It's not about actually watching the movies, or listening to the songs, or fapping to the pr0n. It's about having a bigger ePeen than the rest of your buddies.
Friend, boasting, says, "Yeah man, I have 2,030,591 photos of Natalie Portman photoshopped with hot grits in various ways."
You say, "Well that is quite impressive my friend. How will you ever find time to look at them all?"
Friend responds, "Look at them? Why would I want to do that? Grits are disgusting, and I'm a homosexual."
Perhaps. Though I think you may be looking at a different definition of the Singularity than I am. All I take it to mean is that at a certain point our intelligence will be superseded by something which we create. From there we cannot predict what will happen -- if it will begin to exponentially grow, etc.
It's not a "we're all going to become one with the machines" thing. It's a "there's this certain point, that if reached, we really don't know what will happen next, but it could be quite interesting."
So you're tellin me that 15 years ago when I edited my colleague's autoexec.bat file into a loop that repeated "I AM A GIANT CAWK MAGNET" endlessly... I was at risk of prosecution?! Damn, barely made it!
My ship shall be called the Jar Jar Stinks.
No but really... I don't care about any of this. I just want the damn game released. Even if it's only half done and they have to finish the rest after release. An even half done BioWare game is going to be vastly better than anything I've got left to play (tired of WoW, Aion, etc...)
Yeah, congrats on trying to rationalize a clear mistake in the script.
So, did I mention I'm a pilot? I made the Kessel run in less parsecs than the famous Falcon... Sure, I was going about.001% of light speed, but BOY were my turns tight!
I mean, c'mon, even if you try to rationalize if your way you still leave out the vastly more important factor of HOW LONG did it really take?
A ship traveling at 1000x light speed might take 50 parsecs, but it would get there 100x faster than the Falcon.
... at least, it should be. Where's the freaking mind-reading controllers already?! I want to just look at the screen and be able to control it all!
It's like this: Mind-reading controller is as much better as keyboard and mouse controller as keyboard and mouse controller is better than console game pad.
Not exactly sure what a 'general-purpose computer' is, but anyway, I think you're being a bit paranoid here. This sort of tech is certainly not going to be in my general-purpose computer any time soon, or ever, because I am simply never going to purchase a computer that doesn't allow me to customize it to my heart's content. And there will always be components available to build one that don't have this kind of bullshit built in. The day we can't get components like that is the day our problems are much bigger, and scarier.
Sounds to me like he's calling it a DSLR in the summary. Since most Slashdotters these days don't RTFA, I'd say that's your real problem here (they don't RTFA). And yeah, the summary is weak.
Several hundred if not thousand feet of boom has been STOLEN by 'photographers'. Some have even tried to sell the stolen boom back to BP. So yeah, while photographs are great and all, and I really can't wait to see them on CNN, because, you know, they add just that much more realism to something that I already realize is totally fucked, I guess I understand this ruling.
Spin control or not, dave, it's for good reason.
All of that massive parallel computing going on... and despite that, judging by the actions of most Facebook users, it's not even self-aware yet?/sadface
On my computer I have two specific pictures in my library that I've been trying to work with for quite some time. One is a picture of a nice bowl of steaming hot grits. The other a picture of Natalie Portman. Now, is it to be understood that with this new memory crystal technology I could effectively entangle the two? Let me know when Best Buy has them!
Really? I can't think of many. The length of the screen would prohibit the use of simple rails that slide out of the body of the phone... they'd be much longer than the phone's width.
I imagine that some kind of one-way-bendable rail that can roll up with the screen could work but that would be a pretty delicate thing and if you tweaked it at all you might be pretty pissed when your screen doesn't roll back up..
OK so I imagine that the technology doesn't really fit well with touchscreen designs. That's fine though: I want a device like the HTC Evo with a nice sized touchscreen in the portrait orientation but a roll-out OLED in the landscape which would become a widescreen for video.
I'm thinking like 3.5" normal 'portrait' screen and a 8" roll-out widescreen... if they can figure out a way to keep it pretty sturdy when rolled out. That'll be a challenge IMHO.
Sounds like Amazon was really trying to get some exposure/press. Of all of the feedback I've seen in TFA I would say it was "obvious". I'm sure now they have a nice good demographic targeted, complete with contact info etc, to spearhead their pre-planned campaign when they launch a device that does most of what was requested of the DX.
My teenage angst had to be fueled by something. Windows 3.0 was useful for that, but not as much as this, which incidentally occurred on the same exact day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEXKOR5Oepo
Really, we don't need to worry. See, parents will teach their kids the importance of separation of Church and State. The parents will teach their kids the use of skepticism and logical thinking.
These inspectors should be required to keep their laptops on site, so that I may search their private information whilst they search mine.
It's only fair.
Domes cannot qualify as a layer of protection -- they are used after the event has occurred and are thus mitigation measures rather than protection measures.
Nationalizing the assets is the single stupidest thing I've read on these comments, and that's saying something. If you think the amount of incidents is bad now, just wait until the whole show is run by the government. People would die, I promise you that.
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It's not about actually watching the movies, or listening to the songs, or fapping to the pr0n. It's about having a bigger ePeen than the rest of your buddies.
Friend, boasting, says, "Yeah man, I have 2,030,591 photos of Natalie Portman photoshopped with hot grits in various ways."
