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I'm going to have to buy a few of their books this week instead of using the library, just to show my thanks!
From the Wiki
GLaDOS (Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System, voiced by Ellen McLain), a computer artificial intelligence that monitors and directs the player.
She's from the video game Portal, the reason people say "The cake is a lie!" She is an unreliable narrator throughout the game, who promises cake when you pass all the tests (but she actually means death)
GLaDOS is the one singing in Still Alive - the song playing during the ending credits. It's written by Jonathan Coulton - known for his song Code Monkey, among other things (like the acoustic version of Baby Got Back)
If they do want support, show the public some amazing images of what this thing can capture, then the public will be interested.
Let me just point out one thing, real quick.
before it launches in mid-2008
If they do manage to show us those images, I'd love to throw money at them - for their new time-travel technology, not some lame conventional science experiment!
That might be the first time someone gave a reason I can actually agree with. I hate about half of what that guy spews out, but at the least he makes people think about what has been said. I don't want the population to just blandly nods and smiles every time the candidates open their mouthes, and I would gladly give money to anyone who could make the voting populace do otherwise.
Ah, but like out of work actors, writers wait tables when they don't have steady work. So really, they just have to coast through on waiter's pay (which isn't bad money) until they get in 1 year of steady writing, then they can coast through an easy 6 years of doing nothing - at least, if they wanted to live a meager lifestyle. Actually, it would be a little more than 6 years if they stuck what they didn't need each year in a C.D.
On top of which, from what I hear the guild gives out loans to struggling workers.
You're not so good with statistics. Let me help you out a bit.
For under the cost of living: 45% chance of making nothing each year.
That means you have a...
20.25% chance of making nothing in two years
9.11% chance of making nothing for 3 years straight
4.1% chance of making nothing for 4 years straight
1.85% chance of making nothing for 5 years straight
0.83% chance of making nothing for 6 years straight
0.37% chance of making nothing for 7 years straight (well, as you can see, this is starting to get improbable)
Seven years of full time work (40 hour weeks) at minimum wage (~$7) is $101,920. So, as you can see, they only have to work one year out of seven at their expected $107,000 (with odds of 99.63% for), to be able to afford to pay their rent
Sure, that would put them in working class territory not middle class, but here are some numbers to get you thinking about just how good their chances really are.
Lets add that 55% chance of making $107,000 each year
That means...
For two years you have a 30.25% chance of making $214,000, and 49.5% chance of making $107,000
For three year you have a 16.64% chance of making $321,000, and a 40.84% chance of making $214,000, and a 33.41% chance of making $107,000
For four years you have a 9.15% chance of making $428,000, and a 29.95% chance of making $321,000, and a 24.5% chance of making $214,000, and a 20.05% chance of making $107,000
For five years you have a 5.03% chance of making $535,000, and a 20.59% chance of making $428,000, and a 16.85% chance of making $321,000, and a 13.78% chance of making $214,000, and a 11.28% chance of making $107,000
For six years you have 2.77% chance of making $642,000, 13.59% chance of making $535,000, and a 11.12% chance of making $428,000, and a 9.1% chance of making $321,000, and a 7.44% chance of making $214,000, and a 6.09% chance of making $107,000
An ISP that isn't Anti-P2P? Does anyone have a contact in hell to see what's going on down there? I guess that leaves a bit of hope for the future...
Maybe they had too many call center reps quit after the shit storm of callers complaining about their breaking the internet?
Damn it, I wish I would have seen that before I spent the last ten minutes setting up a word problem to solve for the area (using 3 rectangles and 4 triangles), then measuring every possible distance that could be considered the diameter!
PS:That that was the first time I've seen "O RLY" and was informed, not annoyed.
GATTACA wasn't about the dangers of choosing things for your child. You seem to have missed the point it wasn't about right or wrong within a family unit at all! It was about how society (often incorrectly) defines perfect, and in doing so devalues every other option.
GATTACA's society simply defined a child who's genes were chosen as perfect, and any who's genes were randomly selected by basic biological reactions as flawed. In fact it is both character/active response to the environment, and biology (how the environment shapes gene expression) that leads to the ability to reach perfection - perfection pertaining only to specific situations/environs, of course.
