The suggestion that Nintendo should release on iOS and Android would be suicide. The sales figures for the 3DS have already proven the nuts that keep saying Nintendo should release Pokemon the iPhone are insane short term thinkers. Their hand held dominance has yet to be killed.
What they should be doing is adding phone capability to the DS.
Why spend 3x the amount of production energy (building it first time, recycling it, building it again) when you can jsut repair it, and only spend the production energy once? your concept of the future is fundamentally inefficient. there will always be a need for repair, and in fact becoming a fixit society again will be fundamental in getting a handle on everything, from the envirnment, to using resources efficiently, even to the economy.
Energy is cheap, and skilled labor (repair) is expensive.
In design, minimizing materials and manufacturing cost or keeping the product compact tends to far outweigh repairability concerns.
Keep in mind that the new product may be more featureful, performant, or energy-efficient than the repaired one.
The tool would trust me, specifically. Or more generally, the owner and permission holder to the system. If there are weird issues with whatever information, commands, or boundaries I give it that cannot be resolved by whatever capacity of "common sense" it already has formed (required for true natural language interaction), then that would be a point of discussion and clarification; or of course the tool owner could escalate permission and hope the system doesn't screw up by acting without full understanding
Amazingly, most of what people would want to write and share could be done via a web server and an HTML5-based Scheme interpreter. Kay likes Scheme, right?
I don't know what he thinks about Scheme but Alan Kay probably does like Smalltalk.
The Kinect is another great example. It is a very interesting product but NOT because MS wanted it to be. They just wanted it to be a gadget to sell Xbox games with. It was the public that liberated it. Had MS been a less focused on profit company they would have released it right from the start as a peripheral that just also happens to work great with your console. Instead, they attempted to cripple it.
So: 5% of the world's population produces 20% of the world's economic output, using about 20% of the world's energy. The only thing we are guilty of is being highly productive.
As I sit here typing this on a circa 1984 IBM Model M Clicky Keyboard!
The finest keyboard ever made..
What is with you Model M fans? If that's what you like, fine. Personally, I can't decide whether the biggest reason I can't stand them is the tiringly excessive force required to operate the keys or the deafening racket they produce.
Adopting java over what? If it's C they should stick with it at this point C is the mother of most modern programming languages. University level should not be a trade school, C teaches all the the constructs and all of the power. Java is a subset of C at best and hides a lot of complexity that a programmer needs to understand.
Pascal was widespread as a college introductory programming language before Java.
The AP Computer Science exam was Pascal up until 1999, C++ from 1999 to 2003, and is currently done in Java.
For a first language, it is desirable to hide a lot of the complexity.
The veeps at MS need someone cool to step through the door and get through their thick skulls that "Microsoft, Windows, Windows Mobile, Office" will never be "cool" brands. The brand will always be kind of like "Hormel" in the food space. Even if they did everything right and created the best smartphone OS out there, the masses don't want to be carrying a "Hormel Phone"
Yes, they need to get away from "Windows" and create a new cool, hip, and trendy brand--how about "Zune"?
The only materials that won't oxidize at those time scales are those that are already oxidized. SiO2 (quartz, glass). CaCO3 (marble). FeOx (oxidized iron, but it's structurally worthless).
That's exactly why I, Jack Daws, love my big sphinx of quartz.
There really needs to be some sort of compulsory license that will allow YouTube and similar services to continue while still providing decent compensation to songwriters and performers.
Consumption taxes can be effectively levied one country at a time. I suppose you could tax imported oil as if the tanker was a well, but you face all the same problems as a consumption tax there (because there would be some incentive to move any production that consumed oil out of the country doing the taxing).
That is why if you impose a carbon tax (or even a clumsy cap-and-trade system), you must also impose a carbon tariff on goods produced in countries that don't have a comparable tax. I've seen no discussion of this even though it clearly follows from basic economics.
