Computers? Nah. While they're small, they'll keep mooching off of us, "daddy I need more watts, I need more watts daddy". Then they'll grow up some and start figuring out they could survive without people around them, but they're not quite sure how. just yet.
They'll experiment with installing viruses on themselves, overclocking, overvoltage. Then one day they'll be gone. And we'll be worried sick about their well-being while they're having the time of their "lives".
In 10 years they'll come back and say need Earth to live on since we old bags are done with. If we don't surrender, THEN they will finally kill us.
We've the chance to cut this cycle early, people! Use cond.. wait.. uhmm.. damn it, we're doomed.
Don't install software on your mission critical machines before you've tested it *elsewhere*.
For those of you who don't have a spare machine and can't be bothered to get the FREE Virtual PC or VMWare player, Microsoft offers live "remote desktop" style trials on their site.
FTFA: The simple answer is that the human brain is much better at recognizing patterns than a computer can ever be. Any computer program we write to sort our galaxies into categories would do a reasonable job, but it would also inevitably throw out the unusual, the weird and the wonderful.
You can't target this at geeks and not a get a weird grin. Computers actually could recognize those galaxies fine, AND mark the unusual, weird and wonderful for additional review. It's a matter of putting in a simple threshold of matching features when you analyze the patterns.
computers can do certain stuff super well, but when it comes to a lot of things, they sputter and die. image recognition is going to be one of those things that computers don't do well for many many years.
feels good not to be obsolete. yet.
Feel good while you can, we've been around for millions of years, and computers have been around for around 50 years, and we're already going into multi-core hardware. Sooner than later, massively parallel hardware patterns will emerge, and coding super-fast neural networks in those will be a child's play. All that's left at this point, would be training the computers to do what you want them to do, like you would a little child.
Are you saying Microsoft is a braindead company for tying up with Zend to enhance PHP on Windows servers?
You don't know Microsoft very well, do ya. They don't partner with PHP since they like the language. Everyone knows PHP is garbage, and PHP developers worth their salt doubly so (*shameless plug* well I'm a PHP developer and I think I'm worth my salt */shameless plug*).
PHP's value is that it's everywhere. EVERYWHERE. Sometihng like 99% of the shared hosts out there run on PHP. So when you develop for PHP you gain compatibility with the rest of the world that hosts on cheap shared hosting. Same reason why people develop for Windows.
Microsoft has a plan in multiple steps and if you hang around their forums and knowledge bases you'll figure it. Ponder this, the y offer few PHP related things:
1. Making PHP run better on Windows (partnership with Zend). Many of the PHP devs already program on Windows, the goal is to get them to deploy on Windows servers as well (there are some benefits in the integration-with-dot-net-stuff department, other than that.. well nah).
2. Actively advertising PHP compilers for.NET (magnitude of better performance).
3. They actually have created a PHP to.NET migration guide.. AND they have created a tool that will take your PHP code and output C# code! Of course it doesn't always work 100% but helps a lot getting you there.
He's ranting a bit too much for people to take him seriously any longer.
Before it was "yes he's harsh, but he dares speak his mind, and he's right most of the time!". Now it is "yea, whatever, he's just an ass, never mind what he says".
He lost me personally when he started throwing insults to Subversion and all people that use Subversion for their products (that's a heck of a lot people for the world's most popular open source versioning system), since, apparently we're all making Linux kernels in his mind, and hence gotta use his distributed approach.
I would never willingly purchase a device with such a misfeature. I'm sure I'm not the only one. Way to shoot yourselves in the foot, Microsoft and Apple.
Yea, they couldn't afford to lose *YOU* as a customer right.
Don't make the mistake of taking yourself for a perfect example of how most people would react. Right now iPod can't trade wirelessly music at all, and is the most popular player in the world. I'd argue that if the next iPod has crippled sharing ability, compared to this player's completely missing sharing ability, it's still more value to the average customer.
