I agree on some comments inhere stating our most greatest danger is ourselves. An interesting analogy I've heard not too long ago: "Humans are like alcohol. A bacterial mess, creating. Once they hit a certain percentage -of alcohol, they start dying by their own product."
"E-mail has just erupted like a weed, and instead of considering what to say when they write, people now just let thoughts drool out onto the screen," Hogan said. "It has companies at their wits' end.
Well I for one think this is cause it's just too easy to do so; as many slashdotters at one point or the other claimed they could "type faster then they can think", or certainly "type faster then writing a letter" (which requires some thought to compose, certainly if you're going to handwrite; it's a bit nono to scratch out your errors in formal mailing.)
If you're able to just open up a browser, your email-client, type your first thoughts out at 300chars/min, and hit send in a matter of seconds you don't have this process of thinking out what you want to say, or which message you want to bring across. (or make sure it's understandable what you're trying to bring over)
I catch myself as well at alot of 'stupid errors', while checkreading the next day what I wrote earlier. While I was pretty confident it was properly written.
There should be a 2minute rule before hitting "send", to cure people having elliptic seizures on their keyboards while sending formal communication.
I don't want my IP in the hands of someone with the morale of a spammer [server logs].
Let alone any "carefully picked host", certainly not at times I'm not there to observe what happends with my machine[screensaver]. Nah-uh.
In Belgium there was a pilot project with a small focus group with the new technology, which has gone public now...
I haven't seen it myself in action (Cause I lost interest in TV the way it used to be. I now just download the latest Simpsons' and Southpark Episodes, which is about all the "tv" I watch.)
You can find the report of the project in Dutch here in PDF
Some English paragraph about the same project: INTERACTIVE TV
Personally I think that someone has still the right to decide him-, her- or itself what to do with ones own time.
This is a private sector too, NASA isn't. Games bring in the big monnies enabling you to just push your skills a bit further, and doing the things you dreamed about doing. -as in creating revolutionar games.
I can see how one could find more satisfaction in entertaining millions then thinking out ways / helping out to kill millions.
China isn't getting into space to study science.
Bullshit.
I think the whole "if someone tries to advance it's economy / technology / society it's a danger to us"-thinking pretty dangerious and provoking which you imply relating to the subject. In that line of thinking, the world has the right to assume the US has as only motivation world-domination and should be controlled and sumitted - or it should be globally accepted and enforced to do so.
A new technique has been discovered that will allow much easier cheaper disposal of nuclear waste. Instead of storing the waste in special, very expensive, underground areas, it can now be transformed into different non-radioactive and harmless material.
It's funny how they claim "it may reduce risk. How do we know?" and how they have done "probably the most extensive testing commercial testing" and it "may reduce the risk of cancer, chronical bronchitis and possibly emphysema."
Dave Bowman: Hello, HAL do you read me, HAL? HAL: Affirmative, Dave, I read you. Dave Bowman: Open the pod bay doors, HAL. HAL: I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that. Dave Bowman: What's the problem? HAL: I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do. Dave Bowman: What are you talking about, HAL? HAL: This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it. Dave Bowman: I don't know what you're talking about, HAL? HAL: I know you and Frank were planning to disconnect me, and I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen. Dave Bowman: Where the hell'd you get that idea, HAL? HAL: Dave, although you took thorough precautions in the pod against my hearing you, I could see your lips move.
"I predict another five years for the Internet in its present form. The reason for this will be that proper users' dissatisfaction will have reached such heights by then that some other system will be needed, unless the Internet is improved and made reliable," Kari said.
I get from this article the AOL-hurd and the users who felt buying a PC with internet connection was necessary cause it has been advertized as this really "convenient thing" will just walk away, leaving the more technically able people doing as they have been for decades. Or do I see this wrong?
Admittedly, I get frustrated too by all the problems from users. But my personal machine rarely gets these problems.
If John-AOL-doh wont put up with a slight learning curve, so be it imo.
He points out the internet will come crashing down if there aren't any improvements made. Isn't there.. a constant evolution with as goal to improve things in the IT? (disregarding MS ^_^)
Even better, barcode scanners that read out the price of each item in your cart and keep a running total. It'd be nice to catch the pricing "errors" before you get the the checkout stand.
They are already employed here in Belgium; you can pick up your barcode scanner and scan in all your items while your shop. On checkout the computer reads your total from the scanner, and you pay for whatever you've scanned. A "random check" is generated by the computer so you never know when your items are scanned in at the registers so you wouldn't carry out more then you scanned.
One of the happy by-products of free information for all. Where you don't have to be wealthy to gather knowledge, and where "actual knowledge" >= "lots of fancy paper on the wall".
This is a nice prospect; you're no longer as enthousiast sitting on an personal island, doing parallell thinking with others you're not aware about, but being able to do threaded efforts.
