Of course our brains are evolving. Evolution doesn't just stop at the present. Eventually everyone writing on slashdot will be viewed as "monkeys" and religious fanatics of the future will proclaim that they did not evolve from these neanderthals.
"given enough time a room full of monkeys could type out Shakespeare"
I believe the quote is "If you placed an infinite number of monkeys on an infinite number of typewriters, one of them would eventually produce the collected works of Shakespeare." rather than the grammatical nightmare stated above.
Convergence? It will happen, and people will buy into it, and then realise it wasn't such a good idea.
This is such a hot idea right now that the companies will rush into this before the technology can get adequate enough to provide a quality product.
As soon as possible there will be a phone on the market with a shitty camera, shitty mp3 player, shitty IM and email. This will all be packaged nicely into an awkward and cumbersome UI. This is the reason why I think Apple won't go gung-ho into this mess right away, they value simplicity high on their chain of design, perhaps even before eye-candy.
And I still can't hear what the hell my friends are saying on their cellphones. The service hasn't got any better and the rates aren't any cheaper.
One thing that is for sure, as I walk through the halls of my high school. Pink iPod mini + Camera = goldmine. Something every preteen girl will want so badly for their daddy to buy them.
So right now, buy a camera that takes good pictures, a phone that does little else but make phone calls well and maybe some email and an MP3 player that plays mp3's at top quality. NOT, a cellphone that does all of the above at a mediocre standard.
Yes, most of Nikon's cameras, and other manufacturer's CCDs proccess the image coming into the lens no matter the image format, like noise removal and such.
No matter how hard you try you aren't going to get what the human eye sees with digital OR film so a mostly uncompressed TIFF is good enough for me.
The purpose of Shoebusters.com is to stimulate interest, discussion, and research about the effects of shoes and socks on major human illnesses and conditions such as obesity, depression, fatigue, hypertension, heart disease, cancer, arthritis, diabetes, asthma, osteoporosis, Alzheimer's disease, and even the common cold, to name but a handful.
Maybe, just maybe there could be a connection between arthritis, fatigue and maybe depression caused by really ugly shoes. But since when are the systems in the human body that cause and are affected by asthma, heart disease and the common cold even closely connected to your feet?
You want to have something that is fun, lightweight, and flexible. And FM radio is a key feature that many players offer at no extra cost, even for less than $100.
I didn't know that an FM Radio is such a key feature in an MP3 player. I must've been crazy for buying an iPod so I didn't have to listen to annoying DJ banter, commercials and music that sucks.
The target market for Tablets isn't the average slashdot user. People who would rather have laptops, get laptops. The highest markets are for corporate installs where the workers are on their feet most of their day. For example, in the medical field where nurses need to fill in hundreds of pages of forms a day and have to move from patient to patient. You replace a clipboard with a Tablet and it functions in the same way, but the forms can be easily coordinated with a server so a doctor can access all documents on a patient he needs from his tablet, as soon as it is filled in by the nurse.
Good to see him back to his own show from being the "scientific commentator" on Battlebots, remember that show hosted by a bunch of has-been wrestlers complete with hot babes interviewing the robot building nerds?
"He said high schools must be redesigned to prepare every student for college"
What about the kids who cannot afford to go to college. The funding for scholarships is just as important as preparation. As a high school student in Canada but it's not extremely different, I know that if kids know they don't have a chance of being able to afford college, they will not even try to go.
costofwar.com states that the money spent on the Iraq war could buy over 7.5 million college scholarships. However, if you have a room full of corporate execs who probably have contracts in Iraq, this is not a favourable opinion.
Why the hell would you want to go and replace the human eye. Judging from the illustration it looks like super-soldier-man is going to rely on his OLED screen more than his God-given optical organs.
Think about it, eyes have almost infinite resolution and our depth perception and perspective will be a hell of a lot better with our eyes than with some computer.
Besides since the camera is mounted on his forehead, his lifetime of spacial judgement training is thrown in the garbage and the soldier will be forever bonking his head on low-lying ceilings.
I use the TuneDok in the car with an iTrip. It seems to work really well, keeping my iPod within arms reach. Then the dock folds up and fits in my armrest compartment to prevent the car thieves from getting any nasty ideas.
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Of course our brains are evolving. Evolution doesn't just stop at the present. Eventually everyone writing on slashdot will be viewed as "monkeys" and religious fanatics of the future will proclaim that they did not evolve from these neanderthals.
But my mom doesn't even remotely have a clue what DRM stands for. And you would be surprised how many computer users are like my mom.
Does this mean I can finally find that sock I lose when doing my laundry? I always get a fucking odd number after the dry cycle.
