How exactly can stupidity be ujsed for good? I've never noticed adding a dose of stupidity helps any situation whatever, unless your goal is to manipulate the stupid people. That doesn't scream "good" to me, personally.
I learned perl coming from a c++, Java background and I found it really, really ugly. Not that I've learned any other scripting languages to have some comparison, admittedly.
I competely agree. Just give me a basic spread sheet, a basic word processor, and a basic database tool and I'm good to go. I had versions of each of these thag were perfectly acceptable on my Amiga, so what is the almighty BFD about such simple programs?
While neat, this doesn't really do anything other than point how how crappy it is to lug around more weight in a car than you need too, which we already all knew.
I'd be more interested in some automatic tire inflation system, as estimates are 5% of all fuel could be saved if the tires were just inflated properly. Or how about a cheap aftermarket fuel economy measurement system like they have in hybrids so people can see how their driving effects economy immediately and change their habits (hybrid drivers talk about this a lot)? Both of these seem like projects within reach of college students that could actually lead to something.
A machine that swaps the capacitors for you would work, but would require some pretty serious limits on car design variation.
I've always jokingly speculated about a highway power grid, so that on long trips your electric car not only doesn't use your batteries, but also gets charged up! It could also be used for a driving navigation system, by following the grid. Of course, the practical problems and required infrastructure are so great that the idea has zip real-world merit.
I'm an EE, and that someone would everytually beef up capacitors by encreasing the surface area of the plates is as obvious a future devlopment as it gets.
I notice that while the clock rates climb quickly, the performance levels on most real world benchmarks level out pretty quickly. So why bother waste all the time and electricity?
I have always thought that, in the future, the PDA would be a great with a voice interface. Obviously, once it actually works reliably. It would be trained to just your voice, and could issue remote control codes to other appliances as well.
With a little cleverness, it could also serve as a future language translator, converting from your language (or a simplified pidgeon version for ease of translation) to a universal one in IR or bluetooth, or what-have-you, and translating back from that inbetween code to your language again. Thus, anyone could talk to anyone, providing they have those two functions on their end.
Until the quality, features, and price are better than I can get renting the series DVD from Netflix, I couldn't care less. I figure it costs me about $1/DVD to rent from netflix that makes the cost per episode around 25 to 50 cents, depending on how many there are per disc. That's an awful lot less than the $2 per episode figure people are throwing around.
The time delay doesn't really concern me; after all, today's hot show is tomorrow's crappy rerun anyways. Special DVD features are usually a waste of time, but they are an extra.
My mother had an affair for about two years with a married German businessman (she was divorced herself) and she had a friend of hers destroy his letters after she died of breast cancer. I guess that's the female equivalent of the porn buddy system.
Maxim
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Clearly, this is what happens when dislexyia and a dirty mind meet.
Uh, I don't think the Jessica Albas would look very hot for long in a pit of molten steel.
Maxim
Colonize the solar system? I think we can stay on this "rock" for more than 100 years.
Birth control, pebble-bed reactors, seeding the oceans to promote aglae growth to absorb CO2 and handle
global warming. That's the short answer.
Maxim
>You don't get to use a monopoly in one area to manipulate the market in another.
Sure you do. MS has used the profits from its monopolies to subsidize inferior products so that they, too, will hopefully become monopolies.
Maxim
How exactly can stupidity be ujsed for good? I've never noticed adding a dose of stupidity helps any situation whatever,
unless your goal is to manipulate the stupid people. That doesn't scream "good" to me, personally.
Sure wish there was a poll associated with this article to get the Slashdot community consensus.
Since my laptop autoamtically detects open networks, I'd be breaking the law in your area just by ahving it on?
I learned perl coming from a c++, Java background and I found it really, really ugly.
Not that I've learned any other scripting languages to have some comparison, admittedly.
I competely agree. Just give me a basic spread sheet, a basic word processor, and a basic database tool and I'm good to go. I had
versions of each of these thag were perfectly acceptable on my Amiga, so what is the almighty BFD about such simple programs?
Maxim
I'll take being right over being popular anyday. Maybe this explains why I have no friends? (:
It's "champing at the bit", BTW.
While neat, this doesn't really do anything other than point how how crappy it is
to lug around more weight in a car than you need too, which we already all knew.
I'd be more interested in some automatic tire inflation system, as estimates are
5% of all fuel could be saved if the tires were just inflated properly. Or how about
a cheap aftermarket fuel economy measurement system like they have in hybrids
so people can see how their driving effects economy immediately and change their
habits (hybrid drivers talk about this a lot)? Both of these seem like projects within
reach of college students that could actually lead to something.
Maxim
Gates trying to look genuine in a speech? That would be funny. Better yet, Gates trying to appeal
to redneck voters? Ah, my sides are hurting.
I'm an engineer and I regularly write programs that my PC fails to "laugh off". End of native code, my butt.
Land mines and self-guided bombs and missiles come to mind.
Walking into a robot's work zone without turning it off is basically
comparable to stepping into a minefield.
A machine that swaps the capacitors for you would work, but would require some pretty serious limits on car design variation.
I've always jokingly speculated about a highway power grid, so that on long trips your electric car not only doesn't use your batteries,
but also gets charged up! It could also be used for a driving navigation system, by following the grid. Of course, the practical problems
and required infrastructure are so great that the idea has zip real-world merit.
Maxim
I'm an EE, and that someone would everytually beef up capacitors by encreasing the surface area of the plates is as obvious a future devlopment as it gets.
Hard science is exactly the sort of application that would employ an assembly programmer to optimize code.
That's the whole point of chaos theory: there are often patterns in things thought to be purely chaotic.
I notice that while the clock rates climb quickly, the performance levels on most real world benchmarks level out pretty quickly. So why bother waste all the time and electricity?
Spoilers? Spoiling what? The amazing plot twists? Like everyone being related? Oh please. Space opera. Better than Star Trek, but then what isn't?
I have always thought that, in the future, the PDA would be a great with a voice interface. Obviously, once it actually works reliably. It would be trained to just your voice, and could issue remote control codes to other appliances as well.
With a little cleverness, it could also serve as a future language translator, converting from your language (or a simplified pidgeon version for ease of translation) to a universal one in IR or bluetooth, or what-have-you, and translating back from that inbetween code to your language again. Thus, anyone could talk to anyone, providing they have those two functions on their end.
Don't hold your breath, that's for sure.
Until the quality, features, and price are better than I can get renting the series DVD from Netflix, I couldn't care less.
I figure it costs me about $1/DVD to rent from netflix that makes the cost per episode around 25 to 50 cents, depending
on how many there are per disc. That's an awful lot less than the $2 per episode figure people are throwing around.
The time delay doesn't really concern me; after all, today's hot show is tomorrow's crappy rerun anyways. Special DVD features
are usually a waste of time, but they are an extra.
Maxim
Oh yeah, content better than watching of bunch of grown men throw a ball around and jump on one another. Let me tune in to that!
My mother had an affair for about two years with a married German businessman (she was divorced herself) and she had a friend of hers destroy his letters after she died of breast cancer. I guess that's the female equivalent of the porn buddy system. Maxim