What we are looking at here is either a robotic springbok (African gazelle-like creature that jumps around a lot), or a robotic Jumping Spider.
Personally I always thought a eight leg spider robot is a great design, especially if he can rotate his legs about their axes! Flip upside down? No problem! I'll just spin my legs over!
Boys and girls, didn't you know that sharing files is bad! You shouldn't open those ports and talk that foul protocol. Napster is bad bad bad! Napster will steal your soul and put your grandmother on the street corner.
So remember: winners don't do Napster. Or Beowulf clusters. Or NFS. Even HTTP and FTP are a bit dodgy. Protect your soul today!
Come to think of it, why don't we outlaw verbal communication, another one of those nasty peer to peer data sharing systems.
Some time back in 1996 I had a spectacularly vivid dream involving a method of holographic computing and mass data storage. A week later
I had forgotten all about it. My wife reminded
me of it a couple of weeks ago, and I thought
wow, recalling the sheer detail of the
dream.
I really wish that I wouldn't forget my dreams.
About the time my wife reminded me of my dream
from years ago, and the (says she) inspired spiel that was used to describe it, I was reading this book called The Holographic Universe, which is pretty interesting if a bit overly pseudo-scientific in parts. Worth a read though.
Anything, that in happening, causes something else to happen, causes something else to happen.
It doesn't necessarily do it in chronological order, though.
Anyone got any year-by-year statistics for the percentage of the population living on welfare this century?
I think it's interesting that we have mutated into a society that now utterly dependant on corporations to survive. Let's face it, it would only take something like the price of oil tripling, for example, to send this little economic roller coaster ride off the rails and plummetting into a deeper chasm than the Great Depression. And damn me if we don't have another bloody war to kickstart the economy again...
Ahh.. Java Servlets. When you're delivering cross-platform HTML anyway and it really doesn't matter that your backend is also cross-platform does it? Honestly, it's so slow and I haven't seen a unique thing Java Servlets can do in comparason to PHP or ASP.
PHP is relatively cross-platform if you do it right, and ASP can be converted to PHP;)
Having developed for years in Perl, PHP, Java
and C++ on a number of large projects, I can say I love PHP too, however, I beleive that Java beats pretty much any other language hands down in terms of maintainability. And in medium to large, complex software projects, where more than ninety percent of your work is going to end up being maintenence, this is extremely important.
I'm not saying that Perl and PHP aren't maintainable, but it takes much more of a continuous effort to make them so, lest they drift off into a big Quick N Dirty mess.
You know, why not consider doing what people used to do in the old days: move to where the work is, or get some new skills? Help yourself, man. You are living in a capitalist country, and ain't nobody gonna lift a finger for you but you.
it was moderated as flamebait because it's dumb, ill-considered, and inflammatory. According to the original poster's "logic", the USA has been a decadent empire on the decline for the entirety of it's history.
Still, you have to admit the similarities between the Roman empire and the American empire are quite striking. The Americans do seem to be in that decadent, complacent phase that preceeds a sudden and rapid downfall.
I agree we should care more about space exploration, but I disagree with Hawking. Mother Earth is stronger then we even know.
Maybe so, but never underestimate the power of
human stupidity. We only learn the hard way. It
took a monster the size of Hitler to make us
realise that something as horrible as genocide
is bad. What will it take for us to realise that
our current course of action is bad?
Global warming? Tell that to me when I am freezing my arse off in record cold this winter (notice you never hear about global warming in the middle of winter, at least in the US).
Global warming is a simplication. While the
overall average effect is that the planet is
warming up, on a local scale weather is getting
more chaotic. You will get warmer spots
and colder spots and in general, shit gets more
unpredictable. We are adding more entropy
into the system.
Global warming is a farce. Several respected Meteorologists have dissmissed this as BUNK!
Care to name them?
If we ARE the cause of global warming, then, how come the trend of rising temps occured BEFORE cars have been invented???
The Industrial Revolution. You may have heard of it. During this time, the Thames river in London was so polluted that the river itself caught fire.
It's CYCLICAL! Just like El Nino. The earth is stronger then ANY one being on this planet (ok, except GOD!! ).
