from the article:
The three companies aim to design a "super-computer on a chip" with a wide variety of consumer applications, they said in a joint statement.
"The result will be consumer devices that are more powerful than IBM's Deep Blue super-computer, operate at low power and access the broadband internet at ultra-high speeds," the statement added.
me:
Must resist urge...must...resist...must...res...
I could see how they would have a case if they also published examples and happy little comentary to illustrate the specific points in the law and then copyrighted that. But if all he did was post the law itself then what is their problem...it should be public domain. And no, just having it in a public library or courthouse isn't enough.
Some people can't physically move to those places for whatever reason. Then there are the blind. Unless this is published in braille then they're out of luck too. On the web anyone with a laptop can access it; also, if it's in text format it can be run through some sort reading device for the blind, i.e. translating into braille or having the computer actually read to them.
I'm all for it as long as the first conversation doesn't go like this:
In A.D. 2101
War was beginning.
Captain: What happen ?
Mechanic: Somebody set up us the bomb.
Operator: We get signal.
Captain: What !
Operator: Main screen turn on.
Captain: It's You !!
Cats: How are you gentlemen !!
Cats: All your base are belong to us.
Cats: You are on the way to destruction.
Captain: What you say !!
Cats: You have no chance to survive make your time.
Cats: HA HA HA HA....
Captain: Take off every 'zig' !!
Captain: You know what you doing.
Captain: Move 'zig'.
Captain: For great justice.
I guess that since it's gonna be before TOS that would preclude a series of adventures starring Capatain Sulu. Oh well, at least it means that the ships probly won't have transporters and would have to use shuttlecraft of some sort. Always seemed like a cheap cop out to me to have the transporters.
I guess the Hippocratic Oath doesn't preclude profiteering. I can't believe this...oh wait...yes I can. The world isn't set up to be fair or just. Just like Niven's law: "The Universe doesn't care if you're having fun." Neither does your doctor care if you can't afford a headstone for your dead kid, if she made money from the organ trade.
OK, now that we seem to have the bone atrophy thing licked, we have to work on the muscle and heart atrophy. Exercise and possibly those electroshock exercise pads they sell in the back of those magazines should help with the muscles, but afaik the deterioration of the heart is still a concern. The astro/cosmo/nauts work out 4 hours daily in space, and thier heart still weakens in long duration space flights
According to the article it was pushed off the bridge a little before 4am and finally cut loose a little after 8am.
Hmmm. OK a little over 4 hours deciding between hauling it back up, or cutting it loose. Geez, flip a coin and get on with it. The coast gaurd had already blocked of the bay from traffic, why did it take so flipping long to just cut it loose?
Well, at least at MIT, they come up with NEWpranks. This one is apparently a 20 year tradition.
How do explain it when they split before they developed eyes. Octopuses and Squids, split off from vertabrates before the devolpment of the eye. Yet now, most mammals and octopusses have eyes. Not only that, but thier structure is very similar. Some argue that since the eyes perform very similar functions that they have very similar structures. and they call that process parallel evolution.
Actually, I would tend to believe that if this means there is life as we know it elswhere out there, then It would increase the chances of there being intelligent life out there too. It wouldn't nessacarily be intelligence as we know it though.
As you say evolution is a random process, but I would tend to think that intelligent creatures would have a distinct evolutionary advantage, as they do here. The obvious humans versus everything else on this planet not withstanding. Predation that actively seeks food requires at least rudimentary intelligence, see fish, insects, birds, cats versus sea ananomoes (or however they're spelled) or jellyfish.
An ability to think forward versus just react to conditions would be something that would be developed through evolution. And while it might not lead to intelligence as we know it, it just might lead to intelligence.
As long as all the drug lord has to do is make outbound calls why the hell not? I do believe I've read something about this, and they're just going to be to make calls, not recieve calls. Be great for the car even though...pick one up in a pep boys, and if you (god forbid) breakdown somewhere, just make a call from it and get a tow.
What is the big deal with video surveilence of public areas? You're videotaped everywhere you go. Walk into a convience store, BAM, video taped. Go to the mall? How about the grocery store? They have them there too. How many of you go to work? How much are you willing to bet your being watched there, too? Since when is a public sidewalk a "private" area? How come no-one is crying about the cameras on police cars?
