Issue licenses to commercial space flight providers. Their spacecraft would be fitted with big-ass laser canons. Rich folks would fork out a few million for the privilege of bagging some space debris.
Each flight would have "Space Hunting Guides & Skinners," grizzled, experienced former government astronauts. The skinner would ensure that there was no smaller junk left over after the kill. It would be burned up in the nightly campfire with a yet-to-be-determined technology.
The guide would say cool stuff, like, "Now you've got to be careful when stalking a Sputnik . . they are crafty little bastards!"
That is an excellent analysis. I had the same prejudices, until my girlfriend dragged me, kicking and screaming, into the Mercedes dealership to test drive the A180 CDI. We own one now.
It's a shame that Mercedes doesn't sell it in North America. Probably, they don't want to undercut their more expensive models.
This might work in the lab, but when robots are working alongside seasonal farm laborers, those poor robots are going to break down real fast, get run over by heavy farm machinery, and just plain disappear under mysterious circumstances.
Before Einstein started scribbling stuff down on paper, he performed "thought experiments" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gedanken_experiment, which are like a form of visualization. For instance, while he was at the Swiss patent office in Bern, he started to try imaging what the world outside would look like, if the street tram he was riding in, was traveling at the speed of light. He imagined that if traveling away from a clock, the hand would never move from his perspective.
No cats were injured in Einstein's experiments.
I'll have to pass on the penicillin, although I regularly "visualize" a form of it in my breadbox every week.
So this is either a killer new research vehicle, an incredible toy, or just an insanely expensive art project.
It's entertainment! It sounds like a great source of revenue to me. Charge admission! Team up with The Discovery Channel and whip up some fascinating images with insightful commentary! Scientists love showing off their research to awed folks who can't really comprehend it.
I want one! I can't wait for the Slashdot article that describes how to make a cheap, open source version of this!
I get tons of emails every day promising to enable me to "grow at a record pace." Maybe the two are somehow connected.
This is actually a good strategy to get at some of the Stimulus pork pile. Get a professional grant writer provided by an IT company to draft something up that will convince federal officials that you buying that companies products, will solve the economic crisis.
I read it in the Wall Street Journal a couple of weeks ago, actually.
"When I was a boy, I programmed in a paper bag in the middle of the road!"
"Luxury! When I was a boy I programmed in a septic tank! Every morning, we would have to get up a half hour before we went to bed, to lick the sides clean!
I don't play any RPGs. (Slashdot gasps!). But I did mess around a bit with D&D in the 70's as a teenager, and played Rogue a bit in college, so I know how it works.
I was visiting my sister a few years ago, who lives in another country, and my nephew was playing some PS2 game. He was clobbering cacti to prepare for taking on a dinosaur. At one point, I instinctively said, "Watch your hit points!"
He was surprised that I had any knowledge of gaming, and I explained that before folks had PCs, they played D&D, and that all the basic concepts were founded there.
So maybe Gygax and Arneson never made fortunes for themselves, but they paved a way for a gazillion dollar industry that keeps the world amused.
looks kinda neat, straps a bit gay though, make some form of cover for the front and rear of the person and it may just look like your going to a japanese anime convention or something.
. . . actually I don't think we want to see the Hentai version of this.
But we're all too young to have ever seen that TV show . . . aren't we?
On the other hand Hollywood celebrities might like the technology if someone could build scanners that spot police cars. If you read http://www.tmz.com/, you would know that those wacky celebrities always manage to bump into a cop while buying drugs, soliciting teenage whores, beating their spouses, etc.
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This site has crashed and burned.
A bad Omen before a launch.
. . . this would be much too expensive for folks in the US to do . . . outsource it to some place like China or Russia.
. . . my girlfriend, if she knew the font. She said she knew the name but not the font, and pulled it up on her Mac (of course). Her response:
"Schrecklich (frightful)!" She then added, "I have never used it, and never will."
Of course, that's just her opinion, but it's definitely not:
Just because it is so popular people hate it.
She just thinks that it is butt-ugly.
Issue licenses to commercial space flight providers. Their spacecraft would be fitted with big-ass laser canons. Rich folks would fork out a few million for the privilege of bagging some space debris.
Each flight would have "Space Hunting Guides & Skinners," grizzled, experienced former government astronauts. The skinner would ensure that there was no smaller junk left over after the kill. It would be burned up in the nightly campfire with a yet-to-be-determined technology.
The guide would say cool stuff, like, "Now you've got to be careful when stalking a Sputnik . . they are crafty little bastards!"
. . . he is stationed in a RAID array in our data center. He keeps me company, when I'm doing the graveyard shift.
. . . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawful_interception.
And there is one case where this functionality was used by someone who was not authorized to do so: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_telephone_tapping_case_2004-2005.
Or maybe they were authorized, but by someone who was not authorized to authorize them.
These spook stories become intentionally murky as they progress.
