Install nothing on my phone except what I can 100% (well, close enough) verify as being from a legitimate company (Google Maps, Twitter, etc.). No random but interesting-sounding programs, no games, none of that shit. My device is a phone/GPS/camera/browser/calculator. That it's nothing else not only doesn't bother me, I think it's great. My neck is in good order as well, as it doesn't gravitate toward a near-permanent state of 67.5 degrees. Many others seem to suffer from this, leading me to believe they have too much crap installed on their phone. Get help now, people; it's not as hard as it seems.
Last time I was there (a couple of years ago) you could fill your gas tank for about a dollar. There's also a guy standing there to fill your tank for you, who you generally give a tip larger than what it costs to fill it. Before going on a trip or vacation the common joke is who's going to pay for food and who's going to pay for gas.
Everything else however is damn hard to get and expensive. I wanted to get some blank DVDs to burn some movies and that was when I started to realize something really bad was going on there (other than the crazy pro/anti-government graffiti everywhere and steel bars over every window and door).
You'll still have to walk through it and spit out chunks of it? You suggest a dystopian quagmire. The "calming down" part I mentioned would be necessary to avoid that sort of pollution. We'd heal the place, then coexist with and balance it.
Awesome. Thought you were trolling for a second (that's how over-my-head your response was), but Wikipedia backs up the quantum dots reference. If civilization remains relatively cohesive for the next century the future will be pure ownage from our perspective. Someday we'll be at the cusp of extending life to near immortality. I think people will, in general, be calmer knowing they're not going to die of old age. A new renaissance for humans, and Earth.
"They smell very good and when they're cooked, many patients have described them as the most delicious mushrooms they've ever eaten."
Clearly this is proof of Intelligent Design. If I were God I'd definitely place these things everywhere they'd fit just to keep my people on their toes. Nature's land mines.
Ask anyone whose life has been saved by chemotherapy, like my mom, and she can give you her doctor's name. It's a blunt instrument, but it has its uses. Seriously though, I did couch my conjecture with terms like "could", "eventual", "perhaps" and "eventually". My thinking was that nanotech and related fields could someday find a way to identify and modify or destroy cells we don't want floating around in us (cancer, viruses, etc.).
Your suggestion about basically creating a DNA checksum of the original then comparing that to newly created cells, I imagine, would be the ultimate solution. Might even help out with long term space travel and such.
It sounds like this sort of research could be the eventual answer to "curing" cancer. As has been discussed extensively here on/., it's looking like there's really no cure but that it can perhaps eventually be treated so effectively that we'll think of it more as the common cold than the ultimate horror it is today.
It wouldn't be straight, but it would be straighter. I was thinking of automobile racing as an analogy. The straighter your racing line the faster you accelerate and the greater your top speed because less energy is wasted on lateral correction. Similar rules should apply to moving particles through a vacuum by electromagnets (or however they move them). I wonder if that would be a compromise between the advantages and disadvantages of linear and ring accelerators. It'd be insanely expensive, though, so I don't think it'll happen soon.
This will happen eventually, but there will be a lot of dirty genetic algorithms under the surface to make it efficient and it will still require seemingly endless tweaking with unexpected results. People will even call the software "stupid" and "unintuitive" as it crunches out insane iterations of what it thinks might meet your requests (based on non-scratched previous requests). Give computer science and AI another 100 years (shit; we'll all be dead), and you'll probably see some laymen programming away by giving directives to "Computer" like TNG.
Wouldn't the optimal path to increase the speed of matter as rapidly as possible be a straight line? Perhaps it's impractical, but they could conceivably build an accelerator that wrapped the surface of Earth. Go for the gold or go home.:)
My bad; I thought they were all called Dear Leader. Sorta like Big Brother, where he wasn't an individual but more of an idea. I feel bad for the citizens there. Apparently not even being a high-ranking official keeps you safe, as they recently executed some old man "by dogs". When the government uses "execution by dogs" as a political tool, you know you have some serious fucking problems!
At least they didn't shoot someone then leave the goods laying there on the floor like idiots. Good for them, and go to jail. There are laws against that kind of griefing in this MMO.
Try going to war, now or 2000 years ago, without a helmet. It's better to have one, even if it's made of paper or similar. Same goes for protecting other body parts such as the torso or legs. Even cloth or leather armor will help you. The difference between wearing cotton jeans, leather pants, or no pants at all will become readily apparent as you slide across asphalt. Fuck the studies, just think about the physics for a moment. Failing that, use your imagination.