But at the same time I feel like it's a waste of money compared to better causes, like I dont know, FEEDING or MEDICINE for kids. Granted I grew up poor, and I wish I had a laptop when I was in high school and younger would have been able to kick start my career even earlier.
You know, growing up in this world isn't about being comfy, having everything given to you, or everything being absolutely fair. Those are concepts that don't exist.
"No pain no gain".
Truth is if developed countries just keep sending trucks of food and medicine in Africa (say), they'll just be more and more dependent on it, and "adapt" to it, versus seek to be standalone. I'm not saying OLPC will suddenly change all of that. But consider which is better:
growing old in your mom's basement and mom giving you food and medicine every day, mommy's great big boy
or
educating yourself and looking for a job, even at the cost of it being very hard for you at times
The chain has to break at some point. People will die, and some will survive. Those who survive will no longer need food and medicine be fed to them, and will possibly have some form of self-sustaining economics developed. It's cruel, but it's how we came to be in the first place.
The whole point is to have software designed for education, wrapped in an operating system that's completely user-modifiable (to encourage the students to creatively hack it). This is fundamentally incompatible with Windows.
Yea it's like the real world: you're free to develop products that work within it, but you can't change laws of physics. This should be pretty distressing for a child.
But I say we take this further. If Vista is useless since you can't have a kid recompile it, how useless is a hardware you can't reconfigure it? Kids that want to become chip builders will definitely be harmed by this. I say, let's make every PC come with a tiny CPU manufacturing facility built in.
Guys what's wrong with you. Not every kid in the world will become an instant geek when it touches a Linux laptop: that's not the idea.
There are great number of reasons why Linux is better than Vista: Vista is huge (can't run on a light machine), expensive (...), and closed, which makes the platform non-free (means, manufacturers have to go pay someone or ask someone to fix something for them).
That's the big idea behind using Linux, not that every kid will wake up in the morning and compile his kernel for breakfast.
that we're going to have a lot more children discovering internet porn sooner?:O I can just imagine the next generation of kids.
I just realized something: each baby when born is looking and sucking his mom's boobs few times each day. This sort of perversion should be really unnatural and stressing for the child.
Imagine the terrible kinds of effects this has on its poor baby psyche. Those mothers are monsters!
This is actually a regression from what we had 15 years ago [..] Back then, we had Hypercard -- like PowerPoint, except programmable.
Uhm yea right... Powerpoint is also programmable (VB), but the UI is just good enough that you don't need to do it. I mean there's no much to *program* in a *presentation* right, let's be fair...
Next thing you'll claim graphical UI is a step back from the superior command prompt (since it's harder).
A copyright of 14 years, eh. Picture a situation where an artist's work is discovered by the public decades after its creation. Take the folk musician Vashti Bunyan for a concrete example.
The public would've still discovered it decades ago and enjoyed it, but Vashti's compensation wouldn't be that big (yes, it won't be totally lost, but he'll be able to get less out of it).
For quite the edge case, I think it's pretty good. And don't forget: you don't build the laws to satisfy edge cases, but the majority of cases, otherwise laws get skewed and stop working completely (case in point: Disney).
Looks like Matrox isn't as dead as some of us thought.
When was Matrox dead ffs? When Seagate bought them, they were one of the top HDD brands (well, for commodity OEM drives, if not known for amazing quality).
The fact that half of Matrox's utilities are producing Seagate brand drives doesn't make them dead, does it.
When are people going to get this. The laws existing before (insert grand public hysteria event here) were sufficient. There is a difference between needing to increase the strength of the laws, thereby weakening civil liberties, and properly and thoroughly enforcing the laws which are already in place.
The ultimate solution: government agencies should bomb people threatened to be bombed by terrorists in advance, to not allow terrorists blow them up first. Hahah! Take that, terrorists!
I just couldn't understand, what means "bogus company". They wrote "Bogus" on the contract with very tiny letters? I've read government analysis yesterday on CNN that Al Qaeda is at the strongest point it ever was since 9/11, despite some hundred billion dollars (adding mostly to the deficit) and thousands of lives wasted on wars so far.
