Even if there was only one species like us reaching maturity every million years and there had been 1000 of them over one billion years, we should have seen some sign of them. We should see the odd bit of hardware on the moon, or specular reflections from old bits of gear as they float by. The lunar surface is so clean yet its been acting as a filter for passing meteorites for the last four billion years. I take your point about us being more careful about power emission, but at the same time we still broadcast TV, set off nukes. We should stand out like a sore thumb.
So where are the aliens? With this many planets available we should be able to hear or see a few alien civilisations by now. Something is wrong with the assumption that aliens will "grow up like us". I don't think it will happen as often as we assume.
I watched 2001 again recently and noticed something new (for me). In the first scene which shows the space pod in the room at the end you see an internal display which alternates between "LIF" and something like "NONEXIST". We think we see this from Bowman's POV, but it seems the pod doesn't think Bowman is alive at all.
Based on my time in high school, I expect those 500 million habitable planets are all inviting each other to parties, picking each other for teams, and definitely getting laid. Earth is getting left out, and nobody has the heart to tell us.
I think we should pass on getting laid for the time being thanks.
The "Minority Report" interface is an OS thing. Intel doesn't do that. They do hardware. The hardware they sell now is more than capable of doing that right now, if you've got the software.
Yes but I don't know why you think we were talking about Intel.
The fundamental problem with encryption is key negotiation. You don't get any security at all if the attacker can listen in when the session is being set up.
See QtMoko but getting an OS to work cleanly on a mobile is very hard. You have to deal with some many corner cases which will really annoy the user if you get them wrong.
The real interesting thing will be when we can get real productivity apps to seamlessly move from mobile to laptop to desktop and back.
Yes I agree. HP were hinting at WebOS on the desktop as well as tablets and phones. I hoped that they could implement "minority report" style integration between all three so you could drag unsaved work in progress from one device to another.
I work on large scale air traffic control systems which run Linux and I don't envy the LSE in their task. Most of our interfaces are relatively simple and go out to organisations with a good history of validating interfaces. This trading system seems to have to interface to a lot of little offices around the place running various implementations. Its no surprise some of the interfaces weren't tested to the point where they are known to work 100%, though they may be 100% correct.
I would love to see Jobs spend a large amount of money on short term medical research with an emphasis on lateral thinking. We could learn a lot that way and it would benefit a lot of patients. Seriously, lets rip his brain out, build a life support system for it and install it in a robot body. Sounds radical but I reckon its worth a go if your budget is in the billions.
Ah but oil is a commodity. If middle eastern oil dried up, Canadian oil would be worth a lot more. I think the US actually does a lot of good around the world. Its their forward defence which gives them a bad name.
My wife works as an architect and we visited a cafe which she had worked on. We met the owner and she complemented him on his uncomfortable seats. Apparently he went through several iterations before he got the formula right. Too comfortable and people say to chat and stop buying. Not comfortable enough and people don't stay long enough to buy enough food. He doesn't want people sitting for hours with a laptop. The space they are using should be earning good money.
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Even if there was only one species like us reaching maturity every million years and there had been 1000 of them over one billion years, we should have seen some sign of them. We should see the odd bit of hardware on the moon, or specular reflections from old bits of gear as they float by. The lunar surface is so clean yet its been acting as a filter for passing meteorites for the last four billion years. I take your point about us being more careful about power emission, but at the same time we still broadcast TV, set off nukes. We should stand out like a sore thumb.
I don't think anybody is going to be out there.
So where are the aliens? With this many planets available we should be able to hear or see a few alien civilisations by now. Something is wrong with the assumption that aliens will "grow up like us". I don't think it will happen as often as we assume.
I watched 2001 again recently and noticed something new (for me). In the first scene which shows the space pod in the room at the end you see an internal display which alternates between "LIF" and something like "NONEXIST". We think we see this from Bowman's POV, but it seems the pod doesn't think Bowman is alive at all.
Based on my time in high school, I expect those 500 million habitable planets are all inviting each other to parties, picking each other for teams, and definitely getting laid. Earth is getting left out, and nobody has the heart to tell us.
I think we should pass on getting laid for the time being thanks.
The "Minority Report" interface is an OS thing. Intel doesn't do that. They do hardware. The hardware they sell now is more than capable of doing that right now, if you've got the software.
Yes but I don't know why you think we were talking about Intel.
Not to mention, considering Android doesn't actually use Java, but rather the syntax and an unrelated VM.
The standard android SDK requires a Java SDK. It post processes .class files to generate its own binaries.
The fundamental problem with encryption is key negotiation. You don't get any security at all if the attacker can listen in when the session is being set up.
See QtMoko but getting an OS to work cleanly on a mobile is very hard. You have to deal with some many corner cases which will really annoy the user if you get them wrong.
The real interesting thing will be when we can get real productivity apps to seamlessly move from mobile to laptop to desktop and back.
Yes I agree. HP were hinting at WebOS on the desktop as well as tablets and phones. I hoped that they could implement "minority report" style integration between all three so you could drag unsaved work in progress from one device to another.
It seems the air force can dial up a company called HBGary to purchase such account services
Yeah I hear they are the go-to guys for Internet security issues.
I work on large scale air traffic control systems which run Linux and I don't envy the LSE in their task. Most of our interfaces are relatively simple and go out to organisations with a good history of validating interfaces. This trading system seems to have to interface to a lot of little offices around the place running various implementations. Its no surprise some of the interfaces weren't tested to the point where they are known to work 100%, though they may be 100% correct.
I would love to see Jobs spend a large amount of money on short term medical research with an emphasis on lateral thinking. We could learn a lot that way and it would benefit a lot of patients. Seriously, lets rip his brain out, build a life support system for it and install it in a robot body. Sounds radical but I reckon its worth a go if your budget is in the billions.
Ah but oil is a commodity. If middle eastern oil dried up, Canadian oil would be worth a lot more. I think the US actually does a lot of good around the world. Its their forward defence which gives them a bad name.
"Do unto others before they do unto you". - RAH.
Switzerland would survive without middle eastern oil. The US might not.
Ah it means speed, not volume. I am in Australia so 10MB seemed strangely low, not impossible.
and 10MB broadband.
Slipped a decimal point or three?
Seriously, HP tends to get a lot of crap, but this is pretty awesome. I hope they can keep this up.
I know my opinion of HP just went up.
After the reign of Fiorina, was there anywhere else for it to go?
Any news on her 2016 Presidential run?
And where's the Free Android distribution? With an own market with only Open Source apps? No, there's MeeGo instead... yet.
How about this?
If the shell is going to be the same as Android you may as well run android.
My wife works as an architect and we visited a cafe which she had worked on. We met the owner and she complemented him on his uncomfortable seats. Apparently he went through several iterations before he got the formula right. Too comfortable and people say to chat and stop buying. Not comfortable enough and people don't stay long enough to buy enough food. He doesn't want people sitting for hours with a laptop. The space they are using should be earning good money.
Apple already tried a gaming platform back in the day. It was called the Pippin.
I thought it was called the iPhone.
I have a cousin who is a version 3.0 and I have to say that having known 1.0 and 2.0, something is being lost with every generation.
I preferred it when is was Somebody Else's Problem to preserve these abandoned BBC sites.
But why use a new server? Any client machine could crawl the sites. I have a home server which could do it.
Do you write for The Onion?