"And Lo, the LORD made the world in such a way as to deny evidence of himself and give credence to natural processes because the LORD is a funny f$%#er. And the LORD took a couple hours off for a good snigger"
On the other hand I can't help but feel like unlocking the secrets of the mind will inevitably lead to the obsolescence of the everyday human
This research is nowhere near even coming close to that level. However, I do have one thing to say about your lament. I damn well hope so! Have you seen what a good job the everyday human is doing at running this planet? If anything is due for an upgrade, it's the everyday human.
Well, I don't think it's making any money directly. It's just to get people to hang out there.
Which, whether or not you think is demeaning to the woman, is actually pretty demeaning to the guys there. See, what they're implying is that all the people at E3 are so desperate for female attention that they'll ignore the obvious fact that the BB doesn't play games, or hang out with nerds, or even like them, in order to have their picture taken with her.
Although, judging by some of the responses on this thread....
Better than Chris Claremont's work with the X-Men, especially from 80 to 90?
Oh christ yes. I loved that stuff when I was 12, but on re-read it comes off like a second rate soap opera with enormous breasts and women who bend their knees weird.
Have you read From Hell? It's simply one of the most complex and interesting comics ever made. If Claremont could have written an Xmen arc that tied in actual history, metaphysics and lives of actual people, well, he'd be getting movie after movie made from his work and be complaining about how much they messed it up.
Stan Lee basically built the modern Marvel Comics in the 60's on those themes. Peter Parker was nervous, shy, and vulnerable. The Thing hated himself. Tony Stark had a heart condition.
Yep, he built the themes. He also employed writers who either couldn't write, or wrote for 12 year olds because they thought that was their only audience. Take for example Stark. Yeah, he had a heart condition. But instead of any real stories about what people with heart conditions do, it was "Argh! Dr NastyAwful has pushed a button that causes my armor to, I don't know, make my heart become a hackneyed plot device!" Yeah, I know this is fantasy, but after the fourth or fifth time didn't you start to go "Jesus, just die already!"
Moore's innovation was not the problems that his characters faced, but that he treated them as if they were people, instead of overblown elements in a story arc.
If you don't have it, you want it. If you need it, you'll go through a lot to get it.
Yeah, well you can say the same thing about air, but I don't think you'd advocate being charged per breath.
When people say "Knowledge wants to be free" it's a glib way of saying "secrets are sometimes more resource intensive to society than the profit they garner" In other words, the last thing we need is tomorrow's Einstein held back from coming up with the GUT because (s)he couldn't afford to subscribe to 40 physics journals.
I agree people should be compensated for their time. That's why concerned people are always on the governments back to fund basic research. However, being continously compensated ad infinitum because you had one good idea is ridiculous, no matter what Disney says.
And if you come up with the "Universal Cure for all things that ail Humans, including age" and don't share it with people who can't afford to pay your salary, then you sir, are a scumbag.
Ah, it's the other way around. Right now some designer is thinking "Wow! With all these new killer extensions I could put together a desktop just like the one at the end of Hackers!"
You can start to freak out when the Lawnmower Man fans get their hands on it.
Are pretty much a contradiction in terms. Makes me so sad that Foul (possibly NSFW) tanked so hard. Sure they were nowhere near excellent, but they had a take no prisoners review attitude, unlike every other game mag.
I kind of like the articles in Xbox Magazine, but you get these reviews that were obviously bought and sold. For instance when Halo 2 came out it was 9.9 across the board. Then, on the third page of the article the reviewer casually mentions "Oh yeah, but the levels are really repetitive and there's a lack of design originality to them, so it get a bit boring at times." Okay, so how 'bout deducting a couple points, eh?
I can just see some Msoft PR guy saying "Sure, sure, you can have your integrity. Just keep it after page two. Nobody reads that far anyway."
Well, to split hairs there is a non-consumer UMD drive, it's just not available to developers. Sony has them.
But your post is dead on in clarifying that Sony is being so closed about UMD that not even developers get them. It'll be interesting to see if they can hold that position. Somewhere, somebody must be looking at a wide-open market in producing UMD. I guess it depends on how strict Japanese patent law is, something I know nothing about.
