If you turn your whole body, then you're not looking at the screen any more. If you have to make a specific gesture to turn, then we're back to artificial, rather than natural, interfaces.
The steering wheel movement (left and right hand up and down alternately) makes sense if you're piloting a vehicle, but not if you're walking through a forest.
I look forward to seeing how these issues are resolved.
I installed Microsoft Search a while back, discovered that it screwed up the ordinary mechanism for searching for files, and dumped it. The offending update was not among those proposed for my most recent Automatic Update, so I'm guessing that it's connected to Microsoft Search.
I don't see any need for Microsoft Search anyway; Locate32 and Everything work a lot faster with a far smaller footprint.
... computer scientists ARE using simulated natural selection processes to generate useful things. And in some cases it's more efficient than doing the work yourself.
If you're looking for odds, check out the Drake equation. No doubt every advanced creature in all the billions of galaxies is asking "what are the odds that I came into being." But they did, so clearly they beat the odds.
You are a unique individual with a unique combination of genes (unless you're an identical twin). What are the odds of you having your exact genetic identity? Zillions to one. Yet here you are, so why fret about it?
"Educational software" and "edutainment" got a bad smell in the early 90s thanks to a whole bunch of people jumping on the bandwagon and cranking out cheap and nasty products. A lot of it was thinly-disguised (or not disguised at all) drill and practice. Kids were turned off and parents got fed up.
We know perfectly well that software can educate, and the industry isn't trying to claim that this is new. After all, it goes back to the PLATO system in the 1970s. What IS new is ditching the tired old methods for something that really engages people.
Check out Seymour Papert on the subject (in 1998!):
Serious games have had their own conference (in D.C., where the government and charity funding sources are, of course) for several years now. Serious games are major -- and they're no longer just low-grade "edutainment." They're about things like teaching kids how to manage their diabetes; teaching firefighters how to handle hazardous materials; helping injury recovery and rehabilitation; training surgeons; teaching Third World executives how to manage a water system efficiently. And yes, they are fun.
Imagine a form of physical therapy that ISN'T both agonizingly painful and mind-bogglingly dull. Distraction works as well as painkillers; video games have been demonstrated to be efficacious.
Closed systems are monopolistic.
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They are anti-competitive. They are in restraint of trade. They are wrong. End of story, really.
I really hope that the people who get these diseases are all creationists. Don't believe in evolution? Don't want it taught to children? Have a taste of it, asshole.
So it's not really an ideal thing to be dumping into the atmosphere either. Once the fuel cell cars come along, I hope they'll have condensers. Of course this means that the roads will be wet and slick ALL the time.
... ignore Twitter. That can't be hard, can it? How many hundreds of thousands of years did the human race do without it? And what has it contributed? The prosecution rests.
British criminals should expect to be "shot." Drones won't miss if they're firing a decent weapon like a rifle. This is a significant improvement over human beings. Most of the people who use guns are lousy marksmen.
So which one is your complaint: The fact that they are for profit? Or that they are experimental?
Both together, obviously. It's the combination of the two that seems likely to be lethal.
NO commercial spaceflight company is doing the kind of testing that car companies do. How many Virgin Galactic spaceplanes have they destroyed to test for crashworthiness? How many cars does a car company destroy?
Boeing and Airbus do not produce limited edition experimental craft.
Commercial manned space flight for untrained civilians at the current state of development makes about as much sense as the Wright brothers selling joyrides aboard the Wright Flyer.
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If you turn your whole body, then you're not looking at the screen any more. If you have to make a specific gesture to turn, then we're back to artificial, rather than natural, interfaces.
The steering wheel movement (left and right hand up and down alternately) makes sense if you're piloting a vehicle, but not if you're walking through a forest.
I look forward to seeing how these issues are resolved.
I installed Microsoft Search a while back, discovered that it screwed up the ordinary mechanism for searching for files, and dumped it. The offending update was not among those proposed for my most recent Automatic Update, so I'm guessing that it's connected to Microsoft Search.
