Esperanto had its chance nearly a century ago and blew it. Even most of the Esperanto movement has given up on the fina venko ("final victory") and dabble in Esperanto because they enjoy building their own little subculture.
Can you elaborate? What do you mean by 'blew it'? Also, why has the movement given up on the "fina venko", and what does that mean exactly (other than your given translation to English)?
Okay, I'll give you a few predictions right now, and we'll see if I'm a nutter:
1: We'll colonize and even explore space (because if we don't get off this rock, we're as good as dead).
2: We'll have something much closer to true virtual reality devices and use them willingly (a bit obvious I suppose)
3: Not everyone will go the cyborg route. In fact, only a few may, because of the 'ick' format that many people will detest. Star Trek agrees here (and no, Geordi La Forge doesn't count).
4: At some point, we'll have sky cars. We'll need better batteries, and good AI for stability and non-crashability, but we'll get there (eventually, we'll even be able to drive them for fun (with the safety mechanisms kicking in if we make a wrong move).
5: (Hot) fusion will become viable at some stage too (we could really do with the energy to feed our sky cars etc. with.)
6: And the big one; fewer and fewer people will have traditional jobs, letting the robots/computers do the admin / manual work for them. Instead, we'll be exploring, learning, creating, having fun, or socializing (eventually mankind will realize that higher unemployment is a good thing, and not a bad) . 7: There will be a universal currency, universal language, and universal OS (don't worry, not necessarily Windows, MacOS, or Linux) at some point which most (>99%) can and will use. It'll take a while, and will probably happen after most people stop working, but at some point, we will all agree to get along (traveling to outer space, and to the stars may add some confusion to this point however).
I can guarantee that at least six of those things will happen. Perhaps not all in our lifetime though.
Actually, the demurrage scheme is what put me off a bit. It just seems to add a layer of complexity/admin that we don't need. Because the currency is intrinsically stable, do we need to start messing about with depreciation of the Terra whenever it is transmitted? Or maybe I haven't understood it properly...
Slightly on topic: Does anyone here have any opinion over the Terra - a common world currency that is based on the top 10 or so produce of the world (gold, corn, oil etc.), and so is much more stable and less prone to inflation. I saw it a couple of days ago, and I can't help but feel it would save trillions in efficiency and help benefit the world.
Not all arcade game producers were like that. Many games such as 'The New Zealand Story', 'Pang', 'Super Wonderboy', 'Strider' or 'R-Type' would last quite a while, especially if you were good. These games were created out of a love for their craft, rather than purely just money.
Sure they made them tricky, and often short. But in any case, often I wish more games these days had more quality over quantity like that, where you get a better run in a shorter time frame.
If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, then it is a duck. It may be called yellow/blue, but if it presents an impression of red to the person, then, calling it the red cone makes more sense doesn't it?
I've asked this countless times before to various people, but noone's ever known the answer - maybe you can help.
If one were to activate each of the three cones individually (i.e. hypothetically disabling the other two cones), what colours would one see? Three answers for each combination.
Disable G & B - what would R look like? (I'm guessing red) Disable R & B - what would G look like? (I'm guessing green) Disable R & G - what would B look like? (I'm guessing blue)
Wow, someone with a 4th cone. I am so curious! Do you feel as if the 4th primary is a completely independent colour all by itself, or is there some overlap with one or more of the other three?
Alos, do you believe the RGB cones represent what we see as RGB, or do you the think you perceive colours as 'squashed together' so that the 4th primary is essentially what we see as blue/violet?. Which means really you only see 3 primary colours like us, but that each cone shares some colour pollution with adjacent cones. Is that a possibility?
The typical user shouldn't have to worry about not having the right version of Java on their system, let alone compiling. I can use a shell and can program, but even I'd find that a pain.
Tags you've already assigned to previous files can essentially *act* as folders anyway (a list of tags sorted by date can be added to an accompanying dropdown just before you save or load). Of course, I think most would rather type in the name of the tag anyway (instead of navigating through folders), so that's possible if you'd prefer to do that.
Unfortunately, searches even in Win7 take on the order of seconds instead of milliseconds, and you can't save tags easily, unless you put everything in the filename.
