The dogs that were given lab-grown bladders interested me. Maybe some day customized body parts will be availible. Perhaps one day I'll be able to go in and get "performance lungs" or a stronger skeleton, or whatever. Also maybe this sort of advance could lead to a greatly extended lifetime. If a body part is going bad, you could simply have a new one grown and attached. Lung cancer, just get new lungs. Heart trouble, new heart, and so on. Now all that is left to do is find out how to dump a brain image and burn it into a blank brain. Then we will finally be free of decaying flesh.
Lets hold off on this for a little bit. MIT is famous for pranks, and we need to be sure that this is the real deal before bombarding l.f. with 13 year old girl's leonardo dicaprio fantasies.
This makes no sense whatsoever. If someone is searching for Leonardo FINANCE's homepage, I highly doubt that they're interested in The Leonardo FOUNDATION! Finance is not art by any means, nor is art a route to financial security. If you live in France, please do no business with Leonardo Finance. If you are already in business with them, I suggest you cancel that arrangement and let them know why. When Leonardo Finance loses this case, I seriously hope that the court costs cripple them and they have to go out of business. It's time for stupidity to be painful again.
I am looking for a robot myself, but this one doesn't do all the things that I want in a robot. Personally, I don't have a use for a vacuuming robot, since I never vacuum anyway . I'm going to hold out for a robot that will do the dishes that are too nasty for the dishwasher, then load this dishwasher. I also want it to go to the refrigerator and get me a beer, or go to the store and get more beer.
Picture this: The space shuttle has to stay in orbit over the new year because adverse weather conditions prevent a save landing. At the stroke of midnight on January 31'st, the world is brought to an end when of all the non-y2k complaint ex-Soviet nuclear arsenal launches it's self at almost everything, laying waste to the globe. The astronauts fly the shuttle around the sun, using the slingshot effect to propel the shuttle to near light speed. After rocketing around the cosmos for a few years, the astronauts decide to return to earth. But because of time dialation, it is now some unknown date very far into the future. The astronauts land the shuttle on an old highway. They get out and wander around on a new, green earth. After a few days on the new wild Earth the astronauts discover a city. There are large, granite statues of Brittney Spears, Mariah Carey, and the Backstreet Boys everywhere. After exploring the city, people come out into the streets. The women are all dressed in miniskirts and platform shoes, with about 50 pounds of makeup on. They all run around giggling, gossiping, and saying things like "math is hard". The men are all dressed in baggy nylon clothing, and seem to have spent more time on their hair then the women. They walk with limps, despite the fact that there is nothing wrong with their legs. All they seem to say to each other is "aaaahhh yeauh boyee". The astronauts are captured and put on display in a zoo, where they are laughed at and made fun of for not being ultra hip and trendy. The end.
PCs definately aren't designed to be all weather machines, but with a little bit of clever planning this could be changed. The first problem that I can see is the power supply (on standard cases). The cooling fan is designed to be nice and open for greater airflow. This will also allow water into the case. To get around this problem you will have to directly supply the computer with the necessary voltages. Since this will be an outdoor machine, you're obviously going to have to have a watertight case. This will cause some heat problems. You're going to need a cpu that does not put out alot of heat. Unfortunately that also means a slow cpu. You're probably looking at double digit megahertz. Also the motors on hard disks can put out quite a bit of heat. Look into some sort of flash disk. Finally you're still going to have to disapate the heat that you do make. One way to do this could be wrapping metal tubing around the computer and pumping water through them and a radiator. These are just ideas I came up with on the spur of the moment. I hope I was of help.
If anybody remembers, in Gibson's cyberspace trilogy some people had all kinds of weird cosmetic modifications done to their bodies. Most people just made themselves look like the latest movie star, but some people had there faces redone so they looked monster-like. Personally, I'm holding out for aftermarket muscle that can be grafted on.
