is why the first three Star Wars films were awesome. There was a lot of other stuff that was cool, and some that wasn't, but Vader makes it all irrelevant. He is such an iconic badass that every line of his dialogue carries the weight of several thousand action movie one-liners. His absence is why the newer movies sucked, and why the yet-to-be-made movies will probably suck. Darth Vader is the crack rock of bad guys.
Speaking purely out of ignorance, since plants consume CO2 and release O2 you'd think people would be researching ways to genetically engineer plants or algae or something that could live in an artificial environment and act as a filter through which CO2 could be continually pumped until it reaches a "safe" threshold and then released into the atmosphere. Think of an aquarium, where the water is continually cycled through a filter, except when the water gets clean it would automatically empty and be refilled with new dirty water. I think the idea of just "sticking the shit somewhere" is a bit beneath us, excuse the pun.
How is any of this remotely legal? Every day we have a new article explaining how the feds have been pounding our apparently imagined liberties in the goat ass, they get 300-500 comments (a lot for./ these days) and then nothing happens. I'm a healthy skeptic, but this is literally the paranoid conspiracy-theorist's worse nightmare incarnate. I'm flabbergasted. In all seriousness, do we need to just move to a different country at some point? Is this what the start of a pseudo-democracy looks like and we just can't believe the warning signs are real? Just crazy...
Interesting. You front me the cash and I'll get one of each. We'll work out a payment schedule later. They also need to be powerful enough to support the dev environment for the MMO I'm working on (the client and server VM). Muchas gracias!
Here's a good one. Delta at Hartsfield-Jackson in Atlanta allowed me to take my desktop PC as a carry on (confirmed by phone and at airport) to Venezuela. On the way back home I was informed despite significant protest that I was not allowed to carry it on. They began shrouding it in plastic wrap, being kind enough to give it a little extra before it got tossed in with the rest of the luggage. My mouth was an O of horror as you can imagine.
When I picked up my desktop from the luggage belt in Atlanta it sounded like a piñata. I removed the side panel and--I kid you not--the RAM, video card and FUCKING HARD DRIVE were completely unseated. I can't imagine the physics that resulted in the hard drive coming out.
So yeah, airline baggage handling is awesome. Oh, and the computer still worked after reassembly.
When you coax or gently prod nature the results are generally favorable. Outright giving it the middle finger usually results in disaster. I'm not sold on The Great Seawall of America yet, especially considering how much undeveloped land (and time) we still have.
Interesting observations there. I however am just letting things go to pot while awaiting the next extinction event. Despite all the neat things some of us do around here, I think there's a pretty good chance we'll all be swept away by some cosmic tendril, with nothing but our weakened and distorted radio waves to show that we ever existed.
I'm starting to wish governments would just get it over with and declare a permanent state of emergency. A different arm band for each person's assessed threat level, embedded RFID with skin tattoo for redundancy and mandatory iris, DNA and fingerprint sampling for all citizens. Upgrade traffic cameras with RFID readers and facial recognition software, require RFID and cellular GPS transponders on all automobiles and motorcycles and perform mandatory searches of persons and vehicles for any traffic stop. Nationalizing all ISPs, search engines, telco providers and banks would also be a smart move. Frankly I'm disappointed the government is taking this long. Guess that's democracy for ya.
My wife and her family (the latter still stuck there unfortunately) second your emotion. Reminds me of a colloquial definition of insanity that Einstein guy said once. Socialism seems like a great idea on the surface, but for whatever reason it continues to fail and is generally trumpeted by the incompetent and corrupt (sorta like capitalism, but with a greater fail coefficient).
Someday we're going to have cybernetic life walking about. And I have to wonder -- how well will they treat us, when they find out how ethical we were in creating it?
About how well we treat each other, I suppose; hit and miss.
As a developer, I think initiatives like this are important.
As a person, I can't help but think that being the person trapped inside the computer would be absolutely horrifying.
It would need sensory inputs like cameras and microphones to be able to have something to think about, but even without input, if that is all it had ever known, it probably wouldn't be horrifying. If you took a person/animal and kept their brain alive and conscious but deprived it of sensory input, that would be utterly horrifying.
And HELL NO! about selling them on the inkjet pricing model. Everyone hates inkjets for that very reason. We all know it's a scam, but we need to print stuff on paper once in awhile, so what ya gonna do? Your Average Joe doesn't need 3D printing, at least not yet. We want people to love 3D printers like they love their smartphones.
I agree except they need a way to bring the price down, and while it's an ugly solution it's the only one I can think of. The 3rd party cartridge refillers will step up at some point anyway.
Cure malaria and parasitic omnipresence by disrupting the ecosystem? Whoever modded this funny is crazy, as Insightful is for clever ideas about reductions in infection.
$299 price point for a basic one (get them later with the cartridge refills just like with inkjets), stock them at Best Buy and make a TV commercial showing all the cool shit you can print. That's how it normally works, right?
If it can power games anything like A Link to the Past and Symphony of the Night at 1080p then it'll do just fine. The only thing that worries me is the possibility of a metric ton of bad games combined with a lack of great ones like my examples. We'll all find out soon enough.
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is why the first three Star Wars films were awesome. There was a lot of other stuff that was cool, and some that wasn't, but Vader makes it all irrelevant. He is such an iconic badass that every line of his dialogue carries the weight of several thousand action movie one-liners. His absence is why the newer movies sucked, and why the yet-to-be-made movies will probably suck. Darth Vader is the crack rock of bad guys.
Funny, just read your post after posting mine. [adjective] minds think alike, I suppose.
