You have a piont there, and that's realy what I was thinking too, but more along the lines of how future scientists will see us. The scientific comunity poured a huge amount of time and recorces into developing cold fusion -for instance- that we now now to be either imposible or nearly so. The piont I'm trying to make here is that you realy don't know if somthing is imposible or not untill you actualy try it.
As a case in piont here, it is actualy posible to change a lead atom into a gold atom, using a special atomic laser to shave off extra protons. Asumming you don't mind having an extramly unstable and radioactive ingot. The Alchemests where sure this was posible, they just didn't know how to do it.
This kind of reminds me of a species of possum (I don't think it's an Asutralaisian one, so it must be from the Americas). If there isn't food for all of these possums in the area, some will just drop dead allowing more food for those that are still alive. From the stand piont of any given individual, this is a bad evolotionary move, but for the species as a whole it gives them a distinct advatage over a population that is continualy expanding and the food source stays the same size.
This is exactly what I thought too. Right up untill the cinic part of my brian said : "anti terrorist tool". And then I had visions of anyone printing the word 'quaran' being dragged off under the patriot act after the printer phoned home.
I'm sorry to say it, but to me it looks a lot more like a clandesdine tool for the goverment to get rid of people they don't like. Even if it didn't start out that way I imagine it ending that way.
That's it: it's all up to the admin. Untill Cannon decides that all admins are stupid/ unAmerican/ terrorists/ all of the above.
And don't forget all of the hardcoded keywords that'll be in there for the goverment (RRIA) to track terrorists (don't think they won't be there, as soon as politicans see this they'll make it illegal to sell without somthing they can use to spy on their populations).
Bolocks. I think you'll find that the local planning office was at Alpha Centari, and presumably said hyperspace bypass is heading in the direction of earth
Not necessarily: If you assume that half of the population aren't (online) gamers, then the number of hours per gamer doubles.
I'd be willing to guess that only one person in 5 is tech-savy enough to be a gamer (remember that 'the population' includes octogenarians and infants), and that only half of them actually are, meaning that each gamer in this senario is clocking up an average of 510 hours per year, or 9 and a bit per week.
The advancement isn't in the attachment to the eye, but rather the machinerie of the device. The one that you're thinking of would have had a resolution of 4x4, meaning 16 pixels which where either black or white. If I understand corectly, this device has 60 pixels (about 7x7, it can't be square though) and produces some sort of grey scale (ether 16 or 256 both of wich beat 2). The thing is that they both interface into the optic nerve in the same way.
I can relate to this, except it took me *much* longer to realise that social interaction was important. Two years after finishing my collage education in fact. And then another two years of reading anecdotal stories like yours or formal studies saying the same thing in a different way, and trying to force my self into social interactions, which made my problem and by dependency on anti-depressants worse.
After that, a guy I'd known since the beginning of high school who I'd see on and off in the intervening decades said something that made me see the light: That I'm completely socially adjusted for people that I already know, people that I do get on with think that I'm getting better (I knew I wasn't changing) because I become more social around them, I meet a new person and this cycle starts again. The light I saw wasn't that I was some sort of sociopath (which I thought I was for many years, therapy couldn't shake that out of me) but rather my mechanism for social interaction was different and slower than all the people around me.
"some children learned to adjust the software code underpinning some of the video games they played"
Am I the only one who thought of game cracks, or something like the San Andreas debacle, when I read that sentence?
The first thing that I thought was "sweet, the study was using open source games" quickly folowed by "How the hell did the suits who run these things find out about/where allowed by MS to use open source?" which ended in exactly the same thought that you had.
AceM2 has a valid piont, that someone who is pionting a gun at you and wants you dead automaticaly becomes a "bad guy". Prehaps he's been conscripted or brainwashed, sold the idear of 40 virgins, mabye he's a nice guy you'd enjoy talking to over a pint at the local pub just looking for a steady paycheck. From his piont of view, you are at best an interfearing foreighner, at worse a blaspheming infidel but either way, you have a gun pionted at him and if someone with stripes on their sholder shouts "fire!" you'll do it and that make you a "bad guy" to him.
The piont I'm making is that *every body* in a warzone is a "bad guy" to somebody. You have to remember that languages in general and English specificaly are fluid things. Words take on new meanings all the time, originaly the word villan meant "someone from a village". I personaly don't mind this happening, but if *you* have a problem with it I sugest you lean Lantin.
The figure could be made up, but I suspect that the GGP didn't mean "percent of attacks made" but rather something more like "percent of bullets fired". One in a million bullets hitting a civilan sounds more likly than one in a million attacks resulting in civilian casualtys.
Of course the number is quite obviously made up, so it's all down to perception. Just my 2c worth.
