Its meaningless marketing. Find something almost all parents occasionally do thats mostly harmless, as the greeks said, all things in moderation. Make the parents feel guilty about it. While they feel bad, make some suggestions that are easier than burning the TV and are highly profitable, like maybe bring your child in for a checkup every 4 weeks from birth to 18 years. Also its hard core authoritarian trip, use guilt to prove their superiority and authority over the lowly stinking masses and use their superiority and authority to encourage more guilt. I've opted out of their little game and everyone else should too. F those people.
Personally I think its an incredibly offensive marketing scheme. No one really likes being guilty, they are fundamentally being anti-social. If they want a guy like me to bring my kids to the pediatrician every month and worship the ground they walk on, I'm not saying revealing "naughty nurse" costumes would do it, but I sure as heck wouldn't complain about it. If they have to do something demeaning and inappropriate and objectifying, at least make it hot.
Does that mean if someone steals my phone and my wallet, all they have to do is hold the drivers license up to the cam to unlock? Sounds like a very bad idea.
... 8-bit microcontroller with only 2.5K of RAM...
As someone who has programmed microcontrollers and 8-bit CPUs back in the day I think this is a pretty cool device.
But iPod touch alternative? Seriously?
8-bit microcontroller vs 32-bit embedded processor with integrated FPU
2.5K RAM vs 512M RAM
28K FLASH vs 8G FLASH
On the other hand, who would have guessed that in 2011, the "top game for the masses" would be a remake of the atari 2600 classic, Artillery Duel. I think this machine could easily out do that.
Why does every distro but Debian have this weird hangup where the GUI cannot be decoupled from the OS? Or rephrased, why does Debian apparently find it easy to do, whereas the big corporate OSes just can't handle it?
(I use Debian w/ xfce and on a netbook with a dead mouse pad, ratpoison)
Does anyone expect this trend to accelerate, perhaps the next Ubuntu will only ship with emacs and if you want to edit with vi, well then you'll just have to install Arch which will only have vi and no emacs? Maybe this game will become popular with languages and if you want Python you'll only be able to select from certain distros?
It seems that it is getting more and more difficult to successfully run your own SMTP server. See, for example, this post responding to the idea that a user was going to move off gmail to their own server.
Note that due to spammers running an outbound is indeed a freaking nightmare. Inbound is a breeze. Just smarthost your outgoing thru your local ISP's relay. Its not that hard.
I like running my own inbound, because I have fetchmail all tuned up to funnel multiple pop/imap/whatever accounts into my "real" account. Also they all get the same spamassassin treatment, etc.
Hardware accelerated ipv4 routing/switching was out there, I donno, at least a decade ago, or more. Your expectations on the rollout of hardware accelerated ipv6 switching?
Or, better question, why wasn't IPv4 ever designed to be extensible? Are we ever going to learn that upper bounds are problematic if they are hard coded? Things that seem improbable now, are likely to become reality later, from 640K, to Fat16/32 to NTFS's 2 TB boot drive limit to 3.64TB Ram to... the impending doom of Unix epoch time in 25 years (or so).... But wouldn't it be easier to have the solution to running into upper bounds built into the spec before we implement it in the first place?
Awesome. "Mr Vint Cerf my question to you is, are you aware of any routing protocols implemented using floating point endpoint addressing, and if so how are rounding errors dealt with?"
I'm wagering you've studied many communications protocols -- is there any protocols that you feel was terribly designed and implemented? Any modern day elegant/simple/innovative protocols that you've admired?
Extremely closely related to above question, Radia Perlman's Interconnections book, thumbs up or down, whats Vint Cerfs review?
It's going to get to the point where Facebook users (and non-users) won't even have to do anything to add information about themselves. Data mining techniques can suss out each user's personal information from the internet and aggregate it on the profile page. People with smartphones will have their locations and current activities automatically updated to their news feeds. Camera phones will automatically snap pictures and upload them to Facebook where people in them will be tagged via facial recognition algorithms.
At this point, why even bother allowing Facebook users to modify their own information? Why even bother with accounts and logins?
How would you automate virtual farming and mafia waring? Not much of a grind game, when the grind is removed.
Good to see this is getting some wider exposure! They used to send a courtesy mail to tell you they had your information and suggest you get an account so you can see it. Do they not still do that?
That was the classmates.com people, sending weekly if not daily emails, if I recall correctly. Nothing a little spam filter can't clean up.
I've never had to post on/. with my wife looking over my shoulder directing my every written word (... yet).
"most people" think premium physical appearance mostly revolves around reasonable weight, not being covered in pre-cancerous skin lesions and wrinkles from suntanning, etc.
I would agree that premium physical appearance isn't something meaningless like hair color... take a hottie and dye her hair gray and she's just a hottie with gray hair, who cares; if she doesn't need the gray hair dye to get gray hair, she's still... a hottie with gray hair.
