I wouldn't. The sight of Skynet getting brutally eaten up from the inside out by swarms of relentless lawyers, all of them wearing black suits and calling themselves "Mr. Smith" would be too horrible.
You really can't take care of a family [...] without dual incomes.
This is only true if you want to maintain your living standard as if you had no kids. Smaller car, no vacation, no restaurants, simple clothing etc. (i.e. how most people live in this world) would allow single income plus a 100% mother - just as a few decades ago. I am not saying that this is how it should be, just that the "want to have it all" is a definitive factor.
FTFA: "Sikuli -- which means God's eye in the language of the Huichol Indians in Mexico". Mexican Indians love their hallucinogenic Peyote. On the other hand, MIT researchers want the masses to program with the mouse. Well, I know about "correlation is not causation", but MIT sure is an interesting place to be.
Not absolutely necessary. If you as a nerd value effectiveness, you procure that the percentage of your pr0n collection which is unused (i.e. not yet wanked off to) does not rise above 99%. Therefore, just play with yourself, which enables the possibility of sitting at your computer without being sedentary.
No patience and no discipline - although I agree with you, this is the same thing our parents remarked about us, and their parents about them. But here's another issue: the cheapness, speed and simplicity of obtaining a prefabricated meal, toy, and most other objects means that learning to DIY seems superfluous. Therefore, the deep gratification of being able to consume or use something you created yourself - in a physical sense - has been lost. IMO these are the first years of human society shifting the search for personal gratification into the "virtual reality" - an old and abused expression, but somehow appropriate. Nerds already did find it there - they are creative in it. But the rest of people - how will it be?
I don't think the authorities involved are that stupid. You can be sure they deduced from the suspect that they do remember the keys, and that they hide significant information relevant to the prosecution. It's not 1984 everytime someone has to give up information to the police.
If there ever was an insightful comment about forum rage, it is this. Mod up please!
The fact that most politicians are inept concerning IT is no logic reason to generally doubt any and all of their decisions. If a security related prosecution affects a suspect's information, so be it; it's irrelevant if this information is a hidden key, an unknown deposit box, or encrypted data.
(BTW, didn't know that Spanish housing scams are Mafia level crimes. Sure do know the others...)
The truth of this comment is so depressing it hurts. It is like a burning sword of reality cutting through the cozy feelings of SF fantasy, shattering the small-minded hot-air politics surrounding current miniature efforts of tiny toy rovers, limited probes made out of oh-so-cheap off-the-shelf parts, soon-to-be-deorbited trash with mal-functioning toilets, and "future plans" temptatively recreating events from 40 years ago.
Maybe our life form SHOULD be foating in tanks, providing energy to intelligent and more productive machines...
Right. Without multimedia (and Javascript;-) on computers, we would still be happy with a processor from the 80s. But if you think of it, with the exception of email, almost everything else has to do with pictures, audio, and video today.
...the attention is a self fulfilling prophecy; people in the media at least have a tendency to be narcissistic...
I agree, and it really hurts sometimes. For example, Time Magazine's issue from a month ago features Twitter on the cover, with a tweet reading, prepare yourself: "...Twitter is changing the way we live - and showing us the future of innovation." The way WE LIVE! Future of INNOVATION!
This was so over-the-top narcissistic, that I had to read the story, and guess what? I learned, and the writer repeated this at least 3 times, that groundbreaking coolness has been invented at Twitter, for example, the "#" sign preceeding topics!
Holy shit. I was baffled, although somehow I thought I'd seen that # in IRC 20 years ago. Nevermind. The story on the next page was about "Decoding God". Go figure.
If anything, the strategy of hiding sex in the US media during the last 2 decades did backfire: teenage pregancy rates are the highest among the "developed" countries. Spain for example is second lowest, I lived there during my teens, and the TV program there was very, let's say, educating (after 10pm). I guess that openess and explanation works better than obfuscation, as always.
Given that X11 comes from code that in the past had to run on slow processors and scarce RAM across many Unix versions, I also don't think effectivity is Google's major motivation if they replace it. More probably, they want something more simple, with less features, so maintenance will be less costly for them. Especially when they offer a supported version of ChromeOS for businesses.
You bring your car to the shop. You don't tell them what type of car it is, or what the problem is. They analyze it, then hand you a closed envelope with the results the computer printed there without them seeing. You alone will read what's wrong with your car, and based on that you can order repairs.
Thinking of it, this would be great! They can't charge you for fantasy repairs anymore...
There might be a problem with that new economy: it probably won't create enough jobs/wealth for hundreds of millions of people, like the industrial economy did. In the worst case the information economies won't be able to pay enough goods from the manufacturing economies.
Incidentally, your sig points to the root of the problem.
Correct, and that's why outsourcing your fscking needs is the way to go. These days it is more and more common to not maintain fscking resources inhouse; instead you choose from a variety of service level agreements who will take care of everything around fsck and related issues.
1. Float in space - 300,000 $ 2. Land on planet - 30,000,000 $ 3. Your oxygen is running out, but your AmEx is not accepted at the nearby refill station - Priceless.
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RIAA vs Skynet ... I'd pay to watch.
I wouldn't. The sight of Skynet getting brutally eaten up from the inside out by swarms of relentless lawyers, all of them wearing black suits and calling themselves "Mr. Smith" would be too horrible.
You really can't take care of a family [...] without dual incomes.
