Well, we better figure out how to deal with it, because it's GOING to be done.
How often do we keep hearing about atheletes who use medical technology to "get an edge"? Steroids, blood doping, how long is it going to be before somebody invents something that can't be tested for?
People are GOING to use this, on people.
What scares me is, kids today already know everything (ask any grown-up!). So how we gonna make them any smarter?
But really folks, if we do create a generation of genetically smarter kids, who's going to teach them? Who are they going to want to learn from? Not their stupid progenitors. We'll have a whole generation of kids with big heads, great intellectual capacity, but they'll be just as dumb as every other generation. ..
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
if only I had a T1 line at home. I can get as much porn in 1 hour at work as I can in 5 hours of surfing at home over my 56k modem.
(example provided as sarcasm, and to illustrate a point - personally I fear my company because I'm aware of their policy, that it's their equipment, and I'm a good little worker)
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Oh my god, I'm sorry for you. S:AAB was about the stupidest show since Battlestar Glactica. (of course, I watched that when I was 10 too).
Incredibly stupid. What, were they fighter pilots, or ground troops? With NO training whatsoever, they're ready for space flight? They're ready for space combat in one-man fighters? Must be just naturally smart and talented to know how to deal with magnetic fields, radiation belts, gravitational fields, 3-dimensional thinking, alien psychology (in combat situations), etc. Now let's take these brilliant minds, and make them grunts in the trenches, because they can also deal with ground tactics, survival in hostile alien environments (harsh atmospheres, different gravity, alien flora and fauna). Yeah, all Science Fiction needs is another totally brain-dead, dumbed down shoot-em-up show, built of poorly contrived excuses to show the main characters in a variety of situations where they're zapping bad guys with lasers.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
heh, my 11 year old son got in trouble at school because he got email from a freind of his at another school, she was emailing around dirty jokes. Fortunately, the school administration understood when the situation was explained to them, and so backed off, after we promised that the sender would be spoken to, and punished. (no email for a month).
Now his freind just sends annoying chain letters, and still hasn't learned that Bill Gates is not going to show up on her doorstep with a Disney vacation, a truckload of M&Ms, and 12 juvenile cancer patients that are cured now that she mailed her junk to 20, not 19 of her friends.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
The irony of all this is, English has lost it's previous third-person plural: "thou", for "you", which is both plural and singular, which has the potential for confusion.
Yet, when folks in the South try to remedy this situation by using "y'all", to overcome an obvious deficiency in our language (lack of clear distinction between third-person singular and third-person plural), they come off sounding uneducated/rural/provincial.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Instead of $, you pay in cycles and bandwidth, the only REAL currency in the information age. (presuming information really does want to be FREE (beer)).
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
If you want some REAL entertainment (Subject: get a life), you should check out the X-Files' fan sites' message board. Man, are these guys priced out of the "life" market or what's the deal?
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
UGH! They better not! If they did, the show would end up like Sliders. Just kill it, and use your highly-paid creative mind to come up with something new for a change.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
In these cases, the hardware manufacturer IS the OS vendor, so in effect, the OS vendor is taking responsibility for their own OSes. Unlike poor, poor, Microsoft. Boo hoo. Can't get anyone else to port their bloated unstable poorly documented code to another platform.
Um, really, sorry about the potty-mouth thing. I just get really worked up about this one particular issue, because if NT isn't on a particular platform, it's Microsoft's fault, nobody else's. Did Intel do Solaris x86? No.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Wow. It would be great to get transplanted onto a black body. Imagine what a tremendous schlong you'd have!
But then there's all those sticky racial discrimination laws. Do they apply to Mr. White-Head/Black-Body?
This line of thinking get's really perverse, like (assuming we fix the spinal nerve connection problem so many thoughtful/.-ers have reminded us of, over and over and over) what if people use family members as donors and stuff (for immunological compatability), could a guy get away without paying inheritance tax if he tranplants his head onto his son's body? If a guy transplants his head onto a woman's body, which restroom does he use? If he transplants his head onto a girl's body, and looks at himself naked in a mirror, is it statutory rape? Takes a picture of himself, is it child pornography?
Oh DAMN! They didn't tell me that the new body wasn't circumcised! Why didn't they take care of that BEFORE they grafted my head on there!