Not necessarily true. If the younger looking one ate a healthier diet, then their heart should be in better shape.
Don't forget exercise. For most guys hottie = in shape and "American-thin" or at least not obese, more or less, and the heart disease risk for the 500 pounder is like an order of magnitude higher than for the 125 pounder.
oh, what difference one apostrophe can make: "my girlfriend's moms" -> gay, possibly polygamous parents. "my girlfriends' moms" -> multiple girlfriends, one mom each.../grammar nazi
either way, it doesn't matter, and WRT the cute ones, I have to admit option one is kinda hot.
Or just get rid of it entirely. I never really got the point of allowing inheritance (at least not without heavy taxation).
The point of it is property ownership rights. If I want to give something I own to someone else, I'm not sure why you have an ownership claim to tell me what I get to do with my own property, assuming you believe in the concept of private property rights. Some people don't.
Also its already hyper-progressive. I've had some dealings with this lately, unfortunately, and there is no tax up to some modest $ value (roughly the peak bubble cost of a single median California house) and then after that the tax is absolutely punishing, like 50%. Bye bye family farm, etc. The propaganda by the 1%ers is that someone inheriting $5000 will be subject to a punishing federal income tax to try to get those ignorant fools to allow exemptions for billionaires kids to get billions tax free.
There are ways around an inheritance tax anyway involving trusts and investing in corporations and finally just wheeling and dealing with business partners. Store your wealth in gold bars and distribute with no govt interaction at all, assuming there is someone you trust to do it fairly. Store your wealth in cash in the freezer (don't laugh, people do this kind of thing). Store your wealth in jewelry. Store your wealth in safe deposit box owned and paid by beneficiary but the rich old person holds the key. Annual gift limits are high enough that in a couple decades a descendant can be quite wealthy. Spend your wealth on very hard to trace personal property and services for descendants (not titled/registered stuff like cars and real estate). Making the simple and obvious way harder, merely makes parasites on civilization richer as they work around the problem. Not sure thats ethically and morally a sound position.
If you don't die until you have great-great-grandchildren, your own children would have had to do without your accumulation of wealth.
We've already removed that wealth using the medical industrial complex. Sadly I've lived this and also seen others live it. Anything other than both parents keeling over from instantaneous sudden heart attack or stroke and the hospital will end up with ALL net worth. Heirs get to keep some non-monetary sentimental items, family photos, that sort of thing, which I guess is really all I need anyway, but everything else? Gone. Claim on estate. Some scummy debt collectors will try to get kids to pay their parents debt, which cannot legally be enforced, but if they try and succeed...
Also the depression era / early boomers had a housing fixation so they tended to put money in now permanently declining assets like houses... When they all sell and none of the local natives and illegals can afford "$750K" homes on a walmart salary or unemployment, guess what happens to the price.
I'm still confused. Is this the kind of book that has at least some equations and algorithms (I get that its not exclusively this) or is it the kind of book that mostly rampages on about Turing's love life and how the crude savages of the era screwed him over? I'm just trying to figure out how soft -n- fluffy it is.
Are the monoliths from Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey witchcraft or science?
witchcraft, obviously. No falsifiable predictions, just an uncontrollable god doing what it wants while the little people scurry around. No interesting interaction between new technology and society. About as scientific as a HP Lovecraft story or the LotR trilogy. A bunch of cool science themed special effects, and some science themed cinematography, that's about it.
It's already 2011 and science fiction writers have been saying we'd have flying cars for decades! So, where's my flying car, damnit!
Those have been available for decades. The nationwide dealer network will roll out shortly after there are 200 million FAA licensed private pilots with the cash/financing/insurance. Till then they are an obscure niche item.
Most of them have "cheated" and the car basically docks into a tail and wing assembly that remains at the airport.
A fairly stupid idea, not sure why I'd want to burn $6/gallon 100LL avgas to sit in a traffic jam, when there are perfectly good rental and courtesy cars practically every airport. Its about as useful as a swiss army chainsaw, or maybe a robotic remote controlled combination potato peeler / ice cream machine.
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Its meaningless marketing. Find something almost all parents occasionally do thats mostly harmless, as the greeks said, all things in moderation. Make the parents feel guilty about it. While they feel bad, make some suggestions that are easier than burning the TV and are highly profitable, like maybe bring your child in for a checkup every 4 weeks from birth to 18 years. Also its hard core authoritarian trip, use guilt to prove their superiority and authority over the lowly stinking masses and use their superiority and authority to encourage more guilt. I've opted out of their little game and everyone else should too. F those people.