What's the difference between having a police officer standing on the corner and watching a crowd, and having him sit in a booth and watch some CCTV of the same crowd? Nothing, however, with the officer in the booth, you can have him watch more corners, and if a crime occurs, video tape doesn't lie, like humans sometimes do (on both sides of the law).
"What about if you want to slip into some back alley for a quick liason with you mistress?". The cops won't care, they're going to be too busy with mugger in the next alley over. And you and your mistress were caught on tape at the office and the tape was played on Fox's RealTV last night...I didn't think a person could do that in a cubicle.
I don't think there is a "thin line" between public taping and the government forcing camera's into your home. I think it is a fairly thick line. The thing is, nobody cares if you watch them in public, there in public! A favorite passtime of many people is "people watching".
Even if you "have something to hide" you still go into convience stores, you still go to the bank or use your ATM card, you still buy groceries at the store. So what, if when you walk out of the store/bank/office you're being watched. You were being watched inside.
IN THE YEAR 2525 (EXORDIUM AND TERMINUS)
Zager And Evans
In the year 2525, if man is still alive,
If woman can survive, they may find-
In the year 3535
Ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lies.
Everything you think, do, and say
Is in the pill you took today.
In the year 4545
Ain't gonna need your teeth, won't need your eyes.
You won't find a thing to chew,
Nobody's gonna look at you.
In the year 5555
Your arms are hanging limp at your side,
You legs got nothing to do,
Some machine's doing that for you.
In the year 6565
Ain't gonna need no husband, won't need no wife.
You'll pick your sons, pick your daughters too
From the bottom of a long glass tube.
Whoa-oh-oh.
In the year 7510
If God's a-coming He ought to make it by then.
Maybe he'll look around himself and say,
"Guess it's time for the Judgement Day."
In the year 8510
God is gonna shake his mighty head.
He'll either say, "I'm pleased where man has been"
Or tear it down and start again. - Whoa-oh-oh
In the year 9595
I'm kinda wondering if man is gonna be alive;
He's taken everything this old Earth can give
And he ain't put back nothing.
Now it's been ten thousand years,
Man has cried a billion tears
For what he never knew.
Now man's reign is through.
But throught eternal night,
The twinkling of starlight,
So very far away,
Maybe it's only yesterday...
Here in the Mile High City the ball hasn't quite dropped yet. But my crystal ball is showing me faster computers and more fuel efficient cars. Beyond that everything is fuzzy.
All right I now count 5 bodies in this solar system that have, had could or could have had life on/in it. Earth, Mars, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. But that's just life as we know it, not life as we don't it, that might live in lower tempratures or have strange chemistries and what not. Still, everytime they publish something like this the Drake equation goes up a notch. And that is really fascinating.
What the hell? This was supposed to be funny, and was moded up to 4 last night for being funny. Now it's 3 for interesting. For crying out loud it was supposed to be a joke...change it back to funny!
It's a joke!
And how did this thread about conspiracy theory get to talking about masturbation anyway?
Why o' why we spend all these time discovering these stuff on Mars? Should be spend all these resources to improve our Earth first?
Same logic:
Why o why are we spending all this time discovering new stuff about AIDS? Shouldn't we spend all these resources to keep healthy people alive first?
What happened to Mars probably won't happen to Earth, but then again we don't really know what happened to Mars...or to Venus for that matter. If Mars once had life, we'd be able to study the fossils and possibly see just exactly how fragile a planet sized ecosystem really is. To say nothing of just studying it's weather to get a better understanding of what's happening here on this planet.
This seems like they're leading us towards the inevitable conclusion that yes there is in fact life on Mars. They probaly did find conclusive evidence with the Viking lander, but they felt that the public wasn't ready yet. Now everybody's going goo-goo over evidence of water that "raises the probability of life on Mars". Then they find rocks in Antarctica that looks like a chunk of Mars with fossilized microbes. Now oceans.
Say it already! Say there is life beyond this little rotten planet! Spill the f!@$!@#ing beans. Let go of the religous zealotry that says that life only exists on this planet.
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from the article:
The three companies aim to design a "super-computer on a chip" with a wide variety of consumer applications, they said in a joint statement.
"The result will be consumer devices that are more powerful than IBM's Deep Blue super-computer, operate at low power and access the broadband internet at ultra-high speeds," the statement added.
me:
Must resist urge...must...resist...must...res...
WOW CAN YOU IMAGINE A BEOWULF CLUSTER OF THOSE?!
please shoot me. for the love of god, shoot me...
