Where I live, people freak out when someone uses a mobile phone at a petrol station, 'cos they think it could ignite petrol fumes. (A myth, I know.)
So... electric car chargers at petrol stations?!?
It would be interesting to see how people react to that. My bet is that it'll slide, as most people will just accept it without noticing/thinking about it.
the long term consequences (sometimes not manifesting until decades later), and the links to depression, domestic violence
Imagine then all those UFC fighters. UFC is barely 2 decades old, and they're trained to fight... hard!
Sure, various forms of tournaments existed before then, but (aside from boxing) they'd usually be more safety concious than to allow repeated head bashing.
do "exhibitions" like this read more into the material than was ever originally there?
Yes, and that's partly why Star Wars is still so popular. There's always more stuff because it's still growing, and that is because people are allowed to add to the universe (mostly through books, computer games and the Clone Wars series).
I really don't think Lucas is deep enough to embed philosophical questions about psychology, neuropsychology, and genetics, or gave two hoots about
Agreed, but he also doesn't mind people building on, making fun of, and in other ways keeping the Star Wars universe popular.
I guess this is where we could start a discussion on the benefits(?)/limitations of copyright.
downsize this airborn laser and fit it into.. hmm, maybe an older, super-high-speed airframe, maybe something that's pretty hard for most nations to detect
Hmm... supersonic flying sharks with stealth, perhaps... That could be frikkin awsome.
We won't evolve anymore, because we don't get diseases, suffer social problems, need to adapt to a lifestyle vastly different from a hunter gatherer lifestyle, eat different types of food, etc.
Not even if we travel into space and live on isolated colonies on other planets over long periods of time with different gravities, atmospheres, etc.
Nah, we won't evolve any more. We're perfect just as we are.
I didn't bother reading the TFA, because as long as we exist, we will evolve. I don't normally post with this sort of language, but seriously... what a stupid question!
Why isn't everyone left-handed? That too would be beneficial in a cooperative society (shared tools).
Tools are usually made for right handed people. You know, like scissors, gaming mice, spears, stone axes, etc. The evolutionary advantage was to be right handed.
This is why parties should not be allowed to combine votes.
In my country parties that don't get elected can have their votes support one of the two major parties so that they still get a say in government, if the party they support wins. This only makes the two party system more of a two party system.
What ought to happen IMO, is that if a party gains x percent of votes, then for each parliamentary decision, that party gets to allocate its x percent of the total votes however it chooses, irrespective of what the two biggest parties want.
Also, there ought not be a winning party and an opposition. Parliament ought to simply be a collection of parties. Parliament as a whole may elect spokes people, but these spokes people probably ought not be ministers with deciding power, at least not for the general directions of their portfolios.
Anyway, that's my opinion.
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And don't say "Vote third party." Been there; done that
So, you'd rather vote for a party you dislike instead of a party that you might prefer, because the party you prefer has no chance of getting seats? That makes no sense to me.
I think of voting 3rd party as a non-confidence vote in one of the two major parties. That, in my opinion, feels less like a wasted vote than voting for the wrong party.
(We have the same problem in my country: both major candidates are... poor, to say the least, almost to the point of desperation.)
This is very interesting. A good friend of mine left her loving husband and two children, to then commit suicide. That sort of deep unhappiness affects more than just the clinically depressed. It can affect all their family and friends in drastic ways.
If there's a way to make life liveable, then good. Hope more advancements are made.
The exisiting national monuments are such partly because they're now old, partly because they were a style of their times and partly because they were built well enough to stand the test of time (with some maintenance, of course).
But, could not a massive structure like that become a national monument? It might be a modern novelty now, retro in 50 years time and historical in 200 years time.
(Of course, it is Vegas, so there's a risk someone will blow it up for a New Year's celebration.)
Wow! What a reaction. These angry comments that sometimes come from seemingly nowhere... really do baffle me. And they're often responses to a spot of light humour too. It amazes me that some people are really that full of anger.
But what if your project will perish before it makes sense to publish, because the price and time of the research is too great and the progress too small, even when you're really on to something? It seems a shame to miss out on that.
His point isn't the interactive language per se. Nor is it the interactive Flash editor. Nor even the interactive ciruit diagram. They're just examples that he's using to get his message across. He even starts his talk pointing that out (at 62 seconds in to the talk).
His message is that you should try to find a guiding principle to guide your work. A sort of focus, I guess one could say, rather than working on random problems. (In a sense, his talk really begins at around 34 min.) The point of the talk actually has nothing to do with programming at all, but because of his background that's the direction that he's coming from.
His own guiding principle is that creativity is stifled when you can't get immediate feeback. So he wants to find ways beyond that. Thereof his examples.
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Where I live, people freak out when someone uses a mobile phone at a petrol station, 'cos they think it could ignite petrol fumes. (A myth, I know.)
So... electric car chargers at petrol stations?!?
It would be interesting to see how people react to that. My bet is that it'll slide, as most people will just accept it without noticing/thinking about it.
What kind of fool of a company would Google be if it DIDN'T exploit every tool the government gives it to minimize it's tax burden?
It might be a "less evil one", because...
how irresponsible to it's share holders if it didn't utilize the law to achieve the highest rate of return.
...it's pretty irresponisble to not pay taxes, which are necessary in order to pay for the running of modern civilzations.
the long term consequences (sometimes not manifesting until decades later), and the links to depression, domestic violence
Imagine then all those UFC fighters. UFC is barely 2 decades old, and they're trained to fight... hard!
