Good point. If this robot is so perfected already AND has the potential to be a perfect sexbot, why is the adult entertainment industry not all over this one already, cranking out customized sexroids?
Not by a longshot. Anyone who thinks the RIAA will give up on its supply of sweet, sweet settlement money, is just fooling themselves. The RIAA will undoubtedly enshrine their music tax on universities with a myriad conditions and rules which will make it easy to continue to single out students for lawsuits.
"He wasn't using an authorized share point."
"He went above his monthly quota."
"He wasn't sharing an approved artist."
"He violated the blackout period for the new album."
"He shared the music with non-students."
"He shared the music during summer, period when he clearly wasn't actively going to class."
It will just go on and on. The only difference is that the Righteous Inquisition Army of Autocrats will just be more careful to crush their defendants with ballgag orders to make sure none of it makes it to the media, especially all the way to slashdot.
While their result on the bridge was as impressive as it was unexpected, it still falls a long way short of the panicked screams of "earthquake!" that Tesla allegedly obtained with a similar sized device within a few seconds of operation. Still, you can't beat Mythbusters for awesome programming. I come for the science, but I stay for the carnage!
Even a 100 years or so later, the man's idea are still way ahead of the curve! Nonwithstanding of the whole "cracking the earth in half with a bomb" and "portable earthquake machine" claims, of course. Then again, maybe in another 100...
This is not the same thing. Having a brand spanking new hairstyle and different facial tatoos or earrings is not going to level you up faster or make you hit harder. Blizzard is still not selling weapons or items for cash yet... and I'll stop playing when they do.
actually think the judge needs to throw this right out. This is an opinion about a food serving place and it isn't even that harsh. If he doesn't want to hear what his customers think of his place, then he doesn't need to listen to them. Maybe, just maybe he needs to clean up his shop and present a better public image for his customers?
It's so much easier to sue a single website for defamation (and hopefully make a few thousands in damages in the process) than to actually clean up your restaurant and serve halfway decent food (which costs effort and money). It's the law of the least effort, it works as well on people as it does on atoms and chemical reactions.
Does having a long, 1900's mustache short-circuit computer face detection? If so, this means that Snidely Whiplash was a visionary with a keen sense of crinimal discretion. This would also confirm what I've always known - that Ned Flanders is a dangerous man on the run and that the Pringles guy is a criminal mastermind.
Except to wonder when the Righteous Inquisition Army of Autocrats is finding time to sue dying transplant patients, what with their busy schedule of dancing on graves and beating random street people with their suitcases.
This experiment opens an interesting possibility in the field of full body replacements, so far a topic purely in the realm of sci-fi, anime and cyberpunk. At the same time, it makes me wonder even more if the Major's original organic body may in fact have been male, with little to no adaptation discomfort after the procedure...
You just have to wonder what new lows the Righteous Inquisition Army of Autocrats will sink to next.
Isn't it amazing how every new scheme they come up lately involves receiving lawsuit settlement money... without actually having to expend the time, money and effort of identifying defendants and suing them directly anymore?
Like my grandmother always said, you can't have both the milk and the milk money.
The Righteous Inquisition Army of America will know the full extent of public scrutiny once the whole of North America sees Denny Crane get sued for a million dollars because his next door neighbour uses his unencrypted wifi to use his limewire to download Metallica's latest!
"Think of the children! Won't somebody PLEEEEEEASE think of the CHILDREN!" - Helen Lovejoy
While this is a great start, perhaps they can also lift the bans on games? I'm pretty sure that aussies will want to play F.E.A.R. 2 and Silent Hill Homecoming. Okay, maybe not so much Silent Hill, but they'll want to give this one a miss by choice, not by rating board decree or royal edict.
If this comet contains an alien ship with energy vampires in it, NASA should have direct orders to destroy it on sight, even if the vampire DOES look just like Mathilda May. (though in truth, that movie was a godsend for young teenage boys eager to see beautiful naked breasts!)
This management paranoid fear of mistakes can drive anyone nuts. I used to work for a place where every tiny bit of information created had to be dated and signed, documented, archived and double-verified by both a QC and a QC department. This eventually drove me off the deep end when I was given the lead on a project that was half-assed in its theoretical abstract and previous implementation, ensuring ultimate failure that I was blamed for, no matter how much evidence I brought forward (and got dismissed as "proof of my lack of teamwork")
This all sounds familiar, this promise that all computers would collapse and the internet become a smoking ruin that could never be used again. As long as I can log on and keep reading these prophecies of doom, I'll know that I still have plenty of time left before I need to go to the hardware store to get the materials for my The End is Nigh sign.
