No. Science fiction, as a whole, has no innate purpose.
Some science fiction his constructive criticism of society. Some is totally nonconstructive criticism, some is about abstract philosophical concepts, and some is just about cool robots fighting.
Terminator leans toward the latter.
While it leans toward the latter, there is criticism of society, at least, in The Terminator and Terminator II.
Behind those robot fights there is criticism of the destructive consequences of the constant accumulation of power and resources by some small groups, a trend which may eventually turn against them. If you exclude the technological layer, it immediately becomes an ages old story of people struggling to survive a sieging or occupation power in almost hopeless disadvantage.
The aspect that the most advanced Terminators can mingle within the underdog humans echoes the theme of the spy, which is a human that, if trusted, can lead to ruin of the resistance movement. It is also an allegory to the concept that despite all the dangers, the main threat to the human being is the human being themself.
The fact that the Terminators where created by humans with no intent of endangering the human race is another version of the unsuspecting traitor, like Aztecan Malintzin, whose actions, in this case, motivated by ambition, lead to the defeat of their own people.
The Terminator, especially, warns about of trend of resorting to machines as intermediates in many aspects of human life, in spite of human-to-human interaction, and the risks of handing too much control to systems that are incapable of reason, let alone empathy (look up for 'artificial stupidity').
No worries! Since Torvalds decided to number the successor of kernel 2.4.x as 2.6.x, in spite of major changes, the kernel numbering system stopped being just technical.
Archaeologists surveyed and mapped extensive plazas, earthworks, mounds, and an earthen pyramid belonging to a culture that thrived a thousand years ago, and then vanished.
Why is everyone so laid back about these archaeologists?
We need to urgently send a rescue team.
I got that! I've been reading about the Oxford comma these days.
The requirement of using G+ to post on Youtube has made this a better world. I haven't posted any comment on Youtube videos since that tie-in began to be enforced.
Any scammer worth his salt does his homework and already knows the victim's kids' / grandkids' names anyway, so this is kind of pointless.
Best advice is to hang up and try to contact the supposed kidnapped person first.
Not really. It's too much work doing research, those scammers work by infusing a sense of urgency to situation and the ones capable of keeping calm in the face of an emergency are the less gullible.
However, Sharp's strategy may backfire, for a scammer, upon being intercepted by a scam prevention system, may perceive that the person who he is calling as more likely to be vulnerable, and so, worth more effort.
(...), you have to buy your gas only from Apple gas stations (...) On the plus side, the exhaust smells like a combination of vanilla and smug.
It's more like it will be an electric car---and the plug will only be compatible with Apple charging station outlets---so, there will be no exhaust, and therefore no "plus side".
'We developed a solution that reduces the oxygen content in the air, so that even matches go outIt took us two years'."
This sentence may have been written in there.
No, it's just consequence of/.'s old lack of compliance with Unicode and disregard of the mandatory space after punctuation in the source. So when the pasted text was rendered, the ellipsis was suppressed nothing was left between the words "out" and "It".
While I applaud the founder for this move, I can't help but wonder what could have been if these efforts had been put toward producing a truly MS Office replacement.
It would lead to something like OpenOffice. Until Office 2007, working with MS-Office files meant working with the mess those binaries were. Look at this, and this. Even nowadays, it is not "a truly MS Office replacement" if it does not open (and edit) old files, so too much effort goes to legacy.
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No. Science fiction, as a whole, has no innate purpose.
Some science fiction his constructive criticism of society. Some is totally nonconstructive criticism, some is about abstract philosophical concepts, and some is just about cool robots fighting.
Terminator leans toward the latter.
While it leans toward the latter, there is criticism of society, at least, in The Terminator and Terminator II.
Behind those robot fights there is criticism of the destructive consequences of the constant accumulation of power and resources by some small groups, a trend which may eventually turn against them. If you exclude the technological layer, it immediately becomes an ages old story of people struggling to survive a sieging or occupation power in almost hopeless disadvantage.
The aspect that the most advanced Terminators can mingle within the underdog humans echoes the theme of the spy, which is a human that, if trusted, can lead to ruin of the resistance movement. It is also an allegory to the concept that despite all the dangers, the main threat to the human being is the human being themself.