Upon first reading this headline, I thought it was evil incarnate. Then I realized it only applied to sales, and BAM - instant reversal of my opinion of Amazon.
I've said it before - multiple currencies across the world creates unnecessary work, but this tax thing sounds 10x worse and unnecessary than even that. I created an acronym specially for this condition called UWS. It stands for "Unnecessary Work Syndrome", and arbitrary and convoluted tax collection schemes fit right into that.
Funny, I have the reverse problem in C# in standard Windows 7, where I couldn't write to the same Program Files / myprogram directory, even though I really wanted to (I like to keep things together, not splattered over the whole OS). Obviously, that's because of the lame UAC business.
I'm sure it's perfectly possible for a non.NET developer who optimizes the heck out of every program to nevertheless write poorly designed programs which weren't that useful to begin with. And obviously the reverse too..NET is there to make our lives easier. Otherwise we would be programming in machine code all the time. So well, you can use a command line (slow clap...).
Taking that approach to the extreme, publishers should spend time writing software for every OS, including even the really obscure ones which even 99% of Linux users have never heard of. More choice isn't necessarily better (apart from for creative areas like music/film etc.).
It may take a while, but I think paper is on its way out.
I think maybe you overreacted a bit there? I'm sure the false cold fusion fiasco left a bitter taste in the mouth, but the announcement of this was nothing like that, and was much more careful. Yes the news topic here changed the meaning slightly, but you honestly think as a result that people might harpoon CERN and say "You promised these particles were faster that light, and you were wrong - shock! horror! etc.".
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Oops, my bad. Yeah, I misread your previous post.
Yes, I thought someone might bring that Q episode up ;) But A: He's used to it, and B: Most people from the Star Trek realm didn't choose it at all.
I meant he didn't initially choose to be like that - it's an aid.
Esperanto had its chance nearly a century ago and blew it. Even most of the Esperanto movement has given up on the fina venko ("final victory") and dabble in Esperanto because they enjoy building their own little subculture.
Can you elaborate? What do you mean by 'blew it'? Also, why has the movement given up on the "fina venko", and what does that mean exactly (other than your given translation to English)?
Okay, I'll give you a few predictions right now, and we'll see if I'm a nutter:
1: We'll colonize and even explore space (because if we don't get off this rock, we're as good as dead).
2: We'll have something much closer to true virtual reality devices and use them willingly (a bit obvious I suppose)
3: Not everyone will go the cyborg route. In fact, only a few may, because of the 'ick' format that many people will detest. Star Trek agrees here (and no, Geordi La Forge doesn't count).
4: At some point, we'll have sky cars. We'll need better batteries, and good AI for stability and non-crashability, but we'll get there (eventually, we'll even be able to drive them for fun (with the safety mechanisms kicking in if we make a wrong move).
5: (Hot) fusion will become viable at some stage too (we could really do with the energy to feed our sky cars etc. with.)
6: And the big one; fewer and fewer people will have traditional jobs, letting the robots/computers do the admin / manual work for them. Instead, we'll be exploring, learning, creating, having fun, or socializing (eventually mankind will realize that higher unemployment is a good thing, and not a bad)
.
7: There will be a universal currency, universal language, and universal OS (don't worry, not necessarily Windows, MacOS, or Linux) at some point which most (>99%) can and will use. It'll take a while, and will probably happen after most people stop working, but at some point, we will all agree to get along (traveling to outer space, and to the stars may add some confusion to this point however).
I can guarantee that at least six of those things will happen. Perhaps not all in our lifetime though.
Actually, the demurrage scheme is what put me off a bit. It just seems to add a layer of complexity/admin that we don't need. Because the currency is intrinsically stable, do we need to start messing about with depreciation of the Terra whenever it is transmitted? Or maybe I haven't understood it properly...
Slightly on topic: Does anyone here have any opinion over the Terra - a common world currency that is based on the top 10 or so produce of the world (gold, corn, oil etc.), and so is much more stable and less prone to inflation. I saw it a couple of days ago, and I can't help but feel it would save trillions in efficiency and help benefit the world.
Whitepaper here:
http://www.terratrc.org/PDF/Terra_WhitePaper_2.27.04.pdf
Not all arcade game producers were like that. Many games such as 'The New Zealand Story', 'Pang', 'Super Wonderboy', 'Strider' or 'R-Type' would last quite a while, especially if you were good. These games were created out of a love for their craft, rather than purely just money.