As much as I pity smug prats such as yourself, I hope that those assholes who are destroying the Amazon basin dig up a virus like Ebola, with a latency period of three months, just for you and all your complacent friends.
Hey don't knock the Pokemon. You've obviously never seen Pixie. She's hotter than
Aeon Flux and Lara Croft.
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one of us buys one, and replicates the damn thing for everybody else. Seems like a cool toy, but not a very big moneymaker;-)
Hey, excellent point. Let's just assume nanotech allows this 3dprint tech to develop to the point where anything can be fabricated...
Just imagine: this technology has the potential to completely destroy capitalism! The whole supply/demand paradigm will be meaningless in a situation of infinite supply. The cost of all material objects would dwindle to zero. The only thing that might actually cost anything would be services.
Wow. Completely wow. BRING ON THE DIAMOND AGE, BABY.
It's crap like this NSA stuff that open source development can prevent. I really wonder though about the 128-bit RSA debacle, what was the point? As far as data transfer goes, the Internet makes international boundaries pretty much irrelevant, so why'd the govt even bother banning it? It's not like some geeks in (say) Norway couldn't have hacked up some equivalent code.
I sure as hell wouldn't want anyone from a government looking at my stuff, just on general principle - therefore I will never have a proprietary system running the security on any network I run. I want to check out the code for all the daemons I run, the TCP/IP stack, the ethernet drivers, the login stuff. You can't get much more secure than that.
Hell yeah, make the games free to download and open source. Make the games networkable. Charge a micropayment for access to a gaming server. Users won't mind paying a couple of bucks if the game is really good, particularly if it was free to download.
Me personally I'd much rather shell out a couple of bucks a month to a game network server than shell out $60 (or whatever) for a game "package" in a store. I want my money to go to the developers of the software, not the store that sells it, or the distributors that distribute it, or the publishers that publish it.
Let the developers make some web sites where I can rent access to their game service. Like an ASP for games, except the idea doesn't suck, and it's cheap, and the developer gets to make some dough.
True, but it was innovative and interesting! Darren Aronofsky (sp?) did a ver intersting job on that - intensity and edgy, and emotions and general craziness were portrayed claustrophobically as is the viewer was in the flawed hero's head. I liked that. Hollywood could do with a lot more of that.
I really hate this Hollywood-blockbuster-let's-make-this-thing-as-DUM BED-DOWN-as-possible mentality. Aronofsky will reverse that trend. And they're getting Neal Stephenson in on the act. Imagine what those two brains are going to come up with together.
Let's hope their creative juices aren't too diluted by corporate bullshit.
If the economy collapses then a depression will ensue. A depression is the only thing that'll get americans out of their own little private stupors and remove the people from power who have quietly stolen all their rights and given them the crumbs of capitalism...
Actually, what tends to happen in a depression is that the little investors have their life savings destroyed as the value of their stock holdings plummet. Then the big fish just come in and scoop up all those "great buys".
It's happened many times before, and it will continue to happen.
Big-ass investors don't really care about depressions - depressions is opportunity time
for those guys.
And this is just one reason why your average Joe is relatively powerless, ineffectual, and apathetic.
This plan works for me too. (I run the aether sanctum, an australian dark culture zine.)
I also point out to contributors that they own the copyright on what they have written, and I take copyright on its presentation, and they give me permission to do this. I haven't had any problems, and besides, its is unlikely any Big Nasty corporations could validly take offense to my site, even though there is an anti-corporate smell about it, since the readership is so small that I could claim any damages would be speculative at best and statistically insignificant at worst. If all else fails I'll put the sucker on Freenet!
If 1,000 people crack it (I believe that there are that many good peole at least), they each get a measly $10. And they still have to sign their lives away with an NDI or similar document.
Of course, if you don't take that measly $10, you're not bound by the NDA.
And even if you were bound by the NDA, you never know when some ubercracker other than yourself might casually slip into and leach files from your home system, where you store a detailed document describing how to unravel this silly watermarking system... or what if you as a cable modem ip user accidentally left your samba daemon running and unsecurely configured. Oh dear! Those cracked details could be in anyone's hands! The poor little RIAA will rupture its spleen in excitement!
We aren't part of a global society, we are part of an american society. Our official language is english and most people are adopting our ways (sadly).
