at some point, we'll realize that we have to make our population like 1% of what it is now, so we'll randomly select one out of every 100 people, or pick the 99%-ile for intelligence, perhaps, and only those will be allowed to live. the others will be given the option of uploading themselves into a virtual software world before their bodies are turned into baby food. This virtual world will be a lot like this one, unless you want to be creative and put effort into developing your own personal world. Most of us will exist in RAM somewhere, backed up reduntantly on disk, of course, long before we have to worry about whether the sun will expand enough to engulf us.
The question is: do you stay out here in the 'real world,' or go into the the world that seems real in every way that this one seems real. You have a bit more security in this one, but hey, Jeri Ryan (7 of 9) is never going to be your girlfriend in this one, and you can't put Bill Gates on the rack in this one either. The virtual world could model this one perfectly, in all important respects, and perhaps you even get to be God or Q, but somebody will have to run the machine. You could still even communicate with outsiders via Internet, the Internet world being exactly the same whether you're carbon- or silicon-based. Sometimes I read/. postings that seem like they were written by bots whose language module only goes through 4th-grade level, and I wonder if some people haven't transitioned to virtual worlds, unbeknownst to the rest of us. If any/. users are already in virtual worlds, do respond. What's your particular world like? Are you a Q? Details.
And then again, perhaps I'm just too tired and should stop reading/. till all hours of the morning.
Yeah, I miss college, and all of the good weed, too.
I love my 1GB card. I had a 64mb CF card prior that (and thought it was huge) but now I can store just about anything I want on my PocketPC and not have to worry about running out of room anytime soon.
Or, you can rock out with the PCMCIA sleeve and this little 5GB gem from Toshiba, and walk around with all of the above, some MP3's, and a couple of Divx movies.
Little more weight, five times the storage, and the last time I looked, the price difference was about $40 or so.
We don't need Chinese astronauts on ISS, we need China building it's own space station in half the time... because apparantly there's nothing that motivates the American space program so well as being laughed at.
In this administration? Bush would take his soccer ball and go home, while calling those laughing at the USA "terrorists".
There was an article about this topic in the Boston Sunday Globe this week [boston.com]. But the author of the article doesn't necessarily cry over the recently announced demise of cars like the Camaro and the Firebird. In order to get another 50 horsepower out of one of those beasts meant "boring out the cylinders, tinkering with valves, changing pistons... a greasy, lengthy job." With the new "tuner cars" all you've got to do is drop in a $500 tuner chip.
Well, I drive a 98 TransAm with aftermarket exhaust, torque converter, and a 100 shot of nitrous. Cost for the mods, about $2k. I picked up about 35hp with the mods, 100hp from the nitrous, for (rough guess) 425hp total. Now, my $16k used car with $2k of modifications runs even with a new $70,000 Viper, and will absolutely cornhole one of your tuner cars with +50hp from a $500 chip.
Cars are still very hackable. Except, one needs a laptop and a reasonable knowledge of automotive sensor tech. All the basics are still there, more air, more fuel, better gears, et cetera.
#2 really burns me. The computers in the shop are typically PCs housed in a big console with several cables coming out. The cables are simply a black box to the parallel port. There is no reason that this black box cannot be made available in you local Discount Auto.
Actually, for GM, some Ford, and Chrysler cars at least, you can get the AutoTap which is a OBDII to RS232 serial adapter combo which lets you get engine parameters in real time from the computer.
Cheers,
LV
(owner of a 400hp TransAm with n2o injection)
[blockquote]For Example: I'd personally like to assign a -2 penalty on any comment rated 'funny' because most of them frankly just aren't funny at all. [/blockquote]
And then what will those of us too stupid to post information about the article do for karma?
Evil bad terrorist will use cutting edge computers, stego his message into an Ebay auction picture, and decide his cause isn't just because of the Terms of Use?
As soon as he bought his first house, McMaster sprang for a metal-cutting lathe, which he used to build his first rotary engine model in 1944. Though German engineer Felix Wankel and other automakers had been tinkering with rotary designs for decades -- they promised more power relative to weight than their piston-powered counterparts -- technical problems dogged their efforts. In particular, the combustion chambers were hard to seal, and their irregular shape produced excess heat and made them difficult to lubricate. McMaster tried to tackle these issues by changing the shape of the engine, thus altering the shape of the combustion chambers.
Unable to better the internal combustion engine's compression ratio of 8 to 1, McMaster shelved the project and set about making his fortune in a less opaque technology. In 1948 he started his own company, Permaglass, and perfected the process of bending and tempering glass. McMaster's inventiveness dovetailed with the growth of the postwar consumer economy, and Permaglass tapped into the expanding automotive and electronics markets. In 1969, McMaster merged Permaglass with Detroit-based Guardian Industries, forming what is today the third-largest glass company in the world. Two years later he started another company, Glasstech, which in the next 20 years would garner more than 700 glass-bending and -tempering patents. Today 80 percent of the world's automotive glass runs through Glasstech machines. In 1989, McMaster sold the company for $227 million.
He revolutionized glass. Why couldn't he apply the same non-linear thinking to his first project, add modern materials, and make it work?
Re:Bert is simply...
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· Score: 5, Funny
I think Bert has been deep undercover with Agent Ernie for about a decade now. We think he's gone native.
Public recognition of Visual Basic as a programming language by the/. crowd! Millions of Microsoft programmers, no longer afraid to talk about work at cocktail parties!
is available here. http://www.kvn.com/attyjwk.html
This is very good. With the recent events in NYC further stigmatizing the public's view of technology, Keker taking the case is an excellent move to bring Dimitri's case into proper perspective.