Speaking purely out of ignorance, since plants consume CO2 and release O2 you'd think people would be researching ways to genetically engineer plants or algae or something that could live in an artificial environment and act as a filter through which CO2 could be continually pumped until it reaches a "safe" threshold and then released into the atmosphere. Think of an aquarium, where the water is continually cycled through a filter, except when the water gets clean it would automatically empty and be refilled with new dirty water. I think the idea of just "sticking the shit somewhere" is a bit beneath us, excuse the pun.
How is any of this remotely legal? Every day we have a new article explaining how the feds have been pounding our apparently imagined liberties in the goat ass, they get 300-500 comments (a lot for ./ these days) and then nothing happens. I'm a healthy skeptic, but this is literally the paranoid conspiracy-theorist's worse nightmare incarnate. I'm flabbergasted. In all seriousness, do we need to just move to a different country at some point? Is this what the start of a pseudo-democracy looks like and we just can't believe the warning signs are real? Just crazy...
Interesting. You front me the cash and I'll get one of each. We'll work out a payment schedule later. They also need to be powerful enough to support the dev environment for the MMO I'm working on (the client and server VM). Muchas gracias!
Here's a good one. Delta at Hartsfield-Jackson in Atlanta allowed me to take my desktop PC as a carry on (confirmed by phone and at airport) to Venezuela. On the way back home I was informed despite significant protest that I was not allowed to carry it on. They began shrouding it in plastic wrap, being kind enough to give it a little extra before it got tossed in with the rest of the luggage. My mouth was an O of horror as you can imagine.
When I picked up my desktop from the luggage belt in Atlanta it sounded like a piñata. I removed the side panel and--I kid you not--the RAM, video card and FUCKING HARD DRIVE were completely unseated. I can't imagine the physics that resulted in the hard drive coming out.
So yeah, airline baggage handling is awesome. Oh, and the computer still worked after reassembly.
When you coax or gently prod nature the results are generally favorable. Outright giving it the middle finger usually results in disaster. I'm not sold on The Great Seawall of America yet, especially considering how much undeveloped land (and time) we still have.
Interesting observations there. I however am just letting things go to pot while awaiting the next extinction event. Despite all the neat things some of us do around here, I think there's a pretty good chance we'll all be swept away by some cosmic tendril, with nothing but our weakened and distorted radio waves to show that we ever existed.
I'm starting to wish governments would just get it over with and declare a permanent state of emergency. A different arm band for each person's assessed threat level, embedded RFID with skin tattoo for redundancy and mandatory iris, DNA and fingerprint sampling for all citizens. Upgrade traffic cameras with RFID readers and facial recognition software, require RFID and cellular GPS transponders on all automobiles and motorcycles and perform mandatory searches of persons and vehicles for any traffic stop. Nationalizing all ISPs, search engines, telco providers and banks would also be a smart move. Frankly I'm disappointed the government is taking this long. Guess that's democracy for ya.
Boston Dynamics finally get their bipeds off their leashes: http://youtu.be/A9l9wxGFl4k?t=1m15s
That statement from the summary can't be accurate, unless their definition of "why" is way too specific.
MineCraft map. Just add some viruses, white and red blood cells, and a little submarine.
Something like this: http://www.tested.com/science/space/452369-nasa-finishes-testing-prototype-z-1-space-suit/
My wife and her family (the latter still stuck there unfortunately) second your emotion. Reminds me of a colloquial definition of insanity that Einstein guy said once. Socialism seems like a great idea on the surface, but for whatever reason it continues to fail and is generally trumpeted by the incompetent and corrupt (sorta like capitalism, but with a greater fail coefficient).
Someday we're going to have cybernetic life walking about. And I have to wonder -- how well will they treat us, when they find out how ethical we were in creating it?
About how well we treat each other, I suppose; hit and miss.
As a developer, I think initiatives like this are important.
As a person, I can't help but think that being the person trapped inside the computer would be absolutely horrifying.
It would need sensory inputs like cameras and microphones to be able to have something to think about, but even without input, if that is all it had ever known, it probably wouldn't be horrifying. If you took a person/animal and kept their brain alive and conscious but deprived it of sensory input, that would be utterly horrifying.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3693271&cid=43571789 Price point's only off by a cool grand and I thought Best Buy would be the first, but you can't win 'em all I guess.
And HELL NO! about selling them on the inkjet pricing model. Everyone hates inkjets for that very reason. We all know it's a scam, but we need to print stuff on paper once in awhile, so what ya gonna do? Your Average Joe doesn't need 3D printing, at least not yet. We want people to love 3D printers like they love their smartphones.
I agree except they need a way to bring the price down, and while it's an ugly solution it's the only one I can think of. The 3rd party cartridge refillers will step up at some point anyway.
Cure malaria and parasitic omnipresence by disrupting the ecosystem? Whoever modded this funny is crazy, as Insightful is for clever ideas about reductions in infection.
$299 price point for a basic one (get them later with the cartridge refills just like with inkjets), stock them at Best Buy and make a TV commercial showing all the cool shit you can print. That's how it normally works, right?
Doctors can heal the same crabs with the same drugs, even with the same patient.
They heal the crabs? Doctors must need more DRM, as that's bordering on retaliation.
Of course it is going to be outpaced by the newer devices.
All devices are outpaced by the newer devices. ;)
If it can power games anything like A Link to the Past and Symphony of the Night at 1080p then it'll do just fine. The only thing that worries me is the possibility of a metric ton of bad games combined with a lack of great ones like my examples. We'll all find out soon enough.
and annex DPRK, then the U.S. can leave it in Chinese hands for the foreseeable future. Everybody wins.
Plants, now printers. Shit.