Like a virgin, touched for the very first time, again.
It just goes on and on.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Right, it's sort of like taking the driver out of one car, and putting him in the other car, but there's vaseline all over the steering wheel. . . (ok. I need some lunch, blood sugar getting low)
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
You want to see the next world war? More genocide? more hate? more corrupt politicians? more abuses by greedy corporations? more El Nino's? more boundless human stupidity?
You want to live through how many more cold and flu seasons?
60-90 years is enough for me. All the people I know over 80 are just sitting around, waiting to die.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
There's rack-mounts available, but not from Apple, I think you have to buy that stuff fm 3-rd party (don't remember the name of the company - maybe DayStar?) Then scoop the guts out of the hated Apple case, put them in the rack-mount case.
SMP is coming, be patient grasshopper. It's now an OS issue, not a CPU issue (G3 had some problems with SMP - G4 does not).
I'm not sure if THIS G4 is what I've read about, but I've read that some G4's are planned with multiple cores on the same die, hows that for SMP?
Anyway, as far as cost/performance goes, doesn't a single Xeon chip cost something like $4k?
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
There's rack-mounts available, but not from Apple, I think you have to buy that stuff fm 3-rd party (don't remember the name of the company - maybe DayStar?) Then scoop the guts out of the hated Apple case, put them in the rack-mount case.
SMP is coming, be patient grasshopper. It's now an OS issue, not a CPU issue (G3 had some problems with SMP - G4 does not).
I'm not sure if THIS G4 is what I've read about, but I've read that some G4's are planned with multiple cores on the same die, hows that for SMP?
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
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Well, we better figure out how to deal with it, because it's GOING to be done.
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How often do we keep hearing about atheletes who use medical technology to "get an edge"? Steroids, blood doping, how long is it going to be before somebody invents something that can't be tested for?
People are GOING to use this, on people.
What scares me is, kids today already know everything (ask any grown-up!). So how we gonna make them any smarter?
But really folks, if we do create a generation of genetically smarter kids, who's going to teach them? Who are they going to want to learn from? Not their stupid progenitors. We'll have a whole generation of kids with big heads, great intellectual capacity, but they'll be just as dumb as every other generation. .
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
did you find that out the hard way?
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
if only I had a T1 line at home. I can get as much porn in 1 hour at work as I can in 5 hours of surfing at home over my 56k modem.
(example provided as sarcasm, and to illustrate a point - personally I fear my company because I'm aware of their policy, that it's their equipment, and I'm a good little worker)
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
As a general rule of thumb, in America, if it interferes with the company making more money, it isn't permitted.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Oh my god, I'm sorry for you. S:AAB was about the stupidest show since Battlestar Glactica. (of course, I watched that when I was 10 too).
Incredibly stupid. What, were they fighter pilots, or ground troops? With NO training whatsoever, they're ready for space flight? They're ready for space combat in one-man fighters? Must be just naturally smart and talented to know how to deal with magnetic fields, radiation belts, gravitational fields, 3-dimensional thinking, alien psychology (in combat situations), etc. Now let's take these brilliant minds, and make them grunts in the trenches, because they can also deal with ground tactics, survival in hostile alien environments (harsh atmospheres, different gravity, alien flora and fauna).
Yeah, all Science Fiction needs is another totally brain-dead, dumbed down shoot-em-up show, built of poorly contrived excuses to show the main characters in a variety of situations where they're zapping bad guys with lasers.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
heh, my 11 year old son got in trouble at school because he got email from a freind of his at another school, she was emailing around dirty jokes.
Fortunately, the school administration understood when the situation was explained to them, and so backed off, after we promised that the sender would be spoken to, and punished. (no email for a month).
Now his freind just sends annoying chain letters, and still hasn't learned that Bill Gates is not going to show up on her doorstep with a Disney vacation, a truckload of M&Ms, and 12 juvenile cancer patients that are cured now that she mailed her junk to 20, not 19 of her friends.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
The irony of all this is, English has lost it's previous third-person plural: "thou", for "you", which is both plural and singular, which has the potential for confusion.