I don't see any need for Microsoft Search anyway; Locate32 and Everything work a lot faster with a far smaller footprint.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulated_annealing
God exists, He's just lazy. Create a universe full of elementary particles and let it go. Ta-da! Life evolves.
If you're looking for odds, check out the Drake equation. No doubt every advanced creature in all the billions of galaxies is asking "what are the odds that I came into being." But they did, so clearly they beat the odds.
You are a unique individual with a unique combination of genes (unless you're an identical twin). What are the odds of you having your exact genetic identity? Zillions to one. Yet here you are, so why fret about it?
PLATO rocked, but to be honest it didn't have anything to do with me.
Think of a better headline.
"Educational software" and "edutainment" got a bad smell in the early 90s thanks to a whole bunch of people jumping on the bandwagon and cranking out cheap and nasty products. A lot of it was thinly-disguised (or not disguised at all) drill and practice. Kids were turned off and parents got fed up.
We know perfectly well that software can educate, and the industry isn't trying to claim that this is new. After all, it goes back to the PLATO system in the 1970s. What IS new is ditching the tired old methods for something that really engages people.
Check out Seymour Papert on the subject (in 1998!):
http://www.papert.org/articles/Doeseasydoit.html
Serious games have had their own conference (in D.C., where the government and charity funding sources are, of course) for several years now. Serious games are major -- and they're no longer just low-grade "edutainment." They're about things like teaching kids how to manage their diabetes; teaching firefighters how to handle hazardous materials; helping injury recovery and rehabilitation; training surgeons; teaching Third World executives how to manage a water system efficiently. And yes, they are fun.
Imagine a form of physical therapy that ISN'T both agonizingly painful and mind-bogglingly dull. Distraction works as well as painkillers; video games have been demonstrated to be efficacious.
They are anti-competitive. They are in restraint of trade. They are wrong. End of story, really.
If they really want to retain viewers, they might... I dunno... try actual journalism and integrity. It worked for Walt.
The results would be about equally valuable.
I really hope that the people who get these diseases are all creationists. Don't believe in evolution? Don't want it taught to children? Have a taste of it, asshole.
So it's not really an ideal thing to be dumping into the atmosphere either. Once the fuel cell cars come along, I hope they'll have condensers. Of course this means that the roads will be wet and slick ALL the time.
Online goods are worth real money, therefore online theft is real theft.
Battlefield 2 may be a game, but an MMOG when the goods are worth something is life. Hence gold farming.
I'm not a thief.
I don't choose to consort with thieves.
I don't like to live in thievery-prone areas.
Most people feel the way I do.
Simple, really.
The contribution of the Internet is indisputable. Even when it was the ARPANET its value was trivially obvious.
Twitter, on the other hand, is just trivial. And if it is now a source of germs as well, forget it.
Wasn't there that little thing about warrantless wiretapping and wholesale snooping, with the connivance of the phone companies, after 9/11?
All the school has to do is declare that the snooping was to prevent terrorism, and the whole issue goes away.
It ain't gonna help, guys. You're still in seriously deep trouble.
Somebody needs to learn the meaning of "literally."
British criminals should expect to be "shot." Drones won't miss if they're firing a decent weapon like a rifle. This is a significant improvement over human beings. Most of the people who use guns are lousy marksmen.
So which one is your complaint: The fact that they are for profit? Or that they are experimental?
Both together, obviously. It's the combination of the two that seems likely to be lethal.
NO commercial spaceflight company is doing the kind of testing that car companies do. How many Virgin Galactic spaceplanes have they destroyed to test for crashworthiness? How many cars does a car company destroy?
Boeing and Airbus do not produce limited edition experimental craft.
Commercial manned space flight for untrained civilians at the current state of development makes about as much sense as the Wright brothers selling joyrides aboard the Wright Flyer.
Deaths aren't bad for business if you can pay them off or hush them up.