The concept of best scifi film at the oscars is pretty silly really. Is there an oscar for best world war 2 film? Is there an oscar for best romantic comedy? best horror? no because the academy awards aren't for genre of story, they are for some technical aspect of producing a film. How well can you engage the audience without using english? without using photography? just overall tell a really good story? none of these categories are genre specific.
I'd think that best scifi film would be a horrible thing. First it would segregate scifi as somehow wholly different from every other kind of film. That will probably just reinforce stigmas that it's the realm of nerds and geeks. Second, there is not a good scifi film every year. It would have to pick from films like Transformers. Does anyone really want there to be a record that one year Transformers was the best scifi film?
I would like to see a scifi award show though. One that can give out awards for best overall, most feasible tech, best speculation on what human personality trait technology X would bring out. best laser battle. best zombies. etc.
i was envisioning something more along the lines of a stylized rocket with the word, ACME, emblazoned on the side. Upon reaching the cable, the red nose cone hinges up from the body of the craft and a jointed robotic arm holding a large pair of scissors extends forward. One snip and the cable is done.
No car needs more than that if you are only driving them for 2 years. I don't know how far you are driving, but if you don't care about the longevity of a car, you could probably drive most new cars to 40 or 50k miles without ever getting an oil change.
as an aside, euthanasia and predetermined lifespans are recurring themes in sci-fi. Usually it's a story where people are only allowed to live x years and the protagonist rebels reaffirming that people want to live! It's a good story because it's true about humanity. I don't think i've ever seen a story where society has decided not that it will kill you after x years, but instead that after x years, it becomes your duty to humanity to start doing more and more dangerous things for the benefit of the race. Youd do stuff like going to habitable worlds and other grand adventures where you'll likely be killed by alien monsters.
At this point medicine can't keep you alive all that long. TFA pointed out that in spite of advances the best they can do is get you to ~114. Then they speculated on some sci-fiy stuff about keeping you alive indefinitely. You see doom and gloom in that, but as long as we're in the realm of sci-fi pipe dreams, i say you could take off in a spaceship. Maybe FTL travel isn't attainable anytime soon. We don't need it if a 100 year flight to a new planet is only an annoyance.
I can't get to the article because of a content filter. The summary implies that this is some kind of augmented reality thing that can recognize a human and pop up some text and arrows saying, "make incision here." etc. That certainly sounds cool, but If we are capable of producing software that can diagnose an injury and monitor the surgery, why even send people? Can't we just make software capable of driving a buggy around on the moon and picking up some dirt to send back to us?
Throw her in the water. if she floats, it's because she remembers the password. Then we burn her. If she sinks, i guess she didn't remember it after all.
The problem comes when the kids grow up and decide to use this against their former masters
Yes, but when that happens, it's because those kids have to right the wrongs. they do noble things like find a new world for the hive queen to live on and learn the ways of the piggies, and redeem humanity. Though it's true, they are never quite as interesting as when they were kids.
Well pardner, we drive MILES in this country. I reckon they're about twice as big as your sissy little kilomawhosits. When you're driving for miles you need something bigger in the tank like GALLONS. Yee-HAW!
They really missed out on a chance to make it even more expensive. They could have factored in buying a new phone every time you need to recharge. You used to be able to buy a new battery, now your contract locks you in to one battery. You would also have to buy all models of smartphone to make sure you could use every app from every app store. After all, there was a time when there was only the one app store. Now the cost to own every app possible has skyrocketed!
I have a cottage in the northern midwest of the US. The night sky up there is absolutely incredible. The milky way is clearly visible, but the real star is the northern lights. I love it when i can take someone there to see them for the first time. The reaction is always the same, "Holy SHIT! How can that be real?"
sure sure, you can do that, but obviously, the best solution is to then have his face removed and surgically grafted to your head. If you have the time, you can also have your old face grafted back on him. Then walk away with a clear conscience and a phone you can unlock at will. The chances of him breaking out of prison after being arrested for your crimes, convincing just one trusted friend that he is not you, hunting you down, and ultimately unlocking the phone are practically nil. He doesn't have the face that unlocks it anymore!
well, things don't always play out so well. sometimes you don't have time to recover from such a procedure, or you can't afford the staff and equipment to pull it off. Maybe you just killed him and need to get away and collect your thoughts. Don't lug the whole body around, that's just silly.
