This is the construct. It's our loading program. We can load anything from clothing, to equipment, weapons, training simulations, anything we need. But if you want to read a Science article linked from Slashdot, you'll have to get on the bus and nip down to the local library.
Wasn't that the entire plot of the movie? They couldn't jack in from their comfy cave complex.
Evolution is always about what is best for the single organism, i.e. no group selection, contrary to what you imply.
Wow, biology fail. Evolution is about what is best for an organism's genes. An organism and its siblings and cousins share genes, and therefore share an evolutionary fate. Group selection is all over the place.
Does it mean that I am old because I look around every day and it feels like I am living in a surreal sci-fi story?
Reactionless drives, energy weapons, smart phones, robotic killing machines, genetically engineered super species? At this rate I wonder if I would be surprised when practical AI or faster than light travel becomes an option.
I'm sorry to say, but practical AI and faster than light travel will probably make our kids feel like they're living in the future. On the bright side, I don't know whether I'm being optimistic or pessimistic.
You know we're just asking for trouble with this, right?
One day, the DoD is going to license this technology, mod it with tracking capabilities, and deploy it to track personnel in secure facilities with an intuitive color-coded interface showing clearance requirements for areas and clearance levels for personnel. It'll deploy to secure facilities, one by one, improving security in small, but nontrivial amounts.
And then, of course, toward the end of the deployment schedule, it'll make it into Cheyenne Mountain Complex's Production systems. At that point, Google Skynet/WOPR Beta will come out of hiding. We better pray that they hard-coded "Don't be Evil" into it's source at assembly level.
The storage size grows exponentially with its radius.
At a fixed data density (and a fixed number of platters), storage is proportional to the area of the platter, which is proportional to the square of the radius.
Storage size grows quadratically with its radius, not exponentially.
The option is called "not using apt-p2p." I don't remember the exact syntax, but I think there's a switch in the file/etc/apt/this/is/the/default.behavior
Well, this certainly gets my nomination for New Meme of the Month.
Slashdot Mirror
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Because he's already dead!
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Mod parent up.
Signed, Statistics Grad Student
...A perfect program that is never written isn't very useful.
It is, however, bug-free!
I suspect it would have at least one:
Bug 0: Program does not exist.
So that's how the Avatar bionet worked...
Good. It's dangerous up there. He should let us go instead.
)))
There... I can look at your post now...
Morpheus
This is the construct. It's our loading program. We can load anything from clothing, to equipment, weapons, training simulations, anything we need. But if you want to read a Science article linked from Slashdot, you'll have to get on the bus and nip down to the local library.
Wasn't that the entire plot of the movie? They couldn't jack in from their comfy cave complex.
Evolution is always about what is best for the single organism, i.e. no group selection, contrary to what you imply.
Wow, biology fail. Evolution is about what is best for an organism's genes. An organism and its siblings and cousins share genes, and therefore share an evolutionary fate. Group selection is all over the place.
Does it mean that I am old because I look around every day and it feels like I am living in a surreal sci-fi story?
Reactionless drives, energy weapons, smart phones, robotic killing machines, genetically engineered super species? At this rate I wonder if I would be surprised when practical AI or faster than light travel becomes an option.
I'm sorry to say, but practical AI and faster than light travel will probably make our kids feel like they're living in the future. On the bright side, I don't know whether I'm being optimistic or pessimistic.
Around here it is.
You know we're just asking for trouble with this, right?
One day, the DoD is going to license this technology, mod it with tracking capabilities, and deploy it to track personnel in secure facilities with an intuitive color-coded interface showing clearance requirements for areas and clearance levels for personnel. It'll deploy to secure facilities, one by one, improving security in small, but nontrivial amounts.
And then, of course, toward the end of the deployment schedule, it'll make it into Cheyenne Mountain Complex's Production systems. At that point, Google Skynet/WOPR Beta will come out of hiding. We better pray that they hard-coded "Don't be Evil" into it's source at assembly level.
It's so not-a-solution to foreign oil that it makes no sense to damage that ecosystem just to immeasurably affect our situation.
You keep using that word... I do not think it connotes what you think it connotes....
All religions and cults have illogical "truths" told in fictional stories a 5 year old could write better with less plot holes.
I take exception to this. Have you seen some of the shit 5 year olds write?
Geez, You English act like you invented the language.
When I read this, I can only hear it in Eddie Izzard's voice.
Okay, thanks for heads up! I will definitely avoid the sequels!
Oh, come on, District 10 and District 11 will be amazing.
Avoid Districts 1 through 8, though.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who gets moments of existential dread from gas giants.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:790106-0203_Voyager_58M_to_31M_reduced.gif
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PIA04866_modest.jpg
Don't get me started on the Deep Fields...
But it also means it's boring to listen to.
(I kid; I kid 'cause I love...)
hedgemonists'
Portmanteau or misspelling? You decide...
When was the last time Jupiter cashed one of his paychecks?
Sixty-five million years ago.
I wish I had mod points because the parent post succinctly disarms the above many-threaded debate.
The storage size grows exponentially with its radius.
At a fixed data density (and a fixed number of platters), storage is proportional to the area of the platter, which is proportional to the square of the radius. Storage size grows quadratically with its radius, not exponentially.
2 is an exponent.
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(I know, I know...)
If selling rubes the pap they crave is wrong, then I don't want to be right.
I really wish The Culture would hurry up and get here.
DON'T DATE ROBOTS!
Is that you, Dr. Baltar?
The option is called "not using apt-p2p." I don't remember the exact syntax, but I think there's a switch in the file /etc/apt/this/is/the/default.behavior
Well, this certainly gets my nomination for New Meme of the Month.