At the end of his novel "Earth", the end is all wrapped up nice-n-tidy with a cliched deus ex machina that leaves (*mostly* benevolent) semi-devine authority figure in charge.
I thought it was a great book, but I wouldn't take it any more seriously than TPM.
Happily, this is already more true on the net than in the Star Trek Universe, where IDIC pretty much just referred to forehead wrinkles. The few times there was any *real* difference, it would be the *only* real difference, and a major point of the plot.
"E Ink is showcasing a 4 by 6 foot, 3 millimeter thick, flexible display. The press release is here."
It depends on what you mean by "display". It's hard to tell from the pics, but if you look closely, I think the sign is a hack of many smaller displays. The individual displays *are* flexible, and the tech is kinda cool and a promising possibility, but there's some PR shuckin' and jivin' going on.
Kids who talked openly about anger and alienation, or who confessed thoughts of revenge or fantasies of violence against people who'd been tormenting and excluding them, were hauled off to counselors.
Dumb. Probably most (all?) kids have violent revenge fantasies at some point. I sure did. Hell, I still have a "Needs Killin'" list, big whoop. It's not like I've ever actually intended on doing anything.
Aside from occasional exceptions who are -- at least in retrospect -- mentally ill, I think most kids have a really firm grasp on the difference between fantasy and reality. Some of these adults, on the other hand, seem to have lost their grasp on the difference.
Bearpaw
"Tonight on NewsHype, we'll talk to the experts about whether youth violence is most easily blamed on guns, movies, video games, or the internet. But first, we'll show you the latest footage of the US military bombing the shit out of the enemy. Right after this message..."
"This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important- you're insane."
So is the decision whether or not to add a new columnist an unimportant decision, or an insane one?
"Non-event" seems to be Microshaft's term for "something happened that we don't want you to notice".
Is there a web page or something somewhere of classic MSspeak? "Low-level employee", "non-event", "innovation", "competition"... how many words has MS tried to redefine?
If light can be slowed to a certain speed, does that also mean it's -possible- to speed it up?
I don't think it's implied by this approach.
I've never really believed that the "maximum speed" of anything is the speed of light. It just seems odd placing a limit on something that we don't really know everything about.
Not really. I don't know everything about my car, but I have a pretty good idea what its limits are. We may not know everything about light, but we know some things. More importantly, we know quite a bit about the behavior of mass as it approaches lightspeed -- it acts in a way that very strongly supports the idea of a lightspeed limit.
It *may* be possible to somehow "sidestep" the lightspeed limit, but that's another question.
It's simple, really. Every time a sentient race develops a warp drive, the technology gets tied up in a patent fight. There's probably thousands, *millions* of sentient races out there... all stuck in court.
Slashdot Mirror
"Methinks he will tailor the message for the audience. It would be impolitic not to."
Oh yes, and we all know ESR would never be impolitic.
If I was him, I'd be very careful what I ate and drank there.
At the end of his novel "Earth", the end is all wrapped up nice-n-tidy with a cliched deus ex machina that leaves (*mostly* benevolent) semi-devine authority figure in charge.
I thought it was a great book, but I wouldn't take it any more seriously than TPM.
How are "First Katz Flame Post!" replies any less lame than "First Post!" replies?
Back up your criticism with some real content or stay away from the damn keyboard.
Happily, this is already more true on the net than in the Star Trek Universe, where IDIC pretty much just referred to forehead wrinkles. The few times there was any *real* difference, it would be the *only* real difference, and a major point of the plot.
As far as I can tell, these cases do not exist yet. (And there's been some speculation on the Pilot newsgroup that they never will.)
"E Ink is showcasing a 4 by 6 foot, 3 millimeter thick, flexible display. The press release is here."
It depends on what you mean by "display". It's hard to tell from the pics, but if you look closely, I think the sign is a hack of many smaller displays. The individual displays *are* flexible, and the tech is kinda cool and a promising possibility, but there's some PR shuckin' and jivin' going on.
"Fear leads to anger. ... leads to suffering." -- Yoda
Anger leads to hate.
Hate
Dumb. Probably most (all?) kids have violent revenge fantasies at some point. I sure did. Hell, I still have a "Needs Killin'" list, big whoop. It's not like I've ever actually intended on doing anything.
Aside from occasional exceptions who are -- at least in retrospect -- mentally ill, I think most kids have a really firm grasp on the difference between fantasy and reality. Some of these adults, on the other hand, seem to have lost their grasp on the difference.
Bearpaw
"Tonight on NewsHype, we'll talk to the experts about whether youth violence is most easily blamed on guns, movies, video games, or the internet. But first, we'll show you the latest footage of the US military bombing the shit out of the enemy. Right after this message ..."
From the polling blurb:
"This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important- you're insane."
So is the decision whether or not to add a new columnist an unimportant decision, or an insane one?
"Non-event" seems to be Microshaft's term for "something happened that we don't want you to notice".
... how many words has MS tried to redefine?
Is there a web page or something somewhere of classic MSspeak? "Low-level employee", "non-event", "innovation", "competition"
If light can be slowed to a certain speed, does that also mean it's -possible- to speed it up?
I don't think it's implied by this approach.
I've never really believed that the "maximum speed" of anything is the speed of light. It just seems odd placing a limit on something that we don't really know everything about.
Not really. I don't know everything about my car, but I have a pretty good idea what its limits are. We may not know everything about light, but we know some things. More importantly, we know quite a bit about the behavior of mass as it approaches lightspeed -- it acts in a way that very strongly supports the idea of a lightspeed limit.
It *may* be possible to somehow "sidestep" the lightspeed limit, but that's another question.
It's simple, really. Every time a sentient race develops a warp drive, the technology gets tied up in a patent fight. There's probably thousands, *millions* of sentient races out there
Well, at least Jon is more coherent and interesting to read than most of people who respond to him. Faint praise, I suppose, but there you go.
"They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown." - Carl Sagan
If I can't turn the damn thing off -- if I can't *take* it off -- I don't want it.