Atleast we'll finally know the truth about whether or not Microsoft's claim of only having security problems because they're so dominant is true or not.
But then again there's that new exploit that DOESN'T AFFECT IE. A proof of concept is at http://www.shmoo.com/idn/ which spoofs the paypal.com site. This exploit basically works on anything but IE. And Opera has stated they believe there is nothing wrong with this and won't be making any current changes. As an Opera user I find this highly disturbing.
I'd have to strongly disagree with you here, while i'm no expert myself I do associate with a group of Psychology Masters, two who actually specialise in autistic children. They are strong believers that their is infact a "cure", cured in the sense that when these children grow up, they are virtually indistinguishable from other people and no longer exhibit the traits that would classify them autistic and be able to function in society as normal people.
The problems with socialising with people commonly associated with such things as lack of eye contact and inability to verbalise their wants (like banging their head with a toy hammer until they get attention instead of asking) is one of the major problems psychologists deal with through positive reinforcement (giving them something they like/want when they act in a way deemed socially acceptable, or atleast better than they were doing.
It's so amazing to see kids who just a 3 or 4 years ago seemed like they would never be able to function in society coming up and talking to you and asking for a drink themselves. I'm talking from an Australian stand point here and am not sure what services are provided by the Government in the US, but truly the work these people do is so impressive and should be giving so much more resources than they currently are.
Personally I think/hope that after a few decent programs are released there will be a huge surge of interest in making 3D realistic looking movies (like Final Fantasy but with a few tradeoffs and optimizations for performance). And there will be standardization in the tools so you can buy virtual actors and sets. I think this is starting to get more interest in the last few years but to make it practical not only is there the need for better hardware but there will have to be very easy to use software and really impressive text to speech that is easily customised, but I don't see this as being impossible in ten years (Okay not final fantasy quality but close to thanks to a few optimizations/intelligence in the renderer.
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Atleast we'll finally know the truth about whether or not Microsoft's claim of only having security problems because they're so dominant is true or not. But then again there's that new exploit that DOESN'T AFFECT IE. A proof of concept is at http://www.shmoo.com/idn/ which spoofs the paypal.com site. This exploit basically works on anything but IE. And Opera has stated they believe there is nothing wrong with this and won't be making any current changes. As an Opera user I find this highly disturbing.
I'd have to strongly disagree with you here, while i'm no expert myself I do associate with a group of Psychology Masters, two who actually specialise in autistic children. They are strong believers that their is infact a "cure", cured in the sense that when these children grow up, they are virtually indistinguishable from other people and no longer exhibit the traits that would classify them autistic and be able to function in society as normal people.
The problems with socialising with people commonly associated with such things as lack of eye contact and inability to verbalise their wants (like banging their head with a toy hammer until they get attention instead of asking) is one of the major problems psychologists deal with through positive reinforcement (giving them something they like/want when they act in a way deemed socially acceptable, or atleast better than they were doing.
It's so amazing to see kids who just a 3 or 4 years ago seemed like they would never be able to function in society coming up and talking to you and asking for a drink themselves. I'm talking from an Australian stand point here and am not sure what services are provided by the Government in the US, but truly the work these people do is so impressive and should be giving so much more resources than they currently are.
Personally I think/hope that after a few decent programs are released there will be a huge surge of interest in making 3D realistic looking movies (like Final Fantasy but with a few tradeoffs and optimizations for performance). And there will be standardization in the tools so you can buy virtual actors and sets. I think this is starting to get more interest in the last few years but to make it practical not only is there the need for better hardware but there will have to be very easy to use software and really impressive text to speech that is easily customised, but I don't see this as being impossible in ten years (Okay not final fantasy quality but close to thanks to a few optimizations/intelligence in the renderer.