Your first idea? No. Second? Sure. Overwhelmingly it has to do with the economic sanctions we (US) slapped on them. They are not in a position to do the same back except to do business elsewhere and at home is always a good place.
I remember watching cnet on television back in the mid 1990's. When it went off the air in in favor of an all web media outlet, I thought it was the end and was actually kind of depressed. It turned out television was limiting and now cnet probably makes more money from me browsing their site then they ever did with television advertising. Likewise, I used to spend a lot of time browsing computer related magazines. I haven't so much as visited a dedicated magazine isle in maybe 15 years. Print is dying with a whimper and no one cares. Nothing to see here, not really.
I know Elon Musk has his haters, even in the nerd community, and they have their reasons. But personally, I am thankful beyond thankful for him, his companies, and many fine employees. There is no one out there working so hard to make the Earth a better place while also opening the doors to space in order to ensure the survival of our species. I find it interesting that the business ventures he lines up are not only geared toward making a better Earth, they simultaneously serve the purpose of developing crucial technologies we would need to colonize Mars. The man is a genius, and yes I'm a fanboy.
I am willing to bet PJ passively reads Slashdot. If this is so and you read this, we need you back now please. Now more than ever is the clarity of your legal analysis needed. I admit that I am being completely selfish in asking.
I would like to see the paper (email really) trail where these companies plotted to screw over consumers. After all, there is no way that this happened by accident and being deliberate means communication. I thought highly of these brands until now. Now I can only wonder how long this has been going on and how many product lines are affected. They have lost my loyalty and cannot earn it back. I will warn everyone I know to avoid all of their products and I will explain why. I have a feeling this is going to snowball into a much more publicized scandal. I just hope I don't find out any of my still currently beloved companies have been committing the same fraud.
Also, I say naive because how could they have thought in this day and age that they would not get busted? I guess they were blinded by the dollar signs in their eyes.
If you read the original article about the technology, they have competing OS development teams. One of them is working on a new Open Source "Machine OS", another team is working on developing a modified version of Linux to take advantage of what the platform could potentially offer. As long as they are bothering to do that at all, I would say they know what they are doing and have a working answer to your question:
How exactly do you propose to design an OS for that, keeping the benefits of persistent data objects, while running applications working on serialized data on top of that?
Just because something looks like Linux or any *nix does not mean that it can't actually be fundamentally and radically different under the hood. The likes of Bash, csh, zsh, etc. are still the most powerful ways to interact with a computer - by far and away. The Unix console has survived as the ultimate interface since the sixties for a very good reason. Extending a shell to take advantage of new hardware functionality would actually make sense in this case: it's powerful, and admins would already know how to use it. Also, it doesn't sound like HP is exactly going straight for the desktop with this. Unless you want a refrigerator sized machine in your house. If you are envisioning running KDE on this thing, you are thinking about it wrong.
"Try an experiment: go the speed limit in the center lane of the highway and see how many furious drivers pound their horns and flash their headlights"
Yeah , I wonder why that could be. Perhaps because some arrogant ass is blocking the lane when he's supposed to move over if the nearside lane is clear. If you want to play traffic cop go sign up and do the 2 years training, otherwise get out the fecking way.
Yet those same furious drivers will inevitably pass on the right into dense, slower moving traffic, ride someones tail until that driver gets nervous and speeds up enough to let them pass that center lane car only to further pass into the the left lane which was open in the first place. The moral of the story is, once you hit the highway, someone is always an idiot to someone else whether you are actually driving like an idiot or following the letter of the law.
When contemplating phenomena in this universe, I find that in a small number of situations, a rudimentary understanding can be more readily had by a humble and feeble intellect such as mine if I simply drop the speed of light squared from the equation. C squared is where things get strange. Consider the following: A star 100 million light years away ignites. From out relative position and motion, we measure the light as traveling at ~186,300 miles per second over a distance of 100 million light years. As far as we are concerned, it took a long time to get here. Now for the tricky part. As everyone here I am sure knows, time slows down the closer you get to the speed of light, coming to a standstill once the cosmic speed limit is reached. As a consequence, as soon as the light from that star was generated, it was instantly already here. From our perspective, it took 100 million light years to get here. For the perspective of the light itself (so to speak), the transit time was 0. Apply that to light that is older than the Earth and it becomes a real mind-fuck. In fact, kick back and expand on that concept in many different ways. At least this is according to Dr. Tyson. Despite the complexities, E = MC squared is elegant mathematical poetry.
