What right does a corporation have to choose who gets to hear what artist's music? I mean, unless you want to hear exactly what the RIAA wants you to hear (through radio & TV), you've gotta pay them money. A lot of money. How much new music you get to hear shouldn't be directly related to how much money is in your pocket.
What possible good could this do? Is it really that surprising that athletes are just normal college students? If people put that stuff in their facebook/myspace/whatever profile, they don't really care if the world knows about it. As well they shouldn't, who here can rightly say drinking beer/getting drunk isn't a normal part of college life, athlete or no? I highly doubt more than 3 or 4 people are going to choose to go/not to go to Kent State because some baseball player on their team likes Miller Lite. (Mind you, I'm not defending Miller Lite). I can't imagine the resources spent to keep kids off of Facebook couldn't be better spent elsewhere...
Wouldn't it make more sense to work on making more intelligent/efficient automatic backups? I mean, there are (generally) two types of computer users: nerds(gamers/IT/programmers/etc.) and non-nerds(grandma/sister/college students/most home-office people). Nerds, for the most part, know exactly how to make their machines run as fast as possible when it comes to what to store where, and that's because they care about performance, be it top speed, reliability, or both. Non-nerds want the damned thing to work, and get really pissed if it doesn't. 99% of said non-nerds don't make any kind of backup whatsoever, so why not take those extra drives you're proposing and stick a copy of their work on there? Automatically? It can't be that hard to automatically copy word documents...
Err, don't forget about the other half of the "big picture" here. Do you really think life would be better if we had to bike from Los Angeles to New York, just for a business meeting or to see your relative? Can you even imagine the amount of air traffic if everyone owned a plane instead of a car? More importantly, would you build an airport in every town, or would you have bike rentals? What about those of us who are unable to ride a bike for various reasons?
I guess it depends on your goals, but I'll take my easy access to anything I could possibly imagine, thank you very much.
It's pretty amazing that it took nearly twenty years for someone to make some sort of advancement in space commercialization, especially considering how far we have to go. I mean, how many advancements in technology have been made because some enthusiast found/pushed for/invented ways to push the boundaries of his/her particular field of choice?
In later tests, the scientists plan to add sour cream and cheddar to the ripples in an effort to test gravity's potential for inter-galactic tastiness!
To me, it would seem the most seminal part of creating AI is to somehow instill "wants" and "needs" into machines. Without those, there's really no intelligence. When it comes down to it, the only reason we (humans) do anything is to be happy and to survive; how the hell do we make a machine want/need to be happy/survive? Interesting stuff, to be sure, but we've really got quite a long way to go.
"Avast let 3 Viruses on a system in 1.5 hours, and meanwhile thought that windows was a virus."
Hey, at least it got to the root of the problem right away!
I think I've envisioned a powerful, elegant solution to your "small desktop" problem! Imagine the ability to put virtual "folders" on your desktop, only instead of getting physically bigger and bigger with every item you "store" in it, it just stays the same size. Then (here's the best part), you can "open" the "folder" in another invention I like to call a "window", which you can open and close as well! It gets technical from there, but you get the general idea...
"There has to be some sort of balance between making the interface intuitive and making it efficient. All GUIs fall somewhere along the spectrum"
I'd hate to see a GUI that DOESN'T fall within that spectrum!
How many bad SciFi movies have started with something along these lines? An incredible invention that has the possibility of killing someone or someones (but that would *never* happen!), a gung-ho project director who just won't listen warnings from the aforementioned "crazy" scientist, and 7 other scientists/pilots/citizens who are willing to put it all on the line in the name of science. C'mon people, we know how this is going to end!
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What right does a corporation have to choose who gets to hear what artist's music? I mean, unless you want to hear exactly what the RIAA wants you to hear (through radio & TV), you've gotta pay them money. A lot of money. How much new music you get to hear shouldn't be directly related to how much money is in your pocket.
Because most online retailers won't open the box to tell you what version you're buying, as I unfortunately found out the other day.