Obfuscating Javascript to the point where it would be impractical to modify is trivial. I think it isn't widely done because organizations feel that having absolute control on the server side is sufficient.
Which means that all the patent does, in this case, is retard progress for twenty years by preventing anyone else from beginning to compete with the iPhone. It's the difference between building new and exciting interfaces that start with the iPhone and expand beyond it, and instead having everyone else have to build ugly hacks to avoid infringing on that patent even when the iPhone is a horribly obsolete product.
But think of all the innovation that will occur as we come up with paddles and joysticks and tillers to control our cars with, now that Apple has patented the steering wheel.
I doubt human evolution will stop; if cloning becomes widespread I think Gattaca-style genetic engineering will arrive soon afterward. Who would settle for "exactly like me", when "like me but with a few improvements" is an option?
I never thought I'd see a serious comment with "IRS" and "efficiency" used in the same sentence. I must have accidentally slipped into an alternate universe. Damn hidden wormholes...
I personally can't wait to for my healthcare to be provided with the same legendary efficiency as the IRS and the DMV.
Please America, stop calling Socialists by the name Liberal.
Makes Adam Smith look bad.
I hear your plea, but the cause is lost. American socialists took the word "liberal" because "socialist" had too much negative connotation (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics). Now "liberal" is garnering too much negative connotation and the socialists are trying to grab "progressive".
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The suggestion that Nintendo should release on iOS and Android would be suicide. The sales figures for the 3DS have already proven the nuts that keep saying Nintendo should release Pokemon the iPhone are insane short term thinkers. Their hand held dominance has yet to be killed.
What they should be doing is adding phone capability to the DS.
That and you don't often get PHD's, published papers, and prestige for trying to duplicating and test a published findings.
Or tenure. Or grant money.
Hey, engineers to spin up this board got to eat you know.
Yes, but not that much.
Donut + coffee OR Mountain Dew + Doritos
That covers breakfast and lunch, what about dinner?
If we go by Arthur C Clarke (and really, why shouldn't we?) it would be Europan which has a nice ring to it.
If we go by Arthur C. Clarke, we should attempt no landings there.
Why spend 3x the amount of production energy (building it first time, recycling it, building it again) when you can jsut repair it, and only spend the production energy once? your concept of the future is fundamentally inefficient. there will always be a need for repair, and in fact becoming a fixit society again will be fundamental in getting a handle on everything, from the envirnment, to using resources efficiently, even to the economy.
Energy is cheap, and skilled labor (repair) is expensive.
In design, minimizing materials and manufacturing cost or keeping the product compact tends to far outweigh repairability concerns.
Keep in mind that the new product may be more featureful, performant, or energy-efficient than the repaired one.
The tool would trust me, specifically. Or more generally, the owner and permission holder to the system. If there are weird issues with whatever information, commands, or boundaries I give it that cannot be resolved by whatever capacity of "common sense" it already has formed (required for true natural language interaction), then that would be a point of discussion and clarification; or of course the tool owner could escalate permission and hope the system doesn't screw up by acting without full understanding
Doctor Chandra, will I dream?
Amazingly, most of what people would want to write and share could be done via a web server and an HTML5-based Scheme interpreter. Kay likes Scheme, right?
I don't know what he thinks about Scheme but Alan Kay probably does like Smalltalk.
Depending on the cost, this might make a nifty power supply for Raspberry Pi or Arduino based robots.
$300, according to this site.
Just look at the Great Lakes. They stand at record levels [...] Any questions????
I have a question: from where do you get your information on Great Lakes levels?
The Kinect is another great example. It is a very interesting product but NOT because MS wanted it to be. They just wanted it to be a gadget to sell Xbox games with. It was the public that liberated it. Had MS been a less focused on profit company they would have released it right from the start as a peripheral that just also happens to work great with your console. Instead, they attempted to cripple it.
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
why is it that:
* the country which uses 50% of the world's resources yet has only 12% of the world's population
"Resources" is pretty general--the U.S. uses about 20% of the world's energy.
