Lucas carved out a new freedom in film-making, Google defined their own industry and vowed to do no evil, now Valve has its own opportunity to define a new way of distributing computer games.
It's awe-inspiring to think that those are one of only two sets of tyre tracks on the entire planet. Even more amazing, those dunes are absolutely pristine. No insects, no animals, maybe bacteria if we're lucky.
Nothing but two little dune buggies, and no little brown spider to take the wheel.
"Okay, we've chucked 6000 names in a barrel, let's pull one out. Remember, the prize is four years in prison and a huge fine! Henry Wong, you're our first winner!"
For example, say you want to be intelligent about nuclear reactors. You have two choices:
- You could build a nuclear reactor - You could also read up a lot of information on nuclear reactors</i>
Okay, so we either ask an artificial intelligence to build us a nuclear reactor (presumably after giving it materials, robots to work with etc) or we send it to Wikipedia to learn about reactors.
You can't use the South Pole base because it turns out to have too much thermal movement in the atmosphere over the base. (Not really a surprise, that's a big operation.)
She may look safe, with those silly hats and home-knitted American Flag jumpers... Don't you see? BUSH IS USING SENIOR CITIZENS AS MANCHURIAN ATTACK ZOMBIES!
Your mother is simply a machine now, controlled by a woolen biochip, and those noisemakers are, in reality, weapons so hideous even I cannot speak their name.
So to post her address, while it would be EXTREMELY DANGEROUS for anyone to follow up on, is an act of patriotism. Hopefully the Republican attack-zombies can be drowned in the blood of wave after wave of Indymedia's own men.
Wikipedia brushes off cranks, since cranks are loners. Concerted attacks from cultists such as Scientologists, Lomborgians or ecoterrorists are harder to fend off, but sooner or later the truth will win through. Wikipedia is the best information resource on the Net, IMO, and is the best example of a working anarchy I've yet seen.
No, no, we're not thieves, matey, we're pirates! Arrr! Avast the mainsail! Keelhaul the cabin-boy! Tighten the sea-dogs! Ye scurvy scum, board that merchantman and bring back plenty of mp3s!
next you'll be able to patent the plots of e-books, so that if anyone creates another with a similar plot, you can sue. imagine the proceeds Tolkien would have on fantasy!
Tolkien is dead. I'd like to think that his undead corpse would be polite enough not to care about legions of patent-violating halflings.
It's all very well to say that someone should create a truly damaging worm that fucks over the user's system, but you're too late.
I foolishly opened an email attachment a week ago, which seemed totally legit because it mentioned specific information known only by a member of the family.
This bastard turned out to be a trojan that, after 48 hours of slowdowns and constant hard-drive noise, which I could not isolate the cause of, simply wiped out 99% of my files, which were not backed up because I couldn't afford it.
I'm a writer, and as you can imagine, losing my work like that brought up true feelings of hatred towards the virus creator.
My point is that such a worm would likely be more trouble than it's worth.
I saw the whole thing last night, from about 2 AM to dawn, on the side of a mountain above Apia on the island of Upolu in Samoa. It was absolutely perfect, apart from a faint sky-glow from downhill. My mother, my little brother and I took lawn chairs, blankets and mozzie repellent, and settled down.
I saw the first meteor while getting out of the car. It was simply stunning, a long streak of light with a glowing trail. It was one of the best I'd ever seen. Little did I know then that I would see over two thousand of them in the next three hours.
In fact, we would have seen more if we had been able to watch both halves of the sky at once.
It was easy to see the meteors radiating outward from Leo, and the sense of scale that gave me was simply amazing.
The best one we saw was intensely bright, brighter than Venus at its brightest, red, and right overhead. Bits were literally exploding off it as we watched. It traversed at least an eighth of the sky before exploding, leaving a quickly-fading orange trail and a slow-fading green plasma cloud.
It certainly made up for the 1998 Leonids, which were obscured by a gargantuan thunderstorm for me near Canberra. Although the fact that I was ensconced in the back of my station wagon, on a mattress, under a sleeping bag, with my girlfriend did make it easier to pass the time.
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Lucas carved out a new freedom in film-making, Google defined their own industry and vowed to do no evil, now Valve has its own opportunity to define a new way of distributing computer games.
Onya Valve!
It's awe-inspiring to think that those are one of only two sets of tyre tracks on the entire planet. Even more amazing, those dunes are absolutely pristine. No insects, no animals, maybe bacteria if we're lucky.
Nothing but two little dune buggies, and no little brown spider to take the wheel.
"Okay, we've chucked 6000 names in a barrel, let's pull one out. Remember, the prize is four years in prison and a huge fine! Henry Wong, you're our first winner!"
"Woohoo! I win! Wait..."
If you didn't like Marcus, then you never knew B5 in the first place, so don't go pontificating about it.
(my first instinct here was to go with: "If you don't like Marcus... then you're a fuckhead!" so I think I may be a fanboy. Oh dear.)
Finally, we can write "we apologise for the inconvenience" in ten-mile-tall flaming letters!