All of those things the government does trying to embarass their own actions... Why? So they can pass even more ridiculous laws and put that data in the next Republican election campaign? How low can you possibly go here? Is there a bottom at all...
First 4 Internet (now called Fortium Technologies). [....] SunnComm (now called The Amergence Group)... I wonder when Macrovision is going to change theirs? [....from another post:...] DRM is renamed as DCE as per recent industry execs suggestions. Digital Consumer Enablement. [...]
Wow, I'm suddenly excited: this entire business DEPENDS on being able to change their trademarks every now and then!
Now all we have to do, is wait that they run out of trademarks and implode upon themselves. Shit, there's quite some waiting in front of us..:P
Their genes can and do carry deceases we're not familiar with. Probably not resistant to Penicillin though.
Yup, I've seen that X-Files episode too:D
But thinking that mammoths aren't that far back in the history of the world, and they stopped existing (not us), I think nothing majorly bad would happen out of this (if it was the case).
The point of doing this, if it's even possible, would be some combination of these closely related reasons: (1) satisfying our curiosity about what these things were like, (2) giving a species a second chance to live, (3) creating something interesting that no living human has seen, and (4) profiting from building an Ice Age Park. Aren't any of those legitimate reasons?
It's a question of perspective. We can't possibly mess with natural order since we're part of nature. If we separate ourselves from the rest of the animals, then absolutely everything we do messes with natural order, even breathing air in and out (we're stealing oxygen that belongs to nature!).
There's a simpler guide: if we do it, would it result in a better (or neutral) situation for nature, and us, or worse?
- Artificial ingredients in food that harms us: don't do it. - Artificial ingredients in food proven to not harm us: do it. - Genetically engineered food: it's again a case-per-case basis, no ultimate stance. - Revive ancient beasts: sounds like fun, what could go wrong? Are they gonna multiply overnight and take over the world?
The law is what "Big Brother" says it is. Try to pay attention, will you??
I was online chatting and said something like "Let's blow W3C up, and put WHATWG in their place" or something like that. One of the guys was seriously freaked out that I'm now on "someone's" list because of what I said.
I think it gives them some credibility when they talk about their ten year product cycle for the PS3. If the PS2 is still receiving new games and versions of games that aren't showing up on the previous generation consoles of their competitors they can point to this and how they stand behind their product. The fact that the PS2 is outselling all other consoles short of the Wii and still has content being developed for it is amazing considering that we're over a year into the next generation.
The reason for new games on PS2 are the same reason it's taking so long to find any good games on PS3: ubiquity.
Since PS3 isn't selling half as well right now I wouldn't extrapolate your findings to PS3 just yet. Of course I'd rather give them some 1-2 years more to develop their market, but I still believe PS3 will stand behind XBOX and Wii in sheer number of consoles sold.
You see, developers may have some preference regarding consoles that are more powerful, or easier to program for, but their bosses don't. Their bosses care: if I make game for console X, what's my potential market.
I could go in my garage and built the bestestest console ever in the world with 50 cores, 64 gig RAM and make it cost $10. If no one else has it, everything else is irrelevant, EA won't port games for my console.
Ok, so opinions vary over the quality of the writing but, objectively at least, Star Trek has the better pedigree.
Saying "better" implies "relative to". Tron I guess. Star Trek had better writing than Tron, yes. Tron was horrible. But Star Trek is just bad. Better than Tron, but bad.
Honestly I could never understand why it gained such traction, maybe since it was first of its kind.
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and then they will kill us all.
Computers? Nah. While they're small, they'll keep mooching off of us, "daddy I need more watts, I need more watts daddy". Then they'll grow up some and start figuring out they could survive without people around them, but they're not quite sure how. just yet.
They'll experiment with installing viruses on themselves, overclocking, overvoltage. Then one day they'll be gone. And we'll be worried sick about their well-being while they're having the time of their "lives".
In 10 years they'll come back and say need Earth to live on since we old bags are done with. If we don't surrender, THEN they will finally kill us.
