While on the one hand this is an example of natural evolution within the mobile industry, it's still a shame to seeing them dying. They really did bring a lot of new thinking to the industry... ten years ago. They backed themselves into this corner through sheer ignorance. They literally shunned innovation, thinking that their old platform would somehow keep things going. When they realized what dumb-asses they had been with a lack of long-term strategy, it was too late. I really do like the new BB platform, great phones and a great OS. The problem is, even people who admit that they really are pretty cool don't want to invest in a platform that everyone knows is on the verge of going six feet under. With that in mind, this really is the personification of too little to late. So that's my semi-damning eulogy.
Going on the assumption that the computer and sensor package required to make a self-driving car would use a negligible amount of electricity, and maybe even use a separate battery pack, a self-driving electric car would likely handle accelerating and deceleration more efficiently thereby increasing the range over a human driver. Just a guess though.
Don't mod me anywhere. I just want to join the voices pointing out that this makes no sense. A one way mission? That at least halfway makes sense with a Mars mission, but we know a whole hell of a lot less about what it would take to survive in orbit around Jupiter and we have no idea if there is even life to be found. What are they going to live on? How long a they planning on living? It would take a multi-trillion dollar space station to even make an attempt at a renewable, sustainable environment - and it still may not work. If they don't find life, what...let their air run out and die? Commit suicide? We don't have the technology for this. We may be able to pull off a return mission, no entity private or government is going to spend that kind of money when a probe can do the same work at a fraction of the cost. I am all for manned spaceflight, believe me when I say I am a huge nerd about it - the kind that crusades about our need to spread out among the stars to ensure survival of species. But this is something we are not ready for.
I suspect this effort equates to one of two things: Either it's literally a joke and we will be getting the punchline at some point, or someone has a plan to walk away from this with a lot of money after it fails to go anywhere.
Our government deserves to get slapped in the face at every turn by every other country over the heavy handed and far overreaching actions of the NSA. I hope the condemnations with actions keep rolling in.
Thanks again Snowden. You woke up the world and it's changing for the better because of you.
I wonder if there will be legal consequences when some people inevitably wipe their hard drive clean of 10 years of data they never bothered backing up. I can imagine a lot of people who simply have absolutely no idea what they are doing with a computer in this fashion may brave it anyway only find themselves in this position after thinking it is some sort of direct upgrade. I can see a mindset of 'Well, the city endorses it!'
Apple made a mistake by not releasing any new iPhones.
Mod me down all you want, it wasn't long ago I was getting modded down for defending Apple and their yearly product releases. I can no longer find any room to defend their smartphone platform.
That's just the hardware. Now, at $214 a pop, that is orders of magnitude less expensive than textbooks. This leads us to the question of the educational software running on these units, who makes it and how much it costs. I also need convincing that school books on a tablet are at least as effective as textbooks. Not to mention, while we may be sparing children of back problems, what is the long term affect on a students eyes when they are staring at back lit tablets all day and far more than the average tablet user?
Then again, if the material is not being standardized by Texas, that's a win win I suppose.
Perhaps you deserved it because I for one have no idea what you are talking about. I am new to FreeBSD as of the last few weeks and personally have found their community to be quite helpful, especially the forums on FreeBSD.org. I recently asked a very stupid question over something obvious I had overlooked and no one flamed me at all - in fact they were helpful and didn't call me out on it. Granted when it comes to their official forums there are rather extensive rules of etiquette to follow, but they are there for a reason and they make sense.
Perhaps there has been a rift in the space-time continuum and you are posting from the evil universe.
The (minor) advantage of iTunes radio is that you can tap to buy a song while it's playing. That's their angle with the service being free (ads aside). You steer the broadcast in the direction you want, they provide you with suggestions. So from what I understand, it's basically Pandora with in app song purchasing. The disadvantage for someone like me: while I have both a Mac and and an iTunes account, I use an Android. If Apple really wants to hit hard with this, they will need to come out with an Android app that lacks the song purchase option, or create iTunes for Android with the ability to sync to a Mac - neither of which I see happening. Their market share might be immediately large, but it is also limited right out of the starting gate.