I.E: There actually are situations in which a light-haired, fair-skinned, blue-eyed male has a greater advantage than a dark-haired, colored-skinned, brown-eyed woman. This does not mean that you can pull accurate generalities about light vs dark, fair vs colored, blue-eyed vs brown-eyed, or men vs women from that specific situation.
As for choosing the hair color, eye color, intelligence, speed, or stamina of my future child? I have no problems with taking away the random or adding new choices. Realistically every choice I make will have benefits and repercussions, and it would as time consuming/important/fun as creating your ultimate DnD character!
Just hook up their database to all the CCTV/webcams people leave open/public/unsecured and run the two programs they came out with in the last year that can read fingerprints and irises from ~10 feet away. Patch in the program that they're working on that is supposed to detect abnormal behavior based on visual cues (they're still trying to come up with statistically significant values for the social norm ranges, but if betas are good enough for google, they're good enough for me!). Really fine tune that program so that it reads personal norms, not social norms. Shake hard twice, add three ice cubes and a orange slice, and you'll have a drink I like to call when paranoia and reality collide.
...can it be called SciFi if it isn't actually fictitious?
Ah, buy I happen to know at least one 45 yr old man that myspaces (is that a verb yet?) people as a 16 yr old. So my question is, how hard would it be to convince a young kid you are a young kid?
I'm not against kids meeting people online, I am against them then meeting those people in real life with out parental knowledge/consent. Then again, I'm not so cool with kids friending anyone their parents have not met. How hard is it to set up a meet and greet with both kids/sets of parents?
The methafor is not complete. It's a car that sues you when you consider riding another one.
It sounds like a girlfriend/wife metaphor would fit here much better.
It isn't so much random-druggie-stabbers that the nurses have to worry about, but their own negligence. If they aren't following proper procedure they can cause a Needle Stick Injury (poking themselves or others with a used sharp).
If you look at most hospital regulations, the drugs that they receive are normal antivirals. HIV is - of course - a virus, so antivirals are a common treatment, but that does not necessarily make it an HIV only medicine. They are not "only available to members of certain professions who have been exposed accidentally," they are available to anyone with a prescription and good insurance. They are amazingly expensive, and make you wish you were dead (intense pain, bad side effects).
As for transmission rate of HIV from needle stick injuries: 3 in 1000, for standard gage needles - that's without immediate antiviral treatment. Mostly likely your patient doesn't have HIV/AIDS, so your chances are quite a bit better than that 99.7% chance of staying clean.
*There is a major chance of contracting Hep B from the injury (up to 40% transmission rate for standard gage needles), but only if you were stupid enough to pass on your Hepatitis vaccine.
Let me just point out your sig
Careful What You Wish For..
So, did you realize an optimized goatse fits your wish for a picture of "something...anything"?
There has to be a basis for judgment! If it can judge a good picture from a bad picture, than it has to know *specifically* what makes that picture better. Why not use that knowledge to jump to the best picture (that it can define) from the first picture, instead of picking the best picture from thousands of pictures that are randomly created from the original? I'm saying it seems like they're doing things the hard way.
The researchers have developed an iterative process where a swarm of images are created by a computer. These images are 'graded relative to each other, the fittest end up at the front of the swarm until a single individual that is the most effectively enhanced.'
Um... if the computer knew how to tell a good picture from a bad, couldn't it have just created a good picture in the first place? This all seems rather useless/confusing to me.
Ah, but when there is a leak, that is 30+ years of CO2 coming at your ass as a giant semi-visible Death Cloud. Makes me feel SOOOO much safer than living next to a nuclear plant.
I'll be darn sure to switch my provider if I hear the slightest hint of destination/content based tiers instead of bandwidth tiers. Sure, because the free market forces will magically make them stop their experiment. How about some gosh darn regulation already!
Ah, if only they had a reseller in my area, they would have gotten my impulse purchase. Forget about the cool factor - that would be the perfect system to emulate my gaming consoles!
