I think you read the quote too fast. It's not claiming anything about physics. It's saying that computer vision is at a very early stage, which you said as well.

I had different quibbles with that quote. 1) Technology advances much faster today than it did in 1700, so it's not as if it will take centuries for computer vision to reach the same stage as physics. 2) The quote assumes a similarity of the technological paths (if there is something like that) of physics and computer vision, which doesn't seem obvious.

Take a deep breath.... You're talking about bad English grammar in a Scottish independence thread, right? 'Christ did no one go to school." You speak good English? Christ was reputedly a virgin, but people don't generally refer to him as "Christ did no one". Right? "What industry?" -- Was that meant to be a sentence? "Mod'd"? What say you? Etc., etc.... We can get stupidly pedantic, but....why? "I only retained about 50% of what I was taught in English[,] and it's driving me insane what I see and hear nowadays, I can't begin to imagine" - runon sentence, hello? What's this "state of things" you're talking about?? We're imperfect humans trying to communicate.... right?

Maybe it is a steganography key, color #244216

What's this argument? First of all, prove that you're not from the NSA.

Tattoo a swastika on your forehead, and I'll stop raping your daughter. You can send me money you would have spent on psychiatrists.

(Ignoring your obviously good points)

"Freedom fries" or "Peace pies", is it so different?

I recommend playing Z-Type all the time... :P But maybe I'm not a good one to take advice from:

Level 25 (?)
Final Score: 002651
Accuracy: 94.5%
Words Per Minute: 46.5

(Of course, you can't really judge your WPM from that (spend time waiting for new "targets"), but it's an interesting concept.)

Moose should be a swear word. Every time I've encountered Moose, it just made maintenance harder. The argument about eliminating boilerplate code is laughable, when you look at any Moose class with pages of crap at the top. (should be indented, but slashdot ecode sucks)

has 'blah' => {
is => 'rw',
isa => 'Str',
};

Thanks, I could've put that in a hash, and I didn't really care if it was a string or modifiable. Now I get useless Java-like stacktraces to boot. Not to mention the implicit things like "_build", "clear", and reimplementations of things that were already native perl (traits; oh, wow, I can....count the number of items in an array now? and return those items? and tell if it was empty? Thanks for the unnecessary crap, oh yes this is much more readable....).

Well, that settles it, as I'm sure a "genius investor" has no self-interest in saying what he says.

Double-edged sword: I've never played Crysis because of the impression that it wouldn't run well. Good luck selling to all those performance testers!

I guess this makes Bruce Schneier a courtier?

So "outed on Twitter" is now the standard for "tech news".... Sighdot

These fashion-obsessed, grammatically-challenged posts could bee seen as arguments four SpaceX....

I have a gluten intolerance, so your "Bud uses rice" parenthetical comment interested me; soooo.... googling/wikipedia-ing, I was somewhat-pleasantly surprised to find that Bud and Corona do have less than 20 ppm gluten, so maybe.....I (or my immune system) could tolerate those (the "research" seems a bit controversial). I do (did) for some reason like Corona, though it's probably safer to stick with wine. Anyway, IMHO wine has a perfect level of alcohol for getting a little buzz going without getting too drunk while at the same time avoiding excess bloating/pissing.

Ignoring your sarcasm: 200k user id, when did you sign up for slashdot....? :) Very web-lazily, http://anti-slash.org/essays/uid_analysis/ , 700k in 2003, so you signed up (errm, when did I sign up?) around 2000? So as a 9ish-year old you were a slashdot prodigy? ^.^ (or using your daddy's account, heh)