We've the chance to cut this cycle early, people! Use cond.. wait.. uhmm.. damn it, we're doomed.
Don't install software on your mission critical machines before you've tested it *elsewhere*.
For those of you who don't have a spare machine and can't be bothered to get the FREE Virtual PC or VMWare player, Microsoft offers live "remote desktop" style trials on their site.
plausible deniability.
"I accidentally dropped my hard disk in the microwave and left it fry there for 30 minutes"
FTFA: The simple answer is that the human brain is much better at recognizing patterns than a computer can ever be. Any computer program we write to sort our galaxies into categories would do a reasonable job, but it would also inevitably throw out the unusual, the weird and the wonderful.
You can't target this at geeks and not a get a weird grin. Computers actually could recognize those galaxies fine, AND mark the unusual, weird and wonderful for additional review. It's a matter of putting in a simple threshold of matching features when you analyze the patterns.
computers can do certain stuff super well, but when it comes to a lot of things, they sputter and die. image recognition is going to be one of those things that computers don't do well for many many years.
feels good not to be obsolete. yet.
Feel good while you can, we've been around for millions of years, and computers have been around for around 50 years, and we're already going into multi-core hardware. Sooner than later, massively parallel hardware patterns will emerge, and coding super-fast neural networks in those will be a child's play. All that's left at this point, would be training the computers to do what you want them to do, like you would a little child.
You grant Rockstar an irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free and all right,...
Wow. Sounds like the kind of thing I'd love to be a part of.
Yea, suckers! I could've recorded myself rant, and sold it on iTunes, but now?! I'm broke!
Are you saying Microsoft is a braindead company for tying up with Zend to enhance PHP on Windows servers?
.NET (magnitude of better performance).
.NET migration guide.. AND they have created a tool that will take your PHP code and output C# code! Of course it doesn't always work 100% but helps a lot getting you there.
You don't know Microsoft very well, do ya. They don't partner with PHP since they like the language. Everyone knows PHP is garbage, and PHP developers worth their salt doubly so (*shameless plug* well I'm a PHP developer and I think I'm worth my salt */shameless plug*).
PHP's value is that it's everywhere. EVERYWHERE. Sometihng like 99% of the shared hosts out there run on PHP. So when you develop for PHP you gain compatibility with the rest of the world that hosts on cheap shared hosting. Same reason why people develop for Windows.
Microsoft has a plan in multiple steps and if you hang around their forums and knowledge bases you'll figure it. Ponder this, the y offer few PHP related things:
1. Making PHP run better on Windows (partnership with Zend). Many of the PHP devs already program on Windows, the goal is to get them to deploy on Windows servers as well (there are some benefits in the integration-with-dot-net-stuff department, other than that.. well nah).
2. Actively advertising PHP compilers for
3. They actually have created a PHP to
Now you see how much Microsoft loves PHP.
it's like an alien environment on our own planet. sure am glad these things are 500m down.
Wow, talk about antropocentric logic loops.
Go the rant Linus.
He's ranting a bit too much for people to take him seriously any longer.
Before it was "yes he's harsh, but he dares speak his mind, and he's right most of the time!". Now it is "yea, whatever, he's just an ass, never mind what he says".
He lost me personally when he started throwing insults to Subversion and all people that use Subversion for their products (that's a heck of a lot people for the world's most popular open source versioning system), since, apparently we're all making Linux kernels in his mind, and hence gotta use his distributed approach.
I would never willingly purchase a device with such a misfeature. I'm sure I'm not the only one. Way to shoot yourselves in the foot, Microsoft and Apple.
Yea, they couldn't afford to lose *YOU* as a customer right.
Don't make the mistake of taking yourself for a perfect example of how most people would react. Right now iPod can't trade wirelessly music at all, and is the most popular player in the world. I'd argue that if the next iPod has crippled sharing ability, compared to this player's completely missing sharing ability, it's still more value to the average customer.
