Spyware: Collects informaton about user and cannot be uninstalled through add/remove programs Malware: Forces information onto the user and cannot be uninstalled through add/remove programs
What is so hard about that? It doesn't take a team of multimillion dollar contractors to figure that out.
Why should this be on the front page, or any page. It is just a game being released.
Actually, I've been following this game for a while. I don't know Japanese very well or at least able to translate it and the concept of actually playing mind games on my ds seems something I am very interested in.
And don't you think it's unique that there is a game that is coming out that is more than just an average mash the button game and involves *gasp* learning and improving intelligence?
A game could be made in which it had a real economy, rather than just killing things in mass genocide for gold.
Maybe we could find some other way to make money and items that are a bit more than just programing an automated script.
You know... Like crafting...
Heck, why not make an MMOG which players have to gather resources and mint their own money. The issue is that people don't realize it isn't the people who are to blame (because you can't change human nature) but the fact that game allows for such problems.
Farming would be a bit harder in a world where the economy and game universe was a closed system (zero sum) in which the amount of resources was not infinite.
Though many of you wouldn't want to play that now would you?
I used to play some H games (hentai) that was imported from japan and some off new grounds and discovered the trivia and ones that had a great amount of mind puzzles were actually educating me despite my lack of intention too and great desire to just see the booty.
It then occurred to me that because of my natural desire to see booty, learning boring subjects became a neccessity and I found them to be a trivial task to master after a while.
Although, I'm not suggesting we should put H games in school, there is something to that primal urge for immediate satisfaction...
Think how people in MMOGs feel when they level. If we have games that satisfy this natural urge for gratifcation then learning will be immediate and desired by the students.
However, I have yet to find an educational game that gives me the stimulus in order to learn things as good as the H games *coughs*
If everybody went with their economic interests, there would be no open source.
If everybody went with their economic interests, the world would be a really shitty place to live in. Moreso than it is now...
Sometimes compassion and humanity requires us to do things that do not benefit us in our pockets or even our well being for the sake of another even if they don't acknowledge or know about what we have done for them.
So you are probaly right that Apple and Intel might be cooperating on a similar project.
I remember that Steve Jobs gave a key note a few years back on talking about how they wanted to reduce boot times to 0 because it would save people hours a year waiting for the computer to boot. However, I wouldn't expect anything til late this year or 2007.
I'm not saying I'm the expert on this -- I'd appreciate it if someone could explain to me that the flash memory will actually last 40 years or so. But I doubt it.
In 40 years, you might not have an OS that is capable of reading the flash memory of today if you just pulled the flash memory out of a dusty bin.
Heck... We might even done away with binary all together. We don't know and can't predict the future to an exact anymore because technology is changing at an accelerating pace.
People with punch cards and old mainframe tape drives have the same problem today with getting and those were only 20 to 30 years ago. Even though there might not be any data loss on the medium they just don't have anything that can read it and transfer to a modern device.
The best bet is that in 5 years from now you just transfer everything to a new medium and go with baby steps. Yes it is a pain, but in 5 years you'll probaly be able to store everything in an increasingly small but exponentially larger capacity.
Like doing backups to floppy and then burning those floppies to CDR and then the cd images later to DVDRs and those to Blu-ray/HD-DVD and so on as the technology becomes available.
Interesting, but isn't extrapolating 11 years just a bit too long time to be meaningful? 11 years is enough time for another technology to pop up and be mass-marketed.
True, but wouldn't that mean Hard Drives would also be put out of the picture.
My estimate is that we will have NAND OS boot drives for Vista and OS X by the end of 2007. Which will most likely push the whole flash drive for personal storage a few years early than his predictions.
Either way, I'll follow suit and ask how much longer will it be until the iPod is your computer, media player, internet access, cell phone, credit card, personal identification, financial recorder/advisor, taser, keyless entry and pace maker?
Otherwise people will have a hard time trying view a lot of information all at once like they do on their pcs.
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...no: there is no technological fix to ingenious asocial behavior.
Yes there is. It is called a gun.
And its application is a bullet to the head of the anti-social person given by the governmental authorities of the day. The anti-social person can no longer affect society and can no longer by pass any methods intended to keep him in check.
But of course there is a major moral problem with my suggestion and should never be taken as advice.
