I find it hilarious to hear from so-called futurists. Its hilarious because their followers fall into 2 camps: syncophants _or_ luddites. Rarely, if ever, do you get someone checking them for accuracy.
Kurzweil's developed a voice recognition package several years ago. That kind of VR software has been around for years. If you look at the commercial usage of VR software, you'd still find a very small market today. It's not that there isn't demand for it. Its just that the technology is still not there.
Forget about hooking computers into my brain. What I want to know is when can I go down to Bestbuy and pick up a couple of laundry robots. When is that going to happen?
I think you are confused.
No, the Feds don't police and prosecute the results of weak door locks. That would be Barney Fife where you live. Where I live, people either have powerful locks or powerful weapons. So, the incidence you refer to is not an issue where I live.
The Feds police and prosecute people that enter the country illegally, transport stolen goods across state lines, commit terrorist acts, etc. The reason they police and prosecute these types of crimes is because they transcend state lines, they represent a real physical threat to all US nationals and they are uniquely suited to do so.
But if you add in FICA paid by employees, add in FICA paid by the employer, corporate income taxes (~35%), corporate property taxes, and everything else paid by the corporation. These have to come out of somebody's pocket - so the investor pays them directly (not likely for very long) -or- employees that are actually important to the corporation pay them indirectly as a SGA cost.
Most sociologists will tell you that the terms rich and poor are loose terms and largely relative. Take a $30k earner in the inner-city US and put them in some parts of Southeast Asia and they would be a high income earner.
Likewise, some recent medical doctors may graduate to receive a very high income. If they are up to their eyeballs in student loans, technically they are dirt poor.
And, economist will tell you ownership of income-producing assets (ie. wealth) fluctuates but normally grows over a lifetime. Income, on the other hand, fluctuates significantly over a lifetime.
Given that its most people's most important communications device, what is a few bucks. Personally, I'd much rather pay a few extra bucks for a finished product fully managed by any vendor.
Just because UBuntu runs on old library computers we are supposed to believe that it runs flawlessly on any mobile/cell devices (after being tweaked and recompiled, of course)? That is a stretch.
It is an admirable notion to think beauty is purely subjective. I think, in some actuality, scientists have research that says otherwise.
Do a search on the Golden Ratio. There is tested algorithm for beauty. Whether the formula is 100% accurate, is a different story. Statistically though, my understanding is that the formula has been proven.
This is what drives me nuts about the whole FOSS thing.
The fact is, companies already share code, it just happens to be owned by vendors with packages. Its not like any company goes out an invents a GL system, they share for a price (ie. buy) packaged GL apps. Sooner or later, you get thousands of companies selling a GL system (read ERP) from a vendor like SAP or Oracle.
The people that say you need to share this and share that or somehow you are economically or technically inferiority-minded, generally stand to gain by the sharing.
This is not flamebait; its an honest statement of fact. This is the fallacy of FOSS - there is no such thing as a free lunch. Free is free only when something of no value is shared or given away. Free is not free when you are a CIO paying someone for software development (custom developed or packaged). In between, (in America anyway), there is a thing called a market.
It's ridiculous for this RedHat clown to demand other companies give his company something to fill out the Linux app portfolio.
The tired, old "you can legislate morality..." argument. Your response is so simple-minded and trite that its easy to refute: by your standard we should not throw people in jail for murder because you can't stop murder (there will always be weapons). This kind of lame argument is made by people with a complete ignorance of morality, ethics and law. They can't discuss the subject intelligently so therefore morality-ethics-laws do not exist.
This situation is very different from the liver in the petrie dish situation because we are talking nucleus->zygote->embryo-baby. Billy could and likely will (in the future) go full-term. Little Billy did not ask to be a science experiment. It aint Billy and Billy's parents that will end up paying for special ed and extreme health care. The fact is the Pope and President Bush have consistently made their case based on the civic and social implications, nothing to do with religion or God.
I have my doubts about your knowledge of science but assuming you are more than just a pathetic syncophant, its the short-term opportunists pushing this technology that will drag the rest of society into legal and social quicksand. Look today at all of the lawsuits brought by parents of sick helpless multiples and lawsuits against IVF clinics for genetically defective children. There's more to this than bad or good.
...wait 10 years from now. We will have all kinds of freaks of "nature". And, when that happens, you can count on these kinds of things to happen:
1. "Parents" find out at birth that they are not happy with the results - (Billy has six hearts and a fourth of a lung). 2. "Children" that weren't too happy about being a party to Mom/Dads designer genetic tastes - (Billy sues Mom - Dad goes AWOL). 3. "Interest Groups" that go on kill Frankenstein crusades to protect their children.
One could argue this ad infinitum but the fact is that this type of "research" is a dangerous, slippery slope. History will look back on this era as a time for missed opportunities to legislate against this globally. Instead everyone mocks Bush and the Pope.
