Just to show the what we think are important in our lives see Google trends on Michal Jackson versus Norman Borlaug.
And my link in the previous got lost, Kill 5 people.
It's a sad sad sad day for me. Tears on my face.
The greatest man in mankind history has died it will take many years (if ever) until we see that we TRULY had a Jesus Christ (no I'm not religious...) walking on earth, and not the "fake" one saving "just a few" people 2000 years back.
Here we have a man that dedicated his life in a way I can never ever understand, but I can appreciate what he has done. Too bad there are morons (green fanatics and other type of fanatics) too busy thinking they are the second coming of Christ to do the same.
Millions (billions?) of people mourn (and some kill them self) when Michael Jackson die, but I bet everything I own on that not even 1/10 of them has ever heard of Norman Borlaug less mourning him.
Kill 5 people and the whole world will know who you are, save 1 billon+ and only a "handful" will know of you, we humans a sad excuse for a race.
If one single man ever have deserved a holiday in his name it is Norman Borlaug. I will, no matter what the rest of the world does, for the rest of my life celebrate my own Norman Borlaug holiday, it's the least I can do (for my self, as it gives me some hope on the human race).
If Sony weasel out of this in court they will loose big time in the eyes of artists.
Hopefully now artists will see who the real pirates are, the big nasty corporation instead of fans that download a song to see if it is worth the money to buy the album. (Yeah, I know not all pirate-fans buy their music but several studies have shown that they buy more music than people who don't pirate music)
I think that in the future this will prove to be a turnstone in the RIAA vs pirates/fans story.
After reading most in this thread it is strange that no one mention the new NVIDIA Tegra that is on the way.
I am developing (just started) apps for Android but are waiting to buy a phone until I can get one with Tegra.
Ok, Tegra is not a Android only cpu (actually more than just a cpu too) but it is JUST what the Android need. Not an obscure manufacture but one of the biggest and most know and respected.
NVIDIA is great at reference designs and that will make it fast and easy (read cheap) to make an Android phone for any hardware manufacture. Samsung is saying that next year we will see sub $100 Android phones, and that can iPhone never compete with.
iPhone is a great phone (that you can play a little with) but a Tegra phone with Android will replace 10+ gadgets for me (GPS, Garmin Forerunner, MP3/MP4 player, media computer (720p and 1080p), web surfing computer (on my 37" TV), VOIP and yes a normal mobile phone too) and with sub $100 phones everyone will be able to own a Android phone, not just us geeks.
Android will never compete with iPhone, like that a computer never compete with a fancy gold plated calculator.
I actually don't want to talk about piracy (since neither side can understand each other), but inability to get hold of "your special interest" CDs force people to piracy, as I will show here.
I was on a education for 8 weeks and meet a person who truly was against piracy, really angry against pirates (of music, he didn't care at all about movies and so on) as he are a true music lover. He spend his life devoted to listening to music, all he was talking about. We had a great time arguing over the subject of piracy, me trying to explain why I do pirate music (I have bought nearly 500 CDs in my life too), as mostly because its an easy way to find new groups and so on, he protecting the music creators (and to some degree the record labels).
But the really interesting part is that at the end he confessed that, against all he really believe in, he had downloaded a album from the Internet the last day.
Why? He had spent weeks trying to find a place where he could buy it and failed, except for a few $100 from US I think it was (we live in Sweden). And as far as I know it wasn't an old and rare out of print album, just a hard to find album.
What can we learn from this? That my convenience level against my morals are favoring me to piracy a lot easier, not that I don't want to pay (I really do), but no one wants my money in the way I want (to buy) my music.
But also that, in my guess, EVERY ONE can consider piracy when it gets too hard or expensive (for them) to get hold on the music they want.
For example, for the teenage people 15 min and $20 is both too hard (yeah, they are used to a lot easier access to life then when I was there some 20 years ago) and too expensive.
And I do think the music industry is wrongly making this a battle instead of an opportunity.