I am no Apple hater. I love my Mac to death and all that, but is this seriously all they are announcing? Look, I watched the live blog of the event on Cnet and I understand why all of the hardware upgrades are nice and all - but they really needed to do something more, something much more to save their ass in the mobile market and I think it's safe to safe that everyone on the planet was expecting much bigger announcements than what we saw here today. They should have at least had a new product category ready to launch for Christmas. I am starting to wonder if they even really are working on an Apple branded TV or an iWatch, or anything worthwhile. The Apple of many years ago would have been entering the smarthome market by now in full force. What happened? Hell, at this point a notification LED would have wowed me. And still no bigger screen? A larger screen is the number one feature that iPhone users have been wanting for ages! I don't know what they think they are or aren't doing at apple, but the result is that their market share is going to continue to tumble.
My year and a half old Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE is overall more compelling than what they announced today.
I would first like to point out that if you really read this particular response, he was not as flaming as is being reported. Sounds like someone is exaggerating over a grudge. However...
Of all modern figures, Linus Torvalds is close to the top of my list of people who I respect and admire the most. His work has truly changed the world for the better. Can you imagine what things would be like if Linux had never happened? I shudder at the very notion. Regardless of this, Linus has in fact shown over the years that he can have an unreasonably short fuse. He is not RMS, but he's not far and when he does take a hard-line bad attitude stance, I sometimes fear that it is at the detriment of potential progress. Important, high profile maintainers have quit over the years due to his attitude, and it would be nice if he could be more diplomatic in those situations where he unnecessarily goes off like a stick of dynamite. I think there is a degree where his power has gone to his head. But as long as Linux keeps marching forward, I am happy enough with that.
Well that's good to know after all these years : \ Why is it that I remember the system giving a warning when you attempt to mod and post? I didn't get one, and when I didn't get a warning, I thought something changed and all was cool. Sigh... Slashdot\code has been doing random strange things over the last few months.
The guy was put in jail for telling his clients to LIE ABOUT BEATING THE POLYGRAPH, not for teaching them how to beat it.
But he didn't force them to lie, there was no coercion. I can tell people to lie all I want, that doesn't make me the liar.
he was telling clients to commit fraud against the government in job interviews.
Again, he forced no ones hand.
You're more or less an idiot if you think thats okay.
I never said I thought it was okay, so don't go off and judge me like that - you don't know me. In fact, I believe lying is wrong under any circumstances. I suggest you read Sam Harris' essay 'Lying'. But it is still a matter of free speech over his client's ability to proceed how they see fit under their own will, by their personal choice - it doesn't matter if the advice was morally right or wrong to give. I once had an IT contracting agency tell me to lie in an interview. They said it would guarantee the job, a job that paid $25/ hours. Against their advice, I chose not to lie. I did not get they job, but did not regret telling the truth. The next time your about to click the Submit button, you should re-read what your about to post and think really hard about it. I forgive you for being a jerk, but think next time.
The people that used his advice and teachings committed fraud. Dixon himself didn't go to any great lengths to hide what he was doing, that I am aware. Yes, there is a difference.
I still say this falls under freedom of speech. This doesn't even fall under the dictionary definition of sedition, which itself is illegal and about as close as the powers that be could make a claim for in this case. It might be criminal conduct to use the techniques, but last I checked the Anarchist Cookbook is still legal to own and read. For those remaining who know and teach these techniques, I can only hope they write guides on this subject and put them on the internet to propagate while a helpless government looks on. It's funny, techniques for messing up polygraph tests have never been too big a deal until now and some aren't exactly obscure. I have seen crime dramas where valid polygraph interfering techniques are discussed and depicted.
By the way, did I mention that polygraph tests are all around bullshit pseudo science to begin with? But that subject is too big for my lazy fingers to type out. Regardless, they might as well be auditing people while their at it.
I hate to reply to myself, but I should have also pointed out that while he made dramatized demonstrations of working with fully developed models those models still have to be created the old-fashioned way with tradition CAD\3d modeling software and I don't see how this could ever change that.
