Hmmm, I actually think it's possible. OTOH I tend to apply agnosticism to pretty much everything I can not confirm or dismiss.
There might be a singularity or there might not. We can't tell and until we can "there will be" and "there won't be" are nothing but unverifiable assumptions.
Now take that, add a bit of Neuromancer and evil robots and turn it into a dystopian future. Bing! You've created The Matrix.
Take your post and just add direct braincomputer data transfer and you have 200 other SciFi novels and a cheesy action flick starring Will Smith.
Hard Science Fiction might really become difficult (which does not even require a singularity - fast-paced progress that makes half of your story outdates after a year is enough). OTOH it might become quite easy if you just think about what we have from an unusual angle, like the parent did.
Maybe for now nothing will change in the world of hard SciFi. I bet we'll all know in a few years.
What the... That site crashed my Firefox when I tried to open it. I had to fire up Konqueror to see it. Which I immediately regretted.
I'm not surprised at all to see stuff like <script language="JavaScript"> in there - HTML 3.0 would be the perfect thing to implement such a professional website in.
Why the incredibly precise price range when we know that every new technology starts high then drops in price?
It already did. This technology has been around since the 1970s, but the government kept it a secret, hidden in Area 51 because up until now the extraterrestrial space aliens from another world were trying to sue Earth because we violated a few of their patents when we inve-- innovated this device.
So this stuff is obviously not new and thus has already dropped in price.
Don't let Microsoft see this! If they find out how to make their ads as convincing as that image Linux is toast!
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I have the color-shift too, but I can't tell which eye is dominant - if I look with both eyes I get different colors than with either the left or the right eye. Also, every time I tried to determine my dominant eye I ended up finding out that my nose's bridge is my dominant eye.
OTOH my perception is quite different from the norm, due to my extreme shortsightedness, which might be why the tricks you use to find out which eye is dominant don't work. But at least I get funky red-blue halos around everything in high-brightness conditions.
I can remember cursing Windows 95 for it's strange interface - far less usable than MS-DOS with Norton Commander. Anything but intuitive.
Now, after a few years of using Windows, it actually is intuitive, but only because I know most of the obscure procedures necessary to make Windows do anything.
I've switched over to Linux recently and most of it is pretty straight-forward once you know the basics. You know how to configure one app, you can configure most of 'em.
Nice.
IIRC, the Germans voted NO. It was the representative who voted YES, ignoring the people's opinion.
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Most of the time I try to use Krename to batch-rename something I end up doing most of it by hand. Especially handling extensions is a major headache.
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I used to point and click a lot in Windows, but ever since I've installed Linux/KDE I do 99.9% of all interactions with the file system from a Konsole window. I don't know why, but using a file manager just doesn't feel right.
Besides, I like to do stuff like cp `locate -n1 common.file`.
Two screens are necessary? I did pretty well with just one 1152x864 monitor using PSP, even when working on complex vector images sized 1500x2000.
Considering that most people out there probably don't use more than one monitor, having an UI that only works decently when you move half of it to a second screen might not be optimal.
One ray of hope is that Microsoft is a convicted monopolist. They may hold all the patents in the world, but any _overt_ action to take out a competitor (no matter if patents are involved or not) will quickly get them back into court.
So? Either they get a fine which they will appeal against until no one cares about it anymore. Or they get a punishment that actually hurts them, at which point they can simply say that they'll move everything out of the USA and set up a new HQ in $BACKWATER_COUNTRY, thus creating a huge economical lossage for the States. The threat alone should be enough to effectively stop any legal action.
I think that MS is too wealthy to be hurt by fines and too big to be hurt in any other way, except for widespread adoption of non-MS software.
It's true, I have expectations and part of my problems with the GIMP come from the fact that it's just different. But I still think that it should not be necessary to open up a half dozen windows just to edit one image. Even if I can't stand the rest of the look-and-feel, what the GIMP needs most is clutter reduction.
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Hmmm, I actually think it's possible. OTOH I tend to apply agnosticism to pretty much everything I can not confirm or dismiss.
There might be a singularity or there might not. We can't tell and until we can "there will be" and "there won't be" are nothing but unverifiable assumptions.
I can already see the crappy video game based on that idea.
The first person who gets uploaded into a computer will become the stuttering, wise-cracking bane of Channel 23.
Now take that, add a bit of Neuromancer and evil robots and turn it into a dystopian future. Bing! You've created The Matrix.
Take your post and just add direct braincomputer data transfer and you have 200 other SciFi novels and a cheesy action flick starring Will Smith.