The fact that the Terminators where created by humans with no intent of endangering the human race is another version of the unsuspecting traitor, like Aztecan Malintzin, whose actions, in this case, motivated by ambition, lead to the defeat of their own people.
The Terminator, especially, warns about of trend of resorting to machines as intermediates in many aspects of human life, in spite of human-to-human interaction, and the risks of handing too much control to systems that are incapable of reason, let alone empathy (look up for 'artificial stupidity').
They will have more luck if they use a axe.
They did this study with kids and dolls in the 80s.
We are programmed to prefer our own kind and ethnicity.
Its a tribal thing that protected man for hundreds of thousands of years..
Political correctness morons want to call it racism but political correctness is anti individualism and promotes group think.
If this is a tribal thing, why don't racists go live in their tribes and leave the civilized people alone.
No worries! Since Torvalds decided to number the successor of kernel 2.4.x as 2.6.x, in spite of major changes, the kernel numbering system stopped being just technical.
Finally, they gave us a thing for the change from 3.x to 4.x make sense.
Oh! I almost forgot: when I read that story I found it too familiar. Thank you for pointing out the concept it was about.
It's a classic case of confirmation bias. The human brain does it all the time; if you don't know what it is or how to avoid it, look it up.
Yeah, I'm probably preaching to the choir on that last bit. I hope I am, anyway.
No, it's classic anymore, because it involves social media:
loser edit nc
(...)
2. Confirmation bias involving social media.
Why is everyone so laid back about these archaeologists? We need to urgently send a rescue team.
I got that! I've been reading about the Oxford comma these days.
Your risk of (just) dying equals 100%.
The requirement of using G+ to post on Youtube has made this a better world. I haven't posted any comment on Youtube videos since that tie-in began to be enforced.
Don't you mean Kobol? I read that that planet have a demographics very similar to that of Google+.
What is Coogle+?
Any scammer worth his salt does his homework and already knows the victim's kids' / grandkids' names anyway, so this is kind of pointless. Best advice is to hang up and try to contact the supposed kidnapped person first.
Not really. It's too much work doing research, those scammers work by infusing a sense of urgency to situation and the ones capable of keeping calm in the face of an emergency are the less gullible.
However, Sharp's strategy may backfire, for a scammer, upon being intercepted by a scam prevention system, may perceive that the person who he is calling as more likely to be vulnerable, and so, worth more effort.
(...), you have to buy your gas only from Apple gas stations (...) On the plus side, the exhaust smells like a combination of vanilla and smug.
It's more like it will be an electric car---and the plug will only be compatible with Apple charging station outlets---so, there will be no exhaust, and therefore no "plus side".
I own a Samsung SmartTV, but I have voice control disabled because I cannot get a robot to understand my thick accent when I speak in English.
But, what about the money spent to counteract Soviet propaganda? Wasn't it more money?
Obligatory XKCD.
How could Soviet propaganda reach the US, or the Americas (excluding Cuba)?
Which can be met more efficiently with a source other than biofuel. That's the point.
[satire]Hooray! Now "someone" can access childporn faster![/satire]
It's not that only criminals use Tor, it is more like criminals use only Tor.
'We developed a solution that reduces the oxygen content in the air, so that even matches go outIt took us two years'."
This sentence may have been written in there.
No, it's just consequence of /.'s old lack of compliance with Unicode and disregard of the mandatory space after punctuation in the source. So when the pasted text was rendered, the ellipsis was suppressed nothing was left between the words "out" and "It".
... there has to be a trojan on the system or at least something connected to the X server over the network.
Hmm. I think by this time your security is already out the window and a borked lock program is the least of your worries.
Thank you! Now I can be sure that these "news" are just FUD.
While I applaud the founder for this move, I can't help but wonder what could have been if these efforts had been put toward producing a truly MS Office replacement.
It would lead to something like OpenOffice. Until Office 2007, working with MS-Office files meant working with the mess those binaries were. Look at this, and this.
Even nowadays, it is not "a truly MS Office replacement" if it does not open (and edit) old files, so too much effort goes to legacy.
Preferably in a foreign currency, right?
FYI, there is no "national currency" in Greece, anything is paid in Euro.
Would it not be one of these?