While computer screen models and VR goggles can never be holograms, the projection onto glass he shows off is one step away:
Holography is a technique which enables three-dimensional images to be made. It involves the use of a laser, interference, diffraction, light intensity recording and suitable illumination of the recording. The image changes as the position and orientation of the viewing system changes in exactly the same way as if the object were still present, thus making the image appear three-dimensional. (from wikipedia)
So if changing your viewing perspective allowed you to see the object projected onto glass at different angles, this would be legit.
While none of these facts makes this work in its current state anything more than passively interesting in a practical sense, conceptually this has a lot going on and if future iterations arise, it may well be the engineering breakthrough he's touting. This is like alpha version 0.0.1 - As far as waving your hands and arms around all day, if in the future this can be made into a superior interface, perhaps a lightweight exoskeleton of the future could assist. We are already going cyborg so it's not unthinkable.
Then again, it's not difficult to get confused about an MS product lineup these days. So do I understand that Surface RT is now just called Surface or Surface Pro while they then have the Surface Pro 2? Having Surface RT in the mix was confusing enough, but at least the RT implied something was different. Now they're both called Surface, dropping the RT on the ARM model? Huh? I can see this resulting in a lot of returns when people realize they purchased the wrong model the hard way. Or few returns since they aren't exactly selling. Did I RTFA too fast and miss something or what?
The first thing I though when I read the headline was that it was someone in the US doing this. The second thing I thought was that this person has probably already been arrested. Then I watched the video and heard the guy is in Holland so I doubt he will be getting in trouble. Surely the long arm of the NSA doesn't reach so far as to have a citizen of Holland physically detained for abusing their phone line? Not yet anyway. I am wondering precisely what number he called. I would not expect the NSA to have a publicly posted customer service number, it would be bombarded with calls like this - but maybe I'm wrong. Really, I am curious to know the nature of the number he called.
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While on the one hand this is an example of natural evolution within the mobile industry, it's still a shame to seeing them dying. They really did bring a lot of new thinking to the industry... ten years ago. They backed themselves into this corner through sheer ignorance. They literally shunned innovation, thinking that their old platform would somehow keep things going. When they realized what dumb-asses they had been with a lack of long-term strategy, it was too late. I really do like the new BB platform, great phones and a great OS. The problem is, even people who admit that they really are pretty cool don't want to invest in a platform that everyone knows is on the verge of going six feet under. With that in mind, this really is the personification of too little to late. So that's my semi-damning eulogy.
RIP BlackBerry.
Going on the assumption that the computer and sensor package required to make a self-driving car would use a negligible amount of electricity, and maybe even use a separate battery pack, a self-driving electric car would likely handle accelerating and deceleration more efficiently thereby increasing the range over a human driver. Just a guess though.
Don't mod me anywhere. I just want to join the voices pointing out that this makes no sense. A one way mission? That at least halfway makes sense with a Mars mission, but we know a whole hell of a lot less about what it would take to survive in orbit around Jupiter and we have no idea if there is even life to be found. What are they going to live on? How long a they planning on living? It would take a multi-trillion dollar space station to even make an attempt at a renewable, sustainable environment - and it still may not work. If they don't find life, what...let their air run out and die? Commit suicide? We don't have the technology for this. We may be able to pull off a return mission, no entity private or government is going to spend that kind of money when a probe can do the same work at a fraction of the cost. I am all for manned spaceflight, believe me when I say I am a huge nerd about it - the kind that crusades about our need to spread out among the stars to ensure survival of species. But this is something we are not ready for.
I suspect this effort equates to one of two things: Either it's literally a joke and we will be getting the punchline at some point, or someone has a plan to walk away from this with a lot of money after it fails to go anywhere.
Our government deserves to get slapped in the face at every turn by every other country over the heavy handed and far overreaching actions of the NSA. I hope the condemnations with actions keep rolling in.
Thanks again Snowden. You woke up the world and it's changing for the better because of you.
I wonder if there will be legal consequences when some people inevitably wipe their hard drive clean of 10 years of data they never bothered backing up. I can imagine a lot of people who simply have absolutely no idea what they are doing with a computer in this fashion may brave it anyway only find themselves in this position after thinking it is some sort of direct upgrade. I can see a mindset of 'Well, the city endorses it!'