With respect to the Oculus Rift, the biggest feature this could be used for is controlling depth of field. The game would calculate the point in 3D space your eyes are focused on and allow everything outside that area to become progressively less-focused.
"Tech Companies" for allowing the NSA infiltration for fear of the federal and state governments frowning upon them and shifting their privileges to other industries and companies. It's like a no-choice NDA; it's just put on you without your agreement or consent, but with an expectation of fulfillment or consequence. For shame no decent leaks came from Google, Apple, Microsoft, random users/hackers/crackers, designers and manufacturers, etc. before Snowden. Only now companies position themselves with the product/customer, saying they were forced but are glad they can admit to (and hopefully reform) it. Strange and mistrustful times.
Dude, seriously? We stand on the shoulders of giants. Choosing people from earlier times who made great advances in science, philosophy, mathematics, etc., but who had no access to current-day knowledge, scientific evidence, research, experiments and theories is a misdirected argument. Do you also ask brilliant programmers for legal advice? I'm beginning to think you're just trolling here, or you've missed my previous point that it's those who FAIL TO APPLY REASON in making their decision to reject the theory of evolution that I think are idiots. Holy shit man, you're wasting my time. Or more accurately at this point I'm wasting my own time by responding. Back to work...
By dumb I mean unintelligent/stupid. I agree with your point, and do not think people dumb who have informed themselves through research and used reason to come to their conclusion, whatever that conclusion may be. The problem, at least according to the summary's quote from TFA, is that those surveyed who didn't believe in the theory of evolution agreed that, "humans and other living things have existed in their present form since the beginning of time". Someone coming from that position has a lot of explaining to do to get off my "you're an idiot" list.
The second problem, and I'm only assuming this is the case, is that the majority of anti-evolution proponents surveyed probably feel that way due to religious conviction/dogma/doctrine rather than rational thought and scientific inquiry. That will also get you on the idiot list. I know plenty of insanely religious people that are highly intelligent, rational people. Most of them also see no conflict between religion and science, except through the lens of the ignorant and/or stupid. There are plenty of scientists, many well-known, who are also religious. If they were to reject the theory of evolution it would probably be for a scientific reason rather than religious conviction. I have no problem with that.
This country is really becoming an embarrassment. I just don't understand it. Wikipedia at your fingertips, public libraries, a phone in every hand with access to all the world's knowledge, and people are still dumber than dog shit. Absolutely crazy.
It's more now what it's always been; a clusterfuck. From a usability standpoint it's like GT5's main menu but scrolling to infinity. I deleted my first account long ago and my second one only echoes my Twitter feed. Google+ isn't much better, sadly. A clean, intuitive interface would do wonders for both services.
This http://youtu.be/z9gINFueof8 pretty much sums up ambition, greed, fear and violence amongst the powerful, the weak and the many. Entities and people in general need to cooperate and chill more; rattle sabers less. Why does culture always have to trend toward slavery or chaos in an unending sine wave? Ancient Rome all over again...an implosion of Hedonists and lollygaggers, crushed visionaries and deranged psychopaths. Reason bless the USA. The word should be printed on our currency and highest offices and monuments: Reason. Right now it's a shark pit with occasional but regular biting.
Apparently. Instead of kindly retrieving my phone as advertised he tossed the car, even though minutes earlier I'd repeatedly denied his request to do so. No shame whatsoever.
Mod parent up. This actually happened to me, and a dog did show up and ran circles around my car. Didn't signal though, maybe he had a cold that day.:)
Another trick they use is telling you that your car will be impounded and searched anyway (first part could be true, latter part is a lie), so you might as well let them search it now. They also like to get REALLY pissed off to intimidate you into giving in. He yelled, "Why? Do you have something to hide?" I told him I was exercising my rights and he laughed and said something about me not knowing my rights. The cop put me in the back of his car in cuffs (I had not been arrested yet), then asked me if I needed anything from my car like my phone before it was impounded. All I can tell you is DON'T SAY YES. Live and learn...
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...but it's not as bad as this:
http://eightvirtues.com/misc/2...
http://www.npr.org/2014/02/21/...
What in the unholy hell is wrong with people? I'm not religious, but my God.