What spoilers? We all know how it ends.
It still looks like a face to me. Not a human face to be sure, more of a lion's head with a mane or some other big cat.
I could see how they would have a case if they also published examples and happy little comentary to illustrate the specific points in the law and then copyrighted that . But if all he did was post the law itself then what is their problem...it should be public domain. And no, just having it in a public library or courthouse isn't enough.
Some people can't physically move to those places for whatever reason. Then there are the blind. Unless this is published in braille then they're out of luck too. On the web anyone with a laptop can access it; also, if it's in text format it can be run through some sort reading device for the blind, i.e. translating into braille or having the computer actually read to them.
NO! NO! peeing cat barbie is a real product!
See? http://www.barbie.com/Catalog/product.asp?type=100 001&theme_id=100001&subtype=100001&product_id=1002 7
Why not just go straight to the manufacturer? http://www.powerskip.de/
I'm all for it as long as the first conversation doesn't go like this:
....
In A.D. 2101
War was beginning.
Captain: What happen ?
Mechanic: Somebody set up us the bomb.
Operator: We get signal.
Captain: What !
Operator: Main screen turn on.
Captain: It's You !!
Cats: How are you gentlemen !!
Cats: All your base are belong to us.
Cats: You are on the way to destruction.
Captain: What you say !!
Cats: You have no chance to survive make your time.
Cats: HA HA HA HA
Captain: Take off every 'zig' !!
Captain: You know what you doing.
Captain: Move 'zig'.
Captain: For great justice.
However how many people would be willing to put up with the heavy equipment now used. But there are many early adopters of any new technology...
Yes it certainly was.
I guess that since it's gonna be before TOS that would preclude a series of adventures starring Capatain Sulu. Oh well, at least it means that the ships probly won't have transporters and would have to use shuttlecraft of some sort. Always seemed like a cheap cop out to me to have the transporters.
I guess the Hippocratic Oath doesn't preclude profiteering. I can't believe this...oh wait...yes I can. The world isn't set up to be fair or just. Just like Niven's law: "The Universe doesn't care if you're having fun." Neither does your doctor care if you can't afford a headstone for your dead kid, if she made money from the organ trade.
OK, now that we seem to have the bone atrophy thing licked, we have to work on the muscle and heart atrophy. Exercise and possibly those electroshock exercise pads they sell in the back of those magazines should help with the muscles, but afaik the deterioration of the heart is still a concern. The astro/cosmo/nauts work out 4 hours daily in space, and thier heart still weakens in long duration space flights
According to the article it was pushed off the bridge a little before 4am and finally cut loose a little after 8am.
Hmmm. OK a little over 4 hours deciding between hauling it back up, or cutting it loose. Geez, flip a coin and get on with it. The coast gaurd had already blocked of the bay from traffic, why did it take so flipping long to just cut it loose?
Well, at least at MIT, they come up with NEW pranks. This one is apparently a 20 year tradition.
How do explain it when they split before they developed eyes. Octopuses and Squids, split off from vertabrates before the devolpment of the eye. Yet now, most mammals and octopusses have eyes. Not only that, but thier structure is very similar. Some argue that since the eyes perform very similar functions that they have very similar structures. and they call that process parallel evolution.
Actually, I would tend to believe that if this means there is life as we know it elswhere out there, then It would increase the chances of there being intelligent life out there too. It wouldn't nessacarily be intelligence as we know it though.
As you say evolution is a random process, but I would tend to think that intelligent creatures would have a distinct evolutionary advantage, as they do here. The obvious humans versus everything else on this planet not withstanding. Predation that actively seeks food requires at least rudimentary intelligence, see fish, insects, birds, cats versus sea ananomoes (or however they're spelled) or jellyfish.
An ability to think forward versus just react to conditions would be something that would be developed through evolution. And while it might not lead to intelligence as we know it, it just might lead to intelligence.
As long as all the drug lord has to do is make outbound calls why the hell not? I do believe I've read something about this, and they're just going to be to make calls, not recieve calls. Be great for the car even though...pick one up in a pep boys, and if you (god forbid) breakdown somewhere, just make a call from it and get a tow.
Cool! How soon before I can turn the planet into a ball of grey goo? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
What is the big deal with video surveilence of public areas? You're videotaped everywhere you go. Walk into a convience store, BAM, video taped. Go to the mall? How about the grocery store? They have them there too. How many of you go to work? How much are you willing to bet your being watched there, too? Since when is a public sidewalk a "private" area? How come no-one is crying about the cameras on police cars?