Yet, when folks in the South try to remedy this situation by using "y'all", to overcome an obvious deficiency in our language (lack of clear distinction between third-person singular and third-person plural), they come off sounding uneducated/rural/provincial.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
if they were from Waco, they weren't aliens. You have to go a few dozen miles south of there to find aliens.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
SETI@Home is a voluntary CPU-tax.
Instead of $, you pay in cycles and bandwidth, the only REAL currency in the information age. (presuming information really does want to be FREE (beer)).
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
buy an old rusted out VW beetle and fix it up, drop a porsche engine into it, go to bug shows, gawk at the bikini babes.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
(assuming we fix the spinal nerve connection problem so /.-ers have reminded us of, over and over and over)
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many thoughtful
and over and over and over and over. .
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
If you want some REAL entertainment (Subject: get a life), you should check out the X-Files' fan sites' message board. Man, are these guys priced out of the "life" market or what's the deal?
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
UGH! They better not! If they did, the show would end up like Sliders. Just kill it, and use your highly-paid creative mind to come up with something new for a change.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
In these cases, the hardware manufacturer IS the OS vendor, so in effect, the OS vendor is taking responsibility for their own OSes. Unlike poor, poor, Microsoft. Boo hoo. Can't get anyone else to port their bloated unstable poorly documented code to another platform.
Um, really, sorry about the potty-mouth thing. I just get really worked up about this one particular issue, because if NT isn't on a particular platform, it's Microsoft's fault, nobody else's. Did Intel do Solaris x86? No.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Wow. It would be great to get transplanted onto a black body. Imagine what a tremendous schlong you'd have!
/.-ers have reminded us of, over and over and over) what if people use family members as donors and stuff (for immunological compatability), could a guy get away without paying inheritance tax if he tranplants his head onto his son's body?
But then there's all those sticky racial discrimination laws. Do they apply to Mr. White-Head/Black-Body?
This line of thinking get's really perverse, like (assuming we fix the spinal nerve connection problem so many thoughtful
If a guy transplants his head onto a woman's body, which restroom does he use?
If he transplants his head onto a girl's body, and looks at himself naked in a mirror, is it statutory rape? Takes a picture of himself, is it child pornography?
Oh DAMN! They didn't tell me that the new body wasn't circumcised! Why didn't they take care of that BEFORE they grafted my head on there!
Like a virgin, touched for the very first time, again.
It just goes on and on.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Right, it's sort of like taking the driver out of one car, and putting him in the other car, but there's vaseline all over the steering wheel. . .
(ok. I need some lunch, blood sugar getting low)
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
a life of quiet dignity
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
HELP! I'm on BACKWARDS!
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
You want to see the next world war? More genocide? more hate? more corrupt politicians? more abuses by greedy corporations? more El Nino's? more boundless human stupidity?
You want to live through how many more cold and flu seasons?
60-90 years is enough for me. All the people I know over 80 are just sitting around, waiting to die.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
"RICH PEOPLE WHO WANT HEAD TRANSPLANT'S SUCK!"
(arrow on chest pointing upwards) "DO NOT REMOVE!"
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Don't fscking blame Compaq.
It is the OS vendor's job to port their own fscking OS to other platforms. Not the hardware manufacturer's job.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Intel.
That's exactly what I mean when I say:
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
. . . and good riddance.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
There's rack-mounts available, but not from Apple, I think you have to buy that stuff fm 3-rd party (don't remember the name of the company - maybe DayStar?) Then scoop the guts out of the hated Apple case, put them in the rack-mount case.
SMP is coming, be patient grasshopper. It's now an OS issue, not a CPU issue (G3 had some problems with SMP - G4 does not).
I'm not sure if THIS G4 is what I've read about, but I've read that some G4's are planned with multiple cores on the same die, hows that for SMP?
Anyway, as far as cost/performance goes, doesn't a single Xeon chip cost something like $4k?
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
There's rack-mounts available, but not from Apple, I think you have to buy that stuff fm 3-rd party (don't remember the name of the company - maybe DayStar?) Then scoop the guts out of the hated Apple case, put them in the rack-mount case.
SMP is coming, be patient grasshopper. It's now an OS issue, not a CPU issue (G3 had some problems with SMP - G4 does not).
I'm not sure if THIS G4 is what I've read about, but I've read that some G4's are planned with multiple cores on the same die, hows that for SMP?
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."