Does it realy matter if it A)causes news coverage that interupts your TV watching B) lands on your house or C) blots out the sun/ distroys all life on earth
I imagine that the problem isn't technical (*I* could write a skin for firefox that make it look exactly like IE (but don't have to: I downloaded one)), the reason is leagal. If KDE realeased a skin that looked exactly like win XP, microsoft layers would be all over them the moment they got a wif of it, claiming that they infringe on the look and feel of windows, or at least use of microsoft copyrighted logos (Like those horible garish red close buttons in the defualt winXP theme, the look of those is exclusivly MS property).
The Microsoft Leagal team is looking for reasons to take Open Source companys to court so as to put them out of buisness. And they don't even need reasons if they think they can get away with it (look at the SCO case).
I agree with the parent, and all the other replys are missing the point. It realy isn't that dificult to change from windows to linux. Once, I fixed my Mother-in-laws computer, and while I had it installed kubuntu as a dual boot so that it would be easyer to repair when windows inadvertantly broke again. Six months later, I asked her how the computer was doing, and she said it was fine, faster than normal even, but "looked funny". I discovered that I had forgoten to change the defualt OS in GRUB, and she had been using linux for months *without noticing*. And before you say things like she never used it, she conneced to the internet every day religusly to get check for email from her son in Australia, and even set up her own email account (thunderbird running in both OSs).
The problem isn't that people aren't willing to learn (I've found that if you pay more than $100 for somthing, you learn how to use it as more than a door stop), it's that programs don't work in linux. Pull a CD out of the bargin bin at wallmart and see if your mother-in-law can get it installed on linux (mine can't), but I'm willing to bet they can get it to work on windows (she can do that, which is what broke it the first time).
Nonononono. Godzila wasn't in the flying battleship, Algor was. It was magicaly imbued with life by the genecycst before being forced to do Algores bidding after he put the shakles of fok-dizfu Ra-larrc on it.
It was still called Lindows, and was my first tast of linux. I dual booted with windows 2000, untill I discovered Knoppix, and then real linux distros such as Debian, slackware, fedora and I've never looked back.
I do tend to gravitate to Debian, posibly becuase it's what I've used at my last two jobs.
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OpenOffice.org was hindered partially by Sun, and crippled(literaly) by Oracle.
There, fixed that for you.
You have a piont there, and that's realy what I was thinking too, but more along the lines of how future scientists will see us. The scientific comunity poured a huge amount of time and recorces into developing cold fusion -for instance- that we now now to be either imposible or nearly so. The piont I'm trying to make here is that you realy don't know if somthing is imposible or not untill you actualy try it.
As a case in piont here, it is actualy posible to change a lead atom into a gold atom, using a special atomic laser to shave off extra protons. Asumming you don't mind having an extramly unstable and radioactive ingot. The Alchemests where sure this was posible, they just didn't know how to do it.
This kind of reminds me of a species of possum (I don't think it's an Asutralaisian one, so it must be from the Americas). If there isn't food for all of these possums in the area, some will just drop dead allowing more food for those that are still alive.
From the stand piont of any given individual, this is a bad evolotionary move, but for the species as a whole it gives them a distinct advatage over a population that is continualy expanding and the food source stays the same size.
This is exactly what I thought too.
Right up untill the cinic part of my brian said : "anti terrorist tool". And then I had visions of anyone printing the word 'quaran' being dragged off under the patriot act after the printer phoned home.
I'm sorry to say it, but to me it looks a lot more like a clandesdine tool for the goverment to get rid of people they don't like. Even if it didn't start out that way I imagine it ending that way.
An excilent idear.
I have only one tiny problem with it. How do you plan of printing to it from your work station?
That's it: it's all up to the admin. Untill Cannon decides that all admins are stupid/ unAmerican/ terrorists/ all of the above.
And don't forget all of the hardcoded keywords that'll be in there for the goverment (RRIA) to track terrorists (don't think they won't be there, as soon as politicans see this they'll make it illegal to sell without somthing they can use to spy on their populations).
Does this mean it's in the neutral zone?
using only there own unreliable data set can't fin'd the planet.
There, fixed that for you.
Bolocks.
I think you'll find that the local planning office was at Alpha Centari, and presumably said hyperspace bypass is heading in the direction of earth
Not necessarily: If you assume that half of the population aren't (online) gamers, then the number of hours per gamer doubles.
I'd be willing to guess that only one person in 5 is tech-savy enough to be a gamer (remember that 'the population' includes octogenarians and infants), and that only half of them actually are, meaning that each gamer in this senario is clocking up an average of 510 hours per year, or 9 and a bit per week.
The advancement isn't in the attachment to the eye, but rather the machinerie of the device. The one that you're thinking of would have had a resolution of 4x4, meaning 16 pixels which where either black or white. If I understand corectly, this device has 60 pixels (about 7x7, it can't be square though) and produces some sort of grey scale (ether 16 or 256 both of wich beat 2). The thing is that they both interface into the optic nerve in the same way.
I can relate to this, except it took me *much* longer to realise that social interaction was important. Two years after finishing my collage education in fact. And then another two years of reading anecdotal stories like yours or formal studies saying the same thing in a different way, and trying to force my self into social interactions, which made my problem and by dependency on anti-depressants worse.