One of the major pushes for OS upgrades in the past has been hardware upgrades as new processors and architectures caused incompatibilities with current OS versions. A major reason for hardware upgrades in the past was games, as players wanted to be able to run those newfangled 3D graphics instead of the old pseudo-3D experiences given with older game engines.
Fast forward a decade, and you run headlong into a hardware wall, headbanging right into requirement monsters like Farcry and Crysis. Does having a 4,000$ rig really make a difference? Yes, to a point. In my experience, even the best gaming rig can be forced to chug and wheeze if you turn ALL graphic options to 11, making you wonder... how expensive does PC gaming have to become to be enjoyable? Looking on to the console market which now has ports of all the PC games that have graphic card melting abilities, the answer is: not that much anymore.
I've come myself to a point where I've put a halt to my hardware upgrades, since I can afford for a few hundreds the sort of graphic power that used to cost in the four digits realm. And to run my current PC rig, I only need XP. Do I REALLY need Vista, with its ressource hogging Aero theme and gadgets bar? The answer... is a resounding No.
Will I need Windows 7 to replace my XP? See answer above.
Anyone who decides to cut off funding to a specific disease's research based on political correctness should have to explain to a 7 year old boy dying from that disease why it's okay for him to die because of his group demographic. Preferably in the presence of his parents, so they can be devastated for a second time.
Reading the fine print you will probably find out that they can change the price or cancel the plan whenever they want without notice. And of course what guarantee do you have that your "replacement" will be a competitive model?
Fujitsu did state that they calculated that their plan would be profitable. That should have been the first clue right there.
When browsing through the slashdot main page, I originally misread th earticle title as "Blockbuster's Movie Download Box Ruins Linux"... feel free to interpret that any way you like.
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Good point. If this robot is so perfected already AND has the potential to be a perfect sexbot, why is the adult entertainment industry not all over this one already, cranking out customized sexroids?
"He wasn't using an authorized share point."
"He went above his monthly quota."
"He wasn't sharing an approved artist."
"He violated the blackout period for the new album."
"He shared the music with non-students."
"He shared the music during summer, period when he clearly wasn't actively going to class."
It will just go on and on. The only difference is that the Righteous Inquisition Army of Autocrats will just be more careful to crush their defendants with ballgag orders to make sure none of it makes it to the media, especially all the way to slashdot.
While their result on the bridge was as impressive as it was unexpected, it still falls a long way short of the panicked screams of "earthquake!" that Tesla allegedly obtained with a similar sized device within a few seconds of operation. Still, you can't beat Mythbusters for awesome programming. I come for the science, but I stay for the carnage!
Which proves that Tesla is 10.000 times cooler then Gauss. Go figure a frenchman
Make your own "In Soviet Russia" joke here!
The Tesla is a unit of magnetic flux already, 1 Tesla (T) is equivalent to 10,000 Gauss (G)
Even a 100 years or so later, the man's idea are still way ahead of the curve! Nonwithstanding of the whole "cracking the earth in half with a bomb" and "portable earthquake machine" claims, of course. Then again, maybe in another 100...
I, for one, welcome our new cybernetic overlords!
This is not the same thing. Having a brand spanking new hairstyle and different facial tatoos or earrings is not going to level you up faster or make you hit harder. Blizzard is still not selling weapons or items for cash yet... and I'll stop playing when they do.
actually think the judge needs to throw this right out. This is an opinion about a food serving place and it isn't even that harsh. If he doesn't want to hear what his customers think of his place, then he doesn't need to listen to them. Maybe, just maybe he needs to clean up his shop and present a better public image for his customers?
It's so much easier to sue a single website for defamation (and hopefully make a few thousands in damages in the process) than to actually clean up your restaurant and serve halfway decent food (which costs effort and money). It's the law of the least effort, it works as well on people as it does on atoms and chemical reactions.