Okay, so other people have done a pretty good job pointing out the at the summary and the article don't understand what the singularity is by definition and that it does not require AI, etc...
But I would like to point out that machine intelligence is absolutely possible, all we have to do is fully merge with the machines.
My girlfriend and I spend a lot of our TV time (Roku) watching science and technology related programming. It's difficult to watch anything from as recent as 2011 or prior. It is difficult because I can frequently point out how wrong or at best incomplete many things are compared to the understandings and accomplishments of very near recent. This goes for both science and technology. A lot of highly-beneficial technologies never make it out of the lab because they are so quickly replaced, many technologies cannot keep up with themselves. That, and any one of many recent single astronomical discoveries can render an hour of programming from just a few years ago obsolete. Unless of course a documentary is historical in nature, which is always fun.
On that note, as a nerd who is highly entrenched in following science and technology on a daily basis, I have spent the last few years humbly in awe at the exponential rate of technological innovation. There is so much going on right now it's mind boggling. 2064? At this point I call that selling the human race short. There are so many factors to consider. For example, I see the currently embryonic maker\bio-hacking\grinder movements becoming a driving force behind advancements that will bring a lot of amazing things into our lives as those movements grown and more advanced tools slowly become available to them. The world of 2064 will more likely be the world of 2040. The only real enemy to all of this is the course of international politics.
It's not horrible, it's............ misunderstood. : P
Seriously though, I could write several thousand words on why I love Enlightenment. I've been using Linux since 1996 and right now I am running the Bodhi beta and it's the best experience I've ever had with a DE. Keep in mind, development stalled for over a decade and only recently restarted. Enlightenment is now being developed at breakneck pace and they have some really cool stuff going on. Although I personally can't imagine going with anything less, at the end of the day I advise most people to use something else like.... elementary OS. The fact is Enlightenment is simply to complicated for most people to bother with the learning curve.
I've been following the Enlightenment project since its inception. A few months ago I had to hop on their mailing list and ask a question for the first time. Rasterman replied, which itself seemed an honor. Doubly so that he kinda called me an idiot in that round about way he does. It was a good day.
I think it's safe to say that the upcoming VR offerings will find success and that the technology is here to stay. This looks like a perfect application for the OLED technology we have seen demoed by Samsung. I would much rather have a single flexible screen that wrapped completely around my field of view completely. I imagine it would also cut down on the bulk substantially while also offering the ability to provide long battery life units.
For quite awhile now, Microsoft has had programs that pay people to use Bing. This even true in the United States. It's a rather sad and pathetic move. Kind of like saying, "Our search in engine is so substandard compared to the competition we have to pay people to use it." Past all that, can anyone tell me if this practice is in any way anti-competitive or legally questionable? Or is it like swiping a CVS card.
I would believe that neither company employs a substantial amount of African Americans. Why? Neither company has vast, low wage customer service call centers. Hence the reluctance to release numbers. If you don't have much experience working in customer service call centers, your first instinct is going to be to mod me down (understandably). If you do have a fair amount of experience working in low-wage CS call centers, you completely understand what I am talking about. I myself (unfortunately) do have quite a lot of experience working in customer service call centers, and have often been one of very few white people in a sea of African Americans as well as a lot women. The truth is, most large tech related companies hire some of amount of minorities and women. But when you look at the whole of the company, you quickly realize that minorities are routinely hired into marginalized positions, even when they are highly qualified sometimes even with a college degree. It's exclusive, but if you have seen it, you get what I mean.
I am wondering as we get to what is being promised as the biggest story of the Snowden documents, what the final scoop will be.
Regardless of what the content of that document will be, by the time it's all said and done, the sum total will probably be something like, "99% of the entire human race is a slave species."