You say, "Well that is quite impressive my friend. How will you ever find time to look at them all?"
Friend responds, "Look at them? Why would I want to do that? Grits are disgusting, and I'm a homosexual."
See how that works?
2680 is more like 2600 than 2700? *boggle*
pwned.
lmao
Perhaps. Though I think you may be looking at a different definition of the Singularity than I am. All I take it to mean is that at a certain point our intelligence will be superseded by something which we create. From there we cannot predict what will happen -- if it will begin to exponentially grow, etc.
It's not a "we're all going to become one with the machines" thing. It's a "there's this certain point, that if reached, we really don't know what will happen next, but it could be quite interesting."
You know why you're a geek? Because you're offended by the word geek.
So you're tellin me that 15 years ago when I edited my colleague's autoexec.bat file into a loop that repeated "I AM A GIANT CAWK MAGNET" endlessly... I was at risk of prosecution?! Damn, barely made it!
My ship shall be called the Jar Jar Stinks. No but really... I don't care about any of this. I just want the damn game released. Even if it's only half done and they have to finish the rest after release. An even half done BioWare game is going to be vastly better than anything I've got left to play (tired of WoW, Aion, etc...)
Yeah, congrats on trying to rationalize a clear mistake in the script. So, did I mention I'm a pilot? I made the Kessel run in less parsecs than the famous Falcon... Sure, I was going about .001% of light speed, but BOY were my turns tight!
I mean, c'mon, even if you try to rationalize if your way you still leave out the vastly more important factor of HOW LONG did it really take?
A ship traveling at 1000x light speed might take 50 parsecs, but it would get there 100x faster than the Falcon.
... at least, it should be. Where's the freaking mind-reading controllers already?! I want to just look at the screen and be able to control it all! It's like this: Mind-reading controller is as much better as keyboard and mouse controller as keyboard and mouse controller is better than console game pad.
Not exactly sure what a 'general-purpose computer' is, but anyway, I think you're being a bit paranoid here. This sort of tech is certainly not going to be in my general-purpose computer any time soon, or ever, because I am simply never going to purchase a computer that doesn't allow me to customize it to my heart's content. And there will always be components available to build one that don't have this kind of bullshit built in. The day we can't get components like that is the day our problems are much bigger, and scarier.
"iPhone DSLR Prototype 1.0"
"iPhone DSLR"
Sounds to me like he's calling it a DSLR in the summary. Since most Slashdotters these days don't RTFA, I'd say that's your real problem here (they don't RTFA). And yeah, the summary is weak.
Several hundred if not thousand feet of boom has been STOLEN by 'photographers'. Some have even tried to sell the stolen boom back to BP. So yeah, while photographs are great and all, and I really can't wait to see them on CNN, because, you know, they add just that much more realism to something that I already realize is totally fucked, I guess I understand this ruling. Spin control or not, dave, it's for good reason.
Step 1: Filter out "Idle" Step 2: Stop crying.
All of that massive parallel computing going on... and despite that, judging by the actions of most Facebook users, it's not even self-aware yet? /sadface
On my computer I have two specific pictures in my library that I've been trying to work with for quite some time. One is a picture of a nice bowl of steaming hot grits. The other a picture of Natalie Portman. Now, is it to be understood that with this new memory crystal technology I could effectively entangle the two? Let me know when Best Buy has them!
How will they get past the Predator pyramid and avoid the Aliens?? Seems like a big risk to me.
Really? I can't think of many. The length of the screen would prohibit the use of simple rails that slide out of the body of the phone... they'd be much longer than the phone's width. I imagine that some kind of one-way-bendable rail that can roll up with the screen could work but that would be a pretty delicate thing and if you tweaked it at all you might be pretty pissed when your screen doesn't roll back up..
OK so I imagine that the technology doesn't really fit well with touchscreen designs. That's fine though: I want a device like the HTC Evo with a nice sized touchscreen in the portrait orientation but a roll-out OLED in the landscape which would become a widescreen for video. I'm thinking like 3.5" normal 'portrait' screen and a 8" roll-out widescreen... if they can figure out a way to keep it pretty sturdy when rolled out. That'll be a challenge IMHO.
Sounds like Amazon was really trying to get some exposure/press. Of all of the feedback I've seen in TFA I would say it was "obvious". I'm sure now they have a nice good demographic targeted, complete with contact info etc, to spearhead their pre-planned campaign when they launch a device that does most of what was requested of the DX.
Disclaimer: I own a DX
Haha. Too True.
My teenage angst had to be fueled by something. Windows 3.0 was useful for that, but not as much as this, which incidentally occurred on the same exact day. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEXKOR5Oepo
Really, we don't need to worry. See, parents will teach their kids the importance of separation of Church and State. The parents will teach their kids the use of skepticism and logical thinking.
Wait. Oh... no. Yeah, we're fucked.
These inspectors should be required to keep their laptops on site, so that I may search their private information whilst they search mine. It's only fair.
Domes cannot qualify as a layer of protection -- they are used after the event has occurred and are thus mitigation measures rather than protection measures.
Nationalizing the assets is the single stupidest thing I've read on these comments, and that's saying something. If you think the amount of incidents is bad now, just wait until the whole show is run by the government. People would die, I promise you that.