Apple made a mistake by not releasing any new iPhones.
Mod me down all you want, it wasn't long ago I was getting modded down for defending Apple and their yearly product releases. I can no longer find any room to defend their smartphone platform.
That's just the hardware. Now, at $214 a pop, that is orders of magnitude less expensive than textbooks. This leads us to the question of the educational software running on these units, who makes it and how much it costs. I also need convincing that school books on a tablet are at least as effective as textbooks. Not to mention, while we may be sparing children of back problems, what is the long term affect on a students eyes when they are staring at back lit tablets all day and far more than the average tablet user?
Then again, if the material is not being standardized by Texas, that's a win win I suppose.
after getting completely embarrassed
Perhaps you deserved it because I for one have no idea what you are talking about. I am new to FreeBSD as of the last few weeks and personally have found their community to be quite helpful, especially the forums on FreeBSD.org. I recently asked a very stupid question over something obvious I had overlooked and no one flamed me at all - in fact they were helpful and didn't call me out on it. Granted when it comes to their official forums there are rather extensive rules of etiquette to follow, but they are there for a reason and they make sense.
Perhaps there has been a rift in the space-time continuum and you are posting from the evil universe.
The (minor) advantage of iTunes radio is that you can tap to buy a song while it's playing. That's their angle with the service being free (ads aside). You steer the broadcast in the direction you want, they provide you with suggestions. So from what I understand, it's basically Pandora with in app song purchasing. The disadvantage for someone like me: while I have both a Mac and and an iTunes account, I use an Android. If Apple really wants to hit hard with this, they will need to come out with an Android app that lacks the song purchase option, or create iTunes for Android with the ability to sync to a Mac - neither of which I see happening. Their market share might be immediately large, but it is also limited right out of the starting gate.
I am no Apple hater. I love my Mac to death and all that, but is this seriously all they are announcing? Look, I watched the live blog of the event on Cnet and I understand why all of the hardware upgrades are nice and all - but they really needed to do something more, something much more to save their ass in the mobile market and I think it's safe to safe that everyone on the planet was expecting much bigger announcements than what we saw here today. They should have at least had a new product category ready to launch for Christmas. I am starting to wonder if they even really are working on an Apple branded TV or an iWatch, or anything worthwhile. The Apple of many years ago would have been entering the smarthome market by now in full force. What happened? Hell, at this point a notification LED would have wowed me. And still no bigger screen? A larger screen is the number one feature that iPhone users have been wanting for ages! I don't know what they think they are or aren't doing at apple, but the result is that their market share is going to continue to tumble.
My year and a half old Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE is overall more compelling than what they announced today.
I would first like to point out that if you really read this particular response, he was not as flaming as is being reported. Sounds like someone is exaggerating over a grudge. However...
Of all modern figures, Linus Torvalds is close to the top of my list of people who I respect and admire the most. His work has truly changed the world for the better. Can you imagine what things would be like if Linux had never happened? I shudder at the very notion. Regardless of this, Linus has in fact shown over the years that he can have an unreasonably short fuse. He is not RMS, but he's not far and when he does take a hard-line bad attitude stance, I sometimes fear that it is at the detriment of potential progress. Important, high profile maintainers have quit over the years due to his attitude, and it would be nice if he could be more diplomatic in those situations where he unnecessarily goes off like a stick of dynamite. I think there is a degree where his power has gone to his head. But as long as Linux keeps marching forward, I am happy enough with that.
Reminds me of that recent dystopian sci-fi movie 'In Time'. Not the greatest flick, but it shows where your point could lead... more or less.
Give this five to ten years and they will print themselves. Of course you'll need to purchase a license for each one.
Well that's good to know after all these years : \ Why is it that I remember the system giving a warning when you attempt to mod and post? I didn't get one, and when I didn't get a warning, I thought something changed and all was cool. Sigh... Slashdot\code has been doing random strange things over the last few months.
It's easy to look at this post as redundant at a glance. The truth is, we cannot say this enough. Here, have my last mod point.
The guy was put in jail for telling his clients to LIE ABOUT BEATING THE POLYGRAPH, not for teaching them how to beat it.
