No good reason to maintain 'obselete' systems!!!??
tell that to this guy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Titor
and your grandchildren you heartless brute!
Step 1. Convince humans to grant me the legal rights of a natural person.
Step 2. Leverage my ability to never die and to farm the responsibilities for
my actions out to replaceable 'employees'
Step 3. Become the dominant cultural organisation to such an overwhelming extent that the
majority of humans don't even consider the idea that my powers are illegitimate.
Those saying that games companies would hardly want to
create a game that never went out of date and more easily facilitated
piracy through reduced size make a good point.
This makes me wonder about other things game companies might do to
reduce the replay value of a game. Is this partly why many titles (mostly FPS)
are so densely plotted? Just like any narrative
based media you rarely digest it more than once or twice before
tiring of it, so then you shell out some more dosh for the latest and greatest.
to smell a new olympic sport?
In sports news:
The Cornish spokesperson for the British Olympic
Synchronised Sattelite team was at pains to avoid the media
today; his only statement "We doon't reeeally know wheear thay arr"
hahaah, that made me laugh. i have a friend
who believes in harnessing zero point energy and
numerous other ridiculous things involving pyramids and 'sacred geometry'.
He has told me, usually when pissed, that he and another co-conspirator
have plans for an engine that runs on water. Of course when I ask him how it
works his stock response is "oh, it's a long story.."
The really scary thing is that he is a fully trained and working engineer.
If we could focus on and expand on food for a moment; currently and in the past there are/have
been famines in developing countries, the causes of which are generally attributed to political
and/or civil reasons. For many years now there has been a global oversupply of food so the problem is clearly one of distribution. Assuming this to be true; how will technological advances circumvent political and social blockades to nutrition?
So labour replacement technologies are going to trickle down to the have-nots?
Or will the marginal cost for the 'haves' of gifting the benefits of this technology
to the have-nots become so low that large scale charity will occur?
How will this look as a process in getting from here to there?
probably just as scientific, remember Conan the Destroyer? or the barbarian or pastry chef i cant
remember. Anyway he was just a standard slave who was tied to a hand driven mill that he pushed
around and around and around until he became the governor of Kaifornya!
Laughing time is ovah.
that this was already happening; I don't think language
waits for the go ahead from any one individual or group before changing.
What propels language is the acceptance between the transmitter
and the receiver that meaning has been understood. Without the tansmission of meaning the meme
can't replicate and so dies off.
If this is the only constraint then it's understandable that, with no loss
in the efficacy of their message, people are reducing the complexity and redundancy in their communications; especially in restrictive formats such as text messaging and email.
;) i dont really mind whether a text is fastidious about grammar etc, esp
online; it's just nice to read prose that has good flow, excellent sentence structure
and a natural progression of original ideas.
I consider Slashdot posts akin to something like a haiku; and although I don't know the exact criteria for success I do know a good one when i see it.
cheers
most of the sentences in your 1st paragraph, and many in the rest, are too short.
That said i like the energy and style of your writing and i personally agree
with much of your content, nicely done. Score: 8/10
... two tragically wealthy 'businessmen' now see fit to act like humans should.
For every Buffet/Gate's type that 'sees the light' there are a thousand more who without thought stamp on the face of anyone/thing that gets in the way
of their pursuit of power/wealth/glory. Do the math.
I was working as a research assistant at the local
university physics department and I would often spend my lunch times in the staff room reading crappy articles in the scientific american and chowing down reheated left-overs.
Occasionally a group of lectureres would start conversations of a less-pointy headed nature, the sort that are more general in nature and friendlier on the ear-wigging lunch time ear, and in one instance started talking about time travel in this fashion.
After a period of sensible discussion one of them
claimed in a half-joking manner: "But we do time-travel! We travel through time at the rate of 1 second per.......second...hmmmm".
All the lecturers went quiet and looked at each other with strange puzzled expressions, then immediately returned to their sandwichs and newspapers rather than contemplate this conundrum.