I thought this thru a while ago. I really wanted to do hobby electronics but products like this (BUG) were all very high level. The product I have come to love is the Parallax Javelin Stamp Developers Kit.
Here's what you get: - Developer's Electonics Breadboard - JVM on a Chip - Every peripheral device under the sun that can talk via RS232 - Java IDE with realtime debugging - Ability to program and download java boot classes onto a SD chip - Completely "open source"
I thought this thru a while ago. I really wanted to do hobby electronics but products like this (BUG) were all very high level. The product I have come to love is the Parallax Javelin Stamp Developers Kit. Here's what you get:
- Developer's Electonics Breadboard
- JVM on a Chip
- Every peripheral device under the sun that can talk via RS232
- Java IDE with realtime debugging
- Ability to program and download java boot classes onto a SD chip
- Completely "open source"
Check it out:
http://www.parallax.com/ProductInfo/JavelinStampGeneralInformation/tabid/255/Default.aspx
My family had a Vic20 too. It was pretty cool. There were a handful of verbal "simulation" games that went with it. There was one based on the idea that a sabatouer (?) was sneaking a nuclear bomb out of a secure facility. You had to use goofy commands to play the game. The most frustrating thing was that after 3 years nooone in my family ever did win this game. I felt like I was gipped. You could send a letter to Commodore for the solution to the game but by the time it got to that, Commodore had bought the farm.
How could music industry be on in its last legs? The article basically tries to push off this number that 15 Songs does not equal 1 album. This is garbled microeconomics. The fact of the matter is that this is a macro-economic change. People are still buying the same quantity of music. People just aren't buy the crap. This is a macroeconomic change that is long overdue.
As soon as the recording industry fixes their quality and price; the overall quantity and gross sales will improve.
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Ditto that!
I find it hilarious to hear from so-called futurists. Its hilarious because their followers fall into 2 camps: syncophants _or_ luddites. Rarely, if ever, do you get someone checking them for accuracy.
Kurzweil's developed a voice recognition package several years ago. That kind of VR software has been around for years. If you look at the commercial usage of VR software, you'd still find a very small market today. It's not that there isn't demand for it. Its just that the technology is still not there.
Forget about hooking computers into my brain. What I want to know is when can I go down to Bestbuy and pick up a couple of laundry robots. When is that going to happen?
I think you are confused. No, the Feds don't police and prosecute the results of weak door locks. That would be Barney Fife where you live. Where I live, people either have powerful locks or powerful weapons. So, the incidence you refer to is not an issue where I live. The Feds police and prosecute people that enter the country illegally, transport stolen goods across state lines, commit terrorist acts, etc. The reason they police and prosecute these types of crimes is because they transcend state lines, they represent a real physical threat to all US nationals and they are uniquely suited to do so.
Why should law enforcement and the courts be responsible for responsible for policing and prosecuting what amounts to weak code?
Citizens of this country have got to stop sloping into a nanny state.
Sure, no problem, add in FICA.
But if you add in FICA paid by employees, add in FICA paid by the employer, corporate income taxes (~35%), corporate property taxes, and everything else paid by the corporation. These have to come out of somebody's pocket - so the investor pays them directly (not likely for very long) -or- employees that are actually important to the corporation pay them indirectly as a SGA cost.
High Incomes != Rich
Most sociologists will tell you that the terms rich and poor are loose terms and largely relative. Take a $30k earner in the inner-city US and put them in some parts of Southeast Asia and they would be a high income earner.
Likewise, some recent medical doctors may graduate to receive a very high income. If they are up to their eyeballs in student loans, technically they are dirt poor.
And, economist will tell you ownership of income-producing assets (ie. wealth) fluctuates but normally grows over a lifetime. Income, on the other hand, fluctuates significantly over a lifetime.
1. Leave my wi-fi open to you. 2. Net X-Ray filter for www.tjmaxx.com 3. Get your credit-card numbers. 4. Profit!
money is starting to become tight for state governments The money isn't tight; the spending is loose.
Am I the only one that reads this as a big win for the pending Department of Meteor Security?
Given that its most people's most important communications device, what is a few bucks. Personally, I'd much rather pay a few extra bucks for a finished product fully managed by any vendor. Just because UBuntu runs on old library computers we are supposed to believe that it runs flawlessly on any mobile/cell devices (after being tweaked and recompiled, of course)? That is a stretch.
It is an admirable notion to think beauty is purely subjective. I think, in some actuality, scientists have research that says otherwise.
Do a search on the Golden Ratio. There is tested algorithm for beauty. Whether the formula is 100% accurate, is a different story. Statistically though, my understanding is that the formula has been proven.
(eg. http://www.intmath.com/Numbers/mathOfBeauty.php).
I'm glad your father enjoys my tax dollars. I feel great just knowing I have touched someone's life.
PS. Why do we have to be like every other country?
