The small ship displayed the insignia of an admiral- yet there was no living thing of any sort in her. This trip she carried nothing but a lead coffin- and a Geiger counter that was never quiet.
We are developing this exciting new energy source and will continue testing it in the outer spiral arms of the Milky Way, where there's no intelligent life.
Funny- most life forms have filters to *ignore* vast amounts of sense data. That's what most of the neurons are doing. The virtual worlds we implement are just way more parsimonious... that's why these rats (and marketing people) can get away with using so few neurons.
55 too, still coding... dunno what all the fuss is about. Programming nowadays is a helluva lotta fun... each line of code compares to 10K lines of assembly language, deployment is continuous rather than once every six months, what you deploy is always in beta... it's Paradise!
There's a decent interview of Marc Andreesen in the NY Time Sunday Magazine for today, 7/10/11.
Quote: M.B.A. graduating classes are actually a reliable contrary indicator: if they all want to go into investment banking, there’s going to be a financial crisis. If they want to go into tech, that means a bubble is forming.
The Marshall Plan is evidence that humanity can learn from history- that, knowing what happened after WWI, we didn't want to repeat it. I agree with David Brin's choice because it would emphasize this fact to all and sundry.
One criticism that is levelled at policy-makers nowadays is that they don't look sufficiently into the future- people say that elected officials don't look further into the future than their own re-election. I'd like to point out that over the centuries, elected officials have gotten REALLY GOOD at looking into the future up until their re-election, which is a wonderful thing- because of this, planners can now look past that point.
There are a million examples where this doesn't happen, of course, but that shouldn't stop us from emphasizing and applauding all decisions which, as Brin states, show adult consideration.
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This would be useless to me. My company has cleverly created my "office" with no walls, so interrupts are frequent and unavoidable.
But hey, it's not a problem, I'm told. Millenials love this setup.
Because you like digging through all the menus or "typing" on the keyboard for search? Say "Midsummer Night's Dream" and you are there.
Internet bad taste? Old news.
The small ship displayed the insignia of an admiral- yet there was no living thing of any sort in her. This trip she carried nothing but a lead coffin- and a Geiger counter that was never quiet.
Ezra Dahlquist? Martin? Rivera? Wheeler?
Microsoft Security Robots?
They're an actual screen of death.
They're blue and red all over.
They're a punch line.
We are developing this exciting new energy source and will continue testing it in the outer spiral arms of the Milky Way, where there's no intelligent life.
Funny- most life forms have filters to *ignore* vast amounts of sense data. That's what most of the neurons are doing. The virtual worlds we implement are just way more parsimonious... that's why these rats (and marketing people) can get away with using so few neurons.
Can it carve another robot with a chainsaw?
55 too, still coding... dunno what all the fuss is about. Programming nowadays is a helluva lotta fun... each line of code compares to 10K lines of assembly language, deployment is continuous rather than once every six months, what you deploy is always in beta... it's Paradise!
There's a decent interview of Marc Andreesen in the NY Time Sunday Magazine for today, 7/10/11.
Quote:
M.B.A. graduating classes are actually a reliable contrary indicator: if they all want to go into investment banking, there’s going to be a financial crisis. If they want to go into tech, that means a bubble is forming.
The quote is backwards, it was actually "I can't shoot this thing in real because it all has to be done in CG.'"
The first three books would be an excellent play, which is the heart of his problem.
The Marshall Plan is evidence that humanity can learn from history- that, knowing what happened after WWI, we didn't want to repeat it. I agree with David Brin's choice because it would emphasize this fact to all and sundry.
One criticism that is levelled at policy-makers nowadays is that they don't look sufficiently into the future- people say that elected officials don't look further into the future than their own re-election. I'd like to point out that over the centuries, elected officials have gotten REALLY GOOD at looking into the future up until their re-election, which is a wonderful thing- because of this, planners can now look past that point.
There are a million examples where this doesn't happen, of course, but that shouldn't stop us from emphasizing and applauding all decisions which, as Brin states, show adult consideration.