Not just advertisements... actual SHOWS. "America's Most Wanted" already does this. They put criminals faces on TV and the general public can watch the show and be constantly on the lookout for the criminals. From time-to-time (from what I understand... I don't actually watch the show) they put the FBI most wanted list on the screen too. I believe they also have the top 10 most wanted on their website as well.
Television is a great medium to get this information out to the public! So is the internet. BUT, the good thing about TV is that if you don't want to watch it, you can turn it OFF. If they continue this activity with making deals with internet companies and put pop-ups/banners on everyone's screens, it just going to end up making a lot of people upset.
If you want to get the info out, just put up a website. Internet ads are not necessary.
People actually dispose of their old computers? I still have every computer I've ever purchased. (2 are running full-time and the third sits in my attic awaiting a monitor (or switch to work with the other 2) for Christmas.) My parents even still have their first few computers (Apple II, AppleII clone, 386, 486) burried somewhere in their basement.
The old computers should always be kept, whether it's to scavenge for parts or just to make a science project (or BattleBot) look cool.:)
Wasn't there a fourth law (in later books?) saying something to the effect that a robot cannot create and/or (re-)program another robot? Or maybe that was just something I discussed with my geek friends 10 years ago and didn't actually read it. (memory fails after so many years of college and alcohol.)
well said. (despite the fact that some parts were modified/added/removed to keep the general public interested in the movie.) ideally, they would have made this an enormous miniseries and spent 4 or 5 hours on EACH of the _6_ books... but obviously that kind of funding doesn't exist. eh. maybe they'll pull a "Dune" and remake it again in another 20 years.:-]
LOTR is not a trilogy and the following movies are not sequels. It's one huge novel/movie that is divided into three parts for convenience.
Uh... "one huge novel"? Where'd you get that idea?
It was originally supposed to be 6 books when he wrote it but the publishers, at the time of the original printing, wanted to save money on printing costs and force readers to buy more of the series all at once. They combined books 1 and 2 into one book, 3 and 4 into the next, and 5 and 6 into the last.
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In this case, it sounds like it might even be supported. According to the article, they seem to recognize a dicatorship as a valid form of government.
Riiiiight. If you're the "leader" of a community and all of a sudden start killing every one of your loyal followers and take everything they owned, you don't think people are going to complain? Hey, you might have been a great (nice) leader before, and one day you just snapped... started stealing things, sentencing people to be stoned to death or something... You'll be banned pretty damned quick, I'm sure.
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I wonder if we can form vigilante or militia groups with our other buddies online, and raid other people's neighborhoods?
Been done already on UltimaOnline. Unfortunately, those people having some fun and doing this deliberately against administrator's planned excursions for the masses [frequently called "quests"] often got penalized by banning and deletion of characters.
A system like MyLifeBits was first suggested in 1945, when presidential technology adviser Vannevar Bush hatched the then farsighted idea of an infinite personal archive based on the emerging digital computer. His ideas also inspired the internet archive website.
Sheesh. I thought it was our last DEMOCRATIC candidate that invented the internet... now it turns out that it was a Bush.
Coincidentally, just this morning on my way to work, I saw a car pulling out of a dealership with a small blue box sitting on the hood of the car. I was just wondering if this was similar technology being used on their vehicles... just in case someone decides to mug the dealer whie test-driving a car or something. And then I get to work and see this article.:)
The box was about the size of a McDonald's Happy Meal box (well, i think Happy Meals come in bags now, but whatever... probably about 7" x 7" x 6" tall) and seemed to be secured to the hood of the car somehow. (uh... by a magnet, I'm sure.)
Eh, then again, it could have just been someone's lunchbox left on the hood or soemthing.
ASCI Purple will be built using 12,544 IBM Power5 microprocessors, the same chips that are used in Apple PCs and Nintendo games systems.
Sheesh. My mom hates the fact that I keep my old 486 around. I can't imagine who would keep that many old Nintendos packed away in their basement/attic. (probably someone not living with their parents, I'm sure.)