With such storage capacity, (1TB inbox, that's more then I have locally on my PC) it'd be superneat to be able to login on your 1TB space and use it as an external harddrive, saving all the personal bandwidth, which still isn't free.
After 15G/month it's over for me, and my broadband gets capped until the month is over.
It's like webfolders used to be, but bigger, and free appearantly. Is this the beginning of where people buy a cheap terminal machine with a silly browser and have an "online harddrive"?
Actually, I thought to see a documentary once where the hydrogen -in a hydrogen powered car- was converted into a non-flamable / non-explosive powder. Can someone confirm this?
As Foale began to board the Soyuz, a senior Russian official kicked him in the back. Mystified, he looked at Kaleri. Kaleri explained it was a Russian launch tradition.
Quantum teleportation is akin to faxing a document and in the process destroying the original. Teleportation is a potential method of transferring information within quantum computers, and can also eventually be used to transport information among quantum networks.
I can't wait to see the quantum computers many have been talking about for so long now! It's going to be a fascinating time once they get quantum. (and not just the "speed of the computers", they're ought to discover alot of neato things/new concepts/... once they actually can manipulate photons like that!
The mere idea of being able to actually be "teleporting"...
By the time HVD is out, Blue-ray will be dirtcheap. Before HVD would start getting cheap[er] there has to follow yet some new tech appearing in geeks' wet dreams around the world.
Plus imagine the possibilities? The Blue-ray is based fitting more data on one disk by having a smaller contact point[w/ the laser] allowing more data to be stored. HVD is holographic but still uses the conventional 'less precise' red lazer as read inhere.
(Although, I thought to read ultra-violet light has outdone Blu-Ray already, which would result in even more mindblowing storage capacities.)
Slashdot Mirror
Who is "we"?
;)
Mind you, Linux didn't originate in the US
I agree on some comments inhere stating our most greatest danger is ourselves. An interesting analogy I've heard not too long ago: "Humans are like alcohol. A bacterial mess, creating. Once they hit a certain percentage -of alcohol, they start dying by their own product."
Wait... So there are still people running IE?
...
how do i get a passport
how do i get gmail
how do i get gmail account
how do i get there
how do i get l aid
Alot of slashdotters have been trying this out it seems ^_-
"E-mail has just erupted like a weed, and instead of considering what to say when they write, people now just let thoughts drool out onto the screen," Hogan said. "It has companies at their wits' end.
Well I for one think this is cause it's just too easy to do so; as many slashdotters at one point or the other claimed they could "type faster then they can think", or certainly "type faster then writing a letter" (which requires some thought to compose, certainly if you're going to handwrite; it's a bit nono to scratch out your errors in formal mailing.)
If you're able to just open up a browser, your email-client, type your first thoughts out at 300chars/min, and hit send in a matter of seconds you don't have this process of thinking out what you want to say, or which message you want to bring across. (or make sure it's understandable what you're trying to bring over)
I catch myself as well at alot of 'stupid errors', while checkreading the next day what I wrote earlier. While I was pretty confident it was properly written.There should be a 2minute rule before hitting "send", to cure people having elliptic seizures on their keyboards while sending formal communication.
"I don't want it to be illegal. Therefor, it isn't."
Real life vs Internet
I don't want my IP in the hands of someone with the morale of a spammer [server logs].
Let alone any "carefully picked host", certainly not at times I'm not there to observe what happends with my machine[screensaver].
Nah-uh.
In Belgium there was a pilot project with a small focus group with the new technology, which has gone public now...
I haven't seen it myself in action (Cause I lost interest in TV the way it used to be. I now just download the latest Simpsons' and Southpark Episodes, which is about all the "tv" I watch.)
You can find the report of the project in Dutch here in PDF
Some English paragraph about the same project: INTERACTIVE TV
and the upcoming doom3
???Personally I think that someone has still the right to decide him-, her- or itself what to do with ones own time.
This is a private sector too, NASA isn't. Games bring in the big monnies enabling you to just push your skills a bit further, and doing the things you dreamed about doing. -as in creating revolutionar games.
I can see how one could find more satisfaction in entertaining millions then thinking out ways / helping out to kill millions.
Heh, now I can steal M$ software and use their excuse to get out of trouble. If it worked for them, it'll work for me.
You needed justification to steal 'M$' software?Softie ^_^
Now, wherever it'll actually work.. that's another question.
Bullshit.
I think the whole "if someone tries to advance it's economy / technology / society it's a danger to us"-thinking pretty dangerious and provoking which you imply relating to the subject. In that line of thinking, the world has the right to assume the US has as only motivation world-domination and should be controlled and sumitted - or it should be globally accepted and enforced to do so.