Nomadic punishments often substitute physical punishment for incarceration. It's hard to build prisons out of tents. Not that this is as relevant today as it once was...just thought you'd like to know the source of the rules.
I'm sure a lot of you have heard of jihads. Give me a minutes here.
A jihad is a holy war. Anyone who believes in the jihad, in the cause for the jihad, and loses their life for the cause, instantly goes to Paradise, passport approved by Allah. It's a harsh religion [remember hands being cut off for theft?], but it is necessary. Keep in mind that this is the Middle East, one of the most difficult and inhospitable areas on the planet. It's mostly desert, and life is tough. You need tough laws and guidelines.
Terrorists love Islam, because once you declare a jihad, it's very hard to take it back.
Christianity was much worse in terms of fanaticism. Remember the Crusades?
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Yeah, I miss college, and all of the good weed, too.
LV
Or, you can rock out with the PCMCIA sleeve and this little 5GB gem from Toshiba, and walk around with all of the above, some MP3's, and a couple of Divx movies.
Little more weight, five times the storage, and the last time I looked, the price difference was about $40 or so.
Cheers,
LV
Wow. These are memories of bbs's I don't need.
:watching a naked picture of a fat girl download one painful line at a time, and not knowing she was fat until ten minutes later
:my Legend of the Red Dragon character got laid before I did
:Jolt Cola in cans
:$17,465 in long distance charges - three years to pay!
I'm sure there's more, but I'm not sharing.
In this administration? Bush would take his soccer ball and go home, while calling those laughing at the USA "terrorists".
Well, I drive a 98 TransAm with aftermarket exhaust, torque converter, and a 100 shot of nitrous. Cost for the mods, about $2k. I picked up about 35hp with the mods, 100hp from the nitrous, for (rough guess) 425hp total. Now, my $16k used car with $2k of modifications runs even with a new $70,000 Viper, and will absolutely cornhole one of your tuner cars with +50hp from a $500 chip.
Cars are still very hackable. Except, one needs a laptop and a reasonable knowledge of automotive sensor tech. All the basics are still there, more air, more fuel, better gears, et cetera.
Cheers,
LV
Actually, for GM, some Ford, and Chrysler cars at least, you can get the AutoTap which is a OBDII to RS232 serial adapter combo which lets you get engine parameters in real time from the computer.
Cheers,
LV
(owner of a 400hp TransAm with n2o injection)
Damn, man, you mean socialize? As in, hang out? With the users? WTF?
Oh, other IT. Okay. Had me panicked for a second.
Great, at this rate, we'll have tricked out computers a la The Fast and the Furious
"Well damn, you might have pulled 2 MFlop on me, but you have to remember I've got half the MHz of your Dell in this Hewlett Packard."
"So why'd you put an P4 sticker on it?"
I'm willing to bet karma that the phrase "Attack of the Clones" will not appear anywhere in the trailer. :)
You know what would absolutely rock? Wasteland on my ipaq. That would mean the end of all productivity as we know it.
Hmm...what does it take to port to winCE?
[blockquote]For Example: I'd personally like to assign a -2 penalty on any comment rated 'funny' because most of them frankly just aren't funny at all. [/blockquote]
And then what will those of us too stupid to post information about the article do for karma?
I don't quite follow you.
Evil bad terrorist will use cutting edge computers, stego his message into an Ebay auction picture, and decide his cause isn't just because of the Terms of Use?
Put down the rose-coloured glasses.
Aw, yeah. I'm finally uber-31337 now! I've got a lower UserID than Wesley Crusher! w00t! I'm gonna get all the chicks!
Wait.
Damn.
He revolutionized glass. Why couldn't he apply the same non-linear thinking to his first project, add modern materials, and make it work?
I think Bert has been deep undercover with Agent Ernie for about a decade now. We think he's gone native.
Public recognition of Visual Basic as a programming language by the /. crowd! Millions of Microsoft programmers, no longer afraid to talk about work at cocktail parties!
With all the friction from the fur, the Energizer bunny truly will keep going and going.
I'm not sure if that's a good thing or not.
is available here. http://www.kvn.com/attyjwk.html
This is very good. With the recent events in NYC further stigmatizing the public's view of technology, Keker taking the case is an excellent move to bring Dimitri's case into proper perspective.
You wouldn't be talking about Seven of^H^H^H^H^H^H Forty of D, would you?
It's only a model.
[i]Blatently stolen from another poster on a another thread.[/i]
I don't think the nurses or other doctors were all that impressed.
"Look at him, he's totally camping the pancreas!"
Hey, the way this economy is going, we might all wind up in boxes.
I didn't know that. Makes a lot of sense, though.
*cough*
I'm sure a lot of you have heard of jihads. Give me a minutes here.
A jihad is a holy war. Anyone who believes in the jihad, in the cause for the jihad, and loses their life for the cause, instantly goes to Paradise, passport approved by Allah. It's a harsh religion [remember hands being cut off for theft?], but it is necessary. Keep in mind that this is the Middle East, one of the most difficult and inhospitable areas on the planet. It's mostly desert, and life is tough. You need tough laws and guidelines.
Terrorists love Islam, because once you declare a jihad, it's very hard to take it back.
Christianity was much worse in terms of fanaticism. Remember the Crusades?
It was surreal. The disaster, frequent updates of critical information, no spelling errors, wow. If only every story was treated like that. :)