What's the difference between having a police officer standing on the corner and watching a crowd, and having him sit in a booth and watch some CCTV of the same crowd? Nothing, however, with the officer in the booth, you can have him watch more corners, and if a crime occurs, video tape doesn't lie, like humans sometimes do (on both sides of the law).
"What about if you want to slip into some back alley for a quick liason with you mistress?". The cops won't care, they're going to be too busy with mugger in the next alley over. And you and your mistress were caught on tape at the office and the tape was played on Fox's RealTV last night...I didn't think a person could do that in a cubicle.
I don't think there is a "thin line" between public taping and the government forcing camera's into your home. I think it is a fairly thick line. The thing is, nobody cares if you watch them in public, there in public! A favorite passtime of many people is "people watching".
Even if you "have something to hide" you still go into convience stores, you still go to the bank or use your ATM card, you still buy groceries at the store. So what, if when you walk out of the store/bank/office you're being watched. You were being watched inside.
Get over it.
I can just see the monster.com commmercial now...some little kid saying "I wanna pack shit for the rest of my life"
IN THE YEAR 2525 (EXORDIUM AND TERMINUS)
Zager And Evans
In the year 2525, if man is still alive,
If woman can survive, they may find-
In the year 3535
Ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lies.
Everything you think, do, and say
Is in the pill you took today.
In the year 4545
Ain't gonna need your teeth, won't need your eyes.
You won't find a thing to chew,
Nobody's gonna look at you.
In the year 5555
Your arms are hanging limp at your side,
You legs got nothing to do,
Some machine's doing that for you.
In the year 6565
Ain't gonna need no husband, won't need no wife.
You'll pick your sons, pick your daughters too
From the bottom of a long glass tube.
Whoa-oh-oh.
In the year 7510
If God's a-coming He ought to make it by then.
Maybe he'll look around himself and say,
"Guess it's time for the Judgement Day."
In the year 8510
God is gonna shake his mighty head.
He'll either say, "I'm pleased where man has been"
Or tear it down and start again. - Whoa-oh-oh
In the year 9595
I'm kinda wondering if man is gonna be alive;
He's taken everything this old Earth can give
And he ain't put back nothing.
Now it's been ten thousand years,
Man has cried a billion tears
For what he never knew.
Now man's reign is through.
But throught eternal night,
The twinkling of starlight,
So very far away,
Maybe it's only yesterday...
In the year 2525 (etc...)
Here in the Mile High City the ball hasn't quite dropped yet. But my crystal ball is showing me faster computers and more fuel efficient cars. Beyond that everything is fuzzy.
;-P
All right I now count 5 bodies in this solar system that have, had could or could have had life on/in it. Earth, Mars, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. But that's just life as we know it, not life as we don't it, that might live in lower tempratures or have strange chemistries and what not. Still, everytime they publish something like this the Drake equation goes up a notch. And that is really fascinating.
What the hell? This was supposed to be funny, and was moded up to 4 last night for being funny. Now it's 3 for interesting. For crying out loud it was supposed to be a joke...change it back to funny! It's a joke! And how did this thread about conspiracy theory get to talking about masturbation anyway?
Why o' why we spend all these time discovering these stuff on Mars? Should be spend all these resources to improve our Earth first?
Same logic:
Why o why are we spending all this time discovering new stuff about AIDS? Shouldn't we spend all these resources to keep healthy people alive first?
What happened to Mars probably won't happen to Earth, but then again we don't really know what happened to Mars...or to Venus for that matter. If Mars once had life, we'd be able to study the fossils and possibly see just exactly how fragile a planet sized ecosystem really is. To say nothing of just studying it's weather to get a better understanding of what's happening here on this planet.
This seems like they're leading us towards the inevitable conclusion that yes there is in fact life on Mars. They probaly did find conclusive evidence with the Viking lander, but they felt that the public wasn't ready yet. Now everybody's going goo-goo over evidence of water that "raises the probability of life on Mars". Then they find rocks in Antarctica that looks like a chunk of Mars with fossilized microbes. Now oceans.
Say it already! Say there is life beyond this little rotten planet! Spill the f!@$!@#ing beans. Let go of the religous zealotry that says that life only exists on this planet.
And in the end, the Greys will thank you.