You realize of course, that you can not "convert them to UMD" with this method.
UMD is a disc format. You need a UMD drive. There is no such thing as a consumer UMD drive, AFAIK. That's why Sony is using it. They know you're going to put stuff on your memory card. But if you want a collection of stuff, you're going to have to buy stuff on their format.
Peronally, I think there's really only one front we need to keep an eye on in the war to protect the sanctity of marriage, and that's Mormons.
Look, I know you're all going to jump all over me about intolerance and bigotry and all that liberal claptrap, but let's examine the facts for a minute.
One, Mormons are supportive of Bigamy. I know you're going to throw that old 'The official church doctrine is against it, and the vast majority of Mormons are against it' stuff, but we've all seen the tv specials here. Just because most Mormons are afraid of the law, doesn't mean they aren't pushing their bigamist agenda. Mormons marrying is the thin edge of the wedge that will break marriage wide open. Once we let people marry twice because of their nutty religion, we'll be driving thought the Vegas strip past the church of the horse marriers.
Two, preservation of culture. You may think that culture is passed through discussion and media, but we all know that it's inculcated into you as a child and that's the end of it. The problem with Mormons is that they use children to spread their ideology. Many Mormons go on to become teachers in schools that teach the children of non-Mormons. Maybe you're okay with the pledge of allegiance including a thank you to the angel Moroni, but that's not my America.
I urge you to write your congresspeople and support legislation banning Mormon marriage. Because we want the America our forefathers dreamt of.
Any attack on our call centers is an attack on America. We should be clear on that.
Speaking on behalf of many people I'd like to say "Muh-wha???".
If overseas contractors that companies use so they don't have to pay Americans a living wage are worthy of our military support, why aren't they paying taxes for us to defend them? These terrorists get zero sympathy from me, but shouldn't we be putting our own house in order?
We just had the congress tell us that they can't raise minimum wage because it would hurt companies too much, so now you want the taxes of people working full time and living in poverty to go to the Indian government so that the jobs we lose to them will be safe? Did you forget we're already in the red paying for two wars? Seriously, what the hell are you talking about?
That's a really cool story, but it sounds like a rough job.
I once had the pleasure of helping someone dispose of a bunch of nitrate film that had become unsavable. We lit that stuff up and it went off like a rocket.
I can't say this enough. If anybody reading this has any old nitrate films in their possesion GET IT OUT OF YOUR HOUSE! I have never seen something burn as fast and as hot as that. It was scary.
boy, that's one of the stupidest things I've ever heard said. And this is Slashdot.
Film!=digital. Grain patterns through transmitted light have so many easily viewable differences than emitted scan lines, it's scary that I have to point it out. You can definitely improve on sharpness of image with a huge resolution scan, but that's only one quality of film. And Lucas aside, it's not even the most important one.
Go see a black and white film in a theatre some time. Even better go see a high-contrast one like 'Raging Bull'. You'll see grain and all sorts of odd blurry edges as the grain patterns bounce around and create strange effects due to persistence of vision. You'll also wonder why it looks like the light on the frame is physically in the room with you. The levels of luminosity reflected from the screen in a b+w print are second to none.
I don't know. Why don't you ask those people with motor neuron disease he's trying to find a treatment for how they feel about the ethical implications.
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Right, I remember that part of Genesis.
"And Lo, the LORD made the world in such a way as to deny evidence of himself and give credence to natural processes because the LORD is a funny f$%#er. And the LORD took a couple hours off for a good snigger"
On the other hand I can't help but feel like unlocking the secrets of the mind will inevitably lead to the obsolescence of the everyday human
This research is nowhere near even coming close to that level. However, I do have one thing to say about your lament. I damn well hope so! Have you seen what a good job the everyday human is doing at running this planet? If anything is due for an upgrade, it's the everyday human.
Well, not really. Check this article:
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The 'high-fructose' part is really important because it seems that fructose leads to a deficiciency in your ability to metabolize copper. That's bad.