Install nothing on my phone except what I can 100% (well, close enough) verify as being from a legitimate company (Google Maps, Twitter, etc.). No random but interesting-sounding programs, no games, none of that shit. My device is a phone/GPS/camera/browser/calculator. That it's nothing else not only doesn't bother me, I think it's great. My neck is in good order as well, as it doesn't gravitate toward a near-permanent state of 67.5 degrees. Many others seem to suffer from this, leading me to believe they have too much crap installed on their phone. Get help now, people; it's not as hard as it seems.
Last time I was there (a couple of years ago) you could fill your gas tank for about a dollar. There's also a guy standing there to fill your tank for you, who you generally give a tip larger than what it costs to fill it. Before going on a trip or vacation the common joke is who's going to pay for food and who's going to pay for gas.
Everything else however is damn hard to get and expensive. I wanted to get some blank DVDs to burn some movies and that was when I started to realize something really bad was going on there (other than the crazy pro/anti-government graffiti everywhere and steel bars over every window and door).
You'll still have to walk through it and spit out chunks of it? You suggest a dystopian quagmire. The "calming down" part I mentioned would be necessary to avoid that sort of pollution. We'd heal the place, then coexist with and balance it.
Awesome. Thought you were trolling for a second (that's how over-my-head your response was), but Wikipedia backs up the quantum dots reference. If civilization remains relatively cohesive for the next century the future will be pure ownage from our perspective. Someday we'll be at the cusp of extending life to near immortality. I think people will, in general, be calmer knowing they're not going to die of old age. A new renaissance for humans, and Earth.
"They smell very good and when they're cooked, many patients have described them as the most delicious mushrooms they've ever eaten."
Clearly this is proof of Intelligent Design. If I were God I'd definitely place these things everywhere they'd fit just to keep my people on their toes. Nature's land mines.
Ask anyone whose life has been saved by chemotherapy, like my mom, and she can give you her doctor's name. It's a blunt instrument, but it has its uses. Seriously though, I did couch my conjecture with terms like "could", "eventual", "perhaps" and "eventually". My thinking was that nanotech and related fields could someday find a way to identify and modify or destroy cells we don't want floating around in us (cancer, viruses, etc.).
Your suggestion about basically creating a DNA checksum of the original then comparing that to newly created cells, I imagine, would be the ultimate solution. Might even help out with long term space travel and such.
It sounds like this sort of research could be the eventual answer to "curing" cancer. As has been discussed extensively here on /., it's looking like there's really no cure but that it can perhaps eventually be treated so effectively that we'll think of it more as the common cold than the ultimate horror it is today.
It wouldn't be straight, but it would be straighter. I was thinking of automobile racing as an analogy. The straighter your racing line the faster you accelerate and the greater your top speed because less energy is wasted on lateral correction. Similar rules should apply to moving particles through a vacuum by electromagnets (or however they move them). I wonder if that would be a compromise between the advantages and disadvantages of linear and ring accelerators. It'd be insanely expensive, though, so I don't think it'll happen soon.
This will happen eventually, but there will be a lot of dirty genetic algorithms under the surface to make it efficient and it will still require seemingly endless tweaking with unexpected results. People will even call the software "stupid" and "unintuitive" as it crunches out insane iterations of what it thinks might meet your requests (based on non-scratched previous requests). Give computer science and AI another 100 years (shit; we'll all be dead), and you'll probably see some laymen programming away by giving directives to "Computer" like TNG.
Wouldn't the optimal path to increase the speed of matter as rapidly as possible be a straight line? Perhaps it's impractical, but they could conceivably build an accelerator that wrapped the surface of Earth. Go for the gold or go home. :)
My bad; I thought they were all called Dear Leader. Sorta like Big Brother, where he wasn't an individual but more of an idea. I feel bad for the citizens there. Apparently not even being a high-ranking official keeps you safe, as they recently executed some old man "by dogs". When the government uses "execution by dogs" as a political tool, you know you have some serious fucking problems!
If not, Dear Leader is going to get some serious f-bombs dropped on him by Linus and Richard.
As someone who's lived in Atlanta for the past 15 years, I have to agree with you on all points.
At least they didn't shoot someone then leave the goods laying there on the floor like idiots. Good for them, and go to jail. There are laws against that kind of griefing in this MMO.
