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Upgrade Your Dog
ptorrone writes "Engadget has glimpse in to the future, a future where your dog has a cell phone, webcam and electronic tag, and maybe even talks to you. Maybe. Some of this dog-tech isn't available yet, and some of it is (in Japan, of course). The overview includes some interesting iterations of pet technology, and they even made their own version of a dog webcam along with the first ever canine photographer's photo gallery." I'd rather see more of these things applied to infants.
...Yellow Dog Linux, maybe?
Of course, every few years, when you upgrade your dog, you can use some parts from your previous dog, and sell the rest on ebay.
"Come on, let's go drink till we can't feel feelings anymore."
I like dogs because they're lovable, cute, loyal, and a pleasure to be around. Not because they're functional. Those Japanese will never learn...
My dog already seems to be fairly well equipped...
Oops, I promised the producer I wouldn't say anything.
The University of Georgia has been putting a camera on their mascot an english bulldog named UGA (pronounced UH-GUH)for years and broadcasting it up on their Jumbotron
Can they implant something that house trains my puppy? Two weeks now and he still shits and pisses on my computer...
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Programming is like sex... Make one mistake and support it the rest of your life.
...in Holy Fire by Bruce Sterling? One of the dogs in that book even had a talk show, it's support electronics were so advanced.
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
I'd rather see more of these things applied to infants.
Let us know how it works out.
maybe even talks to you.
Thet do that normally after a while. Be patient.
As a parent, I can honestly say that I would NEVER EVER put an electronic leash on my 3month old. Who are these paranoid fuckwad parents who are lining up to chip their pets and unwilling children in the name perceived orwellian safety?
It's they who are to blame for the starting the slide down the slippery slope. "Oh, but this RFID comes with a cute camera and a crude baby-to-human universal translator! ahhh! how cute! and SAFE too!" Die you braindead soccermom fucks. Get some personal responsibility and learn to live with the fact that shit happens despite your best efforts to nerf the world.
I always wanted to attach my GPS to my dog just to see where he goes. Probably around in circles chasing squirells and such, but might be interesting.
Don't Tread on Me
There's only one thing that dog should be able to do, and as far as I can tell, that's been covered already.
That's right, Rolfie. Come to papa with his brandy.
Small potatoes make the steak look bigger.
This sounds neat and interesting....until you realize (afterwards, of course) that the dog was in the room watching you have sex.....
-- Fugacity: Confusing chemists since 1908
I was just reading about how nerds will rule the world because "A nerd, ...is someone who concentrates on substance.".
And then I read this. And I think to myself... is there more than one definition for "nerd"?
I have no problem with your religion until you decide it's reason to deprive others of the truth.
"On the website, the scenario presented is a woman calling her dog telling him he should be home soon." Yet another example of bad marketing
Have you metaroderated recently?
...and find lost packets all over the floor!
I'm a proud parent of a newborn young girl. The first thing I did after getting her home from the natural birthing center was to install a subdermal electronic tag so she can't escape. Second, since I'm a good dad, I bought her a cell phone (an N-Gage even!) with a 700 minutes/month plan. Third, I enrolled her in ESL classes, cause she sure damn can't speak English yet. I don't understand a word she says!
Until later,!
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I already get tons of e-mails telling me they can upgrade my "dog" by adding a few extra inches.
You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it dissolve.
Competing against dogs for DBA jobs.
---- "If we have to go on with these damned quantum jumps, then I'm sorry that I ever got involved" - Erwin Schrodinger
I'd like to see many of these things applied to adults.
In a world where billions don't have enough to eat, we are now giving our dogs cell phones.
Truly sick.
Intolerance for ambiguity is the mark of the authoritarian personality.
from the cats-are-superior dept.
'Nuff said
*Ducks!
Monstar L
from the cats-are-superior dept.
ahem
Perhaps you meant "from the no-cat-will-ever-drag-your-sorry-ass-out-of-a-burn ing-building dept."
This is the most insightful thing I've read today, and I wish I could mod it up.
I find it sad that people basically want to shut their kids off and never have to talk to them. The kid is something that should be put on a leash, or at least stay the fsck out of the way, while the parent is busy watching football or the 15'th soap opera for today.
And when the kid learns something awfully wrong, and the parent never was there for them to teach them otherwise, the parent promptly goes looking for a scapegoat. Nosiree, bob. It wasn't me who's to blame, guv'nor. I never taught him to do drugs and beat other kids up. (Never taught him that it's wrong to do that either, though.) It was those evil game companies and TV companies. Let's sue those.
Dunno, makes me think of Peter's Principle. Just because they have genitals, people are elligible to be "promoted" to parent. Too bad that half of them are utterly incompetent for that job.
A polar bear is a cartesian bear after a coordinate transform.
Once you get to understanding the relationship dogs have with their pack leader -- whether two- or four-legged -- then it all makes sense. As far as the dog is concerned, that is just The Way The World Works, and it really doesn't know any different. A dog will give you [almost] unconditional love, in return for you never giving it cause to fear for its life. Only then will it mount a leadership challenge -- and as likely as not it won't have any real idea how to do this, so the results are unlikely to be pretty. A dog basically wants its "pack leader" to be happy -- or, if it is the pack leader, it has to keep the whole of the rest of the pack safe, well-fed and gainfully employed. As far as a dog is concerned, being the boss is a responsibility too far. It would rather be another member of the pack; that way, it knows it's likely to get fed, and unlikely to have to keep anybody else out of trouble. For one thing, most dogs aren't leadership material anyway -- which is good from the point of view of keeping the pack stable.
You have to remember that dogs have been living with humans for at least 10000 years, ever since the wolves came down out of the mountains to investigate the strange two-legged creatures that were wandering about on the plains below -- and if they didn't like it, they would have gone back a long time ago. We humans have done a bit of evolving in that time -- we have invented things like civilisation, written languages, agriculture, and had the Industrial and Information Revolutions. Throughout all this, Man's Best Friend has stood loyally by his side -- you can't tell me that the dogs haven't been [mostly] enjoying it.
Actually there are striking similarities between the behaviour of a pack of wolves / dogs, and office politics. Including the way that domesticated dogs and wolves spectacularly don't get on with one another -- and I think we've all met people who are "too like me for me to like"!
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