Slashdot Mirror
Your first idea? No. Second? Sure. Overwhelmingly it has to do with the economic sanctions we (US) slapped on them. They are not in a position to do the same back except to do business elsewhere and at home is always a good place.
The missing manual.
I remember watching cnet on television back in the mid 1990's. When it went off the air in in favor of an all web media outlet, I thought it was the end and was actually kind of depressed. It turned out television was limiting and now cnet probably makes more money from me browsing their site then they ever did with television advertising. Likewise, I used to spend a lot of time browsing computer related magazines. I haven't so much as visited a dedicated magazine isle in maybe 15 years. Print is dying with a whimper and no one cares. Nothing to see here, not really.
I know Elon Musk has his haters, even in the nerd community, and they have their reasons. But personally, I am thankful beyond thankful for him, his companies, and many fine employees. There is no one out there working so hard to make the Earth a better place while also opening the doors to space in order to ensure the survival of our species. I find it interesting that the business ventures he lines up are not only geared toward making a better Earth, they simultaneously serve the purpose of developing crucial technologies we would need to colonize Mars. The man is a genius, and yes I'm a fanboy.
I am willing to bet PJ passively reads Slashdot. If this is so and you read this, we need you back now please. Now more than ever is the clarity of your legal analysis needed. I admit that I am being completely selfish in asking.
I would like to see the paper (email really) trail where these companies plotted to screw over consumers. After all, there is no way that this happened by accident and being deliberate means communication. I thought highly of these brands until now. Now I can only wonder how long this has been going on and how many product lines are affected. They have lost my loyalty and cannot earn it back. I will warn everyone I know to avoid all of their products and I will explain why. I have a feeling this is going to snowball into a much more publicized scandal. I just hope I don't find out any of my still currently beloved companies have been committing the same fraud.
Also, I say naive because how could they have thought in this day and age that they would not get busted? I guess they were blinded by the dollar signs in their eyes.
Just because something looks like Linux or any *nix does not mean that it can't actually be fundamentally and radically different under the hood. The likes of Bash, csh, zsh, etc. are still the most powerful ways to interact with a computer - by far and away. The Unix console has survived as the ultimate interface since the sixties for a very good reason. Extending a shell to take advantage of new hardware functionality would actually make sense in this case: it's powerful, and admins would already know how to use it. Also, it doesn't sound like HP is exactly going straight for the desktop with this. Unless you want a refrigerator sized machine in your house. If you are envisioning running KDE on this thing, you are thinking about it wrong.
https://www.google.com/search?...
"Try an experiment: go the speed limit in the center lane of the highway and see how many furious drivers pound their horns and flash their headlights"
Yeah , I wonder why that could be. Perhaps because some arrogant ass is blocking the lane when he's supposed to move over if the nearside lane is clear. If you want to play traffic cop go sign up and do the 2 years training, otherwise get out the fecking way.
Yet those same furious drivers will inevitably pass on the right into dense, slower moving traffic, ride someones tail until that driver gets nervous and speeds up enough to let them pass that center lane car only to further pass into the the left lane which was open in the first place. The moral of the story is, once you hit the highway, someone is always an idiot to someone else whether you are actually driving like an idiot or following the letter of the law.
It's more like, "Wow! I'm a jack-booted thug! This is awesome!"
I know I am a little late getting in on this conversation, but I really do think a lot of them enjoy being Nazi bastards.
When contemplating phenomena in this universe, I find that in a small number of situations, a rudimentary understanding can be more readily had by a humble and feeble intellect such as mine if I simply drop the speed of light squared from the equation. C squared is where things get strange. Consider the following: A star 100 million light years away ignites. From out relative position and motion, we measure the light as traveling at ~186,300 miles per second over a distance of 100 million light years. As far as we are concerned, it took a long time to get here. Now for the tricky part. As everyone here I am sure knows, time slows down the closer you get to the speed of light, coming to a standstill once the cosmic speed limit is reached. As a consequence, as soon as the light from that star was generated, it was instantly already here. From our perspective, it took 100 million light years to get here. For the perspective of the light itself (so to speak), the transit time was 0. Apply that to light that is older than the Earth and it becomes a real mind-fuck. In fact, kick back and expand on that concept in many different ways. At least this is according to Dr. Tyson. Despite the complexities, E = MC squared is elegant mathematical poetry.
