of open source and know that there isn't someone exploiting our dream of making a game. So don't give up on your dreams of game making, just look around for an open source project you think you can contribute to and the people will most likely be thankful for your help.
I work with people in career transition. A lot of them go to technical schools because they hear ads claiming that they'll double their salary. Most of them graduate making $9.00 and hour doing tech support phone work and $10 -$20K of debt. I work in the IT field but have a business degree so I have some level of security but it bothers me that these students receive little or no business training. You'd think that with all of the automation now taking place and the commoditization of computer hardware the schools would be responsible enough to explain that computers aren't a panacea.
...Word is based on Wordperfect so even if OO.o Writer is copying Word it'll be free and clear unless Novell decides to sue which is unlikely I'd guess.
Here in San Diego the write in candidate for mayor is leading right now. Two well funded guys are being humiliated by a surfer girl. Gnarly.