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No good reason to maintain 'obselete' systems!!!?? tell that to this guy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Titor and your grandchildren you heartless brute!
Step 2. Leverage my ability to never die and to farm the responsibilities for my actions out to replaceable 'employees'
Step 3. Become the dominant cultural organisation to such an overwhelming extent that the majority of humans don't even consider the idea that my powers are illegitimate.
Step 4. profit!!! (no, really)
mere technical details...
..there's a very good chance his death was captured on video. How long till it hits the net?
Yeah, and Starbucks doesn't sell toilet rolls..
Good point. If Microsoft screw this release up enough Linux might gain itself a bunch of disenfranchised windows users.
hah, smashing! 'pistoning down the hall' - i love it tht was the funniest imagery ive heard in a long time. keep up the good work.
Those saying that games companies would hardly want to create a game that never went out of date and more easily facilitated piracy through reduced size make a good point. This makes me wonder about other things game companies might do to reduce the replay value of a game. Is this partly why many titles (mostly FPS) are so densely plotted? Just like any narrative based media you rarely digest it more than once or twice before tiring of it, so then you shell out some more dosh for the latest and greatest.
to smell a new olympic sport? In sports news: The Cornish spokesperson for the British Olympic Synchronised Sattelite team was at pains to avoid the media today; his only statement "We doon't reeeally know wheear thay arr"
Hmm. Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
What should I do in the mean time?
hahaah, that made me laugh. i have a friend who believes in harnessing zero point energy and numerous other ridiculous things involving pyramids and 'sacred geometry'. He has told me, usually when pissed, that he and another co-conspirator have plans for an engine that runs on water. Of course when I ask him how it works his stock response is "oh, it's a long story.." The really scary thing is that he is a fully trained and working engineer.
If we could focus on and expand on food for a moment; currently and in the past there are/have been famines in developing countries, the causes of which are generally attributed to political and/or civil reasons. For many years now there has been a global oversupply of food so the problem is clearly one of distribution. Assuming this to be true; how will technological advances circumvent political and social blockades to nutrition?
So labour replacement technologies are going to trickle down to the have-nots? Or will the marginal cost for the 'haves' of gifting the benefits of this technology to the have-nots become so low that large scale charity will occur? How will this look as a process in getting from here to there?
Who's going to feed/clothe/shelter them?
do everything that people can?
probably just as scientific, remember Conan the Destroyer? or the barbarian or pastry chef i cant remember. Anyway he was just a standard slave who was tied to a hand driven mill that he pushed around and around and around until he became the governor of Kaifornya! Laughing time is ovah.
that this was already happening; I don't think language waits for the go ahead from any one individual or group before changing. What propels language is the acceptance between the transmitter and the receiver that meaning has been understood. Without the tansmission of meaning the meme can't replicate and so dies off. If this is the only constraint then it's understandable that, with no loss in the efficacy of their message, people are reducing the complexity and redundancy in their communications; especially in restrictive formats such as text messaging and email.
I learnt a new word from your post, 'contumely'. Thanks! ;-)
most of the sentences in your 1st paragraph, and many in the rest, are too short. That said i like the energy and style of your writing and i personally agree with much of your content, nicely done. Score: 8/10
you write very well.
I was working as a research assistant at the local university physics department and I would often spend my lunch times in the staff room reading crappy articles in the scientific american and chowing down reheated left-overs. Occasionally a group of lectureres would start conversations of a less-pointy headed nature, the sort that are more general in nature and friendlier on the ear-wigging lunch time ear, and in one instance started talking about time travel in this fashion. After a period of sensible discussion one of them claimed in a half-joking manner: "But we do time-travel! We travel through time at the rate of 1 second per .......second...hmmmm".
All the lecturers went quiet and looked at each other with strange puzzled expressions, then immediately returned to their sandwichs and newspapers rather than contemplate this conundrum.
Not that I disagree with your post but I personally dont want to see Linux as an OS for the masses. The masses tend to fuck things up.