What possible good could this do? Is it really that surprising that athletes are just normal college students? If people put that stuff in their facebook/myspace/whatever profile, they don't really care if the world knows about it. As well they shouldn't, who here can rightly say drinking beer/getting drunk isn't a normal part of college life, athlete or no? I highly doubt more than 3 or 4 people are going to choose to go/not to go to Kent State because some baseball player on their team likes Miller Lite. (Mind you, I'm not defending Miller Lite). I can't imagine the resources spent to keep kids off of Facebook couldn't be better spent elsewhere...
Wouldn't it make more sense to work on making more intelligent/efficient automatic backups? I mean, there are (generally) two types of computer users: nerds(gamers/IT/programmers/etc.) and non-nerds(grandma/sister/college students/most home-office people). Nerds, for the most part, know exactly how to make their machines run as fast as possible when it comes to what to store where, and that's because they care about performance, be it top speed, reliability, or both. Non-nerds want the damned thing to work, and get really pissed if it doesn't. 99% of said non-nerds don't make any kind of backup whatsoever, so why not take those extra drives you're proposing and stick a copy of their work on there? Automatically? It can't be that hard to automatically copy word documents...
Err, don't forget about the other half of the "big picture" here. Do you really think life would be better if we had to bike from Los Angeles to New York, just for a business meeting or to see your relative? Can you even imagine the amount of air traffic if everyone owned a plane instead of a car? More importantly, would you build an airport in every town, or would you have bike rentals? What about those of us who are unable to ride a bike for various reasons? I guess it depends on your goals, but I'll take my easy access to anything I could possibly imagine, thank you very much.
It's pretty amazing that it took nearly twenty years for someone to make some sort of advancement in space commercialization, especially considering how far we have to go. I mean, how many advancements in technology have been made because some enthusiast found/pushed for/invented ways to push the boundaries of his/her particular field of choice?
Hey, that's a 5% discount!
Yes, let's be absolutely sure we're correct before testing a hypothesis. After all, what are hypotheses for?
In later tests, the scientists plan to add sour cream and cheddar to the ripples in an effort to test gravity's potential for inter-galactic tastiness!
...as if millions of nerds suddenly cried out, "yeah, but does it run...", and were suddenly silenced.
Yeah, but can it run... er... nevermind.
To me, it would seem the most seminal part of creating AI is to somehow instill "wants" and "needs" into machines. Without those, there's really no intelligence. When it comes down to it, the only reason we (humans) do anything is to be happy and to survive; how the hell do we make a machine want/need to be happy/survive? Interesting stuff, to be sure, but we've really got quite a long way to go.
"Avast let 3 Viruses on a system in 1.5 hours, and meanwhile thought that windows was a virus." Hey, at least it got to the root of the problem right away!
I think I've envisioned a powerful, elegant solution to your "small desktop" problem! Imagine the ability to put virtual "folders" on your desktop, only instead of getting physically bigger and bigger with every item you "store" in it, it just stays the same size. Then (here's the best part), you can "open" the "folder" in another invention I like to call a "window", which you can open and close as well! It gets technical from there, but you get the general idea...
"There has to be some sort of balance between making the interface intuitive and making it efficient. All GUIs fall somewhere along the spectrum" I'd hate to see a GUI that DOESN'T fall within that spectrum!
Yeah, that's a pretty minimalist/clean desktop shot they've got there...
...why's the rum gone?! (Look away kiddies, this post be rated ARRRR!!!)
but can they hustle?
Actually, cryogenically freezing P4's is the only way to get them to comfortable levels at STOCK SPEED
ABORT, RETRY, FAIL? (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/highlinght s)
Soon they'll build an India so big, it will DESTROY THEM ALL!
I would tell you, but I don't think I'd finish before
How many bad SciFi movies have started with something along these lines? An incredible invention that has the possibility of killing someone or someones (but that would *never* happen!), a gung-ho project director who just won't listen warnings from the aforementioned "crazy" scientist, and 7 other scientists/pilots/citizens who are willing to put it all on the line in the name of science. C'mon people, we know how this is going to end!
Thank god my grandma's already in the habit of validating xml content against schemas or she'd be SOL!