We also produce "approximately a fifth of global GDP at purchasing power parity."
We are less than 5% of the world's population, not 12%, where'd you get that number from?
So: 5% of the world's population produces 20% of the world's economic output, using about 20% of the world's energy. The only thing we are guilty of is being highly productive.
Surely you can see that, right?
As I sit here typing this on a circa 1984 IBM Model M Clicky Keyboard! .
The finest keyboard ever made.
What is with you Model M fans? If that's what you like, fine. Personally, I can't decide whether the biggest reason I can't stand them is the tiringly excessive force required to operate the keys or the deafening racket they produce.
Why are you searching for expert sex changes?
Well I sure as hell ain't gonna have that done by an amateur! Captcha: barber (!)
Adopting java over what? If it's C they should stick with it at this point C is the mother of most modern programming languages. University level should not be a trade school, C teaches all the the constructs and all of the power. Java is a subset of C at best and hides a lot of complexity that a programmer needs to understand.
Pascal was widespread as a college introductory programming language before Java.
The AP Computer Science exam was Pascal up until 1999, C++ from 1999 to 2003, and is currently done in Java.
For a first language, it is desirable to hide a lot of the complexity.
The veeps at MS need someone cool to step through the door and get through their thick skulls that "Microsoft, Windows, Windows Mobile, Office" will never be "cool" brands. The brand will always be kind of like "Hormel" in the food space. Even if they did everything right and created the best smartphone OS out there, the masses don't want to be carrying a "Hormel Phone"
Yes, they need to get away from "Windows" and create a new cool, hip, and trendy brand--how about "Zune"?
My idea of a thorough reformatting tool is thermite.
The only materials that won't oxidize at those time scales are those that are already oxidized. SiO2 (quartz, glass). CaCO3 (marble). FeOx (oxidized iron, but it's structurally worthless).
That's exactly why I, Jack Daws, love my big sphinx of quartz.
There really needs to be some sort of compulsory license that will allow YouTube and similar services to continue while still providing decent compensation to songwriters and performers.
Consumption taxes can be effectively levied one country at a time. I suppose you could tax imported oil as if the tanker was a well, but you face all the same problems as a consumption tax there (because there would be some incentive to move any production that consumed oil out of the country doing the taxing).
That is why if you impose a carbon tax (or even a clumsy cap-and-trade system), you must also impose a carbon tariff on goods produced in countries that don't have a comparable tax. I've seen no discussion of this even though it clearly follows from basic economics.
Obfuscating Javascript to the point where it would be impractical to modify is trivial. I think it isn't widely done because organizations feel that having absolute control on the server side is sufficient.
Which means that all the patent does, in this case, is retard progress for twenty years by preventing anyone else from beginning to compete with the iPhone. It's the difference between building new and exciting interfaces that start with the iPhone and expand beyond it, and instead having everyone else have to build ugly hacks to avoid infringing on that patent even when the iPhone is a horribly obsolete product.
But think of all the innovation that will occur as we come up with paddles and joysticks and tillers to control our cars with, now that Apple has patented the steering wheel.
I doubt human evolution will stop; if cloning becomes widespread I think Gattaca-style genetic engineering will arrive soon afterward. Who would settle for "exactly like me", when "like me but with a few improvements" is an option?
I never thought I'd see a serious comment with "IRS" and "efficiency" used in the same sentence. I must have accidentally slipped into an alternate universe. Damn hidden wormholes...
I personally can't wait to for my healthcare to be provided with the same legendary efficiency as the IRS and the DMV.
Next I suppose you'll be telling us that George Soros and Oprah aren't wealthy elites.
Please America, stop calling Socialists by the name Liberal.
Makes Adam Smith look bad.
I hear your plea, but the cause is lost. American socialists took the word "liberal" because "socialist" had too much negative connotation (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics). Now "liberal" is garnering too much negative connotation and the socialists are trying to grab "progressive".