Now I can actually finger a user using a real finger. I'm sure that many people that are not too familiar with programming would find this statement rather perverse...
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So what will happen with the funding of NASA's Advanced Concepts branch?
As I read the article (2 long pages) and saw that they were basically COMPLETELY scrapping everything from the X-33, I was hoping to see that they might start pumping more money into the space elevator. But I was left disappointed; they decide to go with strapping a plane onto a rocket... which is what they've been doing for a long time already.:(
Also, from what I read, it sounded like NASA is planning on letting other countries finish the station on their own.
This resulted in identifying a stage in the development of the ISS - U.S. Core Complete wherein all developmental focus should lie. U.S. Core Complete is the point at which assembly has proceeded so as to facilitate the addition of all modules and hardware being provided by the ISS program's international partners. This would result, however, in a space station with only three crew (since the crew return vehicle had been eliminated from development) and a limited ability to do science.
Uh... what's the point of building the huge, expensive station, if we're not going to be able to put more than 3 people up there and only do a small amount of experiments?? Or am I reading this wrong?
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Man, I loved that show. Well... "film". We must have watched it 5 or 6 times in 3rd grade. The person who got the highest score on a test every week got to pick out a film. A few friends and I kept picking that film over and over again until, about halfway through the year, the teacher said the film "mysteriously" disappeared from the storage room, so she made us pick other films. (So we kept going with the film about a claymation kid named Mike who had singing "germ fighters" in his mouth and little diseases with red and green berrets on.)
ok. WAY off-topic, but you sent me into a flashback and I felt I should share.:)
For example, you met a proto-Fremen and blam! He rides the first worm. You see a group of recluse women and BLAM!, they are the proto-Bene Gesserit.
No kidding! I'm only about 100 pages into it right now and it seems like they are trying to lay the foundations of the Bene Gesserit, the Guild, and the Mentats ALL into ONE FAMILY! (the mother, daughter and father respectively.) And the Sandrider stuff happening at the exact same time too. . . yeah. It just seems like it is all just too forcibly done.
Unless their universe goes absolutley stagnant for 10,000 years, what do they expect to be the same?
Well, it's been quite a while since I read the original 6 books, but wasn't that one of the reasons Paul (and children) made the descisions they did? The human race was stagnating and eventually would lead itself to its own destruction unless they (meaning, Paul and Leto II) did something about it.
Nanotech is first going to be used as a weapon, not as an alternative to rust proofing.
Uh... actually nanotech is already being used in consumer-goods. I read something here (probably about a year ago?) that said something about clothes being stain-proof via nanotech. Also something about winter coats/jackets being even more waterproof than before.
We will be more interested on how clouds of nanomites can liquify a human in seconds than a hairline crack repairing coat of paint.
Hmm... makes you worry. If they're already figuring out how to fix hairline cracks with a coat of paint, did they already do the previous???:-O... the answer is "no" of course.
Sounds like you're one of those paranoid types that don't even think we should be using nuclear technology to power our cities or gene-therapy to cure illnesses.
"Rather than paints, we are talking about coatings, which could be electroplated, or put on with physical vapor deposition qualities. We are talking about more things than paints. They could be metallic or have other qualities," Agento says.
They even ADMIT that it'll STILL be vaporware in a few years!;-)
oh well, THAT answered all of my questions... [/sarcasm]
Um. Can anyone actually explain this in, like, "plain english"? Is it trying to prove that there can exist a 4-dimensional object that has all points equidistant from a single point in space-time or something?
Thats like filing a suit against Ford for not making their cars drivable for the blind.....
uhhh... no. It's not anything like it. (well, except for the fact that it has to do with people with disabilities.) Being blind, there currently is no safe way for you to drive a car. (with the exceptions noted in articles such as this) BUT blind people can still read braille with their fingers, no? They can still hear with their ears, no? Why is it dumb for blind people to try to get cmpanies to make their information accessible to them?
I would disagree with you, in that I think it's the filmmaker's vision that determines how flat something looks, not that it's cg.
