My first job, way back when in sixth grade or so, consisted of solving other kids' Rubik's Cubes. It was fairly lucrative. I always wondered why they would bother paying someone to solve it for them, but nonetheless, they did.
Maybe they brought them home after school to show their parents how smart they were, or something. They certainly couldn't do that to other kids, because the other kids knew I solved it for them.
This project aims at conceiving better human-machine interfaces by using the concept of physical objects that the user can manipulate, to represent abstract computer data and commands.
You mean they're going to invent the mouse and the keyboard? Awesome.
Now as to Star Trek and other sci-fi movies (including Minority Report), isn't it fairly obvious why voice input was/is used? It's the easy way to indicate what a character is inputting, and what are the results!
At least four times an episode, some red shirt sitting at his little desk on the bridge thinks to himself, "Goddammit, Kirk, use your damn keyboard already."
It is going against 4 billion years of evolution that pushes us to hord food in preperation for lean days of no supply. Lean days are less likely in the modern world, but our body does not know that. Evolution is blind.
The problem is not that evolution is blind. Evolution is not blind. Far from it.
The problem is that evolution is slow.
The additional problem is that evolution is irrelevant from the point of view of organisms that already exist - e.g. you and me. No matter whether evolution is blind or sightful, slow or fast, you and me personally are never going to evolve a mechanism for dealing with a lack of lean days any better than our current mechanisms.
Yahbut, in order to be valid, your argument needs the assumption that spammers will continue to spam even though their spams don't get delivered due to challenge/response.
Learning to market ourselves would definately help the bottom line for all the geeks around the world. We could all ban together to form an empire like no other.
Lisa: Now next week is our "state of the city" address. Has everyone finished their proposals?
Comic Book Guy: Well first of all I've a plan to eliminate obesity in women.
Lyndsey Nagle: Oh please, for a nickel-a-person tax increase we could build a theater for shadow puppets.
Dr. Hibbert: Balinese or Thai?
Lyndsey Nagle: Why not both, then everybody's happy.
Comic Book Guy: Oh yeah, everyone's real happy then.
Lyndsey Nagle: Do I detect a note of sarcasm?
Professor Frink: (With sarcasm detector) Are you kidding? This baby is off the charts mm-hai.
Comic Book Guy: A sarcasm detector, that's a real useful invention.
Do not forget that one time Microsoft was the geek tool. Bill Gates once a hero.
Bill Gates has given hundreds of millions of dollars to various philanthropic causes, including preventing the spread of infectious diseases, education, reproductive causes, and so forth. He has publically promised to give away ninety-five percent of his wealth.
Bill Gates is a hero. What he was, and what you say he was once a hero for, was merely a tech geek.
Besides, I do think that your claim is a tad oversimplistic. There has never been a government solution that worked out better than a private solution?
Privatized law enforcement turned out pretty horribly (Pinkerton et al), for example.
What makes you think that I think what you're saying I think?
I never said I think that. I am just questioning a person who says that we need government for protection of property - any kind of property - and simultaneously says that government should not protect intellectual property.
Any self-respecting libertarian does not demand the absense of government. Government has a useful purpose--the protection of property, whether it's physical, personal, or to uphold contracts, etc.
Property whether physical or personal, but not intellectual?
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Pyraminx is trivial.
My first job, way back when in sixth grade or so, consisted of solving other kids' Rubik's Cubes. It was fairly lucrative. I always wondered why they would bother paying someone to solve it for them, but nonetheless, they did.
Maybe they brought them home after school to show their parents how smart they were, or something. They certainly couldn't do that to other kids, because the other kids knew I solved it for them.
This project aims at conceiving better human-machine interfaces by using the concept of physical objects that the user can manipulate, to represent abstract computer data and commands.
You mean they're going to invent the mouse and the keyboard? Awesome.
Now as to Star Trek and other sci-fi movies (including Minority Report), isn't it fairly obvious why voice input was/is used? It's the easy way to indicate what a character is inputting, and what are the results!
At least four times an episode, some red shirt sitting at his little desk on the bridge thinks to himself, "Goddammit, Kirk, use your damn keyboard already."
I myself am not a vegan, but my mother is. She's nearly 50 and she only requires about 5-6 hours of sleep, and is way more hyperactive than I am
That's because her body thinks that it needs to give her some extra juice so that she can finally catch a rat to eat.It is going against 4 billion years of evolution that pushes us to hord food in preperation for lean days of no supply. Lean days are less likely in the modern world, but our body does not know that. Evolution is blind. The problem is not that evolution is blind. Evolution is not blind. Far from it. The problem is that evolution is slow. The additional problem is that evolution is irrelevant from the point of view of organisms that already exist - e.g. you and me. No matter whether evolution is blind or sightful, slow or fast, you and me personally are never going to evolve a mechanism for dealing with a lack of lean days any better than our current mechanisms.
Yahbut, in order to be valid, your argument needs the assumption that spammers will continue to spam even though their spams don't get delivered due to challenge/response.
it seems that we're not heading towards a Gattaca-esque society, after all
Discrimination based on genetics was illegal in Gattaca. It just was an unenforcable law.No. Is this a trick question?
I mean c'mon, if you can tell me 1 damn thing windows can do that Linux can't, I'll switch to windows right now.
Avoid inspiring annoying holier-than-thou zealot geeks.
What version of Windows will you be running?
Learning to market ourselves would definately help the bottom line for all the geeks around the world. We could all ban together to form an empire like no other.
Lisa: Now next week is our "state of the city" address. Has everyone finished their proposals?
Comic Book Guy: Well first of all I've a plan to eliminate obesity in women.
Lyndsey Nagle: Oh please, for a nickel-a-person tax increase we could build a theater for shadow puppets.
Dr. Hibbert: Balinese or Thai?
Lyndsey Nagle: Why not both, then everybody's happy.
Comic Book Guy: Oh yeah, everyone's real happy then.
Lyndsey Nagle: Do I detect a note of sarcasm?
Professor Frink: (With sarcasm detector) Are you kidding? This baby is off the charts mm-hai.
Comic Book Guy: A sarcasm detector, that's a real useful invention.
(Sarcasm detector explodes)
Do not forget that one time Microsoft was the geek tool. Bill Gates once a hero.
Bill Gates has given hundreds of millions of dollars to various philanthropic causes, including preventing the spread of infectious diseases, education, reproductive causes, and so forth. He has publically promised to give away ninety-five percent of his wealth.
Bill Gates is a hero. What he was, and what you say he was once a hero for, was merely a tech geek.
Besides, I do think that your claim is a tad oversimplistic. There has never been a government solution that worked out better than a private solution?
Privatized law enforcement turned out pretty horribly (Pinkerton et al), for example.
What makes you think that I think what you're saying I think? I never said I think that. I am just questioning a person who says that we need government for protection of property - any kind of property - and simultaneously says that government should not protect intellectual property.
Any self-respecting libertarian does not demand the absense of government. Government has a useful purpose--the protection of property, whether it's physical, personal, or to uphold contracts, etc. Property whether physical or personal, but not intellectual?
Mah-Jong? Somebody can take down my Linux box through Mah-Jong?
Yes, but you're Canadian.
Yes, very insightful. In the same way, we can determine that Orville and Wilbur Wright are responsible for 9/11.