Does having a long, 1900's mustache short-circuit computer face detection? If so, this means that Snidely Whiplash was a visionary with a keen sense of crinimal discretion. This would also confirm what I've always known - that Ned Flanders is a dangerous man on the run and that the Pringles guy is a criminal mastermind.
Except to wonder when the Righteous Inquisition Army of Autocrats is finding time to sue dying transplant patients, what with their busy schedule of dancing on graves and beating random street people with their suitcases.
This experiment opens an interesting possibility in the field of full body replacements, so far a topic purely in the realm of sci-fi, anime and cyberpunk. At the same time, it makes me wonder even more if the Major's original organic body may in fact have been male, with little to no adaptation discomfort after the procedure...
Isn't it amazing how every new scheme they come up lately involves receiving lawsuit settlement money... without actually having to expend the time, money and effort of identifying defendants and suing them directly anymore?
Like my grandmother always said, you can't have both the milk and the milk money.
The Righteous Inquisition Army of America will know the full extent of public scrutiny once the whole of North America sees Denny Crane get sued for a million dollars because his next door neighbour uses his unencrypted wifi to use his limewire to download Metallica's latest!
"Think of the children! Won't somebody PLEEEEEEASE think of the CHILDREN!" - Helen Lovejoy
While this is a great start, perhaps they can also lift the bans on games? I'm pretty sure that aussies will want to play F.E.A.R. 2 and Silent Hill Homecoming. Okay, maybe not so much Silent Hill, but they'll want to give this one a miss by choice, not by rating board decree or royal edict.
One billion units in under 40 years is remarkable. Especially when considering that they weren't mass produced until the 80s!
If this comet contains an alien ship with energy vampires in it, NASA should have direct orders to destroy it on sight, even if the vampire DOES look just like Mathilda May. (though in truth, that movie was a godsend for young teenage boys eager to see beautiful naked breasts!)
No, the other half is people making bad youtube videos with bad acting, tone-deaf singing and faked nutshot accidents.
This management paranoid fear of mistakes can drive anyone nuts. I used to work for a place where every tiny bit of information created had to be dated and signed, documented, archived and double-verified by both a QC and a QC department. This eventually drove me off the deep end when I was given the lead on a project that was half-assed in its theoretical abstract and previous implementation, ensuring ultimate failure that I was blamed for, no matter how much evidence I brought forward (and got dismissed as "proof of my lack of teamwork")
This all sounds familiar, this promise that all computers would collapse and the internet become a smoking ruin that could never be used again. As long as I can log on and keep reading these prophecies of doom, I'll know that I still have plenty of time left before I need to go to the hardware store to get the materials for my The End is Nigh sign.
Fast forward a decade, and you run headlong into a hardware wall, headbanging right into requirement monsters like Farcry and Crysis. Does having a 4,000$ rig really make a difference? Yes, to a point. In my experience, even the best gaming rig can be forced to chug and wheeze if you turn ALL graphic options to 11, making you wonder... how expensive does PC gaming have to become to be enjoyable? Looking on to the console market which now has ports of all the PC games that have graphic card melting abilities, the answer is: not that much anymore.
I've come myself to a point where I've put a halt to my hardware upgrades, since I can afford for a few hundreds the sort of graphic power that used to cost in the four digits realm. And to run my current PC rig, I only need XP. Do I REALLY need Vista, with its ressource hogging Aero theme and gadgets bar? The answer... is a resounding No.
Will I need Windows 7 to replace my XP? See answer above.
Anyone who decides to cut off funding to a specific disease's research based on political correctness should have to explain to a 7 year old boy dying from that disease why it's okay for him to die because of his group demographic. Preferably in the presence of his parents, so they can be devastated for a second time.
Reading the fine print you will probably find out that they can change the price or cancel the plan whenever they want without notice. And of course what guarantee do you have that your "replacement" will be a competitive model?
Fujitsu did state that they calculated that their plan would be profitable. That should have been the first clue right there.
When browsing through the slashdot main page, I originally misread th earticle title as "Blockbuster's Movie Download Box Ruins Linux"... feel free to interpret that any way you like.
We will talk to the web
Considering the contents of most forums, this advancement will be a huge step forward in making flamewars move on to a whole new level. "NO U" indeed.
DNA profiles will predict our personal health risks
Anyone else looking forward to being denied a job or insurance today because your DNA profile shows a 40% lung cancer profile 20 years in your future?