Hard Science Fiction might really become difficult (which does not even require a singularity - fast-paced progress that makes half of your story outdates after a year is enough). OTOH it might become quite easy if you just think about what we have from an unusual angle, like the parent did.
Maybe for now nothing will change in the world of hard SciFi. I bet we'll all know in a few years.
What the... That site crashed my Firefox when I tried to open it. I had to fire up Konqueror to see it. Which I immediately regretted.
I'm not surprised at all to see stuff like <script language="JavaScript"> in there - HTML 3.0 would be the perfect thing to implement such a professional website in.
Why the incredibly precise price range when we know that every new technology starts high then drops in price?
It already did. This technology has been around since the 1970s, but the government kept it a secret, hidden in Area 51 because up until now the extraterrestrial space aliens from another world were trying to sue Earth because we violated a few of their patents when we inve-- innovated this device.
So this stuff is obviously not new and thus has already dropped in price.
It doesn't work under Firefox, either. I completely forgot to mention that. If it weren't for that site I'd never use IE at all...
Now you can use IE to hurt spammers... Oh, the irony!
Besides, ever wonder why your medical bills are so high?
Because the doc needs a new putter?
hey i dropped $2000 on a display and it doesn't have any dead pixels. Tho I'm no better at video games, I can run Doom 3 at 1920x1200 at 3 fps!
So your new display has a response time of 333.33 ms?
Don't let Microsoft see this! If they find out how to make their ads as convincing as that image Linux is toast!
I have the color-shift too, but I can't tell which eye is dominant - if I look with both eyes I get different colors than with either the left or the right eye. Also, every time I tried to determine my dominant eye I ended up finding out that my nose's bridge is my dominant eye.
OTOH my perception is quite different from the norm, due to my extreme shortsightedness, which might be why the tricks you use to find out which eye is dominant don't work. But at least I get funky red-blue halos around everything in high-brightness conditions.
... and the step after that is of course glasses that turn opaque when facing peril, thus allowing you to keep your cool.
Cool. Use those in computer monitors and no one will be able to install Windows anymore.
I'm not sure, but I do believe that this exactly happened in Germany. IIRC a law to ban drivers from wearing blue sunglases was proposed.
I can remember cursing Windows 95 for it's strange interface - far less usable than MS-DOS with Norton Commander. Anything but intuitive.
Now, after a few years of using Windows, it actually is intuitive, but only because I know most of the obscure procedures necessary to make Windows do anything.
I've switched over to Linux recently and most of it is pretty straight-forward once you know the basics. You know how to configure one app, you can configure most of 'em.
Nice.
By the way, the ffii site seems to be down. Anyone know why?
It infringes upon Microsoft's "Website with static or dynamic content" patent.
IIRC, the Germans voted NO. It was the representative who voted YES, ignoring the people's opinion.
Most of the time I try to use Krename to batch-rename something I end up doing most of it by hand. Especially handling extensions is a major headache.
I used to point and click a lot in Windows, but ever since I've installed Linux/KDE I do 99.9% of all interactions with the file system from a Konsole window. I don't know why, but using a file manager just doesn't feel right.
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Besides, I like to do stuff like cp `locate -n1 common.file`
Sounds like The Zombie Shell - unfortunately, a zsh already exists.
No problem, just slap a cellphone on every item and connect it to the tag.
the wheel wasnt that bad, pretty hard to abuse
Three letters: SUV.
Heh. I guess I'm lucky to live in a region where everyone speaks standard German...
Two screens are necessary? I did pretty well with just one 1152x864 monitor using PSP, even when working on complex vector images sized 1500x2000.
Considering that most people out there probably don't use more than one monitor, having an UI that only works decently when you move half of it to a second screen might not be optimal.
One ray of hope is that Microsoft is a convicted monopolist. They may hold all the patents in the world, but any _overt_ action to take out a competitor (no matter if patents are involved or not) will quickly get them back into court.
So? Either they get a fine which they will appeal against until no one cares about it anymore. Or they get a punishment that actually hurts them, at which point they can simply say that they'll move everything out of the USA and set up a new HQ in $BACKWATER_COUNTRY, thus creating a huge economical lossage for the States. The threat alone should be enough to effectively stop any legal action.
I think that MS is too wealthy to be hurt by fines and too big to be hurt in any other way, except for widespread adoption of non-MS software.
It's true, I have expectations and part of my problems with the GIMP come from the fact that it's just different. But I still think that it should not be necessary to open up a half dozen windows just to edit one image. Even if I can't stand the rest of the look-and-feel, what the GIMP needs most is clutter reduction.