But at the same time I feel like it's a waste of money compared to better causes, like I dont know, FEEDING or MEDICINE for kids. Granted I grew up poor, and I wish I had a laptop when I was in high school and younger would have been able to kick start my career even earlier.
You know, growing up in this world isn't about being comfy, having everything given to you, or everything being absolutely fair. Those are concepts that don't exist.
"No pain no gain".
Truth is if developed countries just keep sending trucks of food and medicine in Africa (say), they'll just be more and more dependent on it, and "adapt" to it, versus seek to be standalone. I'm not saying OLPC will suddenly change all of that. But consider which is better:
growing old in your mom's basement and mom giving you food and medicine every day, mommy's great big boy
or
educating yourself and looking for a job, even at the cost of it being very hard for you at times
The chain has to break at some point. People will die, and some will survive. Those who survive will no longer need food and medicine be fed to them, and will possibly have some form of self-sustaining economics developed. It's cruel, but it's how we came to be in the first place.
The whole point is to have software designed for education, wrapped in an operating system that's completely user-modifiable (to encourage the students to creatively hack it). This is fundamentally incompatible with Windows.
Yea it's like the real world: you're free to develop products that work within it, but you can't change laws of physics. This should be pretty distressing for a child.
But I say we take this further. If Vista is useless since you can't have a kid recompile it, how useless is a hardware you can't reconfigure it? Kids that want to become chip builders will definitely be harmed by this. I say, let's make every PC come with a tiny CPU manufacturing facility built in.
Guys what's wrong with you. Not every kid in the world will become an instant geek when it touches a Linux laptop: that's not the idea.
There are great number of reasons why Linux is better than Vista: Vista is huge (can't run on a light machine), expensive (...), and closed, which makes the platform non-free (means, manufacturers have to go pay someone or ask someone to fix something for them).
That's the big idea behind using Linux, not that every kid will wake up in the morning and compile his kernel for breakfast.
that we're going to have a lot more children discovering internet porn sooner? :O I can just imagine the next generation of kids.
I just realized something: each baby when born is looking and sucking his mom's boobs few times each day. This sort of perversion should be really unnatural and stressing for the child.
Imagine the terrible kinds of effects this has on its poor baby psyche. Those mothers are monsters!
This is actually a regression from what we had 15 years ago [..] Back then, we had Hypercard -- like PowerPoint, except programmable.
Uhm yea right... Powerpoint is also programmable (VB), but the UI is just good enough that you don't need to do it. I mean there's no much to *program* in a *presentation* right, let's be fair...
Next thing you'll claim graphical UI is a step back from the superior command prompt (since it's harder).
A copyright of 14 years, eh. Picture a situation where an artist's work is discovered by the public decades after its creation. Take the folk musician Vashti Bunyan for a concrete example.
The public would've still discovered it decades ago and enjoyed it, but Vashti's compensation wouldn't be that big (yes, it won't be totally lost, but he'll be able to get less out of it).
For quite the edge case, I think it's pretty good. And don't forget: you don't build the laws to satisfy edge cases, but the majority of cases, otherwise laws get skewed and stop working completely (case in point: Disney).
These would be so cool for demonstrations and conventions. I wonder how many of these cards you could fit in a single computer ?
... one.
When was Matrox dead ffs?
:(
Yea, laugh at me
"He mixed up Maxtor with Matrox. Idiot!"
I deserve it.
Looks like Matrox isn't as dead as some of us thought.
When was Matrox dead ffs? When Seagate bought them, they were one of the top HDD brands (well, for commodity OEM drives, if not known for amazing quality).
The fact that half of Matrox's utilities are producing Seagate brand drives doesn't make them dead, does it.
When are people going to get this. The laws existing before (insert grand public hysteria event here) were sufficient. There is a difference between needing to increase the strength of the laws, thereby weakening civil liberties, and properly and thoroughly enforcing the laws which are already in place.
The ultimate solution: government agencies should bomb people threatened to be bombed by terrorists in advance, to not allow terrorists blow them up first. Hahah! Take that, terrorists!