If you search in google news about "Exploding car" you get 5 hits, and all is about games, movies or a staged death.
Eg. exploding cars never hit the news, either it's because it never happens or it's too ordinary to report about. Pick what you think is most likely...
Oh, and Myth Busters made an episode about shooting a gasoline tank with bullets, even incenerary, and it didn't explode.
It's only in Hollywood gasoline make cars explode with impact (or rather just before). In real world gasoline will burn yes but rarely explode as it need pretty exact amount of gasoline and oxygen to explode.
Stop using Hollywood movies for education.
Just like a full body sensory feedback system it will be the game and porn industry that will start using it and show the rest of the world the way.
Because we really need our hands free for all our porn watching...
Even when I was Programming 21 hours per day for three weeks (was working on a project with very limited time) I didn't have ANY problem with my back.
And I have had very much problems with my back over the years, but it loves that kind of chair.
I know it's not that kind of chair that looks good in a office but at home it rocks.
Too bad my girlfriend decided to jump in to my lap when I was sitting in the chair and that trashed it. So now I have to buy I new one.
I had the keyborad in my lap and a snap-on mouse board for the mouse.
At that point you are totaly wrong.
It is possible to make direct input to the brain, it has already been done, over two years ago.
Professor Kevin Warwick, who heads the Cybernetics Department at the University of Reading in the United Kingdom has already done this. He have tried a sonar connected to the nervous system in his arm and by that after only a few minutes got used to the new six sense. He was able to blindfold manuvre in a room without bumping into things.
Why choose the arm to connect to?
The meridian nerve was chosen because most of the nerves in this part of the body are connected to the hand, with very few splinter nerves - something like a freeway, and is a clean pathway to the nervous system.
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Just to show the what we think are important in our lives see Google trends on Michal Jackson versus Norman Borlaug. And my link in the previous got lost, Kill 5 people.
It's a sad sad sad day for me. Tears on my face.
The greatest man in mankind history has died it will take many years (if ever) until we see that we TRULY had a Jesus Christ (no I'm not religious...) walking on earth, and not the "fake" one saving "just a few" people 2000 years back.
Here we have a man that dedicated his life in a way I can never ever understand, but I can appreciate what he has done. Too bad there are morons (green fanatics and other type of fanatics) too busy thinking they are the second coming of Christ to do the same.
Millions (billions?) of people mourn (and some kill them self) when Michael Jackson die, but I bet everything I own on that not even 1/10 of them has ever heard of Norman Borlaug less mourning him.
Kill 5 people and the whole world will know who you are, save 1 billon+ and only a "handful" will know of you, we humans a sad excuse for a race.
If one single man ever have deserved a holiday in his name it is Norman Borlaug. I will, no matter what the rest of the world does, for the rest of my life celebrate my own Norman Borlaug holiday, it's the least I can do (for my self, as it gives me some hope on the human race).
If Sony weasel out of this in court they will loose big time in the eyes of artists.
Hopefully now artists will see who the real pirates are, the big nasty corporation instead of fans that download a song to see if it is worth the money to buy the album.
(Yeah, I know not all pirate-fans buy their music but several studies have shown that they buy more music than people who don't pirate music)
I think that in the future this will prove to be a turnstone in the RIAA vs pirates/fans story.
No no, don't hire a lawyer. That wont do you any good, you need at least 10-100 lawyers depending on how successful you plan to be...
After reading most in this thread it is strange that no one mention the new NVIDIA Tegra that is on the way.
I am developing (just started) apps for Android but are waiting to buy a phone until I can get one with Tegra.
Ok, Tegra is not a Android only cpu (actually more than just a cpu too) but it is JUST what the Android need. Not an obscure manufacture but one of the biggest and most know and respected.