That is an excellent analysis. I had the same prejudices, until my girlfriend dragged me, kicking and screaming, into the Mercedes dealership to test drive the A180 CDI. We own one now.
It's a shame that Mercedes doesn't sell it in North America. Probably, they don't want to undercut their more expensive models.
. . . would have like totally eclipsed this campaign.
Get the name right next time, Detroit!
. . . COBOL, FORTRAN and APL are still up for grabs.
I'm really stumped about who to pick for the Occam programming language.
Kitlers! http://www.catsthatlooklikehitler.com/cgi-bin/seigbest.pl
Today your sofa, tomorrow the world!
It sounds to me, like Californians are being treated more like "subjects" rather than "residents."
This might work in the lab, but when robots are working alongside seasonal farm laborers, those poor robots are going to break down real fast, get run over by heavy farm machinery, and just plain disappear under mysterious circumstances.
Before Einstein started scribbling stuff down on paper, he performed "thought experiments" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gedanken_experiment, which are like a form of visualization. For instance, while he was at the Swiss patent office in Bern, he started to try imaging what the world outside would look like, if the street tram he was riding in, was traveling at the speed of light. He imagined that if traveling away from a clock, the hand would never move from his perspective.
No cats were injured in Einstein's experiments.
I'll have to pass on the penicillin, although I regularly "visualize" a form of it in my breadbox every week.
So this is either a killer new research vehicle, an incredible toy, or just an insanely expensive art project.
It's entertainment! It sounds like a great source of revenue to me. Charge admission! Team up with The Discovery Channel and whip up some fascinating images with insightful commentary! Scientists love showing off their research to awed folks who can't really comprehend it.
I want one! I can't wait for the Slashdot article that describes how to make a cheap, open source version of this!
When I was there they were interested in gait recognition,
"Ah, Mr. John Cleese! Our system has recognized your Silly Walk. Your transaction may proceed.
Too much electricity. Massive Carbon Footprint.
What's wrong with a bunch of big 'ole tin cans? Shelves 'O Lawyers. It might look like a Sam's Club.
When the expiration date is reached, either take out the parts and re-can 'em . . . or sell them off as government surplus.
I get tons of emails every day promising to enable me to "grow at a record pace." Maybe the two are somehow connected.
This is actually a good strategy to get at some of the Stimulus pork pile. Get a professional grant writer provided by an IT company to draft something up that will convince federal officials that you buying that companies products, will solve the economic crisis.
I read it in the Wall Street Journal a couple of weeks ago, actually.
. . . and during those long, boring missions the astronauts can amuse themselves by untangling all those cables.
Which would make a good high school space project: do USB cables tangle up in space, while under weightless conditions?
If so, I'll take one look at the situation under my desk, and move into outer space.
Plus, USB is cheap; companies give away hubs and memory sticks as advertising. NASA could keep costs down by scrounging USB gear.
Maybe a bunch of these could be used to block out the sun, and thus, reverse Global Warming?
I've heard this before http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Four_Yorkshiremen, "When I was a boy I programmed in a cardboard box by the side of the road!"
"When I was a boy, I programmed in a paper bag in the middle of the road!"
"Luxury! When I was a boy I programmed in a septic tank! Every morning, we would have to get up a half hour before we went to bed, to lick the sides clean!
" etc . . ."
I don't play any RPGs. (Slashdot gasps!). But I did mess around a bit with D&D in the 70's as a teenager, and played Rogue a bit in college, so I know how it works.
I was visiting my sister a few years ago, who lives in another country, and my nephew was playing some PS2 game. He was clobbering cacti to prepare for taking on a dinosaur. At one point, I instinctively said, "Watch your hit points!"
He was surprised that I had any knowledge of gaming, and I explained that before folks had PCs, they played D&D, and that all the basic concepts were founded there.
So maybe Gygax and Arneson never made fortunes for themselves, but they paved a way for a gazillion dollar industry that keeps the world amused.
That, my fellow Slashdotters, is immortality.
looks kinda neat, straps a bit gay though, make some form of cover for the front and rear of the person and it may just look like your going to a japanese anime convention or something.
. . . actually I don't think we want to see the Hentai version of this.
Ick.
This technology would destroy the plots of old TV shows like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_54_where_are_you. Hollywood would condemn it.
But we're all too young to have ever seen that TV show . . . aren't we?
On the other hand Hollywood celebrities might like the technology if someone could build scanners that spot police cars. If you read http://www.tmz.com/, you would know that those wacky celebrities always manage to bump into a cop while buying drugs, soliciting teenage whores, beating their spouses, etc.
. . . if we can get all those Anonymous Cowards and folks with ridiculous names like mine to chip in $10 each.
The company's direction and strategy could be guided by a Slashdot thread. A potent brew of "Informative, Interesting, Troll . . ."
Hell, maybe we could even patent that business model . . . crowd governance . . . or mod governance?
"How ever did they win the war?" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Germans