I'm just stating the theoretical situation in which technology trumps social behavior. Obviously, its an extreme and we don't want to be going around shooting spammers (even though I'm sure some of you want to) but eventually given enough technology you can prevent everything.
Or rather what I am saying is that all social and political problems can be solved with technology. It just depends on your application of the technology and how far you are willing to go with the application. I'll take a bit of annoyance with my freedoms though.
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I actually have a problem with ad blocking. I am well aware that a lot of sites depend on income from banner views and clicks.
I don't usually block ads unless they become annoying. However because only a handful of companies supply ads and I've blocked *.doubleclick.net and most majors sites. But because of that all sites tend to be blocked.
Personally, I suggest text ads and better business models (sell some t-shirts or ask for donations) other than annoying people by non-related ads.
This somehow reminds me of Apple in the 90s. They were on a crusade. They had found the holy grail. They could not fail. They would bring their vision to the world.
You mean, like they are now?
I watched the keynote and it seems pretty obvious they have one hell of a vision and provided things that even their customer didn't even know they wanted. *looks at iPod nano he got from Christmas* Not that I am complaining or anything.
There'd be one question left unanswered, of course, the classic "Can entropy be reversed?." What would be really scary would be if G had an immediate answer.
and the further apart the nodes are the more latency you'll have
Although you were modded funny, I wanted to point out that you do have a valid concern.
However, the human mind runs quite slow when you look at the neurons chemical process of tramsitting information.
I think it takes about 150 miliseconds for a human to look at an object and recognize it. Its not the speed that counts, but the shear mass of neurons involved... over 150 trillion... and every single one of these are processing information at any given time.
Its not a simple task to compute because computers are really good at processing a single thing really fast, but to scale that up to 150 trillion is a hard task indeed.
They had a episode of SAC (SA: The Fortunate Ones - MISSING HEARTS) in which they investigated missing organs from a particular company and they showed the pig farms in which people would donate cells that could be grown into full organs in the pigs.
Basically, the premise was that there were med students that were stealing organs that people where going to throw away in order to sell on the black market by relabling them.
Still its an interesting concept and maybe possible someday.
"Let's just see how geeky you think the IT department is after I... submit your 'candid holiday snaps' to a few dozen gay singles websites, along with your name, address, work number, and personal cell number, shall we?"
I think you got "geeky" confused with "fired".
I think you've got "fired" confused with "promoted".
However, the grandparent is very confused about a wink his supervisor gave him at an office meeting.
Reading books, magazines, and other text not on a computer screen is becoming a thing of the past. Blame schools, they're the ones who encourage and demand the children to use computers so badly.
Do we still use clay tablets or papyrus?
Or how about bamboo reeds or sheep skin?
Reading online is still reading.
Knowing how to read today is more important that it was even 10, 20, or even 100 years ago because of computer. Heck, I daresay in a given day I generate more text than a scribe in the middle ages a month. In 100 years (or less), paper books as we know it will be like clay tablets. Archaic tablets that collectors keep. All information will be provided on electronic media.
At this point, it is imperative that a child learn how to communicate properly via electronic mediums and use computer than to be forced to do things only because it was the way that things were done 20 years ago. If you want a job in the real world today (and one that doesn't require retail or physical labor) then you need to know how to use a computer.
Heck, even if you do build houses, work at retail store, or do plumbing for a living, it generally requires you to use a computer for references or finacial tasks for those jobs as well.
Elsewise, if nothing more than to communicate with relatives and do online banking, chatting etc etc.
IMO, at least the kids are reading internet articles and not watching TV.
You might not be able to boot into WinXp on an intel mac, but I'm pretty sure you will be able to use Virtual PC. Heck, you might even be able to do that now with Virtual PC 7.0 with Rosetta, but it would be kind of inefficient with a x86 emulator to PPC back to x86.
With that said it won't be too hard to get native x86 speeds with a newer version of Virtual PC in the shorterm future. I'd wager before the end of this year it will be out.
People learn the skills appropriate for their lives. Do I know how to castrate a bull or build a replacement wooden wheel for my Conestoga wagon? No, because I'm not a settler living in the early 1800's.
However people back then didn't have technological advances and paradigm shifts as fast as we do.
Take the internet, cell phones, and say... OS X or WinXP.