This is only true if you want to maintain your living standard as if you had no kids. Smaller car, no vacation, no restaurants, simple clothing etc. (i.e. how most people live in this world) would allow single income plus a 100% mother - just as a few decades ago. I am not saying that this is how it should be, just that the "want to have it all" is a definitive factor.
FTFA: "Sikuli -- which means God's eye in the language of the Huichol Indians in Mexico". Mexican Indians love their hallucinogenic Peyote. On the other hand, MIT researchers want the masses to program with the mouse. Well, I know about "correlation is not causation", but MIT sure is an interesting place to be.
Not absolutely necessary. If you as a nerd value effectiveness, you procure that the percentage of your pr0n collection which is unused (i.e. not yet wanked off to) does not rise above 99%. Therefore, just play with yourself, which enables the possibility of sitting at your computer without being sedentary.
Holy shit. You just gave governments the ultimate idea for complete Internet control.
No patience and no discipline - although I agree with you, this is the same thing our parents remarked about us, and their parents about them. But here's another issue: the cheapness, speed and simplicity of obtaining a prefabricated meal, toy, and most other objects means that learning to DIY seems superfluous. Therefore, the deep gratification of being able to consume or use something you created yourself - in a physical sense - has been lost. IMO these are the first years of human society shifting the search for personal gratification into the "virtual reality" - an old and abused expression, but somehow appropriate. Nerds already did find it there - they are creative in it. But the rest of people - how will it be?
I don't think the authorities involved are that stupid. You can be sure they deduced from the suspect that they do remember the keys, and that they hide significant information relevant to the prosecution. It's not 1984 everytime someone has to give up information to the police.
If there ever was an insightful comment about forum rage, it is this. Mod up please!
The fact that most politicians are inept concerning IT is no logic reason to generally doubt any and all of their decisions. If a security related prosecution affects a suspect's information, so be it; it's irrelevant if this information is a hidden key, an unknown deposit box, or encrypted data.
(BTW, didn't know that Spanish housing scams are Mafia level crimes. Sure do know the others...)
The truth of this comment is so depressing it hurts. It is like a burning sword of reality cutting through the cozy feelings of SF fantasy, shattering the small-minded hot-air politics surrounding current miniature efforts of tiny toy rovers, limited probes made out of oh-so-cheap off-the-shelf parts, soon-to-be-deorbited trash with mal-functioning toilets, and "future plans" temptatively recreating events from 40 years ago.
Maybe our life form SHOULD be foating in tanks, providing energy to intelligent and more productive machines...
Right. Without multimedia (and Javascript ;-) on computers, we would still be happy with a processor from the 80s. But if you think of it, with the exception of email, almost everything else has to do with pictures, audio, and video today.
The nice thing though was, you could keep it running beside your bed - no noise. Take that, water cooling!
On the other hand, meteorism increases greenhouse gases.
Profit for whom? Chiropractors?
In Soviet Russia, rockets explode YOU!
No worries, marrying is not required to be happy. Just adapt your settings: filter out all women OVER 22.
Have a look at the comment section of a news site. You'll find a lot of similar informative and analytically written pearls there.
...the attention is a self fulfilling prophecy; people in the media at least have a tendency to be narcissistic...
I agree, and it really hurts sometimes. For example, Time Magazine's issue from a month ago features Twitter on the cover, with a tweet reading, prepare yourself: "...Twitter is changing the way we live - and showing us the future of innovation." The way WE LIVE! Future of INNOVATION!
This was so over-the-top narcissistic, that I had to read the story, and guess what? I learned, and the writer repeated this at least 3 times, that groundbreaking coolness has been invented at Twitter, for example, the "#" sign preceeding topics!
Holy shit. I was baffled, although somehow I thought I'd seen that # in IRC 20 years ago. Nevermind. The story on the next page was about "Decoding God". Go figure.
If anything, the strategy of hiding sex in the US media during the last 2 decades did backfire: teenage pregancy rates are the highest among the "developed" countries. Spain for example is second lowest, I lived there during my teens, and the TV program there was very, let's say, educating (after 10pm).
I guess that openess and explanation works better than obfuscation, as always.
Given that X11 comes from code that in the past had to run on slow processors and scarce RAM across many Unix versions, I also don't think effectivity is Google's major motivation if they replace it. More probably, they want something more simple, with less features, so maintenance will be less costly for them. Especially when they offer a supported version of ChromeOS for businesses.
Only for you, not for your co-workers looking at your screen from across the office!
A car analogy? Good idea:
You bring your car to the shop. You don't tell them what type of car it is, or what the problem is. They analyze it, then hand you a closed envelope with the results the computer printed there without them seeing. You alone will read what's wrong with your car, and based on that you can order repairs.
Thinking of it, this would be great! They can't charge you for fantasy repairs anymore...
There might be a problem with that new economy: it probably won't create enough jobs/wealth for hundreds of millions of people, like the industrial economy did. In the worst case the information economies won't be able to pay enough goods from the manufacturing economies.
Incidentally, your sig points to the root of the problem.
Although the first known victims of this flu strain were reported from Mexico (City), some genetic analysis actually traced the origin to North Carolina: http://www.southernstudies.org/2009/05/swine-flu-genes-traced-to-north-carolina-hog-farm.html
Correct, and that's why outsourcing your fscking needs is the way to go. These days it is more and more common to not maintain fscking resources inhouse; instead you choose from a variety of service level agreements who will take care of everything around fsck and related issues.
1. Float in space - 300,000 $
2. Land on planet - 30,000,000 $
3. Your oxygen is running out, but your AmEx is not accepted at the nearby refill station - Priceless.