I know I'm gonna get flamed for this but, "whose innovative" issues and "so what" arguments aside, it does look shit hot and I know many people who would buy it and many people who could benefit from it. I can do quite a bit of that on my XDA but it doesn't look half as cool and isn't half as smooth and quick as that.
I work in an open plan office so I can never surf the net... wait.
I love the way the office is set out though. We have quite a lot of space. we can do pretty much what we like to our desks, it seats 13 but there is usually about 7 in at any one time and it's quite big, the people are friendly and if the noise is putting me off my coding I simply mash play on my iPod.
Surely it is down to the workers to sort them selves out and if they can't adapt to the different types of office layout it's their problem. I would prefer a cubicle some times but the way things are don't affect my work.
As they puzzled and wondered, the bushes at the end parted and XML walked into the light.
XML! Exclaimed C++. What are you doing here? You're not a programming language.
Tell that to the people who use me, said XML.
1) Design a project (that will work) to send back a random signal
2) Set the date that the signal will be sent in the future
3) Set up some observation equipment to read the signal
4) If your observation equipment manages to get the said future signal you know it works
5) Destroy the transmitting equipment before the day that you are to send the signal back
6) Wait
This is obviously retarded speculation.
hmmm. I wonder if the original data collected from the observation equipment would magically disappear? Better ask the Doc...
Some cities, such as Reykjavik, already use hydrogen to power buses. But Iceland gets some electricity and over 80% of its heating and hot water from geothermal energy sources, and can produce the hydrogen emission-free. Other countries need to find ways to produce the hydrogen sustainably.
IMHO, if you are going to the trouble of writing artificially intelligent elements for an OS it shouldn't necessarily be visible to the user, it should be more to help the OS become stable and work more appropriately. It would be nice if an OS learnt how to use whatever hardware was plugged into its system. I'm not sure how possible this would be but I know there are several projects out there working on writing applications that better them selves at performing certain and can almost in effect, work things out with out given any specific pointers or direction by the programmer.
Users should be bought out of this technophobia. Software companies are hiding more and more and this is a bad thing. I don't know how the average user will look in 20 years time because more and more people are becoming less scared of using computers for basic tasks because they are being bought up using them but Software companies are insisting on hiding any thing remotely technical.
People change their minds and what if you get a schizophrenic using an Auto-adaptive GUI? Their system might go to far in one direction and then every thing would have to be reset. It all depends on how far developers want to take it.
Who are the guys that write these things in the first place any way? I always assumed people with the brains to write a piece of software like this would be a frequent slashdoter and would see that this is a bad idea. Are they really growing developers with these capabilities, with no idea of what would actually work and be useful? Is it all about money?
I'm sure Da Vinci would have been happy to have one of his paintings hung up-side-down in a gallery because the curator thought it looked better that way.
It was Hail To The Thief that was unofficially leaked on the internet and it STILL knocked beat Metallica in album sales on release which made me chuckle. There was never any thing proven with the Kid A leak, I would be grateful if some one could shed some light on this. I'm fairly confident after seeing an interview and seeing them on this tour that the band "leaked" it.
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I know I'm gonna get flamed for this but, "whose innovative" issues and "so what" arguments aside, it does look shit hot and I know many people who would buy it and many people who could benefit from it. I can do quite a bit of that on my XDA but it doesn't look half as cool and isn't half as smooth and quick as that.
'tis a tad expensive though.
...So does clothes
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I work in an open plan office so I can never surf the net... wait.
I love the way the office is set out though. We have quite a lot of space. we can do pretty much what we like to our desks, it seats 13 but there is usually about 7 in at any one time and it's quite big, the people are friendly and if the noise is putting me off my coding I simply mash play on my iPod.
Surely it is down to the workers to sort them selves out and if they can't adapt to the different types of office layout it's their problem. I would prefer a cubicle some times but the way things are don't affect my work.
...would have been a more appropriate exert:
As they puzzled and wondered, the bushes at the end parted and XML walked into the light.
XML! Exclaimed C++. What are you doing here? You're not a programming language.
Tell that to the people who use me, said XML.
1) Design a project (that will work) to send back a random signal
2) Set the date that the signal will be sent in the future
3) Set up some observation equipment to read the signal
4) If your observation equipment manages to get the said future signal you know it works
5) Destroy the transmitting equipment before the day that you are to send the signal back
6) Wait
This is obviously retarded speculation.
hmmm. I wonder if the original data collected from the observation equipment would magically disappear? Better ask the Doc...
http://www.hydro.com/en/press_room/news/archive/2
http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,3604,94313
They don't just use hydrogen.
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/earth/energy-
They are lucky they live where they do. It's a hot bed of free energy.
AI OS?
IMHO, if you are going to the trouble of writing artificially intelligent elements for an OS it shouldn't necessarily be visible to the user, it should be more to help the OS become stable and work more appropriately. It would be nice if an OS learnt how to use whatever hardware was plugged into its system. I'm not sure how possible this would be but I know there are several projects out there working on writing applications that better them selves at performing certain and can almost in effect, work things out with out given any specific pointers or direction by the programmer.
Users should be bought out of this technophobia. Software companies are hiding more and more and this is a bad thing. I don't know how the average user will look in 20 years time because more and more people are becoming less scared of using computers for basic tasks because they are being bought up using them but Software companies are insisting on hiding any thing remotely technical.
People change their minds and what if you get a schizophrenic using an Auto-adaptive GUI? Their system might go to far in one direction and then every thing would have to be reset. It all depends on how far developers want to take it.
Who are the guys that write these things in the first place any way? I always assumed people with the brains to write a piece of software like this would be a frequent slashdoter and would see that this is a bad idea. Are they really growing developers with these capabilities, with no idea of what would actually work and be useful? Is it all about money?
I'm sure Da Vinci would have been happy to have one of his paintings hung up-side-down in a gallery because the curator thought it looked better that way.
It was Hail To The Thief that was unofficially leaked on the internet and it STILL knocked beat Metallica in album sales on release which made me chuckle. There was never any thing proven with the Kid A leak, I would be grateful if some one could shed some light on this. I'm fairly confident after seeing an interview and seeing them on this tour that the band "leaked" it.
Gescom and Autechre did this a while back http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gescom.
I would like to here the Jazz one though.