This will require hardware to set up, and Iran sure as hell doesn't make their own. Is it any way feasible to keep the manufacturers and resellers from providing / supporting the gear?
A complaint sometimes raised is that the standard world maps and globes are biased toward Europe - Europe being on the top, all those regions that were subsequently colonized on the bottom. I'm assuming that this standard has been applied to the whole universe now?
I imagine this would be one way to introduce the concept to the non-maker/hacker proletariat. Something relatively inexpensive that doesn't really produce anything practical right out of the box, but is fun as hell to use. You can just picture the commercials - "Make dinosaurs! Race cars! Amaze your friends!" It'd be great if the material is reusable like Play-Doh, unless your goal is to make money on the goo rather than the machine. Soon enough users will start hacking the toy version to use different materials, have greater precision, etc, which is when you roll out the "pro" version.
Maybe it's because I live in NYC, but I've always found USPS service to be, well, excellent.
At the post office, the lines are reasonable, the staff friendly (although I do use the APC for most services.)
I've receive most of my eBay deliveries via regular mail, and it works fine.
The mailperson who works my block knows me by sight.
I actually prefer to use Priority Mail over UPS or Fedex. It's cheap and easy for one, and the post office won't sit on the package if they can deliver it faster than the TOS. If they can do it overnight, they'll deliver it overnight. If it's gonna take three days, they'll deliver it in three days. (UPS? If the deal is to deliver it in two days, its gonna take two days, even if the location is only thirty miles away.)
Goddamn "BBC America" has been pushing itself as the go-to sci-fi / fantasy station, including both British shows (Doctor Who, Primeval, Being Human) and decidedly non-British shows (ST:TNG, X-Files).
They build a ship that can reach the nearest star in 100 years. Off it goes.
25 years later, they build a ship that can make the journey in 50 years. Off it goes.
74 and a half years later, they build a ship that can make the journey in a day.
Hopefully there's no one in "suspended animation" or "space children" on the first two ships, otherwise they're gonna be pretty pissed off.
This is why getting people to commit to the effort to build an interstellar probe is pretty much a non-starter. We're perfectly happy to wait for the "breakthrough breakthrough" thankyouverymuch.
Would it really be that hard for flickr etc. to strip out the metadata from the uploaded photos, then allowing the users to opt-in if they want to leave the data in place? There could even be an "advanced" setting to allow users to pick and choose (date OK, camera OK, location NO). (They may already have this, didn't check.)
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I'm sorry, but I'm not allowed to argue anymore. If you want me to go on arguing, you'll have to pay for another five minutes.
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This will require hardware to set up, and Iran sure as hell doesn't make their own. Is it any way feasible to keep the manufacturers and resellers from providing / supporting the gear?
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A complaint sometimes raised is that the standard world maps and globes are biased toward Europe - Europe being on the top, all those regions that were subsequently colonized on the bottom. I'm assuming that this standard has been applied to the whole universe now?
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...is going (sunglasses) one step beyond.
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Only someone working for Skynet would deny the existence of Skynet. Nice try, comrade.
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I imagine this would be one way to introduce the concept to the non-maker/hacker proletariat. Something relatively inexpensive that doesn't really produce anything practical right out of the box, but is fun as hell to use. You can just picture the commercials - "Make dinosaurs! Race cars! Amaze your friends!" It'd be great if the material is reusable like Play-Doh, unless your goal is to make money on the goo rather than the machine. Soon enough users will start hacking the toy version to use different materials, have greater precision, etc, which is when you roll out the "pro" version.
Maybe it's because I live in NYC, but I've always found USPS service to be, well, excellent.
At the post office, the lines are reasonable, the staff friendly (although I do use the APC for most services.)
I've receive most of my eBay deliveries via regular mail, and it works fine.
The mailperson who works my block knows me by sight.
I actually prefer to use Priority Mail over UPS or Fedex. It's cheap and easy for one, and the post office won't sit on the package if they can deliver it faster than the TOS. If they can do it overnight, they'll deliver it overnight. If it's gonna take three days, they'll deliver it in three days. (UPS? If the deal is to deliver it in two days, its gonna take two days, even if the location is only thirty miles away.)
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Can it fetch the house keys out of its pants pockets and unlock the door while not dropping three full bags of groceries? While its raining?
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It would be nice to have pause / slo-mo / select frame / reverse / etc for GIFs.
Goddamn "BBC America" has been pushing itself as the go-to sci-fi / fantasy station, including both British shows (Doctor Who, Primeval, Being Human) and decidedly non-British shows (ST:TNG, X-Files).
Doctor Who aside, this is not a good thing.
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This dream has been around for a long time. Time to start building them.
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DS9 FTW, mainly because it didn't rely on made-up-on-the-spot fake science or holodeck claptrap to drive/resolve the storylines.
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and maybe BBC America will stop showing them and have room to start showing, oh, I don't know, BRITISH programming!?
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They build a ship that can reach the nearest star in 100 years. Off it goes.
25 years later, they build a ship that can make the journey in 50 years. Off it goes.
74 and a half years later, they build a ship that can make the journey in a day.
Hopefully there's no one in "suspended animation" or "space children" on the first two ships, otherwise they're gonna be pretty pissed off.
This is why getting people to commit to the effort to build an interstellar probe is pretty much a non-starter. We're perfectly happy to wait for the "breakthrough breakthrough" thankyouverymuch.
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So, what are you trying to tell me here, little man? That you don't like Zep?
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Also (2nd bite at the apple I know - apologies): this kind of gag is a lot funnier if the product actually works.
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"If you don't have a sense of humor, don't try to be funny."
- Pope David Meyer, Church of the SubGenius
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Would it really be that hard for flickr etc. to strip out the metadata from the uploaded photos, then allowing the users to opt-in if they want to leave the data in place? There could even be an "advanced" setting to allow users to pick and choose (date OK, camera OK, location NO). (They may already have this, didn't check.)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=638S8n2_Ab8
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Dr. Tenma would be disappointed, definitely.
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This xkcd is the /. equivalent of Mustafa's death scene in The Lion King. (sniff.)
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Let them fade into insignificance as people get their news elsewhere.
Seriously! Who needs news bureaus and reporters. We gots Reddit!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8D1e3kD4W8
Although my main issue with this ad is you'd really give some flunkies at Staples access to your tax files? REALLY??!?
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This does prompt the question of why Middle Earth has fireworks but not firearms. Sure, the fireworks in LOTR are magical fireworks, but still...
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Well that sucks!
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