Zhirinovsky's speaches remind me of others given in a formerly prosperous country about 60 or so years ago. The person who gave the speaches told people what they wanted to hear. He told them that they would rise back to there former place in the sun, and even higher. He told them that they were the best in the world, simply because they were who they were. He also gave them easy answers. He blamed all the problems on a small group of people who were different. And people believed him. They followed him, they loved him. They followed his every word. He started to do bad things. He invaded other countries, and burned books. He also started enslaving the people that the was blaming for everything. They still loved him. That man was hitler. I can only hope that the people of Russia are cynical enough not to believe this crackpot, or the whole world could be in for a real mess.
I'm not really into jumping onto bandwagons, but in this case amazon.com isn't adding to my credit balance, and won't be until they stop enforcing their idiotic patent. I explained this to my girlfriend, and they don't get her business either.
People like you are the reason I have negative karma. I get pissed at seeing all this bullshit sprayed around throughout what is supposed to be an intelligent conversation. So I tell people like you to fuck off, in fact I'm doing it now. Being moderated down is a small price to pay to tell someone to eat shit and die when they really should.
I just have one question, why is this movie/book called Bicentennial Man? Is he the result of 200 years of robot-making, or was the book written long enough ago that people assumed that we would have household robots by 1976?
I have ADHD. Paying attention to any given subject, regardless of how interesting is difficult. Most of the time I am able to make myself conectrate, but not always. I have to conecentrate at work, so I guzzle Pepsi and coffee. Occasionally I take a Bronk-Aid(ephedrine). I admit that ADHD is overdiagnosed. I admit that there are too many kids on Ritalin and god knows what else. But, I also wish that I had been medicated when I was in school. I wish that I had been able to concentrate when I was in class.
As I understood it, the Pentium was called the Pentium because of a copyright dispute with Cyrix years ago. Cyrix produced it's own 386, and Intel tried to sue them on the grounds that 386 was copyrighted by Intel. Intel was told that numbers cannot by copyrighted. Once Intel was ready to release their 586, the decided to give it a name, and they decided on Pentium (from penta, meaning five). Then the Pentium 2 came along, which according to what I know is a 686. I just assumed that they didn't call it a Sextium becase some idiot would think that Intel was out to corrupt the morals of our children. Now the Pentium 3 is out, and it is supposedly a 786. Why it's not called a Sentium I do not know. Now we have a Pentium 4 on the way. Shouldn't it be called an Octium?
I wouldn't see anything wrong with this, IF they are using their own server for spam. In that case a few DOS attacks here and there would probably send the right message. However most spammers simply abuse servers that do not belong to them. Unless you are absolutely, 100% sure that you won't accidentally hurt the wrong people, this would be a bad idea.
If it wasn't for AOL, I'd be out quite a few coasters. Hopefully they'll spend their settlement on coaster production, I just got a new hardwood coffee table and I'd hate to see the finish ruined by hot/cold drinks.
This is a wonderful development. The best thing (for the consumer) in any market is choices. Hopefully the Solaris development team will get nervous and make Solaris better, and then Linux developers will make an effort to beat Solaris. In the end we wind up with two better operatings systems.
I can remember an electroconvulsive muscle-building machine for sale in the back of Playboy back in the 80's. It had some electrodes that you strapped on whatever limb you wanted to exercise.
This will do nothing to stop sophisticated counterfieters. People will just hack the s/w drivers and roms to either show no watermark at all or a fake one.
The two major hate groups in Oregon (that I knew about) were volksfront and east side white pride. Volksfront is no more, and east side white pride is much smaller than it once was. Portland also has some psychotic sharps (skinheads against racial prejudice) that seem to think everyone who isn't a sharp is a nazi, so in that sence they are just as bad.
It's time that we all realized that 1. The world is controled by business 2. No matter how much you bitch, cry, complain, or smash things nothing can be done about it. 3. The only reasonable thing to do is dig in and get as much for yourself as you can
Maybe we'll all be lucky and there will be a "heaven's gate" response among these same people when the light's DON'T go out and their cars still start. Life would be much easier
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The dogs that were given lab-grown bladders interested me. Maybe some day customized body parts will be availible. Perhaps one day I'll be able to go in and get "performance lungs" or a stronger skeleton, or whatever.
