Just wait until you get on a plane full of bow-heads, all *talking* to their laptops. You think cell phones in public were bad? Those were "just the fireflies before the storm" (Lou Gerstner)
Well, if this comes true, the world of the future will definitely be noisier.
In other news, IBM patents new advance ear plug technology.
. . . well, duh, if I was a Patent Attorney at the USPTO, and this one wandered across my desk, I would have screamed to my colleagues, "Dudes! Free Lunch for the price of a soup!"
. . . and then delayed the process for as long as possible.
Do you believe that?
No, I don't either, but given this story, nothing seems to make sense.
. . . the machine produces water, and water can be used to produce hydroelectric power . . . which can be used to produce even more water . . . and then again more electricity!
Can this be scaled to power an electric car? The static electricity would be the turbocharger.
All this business model/support services/innovation crap is in reality WAY to difficult to implement. You have to think, figure things out and stuff like that.
Gotta lousy business? Get the government to bail you out.
. . . that's probably exactly the person who would buy one of these.
Folks who are professionally working on mainstream problems that require supercomputers, well, they probably have access to one already. (Maybe one of the supercomputing folks might want to chime in here; do you have enough access/time? Would a baby-supercomputer be useful to you?)
But there is certainly someone out there who was denied access, because his idea was rejected by peer review. He is considered a loopy nut bag, because he wants to prove that the Higg's boson is made of cottage cheese, or something like that.
Yep, look for rejected supercomputing program proposals, and you have a list of potential customers.
... and it's more sporting to catch them on the fly.
Actually, you get the most points for bagging skate punks . . . they are wily and unpredictable . . . it's hard to get a proper bead on them, with Safari caliber rifles . . . truly the most dangerous game!
The courts in the US are hopelessly backlogged. Maybe France could handle some petty US drug dealing and drunk driving cases, as well?
It would save the US courts time and money, and it might deter crime. Because a potential criminal knows that if caught, he will be defended by a court appointed french lawyer.
But going after SourceForge? That's "just not cricket." Or maybe a "faux pas."
Who the fuck elected this crooked fully-employed ex-Stasi to the Bundestag, though?
I work with some folks from the former east Germany... frighteningly, a lot of them seem to look back on the communist days as "good times." There is even a word in German for this: Ostalgie (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostalgie).
Of course, all of them work now in the former west Germany now.
It's kind of creepy, when I think who the hell would shoot to death people trying to escape their country.
When I was 6 years old, I jumped out of a tree-house into a pile of leaves, and broke my ankle, and had that same type of cast. The doctor told my mother and I horror stories about a patient who tried to relieve the itching with a coat hanger, and ended up with 50 stitches. He made it a walking-cast, and told my mother to let me go out and play, and then I would forget about any itching.
So my mother let me out, looked out the window, and couldn't see me. She called for me, and I answered, "I'm up here, Mom!"
Yes, I had climbed yet another tree. With my leg in a cast.
He'll probably laugh his ass off, and then sit down and write a mini-series about two hard up comedians, who resort to stealing common gags from the Classics, and make a fortune . . . and nobody knows that jokes are millenniums old.
Imagine Manual trying to read his ancient Greek script . . .
I don't know if "landing" is the right term for it, exactly.
"Landing, with extreme prejudice?"
That doesn't seem fair to people and devices that actually... don't splat when they "land."
I watched a boxing match the other night, and the commentator screamed: "He LANDED a right!"
Well, one of two did go splat.
What they actually did, was... well, you know that annoying Weather Guy on your local TV station? They rolled down the window of the orbiter, gave him a microphone, chucked him out the window, and told him to keep squawking, until he touches ground.
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If NASA and the DoE start yanking on the Dark Energy in the Universe, they might find that attached to the other end are . . . Dark Energy Creatures.
They might not be amused with the antics of NASA and the DoE.
"Hey, you, Earthling! Is this your Joint Dark Mission Probe, that just broke my window?"
You have been warned.
. . . well, it doesn't matter. By 2012, the aircrack-ng boys will have WPA cracked.
Youse guys are gonna be *awed* by the number of golds that I win!
Just wait until you get on a plane full of bow-heads, all *talking* to their laptops. You think cell phones in public were bad? Those were "just the fireflies before the storm" (Lou Gerstner)
Well, if this comes true, the world of the future will definitely be noisier.
In other news, IBM patents new advance ear plug technology.
. . . well, duh, if I was a Patent Attorney at the USPTO, and this one wandered across my desk, I would have screamed to my colleagues, "Dudes! Free Lunch for the price of a soup!"
. . . and then delayed the process for as long as possible.
Do you believe that?
No, I don't either, but given this story, nothing seems to make sense.
That's the word that you are looking for: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxymoron
. . . which can only be the real intention of the announcement of sanctions against the pirates.
This is actually a big deal for the UN, because they banned Joke Warfare (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joke_warfare) years ago.
Maybe someone should threaten the pirates with "going to bed without any supper?"
OK, no Nintendo for a week?
. . . the machine produces water, and water can be used to produce hydroelectric power . . . which can be used to produce even more water . . . and then again more electricity!
