The Matrix revolutions was panned by critics and nearly everyone else. The editors were simply pointing out an example of a sequel that disappointed many people.
I doubt programming will ever be as simple as speaking to the machine. All the unnecessary words and wierd pronunciations we humans routlinely use would require a computer with a sophisticated fuzzy logic system. Plus, all the homonyms and variety of uses of words would cause a computer no end of problems. Many people mistake they're and their, and we're used to our language. I think programming will remain pretty much like it is now. Pretty much anyone who understands algebra and has a fairly logical mind can learn programming.
The spoken word is often slower than typing, so it would be more efficient to simply keep our keyboards and mice.
That could be an extremely useful technology. In a crowded space you could solve many of the range problems that less powerful wireless technologies like bluetooth have, obstacles(as long as they were humans) would actually improve the range. I wonder if there are any effects to the human ethernet cables though.
Oh, I'm sure the work they're doing is worthwhile. Umm...yeah...did you get the memo about the new coversheets on the tps reports. Employees are more productive when they're happy with their job than when they feel like they're being watched all the time and have massive restrictions placed on them.
You have no idea how bad security on Win9x boxes was. Even on a relatively secure box there were bugs in the various clients that allowed you to gain access. For instance on the Netware client that MS provides with Windows you could just press ctrl-something and the password of the username you had typed in came right up.
Parents want to believe their kids are essentially good and that some eveil outside thing has corrupted them when they do something wrong. The media knows that they can get a ton of viewers from "think of the children!" shows and therefore they reinforce parents' delusions. I think a lot of the media coverage of video game violence is also due to an attempt by the big television networks to divert scrutiny from their own violent shows.
broken? how so? Preventing users from installing stuff is extremely useful on a multiuser system. I've seen way too many networked windows boxes with just about every piece of spyware, adware and other useless crap installed on it to believe that letting the average user install anything they want is a good thing. Just because users want to be able to install anything on their computer with no safeguards doesn't mean it's a good idea. The current system isn't broken, it was put there to prevent exactly what has happened on Windows boxes.
Most Unices are good about preventing average users from accessing the core files in the OS, whereas Windows just puts a nice little warning on the screen and lets you go right ahead.
They have actually have machines that can use a pen to write your signature. The one problem is they're only good for doing one line things in massive quantities.
A whole movie on a cd is very good, but I wonder how good the video quality is on it. The only way you can compress a 2 gig video file to a 700 meg file is to reduce the quality of the video sharply. It probably doesn't show up on a good 17 inch monitor but on a 27 inch tv screen with half as much dpi compared to a monitor it will make a difference.
Actually that very much depends on how consumers react to it. If the technology forces people to sign away their firstborn child and sacrifice a chicken before they can watch the movie then no one will buy stuff made with it and it will fail. It will most likely be the company that figures out how to disguise the DRM to the user but still keep enough for the MPAA to be happy that wins the standards war. I'm betting that mpeg 4 will win, due to it's support by companies that actually know how to make unintrusive DRM(Apple itunes) and the fact that it isn't nearly as bad as.wma or divx are or used to be.
If you're going to make a point about the English language you should at least spell things right. heh...langauge. Yes, I'd like to order a langauge, can it monitor gigabit ethernet and wifi LANs too?
It's source code, not a binary. most of the people here make their living writing code. It's one thing when a binary gets stolen, as it's hard to modify and easy to track down, but if source code is released, someone could use the source to make a game based off your code and sell it for far less, since they didn't have to develop it much.
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the thought of Bruce Willis's continued existence after that movie scares me quite a bit.
Even if we kill them they'll still be able to send spam!
...by sending these incriminating photos to the FBI
The Matrix revolutions was panned by critics and nearly everyone else. The editors were simply pointing out an example of a sequel that disappointed many people.