Try going to war, now or 2000 years ago, without a helmet. It's better to have one, even if it's made of paper or similar. Same goes for protecting other body parts such as the torso or legs. Even cloth or leather armor will help you. The difference between wearing cotton jeans, leather pants, or no pants at all will become readily apparent as you slide across asphalt. Fuck the studies, just think about the physics for a moment. Failing that, use your imagination.
With respect to the Oculus Rift, the biggest feature this could be used for is controlling depth of field. The game would calculate the point in 3D space your eyes are focused on and allow everything outside that area to become progressively less-focused.
"Tech Companies" for allowing the NSA infiltration for fear of the federal and state governments frowning upon them and shifting their privileges to other industries and companies. It's like a no-choice NDA; it's just put on you without your agreement or consent, but with an expectation of fulfillment or consequence. For shame no decent leaks came from Google, Apple, Microsoft, random users/hackers/crackers, designers and manufacturers, etc. before Snowden. Only now companies position themselves with the product/customer, saying they were forced but are glad they can admit to (and hopefully reform) it. Strange and mistrustful times.
Dude, seriously? We stand on the shoulders of giants. Choosing people from earlier times who made great advances in science, philosophy, mathematics, etc., but who had no access to current-day knowledge, scientific evidence, research, experiments and theories is a misdirected argument. Do you also ask brilliant programmers for legal advice? I'm beginning to think you're just trolling here, or you've missed my previous point that it's those who FAIL TO APPLY REASON in making their decision to reject the theory of evolution that I think are idiots. Holy shit man, you're wasting my time. Or more accurately at this point I'm wasting my own time by responding. Back to work...
By dumb I mean unintelligent/stupid. I agree with your point, and do not think people dumb who have informed themselves through research and used reason to come to their conclusion, whatever that conclusion may be. The problem, at least according to the summary's quote from TFA, is that those surveyed who didn't believe in the theory of evolution agreed that, "humans and other living things have existed in their present form since the beginning of time". Someone coming from that position has a lot of explaining to do to get off my "you're an idiot" list.
The second problem, and I'm only assuming this is the case, is that the majority of anti-evolution proponents surveyed probably feel that way due to religious conviction/dogma/doctrine rather than rational thought and scientific inquiry. That will also get you on the idiot list. I know plenty of insanely religious people that are highly intelligent, rational people. Most of them also see no conflict between religion and science, except through the lens of the ignorant and/or stupid. There are plenty of scientists, many well-known, who are also religious. If they were to reject the theory of evolution it would probably be for a scientific reason rather than religious conviction. I have no problem with that.
This country is really becoming an embarrassment. I just don't understand it. Wikipedia at your fingertips, public libraries, a phone in every hand with access to all the world's knowledge, and people are still dumber than dog shit. Absolutely crazy.
It's more now what it's always been; a clusterfuck. From a usability standpoint it's like GT5's main menu but scrolling to infinity. I deleted my first account long ago and my second one only echoes my Twitter feed. Google+ isn't much better, sadly. A clean, intuitive interface would do wonders for both services.
This http://youtu.be/z9gINFueof8 pretty much sums up ambition, greed, fear and violence amongst the powerful, the weak and the many. Entities and people in general need to cooperate and chill more; rattle sabers less. Why does culture always have to trend toward slavery or chaos in an unending sine wave? Ancient Rome all over again...an implosion of Hedonists and lollygaggers, crushed visionaries and deranged psychopaths. Reason bless the USA. The word should be printed on our currency and highest offices and monuments: Reason. Right now it's a shark pit with occasional but regular biting.
Apparently. Instead of kindly retrieving my phone as advertised he tossed the car, even though minutes earlier I'd repeatedly denied his request to do so. No shame whatsoever.
Mod parent up. This actually happened to me, and a dog did show up and ran circles around my car. Didn't signal though, maybe he had a cold that day. :)
Another trick they use is telling you that your car will be impounded and searched anyway (first part could be true, latter part is a lie), so you might as well let them search it now. They also like to get REALLY pissed off to intimidate you into giving in. He yelled, "Why? Do you have something to hide?" I told him I was exercising my rights and he laughed and said something about me not knowing my rights. The cop put me in the back of his car in cuffs (I had not been arrested yet), then asked me if I needed anything from my car like my phone before it was impounded. All I can tell you is DON'T SAY YES. Live and learn...