And it's *everywhere*. Check out this:
http://www.accidentalhedonist.com/index.php/2005/
and this:
http://www.accidentalhedonist.com/index.php/2005/
Well, damn it. Buy them. Fast and all!
Maybe some money will drag Joel in from whatever strange mountain cabin he's retreated to....
Looks like the Techzone just learned how to get a free slashdotting. Is that bacon I smell?
Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary
You might have to be a film geek, or a ballet fan, to love it, but I thought it was great.
I'm so sorry. That's "Moop's Law." That's what it says on the card.
Well, I don't think it's making any money directly. It's just to get people to hang out there.
Which, whether or not you think is demeaning to the woman, is actually pretty demeaning to the guys there. See, what they're implying is that all the people at E3 are so desperate for female attention that they'll ignore the obvious fact that the BB doesn't play games, or hang out with nerds, or even like them, in order to have their picture taken with her.
Although, judging by some of the responses on this thread....
Oh man, the two of you must do reeeaaall well with the ladies.
Have you talked to any besides your mothers?
Better than Chris Claremont's work with the X-Men, especially from 80 to 90?
Oh christ yes. I loved that stuff when I was 12, but on re-read it comes off like a second rate soap opera with enormous breasts and women who bend their knees weird.
Have you read From Hell? It's simply one of the most complex and interesting comics ever made. If Claremont could have written an Xmen arc that tied in actual history, metaphysics and lives of actual people, well, he'd be getting movie after movie made from his work and be complaining about how much they messed it up.
Stan Lee basically built the modern Marvel Comics in the 60's on those themes. Peter Parker was nervous, shy, and vulnerable. The Thing hated himself. Tony Stark had a heart condition.
Yep, he built the themes. He also employed writers who either couldn't write, or wrote for 12 year olds because they thought that was their only audience. Take for example Stark. Yeah, he had a heart condition. But instead of any real stories about what people with heart conditions do, it was "Argh! Dr NastyAwful has pushed a button that causes my armor to, I don't know, make my heart become a hackneyed plot device!" Yeah, I know this is fantasy, but after the fourth or fifth time didn't you start to go "Jesus, just die already!"
Moore's innovation was not the problems that his characters faced, but that he treated them as if they were people, instead of overblown elements in a story arc.
Yeah! You could make a pad and have the controls on it! And call it.... wait for it.....
Dance Shoot Revolution!
If you don't have it, you want it. If you need it, you'll go through a lot to get it.
Yeah, well you can say the same thing about air, but I don't think you'd advocate being charged per breath.
When people say "Knowledge wants to be free" it's a glib way of saying "secrets are sometimes more resource intensive to society than the profit they garner" In other words, the last thing we need is tomorrow's Einstein held back from coming up with the GUT because (s)he couldn't afford to subscribe to 40 physics journals.
I agree people should be compensated for their time. That's why concerned people are always on the governments back to fund basic research. However, being continously compensated ad infinitum because you had one good idea is ridiculous, no matter what Disney says.
And if you come up with the "Universal Cure for all things that ail Humans, including age" and don't share it with people who can't afford to pay your salary, then you sir, are a scumbag.
Ah, it's the other way around. Right now some designer is thinking "Wow! With all these new killer extensions I could put together a desktop just like the one at the end of Hackers!"
You can start to freak out when the Lawnmower Man fans get their hands on it.
Are pretty much a contradiction in terms. Makes me so sad that Foul (possibly NSFW) tanked so hard. Sure they were nowhere near excellent, but they had a take no prisoners review attitude, unlike every other game mag.
I kind of like the articles in Xbox Magazine, but you get these reviews that were obviously bought and sold. For instance when Halo 2 came out it was 9.9 across the board. Then, on the third page of the article the reviewer casually mentions "Oh yeah, but the levels are really repetitive and there's a lack of design originality to them, so it get a bit boring at times." Okay, so how 'bout deducting a couple points, eh?