I definitely agree with that. Perfect examples: Final Fanstasy (the movie) - I could barely follow the plot (liek the fact that I didn't even understand that some of those creatures were invisible until the end of the movie!). Basically, great effects... but horrible plot. At the other end of the spectrum are the little CG-shorts that Pixar shows before a movie. Like the one with the birds sitting on the telephone wire (shown before Monsters Inc. I think...) I'm sure I could have even watched that short clip if it was an animated crayon drawing and it still would have been just as funny.
Typically, don't version-naming schemes imply something along the lines of: versions x.0, x.1, x.2, etc... are all compatible. And if the next version is NOT compatible, then it should be labeled as "(x+1).0"?
I guess there's no law stating that this must always be the case, but if these two specifications are NOT compatible, then it would make sense that they would name the new one XML2.0 no?
If they can trace most people back to 7 or 8 specific females that lived 20,000 or 45,000 years ago, is it possible to do the same with males? I got the impression from reading the article (4th page) that there is basically NO difference in the Y chromasome between a father and son (except for the given mutation or two that always may occur).
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Not just advertisements... actual SHOWS. "America's Most Wanted" already does this. They put criminals faces on TV and the general public can watch the show and be constantly on the lookout for the criminals. From time-to-time (from what I understand... I don't actually watch the show) they put the FBI most wanted list on the screen too. I believe they also have the top 10 most wanted on their website as well.
Television is a great medium to get this information out to the public! So is the internet. BUT, the good thing about TV is that if you don't want to watch it, you can turn it OFF. If they continue this activity with making deals with internet companies and put pop-ups/banners on everyone's screens, it just going to end up making a lot of people upset.
If you want to get the info out, just put up a website. Internet ads are not necessary.
No, but they may have been trying to contact the mice....
People actually dispose of their old computers? I still have every computer I've ever purchased. (2 are running full-time and the third sits in my attic awaiting a monitor (or switch to work with the other 2) for Christmas.) My parents even still have their first few computers (Apple II, AppleII clone, 386, 486) burried somewhere in their basement.
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The old computers should always be kept, whether it's to scavenge for parts or just to make a science project (or BattleBot) look cool.
Wasn't there a fourth law (in later books?) saying something to the effect that a robot cannot create and/or (re-)program another robot? Or maybe that was just something I discussed with my geek friends 10 years ago and didn't actually read it. (memory fails after so many years of college and alcohol.)
well said. (despite the fact that some parts were modified/added/removed to keep the general public interested in the movie.) ideally, they would have made this an enormous miniseries and spent 4 or 5 hours on EACH of the _6_ books... but obviously that kind of funding doesn't exist. eh. maybe they'll pull a "Dune" and remake it again in another 20 years. :-]
Uh... "one huge novel"? Where'd you get that idea?
It was originally supposed to be 6 books when he wrote it but the publishers, at the time of the original printing, wanted to save money on printing costs and force readers to buy more of the series all at once. They combined books 1 and 2 into one book, 3 and 4 into the next, and 5 and 6 into the last.
Riiiiight. If you're the "leader" of a community and all of a sudden start killing every one of your loyal followers and take everything they owned, you don't think people are going to complain? Hey, you might have been a great (nice) leader before, and one day you just snapped... started stealing things, sentencing people to be stoned to death or something... You'll be banned pretty damned quick, I'm sure.
Been done already on UltimaOnline. Unfortunately, those people having some fun and doing this deliberately against administrator's planned excursions for the masses [frequently called "quests"] often got penalized by banning and deletion of characters.
Sheesh. I thought it was our last DEMOCRATIC candidate that invented the internet... now it turns out that it was a Bush.
Coincidentally, just this morning on my way to work, I saw a car pulling out of a dealership with a small blue box sitting on the hood of the car. I was just wondering if this was similar technology being used on their vehicles... just in case someone decides to mug the dealer whie test-driving a car or something. And then I get to work and see this article. :)
The box was about the size of a McDonald's Happy Meal box (well, i think Happy Meals come in bags now, but whatever... probably about 7" x 7" x 6" tall) and seemed to be secured to the hood of the car somehow. (uh... by a magnet, I'm sure.)