This is what drives me nuts about the whole FOSS thing. The fact is, companies already share code, it just happens to be owned by vendors with packages. Its not like any company goes out an invents a GL system, they share for a price (ie. buy) packaged GL apps. Sooner or later, you get thousands of companies selling a GL system (read ERP) from a vendor like SAP or Oracle. The people that say you need to share this and share that or somehow you are economically or technically inferiority-minded, generally stand to gain by the sharing.
Mod up parent!
This is not flamebait; its an honest statement of fact. This is the fallacy of FOSS - there is no such thing as a free lunch. Free is free only when something of no value is shared or given away. Free is not free when you are a CIO paying someone for software development (custom developed or packaged). In between, (in America anyway), there is a thing called a market.
It's ridiculous for this RedHat clown to demand other companies give his company something to fill out the Linux app portfolio.
Workers of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your pricetags.
Woohoo!!!!!!
No tax rebate and no refundable kid credits but at least this year I can get a free copy of Dev Studio. Finally, a chance to pimp my kid.
Thanks, Uncle Bill!
The tired, old "you can legislate morality..." argument. Your response is so simple-minded and trite that its easy to refute: by your standard we should not throw people in jail for murder because you can't stop murder (there will always be weapons). This kind of lame argument is made by people with a complete ignorance of morality, ethics and law. They can't discuss the subject intelligently so therefore morality-ethics-laws do not exist.
This situation is very different from the liver in the petrie dish situation because we are talking nucleus->zygote->embryo-baby. Billy could and likely will (in the future) go full-term. Little Billy did not ask to be a science experiment. It aint Billy and Billy's parents that will end up paying for special ed and extreme health care. The fact is the Pope and President Bush have consistently made their case based on the civic and social implications, nothing to do with religion or God.
I have my doubts about your knowledge of science but assuming you are more than just a pathetic syncophant, its the short-term opportunists pushing this technology that will drag the rest of society into legal and social quicksand. Look today at all of the lawsuits brought by parents of sick helpless multiples and lawsuits against IVF clinics for genetically defective children. There's more to this than bad or good.
...wait 10 years from now. We will have all kinds of freaks of "nature". And, when that happens, you can count on these kinds of things to happen:
1. "Parents" find out at birth that they are not happy with the results - (Billy has six hearts and a fourth of a lung).
2. "Children" that weren't too happy about being a party to Mom/Dads designer genetic tastes - (Billy sues Mom - Dad goes AWOL).
3. "Interest Groups" that go on kill Frankenstein crusades to protect their children.
One could argue this ad infinitum but the fact is that this type of "research" is a dangerous, slippery slope. History will look back on this era as a time for missed opportunities to legislate against this globally. Instead everyone mocks Bush and the Pope.
Be afraid, be very afraid.
I think you're making a mountain out of a molehill.
I thought this thru a while ago. I really wanted to do hobby electronics but products like this (BUG) were all very high level. The product I have come to love is the Parallax Javelin Stamp Developers Kit.
Here's what you get:
- Developer's Electonics Breadboard
- JVM on a Chip
- Every peripheral device under the sun that can talk via RS232
- Java IDE with realtime debugging
- Ability to program and download java boot classes onto a SD chip
- Completely "open source"
Check it out: http://www.parallax.com/ProductInfo/JavelinStampGeneralInformation/tabid/255/Default.aspx [parallax.com]
I thought this thru a while ago. I really wanted to do hobby electronics but products like this (BUG) were all very high level. The product I have come to love is the Parallax Javelin Stamp Developers Kit. Here's what you get: - Developer's Electonics Breadboard - JVM on a Chip - Every peripheral device under the sun that can talk via RS232 - Java IDE with realtime debugging - Ability to program and download java boot classes onto a SD chip - Completely "open source" Check it out: http://www.parallax.com/ProductInfo/JavelinStampGeneralInformation/tabid/255/Default.aspx
Springfield, right?
I'd be curious to see whether these geniuses analyzed the impact of HOV lanes? http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/02/292.asp
The article doesn't mention this. Is it true that Cyberdyne Systems help design the laser?
My family had a Vic20 too. It was pretty cool. There were a handful of verbal "simulation" games that went with it. There was one based on the idea that a sabatouer (?) was sneaking a nuclear bomb out of a secure facility. You had to use goofy commands to play the game. The most frustrating thing was that after 3 years nooone in my family ever did win this game. I felt like I was gipped. You could send a letter to Commodore for the solution to the game but by the time it got to that, Commodore had bought the farm.
How could music industry be on in its last legs? The article basically tries to push off this number that 15 Songs does not equal 1 album. This is garbled microeconomics. The fact of the matter is that this is a macro-economic change. People are still buying the same quantity of music. People just aren't buy the crap. This is a macroeconomic change that is long overdue. As soon as the recording industry fixes their quality and price; the overall quantity and gross sales will improve.