I was under the impression that dragonflies would be particularly easy to photograph, due to the way they hover or fly slowly a good portion of the time (at least the non-robotic variety).
But then there would be no reason to buy Vista and MS would be wasting five years of effort and money....Or is someone going to make a 'woosh' post now?
Since when did public schools know where to spend money? It seems like more goes to paint than good (enthusiastic) teachers and new textbooks. As for TFA, MySpace and trendy phones don't educate people, they just help to usher in a generation of hopeless mediawhores. Before we start giving kids free reign in the class, how about we focus on making being a teacher look like a good career? A cellphone won't get people interested in school, but people actually interested in their jobs will.
Shiny metal ass or not, it's all going to be driven by the same old brains as before. Also, the idea of 'accidentally intentionally' doing something does make sense when you realize that one of the things keeping us from doing whatever we feel like (besides fear of retaliation) is the effort required to do so. In short, the weight of your body holds you back to some extent. If you have an arm that can move with no conscious effort on your part (save for the initiating thought) and moves under its own power, I could definitely see people making a few extra movements every now and then (though nothing as complex as pulling out a gun, taking off the safety, aiming and firing. More like punching and other simple movements.)
You need more than a GPS, motors and a power source to sail. While land stays in the same place, the wind will no doubt change direction plenty of times. The boat would need a power source, a way to determine wind direction (and adjust sail accordingly), position, and possibly wave height. (Don't want the boat to capsize, after all.)
Why are you tossing out your contact information to people like that? You can always delete disruptive blog comments or even block posts from specific IP addresses, you can change your email address, and all that stuff, and the last two examples are easily rectified by simply denying you ever said anything. Do you regularly give your phone number out to strange people? Your email address? This is just more 'because internet' legislation made up so people can feel good about themselves.
Do we really want governments to shelter children to this extent?
Because it's an internet pissing contest for ad revenue. You don't have to produce anything as long as you can make your site popular and make the corporate monkeys think that people actually click on ads. It really looks like another bubble, but I can't help but wonder how long this could go on. After all, most of the people throwing the money around are already rooted deeply into the ground and wouldn't suffer too much if their investments went bust.
here all the media companies go out of business, and all music, software, TV and movies become free for everyone? Also known as the day that mass culture died
You seem to be implying that with this GPhone, Google breaks with all of its previous history for some mysterious reason.
Google has been branching out into damn near everything for quite a while now; it was only a matter of time before they started trying to sell goods instead of services. Also, who says they can't tie it in with their services? Gmail, Google Video (and YouTube), Froogle, etc. Looking at how much space they set aside for Gmail accounts, I could see them setting up an online storage service for GPhone users (just 500MB would be plenty).
Uploading content to YouTube is different than setting up a website and hosting the content yourself through an ISP/hosting company.
How so? Because you don't have to take care of page design? It was my understanding that YouTube is, in fact, a hosting company (and thus an Internet Service Provider*), in that they host videos and blocks of descriptive text. How is this different from registering on , setting up a Flash video player, and doing the exact same thing? Is it just that YouTube doesn't explicitly state that it acts as a content host?
*I'm working on the assumption that an ISP doesn't have to provide a person with a connection to the Internet, just that it has to provide bandwidth for content.
The same reason a second is currently defined as 9,192,631,770 oscillations of a Cesium-133 atom and the Kilogram is defined as some crazyass cylinder of stuff; it's necessary to have a reference for any measure, so writings from decades ago still make sense.
I don't know about any other links, but I will say you probably stand a snowball's chance in hell of finding a direct download for a 20-200GB rainbow table. (Talk about being slashdotted!)
I'm more comfortable just hitting the thing with something heavy or melting it all together with thermite. If you're serious about wiping the thing so absolutely no one can read it, you should either write complete nonsense on the disk 30-40 times (maybe something innocuous on the last few passes) or physically destroy it and swap it out.
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How the hell was this modded off-topic? The first link in the summary makes you pay to read beyond a short summary.
Or just calmly walking out with the notebook in hand. After all, if you can pull off opening it up to swipe an HDD in plain view...
I was under the impression that dragonflies would be particularly easy to photograph, due to the way they hover or fly slowly a good portion of the time (at least the non-robotic variety).
But then there would be no reason to buy Vista and MS would be wasting five years of effort and money. ...Or is someone going to make a 'woosh' post now?
As opposed to inhaling a few (conveniently pill-shaped) 1 QUID pieces?
As for TFA, MySpace and trendy phones don't educate people, they just help to usher in a generation of hopeless mediawhores. Before we start giving kids free reign in the class, how about we focus on making being a teacher look like a good career? A cellphone won't get people interested in school, but people actually interested in their jobs will.
So...8?
Cars have 8-sided wheels? I'd say most wheels at least have 1,000 sides.
Shiny metal ass or not, it's all going to be driven by the same old brains as before. Also, the idea of 'accidentally intentionally' doing something does make sense when you realize that one of the things keeping us from doing whatever we feel like (besides fear of retaliation) is the effort required to do so. In short, the weight of your body holds you back to some extent.
If you have an arm that can move with no conscious effort on your part (save for the initiating thought) and moves under its own power, I could definitely see people making a few extra movements every now and then (though nothing as complex as pulling out a gun, taking off the safety, aiming and firing. More like punching and other simple movements.)
You need more than a GPS, motors and a power source to sail. While land stays in the same place, the wind will no doubt change direction plenty of times. The boat would need a power source, a way to determine wind direction (and adjust sail accordingly), position, and possibly wave height. (Don't want the boat to capsize, after all.)
Except that Google does charge users (indirectly) through ads. Skype's just a sinkhole.
In Soviet Russia, perhaps?
Why are you tossing out your contact information to people like that? You can always delete disruptive blog comments or even block posts from specific IP addresses, you can change your email address, and all that stuff, and the last two examples are easily rectified by simply denying you ever said anything.
Do you regularly give your phone number out to strange people? Your email address? This is just more 'because internet' legislation made up so people can feel good about themselves.
Do we really want governments to shelter children to this extent?
But isn't that one of the main benefits of being able to see the source code? If you wonder what's going on, just look.
Because it's an internet pissing contest for ad revenue. You don't have to produce anything as long as you can make your site popular and make the corporate monkeys think that people actually click on ads.
It really looks like another bubble, but I can't help but wonder how long this could go on. After all, most of the people throwing the money around are already rooted deeply into the ground and wouldn't suffer too much if their investments went bust.
*I'm working on the assumption that an ISP doesn't have to provide a person with a connection to the Internet, just that it has to provide bandwidth for content.
The same reason a second is currently defined as 9,192,631,770 oscillations of a Cesium-133 atom and the Kilogram is defined as some crazyass cylinder of stuff; it's necessary to have a reference for any measure, so writings from decades ago still make sense.
Not particularly. I'm not sure about the flashlight, but you might want to take out the spring first.
I don't know about any other links, but I will say you probably stand a snowball's chance in hell of finding a direct download for a 20-200GB rainbow table. (Talk about being slashdotted!)
I'm more comfortable just hitting the thing with something heavy or melting it all together with thermite. If you're serious about wiping the thing so absolutely no one can read it, you should either write complete nonsense on the disk 30-40 times (maybe something innocuous on the last few passes) or physically destroy it and swap it out.
How would the guns be reloaded? Firing away from the Earth?