Did we have those 10 years ago?
Well I had dial up to the internet at 28,000 but I was an early adopter (well technically early early adopters were those at the colleges and military places in the 1980's but lets talk about a high school kid with a consumer based access) but the general public did not.
If we have information that pertains to skills I will need in say 5 years in order to function correctly in our society I would like to know. I use the term functioning loosely because one never has to function in society or even learn to use how to use a computer, have an ipod, or have the internet in order to live, but obviously all of us here use the internet so apparently its common place.
Look... I personally the world totally change in my lifetime and I am only 26 years old. I remember the times when we didn't have cable TV, internet, google, mapquest, cell phones, and computers that had 5 1/4". Hell I remember the time when cell phones were all black and white crappy screens and the size of my forearm and Quake I was the most awesomest graphical game in the world.
Face it. Our world is changing at an unprecendant rate.
You can embrace the change... Or not... But lets not complain about how its not happening or irrelevant.
yes indeed, glasses like that have been showing up for ages, never ever worked. VR is a thing that passed by I guess.
Nah. VR was just was a false pretender technology back then.
The headshets were way too bulky, expensive, and from my experience they always gave me a eyeache after an hour.
If they can solve all three of those problems then it would be accepted in the market place. VR has got a few more generations to go with the size and quality and I believe eventually they'll get the image projected straight onto the retina which hopefully would get around the eyestrain.
After all, if you could watch porn on the bus on the way to work and look stylish doing it, then I think you've got a winner.
$500? I smell a 3DO or CD-i disaster brewing.
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Spyware: Collects informaton about user and cannot be uninstalled through add/remove programs
Malware: Forces information onto the user and cannot be uninstalled through add/remove programs
What is so hard about that? It doesn't take a team of multimillion dollar contractors to figure that out.
Why should this be on the front page, or any page. It is just a game being released.
Actually, I've been following this game for a while. I don't know Japanese very well or at least able to translate it and the concept of actually playing mind games on my ds seems something I am very interested in.
And don't you think it's unique that there is a game that is coming out that is more than just an average mash the button game and involves *gasp* learning and improving intelligence?
A game could be made in which it had a real economy, rather than just killing things in mass genocide for gold.
Maybe we could find some other way to make money and items that are a bit more than just programing an automated script.
You know... Like crafting...
Heck, why not make an MMOG which players have to gather resources and mint their own money. The issue is that people don't realize it isn't the people who are to blame (because you can't change human nature) but the fact that game allows for such problems.
Farming would be a bit harder in a world where the economy and game universe was a closed system (zero sum) in which the amount of resources was not infinite.
Though many of you wouldn't want to play that now would you?
I used to play some H games (hentai) that was imported from japan and some off new grounds and discovered the trivia and ones that had a great amount of mind puzzles were actually educating me despite my lack of intention too and great desire to just see the booty.
It then occurred to me that because of my natural desire to see booty, learning boring subjects became a neccessity and I found them to be a trivial task to master after a while.
Although, I'm not suggesting we should put H games in school, there is something to that primal urge for immediate satisfaction...
Think how people in MMOGs feel when they level. If we have games that satisfy this natural urge for gratifcation then learning will be immediate and desired by the students.
However, I have yet to find an educational game that gives me the stimulus in order to learn things as good as the H games *coughs*
If everybody went with their economic interests, there would be no open source.
If everybody went with their economic interests, the world would be a really shitty place to live in. Moreso than it is now...
Sometimes compassion and humanity requires us to do things that do not benefit us in our pockets or even our well being for the sake of another even if they don't acknowledge or know about what we have done for them.
And this doesn't just apply to open source...
Intel has already demonstrated at NAND flash drive used to reduce boot times:
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http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,123053,
So you are probaly right that Apple and Intel might be cooperating on a similar project.
I remember that Steve Jobs gave a key note a few years back on talking about how they wanted to reduce boot times to 0 because it would save people hours a year waiting for the computer to boot. However, I wouldn't expect anything til late this year or 2007.
I'm not saying I'm the expert on this -- I'd appreciate it if someone could explain to me that the flash memory will actually last 40 years or so. But I doubt it.
In 40 years, you might not have an OS that is capable of reading the flash memory of today if you just pulled the flash memory out of a dusty bin.