For the confused...
For example, say you want to be intelligent about nuclear reactors. You have two choices:
- You could build a nuclear reactor
- You could also read up a lot of information on nuclear reactors</i>
Okay, so we either ask an artificial intelligence to build us a nuclear reactor (presumably after giving it materials, robots to work with etc) or we send it to Wikipedia to learn about reactors.
I don't know which is more frightening.
I assume they'll pull in the solar sail as they get closer to Mars, so they can use aerobraking (or ares-braking, ahahaha).
It's getting back that I'm worried about.
Tools: Extensions.
There are all the amazing twiddly options you need, and you can install only the ones you want, easily and quickly.
Firefox's extensions really are the killer aspect of the app. I wish every program had them.
Heh... That last bit doesn't really make sense since I posted as AC, but I'll just put it right now.
Oh yeah, and I hacked into THIS account too, so like I said, no tracking down the AC now...
Aren't neutron stars usually oblate spheroids, because of their huge spin?
You can't use the South Pole base because it turns out to have too much thermal movement in the atmosphere over the base. (Not really a surprise, that's a big operation.)
No, your mom is evil! EVIL, I say!
She may look safe, with those silly hats and home-knitted American Flag jumpers... Don't you see? BUSH IS USING SENIOR CITIZENS AS MANCHURIAN ATTACK ZOMBIES!
Your mother is simply a machine now, controlled by a woolen biochip, and those noisemakers are, in reality, weapons so hideous even I cannot speak their name.
So to post her address, while it would be EXTREMELY DANGEROUS for anyone to follow up on, is an act of patriotism. Hopefully the Republican attack-zombies can be drowned in the blood of wave after wave of Indymedia's own men.
Or is it too late?
They hounded Einstein out of the country because he was born Jewish, decrying his "Jewish Intellectualism".
That lost them the nuke race.
...in Eastern Standard Tribe.
SF future-prediction strikes again!
Trolls are almost unstoppable? Yer a loony, mate.
Wikipedia brushes off cranks, since cranks are loners. Concerted attacks from cultists such as Scientologists, Lomborgians or ecoterrorists are harder to fend off, but sooner or later the truth will win through. Wikipedia is the best information resource on the Net, IMO, and is the best example of a working anarchy I've yet seen.
Laser Pistol.
Bzzzow! Zap! Vaporise! Muahahahahaha!
Not hanged up. Hung up! You hung up your phone, not hanged it up!
Damn this lack of grammar upon the Internet which I otherwise love! That we should suffer such baboons to bash on their keyboards pains me so!
Like Squant, the fourth primary colour. Hmmm.
No, no, we're not thieves, matey, we're pirates! Arrr! Avast the mainsail! Keelhaul the cabin-boy! Tighten the sea-dogs! Ye scurvy scum, board that merchantman and bring back plenty of mp3s!
Tolkien is dead. I'd like to think that his undead corpse would be polite enough not to care about legions of patent-violating halflings.
With little twisted springs. Think about it.
Actually, smart dust, with its ad-hoc mesh networking, could one day improve on the human body's centralised networking.
It's all very well to say that someone should create a truly damaging worm that fucks over the user's system, but you're too late.
I foolishly opened an email attachment a week ago, which seemed totally legit because it mentioned specific information known only by a member of the family.
This bastard turned out to be a trojan that, after 48 hours of slowdowns and constant hard-drive noise, which I could not isolate the cause of, simply wiped out 99% of my files, which were not backed up because I couldn't afford it.
I'm a writer, and as you can imagine, losing my work like that brought up true feelings of hatred towards the virus creator.
My point is that such a worm would likely be more trouble than it's worth.
"How did he know of the court case? Meanwhile, where did he learn perfectly idiomatic English? "Get" Microsoft? I "guess not"?"
You racist fuck. If hundreds of millions of people around the world can learn English as a second language, what's stopping this guy?
I saw the whole thing last night, from about 2 AM to dawn, on the side of a mountain above Apia on the island of Upolu in Samoa. It was absolutely perfect, apart from a faint sky-glow from downhill. My mother, my little brother and I took lawn chairs, blankets and mozzie repellent, and settled down.
I saw the first meteor while getting out of the car. It was simply stunning, a long streak of light with a glowing trail. It was one of the best I'd ever seen. Little did I know then that I would see over two thousand of them in the next three hours.
In fact, we would have seen more if we had been able to watch both halves of the sky at once.
It was easy to see the meteors radiating outward from Leo, and the sense of scale that gave me was simply amazing.
The best one we saw was intensely bright, brighter than Venus at its brightest, red, and right overhead. Bits were literally exploding off it as we watched. It traversed at least an eighth of the sky before exploding, leaving a quickly-fading orange trail and a slow-fading green plasma cloud.
It certainly made up for the 1998 Leonids, which were obscured by a gargantuan thunderstorm for me near Canberra. Although the fact that I was ensconced in the back of my station wagon, on a mattress, under a sleeping bag, with my girlfriend did make it easier to pass the time.