Can this be scaled to power an electric car? The static electricity would be the turbocharger.
All this business model/support services/innovation crap is in reality WAY to difficult to implement. You have to think, figure things out and stuff like that.
Gotta lousy business? Get the government to bail you out.
It seems to be all in vogue these days.
. . . that's probably exactly the person who would buy one of these.
Folks who are professionally working on mainstream problems that require supercomputers, well, they probably have access to one already. (Maybe one of the supercomputing folks might want to chime in here; do you have enough access/time? Would a baby-supercomputer be useful to you?)
But there is certainly someone out there who was denied access, because his idea was rejected by peer review. He is considered a loopy nut bag, because he wants to prove that the Higg's boson is made of cottage cheese, or something like that.
Yep, look for rejected supercomputing program proposals, and you have a list of potential customers.
Or do we just leave that as an extra credit exercise for the students?
I would posit that I am the center of the universe. No matter where I am, I'm here. As I walk, the world moves beneath my feet.
Yes, Hans, but you don't have much walking room these days.
"I'll get back to ya on that!"
Didn't someone just recently copyright that phrase?
I hope the RIAA gets sued!
I guess the big question at this point is exactly what species of spider were these two.
Especially, if it happened to be a non-cannibalistic species.
That would suggest that outer space turns spiders into cannibals.
Why haven't we seen this effect on humans yet?
Maybe it takes a while for those wacky cosmic-cannibal-rays to accumulate, and humans have just not been up in outer space long enough?
Actually, you get the most points for bagging skate punks . . . they are wily and unpredictable . . . it's hard to get a proper bead on them, with Safari caliber rifles . . . truly the most dangerous game!
... and when can I watch Steve Jobs hurl one at Steve Ballmer?
Apple is going to take the untapped macho-military market by storm!
Instead of long lines of Apple Fanboys in front of Apple stores, see real, live Special Forces raids!
(Apple Store Manager): "They tossed some smoke/stun grenades in our store, and it a few seconds, our entire inventory of iBalls was gone!"
The courts in the US are hopelessly backlogged. Maybe France could handle some petty US drug dealing and drunk driving cases, as well?
It would save the US courts time and money, and it might deter crime. Because a potential criminal knows that if caught, he will be defended by a court appointed french lawyer.
But going after SourceForge? That's "just not cricket." Or maybe a "faux pas."
Who the fuck elected this crooked fully-employed ex-Stasi to the Bundestag, though?
I work with some folks from the former east Germany ... frighteningly, a lot of them seem to look back on the communist days as "good times." There is even a word in German for this: Ostalgie (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostalgie).
Of course, all of them work now in the former west Germany now.
It's kind of creepy, when I think who the hell would shoot to death people trying to escape their country.
... like everyone seems to be doing these days.
Maybe a company that throws money around so freely deserves to go out of business.
No, they need help from the government, so they can throw YOUR money away! (Sorry, I tend to get cranky after reading "The Economist" these days.)
Maybe this Open Source Strategy will work for Detroit:
"(ring) Hello, President Obama here. Oh, Hi GM. What? You want how many BILLIONS? Get yourself Open Source! Good-Bye! (slam)"
When I was 6 years old, I jumped out of a tree-house into a pile of leaves, and broke my ankle, and had that same type of cast. The doctor told my mother and I horror stories about a patient who tried to relieve the itching with a coat hanger, and ended up with 50 stitches. He made it a walking-cast, and told my mother to let me go out and play, and then I would forget about any itching.
So my mother let me out, looked out the window, and couldn't see me. She called for me, and I answered, "I'm up here, Mom!"
Yes, I had climbed yet another tree. With my leg in a cast.
I still don't know why Darwin hasn't got me yet.
Now if I could get this mounted on my flying car (http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/15/007225), like, that would be totally awesome.
And what does John Cleese have to say about this?
He'll probably laugh his ass off, and then sit down and write a mini-series about two hard up comedians, who resort to stealing common gags from the Classics, and make a fortune . . . and nobody knows that jokes are millenniums old.
Imagine Manual trying to read his ancient Greek script . . .
I don't know if "landing" is the right term for it, exactly.
"Landing, with extreme prejudice?"
That doesn't seem fair to people and devices that actually... don't splat when they "land."
I watched a boxing match the other night, and the commentator screamed: "He LANDED a right!"
Well, one of two did go splat.
What they actually did, was ... well, you know that annoying Weather Guy on your local TV station? They rolled down the window of the orbiter, gave him a microphone, chucked him out the window, and told him to keep squawking, until he touches ground.
My parents always bought me real Lego bricks, and I have practically all of those bricks/sets 30+ years on.
Similar story with me, except that my nephew has all those bricks/sets . . . and is old enough that he doesn't use them any longer.
They still click and snap like new.
That's what my nephew says . . . we'll see in a couple of years what my grand-nephew says.
Boo paying back my debt!!!! I want a bailout for me damnit.
I don't have any debt. But, being that Uncle Sam is buying, I'll have a bailout as well.
With a lime twist.
Very dry, thanks.