Also maybe this sort of advance could lead to a greatly extended lifetime. If a body part is going bad, you could simply have a new one grown and attached. Lung cancer, just get new lungs. Heart trouble, new heart, and so on.
Now all that is left to do is find out how to dump a brain image and burn it into a blank brain. Then we will finally be free of decaying flesh.
If anyone sees a link to a news story, acknowlegement by Leonardo Finance, etc, PLEASE put up a link to it.
Lets hold off on this for a little bit. MIT is famous for pranks, and we need to be sure that this is the real deal before bombarding l.f. with 13 year old girl's leonardo dicaprio fantasies.
Hopefully soon, I can't stand that annoying little bastard.
This makes no sense whatsoever. If someone is searching for Leonardo FINANCE's homepage, I highly doubt that they're interested in The Leonardo FOUNDATION! Finance is not art by any means, nor is art a route to financial security.
If you live in France, please do no business with Leonardo Finance. If you are already in business with them, I suggest you cancel that arrangement and let them know why.
When Leonardo Finance loses this case, I seriously hope that the court costs cripple them and they have to go out of business. It's time for stupidity to be painful again.
I am looking for a robot myself, but this one doesn't do all the things that I want in a robot. Personally, I don't have a use for a vacuuming robot, since I never vacuum anyway . I'm going to hold out for a robot that will do the dishes that are too nasty for the dishwasher, then load this dishwasher. I also want it to go to the refrigerator and get me a beer, or go to the store and get more beer.
Picture this:
The space shuttle has to stay in orbit over the new year because adverse weather conditions prevent a save landing.
At the stroke of midnight on January 31'st, the world is brought to an end when of all the non-y2k complaint ex-Soviet nuclear arsenal launches it's self at almost everything, laying waste to the globe.
The astronauts fly the shuttle around the sun, using the slingshot effect to propel the shuttle to near light speed.
After rocketing around the cosmos for a few years, the astronauts decide to return to earth. But because of time dialation, it is now some unknown date very far into the future.
The astronauts land the shuttle on an old highway. They get out and wander around on a new, green earth.
After a few days on the new wild Earth the astronauts discover a city. There are large, granite statues of Brittney Spears, Mariah Carey, and the Backstreet Boys everywhere.
After exploring the city, people come out into the streets. The women are all dressed in miniskirts and platform shoes, with about 50 pounds of makeup on. They all run around giggling, gossiping, and saying things like "math is hard". The men are all dressed in baggy nylon clothing, and seem to have spent more time on their hair then the women. They walk with limps, despite the fact that there is nothing wrong with their legs. All they seem to say to each other is "aaaahhh yeauh boyee".
The astronauts are captured and put on display in a zoo, where they are laughed at and made fun of for not being ultra hip and trendy.
The end.
PCs definately aren't designed to be all weather machines, but with a little bit of clever planning this could be changed.
The first problem that I can see is the power supply (on standard cases). The cooling fan is designed to be nice and open for greater airflow. This will also allow water into the case.
To get around this problem you will have to directly supply the computer with the necessary voltages.
Since this will be an outdoor machine, you're obviously going to have to have a watertight case. This will cause some heat problems. You're going to need a cpu that does not put out alot of heat. Unfortunately that also means a slow cpu. You're probably looking at double digit megahertz.
Also the motors on hard disks can put out quite a bit of heat. Look into some sort of flash disk.
Finally you're still going to have to disapate the heat that you do make. One way to do this could be wrapping metal tubing around the computer and pumping water through them and a radiator.
These are just ideas I came up with on the spur of the moment. I hope I was of help.
If anybody remembers, in Gibson's cyberspace trilogy some people had all kinds of weird cosmetic modifications done to their bodies. Most people just made themselves look like the latest movie star, but some people had there faces redone so they looked monster-like.
Personally, I'm holding out for aftermarket muscle that can be grafted on.
Zhirinovsky's speaches remind me of others given in a formerly prosperous country about 60 or so years ago.