Sure, various forms of tournaments existed before then, but (aside from boxing) they'd usually be more safety concious than to allow repeated head bashing.
This isn't funny!
Then you score +5 Funny.
And then there's the irony of your sig...
do "exhibitions" like this read more into the material than was ever originally there?
Yes, and that's partly why Star Wars is still so popular. There's always more stuff because it's still growing, and that is because people are allowed to add to the universe (mostly through books, computer games and the Clone Wars series).
I really don't think Lucas is deep enough to embed philosophical questions about psychology, neuropsychology, and genetics, or gave two hoots about
Agreed, but he also doesn't mind people building on, making fun of, and in other ways keeping the Star Wars universe popular.
I guess this is where we could start a discussion on the benefits(?)/limitations of copyright.
downsize this airborn laser and fit it into.. hmm, maybe an older, super-high-speed airframe, maybe something that's pretty hard for most nations to detect
Hmm... supersonic flying sharks with stealth, perhaps... That could be frikkin awsome.
We won't evolve anymore, because we don't get diseases, suffer social problems, need to adapt to a lifestyle vastly different from a hunter gatherer lifestyle, eat different types of food, etc.
Not even if we travel into space and live on isolated colonies on other planets over long periods of time with different gravities, atmospheres, etc.
Nah, we won't evolve any more. We're perfect just as we are.
I didn't bother reading the TFA, because as long as we exist, we will evolve. I don't normally post with this sort of language, but seriously... what a stupid question!
Why isn't everyone left-handed? That too would be beneficial in a cooperative society (shared tools).
Tools are usually made for right handed people. You know, like scissors, gaming mice, spears, stone axes, etc. The evolutionary advantage was to be right handed.
They don't need entertainment in their little tent camps. They have the Taliban for that.
That gave me a mental image of taliban dancing cabaret...
This is why parties should not be allowed to combine votes.
In my country parties that don't get elected can have their votes support one of the two major parties so that they still get a say in government, if the party they support wins. This only makes the two party system more of a two party system.
What ought to happen IMO, is that if a party gains x percent of votes, then for each parliamentary decision, that party gets to allocate its x percent of the total votes however it chooses, irrespective of what the two biggest parties want.
Also, there ought not be a winning party and an opposition. Parliament ought to simply be a collection of parties. Parliament as a whole may elect spokes people, but these spokes people probably ought not be ministers with deciding power, at least not for the general directions of their portfolios.
Anyway, that's my opinion.
And don't say "Vote third party." Been there; done that
So, you'd rather vote for a party you dislike instead of a party that you might prefer, because the party you prefer has no chance of getting seats? That makes no sense to me.
I think of voting 3rd party as a non-confidence vote in one of the two major parties. That, in my opinion, feels less like a wasted vote than voting for the wrong party.
(We have the same problem in my country: both major candidates are... poor, to say the least, almost to the point of desperation.)
Poor attempts at humour aside...
This is very interesting. A good friend of mine left her loving husband and two children, to then commit suicide. That sort of deep unhappiness affects more than just the clinically depressed. It can affect all their family and friends in drastic ways.
If there's a way to make life liveable, then good. Hope more advancements are made.
Several patients reported profound changes just minutes after the stimulator was turned on.
Electrifying!!!
One said the room suddenly seemed brighter and colors were more intense.
Everything looks like neon lights.
Another described heightened feelings of connectedness
Wow... So many other humans in the Matrix.
and a disappearance of the void.'
That tunnel of light seems to lead to something greater...
Yeees, sure... and National Socialists treat everyone equally, and corporations put peoples rights and wellbeing ahead of profits.
Don't blindly believe what you're told. Believe what you see, when you look with a critical eye.
Great. Now I've got this mental imagery of cars hiding behind corners and lamp posts, then tiptoeing up to people from behind.
Well, at least it's better than the melodies played by iceream vans.
It's life, Jim, but not as we know it.
Good point. Who knows...? Earth might become a major source of media entertainment in this section of the galaxy.
The exisiting national monuments are such partly because they're now old, partly because they were a style of their times and partly because they were built well enough to stand the test of time (with some maintenance, of course).
But, could not a massive structure like that become a national monument? It might be a modern novelty now, retro in 50 years time and historical in 200 years time.
(Of course, it is Vegas, so there's a risk someone will blow it up for a New Year's celebration.)
3D is a (if not the) next logical step.
What about smell-o-vision. ;)
Wow! What a reaction. These angry comments that sometimes come from seemingly nowhere... really do baffle me. And they're often responses to a spot of light humour too. It amazes me that some people are really that full of anger.
But what if your project will perish before it makes sense to publish, because the price and time of the research is too great and the progress too small, even when you're really on to something? It seems a shame to miss out on that.
making it useless for breaking up unexpected, impromptu mobs
So? Plan on having mobs. ;)
His point isn't the interactive language per se. Nor is it the interactive Flash editor. Nor even the interactive ciruit diagram. They're just examples that he's using to get his message across. He even starts his talk pointing that out (at 62 seconds in to the talk).
His message is that you should try to find a guiding principle to guide your work. A sort of focus, I guess one could say, rather than working on random problems. (In a sense, his talk really begins at around 34 min.) The point of the talk actually has nothing to do with programming at all, but because of his background that's the direction that he's coming from.
His own guiding principle is that creativity is stifled when you can't get immediate feeback. So he wants to find ways beyond that. Thereof his examples.
Buying three? That'll burn a hole in your pocket. Oh, and iGas... do they run on fuel cells?