But he didn't force them to lie, there was no coercion. I can tell people to lie all I want, that doesn't make me the liar.
he was telling clients to commit fraud against the government in job interviews.
Again, he forced no ones hand.
You're more or less an idiot if you think thats okay.
I never said I thought it was okay, so don't go off and judge me like that - you don't know me. In fact, I believe lying is wrong under any circumstances. I suggest you read Sam Harris' essay 'Lying'. But it is still a matter of free speech over his client's ability to proceed how they see fit under their own will, by their personal choice - it doesn't matter if the advice was morally right or wrong to give. I once had an IT contracting agency tell me to lie in an interview. They said it would guarantee the job, a job that paid $25/ hours. Against their advice, I chose not to lie. I did not get they job, but did not regret telling the truth. The next time your about to click the Submit button, you should re-read what your about to post and think really hard about it. I forgive you for being a jerk, but think next time.
But it would be awesome to see (assuming the train and passengers are ok).
becomes more relevant with every passing day.
The people that used his advice and teachings committed fraud. Dixon himself didn't go to any great lengths to hide what he was doing, that I am aware. Yes, there is a difference.
I still say this falls under freedom of speech. This doesn't even fall under the dictionary definition of sedition, which itself is illegal and about as close as the powers that be could make a claim for in this case. It might be criminal conduct to use the techniques, but last I checked the Anarchist Cookbook is still legal to own and read. For those remaining who know and teach these techniques, I can only hope they write guides on this subject and put them on the internet to propagate while a helpless government looks on. It's funny, techniques for messing up polygraph tests have never been too big a deal until now and some aren't exactly obscure. I have seen crime dramas where valid polygraph interfering techniques are discussed and depicted.
By the way, did I mention that polygraph tests are all around bullshit pseudo science to begin with? But that subject is too big for my lazy fingers to type out. Regardless, they might as well be auditing people while their at it.
I hate to reply to myself, but I should have also pointed out that while he made dramatized demonstrations of working with fully developed models those models still have to be created the old-fashioned way with tradition CAD\3d modeling software and I don't see how this could ever change that.
While computer screen models and VR goggles can never be holograms, the projection onto glass he shows off is one step away:
Holography is a technique which enables three-dimensional images to be made. It involves the use of a laser, interference, diffraction, light intensity recording and suitable illumination of the recording. The image changes as the position and orientation of the viewing system changes in exactly the same way as if the object were still present, thus making the image appear three-dimensional. (from wikipedia)
So if changing your viewing perspective allowed you to see the object projected onto glass at different angles, this would be legit.
For a nice quick read on the subject, click me!
While none of these facts makes this work in its current state anything more than passively interesting in a practical sense, conceptually this has a lot going on and if future iterations arise, it may well be the engineering breakthrough he's touting. This is like alpha version 0.0.1 - As far as waving your hands and arms around all day, if in the future this can be made into a superior interface, perhaps a lightweight exoskeleton of the future could assist. We are already going cyborg so it's not unthinkable.
Then again, it's not difficult to get confused about an MS product lineup these days. So do I understand that Surface RT is now just called Surface or Surface Pro while they then have the Surface Pro 2? Having Surface RT in the mix was confusing enough, but at least the RT implied something was different. Now they're both called Surface, dropping the RT on the ARM model? Huh? I can see this resulting in a lot of returns when people realize they purchased the wrong model the hard way. Or few returns since they aren't exactly selling. Did I RTFA too fast and miss something or what?
The first thing I though when I read the headline was that it was someone in the US doing this. The second thing I thought was that this person has probably already been arrested. Then I watched the video and heard the guy is in Holland so I doubt he will be getting in trouble. Surely the long arm of the NSA doesn't reach so far as to have a citizen of Holland physically detained for abusing their phone line? Not yet anyway. I am wondering precisely what number he called. I would not expect the NSA to have a publicly posted customer service number, it would be bombarded with calls like this - but maybe I'm wrong. Really, I am curious to know the nature of the number he called.
"Luckily for those of us who have found Jesus, we know this is not true and that we alone among the masses, are saved."
Judging from this statement, your request for clarity and logic will go unmet. Perhaps your question was rhetorical.