"given enough time a room full of monkeys could type out Shakespeare"
I believe the quote is "If you placed an infinite number of monkeys on an infinite number of typewriters, one of them would eventually produce the collected works of Shakespeare." rather than the grammatical nightmare stated above.
The Infinite Monkey Theorem
Convergence? It will happen, and people will buy into it, and then realise it wasn't such a good idea.
This is such a hot idea right now that the companies will rush into this before the technology can get adequate enough to provide a quality product.
As soon as possible there will be a phone on the market with a shitty camera, shitty mp3 player, shitty IM and email. This will all be packaged nicely into an awkward and cumbersome UI. This is the reason why I think Apple won't go gung-ho into this mess right away, they value simplicity high on their chain of design, perhaps even before eye-candy.
And I still can't hear what the hell my friends are saying on their cellphones. The service hasn't got any better and the rates aren't any cheaper.
One thing that is for sure, as I walk through the halls of my high school. Pink iPod mini + Camera = goldmine. Something every preteen girl will want so badly for their daddy to buy them.
So right now, buy a camera that takes good pictures, a phone that does little else but make phone calls well and maybe some email and an MP3 player that plays mp3's at top quality. NOT, a cellphone that does all of the above at a mediocre standard.
Yes, most of Nikon's cameras, and other manufacturer's CCDs proccess the image coming into the lens no matter the image format, like noise removal and such.
No matter how hard you try you aren't going to get what the human eye sees with digital OR film so a mostly uncompressed TIFF is good enough for me.
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My children can finally be bred as Valids!!!
...but don't they already have electric fences?
MicroApple has just formed...
The purpose of Shoebusters.com is to stimulate interest, discussion, and research about the effects of shoes and socks on major human illnesses and conditions such as obesity, depression, fatigue, hypertension, heart disease, cancer, arthritis, diabetes, asthma, osteoporosis, Alzheimer's disease, and even the common cold, to name but a handful.
Maybe, just maybe there could be a connection between arthritis, fatigue and maybe depression caused by really ugly shoes. But since when are the systems in the human body that cause and are affected by asthma, heart disease and the common cold even closely connected to your feet?You want to have something that is fun, lightweight, and flexible. And FM radio is a key feature that many players offer at no extra cost, even for less than $100.
I didn't know that an FM Radio is such a key feature in an MP3 player. I must've been crazy for buying an iPod so I didn't have to listen to annoying DJ banter, commercials and music that sucks.
The target market for Tablets isn't the average slashdot user. People who would rather have laptops, get laptops. The highest markets are for corporate installs where the workers are on their feet most of their day. For example, in the medical field where nurses need to fill in hundreds of pages of forms a day and have to move from patient to patient. You replace a clipboard with a Tablet and it functions in the same way, but the forms can be easily coordinated with a server so a doctor can access all documents on a patient he needs from his tablet, as soon as it is filled in by the nurse.
Good to see him back to his own show from being the "scientific commentator" on Battlebots, remember that show hosted by a bunch of has-been wrestlers complete with hot babes interviewing the robot building nerds?
Yup, huge step up to sex and drug addictions.
"He said high schools must be redesigned to prepare every student for college"
What about the kids who cannot afford to go to college. The funding for scholarships is just as important as preparation. As a high school student in Canada but it's not extremely different, I know that if kids know they don't have a chance of being able to afford college, they will not even try to go.
costofwar.com states that the money spent on the Iraq war could buy over 7.5 million college scholarships. However, if you have a room full of corporate execs who probably have contracts in Iraq, this is not a favourable opinion.
Now I'll have to line my organs with tin-foil before surgery to prevent those medical government-controlled hacks from trying to control me!
Come on now. We all know Hamster Punk died in the 70's.
Is this entire website not evidence enough that IT is in fact, a geeky and socially inactive job?
Why the hell would you want to go and replace the human eye. Judging from the illustration it looks like super-soldier-man is going to rely on his OLED screen more than his God-given optical organs.
Think about it, eyes have almost infinite resolution and our depth perception and perspective will be a hell of a lot better with our eyes than with some
computer.
Besides since the camera is mounted on his forehead, his lifetime of spacial judgement training is thrown in the garbage and the soldier will be forever bonking his head on low-lying ceilings.
Who has the time to just go around browsing the apple site's HTML Code? Like, c'mon read a damn book.
I could have known where the parties were happening...
Whoa man...Ballmer man I've got this idea thing...
Windows man...pass that shit.
Except Nomads have a tendency to stop working after the headphone jack breaks due to bad sautering. It happens often.
I use the TuneDok in the car with an iTrip. It seems to work really well, keeping my iPod within arms reach. Then the dock folds up and fits in my armrest compartment to prevent the car thieves from getting any nasty ideas.
You buy an iPod so you can fit your music in your pocket, not place it across the room and conrol it from the couch. And for 39.99 US, what a gimick!