The only thing worse than beta is Bennett Haselton. How does this crap keep making it's way to the front page?
Okay, so other people have done a pretty good job pointing out the at the summary and the article don't understand what the singularity is by definition and that it does not require AI, etc...
But I would like to point out that machine intelligence is absolutely possible, all we have to do is fully merge with the machines.
Unfortunately I have to leave, give me a few hours and I will come back with examples.
My girlfriend and I spend a lot of our TV time (Roku) watching science and technology related programming. It's difficult to watch anything from as recent as 2011 or prior. It is difficult because I can frequently point out how wrong or at best incomplete many things are compared to the understandings and accomplishments of very near recent. This goes for both science and technology. A lot of highly-beneficial technologies never make it out of the lab because they are so quickly replaced, many technologies cannot keep up with themselves. That, and any one of many recent single astronomical discoveries can render an hour of programming from just a few years ago obsolete. Unless of course a documentary is historical in nature, which is always fun.
On that note, as a nerd who is highly entrenched in following science and technology on a daily basis, I have spent the last few years humbly in awe at the exponential rate of technological innovation. There is so much going on right now it's mind boggling. 2064? At this point I call that selling the human race short. There are so many factors to consider. For example, I see the currently embryonic maker\bio-hacking\grinder movements becoming a driving force behind advancements that will bring a lot of amazing things into our lives as those movements grown and more advanced tools slowly become available to them. The world of 2064 will more likely be the world of 2040. The only real enemy to all of this is the course of international politics.
That's not a camera. It's radar\lidar.
It's not horrible, it's............ misunderstood. : P
Seriously though, I could write several thousand words on why I love Enlightenment. I've been using Linux since 1996 and right now I am running the Bodhi beta and it's the best experience I've ever had with a DE. Keep in mind, development stalled for over a decade and only recently restarted. Enlightenment is now being developed at breakneck pace and they have some really cool stuff going on. Although I personally can't imagine going with anything less, at the end of the day I advise most people to use something else like.... elementary OS. The fact is Enlightenment is simply to complicated for most people to bother with the learning curve.
I've been following the Enlightenment project since its inception. A few months ago I had to hop on their mailing list and ask a question for the first time. Rasterman replied, which itself seemed an honor. Doubly so that he kinda called me an idiot in that round about way he does. It was a good day.
I think it's safe to say that the upcoming VR offerings will find success and that the technology is here to stay. This looks like a perfect application for the OLED technology we have seen demoed by Samsung. I would much rather have a single flexible screen that wrapped completely around my field of view completely. I imagine it would also cut down on the bulk substantially while also offering the ability to provide long battery life units.
For quite awhile now, Microsoft has had programs that pay people to use Bing. This even true in the United States. It's a rather sad and pathetic move. Kind of like saying, "Our search in engine is so substandard compared to the competition we have to pay people to use it." Past all that, can anyone tell me if this practice is in any way anti-competitive or legally questionable? Or is it like swiping a CVS card.
I would believe that neither company employs a substantial amount of African Americans. Why? Neither company has vast, low wage customer service call centers. Hence the reluctance to release numbers. If you don't have much experience working in customer service call centers, your first instinct is going to be to mod me down (understandably). If you do have a fair amount of experience working in low-wage CS call centers, you completely understand what I am talking about. I myself (unfortunately) do have quite a lot of experience working in customer service call centers, and have often been one of very few white people in a sea of African Americans as well as a lot women. The truth is, most large tech related companies hire some of amount of minorities and women. But when you look at the whole of the company, you quickly realize that minorities are routinely hired into marginalized positions, even when they are highly qualified sometimes even with a college degree. It's exclusive, but if you have seen it, you get what I mean.
E = M C2
That's about all there is to it.
Perhaps it was an engineering effort.
Regardless of what the content of that document will be, by the time it's all said and done, the sum total will probably be something like, "99% of the entire human race is a slave species."