The person who gave the speaches told people what they wanted to hear. He told them that they would rise back to there former place in the sun, and even higher. He told them that they were the best in the world, simply because they were who they were.
He also gave them easy answers. He blamed all the problems on a small group of people who were different.
And people believed him. They followed him, they loved him. They followed his every word. He started to do bad things. He invaded other countries, and burned books. He also started enslaving the people that the was blaming for everything. They still loved him.
That man was hitler.
I can only hope that the people of Russia are cynical enough not to believe this crackpot, or the whole world could be in for a real mess.
I'm not really into jumping onto bandwagons, but in this case amazon.com isn't adding to my credit balance, and won't be until they stop enforcing their idiotic patent. I explained this to my girlfriend, and they don't get her business either.
People like you are the reason I have negative karma. I get pissed at seeing all this bullshit sprayed around throughout what is supposed to be an intelligent conversation. So I tell people like you to fuck off, in fact I'm doing it now. Being moderated down is a small price to pay to tell someone to eat shit and die when they really should.
I just have one question, why is this movie/book called Bicentennial Man? Is he the result of 200 years of robot-making, or was the book written long enough ago that people assumed that we would have household robots by 1976?
I have ADHD. Paying attention to any given subject, regardless of how interesting is difficult. Most of the time I am able to make myself conectrate, but not always.
I have to conecentrate at work, so I guzzle Pepsi and coffee. Occasionally I take a Bronk-Aid(ephedrine).
I admit that ADHD is overdiagnosed. I admit that there are too many kids on Ritalin and god knows what else.
But, I also wish that I had been medicated when I was in school. I wish that I had been able to concentrate when I was in class.
As I understood it, the Pentium was called the Pentium because of a copyright dispute with Cyrix years ago. Cyrix produced it's own 386, and Intel tried to sue them on the grounds that 386 was copyrighted by Intel. Intel was told that numbers cannot by copyrighted.
Once Intel was ready to release their 586, the decided to give it a name, and they decided on Pentium (from penta, meaning five).
Then the Pentium 2 came along, which according to what I know is a 686. I just assumed that they didn't call it a Sextium becase some idiot would think that Intel was out to corrupt the morals of our children.
Now the Pentium 3 is out, and it is supposedly a 786. Why it's not called a Sentium I do not know.
Now we have a Pentium 4 on the way. Shouldn't it be called an Octium?
I wouldn't see anything wrong with this, IF they are using their own server for spam. In that case a few DOS attacks here and there would probably send the right message. However most spammers simply abuse servers that do not belong to them. Unless you are absolutely, 100% sure that you won't accidentally hurt the wrong people, this would be a bad idea.
If it wasn't for AOL, I'd be out quite a few coasters. Hopefully they'll spend their settlement on coaster production, I just got a new hardwood coffee table and I'd hate to see the finish ruined by hot/cold drinks.
I find it very hard to believe that we are "meant" to do (or not do) anything.
This is a wonderful development. The best thing (for the consumer) in any market is choices. Hopefully the Solaris development team will get nervous and make Solaris better, and then Linux developers will make an effort to beat Solaris. In the end we wind up with two better operatings systems.
I'm gonna stick my "first post" up your ass you moron.
I can remember an electroconvulsive muscle-building machine for sale in the back of Playboy back in the 80's. It had some electrodes that you strapped on whatever limb you wanted to exercise.
This will do nothing to stop sophisticated counterfieters. People will just hack the s/w drivers and roms to either show no watermark at all or a fake one.
The two major hate groups in Oregon (that I knew about) were volksfront and east side white pride. Volksfront is no more, and east side white pride is much smaller than it once was. Portland also has some psychotic sharps (skinheads against racial prejudice) that seem to think everyone who isn't a sharp is a nazi, so in that sence they are just as bad.
It's time that we all realized that
1. The world is controled by business
2. No matter how much you bitch, cry, complain, or smash things nothing can be done about it.
3. The only reasonable thing to do is dig in and get as much for yourself as you can
Maybe we'll all be lucky and there will be a "heaven's gate" response among these same people when the light's DON'T go out and their cars still start. Life would be much easier