If there is one thing that the UK fuel crisis made clear is that people don't care what you do to them. This scenario benefits big corporations - ie. the people who get to say what laws should be made. Don't mistake lots of people bitching on/. for people actually doing anything. Everyday we see government and lawyers all over the world eroding our online rights. What do we do about that - talk a lot - Oh I'm scared...
You gotta ask yourself a question or two:
Has there been a single revolution in any capitalist country since the widespread deployment of television? No? I wonder why, zombies! The governments of most western
nations could make whatever changes they wanted, and their might be a ruckus for a year or two but eventually the proles will become resigned to the changes. People in general are apathetic at best.
Example. Sure people in the UK are pissed off about not getting fuel... that is a day to day thing. Free speech isn't neccesarily a day to day thing. If it is swiped, who is going to notice. Not Joe Sixpack.
Do you find the power imbalance inherent in capitalism at least slightly unfair? Should a person be rewarded in proportion to their effort? Of course, but that should apply to everyone...
I would love to get the opinions of someone living in China or Singapore on this kind of issue.
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The universe is alive.
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Personally I always thought a eight leg spider robot is a great design, especially if he can rotate his legs about their axes! Flip upside down? No problem! I'll just spin my legs over!
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So remember: winners don't do Napster. Or Beowulf clusters. Or NFS. Even HTTP and FTP are a bit dodgy. Protect your soul today!
Come to think of it, why don't we outlaw verbal communication, another one of those nasty peer to peer data sharing systems.
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I really wish that I wouldn't forget my dreams.
About the time my wife reminded me of my dream from years ago, and the (says she) inspired spiel that was used to describe it, I was reading this book called The Holographic Universe, which is pretty interesting if a bit overly pseudo-scientific in parts. Worth a read though.
Anything, that in happening, causes something else to happen, causes something else to happen.
It doesn't necessarily do it in chronological order, though.
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I think it's interesting that we have mutated into a society that now utterly dependant on corporations to survive. Let's face it, it would only take something like the price of oil tripling, for example, to send this little economic roller coaster ride off the rails and plummetting into a deeper chasm than the Great Depression. And damn me if we don't have another bloody war to kickstart the economy again...
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PHP is relatively cross-platform if you do it right, and ASP can be converted to PHP ;)
Having developed for years in Perl, PHP, Java and C++ on a number of large projects, I can say I love PHP too, however, I beleive that Java beats pretty much any other language hands down in terms of maintainability. And in medium to large, complex software projects, where more than ninety percent of your work is going to end up being maintenence, this is extremely important.
I'm not saying that Perl and PHP aren't maintainable, but it takes much more of a continuous effort to make them so, lest they drift off into a big Quick N Dirty mess.
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You know, why not consider doing what people used to do in the old days: move to where the work is, or get some new skills? Help yourself, man. You are living in a capitalist country, and ain't nobody gonna lift a finger for you but you.
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Still, you have to admit the similarities between the Roman empire and the American empire are quite striking. The Americans do seem to be in that decadent, complacent phase that preceeds a sudden and rapid downfall.
Just sit back and enjoy the chaos.
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Maybe so, but never underestimate the power of human stupidity. We only learn the hard way. It took a monster the size of Hitler to make us realise that something as horrible as genocide is bad. What will it take for us to realise that our current course of action is bad?
Global warming? Tell that to me when I am freezing my arse off in record cold this winter (notice you never hear about global warming in the middle of winter, at least in the US).
Global warming is a simplication. While the overall average effect is that the planet is warming up, on a local scale weather is getting more chaotic. You will get warmer spots and colder spots and in general, shit gets more unpredictable. We are adding more entropy into the system.
Global warming is a farce. Several respected Meteorologists have dissmissed this as BUNK!
Care to name them?
If we ARE the cause of global warming, then, how come the trend of rising temps occured BEFORE cars have been invented???
The Industrial Revolution. You may have heard of it. During this time, the Thames river in London was so polluted that the river itself caught fire.
It's CYCLICAL! Just like El Nino. The earth is stronger then ANY one being on this planet (ok, except GOD!! ).
As much as I pity smug prats such as yourself, I hope that those assholes who are destroying the Amazon basin dig up a virus like Ebola, with a latency period of three months, just for you and all your complacent friends.
