Simple. Just say that in addition to doing whatever it actually does it also allows cars to use no gasoline, it cures cancer, it allows people to access the internet without paying any telco/ISP, and it can break DRM. Make this publicaly known in a press release, get it slashdotted/dugg, and within 24 hours your prototype will be turned back into a concept.
The unlimited power of science has finally broken the mouse-sperm monopoly that big mouse-sperm has lorded over the common man for years.
Thank you science.
You're the greatest.
No offense guy, but you grandfather built a house with a secret underground lair, complete with the capability to land planes. How could he possibly NOT be evil?
In all seriousness, how does owning a 7n7 make you evil? Just because they happen to have ungodly amounts of money and they don't feel like keeping it miserly hidden away in big banks and instead want to spend it doesn't make you evil.
I agree.
Google allows itself to be censored to provide information to chinese people.
It's the most evil act since... ever (Note the sidestep of godwin's law)
In fact, we should prevent china in general from connecting to the internet. I mean, they do censor, so allowing them to access the internet despite their attempts to censor it is like killing tons of kittens.
We should also boycott Blizzard, 'cause Blizzard sells WoW to the chinese, but they attempt to prevent their citizens from logging on for long periods of time! It's like they're helping the evil chinese!
Seriously, Google's motto is 'do no evil'. I mean, what more do you need?
No, but the average 16-year-old behaves alot like a computer in many respects, i.e. it acts logically most of the time but it sometimes 'crashes' for no reason, doing completely illogical things for no reason, inevitably causing mayhem...
Plus, that section was meant as a joke, to liven up the all too interesting area of 'trained neural network navigating systems'
Comparing a computer driving system to windows is a bad idea.
Firstly, Windows is an operating system. That means every day hundreds of brand new programs are written for it that have the possibility of screwing each other, and the system, up. If windows was only capable of running one program (Office, probably), the crash rate would go down to 1/1000000 (which, I believe, is better than human drivers)
Secondly, when windows crashes nobody DIES. Compare car-driving programs to programs that run in hospitals to monitor patients. When one of those messes up, people are put into dangerous circumstances, and as a result, they are made significantly safer.
Of course, your entire thing about 'not trusting cars that are taught' is moot
The VW prototype wasn't taught how to drive, or at least it doesn't make that assertion in the article. The 'learning cars' were prototypes developed to win contests/grant money, not be street legal.
Oh, and about Autopilot? Here's what Wikipedia has to say on the issue: Modern autopilots generally divide a flight into taxi, take-off, ascent, level, descent, approach, landing, and taxi phases. Autopilots exist that automate all of these flight phases except the taxiing. Landing on runway and controlling the aircraft on rollout i.e keeping it on the centre of the runway is cat 3b landing, used on the majority of major runways today.
Autopilots are easily capable of taking off and landing planes.
The way I see it, you're underestimating the power of computers. Remember, in order to drive a car, the controller doesn't have to be smarter than a person. It just has to be smarter than a 16 year old (15 in some states)
This will be taken as -1 troll, or flamebait, but I'm glad that this war (the one in iraq) is having some benefit to humanity.
I mean, if it's not going to actually stop tyranny, help people, or prevent violence, it might as well develop more technology for prosthetics.
There shuttle doesn't have many more flights to execute. Exactly.
So, they slap together a safety system that amounts to stripping the guts out of an RC plane and hooking it up to a very strong antenna, then make a press release about the "stunning increase in safety of the new and improved shuttle".
Chances are, it doesn't get used, and NASA looks good, or at least better (I don't think NASA will be looking good until the nu-shuttles beat the chinese to the moon, but whatever)
This seems like more of a BOFH technique to me.
"Oh, your laptop stopped working? Stick a piece of paper in it. It'll work fine" *leaves office before fire alarm activates*
People don't need to think up new bad things to say about windows/office. All the complaints are as valid today as they were in 95.
What microsoft needs to do is FIX the problems that everyone complains about, and THEN they will become pointless to say
Example: Politicians are corrupt. Millions of people every day claim politicians are corrupt, and yet, in many cases, it's true, so the complaint is bloody well valid!
As for the 90%/10% jab, you realize this is/. right? News for Nerds, home of the rampaging linux fanboys?
I wouldn't be suprised if the windows/non-windows percentages were more like 60/40 or 50/50.
Yeah. Thanks to the World Cup, now people are gonna get sued for taping the world cup without direct written consent by FIFA.
Well, the RIAA could probably sue them too, if they didn't mute the TV first.
So wait...
Adding features adds time...
Hmm...
That means Duke Nukem Forever and Windows Vista will be the two best pieces of software ever written!
Or possibly just the biggest pieces of software ever written.
But seriously, 'agile' design techniques don't help game programmers, as most of the time there is little communication between the game creator and the 'end-user' during production. If the average game creator took advice from end-users, the average game would be "Pirates and Ninjas fighting Robots with NAKED GIRLS" (I'm not saying the average gamer is a pathetic idiot, just the average person who hangs out on forums for games that are several months from production.)
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Simple. Just say that in addition to doing whatever it actually does it also allows cars to use no gasoline, it cures cancer, it allows people to access the internet without paying any telco/ISP, and it can break DRM. Make this publicaly known in a press release, get it slashdotted/dugg, and within 24 hours your prototype will be turned back into a concept.