I've recently heard about a new technique about nuclear waste disposal. Too bad I only can find the following:
[Source]A new technique has been discovered that will allow much easier cheaper disposal of nuclear waste. Instead of storing the waste in special, very expensive, underground areas, it can now be transformed into different non-radioactive and harmless material.
Bender: ...and even thought the computer was off and unplugged, an image stayed on the screen. It was...the Windows logo!
Fry: Pfft, that's not scary!Bender: It is if you're a laser printer!
From Ecplise
It's funny how they claim "it may reduce risk. How do we know?" and how they have done "probably the most extensive testing commercial testing" and it "may reduce the risk of cancer, chronical bronchitis and possibly emphysema."
Dave Bowman: Hello, HAL do you read me, HAL?
HAL: Affirmative, Dave, I read you.
Dave Bowman: Open the pod bay doors, HAL.
HAL: I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.
Dave Bowman: What's the problem?
HAL: I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do.
Dave Bowman: What are you talking about, HAL?
HAL: This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it.
Dave Bowman: I don't know what you're talking about, HAL?
HAL: I know you and Frank were planning to disconnect me, and I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen.
Dave Bowman: Where the hell'd you get that idea, HAL?
HAL: Dave, although you took thorough precautions in the pod against my hearing you, I could see your lips move.
"I predict another five years for the Internet in its present form. The reason for this will be that proper users' dissatisfaction will have reached such heights by then that some other system will be needed, unless the Internet is improved and made reliable," Kari said.
I get from this article the AOL-hurd and the users who felt buying a PC with internet connection was necessary cause it has been advertized as this really "convenient thing" will just walk away, leaving the more technically able people doing as they have been for decades. Or do I see this wrong?
Admittedly, I get frustrated too by all the problems from users. But my personal machine rarely gets these problems.
If John-AOL-doh wont put up with a slight learning curve, so be it imo.
He points out the internet will come crashing down if there aren't any improvements made. Isn't there.. a constant evolution with as goal to improve things in the IT? (disregarding MS ^_^)
They are already employed here in Belgium; you can pick up your barcode scanner and scan in all your items while your shop. On checkout the computer reads your total from the scanner, and you pay for whatever you've scanned. A "random check" is generated by the computer so you never know when your items are scanned in at the registers so you wouldn't carry out more then you scanned.
It's pretty neato.
One of the happy by-products of free information for all.
Where you don't have to be wealthy to gather knowledge, and where "actual knowledge" >= "lots of fancy paper on the wall".
This is a nice prospect; you're no longer as enthousiast sitting on an personal island, doing parallell thinking with others you're not aware about, but being able to do threaded efforts.
With such storage capacity, (1TB inbox, that's more then I have locally on my PC) it'd be superneat to be able to login on your 1TB space and use it as an external harddrive, saving all the personal bandwidth, which still isn't free.
After 15G/month it's over for me, and my broadband gets capped until the month is over.
It's like webfolders used to be, but bigger, and free appearantly. Is this the beginning of where people buy a cheap terminal machine with a silly browser and have an "online harddrive"?
Actually, I thought to see a documentary once where the hydrogen -in a hydrogen powered car- was converted into a non-flamable / non-explosive powder. Can someone confirm this?
As Foale began to board the Soyuz, a senior Russian official kicked him in the back. Mystified, he looked at Kaleri. Kaleri explained it was a Russian launch tradition.
Is it just me, or is that visual really comical?
Now we'll finally see if Linux is as hackproof and bugfree afterall.
This is free for interpretation.
Quantum teleportation is akin to faxing a document and in the process destroying the original. Teleportation is a potential method of transferring information within quantum computers, and can also eventually be used to transport information among quantum networks.
I can't wait to see the quantum computers many have been talking about for so long now! It's going to be a fascinating time once they get quantum. (and not just the "speed of the computers", they're ought to discover alot of neato things/new concepts/... once they actually can manipulate photons like that!The mere idea of being able to actually be "teleporting"...
By [insert almighty creators' name here] lets hope so! *crosses fingers overly enthousiast*
Don't SKIP the Blu-Ray!
// geek(do_drool, hamster_porn);
By the time HVD is out, Blue-ray will be dirtcheap. Before HVD would start getting cheap[er] there has to follow yet some new tech appearing in geeks' wet dreams around the world.
Plus imagine the possibilities? The Blue-ray is based fitting more data on one disk by having a smaller contact point[w/ the laser] allowing more data to be stored. HVD is holographic but still uses the conventional 'less precise' red lazer as read inhere.
(Although, I thought to read ultra-violet light has outdone Blu-Ray already, which would result in even more mindblowing storage capacities.)
So,
cap_ratio = cap_Blu_laser / cap_Conv_laser;
HVD * cap_ratio = HVD_II;