Suppose they get this working with matter. Then it's just a matter of time before humans would walk into a chamber and be rematerialized somewhere else. The question is, who walks out of the destination chamber? Is it me or is it a reconstructed "me" with a different awareness, while the original "me" was destroyed? Even if it's a perfect copy, it's not worth the risk.
For a fun and disturbing thought, how do you know this never happens whenever you go to sleep? I remember thinking this as a kid...
This totally defeats the point of live performance.
How does the audience acknowledge the performer? I remember giving half-hour piano performances where I'd have applause between works. One could argue that this disrupts the performer and interferes with the musical output; in reality, nobody ever performs the way they practise (in private, perhaps) due to the differing state of mind.
Without an audience, there is simply no adrenaline, leading to a more casual performance -- there's less of a tendency to pour emotions into your music, sometimes even at the relatively negligible cost of technical errors. Due to the mental exhaustion of practising like this, nobody really does it until they're in "performance mode".
On a more pragmatic note, one of the issues performers deal with is the acoustic environment in which they play. Virtual performances do away with this...
You may want to check out the Simple DirectMedia Layer at www.libsdl.org. Essentially, it is a wrapper for cross-platform development -- aside from having multiple language bindings, it currently supports Win32 (DirectX), Linux (OSS / DGA) and BeOS. Not only that, but it abstracts basic system-level functions to minimize porting requirements.
Ouch, the guy is on @Home, where every customer's gateway is on the same/24 subnet with a host number of 1. So, his IP is 24.113.102.239, and his gateway is 24.113.102.1. It is a valid IP, and it isn't returning pings -- there went the entire subnet of @Home customers.:-/
So, ironically, while most of the discussion here regards the OS on hurd.zugzug.com, a more apt topic would be the OS on the gateway.:)
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For a fun and disturbing thought, how do you know this never happens whenever you go to sleep? I remember thinking this as a kid...
This totally defeats the point of live performance.
How does the audience acknowledge the performer? I remember giving half-hour piano performances where I'd have applause between works. One could argue that this disrupts the performer and interferes with the musical output; in reality, nobody ever performs the way they practise (in private, perhaps) due to the differing state of mind.
Without an audience, there is simply no adrenaline, leading to a more casual performance -- there's less of a tendency to pour emotions into your music, sometimes even at the relatively negligible cost of technical errors. Due to the mental exhaustion of practising like this, nobody really does it until they're in "performance mode". On a more pragmatic note, one of the issues performers deal with is the acoustic environment in which they play. Virtual performances do away with this...
This won't make a difference.
Liberal teachers have never minded the usage of "d'oh", while those conservative won't tolerate it just as they don't any other slang.
(Check how long expletives have been regarded as "official" English.)
You may want to check out the Simple DirectMedia Layer at www.libsdl.org. Essentially, it is a wrapper for cross-platform development -- aside from having multiple language bindings, it currently supports Win32 (DirectX), Linux (OSS / DGA) and BeOS. Not only that, but it abstracts basic system-level functions to minimize porting requirements.
Ouch, the guy is on @Home, where every customer's gateway is on the same /24 subnet with a host number of 1. So, his IP is 24.113.102.239, and his gateway is 24.113.102.1. It is a valid IP, and it isn't returning pings -- there went the entire subnet of @Home customers. :-/
:)
So, ironically, while most of the discussion here regards the OS on hurd.zugzug.com, a more apt topic would be the OS on the gateway.
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