Heck... We might even done away with binary all together. We don't know and can't predict the future to an exact anymore because technology is changing at an accelerating pace.
People with punch cards and old mainframe tape drives have the same problem today with getting and those were only 20 to 30 years ago. Even though there might not be any data loss on the medium they just don't have anything that can read it and transfer to a modern device.
The best bet is that in 5 years from now you just transfer everything to a new medium and go with baby steps. Yes it is a pain, but in 5 years you'll probaly be able to store everything in an increasingly small but exponentially larger capacity.
Like doing backups to floppy and then burning those floppies to CDR and then the cd images later to DVDRs and those to Blu-ray/HD-DVD and so on as the technology becomes available.
Interesting, but isn't extrapolating 11 years just a bit too long time to be meaningful? 11 years is enough time for another technology to pop up and be mass-marketed.
True, but wouldn't that mean Hard Drives would also be put out of the picture.
My estimate is that we will have NAND OS boot drives for Vista and OS X by the end of 2007. Which will most likely push the whole flash drive for personal storage a few years early than his predictions.
Either way, I'll follow suit and ask how much longer will it be until the iPod is your computer, media player, internet access, cell phone, credit card, personal identification, financial recorder/advisor, taser, keyless entry and pace maker?
When Virtual Retinal Displays become feasible in something as small as an iPod or Cell phone.
Otherwise people will have a hard time trying view a lot of information all at once like they do on their pcs.
...no: there is no technological fix to ingenious asocial behavior.
Yes there is. It is called a gun.
And its application is a bullet to the head of the anti-social person given by the governmental authorities of the day. The anti-social person can no longer affect society and can no longer by pass any methods intended to keep him in check.
But of course there is a major moral problem with my suggestion and should never be taken as advice.
I'm just stating the theoretical situation in which technology trumps social behavior. Obviously, its an extreme and we don't want to be going around shooting spammers (even though I'm sure some of you want to) but eventually given enough technology you can prevent everything.
Or rather what I am saying is that all social and political problems can be solved with technology. It just depends on your application of the technology and how far you are willing to go with the application. I'll take a bit of annoyance with my freedoms though.
I actually have a problem with ad blocking. I am well aware that a lot of sites depend on income from banner views and clicks.
I don't usually block ads unless they become annoying. However because only a handful of companies supply ads and I've blocked *.doubleclick.net and most majors sites. But because of that all sites tend to be blocked.
Personally, I suggest text ads and better business models (sell some t-shirts or ask for donations) other than annoying people by non-related ads.
Imagine a beowulf cluster of these bady boys!
Well. First you need a cluster of boxes and then a cluster of cats to put in those boxes...
To me it is like complaining about banner ads. It's just an unavoidable part of the internet ecosystem, like mosquitos.
You know, I don't know about you, but I tend to bring repellant when I go into the jungles we call the internet.
Ad Block
Almost 100% effect and is 100% lethal to banner ads.
Annoyances don't have to be. Well.. If you don't mind the DDT.
This somehow reminds me of Apple in the 90s. They were on a crusade. They had found the holy grail. They could not fail. They would bring their vision to the world.
You mean, like they are now?
I watched the keynote and it seems pretty obvious they have one hell of a vision and provided things that even their customer didn't even know they wanted. *looks at iPod nano he got from Christmas* Not that I am complaining or anything.
There'd be one question left unanswered, of course, the classic "Can entropy be reversed?." What would be really scary would be if G had an immediate answer.
If it does, it better not be 42!
and the further apart the nodes are the more latency you'll have
Although you were modded funny, I wanted to point out that you do have a valid concern.
However, the human mind runs quite slow when you look at the neurons chemical process of tramsitting information.
I think it takes about 150 miliseconds for a human to look at an object and recognize it. Its not the speed that counts, but the shear mass of neurons involved... over 150 trillion... and every single one of these are processing information at any given time.
Its not a simple task to compute because computers are really good at processing a single thing really fast, but to scale that up to 150 trillion is a hard task indeed.
They had a episode of SAC (SA: The Fortunate Ones - MISSING HEARTS) in which they investigated missing organs from a particular company and they showed the pig farms in which people would donate cells that could be grown into full organs in the pigs.
Basically, the premise was that there were med students that were stealing organs that people where going to throw away in order to sell on the black market by relabling them.
