Yes, it looks like a hoax to me.
Look at the reflection in the plastic behind the laptop. See the projection light? Notice that the laptop lights up before it is even set down on the table.
With the christmas tree, did anyone notice that it remains lit when no longer in contact with the 'floor'.
I wish for the time when society wakes up and realizes that a person should be held responsible and accountable for their own actions.
It was his choice - a bad one - but he ultimately decided to do what he did.
Was the influence GTA?...or could it have been the media attention towards other such heinous acts?
Doesn't matter; he made the choice.
"You can turn on your Vista machine, go eat some cereal, while your machine is cold booting and then this gentle sound will come out telling you that you can log in. You won't need to wait for your machine to startup, he says."
It seems that the boot process is going to take a long time... long enough to have breakfast. You don't need to wait for your machine to start up - better go do something else - we'll call you when we are up and running.
Next thing you know they will be telling you to boot up just before you go to bed and you can use it as an alarm to wake you up the next morning when it has finally booted up.
It appear from the article that without multiple vendor support MS Office products would have the same accessability problems as Open Office.
It would seem that getting the vendors on board who do text-to-speech screen readers and those who write comprehension software for those with cognitive imparement would go a long way to solving the problems that are percieved.
For the most part though the article does say that Open Office does meet the needs of a great many with minor dissabilities. At what point does one decide that a program should be avoided?
So, for 900 years they were moneychangers which allowed them to increase their intelligence.
Can you imagine what will happen after 900 years of stock or bond trading? Genius will prevail!
I do have to wonder if there is a corelation as children who have grown up with calculators are unable to make change when they work at grocery stores.... Buy something for $4.98, hand them a $10 and they are amazed that you can tell them how much money you will get back before they can punch in the numbers. And this dumbing down only occured in the past 30 years that calculators have been used in schools.
I would not allow a patent on software that is based on a previously defined standard. If what you write becomes a standard, well, that is something else.
A software patent should really be a copyright. It is not an invention, it is a written thing. Along the lines of: my book is copyrighted but the printing press it was produced on is patented.
A software copyright should only be in effect for 10 years. By that time is is probably irrelevant or something better has come along to replace it.
This gives the industry time to make the $$$ on the originality of the concept, but allows others to take it further if it is relevant and allow others to create some inovative derivative of the concept.
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Yes, it looks like a hoax to me. Look at the reflection in the plastic behind the laptop. See the projection light? Notice that the laptop lights up before it is even set down on the table. With the christmas tree, did anyone notice that it remains lit when no longer in contact with the 'floor'.
It would be nice to see Maidstone Quest emulated.
... and how about that cool paint program, MasterPaint?
I wish for the time when society wakes up and realizes that a person should be held responsible and accountable for their own actions. ...or could it have been the media attention towards other such heinous acts?
It was his choice - a bad one - but he ultimately decided to do what he did.
Was the influence GTA?
Doesn't matter; he made the choice.
Kurzweil has had a similar chatbot available for years - emotional response and all!
http://www.kurzweilai.net/index.html
Yup, click on a verb to display a relevant ad.
"You can turn on your Vista machine, go eat some cereal, while your machine is cold booting and then this gentle sound will come out telling you that you can log in. You won't need to wait for your machine to startup, he says." It seems that the boot process is going to take a long time... long enough to have breakfast. You don't need to wait for your machine to start up - better go do something else - we'll call you when we are up and running. Next thing you know they will be telling you to boot up just before you go to bed and you can use it as an alarm to wake you up the next morning when it has finally booted up.
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http://store.pasco.com/pascostore/showdetl.cfm?&D
Apparently "bowser" is not self aware as he constantly barks at his reflection in the mirror.
It appear from the article that without multiple vendor support MS Office products would have the same accessability problems as Open Office. It would seem that getting the vendors on board who do text-to-speech screen readers and those who write comprehension software for those with cognitive imparement would go a long way to solving the problems that are percieved. For the most part though the article does say that Open Office does meet the needs of a great many with minor dissabilities. At what point does one decide that a program should be avoided?
You want KDE? http://www.kde.org/ Install it if you want. Isn't that the beauty of OSS... options are there for those who dare!
Just wait till they see the DRM on my term papers!
So, for 900 years they were moneychangers which allowed them to increase their intelligence. Can you imagine what will happen after 900 years of stock or bond trading? Genius will prevail! I do have to wonder if there is a corelation as children who have grown up with calculators are unable to make change when they work at grocery stores.... Buy something for $4.98, hand them a $10 and they are amazed that you can tell them how much money you will get back before they can punch in the numbers. And this dumbing down only occured in the past 30 years that calculators have been used in schools.
I would not allow a patent on software that is based on a previously defined standard. If what you write becomes a standard, well, that is something else. A software patent should really be a copyright. It is not an invention, it is a written thing. Along the lines of: my book is copyrighted but the printing press it was produced on is patented. A software copyright should only be in effect for 10 years. By that time is is probably irrelevant or something better has come along to replace it. This gives the industry time to make the $$$ on the originality of the concept, but allows others to take it further if it is relevant and allow others to create some inovative derivative of the concept.
Unfortunately probabilistic answers will probably be wrong.
Take a cruise ship - swim in the pool the whole time it is underway.