After that, a guy I'd known since the beginning of high school who I'd see on and off in the intervening decades said something that made me see the light: That I'm completely socially adjusted for people that I already know, people that I do get on with think that I'm getting better (I knew I wasn't changing) because I become more social around them, I meet a new person and this cycle starts again.
The light I saw wasn't that I was some sort of sociopath (which I thought I was for many years, therapy couldn't shake that out of me) but rather my mechanism for social interaction was different and slower than all the people around me.
"some children learned to adjust the software code underpinning some of the video games they played"
Am I the only one who thought of game cracks, or something like the San Andreas debacle, when I read that sentence?
The first thing that I thought was "sweet, the study was using open source games" quickly folowed by "How the hell did the suits who run these things find out about/where allowed by MS to use open source?" which ended in exactly the same thought that you had.
Actualy, a much better analogy would be a car company producing a car that is better in every way, but wouldn't run on ordanary fuels.
Say...... That souds farmiliar, I'm thinking alchahol, hydrogen, eletric.... nah, that's just the last party I went to.
AceM2 has a valid piont, that someone who is pionting a gun at you and wants you dead automaticaly becomes a "bad guy". Prehaps he's been conscripted or brainwashed, sold the idear of 40 virgins, mabye he's a nice guy you'd enjoy talking to over a pint at the local pub just looking for a steady paycheck. From his piont of view, you are at best an interfearing foreighner, at worse a blaspheming infidel but either way, you have a gun pionted at him and if someone with stripes on their sholder shouts "fire!" you'll do it and that make you a "bad guy" to him.
The piont I'm making is that *every body* in a warzone is a "bad guy" to somebody. You have to remember that languages in general and English specificaly are fluid things. Words take on new meanings all the time, originaly the word villan meant "someone from a village". I personaly don't mind this happening, but if *you* have a problem with it I sugest you lean Lantin.
The figure could be made up, but I suspect that the GGP didn't mean "percent of attacks made" but rather something more like "percent of bullets fired". One in a million bullets hitting a civilan sounds more likly than one in a million attacks resulting in civilian casualtys.
Of course the number is quite obviously made up, so it's all down to perception. Just my 2c worth.
Every version of Windows after ME was better than Windows ME.
Come on, compared to windows ME nailing your hand to the desk was more plesent, productive and had fewwer bugs.
Does it realy matter if it
A)causes news coverage that interupts your TV watching
B) lands on your house or
C) blots out the sun/ distroys all life on earth
I imagine that the problem isn't technical (*I* could write a skin for firefox that make it look exactly like IE (but don't have to: I downloaded one)), the reason is leagal. If KDE realeased a skin that looked exactly like win XP, microsoft layers would be all over them the moment they got a wif of it, claiming that they infringe on the look and feel of windows, or at least use of microsoft copyrighted logos (Like those horible garish red close buttons in the defualt winXP theme, the look of those is exclusivly MS property).
The Microsoft Leagal team is looking for reasons to take Open Source companys to court so as to put them out of buisness. And they don't even need reasons if they think they can get away with it (look at the SCO case).
I agree with the parent, and all the other replys are missing the point.
It realy isn't that dificult to change from windows to linux. Once, I fixed my Mother-in-laws computer, and while I had it installed kubuntu as a dual boot so that it would be easyer to repair when windows inadvertantly broke again. Six months later, I asked her how the computer was doing, and she said it was fine, faster than normal even, but "looked funny". I discovered that I had forgoten to change the defualt OS in GRUB, and she had been using linux for months *without noticing*. And before you say things like she never used it, she conneced to the internet every day religusly to get check for email from her son in Australia, and even set up her own email account (thunderbird running in both OSs).
The problem isn't that people aren't willing to learn (I've found that if you pay more than $100 for somthing, you learn how to use it as more than a door stop), it's that programs don't work in linux. Pull a CD out of the bargin bin at wallmart and see if your mother-in-law can get it installed on linux (mine can't), but I'm willing to bet they can get it to work on windows (she can do that, which is what broke it the first time).
Nonononono.
Godzila wasn't in the flying battleship, Algor was. It was magicaly imbued with life by the genecycst before being forced to do Algores bidding after he put the shakles of fok-dizfu Ra-larrc on it.
I've used it you insenstive clod!
It was still called Lindows, and was my first tast of linux. I dual booted with windows 2000, untill I discovered Knoppix, and then real linux distros such as Debian, slackware, fedora and I've never looked back.
I do tend to gravitate to Debian, posibly becuase it's what I've used at my last two jobs.
Seriously, if your daughter kicks you beteween the legs when you give her candy, I would invest in a cup.
I suspect it will show something like:
msgbox ("This aplication has performed an ilegal opeartion an will now close")
close()
"We are already looking into the issues raised in that complaint already and we are not treating it as a formal complaint to us."
Translation:
"We got more money from MS to procrastinate than we did from you to see this through."