Still its an interesting concept and maybe possible someday.
"Let's just see how geeky you think the IT department is after I ... submit your 'candid holiday snaps' to a few dozen gay singles websites, along with your name, address, work number, and personal cell number, shall we?"
I think you got "geeky" confused with "fired".
I think you've got "fired" confused with "promoted".
However, the grandparent is very confused about a wink his supervisor gave him at an office meeting.
Reading books, magazines, and other text not on a computer screen is becoming a thing of the past. Blame schools, they're the ones who encourage and demand the children to use computers so badly.
Do we still use clay tablets or papyrus?
Or how about bamboo reeds or sheep skin?
Reading online is still reading.
Knowing how to read today is more important that it was even 10, 20, or even 100 years ago because of computer. Heck, I daresay in a given day I generate more text than a scribe in the middle ages a month. In 100 years (or less), paper books as we know it will be like clay tablets. Archaic tablets that collectors keep. All information will be provided on electronic media.
At this point, it is imperative that a child learn how to communicate properly via electronic mediums and use computer than to be forced to do things only because it was the way that things were done 20 years ago. If you want a job in the real world today (and one that doesn't require retail or physical labor) then you need to know how to use a computer.
Heck, even if you do build houses, work at retail store, or do plumbing for a living, it generally requires you to use a computer for references or finacial tasks for those jobs as well.
Elsewise, if nothing more than to communicate with relatives and do online banking, chatting etc etc.
IMO, at least the kids are reading internet articles and not watching TV.
They could have avoided a lot of complaints if they had simply made a feature you could enable--not a feature you have to disable.
From file menu on iTunes on a Mac:
iTunes > Provide iTunes Feedback
Apple listens so let them know it was an unwelcomed default feature.
You might not be able to boot into WinXp on an intel mac, but I'm pretty sure you will be able to use Virtual PC. Heck, you might even be able to do that now with Virtual PC 7.0 with Rosetta, but it would be kind of inefficient with a x86 emulator to PPC back to x86.
With that said it won't be too hard to get native x86 speeds with a newer version of Virtual PC in the shorterm future. I'd wager before the end of this year it will be out.
Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light.
Unfortunatley, reaction time for the human mind's neurons is 155 miliseconds, a small fraction of the speed of light.
The mind would be incapable of even noticing its untimely demise.
Of course if you subscribe to Quantum Immortality, this could be happening all the time and we aren't noticing.
People learn the skills appropriate for their lives. Do I know how to castrate a bull or build a replacement wooden wheel for my Conestoga wagon? No, because I'm not a settler living in the early 1800's.
However people back then didn't have technological advances and paradigm shifts as fast as we do.
Take the internet, cell phones, and say... OS X or WinXP.
Did we have those 10 years ago?
Well I had dial up to the internet at 28,000 but I was an early adopter (well technically early early adopters were those at the colleges and military places in the 1980's but lets talk about a high school kid with a consumer based access) but the general public did not.
If we have information that pertains to skills I will need in say 5 years in order to function correctly in our society I would like to know. I use the term functioning loosely because one never has to function in society or even learn to use how to use a computer, have an ipod, or have the internet in order to live, but obviously all of us here use the internet so apparently its common place.
Look... I personally the world totally change in my lifetime and I am only 26 years old. I remember the times when we didn't have cable TV, internet, google, mapquest, cell phones, and computers that had 5 1/4". Hell I remember the time when cell phones were all black and white crappy screens and the size of my forearm and Quake I was the most awesomest graphical game in the world.
Face it. Our world is changing at an unprecendant rate.
You can embrace the change... Or not... But lets not complain about how its not happening or irrelevant.
yes indeed, glasses like that have been showing up for ages, never ever worked. VR is a thing that passed by I guess.
Nah. VR was just was a false pretender technology back then.
The headshets were way too bulky, expensive, and from my experience they always gave me a eyeache after an hour.
If they can solve all three of those problems then it would be accepted in the market place. VR has got a few more generations to go with the size and quality and I believe eventually they'll get the image projected straight onto the retina which hopefully would get around the eyestrain.
After all, if you could watch porn on the bus on the way to work and look stylish doing it, then I think you've got a winner.
I smell a 3DO or CD-i disaster brewing.