The original Brian Aldiss short story, Super-Toys Last All Summer Long is avalible from Wired. It was originally published as part of the Kubrick / AI hype back in '97 when I read it on dead tree. I've been looking forward to the movie since then, and will see it even if Speilberg ruins it, just out of respect for the original. If you're into AI / Scifi / Futurism, you owe it to yourself to give it a read.
Didn't Heilien touch on this?
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I remember that in "Stranger in a Strange Land" Heinlien's Mars mission required married couples for stabilities' sake. But I don't remember if he asserted that Valentine Micheal Smith was conceived on the way, or on Mars itself.
The how many mile high club would that be?
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On the other hand, we also now have a test of the/. spam problem, and/or how malicious some ppl are. I'd be curious as to if and how much spam the first account does pick up.
Interesting Chalenges.
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After watching Klingon blood float through Star Trek movies, and hearing about the problems going to the bathroom or even sleeping up there, I bet you'd end up with some intesting chalenges. I wonder if it would require some sort of rubber band harness to keep you from floating away from each other. I'd hate to be in the heat of it, and get going a bit to fast and suddenly you each end up flying to opposite ends of the room...
For those on a budget, I recomend practicing underwater, just like NASA does (although, they probably practice different things.) I wonder if you could create a shallow water device where you breath through your nose, in order to keep the mouth free? Anyone know?
And yes, they do have lubricants designed just for that.
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Oh, this is gonna be unpopular.
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Frankly, I gotta say I'm glad to hear about this. It isn't an ad, it isn't pro-spam, it's AIBO news./. has said everything that's come up about AIBO since the thing was first heard of, including bitching about how much they cost. Now, here's a (very slim) chance to get a free one, and I'm glad to know about it.
And to all you ppl worried about evil evil nasty spam, even if they are lying, it's about time you wake up and notice it's 1999 and spam exists.
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Even if Everyone.net doesn't spam you, that mail address is now on/. Even if a bot doesn't pick it up, you can be sure some malicous little punk is gonna subscribe it to some list or another just for kicks. This isn't exactly clean room technique right here.
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A high quality 15 megabyte Quicktime version is avalible here.
My main quetion would be if there is any way to discern between a image holding encrypted data and an unmodified "visual only" image file.
The original Brian Aldiss short story, Super-Toys Last All Summer Long is avalible from Wired. It was originally published as part of the Kubrick / AI hype back in '97 when I read it on dead tree. I've been looking forward to the movie since then, and will see it even if Speilberg ruins it, just out of respect for the original. If you're into AI / Scifi / Futurism, you owe it to yourself to give it a read.
The how many mile high club would that be?
On the other hand, we also now have a test of the /. spam problem, and/or how malicious some ppl are. I'd be curious as to if and how much spam the first account does pick up.
For those on a budget, I recomend practicing underwater, just like NASA does (although, they probably practice different things.) I wonder if you could create a shallow water device where you breath through your nose, in order to keep the mouth free? Anyone know?
And yes, they do have lubricants designed just for that.
Reed
And to all you ppl worried about evil evil nasty spam, even if they are lying, it's about time you wake up and notice it's 1999 and spam exists.
Get a spamtrap accnt. isn't that what Mail.com is for?
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