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I disagree with this. How do you account for accidents?
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Hey don't knock the Pokemon. You've obviously never seen Pixie. She's hotter than Aeon Flux and Lara Croft.
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Hey, excellent point. Let's just assume nanotech allows this 3dprint tech to develop to the point where anything can be fabricated... Just imagine: this technology has the potential to completely destroy capitalism! The whole supply/demand paradigm will be meaningless in a situation of infinite supply. The cost of all material objects would dwindle to zero. The only thing that might actually cost anything would be services.
Wow. Completely wow. BRING ON THE DIAMOND AGE, BABY.
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God, I've been watching The Matrix too much.
Self-assembling machines: the way to go (out with a bang)?
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I sure as hell wouldn't want anyone from a government looking at my stuff, just on general principle - therefore I will never have a proprietary system running the security on any network I run. I want to check out the code for all the daemons I run, the TCP/IP stack, the ethernet drivers, the login stuff. You can't get much more secure than that.
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Me personally I'd much rather shell out a couple of bucks a month to a game network server than shell out $60 (or whatever) for a game "package" in a store. I want my money to go to the developers of the software, not the store that sells it, or the distributors that distribute it, or the publishers that publish it.
Let the developers make some web sites where I can rent access to their game service. Like an ASP for games, except the idea doesn't suck, and it's cheap, and the developer gets to make some dough.
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Imagine you're suspended on a really long (and very strong) rope, some distance above the event horizon of a black hole.
You get another really long rope and dangle it towards the surface, and it passes the horizon, so one part of the rope is beyond it.
Now, you're still holding on to it, and we're assuming that your spacecraft has sufficient velocity to be able to orbit above the event horizon.
What happens?
Also, some guy said before that in a black hole "mathematics goes crazy". Got news for you dude. Nature doesn't care about mathematics.
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True, but it was innovative and interesting! Darren Aronofsky (sp?) did a ver intersting job on that - intensity and edgy, and emotions and general craziness were portrayed claustrophobically as is the viewer was in the flawed hero's head. I liked that. Hollywood could do with a lot more of that.
I really hate this Hollywood-blockbuster-let's-make-this-thing-as-DUM BED-DOWN-as-possible mentality. Aronofsky will reverse that trend. And they're getting Neal Stephenson in on the act. Imagine what those two brains are going to come up with together.
Let's hope their creative juices aren't too diluted by corporate bullshit.
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Actually, what tends to happen in a depression is that the little investors have their life savings destroyed as the value of their stock holdings plummet. Then the big fish just come in and scoop up all those "great buys".
It's happened many times before, and it will continue to happen.
Big-ass investors don't really care about depressions - depressions is opportunity time for those guys.
And this is just one reason why your average Joe is relatively powerless, ineffectual, and apathetic.
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I also point out to contributors that they own the copyright on what they have written, and I take copyright on its presentation, and they give me permission to do this. I haven't had any problems, and besides, its is unlikely any Big Nasty corporations could validly take offense to my site, even though there is an anti-corporate smell about it, since the readership is so small that I could claim any damages would be speculative at best and statistically insignificant at worst. If all else fails I'll put the sucker on Freenet!
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Of course, if you don't take that measly $10, you're not bound by the NDA.
And even if you were bound by the NDA, you never know when some ubercracker other than yourself might casually slip into and leach files from your home system, where you store a detailed document describing how to unravel this silly watermarking system... or what if you as a cable modem ip user accidentally left your samba daemon running and unsecurely configured. Oh dear! Those cracked details could be in anyone's hands! The poor little RIAA will rupture its spleen in excitement!
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I always thought the music industry (not artists, but the biz types) were a bit like the Mafia...
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Gotta love that imperialistic xenophobia.
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You gotta ask yourself a question or two:
Example. Sure people in the UK are pissed off about not getting fuel... that is a day to day thing. Free speech isn't neccesarily a day to day thing. If it is swiped, who is going to notice. Not Joe Sixpack.
Do you find the power imbalance inherent in capitalism at least slightly unfair? Should a person be rewarded in proportion to their effort? Of course, but that should apply to everyone...
I would love to get the opinions of someone living in China or Singapore on this kind of issue.
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