Also each evolution that allows a bacteria to become resistant to a drug weakens the bacteria in all other cases.
I had not understood this to be true. I keep hearing that strains of bacteria become resistant to all antibiotics. not just a queue of 3, then the next strain is resistant to a 4th antibiotic, but no longer resistant to the first. Evolution does seem to favor specialization, but traits are only lost if they hinder. I don't know exactly what the mechanism of resistance is, but i don't know that each kind of antibiotic requires some new organ to exist resulting in lumpy slow bacteria.
not to mention, many of them can be hacked in simplistic or macabre ways. a coworker was touting his new phone's biometric authentication and how it recognized his face. He claimed it used some new algorithm that couldn't be fooled by a picture. The claim seemed accurate since a printed picture of him could not unlock the phone. However, the phone happily unlocked when shown a picture of his face on my phone.
I don't know why it works. Maybe the identification of a real face is taking lighting into account or something and a self illuminated photo on an lcd throws it off. In any case it could still be defeated with his severed head. Now, a password might be given up under torture, but nobody is going to get it by killing you.
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No user replaceable gas canister? lame.
Everything is known to the state of California to cause cancer. The lawyers should sue them.
The concept of best scifi film at the oscars is pretty silly really. Is there an oscar for best world war 2 film? Is there an oscar for best romantic comedy? best horror? no because the academy awards aren't for genre of story, they are for some technical aspect of producing a film. How well can you engage the audience without using english? without using photography? just overall tell a really good story? none of these categories are genre specific.
I'd think that best scifi film would be a horrible thing. First it would segregate scifi as somehow wholly different from every other kind of film. That will probably just reinforce stigmas that it's the realm of nerds and geeks. Second, there is not a good scifi film every year. It would have to pick from films like Transformers. Does anyone really want there to be a record that one year Transformers was the best scifi film?
I would like to see a scifi award show though. One that can give out awards for best overall, most feasible tech, best speculation on what human personality trait technology X would bring out. best laser battle. best zombies. etc.
I wish I had some mod points for you. You deserve a 5 Knows SF.
i was envisioning something more along the lines of a stylized rocket with the word, ACME, emblazoned on the side. Upon reaching the cable, the red nose cone hinges up from the body of the craft and a jointed robotic arm holding a large pair of scissors extends forward. One snip and the cable is done.
No car needs more than that if you are only driving them for 2 years. I don't know how far you are driving, but if you don't care about the longevity of a car, you could probably drive most new cars to 40 or 50k miles without ever getting an oil change.
well of course they look good. otherwise the movie wouldn't sell. medical advances make them look mid twenty even though you are 340.
as an aside, euthanasia and predetermined lifespans are recurring themes in sci-fi. Usually it's a story where people are only allowed to live x years and the protagonist rebels reaffirming that people want to live! It's a good story because it's true about humanity. I don't think i've ever seen a story where society has decided not that it will kill you after x years, but instead that after x years, it becomes your duty to humanity to start doing more and more dangerous things for the benefit of the race. Youd do stuff like going to habitable worlds and other grand adventures where you'll likely be killed by alien monsters.
At this point medicine can't keep you alive all that long. TFA pointed out that in spite of advances the best they can do is get you to ~114. Then they speculated on some sci-fiy stuff about keeping you alive indefinitely. You see doom and gloom in that, but as long as we're in the realm of sci-fi pipe dreams, i say you could take off in a spaceship. Maybe FTL travel isn't attainable anytime soon. We don't need it if a 100 year flight to a new planet is only an annoyance.