Sure they made them tricky, and often short. But in any case, often I wish more games these days had more quality over quantity like that, where you get a better run in a shorter time frame.
So you're partially wrong in 2 different ways.
If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, then it is a duck. It may be called yellow/blue, but if it presents an impression of red to the person, then, calling it the red cone makes more sense doesn't it?
I've asked this countless times before to various people, but noone's ever known the answer - maybe you can help.
If one were to activate each of the three cones individually (i.e. hypothetically disabling the other two cones), what colours would one see? Three answers for each combination.
Disable G & B - what would R look like? (I'm guessing red)
Disable R & B - what would G look like? (I'm guessing green)
Disable R & G - what would B look like? (I'm guessing blue)
Wow, someone with a 4th cone. I am so curious! Do you feel as if the 4th primary is a completely independent colour all by itself, or is there some overlap with one or more of the other three?
Alos, do you believe the RGB cones represent what we see as RGB, or do you the think you perceive colours as 'squashed together' so that the 4th primary is essentially what we see as blue/violet?. Which means really you only see 3 primary colours like us, but that each cone shares some colour pollution with adjacent cones. Is that a possibility?
Love to hear an answer to this.
The typical user shouldn't have to worry about not having the right version of Java on their system, let alone compiling. I can use a shell and can program, but even I'd find that a pain.
Last time I used it on Windows, it was quite slow.
To do that, of course, Open Office has to actually do something new.
Rewriting software from scratch isn't as easy as you think... :)
What were some of the hardest hurdles you had to overcome to get this working?
Semi-random question: What obstacles are stopping us from permanently having a space-station that's completely cut off from the Earth?
Lack of water is the obvious thing, since energy can be provided by solar. Sigh, we'll be needing energy to matter converters by the looks of it...
Tags you've already assigned to previous files can essentially *act* as folders anyway (a list of tags sorted by date can be added to an accompanying dropdown just before you save or load). Of course, I think most would rather type in the name of the tag anyway (instead of navigating through folders), so that's possible if you'd prefer to do that.
Unfortunately, searches even in Win7 take on the order of seconds instead of milliseconds, and you can't save tags easily, unless you put everything in the filename.
Upon first reading this headline, I thought it was evil incarnate. Then I realized it only applied to sales, and BAM - instant reversal of my opinion of Amazon.
I've said it before - multiple currencies across the world creates unnecessary work, but this tax thing sounds 10x worse and unnecessary than even that. I created an acronym specially for this condition called UWS. It stands for "Unnecessary Work Syndrome", and arbitrary and convoluted tax collection schemes fit right into that.
Well then just tag the file with what you would've called the folder. And let the client give a list of the tags.
Metadata systems are a superset of folders, and the sooner we embrace them, the sooner we'll reach the future.
Yeah, but do we really read for the story and not the comments? In fact, I forgot what the story was even about...
Funny, I have the reverse problem in C# in standard Windows 7, where I couldn't write to the same Program Files / myprogram directory, even though I really wanted to (I like to keep things together, not splattered over the whole OS). Obviously, that's because of the lame UAC business.
I'm sure it's perfectly possible for a non .NET developer who optimizes the heck out of every program to nevertheless write poorly designed programs which weren't that useful to begin with. And obviously the reverse too. .NET is there to make our lives easier. Otherwise we would be programming in machine code all the time. So well, you can use a command line (slow clap...).
Taking that approach to the extreme, publishers should spend time writing software for every OS, including even the really obscure ones which even 99% of Linux users have never heard of. More choice isn't necessarily better (apart from for creative areas like music/film etc.).
It may take a while, but I think paper is on its way out.
Sounds good in theory. I bet even then though, Microsoft will still find a reason to have a giant disk-thrashing pagefile.
I think maybe you overreacted a bit there? I'm sure the false cold fusion fiasco left a bitter taste in the mouth, but the announcement of this was nothing like that, and was much more careful. Yes the news topic here changed the meaning slightly, but you honestly think as a result that people might harpoon CERN and say "You promised these particles were faster that light, and you were wrong - shock! horror! etc.".