I can just see some Msoft PR guy saying "Sure, sure, you can have your integrity. Just keep it after page two. Nobody reads that far anyway."
Well, to split hairs there is a non-consumer UMD drive, it's just not available to developers. Sony has them.
But your post is dead on in clarifying that Sony is being so closed about UMD that not even developers get them. It'll be interesting to see if they can hold that position. Somewhere, somebody must be looking at a wide-open market in producing UMD. I guess it depends on how strict Japanese patent law is, something I know nothing about.
You realize of course, that you can not "convert them to UMD" with this method.
UMD is a disc format. You need a UMD drive. There is no such thing as a consumer UMD drive, AFAIK. That's why Sony is using it. They know you're going to put stuff on your memory card. But if you want a collection of stuff, you're going to have to buy stuff on their format.
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Peronally, I think there's really only one front we need to keep an eye on in the war to protect the sanctity of marriage, and that's Mormons.
Look, I know you're all going to jump all over me about intolerance and bigotry and all that liberal claptrap, but let's examine the facts for a minute.
One, Mormons are supportive of Bigamy. I know you're going to throw that old 'The official church doctrine is against it, and the vast majority of Mormons are against it' stuff, but we've all seen the tv specials here. Just because most Mormons are afraid of the law, doesn't mean they aren't pushing their bigamist agenda. Mormons marrying is the thin edge of the wedge that will break marriage wide open. Once we let people marry twice because of their nutty religion, we'll be driving thought the Vegas strip past the church of the horse marriers.
Two, preservation of culture. You may think that culture is passed through discussion and media, but we all know that it's inculcated into you as a child and that's the end of it. The problem with Mormons is that they use children to spread their ideology. Many Mormons go on to become teachers in schools that teach the children of non-Mormons. Maybe you're okay with the pledge of allegiance including a thank you to the angel Moroni, but that's not my America.
I urge you to write your congresspeople and support legislation banning Mormon marriage. Because we want the America our forefathers dreamt of.
Any attack on our call centers is an attack on America. We should be clear on that.
Speaking on behalf of many people I'd like to say "Muh-wha???".
If overseas contractors that companies use so they don't have to pay Americans a living wage are worthy of our military support, why aren't they paying taxes for us to defend them? These terrorists get zero sympathy from me, but shouldn't we be putting our own house in order?
We just had the congress tell us that they can't raise minimum wage because it would hurt companies too much, so now you want the taxes of people working full time and living in poverty to go to the Indian government so that the jobs we lose to them will be safe? Did you forget we're already in the red paying for two wars? Seriously, what the hell are you talking about?
Well, I might agree about the utility of the smoking ban but
New York City buses are actually pretty clean.
They haven't used plain old diesel in a while.
That's a really cool story, but it sounds like a rough job.
I once had the pleasure of helping someone dispose of a bunch of nitrate film that had become unsavable. We lit that stuff up and it went off like a rocket.
I can't say this enough. If anybody reading this has any old nitrate films in their possesion GET IT OUT OF YOUR HOUSE! I have never seen something burn as fast and as hot as that. It was scary.
boy, that's one of the stupidest things I've ever heard said. And this is Slashdot.
Film!=digital. Grain patterns through transmitted light have so many easily viewable differences than emitted scan lines, it's scary that I have to point it out. You can definitely improve on sharpness of image with a huge resolution scan, but that's only one quality of film. And Lucas aside, it's not even the most important one.
Go see a black and white film in a theatre some time. Even better go see a high-contrast one like 'Raging Bull'. You'll see grain and all sorts of odd blurry edges as the grain patterns bounce around and create strange effects due to persistence of vision. You'll also wonder why it looks like the light on the frame is physically in the room with you. The levels of luminosity reflected from the screen in a b+w print are second to none.
And don't get me started on percieved contrast.
See also: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
uh....... no.
Sure, except it sucks, wasn't funny, didn't have anything to do with hitchiking and has about as many memorable moments as a good nap.
Other than that, an exact clone.
I don't know. Why don't you ask those people with motor neuron disease he's trying to find a treatment for how they feel about the ethical implications.