Naturally you want the new upgrades to ios that coincidentally only run on ipads newer than the original ipad.
I can't get to the article because of a content filter. The summary implies that this is some kind of augmented reality thing that can recognize a human and pop up some text and arrows saying, "make incision here." etc. That certainly sounds cool, but If we are capable of producing software that can diagnose an injury and monitor the surgery, why even send people? Can't we just make software capable of driving a buggy around on the moon and picking up some dirt to send back to us?
Throw her in the water. if she floats, it's because she remembers the password. Then we burn her. If she sinks, i guess she didn't remember it after all.
sounds like the white pages.
Not to mention the intolerable giant squid attacks.
This is misleading. Jobs usual answer was closer to, "Customers really don't know what they want until they actually use it."
Anyone who has ever developed software for anyone else comes to this conclusion at some point.
If I have a erection and tell a friend, "Man, I'd really like to rape that chick." Should I be arrested?
Yes, you possibly could be. Especially if the chick overhears you or feels threatened. In some situations you can't even tell a dirty joke.
The problem comes when the kids grow up and decide to use this against their former masters
Yes, but when that happens, it's because those kids have to right the wrongs. they do noble things like find a new world for the hive queen to live on and learn the ways of the piggies, and redeem humanity. Though it's true, they are never quite as interesting as when they were kids.
Well pardner, we drive MILES in this country. I reckon they're about twice as big as your sissy little kilomawhosits. When you're driving for miles you need something bigger in the tank like GALLONS. Yee-HAW!
They really missed out on a chance to make it even more expensive. They could have factored in buying a new phone every time you need to recharge. You used to be able to buy a new battery, now your contract locks you in to one battery. You would also have to buy all models of smartphone to make sure you could use every app from every app store. After all, there was a time when there was only the one app store. Now the cost to own every app possible has skyrocketed!
i think you get a similar discount buying in bulk from foxconn.
I have a cottage in the northern midwest of the US. The night sky up there is absolutely incredible. The milky way is clearly visible, but the real star is the northern lights. I love it when i can take someone there to see them for the first time. The reaction is always the same, "Holy SHIT! How can that be real?"
I thought the ps3 was so powerful it would allow sony to skip at least 1 console generation.
sure sure, you can do that, but obviously, the best solution is to then have his face removed and surgically grafted to your head. If you have the time, you can also have your old face grafted back on him. Then walk away with a clear conscience and a phone you can unlock at will. The chances of him breaking out of prison after being arrested for your crimes, convincing just one trusted friend that he is not you, hunting you down, and ultimately unlocking the phone are practically nil. He doesn't have the face that unlocks it anymore!
well, things don't always play out so well. sometimes you don't have time to recover from such a procedure, or you can't afford the staff and equipment to pull it off. Maybe you just killed him and need to get away and collect your thoughts. Don't lug the whole body around, that's just silly.
Also each evolution that allows a bacteria to become resistant to a drug weakens the bacteria in all other cases.
I had not understood this to be true. I keep hearing that strains of bacteria become resistant to all antibiotics. not just a queue of 3, then the next strain is resistant to a 4th antibiotic, but no longer resistant to the first. Evolution does seem to favor specialization, but traits are only lost if they hinder. I don't know exactly what the mechanism of resistance is, but i don't know that each kind of antibiotic requires some new organ to exist resulting in lumpy slow bacteria.
not to mention, many of them can be hacked in simplistic or macabre ways. a coworker was touting his new phone's biometric authentication and how it recognized his face. He claimed it used some new algorithm that couldn't be fooled by a picture. The claim seemed accurate since a printed picture of him could not unlock the phone. However, the phone happily unlocked when shown a picture of his face on my phone.
I don't know why it works. Maybe the identification of a real face is taking lighting into account or something and a self illuminated photo on an lcd throws it off. In any case it could still be defeated with his severed head. Now, a password might be given up under torture, but nobody is going to get it by killing you.