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I'm going to have to buy a few of their books this week instead of using the library, just to show my thanks!
GLaDOS (Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System, voiced by Ellen McLain), a computer artificial intelligence that monitors and directs the player.
She's from the video game Portal, the reason people say "The cake is a lie!" She is an unreliable narrator throughout the game, who promises cake when you pass all the tests (but she actually means death)
GLaDOS is the one singing in Still Alive - the song playing during the ending credits. It's written by Jonathan Coulton - known for his song Code Monkey, among other things (like the acoustic version of Baby Got Back)
Let me just point out one thing, real quick.
before it launches in mid-2008
If they do manage to show us those images, I'd love to throw money at them - for their new time-travel technology, not some lame conventional science experiment!
Man, I spent too much time trying to come up with a nifty acronym... but really, who didn't think of GLADOS the moment they saw GLAST?
Well, I guess there's no sense crying over every mistake.
That might be the first time someone gave a reason I can actually agree with. I hate about half of what that guy spews out, but at the least he makes people think about what has been said. I don't want the population to just blandly nods and smiles every time the candidates open their mouthes, and I would gladly give money to anyone who could make the voting populace do otherwise.
Ah, but like out of work actors, writers wait tables when they don't have steady work. So really, they just have to coast through on waiter's pay (which isn't bad money) until they get in 1 year of steady writing, then they can coast through an easy 6 years of doing nothing - at least, if they wanted to live a meager lifestyle. Actually, it would be a little more than 6 years if they stuck what they didn't need each year in a C.D.
On top of which, from what I hear the guild gives out loans to struggling workers.
You're not so good with statistics. Let me help you out a bit.
For under the cost of living: 45% chance of making nothing each year.
That means you have a...
20.25% chance of making nothing in two years
9.11% chance of making nothing for 3 years straight
4.1% chance of making nothing for 4 years straight
1.85% chance of making nothing for 5 years straight
0.83% chance of making nothing for 6 years straight
0.37% chance of making nothing for 7 years straight (well, as you can see, this is starting to get improbable)
Seven years of full time work (40 hour weeks) at minimum wage (~$7) is $101,920. So, as you can see, they only have to work one year out of seven at their expected $107,000 (with odds of 99.63% for), to be able to afford to pay their rent
Sure, that would put them in working class territory not middle class, but here are some numbers to get you thinking about just how good their chances really are.
Lets add that 55% chance of making $107,000 each year
That means...
For two years you have a 30.25% chance of making $214,000, and 49.5% chance of making $107,000
For three year you have a 16.64% chance of making $321,000, and a 40.84% chance of making $214,000, and a 33.41% chance of making $107,000
For four years you have a 9.15% chance of making $428,000, and a 29.95% chance of making $321,000, and a 24.5% chance of making $214,000, and a 20.05% chance of making $107,000
For five years you have a 5.03% chance of making $535,000, and a 20.59% chance of making $428,000, and a 16.85% chance of making $321,000, and a 13.78% chance of making $214,000, and a 11.28% chance of making $107,000
For six years you have 2.77% chance of making $642,000, 13.59% chance of making $535,000, and a 11.12% chance of making $428,000, and a 9.1% chance of making $321,000, and a 7.44% chance of making $214,000, and a 6.09% chance of making $107,000
When do they breed see-through people, for the human studies?
Maybe they had too many call center reps quit after the shit storm of callers complaining about their breaking the internet?
Damn it, I wish I would have seen that before I spent the last ten minutes setting up a word problem to solve for the area (using 3 rectangles and 4 triangles), then measuring every possible distance that could be considered the diameter!
PS:That that was the first time I've seen "O RLY" and was informed, not annoyed.
GATTACA wasn't about the dangers of choosing things for your child. You seem to have missed the point it wasn't about right or wrong within a family unit at all! It was about how society (often incorrectly) defines perfect, and in doing so devalues every other option.
GATTACA's society simply defined a child who's genes were chosen as perfect, and any who's genes were randomly selected by basic biological reactions as flawed. In fact it is both character/active response to the environment, and biology (how the environment shapes gene expression) that leads to the ability to reach perfection - perfection pertaining only to specific situations/environs, of course.