I doubt programming will ever be as simple as speaking to the machine. All the unnecessary words and wierd pronunciations we humans routlinely use would require a computer with a sophisticated fuzzy logic system. Plus, all the homonyms and variety of uses of words would cause a computer no end of problems. Many people mistake they're and their, and we're used to our language. I think programming will remain pretty much like it is now. Pretty much anyone who understands algebra and has a fairly logical mind can learn programming.
The spoken word is often slower than typing, so it would be more efficient to simply keep our keyboards and mice.
nah... I'll keep my Java virtual machines.
Hmm... I wonder if they'd pay me to switch to BSD. I could keep switching back and forth at zero cost!
yeah well I saw the original irc conversation that started it. So ha!
86 means the intel x86 architecture I think.
It sound like the submitter of the news story didn't even rtfa. That's just pathetic.
That's why we should have computers run everything. of course they never make errors.
Only if you don't have the original system boards.
They should just cut the gnu part from the acronym. the IMP is much less offensive than the GIMP. Well, maybe it's more offensive to Richard Stallman.
That could be an extremely useful technology. In a crowded space you could solve many of the range problems that less powerful wireless technologies like bluetooth have, obstacles(as long as they were humans) would actually improve the range. I wonder if there are any effects to the human ethernet cables though.
Oh, I'm sure the work they're doing is worthwhile. Umm...yeah...did you get the memo about the new coversheets on the tps reports. Employees are more productive when they're happy with their job than when they feel like they're being watched all the time and have massive restrictions placed on them.
heh, 404 results.
That's very true. Hell, even normal use messes up the keyboards after 1-2 years.
You have no idea how bad security on Win9x boxes was. Even on a relatively secure box there were bugs in the various clients that allowed you to gain access. For instance on the Netware client that MS provides with Windows you could just press ctrl-something and the password of the username you had typed in came right up.
Parents want to believe their kids are essentially good and that some eveil outside thing has corrupted them when they do something wrong. The media knows that they can get a ton of viewers from "think of the children!" shows and therefore they reinforce parents' delusions. I think a lot of the media coverage of video game violence is also due to an attempt by the big television networks to divert scrutiny from their own violent shows.
broken? how so? Preventing users from installing stuff is extremely useful on a multiuser system. I've seen way too many networked windows boxes with just about every piece of spyware, adware and other useless crap installed on it to believe that letting the average user install anything they want is a good thing. Just because users want to be able to install anything on their computer with no safeguards doesn't mean it's a good idea. The current system isn't broken, it was put there to prevent exactly what has happened on Windows boxes.
Most Unices are good about preventing average users from accessing the core files in the OS, whereas Windows just puts a nice little warning on the screen and lets you go right ahead.
They have actually have machines that can use a pen to write your signature. The one problem is they're only good for doing one line things in massive quantities.
A whole movie on a cd is very good, but I wonder how good the video quality is on it. The only way you can compress a 2 gig video file to a 700 meg file is to reduce the quality of the video sharply. It probably doesn't show up on a good 17 inch monitor but on a 27 inch tv screen with half as much dpi compared to a monitor it will make a difference.
Actually that very much depends on how consumers react to it. If the technology forces people to sign away their firstborn child and sacrifice a chicken before they can watch the movie then no one will buy stuff made with it and it will fail. It will most likely be the company that figures out how to disguise the DRM to the user but still keep enough for the MPAA to be happy that wins the standards war. I'm betting that mpeg 4 will win, due to it's support by companies that actually know how to make unintrusive DRM(Apple itunes) and the fact that it isn't nearly as bad as .wma or divx are or used to be.
If you're going to make a point about the English language you should at least spell things right. heh...langauge. Yes, I'd like to order a langauge, can it monitor gigabit ethernet and wifi LANs too?
It's source code, not a binary. most of the people here make their living writing code. It's one thing when a binary gets stolen, as it's hard to modify and easy to track down, but if source code is released, someone could use the source to make a game based off your code and sell it for far less, since they didn't have to develop it much.