Eh, then again, it could have just been someone's lunchbox left on the hood or soemthing.
Sheesh. My mom hates the fact that I keep my old 486 around. I can't imagine who would keep that many old Nintendos packed away in their basement/attic. (probably someone not living with their parents, I'm sure.)
Now I can actually finger a user using a real finger.
I'm sure that many people that are not too familiar with programming would find this statement rather perverse...
One... two... three *CLICK*
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Man, I loved that show. Well... "film". We must have watched it 5 or 6 times in 3rd grade. The person who got the highest score on a test every week got to pick out a film. A few friends and I kept picking that film over and over again until, about halfway through the year, the teacher said the film "mysteriously" disappeared from the storage room, so she made us pick other films. (So we kept going with the film about a claymation kid named Mike who had singing "germ fighters" in his mouth and little diseases with red and green berrets on.)
ok. WAY off-topic, but you sent me into a flashback and I felt I should share.
No kidding! I'm only about 100 pages into it right now and it seems like they are trying to lay the foundations of the Bene Gesserit, the Guild, and the Mentats ALL into ONE FAMILY! (the mother, daughter and father respectively.) And the Sandrider stuff happening at the exact same time too. . . yeah. It just seems like it is all just too forcibly done.
Well, it's been quite a while since I read the original 6 books, but wasn't that one of the reasons Paul (and children) made the descisions they did? The human race was stagnating and eventually would lead itself to its own destruction unless they (meaning, Paul and Leto II) did something about it.
Uh... actually nanotech is already being used in consumer-goods. I read something here (probably about a year ago?) that said something about clothes being stain-proof via nanotech. Also something about winter coats/jackets being even more waterproof than before.
Hmm... makes you worry. If they're already figuring out how to fix hairline cracks with a coat of paint, did they already do the previous???
Sounds like you're one of those paranoid types that don't even think we should be using nuclear technology to power our cities or gene-therapy to cure illnesses.
They even ADMIT that it'll STILL be vaporware in a few years!
oh well, THAT answered all of my questions... [/sarcasm]
Um. Can anyone actually explain this in, like, "plain english"? Is it trying to prove that there can exist a 4-dimensional object that has all points equidistant from a single point in space-time or something?
(oh well. i couldn't hold it back.)
Thats like filing a suit against Ford for not making their cars drivable for the blind.....
uhhh... no. It's not anything like it. (well, except for the fact that it has to do with people with disabilities.) Being blind, there currently is no safe way for you to drive a car. (with the exceptions noted in articles such as this) BUT blind people can still read braille with their fingers, no? They can still hear with their ears, no? Why is it dumb for blind people to try to get cmpanies to make their information accessible to them?
I definitely agree with that. Perfect examples: Final Fanstasy (the movie) - I could barely follow the plot (liek the fact that I didn't even understand that some of those creatures were invisible until the end of the movie!). Basically, great effects... but horrible plot. At the other end of the spectrum are the little CG-shorts that Pixar shows before a movie. Like the one with the birds sitting on the telephone wire (shown before Monsters Inc. I think...) I'm sure I could have even watched that short clip if it was an animated crayon drawing and it still would have been just as funny.
It's not the CG that makes it good or bad.
Typically, don't version-naming schemes imply something along the lines of: versions x.0, x.1, x.2, etc... are all compatible. And if the next version is NOT compatible, then it should be labeled as "(x+1).0"?
I guess there's no law stating that this must always be the case, but if these two specifications are NOT compatible, then it would make sense that they would name the new one XML2.0 no?
"If that's right, I will certainly castigate the offender."
I thought you could only do that to males?
If they can trace most people back to 7 or 8 specific females that lived 20,000 or 45,000 years ago, is it possible to do the same with males? I got the impression from reading the article (4th page) that there is basically NO difference in the Y chromasome between a father and son (except for the given mutation or two that always may occur).
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