I.E: There actually are situations in which a light-haired, fair-skinned, blue-eyed male has a greater advantage than a dark-haired, colored-skinned, brown-eyed woman. This does not mean that you can pull accurate generalities about light vs dark, fair vs colored, blue-eyed vs brown-eyed, or men vs women from that specific situation.
As for choosing the hair color, eye color, intelligence, speed, or stamina of my future child? I have no problems with taking away the random or adding new choices. Realistically every choice I make will have benefits and repercussions, and it would as time consuming/important/fun as creating your ultimate DnD character!
Sale? Maybe on the black market! If I'm going to have to get it illegally, I'll just wait the extra week to download the handi-cam version from TPB.
Just hook up their database to all the CCTV/webcams people leave open/public/unsecured and run the two programs they came out with in the last year that can read fingerprints and irises from ~10 feet away. Patch in the program that they're working on that is supposed to detect abnormal behavior based on visual cues (they're still trying to come up with statistically significant values for the social norm ranges, but if betas are good enough for google, they're good enough for me!). Really fine tune that program so that it reads personal norms, not social norms. Shake hard twice, add three ice cubes and a orange slice, and you'll have a drink I like to call when paranoia and reality collide.
...can it be called SciFi if it isn't actually fictitious?
Ah, buy I happen to know at least one 45 yr old man that myspaces (is that a verb yet?) people as a 16 yr old. So my question is, how hard would it be to convince a young kid you are a young kid?
I'm not against kids meeting people online, I am against them then meeting those people in real life with out parental knowledge/consent. Then again, I'm not so cool with kids friending anyone their parents have not met. How hard is it to set up a meet and greet with both kids/sets of parents?
It sounds like a girlfriend/wife metaphor would fit here much better.
or on your own child. Crazy early Biologists!
It isn't so much random-druggie-stabbers that the nurses have to worry about, but their own negligence. If they aren't following proper procedure they can cause a Needle Stick Injury (poking themselves or others with a used sharp).
If you look at most hospital regulations, the drugs that they receive are normal antivirals. HIV is - of course - a virus, so antivirals are a common treatment, but that does not necessarily make it an HIV only medicine. They are not "only available to members of certain professions who have been exposed accidentally," they are available to anyone with a prescription and good insurance. They are amazingly expensive, and make you wish you were dead (intense pain, bad side effects).
As for transmission rate of HIV from needle stick injuries: 3 in 1000, for standard gage needles - that's without immediate antiviral treatment. Mostly likely your patient doesn't have HIV/AIDS, so your chances are quite a bit better than that 99.7% chance of staying clean.
*There is a major chance of contracting Hep B from the injury (up to 40% transmission rate for standard gage needles), but only if you were stupid enough to pass on your Hepatitis vaccine.
Careful What You Wish For..
So, did you realize an optimized goatse fits your wish for a picture of "something...anything"?
There has to be a basis for judgment! If it can judge a good picture from a bad picture, than it has to know *specifically* what makes that picture better. Why not use that knowledge to jump to the best picture (that it can define) from the first picture, instead of picking the best picture from thousands of pictures that are randomly created from the original? I'm saying it seems like they're doing things the hard way.
Um... if the computer knew how to tell a good picture from a bad, couldn't it have just created a good picture in the first place? This all seems rather useless/confusing to me.
Ah, but when there is a leak, that is 30+ years of CO2 coming at your ass as a giant semi-visible Death Cloud. Makes me feel SOOOO much safer than living next to a nuclear plant.
Ah, if only they had a reseller in my area, they would have gotten my impulse purchase. Forget about the cool factor - that would be the perfect system to emulate my gaming consoles!
-just to head this off-
I'm Hearing Year of the Linux Machine around here a lot again (again, or continuously... you decide).
Strangely, I've yet to hear a kind word from the normals in the real world.
Maybe this Linux thing isn't catching on quite as much as you think it is.
(not trying to troll, just an observation)
That's not what Woody Allen told me!