NVIDIA is great at reference designs and that will make it fast and easy (read cheap) to make an Android phone for any hardware manufacture. Samsung is saying that next year we will see sub $100 Android phones, and that can iPhone never compete with.
iPhone is a great phone (that you can play a little with) but a Tegra phone with Android will replace 10+ gadgets for me (GPS, Garmin Forerunner, MP3/MP4 player, media computer (720p and 1080p), web surfing computer (on my 37" TV), VOIP and yes a normal mobile phone too) and with sub $100 phones everyone will be able to own a Android phone, not just us geeks.
Android will never compete with iPhone, like that a computer never compete with a fancy gold plated calculator.
There you have it for being stupid and allowing software patents.
Just look at us here in EU we are smart enough to not have them.. Er.. Wait.. Darn..
Time to move to china
I actually don't want to talk about piracy (since neither side can understand each other), but inability to get hold of "your special interest" CDs force people to piracy, as I will show here.
I was on a education for 8 weeks and meet a person who truly was against piracy, really angry against pirates (of music, he didn't care at all about movies and so on) as he are a true music lover.
He spend his life devoted to listening to music, all he was talking about.
We had a great time arguing over the subject of piracy, me trying to explain why I do pirate music (I have bought nearly 500 CDs in my life too), as mostly because its an easy way to find new groups and so on, he protecting the music creators (and to some degree the record labels).
But the really interesting part is that at the end he confessed that, against all he really believe in, he had downloaded a album from the Internet the last day.
Why?
He had spent weeks trying to find a place where he could buy it and failed, except for a few $100 from US I think it was (we live in Sweden). And as far as I know it wasn't an old and rare out of print album, just a hard to find album.
What can we learn from this?
That my convenience level against my morals are favoring me to piracy a lot easier, not that I don't want to pay (I really do), but no one wants my money in the way I want (to buy) my music.
But also that, in my guess, EVERY ONE can consider piracy when it gets too hard or expensive (for them) to get hold on the music they want.
For example, for the teenage people 15 min and $20 is both too hard (yeah, they are used to a lot easier access to life then when I was there some 20 years ago) and too expensive.
And I do think the music industry is wrongly making this a battle instead of an opportunity.
If you search in google news about "Exploding car" you get 5 hits, and all is about games, movies or a staged death.
Eg. exploding cars never hit the news, either it's because it never happens or it's too ordinary to report about. Pick what you think is most likely...
Oh, and Myth Busters made an episode about shooting a gasoline tank with bullets, even incenerary, and it didn't explode.
It's only in Hollywood gasoline make cars explode with impact (or rather just before). In real world gasoline will burn yes but rarely explode as it need pretty exact amount of gasoline and oxygen to explode. Stop using Hollywood movies for education.
Just like a full body sensory feedback system it will be the game and porn industry that will start using it and show the rest of the world the way. Because we really need our hands free for all our porn watching...
but I have used a chair from IKEA for $99 (http://www.ikea-usa.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet /ProductDisplay?catalogId=10101&storeId=12&product Id=11055&langId=-1&parentCats=10114*10292)
that I haved used for years a home.
Even when I was Programming 21 hours per day for three weeks (was working on a project with very limited time) I didn't have ANY problem with my back.
And I have had very much problems with my back over the years, but it loves that kind of chair.
I know it's not that kind of chair that looks good in a office but at home it rocks.
Too bad my girlfriend decided to jump in to my lap when I was sitting in the chair and that trashed it. So now I have to buy I new one.
I had the keyborad in my lap and a snap-on mouse board for the mouse.
At that point you are totaly wrong.
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It is possible to make direct input to the brain, it has already been done, over two years ago.
Professor Kevin Warwick, who heads the Cybernetics Department at the University of Reading in the United Kingdom has already done this. He have tried a sonar connected to the nervous system in his arm and by that after only a few minutes got used to the new six sense. He was able to blindfold manuvre in a room without bumping into things.
Why choose the arm to connect to?
The meridian nerve was chosen because most of the nerves in this part of the body are connected to the hand, with very few splinter nerves - something like a freeway, and is a clean pathway to the nervous system.
For futher reading I recommend http://www.ida.liu.se/~HKGBB0/studentpapper-02/ch