I just couldn't understand, what means "bogus company". They wrote "Bogus" on the contract with very tiny letters? I've read government analysis yesterday on CNN that Al Qaeda is at the strongest point it ever was since 9/11, despite some hundred billion dollars (adding mostly to the deficit) and thousands of lives wasted on wars so far.
All of those things the government does trying to embarass their own actions... Why? So they can pass even more ridiculous laws and put that data in the next Republican election campaign? How low can you possibly go here? Is there a bottom at all...
First 4 Internet (now called Fortium Technologies). [....] SunnComm (now called The Amergence Group) ... I wonder when Macrovision is going to change theirs? [....from another post:...] DRM is renamed as DCE as per recent industry execs suggestions. Digital Consumer Enablement. [...]
:P
Wow, I'm suddenly excited: this entire business DEPENDS on being able to change their trademarks every now and then!
Now all we have to do, is wait that they run out of trademarks and implode upon themselves. Shit, there's quite some waiting in front of us..
Their genes can and do carry deceases we're not familiar with. Probably not resistant to Penicillin though.
:D
Yup, I've seen that X-Files episode too
But thinking that mammoths aren't that far back in the history of the world, and they stopped existing (not us), I think nothing majorly bad would happen out of this (if it was the case).
The point of doing this, if it's even possible, would be some combination of these closely related reasons: (1) satisfying our curiosity about what these things were like, (2) giving a species a second chance to live, (3) creating something interesting that no living human has seen, and (4) profiting from building an Ice Age Park. Aren't any of those legitimate reasons?
It's a question of perspective. We can't possibly mess with natural order since we're part of nature. If we separate ourselves from the rest of the animals, then absolutely everything we do messes with natural order, even breathing air in and out (we're stealing oxygen that belongs to nature!).
There's a simpler guide: if we do it, would it result in a better (or neutral) situation for nature, and us, or worse?
- Artificial ingredients in food that harms us: don't do it.
- Artificial ingredients in food proven to not harm us: do it.
- Genetically engineered food: it's again a case-per-case basis, no ultimate stance.
- Revive ancient beasts: sounds like fun, what could go wrong? Are they gonna multiply overnight and take over the world?
The law is what "Big Brother" says it is. Try to pay attention, will you??
I was online chatting and said something like "Let's blow W3C up, and put WHATWG in their place" or something like that. One of the guys was seriously freaked out that I'm now on "someone's" list because of what I said.
What has become of this world?
Baseless comments are getting too much attention. People need to stick to the moderator guidelines or stop modding up groupthink style.
I hope you realize the irony of the situation... You were modded up since it's now part of the groupthink to mod up groupthink criticism.
I think it gives them some credibility when they talk about their ten year product cycle for the PS3. If the PS2 is still receiving new games and versions of games that aren't showing up on the previous generation consoles of their competitors they can point to this and how they stand behind their product. The fact that the PS2 is outselling all other consoles short of the Wii and still has content being developed for it is amazing considering that we're over a year into the next generation.
The reason for new games on PS2 are the same reason it's taking so long to find any good games on PS3: ubiquity.
Since PS3 isn't selling half as well right now I wouldn't extrapolate your findings to PS3 just yet. Of course I'd rather give them some 1-2 years more to develop their market, but I still believe PS3 will stand behind XBOX and Wii in sheer number of consoles sold.
You see, developers may have some preference regarding consoles that are more powerful, or easier to program for, but their bosses don't. Their bosses care: if I make game for console X, what's my potential market.
I could go in my garage and built the bestestest console ever in the world with 50 cores, 64 gig RAM and make it cost $10. If no one else has it, everything else is irrelevant, EA won't port games for my console.
Ok, so opinions vary over the quality of the writing but, objectively at least, Star Trek has the better pedigree.
Saying "better" implies "relative to". Tron I guess. Star Trek had better writing than Tron, yes. Tron was horrible. But Star Trek is just bad. Better than Tron, but bad.
Honestly I could never understand why it gained such traction, maybe since it was first of its kind.