Personally I think its an incredibly offensive marketing scheme. No one really likes being guilty, they are fundamentally being anti-social. If they want a guy like me to bring my kids to the pediatrician every month and worship the ground they walk on, I'm not saying revealing "naughty nurse" costumes would do it, but I sure as heck wouldn't complain about it. If they have to do something demeaning and inappropriate and objectifying, at least make it hot.
face unlock
Does that mean if someone steals my phone and my wallet, all they have to do is hold the drivers license up to the cam to unlock? Sounds like a very bad idea.
GPS devices have a limited usable life anyways, at least the consumer devices
Huh? If the AA batteries are flat, change them.
open-source alternative to the iPod Touch
... 8-bit microcontroller with only 2.5K of RAM ...
As someone who has programmed microcontrollers and 8-bit CPUs back in the day I think this is a pretty cool device.
But iPod touch alternative? Seriously?
8-bit microcontroller vs 32-bit embedded processor with integrated FPU
2.5K RAM vs 512M RAM
28K FLASH vs 8G FLASH
On the other hand, who would have guessed that in 2011, the "top game for the masses" would be a remake of the atari 2600 classic, Artillery Duel. I think this machine could easily out do that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artillery_Duel
But never an infrared light! Something like this would be perfect for a HTPC remote.
Or a robot remote control complete with video feed from the robot.
Here is the race to watch:
Which is faster to prototype / easier to bugfix / fails more gracefully / more reliable / scales better :
1) A 3-d display for air traffic control or military battle equiv
2) A computer / AI controlled air traffic control system or military battle equiv
Why does every distro but Debian have this weird hangup where the GUI cannot be decoupled from the OS?
Or rephrased, why does Debian apparently find it easy to do, whereas the big corporate OSes just can't handle it?
(I use Debian w/ xfce and on a netbook with a dead mouse pad, ratpoison)
Does anyone expect this trend to accelerate, perhaps the next Ubuntu will only ship with emacs and if you want to edit with vi, well then you'll just have to install Arch which will only have vi and no emacs? Maybe this game will become popular with languages and if you want Python you'll only be able to select from certain distros?
It seems that it is getting more and more difficult to successfully run your own SMTP server. See, for example, this post responding to the idea that a user was going to move off gmail to their own server.
Note that due to spammers running an outbound is indeed a freaking nightmare. Inbound is a breeze. Just smarthost your outgoing thru your local ISP's relay. Its not that hard.
I like running my own inbound, because I have fetchmail all tuned up to funnel multiple pop/imap/whatever accounts into my "real" account. Also they all get the same spamassassin treatment, etc.
Hardware accelerated ipv4 routing/switching was out there, I donno, at least a decade ago, or more. Your expectations on the rollout of hardware accelerated ipv6 switching?
Two extremely closely related questions:
1) Conversion from 16 bit to 32 bit BGP AS numbers half a decade ago or so: Went smoother or rougher than you personally expected? Or just right?
2) How does the answer to #1 above modify your view of whats likely to happen with the ipv4 to ipv6 transition?
Or, better question, why wasn't IPv4 ever designed to be extensible? Are we ever going to learn that upper bounds are problematic if they are hard coded? Things that seem improbable now, are likely to become reality later, from 640K, to Fat16/32 to NTFS's 2 TB boot drive limit to 3.64TB Ram to ... the impending doom of Unix epoch time in 25 years (or so). ... But wouldn't it be easier to have the solution to running into upper bounds built into the spec before we implement it in the first place?
Awesome. "Mr Vint Cerf my question to you is, are you aware of any routing protocols implemented using floating point endpoint addressing, and if so how are rounding errors dealt with?"
So are you keeping current with IPv6 and if so what is your opinion of IPv6 NAT? Good / evil / other?
So you're on the board at ARIN. Anything public you want to say about how ARIN is handling ip address exhaustion other than the "company line"?
So you went to high school with Postel and Crocker according to wikipedia? Did you guys hang out all along or meet up decades later?
I'm wagering you've studied many communications protocols -- is there any protocols that you feel was terribly designed and implemented? Any modern day elegant/simple/innovative protocols that you've admired?
Extremely closely related to above question, Radia Perlman's Interconnections book, thumbs up or down, whats Vint Cerfs review?
Anything like Radia's book but a decade newer?
It's going to get to the point where Facebook users (and non-users) won't even have to do anything to add information about themselves. Data mining techniques can suss out each user's personal information from the internet and aggregate it on the profile page. People with smartphones will have their locations and current activities automatically updated to their news feeds. Camera phones will automatically snap pictures and upload them to Facebook where people in them will be tagged via facial recognition algorithms.
At this point, why even bother allowing Facebook users to modify their own information? Why even bother with accounts and logins?
How would you automate virtual farming and mafia waring? Not much of a grind game, when the grind is removed.