The unlimited power of science has finally broken the mouse-sperm monopoly that big mouse-sperm has lorded over the common man for years.
Thank you science.
You're the greatest.
No offense guy, but you grandfather built a house with a secret underground lair, complete with the capability to land planes. How could he possibly NOT be evil?
In all seriousness, how does owning a 7n7 make you evil? Just because they happen to have ungodly amounts of money and they don't feel like keeping it miserly hidden away in big banks and instead want to spend it doesn't make you evil.
I agree.
Google allows itself to be censored to provide information to chinese people.
It's the most evil act since... ever (Note the sidestep of godwin's law)
In fact, we should prevent china in general from connecting to the internet. I mean, they do censor, so allowing them to access the internet despite their attempts to censor it is like killing tons of kittens.
We should also boycott Blizzard, 'cause Blizzard sells WoW to the chinese, but they attempt to prevent their citizens from logging on for long periods of time! It's like they're helping the evil chinese!
Seriously, Google's motto is 'do no evil'. I mean, what more do you need?
Good thing Bush and co. had that 'homeland security' system going all the way back then to protect us from terrorism.
Oh...
Wait
Well, obviously, the program needs (n+2) years of operation to actually FULLY protect us. (where n = current year - year program 'started')
No, but the average 16-year-old behaves alot like a computer in many respects, i.e. it acts logically most of the time but it sometimes 'crashes' for no reason, doing completely illogical things for no reason, inevitably causing mayhem... Plus, that section was meant as a joke, to liven up the all too interesting area of 'trained neural network navigating systems'
Comparing a computer driving system to windows is a bad idea.
Firstly, Windows is an operating system. That means every day hundreds of brand new programs are written for it that have the possibility of screwing each other, and the system, up. If windows was only capable of running one program (Office, probably), the crash rate would go down to 1/1000000 (which, I believe, is better than human drivers)
Secondly, when windows crashes nobody DIES. Compare car-driving programs to programs that run in hospitals to monitor patients. When one of those messes up, people are put into dangerous circumstances, and as a result, they are made significantly safer.
Of course, your entire thing about 'not trusting cars that are taught' is moot
The VW prototype wasn't taught how to drive, or at least it doesn't make that assertion in the article. The 'learning cars' were prototypes developed to win contests/grant money, not be street legal.
Oh, and about Autopilot? Here's what Wikipedia has to say on the issue:
Modern autopilots generally divide a flight into taxi, take-off, ascent, level, descent, approach, landing, and taxi phases. Autopilots exist that automate all of these flight phases except the taxiing. Landing on runway and controlling the aircraft on rollout i.e keeping it on the centre of the runway is cat 3b landing, used on the majority of major runways today.
Autopilots are easily capable of taking off and landing planes.
The way I see it, you're underestimating the power of computers. Remember, in order to drive a car, the controller doesn't have to be smarter than a person.
It just has to be smarter than a 16 year old (15 in some states)
This will be taken as -1 troll, or flamebait, but I'm glad that this war (the one in iraq) is having some benefit to humanity.
I mean, if it's not going to actually stop tyranny, help people, or prevent violence, it might as well develop more technology for prosthetics.
There shuttle doesn't have many more flights to execute. Exactly.
So, they slap together a safety system that amounts to stripping the guts out of an RC plane and hooking it up to a very strong antenna, then make a press release about the "stunning increase in safety of the new and improved shuttle".
Chances are, it doesn't get used, and NASA looks good, or at least better (I don't think NASA will be looking good until the nu-shuttles beat the chinese to the moon, but whatever)
This seems like more of a BOFH technique to me.
"Oh, your laptop stopped working? Stick a piece of paper in it. It'll work fine" *leaves office before fire alarm activates*
I for one welcome our new giant ant overlords
People don't need to think up new bad things to say about windows/office. All the complaints are as valid today as they were in 95.
/. right? News for Nerds, home of the rampaging linux fanboys?
What microsoft needs to do is FIX the problems that everyone complains about, and THEN they will become pointless to say
Example: Politicians are corrupt. Millions of people every day claim politicians are corrupt, and yet, in many cases, it's true, so the complaint is bloody well valid!
As for the 90%/10% jab, you realize this is
I wouldn't be suprised if the windows/non-windows percentages were more like 60/40 or 50/50.
Yeah. Thanks to the World Cup, now people are gonna get sued for taping the world cup without direct written consent by FIFA. Well, the RIAA could probably sue them too, if they didn't mute the TV first.
Hey, buddy
I don't need to 'play the game'
I read the Something Awful article
So wait... Adding features adds time... Hmm... That means Duke Nukem Forever and Windows Vista will be the two best pieces of software ever written! Or possibly just the biggest pieces of software ever written. But seriously, 'agile' design techniques don't help game programmers, as most of the time there is little communication between the game creator and the 'end-user' during production. If the average game creator took advice from end-users, the average game would be "Pirates and Ninjas fighting Robots with NAKED GIRLS" (I'm not saying the average gamer is a pathetic idiot, just the average person who hangs out on forums for games that are several months from production.)