Good to see this is getting some wider exposure! They used to send a courtesy mail to tell you they had your information and suggest you get an account so you can see it. Do they not still do that?
That was the classmates.com people, sending weekly if not daily emails, if I recall correctly. Nothing a little spam filter can't clean up.
I've never had to post on /. with my wife looking over my shoulder directing my every written word (... yet).
"most people" think premium physical appearance mostly revolves around reasonable weight, not being covered in pre-cancerous skin lesions and wrinkles from suntanning, etc.
I would agree that premium physical appearance isn't something meaningless like hair color... take a hottie and dye her hair gray and she's just a hottie with gray hair, who cares; if she doesn't need the gray hair dye to get gray hair, she's still ... a hottie with gray hair.
Not necessarily true. If the younger looking one ate a healthier diet, then their heart should be in better shape.
Don't forget exercise. For most guys hottie = in shape and "American-thin" or at least not obese, more or less, and the heart disease risk for the 500 pounder is like an order of magnitude higher than for the 125 pounder.
oh, what difference one apostrophe can make: "my girlfriend's moms" -> gay, possibly polygamous parents. "my girlfriends' moms" -> multiple girlfriends, one mom each... /grammar nazi
either way, it doesn't matter, and WRT the cute ones, I have to admit option one is kinda hot.
Or just get rid of it entirely. I never really got the point of allowing inheritance (at least not without heavy taxation).
The point of it is property ownership rights. If I want to give something I own to someone else, I'm not sure why you have an ownership claim to tell me what I get to do with my own property, assuming you believe in the concept of private property rights. Some people don't.
Also its already hyper-progressive. I've had some dealings with this lately, unfortunately, and there is no tax up to some modest $ value (roughly the peak bubble cost of a single median California house) and then after that the tax is absolutely punishing, like 50%. Bye bye family farm, etc. The propaganda by the 1%ers is that someone inheriting $5000 will be subject to a punishing federal income tax to try to get those ignorant fools to allow exemptions for billionaires kids to get billions tax free.
There are ways around an inheritance tax anyway involving trusts and investing in corporations and finally just wheeling and dealing with business partners. Store your wealth in gold bars and distribute with no govt interaction at all, assuming there is someone you trust to do it fairly. Store your wealth in cash in the freezer (don't laugh, people do this kind of thing). Store your wealth in jewelry. Store your wealth in safe deposit box owned and paid by beneficiary but the rich old person holds the key. Annual gift limits are high enough that in a couple decades a descendant can be quite wealthy. Spend your wealth on very hard to trace personal property and services for descendants (not titled/registered stuff like cars and real estate). Making the simple and obvious way harder, merely makes parasites on civilization richer as they work around the problem. Not sure thats ethically and morally a sound position.
If you don't die until you have great-great-grandchildren, your own children would have had to do without your accumulation of wealth.
We've already removed that wealth using the medical industrial complex. Sadly I've lived this and also seen others live it. Anything other than both parents keeling over from instantaneous sudden heart attack or stroke and the hospital will end up with ALL net worth. Heirs get to keep some non-monetary sentimental items, family photos, that sort of thing, which I guess is really all I need anyway, but everything else? Gone. Claim on estate. Some scummy debt collectors will try to get kids to pay their parents debt, which cannot legally be enforced, but if they try and succeed...
Also the depression era / early boomers had a housing fixation so they tended to put money in now permanently declining assets like houses... When they all sell and none of the local natives and illegals can afford "$750K" homes on a walmart salary or unemployment, guess what happens to the price.
I'm still confused. Is this the kind of book that has at least some equations and algorithms (I get that its not exclusively this) or is it the kind of book that mostly rampages on about Turing's love life and how the crude savages of the era screwed him over? I'm just trying to figure out how soft -n- fluffy it is.
What *is* the difference?
Are the monoliths from Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey witchcraft or science?
witchcraft, obviously. No falsifiable predictions, just an uncontrollable god doing what it wants while the little people scurry around. No interesting interaction between new technology and society. About as scientific as a HP Lovecraft story or the LotR trilogy. A bunch of cool science themed special effects, and some science themed cinematography, that's about it.
It's already 2011 and science fiction writers have been saying we'd have flying cars for decades! So, where's my flying car, damnit!
Those have been available for decades. The nationwide dealer network will roll out shortly after there are 200 million FAA licensed private pilots with the cash/financing/insurance. Till then they are an obscure niche item.
Most of them have "cheated" and the car basically docks into a tail and wing assembly that remains at the airport.
A fairly stupid idea, not sure why I'd want to burn $6/gallon 100LL avgas to sit in a traffic jam, when there are perfectly good rental and courtesy cars practically every airport. Its about as useful as a swiss army chainsaw, or maybe a robotic remote controlled combination potato peeler / ice cream machine.